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ATHENE OXONIENSES.

AN

EXACT HISTORY

OF ALL

THE Writers and bishops who have had their education

IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.

TO WHICH ARE ADDED

THE FASTI,

oa

ANNALS OF THE SAID UNIVERSITY.

BY

ANTHONY A WOOD, M.A.

OF MEETON COLLEGE.

A NEW EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS,

AND A CONTINtJATION

By PHILIP BLISS,

FELLOW OF ST. JOHM's COLLEGE.

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VOL. m.

Antiquum exquirite matrem. Virgil.

LONDON:

PEINTED FOR F. C. AND .1. RIVINGTON ; LACKINGTON, HUGHES, HARDING, MAVOB, AND JONE.S ; PAYNE AND

ross; NICHOLS, son, and bentley; longman, hurst, rees, orme, and brown; cadell and
DA vies; J. and a. arch; j. mawman; black, parbury, and co.; r. h. evans;

J. booth ; BALDWIN, CRADOCK, AND JOY, LONDON : AND J. PARKER, OXFORD.

1817.

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ATHENiE OXONIENSES.

THE

HISTORY

OF THE

WRITERS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD,

FROM THE YEAR OF OUR LORD, 1641.

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ERVASE WARM-
STREY, the eldest
son of Will. Warni-
strey, principal regis-
trar y of the ciiocese of
Worcester, by Cicely
his wife, daugh. of
Tho. Smith of Cuerd-
li'V in Lane, (an In-
liahitant of St. Al-
ilatc's parish in Ox-
f()rd) was bom, and
educated in grammar
learning, within the
city of Worcester, became a student of Ch. Ch. in
1621, aged 17 years or thereabouts, took tlie degrees
in arts, and aftcrwiirds retiring to his native place,
succeeded his father in the before-mention''d office.
While he continued in the university, he was num-
bred among the eminent poets, especially upon his
writing and publication of
Vol. III.

V'lrescit Vulnere Virtus. EviAatuT)! Wound and
Cure. — printed 1628. qu. [HtKll. 4to. L. 71. Art.]
Which being by many persons of known worth
esteemVl an excellent piece, wa,',J}y the autlior de-
dicated to tliat great patron of all ingenious men,
esjiecially of poets, Endimion Porter, esq ; whose na-
tive place (Aston under Hill, commonly called
Hanging Aston, near to Camixlen in Gloucester-
shire) tho' obscure, yet he was a great man and be-
loved by two kings, James I. for liis admirable wit,
and Charles I. (to whom, as to hi.s father, he was a
servant) for his general learning, brave stile, sweet
temjjer, great experience, travels and modem lan-
guages.' Our author Warmstrey hatli also written,

[i Endymion Porter was born in the year 1587. as appears
from a medal executed by Varin, dated \n l635, wllcrc he a
said lo be act. 48.

He accompanied Charles, when prince of Wales, on the
journey to Spain, and was afterwards groom of the bed-
chamber to the younp king, a place, says the duchess of New-
castle, (.Life of the Duke, p. ()3.) not only honourable but
very profitable.

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WARMSTREY.

THORNBOROUGH.

Various Pocmx and otlicr things, iis 'tis \>yo-

bable, wliich I liave not vet set-n. He c-oncluded
l64i. his last day on tlie 28th ot May, in sixteen hundred
forty and one, and was huriwl among the graves of
the Wamistrcvs, not far from the nortli door of, and
within, the eathetlral ehureh of Worcester, leaving
then iK'hind him a widow named IsalK>]. I sliall
make mention of his bnrther Dr. Tho. Warmstrey,
under the year 1665.

tEn^amfs Wound and Cure was written on the
Le of Buckingham's luifortunate cxi)echtion to
the isle of Re in 1627, in the retreat from which,
aca)rding to Carte, the Enghsh lost five colonels,
three lieutenant colonels,' 150 other officers, twenty
gentlemen and about 1500 common soldiers. The
object of the poem is to prove that this calamity
was inflicted on the nation for its iniquities, and the
poet, as may Ik' supposed, prechcts that the slain
shall be amply and sjjeedily revenged :

— And o thou fatall Hand ! where they lye,
For whom all France can neuer satisfie,
Whose deare rcmemberance shall make thee feele
The arme of Heauen with a nxl of Steele,
Their ghosts shall march against thee, they shall come
With horrid claps of thunder for a drumme ;
The starres shall .shoot at thee, the clouds shall make,
With roaring voUics, the foundation shake
Both of thy strength and confidence ; our teares
Shall ouerwhelme thee, and our zealous prayers
Charming our faithfuU troopes, shall make tnee see
'Tis trust, not strength, that gets the victory. P. 9-]

JOHNTHORNBOROUGH,sonofGilesThom-
Iwrough, was l)om within the city of SaUsbury,
l)ecame a semi-com. or demy of S. Mary Magd.
coll. in the year 1570, aged 18 years, took the de-
[21 grees in arts, holy orders, and was made chaplain to
the earl of Pembroke, with whom continumg for
some time, that count bestowed upon him the rec-
tory of Chilmark in Wilts, and thereby became the
first ' that planted him in the church of Christ'

During the civil vyr he was extremely active in secret ser-
rices for the king, ari . so obnoxious to the parliament on tliat
account, that he was one of those always excepted from in-
demnity, and his friends were compelled to pay 1500/. com-
position for him.

He was skilled in every species of art and excelled in every
department of literature, nor was he the patron of poets only ;
Through his exertions and interest Mytens obtained the
office of painter in ordinary (or as the warranlcalls it, 'picture
drawer') to the king.

Though there is no engraved portrait of him, (for that
which bears his name is an evident forgery, see Granger, ii.
284) yet Vandyke painted an excellent picture of him, with
his lady and three sons.

He died at the foreign court of his royal master, Charles
the second, before the restoration.]

' [Warmstrey gives us the nameofybur;
Hawly, Rich, Uiiigly, Blundel yet awake,
They'ue spirits yet to spend for England's sake :
We haue them still amongst vs, we bcleeue
Those wounds by which they dy'd shall make them Hue
In fame, and their posterity that know
To practise iheir rcuenge and vertue too.!

Soon after he Ixx-ame chaplain in ordinjiry to qu.
Elizal)eth, !»y the endeavotus of the said cotmt, and
beneficed in Yorkshire: so that being put into the
ixiad of preferment, he had the deanery of York
confeiT'd on him, (upon the promotion of Dr. ]\Iat-
tliew Hutton to the see of Durham) to which Ix'ing
elected 28 Oct. 1589, was soon after install'd. In
1593 he was made bishop of- Limerick in Ireland,
where performing many signal services for the
crown of England, he was translated to the see of
Bristol in 1603, with liberty then given to him to
keep his deanery of York in commendam.^ But as
for liis Ix'nefices in Yorkshire, which were the rec-
tories of Brandesburton and Mi.sjM;rt(m alias Kirkby
over Carr, they were bestowed on Peter RoUocke
bishop of Dunlcell, in the month of Aug. the same
year. On 17 Feb. 1616 he was translated to Wor-
cester; whereu{X)n his deanery was given to Dr.
George Meriton, dean of Peterborough, (elected
thereunto 25 Mar. 1617) and his bishoprick of
Bristol to Dr. Nich. Felton master of Pemb. hall in
Cambridge, to which being consecrated 14 Dec.
1617, sate there till the 14tli of March 1618, on
which day lie was translated to Ely. As for Thorn-
borough, he was a person well funiish'd with learn-
ing, wistlom, courage, and other as well episcopal
as temporal accomplishments, beseeming a gentle-
man, a dean, and a bishop. But above all he was
much commended for his great skill in chymistry, a
study but seldom followed in his time; and 'tis
thought that by some helps from it it wa.s, that he
attained to so great an age. A most learned* chy-
mist of this man's time tells us, that ' he knew a
bishop whose fame in chymistry being celebrated of
many, he visited, and after he had seen a little chy-
mical tract, written with his own hand, he took
him labouring in our gold, whence he studied to ex-
tract vitriol, which he held his only secret; where- rq-t
upon he left him, for that he knew that he had nei- -*

tlier before him the proper matter, nor the manner
of working, according to the doctrine of pfiiloso-
phers, &c.' But who this bishop was, unless our
author Thornborough, or a bishop in Germany,
whom he met in his travels, I know not, nor doth it
signifie much. " This bishop 'j'honiborough was
" certainly a lover of natural and exjierimental phi-
" losophy, a great encourager of Tho. BusheD in
" his searches after mines and minerals. See in the
" said Bushel's Remonstrance of his Majesties Mines
" Royal in Wales.""

' [Tliis it seems was the occasion of a litigation. In Stil-
lingneet's Case of Commendams, (Works, vol. iii. p. 894, ed.
1710) the decision of the case will be found. The point in
question was, whether a commendatory dean could confirm
a lease or not? and after a solemn debate, and several argu-
ments, the judges agreed that the coinmcnd.im was good as
to the deanery, and not meerly as to the profits ; because the
king had the power by law to dispense with holding it, to-
gether with his bishoprick.]

« Arth. Dee in his preface to the students in chymistry, to
his Fasciculu) Chymicus, &c.

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TIIOllNnOROUGH.

6

His writings are tliesc ;

The j(yijiful and hlc.s.scd Rcuiutiiiff the two miffhty
and Jhmous Khiffdom.s of Kiiffhaid and Scotland
into their ancient Name erf Great Brita\n. Oxon.
1605. qu. [l}(xll. 4to. C. 110. Th.] published under
the name of Jolni Bristol. But several things
therein being conceived to l)c den)gatory to the ho-
nour of both houses of parliament, the author was
compliiinetl of only in the ii])j)er house, which was
soon after j)assed over. In IGO-l was printed at
London, A Treatise of Union i)fthe two Realms of
Engiund and Scotland: said in the title page to be
written by J. H.

At^o^ewpnio{ : sive Nihil, Aliquid, Omnia, in
Gratiam coriim, qui Artem auriferam ■physico-chy-
•micc et pie profitcntur. Oxon. 1621. qu. [Bool.
4to. G. 6. Med.]

The Lust Will and Testament of Jesus Christ
touching the blessed Sacrament of the Body and
Blood, &c. Oxon. 1630. qu. [Bodl! 4to. L. 43. Th.]

A Discourse sJiewing the great Happiness that
hath, and may still accrue to Ms Maj. Kingdoms of
Engl, and Scotland by reuniting them into one
Great Britain. In two Parts. Lond. 1641. in tw.
published under the name of Joh. Bristol, but 'tis
not the same with tlie fonner. 'Twas afterwards
printed at Edenburgh in the Latin tongue.

Pax Vobis, concerning the Unity and Peace of

ike Church This I think is not printed, nor

other things tliat he had lying by him at the time of
his death. He dejiarted this mortal life in the
castle called Hartlebury in Worcestershire (after he
had been twice married) ' on the ninth day of July,

s [' I would I could as well plucke out the thorne of doc-
tor Ihornburie's first marriage out of every mans conscience
that have taken a scandall of his second. For my pan what-
soever I thlnl< in my private, it beconis us not to judge our
judges; the customes and lawes of some countries differ from
other, and sometimes are changed and mended in the same,
as this case of divorce is most godly reformed in ours, and as
Vinccntius Lirinensis saith well of St. Cyprian who had be-
fore the eouncell of Carthage defended rebaptizing. The
author of this errour, saith he, is no doubt in heaven, the
followers and practisers of it now goe to hell, so I may say of
this bishop, his remarriage maybe pardoned, et in hoc sseculo
et in futuro, but he that shall so do again may be met with
in hoc sseculo. But it was the bishop of Limbrick in Ire-
land and not the bishop of Bristoll in England that thus
married — what? doth this lessen the scandall? I suppose it
doth. For I dare affirme, that most of that diocesse are so
well catechised, as they thinke it as great a scandall for their
bishop (yea rather greater) to have one wife as to have two,
and tnough for lay mens marriage, their priests tell them it
is a holy sacrament in them (which they count a sacri-
ledge in a bishop) and they conferre to them out of St. Paul
TO ij.uff%Divi TowTo ij.iyn it/lut there is a great sacrament, yet tiieir
people and some of their peers also regard it as slightly, and
dissolve it more uncivilly then if it were but a civill contract,
for which they draw not onely by their bastardies and bigamies
many apparent scourges of God the heavenly father, but also
a peculiar pennance unto their nation of one fasting day ex-
traordinary from their holy father the pope.' Sir John Har-
rington, Briefe View of the State of the Church of England,
J653. p. 136.J

in sixteen hundriti forty and one, " ogwl 94 years," J6*i.
and was btiried on the nortli side of tlie ('i)ap|>el be-
hind tile ea.st end of the dioir iK-longing to tlie cath.
ch. of Worcester, near to a fiiir alaluLster monument
which he had fourteen years iK-fore erectetl for him-
self, with his statua in his episcopal robes curiously
carved in stone, lying thereon. On the canopy
over his head, I find this written on the side of it,
' Denarius Philosophonmi, dum spiro, spero.' And
on the north side is this. ' In un(», 2^'. 3'. 4'. 10.
non spirans sjHjro.' Over his heati is this, ' Qui
dermis attolle caput, quia in infinnitatv virtus, id
mortc vita, in tenebris lux.' And over his feet,
' mors nul)ecula transiens, laborum finis, vita; januo,
scala ca-li, mihi lucrum.' Besides tliese sentences,
is a large inscription" painted on a table lionging
above his feet, wliich for brevity's sake I now omit.
See more in Hist. (Sj- Antiq. ifniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p.
200 b. He had issue by his first wife, sir Benj.
Thornborough Kt. and Edw. Thomborough arch-
deacon of Worcester, who died in 1645; and by hie
.second named Elizab. Bayles' f)f Suffolk, sir Tho.
Tht)rnborough of Elmeley I^ovet in Worcestershire
Kt. &c. He had also a brotlier named Giles, who
was subdean and one of the canons of Sarum in the
latter end of qu. Elizabeth, as also rector of Or-
cheston S.George in Wilts, who died in 1637, leaving
a relict behind him named Jane. He had also u
nephew of the same name, preb. of Worcester in
1629, who dying in 1663, one Will. Owen M. A.
was installed in his place 13 Feb. the same year. A
little before this bisliop's death, he told his majesty
K. Ch. I. that he had outlived several that had ex-
pected to .succeed him in the see of Worcester, and
now, said he, I am afraid I shall outlive my bishop,
rick, which almost had come to pass. " There was
" one Mr. Giles Thornboroug, wlio was rector of St.
" Nicholas and of the Holy Trinity in Guildford and
" chaplain to the king, A.D. 1673."

[Wood has omitted one of the bishop's earliest
preferments. He was prebendary of Tockerington
m the church of York, March 17, 1589.»

Sir John Harrington says that this prelate very
well understood the nature of the countiy and inha-
bitants of Ireland, and adds he, ' if st)me others wlio
arc since gone out of tliis world, had been as willing
as he to have reported to his majesty the disea-ses of
that countroyand the fittest cures, it may Ix-, it would
not in long time, have needed those desperate reme-
dies of secundum and urendum, as sharp tn the sur-
geons oftentimes as to the patients.' The same
writer relates a miraculous escape he and his family

« [Composed by himself.]

7 [She died before him, and wa3 buried at Withington,
Gloucestershire. Willis, Cathedrals, 650.]

s [And another Giles Thornborough, M. A. rector of
Orston George, Wiltshire, and vicar of Crowlc, had the se-
cond stall in Worcester cath. He died in l662, and was bu-
ried at Crowle. Willis, Cathedrals, page 669.]

9 [Willis, Cathedrals, page 170.]

B2

THORNBOUOUGH.

BAKER.

met \ntli in Ireland, wliicli aceotint gives a curious
picture of tlie manners ot" the day. — ' LN-ing in an
old castle in Ireland in a large roont, partitioned hut
Kith sheets or eiirtens, his wife, children and ser-
vants, in effect a whole famiiv, in the dead time of
tJie nigJjt, tile fl(X)re over head being earth and
plaster, its in many places is used, overcharged with
weight, fell wholly downe together, and crushing all
to pieces that was above two foot high, as cui)lx)rds,
tables, formes, sttxjles, rested at last ujx)n certaine
chests, as God would have it, and hurt no living
creature ;' which, says our author, ' I would dl
our bishops did know, that they might rememl)er to
keep their houses in better reparations.''

To the list of Thomborougli's works we may add,
A Discoi'rse pla'mehj proving t/ie euideiit Vtilitk
and vrgait Necessitie of the Msired Juippie Vnion
qf the two famous Kingdomes (if England and
Scotland: hy uay (rf Ansiver to certaine Ohiections
against the same. Londmt, printed by Ricliard
Field for Thomas Cluird. 1604, 4to. containing five
sheets and an half.

This book, which has escaped the research of our
author, was the first publication on the subject by
bishop Thornborough, who signs himself lo. Bristol
at the end of the dedication to king James. He
\vrote it, he says, Iwcause he was not ignorant that
ctmies of the objections against the union ' were
this tearme carriotl into most parts of those your
majesties realmcs (and I suppose also beyonci the
seas) which might in time wthout answer sccme to
preiudice your maiesties honour vniustly with scan-
dale abroade and murmure at home.' A copy, for-
merly bishop Barlow's, is in the Bodleian, B. 7. 13.
Line.]

« DAVID BAKER, son of Will. Baker gent.
" by his wife the sister of Dr. David Lewes, j iidge
" of the admiralty (from whom he took his Christian
[4] " name) was bom at Abergavenny in Monmoiith-
" shire on the ninth day of Decemb. 1575, bred in
" school learning in Ch, Ch. hospital in London,
" became a commoner of Broadgate's hall in the
" beginning of the year 1590, at which time he was
" observed to be naturally of a good disposition,
" much inclined to virtue and piety, being both of a
" good judgment and modest, tho' not altogether of
" an unpas-sionate nature. But falling into ill com-
" pany, while he was in Oxon, he got many vicious
" nabits, and committed many youthful disorders,
" and withal fell to an utter neglect of all duties of
" piety and reh^on, yet there remained in him a
" natural modesty, whereby he was restrain'd from
" scandalous impudence in sin. His father, who
" was steward to the lord Abergavenny, hatl a plen-
" tiful fortune, and his eldest son Rich. Baker was
*' a counsellor at law ; but for this son David,
*' (whom we are farther to mention) he intended at
" first to procure a parsonage for him, which was
" the reason why he sent him to Oxon, but after,

" there (KTiirriiig difficulties at the time that he
" should have entred upon it, his father altered his
" resolution, and therefore sent tor him home, where
" a while he stucUed the law, being assisted therein
" by his elder brother Richard. Afterwards he was
" sent to the Middle Temple, without a degree con-
" ferr'd <m him in 0.\on, where he applied himseli"
" with so great attention and diligence to tiiat
" study, that .several persons, and those most eminent,
" not only in that profession, but in the state also,
" judgefl liim in a probable way, by his more than
" ordinary capacity and skill, to come to the highest
" preferments that such a profession could promise.
" At this time entretl into him first a doubt of the
" being of God and of his providence ; which after-
" wards thro' worldly occasions and bad conversa-
" tion, grew to be such a persuasion in him, as un-
" happy souls can have, or frame to themselves, of
" there being no God or Providence. In this way
" he run on, seeming to have lived so as if God had
" icirgot him, or not thought him worth his care.
" And being brought to .so great a precipice, the
" divine hand appeared from heaven, to rescue him
" both from the danger, in which his soul was en-
" gaged, and the cause thereof, which was sin, and
" vicious habits contracted. The which deliverance
" was indeed very wonderful, deserving to be parti-
" cularly declared, for the glory of the Divine Grace
" and mercy to a soul, that thought not on God.
" Thus it was : After the death of his brother Ri-
" chard, his father began to take delight in his com-
" pariy ; for the enjoying whereof he took him from
" the Temple into the country to himself; where
" for his employment he made him recorder of
" Abergavenny, and sent him often abroad to keep
" courts for him, determine suits, &c. in several
" places. Now it hajmed tliat in his return from
" such a journey homeward, his .servant that at-
" tended him, not having much regard to his
" master, so far outwent him that he left him out of
" sight ; so that our author Baker, that had his
" head full of business or other thoughts, and not
" marking the waj', instead of going forward, to a
" ford, by which he might ])ass the river, he sufTer'd
" his horse to conduct him by a narrow beaten path,
" which at last brought him to the middle of a
" wooden foot bridge, Targe enough at fir'it entrance,
" but growing still more and more narrow, and of
" an extraordinary height above the water, he pier-
" ceiv'tl not his danger, till the horse by stooping
" suddenly and trembling, with neighing ana loud
" snorting, gave his rider notice of the danger,
" which he soon perceiv'd to be no less than present
" death. To go forward or backward was imjx)s-
" sible, and to leap into the river, which being nar-
" row there, was extream deep and violent, (besides
" the greatness of the precipice) seemed to him, wiio
" could not swim, all one as to leap into his grave.
" In this extream danger, out of which neither hu-
" mane prudence, nor indeed any natural causes

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BAKER.

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wuld rescue him, nwessity ioried liiiii to raise \m
thoudits to some power iiiid lielj) alwve nature :
Whereuixjii lie franicHl in his mind such an inter-
nal resolution as this, If ever I escape this danger
I will believe there is a God ; who hath more care
of my life and safety, than I have iieed of his love
and worship. Thus he thouffht, and innnediately
thereupon he foinid that his horse's head was
turn'd, and both horse and man out of all danger.
This he plainly saw, but by what means this was
brought to pass, he never coidd imagin. How-
ever he never had any doubt, but that his de-
liverance was supernatural. A deej) resentment
of so great a mercy, wrouglit in him a serious care
to serve and worship God, according to that divine
light which lie had of him. So that from this
time he resolved not only to believe Gixl and his
holy Providence, but also in some g(xxl way or
otiier to serve liim. And this wa.s a good way to
a right bchef ; the which, as yet, he did not take
into consideration : But afterwai'ds, by occasion
of some R. Cath. IxMjks that came into his hands,
lie was moved to doubt of the truth of that religion,
which formerly he had professed. And iil'tor, by
much meditation and conference he was entirely
convinced, that there was no safety but in the R.
Cath. church. He was reconciletl by a R. Catli.
priest, and his conversion appeared to be mo.st
cordial, by many good effects, both in regard of
himself and others. For ujxin the first general
confession made by him, in order to his reconcile-
ment, all his habitual and deep rooted vices were
at once most miraculously even rooted out of liis
heart, and the serjient's head with that one blow
was niortaliy wounded and crushed. After this
he much desired a safe retreat into religious soli-
tude ; for the effecting whereof he consulted his
ghostly father ; who, tho' he was persuaded, that
this proceeded from a divine inspiration, yet could
he not give him any directions, whereby to arrive
to his desired sohtude, only he told him, that at
London he might meet with religious persons, by
whom he might be directed and a.ssisted. Upon
this advice he took a journey to London, where
he happily met with some Benedictine fathers of
the Cassine congregation ; by whom he was en-
couraged in his gocxl design, and an opportunity
thereupon ■ offer (1 him of going into Italy, with
one of the religious fathers, who was shortly to
repair thither, to a general chapter of their con-
gregation, then to oe assembled.. Of all w^lych
fortunate occurrences our author Baker, was very
glad. The time being come, he set forth with
his companion, for Italy, and being at Dover,
ready to take shipping, he wrote to his father
of his departure out of England, yet gave him
no further notice of his intention, than that
he went to travel. Having past the sea, they
made the rest of their journey by land, to Padua;
where he was received and admitted to tlie holy
habit of religion, by tlie abbot of S. Justina, on

" the 27 of Mav 1005, he l)eing then about 80 yean

" of age, and aliout that time he changed his name

" from David to Augiistiii Baker.' Afterwardit lie

" passed his noviceship under a master very indul-

" gent to him, in regard of his cor|)oral neC(.'^MitieK,

" yet sufliciently .severe in external matters of dis-

" cipline ; altho' for the internal, lie gave him no

" instructions or directions i\)v prayer, but only con-

" tentetl himself with giving him the rule of S.

" Benedict, and some few other books of devotion or

" morality, and taught him some ceremonies and

" external gcMxl carnage. AlK)ut that time he gave

" himself \ery seriously to the exercise of mental '

" prayer, (meditation) for the practice of wliich, he,

" by the little experience he m.ule, found how effica-

" Clous and jjowerful helps to it, were solitude and

" silence, both which were very strictly observed in

" that monastery. But before he could really olv

" tain it, he fell into a very great sickness towards

" the latter end of his noviceship, which yet jMirtly

" arosi' from change of air and want of exercise, and

" as the physicians said was incurable, excejjt l)y his

" own country air. Upon this our author Baker

" departed from Padua for England, and tlio' in his

" passiige his desire was to have seen and ol)scrveil

" the several customs, manners, &c. of tlie countries

" thro'' which he was to jiass, by leisurely journeys,

" yet notwithstanding a certain blind impulse did

" contrarily urge him to hasten his journey ; a thing

" that he often wondred at, not being able to give

" any reasonable account of it ; but yet so strong it

" was, that against his settled resolution, he never

" ceased posting till he came to London ; where at

" his first arrival he heard the sad news, tliat his

" father lay sick of an infirmity, of which he was

" never like to recover. Then lie jierceived that

" the aforesaid secret impulse was sent by God, as a [gl

" messenger, to ha.sten him, that he might assist his

" father at his death, as he did : For he reconciletl

" Iwm to the R. Cath. faith, after a confession made

" with great contrition and tears. Having buried

" his father, provided for his mother, and settled his

" own estate, as well as for the present he could, he

" returned to London, where lie onleretl his cor-

" respondence and reference to the monks of the

" Italian congregation, intending to retire hini-

" self into solitude, to the end that he might

" more freely give himself to prayer. And feanng

" least he might be interruptcnl with sollicitations

" about his estate, which was in land, he sold it, and

" having so done, he made his profession of a rcli-

" gious state unto the said fathers of the Italian

" congregation, to whom he gave an account of all

" his tenijxjrals. About that time came the Italian

" monks to find out and beconie acquainted with the

" reverend father Sigebert Bulkley, a venerable old

" religious ])riest, who had been received into the

" habit and order of S. Benedict by Dr. Feckenliam

" the last abbot of Westminster, when the monastery

' [Father Austin Baker is often mentioned with great re-
spect by dame GerirudeMore in hu Spiritual Exercitet.Coi.E.']

11

BAKEll.

" was rcstorixl by qu. Mary ami cunliiiiil Pole.
" Great rcsmvt and honour did thev deservetliv iK'ur
" to the sakl tallier Bulkley, as l)oinu; the only relique
" of tlie Benedictine ortlor in England. At which
" time our autlior Baker siijj^sted to them, that a
" farther use might Ix" made of that go<xl old man,
" bv and from wiiom might be pnx'nrcxl a continua-
" don and siiccessit)n ana induction of the sjiid Italian
" monks into the rights of the old Benedictine
" monks of England (and jmrticularly of Westmin-
" ster) if the said old man would receive and admit
" them : which l)eing demonstrated by him both by
" anticnt and iiKKlem laws and canons, Bulkley did
" acconlingly receive them. Many other good offices
" Baker dm for his Italian brethren, who indeed
" found him so useful to them, that he hiul much
" ado to obtain their gotxl leaves to retire himself to
" a solitary hfe, whicli he very much desired to do.
" At length it being granted, his first retirement was
" in a private lixlging with a young gentleman, the
" son ot one of the most eminent noblemen in the
" kingilom, who having Ix.'en not long liefore recon-
" oiled to the R. Cath. faith, did withal shew great
" zeal to leatl a retired life ; in the wliich his desire
" was to have Mr. Baker for his comuanion. But
" this society lasted not long ; for partly thro' a sus-
" picion conceived by the gentleman's father, that
" Mr. Baker was a priest, and the cause of his son's
" being and amtinuing a Roman Catholic, and so
" consequently of the depriving him of a fair estate
" intencled for him, but principally thro' the dissatis-
" faction that Mr. Baker had in the conversation
" and ways of the young gent, he left him, having
" with admiration oDserved the strange, curious and
" fantastical ways of devotion and spirituality prac-
" tised by him ; the end whereof he suspected
*' would be miserable, as indeed it proved in his
" opinion. For in success* of time he became
" weary not only of his devotion, but of his faith
" also. At this time it was that Mr. Baker chd
" seriously renew his exercise of mental prayer, and
" not long after retiring himself into the house of
" Sir Nicholas Fortescue, he did there zealously
" continue his second conversion, or attempt upon
" internal prayer. Afterwards when the union of
" all English Benedictine monks, out of all other
" congregations, Spanish, Italian, &c. into one new
" and renewed congregation was proposed, and bulls
" from his holiness for that purpose promulgated,
" many there were that came into the said union,
" but more out of the Sjianish, than the Italian con-
" gregation. Our author Baker was the first of all
" monks in the mission, (for he before had been
" made priest and conventual of Dieidward in Lo-
" rain) that accei)ted of the union : And being asked
" by a friend what had made him so forward, all
" the answer he gave was ' h Domino egressus est

' [Success for process of time. So Shakspeare, K. Henry
IV, pan 2, acl4, sc. 2.

And so success of mischief shall be born,

And heir from heir shall hold ihis quarrel up — ]

" sermo,' &c. the matter hath pnxxnxled from our
" Lord, neither could I do any thing beyond or
" jigainst his will. Afterwards, scil. in the Ix'ginning
" of 1620, he was by the II. F. Vincent Sadler,
" chief of the mission, settltxl in the west country in
" the house of one Philii) Furstlen, gent, a place
" where he might have all conveniences for his de-
" .sign ofretirement and recollection. Having spent
" alx)Ut an year there, he retired to London, pro-
" secuted his prayer, and wrot spiritual treatises and
" other matters. Alx)ut an year after his coming
" to that ])lace, there was an employment recom-
" mended to him by the superiors of his order,
" which he readily undert(X)k and discharged, yet
" so, as not to hinder or prejudice his prayer at all.
" And altho' this employment (which was of search-
" ing after and finding out records for the proving
" of the antient congregation of the black or Bene-
" dictine monks in England, formerly) might seem
'• to have been of great distraction and solicitude,
" yet he, amidst all his })ains taking, and running up
" and down and waiting (as is unavoidable in such a
" business) made his prayer and recollection his
" main employment, and the other his divertisement.
" In this manner spending his time till about 1624,
" he was several times invited witli great kindness
" by F. Rudisiretl ^ Barlow (then president of the
" English congregation) to come to Doway, and
" especially for these reasons. (1) That his ab-
" stracted life was not jiroper for the mission. (2)
" That troubles were then arising U|X)n the breach
" of the Spanish match between the infanta and
" prince Charles ; and (3) That he did intend to
" employ him in compiling An E(xlcsiastical His-
" to?7/ of England, for which he knew he was plen-
" tifully provided with materials gathered out of
" antient records and MSS. &c. At first he did
" not accept of this offer, but at length, being urged
" by an interior impulse, he went to that place, but
" finding not a convenience suitable to his mind, he
" was made the spiritual director of the religious
" convent of English Benedictine dames at Cam-
" bray, (and afterwards their confessor,) where he
" spent nine years to the great comfort and profit of
" those dames. Afterwards he retired to Doway
" again, where he brought many religious persons
" from a tepid life to a fervent practice of prayer,
" and drew many secular youths from their sinful
" excesses to a life of devotion, and some also to a
" state of religious profession. Afterwards he went
" into England, settled in Holbourn near London,
" carried on his meditation, solitude, mental prayer
" and exercises of an internal life to the last. He
" was esteemed the most devout,austere and religious
" personofhisorder, and one that did abound, and was
" more happy in mental prayer (tho'itwas a long time
" before he could obtain it) than any religious man

■* [He is called father 7?M(f«s!nd Barlow in dame Gertrude
More's Spiritual Exercises, pngc37, printed at Paris, in 8vo.
l658. Cole. There is an original letter from fa. R. Barlow
tosir Rob. Cotion, dated in l623, MS. Cotton, JuliusC. 3. lAl.]

[7]

13

BAKER.

14

[81

" (not excepted the Carthusian) whatsoever. He
" was also an excellent common lawyer, and there-
" fore when he lived in the houses ot gentlemen, he
" went under the name, (and was generally thought
" by strangers, upon his usual discourse of" the law
" among tliem,) of their steward. He was also a
" most admirable antitjuary, well skilTd in the anti-
" quities of the British church, and more especially
" in the anticjuities of his most renowned and antient
" order of S. Benedict : For the honour and anti-
" quity of which he spent much time and money in
" searching records, leiger books, histories, &.c. in
*' order for the publication of a book ; but his mind
^' being totally bent on internal prayer, his vast col-
^' lections and transcripts relating to that order, were
" methodized by F. Clem. Reyner and by him pub-
" lished, as I shall anon tell you. The books that our
" author Baker hath ^mtten are many, but none vet,
" that I know, are published. The titles of which,
" as many as have come to my hands, do follow.

" An Anchor or Stay for the Spirit, preserving
" it in Life, in all Cases of spiritual Storms, or

" Tempests of Temptations, fears, i^c. In oct.

" in two parts.

" Spiritual Treatise, divided into three Parts,

" ami called A. B. C. In oct. approved by F.

" Rudisired Barlow and F. Leander de S. Martina.

" Discretion : Or a Treatise of Discretion, that
" is to be used and held in the Exercises of a sjn-

" ritual Life. In oct. approved by the said per-

" sons, 24 Dec. 1629.

" Treatise of Confession. In oct. approved

" by F. Rud. Barl. 17 Sept. 1629-

Treatise of Doubts and Calls, in 3 Parts. -

" In oct. approved by L. de S. Mart. 12 May 1630,
« and 4 April 1634.

" The Mirror of Patience and Resignation.

" In oct.

" Discourse concerning the Love of our Enemies.

" Discourse touching all Virtues in general.

" These two last are Dound with TTie Mirrour of
" Patience.

" Spiritual Alphabet for the Use of Beginners,
" with a Memorial for the Instructor— ~— in oct,
" To which is added,

" The Order of Teaching. These two last

" were approved by L. de S. Mart. 27 Aug. 1629,
" and 4 Apr. 1634.

" Spiritual Emblems: Or short Sayings with
" tlieir Expositions in oct,

" Vox Clamantis in De.serto Animce. This

" book, which is written in English, is an Exposi-
" tion of Scala Perfectimiis, written by Walt. Hil-
" ton. 'Tis wTitten very neatly in a thick octavo,
" for the use of the English nuns at Cambray.

" Dicta sive Sentential sancto7-um Patrum, de

. " Praxi Vita; perfectcc. This book, which is in

" oct. is distributed into centuries.

" Directionsfor Contemplation, divided into four
" Parts,-— —In qu. approved 13 Aug. 1629.

" Treatise de Converaione Morutn.^— In a
" tliick qu. in one part.

" Flagcllum Euchomachorum : Or against the
" Impugners or tcilful Ncglccters of the Exercise
" of mental Prayer, or ofUw due Pursuit thereof*
" In a large oct.

" Of the Pall and Restitution of Man in oct.
" Instructions for the right profitable Use (yf

" mental Prayer. in oct.

" A Book consi.sting (if 5 Treatises, whereof the
"first is against being solicitous (if the Honour o/'

" the Houjte (rr Order, ^-c. in (K;t. approved 81

« October 1629.

" An Enquiry about the Author (if the Abridg-

" ment of The L(ulder of Perfection. ^in oct.

" which abridgment was first written in Italian by
" a lady of Milan, but published under die name
" of one of the society of Jesus called F. Achillea
" Galliardi.

" Secretum sive My.sticum : Being an Exposi-
" tioti, or certain Notes upon the My.stick Books

" called the Cloud ()f Unknowing. In two parts

" in oct,

" Treatise concerning the Apostolical Mistion

" into England in two parts in qu.

" Treatise concerning Refection in oct.

" Remains : or Supplements to several Treatises
" written bi/ himself.

" Rythmi Spiritttales sive Canticorum Liber*
" written in Lat. in 3 tomes in tw.

" Treatise concerning Sickness : or how to make
" a right Use of Sickness.
" T/ie Idcots Devotions.

" An Account (rfhis Life A breviat of this I

" have seen, and from thence have spoken these
" matters of him.

" Apology for himself: or a Solution of some
" Objecti<ms made against his Writings. All the
" before-mentioned works and others, are conservetl
" in 9 large tomes in folio MSS. in the monastery
" of the English Benedictine nuns at Cambray.
" There are Tost six MS. tomes in fol. of Ecclesi-
" astical History, and other Antiquities, collected
" by the said Baker out of the best libraries and
" archives ; having been assistwl therein l)y the
" learned Cambden, sir Rob. Cotton, sir Hen.
" Spelman, Mr. Joh. Selden, and Dr. Fr. Godwin
" bishop of Hereford : to all whom he was most fa-
" miliarly known. Out of these collections were
" taken the materials of the AjMstolatus Bcnedicti.
" noru7n in AngUa, published by F. Clem. Reyner
" secretary of the congregation, (having had the as-
" sistance also of F. Leander de S. Martino.) As
" also many of the materials of The Church Hist.
" of Britanny, &c. pubHshed by Hugh alias Sere,
" nus de Cressy, who before had published Sancta

* [In Peter de Neve's sale of books, 1731, was this in MS.
A spiritual Treatise intituled Funiculus triplex, or Flagcllum
Euchonomachorum, &c. hy Father Austin Baker. Vide Catat.
p. 97. Cole.]

15

BAKER.

DAWSON.

" Sophia, 8lc. extractctl out of more tliaii 40 trea-
" tises, wiitten by our author Baker, who also made
" translations of most spiritual authors, whether an-
" tieut or nuxloru from T-at. into English, wliich
" are in three great folio MSS. and wrot two trea-
" tises of the laws of Englanil, while he w as of the
" Middle Temple ; which, after his death, iKnng
" left in the hands of his kinsman, V. Leander Pri-
" chard a Benedictine monk, were, after his, restor-
" cd to the sujxjriors of his order, hut lost or de-
" stroycd at the pillaging of S. James's house, or of
" the house and chapix*! at St. John's in Clerken-
" well near London, when K. Jam. II. left England
" in Decemh. 1 688. At length this most holy and
" seraphical father Aug. Baker departing this mor-
" tal life in Greys-Inn-lane in Holboiun near Lon-
" don, on the ninth day of August in sixteen hun-
|9] " dred forty and one, was buried in S. Andrew's
1641. " church there. He always wished that he might
" die without company about him, and accordingly,
" it seems, he did so The day before he died he
" took a leaden pen, and wrot this, ' Abstinence
" and resignation, I see must be my condition, to
" my very expiration.' In tlie year 1638 there was
" a testimony given by a general chapter of the
" Benedictine order, in favour of his d(x;trine and
" writings ; which as I find it in the breviat before-
" mentioned, runs thus — ' That die divine calls, in-
" ' spirations, inactions, influences of Gotl's grace,
" ' joyned with the humble frequent use of the sa-
" ' craments of Christ, are the most noble and sub-
" ' lime means to spirituality ; without which to en-
" ' deavour after contemplation and perfection, were
" ' to fly without wdngs. And that those calls, or
" ' holy lights and inspirations are always to be re-
" ' gardecl, but chiefly in prayer and conversation
" ' with God. And that whosoever neglecteth his
" ' interior, not harkning to the interior voice or
" ' allocution of the Holy Ghost, nor labouring to
" ' direct his external observances, to tast God more
" ' sweetly, to see him more clearly, to love him
" * more ardently, and enjoy him more intimately
" ' in his soul and spuit, can never attain to purity
" ' of intention, and the spirit of contemplation, tho'
" ' he be never so exact in external observances,
" ' and austere in corporal mortifications,' &c."

[ 88 An Account of the Life of the venerable S.
Auffustin Baker, Monk of ye English Congrega-
tion of S. Benedict; who died in England, upon
the 9th of August, A. Dom. 1641, JEtatis sua 63.
His luippy soul rest in peace. Amen. 9f. is in MS.,
in Wood's study, 8575, B. 4. Begins ' The vene-
rable father Augustin Baker was born at Aberga-
venny in Momnouthshire,' &c. The conclusion is
as follows : ' A certain religious j)riest, who was a
person of note in y" mission, desired earnestly to
know wherein consisted y"= difference between y^
spirituality, w^'' Mr. Baker taught, and the spiritu-
ality of others, who opposed or misliked him : and
this he desired to have in writing. Mr. Baker being

at that time not able to ]x?n any thing himselfe,
commended that affair to one, whom he thought
able to give gtxxl satisl'action. And hereujxni a lit-
de short writing was drawn up, and some differences
a-ssigned, and the paper concluded very dispatch-
ingly : viz. That the difference was not between spi-
rituality and spirituality, but between spirituality
and no spirituality, for his adversaries chd neither
teach any spirituality nor recjuiretl any in their sub-
jects or disciples ; only they did forbid and hinder
any body to w^'draw themselves from under their
viagiMeriurn. And as they now disliked any body
y' did betake themselves to Mr. Baker's instructions,
so would they dislike any that should resort for spi-
rituall information to any body else, as well as Mr.
Baker.']

JOHN DAWSON, a most eminent preacher of
his time, was bom in Oxfordshire, particularly, as
it seems, widiin the city of Oxon, became first of all
conversant with the muses in Ch. Ch. in Mich,
term 1620, aged about 15 years, t(xik one degree
in arts, and afterwards entring into holy orders was
made vicar of Maidenhead in Berks, where and in
the neiglibourhood, he was much resorted to for his
edifying preiiching. After his death w'ere published
of his composition, by one H. M.

Eighteen Sermons preached upon the Incarnation
of tlie Nativity of Jesus Christ, &c. Lond. 1642. qu.
[Btxil. 4to. D. 39. Th.] The five first are on John
1. ver. 1. the four following on Job. 1. ver. 2. and
the nine following those four, are on Joh. 1. ver. 6.
to ver. 14. Which learned lucubrations promise no
less than what they appear; a compendious volume
of divinity. He died in the prime of his years in
the beginning of Septemb. in sixteen hundred forty
and one, and was buried in the parish church of l6'4I.
C(x)khani near to Maidenliead before-mentioned, on
the seventh day of the same month. Contemporary
with the said Jo. Dawson, I find another of Ch. Ch.
who after he had continued in the state of M. of A.
about ten years, was admitted bach, of div. 1634.
but this person, who was of genteel parents in Lon-
don, hatn published nothing, as I can yet learn.' I
find also one Joh. Dawson author of Paraphrasis
metrica in Proverbia Salonu>nis. Lond. 1639. oct.
but whether written by either of the former, or by
a third, I cannot tell unless I can see the book.^
" One John Dawson the son of a father of both
" those names gent, of Okingham in Berkshire aged
"17 years, was matriculated of St. Alban's hall,
" May 4. 1627."

5 [This John Dawsnn was perhaps the (■amc recorded by
Newcoiirt as incumbent of Friarne Barnet, Middlesex,
which he resigned in 1663. Rcperlnrium, i. 606.]

* [The true title is Summa Moraiis Tlieologice sive Exe-
gesis triparliti Operis Solomonici Metris consnipta, nunc
primum edita, Aulhore Johanne Dawson Clerico, e Coll.,
JEd. Chr. Oxon. in AtMus Mag. sacris, incumlenti apud
Maydenhith in com. Berk. LovEDAY. Hence it is clear
that Dawson of Maidenhead was the author o{ Paraplirasis
in Prov, Salomonis.^

17

MARTEN.

BURHILL.

18

HENRV MARTEN, sun dC Aiilli. Marten ul'
London, son of Will. Marten of "Okynghani in Berks,
by Margaret his second wife, daughter of John
Yate of I^yford in tlie siiid county, was horn in the
parish of 8. Michael of Basinghaugh within the said
city of I^ondon, educated in Wykeluun's scIuk)! near
Winchester, admitted true and j)er{)etual fellow of
New coll. in 1582, took the degrees m the civil law,
that of doctor being conij)leated in 1592, at which
time he was an enunent advocate at Doctors Com-
mons, as afterwards in the High Conniiission Court.'
In 1595 he left his college, and became successively
judge of the Admiralty, twice dean of the Arches, a
knight, and in 1624 judge of the Prerogative in the
place of sir Will. Byrd deceased. In all which of-

fices and employments he shewed himself a most ex-
cellent civilian, the best, for ought that I know, that
ever appeared in our horizon, and therefore highly
venerated by all g(X)d and learned men. Towards
j 10] his latter end he purchased a fair estate, mostly ly-
ing in Berks, which his ung(xlly son Harry squan-
dred away. His writings were many, and by some
were thought very worthy of the press, but in whose
hands they are now, or whether eml)eziled with his
estate, I know not. All that I have seen are these :

Several speeches in parliament." As (1) Speech
at a general Committee of both Houses, 22 Mny
1628. [BckH. 4to. C. 80. th. no date, but probably
printed at the time.] (2) Sp. an to the rational Part
vf the Matter of' a Conference had by a Committee
of both Houses concernimr Sovereign Power, An.
1628. &.C. In which parliament sir Henry was a
burgess for the university of Oxtm.

Debates touching- his Majesty's Propositions, and

the Duke of Buckingham, &c. An. 1628. See

in Joh. Rush worth's Collections, vol. 1. p. 521. 617.

Several Arguments and Discourses in Parl.-

See in a book entit. The Sovereigns Prerogative
and the Subjects Privileges discussed, &.c. 3 and 4
ofK. Ch. i. Lond. 1657. fol. p. 140, &c. p. 188.
Besides other things, among which is his Speech in
Pari, concerning the Petition of Right. He paid
his last debt to nature on the 26 of Sept. in sixteen
i04i. hundred forty and one, aged 81, and was buried in
a chappel joyning on the north sitle of tlie chancel
belonging to the church of his manour of Long-
worth near to Abingdon in Berks. Over his gi-ave,
and that of his wife, their son Harry Marten before-
■mention''d erected a comely monument, with an in-
scription thereon, the contents of which I shall now
pass by for brevity's sake.

[See colonel Henry Marten's Familiar Letters to
his Lady of Delight, 4to. Lond. 1663. Letter pre-
fixed to the others, where it is thus said : ' You
lived in Aldersgate-street, under the tuition of the

' [Mr. Hen. Marten, advocate for all ecclesiasticall causes.
See in the latter end of The first 14 Years nf K. James /.
)). 41. Wood, MS. note in his copy of the Athen^e pre-
served in the Ashmolc niusiiim.]

' [See MSS. Harl. ll'IQ, 1721, 230.5,6800.]

Vol.. III.

then called lilew-nos''d Romanist your father, who
wa-s the l)est civilian of our horizon, and a *wr-
sxoinger, a.s they termed him — he htul but 40/. per
ann. of his own.' — penes me. Coi.k.

H. Marten de civ. Lond. co. Midd. adniiss. (ad
coll. Nov.) 1582, Aug. 19.— LL. d(x;tor; oflicialis
archidiac. Berks ; advocatus regiiis ; e<|ues auratiis ;
cancellarius London ; judex curia- admiralitatis.»]

ROBERT BURHILL or Burghill received
his first breath at Dym<x;k in Glocestershire, but
descended from those of his name, as I conceive,
that lived at Thinghill in Herefordshire, was admit-
ted scholar of Coq). Ch. coll. 13 Jan. 1587, aged 15
years, probationer fellow thereof 20 Mar. 1584,
being tnen M. of A. and about that time in holy
orders. At length having a jwrsonage conferred on
him in Norfolk, and a residentiaryship in the church
of Hereford, he proceeded D. of divinity. He was
a person of great reading and profound judgment,
was well vers'd in the fathers and schoolmen, right
learned and well grounded in the Hebrew tongue,
an exact tlisputant, and in his younger years a noted
Latin jx>et. He was much respected and valued
by sir Walt. Raleigh for his schola.stica] accomplish-
ments, who finding him a person of great learning,
hatl his assistance in criticisms, in the reading and
opening of Greek and Hebrew authors, when he was
composing the History of the World, during his
confinement in the Tower of I.,ondon. But let those
things which he hath published, that have been
taken into the hands of very learned men, speak his
worth and excellency. The titles of which follow.

Invitatorius Panegyricus, ad Regem optimum de
EUzabetha; nuper Regime posterivre ad Oxoniam
Adventu, &c. Oxon. 1603. in two sh. in qu.

In Controversiam inter Jo. Howsonum 4" TJto-
mam Pyuvi S. T. Doctores de novis po.it Divortium
ob Adulterium Nuptris Sfc. in sex Commcntutitmes,
^ Elenchum monitorium distinctus. Ubi 6f ad
excusam D. Pyi ad D. Hojcsonum Epistolam, qua
Libri Horcsoniani Refutationem molitnr, ^ ad ejus-
dem alteram Manu scriptam Epistolam ejusd. Ar-
gumenti, qua ccmtra Alb. Gentilem disputat, dili-
genter respondcttir. Oxon. 1606. qu. [Bodl. 4to.
Y. 2. Th. Seld.l In the general title before the
second edit, of Dr. Howson's Thesis printinl here-
with, the aforesaid large title is thus abbreviated,
Thcseos Defensio contra Reprehensionem Thonuc
Pyi S. T. Doctoris. The Elenchus Monitorius at
the end, contains 4 sheets.

Responsio pro Tortnra Torti contra Mart. Be-
canum Jesuitam. Lond. 1611. <x;t.

De Potentate regid & Usurpatione papali pro
Tortnra Torti contra Parellum Andr. Eudecmon-
Johannis Jcsuitce. Oxon. 1613. oct.

Assertio pro Jure regie contra Martini Becaiti

9 \Cat. Sociorum Coll. Nov. Oxon. MS. inter cod. Raw-
liiisoh ill bibl. Bodl. notat. Misc. 130, fol. 77-]

Jl)

BURHILL.

ASHLEY.

20

[111

Jeauitte Controversiam Anglicanam. Lond. 1613.
oct. [Bail. 8vo. B. 97. Th.l

Defens'io Rcspons'ionis Jo. Buckridgii ad Apo-
log'uim Roberti Card. BeUarmini. printed with the
Assertlo, &c.

Comment, in d'lfficUiora Job. MS. in two folios
in Comus Ch. coll. library. Which book Elias
Wrencn of the said coll. transcribed in a fair cha-
racter, and put tlie Hebrew into Hebrew letters,
wliich before were in Latin. At the end of the said
Conuiicntarij, in the second vol. was added, Para-
phrash Poctka on tJie said Book of Job by E.
Wrench before-mentioned, bom in Gloucestershire,
st>n of Elias Wrench, if I mistake not, prebendary
of Gloucester, admitted scholar of C. C. coll. 5 Jan.
1621, "*aged 16, made feUow 1630,"
• Afterwards afterward bach, of div. and in Apr.
"SI Fimtdif 1644 rector of Trent in Somersetshire,
(by the presentation of the president
and fellows of his house) where he died and was bu-
ried in the month of June 1680. Our author Bur-
hill also wrote a book entit.

Tractatios contra Monarchomaclios 3) Hierarclio-
maclion pro Rcgibiis &' Episcopis. MS. in the ar-
chives ot Bodley's library ; also

Britannia Scholastica : vel de Britanniae Rebtts
itcholastis Lib. 10. 'Tis a Lat. poem in qu. dedi-
cated to sir Tho. Bcxlley, and is reserved as a rarity
(for 'tis a MS.) in the archives of his library. The
said ten books are thus entit. 1. Heroiais. 2. Pro-
vincia. 3. Heptarchia. 4. Alfredus. 5. Neotus. 6.
EyUda. 7. Parallismus. 8. Itinerarium. 9. Benc-
meriti. 10. Fotus, meaning Fox, founder of C. C.
coll. He also published A Sermon of Dr. Miles
Smith B. ofGlouc. preacJied at an Assize in Ciren-
cester, on Jer. 9. ver. 23, 24. At length upon the
approach of the civil wai- in England, our author
Burliill retired for quietness sake to his rectory of
Northwold near to Thetford in Norfolk, where dy-
ing in the month of Octob. or thereabouts, in sixteen
hundred forty and one, was buried in the chancel of
the church there, on the south side, near to the en-
trance thereof from the church, as I have been in-
formed by the letters of Mr. Joh. Burrel minister
of Thetford, dated 3 May 1673, who also tells me
therein, that ' Dr. Burhill was had in general esteem
of a very great scholar, and a right worthy church-
man.— Tnat the memory of him is pleasant to those
that knew him,' 8ic.

[Dr. Sam. Knight, archdeacon of Berks, put up a
monument for BurhiU in Nortwold church, and m-
scription, which see in my xxix vol. of MS. Collec-
tions (now in the British Museum) p. 213. Cole.
BurhiU was also rector of Snailwell, Cambridge-
shire.]

" ROBERT ASHLEY an esquire's son, and a
" Wiltshire man bom, being descended from those
" of his name living at Na,snlll in the same coimty,
" became a gent. com. of Hart-hall 1580, aged 15

" years, and there trmned up in the arts and learned
" languages. Afterwards he receded to the Middle
" Temple, without the honour of a degree, and being
" made barrester, he was engaged and dunominatecl
" among the professors of the common law. But
" finding the practice thereof to have ebbs and tides,
" he applyed himself to the learning of the languages
" of our neighbours, the French, Dutch, S|>aniard,
" and Italian, to the end that he might Ix; partaker
" of the wisdom of those nations, having been many
" years of this opinion, that ' as no one soil or ter-
" ritory yieldeth all fruits alike, so no one climate
" or region affordeth all kind of knowledge in full
" measure.' At length he travelled into France,
" Holland, &c. and sjiending some time among the
" learned, and in the pubhc libraries thereof, he re-
" turned a very knowmg and compleat gentleman,
" lived many years in the Middle-Temple, and
" honoured the commonwealth of learnmg witli
" several of his lucubrations ; among wluch are
" these :

" A Relation of the Kingdom, of Cochin-China,
" containing many admirable Rarities and Sing-u-
" larities of that Country. Lond. 1633, (ju. [Bodl.
" 4to. L. 70. Art. a presentation copy from the au- .
" thor,] mostly, or all, taken from an Italian rela-
" tion (then lately presented to the pope) of Chris-
" topher Barri, who lived certain years in the said
" country of Cochin-China. He also translated from
" French into Latin verse the Uranie or Celestial
" Muse of WUl. de Saluste lord of Bartis, printed
" at Lond. 1589, in about 2 sh. in qu. dedicated to
" sir Henry Unton of Wadley, knight ; and from
" Spanish into English ; Almunsor the Learned and
" Victorious King that conquc7-ed Spain, his Ltfe
" and Death; Lond. 1627. qu. [Bodl. 4to. H. 4.
" Art.] printed in Spanish at Saragoza in 1603,
" from the Arabian copy remaining in the Escurial,
" where our author Ashley did once see a glorious
" golden library of Araliian books, as he himself
" confessed! : And also from the Italian into the
" English tongue, II Davide Persegnitute, David
" Persecuted, Lond. 1637. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. T. 79.
" Th.] originally written by marquess Virgilio Mal-

' [Ant. Wood is not exact in his account of one transla-
tion, viz. Almansor, &c. his Life and Death. As appeal^ by
the translator's own account in his preface to the rcailer. —
'Amongst the rest 1 happened on an Arabian historic concern-
ing the lossc of Spaine Dy Roderigoking of the Goihea, which
by commandment of king Philip the second was translated
into Spanish out of the Arabian copie reniayning in the Escu-
rial ; where I my selfe haue scene a glorious golden tibrarie of
Arabian boukes. Jn the midst of that historic, 1 found a
summarie collection, or obseruation of the life and death of
a learned Arabian king Jacob Almansor the conquerour of

Spaine' ' hauing oportunitie in my hand I thought it

conuenient to giue satisfaction by translating it out of the
Spanish copie which was printed at Saragoza 1603. remayn-
ing in that unparalleld rare librarie of the uniucrsitic of Ox-
ford, and there hence out of the larger Hisiorie of the Con-
quest of Spaine by the Moons, (being then the snbiccts of
his Almansor) by me excerpted and published.' Wanley.]

21

EATON.

POTTER.

22

" vezzi. To the impression of wliidi, or at least
" part of it, was put a new title bearing date 1650,
" [Bodl. 8vo. A. 14. Th. BS.] witli the picture be-
" fore it of K. Ch. I. playing on a harp, resembling
[12] " K. David, purposely to make all the impression

" sell off, such mc the usual shifts which bmjk-
" sellers use. This Mr. Ashley died, in a good
" old age, in the iK'ginning of*^ Octob. in sixteen
i()4i. " hundred forty and one, and was buried on the
" fourth day oi the same month in the church be-
" longing to the Temples, next to the barresters
" seat, near to the cross isle, at the foot of the stone,
" which hath now, or at least had lately, inscribed
" on it, Oblivlotii saci-um. In Apr. following there
" was an order made by the benchers of the Middle-
" Temple, that the books given by the said Ashley
" thereunto should be kept under lock and key, till
" a hbrary was built."

JOHN EATON, a Kentish man born, became
the firet receiver of the exhibition which Rich.
Blount gave to Trinity college, an. 1590, aged 15
years ; took the degrees in arts, that of ma.ster being
compleatcd in 1603. Afterwards he became a cu-
rate for several years in divers places, and at length
in 1625, or therealwuts, he was made minister and
preacher at Wickhani Market in Suffolk, where he
continued to the time of his death, being accounted
by all the neighbouring ministers a grand Antino-
mian, if not one of the founders of the sect so called.
His works are,

The Discovery of a viost dangerous dead Faith.
Lond. 1641. in tw. [Botll. 8vo. E. 15. Th. Seld.]

Abraham's Steps of Faith — printed with the for-
mer.

The Honey-comb of free Justification by Christ
alone, collected end af'ilie meer Authorities of Scrip-
ture, &c. Lond. 1642, in a thick quarto, [Bool.
4to. E. 8. Th. Seld.] pubhshed by Rob. Lancaster,
who, in his epistle before it, tells us that ' the au-
thor's faith, zeal, and diligence in doing his calling ;
and his fmth, patience, and cheerfulness in suffering
for the same, were so exemplary, that they are wor-
thy to be set forth as a pattern not only to all good
people and ministers now, but even all succeeding
generations,' Sac. Thus he, who was one of his ad-
mirers and sect : by which we are given to under-
stand, that he suffered much from his diocesan and
others for his heterodox opinions. At length dying
at Wickham Market before-mention''d in sixteen hun-
1(541. dretl forty and one, was there buried. In his pa-
storal charge succeeded one Zeph. Smith, who after-
wards published Directions Jor Seekers and Ex-
pectants: or a Guide fir weak Christians in tfiese
di-wontented Times, &c. on Psal. 119- Ver. 102.
Ixmd. 1646. qu. and perhaps other things.

BARNABAS POTTER received his first being
in this world within the barony of Kendall in the
county of Westmorland, became a student in Queen's

college in the beginning of tlie year 1594, nTwi 15
years. ^Vhcre, after he had undergone, with some
hardship, the place of a jKJor serving child and ta-
barder, he was, when mast, of arts, made fellow of the
said college. Afterwards entring into holy orders,
he became not only a puritanical i)reatlier in these
parts, but at Totness \n Devonshire, where he was
much followed by the preci.se party. In 1616 he
proceeded in divinity, and in the year following wa«
elected provost of his college : * which place he hold-
ing about 10 years, resign'd it, (lieing then one of
the king's chaplains) and by his interest got his ne-
phew Cnristopher Potter to succeed him. In 1628
he, tho' a thorough pac'd Calvini-st, was made bishop
of Carlisle, " by the endeavours ' of bishop Laud ;"
to which being consecrated in the chappel of Elv
House in Holooum near London, on tne 15th of
March, had the temporahties thereof' given to him
by the king on the 23d of the same month, in the
year before-mentioned. He hath written and pub-
lished.

Lectures on the sixteenth CJiapt. of Genesis.

When or where printed I know not.

Led. on the 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, \Sth Chapters of
Genesis. — Whether printed I cannot tell. He hat!
also written Lectures on the PUiguea of Egypt Jroin
Exodus, and On the Beatitudes Jrom part of S.
Luke, but are not, as I conceive, extant

Several Sermons, as (1.) The Baronefs Burial:
Or, a Funeral Sermon at the Solemnities of that
honourable Baronet Sir Edxoard Seymour'' s Burial ; [13]
on Deut. 34. ver. 5. Oxon. 1613. qu. (2.) Sermon
on Easter Tuesday at the Spital, &c. This learn-
ed and godly bishop gave way to fate in his lodgings
within tne parish of S. Paul in Covent Garden near
London, in the beginning of January in sixteen hun-
dred forty and one : whereupon his body was buried iftn.
in the church belon^ng to that parish on the sixth
day of the same month : At which time he lefl be-
hind him a widow named Elizabeth, but whether
any children I cannot tell.

{Whilst king's chaplsdn Potter was styled the pe-
nitential preacher.

He was the last bishop who died a member of par-
hament. MS. Note in Mr. Heber's copy.

Potter was bom at Westmester, Kendal, West-
moreland, and there educated under a puritanical
schoolmaster named Maxwell. He was afterwards
called the puritanical bishop, and those of an oppo-
site turn used to say in jest, that the noise of an or-
gan would blow him out of the church.

^ [He was chosen with the unanimous consent of the fel-
lows, when, being at a great distance, he never dreamt of it.
MS. Note in Mr. Heber's copy.']

s [See the Hist, of the Troubles and Trial efArchb. Laud,
chap. 39, p. 3O9. It should be recorded also, that this ad-
vancement was procured without the knowledge of Potter
himself. ' And,' says Lloyd, ' when others pressed for the
place, the king said peremptorily, that Potter should have it.'
Memoirs, p. 154.]

« Pat. 4 Car. l.p. 37-

C2

23

POTTER.

CROMPTON.

His reason for rcsigiiiiig the hcadsliij) of (^iiecn''s
was a desire ol' doiii'; lus duty at his iK'iiefice in the
North.'

' He was,' says bish. Hall," ' tniely conseionable,
pious, painful, zealous in promoting the glory of
God, ready to encourage all faithful preachers, and
to censure and correct the lazie and scandalous;
careful of the due inip>sition of his hands ; incek
and unblanieable in all his carriage.'

His character was most cxemjjlary in every par-
ticular, and his houshold, by his ])recept and exam-
ple, so tlevout, that it was called thv praijiiifffiimihj.
Notwithstanding his office, at that time nated by
many, he was lielovetl by all sects, and even those
who refuse<l to come to cnurch, were hapjiy to c"on-
verse with him, l)ecause, said they, we would go
with him to Heaven !

' There neetl no more added to his life,' says Da-
vid Lloyd,' ' or written on his grave, than that Uiis
was the man ; 1 . That had been a constant preacher,
and repentetl at his death that he hml not been a
more constant catechist : 2. That interceded for li-
berty of conscience so long for non-conformists with
the Icing, till he saw neither the king nor himself
could enjoy their own consciences ; that feared the
pretence of religion woidd overthrow the reality of
It, and tliat the divisions in liis age would breed
atheism in the next.']

« WILLIAM CROMPTON, a younger son of
" Rich. Crompton, an eminent coimsellor at law,
" was lK)rn and educated in grammar in the parish
" of Leigh near Wvgan in Lancashire, became a
" commoner of Brascn-nose coll. on the 10th of Apr.
" 1617, aged 18 years, took the degrees in arts,
" holy orclers, and soon after became preacher of
" the word of Gotl at Little Kymbell in Bucking-
" hamshire. Much about that time being acquaint-
" ed with Dr. Rich. Pilkington rector of Hamble-
" ton in the said county, he married one of his
" daughters begotten on the body of his wife the
" dau. of Dr. Joh. Mey, sometimes bishop of Car-
" lisle, and received from him instructions to pro-

' [So says Lloyd (Memoires, See. 1668.) I owe the fol-
lowing note to the present worthy provost of Queen's, Dr.
Septimus CoUinson, Margaret professor of divinity. — ' Dr.
Barnabas Potter was admitted of Queen's college in 1594,
and was chosen provost on the 14th day of October 1616.
He resigned the provostship on the 17th day of June 1626,
and was succeeded in that office by his nephew Christopher
Potter, B. D. who was chosen on the same day. The elec-
tion was confirmed on the last day of the month by the arch-
bishop of York.

' Barnabas Potter was not consecrated bishop of Carlisle
till the year 1628. But there is no accountof his having en-
joyed any preferment in the North previously to his being
made bishop. I am of opinion that David Lloyd was mis-
taken. S. C]

' [A modest Offer, &c. Hall's Remains, 4to. 1660, page
34I.t

' tMemaires of those that suffered in the Civil Wars, &c.
Lond. 1668, folio, page 165.}

" cectl in liis tlieological studies, and withal an in-
" veterate averseness to |)ojK'ry or any thing that
" l(x)ked that way. Thence by the jKisuasion of
" his acquaintance Dr. G. Hakewill, he removed to
" Barnstaple in Devonshire, became lecturer there,
" and was much followed and admired by the puri-
" tanical peo))le of that pliu-e and in the neighbour-
" h(Kxl : Init his tl<x.-trine being not esteemed by
" many orthoilox, or as tho.se ot his ix-rsuasion say,
" that he was envied by the vicar thereof, because
" he was l)etter l)eli)ved than him, he was forced
" thence by the diocesan and ecclesiastical power,
" and thereujion receiving a quick cull, he removed
" to Lancestoii in Cornwall, where being a preacher
" in the church of S. Mary Magd. he continued in
" gtxxl estimation among the precise ]x«ple alxiut
" four years, and then to their grief he was untimely
" snatched away by death in the prime of his years.
" He hath written,

^ .S'. Au.sthCs Religion ; zcherein is manifestly
'■'■proved out of the Worhs of that learned Father,
" Re. that he dissented from Popery, and agreed
" icith the Religiott of the Protestants, contrary to
" th^ slandennus Po.<tition of the Papists, who affirm,
" tliat we had no Religion before the Times of Lu-
" ther and Calvin, Lond. l625. qu. []5odl. 4to. C.
" 19. Th. BS.]

" S. AiiMins Sums: or, the Sums of S. AuMins
" Religion, S\c. fnym whence may be proved, tluit
" S. AuMin agreed with the Church of England in
" all the main Points of Faith and Dmtrines, ?w
'^'' Ansicer to Mr. Joh. Brcerlcy Priest. Lond. 1625.
" qu. [B(xll. 4to. C. 19. Th. BS.] These two
" b(K)ks were written by the author ^t Little Kym-
" bell, and the la.st was an undertaking (as a puri-
" tanical writer" tells us) greatly approved by K.
" James ; for lK>ing cailctl before his majesty as a
" delinquent, in delivering a false view of some of
" S. Austin's works, was, to the sorrow of his ene-
" mies. Dr. Laud, &c. dismiss'd with a scholar's re-
" ward. But this matter will appear in a clearer
" light from the Diary of the Life of Archh. Laud.,
" published by Mr. Hen. Wharton 1695, wherein,
" p. 14, are these passages relating to this author
" and book. 'An. 1624, Dec. 21. Mr. Crompton
" ' had set forth a book called, St. Augustiris
" ' Sums. His majesty found fault with divers
" ' passages in it. He was put to recall some things
" ' m wnting. He hafl dedicated this Ixxjk to my
" ' lord duke of Bucks. My lord sent him to me
" ' to overlook the articles, in which he had recall'd
" ' and explain'd himself, that I might see whether
" ' it were well done and fit to shew the king.
" ' This day Mr. Crompton brought his pajxjrs to
" ' me. Dec. 23. I deliver'd these papers back to
" ' Mr. Crompton. The same day at York-house
" ' I gavemy lord duke of Bucks my answer, what
" ' I thought of these papers. Dec. 31. his majesty

" " George Hughes of Plymouth in his funeral sermon
preached at the interment of Will. Crompton."

25

PARSONS.

CUOKE.

^

" ' sent for me, and delivered unto me Mr. Cromp-
" ' ton's papers tlie second time, (after I had read
" ' then) over to himself) and eonnnanded nie to
" ' correct them, as they niiwht pass in the doctrine
" ' of the diurch of England. Jan. 3. I had made
[141 " ' ready these papers, and waited iijion my lord
" ' duke of Bucks with them ; and he broufrht me
" ' to the king; there I was about an hour and a
" ' half, reading them and talking about them with
" ' his majesty and my lord duke.'
" Mr. Crompton hath also published,
" Several Sermons, as (1.) A lusting Jewel for rc-
" ligimts Women, preaehed at Barnntaple at the
" Funeral of Mm. Mary Cross, 11 Nov. 162H, on
" Prov. 31". 19. Lond. 1629, &c. qu. (2.) The
" Wedding-ring fitted for the Finger, preaehed at
" Barnstaple at a Wedding 20 July 1630, on Prov.
" 31. 30, 31. Lond. 1630. qu.

" ExpUeation of the P7-iiiciples of Christian Re-
" ligion, compri::ed in the Cateehism set (hnan in
" tJie Book of Comtnon Prayer. Lond. 1633. oct.
" or tw. [BwU. 8vo. C. 245. Th.] This was be-
" gan and finished at Barnstaple in Devon. At
" length he giving way to fate m the beginning of
1C45. " January in sixteen hundred forty and one, was
" buried on the fifth day of the same month in the
" yai'd belonging to S. Alary Magd. chiu-ch at I«in-
" ceston before-mention'd, near to the d<x)r leading
" thence into the chancel. Over his grave was after-
" wards a large tomb erected, with an epitaph there-
" on, now scarce legible, made by Mr. George
" Hughes of Plymouth, who preached the sermon
" at his interment on psal. 16. 10. printed at Lond.
" 1642. in qu. imder this title. The Art of Embalm-
^^ ing dead Saints, wherein are several things said
" relating to our author Crompton. But this I have
" not yet seen, and therefore have not said so
" largely of him, as otherwise I might have done.
" He left beliind him a son of both his names, who
" was afterwards an eminent nonconformist in De-
•* vonshire, as I shall tell you hereafter."

BARTHOLOMEW PARSONS, a most lalw-
rious and frequent preacher, was a Somersetshire
man Iwrn, and of the same family with fath. Parsons
the Jesuit, applied his mind to academical studies in
Oriel coll. in the year 1590, aged 16 years or there-
abouts, took the degrees in arts, holy orders, and
preached constantly for a time in these parts. In
1611 he was admitted to the reading of the sen-
tences, being abtnit that time vicar of Collingbourne-
Kingston, and rector of Ludgarshall in Wiltshire ;
at which places he was much followed and admired
for his hospitality and preaching. He hath written
and published

Sermons, as (1.) The Barren Tree''s Doom ; on
Matth. 3. 10. Lond. 1616. qu. [Bodl. 4to. P. 46.
Th.] (2.) Sermmi m Psal. 82. 6. printed 1616.
qu. (3.) First Fruit of the Gentiles ; three Ser-
mons on Matth. 2. ver. 1, 2, &c. Lond. 1618. qu.

Th.] (6.) Four Scrnumti,
1. 16.35. iiu. (7.) Scrnuxn

(4.) Dorciu, or a perfeet Pattern nf true Dixi-
pline; on Acts 9. 36. Oxon. 16.31. <ju. [Hodl. Mo.
S. 42; Th.] (5.) Boa;: and iluth blessed: or a »tu
ered Cotdract, isc: on Ruth, 4. 11. Oxon. 16.33.
(ju. [Bwll. 4to. M. 29.
oti Acts 10. 1, 2. I.,ond. lo.).^. qi
on Ephes. 6. 12, 13. Oxon. 1637. ((u. (8.) Hi$.
torij ofTitlics: or. Tithes vindicated to the Pres-
h/ter's of the Gospel; on Deut.iiS. 11. Oxon. 1637.
(|u. [B(kII. HH. 30. Th.l This sernum hath also
this Tvat. title, Honos est Unu.s Levitarum. (9.) Ser-
mon at the Funeral of Sir Franc. Pile, Burt, at
Collingbourne-Kingston in the Cminty of WUig,
8 Dee. 1635; on Isai. 57. 1, 2. Oxon. 1636. qu.
[Bodl. 4to. B. 25. Th.] and others which I have
not yet seen. This venerable and frequent preacher
Mr. Barth. Parsons tlitnl in the latter enu of Fe-
bruary in sixteen Inmdred forty and one, and was
buried imder the south wall of the chancel of the
church of Ludgarshall Ijefore-mention'd on the 27th
day of the same month, as the register of that
church infijrm'd my sometimes acquaintance Tho.
Gore of Alderton in Wilts, escj;.

« GEORGE CROKE s<m of sir .loh. C"n)ke knt.
" one of the justices of the KingVBench (who dying
" 23 January 1619, Wiis buried in the churcli at Chif-
" ton near Brill in Bucks) wa.s lx)rn of, and dc-
" scended from, an antient family living at Chilton,
" received some of his last grammatical Mlucation
" in the free-school at Thame, when first openetl for
" a public use in 1575, at which time diligent in-
" struction had made him fit for a remove to Oxon
" in the year following, (as the tradition was among
" us, while we were instructed in the said school)
" where he became a connnoner or gent. com. of
" Univers. coll. if one of the registers thereof may
" be believed ; but before he had taken a tiegree, he
" was tnansplanted to the Iimer-Temple, where he
" employed the remaining part of his youth in the
" study of the municipal law. After he had been a
" barrester some years, and a counsellor of note, he
" became double reader of that house, and in the
" 21 Jac. 1 . he was made serjeant at law, and alx)Ut
" that time a knight. In the year following he was
" constituted one of the justices of the Common-
" Bench, and in the 4 Car. 1. he was atlvanced to
" be one of the justices of the KingVBench. He
" had in him a most pronqjt invention and apprc-
" hension, accomjKinietl with an excellent memory ;
" by means whei'eof, and his .sedulous and indefati-
" giible industry he attained to a profound science
" and judgment in the laws of the land. He was
" resolute and stedfast for the truth, of great inte-
" ^'.V' ^'^'"y lilx^ral, and esj^ecially charitable, as it
" appears by his building an hospital for poor peo-
" ])le in his manor of Studley near to Beckley in
" Oxfordshire, and a chappel also there near to the
" manor house ; both which he liberally endowed.
" He hatli written,

l64i.

[15]

27

CROKE.

" ■^'S""'"^"'* ^p(*f* <* Scire Judas, brought by
" the Kings Majesty in tlie Court of Exchequer
" against J oh. Hamden Esq; &c. touching Ship-
"money, [MS. Harl. 1578, 3791, 62.S0.] Lond.
" IGll. qii. [Bodl. 4to. G. 8. Jur.l They are
" printed witli tlie arguments of sir Rich, rfuttou
" knt. one of the judges of the Common-Pleas :
" Which sir Richard, by the way I would have it
" known, was bom of a genteel family " at Penreth
" in Cumberland, bred in Jesus coll. in Cambridge,
" and afterwards (tho' inclined to divinity) in GreyV
" inn, was made recorder of York, Serjeant at law,
" and at length one of the justices of the court of
*' Common-Pleas (not of the KingVBench as one '"
" is pleased to say) an. 1617. He hath M-ritten
" Reports of sundry Cases, adjudged in the Time
" oflC. James and K. Charles I. &c. Lond. 1656,
" fol. [second tnlit. corrected, Lond. 1682, Bodl.
" P. 4. 13. Jur.l and dying at London, was buried
" in S. Dunstan s church in the West, on the 17th
" of Febr.' 1638, leaving then belund him a fair
" estate at Goldesborough in Yorkshire.
" Sir George Croke hath also written,

" Reports and select Cases ofLaxo, sprinted in

" three volumes. The first contains such cases and
" reports that were done in the reign of Q. Eliza-
« beth.— Lond. 1661, [and 1669, Bodl. Z. 1. 11.
" Jut.] The second contains cases and reports in
" the reign of K. James I. — Lond. 1658 ; and the
" third contains cases and reports in the reign of
« K. Charles I.— Lond. 1657. [The second edition
" of these two parts, corrected, appeared in 1669-
" See both volumes in the Bodleian T. 12. 8, 9.
" Jur. There was a third edition in 1683.1 All
" which being in folio, were written in French, but
" revised and published in English by sir Harbottle
" Grimston baronet, who had married the author's
" daughter, had been a burgess for Harv/ich in
" Essex, to serve in that unhappy parliament which
" began at Westminster 3 Nov. 1640 ; wherein,
" bemg a zealous puritan, he shewed himself an
" enemy against the bishops and episcopacy, as his
" printed speeches sliew. Afterwards growing wiser
" upon the mad proceedings of the members of that
" parliament, and acting little or nothing in the
" time of the ai'my and Oliver, was made speaker
" of the healing and blessed parliament which sate
" when K. Charles II. was restored, and soon after
" master of the Rolls. He died very aged (90, or

^ [He was second son of Anthony Hutlon. See a pe-
dii^ree of the family in a miscellaneous MS. vol. in the library
of the dean and chapter at Yorlt. He was father of that sir
Richard Hutton who was killed on the king's side at Sher-
borne fight, and who lias an epitaph by sir Francis Wortley,
printed in his Characters and Elegies. More may be seen
of the Huttons, who were of good account in Yorkshire for
three or four generations, (as well genealogical as biographi-
cal) in that valuable collection of Yorkshire biography and
genealogy, MS. Harl. N». 4630. Hunter.]

■0 r< ^Viii I3ug(iale in Chron. Serie, at the end of Origines
an. 1617."

[' Ob. 26th Febr. l638. Morant.]

Jurid.

tliereabouts) on the 31st of Dec. an. 1684, and
was buried in the church of Gorhambury in Hert-
fordshire ; ^ whereupon the mastership of the Rolls
was bestowed on sir John Trevor. The Reports
of sir George Croke Insfore-mentioned were abridg-
ed by Will. Hughes in one English vol. in octavo,
printed at Lond. 1665, [Bodl. 8vo. C. 29. Jur.]
purposely that they might be portable and fit for
novices. At length this G. Croke living to a fair
age departed this mortal life in his house at Wa-
terstock near to Thame in Oxfordshire (the ma-
nor of which he for several years before had pur-

" [Sir Harbottle Grimston was descended from a long liv'd
family, for his great grandfather lived till lie was 98, his
grandfather to 86, and his father to 78, and himself to 82.
He had to the last a great soundness of health, of memory,
and of judgment. He was bred to the study of the law, being
a younger brother. Upon his elder brother's death he threw
it up, but falling in love with judge Crook's daughter, the
father would not bestow heron him, unless he would return
to his studies, which he did with great success. That judge
was one of those who delivered his judgment in the cxche-

?uer chamber against the ship money, and sir Harbottle's
Lither, who served in parliament for Essex, lay long in prison
because he would not pay the loan money. Sir Harbottle
was a great assertor of the laws, and inveighed severely against
all who had been concerned in the former illegal oppression.
He had excellent notions of government, and could not en-
dure to hear preachers asserting a divine right of regal govern-
ment ; yet when the long parliament engaged into the league
with Scotland, he would not swear the covenant : and he dis-
continued sitting in the house till it was laid aside. Then he
came back and joined with Hollis, and the other presbyterians,
in an high opposition to the Independents and to Crom-
well in particular, and he was one of the secluded members
that were forced out of the house. He had so great a merit
in the affair of the restoration, that he was soon after, without
any application of his own, made master of the Rolls. He
was a just judge : very slow, and ready to hear every thing
that was offered, without passion or partiality. He gave
yearly great sums in charity, discharging many prisoners by
paying their debts. He was a very pious and devout man,
and spent every day at least an hour in the morning and as
much at night in prayer and meditation ; and even in the
winter when he was obliged to be very early on the bench,
he took care to rise so soon, that he had always the command
of that time, which he gave to those exercises. He was
much sharpened against popery, but had always a tenderness
to dissenters, though he himself continued still in the com-
munion of the church. His second wife was niece to the
great sir Francis Bacon, and was the last heir of that fa-
mily: she had all the high notions for the church and the
crown in which she had been bred, but was the humblest,
the devotedest, and best tempered person that ever was
known. She was very plain in her cloaths, and went oft
to jails to consider the wants of the prisoners, and relieve and
discharge them : and by the meanness of her dress, she pass-
ed but for a servant trusted with the charities of otners.
When she was travelling in the countiy, as she drew near a
village, she often ordered her coach to stay behind till she
had walked about it, giving orders for the instruction of the
children, and leaving liberally for that end. MS. Note in
Mr. Heler's copy.

Sir Harbottle Grimston was buried in the chancel of St.
Michael's church in St. Alban's, and not in that of Gorham-
bury, there being no such church. Gorhambury is a manor
in the parish of St. Michael, famous for having been the re-
sidence of sir Nicholas Bacon, lord keeper, and of his son
Francis, lord viscount Verulam. Biog. Brilan. p. 2427.]

CROKE.

WEB.

30

" chased) ou the 15th of Febr. in sixteen hundred
idU. " forty and one, and was buried in the chancel of
" the church there. Over his grave was soon after
" an alabaster monument set in the soutii-wall, with
" his bust in a judge's habit, a book in one hand,
" and the other resting on a deathVhead, with this
" inscription under, ' Georgius Croke Eques Aura-
" tus, unus Justiciorum de Banco Regis, judicio
" Lynceato, & animo presenti insignis, \'eritatis
" Haeres, quern nee mina; nee honos allexit, Regis
[16] " Authoritateni & Populi Libertatem axjua lance
" libravit, religione cordatus, vita innocuus, manu
" expansa, corde humili pauperes erogavit : Mun-
" dum & vitam deseruit anno setatis LXXXII,
" anno Regis Caroli XVII, annoq; Domini
"MDCXLI.'"

[Le primer Cltarge que Sr. Geo. Croke auncient
Jitdge del Bank R. done; Term Hill. Anno 16
Caroli 1. MS. Harl. 583, fol. 64.

There are engraved portraits of judge Croke be-
fore his reports, Dv Vaughan, Gay wood, and White,
and a small head by Hollar, early impressions of
which are not commonly met witli.]

GEORGE WEB, or Webbe, a minister's son,
was born at Bromham, " or (as in the Catalogue of
" the Scholars of C. C. C.) at Salisbury" in Wilts,
began to be conversant with the muses in Univ.
cofi. in the beginning of the year 1598, aged 17
years, admitted scholar of Corp. Ch. coll. 8 May in
the year following, took the degrees in arts, holy
orders, and about that time was made minister of
Steple-Ashton in his native country, by the favour,
if I mistake not, of the earl of Pembroke, where
also he taught grammar, as he did afterwards, for a
time, in Bath. In 1621 July 28, he was inducted
rector of the church of S. Peter and Paul within the
city of Bath, being then bach, of divinity, and three
years after proceeded in that faculty. When K.
Ch. I. came to the crown, he was made one of his
chaplains in ordinary, and in his attendance at
court he baptized his first child by the name of
Charles James, 13 May 1629, which child died
about an hour after. In 1634 he was made bishop
of I^imerick in Ireland, to which being consecrated
in St. Patrick's church near Dublin on the 18th of
Decemb. the same year, his rectory at Bath was
bestowed on his son Theoph. Webbe, M. of A. of
Merton coll. This Dr. Webbe, who sate at Lime-
rick to the time of his death, was a person of a strict
life and conversation ; and had so great a command
of his pen and tongue, that he was accounted tlie
best preacher of his time in the royal court, and the
.smoothest writer of sermons that were then published.
His works are these,

A brief Exposition of the Principles of Christian
Reliffion, gathered out of the Holy Scriptures, Jbr
tlie Benefit of all that are desirous to hear Sermons,
and to receive the Sacrament xoith Comfort. Lond.

1612. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. M. 84. Th.J dodic. to his be-
loved hearers and congregation of Steple-Ashton and
Semington.

The Practice of Quietness, directing a Christian
how to live quietly in this troublesome World. Lond.
1631, in tw. third edit.

Arraignment of an unruly Tongue, wherein the
Faults of an evil Tongue are opened, tlie Danger
discovered, and Remedies preserved, &c. Lond
1619, [Bodl. 8vo. W. 40. Th.J &c. in tw.

Agur's Prayer: Or, the Christian C}u)icc,Jbr
the (mUvard Estate and Condition of this present
Life, &c. Lond. 1621. in tw. [BodL 8vo. W. 40.
Th.] It is grounded on Prov. 30. 7, 8, 9. To
which are added. The rich, andj)oor. Mart's Prayer.

Catalogiis Protcstantium. Or the Protestants
Calender, containing a Survey of the Protestant
Religion longbefore Luther\s Days. Lond. 1624. (ju.

Lessons and Exercises out of Cicero ad Atticum.
— pr. 1627. qu.

Pueriles Confabulatiunculw: Or Children's Talk;
in English and Lat. — pr. 1627. qu.

Several Sermons They are in number at least

twelve, and were all published between the years
1609 and 1619. Among them I find these follow-
ing, (1) God's Controversy with England, preached
at PauFs Cross on Hosea 4. 1,2, 3. Lt)nd. 1609.
oct. (2) Tlie Bride Royal, or the Spiritual Mar-
riage between Christ and his Church, &c. on Pscd.
45. 13, 14, 15. Lond. 1613. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. H. 22.
Th.] 'Twas deUvered by way of congratulation
u]X)n the marriage between the Palsgrave and tlie
laily Elizabeth, m a serm. preached 14 Feb. on
which day the marriage was solemnized, an. 1612.
Seven more of his sennons were published in 1610,
one in 1611, one in 1612, and another in 1616.
He also translated into English, the First Comedy
of Pub. Terentius called Andria. Lond. 1629, qu.
This book is divided into two columes, the first hath
the English the other the Latin. Also The second
Comedy called Eunuchus, which is divided in co-
lumes, and printed wtli the fonner : both very use-
ful for school-boys, and are yet usetl, as his two
former sch<x)l-books are, in many schools. What
other things he hath published, I cannot yet find,
nor do I know any thing else of him, only that he
dying in Limerick castle in the latter end ot the year [171
sixteen hundrcil forty and one (being then detained 1641.
prisoner there by the Irish rebels) was jx'rmitted by
them to be buried in S. Munchin's churchyard in
Ijimerick. But before he had liun 24 hours in his
grave, some of the meaner sort of rebels took up the
botly and searched it in hopes of finding rings or
other choice things, but being frustrated, they reposed
the body in the same place, as I have been informed
by his son.

[There was an engraved head of Webbe by

Thomas Slater, prefixed to the reprint of his Practice

for Quietness, 1705, 8vo. and this has been copied,

/

31

ROGERS.

HARDING.

Clar.
1641.

Clar.

((

1()41.

((

<c

ill a smaller size, but better engravetl,' by an un-
known liand.]

HENRV ROGERS, an eminent theolojrist of
his time, a minister's son, and a Heret'onlshire man
by birth, was adiuittcd stholar of Jesus coll. in
1602, agetl 18 years, took the dejrrees in arts, holy or-
ders, and s<K)n after was critnl uj) tor a notwl preacher.
At length being niaile vicar of Uorston in his ovvni
country, and resitlentiary of the cath. ch. of Here-
ford, he proceeiletl in divinity. This jK'rson liaving
several vears before fallen into the ac<jiiaintance of a
Yorkshire man named John Perse ^ alias Fisher a
Jesuit, with wlu)ni he several times had disputes, the
said Fisher did at length, without Rogers his con-
sent, publish certain matters that had passed Ix-tween
thein: whereujioii our author Rogers put out a
book entit.

An Answer to Mr. F'uilier the Jesuit his Jive
Propositions concerning Luther, zcith some Passages
by Way of Dialogue between Mr. Rogers, and

Mr.Fisher printed 1623. qu. [Bodl. 4to. B. 51.

Th.] To which is annexed Mr. IV. C. his Dialogue
concerning this Questwn, ' Wliere was the Church
before Luther f discovering Fishers Folly. After-
wards came out a Reply by Fisher or some other
Roman Catholic, whitli made our author Rogers to
pubhsh.

The Protestant Church existent, and tJieir Faith
professed in all Ages, and by wJtom. Lond. 1638.
qu. [Bodl. HH. 30. Th.] To which is addetl, A
Catalogue of Councils in all Ages who professed
the same. What other things he hath written or
published I cannot tell, nor any thing else of him,
only that, as his son in law hath told me, by letters,
he was burietl under the parson's seat in the church
of Wellington aliout four miles distant from the city
of Hereford, but when, he iulded not, or that he
was beneficed there. Yet that he died in the time of
the civil war, or usurpation, those of his acquaintance
have informed me.

" SAMUEL HARDING, son of Rob. Hard.
" of Ipswich in Suffolk, became a sojourner of
" Exeter coll. an. 1634, aged 16 years or there-
" abouts, took one degree in arts four years after,
" and wrote,

" Sicily and Naples : or, the fatal Union, a
" Tragedy. Oxon. 1640. in qu. commended to the
" world by the verses of Rob. Stapylton, B. A. of
" S. Alban's-hall, Nich. Downey, Richard Dod-

deridge, and A. Short, bachelors of arts of Ex.

coll. Joh. Hall a civihan of S. Alb. hall, Edw.

Hall, B. A. of Ex. coU. and Sam. Hall, M. A. of
" the said house, all the sons of Dr. Joseph Hall

' fGrangcr's Biog. Hist, of England, ii. l64.]

■• flo. Pcrcey, dictus Fishenis, Diinelmensis, admissiis in

societatcm Jesu. Vid. H. Mori Hisl. Soc. Jesu, p. 378. Sec.

Bakkk.]

" bishop of Exeter. The said trag. was published
" by P. P. without the knowledge, as was pretendetl,
" of the author, who afterwards Iwcame t-liaplain to
" a certain nobleman, and about the beginning, or
" in the heat, of the civil war departed this mortal
" life, as by Dr. iVrth. Bury his contemporaiy 1
" have been informed."

[Ill the Roxburghe Catalogue No. 5022, Harding's
trageily is registered <is the joint production of S. H.
and A. B. wliich made me very anxious to see the
play itself. This I have nut been able to do, but I
nave been favoured by Mr. IJoswell of Brazen-nose
college, (who found a copy amongst Mr. Malone's
valuable collection) with tlie following account of it,
which sufficiently accounts for the mistake ctHiimitted
in the catalogue.

' Sicily and Naples: or die Fatall Union. A
Tragffidy by S. H. A. B. e C. Ex.

dignum est sub luce videri,

Judicis argutum quotl non formidat acumen.

Oxford. Printed by W'illiam Turner, 1640. small
4to.

It is published by a friend of the author's ' against
the modesty of his friend' as he tells us, in an address
to the reader signed P. P. From tliis we learn, that
it has been by some censured, but, of course, un-
justly, and from Downey's commendatory verses, we
find that it was never sicted. The following lines
are, jierhaps, as g(Kxl as any in the volume :

enjoy your best Valenzo,

Enjoy him long, may you (a happy palre)
Grow like two neighbouring roses on one stalk
Partaking mutually each other's sweetes:
Whence no rude hand approach to ravish you.
But when you are full blowne, and ripe for heaven
May you tall gently both into one grave,
There lye entombed in your owne odours.'']

Clar.

l64l.

hi

* [Since the foregoing text was sent to the printer, I fiave
been obliged with the following extracts by John Philip
Kemble, esq. than whom no person is a more competent
'iidge of all relating to the Knglish stage; a stage which he

as himself elucidated by a felicity of conception, and adorned
with a dignity of performance far beyond any tribute of
praise or admiration in my power to ofTer to his distinguished
abilities.

• The following lines in the first scene of the third act ap-
pear to ine to be as fair a specimen of Harding's composition
as any in the play. — Ferrando, the king of Naples, is leading
to the altar Calantha, the daughter of the late king of Sicily
whom Ferrando slew : —

Fer. Come, my Calantha, to consummate that joy.
By mutuall vows before the altar made.
Which thy return to life, to health, and reason,
Hath begun in me : those minutes which bring
Us any good, are swift and fleeting, and.
Once past, not to be recall'd: who knows
Whether heaven will still be bonntifull ?
(After some intervening lines to no great purpose, Calanih.t

replies :)

Cal. These rites,
(If we may credit what our dreames fore-tell,)

'S.^

STAFFORD.

34

ANTHONY STAFFORD an esquires son,
■was Iwrn of an antient and noble faniilv in Nortli-
aniptonshire, being descended from tnose of his
name living at Blatherwicke in that county, entred
a gentleman commoner of Oriell eoU. in 1608,° and
in that of his age 17, where by the help of a careful
tutor, but more by his natural parts, he obtained
the name of a good scholar, l>ecame well read in an-
tient history, |X)ets and other authors. What stay
he made in that house, I amnot yet tell, or whether
he t(X)k the degree of bach, of aits according to the
usual course. Sure I am that in 1609 he was per-
mitted to study in the public library, purposely to
advance his learning, having then a design to pub-
lish certain matters; and in 1623, just after the act,
he was actually created M. of arts as ' a person adorn-
ed with all kind of literature.' His works are these,
[18] Staffwd's Niobe, dissolved into a Nilus : or, his

Ag-e drojvn'd in her own Tears, Sec. Lond. 1611.
[Bodl. 8vo. S. 14. Art] and 12, in tw.

Meditations and Resolutions, moral, divine, and
political. Cent. 1. Lond. 1612. in tw. [Bodl. 8vo.
S. 14. Art.]

[StuffmxTs Heauenly Dogge, o/-.-] Life and Death
of that great Cynick Diogenes, whom Laertiu^ stiles
Canis raslesti.s; the Heavenly Dog, &c. Lond. 1615.
in tw. [Bodl. 8vo. S. 109. fh.]

The Guide of Honour : or, the Ballance wherein
she may weigh her Actions, &c. Lond. 1634 in tw.
■written by the author in foreign parts.

The Female Glory : or, the Life of the Virgin
Mary. pr. at Lond. with cuts 1635, in oct. This
little book, jjen'd in a flourishing stile, was in another
impression ent. The Precedent of Female Perfec-
tion: or, the Life, &c. But the said book being
esteemed egregiously scandalous among the puritans,
who look a upon it as purjx)sely published to en-
courage the papists, Hen. Burton minister of Fri-
day-street in London did pretend to discover in his
sermon entit. For God and the King,'' several extra-
Will tiirne to funerall obsequies ; for such
This morning (when your carefuU art had bound
My senses up,) fancy presented them.
Methoughi, I saw

Aurora from the east come weeping up.
Wrapt in night's sables, and the following day
Pac't slowly on in griefes sad livery ;
The pensive winds sigh'd forth a solemn dirge.
And strove to blow our marriage tapers out :
When you, Ursini, joyn'd in the solemnitic,
1 saw you look, like Sicily's pale ghost \YieT father's ghost.]
Broke from the hollow caverns of the earth :
This hand, Ferrando, at each gentle touch
Mouldred to ashes ; on your lip there sate
A frost, which when I tasted, straight convey'd
An icy chillnesse thorough every joynt;
The stammering priest, methought, mistooke the rite*.
And, stead of those are us'd at nuptialls.
Sung a short requiem to our soules, committed
All that was left of ut to the earth, our last
Cold bed .'J

* [Wood is wrong here : Stafford was matriculated March
8, l(>04, 5.] ' Pag. 123, 124, 125.

Vol. IIL

vugant ami jjopish ptissages therein, and advised tlie
[)eople to be aware of it. ' For which, und nothing
' else (as W. Prvnne tell.s* us) he was brought into
' the Star-Chamber, and there censured. But on
' the contrary this jxjjjish lKX)k of Stafford^ (as he
' calls it) with many scandalous passages in it were
' by the archbishoj»'s s))ecial (Urection profes.sedly
'ju-stified, both by Dr. Hcvlin in his Moderate
' Answer to Mr. Burton « and by Christoph. Dow '°
' in his ' Innovat'ums justly charged, and this book
' neither called in nor corrected, so audaciously
' popish was he grown, in this jiarticular, among
' many others, &c.' See more in Canterbury a Downe,
p. 215, 216, 217. Our author Stafford hath also
written,

A just Apology or Vindication of a Book entit.
' The Female Glory ^ from the false and malevolent
Aspersions cast upon it by Hen. Burton, of late
deservedly censured in the Star-Chamber, i{c.
Whether this book was ever published I know not :
I once saw it in a quarto MS. in the library of Dr.
Tho. Barlow, given to him by sir Job. Birkenhead.

Honour and Virtue, tritimphing over the Grave,
excmpUJied in a fair devout Life and Death, adorned
with the surviving- Petfectioris of Henry Lord Staf-
ford, lately deceased : which Honour in him ended
zeith as great Lustre as tlic Sun sets in a serene
Sky, &c. Lond. 1640. qu. At the end of whicH
are tlivers elegies upon the death of the said lord,
mostly written by Oxford men, especially those of
S. John's coll. Our author A. Stafford, who was
kinsman to the said lord, hath also translated from
Latin into English The Oration of Justus Lipsius
(ig-ainst Calumny. Lond. 1612. oct. « What other
things he hath written or translated I know not,
nor any thing else of liim, only that he died, as I
have been informed, in the time of the civil wars.

[Stafford's Niobe dissolved into a Nilus, given by
Wood as the first of that author's works, is only the
continuation or second part of a treatise which our
biographer seems not to have been aware of. This is

Stafford's Niobe or His Age of Teares, a Trea-
tise no less profitable and comfortable, then tfie
Times damnable. Wherein DeatlCs Visard is pull-
ed off", and her Face discoucred not to be sofearefull
as tfie Vulgar makes it : and withall it is shewed
that Death is only bad to the bad, good to t/ie good.
At London, printed by Huvfrcy Lownes, 1611,
8vo. ' ded. to Rob. earl of SaUsbury, because, says
the author, ' my father was a neighbour to your
father, being much obliged vnto him, and my whole
family \Tito yourselfe.']

"In his book entit. Canlerlury's Doome &c. p. S17.

» Page 123, 124.

•• [A. B. Coll. Chr. (Cant.) I6l6. Bakbr.]

' P. 51, 54.

' [This was printed at the end of his Meditations and Re-
snlultons, commencing at page I29. See it Bodl. 8ve.
S. 14. Art.]

' [Bodl. 8vo. S. 100. Th.l

D

CUr.

3.5

CHESHIRE.

BARCHAM.

[19] * " THOMAS CHESHIRE, a Cheshire man

" born, l)ecame a student of Bras. coll. in 1615,
" aged 15 years, admitted bach, of arts 26 Oct.

' " lol9, left the university without any other dc-

" gree, took holy orders, and became an orthodox
" minister in I^ndon. He hath published A true
" Cojuj of a Sermon tchich waji preached at S.
" Pauls' on the 10 of Oct. 1641, on Pml. 148. 12.
" Lond. 1641. qu. This being excepted against
" by some of the factious party, the author therc-
" fore published it to give the people .satisfaction.

Claruit « jjj, jj^^jj pubUshed two more sermons. See
"**'• «0»*. Cat. p. 4. and 85."

JOHN BARCHAM, second son of Laur. Bare-
ham of S. Leonard's in Devon.shire (by Joan his
wife dau. of Edw. Bridgman of the city of Exeter)
son of Will. Barcham of Meerfield in Dorsetshire
(where his ancestors had lived more than three ge-
nerations l)efore him) was lx)m in the parish of S.
Mary the Moore within tlie said city, entred a so-
journer of Exeter coll. in Michaelm. tenn, 1587,
aged 15 years, admitted scholar of Co. Ch. coll. 24
Aug. in the year following, probationer-fellow 21
June 1596, being then M. of A. and in orders.
Afterwards, being bach, of div. he was made chap-
lain to Dr. Bancroft archb. of Cant, (as afterwards he
was to his successor) rector and dean of Bockyng in
Essex, and doctor of his faculty. He was a person
very skilful in divers tongues, a curious cntic, a
noted antiquary, especially in the knowledge of
coins, * an exact historian, herald, and, as 'tis said,
an able theologist. He was also a strict man in his
life and conversation, charitable, modest, and reserved
in his behaviour and discourse, but above all he was
remarkable for those good qualities which became a
man of his profession. He hath written,

The History or Life of John Kinff of England

which is the .same that is in the History of

Great Britain, published by John Speed, and the

same which sheweth more reading and judgment,

than any life besides in that history. 'Tis reported

* In thi second edition of these Athene, lelteeen the
lives (^ Stafford and Cheshire, is a short account o/ Shake R-
LEY Marmion. This, with the various readings, and some
additions, has been already given in vol, ii. col. o47.

' [' He was a greater lover of coyn than of money, rather
curious in the stamps, than covetous for the mettal thereof.
That excellcDt collection in Oxford library, was his gift to
the archbishop, before the archbishop gave it to the univer-
sity. Richer in MSS. than printed books, and richer in the
skill he had by the phrase and character to fill up the defects,
and guess at the meaning of a moth-eaten record, than in
the possession of the paper ; when the factious were admit-
ted to look upon his rarities, they did him the kindness to
suspect him of his religion, thinking that the rust of his old
inscriptions cankered his soul with asold superstition. When
it is in the study of antiquity, as it is in that of phylosophy ; a
little skill in cither of them inclines men to atheism or
heresie, but a depthofeitherstudy brings them about to their
religion.' Lloyct, Memoires, page 279.]

also ' that he wrote, or at least had a chief hand in
comjx)sing,

The Hist, or Life of Hen. 2. K. of Engl.— Re-
mitted by Speed also into his said History. Which
hist, or life. Dr. Barcham wrote (as mv author' says)
in opposition, or rather to suppress the same, writ-
ten oy one Boulton a Rom. Catholic, who did too
much favour the haughty carriage of Thomas Becket,
&c. This Boulton was the same with Ednumd
Boulton," who wrote The Ekments of Armory.
Lond. 1610. qu. and the Carmen gratulfttorlum ^
(le Truductione Corporis Maria; Regina: Scotorum
a Petroburgo ad Westmonasterium. Dr. Barcham
hath also written,

The Display of Heraldry. Lond. 1610, &c. fol.
much used by novices, and the best in that kind for
method that ever iK'fore was published. This lj<x)k
l)eing mostly composed in his younger years, he
deemed it Uk> light a subject for him to own, being
then (when publishetl) a grave divine, chapl. to an
archb. and not unhkely a dean. , Wherefore l)eing
well acquainted with John Guillim an officer of
arms, he gave him the copy, who adding some trivial
things to It, published it, with leave from the author,
under his own name, and it goeth to this day under
the name of Guillim\<i Heraldry."' Our author hath
also publishetl Crackanthorp's b<x)k against Marc. [20]
Ant. de Dominis, and wrote a preface to it. He
also wrote a book concerning coins, in MS. but
where it is now I know not. Sure I am that he had
the best collection of coins of any clergyman in
England, which being given by Inm to Dr. Laud
archb. of Cant, (who much desired them) they came
fKxm after, by his gift, to Bodlcy''s library, and are
at tlvis day rejxjs'd in the gallery adjoining. At
length our author surrendring up his pious soul to
him that first gave it, in the parsonage house in
Bockyng before-mentiou'd, on the 25 of Mar. (the
Annuntiation) in sixteen hundred forty and two, iC4?.
was buried in tlie chancel of the church there ; over
whose grave, tho' there be no memory put, yet it is
contained in a book entit. Affanice : sive Epigram-
niatum Libri tres. Oxon. 1601.' He had issue by

5 By Anon, in a book entit. The Surfeit to A, B. C.
Lond. l6s6. in tw. p. 22.

7 Id. Anon. » ["See vol. i. col. 158.]

9 MS. in bib. Cottoniana, sub Tito A. 13.

'» [Sec what is said on this subject in a former part of this
work, vol. ii. col. 297, 298, &c. To the editions of the he-
raldry there noticed, may be added two more in 16CO, one
published by Alexander Nowers a herald-painter, the other
by Richard Blome, who set it forth again in 1679, with
Analogia Honorum : or a Treatise of Honour and Nobility,
written, as he says, by captain John Logan of Idbury, Ox-
fordshire.]

' [O quantum est hominum politiorum
Amicissime, quantum amiciurum
Politissimc, quantum et est ubique
(Barkhame) ordinis optimc utriusque !

Ten' tantum Charisin virum et Camaenisj
Quern tanti faciunl et illse et illae.

37

SIMPSON.

RICHARDSON.

KINASTON.

38

Anne Roger-s of Saiulwicl) in Kent lii.s wife, George,
Henry, &f. In lii.s deanery of IJoeking sucteedeil
Dr. Joh. Gauden, but whetlicr in the year 1642,
or in the year after, I cannot Ix; positive.

[1608, 11 Jun. .Toll. Karchani S. T. B. coll. ad
eccl. de Finchley, jx-r re.sign. Joli. Bancroft. Reg.
Bancroft, ep. Lond.

1610, 31 Oct. Joli. Barcliam S. T. B. coll. ad
preb. de BrouncewcKle, j)er mortem Rob. Harring-
ton. Ibid.

1615, 29 Mali, Joh. Barcham S. T. B. coll. ad
eccl. de Paglesham per mortem Ric. Langley S. T. P.
Ibid. Et ad rect. de Lachindon 27 ejusdem mensis.

1615, 2 Jun. Benjamin Towke A. M. coll. ad
eccl. de Finchley per resign. Jo. Barcham S. T. B.
Ibid.

1617, 4 Maii, Ric. Crakanthorp S. T. P. coll. ad
eccl. de Paglesham per resign. Joh. Barcham S. T. P.
Kennet.]

NATHANIEL SIMPSON was bom at Skyp-
ton in the county and diocese of York, admitted
scholar of Trin. coll. 28 May 1616, aged 17 years,
took the degrees in arts, became fellow of the said
house 1630, and the year after bach, of div. He
hath written

Arithmeticw C(ym.pendium. printed 1622. oct. Tlie
beginning of which is ' Arithmetica est scientia Iwne
numerandi,'' &c. It was comjiosed purposely for
the use of the juniors of the said coll. but so scarce
it is now, that I could never see but one copy. This
Mr. Simpson died in Octob. (on the same day that
iC42. Edghill fight hajmed) in sixteen hundred forty and
two, and was buried in Trinity coll. chappel. I
have been informed by .some of his contemporaries,
that he had not only enlarged that Compendium,
but had other things of that nature lying by him fit
for the press.

GABRIEL RICHARDSON, a minister's son
and a Lincolnshire man born, was initiated a student
in Brasen-nose coll. 1602, made fellow of it 1607,
being then bach, of arts. The next year he pro-

Quanti nee faciunt suos ocellos,

Seu quid charius est vel liiis, vcl illis ;

Tanti naeniolas Carollanas,

Scissas, quisquiliasquc, lappulasque,
Merarum tineasquc ineptiarum
Ten' tantum faccre, et probare talem ?

Ite, ite 6 crilicum se\criorum

Piitidissima gens et inveniista ;

Ite et graminaticum molestiorum

Paedagogica plebs et inficeta ;

Ite, et nxniolas Carolianas

Diruni roditc, carpitc, alque in illas

Verba fingite viliora longe

Scissis, quisquiliisquc lappulisque

Merarum tineisque ineptiarum,

Vos ego nioror alque vestra moras,

Hiium? Centuriasve mille vestrum ?

Vos moros moror atque vestra ; quin mi
Fro multis Plato millibns sit unus. Sig. I 3.]

(■ceded in that faculty, took the satre*! function upon
him, and at length became bach, of divinity. This
jierson, who wa.s admirably well reatl in histtories
and geography, hath put out a book much valued
by learned men, entit.

The State of Eurojie, in 14 Books, containing
the History and Relation of tfie viany Proi'ttices
thereof, &c. Oxon. 1627. u)l. He had lying by
him several volumes of MS. of his own writing,
containing the state of other parts of the world ; but
coming into the hands of a careless person called Dr.
Hen. Bridgman, he neglected, if not mutilated them,
to the great injury of tlie author, who dying on the
last day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred forty and
two, was the next day (being New Years day) '**«.
buried in the church of S. Mary the virgin within
the university of Oxford.

FRANCIS KINASTON son of sir Edw. Ki-
naston Kt. was Ixirn of, and descended from, an an-
tient and genteel famil}' of his name living at Otely
in Shropsliire, became a gent. com. of Oriel coll.
under the tuition of Joh. Rouse alias Russe in 1601,
and in tliat of liis age 14, took one degree in arts,
and then left the university for a time without com-
pleating that degree by dietennination, being then
more atldictcd to the superficial )>arts of learning,
jxxjtry and oratory, (wherein he excelled) than logic
and philosophy. Afterwards he went to Cambridge,
studied there for some time, was made master of
arts, and in 1611 returned to Oxon, wliere he was
incor{X)rated in that degree. Thence he went to
the court, where being esteemed a man of parts,
1i!k1 the honour of knighthood conferr''d upon him in
1618, and afterwards wa.s made esquire of the body
of K. Ch. I. This is the jx^rson who being every
way accomplishVl, was made the first regent of the
college or academy called The Musanim Minerva,
an. 1635, and therefore worthily stiletl by a polite
and quaint^ gentleman, Palladii Patrima?quc vir- [21]
ginis Protomystes. The first members of the said
coll. were Eaward May, Tho. Hunt, Nich. Phiske,
Joh. Spiedel, Walt. Salter and Nich. Mason, stiled
also by the said person flamines Dea pleni & mystici,
artium liberalium roris promicondi. Our author
Kinaston did draw up ana publish,

Tlie Constitutions of the Mu.swum Mincrvce*.
Lond. 1636. qu. and translated from English into
Lat. Jeff. Chaucer his Troihi-s and Cres.seid which
he entit. Amorum Troili & Creseida; Libri Duo
priores Anglico-Latini. Oxon. 1635. qu. [Bodl.
4to. H. 24. Art.] Which being beheld as an ex-
cellent translation, was ushered into the world by 15
copies of verses made by Oxford men, among whom

' Sir Joh. Borough in his book cnt. Impetus juvenilet, et
Epislola, p. 136. •

' [£)« Licentia speciali Francisco Kinaston Milili pro
Erectione Domus sive Colleeii pro Instilulione Juvmum
NoUlium in Artihus liberatihus. Rymcr, Fceiera, xix.
dC.n, &c.]

D2

:H)

KINASTON.

SMART.

iGtf.

are W. Strode the orator, Dudley IHgges and Sam.
Kinaston of All-s. coll. Tho. (Jawen of New coll.
Maur. Berkley, Will. Cartwright, both of Ch. Ch.
&c. Our author and translator having performed
other things, which I have not yet seen, gave way to
fate in sixteen iuuKlrcd forty and two, or there-
abouts, and was, as I suppose, buried at Oteley-
This is the jjerson also who by experience falsified
the alchymist's rejjort, that a hen bein^ fed for cer-
tain days with gold, Ix'ginning when Sol was in Leo,
should DC convertetl into gola, and should lay golden
but indeed became very fat.
[The said sir Francis Kinaston WTote also — 1,
Leoline and Svda?iis, a poetical Romance. Lond.
1646, 4to. ITiis romance contains much of the
fabulous history of Mona, Wales and Ireland, and
(bating tliat it is now and then a little obscene) is
poetical enough. 2. Cynthmdes: Sonnets to his
Mistressc. Printed with the former. In the preface
he boasts of having by him many pieces of real and
soUd learning ready written for the press; and
apologises for exposing the trifle to the world in his
old age, says, that many older men than he wear
love-locks, agnoscit veteris vestigia flammre, but
those fires are now raked up in embers, his couvre-
feu bell being already rung, &c. N. B. He wrote
thus in 1646, whereas Wood thinks he died in 1642.
Peck.«]

* [The |>oem quoted by Peck I have never seen ; but
Ellis, in his Specimens, vol. iii. page 2(J5, quotes an cclition
Hated in l64l, and a very accurate writer in the Censura lA-
leraria, vol. ii. (jajre 3J3, records the book as printed in \(Hi.
Leoline and Sudanis. An heroick Romance of lite Advenlures
of amouTous Princes : together with sundry affectionate Ad-
dresses to his Mistresse under the Name of Cynthia. By sir
F. K. Lond. l642, 4to.

I am sorry to be com|)elIed to give a specimen of Kynaston's
poetry at second hand, but I Itnow not where to obtain a
sight of the original volume.

To Cynthia, on coDcealment of her beauty.

Do not conceal thy radiant eyes,
The star-light of screnest skies ;
Lest, wanting of their heavenly light.
They turn to chaos endless night.

Do not conceal those tresses fair.
The silken snares of thy curl'd hair ;
Lest, finding neither gold nor ore.
The curious silk-worm work no more !

Do not conceal those breasts of thine.
More snow-while than the Apennine ;
Lest, if there be like cold and frost.
The lily be for ever lost !

Do not conceal that fragrant scent.
Thy breath, which to all flowers hath lent
Perfumes ; lest, it being supprest.
No spices grow in all the east !

Do not conceal thy heavcnlv voice.
Which makes the hearts of^gods rejoice ;
Lest, music hearing no such thing,
The nightingale forget to sing !

PETER SMART, a minister's son of Warwick-
shire, was bom in that county, etluc«.led in the col-
lege-school at Westminster, became a batler of Broad-
gate's hall 1588, aged 19 years, and in the same
year was elected student of Christ Church, where he
was esteemed about that time a tolerable Latin poet.
Afterwards taking the degrees in arts, he eiitre<l into
orders, became chaplain to Dr. W. James bishop of
Durham, who not only conferred ui)un him a pre-
bendship in that church ,' but alst) tlie par.sonnge of
Boiiden, and was the chief instrument of promoting
him to l>e one of his majesty's high commissioners in
the pro%'ince of York. But this jxTson being fac-

tiously* fflven, took occasion in 1628 .. •, -us
J p '. . * puritannically ,"

to preach against certain matters, (jrsi edit.

which he took to Ije Popish innova-
tions, brought into the church of Durham by Mr.
John Cosin ' and his confetlerates, as copes, taper.s,
crucifixes, bowing to the altar, praying towards the
east, turning the communion table of wood, standing
in the middle of the choir, into an altar-stone railed
in at the east end thereof," &c. But this his ser-
mon or sermons, preached several times to the
people, being esteemed seditious, and j)urposely
matle to raise conmiotlons among them, he was first
questioned in the high commission court at Durham,
then brought into the commission court at Lambeth,
and at length transmitted thence to the high commis-
sion at York : where for his said seditious sermon
or sermons, and his refusal to be conformable to the
ceremonies of the church, he was deprived of his
prcbendship and parsonage, degraded from his mi-
nistry, fined 500^. and imprisoned many years. At
length when the long parliament began, he, upon
petition and complaint was freed from his prison in
the King's-bench, (where he had continued above
eleven years) was restored to all he had lost, (tho'
he enjoyed them but a little while) had reparations
made for his losses, and became a witness against
archbishop Laud when the presbyterians were sedu-
lously raking up all things against him, in order to

Do not conceal, nor yet eclipse
Thy pearly teeth with coral lips ;
Lest that the seas cease lo bring fnrtli
Gems which from thee have all their worth !

Do not conceal no beauty, grace.
That's either in ihy uiind or face ;
Lest vertue overcome by vice
Make men believe no paradise.]

* [Dec. 30, 1609, he was collated to the sixth, and July 6,
1614, removed to the fourth, stall. Willis, Cathedrals, (Dur-
ham) pages 266, 268.]

' [From Wood's own MS. correction it appears he intended
it should have stood thus — ' being puritannically and fac-
tionsly given' — &c. See his MS. note in Ashniole's Mu-
seum.]

' [See Dr. Cosin's answer to the charge foregoing in Dr.
Heyhn's J?xanien, p. 284, he. 2()0, I. Hakes.]

* [This sermon was preached July 7, l628, and printed
1640. He wonders at the presumptuous boldness of him —
who about 11 years ago, upon the death of I he late bishop,
before we had another — took upon him to alter the situation
of the communion-table, turned into an altar, p. 36. Baker. J

41

VAUGHAN.

GILI*

42

[221

1(542.

bring liim to liis tryal. Our author Smart hath
written and jjiiblisheu

Th^ Vanity and Dowtif'al of Siij)cr.stH'ton and
Pojnuh Cerenumies, in two Sermons in the Ca-
thedral Church of Durham, preached in July 1628,

on Psal. 31 part of the 7 Verse Thoy were

twice printed in that year,' one impression whereof
was at Edinburgh. [Bodl. 4to. P. 44. Th.]

A brief hut true, historical Narration of some
notorious Acts and Speeches of Mr. John Cosins,
and same other of his Companions, contracted into
Articles.'^

Various Poems in Lat. and Eng.-

— These,
which are called in one or more auction catalogues
Old Smarts Verses, I have not yet seen, nor other
matters of his com jx)sition. He departed tiiis mortal
life in sixteen hundred forty and two, or thereabouts,
having several years before been the senior prelxjn-
dary of the church of Durham, leaving then behind
him tliis character given by the presbyterian, that he
was a godly and judicious minister, and a zealous
enemy against superstition and the maintainers there-
of. Also that he was the protomartyr of these
latter days of persecution, &c. " He wa.s living in
" the year 1644, when he was one of the witnesses
" against archbishop Laud at his tryal."

[^ee Mr. Peter Smart's Petition, Articles, S(c.
with a Treatise of Altars, Altar^fumiture, Altar
cringing, Sc. 1629 ; class F 5, 50.

Septuagenarii Scnis itinej-antis Cantus Epithala-
mkus. fiat. Feb. 16, 1643, a?tatis 76. Vester in
Christo et ecclesia? minister, Petrus Smartus, in
which year he was yet living.

Dec. 20, 1645, he (P. S.) has the sequestered
rectory of Bishops-Stoak, Southt. given him.

He lived to the year 1648, October 30, as appears
from a letter of tbat date, under his own nand.^
Baker.]

« ROWLAND VAUGHAN was bom of, and
" descended from, an antient and genteel family
" living in Montgomeryshire, was educated for a
" time in this university, particularly, as it seems in
" Jesus coll. but left it without a degree, and retiring
" to his patrimony spent his time in virtuous em-
" ployments, and not in the brutish pleasures which
" several country gentlemen delight in and follow.
" He hath translated from English into Welsh,
" (1) The Practice of Piety, which he entitled Yr
" Ymafer odduwioldeb : yn cyfaruyddo dyn i ryn-
" gu bodd Duw, &c. Lond. 1656. oct. which is the
" second or third edit. (2) The Catechism of Dr.

" [A Sermon preached in the Cathedral Church of Dur-
ham July 27,' l(i28, by Peter Smart. Printed in the year
l640; penes W.K. Kenn EX.]

' [This Narration, is printed at the end of the Sermons.

MORANT.]

* [It is probable that Smart died in lC52, (instead of
1642) when he would have been 85 years old. See the
English Life of Dr. John Barwick, Lond. 1724, page egO,
note m.]

" Ja. Usher Archbishop (tf Armagli,vi\\\c\\ he entit.
" Prif fannau Crefydd Gri-itnogaid a IJunjbreid-
" diad byr or Athrawiuth o honi. Lond. 1G58. oct.
" Thi.s person, wiio wjis an excellent linguist, and a
" renownetl jxx-t, a.s several of hisconi|H).silion.s shew,
" was hving when the grand rel)eliion broke out ;
" but whether he was in being when urchb. Usher's
" Catechism came out in Welsh I cannot tell. One
" Rowl. Vaugiian was inatriculaied as a memlKT of
" Jesus coll. and a Glamorganshire man, born in
" 1591, aged 18 years, but he Ix-ing matriculated as
" a plebeian's son, I do not take him to Ijc the same
" with Rowl. Vaughan the translator, l>ecauso he
" was an esquire's son, wrote liimself esquire, and
" was a native of Montgomeryshire, as I nave been
" informetl by Dr. Micli. Ro[)erts sometimes priii-
" cipal of Jesus college, who knew the man anci was
" acquainted with him."

ALEXANDER GILL, son of A. Gill men-
tioned .among the writers under the year 1635, was
bom in London, particularly, if I mistake not, in S.
Ann's parish, became a commoner of Trin. coll. in
the beginning of the year 1612, and in that d his
age 15, exhibited to in his studies by the society of
mercers in London, t<x)k the degrees in arts, became
an usher under his father in S. Paul's school, and
under Tho. Famabie the famous schcxjlmaster in
Goldsmith's-Rents ; under lx>th which, he spent
more than ten years. I find one Dr. Gill to have
been master of Okeham school in Rutlandshire, but
whether the same with our author, who was of an
unsettled and inconstant temper, I know not. At
length, after many changes, rambles, and some im-
pristmments, he succeeded his father in the office of
chief master of S. Paul's school, an. 1635, and in
the latter end of the next year took the degree of
doct. of divinity, being then accountetl one of the
best Latin poets in the nation. In 1640 he was re-
moved from the said school, with an allowance of
25Z. per an. allotted to him in rtx^uital of it : where-
upon he taught certain youtlis privately in Alders-
gate-strect in London, to the time of his death. His
works are

Arithmeticorum 'Aya/ivijVif. Printed at the end
of N. Simpson's book called Arithmeticce Compen-
dium, 1623. oct.

Panthea. In lionorern illu-striss. spectatiss. om-
nibus Animi Corporisque Dotibus instructiss. He-
roince, qiM mihi in Terris, &c. Printed in one
sheet in qu.

A Song of Victory, upon the Proceedings and
Success of the Wars undertaken by the most puis-
sant King ofSweeden.^ Lond. 1632. qu.

' [In the first edition Wood made a mistake, in supposing
that this poem was also written in Latin, and then translated
hy fV. H. which applies to the following article only. This
mistake, afterwards corrected, was not worth pointing out ;
and it is now dene merely for the sake <f preventing any
doubts as to the fidelity of the collation made for the present
edilion.1

Chr.

|(>4V.

43

GILL

GODOLPHIN.

44

" EniNlKION (k Gestis, Succcssibus, et Victorih
" Re^i.i Siteciw m GermaniA, An. 1631. I.,ond. in
" qu. This was also Englislietl aiul explained with
" marginal notes by W. IL under this title. A
" Song of Victory!"

riAPEPrA, S'lve Poetici Connfiis, tib nliqiuimmul-
tis antchax expetiti, &.c. Lond. 1632. in 5 sheets in
tw.

EUgy on Thorn. Earl of Strafford beheaded on

Tower-fi'iU May 12 an. 1641. Besides these I

have also seen a MS. lxx>k of verses of his compo-
123^ sition, made on these subjects following (1) Sylva
Duels, made 16!29, afterwards remitted among his
}X)ems in Poetici Conatus. (2) Suedus Hat. An.
1631. (3) In ejus Obit. 1632. (4) Anniver.^. 1633.
(5) Anniver.s. 2. An. 1634. (6) Ann. 3. 1635. (7)
In Cadem Wallest. 1634. (8) Arx Skinkiana,*
1633. (9) In Navarr. Reg. (10) Coopnelli Cin-
gulum,W29. (U) Ad cwidem, I6i>d. (12) Epi-
tuphium Rich. Pates, 1633. This Rich. Pates was
a master commoner of Trin. coll. who dying in that
year, had a long epitaph in prose set over his grave
m the parish church of S. Mary Magd. within the
north suburb of Oxon. (13) In Obitum Gulielmi
Paddy Eg. Aur. et M. D. (14) Ad D. Chrlitoph.
Yelverton. (15) /« Obitum Edw. Vaughan, 1637,
&c. At length after our author Gill had made
many rambles in this world, he did quietly, yet not
without some regret, lay down his head and dye,
1 648. towards the latter end of the year sixteen hundred
forty and two, and was buried in the church of S.
Botolph wathout Aldersgate in London. His suc-
cessor in St. Paul's school was Joh. Langley, some-
times master of the college school in the city of Glo-
cester, as I have elsewhere told you.

[On Friday sennight were censured in the Star
Chamber Alex. Gill B. D. at Oxford, and usher in
Paul's sch(x>l under his own father — for saying in
Trinity coll. that our king was fitter to stand m a
Cheapside shop, with an apron before him, and say
Wlmt lack you? than to goveme the kingdome —
2. that the duke was gone down to hell to meet K.
James there — 3. for drinking a health to Felton,
saying, he was sorry Felton had deprived him of
the honour of doing that brave action, &c. His cen-
sure was to be degrjuled both from his ministrie and
degrees taken — to lose one eare at London and the
other at Oxford, and to be fined at 2000 '"' &c. In
a letter from Mr. Joseph Metle to sir Martin Stute-
ville, dated Chr. coll. Nov. 15, 1628. MS. Harley.
Gill is degraded, but for the fine and corporal
punishment, there is obtained a mitigation of the
first, and a full remission of the latter, upon old Mr.
Gill the father's petition to his majestic, which my
lo. of London seconded for his coat-sake, and love
to his father. Chr. coll. Nov. 22, (1628) Joseph
Mead. MS. Harley. Bakek.

■* [A copy in MS. in tlic Bodleian, with tlie following title :
Skenkiana, sive Gralulntoria Batavis tlica/a ob lies feticiler
getlas. A». l03j. MSS. Rawl. ilfwc. 398. fol. UJO.]

I take this opjwrtunity of correcting an error in
the second volume, col. 598, where I have printed
some lines ' Vppon Ben Jonson's Magnettick La-
dye,' conceiving them to have been written by Alex-
ander Gill sen. whereas they were certainly the pro^
duction of his son. From the same MS. page 188,
I now give a few lines of

An Elegie ujyjyon the Death of Mrs. Penelope
Nowell, Daugfiter to the Lo. Vicount Camden.

How fast my greues come on ; how thick a shoole
Of sorrowes rush upjxjn this frighted soule I
Was't nott enough my deare Amintas late
Was taken from mee by to early fate .''
Was't not enoughe that on braue Sweden's horse
My muse astonnisht pinn'd her moumefull verse ;
Butt thou, blest saint, before w"' careful! heede
My wounds weere healed, makest them a fresh to

bleed.
And in my sorrowes claimes as large a share
As thy rare beauty and thy vertues were — ]

" SYDNEY GODOLPHIN, second son of sir
" Will. Godolph. of G<xlo]j)hin near to Helston in
" Cornwall, was lx)rn there in 1610, became a com-
" moner or sojourner of Exeter coll. in the begin-
" ning of the year 1624, continued there about 8
" years under a careful and excellent tutor, and
" then went to one of the inns of court, and after-
" wards, if I mistake not, travelled beyond the seas.
" In the beginning of the year 1640 he was elected
" burgess for Helston before-mention'd, to serve in
" that pari, which began at Westm. 13 Apr. the
" same year, and again for the same place to sit in
" that unhappy pari, which liegan on the 3 Nov.
" following, where shortly after he was posted up
" for one of the Straffordians, because he took part
" with the most noble and conspicuous Tho. earl of
" Strafford against a predominant party in the house
" that were eager to take away his life. But upon
" tlie king's setting up his standard, he left the par-
" Uament in their nigh and most desperate proceed-
" ings, retired to his own country to do his majesty
" service ; and being engaged against the rebels witJi

" one Mr. Martin of Devonsh. and odiers of

" less note, he was unfortunately slain by his too va-
" liantly entring upon them in Chagford in the said
" county, before the passages were gained and they
" scatter'd. He was a person of excellent parts, of
" an incomparable wit and exact judgment, did love
" Hobbes of Malmsbury in .some respects and ex-
" hibited to him, and was intirely beloved by him,
" who not undeservedly gave' him this character,
" after he had unexpectedly received a legacy from
" him of 200A ' There is not any \irtue that dis-
" ' poseth a man, either to the service of God, or
" ' to the service of his country, to civil society, or
" ' to private friendship, that did not manifestly ap-
'* ' pear in his conversation, not as acquired by nc-
" ' cessity, or affected upon occasion, but inhe-

* In his preface to the Lcvialhan.

GODOLPIIIN.

Mi

" * rent and shining in a generous constitution
" ' of his nature' — In another place " also the said
" author Mr. Hobbcs speaks thus of him : I have
" ' known clearness of judgment, and largeness of
" ' fancy, strength of reason and graceful elocution ;
" ' a courage for the war, and a fear for the laws ;
" ' and all eminently in one man ; and that was my
" ' most noble and nonour'd friend Mr. Sydn. Go-
" ' dolphin, who hating no man, nor hated of any,
" ' was unfortunately slain in the beginning of the
" ' late civil war, in a pid)lic quarrel, by an undis-
" ' cemed and undisceming hand. Sec' Thus Mr.
" Hobbes : to which I shiJl add what a noble ' au-
" thor saith of him, and Mr. Godolphin thus. ' And
" ' I would be very willing to preserve the just tes-
" * timony, which lie (Hobl)es) gives to the memory
" ' of Sydn. Gcxlolphin, who deserved all the elogy
" ' that he gives of him, and whose untimely loss in
" ' the beginning of the war, was too lively an in-
" ' stance of the inequality of the contention, when
" ' such inestimable treasure was ventured against
[24] " ' dirty people of no name, and whose irreparable
" ' loss was lamented by all men living who pre-
" ' tended to virtue. But I find my .self tempted to
" ' add, that of all men living, there were no two
" ' more unlike than Mr. Godolphin and Mr.
" ' Hobbes, in the modesty of nature or integrity
*' ' of manners, and therefore it will be ttx) reason-
" ' ablv sus{)ected, that the freeness of the legacy
" ' rather put him in mind of that noble gentleman
" ' to mention him in the fag-end of his book very
" ' improperly, and in a huddle of many unjusti-
" ' fiable and wicked particulars, when he had more
" ' seasonable occasion to have remembred him in
" ' many parts of his book,' &c.' The said Mr.
" Godolphm, who was an eminent poet of his time,
" hath written,

" Various Poems — Some of which are printed in

* In his Review and Conclusion of the Leviathan, p. 3Q0.

' Edw. earl ot'Clar. in his Brief Fiew and Survei/ of Mr,
Hehhess Leviathan, Oxon. lfi76, p. 319. 320.

" [Lord Clarendon's own character of him now follows :
— He was a younger brother of Godolphin, but by the provi-
sion left by his father, and by the death of a younger brother,
liberally supplied for a very good education, and for a chear-
ful subsistence, in any course of life he proposed to himself.
There was never so great a mind and spirit contained in so
little room ; so large an understanding, and so unrestrained a
fancy, in so very small a body : so that the lord Falkland
used to say merrily, that he thought it was a great ingredient
into his friendship for Mr. Godolphin, that he was pleased
to be found in his company, where ne was the propeter man ;
and it may be, the very remarkableness of his little person,
made the sharpness of his wit, and the composed quickness
of his judgment and understanding, the more notable. He
had spent some years in France and in the low Countries,
and accompanied the earl of Leicester in his ambassage into
Denmark, before he resolved to be quiet, and attend some
promotion in the court ; where his excellent disposition and
manners, and extraordinary qualifications, made him very
acceptable. Though cvery-body loved his company very
well, yet he loved very much to be alone, being in his con-
stitution inclined somewhat to melancholy, and to retirement
amongst his books ; and was so far from being active, that

" several books, as yin Ekgjj on Dr. Joh. Donn, a
" Sonff on Tfu). Killigrew and Will. Murrey, &f.
" And translate<l into English verse, The Passion
" of Dido for JEneoJi, as it is inaymfuirabli/ exprest
"in the jburth Book trf Virgd. Lond. 1658. o<t.
" This iK'ing done (all out a very little) by our in-
" comparable author as well for virtue oh wit, was
" perfected, compleated and publishi-d by Edminid
" Waller of Beconsfield in Bucks, es«j; of whom
" having now a just occasion to make mention, I
" shall give you some minutes of him by and by ;
" and in the mean time tell you that Syd. Godol-
" phin was buried in the chancel of the church of
" Okehampton, a market town in Devonsh. on the
" tenth day of Febr. in sixteen hundred forty and
" two ; whose adieu Mr. Ht)bbes ' will give you
" thus,

" Thou'rt dead, Godolphin, who lov'dst reason true,
" Ju.stice and peace ; soldier belov'd, adieu !"

" Mr. Godolphin left several copies of verses be-
" hind him, worthy (as I have been inform'd) of
" the press, which afterwards came into the hands
" of a gent, called Davits, who married his sweet-
" heart Mrs. Berkley, sister to Charles vicount
" Fitzharding. As for Edm. Waller who was one of
" the famed poets of the late times, and whose name
" wiU ever be dear to all lovers of the muses, was
" born, as I have been infomietl by his antient ac-
" quaintance, at Winchmore-hUI in the pari.sh of
" Agmundesham commonly Amersam in Bucks, on
" the 13 of March 1606, but descended from the
" genteel famUy of his name, which livetl at Groom-
" bridge in Kent, mostly educatetl in grammaticals
" under one Dobson mmister of Great Wycombe
" in the said county, (who had l)een eflucated in
" Eaton school) and afterwards in academicals in
" King's coll. in Cambridge,' (as I have been in-
" formed by his said acquaintance) where his geny

he was contented to be reproached by his friends with lazi-
ness ; and was of so nice and tender a comriosition, that a
little rain or wind would disorder him, and divert him from
any short journey he had most willingly proposed to himself;
insomuch, as when he rid abroad with those in whose com-
pany he most delighted, if the wind chanced to be in his
face, he would (after a little pleasant murmuring) suddenly
turn his horse, and go home. Yet the civil war no sooner
began (the first approaches towards which he discovered as
soon as any man, by the proceedings in parliament, where he
was a member, and opposed with great indignation) th.in he
put himself into the first troops that were raised in the West
for the king; and bore the uneasiness and fatigue of winter
marches with an exemplar courage and alacrity ; until by
too brave a pursuit of the enemy into an obscure village in
Devonshire, he was shot with a musket, with which (with-
out saying any word more than Oh God, I am hurt .') he fell
dead from his horse ; to the excessive grief of his friends,
who were all that knew him, and the irreparable damage of
the public. Life of Edw. Earl of Clarendon, edit, folio, p.
24.]

' In his own life, printed in English, p. 17.

' [Edmundus Waller coll. Regal, conv. admissus io IM-
triculam acad. Mar. 22, l()20. Baker.]

l64f.

47

GODOLPHIN.

and early inclinations to poetry were by his tutor
aiul others observed. Aiterward.s he beeame one
of the first refiners of the ICn<flisii tongue, was
highly valued at court bel'orc tlie civil war iK'gan,
and much resjxx;ted by Ben. Johnson, Lucius
lord Falkland, Syd. Gociol)>hin, Hobbes of Malms-
bury, &c. and afterwards by Abr. Cowley. He
was once, if not twice, a burgess to serve in par-
liam. in the reign of K. Ch. I. was a member of
the long jMirl. where speaking several speeches,
were afterwards printed and greedily Ixjught up.
In the latter end of the year 1642 lie was one of
the commissioners apjx)inted by the pari, to pre-
sent their propositions for peace to his maj. at
Oxon ; where arriving and kissing the king's hand
at Ch. Church, his maj. took more notice of, and
spoke more kindly to, him (Mr. Waller) than to
any of the rest; the reason of which was soon
after knowTi. In 1643, he was deeply engaged in
the royalists plot for the reducing of London and
the Tower to the service of his majesty ; but the
plot being discovered, he was taken and impri-
son'd, and had certainly gone to pot, had he not
received a reprieve from Rob. earl of Essex gene-
ral of the pari, forces. However Nath. Tomkyns
and Rich. Chaloner, who were also engaged in
that plot, suffered death by han^ng on the Stli
of July in the same year. After he had continued
a prisoner about an year, and had paid a fine of
ten thousand pounds to the pari, (which made him
sell part of his land) and thereujx)n pardon'd, he
travelled into France and elsewhere ; and at his
return sided, as it seems, with the men then in

' [The Wallers are originally of Spcndhurst, in Kent.
Rich. Waller of that place, esq. took (ha. duke of Orleans,
prisoner at the battle of Agincourl, which prince remained
at Spendhnrst for 24 years: in reward for this, the gallant
K. Henry 5 gave, in addition to his cnat of arms, a crest,
viz. the arms of Orleans hanging by a label upon an oak or
walnut-tree, with this motto, ' hiEC fructus vinuiis.' Their
estates at this time were 70(jO/. per an. Rob. the poet's father,
was descended from the above Richard ; he married the sis-
ter of the patriot Hampden, by whom he had several sons
and daughters; of the sons Edm. (lie poet was the eldest;
three of whose brothers settled in Ireland ; two of them fell
victims to the bloody vindiclive Irish, in the massacre of the
Protestants, in 1041; Rob. a third brother, was employed in
that kingdom by the protectors Oliver and Rich, and was an-
cestor of the Wallers, baronets of Ireland. Tho. another
brother, was a colonel in the parlcment army, but was call-
ed to the degree of a serjeant-at-law at the restoration. Of
the daughters, one married to Adrian Scronpe, of Bucking-
hamshire, esa. descended from theancientlords of that name: , ^ • .
it was he who interceded with the parlement to permit his tody of her daughter Price: but although the prot. Oliver, call

" jxjwer ; and when Oliver «iis made lortl protector,
" he wrote and published a panegyric on him. Wlten
" K. Ch. II. returned, he was kindly received by
" him, and no man's conversation was more desiretl
" at the ctmrt than his. In 1661 he was elected
" burgess fiir Hastings in Sussex to serve in that
" jiarliament which began at Westminster on the
" 8th of May the same year. Josepha Maria, call'd
" by some Maria Beatricia, duchess of York, (after-
" wards queen) took much delight in his company,
" and laiii her commands upon him to write, which
" he accordingly did, to her great liking. Upon the
" death of Dr. R. Allestrie, he put in for tlie pro-
" vostship of Eaton coll. in the latter end of loSO,
" (as he nad done before, after his majesty's restora-
" tion) but lost it to the regret of him and liis rela-
" tions. At length having liv'd to a fair age, died
" on the 20th of October 1687, and was buried in
" the yard l>elonging to the church of Beconsfield
" before-mention'd, near to the graves of his grand-
" father and grand-mother, and of his fiither Rob.
" Waller, and his mother Anne Hamden (by which
" last he became related to Oliver Cromwell the pro-
" tector)« and others of his name and family. The
" graves of all whom (which are S. W. of the church)
" are compa.ssed about with a frame of timber, like
" to a pound, and in the middle of it grows a wal-
" nut-tree, (the crest belonging to the arms of his
" family) which in summer shades the place. Soon
" after his death were published Poems to the Me-
" mory of that incomparable Poet Edm. Waller,
" esq; Lond. 1688. qu. written by several hands.
" This most celebrated person hath extant Poems

and signing the warrant for his execution. Another of the
sisters of tlie poet, was married to the equally unfortunate
Mr. Tompkins, clerk of the council to Q. Henrietta Maria,
who died for being in his brother-in-law Waller's plot. A
third sister married to Mr. Price, a great p.irlementarian ; it
was this sister who betrayed the poet to the parlement. A
4lh sister, Eliz. married to Maximilian Pcilie of Thame and
Tedsworth, esq. also a friend to the parlement. What has
given rise to the idea that the p-'et Waller was a relation of
the prot, Oliver, was their always calling cousin, a usual
custom at that time, where any family connexions were,
thougli the parties were not actually allied ; Mrs. Waller,
the poet's mother, was a loyalist, and would often tell Oli-
ver, thai things would revert to their own channel, and leave
him and his friends in ruin. Upon which he would take up
a towel, as his custom was, and throw it at her, saying.
Well, well, aunt (as he used to call her) I will not dispute
the matter with you: but when his highness found that
' she was more in earnest than he in jest,' and that she held
correspondence with the royalists, he put her under the cus-

brother-in-law. Waller's return to England ; but he found
no friend to save his own life at the restoration, at which
time he was hanged for condemning K. Cha. 1. to death,

Sir Hen. Cromwell, knt.

ed Mrs. Waller aunt, and her son, the poet, cousin, yet there
was no real relationship between tliem ; the patriot Hamp-
den, indeed, was first cousin to each, as this sketch will shew :

Griffith Hampden, esq.

Rob. Cromwell, esq.

J
Oliver Cromwell,

lord protector.

Eliz.=

I 1

=Wil. Hampden, esq. Ann=

=Rich. Waller, esq.

;.-T-wu. nampaen, esq. Ann-r-r

John Hampden, esq. Edm. Waller, esq.

the patriot. the pott.

Noble, Memoirs of the Prolectoral House of Cromwell, Lond, 1787. vol. 2, page 66.]

49

GODOLPIIIN.

CRISP.

50

PaiTui men t nga inut
The iK-frinniii};;

written upon several Occasions. 'I'he first ttlit.
of wliicli came out, as it seems, in 1()4.5, oct.
[Bodl. 8vo. W. 11. Art. US.] In the title of which
'tis said, tliat all the lyric jxK-nis in that lxK)k,
were set, or had musical com]X)sitions put to lliein,
by Mr. Hen. Lawes, gent, of the king's cha|)|)el,
and one of his majesty's private nuisic. At the
end of the said poems are, (1) His Speech in
the Prelute\s Innovations.'^
of which is ' Mr. s])eaker, we
shall make it appear,' ike. (2) His Speech at a
Conference of both Houses in the painted Cham-
ber ii July 1641, at the Deliveiij of the Articles
against Judge Craxdeij.* The beginning is, ' My
lords, I am commanded by the house of connnons,'
&c. (3) Speech in the House of Commons 4 July
1643, beingbrought to the Bar, and having leave
given him by the Speaker, to say what fie could
fyr himself. The beginning is ' Mr. speaker, I
acknowledge it a great mercy of Gcxl,' &c. But
this edition was not corrected and pubUshed by
the approbation of the author, till 1664. After-
wards follow'd several editions of them, and in the
last, or one of the last,' printed in tlie life-time of
tlie author, there is set l>cfore them his picture
when a young, and another when he was an old,
man ; and in 1690 were published the 2d part of
his {X)ems, entit. The Maid's Tragedy altered,
with some other Pieces. Lond. in oct. Among
which is, A Pancgyrick, S^c. to Oliver Cromwell,
and a poem entit. Upon the Death ofO. C. which
is the same with that entit. Of the late Storm, and
qf'the Death of his Highness (O. C.) ensuing the
same, which had been printed at Lond. 1658, on
one side of a broad sh. of paper. Against these
two came out a most sharp and bitter answer, en-
tit. Tlie Panegyrick and the Storm, two Poetic
Libels by Ed. Waller Vassal to the Usurper, an-
swered by more faitlif'ul Subjects to hi^ sacred
Majesty K. Ch. II. It was printed Ixjyond the
sea, in 6 sh. in qu. an. 1659, and dedicated to
George earl of Norwich.^ Among these two parts
of Mr. Waller's |xx!ms and pieces arc omitted,
(1) His Speech in the House of Commons, 4 July
1643, before they proceeded to expel him the
House ; a copy of w-liich is printed in the Histo-
rical Collections of Jo. Rushworth, vol. 2. part 3.
p. 328, and is the same with the third speech be-
fore-mentioned, which was printed in the first edi-
tion of his poems. (2) A poem entit. To the
King upon his Majesty s liappy Return. Lond.

' [First edition, in one sheet in 4to. Lond. l64I.Bo<]l.
C. 8. 29. Line.]

* [The first edition of this speech was in two sheets, Lon-
don 1641, 4to. Bodl. C. 13. 14. Line]

-'• [The fifth edition ' with several additions never before
printed,' London 1686, has one head only by R. Vandrebanc,

aet. 7t)J

'^ [ Bodl. Ravfl. 219. This copy has various MS. notes,
and the dedication is signed in manuscript Ri. Watson.]

Vol. III.

" 1660, in one sh. and an lialf in fol. (3) Him traiu-
" lation of part of a ]>lay, in wliicli (.'horleii Sack-
" vill earl of Dorset and Middlesex was concem'd,
" viz. Pimipcy t/w (ireut, a Trag. acted In/ the
" Servants of James Duke of York. — Lond. 1664.
" (|U. Tlu^rc were also some pisthumous pocm8
" of Mr. Kdm. Waller's, nubli»ne<l in a Ixxik en-
" titled, A Collection (rf Poenus by several Hartds,
" &c. I>ond. 1693, oct."

TOBIAS CRISP third son of Ellis Crisp of
London esq; was Iwm in Breadstrcet in the same
city, an. 1600, jMirtly educated in granmiaticals in
Eaton school near Windsor, and in academicals in
the university of Cambridge till he was l)ach. of arts.
Afterwards, for the accomplishment of certain parts
of learning, he retired to Oxon, and in the begin-
ning of Febr. 1626 was incorporated in that degree
as a member of Baliol coll. and towards the latter
end of the said month he was admitted to pnx;eed
in that faculty. AVhich degree Ix'ing by him com-
pleatetl, as a memlKT of the said hou.sc, in the act
following, celebrated in July 1627, he l)ecame about
that time rector of Brinkworth in Wiltshire; where,
being setletl, he was much followed for his edifying
way of j)reaching, and for his groat hospitality to all
persons that resorted to his house. Ujxin the break-
mg out of the rebellion (at which time he was doctor
of divinity of some years standing) he left his rectory
in Aug. 1642, and being puritanically affected, he
did, to avoid the insolencies of the soldiers, especially
of the cavaliers, (for whom he had but little affec-
tion) retire to London, where his opinions lx;ing soon
discovered, was baited by 52 opp)nents in a grand
dispute concerning freeness of the grace of God in
Jesus Christ to poor sinners, &c. By which en-
coimter,' which was eagerly managed on his part,
he contractetl a disease that brought him to his
grave, as I shall anon tell you. After his death
were published of his composition tliese things fol-
lowing.

Christ alone exalted, in 14 Sermons. Lond. 1 643.
in (Kt. vol. 1. Some of which sermons savouring
much of Antinomianism, were answered by Steph.
Geere, as I shall elsewhere tell you, and, if I mis-
take not, by one two or more.

Christ alone exalted, in 17 Sermons, on Phil. 3,
8, 9. Lond. 1644. oct. vol. 2.

Chri.it alone e.ralted in the Perfection and En-
couragement of his Saints, notwitlistanding Sins
and Tryals, in eleven Sermons. Lond. 1646, &c.
oct. vol. 3. Before which is the author's picture in
a cloak. At length, many years after (viz. in 1683.)
were, as an addition to the three former volumes,
publishetl in oct. Christ alone exalted, in two Ser-
mons, foimd written with his own hand among se-
veral of liis writings in the custody of his son Mr.

' [See a very full account of this controversy in Nelson's
Li/f of Dithop Bull, Lond. 1713, 8vo. pp. 200, S70.]
£

[96]

51

CRISP.

GODWIN.

Sani. Crisp one of the governors of Ch. Ch. hospital
in I^ndon, wlio lately, with great civility, infonnecl
me, by his letters, that his father Dr. Tobias Crisp
dying of the small-jwx on the 27th of Febr. in six-
l64{. t<jenluimlreil forty and two, was buried in a vault
pertaining to his family, situatetl and being under
part of tlie church of S. Mildred in I^readstreet,
wherein his father E. Crisp alderman (who died in
his shrivalty of London 13 Nov. 1625,) was burial.
Dr. Crisp left behind him many children, begotten
on the body of his wife, the daughter of Rowland
Wilson alderman and sheriff" of London, one of the
members of the long parliament, and of the council
of state, 1648-9- See more in Obad. Sedgwick.
" See also a book entitled, Christ made Sin, 2 Cor.
" 5. 21. Evinced from Scripture, upon Occasion of
" an Exception taken at Pimur'' s-hall^H Jan. 1689,
" (U reprinting tfie Sermons of Dr. Tobias C'ri&p,
" togemer with an Epistle to tfie Auditory of the Ex-
" ception. And Dr. Crisp's own Answer to an Ex-
*■' ception against his Assertion of Chrisfs being tlie
"^rstGift to a Believer before the acting of Grace
" in him. Lond. 1691. qu. [Bodl. C. 7. 3. Line]
" Dr. Tobias Crisp's picture* is before it, taken 27
" January 1642; and there is also a large preface
*' to it, iiiscriljed to the evangelical, pious and judi-
^' cious auditory at the merchants Sunday's lecture
" at Pinner's-hall, London ; at the end of it 'tis
" said, that Dr. Tobias Crisp married Mary, daugh-
" ter and heiress of Rowland Wilson of I>ondon,
" merchant ; which Mary died 20 Sept. 1673, whose
^' children are,

" Rowland \ /• Edward

" Ellis i \ Rowland

" Samuel \ I Jane \

" Hester J \ [John]' ^

" This book was published, I think, by one of Dr.

" Tobias Crisp's sons."

[*^] THOMAS GODWIN, second son of Anthony

Godwin of Wookey in Somersetshire, and he the
second son of Will. Goilwin of the city of Wells,
was Ijom in that county, became a student in Magd.
hall in the V)eginning of the year 1602, and in that
of his t^e 15. Four years after he was made demy
of Magd. coll. where following the studies of phi-
lology and the tongues with unwearied industry, be-
came at length, after he was master of arts, chief
master of Abingdon school in Berks. Where, by
his sedulous endeavours, were many educated, that
were afterwards eminent in the church and state.
In die year 1616, being then, and some years before,
chaplain to Dr. Montague bishop of Bath and Wells,
he was admitted to the reading of the sentences, and
in 1636 was licensed to proceed in divinity. Be-
fore which time, he being, as 'twere, broKen, or

" [By A. S. (Shcrwin^ : taken when Ciispwas 4^J.^
» [MS. Wood in Ashmolc]

I

wearietl out, with the drudgery of a scIkk)!, had the
rectory of Brightweil near Wallingford in Berks,
confer'd u]X)n liim, which he kept to his dying day.
He was a jx-rson of a grave and reverend aspect,
was a grace to his profession, was most learncnl also
in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew antiquity, and ad-
mirably well versed in all those matters requisite for
the acct)nij)lishnient of a rector of an acatlemy. He
hath transmittetl to posterity,

Ronmnce Hi.itorice Anthohgia. An English Ex-
position of the Roman Antiquities, wherein many
Roman and English Offices are parallel'd, and di-
vers obscure Phrases explained. In three Books.
Oxon. 1613, [1628, Bcxll. 4to. G. 45. Art.] &c. qu.
Synop.sis Antiquitatum Hebraicarum ad Expli-
cationem ntriusque Testamcnti valde necessaria,*
&V. Lib. 3. Oxon. 1616. [Bodl. 4U). H. 22. Th.
Seld.] &c. qu. Dedicated to Dr. James Montague
bishop of Bath and Wells, and dean of his majesty's
ehappel.

Moses and Aaron, Civil and Ecclesiastical Rites,
used by the antient Hebrews, observed ami at large
opened, for the clearing of many obscure Texts
thi-mighmit tlw ivhole Scripture, in six Books.
Printed 1625, in nu.«

Florilegium Phrastcon ; or, a Survey of the
Latin Tongue. — When this book was first printed
I know not, for I do not remember that I ever yet
have seen the first edition.

Three Arguments to prove Election upon Fore-
sight of Faith which coming in MS. into the

hands of Twisse of Newbury were by him answered.
Soon after that answer being sent to our author God-
win, he made a reply, which was confuted by the
rejoinder of Twisse. The presbyterian' writers say
that tho' Dr. Gcxlwin was a very learned man in
the antiquities of the Hebrews, Greeks, and Latins,
yet he was fitter to instruct grammarians, than deal
with logicians, and had more power as master of a
school at Abingdon, than as a doctor of divinity.
They further add also that Twisse did by his writ-
ings and disputes whip this old school-master, and
wrested that ferula out of his hands which lie had
enough used with pride, and expos'd him to be de-
rided by boys. Dr. Gotlwin, after he had for some
years enjoyed himself in great repose, in requital of
his many labours, surrendred up his soul to God,
20 March in sixteen hundred forty and two, and l64}.

' [ — ad faciliorem intelleclum plurima sunt coUala aim
rel'Us hodie in u$u: authore Thoma Godwino in art. magiilro.
Oxonice, E.vcudebal Joseplms Bariiesius, l6l6, 4to. The
ep. (let), subscribed, amplitudini tuse deditissimus ac dcvolissi-
mus sacellanus. Dat. Oxon. prid. idiis Januar. Kennet.I

^ [The third edition was in 1028, the eighth in l67v;, both
in 4to. It was translated into Latin by John Henry Rciziiis,
of which the fourth edition with two dissertations by Her-
man Witsius, De Theocralia Israetilarum, el de Rechiibilis,
was printed 'rraj. ad Uhennm 1698, in 8»o.]

' George Kendal in Tuissi Vila St" Fictorin, &c. and Sam.
Clarke in Wu Lives of Eminent Person}, &c. printed l683.
fol. p. 6.

53

WYNELL.

MAHHK.

STONE.

PRIMKllOSE.

54

was buried in tlie chancel bclongiiifr U) liis church
of Ikiglitwell iKjfore-nientionVl. He then left be-
liind hini a wii'e nfunetl Phili|>|>:i Tesdale of Al)ing-
don, Mho at her own charjfe caused a marble-stone
to be laid over his grave : * Tiie inscription on which
you may read in Hisi. Si Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2.
p. 201. "a.

" THOMAS WYNELL son of a father of both
" his names, sometimes minister of Askorwell in
" Dorsetshire, was born in that county, became a
*' batJer of Brasen-nosc coll. in the month of May,
" an. 1622, aged 21 years, took one degree in arts,
" holy orders, and, thro' some mean employment,
" became rector of Craneliam near to tlie city of
" Gloucester, where I find him in 164!2 ; but what
" became of him when the rebeUion broke out that
" year, I cannot tell. He hath written,
[28] " Tlie Covenants Plea for Infants ; or, the Co-

" venant of Free-Grace, pleading the divine Right
" of ChriMian Infants unto tlie Seal of Iwly Bap-
" ti,wi, Oxon. 1642. qu. [Bodl. 4to. S. 14. Th.]
*' This book, which is dedic. by the author to his mo-
*' ther the university of Oxon, is the sum of certain
" .sermons preached at Craneliam before-mentioned,
« on Matth. 28. 18, 19, 20. I find one Thorn.
" Winnel, M. of A. to be vicar of Leek in StafFord-
*' shire, in the time of Oliver, and author of Sus-
" pension discussed ; or, Church Members Divine-
" Right to Christs Table-Throtie of Grace ex-
" amined and cleared, &c. Lond. 1657. oct. What
*' relation there was between this Tho. Winnel, and
*' Tho. Winnel before-mention'd, I know not."

JAMES MABBE was born of genteel parents
in the county of Surrey and diocese of Winchester,
began to be conversant with the muses in Magd.
coll. in Lent term, an. 158% aged 16 years, made
demy of that house in 87, peqietual fellow in 95,
master of arts in 98, one of the proctors of the luii-
versity in 1606, and three years after supplicated
the ven. congregation of regents, that whereas he
had studied the civil law for six years together, he
might have the favour to be admitted to the degree
of bach, of that faculty ; but whether he was really
admitted, it appears not. At length he was taken
into the service of sir John Digby knight (afterwards
earl of Bristol) and was by him made his secretary
when he went ambassador into Spain ; where re-^
maining with him several 3ears, improved himself
in various sorts of learning, and in the cu.stoms and
« manners of that and other countries. After his re-

* [Depositiim Thomo? Godwyn S. T. P. riri integi-rrimi,
pietaie, literatura, morum suavitate spectabili'f, roctoris hiijns
eccle^is vig,ilantissimi ; ciijus merita melius posleris traiis-
miltent scripta, quam marinor. Hunc lapidcm uxor ejus
Philippa Godwyn, amoris ergo moercns posuit. Obiit Mar.
VO, l642. This was made by the appoinlmciit of Mrs. God-
wyn, and laid in Britwill chancel Apr. 2, lC43, by Mr.
.laclcson, a stone-cutler in Oxon. who had for it 8 lib. MS'
D. Tho Smith. Baker.]

turn into England, he was made one cjf the lay.prv-
iK-ndarim of the cath. ch. of Wells, tx^ing then in
orders, was estwmiil a learned man, go«xl orator,
and a facetious conceitetl wit. He hath translated
from Spanish into English, tinder the name ni Don
Diego Puede-Ser, that is, James vuty be [.JameH
Mabbe] (1) The Sixmish Bawd, rejtrenenttd iu
Celestina: Or, the fragic Comedy of Cul'uttt and
Melibea, &c. Ij<md. IftJl. fol. (2)"T/i« Rogue;
or, tlw Life of Guzman de Alfaraclie. Lond. KiiM.
fol. 3d edit. Written in Span, by Matth. Aleniaa
(3) Devout Contemplatimis expressed in 42 Ser-
tnons upon all the Qundragesimal Gospels. Loiul.
1629. Ibl. Originidly written by Fr. Ch. de Poiw
seca. (4) The Exemplanj Nomls qf Mich, de Cer-
vantes Saavcdra, in six Books. Lond. 1640. fd.
There was another book of the said Cervantes en-
tit. Delight in .leveral Shapes, &x;. in six pleasant
Histories. Lond. 1654. fol. but who translated tliot
into English I cannot tell, nor tlie name of him that
translated his Second Part of the History of Don
Quixot. Lond. 1620. qu.* As for our translattir
Mabbe, he was living in sixteen hundred forty and
two at Abbotsbury in Dorsetsliire in the faniily of
sir John Strangewaies, and dying about that tame,
was buried in the church beUniging to that place, as
I have been informetl by one of that name and i'a-
mily, lately fellow of Wadliam college in Oxon.

« SAMUEL STONE, son of Will. Stone of
" Winbourne Minster in Dorsetshire, became a stu-
" dent of Mcrton coll. in 1638, aged 17, under the
" tuition of Ralph Button, left it without a degree.

" One Samuel Stone minister of Hartford in New-
" England, publishetl An Examimition of Mr. — —
" Hudsmi's Vindication of the Integrity of the Cd-
" tholic vlnble Church, &c. Lond. 1642. qu. This
" Sam. Stone must be elder in time than Sam. Stone
" l)efore-mentioned of Merton college.

" There was also one Sam. Stone M. of arts,
" wlio hath pubUshetl, A Sermon against RebeUion,
" printed 1662."

DAVID PRIMEROSE, second son of Gilb.
Primerose a Scot and D. D. mentioned in the Fasti,
an. 1624, was Ixirn in the city of S. Jean d'Angely
within the province of Xantoigne in France, edu-
cated in philosophical learning in the university of
Bordeaux, made an excursion to this university of
Oxon in his younger years for tlie sake of the Bod-
leian library, and conversation of Protestant thcolo-
gists, returned to Bordeaux where he proceeded
master of arts, and visited otlier places ot learning.

' [The translator was Thomas Shelton, who printed the
first part separately, 4to. Lond. l6l2, the second not appear-
ing till 1O2O. From the Harhian Calalogtit, vol. iii. N".
6396, it would seem that both parts were dated in l620, but
I have had an opportunity of consulting the very copy for-
merly in lord Oxford's possession, which wanted the first
title-page, and had that to the second part placed as the ge-
uutal title to both volumes.]

£2

CUr.
1648.

Clar.
1648.

DO

PRIMEUOSE.

STREATER.

SALESBURY.

[«9]

CUr.

Clar.
1642.

Afterwards he went to Oxon a^n to improve His
knowktlge and studies by the learning anct diK'trine
of Dr. Prideaiix tlie king's professor of divinity, en-
tretl himself a sojourner of Exeter coll. in ICSJii, was
incoqxirated master of arts in the latter end of that
vear, and soon after performed the exercise for the
H^ee of bach, of divinity : Which iK'ing done to
the great liking of all the auditory, Prideaux openly
said before tliem in the divinity school, thus, ' Ac-
cepimus responsionem tuani, mi fili, tanquam adven-
tantis Veris gratissimam primam rosani.''

Our author Primerose hath written,

Theses Theologkce de Peccato in Genere Sf Spe-
ck. Genev. 1620. qu. [Bodl. BB. 38. Th.]

Thes. Theol. de Necessitate Satisfactionis pro
Peccatis per Christum. Salmur. 1620. qu. [Bodl.
BB. 38. Th.]

Disputatio Thcologica de divina Predestinntione,
&i annexis Articulis ; Amplitudine Mortis Christi,
Vi Sf E^fficacia Gratia Dei, &i Usu liberi Arbitrii
in Conversionis Negotio, &c. Bas. 1621. [BodJ.
BB. 38. Th.]

Treatise of the Sabbath, and the Lord''s-Dau, the
Nature aiidtlie Original of both. — sprinted 1636. (^u.«
with other things ^viiich I have not yet seen. After
he liad left Oxon. he retired into France, and be-
came 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 jiarts have told me that he was esteemed one
of the learnedest reformed divines in France.

" AARON STREATER, .son of John Streater
" of Lewis in Sussex, became a batler or commoner
" of S Alb. hall in 1626, aged 16 years, left it with-
" out a degree, entred into holy orders, and being a
*' fantastical jierson studied physic, and pretended
" to Ix; a licensed physician of Oxon, tho' it doth
" not in the least appear so from the registers. He
" hath written,

" Of an Ague and the curing thereof, whether
" Quotidian, Tertian, or Quartan, &c. printed
« 1641.

" Letter sent to the Lord-Mayor and his vene-
" rable Brethren, by no Atheist, no Papist, &.c.
" Lond. 1642, in one sh. in qu.

" There was one John Streater comptroller of the
" ordinance, who published A Letter to his Excel-
" lency the Lord Fleetwood. Lond. 1659, in half a
« sheet." [Bodl. C. 13. 6. Line]

THOMAS SALESBURY, [or rather Salus-
BCKy]' son and heir of sir Hen. Salesbury bart. was

* [Crawfurd, in ihc Peerage of Scotland, Edinh. I7lt>,
page 408, s.-iys that he had seen it in the lil)rary of the e.irl
of Roscbcrry, and that it was |irinicd in lOaii, and intituled
A Treatise o/the Sahbatli, and of /he Lord's Day.']

' fin the dedication to his poem of Joseph, he signs him-
itAiSalushury, and he is addressed by the same iiaiuej spelled

born of an antient and genteel family of his name
living at Leweni near Denbigh in Denbigiishire, be-
came a gentleman com. of Jesus coll. about the be-
ginning of the reign of K. Ch. I. but taking no de-
gree, he retired (after he had seen the vanities of
the great city) to his jKitrimony ; and having a na-
tural geny to jxjetry and romance, exercised him-
self much in those juvenile studies, and at length be-
came a most noted poet of his time, as it partly ap-
pears in tliis book following, which he wrote and puD-
lished :

The History of Joseph. Lond. 163 — printed
in English verse m 13 c-napters, and all contained in
about 16 sheets* in quarto. Daniel Cudniore gent,
did also exercise his muse on the same subject some
years after : ' And in prose, that liistory is WTitten
by several persons in divers languages, especially in
that of the French, which being translated into Eng-
lish by sir Will. Lower a Cornish knight, was print-
ed at London 1655, oct.' This sir William, who
was a noted poet, was son of John Lower of Tre-
mere, a younger son of sir Will. Lower of St. Win-
now in Cornwal, and died at London about the be-
^nning of the year 1662, but where buried, unless

in the same manner, by all his commendatory friends, so
that Wood's observation at the close of the article might have
been spared, for though sir Thomas Salusbury, and Thomas
Salusbury the mathematician were different persons, yet they
both agreed in the mode of spelling their names.]

* [The copy I have seen contains a, b, and one leaf only
in c : and then from A to N in fours and two leaves in O.l

9 [In the British Museum is a volume of sacred poems by
this author, Lond. l655. 12mo.]

' [During the he4.l of the civil wars Lower took refuge in
Holland.

He translated from Ceriziers 1. The Innocent Lady, or the
Illuslrious Innocence. Lond. 1 054. 8vo. (Bodl. 8vo. C. 24,
Art. HS.) with a rare frontispiece by T. Crosse.

S. The Innocent Lord; or the Divine Providence ' leing
the incomparable History of Joseph. Lond. l655. (In the
British Museum.)

3. The triumphant Lady, or the Crowned Innocence. Lond.
I6'u6. 8vo. (Bodl. 8vo. VV. l6. Art. BS.) with a very neat
frontispiece by Gaywood. And he promised another The
Pleasures oj" the Ladies, which 1 have not met with in any
catalogue.

Lower's dramatic pieces were

1. The Phanixin her Flames. Lond. 16-19.

2. Polyeuctes, or the Martyr. Lond. 1635. (Bodl. 4to.
P. 3. Art. BS.)

3. Horatius. Lond. l656. 4to, (Bodl. 4lo. P,3. Art.BS.)

4. The enchanted Lovers, a pastoral. Lond. l658.

5. Nolle Ingratitude. Lond. 1659.

6. Amorous Fantasme. Lond. 1 660.

7. The Three Dorothies, not printed.

8. Don Japhet of Armenia, not printed.

Some of his plays were collected and printed in 166I.

Lower's most magnificent production was his Relation in
Form of a Journal of the Voyage and Residence which the
most excellent and most mighty Prince Charles the II. King
of Great Britain, !sfc. I/ath made in Holland, from the 2.5
of May, to the 2 of June, 1 660. Rendered into English out
of the original French, By Sir ly'illiam Lower, Knighl.
Hague, Printed hy Adrian Vlack, Anno I660. with Privi-
ledge of the Estates of Holland and IVesl-Freesland. folio,
with a portrait of Charles and several large folding plates by
T. Matham. Botll. B. 6. 3. An.J

SAI.ESIUJRY.

58

in the parisli duirch of S. C'lenifnts Danes witliiii
the liberty of Westminster, where his uncle Tho.
Lower esq; (to whom lie was lieir) was buried 21
Mar. 16()(), after lie hiul lain ileaxl since the 5tli of
Feb. going before, I know not. What other things
our author Salesbury hath written and publishwl, I
cannot tell, nor any thing else of him, only that he,
as formerly a nieniher of Jesus coll. was among seve-
ral wrsons of quality actually createtl dcK-tor of the
civil law of this university in the year 1642, he Ix-ing
then a baronet ; and that departing this mortal life
in the sinnmer time (before the month of August)
1643. in sixteen hundred forty and three, (at which time
[*'] he left behind him a widow named Hester) was, as I
suppose, buried in the vault in Whitchurch joining
to Leweni before-mentioned, near to the Ixxly of his
father sir Henry, who died 2 Aug. 1632. The
reader is to know, that there hath been one Tho.
Salusbury, wlio translated into English, The learn-
ed Man lie/ended and reformed, Sec. Lond. 1660.
Oct. [Bodl. 8vo. C. 349. Line] written originally
in the Italian tongue by Dan. Bartohis a learned
Jesuit ; as also Mathematical Collections J^rom Gal.
Galilcei,^ &c. but his sirname differing in one letter

' [^The Sysleme of the World, in four Dialogues, wherein
the two grand Systemes vfPtolotny and Copernicus are largely
discoursed of: And the Reasons, both phy losophical and phy-
sical as well on the one side as the other, impartially and inde-
finitely propounded : By Galiteus Galileus Zinceus, a gentle-
man of Florence : extraordinary Profestor of the Malliema-
ticksin the University of Pisa; and chief Mathematician to
the Grand Duke of Tuscany. Inglished from the original
Italian Copy by 'J'tiomas Salusbury. London. Primed by
William Levhotirne, \&}\. folio, (led. to sir John Denham,
knight of the Bath, and surveyor general of his majes. works.
The translator in his address to the reader mentions that his
losses during the civil wars, and his contributions to the ne-
cessities of his sovereign, had so drained his purse, that the
great work he had undertaken proved beyond his individual
means, and he acknowledges assistance from Dr. Thomas
Barlow, provost of Queen's college, major Miles Symncr,
and Mr. Robert Wood, of Trinity college, Dublin, able ma-
thematicians and his real friends. He promises a continua-
tion of his collections, which however, 1 fancy, never ap-
peared.

His other translation from Bartnlus is a rare and very sin-
gular volume. The Bodleian copy is that presented by the
author, and has his signature to the notice of some other
productions from his pen not generally known :

The learned Man defended and reformed. A Discourse of
singular Politeness, and Ml cutiun; seasonably asserting the
Right of the Muses ; in Opposition to the many Enemies
which in this Age Learning meets with, and more especially
those two Ignorance and Vice. In two Parts. Written in
Italian by the happy Pen nf P. Daniel Bartolus S. J.
Lond. Printed by R. & W. Leybourn, l06o, 8vo. Prefixed
is a curious frontispiece, with the arms of Salusbury quarter-
ed with those nf Clement. Salusbury dedicates it to general
Monke and William Prynne, the one he terms Hercules An-
glorum, the other Alcides Literarum. — In this volume is an
announcement of two other works by the translator, which
1 have not yet met with.

1 . The Secretary, in four Parts. 1 . The History of Let-
ters, their original Progresse, and Perfection. 2. The Art
of Writing all the known Characters of Ancient and Modern
Use, reduced to Mathematical Proportions and Demonstra-
tions. 3. Twenty seven Species of occult Writing called

from Salesbury, he must not l)e taken to be tlie
.same witli sir Thomas iK'fbre-mentionetl, who was
in tinte JK-fore him, and an active man in the king'*
catise in the iK-ginning of the relR-llion 1()42, for
which, though he died soon after, liis family not-
withstiinding suffered for it.

[The only cojjy of sir Thomas Salusbury's very
rare jx)em I have ever seen or heard of is m Jesus
college library, Oxford, ' ex dono Joannis Salus-
bury de Bachegraig in comitatu Flint, 1656.' It
wants the title-page, so that I am unable to fill up
the exact date, omitted by Wood.

Salusbury dedicates it to his grandmother, the
lady Middleton, late wife to sir Thoma.s Middlcton,
knight and alderman, sometimes mayor of London,
in requital for her care and tenderness towards him
in his youth. The book is ushered in with com-
mendatory verses by T. Bayly, Jo. Salusbury, sen.
Jo. Salusbiu"y, jun. D. LL. and T. LL. (probably
David and Thomas Lloyd) and E. M. (jicrhap
Edw. Michelbourne of Gloticester hall.) The reader
may not object to an extract from this scarce volume;
it IS taken from the fourth chapter, intitled the
Courtier, the subject being Joseph's release from
prison.

Thus Joseph's rais'd unto the height of powrc,
In shorter space then the (juick springing flowre
That asks but one night's growth, he that of late
Wayl'tl in a dungeon, fils a chair of state.
Oh ! what a bounteous king foimd he to do it !
Nay, what a bounteous God that inov'd him to it !
Then think on Joseph's case what ere thou be,
Despair not — ar't in prison ? so was he —
Perhaps thou'lt say, thou ha.st no skill in dreams,
No revelations :— Gtxl hath other means :
Doubt not his jxjwer nor providence, he can
That hath createtl all, sure help a man
More wayes than one ? Dost thou complain th'art

poore
And sufFer'st want ? Job surely sufTred more.
Doe crosses vexe thee .'' or affliction's rod
Torment thy soule ? have patience still in God.
Wayt on, pray on, trust in him, oiiely he
Can cure, and clean.se, and ease thy malady.
Dost strive with strong temptations ? to him then,
God cast seven devils out of Magdalen !
Art sicke or sinful ? prayr a cure did winne
For Hezekiah's sore and David's sinne.
Perchance th'ast trusted, praid, and waited long,
Looke back to Joseph, he was sure but young
When first he ta.sted sorrow, vext between
Bondage, lust, prisons, and his brethren's spleene

Cypher, touching also on the Exposition of the Egyptian Hie-
rnglyphicks. 4. Advertisement Grammatical, Rhetorical,
Moral, and Polytical, necessary for an Accumplitlted Secrt-
tary.

2. Count Gualdo Priorati, his Excellent History of the
Regency of the Present Queen Mother of France ; giving an
Accompt of all the memorable Actions (^France, England,
iSfc.from 1 647, to l65C.]

59

SALESBUllY

HAM DEN.

Ev""!! fnmi his vory cradk', yet lie stav'd.
He waited linia; witli patience, long he prav'd
Ere cwmfbrt came ; • * • V>^ 44J.

The following «)mparison of the hiishandmcn
chiring the seven years of plenty to the industrious
inmates of a iK-e-hive, is {lerhajis tlie liest jwssage in
the book — page 44.

Metliinks I see them, like the busie swanne
AVlien their eonnnander lumis and gives th'alarme.
They issue forth, and their disj)ersed powTc
Coasts every field, and light on every nowre
To make their sweet extractions, an^ they strive
^Vho shall unlade him oftncst at the hive :
They fill their bags, and gladly homewards flye
With pleasant burdens in their painfull thigh.
Onely tliis difFrence makes 'twixt diem and these,
The gatherers went not murmuring as the bees,
But with their silent paces ail along
They trudge like ants, a people wise not strong.
Preventing want in plenty, with their paine ;
So each of these came laden home with grainc.
They gleand apace, whilst com like siids they found
And stor'd the cities fro the neighbouring ground.
Th'y have gathered much, the granaries are fifd
With all th' abundance which the land doth yeeld.'—

A Thomas Salisbury, a M. A. of Cambridge, ac
cording to a writer in the Censura Literar'ia, vol. 2.
page 357, second edit, wrote annmendatory verses
to Mischiefs Mysterie, Lond. 1617.]

« JOHN HAMDEX, son of a father of both his
" names, by Elizabeth his wife, sister to sir Oliver
" Cromwell of Hinchinbroke in Huntingdonshire
" knight of the Bath, was bom' in London, but
" descended from an antient and genteel family
" living at Hamden in Buckinghamshire, became a
" commoner of Magd. coll. in the year 1609, aged
" 15 years, but leaving the university without a de-
" gree, he went to the inns of court, where he made
" considerable proficiency in the municif)al law. At
" riper years he receded to his patrimony, and was
" usually chosen (after he had ser\'ed in diat pai-
" liament which l)egan at Westminster 5 Feb. 1 625)
" a parliament man for tlie succeeding parliaments
" during the reign of king Charles I. in which being
" noted for his activity and parts, became with Pym,
" Strode, &c. parliament orivcrs, or swayers in all
the jjarliaments wherein they sate. And Hamden
being a person of antimonarchical principles, he
did not only ride, for several years before the
grand rel)elhon broke out, into Scotland, to keep
consults with the covenanting brethren there, but
kept his circuits to several puritanical houses in
England, particularly to that of * Knighdey in
Northamptonshire,' and also to that of Will, lord

' Lih. Mttlric. Vniv. Oxon. P. page 104.

* See in a b<X)k emit. Perseculio undecima : or, the
Ckurchei eleventh Periecution, &c.— printed l648. in qu.
cbap. 7.

» [He married Sarah, second daughter of Thomas Foley,

" Say at Broughton near Banbury in Oxfordshire ;
" where, as at ollu-r places, the meeting of the bre-
" thren being nmiienuis, they hud their council-ta-
" bles, &c. See more in Will. Fiennes lord Say.
" In 1637, he the said Jo. Hamden refu.sed to pay
" the tax laid u]X)n him, towards the finding a sliip
" of such or such tuns at sea : And his case being
" argued in the Exchequer-chamber in December
" the .same year, by Oliver St. John of LincohiV
" inn ; Hamden thereujKJU was esteemed the Go-
" liah of the puritanictd and factious party, aiKl St.
" John to be remarkable for his intricate knowledge
" in the law. In the beginning of the long par-
" liament, which began S Nov. 1640, he was ap-
" pointed one of the committee to prepare a charge
" against die most noble Thomas earl of Strafford,
" and soon after one of the managers of the evi-
" dence against him. On the 8d of Jan. 1641, hi.i
" majesty exhibited articles agaiast Edward lord
" Kimbolton (afterwards earl of Manchester) and
" five members of die house of commons, of wliich
" Hamden was one, for endeavouring to subvert
" the fundamental laws and government of this
" kingdom, and to deprive his majesty of his regal
" power, &c. Of which matter Haniden (after he
" had avoided the parliament-house the next day to
" prevent a seisure on his perstm) endeavoured to
" frcH; himself soon after in a set speech. Afler-
" wards he was appointed one of the committee to
" expedite the charge against Dr. Will. Laud arch-
" bishop of Canterbury, and alM)ut that time took
" a commission from the parliament to be colonel of
" a regiment of horse in the araiy that was raised
" to fight against the king, under the command of
" Roliert earl of Essex the general ; in which army
" he openly apjpeared, and did good .service for the
" cause at the battle of Keynton alias Edgliill. In
" the beginning of 1643, he being by that time
" grown wonderful popular, it was noised about the
" great city that the said earl of Essex was to leave
" his place of general, and Hamden, as a man more
" active, was to succeed him, being a person esteem-
" ed by the brethren of great natural abihties, and
" affection to public liberty, much beloved by his
" country, feared by his enemies, valiant in his ac-
*' tions, and faithful in his end to promote truth and
" peace, &c. a gallant and virtuous saint, a noble pa.
" triot and defender of the rights and liberties of the
" English nation, &e.underwhosenanie were printed,
" Several Speeches, as (1) Speech concerning the
" Accusation of High-Treasmi prefcrW by his Ma-
'"''jesty against him the said Joh. Hamden, Ed.
" Lord Kimbolton, Joh. Pym, Will. Strode, and
" Denzil HoUis, &c. Lond. 1641, in one sheet in
" qu. The beginning of which is, ' Mr. Speaker,
" It is a true saying of the wise-man, &c.« with

esq. great grandfather of the first lord Foley, and widow of
Essex Knightlcy, esq. of Fawcslcy, Northamptonshire.]

" [This speech is printed in full in the Biographia Bti-
tanntca, vol. iv. p. 3530, note.]

[SI]

HAMDEN.

SPELMAN.

62

others in the management of the evidence against
Strafford; in all which he s|M)ke rationally and
subtilly, and in others projxised more doubts than
he resolv'd. There was a sheet of pxitry printed
in waggery, and fathered on this Mr. Hamdeii,
entitled Mr. Ham(h-7i's Speech occasioned upon
the Lond(mer''s Petition for Peace. At length
this active and forward person received his mortal
woimd (on Sunday June 18.) in Chalgrove field
in Oxfordshire (l)eing the very place where he
first mustcretl and drew up men m arms, to put
in execution the rebellious ordinance for the mi-
litia) by certain of his majesty's forces command-
ed by prince llujXTt. Whereupon being carried
off to Thame, expired on the 24th of the same
month, in sixteen hundred forty and three, and
was buried in the church of Great Hamden in
Bucks; where, according to his will, he desired
that a stone should be laid over his grave, and
thereon to be engraven the jwrtraiture of him, his
wife and ten children.' His loss was much la-
mented by the reliellious party, because as they
said, the taking of that wise statesman (Hamden)
away, was the great weakning of the martial af-
fairs, parliamentary affairs, and churcli affairs, &c.
Mr. llichard Baxter sfxin after did translate the
soul of him and of John Pym into heaven, in his
Saints everla-Hinff Rest, and others of his opinion
made elegies on him, declaring to the world his
great worth, and loss ; yet the cavalier still said,
and all knowing and impartial men held it for an
imdeniable truth, that he was one of the chief in-
cendiaries of the rebellion, &c. That he was the
very person who advised his kinsman 01. Crom-
well (afterwards lord protector) to oppose the jus-
tice and lionour of his majestv''s cause, with an
affecte<l zeal of conscience and pure religion, as
tlie said Cromwell did several times confess to his
friends and relations. His eldest son named Rich.
Hamden was etlucated in his father's principles,
became, when young, one of the five knights for
Buckinghamshire to ser\e in that parliament call-
ed by Oliver lord protector, to meet at Westmin-
ster 17 Sept. lft)6; about which time the said
Oliver creating threescore lords together, to sit in
the other house, added to them Will. Lenthall
master of the Rolls, and this Rich. Hamden his
kinsman ; all which making up the number of 62,
Hamden became junior to them all. Upon, and
after the return of K. Charles II. he was con-
stantly elected to serve in all parliaments, as also
in that in the beginning of K. James II. and in
those of K. Will. III. and Q. Mary. In the be-
ginning of April 1689 he was, by the favour of
their said majesties, made one of the lords com-

' [Of Hampden it is not yet known that any authentic
portrait exists. In Peck's Life nf Milton is a head by Au-
dran, and there is another by Houbrakcn in the lUastrious
Heads, but neither of these are, it would seem, j;enuiue. See
Granger's //m/. of England, ii. 212.]

" missioners of the Treasury, and alwjut the middle
" of Nov. ICiX) chancellor of the Exchetiuer, (in
" the j)lace of Henry lord Delamere) and about the
" same time one of the jirivy council. This 11. Ham>
" den is father to Joh. Hamden, who was one of the
" knights of Buckinghamshire to serve in that par-
" liament which Iwgan on the ITtli of Oct. 1679,
" and one of the burgesses for Wendover in the said
" county, to serve in the Oxfortl parliament, which
" began 21 March 1680 ; but this person afterwards
" renewing and continuing the hereditary malignity
" of his house a^inst the royal family, entrea into
" a conspiracy with others to disturb the peace of
" the king, and to stir up .sedition in this kingdom.
" For which being tried in the court of the KingV
" Bench holden in Westminster-hall, 6 Feb. 1683,
" was fined forty thousand pounds to be paid to the
" king. Afterwards entring upon another conspi-
" racy, to take away the king's life and to raise a re-
" belliou in the kingdom, he was brought to his
" tryal at the sessions in the Old Baily in Lon-
" don, 30 Dec. 1685 ; where acknowledging himself
" guilty, was condemn'd to l)e liang'd ; but tlien
" craving the king's mercy, and his friends suppli-
" eating for his lite, he was saved."

" JOHN SPELMAN the youngest son of the
" learned sir Hen. Sjielman knt. was bom of, and
" descended from, an antient and genteel family in
" Norfolk, received his academical education in
" Cambridge, but improv'd it much afterwards
" (while he was a sojourner in Oxon) in the Bod-
" leian Vatican, and by conversati<m with learned
" men there. On the 18th of Dec. 1641 he received
" the honour of knighthood irom his majesty at
" Whitehall, and soon after following him, when by
" tumults he was forcied from Westminster, he re-
" tired to Oxon, settled in Brasen-nose colJ. and foU
" lowed his studies there to the time of his death,
" which shortly after followed. He hath written
" and published,

" A Vieza of a printed Book entit. Observations
" upon his Majestus late Answers and Expresses.
" Oxon. 1642, in 6 sh. in qu. His name tho' not
" set to it, yet Dr. Th. Barlow who had received a
" copy from him, when finished, told me it was of
" his composition.*

" The Case of our Affairs, in Law, Religion,
" and other Circumstances, hriefly examined, and

" presented to the Conscience printed in 1643,

" m 5 sh. in qu. [Bodl. C. 14. 4. Line] So Dr.
" Barlow as before.

" The Life ofK. Alfred the Great, King ofEng-
" land — MS. in 3 Books. This was tran^ated into

' [Bishop Barlow's copy is now in the Bodleian, C. 14. 2.
Line. Dr. Barlow has written on the title — ' By S' John
Spelnian, sonne of S' Henry Spelman ToiT ^ivt/ x«ti lunxaaiTov.'
The commencement of the tract is ' I have read of the citi-
zens of Abdera,' &c. 1 notice this, in order to distinguish
it from the work by Digces, inenlioiisd in the next article,
with a tillc almost Hinilar/]

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m

SPELMAN.

DIGGES.

" Latin by die care of OIkicI. Walker master of the
" Univ. coll.' who put large and learned notes
*' thereon, and illustrated it with many cuts — ()xon.
" 1678, fol. [B<kU. a. 3. 12. Art.] Sir John Spel-
" man also did pubhsh Psaltcrlum Davidift Latino-
" Sajcon'inim X'ctiis. Loud. 1G40. qu. from an old
" exemplar foimd in his father's library,' and col-
" lated with three copies, one in Cambridge library,
" another in Trin. coll. there, and a third in Arun-
" dell library, or in the library of the carl of Arun-
" dell sometimes in Arundcll-house without Tem-
" pie-bar, in tlie parish of S. Clement-Danes within
" the liberty of Westminster. This learned knight
" sir Jo. Spehnan died in Brasen-nose coll. of the
" camp disease, on the 24th of July or thereabouts,
*' in sixteen hundred forty and three, and was bu-
" ried on the 26th day of the same month in the
" church of S. Mary the Virgin within the univer-
" sity of Oxon, leaving then this character behind
" him among learned men, that he was ' Vir acer-
" rimi judicii, corruptissimi ingenii, & probatissimse
" morum suavitatis,' &c.

[Wood, or the transcriber from Wood's papers,
errs greatly in stating sir John Spelman to be the
youngest son of his learned father, whereas in fact
he was the eldest.

The original MS. of Spelman's Life of King Al-
fred is in the Bodleian Ubrary, (M. E Museo 75)
whence it was published, very faithfully, by the
learned Thomas Heame, Oxford, 1709, 8vo. The

Iiublisher in his advertisement tells us, that it was
lis original intention to have reprinted the two
tracts above mentioned, which he terms ' two excel-
lent di.scourses,' but this design he afterwards aban-
doned hoping that some judicious person would in-
sert them in a collection of papers of the same de-
scription.

At the end of the Case of our Affairs, is a short
tract not noticed by Wood or Heame, though cer-
tmnly written by Spelman : This is A Discourse of
LondmCs Obstinacie and Miserie, in which the au-
thor says that the civil war (which he calls a lan-
guishing rebellion) would have long since cea.sed,
' had not this rebellious citie by its wealth and mul-
titudes fomented it, and given it life.']

DUDLEY DIGGES, the son of sir Dudley
Digges mention'd before under the year 1638, [see
vol. ii, col. 634.1 was bom 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 crab-
bed studies of logic, took the degree of bach, of arts
in the beginning of Lent term 1631, being then

" P'he tranitlator was not Obad. Walker, but Christopher
Wase, superior beadle of the civil law in Oxford ; the com-
mentary was written by the master of University.]

' rrhe original MS. is now in the library of the marquis
of Buckingham, at Stowc. Among Junius's books in the
Bodleian, is a copy of the printed work, with a vast number
of annotations by the learned donor. MS. Junius 33.]

scarce 19 years of age. In the year following he
was elected probationer-fellow of All-Souls coll. as
a founder's kinsman, and in Oct. 1635 he was li-
censed to proceed in arts ; at which time pro.secuting
his studies with unwearied industry, iidvantaged by
a great memory, and excellent natural parts, he be-
came a great scholar, general artist and hnguist.
In the beginning of the civil war, he vTote,

An Ansiver to a printed Book, entit. Observatimis
upon some of his Majesty's lute Ansiecrs and Ex-
presses. Oxon. 1642. (ju." 1647, third etlit. He
also wrote so subtile and solid a treatise of the dif-
ferences betwixt the king and pai'liament, that such
royahsts that have since handled that controversy
have come far beneath him. The title of it is this,

T7i£ Unlawfulness of Subjects taking up Arms
against their Sovereign in xchat Case soever, with
Ansivers to all Objections, Lond. 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 l>e tried at the
King's-Bench. It was also published again at Lond.
1662, in Oct. part of which impression lying dead,
there was a new title dated 1679 put to it. At
length being untimely snatch'd away to the gieat
sorrow of learned men, by a malignant fever called
the camp disease, raging in the garrison of Oxon, [33]
on the first day of Oct. in sixteen hundred forty and lf>43.
three, was buried 'in the outer chapel of All-souls
college. Of the said disease dtKtor Edward Greaves,
fellow of that house, wrote a little treatise entit.
Morbus Epidemicus, &c. as I shall tell you when I
come to him.

[The Bodleian Catalogue, as well as a MS. note
in the Bodleian copy of the book, (4to. B. 46. Jur.)
ascribes, and I think justly, another tract to Digges,
which Wood had never met with, or probably con-
founded with An Answer, Sfc. This is A Review of
the Observations upon some of his Majesties late
Answers and Expresses. Written by a Gentlenmn
of Qualify. Oxford, Printed by Leonard Lichfield,
Printer to the University, 1643. four sheets in 4to.
It begins ' In the contestation between regidl and
parliamentary authority, finding by the frequent de-
clarations of the two honourable houses made unto
the people (like so many appeales to the btxly at
large) that the soveraign judgement of all things is
(upon the matter) brought unto the people, I see
not, but that it is botli lawfull, and even the neces-
sary duty of every private man, that hath any un-
derstanding of the things in question, to publish his
particular judgement and apprehension of them.']

' [This was ' printed by his majesties command :' — it
commences ' In this discourse concerning regall authority,'
&c. The author's name is not in the title page, nor is there
any clue to the writer, in the tract. But the Bodleian copy,
4to. L. 72. Art. has a MS. note by bishop Barlow (than
whom no person was more conversant in the books and lite-
rary history of his period) stating Dudley Digges to have been
the author of the Answer.]

(>.>

SEDGWICK.

iyii

JOHN SEDGWICK, son of Joseph Sedgwick
a northern man born, sometimes vicar of S. Peter's
church in Marllx)rough, afterwards of Ogboume S.
Andrew, in Wilts, was Ixirn in the parish of S. Peter
in tlie said town of Marllx)rough, educated in gram-
mar learning at that place, and in logic in Queen's
coll. into which he made his first entry in Ea.ster
term, an. 1619, and in that of his age 18. But
making no long stay there, he translated himself to
Magd. hall, where he applied his mind to divinity
before he was bach, of arts. In the time of Christ-
mas 1621, he was admitted to the order of a deacon
by the bishop of London, and in Nov. and Dec. fol-
lowing, 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 Ix-lye the university in using
the title of bach, of arts before he was admitted to
that degree, &c. At length begging pardon for
what he had done, and making a public submission
before the ven. house of congregation of regents, he
was admitted to that degi-ee, on the sixth ot the said
month of Dec. Afterwards he had some small cure
about Bishopsgate in London confer'd on him, took
the degree of master, and at length that of bach, of
div. Alwut whicli time he was a prejicher at Chis-
wick in Middlesex, afterwards minister of Cogeshall
in Es.sex, and at length upon the breaking out of the
rebellion, was made a member of a sub-committee
for the advancement of money to carry on the war
against the king, and by a factious party became
rector of S. Alphage near London wall and Cripple-
gate, in the place of a loyal person, first shamefully
abused, then ejected, and soon after dead with grief.
In that place being setled, tho' it was but for a
short time, he exercised his gifts in preaching against
prelacy, and encouraging his parishioners to rebel-
lion. " He was chaplain to the regiment of Henry
" earl of Stamford." He would dispute and reason
much against Antinomians, as those that were his
contemporaries have told me ; and tlio' he seemed to
be a samt, yet he was * a simoniack and perjur'd,
standing both upon record. Also, as another ■• saith,
Tho' he had but one thumb, yet would he have had
not an ear, had not his majesty bestowed two on
him, when twelve years since (| about 1633) they
were sentenced to the pillory. Since which time he
hath been such a grateful penitent, that in one day
he was proved guilty of simony, sacrilege, and adul-
tery, &c. His works are,

Sermons, as (1) Fury fired, or Crucltij scourged,
on Amos 1. 12. Lond. 1625. oct. preached at S.

' Reg. Congreg. Univ. O^on. notal. in dors, cum liicra O,
M. 3. a.

* Sober Sndness, or historical Ohservations, &c. of a pre-
vailing Party in both Houses of Pari. Load. l643. in qu.
p. 3;i. ^

' The author of 3/crc. Aulicus, in thcforlielh Week, an.
1643. p. 5/6.

Vol. III.

Buttolph's without Bishopaeatc. (2) Tlie Bearitur
and Burden of' the Spirit, m two Semu)n.i on Prw.
18. 14. LonJ. 1639. t)ct, (3) Eye of Faith opm

to OihI, on Lond. 1640, m tw. (4) Wtmder.

working God, or, tlic Lord doing Wonder. s, an

Lond. 1641, in tw. with En^und^a Troubles, in
qu. which I have not yet seen.

Antinomianism anatomized ; or, a Glass Jbr the
Lawlc.is, who deny the moral Law unto Christians
under the Go.ipel. Lond* 1643. qu. [Bodl. 8vo.
B. 89. Th.] The substance of it is an extract from
one of the IxxAs of Dr. Tho. Taylor. At lengtii,
after all his actings to carry on the blessetl cause, he
did very unwillhigly give up the ghost in Octob. in
the year sixteen hundred forty and three ; whercr
upon his Ixxly was buried in tlie chancel of his
church of St. Alj)hage iK'fore-mention'd, on the 15th
day of the same month. What relates titrther to
his death and burial, let another* speak lor me, as
he had received it by letters from London. ' Joh.
' Sedgwick (one of the tliree brothers' with four
' fingers on a hand) hath spent his limgs, and caused
' Mr. Tho. Case to exercise his, which he did very
' mournfully in his funeral sermon lately preachea,
' telling the auditory, that his departed brother was
' now free from plunder, and that when he was
' ready to expire, he would often ask, liow does the
' army, how does his excellency ?» witli many such
' sweet expressions, as moved some citizen to send
' Mr. Case a fair new gown, lest he chance to recur
' to his old way of borrowing,' &c.

[W^ood has confounded John Sedgwick with liis
brother Obadiah Sedgwick, who was the rector of
Coggeshall in Es.sex, a benefice never enjoyed by
John, who was however vicar of Clavering in the
same county.'

Prynne in his True and perfect Narrative,
printed 1659, page 65, addressing himself to the
army officers and soldiers thus says — ' Remem-
ber what your own army chaplain John Sedgwick,
in his Justice upon the Armies Remonstrance,
from St. Allxjns, Nov. 16, 1648, hath written. Sic'
But here Prynne must be wrong, for Sedgwick was
certainly dead before that time, as he wa-s succeedetl
in the rectory of St. Alphage, Dec. 6, 1643, by Sa-
muel Fawcett. See the Fasti, under the year
1624, col. 415.

In Wood's own copy of these Athene, in the
Ashniolean museum, is a MS. character of Sedgwick,
which was omitted by the publisher of the second
edition. He was, says Wood, ' a violent prcaeher
' to the soldiers, to bring them into miseries and con-
' fusion : and to bring them at length in civil warr,
' the cutting of throates, wresting away estates, and
' the murder and banishment of princes.']

' Idem, ibid. p. 640.

' The other two brothers were Obadiah and Joseph.

* Robert carl of Essex.

* [Newcourt, liepertor. vol. ii. page 15?.]

1C4,1.

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67

BAINBRIDGE.

1643.

JOHN BAINBRIDGE, son of Rob. Bainbridge,
by Anne his wife,' daughter of Rich. Everard oi'
Snenton in Leicestershire, was bom at Ashby de la
Zouch ill the same county, educated in Emanuel
coll. under the tutelage of his kinsman Dr. Joseph
Hall, took the decrees in arts, studied physic, re-
tired into his own country, practised there and
taught a grammar st-hool. At length publishing

A71 Astronomical Description of' the late Comet
from 18th ofXov. 1618, to the 16th of Dec. fol-
lowing, Lond. 1619. qu. [Bodl. 4to. B. 10. Art. BS.]
He became acquainted with sir Hen. Savile, who
founding an astronomy-lecture in this university
in the year wherein the said book was printed, pre-
ferred our author Bainbridge thereunto. Whereupon
Sing to Oxon, he was entred a master-commoner of
erton coU. was incorporated doctor of physic as he
had stood at Cambridge, lived in the said coll. for
some years, (the society of which house conferM on
him the superior reader's place of Lynacre's lecture
1635) and afterwards in an house opposite to their
church. He also published,

Procli Sph-cera. Ptolomtei de Hypothesibtis Pla-
netarum Liber singulai-is, &c. 1620. qu.

Ptolemwi Canon Regnorum, printed with the
former. Both which were collated with MS S, put
into Latin, and illustrated with figures by the said
Dr. Bainbridge, who also wrote,

Canicular ia:^ being a Treatise of tlie Dog-star,
and of the Canicular Days. Oxon. 1648. oct. [Bodl.
8vo. B. 38. Art. Seld.] published by Joh. Greaves,
together with A Demonstration of the Heliacal
Rising of Sirius, or the Dog-star Ji)r the Parallel
qf Lower JEgypt. At length after he had l)een
Savihan professor of astronomy about 24 years in
this university, and superior reader of Lynacre's
lecture in Mert. coll. about 8 years, surrendred up
his last breath in his house near the said coll.
-on the third day of Nov. in sixteen hundred forty
and three: whereupon his body being convey'd
thence to the pubhc schools, rested there for
some time. Afterwards an oration' being deU-
vered before the several degrees that were then
left in the univeraty, in praise of the defunct
•and his learning, it was accompanied by them to
■^Mert. coll. church, and there solemnly deposited on
the left side of Briggs his grave near to the high
'altar. The epitaph on his grave-stone, which was
made by Mr. Greaves before-mention'd, his successor

' [Nichols, ICiU. of Leicestershire, iii. 631, says by Alice,
daughter of Richard Everard, but quaere if this be not a mis-
take for Anne ? John Rainbridgc's grandmotlier was Alice
daughter of Robert Pahncr, which perhaps occasioned the
confusion.]

* [Enlitfed by Nichols, Hist, of Leicestershire, Canicularis,
evidently a mistake. It is a book of great rarity, as a proof
of which, an eminent foreign scholar has, at the very moment
I am writing this note, commissioned a gentleman of the
university to procure him a transcript of Seldcn's copy.]

* [By W. strode, the university orator.]

in the astronomy lecture, you may read in Hist. (?f
Antiq. Univ. O.ron. hb. 2. p. 89- b. 90. a. Many
of his writings ciuiie after his deatli into the hands of
the said Greaves, liesides what is before-mentioned,
but whether worthy of the press, I cannot tell.
Among them was his Discourse of the Periodus
Sothiaca, which the said Greaves was about to per-
fect and publish, an. 1644.

[Bainbridge A.B. coll. Eman. 1603, 4; A. M.
coll. Eman. an. 1607 : he commenced M. D. at Cam-
bridge an. 1614. Bakek.

Dr. Walter Pope, in his life of Seth Ward, bishop
of Sarum, says, that when he (Bambridge, for so he
calls him, not Bainbridge) was professor, he put
upon the school gate a written paper giving notice,
according to custom, at what time, and on what sub-
ject, the professor would read ; which ended in these
words Lecturus de PcHis et Axis, under which was
written by an unknown hand

Dr. Bambridge
Came from Cambridge

To read de Polis et Axis ;
Let him go back again
Like a dunce as he came.

And learn a new syntaxis. — Watts.

Bainbridge left several dissertations by will to
archbishop Usher, (now in Trinity college library,
Dublin) among which were

1. A Theory of the Sun.

2. A Tlieory of the Moon.

3. A Discourse concerning the Quantify of the
Year.

4. Astronomical Observations, in two volumes.

5. Matliematical Miscellanies, in nine or ten vo-
lumes.

And the following, actually prepared for the press :

6. Antiprognosticon ; in quo Mavrixijf Astrolo-
gicp, Caelestium Domornm, et Triplicitatum Com-
mentis, magnisque Saturni et Jovis (cujusmodi
anno 1623 et 1643 contigerunt, et vicesimo Jere
qtioque deinceps anno, ratis Naturae Legibus, re-
current) Conjunctionibus innixas, Vanitas breviter
detigitur.

7. De Meridianorum sive Longitudinum Diffe-
rentiis inveniendis Dissertatio.

8. De Stella Veneris Diatriba.

9. Celestial Observations, printed afterwards in
Ismael Bullialdus''s Astronomica Philola'ica, Paris,
1645, foUo.

In his dedication to king James, prefixed to his
Astronomicall Descriptions, he mentions another
treatise which he had in preparation : this was TTie
Description of Great Britaine's Monarchy in three
Columnes, Historicall, Panegyricall and Prophy-
lacticall, ' intending (as he says) thereby to stir vp
your leige people to a religious admiration of God's
wonderfull providence in vniting these two famous
kingdomes mto one monarchy; to a iust acknow-

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70

Icdgcmeiit of our exceeding happinesse therein ; as
also to an vnanimous desire, anti endeauour for the
absohite vnion and perpetuaJl preservation thereof.'
It is interesting to know even the spots wliich
have been inhabited by eminent men, and Uain-
bridge dwelt at this tnne, in Decemlwr 1618, in
London, near All Hallo wes in the Wall.]

WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT the most noted
poet, orator and philosopher of his time, was Iwrn
at North-way near TewKsbury in Glocestershire in
Sept. 1611. (9 Jac. 1.) and baptized there on the
26th day of the same month. His father Will. Cart-
wright was once a gentleman of a fair estate, but
running out of it, I know not how, was f()rced to
keep a common inn in Cirencester in the same
county, where hving in a middle condition, caused
this his son, of great hopes, to be educated under
Mr. Will. Topp master of the free-school there.
But so great a progress did he make in a short time,
that by the advice of friends, his father got him to
be sped a king's-scholar at Westminster ; where
compleating his former learning to a miracle under
Mr. Lambert Osbaldeston, was elected student of
[351 ^^" ^^' ^^ 1628, put under the tuition of Jerumael
Terrent, went through the classes of l(^c and phi-
losophy with an unwearied industry, took the de-
grees in arts (that of master being compleated in
1635) holy orders, and became the most florid and
seraphical preacher in the university. He was an-
other Tully and Virgil, as being most excellent for
oratory and poetry, in which faculties, as also in the
Greek tongue, he was so full and absolute, that
those that best knew him, knew not in which he
most excelled. So admirably well vers'd also was
he in metaphysics, that when he was reader of them
in the university, the exposition of them was never
better performed than by him and his predecessor
Tho. Barlow of Qu. coll. His preaching also was
so graceful, and profound withal, that none of his
time or age went beyond him. So that if the wits
read his jwems, divines his sermons, and philoso-
phers his lectures on Aristotle's metaphysics, they
would scarce believe that he died at a little above
thirty years of age. But that which is most remark-
able, is that these his high parts and abihties were
accompanied with so much candour and sweetness,
that they made him equally beloved and admired of
all persons, especially those of the gown and court,
who esteemed also his life a fair copy of practic
piety, a rare example of heroic worth, and in whom
arts, leiirning, and language made up the true com-
plement of perfection. He hath written.
The Ladij-Errant. Trag. Com.
Royal Slave. Trag. Com. Oxon. 1640. second
edit.* acted before the K. and Q. by the students of
Ch. Ch. 30 Aug. 1636. See in Hist. S^Antiq. Univ.
Oxon. lib. 1. p. 344. b. 345. a.

■• [The first edit, was in 4to. Oxford, ifiSg, whicli is in
tlie BiKlleian, 4io. T. 34. Art ]

TIu: Ordinarij. Com.

Siege: or Lov^s Convert. Trag. Com.

Poem.i All which were gallierwl into one v<A

and printed at I^ond. 1651. oct. usher'd then into
the world by many copies of verses, mostly written
by Oxf. men ; among whom were Jas()er Mayne,
D. D. Joh. CastiUon, B. 1). (afterwards d«m of Ro-
chester) Robert Waring, Mart. Lluellin, Joh. FeU,
Franc. Palmer, Rich. Goodridge, Tho. Sevcmc, &&
all of Ch. Ch. Hen. earl of Monmouth, sir Rob.
Stapylton, Edw. Sherbourn (afterwards a knight)
Jam. Howell, Franc. Finch, Joh. Finch of Bal.
i-oU. brethren to sir Heneage Finch sometimes lord
chanc. of England, Will. Creed of S. Joh. coll. Joh.
Birkenhead of All-s. coll. Hen. Vaughan the Silu-
rist and Eugenius Philalethes his brother, both of
Jesus coll. Josias How and Ralph Bathurst of Trin.
coll. Matthew Small wood of Brasen-nose, Hen. Bold
of New, and Will. BeU of S. John's coU. &c. ». Our
author Cartwright also wrote,

Poemata Grceca ^ Latina.

An Offspring of Mercy issuing out of the Womb
of Cruelty : or, a Passion Sermon preached at Ch.
Ch. in Oxon, on Acts 2. 23. Lond. 1662. oct.

Of the signal Days in the Month of Nov. in Re-
lation to the Crown and Rmjal Family. A |X)ein.
Lond. 1671, in one sh. in qu. besides poems and
verses, which have ayres' for several voices set to
them by the incomparable Henry Lawcs servant to
K. Ch. I. in his public and private music ; who out-
living the tribulations which he endured for the
royal cause, was restored to his places after the
return of K. Ch. II. and for a short time lived
happy, and venerated by all lovers of music. He
was buried, by the title of gentleman of his majesty's
chappel, in the cloister belonging to S. Peter's
church within the city of Westminster, 25 Octob.
1662. As for Cartwright, who had the succentor's

Elace in the church of Salisbury conferr'd on him
y bishop Duppa, in the month of Octob. 1642, he
was untimely snatch'd away by a malignant fever
call'd the camp-disease, that raged in Oxon. (he be-
ing then one of the proctors of the university) to
the great grief of all learned and virtuous men, and
to the resentment of the K. and Qu. then there (who
very anxiously enquired of his health in the time of 1643.
his sickness) on ttie 29th of November in sixteen [861
hundred forty and three, and was buried on the
first day of December, towards the upper end of the
south isle joyning to the choir of tlie cathedral of
Christ Church. In his proctorship succeeded Joh.

' [It is remarkable that thougVi the printer in liis postscript
(immediately after the commendatory verses) tells us that he
does not give an index, yet the Bodleian copy contains for
fly leaves fragments of an index to all the poems, which shew
that one was actually printed and suppressed.]

* See in a book entit. Ayres and Dialogues for one Iteo
and three Voices. Lond. 1633. fol. composed by the said Hen.
Lawes; and in another emit. Select Ayres and Dialogues to
sing to the Theorbo, Lule, and Bass Viol. Lond. XGOQ. fol.
composed also by the said Hen. Lawcs.
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C^VKTWRIGHT.

PYM.

Maplct, M. A. of the same house, who served out
the remaining part of the ycai-, and in liis succentor-
ship Rob. Jo>aier of Oxford.

[David Lloyd in liis Memoires of those Personages
that suffered Jbr the Protestant Religion, Lond.
1668, foUo, page 422, says, that Cartwright was
' son of Tho. Cartwriglit of Burford in tlic county of
Oxford, Ixjrn Aug. lo, IGlS,' Sjc. Ahliough I had
no doubt as to Wood's accuracy, I was induced to
write to Burford in order, if possible, to satisfy my
readers on tliis point, and I have l^een favoured by
the rev. Francis KnolUs, vicar of Burford, with a
letter on the subject, from which I extract the fol-
lowing :

' I have very carefully examined the register of
Burford, but can find no such name as that of Cart-
wriffht, and therefore conclude no family of that
name did reside here. I have likewise examined
the register of the chapelry of Fulbrook, but with-
out success.'

Lloyd is not, by any means, a writer to be de-
pended on, as Wood well knew, when he gave him
the character to be found in another part of this
work, and I was in great hopes that I might have
proved my author's correctness by an application at
Northway ; here however, unfortunately (as I learn
by the kindness of the rev. D. C. Parry) the early
registers are lost, but, says Mr. Parry, ' I was in-
formed there were strong reasons for believing that
Eersons of that name (Cartwright) did at some time
ve in the hamlet of Northway.' The earliest re-
gister, it seems, conimences in 1703, and the name
occurs once only during the first twenty years,
' WiUiam Cartwright of Treddington married to
Mary Ffreeman of Tewkesbury.' — In the absence
of all positive proof, I incUne to Wood's authority
in preference to that of Lloyd.

I am not aware that any bibliographer has pointed
out the various pecuharities that occur in uifTerent
copies of Cartwnght's Poems in 1651. Of these it
is true one only edition appeared, but upon minute
coUation, some books ^vill be discovered far more
perfect than others. In the Bodleian is a copy,
formerly Seidell's, which I have compared with
another, bequeathed to Christ Church library by lord
Orrery, and find to vary materially in three places.
Thus in the Selden volume, instead of the initials
' T. P. Baronet' at the commendatory verses follow-
ing lord Monmouth's, are a rose and a harp sur-
mounted with crowns, and followed by the word
' Baronet.' At pages 301 and 302 the second and
fifth stanzas in the verses On the Queen\i Return
from the Low Countries, arc entirely omitted : these
appear in lord Orrery's copy, and are now given to
enable persons having the book in its mutilated
state, to supply the deficiency.

Page 301.
When greater tempests, than on sea before
Rcceiv'd her on the shore,

Wlien she was shot oX for the kin^s own good

By legions hir'd to bloud ;
How bravely did .she do, how bravely liear!
And shew'd, though they durst rage, she durst not
fear.

Page 302.
Look on her Enemies, on their godly lies.

Their holy Perjuries.
Their curs'tl encrease of much ill gotten wealth,

By rapine or by stealth,'
Their crafty friendship knit by equall guilt,
And the Crown-martyrs bloud so lately spilt.

And at page 305, in the verses on the death of sir
Bevill Grenvill, the folloAving hnes are totally left
out.'

You now that boast the spirit, and its sway,
Shew us his second, and wce'l give the day.
We know your poUtique axiom, lurli:, orjly ;
Ye cannot conquer, 'cause you dare not dye :
And though you thank God that you lost none there,
'Cause they were such who livd not when they were ;
Yet your great Generall (who doth' rise and fall.
As his successes do, whom you dare call,
As Fame unto you doth reports dispence.

Either a or his excellence)

How'ere he reigns now by unheard of laws.
Could wish his fate together with his cause.

In the British Museum is a single folio sheet,
printed in 1641, containing verses by him to the
carl of Pembroke and Montgomery, upon his lord-
ship's election to the office of chancellor of the univ.
of Oxford, but these lines were printed at p. 292
of his collected poems.

There is a very tolerable head of Cartwright by
P. Lombart, prefixed to his works.

The following is taken from Lawes's Ayres, page
7, and differs in a trifling degree from the copy at
p. 219 of the Poems, where it appears as an address
To Venus.

A Complaint against Cupid.

Venus, redress a wrong that's done
By that yong sprightful boy thy son ;
He wounds, and then laughs at the sore,
Hatred it self could do no more;
If I pursue he's smal and light.
Both seen at once, and out of sight ;
If I do flye, he's wing'd, and then
At die first step I'm taught again;
Lest one day thou thy selfe may'st suffer so.
Or clip the wanton's wings, or break his bow.]

" JOHN PYM, an esquire's son, was born in
" Somersetshire, became a gent. com. of Broadgate's
" Hall (now Pemb. coll.) in the beginning of the
" year 1599, and in that of his age 15, being then
" or soon after put under the tuition of Degory

' [Ttie writers in the Biofirapliia Dramnlicn notice tliat
iIk-sC lines aie wauling, Imi are iidI aw ate thai llicy are lo lie
found in some uncasiraled copies ]

PYM.

7-i

" Whear, and admired for his prej^nant parts by
" Charles Fit/-(iefPrey the |X)et, who stiled " the
" said Pyiu in 1601, ' Pliicbi delicia?, Lejws puelli,''
" &c. But l)efore he t(M)k a dej^-ee lie left the
" university, and went, as I conceive, to one oY the
" inns of court. Afterwards, at riper years, being
'^ esteemed a person of good language, voluble
" tongue, and of considerable knowledge in the
" common law, he was in several parliaments in the
" latter end of K. James I. (being then esteemed by
" that prince, a man of an ill-tempered spirit) and
" in all those held in the reign of K. Ch. I. a con-
" slant burgess for Tavistock in Devonshire. In a
" parliament held in 1626 I find him an enemy to
" the great favourite of K. Ch. I. called George
" Villiers duke of Buckingham, and very active in
" aggravating some of the articles that were then
" put up agauist him, viz. that he forced sir Richard
" Roberts, hart, knowing him to be rich, to take
" the title of lord Roberts of Truro upon him, and
" that in consideration thereof to make him pay for
" it to him the said duke ten thousand pounds.
" Farther also, that he sold the office of lord trea/-
" surer to sir Hen. Mountaguc (afterwards earl of
" Manchester) for twenty thousand pounds, and the
'' office of master of the wards to sir Lionel Cran-
" field (afterwards earl of Middlesex) for six thousand
" pounds, &c. In another session of parliament in
" 1618, I find him very eager against Dr. Roger
" Man waring, the increase of Arminians and papists,
" and several times to make a motion in the house,
" that all jiersons take a covenant to maintain their
" religion and rights, &c. At length to mollify and
" sweeten the nature of this forward person (Pym)
" he was made lieutenant of the ordnance, which is
" an office of good trust and gain ; but as soon as he
" perceived that the puritans began to be terrible,
" he sided with them and with Joh. Haniden, Will.
" lord Say, &c. <lid correspond with the covenanters
" in Scotland, an. 1639, and was also with Rob. earl
« of Essex, Hen. E. of Holland, Will. L. Say,
" Will. L. Russel, (afterwards E. of Bedford) &c.
" deep in councils with the commissioners at Lon-
" don sent from the Scotch covenanters. He then
" rode about the country to promote elections of the
" puritanical brethren to serve in parliament, wasted
" nis body much in carrying on the cause, and was
" himself elected a burgess twice in 1640, to serve
" in the two parliaments then called : in the last of
" which, beginning the 3d of Nov. he l)cHame the
" idol of the faction, an indefatigable enemy against
" the most eminent and noble Thomas earl of Straf-
" ford, was the man that carrietl from the H. of
" commons to the lords the impeachment of the said
" earl of high-trea.son, was so bitter and invective
" in his malice towards him, that knowing how
" much he was beloved of the king, he did purposely
" therefore rake up all he could conceive against

" In Affiinmsive Epigram, lib. 2.

" liim ; and in exjircssing his conceptions, he would
" reflect on his sacred majesty. I shall iiere desire
" tlie reader to take notice, tiiat tho' in the tryal of
" the said Strafford (wlierein Pyni was a great
" agent) he the said Straflbrd liehaved himself ex-
" ceeding graceful, and that his speech was esteemed
" full of weight, reason, and plca.singnes.s, and so
" affectionate it was, that it obtained pity and re-
" morse in the generality (nay tears from some) then
" jiresent, yet in this jxTson (Pym) and in another
" violent baiter of him called Jon. Glynn, there was
" notliing of remorse at all, but they went doughtily
" on till they hail brought that immortal jxrson to
" the block. Certainly never any man acted • such
" a part on such a theatre, with more wisdom, con-
" stancy, and elo(|uence, with greater reason, iudg>
" nient, and temper, and with a better grace in all
" his words and gestures, than this great and excel-
" lent jxTson (Strafford) did. About the same
" time Pym was sent from the house of commons to
" die lords, with the charge of high-treason against
" archbishop Laud, who thereupon was committed
" to custody ; and so active and ungrateful in tra-
" ducing his majesty so much, particularly that he
" was a promoter of the reb<'ilion in Ireland, by
*' giving passes to papists_ to go thither, who were
" afterwards chief commanders among the rebels,
" (at wliich the king was so much distasted, as if he
" had connived at the said rebellion, that he required
" the declaration of the h. of commons for his vin-
" dication, but could not obtain it) that he was the
" principal of those five members of the house of
" commons, against whom he deniiinded justice,
" tho' in vain, 4 Jan. 1641. About the same time
" he seeing that his majesty would not confer the
" chancellorship of the exchequer ujxjn him, which
" he was counselled to do purposely to stop his
" mouth, he went of his own accord (some say ' he
" was sent) into the city of London to make speeches
" against obstructions in the body politic, that re-
" formation could not go on till they were removed,
" which, according to his desired end, soon raised
" the city tumults to petition the parliament, that
" the bishops and popish lords might be thrown out
" of the house of peers, as the only hinderers of
" reformation of reli^on, diereby to lessen the
" number of votes likeliest to oppose the puritan
" faction. His usual orations were so invective,
" that he did not only poyson the greater part of
" the house, but also the seditious vulgar, with art
" ill conceit against the g(K)d king, and all those
" that he lov\l and favoured, particularly Strafford,
" (Pym being a manager of the evidence against
" him) Laud and others, as I have before told you.
" And having thus satisfied himself, he became a
" grand promoter of the covenant, took it twice

" ' Bulstr. Whitlock in his Memorials of English Affairs,
&c. printed 1()82, fol. p. 43. a."

" ' Sec in a book emit. Perseculio m.dteima, ice. jrinted
" l648, in qu. |). 64."

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PYM.

" himself at least, to eficourajje others to t.ike it,
" was OIK- of the laymen appointed by ordinance of
" pari, to sit among the assembly of divines, pur-
" posely, as 'tis thought, to shew his divinity, was
" an enemy to the hierarchy it self, the prero-
" gative, the queen, the royal family, and would
'• liave proceeded farther, if possible, against other
" people and things, hat! he not been justly cut off
" from the li\ing in the midst of his most diabolical
" designs. Under his name were these tilings fol-
'' lowing printed :

" Speech in Parliament, An. 1626, enlarging-
" and aggravating the ninth, tenth, and eleventh

" Articles against the Duke of Buckingliam.

" See in Jo. Rushworth's first vol. of Historical
" Collections of' private Passages of State, c^-c. An.
" 1626. p. 335.

" Short Animadversimu on tlie Kin^s Message,
" An. 1628 — See in the same Collections, p. 525.

" Several speeches in pari, as (1 ) Speech spoken 25
" Nov. 1640, after the Articles of the Charge
" against the Earl of Strafford were read. (2.)
'' Speech to tlie Lords 30 Dec. concerning an In-
^^ J'ormatioti against George Lord Digby. (3.)
" Speech spoken 31 Dec. after the Articles of the
" Charge against Sir George Radcliff were read.
" (4.) Speech at a Conference of both Houses con-
" cerning tJie Petition of the Knights and Gentry
" of Kent, 9 Feb. (5.) Speech spoken 19 Feb. for
" the pressing of Men to be sent into Ireland. (6.)
" Speech spoken 17 March, shewing what Dangers
" are like to ensue thro'' the Want of Privileges of
" Pari, These six speeches before-mention'd were
" spoken and printed in 1640. (7) Speech at the
" Tryal ofTfio. E. of Strafford, 23 March 1640.
" — See in Tho. Nalson's second vol. of An impar-
" t'lal Collection of the great Affairs of State, &c.
«'p.30, 31.

" Speeches, with conferences in parliament and
'.' elsewhere, as (1.) Speech to the Lords in Pari.
" s'ltt'mg in Westminster-Hall on the Tryal of the
" E. of Strafford, 12 Apr. (2.) Speech or Decla-
" ration after tlie Recapitulat'ion or Stemming np
" of the Charge of High-Treason against tlie E.
" of Straff. 13 Apr. (3.) Reply to the Earl of
f 381 " Strafford's Defence, 23 Apr. (4.) Heads of a Con-
"ference delivered at a Committee of both Houses,
" 24 June.^ (5.) Speech containing a Report of
*' what was done during the Recess of the Pari.
" 20 Oct. (6.) Speech at a Conference concerning
" ill Councils, 10 Nov. (7.) Speech in Pari. 14
" Jan. concerning his (PynCs) Innocence touching
" tlie Articles of Higii-Treason eschibited against
" him. (8.) Declaration presented to the H. of
" Commons, with A Speech Delivered at a Con-

' [The Jleasons of the House of Commons tu slay the
Qiierne's going into Holland: delivered to the Lords, at a
(.'nnfcrence the 14 July. By John Pym, Esy. Delivered
tlie IS to Majestic irt presence of both Houses hy my Lord
liimkes. Lond. 1(J4I. Jsli. fo. Wanlev.]

'^^ference with the Ltrrds 25 Jan. by occasion of
" the Petitions from tlie City of Lond. and tlie
" Counties if Middlesex, Essex, and Hertfordshire,
" (9.) Speech in Pari. 25 of Jan. against the
" JBishop''s Cltarge, hastning their Tryal. (10.)
" Speech in Pari. 17 March, wherein is expressed
" his (Pyni's) Zeal, and real Affection to the public
" Good, &c. (11.) Conference in Pari, with Mr.
" Solicitor ('\. e. Oliv. S. John), (12.) Speech
" concerning the Liberties of Parliament, &c. (13.)
" Speech or Declaration to the Lords of tlie upper
" House, upon the Delivery of tlie Articles of the
" Commons assembled 'in Pari, against Will. Laud
" Archb. of Cant. These 13 sj>eeches before-men-
" tion^d were spoken in 1641, and printed in the
" same year in qu.

" Other .speeches, as (1.) Speech in Pari, con-
" cerning evil Counsellors about his Majesty, &c.
" (2.) Speech at a Conference of both Houses, oc-
" casioiCd from divers Instructions resolv''d upon
" by the House of Commons, 8tc. ditcover'nig tlie
" Dangers and M'lseries the three Kingdoms are
" Viable unto, by reoJion of his Majestys evil Coun-
" sellors, &c. (3.) Speech in Reply to his Majestys
" Answer to the City of London's Petition, sent
"from his Majesty by Capt. Hearne, read at a
" Common Hall 13 Jaii. At the same time Edw.
*' earl of Manchester spoke a speech to the same
" effect. (4.) Speech concenmig Liberty qfPar-
" liament, Religion, and Civil Government. These
" four speeches before-mention''d were sjxiken in
" 1642, and printed all in qu. the same year.

" Other speeches, as (1.) Speech at a Common
" Hall, containing a D'lscovery of the great Plot
"for tlie utter Ruin of the City of London, spoken
" on Thursday 8 June. (2.) Speech at a Common
" Hall, at the reading of a Proclamation from
" the King, 28 July. (3.) Speech ccmta'ining a
" Remonstrance or Declaration concerning the
" Grievances of the Kingdom, delivered in Parlia-
" nunt. These 3 speeches before-mention'd were
" spoken in 1643, and printed in quarto papers the
" same year. There is also published under his name,

" His Vindication from the Aspersions of Ma-
" Ugnants. Lond. 1643. qu. And,

" Tlic KingdonCs Man'festation, &c. Lond. 1643,
" and other things, which I have not yet seen. At
" length this busy man Jo. Pym, was, in the height
" of his actions, and eager pursuit of his desire to
" carry on the most wicked and unparallePd rebel-
" lion, taken out, and suddenly cut off from this
" world, to receive his reward in another, on the
" 8th day of December in sixteen hundred forty Kj^g.
" and three, and was buried on the 15tli of the
" same month in the abbey church of St. Peter in
" Westminster, in the void space or passage as you
" go to the chap, of K. Hen. 7. At which time
" Steph. Marslial bach, of divinity, ' minister of

3 [Stcph. Marshal col. Enian. conv. 2. admi'sus in maiti-
culaiii acad. Cant. Apr. 1, l0l5. Reg. Hid. Baker.]

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78

" Finchingfield in Essex, and archfliimcn of the re-
" bellious rout, preachetl a sermon on so lamentable
" a thcam, tliat he said, he wondrcd why all faces
" did not gather blackness at it. He conij)ared
" Pym to John the Baptist, for that he was taken
" away violently, after but two or three years work-
" ing ; adding, he was a man whom God went
" about to bribe, &c. The title of his sermon,
" which is printed, is Tlie Church's Lamentation
'^'■for tlie good Mail's Loss, on Micah 7. 1, 2.
" Printed at Lond. in qu. an. 1644. [Bodl. 4to. B.
" 3. 2. Line] Before which is the picture of Jo.
" Pym,* and nag. 21, 22, &c. are filled with matters
" relating to nis honour, &c. He stiles him ' amor
" & deliciae generis humani,' &c. The writers of
" that time who were of Pym's persuasion say, that

" he died like Mo.ses in the Mount that he died

" in a good old age like Jacob in Egypt ; but the
" Royalists said, not like Jacob, but just as those

" who died in Egypt in the days of Pharaoh.

" Mercurius Britannicus alias March. Nedham hath*
" bestowed an elegy on him, the best for ought that
" I know he ever made, and Mr. Rich. Baxter hath
[39] " in his Saints everlastinff Rest, transfer'd his soul
" and that of Jo. Hamclen into heaven : But all
" impartial men have held (let those of Pym's per-
" suasion say what they please) that he the said
" Pym was the author of much blood.shed, and
" those many calamities under which the kingdom
" several years after groaned, and therefore he de-
" serv'd not only to have his death with the trans-
" gressors and wicked, but to be buried with the
" burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the
" gates of the city. An author of note tells ^ us,
" that it was believed that the multitude of business
" and cares did so break his spirits and health, that
" it brought his death. And Steph. Marshall in
" his sermon beforc-mentionM saith, that he died of
" an imposthume in his bowels, and not raving
" mad, nor of a loathsome disease, as eight doctors
" of physic, and well near a thousand people who
" came to see his corps open'd, and his corps bare,
" can testify. But certam it is, if the generality of
" authors may be believed, (among which are some
" very impartial, and rather inclined to Pym's per-
" suasion than otherwise) that he died chiefly ofthe
: " Herodian Visitation,'' which was looked upon as

" a just judgment for what he had done against his
" king and his country. So that if it be true, (for
" I myself will not judge ofthe matter) the wonder

* [From a pictute by Eil. Bower, engraved by G.G. (Glo-
ver). Under it are the following lines :

Reade in this image him, whose dearest blood
Hee thought noe price to buy his countries good ;
Whose name shall flourish till the blast of ffame
Shall want a trumpet, or true worth a name.]

* " In Merc. Briian. numb. 16." '

" " Bulstr. Whitlock, in his Memorials qf English jlffairs,
" &c. under the year l643, p. 66. a."
' [V\z. morlus pediculosus.']

' to me is great, why his body, which wa.s l)uried
' among the a.shes of kings, princes, and nobles,
' was not taken up on the I2th or 14th of Sept.
' 1661, when then, aca)rding to his majesty's ex-
' press pleasure and command, were 20 (xxlie8,
' such that had Iwcn buried in S. Peter's church in
' Westminster, between tlie years 1642 and 1660,
' taken up, and all (except tnat of col. Edw. Pop.
' ham) buried in a large pit in the parish churcn-
' yard of S. Margaret in the said city of West-
minster, as I have several times elsewhere told
you."

[Certain sekct Observations on tlie several Offices
and Officers in the Militia of England ; with the
Power (yf'the Parliament to raise the same, as tltey
shall judge expedient, &c. 1641. Printed in the
Harleian Miscellany, vi. 300. edit. Park.

In the Illustrious Heads is a portrait of Pym by
Houbraken, from a picture in the posges.sion of
Thomas Hales, Es<j. but I am apt to prefer that
already noticed by Glover from Bower. Granger
mentions one M'hich he calls ' .scarce and curious of
him, in a fur gown, inscribed Maistre Pin, Sec. but
which I never yet met with.

His character has been drawn by lord Clarendon •
in his History, which, as it is in every person'.s
hands, and as I have had, and shall have occasion
to quote it continually, 1 shall here content myself
with referring to, and the rather, in order that I
may have the more room for the insertion of a cu-
rious document on the subject of Pym's death,
already so pointedly alluded to by my author. I
cannot but preface it with an opinion that there was
no foundation whatever for the then common report
of this man's malady, which, even had it been the
case, would have inflicted no stigma on his memory,
for it was a visitation to which, under Providence,
the best as well as the vilest of mankind are subject.
However, as it was the great object of my predeces-
sor, so it is my earnest and constant endeavour to
get at, and divulge the truth, and with this view I
now offer the following very conclusive evidence on
the subject.

' A Narrative of the Disease and Death of that
noble Gentleman John Pym esquire late a Member
of tlie honourable House of Commons. Attested
under the Hands of his Physicians, Chyrurgions
and ApotJiecary.

' For as much as there are divers uncertaine re-
ports and false suggestions spred abroad, touching
the disease and deatli of that noble gentleman John
Pym esquire, late a member of the honourable
house of commons, it is thought fit (for the unde-
ceiving of some, and prevention of misconstructions

' [After all. Granger has summed up, in a very few words,
the actual character of Pym. — ' His intent was to reform,
not to abolish the government ; but he was a principal en-
gine in bringing about a revolution which he never intended,
and which ne did not live to see.' Biographical Hist- of
England, ii. 212.]

79

PYM.

[CLIFFORD.]

8(

and siispitions in others) to manifest to those who
desite information, the true cause of his lingring
^easataiKi death, as it wns discovered (while lie
Bred) by his physitians, and mimifested to tlie view
both of them and many others that were i)resent at
the dissection of his Ixidie after his death. For the
skinne of his bodie, it was wtliout so much as any
roughnes, scarr or scab; neitlier was there any breach
either of the scarfe or true skin, much lesse any
phthirUisis or lousie disease, as was rejxirted. And
as tor tliat suggestion of his being poysoned, there
appeai-ed to the pliysitians no signe thereof upo the
View of his body ; neither was there any exhorbitant
symntomc (while lie lived) either in his animal!,
vitafl, or naturall parts ; for he had his intellectuals
and senses very entire to the last, and his sleep for
the most jiart very sufficient and quiet : as for tlie
vitall parts, they were all found very sound and
(while he lived) they were ptrfect in their actions
and uses. And a.s tor the naturall parts contained
in the lower belly, they did not otherwise suffer then
from that large imposthume that was there con-
tained, the stomack being smooth and faire in all its
coates, the substance of the liver and kidnies good
enough, onely much altered in their colour, the

3)leen fair, but little. But the most ignoble part of
lis lower belly, the mesentry was found_/5/wdi cala-
mttas, the shop wherin the instrument of his disso-
lution was forged, there being a large abcesse or im-
posthume which wrought it selfe to such a bulke, as
was easily discovered by the outward touch of his
ihysitians at the bea^nning of his complaining, and
id increase to that capacity, as (being opened) it
did receive a hand contracted, and in it's growth
did so oppressc the gall and stop ifs vessels, as oc-
casioned the jaundise. Beside this abcesse (bj the
matter contained in it) did so offend the parts adja-
cent, a« most of them suffered by its vicinity, yet
without any such turbulent symptome, as did at any
time cause him to complaine of paine, being sensible
only of some sorenes.se upon the touch of the region
of the part affected, and from its va}X)urs the sto-
mack suffered a continual! inappetency and frequent
nauseousnes, and it did so deprave and hinder the
concoction, distribution and perfection of nourish-
ment, as it produced an atrophy or falUng of the
flesh. So that inappetency, faintnesse and nau-
seousnesse were the great complaints he usually
made. At last after a long languishment, this im-

Ssture breaking, he often fainted, and soone after
lowed his dissolution, December the 8, 1643,
about 7 a clocke at night.

Attested by the physitians that attended him in
his sicknes,

Sir Theodoe Mayern,

Dr. Cleek,

„ ,, f President of the Colledge of

Dr.MEVEEELL, I Physitians. ^

}tiiat
di;
(t-

tiiat were present at the
" ssection of his botly
(together witli two of
those above mentioned)

i

Dr. GiFFORD,

Dr. Ml( KLKTHWAIl

Dr. Moulin,

Dr. CoM.ADE.
And Cliyrurgions

Thomas Allen, and

Henry Axtall, his servant.
Apothecary,

John Chapman, servant to William Taylor.'

The curious reader is here presented with tlie
whole of this tract, from Bodl. 4to. E. 3. Jur.]

[HENRY CLIFFORD only son of Francis
Chffbrd, fourth earl of Cumlierland, by Grisold,
daughter of Thomas Hughes of Uxbridge, in
MitUllesex, esq. and widow of Edward Nevill, lord
Bergavenny,' was lioni at Londesliorough, in Fe-
bruary 1591 . ' He enterc-d, as a nobleman, at Christ
Church January 30, 1606,' and after spending two
years in the prosecution of his studies, took the
degree of bachelor of arts, February 16, 1608. In
1610, July 25, he married the lady Frances Cecil,
daughter of Robert earl of Salisbury, and, as was
the custom, immediately proceeded <m his travels
through France and Italy, where we find him in
the latter end of 1611.' He returned in the follow-
ing year, in order to be present at the marriage of
the earl of Essex with lady Frances Howard, where,
by the express command of the king, he was ap-
pointed to j)erfi)rm in the sports usual at those
jiublic spectacles.' He seems very early to have
retired from public life, and to have devoted his
time to the management of his father's property, and
to the jierformance of his own duties as a husband
and a parent. In 1640 he succeeded to the title,
and was constituted lord lieutenant of the west
riding of the county of York. In the unfortunate
civil dissensions that followed, the earl of Cumber-
land distinguished himself more by his fidelity to
the king's cause, than by his activity or skill. He was
indeed apix)inted to the chief command of York,
with power to raise men and money ; ' but conscious
of his inexperience, and feeling incompetent to so
important a trust, he willingly resigned in favour
of the earl of Newcastle.*

He died of a violent fever at one of the prelien-
dary's houses in York, December 11, 1643, and his^
interment is thus recorded in the parish register of
Skipton : ' 1643, Dec. The last of this month was

' [Diigdalc's Baronage, i, 346.]

' [r, D. Whitakcr's Hist, and Aniiq. of the Deanery of
Craven, Lond. 1805, 4l(). page 252.]

^ [/frg. Mutric. Acad. Oxon. not. P.]

' [Hist, of Craven, p. 258.]

* [Ibid. p. 25(); where is a letier from the lord viscount
Rochester, advising him not to absent liimself on the occa-
sion, as, says he, ' the king will by no meanes dis])ense with
your runnin^e at lilt.']

•■ [Lord Clarendon, Hist, of ihe Rebellion, Vi. 107.]

6 [Sir Philip Warwick's Memoires ofK. Charlei 1, 1701,
page 235.]

[CLiri'OUD.]

82

interred in tlic valtc in the cliurcli at Ski])ton, Henry
earle of Cumberland, lord of West'd, Td Vijxjnte
and Vessey, Aitoune and Bromflcet, and Td of the
honor of Skipton in Craven. Many soldiers slain
at this time.' '

The earl left one only surviving daughter, Eliza-
beth, married to the earl of Cork. He had also
other children ; Francis lx)rn and baptized July %
1618," Charles and Henry, all of whom diecl
young.'

It IS useless to say any thing on the character of
this nobleman, which seems to have been honestly
enough drawn by lord Clarendon ; ' ' The earl of
Cumberland was a man of great honour and inte-
grity, who had all his estate m that country, (York-
shire) and had lived most amongst them, with very
much acceptation and affection from the gentlemen
and the common people ; but he was not in any
degree active, or of a martial temper ; and rather a
man more like not to have any enemies, than to
oblige any to be firmly and resolutely his friends, or
to pursue his interests — in a word he was a man of
honour, and popular enough in peace,l)ut not endued
with those parts, which were necessary for such a
season.' To this we may add the countess of Pem-
broke's portrait of her ancestor. ' He was endued
with a good natural wit, was a tall and proper man,
a good courtier, a brave horseman, an excellent
huntsman ; had good skill in architecture and ma-
thematics, and was much favoured by king James
and king Charles.'

The claim of this fifth and last earl of Cumber-
land * to a place in these Athen.e is founded on a
MS. in the Bodleian hbrary, which, had it been

'> [Whitaker's Hist, of Craven, page 2.i2. The hislorian
of Craven coiijeciures, with much probability, that, from
the last words of this entry, the church and town were in
possession of the opposite party, and that the noble earl's ad-
nerents were compelled to obtain the riles of sepulture for
their lord by lorce of arms.]

* [Parish register of Londsbiirou^h, communicaled to nie
by the rev. Joseph Hiiiiier of Baih.J

' [In the church of Skipton is the following simple and
pathetic inscription :

Henricus paler deflet

Franciscum

Carolum

Henricum

A.D. M.DC.XXXXI.]

■ THiil. o/Rehellion, i. 5.^5.]

* [Henry Clifford, second earl of Cumberland, has been
briefly noticed by Walpole as the writer of Some Verses on
his Father's presenting a Treatise of Natural Philosophy, in
old Trench, to the Priory of Bolton, which, with the book
itself, were in Thoresbv's museum at Leeds. I do not know
that it has ever been remarked that his son George, the third
earl, was also a poet, but he may be rep;istered in this note on
the authority of Robert Doulaiid the author of A Musicalt
Banqvet, folio Lond. I6l0, who has preserved a song which
he declares to have been written by this nobleman.

My heauie sprite, opprcsl with sorrowes might.

Of wearied limbs the burthen soare sustaines ;

With silent prunes, and hart's teares still complaines :
Yet I breath still and liue in life's despight.

Haue I loiJt thee? All fortunes 1 accurse

Vol. III.

known to Wood, or lord Orft)rd, or iiis ingcniou.i
editor Mr. Park, would have prevented my having
the satisfaction of intnxlucing this nobleman as an
author for the first time. It was iKtpieatlied to the
library by Dr. Rich, llawlinson, anti is entitled

Poetical! Trandiitums of Hwnc Psalrnes and tJie
Sung of Sohvum, with other Divine Poi-nui, By
that noble and religious Soulc noiv nainted in
Heauen, The Right honorubk Hennj Earle qf
Cumberland, Lord Clifford, Vipount, Brumflet and
Venseij, Lord of Wentmorland and of the Honor of
Skipton. MS. in 4to containing 38 leaves. This
comprises

1. P.ialms 1, 8, 35, 38, 51, 65, 73, 93, 103, 104,
107, 113, 114, 121, 125, 131 : Of psalm 121, there
are two versions, one ' turned into verse for my
daughter Duiigarvan now toith child.'' '

2. Dauid's Lamentation ouer Saui and Jonathan;
2 Sam. 1. 19.

3. The Strng of Salomon in meeter. In 8
chapters.

4. An Hi^toricall Meditation vpon the Birth,
Life, Passion, Resurrection and Ascension of Christ.

5. Meditations vpon tfte Holy Dayes (four Ca-
lendar.

Of these I select the 38th psalm.

Lord ! chide me not in the tempestuous day

Of thy fierce wrath : o ! cast me not away

In thy displeasure, least I fall at once !

Thy galling shafts lye quiuered in my bones :

Prest by thy heauy hand I ga.spe for breath ;

Thine anger breeds diseases more than death :

My flesh is mangled, and my Ixmes within

Consume and melt, for anguish of my sinnc.

My crying sinns aboue my head apjieare,

(Too heavy a weight, alas ! for me to beare)

My mortall wounds gangrene and putrifie,

And all because I haue done foolishly !

Such misery and trouble I endure

As all day long I beg, and find no cure.

Lord ! thou hast heard the ground of my complaint.

And while I prayed thine eyes have seen me faint ;

Bids thee firewcll, with thee all ioyes fare-welt,
And fur thy j-ake this ivorKl becomes ray hell.

Though this has been carcfidly transcribed from the printed
vol, it is very evident that one line has been omitted.]

' [I Vp to the hilN I lift mine eyes
from whence my helpe doth rise ;

2 Even from the Lord niy succour came, •

who Heaven and Karth did frame.

3 Thy foot vnmoued he shall keepe,

Nor shall thy keeper sleepe

4 Behoald who Isr lell doth keei>e,

nor slumber will nor sleepe.
b The Lord himiieirs thy keeiier, and

the strength of thy right nand;
d The sunn shall not burne thee at noone,

neither by night ye nioone ;
7 He shall preserve thy soule from ill,

thy soulc preseruing still.
Ct)me in or goe thou out of doore.

Henceforth for ciiermore.]

G

8;3

[CLIFFORD]

MASTER.

My heart to beate, and all my slri-iifrtli ([uitc gone;

Mine eyes (with weeping) blind as any stone :

My friends, my neigiibours, kinred, stand at gaze

While I in fires of persecution blaze ;

And those that sought my life, in ambush lay

Cursing and lying, railing all the day.

But I was stupid as the ueafe and dumb.

From whose shut doors no sharp reprix>fes do come !

And yet I hope, though I thus silent be,

Thou Lord wilt plague and answer them for me.

Ijord, I have praid that this malitious traine

May never flowte me (in thine anger slaine)

Tliose, those I meane, that were delighted all

To see me slip, and hope to see me fall.

But o my sinne that now tormenteth more

My Soule, then all the paines my l)ody boare,

And now stands staring in my blushing face ;

But Lord I will confess and beg for grace.

And yet n)y haters live in height and power,

Not to bee numbred, that would me devoure;

All those that for my good repaid me ill

Detest me more, submitted to thy will.

Lord ! leave me not, but make me thine abode :

Oh haste to helpe, my Saviour, oh my God !

I shall conclude this article with two of his lord-
ship's original compositions, from his Meditations
Vfxm tfie Holydayes :

Christmas Day.
Time's fuUnes come, a spottlcs virgin beares
Her maker and the world's, soe long foretold ;
Great God himsclfe abaseth, man vp reares
Himselfe, and doth frailc flesh with God infold
Soe God's deare sonn bccoms a woman's child
And God to man, man to God 's reconcil'd.

Saint Stephens.
Haile ! thou first sacrifice, in martyr's roale.
Of cursed wrath and malice envious !
See heaven wide open to receive thy soule,
And Christ proclaiming thee victorious !
Each stone tney threw is made a gemme to fit
Th' eternall crowne that on thy head shall sit.]

THOMAS MASTER, son of Will. Master
rector of Cote near to a market tovm calTd Ciren-
cester . in Gloucestershire, was Iwrn at Cote, but
descended from the genteel family of the Masters
living in the said town of Cirencester, initiated in
grammar learning by Mr. Henry Topp,* a noted

* [In a preceding life, that of Cartwright, col. 69, Wood
has called him Mr. William Topp, but by mistake. To pre-
vent future confusion on this point, trifling as it is, I applied
at Cirencester for information, and I nm oblige<l to Mr. James
Grooby, the present master of tlie school, for removing all
doubton the subject. Accordinglotheregister of Cirencester,
Henry Topp clerk, the master of the school, was buried De-
cember 10, 1C6G; having lived to be reinstated in his situa-
tion. He had by his wife Elizabeth, (who was buried Feb.
27, l642,) a son, Henry Topp, married to Jane Triiuler,
March 27, l642, 3. Their issue seems to have been one

master of that plai-e, afterward ripene<l for the uni-
versity in Wykeham's scluxil near Winchester,
admitted perpetual fellow of New coll. after he had
served two years of probation, an. 1624, took the
degrees in arts, that of master being compleated
1629, holy orders, and at length in 1640 was ad-
mitted to the reading of the sentences. At which
time he was arrived to great learning, was esteemed
a vast scholar, a general artist and linguist, a noted
poet, and a most florid preacher. He hath written,
Mcnsu hibrica Montg-om. illustriss. Domino, D.
Edwardo Baroni de Cherbury. Oxon. 1658. qu.
second edit. [Bodl. 4to. J. 12. Art.] the first having
been printed on one side of a large sheet of paper.*
'Tis a poem written in Lat. and Engl, describing
the game call'd shovel-board play,^ published with

son, Henry, who died, under twelve months old, in l645.
Henry Topp, the son of the schoolmaster, died also before
his father, and was buried Jan. 7, l6f)4.]
* [In 1641. Wan LEY.]

« {The Shovel-Board Table turn'd.
The rouzh oak plaiu'd, |)olish'd and glaz'd all o're
And table like, with antick pillars bore
To keep the campaigne sieddie, that it might
Be levell as the rule is to the sight ;
Here, when to mitiicaie severer care.
Some in-doore recreation most repaire
The wasted spirit'. ; those who have dext'rous skill
Let flie their coin like silver, whicii does trill
In various oider'd coorse>, and create
Contentions ; such, as when they celebrate
Bacchus his feasts the sacrificing jear ;
You'd think the Romanc circus now was here :
And as their painted chariots did divide
This and that faction, each one his owne side
Admiring and applauding ; thus there are
Small plates of differing stamps which in this warre
Make diflTerinji parlies : hence, this done, a shout
Proclaimes the battle, th' ecchoing hall throughout;
And, though there's partiality in each vote,
Yet here's no bawling, no harsh sounding note.
He who begins the strife, does first compose
His fingers like a purse's mouth, which showes
A shilling in the lips, and then the length
Being exactly weigh'd, (not with bruit strenght)
But with advised, wary force, his hand
Shootes the flat bullets forth ; it doth not stand
With art to use much violence ; for so
They slip aside the measur'd race, or goe
Into the swallowing pit, which waites upon
Excessive rashnesse, as the grave has done
On each extrcam disease ; and if once there
There's no returne, no more than from the biere.
There every piece must suffer the like fate,
Be't clown or gentleman, be't lead or plate.
But if the fear of this should make him throw
Short of the mark (as some will crab-like goe
Lest they should run to farre) Then there is past
Censure and shame on the abortive cast.
Hee's laughed at as a racer in a bogge ;
The lead once call'd a pig, is now turn'd hogge.
There is a line which must be cut bei'bre
He can arrive at the desired shore :
Nor is 't enough barely to come to land,
He cowardly invades, that sticks i' th' sand,
And dares not enter castles ; he alone
Deserves applause and glory, who is gone

MASTER.

ClIILLINGWORTH.

86

Sir Henry Savile's Oratimi to Queen Elizabeth,
by Mr. Tho. Barlow of Queen's coll. in Oxon. an.
1658, printed there again in Decemb. 1690, in half
a sheet in qu. [Wcxxi's study numb. 416, 5.']

M«Kor^oipixdtijnjv ra Xpirs" s'a.vfiunnv. This Greek
poem, which is printed mth Mensa lubrica, was
made by him on the passion of Christ, 19 Apr.
1633, rendred into excellent Lat. verse by Hen.
Jacob of Merton coll. and into English by Abr.
Cowley, the prince of poets of his time : which Lat.
and Engl, copies are printed with the Greek. Oxon.
1658. qu. [Bodl. 4to. J. 12. Art.]

Moiiarchia Britannica sub Auspiciis EUzabethce
&: Jacobi, in Oratione guam pro More habuit in
Capella Coll. NoviQKal. Apr. 1642. Oxon. 1661.
qu. [Bodl. 4to. C. 13. 8. Line] 1681. oct. [Bodl.
8vo. W. 47. Art.] publishetl by his friend and ac-
quaintance Job. Lamphire doct. of phys. sometimes
fellow of New coll. afterwards Cambden's prof, of
history.

Iter Boreale : Oxon. 1675, in two sheets and an
half in qu. written in prose and verse, and dedicated
to his father Will. Master before-mention'd, 25 Sept.
1637, published by George Ent of the Middle-
Temple,* son and heir of sir George Ent, knight.

Boldly 10 charge the front, conceiving still

Not to be best is but the same with ill.

Him, him the frighted enemies envie.

Casting a side-long many a spitefuU eye,

While they all big with emulation swell.

And strive his towring valour to excell.

Mean while his faithfull seconds (with th'expence

Of what themselves might gain) keep, barr and fence

His meritorious fame ; 'tis some renown

When once 'tis got, thus to preserve the crown.

And now, the fight being hot, even in this warre.

Fortune, art, virtue, fraud, all mingled are;

Es|>ecially, when one with skillfull care

Has stealingly crept up into the spheare

Where double honour dwells: who did begin

Single, by this brave act becomes a twin.

But he, whose virtues i' th' cxtreame, and scornes

To be "niongsl any souldiers but forlornes ;

He who djrcs hang o're death, and no way dre.ids

The gaping gra\e, but with pois'd valour beds

Himself i' th' vciy brink of ruinc, and

Dang'rously high doth even falling stand.

He, he the triple crown doth win and wear.

And if his pope-ship all assaults can hear.

And sit his hollow chaire, so that no eye

Bewailes his downfall ; then unto the skle

His prai^e resounds ; his parly paeans sing.

And victry claps him with her whitest wing

Thus one, translator turn'd at your command.

Chooses to shew his ruder gobling hand

Rather then disobedience : so that here

Nothing but plain dull duly doth appear.

While the more noble Latm's vndress'd pride

Lookes like the Table turndon the wrong side.

A poet, that could gamesters humours hit.

Might on each passage play, and shovel wit.

But here for me 'tis glory not t'excell

When it had been but idlenesse to doe well.]

' [Wood says, in a MS. note, it was published by Mr. R.
Bathurst.]
' [Geo. Eut, coll. Sidn. A. B. iGaO. Baker.]

then a sojourner and student in Oxon, being alx)ut
that time entred a meml)er of Wadh. coll. Which [40]
George Ent the son wrote and published, The
Grounds of Unitij in Iteliu^imi : Or, an expedient
for a jieneral Conformity and Pacification, printed
in 1679 in one sheet in qu. In whicli year (in Aug.
or thereabout.s) he depirting this mortal life, wa«
buritxl in the church belonging to the Temples in
London. Our author Master hath also written
other poems, a-s (1.) Carolusredux, 1623. (2.) Ad
Re-em Carolum, 1625. (3.) On Bush. Lake, 1626.
(4.) On Ben. Jomm, 1637. and (5.) On Vaulx;
but these, I think, are not printed. He was a
drudge to, and assisted niucli, Edward lord Herbert
of Cherbury, when he was obtaining materials for
the writing the Life of' K. Hen. 8. Four thick vo-
lumes in fol." of such materials I have lying by me,
in every one of which I find his hantl-writing,
either in interlining, adding, or correcting ; and one
of those four, which is entit. Collectaneorum Lib.
secundus, is mostly written by him, collected from
parliament rolls, the Paper Office at Whitehall,
Vicar General's Office, books l)elonging to the clerks
of tlie council, MSS. in Cotton's library, books of
convtK-ations of the clergy, &c. printetl authors, 8lc.
And there is no doubt, that as he had an especial
hand in composing the said Life of K. Hen. 8.
(which us some say he turn'd mostly into Latin,
but never printed) so had he a hand in Latinizing
that lord's txx)k De Veritate, or others. At lengtn
being overtaken by a malignant fever, the same
which I have mention'd in Dud. Digges and Will.
Cartwright, he died thereof, to the great reluctancy
of those that well knew him, in the winter time,
either in Dec. or Jan. in sixteen hundred forty and i643.
three, and was buried in the north part of the outer
chappell belonging to New coll. His epitaph is
written in Latin by the said L. HerlxTt in his Oc-
casional Verse.i, p. 94, who hath also written a Lat
poem in praise of his Men.sa lubrica, which may he
there also seen. But the said epitaph must not be
understood to have ever been put over his grave.

[TTie Virffin Mary, a Sermon preached in St.
Mary'.s Colkge, (vulgo New College) Oxon. March
25, 1641 ; (m Luke 1. v. 26, 27. Lond. 1710. 8vo.
Rawlinson.

Tho. Masteri iJi,axa.{itov Novi Coll. qucmdam
Socii Iter Boreale, ad ip.mi.s Patrem Gulielmum
Masterum, Coticc in Agro GloceMrausi Pastorem,
Anno Dam. 1675, 4to. ' Amantissime pater, scio
te expectare itineris mei Boreahs historiam — Avete,
parentes mei colendissimi, filius obsequentissimus
Tho. Master, Sept. 25, 1637.' The occasion of his
journey was to be inducted into the sinecure of
Wickham, near Louth in Lincolnshire, which should
have been mentioned by Mr. Wood. Kenmet.]

WILLIAM CHILLINGWORTH, son of

^ [These are now reposited in the library of Je»iis college,
Oxford.]

G2

87

CHILLINGWORTH.

[«]

Will. Chilliugworth citizen (afterwards niayor^ of
Oxford, was born in S. Martin's {larish there, ni a
little house on the north side of the contluit at
yuatervois, in Octob. KiOS, and on the last t)f that
month rcceivetl baptism there. After he hatl been
educated in grannnar learning imder Edw. Sylvester
a noted I.atinist and Grecian, (who taught privately
in All-saints parish) or in the free-school joyning to
Magd. coll. or in Ixith, he became scholar of Trin.
coll. under the tuition of Mr. Rob. Skinner, on
the second of June 1618, being then about two
years standing in the university, and going thro'
with case the classes of logic and philosophy, was
admitted M. of A. in the latter end of ifeii, and
fellow of the said coll. 10 June 1628. He was then
observed to be no drudge at his study, but being a
man of great parts would do much m a little time
when he settled to it.' He would often walk in
the college grove and contemplate, but when he
met with any scholar there, he would enter into
discourse, and dispute with him, purposely to faci-
litate and make the way of wranghng common with
him ; which was a fashion used in those days, espe-
cially among tlie disputing theologists, or among
those that set themselves apart purp)sely for divi-
nity. But upon the change of the tunes, occasioned
by the puritan, that way forsooth was accounted
boyish and pedagogical, to the detriment, in some
respects, of learning. About the same time being
much unsettled in his thoughts, he became ac-

Jualnted with one who went by the name of Joh.
'isher a learned Jesuit and sophistical disputant,
who was often conversant in these parts.* At length,
by his persuasions, and the satisfaction of some
doubts which he could not find among our great
men at home, he went to the Jesuits coll. at S.
Omers, forsook his religion, and by these motives'
following, which he left among them vmder his own
hand, became a Rom. Catholic, ' First because per-
petual visible profession which could never be want-
mg to the religion of Christ, nor any part of it, is
apparently wanting to Protestant religion ; so far as
concerns the {X)ints in contestation. (2.) Because
Luther and his followers, separating from the church
of Rome, separated also from all churches, pure or
impure, true or untrue, tlicn being in the world :
upon which ground I conclude that either Gcxl's
promises did fail of performance, if there were then
no church in the world, which held all things neces-
sary and nothing repugnant to salvation ; or else
that Luther and his sectaries,- separating from all

> , . ■ . ■
' [He applied himself with good success to mathematicks,
and was accounled a good pod. MS. note in Mr. Heler's

' [For towards the latter end of the reign of K. James I,
the Romish priests were .illowed an uncommon liberly in
England, which was continued in the reign of Charles I,
upon account of his marriage with a princess of France.
MS. nnle in Mr. Heler's copy."]

' Ekiw. Knott in hh Direction lo be observed by N. N. &c.
Lond. in oct. p. d7j &c.

churches then in tlie world and so from the true, if
there were any true, were damnable schismaticks.
(3.) Because if any credit might be given to as cre-
ditable records as any are extant, the doctrine <jf
Catholics hath been I'retjuently confimietl, and the
opposite doctrine of I'rotestants confounded witli
supernatural and divine miracles. (4.) Because
many points of Protestant dixitrine are tlie damned
opimons of heretics, condemned by the primitive
church. (5.) Because the prophecies of the Old
Test, touching the c«nversion of kings and nations
to the true religion of Christ, have been accom-
plished in, and by, the Catholic Rom. religion, ami
the professors of it. (6.) Because the doctrine of
the church of Rome is conformable, and the doctrine
of the Protestants contrary, to the doctrine of the
fathers of the primitive church, even by the con
fession of Protestants themselves ; I mean those
fathers, who lived within the compass of the first
600 years; to whom Protestants tliemselves do
very frequently and confidently appeal. (7.) Be-
cause the first pretended reformers had neither ex-
traordinary commission from God, nor ordinary mis-
sion from the church, to preach Protestant doctrine.
(8.) Because Luther, to preach against the mass
(which contains the most material points now in
controversy) was persuaded by reasons suggested
to him by the devil himself, disputing with him.
So himself profcsseth in his book De Mu:sa privata,
that all men might take heed of following him, who
professeth himself to follow the devil. (9.) Because
the Protestant cause is now, and hath been from the
beginning, maintained with gross falsificatitms and
calumnies ; whereof their prime controversy writers
are notoriously and in high degree guilty. (10.)
Because by denying all humane authority, either of
pope, or councils, or church, to determine contro-
versies of faith, they have abolished all possible
means of suppressing heresy, or restoring unity to
the church.' These were his motives, as my author*
tells me, who adds, that, ' they were so strong, tliat
he (Chilliugworth) could never since frame his mind
to Protestancy : And the profession of Catholic reli-
gion not suiting with his desires and designs, he fell
upon Socinianism, that is no religion,' &c. To
these motives, which are owned and reprinted ' by
Mr. Chilliugworth, he made an answer three years
or better before the first edition of his book called,
TJie Religion of Protc-ntanU, &c. came out. Which
answer was not published for two reasons, one, be-
cause the motives were never public, until the author
of The Direction to N. N. made them so. The
other, because he was loth to prtK'laim to all the
world so much weakness as he shew'd, in suffering
himself to be abused by such silly sophisms. All
which proceeded upon mistakes and false supposi-

■• Ibid. p. 40.

^ In the preface to the author of Charity maintain i, iic.
Sect. 43.

CHILLINGWORTH.

1H>

tions, which unatlvisedly he txwk' for granted, as
'twill quickly appear when the motives with his re-
Hpective answers made to them and 7 printed, shall
be inipartiiillv weighed in the liallance against each
other. Tho' Mr. Chillingworth embraced Protes-
tantism very sincerely, as it seems, when he wrote
liis book or The Religion of Protestants, &c. yet
notwithstanding not long before, and I think then
also, he refused to subscribe the 39 articles, and so
consequently did not desert the religion of Rome out
of desire of "preferment, or for temjX)ral ends (which
the author of The Direction to N. N. objected to
him) by reason that this his refusal did inc;q)acitate
him for all places of benefit in England, a ])revious
("42] subsc-ription of the said 39 articles being the only
common door that here leads to any such. This re-
fusal was groimded on his scrupling the truth only
of one or two propositions containea in "* them ; and
these his small doubts too were afterwards fully sa-
tisfied and removed before his advanpement in the
church, otherwise he could not have conscientiously
subscribed the 39 articles, which is indispensibly re-
quired of all persons upon any ecclesiastical promo-
tion." But to return: so it was, that he finding
not that satisfaction from the Jesuits concerning va^
rious points of religion, or (as some say) not that
respect which he expected (for the common report
among his contemporaries in Trin. coll. was, that
the Jesuits to try his temper, and exercise his
obedience, did put him upon servile duties far below
him) he left them in the year 1631, returned to the
church of England (tho' the presbyterians said not,
but that he was always a papist in his heart, or, as
we now sav, in masqueratle) and was kindly received
by his godfather Dr. Laud then B. of London. So
that fixing himself for a time in his lieloved Oxford,
he did, in testimony of his reconcilement, make a
recantation, and afterwards wrote a book against the
papists, as I shall anon tell you.' For which his

« Sect. 42.
,7 Sect. 44.
"' • Sect. eg. and 40.

'fin the P"s/ Boy, June 6, 1719, was this advertisement.
— Wheareas the enemies of the subscripti'in requir'd of the
clergy, have lately publish'd, in a ver^ pompous manner, a
letter of Mr. Cliillingworth, dated lb35, declaring that he
could not subscribe the aiticles, ahd as if that had been his
firrt resolution to tlie last : to prevent the ill effects of such
an insinuation, 'lis thought fit to publish to the world, that
he afterwards allred his mind, and in the year l(J38 did ac-
tuallv subscribe, as app'jars from the Register of the Church
of S'utishuTij , whence the copy under-wrillen is taken.

Ego Gu'.ielnius Chillingworth clericus, inariibus mogister,
ad cancellLiri.ilum ecclesiae cath. B. Miria;, Sarum. una
cnm prelienda dc Briuwonh alias Bricklesworth in com.
Norihampt. Petriburg dioc. in eadein ecclesia fundata et
eidem cancellarialui annexa, ailmidendns et instituendus,
omnibus lilsce articulis et singulis in eisdem couicutis volens
et ex aninio sul>scribo et consenstini nuum eisdcni pricbeo
20 die Julii, 16.T8. — Gulielmns Chillingworth. Kennet.]

' [Chillingworth gives, in his first work, the following
opinion of his own change of principles, and it is too curious
to be omitied : ' I know a man that of a moderate Protestant
tura'd a Papist, and the day that he did so, (as all things

service he was rewarded with the chancellorshi]) of
the cliurch of Salisbury, upon the promotion of Dr.
Br. Diippa to the see of Chiclicster, in the month
of July 1G38, and about the same time with the
mastership of Wygstan's hospital in the antient bo-'
rougli of Leicester : Both which, and jK'rhaj»s other
preferments, he kept to liis dying day. He wa.s a
most noted philosopher and orator, and without
doubt a jKwt also, otiierwise sir Joh. Suckling would
not have brought him into his jioem, called The
Se-s.sion of Poet-1 ; and had such an admirable fa-
culty in reclaiming schismatics, and confuting papists,
that none in his time went beyond him. tie had
also very great skill in mathematics, and his aid and
counsel wa.s often used in making fortifications for
the king's garrisons, especially those of the city of
Gloucester, and Arunaell castle in Sussex. " In
" Dr. BarXov/'s Genuine Remains, Lond. 1693- oct,
" p. 344. is the following pa.s.sage : John Corbet in
" his Relation o/' the Siege o/"' Gloucester, p. 12.
" saith, ' We underst(K)d that the enemy (meaning
" ' the army of King Charles I.) had, by the direc-
" ' tion of the Jesuitical d(K;tor Chillingworth, pro-
" ' vided great store of engines after the manner of
" ' the Roman testudines cum pluteli, with which
" ' they intended to have assaulted the part of tlie
" ' city between the south and west gates.' So if
" this l)e true, William Chillingworth was an en-
" gineer at the siege, and not in the city when the
" king took it in the l)eginning of the war." He
was a subtle and quick disputant, and would several
times put the king's professor to a push.. Hobbes
of MaJmsbury would often say, that he was like a
lusty fighting fellow, that did drive his enemies
before him, but would often give his own party
smart back-blows. And 'twas the current opinion

that are done are perfected some day or other,') was con-
victed in conscience, that his ycsterdaies opinion was on
error, and yet thinks hee was no schismaiiqne for doing so,
and desires to be informed by you, whether or no hee was
mistaken? The same man afterwards, upon better considera-
tion, became a doubting papist, and of a doubting papist, a
confirm'd protcslant. And yet this man thinks himselfe no
more to bliine for all these changes, then a travailer, who
using all diligence to find the right way to some remote
citiy, where he never had been, (as the parly I speak of had
never been in Heaven) did yet mistake il, and after finde his
error, and amend it. Nay, he stands upon his justification
so farre, as to maintain that his alterations, not only to you,
but also from yon, by God's mercy, were the most satisfactory
actions to himselfe that ever he di<l, and the greatest victo-
ries that ever he obtained over hinisvlfe, and his afl'ections to
those things which in this world are most precious; as
wherein for God's sake and (as he was verily perswaded) out
of love to the truth, he went upon a certain expectation of
those inconveniences, which to ingenuous natures are of all
the most terrible. So that though there were much iveak-
nesse in some of these alterations, yet certainly there was no
wickednesse. Neither does he yield his weaknesse altogether
without apology, seeing his deductions were rationail, and
out of principles commonly received by Protestants as well
as Papists, and which, by his education, had got possession
of his understanding. The Religion of Protestantt a laf*
toay, &c. Oxon. 1()38, pp. 303, 304.]

91

CIIILLINGWOIITH.

in this university, tliat he and Lucius lord Falkland
had such extraordinary clear reason, tliat if the great
turk or devil were to be converted, they were able
to do it. " ' WiUiain ChiUingworth, when he un-
*' ' dertook the defence of Dr. Potter's book against
" ' the Jesuits, was almost continually at Tew with
" ' my lord Falkland, examining tne reasons of
" ' botli parties pro and con, and their validity and
" ' consequence, where Mr. ChiUingworth had the
" ' benefit of my lord's comjjany and his gcxxl
" ' library.' Dr. Barlow's Genu'me Remains, Lond.
" 1693. p. 329." He was a man of little stature,
but of great soul ; which if times had been serene,
and hfe spared, might have done incomptarable ser-
vice to the church of England. He wrote and pub-
lished.

The Relig-ion of Protestants a safe Way to Sal-
vation ; or, an Answer to a Book entit. Mercy and
Truth, or Cfiarity maintain''d by Catholics, which
pretends to prove the contrary. Oxon. 1636,* 38.
Lond. 1664, 74, &c. All which impressions were
in fol. In wliich book the author made very much
use of Joh. DaiU^, a learned French divine, as
1^1 about die same time the lord Falkland did in his
writings; who was wont to say, it was worth a
Toyage to Paris to be acquainted with him. He
calls him our Protestant Perron, &c. The book
that The Religion of Protestants, &c. answer'd,
was written by Edw. Knott a Jesuit, against Dr.
Potter's book entit. Want of Charity, &c. as I shall
tell you, when I come to speak of him, under the
year 1645. Before the said Religion of Protestants,
&c. went to the press, it was, at the desire of Dr.
Laud, corrected and amended by Dr. Joh. Prideaux,
who afterwards, among his friends, would liken ' it
to an unwholsome lamprey, by having a poysonous
sting of Socinianism throughout it, and tending in
some places to plain infidelity and atheism. After
it was published the general * character given of its
author was, that he had better luck in puUing down

* [Tliis date is evidently a mistake. There were two
editions of the book in 1(J38, the first at Oxford, the second,
with some slight variations, at London. The recommendation
by Dr. Fell is not signed till October 14, l637, so that Wood
nmst be wrong in his date l63(j. It appeared asiaiii l684,
l687, 1704, 1719, 17 , 1727 and 1742. Chillingworth's
Religion of Protestants the Safe JVay, his Nine Sermons;
Letter to Mr. Lewgar, and Answer to Kushworth's Dia-
logues, Lond. 1704, folio. Bodl. C. 5. 1. Th.]

' Franc. Chcynell in his book entit. A Discussion of Mr.
Joh. Fry's Tenets lately condemned in Pnrliam. &c. p. 33.
[This story rests only on the authority of Chcynell, the bitter
adversary of our autnor, nor does it in the least agree with
the approbation besiowed on it by Prideaux, here given
from a copy of the edition printed in l63S, presented to the
library of St. John's college by the printer, Leonard Litch-
field— ' Perlegi hunc librum, ciii tilulus est The Religion of
Protestants a safe Way to Salvation, in quo nihil reperio
doctrinae vel discipline ecclesiae Anelicanae adversum, »ed
qnam plurima qux fidem orthodoxam egregie illustrant, et
adversantia glossemata acute, perspicue, et modeste dissi-

oant.']
♦Hug.

ug. Cressy in his Exomologesis, chap. 82.

buildings, than raising new ones, and that he has
managed liis sword much more dexterous than his
buckler, Sec. yet the very same autiior who reports
this, doth in a manner vindicate him^ elsewhere
from being a Socinijm, which may in some sort con-
fute the Jesuit (Edw. Knott) beiore-mention'd. It
must be now known, tliat our author being of intimate
acquaintance with Joh. Hales of Eaton, he did use his
assistance when he was [engagcnl] in compiling his
book of 7'he Religimi, &c. especially in that part,
wherein he vindicates the English church from
schism, charged on her by Knott. And that he
might more clearly understand Hales, he desired
him that he would communicate his thoughts in
writing, concerning the nature of schism. Where-
upon he wrote a tract thereof, (as I shall tell you
when I come to him) out of which our audior
ChiUingworth urged some arguments, which as one'
tliinks are the worst in all his book ; and so it is
thought by many more. However, if not, as some
affirm, yet tliey have caused ill reflections not only
on the private reputation of Hales and ChiUingworth,
but on the church of England, as if it did favour the
Socinian principles. But as for an exact summary
of the doctrines of his belief, after what manner to
be qualified, and how httle he favoured Socinianism,
which that he did in an high degree, his adversaries
of Rome, and some of the sectarian party at home,
did constantly and mahciously ' suggest. Whea
the said book was in the press. Dr. Potter of Qu,
coll. wrote « to Dr. Laud archb. of Cant. 15 Sept.
1637, that Knott the Jesuit was in Oxon, and
had the sheets thereof sent to him as they came
from the press, giving five shillings for every sheet,
but this dotli otTierwise appear from Knott's words
elsewhere. There was also another Jesuit called
Will. Lacey then dweUing in Oxon, who perusing
the said book gave his opinion of it in a treatise
entit. The Jwlgrnent of an University Man on Mr.
Chillingwo7-th''s Book, which I shaU elsewhere men-
tion. Besides him were two or three more at least
that answered it, as J. H. in Christianity main-
tained, or a Discovery of sundry Doctrines tending
to the Overthrow of Christian Religion contained
in the Answer to a Book entit. Mercy and Truth,
&c. printed 1638. qu. the author « of The Church
Conquerant over human Wit, &c. printed the same
year, and E. Knott in his Infidelity unmasFd, &c.
" During the Popish controversy in the time of K.
" James II. was published a book entit. Mr. ChiU
" lingwortKs Book called the Religion of Pro-
" testants a safe Way to Salvafuyn, made more ge-
" nerally useful, hy omitting personal Contest, but

■> In his Epistle Apologetical to a Person ef Honour, sect.
7. p. 82.

^ Tho. Long In his pref. before Mr. Hales his Treatise of
Schism examined, Lond. 1678.

' Sec Sect. 28. of the aforesaid preface.

" Gfsfa Cancelluriatus Laud, MS. pag. I4p.

' [By John Floyde, a Jesuit; see in the life of Herbert
Croft under the year J691.]

CHILLINGWORTH.

94

" inserting whatsoever concerns the common Cause
" of Protestants, or defends the Church of England.
" Lond. 1687. qu. to which were annexed several
" additional discourses of the said Mr. Chillingworth,
" viz. (1.) A Coiiferencc between him and Mr.
" Lewgar, whetlier the Rom. Church he the Cath.
" Church, and all out qflier Communion Heretics
" or Schismatics. (2.) A Discourse against the
" Itifallibility oftlic Rom. Church, with ati Aii.ncer
" to all those Texts of Scripture that are alledg'd
" to prox'e if. (3.) Conjerence concerning the In-
"JbllibUity of the Roman Church, proving that the
[44!] *^ present Church of Rome either errs in the wor-
" shipping of the bles,9ed Virgin, or that the ancient
" Church did err in Condemning the CoUyridian
" Heretics. (4.) Argument draron from Commii-
" nicating of Irifants, as witJiout which they could
" not be sav''d, against the Church's Infallibility.
" (5.) Arguments against Infallibility, drawjij'rom

" the Doctrine of the (6.) Letter relating to

" the same subject. (7.) Argument against the
" Romish ChurcKs InfallibiHty, taken from the
" Ccmtradiction in tlie Doctrine of Transubstan-
" tiation. (8.) An Account of what moved the
" Autltor to turn a Papist, with his Confutation of
" the Arguments that persieaded him tliereto, &c."
Our author Chilhngworth hath also written,

The Apostolical Institution of Episcopacy demon-
strated. Lond. 1660. qu. there again in 64 and 74,
in fol. with The Religion of Protestants.

Nine Sermons^ — printed at Lond. 1664, and 74,
in fol. with his Apost. Institution, &c. and Th^ Re-
ligion of Protestants, &c. These, I think, are all
the things he hath written, except his Motives pub-
lished by E. Knott, which being answered by nim,
as I have before told you, were replyd upon by the
author of a book entit. Motives maintained ; or, a
Reply to Mr. ChiUingteortlis Answer to his oxvn
Motives of his Conversion to Cath. Religion,
printed 1638, in three sh. in qu. It must be now
known, that in the beginning of the civil dissentions,
our author Chillingworth suffered much for the
king's cause, and being forced to go from place to

I)lacc for succour, as opportunity served, went at
ength to Arundell castle in Sussex, where he was
in quality of an engineer in that garrison. At length
the castle coming into the hands of the parliamenta-
rian forces, on the sixth day of January 1643, he
was by the endeavours of Mr. Franc. Cheynell
(about that time rector of Petworth) made to sir
Will. Waller the prime governor of those forces,
conveyed to Chichester, and there lodged in the
bishop's house, because that he, beuig very sick,
could not go to London with the prisoners taken in
the said castle. In the said house he remained to
his dying dav, and tho' civilly used, yet he was
much troubled with the impertment discourses and

• [The first on Tim. 3. 1,2, 3, 4, 5, was preached before
K- Charles I, and printed, after the author's death, at Ox-
ford, 1644. Bo<U. 4to. D. Co. Th.J

disputes of the said Cheynell, which the loyal party
of that city looked upon a.s a shortning (jf our
author's days. He gave way to fate on the 24th of
January (or thereabouts) ' in sixteen hundred forty |g^
and three, and the next day his body being l>n)iight
into the cath. church accoinpanied by the said royal
party, was certain service said, but not common
prayer ticcording to the defunct's desire. After-
wards his lx)dy being carried into the cloyster ad-
joyning, Cheynell stood at the grave ready to receive
it, with the author's Ixxjk of The Religion if Pro-
testants, &c. in his hand : and when the company
were all settled, he spake lK>fore them a ridiculous
speech concerning the author Chillingworth and
that book ; and in the conclusion, throwing the
IxMik insultingly on the corps in the grave, said
thus, — ' Get thee gone then, thou cursed book,
which hast seduced so many precious souls; get
thee gone, thou corrupt rotten book, earth to earth,
and oust to dust ; get thee gone into the place of
rottenness, that thou may'st rot with thy author,
and see corruption.' After the conclusion, Chey-
nell went to the pulpit in the cath. church, and
E reached a sermon on Luke {). 60. ' Let the dead
ury the dead,' &c. while the malignants (as he
called them) made a shift to perfonn st)me parts of
the English liturgy at his grave. About trie time
of the restoration of K. Ch. II. Ohver Whitby his

freat admirer, sometimes M.A. of this university,
id put an inscription on the wall over his grave,
whicn being for the most part in Hist. Sf Antiq.
Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 297. b. should also have been
here inserted, but forasmuch as several faults are
therein, as that he was doct. of divinity, chauntor
of Salisbury, and that he died in 1642, 1 think itftt
therefore to be omitted in this place. In his chan-
cellorship of Salisbury succeeded the learned and
godly Dr. John Earl on the 10th of Feb. 1643,
but who in the ma,stership of Wygstan's hospital I
cannot yet well tell. By his will ' dated 22 of Nov.
1643, he gave to the mayor and corporation of [45]
Oxon 4007. to be paid by 50/. per an. in eight
years. And as it is paid, ne would have it lent to
ptwr young tradesmen by 50/. a piece for ten years,
they {living good security to repay it at ten years
entl, and to pay for it 40*. per an. consideration.
And the use and consideration so paid to be laid
out in binding jxwr young children, boys or girls,
apprentices, allowing 8/. a piece to every one, to
bind him or her out, &c.

[1638, 20 Jul. Will'us Chillingworth coll. ad
cancellar. eccl'ia Sarum per proraot. Briani Duppa
ad e'patum Cicestr. Reg. Sarum.

« [Some persons, as Walker, Sufferings of the Clergy, Le
Neve, Fasti, &c. say January 20 ; but Des Maizeaux thinki,
and with more apparent foundation, that he died rather on
the 30th of January. Historical and Critical Account 0/ the
Life and Writings of William Chillingworth, Lond. 1725.
page 346.]

3 In the Will-Office near S. Paul's cath. ch. in Lond. 10
Reg. Tvysie, qu. 140.

95

CHILLINGWORTH.

FITZ-SIMON.

1640, Apr. li, Conv(x;ationi ck'ri apud Westmon.
interliiit ^Vill"us Chillingwortli sub nomine procura-
toris capituli Saruni. MS.

1643, 10 Febr. Joh. EarlecoU. ad cancellar. eccl.
Saruni per niort. Will. ChUlingworth.

In the advertisement (alrea<ly mentioned in the
note col. 89) it likewise is said : ' It may be proper
at the same time to take notice, that the se-
cond letter publist under Mr. Chillingworth's name
to favour Arianisme is not only without date, but
from a copy that is not in his own hand, and there-
fore may justly be suspected not to be genuine.'
Kennet.

, Will. Chillingworth A.M. incorporatus Canta-
brigiae 1626.

A prophaiie Catechisme, collected out of Mr.
Ghillingworth's works, by Fr. Cheynell, printed
with the Novissima, 1644. Baker.

In the library of the archbishop of Canterbury at
Lambeth palace, are some unpublished papers of
Chillingworth, whicli formerly belonged to archb.
Laud, and which were recovered by a very happy
accident. The volume containing them (with many
others by Laud, Sheldon and Sancroft) had been
long lost, but was recovered by archbishop Her-
ring. It was found, together with some money and
papers, in a box which archbishop Tenison directed
his executors to burn without opening ; but the box
bursting in the fire, the money and this book, which
they supposed was forgotten by the archbishop, was
taken out and preserved.* Chillingwortli's works
were

1. Answer to Mr. Peake's five Questions pro-
posed to him about the Nature of Faith, and tlie
Resolution and Consequences of the Faith of Pro-
testants.''

2. The beginning of A Treatise against the
Scots.

3. Observaticms upon tJie Scottish Declaration.

4. Treatise of the Unlawfulnesse of resisting the
lawfull Prince, altlwugh most impious, tyrannical
and idolatrous.

5. Letter excusing his writing against the
Rebells.

6. On God's universal Mercy in calling Men to
Repentance.

7. Two Discourses of the Nature of Faith.

8. On the Absurdity of Departing from the
Church of England Jbr Want ajT Succession of vi-
sible Professors in all Ages.

9. A brief Answer of several Texts of Scripture,
alleged to prove the Church to be one, visible,
universal, perpetual, and itifallible.

* [Dr. Ducirel says, that archbishop Hcrrinc; made Mrs.
Ibbotl, the widow of Dr. Il>butt, formerly librarian, a jirisent
of 6ve (guineas for it ; and that he had this information from
his predecessor. Mr. Hall. See Catalogue of the Archiepis-
eopal Manuscripts in the Library at Lambeth Palace. Lond.
1812, folio, paae 232. numb. 943.]

* [The vol. contains the first dnught of this Answer as
well as the Answer itself coinpleat.]

10. Letters to Dr. Sheldon containing 1. His
Scruples about leaving the Church of Rome and
retiring to the Church of England. 2. His Scru-
ples about Subscription, arul the Reason oftliem.^

There is a mezz. of Chillingworth, in the same
plate with the heads of the earl of Shaftesbury,
Locke and WoUaston ; but as yet I know of no en-
graved portrait that can be deemed authentic]

HENRY FITZ-SIMON, the most noted Je-
suit of liis time, was ' matriculated as a member of
Hart-hall 26 Apr. 1583, and in that of his age 14,
said then and there in the matricula to be an Irish
man born, and the son of a merchant in Dublin. In
Decemb. following I " find one Henry Fitz-Simons
to be elected student of Ch. Ch. but whether he be
the same witli the former, I dare not say. How
long he continued in the university, or whether he
took a degree, it no where apjiears. Sure it is, that
he being m his mind then, if not before, a Rom.
Catholic, he went beyond the seas, entred himself
into the stxiiety of Jesus, and made so great a profi-
ciency under the instruction of Leonard Lessius,
that he, in short time, became so eminent, that he
taught publicly among them philosophy for several
years. At length retiring to liis native country, he
endeavoured to reconcile as many persons as he
could to his religion, either by private conference,
or public disputes with protestant ministers. In
which work he persisted for two years without dis-
turbance, being esteem''d the chief disputant among
those of his party, and so ready and ciuick that few
or none would undertake to deal with him. In
fine, he being apprehended for a dangerous person,
was committed to safe custody in Dublin Castle in
the year 1599, where he continued about 5 years.
As soon as he was setled there, which, as 'tis said,
he desired before, that it might be so, he was several
times heard to say. That he being a prisoner, was
like a bear tyed to a stake, and wanted some to
bait him ; which expressions being looked upon as
a challenge, Mr. Jam. Usher, then 19 years of age,
did undertake, and did dispute with, him once, or
twice, or more concerning Antichrist, and was
ready to have proceeded farther, but our author
was, as 'tis " saitl, weary of it and him. Afterwards,
at the term of the said five years, being freed from
prison, upon condition that he would carry himself
quietly and mthout disturbance to the king and the
realm, he went forthwith into voluntary exile into
the Low Countries, where he spent his time in per-
forming offices requisite to his function, and in
writing books ; some of which have these titles :

^ [This last letter was printed by Whiston in his Histori-
cal Memoirs of Dr. Samuel Clarke, which occasioned the
adienisemeni before given.]

' Reg. Matric. P. pag. 5bb.

" Reg. prim. Act. f Elecfionum JEd. Chr. sub. an. 1 S'O.

s Nich. Bernard in The L\fe and Death of Dr. Jam.
Usher Lond. 16,06. oct. p. 32.

97

FITZ-SIMON.

SANDYS.

98

A Cathnl'tc Cmifutat'um of Mr. Joh. Rhlc/s Claim
of Antiqiiitifi ; ' and a calminir Comfort against
his Caveat. Roan 1608. qu. [B(k11. 4to. F. 24. Th.J

Reply to Mr. Ili(kr\s Rescript, and a Discovery

ofpy/ritan Partiality in his Behalf'. printed witn

the former b(M)k.

Answer to certain complaintive Letters of afflicted
Catlwlics for Religion, Sfc. — printed willi the for-
mer also.

Justification and Exposition of the Siwrifice of
the Ma,is, in 2 books or more printed 1611. qu.

Britannomachia Ministroriim in plei'isque Sf Fi-
dci Fundamentis, <^ Fidei Articulis dissidcntlum.
Duac. 1614. qu. See before In Franc. Mason, vol.
ii. col. 307.

Catalogue of the Irish Saints This I have

not yet seen, and therefore cannot tell whether it be
in Latin or in another language. In the year 1608
he went according to .summons to Rome, where
bemg apjx)inted for the mission of Ireland, he pub-
lished his profession of the four vows; and then
being sent back to the Low Countries, he went again
into Ireland, where he spent many years in confirm-
ing the Roman Catholics in their antient religion
and gaining proselytes to liis opinion. At length
rAn-, the rebellion breakmg out there in 1641, of which
'- ^ he was a great abettor and encourager, was, after
the rebels began to be subdued, forced to fly for
shelter into woods and on mountains, and to creep
and sculk into every place for fear of being taken
and hanged by the English soldiers. In the be-
ginning of the year 1643 he was forced to change
his place, and retire for safety to a moorish and
boggy ground, where sheltering himself under a
shepherd's cott (no better than a hovel) which could
not keep out the wind and rain, lived there in a
very sorry condition, and had for his bedding a pad
of straw, which would be often wet by the rising,
and coming in of the water. Notmthstanding all
this misery, he seemed to be very chearful, and was
I'eady to mstruct the young ones about him, and
comfort others. But being in a manner spent, and
his age not able to bear such misery long, was wth
much ado taken away : and being conveyed to some
of the brethren into a better place, expired among
i6+j. them on the calends of Febr. the same year; but
where, or in what place buried, my informer tells
me not. By his death the R. Catholics lost a pil-
lar of their church, being esteemed in the better ])art
of his life a great ornament among them, and the
greatest defender of their religion in his time.

GEORGE SANDYS, a younger S(m of Ed-
win archb. of York, was born at Bishops Thorpe
in that county, and as a member of S. Mary's hall
was matriculated in the university in the beginning
of Dec. 1589, and in that of his age eleven, at which
time Henry his elder brother was remitted into the
said matricula, but both, as I conceive, received tlieir

' [See vo].ii. col. 547.]

Vol. III.

tuition in Corp. Ch. coll. How long George tarried
there, or whether he took a degree, it appears not.
In the month of Aug. 1610 he i)egan a long jour-
ney, and alter he hati travelled thro' several j»arts
of Euro}x>, visited divers cities (|)articularlv Con-
stantinople) and countries under the Turkish em-
pire, as Greece, Egypt, and the Holy Larid.' After-
wards he t(M)k a view of the remote parts of Italy,
and the islands atljoyning. That being done he went
to Rome, the antiquities and glories of which place
were in four da^s time shew'd unto him by Nich.
Fitzherbert sometimes an Oxford student, who, as
I have before told you, ended his davs in 1612.'
Thence our author went to Venice (from whence he
first set out) and so to England. Where digesting
his notes, and interlarding them with various parts
of poetry, according to the fa.shion of that time, pub-
lished them in English under this title : ■•

Sandy.'i's 7'/'«t;t/^, &c. in four Inxiks. Lond. 1615.
1621, [Bmll. K. 5. 12. Art.] 27, 32, [37] 52, 58,
70, 73, &c. all in folio, and illustrated ivith several
maps and figures, except the first edit. The said
travels are contracted in the second part of Sam.

' [Drayton has an elegy to Sandys, in the title of which
lie is called treasurer for the English colony in Virginia. It
should seem, that Sandys was, at that time, in Virginia. It
has no date, but was wrote after the five first books of Ovid
were published. Whalley.]

' [See vol. ii. col. 121. I embrace this opportunity of
noticing a mistake made in the correction of the press, and
w hich all those conversant in printing will well know how
to excuse. It is the consolidation of the hex.imeter and pen-
tameter which fi)rm Rosamond Clifford's epitaph. The cor-
rector, it will he seen, instead of bringing, as he wasilesircd,
the words Adam de down to the next line, by a blunder of
his own, carried the preceding line np, and thus spoiled the
whole.]

■* \_A Relation of a Journey begun An. Dora. I6'l0. Fovrr
Booties, Containing a Description of the Turkish Empire qf
Egypt, of the Holy Land, of the remote Parts of Italy, and
Hands adioyning. T/ie second edilian. London, printed for
fV. Barrett, lG21. The Bodleian copy is on large paper,
with the arms of the Sandys fmiily impressed on the covers.
' I began myjourncy,' he commences, ' through France hartl
upon the time when that execrable murilier was committed
vpon the person of Henry the fourth, by an obscure varlet,
euen in the streets of his princi|)all citie, by day, and then
when royally attended on ; to shew that there is none so
contemptible, that contemncth his owne life, but is the
maister of another mans. Triumphs were interrupted by
funerals, and mens minds did labour with fearcfull ex|)ecta-
tions. The princes of the bloud discontet)ted, the noblesse
factious; those of the religion daily thrcatned, and nightly
fe-iriiiga massacre: mcaiie-while a number of !^ouldiers are
drawnc by small numbers into the citie to confront all out-
rages.' This passage has always appeared to me to be an ex-
cellent picture of the distracted stale of Paris at the moment
alluded to, and I could willingly give several very amusing
extracts from this excellent work were it not so generally in
evcrv ctdlector's hands.

It' may be interesting to the curious to remark here, that
the prints wiih which Sandvs's Travels abound were iinme-«
dialely copied from LeTresdevot Voyage de Jerusalem, avecq
les Figures des lieux Saincts, et plusteurs autres, tiroes au na-
turel. Faict et descript par Jean Zunllart. Printed at Anl-
wi.rp in l608. Sec the book, Bodl. D. 20. 8. Line]

H

99

SANDYS.

Purclias his books of Pllffiims, lib. 8. Tlie author
upon his return in 1612 or after, being improved in
several resix-cts l)v this his large journey, became
an accomplish'd gent, as being master of several lan-
guages, of a fluent and reacly discourse and excel-
lent coniportHient. He had also naturally a ixK-ti-
caJ fancy, and a zealous inclination to all human
learning, which made his company desir'd, and ac-
ceptable to most virtuous men and scholars of his
tunc. He also wrote and published,

^ Paraphraxc on the Psalvis of David, and upon
the Hymns dispersed throughout the Old and Nets
Testum. Lond. 1636. octl [Bodl. 8vo. B. 388.
Line] reprinted there in fol. 1638, with other mat-
ters following, under this tide :

Paraphrase upon tlie divine Poems, which con-
tain a Paraphrase on Job, Psalms of David, Eccle-
siastes. Lamentations of Jeremiah, and Sojiffs col-
lected out of tlie Old and Nexv Test. The said Pa-
raphrase on David''s Psalms was one of the books
that K. Ch. I. delighted to read in, as he did in G.
Herbert's Divine Poems, Dr. Hammond's works.
Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity, &c. while he was a
prisoner in Carisbroke castle m the isle of Wight.

Paraphrase on the divine Poems, viz. on the ■
Psalms of David, on Ecclesiastes, and on the Song
of Solomon. Lond. 1676. oct. Some, if not all, of
the said Psalms of David had vocal compositions set
to them by the incomparable Hen. and Will. Lawes,'
with a thorough bass for an organ, in 4 large books
[47] or volumes, in qu. He the said G. Sandys tians-
lated also into English (1) Tlie first Five Books^ of

' \A PariipiiTuse upon the Psalms of David (only) set lo
new Funesjor I'rivate Deinlion : and a Thorough-Base fur
Voice or ImiTumenl : By Henry hawes (only) Gentleman of
his Maj: Chappel Royal. And in this edition carefully re-
vised and corrected from many which passed informer Im-
pressions. By John Playford. Lond. l67(j. oct. Wan-

LEY.l

* [The second ediiinn contains the whole of the Meta-
morphoses- It is inscribed to the king and qneen in distinct
pwctical addresses ; in the latter are some very exquisite
lines.

The Muses, by your fauour blest,
Fairequeeiie, inuile you to their feast.
The Graces will reioyce, and sue.
Since so excel'd, lo waiteon you.
Ambrosia tasi, which frees from death.
And ncc-tar, frap;r:iiii as your breath.
By Hebe fill'd, who states the prime
Of youth, and brailes the wingesof time.
Here, in Adonis' gardens grow
What neither age nor winter know:
The boy, with whom Loue seem'd to dy
Bleeds in this pale anemony.
Selfe-louM Narcissus, in the myrror
Of your fiire eyes, now sees his error.
And from the fluttering foiintaine turnes.
The hyacinth no longer inournes.
This heliotrope, which did pursue
Th' adored sun, converts to you.
These statues touch, and they agen
Will from cold marble change lo men.
Cha^t Daphne bends her virgin boughs
And turnes to imbrace your sacred browes :

Ovid's Metamorphosis. Lond. 1627,' 32. [Bodl.
M. 1. 2. Jur.*] 40. fol. mijthohgiz'd and expressed
in figures. (2) YirgiVs first Book of Mneis, print-
etl with the former. (3) Tragedy qfChrisfs Pas-
sion. Lond. 164(). [Bodl. 8vo. A. 49. Art.] writ-
ten in Lat. by Hug. Grotius; to which trag. Sandys
put also notes." Wliat other things he hath written
and translated, I know not, nor any thing else of
him, only that he being then or lately one of the
gent, of the privy chamber to K. Ch. I. gave way
to fate in the house of his niece the latly Margaret
Wyat (dau. of sir Sam. Sandys and widow of sir
Francis Wyat kt. grandson to sir Tho. Wyat be-
headed in queen Mary's reign) called Boxley abbey
in Kent, in the beginning of March in sixteen hun- i64j.
dred forty and three, and was buried in the chancel
of the parish church there, near to the door, on the
south side, but hath no remembrance at all over his
grave, nor any thing at that place, only this which
stands in the common register belonging to the said
church. ' Georgius Sandys poetarum Anglorum
sui saeculi facile princeps, sepultus fuit Martii 7 stilo
Anglic, an. dom. 1643.' One Tho. Phillpot M. A.
of Clare Hall in Cambr. hath in his Poems printed
at Lond. 1646. in oct. a copy of verses, not to be
contemn'd, on his death.' I find another George
Sandys, contemporary with the foniier and a knight,
who having committed felony, was executed (at Ty-
burn as it seems) on the fourth of March 1617.

Their tops the Paphian myrtles niniie.
Saluting you their Qiieene of Loue.]

' [See some account of an edition, purporting to be the
second, London l62l, Itiuio, in Censura Literariu, vi. 132.
The first folio edit, was in i626 : the eighth edit, was 8vo.
ItigO.]

" [' Ex dono Georgii Sandys armigeri, translatoris,' A"
Domini l63().]

" [A very neat edition, with plates by Faithorne, was
printed Lond. l687, 8vo.]

' [1 am indebted to E. V. Utlerson, esq. of the Six Clerks
Office, for these lines, who is in possession of a copy of
Phillpot's Poems.

On the Death of Mr. George Sandys.
When that Arabian bird, the phoenix dies.
Who on her pile of spices bedriil lies.
And does t'herselfe a sacrifice become
Making her graue an altar, and a wombe,
T'inclose her pregnant du.-l, she can redeem
Those ruincs she hersclfe has made, and teem
With a new plioenix: but now Sandys is gone.
And melted to a dissolution
I'th furnace of a feaver, can his vrne
An equall fire, or interest relume
For those remains it keeps? Alas, we here
Are wholly beggar'd ; for his sepnicher
Is like some thrifty steward, put in trust
To take account of every grain of dust
Tliat mouldeti from the fabrick of his clay;
But when the generall fire, whicli the last day
Shall sparkle with, shall a new fl.ime inspire
Into his vrne, and that pottick fire
Which was so long an inmate to his brest.
Shall be call'd forth from out that marble chest.
Where it now lies rak'd up amongst the dust.
And embers of his clay : and when that rust

SANDYS.

102

[I make no apology lor giving one of the best
poems in the language, whetlier lor sense, or senti-
ment, or expression. And be it remembered that
Pope read our author confessedly with delight, and
that Dryden pronounced him the best versiiier of
the age.

Deo Opt. Max.
O Thou who all things hast of nothing made,
Whose hand the radiant firmament displaid.
With such an undiscerncd swiftnes hurl'd
About the stedfast centre of the world ;
Against whose rapid course the restlesse sun
And wandring Haines in varied motions run ;
Which heat, fight, life, infuse ; time, night and day
Distingui-sh ; in our humane bodies sway :

Thatchoakes it up, shall be dispersM, the light

Of this infranchis'd flame shall shine so bright

Amidst our horison, 'twill seem to be

The constellation of all poetrie.

Tell me not then, that piramids disband,

And drop to dust ; that Time's imgcntlc hand

Has criish'd into an undigested masse.

And heap of mines, obelisques of brasse ;

That our perfidious tombs (as loath to say

We once had life and being too) decay ;

And that those flowers of beauty which do grow

In ladies cheeks, amidst a bed of snow.

Are wither'd on their stalk ; or that one gust

Of a bleake ague can resolve to dust

Those hands which did a globe and scepter hold.

Or that that head which wore acrowne of gold.

May be wrap'd up within a shroud of lead.

Neglected, and forgot, since Sandys is dead ;

Within whose hrest Wit's empire seem'd to be,

And in whose braine a mine of poetrie ;

For who'l not now confesse, that Time's that moth

Which frets into all art, and nature both ;

Since he who seem'd within his active brain

So much of salt and verdure to contain.

He might haus ever been preserv'd, is gone.

And shrunk away into corruption :

But thest' excursions their conception owe

To passion, or from our wild phansiesflow;

All that we now do is to returne

Some fl'iwers of poesie unto his vrne,

Which being burnt in his own funerall flame,

Wec'l ofier up as incense to his name,

W^hich yet by ^entand colour will be known

T'haue sprang from him, and t'haue been first his own.

And if these Bowers cannot so perfume

Hi» name, but that 'twill (manger these) consume.

Our tears sirew'd on it, will repeale that fate.

And in his wither'd fame, new life create;

As when the treasures of tlie spring arecrop'd

And by uniimely martyrdom unlop'd.

From ofl ihiir stalke, we can their death repreive.

And a new life by water to ihem give :

So now when Sandys like the spring's flowry birlh.

By Death's rude siilie is mowed from off the earth.

And ihrowiie into a grave, to wither there

Into a heap of ashes, though no leare

Can piece his dust ingether, we may weep

A bath of tears, in which we yet may steep

His memorie, which will (like jT!son) when

'Tis thus manur'd, grow fresh and younii agen ;

And being thus embalm'd, a relique be ~

To be ador'd by all posterilie.

Phillpoi's Poemt, l646. IJrao. p. 19.]

That hung'st the solid earth in fleeting aire,
Veined witli cleare springs, which ambient seas re-

paire.
In clotids the ir.ountaines wrap their hoary heads;
Luxurious valieies cloth\l with flowrv meatls :
Her trees yield fruit and shade ; with iilicrall brests
All creatures she (their common mother) feasts.
Then man thy iniiige iiiad'st, in dignity,
In knowledge and in beauty like U) thee:
Plac'd in a heaven on earth : without his tojle
The ever-flourishing and fruitfull soile
Vnpurchas"'d food produced, all creatures were
His subiects, serving more for love then feare.
He knew no lord but thee — liut when he fell
From his obedience, all at once rebell,
And in his ruine exercise tlieir might :
Concurring elements against him nght :
Troups of unknowne diseases ; sorrow, age
And death assaile him with successive rage.
Hell let forth all her furies ; none so great
As man to man : Ambition, pride, deceit.
Wrong arm'd with power, lust, rapine, slaughter,

reign'd.
And flatter'd vice the name of vertue gain'd.
Then hils beneath the swelling waters stood.
And all the globe of earth was but one floud —
Yet could not cleanse their guilt. The following

race
Worse than their fathers, and their sons more ba."«c,
Their god-fike beauty lost, sin's wretched thrawle,
No sparke of their divine originall
Left unextinguisht : All inveloped
With darknesse ; in their bold transgressions dead.
When thou didst from the ea.st a light display,
Which rendred to the world a clearer day :
Whose precepts from hefs jawes our steps withdraw:
And whose example was a living law :
Who purged vs with his blouil ; the way prepar'd
To heaven, and those long-chained up doores un-

barr'd.
How infinite thy mercy ! which exceeds
The world thou mad'st, as well as our misdeeds .'
Which greater reverence thy iustice wins.
And still augments thy honour by our sins.
O ! who hath tasted of thy clemency
In greater measure, or more oft, than I !
My gratefull verse thy gootlnes shall display,
O thou, who went'st along in all my way :
Tp where the morning with perfumed wings
From the high mountaines of Panchasa spnngs.
To that new-found-out world, where sober mght
Takes from th'antipodes her silent flight ;
To those darke seas, where horrid winter reignes,
And binds the stubborne flouds in icie chaines :
To Libyan wastes, whose thirst no showres asswage,
And where swolne Nilus ctxjls the lion's rage.
Thy wonders in the deepe have I beheld.
Yet aU by those on Jtidah's hills exceU'd ;
There, where the Virgin's son his doctrine taught.
His miracles, and our redemption wTought :
II 2

103

GAMMON.

ROUS.

THOMAS.

CUr.

Where I, by Thee inspired, his ])rui8cs sung.

Ami on his sepulclire my offering hung;

AV^luch way so e'ro I turne my faee or feet,

I see tliy glory, ami thy mercy meet.

Met on tile Thracian shores ; when in the strife

Of frantick Simoans thou preservMst my life.

So wlien Arabian thieves belaid vs round.

And when, by all abandoned. Thee I found.

That false Sidonian wolfe, whose craft ])ut on

A slieepes soft fleece, and me Beilercphon

To ruine by his crucll letter sent,

Thou didst by thy protecting hand prevent.

Thou sav"'dst me from the bloudy ma.ssacres

Of faith-les Indians ; from their trcai'herous wars ;

From raging fcavers ; from the sultry breath

Of taintetl au-e, which cloy'd the jawes of death.

Preserv'd from swallowing seas, when towring waves

Mixt wth the clouds, and opened their deepc graves.

From barbarous pirats ransom'd : by those taught,

Successfully with Salian Moores we fought :

Then brought'st me home in safety, that this earth

Might bury me, which fed me from my birth :

Blest with a healthfull age, a quiet mind,

Content with little ; to this worke design'd ;

Which I at length have finisht by thy aid,

Ajid now my vowes have at tliy altar paid.

A head of Sandys, engraved in mezz. from an
original picture at Ombersley, is given in Na-sh's
Hist, of Worcestershire, ii, 224, where also is a
portrait of Edwyn, Ijefore mentioned vol. ii. col.
472, engraved by Val. Green, 1776.]

HANNIBAL GAMMON, a Londoner born
and a gentleman's son, l)ecame a commoner of
BroadgateVhall in 1599, and in that of his age 17,
took the degrees in arts, and afterwards was made
minister of S. Maugan in Cornwall, where he was
much frequented by the puritannical party for his
edifying and practical way of preaching. He hath
published

Several Sermons, as (1) God''s Smiting to Amend-
ment, &c. preached at the Assizes in Laiinceston, 6
Aug. 1628. mi Isa. 1. 5.^ Lond. 1629. qu. [Bodl.
4to. M. 45. Th.] (2) Praise of a godly Woman,
a wedding sermon, &c. Lond. 1627. qu. (3) Ser-
mon on tlie Lady Roberts'' s Funeral, 10 Aug. 1626,
&c. These two last I have not yet seen, nor another
Sermon Preached at tlie Assizes in Launceston,
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.

[It seems from the following note by Dr. Raw-
linson, that Wood has confused Gammon's two
sermons : ' After Praise of a godly Woman, a Ser-
mon, add, preached at the solemne Funerall of the
right Jumourabk Ladie, the Ladie Frances Roberts,

■ TDed. to his loving kin<^maii Jontithan Rashleigh esq;
and the vertuo'Js gentlewoman his wife]

at Lamhide Rock church in Cornwall, tlie \0 of
August 1626, on Prov. 31, vers. 30. Lond. 1627,
4to. dedicated to John son of Richard, loril Roberts
of Truro.' R.\wi,inson.

In Deg. Whearc's Epistolw Eucluirist. Oxon.
1628, (Bodl. 8vo. W. 20. Art^ are two letters from
Wheare to Gammon, dated 1625, 1626.]

" FRANCIS ROUS, son of Franc. Rous, whom
" I shall mention imder the year 1658, was born in
" Cornwall (at Saltash I thmk) bred in grammar
" learning partly in his own country, but chiefly in
" the sch(K)l at F,aton near ^Vindsor, where he be-
" gan and mostly finished (as 'tis said) the Attic
" Antiquities, of which the society of the coll. there
" have much gloried, that a youth in a grammar
" school should be able to attain to such a uegi-ee of
" learning, as to be able to write so curious a piece.
" But some of Merton coll. who knew him well,
" have often said, that he did not begin it till after
" he came to the university, for which being fittetl
" he was made one of the Eaton post-masters of
" Merton coll. in the beginning of the year 1634,
" and in that of his age 19, where liapning to be
" put under a g(X)d tutor, did make very good pro-
" flciency in learning, and wrote,

" Archccohgkv Atticw Lib. 3. Three Books of the
" Attic Antiquities, containing the Description of
" the Cities Glory, Governvwnt, Division of tlie
" People,and Toxcns uithin the Atheman Territory,
" &c. Oxon. 1637. qu. From which year to this
" time, it being noted for an useful book, hath since
" undergone several impressions. Afterwards the
" author leaving Mei-t. coll. retired for a time to
" Gloc. hall, the principal of which (Deg. 'Wheare)
" was friend to, and contemjx)rary with, his father in
" Broadgate's-hall. From thence his father took
" him, with a design to have him study the com-
" mon law in one of the inns of court, but finding

that his inclinations led him solely to the study of

' ihysic, he commanded him home and married
im to the daughter of sir Rich. Carew ; but she
" living not much more than an year with him, he
" again returned to his beloved study of physic :
" and contrary to all the jKJwerful arguments of his
" father used to the contrary, he settled himself in
" London much alx)ut the time the long parliament
" began, an. 1640, and there for two or more years
" he practised that faculty, and got not only a re-
" nutation among learned men, but a considerable
" mcome by it. At length in the flower of his age,
" death did put an end to those great exj)ectations
" his rare parts had raised in his friends, about six-
" teen hiuidred forty and three. In what jjarish he
" died, or in what church he was buried, none of
" his relations living in 1683 could tell mc, or my
" Cornish friend."

" WILLIAM THOMAS, a Welsh-man bom,
" bred in Jesus coll. left it withoiU a degree, was

h

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Clar.
1643.

THOMAS.

DOWNING.

lof;

Clar.
1643.

" chose burgess for the to\vn of Caeruarvan to sit
" in that parliament that began at Westminster 3
" Nov. 1640, wherein he shew'd liimself for a time
" a bitter enemv against the bishops, deans and the
" present establishment of the church. But seeing
" afterwards what desperate courses the chief part
" of the members thereof took, he left them (as
" many did) and retired to his majesty at Oxon,
" and sate in the parliament there, an. 1643. Un-
" der his name are,

" Several Speeches, as (1) Speech in Pari, con-
" cerniiig the Riffht of B'lxliops sitting and vothiff
" in Parliament, Sic. It is a sharp and historical
" speech, touching the corruption and imsoundness
" of the present e])iscopacy and church government,
" as also of the unlawtulness of their intermeddling
" in secular affairs, and using civil power, and the
" noxiousness of their sitting as members in the
" UnxPs house, and judges in that high court, &c.
" He was sec(mded by Joh. White another parlia-
" ment man (known afterwards by the name of Cen-
" tury White) and divers others who declared the
" like opinion. (2) Speech in Pari, concerning
" Deans and their Office, &c. In which he tells lis
" what it was originall}', and what it then (1641)
" was ; and endeavours in- the said spt>ech to prove
" the office of deim to be of little use, and therefore
" to be utterly abolished. It was spoken in June
" 1641, and printed soon after in qu. in one sheet
" or more, as that against bishops was. What
" other things are published under, or without his
" name, I know not. Sure I am that, repenting
" afterwards of what he had said and done, he
" turn\l a high rovalist, and suffered much there-
" fore for it. I find one William Thomas of Swan-
" zey in Glamorganshire esc]; to have compounded
" for his estate in Goldsmith's-hall about 1650 for
" being a royalist ; which perhaps may be the same
" with the former, and the same Will. Thomas who
" was matriculated as a member of Jesus coll. a
" Glamorganshire-man bom, and a gentleman's son,
" on the 3d of May 1616 aged 14 years. Another
" family of Thomas was at Wennow in the said
" county, of whom Edm. Thomas being heir in the
" time of the grand rebellion against K. Ch. I. he
" was by the endeavours of his friend Philip Jones
" and his kinsman Walter Strickland both of Oli-
" ver s council, made a lord of the other house, i. e.
" house of lords to Oliver. This lord Thomas had
" a son named William who married Mary daugh.
" to Philip lord Wharton, by whom he had issue
" that survived, only one daughter named Anne,
" who dying a maid at Pusey in Berkshire, 23 Aug.
" 1694, her l)ody was conveyed to a scat belonging
" to the lord Wharton called Uborne near Great
" Wycomb in Buckinghamshire, and there in the
" church inter'd on the 13 of Sept. following.'"

CALYBUTE DOWNING, the eldest .son of
Calyb. Downing of Shennington in Gloucestershire,

near to Banbury in Oxfordshire, gent, (lord of the
manors of Sugarswell and Tysoe m Wurwickshirv-)
became a commoner of Oriel coll. in 1623 antl in
that of his age 17 or therealKUits, t<K)h one degree
in arts,'' compleated it by determination, and tnen
went, as it seems, to Cambridge, or beyond the seas,
where taking itnother degree, he entred into orders,
was made rector of Hickford, (in Bucks.) doctor of
the laws, and had, (as I have been informetl by one
that well knew him) the rectory of West-Ildesley
in Berks bestowcil on him. AlM)ut that time, he
l)eing a competitor for the wartlenshij) of Allfs. coll.
when Dr. Gub. Shekhm wa.s elected, out lost it, did
at length exchange W. Ildesley for tlie rectory' of
Hackney near London " (where archb. I^aud saith,
" he settled this Dr. Downing)" and was a great suitor
to be chaplain to Tho. E. of Straflfbrtl lord lieute-
nant of Ireland, thinking that employment the rea-
diest 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 main-
tain it in all discourses. But being a reputed wea-
thercock tliat turn'd 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 (Ijeing settled and in }X'ace) 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 wliere,
especially in London, stirred up by some agents to
petition the king for that parliament, whicli began
3 Nov. 1640, our author Downing did then (viz.
on the first of Sept. 1640) preach to tlie brotherhood
of die Artillery Garden, and positively affinncd that
for defence of rehgion 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, tor fear
of being questioned, (for then it was not lawful to
preach treason) retire privately to Little Lees or
Leighs in Essex, the house of Robert earl of War-
wick, 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 censurd 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

' [B. A. Calhutus Downam, coll. Oriel, Novemb. 20,
16.'0. Reg. Congreg. O. fol. 275. b.]

* [Wood should have said vicaragc.J

* See a Leller from Merc. Civicus to Merc. Rusticut.
printed 1643. qu. p. 8.

l*ni

107

DOWNING.

TWYNE.

[50]

witliout admitting tliis dwtrinc, all their former en-
deavours would vanish into snioak, they stotxl doubt-
ful no lonirer, but dosed with tiiese two contrary
jMirties, yet shakinj^ hands in this point of rebellion,
and subscribing to the doctrine ot Downing, as an
evangelical truth. Upon the breaking out of the re-
bellion soon after, he became chaplain to the regi-
ment of John lortl Roberts in the army of Robert
earl of Essex, where he preached and prayed con-
tinually iigainst the king and his cause. In 1643
he shewed himself a grand covenanter, and there-
»ijx>n was made one of the assembly of divines ; but
leaving them soon after, he sided with the indepen-
dents, and preached so seditiously that he was com-
monly* called Youtig Peters, or Hiiffh Peters the
Second, and often and bitterly preached against
such citizens of London that shew'd themselves zeal-
ous for an union or right understanding between
the king and his parhamcnt. But l>ehold, while he
was in the height of these diabolicid 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 tlie Civil, considered under
three Conclusions, 8u:. Oxon. 1633, [Bodl. 4to. M.
31. Jur.] &c.

A Digression discussing some ordinary Excep-
tions against Ecclesiastical Officers. — To these two
discourses, tho' his name is put, yet I have been in-
formed by a certain D. of D. then living and well
known to Dooming, that he the said C. Downing
was not the author of them.'

A Discovery of the false Grounds the Bavarian
Party Jiave laid, to settle their ozvn, Faction, and
shake the Peace of the Empire, " considered in the
" Case of the Detainure of the Prince Elector Pala-
" tine his Dignities and Dominions,^ &c. Lond.
1641. qu. [Bodl. C. 13. 13. Line]

Discourse upon the Interest of England consider-
ed, in the Case of the Detainure of trie Prince Elec-
tor Palatine his Dignities and Dominions — sprinted
witli the former book next going before.

A Discoursive Conjecture upon the Reasons that
produce a desired Event qftJie present Troubles of
Great Britain, different from those of Lozver Ger-
many, &c. Lond. 1641. qu. &c.

" Considerations towards a peaceable ReformM-
" tion in Matters Ecclesiastical. Lond. 1641. qu.
" one sheet." [Bodl. C. 8. 29. Line]

Divers Sermons, as (1) Serm. preached before the
renowned Company of Artillery 1 Sept. 1640 ; on

* Tho. Edwards, in Jiis third part of Ganercena, I. p.
81. 82.

' [In the Bodleian arc two edition-, and both liave a dedi-
cation to WiUiani earl of Salisbury, in which Downing calls
himself his lordship's observant chaplain, a circumstance not
noticed by Wood. The second edit, of the Discourse and
Digressiori, was printed Oxford, l6'34, 4to. See Bodl. 4to.
R. II. Jar.]

Deut. 25. 17. Lond. Ifli2. qti. (2) Fast Serm. be-
fore the H. of Commons 31 Aug. 1G42, on 2 Thes.

3. ver. 2. (whether printed I know not,) and

others which I have not yet seen. This j)erson,
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 lumdrcd lC4t.
forty and four, to the great grief of his aged father,
who died in Nov. following. This Dr. €al. Down-
ing was father to a son of his own temper named
George," a sider with all times and changes, well
skiird in the common cant, and a preacher sometimes
to boot, a man of note in Oliver's day.s, as having
been by him sent resident to the lords states gene-
ral of the United Provinces, a soldier in Scotland,
and at lengtli scout-master general there, and a bur-
gess for several corporations in that kingdom, in
parliaments that began at Westm. in 1654 and 56.
Upon a foresight of his majesty K. Ch. II. his re-
storation he wheeled about, took all opportunities
to shew his loyalty, was elected burgess tor Morpeth
in Northumb. to serve in that pari, begun at Westm.
8 May 1661, was about that time sent envoy extra-
ordinary into Holland,' where to shew his zeal and
love to his majesty, he seized on three regicides at
Delft named John Barkstead, Job. 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 majesty''s commissioners of the Customs, was by
the name of sir George Downing of Ea.st-Hatley in
Cambridgeshire knight, createcT a baronet on the
first of July 1663.

[Calybut. Do\vning commenceth M. A. of Peter-
house in Cambridge, 1630. Calybut. Downing
LLD. coll. Petr. an. 1637. Reg. Acad. Cant.
Baker.

Downing did not die vicar of Hackney ; he re-
signed that preferment and was succeeded by WUl.
Spurstow, May 3, 1643.']

BRIAN TWYNE son of Tho. Twyne (men-
tioned before, under the year 1613) was admitted
scholar of Corp. Ch. coll. in a Surrey place on the
18 Dec. 1594, and in that of his age 15 or diere-
abouts. After he had taken the degrees in arts, he

' [Sir George Downing was of Harvard college in New
Kngland ; being the second graduate in that catalogue, anno
|642. See Cotton Mather's Hist, o/ New England, lib. iv.
p. 135, 6.

Quidam Geo. Downing, Suffolc. adniissus in coll. Regin.
(Cantab.) sizaior, an. 1569. Baker.

In the Inauguraliu Olivariana Carmen votivum, aulore
Filz-Pagano Fisliero, l(iS4, 4to. is an epithalamium ' In
nuptias viri vcre honoralissimi Georgii Downingi, campo-
exploratoris generalissiini Ike. el vere nobilissims Francisca
Howard! equuis aurati et sororis illustrissimi Caroii Howardi
de Naworlh in com. Cumnrjei,' Sec. Ken net.]

' [See a letter from him dated Hague, June S2, l665,
concerning Van Tromp and the affairs of the states general,
in the Lambeth library, Catalogue, numb. 933, fol. 89.]

' [Ncwcourt, Reperlvrium, i. 620.]

TWYNE.

no

was admitted ])robiitioiier fellow of the sjiid house
3 Jan. 1605 ; about which time entring into holy
orders, took the ilegree of bach, of div. five years
after. In 1614 he was made Greek reader of his
college, performed his duty well, and about 1623
left that aud the house to avoid his being iiigaged
in a faction then between the president and fellows ;
knowing very \\'cll that if he favoured either side,
expulsion would follow, because he had entred into
a wrong county place. Afterwards he became vicar
of Rye in Sussex,' (in which county, at Lewes, as
'tis supposed by some, he was born) by the favour,
as it seems, of the earl of Dorset, but being seldom
resident on the place, he spent the most part of his
time in Oxon, in certain hired kxlgings in Penver-
thingstreet in the parish of S. Aldate, where he con-
tinued to his dying day. The genius of this person
being naturally bent to the study of history and an-
tiquities, he published a book in vindication of the
antiquity anci dignity of the university of Oxon,
against such matters that Londinensis, otherwise
called John Cay, had smd in his book De Antiqui-
tate Acad. Cantab, in derogation to Oxon, the title
of it is this,

Antiquitat'is Academicv Oxoniensis Apologia, in
tre-s Libros divim. Oxon. 1608. [Bodl. 4to. T. 22.
Art. Seld.] To which books are these things added.

Miscellanea qiucdam de antiquis Aulis c^- Stu-
dentitim Colleg-iis, quondam, <§• hodie, in Univer-
sitate existentibus.

Sxrnnmorum Oxoniensls Academice Magistra-
tuum, hoc est Canceliariorum, Commissariorum, et
Vicecancellariorum oiecnon Procuratorum, &c. Ca-
talogus.

In the aforesaid Apology, tho' sufficient judg-
ment, yet greater reading, is shewed; which hath
<x;casioned many understanding men, to suppose,
nay rather confidently believe, that he had the helps
of Tho. Allen and Miles Windsore' in the compo-
sition of the work, es[x;cially for this reason, that
when he had fitted it for the ])ress, he was scarce
28 years of age. Howsoever it is, I shall not pre-
tend to judge: sure I am that notwithstanding se-
veral persons have endeavoured to pick flaws and
errors thence, and have characteriz''d it to be rather
a rude heap, than an exact pile, yet the body and
general part of it remains as yet unanswered. The
author intended to reprint the said work with addi-
tions, collected from many obscure places, but the
grand rebellion breaking out in 1642, (in the time
of which he died) his design was frustrated, and the

* [Rye vicarage, Sussex, scqiiesired from Bryan Twine lo
John fiealon. Vifl. Books of the Commiltte Jor plundred
Ministers. Baker.]

' [Ilatl'.er by tlie help of Tho. Key's MS. E.ramen Judirii
Canlairigiensis cujusdam, /jtii se Londinensem dicil, nuper de
Oris^iiie Academice ulrinsque lali; which Mr. Wood says
(Athen^e, i. 174) was got into tlie hands of Allen and
Windsore, of whom sec an account col. 489, 574- See like-
wise, col. 343. mention of one H. Lyie, who wrote on the
antiquities of the university of Oxford. Watts.]

IxMik it self interleav'd and filled with additions, to-
gether witli many rarities, were, when the great fire
hainied in Oxon (which was .soon after his death)
either burnt* with the hou.se wherein he dietl, (hav-
ing been there left by his executor) or else then con-
veyed away by such who commonly seek advantage
by such disastei's. I have heard some masters of
arts, who then bore arms for liis majesty in Oxon,
say, that six or seven volumes of his collections in
quarto (either of Greek, mathematics, i)hilosoj)hy,
heralilry, antiquities, &c. in all which he was well
read,) were offered to them by a beggarly soldier
for very inconsiderable prices ; and Dr. Herb. Pel-
ham sometimes of Magu. coll. hath aver'd it for an
unquestionable truth that two or three vol. were
offered to him by such indigent persons for six pence
a piece, such is the sordidness of ignorance and po-
verty! Our author Twyne was of a melancholic
temper and sedentary life, and wholly spent his time
in reading, writing and contemplation. He made it
his whole endeavour to maintain the university pri-
vileges and hberties against its oppugners, and spent
much money and travel for that purpose, especially
for the obtaining copies of the antieiit charters and
bulls which formerly had been granted thereunto.
He left no library, office, or place, wherein he
thought were reposed monuments of literature and
antiquity un}x;rused, exjwcting in them something
that might redound to the honour of his mother,
making thereby an incredible pile of collections.
But so it was, that most of them, except some which
he bequeathed to the university relating to contro-
versial matters between the two corporations, were,
with great resentment let it be spoken, lost in the
said fire. Had they, or his interleav'd b<x)k, been
saved, the work of the Hist, and Antiq. of Oxon,
which was some years since pubhshed, might pro-
bably have been spared, or at least have come sooner
to light, with much gratitude to the lucubrations of
this industrious antitjuary ; but being lost, as I have
told you, tlio' Dr. Langbaine of Qu. coll. and one
or more did make diligent search after it, I was
forced to peruse the records in all those jjlaccs, wliich
he had done before, nay each college treasury of
muniments, which were, except one, omitted by him,
to the end that all local antiquities in Oxford, and
other matters of antiquity, not well understoo<l by
him, might be by me known, and in future time de-
scribed, if ever the Enghsh copy of the said Hist,
and Antiq. of Oiron, may hereaif'ter be published :
to which I intend to add the antiquities of the town
or city of Oxon. Dr. Laud archb. of Cant, had an
especial respect for our author Twyne, and employ-
ed him in drawing up the university statutes now

■• [.VI r. Smith questions the truth of this, and speaks as
follows : — ' You may trace Mr. Twine lhr<i' all his books,
and by references from one MS. lo another, and the charac-
ter for every volume, I cannot find certainly that any more
than one is now wanting.' Annals of Univ. Coll. p. 175.

MORANT.]

Ill

TWYNE.

ROE.

in use: whicli were afterwards corrected, metho-
dized and tiirbisht over witli excellent Latin by Dr.
Pet. Turner one of the SaWUan professors, as I shall
tell you hereafter. In the said noble work of ga-
thering the statutes together, our author being the
chief, if not the only, drudge, (for he transcrilx;d
them all under his own hand) he was rewarded with
the place of Custos Archivoruni. founded and esta-
blished by the chancellor and scholars of the uni-
versity ai'ter the statutes were compleated, an. 1634.
Whic-ii place he enjoying about ten years, took his
last farewell of this worlcT in his lodgings in S. Al-
date's parish before-mentioned, on the fourth day of
1644. July in sixteen hundred forty and four. After-
wards his lx)dy was buried in the inner chappel, or
choire of Coq). Ch. college, to which house he had
bequeathed in his last will many choice books,
whereof some were MSS. of his own writing. What
I have further to observe of our author is, that tho'
he was accounted by divers persons an honest plain
man, one rather industrious than judicious, (not-
withstanding well skilled in the mathematics) cyni-
[521 cal than facetious, morose than pleasant, clownish
than courteous, close than communicative, and that
he was evilly spoken of by the Oxonian vulgar, as
a conjurer,' or one busied in the black art, a be-
trayer of their hl)ertics and I know not what, yet
he was a loving and a constant friend to his mother
the university and to his college, a severe student
and an adorer of venerable antiquity. And there-
fore, forasmuch as his love was so, which none that
knew him could ever say to the contrary, his me-
mory ought to be respected by all virtuous and good
men.

[J}i Account of the Mmter'mgs qftJie University
of Oxford, with otlier Things that happened there
from Auff. 9, 1642, to July 15, I64ii, inclusively.
Printed, from an original MS. ' written, as it seems,
by Mr. Brian Twyne,' by Hearne, in his Chron. sivc
Annul. Prioratus de Dunstaple, 1733, page 737.

Letter from him to Camden, dat. 24 Feb. 1622 ;
MS. Cotton, Julius C. v. which has been inserted in
Smith's edit. Camdeni Epistol. Lond. 1691. 4to.
By the way, I may here mention, that there is a
very valuable copy of this excellent book in the
Bodleian, containing a great number of collations
and notes by Smith, who left the vol. to Hearne,
whence it came into the hands of Dr. llawlinson.]

" THOMAS ROE, son of Rob. Roe of Low-
Layton near Wanstcd in Essex, a younger son
of sir Tho. Roe knight, lord mayor of London,
an. 1568, by Mary his wife daugh. of sir Joh.
Gresham kt. was born at Low-I^ayton, and when
entring into his teens became a commoner of
Magd. coll. an. 1593, by the indulgent care of
his mother, then the wife of one Berkley of Rend-
comb in Glocestershire, of the family of the lord

> [See Hutchinson on Witchcraft]

" Berkley. But before the time was come that he
" could adorn, or l)e adorned with, an academical
" degree, he was taken from the .said coll. and after
" some time spent in one of the inns of court, or in
" France, or Ixitli, he was made esquire of the body
" to qu. Elizabeth in the latter end of her reign.
" On the 28d of March 1604 he received the honour
" of knighthood from his majesty then at Green-
" wich, and sooji after was sent by Pr. Henry,
" upon a discovery to the W. Indies. In 1614 no
" was sent ambassador to the Great Mogul by K.
" Jam. I. to whose honour he managed all things
" there with much prudence and success. In 1620
" he was elected burgess for Cirencester in Gloces-
" tershire, to serve in that pari, that began 30 of
" January, and in 1621 he was sent ambassador by
" the said K. James to the Grand Seignior in the
" time of Osnian, Mustaphaand Amurat." In whose
" country our nation of England enjoys the happy
" effects of his negotiations to this day. For belbre
" his time the affairs of our merchants there were
" in great disorder, and little regard was ha<l to the
" capitulations and privileges accorded to by the
" Gr. Seignior, either to our nation, or any other,
" he having to his immortal reputation' recovered
" the respect due to ambassadors, which had been
" utterly lost for several years before, by a siicces-
" sion of insolent viziers ; and that he deserveil most
" highly, not only of the Greek church by his gene-
" rous protection of it against those who endeavour-
" ed (to their power) to destroy its very being, but
" of Christendom in general, and particularly of Po-
" land, which K. Sigismond acknowledged with
" great respect and thanks in a letter written from
" Warsaw m the month of Sept. 1622. In the lat-
" ter end of 1629 he was sent ambassador to the K.
" of Poland and Sweedland, and soon after, twice
" to the king of Denmark and divers princes in Ger-
" many. In 1640, Oct. 17, he was elected burgess
" for the univ. of Oxon to serve in that parliament
" which began at Westminster on the 3 of Nov. the
" same year ; wherein he shewed himself a person
" of great reason and elocution. In the beginning
" of July 1641 his maj. K. Ch. I. acquainted his
" parliament with his purpose to send the said sir
" Tho. Roe ambassador to the emperor, to be pre-
" sent at the diet at llatislx)ne, and there to me-
" diate on the behalf of the prince elector, and his
" intent to pubhsh a manifesto in his own name
" about this business : to which the parliament as-
" senting the said sir Thomas s(X)n after went to
" the said emperor and all the princes of Germany
" that then met at Ratisbone. At which time the
" emp. having received experience of the great abi-

^ [See a letter from him dated Constantinople l623, to
Mr. Secretary Calvert. MS. Cotton, Titus B. vii, 474.]

' " See more in a book cntit. An Account of the Greek
" Church, kc. Lond. l()80, p. 252, S53, written by Tho.
" Smith D. D. of Magd. coll. in Oxon."

ROE.

114

" litics of sir Thomas, would several times say in
" public, ' I have met with inaiiy gallant persons of
" many nations, but I scarce ever met with an am-
" bassacUn* till now.' After his return, he was made
" by K. ("h. I. chancellor of the Garter, and one of
" his majesty's privy-counsellors. In all which em-
" ployments, whether domestic or foreign, he did
" manifestly shew what eminence there was treasur'd
[53] " up in him, and what admirable parts he wa.s en-
" dewed with. The truth is, those that knew him
" well, have said, that there was nothing wanting
" in him towards the accomplishment of a .scholar,
" gentleman or courtier ; that also, as he was learn-
" ed, so was he a great encourager and promoter of
" learning and learned men. His spirit was ge-
" nerous and public, and his heart iaithful to his
" prince. He was a great statesman, as good a com-
" monwealth's man, and as sound a Cliristian as our
" nation hath had in many ages. Under his name
" do go these things following,

" A true and faithful Relation, represented to
" his Maj. and the Prince, of what hath lately hap-
" ned in Constantinople, concerning the Death of
" Sultan Osman, and the setting up of Mustapha
" his Uncle. Lond. 1622. qu.

" Contimmtion of the same Story — sprinted with
" the former Relation.

" Letters from the Court of the Great Mogul in

" East India. These letters, which were tlated

" 20 Jan. 1615, .'50 Oct. 1616, and 30 Nov. the
" same year, you may see in Sam. Purchas his Pil-
'^ grims, part 1. lx)ok 4. chap. 16. §. 10.

" Several speeches in parliament, and elsewhere,
" as (1) Speech at the Council Table touching brass
" Money, or against brass Money; in Jul. 1640.
" Lond. 1641. qu. [Bodl. C. 13. 13. Line] (2)
" Sp. in Pari, wherein is shezv'd the Cause of the
" Decay of Coin, and Trade in this Land, espe-
" daily of Merchants Trade, Stc. Lond. 1641. qu.*
" (3) Speech or Reports from the Committee to the
" Commons House in Parliament, An. 1640, which
" speech mostly relates to .sir Joh. Finch, lord
" keeper and his speech in parliament, &c.

" Compendious Relation of the Proceedings and
" Acts of the Imperial Dyet held at Ratisbon, in
" the Year 1640 and 1641, abstracted out of tlie

" Diary of the Colleges. This is yet in MS. in

" the hands of Dr. Tho. Smith of Magd. coll. in
" Oxoii, and hath this beginning. Before I relate
" what was enacted, &.c.

" Journal cf several Proceedings of the Knights

" of the Order of the Garter This, which is yet

" ' 1 MS.' is several times cited by Elias Ashmole
" esq; in his great volume, entit. The Institution,
" Laws, and Ceremonies of the most noble Order of
" the Garter, published in 1672. fol. I have been

' [On lliis subject, he wrote, it seems, a distinct treatise.
See MS. Harl. 66g5. Treatise touching lite Decay of Trade,
the Causes and the Cures.'\

" [MS. Ashmole 7387.T

Vol. III.

" also told that liis Jtmrnetf into E. India to tlie
" Gr. Mogul IS printed by it self, or at least joyn-
" cd to a translation of a lxx)k out of the Itahan
" tongue, but such I have not yet seen.' He al*)
" translatetl into English A Discmirse concerning
" the King <f Spain\H Surprizing if the Vallidine :
" when, or where printed I cannot yet find. At
" length this worthy person sir Tfio. Roe, did,
" after all his voyages and raxnblings, take a little
" breath ; but soon after, seeing how untowardly
" things went between the king and his parliament,
" did willingly surrender it to him that first gave it,
" on the sixth day of Novemb. in sixteen hundred
" forty and four, and two days after that, his Ixxiy
" was buried privately in the church of Woodford
" near to Wansted in Essex. He gave several
" choice books to the Bodleian library while he was
" living, and after his death his relict, named Elca-
" nor, did, according to the defunct's will, put into
" the hands of Dr. Gerard Langbaine 242 silver
" medals, which were deliveretl to the head keeper
" of the said library. I shall gratify the reader
" with a most noble epitaph made for him by the
" said Langbaine, but for what reason it was not
" put over his grave I know not : and is as follows :
" Hie situs est Thomas Rowe, ordinis equestiis,
" qui familiae, alias luculentie, ex qvia prodiit, lucem
" a se intulit. Juvenis adhuc, tyrocinium posuit in
" xYcademia Oxonicnsi, cui jwstea, eo nomine, am-
" })lissimum didactrum gi'atus rependit. Scil. MSS.
" cod. Grfficos & Arabicos selectissimos ; necnon
" uberrimum antiquitatis thesaurum, numismata
" antiqua quaniplurima, pretiosissimum KsfiijAJsr,
" & duratura acl postcros memoria, quoad studiis
" honos aut pretium, nee literarum immortale fas

« \Thc Travels o/Sig. Pietro delta Falle, a nolle Roman,
into East India and Arabia Deserta. In which, the several
Countries, together with the Customs, Manners, Traffique,
and Rites loth religious and civil, of those Oriental Princes
and Nations, are faithfully described: In familiar Letters
to his Friend Sigtiior Mario Schipano. Whereunto is added
a Relation of Sir Thomas Roe's Voyage into the East-Indies.
London, Printed by J. Macock, for Henry Herringman, and
arc to be sold at his Shop at the Blew Anchor in the Lower-
Walk of the New E.rchange. j60'6. folio, cont. pp. 480.
Decl. to Koger, earl of Orrery, by G. Havers. Bo<ll. E. 1.
l(j. Art.

This however is not sir Thomas Rowe's account, but was
written by his chaphiin, as he himself tells us at p. 344. —
' Thus afier a long and iroublcsom, and dangerous passage,
we came at last to our desired yion (Swally.) And imme-
diately after my arrival there, I was sent for by sir Thomas
Row, lord embassadour, then residing at the mogol's court
(which was very many miles up the country) to supply the
room of Mr. John Hall his chaplain (fellow of Corpus
Ohristi collcdf; in Oxford) whom he had not long before bu-
ried. And 1 lived with that most noble gentleman at that
court more than two years, after which 1 returned home to
England with him.' The writer of this account tells us also,
that he was for some months chamber-fellow or tent-mate
with the celebrated Thomas Coryat, who was calle«l by
those who knew him and his story, ' Greek-travelling Tho-
mas.' See the book for some curious particulars of this cu-
rious wanderer.]

l6i4.

115

ROE.

PRICHARD.

[54]

" obliterabit taiuU'in piulcnda sfreuli l)arl)aries.
" Postquam ex uinbraculis acailemicis ejiUTsit, fiu
" msequc vadiini ingressus in solem & pulverem
" processit ; in aiila regia meruit primum regin.
" Elizaliethffi extra ordinem coriwre-c^iistos ; postea,
" aiispiciis jussuq; sereniss. pnnc-ipis Henrici, In-
" diam occidcntalenj perlustravit ; si qiiam jxiste-
" ris honoris, coinmcKiive niateriani, niajonnn dili-
" gentia reliquisset intattani, cxploraturus. Deinde,
" jiassis honoris velis, solisque aemulus noniinis sui
" splendorem utroque oceano circiinif'erens, varias
" splendidissimasque legationes obivit.

C Miocxiv. ad Magnum quern vocant, Mo-
gul,
cioiocxxxi. ad potentiss. Turcarum Im-
perat. Osmannum, Musta-
phain, Amurathem.

A. D.

ciDi.ic— ^ atl Ser. R.R. Poloniaj & Suecia?
ad

' XXX

Ser. R. Dania: variosque
Germaniaj Principes, bis.
ciDiDCXLi. ad Aug. German. Imp. reli-
quoscjue Inqjerii Prmcipes.
*' His legationibus perfunctus, cum & aetas jam de-
" vexa, & corporis mfirmitas, gloriaeque quaedam sa-
" tietas, receptui canendum monerent, domum re-
" versus, a sereniss. R. Carolo non inane opera; pre-
" tium tulit, cancellarius honoratiss. Ordmis Aur.
*' Periscelidis renuntiatus, tk, sanctior. Reg. conciliis
" adhibitus. Demum, ille tot regnorum, dissitorum
" internuntius, dissidentium coagulum ; ilJe fade-
'' rum intcrpres, & paeis publicae sequester ; ille
" duonmi reg. Jacobi & Caroli, ad quinque impe-
" ratores, tres reges, legatus ; depo.sita tandem pcr-
" sonii, lionorum et annorum satur, cessit c scena,
" propitii numinis indidgentia praereptus opportune,
" ne funestam regni catastropnen, paulo post inse-
*' quutam, spectaret. Decessit an. Uom. ciaiocxLiv,
" &c. To this sir Tho. Roe was nearly related Mr.
" Hen. Roe a discreet gent, sometimes feUow of
" Trinity coll. in Cambridge, who going with the
" lord A.shton, as his servant, when he went ambas-
" sador into Spain alxiut 1620, suffered great trou-
*' bles by the mquisiticm there, as you may see at
" large in a b<x)k entit. Further Observations of the
" English Spanish Pilgrim concerning Spain, &c.
" Lond. 1630. qu. p. 18, 19, &c. written by James
" Wadsworth, gent.'"

[In 1740 were printed Tfie Negotiation.^ of Sir
Thomas Roe, in his Embassy to tfie Ottoman Porte,
frrnn the Year 1621 to 1628 inclusive. London
' at the expence of the society for the encouragement
of learning' 1740, folio. It wa-s originally proposed
to print the whole of these very valuable collections,
in five volumes, with a life, index, &c. but the
design was dropped for want of sufficient encourage-
ment.

In the Bodleian is a MS. entitl«l My Harts Dis-
rhardge. To the right worshipfull his very louinge
Brother Mayster Henry Rowe, Esquire, and Bar-
roun of Slaptou7i, ana the worshipfull his well

respected Sister Mist ris Susanna Halliday, pa-
tricii inclita Ciuitatis Londini, perfect Health,
with- Encrease of true Happines bee wished By
Tlurmas Ronce. Manet in.tontcm grauis exitus.
Stoad tlie 31 Marche Anno Domini 1616. MS. in
4to. Rawl. Misc. 143.

Vertue engraved a head of Rowe from a pmnting
by M. M. a Delpli, 1741, in folio.]

REES PRICHARD was bom, as it seems, at
Llanymodyfri in Caermarthenshire, and being edu-
cated in those parts, he was sent to Jesus coll. in
1597, aged 18 years or thereabouts, ordained priest
at Wittham or Wytham in Essex by John suffragan
bishop of Colchester, on Sunday 25 Apr. 1602,
took the degree of bach, of arts m June following,
and on the sixth of Aug. the same year had the
vicaridge of Llanymodyfri before-mention'd, com-
monly called Landovery collated on him by Anthony
bishop of S. David. On the 19 of Nov. 1613 he
was instituted rector of Llamedy in the dioc. of S.
David, (presented thereunto by the king,) which he
held with the other living by dispensation from the
archb. 28 Oct. 1613, confirmed by the great seal on
the 29 of the same month, and qualified by being
chaplain to Robert earl of Essex. In 1614, May
17, ne was made prebendary of the coUegiate church
of Brecknock by the aforesaid Anthony bishop of
S. David ; and by the title of master of arts (which
degree he was persuaded to take by Dr. Laud his
diocesan) he was made chancellor of S. David (to
which the prebend of Llowhatlden is annex'd) on
the 14 of Sept. 1626, upon the resignation of Rich.
Baylie bach, of div. of S. John's coll. In Wales is
a book of his composition that is common among the
people there, and bears this title ;

Gwaith Mr. Rees Pricliard, Gynt Ficcer, &c.
Tlie Wcrrks of Mr. Rees Prichard sometimes Vicar
of Landovery in Caermarthenshire, printed before
in 3 Books, but now printed together in one Book,
^c. with an Addition in many Things out ofMSS.
not seen before by tfie Publisher; besides a fourth
part now the jirst time impfinted. Lond. l672. in
a thick Oct.* It contains four parts, and the whole
consists of several poems and pious carols in Welsh,
which some of the author's countrymen commit to
memory, and are wont to sing. He also translated
divers books into Welsh, and wrote something upon
the 39 articles ; which, whether printed I know not:
some of it I have seen in MS. He died at Llany
modyfri about the month of Nov. in sixteen hundred
forty and four, and was, as I presume, buried in the '^^■*-
church there.' In his life time he gave lands worth

' [This book, of which Mr. Stephen Huehes publish'd
many editions, occasion'd many hundreds of the ignorant
Welch, who delight in songs, to learn to read their own lan-
guage. Calamy, Ejected Ministers, ii. 718.]

' [Nelson, in his Life of Bishop Bull, gives us the follow-
ing account of that prelate's wish to be buried near Prichard :
— ' When he was asked, where he would be buried, whe-
ther at Caermarthen or Brecknock, he returned this answer.

piiicirAiii).

LAUD.

lin

20/. jM-T ann. for the settling a free school at I>lany-
mody fri, together with an liousc to keep it in. After-
wards the house was possessed by four school-
masters successively, and the money paid to them.
At length Tho. Manwaring (son of Roger some-
times bishop of St. David) who married Elizab. the
only daugh. of Samuel, son of the said Rees Pri-
chard, did retain, (as I have been informed by let-
[55] ters thence) and seise upon, the said lands under
pretence of paying the school-master in money,
which accordingly was done for an year or two.
But not long after (as my informer tells me) the
river To^vry breaking into the house, carried it
away, and the lands belonging thereunto are occu-
pied at this time (1682) by Rog. Manwaring son
and heir of Thomas before-mentioned ; so that the
school is in a manner quite forgotten.

WILLIAM LAUD,* the son of a father of both
his names,* by Lucia his wife, the widow of John

Where the tree fallelh there let it lie ; meaning, that they
should bury him in the parish church of Lhandoveryj and
what still further inclined him to this determination, was the
extraordinaiy value and respect, which the bishop express-
ed to the memory of Mr. llecs Prichard, formerly vicar of
that place, interred there, upon the account of his great and
celebrated piety, and the usefulness of his excellent poems in
the Welsh tongue ; which are in very great repute among ihe
inhabitants of that country, as well for the plainness of the
languaec, and the easiness and smoothness of the measures,
as ftjr tlie importance of the subjects upon which he wrote.
The whole book being in a manner an entire body of prac-
tical divinity, in which several of the natives, even those
that arc illiterate, are so well versed, that they will very per-
tinently quote authorities out of this book for their faith and
practise.' Page 474.]

■* This life of Laud differs so materially from the account
published by Woml in his first edition, that, as it vvas utterly
impossible to point out ihc variations in the margin, I have
given the whole, as it originally appeared, in a note.

WILLIAM LAUU son of Will. Laud by Lucia his wife,
widdow of Job. Robinson of Reading in Berks, and daugh.
of Job. Webbe of the same place, was born in S. Lourence
parish in the said borough of Reading, on the ?. of Octob.
1573, educated in the free-school there, elected scholar of S.
Johns coll. in ISQO, where going thro with great diligence
the usual forms of logic and philosophy under the tuition of
Dr. John Buckeridge, was made fellow in 1504, and four
years after mast, of arts, at which time he was esteemed by
all those that knew him a very forward and zealous person.
About that time entring into the sacred function, he read the
divinity lecture newly set up in the coll. and maintained by
one Mrs. . . . May. In l603 he was elected one of the proc-
tors of the university, and became chaplain to the earl of
Devonshire, which proved his happiness, and gave him hopes
of greater preferment. In l604 he was admitted to the read-
ing of the sentences, and in l()07he became vicar of Stanford
in Northamptonshire. In the year following he proceeded
D. of div. and was made chaplain to Dr. Neile bishop of Ro-

' (This libel upon him in the Scots Scouts Discoveries,
Lond. l642. — His father was a clothier, his mother a spin-
ster ; he was from his cradle ordained to be a punisher of
poor people, for he was born between the stocKs and the
cage, which a courtier one day chaunced to speak of, where-
upon his grace remov'd them thence, and puU'd down his
father's thatch'd house and built a fair one in the place.—
Kenset.]

Robinson of Reading in Berks, and daughter of
John Webbe of the same place, (which John Webbe

Chester. In iGOJ) he became rector of Weil-Tilbury in
Essex, for which he exchanged his advowson of Norlh-Kil-
worth in Leicestershire. The next year his |)atron the bishop
of Rochester gave him the rectory of Kuckslonc in Kent, but
that place proving unhcalthful to him, he left it, and was in-
ducted into Norton by proxy. The same year viz. I6l0 he
resign'd his fellowship, and the year following he was elected
prejident of his college. In l6i4 hisj>atron, then bishop of
Lincoln, gave him a prebendship in that church, and after
thatthearch-deaconry of Huntingdon, an. l()16,onthedcathof
Matthew Gifford master of arts. In the year I6l6 the king
pave him the deanery of Glocester after the death of Dr. Rich.
Field, and in the year following he became rector of Ibstock
in Leicestershire. In l620 Jan. S2. he was installed canon
or prebendary of the eighth stall in the church of West-
minster, (in the place of Edw. Buckley D.D. who had suc-
ceeded Will. Latymer in that dignity 1589.) and the next
year after, his majesty (who upon his own confession had
given to him nothing but the deanery of Glocester, which he
well knew was a shell without a kernel) gave him the grant
of the bishoprick of S. David, and withal, leave to hold his
presidentship of S. Jo. coll. in commcndam with it, as also
the rectory of Ibstock before mention'd, and Creek in North-
amptonshire. In Sept. l6a() he was translated to B. and
Wells, and about that time made dean of the royal chappel.
In 1627 Apr. 29. he was sworn privy counsellor with Dr.
Neile then B. of Durham, and on the 15 of Jul. 1(528, he
was translated to London. Much about which time, hisan-
tient acquaintance sir Jam. Whitlock a judge used to say of
our author Dr. Laud that ' he was too full of fire, though a
just and a good man, and that his want of cx))erience in state
matters, and his too much zeal for the church, and heat, if
he proceeded in the way he was then in, would set this nation
on fire. In l630 he was elected chancellour of the univ. of
Oxon, and in 1633 Sept. I9. he was translated to Canterbury,
which high preferment drew upon him such envy, that by
the puritan party, he was afterwards in the beginning of the
long parliament, impeached of high treason. He was a per-
son of an heroick spirit, pious life, and exemplary conversa-
tion. He was an encourager of learning, a stiff maiiilainer
of the rights of the church and clergy, and one ihat lived to
do honour to his mother the university and his country.
Such a liberal benefactor also he was towards the advance-
ment of learning, that he left himself little or nothing for
his own use ; and by wh.tt his intentions were, we may guess
that if the severe stroke of rebels had not untimely scquestred,
and cut him off, S. Pauls cathedral had silenced the fame of
anticnt wonders, our English clergy had been the glory of the
world, the Bodleian libr. in Oxon. had daily outstrip! the Vati-
can, and his publick structures had o'crtopt theEscurial. VV ho-
soever also will read over the brcviat of his life and actions,
pen'd by himself for private use, but purposely publish'd by
his inveterate enemy W. Prynne with his rascally notes and
diabolical reflections thereon, purposely to render him mope
odious to the common people (followed therein by another
' villain) will find that he was a man of such eminent vertues,
such an exemplary piety towards God, such an unwearied
fidelity to his gracious sovereign, of such a public soul to-
wards the church and stale, of so fix'd a constancy in what
he undertook, and one so little biassed in his private interests,
that ' Plutarch, if iie were alive, would be much troubled to

' Bulstr. Whitlock in his Memorials of the English Af-
fairs, &c. p. 32. /.,...,
2 Lewis du Moulin in his Patron, bona ftdet, &c. I>ond.
167a. in cap. vel. lib. De Specim. contra Durellum, p. 68,

' Relation of the Death and Sufferings of the Archh. of
Canterb. Oxon. l644. p. £.

1 **

119

LAUD.

120

was father to sir Will. Wcbbe lord-mayor of Lon-
don, an. 1591,) was bom in the parish of S. Lau-

fiiid a sufficient parallel wherewith to match liim in all the
lineaments of pcrfcc" vcrtue. Next as lor his great reading
and learning, may he, by curious persons, seen in his works,
(and thereby easily perceived that he was versed in books as
well as in business) the titles of which follow.

Several sermons, as ( I ) Sermon preached before his maj. at
Wansted, 19 June 1 621, on Psal. 122. f), 7- Lond. lC2l . qu.
(2) Seim. at IFhitehall 24 Mar. l621, being the Day of the
beginning of his Maj. most gracious Raigne, on Psal. 2 1 . 6, ?.
Lond. 1(J22. qu. (.3) Serm. before his Maj. at Wtiitchall, on
Psal. 75. a. 3, Lond. l625. qu. (4) Serm. at Westm. 6 Feb.
at the opening of the Part, on Psal. 122. 3, 4, 5. Lond.
1625. qu. (5) Serm. at IVestm. 17 Mar. (l627) at the open-
ing of the Part, on Ephes. 4. 3. Lond. l6'J8. qii. (6) Serm.
at milehall at a solemn Fast before the K. 5 Jul. 1626. on
Psal. 74. 22. Lond. 1626. tj) Serm. at Paules Cross on the
King's Inauguration, on Psal. 22. 1. — printed at Lond.
Which seven sermons were reprinted at the same place in
Oct. an. 1651.

Speech delivcredin the Star-chamber, \iJune l637, atthe
Censure of Joh. Bastwick, Hen. Burton and Will. Prynne.
Lond. 1637. qu. &c.

Conference between him and Jo. Fisher. Lond. l623. fol.
published under his chaplains name R. B. i. e. Rich. Baylie
of S. Johns coll. Reprinted 1639 and l673. fol.

Answer to the Exceptions of A. C— printed with the
former.

Which Conference was look'd upon as a piece so solidly
compacted, that one of our ■* historians (who shews himself
to be none of Laud's greatest friends) gives it the commenda-
tion of being the exactest master-piece of pnlemiquc divinity
of any extant at that time, and farther affirms, that he de-
claretl himself therein, so little theirs (meaning the papists)
as he had for ever disabled them from being so much their
own, as before they were. Sir Edw. Deering also his pro-
feis'd adversary, in the preface to the book ■■ of speeches,
could not but confess, that in the said book of Laud, espe-
cially in the last half of it, he had muzled the Jesuit, and
should strike the Papists under the fifth ribb, when he was
dead and gone ; ancl being dead, that wheresoever his grave
should be, Pauls should be his perpetual moimment, and his
own book his epitaph. It was answero<l by a Jesuit named
■ Tho. Carwell alias Thorold a Lincolnshire man born, in a
book intit. Labirinthus Cantuariensis. Par. l638. fol. Re-
plied upon by Dr. Meric Casaubon (as I shall tell you else-
where) and by Mr. Edw. Stillingfleet.

Various letters, as (1) Letters of State, dispersed in the
Cabala's and divers books. (2) Letter with divers MSS. to
the University of O.ron. Lond. l640, with the Answer of
the University \n one sh. in qu. which I have niention'd
elsewhere. They were both written in Lat. but foolishly
translated into Engl, by a precise person, purposely to bring
an odium on Dr. Laud. See Hist. iSf Antiq. Univ. Oxon.
lib. 1. p. 348. b. (3) Letter to the Univ. nf O.von. when he
resigned his Office of Chancellour. Oxon. lC41. in one sh.
published by occasion of a base libel or forgery that ran under
the said title. The University's Answer in Lat. is joyned to

Notes in MS. on a book entit. Rome's Master-Piece, &c.
Lond. 1643. qu. Which book was published by Will.
Prynne, and by his endeavours was convtyed to him when
he was prisoner in the Towerof London, where he wrot the
laid notes. This book, with notes, coming after his death
into the hand.s of Dr. Rich. Baylie, who married Dr. Laud's
ncice, came after his, into mine.

■• Ham. L'Esirange in his Reign of K. Charles, printed
1656. p. 187. an. 1639.
» Collection ofParliam. Speeches, p. 5.

rence in the ssdd borough of Reading on the 7th of
Oct. 1573, educated in the free-school there, elected

Breviate or Diary of his Life. Lond. l644. in 10 sh. in
fol. This was a pocket book, which he had wrot in the
Lat. tongue for his own private use ; but restless Prynne
having had a hint of such a thing, obtain'd an order from
the commillee of lords and commons appointed for the safety
of the kingdom, dat. 30 May l643, to seize u|)on his papers,
letteis, &c. By vertue of which order, he, with others, re-
paired 10 the Tower of London the next day early in the
morning, and rushiiiL' suddenly into his chamber before he
was stirring from his bed, went directly to his breeches lying
by the bed-side, and thrusting his hand into his pockets with
very great impudence, took the said Breviate thence. Where-
upon, thinkini; to plague the archbishop as much as he could
in his life time, and make him more odious to the mobile,
published it to the world, and caused, under hand, that a
printed copy might be sent to him. But so it fell out, that
the publisher Prynne was extreamly mistaken; for all judi-
cious and impartial men did take it for the greatest piece of
justice from Prynne's hands, that ever he before had done.
For what the generality could not think before of the arch-
bishop, were then confirm'd of his character, which I have
before told you, that he was a man of eminent vertues, ex-
emplary piety, &c.

Speech and Prayer spoken at his Death on the Scaffold on
Tower.Hill, 10 Jan. l644. Lond. 1044-45. qu. This is
call'd his Funeral Sermon, preached on Heh. 12. 1,2. and is
kept in MS. under his own hand in S. Johns coll. library.
It was answer'd by his implacable enemy Hen. Burton mini-,
sterof S. Mathews ch. in Friday street, Lond. in a pamphlet
bearing this title, The grand Imposture unmasked t or, a De-
tection of the notorious Hypocrisie, and desperate Impiety of
the late Archb. (so stiledj of Canterbury, which he read on
the Scaffold at his Execution, 10 Jan. l645. printed in two
sh. and half in qu. Other Answers were published by Ano-
nymi, which for brevity I shall now omit.

Officium quolidianum : or, a Manual of private Devotions.
Lond. l6.'iOandC3. inoct.

A Summary of Devotions. Lond. 1667. in tw. published
according to the copy written with his own hand in the ar-
chives of S. Johns coll. library.

Farice Epistolae ad clariss. Ger. Jo. Fossium. The number
of them is 18, and are printed in a book intit. Gerard. Jo.
Vossii Sf clarorum Firorum ad eum EpistoUt. Lond. 169O.
fol. published by Paul. Colomesius. I have seen and perused
a MS. transcribed under the hand of Joh. Birkenhead,
containing all the passages which concern the university of
Oxon. since Dr. Laud's first nomination and election to the
chanccllourship of the said university. It commences 12
Apr. 1630, and ends 14 Dec. l640, bound up in a vellain
cover in fol. and endorsed thus,

Gesta sub Cancellariatu meo Oxon. This MS. was com-
municated to me, when 1 was composing the Hist, and An-
tiq. nf the Univ. of Oxon. by Dr. Peter Mews president of
S. Johns coll. wherein finding many useftd things for my
purpose (which another may do for his, and therefore it
escap'd Prynne's hands) 1 thought it therefore not unworthy
of a place here, as I could do of many other things under
his hand, which 1 have seen reserved in private custody as
choice monuments: but time calls mc away, and I must
hasten. Yet 1 cannot but let the reader know, that there is
a fol. MS. going from hand to hand, entit. IVholsome Queries
resolved by Dr. Laud, manifesting that Monarchy is no safe
Principle for Protestants, Sec. — sed caveat lector. At length
in the bc"inning of tlie civil distempers, this wrorthy arch-
bishop was" upon suspicion of introducing popery into the na-
tion, arbitrary government, and 1 know not what (aggra-
vated in an high degree) commitied prisoner first 10 the
Black-rod, and afterwards to the Tower, where remaining
about four years, was at length by the votes of a slendei

I.AUD.

122

1(544-5.

scholar of S. Johtrs coll. in June, an. 1590; where
goino; thro' with great diligence the usual forms of
logic and pliilosophy, under the tuition of Dr. John
Buckeridge, was made fellow in June 159!5, and
five years after master of arts ; at which time (being
then grannnar reader of the imiversity) lie was es-
teemed hv all tliose that knew hint (being little in
person) a very i"orward, confident and zealous wrson.
In 1600 he was made a deacon, and in tlie be-
ginning of 1601 being made priest, he did read the
next year the divinity lecture in his college, which

wa-s maintiiined by one Mrs May. On the

4th of May 1604 he was installed one of the proc-
tors of the university, without any canvas or seek-
ing for it. His brother proctor was Mr. Christo-
pher Dale of Merton coll. who being very rigid and
severe in his office, and intolerably choleric towards
the juniors, he was so much hist and hcwted at in his
return to his college, after he had laid down the
badges of his office, that it was then usually said, he
■was proctor and Ixjre his office cum parva-o Laude.
In Sept. the same year, Mr. I^aucf became chap-
lain to Charles Blount earl of Devonshire, and on
the 26th of Dccemb. 1605 he joined in wedlock the
said Charles to Penelope the daughter of Walt.
D'evreux earl of Essex ; but Mr. Laud not knowing
that she was then the wife of the lord Rob. llich,
(afterwards earl of Warwck) as he pretended, he
looked upon that action as one of the prime misfor-
tunes of his life, and therefore did set down the day
into the catalogue of days of special observance to
him, both in his diary and in the manuscript book
of his private devotions. In Novemb. 1607, being
then bach, of div. he became vicar of Stanford in
Northamptonshire," and in April 1608 he hat! the
advowson of North Kilworth in Leicestershire given
unto him. In August following he was made chap-
lain to Dr. Rich. Neile bishop of Rochester, (he
being then doctor of divinity) by whose endeavours
he preached his first sermon before K. James I. at
Theobalds the 17th of Sept. 1609. In Oct. follow-
ing he changed his advowson of N. Kilworth for
West Tilbury in Essex,' to the end that he might

house, beheaded on Tower-hill on the tenth day of January
in sixteen hundred forty and four. Whereupon his body
being buried in the chancel of the church of Allhallowcs
BarUiu which he before had consecrated, remained there en-
tire till July l(jf)3, at which time being removed to Oxon,
was on the 24 day of the same month, deposited with cere-
mony in a little vault built of brick, near to the high altar of
S. Johns coll. chappell. Thus died and buried was this most
reverend, renowned, and religious arch-prelate, when he had
lived 71 years, 1 J weeks and four days ; if at least he may be
properly said to dye ; the great example of whose vertue shall
continue always, not only in the minds of men, but in the
annals of succeeding ages, with renown and fame.

>> [6 Nov. 1607, Will. Laud cler. institutus S.T. B. ad vie.
perpel. eccl. paroch. de Stanford, ad pres. Tho. Cave, mil.
per resign. Robt. Waller, ult. incumb. ; resign, ante 2 Dec.
lO'OJ). Beg. Dove, ep. Pe/rih. Kennet.]

' [iGOf), 20 Oct. Will. Land. cler. admiss. ad eccl'iam de
West Tilburv. per resign. Joh. Boake S. T. B. ad pres. regis.
Reg. liancritft Ep. Jjond.

Ik> near his patron tiie bishop of Rochester, who in
the month of May 1610 gave him the rc-ctory of
Kuckstcme in Kent. In the In'ginning of October
followiui]; he resigned his fellowship of S. John's
coll. and Kuckstone proving; iniiiealtliful to liim, he
left it, and was inducted into Norton by proxy in
Nov. the same year. In May 1611 he was elected
president of the said coll. at which time there was"
a bitter fiiction both rai.sed and countenanced against
him, but how and by whom is needless now to relate.
Certain it is, as he » saith, he made no party then,
for four being in nomination for that headsiiip, he
lay then so sick at London, that he was neitiier able
to go to Oxon, nor so nnich as write to iiis friends
about it. Yet after nnich trouble, a major jwirt of
votes made choice of him. Tims he was chosen
president on the tenth day of May 1611. After
this, his election was quarrell'd at, and great means
was made against him, insomuch that K. J.ames I.
sate to hear the cause iiimself for the space of three
hours at Tichlxjurn in Hampshire, as he returned [66]
otit of the Western progress, on the 28th of Aug.
following. Upon this hearing, his majesty apjiroved
his election, and commanded his settlement ; which
was done accordingly at Michaelma.s following. But
the faction in the coll. finding sucli props above, as
they had, continued very eager antt bitter against
him. The audit of the coll. for the year's accompts,
and choice of new officers folk)wed in Nov. at which
time he with patience and mtxleration in the choice
of officers, made all quiet in the collcfje. In the
said month of Nov. he was sworn the king's chap-
lain, and gave very great content in that office. In
April 1614, his patron Dr. Neile, then bi-shop of
Lincoln, gave him tlie prebendship of Bugden in
that church ; and in the very beginning of Dec.
1615 he gave him the archdeaconry of Huntingdon
on the death of Mr. Matth. Giftbrd. In Nov. 1616
the king gave him the deanery of Glcx^cster, void by
tlie death of Dr. Rich. Field, and tlien resigning the
parsonage of West Tilbury, he became rector of lb-
stock in Leicestershire, in the beginning of Aug.
1617. On the 22d of Jan. 1620 he was installed
canon of the eighth stall in the church of Westmin-
ster, (in the place of Edw. Buckley D.D. who had
succeeded Will. I^atimer in that dignity 1582) and
in the next year after, his majesty (who upon his
own confession had given to liim nothing but the
deanery of Gloccstcr, which he well knew was a
shell without a kernel) gave him the grant of the
bishoprick of S. David, and withal leave to hold his
presidentship of S. John's coll. in commendam with
It, as also the rectory of Ibstock before-mention'd.
This promotion of tiun to the see of S. David was

iGlfi, 2 1 Dec. Nich. Cliffe S. T.B. admiss. a<l eccl'iam de
Westilbery, per resign. Will. Lawde S. T. P. ad pres. regis.
Iteg. King. Kennet.]

« Answer of Archbishop Laud to the Speech of Jf^ll. L. Say
and Seal, touching the Liturgy, printed 1695. p. 474.

9 Ibid.

li.'3

LAUD.

\-2^

done by the enileavours of Dr. Jo. Williams, fear-
ing if lie had not the said see, he would have been
dean of Westminster, which the said Dr. Williams
kept in connuendam with the sec of Lincoln ; where-
by he shewetl himself more a politician than a friend.
In Nov. 1621 Dr. I^aud resigned his presidentship
of S. John's coll. notwithstanding the king had given
him leave to keep it in commenaam with nis bishop-
rick : and this was done by reason of the strictness
of the statute of the said coll. which he would not
.violate, nor his oath which he had taken to observe
it This resignation was made on the 17th of Nov.
1621, being the day before he was consecrated to
the see of S. David. Soon after he became inti-
mately acqufunted with the great favourite of K.
James I. called George Villiers then marquis of
' Buckingham, occasion'd by sethng him and his mo-
ther the countess in their rehgion, which the king
commanded him so to do; they being then waver-
ing and inclining to the ch. of Rome : and by a con-
ference between himself and one Fisher a Jesuit,
wliich was in the presence of the said marquis and
his mother, they were firmly settled in the Protestant
religion. About this time the king having received
notice that he had resigned his presidentsliip of S.
John's, he gave him leave to keep the parsonage of
Creek in Northamptonshire ' in commendam with his
bishoprick, being inducted thereunto 31 Jan. 1622.
In Sept. 1623 he fell into the displeasure of Dr.
Williams bishop of Line, the lord-keeper, partly oc-
casion'd by his being a favourite of the said niarqui.s,
and, as the bishop of Lincoln thought, that the said
Dr. Laud was ungrateful to him ; but the chief
cause was, the marquis's favour to him. On the
17th of Apr. 1625 he became deputy clerk of the
closet to his majesty, for Dr. Neile then bishop of
, Durham indisposed, and executed that office till the
first of May following. On Candlemas day follow-
ing that, he officiated at the coronation of K. Charles
I. as dean of Westminster, being then canon of that
church in commendam ; and this was done by the
appointment of his majesty, and by the said Dr.
Williams the dean, when he saw himself put aside,
because he was then out of favour with his said ma-
jesty. On the 20th of June 1626, his majesty no-
minating him (Dr. Laud) bishop of Bath and Wells,
void by the death of Dr. Arth. Lake, he was elected
thereunto on the 16tli of August ; and on the 19th
157] of Sept. (being the next day after his election was

• [29 Januar. 1622, Ep'us Petrib. instituit dom. Guliel-
mum ep'um Mcnevcn. in rec(. eccl. de Creeke, ad pres. Ja-
cobi regis. Reg. Dove, Ep'i Petrib.

14 Nov. 1626, Ep'us instituit Nich'ani Clifie cler. S.T. B.
coll. S. Joh'is Bapt. Oxon. socium ad rect. de Creeke, ad
pres. regis, per translat. Will. Laude, niiper ep. Menev. ad
e'patum Balho-Wellen. Reg. Dove, Ep. Petrib. Ken-
WEtJ

* See in the preface to a book emit. The History qf the
Troubles and Tryal of William Laud Archbishop of Canter-
bury. Lond. 1695. fol. which preface was written by Mr.
Hen. Wharton. '

confirmed) he receive*! the temjM)raiities thereof from
the king. In the beginning of October the .same year,
(1626) he was made dean of the royal chtt}mel, in
the room of Dr. Lancelot Andrews bishop of Win-
chester deceased, and on the 29 Ajir. 1627 he was
made privv coun.sellor to the king, with Dr. Neile
bishop of t)urham. On the 17th of June 1627 the
bishoprick of London was grantetl to him at South-
wick, as he himself saith m his Diary, and in Oct.
following, he, as bishop of Bath and Wells, the
bishops of London, Durham, Rochester, and Ox-
ford, were commissionated to execute archiepiscopal
jurisdiction during the sequestration of Dr. G.
Abbot archbishop of Canterbury, for casual homi-
cide of his keeper in shooting at a buck. On the
16th of July 1628 he was translated to London, on
the translation thence to Durham of Dr. George
Mountaigne, and in the latter end of Decemb. fol-
lowing, the statutes which he had drawn, for the
reducing of the factious and tumultuous elections of
the proctors in Oxon, to several colleges by course,
and .so to continue, were jjassed in a convocation of
doctors and masters there, no voice dissenting.
Much aboiit this time his antient acqu^ntance sir
James Whitlock a judge, used to say of our author
Dr. Laud, that ' ' he w as too full of fire, though a
just and good man, and that his want of experience
in state matters, and his too much zeal for the
church, and heat, if he proceeded in the way he was
then in, would set this nation on fire.' On the 12th
of April 1630 he was elected chancellor of the uni-
versity of Oxon, void by the sudden death of Will,
earl of Pembroke ; and how that election was car-
ried, and the event of it proved happy to the univer-
sity, you may .see at large in Hist. 4" Antiq. Univ.
Oxoti, lib. 1. sub an. 1630. In June 1633 he was
sworn counsellor of Scotland, the king being then
about to be crown'd at Edinburgh ; and on the 4th
of August the same year, news coining in the morn-
ing to the court, then at Greenwich, of the death of
. the archb. of Canterbury, the king resolved presently
to ^ve that see to Dr. Laud. On the very same
morning tliere came a certain person to him, seri-
ously, and of avowed ability to pcrf()rm it, and
offered him to be a cardinal : he went presently to
the king, and acquainted him with the thing and the
person. On the 17th of the same moiuli, he had a
serious offer made him again to be a cardinal : he
was then from court, but so soon as he came thither
(Aug. 21.) he acquainted his majesty with it. But
his answer again was, that ' somewhat dwelt within
him, which would not suffer that, till Rome was
other than it is.' This I .set down, (being in his
own Diary) because that when the said Dr. Laud
was upon his tryal for his life, an. 1644, the former

Eart of the said memoir (viz. of the offer) was laid in
is dish by his inveterate enemies, but the latter part

' Bulst. Whitlock, in his Memorials of English Affairs,
&c. p. 32.

LAUD.

126

(his denial) they t(X)k no notice of, because it made
for liini : O baseness and partiality ! On the 19th
of Sept. he was translated to Canterbury, to the
great rejoycing of all the orthodox sons of the church,
but that High preferment, it seems, drew upon him
such envy from the puritans, that lie was afterwards
in the beginning of the Long parliament impeached
of high treason, as I shall tell you anon. On the
Ikli of the same month, which was some days before
his trajislation, he wa.s elected chancellor of the
university of Dublin; and on the 13th of May
1634 he received the seals of his election; from
which time till the time of his death were libels,
cither written, or printed, that came out continually
against him, by the puritans, lirownists, separatists,
&c. On the 14th ot March following he was named
one of the commissioners of the exchequer, upon the
death of Richard lord AVeston, lord high treasurer
of England ; about which time taking order that all
the records of the Tower which concern the clergy,
should be collected together and written in vellum at
his own charge, it was brought to him finished, cu-
riously written and richly bound, on the 10 June,
an. 1637. This book commenceth 20 Ed. 1. and
reaches tf) the 14 Ed. 4. and is at this time reserved
as a choice rarity in the library at Lambeth. In
[58] June 1639, he sent the remainder of his iTianuscripts
to the public library at Oxon, being in number 576,
and to he added to 700 which he had formerly .sent
to it ; and in 1640 he sent more ; all consistmg of
several languages and faculties. This Dr. Laud was
a person of an lieroic spirit, pious life and exemplary
conversation. He was an encourager of learning, a
stiff maintainer of the rights of the church and
clergy, and one that livcnl to do honour to his mo-
ther the university, and his country. Such a liberal
l)enefactor also he was towards the advancement of
learning, that he left himself little or nothing for his
own use ; and by what his intentions were, we may
guess, that if the severe stroke of the rebels had not
imtimely set|uestred and cut him off, ' S. Paul's
cathetlral had silenced the fame of antient wonders,
our English clergy had been the glory of the world,
the B<xlleian library at Oxon hacl daily outstript the
Vatican, and his ]}ublic structures had o'ertopt the
Escurial,' &c. Whosoever also shall read over the
Diary of his Life, pen'd by himself for private
use, but puqxjsely published by his inveterate
i enemy Will. Prynne, with his rascally notes and

! diabolical reflections thereon, purposely to render

him more wlious to the common people (followed
therein by another ♦ villain) will find that he was a
man of such eminent virtues, such an exemplary
piety towards GckI, such an unwearied fidelity to his
gracious sovereign, of such a public soul towards
the church and state, of so fixed a constancy in what
he undertook, and one so little biassed in his private

■* Lewis elu Moulin
1,011(1. i6T2. in cap. vel
p. 62,63. Sec.

in his Palronus honie Fidei, &c.
lib. De Specim. contra Duretlum,

interests, that * Plutarch, if he were alive, would
be much troubled to find a sufficient parallel where-
with to match him in all the lineaments of perfect
virtue. Next as for his great reading and learning,
it may be, by curious persons, seen in his works,
(and thereby easily jx-rceived that he wa.s vers'd in
lxx)ks as well as in business) the titles of which shall
anon follow ; and in the mean time I must tell you,
that in the beginning of the long parliament he was,
by the Scotch commissioners then present, named in
the lords house an incendiary, on the 17th of Dec.
1640, and a complaint promised to be drawn up the
next day ; on the 18th, according to promise, he
was accused by the house of commons of high-
treason, without any |iarticular charge laid against
him, which they said should be prepared in cxinve-
nient time, as it was. Mr. Denzil Holies, second
son of John earl of Clare, a great boutefeu and one
of the chief promoters of the discontents, and the
rebellion that followed, in the nation, was the man
that brought up the message to the lords, and soon
after the charge was brought into the ujipcr house
by the Scottish commi.ssioners tending to prove him
an incendiary : Whereupon he the said archbishop
was presently committed to the custody of Mr.
James Maxwell the officer or usher to the upper
house, with whom ccmtinuing full ten weeks to liis
great expence, a charge was brought up from the
house of commons to the lords, by sir Hen. Vane
the younger, a most notorious sectarist, an indefa-
tigable boutefeu and promoter of the discimtents
and the rebellion that followed, as Holies before-
mentioned was. This was done on the 26 Feb. 1640,
and the charge consistetl then of 14 articles, which
in time they would prove in particular. So that by
consequence being to be committed to the Tower,
he had favour by the lords not to go thither till
Monday the first of March following. At which
time going with Mr. Maxwell in his coach, there
was no noise 'till he entred into Cheapside, and then
an apprentice hollowing out, more followed the
coach, and the numl)er still increasing as the coach
went, there was exceeding shouting when it came to
the Exchange. Nothing but clamour and revilings,
even beyond barbarity itself, continued till he entred
into the Tower gate: All which being enough to
confound an ordinary capacity, yet this renowned
archbishop's patience was not moved, for he looked
ujwn a higher cau.se, than the tt)ngues of Shimei and
his children. Nothing now was omitted by some
cimning agents to encrease the rage and hatred of
people against him. The chief instruments herein [591
were the Brownists, and those that adhered to them,
who had been highly offended with him, because he
hindered and punished by law their conventicles,
and separation from the church of England. Among
and above the rest, there were three men, viz. Hen.

> Kclalion of the Death and Sufferings of the Archb. qf
Canl. Oxon. l644. p. 2.

127

LAUD.

Burton a minister in Friday-street in London, Dr.
Joh. Uastwick a phvsician/ and Will. Prynne a
common lawyer, wlio had been censured in the star-
chamber for notorious libels, printed and jniblishctl
by them against the hierarchy of the church. The
fiictionof the Brownists, and these three saints, mth
their adherents, fiU'd the pres.s almost daily \nth
lialladsand libels full of all manner of scurrility, and
more untruth, lx)th against the archbishop's person
and his calling. These were cried about London
streets, and brought (many of them) to Westmin-
ster, and given into divers lords hands, and into the
hands of the gentlemen of the house of commons,
and yet no order taken by either house to suppress
the printing of such known and shameless lies, as
most of them contained ; a thing which many sober
men found fault withal, and which, as 'twas then
believed, had hardly been seen in any civil common-
wealth, Christian or other. Besides these libels and
ballads which were sung up and down the streets,
they made base pictures of the archbishop, putting
him into a cage, and fastning him to a jx)st by a
chain at his shoulder, and the like. Divers of these
libels made sport in taverns and ale-houses, where
too many were as drunk with malice, as with the
liquor they sucked in. Against which his only
comfort was, that he was fallen but in the same
case with the prophet David, Psal. 69. For they
that sate in the gate spake against me, and I was
the song of the drunkards. From that time till his
death and after, these libels and ballads continued
without controul : but this was not all, for some of
these rascally people came to him in the Tower,
taunted at and gave him very foul and ill language,
and .some there were that took opportunity to preach
in the chapjxil of S. Peter ad Vincula withm the
said Tower purposely to aba.sh and confound him
(if present, as sometimes he was) particularly one
Jocelin who preached there on the fifteenth of May
1642, \vith vchcmency becoming Bedlam, with trea-
son sufficient to hang him in any other state, and
with such particular abuse to the archbishop, that
women ami boys stood up in the church to see how
he could bear it : his text was Judges 5. 23. Curse
ye Meroz, &c. On the 25th of June he, by his let-
ters dated at the Tower and sent to the university
of Oxon, f|uittod all right he had in the chancellor-
ship thereof; and in the said letters remembers his
love to that whole body, that love than which never
any chancellor bare greater, or with more ferventness
and zeal to the publick gtxxl and happiness of that
place. It was his real desire that every one of the
university would believe him, that his" great afflic-
tion did not trouble him for any one thing more,
than that he could Im? no further useful or beneficial
to that place, which he so much loved and honoured,
8ec. On the first of July following, Philip earl of

•• {An. lC54, Oct. 6, Dr. B!istwick,|physitian, buried. Mr.
R. Smith's Obituary. Baker.]

Pembroke and Montgomery was elected in his
place, but being not at all fit for it, was cashiered
soon after, as I have told ' you elsewhere. After
this, the archbishop's jurisdiction was taken away, he
was fined, plundered, utterly ruin'd : his palace at
Lambeth s]X)iled,his chapjx'I defaced, organs plucked
down, the steps leading to the altar torn up, &c.
and at length the said palace was made a prison. It
was now that his enemies had in vain laboured for
two years and an half to jirove their charge against
him before-mention'd, but the more they sought,
the more they were confounded, and greater evidence
appeared to the cxmtrary. They appointed com-
mittee ujx)n committee to find sometinng to accuse
him of, but after all their search and scrutiny, the
committee still flung up their papers, as men that
had travelled in vain ; tor the more they ript him up
the more sound they found him, one of them ac-
knowledging in a letter to his friend, that the world
was mistaken in nothing so much as in tlie arch-
bishop of Canterbury ; (as sir Edw. Deering himself rg.,
confesses in print) The ai-chbishop was ever the ^ I
same man, take him from S. John's coll. to Lam-
beth, he still kept his stand, never swerving from
those honest principles he had proposed to himself.
They had also in vain ransack'd all his pajxjrs left
in his study at Lambeth, and examin'd all his inti-
mate friends and sul)altem * agents ujjon oath, but
when nothing did apjx^ar, they hoped to find some-
thing against him, either in his private diary of his
life, which they knew he kept by him, or in those
pajx-rs which he carried with him from Laml)eth at
his first commitment, in order to his future defence.
U]X)n these hopes, they with gieat privacy framed
an order for the searching his chamber and pockets
in the Tower, in the latter end of May 1 643, and
committed the execution of it to his most bitter and
malicious enemy W. Prynne before-mention'd ; who
thcreujX)n took from him 21 bundles of paper which
he had prepared for his defence, his difuy, his book
of private devotions, the Scotch service book, and
directions accompanying it, &c. After this, when they
thought they had got sutficient proof, and had secured
him from making his defence, they were resolved to
come to a tryal of him for his life, but liecause
Prynne could not provide witnesses and matter
enough, it was deferred from time to time, and all
men and all things waited upon him till he could
ripen the matter. In the mean time the council as-
signed for the ai-chbishop was Mr. Joh. Hearne, Mr.
Matth. Hales of Lincoins-Inn, and Mr. Chaloner
Chute of the Middle-Temple, to whom was after-
wards added Mr. Rich. Gerhard of Greys-Inn, and
certain servants of the archbishop to attend him in
the tryal, viz. Mr. W. Dell his secretary, Mr. Rich.
Cobbe, and Mr. George Smith. The managers of

' In Hist. & Anliq. Univ. Oxon. lib. I. p. 36l.
" See more in the preface to The Hist, of the Trouh. and
Tryal oj Archh. Laud, &c.

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the evidence against him of the house of commons
were, (1.) Mr. Joh. Maynartl, who very actively
before liad haitetl to the ])ur|)ose the most noble
Tho. earl of Strafford ; his pleiidings tho' tliey were
stronij, yet they were fair. (2.) .Joh. Wylde, Ser-
jeant at law, and knight for Worcestershire in the
parliament then sitting, a great enemy to the hie-
rarchy, and particularly to Laud. This ])erson, who
made a solenm speech for an introduction to the
tryal, had language good enough sometimes, but
little or no sense : And the diiiractcr given of him
before to the archbishop, proved exactly true by
that speech and his after-pnx-eeding against him.
(3.) Sam. Brown of Lincolns-Imi, another parlia-
ment man, who was also very bitter sometimes in his
pleadings, and very insulting, whether according to
his nature, or to gain the populacy, I cannot tell.
This is the person who earned up to the lords the
ordinance for the attainder of the archbishop, carried
on his bitterness to the last, was one of the commis-
sioners of the great seal, made one of the justices of
the King's-bench in Oct. 1648, and a judge of that
court in Novemb. following. (4.) Rob. Nicholas of
the — Temple, and bur^ress for tlie Devizes in
Wiltshire, had in his j)lcacUngs some sense, but was
extream virulent, and had foul language at command.
When the archbishop was charged of his disliking
the gi^'ing of the title of antichrist to the pope, the
said Nicholas bestowed on the said archbishop many
and gross titles : He calfd him over and over again.
The pander to the whore of Babylon. ' Not re-
membring (as the arclib. says) all this while (what
yet I was loth to mind him of) that one of his zeal-
ous witnesses against the whore of Babylon and all
her superstitions, got all his means (which are great)
by being a pander to other lewd women ; and loved
the business it self so well, as that he was (not long
since men say) taken in bed with one of his wife's
maids.' And when that passage in Dr. Pocklington's
book called A/tare Christianum, p. 49, ''>0. was
urged in open court, viz. that it is a happiness that
the bishops of England can derive tlieir .succession
from S. Peter, then did the said Nicholas insultingly
call it the archbishop's pedigree, meaning the pe-
digree of archbishoy) Laud. He would have nothmg
forgotten that might help to multiply clamour against
him. He did not omit any thing which he thought
might disgrace and discontent him, tho' it could no
way be drawn to be any accusation. He brought
in tlie archbishop's dreams which he wrote in nis
diary, and omens there mention'd that predicted his
ruin, to make him a scorn to the lords and the
people. His bitterness against him was unchristian,
his malice unsatiable, and his virulence antl insulta-
tion over liim, then in great affliction, intolerable.
This person R. Nicholas, who was of the same fa-
mily with the tv/o most loyal gentlemen sir Edw.
Nicholas, sometimes one of the secretaries of state,
and Dr. Mat. Nicholas sometimes dean of S. Paul's,
both bom at Winterbourn-Earles in Wiltshire, was
Vol. III.

afterwards, for tlic love he bore to the hlessed
cause, made serjeant at law by the long parliament
in the latter entl of Octob. 1648, and in Jan. follow-
ing he, with Serjeant Joh. Bnulshaw of Greys-Inn,
and Mr. Will. Street, were added to the committee
ap|jointed bv iiarlianient to order matters relating to
the tryal of knig (Charles L of blessetl memory. On
the 13th of the said month of Jan. it was then com-
monly given out that he the said Nicholas, Brad-
shaw, and serjeant Franc. Thorpe of Greys-Inne
should be connnissioners of the great seal, but that
report came to nothing. In the beginning of June
1649 the parliament voted, that the saitl Nicholas
should be one of the judges of the upper bench, and
in the beginning of 1650 he, with justice RoUes,
went as judges the western circuit, and in theit
charges given at several places, they vindicated the
proceeding of the parliament, and of their's and the
people's ptiwer, and the original of it, and endeavour'd
to settle their minds as to the then present govern-
ment without king or lords. When Oliver came to
the protectorate, this serjeant Nicholas, who had be-
fore taken the covenant and the engagement, was
made one of the barons of the Exchequer, and what
became of him afterwards in truth I cannot yet tell,
nor doth it matter much. The fifth and last person
that was appointed to bait the said archb. was Roger
Hill of the Temple, a burgess for Brideport in Dor-
setshire. He was ConsuuBibulus, and said but
little. Afterwards he was made one of the barons
of the Exchequer by prince Oliver. Mr. Prynnc
wa.s trusted with the providing of all the evidence,
and was relater and prompter and all, never weary
of any thing, so that he might do the archb. mischief.
And as the archb. conceived, it would not be in fu-
ture times the greatest honour to the said proceed-
ings, that he (Prynne) a man twice censiir'd in the
high court of Star-Chamber, and set in the pillory
twice (once for libelling the church, the government
of it, and the bishops the governors) should now be
thought the only fit and indifferent man to be trusted
with the witnesses and evidences against the archb.
wlio sat at his censure. He raked and scraped up
for witnesses suspected sectaries and semratists from
the church, which the archbishop by nis place was
to punish, and that exasperated them agtunst him,
whereas bv law no schismatic ' ought to be received
against his bishop. He also rake<l up pillory men
and bawds, divers pursevants and common messen-
gers, some of whom had shifted rehgions with their
cloaths, particularly James Watlsworth then of S.
Dunstan's in the West in London, I mean the same
Wadsworth who before had l)een author of The
English Spanish Pilffrim, &c. and other Ixwks '
against the papists, whose religion he had embraced
and adored. He the said Pryime also kept* a kintl

9 See Hist, of I he Troulles and Tryal nf Archl. Laud,
cap. 43. p. 414.

' See in the Oxford and Bodleian Catalogue.

■ ibid, in Uht. if the Trouldes, &c. cap. SI. p. 2I9.

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of a school of" instruction for such of the witnesses
which he durst trust, that they might be sure to
speak liome to the piu-pose as lie would have thein :
nay, his tauijieriug with witnesses was so palpable
and so foul, that some that took notice of it iwuld
not but })ity the archbishop and cry shame of
Prynne, who to make the evidence out as much as
the devil himself could do, did take away from the
archbishop all the bundles of papers that he had pre-
jiai'ed for his own defence, his diary and devotions,
as 'tis before told you ; in which last were the great
secrets between God and his soul, so that they were
[62] sure then to have him at the very bottom. This
was first to cut out his tongue, and then bid him
speak for himself. All the books of the council-
table, stai--chamber, high-commission, signet-office,
the archbishop's own registers, and the registers of
Oxford and Cambridge, were most exquisitely search-
ed for matter against him, and kept from him and
his use, and consequently afforchng him no help to
his defence. Nay if he had any thing to urge out
of the said books, or diary, or devotions, he was to
petition for it, and pay for the transcribing any
thing from thence. The first day of the archbishop's
tryal was on the twelfth of March 1643, and carried
on for twenty days of hearing till the 29th of July
1644, and on the 21st of Sept. following he made
his recapitulation. In all which time, tho' he was
wearied and tired out with attendance, and by into-
lerable affronts and abuses from the managers of the
evidence against him, from the persons that were
present at the hearing, and from the rabble in his
going from the Tower to the parliament house, and
in his return, especially if it was by land ; yet by
his great patience, stout spirit, and guiltless cause,
he made as full, as gallant, and as pithy a defence,
and spoke as much for himself, as was possible for
the wit of man to invent, and that with great art,
vivacity, confidence, &c. as his most implacable
enemy, the stigmatized and croj>ear'd presbyterian
Prynne doth acknowledge, in his book called Canter-
Iftiry's Doovi, &c. p. 462. The charge against the
archb. consisted of many particulars, too many to be
here repeated ; among which were his windows in
the chappel at Lambeth, his pictures in the gallery
there, his reverence done in his chappel, his conse-
cration of churches, his chaplain's expunging things
out of books which made against the papists, his pre-
ferment of unworthy men, (that is orthodox men
and stiff prelatical men for the church of England)
his overthrow of the feoffment, some passages in his
book against Fisher the Jesuit, his Bible in his study
at Lambeth, with five wounds of Christ wrought
upon the cover in needle-work, the crucifix hung up
in the chappel at Whitehall on G(wd-Friday, the
copes and bowings used in cathedral churches since
he became archbishop, the ceremonies used at the
coronation of K. Cli. I. the abuses in the university,
especially in Oxon, the ceremonies in some ])ai-ish
churches, and some punished for neglect of them,

the cross in baptism, &c. with otlier things relating
to rehgion ; all which were practised without con-
troul after the restoration of K. Ch. IL While the
tryal was in its height, and no hopes left of making
any of the articles high-treason, a parliament man
was' pleased to say, that the archbishop was now an
old man, and it would be happy both for him and
the parhament if God would be pleased to take him
away. And when a friend of the archbishop did
bemoan his case to another parliament man, (of
whom the archb. had desei-ved very well) saying he
knew he was a good man, the parliament man re-
plyed, be he never so good, we must now make him
ill for our own sakes. During also the tryal, some
citizens of London were heard to say, that tho' the
archb. answered many things very well, yet he must
suffer somewhat for the honour of the house. So
all the archbishop's hopes now, under God, lay
wholly on the honour and justice of the lords, and
no other talk there was then but of a quick dispatch.
When hatred doth accuse, and malice prosecute,
and prepossession sit upon the bench, God help the
innocent! They called him often to the bar both
before and after, caused a strict inquisition into all
his actions, winnowed him like wheat, and sifted him
to the very bran : (which was, you know, the devil's
office) they had against him all advantages of power
and malice, and witnesses at hand on all occasions :
but still they found his answers and resolutions of
so good a temper, his innocence and integrity of so
bright a die, that as they knew not how to dismiss
him with credit, so neither could they find a way to
condemn him with justice. And dio' their con-
sciences could tell them that he had done nothing [gS"!
which deserved either death or bonds ; yet either to
reward or oblige the Scots, who would not think
themselves secure while his head was on, they were
resolved to bring him to a speedy end : only they
did desire, if possible, to lay the odium of the
murther on the common people. And therefore
serj. Wylde in a speech against him, having aggra-
vated his supposed offences to the highest pitch,
concluded ■* thus, that ' he was guUty of so many and
notorious treasons, so evidently destructive of the
common-wealth, that he marvelled the jx^ople did
not tear him in pieces as he passed between his barge
and the parliament house,' &,c. Which barbarous
and bloody project when it would not take, and that
tho' many of the rabble did desire his death, yet
none would be his executioner ; they then employed
some of their most malicious and active instruments,
to go with a petition, pcnn'd by themselves, from
door to door, and from man to man, especially to
the Brownists and notorious separatists, to get hands
against him, and so to return the petition to them,
to hasten his condemnation, which must forsooth be

^ Hist, of the Troubles and Tryal, &c. as before, cap. 21.
p. 217.

■• Brief Relation of the Death and Siffff rings of Archb.
Laud. Oxon. lC44. p. 8.

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134

forced to their own desires. Tlie fan.atical preachers
also exhorted the people to be zealous in it, telling
them it was for the glory of God, and the gcMxl of
die church. In this petition none were named but
tiie archb. and dr. Wren l)ishon of Ely ; so their
fh-ift was known to none but tlieir own ])arty, the
magistrates standing still, and suffering them to pro-
ceed without any check, of which the archb. gave
tliem a memento in his dying speech. Whose de-
sign of jx'tition this originally was, the archb. liad
cause ^ to suspect, that it was his restless enemy Mr.
Prynne, and so it wiis generally believed by prudent
men. This being obtained, and delivered to the
house of commons on Mondiiy the 28th of Oct.
IG'l-i, the business was pursuetl with such heat and
violence, that by the beginnine: of Nov. it was made
ready for a sentence, which some conceived would
have been ^ivcn in the king's bench, and that their
proofs (suc-li as they were) being fully ripened, he
should have been put over to a Middlesex jury ; but
they were only some poor ignorants which conceived
so of it. The leading members of the plot thought
of no such matter ; and, to say truth, it did concern
them highly not to go that way. For tho' there
was no question to be made at all, but tliat they
could have packed a jury to have found the bill,
yet by a clause in the attamder of Tho. earl of Straf-
ford, they had bound the judges not to declare
those facts for treason in the time to come, for
which tliey had condemned and executed that most
heroic count. And therefore it was done with great
care and caution to proceed by ordinance, and vote
him guilty first in the house of commons ; in which
being parties, witnesses, and judges too, they were
assured to pass it as they would themselves, which
was done accordingly on Saturday Nov. 16. follow-
ing. But yet the business was not done, for the
ordinance was to be transmitted to the h. of lords,
where it stuck, and the debate concerning it was put
off to Friday Nov. 22. Then PhiUp earl of Pem-
broke began more fully to shew his canker'd humour
against the archbishop, then in all probability to lose
his life, but how provoked, the archbishop protested^
he knew not, unless by his serving him far beyond
his desert. There, among other course language,
he bestowed the rascal and the villain ujwn him ;
and told the lords very wisely, they would put off
giving their consent to the ordinance, till the citizens
would come down and call for justice, as they did
in tlie earl of Strafford's case. But some of them
having not extinguished all the sparks of honour,
did by the light thereof discover tlie injustice of so
foul a practice as tlie ordinance was, together with
the danger that might befall themselves, if once dis-
favoured by the grandees of that potent faction, and
therefore the debate concerning the passing thereof
among them was put off from time to time. At

' In the Hisl. of Troubles, &c.as before, cap. 44. p. 432.
" Ibid. cap. 46. p. 441.

length, on Thursday Nov. 28. Mr. Will. Strode (he
that made all the blotnly motions) went up with a
message from the commons to quicken the lords in
this business ; and at the end of his message he let [6^]
fall,' that they should do well to agree to tne ordi-
nance, or else the multitudi' would come down and
force them to it. At this scjme lords very honour-
ably took exception, and Mr. Strode tlurst not hide
it, that this was any part of the message ilelivered to
him by the house of commons. But the matter wa«
passed over, and Mr. Strode not so much as checked.
It is said " that alwut this time many of the house
of commons had recourse to their old arts, and drew
down .sir David Watkins with his general muster of
subscriptions, and put a petition into his hands, to
be tendered by him to the houses, that is themselves;
wherein it was required, among other things, that
they would vigorously proceed unto the punisliment
of all delinquents ; anu that for the more quick dis-
patch of the public business of the state, the lord*
would be plea.sed to vote and sit together with the
commons ; but how true this is I cannot tell, liccause
the archbi.sliop takes no notice of it in his Hist, of
Troubles, &c. sure it is, that the pa.ssing of the ordi-
nance by the lords being deferred from time to time,
it passed at length in a slender house on the 4tli of
Jan. following, at which time were only present
Henry earl of Kent, Philip earl of Pembroke, WU-
liam ejirl of Salisbury, Oliver earl of Bolenbroke,
Dudley lord North, and Will, lord Grey of Werke;
all of the presbyterian die. As for Thomas lord
Bruce, an English baron (earl of Elgin in Scodand)
who is reported ' to be one of those lords that pass-
ed the ordinance, it is false, for he hath frequendy '
disclaimed that action, and solemnly professed his
detestation of the whole proceedings, as most abhor-
rent from his nature, and contrary to his known af-
fections, as well unto his majesty's ser^'ice, as the
peace and preservation of the church of England.
The ordinance of attainder being thus passed,
(which was on the very same day that they esta-
blished their directory instead of the common-
prayer) whereby it was ordained that the archb.
should suffer death as in cases of high-treason, it
was ordered by Ixrtli houses that he should suffer
accordingly on Friday the 10th of Jan. 16 14. The
news of which being brought to the archb. by the
lieutenant of the Tower, Isaac Pennington, he neither
entertained ^ it with a stoical apathy, nor waited hi*
fate with weak and womanish lamentations, but
heard it with so even and so smoodi a temper, as
shewed he neither was afraid to live, nor asham'd to
die. The time between the sentence and the execu-

7 Ibid.

" Brief I( elation, &c. lit supr. p. 10.

^ In Merc. Aulicus, from Jan. 5. to Jan. 12. |644. p.
1333. as also in tbc Brief liilalion beforc-incntion'd, p. 10.

' See in Cypr. Angl. or, I he Life nf Archh. Laud, &c.
written by Dr. Fct. Hcylin. p. 5?7, &c.

' Brief Relat. p 14.

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tion lie spent in prayers and applications to tlie Lord
liis Grod ; liavinjT o'btained, tlio' not witliout some
difficulty, a chaj)lain of his ouii, Dr. Rich. Sterne,
to attend u}X)n him, and to assist him in the work
of preparation ; tho' little pre})aration needed to re-
ceive tnat blow, which could not hut be welcome,
because lon<^ expected. For so well was he studied
in the art of dying (especially in the last antl strictest
part of his imprisonment) that bv continual fiistings,
watchings, prayers, ami such like acts of Christian
humiliation liis flesh was rarified into spirit, and the
whole man so fitted for eternal glories, that lie was
more than half in heaven, before death brought his
bloody (but triumphant) chariot to convey him thi-
ther. I shall now, accordirig to promise, give you
the titles of his works, and then proceed to his
death and burial. The titles are these, viz.

Several sermons, as (1.) Sermon preached before
his Majesty at \Va7isted, 19 June 1621; on Psal.
122. 6, 7. Lond. 1621. qu. [Bod]. 4to. C. 79. Th.]
(2.) Serin, at Whitehall 24 Mar. 1621, bein^ the
Day of the Beginning of his Majesty's most gra-
cious Reign ; on Psal. 21. 6, 7. Lond. 1622. qu.
[Bodl. 4to. C. 79. Th.] (3.) Serm. before his Ma-
jesty at Whitehall; on Psal. 75. 2, 3. Lond. 1625.
gu. [Bodl. 4to. C. 79. Th.] (4.) Serm. at Westm.
6 Feb. 1625, at the Opening of the Parliament; on
Psal. 122. 3, 4, 5. Lond. 1625. qu. [Bodl. 4to. C.
79. Th.] (5.) Serm. at Westm. 17 Mar. 1627, at
the Opening of the Pari, on Ephes. 4. 3. Lond.
1628. qu. [Bcidl. 4to. C. 79. Th.] (6.) Serm. at
Whitehall at a solemn Fast before the King, 5 Jul.
1626 ; oji Psal. 74. 22. Lond! 1626. qu. [Bodl. A.
10. 24. Line] (7.) Serm. at PauPs Cross on the
King''s Inauguration; on Psal. 22. 1. printed at
Lond. Which seven sermons were re-printed at
the same place in oct.' an. 1651. [Bodl. Crynes
252.]

Several speeches, as (1.) Speech delivered in the
Star-chamber, 14 Jun. 1637, at the Censure of J oh.
Bastioick, Hen. Burton, and Will. Prynne, Lond.
1637, &c. qu.* (2.) Speech in Answer to that of

' \Seven Sermons preached upon several Occasions; by the
right rev. and learned Father in God, William Land, late
Archlishup of Canterbury isfc. London, Printed for R.
Lowndes at the White Lion in S. Paulas Church Yard
MDCLI. I have them, containing 339 pages. Cole.]

■• [If the Ilarleian Catalogue is to be considered as snffi-
cient authority, there were only twenty-Jive copies of this
speech printed, (Harl. Cat. ii. 669, numb. 11120.) but I
consider this assertion as unfounded. In the Bodleian are
three copies of the original edition, two of which were left
by Dr. Rich. Rawlin^oii (Rawl. 4to. 13+, and I4g.) It
may not be generally known, that it was to lliis antiquary
the wortd was indebted for a reprint of the archbishop's
speech, from a copy in the possession of his brother Thomas
Rawlinson, esq. containing MS. ReHcnions by archbishop
Williams (then bishop of Lincoln) which are carefully given
in the margins of the reprint. Of this book, copies printed
on vellum, are in the Bodleian library and at St. John's col-
lege.

On the last leaf of Dr. Rawlinson's copy of this speech
is written in his own hand — • Stricturas hasce mordaciorcs

Serjeant Jo. Wylde. Which last was by the said
Wylde spoken by way of introduction to the tryal
of archb. Laud, 12 Mar. 1643. This speech is in
Canterbury s Doom, published by Will. Prynne, p.
53, &c. and in The Hist, of the troubles and Tryai ^
of Will. Laud Archb. of Cant. cap. 22. p. 222, &c.
In both which lxx)ks you'll hnd several other
speeches and di.seourses of him the said archbishop,
who hath made other speeches in the names of other
persons.

Coiference between him and Jolt. Fisher, Lond.
1624. fol. This was published under his chaplain's
name 11. B. i. e. Rich. Baylie of S. John's coll. in
Oxon, and reprinted in 1639 [Bodl. G. 7. 13. Th.]
and 1673. fol. The conference was held before
George marquiss of Buckingham, and Mary the
countess his mother, on the 24th of May 1622;
and Dr. Laud hearing that Fisher had spread se-
veral copies of the conference into divers recusants
hands, he in the Christmas following communicated
it to his majesty, was three times with him, and
read it over all to him ; which he commanded .should
be printed : and thereuixin the author desired that
it might pass in a third person under the name of
R. B. which was grantea. After that, he shewed
his majesty tlie epistle to be set before it, which he
was pleased to approve ; and having spent some
time vfiih Dr. W. in making it ready for the press,
'twas published 16 Apr. l624. When it was li-
censed and put into the press, the blessed author of
it saith * thus — ' I am no controvertist : May God so
love and bless my soul, as I desire and endeavour
that all the never to be enough deplored distractions
of the church, may be comjiosed happily, and to the
glory of his name.' This Co^iference was look'd
upon as a piece so solidly compacted, that one of our'
historians (who shews himself to be none of Laud's
greatest friends) gives it the commendation of being
the exactest master-piece of jwlemique divinity of
any extant at that time ; and farther affirms, that
he declared himself therein so little theirs, (meaning
the papists) as he had for ever disabled them from
being so much their own, as before they were. Sir
Edw. Deering also, his professed adversary, in the
preface to the book 7 of speeches, could not but con-
fess that in the said lx)ok of bish. Laud, especially
in the last half of it, he hatl muzzled the Jesuit, and
should strike the papists under the fifth rib, when
he was dead and gone : and being dead, that where-
soever his grave shoukl be, Paul's should be his
perpetual monument, and his own liook his epitaph.

in oralionem hanc prsstaniissimam istius celeberrimi mar«
tyris Gul. Laudi arciiiep. Gintuaneiisis ex Robcrti Petti eq.
MS. |ieiies fratreni nieum charissimuin Medii Tcmpli so-
citnii, iranscriljcre noii inutile x^iiin^ivi, venia prius concessa.'
R. Rawlinson coll. Div. .lo Bapl Oxon. I7O8-9.]

' In the Diary nf his Life, in Feb. l623.

" Hani. L'Estiange in \ni Reign of K. Ch.L printed 1C56,
p. 187. an. iGSy.

' Collection ofParliam. Speeches, p. 5.

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fe-

lt was answer''d'* by a Jesuit named Tho. Carwell
alias Thorold a Lincolnshire man born, in a Ixxik
cntit. Lnhyrinthus Cantuarieiisu ; or. Dr. Laud's
Laltyrinth : being an Atiswer to the late Archbi-
sliop of Canterbury's Relation of a Conference be-
tzceen himself and Mr. Fisher, &c. Par. alias Lond.
1658. fbl. Which answer was replyed upon by Dr.
Meric Casaulwn (as I shall tell you elsewhere) and
by Mr. Edw. Stillin<rflcet.

Ansxver to the Exceptions of A. C. This is

printed with the Conference.

Memorables of K. Jam. I. of famous Memory.
—They are in number 29, and were printed with
bish. Laud's Diary of his LiJ'e, by Will. Prynne.
They are called by the author, Sliort Annotations
upon the Life and Death of the most augiist K.
James, which George duke of Buckingham had
commanded him to draw up.

Answer to the Remonstrance made by the Hou.se
of Commons in June 1628. In this Remon-itrance
Dr. Neile B. of Winch, and Dr. Laud B. of B. and
Wells, being charged that they favoured and pro-
tected the Arminian faction, Laud wa-s the more
ready to make an answer, especially when the king
commanded him so to do.

Various letters, as (1.) Letters (if State, disperse<l
in the Cabalas and divers books. (2.) Letter with
divers Maniiscripts sent to the University of Oxon.
Lond. 1640, with the answer of the university, Iwth
in one sheet in qu. [Bodl. 4t(). L. 71. Th.] which I
have mentionVl elsewhere : They were botli written
in Latin, but foolishly translated into English by a
schismatical person, purposely to bring an odium on
Dr. Laud. See Hist. &,- Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 1.
p. 348 b. (;-5) Letter to the Univ. of Oxon when
he resigned his Office of Chancellor. Oxon. 1641.
in one sh. in qu. [Bodl. C. 8. 29- Line] published
by occasion of a base libel or forgery that ran under
the said title. The university\s Answer in Lat. is
joined to it, &c. It nuist be now kno^vn, that as
soon as Prynne was possess''d of archb. Laud's pa-
pers (which I have mention'd before) he set' hmi-
self with eager malice to make use of them to his
defamation, and to prove the charge of popery, and
abetting arbitrary government, by the publication
of many of them. His first specimen in this kind,
was a pamphlet which came out in Aug. 1643, en-
tit. Romes Master-piece, containing the papers and
letters relating to the plot, contrived by papists
against the church and state then established in
England, and discovered by Andr. ab Habernfield.
But never did malice apjjear (as one' saith) so gross

' \A liepHe lo u Relation of the Conference between fVil-
liam Lmide and Mr. l-'tslier the Jesiiile. By a Jf'ttuesse of
Jesus Chri.ll. Jnprinlcil Annn i640, 4t<>. penes me. It con-
tains 40A pages ill a small print, besides ineded. lo the king,
and preface, &c. and is wrote by some faiuilic of those blessed
times. Cole.]

' Sec in the preface to The Ilist. of IheTroulles and Tryal
of Archb. Litid.

' The author of the preface before-mentioned.

and ridiculous together, as in this case. For from
tiiis plot, if there were any truth in it, it apjx-ared
that the hfe of the archbishop was chiefly anned at
l)y the plotters, as the grand obstacle of this design,
and one who could by no arts Ix; wrought to any
connivance of them, much less concurrence with
them. This pamphlet being, after the ]>ublication
of it, carried to the archbishop in the Tower, he
wrote in it

Marginal Notes, in Answer to W. Prynne'a
Falsifications and malicious Calumnies mixed
tlierein. This very Ixwk with the marginal notes
coming after the archbishop's death into the hands
of Dr. Rich. Baylie before-mention'd, came after
his death into my hands, and so it is mention'd in
the second vol. of Ath. Oxon. printed 1692. p. 3L
Which passage being read by that worthy gent.
Mr. Henry Wharton, he desired by his letter dated
that I would be plea.sed to communicate
to him the said book with notes: which desire of
his being granted, and the lMK)k sent to him at Lon-
don, he reprinted it, and printetl with it the arch-
bishop's marginal notes at the end of the Hist, of
t/ie Troubles and Tryal of the mo.st Rev. Fath. in
God and blessed Marti/r Will. Laud Archb. ofCarv-
tcrb. Lond. 1695. fol>

The siiid archbishop hath also written.
Diary ofhiji IJfe — This, which is partly written
in Latin, but mostly in English, was published by
Prynne in 9 sh. in fol. in Aug. 1644, as an intro-
duction or prologue to The History of the Arcltbi-
,ihop of Canterbury'' s Tryal, but neither entire, nor
faithfullv, as far as he did pubhsh it; but altered,
mangleo, corrupted and glossed in a most shamefid
manner ; accompanied with desperate imtruths, as
the archb. complains in his History of his Troubles
and Tryal, and adds this, ' For tliis Breviat (or
Diary) of his, if God send me life and strength to
end this (history) first, I shall discover to the world
the base and malicious slanders with which it is
fraught.' It must be now observed, that it lieing
known to some parliament men that the archbishop
kept a private diary of his life, and had gathered
divers papers for his own defence, a close committe

" [In 1700 the second volume of this work appeared un-
der the title of Laud's Remains, vol. 2. piililished by Ed-
mund Wharton, rector of Saxliiigham in Norfolk, father of
ilie learned Henrv \\ barton, who left the papers ready pre-
pared for the press, with a request that ihey might be sent
forth t" the world. This vol. contains

1. .In Answer to the Speech of the right honourable Wil-
liam Lord VisiounI Suy fSf Seal, spoken in Parliament upon
the BUI about Bishop's Power in Civil Affairs, and Courts
(f Judical itre Anno lf)41.

8. Speech in the Star Chamber against Baslwick, &c. (as
noticed before.)

3. .'In Historical Account of nil Material Transactions re-
lating lo the Univmity of Oiforil, from .Archbishop Laud's
being elected Chancellor, lo his Resignation of that Office.
This lalter is a tract of the grcatesi inicrest nnd value to those
curious in the history of our famous university.]

^ The author of the preface before-mcntionea.

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of lords and commons directed a warrant dat. 30
May 1643 to Prvnne and others, to make a search
and seize u|X)n nil letters and ))apers that are in the
custody of certain prisoners in tlie Tower of Lon-
don ; by virtue of which warrant lie, with certain
soldiers, repaired very early to the Tower on the
next day, and Prynne rushing suddenly into the
archbishop's chamber before he was stiring from his
bed, went directly to his breeches lying by his bed-
side, and thrusting his hands into his pockets with
very great impudence, took thence the said Diary
and book of private devotions, besides several bun-
[67] dies of paj>ers, as I have before told you, purposely
to clear up the charge against him. After that the
Diary was several times brought in open court,
that several passages therein might rise up against
him, as some in his book of private devotions did.
At length after they had made use of the diary as
much as they could, his most implacable enemy
Prynne caused it to be printed in the latter end of
Aug. 1644, as before 'tis told you. And when the
archbishop came (after 20 days hearing) to his reca-
pitulation, which was on the 2 of Sept. following,
he tells* you thus — ' But so soon as I came to the
harr, (in the lords house) I saw every lord present
wth a new thin book in folio, in a blue coat (or
coyer.) I heard that morning that Mr. Prynne had
printed my diary, and published it to the world to
disgrace me. Some notes of his own are made u]X)n
it. The first and the last are two desperate un-
truths, besides some others. This was the book
then in the lords hands, and I assure my self, that
time was picked for it, that the sight of it might
damp me, and disenable me to speak : I confess I
was a little troubled at it. But after I had gather-
ed up my self, and looked up to God, I went on to
the business of the day,' &c. The first passage of
the diary before-mention'd of Prynne's putting in,
is, that the archbishop was bom of poor and obscure
parents, in a cottage (in Reading) just over against
the cage : which cage since his coming to the areh-
bishoprick of Canterbury, upon complaint of Mr.
Elverton (that it was a dishonour the cage should
stand so near the house, where so great a royal fa-
vourite and prelate had his birth) was remov'd to
some other place, and the cottage pulled down and
new built by the bishop. — The last passage in the
sjud book p. 35, of Prynne's putting in also, runs
thus, — ' When he (the archbishop) was a young
scholar in Oxford, he dreamed one night, that he
came to far greater preferment in the church, and
power in the state, than ever any man of his birth
and calling did before him : in which greatness and
worldly happiness he continued many years ; but
after all this happiness, before he awaked, he dream-
ed he was hanged,' &c. And tho' these two pas-
sages were desperate untruths, as the arclib. be-

* In his liitt. of his Troulles and Tryal, cap. 42. p. 41 1,
418.

fore told you, and otlier notes and reflections, with
additions by Prynne, were most vile and uncha^
ritable, yet when the Diary, with the ai'chbishop's
projects at the end, came into the hands of judicious
and impartial men, they t(x>k the publication there-
of to be the greatest piece of justice that ever came
from Prynne's hands. For what the generality
could not think before of the archbishop, were then
confirmed of his character, which I have told you,
xnz. that he was a man of eminent virtues, exem-
plary piety, &c. The archb. hath also written.

Speech or Funeral Sei-mo/t on the Scaffold ov
Tower Hill at the Time of his Excadion ; on Heb.
12. 1, 2. Lond. 1644, 45, together with liis prayer,
both printed in two sheets in qu. The original of
these are kept in MS. under his o\m hand in S.
John's coll. library. It was answered by his im-
placable enemy Hen. Burton minister of St. Mat-
thew's church in Friday-street in Lond. in a pam-
phlet bearing this title, The grand Impostor un-
masked ; or, a Detection of' t/ie notorious Hypo-
crisy, and desperate Impiety of the late Archb. (ao
stiled) of Canterbury whicfi he rectd on the Scaf-
fold at his Execution, 10 Jan. 1644, printed in two
sh. and an half in qu. There were other scandalous
answers that were written and published by ano-
nym!, among which one bears this title, A full and
sati.ffactory Answer to the Archb. of Canterbury's
Speech, or Funeral Sermon preached, &c. wherein
is a full and plenary Discourse to satisfy all those
who have been stai-tled with his suttle and Jesuiti-
cal Fancies, and Evasion in the said Speech, 8cc.
Lond. 1645. in 3 sh. in qu. It is a sUIy thing,
and more fit for a posterior use, than to be read by
any scholar or man of understanding. The archb.
hath also written,

Officium Quotidianum : or, a Manual of private
Devotions. Lond. 1650 and 63 in oct.

A Summary of Devotions. Lond. 1667. in tw.
pubhshed according to the copy, written with his
own hand, in the archieves of S. John's coU. librarj*.

Variw Epistolw ad clariss. Ger. Jo. Vos.sium.
The number of them is 18, and they are printed in
a book en tit. Gerardi Johan. Vossii (§• clai-orum Vi-
rorum ad eiim Epistolw. Lond. 1690. fol. publish-
ed by Paul. Colomesius.

History of his Troubles a?ul Tryal, written dur-
ing his Imprisonment in the Toxcer. I^ond. 1695.
fin. This book, which was ])id)lished in Dec. 1694,
hath several marginal notes in it made by Dr. Will.
Sancroft sometimes the worthy archb. of Canterburj',
and Mr. Hen. Wharton. Before this History of
the Trmddes, &c. is put by way of introduction to
it, The Diary of the Archbishop) s Life, from his
Birth to the 'Middle of the Year 1643 : faithfully
and entirely published from the original copy wrote
with his own liand, and hath the Latin part rendred
into English and adjoyned ; all done ny the gi-eat
care of the said Mr. Wharton, who hath also added
to the said Hist, of the Troubles, he. These things

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following wi-itten by the archb. viz. (1) His Speech
at his Death on the Scq/fold, 8cc. (2) His last Will
and Testament, made in the Tower 13 of Jan. 1643.
(3) Several Passages of his Conference zuith Fisher
the Jesuit, from the edition of 1039, and referred
to in the preceding history ; liesides other passages
from other books, which are also referred to in the
said history. (4) His Answer to the Speech of
Will. Ij)rd Sttij and Seal, touching the Littu-gn.
Tile said lord liaving been very free with the arcnib.
concerning his mean birth, he answered him that
his father was of the same trade with the father of
his immediate predecessor in the see of Canterb.
called Dr. George Abbot, that is a sherman or
clothier : which trade, as that of the staple, did
then and before give original to many of our an-
tient families, as merchants that deal in foreign
wares do now. The said An-nver to the Speech &c.
was finished by the archb. in the Tower, 3 Dec.
1641. (.5) His annual Accounts of his Province
presented to the King in the Beginning of every
Year. These annual accounts are from 1633 to
the end of 1639, and have apostills, or marginal
notes added to them with the king's own hand.
(6) His \otes on R<ymt-'s Ma.itcr-piece: or, the
grand Conspiracy of the Pope, &c. Which !)o<)k
IS there reprmted. (7) Several Letters : Of which
a large letter to sir Ken. Digby about the change of
liis religion for that of Rome, dated 27 of Mar.
1636, IS one. I have seen and perused a MS.
written by the hand of John Birkenhead, amanu-
ensis to archb. Laud, containing all the passages
which concern the university ot Oxon, smce the
said archbishop's first nomination and election to
the chancellorship of the said university. It com-
menceth 12 Apr. 1630. and ends on the 14 of Dec.
1640, and is bound up in a vellom cover in fol. and
endorsed by the archb. thus,

Gesta sub Cancellariatu meo Oxon. This manu-
script was conmiunicated to me, when I was com-
posmg Hist. (Sj- Antiq. Univ. O.ron. l)y Dr. Pet.
Mews, president of S. John's coll. wherein finding
many useful things for my purpose (which another
may do for his, and therefore, I presume, it escaped
Prynn's hands) I thought it therefore not un-
worthy of a place here, as I could do of many
other things written by the said archb. which I
have seen reserved in private custody as choice
monuments, but time calls me away, and I nuist
hasten. Yet I cannot but let the reader know,
that there is a folio manuscript going from hand to
hand, entit. Wholesome Queries resolved hi/ Dr.
Laud, manifesting that Monarchy is no safe Prin-
ciple Jrrr Protestants, &c. Sed caveat lector. An-
su-er to the Speech of Nath. Fiennes, touching the
Sv]ijccts Liberty against the late Canons and the
ncze Oath. 1'liis contains al)ove 50 pages in fol. of
the arclil)ishoj)'s writing, but 'tis not yet extant. At
length, that I may bring this renowned prelate to
his last end, I must tell you that the fatal morning

being come, which was Friday the 10 of Jan. 1G44» »<544.
he first applyed himself to his jirivate prayers, and
so continued til! Isa^tc Pennington lieut. of the [69]
Tower, an<l other officers came to conduct him to
the scaffold ; which he* a.scended with .so brave a
courage, such a chearful countenance, as if he had
mounted rather to behold a triumj)h, than be mode
a sacrifice, and came not there to die, but Ik- trans-
lated. And to say truth it wa.s no scaff'old, but a
throne ; a throne whereon he shortly was to receive
a crown, even the most glorious crown of martyr-
dom. And tho' some rude and uncivil people re-
vil'd him as he j>a.ss'd along, with opprobrious lan-
guage, as loth to let him go to his grave in peace,
vet It never disscompos'd his thoughts, or disturb'd
his patience. And as he did not fear tlie frown.s, so
neitlier did he covet the applause, of the vulgar
herd, and therefore rather cnose to read what he
had to sjieak unto the people, than to affect the
ostentation either of memory or wit in that dreadful
agony ; whether with greater magnanimity or pru-
dence I can hardly say. As for tlie matter ot his
speech or sermon, liesules what did concern himself
and his own purgation, his great care was to clear
his majesty, and the church of England fi-om any
inclination to popery ;° with a ixjrsuasion of the
which, the authors of the then miseries had abused
the people, and made them take up arms against
their sovereign. After the speech and prayers were
ended, he gave the paper which he reaa to his then
chaplain Dr. Sterne, desiring him to shew it to his
other cha{)lains, that they might know how he de-
jiarted out of this work!, and so prayed God to
shew his mercies and blessings upon them. And
noting how John Hinde luitl employed himself in
taking a copy of his speech, in short hand, as it
came from his mouth, he desired him not to do him
wrong in publishing a false or imperfect copy. Cer-
tainly never did man put off mortiility with a braver
courage, nor look ujwn his bkxKly and miilicious
enemies with more Christian charity, than this most
rev. prelate did. And thus far he was gone in his
way towards paradi.se with such a primitive mag-
nanimity, as ecjuall'd if not exceeded the example of
antient martyrs, when he was somewhat interrupted
in his passage by one sir Joh. Clotworthy a fire-
brand' Drought from Ireland by Rob. earl of War-
wick to increase the combustions of this kingdom,
(I mean the .same sir John who was a burgess in
the long parliament for Maldon in Essex, and one
of the eleven members of the said pari, impeached
by the aimy 16 June 1647) who finding that the
niockings and revilings of malicious people had no

■'' Brief Relation of Ihc Death and Sufferings oflhuArM.
of Canterb. n. 15. written by Pel. Hc\liii, D.D.

t' [Though accufcil liy his enemies of being a favourer of
popery, yei it w.is chiefly by his remonstrance, and the con-
viction iinprcssed onChillingworth's mind by his arguments,
that reconciled that eminent divine to the protcstant faith.]

' Brief Relation, &c. p. 84.

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power to move liiin, or shai"pen him into any dis-
content or shew of passion, would needs put in, and
try what he could do with his spunge and vinegar,
and stej)j)ing to liini near the block, asked him
(with such a purpose as the scribes and pharisees
used to propose questions to our Lord and Saviour
not to learn by, but to tempt, him, or to exjjose
him to some disadvantage with the standers by)
what was the conifbrtablest saying which a dying
man could have in his mouth .'' To which he meekly
made this answer, Cupio dissolvi 4" esse cum Christo.
Being asked again what was the fittest speech a man
could use, to express his confidence ana assurance ?
He answered with tlie same spirit of meekness, that
sucJi assurance was to bejbund within, and that no
•words toere able to express it rightly. Which when
it would not satisfy the troublesome and imper-
tinent man (who aimed at something else than such
satisfaction,) unless he gave some word, or place
of scripture, whereupon such assurances be truly
founded ; he used some words to this effect, that it
was the Word of God concerning Christ, and his
dying for us. And so without expecting any fur-
ther questions (for he perceived by the manner of
sir John's proceedings, that there would be no end
of his interruptions, if he hearkned any longer to
him) he turned towards the executioner, the gentler
and discreeter man of the two, and gave him money,
saying without the least distemper, or change of
countenance, ' Here, honest friend, God forgive thee
and I do, and do thy office ujwn me with mercy.''
And having given a sign when the blow shoidd
come, he kneeled down and prayed. Afterwards
laying his head upon the block, and praying silently
to himself, he said aloud, Lord receive my Soul !
which was the signal given to the executioner, who
very dexterously did his office, and took it off at a
blow, his soul ascending on the wings of angels into
Abraham's bosom, and leaving his body on the scaf-
fold to the care of men. Afterwards it was accom-
panied to the earth with gi-eat multitudes of people,
whom love or curiosity, or remorse of conscience
had drawn together, purposely to perform that of-
fice, and was decently interred in the chancel of the
church of Allhallowes Barkin, (a church of his ov,i\
patronage and jurisdiction) according to the rites
and ceremonies of the church of England ; which
church he before had consecrated. Wherein con-
tinuing entire tiU July 1663, it was removed to
Oxon, and on the 24 day of the same month it was
deposited with ceremonies in a little vault built with
bnck neai' to the high aJtar of S. John's college
chappel.^ Thus died and was buried, this most

* [Froma MS. in Anthony aWood's hand-writing in the
Ashmole Museum. D. xix. 104. fol. l6.

' Jan. 10, lG44, Will. Laud archb. of Canterbury was be-
headed, and his body afterwards being layed in a leaden coffin
was buried at Alhallows Barking, by the Tower of London.

' After the rcstauration of K.Charles 2, the pra?sident and
fellows of S. John's coll. Oxon. consullijig to have his body

rev. and renowned arch-prelate, when he had livetl
71 years, 13 weeks and 4 days ; if at least he niay
be properly said to die, the great example of whose
virtue shall continue always, not only m the minds
of men, but in the annals of succeeding ages, with
renown and fame. Thus died and was buried the
king's and church's martyr, a man of such inte-
grity, learning, devotion and courage, as had he
lived in the primitive times, would have given him
another name : whom tlio' the cheated multitude
were taught to misconceive (for those honoured him
most who best knew him) yet impartial posterity will
know how to value him, when tney hear the rebels
sentenced him on the same day they voted down
the hturgy of the chiu-ch of England.'

" JOHN WHITE, commonly called Centwn/
" White, second son of Hen. White of Heylan in
" Pembrokeshire esq; was lx)rn' there 29 of June
" 1590 ; whence, after he had been instructed in
" the faculty of grammar, was with his elder bro-
" ther Griffith White sent to Jesus coll. about the
" beginning of Mich, term 1607 ; but before he
" had contmued there four years, he was translated
" to the Middle Temple, studied the common law,
" became barrester, a counsellor of some note, sum
" mer reader 17 Car. I. and at length one of the
" masters of the bench, of the society of the said
" Temple. While he was a counsellor, he was by
" the puritanical party made one of the feoffees for
" the buying in of impropriations, to be bestowed
" on those of the Godly Party, but for this, having
" an information put in against him, and others
" employed in that work, in the Exchequer Cham-
removed to the coll. because he had bin soe great a bene-
factor, resolved on the business, after the sepulture there of
archb. Juxon, and that with convenience and privacy. The
day then, or rather night, being appointed wherein he should
come to Oxon. most of the fellows, about l6 or 20 in num-
ber, went to meet him towards Wheatley, and after they
had met him about 7 of the clock, on Friday July 24, l663,
they came into Oxon. at 10 at night, with the said number
before him, and his corps laying in a hors litter on 4 wheels,
drawn by 4 horses following, and a coach after that.

' In the same manner they went up to St. Maries church,
then up Cat's street, then to the back dore of St. John's
Grove, where, taking his coffin out, conveyed [it] to the
chappell ; when Mr. Gisbey, fellow of that house and vice-
president, had spoke a speech, they laid him, inclosed in a
wooden coffin, in a little vault at the upper end of the chan-
cell, between the founder's and archbishop Juxon's. The
next day following, they hung up 7 streamers.']

' [Mar. 3, 1626, Geo. dux IJuck. aderatCantabrigiae ; Gul.
ep'us Bath et Wells tunc incorporatur apud nos. Reg. Acad.

An anonymous Treatise of the Visibility nf the Church,
&c. said amongst bishop Racket's books to be wrote by bp.
Laud. Baker.

There are various engraved portraits of Laud, but it will
be sufficient to notice, in this place,

1. By Hollar, 4lo. l6"40.

2. By Lfiggan, half-slieet.

3. By Marshall, l641, with verses beginning

' Lend me but one poore teare, when thou dos't see
This wretched pourtraict of just miserie.'

4. By Picart in Lodge's Illustrious Heads.}

145

WHITE.

DAKER.

U6

" bor, were pruvented in their designs, and censured
" in the SUir-Chaniber. WIieri'ujxHi While being
" enraged against the hisliops and orthodox cleigv,
" because Dr. Laud and others of liis party had
" hindred tliat project, he studied all the ways
" imaginable to be revenged. At length he being
" elected a burgess for Southwark to serve in the
" long parliament, an. 1640, he made it his business
" to rad against the bishops and tlie canons, and
" when he was elected one of the eonnnittee for re-
" ligion (of which he was mostly chairman) no man
" was more violent against the orthtxJox clergy than
" he, no man more ready to license Ixxiks against
" them than he, and as ready as any (except Prynne)
" to be a witness against Laud at his trya], he being
" tlien one of the liouse of commons ap|X)inted to
" sit among the assembly of divines. Those of
" his ])arty do highly extoll him, among whom was
" one Pet. Smith bach, of div. who stiles ' him a re-
" ligious gentleman and a worthy patriot. Another*
" tells us that he was a puritan from his youth to
" his death, an honest, learned and faithful servant
" to the publick, &c. and his epitaph, a useful mem-
" ber of the house of commons, &c. But those of
" the loyal' party say, that tho' he had two wives,
" yet he frequented those of his neighbours in the
" White Fryers, making his then wife jealous of
" him. Another'' of the same party tells us,
FTn " ^^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^^ most malicious, bold, obscene
" speaker of any of the chairmen, which is reason
" sufficient to couple him with Hen. Marten, &c.
" and that he and the said Marten were gi-eat haters
" of the spiritual court. As for those things which
" he hath published, they arc these,

" Several Speeches, as (1) Speech in Pari, con-
" cerning the Tryal of the 12 Bisliop.i, 17 Jan.
" 1641. Printed in one sheet in qu. (2) Sp. made
" in the Commons House of Purl, concerning Epis-
" copanj. Lond. 1641. in two sheets in qu. This,
" as others to the same effect, were against epis-
" copacy.

" The first Century of scandalous malignant
*' Prie.its, made and (ulruittcd into Benefices by the
" Prelates, &c. Lond. 1643. qu. [Bodl. C. 8. 25.
" Line] Of which l)ook and its author, I find*
" these matters spoken, — ' that the pamphlet was
" ' so scandalous, that its author was asliamed to
"■ ' pursue his thoughts of any other. It was the
^ * lx)ast of Mr. White (as I have been told by
" ' one) that he, and his, had ejected eight thousand
" ' churchmen in four or five years. And if one
" ' hundred of eight thousand had been as really
" ' scandalous as that matchless pasquiller was

' In his Fast. Serm. lefore the H. of Commons, SQ May
l644, p. 32. in marg.

' Bulst. Wiiiilock ill his Memorials of English Affairs, in
Jan. 1644.

^ The author o( Perseculio undecima, printed lC48. p. 87.

■• Merc. Aul. Jan. 31. an. l644. p. 1362.

' In the New Discoverer by Way <f Answer to Mr. Box-
ttr; written by Tho. Pierce, chap. 6. sect. 8.

Vol. III.

' pleased to make them, it had not been «o
' strange a thing, as that one of twelve sliouid
' he a devil, one hundred in eight score liundred
' is exceedingly less tlian one in twelve,' Sic.
His majesty Iwing at Oxon wiien this l)cK)k was
published and shew'd to him, would not give" his
consent that such a book shoultl be written of the
vicious lives of some parliament ministers, when
such a thing was i)resented to him. Whereby
you see that vast difference l)etwixt the spirit of
majesty and the imjxrtent spleen of this our au-
' thor. Further also, those tliat knew Mr. White
' well have said, that his own brethren did per-
' suade him from putting out a second century, for
fear it should prove scandalous, and bring an im-

■ putation on the whole body of the clergy, whe-
' ther orthodox, presbyterian or independant. Mr.

■ White hath also written,

" The Looking-Glass — This pamphlet, which I

■ have not yet seen, was made puolic either in 1643

■ or 44. Wherein, as one' saith, the author tells

■ us that all malignant cavaliers and luke-warni

• protestants, who assist the king in this war, are

■ guilty of that fearful sin against the Holy Ghost.

■ The same author tells us that Mr. White did

■ openly say in a committee, tliat he hoped to live

■ to see ne\»r a bishop nor cathedral priest in Eng-

■ land. What other matters he hath written or

• published, I know not, nor any thing else of him,

• only that after much strugling he had endea-

• voured to bring all things into confusion, he very

■ unwillingly submitted to the stroke of death, on

■ the 29 of January in sixteen hundred forty and

■ four, and was buried in the church belonging to
' the Temples, at the high altar on the Middle
' Temple side, close to the end where the altar
' stooo. At which time he was accompanied to
' his grave by most of the parliament men, and

soon after had a marble stone put over his body,

on which I find these two verses,

" Here lyeth a John, a burning shining light,

" His name, hfe, actions were all White.

" When he lay ujwn his death-bed, he raved, as

'tis* said, criecl out and condemned himself at his

dying hour for his undoing so many guiltless

ministers, their wives and children, and at length

died distractetl, and very much disconnx>s'd tor

what he had done."

RICHARD RAKER son of Joh. Rak. of Lond.
gent, (by Kath. his wife daug. of Reynold Scot of
Scots-hall in Kent Kt.) a younger son of sir Joh.
Baker of Sissingherst in Kent Kt." chancellor of

^ Tho. Fuller in his €h. History, book II. cent. 17- sect.
33.

7 Merc. Aul. ut sup. Jan. 31. an. l644.

" Persec. Und. ul sup. p. 18. 26.

9 [In Cant, cathedral. — Here lyeth the Lady Thornehurst
who was some time wile of sir Richard Baker of Sebin«hcrst
in the county of Kent, and had issue by the said sir Richa;(l

164{.

\

147

BAKER.

the Exchequer aiul of the council to K. Hen. 8.
was born in Kent, particularly, (as I have been in-
tbnned by his' daughter) at Sissingherst before-
mentionetl, entred a connnoner of Hart-hall in 1584,
and was matriculated, in Mich, term that year, as a
[72] Kentish man born, and the son of a gent, being
then in the 16th year of his age : at which time
several of the family of the Scots before-mentioned
studietl in the .said hall. After he had spent about
three years in logic and philasophy in that house,
then flourishing with men of note in several facul-
ties, he went to one of the inns of court, afterwards
beyond the seas, and nothing was omitted by his
parents to make him an accomplish^ person. In
1594, after the celebration of a most solemn Act, he
was, with other persons of quality, actually created
master of arts, and in 160(5, May 17, he received
the honour of knighthood from K. Jam. I. at Theo-
balds ; at which tune this our author (who lived at
Highgate near London) was esteem''d a most com-
pleat and learned person ; the benefit of which he
reaped in his old age, when liis considerable estate,
was, thro'' suretiship, very much impaired. In 1620
he was high sheriff of Oxfordshire, being then lord
of Middle Aston, and of other lands therein, and, if
I mistake not, a justice of the jieace. He was a
person tall and cornel)', of a good disposition and
admirable discourse, religious, and well read in va^
rious faculties, esjjecially m div. and hist, as it may
appear by these books following, which he mostly
composed when he was forced to fly for shelter to
his studies and devotions.

Cafo vuriegaUis ; or, Cato's moral Distichs va-
ried. Lond. 1636. 'Tis a poem.

Meditatiotis aiul Disquimtions on tlte Lord's
Prayer. Lond. 1637. qu. [third edition, Lond.
1638. Bodl. B. 17. 2. Line] there again 1640 fourth
edit. qu. A copy of this Ixwk in MS. being sent
to his quondam chamber-fellow^ sir Hen. Wotton'
before it went to the press, he returned this tes-
timony of it ; 'I much admire the very character of
your stile, which seemeth unto me to have not a
little of the African idea of S. Austin's age, full of
sweet raptures, and of researching conceits ; nothing
borrowed, nothing vulgar, and yet all flowing from
you (I know not how) with a certain equal fa^-
cihty.'

Med. and Disg. on tlte three last Psalms of David.
Lond. 1639.

two daugViters, the Kidy Grisocone Lenard, and the lady
Cicely Blunt. She departed this present world in the year of
our Lord God 16O9. She then being of the age of LX years.
Kennet.]

' The wife of Bury a seedsman, living at the Frying-
pan in Newgate- Market in Lond.

* [Some time compiipil at Oxford. Baker.]
^ [Henricus Woiion A. M. coll. Mcrton, Oxon. rector de
Parendon in Essexia, iiistallattis in canonicatu Windsor 28
Maii, 1C69; quern resignavit 1 Mail 1671, et successit ei
Dr. Hascard. Frith, Calal. Kknnet. This note, as is
often the case with Kennet's, has nothing to do with the
Wotton mentioned in the text.]

Med. and Disq. on the 50 Psal. Lond. 1639.

Aled. and Disq. on the seven penitent. Psalms.
Lond. 1639. <iu. [In Magdalen college library.]

Med. and Disq. on tht: Jirst Psal. Lond. 1640.
qu.

Med. and Disq. on the serpen consolatory Psalms
of David, namely the 23. 27. 30. 34. 84. 103. and
116. Lond. 1640. qu.

Med. and Prayers upon tlie seven Days of the
Week. I.,ond. 1640. in 16°. which is the same, I
suppose, with his Motives of Prayer on the seven
Days of the Week.

Apology for Laymens writing in Divinity. Lond.
1641. in tw.

Short Meditation on ilw FaU of Lucifer — printed
with the Apology.

A Soliloquy oftfie Soul, or, a Pillar of Thoughts,
&c. Lond. 1641. in tw.

Chro^iitde of the Kings of England Jrom the
Time of the Roman Governinc7tt, unto the Death of
K. Jam. &c. Lond. 1641. &c. fol. Which chro-
nicle, as the aiitlior saith, was collected with so
great care and diligence, that if all other of our
chronicles were lost, this only would be sufficient to
inform posterity of all pa.ssages memorable or wor-
thy to be known, &c. However the rcatlcr must
know, that it being reduced to method, and not ac-
corcUng to time, purposely to j)lea.se gentlemen and
novices, many chief things to be observtxl therein,
as name, time, &c. are egregiously false, and con-
sequently breed a great deal of confusion in the
peruser, especially if he be curious or critical. There
was another edition of it that came out in 1653 and
58, in which last was added The History of the
Reign of K. Ch. I. xeith a Continuation Jrom his
Death to 1658. Lond. 1660. fol. made by Edw.
Philips, sometimes a student of Magd. hall. Af-
terwards in 1671, if I mistake not,* came out an-
other edit, in which was contained an edition of
Tlie first thirteen Years qf'K. Ch. II. that is, from
the death of K. Ch. I. to the coronation of K.
Ch. II. as also the Occurrences of his Restoration
hy George late Duke of Albemarle, extracted Jrom
his Excellency''s Papers, &c. which, as I have been
informed, were for the most part done by sir Tho.
Clarges, (whose sister the said duke had married) [73]
and put into the hands of the said Philips, but
therein Mr. Philips attributing more to the duke's
glory than was true, he got the ill will of him.

t [First edition l641.

Second l6o3.

Third l6f)0.

Fourth 16C5.

Fifth 1 6/0.

Sixth 1674.

Seventh 1 679.

Eighth 1 684.

Ninth 1696.
It was again printed in 1730 and 1733 ; the last, which
is the best edition, continued to the end of the reign of
George 1.]

149

BAKER.

laO

Therein are also added to the reitjn of K. Jam. I.
and K. C'h. I. the names of the nohlemen that they
created, and other matters. Hut so it was, that the
author Haker, and liis continuator Philijis having
committed very many errors, Thom. Blount of the
Inner Temple esq; published An'wiadver.iicms on
that edit. o/'1671, and were printed in oct. at Oxon.
1672. Which lKK)k containing only a specimen of
the errors, it may easily be discerned what the whole
Chronicle C(mtanieth. But notwithstanding these
Animadvcrmon.s the Chronicle, when afterwards it
was several times reprintetl, had none of the said
errors therein corrected, but came out full of faidts
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
bom at Bordesley in Worcestershire, being of a
younger house ot an antient^ and noble family of
his name, but never advantaged in learning by the
help of an university, only his own geny and indus-
try, together Avith the helps of his scholastical ac-
quaintance during his continuance in the Temple,
before and after he was barrester. His writings are
many, and some perhaps not fit here to be put
down ; among which are (1) The Academy of Elo-
quence, containing a compleat English Rhetoric.
Printed at Lond. in the tnne of the rebellion and
several times after. (2) Glossographia ; or, a Dic-
tHonary interpreting such hard Words, whether
Hebr. Gr. Lat. Ital. ^c. that are now used in our
refined Engl. Tongue, &c. Lond. 1656. oct. [Bodl.
8vo. R. 6. Art. BS.] 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
next) Boohi. Lond. 1658. in oct. Written in imi-
tation of J. Birkenhead's PauVs Churchyard, and
pubUshed under the name of ' Grass and Hay Wi-
thers.' (4) Boscobel : or, the History of his Ma-
jesty''s Escape after the Battel of Worcester, 3 Sept.
1651. Lond. 1660. in oct. there again 1680. in oct.
tliird edit. Translated into French and Portuguese ;
the last of which was done by Pet. Gilford of White
Ladies in Staffordshire, a R. Catliolic. (5) The
Catliolic Almanack, for 1661, 62, 63," &,c. which
selling not .so well as Joh. Booker's almanack did,
he therefore ^vrote (6) Booker rebuked: or Ani-
On Booker's fiadversions on Booker''s " Telescopivm
Aim. which " Uranicum or Ephemeris 1665, which

taade.Scc. " is very erroneous, &c. Lond. 1665. qu.

first edit, a jj, ^^^ sheet," which made much sport

'' Sec more of his family in tlie third impression of Hen.
Pencham's Compleat Gentleman, &CC. Lond. l66l. p. 230,
231. Which discourse there of Blount's family was drawn
lip by this Tho. Blount, and put into the hands of the pub-
lisher of the said third impression of Peacham.

" ^That in l663 was call'd A new Almanack nfltr the old
Fashion. Watts.]

among people, having Iiad the uKsistancc therein of
Jo. Sargeant and Jo. Austen. (7) A Laic IJir-
tionary, interpreting such difficult and oljscure
Words and Terms, as are found'' either in our
common or .statute, ancient or mixlern, Imws, Lond.
1671. fol. There again in 1691, witii some cor-
rections, and the addition of alxive 600 words. (8)
Animadversions upon Sir Rich. Baker''s Chron.
and its Cmitinuation, he. Oxon. 1672. oct. [Bodl.
Svo. S. 61. Th.] (9) A World (f Errnrs d'lscmer.
ed in The new World of Words, &c. Lond. 1673.
fol. [Bodl. Z. 1. 9. Jilr.] Written against Edw.
Philips hislwxjk entit. A neiv World of Kngl. Words,
&c. (10) Fragmenta Antiquitat'ts, Ant'ient Te-
nures of Land, andjocuhtr Custorhs of some Mam-
nours. Lond. 1679.* oct. [Bodl. Svo. L. 14. Jur.]
(11) Boscobel, &c. the second part. Lond. 1681.
oct. To which is added, Claustrum regale resera-
tum. Or the King\s Concealment at 7 rent in So-
mersetshire, pubhshed by Mrs. Anne Windham of
Trent. Our author Blount also wrote Animadver-
sions 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 onginally by
Hen. Estienne lord of Fossez: To which Blount
added, A Catalogue of Coronet-Devises, both on
the King\s and Parliaments S'lde, in the late Wars.
At length upon the breaking out of the f)opish
plot, being much affrighted by the violent current
of that time (he himself lieing a zealous Rom. Cath.)
he contracted the palsy, as by his last letter sent to
me, dated 28 Apr. lB79, I was informed, ad£ng
therein, that he had then quitted all books except
those of devotion. On the 26 of Dec. following,
being S. Stephen's day, he died at Orleton in Here-
fordshire, (where he had a fair and plentifid estate)
in the year of his age 61, and was burietl in the
church there, and soon after ha<l a comely monu-
ment 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. Bloimt 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,

Theatriim rediv'ivum : or, the Theatre vindicat-
ed, in An.swer to Mr. Prynn''s Histrio-Mastix, &c.
Lond. 1662. (x;tavo.

Tlieatrum triumphans : or, a Discourse of Plays.
Lond. 1670. oct. [Bodl. Svo. L. 13. Jtir.] He
also translated from Ital. into Engl. Discourses

' [In l685 oct. at London, caine out Let Termes de la
Ley, by T. B. of the Inner Templa, whom 1 lake to be

Blount. LOVEDAT.I

" [Printed, wiih alterations, large additions, .ind two in-
dexes by Josiah Becltwith, F. A. S. York 1784, 8»o. and
astjin Lond. 18 IS.]

L 2

[74]

151

BAKER.

STRODE.

152

upon Corn. Tacitus. Lond. 1642. fol. They are
in number 53, and were written by marquess Vir-
gilio Malve/zi ; and from French into English,
Letters of Mon.skiir BaLmc, in 4 Parti. Lond.
1638. iK-t. and 54, 8tc. with additions, in qu. He
also wrote his own life, which he left in MS. behind
him, burnt or made waste paper by one Smith of
Patcr-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 calfd the Fleet in Lond. on the 18 day
i***?- of Febr. in sixteen himdred forty and four, .and
was, the day following, buried about the middle of
the south isle joyning to S. Bridget's, commonly
called S. Bride's, church near Fleet-street in Lon-
don. Bv his wife Margaret, dau. of sir Geor.
Manwarmg of Ightfield in Shropshire, kt. (for
whose family this our author wa-s engaged for the
payment of debts) he had issue Thomas, Arthur,
Cecilia, Anne, Margaret, &c. But whereas he saith
in his ^Chrotticle, that K. Hen. I. had by his con-
cubine 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 pedigree Sybill)
and not the daughter, was married to the said Fitz-
herbert 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 latter end of 1617, and in that
of his age 16 or thereabouts, took the degree in
arts, holy orders, and became a most florid preacher
in the university. In 1629 he was chosen the pul)-
lic orator of the university, being then one of the
proctors of it, and two years after was admitted to
the reading of the sentences. In 1638, Jul. 1, he
was installed canon of Ch. Ch. and in the same
month proceeded doct. of div. before which time K.
Ch. I. had settled a canonry of the said church upon
him that should be lawfully elected public orator,
but that pious act hath been since annull'd by pre-
tended authoritv, and now such a thing seems to-
tally to be forgotten among us. As for Strode, he
was a person of great parts, but not equal to those
of Cartwright, a pithy and sententious preacher,
exquisite orator and an eminent jx)et. He hath
written,

Passions calmed. Or, the Settling of the Jloat-

ing Lihind. Lond. 1655. qu. 'Tis a comedy, and
was [)ubliclv acted before the king and (jueen in
Ch. Ch. Iiall 29 Aug. 1636.

Speech made to Qu. Mary at Oxon at her Re-
turn out of Holland. Oxon. 1643. qu.

Various sermons, as (1) Servi. concerning Swear-
ing; on Matth. 5. 37. Oxon. 1644. qu. [Bodl. 4to.
D. 60. Th.] (2) Serm. concerning Death and the
lie.mrrection ; preached at S. Mary's in Oxon. on
Low Sunday 28 Apr. 1644; on Colas. 3. ver. 3.
Oxon. 1644. qu. [Bodl. 4to. D. 60. Th.] (3)
Serm. at a Visitatioti held at Limi in Norfolk, 24
Jun. 1633; on Psul. 76. 11. Lond. 1660. qu. It
was preached at the desire of Dr. Rich. Corbet
bish. of Norwich, to whom our author, I think, was
then chaplain.

Orations, Speeches, Epistles, Sermons, &c.

They were left behind him fairly wTitten in several
volumes ; which coming into the hands of Dr. Rich.
Gardiner canon of Ch. Ch. came after, or before his
death, into those of Rich. Davies of Oxon book-
seller. Our author Dr. Strode yielded to the stroke
of death, to the great reluctancy of learned men, on
the tenth day of March in sixteen hundred forty
and four, and was buried in the divinitv chappel,
that is the isle most northward from the choir, oe-
longing to the cathedral of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. I
have seen several of his poems that have had musi-
cal compositions of two and three parts set to be
sung, by the incomparable Mr. Hen. Lawes ; as
also certain anthems, particularly one to be sung on
Good Friday, which had a composition also set
thereunto by Rich. Gibbs organist of Ch. Ch. in
Norwich. I shall make mention of another Will.
Strode elsewhere.

[In one of Dr. RawUnson's MSS. in the Bodleian^
I find these |X)ems ascribed to Strode.

1. The Devmi.ihire Travailer.

2. Melancholy opposed.^

3. For Prideux yongue Daughter.

4. Epadem Epitaphium : and the following

5. Thanks/or a Wellcome.

For your gixid lookes, and for your clarett,
For often bidding — ' doe not spare it' —
For healthful mirth, and lustie storie
(Such as made old Cato nierie) —
These are your thanks — that you may haue
In bloud the clarett that you gaue ;
And in your service shall be spent
The spirits which your sack hath lent.

The next piece is retrieved from Lawes's Ayresfir
three Voices, p. 19. where another may be found.

To a Lady putting off" Tier Veil.
Keep on your veile and hide your eye.
For with beholding you I dye ;

' In his discourse of the natural issue of K. Hen. I.

' [There is a small head of Ualier, in one of the compart-
menta of the engraved title-page to his Chronicle; but I Specimens of Early Enalish Poetry, where another of
should judge it of very doubtful authority.] Slrode's pieces is given collated with Sancroft's MS.]

« [MS. Rawl. Poet. 142.]

3 [Printed in Wit Restored, ISino. 1658, and in Ellis'i

[75]

l64t

STRODE.

BURTON.

164

Your f'atall hcauty, Gorgon like,
Dead witli astonishment will strike ;
Your piercing eyes, if them I see,
Are worse tlien basilisks to mc.

Hide from my sight those hils of snow,
Their melting vally do not sliow ;
Those azure paths lead to despair,
O vex me not ; forbear, forbear !
For while I thus in tonnents dwell
The sight of heav'n is worse then hell.

Your dainty voice and warbling breath
Sounds like a sentence past for death ;
Yom- dangling tresses are become
liike instruments of finall doome :
O ! if an angel torture -st).
When life is done, where shall I go .'']

WILLIAM BURTON the eldest son of Ralph
Burton esq; was born'' in Leicestershire, at Lynd-
ley, I suppose, near to Bosworth in that county,
24 Aug. 1575, educated in the grammar school at
Sutton-colfield in Warwickshire, became either a
commoner or gent. com. of Brasen coll. in Mich,
term, an. 1591, where by the l)enefit of a careful
tutor, he became ttilerably well read in logic and
philosophy. On the 20 of May 1593 he was ad-
mitted mto the society of the Inner Temple, and in
the month of June in the year following, he, as a
member of Brasen-nose coll. was admitted bach, of
arts. Afterwards setling in the Temple, without
compleating that degree by determination, was made
a barrester : but his natural geny leading him to the
studies of heraldry, genealogies, and antiquities, he
became excellent in those obscure and Intncate mat-
ters, and, ltK)k upon him as a gentleman, was ac-
counted by all that knew him to be the best of his
time for those studies, ^as it may appear by a book
that he published, entit.

The Description of Leicestershire, &c. Lond.
1622.' fol. [Bcxll. M. 1. 17. Art. and with MS.
notes by R- Gascoyne, Bixll. Gough, Leicester-
shire 1.] Soon after the author did very much en-
large, and enricli, it with Roman, Saxon, and other
antiquities, as by his letter" dated 9 June 1627,
written to sir Rob. Cotton that singular lover of ve-
nerable antiquity, it appears. 'Tis now, as I have
l)een informed, in the hands of Walt. Chetwind of
Ingestrey near to Stafford es(j; who intends to pub-
lish it. I have seen' a comm(m-place book of Eng-
lish antiquities made by our Will. Burton, which is
a manuscript in folio, composed mostly from Le-

* Ueg. Mat. Univ. Oxon. P. pag. 321.

* [Reprinted at Lynn, in folio, 1777- Aiigtnenled, im-
proved and continiied to tile present time by Joiin Niciiols,
esq. F. S. A. in four lara:e folio volumes (bound in eight)
Lond. 1795 — i815 : a work of the highest value and im-
[Mirtance, and one which may be considered as a model for
all future county histories.]

* In bib. Cotton sub cffig. Julii, C. 3.

' In bib. Had. Sheldon de Beoly arm. nunc in Heleria Fe-
cialium, Loiidini.

land's several voltimes ol" his Illnerary, being the
first of that nature that I have vet si-en ; but it
being a copy, and not written with his own hand,
but by an illiterate scrilK>, are innumerable faults
therein. This ingenious person, who is stilwl by a
learnetl " author of lK)th Ins names the great orna-
ment of his country, diwl in his house at Fald in
Stafflirdshire (after he had suffered much in the war
time) on the sixth day of Apr. in sixteen hundred
forty and five, and wa.s buried in the parish church
belonging thereimto called Ilanbury church, leaving
then behind him several collections of arms afid mo-
numents, of genealogies and other matters of anti-
quity, wliich he had gatheretl from divers churches
and gentlemens houses, and a son" named Ca.ssibi-
lian Burton the heir of his virtues as well as of other
fortunes, who was Iwrn on the 19th of Nov. 1C09,
but whether educatetl in this university I know not.
His parts being different from those of his father,
he exercised them mostly in poetry, and translated
Martial into English, but whether extant I cannot
tell you. In 1658 it then remained in MS. which
made a Ixxm comjMnion' of his com))lain thus :

When will you do yourself so great a right.
To let your English Martial view the light .'

This Cass. Burton who had consumed the most,
or better part of the estate which his father had left
him,* diea 28 Feb. 1681, having some years before,
^ven most of, if not all, the aforesaid collections of
his father before-mention''d to the said W. Chetwind
es{j; to be used by hun in writing The Antiquities
of Staffordshire.

[The following extract is from a MS. volume, in
the possession of Samuel Lysons, es<|. keeper of the
records in the Tower of London, entituled Anii-
quitates de Lindley, and composed by Burton him-
self.' It clears up every doubt as to the place of
his birth, and adds one other instance of Wood's
fidelity, and of the credulity of those who fancied
they hatl detected him in error.*

Willielmus Burton filius et haeres Radulphi Bur-
ton de Lindley, com. I>eic. natus fuit apud Lind-
ley pra;dict. 24 Aug. 1575, ann. 17 Eliz. circa ho-
ram decimam noctis. Sponsores habuit in sacro

* Will. Burton in his Commentary on Antoninus his Itine-
rsrv, &c. Lond. I&18. fol. p. 214.

•' [By Jane, daughter of Humfrey Adderley of Wedding-
tnn, Wanvick^h. whom he married in l6o7, she then being
about 18 years of age. See Hist, of Leicestershire, p. 1 79.1

' Sir Asion Cockaine bart. in his Choice Poems of several
Sorts. &c. Lond. l658, oct. lib. 2. nu. 102.

« [See a memorandum of payments by Cass. Burton, ia
1649, In Nichols's Hist, of Leicestershire, iv, 932, one item
of which is — ' P.yed sir Charles Egerton for a mare 80 lib.
— 10 the man 2s.;' and another — ' payed for 6I Welshe
shecpe 17 1. and I8d. to pocket.']

1«45.

[761

3 [Nichols's Hist, of Leicestershire, iv. 6.51.]
* [Dr. Rob. Plot, in his Natural History of Staffordshire,
p. 27C, supposes Burton to have been a native of Falde ; the
inscription on his jjortrait by Delaram seems to have misled
Plot, but this refers only to the place of his property and re-
sidence.]

155

BURTON.

rAIKCLOUGH.

fontc Anthonuini Faunt dc Foston, com. Leic.
avuncuhini, Nk-liolaiini Purefoy de Dravton, et
Jcwosain iixoreni nu|K.T Mifhaelis Piirelby de Cal-
decot, (iliaiii et colia>rctiem Jotiannis Hardwike,
quondam dominum manerii de I-indley praxlict.

Cum<iiie piieritiaiu I'lrressiis esset, primatiiic rudi-
menta Latinie linjijua' in })atenia doiiio sub aviiii-
culo SIR) Roberto Burton utcuntjue didicisset, missus
fuit an. loH-l, an. (|uotc'unquc jet. 9, a patre suo
Nuneatoninn, in com. Warw. ut granmiatica; stii-
dium absolverct, et principia dialectica' atldisceret ;
deditque his Uteris operam sub Williehno Yates,
didascoJo suo, per un\nn annum ; deinde sub Jo-
hanna Hett, viro literatt) et integerrimo, annis
(quantum memini) sex. Hinc ablegatus est 29
Sept. 1591, an. aetat. 16 ad celel)emmam acade-
miam Oxoniensem, in collegiimi ^Enei nasi, sub ma-
gistro Williehno Singleton, tunc sacras theologia;
oaccalaureo, nunc doctore, et ejusdem collegii prin-
dpali; artibusque humanioribus tantisjier aniniam
occupavit, donee gradiun artium baccalaurci acqui-
sivit, quem 22 Junii, 1594', an. aet. 18, adeptus est.
Cseterum cum hoc studii genus inipar sibi in poste-
rum videretur, turn ad assequendum nomen, tuiu
ad acquirendas majores facultates, anno superiori,
nempe 20 Mail, 1593, admisit se in Templum inte-
rius, hoc est, societatem sive conventum jurisperito-
rum in suburbiis Londinensibus. Deserto igitur stu-
dio philosophico, animam ad acquirendam scientiam
legum publicarum solum adjecit. Cwterum has
artes non sic deseruit, ut penitus ab eo possent exu-
lari, sed horis succesivis amplexus est, sui recre-
andi gratia; nam naturali quodam genio ad ha.s
amandas ducebatur, pra-cipue ad studium po'esLs, in
quo si continuo esset versatus, procul-dubio exi-
mium se prsestitisset ; nam in ipsa pueritia an.
1589 epistolam heroicam composuit (scil. Philomelw
Prognj.)

Post, 1596, scripsit Comosdiam Jhcetam de Amo-
ribus Pcrinthi et Tyantes.

Anno sequenti transtulit in linguam vernaculam
Historiam Ach'dlu Statii de Amoribtis CUtophcmtis
et Lcucippes, Impressam Londini, 1597, per Tho-
tnam Creede.*

Eodemque anno emblcma finxit TfiavflftyTToy.
Ultimo, 1602, tabulas chorographicas edidit comi-
tatuum Leicestrensis et Warwicensis, impressas An-
twerpia-. Multum etiam animum adiecit studio
heraldico ; hoc est, in rimandis et cognoscendis in-
signibus gentilitiis et genealogiis. Quam doctus in
hac scientia brevi evasit, sua ipsius scripta genealo-
^ca et armorum verum possunt dare testimonium ;
ut etiam laboris et diligentiae, qui penna et penicillo
myriades in proprium usum depmxit. — Delectavit
cum valde lingua Italica et Hispanica, in quibus
discendis sic prof ecit, ut praeter cognitionem ahcujus

' [Noi known to Ames or Herbert. The latter however
mentions it as llccnbed, in 1596, to Crcede, and entered in
the bucks of the stationers' company under this title : — Hiti-
phon and Loutippe, translated from the Greeke, hy fF. B-
S«« Typ. Anliq. page 1884.]

authoris in utrat|ue lingua seri])ti, jx)sset etiam jkt-
tecte et familiariter in utnKiue idiomate collocjui.
Arrisit ei praesertim studium symlM)lorum, sive dcgli
impresse, quorum Itahci soli inventores et perfec-
tores, ut constat per varios authores hujus scientiae
(]uos in iisinu et tlelec-tationem ctmgessit ; niminnn,
(iirolamo Ruseelli, Camillo C'ainilli, Paolo Jovio,
Ludovico Dolce, Julio Ca»sare Ca]jpacio, Gabriele
Symeone, Achille BiKX-hio, I.uca Contile, Sci])ione
Bargagli, vEgidium Sadler, et emblematum scriptores
fere omnes. Et si continuo catarrho et distillationi-
bus rhcumaticis de capite decidentibus, quae eum in
praesentem morbum adegenint, non esset devexatus,
nuilta alia lectu tum scitu digna addidisset. Interim
tamen quibus jx)tuit viribus diligenter .studiis legum
incubuit, in cjuibus cognoscendis maxiinam temporis
partem impertiit ; et post decern annos elapsos, ni-
mirum, 20 Mail, 1603, creatus est, apud Templum
Interius, appienticius ad legem, sive juris-consultus,
vulgariter an utter-barrliter, or counsellor at Imv ;
sed dum ultra vires huic studio se applicavit, inci-
dit in morbum dictum Phthisim, sive Tabem, qua

nunc laborat ut vcretur

From several of his Latin compositions too long
for insertion, the follovfing fragment has been se-
lected :

Quid iuvat humanis tantum confidere rebus ?
Quid juvat incerta vita spem ponere certam ?
Multa voluptati qua; spondet nulla resolvit,
Gaudia promittens, solvens luctusque dolores.
Vallis et errorum, sic fons et origo malorum est,
Et velut in medio florescens insula fluctu,
Cujus in instanti ac infehx exitus est mors,
Quae numquam vere nisi solo fine beata est.
Cui fortuna comes, mala sors quae semper in ipso
Temporis articulo praesto est adferre dolores :
Quae bona |M?rpetuo est nuntjuam, sed lubrica currit,
Et manet in nullo certa tenaxque loco.
Mole ruit gravida quisquis subhmia scandit ;
Qui cadit in terram non habet unde cadat :
In me consumpsit vires fortuna nocendo,
Nil superest quo jam possit obesse magis.
O me felicem quod coelo dante priusquam
Naturae cedam, cuncta ha'C coguoscere possim.
Nunc milii dulce mori, nunc me super athera ad alta
Coela Deus capiatque suo det vivere regno.

Res, spes, et vita, valeto !

Gulielmus Burton, Phthisicus, 1603.

Nichols has given a head of Burton, in his excel-
lent History of Leicestershire, but the best is the
old engravetl pirtrait by Fran. Delaram, prefixed
to the original book.]

DANIEL FAIRCLOUGH, commonly called
Fkatley,* son of John Featley (sometimes cook to

" [The first subject I shall insist upon is the quid nominii.
the name of Featley : which indeed belonged not to the doc-
tor, but was the issue of the ienorance and corruption of
the limes. His right name was' Faireclough, and by that

FAIllCLOUGH.

158

r. Humplircv president of Magdalen coll.
Is c(K)k of that of Corp. Chr.) by Marian

Dr. Laur. Hun
afterwardf

Thrift his wife, was born at Charlton upon Otmore
near to, and in the county of, ()xl()rd, on the .5th
of March or thereabouts in 1582, educated in the
grannnar scIkkjI joining to Magd. college, being then
(1590, &c.) chorister of that house, admitted scho-
lar of Corp. Chr. coll. Vi Dec. an. 1594, probationer-
fellow 20 Sept. 1C02, being then bach, of arts, and
afterwards proi'eeding in that facidty, (at which
time he was junior of the act') he became a severe
student in that of divinity. Soon after, having laid
a solid founflation in the positive part, he bet(X)k
himself to the fathers, councils, schoolmen, &c. and
in short time became eminent in dieni. His ad-
mirable disputations, his excellent sermons, his
grave, yet affable demeanour, and his other rare
accomplishments, made him so renown'd, that sir
Thomas Edmunds l)eing dispatched by king James,
to lie leiger-ambassador in France, he made choice "
of our author to travel with him as his chaplain.
The choice he accepted and willingly obeyed, and
spent three years in France in the liouse of the said
ambassador. During that time he becjune the ho-
nor of the Protestant religion and the English na-
tion ; insomuch as his many conflicts with, and con-
quests of, the learned Sorbonists in defence of the
protestants, and opposition to the papists, caused
even those his adversaries to give him this encomium
that he was ' FeatlKus acutiss. & acerrimus.' Upon
his return into England, he repaired to his college,
took the degree of bach, of div. 1613, and s(X)n after
became rector of Northill in Cornwall by the fa-
vour of Ezeck. Arscot, esq; one of his pupils and a
Cornish man born. But before he wa.s scarce warm
there, he was sent for from thence to be domestic
chaplain to Dr. Ablxit archb. of Canterbury, and by
him was j^refer'd soon after to the rectory of Lam-
beth in Surrey. In 1617 he proceeded in divinity,
and puzled Prideaux the king's professor so much
with his learned arguments, that a quarrel there-
upon being raised, the archbishop was in a manner
forced to compose it for his chaplain's sake. The

name he was ordained both deacon and minister, as his let-
ters of orders witnessed. All the ancient deeds, evidences,
and conveyances of his elder brother, his father, his grand-
father, and the rest of his ancestors, ran in the name of
Faireclough ; yea, and his elder brother (my dear father)
did consiantlv write his name John FairecUjuph, as I can
justly witness. But even in the days of my good father, the
name (bv the mistakes of people) varied and altered from
Faireclough to Fairecley, then to Fateley, and at length to
Featley, which name he first owned in print of all our fa-
mily.— The name at first arose from tha.1 fair cliff where his
ancestors long since were seated ; for in the dialect of that
county (Lancashire) as well as some others, a clifl' was an-
ciently written clough ; and so from their feat the family
took denomination of Fairclough, retaining the ancient way
of spelling. Life of Fealley , l)y his nephew Job u Featley,
Lond. 1()60, p. 4. Bodl. 8vo. F. 53. Th.]

' [He preach'd the rehearsal sermon, l6lO. Tanner.]
" [He left order with Dr. King, then vice-chancellor, to
provide him a chaplain. Tanner.]

archb. of S|>aJato Ixjing also present at the diKputa^
tion, was so much taken with our author'H argu-
ments that he forthwith gave him a brother' s-place
in the Savoy Hospitjil near London, he iieing Uien
master thereof. Aixnit that time he had tlie rectory
of Allhallows church in Hreadstreet within the city
of London confer'd upon him by Canteri)ury ;
which, soon after, he changetl i'or the rectory aS
Acton in Middlesex,' and at length became the
third and hist provost' of Chelsea coll. In 1625
he left Canterbury's service (Iwing then married*)
and retiring to Kennington near LamlK'th, where
his wife liaa a hou.se,' laid aside ixilemical divinity,

!> [l0'27, 30 Jan. Dan. Fealley, S. T. P. institutat in
recioria ile Acton. lieg. London. Kennet.]

' [He was the third provost, and Dr. Samuel Wilkinson
the fourth. See Fuller's CAarcA //ii/ory, x, 51, 55. Love-
da Y.J

' [From Woo<l'3 account, it would seem that Featley left
archbishop Abbot's service by reason of his marriage. The
real cause is thus given by his nephew. ' About the year
l642 (n misprint for 1622) and about the forty and fourth
year of his age, the doctor married an ancient, grave gentle-
woman called mistress Joyce Halloway, the relict of Mr.
Halloway, and formerly the relict of Mr. Thompson (both
merchants of London) and daughter of one Mr. Kerwin,
who lived in a handsom house of her own in Kennington,
in Lambeth parish, and being a great florist, nourished a
garden which administred a sweet and delicate delight : but
this marriage he for a time concealed, and continued in the
domestick service of his lord. In the year 1(J25 (that great
year of the tasking pestilence in London) the archbishop re-
niov'd with his whole family fiom London to Croydon, for
fear of the infection ; where it fell out on a day that Dr.
Featley found himself somewhat indisi>osed in point of
health, but endeavoured to shake it off. Howsoever the
bishop was soon acquainted with it, (for great men want not
their whispering intelligencers) and presently he commanded
the doctors speedy removal out of his house. Honor, and
wealth, and age, and the ministerial function, were too
weak orators to perswade the bishop to withstand the fear
of sickness and death. The weather was rainy, the ways
foul, the doctor not well, yet all these signified nothing, nor
prevailed so much with his lord, as to allow him to stay
either in the house or town, or to lend him a coach for his
easier and safer journey. The doctor look horse, and by the
providence of a belter lord, rode safely (though in mucn an-
guish and grief) to his own house at Kennington, where by
ihe care and nursery of his skilful and loving wife, and a di-
vine blessing upon the means, he soon recovered ; for his
distemper was but a cold. Upon his recovery, he removed
his books and other goods from Lambeth palace to his own
house, and so deserted the service of his lord.' So far Dr.
Featley's nephew, John Featley, but surely the insinuations
of unkindncss and inhumanity in Abbot's conduct, might
have been well spared, since all he did can only be attri-
buted to a meritorious precaution at a lime of general dan-
s'^''-]

3 [In the south isle of the church of St. Helens in

London is a very fair window with this inscription : — This
v\indow was glazed at the charges of Joyce Featley, daugh*
ter to Williain Kerwyn escj. and wife to Daniel Featley DJ).
Anno Domini l632. This window is beautified with three
rich coats, her father's, her first, and her second husband's.
Stowe's Survey of London, by Strype, ed. 1720, pgc 102.

l636, April 20, Joyce Feaily by her will, or writing in-
dented tripartite, did appoint, that after the death of Dr.
Dan. Featly, her husbana, and herself, yearly to be paid by
her heirs, out of the rents and profits ol a messuage in the

159

FAIRCLOUGII.

wholly devotwl hiiiisoU" to the study and practice of
piety and diaritv, and composed his Aiuilla Ple-
tatis, whicli the next year wa-s published. From
that time to the iK-jjinning of the civil war, may be
many thinjjs here sjxiken of him, wortliy of me-
morv, as of liis often disputes with persons of con-
trary religion, his writing of Ikx)ks against the
f7T] church of Rome, &c. which shall now lor bre-
vity's sake be omittLnl. In Nov. WiH, after the
king had encounter'd the parliament soldiers at
Brentford, some of the rebels took up their quar-
ters at Acton : who, after they had missed our au-
thor Featley, whom they took to be a papist, or at
least that he had a iwpe in his belly, they drank
and eat uj) his provision, burnt down a barn of his
full of corn ana two stables, the loss amounting to
211/. and at the same time did not only greatly

Erofane the church there by their beastly actions,
ut also burnt the rails, pulfd down the font, broke
the windows and I know not what. In Febr. fol-
lowing the said rebels sought after him in the church
at Lambeth on a Lord's-day to murder him, but he
having timely notice of their coming, withdrew and
saved hini.self. In 1643, when the bishops were
altogether disenabled from performing their office,
and thereupon the assembly of divines was consti-
tuted, by the ' blessed parliament,'' then by some so
caU'd, our author was appointed a member thereof,
shewing himself among tliem to have more of Calvin
in him than before, being (as 'tis •» said) a Calvinist
always in his heart, tho' he shewed it not so ojx'nly
till that time, " and wa.s witness against archbishop
" Laud at his tryal." But so it was, that our author
being a main stickler against the covenant there,
which he was to take, did in a letter to the learuetl
Dr. Usher primate of Ireland, then at Oxon, in the
middle of Sept. the same year, shew to him the
reasons why he excepted against it.» A copy of
which letter, or else another, which he about the
same time wrote, being treacherously gotten * from

parish of Lambelh in Surry, (being copyhold of ihe m.inor
of Kennington) for ever, 41. per ann. to be paid lo tlie vie.ir
and churchwardens of this parish (St. Helens) by quarterly
payments upon trust to distribute i'Jd. thereof weelily every
Sunday in bread. And 20s. thereof yearly to the preacher,
to preach on the day of her burial (and that happened on the
3 Oct. lC37) : ••Vnil in default of such sermon, that said 20s.
w go to the poor of the parish. And ()s. yearly to be be-
stowed in upliolding her father's tomb ; and the other 2s.
yearly lo the sexton, for keeping clean the said tomb. Ibid.
page 104. It seems that upon the death of Dr. Featley, the
executors of his wife's will refused payment of the above be-
quest; but in lC48 a decree for such payment was obtained
by an inquisition upon the statute for charitable uses. This
decree however, by reason of the civil disturbances that fol-
lowed, was not acted upon till 1703, when the court of
chancery confirmed it, and ordered payment of the annuities
(with a remittance of all arrears) from Michaelmas in that
year.]

« By Dr. Pot. Heylin.

* [See the best account of this matter in my lord Claren-
don's Hist, of the Rebellion, vol. ii, page 286. Baker.]

" See in a book call'd Sacra Nemesis. § 3, 4, 5, &c.

him, wa-s first carried to the close comhultee, and at
length to the house of commons. Whereupon our
author being jiidgeil to be a spy and a lietrayer of
the parliament's cause, was seised on, committed
prisoner to the lord Petre's house in Alilcr^gatestreet
on the 30th of the said month, and his rectories
taken away, that of Acton being bestowed on the
infamous mtlejiendciit Philip Nye, and that of Lam-
lK?th on Joh. White of Dorchester, the old instru-
ment of sedition, who afterwards got an order to ob-
tain, and keep his library of btxjks, till such time
that he could get his own back, which had a little
before been seised on at Dorchester by the command
of prince Kupcrt. In the said prison-house he con-
tinued till the beginning of March 1644, and then
after much supplication made to the parliament in
his behalf (he being then drawn very low and weak
by the drt)psy) he was remov'd for health's sake to
Chelsea college, of which he was then provost, where
spinning out a short time in piety and holy exercise,
surrendred uj) his last breath to him that first gave
it. He was esteemed by the generality to be one of
the most resolute and victorious champions of the
reformed protestant religion in his time, a most
smart scourge ofthe church of Rome, a compendium
of the learned tongues, and of all the liberal arts and
sciences : Also, that though he was of small stature,
yet he hatl a great soul and had all learning com-
pacted in him. He was most seriously and soundly
pious and devout, and tam studio cjuam exercitio
theologus insignis, &c. as 'tis express'd in his ej)itaph.
What the reader may further judge of him, may be
by his works, the catalogue of which follows.

The Life and Death of Jo. Jewell sometime bish.

of Salisbury. ^'Tis an abridgment of the said

bishop's life written by Laur. Humphrey D. D.
drawn up by our author whilst he was a student in
C. C. coll. an. 1609, at the command of Dr. Bancroft
archbishop of Canterbury. Which being by him
concluded and sent to Lambeth, was sucldenly
printetl and prefix'd to the said Jewell's works, be-
fore he had time to revise it, and to note the errata
therein. Most, if not all, of the said life is printed
in English in a book entit. Abel redivivus, collected
and written by Tho. Fuller Lond. 1651. qii.

Hi.itory of the Life and Manner of Death of
Dr. Joh. Ruinolds President of Corp. Ch. eoll. in

Oxon. It was delivered in a Lat. oration from a [78]

pew set in that coll. cjuadrangle, when the said
Rainolds was to be interred in the chappel there.
Most, or all of the said life is remitted into the be-
fore-mention''d Abel redivivus.

Life and Death of Rob. Abbot D. D. sometimes

BisJiop of Salisbury. Written in Latin also, as

it seems, and remitted into Ab. i-ediv. in English.

The Romish Fisher caught ami held in his own
Net. Or, a true Relation of his Coii/irenee with
Joh. Fisher and Joh. Sweet. Lond. 1624. qu.
[Bodl. 4to. F. 4. Th. BS.]

Appendix to th*; Fisher''s Net, x&ith a Description

1^1

FAIRCLOUGIl.

im

of-' the Romish Wheel and Ctrcle. Printed with

the foriiKT lM)ok.

-4 Defence of his Proceedings in the Conference,
togetlier with a Refutation of Mr. FisJier\i Answer
(under the Name of J. C.J to a Treatise entit. The
Fisher caught in his own Net. Lond. 1624. qu.

The Sum and Substance of that which passed in
a Disputation hctzecen Dr. Featly and Mr. G. Mus-
ket, touching Transubstantiation, 9,\st of April
1621. Lond. 1624. qu.

True Relation of that xchich passed in a Confer-
ence at the End of Pater-noster-row, called Amen,
touching Tran,substantiation, 18 Apr. 1623.

Conference hy writing between Dr. Featley and
Mr. Jo. Sweet a Jesuit touching the Ground, and
last Resolution of Faith.

Whicli five last things were printed with the
Rom. Fisher caught.

Ancilla Pietatis. Or, the Handmaid to private
Devotion, &c. Lond. 1626, oct. [Bodl. 8vo. F. 83.
Th.] ' After which, were eight editions of it printed
before the year 1676.

The Practice of Extraordinary Devotion

printed with Ancilla Pietatis. In one of these two
he makes the story of S. George the tutelar saint of
England a mere figment, for wliich he was forced to
cry peccavi, and fall upon his knees before Dr. WiU.
Laud, A. B. of Cant, as Will. Cartwright of Ch. Ch.
hath noted it in the margin of a copy of the said
book, which did belong to him.

Sum of Saving Knowledge delivered in a Cate-
chism consisting of 52 Sections, answerable to the
Sabbaths throughout the Year. Lond. 1626. oct.

Pelagius recllvivus. Or, Pelagius ralc'd out cyf
tlie Ashes by Arininius and his Scholars. Lond.
1626. qu. This book consists of two parallels, one
between the Pelagians and Arminians, the other be-
tween the church of Rome, the appealer, (viz. Rich.
Mountague afterwards B. of Cliichester) and the
church of England in three columes; together with
a writ of error sued against the appealer, &c.
Seven men, in distinct b(X)ks, soon after Mountague''s
Appeal came forth, appeai'ed against it, viz. G.
Carleton B. of Chich. &c. See more in the said
Carleton under the year 1628. vol. ii. col. 424.

The grand Sacrilege of the Church of Rome in
taking away tfie Sacred Cup from the Laity at the
Lordi's Table, 8cc. Lond. 1630. qu. [Bodl. 4to. C.
41. Th.]

Two Ccniferences : the former at Paris now stifled
by the Romanists Bislwp of Chalcedon ; ' another

' [Tills is the second edition, and contains, in addition to
what wa'i given in the first,

1 . A Difrnce of Christian Feasts, and the Religious 01-
strvatiim thereof.

2. A Discourse of the Lent Fast, the Original and perpe-
tiiall Practise thereof.

3 Directions for a private Fast, together with Admoni-
tions, Humnes, and Prayers fitted thereunto. '\

' [WTiich being censur'dny G. E. was in l634 vindicated
bv Myrth VVaferer. See these Athenje under the year
1680. Watts.]

Vol. III.

at Ltmdon zvith Mr. Everard a Romish Priest, dis-
guised in the Habit itfa I Aiy-Gcntlemun, unexpect-
edly met at a Dinner in NMe-street ^ Jan. 1626,
Printed with the Grand Sacrilege, &c.

Claris Mystica : A Key opening divers difficidl
and mysterious Texts tyf Holy Scripture, in 70
Sermons. Lond. 1636. fol. [IJodl. Y. 1. 11. Th.]
Which sermons having several matters in litem
against the papists ami the church of R<mie, were,
as Prynne" .saith, obliteratwl l)efore tlic-v- went into
the press by the licenser, chaplain to Laud arch-
bishop of Canterbury.

" Hexatexium : or. Six Cordials to strengthen
" the Heart of evenf faithful Christian against the
" Terrors of Death. Load. 1637, thin tol. This
" book contains six sermons, the first of which is on
" Eccles. 12. 5."

Defence of Sir Humph. LyncFs Viatuta. Lond.
1638. qu. See in sir H. Lynd under the year 1636,
vol. ii. col. 602.

An.9wer to a Piece entit. A Case for a Pair of
Spectacles.' Lond. 1638. qu. [Bodl. A. 3. 16. Line'.]
This, with a supplement thereunto added, tho' pub-
lished by Dr. Featlcv, yet 'twas originally written [79]
by the said sir Humphrey. See more in sir Humph,
in vol. ii. col. 602.

Transubstantiution exploded \or an Encounter
with Ricluird tlie titular ie Bishop of Chalcedon
concerning Chrisfs Presence at his holy Table.
Wliereunto is annexed a true Relation of a Dispute
beticeen O. Featly and Dr. Bagshaw at Paris,
1612.]* agaiiust the Bisliop of Chalcedon. Lond.
1638, oct. [Bodl. 8vo. A. 92. Line]

Several funeral sermons, " one preachetl at the
funeral of sir Humph. Lynd.'" Lond. 1640. fol.
published again with other fun. scmu)n.s, under the
title of The House of Mourning, &c. Lond. 1671.

Vertumnus Romanus. Or, a Discourse penned
by a Romish Prie.it, therein he endeavours to prove
that it is lauful for a Papist in England to go to
a Protestant Church, to receive the Communion,
and to take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy.
To uhich are adjoined Animadversions in the Mar-
gin, by Way of Antidote, against those Places
where the rankest Poison is couclwd. Lond. 1642.
qu. [Bodl. 4to. T. 24. Jur.]

Animadvei'sions upon a Book entit. A Safeguard
from Shipicrack to a prudent Catliolic, wherein is
proved that a Catliolic may go to a Protestant
Church and take the Oaths of Allegiance and Su-
premacy. Lond. 1642. i\u.

9 See in Canterburies Doome, p. 108, 254, 858, 869, aliu
2*9, 284, '^93, 527, &c.

' [This is the same with the foregoiii|j! work. A Cast for
the Spectncles, or a Defence nf Via tnta, Tlie safe Way, hy
sir Humphrey Lynde Knight, in answer to a Book written by
I. R. called, A Paire of Spectacles ; together with a Treatise
intituled Stric!ur(e in Lyndomastygem, by way of Supple-
ment to the Knight's Answer, where he left off, prtvenled by
Death. And a Sermon preached at his Funtrall, at Cobham,
June 14, 1636. Lond. j630'. 4lo.]

' [Tanner.]

M

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FAIIICI.OITGH.

\m

The gentle Lash ; or, the Vindication of Dr.
Feutlcy, a known Champion oftlie Protestant Reli-
gion.

His Answer to the seven Articles exhibited
against him to the Committee of pliindred Ministers
by three mechanic BroKnists, in July 1643.'

His Mani/esto or Challenge. " These three
were printed at Oxford 1644, qu. in 4 sheets."
[B(xll. C. 14. 6. Line] This [last] was written iijxin
report that lie was turned papist.

The Dippers dipt. Or, the Anabaptists dueled
and plung'd over Head and Ears, at a Disputation
in Swdhwark 17 Oct. 1642. Lond. 1643, 44, 45,
[1651. Bodl. A. 16. 14. Line] &c. Answered by
Sam. Richardson, an. 1645.

Tractate against the Anabaptists contained in six
Articles.

Remarkable Histories of the Anabaptists, with

Observations tlieretipon These two last are

printed with The Dippers dipt.

Answer to a Popish Challenge touching the An-
tiquity and Visibility irfthe true Church and other
Questions depending thereon. I.,ond. 1644. qu.
Some titles of this book call it Roma mens.

Sacra Nemesis : The Levites Scmtrge, or Merc.
Britannicus andCivicus disciplin''d. Oxon.1644. qu.

Divers remarkable Disputes and Resolves in the
Assembly of Divines related. Episcopacy asseiied.

Truth rijited, In this, which is printed with

Sacra Nemesis, is Dr. Featley's learned speech
against the covenant, spoken in the said assembly.

Pedum Pastorale, Concio hab. ad Cler. Oxon.
ad Joh. 21. 15. Ultratraject. 1657. in tw.

Dr. Dan. Featley revived, proving that the Pro-
testant Church (and not the Romish) is the only
Catholic and true Church. Lond. 1660. tw. [BodJ.
8vo. F. 53. Th.] Preserved from the hands of the

filunderers in the beginning of the civil war, care-
iilly kept for many years, and at length published
by his nephew Joh. Featley.''

The Lea-ue illegal: or, an Examination of the
.lohmn League and Covenant. Lond. 1669. qu. See
in Jo. Gauden under the year 1662, and in Joh.
Featley 1666.

Doctrine of the Church of England maintained,
in a Justification of the 39 Articles of the Church
of England, against Papists and Schismutics, &c.
Lond. 1660. quarto.

Antiquity and Universality of the Protestant
Faith-- — Printed with the former. He also pub-
lished K. James his Cygnea cantio. Lond. 1629.
3u. wherein you may read a scholastic duel between
lat king and our author; who dying in Chelsea
coll. near Lond. on the 17 of April in sixteen hun-
1645. dred forty and five, was, according to his will, bu-
ried in the chancel of Lambeth church. At which

' [Wood coiifouiided this and the preceding tract in the

first edit, but his mistake is rectified in the second of 1721.]

■• [With a succinct history of his life and death. Wan-

J-EYJ

time a very great multitude of i)ersons of honour
and ((uality attendwl the funeral rites, and Dr. Loe,
by some called Leo, preached a learned and pious
sermon. Which iK'ing afterwards printed ^ I shall
refer the reader to it, if it niav oe had : where-

now

in, as also in his life, written by his nephew Jo.
Featley before-mention'd, (from whence I have
taken some materials) you may receive farther satis-
faction concerning those rare accomplishments of the
party deceased. Over his grave was s<jon after a
comely monument erected, with an epitaph engraven
thereon ; a copy of which you may see in Hist. ^•
Antiq. Univ. Oxon. hb. 2. p. 242. b.

[Dan. Featley coll. Magd. Oxon. admittend. ad
sacr. presbyter ord. subscnpsit artic. 5 Sept. 1664.

Daniel Featley A. M. axlmittend. ad vie. de Byker
com. Line, siibscripsit artic. 9 Aug. 1665. Ex
Autogr. MS. Kennet.

Before S. Newman's Concordance, Dan. Featley
has wrote (containing four pages) An Advertisement
to the Christian Reader, concerning the Occasion of
composing and publishing this Concordance, to-
gether with the manifold Use thereof In this are
some criticisms on the Vulgate translation.

Before Phincas Fletcher's Purple Island he has
also wrote one page ' to the reader.' Loveday.

I have hatl the good fortune to discover, among
Dr. llawlinson's MSS. a volinne which would be
invaluable to any future biographer of Featley. It
contains

1. The Trial of Fayth by tfu- Tutch-stone of
Truth. (Suy &11V For the coimtesseof Buckingham.)

2. Literw a Patriarcha Alexandrino ad Archiep.
Cant, transmissce, ex JEgypto, Jussu Archiep.
traductcE.

3. Prcefatio in Rob. Abbot Salisbur. Epi^copi
Cygn. Cant\onem.

4. In Effigiem G. Abbot Archiep. Cant. (Latin
verse.)

5. Triplici Nocte triplex Cursus, seu Sphinx
Protestantium. Qawstiof'" Vbi vestra Ecclesia ex-
titit ante Lutheri Excitum ?

6. The Preface to the great English Concordance,
published by M. C. 1630.

7. A Preface to Mr. Chibb. (probably Chibbald)
Jiis Apology.

8. A Praifcxe to the Booke intituled the Spanish
Convert.

9. An Epistle dedicatory Jbr M. S. to the Lady
Reye.

10. Oratio.

11. Oratio in Comit. Tuibita Julii 14, 1606.

12. Oratio in banc tliesin : Hccc una Hominis
Sapientia, non arbitrari te scire quod nescias.

' \^A Sermon preached at Lambeth Apr. 21, l645, at the
Funeral nf that teamed and pnlemkal Divine Dan. Featley
D. D- late preacher there : with a Short Relation of his
Life and Death, by JVm. Leo, D.D. sometimes Preacher at
Wandesworth in Surrey. Lond. 164.5, 4to. In bibl. coll.
Jo. Cant. Class OO. 7- 32. Baker.]

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I'AIUCI-OUGH.

im

13. Oratlo in Comit'ixs fi° JuUi habcnda de li'isce
3 QucEstimilbu^. 1. An Pacts Artes sint nobiliofcs
quam Belli ? 2. An prcvstantitis sit in multis
Scientiis mediacrem esse, quam in vna singvlarem.
3. An Famafaveat optimis ?

14. Oratio in Landem Dialecticce Aristotelis,
et Demonstrationum, in ScJiola Dialect, habenda.

15. An Terra moveatur Cwlum quiescat, Neg.
(Lat. verse.)

16. An Inventio Pulveris tormeniarii magisju-
ciat ad Salntem. quam ad Perniciem Rerumpvdili-
carum. Neg. (Lat. verse.)

17. An Ecclesia vlsih. .sit Cwtus Fidelium.

18. Prcrfatio in Oratixmem Comit. doctiss. viri
D. R. Jani Calendis dsdicatam.

19. Oratio in Templo B. Maria Atigustin.

20. Lectin j"'" theologica habita in Coll. C. C. C.

21. Oratio funebris in Obitum doctiss. et sanctiss.
Viri et mihi amici.ssimi Jo. Rainold Pras. digni.ss.
qui obiit Die Jovis inter Hor. 11 et 12, 1607,
Mail 21 .• Sepult. et Honoris. 25. {Habita in Qua-
drang.)

22. Leges Pontificiorum de Delectu Ciborum in
Jejunio et hujusmodi Adiaphoris sunt snperstitiosw.

23. Oratio; Opera 7iostra bona non merentur
Vitam Aiternam.

24. Lectio Theologica; ' Cum jejunasset 40
diebiM et 40 noctihus, po.stea esuriit.''

25. Sacra Scriptura continet in se omnia ad Sa-
lutem necessaria.

26. The Life and Death of B. Jetcell collected
out of Dr. Humfrey's larger Treatise ; appointed
by the Archb. An. 1609. {Finiend. Spat. Mensis.)

27. Lectio in Aula.

28. Lectio theologica ; ' Cum Jejunasset 40 dies,
turn vcnit ad eum Tentator!'

29- Comfort and Physik in Time of Plajr^ie. To
the r. w. M. Wentworth. (Incept. Octob. 1609)

30. In Missa non qffertur Sacrificium proprie
dictum propitiatorium pro vivis et defunctis.

31. CoiKU) Latina. Coram Academia die purific.
Maria'.

Besides these pieces, this curious volume contains
a great number of original letters from Featley, of
which I now give three or four which have never
before been pnnted.

To his loving cosyn Mr. Fayreclough

Pardon, most louing and kinde cosyn, my looser
wrighting vnto you, to whom I am so much bounde.
My many and great businesses thrusting one vpon
another in the streights of time, to stop ech other
that none passeth as it ought. St. Austin wittily
moueth a doubt how it is possible to remember ob-
liuion seing we remember nothing but such things
whose shapes and pictures are drawne in the me-
mory ' Cum nemini obUvionem et monioria praesto
est, et obhvio memoria qua meminerim oblivio qua
meminerim. Sed quid est oblivio nisi privatio me-
moria; ? quomodoergo adest ut ea meminerim quando
cum adest merainisse non possim ?'' Certainely how-

aoouer it secme strange that we should remember
that which taketh away all memorye, yet I am Kuro
I too well rememlwr my t<x) much mrgetfulnes of
you who.se loue and friendship yet I more desirwl
m my secretest thoughts tiii-ii ol" any, and if banh-
fulnes rather then forgetfnines, want of opportu-
nity, multitude of busines, shall now picade tor my
fonner silence, I \vill hereafter rather make a breach
of my duty on the contrary side in too much trou-
bling you, then where I have done hcrtoforc in too
seldome visiting you. There will In?, I ho[K', here-
after ' Finis aliquando suspirandi et initium respi-
randi ' when we shall come all of vs to make merry
with you. I suppose you haue heard the manner
of the solennizing of the funerals of the Phoenix of
our age; I mcane D. R. (Doctor Rainolds) whom
if you had seene in all the time of sicknes, and that
instant when, l)efore our eyes, he turned into ashes,
you would (have) applyed the verses of Lactantius
Mors illi Venus est, sola est in morte voluptas
^tornam vitam mortis adepta bono :
Who that he might be buried Phoenix-like with fra-
grant odours, after Mr. vice-chancelor had pnired
out a Ikjxc of balsame, the sweetest of all oyntments,
which onely is found in the holy land June, I also,
deputed thereto, burnt incense at the a.shes of this
Phoenix of such spices as I could get of the l)est
Hethenish apothecaries to praeserue and diffuse the
sweete sauour of his virtues. Howbeit because per-
aduenture you desire to know more particularly the
manner of liis death, and because Sir Sammon er-
nestly desired a copy of that speech for you, I
thought it not amisse to let you haue a view of that
copy which Dr. Morton deane of Gloucester request-
ed, and was sent to London to him, but was re-
turned because he was then at Camliridge, and is
againe to lie sent this next week ; which abortiue
bratte conceiued and brought forth in 3 dayes, truly
Bcnony the sonnc of sorrowe, if you shall view be-
tweene this and munday (if so your leisure serue
you) I shalbe very glad to hearc your censure, yea
though you altogither mislike it, that I may know
your iudgment, and thereto conforme myself. For
as Iphicrates answered a kinsman of Harmodius
who opbraidcd vnto him his ignobility, (rvyYiy'Krrc^a
dvrd ixiivui, ra. ydq iy-a Iqya. (xvyycvsirTtfa to's 'ixiivov
ij* td o-a, so then I slioidd think my self vniuocally
your cosyn, if my works, my studyes and all my ex-
ercises might be a-vyyevij, as it wrre, kin and allyed
to yours. Thus with humblyest commendations
and hartyest prayers for you, your wife, and whole
familye, I ende.

A Relation of an Apparition in Hidnam House.
(To the archbishop of Canterbury.)

May it please your gr.

I would not pra-sume to accjuaint your gr. with a

.straunge relation of an apparition in these parts, if

ye circumstances were not as remarkable as I am

perswadetl the truth is vncontrollable. The last

M2

Id?

FAIIICLOUGH.

weeke S"^ Th. Wise a knight of ye Hath, of an an-
cient descent and large reuenucs, dealt very erucstly
with Mr. Spjiin an escj. in my parisli to (b-aw nie
along with him to Hidnam house, situate 3 mile
east of Launceston, desirous there to heare me on
ye sabbatii. After sermon, he projxiunded many
curious (juestions touching the church, tempting
Christ, the truth of apparitions, the interpretation of
dreamcs, and notes of difference betweene go<Kl an-
gels and bad ; whervnto I giuie him the best resolu-
tions I could for the praeseiit, and for his farther
satisfaction referred him to diuers learned treatises
both of diuines and philosophers. On the niunday
morning he calletl me a-side to conferre with me in
priuate, and there brake the matter vnto me, with
protestation vjxm his saluation by Christ, and as he
should answere at ye dreiulfuU day of judgment,
tliat he would relate nothing but that his conscience
bad him witnes was most true. The sume of his
relation was, that alxiut a month agoe, a little after
midnight, he heard a fearfull crye and shrieking of
some of his maides that lay in the next chamlier to
him, and suppt)sing that some theeues had brake in
vpon them, he rose vp and ranne out with two naked
rapiers in his hand, but when he came into the
chamber he vnderstotxl by them that they were
frighted with a walking spirit, which they sayd came
in at the windowe and stood heard by the bedside,
in the likenes of a woman in her smock, holding her
hands ouer the children. To this conceit of their's
he gave little cretlit for ye praesent, and imputed it
to sore distemper or vaine fancy of womanly feare,
because, as he seriously protested, he was euer of
opinion that there were no such apparitions. The
night following he awaked about ye same time, and
after half an houre he heard the latch of the chamber
dore move, and saw the dore open suddenly, and to
his thinking a woman as though in her sm(x;k enter
in, which at first he imagined to be of his family,
and demanded what they meant to trouble him at
that time of night : but receiuing no answer at all
from it, as it drew nerer and nerer towai-ds, his mind
misgaue him that it was the spirit that affrighted his
seruants that night ; whervpon he prayed, as he tes-
tified, wth more zeale and feruency then euer in his
life, and besought so to strengthen him that he might
speake to it. And as it drew nerer, he demanded
of it wherfore it came ? The spirit returned no
answere, but came close to the bed's feete whervpon
he rose vp in his bed, and aft"^ a zealous prayer,
with c(jnfession of his heinous and grieuous sins,
charged it, in the name of the God of heuen to come
no nerer. After which adiuration, it stood still at
his bed feete for about halfe an houre ; on the end
grew dinier and diiiier, till it quite vanished out of
sight. And as it vanished the day appeared. His
lady heard hira speake all this while and lay all in a
swet, not daring to look out of her bed. The mor-
rowe S"^ Th. aduised Mr. Archd. who lay in his
house, what maimer of apparition this might be,

who, as S'' Th. afiirmed, held it to be an angelicall
apparition and not a tlialxilicall illusion, 1 because it
did no hurt ; 2 because he had the jxjwer to speake
to it, wheras by rejison of the antipathy betweene
man's nature and the diuell, if it had bene a diuel
he would haue Ix^ne no affrighted that his speech
would haue bene taken fro him ; 3 because it ap-
jieared in white and shining raiment. Notwith-
standing which rea.sons, lx;ing required by S' Th.
to tleliuer my iudgment, I gaue him the best coun-
sell I could. I craued pardon to iudge ratlier it was
an euill spirit, for these reasons especially. 1 because
miraculous reuelations and angelicall aj)paritions are
ceased ; 2 because angels ai'e neuer sent but with
message and to accomplish some extraordinary ser-
uice, wheras this spirit onely matle a duiiibe shew ;
3 becjiuse the spirit of Gotl which assisted S"^ Th in
his prayer with sighes and groanes that could not be
exj)resse<l, and wonderfully strengthncd his faith,
moued him to pray against it, and vpcm this adiura-
tion it sto(xl still in the ))lace ; 4 because it is a thing
vnheard of, that an angel should appcare in tlie per-
fect likeness of a woman in her smock at that time
of night, and either walke softlv, or stand idle so
long ; when they haue apjieared it was after a more
glorious manner, to men of extraorilinarv sanctity,
at their prayer or sacrificing in the temple, and that
vpon some sj)eciall <ind extraordinary (K'casion, with
some praesent effect. That it did liim no hurt, as
also that he had power to speake to it, he ought to
impute to his harty prayers and GckI's speciall
mercy. As for the ap})eariiifj of it in white, like a
woman, and not in some ougly shape, I put him in
mind of the diuefs transforming, and related vnto
him a parallell story in France of an apparition of
the diuel to an aduocate, fleshly giuen, in the Uknes
of a beautiful woman,' with wliome he lay tliat
night, and the next morning a dead corps was found
in his bed, and he called in qutestion for murder,
and it had cost him his life, but that by dihgent
serch it was found to be the body of a woman a lit-
tle before executed at the greue, and the print of
the rope might he discouered about her neck. In
fine, my aduise to him was, not curiously to enquire
about this apparition, but to examine his owne con-
cience, and giue G(xl thanks for his deliuerance, but
especially to sinne no more, lest a worse thing befell
him. Which admonition he tooke not ill, though
otherwise a man very touchy, but promised he
would think upon my words, and my text also,
which I tooke out of the 32 Deut. 29, ' O that they
were wise, then they would vnderstand this, they
would consider their latter end.' I jjra'suine to
trespasse no farther vpon your grace's many and
great employments, but crauing pardon for my tedi-
ous prohxity, I cease your grace farther trouble,
Resting

Your graces most truely deuoted

D. F.

169

FAIllCLOUGH.

TWISSE.

17()

An Anmoere to S' Walter Ralegh his Letters.

I beseech you, syr, pardon nie for so late answer-
in<j your so kind letters. The true reason whereof
was, that our quarter day being so nere, I thought
it convenient togetlier with my answere to your let-
ter to send vp a note of your sons expences. But
seing you haue eased nie of that labour as I vnder-
stand by Mr. Hooker, I shall haue more leisure to
ouersec his cariage and instruct him in learning, in
both which you requiretl my care, and gaue me uery
g(Kxl directions in your letter, discouering vnto me
t«'o of the most dangerous euills, one vnto his mind,
the other vnto his Ixnly, vntf) which he is subiect —
straunge company and violent exercises. I find
your iudgment of" him in euery part to be most true
and cannot therin but coiiicnde your wisedome alx)ue
most father's, yea the also of the wiser and better
sort, who although they loue not errour, yet towards
their children cofTiitte many errors of loue. S'", I
cannot choose but think myself very much indebted
vnto you, that vjion other's bare report you should
repose so much trust in me as willingly to leaue in
my hands yoin- onely treasure, which (euen then
when your treasures were more answerable to your
excellent and well known virtues) was your ricliest
treasure, and most your owne, bearing the image
not onely of your Ijody but mind tix). The lesse
cause you haue had .so farre to trust me, the more I
iiccount my self boimd not onely to keepe safe this
treasure, but also by my best endeauours to brighten
it by art, and mak the image and shapes of your
virtues more clearely to appear in it. Thus, with
liarty and most earnest prayer vnto Almighty God
for your and his welfare, I humbly take my leaue
remaining

Your to the vtmost of my power

Daniel Fayuecloijgh.

Fairclough's pupil was not the Carew Raleigh
already noticed as of Wadham college, vol. ii. col. 244.
but his eldest son, Walter Raleigh, who was after-
wards killed at St. Thome in 1617. He was born
in 1593, and entered at Corpus Christi college Oc-
tober 30, 1607,^ a circumstance hitherto, I believe,
imknown to the biographers of his illustrious father.

There is a small head of Featley prefixed to his
nephew's Featley revived, but the two best engraved
portraits are 1 by Marshall 4to. dated 1645, and 2
m his shroud engraved by Hollar, and dated 1659-]

WILLIAM TWISSE written, and caUed by
some outlanders and others, Twissius and Tuis-
sius,' was born at Speenliamlands in the parish of
Speen near Newbury m Berkshire. His grandiather

^ [Reg- Matric. Univ. Oxon. P.]

' [See Twissii Vita et Vtctoria, by Geo. Ketnliill S. T. D.
Oxon. 1657, from which book most of this account is taken.

Vid. Am. Poelenburg liespons. ad Argumentum Gul.
Twissi, — cui solvendo ne diabolum quidem et angclos ejus
pares esse confidit. Bakes .]

was by nativity a Teutonic, l)ut in tJic prime of hi»
years, he .setled himself witli his family (iiikmi what
account I know not) in England : which prolxibly
may Imj the reason why Franc. Amiatiis a Jesuit,
antagonist to our author Twissius, should say that
he wa.s ' natione Teutonicus, fortuna BatavuK, rcli-
p^one Calvinista,' &c. His father, who was a suffi-
cient clothier of Newbury, perceiving this his son to
have pregnant parts, sent hnn to the college at Win-
Chester, where l)eing elected a child, and soon made
rijH? fi)r the university in the schcK)l there founded
by Will, of Wykeham, was elected prolrationer-
fellow of New cx)1l. in the year 1596, and two years
after " (having by that time shaken off his wild ex-
travagancies») was admitted verus stxrius; afler
which he diligently apj)lied himself to the theologi-
cal facidty for 16 years together. In U)04 he j)ro-
ceedetl in arts, antl alwiit that time Uiking holy or-
ders, became a frequent and diligent ])rencher in
these parts, noted to the academians for his subtile
wit, exact iudgment, exemplary life and conversa-
tion, and for the endowment of' such (jualities that
were Iwfitting men of his function. In 1614 he pro-
ceeded doct. of divinity, and alx)ut that time went
into Germany as chaplain to princess Elizalwth
daughter of king James I. and consort of the prince
pdatine, where c^nitinuing for some time, did im-
prove himself much by the conversation lie had with
German divines. After his return he exchanged
the rectory of Newton Longvill in Bucks, which the
society of New coll. gave him before his departure
lieyond the sea, for Newbury near to the place of his
nativity, with Dr. Nathan. Giles canon of Windsor :
where, being setled, he laid a foundation of his doc-
trine, and the seeds of his zealous opinion, tho' not
improved by his auditors at-cording to his wish. His
plain preaching was gtxxl, his .solid disputations were
accounted by some better, and his pious way of
living by others (especially the puritans) be.st of all :
yet some of New coll. who knew the man well, have
often said in my hearing, that he was? always hot
headed and restless. The most learned men, even
those of his adverse party, did confess that there
was nothing extant, more accurate, exact, and full,
touching the Arminian controversies, than what was
written by this our author Twisse. He also, if any
one (as those of his persuasion say) hath so cleared
and vindicated tho cause from the objected absurdi-
ties and calumnies of his adversaries, as that out of
his labours, not only the learned, but also those that

* [Gu. Twisse de S|iecnldnd paroch. de Speene com. Bark.
(.irhniss. vcrum spciuni) liys, Marl. II. — h. thiol, doctor:
1" rector ccc'liae parochialis de Newcnion Longvile in com.
Buck. 2° de Newberie in cojii. Berks. Caial. Sociorum
Coll. Niw. O.ron. MS. inter codd. Rawl. in bibl. Bodl.
(.Misc. 130) I'oi. 83.]

' [He used to tell every body, that having been a very
wicked boy, his conversion was occasioned thus; that when
he was a school-boy at Winchester, he saw the phantom of
a rakehelly boy, his school -fellow, who said to him — ' I an:i
damned.' MS- note in Mr. Hfbers copy.'\

171

TWISSE.

are In^st vers'd in controvei-sies, may find enough,
whereby to disentangle tlieniselves from tlie snares
of opposites. The truth is, there's none almost that
have written against Arminianism since the pubhsh-
ing any thing of our author, but have made very
honourable mention of him, and have acknowledged
him to be the mightiest man in those controversies,
tliat his age hath produced. Besides Newbury, he
was offer'd several prefiTments, as the rectory of
Benefield in Northamptonshire, a prebendship in
the church of AV'inchcster, the wardenship of Wyke-
lutm''s coll. there, and a professor's place at Franeker
in Frisland. IJut the tiiree last were absolutely re-
fused, and the first he would not accept, unless he
could obtain liberty of his majesty (in whose gift
Newbury was and is) to have nad an able man to
succeed him there. Besides also, upon conference
with Dr. Davenant bishop of Salisbury, ordinary of
that place, the king was well satisfietl concerning
Twisse, that he was unwilling to let him go from
Newbury. In the beginning of the civil war, began
by the presbyterians, an. 1641-2 he sided with
them, was chose one of the assembly of divines, and
at length prolocutor of them. Among whoin speak-
ing but little, some interpreted it to his modesty, as
those of his persua,sion say, as always preferring
penning before speaking, and others to the decay of
rSll "^^ intellectuals. But polemical divinity was his
faculty, and in that he was accounted excellent.
While he was prolocutor, he was one of the three
lecturers in S. Andrew's church in HoUwrn near
London, which was given to him for his losses he
sustained at Newbury, Iwing forced thence, as his
brethren said, by the royal party. He hath writ-
ten,

VindicioE Gratia, Potestatis ac Providcntiw Dei.
Hoc est, ad Examen Libelli Perkinsiani (Gul. Per-
kins) de Prasdestinationis Modo <§• Ordine, institu-
ium a Jacobo Arminio, Responsio Scfiolnstica, tri-
hus Libris absoluta. Una cum Digressionibus ad
aingidan Partes accnmmodutis,^ &c. Amstel. 1632,
[Bodi. T. 8. 8. Th.] 1648. fol.

A Discover?/ of' Dr. Jackson's Vanity, " or a
" Perspective-^ilass, whereby the Admirers of Dr.
" Jackson's profound Discourses may see tfie Va-
" nitij and Weakness oftfiein,'" &c. — Prmted (beyond
the sea) 1631. qu. [Botll. A. 21. 16. Line] This
was written against Dr. Tho. Jackson's Treatise of
tfie divine Essence and Attributes, but the doctor
made no reply.

Dis.sertatio de Scientia media tribus Libris ab-

• soluta, &c. Arnhem, 1639. fol. [Bodl. S. 5. 1. Th.]

Wherein Gabr. Penot's book entit. IJbertatis hu-

mance Propugnaculum, and that of Franc. Suarez

De Scientia Dei, are answer'd.

Digressiones. Printed with the Dissertatio.

' [This book is said by the author, to be full of errata, in
a letter to bishop Davenant, wherein he thanks the bishop
for speaking kindly of him to the king. Bakbb.]

Of tJu Morality of the Fourth Commandment,
as still in Force to bitul Christians : delivered by
IVay of Answer to the Translator « (>fDr. Pr'uleaux
his lecture concerning tlie Doctrine of the Sabbath.
Divided into two Parts, (1) An Answer to the
Preface. (2) A Consideration of Dr. Prideaux hit
Lecture. Lond. 1641. qu. [BodL B. 15. 5. Line]

Treatise erf Reprobation, in Answer to Mr. Jo.
Cotton.' Lond. 1646. qu.

Animadversiones ad Jacobi Arminii Collat. cum
Franc. Junio 4- JoJi. Arnold Corvin. Amstel. 1649,
fol. [Bodl. A. 20. 3. Th.] pubhshed by Andr.
Rivet.

The doubting Con.science resolved, in Answer to
a (pretended) perplexing Question, Sfc. Wherein
is evidently proved that the Holy Scriptures (not
the Pope) is the Foundation wheremi the Church is
built, &c. Lond. 1652. oct. [Bcxll. 8vo. B. 137.
Line] published by Sam. Hartlib.

The Ricfies of God's Love unto the Vessels of
Mercy, con.sistent with his absolute Hatred or Re-
probation of the Vessels of Wrath: or, an Answer
to a Book entit. God's Imvc to Mankind manifested
by disproving his absolute Decree fw their Damna-
tion : in two Books. One against Mr. Sam. Hoard,
and the other against Mr. Hen. Mason rector of S.
Andrew's Undershaft, London. Oxon. 1653. fol.
[Bodl. BS. 88.]

Two Tracts in Ansreer to Dr. H. (Hammond)
the one concerning God's Decree definite or indefi-
nite, the other about the Object of Predestination —
Printed with tlie former book.

The Synod of Dort and Ales * reduced to Prac-
tice, with an Answer thereunto.'' [Bodl. B. 1. 15.
Line, with MS. notes by bishop Barlow.]

T/ie Scriptures Sufficiency to determine all Mat-
ters of Faith, made good against tlie Papists. Lond.
in tw.

Christian Sabbath defended against the crying
Evil in these Times of the Antisabbatarians of our
Age ; sliewing tliat the Morality of the Fourth
Commandment is still in force to bind Christians
unto the Sanctification of the Sabbath Day. 165. . .qu.

Fifteen Letters to Mr. Joseph Mede See in

the 4th book of the said Mr. Mede's works. Ber
sides these, and something up>n the Command-
ments, that are printed, he left behind him many
manuscripts (mostly compleat) of his own composi-
tion, which were carefuUy kept in the hands of his
son ' Rob. Twisse a minister, but what became of

* See in Dr. Pet. Heylin, an. l662.

' \^A Treatise of Mr. Col/on's clearing certain Doubts con-
cerntng Pradestinalion, together with an Examination there-
of: written by Will. Tioisse, D.D. I.ond. 1 646, 4to. Quaere
if this be not what Wood means? Tanner.]

* ril is Aries in the original, but Ales is right. Tanner.]

* iThe Doctrine, &c. was collected by Vostius and trans-
lated into English by Mr. Barly (B.irlow) of Oxford, but i«
not extant in print. This was done by Tylenus, who died
shortly after. Note in the beginning of my copy. Tanner.]

* The s«id Rob. Twisse was author of England'! Breath

HAYNE.

174

them after his death, which hapnecl in the latter end
of the year 1674, I know not. Among them are
(1) Examen Historiw Pelag. written by Ger. Jo.
Vossius : put after the author's death into the liands
of Dr. G. Kendall to perfect, and afterwards topulj-
lish it, hut never done. (2) Ansxeer to a Book
entit. A Conference with a Ladfj about Choice of
Reliffion. Written by sir Ken. Digby. (3) Answer
to t/ie respective Books concerning the Sabbath.

[82] Written by Dr. Fr. White, Dr. Gilh. Ironside, and
Mr. E. Breerwfxxl. He hath also either answer'd,
or animadverted upon certain matters of Nich. Ful-
ler, Jos. Mede, the famous Mr. Rich. Hooker, Dr.
Christ. Potter, Dr. Tho. Godwin, Dr. Tho. Jack-
son, and Mr. Job. Goodwin, the titles of which I
shall now pass by for brevity's sake. At length
after he had lived 71 years, he departed this mortal

i6l.5. life in Hollxim, in sixteen hundred forty -and five,'
and was buried the 24th of July the same year near
to the u{)per end of the poor folks table, next the
vestry in the collegiate cliurch of S. Peter within
the city of Westminster. On the 14th of Sept.
1661 his body with those of Tho. M.ay the poet.
Will. Strong, Steph. Marshal, ministers, &c. which
were buried in the said church of S. Peter, were
taken up and buried in one large pit in the church-
yard of S. Margaret, just before the back door of
the lodgings Ix'longing to one of the prebendaries of
Westminster, having been unwarrantably buried
there during the times of rebellion and usurpation.

THOMAS HAYNE, son of Rob. Hayne, wa.s
born in a town commonly, but corruptly, called
Thurciston, near to, and in the county of, Leicester :
At the last of which places having received his ju-
venile learning, was sent to the university, and ma-
triculated as a member of Lincoln coll. in Mich,
term 1590, and in that of his age 17; where being
put under the tuition of a noted and careful tutor,
obtained great knowledge in philosophy, and the
more for this reason, that he was taken off from
various recreations and rambles by a lameness in his
legs from his cradle. After he had taken a degree
in arts 1604, he became one of the ushers of the
school in the parish of St. Laurence Pountney in
London, erected by the Merchant-Taylors; and
afterward being mast, of arts, [in 1612,] usher of
the school belonging to the city of London in Ch.
Church hospital. He was a noted critic, an excel-
lent linguist, and a solid divine, beloved of learned
men, and particularly respected by Selden. He
hath written,

Grammutices Latina Compendium, an. 1637,
&c. Lond. 1640, in oct. To which are added two
appendices.

nlop'd, bring the counter-part nf Judak's Miseries, lamented
publicly in the new Cliurck at IVeslmin. 30 Jan, being the
Anniversary of King Charles I. ; on Lament. 4.20. — Lond.
166.0. qu.
' [1646. See Neal and Whitlock.]

Linguarti'm Cognntio : seu de lAvgvis in Genere,
^ de variarum Lmgttarnm Ilarmonid Ditsertatio.
Lond. 1639. wt. [Hcxll. 8vo. P. 89. Art. Scld.] It
was also printed, if I mistake not, in 1634".

Pax in Terra: .leu Tractatus de Pace ecch-
siasticd, &c. Lond. 1639. oct. [Uodl. 8vo. H. 83.
Art]

Tfie equal Ways of God in rcctififing the ini.
equal Watjs of Man. Lond. 1639, Sic m oct. [Ikxli
8vo. B. 266. Th.]

General View of tlie holy Scriptures : or, tfie
Times, Places, and Per.snns of holij Scripture, &c.
Lond. 1640, fol. sec. edit.' '[BcxlL U. 1. 4. Th.
Seld.]

Life and Death of Dr. Mart. Luther,^ Lond. 1641 .
qu. [Bodl. F. 2. 12. Line] He gave way to fate
on the 27th of July in sixteen hundred forty and iC4';.
five, and was buriecf in the parish church of Cfi. Ch.
within Newgate in the city of London. Soon after
was put a monument over his grave, alx)ut the
middle of the church, on the north-side, and a large
inscription thereon, which alxjut 20 years after was
consumed and defaced, with the chun^h it self, when
the great fire hapned in London. In the said in-
scription he is stiled ' antiquitatis acerrimus in-
vestigator, antiquitatem prsematuravit suain. Pub-
licis privatisque studiis sese totum communi bono
coelebem devovit. Pacis Ecclesia; Irenicus txicificus
jure censendus,' &c. In the library at Leicester is
another inscription put up to his memory, which
being perfect, you may talie instead of the other.
See Hist. 4" Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 166. a. b.
By his will, which I have seen, he gave to the smd
library all his study of books, except some few

' [Reprinted in Crenius's Analecta, Anist. l6gg, 8ro.

LOVEDAY.]

° [ll was indeed the second edition much enlarged; bat
the original work was anonymous and not by Hayne, The
title of the first edit, was

' The Times, places, and Persons of the holie Scriptures.
Otherwise entiluled. The Generall f^iew of the Holy Scrip-
tures. At London, printed for Richard Ockould. an. Dom.
1OO7. 4to.'

The printer in his dedication, ' To The right worshippful
Sir ,Iohn Brograue knight his maiesties atlurney generall of
the duchy of Lancaster,' says, (The author of the book is
uncertain to me.)

Hayne in his enlarged edition says in his Epislle to the
Reader, fo. 3, ' who was the author of this book's first edi-
tion 1 never could learn. Sure I am that in many things he
agreeth with Master Broughton.'

NB. Haync's edition was printed for Henry (as the quarto
edition was for Richard) Ockould.

For this note 1 am indebted to the rev. Robert W«tt»,
librarian of Sion College.]

< [I cannot find this book at present, but as far as I can
trust my memory, 'tis only a translation from Melchior
Adam. Humphreys.

It was printed at London l64l, 4to : and dedicated by
him to the right honourable Sir "Tho. Roe, knight, chan-
cellor of the most noble order of the garter, and one of his
inajestic's most hon. privy counccll — And an Epistle to the
Christian reader, and commendatory verses by Francis
Qoarles and J. Vicars. Kennbt.]

175

LITTLETON.

STRODE.

which he gave to the library at Westminster. He
gave also 40()/. to be bestowed in buying lands, or
nouses in, or near Leicester, of the 3'early rent of
24Z. for ever, for the maintenance of a sch(X)l-master
in Thurciston alias Thrushington or some town
near thereunto, to teach ten jxwr children, &c. and
for the maintenance of two poor scholars in Line,
coll. to come from the free-sciifx)l at Leicester, or in
defect of that, from the scIkxjI at Milton, &c. The
' school-master to have 12^. yearly, and the two scho-
lars six poimds yearly, &c. In the said will are
[831 other acts of charity mentioned, which for brevity
sake I now pass by.

[Add Four Letters to Mr. Joseph Medc. See
the fourth book of his works. Whali.ey.

There is an unengravetl portrait of Hayne in the
town library at Leicester, and it would reflect much
credit on that ancient corporation if they ijerpetuated
their own gratitude and the memory 01 their bene-
factor by preventing his resemblance from perishing
with tlie canvass on which it is depicted.]

EDWARD LITTLETON son and heir of sir
Edw. Littleton of Henley in Shropshire, knight, was
born in that county an. 1589, became a gentleman
commoner of Ch. Ch. in the beginning ot the year
1606, where by the care of an eminent tutor, he be-
came a proficient in academical learning, took a de-
gree in arts, an. 1609, and from Ch. Ch. removed
to the Inner Temple, where he made such ad-
mirable progress in the municipal laws, and was of
such emmence in his profession in a short time, that
the city of London took early notice of, and chose
him tlieir recorder, being also about the time coun-
sellor to the university of Oxon. In the 8th of
Car. 1. he was elected summer reader of his so-
ciety, and in the 10th of the said king (Oct. 17.) he
was made sollicitor-general. After which, upon the
6th of June next ensuing, he received the honour of
knighthood at Whitehall, at which time, and some
vears before, he was a member of the commons
house of no small reputation. On the 27th of Jan.
15 Car. 1. he was made chief justice of the Common
Pleas, and on the 23d of Jan. the next year his
majesty conferr''d upon him the utmost honour be-
longing to his profession, by giving the great seal
into his custody. In less than a month after, upon
the 18th of Feb. he made* him a peer of England,
by the name of the lord Littleton baron of Mouns-
low in his native country, being then in great esteem
for integrity and eminence in his profession. Shortly
after the troubles in tliis realm taking their rise,
partly from the insurrection of the Scots and their
entrance into this realm, which happened in Aug.
next ensuing (an. 1640.) and partly from the pre-
dominancy of certain members in the Long Par-
liament, then called by reason of that invasion, he
retired to the king at York in June 1642, having

* Baroimge of England, torn. 3. p. 466. b.

first conveyed tlie seal thither. From which time
to his death, which hapjjened in Oxon (where in
1642 he was actually createil doctor of the civ. law)
he constantly attended his majesty with great fide-
hty. He was author of,

Several Speeches, as (1.) Speech at a Conference
with the Lords in Parliament concerning tlie lA-
berty of the Subject, and propriety in tlieir Goods,
3 Apr. 1628. See in Jo. Ru.sh worth's Colketions,
vol. 1. p. 528. an. 1628. This with otlier con-
ferences were published by themselves in 1642. qu.
(2.) Speech in tlie House of Commons at the pass-
ing oftivo Bills. Lond. 1641. qu. &c.

Several Arguments and Discourses — See in Joh.
Rushworth's Append, p. 28. and in a book entit.
The Sovereign H Prerogative and Subjects Pri-
vileges discussed, &c. Lond. 1657. Ibl.

Reports in the Common Pleas and Exchequer in
the 2rf, 3(7, 4///, 5th, 6fh, and 1th of Kim^ Charles
I. Lond. 1683. fol. These things I diink are all
that he hath extant, except his Humble Submission
and SuppUcatuyn to the House of Lord.s 28 Sept.
1642, which is more than once printed under his
name, yet whether genuine I cannot tell. He was
untimely taken from this world, to the sorrow of his
majesty, on the 27th of Aug. in sixteen hundred 1 045.
forty and five, being then a colonel of a foot re-
giment in Oxon, and privy counsellor to his ma-
jesty, and was buried between the two lower pillai-s,
which divide the first north isle from the second, on
the north side of the choir of the cathedral of Ch.
Church in Oxon. At which time Dr. Hen. Ham-
mond the university orator, did lay open to the
large auditory then present, the great loyalty, pru-
dence, knowledge, virtue, &c. that had been in the
person that then lay deatl before them. Over his
grave was a costly monument of black and white
marble erected in the month of May, an. 1683, at
the charge of his only daughter and heir Anne Lit-
tleton,' the widow of sir Thom. Littleton, bart.*
with a noble inscription thereon, wherein 'tis said,
that this Edward lord Littleton was descended from
Tho. Littleton knight of the Bath, qui sub Ed-
wardo IV. justiciarius, leges Anglia" municipales
(prius indigestas) in enchiridion feliciter reduxit:
opus in oiiine a-vum Jc''" venerandum, &c.

[Of lord Littleton see more in lord Clarendon's
Hist, of the Rebellion and lord Orford's Royal and
Noble Autlurrs. There is a very good large head
of him in mezz. by R. Williams from a picture by
Vandyke, from which a small etching was given in
Park's edition of tlie Noble Autliors.]

"WILLIAM STRODE, an esquire's son ["84]
" of Dorsetshire, was matriculated in this uni-
" versity as a member of S. Mary's hall in the be-
" ginning of 1597, aged 19 years, left it without a

' [Who died in 17O6.]
< [Hediediniesi.]

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WIDDOWKS.

178

degree, went to one of tlie inns of court, and iid-
vanccd himself much in tlie iTiiniici])al law. Af-
terwards retiring to his patrimony, and improving
by reading, conversation, and meditation what he
had before obtainetl, he became a parliament man
for Berealston in Devonshire, for two or more par-
liaments in the later end of K. Jam. I. and in all
those called by K. Ch. I. wherein he with Pym
and Hamden were accounted the chief swayers
under the notion of promoting the liberties ot the
subject ; and therefore I think he was once, if
not more, imprisoned, which caused a provocation
in him against his majesty. He also kept cor-
respondence with the Scots to promote their co-
venant, was one of the chief persons that invited
them to invade England, an. 1639: and when
the Long Parliament began, he became an active
and busy man, and a downright Iwutefeu therein
against the king's prerogative and all that looked
that way. So that being generally esteemed a
most pernicious and inveterate ix;rson, he was one
of the five members of the said pari, that was by
his majesty charged with treason and other high
misdemeanors in the beginning of Jan. 1641 ;
which ever after, so long as he lived, made him
one of the darlings of the people. Afterwards he
was a grand promoter of the unnatural rebellion,
did actually appear in anns against the king at
Edghill battel, wherein he was deeply engaged,
as colonel Philip lord Wharton then was, who,
after all his men had run away, hid himself in a
saw-pit. In 1643 he became a zealous covenanter,
and made a motion in the house of com. that all
those that refused the covenant (Ijeing certain ill-
wishers to the laws and liberties of this kingdom)
might therefore have no benefit of those laws and
liberties. But that motion being somewhat too
desperate, was wav''d for the present, and took no
effect. Afterwards he became a bitter enemy to
archb. Laud and the hierarchy, was very busy
against him during his tryal, and when the or-
dinance was brought up to the lords house to
vote him guilty of high treason, this Mr. Strode,
when he saw that it stuck with them, did as a
most ill-natvir'd person, and a maker of all bloody
motions, tell tbeir lordships, that the city would
bring a petition with twenty thousand hands to
pass that ordinance, if they did it not quickly,
&c. He hath extant under his name,
" Several speeches, viz. (1) Speech in Parlia-
ment in Jan. 1641, in Reply to the Articles of
High-Treason against him. Lond. 1642. qu.
(2) Speech in Guildhall 27 Oct. 1642. Lond.
1642. It was printed with that of the lord
Wharton before-mcntion'd,* giving an account
of Edghill battel. He hath several other speeches
extant which I have not yet seen, and probably

' [In 4to. with 6 other speeches spoken at the same time.

Wanlby.]
Vol. III.

other things. He was justly cut off in tJie lieif^it
of his unworthy pnx-eedings by a iieotilcntial
fever, to say no more of it, on llic nintli day of
Sept. in sixteen hundred forty and five, and wa«
buried on the 22d of the same month in the ablK-y
church of S. Peter in Westminster; at wliich
time Gasper Hicks, an assembly man, preached
the funeral sermon, shewing fortli his piety, pub-
lic spirit, &c. and I know not wliat. Hut after
his body had rested there 16 years, it was, with
others, taken up and thrown into a large hole
in S. Margaret's church-yard before the back-
door of one of the prebends of Westminster,
12 Sept. 1661. Besiaes this person was another
Will. Strode bom at Shipton-Mallet in Somerset-
shire, bred a merchant, and lived several years in
Spain. Afterwards, upon his return, lie pur-
chased an estate in his own country, was chosen a
recruiter for Ilchester to serve in tlie Long-Par-
liament, turu'd out thence, with other pre.sby-
terians, by the army, and imprison'd for a time.
Afterwards he refused the engagement, was much
discountenanced while the independents governed,
founded a free-school and an alms-house at Ship-
ton-Mallet, and a free-school at Martock in the
same county, wherein divers men of worth and
learning have been educated. After his majesty's
restoration he refused obedience to the orders
(especially those relating to the church) of the
deputy lieutenants of Somersetshire, and therefore
he was by the name of colonel Will. Strode of
Barrington in the same county imprison'd. Where-
upon he appealed to the lords of^the council, and
obtained an order to be bailed till he should make
his appearance before them. In the beginning of
Dec. 1661, he was heard at the council-board,
where his contempts being proved, (his majesty
liimself being present) the colonel was by order of
the council to repair back to Ilchester, and there
to stand confin'a tiU he yield obedience to the
deputy lieutenants. At length after a petition
put up by him for a mitigation, he on Friday Jan.
10. an. 1661, did appear before the council again,
and there, upon his Knees (the deputy lieutenant
being present) he submitted iiimself with fresh
promises of obechence, and thercujxm (and in re-
gard of his present infirmities) he was di.smiss'd.
He died in Nov. 1666, age<l 77 years, leaving be-
hind him two families of his name, which now
live in the same country in verv good fashion,
one at Barrington (where he was buried) and an-
other not far from it"

GILES WIDDOWES was bom at Mickleton
in Gloucestershire, elected fellow of Oriel coll. 1610,
being then bac. of arts of that house of two years
standing, or more. Afterwards he proceeded in
that faculty, entred into orders, and became a noted
preacher. At length being made rector of S. Mar-
tin's church in Oxon. he resigii'd his fellowship in

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179

WIDDOWES.

POTTER.

1621, and lived in the condition of a commoner for
several years in Glouc. hall, of which he was for the
most part of his time vice-principal. He was a
harmless and honest man, a noted disputant, well
read in the schoolmen, and as conformable to,
and zealous in, the established di.scipline of the
church of England, as any {)erson of his time, yet
of so odd and stranee parts, that few or none could
be compared witli him. He was also a great enemy
to the schismatical puritan in his sermons and writ-
ings, which being much offensive to his quondam
pupil Will. Prynne, a controversy therefore fell out
between them, an. 1630, and continued for some
time very hot, till Prynne was diverted by other
matters. He hath written.

The Schismatical Puritan: Serm. at Witney
eonceming the Laivfulness of Church Authority,
Jbr ordaining, &c ; on 1 Cor. 14. ver. ult. Oxon.
1630. qu. [Bodl. 4to. Rawl. 67, with MS. notes by
some adversary.] Which lioing unadvisedly writ-
ten, and much displea.sing to Dr. Abbot archb. of
Canterbury, was as scuriilously answer'd by Prynne
in his appendix to his Anti-Arimnmnisme.

Tlie lawless, kneeless, schismatical Puritan. Or,
a Confutation of the Author of an Appendix con-
cerning bmving at the Name of Jesus, Oxon. 1631.
qu. [Bodl. 4to. F. 15. Th.] and other things, as 'tis
said, but such I have not yet seen. He was buried
in the chancel of S. Martin's church before-men-
i64j. tion'd on the fourth day of P'ebr. in sixteen hun-
dred forty and five, havmg been before much va^
lued and beloved, and his high and loyal sermons
frequented, by the royal party and soldiers of the
garrison of Oxford, to the poorer sort of whom he
was always bcneficnal, as also ready at all turns to
administer to them in their distressed condition.

[Giles Widdowes much respected by Laud, arch-
bishop of Canterbury. See Canterburie''s Doome,
p. 72. WooD.»

Widdowes is noticed by Prynne as minister of
Carfax i» Oxford. Master Nixon, one of the ab-
dennen of Oxford, among other things, deposed at
Laud's trial, that ' in the parish church of Carfolks
(the principal church for the city, whether the ma-
jor and aldermen resorted) there was a great large
crucifix with the picture of Christ upon it, set up in
the window by Giles Widdowes who was parson
there, and one whom the archbishop countenanced.'

Widdowes in the dedication of his Schismatical
Puritan, to Katharine, dutchess of Buckingham,
signs himself her grace's ' most humble servant and
chaplajne.']

CHRISTOPHER POTTER nephew to Dr.
Barn. Potter mention'd under the year 1641, re-
ceived his first breath within the barony of Kendall
in Westmorland, became clerk of Queen's coU. in
the beginning of 1606, and in that of his age 15,

* [MS. note in Aslimole.]

afterwards tabarder, mast, of arts and chaplain in
1613 ; and at length fellow of the said college. He
was then a great admirer of Hen. Ayray jjrovost of
that house (some of whose works he published) and
a zealous puritannical lecturer at Abingdon in Berks,
where he was much resorted to for his edifying way
of preaching. In 1626 he succeeded the said Dr.
Barn. Potter in the provostship of his coll. and the
next year proceeded in divinity. Soon after, when
Dr. Laud became a rising favourite in the royal
court, he, after a great deal of seeking, was made
his creature, and therefore by the precise pai-ty he
was esteemed an Arminian. In the latter end of [86]
1685, he being then chapl. in ord. to his maj. was
made dean of Worcester (ujwn Dr. Rog. Man-
waring's promotion to the see of S. David) having
before had a promise of a canonry of W^indsor, but
never enjoyed it ; and in the year 1640 he executed
the office of vice-chancellor of tliis university, not
without some trouble from the members of the Long
Parliament, occasion'd by the puritannical and fac-
tious party of the univ. and city of Oxon. After-
wards the grand rebellion breaking out, he suffer'd
much for the king's cause, and therefore, upon the
deatli of Dr. Walt. Balcanquall,' he was designed and
nominated by his maj. to succeed him in the deanery
of Durham, in the niontii of January 1645, but
died before he was installed. He was a person
esteemed by all that knew him, to be learned and
rehgious, exemplary in his behaviour and discourse,
courteous in his carriage, and of a sweet and obUg-
ing nature, and comely presence. He hath written
and published,

A Sermon at the Consecration ofBarnab. Potter,
D. D. Bish. of Carlisle at Ely-Hou.se in Holbourn,
15 March 1628, cm John 21. 17." Lond. 1629.»

' [Who died at Chirke castle, and was buried in the church
of Chirl<e in the county of Denbigh, with the following
inscripiiun on his monument :

M. S. Hie situs est vir eximius Gualierus Balcanquallus,
SS.Theol. Professor, quiexScotiaoriundus,obsinguIaremeru-
ditionem aulaePembrochianae in acad. Cantabr. socius factus
est, et inter theologos Britannos S^nodo Dordracensi interfuit
Cl()l8),mox regiae majestati asacris, XenodochiiSubaudiensis
Londini praepositus, et decanus primo Roffensis (12 May,
1624) dein Dunelniensis (14 May 1639), omnia hoec ofiicia
sive digniiates magnis virtutibus ornavit. Turn vcro in Sco-
tianse Rebellionis arcanis motibus ob.servandis atque dete-
geiidis solerlissiiiie versatus est, in rebellione Anglicana regt
maxime fidus ; obsidione Eboraci liberatus, et in has oras
se contulit, ubi perhunianiler exceptus, sed ab hostibus cu-
pidissime quiesitus et exturbaius hiemali tempestate mire
saevienle tulelam casteHi in proximo confugil, et morbo ex
infesli itineris isedio corruplus ipso die Nativilatis Christi ad
Dominum niigravit. An. .Sra? Chrisiianse l645.

Haec in memoriani defuncti scripsii Johannes Cestriensis,
rogatu viri nobihssimi Tlionia Middleton baronciti, qui ex
pio animi proposito sua cura atque sumpiu hoc monumen-
tum posuit. vViHis, Cathedrals, (Durham) 25,5.]

* [In the title page, IVIiereunlo is added an adverlisemeni
touching Ikt History of the Quarrels of Pope Paul the bth
with the Venetians. Penned in Italian by F. Paul and done
into English by the former ./Author. Kknnet.]

9 [See Dr. Potter's Vindicaiion in A Letter to Mr. V.

181

POTTER.

DAVENPORT.

189

oct. [Bodl. 8vo. U. 60. Th.] It must Ix; now
noted that a certain Jesuit, known sometimes by
tlie name of" Edw. Knott, and sinnctimes by that
of Nich. Smith, and at other times by Mattliew
Wilson (wliioh was his true name) Iwrn at Pegs-
wortli near Morpeth in Nortliumlwrland (hd pubhsli
a book entit. ChariUj Mistaken, &c. whereupon our
author Potter answered it in another entit.

Want of' Charity jiistlij charged cm all sucli Ro-
manists as dare ajfirm that Protestancy destroy eth
Salvation, &c. Oxon. 1633. oct. Which lxx>k being
perused by Dr. Laud archb. of Cant. ' he* caused
some matters tlierein to be omitted in the next im-
pression, which was at Lond. 1634. oct. [Bcxll.
Rawl. 8vo. 232. witli MS. notes by Abraliam Bor-
fett.] But before it was quite pnnted, Knott be-
fore-mention''d put out a book entit. Mercy and
Truth : or, Charity maintained by Catholics. By
Way of Reply upon an Answer frarrHd by Dr.
Potter, to a Treatise which had formerly proved,
that Charity was mistaken by Protestants, &c.
printed beyond the sea 1634, m qu. [Bodl. Mar.
218.] Whereupon Will. Chilhngworth undertook
liim in his book called Tlie Religion of Protestants,
&c. which contains an answer only to the first part
of Mercy and Truth, &c. For tho' Chillineworth
had made ready, when this came out, a full exa-
mination 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 unmask''d, or,aCcmfuta-
tionqfa Book published by Mr. Will. Chillingworth,
wider this Title, ' The Religion of Protestants,''
&c. Gaunt 1652, in a large qu. [Bodl. 4to. C. 12.
Th. BS.] 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. account,
(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 His-
tory of the Quarrels of P. Paul 5. with the State of
Venice. Lond. 1626. qu. [Bodl. 4to. H. 34. Th.]
Penned by father Paul Sarp : and had lying by him
at his death several MSS. fit to be printed ; among
which was one entit. A Survey of the Platform of
Predestination ; which coming into the hands of
Twisse of Newbury, was by him answered, as also
Three Letters of Dr. Potter concerning that matter.
" This Dr. Christ. Potter also writ his Vindication,
" by Way of a Letter to Mr. Vicars, toiich'mg the
" Points of God's Free-Grace, and Man's Free-
" Will. Lond. 1651. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. C. 314. Line]
" at the end of Appello Evangelium, for the Doc-
touching some Points in his Sermon, wrote an. lb'2y and
printed 1 651, for Jo. Clark. This Mr. V. w.is bish. Carl-
ton's son : vide p. 422. Baker.]

' [See bishop Laud's History of his Chancellorship, page
J 42.]^

" bee Canterbury's Doom, p. 251, 252.

" tritie of Divine Predestiiuitimi, &c. written by
" Job. Playtere, bach, of divinity. As for die oc-
" ca-sion of the said letter, vou may Ik; pleaitM to un-
" derstand. Dr. Christ. Potter having preached at
" the con.secration of Dr. Barnab. Potter bish. of
" Carli.sle 15 Marcli 1628, did afterwards print his
" sermon in 1629, which liis aforesaid friend Mr.
" Vicars having jhtusM, he, it seems, iKigglcd at
" some nas.sages therein, yet with a friendly, tho'
" somewhat veiiement affection, tiid expostulate in
" a letter to the doctor touching liis change of
" opinion, as he conceiv^l. The doctor for his
" friend's satisfaction, and to quit himself of incon-
" stancy, presently retunfd him the said modest,
" yet very judicious and rational, answer." At
length departing this mortal life in Queen's coll. on
the third day of March in sixteen hundred forty
and five, was buried about the middle of tlie inner
chappel belonging thereunto. Over his grave was
a marble monument fa-stned to the north wall, at
the charge of his widow Elizabetli, daugliti-r of Dr.
Charles Sonibanke sometimes canon of Windsor,
(afterwards the wife of Dr. Ger. I.,angbaine who
succeeded Potter in the provostship of the said col-
lege) a copy of which you may read in Hist. ^■
Ant'iq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 124. b. In his deanery
of Worcester succeeded Dr. Rich. HoldswortJi
archd. of Huntingdon and master of Emanuel col.
in Cambridge, and in his deanery of Durham Dr.
Will. Fuller dean of Ely, but neither of them, I
presume, were installed.

[Add Letter relating to the Privileges of tlte
Univers'ity of Oxford. Printed by Heame in his
Rob. de Avesbury Hist. Edw. 3. Apjiend. p. 328.

Potter was converted by reading remonstrant
books. Bakeb.]

" HUMPHREY DAVENPORT, second son
of Will. Davenport of Bromhall in Cheshire, esq;
by Margaret his wife, daughter of sir Rich. Ashton
of Midaleton in Lane, knight, was bom of an an-
cient and genteel family at Bromliall, or at least
in the county of Chester, became a conmioner of
Bal. coll. in the beginning of 1581, being then in
the fifteenth year of his age, and matriculated, or
made a member of the university as a Cheshire
man Iwrn and an esquire's son. Afterwards, be-
fore he took a degree, he was translated to Greys-
Inne in Holbourn near London, where by the
help of his academical learning, the rudiments of
the municipal laws were quickly conquered by
him. After he had continued some time in the
state of a counsellor, he became Lent-reatler of
his house 10 Jfic. 1. at which time being reputed
a weU-studied lawyer, and an upright person, was
by writ called to be serjeant at law, an. 1624, and
the same year Jun. 17 he received the honour of
knighthood from his majesty then at Greenwich.
In 1625 he was made the Icing's serjeant, and in
1630 lord chief baron of the Exchequer in the
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183

LOE.

DU GRES.

ASTON.

*' room of sir Joh. Walter ; in wliich office behaving
" himself with gi-eat loyalty, he was thereupon
" brought into trouble by tiie members of the Long-
" Parliament. (1.) For being one of the judges
" that advised the king in the matter of ship-
" money. (2.) For ordering the seizing of the
" goods of Sam. Vassal a merchant, because he re-
" fused to pay the im|X)sition due for them, &c.
" (3.) For actmg unjustly in the case of Pet. Smart
" preb. of Durham, for preaching a factious sermon,
" &c. with otlier matters which hastned the end of
" this good man, esteemed by all that knew him an
■" able lawyer, a loyal subject, hospitable, charitable,
" and above all, religious. He hath written,

" Synops'i.t : Or, an exact Abr'idg'ment of the
" Lord Cdke''s Commentaries upon Littleton ; being
" a brief Explanation of tlie Grounds of the Laic.
" Lond. 1652. oct.'

" ArgurneiHs against Will. Strode and Walt.
" Long, ■who were imprisoned 5 Car. l.Jhr speak-
" ing certain matters in the Parliament tlien lately
" dissolved.

" What other things he hath extant besides I
" know not ; and therefore I shall only say that
1645. " ^^' '^'^ '" sixteen hundred forty ancl five, after
" he had been a benefactor to the last adorning of
" the chappel of Bal. coll. and a common con-
" tributer to the poor and indigent royalists. Where
" his reliques were lodg''d I cannot tell, and there-
" fore being not in a possibUity to ^ve you his
" epitaph, I shall only tell you that while he liv'd
" he was accounted one of the oracles of the law."

WILLIAM LOE took the degrees in arts as a
member of S. Alban's hall, that of master being
compleated in 1600, at which time he was much in
esteem for Lat. Gr. and human learning. Soon
after he was made master of the college school in
Gloucester, (in which office he was succeeded by
John Langley) prebendary of the church there,
chaplain in ordinary to K. Jam. I. and pastor of
[88] tlic English church at Hamborough in Saxony, be-
lon^ng 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 jweached in the Cathedral of Gloio-
cester. Lond. 1614. qu.' (2.) The Mystery of
Mankind made into a Manual, being the Sum of

' [\Vorrall (Bi'J/. Leg. Angl. p. 1 1), soys, that there is an
edit, in l661 wliich profesfcs to be llie second ; in the title
page to which it is saiif to be ' collected by an unknown au-
thor.' It was again printed in l683.]

< " Cheshire Fisitalion Book in the Herald's Office made
" by Will. Duedale Is'orroy king of arms, c. 38. f'ol. 28. b."

■■ [In the title pape he is stilcd William Leo D. in di-
vinity somciiuic preacher at Wandsworth in Surrey.

Wanlet.]

seven Sermons preached at S. MichacFs in Corn-
hill; on 1 Tim. 3, 16. Lond. 1619. oct. [Bodl.
8vo. M. 108. Th.] (3.) The Kings Sluye, or
Edoni's Doom, Sermon mi Psal. 60. 8. Lond. 1623.
qu. [Bodl. 4to. J. 17. Th.] and another sennon or
treatise called The Mercltant Real ; wliich I have
not yet seen.

Vox Clamantis. A still Voice to the three Estates
in Parliament. Lond. 1621. qu. [B<xll. 4to. R. 9.
Th.] I find° one Ur. Loe to administer comfort to
Dr. Dan. Fcatly when he lay on his death-betl, and
afterwards to preach his funeral sermon at Lam-
beth, printed at London 1645. qu. which doctor I ciar.
take to be the same with our author, who, while he i645.
was preb. of Glouc. did sometimes siibs(;ribe himself
to certain chapter-acts by the name of Will. I^eo.
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 restoration of
K. Charles II. one Hugh Nash, M. of A. succeeded
him in his prebendship, which for some years had
lain void.

[^Sermon on Ps. xlv. 3. preaclied at White Hall,
1622: with a dedication to the king. MS. Reg.
17 A. xl] ^ ^

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,

Grammaticce Gallica Compendium. Cantab.
1636. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. M. 86. Art. Seld.]

Dialogi Gallico-Anglico-Latini. Oxon. 1639.
[Bodl. 8vo. A. 33. Art.] 1652. [Bodl. 8vo. W. 12.
Art. BS.] and 1660. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. G. 11; Art.
BS.]

Regnlce pronunciandi ; ^ ut Verborum Galli-
corum Paradigmata, printed with the Dialogues.

Life of Jean Arman du Ples.ns Duke of RicMieu Clar.
and Peer of France. Lond. 1643. oct. and other i645.
things, as ''tis probable, but such I have not yet
seen, nor know any thing else of the author.

" THOMAS ASTON, son of Joh. Aston of
" Aston in Cheshire, esquire, by Maud his wife,
" daughter of Rob. Nedham of Shenton in Shrop-
" shire, was born at Aston ot a most antient and
" genteel family, entrcd a gent. com. of Brasen-nose
" coll. in 162|, but before he was settled, he was
" called home by his relations, and being soon after
" married, was created a bai-onet in July an. 1628.
" In 1635 he wis high-sheriff of Chesliirc, being
" then esteemed a person of gcxxl natural parts, and
" a high-flown monarchist. So that upon tlie ap-
" proach ofthe rebellion he published.

Ii; mc I.iJ

" Ii; A\c Life and Death qf Dr. Dun. Featlev, [ rinird
1 060. f. 75. 80, 81.

ASTON.

LYDYAT.

186

" A Remonstrance against Presbytery ; exhibited
" against divers of the Nobility, Gentry, Ministers,
" and Inhabitants of the Countij Palatine ofChcs-
" ter. Loud. 1641. "qu. [Hodl. 4to. J. 16. th.]

" Sluart Survey <rf the Presbyterian Discipline.
" And,

" Brief Review of the Institution, Succession,
" Jurisdiction of the antient and venerable Order
" of the Bishops. — These two last were printed
" with the Remonstrance before-mention a. He
" also made A Collection of sundry Petitions pre-
" sented to the King's most excellent Majesty, as
" also to the two Houses now assembled in Parlia-
" mcnt. And others already signed by most of the
" Gentry, Ministers and Free-Holders of several
" Counties, &c. — printed 1642, in 10 sn. in qii.
" [Bodl. C. 13. 15. Line] Soon after, the rebellion
" breakinj^ out, he was the chief man in his country
" that took part with his majesty K. Ch. I. raised
" a party of norse for Jiis service, beaten by a party
" of rebels under sir Will. Breerton of Honford
" near to Nantwich in Chesliire, on the 28th Jan.
" 1642, but sir Thomas escaped and got away with
" a light wound. Afterwards he was taken in a
" skirmish in Staffordshire, and carried prisoner to
" Stafford, where endeavouring to make an escape,
" a soldier espied him, gave him a blow on the
" head ; with which, and his other wounds, a httle
[89] " before received, he fell into a fever, and died of it
" at Stafford on the 24th of March, l)eing the last
l64s. " day of the year sixteen hundred forty and five.
" Afterwards his l)ody was carried to Aston, and
" there buried in his chappel, leaving then behind
" him the character of a stout and learned man, not
" that it is so expressed in his epitaph, but by the
" general vogue of all true and loyal hearts, then
" and since living.""

THOMAS LYDYAT the son of Christop. Lv-
dyat lord of the manor of Aulkryngton connnonlv
called Okertou near Banbury in Oxfordshire, and
citizen of London, was born at Okerton in the be-
ginning 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 Wyke-
ham''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. (after-
wards sir) Hen. Marten, made great iiroficiency in
logicals, and two years after was aclmitted verus
socius. After he had taken the degrees in arts he
studied astronomy, mathematics, 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 bi-
shop of Oxon his diocesan, in his epistle dedicatory
to liim of a sermon preached at a visitation while he
was a rural dean) made choice rather to quit liis

niace in the coll. (for the statutes thereof oblig'd
liim to divinity) and live u|X)n that small jjatrimony
he liad, than to follow and j)rosccute the said situdy
of divinity. Wiiat fiu'ther I iiave to observe of liini
is (1) That the seven years next ensuing, after he
hatl left his fellowship of New coll. (which wan
1603.) he sjK'nt in the finishing and setting forth
such books that he had begun m the college, esije-
cially that Dc Emendatitme Temporum, dedicated
to prince Henry, to whom he was chronographer
ana cosmographer. AV^hich prince In-ing solely given
up to all vu-tue, did graciously accept of it, and luul
so great a resjx'ct for the author, that had he lived
he would have done great matters fiir him; but
dying in the flower of his youth, the lu)i)es of our
author were interred with that prince in nis grave.
(2) That at the end of the 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 purf)osing to
return for England, the lord deputy ami chanc. of
Ireland, did, u\)on his motion, make him a joint

t)romise of a comj)etent maintenance uj)on his return
>ack again thither. When he came into England
the rectory of Okerton befbre-mentioird falling void,
(which he beff)re had refused when fellow of New
coU. upon the offer of it by his fiither the patron)
he did, after several demurrs, and not without much
reluctancy of mind, accept of it in the year 1612.
Where being settled, he did not <mly go over the
harmony of the gospels in less than 12 years, making
thereon above 600 serm<ms, but wrote also several
lxx)ks, and laid the foundation of others. All which
in due time he would have publishetl, hatl he not.
been unadvisedly engaged for the debts of one very
nearly related to him. Which debts he being un-
able for the present to pay, (having before spent his
small patrimony for the printing of his books) re-
mained in the prison calfd Bocardo in Oxon, and
in the KingVBench and elsewhere, till such time as
sir Will. Boswell (a great encourager of deserving
men) Dr. Rob. Pink warden of New coU. and, if I
am not mistaken. Dr. Usher iK'fore-mention'd, had
laid down the debt and released him. Dr. Laud
also archb. of Canterbury did give his assistance
(upon the desire of sir Hen. Marten) for the deli-
verv of him from prison, but Selden who was de-
siru and importun'd to contribute towards it, re-
fused, for no other reason, as "'tis thought, than that
his Marmora Arundeliana, could not stand uncon-
tradicted by him, and tliat instead of a most judi-
cious, he gave him only the name of an industnou:^
author for his labour. (3) That about that time
he put up a petition to king Cb. I. wherein among
several things that he desired was, tliat his majesty
would give him leave to travel into foreign parts,
viz. into Turkey, ^Ethiopia, or the Abascn emperor's
country, to search and find copies, csixH;ially of civil
and ecclesiastical liistories to be published in print,

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or whatsoever copies mav tend to the propjigation
or increase of gcxjil learning : And fartlier also,
whereas he hatl leiger-ambassadors and agents with
his confederates, emperors, kings and princes of other
countries, they miglit in his majesty's name, in be-
half of Mr. Lydyat and his assigns, move their
highnesses to grant the hke privilege to him and his
assigns, &c. \Vhat the effect of this petition was,
I find not: however from thence his noble inten-
tions and pubhc spirit may be discovered. (4) That
tho' he was a person of small stature, yet of great
parts and of a public soul, and tho' a poor and con-
temptible priest to look upon, (for so he was held
by the vulgar) yet he not only puzled Christop.
Clavius ana the whole college of mathematicians,
but also that Goliah of Uterature Joseph Scaliger ;
who, when he was worsted by our author's writings,
(tho' he would never acknowledge it, howbeit great
men, particularly the famous Usher, held it for
granted) he betook himself unmanly to his tongue,
by calling him in a scornful manner a beggarly,
beardless, and gelt priest. (5) That as he was
much esteemed by learned men at home, among
whom were Usher before-mentioned, sir Adam
Newton secretary, and sir Tho. Chaloner chamber-
lain, to prince Henry, Dr. Jo. Bainbridge, Mr.
Hen. Bnggs, Dr. Pet. Turner, &c. who were his
great acquaintance: so was he by the virtuosi be-
yond the seas, who were pleased, and that worthily,
to rank him with the lord Bacon of Verulam and
Mr. Joseph Mede. But when they heard that our
author and the said Mede were very poorly prefer'd,
they answer'd that the Englishmen deserved not to
have such brave scholars among, since they made
no more of, them. (6) That in the civil war which
began an. 1642, he suffer'd much at his rectory of
Okerton before-mention'd, by the parliament party ;
for in a letter written by him to sir William Comp-
ton kt. governor of Banbury castle, dat. 10 Dec.
1644, I find that he had been four times pillaged
by the parliament forces of Compton-house (com-
monly called Compton in the hole) in Warwick-
shire, to the value of at least 70/. and was forced
for* a quarter of a year together to borrow a shirt to
shift himself; that also he had been twice carried
away from his house, once to Warwick, and another
time to Banbury. To the first of which places
being hurried away on a poor jade, was infamously
used by the soldiers there, and so sorely hurt, that
he was at the writing of the said letter not throughly
whole, and he doubted scarce ever should be, &c.
The cause of all which ill usage, was for that he
had denied them money, and had defended his
books and papers, and afterwards while a prisoner
in Warwick castle had spoken much for tlie king
and bishops. His works are these ;

Tractatus de var'iis Annorum Formis. Lond.
1605. Oct. [Bodl. 8vo. L. 34. Art.]

Prcekctio astrojwmka de Natura Cosli S[ Condi-
tUmibus Ekmentorum.

Dlsquisitio physiohg-'ica de Urifl-hie Fontium.
The two last were printed, and go always, with the
first.

Defensio Tractatus de variis Annorum Formis
contra Josephi Scaligeri Obtrtrtationcm. Lond.
1607. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. L. 6. Art. Seld.]

Examen Canonum Chronologicc Isoffog-icorum.
Printed with the Defctisw.

Emendutio Temporum ab Initio Mundi hue
usque, Compendio facta, contra Scaligerum S^ alios.
Lond. 1609. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. L. 7. Art. Seld.]

ExpUcatio 4" Additamentum Arffumentorum in
Libelh Emendationis Temporum Compendiofactfv,
de Nativitate Christi <^ Minusterio in Terris.
Printed 1613. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. L. 35. Th.]

Solis 4" Luna Periodus, seu Annus magnus.
Lond. 1620. oct. &c. [Bodl. 8vo. L. 50. Art.]

De Annis Solaris Mensura Epistola Astronomica,
ad Hen. Savilium. Lond. 1620. 21. oct.

JVumerus aureus melioribus Lapillis insignatus,
Jactusq; ffemm£tts ; e Thesauro Anni magni, sive
Solis <Sf LunoB Periodi octodesexcentenariw, S:c.
Lond. 1621. in one large sh. on one side.

Canones Chronologki, necnon Series summo-
rum Magistratuum 4" Triumplwrum Romanorum.
Oxon. 1675. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. P. 158. Art.] Pubhshed
from a MS. in the library of Dr. Jo. Lamphire.

Letters to Dr. Jam. Usher Primate of Ireland.-—
Printed at the end of the said Usher's life, 1686,
published by Dr. Rich. Parr. These, I think, are
all the things that he hath extant. As for those
many MSS which he left behind him at the time of
his death, are mostly these.

Annotations upon that Part of Mr. Edw. Breer-
wood''s Treatise of the Sabbath, wherein he denies
the Christian Sabbath on tlie Lord's Day or iht
first Day of the Week to be established Jure Di~
vino, by God's Commandment. — The beginning of
this MSS is, ' There was brought to me being pri-
soner in the king's bench, on Fnday evening, 3 Dec.
1630.' &c.

Annotations upon some controverted Points of the
Chronical Canons. — The beg. is, ' Notwithstanding
there l)e divers,' &c.

A yew Annotations upon some Places or Pas-
sages of the .second and third Chapters of the Book

entit. Altare Christianum. The beg. is, ' There

have been Christians ever since,' &c.

Treatise touching the setting up of Altars in
Christian Churches and bowing in Reverence to
them or Comnum Tables, and botving tlic Knee, or
uncovering the Head at the Name, or naming of

Jesus, occasionally made 1633. Written upon

the desire of some London ministers, to declare his
judoment therein : dedicated to archb. Laud in gra-
titude for hiaTeleasing him from prison. In a post-
script at i\v end of his discourse concerning bowing
at the name of Jesus, he endeavours to answer the
four arguments of bishop Andrews, which are in his
sermon on 2 Phil. 711.

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Answer to Air. Jo.<teph Mede's Treatise of t?ie
Name of Altar or dua-ioLo-l-^piov, antiently given to tlie
My roM-.— Written in Feb. 1637.

Answer to the Defence of the Coal from tlie Altar.

Evaiigeliuvi contractnm ex guatuor Evangelii.'i,
&c. — Written in Hebrew.

Annale.f Ecclesia Christi incfioati secwndum Me-
ihodum Baronii. This is written in Lat. but im-
perfect.

Chronicon Regiim Jndaorum Methodo magi-i
perspicud. Written in Hebr.

Mesolahum Geometricum.

Chromcmi Mundi emendatum.

Divina Sphivra humanorum Eventnum. The
beginning i.s, ' Etiam absque eo foret,'' &c. dedic. to
the icing, 1632.

Problema A.Hronomicum de Solli Eccentricitate.
The beginning is, ' Temis Diatribis,' &c.

Diatribcc; ^- Animadversiones Astronomicce,
ternw.

Circuli Diviensio Lydyatea, Archimidea.

Marmo7-eum Chronicon ArundeVmnum, cum An-
notationibn.i, &c. This was afterwards printed in
a book en tit. Marmora Oxoniensia, published by
Humph. Prideaux. All which MSS, with others
treating of divinity, mathematics and astronomy,
amounting to the number of 38 at least, were bound
up in 22 volumes, and reserved as rarities in the
hands of Dr. Joh. Lamphire, lately principal of
Hart hall. At length, after our author had lived
at Okerton several years very poor and obscurely,
iC46. surrendred up his soul to hnn that gave it, on the
third day of April in sixteen hundred forty and six,
and was buricxl the next day (lieing tlie same day
on which he had al)ove 70 years before been bap-
tized) by the Ixxlies of his father and mother in the
chancel of the church at Okerton, which he before
had rebuilt. Over his grave near to the south win-
dow, and not far from the east end of the said chan-
cel, the warden and society of New coll. did cause a
stone to be laid at their charge, an. 1669. The in-
scription on which you may read in Hist. 4" Antiq.
Univ. Oxmi. lib. 2. p. 149. a, as also the inscription
on his honorary monument in New coll. cloyster,
pag. 155.'

« ROBERT D'EVREUX, the only son and
" heir of Rob. earl of Essex, (who was beheaded for
" high treason in 1600) was bom in Essex house
[921 " without Temple-bar in the parish of S. Clement
" Danes within the Uberty of Westminster, an.
" 1592, educated in grammar learning in Eaton
" school near Windsor, became a gent. com. of Mer-
" ton coll. aljout the latter end of January 1602,
" and had an apartment allow'd for his reception
" and continuance in the lodgings belonging to the
" warden, Mr. Hen. Savile; who, for the great re-
" spect he had to his father, undertook to see that

' [See Gentleman's Magazine, I798, p- lOS?.]

he should l)e learnedly and religiously educated.
In the first of K. James I. Doni. 1()03, he waa
restort^d to the honours, which hi.t father Ix-fore
had lost, viz. to the earldom of Essex, and Ewe
vicountry of Hereford, anil barony of Ferrers of
Chartley, Bouchier and Lovayne, and at that
time prince Henry was plea.sed to be very con-
versant and familiar with him, being near unto
him in age, but more in affection, which conti-
nued for .some time, till upon a trivial matter they
fell out. At that time Essex's rwreations were
riding the great horse, running at the ring and
exercise of arms. His other hours were taken up
in study and perusal of Ixioks that yielded most
profit, not most delight, by the advice of the said
IMr. Savile, then a knight and a tutor to him in
his studies. In the latter end of Aug. 1605,
when then K. Jam. I. was entertained by the
muses in Oxon. our young nobleman Es-sex wa«,
among other nobles, actually createtl inastcr of
arts, and on the 5th of Jan. following he took to
wife the lady Frances one of the daughters of
Thorn, earl of Suffolk, but he being then scarce
14 years of age and she 13, they were by the ad-
vice of friends separated. Whereupon she was
taken under her mother's wing in the royal court,
which made her afterwards cast her eyes upon
other people, and he conducted by his guide or
tutor' into France and Germany, till time should
mature and ripen a hajipy co-union. After his
return they lived together, but with no comfort,
she having settled her affections upon a rising fa-
vourite in the court called sir Rob. Carr, after-
wards vise. Rochester and eai-l of Somerset; so
that upon pretence that the earl of Essex could
not perform the part of a husband upon her,
(whit-h was true, for he himself confessed that he
never could, and believed he never slunild car-
nally know her J certairi commissioners appointed
to take cognizance of the matter did pronounce a
divorce lietween them, an. 1613 ; whereupon she
married the said sir Rob. Carr, on the 26 of Dec.
the same year, as several histories will tell you,
and the particulars of that affair. Essex per-
ceiving how little he was beholden to Venus, did
then resolve to address himself to the court of
Mars, and to that purpose lie« went into the Ne-
therlands, which at that time was the school of
honour for the nobiUty of England in their exer-
cise of arms, where he first trayled a pike and
afterwards had the command of a regiment
Thence, after some years spent, he returned into
England, and thence in July 1621 into the Pala-
tinate to assist the king and queen of Bohemia in
the recovery of their right ; where, as before in
the Netherlands, tho' he behaved himself with

» " Arth. Wilson in his History <jf Great Britain, &c.
printetl l663. p. .^i5. 56.

9 " Rob. Codrington, in The Life and Death qf Rob. Earl
of Essex, &c. Lond. 1646. qu. p. 8.

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" gallant resolution, and became higlily renowned
" for feats of anns, yet he became taintetl witii some
" Calvinisticjil principles. Thence returning wth-
" out effecting his desire, he, wtli sir Edw. Cecil
" vise. Winibleton, took' a sudden exjiedition to
" Cadiz in Spain ; but matters there answering not
" his design, he returned to his native country, and
" having given imdeniable proofs of his manhood,
" he was ambitious to give some of his virility, so
" that soliciting the affection of Mrs. Eliz. Pawlet
'• daughter of sir Will. Pawlet of Edington in
" Wilts knight, one of the natural sons of William
" the third marquess of Winchester, they were
" married « at Netley, the earl of Hertford's house,
" on the eleventh of March 1630, by whom he had
" a son called Robert, who dying young, was' bu-
" ried at Drayton in Warwickshire. With this
" lady he did for a time cohabit, and it was but for
" a while, Ijecoming soon unhappy in his second, as
[93] « in his first choice, for he could as little digest her
" over-much familiarity with Mr. Udal or Uvedale,
" as his former lady with sir Rob. Carr. And there-
" fore because she objected the same cause of com-
'' plaint as his former lady had done, he was easily
" mduced to a separation from her as well as from
" the former, yet slie married not till after his death,
" and then she took to her second husband Tho.
" Higgons of Sliropshire, esq; afterwards a knight.^

' " Rob. Codrington, in The Life and Death of Rob. Earl
" of Essex, &c. Lond. l646. qu. p. 8.

* •' Ham. L'estrange in The Reign of K. Ch. I. &c.
" printed l65G. fol. second edit. p. 118.

' " R. Codrington, ut supra, p. 1 1."

* [Artfiur Wilson, in his own life, (Peck's Desiderata
Curiosa, lib. xii. p. ifi.) gives the following account of lord
Essex's second wife : ' That year, l630, we wintcr'd at the
earl of Hertford's in Wiltshire, where a fine young gentle-
woman, Mrs. Elizabeth Paulet, then was, a visitant onely,
of the noble countesse, my lord's sister. And, such faire
companie being acceptable at fetivall times, shee was in-
vited to stay all Christmas, where her winning behaviour
wrought so farr upon my noble master, that, in Lent fol-
lowing he married her. I must coiifesse shee appeared to
the eye, a beautie full of harmles sweetnies. And her con-
versation was affable and gentle. And 1 cannot be perswaded
that it was forced, but naturall to her then present condition.
And the height of her matriage and greatnes, as an accident,
altered her very nature : for she was the true im<ige of Pan-
dora's box. W hen my lord had fixt his affections on her, I
found his lordship cold in his familiar and gratious discourses
to mee, which I perceiving, could not but cxpressc a cloudie
and discontented countenance : which gave my new-married
lady some cause of anger against mee. — But the lady was so
irradicated in mallice (supposing my cloudy brow was con-
tracted, because she shined in so bright a sphere) never left
working and undermining to displace mee. And when, by
the examination of all my accounts, and all the artifice shee
could use, it would not be done, shee fained a sickness ;
tooke her chamber, and protested, never to come out of it
as long as I staid in the house : which I hearing, desired my
noble master's leave to depart. — So in July 1630, we parted.
And, within two yeares after, this malicious piece of vanitie,
unworthie of soe noble a husband (being found in another's
adulterous amies) was separated from him, to her eternal re-
proach and infamie.' So far Wilson, who can scarcely be
termed an unprejudiced witiiess against the countess of Essex,

" ' But happy it had * been (in all probability) not
" less for king Charles I. than this earl, had either
" his ladies found fewer, or he more, friends at
" court, and that his dishonour had been there re-
" sented agreeable to his extraction : for tho' (as
" some supjx)se) he laboured of an im])lacable and
" invincible impotency cis to conjugal concernments,
" yet to others he had animosity enough, and when
" we shall afterwards beliold liim in the head of a
" numerous anny, giving the said king battle in a
" pitcht field, it may well be conjectur d, that tliis
" then engagement was in part upon the score of
" those indignities, which he charged upon former
" account, so moving is the shew of injur'd honour.'
" But to return; the said Essex after he hatl left
" his second wife did ever after abandon all uxo-
" rious thoughts, and wholly applied himself to the
" improvement of those rules, which conduce to
" the affairs of the church and state. And if ever
" unseverer hours of leisure oflfer'd themselves in
" his retir d studies, he would employ that time in
" the perusal of some serious {xiem : and having
" great judgment, as 'tis said, especially in English
" verse, it was his custom to applaud the profession
" of tliat art, as high as their deserts merited, and
" to reward them above it, particularly Franc.
" Quarles and George Wither, puritanical poets.
" He was no way inclined to the sullen opinion of
" those men who disclaim the mu.ses, and esteem all
" poems to be as unlawful as unprofitable. In the
" latter end of Aug. 1636, at what time king Ch. I.
" and his royal consort were entertain'd in Oxon,
" the said Rob. earl of Essex being then there, he
" was actually created master of arts again, and in
" 1639 he was made lieutenant-general of the foot,
" under Thomas earl of Arundel the general, when
" his majesty went to fight the Scottish covenanters.
" In 1641 he was by bill in parhanient made gene-
" ral of all the forces on the south side of Trent,
" with power to raise more, if necessity compelled,
" during the king's voyage into Scotland, when he
" went to confirm all the extorted concessions to
*' those covenanters, aiul in July in the very same
" year he was upon tlie remoxal of Philip earl of
" Pembroke made lord chamberlain of his majesty's
" household. But see now the mutability of the
" man, and the ingratitude of a wretch ; for he for-

inasmuch as he dates his separation from his inuch-lovcd
master to her endeavours and ill-will. Granger, who had
seen A funeral Oration, spoken over the Grave of Elizabeth
Countess of Essex, by her Husband, Mr, Thomas Higgons,
at her Interment in the Cathedral Church of PFinchester,
Sept. I(j, l65() ; Imprinted at London, l63()', imputes the
loss of the countess's reputation to the spleen and malice of
her lord's servants, who (as he tells us, from her husband's
oration) she had highly ofl'cnded by introducing order and
(Economy into his family. Consi<lering liowever all the
events of this lady's hfc> " 's surely next to impossible to
suppose tha* it was the malice of servants alnne which in-
flicted so rfeep a wound on the countess's character and hap-
piness!

•> « Ham. L'Est. in The Reign of K. Ch. I. p. 118."

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" getting; all foniicr obligations did take upm him
" on the 12 of July IGliJ tlio ia))tiiin giniralsliii)
" of t!iu headless j)ar!iauient against the sovereign
'"the head of the conunonwealth ; about which time
" there were no less than four thousand men tliat
" listed themselves in one day in the Artillery gar-
" den near London, who declared their resolutions
" to live and die with Essex for the safety of tlie
" ixjace of the kingdom, but on the 9 of Aug. fol-
" lowing he with his retinue were justly proclaimed
" traytors: notwithstanding which, he sought with
" all diligence to advance his fellow rebers cause
" (for so they called their Mammon) and his own
" and their greedy avarice, by the hurt and extream
" damage of his country and the subversion of the
" public peace. The particulars of which, and how
" he was sometimes beaten and sonietimes did beat,
" and how he lost his army near Lesthiel in Corn-
" wall, where they were impounded by the royal
" party, while in the mean time he himself was
" forced to take a cock-boat at Foy to be conveyM
" to Plymouth to prevent his being taken prisoner
" or slain, the common prints and clironicles will
" tell you. What was it that disjwsed this earl to
" take up arms against the king, but discontent and
" revenge for the injuries done him at court about
" the business of Simierset .'' which stuck so deep in
" his stomach that when he took employment in the
" Netherlands, he was heard to say it was time to
" learn the use of anns if ever he meant to requite
" that indignit}'. And having all the time of king
" Charles I. been neglected at court, he looked
" upon the honourable office of lord chamberlain,
" wnich was confcr''d on him at last, not as an act
" of grace, but policy, he having been too far gone
" in design to be drawn off with that office ; which
" nevertheless he accepted, and had no sooner sworn
" his allegiance to his majesty's person, but he pre-
" sently brake it, to become the head of a most hi-
" deous and horrible rebellion. But did he escape
" without his tennwral punishment ? No : lie lived,
" as 1 shall tell you anon, to see himself cashired,
" and made a .scorn by a new faction, and out-bravd
" by his rival ; who being but a petty knight, robb'd
" him of all liis lionour, and carried away the glit-
" tering title of his excellency. Hy which means
" the power being brought into the hands of persons
" of mean quality, they made their design ever after
" to balile and undermine the nobility. A sad ex-
" am))le of the vanity and instability of all ix)pular
" interests and engagements ! After the said earl of
" Essex had thrust his nails deep into the wounds
" of the commonwealth, had committed great spoils,
" ravaged tlie country, and endeavoured to execute
" his malice to the utmost to please the parliament,
" and displease his majesty and the royal party,
" who as much reproach''d his debility as to the fe-
" male sex, as others did his valour and conduct,
" he was disgracefully thrust out from his high cm-
" ployment and sir The. Fairfax of Nun-Apleton
Vol. III.

in Yorkshire knight, was clapt in over liix )iea<!
to finish the work of iniipiity. Whereujxm the
eiu-1 seeing himself thus hiid itside, anti prudently
considering that a new mcxlel in the main part of
the militia must necessarily require a mutation
and change of men to manage the service answer-
able to- the minds of such that commanded in
chief, it was thought convenient by some of the
great ones that they give up their commissicms to
save the labour and dishonour of having them
taken away by force. A\'liereupon lie tLe said
Essex, together with Edward earl of Manchester,
Basil earl t)f Denbigh and sir Will. Waller, three
generals of the parliament forces, did on the .se-
cond day of Apr. 1645 surrender up all at once
their commissi(ms in tJie house of lords before
they should be thereunto required. And thus
this earl of Essex having lost the opportunity of
blessing the kingdom witli a jieacc when it lay in
his jMwer, and to which he was courted by the
king and several of his nobihty with liim, when
he was inip<junded in Cornwall in Aug. 1644,
and seeing how the pulse of the times beat, and
what counsi'Is were likely to prevail, he withdrew
himself with great discontent to Eltham house in
Kent. However in the Ix'ginning of Deeeml)er
following, the members t)f the headless ]>iu-liament
did, to please and sweeten him, generally vote him
to be matle a duke, but he refused that honour
with scorn, and chose rather to s{)end the rest (jf
' his time in obscurity than to be a shining light in
the nation. A writer of the presbytcrian per-
' suasion, that had been of his retinue, doth ° tell
u.s that ' Essex had ever an honest heart, and tho'
' nature had not given him elofiuence, he had a
' strong reason that did express liim better. His
' Cfmntenance, to those that knew him not, ajjwar-
' ed somewhat stern and solemn, to intimates an'able
' and gentle, to the females obligingly ctmrteous :
' and tlio' unfortunate in some, yet highly respect-

• ed of most, happily to vindicate the virtue of his

■ sex. The king (.James I.) never affix-ted liim,

• whether from the bent of his natural inclination

• to effeminate faces, or whether from that instinct

■ or secret prediction that divine fate often imprints

■ in apprehension, whereby he dill fbix'see in him

• (as it were) a hand raised up against his jxwte-
' rity, may be a notation not a determination : But

• the king never liked him, nor could he close with

• the court,' &c.

" Under the name t)f this person were published,
' while he was captain-general,
" Several Letters to the Speakers of the Houses

• qflx>rds and Commons.

" Letters to several Persona.

" Relations concerning Skirmishes, Battles, tak-

■ ing of Towns, Houses, &c.

" Declarati(»is and other such like things. He

[95J

" Anh. \Vil<oii as bfforc,

p. l68.

o

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D'EVREUX.

" dietl in Elthani house betore-mcntion''d (not with-
" out the suspicion of poyson') on Monday night
iW6. " the 13 of Sept. in sixteen hundred forty and six,
" and was buned in St. Paul's cliappel (nortliward
" of the cajH-'lla reguni) in the abbey church of S.
" Peter in Westminster. Tlie magnificent .solem-
" nity of his funeral, with a great deal of state in-
" termixed with some new invented ridiculous cere-
" monies, was celebrate*! on the 22d of Oct. foUow.
" ing, at the charge of the parliament, (to which the
" independants did very readily concur) to make
" reparation for those indignities lately done unto
" him ; of which they could not otherwise acquit
" themselves. At the same time Mr. Rich. Vines '
*' one of the assembly of divines preached the fune-
" ral sermon on 2 Sam. 3. 38. and several ele^es
" made on him, particularly An Elegy upon his
" unhappy Loss, by Tho. Twyss, ana another en-
" i\t.—-Justa hotioraria : or. Funeral Rites in Ho-
*' nour to his deceased Master, Rob. Earl of' Essex,
" &c. written by Daniel Evance M. of A. of Sydney
" coll. in Cambridge, afterwards minister ot Cal-
" borne in the isle of Wight, servant-chaplain to
" the .said earl, and lecturer of S. Clement Danes
" within the liberty of Westminster. It was print-
" ed at London 1646 in 3 .sh. and an half in qu.
" Now altho' the title of Essex terminated in him,
** because he ched without issue, yet the title of vis-
" count Hereford, &c. descended to his kinsman
" Walt. D'Evreux of Bromwich castle in Warwick-

' [He dyed, without bein^ sensible of sickness, in a time
when he might have been able to have undone much of the
mischief he had formerly wrought; to which he had great
inclinations; and had indignation enough for the indignities
himself had received from the ungrateful parliament, and
wonderful apprehension, and detestation of the ruin he saw
like to befall the king, and llie kingdom. And it is very pro-
bable, considering the present temper of the city at that
time, and of the two houses, he might, if he had lived, have
given some check to the rage and fury that then prevailed.
But God would not suffer a man, who, out of the pride and
vanity of his nature, rather than the wickedness of his heart,
had been made an instrument of so much mischief, to have
any share in so glorious a work ; though his constitution,
and temper, might very well incline him to the lethargick
[indisposition of which he dyed, yet it was loudly said by
many of his friends, that he was poyson'd. Lord Claren-
don, Hi$t. of the Rebellion, iii, 33, ed. folio.

As to the suspicion of Essex's having been poisoned, it
can only be regarded as one of the many groundless surmises
which were long entertained with regarcf to the decease of
eminent persons, especially if their deaths were sudden.
Different accounts have been given of the earl's death ; some
have ascribed it to apoplexy ; but Ludlow, who was pro-
bably well informed, wys, that it was occasioned by his
having overheated himself in the chase of a stag in Windsor
forest. Kippis, Bio^rapkia Britannica, t, I67 J

' [Ric. Vines coll. Magd. alumnus, aul. Pembr. prae-
fectus. See his funeral sermon preached by Tho. Jacombe
Feb. 7, 1655.

guidam Ric. Vines admissus in col. Jo. 1586.
ic. Vines coll. Magd. A. B. l022; A. M. I627.
An. 1655, Feb. 4, Mr. Vines preacher in St. Laurence
Jewry, having the day before preached and given the sacra-
ment, died this morning. Mr. Ric. Smith's Obituary. BA-
KER.]

" shire, and his lands fell in partition between the
" latly Frances the c<msort of Will, duke of Somerset
" his sister, and sir Rob. Shirley baronet, his ne-
" phew, by the lady Dorothy his other sister, as his
" heirs general. When the said Robert earl of
" Essex had his commission given to him by the
" parliament to be captain general of the forces to
" fight a^inst their king, these nobility following
" received commissions also, viz. Will. Rus.sel can
" of Bedford to be lieutenant-general or general of
" the horse. In his old age he was created duke of
" Bedford by king Will. III. and qu. Mary. John
" Mordant earl of Peterborough to he general of
" the ordnance ; and these following to be colonels,
" viz. Henry Grey earl of Stanford; Nathaniel
" Fiennes viscount Say and Seal ; Joh. Carey lord
" Rochford afterwards earl of Dover; Oliver lord
" St. Johns eldest son of the carl of l^olinbrook ;
" Rob. Grevill lord Brook ; Henry lord Mandevill
*' (son of Henry earl of IVIanchester) ; John lord
" Rolx?rts, afterwards carl of Ratlnor ; Basil lord
" Feilding, afterwards earl of Denbigh ; PhUip lord
" Wharton ; William lord Willoughby of Parham ;
" Tho. Grey lord Groby, eldest son of Henry earl
" of Stanford. — He was afterwards a recruiter for
" Leicester to sit in the long parliament, one of
" the judges that sate when K. Ch. I. was sentenced
" to be beheatled, but being afterwards troubled
" with the stone, his unskilful chirurgeon in the
" cutting him for the taking it out of his bladder at
" Wilthorp in Northamptonshire near Stanford, an.
" 1657, preposterously proved his best fi-iend, by
" preventing a worse catastrophe that seemed to
" threaten him, had he lived three years longer.
" The next that was made a colonel was Ferdi-
" nando lord Hastings, who on the 16 of Nov. 1640
" had been summoned to sit in parliament among
" the barons, and after his father's death became
" earl of Huntingdon ; Will, lord Grey of Wark ;
" and Philip Sydney viscount Lisle, eldest son of
" Robert earl of Leicester. This last person (a
" Middlesex man bom) who had been bred in Ch.
" Ch. in this university, became afterwards a par-
" liament man for Yarmouth in Hampshire to serve
" in the long parliament, and in 1643 I find him an
" active man in Ireland against the rebels. After-
" wards, because of his knowledge of that kingdom,
" he was according to the unanimous votes in par-
" liament made governor or lord deputy thereof in
" the latter end of 1645, went thither in person in
" the beginning of March 1646, did some service
" for the cause there, returned in May 1647, and
" in the year following was nominated one of the
" judges for the trial of king Charles I. but he did
" not sit when sentence passed upon him. About a
" fortnight after his decollation, he was nominated
" one of the council of state, as he was in the year
" following, was a parliament man for Kent to serve
" in the little, alias Barbones, parliament, was of the
" privy-council to Oliver, who made him one of his

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['96J " lords, alias one of the loi-ds of llie other house,
" and ' liavin<f' learned so niueh l)y changin;^ with
" every ehange, and keeping still (like his father in
" law William earl of Salisbury and I'eter Sterry
" tlie minister) on that side whieh had proved
" trump, nothing need farther be said of his fitness
" (being such a man of principles) to be taken out
" of the parliament to have a setled negative voice
" in the other house, over all the g(X)d people of the
" land, he being lord of the old stamp already, and
" in time likely to become a peer,' &c. Edward
" lord Kimbolton afterwards earl of Manchester,
" did take a commission also to be a colonel, and
" afterwards general of the associated counties, as I
" shall tell you elsewhere."

[Laztjes and Ord'mances of Warre, established
for the better Conduct of the Army by his Excel-
lency the Earle of Essex, Lord Generall of the
Forces raised by the Authority of Parliamient for
the Defence of the Kirnf and Kingdom. Lond.
1642, 4to.

Two Letters to Henry Prince of Wales, in Birch's
Life of that prince.

Address to his Army in Sept. 1642. In the Par-
liamentary HlHory XI, 437, reprinted in the Bio-
graphia Britannica.

There are several curious, as well as rare, por-
traits of Essex, but I shall only mention

1. From Dobson, engraved by Faithome, large.

2. By Hollar, on horseback, 1643. large.

3. By Stent, large.

4. By Glover, in 4to.]

WALTER RALEIGH second son of sir Ca-
rew Raleigh of Downton in Wilts knight, (by Do-
rothy his wife daugh. of Will. Wroughton of
Broadhinton in the same county, relict of sir Job.
Thynne knight) elder brother to the famous sir
Walter Raleigh, and both the sons of Walter Ra-
leigh of Furdell or Fardell in Devon esq; was born
at Downton before-mention'd, educated in grammar
learning in Wykeham's school near Winchester,
became a commoner of Magd. coll. in Mich, term
1602 (ult. Eliz.) being then l6 years of age. After-
wards proceeding in arts, he was thought worthy,
being a noted disputant, to undergo the office of
junior of the act celebrated in 1608. About that
time taking holy orders, he became chaplain to that
most noble count William earl of Pembroke, in
whose family spending some time, had the rectory
of Chedsey near Bridgwater in Somersetshire con-
ferred upon him on the death of George Mount-
gomery, m the latter end of 1620, and afterwards a
minor prebendship in the church of Wells, and the
rectory of Streat with the chappel of Walton in the
same county. Much about the time of the lament-

' " The second Narrative of the late Parliament (so call-
" edj &c. Loiwl. 1658. qii. p. ts. 16.

' " Ask his late wife's sisler called Mary, wife of Will.
" lord Sandys."

ed death of the said count, he became one of the
clui|)lains in ord. to king Ch;u-les I. and Ijy that title
he was actually created D. of I), in 163a On the
13 of January 1641 he was admitted dean of Wells
on the death of Dr. George Warburton, and on the
breaking out of the rebellion soon after, (which hin-
dred his farther advance in the church) he was jier-
secuted, plimder'd, and forced to abscond for his
loyalty to his prince. At length being taken pri-
soner at Bridgwater by the rebels 21 Jul. 1645, he
was sent to Banwell house as a captive, and ttfter
several removes to his own at Wells, where being
committed to the custody of a shoe-maker (David
Barret a constable of that city) by the committee of
the county of Somerset, was treated by him far be-
neath his quality and function. Soon after having
occa.sion to write a letter to his wife, the rude keeper
endeavoured to take it from him and read it, sup-
posing it might be a letter of intelligence to be sent
to some noted cavalier. But the doctor preventing
his sauciness, the keeper thrust his sword into his
groyn, shedding his mood as the blood of a dog ;
of which wound he died about six weeks after to the
great grief of the loyal party. His papers after his
death, such as could be kept, were for more than
30 years reserved in obscurity. At length they
coming into the hands of the worthy and leamecl
Dr. Simon Patrick, then rector of S. Paul in Covent-
garden, preb. of Westm. and dean of Peterborough,
(now bish. of Ely) he viewed, amende<l, and me-
thodized them ; which being done they were made
public under this title :

Reliquicc Raleighanoe. Being Discourses and
Sermons on several Subjects. Lond. 1679. qu.
[Bodl. A. 5. 18. Line.'] The number of sermons
are 13. What other things he left worthy of pub-
lication were kept in Dr. Charles Gibbes's hands,
(whose sister Mary our author had married^ but
whether any of them are yet made public I Know
not. 'Tis said that he wrote a Tract of Millcnia-
ni.sm, he having for some time been much addicted
to that opmion ; but that, as I have been informed, [971
was long since lost. Those that remember him,
have often said that he was a person not only of
genteel behaviour, but of great wit and elocution, a
good orator and a master of a strong reason, which
won him the familiarity and friendship of tliose
great men, who were the envy of the last age, and
wonder of this; viz. Lucius lord Falkland, Dr.
Hen. Hammond and Mr. Will. Chillingworth. The
last of which was wont to' say, that Dr. Raleigh
was the best di.sputant that ever he met withal. He
departed this mortal life on the tenth day of Octob.
(lieing Saturday) in sixteen hundred forty and six, i646.
and was buried on the thirteenth of the same month
before the dean's stall in the choire of the cath. ch.
of S. Andrew in Wells. Over his grave is not yet
an inscription, only a rough marble stone, which

" rVVilh many MS. notes by bishop Barlow.]
' Pref. to RcUq. Raleigh, by Sim. Patrick D. D.
02

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SOMERSET.

i64€.

had probably been laid there many years Ix^fore the
dtK^tor's death. One Standish a clerjfy \ncar of that
cathedral was afterwards questioned by the aforesaid
committee for burying him in the church ; and his
deatli being soon after caU'd into question at an as-
size or sessions, there was a jury of rebels that
brought in his murder either Ignoramus, or at least
but man-slaughter ; for they said that the doctor to
shim the keeper's reading of" a letter which he wrote
to his wife, ran upon the keeper's sword, &c. Much
alM)ut that time the committee turned the doctor's
wife and children out of doors, and his son (as 'tis ■*
said) was li)rced to fly the country, for that he would
have farther prosecutetl the law against the mur-
derer of his father.

MATTHIAS PRIDEAUX son of Dr. Joh.
Prideaux, rector of Exeter coll. was bom in S. Mi-
chael's parish in Oxon in the month of Aug. 1622,
became a sojourner of the said coll. in the beginning
of the year 1640, was elected fellow .soon after, took
the degree of bach, of arts in 1644, and in the year
following, he, by the name of Captain Matthias Pri-
deaux, was, by virtue of the chancellor's letters, ac-
tually created master of arts. Under the name of
this person was publish'd after hi.s death,

All easy and compendicnui Introdttctionfor Read-
ing of all Sorts of Histories. Oxon. 1648. qu.
[Bodi. 4to. P. 77. Th.] There again 1655. (pi.
[Bodl. A. 2. 16. Line] To which is added A Sy-
nopsis of the Councils, written by the father of tne
author Matthias, who, as 'tis said, had a considerable
hand in the Easy and Cinnp. Introd. This Mat-
thias Prideaux who was esteemed by liis contempo-
raries an ingenious man, died at London of the
small pox in sixteen himdred forty and six, or there-
abouts, to which place he receded after the surrender
of the garri.son of Oxon to the forces under the com-
mand of the parliament. He had written one or
more trite things, but were never published.

«' HENRY SOMERSET son and heir of Ed-
" ward earl of Worcester, lineally descended from •
" Charles Somerset earl of Worcester, natural son
" of Henry Beaufort duke of Somerset, great grand-
" son of John of Gaunt duke of Lancaster, fourth
" son of K. Edw. III. became a nobleman, with his
" elder brother William, of Magd. coll. in the liegin-
" ning of 1591, and were soon after thus matncu-
" lated or made members of the university. ' Gu-
" lielmus, dominus Herbert, comitis filius, natus in
" comitatu Hereford, an. aetatis 15.' After whom
" immediately follows Henry thus : ' Henricus So-
" merset comitis fil. natus in com. Hereford, an. aet.
" 14.' Afterwards, in 1593, Thomas his younger
" brother was matriculated and in 1605 Charles and
" Edward Somerset, two younger than Thomas,

were matriculated also, all as members of Ma^d.
coll. After Henry Somerset, whom we are farther
to mention, hat! sjx'nt two or more years in the
said coll. he was called home, and thence sent to
travel into France, Italy, &c. where, I presume,
he changed his religion for that of Rome, and was
not l)orn or bre<l a R. Catholic as some report : for
the truth is, if his own words may be believ'd, he
was not, as in one of his apophthegms ^ it doth a[V
pear thus: ' It was told me by some of them
before ever I was a Catholick, that,' 8cc. See
more in the conclusion of this discourse. After-
terwards, his elder brother before-mention'd dying
unmarried, he became lord Herbert of Ragland,

' and when his father died, earl of Worcester, an.

■ 1627 ; to which honour he became a great oma-

• ment and glory, and was therefore Ix'loved and
' adored by all generous and virtuous men. After-

• wards livmg mostly at Ragland in Monmoutlishire,
' did little or not at all frequent the royal court,
' but as a plain man, especially in his apparel, lived
' very hospitably there, and at otlier of his seats,
' kept a well-regulated family altogether free from
' swearing and drunkenness, was exceeding chari-
' table Ixith in word and action, a good landlord, a
' loving neighbour, a great compromiser, a wise
' man, and above all a jx?rson of great and sincere
' religion. He was so devout and used prayer so
' much that you should never see his closet door
' open, but you might f)erceive he had been weep-
' ing, which he would endeavour to conceal by
' wiping his eyes, but he could never wipe away
' either the swelling or the redness of them. This
' person, who was of a most noble and generous
' di.sposition, ample fortune, and of perfect loyalty,
' did manifest his dutiful affections to king Charles
' I. (of blessed memory) by very large supplies
' when the predominant party in the Long parlia-
' ment had reduced him to extream necessities. In
' consideration whereof, and of his personal merits,
' he was by letters patents bearing date at Oxon 2
' Nov. 1642, advanced to the title of marquiss of
' Worcester. Afterwards he retiretl to his seat at
' Ragland, lived there, used little hostilitv, untill
' such time he was provoketl within the pales of his
' own park : and then fortifying that plfice, kept it
' for his and the king's use, but never gathered any
' contribution from the country adjacent, but paid
' the soldiers of his garrison out of his privy purse.
' While he was in this condition he had occasion to
' fly from a tlanger with a gentler and softer foot
' than it made after him : Whose condition so dan-
' gerous, was the more desperate, because he was
' unsensible of the approach of any enemy, and his
' security the sooner wrought, because intelligence

' had not given the enemy any information how
' near they were unto him. It was then the hap

[98]

♦ Merc. Rusticut, or England's Ruin, Sic.
at the end.

Printed l647, * " JVorcesler's Apophthegms, printed in l650. p. 118.
" Apopbtheg. bQ."

SOMERSET.

2()2

[991

" and fortune of one Ur. Tho. Bayly a great loyal-
" ist, to meet with this nobleman in this condition
" on the Welsh moiuitains ; at wliich time lie ditl
" first inform liimself and then his lordship of the
" one, and afterwards his lordship of the other par-
" ticular, as also of the rub that he had cast in the
" way, that had turn'd aside the bowl that was run-
" ning so fairly towards the mark. After the
" doctor had told this noble marquiss all the parti-
" culars that he had done, and what he farther
" meant to do, in order to his preservation, the mar-
" quiss with a composed countenance, (wherein you
" might liave read not the least perturbation of
" mind) gave him this language, ' sir, it is fit you
" should liave your reward ; I am yours, and (em-
" bracing the doctor) now I put you in full posses-
" sion of your own, I pray dispose of me as you
" please.' This was the first time that the doctor
" had the happiness to be acquainted with this
" heroic marquiss ; from which time forward, until
" the time that he laid him in his grave at Wind.sor,
" he never parted from him, but adhered to him in
" Ragland all the while it was kept by the marquiss
" as a garrison for the king. Alter the fatal battel
" at Naseby his majesty took his rambles into Wales,
" and in July 1645 he lodgetl in Ragland ca-stle 12
" nights, and in Sept. following 7 nights. In which
k *' times the king, as 'tis said, had several discourses
" with the marquiss alx)ut matters of religion ;
'* which being observed and taken by the said Dr.
" Bayly, were by him, after the marquiss's death,
" published under this title,

" Certamen religiosum ; or, a Conference be-
" t-ji;een K. Ch. I. and Henry late Marquess of
" Worcester, concerning Religion, in Ragland
" Castle, An. 1645. Lond. 1649. oct. [BodL 8vo.
" Crynes 229.1 This being taken to be a fictitious
" thing and why, (as I have elsewhere ' told you)
" an advertisement was put out against it as such,
" by Dr. Pet. Heylin in his epistle to the reader be-
" fore his collection of the Works of K. Charles I.
" (wherein tlie said Conference is put) entit. Biblio-
" tlieca Regia, &c. but omitted in other impressions
" of it, as also in the works of the said king printed
" in fol. whereupon Dr. Bayly, who about that time
" was committed prisoner to Newgate, wrote a bix)k
" entit. Herba Parietis, &c. Lond. 1650. fol. In
" the epistle before which, he falls foul upon Heylin
" for his advertisement before-mentioned. Aiter-
" wards came out an Answer to the said Certam.
" Religiosum, by Ham. L'estrange, and another by
" Chnstop. Cartwright of York, entit. Certam.
" Relig. or, A Conference betxceen the late King
" of England and the late Marquiss of Worces-
" ter concerning Religion ; together with a Vin-
" dilation of t/te Protestant Cause, &c. Lond.
" 1651. in a pretty thick qu. In the epistle to the
" reader before which, Mr. Cartwright saith thus —

^ III Jth. &■ Fnsli O.von. Vol. I. p. 527-

" ' I know that there are ' some who account tliis
" Coii/ireiicc n<i better than sup|x)sitious ; wiiich
" reflecting upon the jiublisher Dr. Bayly, he hath
" lately in a preface to a botik emit, as I remember
" Herba Parietis, which he hath set forth of his
" own, vindicated himself, and assertetl tlie Con-
'''■ Jerence, &c. I havi' no cau.se to question the truth
" of the relation,' &c. Soon after tlie publication of
" Dr. Heylin's Advertisement, the said Dr. Bayly,
" who was a great admirer of the wisdom and loyalty
" of the .said niarq. of Worcester, pubhshed

" Worcester\i Ajmphthegmes, or zvitty Sauing.t
" of the Rt. Hon. Henry late Marquis, and Earl
" ()f Worcester, ^c. Lond. 1650. oct. In the epist.
" to the reader before which, Dr. Bayly vindicates
" the said martjuis, and tells us he hatl a conference
" with K. Ch. I. in Uagland castle, which he the
" said Bayly had published inider the title of Cer-
" tarn. Relig. And tells us that he published the
" said apophthegms to shew to the world the mar-
" quis's wi.sdom and abilities to Iiold discourse with

" the sdd king about matters of religion. Dr.

" Bayly saith also, that ' as to the objection of the
" marquis's inability to talk so to the king, (in their
" conference) he assures us by the apophthegms in
" the said book, (which he never had the least
" thought to have published but upon this occasion)
" ' that he used to talk so wisely, that all the
" wisdom that he (Bayly) had, thought them worthy
" of record, and (now) of pubhcation, &c. To a
" great many of which saymgs, there are a great
" many witnesses to justify a truth that cannot
" be denied, and must needs verify the former,'
" &c. The chiefest part of the saici apophthegms
" (wherein are many pleasant stories, and therefore
" worth the reachng) are involv'd in a book entit.
" Witty Apophthegms delivered at several Time.*
" and upon several Occasions by K. James I. K.
" CImtIcs I. the Marquis of Worcester, Francis
" Lord Bacon, and Sir Thomas More. Lond.
" 1658. Oct. What other things are published
" under the name of this most noble and generous
" marquis, I cannot tell ; and therefore all that I
" shall say more of him is, that he defended his
" castle of Ragland against the predominant party
" of the Long parliament with great resolution and
" gallantry ; which l;eing the last garrison of the
" king's that held out in England or Wales, and
" without any hope of relief, was at last delivered
" uixjn honorable terms (of Dr. Bayly's framing as
" 'tis said) on the 19th of Aug. 1646. But the said
" terms or articles (wherein was no provision made
" for the marquis, because by sinister advice he had
" thrown himself on the mercy of the parhament)
" being basely violated, the marquis was hurried up
" to Westminster, his goods .seizetl upon, and he
" committed to the custotly of the Black Rod, the

■J See in ihc advertisement to the reader prefix'd to the
late King Charles's Works, set forth together in one vol.

203

SOMERSET.

" keeper of whicli lived then in Covcnt Garden :
" whereiijwii the most noble marquis demanded " of
" Dr. Bayly and others in iiis comiiaiiy, what they
" thought of fortune-tellers ? It was answered that
" some of them spoke shrewdly : whereupon the
" marquis said, ' It was told me by some of them,
" before ever I was a Catholic, that I should dye in
" a convent, but I never believed them before now,
[100] " yet I hope you will not bury nie in a Garden^
" &c. Under the said custody did the marquis
" remain in the company of Dr. Bayly and one or
" more servants in a chearful condition, and not in
" melancholy or discontent, till the month of De-
" cember following, at vvhich time surrendring up
" his most pious soul to the great God that gave it,
l646. " in sixteen himdred forty and six his body was
" convey'd to Windsor, and on Christmas day, or
" thereabouts, it was inter'd near the body of his
" ancestor Charles Somerset earl of Worcester, in
" the south chappel (dedicated to the Virgin Mary)
" at the west-end of the church of St. George in
" the castle there : in which chappel the said
" Charles earl of Worcester had ordained a secular
" priest to say mass every day, and to pray for the
" souls of him and his first wife, Elizabeth, the
" daughter and heir of Will. Herbert earl of Hunt-
" ingdon, lord Herbert of Gower, who also lies
" there inter'd. So that whereas this most gene-
" rous marquis had been the king's richest subject
" in England and Wales as well in money as land,
" the blessed parliament as 'twas then called, did at
" that time and after deprive him and his successor
" Edward marquis of Worcester, of all or most that
" they had, by reason of their great loyalty ; and 'tis
" yet a question whether the said marquis Henry
" died not in want, and whether he was not buried
" in a mean condition. But this was not all, for
" they caused his castle to be demolish'd and made
" useless."

[The first edition of Worcester's Apophthegmes
in 1650, which is among bishop Barlow's collection
in the Bodleian, (8vo. C. 603. Line.) has a very
curious wood-cut representing king Charles and the
marquis of Worcester, with a third person standing
behind the king holding a drawn sword. The
marquis bears a pair of scales into which the king
is placing a coin. Rude as the cut is, I have no
doubt but it is a very tolerable Ukeness of the three
persons it proposes to represent.

Wood has given a very unfortunate specimen of
his lordship's wit; I shall endeavour to select some
rather more appropriate extracts.

' Recovering the top of an high mountain, by the
advantage of the ground, we could see the enemy
marching another way, at which sight the marquisse
dwelt with his eyes a little longer upon that object
(than) the lord John Somerset, his sonne, thought

" See in Worcester's ylpolhegms, prioted in 1650. p. lig,
apotheg. 69.

convenient : wherpupt)n the marquisse made his re-
ply— O sonne, I love to see mine own danger, espe-
cially when it is marching off.

When the king first entred the castle of Raglan,
the marquesse kiss'd the king's hand, and rising up
again, he saluted his majesty with this complement,
Doniine non sum dignus. The king replved unto
the marquesse. My lord, I may very well answer
you again, I have not found so great faith in Israel;
for no man would trust me with so much money as
you have done : To which the marquesse replied, I
hope your majesty will prove a defender of the
faith.

When the king first entred the gates of Raglan,
the marquesse delivered his majesty the keyes, ac-
cording to the ordinary custome ; the king restoring
of them to the marq. the marq. said, I beseech your
maj. to keep them, if you please, for tliey are in a
good hand, but I am afraid that ere it be long, I
shall be forc'd to deliver them into the hands of
those who will spoile the complement.

My lord Heroert of Raglan, and eldest son to
the marq; came into Raglan castle, attended with
40 or 50 officers and commanders : and his business
with his father being about procuring from the old
man more money for the king, the lord Herbert, in
his request imtonis father (unliappily and unawai-es)
chanced to use the word must ; wliich hi.s father, the
marquess, laying hold on, asked him, mi/st you ? I
pray take it, and threw him the keyes of his treasury
out of his pocket, whereat his son was wonderfully
out of countenance, and abasht, being otherwise ever
a dutiful and respectfid son to his father, replyed,
sir, the word was out before I was aware, I do not
intend to put it in force ; I jway will you put up
your key again. To which the marquess returned
his son these words, Truly, son, I shall think my
keys not safe in my pocket, whilst you have so many
swords by your sides ; nor that I have the command
of my house, whilst you have so many officers in it,
nor that I am at my own disjiose, whilst you have
so many commanders. My lord (reply'd tlie son) I
do not intend that they shall stay in the castle, I
mean they shall be gone. I pray let them (said the
marquess,) and have a care that must do not stay be-
hind. Whereat (after that my lord Herbert was
gone out of the room) there wer some who (as
mannerly as they could) blam'd the marquess for
his too much severity to his son, after that he hail
seen him express .so much of sorrow for that ovcr-
shp ; whereupon the marquess reply'd Harke ye, if
my son be dejected, I can raise him when I please ;
but it is a question if he should once take a head,
whether I could bring him lower wlien I list : Ned
was not wont to use such courtship to me, and I
beheve he intetided a better word for his Jathcr, but
must was for the king.''

There are two heads of the marquis of Wor-
cester irt 4to. one by Stent, the other on horseback.]

GREGORY.

2<J<I

JOHN GREGORY, the miracle of his age for

critical and curious learning, was born at Agniun-
deshain commonly called Amersham in Bucks, on
the 10 Nov. 1607, apjilied himself to academical
learning in the condition of a servitor in Ch. C'h. an.
iG-^-l, oeing then put under tlie tuition (witli his
master sir Will. Drake) of the most ingenious and
learned Mr. George Morley, (afterwards bishop of
Winchester) where, for several years, spending 16,
of every 24, hours, he arrived to great learning, and
took the degrees in arts, tliat of master being com-
pleated in 1631. Alx)ut which time being received
into the favour of Dr. Duppa, the vigilant dean of
his house, he was by him made chaplain or petty
canon of the cathetlral, and after that his own do-
mestic, and prebendary of Chichester and Salisbury
when he successively sate at those places as bishop.
He attained to a learned elegance in English, Latin,
and Greek, and to an exact skill in Hebrew, Syriac,
Chaldee, Arabic, Ethiopic, &c. He was also well
vers'd in philosophy, had a curious faculty in astro-
nomy, geometry and arithmetic, and a familiar ac-
quaintance with the Jewish rabbines, anticnt fathers,
modem critics, connnentators, and what not. His
works are.

Notes on the View oftlie Civil and Ecclesiastical
Law, written by sir Thomas Ridley, Knt. Oxon.
1634. qu. second edit. Ox. 1662. oct. there again
1675, 76. qu. In which notes (being scarce 26
years old when he wrote them) he made an early
discovery of his civil, historical, ecclesiastical, ritual,
and oriental learning, through which he miracu-
lously travePd without any guide, except Joh. Dod
the decalogist, whose society and directions for the
Hebrew tongue he enjoy'd one vacation at his bene-
fice in Northamptonshire.

Notes and Observations upon some Passages of
Scripture. Oxon. 1646 [Rodl. 4to. A. 1. Th. Seld.]
Lond. 1660. 65, 71, 88,» qu. translated also into
Latin [by Richard Stokes] and remitted into the
Critica sacra. From which notes may easily be
discovered his exact skill in the oriental tongues.

Certain learned tracts, as (1) A Discourse of the
70- Interpreters ; the Place and Manner of their
Interpretation. (2) Discourse declaring what Time
the Niccne Creed began to be sung in the Church.
(3) Sermon upon the Resurrection ; on 1 Cor. 15.
»er. 20. (4) Kaivdv hvTipos; or a Di.iproofofhim
in the 3 Luke vcr. 36. (5) Discovery of an an-
tient Custom in the Church of S arum, making an
anniversary Bishop among the Choristers on InnO'
cents Day.^ (6) TTie several Accounts of Time

• [Tlie JVnrks of the reiierend and leiirned Mr. John Cre.
ory. Master nf ytrls of Christ Church Oxon, in two Parts ;
''he first containing Notes and Observations upon several
Passages in Scripture; The second his Posthuma, being
divers learned Tracts upon various Suljects. Lond. 16/1. 4io.
Bodl. D. 1 1 8. Line]

' [For further observations on this suhjecl see Hawkins's
History of Music, ii. 4 ; Watton's IJist. if En,^!ish Pnetry,

among all Nations fiom the Creation to tlte pretent

■^S^- CD "^^^^ As-syriun Monarchy ; being a De-

.uription (fits Rise and Fall. (8) Description and

Use of the Terrestrial Globe. AVhich tiglit tracts

were printed under tlic title of Grcgorii Posthuma

at Lond. 1650, [Bwli. 4to. G. 10. Th. Seld.] 6 J,

71, 83. qu. with a .short account of the author's Ufe

set before them, \vritten by his dearest friend John flOll

Gurgany (son of Hugh Gurgany of London priest)

sometimes a servitor of (Jh. Ch. afterwards cliaj)lain

of Merton coll. who dedicated them to Edw. Bysshe

Clar. king of arms, a patron not only to the author,

but Gurgany, ii\ the time of their afflictions.

Observationes in Loca quadam ex-
cerpta ex Joh. MalultB Chronographia. ^P'"" P'"-
MS. which after his death came into '^"/""^^ll
the public library at Oxon, where it rum refltxu-
now remains. Edin. Chilmead having rum et rrfrac-
afterwards prepared the whole work of ''^"'" Myie-
Malala for the t)iess, intended, as it \"'' G"""'-
seems, to prefix tlie said Observations, „ig Xonrf
as a preface, he having therein spoken 1 003, pub-
sometiiing of the said author ; but that lished then
author iK'ing published at Oxon in 1691, "'"''^ '*'.
Gregory's Observations were laid aside, "q^/J{„
as containing things little material, and pi,,i edit."
instead of them there is added a ])reface
or ])rolegomena to Mnlala by Humph. 'Hody bach, of
div. fellow of Watlh. coll. See the said preface § xliii.
He the said Gregory did also translate froni Gr.
into Lat. (1) Palladius de Gentibus ludiw, ^■
Brachmanibus. (2) S. Ambrosius de Moribus
Brachmannorum. (3) Anonymus de Brachma-
nibus. Which translations coming after his death
into the hands of Edm. Chilmead chapl. of Ch. Ch.
came, after his, into those of E. Bysshe esq; be-
fore-mentioned, who published them under his own
name, in 1665, as I shall tell you elsewhere. At
length after an industrious and short life, he gave
way to fate on the thirteenth day of March in six- 104^.
teen hundred forty and six, and was buried on the
left side of the grave of W. Cartwright in the isle
joining on the south-side of the choir of the cath.
of Ch. Church in Oxon. Some years before his •
death being reduced to poverty, because he was de-
prived of tlie benefit of his two prelxMidships, he re-
tired to an obscure ale-house standing on the green
at Kidlington near Oxon, kept by one Sutton, father
to that son whom our learned author liad bred up
from a lioy to attend him. There I say spending
some time in great retiredness, died obscurely, ana
by the contribution of one or more friends, his body
was convey'd to Oxon.

[Dr. Gurgany, in his letter (Aug. 6, 1674) to
dean Sancroft, ' presents liim with a view of one of
the Jewells of his deare and learned son Mr. Gre-

i, 248; ii,375, 38g, 390,391 ; iii, 302 &c. 32S &c. Braod's
Popular Antiquities, i, 328, &c. Aecount of the Christmas
Prince, in Oxford, in 16O8, Lond. I8IO. pref. &r.]

207

GllEGOllY.

COX.

gory' It was his Al-Kihhi; or of Adoration to thv
Ecust, which I havo now in manuscript.' Tankkb.
Gregory was assistant to bisliop Linclsoll in pro-
paring an etlition of Thcopliylact ujwn ihc Epistles
of St. Paul,' as tlie editor, T". Baylie, obseiTcs in his
preface — ' Descri!)ebantiir i^ vctiisto cocHce manu-
scriptoillustrissinii coniitis Aruncleliani, Anglia- ma-
resclialH, viri ut antitjuo stemniate, itii polita; anti-
quitatis studio dccantati. Post ajiograplion cum
prototy]x> fideliter conunissum, ad unum et alterum
exemplar Oxoniense instituta est castigatio. Qua in
re quantum ille fiilei industriaeque prwstitit, testando
erunt viri ad elcgantiorcm doctrinani facti, Thomas
Triplet amicus mihi unicus, et Johannes Gregorius;
quos in posterioris exemplaris coilatione sibi vvyeiyovs
adscivit.']

" EDMUND GREGORY, son of Hen. Grc-
" S*"'y vicar of Cherington in Wilts, was Iwrn in
" that county, entred a student in Trin. coll. 1632,
" aged 18 or thereabouts, Uxik one degree in arts,
" afterwards holy orders, as it seems, sctle<l in his
" own country, and wrote,

" An historical Anatomy of Christian Melan-
" choli/. Lond. 1646. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. G. 10. Th.
Claruii " BS.] wth his picture before it. *

i64). « Meditation on Joh. 9. 4. printed at the

" end of the former book. What other things he
" hath written, I know not."

[Tlie Author's Poem to Himself, on James 3, 17.

(From his Anatomy of Christian Melancholy.)

If thou, my soul, wouldst true Religion see,
Lo, here in brief thou may'st resolved be.

The Wisdom that descendeth from

above
Is pure, as saith S. James, and full of

Love,
Mercy and Peace it doth extend to all.
Without deceit, and nothing partial.

* [This manuscript, which Dr. Gurganj' supposed to be
lost, when he wrote llie short memoir of Gregory, prefixed
to his Poslhuma, is now among bishop Tanner's boolis in the
Bodkian. It was purchased of I3r. Gurgany's widow by
archbishop Sancrofi, as we learn from a MS. note on the first
leaf, written by that prelate.

' In this tract, says his biographer, 'with very great j udg-
ment and learning, bee vindicated the antiqnitie of East-
ward adoration, (especially in all churches,) as far beyond an
altar or crucifix, (the Romish bounds,) as the flood preceuds
in time these superstitious distinctions of tlie Christian.
Which gallant refutation of that Popish error, I the rather
mention, continues Gurgany, becaus soni suspected him a
favorer of that waie ; but to my certain knowleg, tlieirjea-
lousie was unjust and groundless.']

' [T/ieophi/lucli Archiepiscopi Bulgnrice in D. Pauli Epis-
tolas Commeiiturii : Studio rt Citra Revotiidiisimi Palris
Domini Auguslini Lindselli Episcopi llerefnrdensis, ex anti-
guts Maiiuscriptis Codicihus descripli, el etisligali, rl nunc
primum GTwci edili. Cum Lalina Philippi Montaui Firsione
ad Grcrcorum Exemplariuin Fidem restituta. Londini, E
TypoRrapheo Regio, l636. Bodl. A. 3. 8. Th. Seld.]

* [Engrated by Marshall, and inscrib'd ' set. 31, i6j6.']

The Head. If sin be folly, niiulnesse, want of wit,
The righteous then are wise and most
discreet.
Wisdom. If Christ our Wisedom came down
from on hie.
All eai'thly knowledge is but vanitie.

The Eyes. Tliis Wisedom's pure, and filleth us
with light,
To trust in him who passeth humane
sight.
Faith. This Wisedom's pure and purifi'th the

minde
From tliose dark works which make
the Conscience blinde.

The Hands. It seeketh peace, it hateth to contend ;
It's gentle, milde and loving to its

friend.
With it, forgivenesse easily is found; -
111 it, compas.sion doth to all abound.

Charity.
The Feet.

And all this good it freely doth im-
part.
Without a partial, proud, or grudging
heart ;
G(xk1 Nor doth Hypocrisie these vertues kill

Meaning. With by-respects, or a sinister will.

Here is religion's head, its eyes, its

hands ;
Here are those feet on which it firmly

stands.]

" BENJAMIN COX, a minister's son, was
" born in Oxfordshire, entred a batler or com. of
" Ch. Ch. in 1609, aged 14 years or thereabouts,
" went afterwards to Broadgate's-hall, and took the
" degrees in arts as a member thereof. Afterwards
" he entred into the sacred function, had a spiritual
" cure bestow'd on him, but being always a puritan
" from the beginning, expressed his principles more
" openly when the grand rebellion broke forth, than
" before he durst to have done. Afterwards he
" took the covenant, was a gainer by his factious
" principles, and at lengtli became an analwptist ;
" in which persuasion I think he died. He hath
" written and pubhshed,

" Thesis about the Refusal of scandalous Chris-
" tians {as yet unconvicted) at the Lord's Tabic —
" This I have not yet seen, and therefore I can tell
" you no more of the title than I have here set
" down, which I had from the Answer to it made
" by Martin Blake Bach, of Div. and Vicar of
"■ Barum (Barnstaple) in Devonsh. printed at Lond.
« 1645. qu. ,

" Treatise' against Infant-Baptism. — This also
" I have not yet seen ; and therefore cannot tell
" whether it be the right title.

" A true and sober Answer to a false Accusation
" of Mr. Tho. Edwards in Am Gangrana, wherein

BUTLER.

PAGIT.

210

164$.

" is shelved the Unlaxvfultiess offflving the Name
" of Church to an House made of Lime and Stone,
" and the Name of Cfturches to Parochial Con-
" g-rcffations. I^oiul. 1646. qii. '
[1021 " -^'* -Appendix to the Confession of Faith; or,

Clar. " a more full Declaration of the Faith and Judg-
" metit of Believers. Lond. 1646. qu.

" Several Sermons.

" There was another Benj. Cox, who was a con-
" triver of several drolLs and farces, and an actor in
" them in the times of the rebellion and usurpation
" under prince Oliver ; when comedies and tra-
" gedies, together with the stage, were silenc'd. A
" collection of which was made and pubhshed by
" Francis Kirkman a bookseller, an. 1673. in oct.
" Which farces and drolls were acted in pubhc and
" private, as at Bartholomew-fair in London, at
" rairs in the country, in corporation halls and
" taverns, on several mountebanks stages, at Cha^
" ring-Cross, in Lincolns-Inn-fields, and other
" places. But the said Ben. Cox, who was a witty
" man, and a gi-eat mimic, was no academian, and
" whether related to the former I cannot yet tell."

[I suppose the first Benjamin Cox to be the
same per.'^on whom the separatists of the rebel army
sent for from Bedford, to oppose Mr. Ric. Baxter,
who calls him in 1643 ' an ola Anabaptist minister,
and no contemptible .scholar, the son of a bishop' —
But the last circumstance I conceive to be a mis-
take ; for I know of no bishop, English or Irish, of
the name of Cox, except the bishop of Ely in queen
Ehzal)eth's time, whose onely son, that I ever heard
he had, was a knight. * Cole.]

CHARLES BUTLER was bom at one of the
Wycombs (Great Wycomb I suppose) in Bucks,
entred a student into Magd. Hall in the year 1579,
took a degree in arts, and being made one of the
bible clerks of Magd. coll. was translated thereimto.
Soon after proceeding in that faculty, he became
master of the free-school at Basingstoke in Hamp-
shire, where continuing 7 years, with the enjoyment
of a cure of a httle church called Skewres, was pro-
moted to the vicaridge of Lawrence-Wotton three
miles distant thence, (a poor preferment, God wot,
for such a worthy scholar,) where, being setled, he
wrote and published these books following, which
shew him to have been an ingenious man, and well
skiird in various sorts of learning.

The feminine Monarchy : or, a Treatise of Bees,
Ox. 1609. Oct. [Bodl. 8vo. B. 27. Med.] Lond.
1623. Ox. 1634. qu. [Bodl. 4to. B. 51. Art. Seld.]
translated into Latin by Rich. Richardson, some-
times of Emanuel coll. in Cambridge, now, or lately,
an inhabitant in the most pleasant village of Brix-
worth in Northamptonshire. — Lond. 1673. oct.
[Bodl. 8vo. B. 59. Med.] In this version he hath
left out some of the ornamental and emblematical

' [See Silvester's Life o/Rnxlei, p. 46.]
Vol. III.

part of the English copy, and hath, with the au-
thor's, scatter'tl and ina-rmix'tl his own, observations
on bees, and what of note he had either heard from
men skilful this way, or had rcatl in other lxx»ks.
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.

RhetoriccB Libri duo, " quorum prior de Tropit
" <1^ Fiffuris, posterior de Voce Sf Gestu prttcimt,
" Sec." Oxon. 1618, the 4th edit, and 29. (lu. Lond.
1635. oct. " It was written by the author at
« Basingstoke, 1600."

De Propinquitate Matrimonium impediente Re-
ffula ffencralis. Oxon. 1625.* qu. [Bodl. 4to. W.
12. Art. Seld.]

Oratoriw Libri duo. Ox. 1633. qu. [Bodl. 4to.
P. 65. Art.] Lond. 1635. oct.

English Grammar. Ox. 1634. qu. [Bodl. 4to. L.
44. Art.]

The principles of Music. Lond. 1636. qu. [Bodl.
4to. B. 50. Art. Seld.] He took his last farewell of
this world on the 29th of March in sixteen hundred
forty and seven, and in that of liis age 68, or there- '647.
abouts (after he had l)een vicar of Wotton St. Lau-
rence before-mention'd 48 years) and was buried in
the chancel of the church mere.

EPHRAIM PAGIT or Paget, son of Euseb.
Paget mention'd before under the year 1617, was
bom' of a genteel family in Northamptonshire, ma-
triculated as a member of Ch. Ch. 25th of May
1593, aged 18, but whether he took a degree, it ap-
pears not. Afterwards, thro' some petit imploy-
ments, he became parson of the church of S. Ed-
mund in Lombard-street' 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. 1636;
[Bodl. 4to. P. 9. Th. Seld.] 36, 40, [Bodl. F. 1. 19-
Th. Seld.] &c. qu.

Treatise of the Religion of the anticnt Christians
in Britany. — printed with some editions of the
former booK.

Hceresiographia : or, a description of the He-
resies of later Tim-es. Lond. 1645, [Bodl. AA. 20.
Th. Seld.] and 48, 4th edit.' in qu. [Bodl. 4to. W.
4. Th. BS.] He hath also a serra. extant called
The mystical Wolf; on Matth. 7. ver. 15. Ixjnd. [103]
1645. qu. and other tilings, as 'tis probable, but
such I nave not yet seen. Upon the breakuig out

" [Reprinted at Frankfurt in l643, 8vo. in the same vol.
with Fr. Flnreiis I)e Nupliis Coruobrinarum prohihitis out
permifsis. Loveday.]

' Rff. Matric. P. pae. eg.

« [1()01, 19 Aug. Ephr. Paget, presbiier, adtniss. ad
eccl. S. Edmundi in Lombard street, \kt niort. Nich. Balgay
S. T. P. Rfg. Banirnft, Ep. Lond.]

8vo,

» [Fifth edition, Lond. l6Cl, 8vo. sixth edit. l66«, Bodl.
.¥. 106. Line]

Qll

PAGIT.

COLEMAN.

• C il IVar "^ ^^^ grand rebellion * he was so ino-
fitst edk. l«isted and troubled, tliat mt-erl y for

quietiioss sake he was forced to leave
liis benefice in his old age, being then commonly
called Old Father Ephraim. So that retiring to
Deptford in Kent, sjjent there the short remainder
of nis days in great devotion and retiredness. At
length surrendring up his pious soul to G(xl in the
lC47- begmning of the year (in April as it seems) sixteen
hundred forty seven, was buried according to his
will in Deptford church-yai-d. One of both liis

names* translated into English, Ser-

• firjt edit 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 ami time occur in our registers.

" Probably it was the same with our author

" that translator being then, 1586, a child of eleven
?' years of age.'"

[There is a sixth edit, of E. P.''s Hercsiography
an. 1661, with a preface by the stationer, wherein
he is said to have died at his old mansion house
1650, aet. 84 He is there said to have understood
16 or 16 languages. Baker.

Among the Harleian manuscripts is one contain-
ing a great number of Pagit''s epistles, in divers lan-
guages, to the several jiatriarchs of the Greek
church, upon matters of religion. ']

THOMAS GOLEMAN was born in Oxford-
shire, 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 be-
came so accomplished in the Hebrew language, that
he was commonly called Rabbi Coleman. After-
wards he was made rector of Blyton in Lincoln-
shire, but being schismaticidly encfined, he left that
place in the beginning of the civil war, 1642, under
pretence of persecution by the cavaliers, and re-
tiring to the great city, became a grand covenanter,
an inveigher against the king and his party, against
the bishops and orthodox clergy, one of the assem-
bly of divines, rector of S. Peter''s chiu"ch in Com-
hill 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
knowledge m the Hebrew tongue, he behaved him-
self modestly and learnedly, maintaining among
them the tenets of Era,stus. His works are these,

Several sermons, as (1) TJie Christian'' s Cause
and Complaint, &c. FaM-Sermon before the Hoiise
of Commons ; on Jerem. 8. 20. Lond. 1643. qu.
[Bodl. 4to. D. 61. Th.] (2) Tlie Hearts Engage-
ment, Sermon at S. Margarets in Westminster at
the public Entring into the Covenant, the 29 Sept.

' [See MS. H»rl. 82b. Calal. Harl. MS. vol. i. pag.450.]

1643 ,• on Jer. 30. 21, last Clause. Lond. 1643. qu.
There were then present some noblemen and gen-
tlemen, many soldiers and people of all sorts ; and
looking on the soldiers he told them that ' the co-
venant was the parliament's sword and buckler:
for when the cavaliers shall see you come arni'd
with the covenant, they will rim, rim, run away
from the Lord of hosts,' &.c. (3) God's u?iusual
Answer to a solemn Fast, Fa.it-Sermon before both
Houses; on Fsal. 65. 5. Lond. 1644. qu. [Bodl.
4to. D. 61. Th.] preached upon tiie sad success
tliat the parliament forces had in Cornwall. (4)
Hopes defer d and dashed, Fa^t-Sermon before the
House of Com. on Job 11. 20. Lond. 1645. qu.
[Bixll. 4to. G. 5. Th.j He was not thankcxl for
this sermon according to custom, but only ordered
to print it, because the presbyterian part)- disliked
him, for that he too sligiitly spoke of ministerial au-
thority, and seemed not to chslike the in(le(x;ndent,
&c. In his epist, detl. to the house of com. he saith
thus, ' There was never sermon preached on these
public fasts, that was received with such contrary
affections, and censures as this ; some approving
above commendation, others disliking below de-
testation,' &c. So(m after George Gillespie a pres-
byterian minister of Edinburgh, educated in S. An-
di«w's university, did not only preach against the
said sermon in another delivered before the house of
Lords, and in a second elsewhere, but also printed
them* in vindication of the prcsbyterians, where-
upon our author Coleman ])ublished,

A brotherly Evamlnation examined : or, a clear
Justification of ' t/iose Passages in a Sermon against
lohich tlie Reverend and learned Commissioner Mr.
Gillespie first in two several Sermons, and then in
print, did preach and zorite, London 1646. qu.
[Bodl. 4to. G. 5. Th.] To which is added,

A short Discovery of some Tenets and Prin-
ciples ichich entrench upon both the Honour and

Power ttfthe Parliament What else our author

hath written, I find not, only a thing called A
Model, as the author of A Friendly Debate^ tells
us, which was briefly view'd and answer'd in 1645,
but neither the Model or Ansicer 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. Peter's in
Cornhill mentions him not. I find one Tho. Cole-
man minister of AUhallows Barkin near tlie Tower
of London, who published a sermon entit. Justi/ica-

' [Nihil respondes, or a Discovery oflhe Unsalitfactorinest
nf Mr. Coleman's Piece ptiMish'd under the Title of a Bro-
therly E,raminatio7i re-exnmined, wherein is self Contradic-
tions, (Sfc. By Georfre Gil/espy minister at Edinburgh, Lond.
IO43, 4to. four slicels and half.

Mule attdis ; or, an Answer to Mr. Coleman's Male diets,
with some AnimaSversions on Mr. IJussey's Plea for Chris-
tian Magistracf', by Geo. Gillespie, Minister at Edinb. Lend.
1646, 4io. 8 sheets. Tanker.]

' In the. third part printed )072, p. 386. in marg.

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tionJuMiJiecl, an. 1G53, but of what university he
was, I know not yi't. As for G. (iillcspie bofore-
mcntiouM, ho was a liigli covenantor, had some
g<x)d learning, but was very anti])rclatical, and bold
beyond all nieasuro. He WTote against the cere-
monies, several pieces iigainst the Erastians, and
died about 1649. In the inontii of January 1660,
the tombstone of this Gillespie (wlio had also writ-
ten a seditious book, entit. his LaM Will and Tes-
tament) was, according to an order of the committee
of estates in Scotland, fetcht from the burial place,
and on a market-day broke by the common-nang-
man at the cross of Kirkadie, where he had fornierlv
been minister.

[Mr. Selden, who knew Coleman well, in the as-
sembly of divines, says, he was a Cambridge man,
and gives a large character of him, Erastus and
Grobus. ■> Baker.]

THOMAS FARNABIE the most noted school-
master of his time, son of Tho. Farnabie of London,

oarpeiiter, son of Farnabie sometimes mayor

of Truro in Cornwall, was boni in London about
1575, l)eciime a student in Mert. coll. in the begin-
ning of 1590 ; at which time, being a youth of great
hope, he was entertained by Mr. Tho. French a
learned fellow of that house, who made him his
post-master, and so consetjuently his servitour, being
the fashion then for jx)st-masters to sei-ve those fel-
lows from whom they received their places. But
this youth being verv wild, tho' of pregnant parts,
made no long stay there, for being enticed to for-
sake liis rehgion and country, he left the coll. very
abruptly, went into Spain, and was for sometime
educated there, in a certain cf)ll. belonging to the
Jesuits. At length being weary of their severe dis-
cipline, he found a way to leave them, and then,
being minded to take a ramble, went with sir Fr.
Drake and sir Joh. Hawkins in their last voyage
1595, being in some esteem with the former. Af-
terwards, as 'tis said, he was a soldier in the Low
Countries, being more addicted to that employment
than to be a scholar, and that being reduced to
poverty, he made shift to be set on shore in the
western part of England ; where, after some wan-
dring to and fro under the name of Tho. Bainrafe
(the anagram of his simamc) he settled at Martock
in Somersetshire, and taught the grammar school
there for sometime with good success. For in the
year 1646, when Mr. Charles Darby was called to
teach that school, he found in that town, and in the
neighbourhood, many that had been his scholars,
ingenious men, and good grammarians, even in their
grey hairs. Among whom it was then re|X)rted
that when he landed in Cornwall, his distresses
made him stoop so low, as to be an abcdarian, and
Several were taught their hornbooks by him. After
he had gotten some feathers at Martock, he took

* [Vide Selden flr Syftedr. lib. 1. cap. 10, 13 ; pag. 2gO.]

his flight to London, and taught a long time in
Goldsmiths-Rents in Crij)pligate mrish behind Red-
cross-street, where were large gardens and liandsoine
houses, and great accomnKxlationH lor the yoiinir
noblemen ana other genero\is vouUis, who at one
time made up the number of 300 or more. The
school-house was a Wge brick-building, divided
into several partitions or ajKirtnients, according to
tlie distinctions of the forms and classes, under tlie
care and circumspection of the respective ushers al-
lotted to attend them. In which time, while he
taught there, he was made niaster of arts of Cam-
bridge, and soon after incorjxirated at Oxon. At
length, ujKin occasion of some underhand dealing
of nis landlords and frequent sicknesses in the city,
he removed alxjut 1636 to Sevenock in Kent, (lu
the neighbourhood of which place, (at Otford) he
had purchased an estate) taught there the sons of
several noblemen and gentlemen (who boarded with
him) with great esteem, grew rich, jmrchased an [10.51
estate there also, and near Horsham in Sus.scx.
Upon a foresight of tlie civil war, he was esteemed
ill affected to the cause, for that when the pro-
testation was urged in 1641, he tlien said it was
better to have one king tlian five hundred. After-
wards, behig suspected to have favoured the rising
of the country tor the king about Tunbridge, in
1643, he was thereuptm imprisoned first in New.
gate, and thence removed on shipboard, it l)eing
then urged in the house of commons, whether he
should be sent to America, (further'd by some of
his good neighbours in Kent, nay and by some
that had been liis scholars, as I have heard, who
sate in the two houses) but at length it being re-
jected, he was removed to Ely-house in Holbom,
where he remained for about an year before his
death. He was the chief grammarian, rhetorician,
p(x?t, Latinist, and Grecian of his time, and his
school was so much frequented, that more church-
men and statesmen issued thence, than from any
school taught by one man in England. The things
that he hath written and pubhshetl arc these,

Nota' ad Juvenalia 4" Persii Satijni.i. Load.
1613. Oct.* &c.

Nota; ad SeneccB Tra^dias. Lond. 1613. oct.
&c. For which work he is commendeil by a certam"
poet who was his friendly acquaintance.

Notcr ad Martialis lipi it-ram mata. Lond. 1615.
oct. [Bodl. 8vo. M. 21. Art. Seld.J Genev. 1623,
33, &c. in tw.

Nota ad Liicani Pharsaliam. Ixind. 1618. oct.
[Bodl. 8vo. L. 13. Art. Seld.]

Index Rhetm-icm ScJiolh Sf Institut'wni tene-
rioris JEtatis accommodatn.i. Lond. 1625,' oct.
[Bodl. Svo. 0. 11. Art Seld.]

5 [Dedicated to Henry prince of Wales. Rawlinson.]

" .Toh. Owen in Append. Epigram, nu. 10.

" [And l633 Svo. On the back of the tiile of this book
is this—' Summa Privilegij. RcgiaB Majcstalis Aulhoritaie
cautum est, ne quia in legnis suis Magnsc Britannia; im-

215

FARNABIE.

WHEAR.

Phrases Oratoria eleganilores 6f poeticce. Lond.
1628. oct. 8th edit.

FhrrUeglum Epifframmatuni Grcecorum, eorum-
que Latino Versu a variis redditorum. Lond. 1629.
in oct. [Hodl. 8vo. F. 24 Art. Seld. et cum notis
MSS. 8vo. Ilawl. 624, et Lond. 1650, 8vo. U. 9.
Art. HS.J &c.

Notw ad Vlrgiliwm. Lond. 1634. in oct. [Bodl.
8vo. U. 9. Art. Seld.]

Notce in'Terentium. Lond. in tw.*
~'\NoUe ill Ovidii Metamorph. Libras 12. Lond.
in *w. 8:c. Lond. 1677. &c.

Sy sterna Grammaticum. Lond. 1641. in oct.
[Bodl. 8vo. I'\ 15. Art. Seld.]

Index Rhetoricus Sf Oratorius, cum Formulis
Oraforiis 6f Indice poetico. Lond. 1646. oct [Bodl.
8vo. F. 1. Art. BS.]

Phrasiologia Anglo-Lat. Lond. in oct.
Tabulce Grcecct Lingiut. Lond. in qu.

Syntaxis. Lond. in oct.

Epi.ttohT Varicc ad doctiss. Viros.^ Other things
he hath written, a.s I conceive, but such I have not
yet seen. He concluded his last day in sixteen
1647. iiundrcd forty and seven, and was buried in the
chancel of the church at Sevenock commonly called
Sennock before-meirtioned ; over whose grave was
this epitaph put. ' P. M. viri omatissimi Thomas
Famabii Armigeri, causae olim Regiae reique pub-
licae sed literaria; vindicis acerrimi. Obiit 12 Junii
1647.

Vatibus hie sacris qui lux Famabius olim,
Vate carens saxo nunc sine luce jacet.'
By his first wife named Susan, daughter of John
Pierce of LaunceLls in Cornwall, he had a son named
John, who followed his father's martial humour,
being a cajjtain in the king's army ; to whom he
left nis estate in Sussex, where he lived in good
esteem, and died about the l)eginning of 1673. By
his second wife Anne, daughter of Dr. Jolm How-
son bishop of Durham, he had several children, one
of which was named Francis, to whom he left his
estate at Kippington in the parish of Sennock, where
-'•■'" he was lately living* in good esteem,

a justice of fr.Qj,j whose mouth I formerly received
edit. ' several passages of his fathers life,

which are remitted into the former

primal aul alibi impressa in hjBc regna importet aiit di-
vendat Juvenalis, et rersij. Satyras, Seiiecx Tra»edias, Mar-
tialis Epigraraala, Lucani Pharsaliam, Petronij Satyricon,
Virgilij opera notis ad marginalibus a Thoma Farnabio illus-
trata ; nee non Phrases Insigniores, Indicem Hhetoricum,
£pigraiTiata Selecla Grseco-Laiina, alqiie Aristoielis Ethica
ab eode ediia, aut edenda ; identic ad terminum i iginti &
unius annorum : sub poena publicalionis Libroiu & niulciae
in Regio diplomate ulterius expressae. siquis sccus fecerit
absque auihoris pcrmisiu. Cat. Octobris 1633.' Bowle.]

' [Cum Annoiaiionibus Th. Farnabii in 4 priorcs Comoc-
dias et M. Casauboiii in 2 postcriorcs, Amst. typis J. Blaew
J 669, Bodl. 8vo. B. 234. Line. Salmur. l()71, Bodl. 8vo.
E. 59. Art.]

' [As in Bnrrhi Impetus Juveniles, in Holyday's Juvena),

&C. LOVEDAV.]

discourse : At which time he aver'd to me, that the
gi-eat grandlathcr oi" his father, viz. the father of
him who was mayor of Truro, was an Italian musi-
cian. The memory of this eminent schoolmaster is
celebrated by several authors, among whom is John
Dunbar' a Scot, who stiles himself Megalo-Bri-
tannus. Rich.'' Bruch and others.

[In the patent, dated April 6, 1632, allowing
Farnaby the sole printing of divers of his books for
the space of twenty-one years, mention is made of
the f()llowing as then ready, ' ejus opera etiara et
studio preparatos' : '

/. Petronii Arbitri Satiricon, post omnea om-
nium Editiones Rccensionesque Notis et Commen-
tariis illustratitm.

Aristoielis Ethica Orationibus discussa et de-
clarata.

P'amaby was one of the contributors to the fame
of Coryate, by prefixing a Greek find an English
panegyrick to his Crt/dities. I transcribe his own
translation of the former.

In verdant meadowes, crown'd vrith spring's fresh
pride,
The painefuU bee tastes euery fragrant flower ;
His thighes full fraught, on nimble wing doth gUde'

Home, to store up his wealth in hony bower.
From trauailes strange so Coryate late come home
With flowing nectar filles this hony combe.

Thomas Farnaby alias Bainrafe.

He wrote also a commendatory inscription, in a
wedge of metres, on Camden's Annul. Elizaiethae,
ed. Hearne, vol. iii, p. 592.]

DEGORIE WHEAR was born at Jacobstow
in Cornwall, retired to the habitation of the muses
called Broadgate's-hall, in the beginning of the year
1592, aged 19, took the degrees in arts, that of
master being com pleated 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 learn-
ing 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 widi Mr. Tho. Allen, that by his
endeavours, the learned Cauibden made liim his first
reader of the history lecture which he founded in
the university. Soon after he was made pj-incipal
of that hall, the which, witl^ his lecture he kept to
his dying day, and was esteemed by some a learned
and genteel man, and ^J others a Calvinist. He
hath written

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pent,

b. edit. Lond. I616. in cent. scxt.

' In Epigram.
nu. 74. „'

' In lib. siKjiui tit. est Epigrammalum llecatontades dua:
Lond. 1627. in hec. altera, nu. 17.

3 [RymorJ Fadera, torn, xix, p. 367.]

WIIEAR.

218

De Rutiom c^ Mct/uxlo Icffetidi Histor'ms Dh-
sertafio. Oxon. [W^ii." Ucxll. 8vo. 0. 11. Art. Seld.]
1625. oct. ])riiiti.Hl tliere again in 1637. in <Kt. with
this title, Pra'tc'cfioius hijcmalcs, de Ratione ^ Mc-
thodo legcudi vtriuiique Ilistorins, civilen iSf eccle-
siastka't, &c. [BocU. 8vo. W. 12. Art. Seld.] At
lenffth Nich. Horsman M. A. and fellow of C. C. C.
making a review of the second edition, and addinsr
thereunto Mantissa de Historichi Gentium partirii-
lariuni, &c. it was jjrinted a third time at Oxon.
1662. in oct. [Bodl. 8vo. C. 489. Line] and had
at the end, this speech of our author pnnted with
it, viz.

Orafio auspicalis habita in Scholis puhlicis cum
primum L. An. Flori Interpretationem affffrede-
retur Author. The said Praelectkmes with the
Mantissa were printed again at Cambridge 1634
in oct. with Gabr. Nauda-us his Bihlingraphia Po-
iiiicn, added thereunto, and Justus Lipsivis his
Epistle to Nich. Hacquevill de Histwia, set before
it. They were rcndred into English, (I mean the
Pralactiones and Mantissa only) by Edmund Bo-
hun 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 an estors, have
been lords of the manor of Westhall ever since 25
Henr. 8.) that in the year 1663, he was admitted
fellow-commoner of Queen's coll. in Cambridge, and
continued there till the latter end of 1666, when
then he was driven out of th.at university by the
plague that raged there, to his great hindrance in
learning. In 1675 he was made one of the com-
missioners of the peace for the county of Suffolk,
and continued so till the second of king James II.
and then he was discharged. In the first yeai' of
king William and queen Mary he was restore<l to
that office, upon the recommendations of the mem-
bers of parliament then sitting, without his seeking,
and he servetl their majesties in the said employ-
ment. This worthy person hath written (1) Aii
Address to the Freemen and Freeholders of the Na-
tion, 171 three Parts ; being the Historij of three
Sessions of Parliament : The first of zchich began
the 21.s< ()f Oct. 1678, and the la.it of them ended
the 10th of Jani 1680. Lond. 1682, and 83. qu.
(2) A Defence (if the Declaraticm of King Ch. 11.
against a Pamphlet .stiled, ' AJu.it and modest Vin-
dication of the Proceedings of the txco last Parlia-

mcnt.i' printed with, and added to, the Address.

(S) A Defence of Sir Rob. Filmer again.it the Mis-
takes and R'epre.ientationsofAlgcrnoon Sidney Esq;
in a Paper delivered by him to the Sheriffs upon
the Scaffold on Tmeer-hill, on Friday Dec. 7. lo83,
before his Execution there. Lond. l684, in 4 sheets
and an half in fol. (4) The Ju-itke of Peace his
Calling; a moral Essay. Lond. 1684. oct. [and

•* [Vid. Camdeni Vita per Smith, pag. Ixiv. Lo-veday.]

Lond. 1693, Bodl. 8vo. N. 37. Line.]. (5) A Pre-
face and Conclusion to Sir Rob. Filmer. i Rook,

cntit. '■ Patriarcha ; or the natural Law of

Kings,'' &c. Added to the second and jwrfect i-d*.

tion of that l)ook Lond. l()8.j. oct. (6) A Get>m.

graphical Dictionary, representing tlie prMent>
ana antient Names of all the Countries, Pn/vincet;
remarkable Cities, c^c. of the Toliole World, tciih.a
.ihort hi.itorical Account of the same and their pre-
sent State. Lond. 1688. "oct. (7) The History (if
the Desertion : or, an Account of all the puljlic
Affairs in England, from the beginning o/' Sept.
1688, to the Uth of Febr.folUncing. Umd. 1689.
Oct. [Bodl. C. 11. 7. Line] (8) An Answer to a
Piece called, ' Tlw Desertion discussed ;' in a Let-
ter to a Country Gentleman, printed at Uie end of
The History of Desertion. Tlie .said ])ami)lilet,
called The De.iertion discussed, was written by Jcr.
Collier of Cambridge. (9) The Doctrine of 'Pas-
sive Obedience or Non-resi.itatKe /to Way concent'd
in the Controversies now depending between the

lepi
Lc

WiUiamites ami Jacobites. ■ Lond. 1689. qu. Id
the 24th jwge of which Ixwk is a passage concemin|^
Dr. Ken bishop of Bath and Wells; whicli, Mr.
Bohim is satisfied, is not true ; and therefore he de-
sires that, and the whole paragraj>h in which it is,
may l»e cancefd. (10) Life of John Jezcell Bisfiop
of Sallibury, as I shall tell you by and by. " (II)
" Three Charges delivered at tlie General Quarter
" Sessions holden at Ip.iwich, for the County of
" Siffolk, in the Years 1691, and 92. Lond. 1693.
" qu'. [Bodl. C. 8. 18. Line.] In the preface to
'' which is his Vindication from the Calumnies and
" Mistakes cast on him, on the Account of his Geo-
" gi'aphical Dictionary. (12) Tlte great Histo-
" rical. Geographical and Poetical Dictionary, 8tc.
" Lond. 1694. fol. wherein are inserted, the last
"five Years Historical and Geographical Collec-
" tions ichicJi the said Edm. Bohun, esq; dc.iigned
" _^r his own Geographical Dictionary, and never
" extant till in this Work^ He hath also trans,
latefl into English several things, among -which is
(1) The Origin ofAtlwism in tlte Popi.ih and Pro-
testant Churclies, .ihewn by Dorotheas Sicurus

Lond. 1684. qu. (2) An Apology of the Church
of England, and an Epistle to one Seignior Sripio
a Venetian Gent, concerning the Council of Trent.
Lond. 1685. in oct. written bv Joh. Jewell, some-
times B. of Salisbury. To which is atlded a brief
of the life of the said Jewell, collected by Mr. B<v
hun, from the large life of the said person, written
by Dr. Laur. Humphrey. (3) The Method and
Order of reading both Civil and Eccle.iiastical His-
tories, as I have told you before.' (4) The uni-.

* [This translation is eniilleil Tin Method and Order <ff
Jleading loth Civil and Ecclesiastical Hiitories. in which the
most excellent Historians are reducedinlo the Order in whieh
they are successively to he read ; and the Judgments of learn-
ed Men concerning such of them, suhjoi^d, by Degoru
Wheare, Camden Reader of History in O^ord. To tchicA

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MASON.

1O47.

versal Historical Bibliotlieqtte : or an Account of
the most considerable Books printed in all Lan-
guages: wherein, a sliort Account is given of the
Design of almost every Book, and the Quality of
the Author, if known. For Jan. Feb. and IVIar.

of the year lo87 Discontinued by the death of

George Wells a iKiokseller, lately living in S. Paul's
churcli-yanl in Loudon. (5) The ^5th and 2(jth
Book ° of (he general History of the Reformation of
ilie Church from the Errors and Corruptions of
the Church of Rome, began in Germany by Mart.
I^uther. Loud. 1689- written in Latin by John Slei-
dan LL.D. with a continuation in three books from
the year 1556, to tlie year 1562. (6) The present
State of Germany : or, an Account of the Extent,
Rise, Form, Wealth, Sfc. of that Emjiire, 8lc.
Lond. I69O. Oct. written in Lat. by Sam. Pufen-
dorf 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 be-
fore-mentioned things, published these following,

Parentatio Historica. Sive Commemoratio Vitw
4" Mortis V. C. Gidiel. Cambdeni Clarentii, facta
Oxoniw in Schola Historica, 12 Nov. 1626. Oxon.
1628. Oct. [Bodl. 8vo. Z. 11. Th. Seld.]

Dedicatio Imaginis Camdenianoe in Scliola His-
torica, 12 Nov.^ 1626. Oxon. 1628. oct.

J^nstolurum Eucharisticarum Fasciculus.

Ctiaristeria. These two last are printed and go
■with Dedicatio Imaginis, &c. He hath also writ-
ten Lectures on the three Books of the Punic War,
in Luc. Florus, which arc now about to be pub-
lished. At length departing this mortal life on the
first of August in sixteen hundred forty and seven,
was buried on the third day of the same month in
Exeter coll. chappel. His study of books and col-
lections in MS. came, after his death, into the hands
of his old friend Francis Rouse provost of Eaton
coU. near to Windsor, and his lectures in MS. to
Bodley's library. He left also behind him a widow
and cniJdj-en,?.,who soon after became poor, and

is added. An Appendix concerning the Historians of Parti-
cular Nations, as well Ancient as Modern, hy Nicholas
Horseman. The third Edition, with Amendments ; with Mr.
DodtoeH's Invitation to Gentlemen to acquaint themselves
with Ancient History. Made English and enlarged hy Ed-
mund Bohiin, Esq. 8vo. 1698. Wanlf.y.]

" [All ihc 20 bdoks thereof. Watts.]

' [The Character of Queen Elizabeth : or. a full and clear
Account of her Policies and the Methods of her Government
both in Church and Stale. Her Virtues and Defects. To-
gethervnlh the Characters of her Principal Ministers of Slate
and the greatest of the Affairs and Events that happened in
the Times. Collected and fait hfulli/ represented lit Edmund
Bohun, Esq. Loud. I6p3. 8vo. This was translated into
French and [jrintcd a la Haye idgh. 8vo. Wanley.]

• [26 Nov. Sic in Camdeni Pita, per Smith, pag. Ixx.

LOVEDAY.]

' I His cftlest son William Whear, who was born in Dor-
setshire, was matriculated of Gloucester-hall in 1623, aged
iliirteei> j and another son, John, entered at the same hall
hi l6;J0, age<l Ij. Reg. Matric. PP. fol. 275, b, and 276.]

whetiicr the females hved honestly, 'tis not for me
to dispute it.

HENRY MASON was born in a market-town
in Lancashire called Wygan or Wig^n, became a
servitor of Brasen-nose coll. in the beginning of
1592, elected one of Humph. Ogle's ejuiibitioners
thereof 2 Nov. 1593, took one degree in arts two
years after, entred into holy orders, and became
chaplain of Corp. Ch. coll. in 1 602. The next year
he proceeded in arts, and seven yeai's after was ad-
mitted to the reading of the sentences. At length
being made chaplain to Dr. Jo. King, bish. of Lond.
was by his endeavom's, as I suppose, made rector
of S. Andrew's Undershaft in that city ; where by
his exemplary life, edifying and judicious preaching
and writing he did great benefit, and was by all that
knew him, accounted a true son of tlie church of
England. His writings are the.se.

The new Art of Lying, covered by Jesuits under
the Veil of Equivocation. Lond. 1624. qu. there
again 1634. in tw. [Bodl. 8vo. B. 234. Line]

Christian Humiliation : or, a Treatise of Fast-
ing, with a brief Discourse of Lent. Lond. 1625.
qu. [Bodl. 4to. A. 64. Th. aiid 1627. 4to. revised
and enlarged.]

Epicure''s Fast : or, a sltort Discourse discover-
ing the Licentiousness of the Rom. Ch. in her reli-
gious Fasts. Lond. [I626.] 1628. in qu.

Tribunal of the Conscience : or, a Treatise of
Examination. Lond. 1626, 27. qu. "Lond. 1634.'
" tw. 4th edit."

" The Cure of Cares ; or, «" sJiort Discourse
declaring the Condition of Worldly Cares, with
some Remedies appointed for them. Lond. 1628.
" Lond. 1634. tw. 3d. edit." [Bodl. 8vo. B. 324.
Line]

Certain Passages in Mr. Sam. Hoard''s Book,
entit. God^s Love to Mankind, Stc- Answer'd by
Dr. Twisse under the name of Additions, in his
Riches of God'' s Love to the Vesseh of Mercy, Stc.
as I have told you before in Dr. Twisse.

" Contentment in God^s Gifts, &c. Lond. 16S4.
« tw."

Hearing and doing the ready Way to Blessed,
ness. Lond. 1635. in tw. [Bodl. 8vo. M. 171. Th.]

Rules for right Hearing of God's Word-

printed with the former book.

Several sermons, as (1) The Christian's Fast, &c.
on Matth. 4. 2. Lond. 1627. qu. (2) Contentment
in God''s Gifts: or some Sermon Notes leading to
Equanimity and Contentation ; on Joh. 20. 3, 4,
5, 6. Lontl 1630. in tw. [Bodl. 8vo. T. 50. Th.]
(3) Sermon on Luke 11. 28. This I have not seen,
nor a MS. in fol. containing matters of divinity,
which he left in the hands of his acquaintance Dr.
Gilb. Sheldon, afterwards archb. of Cant. From
whom it came to Dr. Dolben bishop of Roch. after-
wards of YA*k, in whose possession it was when he
died. At length when the puritan or presbyterian

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VERNEUIL.

HABINGTON.

222

began to he dominant in 1641, our author Mason
through vexation, occasionM by that jiarty, was
forccil soon after to leave his rectory of S. Andrew's
before-niention'd, purposely to make n»in for a
goclly brother.' Afterwards he retired with his
g(xxjs and books to Wygan his native place, where
living in obscurity for some years, (not without vex-
ation l)y the rebels) surrendred up iiis most pious
and devout soul to him that first gave it, in his
house situate and being in a street there called
Scoles, in the beginning of August in sixteen hun-
1^47- dred forty and seven, and in that of his age 74, or
thereal)outs, and was buried on the seventh day of
the same month in the yard or cemetery, close to
the ground-^vork of the pillar or buttress at the east
end of the cluirch at Wygan. He had before given
to the poor of that town 13/. per an. to bind poor
children apprentices, his library of books to the
school ; and a considerable number of bibles to the
poorer sort of people for their children there.

[1611, 15 Jan. Hen. Mason S. T. B. collat. ad
vicariam de Hillingdon cum capella de Uxbridge,
per resign. Tho. Awsten A. M.

1612, 18 Dec. Ricardus Bourn A. M. coll. ad
vicar, de Hillingdon cum capella de Uxbridge per
resign. Henr. Mason.

Eodem die Henricus Mason S. T. B. coll. ad
eccl. santi Matthei, Friday street, per mortem Joh;

1613, 14 Febr. Henr. Mason S. T. B. coll. ad
eccl. S. Andreas Undershaft cum ecclesia sive ca-
pella S. Mariae at Axe eidem annex, per mortem
Joh. Dixe S. T. P.

1616, 17 Oct. Henr. Mason S. T. B. coll. ad
preb. de Willesdon (in eccl. Paul.) per mort. Tho.
Kinge; quam resign, ante 29 Mar. 1637. Ken-
net.

A Letter to Dr. Thomas Jackson, see his Works,
\, 600.

A Letter to Mr, Joseph Mede, see also his Works,
page 769. Loved ay.]

JOHN VERNEUIL (VernuUus) was bom in
the city of Bourdcaux in France, educated in the
university of Mountalban till he was mast, of arts,
flew from his country for religion sake, being a
protestant, and went into England, where he had
his wants supplied for a time by sir Tho. Leigh.
Afterwards he retired to the university of Oxon. in
1608, and on the fourth day of Nov. in the same
year, being then 25 years of age, he was matricu-
lated in the university as a member of Magd. colli
from which house as from others he received relief.

' [The person who succeeded Mason in St. Andrew Un-
dcrshafi was Dr. John Pritchard, who soon suffrcd for the
same royal cause. Kennet.

He did not thereby make room for a godly brother, as my
author intimates, for he was succeeded therein by Mr. Joha
Prichet, who soon after suffered in the same cause, as may
be seen in what is written of him among the prebei^daries of
Mora. Newconrl, Reperlorium, i, SSp.j

In 1625 he was incorpor.ittnl m.uster of arts, lK«ing
then second-keeper of Bo<lley's library, where h<'
performed gtMnl service for that place, and wrote for
the u.se of the sttidents there, these things following,

Catalog-US Interpretum S. Scrir)tura-,jitxta Xv-
meronim Ordincm, qui extant in Bibl. Bodl. Oxon.
1635. (pi. sec. edition. The first was began by
Dr. Tho. James.

Elcnclius Auihorum, turn recentium quam anti-
qtwrum, qui in 4 Libras Scnteiitiarum ^ Thomw
Aqninatis summas, item in Evangelia Dominicalia
totius Anni, 4" de Casibus Consctentiic ; necnon in
Orationem Dominicam, Symbolum Apostolorum, ^
Decalogum scripserunt. This is pnnted with the
Cat. Interpretum, &c. an. 1635.

Nomenclator of such Ti-acts and Sermons as
have been printed, and translated into Eufflisli upon
any Place, or B(X)k of' the Holy Scripture, now to
be had in Bodley^s Library. Oxon. 1(537, 42. in fw.
[Bodl. 8vo. F. 108. Line, j He alsf) translated from
French into English, A Tract of the Soveraign
Judge of Controversies in Mutters of Religion.
Oxon. 1628. cju. written by Joh. Camcn)n D.D. of
Saumur, divinity professor in the academy of Mount-
alban, afterwiu-rts principal of Gla.sgow in Scotland."
And from English into Latin* a Ixwk entit. Of the
Deceitfulness of Maris Heart. Gcnev. 1634. oct.
written by Dan. Dyke of Cambridge. The ssud
Jolin Verneuil died in his house within, and near,
the east-gate of the city of Oxon, in the latter end
of September in sixteen hundred forty and seven,
and was buried on the last day of the same month
in the church of St. Peter in the east, withui the
said city ; at which time our public library lost an
honest and useful servant, and his children a good
father.

"THOMAS HABINGTON or Abingtov, son
of John Habington of HentUip in Worcestershire
esq; son of Rich. Habington of Brokhampton in
Herefoi-dshire, was born at Thorpe near to Chert-
sey in Surrey, on the 23 Aug. 1560, (at which
time and before the manor thereof belonged to liis
father.) and at about 16 years of age he became a
commoner of Lincoln cofl. where spending alx)ut
three years in .icadeniicjil studies, was taken thence
by his father and sent to the universities of Paris
and Rheimes in France. After some time spent
there in go<xl letters, he returned into England,
and expressing and shewing himself an adherent
to Mary qu. of Scots (who plottetl with Anth.
Babington against qu. Elizalieth) was committed
]irisoncr to Uie Tower of London, where conti-
nuing six yeai's, he profited more in that time in
several sorts of leai'ning, than he had before in all
liis life. Aflerwards he retired to Hendlip before-

[109]

1647.

' [Not so, but into French : La Desfoverle de la Cavltl-
ledo Cocr de VHomme. Ou La Sonde la Conscience. Genev.
1634. Bodl. 8vo. D. 83. Th. given by the translator to the
Bodleian.]

223

HABINGTON.

" mentioird, (the manor of which his tathei- hail
" setled upon liiiii) took to wile Marv the eldest
" daughter of Edward lord Morloy by Elizabeth
" his w-ife, daugh. and sole heir of sir AVill. Stanley
" kniffht, lord Mountcagle, and at riper years sur-
" vey\i ^Vorcestershire, niade a collection of most
" of its antiquities fi-om records, registers, evidences
" both private and public, monumental inscriptions
" and arms. Part of this book I have seen and
" perused, and find that every leaf is a sufficient
" testimony of his generous and virtuous mind, of
" his indefatigable industry and infinite reading.
" 'Tis to be wished that some gentlemen of other
" counties would follow his and tlie generous exam-
" pie of Dugdale of Warwickshire, Burton of Lei-
" cestersliire, Thoroton of Nottinghamshire, &c.
" thereby to advance the honour of their respective
<,". eounties, and families therein, and not to live like
?*. idle. heirs of their ancestors titles: Also that the
" credit of the nobUity and gentry might once again
" advance, and the honors and titles might not be
." ashamed of the persons that vainly bear them.
" This worthy person Th. Habington left behind
" him in manuscript of his own composition, these
." things following,

" The Ant'tquities and Survey of Worcestershire
« — ^'Tis written with his own hand in a large fol.
" but not perfect or totally siu^ey'd.

" Of me Cathedral Church and Bishops of
" Worcester. — Tiiis is also written in a tliin folio ;
ffthe beginning of which is, ' Gotl's eternal empire
f* of heaven endureth for ever,' &c. The succession
i' of the bishops reacheth down to John Alcock in
{* the copy which I have seen. He also translated
5' into English, The Ejnstle of Gildas a Britain,
" entit. De Excidio ^ Conquestu Britannicc. Lond.
" 1638 in oct. [Bodl. Crynes 8vo. 251.] Before
"which he hath put a large preface, written to the
" inhabitants of Britain. Which translation and
" preface were made during his lingring imprison-
" nient for matters relating to the Powder Plot.
^ -Jle liad a considerable hand also in The History
"of Ed. 4. K. of Englaiul, published under the
" name of Will. Habington his son, and in other
[110] " matters fit for the press. At length after he had
" lived to the age of 87 years, surrendred up his
" jHous soul to Grod at Hendlip near Worcester, on
" the 8th of Octolx'r in sixteen hundred forty and
'f seven, and was buried by his father in a vault
" under the chancel of the church there. His father
" Joh. Habington being coflferer to queen Eliza-
" beth, the life of this Thomas, who was godson to
" her, was saved, having been engaged in the trea-
" sons of Mary qu. of Scots ; but Edward, younger
*' brother to the said Thomas, who was also engaged
" in them, and a person of a turbulent spirit and
" nature, was witli others executed in S. Giles's in
" the Fields near London the 20th Sept. 1586, at
" which time he cast out threats and terrors, of the
" blood that was ere long to be shed ui England.

" The said Thomas also (<jur author) for his entcr-
" tainiiig and concealing Garnet and Alcome two
" popish priests (deeply engaged in the powdei-plot)
" 111 his house at Hendlip, was, as 'tis said, con-
" deinned to die, but by the endeavours of William
" lord Mount-Eagle (whose sister Mary he had
." married, as I have l)efore told you, I mean the
" same Mary who ^vrote ' and sent a letter to the
" said lord, which was the original discovery of the
" said plot) he was reprieved and at length par-
" doned. His son William Habington befbrc-men-
" tioned, was born at Hendlip, on the ■♦ fourth (some
" say the fifth) day of November 1605, educated in
" S. Omers and Paris ; in the fir.st of whicii he was
" earnestly invited to take upon him the habit of
" the Jesuits, but by excuses got free and left them.
" After his return from Paris, being then at man's
" estate, he was instructed at home in matters of
" history by his father, and became an acconiplish'd
" gentleman. He hath written and published (1)
" Poems, Lond. 1635, in oct. sec. edit, under the
" title of Castara.^ They are divided into three
" parts, under a different title suitable to their sub-
" ject. The first, which was written when lie was
" a suiter to his wife, (the humane goddess that in-
" spired him, viz. Lucia daughter of Will, lord
" Powis ') is usher'd in, by a character writ in prose,
" of a mistress. The second, arc copies writ to her
" after marriage, by the character of a wife : after
" which is a character of a friend, before several fu-
• ' neral elegies. The third part consists of diyine
" poems, some of which are paraphrases on se-
" veral texts out of Job and tlie book of Psalnu ;
" before which is the pjrtraict of a holy man. (2)
" Queen^f Arragon, a trag. com. which play he
" communicating to Philip earl of Pembroke 1.
" chamberlain of the houshold to K. Charles I.
^' he caused it to be acted at court, and afterwards

' So I have been informed by sit Will. Dugdale, Garter
king of arms.

■* So have I been instructed by letters from his son Tho.
Habinp:lon esq; dated S Jan. 1()72.

* [The first edition of Habingion's Castara was printed in
l()34, and is one of the rarest volumes of |)Ociry of that pe-
riod. It contains two pans only, consisting of seventy-eight
pages exclusive of the tiile, preiace and some lines by G. T.
' to his best friend and kinsman on his Castara,' forming one
sheet more in 4lo. The second edition was l635, the third
lG40, both in ISnio; the last, edited by C. A. Elton, esq.
was printed in 1815, 8vo. and well deserves a place in the
library of every lover of early English poetry. I could will-
ingly quote a nundrid be;uities from this exqnisite volume,
but as Wood says, time c.ills and I must liastcn away — add
to which abundant specimens of his poetry will be found in
Ellis, Htadlcy, Censura Lileraria, and that elegant publica-
tion entitle<l Tlie Lyre of Love, 2 vol. 8vo. Lmd. I806.]

^ [NotwithstandingHabington'saccomplishments, it seems
he had some difficulty in reconciling the friends of his wife
to his union with her. In some lines addressed to her father
after their marfiage, he entreats him to bless them, and
adds

' Kor grieve, my lard, 'tis perfected — '
from which, perhaps, it may be inferred that the ceremony
was clandestine.]

HABINGTON.

PINK.

%m

" to be publisird iigainst tlie authors will.' (3)
" Obnervations upon Historij. LdihI. 16-il. oct. (4)
" History of Edward the fourth, Kin^ i)f' England.
« Lond. '1640. in a thin Vol. [Hodl. AA. 51. Art.]
" written and published at the desire of K. (.'harles I.
" being then by many esteemed to have a stile suf-
" ficiently florid, and better becoming a ]Kx;tieal,
" than historical, subject. This person Will. Ha-
" bington, who did run with the tunes, and was not
" unknown to Oliver the usuqier, died on the 30th
" of November 1654, and was buried in the vault
" befoi'e-mentioned by the bodies of" his father and
" grand-father. The MSS wliich he (and his father)
" left behind, are in the hands of his son Thomas,
" and might be made useful for the pubhc, il" in
" others.''

[Thomas Habington's papers were purchased by
Dr. Thomas for twenty guineas,^ and so much from
them as relates to the cathedral was printed under
this title The Antiquities of the Cathedral of Wor-
cester. (Bodl. Gough Worcester 4, with MS. notes
by Browne Willis,) Lond. 1717, and 1723 8vo.
After Dr. Thomas's death they amie into the hands
of Charles Lvttleton, bishop of Carlisle, who left
tliem to the library of the society of antiquaries ;
they were inspected by Mr. Nash for his history of
that county, but if we may trust the character given
of them by Dr. William Hopkins, are of no great
value : ' he is sure (he says) by what he has seen
that there are many great defects and errors in
them : that Mr. Abmgdon never had access to the
Cottonian library ; that he was no Saxonist, and had
taken many things upon trust ; that his style was
ill, and his way of writing so tedious, that it was
necessary to write the book anew in a great part to
fit it for the press.' »]

ROBERT PINK, son of Hen. Pink of Kemp-
shot in the parish of Winslade in Hampshire, was
Iwrn there, educated in Wykeham's school near
Winchester, admitted true and perpetual fellow of
New coll. in 1596, took the degrees in arts, entred
on the physic hne, was admitted bach, in that fa-
culty 1612, afterward studied divinity, was elected
warden of his coll. 1617, proceeded in divinity, and

' \The Qiieene of Arrai^on a Tragi-comedie. London
Printed ly Tko. Coles for IViUiam Cooke, and are lo be sold
at his shop at Furnivals Jnne gale in Hollurne. 1040, folio.
(Boiil. 'r. ig. Jur. Seld.) This is a scarce drama, on which
account I transcribe a few lines as a specimen.

Distrust, my lord.

Is the best counceler to great designes :

Our confidence betrayes us. But betweene

These two are other seeds of jealousie ;

.Such as would almost force religion breake

.Her Ijing vowes, authorize perjurie.

And make the scrupulous casuist say, that faith

Is the fooles vertue. — Sign. B. 3.]

" [^Original Letter from Thomas Rawlins lo Gcor^r Bal-
lard, dated Oct. 20, 1739. Bibl. Bodl. MS. Ballard xli. 89.]
° [Introd. lo the Hisl. of Worccstersh. p. ii.]
Vol. III.

was much esteemed by K. James I. for liis dexterity
in disputing, as by K. Charles I. fin- liis eminent
loyalty. He was a zealous defender of tlie univer-
sity privileges and hbertieit, especially when he jxt-
formed the office of vice-chancellor, and estecnieu by
all that knew him most eminent for his knowledge
in philosophy and divinity. He hath written,

Quwstiones schctiorcs in /.^ifficd, Ethki, Phy- [111]
sica, Metaphi/sica inter Anthore* cehbriorea re-
perta: Oxon. 1680. <iu. [Boill. 4to. Z. 16. Art.]
published by John Lami)hire principal of Hart-
Ilall.

Poemata. Latino.

Gesta Vicecancellariattis sui. 'Tis a MS. con-
taining the acts and gests of his vice-chancellorship
of the university, from UG July 1634, to ilH July
1636. It is written in a little thin fol. amtaining 80
pages, and hath therein several of his speeches
spoken in convocation. Which book I had the
hberty to peruse, when I was composing the Hisl.
4' Antiq. of Univ. of Oxon, and may be useful to
curious men in otiier resj)ects, if given to a public
place, many things Iwing therein, tJiat are not entred
uito the public registers of the university. He died
much lamented by the members of his coll. becaus*.*
he had been a vigilant, faithfid and ]>ubhc-spirited
governor ; by the poor of the city of Oxon, because
he had been a constant benefactor to them ; by the
orphans, to whom he had been a father ; and gene-
rally by all who knew the great virtues, piety, and
learning of the person, on the second day of Novenib.
in sixteen hundred forty and seven. Wherenjxjn "'■*•■
his body was buried in die outer chappel belonging
to New coil, between the pulpit and tlie screen,
leaving then beliind him certain matters fit for the
press. In 1677 Dr. Ralph Bridoake bishop of
Chichester, who had in his younger years ocen
patroniz'd by the said Dr. Pink, erected, out of gra-
titude, a comely monument for him on the west
wall of the outer chapjxil, at some distance from his
grave.

[In Honovr of the right worshipfvH Dodotir
Robert Pinke, Doctour of D'lvini/ic, and Warden
of New Colledge in Oxford. Printed in the Yeare
1648. This IS the title page to one sheet in 4to.
(which is of the rarest occurrence) containing four
|)oems on the death <rf" Pink.

They were probably written by New college
men, and the curious reader will smile at the singu-
larity of the protluctions, from one extract only,
wortliy of Butler himself:

He kickt rebellion out of towne,
PuU'tl ignorance and atheisme downe ;
He purg'd the schtKiles of s<Jecisme,
Refin'd pedanticke barbarisme.
His silken phrase made logicke run
As smooth as calmed hehcon.
But oh'! hee's gone, then wellcome bee
- DuUnesse and stupidity ! ,

Q

527

PINK.

SLATYER.

mn

1047-

Bume your Iwokcs, or onely con
The Talmud or the Alkaron ;
Studdy voii may your hearts out, but
This Annhaptist Death hath cut
All humane learning downe at once,
As if he had beene bribed for th' nonce,
By th' Agitatours to doe what

Yurberry and they could not

See Bodl. C. 15. 3. Line.
See more of Pink in the Fasti, under the year
1648.]

WILLIAM SLATYER, a Somersetshire man
born, was matriculated as a gentleman's son of that
county, and a member of St. Mary's hall in Lent
term, an. 1600, aged 13 years. Whence translating
himself to Brasen-nose coll. was entred there as a

Plebeian's son of the same county in July 1607.
'he next year he took a degi-ce in arts, was made
fellow of the said coll. proceeded in that faculty
1611, entred into holy orders, was soon after l)cne-
ficed, and in 1623 took the degrees in divinity, being
then in gocxl esteem for his knowledge in English
history, and his excellent vein in Lat. and English
poetry. His works are these,

" ©^vcuJla, sive Pandionium in perpetuam sere-
" nissimam simul ac heati.ssimam Principis Anna:
" nuper AngUa: Regina Memoriam.

" Elegies and Epitaphs by W. S. late Servant
" and Clutplain to her Majesty. Lond. 1619. in 4
" sheets in qu. The running title on the top of
" every page is Threnodia Brittannira. These
" elegies and epitaphs consist of Hebrew, Greek,
" Latin, and English verses ; they are printed in
" several forms, some like pillars, .some circular, some
" chronogrammaticaHy."

Paia-Alhion : or, the History of Great Britain
from the first Peopling of this Island to the Reign
ofKingJanws. LoncT 1621. fol. in Lat. and Engl,
verse, me Lat. on one side and the English on the
other ; with various marginal notes on the English
side, relating to English history and antiquity.

Psalms or Songs of Sion, turn'd into the Lan-
guage, and set to the Tunes of a strange Land

Printed at London, but when I know not, because
not set down in the title.

Psalms in four Languages and in Jour Parts,
set to the Tunes of our Church — Printed at Lond.
in tw. engraven on copper.

" Genethliacon, sive Stemma *"

Regis Jacobi Lond. 1630.

'Tis in a thin fol. in Lat. and
Engl, and the genealogy is de-
What other things he hath
published I know not, nor any thing else of him,
only that he ^ving way to fate at Otterden in Kent,
where he was then, or before (as I presume) bene-
ficed, in the month of Oct. or Nov. m sixteen hun-
dred forty and seven, was there buried, leaving be-
hind him a widow nametl Sarah. The reader may

• Genealogia Re-
gis Jacohiy S*c. First
edit.

rived from Adam.

be pleased now to know that one Will. Sclater a Bed-
fordshire man bom, was elected into King's coll. in
Cambridge 1593,' was ai'terwards vicar of Pitmin-
ster • in Somersetshire, and a publisher of several
sermons, and theological tracts, as you may sec in
Oxford or Bodley's Catalogue lyf Books ; ^ but this

' [Vid. my MS. Collections (in the British museum)
vol. xiv, p. 223 and vol. xv, p. 110. CoLE.]

" [He was D.D. and rector of Lemshain. Tanwer.]

' [The Quteslion of Tythes revised. Argvments for the
Moralilie if Ty thing, enlarged and cleared. Oliections mmt
fully and distinctly answered. Mr. Selden's IJistorie, to
Jarre as Mistakers haue made it argumentatiue against the
Moralilie ouer-ly viewed. By William Sclater, D.D. and
Minister of Pitminster in Somerset. London Printed by John
Legatt, U)23, 4to. Dtdic. to Arthur (Lake) bish. of Bath
and Wells. Bodl. Rawl. 147, with AIS notes, and a trea-
tise on the right of tyihes in the same hand, which is that,
says Dr. Rawjinson, of ' some puritan, perhaps a quaker.'

A Key to the Key of Scriptme ; or an Exposition with
Notes vpon the first Epislle to the Romanes ; the three first
Chapters begun at IVulsall in Staffurdshire, rimcluded at Pit-
minster in Somerset. London Printed by T- S. for George
Norton and are to be sold at his shop neere Templc-barre .
iCll. 4lo. Ded. to sir Henry Hawley knighi, Mr. John
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The Minis'ers Portion; sermon on 1 Cor. 9. 13, 14. At
O.rford, Printed by Joseph Barnes. l6l2, 4to. Ded. to Mr
Thomas Southcot esquire at Moones Otery in Devon. Bodl.
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(Sfc. 1612. Ded. to Mr. .lohn Horner esquire and to the
devout Anna his wife at Melles in Somerset. Bodl. 4to.
V. 34. Th.

The Christian's Strength ; sermon on Phil. 4. 13. At
Oxford, (Sfc. 1612. 410. Ded. to Mr. William Hill esquire
at Pitminster, Somerset. Bodl. 4to. F. 34. Th.

An Exposition, with Notes vpon the Etrst Epistle to the
Thessalonians. London Printed by JV. Stansby for Henri*
Felherslone, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-
yard at the signe of the Rose, lCl(). 4io. Ded. to the lord
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A briefe Exposition, with Notes vpon the Second Epistle
to the Thessalonians. London Printed by Augustine Ma-
Ikewes for Richard Thrale, and are to be sold at the Crosse
Keyes at Pauls gate, 1629. 4to. Ded. to John Powlet es-
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in Lucem edila. O.vonia; excudcbat Gulielmus Turner, An.

Dom. 1633 tto. Ded. Edvardo Kelletio S. T. D. snncti

Petri apud Exoniensis residentiario, nee non M. Georgio
Goadio coll. llegalis in acadeniia Cantabrig. socio, suo non
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A briff and plain Commentary with Notes; not more use-
ful than seasonable, upon the whole Prophecie if Malachi/.
Delivered Sermon-wise, divers Years since at Pitminster in
Summerset, by William Sclater (Sfc : Now published by his
Son fViltiam Sclater, Batchelar in Divinity, late Fellow of
Kings Colledg in Cambridg, now Minister of Collomplon in
Devon. London Printed by J. L.for Christopher Meredith
at the sign of the Crane in Pauls Church Yard I()50. 4to.
Ded to Mr. Henry Walrond of Bradtield, Devon. Bodl. 4to.
C. 20. Th. BS.

An Expotition with Notes on the whole fourth Chapter !o
the Romanes. Wherein the grand Question if Justificatiort
by Faith alone without Works is controverted, stated, cleared.

22f)

SLATVEll.

WILKENSON.

2;3()

[11"J person whoso sirnaiiiL- difl'ors from him who was the
poet before- men tiori'd, must not be taken to be the
same witli him, as some to my knowledge have done.
He died in 1626, and left behind him a son of bit h
his names, who was born at Pitminster, was fellow
of King's coll.-* also, and afterwards minister of Co-
lumpton in Devon. [Preacher in the city of Exeter*
and] prebendary of Exeter, and doct. of div. He
hath several sermons in print,* of which one is entit.
— Papisto-Mastix : or DcboraJis Prayer against
God's Enemies ; on Judges 5. 31. Lond. 1642. qu.
[Bodl. 4to. P. 40. Th.] and hath published, An
Exposition with Notes on thejburth chap, of the
Rom. Lond. 1650. qu. written by his father, &c.
" This is different from the former Will. Sclater
" (not Slatycr) D.D. rector of Clifton in Bedford-
" sliire, and minister of St. James Clerkenwell in
♦' Middlesex So it is written 1673.

" He hath published. The Royal Pay and Pay-
" master, or the Indigent Officer's Comfort, a Ser-
" mon preached before the Military Company, at St.

" Paufs Church in Covent-Garden, on Lond.

" 1671. qu. He was father to an ingenious person
" call'd Plane. Sclater ' bach, of divinity, and fellow
" of C. C. coll. who died about the middle of May
" 1685."

[From a marginal note to one of the prefatory
poems to his Pahe Albion, entitled Authoris Votum,
It seems that Slaty er was bom at Tykenham in So-
mersetshire, near to Bristol.

He was presented in 1625 to the rectory of Otter-

and fully resolved, to llie saiifjaclion nf any judicious, con-
scientious Prolestanl. Together with a variety of other solid
Observation, interwoven throughout the ff'ork. By &c. (as
before) London Printed by J. L. &c. (as before) 4to. Ded.
lo John Bampfield of Poltimore in Devon esq. a most
exhnious and exemplary worthy of the West, &c. Bodl.
410. C. W. Th. BS.]

* [Admiued hi King's, 1626. Baker.]
» ^Tanner.]

• The Crowne of Righteousness : or the glorious Reward
of Fidelity in the Discharge of our Duty, as it was laid forth
in a Sermon preached in S. B'ltotphsAldersgate, London, Sept.
25, 1633, At the solemn Funerall of Mr. Ahrah. ffheclock,
Ji.D. the first puHick Professor and Reader of Arahick, and
of the Saxon, in the University of Cambridge. fVhereunto
isadded. An Encomium of him . By IVilliam Sclater Doctor
iu Divinity, now Preacher of the fp'ord nf God in Broad
Street, Lond. London l634, 4to. Bodl. 4to. S. 13. Th.
Seld. This is a very rare tract.

The worthy Communicant rewarded, laid forth irt a Sermon
on John G, 54, preached in the Calhedrall of St. Peter in
E.xeler, on Low Sunday, being the 21 of April, Anno 1(139.
By William Sclater Muster of Arts, late Fellow of King's
Colledge in Cambridge, now Chaplaine of the right reverend
Father in God the Lord Bishop's Barony of Saint Stephens,
and Preacher also at S. Martin's in the same city. London,
no date, Bodl. 4to. T. 98. Th. The dedication to Dr. Pc-
tf-rsoii dean of Exeter, &c. dated May 1 I, l()39.1

' [One Slater of Putney was of St. John's college, Oxford,
matriculated 1(540. After the visitation in l648 he served
Fyficld in Berlis. Tanner.

' Edu. Slatier Middlesex, fil. Edti. Slalier de London.
pleb. an. nat. 17.' /?fg. iV/a/ric. P.P. fol. 113.}

den in Kent, which he had a dispensation for hold-
ing with that of Newchurch.** He was also trear
surer to the cathedral church of St. Davids.*

He died Feb. 14, 1646, aged 59, and was buried
at Otterden.'

Slatyer's Latin, is superior to his English, poetry,
of which the following lines give as favourable a
specimen as can be procured on a hasty view of the
PalcE-Albion.

Faine would I visit Phoebus shrine,

And Dodon oracles diuine,

Parnassus hill, and Ph<x;is fields,

That sacred cells and solace yeelds :

Pierian sisters, honored nymphs,

Lou'd and ador'd by learning's imp.s,

Pallas, faire Sol, and Meranosine,

O gently fauour my designes.

And slicw me out of stones old

The warlike acts of Britons bold ;

Or guide me to the towre of fame

To find their first birth, ere heauen's frame.

Or earth, or sea was, Chaos was.

And out of that confused masse

Natures commander did produce

Bright .stars for heauen, heaun for earth's vse ;

The flowry vales, the hills and woods.

Fresh riuerets, and salt swelling floods ;

And earth, and aire, and sea, brought forth

Their wondrous creatures, sundrie sorts !

The golden sunne appeares in skie,

And dainty showres in clouds on hie,

Whiles Atlas on his shoulders beares

The burden of the starry spheares.

Then mighty Joue cuts earth and heauen

By zones, degrees, and portions eaven ;

Farre North or South are frosts and snowes,

I' th' midst sweat Cancers scorched pawes.

Both sides beene temp'rate zones, the windes

Eurus and Zephyr, to both Indes,

Auster to th' .fethiops byes apace,

Boreas to Scythia, North, and Thrace. — p. 4.

There is a small head of Slatycr prefixed to his
Translation of the Psalms, 1650.]

HENRY WILKENSON was bom witlnn the
vicaridge of Halifax in Yorkshire, 9 Octob. 1566,
made his first entry into the university in Lent
term 1581, elected probationer fellow of Merton
coll. by the favour of his kinsman Mr. H. Savile,
the warden, in the year 1586, proceeded in arts, ap-
plyed his mind to the sacred faculty, of which he
was bachelor, and at length (1601) became pastor of
Waddesdon in Bucks. He hath written and pub-
lished,

A Catechhim for tlw use oftJie Cons;regation of
Waddesdoii in Bucks. This hath been several

• [Rymeri Fwdera, xviii. ()47, (i65.]
' Crasaro /«»/CTono, i'X, 31', edit. 1.1
' [Hasled's History of Kent, ii. 608.J
Q2

<^31

HAKEWILL.

LORTE.

times printwl in oct. and the iburtli impression came
out at Lond. 16!37.

The Debt-book ; or, a Treatise upon Rom. 18.
ver. 8; wherein hi luimUed the Civil Debt of Money
or Goods. Lond. 1625. oct. [Bodl. 4to. F. 84. Th.]
and other tilings wliich I have not yet seen. This
j)erson bein" an ol<l puritan, was elected one oftlie
assembly of divines in 16-kJ, and dying on the 19th
i6*i. ot" March in sixteen hundred forty and seven, was
burietl in the cliurcli at Waddesdon before-men-
tioned, having hat! issue by his wife Sai-ah, the only
daughter of Arthur Wake (of whom I liavc made
mention in Isaac. Wake, an. 1632.) three daughters,
and six sons, of which number Henry Wilkinson,
senior, connnonly called Long Hari-y, was one ; of
whom shall be large mention made hereafter.

« WILLIAM HAKEWILL, elder brother to
" Dr. George Hakewill, and to Job. Hakewill who
" was mayor of the city of Exeter in 1632, was lx)rn
" in the parish "of S. Mary Arches within the said
" city, became a sojourner of Exeter coll. in 1601j
" but leaving that place without a degree, retired to
" Lincolns-Inn, studied the common-law, and arrived
" to considerable eminence therein. In 1613 he was
" actually created master of arts on the day after
" the funeral solemnities of his kinsman sir Tho.
" Bodley were perform^ (to whom he was executor)
" and in 22 of K. James I. he was Lent reader of
" his inn, being about that time much resorted to
" for his great abiUties in his profession. He was
" a grave and judicious counsellor, had sate in divers
" parliaments, and out of his great and long conver-
" sation with antiquity, did extract several remark-
" able observations concerning the liberty of die
" subject, and maimer of holding of parliaments.
" This person, who was always a puritan, sided
" with tlie populacy in the beginning of the long
" parliament, was an active man in carrying on the
" blessed cause, took the covenant, and therefore in
" the .latter end of Apr. 1647 he was made one of
" .the masters of the Chancery, and was by order of
" boUi houses appointed to sit with the commis-
" sioners of the seal to hear causes. His works are
" these,

" Tlie Liberty of the Subject again.st the pre-
" tended Poxtier of Impositions, maintained btj an
" Arg-ument in Parliament 1 Jac. 1. Lond. 1641.
" qu. published by the author to coiTect false copies
" of it, that had been then lately published under
" this title, A learned and necessary Argument to
" prove that each Subject hath a Propriety in his
■ " Goods, and to .vhew the Extent of the King's
" Prerogative in Impositions, &c.'
[113] '^ Modus ten^ndi Paj-Uamentum : or, the old

" Manner of Jwlding Parliaments in England,

" extracted out of antient Records. Lond. 1659.
"oct. [and agiun Lond. 1671. l^xll. 8vo. G. 20.
^' Jur.l

" The Manner horc Statutes are enacted in Par-
" liament bij pas.sing of Bills. Lond. 1641, and
" 1659. oct.'

" Catalogue of the Names (yf the Speakers of
" tJie Comnums Hwise of Parliament— 'L'his, which
^' is printed with Modus tenendi Parliam. reaches
" from the Norm, conquest to Will. I^enthall, esq;
*' sjieaker, an. 1640. What other things he hath
" published I know not, nor the time of' his death,
" nor the place of his burial, vuiless it was imder
*' Line, inn chap, or at Wendovcr in Bucks, where,
" or near it, he had purchased an estate : to which
" place I formerly sent to have an account of his
" said death and burial, but could get no answer.'"

[1. Speech in the lower House of Parliament 1
May, 1628, upon a Bill for securing tlw Liberty
of the Subject. MS. Harl. 161, fol. 85: and 2305,
fol. 197, b.

2. Afgument about the Habeas Corpus. MS.
Harl. 1721, fol. 393. (Probably the same with the
fonner.)

3. On the Antiquity cjfthe Laws of this Island.

4. On the Aidiquity of the Christian Religion
in this Island. Both printed in Hearne's Curious
Discourse.^.

5. Prynne gives us the title of another tract of
HakewilFs — 'In the year 1605 Mr. William Hake-
will being her majestie''s sollicitor general (a jierson
well versed in the records of the exchequer and
other antiquities, afterwards a bencher and reader
of Lincolnes Inne, my very good friend and ac-
quaintance) compiled and presented to queen Anne
A Treatise upon the Nature of Aurum Regime ;
conteining the Transcript of divers Records pro-
duced in Proof of several Points thereof; to be
viewed by his most excellent Majesty ; collected and
disposed under certain Divisicms.'' See Prynn^s
Aurum Regim-, Lond. 1668, 4to. (Bodl. 4to. P. 10.
Jur.) page 123, where Hakewill's preface, and the
contents of his various chapters, will be found.

He died in the 80th year of his age, according
to the account of him in the list of members of the
Society of Antiquaries printed at die end of Heame's
Curious Discourses, edit. 1775.]

" ROGER LORTE, the eldest son and heir of
" Hen. Lorte of Stockpoole in Pembrokesh. esq;
" was born in that county, became a gent. com. of
" Wadh. coll. an. 1624, aged 16 years, took one
" degree in arts in 162'7, but before he had com-
" pleated it by detennination, he lel't the university.

Chr.
1647.

' [Mr. William llacliweUs Arj^ument in Parliament against
Impositions, 8 Jac. \. .MS. Harl. 1578, fol. iC. b.]

' [Priiitefl also at the end ol" tlie edit, of Modus lenendi
Part 1671, 'ivith a fresh tiile-page dated 167O. See BodL
8vo. G. 20. Jur.]

LORTE.

HUDSON.

234

" and went, as I conceive, to die inns of court, and
" afterwards to his patrimony. He liath written

" Poems printed about 1647, in qii. This

" booii I have not yet seen, and therefore cannot
Clar. " give you the full title. Nich. Lloyd, M. A. and
1G47. " sometimes one of the senior fellows of Wa<lham
" coll. hail several times seen it, and commended
" the poems therein to be gootl. This jjcrson seeins
" to be tlie same with Rog. Lorte of Stockpxjle in
" Pembrokesh. esq; who was created a baronet by
« K. Ch. II. 1.5 of July 1662, and living severil
'* years after, left behind him at the time of his
" death a s<in named Joh. Lorte, who succeeded
" him in his honour and died in 1677, leaving be-
" hind a relict named Susan. One William Lorte
" of the .same faniilv, living in the reign of K.
" James I. was in his time esteemed a good j)oet
" also, as the copies of verses of his composition,
" tliat were printed in several books shew."

IMICHAEL HUDSON, a Westmorland man *
ham, liecame a poor serving child of Queen's coll.
m the year 1621, and in that of his iige 16, after-
wards tabardcr, and in the year 1 630 fiiUow of that
house, he being then master of arts. About that
time he took holy orders, married capt. " Lewis'"
Pollard's daughter of Newnham Courtney in Ox-
fordshire, and was beneficed in I^incolnshire. But
when his majesty king Ch. I. set up his standard,
he left his benefice, adliered toliim, and after Edge-
hill battel retiring to Oxon, was in Feb. 1642 ac-
tually created doctor of divinitv, and made chaplain
■to his ma-jesty. About that time he being esteemed
an understanding and sober person and of great
fidelity, was made scoutmaster-general to the army
in the north parts of England, under tlie command
of W^illiam iiiar([uis of Newcastle, whereby he did
-wonderfully advantage himself in the ways and
passes of those parts. In that employment he con-
tinued some years, with very good success. At
■length his niajestv (who usually called him his plain
dealing chajilain, because he told him his mind when
others woulil, or durst, not) having an especial re-
spect for his .signal loyalty and courage, entrusted
liim and John Asliburnham, one of the grooms of
his bedchamber, with his person, at what time he
left Oxon in a disgui3e 27 Apr. 1646, in order to
-surrender himself into the hands of the Scots, then
besieging Newark on Trent. Afterwards his ma),
being settled for a time in Newcastle, a seijeant at
arms, or his deputy, was ordered by the parliament
23 of May following, to fetch our author Hudson
to London, for conveying the king to the Scotch
army, and to bring Ashburnham with him, but
they having timely notice, drew aside and escaped
the messenger. Afterwards Hudson crossing the
country in order to get to London, was discovered
at Rochester, and apprehended on the 8th of June

* Jieg. Mulric. Univ. Oxon. PP. fo). 87. b.

following, brought to London, and cx)mmittcd pri-
soner to London-house. On the 18th of the name
month he was examined by a committc of parlia- flLil
ment, and confessed that the king, when he left
Oxon, crossed the country, was at Henley in Ox-
fordshire, Harrow on the Hill, at Brentford, and
almost persuaded to go to I^ondon. Afterwards he
went to St. Albans, and so to Harborow in Leices-
tershire, where the French agent (monsieur de Mon-
tereal or Montrevii) was to have met him, but came
not. From thence he went to Stanford in Lincoln-
shire,' and thence to Downham in Norfolkj where
he lay at a petty alehouse, and tliat sometimes he
passed by the name of Hudson's tutor, at other
times by the name of d(X!tor, and sometimes went a«
Ashbumham's servant. On the 18th of Nov. the
same year, he broke out of prison, and, as 'tis" said,
conveyed letters from the king to iiiaj. gen. Row-
land Laugharne in Wales, which, I suppose, is
false. In Jan. following, he was retaken by maj.
gen. Sedenham Pointz, sent from Hull to London,
and committed close prisoner to the Tower, with
strict order given, that none should speak with him,
but in the jiresence of his keeper. During his con-
finement there, he wrote

The Divine Right of Government, Natural and
Politic, " more particularly of Monarchy, the only
" legitimate and natural Species of Politic Go-
" vernynent. Sic." in two books — printed 1647. qu.
[Bodl. 4to. T. 53. Th.] wherein he shews himself
to be a scholar, as lie before had, by his martial
feats, a couragious soldier. But making an escape
thence in the beginning of 1648, he v/ent into Lin-
colnshire, where he raised a party of horse for his
majesty, and had engaged some of the gentry of
Norfolk and Suffolk in the like design. On the
6th of June 1648, intelligence was brought to the
parliament that the malignants, that is the royalists,
were up in arms in Ijincohishire under the command
of Dr. Hudson, and two days following were letters
read from col. Tho. Waite that he had suppressed
the insurrection of malignants at Stanford in Lin-
colnshire, and had killed their commander Dr. Hud-
son. It seems the chief body of these malignants,
so called, fled to Woodcroft^house in the parish of
Helpson near to Peterborough in Northampton-
shire about 7 miles distant from Stanford, where
Hudson was barbarously killed on the 6th of June
in sixteen hundred forty and ei^ht. The manner i648.
of which was briefly thus. After the rebels had
entred into the house, and had taken most of the
royalists, Hudson, with some of his couragious sol-
diers, went up to the battlements thereof, wjiere
they defended themselves for some time. At length,
upon promise of (juarter, they yielded, but ^^5len
the rebels had got m among them they denied quar-
ter : Whereupon Hudson being thrown over the

* [Dr. Hudson was tutor to prince Charles and rector of
UfBiigton near Siaiiford. Lellcr, Simcroft. TakKer.]
^ la the Memorials of English Affairs, p. 237.

<i35

HUDSON.

WHITE.

battlements, he cauj^ht hold of a spout or out-stone
and there hung ; but his hands being beat or cut
o£F, he fell into the moat underneath, much wound-
ed, and desir'd to come on land to die there.
WhcreupMi one Egborough (servant to Mr. Spinks
the intruder into the ijarsonage of Ca.stor Iwlonging
tt) the bishop of Peterborough) knocked him on the
head with the but-end of his musket. Which being
done, one Walker a chandler or grocer in Stanford,
cut out his tongue and carried it alwut the country
as a trophy. His Iwxly for the present was denied
burial, yet after the enemy had left that place, he
Mas by some Chri-stians committed to the earth. In
Aug. 1684, I was informed by the letters of Mr.
John Whitehall preb. of Peterborough and dean of
Oundlc, tliat the body of the said Dr. Hudson was
removed soon after liis death to Uffington near
Stanford in Lincolnshire, where it was solemnly
buried. Quaere? As for Egborough, he was not
long after torn in pieces with his own gun, which
burst while it was under his arm in Lon^ Orton ;
and Walker since, through poverty, quitted his
trade, and was become a scorn and by-word to the
boys when he passed through the streets of Stan-
ford.

[Quidani Mich. Hudson (coll. C. C.) admissus in
matric. acad. Cant. Jul. 3, 1623. Rcgtst.

Michael Hudson, clericus, A. M. halx?t hteras
patentes (a rege) de presentatione ad rectoriam de
West-Deeping dioc. Line. 16 die Junii, 1632. Ry-
mer, Continuat. Feed. torn, xix, p. 436. M. H.
clericus, M. A. habet literas pat. de presentatione
ad rectoriam de Witchlinge alias Wichlinge di(K.
Cantuar. dat. 29 I\Iar. 1633. Ibid. p. 539. M. H.
cler. A. M. habet literas pat. de presentat. ad vica-
riam de Wirkesworth in com. Derb. dat. 10 Aug.
1633. Ibid. p. 543. Bakeu.

19 Martii 1640, Michael Hudson A. M. ad rect.
de Kings Cliff'e, a<l pres. com. Westmorl. per mort.
ThomfB Strickland. Reg. Towers, Ep. Petrib.

Michael Hudson A. M. rector of Uffington com.
Line.' tutor to prince Charles, and most faithfuU
servant to Charles I.

His book is wrot in a very scholastic, rugged
5tile, detlicated to the king, dated from my close
prison in the Tower 9 Sept. 1647.

He kept garrison for the king in a noted house
called W(xKlcroft, in the parish of Etton com.
North'ton, where he made a stout defence against a
pari, party sent from Stanford, and beat them off
several times, till the aJonel, sending a stronger de-
tachment; demanded a surrendry ot the place by a
captain his own kinsman, who was shot from the
house, upon which the colonel renew'd the charge,
and brought them to capitulate upon terms of safe

' rHu(l$on had the rectory of Uffington near Slamforfl
which he exchanged for that of Kings Cliffe. He did not
retain this last long, for in l644 Mr. Thomas South (who
then held both liviniss) was ejecte<l from that as well as
Uffington. Peck's Dedderata Curiosa, vol. ii. lib. ix, p. 6.]

quarter, but tlie colonel, in base revenge, command-
ed they should not spare that rogue Hudson. His
body was interr'd in the church of Denton near ad-
joinmg, without any memorial oi" stone or inscrip-
tion. Bertie did once propose to have his body re-
mov'd to Uffington, and to put him a monument,
but it is not yet done. 1708.

Among the clergy of the diocese of Lincoln who
t<x}k licenses to preach from S' Nathaniel Brent in
the metroi)»)l. visitation 1634, Aug. 22, Michaeli
Hudson clerico, in art. mag. rectori de West De-
ping in et per dioc. Line. Reg: Line. MS. Ken-
net.]

JOHN WHITE, usually called Patriarch of
Dorchester, or Patriarch White, son of John White,
was born in the time of Christmas at Stanton S.
John near to, and in the county of Oxon, and was
baptized there 6 Jan. 1575, educated in grammar
learning in Wykeham's schwil near Winchester,
admitted perpetual fellow of New coll. after he had
scrvetl two years of probation, in the year 1595,
took the degrees in arts, holy orders, and became
a frequent preacher in these parts. In 1606 he left
his coll. and alxiut that time" became, as I suppose,
rector of Trinity parish in Dorchester in the county
of Dorset, where in the course of his ministry he
expounded the scripture all over, and half over
again, having had an excellent faculty in the clear
and solid interpreting of it. So that his name
being up in those parts, gave (x;casion to a neigh-
bour' of his (a puritanical physician) to stile him
' pastor & minister fidelissimus, in quo praeter doc-
tnnain insignem, ingeniique vim acrem, mirum, ju-
dicium, demde & seduUtas, pietas, atque fides in-
credibilis invicem certabant,' &c. But it must be
known that these things were spoken of him after
our author White had becjueathed ' to the said phy-
sician of Dorchester one of his pieces of jilate. He
was tor the most part of his time a moderate, not
morose or peevish, puritan, and conformed to the
ceremonies of the church of England before, and
when, archb. Laud sate at the stern. But in the
beginning of the long parliament, when the saints
raised a rebellion, he sided with tliem, and with his

sub-Levites Thompson and Will. Benne both

Oxford students, did in a miserable manner cozen
the people thereabouts with strange*^ rejxjrts, viz.
' That mass was said openly in Oxon, that none
but papists were about his majesty, that 20000 Scots
were already entred England, that they should not
look on any book printed at Oxon, or published by
his majesty's conunand. By which means they se-

• [An. 1575 Mr. John White, preacher, born. .\n. l605.
Mr. J. W. came to Dorchester. Vide MS. vol. xxxvi, p.
378. Baker.^

' Fred. Loasius Heidelbergensis Palatin. in OhscTvalionibus
Medicinal. Lond. 1^7^. oct. lib. I. oljservat. 15. p. 35.
' Reg. Fairfax in Offic. Prctog. qu. 105.

• Mere. Ant. in the 34th week, p. 468.

[115]

WHITE.

238

duced alniosl all the town to take tlic covenant, as-
surinjT them, most martyr-like, that they would seal
it witn their bkxxl,' &c. But when prince Rupert
was in those jjarts, and the knowledge of these pro-
ceedings were spread abroad, a party of his horse
retired to Dorchester, plundered the house of our
author White, and t(X)k away his library. So that
he finding that place uneasy, he and his sub-Levites
fled, and White retiring to London, was made mi-
nister of the Savoy ])arish, and carried on the cause
there. So that whereas l)efore the rebellion broke
out, he, by his wisdom, did keep the inhabitants of
Dorchester in good order, and obedient to the
church, and also proved eminently useful in reform-
ing the dissolute manners of the people thereof, it
fell out that after the turn of the times, it was by
his means st<K;ked with such a faetious and fanatical
crew, that all endeavours could not reform it, nor
ever, as 'tis thought, will, it continuing so to this
day. In 1643 he was chosen one of the assembly
of divines, took the covenant, and sitting often with
them at Westminster, shewed himself one of the most
learned and moderate among them, and soon after
did, by order, not only succeed Dr. Featley in the
rectory of Lambeth in Surrey, (ejected thence) but
had his library conferred on him to keep and enjoy
it till such time as Dr. Featley could get back our
author's from the soldiers under prince Rupert.
When the broils of the nation were over, he repair-
ed to Dorchester, and in Nov. 1647 was designed
warden of New coll. ujwn the death of Dr. Pink,
by Will, lord Say, and Nath. Fieimes his son ; but,
it I am not mistaken, he refused that office. He
was a person of great gravity and presence, and had
always influence on the puritanical party near to,
and remote from, him, who bore him more respect
than they did to their diocesan. His works are
these,

Commentary on the three Jirst Chapters of Ge-
nesis, with large Observations on the same. Lond.
1656, 57. fol.

Directions Jhr the pnrfitable Reading of the
Scriptures. — Printed in oct.

Of the Sabbath. — Printed in qu.

Way to the Tree of Life, in sundry Directions.
T— Pr. 1647. Oct. 'Tis the same, I think, which is
called TIic Directory to I'ci^ection.

Several sermons, as (1.) The Troubles of Jeru-
salem''s Restoration: or the ChurcKs Reforma-
[116] iion. Fast Sermon before the H. of Lords, ^Q Nov.
J 645,- on Dan. d. 15. Lond. 1646. qu. with others
which I have not yet seen.

Ten Vows to the Parishioners of Dorchester —
MS. written about the year 1628, answcr'd by Dr.
Gilb. Ironside who became bishop of Bristol in
1660. At k'n<rth having lived beyond the age of
man, died suddenly on the 21st of July, in sixteen
1648. hundred forty and eight, and was interred in the
church porch of S. Peter in Dorchester, which is a
chappel belonging to Trinity church before-men-

tioned. Besides this Joh. Wliite, was another of
botli his names, a minister's son, tloctor of divinity,
brother to Dr. Franc. White bishop of Ely, and a
publisher of several b<x)ks, born at S. Neot's in
Huntingdonshire, bred in Caius coll. in Cambridge,
and afterwards became vicar of Eccles in Lanca-
shire. Whence, after he had continued some years,
he was brought into Suffolk by sir John Crofts,
who bestowed on him the l)est hving that he had to
give. He sent for hini unknown from Eccles, where
he lived in those distresses which he was never able
to look through. He furnished him with Iwoks fit
for his stutlies, he honoured and countenanced him
so much, tliat all the country was satisfied he had a
love and respect for him. He wrote a book called,
The Way to the true Church, and A Defence of it,
against tlie two books that Joh. Fisher the Jesuit
published, and other things, as the Oxford Cata-
logue will tell you. One T. W. P. (priest) who
had sometimes, as it seems, been of Cambridge,
wrote a b(X)k against Jo. White called White dyed
Black. ]3ut John dying before he could make a
reply, his brother Dr. Franc. White took up the
bucklers, and forthwith published a book against
the SMd T. W. entit. Ort/uxiox Faith and Way to
the Church explained, &,c. Lond. 1617. (ju. In
the last ' will and test, of the said John White with-
out date, I find these things said of himself

' Whereas for 20 years past by preaching and
writing, published in two books, I engaged my self
against papistry ; I profess I have done therein no-
thing against my conscience, but desire all men to
assure themselves, that if any error hath escaped
me, it hath passed me through oversight, when I
always bended my self to that work of writing, with
much humility to God, and such diligence as I was
able to use : And having the books always by me,
I writ nothing but what I found in antiquity, and
in the writings publicly received in the church of
Rome it self; and I constantly avouch, that what
I have writ, is the truth, and have been the more
confirmed therein by the unconscionable behaviour
of my adversaries against me,' &c. This will was
proved 21 Feb. 1619, being two or more years after
his deatli, at which time he was chaplain in ordinary
to the king; and his father living, after he had
spent 50 years in preacliing the word of God.

[1605,"17 Mail, Joh. White A. B. coll. ad vica-
riam de Fering, per mortem Tho. Sterne. Reg.
Bancroft.

The Protestation of John White D. D. xcMch
he caused to be written tlie Day before Ids Death,
to the End the Papists might understand he de-
parted out of this World of the same Opinion and
Judgment he maintained both by Preaching and
Writing whilst he lived. A sheet, printed for Wil-
liam Barret. Kennet.]

In Reg. Parker in Oific. Prerog. qu. I7.

939

CHALFONT.

HERBERT.

"RICHARD CHALFONT, son of Peter
" Chal. was l)om at Great Wycomb in Bucks, be-
" came a batler of New-Inn in Mich, term 16^,
" aged 16 years or thereabouts, took the degrees in
" arts, was elected fellow of Line. coll. 20 Feb.
" 1634, atlmitted liach. of div. three years after,
" and became minister to the worshipful company
" of English merchants at Roterdam, an. 1646 ;
" where, as in the university before that time, he
" was accounted a most painful and edifying
" preacher, but always puritanical. He hath writ-
" ten,

" Several sermons, as (1.) Sermon at the Puhlic
" Fast, 10 May 1644, preached before the House
" of Cominon.t at Oxon ; on Jer. 44. 10. Oxon.
" 1644. qu. [Bodl. 4t(). D. 60. Th.] (2.) Sermon
'' on Psal. 29. 11. This I have seen in MS. some-
" times in the hands of Dr. Tho. Marshall some-
" times of Line. coll. as also a Lot. Sermon on Heb.
" 5. 4. and several other things worthy of tlie press.
" He was burietl in the church appropriate for the
" use of the aforesaid merchants m Roterdam on
I(i48. " the 23d of Nov. styl. vet. in sixteen hundred
" forty and eight, as I have been informed by the
" stud Dr. Marshall, who farther told me, that Mr.
" Hen. Tozer of Exeter coll. succeeded him as
fllT] '" minister to the said company of EngUsh nier-
" chants."

EDWARD HERBERT son of Rich. Herbert
by TMagd. his wife, dan. of sir Rich. Newport of
High A real] in Shro])shire, knight, was born in the
sometimes most pleasant and romancy place in
Wales called Mountgomery castle,* became a gent,
com. of University coll. in 1595, aged 14 years,'

* [Not so ; he snys of himself, ' I was born at Evlon in
Shropshire (beinjt a house wliich tosether with fai^r lands
descended upon the Newporis bv my grandmothr') bciw^^en
tlie hours of twelve and one of the clock in the moniinj»;
my infancy was \ery sickly, my he.id continually purging it-
self very much by the ears, whereupon also it was so I<)ng
before I bcuan lo speak, that many thought I should be ever
dumb : the very furthest thing 1 remember is, that when I
uoderstood what was say'd by others, I did yet forbear to
speak, lest I shou"d uiter something that were imperfect or
impertinent; when I rauie to tilk, one of the furthest in-
quirieF I made was how I came into this world ? I told my
nurse, keeper, and others, I found myself here indeed, but
from what caui>e or beginning, or by what means 1 cou'd
not imagine, but for this as I was laughed at by nurse and
some other women that were then present, so I was won-
der'd at by others, who said they never heard a child but my-
self ask that question ; upon which, when I came to riper
years, I made this observation, which afterwards a little com-
forted me, that as 1 found mv self in p(»ssession of this life,
without knowin" any tiling of the pangs and throws my mo-
ther suflcr'd, when yel doubiless ihey did no less press and
iifflict me than her, so I hope my soul shall p.\5s to a better
life than this without being sensible of the anguish and pains
my body shall fed in death. For, as I believe, then 1 shall
be transmitted lo a more happy estate by God's great grace,
I am confident I shall no more know, how I came out of
this world, than how I came into it.' L\fe, &c. p. l6.]

* FHe says he was only twelve years old when lie came to
University, * where 1 remember lo have disputed at my first

where being put under the tuition of an eminent
tutor, laid the foundation of that admirable learn-
ing, whereof he was afterwards a compleat master.
Thence he betook himself to travel, as also to cer-
tain miliUiry exercises in foreign parts, whereby he
became much accomplish''d. After his return, he
was made knight of the Bath at the coronation of
K. Jam. I.; afterwiU"ds one of the counsellors to
that king for his mihtary affairs, and sent ambassa-
dor to Lewis 13, king of France, to mediate lor the
relief of the protestants in that realm then besieged
in several places. In which service continuing about
five years, he was recalled « in July 1621, because
he had irreverently treateil De Luvens the great
constable of France,' and Edward Sackvile was
sent in his place. In the 22d of K. Jam. I. he was'
advanced to the dignity of a baron of the realm of
Ireland, bv the name of lord Herbert of Castle
Island, and in 5 of Car. 1. to the title of lord Her-
bert of Cherbury in Shropsliire. He was a person
well studied in the arts and languages, a good phi-
losopher and historian, and understood men as well
as b(x)ks, as it evidently appears in his writings, tiie
titles of which foUow.

De Veritate, prout distinguitur a Revelatione, a
Verisim'ili, a Poss'ibUi 4" « Falso,^ &e. Par. l6iJ <•
and 1633. [Bodl. AA. 14. Jur. Seld.l Lond. 164.3.
qu. &c. Translatetl into French anti printed 1&39
qu. [Bodl. 4to. L. 14. Th. BS.] much valued by
learned men, and reposed, as 'tis said, in the pope's
Vatican. Answered by P. Gasseudus in his thiixl
tome (the title of which is Opuscula Philosophica )
from p. 411. to p. 419. in an epistle directetl to our au-
thor Herbert — I^ugd. 1658. fol. and by Mr. Richard

coming in logick, and to have made in Greek the cxercie*
requir'd in that colledg, oftner than in L;itin.' Life, ?cc.
pane 24.]

* Cambden in Annul. R.Jac. 1. an. l02i. ,:;

' [King James I. sent sir Edward Herbert (after L. ller-
liert of Cherbury) his embassador into France, to medi^it a
peace between the king and the reformed, and in case of
refusal to use memicc!, which sir Eilw. bravely performed,
to Laynes, and after to the French king himself; which
being misrepresented to K. James, sir Edward was recalled,
and the carl of Carlisle was sent embassador into Fiance in
his roome ; and the carl finding the truth to be otherwise
than was represented by Laynes, acquainleil the king with
i(. Hereupon sir Edward kneeled to the king, and humbly be-
sought liim, that since the businesi between Laynes and him-
self was become public, that a trumpeter if not an herald on
sir Edward's part might be sent to Laynes, to tell him that
he had made a false relation to the king of ihc passages be-
tween them ; and that sir Edward would demand reasons of
him, with sword in hand, on that point : but the king was
not pleased to grant it ; and here began the downfal of the
power of (he reformed in France, and the rise of the French
grandure by land. Detection of the Court and State of
England, Sec. lu Roger Cake, vol. I. lib. 1. cap. 3 ; p. 113,
1 14. Wood, MS. nule in Ashtnoie.']

" Baronage of Eneland, loui. 2. p. 26l. a.

' [See a veiy curious account, given by himself, of the
event which decided hiMi on making this hook public in his
own life, page 171. and which I do not repeat here, as it has
also been' given by Granger in his Biographical History nf
^ng/anrf, vol. ii, page 3i9, edit. 8vo.]

241

HERBERT.

FELI-.

^24^2

1648.

[118]

Baxter in his More Reasons Jm the Christian Re-
ligion^ &c. Printed at Lond. in tw.

De Causis Errorum ; una own Tractatu de Re-
I'lgione Laici, <^ Appendice ad Sacerdotes ; necnon
quthiisdam Pocmatibus. Printetl with the book De
Veritate, &c. 1645.' qu. [Bodl. 4to. H. 7. Aft.
Seld.]

Life aiul Reign of K. Hen. 8. Lond. 1649,
[BocU. F. 2. 19. Art. Seld.] and 72. Both which
editions being collated with the orijojinal Mb. in the
archives of BtHJley's library (given thereunto by the
author in 1643) by certain scholars of this univer-
sity, was printed at Lond. again in 1682. fol.

Expcditio Buckinghami Duels in Ream Insu-
lam* Written by the author in 1630, published by
Timothy Baldwin doct. of law and fellow of All-s.

coll. Lond. 1656. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. H. 4. Art.

BS.]

Occasional Verses (or Poems) Lend. 1665. oct.

SubUshed by Hen. Herbert his Bon, and by him
ecUcated to Edwai-d lord Herbert grandson to the
author. Others of his poems I have also seen in
the books of other authors,' occasionally written,
particularly in that of Joshua Silvester, entit. La-
crymoE Lacrymarum ; or the Spirit of' Tears dis-
tilled for the untimely Death of Prince Henry.
Lond. 1613. qu. There be others also of sir Hen.
Goodyere, sir Will. CornwalUs, Jos. Hall, &c.

De Rcligione Gentilium, Errorumque apud eos
Causis. Amst. 1663.* qu. [Bodl. 4to. S. 68. Th.]
At length after our author Herbert had sided with
the long parliament, and had received satisfaction
from the members thereof for their causing Mount-
gomery castle to be demolished, upon the declining
of the king's cause, he surrendred up his last breath
in his house in Queenstreet near London in sixteen
hundred forty and eight, and was buried in the
chancel of S. Giles's church in the Fields. Over
his grave, which is under the south wall, was laid a
flat marble stone with this inscription engraven
thereon, Heic inhumatur Corpus Edwardi Herbert
Equitis Balnei, Baronis de Cherbury & Castle
Island, Auctoris Libri cui Titulus est De Veritate.

' fPrintcd also in iCoC, 8vo. Bodl. Crynes 157-]

* [_Expedilio in Keam [nsulum, Aulhore Edovnrdo Do-
mino Herlcrl, Darone de Cherhury in Anglia, et Castri In-
iulce de Kerry in Hibernia et 'Pare ulriusque Regni. Anno
MDCXXX. Q,uam puUici Juris fecit Timollieus Bald-
uinus, LL. Doctor e Coll. Omn. Anim. apud Oxonienses,
Soeius. Londini 163G, 8vo. Epistola T. B. (i. c. Tim. Bald-
win!) • lectori seqiiestro' — Epistola E. Herbert serenissimo
potentissinioque inonarcha; Carolo — dabam castr. de Mont-
gomery, Aug. 10, I()30. — ' Ea mihi olim a duce Bucking-
hamo demandata fuit provincia ut de Expeditione sua in
Ream insulam coramentarios quosdam tumiiltuaria opera
conscriptos concinnarem, et in ordinem digererem. Grave
istud (quod nulla deprecarer excusatione) molienti onus,
intervenit nefaria duels ex sicarii manu mors' — Kennf.t.]

' [One of the elegies on Dr. Donne's death is by lord
Herbert.] '

■* [Printed again at Amsterdam 170O, in 8vo. Bodl.
Crynes 693.]

Vol. in.

Redder ut Herbae ; Vicesimo Die Augusti Anno
Domini, 1648. He was father to ' Rich, lord Her-
bert, and he to Edward, which lost dying 21 Apr.
1691, was buried on the 28th of the same month
near to the grave of his grandfather. The reader
is to know, that one Edward Herbert an esquire's
son* of the county of Mountgomery, was matricu-
lated in the university as a member of Qu. coli in
the beginning of July 1608, aged 17 years, but he
is not to be taken to be the same with the former
who was lord Herbert, tho' Isaac Walton in the'
Li/e of Mr. George Herbert doth,' and from him
the society of the said coll. I take him to be the
same, who was afterwards a knight and attorney
general, temp. Car. 1.'

[See a most romantic life of this author, wrote by
himself, and printed at Strawberry hill by my
friend Mr. Horace Walpole, youngest son to the
first earl of Orfbrd, and sent by him to me in July
1764, when it was published in 4to, with a neat
print of lord Herbert lying under a treie. He seems
to be the vainest of all mortals, as also the most of
a Quixot, a character one would not expect in the
author of De Veritate. I take it liis neice Catha-
rine Vaughan was my great, great grandmother.
Wm. Cole, 1764. Lord Herbert's L^e of Him-
self vias printed in 4to. 1764, for private distribu-
tion only. It was afterwards pubhshed in 4to.
Lond. for Dodsley 1770, 17 and again 1792.

Wood had never seen the three fdlowjng poems,

De Vita Humana.

De Vita caelesti Conjectura.

Hecred. ac Nepot. suis Prtrcepta et Consilia,
E. B. H. de C. 4- C. I. de K. These were printed
Lond. 1647, 4to. In the Bridge water library.'

The ' neat print' above mentioned was engraved
from an original of Oliver's by A. Walker, and
there is a neat small head of lord Herbert by Hol-
lar.]

SAMUEL FELL was bom within the parish
of S. Clements Danes without Temple-bar near
London, elected student of Ch. Ch. from AVest-
minster school 1601, aged 17 years, took the de-
grees in arts, that of master being compleated in
1608, elected proctor of the university in 1614, ad-
mitted bac. of div. in the year after, and about that

' [By Mary, daughter of sir William Herbert of St. Gil-
lians, who he niarried Feb. 28, 13<)8, and by whom he had
several children ; of these none remained when he wrote his
life, except Beaitice, Richard and Edward.]

* [Viz. Charles Herbert of Aston, thirtTson of Edward,
son of sir Richard.]

7 Printed at Lond. 167O. p. U.

* ("Mr. George Herbert, the poet, was brother to Edward
lord Herbert of Cherbury. Cole.]

' [And this opinion I believe true. J. A. MS. note, so
signed, in a copy now before me. Edit.]

' [111 1768 was printed in 4to. A Dialogue on Education,
attributed to lord Herbert, how justly I know not, never
having seen the tract.]

R

243

TIPPING.

GEREE.

244

164}.

time became minister of Freslnvater in the isle of
Wight. In the month of May 1619 he was installed
eanon of Ch. Ch. and the same year ]>r(X'eeded in
divinity, beino; alH)ut that time domestic chaplain
to kini; Jam. 1. In 1626 he was made Marj^aret
professor, and .so consequently preliendary of Wor-
cester, (which was about that tnne annexetl to the
[)rofessor8hip) he bein" then a Calvinist. At length
eaving his opinion, became, after great seekings
and cringings, a creature of Dr. Laud archliishop
of Canterbury, by whose means he was made dean
of Lichfield, upon the promotion of Dr. John War-
ner to the see of R(x;hester, an. 1637, dean of Ch.
Ch. in the year after in the place of Dr. Duppa pro-
moted to the see of Chichester, and would, without
doubt, had not the rebellion broke out, been a bi-
shop. In 1647 he was ejected from his deanery
and vice-chancellorship, after he had suffered much
for his loyalty, and tor the preserving of the sta-
tutes and liberties of the university. Afterwards
retiring to his rec-tory of Sunningwell near Abing-
don in Berks, spent the short remainder of his life
in obscurity. He hath written and published,

Primitife ; sive Oratio hahita Oxonia: in Schold
Theolofftce 9 Nov. An. 1626. Oxon. 1627. qu.
[Bodl. D. 16. 10. Line]

Concio Latina ad Baccalaureos Die Cineriim ; in
Colos. 2. 8. Oxon. 1627. qu. [Bo<U. D. 16. 10.
Line] and other things, as 'tis probable, but such I
have not yet seen. He died in the parsonage-house
at Sunningwell before-mentioned, on the first day
of Febr. in sixteen hundred forty and eight, and
was buried in the chancel of the church there. In
his deanery Edward Reynolds, M. A. (afterwards
D. of div.) had violently been thrust in by the au-
thority of parliament, m 1648, as I have at large
told * you elsewhere.

[1612, 29 Jan. Sam. Fell, A. M. coll. ad preb.
de Wenlockesbarn in ecclesia Paid, per mortem
Griffin Vaughan. Reg: King-, Loud. Ep. Ken-
net.

Sami'Fell S. T. P. presentatus a rege ad recto-
riam de Sonningwell, oioc. Sarum, 21 Sept. 1625.
Rymer, Faedcra, torn, xviii, p. 642, 644. Januarii 7°.
Bakeb.J

SU"

WILLIAM TIPPING, second son of
George Tipping, of Dreycot and Whitfield in Ox-
fordshire, knight, by Dorothy his wife, dau. of Joh.
Burlacy of Little Marlow in Bucks, esq; was bom
in O.vfordshire, (at Dreycot I think") became a com-
moner of Queen''s coll. under the tuition of Mr. Joh.
Langhonie in the latter end of 1614, aged 16 years,
where making a considerable progress in logicals
and philosophicals, took a degree in arts. After-
wards he went to London, and spent some time in
one of the inns of court, but his geny being theolcv

» In Kit. ef Antij. Univ. Oxon. lib. I. sub an. l647.
&48.

gicalty given, he retired to Oxon, livwl a .single life
many years in Clanditch in the north suburbs there-
of, for the sake of sc-holastical company and of
books, and was a justice of the peace for Oxford-
shire. In the iK-ginning of the civil war he sided
with the presbyterians, (being always puritanically
affected) took the covenant, and at length was nmSi
one of the visitors of the university ot Oxon by the
power of parliament, an. 1647, and the next year [119]
was iictually created master of arts. He hath writ-
ten,

A Discourse of Eternity. Oxon. 1633. qu.' Af-
ter the publication of which, he obtainetl tne name
among the scholars of Eternity Tipping, to distin-
guish him from others of his simame.

A Return of Thankfulness for the unexpected
Recovery out of a dangerous Sickness. Oxon. 1640.

(Kt.

A Father'' s Counsel: or. Directions to young
Persons. Lond. 1644. oct.

The Preachers Plea: or, a short Declaration
touching the sad Condition of our Clergy, in Rela-
tion to the Smallncss (if their Maintenance througfi-
mtt tfie Kingdom. Lond. 1646. in tw. [Bodl. Svo."
J. 5. Th. BS.I

The remarkable Life and Death of the Lady
Apollonia Hall, IVidozc, deceased in the 3,1st Year
of her Age. Lond. 1647. in tw. He gave way to
fate at Waterstock near to, and in the county of,
Oxon, on the second day of Febr. in sixteen hun-
dred forty and eight, and was buried on the eighth iG4f.
day of the same month in the chancel of the church
there. This person tho' born to a fair estate, and
so consequently might have taken those pleasures
which the generality of gentlemen do, yet he gave
himself solely up to learning, piety, and charity.
He gave 20 shillings yearly to All-saints parish m
Oxon for a sermon to be preached there every Good
Friday, and three * hundred jX)unds*
towards the building of a bridewell
house without the north-gate of the
city, some years before the rebellion
broke out.

an hundred
pounds, firit
eclil.

JOHN GEREE, a Yorkshire man bom, be-
came either a batler or serv'itour of Magd. hall in
the beginning of the year 1615, and in that of his
age 15, took the degrees in arts, that of master
being compleatcd in 1621, entretl into holy orders,
and became minister of a market town in Glouces-
tershire called Tewkesbury.

But being schisma-

3 [;\nother edit. Lond. l646, among Selden's books in
Bddley (8vo. B. 18. Th. BS.) A Disnvrse of Ehrnilie
collec/ed and composed Jor the common Good. JJei'ig neces-
sary for all Seasons, hut especially for this Time of Catamilie
and Destruction. Printed at London bif George Miller for
Christopher Meredith, at the Signe of the Crane in Pautt
Church Yard. l046. This edit, was anonymous.]

* [Three hundred. So Mr. Keblewhite. Wood. MS.
note in Ashmolc.]

GEREE.

246

tically inclined, he refused to conform to certain ce-
remonies in tlie cliurch of England, wliereupon
beinf silenced by Goodman his diocesan, he lived
by the helps of the brethren. At lenjrth 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. Alban's in Hertfordshire, and in two

fears after, or less, at S. Faith's under Paul's in
.ondon : At all which places he was much resorted
to by those of the presbyterian jjersuasion. He
hath written and published these things following.

Several sermons, viz. (1.) The Downfal of Anti-
christ, &c. Sermon oil 2 Thes. 2. 8. Lond. 1641.
2u. dedicated to John White, esq; and the rest of
le committee for religion. (2.) JudaKs Joy at
the Oath, (Covenant) Sermon on 2 Chr. 15. 15.
Lond. 1641. qu. [Bodl. 4to. A. 57. Th.] (3.) The
Red Hor.se, or the Bloodiness of War, Sermxm at
PauFs 16 Juhj 1648; on Rev. 6. 4. Lond. 1648.
qu. [Bodl. 4to'. J. 1. Th. BS.] &c.

Vind'icia: Voti : or, a Vindication of the true
Sense of the national Covenant in Answer to the
ProtestatUm protested. Lond. 1641. qu.

Vindicia; Eccks. Anglicance : or, ten Cases re-
solved, which discover, that thd there be need of
Reformation in, yet not of Separation from, the
Churches of Christ; in Englaiid. Lond. 1644. (ju.
[Bodl. 4to. D. 82. Th.] Ded. to Mr. Rich. CapeU
sometimes of Magd. coll.

Proofs that the King may, without Impeachment
of his Oath, touching the Clergy at his Coronation,
ccmsent to the Abrogation cf Episcopacy, and the
Objections against it in two several Treatises
printed at Oxon, fully anszvered. Lond. 1646. qu.
m one sheet. Or thus as 'tis in another title, Case
of Conscience resolved. Wherein it is cleared tlutt
the King may witlujut 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-ma.stix. The Vanity of judicial Astro-
logy. Lond. 1646. qu.

Vindicia; Pcedo-Baptismi : or, a Vindication of
Infant-Baptism in a full Answer to Mr. Tombe''s
12 Arguments alledged against it in his Exercita-
tion, &c. Lond. 1646. quarto. [Bodl. 4to. B. 9-
Th. BS.]
[120] Character of an old English Puritan, or Non-

conformist. Lond. 1646.' in 1 sh. in qu. [Bodl. 4to.
B. 9. Th. BS.]

VindicicE Vindiciarum : or, a Vindication of his
Vi7idication of Infant-Baptism from the Eocceptions
nf Mr. Harrison in his Pccdo-Baptism oppugned,
and from the Exceptions of Mr. Tumhes, See.
Loncl. 1647. qu. [Bodl. 4to. B. 9- Th. BS.]

A Catechism in brief Questions and Answers,
&c. Lond. 1647. oct. [Bod 8vo. C. 17. Th. BS.]

' [Ueprinted Lond. l673, 4lo.]

Touching Supremacy in Causes Ecclesiastical,
shelving how that tlie Power Civil and Ecclesias-
tical may act without Encroachment of each otlier.
Writti'ii 1647. printed in qu.

[®eto(paii^ax(>v, or a Divine Potion to preserve
spiritual Health, by the Cure of unnatural HealtJh-
drinking, or''] An Exercise wherein t/te Evil if
Health-drinking is by clear and solid ArgumentJi
convinced. Lond. 164i3. in two sh. in qu. [Bo<ll.
4to. G. 11. Th. BS.J

The Sifter's Sieve broken : or, a Reply to Dr.
Bougheii's Sifting his Case of Conscience, ^c.
toucliing tJie King^s Coronation Oath. Lond. 1648.
qu.

Anszver to Mr. John Goodwins Might and Rigid
well met ; wherein is cleared, that the Action of the
Army in Secluding many Parliament Men from
the Place of their Discharge of TruM, and the
Imprisoning of some of them, is neither defen-
sible by the Rules of solid Rea.son, nor Religion.
London. 1649. qvi. in 5 sheets. AVhereupon Jo.
Goodwin ' came out with a reply the same year
entit. Alight overcoming Right," &,c. \Vliat other
things our author Joh. Geree hath written, I know
not. See more of him in Will. Pemble among these
writers in 162.3. vol. ii. col. 331. 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) six-
teen hiuidred forty and eight, but where buried, un- '64|.
less in S. Faith's church before-mentioned, I cannot
tell. The minister who preached his funeral ser-
mon told the auditory that he died jxxjr ; where-
ujx)n 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 lor the murder of
K. Ch. I.

[Directions for the private Reading of the Scrip-
tures ; wJierein besides tlie Number cfthe diopters
assigned to every Day, the Order and Drft of the
zeliole Scripture is metliodicully set down : And
choice Rules (that shew how to read with Profit)

« [Tanner.]
' [Jo. Got " ■

Goodwin Norfolc. adm. socius coll. Refill. Nov.
10, l(il7.

Quidam Jo. Goodwin adtnissus in coll. Jo. Cant. 1587,
quaere ?

Quidam Jo. Goodwin coll. Einan. adui. in Matr. Acad.
Cant. Jul. 9, 1G29.

Jo. Goodwin, Stafford, adm. socius coll. Jo. Apr. 6, IS93.
Baker.]

^ [Wood has mistaken this title : Might overcoming Right
was one of Geree's own book?. The answer by Goodwin
was entitled A brief Reply lo a Treatise, inlituled KATA-
jiTNArrHI or Might overcoming Right. Published by M. J.
Geree, a little before his Death. This was printed at page
09 ofTUPlXTOAlKAI: The Ohstructovrs of Justice : or a De-
fence of the Honourable Sentence passed upon the late King
by the High Court of Justice, &c. &c. Lond. 1S49, 4to. See
it in Bodl. Line. A. 1. 19.]

' See Mr. Rich. Baxter in liis Plea for the Nonconformists
Ministry, Lond. 168I. p. 145.
R2

247

GEREE.

HAMILTON.

are likewise given. The Use whereof is shexced in
the Preface. By Nich. B^fciM, '"> Preacher (f God's
Word at Isleicorfh in Middlesex. The fourth Edi-
tion. Wherein the Anulyticall Tables are much atul
profitably inlarffed, and Helps prescribed to tlwse
that cannot write or read. By Jo: Geree M. A.
and Pas-tour of Saint Faith's, London. Where-
unto is annexed a jnthy Direction to reconcile
Places df Scripture which seem repugnant. Lon-
don 16fe. 12mo. Preface addressed ' to the Chris-
tian reader, and more especially to my loving pa-
rishioners of" St. Faiths London — ' Being moved oy
a friend to review and supply some defects in a httle
book intituled Directions &c. I at first put it off as
a task fitter for some of neer alliance to him; but
understanding that engagement in pubUke affairs
prevented help in that way, I .undertooke the work
—the defects which I was to supply, were not at
first found out by me, but suggested by another
reverend divine (M. H. Palmer) now witn God. —
From my study in Ivy Lane, Jan. 4, 1647.' Bodl.
8vo. B. 24. Th. BS.]

"JAMES HAMILTON the eldest son of
James marquis of Hamilton in Scotland, by the
lady Anne Cuningham his wife, daughter of
James earl of Glencairn, was born of a most an-
tient and noble family at Hamilton, on the 19 of
June 1606, Ijecame a nobleman of Exeter coll.
under the tuition of Dr. John Prideaux, by the
name and title of James Hamilton earl of Arran,
in the beginning of July 1621, where spending
about three years in good letters, retired to the
court, and upon the death of his father, which
hapned in the latter end of 1624, he became mar-
quis of Hamilton and earl of Cambridge, and
shortly after grew in such favour with K. Ch. I
that he made him one of the gent, of his bed-
chamber, knight of the Garter and master of the

horse. In 1630 he sent the lord Rea a

Scotch man to the king of Sweden, to offer his
assistance, and that he would bring over ' forces
to him, but some suspected tlie marquis to have a
deeper design, under this pretence, to begin to
raise forces to back his intended purpose oi mak-
ing himself king of Scotland. But the marquis
bemg full of subtilty and in great favour with the
king, he wiped off all suspicion of himself, goes
on with raising of his army, and conduct»Jd it
into Germany. But so little care was taken of
provisions and accommodations for his men, that
they were brougiit into a sick and shattered
condition ; so that they mouldred away in a short
time, and the marquis was forced to return to
England, without gruning any great renown by
this action, wherein he neither did service to the
K. of Sweden, or to himself, or to the protestants

'• [Of N. Byfielil sec vol. ii, col. 323.]

' " Bulstr. Whillock in \m Memorials

ic. under the year 1 630."

of English AJfairs,

" cause in Gern)any. In 1638, when divers tu-

" mults were raised in Scotland under colour of

" asserting the religion there established, he was

" about tlie end of tlie month of May employed '

" thither, in order to the appeasing of them :

" whence he returned in Nov. following. Also upon [121]

" that great insurrection of the Scots in 1639, wliich

" occasioned his majesty to raise considerable forces

" by sea and land (liimself also nuu-ching in person

" thither) this marquis had the whole fleet (pre-

" pared for that purpose) committed to his trust

" and conduct. And after that upon a farther in-

" surrection there, being sent again into that realm,

"in order to his majesty's service, for the better

" countenancing him therein, had the title of duke'

" conferred on him in Apr. 1643. About which

" time the Scots having raised another army to

" assist the English rebels then in a dechning con-

" dition, he hastned to the king at Oxon, accom-

" panied with his brother AVilliam earl of Lanerick,

" giving out to all the governors of such towns and

" ca-stles as lay in their road, that being banished

" tlieir country for their loyalty to his majesty, and

" plundered of their estates by the covenanters,

" they were at that time thus constrained to flee for

" the safety of their lives. What cause of suspicion

" the king then had of the duke's fidelity, is not yet

" certainly known : sure it is that upon his arrival

" at Oxon, 16 Dec. 1643, his maj. did not only re-

" fuse him access to his presence, but sent him on

" the 3 of Jan. following prisoner to Pendennis

" castle in Cornwall ; where continuing for some

" time, he was translatetl to St. Michael's mount in

" the same county, where he continu'd till the

" month of Aug. an. 1646, when all being lost, and

" that, among other garrisons, surrendred, he was

" thereupon freed and went into Scotland. After

" wliich his maj. being sold by the brethren of that

" realm (to whom he had fled for refuge, they

" being then besieging Newark) unto the covenants

" ing presbvterians of England, and from tliem at

" length taKen by the independents to serve their

" ends, and made prisoner in several places, par-

" ticularly in the isle of Wight, this duke Hamilton

" discerning how distastful to the world those huck-

" sters then were ; for thus making merchandize of

" their native king, and their brethren in England

" grown odious, not restoring him to his royal

" power, when they might ; as also that the inde-

" pendents were generally abominated, for pre-

" tending his restoration, and afterwai-ds keeping

" him close prisoner in the said island, made over-

" ture to the Scots for rsusing an wcmy in order to

" his rescue. Which matter seeming plausible to

" them, but much more to the royalists, he wanted

" neither men nor arms to serve him in that ad-

" " Will.Dngdale in hh Baronage of England, Reprinted
167C. torn. 3. p. 439. b."
' " Ibid."

HAMILTON.

HEYIIICK.

250

[122]

" venture : Aiid to the intent he might therein ob-
" tain the favour of tlie kirk, lie declared for the
" covenant, anil niarcli'd into England. Hut this
" attempt having neither his majesty ''s autiiority
" nor approbation, his maj. was heard to say (being
" then a prisoner in the said isle of Wight) inx)n
" the first notice that the Scots were entred mto
" this kingdom* ' The duke then is utterly undone,'
" for he would not confide in him, because of his
" conduct and design he was much diffident : and
" therefore to evidence his integrity, he his niaj.
" gave strict charge to such officers, who had in the
" war served him, that neither they, nor any sol-
" diers of his party should joyn with Hamilton or
" the Soots. By that time the duke had got to
" Preston in Lancashire, his horse and foot being
" at a large distance asunder, Cromwell and Lani-
" bert fell there upon him with such advantage, as
" that he became necessitated to forsake his foot
" and march southward. So that being closely
" pursued, and not able to make head, he was taken
" at Uttoxeter in Staffordshire, and thence carried
" prisoner to Windsor castle, and afterwards to
" Westminster, where he continued till he was
" brought to the block. Under this duke''s name
" go these things following,

" Preface to a Book entit. General Demands con-
" cerninff the late Covenant propounded to the Mi-
" nisters and Professors of Divinity in Aberdeen,
" to some rev. Brethren, ivho cume thither to re-
" commend the late Covenant to them, and to tliose
" that are committed to their Charge, &c. printed
" 1638. qu. Those that wrote the said General
" Demands, &c. were Alex. Ilosse sometimes mi-
" nister at Aberdeen, Joh. Forbes of Corse, Dr.
" and professor of div. at Aberdeen, Alexand.
*' Scrogie min. at Old Aberdeen and D. of D. Will.
" Lesley D. D. and principal of the King's coll. in
" Aberdeen, Rob. Baron Dr. and prof of div. and
" min. at Aberdeen, Jam. Sibbald D. of div. and
" min. there also. The duke of Ham. hath also
" written,

" Various Letters They were mostly written

" to K. Ch. I. Some to the queen, and some to
" great personages.

" Conferences, Advices, Answers, &c. — These,
" as most of his letters, you may see in The Me-
" moirs of the Lives and Actions of James and
" William Dukes of Hamilton, &c. published by
« Gilb. Biunet D. D. in 7 Ixjoks. Lond. 1674. fol.
" [Bodl. D. 4. 12. Art]

" Several Speeches Among which must not

" be forgotten one written with his own hand before
" his death (supjwsing it would not be permitted to
" be spoken on the scaffold) which was published
" by his brother Lanerick, and another which he
" spoke on the scaffold at the time of his execution,

* " SirTho. Herbert in his book eotit. Carolina Threnodia,
M.S."

published with his * Conference had with Dr. Ja:
Sibbald, printed at Lond. 1649. qu. [Bcxll. C.
15. 6. Line] But now let's bring this unhappy
man to his last exit : after he had iinpcared se-
veral times before the higii court of" justice to
answer lor his j)retended treasons by invading
the kingdom of" England, received his doom fronr
Joh. Bradshaw the president thereof, on tlie 6 of
March 1648, whereujwn being l)cheaded on a
scaff'old near to the great gate leading into West-
minster-hall on Friday the ninth day of the same ■*'•
month, his Ixxly was soon after conveyed by sea
to Hamilton in Scotland and there deposited in the
church among his ancestors. See more in The
Memoirs, &.c. before-mentioned, written in favour
of the said duke, as to his loyalty to the king, and
his cause ; much repugnant to a pamphlet pub^
lished some months oefore the duke's death enUt.
The manifjld Practices and Attempts of the
Humiltons, and particularly of tlie present Duke
of Hamilton now General of the Scotish Army,
to get the Croicn (f Scotland, &c. written in May
1648, and printed at Lond. the same year in 3 sh.
in qu. All, or most of, which pamphlet is in-
volv'd in another, which came out just after the
duke's death, entit. — Digitus Dei: or, God's
Justice upon Treachery and Trecuion, exemplified
in the Life and Death of tlie late James Duke of
Hamilton: being an exact Relation of his Tray-
' ierous Practices since the Year 1680, &c. Lond.
' 1649, in 4 sh. in qu. written by March. Nedham,
' who -hath added thereunto the duke's epitaph,
' very satyrically written : After the execution of the
' said duke, Henry earl of Holland, and the most
' noble Arthur lord Capell were for tlieir loyalty in
' endeavouring to rescue tlieir captive king from
' his imprisonment in the isle of Wight, beheaded
' also upon the same stage. The last entred on
' the scaflFold like a brave and generous liopian,
' walked to and fro in a careless posture with his
' hat cock'd, and shew'd nothing of discomposure
' at the approachment of death, but carried himself
' to the very jioint of it with such wonderful bold-
' ness and resolution that it struck tlie generality
' of the spectaUws with profound admiration."

[There are several fine old prints of the duke of
Haniilton. I shall particularise four,

1. On horseback, inscribed James marquis of
Hamilton—' Sold by W. Webb.'

2. By Voerst.

3. By Hollar, small.

4. By 11. White ; before Burnet's Lives of the
Hamiltons.]

« ROBERT HEYRICK was a Londoner bom,
" but descended from those of his. name (which are

' " See also at the end o{ Excetlent Conltmplalions divine
and moral, Written by Arthur lord Capell. Lond. l683,
ocl. |). UC, 147."

251

IIEYIIICK.

^VELDON.

BRERETON.

Clar.
1648.

[123]

" anlicnt and genteel) in Leicestersliire, was elected
" fellow of Alls. coll. from that of S. John's as it
" seenis, in the year 16!^, but t(x>k no dej^iec, as I
" can yet find. Afterwards lieing patroniz'd by the
" earl of E.xeter, lived near tlie river Dean-Bourne
" in Devonshire, where he excrcis'd his muse as
" well in jxxjtry as other leaniinji;, and became
" much beloved by the gentry in those parts for his
" florid anil witty discourse : but Ixjing forced to
" leave that place, he retired to London, where he
" pubhslied

" Hcxpc rides : or, Works both humane and di-
" vine. Lond. 1648, in a thick oct. with his picture
" (a shoulder-piece) Ijefore it

" His noble Numbers : or, his Pieces. Wh-erein
" {among other things) he sings the Birth of Christ,
" and Sighs for his Saviours Suffering.^ on tlie

" Cross printetl with Hespcrides. These two

" books of poetry made him much admired in
" tlie time when they were published, especially by
" tlie generous and boon loyalists, among whom
" he was numbred as a sufferer. Afterwards he
" had a benefice confen-'d on him (in Dcvonsh. I
" think) by die said E. of Essex, and was living in
" S. Ann's parish in Westminster, after his ma^
" iesty's restoration. He had a brother or near
" kin.sman named Rich. Heyrick a divine, whom I
" have elsewhere mention'd."

[WockI has enrolled Heyrick among our Oxford
«Titers without his usual accuracy, as that poet was
iu no way, that I can find, connected with this uni-
versity. There was, it is true, a Robert Heyrick,
the son of a knight, and born in I^ondon, matricu-
lated of St. John's college, in his 17th year, October
13, 1615,* but no such name (X"curs at All Souls,
where a Roger Heyrick ' in artibus baccalaureus,
de comitatu Middle.sexise et dif)ccs. liOndon. con-
sanguineus fundatoris,'' was admitted fellow in 1628.

Heyrick on the contrary was a Cambridge man.
He entcretl about the year 1615 at St. John's coll.
in that university, as a fellow commoner, and re-
moved in about tliree years to Trinity hall, where
he studied the law. J?ut being patronized by the earl
of Exeter, he (juitted this profession for the church,
and in 1629 (Oct. 1.) wa.s presented by king
Charles I. to the vicarage of Dean-Prior, in Devon-
shire, then vacant by the promotion of Dr. B.
Potter to tlie see of CarUsle. During the reign of
Cromwell he was, of course, deprived of his benefice,
but it was restored to him on the return of Charles
II. When or where he died is uncertain.

He3rrick's Hesperides is a vol. of equal rarity and
merit. Several of his poems have been revived in
modem collections, the best perhaps will be found
in Drake's Literary Hours, those which more espe-
cially relate to himself and his family in Nichols's
Hist, of Leicestershire, where also are several of his

■• VRtg. Maine. Univ. O.ron. PP. fol
" [Heg. Sociurum Cull. omn. Ann. MS.]

I0.».]

letters. About tlie year 1812 Dr. J. Nott of Bris-
tol printed Select Poems from tlic Hesperides, 'with
occasional Remarks by J. N. {Bristol, printed by
J. M. Gutch.) This vol. contains 284 of his poems ;
and it is only to be regretted tliat the editor did not
extend his collection t(» double the number. I gi\"e
one only as a specimen-—

To the Virgins to make much of Time-

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may.

Old Time is still a flying ;
And this same flow'r that smiles to-day.

To-morrow will be dying.

The glorious lamp of heav'n, the sun,

The higher he's a getting ;
The sooner will his race be run,

And nearer he's to setting.

That age is best which is the first,
When youth and blood are warmer ;

But, being spent, the worse ; and worst
Times still succeed the former.

Then be not coy, but use your time.

And while ye may, go marry ;
For, having lost but once your prime.

You may for ever tarry.

The head of Heyrick prefixed to his Hesperides
is engraved by W. Marshall, and is very rare. It
has been copied on a magnified scale by Schiavo-
netti for Nott's selections.]

ROBERT WELDON a man of parts during
liis stay in the university, took the degrees in arts as
a stuifent of Ch. Ch. that of master being cora-
pleated in 1615. Afterwards he liecame rector of
Stony-Stanton in Leicestershire, wrote and pub-
hslied

The Doctrine of the Scriptures concerning the
Original of Dominion. ]llierci7i God's perpetual
Propriety in the Sovereignty (rf the rchole Earth;
and the King's great Cluirter for the Administra-
tion thereof by authoritative Records in both the
Testaments, [and sundry of tlie chief Arguments
reduced into Form ready Jbr tlie present Examina-
tion of tliose who in this great Cause desire tlie
Truth^l <^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 pas-
sages therein a loyalist, and a sufferer for the king's

" WILLIAM BRERETON, descended from
" the antient and knightly fanidy of his name of
" Brereton in Cheshire, was bom, as I presume, at

" [Rawliksok.]

' [Nichois, Hist, of Leicestershire, iv. 972, says he was
forced to.fly the country for his own safety, and aods that he
died before the restoration.]

Clar.
1648.

BRERETON.

HAKEWILL-

254

" Honford (where his father lived) in the . same
" coiintv, sjK'nt sonic time either in the condition of
" a gent. com. or an hospes in Oxon, left it without
" a degree, exercisM himself in martial feats beyond
" the seas, as I have heard, became afu>rwards a
" l)aronet, and at length knight for Cheshire to serve
" in the two parliaments called in 1640 : but having
" been puritanically educated, he sided with the
" presbyterians in the beginning of the rebellion
^' raiseti by them, took a commission from them to
" be a colonel, took the covenant, and in June
" 1644 he was by the parliament made major ge-
" neral of Cheshire, Staffordshire, and Lancashire.
" What his services were for the parliament, and
" how he did beat and sometimes was beaten,* the
" common chronicles will tell you ; but when the
" king's cause began to decline, and he thereupon
" obtaining victories and garrisons, all his arrears
" were jiaid, after the rate of ten pounds per diem
" as a major-gen. and five thousand poimds given
" to him out of such delinquents (royalists)
" estates, that were not then (in Oct. 1646) com-
" poimdcd for, &c. Afterwards the inde|iendents
" gmning the reins of the government into their
" hands, we heard no more of him, only that he
" submitted to their government while he lived in
" his own country. Under his name were pub-
" lished,

" Divers Letters to Will. Lenthall the Speaker
" and the Parliament. — Among these I find his
" Letter to tJieJbrmer, concerning all the Passages
" and Treatises of the Sicffe and taking of the Litij
" of Chester, dated 9 Feb. 1645, xcith Letters to tlte
" besieged Persons in (Ihc.^ter. To n'hich is add-
" ed An exact Declaration of Chester'' s Enlarge-
" ment after three Years Bondage, written by
" Nathan Lancaster, Cfiaplain to the Cheshire
" Forces. Which letters and declaration were
" printed at Lond. 5 Mar. 1645, in 4 sh. and an
" half in qu. And to the latter (the parliament)
" A Letter concerning the Taking of Shrewsbury,
" dated 22 Feb. 1644. Two Letters to the Earl of
" Essex and Mr. Jo. Pym concerning the Rebels
" (Parliamenteers) Affairs in the North. Ox. 1643,
" in one sh. in qu. As for the victories he ob-
" tained, but not the overthrows that lie endured,
Clar. " you may see a canting book entit. A Survey of
1648. « England^s Champions, and TrutKs faithful P'a-
" triots. Sac. Lond. 1647. oct. cap. Ifi. p. 41, with
" the picture of sir Will. Brereton there ; which
" book was written and published by a bigotted
" presbyterian called Josiah Ricraft ' a merchant of
" London. He was Uvin» in 1648.

GEORGE HAKEWILL son of John Hake-

will of the city of Exeter merchant, was Iwm in the
parish of S. Mary Arches within the said city and
educated in grammar learning there, became a com-
moner 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 una-
nimously ek>cted fellow of Exeter coll. at two yejirs
standing. Afterwards he proceeded in arts, applied
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 di-
vinity. Afterwards he became the first sworn chap-
lain that attended prince Charles, by whose endea-
vours, I presume, he became archdeacon of Surrey,
an. 1616, which was the highest dignity tliat he en-
joyed, 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
wliich was this : After he had with some pains
written a small tract against that match, not with-
out some reflections on the Spaniard, which could
not he pleasing to the king, he caused it to be fairly
transcribed by another hand. Which done, he un-
known to the king presented it to the prince. The
prince, after he haid perused it, shew'd it to the
king, who being offended at it, commanded Tho.
Murrey the prince's tutor and secretary, the au-
thor Hake\vill, William his brother, and all others
who knew of, or were consenting to it, to be com-
mitted*' 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 generahty poUte, his
philosophy subtile, and divinity profound, yet in
this particular he was esteemed very rash and im-
prudent. 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 read-
ing it your self, but if you shew it to your father, I
shall be undone for my good will.' The prince re-
turned him many thanks and assured him, it should
never go farther than the cabinet of his own breast ;
but withal he asked him to whom he had sliew'd it.
Hakewill replied, the archbishop (Abbot) hath read
it, who returning, said to him. Well done thou good
and faithful servant. Besides him, he told the
prince, he had shew'd it to Mr. Murrey his tutor,
who belike being better acquainted with liis ma.ster's

Ijci-fidious disposition (so are the words of the libel-
ous author) than the other, did then dissuade him
from deUvering it to the prince, for saith he, he will
betray you. And it so fell out, for within less than

\V.>A\

' [^Looking Glass for the Anabaptists and the rest of tliK
Separatists in Confutation of inil. Kiffin's Remonstrances of
the Anabaptists, iSfc. By Josiah Ricraft. Loml. l64.^,
4to, four sheets and an half. T a n n e b .]

' Camden in Annal. Reg. Jac. 1. MS. sub an. iG^J.

' Sir Ant. Weldon in his Observations on K. Charles p.
217, 218, at the end of his Court and Char, of K. James,
printed l651. oct.

255

HAKEWILL.

two hours after his said engagement to the doctor,
he presented it to his tiitlier, iijwn which he, or any
thro' wliose liands or cognizance it had passed 1k*-
fore, were all under a disgrjice, and banished the
court,' Sec.

The works of this our author Hakewill are these,

The Vanity of the Eye. Oxon. 1608. in oct.
[Bodl. 8vo. H. 4J3. Art.] Written for the comfort
of a young gentlewoman who became bUnd by the
small pox.

Scutum Reffium adversus omnes Reg'icidas <§•
Regicidarum Fatronai, ab Initio Mundi tismie ad
Interitum Phocw Imperatoris, &c. Lib. 3. Lond.
1612. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. H.80. Th.]

Tlie antient and ecclesiastical Practice of Con-
firmation, confirmed by A r^uments drawn from
Scripture, Reason, Councils, Fathers, and Inter
Writers,* &c. Lond. 1613. qu. [Bodl. KK. 41.
Jur.]

Answer to a Treatise rcritten by Dr. B. Carter
by Way of Letter to hit Majesty, wherein he laycth
doran sundry/ politic Considerations, by tchich he
pretendeth himself ?ca,r mov'd, and endeavourcth
to move others to be reconciled to the Ch. of Rome,
&c. Lond. 1616. qu. [Bodl. 4to. H. 27. th.]

Treatise against the Match with the Iivfanta —
This little thing, which is in MS. I have not yet
seen. But another of the like nature I have lying
by me,* written by one Thomas Allured sometimes
secretary to Ralph lord Ever president of Wales,
the beginning of which is this. ' Thougli to ad^^se
may seem presumptuous, yet what is well intended,
I am more than confident will be neither offensive
[125] to your lordship,' &c. 'Twas written to the mar-
quis of Buckingham, who communicating it to the
king, he was so much displeased, that the author
Allured was committed to custotly 10 June 1620,
being a full year before Hakewill had written his
tract.

Twelve Sermons concerning David's Vow to re-
form himself his Family, and his Kingdom ; on
Psal. 101. Lond. 1621, [Bodl. 8vo. W. 48. Th.]
S2. oct. Besides which he hath other sermons ex-
tant, as (1) Serm. preached at Barnstaple, on Judg.
5. 31. Lond. 1632. qu. [Bodl. 4to. R. 29. Th.]
(2) Serm. at the Funeral of John Doivne Bar. of
Div. Rector oflnstoTt) in Devon, sometimes Fellozv
ofEman. Coll. in Camb. ; on Dan. 12. 3. Oxon.
1633. qu. [Bodl. 4to. D. 18. Th.]

Comparison between the Days of Purim and

* [This was wrhten for the coniirmatinn of the prince on
Monday in Easier week, l6l3, at the chappel in Whitehall,
at which time Dr. H. was cliaplaiu to the prince. Watts.]

* [There arc two copies of this letter in Tanner's MSS.
SgOand 299. It has been printed byRushworth in liis Col-
lections under the year 1 623, and by Gutch in the Collec-
tanea Curiosa, 1781, i. 17O. In the latter work will also be
found, Rtu. IVoodward's Letter to Mr. Secretary fTinde-
ianke concerning Mr. Ahired's Discourse against the Spahish
MalcL] '

thai ofPoKder Treason — Printed 1626. qu. [Btjdl.
4to. P. 39. Th.]

An Apology or Declaration of the Poiuer and
Providence of God in the Government of the World,
proving that it doth not Decay, &c. in lour books.
Lond. 1627. To which were added two more
Lond. 1635. fol. 3d edit. [Bodl. O. 2. 12. Th.] In
the first of which are HakevilVs Replies to Bishop
Goodmans Arguments and Digressions, which he
had made on the first Jour Books of the before-men-
tioned Apol. or Declar. having been incited there-
unto by Hakewill's former confutation of some
passages in bish. Goodmans Fall of Man, &c. re-
lating to the eternity of tlie world, or for the uni-
ver^I and perpetual decay tliercof, whereby Good-
man would prove the fall of man. But this con-
futation made by our author (whether in MS. or
printed I know not) I have not yet seen.

Discourse of the Lord's Day ; on Rev. 1. 10.
Lond. 1641. qu. [Bodl. 4to. A. 57. Th.]

Dissertation with Dr. Heylin concerning thepre-
tended Sacrifice in the Eucharist. Lond. 1641. qu.
[Bodl. 4to. H. 10. Th. BS.]

A Treatise rescuing Dr. Jo/i. Rain olds and other
grave Divines, from the vain Assaults of P. Hey-
lin, touching the History qfS. George, pretendedjy
by him asserted. — This I have .seen in a MS. fol.
but whether ever printed I cannot tell. Qutere. He
also translated into Latin The Life of Sir Tho.
Bodley, his kinsman, which is in MS. in the public
library. At length upon the promotion of Dr. Pri-
deaux to the bishoprick of Worcester, he was elected
rector of Exeter coll. (to which he had before been
an especial benefactor) but did little or not at ail
reside upon it: for the srand rebellion* ^ ■ ■,
breaking then lortn, he receded to nis i.'irst edit.
rectory of Heanton near to Barnstaple in
Devon, where he lived a retired life to the time of
his death, which hapning in the beginning of April
in sixteen hundred forty and nine, was buried on
the fifth day of the same month in the chancel of the
church there. Over his grave was a stone after-
wards laid, with this inscription thereon, ' Reliquiae
Georgii Hakewill S. Th. D. archidiaconi Surriae,
collegii Exoniensis & hujus ecclesire rectoris, in .spem
resurrectionis hie repositse sunt, an. 1649. aetatissuas
72.' I have seen a copy of his last wiU and testa-
ment, proved 2 May 1649, wherein he desires that
his body might be buried in Exeter coll. chappel, if
it could -conveniently be ; if not, at least his heart
under the communion table, or under the desk where
the bible lies, with this inscription on a brass plate
to be put on it. Cor meum ad te, Domi?ie. But this
I presume was not done, because no such inscription
appears. However the society of Ex. coll. did
afterwards, in honour to his memory, hang up hit
picture painted to the Ufe, in his doctoral formali-
ties, on the organ-loft at the east end of tlie isle,
joyning to the south side of the chappel. In the
rectory of the said coU. succeeded Mr. (afterward*

1649.

DUCK.

DUDLEY.

258

Dr.) John Conant, and in his arcluleaconry, Joh.
Pearson D. D. of Cambridge, installed tlierein 26
Sept. 1G60, a learned man and famous for his Ex-
positimi of the Creed, and otlier Iwoks. He was
afterwai-ds the wortiiy bishop of Chester, and died
about the middle of July 1()80.

[An Appendix of Dr. Hackezvers An^xoer to the
Sishop of Gloucester s Reasons. MS. Ashmole
1284> (Catal. MSS. Angl. p. 350.]

ARTHUR DUCK was Ixirn of a wealthy fa-
nuly ^ living at Heavy tre in Devonshire, (the place
where afterwards his father built an hospital) became
a student in Exeter coll. in the year 1595, and that
of his age 15, took one degree in arts in June 1599,
and then was made commoner of the said coll. Af-
terwards he translated himself to Hart hall, and as a
L^*"J member thereof proceeded in the said faculty, an.
1602, and two years after was elected fellow oi Alls.
coll. But his geny leading him to the study of the
civil law, he took the degrees in that faculty, and
much about the same time travelling into France,
Italy and Germany, was after his return made chan-
cellor of the dioc. of Bath and Wells. In which
office beha\'ing himself with gi-eat integrity, prudence
and discretion, was honoured by, and beloved of,
Lake bishop of tliat place, and the more for this
reason, because he was beholden to him for the
right ordering of his jurisdiction. Afterwards he
was made chancellor of London, and at length
master of the requests, and was in all likehhood in a
certain possibility of rising higher, if the times had
not interrupted him. In the beginning of 1640 he
jvas elected burgess for Q. Mynhead m Somerset-
shire to sit in that parliament which began at West-
minster 13 Apr. the same year, and soon after sid-
ing with his maj. in the rebellious times suffered
much in his estate, having 300^. at one time given
thence to one Serle a widow.' In the month of
Sept. in 1648, he and Dr. Ryves were sent for to
Newport in the isle of Wight by his majesty, to be
assisting to him in his treaty with the commissioners
sent from parliament. But that treaty taking no
effect, he retired to his habitation at Chiswick near
London, where, living to see his master murdered
before his own door, he soon after ended his life.'

* [Bcati niortui qui moriiintnr in Doinino. Riohardiis
Ducke et Joanna uxor ejus hie reguiescunt. Qui matriino-
nio conjunct! anno ?al. MDLXIIII per quadraainta annus
foeliciler simul vixerunt. Quibus exactis Kichardus, relictis
ex eo mairinionio octo liberis, ohij t xOctobris ann. MDCIl 1 1 .
Joanna ver.n per vifjinli annos in viduitatc supcrstes xxxi
Jullj MDCXXlIll ad coelos migravit. Nicolaus Ducke ar-
miger et Anhurus Ducke Ugum doctor, filij, parentibus cha-
riss. et opt. nieritis pos. Le Neve, Monumenia Anglicaiia
from l600 lo l(J49, Rvo. Lond. 17lg, page «.]

. ' [Arthur Duck, of Chiswick, MiddleseXj was no less
than 2000/. deep in their books at Goldsmiths* hall. Prince,

Worthies of Devon, page 269.]

' [This should be omitted, for the said Dr. Duck died iG
Dec. i648, suddenly in Chelsea church. Peck.]
Vol. III.

He was a person of smooth language, was an excel-
lent civilian, and a tolerable iMet, especially in his
younger days, antl well versed in histories whether
ecclesiastical or civil. He hath extant,

Vita Hewrlct Chichclei) Archiepiscopi Cantua-
rtemis, .iub Reffibus Henric. V.S^ VI. Oxon. 1617.
qu. [Bodl. 4t(). D. 30. Art. Sold.] remitted into the
collection of lives published by Dr. Bates, an. 1681
[Bodl. AA. 124. Art.] »

Dc Usu Sf Authoritate Juris civilis Romanorum
in Dominiis Pnncipum ChristiaTwrvm. Lib. 2.
Lond. 1653. [Bodl. 8vo. D. 2. Jur. Seld.] and 79.
oct. Leydae 1654. Lips. 1668. in tw. &c. In which
book Dr. Gerard Langbaine's labours were so much,
that he deservetl the name of co-author. Dr. Duck
))aid his last debt to nature in the month of May in
sixteen hundred forty and nine, and was buried in
the church at Chiswick in Middlesex ; to the poor
of which place he gave 10/. He left considerable
legacies to Exeter and Alls, colleges, and 10/. to the
poor of North Cadbury in Somersetshire, besides
otlier gifts of charity elsewhere, which for brevity's
sake I now pass by. " He married Margaret the
" younger daughter of Henry South worth merchant
" in London." '

[Dr. Duck married Margaret daughter of Mr.
Hen. Southworth merchant, by whom he had 9
children ; only two daughters survived. She died
Aug. 15, 1646, buried Aug. 24 in Cheswick church.
Dr. Gouge preached her funeral sermon, printed
1646, with an account of her life by a friend, where
see more.

Dec. 8. (1648) Dr. Arthur Duck D'^ of the lawes,
died sodenly in Chelsey church. Mr. Ric. SmitK.i
Obituary. Melius inquirendum.

There can be no mistake, for K. Charles's death
8tc. follow. Baker.]

" ROBERT DUDLEY, son of Rob. Dudley
" earl of Leicester by Douglas Howai-d daughter of
" William lord Howard of Effingham, and widow
" of John Lord Sheffield, was born at Shene in the
" county of Surrey in the year 1574, sent tt) Ch. Ch.
" to obtain academical learning under the tuition and
" government of sir Tho. Chaloner, (afterwards
" tutor to prince Henry) in the beginning of the
" year 1588, and was soon after matriculated in the
" university, as a member of that house, under the

' [7V(P Life of Henry Cliic/iele, Arihiishop nf Canterbury .
In which there is a particular lielatinn of many remarkable
Passages in the Reigns of Henry the V and yl Kings of
England. Written tn Latin by Arth. Duck LL.D. Chan-
cellor of the Diocess of London : And Advocate if Ihe Court
of Honour. A'nf« made English. And a Table of Contents
annexed. London, Printed for Ri. Chiswell, 8cc. iCqQ,
8vo. De 1. 10 Tliomas, lord arciib. of CantcrbuTy. Uodl.
Rawl. 8VO.321.]

' [He left no issue male, only two daughters and heirs
vastly rich, who married their second cousins, the grandsons
of his brother Nicholas. See more in Prince, Worlhiet of
Devon, page 270]

\6M).

2.>9

DUDLEY

" title of ' coniitis filius.' What coniiiuiance he
" made then- I know not: sure I am that in 1594,
*' he being then in g<xxl esteem with qu. Elizalieth,
" sailed with tliree small ships to tiie island of Tri-
" nidada, (S. Trinity) in winch voyage lie sunk and
." took nine Sjuuiisli ships, whereof one was an ar-
" mada of ()()() tun. Alwut the same time also, he
" mode groat discoveries aliout the river Oronoeque
" in the ^Vest-Indies : in the mouth of which he
*' gave the name to an island, that he discovered
** mere, of Dudley's Isle. In 1596 he, with divers
" nobles and gentlemen of quality going with the
*' earl of Essex in the Cadiz voyage figainst the
" Spaniard, retreived the honor of knighthood on
" the 8th of Aug. for the signal service he then ix^r-
" formed. In the beginning of the reign ot K.

^ " James I. he endeavoured to prove his legitimacy,

" to the end that he might have the lands and titles
" of his father, and those of his luicle Ambrose
" earl of Warwick, who died without issue : but
" mis.sing his design, bv the endeavours of Lettice
" his father's widow, (who well knew that if he could
" obtain it, it would have much redoimded to her
" dish(mour, she being his father's reputed wife when

[lisTJ « fjjjj, „^r author Rob. Dudley was l^)rn) he left the
^' land soon after in great disct)ntent and went into
" Italy ; which otherwise he could not well do, be-
" cause first, it was plainly proved in open court,
" before those that were then judges, that he was legi-
" timate ; and therefore to stay, and not to enjoy
" that which he sought after, was not agreeable to
" his high sj)irit ; and secondly, that being a man of
" extraordinary part.s, as well for valour and gene-
" rous exploits, as learning, and withal of a daring
" spirit, he could not brook those affronts that would
" be consequently put ujion him. Being therefore
" setled in the territory of the great duke of Tus-
" cany, where he took upon him to be the earl of
" Warwick, by which name he was afterwards com-
" monly called, was soon after sent for home by the
" king's special privy-seal ; but he refusing to obey,
" all his lands in England, which were considerable,
" were .seized on by virtue of the statute of fugitives.
" So that lieing thus destitute, he, who was then a
" favourite to the said great duke, became more be-
" loved of him than before, and for his eminent
" abilities did use his directions in all his buildings.
" About that time Leghome, which was a small
" town, grew by his endeavours a great city on a
" suddain, and at this day is acknowledged so to be,
" in relation to its fairness, and firmness next to the
" sea. And I have heard from some living, who
" have frequented tho.se j)arts, that this our author
" R. Dudley was the chief instrument that caused
" the said duke not only to make it firm, but also to
" make it a scala franca that is a free port, and of
" settling an English factory there, and of drying
" the fens between that place and Pisa. At whi(£
" time also our author called and invited to that
*' place many English merchants that were his

" friends, and so enriched it, that it is now one of
" the best harlx)urs in Europe, and bringeth in
" considerable revenues to the duke. For these cx-
" traordinary services, and the admirable gifts that
" our author was cndowetl with, he was'* matle great
" chamberlain to the arch-duchess, mother to the
" then duke of Tusc-any, while she in his minority
" governetl all the state, and iK-came so much known
" to Ferdinando the second, enqwror of Germany,
" that he by his letters pat. under the golden seal,
" dated at Vienna 9 IVIar. 16520, confer d on him and
" his heirs for ever the title of duke, to be by them
" used throughout all his dominions of the sacred
" empire. So that because his grand-father was
" duke of Northumberland and earl of Warwick,
" he was dtx-lared duke of Northumberland, and so
" wrote himself in all papers of concernment, and
" the title of earl of \Varwick, was used, while he
" lived, by his son. After this P. Urban 8. in the
" beginning of his pajjacy, authorised by the em-
" peror's golden seal,' declared that the duke of
" Northumberland, anil his eldest son and heirs in
" all times, could create titles of honour, as earls,
" marquisses, &c. the which he hath done in favour
" of many great fiimilies at Anctma, \'erona, and
" Rouloigne in Italy ; and ordained besides, that
" the title of highness should be given to him and
" all his jX)sterity, &c. Which is recorded in the
" lxx)k entit. // Cercmoniale di Roma del Anno
" 1630. This Rob. Dudley duke of Northuinber-
" land was a conipleat gent, in all suitable employ-
" ments, an exact seaman, a go(xl navigator, an ex-
" cellent architect, mathematician, jihy.sician, chy-
" mist, and what not. He was a handsome per.son-
" able man, tall of stature, red hair'd, and of ad-
" mirable comjjort, and, above all, noted for riding
" the great horse, for tilting, and for his being die ,
" first of all that taught a dog to sit in order to
" catch partridges. His printed works are these,

" Voyage to the Isle ofTr'inidadct, and the Coast

" ofParia, An. 1594, 95 See in Rich. Hake-

" luyt's third vol. of English Voyages, p. 574, &c.
" [Bodl. H. 8. 16. Art]

" Del Arcano del Mare, &c. — Firenze 1630,
" 1646, in two vol. in fol. They are full of choice
" mathematical cuts and figures, sea-charts, forti-
" fications, &c. That vol. printed in 1646 is di-
" vided into six books, and is kept as a rarity in
" the archives of Bodley's library at this time.
" [Bodl. Arch. B. 116.]

" A Discourse to correct the Exorbitances of
" Parliaments, and to enlarge the King's Reventie*

■ " So liavc I been informed by his son Charles, called
" duke of Northumberland, in his letters dated at Rome 17
" Oct. 1673."

3 "So in fhe same letters."

* [See it in Rushwortli's Ilist'nical CoUeclions, edit, first —
Lond. 16.^9, folio, Appendix, pa-^e 12, underthis title:

A Proposition for Ins Miijest>e\ Service, lo bridle the Im-
pertinenry of Parliaments. Afterwards questioned in the
Star Chamber."]

[128]

DUDLEY.

ALLEN.

2(>^

" — This is in manuscript, and hHth this bejjinning,
" ' Tlie proposition (jf your )na)esty''s service con-
" taineth two parts, the one to secure their state
" and bridle the imjwrtunances, (rather impcrti-
*' nences, qu.) and the otlier to increase yom" ma-
" jesty's revenue, &c. contrived and written in the
" year 1613. (11 Jac. 1.) Several copies of this
*' being occasionally dispersed by the earls of Bed-
" ford, Somerset, and Clare, as also by sir Rob.
" Cotton, Joh. Shelden, &c. in the year 1628, they
" were committed, and an information was entred
" in the star-chamber against them. Our author,
" the most noble Dudlc}', wrote also a physical
" bcx>k called CaflioUcon, m good esteem among
" physicians ; but this I have not yet seen. He
" nivented also that purging powder which goes
" under the name of Cornacchini Ptilvis, of which
" Marcus Cornacchinus doct. of physic of the uni-
" versity of Pisa, wrote a book, shewing that all the
*' affections of humane Iwdics that arise from abund-
" ance of hmnours may be quickly cured. This
" book was printed at Florence 1619, and several
" times after, and was dedicated to our author the
" illustrious duke, of whom many things are said to
" his honour in the epistle ded. before it, which for
" brevity's sake I now pass by. See in Hist. 6f
" Aiit'tq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 176. a. To con-
" elude : all that I shall say of him beside, is, (1)
" That when he left England in the beginning of
" K. James I. he left behind him a wife named
" Alice, daughter of sir Tho. Leigh of Stonely in
" Warwickshire, and several daughters that he had
" by her : which Alice being afterwards made a
" duchess by K. Charles I. lived many years after,
" and died very aged, 22 Jan. 1668. (2) That he
" then carried with him, in the habit of a page, Eliza^
" beth daughter of sir Robt. Southwell of Wood-
" rising in Norfolk, whom he afterwards married in
" Italy. An author ' of inconsiderable note tells us,
" that sir Rob. Dudley who stileth himself duke of
" Northumberland, left England because he could
" not be suffered to enjoy a second wife, his first
" •wife then surviving. This Dudley now enjoyeth
" his second wife by a dispensation from his holiness,
*' and is in great esteem with the duke of Florence,
" in regard of his art in contriving and fabricating
" of ships and galleys, and hath obtained of the em-
" peror to be declared duke of Northumberland,
" who hath given him the title already, and the land
*' when he can catch it, &c. (3) That the great
" duke of Tuscany (or Florence) allowed him an
" yearly pension of near a thousand pounds ; (4)
" That he built for himself and his children a very
" handsome palace at Florence, wherein his son
" sometimes lived. (5) That by the said Elizabeth
" he had a son named Charles, now, or lately, duke
" of Northumberland, who married in France Mary

* " .T:»m. Wadsworth in his English Spanish Pilgrim : or,
a ncit Disciivery, 8cc. printed 1(J30 in <ju. p. 64."

" ^lagd. GoufKcr, of the duke of Rohanet's family,

" by whom he had many children, the eldest of

" w-hich is callcnl Robert earl of WfU-wick, &c. By

" her the said Elizabeth, the said sir Rob. Dudley

" duke of Northumberland had several daughters,

*' the eldest of which was married to the prince of

" Piombino, of the house of Arragona Appiuno.

" The second to the marquis of Clivola, of the

" house of Malespina free lord : To wliom K.

" Charles I. of England wrote and gave the title of

" ' most illustrious,' thanking him for giving honour-

" able burial in his estates to Charles son and heir

" of Philip earl of Pembroke. The third to the

" duke of Castillion del Lago, of the house of La

" Corgnia, and the fourth to the earl of Caqjegna

" free lord of his estates, brother to the sometimes

" cardinal of that name. (6) That he the said Ro^

" bertdukcof Northumberland died atCarbello three

'■ miles distance from Florence, in an house there

" which the great duke of Tuscany permitted him

" to enjoy gratis during his life, in the month of

" September * in sixteen hundred forty and nine : ifrty.

" whereupon his Ixxly being convey'd to a nunnery

" at Boldrone near to that place, was there depo-

" sited ; but whether since it hath been convey 'a to [129]

" the church of S. Pancrace in Florence, wherein his

" wife Ehzabeth had before been buried, and over

" whose grave he had erectetl a sumptuous monu-

" ment of marble, with intentions to be buried by

" her, I know not. Sure I am that it was continuing

" at Boldrone in 1674, and may perhaps still. (7)

" That at his death he left behind him several rare

" mathematical instruments, mostly of his own in-

" vention. All which afterwards (liis sons not

" knowing the use of them) were presented to the

" said duke. (8) That he was beloved and respected

" of all in Florence, and in the country adjoining :

" And all, who are yet alive, and knew or remeni-

" bred him, make honourable mention of him."

[See an excellent account of this extraordinary
genius, (for such I consider him) in the Biographid
Britannica, to which I must content myself with
referring, rather than making several long extracts
well deserving of attention.

A second edition of the duke's Arcwno del Mare
di Rvbeiio Dudico, Diwa di Norlumbria, e Conte
di Worzcick, was printed in 1661. See the table of
contents in Park's edit, of Walpole's iVo6fc ^J/i/tor*,
or the book itself in the library of the British Mu-
seum.]

RICHARD ALLEN was born in, or near to,
Abingdon in Berks, was originally of BaUol col. and
as a member of that house he took one degree in
arts. Afterwards he was made one of the first
.scholars of Pembr. coll. proceeded in his faculty, wa.s
made fellow, and at length beneficed near Ewelme
in Oxfordshire. He hath written,

* "So in the same letters, which I before h.nvr men-
tioned."

S2

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ALFORD.

DARTON.

RARTLET.

464

An Antidote against Heresy : or, a Preservative
for Protcstaiifs against the Poison of Papists,
Clar. Anabaptists, 8ic. Lond. 1648. dtxlicatcd to his un-
1649. gigg gjj. Xho. Gainsford knight and Humph. Hud-
dleston esq; One of both liis names, but after in
time, was pastor of Henfield in Sussex, and author of
England's Distempers, their Cause and Cure, ac-
cording to the Judgment offamous Princes, Peers,
Parliaments, ^c. occasiori'd hy a learned Frier,
accusing the rchole Nation of Perjury for abjuring
Transuhstantintion ; and sent to the Author for a
Reply. Lond. 1677. qu. in tliree sh. and an half.
Wiiethcr this Rich. Allen was ever of Oxon I know
not. I shall make mention of Rich. Allein among
these writers under the year 1681.

[One Rich. Allen S.T. P. rector of Stouting
(Kent) and one of the proctors for tlie dioc. of Cant.
in convoc. 1622. MS. Batly, Tannek.]

" JOSEPH ALFORD was, as it seems, of the
*' family of the Alfbrds in Berks, descended from
" those of Holt-Castle in Denbighshire, or of those
" of Sussex, and hath written,

" The SouTs Dispensatory ; or. Treasure for
" true Believers, &c. Lond. 1649, in tw.
fif " The Church Triumphant : or, a confortable

1649. " Treatise oftlie Amplitude and Largeness of the
" Kingdom if Christ, \wherem is proved hy Scrip-
" tures and Rea^ion that the Number of the Damned
" is in/eriour to that of the Elect.A &c. l^ond.
" 1649- in tw. In the title of this book, 'tis said
" by the publisher that the author of it (Jos. Alford)
" was master of arts, and sometimes of Oriel coll. in
" Oxon. But so it is that in all my searches, I
" could never find Joseph Alford matriculated, or
" that he took any degree in arts or in any other
" faculty ; otherwi.se I had made mention of him in
" the Ath. Se Fasti Oxon. If he had tlie degree
" of M. A. confer'd on him by the archbishop of
" Canterbury, it is another matter, because those
" that are so created seldom or never stand in the
" university registers : or if he had the degree coii-
" fer'd on him, in the time of the grand rebellion,
" either in the latter end of 1642, or in the years
" 1643, 44, &c. when divers soldiers, mniisters and
" others that adhered to the cause of K. Charles I.
" were promiscuously created, his name may be
" neglected to be put into the register, but I think
" he was never master of arts of this university.
" He (hed, as it seems, before his book was pub-
" lishcxl."

NICHOLAS DARTON, a Cornish man bom,
was entred into Exeter coll. cither in the condition
of a batler or servitour, in Mich. term. 1618, aged
15 years, took one degree in arts, afterwards holy
orders, and at length became minister of Killesbye
in Northamptonshire. He hath extant,

' [Rawlinsok.]

Several sei-mons, as (1) The true and absolute
Bishop, with tlie Converts return unto him ; on
1 Pet. 2. 25. Lond. 1641. qu. [BotU. 4to. C. 7. "
Th.] dedicated to William lord Say ; at which time,
the author, who was always Ijcfore esteemed a pu-
ritan, closed with the presbyterian party. He hath
one or more extant, which I have not yet seen.

Ecclesia Anglicana : or, his clear and protestant
Manifesto, as an evangelical Key sent to the Gover-
nor (f Oxford, for the openingofthe Church Doors
tfierc, that are shut up toithout Prayers or Preach-
ing,— printed 1649. qu.

" WILLIAM BARTLET, son of a father of
" both his names of the city of Exeter, was born in
" that city, or at least near it, was matriculated as
" a member of New-Inn on tlie 4th of Nov. 1681,
" aged 21 years, where being puritanically edu-
" catetl, went away without taking any degree, and
" retiring to his own country had a cure there,
" sided with the puritans, when they grew domi-
" nant in 1641, became lecturer and afterwards
" minister of Bytheford or Bidiford in Devonshire,
" afterwards one of the assistants to the commis-
" sioners of Devonshire and Exeter, and a zealous
" man in carrying on the factious interest. He
" hath written,

" Soveraign Balsome, applied in a fexe weighty
" Considerations for healing the Distempers of
" such Professors of Religion as Satan hath wound-
" ed and di-aicn aside, &c. Lond. 1649."

[In order to obtain what information I could re-
specting William Bartlet, I appUed, as is my cus-
tom, to the rector of Bideford, and I now subjoin
the letter I received from Mr. Walter, to whom 1
beg thus publicly to offer my sincere thanks for
his very obliging attention.

Bideford, 8 February, 1816.

Dear Sir,

I have received yours of the 6th inst.
and shall feel great pleasure in communicating every
intelligence concerning William Burtlett that I can
collect from this quarter.

In the year 1792 an essay was published towards
a history of Bideford, by a Dr. Watkins : I will
extract what he says concerning William Bartlett. —

Page 131. ' In the year 1774 the late rev.
learned and celebrated Mr. Samuel Badcock, then
pastor of the dissenting congregation of Barnstaple,
drew up the following brief, but very accurate and
curious history of non-conformity in Bideford. The
title he has prefixed to it is rather cjuaint, and seems
intended to convey the idea that the protestant dis-
senters formed tlie only real Christian church in
Bideford.'

Watkins then proceeds with his extracts in the
following words.

' Some Account if the Church at Bideford.

' When the act of uniformity took place Mr.

Clar.
1649.

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Clar.
1649.

BARTLET.

PRIDEAUX.

^66

William Rartlct was cjcctwl from the li\'inf; of IVidc-
f.)rd, and after that formed a church in tiiat town
on tlie strictest plan of independency. For some
time lie was assisted in his ministerial work by liis
Son Mr. John Bartlet." They were a contrast to
each other — the father was called Boaneri^es and
the son Barnabas, fhi,<i healed where tJtat had
wounded, and both were rendered I'emarkably use-
ful in their distinct characters. The old Mr. Bart-
let outlived his son, and preached his finieral ser-
mon, but the struggles of j>arental love were so ex-
ceedingly strong that it was pretty near a quarter
of an liour before he cou'd spealc a word; what
year the son died in I cannot learn, the father died
m 1682. There is an account of him in Dr. Ca-
l^iy.'^

Having thus given you Watkins's extract from
Mr. Samuel Badcock, I beg leave to acquaint that
on reference to my register, I cannot find the death
of Wilhani Baitlet (the father) l)ut the son's inter-
ment was on tlie 27 day Sept. 1679. — With gieat
pleasure I w ill send you, if you wish it, this essay of
Watkins, and at all times sliall be ready to furnish
you with intelligence from this quarter, and I am

Dear Sir,
Your very humble servant,

William Walteu,
Rector of Bideford.]

JOHN PRIDEAUX was bom in an obscure
town called Stowford near to Lyfton in Devonshire
on the 17th of Sept. 1578,. became a poor scholar
of Exeter coll. under the tuition of Will. Helme
bach, of div. ' in act term 1596, and in 1602 was
elected probat. fellow of that house, being then bach,
of arts. In the year after, he proceeded in that fa-
culty, and thereu]X)n entred into holy orders : so
that being soon after noted for his great learning
and profound divinity, he was elected rect. of his
coll. upon the death of Holland, in 1612,' being
then bach, of div. and the same year proceeded in
the same faculty. In 1615 he was, ujjon the pro-
motion of Dr. Abbot to the see of Sarum, made the
king's professor of divinity, by virtue of which, he
was made canon of Ch. Ch. and rector of Ewelme

' [Calamy /'Ejected Ministers, page 218) says that John
was the hroiher of William, Bartlet, not his son. I incline
however to Badcock's uilbrmation. He was, says Calamy, a
very laborious, constant preacher, and had an excellent co-
pious gift in prayer. His voice was low, but his matter very
solid and acceptable. He conlinu'd in Exeter after his being
silenc'd, and preach'd there as he had opportunity. He
dy'd in a good old age. He has printed some things in oc-
tavo : as his Meditations ; An Explication nf the Assemhlies
Catechism : And The Duly of Communicants. Of the Use
iind Profit of Afflictions, &c.]

' [Calaniy gives this character of Bartlet — ' He was con-
gregational in his judgment, but lov'd peace with his bre-
thren.' Account of ejected Ministers, 8vo. Lond. 1713, p.
240.]

' f And d an of the collcee. Rawlis-son.]

' [July 1st I0l2. Ex ipsiusautogr. MS. Note in Prince's
lyorthiei nf Devon, in Exeter college library, p. .510.]

in Oxfordshire : And afterwards did undergo the
ofiice of vice-chancellor of this university for several
years, as I have elsewhere told you. In the rector-
ship of his college he carried himself so winning and
j)leasing by his gentle eovemment and fatlierly in-
struction, that it Houritilied more than any house in
the university with scholai's, as well of great a.s of
mean birth : as also with many foreigners that came
purjiosely to sit at his feet to gain instruction. So
zealous he was also in a])])ointing industrious and
careful tutors, that in short time many were flttwl
to do service in the church and state. In his pro-
fessorship he behaved himself very plausible to the
generality, especially for this reason, that in his lec-
tures, disputes, and modcratings, (which were al-
ways frequented with many auditor.s) he shew'd
liiniself a stout champion against Socinus and Ar-
minius. Which being disreh.sh'd by some, who
were then rising and in authority, at court, a fac-
tion thereupon grew up in the university between
those called puritans or Calvinists on the one side,
and the remonstrants, commonly called Amiinians
on the other : which, with other matters of the like
nature, being not only fomented in the university
but throughout the nation, all things thereupon
were brought into confusion, to the sorrow of the
puritan, who had with all his might ojijiosed Can-
terbury in his generous designs of making the Eng-
lish church glorious. At length after he had sate
26 years professor, he was one of those persons of
unblemished reputation, that his majesty, tho' late,
made a bishop, by the endeavours, as some say, of
James marq. of Hamilton his sometimes pupil.'
The see which he was design'd to govern was Wor-
cester, to which being elected 22 of Nov. was con-
secrated at Westminster on the 19th of Dec. fol-
lowing, an. 1641, but received little or no profit
from It, to his great impoverishment. So that upon
that account and for his adhering to his majesty in
the time o{ the gratul rebellioti,* (where-
in he ])ronounced all those of his diocese * S'" *"?■'!'
that took up arms against him excom-
municated) he became at length ' verus* librorum
helluo,' for having first by indefatigable studies di-
gested his excellent library into his mind, was after
forced again to devour aD' his books with his teeth ;
tui'ning them by a miraculous faith and patience
into bread for himself and his children, to whom he
left no legacy, but pious poverty, God's blessing,
and a father's prayers, as it appears in his last will
and testament. He was an humble man, of plain

' [Charles R. Considering the virtue, learning, wisdomei
gravity and other good gifts, wherewith John Prideaux.
D. D. is indued, we have been pleased by these our letters
to n.Tme and recommend him untO' you to be elected and
chosen to the said bishoprike of Worcester, &c. The King's
Letter (an original) to the Dean and Chopt. of Worcester,
dated Nov. 10. An. Keg. 17. sent with the conge d'elisre.
Baker.]

•* Dr. Jo. Gauden in his book emit. A Pillar of Gratitude,
p. 13. .

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PRIDEAUX.

and tlownriglit behaviour, careless of money, and
imprudent in worldly matters. All tliat knew liim
esteeni'd him * a noted artist, a plentiful ft)untain of
all sorts oi" le.u-ning, an excellent linjj;uist, a person
of a prtnligious memorj', and so jirof'ound a divine,
that thcv have been pleasi-il to entitle him ' Co-
lunma fidei orthodoxa;, and malleus hwresecus, pa-
truni pater, and ingens schola- & acidemia; oracu-
lum.' In him also (as an ingenious " author saith)
the heroical wits of Jewell, Riiinolds and Hooker,
as unitetl into one, seem'd to triumph anew, and to
have thrcatned a fatal blow to the Babylonish hie-
rarchy : Insomuch that he might have justly chal-
lenged to himself that glory, which sometimes Ovid,
speaking of his own country,

Mantua Virgilium laudet, Verona Catullum,
Ronianu? gentis gloria dicar ego.

As his leammg was admired by foreigners, Sext.
Amama, Rivet and others, so were his books, espe-
cially those written in I^atin ; a catalogue of which,
and of the English, follow.

Tabula' ltd Grammaticam Grwcam iuti-oductor'iw,
&c. Oxon. 1608, 1629, [Bodl. 4to. E. 27. Th.J
39, &c. qu.

Tyrocinlum ad SyUogismum kffitimum con-
texendum.

Heptades I^gica: : sive Monita ad ampliores
Tractatus introdiutoria. These two last are print-
ed and go with the Tabula:,'' &c.

Castiffat'io cuju,sdu7n Cirailiitoris, qui R. P.
Andream Eudwmon — Johannem Cydonium e Soc.
Jesu scipsum nuncupat. Opposita ipn'ms Calumniis
in Epitstolam Isaaci Casauboni ad Frotitonem I^u-
cavm. Oxon. 1614. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. D. 59. Th.]

Alloquiuni sercniss. Rcff. Jacoho Woodstocliiw
hahitum 24 Aug. 1624. printed in one sh. in qu.
[Bodl. 4to. P. 50. Th.]

Orat'iones novcm iimugtiralcs, de totldem Theo-
logi(E Apicibus, prout in Promotione Doctorum,
Oxoni{£ publice 2>i'oponebantur in Comiiiis. Oxon.
1626. qu. [Bodl. 4to. P. 3. Th. Seld.]

Lectiones decern dc totidcm Religionis Capitibus,
pracipue hoc tempore Controvcrsis prout publice
habebaniur Oxoniic in Vesperiis. Oxon. 1626. qu.
[Bodl. 4to. P. 73. Th.]

Several sermons, as (1) Serm. at the Consecra-
tion of Exeter Coll. Chap. ; an Luhe 19. 46. Oxon.
1625. qu.** (2) Perez Uzzah, Serm. before tlie King
at Woodstock ; on 2 Sam. 6. ver. 6, 7. Oxon. 1625.
qu. (3) Concio ad Art. Baccalaureos pro More

' [See several very .iffectionate letiers from the celebrated
IsaHC Casaubon to Pri<leaux in the Epistolce Casauloni piib-
Iithe<l by Thcod. Janson, Roterodam, I70(). They are
letlera 870, 871, 877, 879, 882, 896, 90O, gOI, g03, 913,
919. 922. 929. 930. 9+Al

* Naih. Carpenter in h\i Geography delineated, &c. lib. S.
cap. I.^.

' [His Greek Grnmmar and his Logick were both but a
forlnipht's work. Lloyd, Memoirs, page 536.1

• [Etawlinson ^MS- Notes) says — Lond. lOl'S, qu. dedi-
cated to Dr. Hakcwill, founder of lliis chappel.]

habita in Ecclesia B. Maria Oxon. in Die Cine-
rum; in Act. 7. 22 An. 1616. Oxon. 1626. [BodL
4to. P. 73, Th.]

Twenty Sermons. Oxon. 1636. qu. [Bodl. ^to.
P. 50. Th.] The two first of which are entit.
Chrisfs Counsellor ending law Cases. Among
them are the Consecration Scrni. and Perez Uzzah
before-mentioned.

Nine Sermons on several Occasions. Oxon.
1641. qu.

Lectiones XXJI, Orationes XIII, Condones
VI, <^ Oratio ad Jacobum Rcgem. Oxon. 1648. fol.
[Bodl. F. 1. 11. Th. Seld.] Among which are con-
tained the former Lections, Orations, and Speech
to K. Jam.

Fasciculus Controvcrsiaruvi ad Juniorum aut
Occupatorum Captum colligatus, &c. Oxon. 1649-
51. 52. qu. [BckII. 4to. C. 7. Th. BS.l

Thcologiie Schola.iticfC Sijntagma Mnemonicum.
O.xon. 1651. [Bcxll. 4to. P.' 12. Th. BS.]

Cwiciliorum Synop,ns. Printed with the Syn-
tagma before-mentioned. Printed in English at
the end of An easie and compendion,s Introduction,
&c. mentioned beliire in IVIatthias I'rideaux.

History of Succa.nons in States, Countries or
Families, &c. Oxon. 1653, &c.

Epiitola de Epi.n-opatu, fol. a fragment of which
I have seen in one folio sh.

Euchologia : or, the Doctrine of practical Pray-
ing, being a Legacy left to his Daughters in pri-
vate, directing them to such muitijbld Uses (ifcmr
Common-Praycr-Book; as may satisfy upon all
Occasions, withotit looking after ncza Lights Jrom
extemporal Flashes. Lond. 1655. 56. oct. [Bodl.
8vo. P. 12. Th. BS.] &c. Dcxlicated to his daugh.
tors Sarah H(Klges " and Elizabeth Sutton.

The Doctrine of Conscience framed according to
the Form in ilie Common-Prayer, left as a Legacy
to his Wife. — printed in tw.'

Manductio ad Theologium polemicam. Oxon.
1657. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. P. 18. Th. BS.] Pubhshed
by Mr. Tho. Barlow, with an epistle before it, in
the name of the printer.

Hypomnemata Logica, Rlietorica, Phys. Meta-
phys. &c. Oxon. in oct. [Bodl. 8vo. P. 6. Art.
BS.]

Sacred Eloquence : or, tlie Art of Rhetoric, as it
is laid dozen in Scripture. Lond. 1659- oct. What
other things are pubhshed under his name I know
not, unless a Comment on the Church Catechism,
pr. 1656. in oct.'' and therefore I am to add that he

» Wife of Will. Hodges, D. D. archd. of Worcester.

' [luviiJ>KTi^«7'« ; or The Doctrine of Conscience, framed
according to the Points of the Catechisme, in the Hook qf
Common Prayer. By the right reverend Father in God,
John Prideaux. late Lord Bishop of ff-'orcesler, for the pri-
vate Use of his fffe. London, Printed for Hichard Mar-
riot, &c. Ifi.'ifi. Pref. to the reader signed Y. N. Bodl. 8vo.
P. 12. Th. BS.]

• [PerhajJS the same with The Doctrine qf Conscience,
ice. just mentioned in the note.]

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270

departing this mortal life, of a feavcr, at Bredon in
Worcestershire, in the house of Dr. lien. Sutton,
(son of Will. Sutton D. 1). clianc. of Glocester and
rector of Bredon) who married his daughter Eliza-
beth, on tlie twentieth day of July in sixteen hun-
iCfiO. dred and fifty, was accompanied to his gnive, in the
chancel of tlie cluiieh there, by many persons of
quality in the neighlwurhood of that place, on the
16 of August following. Over his gi-ave was a
plain stone S(x>n after laid with an epitai)b comjwsed
l)y himself, (the day and year of his death except-
ed) engraven on a brass plate, fixed thereunto ; the
copy of which is already' printed, wherein you'll
fintl that he was sometime chaplain to pr. Henry,
and afterwards to K. Jam. and K. Cli. I. Before I
go any farther, I shall take leave, upon the hint be-
fore-mentioned of Dr. Prideaux''s making his college
flourish, to set down the names of sucJi outlanders
that have retired to Exeter coll. for his sake, have
had chambers tliere and diet, purposely to improve
themselves by his company, his instruction, and di-
rection for course of studies. Some of them have
been divines of note, and others meer lay-men, that
have been eminent in their respective countries,
wherein afterwards they have lived ; most of them
are these ; Joh. Combachius the philosopher, Phil.
Cluver the geographer, Sext. Amama linguist, Ni-
chol. Vignier and Dav. Primrose two learned
Frenchmen: All whom are already mentioned
among these writers. Christian Rumphius an emi-
nent physician; see in the Fasti an. 1613. Ja-
cobus Doi-vilius commonly called D'OrviUe a gen-
tleman's son of Heidelberg in Germany, matricu-
lated as a member of Exeter coll. in Alich. term
1615, and in that of his age 19. Joh. Scliermarius
a learned German, who occurs a member of Ex.
coll. 1613, in which year he had certain Lat. verses
published at Oxon. Jacobus Aretius and Frede-
rick Dorvilius two other Germans, who are men-
tioned in the Fasti, an. 1613. and 15. Joh. Ro-
dolphus Stuckius of Zurick in Helvetia was a so-
journer of the said coU. in Mich, term 1615, and
af^rwards published some of Pet. Martyr's works,
as I have before told you. Joh. Waserus a native
of the same place, entred soj. in the same term and
year, and afterwards the writer of Elementale CliaU
(laicum, and other things. Cassar Calendrinus en-
tred into the said coll. in the beginning of 1616,
see in the Fasti 1620. Imanius Young or de
Junge a Zelander, in Mich, term 1619. Paul Ama-
raut or Amarant a Germ, matriculated among the
Exonians 1619, aged 18. (Christian son of Her-
man Julius viceroy to the king of Denmark in the
isle of Gotland, Gregory and Errick sons of Pet,
Julius lord of Alsted, Linl)erg, &c. in Denmark.
Which three young men were instructed in logic
and philosophy by Dr. Prideaux. Ovenius Juhus,
elder brother to the said Christian, was also a stu-

' In Hist. ISf Anliij. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. QQ. '

dent in the said coll. under Prideaux, who dying
26 Sept. 1607, aged 2fJ, was buried at the upper
end of the S. isle joyning to the body of the church
of S. Mary the Virgin in Oxon. Afterwards C'iirLs-
tian put up a monument over his grave, which is
yet rcmainmg, but defaced. Mark Zeiglier a Ger-
man, was entred into the coll. alwut 1624. Wiblw
Jansonius Artopseus, Finsoendensis Civis, gen. was
atlmitted into the coll. in June 1635, aged 20.
Hicronymus Ernesti Erft'urto Thuringus was ad-
mitted to the fellows table in the beginning of Au<t.
1638, and continued in the college till July 16tl.
Besides these and many more, which shall now be
omitted, have been several of the Scotch nation that
have been received into the said house, u|X)n the
sai7ie account, among which have Ijcen (1) Joh.
Balcanquall ; see in the Fasti 1612. among the in-
corporations. (2) Gilman, who studied there

1613 and some time after. (3) Sam. Balcanquall,
1616. One of both his names occurs fellow of
Pemb. hall in Cambridge 20 years after.* See in
the Fasti 1618 among the incorporations. (4)
Roll. Sjiotswood mast, of arts of Giascow was ad-
mitted to the fellows table in the beginnhig of the
year 1613. He was afterwards raised by the favour
of king James and king Ch. I. unto great honours,
as his singular virtues did merit. K. Jam. made
him a knight and a privy-counsellor : K. Charles ad-
vanced him to be lord president of the sessions, and
at length principal secretary of Scotland, in tlie
place of Wilham earl of Lanerick (afterwards duke
of Hamilton) when he revolted to the covenanters
of that kingdom. After James marquis of Montross
had gained great victories against the said cov. the
said sir Robert Spotswotxl conveyed from the king
at Oxon to him the said Montross letters patents
whereby he was maile vice-roy of Scotland, and ge-
neral of the army there. But being soon after taken
Erisoner, upon the defeat of Montross near Sel-
erke, he was conveyed to S. Andrews, where, at
length, they foun<l him guilty of high treason, la-
mented by many, because he never bore arms against
them ; for his eminency lay in the way of peace, and
knew not what belonged to the drawing of a sword.
His treason being for conveying the said letters pa^
tents he was bclieaded at S. Andrews, in 1645,
leaving then behind him the general character of a
most excellent and good man. He was a gentleman
of great abilities, both in the art of government and
study of the law, hath written things in nature of
our rejiorts of the law, which have been highly va-
lued among lawyers in Scotland. His father was
Dr. Joh. Spotswtxid the famous and orthodox theo-
logist of Scotland, consecrated archbishop of Gias-
cow in the archbishop's chappel at Lambeth near
London, according to the ceremonies of the church
of England, on the 20 of Oct. 1610. At which

•* [S. Balcanquall A.M. electus socius aul. Pemb. Jul. 22,
1619. Baker]

[13.S]

£'71

PRIDEAUX.

time Gawen Hamilton was consecratwl bisliop of
Galloway, ami Andr. Lamb U. of Brechin. The
said Dr. SjM)tsw<x)cl was afterwards translated to St.
Andrews, and dj'inff on the fourth of the oal. of
Dec. an. 16.'J9, aged 74 years, was buried in the
abbey cluirch at Westminster. (5) James Hamil-
ton earl of Arran, bartm of Evenu in Scotland, and
of Ennerdale in Cmnberland, eldest son of James
marquis of Hamilton, was ailmitted a noble man
under the .said Dr. Prideaux his tuition, 6 Jul.
1621. He was afterwards marquis and duke of
Hamilton and earl of Cambridge. (6) James Bay-
lie, governor to the said count, was admitted at the
same time to the fellows table with him. See in
the Fasti 1621 among the creations. It is farther
also to be noted, that as the said college did send
out many eminent men into the church and state,
that had been under the government of Prideaux,
so also many that did great mischief, and were ene-
mies to them, as you may see at large in this work,
in the lives and cliai-acters of several that had been
educated in the said colles:e. Some also of the Ena-
lish nobility having been sent thereunto, have by
the principles that they have sucked in, proved no
great friends either to the church or state. Among
such have been John lord Roberts E. of Radnor a
severe predestinarian, and a promoter of the grand
rebellion. Philip lord Wharton another promoter
" and a cowardly rebel," sir Anth. Ashley Cooper
earl of Shaftesbury, of whom shall be large mention
made elsewhere. Philip the second carl of Pemb.
and Moimtgomery, who hved and died little better
than a quaker, &c.

[John Prideaux was born at Sto^^'ford, not the
parish so called near Lifton, as the author of the
Ath. Oxon. mistakes it ; but an obscure village of
the name, in the parish of Harford, formerly He-
reford, near Ivy-bridge in Devon, of honest and in-
genuous parentage. To satisfy niv self and others
as to the birth of this learned prelate, I purposely
visited the liouse where he received his first breath,
and found it a decent dwelling, healthfully situated,
liaving about .'50/. per annum estate belonging to it;
which hath been in this name and family, and still
is, near 300 years ; though hekl only by lease or
copy. So that the doctor was not of that mean and
contemptible extraction some suppose he was : how-
ever, it must be acknowledged, that liis beffinning
was low and mean ; and it can^ be strange it was
so, when it shall be kno\vii that his father hatl seven
sons and five daughters ; and among the sons, that
John was the fourth by birth : insomuch, it could
not be ex}x«ted that their father, out of so slender
an estate, should be able to afford them all a liberal
and ingenuous education. The doctor therefore
was driven to shift for himself betimes; who being
enabled, by the care of his parents, to -wTite and
read ; and having also a pretty good tuneable voice,
he thought himself well enough qualified to be a
j)arish-clcrk. The church of Ugl)orow, a contiguous

parish with Harford, being destitute of one at tliat
time, John oflered himself to the minister and
people there, to serve them, if they pleas'd, in that
ca)iacity. But Sf) unhappy was he that he had a
competitor for the office, and a dangerous one too,
who had made a great interest in the jiarish for
himself", and was likely to carry the place from him.
The j>arishioncrs being divitled in the matter (so
just were they) did at length agree in this, being
unwilling to disoblige either ))arty, that the Lord's
day following should be the day of tryal ; the one
should tune the psalm in the forenoon, the other in
the afternoon ; and he that did best please the
people, should have the place : which accordingly
was done, and Prideaux lost it, to his very great
grief and trouble. Upon which, after he became
advanced to one of the first dignities of the church,
he would frequently make this reflection, siiying, If
I could have been clerk irf' Ugborough, I had never
been bishop of Worcester. John Prideaux being
thus fortunately unfortunate, and greatly troubled
to be thus disappointed to his future glory and rc-
nowni ; a gootl gentlewoman of tlie parish, sir Ed-
mond FowePs mother, took some compassion on
him, and bid him ' not to grieve at the loss, for
God might design him for greater things.' And
observing him to be a bookish youth, she kept him
sometime at school, until he had gotten some smat-
tering in the I^atin tongue and school learning.
Thus meanly furnished, his genius strongly inclined
him to go to Oxford ; and accordingly he did so, in
habit very poor and sordid (no better than leather
breeches) to seek liis fortune. Being thus come out
of the west, a tedious journey on foot, to this no-
blest scat of the Muses, whither should he first ap-
ply himself for succour, but to tliat society therein
where most of his country-men resided .'' I mean
Exeter college. Here he is said, at the beginning
to have lived in very mean condition, and to have
gotten his livelyhood by doing servile offices in the
kitchin ; yet all this while he minded his b(X)k, and
what leisure he could obtain from the business of
the .scullery, he would improve it all in his study —
being observed to delight much in stutlying, he
wanted not any encouragement, either for books or
direction, that he could desire, among his com-
patriots. *

For adhering stedfastly to his majesty's cause,
and pronouncing all those of his chocess who took
up amis against liim excommunicate, it is no wonder
that he not only suffered in common with the rest,
but even be^'ond most of his order ; being plun-
dered and reduced to such great strcights, that he
was forced to sell his excellent library to subsist
himself and his family — of which there goes this
memorable story : that towards the latter end of his
hfe, a friend coming to see him, and saluting him in

' FThos far from Pridcaux's coiinlryinan. Prince, H'orlhiis
of Devon, page 5 10.]

TOZER.

SYDENHAM.

274

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the common form of, how doth your lordsliip do ?
Never better in my hfe, said he, only I have tix)
great a stomack ; f<)r I liave eaten that little plate
which the seciucstrators left me, I have eaten a great
lihrarv of excellent h(K)ks, I have eaten a great deal
of linnen, nmch of my brass, some of my pewter,
and now I am come to eat iron, and what will come
next I know not. By this means he was at hist
brought to sueli extream poverty, that he would
have attended the conferences at the isle of Wight,
as' it is reported, had lie not wanteil wherewith to
accommodate himself for the journey.'

We may add to Prideaux''s works :

Concio hab'ita Oxonlie ad Artium Baccalavreos
in Die Cinerum, Feb. 22°, 1626,- In 1 Sam. 14,
26. Ded. ' clarissimo adolescenti domino Roberto
Dormer, baroni de Wing.' Bodl. 4to. P. 73. Th.

Answer to certain Passages alledged to have
been spoken by Dr. Prideaux vnon Dr. Heylin''s
Questions out of the Wth Article of the Church of
England, at the Vespers on Jidy 6, 1633. Printed
in Laud's Hi.^to^-y cyfhis Chancellorship of Oxford,
page 63, &c. (Laud's Remains vol. ii.)

Tractatus de Sabbato, in Levit. xix. 30. et Syl-
labus Testimoniorum nonnullorum turn veterum
turn recentiorum Eccles. orthod. Doctorum de 1.
Naturae et Origine Sabbati : 2. Institutione Diet
Dominica; eju.sque Obligatione: 3. Observatione
Sabbati Ratione Quieiis atque Cessationis ab Ope-
ribiis ordinariw Vocationis. Printed at the end of
Abr. Heydani Disputatio dc Sabbato et Die Do-
minico, Lugd. Bat. apud Henricum Verbiest, 1658.
8vo. (BckH. Mar. 417.)

A neat small head of Prideaux, without the en-
graver's name, is before his Euchologia, 1656.]

HENRY TOZER was bom at North Tawton
in Devonshire, entred into Exeter coll. in 161!), and
in the year of his age 17, took one degree in arts,
and then was made prob. fellow of his house 1623.
Afterwards he pnK-eeded in that faculty, tc/ok holy
orders, and Iwcame a useful and neees.sary person
in the society by moderating, reading to novices,
and lecturing in the chappel. At rijier years he
was admitted bach, of div. became an able and
painful ])reacher, had much of the primitive re-
ligion in his sermons, and seem'd to be a most pre-
cise puritan in his lof)ks and life, which was the
true reason why his preachings and expoundings in
the churches of S. Giles and S. Martin in Oxon. were
much frequented by men and women of the puri-
tanical party. In 164.3, he was elected one of the
assembly of divines, but refused to sit among them,
chusing rather to exercise his function in Oxon be-
fore the king or parliament, or in his cures there,
tlian venture himself among rigid Calvinists. In
1646, a little before the garrison of Oxford was sur-
rendered for the use of the parliament, he was one

' [Sufferings if the Clergy, part ii, page 78.]
Vol. III.

of those noted theologists, wlio liad either preached
at Ch. C'h. betbre his majesty, or at S. Mary's be-
fore the jjarliament, that were nominatetl by the
chancellor »)f the university to have the degree of
D. of D. bestowed upon them, but that also, he, a.s
others, refused. In 1647, and 48, he behav'd him-
self as a stt)ut diampion against the imrea-sonable
proceedings of the visitors ajipointed by parliament.'
For which being by them jiostcd up for an expell'd
scholar, they revoked their sentence so far, that by
an order dated 2 Nov. 1648, they imiiower'd him
to have liberty to use his chamber in Exeter coll. a«
also that he enjoy a traveller s allowance for three
years. Afterwards he went into Holland, and lie-
came minister to the worshipful company of English
merchants at Roterdam. His works are these,

Directions Jor a Godly Life, especially Jhr. com-
municating at the Lord's Table. Oxon. 1628. oct.
[Bodl. 8vo. P. 175. Th.] There again the tentli
time 1680. oct.

Several sermons, as (1) A Christian Amendment,
Serm. on Neic-years Day at S. Mart. Ch. in Ox. ,■
on 2 Cor. 5. 17. Oxon. 1633. oct. [Bcxll. 8vo. a
98. Th.] (2) Christian }Visdom, or the Excellency,
Sfc. of true Wisdom, Sej-m. on 1 Kings 10. 24.
Oxon. 1639. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. T. 48. Th.] (3)
Sermon on Joh. 18. 3. Ox. 1640. &c.

Dicta S^ Facta Christi ex quatuor Evangcli-ttis
collccta, <$- in Ordine dLiposita. Oxon. 1634. oct.
[Bodl. 8vo. P. 4. Art. 155.] He gave way to fate
on the eleventh day of Septemb. in sixteen hundred
and fifty (old stile) and was buried in the Engli.sh
church at Roterdam, appropriated to the aforesaid
merchants, as I liave been infornied by Dr. Tho.
IMarshall lately rector of Line, college, who suc-
ceeded him in that office of preacher there. '

[Mr. James, school-master, of Bristol, informs nie
that he has seen a manuscript containing several
things Jiy this writer, in Latin and English. Mr.
James lias transcribed many of them, which shew
the volume to have been a kind of common-place
book.]

HUMPHREY SYDENHAM was born of an
antient and genteel family in a market town in So-
mersetshire called Dulverton, became a sojourner of
Exeter coll. in Lent tenn 1606, took a degree in
arts as a member of that house, made fellow of
Wadham coll. by tlie foundress thereof, an. 1613,
and the year after pr(Keeded in arts, being the first
of all that coll. that took that degree. Afterwards
he entred into the .sacred function, was made priest
by I^ewis bishop of Bangor, in 1621, had the rec-
tory of Ashbrittle in Somersetshire bestowed on
him, by the presentation of his majesty an. 1627,
and three years after, that of Pokington in the said
county by the same hand. About that time he was

' [See a full account of the proceedings in the c.ise of
'i'ljzcr, ill Hisl. et Antiq. Univ. O.xoti.'j

T

1 660.

275

SYDENHAM.

SNELLING.

SEAGER.

YERAVORTH.

[135]

IG50.

made cliaplain to Edward lord Howard of Escrick ;
so tliat thereby being capacitated to liold several be-
nefices, liad tlie rectory of Odcomlx- in the same
county ^vei» to him by his maj. in Dec. 1644, sir
Joh. Sydenham bart. to whom tliat rectory did be-
long, being tlien in his minority and a ward. Which
three beneficx'.s, or at least two," he lost soon after
by the parliamentarian commissioners of Somerset-
shire. He was a jx^rson of a quaint and cmnous
stile, better at practical, than school, divinity, and
was so eloquent and fluent a preacher that he was
commonly called S'llvrr-Umgiifd Sydenham. He
hath published thcst; sermons following,

Five Sermons preached upon several Occasions.
Lend. 1627. qu. (1) The Athenian Bahler; on
Acts 17. 18. (2) Jacob and Esau, ^c. ; on Rom.
Q. 18. (3) Arraignment of' an Arian ; on Joh. 8.
58. (4) Moses and Aaron, ^c; on Exod. 4. 12.
(5) Nature's Overthroxo and DeatKs Triumph:
on Eccles. 12. 5. Preached at the Funeral of Sir
Joh. Sydenham Kt. at Brimnton 1-5 Dec. 1625.

Other Sermons. Lond. 1630. qu. [Bodl. 4to. C.
42. Th.] The first of which is called The j>assing
Bell; on Psal. 32. 6. (2) The rich Man's Warn-
ing Piece; on P.ml. 62. 10. (fJ) The Waters of
Marah and Meribah; on Rom. 12. 1.

Sermons upon .tolemn Occasions preached in se-
veral Auditories. I^ond. 1637. qu. [Hodl. B. 20.
14. Line] They are 8 in number, and the first is
entit. Tlie xvell-tund Cymbal; \or a Vindicat'ion
of the moderne Harmony and Ornaments in our
Churches ;^] on Psal. 15. 16. preached at tlie Dedi-
cation of an Organ lately set up at Bruton in So-
mersetshire. All which sermons were at their
preaching and publishing wonderfully cried up by
most people of understanding ; but books have their
credit or discredit from the fancy of their readers,
as they please to hke or dislike. He paid his last
debt to nature in Somersetshire in sixteen hundred
and fifty, or thereabouts, but where buried, unless
at Dulverton, I cannot tell, nor whether he had any
other sermons pubhshed after his death.

[Humfr. Sydenham A. M. Oxon. incorporat.
Cantabrigias an. 1625. Reg. Acad. Cant. Baker.

He was prebendary of Wedmore tertia in the
'cath. church of Wells, and Walker had been in-
formed that he was chaplain to archbishop Laud.
He was buried, as Wood conjectures, at Dulverton,
though he had erected a monument for himself at
Pocklington. He was, says sir Philip Sydenham,
not only a learned, but worthy, sober and careful
pastor over his parishes.']

« THOMAS SNELLING, son of WUl. Snel-

• [Lloyd {Memoires, p. 624) saith only • that he was in
danger of being turned out, as not fit' &c. but I am assured
from other hands, that he lost all three. Walker, Sufferings
of the Clergy, part ii, page 76, in marg.]

» [Wanlev.]

' [Walker, Siifferings of the Clergy, part ii, page 76.]

" ling of Bushic in Hertfordshire, was bom in that
" county, became scholai- of St. John's coll. in 1633,
" aged 19 years, and afterwards fellow ; took the
" degrees in arts, that of master being compleated
" in 1640, at which time he was esteem'd an cxcel-
" lent Latin jwet, as his poems printed occasionally
" in several books before the rebellion broke out in
" 1642, shew. Afterwards he suffered for the
" royal cause, and published

" Pharamus, sive Libido Vindc.r, Hi.ipanica
" Tragwdia. Lond. 1650. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. C. 324.
" Line] In the beginning of this book are several
" copies of verses made m its commendation by
" WUl. Creed, Joh. Goad, Rich. Paynter, Will.
" Walwyn, Pet. Mews and Arth. Anihurst, all of
" S. John's coll. The title that rims from page to
" page thro' the whole book is Vindictw Ingenium.

" Various Poem^ some of which are printed

" in several Ixxjks occasionally written."

[1648, 17 Aj)r. Orderetl, That it he referred to
the committee of plundered ministers to examine
the business touching the seditious and scandalous
sermon, preached at Graics Inn chapel, the last
Lord's day, in the evening ; who are authorized and
required to send for Mr. Tho. Snosdall of Grayes
Inn, who reconnnended Mr. Snell or Snelling who
preached it, and to apprehend and secure Mr. Snos-
dalle till he produce tlie preacher, who is to be com-
mitted. Journals of the House of Commons, vol. v,
page 534.]

JOHN SEAGER was educated in S. Mary's
hall, wliere he was observed by his contemporaries
to be studious, and a good disputant. Afterwards
taking the degrees in arts, he became minister of
Broadclist in Devonshire, and vrrote

A Diseovei-y of the World to come, according to
the Scriptures, &c. Lond. 1650 in a pretty thick
oct. [Bodl. 8vo. C. 14. Th. BS.] What other
things he hath published I know not, nor any thing
else of him. " There was one John Seager son of
" Will. Seager of Bristol, who became a student in
" St. Mary Magd. haU, A. D. 1629, aged 17 years,
" but this person took no degrees."*

SAMUEL YERWORTH, or Jeuuvokthus
as he writes himself in the title of the book follow-
ing, was born in Dorsetshire, became a student in
Oriel coll. in the year 1607 and in that of his age
16 or thereabouts, took one degree in arts, and af-
terwards, being noted for his excellency in the
knowledge of the Hebrew tongue, taught and read
it privately divers years in Oxon to young students,
and for their benefit wrote,

Introduciio ad Linguam Ebrwam brevissima
prccdptia duntaxat ejus Documenta, caque ex op-
timis Grammaticis collecta, complectens, &c. Oxon.

• [The writer did; and writes himself M. A.— .Wood,
Ms. note in Ashmole.']

C/ar.
I6b0.

Clar.
jOSO.

277

HEMMINGS.

LOVE.

278

I(i50.

[162J

Clar.

ifeo.

1C50. cK-t. At the time when it was published he
gave notice to the reader, that if the said intro-
duction should he kindly received, he would put
fortli a more full and compleat grammar with scholia
added to each chapter, as need should require, but
ivhethcr the granunar was acceptable among scho-
lars, and so ctinscquently the author stood to his
promise, I know not.

WILLIAM HEMMINGS son of John Hem-
mings a comedian or actor of plays with Will.
ShaKcspear, was Ixjrn in London, elected from
Westminster school a student of Ch. Ch. an.
1621, aged 16 yeai's or thereabouts, took the
degrees in arts, that of master being compleated in
16.'28, and, at hours of recess from happier employ-
ments, than the delight of poetry, composed.

The fatal Contract, Comedy. Lond. 1653. qu.
printed from the original copy, by the care of A. T.
and A. P. There again in 1661. qu. It was re-
vived,' not many years since, under the title of
Love and Revenge, with some alterations ; and in
1687 it was reprinted as a new play under the tide
of The Eunuch, a trag. This bemg founded on a
French chronicle, was said in the first edition of it,
1653, to be a French comedy.

The Jexcs Tragedy: or, their fatal and final
Overthrow by Vespasian and Titus his Son. Lond.
1662. qu. written agreeable to the authentic history
of Josephus. Our author Hemmings left behind
him greater moninnents of his worth and ability,
but whether they are yet published, I cannot tell.
However the Fatal Contract having justly gained
an esteem with men of excellent iudgments, Dv se-
veral copies of it that flew abroatl m MS, was tliere-
fore published for the satisfaction of all persons,
especially such who had lighted upon imperfect
copies.

[Hemmings was not born, as Wood states, in
1605, for it appears from the register of St. Mary,
Aldermanbury, that he was baptized October 3,
1602.'' He was the ninth of thirteen children, and
probably the eldest surviving son, as he was the
executor of his father's will, who died at the age of
seventy-five, and was buried October 12, 1630.*

Altnough it appears that Hemmings was elected
from Westminster-school in 1621, it would seem
that he was not matriculated till the year 1624, as
the following exact transcript from the register
proves,

' See An Account of the English Dramatic^ Peels, &c.
Oxon. 16()1. Oct. p. 247. written by Gerard Langbaiiie.

* [As far as relates to the age of this wrilero Wood fol-
lowed his authority very exactly. He is inserted in the ori-
cinal inatriculation book as nineteen years old in lC24. It
is probable, that Hemmings did not know his own age at the
lime of his admission.]

'• [Shakspcifte's Works, by Reed, ed. 1803, vol. iii, pages
841 and 4S8.]

iEdes Christi, Ano Dfii 1624*"
Vicecancellario Do'''' Piers.
Jul. 24'". Gul. Hemmings Lond. fil. Joh'is Hem-
mings de London p'd (pra-dict.) annos natus 19.'

In March 1632.^, he produced a comedy entitled
The Cours'inge (f a Hare; or tlie Mad Capp,
which was performed at the Fortune theatre, but
which, as is now conjectured, is lost. T'he title was
recovered by Malone from the MSS. of sir Henry
Herbert, then master of the revells.']

CHRISTOPHER LOVE, son of a father of
both his names, was born at Cardiff in Glamorgan-
shire, became a servitor of New Inn in Midsummer
or act term, 1635, aged 17 years, t(X)k a degree in
arts, holy orders, and woulcl with great impudence
and conceitedness ascend the pulpit in the church of
S. Peter in the Bayly joyning to the said inn, and
there hold out prating for more than an hour be-
fore acatlemical, as well as lay, auditors. In 1642
he proceeded master of arts, and was junior of the
act then celebrated, at which time he performed the
exercise of that office with more confidence than was
.seemly. He himself" tells us ' that when he was a
scholar in Oxon, and master of arts, he was the first
scholar that he knew of, or ever heard of in Oxon,
that did publicly refuse in the congregation house
to sub.scrd)e unto those impositions, or canons, im-
posed by the archb. touching the prelates and com-
mon prayer. For which, tho' they would not deny
him his degree, yet he was expelled the congrega-
tion, never to sit as a member among them,' &c.
About that time he left the university, went to, or
near, London, and became a sedulous preacher up

of treason and rebellion ' About the beginning

of the wars (saith' he) I was the first minister that
I knew of in England, who was accused j)f preach-
ing treason and rebellion, meerly for maintaining in
a sermon, in Kent at Tenterden, the lawfulness of
a defensive war, at the first breaking out and irrup-
tion of our troubles,' &c. So that being then esteem-
ed a leading man in the blesseil cause, he liecame
preacher to the garrison of Windsor castle, then un-
der the command of colonel John Venn. In which
office he shewed himself so violent against the king
and his cause, that he was usually stile<l by the
royalists Venn's principal fireman at Windsor. This
Venn, by the way it must be known, did, while go-
vernor of that castle, exercise very great crudty
against the royalists tliat were prisoners there ; but
being dismist of his employ, and col. Christopher
Witchcot put into his place, he retired to London,
carried on the cause there with great zeal, was one
of die judges of K. Ch. I. and at length hung liim-

8 r/ff^. Ma/ric. Univ. Oxon. PP. fol. 28, b.]
' [Hisiorical Account of the English Stage, ut supra, vol.
iii, page 234.]

' In his Tryal in Westm. Hall, printed in Aug. iC.'d.
-' Ibid.

T2

279

LOVE.

self in his chamber, as some say, others, that lie
died suddetily in his betl, on the 7 of July at nijj;ht,
or early next morning, an. 1G50. In the year IG'tJ',
when the eoinniissioners i'roni the king and ])arlia-
ment met at Uxbridge to treat alx>ut peace, this our
author I^ove ihd very officiously jnit himself njwn
preaching before some of them, on the first day of
their meeting, (Jan. 30) being the market-day. In
which his sermon, fvdl of dire malice, lie vented
many j)assages very scandalous to his majesty 's per-
son, and derogatory to his honour, stirnng up the
people against the treaty, and incensing them against
the king's conmiissioners, telling the said jK-ople that
tliey came with hearts full of blood, and that there
was as great distance lietween the treaty and jjefice
as between heaven and hell, or words to that effect,
with divers other seditious jiassages against his ma-
jesty and the treaty. A\'hereu|X)n the connnissioners
belonging to the Ving, jiutting up their complaints
to those of the parliament, they represented the mat-
ter to the lorcls and commons assembled at West-
minster, who thereupon, ' tho' they could not with
good conscience imjjrison Mr. Love, yet they did
[137] 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, sennons and ugly faces.'' After this he
was made minister of S. Anne's church. near to Al-
dersgate, a recruiter of the assembly of divines, and
at length minister of the church of S. Laurence in
the Jewry in London, which he kept till Oliver
Cromwell paid the debt, and brought him to the
scaffold when he lea.st l(X)ked for it, which was upon
this account. After the presbyterians had been

fuird of their king by the mdejx'ndents, the j)rime
eads of them were resolved to set up his son
Charles II. WhereujMn he being invited from be-
yond 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 })ar-
liament, 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 auuiority of the

' Merc. Aulicus Feb. 10. an. l644. p. 1378.
' [They severely reprimanded him, and caused him to de-
^)art from Uxbridge. MS. Note in Mr. Heher's copy.]

' [Not so, he was a doctor in divinity. MS. Note in Mr.
Heher's copy.

A Boundary to the IJnly Mount : or A Barre {gainst free
Admission to the Lord's Supper, in Answer to an humlle
■Vindication of free Admission to the Lords Supper, published
hy Mr. Humphrey, minister of Froome in Somersetshire ;
which humble yindication, though it profess much of Piety
.and Conscience, yet upon due Triall and Examination ts
found Worthy of Suspension, if not of a greater Censure. By
Bogtr Drake Minister of Peters Cheap London. Lend. l653.
8vo. Ch. Ch. library, A. 4y. Pamph.

council of state taken into custody about the 7th of
May 1651, as Ining the chief actors in the said
treason, as they then called it. Sikju after, it was
resolved by the great masters at \^'estltlinstcr, that
Mr. Love the minister, then j)risoncr in the Tower,
should be brought to his tryal before the high court
of justice on the 20th of Jime 1651, not for any
matter of dtK-trine, as it was then given out, but for
high-treason as they said, and conspiracv against
the connnon-wealth of England. He and the rest
(as the indeiiendents then said) had outstript the
Jestiit both in practice and project, as having not
only tamjjer d with men's consciences in private,
(beyond which the Jesuit doth very rarely \enture)
but preached open rebellion and trea.son with a fuU
mouth in the pulpit. On the said day he made his
first appearance, in order to his tryal, and one
Jack.son a minister (Arth. Jackson, as it seems*) re-
fusing then to give in evidence against him, was for
his contempt fined 500/. and coimnitted j)risoner to
the Fleet. The next day he ajipeared again, and,
as 'twas then said by his enemies, in his carriage
and behaviour he discover'd as nuich ridiculous im-
pudence, equivocation and hyjx^risy, 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 25th and 27th days of the said
month of June he appeared again, and, on the last
of those two days he brought his council with him,
viz. Mr. Matthew Hale, Mr. John Archer, and
Mr. Tho. Walter, but the two last having not
taken the engagement, were not suff'er'd to plead
for him. At which time Mr. Love, as the mde-
pendents said, was full of malepert carriage, match-
less impudence, obstinacy and nnpatiencv. On the
5th of July he was condenmed to be beheaded on
Tower-hill on the 15th of the same month, but then
several petitions being read in parliament in his be-
half, viz. one from divers ministers, another from
himself, and a third from his wife, he was repriev'd
till the 15th of Aug. following, and thence to the
22d 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

Mr. ]?axter says, he was a wonder of humility and sin-
cerity. He was one of the commissioners at the Savoy. He
always laid by a tenth part of his worldly incomes for the
poor, before he us'd any himself. There is a sermon of his
in the Morning Exercise at St. Giles's, on the Believer's
Dignity and Duty. His last words were these. Jesus take
me ! 1 am ready. He wrote also The Bar Fi.xed, in Answer
to Mr. Humphrey's Bejoynder, 1666, 8vo. Calamy's Hist,
of Ejected Ministers.']

* [Minister of St. Michael, Wootl-street, and engaged in
Love's plot. He died Aug. 5, 1666, as Calamy says, in great
comfort.

He wrote the Annotations on Isaiah, which his son John
(who was ejected from Si. Bennet's, Paul's Wharf,) pub-
lished.]

5 In his TVya/ before-mentioned, and in his Speech on ike
Scaffold.

LOVE.

282

he was tried for his life thus ' God is my wit-
ness, I never drove a malignant design, I never car-
ried on a malignant interest, I detest both. I still re-
tain my covenanting principles, from which, through
the grace of God, I will never depart, for any ter-
ror or perswasion whatsoever — I do retain as great
a keenness, 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 parliament's quar-
rel 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 apparel) I contributed all I had
[138] in the world — and tho' my life is endeavoured to be
taken away, vet 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
hfted up my hands in tiie same covenant, that took
sweet counsel together, and walked in fellowship
one with another. — I die cleaving to all those oaths,
vows, covenants and ])rotestations that were im-
posed by the two houses of parliament, as owning
them, find dying with my judgment for them, to
the protestation, the vow, and the covenant, the so-
lemn league and covenant. And this 1 tell you all,
that I had rather die a covenant-kee|5er, than live a
covenant-breaker, ^ &c. As for his writings and
works they are these,

The Debauched Cavalier, or, the English Midi-
anite : wherein are compared by way of Parallel
the Carriage or rather Miscarriage of the Cava-
liers, Sic. Lond. 1642. Which pamphlet, tho' 'tis
but one sheet in qu. yet forsooth he had a co-ope-
rator in writing it, and who should that be but one
George Laurence of New-Inn, as rank a presbyte-
rian as Love.

EnglaiuTs Distemper, liaving Division and Er-
ror, as its Cause; wanting Peace and Truth Jbr
its Cure, &c. Serm. preached at Uxbridge 30
Jan. 1644,- on Jer. 33. 6. Lond. 1645. qu. [Bodl.
4to. G. 5. Th.]

His Vindication frimi those .scandalous Asper-
sions cast upon him by the Malignant Party, who
cliarge him to be a Hindcrer of the Treaty at U,r-
bridge, &c. — Printed with England^s Distemper,
and by itself in one sh. in qu. at Lond. 16-51.

Short and plain Animadversions on some Pas-
sages in Mr. Will. DelVs Sermon preached before
the House of Commons, 25 Nov. 1646 ; on Heb.
9. 10. Lonci. 1646, and 47. qu. Which Animad-
verskms were rephed upon the same year by Dell.'

* [And he would not so much as pray for the king, other-
wise than thai he might propagate the covenant. MS. Note
in Mr. Heber's copy.^

' [See an account of Mr. Dell in my vol. xxxiii (in the
British museum) pages 26g, 271, &c. Cole.

Will. Dell was master of Caiu:; college in Cambridge.

The reader is to note, that our author Love preach-
ed the same day, being a solenm fast, Ix-fore the
said house of commons ; but his sermon being nmch
displeasing to the indejxMidi'nts, and nialepert against
the then proceedings of parhatuent, he tiad neither
thanks given him, or orcler to print it; but Dell, a
minister attending on his excellency sir Tho. Fair-
fax, being encouraged to print his, nettled Love so
much, that he forthwith wrote the said Animadver-
sions.

Anszeer to an unlicen.ied Pamphlet annex'd to
the Sermon, entit. A Reply to Mr. Love''s Contra-
dictions. Lond. 1647. oct. Which Reply to the
Contradictions of Mr. Love''s Ser7non, was written,
as it seems, by Dell.

His Case Pr. 1651. qu. and thereupon fol-
lowed soon after Quecries upon it, but who wrote
them I know not."

His Vindication — Printed 1651. qu. penned by
himself.

His Advocate — Pr. 1651. qu. penn'd, as I have
been informed, by himself.

Several Petitions to the Pari, in Jul. and Aug.
Lond. 1651. qu.

A full Narrative of the late dangerous Design
against the State, &c. Lond. 1651. qu. This is
said to be written by him, and by him sent to the
pari. Wherein he sctteth down his several meet-
ings and several actings with major Alford, &c.
Mr. Thomas Case, Mr. Tho. Cawton, Dr. Drake,
Mr. Rich. Drake,9 maj. Rob. Huntingdon, Mr.
Will. Jenkyns, &c.

His Speech and Prayer on the Scaffold on Tower-
hill, ^9. Aug. 1651. Lond. 1651. qu. [Bodl. C. 13.
1. Line] On which speech and prayer were ani-
madversions matle and published by Anonymus,
and on his decollation a poem by Dr. Rob. Wild
rector of Ainoe in Northamptonshire, entit. The
Tragedy of Christop. Love at Tower-hill. Lond.
1660 hi one sh. in qu.

Grace : the Truth, and GrowtJt, and different
Degrees tJiereqf. The Sum and Substance of tfie
last 15 Sermons preached ^>y him. Lond. 1652. in
oct. there again 1654, and a third time in 1657.
qu. [Bodl. 4to. S. 56. Th.] The first sermon is on
1 Kings 14. part of the 13th verse, published with
an epistle liefore them, subscribed by Edm. Calamy,
Simeon Ash, Jerem. Whitaker, and WUl. Taylor,
dated 13 Feb. 1654.

Sermon at the Funeral of Mrs. B. being the last
Sermon lie ever preaclied ; on Job 30. 23. — Printed
with the Book (^ Grace before-mention'd.

He was a peculiar man, and challeng'd for three contradic-
tions in his life. I. For being professedly against pcedo-
baptism, and yet he had his own children baptized. 2. For
preaching against universities, when yet he held the head-
ship of a college. 3. For being against tythes, and yet taking
200/. per annum at his living in Yeldon in Bedfordshire.]

s [See them both Bodl. Crynes. 895.]

« [Ric. DrakeS: T. P. regiis Uteris, dat. Aug. 2.reg. 1«,
(16(30.) Baker.]

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LOVE.

Agiiinst the sjiid sermons ' were great comjilaints"
made by divers otticers of the army and other no-
torious mdependents to tlic parUamcnt in 165S,
thus — ' Several pamphlets have been lately pub-
lished in vindication of Mr. Love, wherein they (the
pi-esbyterians) account him a martyr (as in the pref.
to his sermons) and charge the jwrliament with in-
justice in putting him to death, &c. more particu-
larly Mr. Edm. Calamy in his late epistle before
Mr. Love's sermons ; and his funeral sermon hangs
out a flag of defiance to the state, proclaiming
Mr. Love to die in, and for, the Lord: and the
saints (meaning the independents and anabaptists)
he calls murtherers, traytors, rebels, blasphemers,
&c. and chargeth the highest sins to have ascended
into pulpits and thrones,' &c. But upon examina-
tion, Mr. Calamy (as 'tis ' said) was not the author
of that preface, but another, more violent than he.

HeavetCs Glory, HelVs Terror: or, two Trea-
tises, the one concerning the Glory of the Saints
with Jesus Christ, as a Spur to Duty, in 10 Ser-
mons. The other of the Torments qf'tlie Damned,
as a Preservative against Security, in 8 Sermons.
Lond. 1653, 58. qu.

Soul's Cordial, in two Treatises. Lond. 1653.
Oct.

Treatise of effectual Calling and Election, in
16 Sermons cm 2 Pet. 1. 10. L(md. 1653. qu. ibid.
1658. Oct. This treatise hath an epist. commend,
before it, subscribed by E. Calamy, Jerem. Whit-
aker, Simeon Ash, Will. Taylor, and Allen Geree.

Scripture Rules to be observed in buying and
selling. Lond. 1653. on one side of a sh. of paper.

The true Doctrine of Mortification and Since-
rity, in Opposition to Hypocrisy. Lond. 1654. in
oct.

Combate betzoeen the Flesh and the Spirit; as
also the woful Withdrawing of the Spirit (vf God,
with the Causes thereof, 4*r. being the Sum and
Substance of 27 Sermons. LontL 1654, 58. qu.
Ded. by Will. Taylor to Edw. Braflshaw mayor of
Chester, and the epist. to the reader is subscrib'd
by E. Calamy, S. Ash, aud Jer. Whitaker, before-
mention'd.

Sum or Substance of practical Divinity ; or,
the Grounds of Religion in a Catechistical Way.
Lond. 1654. in tw.

Chri.ytian's Directory, tending to direct him i«
tlie various Conditions that God hath cast him into,
in 15 Sermons. Lond. 1654 and 58. qu. The epist.

' [The complaints were not made against the sermons
aboie meiition'd, hut against the 17 sermons entit. The true
Map of Man's miserable Estate by Nature, printed at Lond.
iS.SZ, 8vo. with his picture before them, the imprimatur of
Edm. Calamy and a preface subscribed E. C. ; and Mr. Man-
ton's Funeral Sermon at the end. In the preface and sermon
is the character of Mr. Love, and in the pref. • his dying in
the Lord." Tanner.]

' See The Beacons yuenched, 8cc. Lond. l659. qu. p. 14.

' See The Beacon flaming with a non obstante. Lond.
1662. qu. p. 2.

to the reader is subscrib'd by Calamy, Ash, Taylor,
and Geree before-mention'd, all presl)yterians.

The dejected Soufs Cure, tending to support
poor drooping Sinners, 4"C. in divers Sermons.
Lond. 1657. qu.

The Ministry of the Angels to the Heirs of Sal-
vation: Or a Treatise of Angels. Lond. 1657. qu.

Of the Omnipresence of God, in several Sermons,
began 13 May 1649, and ended 3 June J'olhyming.
Lond. 1657. qu.

The Sinners Legacy to their Posterity ; on Lam.
5. 8. Lond. 1657. qu.

These four last books have an epist. commend,
before them, subscribed by Calamy, Ash, and Tay-
lor before-mentioned, as also by AV^ill. Whitaker,
Matth. Poole and Jos. Church, presbyterians.

1'he Penitent jmrdoiCd. A Treatise wherein is
liandled tlie Duty of Confession of Sin, and tJie
Privilege of the Pardon of Sin. Lond. 1657. qu.

Discourse ofChrisCs Ascension into Heaven, and
of his Coming againfrom Heaven, zoherein the Opi-
nion of the ChioliHs is cmviidered and solidly con-
futed. Lond. 1657. qu. This, with The Penitent
parchmed, &c. is the substance of several sermons :
Both published by Calamy, Ash, Taylor, and Will.
Whitaker before-mention'd.

The natm-al Mali's Case stated : or, an exact Map
of the little World, Man, in \1 Sermons. Lond. 1658.
Oct. These are all the things that he hath extant,
as I conceive, and therefore I have nothing more to
say, only that he was beheaded on Tower-hill on the
22d of August in sixteen hundred fifty and one.
Whereupon his Ixxly being afterwards carried to
his house, and there re[X)sited for a time, was buried
[August SS.*] with great lamentation by the bre-
thren, on the north side of the chancel belonging to
the church of S. Laurence in the Jewry before-men-
tion'd : At which time Mr. Tho. Manton, one of
the chief presbyterians in I^ondon preached his fu-
neral sermon, which was afterwards made public.
It was ob.served by many, and looked upon as luira*
culous by the brethren, that when the members of
the rump parliament had }")assed their votes for his
death, there did happen one of the most terrible
thunder claps that was ever heard. Also that that
day on whit-h he sufFer'd, was seen a most clear sky;
but soon after his death, wliich was about two of
the clock in the afternoon, the sky began to thicken,
and at last was envelop'd in a black and dismal
cloud, and all that night and till the next morning,
such thunder, lightning and tempest hapned, as
if the machine of the world had been dissolving.
This was the observation of the pre.sbyterian, who
stuck not to say thereupon, that Gotl was angry at
these things that had passed, &c. Yet the inde-
pendent, anabaptist, and others, made another con-
struction of the matter, which was pubhshed soon
after in the common mercury called Politictis, viz.

* [So tbe sernion at his funeral. Tanner.]

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iGsi.

LOVE.

DEE.

28f)

' That on the 22 of Aug. the old tyrant (Chailes I.)
did first erect his standard at Nottingham, and
then Mr. Love and liis brethren did well to cry it
down. But it being down, and themselves not set
up (as they exjDected) then they deserted their first
principles, an(l cryed up his son; whose interest
(however disguised) is the same with his fatiier's ;
and he, by their instigation making way into
England, entred and erected his standard at Wor-
cester also, upon the 22d of Aug. 1651 : upon whidi
very day likewise it was, that Mr. Love, who having
help'd to beat down the old malignant standard, and
then turning apostate to set up the new one, lost his
head upon Tower-hill, as a just judgment of God for
his implacable apjstasy and enmity, and for a terror
to all the men ot his confederacy, &c.' At the same
time, and upon the same scaffold, was beheaded Mr.
Jo. Gibbons engaged in the same plot ; but as for
others engaged therein and to be brought to their

Sal, \ix. col. Joseph Vaughan sometimes a Icather-
ler in London, heut. col. Jackson, capt.

Hugh Massey (brother to maj. gen. Edw. Mas.sey)
Dr. Drake, Mr. Th. Case, Mr. Artliur Jackson,
Mr. W. Jenkyns minister of Ch. Ch. in London,
Mr. Th. Watson, Mr. Ralph Robinson, Mr. Rich.
Heyrick, &c. were, upon the motion of a certain
noble person, pardoned for life and estate, and freed
both from sequestration and impri-somnent.

[Die Martis 12 Junii 1660. The humble peti-
tion of Mary late wife of Christopher Love and major
James Winstanley, her brother, citizen of London,
was read. Joi/rnals of the House of Commons.
Die Sabati 7 Junii 1660, In proceeding upon the
bill of general pardon and oblivion, a proviso was
tendred to have reparation against the judges of the
high court of justice who sate in judgment when
Mr. Christopher Love was condemned to dye, which
was read the first time, and upon the question re-
jected. Kennet.

There is a curious plate of Christopher Love, in
the pulpit, by A. Conradus, large sheet, and there
are two others by Cross, one in 1651, the second in
1652.]

" ARTHUR DEE, son of Dr. Joh. Dee the
" famous mathematician, by Jane Fromond his
" wife, was bom at Mortlack in Surrey about four
" of the clock in the morning of the 14th of July
" 1579, on which day (in the mom. also) died his
" mother's father Mr. Fromond, which was looked
" upon as no good omen by Dr. Dee. On the 21st
" ol Sept. 1583, this Arthur Dee was conveyed
" from Mortlack towards Poland by his father and
" mother, in the company of Albert Alaskie, or a
" Lasco, a Polish prince, who conducting them to
" Cracow in Poland, they went thence, after some
" stay, to Prague in Bohemia ; where, while Arthur
" was a little boy, 'twas usual with him to play at
" quaits with the slates of gold made by projection,
*' in the garret of his father's lodgings, as count Ro-

" sinberg (a great patron of Dr. Joh. Dee) did with
" slates of silver; all made by the said doctor.
" When this our author Arthur Dee was aliout 8
" years of age, and at Trebona m Boheniia with his
" father, he was designed to succeed VAw. Kelicy as
" his father's speculator.' For it*' appears that
" those angels or spiritual creatures which Dr.
" Joh. Dee dealt withal by the speculation of the
" said Kelicy, were so distastful with his vicious
" course of life (concerning which, they had formerly
" given him frequent wamingsto amend, yet wrought
" nothing with him) that one of tiiem then in dis-
" course witli Dee and Kelley, told KeUey plainly,
" that he would discharge him from that emplov-
" ment, and that power which was given him of
" seeing, should be diminished, and should dwell
" upon Arthur Dee, giving then KeUey 14 days
" warning for choosing or refusing; and in tne
" mean time appointed that the child (Arthur)
" should be exercised in that faculty; which, by
" Dr. Dee, after a serious and devout address to
" God, was done several days. It appears' thci-e-
" fore tb.at Arthur did see, which, tlio' the things
" were small and inconsiderable, yet they clearly
" manifested that he had the gift of seeing, and were
" very suitable and proper enough for a young be-
" ginner. Upon this Kelley perceiving that he
" should be wholly set aside, and become useless in
" matter of skrjing or seeing, he insinuated himself
" into their company for one day, while they were
" at exercise : And Arthur waiting for a vision,
" Kelley pretended to see something, of which he
" gave ' an account. By this cunning artifice, that
" delusive and impure doctrine took place, from
" whence Dr. Dee and Kelley were induced to mix
" with each others wives, which so distasted the good
" angels, that they forsook their company, and ap-
" peared no more to Dr. Dee. Afterwards our au-
" thor A. Dee coining into England, he was sent to
" the college school at Westminster, 3 May 1592,
" being then a youth of exceeding great and haughty
" mind, and naturally ready to revenge raSily.
" After he had spent some time there, he was sent
" to the univ. of Oxon, as his son Rowl. Dee, and
" one or more persons of Norwch (where he after-
" wards practised physic) who knew Arth. Dee very
" well, have informed nie, but in what coll. or hall
" he was entred and settled, they could not tell me,
" nor indeed doth the matricula mention it. Having
" spent some time there, (either in Ch. Ch. or S.
" Mary's hall as it seems) he left it without a degree
" conferr'd on him, and settling afterwards in Lon-
" don in order to practise tlie faculty of physic, he
" hung out a table at the door where he lived, in

' [For several particulars reLitive to the transactions of
Dee and Kelley, see these Athene, vol. l, col. 639, 640,
&c.]

• " See the Rclalion concerning Dr, Jofi. Dee's convers-
" ing with Spirits, printed 1659. fol. lib. 2. p. 3."

' " ibid. p. 4, 5. 6, 7." » " Ibid."

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" which, or by a certain writing paintetl tlierwm, he
" gave notice to him or them that sliould pass by,
" mat he exposed to sale several niethcines, by whidi
♦' many diseases were said to lie certainly cured. An
" account of this matter coming afterwards to the
" knowledge of the colledge of pliysicians, the meni-
" bers tiiereol" ditl esteem '^ it such an intolerable
" cheat and inijiosture, that the censors of the sjiid
" coll. ordered him to ap}X?ar with his remedies, in
" order to the inflicting a due penidty ujxm him ;
" but what became of the matter I know not. From
" London (which he found uneasy to him) he went
" to Manchester in Lancashire, where his father
" then, or lately, was warden of the coll. there, and
" settling in that place for a time, he took to wife
" Isabella dau. of Edw. Prestwych, a justice of
" peace hving at Hohne near to the said town. At
" length the emperor of Russia desiring K. Jam.
" I. of England to send him one of his physicians,
" he forthwith nominated our author A. Dee as a
" very fit person. So that soon after obtaining
" letters of commendation, he went into that country,
" where he continued physician to the said emperor
"14 years or more. In 1629 he wrote a book at
" Musco, where he mostly lived, entit.

" Fasciculus chymicus dc Abstrusis Hermeticcc
" Scientiw Ingressii, Progressu, &c. Par. 1631. in
" tw. Which book coming afterwards into the
" hands of Elias Ashmoie, esq; he translated it into
" Enghsh under this title, Chymical Collections ;
" expressing the Ingress, Progress, and Egress of
" the secret hermetic Science, out of the cJioicest and
" most Jamous Authors. Lond. 1650. oct. See
" more in Elias Ashmoie under the year 1692.
" Afterwards A. Dee returning into England, he
" brought with him most ample testimonies of his
" own worth, and imperial commendations to king
" Charles I. whereupon he was sworn physician in
" ordinary to him, and, as it seems, settled for a
" time in London. Afterwards he retired to the
" city of Norwich, where he practised his faculty
" with good success to his dying day. Sir Tho.
" Browne the learned physician sometimes of that
" city, who knew the said A. Dee very well, and
" was familiarly acquainted with him, hath informed
" me by letters that ' he the said Arthur hath af-
" firmed to him with an oath, that he had seen pro-
" jection made by his father and Kclley, and trans-
" mutation of pewter dishes and flaggons into silver,
" which the goldsmiths of Prague bought of them

" That the said transmutation was made by a

" small jxjwder they had found in some old place,
" and a IxKik lying by it coritiiining nothing but
" hieroglypliics : which Jjook his father bestowed
" much time upon, but he could not hear that he
" could make it out. He said also that Kelley dealt

? " So Dr. Cha. Goodall in hU Historical Accnunt of the
" Coll. of Physicians Proceedings against Empiricis, printed
" In 1()84. p. 3C4."

not justly with his father, and that he went away
with the greatest part of the jKJwder, and was af-
terwards nnprisou'd by the emperor in a certain
castle, from whence attempting ' an escape down
the wall, he fell and broke his leg, and was im-
prisoned again That his father Dr. Joh. Dee

presented Q. Elizabetli with a httle part of tlie
jxjwder, who having nuule tryal thereof, she
attempted to get Kelley out of prison, and sent
certain jx-rsons for that purpose, who giving opium
drink to the keejiers, laid tliem so fa.st asleep that
Kelley found an opjxjrtunity to attempt an escape,
and there were horses ready to carry him away,
but the business unliappily succeeded, &c. — Artn.
Dee was a youth when he saw the projection
made in Bohemia, with which he was so infiamed,
that he fell really upon that study, and read not

much all his life but books of that subject Two

years before his death he contracted with Joh.
Huniades or Hans Hungar in London, to be his
operator. This Hans Hungar ha\-ing lived long
in London, and growing in years, he resolved to
return to Hungary. Whereujxjii going first to
Amsterdam, he had orders given him to remain
there till Dr. Arth. Dee came to him — The
Doctor to my knowledge was serious in this mat-
ter, and had provided all things in reatliness to
go, but suddenly he heard that Hans Hungar was

dead, and so desisted,'' &c. Thus far the

worthy sir Tho. Brown, who hath added in
another letter, that he (A. Dee) was a persevering
student in henuetical philosojJiy, and had no
small encourjigement, l)ecause he had seen projec-
tion made. That he had had several manuscripts
of his lying by him, &c. At length this Dr. A.
Dee having lived to the age of man, departed this
mortal life at Norwich in the month of Sept. in
sixteen hundred fifty and one, and was buried in
the church of S. George in Tombland, situate and
being within the said city. By his wife Isabella
before-mention'd he had 7 sons, three of wjiich,
viz. the first, second, and seventh died young;
the third was Arthur a merchant in Amsterdam ;
the fourth was Rowl. Dee a merchant in I>ondon,
the fifth and sixth were William and John, both
merchants in Russia, besides six daughters wlio
were all married. John Dee bef()re-mention''d,
father of Arthur, was Iwrn in London on the 13th
of July, an. 1,527, and by his father Rowland
Dee a vintner he was carefully educated, but in
what sch(X)l, unless in that of S. Paul, I know
not.*' In 1542 he was sent to S. John's coll. in
Cambridge, where continuing till after he was
bach, of arts, he went beyond the seas to confer

' "See in Edw. Kellcv under the year l&Qb. vol.1, cfjl.
639."

^ [1 had before, in London, and at Chdmisford, been
meetly well furnished with understanding of the Latine
tongue. See his Briefe Note and Abstract, publ. by Hearne,
Johan. Glastoniensis Chronica, 1726, pagciOO.]

1(5.5 1.

DEE.

^0

" with learned men, as G. Frisius, Ger. Mcrcator,
" Gasj). a Mereia, Ant. Gogava, &c. After his
" return he was eliosen fellow of Trin. coll. at its
" first erection thereof by K. lien. 8. and was as-
" signed there to be under reader of the Greek

" tongue to Mr. Pember the chief reader, and

" in 1548 he went out master of arts, and then left
" Cambridge for altogether; but whether he studied
" in Oxon, I cannot justly say it, notwithstanding I
" have read in one of his booKs, wherein he acknow-
" ledgeth to have studied in patriis academiis. Af-
" terwards he travelled again, and was, I presume,
" doctorated beyond the seas, became a searcher into
11431 " profound studies, a great investigator of the more
" secret hermetical learning, a perfect astronomer, a
" curious astrologer, an excellent geometrician, and
" indeed excellent in all kinds of learning, but the
" most ambitious person (as 'tis' said) that ever
" lived, and none more desh'ous of fame and renown
" than he, being never so well pleased as when he
" heard himself stiled most excellent or most learned.
" The truth is, he was a ready witted man, quick of
" apprehension, learned, and of great judgment in
" the Latin and Greek tongues, which made him
" more adiiiired and reverenced beyond, than within,
" the seas. After his return he setled at Mortlack
" in Surrey, and spared not to enrich his library
" with choice books as well manuscript as printed :
" and being skiPd in magic, no farther, I presume,
" than natural philosophy directed him, was there-
" fore but ill treatetl by the rude vulgar of his
" neighbourhood, who looking upon him no other
" than a conjurer, he became weary of the place.
" In the beginning of 1583 he contracted with cer-
" tain spirits to act and converse with them, and
" appointing E<lw. Kelley to Ik; his seer or skryer,
" the first sight and discourse they had with them
" was at Lesden <m the 28th of May the same year.
" On the 21st of Sept. following, they left Mortlack
" in order to go beyond the seas in the company, and
" upon the invitation, of a noble Polonian cidled
" Albert Alaskie or ii Lasco, prince of Sira<l, and
" about that time Dr. Dee's library was seized on,
" wherein were 4000 lxx)ks and 700 of them ma-
" nuscripts. At every place where they made a
" stay for two or three days their conversation with
" spirits continued, by virtue of a shew-stone which
" Dee had formerly given to him by an angel. To
" which shexc-stouc, after they had finished their
" prayers, Kelley always applied himself to see when
" the spirit or spiritvial creature came ; and what he
" saw and what he heard he dictated to Dr. Dee
" who sate at a table by him, and wrote down in a
" book what was dictated. On the 13th of March
" following they came to the city of Cracow in Po-
" land, hired a house, lived there, and carried on
" their conversation with spirits. On tlie 1 Aug.
" 1-584 they went towards Prague, and in eight days

« " By Will. Lilly in his own Ufe, p. 85."
Vol. III.

time arrived there, hired an house, and carried on
therein their discourses with spirit.s : And Rodolph
the second, emperor of Germany, hearing they
were tliere, sent forthwith by Cktavius Spinola
his servant, that Dee come to jjim, being then in
his palace at Prague. Dee did so, and was con-
ducted to him in liis most private room, where
was lying then before him Dr. Dee's book entit.
Morias Hieroglyphica, which Dr. Dee had dedi-
cated to Maxnnilian the emperor, father to the
said Rodolph; and being kmdly received, and
the room voided of all but those two ; Dee, after
a great deal of reverence made, told him he had a
message from God for his own good ; which, being
delivered in a canting way, no more than one of
our quakers would do to a great man or king, I
shall for brevity's sake pass it by. At that time
it appears that Dee was in a poor condition, and
being scarce able to subsist, he therefore sent to
Alb. Alaskie then in Poland for relief, which I
presume he received. In Apr. 1585 I find him
with Kelley at Cracow, at which time Franc.
Puccius became acquainted with them, and in
the beginning of August following being at
Prague, Puccius was admitted among them while
they conversed with spirits on the 6th of the said
month. In May 1586 they were commanded to
leave Prague by the emperor, being put upon it so
to do by Philip bishop of Placeiitia the pope's
nuncio, who had a command given him from the
pope, that Dee and Kelley two English magicians
should be banished, or sent to Rome. Afterward
they went to Erphurd in Thuring, and then to
Trelxjna, where Arthur Dee w.as for a time skryer,
as I have before told you. In the beginning of
May 1589 Dr. Dee left Trcbona and Kelley
there, he having been false to him in many respects,
and on the I6th of Nov. 1589 I find hhn ' at
Stade or Stoad, where he met with Mr. (after-
' wards sir) Edward Dyer going in his embassy to
' Denmark, who the year before had been at Tre-
' bona, and carried back letters thence from Dr.
Dee to queen Elizabeth. On the 9th of Dec.
' 1589, being then newly come into England, he

■ presented himself to queen Elizabeth then at
Richmond, where he was favoured with a kind
reception, and afterwards carried on at Mortlake
his conversation with spirits, one Bartholomew
[Hickman] being then his skryer. The said queen

' would sometimes call at his house, and shew her-
' self courteous to him on all occasions ; and in

■ 1590, a little before Christmas, she sent him 200

■ angels, wherewith to keep his Christmas ; and at
' the same time in 1592 she sent him 200 marks,
' and word by Mr. Tho. Cavendish that he do what
' he would in alchymy and philosophy and none
• should controul or molest him. On the 8th of

' " As'mTheat. Chymic. Britan. published by Elias Ash-
mole, p. 480, 48 1 ."

u

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WALKER.

" Dec. 1594 he obtained tlie grant of the cliancel-
" lorship of S. Paul's catlie<lral cliurch in London,
" and on the 27th of Mav 1595 his patent past the
" great seal for the wardenship of Manchester col-
" lege in Lancashire, whither he, his wife, children,
" and family came on the 14th of Febr. following,
" and on the 20th day he was install'd. There he
" lived for some time, not without great troidde
" from the fellows thereof, but whether he kept that
" place to the time of his death, I cannot justly say.
" As before his departure from England he was
" scandalized for a conjurer, so more after his
" return : whereupon putting up a supplication to
" the queen at Hampton-Court 9 Nov. 1592,* to
" stop those rejjorts, I find alx)ut that time secretary
" Walsingham and sir Tho. Gorge to be sent to his
" then dwelling house at Mortlack, by virtue of a
" commission, to understand the matter and causes
*' for which his studies were scandalized. Al)out
" the year 1594 he was under a kind of restraint,
" which occasion'd him to write to the lady Scuda-
" more, 28 Oct. 1594, to move the queen that either
" he might declare his ca.sc to the body of the coiin-
" cil, or else imder the broad seal, to have liberty to
" go freely where he pleased ; and on the 16th of
" Jan. following he sent to Dr. Whitgift archbishop
" of Canterbury, A Liiter or Discourse Apologe-
" ttcdl, <§-c. for the laii-ful, sincere and faithful
" Course of his Philosophical Studies and Exer-
" cises, &c. printed in 3 sh. in qu. [Bodl. 4to. S. 2.
" Jur.l wherein is set down a cat. of those books
*' which he hath printed, and of such that were then
*' in MS. fit for the press, which did him somegocKl
" for the present. After K. James came to the
*' crown, (he having heard much of him liefore) he
" gave him his counteqance, yet Dr. Dee being much
" moved by ill reports (especially by a person who
" in print did puolish to the world in Jan. 1592,
■" that he was a conjurer) he did on the 5th of June
'" 1604 present a petition to the said king at Green-
■" wich, that he or his privy-council or parliament
*' would cause him to be tried, and cleared of that
" damnable and to him most grievous slander, gene-
" rally and for these many years last past in this
" kingdom raised and continued by report and print
" against him, viz. that he hath been a conjurer, a
" caller or invocator of devils, notwithstanding he

« [The compendious Rehearsal of John Dee his duti/uU
Declaration and Proofe of the Course and Race of his studious
Life for the Space of ha fan Hundred Years, now (iy God's
Favour and Hetp)fuUii spent, and of the very great Injuries,
Damages, and Indignities, which fur these last Nine Years he
hath in England sustained, {contrary to her Majestie's very
gracious frill and express Commandment) made unto the two
honourable Commissioners, by her most excellent Majestie
thereto assigned, according to the Intent of the most humble
Supplication of the taid John, exhibited to her most gracious
Majestic at Hampton Court A. I5()2. Nov'', y. See the
whole of this very curious paper in Hearne's Jolian. Glasto-
niensis Chronica, sive Historia de Rebus Glastoniensibus,
Append, p. 497. &c.]

' hath publishetl divers his earnest apologies for him-

■ self against such slanders; And on the 8th of the
' siime month he ])ut up a petition in verse to the
' house of connnons for the same purpjse, beginning
' ' The honour, due unto you all,' ike. But the
' king and they being .satisfied that what he did was
' no other than what his profound knowledge in
' philosophy directed him to, they did nothing as I
' can yet find, in the matter. He was living at
' Mortlack in 1608, but when he died I cannot yet
' find, nor can I positively say whether he wa.s bu-

• ried there, because his name ^tandcth not in the

• register of that parish as buried there. In 1672
'• it was then the tradition of the most antient people

• living at Mortlack that he died in his house there,

■ and was buried in the chancel of the church of

• Mortlack, and pc^inted out the very place to my

■ friend where he was buried : And Dr. Rich. Na^
' pier rector of I^indford in Bucks, a great astro-
' loger, and one that knew Dr. Dee well, u.sed often

to say that he died at Mortlack verv pnjr, being
forced many times to sell some boot or otlier to
buy his dinner. His father Rowl. Dee wa.s de-
scended from the Dees of Nanty Groes in Ratlnor-
shire, antiently called Du, which signifies the
same with Niger, i. e. Black, aa I have been in-
formed by a learnetl * Cambro-Britjiine, who tells
us also, that this Dr. Joh. Dee, whom he knew,
was ' vir certe ornatissinuis &, doctiss. &, omnium
hac nostra aetate (1592) turn philo.s<)phorum, turn
mathematicorum facile princeps' &c.

CLEMENT WALKER was l)oni at Cliffe in
Dorsetshire, educated in acad. learning in Ch.
Church, as I have been informed by his son John
Walker, sometimes a gent. com. of Line. coll. but in
what year, or years, of the Lord, I know not, for his
name occurs not in the matricula, either under CH.
Church, or Broadgate's hall adjoining, a receptacle
mostly in the reign of king James I. for Dorsetshire
men. Afterwards leaving the university without a
degree, he retired to an estate he had at Charter-
house near Wells in Somersetshire, where living in
good repute, was esteem'd among the gentry in
those parts for his knowledge in secular affairs, and
always taken to be, as really he was, an enemy to
the puritans, as making it his frequent theme to
declaun against them. Before the civil war com-
menc'd, he was made usher of the exchequer, but
when the puritans or presbytcrians were hke to
carry all before 'em, he closed with them, was elected
one of the burgesses for the city of AVells upon the
retreat to his majesty of sir Ralph Ilopton and sir
Edw. Rodney, who were elected to serve for that
city in the parliament Ix-gan at Westminster 3 Nov.
1640. Afterwards he became a zealous covenanter,
and was advocate to that congregation of murderers,
that adjudged Rob. Yeomans and George Bowcher

' " Jo. Dav. Rhesus in Cambro-Britanica Lingua Insti-
" tulionibus, &c. Lond. Ibg2. fol. p. 60."

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294

citizens of Bristol to death, having had (as ''tis ' said)
his hands stained with his own wife's blood, before
he dipped tlieni so deep in those martyrs at Bristol.
About that tiine he and W. Prynne, (inseparable
brethren) Iwcaiue f>;reat enemies to coll. Nath. Fiennes
for his cowardly surrendring up the city of Bristol,
and were the chief men that brought him to a trial
for his life for the same. During the time that our
author Walker sate in the parliament, he was a cu-
rious observer, anil diligent enquirer after, not only
the actions, but the counsels of those times. He was
well read also, and notably vers'd in the liberties
and privileges of parliaments, and in the statute law
of this kingdom, as those that knew him well, have
often affirmed it : and when he saw how the inde-
pendent faction began to sway, and govern all
things, then did he become a bitter enemy to Fairfax
the general for his " brutishness and" folly to be led
by the nose by O. Cromwell, and to Cromwell for
his devilish hypocrisy, falseness, tyranny, &c. and
an indefatigable enemy in his writings and prayers
against the said independents that were then the
saints militant. But so it was, that tho' he shew\l
himself a zealous presbyterian, yet he was very ser-
viceable in many things to the parliament, and did
not at all get as others did, as his own ' wt)rds,'

which I believe are true, aver it thus ' I have

served you (the parliament) faithfully from the be-
ginning, and have taken as much pams, and run as
many hazards as most men in your service, wherein
I have lost my health, and above seven thousand
pounds of my estate, without any penny of compen-
sation, as other men have had. Nor have I laid my
hands ivpon anv man's money or goiids, or had any
gainful imployments from you. I was contented to
serve my country gratis, and some little honor I hatl
gotten thereby, whereof you have now robbed me,
&c. by a roving " accusation shot at random at me,'
&c. Thus our author: which service of his was
performed till 1647, when he saw the independent
faction to grow mighty, he being then an elderly
man and of a low stature.' His works that are pub-
hshed are these,

A71 Answer to Col. Nathan Fiennes's Relation
concerning his Sun-aider oftlie City and Castle (yf

'^ I n The two Stale Martyrs ; or the Murder nf Mr. R.
Yrnmaiis and Mr. G. liowclier, &c. printed l{i43 in 'ju. p. 1 1.
See also in Mer. Ruslieus, nu. 19.

" In the first part oi The History of Independency , § 49.

' [He snys of himself, pajte bQ, Part \. oi Hist, of Indep.
' Mr. Walker hath always heen opposite to all parties anil
factions, both presbyterian and independent, upnii wluini he
looks as the common disturbers both of chnrch and cotnniOn-
wcalth, and cneniies of peace. Nor could he ever be (cr-
swaded to be at any of their juntos or secret meetings. But
1 hear they cannot endure his severity, nor he their knavery.'
Cole.]

9 He was accused for setting on the apprentices to force
the house of commons.

' [And lean and meagre. Sec History of Independency,
page 63, 54. Cole.]

Bristol. sprinted 1643 in 2 sheets in <ju. But

for some misconstruction mode of a clause in the
.said answer, the author was suddenly seiz'd and sent
prisoner to the tower of London by the parliament,
where he continued for some time.

Articles trf Impeachment and Accusation, exhi-
bited in Parliament against Col. Nath. Fiennes
touching his diihotiotirable Surrender ttf tlie City
and Castle of Bristol. Lond. 1643. in two sh. in
qu. W. Prynne had a hand also in drawing up of
tne said articles : at the end of which is his letter to
the said Fiennes.

True and full Relation of the Prosecution, Ar-
raignment, Tryal and Condemnation of Nath.
Fiennes, late Colonel and Governor of the City and
Cattle of Bristol, before a Council of War, held at
S. Albans, during 9 Day s Space, in Decemb. 1643.
Lond. 1644. qu. The said Prynne was his co-
operator in this work also.

Declaration and Protestation against the pre-
sent Actings and Proceedings of the General ( Fair-
Jux) and general Council of the Army, and their
Faction now examining and .sitting in the said
House — This was written on the 19th of January
1G48, and printed on one side of a sheet of paper,
the author lieing then a secur'd member of the
house, after he with many of his fellows had been
by force taken thence.

Six serious Queries concerning the King's Tryal

by the High Court of Justice The author's

name is not set to them, but by all beheved to have
been WTitten by Walker.

The Mystery of the two Juntoes, Presbyterian
and Independent."^ Lond. 1647. in 3 sh. in qu.

History of Independency, xvith the Rise, Growth
and Practices (if that poxverjul arid restless Faction.
Lond. 1648. qu. [Bodl. C. 15. 2. Line]

A Li.st of the Names (>f the Members of the
House of Commons, observing which are Officers of
the Army, contrary to the self-denying Ordinance :
together with sucli Sums of Money, OJfces arid
Lands, as they have given to themselves Jbr Service
done, or to be done, aga'tn.'it the King and Kingdom .
Lond. 1648. This being printed in one sh. m qu.
was soon after remitted into the first part of the
Hist, of Independency. See more in George Whar-
ton.

Appendix to the Hist. <>f Independency, being a
brief Description (if .some few of ArgyWs Proceed-
ings, before and since he joined in Confederacy
•with the Independent Junto in England. Lond.
1648. qu.

" [Printed afierwards, with the first part of the History if
Independency, under this title : Relations and Observations
historicalt and politick, upon the Parliament iegun Anno
Dum. 1O40. Divided into ii Bookes : I The Mystery if
the two luntos, Presiylcriun and Independent, i Thi His-
tory of Independency , isfc. Together with an Appendix, touch-
inr t/ie proceedings of the Independent Faction in Scotland.
Printed in the Veare i6bO. Rodl. Mar. Ifil.]
U2

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WALKER.

STEUART.

1651.

Paralkl heticeen Argijk ami Croviwell. This

is printed with the Appendix.

Anarchia Anglicana : Or, the HiMory of' Inde-
pendency ; the second Part. Lond. 1649. qu. [Bodl.
Mar. 161.] Put out as Uie ibrmer jmrt was, under
the name of Thetxlorus vcrax.'

The Hiffh Court of Justice: or CromxcelVs
SlaiighterJtou.se, being the third Part of the Hist,
oflndep. Lond. 1651. ou. [Bodl. C. 13. 1. Line]
Out of which, as also tlie two former parts, were
many things translated into Latin, and printed be-
yond the seas in a manual,* 1653. [Bodl. 8vo. M.
18. Art. Seld. \'ide p. 427.'] After the king's re-
storation, one T. M. added a fourth part ; which,
with all the things Ixjfore-mentioned from The My-
stery (>f the two Juntoes, &c. were printed in one
thick volume in qu. — Lond. 1661. Upon the com-
ing out of the second part of the Hist, of Inde-
pendency, the author being discovered by Crom-
well, was committed prisoner to the Tower of Lon-
don, 13 Nov. 1649,® where having got allowance of
pen, ink, and paper, he wrote the third part of that
nistory. He gave way to fate there, to the great
grief of the presby terian party, in the month of Oc-
tober in sixteen hundred fifty and one : whereujion
his Ixnly was conveyed to the church of Allhallows
Barkin near to the siiid Tower, and there buried, as
I have been informed by his said son John Walker.
The next writer that must follow according to time,
was the greatest royalist in the age he lived, and a
person much reverenced by those who knew his vir-
tues and i)iety.

[Among tlie baptisms at Cliff the following occur.
Thomas, son of Mr. Clement Walker and Frances,
1626; Anthony 1629; Peter 1631, sons of the
same.' ]

RICHARD STEUART was bom of a genteel
family" in Northamptonshire, (at Patishul I think)

' [The (leclicalion of the edition ifioO, is signed Tlieop/i.
Verax, but in the same book the address to sir Thomas Fair-
fax and his army is subscribed Theodorus Verax.]

♦ [It has this title : Metamorphosis Anglorum, sive Miita-
tiones varice Regum, Regni, Rertimque Angliar. Opus histo-
ricum el polilicum, ex variis Fide dignissimis Monumenlis
ac Auctoribus contextum, ad liac usque Tempora deduc-
tum, Memoricrque Posterilalis ctternce consecratum. Anno
ciorDCLiii.]

' [And the first part was translated into Latin and very
hantisomely printed, for distribution on thp continent, in
quarto. Sec- it, with several other tracts of a like nature,
Bodl. 4to. N. 10. Jur.]

^ [A» 1649, 13 Nor. Resolved, That Clem. Walker, esq.
be committed prisoner to the Tower, in order for his tryal
for high treason. Journals of the House of Commons, vol. vi.
page 322. Cole.]

' [Hulchins, lUat. of Dorsetshire, vol. ii. page 213, edit.
Lond. 1803.]

" [On a tomb-stone in PateshuU church-yard are the fol-
lowing inscriptions. Hie jacent corpora Johannis Steward
senerosi et Janae uxoris ejus. Obiit ille !» August! 1577,
lUa 26« Februarii I591. Filii maestissimi Nicholaus et Jo-
hannes p: p. p. p.

Piae Memorix Nicolai Stewaid generosi et Anns uxoris

became a coimiMmer of Magd. hall in 1608, aged
14 or thereabouts, elected tellow of Alls. coll. in
1613, beinw then bach, of arts, proceetled in his fa-
culty, studied the civil law for a time, and t(X)k one
degree therein. In 1624 he prtxreetled in the said
faculty, and in 1628 he was made preb. of Worces-
ter on the death of Rich. Potter bach, of div. About
the beginning of March 1629 he had the prebend-
ship of North Aiilton in the church of Sartim con-
ferral u{x)n him, and alxjut that time wa.s made
chapl. in ord. to his majesty. In 1634 he Ijecame
dean of Chichester in the place of Dr. Franc. Dec
promoted to the see of Peterborough, and soon after
clerk of the closet, in the room of Dr. Matth. Wren,
and prebendary of Westminster in his place, an.
1638. In which year he resigned his prchendship
of AVorcester, and was succeetled therein by Will.
Smith D. D. warden of AVadham coll. About the
same time he was made dean of S. Paufs cathedral,'
and in Dec. or Jan. 1639 provost of Eaton coll. in
the room of sir Hen. Wotton deceased.' He was
also at the same time dean of the chappcl royal, and
when Dr. Williams bishop of Line, (who kept the
deanery of Westntinster in commcndam with that
see) was translated to York, he was made dean of
that coUegiat church, not in 1641, but in 1645.
While he remained in die university, he was ac-
counted a good }X)et and orator, and after he had
left it a noted divine, eloquent preacher, and a per-
son of a smart fluent stile. In the beginning of the
rebellion he suffered much for the king's cause, lost
all, and at length retiring to France, became a great
champion for the jirotestant cause at Paris, where,
at le Hostle de Blinville, he preached an excellent
sermon Of the English Case, or HezcVmlCs Re-
Jbrmuticm, in vindication of ours. So that whereas
Mr. Rich. Baxter in several of his public writings
doth most uncharitably' stiggest as if he, (Dr.
Steuart) when at Paris, had a design to introduce
the French popery by preaching, it appears to the
contrary not only in that, but in another sermon
preached in defence of the protestants against the
papists in an auditory of prelatists there. Besides
also, he, with that public-spirited man sir George
Ratcliff, did go very far in making an accommoda-
tion between the Jansenists and the reformed party,
our author being then chaplain to his majesty king
Charles II. His works are these,

ejus, quorum ille obiit 2» die Januarii l628; ilia vero 30
Aprilis 1615. Maerens posuit Richard Steward LL.D.
P. P. P. P. P. History of Norihamptanshire, by Bridges,
vol. i, page 2Cf).]

' [Not at that time made dean, but design'd, and by the
king confirm'd in 1641.

1641,21 Mar. Ric. Steward LL.D. confirmatus fuit in
decan. S. Pauli per promotionem The. VVinniffe in cp. Line.
Reg. London. KbnnBT.]

' [Hecommendcd by the king to be elected at Eaton, 24
Dec. elected Dec. 28, instituted 2 Jan. I639. Tho. Martin,
ex Eaton coll. Reg. Tanner.]

' See in Tho. Pierce his Appendix to the New Discoverer
discovered, &c. §.44.

[147]

STEUART.

IRETON.

298

[148]

165 1.

An Answer to a Letter written at Oxford and
superscribed to Dr. Sam. Turner concerning the

Chvrch and lieveniies thereof- Printed 1617 in

5 sheets and an half in ([ii. [B<h11. C. 8. 29. Line]
This afterwards came out under this title, A Di.9-
course of' Episcopacy and Sacrilege hy Way of
Letter, written I0I6. Lond. 1683. qu. The said
letter was \mtten not at Oxon, but rather at Ailes-
bury by Joh. Fountain lately a royalist, but then a
turn-coat.

Three Sermons (l) On 1 Cor. 10. 30. (2) On
Mat. 28. 6. (3) On 1 Cor. 15. 29. Lond. 1656
and 58. in twelv. [Bodl. 8vo. T. 82. Th.]

Trias Sacj-a : A second Ternary of Sermons.
Lond. 16-39. in tw.

Catholic Divinity: or, the most solid and senten-
tious Expressions of the primitive Doctors of the
Church, with other ecclesiastical and civil Authors,
&c. Lond. 1657. oct.

Other sermons, as, (1) The English Case exactly
.set down by Hesekia/is Reformation, in a Court
Sermon at Paris ; on 2 Kings 18. 22. Lond. 1659.
oct. [Botll. 8vo. A. 117. Lmc] and before: pub-
lished for the i"ull vindication of the church of Eng-
land from the Romanists cliarf^e of schism, and com-
mended to the consideration of the late author of
Th£ Grotian Religion di.sTOiwred. The picture of
K. Ch. II. is set before the title. (2) Golden Re-
mains, or three Sei-mons, the first on Phil. 4. 17.
the second on Mark 6. 20. and the third on Heh.
10. 1, 2. Lond. 1661. in tw. &c.

The old Puritan detected and defeated: or, a
brief Treatise shewing how by the Artifice of Pul-
pit Prayers, our Dissenters at all Times have en-
deavoured to undermine the Liturgy of the reform-
ed Church of England. Together zvith the Fault
and Danger of such Prayers, whether vented ex-
tempore, or foretlioiight by a Speaker. Lond. 1682,
in one sli. in qu. said by the Ixxjkseller, who printed
it, that Dr. Rich. Steuai-t was the author. See more
in Rich. Sherlock, an. 1689. The design of this
small treatise is, (as also another of the same sub-
ject, viz. about the meaning of the 55th canon pub-
lished by Dr. Heylin) to make out and evidence
that the 55th of K. Jam. I. enjoyns only an exhort-
ation to, or bidding of prayer, and that that canon
contains an express and precise form of prayer, not
in the least to be deviated from by ministers, and
that the primary design and scojie of this canon,
was not barely to lay down and prescribe matter,
heads, and contents of prayer, which were left to be
worded and expressed according to the discretion of
the minister ; which last is owned to be the more
general practice of our divines, tho' he saith it is
directly against the intendment of the canon. These
are all the things that Dr. Steuart hath written, as
I conceive, and therefore I shall only say, that when
he lay upon his death-bed at Paris in Nov. in six-
teen hundred fifty and one, K. Ch. II. gave him
two visits, being then newly arrived there from his

escape iroin AVorcester fight, and his concealment
in England, and that he was interred in an open
burying pUice in the suburbs of S. Germain, walled
in, and some time before granted to those of the re-
formed religion to bury the IxKlies of their decea-sed.
His epitaph over his irrave, made some years after
his decease, tells us that he died on the 14 of Nov.
16.52, but false, for it .should be 1651, lor every one
of the English nation that was then at Paris, saith
that he died shortly after K. Ch. II. came into
France after his escape from Worcester fight,' which
was in the month of Octob. 1651.* See his epitaph
in Hist. <Si- Antiq. Univ. Oxon." lib. 2. p. 182.

[Richard Steward itistalled preljendary of Win.
Chester in 1628, on the death of Richard Potter,
and resigned in 1638.

1641, 15 Mar. Ric. Steward LL.D. admiss. ad
officium penitentiarii et preb. S'" Pancratii, per pro-
mot. Hen. King ad ep'atum Cicestr. ad prcs. regis.
Reg. London. Kennet.

Doctor Stewart, says lord Clarendon,' was a very
honest and learned gentleman, and most conversant
in that learning which vindicated the dignity and
authority of the church, upm which liis heart was
most entirely set; not without some prejudice to
those who thought there was any other object to be
more carefully pursued.

Dr. Richard Steward clerk of the closet to Charles
I. had an estate at Lodington, Northamptonshire,
lately sold by Mr. Steward of Cotterstock to Bai^
tholomew Clerk of London esquire.'

Dr. Steward''s Judgment of a private Prayer in
publick, relating to the Orders of the Church of
England. With an Account oftJte Biddi7ig Prayer.
Oxford, Printed by L. Litchfield, Printer to the
University, for Richard Sherlock, Book.seller, in
the Year 1684. This is found at sign. G. 2. of
Several .short but seasonable Discou7:ses touching
common and private Prayer, relating to the publick
Of/ices ()fthe Church. Oxford 8cc. as before, 1684.
Bodl. 8vo. C. 716. Line]

HENRY IRETON eldest son and lieir of Ger-
man Ireton of Artenton in Nottinghamshire esq;
and brother to sir Jo. Ireton lord mayor of London
1658, was born there, or at least in that county,
became a gent. com. of Trinity coll. in the year
1626 and in that of his age 16, took one degree in
arts in 1629, but left the university without com-
pleating that degree by determination : At which

' [He died within fourteen days after the king's return to
France from Worcester fight, according to lord Clarendon,
who says, ' the king had reverence for his judgment in mat-
ters of religion, by the earnest recommendation of his father."
See History of the Rebellion, vol. iii. page 345, edit, folio.]

* [It was in November, that the king landed in Nor-
mandy, in a small creek, from whence he got to Roan. Lord
Clarendon, ibid. p. 331. ibid.]

' [As also before his English Case. CoLB.]

" 'Life, page 124, edit, fol.]

' [Bridges, Hist, of Northamptonshire, vol, ii. page 43.]

209

IRETON.

Umc he had tlie character in that house of a stub-
bom and sawcy fellow towards the seniors, and
therei'ore his company was not at all wanting. Af-
terwards he went to the Middle Temple, learned
some grounds of the common law, became a man of
a workinfi; and laborious brain, which in the end
led him into some errors. When the grand rebel-
Uon broke out, he, as a person natur'd to mischief,
took up anns agjiinst the king, '* was a recruiter in
" the long parhamcnt either for the county of West-
" morland or for Appleby,'" and about tliat time
nuirrieil Bridget one of the daughters of Ohv. Crom-
well then a colonel of a regiment, afterwards lord
protector of England. By Avhose endeavours, he
txxtame first a captain, afterwards a colonel, of a re-
giment of horse, and at length commissary general
upon the new modelling of the army, in tne begin-
jimg of the year 1645. About that time I find him
an active man, and one very busy in breaking the
presb^'tcrian faction in the house of commons, to
the end that the independents might get die king
into their own clutches. His parts and abilities
were such, liis dissimulation so jirofound, and his
mischievous designs had so clean a conveyance, that
his father-in-law Cromwell made frequent use of
him when he was put to a push to compleat his
■wicked designs : And having always found him to
be very capacious of overthrowing monarchy, and a
thorow-pac'd dissembler under the mask of religion,
(being absolutely the l)est prayer-maker and preacher
in the army) he, with col. Job. Lambert (who had
likewise studied in the inns of court and was of a
subUe working brain) did put him up(m writing a rc-
jnonstrance on the army's behalf for justice to be
done on the king. Whereupon retiring in private
for some days to Windsor castle, as I have been in-
formed, he (\rc\v iij) the remonstrance, and after he
had conmiunicatcd it to Fairfax the generalissimo
(whom he and Cromwell made a stalking liorse, and
to believe any thing) and the prime officers of the
army, they caused it to be delivered to the house of
f 1 49] commons, by the hands of col. Isaac Ewer and se-
ven other ofticers : Which done, it was printed im-
der this title,

A Remonstrance of his Excellency Tlioma^ Lord
Fairfax, Lord General of the Parliament Forces,
and of the general Council of Officers held at S.
Albans the 16 of Nov. 1648, presented to tlie Com-
.mons assembled in Parliament, the Wth instant, and
tendered to the Consideration of (lie xvhole King-
dom. Lond. 1648, in 9 sheets in qu. [Bodl. 4to.
W. 36. Jur.] Which remonstrance being read to
his majesty at Newport in the isle of Wight, he
propounded four queries thereupon against the
power of the army, which may be seen in his works
printed 1662. ]). 671. The said Ireton also, who
was alx)ut that time one of the commissioners of
the navy, did write, or at least had a chief hand in,
a certain pamphlet called

The A ffr cement of the People— —mearung of the

aiuiy, published in the month of Jan. 1648; judi-
ciously answerd by AVill. Ashurst, esq; a jmrlia-
ment man for Newton in Lancashire and a presby.
tcrian. The said agreement (with a petition) was
presented" to the parliament in the name of all the
army, by Ueut. gen. Tho. Hannnond, and divers
chief officers thereof, on the i^Oth day of the same
month of Jan. He the siiid Ireton was chiefly em-
ployed also, and took upon him the business of the
pen in all the tleclarations, desires, modules, and
transactions of the army, nay and in all or most
letters written by Fairfax the general to the parlia-
ment, before the king was beheaded, being esteemed
a person full of invention and industry, and skill'd
in the connnon law. About that time he became a
busy man to bring his majesty to his tryal, had a
hand in drawing up the ordinance for it, and the
precept for proclaiming the high court of justice,
sate as a judge among the rest when he was tried,
and was one of the committee that araxnuted the
time and place of his execution. Afterwards, in
June 1649, he was appointed by ])arliament the
next commander in chief under Cromwell in his
exjDedition for Ireland, that is, to be major general,
and after his arrival, a commission and patent was
sent to him to be president of Mounster. After
Cromwell the lord lieutenaJit had given an account
to the parliament of affairs done there, he returned
into England in June 1650, at which time, he left
Ireton his deputy to prosecute the parliament's in-
terest there, and acting highly against such as they
called rebels, was, in his way tt) Limerick, taken
with a sudden disease, (some said the plague'') oa
the 16th day of November: whereupon being con-
veyed in all haste to Limerick, died tliere on the
26th of die said month, in sixteen hundred fifty and 1155,
one. Afterwards col. Edm. Ludlow, who was lieut.
gen. of the army there, did execute the office of de-
puty for a time by the appointment of the superior
power. On the 9 of Dec. tiie parliament ordered a
bill to be brought in for the setthng of 2000/. 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 Bristol, was pomjxiusly conveyed towards Lon-
don, and lying in state for a time in Somerset-house
in the Strand, all hung with black, diere was hung
over the common gate an atchievement commonly
called a hatchment, with this motto under his arms
depicted thereon, Dulce est pro patria mori, which
was englished by an honest cavaJier thus, It is good
for his country that he is dead. On the sixth day

* Bulslrode WliillocU in his Memorials of Engl. Affairs,
in Jan. l648. p. 364. b.

• [He dyed at the siege of Limerick uf a pestilential feaver,
and who, as he was a man of lilood, for he hal deeply dyed
himselfe in llie king's, expired with that word in his mouth,
for in his raving, as I was told by one that was then there,
he eryed out, '1 will have more blood, blood, blood." Sir
Philip Warwick's Memoires of the Reign nf King Charles I.
Lond. 1701, 8vo. page 334.]

IRETON.

WOODCOCK.

302

of Febr. following, his Iiody was interrYl with great
state in the chappel of K. Hen. 7. at Westminster ;
at which time Jolin Owen dean of Cli. 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 restoration of king Charles II. his bo<ly, witli
that of Oliv. Cromwell, were taken up on Saturday
26 Jan. 1660, and on Monday night following were
drawn in two several carts from Westminster to the
Red Lyon in Holboum, where they continued that
evening. The next morning the carcass of Job.
Bradshaw president of the high court of justice
(which had been with great solemnity buried in S.
Peter's church at AVestminster 22 Nov. 16-59.) was
carried in a cart to Hollxjurn also ; and the next
day following that, (which was the 30 of January,
on which day king Charles I. was l>elieade<l in 164^,)
they were drawn to Tybum 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, tlieir heads cut oft", (to be set
on Westminster hall) and their loathsome trunks
thrown into a deep hole under the gallows, where
tliev now remain. At the same time Ireton's tomb
was broken down, aiul wliat remained over tiie graves
of Cromwell and Bradsliaw 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 entit.
Independency str'tpt and xcMpt : or, Ireton'' s Peti-
tion, &c. 1648. qu. and after his death another
called The Kinmlom of Christ to the Parlinment,
Jrom 1649 to 1652, with the name of Hen. Ireton
deputy of Ireland in the title page. But these I
have not yet seen. " Under his name was printed
" at Cork 16.50 ' qu. in 2 sheets, A Declaration and
" Proclamation concerning the present Hand of
" God ill the Visitation of the Plague, and for
" Exercise of Fasting and Prayer.""

[Ireton was chosen a recruiter in the long parlia-
ment, either for the county of Westmorland, or for
Appleby, about 1643. Wood. MS. Note in Ash-
mole.

' Ireton,' says lord Clarendon, ' was of a melan-

' [He runs a parallel betwixt Daniel and Ireton ; but
without lilasphemy. Baker]

' [/"Ae tniouring Snint's Dismission lo Hest, a Sermon
preached at the Funeral nf the right honourable Henry Ire-
ton, lord Depiili/ of Ireland, in the Alley Church at West-
minster, the Oith Day of Felruary l65l. By John Owen,
Minister of the Gospel. Licensed and Entered according to
Order. London, Printed ly R. and W. Leylourn for Phi-
lemon Stephens at the gilded Lion in Paul's Church-yard,
ifiSS. Bodl. 4to. N. 5, Th. BS. Ded. to colonel Henry
Ciomwell.]

' [Reprinted at London soon after. Wood. MS. Note
in Ashmole.']

cholick, resery'd dark nature, who communicated
his thoughts to very few : so that, for tlie most partj
he resolv'd alone, but was never diverted from any
resolution he had taken ; ami he was thought often
by his obstinacy to prevail over Cromwell himself,
and to extort his concurrence contrary to his own
inclinations. But that proceeded only from his dis-
sembling less; for he was never reserv''d in the own-
ing and communicating his worst and most barba-
rous puqxjses; which the other allways concealed
and disavow'd. Hitherto their concurrence had
been very natural, since they had the same encls and
designs. It was generally conceiv'd by those who
had the opportunity to know them both very well,
that Ireton was a man so radically averse from mo-
narchy, and so fixt to a republick government, that
if he had livM, he would either, by his counsel and
credit, have prevented those excesses in Cromwell,
or publickly opposed and declared against them,
ancl carried the greatest part of the army with hmi ;
and that Cromwell, who best knew his nature, and
his temper, had therefore carried hin into Ireland,
and left him there, that he might be without his
counsels or importunities, when he should find it
necessary to put oft" his mask, and to act that part
which he foresaw it would be requisite to do. Others
thought his parts lay more towards civil affairs;
and were fitter for the mtxlelling that government,
which his heart was set upon (being a scholar, con-
versant in the law, and in all those authors who had
expressed the greatest animosity and malice against
the regal government) than for the conduct of an
army to support it ; his personal courage being ne-
ver reckon'd among his other abihties.'' *

There is a g(X)d head of Ireton, by Houbraken
in Birch''s Illustrious Heads, and a whole length in
8vo. ' sold by Walton.']

FRANCIS WOODCOCK son of Rob. Wood-
cock was born in the city of Chester, applied his
mind to academical studies in Brasen. coll. in Easter
term 1629, aged 15 years, took a degree in arts,
holy orders from a bishop, and then left the house,
ana had a cure of souls bestowed on him. But
being always puritannically affected, he sided with
the pre.sbyterians upon a defection of a predominant
party in the long parliament, an. 1641, became a
lecturer of S. Laurence church in the JewTy in Lon-
don, a covenanter, one of the assembly of divines,
and at length by ordinance of parliament dat. 10
Jul. 1646, was made parson of S. Olaves in South-
wark, having for some time before exercised his
function in that place. He hath written and pub-
lished.

The two Witnesses, in several Lectures at S.
Laurence Jewry, on Rev. 11. xeith tJie great Ques-
tion discussed, whether the tivo Witnesses were
slain or no. Lond. 1643. qu. [Bodl. 4to. G. 12.

« lUist. nflhe Rebellion, iii. 302.]

305

BARTON.

RYVES.

lG3l.

[151]

Claruit
1651.

Th. BS.J niado extant by virtue of an order of the
committee of the iwiise of conunons bearing date
27 of April the same year. This book was after-
wards reprinte<l.

Sevenu sermons, as (1) Chrisfs Warning-piece,
giving Notice to every one to watch and keep their
Garments, Fast-Sermon before the H. c>fCom. 30
Oct. 1644; on Rev. 16. 15." Lond. 1644. qu. [Bodl.
4to. G. 12. Th. BS.] (!2) Lex Talionis : or, God
paying every Man in his oicn Coin, Fast-Serm. be-
Jbre the H.'qfC. .W Jul. 1645; on 1 Sam. 2. 30.
UMer part. Lond. 1645. qu. [Bodl. 4to. G. 12.
Th. BS.] (3) Joseph paralleVd by the jjresent
Parliament in his Sufferings and Advancement,
Thanksgiving Sermon before the H.ofC. 19 Feb.
1645. Jbr reducing the City of Chester by the
Pari. Forces under ihe Command of Sir Will.
Brereton ; on Gen. 49. 23, 24. Lond. 1646. qu.
[Bodl. 4to. G. 12. Th. BS.] " (4) A Sermon on
" Gen. 49. r. 23, 24."' What other things he hath
extant I know not, nor any tiling else of him, only
that he dying in sixteen hundred fifty and one, or
thereabouts, was buried in the chui-ch of S. Olave's
->before-mentioned. One of his sirnanie was by act
of parhament dated in March 1659-60, appointed
among several other ministers to approve of mini-
sters of the gosjiel according to the presbyterian
way, which act came soon after to nothing. He is
the same person who was afterwards a frequent con-
venticler, and has one or more sermons extant in
Tlie Morning Exercise methodized. Lond. 1676.
qu.

- [Woodcock has one sermon in the fourth volume
of Casuistical Morning Exercties, pr. for John
Dunton, Lond. 1690, in 4to. (B(k11. C. 2. 30. Line.)
This is on Romans 14, 1, and on the following
question, How doth practical Godliness better rec-
ti/ie the Judgment tlian doubtfull Disputations ?]

« WILLIAM BARTON, born in Bucking-
." harashire, became a servitor of Merton coll. in the
" year 1610, aged 16, left it without a degree, and
" seems to have been the same with one Will. Bar-
"' ton a preacher, who hath pubhshed

" Tfie Psalms and Hymns cormposed and fitted
"Jbr the present Occasion of piMic Thanksgiving,
" 24 Oct. 1651. First printed by act of pafliament
« 1645. oct."

" One Will. Barton minister of S. Martin's in
" Leicester was a grand phanatic, 1659. See Dug-
" dale's Slwrt View, p. 472. There was also one

^ [See it in Wood's study, in a volume cnlilled on the back
Presiylerians.'^

' [A° lG50, 27 Sept. The humble peiition of William
Barton, preacher of God's word, was this day read. — Or-
dered, That it be referred to Mr. Carrill, Mr. Kye, Mr.
Bond, Mr. Stronge, Mr. Sedgwick, and Mr. Byfield, to
peruse Mr. Rouse's translation of the Psalms, and since re-
viewed by the said Dr. Barton, and if they approve of them,
to license the printing thereof. Journals of the Houie qf
Commons, vol. vi, page 474. CoLE.]

" Will. Barton son of William Barton of the city
" of GltK'ester yeoman, who was matriculated of
" llart-hall Apr. 13. an. 1632."'

[It was not the William Barton of Hart-hall, nor
he of Merton who was the author here mentioned,
but Barttm the minister of St. Martin's Leicester,
who I cannot find to have been a member of this
university. He was certainly neitlier a native of
Buckinghamshire or Gloucestershire, as in the de-
dication of his Select Hymns out of the Psalms,
1672, to the corporations of Coventry, Leicester and
Northampton, he says he had his birth, breeding
and abocfe in these respective places. In 1656 he
was appointed minister of St. Martin's Leicester, at
a salary of twenty shillings a week, and had the
rectory of Cadeby, in the hundred of Sparkenhoe,
given him by Ohver Cromwell March 19, 1656, 7,
whence he was ejected in 1662. He wrote

1. Two Centuries of select Hymns and Spiritual
Songs collected out of several Chapters of the Holy
Bible. All to be sung in six or .leven Tunes com-
monly knoii^n and practised. By W. B. M. A. and
Minister of the Gospel at St. Martins in Leicester.
Printed for the AutJior London, by W. God-
bid, &c. 1670. 8vo. ded. to sir Matthew Hale and
sir Thomas Tyrrell.

2. Tico Centuries of select Hymns collected out
of the Psalms. Lond. 1672. 8vo. ded. to the corpo-
rations and three mayors of Coventry, Leicester and
Northamjiton. Both these are in the BotUeian 8vo.
S. 122. Th. I give one extract from the latter.

/-•*«/;« 121. Looking up to God.
\Jp to the hills I lift mine eye,

^V^hence comes my help at need :
From him that nuuk' l)otli earth and skye

Doth all my help jiroceed.
He will not let thy foot be mov'd,

For still thy keejier wakes ;
Lo, he that kee)x>th his belov'd

No sleep nor slumber takes.

The Lord at thy right hand shall be

Thy shallow of defence.
The sun and moon shall slietl on thee

No harmful influence.
From evils all he keeps thee sure,

And guards thy soul about ;
Henceforth for ever to secure

Thy goings in and out.]

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 Wykeham's 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 pro-
bation, an. 1598, where applying his studies to tlie

» [He took his degree as B. A. Oct. 23, l633.]

RYVES

TURNER.

306

l63i.

faculty of the civil law, tf)ok tlie degrees therein,
that of doctor being complcated 1610, about which
time he was an eminent acivoeate in doctors commons
and tlie court of ailmiralty. Afterwards " about
" A. D. 1618" he was one ot tlie masters of chancery,
and judge of the faculties and jHvrogative court m
Ireland, where he was held in great esteem for his
knowledge in the laws. At length, upon the coming
to the crown of king Ch. I. he was made his ad-
vocate, and by him knighted, was engaged in his
cause when the grand rebellion broke out, wherein
he gave gmxl evidence of his valour ; and notwith-
standing he was then well stricken in vears, yet he
receivecl several woinids in fights and skirmishes for
his cause. He was jiccounted a thorough-pac''d
scholar in all polite learning, was a pure Latmist,
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 majesty at the treaty for peace in
the isle of Wight. He hath written and puolished.

The Vicar'' s Pica: or, that a Competency of
Means is due to Vicars out of the several Parishes.
Lond. 1620. qu. [Bodl. 4to. G. 46. Th.]

Rcgiminis Anglicani in Hibernia Defensio ad-
versus Analecten:^ Lib. 3. Lond. 1624. qu. [Bodl.
4to. R. 9. Jur. Seld. sj

Imperataris Justiniani Defensio contra Aleman-
num. Lond. 1626. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. R. 14. Jur.
Seld.]

Hlitoria navalis antiqua: Lib. 4. Lond. 1633.
oct. [Bodl. Svo. R. 6. Art. Seld.]

Hist, navalis media: Lib. 3. Lond. 1640. oct.
Bodl. 8vo. R. 7. Art. Seld.] What other things
le hath published I know not, nor any thing else of
lim, only that he paid his last debt to nature on
the second of January, or thereabouts, in sixteen
hundretl fifty and one, and was buried in the church
of S. Clement's Danes without Temple-Bar near
London, on the fifth day of ti)e same month, having
suffer''d much in his estate for the king's cause,
which he had stoutly defended.

[Archbishop Usher gives a very indifferent ac-

' [This was written, as he says in a letter on the subject to
Camden, by command of the slate in Ireland, ' by reason of
the many foul imputations wliich it casteth upon the go-
vernment of the English, and even touchelh to the title of
the crown itself.' Camdeui Epislolw, edit. Smith, episl.

CLXXXVII.]

^ [' I doubt not but I). Ryves hnth sent your lordship his
Answer to the Analecla. 1 have read him over, and approve
the work, but not in every particular ; as where he makes
Sedulius among others (pag. 4(j, lib. 2.) to be one of St.
Patrick's forerunners in the plantation of Christian religion
in Ireland. I do not see how that can be; the best auiliors
making him contempoi:ary, if not later than St. Patrick.
Some other passages 1 could censure, both of ancient and
mo<lcrn times, but I will spare that labour till our meeting.'
Letter from sir Henry Bourgchicr to bishop Usher, dated
J-ond. Jan. 17, i624, printed in Varj's Life and Letters ff
L'slier, Lond. luSG, folio, page 317.1

Vol. in.

count, either of Ry ves's gratitude or lioncsty. See
Parr's (Lshcr\i Letters, page 335, &c. Colk.

Letter from Ryves to Usher, when ))ishop of
Meath, in Parrs Li/e and Letters of Usher, 1686,
page 301.

Ijctters from him to Camden, in Smith\s Camdeni
Epistohc, 1691, pages 236, and 257.J

PETER TURNER, a younger son of Dr.
Peter Turner a physitian, mentioned among the in-
corporations in the Fasti, an. 1599, was born, as it
seems, in the piirish of S. Helen within Bisliopsgate
in the city ot London, in which parish his father
lived and practised his faculty, admitted proba-
tionary fellow of Mert. coll. in 1607, })r(K'eeded in
arts, and being not bound to any particular faculty,
as the fellows in other colleges are, became most
admirably well vers'd in all kind of learning. He
was a most exact Latinist and Grecian, was well
skiird in the Hebrew and Arabic, was a thorougii-
pac'd mathematician, was excellently well read in
the fathers and councils, a most curious critic, a
politician, statesman, and what not. The first pre-
ferment that he had, whereby his parts were made
manifest to the world, was the professorship of geo-
metry in Gresham college,' which he kept with his
fellowship, as afterwards he did the Savihan pro-
fessorship of geometry in this university, obtained
on the death of Hen. Briggs, in the year 1630.
He was much beloved of archb. Laud, and so
highly valued by him, that he would have procured
him to be one of the secretaries of state, or clerks of
the privy council, &c. but being v cdded to his col-
lege and a studious life (entertaining hop(.>s withal
of being warden thereof) he denied those, and other
honourable and beneficial places. In 1636 he was
actually created doctor of phvsic, and in the begin-
ning of the grand rebellion was one of the first
scholars that went out and ser\ed his majesty in
the quality of a volunteer^ under the command of
colonel sir John Byron ; for which, he did not only
for the present suffer, as being a pri.soner of war,'
but was afterwards ejected by the parliamentarian
visitors from all right he had to his fellowship of
Mert. coll. and from his professorship of the uni-
versity.-* He wrote many admirable things, but
being too curious and critical, he could never finisji
them according to his mind, and therefore cancelfd
them. He also made divers translations from Greek
into Lat. particularly some of the epistles, from an

' [He was chosen July 25, 162O, on the resignation of
Briggs. Ward's Lives of the Professors of Gresham College,
page 132.]

- Vide Hist. ISf Aniiq. Univ. O.ron. lib. I. p. 335.

3 [Peter Turner, doctor in |)hysic, being apprehended,
actually levying war against the parliament, viz. taken as
trooper under sir John Byron, going from Leicester to Ox-
ford, Sept. 1642, was committed prisoner to the counter in
Sonihivark. Tannek.]

' [VVallis was put into his place, but allowed him no-
thinge. Wood, MS. note in Ashmole.']
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old authentic MS. of Isidorus Ptlu.siota: Wliich
trans, were found among Hen. Jacob's papers after
his death. But tliat, with other curiosities of our
learned Turner, went afterwards into obscure hands.*
He hath extant in several l)ooks,

EpiistoUc variw ad doct't.istmos Viros. ' He had
also a principal hand in fi-aming' the university
statutes now m use, and was the sole jxrson that
made them run in good Latin, and put the preface
to them. He made the Caroline Cycle lor the
election of pnxjtors, beginning in l6Si9 and ending
in 1720, ancl did many other matters for the benefit
of learning* and this university. \t length being in
a manner luidono by the severities of the j)arlia-
mentarian visitors in 1G48, he retired to the house
of his sister, the afflicted widow of one Wats a
brewer, living against the Compter prison in South-
wark near London, where sjx?nding the short re-
mainder of his life in obscurity, surrcndred up his
soul to {irxl in the month of January, in sixteen
hundred fifty and one, and in that of his age 66 or
thereabouts ; whereupon liis body was l)uried in the
church of S. Saviour there. This person having
been of a proud and haughty mind, because of his
great parts, and intimate acquaintance with archb.
Laud and the great heroes of that time, the snivling

{)resbyterians therefore, especially those of his col-
ege which he left behind him, as Alex. Fisher,
Ralph. Button, &c. did not stick to report that he
died no better than a brewer's clerk, because he
oflen insix'cted the accompts of his sister before-
menti(m\l, and had a great care of her concerns.

JOHN ARNWAY, a Shropshire man Iwm, be-
came a commoner of S. Edm. hall in the year 1618,
and in that of his age 18, took the degrees in arts,
entred into the sacretl function, and had a cure of
souls bestowed on him. At length the civil wars
breaking forth, he adhered to the king's cause, suf-
fered nuich for it in his own country, went after
him to Oxon, and was actually created D. of D. in
1642, being about that time (as I conceive) made
archdeacon of Lichf. and Coventry, in the place of
Dr. Ralph Brownrig promoted to the see of Exeter.
He hatl then quitted a large fortune to serve his
prince, and thereupon was plunder'd by the rebels,
and lost his Irooks and papers, which he could never
recover. Afterwai-ds upon the declining of the
king's cause, he went to the Hague in Holland, and
afterwards to Virginia where he died. He hath
written,

Tfie Tablet, or Moderation of Clmrles tlie first.
Martyr.

An Alarum to the Svijects of England.

A few copies of these two little treatises were

* [See on 10 col. 331, under Henry Jacob.]
" [^ee extracts from three of his letters to Selden in
Ward's Lives, &c. pages 134, 13o.]

' [Vide Hist. & Anliq. Univ. O.xon. p. 338, 339,

" [Me wrote a Latin poem iniio(;(/fiomn«»iaOxon.l6i3.4to.]

both printed together in a .small chai-acter at tlie
Hague, an. 1650, afterwards rejirinted at Lond.
1661. in oct. by the care of Will. Rider sometimes
of Mert. coll. who married the author's near kins-
woman. Afterwards Dr. Arnway l)eing reduced Clar.
to necessity, left the Hague, ami upon an invitation i^si.
he went into Virginia to exercise his function among
the English, where he ched about Lyn haven, Eli-
zabeth river or Nausunum, but when I cannot tell,
unless alwut the year 1653.

[Arnway was not only archdeacon of Coventrj-,
but prebendary of Woolvey in the church of Lich-
field, rector of Hodnet and of Ightfield in Shrop-
shire. He was driven from his living at Hodnet
by the gamson of Wem, when he retired to Ox-
ford.

Arnway's two little treatises are very rare, but the
curious reatler may be pleased to see some extracts
from them in Wjdker's Sufferings of tlic Clergy,
part 2. page 40.]

JOHN VICARS a Londoner bom, descended
from those of his name living in the county of Cum-
berland, educated from his infancy, or time of un-
derstanding, in school learning in Christ-church
hospital in London, and in academical, partly in
Oxon. particularly, as it seems, in Queen's coll. but
whether he took a degree it appears not. After-
wards he retired to his native place, became usher
of the said hospital (which he Kept to, or near, his
dying day) and was esteemed among some, esjie-
cially the jiuritannical partv (of which number he
was a zealous brother) a tolerable jx)et, but by the
royalists not, because he Ka^ inspired icith ak or
viler liquors. In the beginning of the civil wars,
he shewed himself a f()rward man for the pres-
byterian cause, hated all people that loved obe-
dience, and did affright many of the weaker sort
and others from having any agreement with the
king's party, by continually inculcating into their
heads strange stories of God's \vrath against the
cavaliers. Afterwards when the independents be-
gan to take place, he bore a great hatred towards
thein, especially after they had taken away the
king's life. His works are these :

A prospective Glass to look into Heaven: or,
the celestial Canaan de.icribed. Lond. 1618. oct.
[Bodl. 8yo. V. 60. Th.] 'Tis a poem.'

Tlie SouTs sacred Soliloquic, Sfc. sung in a most

heavenly Hymn ^'Tis a poem also, and printed

with the former.

England's Hallelujah : or Great Britaiti's grate-

' \_A Prospective Glasse to look into Heaven, or the cctlestiatt
Canaan descrihed. Together with the Sovles sacred Soiitoijuie,
and most ardent Desire to he inucsted into the same. Sung
in a most heauenly Hymne to the great Comfort of all good
Christians by the Mvses most vnworthy John Vicars. London
printed by JV. Stansiy for John Smethwicke, and are to be
sold at his Shop in Saint Dunstanes Church-yard in Fleet-
street. l6l8.]

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310

Jul Retribution Jbr God's gracious Benediction in
our many andj'amons Delivernnceti since the Hal-
ajon Days of' ever blessed Queen Eli::ab. to these
present Tiines.' Lond. 1631. oct. [Bodl. 8vo.
V. GO. Th.] Tliis is a poem also, and his kinsman
Tho. VicEirs of" Qu. coll. hath a copy of verses be-
fore it.

Quintessence of Cruelty : or, the Popish Powder-
plot related 'Tis a jwem, and printed in a large

oct.

England's Remembrancer. Or, a thankful Ac-
knowledgment of Parliamentary Mercies to the
English Nation, " joherein is contained a brief
" Enumeration of all or the most of Gods free
" Favours and choice Blessings multiplied on us
" since this Parliaynent first began!" Lond. 1641.
a poem in one sh. in qu. [Bodl. C. 13. 11. Line]

The Sittfulness and Unlazef illness of having- or
making tlie Picture of Chrisfs Humanity, &c.
Lond. 1641. in tw.

God in the Mount: or, England's Remem-
brancer, being a Panegyrick Pyramides erected to
the Honour of Englands God, &c. Lond. 1642.
qu. a poem

Looking Glass Jbr Malignants : or, Gods Hand
against God-haters. Lond. 1643. qu. in 6 sheets.*
In this book is much bitterness against the king's
followers, whom he often stiles cormorants, against
the prelates also, especially Laud.

"Jehovah Jireth •" God in the Mount: or,
Englands Remembrancer, beifig the first and se-
cond Part of a Parliamentary Chronicle,' or a
Chronicle of the Parliament of England from
1641, to the Month of Octob. 1643. Lond. 1644.
qu. [Bodl. GG. 72. Jur.]

" His Letter to Dr. John Bastzvick coneei~ning
" Lieut. Colonel Lilburn dated 9 Aug. 1645, an-
" swered by John Bastwick in his Just De-
"Jence against the Calumnies of John Lilburn,
" &c."

Gods Ark overtopping the Worlds Waves : or,
a third Part of a Parliamentary Chi-onicle, &c.
Lond. 1646. qu.

The burniyig Bush not consumed: or, the fourth
and last Part (fa Pai-liam. Chronicle, &c. Lond.
1646. qu. [Bodl. GG. 73. Jur.] One J. Hait did

• [^Englancts Hallelujah: or Great Briltaines gralefull Re-
Irihiition fur G'ids gratious Benediction. In our mani/ and
most famous Deliverances, since the Halcyon Dayes nf euer
Messed Queene Elizabeth, to these present Times. Together
with diners if Dauids Psalmes, according to the French
Metre and Measures. By J. V. Printed at London ly Tho.
Purfoot,for Henry Seile, and are to be sold at the Tygers
Head in S. Paules Church-yard. 1 03 1.]

' [Theseconiipartof Looking Glass for Malignants, 1 645.

Baker.]

' [All the four parts of this medley of facts and of party fury
are extremely scarce. The full titles of them will be found
in the Censura Literaria, vol. i. pp. 329 — 3^9- '" 'he year
1803, I saw a perfect copy sell at an auction for twelve
pounds.]

put out in the year 1627, 77te burning Bush not
yet consumed, ])rintcd in oct. which title our author
Vicars lM)rrowcd. These three last lxx)ks, viz. God
in the Mount, &c. Gods Ark, &c. antl The burning
Bush, &c. were all printed together, with this ge-
neral title, Magnalia Dei AngUcana : or Eng-
lands I'arliamentary Chronicle, kc. Lond. 1646.qu.
Of wiiich chronicle one Joh. Hornius a Dutchman

is very liberal in his character'' thus ' Chron.

Vicarii qui priora belli complexus est, sermones

Eotius sacros, quales ad populum habentur, quam
istorias continet, cum maxima opens pars theo-
logica sit,' &c.

Coleman-street Conclave visited ; and that grand
Impostor, the Schismaticks Cheater in chief (zvho
hath long slily lurked therein) truly and duly di.t-
covered ; containing a most falpable and plain
Display of Mr. John Goodwills Self Conviction,
&c. and of the notorious Heresies, Errors, Malice,
Pride and Hypocri.ty of this most huge Garagantua,
&c. Lond. 1648. qu. in 7 sheets. Before tne title
is John Goodwin's picture, with a windmill over
his head, and weather-cock upon it, with other
hieroglyphicks or emblems about him, to shew the
instability of the man.

The Sclmmatic sifted, &c.

Soul-saving Knowledge, &c. In oct.

Picture of a Puritan, &c. These three last I

have not yet seen.

Dugon demolished: or, twenty udmii-able Ex-
amples of Gods severe Jtistice and Displeasure
against the Subscribers of the late Engagement
agaimst K. Ch. II. and the whole House of Peers,
8tc. [by that late worthy patriot of his country, Mr.
John Vicars.'] L(md. 1660. in two sli. in qu. He
the said J. Vicars translated from Lat. into Enghsh
(1) Mischiefs Mystery: or. Treasons Master-
piece, the Poxc'der-plot, invented by hellish Malice,
prevented by heavenly Means,^ Lond. &c. 1617.
qu. [Bodl. 4to. H. 2l! Art.] This is a poem written
in Latin by the rev. and learned Dr. Fr. Herringe,
but much dilated 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 Canibritlge, Joshua
Sylvester, Nathan. Chamber of Greys-iim, &c. Af-
terwards Vicars making some additions to the said
translation, repaired to Dr. Sam. Baker chaplain to
Laud bishop of London, to have it licensed, but
denied for several reasons. See in Canterburies
Doom, p. 184. (2) Epigrams of that most witty

* In his epist. dcd. to the reader, before his book entit.
Rerum Brilannicarum Libri 1 . &c.

5 [Peiici me. Kenmet.]

" \_Mischeefes Mysterie : or Treasons Master-piece, The
Poiodcr-plot. Inuented by hellish Malice, preuented by hcu-
uenfy Merry : tniely related. And from the Lutine nf the
learned and reuerend Doctour Herring translated, and very
much dilated By John Vicars. London, Printed by E.
Griffin, dwelling in the Little Olde Bayly necre the signc <f
the Kings head. I617]

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SACKVILLE.

and tcortky Epigrammatist Mr. John Owen, Gent.
Lond. 1(519. «>tt. [Bo<U. 8vo. O. 18. An.] (3)
BabeCs Balm : or, the Honeij-comh ivf Roincs Re-
ligion : Kith a neat Draininfr and Straining out
(^ the rammish Honey thereof; sung in ten most
elegant Elegies in Lat. by the most Christian Sa-
tyrist Mr. George Goodidn. Loud. 1624-. qii. [UocU.
4to. G. 18. Til.] (4) The XII JEneids (f Virgil
into English deca-Sylhihles. Lontl. \(WZ. ott.
[Bodl. 8\o. C. 384. Line] What other things
this presbyterian poet liatli written and translated
I know not, nor any thing else of him, only
that he d\-ing after he had sjient 72 years in
lG52. tliis vain world, alx)iit the 12 of April in sixteen
hundred fifty and two, was burieci in the north
isle of the church of Christ-church hospital be-
fore-niention'd. Over his grave was a large stone
soon after laid, with an insciiption thercHjn, but de-
faced and consumed with the church it self, in the
grand conflt^ation that hapned in London, in the
beeinning of Sept. 1666. One Joh. Vicars of Magd.
coll. wa.s atlmitted bac. of arts, Nov. 7, an. 1587.
and another Joh. Vicars of Broadgate's hall was ad-
mitted master of that facidty in the beginning of
July the .same year, but lK)th these are too soon for
John Vicars the author l)efore-mentioned, who had
a son of both his names, matriculated in this uni-
versity as a member oi Queen's coll. in Mich, term
1631, aged 17. I have made mention of John
Viccars among these writers under the year 1639-

[In the form of consecration of the bishops for
the kingdom of Scotland, in the chapel of the
bishop of London, on Sunday the 15tn of April
1610, it is said; concione erudita habita jX!r quenciani
magistrum Johannem Vickers. Reg. London, p. 414.
Ken.vet.

A Sight of the Transactions of these latter
Yeares, Emhlemized zoith engraven Plates, which
Men may read without Spectacles. Are to be sould
by Thomas Jenner at his Shop at the Old Ex-
mange. 4t(). 4 sheets, no date ; but the last date
named is August 11, 1646. Among Crynes's books
in the Bodleian, and in the library of right hon.
Thomas Grenville.

I give one extract of Vicars's poetry :

A briefe Recapitulation of the ghyrious Structure
of the New Jerusalem.

(From A Pro.spcctive Gla.9se to look into Heauen,
1618 ; sign. D. 6.)

O amiable citie of the Lord !
How should my soule thy prayses due record ?
What excellent rare things are said of thee !
What things are writ, are hop't, are found to bee
In thee ! tliou hast the seate of glorie sure,
That good-best-g(HKl-god ioy and solace pure,
Which ffirre exceeds the science and deepe sense
Of humane reason and inteUigence.

For which euen legions of professors good,

And g(KlIy martyrs, haiie not s|)ar d tlieir blood.

But, with vn-tlaunted, valiant counige, haue

Made lyons, tigres, fire and sword their graue.

That after death tliey might enioy that crowne,

Those palmes of peace, of honour and renowne.

Wherewith thy saints, o blest Jerusalem !

Are happifi'd in happines.se supreme ;

Walking as kings in those most gorgeous streets,

Where each-one nought but perfect pleasure meets.

In streets, I say, more precious than piu-e gold,

Glistring with glorie, wondVous to behold.

The gates of which most holy habitation,

Are pcarles of peerlesse price and valuation.

Whose wall is all of precious stones most pure.

Incomparably rich, and strong fendure :

There is that glorious jiaradise coelestiall,

Surpassing Adam's paradise teiTestriall,

W^herein are fluent oily riuers currents,

Faire brtwks of butter and sweet honiiy torrents ;

Rejilenished with garden-walks and bowers

^Vitli beds all wrought, and fraught with fragrant

flowers.
Whose odoriferous rare varietie
Aft'oord most various sweet amcnitie,
Whose curious colours, and whose louely greene
Are alwaies fresh, are alwaies springing scene.
There harts-ease, saff"ron, lillies and the rose
Doc sauoui', sent, spring, spire, with sweet repose.
There are all spices aromaticall
T'aff"ord delight, and cheere the heart withall.
There is that soueraigne balsum nietrcinable
For sent and salue most precious amiable.
All these in thee flourish without defect;
With these the garlands of the saints are deckt.
Without corruption they continue still.
And sprout and spring about this Sion hill.]

« EDWARD SACKVILLE, a younger son of
" Robert lord Buckhurst, and he the son and heir
" of Thorn, the first earl of Dorset of his name,
" was Ixirn in London in Dorset-house as I con-
" ceive, in or near Salisbury court by Fleet-street,
" became a nobleman of Christ Church in act term
" 1605, aged 15 years; .spent there 3 years or
" more, and afterwards traveled or went to one of
" the inns of court. In 1616, he was made knight
" of the Bath at the creation of Charles prince of
" Wales, was a commander in the low-countries
" under sir Horatio Vere, an. 1620, succeeded his
" brother Richard (who had been a noble man of
" Christ Church also) in the earldom of Dorset an.
" 1624, and was afterwards made lord chamberliiin
" to queen Mary the consort of king Chai-les I.
" When the rebellion broke out, he adhered to the
" cause of the said king, who, when he retired to
" Oxon after Edgliill fight, conferr d not only upon
" him the office of lord chamberlain of his hous-
" liold, in the place of Rob. earl of Essex who was
" then general of the parhament forces, but also

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" made him one of his privy-coiincil, lord privv
" soal, j)resident of liis council, and, as 'tis saia,
'• kiiioflit of the garter. When the king's cause
'' declined he adhered notwithstanding closely to
" him, attended him at Hani{)t()n court when he
" was there a prisoner, till his attendance was pro-
" hibited by the parliament, 1647, and afterwards
" would have attended him in the isle of ^Vight :
" For which his loyalty, and leaving the parliament
" at Westminster to wait upon his majesty, when
" he was forced to take up arms in his own defence,
" he suffer d nmch in his estate. This person, who
" was of acute jiarts, and had a great command of
" his pen, and was of able elocution, hath extant
" under his name,

" Several speeches, as (1) Speech at the Council
" Table at OxQn.for a speedy Accrnnmodation be-
" tmeen hit Mnj. and Hi^h Court of Puiiiament.
" Oxon. 1(542, and soon after at I^ond. (2) Speech
" before his Majesty and Privy Council at his re-
" ceiving the Office of L. Privy Seal. (3) Speech
" before his Maj. and Privy Council, when he tvas
" modi' President of his Mnjestys Privy Council.
" These two were printed at Oxon. 164}. qu. He
" hath other speeches extant.

" Letters of State — or Letters concerning state
" Affairs and other things of the like nature. He
" died in ]3orset-house before-mentionetl, on Sa-
" turday the 17 of Jidy in sixteen hundred fifty
" and two, and was buried with his ancestors at
" Withiam in Sussex, leaving then behind him a
" son named Ilichard who succeeded him in his
" honours. But as for his second son Edw. Sack-
" vile, who took to wife Bridget lady Norris, dau.
" and heir of Edw. Wrey esq; of llicot in Oxford-
" shire and of Witham near Comnore in Berkshire,
" on the 24 of Decemb. 1645, was unfortunately,
" basely and cowardly killed at Chawley in Com-
" nore parish near Abingdon by a common soldier
" of the garrison at Abingdon on the eleventli day
" of Apr. 1646 ; whereupon his Ixnly was buried
" in the chancel of the church at Wytham near
" Comnore before-mentioned. On the 28 of March
" 1658 was buried by him the b<xlv of the said
" Edw. Wrey, who died at Fritwell in Oxfordshire
" on the 20 of the said month 1657; as also the
" body of Francis Bertie the fourth son of Robert
" earl of Lindsey, on the 10 of Oct. 1658, after it
" had rested in the vault imder S. Ann's chappel,
" joyning on the north side of AUsaints church in
" Oxon, from Newbury fight 20 Sept. 1643 (in
" which battle he was kill'd) to that time."

[The earl of Dorset was in his person beautiful
and graceful and vigorous, his wit pleasant, spark-
line and sublime ; and his other parts of learning
and language of that lustre, that he could not mis-
carry in the world. The vices he had were of the
age, which he was not stubborn enough to contemn
or resist. He was a younger brother, grandchild
to the great treasurer Buckhurst, created, at the

king's first entrance, earl of Dorset, who outliv'd
his father, and took care and deUght in tlie educa-
tion of his grandchild, and left him a good su]>|H)rt
for a yoimger brother ; besides a wife, who was
heir to a fine fortune. As his person and parts
were such as are before mention'd, so he gave tliem
full scope, without restraint; and indulged to his
appetite all the pleasures that season of his life (tlie
fullest of jollity and riot of any that preceeded or
succeeded) could tempt or suggest to hun. He en-
tred into a fatal quarrel, upon a subject very mi-
warrantable, with a young nobleman of Scotland,
the lord Bruce, ujjon which they both transplanted
themselves to Flanders, and attended only by two
chirurgions placed at a distance, and under an obh-
gation not to stir, but upm the fall of one of them,
they fought under the wiills of Antwerp, where the
lord Bruce fell dead ujx)n the place; and sir Ed-
ward Sackville (for so he was then call'd) being
likewise hurt, retired into the next monastery, which
was at hand. Nor did this miserable accident, which
he alhvays exceedingly lamented, make that through
impression upon him, but that he indulged stiU too
much those importunate and in.satiate appetites,
even of that inaividual person, that had so lately
embark'd him in that desjierate enterj)rize ; being
too much tinder not to be inflamed with those sjiarks.
His elder brother did not enjoy his grandfather's
titles many years, before they descended for want
of heirs male, to the younger bi'other. But in these
few years the elder, by an excess of expence in all
the ways to which money can be applieti, so entirely
consiuned allmost all the whole gi-eat fortune that
descended to him, that, when he was forced to leave
the title to his younger brother, he left upon the
matter nothing to him to supjwrt it ; which exposed
him to many difficulties and inconveniencies. Yet
his known great parts, and the very g(X)d general
reputation he had acquired, notwithstanding his de-
fects (for as he was eminent in the house of com-
mons, whilst he sat there ; so he shined in the house
of peers, when he came to move in that sphere) in-
clined king James to call him to his privy-council
before his death. And if he had not too much che-
rish'd his natural constitution and propensity ; and
been too much griev'd and wrung by an uneasy and
streight fortune ; he would have been an excellent
man of business : for he had a very sharp, discern-
ing sj)irit ; and was a man of an obliging nature,
much honour, and great generosity, and of most
entire fidelity to the court.'

Sir Edward Sackville''s Relation of the Fight be^
twixt him and the Lord Bruce. ^
Worthy S"'

As I am not ignorant (soe ought I to
be sensible) of the false aspertions some authorles

tLord Clarendon, Hisl. of the Rebellion, i. 47. edit, fol.]
From a MS. in the Ashmole museum. MS. Ashmolt
781. page 67-]

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SACKVILLE.

tounges have laid vpon me, in the reporte of the in-
fortunate passage lately hapned lx?twecne the lo.
Bruse anil myself, whieli as tliev are sprcd heere,
soe may I iustlie leare they rune aisoe wheare you
are. Tliere are but 2 wayes to resolue doubts of
this nature, by oath or by swoorde. The firste is
dewe by maiestrates and conumicable by ffrindes,
tlie other to such as nialitiously slander and impu-
dently defend their assertion. Your love, not my
merit, ;xs.sures me you hold me vour fl'rinde, whieh
esteeme I am mucii desierous to retaine ; doe me
tlierefore the right to vnderstand tiie trutli of that,
and in my behalf informe others whoe either are
or may be infected with sinister rumors much pre-
iudiciall to the fayre opinion I desire to hold
amongest all worthy persons. And on the faith of
a gent, the relation I shall ^ve is neither more nor
lesse then the bare truth. The inclosed containes
the first citation ' sent me from Paris by a Scotisli
cent, whoe delivcrd it me in Derbysheere at my
lather-in-lawe's house in Derbysheere. After it,
followes my then answere, retorned by the same
berer. The next is my accomplishment of my firste
promise, beinge a perticular asignation of place and
weapons, which I sent by a servant of myne by
jx)ste from lloterdam as soone as I landed there.

8 [A Monsieur, Monsieur Sackvile.

I, that am in France, hear how much you attribute
to yourself in this time, that I have given the world leave to
ring your praises ; and for me, the truest alnianacls, to tell
you how much 1 suffer. If you call to memory, when as 1
gave you my hand last, I told you 1 reserved tlie heart for a
truer reconciliation. Now be that nolile gentleman my love
once spoke, and come and do him right that could recite
the trials you owe your birth and country, were I not confi-
dent your honour gives you the same courage to do me right,
that It did to do me wrong. Be master of your own wea-
pons and time ; the place wheresoever, I will wait on you.
By doing this, you shall shorten revenge, and clear the idle
opinion the world hath of both our woiths. Ed. Bruce.

A Monsieur, Monsieur Baron de Kinloss.

As it shall be always far from me to seek a quarrel,
so will I be always ready to meet with any that is desirous
lo make trial of my valour, by so fair a course as you require.
A witness whereof yourself shall be, who within a month,
shall receive a strict account of time, place and weapon,
where you shall find me ready disposed to give honourable
satisfaction, by him that shall conduct you thither. In the
mean time, be as secret of the appomtment, as it seems you
are- desirous of it. E. Sackvile.

A Monsieur, Monsieur Baron de Kinloss.

I am at Tergosc, a town in Zealand, to give what
satisfaction your sword can render you, accompanied with a
worthy gentleman for my second, in degree a knieht. And
for your coming, 1 will not limit you a peremptory day, but
desire you to make a definite and speedy repair, for your own
honour, and fear of prevention ; at which timeyou shall find
me there. E. Sackvile.

Tergosc 10th of August, l6l3.

A Monsieur, Monsieur Sackvile.

I have received your letter by your man, and ac-
knowledge you have dealt nobly with me; and now I come,
with all possible haste, to meet you. E. Bruce.]

The receipt of which, ioyned with an acknowledg-
ment of my too faire carriage to the deceased lord,
is testefied by the lastc, which periods the buisines,
till we meete at Tergoze in Zealand, it beinge the
place allotcd for randivous, where he, accompanied
with one Mr. Cranford, an English gent, tor his
seccond, a surgeon, and a man, arrived with all the
speede hee could. And there, havinge once rendred
myself, I adressetl my seccond sir Jo. Heidon to let
him vnderstand that nowe all followinge should be
don by consent, as conceminge the termes whereon
wee should fight, as alsoe the place : to our sec-
conds wee gave power for there appointments, whoe
agreed we should goe to Anwerp, from thence to
Bargen-opsome, wherein the midway but a village
devides the States territories from the arch-dukes.
And there was the destined stage ; to the end, that
havinge ended, he that could, might presently ex-
empt himself from the justice of the contrie, by re-
tyrmge into the dominion not offended. It was
further conclutled, that in case any should fall or
slippe, that then combat should cease, and he whose
iU-tortune had soe subiected him, was to acknow-
ledge his life to be in the other's handes ; but in
case one partie's swtxjrde should brcake, because
that could onely chaimce by hazard, it was agreed
that the other should take noe advantage, l)iit eiUier
then be made frindes, or vpon even tcrmcs goe to
it againe. Thus these conclusions beinge by each
of them related to his partie, was by lK)th of vs ap-
proved and assented vnto. Accordingly wee im-
barqued for Anwerp, and by reason my lord (as I
conceve, because he could not handsomely without
danger of discoverie) had not paired the swords, I
sent him to I'aris, bringinge one of the same length,
but twise as broad. My seccond excepted againste
it, and advised me to match my owne, and send
him the choice, which I obayed (it beinge, as you
knowe, the challengers priviledge to elect his wea-'
pon). At the delivery of the swoordes, it pleased
the lo. Bruse to choose mine owne, which sir Jo.
Heidon performed, and then (paste expectation') he
tould him, that he found himselfe soe tiu-re behmde
hand as a litcU of my blood would not serve his
tume, and therefore he was nowe rcsolued to have
me alone, because he knewe (for I will vse his owne
woordes) that soe worthy a gent, and my trinde
could not endure to stand by, and see him to doe
that which he must, to satisfie himself and his hon-
nor. Herevnto sir John Heidon replyed that such
intentions were bloudy, and butchcrrie, far vnfit soe
noble a parsonadge, whoe should dcsier to bleede
for reputation not for hfe; withall addinge, lie
thought himself iniurd, beinge come thus fan-, nowe
to be prohibited from executinge tho.se honnorable
offices he came for. The lo. for answre onely re-
itterated his former resolution, wherevppon sir Jo.
leavinge him the swoord he had elected, dehvered
me the other, with his determinations, the which
(not for matter but for manner) soe moved me, as.

SACKVILLE.

WILSON.

318

thoe, to my remembrance, I had not of a long tyme
eaten more liberall tlien at clyuncr, and therefore
vnfit for sucli an action, seeinge tlie surgeons liold a
wound vpon a full stoniacke much more dangerous
then otherwise, I requested my seccond to certefie
hiiu, that I -would presently decide the difference,
and therefore he should innnediately meete me on
liorsebacke onely wayted on by our surgeons, they
beinge vnarmed. Together wee rode, but one be-
fore the other 12 short, al)oute some 2 English,
miles, and then passion havinge so wcake an enne-
mie to assaile as my direction, easily l)ecame victor
and vsinge his piwer, maile me obetuent to his com-
maundement. I beinge verilie madd with anger,
the lo. Bruse thirst after my life witli a kynd of as-
surances, seeinge I had come soe farr and needlesly
to give him leave to regaine his loste reputation, I
bad him alight, which witli all wilhngnes he quickly
granted, and there in a medowe (anckled deepe in
water) biddinge farewell to our dublets, in our
shirts, began to charge each other ; liavinge before
commaimded our surgeons, to withdrawe themselves
a pretty distance from vs, coniuringe them besids, as
they respected our favors, or their owne safeties ;
not to stirre, but suffer \s to execute our pleasures,
wee becinge fully resolued (God forgive us) to dis-
patch each other by what meanes wie could. I
made a thruste at my enemie, but was sliortc, and
in drawinge backe my arme, I receved a greate
wound with a blowe thereon (which I interpreted
as a reward for my shorte shootinge): but in re-
venge I prest into him, though I then miste him
alsoe, ana then recevinge a wound in my right pap,
which paste levell through my bodie and almoste to
my backe, and there wee wrestled for the too derest
and greatest prizes, wee could ever exspect triall for,
honnor and Ufe. In which struglinge my hand
(havinge but an ordinarie glove on it) lost one of
her servants (though the meanest) which hung by a
skine, and to sight yet remaineth as before, and I
am put in hope one day to have the vse alsoe. But
at laste, breathles, yet keepiiige our houlds, there
paste on both sides propositions of quitting each
other's swoorde. But when amitie was dead, confi-
dence could not live, and whoe should quit firste
was the question, which on neither parte either
would performe, and restrivinge afresh, with a kick
and a wTinch together, I freed my longe captived
weapon, which incontinently levinge at his throte
(beinge maister still of his) I demaunded if he would
aske his life, or yeelde his swooi-d; both which
(though in that ennninent danger) he brauely de-
nied to doe. My selfe beinge wounded and feel-
inge losse of bloud (havinge 3 conduits runinge on
me) began to make me fainte and he couragiously
persistinge not to accord to yeelde to either of my
propositions, remembrance of his former bloudie de-
sier and feelinge of my present estate, I strooke at
))is harte, but with his avoydinge, miste my ayme,

yet paste through the boddie, and drawinge through
my swoord, repaste it through againe, through anno-
thcr place, when he cryed ' Oh ! I am slaine,' se-
condinge his speech with all the force lie had to caste
me, but beinge too weake, after I had defended his
assault, I easely became maister of him, layinge
him on his backe, when, beinge over him, I rede-
maunded if lie would request his life, but it seemed
lie prized it not at soo deare a rate to be beholdinge
for it, bravely replyed, he skornd it, which answere
of his was soe noble and worthy as I protest I could
not finde in my harte to offer him any more violence,
onely keeping him downe, till at length his surgeon
afarr of, cryed out, he would immetliately dye, if
his woundes weare not stopped ; wherevppon, I
asked if he desiered his surgeon should come, which
he accepted of, and soe beinge drawne away, I ne-
ver offered to take his swoord, accountinge it inhu-
mane to rob a dead man (for soe I held him to be).
This thus ended, I retyred to my surgeon, in whose
amies, after I hatl remained a while, for want of
blonde I loste my sight, and withall, as I thought,
my life alsoe, but stronge waters and his dilligence
quickly recoverd me. When I escaped in greate
danger, ffor my lord''s surgeon, when noe liodie
dreamt of it, ran full at me, with his lord's swoorde,
and had not mine with my swoorde interposed him-
self, I had bene slaine by those base handes, ail-
though the lord Bruse weltringe in his bloud, and
paste expectation of life, conformable to all his for-
mer caiTiage, which was vndoubtedly noble, cried
out, ' llascall, hold thy hand.' Soe may I prosper
as I have dealt sincerely with you in this relation,
which I pray you, with the enclosed letter, deliver
to my lo. chamberlaine ; and so I rest your's

Ed. Sacuile.
Loraine this 8th of September 1613.

A Speech in the Parliament Hou^e, Feb. 14,
1620. MS. Harl. 6021.

There is a good head of the carl of Dorset, from
Vandyck, by Vertue 1741, one, large oval ' sold by
Hind,' whicn is rare, and a third by Hollar, small.]

ARTHUR WILSON, son of Rich. Wilson of
Yarmouth in Norfolk gent, was born in that county,'
became a gent. com. of Trinity coll. in the year
1631, being then about 33 years of age, where
spending more than two years, was all the academi-
cal education that he ever received, but whether he
took a degree, or was actually created M. of A. as
some of his relations have told me, it doth no where
appear in the registers. During his stay hi the said
coll. he was very punctual in frequenting the chap-
pel and hall, and in observing all orders of the col-

' [Extract from the parish register of Yarmouth. 'De-
cember 14th I6g5, Arthur Vl'ylsoii, sonne of John and Su-
zan.' Yet he was matriculated as ' fil. Ric'hi Willson de
Yarmouth.' Reg. Matric. PF. fol. 130.]

310

WILSON.

lege and university. He had little skill in the La/-
tin tongue, less in the Greek, a g«Mxl readiness in
the French, and some smattering ni the Duteh. He
had travelled in Germany, P' ranee and Spain in the
quality of" a senant to Itohert earl of Essex, and
■was well seen in the matliematies and jioetry, and
something in the eonnnon law of the nation. He
had eomiX)sed some comedies, which were acted at
the Black-friei's in London hy- the king's players,
and in the act time at Oxon, with gixxl applause,
him.self heing present ; hut whether they are print-
e<l I cannot vet tell : sure I am that I have seen
several specimens of his poetry printed in divers
books. His carriage was very courteous and oblig-
ing, and such as did become a well-bred gentleman.
He also had a gi-eat command of the English
tongue, as well in writing as sj)eaking, 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
endeavoimng too much to set out his bare collec-
tions in an affected and bombastic stile, are much
neglected. The capacious title of these collections is.
The History of Gi-eat Britain, being the Life
and Reign of K. James the First, relating to what
passed from his first Access to the Crozon, till his
[156] Death'. Lond. lij53. fol.« In which history (wliich
some call an infamous pasquil) you'll fincl the au-
thor to favour Rob. d'Evereux the last earl of Essex
and his allies, an<l to imderiirize such as were more
in the king's favour than he. Tiie reason is, be-
cause he from his youth had attended that count in
his chamber, and had received an annual |x;nsion
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,
namecf Robert also, he maketh honourable mention
' in the said history ; in which may easily be dis-

cerned a partial presbyterian vein that constantly
goes throughout the whole work. And it being the
geny of those jx?ople to pry more than they should
into the courts and comjjortments of j)rinces, do
take occasion thereupon to traduce and bespatter
them. Further also, our author liaving endeavoiir''d
in many things to make the world believe that king
•James, and his son after him, were inclined to po-
pery, and to bring that religion into England, hath
made him subject to many errors and misrepresenta-
tions. He gave way to fate at Felsted, near to
Little Leighes (the seat of the earl of Warwick) in
the county of Essex, about the beginning of Octo-

• [Willi a head of kin;; .Tames I. by Vaugh.Tii. This is a
vcrycurious and entertaining book: It has been reprinled
in the collection j^cnerally known by the name of Kennel's
History of England, in three folio volumes, second and best
edition printed at Lond. 17ig. Bodl. Godw. 114 &c.]

l)er in sixteen hundred fifty and two, and was bu- ifiig.
ried 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 'tis* said) by him, who shajKnl it according to
his desire. In tlie year before the siiid hist, was

!)iiblished, came out a most desperate and lil)ellous
)ook, full of lies, mistakes, nonsense, &c. entit.
The divine CaUutrophe of' the Kingly Family of
tJie House of Stnarts : or, a short History of the
Rise, Reign, and Ruin tliereof. Wherein the most
secret and Chamber-abominations of tlie tree last
Kings (Jam. I. and Ch. I.) arc di-Kovered, &c.
Lond. 1652. ix't.' written by one who pretendetl to
be a diligent observer of the times, named sir Edw.
Peyton knight and baronet, the same who had writ-
ten and published A Discourse concerning the Fit-

[' Heads nf Arthur Wilson's Will.
(Taken from ihe original, in ilie Prerogatiie Office, Doctors

Commons, and communicated to mc by the kindness of

Edmund Lodge, esq. Lancaster herald.)
Arthur Wilson, of Felsted in Essex, gent. — Gives the l6th
part of a ship, which cost him 30/. and 10/. in money to his
sister Judith's children — To his sister Mary 40/. and the lease
of his house in Portj)ool-Iane — Names the youngest daughter
of his sister Catharine — Gives to his cousin Robert Nixon
10/., and to his cousin Richard Nixon 10/., and Camden'i
Britannia, and all his books of English Chronicles in Eng-
lish— To his son-in-law William Webb his statute books,
and all other books concerning tlie law — All his other books
' to my lord's library at Leeze, to be continued always to the
benefit of the chaplains of that noble liou-.e' — His daughter
Webb — To his friend Mrs. Mary Humphries 10/. wiih Ge-
rard's Herbal, and ' my Physic MS. with blue strings' — To
the poor of Litlle Leeze 40/. — To poor of Felsted 4/. — Resi-
due to his wife (of whom he speaks wiih much tenderness)
that is to say, his ' little house and lands in Felsted, called
Drinkalli," and after her death, the said estate to the poor of
Felsted for ever, and his house and lands on Clevcland's-
greeu, in F'clstcd, called Clevelands, for her life, and then to
his cousin Richard Nixon, and his heirs, charging said latter
estate, when it shall come to said Richard Nixon, with pay-
ments to his sisters Mary and Catharine, and to the eldest
son of his sister Juditli, of 20/. each; and to his cousins
captain Robert Ni,\on, and John Nixon, 10/. each — Money,
plate, houseliold slufl, &c. not already bequeathed, to his
wife, and she execulrix. — Dated Aug. I, I(J50.

By a codicil dated Scpl. 28, l660, he revokes all legacies
of books, and gives his whole library to his ' noble lord the
earl of Warwick,' whom he requests ' to appoint a fit place
for disposing and chaining them with safety, so as they may
be continued to the use and service of that noble family" —
To the countess of Warwick, ' in testimony of my humble
duty and gratitude for all her noble and undeserved favours
to me,' 50/. to be by her laid out in a piece of gold plaic —
To Arthur Nixon, son of his cousin Robert Nixon, eo/. —
To his friend Mr. William Jessopp his best diamond ring —
Names his late grandchild Elizabeth Spiitie — His wife dead
since the date of his will.

Will and Codicil proved Oct. l6. l652.]

* See in Will. Sanderson's proem to The Reign and Death
of K. James, printed 16j6. fol.

^ [This Divine Calaslroptie &c. was reprinte'I in oct. in
Jan. 1730, in the printing house of Mr. William Bowyer
jun'. in White Fryers, at the expence of Mr. Charles Davis,
who was taken into custody by messengers on 27 Jan. as
were the day before the two publishers. Rawlinson.]

WILSON.

32^2

ness of the Posture necessaiy to be used in taking
the iireiid and Wine at the Sacrament. Lonu.
IGlS. cju. Tlie siiiil lx)ok called The divine Ca-
taift raphe, See. being highly resented by the royiil-
ists, tlie author of it therefore was condemned of
great baseness and ingratitude. His j)uritanical
education liad been at Canibriilge ior a time, and
tlierefore he being out of my road, I have no more
to say of iiim but tliis, that lie was bred in grammar
learning at S. Kdinuiurs Bury, that after he had
left the university, he settled on his patrimony in
Cambridgeshire, (in which comity, 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 (^ainbridgshire,
of which office he was deprived by the endeavours
of the great favourite of K. Jam. I. called George
duke of Buckingham. At length, he, siding with
the presbyterians in the time of the grand rebellion,
had his share of sufferings for that cause while the
war lasted, wrote a sharp pamphlet against the
king's violation of tlie rights and privileges of par-
liament (as he calls them) by endeavouring to seize
upon, and imprison five of the members thereof, 4
Jan. 1641. and was ready upon all <K;casions to
blast the reputation of his majesty and his followers.
At length having lived to see the line of the Stuarts
extirpated for a time, died at Wicket in Cambridge-
shire in the beginning of the year 1657.

[In a MS. Tract of Arthur Wilson, under this
title: Observations of' God's Providence in the
Tract of my Life, are these words: 1G02 When I
was a little boy about seaven years of age, whicli
was in the year 1602 &c. — AVheu I was 14 years of
age, and fit for Cambridge, my genius rather car-
ried to a desire to travel — ily father sent me into
France &.c. — I went under the notion of a puritan
— 1614 My lord of Essex took me into likmg &c.
— 1630 I went to Oxfoi-d and settled myself in
Trinitie college (where my noble masters boiintie
made me capable to subsist) and by the help of my
friends was ailmitted M'' of arts and had all the
accommodations the house or the publicke library
could give ine Sec. An ill account" of Oxford fol-
lows. Bakeh.

This life of Wilson by himself was printed by the

^ [Thi^ ill accmint, as indeed all tclaling to Wilson's so-
journ ill Oxford, tlie reader sViall have: — 'Now having
heene sixtceiie yeare?, though a private man, in a piibliik
way ; T made a new election, intending to spend my life
Tree from the troubles of the world. For 1 went presently
to Oxford to studic, to avoid it; and seiled my self in Tri-
nity college (where my noble master's bonntie made me ca-
pable to subsist) with an intent never to stirr. And, by the
help of my freinds, was admitted master of arts ; and had all
the accommo<latioiis whicli the house or the publiqne libra-
ries could f^ive mee.

' The first thing I began to bnsie my selfe in was the nia-
thematiqnes. But, finding the profiit of tliem to cnnsiit
more in the inechanicall part than in the speculative, 1 laid
them by, rather than gave them over. And

' Fk-ingmuch solicited, by some able friends which I had
(gained in the colKdge, to the studie ofdivinitie: I bad a
Vol. III.

rev. Francis Pec^k ' from the ori^nal (all of the nu-
thor's own hand-writing) in the hands of Santiiel
Knight S. T. I', archdeacon of Berks,' in his Desi-
derata Cariosa, Lond. 1735, folio, vol. ii, lib. xii,
page 6 Sec'

Of Wilson's dramatic pieces the titles of three
only now remain :«

1. The Sidtzer.

2. The Corporal.o

3. T?te Inconstant Lady.

long strife in my selfe about it. For, though I knew divi-
nitic to be the queen of arts, yet I found my selfe fitter to
learne, than to leach. And in that studie I absolutely ap-
prehended, that I must forsake the world, as S. Paul sailh
Rom. i. 1. set apart for the ministrie, and dedicate my se(/'
to it. Which I knew not wbeiber I should he able to doe
having had my breeding in so much liberty. For whosoever,
in my opinion, undertakes that profes«ion, and makes anie
more use of the world than for necessaries for himselfe and
familie, is out of his way. Besides. The cleargie, for the
most part, in those times weare extreamcly ainbiiious, and
generally cnntenin'd ; but that some, of eminent \ertues, did
a little beare up the falling reputation of ihein.

' This mademeapplie my selfe to physicke. And the lime
I staid there, which was almost two yeans, made it my in-
deaver.

• But that which was most burlhenous to nice in this my
retirement was the debaucherie of the universilie. For the
most eminent schollers of the towne, especially of .S. John's
colle;j;c (being of iny acquaintance) did workc upon inee by
such indearements as tookc the name of civilities (yeit day
and night could witnes oure madnes) and 1 must confesse,
the whole time of my life besides did never so much trans-
port mee wilh drinking, as that short time 1 lived in Oxford :
and that with some of the gravest bachelors of <livinitie there.

' The Canterburian faction was very active at that lime.
Chillingworth was a great man in ourcolledgc, with whome
I had often disputes, about absolute moniirchie. For 1,
being bred with a master who ever afl'ectcd (out iiC the no-
blenes of his mind) a naturall and just freedom of the sub-
ject ; conld not relish this growing way the cleargie had
gotten, to make themselves great by advancing the king. So
that I was accounted a kind of puritan among them ; espe-
cially with such as bee. Who, not long after, fled to Doway
and profest himself a papist. Where, finding but cold
entertainment, he was easily persuaded by the archbishop
(Land) to return into England, and to practise his religion
here.

' While I was weary of this converse, and studying where
I might live privately, I received information from sir Wal-
ter Devereux, that my noble master that now is (viz. Ro-
bert e.ivl of Warwick) desired to have me to serve him.

' Coinina from Oxford for that purpose in February l632,'
&c.]

' [It has siiire been reprinted in the appendix to Wilson's
Incnnstnnt Ladie, Oxford, 1814.]

" [!•". Sept. I()4(), Mr. Robinson and Mr. Mozcly entered
for their copies, under the hands of Mr. Langley and Mr.
Whitakcr, wardens, these several tragedies hereunder men-
tioned, viz. — (Here follows a long list of 48 plays by various
writers, among which)

Sept. gth lC53, Mr. Mozely entered for his copies, the se-
veral plays following, — (Here follows a long list of 42 plays
by various writers, the last of which is)

' The Inconstant Lady, by Arth. Wilson.'

Register of the Stationer's Company.']
' [See the dramatis personoe and title, in the appemiix lo
The Inconstant Ladie.']

323

WILSON.

GREAVES.

32i

The latter was once in Mr. Warburton's posses-
ion, but was sup{K)sed to be totally lost till a cony
was disctnered among Dr. Rawlinson's MSS. in tne
Bodleian.' From this MS. one hundred and fifty
copies A\erc printed at the Clarendon press in 4to.
with an appendix, 1814. An extract from it shall
be given in tlie note.']

' [The reader of this play will see at pages 50 and 5 1 that
the manuscript has received damage by fire. Since the vo-
lume was printed, another MS. copy has been found in the
same collection, but this is in a much later hand, and has
evidently been copied from that which was used for the
printed edition, as the defaced lines are cither totally omitted,
or if not.atiempted to be restored in a very blundering manner.]

« [Ara. 'Tis faire Cloris !

My angell guardian ! How shall I appearc

Before you, madame, to exprcsse a mind

Thankfull for all your mercies? If there bee

Any thing in mee capable of gratitude

Your charitie gaue it life ; you fram'd mee new.

Built mee from mines — ^This poore tenement

Had perished, and bene vnfitl for euer

For Reason to abide in, if y<mr goodnes

Had not repair'd it, for which I must owe you

All that I doe, or euer can, call happie.

Clo. Are you the iniur'd Aramaut, that drawes
A pitty from all eyes ?

Ara. Madame, I am
That Aramant that calls them hapnie bowers
That gaue his crosses birth, since tney deriue
A pittie from such swcetnes.

Clo. 'Tis true, Aramant,
Your many wrongs did worke vpon my easines.
And mou'd compassion. Your iniuries
I suffer'd with as much afRiction,
As if they 'had bene my owne : judge mildly of mee,
*Twas a meere pitiie.

Ara. Giu 't some other name-
Call it, deare sainte, a loue, and make tbeioy
You haue inspir'd into mee such a comfort
As none can wonder at, but those that haue
Arriued at so much blisse.

Clo. Alas, my loue
Can yeild small benefitt vnto your wishes ;
I am a pris'ncr heere, and who doth knovr
If thcise vnhappie eyes shall euer blesse
The ayre you breath in more.

Ara. Then I shall take
A sad leaue of my selfe : I must confesse
You may misdoubt my faith, because your eares
Haue not bene pester'd yett with protestations ;
But I want art to make my loue suspected.
For they, that mark my words, may trace their stepps
Along the snowie path of innocence
Vnto a loyall heart.

Clo. I thinke yee noble.

Ara. And lett not my credulitie begett
Beleife in you, that I am apt to change.
Because I did once fix my mind vpon
Your worthlessc sister : ther 's a higher power
That dolh dispose my loue now; 'tis a loue
Aboue joy, pleasure, or delight ;
Without feare, ielousie, or appetite.
Then doe not shame to name it, and that word.
That little word, will add a spirit vnto mee
Aboue all power of man, equall to it selfe.

Clo. But dare you trust a woman ? I had thought
My sister's wickednes had blasted all
Respect vnto the sex.

Ara. O neuer, madame.

JOHN GREAVES son of John Greaves rector
of Colmore near Ailresford in Hampshire, was bom
there, etlucated in grammar and polite learning
under his father, the most noted schoolmaster in
all that country, became a student' in this university
in the fifteenth year of his age, an. 1617, took a
degree in arts, and being master's standing, was a
candidate for a fellowship of Merton coll. in 1624,
at which time shewing nimself an admirable pro-
ficient in philosophy, Latin and Greek learning was
the first of five tnat was elected. Afterwards being

When it comes guarded with such innocence !
I must confesse, if your faire venues had not
Giuen a new stamp vnto the rugge<l thoughts
That crosse-peece of your sex imprinted in mee,
1 should haue buried all my hopes in her,
Which now reuiue in you.

Clo. Bee not too confident
Before you find iust cause. And yett you may,
For I will ne're proue falce.

Ara. VVillyou be mine then ?
Why should I aske more? 1 will tak't as granted.
Lett me be found but worthie of this blessing.
And I ish.iU thinke my crosses were but stepps
Vnto this height ofjoy.

Cto. But ther 's no nope
Of freedome from this prison, for the duke
Solicites howerlv. by all meanes, to shake
My fixed thoughts, which sceke no other obiect.

Ara. 1 know his loue is arm'd with violence :
For princes judge of all things by their lusts.
And measure loue by will, as if it were
To be constrain'd, like the hott sun that burnes
What it might cherish with a gentle warmth.
They will, because they will ; and doe confine
Others to lawes which they themselues neglect.
O, where is justice ! that thou causelessly
Shoulrl'st be imprison'd 1 Such a horrid parent
Can ne're begett loue, though a monster like it.

Clo. Mistake not, sir; for if there be a vertue
That man can iustly call his owne, it dwells
In this most noble prince. 'Tis true hee loues me ;
And that great power, that doth distinguish loue
In his effects, makes mee loue him agen.
Be not you sad at this — it is his goodnes.
That, with a free soule, I admire and loue.
A secret inspiration touches mee
With reuerence to his person ; and if you
Had not possesst my hearte before, I should
Esteeme this seruitude the greatest freedome.
That e're I co'd attaine to.

Ara. I am chang'd then —
For I had strange thoughts hammering in my breast.
That prompted mee to vndertake a way
For thy deliuerie, through the jawes of danger.

Clo. Thinke not of any thing beares such a front.
But let time worke. Belecue moe, ther 's noe prison.
No power, nor no respect; no life, no death.
Nor any thing that may invite, or threat.
Shall hmder mee from truly loving thee.
Doc I not blush to speake theise words ?

Ara. They are
Like gold refin'd by triall. Cease, my ioyes.
And prize this vertue rightly to the value.

Tell her my actions shall ]

' [He was originally of Balliol college, and is entered in

the matricula, under that house, as follows. ...

Johannes Greaues Southamtoniensis, verbi Dei mimstri

filius an. nat. 15. Dccemb. 12°. lei?"- R'g- Matric. Univ.

Oxon. PP. fol. 220, b.]

GREAVES.

32«

[157j made compleat fellow and master of arts, he had
more liberty to pursue his critical studies, much ad-
vanc'd by his accjuaintance and famiiiai-ity had with
Pet. Turner a senior fellow of that house, who find-
ing him a compleat master, and genteel withal, was
by his endeavours brought into the favour of Dr.
Laud archb. of Canterbury.* At length, in the yeai-
1633, his worth and knowledge being well known to
that worthy person, he sent nim U) travel into the
eastern parts of the world to obtain lxx)ks of the
languages for him. The voyage he performed not
without great danger, and havmg satisfied himself
with many curiosities, returned in 1640 to the great
content of his patron, and three years after, upon
the death of Dr. Bainbridge, he became not only
the Savihan professor of astronomy in this univer-
sity,^ but also superior reader of Lynacre's lecture
in Merton coll." In the performance of which, espe-
cially that of astronomy, his learning was so made
manifest to the remnant of the academians then
left, that he gained thereby to himself an unperish-
ing 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 misde-
meanour, (pretended to have been committed by him
while tlie king was in Oxon) that were by the en-
deavours of some factious and puritanical fellows put
up to them and prosecuted. Among them I find
these, (1.) ' That lie betrayed the college in disco-
vering to the king's agents 4001. in the treasury,
which thereupon was taken away for the king's 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 cour-
tiers with them in other houses. (3.) That he
feasted the queen's confessors, and sent divers pre-
sents to them, among which was an Jioly throne, and
that he was more familiar with them, than any true
protestants use to be. (4.) That he was the occa-
sion 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 occa-
sion why ]\Ir. Edw. Corbet and Mr. Ralph Burton
(puritanical fellows) were turned out of their re-
spective oflices and chambers in the college, because
they abode in the parliaments quarters, &c. (6.)

"f

* [Archb. Laud stiles Mr. Greaves a great traveller, and
a man of great worth. Wood, MS. note in Ashmole.^

* [He was also geometry professor at Gresham college,
succeeding Peier Turner, Feb. 22, l630. Ward's Lives oj
Professors of Gresham, page 3fi.]

" [This is true of his brother. Dr. Edward Greaves. See
these Athen*, vol. i, col. 45, and again in the article
Greaves, under the year l680, as well as Smith in Fila
Bmnbridgii, pag, G, not. Loveday.]

That he gave leave to father' Philips the queen's
confessor, and Wyatt ' one of her chaplains, to come
in the college library to study there, and that he put
Mr. John French, fellow, out of his chamber in
Mert. coll. and put them into it,' &c. So that, I
say, being ejected by the said visitors, he retired to
London, married and died soon after. He was a

1)erson in great value, and much respected by
earned men, particularly by Selden, who, had our
author lived, would have left to him part of his
wealth, and have taken great care that Hen. Jacob
and Pet. Turner should not want, but they all died
before him. He hath written,

Pyramidographia : or, a Description of the Pv-
ramids in jUgypt. Lond. 1646. in a large oct. [Bool.
8vo. N. 25. Jur.l Translated into French and
printed in a book ot travels written in that language.*
Our author Greaves found and visited these pyra-
mids in his travels, an. 1638 and 39, or the thousand
and forty eighth year of Hegira. He went twice to
Grand Cairo from Alexandria, and from thence into
the Deserts ; and for the greater .solemnity to view
them, he carried with him a radius of ten feet most
accurately divided, besides some other instruments
for the farther discovery of the truth. While he
was there he made the measure of the foot, observed
by all nations, in one of the rooms under the said
pyramids, with his name John Gravius under it;
which hath been noted by several traveUers.

A Discourse of the Roman Foot, and Denarius :
From zc'hence, asjrom two Principles, the Measures
and Weights used by the Ancients may be deduced.
Lond. 1647. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. G. 2. Art. BS.]

Dcmonstratio Ortu^ Syrii Hcliaci, pro Parallelo
infcrioris JEgjjpti. Oxon. 1648. qu. [Bodl. 8vo. B.
38. Art. SelcT] published with Dr. Bainbridge his
Canicularia. To which is subjoined out of Ulugh
Beigh The Longitudes and Latitudes of tJt£ chic/est
of the fixed Stars.

Elementa Linguce Persicw. Lond. I64f9. qu.'
[Bodl. 4to. G. 22. Art. Et cum notis manuscriptis
Jac. Golii et Guil. Guisii. Bodl. Mar. 119.] With
which he published Anonymns Persa ae Siglis
Arabum Sf Persarum Astronomicis.

The Manner of hatching Chickens at Cairo —
See in the Philosophiad Transactions, numb. 137.
p. 923.

" An Account of the Latitude of Constantinople
" and Rhodes, directed to Dr. James Usher arch-
" bishop of Armagh. In the Philosophical Trans-
actions, n. 178. Dec. 1685."^

He published likewise in Arabic and Latin,

' A Scot by birth, and by order an Oratorian.

" Rather Veatl a Frenchinan.

' [Relations de divers Foyaget curieux. Paris l663. in
folio, Bodl. D. C. 13. Art.]

' [The first impression was Lond. l648. Seeit Botll. -Ho.
Z. 7. An. Seld.]

' [These two papers are reprinted by Birch in the second
vol. of Greaves's Miscellaneous JForijij
Y2

[158]

^7

GREAVES.

1652

EpocJuF celchriorcs, Asfrmiomis, Historkii, C/iro-
iwlog'iiii Chaitinornm, Syro-Grwcorum, Arahum,
Persarum, Chormm'iorinn iis'ttatir, ex TradUione
Uliiffh Btiffh ; together icith the Geographical
Table.s (>f' Abul FeJa. Both which ineccs lie ilhis-
tratetl with his learned notes.' In like manner he
set forth Astronomkn Shah Cholgii Persa; to^--
ther with the Hypothcset of the Phiiets : to which
likewise he siibjovned The Geographical Tables of
Na-ssir Edclinus the Persian, and ofUlugh Beigh,
as you may furtlicr see in the Bodleian or Oxford
Catalogue, where you'll find his puhhcation of the
Description irf the Grand Seigtnor''s Seraglio, or
tJie Turkish Emperor\i' Court. Lond. 1650, 53.
oct. [1659. B<xll. 8vo. G. 2. Art. Seld.1 written by
one Robert Withers. He also left beliind him at
his death, Lemmata Archimedis, apud Grnxos ^•
Latinos, e vetusto Codice MS. Arabico traducta,
cum, Arabum Seholils. AVhich coming into the
hands of Sam. Foster the mathematician, were by
him reviewed and amended, and remitted into the
body of the Miscellanies, or Alathematical Lucubra-
tions of him the said Foster : Many of which were
translated into English, and pubUshed by the care
and industry of John Tw isden C. L. M. Ti.* wliere-

unto he hatli annexed some things of his own

Lond. 1659. fol. Other things our learned aiitlior
Greaves did intend to publish, (among which was a
map or maps of /Egypt, first of all made by him)
and the learned world might justly have expected
them, had not death, by a too hasty end of his Ufe,
put a stop to the course of his ingenious studies ;
which happening to the great grief of learned
and virtuous men in the month of October ' in six-
teen hundred fifty and two, his Iwdy was, with the
tears of many, accompanied to his grave in the
church of S. Rennet Shcrehog in London, as I was
some years since informed by his learned brother
Dr. Tlio. Greaves, whom I accidentsdly met in Lon-
don, when I was anxiously seeking after the place
where his reliques had been Icxlg'd. See more of
our author Joh. Greaves in Dr. John Bainbridj
•whom I have mentioned among these writers, unt
the year 1643.

[I must refer the reader to a very good and co-
pious account of Greaves in the Biographia, and
shall only add a list of such of his works as were un-
known to Wood.

1. An Account of smne Experiments ^firr trying
tfie Force of the great dims made at Woolwich,

' [They were printed at London iGsO. See ihe book,
Bodl. 4to. E. 1. Art.Seld.]

^ [John Twisden M. D. was buried in the church of S.
Margaret's Wcstm. Sept. 15, 1C88. Kennet.]

» [Oct. 8, l()52i Mr. Graves the Arabick scholler died.
liic. Smith's Obituary.

' I am sorry for the death of the learned jjcntleman Mr.
Graves, as also for the lo«s of his several writings, wherein
doubtless, he had given a good account of his travels. Dr.
Wurlhinglun's Letter, October 20, l052.' Baker.]

March 18, 1651. In the Philn.sophical Transac-
tions, Xo. 173. Reprinted by Dr. Rirch.«

2. Binarum Tabularum Versio a Gcorgio Chry-
sococca ex Manuscriptis Per.ncis Grwce facta, qua-
rum altera Longitudines et Latitudincs Stcllarum
insignium 25, altera insignium Oppidorum, conti-
7iebal. Published by Ismael Rtdlialdus in an ap-

Sndix to his Astrtmomin Philolaica, Paris 1645,
lio, ptg. 225 et 230. (Uodl. A. 2. 18. Art. Scld.)
which Mr. Greaves had collated with his copy ; and
the latter of them has iK-en reprinted in the third vol.
of Hudson's Gefgraphiw veteris Scriptorcs Greed
minor es, Oxon. 1712, 8vo.

3. Dcscriptio Peniit.iuhr Arabia: ex Alrulfeda,
cum Descriptiune Maris Per.nci et Rubri, Arabice
et Latine.

4. Ptolem/ri Arabia. These two are also printed
by Hudson.

5. Tabula: integrw Longitndinis et Latitudinis
Stellar urn Jixarumjuxta Ulug Beigi Observationes.
Not printed.

6. A geographical Account of the Mountains in
the Country near the Arabians from Abulfeda.
Part only printed by Dr. Birch.

7. Of the Tartars or Inhabitants of Mogol, xcith
a short Description of the chief Regions in Persia.

8. Elementa omnium Scicntiarumprasciiim Ma~
thematicarum. In MS. among Dr. Smith's, be-
queathed by him to Hcariie, and now in the Bodleian.

9. Miscellaneous Observations made at Constan-
tinople, Rhodes, Alexandria, and other Places in
the East, chiefly in 1638, 1639, &c. MS. in the
Savilian museum at Oxfoi-d. Several extracts from
them have been printed by Dr. Birch.

10. Reflections on the Report made by the Lord
Treasurer Burleigh to the Lords irf the Council of
the Consultation had, and the Examination of the
plain Discourse and humble Addre.is to Queen
Eliz. to consider concerning the ncedfid Reforma-
tion of the vulgar Kalendar, by John Dec. In the
Philosophical Transactions, and reprinted by Dr.
Birch.

11. Thoughts upon the Improvement of tfie Art
of Naviga tion.

12. Poemuta varia.

13. Several Letters to eminent Person.^.

The three last printed also by Dr. Birch, in his-
Miscellaneous Works of Greaves.]''

' ^Miscellaneous Works 0/ Mr. John Greaves, Professor of
Aslrunomy in the Vnix'ersity of Oxford many of which are
now first published, (Sfc. To irhich is prefixed An historical
and critical Account of the Life and Writings of the .Author.
In two volumes. Published by Thomas Birch, M.A. F.R.S.
and Member of the Society of Antiquaries, London. London
Printed by J. Hughs, Sec. 1737. 8vo.]

' [A.D. 1727 a pamphlet in 8vo. was published with this
title : The Origins and Antiquity of our English Weights and
Measures discover'd by their near Agreement with such
Standards that are now found in one of the Egyptian Pyra-
meds. Together with the Explanation of divers Lines therein
heretofore measured. The second edition. By Mr. John

m

JACOB.

330

HENRY JACOB, son of Hen. Jacob (wlioni I
have before mention'd, under tlie year 16/Jl) by his
wfe Sarah, sister to Jolin Duniaresque of tlie isle of
Jersey, gent, was born in tlie choc, of London," and
in his youthful years was sent by his relations beyond
the seas to be educated in the principles of his
father. At length being his g(xiil fortune to be put
under the tuition of the famous Thomas Erpennis,
did in a short time by the help of a natui-al geny,
become the prodigy of his age for philological and
oriental learning. This is that Erpenius, who went
beyond all the curiosi of his time for severe and
crabbed literature ; nay beyond Drusius the Belgic
critic, who would scarce give place to either of the
Scaligers. For one' who knew them well saith,
that Erjjenius was ' integerrinms dcK'tissimusq; vir,
linguffi Arabicos non jx-ritior tantuni qiiam Drusio,
sea etiam midto peritissinius,'' &c. At two and
twenty years of age or n)ore, he came into England,
and by the endeavours of AV^ill. Bedwell ' (with
whom the professi<jn of Arabic then only remained)
he was presented as a great rarity to that most noble
and generous count William earl of Pembroke,
chancellor of this university, who fortlnvitli for his
encouragement, sent his'^ letters to the university in
his behalf, that he might be created bach, of arts,
dated 24 Nov. 1628, in which he saith, that Hen.
Jacob a young scholar had bestowed divers years in
the Low-Countries in the study of good litei-ature,
and had his education principally under one Erpe-
nius a fainoiis scholar, esjK'cially in the oriental lan-
guages ; in which learning he profited under him be-
yond the ordinary measures of his age, &c. In com-
pliance to which letters, he was in January following
adorned with that degree. At the same time being
conimendetl to the patronage of Job. Selden, Hen.
Briggs, and Pet. Turner, (men much famous in
their generation) our author was by their endeavoiu's
elected probationer-fellow of Mert. coll. in the year
following. But then, he having not so much logic
and philosophy to carry him through the severe ex-
ercises of that society, the warden and fellows tacitly
a-ssigu'd him philological lecturer. This being done,
he was called away to follow law-suits concerning
his patrimony, which being concluded, he fell into
a dangerous sickness, and by the sudden loss of his

Greaves Astronomy Professor al O.rford. As also some Con-
jectures concerning: llie time when these Pyraritedes were built,
in Ansiver to certain Letters, &c. London. LovedaY.
The first edition of" this tract was in 1706, but, says the
writer of his life in the Biographia liritannica, it was not
written by Greaves, as presently .Tp))cars on looking into it.]

' [The isle of Jersey is in Lond. diocess, and therefore I
ihinK, that lien. .Incob was borne there.

He was borne there without question. Wood, MS- note
in Ashmole.']

' Nich. l-nl'er in append, ad 5 & C. Lib. Miscellan. p. 183.

' [W. Bedwell, vicar of Tottenham, preferred thereto by
bishop Andrews. Vid. Life of Bishop Andrews, pr. in 4lo.
Ifi50. Baker.] '

- In R'g. Confer. R. fol. 4. a.

])atron (Pembroke) liis life was in jeopardy. Soon
after that great encourager of learning bishop T.,aud
succeeding him in the chancellorship of this univer-
sity, a way was found out from Mert. coll. statutes
to make him socius granimaticalis, that is reader of
philology to t!ie juniors, a phice that had been dis-
used for aliout 1()0 years. So that being settled and
made compleat fellow, he spent some time with the
famous Selden, an. I()i5(), in composing a book
which he was then publishing — ubi ad interiorcni
tcmj)luiu (saith' he) amanuensis inihi in ccnlice
regi time porrigendo ojx'ram prwstitit miiii vir doc-
tissiinus Henricus Jticobus, &.c. At which time, as
'tis said, he taught, or at least improve<l Selden in
the Hebrew language, anil addecf several things,
which Selden finding to be very excellent, let them
stantl. In the same year he was created master of"
arts, but upon the turn of the times, Brent then
warden of Mert. coll. no friend to Laud, silenced
him. In the year 1641, he was upon the death of
John Thimble elcK-ted superior beadle of divinity
about the 14th of June, and in the beginning of
Novcnib. in the year l()ll()wing, he was created bach,
of physic. But his head being always over-busy
about critical notions, (which made him sometimes a
little better than craz\l) he neglected his duty .so
much, that he was susiiended once, if not twice,
from his place, and had his beadle's staff taken from
him. At length when the parliamentarian visitors
sate, he lost it for altogether, and the right he pre-
tended to his fellowshij) in Mert. colL So that
being destitute of maintenance, he retired to Eon-
don, where the learned Selden exhibited to him,
gave him his doaths, and an old scarlet cloak, of
w Inch last his friends would mock him, and call him
Youii^ Selden, when they saw it on his back. But
he bemfij a .shiftless person, as most meer scholars
are, and the benefactions of friends not sufficing
him, he sold that little land he had at Gotlmersham
in Kent to supply his necessities, and died before
that was spent. He wi-ote many things, (l)ut he
himself published nothing in his life time) a cata-
logue of which is this,

Oratio inaiiguralls, sub Aditu Prcelectionis Phi-
hloffica- publicc hahita apud Collegium Oxonio-
Merton, i Aug. 16.'36.

Grara ^ Latina Poemata.

Description of Oulejj-hole near Wells, An. 1632
Wntten in Enolish verse.

Annotaliones in earn Partem Orationis Indug. in
qua (viz. p. 6.) dicitur, Oratione soluta scripsit
Arista'us Procoimesius. Contiiined in about 5 sheets
in qu. These four things Ixjfore-mention'd were
published at Oxon, while the author lived, an. 1652,
in qu. by his intimate friend Hen. Birkhead fellow
of AU-s. coll. To which he putting a preface, he
tells you therein, that this our author had written
and lying by him these things following,

^ In Vindic. Maris clausi. Lond. lC53. p. 53.

331

JACOB.

Etijmotechma CathoUca, contahihiff four Dia-
tribe's concerning the Original of Letters. The
[160] first De Online Alphabeti, the second De Transitu
Alpfutbed, the third De Nitmero, Figura, Potestate
4" Divisionc Literariim, and the Jburth called Geo-
graph istor £t^/motcclmicus.

Grammatica Ebra-a. No Englisli man before
his time did ever endeavour to make one, after that
way and manner which he did this.

2Bn\ vel Osiris inventus ; de Coptiacis Origini-
bus Commentatio.

Geographumena. In which are many Assyriac
and Egyptic Antiquities discovered.

I'ancarpia, Opus ex Artibus et Linguis misceU
lan. Imperfect.

Excogitata Philosophica ; nempe de nova Ra-
tione circa Monoptosyllogismum Dialecticum, pri-
deni semicirculartter figuratum, natalia Ventorum
Conceptacula, ^c.

Magnetohgia, in Lib. 3. Agentihus de triplici
Motu Magiietico Lapidali, Caelesti 4" Animali, ^c.
Before I go any farther, the reader is to understand
that this our author Jacob being ejected in 1648
from Merton coll. and so consequently from his
chamber, wherein he had left a trunk full of books,
as well written as printed, left Oxon, as I have be-
fore told you : And taking no care, or appointing
any friend for its security, his chamber door, before
an year was expired, was broke open for a new
comer, who finding the trunk there, did let it remain
in its place for a tune. At length when no man in-
quired after it, as the then possessor * thereof pre-
tended, he secur'd it for his own use, broke it open
and therein discovered a choice treasure of books.
One of them being a MS. and fit for the press, he
chsguised and alter'd it with another stile ; and at
length after he had learned Hebrew and the oriental
languages to blind the world, and heid conversed
openly with those most excellent in them, as Pocock
and Bogan of C. C. coU. or any Grecian or Jew that
came accidentally to the university, he published it
under this title.

Delphi Phocnicizantes ; sive Tractatus, in quo
Grcecos, quicqui'd Delphos celebi-e erat, Sfc. e Joshua'
Hisioria, Scriplisque sacris cffluxisse, Raticmibus
haud inconcinnis ostenditur,ii.c. Oxon. 1655. oct.
To which is added, Diatriba de Noe in Italiam Ad-
ventu; ejnsq; Nominibns Ethnicis, and a little
tract De Origine Druidum. Which three things
are much commended by foreign authors, particu-
larly by Spizelius in his book De Doctrina Senen-
sium. The reader is also to know farther, that Dr.
■ Pet. Turner of Mert. coll. being a great friend
to Hen. Jacob, did Iwrrow and peruse several of his
elucubrations ; in wliich biking great delight, be-
cause his learning did partly lye that way, did either

* [Doctor Edmund Dickenson, mentioned in the latter
nan of these Athene under the Wriiert tf Merton Col-
lege.']

keep the originals by him, or at least took copies of
them. At length the doctor being involved m the
same fate witli his friend, retired with his books for
succour to his sister, the widow of one Wats some-
times a brewer in Southwark ; where dying obscure-
ly about an year before Jacob, his pajx'rs came into
the hands of his nephew Will. Wats, afterwards a
residentiary of Hereford, wiio having a son of
Brasen-n. coU. into whose possession tliey came, he
communicated several of them to Moses Pengry fel-
low of that house, (a curious person in pliilolo^cal
learning) of which one was entit.

Di Mari rubro, and another De Historia Belt <§r
Draconis. Copies of which Pengry communicated
to Mr. Rich. Reeve, then master of the school join-
ing to Magd. coll. which he hath in his possession to
this day. Our author Jacob also, did put notes to
most of the printed books of his study, (which tho'
little, yet curious) and particularly on Solinus his
Hist, of the World, witli Salmasius's notes to it :
Which book coming, I know not how, into the
hands of Hen. Birkhead,* he transcribed , -^^^^ thehands
the said notes or observations, and en- of H. B.
tring them, as it seems, into anotlier First edit.
copy of his own, deleted those of Jacob
with aquafortis, and sold the copy it self to an Ox-
ford bookseller : such was his sordid avarice. There
is also another MS. of his going about, entit.

Libri Ebrao Rabbinici in Bib. Bodleiana recen-
siti, an. 1629. A copy of which I have, written by
the hand of the learned Dr. Langbaine. It was
the first work that Jacob performed after he was
settled in Oxon, at the desire and command of his
patron Will, earl of Pembroke, being the same
txx)ks, which the said count a Httle before had ob-
tained out of Italy from the Baroccian library.
A copy of which cat. or else another, I have seen
written under the hand of Pet. Turner for Selden's
use. To conclude, it must be now known that this
miracle of learning (a harmless, innocent, careless and
shiftless person) who, by his studies, had brought
his body into great indisposition, did some weeks be-
fore his end retire, with the advice of friends, to the
city of Canterbury in the month of Sept. an. 1652,
where being kindly entertained by Dr. Will. Jacob
a noted physician of that place, but of no kin to him,
did from him receive a cure of a gangreeii in his
foot, " which arose from a neglected sore or gaul he
" had contracted by going on foot in lxx)ts according
" to the then mode." But soon after a tumour
breaking out from one of his legs, his radical moisture
did, as from a flootl-gate, violently run forth, and so
ended his life on the 5th of Nov. following, about
the year of his age 44. The next day the said
doctor buried him answerable to his quality, in the
midst of the parish church of Allsaints in that city.
Soon after, in a bright moon-shining night, the
resemblance of Hen. Jacob came into the bed-
chamber of the doctor, who being asleep, the resem-
blance laid bis cold hand upon his face. Whereupon

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JACOB.

BRENT.

334

the doctor awakinj^, lotiked up and saw H. Jacob
staring upon him, witli his beard turned up, as he
used to Mear it living ; whereat being strangely sur-
prised, he stirred himself, thinking that it might be
a dream, but still the resemblance stood still ; so
that the doctor having not courage to speak to it,
turned on the other side and lay in a cold sweat.
After some time, he hxjked again, and saw him
sitting on a httle table near to his bed, but before
morning he vanished. Another night the maid
going out of the house, saw the said resemblance
standing on a wood-pile, and was thereupon much
affrighted. These stories the doctor did confidently
averr to be true, not only to Dr. Pet. Moulin preb.
of Canterbury, but to others of note ; among whom,
if I am not mistaken. Dr. Meric Casaubon was
one.* They were sent to me by a second hand from
Dr. Jacob, and whether true or not, you may judge,
I shall not.

[Jacob wrote various MS. notes to Ptolemseus De
Geoffraphia, on a copy of that book, printed by
Froben, Basil 1533, in the BotUeian Ubrary. This
is the volume mentioned by Hearne in the preface to
Gul. Ne-inbrifren-nii Historia, page xviii. It was be-
queathed by Dr. Rawlinson to the univ. of Oxford,
and is marked Rawl. 4to. 202 : —

And he translated into Latin from the Arabic

1. Preces aliquot.

2. Adaffinres C. Gnomw. Both which are now
among Selden's books ^ in the Bodleian, dated
1627.]

NATHANIEL BRENT, son of Anchor Brent
of Little Wolford in Warwickshire, a younger son
of Rich. Brent, gentleman, eldest son of John Brent

' [The learned Hen. Jacob, fellow of Merton college in
Oxford, died at Dr. Jacob's M.D. house in Canterbury.
About a week after his death, the doctor being in bed and
awake, and the moon shining bright, saw his cousin Henry
standing by his bed, in his shirt, with a white cap on his
head, and his beard mustaches turning up, as when he was
alive. The doctor pinched himself and was sure he was
awaited : He turned to the other side, from him ; and after
some time took courage to turn the other way again towards
him ; and Henry Jacob stood there still ; he should have
spoken to him, but he did not ; for which he has been ever
snice sorry. About half an hour after, h« vanished. Not
long after this, the cook maid, going to the wood-pile to fetch
wood to dress supper, saw him standing in his shirt upon the
wood-pile. This account I had in a loiter from Dr. Jacob
1673, relating 10 his life, for Mr. Anthony W(K)d, which is
now in his hands. When Henry Jacob died, he would fain
have spoken to the doctor, but could not, his tongue faltered.
'Tis iniagiii'd, he would have told doctor Jacob, with what
person he had deposited his manuscripts of his own writing
(they were all the riches he had). 'Tis suspect'd that one
had them and printed them under his Own name.

This very story Dr. Jacob told me himself, being then at
my Ld Teynham's in Kent, where he was then physitian to
my eldest son, whom he recovered from a fever. Aubrey,
Miscdianie*, Lond. iSgC, 8vo. page 67.]

" [Bibl. Bodl. MS. Seld. Arch. B. supra; num. 80.]

of the house of Brent of Cosington in Somersetshire,
was born at little Wolford bclbre-mention'd, became
portionist, commonly called postmaster, of Mcrtou
coll. in 1589, admitted i)rol)ationer-fellow of the
.said coll. in 94, being then bach, of arts, jiroceeded in
that faculty four years after, entred himself on the
law line, became proctor of the university in 1607,
travelled into several parts of the learned world in
1613, 14, &c. and imderwent dangerous adventures
in Italy, to procure the Hhtory of the Council of
Trent, whicb he translated into English, as I shful
anon tell you ; and therefore to be remembered by
posterity with an honourable mention. After his
return he married Martha daughter and heir of Dr.
Rob. Abbot bish. of Salisbury, and niece to Dr.
Abbot archb. of Canterbury ; by the favour of
which last, he had the wardenship of Merton coH.
conferred on him, was made commissary of the dio-
cese of Canterbury, and of the faculties, vicar-gene-
ral to the archbishop,' being then doctor of the civ.
law, and at length judge of the prerogative on the
death of sir Henry Marten by another hand. In
1629, Aug. 23. he received the honour of knight-
hood from his majesty at AVoodstock, he being then
and after accounted a zealous man for the church
and prelacy. But when he saw the presbyteriaiis
begin to be dominant, he sided with them, and lie-
cause of a pique that had been between the Abbots
and bishop Laud, he therefore became a frequent
witness against tlie last at his trya], deserted Oxon
and his college when king Charles I. garrisoned that
place for his use, took the covenant, and ran altoge-
ther with the rebellious rout. About the same time
he was ejected his wardenship of Mert. coll. by his
majesty's command, but restored again when Oxford
garrison was surrendred for the parliament's use, an.
1 646. In the years 1 647, and 48, he wasapjxiinted arch-
visitor of this university, and what he did there to
promote the presbyterian cause, the Hist, and Antiq.
of the Univ. of Oxon will tell you under those
years. When an order was made against pluralities,
he was forced to leave Mert. coll. in 1650, at which ~
time, if I mistake not, he refused also the oath called
the engagement. He translated into English, as I
have intimated before, The History of the Council
of Trent, containing eight Books. In which (be-
sides the ordinary Acts of Council) are declared
many notable Occurrences which happened in Christ-
endom, during the Space of W Years and more,

' [Dr. Nath. Brent had by Dr. Abbot's favour, archbishop
of Canterbury, the office or place of commissary to the said
archbishop, as of his proper and peculiar diocess of Canter-
bury. And likewise the several registers of the arches, pre-
rogative, audience, faculties, and of the vicar generall.
Prynne, Diary />f Archbishop Laud, page 12. Wood, MS.
Note in Ashmole.

Sir Nath. Brent made judge of the prerogative by the

farliament. So Newt from Pembroke and Montgomery.
BID.]

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BRENT.

ELDERFIELD.

&c. Loiul. 1()1C, there again 1G19,« 1677. fbl. Sir
Nath. Hrent did also review Vlndiciw Eccleskv An-
glkamv, examine the quotations, and conijwire them
witli tlie originals, as I liavc told yoii before in Fr.
Mason, under the year 16i21 : and what else he hath
transiatetl and written, is yet (if any) in MS. At
length alter he had lived 79 years, he gave way to
fate in his house in Little Britain in tlie eity of Lon-
don, on the sixth day ot" November in sixteen hun-
1652. dred fifty and two. Whereupon his body was bu-
ried with great solemnity on the 17th of the same
month in the church of Little S. Bartholomew within
the said city. I have seen a printeil epitaph made
on him by John Sictor, a Bohemian exile, who, if I
mistake not, had for some time before been exhibited
to by Brent: the contents of which lieing large, I
shall now \'ot brevity's sake pass by. I find one Wil-
liam Brent a writer, whose great grandfather Wil-
liam Brent of Stoke-lark in Gloucestershire, was
yoiHiger brother to Richard Brent, grandfather to
sir Xathaiiiel. Of which William ]Jrent the writer,
I shall make some mention in lien. Carey earl of
Monmouth, under the year 1661.

fin the year 161(), su" Dudley Carleton, embas-
sador at the Hague, going to the Spa for his health,
thus writes to sir Ralph Winwfxnl, one of the secre-
taries of state; ' Here I leave Mr. Nathaniel Brent,
one not unknown to your honour, to advertise your
honour of all occurrents in my absence, and to receive
your connnandments.'' Sec Letters from ami to Sir
Du. Carleton, &c. Lond. 1757, 4to. published at
the expencc of lord Royston. O wonderful ! W. C.
In another letter fVom sir Dudley to the secretary,
dated October 31, 1616, he thus writes: ' Other
matters of discourse I refer to the bearer, Mr. N.
Brent's relation, who can inform your honour of any
thing pjirticularly you can be content to know in
these parts, where he hath spent the remainder of
the time, which was allowed him by his majesty's
hcence to travel, and returns in hopes to procure, by

f^our honour's favour, sonie place of employment in
lis majesty's service ; for which he hath made him-
self very capable. He will acquaint your honour
with an office in Ireland, which by his friend's ad-
vice he aims at ; and if the interest I have therein
(which I willingly resign unto him) may assist him,
i shall be very glad, and account myself particularly
favoured by the commendation your honour may
please to give him.' — p. Qo.

In a letter from secretary Winwood to sir Dudley

" [The tliird cdi)ii)ti was !x)iid()n l04O, with an arldilion
of ' divers observable passages and cpisiles conceriiinn; the
truth of this liistory,' &c. 1 fancy ^^ ood must be wrung in
dating the fonrth edit, in lfi77. It was printed one year
earlier, viz. IO7C, and contaiiis, besides the observable pas-
sages before mentioned, the LiJ'inf ihe Aullior, father Paul,
and the Hislory of the Ingitisilion, translated from the Italian
by Robert Geniilis. See both these volumes in the Bodleian,
A. 14. 11. Th. and L. s;. 4. Th. The former containing MS.
notes by bishop Barlow.]

Carleton, dated November 26, 1616, is this passage
— ' Before Mr. Brent came hither, whom you re-
commended to be secretary of Ireland, that place
was conferred u]x)n one sir Francis Annesley, who
is to execute it without fee; otherwise I should
have done my best to have pleasured him.' — p. 75.
Cole.

See Bishop Laud's History, sparsim, p. 308, &c.

Nov. 6. 1652, sir Nath. Brent, Aldersgatc str.
died. Mr. SviitlCs Obituary. Bakke.]

CHRISTOPHER ELDERFIELD, son of
Will. Elderfield by Margaret his wife, wa.s bom at
Harwell near to Wantage in Berks, baptized there
on the eleventh of Apr. 1607, educated in school
learning under Hugh Lloyd,' M. A. of Oxon, vicar
of Harwell, and sometimes chaplain to the bishop
of Bangor, which Hugh built a considerable part of
the vicaridge-house standing near the churchyard,
Knd was buried in the chancel of Harwell on the
17th of May 1654. As for our author Elderfield
h» was entred a batler in S. Mary's hall in Mich,
term 1621, and being naturally mclined to good
letters, made great proficiency in them, took the
degrees in arts, entred into orders, and tlirough se-
veral }xtit em])loyments became chaplain to sir
Will. Goring, baronet, and rector of a depopulated
town near to Petworth in Sussex, called Burton,
having then only the house of the said Goring
standing there. In the saitl house he spent his
time in great retiredness, and wrote these btx)ks fol-
lowing, «hich shew him to have been well read in
the civil, canon and common law, in school divinity
and other profoimd matters.

" [One Dr. llngli Lloyd was rector of Barton Segrave near
Kettering in ihe diocese of Peterborough, county of Norih-
ampion : In the register Ijook of tiie said parish are these
entries :

Christenings.

1611, Hugh Lljyd, the son of Hugh l.loyd and Jane his
wife, was baptized the 22d of Septemb.

1O12, William Lloyd, the son of Hugh Lloyd and Jai.e
his wife, was baptized the I'Sih of February.

1614, Mary Lloyd, the daughter of Hugh Lloyd anJ Jane
his wife, was baptized the 28th of May.

1615, John Lloyd, the ton of Hugh Lloyd and Jane his
wife, was baptized the 20th of August.*

1616, Jine Lloyd, the dauihier of Hugh Lloyd and Jane
his wife, was baptized tlic 2I1I1 of August.

IC20, Theophilus Lloyd, the son of Hugh Lloyd and Ce-
cilia his wife, was baptized the 27th of August.

1621, Cecilia Lloyd, dauahier of Hugh Lloyd and Cecilia
his wife, was baptized the 30ih of Septemb.

1()22, John Lloyd, the son of Hugh Lloyd and Cecilia his
wife, was baptized the 2(ith of January.

1(325, Rowland Lloyd, son of Hugh Lloyd and Cecilia
his wife, was baptized the 171b of July.
Burials.

1616, Jane Lloyd, wife of Hugh Lloyd, was buried the
24th of August.

1629, Hugh Lloyd, Dr. of divinity, was buried the 18th
of July.

Cecilia Lloyd, widow, was buried the 16 of Aug. 1629.

Ken NET.]

ELDERFIELD.

DIGBY.

338

Tiie Civil Right of Tithes; &.c. Lond. 1650.
qu. [Bodl. 4to. E. 24.* Th.«]

Qf Rem'Jicration and Ba'ptism. Lond. 1()54.' qu.
The autnor of these was a man of a single life, only
wedded to his book, anil so had only a spiritual
issue to keep up his name. He was left both father
and mother to the two said clalwirate treatises, and
some conceive that the pains anil travels of brinsnng
forth the younger (tho' more spiritual) mancliild,
did cost him his life. They are, and have been,
l)oth 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

STSuasion, ' a most profound clerk.' He died at
urton, (commonly called Burton place) before-
mcntion\l, on the second day of December in six-
1662. teen hundred fifty and two, and was not buried ac-
cording to his will in the chancel of the said chap-
pel or church, (which sir Will. Goring denied, be-
cause he left him not those legacies ne expected)
but in the body under the reader's seat. Over his
grave, tho' there be no monument, (with inscription
on it) which the testator desir'd, yet on the south
wall of tha chancel of Harwell church before-men-
[163] tioned, is fastned a tablet of free-stone, wth this
written on it, which shall now go for his epitaph
for want of a better. ' Christopher Elderfielil clerk
born in this parish, gave by his last will and testa-
ment three hundred and fifty pounds, with two
hundred fourscore anil four pounds whereof was
bought so much land in the parish of South More-
ton, as is worth twenty ixjimds per an. And the
other sixty and six pounds thereof residue (accord-
ing to a decree in his majesty's court of chancery)

' \The civil Right of Tylhcs. By C. E. ilf^ of Arts.
Wiihout his name al large. Bakek.

The following note was ptefixt lo Mr. Seidell's Hist, of
Tylhcs, by Mr. Baker — ' Mr. Lan^baine being coiisullcd
by some, what might be said for the civil right of tithes,
answered ihcm, by sending them to this history : and trnly
his resolution was not amis* : for, if I mistake nol, Seldcii
has said more for ihe civil tight than all the many answers
that were made lo him.' See Ltngbaine's li|)ibl. p. 2()l, in
Leland's Odlectawfa, vol. .O. And yet Chrisioiilii-r Elder-
field's Cwil liiglit of Tillies is well wrote. See Dr. Heylin's
Esamen JJislorirum, p. 18a, 183, 184, 185. Cole.]

' [Extract from a letter from .los. Hall, bishop of Nor-
wich, to archbishop Usher, dated in feslo S. Jacobi KijO.

' Misit mihi librum nupcr a teedituni Christopherus El-
derfcldins nostcr, non, uti fatetur, injussu tuo ; sane doctum,
ac probe elaboratuni, et nisi in deploratum incidissinius
a!vuni, non inmilem : ynanluin debeo et authori et pa-
trono? habi-u suas a me ulcrque gratias.' Parr's Life and
Letters of i' slier. Let. '/bb, page 554.]

' \_Of Itei^tnerution and liaptism, Hebrew and Christian,
mth their llilrs isfc. Visi/uisitions. By CliriUupher Elder-
.field deceaied. Master of Arts, and late Rector of Burton in
/ Sussex. Published since his Death by his Executors. Lon-

don, Printed by Tho. Newcomb, dwelling in Thames street,
over against Baynard's Castle, 1 653. in quarto. Bodl. 4to.
T. 55: Th.]

* Rich. Baxter in his First Part of the Nonconfur mist's
Plea for Peace, &c. Lond. itiTO. in oct. page 805.

Vol. III.

remain in tho hands of the church-wardens and
other offit^ers of HaglK)rnc : the liencfit whereof he
willed to be eiiiploy'd yearly in works of charity,
Ixjunty, or piety, for the good of this parish. But
he esprcsly forbid that it should be mldeil to the
making up of taxes, or any other way perverted to
the easing of able men upon any pretence, particu-
larly he willed every spring two good milch cows to
be Ixmght and given to two tlie jworest men or
widows burdned with many children, toward their
sustentation. He died Dec. 2. an. Dom. 1652.'' —
Thus far the inscription. He also, beside .several
legacies, which he left to several people, bequeathed
to the imivcrsity of Oxon his manuscripts of Lyra
on the P.mlm.s; the History of Tobit in Hebrew,
with Rodolphus his Po-itills bound up with Lyra,
Clemens Romanus, with the Tract of Purgatory
bound up witlt it. He left also six and thirty
pounds to be bestowed upon godly poor ministers
cast ilown by these times, meaning loyal ministers
ejected from their livings.

JOHN DIGBY "a younger son of sir George
" Digby and Abigail his wife, daughter to sir Ar-
" thur Heveningham,'" * was born m 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 abiUties and
fidelity being occasionally discerned by king James,
he was admitted gentleman of the privy-chamber,
and one of his majesty's carvers, in the year 1605,
being then newly created master of arts of this imi-
versity. On the 16th of Feb. following he received
the honour of knighthood, and in April 1611 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 Eng-
land. On the 3d of Apr. 1616 he was' admitted
one of the king's privy council, and vice-chamber-
lain of his majesty's houshold in the jilace of Philip
lord Stanhope, who was persuaded by the king''s
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 25th of N(jv. by the title of the lord
Digby of Shircbourne 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

* [So Dugdale in Warwickshire. Wood, MS. Note it
Ashmole.^

' Cambden in Annal. Ree. Jac, I. MS. sub an. I616.

• Baronage of England, torn. 3. n. 437. a-

z

339

DIGBY.

in October 1621, he was again in 1622 cmplov'd
ambiissador cxtrai)rdinary to the Spaniard touching
a marriage IkHwi-cu jirince Charles (who ibllowed
him in few months after) and princess Maria,
daughter to PhiHp 3. king of that realm ; and on
the 15tli of Sept. the same year he was createtl earl
of Bristol. After his return he shew'd himself right
able to appear before the English parliament, where
lie worsted the greatest minion (Buckingham) the
folly, love, or wisdom of any king since the conquest
ever bretl in this nation." As thro' a prodigious
dexterity he became the confident of king James,
so likewise of his son king Charles I. for a time,
tho' they drove on, if not contraiy, divers designs.
From that time till the beginning of the long par-
liament, we find no great matter of him, but then
he being found guilty of concealing, some say of
[164] promoting, a petition of the gentry and ministers of
Kent, which was to be dchvered to the parliament,
he with Thomas Mallet were committed for a time
to the Tower the 28 March 1642. Afterwards
perceiving full well what destructive courses the
members of that parliament took, he left them and
l>ecame 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 follow-
ing.

Several speeches, as (1) Speech in the Hiffh Court
()f Parliament 7 Dec. 1640. About which time he
spake another upon the delivery of tiie Scottish re-
monstrance ancf schedule of their charges. (2)
Speech in the Hi^h Court of Parliament 20 May
lo42, concerning am Accommodation of Peace and
Union to be had between the King and his ttvo
Houses of Parliament. Lond. 1642. cju. in one
sheet, [Bodl. C. 13. 15. Line] reprinted at Caen in
Normandy 1647, in fol. and qu. The speaking of
wliich speech giving displeasure to the house of
lords, he thereupon spake (3) Another Speech 11
June 1642 in Vindication of the Jbrmer, and of
Accommodation. Lond. 1642, in one sh. in qu.
Repr. at Caen in 1647, in foL and qu. (4) Speech
at the Council Table in Favour of the Continuation
of the present War. Oxon. 1642. qu. Itwasspokea
after Edghill fight, and was reprinted at London the
same year. Other speeches of his I have seen in
MS. which for brevity's sake I now pass by.

A Tract wht'rein is set down those Motives and
Ties of Religion, Oaths, Laws, Loyalty and Gra-
titude, which obliged him to adhere unto the King
in the late unhappy Wars in England.

Tract wherein he vindicateth his Honour and
Innocency from having in any Kind deserved thid
infurious and merciless Censure, of being excepted

* [His contest with the duke of Buckingham is fresh in
many men's memories, charges of high treason mutually
flying ahoul. But this lord fearing the duke's power (as the
duke this lord's policy) it at last became a drawn battail be-
twixt them. Fuller, fforlhies, vol. ii, page4lS, edit. Ni-
chols.]

from Pardon or Mercy either in Life or Fortunes.

These two tracts have the general title of His

Apology.

Appendix containing many Particulars spccijied
in hisji?-st Tract (meaning his Motives and Ties
of Religion) with tlie Citations of the Chapters
and Pages wherein they are cited. — The said two
tracts with the Appendix were printed together,
with the two speeches before-mention'd of an ac-
commodation, at Caen in the year 1647, in a thin
fol. reprinted 1656. qu.

An.swer to the Declaration of the H. of Com-
mons on the eleventh ctf Febr. 1647, in which they
express the Reasons for their Resoluticm <f making
no Addresses or receiving any from his Majesty
— Printed (at Caen) 164)8. qu. Dedicated to his
go<xl country-men of England and fellow-subjects
of Scotland and Ireland. After this answer was
printed, it came into the mind of our author tlie
earl of Bristol to make some additions thereunto, as
well to the preface as work it self. Which being
so done, they were not printed, only reserved in
MS, being larger than the answer it self, as a copy '
of them, which I have perused, shew. Besides these
things he hath (1) Several letters in the book called
Cabala, Mysteries of State, 8u;. Lond. 1654. qu.
(2) Several letters in the Cabala or Serin ia sacra.
Lond. 1663. fol. and also hath translated from
French into English Pet. du IMoulin's book, entit.
A Defence of the Catholic Faith, contained in the
Book of K. James against the Answer of N. Coef-
feteau, &c. Lond. 1610. qu. [Bodl. B. 8. 1. Line]
the epistle dedicatory of which to his majesty is sub.,
scribed in the name of John Sanford his chaplain.
He hath also several scatter'tl copies of English
verses flying abroad ; to one of which is an ayre of
3 voices set by the incomparable Hen. Lawes, in his
Ayres and Dialogues, &.c. Lond. 1 653. fol. This
great count yielded to nature at Paris on Friday
the 21st of Jan. in sixteen hundred fifty and two, lO.')}.
and was buried there, in a piece of ground (then, or
before, a cabbage garden, as 'tis said) which sir Rich.
Browne clerk of the council had a little before bought
to bury the bodies of protestants that die in or near
that city. A scurrilous^ writer saltb, that ' He was [165]
buried in a mean church-yard, with little solemnity,
not one lord appearing at his funeral, nor any other
person of quality, except his second son j\Ir. Joh.
Digby, and a certain knight. His eldest the lord
George Digby absented himself, tho' he was in
town, and not only so, but 'tis said he forbore in-
^•iting any to save funeral expences : wliich being
talked abroad, hath much crack'd his reputation,
because he is observed lavish enough ujkjii other
occasions,' &c. But let the truth of these things

' In the hands of Hastang Ingram of Little Wolford in
Warwickshire gentleman, sonieiiraes servant to the said earl
of Bristol.

5 March. Nedham in his Mere.poUtic. numb. 137- p. 1280.

DIGBY.

MEAD.

34-2

remain >vith the author, wliilc I nroceed to spt-ak of
olljer matters. This carl left beiiiiul him his eldest
son named Georj^e, whom I shall at large mention
elsewhere, and another son named John born in
London, entred a nobleman into Magd. coll. in the
beginninn; of the year 1634, agetl 16, sided with the
kino; in the bcgmning of the civil war, an. 1642,
and being esteemed a valiant and goo<l man, was
made general of the horse in the army of Ralph
lord Hoptoun. When the king's cause declined, lie
went into France, and sometimes followed the court
of K. Charles II. but getting nothing thence, he
lived very obscurely, and came into England in
1654, where continuing for a time among the afflict-
ed royalists, retired afterwards to Pontoise in France,
entred himself among the religious there, became a
secular priest, and said mass daily there to the Eng-
hsh nuns, in which condition he was living there
after the restoration of king Charles II. as I have
been informed by a servant who then belonged to
Walter Montague abbot of Pontoise.

[The earl of Bristol was a man of a grave aspect,
of a presence that drew respect, and of long expe-
rience in affairs of great imjwrtance. He had been,
by the extraordinary favour of king James to his
person, (for he was a very handsome man) and his
parts, which were naturally great, and had been
improved by gixnl education at home and abroad,
sent embassadour into Spain before he was thirty
years of age : and afterwards in several other em-
bassies ; and at last, again into Spain ; where he
treated and concluded the marriage between the
prince of Wales and that infanta ; which was after-
wards dissolved. He was by king James made of
die privy council, vice-chamberlain of the house-
hold, an earl, and a gentleman of the bed-chamber
to the prince, and was then crush'd by the power of
the duke of Buckingham, and the prejudice the

Erince himself had contracted against him, during
is highnesse''s being in S]jain ; upon which he was
imprisoned upon his return ; and after the duke's
death, the king retained so strict a memory of all
that duke's friendships and displeasures, that the
earl of Bristol could never recover any admission
to court, but hv'd in the country, in ease, and
plenty in his fortune, and in great reputation with
all who had not an implicit reverence for the court ;
and before, and in the beginning of the parliament,
appear'd in the head of all the discontented party ;
but quickly left them, when they enter'd ujwn their
unwaiTantable violences, and grew so much into
their disfavour, that after the king was gone to
York, upjn some expressions he used in the house
of peers, they committed him to the Tower ; from
whence, being released, in two or three days, he
made hast to York to the king ; who had before re-
stored him to his place in the council, and the bed-
chamber. He was with him at Edgehill, and came
with him from thence to Oxford ; and, at the end
of the war, went into France; where he dved ; that

party having so great an animosity against him, tliat
they woidd not suffer him to live in England, nor
to compound for his estate, as they suffer'd others
to do, who had done them more hurt. Though he
was a man of great parts, and a wise man, yet he
had been for the most part single, and by himself in
business; which he managed with goo<l sufficiency;
and had liv'd but little in consort, so that in coun-
cil he was passionate, and sujK'rcilious, and did not
bear contradiction without much passion, and was
too voluminous in discourse ; so that he was not
consider'd there with much respect, to the les-
sening whereof no man contributed more than his
son, the lord Digby, who shortly after came to sit
there as secretary of state, and had not that reve-
rence for his father's wisdom, which his great expe-
rience deserv'd, though he failed not in his piety
towards him.'

' The worst,' says Fuller,' * ' I wish such who
causelesly suspect Inm of popish inclinations is, that
I may hear from them but lnd( so many strong ar-
guments for the ])rotestant religion, as I have heard
from him, who was, to his commendation, a cordial
champion for the church of England.'

The Speeches of the Lord Di^tf in the High
Court of' Parliament, concerning' Grievances and
the Trienniall PaiTiamcnt. London, printed for
Thomas Walkley, 1641, 4to. containing 25 pages.
These speeches were spoken November 9 and Ja-
nuary 19, 1640, when he sat for the county of Dor-
set. He concludes his recommendation of a trien-
nial parhament thus : ' Mr. Speaker, in chasing ill
ministers we do but dissipate clouds that may ga^
ther again ; but in voting this bill, we shall contri-
bute, as much as in us lies, to the perpetuating our
sun, our sovereign, in his vertical, in his noon-day
lustre.'

I conclude this article with the following elegant
madrigal from Lawes's Ay res for three Voyces, no.
24. Bodl. A A. 73. Art.

Grieve not, dear love, although we often part,
But know that nature gently doth us sever,

Thereby to train us up wth tender art,

To brook the day when we must part for ever.

For nature, doubting we should be surpriz'd

By that sad day, whose dread doth chiefly fear us,

Doth keep us dayly school'd and exercised,

Lest that the fright thereof should overbear us.]

ROBERT MEAD, son of Rob. Mead a sta.
tioner, was born at the Black Lion in Fleet.street,
London, elected student of Christ Church from
Westminster school, in the year 1634, and that of
his age 18, took the degrees in arts, bore arms for
his maj. in the garrison of Oxon, and at length was

154.

[Lord Clarcniloii, //m.'. ri/<ie flfieWi'on, ii, pnges 163,

' ylVurthies of England, ii, 412. ed. 4lo.]
Z 2

343

MEAD.

JONES.

PA nil.

344

jnatle captoiii. In May 1G46 lie was apiiointed bv
the gt)Vfnior tliure(.>f one of the coniniissioners to
treat witli tlioso apjwintetl by Fairl'ax, tlie gene-
ralissimo of tlie parliament forces then besieging
Oxon, for the surrender thereof; anil in June fol-
lowing he was actuallv created doctor of physic. In
1648 he was deprived of all right he had to his stu-
dent's pliK'e by the \isitors apjxjinted by pailiament ;
so that going into France, he was employ "d by our
exifd king, as an agent into Swedeland. After-
wards he returnetl into England, took up his quar-
ters in the house of his father, where being over-
taken by a malignant fever, died soon after. He
wa.s, tho' little, a stout and learned man, and excel-
lent in the faculty of p<x;try and making plays.
His eminent and general abilities were also such,
that they have left him a character precious and ho-
nourable to our nation. He hath written.

The Covihut of Love and Frieiuhhip, a Comedy.
Lond. 1654. qu. [Bodl. 4to. V. 3. Art. «S.] for-
merly presented by the gentlemen of Ch. Ch. in
this university. He is also said by one or more
writers to have been the author of,

Tlie costly Whore, a Com. But whether true

1 cannot justly say, because a late* author (very
knowing in such matters) doubts it. This worthy
person captain Mead, who hath also written several
poems, some of which are cxicasionally printed in
tlie books of other authors, died in his father s house
before-mention''d on the 21st of Febr. or therealwuts,
'''^f- in sixteen hundred fifty and two, and was buried in
the church of S. Dunstan's in the West in Fleet-
street, on the 23d of the same month, being then
Ash-wednesday.

[The character of Mead is taken from the sta-
tioner's e])istlc to the reader, prefixed to the Com-
bat of Love, who adds that he could say more in
his honour, ' but that he was so great a lover of hu-
mility in his life that he was almost afraid, being
dead he might be displeased to hear his own worth
remembered.'

The coHtly Whore was printed in 4to. 1633, and
is certainly attributed to Mead without foundation.
Philips in tlie Theat. Poetarum was the writer
quoted by Wood as authority for the supposition.

I give one extract from the Combat of Love and
Friendship, which I think affords a favourable spe-
cimen of his abilities.

Theocles. — O the strange subleties of a woman's
love !
We must embrace our punishment, and swear
We are rewarded when they torture us !
What comfort dwells in that frail sexe, whose best
Of kindnessc proves a sting .'' Have I for this
Consum'd my heart in passions .'' And through sighes
Breath'd out my soul to find a lietter dwelling
Within Ethusa's breast, and yet does she

' Gerard Langbaine, in his Account of the Engl. Drama-
lick Poets, |). 366.

Dislike my ])rcsence and pretenii love too .''
Alas I iiuist not visit her — though 't be death
Not to enjoy that face, I dare not see it.
Let those unpitied lovers turn their plaints
Into glad jubilees, whose constant suite
Meets a perpetual frown : I envy that
AVliich they esteem the worst of misery.
Would I might be deny'd still ; tliey, at least,
Enjoy this comfort, to liehokl the hand
That strikes, whiles 'tis my late to dye i' th' dark.
The tempest is then lessen'd, whiles "the sun
Mingles his rayes with the unruly showres.
But in the horror of a gloomy night
The shipwrack multiplies, and the sad strokes
FaU double stUl }

I

RICHARD JONES, son of John Pew of HenU
llan in Denbighshire, was born in that county, en-
tred a student in Jesus coll. in the year 1621, and,
in that of his age 18 or thereabouts, t(K)k the de-
grees in arts, and was afterwards a preacher. This
IS the person that wrote a lHX)k in his I'ountry lan-
guage, containing with admirable brevity all the,
b(X)ks and chapters of the bible. Tliis book is
called

Gemma Cambrki/m, &c. Oxon. 1652.' Before

which James Howell hath a short epistle in com-
mendation of it. The author died in Ireland (but
when 'tis not known) as I have been informed by
Dr. Michael Roberts sometimes principal of Jesus
college.

RICHARD PARR a Lancashire man born, was
entred a student in Brasen-nose coll. on the 2d of
Sej)t. 1609, aged 17, elected fellow thereof in 1614,
Ix'ing then bach, of arts : Afterwards proceeding
in that faculty, he entred into the sacred function
and became a frequent preacher in these parts. In
1624 he was admitted to the reading of the sen-
tences, and two years after became rector of Lad-
brook in Warwickshire. But gi\ing that place up
two years after, upon the obtaining of the rich par-
sonage of Eccleston (where, as they say, he was

' [In ihe Bodleian is another edition, of which I give the
full title for the benefit of my Welsh readers. Teslun Tes-
tament newydd ein Harglwi/dd a'n Jac/iawdwr Jesu Grist,
Yn lirn/iiltinn Cymraeg mewn EgwyddoraiJd drrfn, a oso-
dwyd allnu Irwy lafur Ri. Jones 6 Lanfair yn G/iacr Ein-
gnion yn Sir Drefaldivyn gweinidog gair Daw, ac Alhro yn
1/ Celjyddydau. Fo chwanegwyd ulto Epitome 6 Lyfr cyntaf
Moses yr hwn a etwir Gi^neiis. NoJi est mor/ale quod optn.
Nit martrot belli yr wy i'n ei geisie. Cliwiliivch y Scrythyran
yn rliroi V ydycli yn mcddwl cael lywyd trugwydol. .fn. 5.
■39. Ai Printio, yn Llundain, ag iw werlhu gun John Brown
Ian V fesen eurad yn mon wynt Paul, mdcliii. 8vo. Bodl.
8vo. K. r-4. Line. To this edit, there is no epistle by
Howell, but it contains a dedication to Edward Vaughan of
Lwydiart, esq. a prose ;i<ldress to the reader (at y Darllcydd)
by ilie auilior, and coniuiendatory verses in Latin by John-
Davies, evangelii minister, Petrus Movie, gen. and Matha?us
Evans, evangelii minister; and in Welsh by Jo. Prichard,
and one who signs himself Cawr y Cymry, that is, the lover
of the Welsh.]

[166]

Clar.
Kiss.

LYFORT).

HOLYOKE.

34fi

1662.

born) did prweed doctor of his faculty in 1634, and
about an year after became bishop of the isle of
Man, in the place of Wiiliuni Forstor deceased. He
was a person very painiul in reading the arts to
young scholars, while he was of Brasen-nose coll.
and afterwards having a cure of souls, lie was no
less industrious in the ministry, especially after he
was made a bishop. He hath written and published,

Concin ad Clernm hahita Oxoniw in Comitiis,
12 Julii 1625, in Apocul 3. 4. Oxon. 1628. oct.
[Bodl. 8vo. P. 144. Th.]

Several sermons, as (1) The End of the perfect
Man, a Sermon at the Burial of Sir Rob. Spencer,
Knight, Baron of Wormleifffiion 6 N'ov. 1627, in
Brainton Church in Northaniptonnhire ; on Psul.
37. Ver. 37. Oxon 1628. (ju. [Bodl. 4to. M. 44.
Th.] and one or two more, which I have not yet
seen. This person, who was a sufferer for the royal
cause during the time of the rebellion, was living in
^'"''- Lancashire, as I have been informed thence, in the
time of the usurpation ; but when he died I cannot
yet tell. One Richard Parr was of Exeter coll. and
afterwards a writer, and is now (an. 1690) living.
One Elnathan PaiT also was an eminent divine in
the reign of king James I. as his works shew, but
he was not of Oxon, but of King^s college in Cam-
bridge, was bachelor of divinity and rector of Pal-
grave in Suffolk.

WILLIAM LYFOllD son of William Lyford
rector of Peysmere near to Newbury in Berks, was
bom there, (to the poor of which place he was an
especial benefactor at the time of his death) became
a commoner of Magd. hall in Lent term 1614, aged
16 or thereabouts, demy of Magd. coll. 1617, and
perpetual fellow five years after, he being then mas-
ter of arts. Afterwards he took holy orders and
exercised his finiction for some time m, and near,
Oxford. In 1631 he was admitted to the reaihng
of the sentences, and about that time became mini-
ster of Shirelx)urnc in Dorsetshire by the favour of
John earl of Bristol, where he was much resorted
to for his edifying and practical way of preaching.
At length the ci-vil war breaking forth and the pres-
byterians carrying all before, he sided with, them,
was made one of the assembly of divines, but sate
not among them. He hath written and publishetl
several theological tracts, which savour much of
great piety, zeal, and sincerity to religion, but withal
they shew him to have been a zealous Calvinist.
The titles are these,

Princ'iplcs of Faith and good Conscience ; di-
gested into a catechisticul Form. Lond. 1642.
Oxon. 1652. [Bodl. 8vo. I-. 15. Th. BS.] in oct. &c.

An Apology for our pnhlic Ministry and Injant-
haptism. Lond. 1652, [Bodl. C. 2. 9. Line] 53,
&c. qu.

Several sermons, as (1) The Translation of a
Sinner frcrni Death to Life, by ike free Grace of God,
Sermon at S. Marys in Oxon ; on Tit. 3. 5. Oxon.

1648. c|U. (2) Sermon on Dan. 3. from Ver. 14'
to 18. Lond. 1654. qu. (3) Serm. on 2 Cor. 2.
15, 16. Lond. 1654. (|U. (4) Serm. on Heb. 5.
13, 14. Lond. 1655. qu. One of these last two, if
I am not mistaken, is entit. I'hc Matching of t?ic
Magi.'itratc'.s Authority and the Chrintian^s true Li-
berty in Matter. y (f Religion.

Plain Afaii'.i Sen.ies exercised to discern both
Good or Evil: or, a Discovery of the Error.?, He- [1671
resies, and Bla.sphemics of these Times, &c. Lond.'
1655. qu. [B(k11. 4to. L. 2. Th. BS.]

His Legacy ; or, an Help for young People to
prepare them for the Sacrament. Lond. 1656,
[Bodl. 8vo. J. 6. Th. BS.] 58. oct.

Ca.ies of Con.scicncc propounded in tfie Time of
Rebellion resolved. Lond. 1661. oct.

Conscience informed touching our late Tlurnks-
givings, in a plain and modest Discourse. Lond.
1661. This I have not yet seen, and therefore can-
not tell you in what vol. 'twas printed. At length
this person, who was of great modesty and virtues,
being tormented with a painful and sliarp disease,
by the witchcraft, as 'tis said, of certain quakers,-
sun-endred up his pious soul to God, on the third
day of Octob. in sixteen himdred fifty and three, i0i3.
and was buried imder the connnunion table in the
chancel of the church at Shircljourne before-men-
tioned. By his last will and testament he be-
queathed to Magd. coll. 120/. towards the mainte-; '
nance of a gotlly poor scholar thereof, in way of re-
stitution for a sum of money, which, according to a
corrupt custom of his time, lie did receive for the
resignation of his fellowship of that college. You
may see more of him, his holy life and conversation,
in some memorials of him delivered, after his fune-
ral sermon, by W. H. doct. of div. prefixed to T/ie
plain Marl's Senses exerci.ted, &c. before-mentioned.

FRANCIS HOLYOKE, who writes himself
de .lacra Quercu, was born at Nether Whitacre in
Warwickshire, applied his mind to academical learn-
ing in this university, in the year 1582, or there-
abouts, jparticularly m Queen's coll. as his son Tho-
mas liath informed me ; but whether he took a de-
gree it appears not. Sure I am, that after he had
taiight school partly here, but mostly in his own
country, he was made rector of Southain there, in
Feb. 1604. And being esteemed a grave and learned
person, was elected a member of the convocation of
the clergy 1 Car. I. He hath written and pub-
lished.

Sermon of Obedience, e.ipecially nnto Authority
Eccle.iia.itical, (J^-c. ,■ mi Heb. 13. 17. preached at a
Visitation (f Dr. Will. Hinton Archd. of Coventry.
Oxon. 1610. quart. [Bodl. 4to. L. 10. th. BS.]

Dictionarium Etymologieum, Part 2. Rider''s
Dictionai-y corrected and augmented. Wherein
Rider''s Index is translated into a Dictionaj-y Ety-
mological, deriving every Word from his native
Fountain, &c. Lond. 1606, Sjc. in a tliick quarto.

347

SINGE.

STAMPE.

See more in John Rider, under die year 1632. vol.
- ii. col. 547. This dictionary was afterwards pub-
lished several times' with the addition of many
hundred words out of the law, and out of the Latin,
French, and other languages. Sec. This our author
concluded his last day on the 13th of Novenib. in
Iti53. sixteen hundred fifty and three, and in that of his
age 87, and was buried in S. Mary's church in
Warwick, having sufFer'd much for the king's
cause during the time of the grand rebeUion, which
began in 1642. He left behmd him a son named
Thomas, whom I shall mention in his proper place.

GEORGE SINGE, son of Rich. Singe aUas
Milhngton, was Iwrn of gentcH?! parents at Bridg-
north m Shropshire, became a commoner of Baliol
coll. in Mich, term 1609, aged fifteen years, took
the degrees in arts, that of master being compleated
in 1616, and afterwards became chaplain, as it
seems, to Dr. Christoph. Hampton archb. of Ar-
magh, who not only made him his vicar-general,
but dean of Dromore.* In 1638, Nov. 11. he was"
consecrated at Tredagh bishop of Cloyne, and soon
after was made one of the kmg's pnvy-council in
Ireland; but upon the breaking out of the rebellion
there in 1641, ne was forced to fly to Dublin for a
time for his own security. At length iijxjn the
death of Dr. Job. Maxwell in Feb. 1646, he was,
as 'tis said, nominated to succeed him in the arch-
bishoprick of Tuam. The next year he went into
England, and setthng at his native place, died in few

! rears after, as I shall anon tell you. He was a
^ ^ earnetl man, especially in ]iolemical divinity, the

civU and canon law, and hath written,

A Rejoinder to the Reply of Will. Malone Jesuit
against Dr. Usher Primate of Ireland. Dubl.
1632. qu. [Bodl. 4to. T. 97. Th.] and other things
which I have not yet seen. He concluded his last
day at Bridgnorth before-mention'd, in winter-time,
i()j3. (before the month of January) in sixteen hundred
fifty and three, and was buried in the church of S.
Mary Magdalen there. He had a younger brother
named Edward, born at Bridgnorth also, and after-
wards was bishop of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross in
tlie said kingdom of Ireland ; who, if I mistake not,
had received some of his education in this univer-
aty.

WILLIAM STAMPE, son of Tim. Stampeof
Brewcrn-Abbey near to Chipping-norton in Oxford-
shire gent, was born in that county, entred a student
in Pembroke coll. in the beginning of the year 1626,

and in tliat of his age 16.

Afterwards being made

fellow of tliat house, he proceeded in arts, entred
into holy orders, and exercised his function in S.
Aldate's church joining to his coll. in 1G37. Some
time before the rebellion broke out he was made
vicar of Stepney near London,' where he was mucli
resorted to by )jersons of orthodox princijJes for his
edifying way of preaching. But when the restless
presbyterians liaa brought all things into confusion,
he was violently tlirust out, imprison'd, plunder'd,
and at length forced to get away and fly for the
.safety of his life. At that time Oxford being the
chief place of refuge for men of his condition, he
max.Ie sliift to get there about the beginning of 1643,
and his case being made known to the king then
there, this order" following was written by lord
Falkland, his secretary, to the vice-chancellor of the
university, that he have the degree of doctor of div.
conferr'd on him. ' The king's majesty taking into
his princely consideration the great sufferings of
Will. Stampc, who hath not only undergone a long
and hard imprisonment of 34 weeks, but also is now
outed of a very good living, and all this for preach-
ing loyalty and obedience to a disaffected congrega-
tion to the extream hazard of his life. His majesty
being willing to repair these his sufferings, and to
encourage his known abilities (for which by special
favour and grace, he is sworn chaplain to liis dearest
son the prince) hath commandea me to signify to
you, that you forthwith confer upon him the degree
of doctt)r of divinity,' &c. In obedience to which
order he was actually created doctor of that faculty
in July the same year. Afterwards upon the de-
clining of the king and his party, he followed the
f)rince beyond the seas, was afterwards made chap-
ain to the queen of Bohemia, and became a frequent
preacher among the protcstants at Charenton near to
Paris, and a zealous assertor of the English liturgy.
His works are these.

Several sermons, viz. (1) Sermon preached before
his Majesty at Ch. C. in Oxford 28 Apr. 1643 ,• on
Isa. 59. 1, 2. Oxon. 1643. "qu. [Bodl. 4to. D. 60.
Th.] (2) Spiritual Infatuation, delivered in se-
veral Sermons on Isa. 6. 9. &:c. printed at the Hague
1650. in oct. [Bodl. 8vo. 1.70. Th.]

Vindication of the Liturgy of the Church of Engl.
— Whether printed I know not. He died of a fever
at the Hague in Holland, about sixteen hundred
fifty and tliree, and was buried in the church of
Loesdune near that town or city, as I have been in-
formed by the most rev. and learnctl Dr. Morley
late bishop of Winchester. In the said church at
Loesdune is a bason, wherein, according to the vul-
gar tradition, were baptized as many children as

1653.

' [Privilcgium pro Fran. Ilolyockc coiicess. 4 Jul. l635.
Rymer, Contin, Foed. loin, xix, page fi42, 3. Baker]

* [See mention made of Singe in Prynne's Canlerburie's
Dootne, pasre 1()5, and in the Slrafforde Letters and Dis-
patches, pobl. by Knowlcr, Lend. 1739, vol. ii, pages 185,
SIS, 24!).]

9 Jac. Warsus in Com. dc Praesul. Hiheru. p. aiQ.

' [Will. Stampe A. M. adiiiisf. ad vie. de Stepney, com,
Middlesex, 13 Aug. 1641, per resign. Geor. Dnglass.

I6(J0, 8 Sept. Emanuel Uly S.T. P. adniiss. ad vicariam.de
Stepney, per mortem Will. Stampe S. T. P. ad pres. The.
com. Clivel. Beg. London. Kennet.]

" In Ret(. Convoc. S. p. 34,

DAWES.

CHILMEAD.

350

iCsi.

there be days in the year, bom at one birth of tlie
body of Margfiret countess of Hcnncnbcrg.

LANCELOT DAWES was born at Barton-
Kirk in Westmorland, became a student in Quecn''s
coll. in the beginning of the year 1597, aged 1 7, and
two years after being made a jwor sening child, was,
when bach, of arts standing, matle tabarder, and in
the year 1605 mast, of arts and fellow. While he
continued there,he became, bya studious retiredness,
and a severe disciphne, a singidar ornament of tliat
house. But being thence called to the pastoral
charge of that place, which first welcom'd him into
the world, he was quickly taken notice of, as worthy
of a more eminent station in tlie church, that is, a
prebendship in the cath. church of Carlisle ; to
which he was accordingly prefer'd to the general
liking of all the knowng and ])ious divines in his
diocese, with whom, for a comprehensive and ortho-
dox judgment, adorned with all variety of learning,
he was ever held in great estimation. About tliat
time he was made doctor of di v. of the university of
S. Andrews in Scotland and rector of Ashby in his
own county. His works are these,

Sermons preached upon several Occdsian.s. Lond.
1653. qu. [Bodl. 4to. D. 3. Th. BS.] divided into
two parts. The first containeth six sermons under
this general title, GocFs Mercies- (tiul Jerusalcni's
Miseries? The first is on Jer. 5. 1. Sec. In this
first part are contained Txoo Sermons preached at
the Assize holden at Carlisle, touching sundry Cor-
ruptions of these times. Oxon. 1614. oct. [Bodl.
8vo. T. 97. Th.] The first is on Matth. 26. 15.
the other on Psal. 82. 6, 7. The second part con-
taineth six more .sermons under this tit. The
Healiiifr of the Plague of the Heart. The first is
on Luke 12. 32, &c. IJefore this last pait Tho.
Tully M. A. of Queen's coll. hath an epist. to the
reader in commendation of them. This Dr. Dawes,
who had submitted to the men in authority during
the time of rebellion, died in the month of Febr. as
it seems, in sixteen hundred fifty and three, and was
buried under the communion-table in the chancel
belonging to the church at Barton Kirk before-men-
tioned. Over hi.s grave was afterwards a plain
stone laid, with an inscription thereon, wherein 'tis
smd that he was pastor of tlie said church 48 years,
and that he died in Marcli 1654. Which last is
false, for in tlie Will Office near S. Paul's cathedral
I find that letters of administration were issued out
to William his brother, dated the eleventh of March
1653, whereby he was impower'd to administer the
goods, debts, chattels of him the said Lane. Dawes
lately deceased. Besides his epitaph were made
three co{)ies of verses, viz. one in Greek by the said
Tho. Tully, another in Lat. and the third in Enghsh

' [God's Mercies and Jerusalem's Miseries. A Sermon
preached at Pauls Crosse, lite 25 nf June, iCog. Printed for
Clement Knight, 1609. Ded. to Henrie lord bisli. of Car-
lile. 8vo. In Ch. Ch. library, A. 72. Pamph.']

by Joseph Williamson and Clem. Ellis bachelors of
arts of Queen's coU. All which being fairly tran-
scrib'd, were put in a frame and fastned to the wall
over the grave of the defunct, " (afterward printed) ;"
near whom, was his son of both his names Duried 18
May 1655.<

EDMUND CHILMEAD was bom at Stow ou
the Wold in Glocestershire, Ixicame one of the clerk*
of Magd. coll. in the beginning of the year 1625,
and in that of his age 16 or thereabouts, took the
degrees in arts, that of master being complcated in
1632, and not long after was made one of the petty-
canons or chaplains of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. Wlience
being ejected by the parhamentarian visitors in 1648,
he was forced, such were the then times, to obtain a
living by that, which before was only a diversion to
him, I mean by a weekly music meeting, which he
set up at the Black Horse in Alder.sgatestrcet in Lon-
don. He was a choice mathematician, a noted critic,
and one that understood several tongues, especially
the Greek, very well. He hath written,

Ve Musica antiqua Grcecd. Published at Oxon,'
at the end of the Oxford edition of Aratus, an. 1672;
oct. [Bodl. 8vo. D. 86. Line]

Annotationes in Odas Diony.ni. Printed also
there in the same edition. He had likewise trans^
lated the aforesaid odes into Lat. but that version is
omitted.

Versio Latina Sg- Annotationes in Joh. MalalcB
Chronographtum. Oxon. 1691. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. M.
205. Art.] See in the prolegomena to that author,
written by Humph. Hody bach, of div. and fellow
of Wadh. coll. § 42. He hath written also a little
thing

De Sonis, which, I presume, is yet in MS. as
also,

Cataiogus Mamiscriptorum Grcecorum in Bib.
Bod. pro Ratione Auctorum alphabeticus. An. 1636.
MS. m Bodley's hbrary, of great use to curious and
critical students. He hath translated from French
into English (V) A Treatise of the Essence, Causes^
Si/mptoms, Prognosticks, and Cure of Love, or
Erotique Melancholy. Oxon. 1640. oct. [Bodl. 8vo.
C. 12. Med.] Written by Jam. Ferrand doctor of
phys. (2) Unheard-of Curiosities concerning the
Talismanical Sculpture of the Persians. Lond.
1650, in a large oct. [B(xll. 8vo. G. 2. Art. BS.]
Written by James Gafferel. Also from Lat. into
English (1) Discourse tottchtng the Spanish Mo-^
narchy. Lond. 1654. qu. Written by Thomas
Campanella. Which translation lying dead on the
bookseller's hands, Will. Prynne of Line, inn wrote
an epistle and caused this title to be printed and put

^ [In Burton church in Cumberland : Here lyeth the
body of Lancelot Dawes M.A. eldest son of Lancelot Dawes
Dr in divinity, who was marrycd to Mary Whelpdalc daughter
of Mr. Will. Whelpdalc of Penrith, and was interrea the
()"> day of May, in the 35"' year of his age, A.D. l6a.'). Le
Neve, sub anno. Kennet.]

[170]

351

JOLLIFF.

SYDENHAM.

before the remaining copies, Thomas Campanella a
SpanLih Fi-ier- his Advice to the A'hiff o/'Spainfor
the obtaining of the Universal Monarchy of the
Worhl Loud. 1G59. qu. (2) Treatise of the
Globes. Loml. 1639 aiul 59. oct. Written by Rob.
Hues; and liustly from Ital. into English, The His-
tory of the Rites, Customs, and Manner of Life of
the present Je:es throughout tlte World. Lond.
1650. Oct. ^Vritten by Leo Moilena a rabbin of
Venice. At length this curious person resigning up
his last breath in the prime of his years on the 19th of
February in sixteen hundred fifty and three, was
'°*4- jjuried in S. Botolph'S church without Aldersgatein
X.ondon, having liefbre (with Job. Gregory another
critic) received rehef in his necessities from Edw.
Bysshe esq. then king of arras by the parliament's au-
thority ; and also assisted sir Hen. Holbroke knight,
(by whom he had lieen exhibited to) in his transla-
tion of Procojiius of Cassarea his History of tlie
Wars of the Emperor Justinian, in 8 Books, &c.
Lond. 1653. fol. oy exactly comparing the English
with the Greek, as it was written by David Hoes-
chelius, who had it out of the duke of Bavaria's
library.

GEORGE JOLLIFF or Joyliff, son of Job.
Jol. gent, was bom at Ea.st-Stower in Dorsetshire,
entred a commoner in Wadham coll. in Lent teim,
an. 163i, but before he had sjjent two years there,
he retired to Pembr. coll. and as a member thereof
took the degrees in arts, that of master being com-

fJeated in 1643, being al)oiit that time a lieutenant
or the king under Ilal[>h lord Hopton. After-
wards he entred on the physic line, and exercising
himself much in anatomy with the help of Dr.
.Clayton master of his coll. and the king's prof, of
physic, he made some discovery of that fourth sort
of vessels, plainly differing from veins, arteries, and
nerves, now called the lympheducts. Afterwards he
went to Clare Hall in Cambridge, took the degree
of doctor of physic there, and afterwards made a full
and open discovery of the said vasa lyniphatica in
anatoniy lectures in the coll. of physicians, about the
Clar. yc*'' 1653, got to himself a great name, and was for
I(i'j3. a time much retired to for his knowledge in physic.
He lived mostly at Garlick liithe in I^ondon, and
dying before the immortal Harvey, not without some
perturbation of spirit, as having been bound for the
debts of his brother, was biu'ied in the church of S.
James's Garlick hithc, about 1655.

» CUTHBERT SYDENHAM or [SiDKXHAsr]
son of Cuthb. Syd. gent, was Ixjrn at Truro in Corn-
wall, became a commoner of S. Alban's hall in Lent
term 1639, aged 17, continued there till the city of

* Immediately before this Life, in the second edition of
these Athena, was inserted an imperfect life of Joseph
Sedgwick, but this has been omitted, as it will be found at
greater length towards the close of the work.

Oxford was garrison'd for the king ; at which time
being entertained by some of the godly party, he
became a forward zealot among them. About the
year 1644, he became lecturer of S. Nicholas church
m Newcastle upin Tyne, without any orders, unless
those of the presbytery, coufer'd upon him ; where,
by his constant and confident preaching, he obtained
more respect from the brethren than any grave or
venerable minister in that, or another corporation,
could do. In the latter end of 1650 he was actually
created master of arts, by virtue of letters sent to
the members of convocation from the committee of
parUament for regulating the university of Oxon,
which partly say, ' that he (Mr. Cuthb. Sydenham)
hath long since full time for taking the degree of
master of arts, and is likewise of sufhcient abilities in
learning, whereof he hath given large and public
evidence, both by his writings in asserting the cause
of the parliament, and otherwise. — That though he
cannot for his pressing occasions perforin his exercises
for that degree, yet he hath performed some part of
them before theenemiesi)ossessingOxon,'&c. Among
several of his writings, only these following, as yet,
have come to my hands, viz.

The false Brother: or, the Mapp of Scotland,
drawn by an English Pencil. Printed in qu.

Anatomy qfJoh. Lilbourn^s Spirit and Pamph-
lets : or, a Vindication of the two honourable Pa-
triots, Oliver Cromiccll Lord Governor (f Ireland
and Sir Arth. Haselrigg Knight and Baronet:
wherein the said Lilbourn is demonstratively proved
to be a common Lier, and unicorthy ef civil Con-
verse I'rinted in qu. This Joh. Lilbourn

being several times occasionally mention'd in tliis
work, I shall be more large of him by and by.

" A Preface or Epistle before Quatermayn'a
" Conquest over Canterbury s Court, &c. Lond.
" 1642. written by Roger Quatermayne of Oxford-
" shire."

A Christian, sober and plain Exercitation of the
two grand practical Controversies of these Times,
Infant-Baptism and Singing of Psalms. Lond.
1653. in tw. Answer'd by \Vill Kaye minister of
Stokesley in his liook called Baptism zoithout Bason,
Sec. Lond. 1653. qu. and by others.

The Greatness if tlie Mystery of Godliness,
opened in several Sermons. Loiul. 1654. 56. [Bodl.
8vo. S. 20. Th. BS. j and 1672. inoct. [Bodl. 8vo. Z. 63.
Th.] and tw. Which Ixnik is the sum of ten ser-
mons on 1 Tim. 3. 16. and hath before the second
edition of it the author's ))lcture, with this written
under it, ' set. 31. 1654.'

Hypocrisy di.uwered in its Nature ami Work-
ings, being the Sum of seven Sermons on Luke 12.
latter End of the first Verse. Lond. 1654. oct.
[Bodl. Svo. T. 11. f h. BS.] with his picture before
it in a cloak. Printed there again in 1657, [Bodl.
8vo. S. 20. Th. BS.] and 71. oct. [Bodl. Svo. Z. 63.

» In Reg. Convoc. T. p. 131.

SYDENHAM.

354

Th.] This book was published by T. W. one of
his persuasion, who in liis pref. to it saith, that
' Cuthl). Sydenham was trained up under religious
education from hischildhwxl, which made liini oi'ten
profess his jesilousy of professors, especially such who
had the advantage of a godly etlucation through the
many experiences and deceits of their own liearts
That he was extreme painful even to tlic visible
wasting of his own bodily strength in the work of
the ministry, and his great cai-e over his flock,'' &c.
The said sermons were taken from his mouth in
short hand by the said T. W. who published them
without any alteration. At length our author re-
tli-ing to London to gain health, and to print some
of his books, Uwk up his lodging in Axe-yard joyn-
ing to King-street within the city of Westminster,
where he died in the very beginning of the year
1654. (about 23 of March) sixteen hundred fifty and four,
but where he was buried, I cannot tell ; for the re-
gister of S. Margaret's church, wherein Axe-yard is
situated, mentions him not to have been buried in
that parish. Now as for John Lillxjurne before
mentioned, he having been very famous for his in-
famy, I shall .say these things of him. He was bom
of a good famdy at ThicKley-Punchardon in the
county pal. of Durham, and when very young was
ri721 ^^^ *** London, and bound an apprentice to a packer
of cloth in S. Swithins-lane. At which time, and
before, he was esteemed a youth of an high and un-
daunted spirit, of a quick and pregnant apprehen-
sion, and of an excellent memory, yet, always after,
much addicted to contention, novelties, opposition of
government and to violent and bitter expressions.
About the year 1632, he, upon the dislike of his
trade, had a mind to study the common law, and
therefore upon his, and the desire of liis friends, he
was taken mto the service of Mr. Will. Prynne of
Line, inn : who shortly after suffering for liis His-
trio-M(Mt'i.r, (as I shall tell you at large when I
come to him) his servant Lilbourne took his mas-
ter's part, imprinted and vended a book or books
against the bishops ; for which being committed
prisoner to the Fleet, was afterwards whipped at a
cart's tail from the .said Fleet to Westminster ; the
indignity of which he being not able to endure,
railed all the way against his persecutors. When he
came to the palace-yard, he stood in the pillory two
hours, and talking there to the people against the
state, was gagg'd.' In 1640 he was released from
liis prison by the members of the Long parliament,
and s(X)n after tiK>k upon him the place of a captain
in their service ; and, after the battle of Edghill, being

' " Dr. Barlow before one of this Lilbourne's books has
" this note coiiccrninc; liiin — ' This Lilbourne was born in
" Sunderland in the bishopticls of Durham, and was appren-
" tice in New Castle first, and from thence he ran away to
" Lond. where he was apprentice to a bookbinder, and
" printed Prinn's and Barlow's book, and stood in the pil-
" lory, when they were. But Mr. Wood has remark'd that
" several of these things are false."

Vol. in.

taken prisoner at Brainford in the year 1642, he was
carrieu to Oxon, and there arraigned as a traytor for
levying war against the person of tlie king. After-
wards being released, he was made a lieutenant co-
lonel, and became for a time the idol of tlie factious
party. But he being naturally a great trouble-world
in all the variety of governirent, became a hodg-
podg of religion, the chief ring-leader of the levellers,
a great proposal-'iuaker, and modeller of state, and
pinilisher of several seditious pamphlets ; among
which were' (1) J Salva Libertate. (2) The Out-
cry of the young Men and the Apprentices of Lond.
or, an Inquisition after the Loss of the fundamental
Laws and Liberties of England, &c. Lond. 1647.
August 1. sheet and half qu.' (3) Preparation to an
Hue and Cry after Sir Arth. Haselrig. (4) A
Letter to a Friend, dated 20 July 1645. qu. two
sheets, [Bodl. C. 1 4. 8. Line.] &,c. For which, and
for his endeavours to disturb the peace and subvert
the government of this nation, he was committed pri-
soner to Newgate in Aug. 1645, where continuuig a
considerable while, several petitions subscribed by
hundreds of citizens and others, as also by his wife
and many women, were put up to the pai'liament for
his releasment. And about this time were pub-
lished under his name these several bold pamphlets.
(1) ^ Letter to Will. Prynne, Esq; (upon th«
coming out of his last Book entituled. Truth
triumphing over Falshood, Antiquity over Novelty)
in u-hich he lays dorcn Jive Propositions, 7C'hich he
desires to discuss "with the said Mr. Prynne ; dated
7 Jan. 1645. pr. 1646. [Bodl. C. 14. 7. Line] (2)
London s Liberty in Chains discovered, &c. Lond.

1646. qu. 9 sheets. (9) The free Maris Freedom
vindicated: or, a true Relation of the Cau.ie and
Manner of Lieut. Col. John Lilbourne''s present
Imprisonment in Neugate, &c. Lond. 1646. 1 sh.
and half [Bodl. C. 13. 16. Line] (4) Charters of
London : or, the second Pari qfLondcnis Liberty in
Chains discovered, &c. I.,on(l. 1646. 28 Decemb.
(Among Dr. Barlow's pamphlets, see the preface to
it. Lmulon's Liberty in Chains discovered, the first
part, came out in oct. 1646.) (5) Tivo Letters

from the Toiver of London to Col. Henry Marten a
Member of the House of Commons iipim the VMh
and \5th of September, 1647. [Bodl. C. 14. 14.
Line] (6) Other Letters of great Concern. Lond.

1647. qu. one sheet. (7) The Resolvd Mail's Re-
solution, to maintain with the last Drop of his
Blood his civil Liberties and Freedoms granted
unto him by tlie great. Just, and truest declard
Laws of England, &c. Lond. 1647. qu. [Bodl. C.
14. 12. Line] (8) His grand Plea against the

" [I have not pninicd out the variations between the first
and second editions in this article; since they are of no im-
portance. Wood bas merely corrected bis own errors, and
added two or three pamphlets thai he had not seen when he
first wrote the life.]

" [Another edit, was printed in the latter end of 1649. See
it Bodl.C. 15. 5. Line]

A A

1^55

SYDENHAM.

present tyrannical House of' Lords, tchicli 1w deli-
ver''d before an open Committe of the House of
Commons, 20 Oct. 1647, S:c. priiitod in tjii. 1647.
[173] [Bodl. C. 14. 14. Line] one sheet. (9) His ad-
ditional Pica directed to Mr. John Muynard,
Cluiirnmn to the Committee, pr. 1647. one sheet
qu. (10) The Outcries of oppre.ised Commons,
directed to all the Rationed and Understanding^
in tlie Kinirdom ofEiitrl. and Dominion ()f Wales,
&C. Feb. '1647. qu. ^[Bodl. C. 14. 12. Line.]
Rich. Overton another leveller had a hand in it,
then a prisoner in Newgate. (11) JonalCs Cry
out of the Whale''s Belly, in certain Epistles
unto Lieut. General CromxveU and Mr. John
Goodwin, complaining of the Tyranny of the
Houses of I^)rds and Commons at We.Hminster,
&c. Lonil. [Bodl. C. 14. 12. Line.] (12) An Im-
pcaclimeut of High Treason against Oliver Crom-
well and. his Son-in-Laxe Henry Iretmi, Esq; late
0 Members of the late ^forcibly distorted House of
Commons presented to publick View, &c. Lond.
1649. qu. nine sheets. [Bodl. C. 15. 5. Linc.j (13)
Tfie Legal fundavientcd Liberties of tlie People of
England, revived, asserted and vindicated, &c.
Lond. 1649. qu. nine sh. and a half, written by way
of epistle to Will. Lenthall speaker, dated from his
close, unjust and cause-less captivity in the Tower
of Lond. 8 Jun. 1649. (14) Tzvo Petitions pre-
sented to fJie supreme Authority trftlie Nation from
Thousands of the Lords, Oxcners, and Commoners
of Lincolnshire, he. Lond. 1650. qu. one sheet.
Afterwards he was transmitted to the Tower, where,
having too much Uberty allowed him, he and his
party spake very disgracefully of the two houses of
parliament, to whom it appeared that there was a
design of many thousands intended, under a colour
of petition, to dishonour the parliament and their
proceedings ; whereupon his liberty was restrained,
and he was ordered to appear at the bar of the house
of commons. This was in Jan. 1647, and accord-
ingly appearing, he matle a large answer ' to the in-
formation against him ; at which time the reading
of proofs and examination of the business held till
■ six of the clock at night, and then the house order-
ed that he be remanded to the Tower, and tried by
the law of the land, for seditious and scandalous
practices against the state. Which order being not
obeyed, for his party withheld him, under a pretence
of a great meeting to be at Deptford in Kent about
their petition, that is, Tlie Petition of many Thoii-
sands of the _ free-born People of Engla7id,'^ &c. it
was ordered that the officers of the guards do assist
the Serjeant in carrying him and maj. Jo. Wildman
to prison, (which was done) and that the committee

' [This Answer is printed in the Impeachment nf Oliver
Cromwell, &c. Baker.]

^ \A Remonslrance of many 1000 Citizens and Freeborn
People of England lo tlie House nf Commons, occasioned
through the Imprisonment &c. of Col. J. Lilburn. lG46, 4to.
Tanner.]

of Kent take care to suppres.s all meetings upon
that jK'tition, and to prevent all tumults, and that
the militia of London, &c. take care to suppress
such meetings, anil to j)revent inconveniencics wliich
may arise thereby and upon the said petition. After-
wards he seems to have been not only set at liberty,
but to have had reparations made for his sentence
in the star-chamber and sufferings before the civil
war began. But he being of a restless spirit, as I
have told you, published a jsanqilet entit. Eng-
land'^s^ new Chains discovered, &c. which was the
bottom and foundation of the levellers tlesign, of
whom he was the Coryphaeus : Whereujwn being
committed again about the beginning of 1649, was
brought to his tryal in the Guild-hail, where after
great jJeadings to and fro, he was quitted by his
jury, to the great rejoycing of his partv. After-
wards he went into the Netherlands, and there, as
■'tis said, became acijuainted with the duke of Buck-
ingham, lord Iloptoii, captain Titus, &c. -\t length
being desirous to see his native country, he returned
into England,* where at"ter he had continued some

' 'Twas divided into two parts, the first w,.is published in
l648, and the other, wliich contains but one sheet, the same
year. [T/ie second Part nf England' s New Chaincs discover-
ed: Or a sad lieprcscn/ation if the uncertain and dangerout
Condition if the Commonwealth : directed to the supreame
Authority of England, the Representors of the People in Par-
liament assembled. By severull wel-ajffected Persons inha-
biting the City of London, IVestminster, the Borough of
Southwark, Hamblets, and Places adjacent. Presenters and
Approvers of the late large Petition of the eleventh of Sep-
tember. lC48. Alt Persons who are assenting lo this Repre-
sentation, are desired to subscribe it and bring in then Sub-
scriptions to the Presenters and Ajiprovers of the foresaid
Petition of the 11 (f September. Bodl. C. 14. 2. Line. Bi-
shop Barlow's copy, \vho has written the following note, in
his own hand, on the last leaf: ' This was writt by John
Lilbiirnc (att least it came out by his mcanes, and he own'd
it) who, with Onerton (a leueller), and 4. more were laid in
prison for it and proclaimed traytors in 5* end of March l()4g.
vVcddensday March VS. anno p'dicto L. col. Joh. Lilburne,
Mr. Lamer, Mr. Ouerlon, M'. Princis, M'. Walwin, were
by order from the councell of state apprehended and brought
prisoners to White-hall.']

* [A° lOfil-2, 15 Jan. One Josiah Prvmatt, leather-seller
in London, having accused sir Arthur tiafelrig of unjustly
dispossessing him of collieries in Diirhamshire, he printed
his petition and appeal, which was burnt by the hangman,
and he fined SOOO/. to the commonwealth, COCO/, to sir Ar-
thur, and 2000/. more to four commissioners for compound-
ing, and to be committed prisoner to the Fleet : The same
day, the house proceeded against licut. col. Jo. Lilburn, who
had confessed at the bar of the house 23 Dec. That he dis-
persed divers printed copies of Mr. Primatt's petition. He-
solved 15 Jan. 1651-2, that the fine of .3000/. be imposed
upon lieut. col. Jo. Lilburne to the use of the common-
wealth, 2000/. to sir A. Haselrig, and £000/. to the said
commissioneis, and banishment within 30 days, not to re-
turn into any part of the territories of the commonwealth,
under pain of death. The next day, a book intitled A just
Reproof to Haberdashers Hall, or An Epistle by Lieut. Cot.
Jo. Lilburne, July 30, l65I, to 4 of tlie Commissioners at
Haberdashers Hall, viz. Mr. Jam. Russell, Mr. Edw. Win-
slow, Mr. Will. Molins and Mr. Arthur Squibb, was read
and proved to be written by Lilburne, by his own confession :
Resolved, That this book doth contain matter false, scan-

SYDENHAM.

GROSS]:.

358

time in liis projcct.s to disturb the government, he
was a]iprehended and committed to Newgate, and
at Icngtli brought to his tryal at the sessions-house
in the Old Baily, 20 Aug. 16.53, but (juitteil again
by his jury. Soon after lie was conducted to Ports-
mouth in order to his conveyance beyond tlie seas,
but by putting in security for his peaceable de}X)rt-
ment for the future, he retiirn"'d, fell into the ac-
quaintance of the (makers, became one of them,
settled at Eltham m Kent, where sometimes he
preached, and at other times at WoUidge, and was
ni great esteem among that party. At length de-
[174] parting this mortal life at Eltham on Saturday
29 of x\ug.^ 165T, his Ixxly was two days after
conveyed to the house called the Mouth near
Aldersgate in London, which was then the usual
meeting place of quakcrs : Whence, after a great
controversy among a strange medley of people
there, (mostly quakers) whether the ceremony of a
hearse-cloth should be cast over his coffin, (which
was carried in the negative) it was conveyed to the

dalous, and malicious, and ordered to be burnt with Mr. Pry-
matt's. On 20 Jan. Lilburne was brousht to the bar of the
house, but refused to kneel, whereupon they resolved. That
an act be brought in for enacting judgment of parliament
against Jo. Lilburne, and that 10 days be retrenched from
the time of his departure. Journals of the House of Com-
mons, vol. vii, page 72, &c.

13 July tO.'jS, Several papers tendered to ihe house, con-
cerning licut. col. Jo. Lilburnc's carriage in foreign parts.
14. July lft53. The humble petition of John Lilburne esq',
now prisoner in Newgate, was read. The question being
put, that the liouse will suspend the proceedings in lavv
against lieut. col. Jo. Lilburne, it passed in the negative.
Journals of /he House of Commons, vol. vii. pp. 284, 28i.

On 2 Aug. iGsa, Mr. Karebone presented a petition to
Oliver's house signed by divers well-afl'ected and constant ad.
herents to the interest of parliaments and their own native
fundamental rights and freedoms, young men and apprentices
of Lond. and Westm. which was adjudge<l to be scandalous
and seditious, and 6 of the presenters of it committed to pri-
son, and resolved that lieut. col. Jo. Lilburne be kept close
prisoner. Journals, vol. vii, page 294.

10 Aug. 1653, Ordered, that the close imprisonment of
col. Lilburne be taken off, in order to his tryal. Journals,
vol. vii, page 297.

Aug. 22, 1633, Ordered that the council of state examine
the whole business of the late tryal of lieut. col. Jo. Lil-
burne, and the proceedings therein, as also of the judge.^ and
jury, and rejmrt it to the house with all speed : as also toueli-
ing any scandalous, seditious, or tumultuous papers dispersed,
or words simken at the said trj-al in derogation of the autho-
rity of pailiament Accordingly, 27 Aug. the judges and

jury, lord mayor and recorder attested that he had spoken
many scandalous and seditious speeches at his tryal. Order-
ed, that it be referred to the council of state to take some
course for the further securing lieut. col. Jo. Lill)urne for
the peace of this nation. Journals, v<d. vii, page30g.

ie.53, 26 Nov. Resolved, That the lieutenant of the
Tower be injoyned to detain the body of lieut. rol. Jo. Lil-
burne in safe custody, and not to remove him, notwithstand-
Mig any habeas corpus granted by the upper bench. Journals,
vol. vii, page 358. Cole.]

* [An. 1C57, Aug. 28, ,Io. Lilburne (a buisy man) died
at Eltham, and was buried in the new church-yard by Hed-
1am, 31, accompanied with his fellow quakers. Mr. Ric.
Smi/h's Obituary. Baker.]

then new burial place in Morefields near to the
j)lace called now Old Hetllam, where it was interred.*
This is the jierson of whom the magnanimous judge
Jenkins used to say, that if the world wa.s emptied
of all but Jolm Lillx)urne, Lillwume would quar-
rel with John, and John with J^illiourne. This Jo.
Lilboume, who was second son of Rich. Lilboume
esq; by Margaret his wife, daughter of Thorn.
Hixon of Greenwich in the county of Kent, yeoman
of the wardrobe to queen Elizabeth, liad an elder
brotlier called Robert, who being puritanically edu-
cated, sided with the rout against his majesty in the
beginning of the rebellion, and being thorow-pac'd
to Oliver's interest, was by him advanced to be a
colonel of horse, some time before the murtlier of
king Ch. I. 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's forces in Scotland. After his
majesty's restoration, he surrendred himself upon
proclamation, was attainted and committed prisoner
during life. But his father being then livuig, the
estate at Thickley devolved up>n the said Rol)ert's
children, begotten on the Iwdy of his wife Marga-
ret, only daughter of Hen. Reke of Hadenham in
Bucks, gent. viz. (1) Roliert, Iwrn an. 1650. (2)
Richard Ixirn 1652. (3) Ephraim born alvjut 1662;
&c. all which were living in 1688. This col. Lil-
boume spent the remainder of his days in close con-
finenieut, in St. Nicholas island, called by some
riyniouth isle, near Plymouth in Devonshire;
where dying in August, an. 1665, aged 52 years or
thereabouts, was burieil, as his son Richard thinks,
at Plymouth.

[In 1653 was j)ublished a book entitled A false
Jew or a zconderful Discovery of one Thomas
Ramsay a Scot baptized in London for a Xtian,
circumcised at Rome to act a Jew, rebaptined at
Heschamjirr a Believer, but found otd at Ncxccastle
Jhr a Cheat. By Cut/iiert Sydenham and otJiers;
and by them dedicated to the Mayor of Newcastle.
Lond. 1653. 4to. Peck.]

ALEXANDER GROSSE was a Devonian
lx)rn, educated hi academicals in Gonvill and Caius
coll. in Cambridge, and afterwards became a ])reacher
at Plympton in his own countr}'. But being de-
sirous to receive instruction in matters pertaining to
divinity from Dr. Prideaux the king's professor of

^ [Lilburne John of the county of Durham. Tiie Resur-
rection of John Lilburne, now a Prisoner in Dover Castle,
declared and manifested. IO16, 3 sheets.

He died in Lond. about the year I(i00, and was buried at
the Steeple-house grave-yard by Bishopsgate.

From A Catalogue of Friend' s Rooks; tvritten hy many of
the People called Quakers from the Beginning or first .4p-
pearance of the said People, Collected for a general Service,
ill J. W. Lond. 8vo. 1703, p. C)l. This writer varies from
Wood, both as to the time and place of Lilburne's death,
and more as to the place of his burial. Hunter.]
A A2

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GROSSE.

ERBURY.

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l6d4.

this university, he entred himself a sojourner in
Exeter coU. was lncor|)orated M. of A. and in Feb.
1632 lie was a<hnitted to tlie reading of the sen-
tences. Soon after he obtaincni a hcence from the
university to preach Gixl's word, became rector of
Bridford near Exeter, and at length of Ashberton,
in his own countrv ; where he, being a presbyte-
rian, and a sider with the times, was much frequented
by people of that jK-rsuasion. He hath extant.

Sweet and Soui-persumlhiff InduceviejUs 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 SouVs
last Refuge ; Serm. at the Funeral of Mr. S. H. ;
on Rev. 22. 20. (2) Death's Deliverance, and
Elijalis fierij Chariot: or, the holy Man's Tryal
after Death, in tzco Sermons at Plymotith ; one on
the 16, and the other on the 19 of Aug. 1631.
The^formcr at the Funeral ofTho. Shenci/l a pious
Magistrate of that Place; on Isa. 57. 1. 2. and the
other (FJijalis fiery Chariot) at the Funeral of
Matthias Nicolls Bac. of Div. Preaclier to the
Town (f Plymouth : on 2 Kings 2. 11, 12. All
which sermons were printed at Lond. 1640. oct.

The My.stery of Self-denial : or, the Cessation
ofMarCs Living to himself, and the Incfioations of
Chrisfs Living in Man. Lond. 1642. qu.

Man's Misery without Christ, opening the sin-
J\d, perplexed, di.shonotirahle and Soul-destroying
Condit'um of Man witJwut Christ, &c. Lond. 1642.
qu.

Tlie Way to a hUssed Life, composed by Way of
Catechism, &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 atid Blos.somings of old Truths: or,
several practical Points of Divinity, gathered out
of the sacred Evangelist S. John, Chap. 3. from
the 226? Verse to the end. Lond. 1656. oct. pJodl.
8vo. G. 7. Th. BS.] Published by a presbyterian
minister called John Welden, then living at Strat-
cley 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 cha-
racter of him there appears. At length after he had
in a manner spent himself in carrying on the be-
loved cause, laid his head down and willingly died,
in the beginning of sixteen hundred fifty and four ;
and was buried at Ashberton before-mention'd. He
had a son of both his names, who became a student
in Exeter coll. 1638, but whether he lived to pub-
lish any thing I know not.

WILLIAM ERBURY was l)om at, or near,
Roath-Dagfield in Glamorganshire, became a stu-
dent in Bra.sen. coll. in Lent term 1619, agetl 15
years, took one degree in arts, retired into Wales,
took holy orders, and was there beneficed. But
being always schismatically affected, he jireached in
conventicles, and denying to read the king's declara-
tion for pastimes after divine-service on the Lord's
day, was summoneil divers times to the high com-
mission court at Lambeth, where he suffered for his
obstinacy. " In archbishop Laud's annual accounts
" of his province to the king, for the year 1634, p.
" 533, at the end of the History of his Troubles
" and Tryal, is some account of this Erbury, in
" these words.

" ' Landaff diocese.

" * The bishop of Landaff certifies, that this year
" (1634) he visited his diocese, and found that Will.
" Erliury vicar of St. ISIary's in Cardiff, and ^Val-
" ter Cradock his curate, have been very disobedient
" to his majesty's instructions, and have {)rcach'd
" very schismatically and dangerously to the people

" for this he hath given the vicar a judicial ad-

" monition, and will further proceed, it he do not

" submit As for his curate Walter Cradock,

" being a bold, ignorant young fellow, he hath sus-
" pended him, and taken away his licence which he
" had to serve the cure. Among other things he
" used this base, and uncliristian passage in the pul-
" pit, ' That God so loved the work?, that for it
" ne sent his son to hve like a slave, and die like a
" beast'." In the beginning of the long parliament
1640 he shew'd himself openly, preached against
bishops and ceremonies, and made eai-ly motions to-
wards independency. Wliereujwn, by the endea-
vours of those inclin'd that way, he was made a
cluqjlain 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, an-
tinomian doctrines, and other dangerous errors;
and by degrees fell to grosser opinions, holding (as
a presbyterian' \vriter 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 countr}' 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 him-
self for universal redemption, that no man was pu-
nished for Adam's sin, that Christ diet! for all, that
the guilt of Adam's sin should be imputed to no
man, &.c. Not long after he went* into Northamp-
tonshire, where in a private meeting, the main scope

' Thomas Edwards in his Gan^rana.
» Ibid, in Cangr. edit. l646. p. 78.

ERBUllY.

GRAYLE.

3^2

of liis exercise was to speak against the certainty and
sufficiency of" llie sfh])tures, alledging there was no
[176] certainty to build upon them, because there were so
many several copies. After the surrender of the
gaiTison of Oxon in 1646, we find him there to be
chaplain to a regiment of parliamenteers, to keep
his conventicles tor them in an house opjiosite 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 doc-
trine of the presbyterian ministers sent by the mem-
bers of parliament to preach the scholars into obe-
dience, as I have ' elsewhere told you. But being
desired 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 for plundered ministers
at Westminster, where he began to make a solenm
profession of his faith in orthcxlox language, to the
admiration of some there that had heard (and were
ready to witness against him) the said blasphemies :
but the then chairman took him up, and command-
ed him silence, saying, ' We know your tricks well
enough,'' &c. To say the truth, he had language
at command, and could dissemble for matter of j)ro-
fit, or to avoid danger ; and it was very well known
he was only a meer canter. However he is charac-
terized by those of his persuasion to have been a
holy harmless man, for which not only the world
hated him, but also those of the church, and add,
that 'tis hoped they did it ignorantly. On the 12th
of Octob. 1653, he, with John Webster sometimes
a Cambridge scholar, endeavoured to knock down
Icai'ning and the ministry both together, in a dis-
putation that they then had against two ministers in
a church in Lombard-street in London, Erbury
then declared that the wisest ministers and purest
churches were at that time befoofd, confovuided,
and defil'd by reason of learning. Another while
he said that the ministers were monsters, beasts,
asses, greedy dogs, false prophets ; and that they
are the beast with seven heads and ten horns. The
same person also spoke out, and said, that Babylon
is the churcli in her ministers, and that the great
whore is the church in her worship, &c. So that
with him there was an end of ministers, and churches,
and ordinances altogether. While these things were
babied to and fro, the n)ultitude being of various
opinions, began to mutter, and many to cry out,
and immediately it came to a mutiny, or tumult,
(call it which you please) wherein the women bore
away the bell, but lost (some of them) their ker-
chiefs : And the dispute being hot, there was more

» Vide nisi.
1646.

(Sf Ant'iq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 1. sub an.

danger of pulling down the churcli than tlic mini-
stry. This our author Erbury hath written,

The great My.itery of Godlhie.fs : Jesus Christ
our Lord God and Man, and Man rcilh God, one
in Jesus Christ our Lord. Lond. 1640. oct.

Relation of a publick Discourse between him and
Mr. Franc. Chcynell in S. Mary's Church in Oxon,
11 Jan. 1646. Lond. 1646.' in 4 sh. in qu. pub-
Ushed by Cheynell or some of Erbury's party.

Ministers Jbr Tythes, proving they are no Mi-
nisters of' the Gospel. Lond. 165.3. qu.

Sermons on several Occasions, one of which is
entit. The Lord of Hosts, &c. printed 1653. qu.

An Olive Leaf: or, some peaceable Considera-
tions to the Christian Meeting at Ch. Church in
London, Monday 9 Jan. 1653.

The Reign of Christ, and tlie Saints with him
on Earth a thousand Years, one Day, and the Day

at hand These two last were printed at Lond.

1654 in one sh. and half, and dedicated to Mr.
John Rogers, Mr. Vavasor Powell and other fana-
tical people at Ch. Ch. in London.

His Testimony left upon Record for the Saints

of .succeeding Ages printed with his tryal at

Westminster. This was published after his death
at Lond. 1658. qu. What other things he hath
written, or go under his name, I cannot tell, nor
any thing else of him only that he died in the be-
ginning of the year (in April, 1 think) sixteen hun-
dred fifty and four, and was, as I conceive, buried
either at Ch. Church before-mentioned, or else in
the cemitery joyning to Old Bedlam near London,
qua?re ? Within few days after was a silly and im-
pudent pamphlet written and published by J. L.
entit. A snutll Mite in Memory of the late deceased
and never to be forgotten Mr. Will. Erbury.
Printed at Lond. in Apr. 1654, in one sheet in oct.
Whereunto are added Two new Songs ; one of
which are brief touches on the 12th chapt. of the
Revelat. &c. to the tune of ' When the king
enjoys his own again.' The other touching the
doing away of sin through our Lord Christ in our
souls, &c. to the tune of ' Sound a charge.' In
my readings I meet with one Dorcas (alias Mary)
Erbury, who was a great admirer and follower
of James Nayler the quaker, after the death of
Will. Erbury. Which Dorcas (who was his wi-
dow) did really confess, upon her examination for
her villanies by a magistrate, that the said Nayler
was the holy one of Israel, and the only begotten
son of Gotl, that he raised her, after she had been
dead two days, and that he should sit at the right
hand of the Father, and should judge the world
with equity, &c.

JOHN GRAYLE, son of Jo. Gr. of Stone in
Glocestershire priest, was bom in that county, en-
tred batler in Magd. hall in the beginning of 1632,

' [The Bodleian copy is dated l647j C. 16. I. Line]

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1654.

3t)3

GRAYLE.

ELSYNGE.

1634.

aged 18 yciirs, took the degrees in arts, ami after-
wards became a piiritannical preacher. In 1645 or
thereabouts, he succeeded one Mr. George Holmes
in the mastership of the free-school at Guilford in
Surrey, and afterwards wa.s made rector of Tid-
worth in AX'ilts. where he was much followed by the
precise and gixlly }>arty. He hath written against
Will. Eyre of Sanim,

A modest Vindication of the Doctrine of Condi-
tions in the Covenant of Grace, and t/ie Defenders
thereof, from the Jspersioiis of Arminianism and
Popery v-'hich W. E. cast on them. I^ond. 1655.

au. [Bodl. 4to. Z. 84. Th.] published after the au-
lor's death by Constantine Jesson, who hatli put
a preface to it. AViiat else our autnor hath written
(unless sermons) I know not, nor any thing of iiim
beside, only that he dying in the beginning of six-
teen hundred fifty and four, w as buried in Tidwortii
church : At which time Dr. Humph. Chambers his
neighlx)ur preached his funeral sermon before tlie
brethren, tlien in great numbers present. In the
latter end of which sermon, which is printed, as also
in the epistle before it, you may read much in com-
mendation of our autlior Grayle, who tho' a presby-
terian, yet tinged he wa.s with arminianism.

[I find one John Graile buried in the church of
the Holy Trinity at Guiklibrd, who had been mas-
ter of the free school fifty-two years, and dyed 4
January 1697, aged 88. Rawlinson.]

HENRY ELSYNGE eldest son of Hen. Els.
esq; and he the sou of another Henry a citizen of
London, son of John Elsynge of Daxworth' in
Cambridgeshire, was ' Ixjm in Surrey ; * ])articularly,
as I conceive, at Batterscy, where his father (who
was clerk of the lords house of parliament, and a
person of great abilities) mostly hved, educated in
grammar learning in Westminster school under Mr.
Lamb. Osbaldeston, a person very fortunate in
breeding up many wits, became commoner of Clirist
Church in tlie beginning of the year 1622, took one
degree in arts, and afterwards, at several times,
spent more than 7 years in travelling through va-
npus countries beyond the seas ; whereby he be-
came so accomplished, that, at his last return, his
company and conversation was not only desired by
many of the nobility, but clergy also ; and was so
highly valued by Dr. Laud archb. of Canterbury,
that he procured him the place of clerk of the house
of commons. This crown'd his former labours, and
by it he had opjwrtunity given to manifest his rare
abilities, which in short time became so conspi-
cuous, es}iecially in taking and expressing the sense
of the house, that none (as 'twas believed) that ever
gate there, exceeded him. He was also so great a

' [Duxworth, I suppose. Cole.]

' Rtg. Malric. Univ. O.r. PP. fol. 22. b.

* (^Born iu St. Margaret's parish. MS. Tanner.]

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 dis-
patch of business and the senice of the parhament.
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 liim com-
mended and esteemed by all parties how furious
and opjX)site soever they were among themselves.
And therefore it was, that for these his abihties
and prudence, more reverence was paid to his stool
than to the speaker's (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 tliat the greater part of the house were impri-
soned and secluded, and that the remainder would
bring the king to a tryal for his life, he desired to
quit his place 26 of Dec. 1648, by reason (as he al-
ledged) of his indisposition of health, but most men
understootl the reason to be, because he would have
no hand in the business against the king. He was
a man of very great parts, antl ingenious education,
and was very learned, es]U'cially in the Latin,
French and Itidian languages. He was beloved of
ail sober men, and tlie learned Selden had a fond-
ness for him. He hath written,

Tfie anticnt Method and Manner oflwldhig Par-
liaments in England. Lond. 1663. oct. 1675. "in
tw. mostly taken,' as I presume, from a manuscript

book entit. Mwhis tcnendi Parliamentum apud

Anglos: Of the Form, and all Things incident
thereunto ; digested and divided into several Chap-
ters and Titles, An. 1626, wi-itten by Hen. El.synge
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 sometime in the hands of
sir Matthew Hale, who in liis will bequeathed it to
Lincolns-inn library.

* " A Declaration or " Remon- . „
strancc of the State 0/ the King'- ^,^^ g^^,^ „y. ^jf^
dom, " agreed on hy the Lords Kingdom— This ia
" atid Commons assembled in Par- a pamphlet in guar-
" liament,19 Mayl6'iQ,kc. Lond. '«, t«' when piint-
" 1642, in 6 sheets in qu." After p'f^/ JfJ""' ''"■
he had quitted his beneficial office,

^ Memorials nfEnet. Affairs, under the year lC48. p.35g.a.

" [According to Worrall, Bibl. Legum Anglice, the edi-
tions of this book were dated 16GO, 1662, 1663, l075, 1679,
yet in the title-page to the latter (Bodl. 8vo. P. 49. Jur.) it
IS said to be ' the fourth edition enlarged.' An improved
edition, from the author's original MS. was published by Mr.
Tyrwhit, Lond. I768, in octavo.]

' [The whole was certainly written by the father. Vid.
the edit, in 1768, pref. p. ix, n. Loveday.]

' [The same with the former.]

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he retiretl to his house at Hounslow in Middlesex,
where contracting many infirmities of body occa-
sioned by sedentariness, some distresses of his fa-
mily, anil by a deep melancholy for the sufferings
and loss of his sovereign, concluded his last day
about the middle of the montli of August, in six-
1654. teen hundred fifty and four, and in tliat of his age
56 : whereupon his btnly was buried in liis ^jrivate
chap])el (which is the burying place of his family)
at Hounslow, he having no other epitaph or monu-
ment than tlie eulogy given as due to him by all
that knew him. He left behind certain tracts and
memorials of his own writing, but so imperfect, diat
his executor would by no means have them pubUsh-
ed, least they should prove injurious to his worth
and memory.

[Elsynge was not buried at Hounslow, ° but was
brought from Hounslow, and buried, by liis wife,
in the middle chancel of St. Margaret's Westmin-
ster Sept. 30, 1656 (not 1654), Register. Tan-
ker.

A" 16G0, 27 Dec. Resolved, That towards the

E resent relief of the children of Henry Elsinge es(f.
eretofore clerk of the conmions house (who out of
his loyalty and duty to his majesty and the publiek,
deserted fiis said employment in WiH, and is since
dead, leaving a very small provision for his cliil-
dren,) there be given to them the sum of 500/.'

T/te Mctlwd of jMsshig Bills in Parliament.
Written hy Henry Ehynge Cler. Pari. Now
printed J^-om the original Manuscript, under these
Heads; viz. 1, Proceedings upon Bills. 2, 77(*-
Commitment of' Bills. 3, Manner how Committees
are named. 4, Who may not he of a Committee,
and wJu) ought to be. 5, Council heard at the
Committee. 6, A Bill recommitted. 7, Tlw third
Beading. 8, Nova Billa. 9, Amendments and
Additions; or Provisos added afterwards; how
lawful. 10, Amendments of Amendments, how
lawful. 11, A Proviso added after a third Readr-
ing, not usual. 12, A Proviso added by the one
House, and df sired to be taken by tJie other House ;
whether lawful. London, 1685, m 12mo. This has
been reprinted in the Harleian Miscellany, v, 210,
and V, 22G, new edit, as the production of this wri-
ter, but I have strong grounds for supposing it was
the work of his father, who was clerk to the house
of lords ; since it entirely relates to the proceedings
of that house.]

THOMAS HORNE, son of Will. Home of
Cassall in Nottinghamshire, was born at West Ha-
1am in Derbyshire, became a student in Magd. haU
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 l^ondon, after-
wards of the free-school at Leicester, where remain-
ing two years, was translated to that of Tunbridge
in Kent. At length, after he had taught there
about ten yeais, he was, for his merits and excel-
lent faculty that he had in pedagogy, preferred to be
master of the school at Eaton near Windsor, where
he remain'd to his dying day. He hath written,

Janua Linguarum : or, a Collection of Latin
Sentences, with the English of them. Lond. 1634,
[Bodl. 8vo. H. 82. Art.] &c. oct. This is all or
most taken from Janua Linguarum rescrata, writ-
ten by J. A. Comenius. Afterwards Home's Ja-
nua Linguarum was much corrected and amended
by John Robotham, and lastly carefully reviewTd

by W. D. "in which is premised A Portal^

Lond. 1659. oct. Which W. D. may be the same
with Will. Dugard, sometime master of merchant
taylors sch(X)l. Qutere ?

Manuductio in Idem Palladis, qud titilissimn
Methodus Authores bonos legendi, indigitatur, -live
de Usn Authoris. Lond. 1641. in tw.* [Bodl. 8vo.
B. 157. Line] &c.

Rhetoricw Compendium Latino-Anglice. Lond;
1651. oct. Besides which he hath made Leai-ned
Ob.servations 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 22d of Aug.
in sixteen hundred fifty and four, and was buried
in the church or chappel there, as I have been in-
formed by Will. Home his son, mttster of the free-
school at Harrow on the Hill in Middlesex. One
Tho. Home M. of A. became rector of Methley in
Yorkshire, on the death of Tim. Bright doctor of
physic, in the latter end of Octob. 1615, but him I
take to be Th. Home, who was fellow of Mert.
coll. and afterwards canon of Windsor. Another
Tho. Home is now, if I mistake not, fellow of Ea-
ton coll. and hath extant one or more sermons. He
was son to Tho. Home the writer, was born at
Tunbridge in Kent, and afterwards made fellow of
King's coll. in Cambridge, chaplain to the earl of S.
Alban, and senior proctor of that university, about
1682.

JOHN SELDEN the glory of the Engh.sh na-
tion, as Hugo Grotius worthily stiles him, son of
John Selden,' by Margaret his v,ife, the only daugh-

9
of his

[He died at Hounslow, but was buried near the grave
is wife in the middle chancel of St. Margaret's church
in Westin. on the 30th of Sept. 1656. Kennet. Baker has
a similar note, which I omit.]

' [^Journals nf the House of Commons, vol. viii, page 23 1.
Cole.]

' [Dedicated to the Skinners' company of London. Raw-

LINSON.]

' [Mr. Selden, born at Salvinton, the son of a common
fidler, bred up at schoolc at Chichester under the tuition of
Mr. Barker, sometimes of New coll. who taking great delight
in him, exhibited to him, togeather with Dr. Juxon a schol-
ler there at Oxon, &c. This Mr. Selden had a brother that
was a fidler at Chichester, and had a great many children ;
at last, being bedridden, the parish and others relieved them,
and allowed them above 35 li. per an. whome alsoe Mr.

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ter of Tlioinas Haker of" Rushington, (desccnued
from the kniglitly I'amily of the Makers in Kent)
was born in an obscure village called Salvinton near
to Terring a market town in Sussex. His father
(who diet! in 1617) was a sufficient plebeian, and
delighted much in music, by the exercising of which
he obtained (as 'tis said) his wiiij, of whom our fa-
mous author Jo. Selden was born on the ICtli 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 begin-
ning of Mich. term. an. 1600, and committed to
the tuition of Mr. Anth. Barker fellow of the afore-
said coll. under whom being instructed in logic and
philosophy for alxiut three years, (which with great
facility he conquered) he was transplanted to the
Inner Temple •• to make proficiency m the munici-
pal 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 memorv, not
only run through the whole body of the law, but
became a prothgy in most parts of learning, espe-
cially in those wliich were not common, or little fre-
quented 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 fo-
reign countries, and was usually stiled the great dic-
tator of learning of the English naticm. 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 publish-
ed. He had great skill in the divine and liumane
laws; he was a^eat 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 }X)etry and oratory to ease his severer
thoughts, and smooth his rough stile, which he
mostly used in the books by him published in Latin.
The verses that he wrote, scattered in various books,
were in Latin 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 chair,
Wainman not far off, which was very fair.
He seldom or never appeared publicly at tlie bar,
(tho' a bencher) but gave sometimes chamber-coun-
sel, 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 j)rerogative. The first par-
liament he appeared in, was that which began at
Westm. 19 I'"eb. 1623, wherein he served for the

Selden would sonieiimcs. Wood, MS. printed by Hearne
Append, ad Lib. Aig. Scac. p. .'^94.]

■* [In lC02 he was a member of Clifford's inn, whence he
removed to llic Inner Temple in May l604.]

* Sir John Suckling in his Fragmenta Aurea, or Poems,
Lond. l648- in uct. p. 7.

borough of Lancaster, " and was imj)risoned with
" Mr. John Pym for seditious words, but was soon
" set at liberty by the favour of lord keeper VViU
" liams :" and in another wliich began 6 Eeb. 1625,
he served for Bedwin in Wilts, and was a constant
memlwr in all or most parliaments following during
the reign of K. Ch. I. But that in which he became
mo.st 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 bur-
gess 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 ser-
vice. In 1643 he was one of those laymen that were
appointed to sit in the assembly of divines, at which
time he took the covenant, and silenced and puzzled
the gi-eat tlieologists thereof in their resjiective meet-
ings. In Nov. the same year he was apjwinted by
parliament chief keeper of the rolls and records in
the Tower of London, and on the loth of Apr. 1645
was one of the 12 commoners appointed to be a com-
missioner of the Admiralty. In Jan. 1646 it was
voted that 5000/. should be given to him for his suf-
ferings 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 learn-
ing, 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 wrote either in the title, or leaf boliire it,
ttepi iravTo; rrjv iKev^epixv: Above all, Libeuty; to
shew, that he would examine things, and not take
them upon trust. His works are these.

Original of a Duel or single Combat." Lond.
1610. qu. [Bodl. 4to. D. 13. Art. Seld.]

Jani Anglorum Fades altera. Lond. 1610. oct.
[Bodl. 8vo. S. 9. Th. Seld.] rendrcd into English,
with large notes on it, by Redman Westcot (alias

Adam Littleton) gent. Lond. 1683. fol. [Bodl.

C. 18. 17. Jur.]

Notes and Ilbistration^ on the first eighteen
Songs in Mich. DrajftmCs Poly-olhion. Lond.
1612. fol. The second part of this Poly-olhion 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.

' [This tract was reprinted in 1706and again in 17 12, on
occasion of the quarrel between duke Hamilton and lord
Mohun. Bihliothique Angloise, vi, I .']

SELDEN.

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Analeciuiv Avgto-Bntannicuiv, S^c. Lib. 2. Fraii-
cof. 1615. qii. [Kodl. 4t(). S. 37. Art. Seld. and
again 1653, JJodl. Svo. M. 18. Art. Seld.] &c.

Notes on Joh. Fortexciie dc Landibus Le^um
Jnjrlkr. 1616. oct. [Rodl. 8vo. Y. 20. Jur.] &.c.
Which book liaviiig Iwen before translated into
Englisli 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-w. I. These are printed

with the former notes. This sir Ralph died 1308,
and was buried in the oath. ch. of S. Paul within the
city of London.

De Diis Suris Syntagmata duo. Lond. 1617.
corrected and amended, witli additions of copious
indices thereunto, by M. Ajidr. Beyer.'' — Lugd.
Bat. [by Bonav. ancf Abr. Elzevir.] 1629. in oct.
[Bodl. 8vo. S. 31. Th.] Lips. 1672. Amst. 1680.
in oct.

History of Tithes." Lond. 1618. qu. [Bodl. 4to.
S. 25. Th. Seld.] In the preface, the author re-
proaches 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 than the Breviary, the
Postills and Polyanthea. But the best of the clergy
lieing 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.
Sofjn after Mr. Selden had pubUshed his History, he
was called before the high commission {ilxiut the 22d
of Dec. 1618," and forced to make a public acknow-
ledgment of his error and offence given unto the
church in the said book. Which usage sunk so
deep into his stomach, that he did never after af-
fect ' the bishops and clergy, or cordially approve
their calling, tho' many ways were tried to gain him
to the church's interest. The said Ixiok 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, occasioned by the popish
plot. Whereupon Dr. Thom. Comber answered it
in a book entit. An Historical Vindication of the

' [TlieseadditionsofAiitlr. Beyer were not, as Wood says,
printed to the edit, of l02g, (winch is a hc:nuiful specimen
of the Elzevir press,) but to an edit, at Lips. I(i68, (Bodl.
Mar. U(jy.) and again Anistel. 1(380, (Hodl. 8vo. Z. 2O9.
Th.) or, as the engraved title has it, 168 1.]

" [See Heylin's Hist, of Ihe Presbyt. book xi. sect. SQ.
Mountague's Dia/rilw, p. 24, 5.]

^ [See his submission before the high commissioners dated
Jan. as, 16I8, in Dr. Tillesley's Animadversions, 2d edit,
both in the preface and booli. See there lilsewise, the ac-
count Mr. Selden gives of that matter. Baker.]

' [Never after csUem the bishops. Sec. MS. note in
Wood's coi)v, but not in his own hand.]

Vol. IIL

Divine Right of Tithes, &c. Lond. 1681. qu. [Bodl.
LL.37. TMi.]"

Spicihgium in Edmeari 6 Libras Historiarvm.
Lond. 1623. fol. [Botll. D. 1. 17. Art. Seld.]
Which book is much commended by antiquaries anu
critics.

Marmora Arundclliana cum aliquot In.scriptioni-
bus veteris Latii. Lond. 1628. in qu. [Bodl. 4to.
Z. 5. Art. Seld. and again in 1629. Bodl. S. 1. Art.
Seld.] Involved into Marmora Ox<miensia, pul)-
lish'd by Humph. Prideaiix, M. A. and student of
Ch. Ch. now prebendary of Norwich.

Mare clausum : sen de Dominio Maris, Lib. 2.*
Lond. 1635. fol. [Bodl. D. 2. 8. Art. Seld. and
Lond. 1636, Bodl. 8vo. S. 2. Art. Seld.] &c. First
written as 'tis' said in the reign of K. Jam. I. in
answer to a book published by Hugo Grotius called
Mare libcrum. But the author Selden stomaching
the submission and acknowledgment which he was
forced to make in the high commission for his Ixwk
of tithes, as I have before told you, did not only sup
press his Mare clausum, which he had written m
the king's defence, but carried an evil eye to the
court 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 lx)ok 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 cf|)en 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

E roved, by constant and continual practice, that the
ings of England used to levy money from the sub-
jects (without help of parliament) for the providing
of ships and other necessaries to maintain that sove-
reignty, which did of right belong unto them. This
he brings home to the time of king Hen. II. 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 ol" the house of com-
mons in the parliament going before, (wherein he
had been a great stickler) voting down, under a kind
of anathema, the king's pretensions of right to all
help from the subject, either in tonage or poundage,
or any other ways whatsoever, the parhament not
co-operating and contributing towards it. But how-
soever it was, tlie service was as gratefid, as the au-

' [Selden's Mare Clausum was nut into English 1652 by
M. Necdham, and again in 1O62, by J: H. gent. Watts.]

' See in Pet. Hevhn's bool< entit. The History of ihe Life
and Death of Dr. Wilt. Laud Archb. tf Canterbury, lib. 4.
sub an. 1636.

BB

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372

thor acceptable fixim thenceforth, botli a fretjucnt
and welcome guest at Laiubeth-ljoiise, where lie was
grown intt) 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 un-
dervaluetl all other employments in respect of his
studies. But possibly there might be some other
reason (as my* author saith) for liis declining such
employments as the court might offer.* He had not
yet forgotten the affronts winch were put ujxin him
about tlie Hist, of Tithes (for in the notion of af-
fronts 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 oeing took into the reckon-
ing. For no so<mer did the archb. begin to sink in
power and credit, under the first jiressures of the
r-i QQ-i long parliament, but he pubhshed a book in Ai-abick
*■ •' and Lat. by the name oi 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 presbyters, than doth a master of a col-
lege 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
Afistver to his Majesty's Declaration about the Com-
mission of Array, whicli 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 Grod that made
them. But now let''s proceed to the other books that
our learned author hath written :

De Succcssionibus in Bona Defuncti secundum
Ixges Hebrccorum. Lond. 1631, 36. [Bodl. A. 2.
9. Art. Seld.l Lugd. Bat. 1638. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. S.
15. Jur. Seld.] Franc, ad Oderam 1673. qu.

De Successione in Pontijicatum Hebraorum. Lib.
duo. This is printed, and goes, with the former
book.

De Jure naturali 4" Gentitim juxta DiscipUnam
Hebrceorum. Lib. 7. Lond. 1640. fol. [Bodl. E. 2.
15. Art. Seld.] Argentor. 1665. qu.«

* Heylin ut supra.

<• [When lord keeper Liulelon had displeased king Charles
I, then al York, he had thoughts of giving the great seal to
Selden, but lord Falkland and Hyde diss waded hini, for though,
says lord Clarendon, they did not doubt of his affection to the
king, yet they knew hini so well, that they concluded he
would absolutely refuse the place, if it were offer'd to him.
He was in years, and of lender constiiuiion ; he had for
many years enjoyed his ease, which he loved ; was rich ; and
would not have made a journey to York, or have layn out of
his own bed, for anv preferment ; which he had never ii-
hcleA.— Hist, of Rebel. \.'iAb.']

° \Johannis Seldeni de Jure naturali el Gentium juxta
Disciplinam Ehraorum Lil'ri srplem. Accessit liuic Eailioni
Index accuralus. Arg^cnloruli, Anno M.DC.LXf'^. Ho. Prx-
figilur epistola Jo. Hcnrici Boecleri illustri viro Johanni Ca-
pellano. 8 Prasfatio qua; ctiam instiluti opcrisque est sum-
inula. Kbnnet.]

Brief Discourse concerning the Power of Peers,
and Commons of Parliament in Point of Judical
ttire. Lond. 1640. in two sh. inqu. Written either
by Selden, or by sir Simonds D'ewes, knight and
baronet.

Answer to Harbottle Grimstcni's Argument con-
cerning BisJtops. 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. 1^42. in qu.

Privileges of the Baronage of England when
they sit in Parliament. Lond. 1(}42. [Bodl. Svo. C.
710. Line] " and 1681 ,'' in oct.

Versio cfj- Comment, ad Eutychii Ecclesicc Alexan-
drine Origines. Lond. 1642. in qu. To which are
added the said Eutychius his Annals,'' with Com-
metits thereon by Edw. Pocock ofC. C. Coll. Oxon.
and again Oxon. 1659. qu.

De Anno civili <§• Cakndario Jiidaico. Lond.
1644. qu. [Bodl. BB. 17. Art. Seld.] Lugd. Bat.
1683. oct.

Uxor Hebraica, sive de Nuptiis ac Divortiis.
Lib. 3. Lond. 1646. Franc, atl Od. 1673. qu.

Fleta, sen Comment. Juris Anglicani sic nuncu-
patiis. Lond. 1647. qu. [BtxU. BB. 40. Th.]

Tractatus Gallicanus fet assavoir dictus de agen-
di excipiendiquc FormnUs.

Dissertatio historicu ad Fletam. These two last
are printed, and go, with Flcta.

Prefatio ad Historicc Anglicance Scriptores de-
cern. Lond. 1652. fol.

De SyncdiiisS^ Prafecturis veterum^ Hebrceorum.
Lib. 3. 'Lond. 1650. qu. [Bodl. 4to. S. 3. Th. Seld.]
Amst. I679. qu." Which last edition had divers cor-
rections made to purge out the errors of the former,
by reason of the many languages (20 in number)
therein.

Vindiciw secundum Lntegritatem Existimationif
suw per Convitium de Scriptione Maris clausi.
Lond 1653. qu. [Bodl. 4to. S. 48. Th. Seld.] In
which are many things said of himself

God made Man. A Tract proving the Nativity
of our Saviour to be on the 9.oth of December. Lond.
1661. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. J. 3. Th.] with the author's

^ [This is a mistake: the Origines are taken from (he
Annates, of which they form a portion. A second volume
was (irintcd in Arab, and Lat. Oxford 1(154, 4to. ; and the
whole by Edw. Pocock, Oxon. 1C54 and I60O, Bodl. BB. 2.
3. Art. Seld.]

* [A', cl. Jonnnis Seldeni de Synedrijs veterum Etrceorum
Lihri tres. Edilio ultima, priori correclior. Amstelied. l679»
4t(). Bibliopolae ad Icctorcm — ' Prodit nunc in lucem pu-
blicam, lector benevolc, cura nostra, secnndaoditio nunquain
s.Uis laudali operis de Synedrijs viri celeberrirai Joannis Sel-
deni,' &c. Praefatio auloris dat ex aedibus Carmcliticis, Lon-
dini,Octobris Juliani |{j, Ifiso.

Libro lerlio et ultimo pra;miuitur epistola typographi 'ec-
tori — ' Pridie cal. Dccemb. obiit vir cl. Joh. Scldenus, miixi-
mo rcipublicae lilerariaedetrimcnto, quod sane ex ultimo hoc
iiigenii foetu satis constat,' &c. KcNNtT.]

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374

picture before it.' This jK)sthiiiTious Ixjok was an-
swer'd in the first jxistsi-ript after a book entit. A hrief'
(hut true) Account of the certain Year, Month, Day,
end Minute of the Birth of Jesus Christ. Loud.
1671. Oct. written by John Butler bach, of div.
chapl. to James duke of Onnond, and rector of
Liechborow in the dioc. of Peterborough. The se-
cond postscript is against Mich. SenescTial, 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 had lately some sharp debates in print,
in reference thereunto, with Dr. Hen. More of the
same university.

Discourse of the Office of Lord Chancellor of
England. Lond. 1671. fol. [Bodl. M. 10. 2. Jur.]
To which is added, W. Dugdale's Cat. of Lord
Chanc. and L. Keepers of England from the Nor-
man Conquest. [Lond. 1677, 8vo. Bodl. 8vo. D. 13.
Jur.]

De Nummis, S^c. ? Lond. 1675. qu. [Bodl. Mar.

Bibl. nummaria.' \ 148.]
Both which are dedicated to that sometime curious
antiquary for coines sir Simonds D'ewes knight, and
[183] bar. who being eminent in his time for those studies
which he professed, and therefore much respected
by our author Seldcn, I shall say these things follow-
ing of him,- viz. (1.) That he was bom at Coxden
(the inheritance of his mother) near to Chardstock
in Dorsetshire, on the 18th of Decemb. 1602, ac-
cording 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 Upminster in Es-
sex, and he the son of Adrian D'ewes, a lineal de-

*> fEngraved l)y J. Cliantry.]

' [This treatise De Nummis father Labbe afterwards
printed at the end of his Bihliotheca BiHiot/iecarum, in a
small quarto, A.D. l678, at Rouan ; concerning which Mr.
Hcarne told me, that it was none of Seldcn's, being made
years before he was born. Vid. his 5lh letter to J. L.

LOVEDAY.

This is a very singular literary decepiion. The treatise on
coins here attributed to Selden, was written by Alexander
Sardus, and first published in 1,'>79, five years before Selden
was born. It was rcprfnted at Francfort in lOot), and is in-
serted in the eleventh volume of Graevius's Thesaurus Anli</.
Rom. The volume published under Selden's name, contains
no variation except in the <ledication, where for ' Alexander
Sardus Augustino Musto Patricio Ferrariensi,* it has ' Jo-
annes Seldenus Sim. Dewes Equiti Aurato.'and, at the end,
for 'Moguntiaci, Calend. iVJaij 1 579.' the fabricator puts
• Ex Mid. Templi Calend. Maij, ie42.']

^ [Mr. Symon Dewes, coll. Jo. conv. 1. adm. in matric.
acad. Cant. Jul. 9, 1OI8. Reg. Acad.

See his life, wrote by himself, in lord Oxford's library, as
quoted by Mr. Hearne in his LUer niger Scaccarii, prcf. p.
9, 10, 8tc. ' I was born at Cogden in the parish of Chard-
stockc 18 Dec. 16OO.'

April 18, (166O) Sir Simon Dewes, antiquary, died. Mr.
Rich. Smith's Obituary.

See letters of Dr. Gerard Langbaine to Mr. Selden in
appendix to Leland's Collectanea, p. 270, 282, 314, &c.
Bak£K.]

scendant of the antient family of Des Ewes, dyna-sts
or lords of the district of Kcssell in the (lutchy of
Gelderland, who came first thence into England in
tile time of king Hen. 8. when that dutchy had l)een
much ruined, wasted, and deixipulatcd by the intes-
tine wars there raised and continued l)etwcen Charles
duke thereof, and Philip the archduke, and Charles
the fifth his son.' (3.) That he was educated in the
university of Cambridge, the antiquity of which he
zealously asserted against that of Oxon. in a speech
spoken in a grand committee of parliament, in Jan.
1640, as I have * elsewhere told you, and afterwards
retired to his estate called Stow-hall in Suffolk. (4.)
That he was a burgess for Sudbury in the same
county, to serve in that unhappy parliament which
began at Westminster 3 Nov. 1640, and soon afler
was made a baronet, and in 1643 he took the cove-
nant. I find going under his name these things fol-
lowing, viz. (1.) The GreeJc PostKripts of the Epistles
to Timothy and Titus, cleared in Parliament:
And an occasional Speech ' concerning the Bill of
Acapitation or Poll Money, printed 1641 in one
sheet and half in qu. (2.) Speech in a grand
Committee touching the Antiquity of Cambridge.^
(3.) Speech touching the Privilege of Parliament
in Causes criminal and civil. Which two speeches
were printed in 1641, 42. qu. (4.) " Speech deli-
" vered in Parliament 7 July 1641. in the Palati-
" nate Cause,'' ^c. printed in one sh. in qu." (5.)
Speech in Pari, on the Wth of January concerning
the Proceedings against the eleven Bishops acau$ed
of High-Treason, an. 164j. (6.) The Primitive
Practice for Preserving Truth : or, an Historicai
Na7-ration, 4-c. LonoT 1645. qu. (7.) Speech in
the H. of Commons, 27 July 1644. qu. at the end of
which is a Postscript by Way of Advice to all those
7i>lio have gotten into their Possessions either the
Church Revenues or other Mens Estates. Lond.
1646. qu. in 2 sh. (8.) Journal o^ all the Parlia^
ments during the Reign of Qu. Elizabeth, both of
tlie House of Lords and H. of Commons. I^ond.
1682. fol. revised and published by Paul Bowes of
the Middle Temple, esquire. This person (D'ewes)
who was a great searclier into records, and the best
of his time for the knowledge of coins and coinage,
yet of a humorous and mimical disposition, died in
the beginning of the year 16.50, ana was buried in
the chancel of the church at Stowlangtoft in Suffolk.
I have seen a copy of his will \vritten by himself in
Latin, wherein are most particulars of his life recited.
But let's go forward with the works of great Selden,
who hath also written.

' [This passage is taken from Weever's Ancient Funeral
Monuments, page 697.]

< In Hist. & Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 30, 31.

5 [This Occasional Speech has been reprinted in Nalson's
Collections, ii, 322. Loveday.]

" [Reprinted in Nalson's Collections, i,y03, and in Hearne's
Sprott's Chron. page 241. Loveday.]

7 [Reprinted m Nalson, ii, 363. Loveday.]
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SELDEN.

Of ihe Jtidicattire of Parliaments : wherein tJie
Controversies nml Precedents beloiiff'ing to the Title
arc viethodicaliij handled. Lond. 1681. oct.

EnghvuTs Epinomis.

Of the Or'iffbial of Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction of
Testaments.

Of the Disposition or Administration of Intes-
tates Goods. These three last were published by
Redman Westcot before-niention'd, with the English
translation of 7ia»i» Anghrum, &c. Lond. 1683. Ibl.

tBodl. C. 8. 17. Jur.] Under his name is also pub-
slied,
Table4alk : being the Discourses or his Sense of
various Matters of Weight and high Consequence,
relating especially to Religion and State. Lond.
1689. qu.* published by Rich. Milward,» who had
observed his discourses for 20 years together.

Letters to learned Men Among which are se-
veral to the learned and godly Dr. Usher primate of
Ireland, as at the end of his life printed m fol. you
may see.
[184] Speeches, Arguments, Debates, ^-c. in Parlia-
ment.^— He also liad a great hand in, and gave direc-
tions and advice t<.)wards, that edition of Plutarch's
lives, printetl 1657, with an addition of the year of
die world and the year of our lord, together with
many chronological notes and explanations out of
divers authors. He left behind him also divers MSS.
of his own writing, (some of which are since pub-
lished, as before you may see) among these are, (1.)
The Life of Rog. Bacon, " which he writ in Latin,
" and communicating it to sir Ken. Digby in order
" to have it printed at Paris, it was embezzled or
"lost."* (2.) Collections of many Records and An-
tiquities. (3.) Collection of Notes and Records of
various Subjects, marked with M. (4.) Extracts
out of the Leiger Bcmks of Battel, Evesham, Win-
ton, 6fc. (5.) Vindication of his History of Tithes.
This last I once saw in the library of MSS. belong-
ing to his godson named Joh. Vincent, son of Au-
gust. Vincent sometime Windsor herald, but where
It is now I cannot tell. At length after this gi'eat
light of our nation had lived to about the age of man,
it was extinguished at Lond. on the last of Nov.
\6bi. being S. Andr. day, in sixteen hundred fifty and

' [The second edition of ihis excellent work was printed
Lond. l6g6 8vo. Bodl. 8vo. K. 21. Line. The third Lond.
for Jacob Tonsiin 1/16.]

9 [Ricardiis Milward S.T.P. coll. Trin. Cantab, rector de
Braxsted in Essexia, installatus in caiionicatu VVindesor, 30
Jiinii l6C0. ObiitJOSept. 1()80. Frith, Culat. Kennet.]

' [Mr. Selden was chose a burgess for the uniiersity of
Oxford in (l640and lG41)and is said in the parliament's
visitation of the university lo have done them some service.
See Dr. Walker's ^^/pwp;, part 1, page 230, col. 2. In 1 048
there was a tract publish'd, with the arms of the university
in the title page ; intitl'd The Case of the Universi'.y of Ox-
ford, or the sad Dilemma thai all the Members thereof are
put to, either to beperjiir'dor destroy' d, in a Letter sent foot
the Universily to Mr. Selden, Burgess of the University.
Watts .J

' [So Mr. Joyner. Wood. MS. Note in Ashmole.']

four, in the large house called the Carmelite or
White Fryers, tlien belonging to Elizabeth thd"
countess dowager of Henry earl of Kent, (whose
estate he for several years liad managed and com-
manded, which was the reason he died very wealthy)
whereujion, on Thursday the 14tli of Decemb. fol-
lowing, he was nifignificently buried in the Temple
church, on the south side ot the round walk, in the

Eresence of all the judges, some of the j)arl. men,
enchers and great officers. His grave was nine
foot deep at least, the bottom pav\l with bricks and
walled about two foot high, with grey marble
coarsly polished, each piece being yoated (diat is
fastned with lead melted in) with iron champs. Into
this repository was the cores in a wooden coffin, co-
vered with a black cloth, let down with a pulley or
engine. Which being done, a stone of black polishM
marble six inches thick was let down also and made
fast to the top of the rejiository with champs of iron
yoated in, to the end that in future ages, when
graves are dug there, it might not be remov'd.
Upon the said marble stone was this engraAcn, Hie
inhumatur corpus Johannis Seldeni, or to that effect.
Over the said sepulchre and stone was turned over,
or made, an arch of brick, the diameter being above
three foot, and above was left room to bury other
bodies in future time. On the surface of the carthj
even with the pavement of the church, was soon af-
ter laid a plain marble with the Bakers arms engraven
thereon, and this inscription, Johannes SeldcnusJ.C.
heic situs est. Over which, in tlie wall, was fastned
a white marble table, and tiiereon an ej)itaph made
by himself: a copy of which, with encomiaslical
verses (under his ])nnted picture) made by Ur. Gcr.
Langbaine, you may see in Hist. S^ Antiq. Univ.
Oxon. lib. 2. \t. 350. The learned Uslier primate
of Ireland preached his funeral sermon, but did not,
or could not, say much of his sound principles in
religion. Mr. llic. Johnson master of the Temple
buried him according to the directory, and said in
his speech, with reference to the saying of a learned
man, that when a learned man dies, a great deal of
learning dies widi him, and added, that if learning
could have kept a man alive, our brother had not
died. But notwithstanding the said Usher's silence
concerning our author's religion, sir Matth. Hale,
one of his executors, hath often ' professed that Selden
was a resolved serious Christian, and that he was a.
great adversary to Hobbes of Mahnesbiiry his er-
rors ; and that he had seen him ojienly oppose him
so earnestlv, as either to depart from him, or drive
him out of the room, &c.

[I have given the following curious extract from
Aubrey's papers in the Asiimole museum. The
lovers of anecdote will know how to value an ac-
count written by one so inquisitive into the domestic
habits of his contemporaries.

^ See Mr. K. Baxter's hook emit. Additional Notes on (he

Life and Death of Sir Matth. Hale. Lond. H)82. in oct,

p. 40.

SFXDEN.

378

' John Sclden, esq. was borne (as appeiires by liis
epitaph, which lie liiinscifc nuule, as I well romeinbcr
A. B. Usher, lord primate, who ilid preath his I'u-
nerall sermon, did tiien mention) at Sidviiiton, a
handet belonging to W'est Terring, in the com. of
Sussex. His father was an veonianly man, ol" about
fourty pounils per annum, antl played well on the
violin, m which he tooke delight, and at Christmas
time, to please himselfe and his neighbt)urs, he
would play to them as they danced. My old lady
Cotton* (wife to sir Rob. Cotton,' grandmother to

this sir Cotton) was one time at sir Thomas

Alford's, in Sussex, at dinner, in Christmas time,
and IMr. J. Selden (then a young student) sate at
the lower end of the table, who was lookt upon then
to be of parts extraordinary, and somebody asking
who lie was, 'twas replied, his son that is playing on
the violin in the hall.' I have heard Mich. Malet
(judge Malet's son) say, that he had heard tliat Mr.
J. Selden's father taught on the lute. He had a
pretty good estate by his wife. He [the son] was of
Hart-hall, in Oxon, and sir Giles Momjiesson told
me, that he was then of that house, and that he was
a long scabby-pofd boy, but a gojxl student. Thence
he came to vhe Inner Temple. His chamber was in
the Paper buildings which looke towards the gar-
den, staire-casc, uppermost story, where he had

a little gallery to w;Uke in. He was quickly Uiken
notice of for his learning, and was solicitor and
steward to the Earle of Kent, whose countesse being
an ingeniose woman, ****** After
the Earle's death he maried her. He had a daughter,

if not two, by one was maried to a tradesman

in Bristowe. *****

' His great friend heretofore was Mr Hay-
ward, to whom he dedicates liis " Titles of Honour ;"
also Ben Jonson. His treatise that tythes were not
jure divino drew a great deale of envy u]X)n him
from the clergie. W. Laud, A. B. of Cant, made
him make his recantation before the high commission
court, of which you may have an account in Dr.
Peter HeyJin's Historie. After, he would never
forgive the bishops, ])ut did sttU in his writings levell
them with the presby terie. He was also severe and
bitter in his speeches against shipmoney, which
speeches see. He was one of the assembly of divines,

and Whitlock, in his Memaires, sayes, that

he was wont to mock tlic assembly men about their
little g^lt bibles, and would baffle them sadly : sayd
he, " I doe consider the original."

' . . . . Montague, bish. of Norwich, was his great
antagonist ; see the bookes writt against each other.
He never owned the manage with the countesse of
Kent till after her death, ujx)n some lawe account.
He never kept any servant peculiar, but my ladle's

* [' She was living in lO+G or l647, an old woman, 80 and
more.']

» [' Mr. Fabian Philips told me that when J. Selden was
yonng, he did copic records for sir Hobert Couon.]

' [' This from sir William Diigdalc, from the lady Cotton.']

were all of his connnand ; he lived with her in
^'Fidibus Carmeliticis (White Fryers) which was,
before the conflagration, a noble dwelling. He kept
a plentifidl table, and was never witliout learned
company.

' He was temperate in eating and drinking. He
had a slight stuft'e, or silke kind of false caqiet,
to cast over the table where he reail and his papers
lay, when a stranger came in, so that he needed not
to displace his books or pajx^rs.

' He dyed ' in iEdibus Carmeliticis (aforesayd)
the last day of November, A". I)"'. 1654,' and on
Thursday, the 14th day of DecemlxT, was magni-
ficently buryed in the Temple cluirch. His execu-
tors were Matthew Hales (smce lord chiefe justice of
the King's Bench), John Vaughan (since lord chief
justice of the Common Pleas), and Rowland Jewkes,
esq. They invited all the parliament men, all the
benchers, and great officers. All the judges had
mourning, as also an abundance of ]X'rsons of qua-
lity. The loi-d primate of Ireland, Usher, preached
his funerall sermon. His grave was about ten foot
deepe or better, walled up a go<xl way with bricks,
of which also the bottome was jiaved, but the sides
at the bottome for about two foot high were of black
polished marble, wherein his coffin (covered with
black bayes) lyeth, and iqxiii that wall of marble
was presently lett downe a huge black marble stone
of great thicl\nesse, with this inscription :

Heic jacet cor|)iis Johannis Seldeni, qui
obijt 30 die Novembris, 1654.

' Over this was turned an arch of brick (for the
house would not lose their grovind), and upon that
was throwne the earth, &c. and on the surface lieth
another faire grave-stone of black marble," with this
inscription :

I. Seldenvs I. C. heic situs est.

' On the side of the wall above, is a faire inscrip-
tion of white marble : the epitaph he made him-
selfe as is before sayd, and Marchmond Needham
making mentitm of it in his Mercurius Politicus,
sayd, 'twas well he did it, for no man els could doe
it for him. He was burietl by Mr. Johnson, then
master of the Temple, the curectory way, where
Mr. Johnson tooke an occasion to say, a learned
man sayes that when a learned man dies a great
deale of learning dies y/ith him, then certainly in
this, &c.

' [' He dyed of a dropsey ; he had his funerall scutcheons
all ready nioneths before he dyed.']

* [' When he was neer death, the minister (Mr. Johnson)
was comeing to him to assoile him : Mr. Hobbes happened
then to be there; sayd he, " What, will you that have wrote
like a man, now dye like a woman ?" So the minister was
not let in.]

9 [' There is a coate of arms on the flatt marble, but it is,
indeed, the coate of his mother, for he bad none of his owne,
though he so well deserved it. 'Tis strange (me thinke) that
he woulil not have one.']

tm

SELDEN.

Joannes Seldenus

Heic juxta situs,

Natus est xvi Deccmbris, mdlxxxiv,

Salvintonise,

Qui ^-iculus est Terring Occidentalis,

In Sussexiae maritimis,

Parentibus honestis.

Joanne Seldeno Thomse filio,

E quinis secundo,

Anno MDXLi nato,

Et

Margareta filia et haerede unica

Thomaj Bakeri de Rushington,

Ex Equestri Bakeroruin in Cantio faniOia,

Fuius e cunis superstitum unicus,

jEtatis fere lxx annorum.

Denatus est ultimo die Novembris,

Anno Salutis Reparatae mdcliv,

Per quam expectat heic

Resvn-ectionem

Fellcem.

' He would tell his intimate friends, sii- Bennet

Hoskyns, &c. that he had nobody to make his

heire, except it were a milke-mayd, and that such

Seople did not know what to doe with a m-eat estate.
lem. Bishop Grostest, of Lincoln, told his brother,
who asked him to make hira a great man ; " Brother,"
said he, " if your plough is broken, I'le pay the
mending of it; or if an oxe is dead, I'le pay for
another, but a ploughman I found you, and a
ploughman I'le leave you."

' He was very tall, I gucsse about 6 foot high,
sharp ovall face, head not very big, long nose, m-
cUning to one side, full popping eie (gray). He
was a poet,' and sir John Suckling brings him in
the " Session of the Poets."

The poets met the other day.

And Apollo was at the meeting, they say,

Twas strange to see how they flocked together :
There was Selden, and he stood next to the chaire,
And Wenman not farr off, which was very faire, &c.

' He was one of the assembly of divines in those
dayes (as was also his highnesse prince elector

Calatine), and was like a thorne in their sides ; for
e did baffle and confute them ; for he was able to
runne them all downe with his Greeke and antiqui-
ties. Sir Robert Cotton (the great antiquary that
collected the library) was his great friend, whose son,
sir Tho. C. was obnoxious to the parliament, and
skulked in the country. Mr. Selden had the key
and command of the hbrary, and preserved it, being
then a parliament man. lie intended to have given
his owne library to the university of Oxford, but
received disobligation from them, for that they
would not lend him some MSS. wherefore by his

' [' He halh a learned copie of verses before Hopton's
' Concordance of Yeares,' before Ben Jonson'u Wotkes, &c.']

will he lefl it to tlie disposal! of his executors, who
gave it to tlie Bodleian hbrary, at Oxon. He un-
derstood .... languages, Latin, Greek, Hebrew,
Arabique, besides the learned-modern. In his wri-
ting of he used his learned friend, Mr. Henry

Jacob, of Merton college, who did transcribe, &c.
for hini, and as he was writing, would many times

Sutt in things of his owne head, which Mr. Selden
id let stand, as he does, in his preface, acknow-
ledge.

' In his younger yeares he affected obscurity of
style, which, after, he quite left off, and wrote per-
spicuously. 'Twill be granted that he was one of

the greatest critiques of his time.

*»**»♦♦*

' I have heard some divines say (I know not if
maliciously) that 'twas true he was a man of great
reading, but gave not his owne sentiment.

' He would \vrite sometimes, when notions came
into his head, to preserve them, under his barber's
hands. When he dyed, his barber sayd he had a
great mind to know his will, " For," sayd he, " I
never knew a wise man make a wise will." He be-
queathed his estate (400001ib. value) to four exe-
cutors, viz. lord chiefe justice Hales, lord ch. justice
Vaughan, Rowland Jukes, and his flatterer.*

' He was wont to say, I'le keepe myselfe warme
and moyst as long as I hve, for I shall be cold and
dry when I am dead.'

So far from Aubrey: In the year 1726 were
printed in three (or rather in six) very large and
splendid volumes, Joann'is Seldeni Jurisconsulti
Opera omnia ' tarn edita quam inedita. Collegtt ac
recensuU ; Vitum Anctoris, Prarfattones et Indices
adjecit, David Wilkins S. T. P. Archidiaconus Siif-
folciensis, Canonicus Cantuariensis, reverendissinu)
in Christo Patri ac Domino Domino Guilielmo,
Divina Providentia Archiepiscopo Cajituariensi,
S^c. <^c. a sacris Domesticis. Lond. Typis GuU.
Bowyer, S. Palmer et T. Wood, 1726. Ded. to
Geo. Prince of Wales.

Wood's Tory principles have induced him to
give a very singular and at the same time a very in-
correct explanation of Seidell's admirable motto

nEPI- nANTOS- THN- EAET0EPIAN
Which, says Wood, shews, tliat he would examine
things and not take tJiem upon trust. A very good
resolve this, and highly commendable in an anti-
quary, but I shall take leave to render the words

Above every thing, LiBEUTy !
That is, hberty is dearer to me and more desirable
than every other blessing ; even than life itself: a
sentiment worthy not only of Selden, but of every
one who calls himself an Englishman.

"■ [« From Fab. Philips.']

3 [Hearnc, in the nrefacc to Peier LangtnJI, says that
Selden wrote on Matthew Paris's History, and prefixed his
composition to Wallis's edition of that book — ' quamvis non
observavcrit Antonlus a Wood.' See P. Langtoft, i. xix.]

MURCOT.

HOYLE.

382

There are several heads of Selden, but the best
are

1. By Vertue, from sir Peter Lely, 1725.

2. By , from Mytens, in Lodge's Illus-
trious Personages, 1815.]

JOHN MURCOT son of Job Murcot by Joan
Townseud his wife, received his first bein^ in the
ancient borough of Warwick, and liis first learning
in the king's school there under Mr. Tho. Dugard,
who became schoolmaster in 1633, and after 15
years spent in that employment, was made rector of
Barford in that county. At 17 years of age our au-
thor Murcot was entred a student in Merton coll. in
Easter term 1642, being then committed to the
tuition of Mr. Ralph Button, fellow of that house, a
good scholar but rigid presbyterian. Soon after
Oxford being garrison'd for the king, he, to avoid
bearing arms for him, went thence in a disguise to
Mr. Job. Ley vicar of Budworth in Cheshire, where
by continual lucubration for some years, he did much
Improve himself in practical divinity. At length
the wars ceasing, he returned to his college, and con-
tinuing for some time there in godly exercise with
his tutor, was admitted bach, of arts : which being
compleated by determination, he returned to Mr.
Ley again, and became several ways useful to him in
his stuthes and profession. At length being called
to the ministry at Astbury in Cheshire, (wliere the
said Mr. Ley had sometimes exercis'd his function)
he was ordained minister accorcUng to the presbyte-
rian way at Manchester ; but continuing not long
there, he was called to Eastham in Wyrrall in
Cheshire, where, before he was quite settled, he took
to wife, at 25 years of age, one Hester the daughter
of Ralph Marsden minister of "West Kirl)y in the
said county : but before the consummation of mar-
riage, the people of the said place (Marsden being
dead) gave liim a call, where he preached the gospel
to the beloved people of God. From thence, after
some time, he removed to the city of Chester, where
by his severe carriage he became ridiculous to the
wicked. So that Ixjing in a manner weary of that
place, he did, upon the receipt of another call, go
mto Ireland, and at length settled himself and his
family at Dublin, became one of the preachers in
ordinary to the lord deputy and council, and by his
often preaching and praying obtained a great flock
of people to be his admirers, especially women and
children. The things that he hath written are,

Several sermons and treatises, as (1.) Circumspect
Walking, a Christianas Wisdom ; on Ephes. 5. 15,
16. (2.) Tlie Parable of the ten Virgins; on
Matth. 25. from the first 'to the lith Verse. (3.)
C'hriH the Son of Righteousness hath healing in
his Wings for Sinners ; on Malach. 4. 2. (4.)
Christ his Willingness to accept humbled Sinners ;
on Joh. 6. 37. all which were published after his
death at London 1657. qu. together with his life
cantingly written, by Sam. Winter, Rob. Chambers,

Sam. Eaton, Joseph Cary, and Tho. Manton, all, or
most, presbyterians. From which, a common reader
may easily perceive, that our author Murcot was a
forward, prating, and pri^matical jirecisian. Ano-
ther sermtm of his is published, called Saving Faith ;
on John 5. 44. Lond. 1656. qu. but that I liave not
yet seen. He gave up the ghost very imwillingly
at Dublin on the third day of Decemb. in sixteen i6«4.
hundred fifty and four, and was buried with great
lamentation of the bretliren (who always lield him
to be a precious young man) in S. Mary's cliappel
joining to the choir of CInnst Church in the said city
of Dublin, where, as I have been informed, is a mo-
nument set up to his memory.

[Where AVockI obtained his information of Mur-
cot's dying ' very unwillingly,' remains to be dis-
covered : certain it is that the authors of his life in-
form us he died very differently, expressing the
greatest joy when his dissolution approached.

Faithorne engraved a portrait of Murcot, a?t. 30,
which forms the frontispiece to his works. Granger
calls this print ' very scarce.' Biog. Hist, of' Engl.
iii, 49.]

JOSHUA HOYLE was Iwrn at Sorby, other-
wise Sowerbie, within the vicarage of Halifax in
Yorkshire, received his first academical education in
Magd. hall, and afterwards being invited to Ireland,

became a "/t-Z/orc*" of Trinity coll. near , , ^
T-» 1 1- 1 • I • 1- -^ 1 • member at

Dublin ; where, m Ins studies and wn- Trin. coll.

tings, he directed his discourse for the first edit,
schoolmen. In short time he l)ecAme
profound in the fac. of divinity, took his doctor's
degree therein, and at length was mmle divinity pro-
fessor of the university of Dublin. In which office
he expounded the whole Bible through, in daily lec-
tures, and in the chiefest books ordinarily a verse a
day ; whicli work held him almost 1 5 years. Some
time before he had ended that work, he began the
second exposition of the whole Bible in the church of
Trin. coll. and within ten years he ended all the New
Testament, (excepting one book and a piece) all the
prophets, all Solomon and Job : So that his answer
to Malone the Jesuit, did in part concur with both
these lalx)urs. He preached also and expounded
thrice every sabbath for the far greater part of the
year, once every holyday, and sometimes twice. [186]
To these may be added his weekly lectures (as pro-
fessor) in the controversies, and his answers to all
BeUarmine in word and writing, concerning the real
presence, and his finishing in above 8 years time, his
tome of the 7 sacraments, (for there he began) and
his last tome in 6 years ; and after that sundry years
in the tome or tomes remaining. Upon the breaking
out of the rebellion in Ireland in 1641 he went into
England, (having always been a noted puritan) and
retiring to London, became vicar of Stepney near
that city; but being too scholastical, he did not
please the parishioners. AVhile he remained tliere,
Jeivin. BuiToughs preached every morning at 7 of '

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HOYLE.

SMITH.

the dock, and W'\\\. Greenhill at 3 in the afternoon :
Which two jiersons being notorious scliismatics and
independents, were called in Stepney pulpit by
Hugh Peter (the theological buft'oon) the Morm7ig
Star q/'Steptw7/, and the Ereninff Star, but never
took notice of l)r. Josh. Hoyle. Al)oiit the .same
time he was constituted one of the assembly of di-
vines, and became a hel j)cr on of the evidence against
archb. Laud when he was to come to his tryal, as
to matter relating to the university of DubUn while
he wa.s chancellor thereof At length by the favour
of the committee of parliament for the reformation
of the univ. of Oxon, he became master or head of
Univ. coll. and the king's professor of divinity. He
w£is a person of great reaihng and memory, but of
less judgment, .and so much devoted to his hook that
he was m a manner a stranger to the world and
things thereof, a careless person, and no better than
a mere scholar. However that which was in him,
made him resjiected by the learned Usher, primate
of Ireland, in whose vindication he wrote,

A Rejnynder to Will. Makme, Jesuit, his Rejily
concerning the real Presence. Dublin 1641. \n a
thick qu. Which Reply was jirinted at Doway
1627. After which time the author of it, iMalone,
was made rector of the Irish coll. at Rome, which he

1)reslded 6 years: then he went into Ireland, where
le was superior of the whole mission of the Jesuits
for 3 years. Afterwards he was taken and conmiit-
ted by the protestants, from whom getting lo<}sc, he
went mto Spain, and being made rector of the Irish
coll. at Sevil, died there an aged man in Aupj. 1659.
As for Hoyle he gave way to fate on the sixth day
l5»t. of Decemb. in sixteen lumdred fifty and four, and
was buried in that little old chappel of University
college, which was pulled down in 1668, standing
sometime in that j)lace, which is now the middle

1)art of the present quadrangle in tliat; college. In
lis mastership of that house succeeded Francis
Johnson an independent, and in his professorship Dr.
Jo. Conant then a presbyterian.

[A° 1642-3, Feb. 18. Ordered, That D'. Joshua
Hoyle of Ireland, be recommended unto the provost
ana fellows of Eaton college to bestow upon him the
])arsonage of Sturminster-Marshall in the county of
Dorset; and that a letter of recommendation be
prepared to this puqjose, to be sent from Mr.
Speaker.* Cole.

The following is taken from A Letter about my
Lord Falkland, publ. in Harlow's Genuine Remains,
Lond. 1693. 8vo. p. 328.

' Being with my lord in Oxford, some time after
Dr. Hoyle was by the rebellious parliament invited
out of Ireland, and by them designed refrius professor
of divinity (it seems "that we had not then amongst
all our English dissenters, any one who durst under-
take that office, although it was (lx)th for dignity
and revenue) very considerable.) Now Dr. Hoyle (a

♦ [JournaU <tf the House of Commons, vol. ii. page 973.]

known rebell and presbyterian) being so exceedingly
magnified in all our mercuries and news-lx)oks for a
most learned divine, I ask'd my lord, whether Dr.
Hoyle was a person of .such great parts as 'twas pre-
tended ? My go(xl lord presently told us (only Dr.
Morly (since bishop of Winton) and myself were
present) That he very well knew Dr. Hoyle in Dub-
lin, and had him many times at his table, and that
he was a person of some few weak parts, but of very
many strong infirmities. This character which my
lord gave of Dr. Hoyle, is (like himself) very inge-
nious, and the university did find it true.']

RICHARD SMITH was born in Lincolnshire
1566, became a student of Trinity coll. about 1583,
went a course there, but before he t(X)k a degree he
left the coll. went to Rome, ran another course in
studies there, not in philosophy, as he did at Trin.
coll. but in divinity ; wherein making great profi-
ciency, was sent by his superior to Valladond in
Si>ain, whei'e he took the degree of doctor of divi-
nity. Thence, as I suppose, he went into the mis-
sion of England, in which employment he ivraained
some years. From thence he was .sent for to Rome
to be consulted with aliout the aflairs of the English
Popish clergy. Which being finished according to
his mind, he was remitted into England again, and
at length was by the pope made bishop (titular only)
of Chalcedon in Greece, and by him commissionated
to exercise episcopal jurisdiction in England over the
catholics there. The chief stage of his action was in
Lancashire, where he appeared in his jwntificalia,
with his homed mitre and crosier, conferring of
orders, bestowing his lx;nediction, and such like, to
the wonder of ignorant and poor people. At length
the king having received notice of these matters, he
renewed his proclamation in 1628 (one of a former
date taking no effect) for his apprehension, pro-
mising an hundred poimds to be ])reseiitly paid to
him that did it, besides all the profits which accrued
to the crown, as lej^ally due fi-om the person that en-,
tertained him.'' I3ut the bishop having timely notice

^ [By the King.

A Proclamation for the apprehension of Richard Smith a
Popish priest, sliled, and calling himselfe the bishop of
Calcedon.

Forasmuch as we certainly understand that Richard Smith
an Englisliman borne, by profession a popish priest, now is,
and for some yecrcs past bath been, in this reahne, and here
not onely perverteth our subjects in their religion, but doth
also both by his writings in print and otherwise, and by his
continual practice, pers»vade those our subjects to whom he
hath accesse from their allegiance to us their liege lord, and
usurpeth to himselfe episcopal! jurisdiction from the sea of
Rome, and cxerciselh the same within this kingdomc, and
holdcth conlinuall intelligence with our enemies, whereby,
according to the just lawesof thisrealme, hehath commiued
the offence of high treason : and yet neverthelesse, divers of
our subjects seduced by him, do receive, harbour and enter-
tainc him, contrary to our lawes, and have thereby incurred,
and doe incurre the penalty of those lawes which are capi-
tall to the offenders. We therefore being jnstly provoked

SMITH.

3m

of these matters, conveyed himself over into France,
wlierc he Ijecame a confident of Armandus du Ples-

bv the boldne^se of the said Smith, doe hereby straitly coiii-
niaiidallour loving siibiects, of whatsoever condition, quality
or degree, that none of them directly or indirectly doe per-
mit or suffer him to be concealed or harboured, but that forth-
with ihey arrest and apprehend his body, and bring him be-
fore the next justice of peace, to the place where he shall be
apprehended, whom we straitly coniniand to commit him to
prison without baill or mainp'rize, and presently thereupon
mforme vs, or our privy counsell of his apprehension.

And we doc furtlier declare hereby, that if any perSon shall
hereafter directly or indirectly harbour or conceale the said
Smith, or use, or connive at any mcanes, whereby the said
Smith inay escape from being apprehended or arrested, that
then we shall extend the uttermost severity of our lawes
against every such offender. And we further charge and
command all and singularourjudges, justices of peace, majors,
sheriffs, constables and all other our officers, ministers and
loving subjects, that if they shall find any person offending
herein hereafter, that then they and every of them proceed
with all diligence and roundnesse, not onely against the said
Smith, but also against all such as shall harbour, conceale or
connive at his concealment, or shall not use their best en-
deavours for his discovery and apprehension, according to the
uttermost extent of our lawes.

Given at our court at While-hall, the 1 1 day of December,
in the fourth yeere of our reigne of Great Brilainc, France
and Ireland.

By the King.

A second Proclumalion Jor iJie appreliejisiun (iflllchtird Similli

a popish Priest, slitcd, and calling himselfe, tlie Bishop

of Catccdon.

Whereas by our proclamation, bearing dale the eleventh
day of Di-ccrnbcr last past, (for the reasons in that our pro-
clamation expressed) we did straitly command, that none of
otir subjects should harbour or conceale the said Smith, but
that forthwith they should arrest and ap|)rehend his body,
and bring him before the next justice of peace, to the place
where he should be apprehended, whom we thereby com-
manded to commit him to prison without baile or mainprize,
and presently to inforine us or our privy counsell of his ap-
prehension : And we did thereby declare, tliat if any person
should then after, directly or indirectly, harbour or conceale
the said Smith, or use, or connive at any nieanes, whereby
the said Smith might escape from being apprehended or ar-
rested, that we should extend the uttermost severity of our
lawes against every such offender, as by our proclamation
at large appearcth ; which our proclamation hath not yet
wrought that good effect which we expected, the said Smith
being still hidden and harboured by those, who being in-
fected and blinded with popish superstition, preferre their
respects to him, before their duty to us, and the feare of our
high displeasure, and the consequence thereof; we therefore
by the advice of our privy counsell, have thought fit by this
our second proclamation to renew our former command in
that behalfe.

And to the end that none of our subjects may hereafter ex-
cuse themselves by a pretended ignorance of the danger they
shall fall into, if they shall harbour or conceal him ; We doe
hereby publish and declare, that the said Smith is not onely
a popish priest, and with a high presumption tal<eth upon
him to exercise ecclesiasticall jurisdiction, pretended to be
derived from tlic sea of Rome, within this our realmc, and
e.ndeavoureth to seduce our subjects from the true religion
established in the church of England, (which by God's as-
sistance wc shall ever constantly raaintaine) but doth also
seditiously and traiterously hold correspondence whh our
enemies, tending to the destruction of our state.

Vor.. in.

8)s cardinal and dtikc of Richlieu, whocpnfcr'd upon
him the ahliotship of ('liarroux in the diocese of
Poictoii, which he kept, and received the jirofits of
it till 1647, and then Julius cardinal Mazarine took
it into his own hands. The convcniency and vaUdity
of the episcopal power of the said Dr. Smith was
made the subject of several books, whicli were wrif-
tcn thereon, viz. in favour of him were (1) N. le
Maistre a Sorbon priest, in a book entit. De Per.se-
cutione Episcoporum Sf de iUustrissimo AntistHc
CJiakcdonensi. (2) The faculty of Paris, whicii
censur'd all such that op)X)Scd him. In opposition
to him or them, were (1) Daniel a Jesuit, or Dan. k
Jesu, i. e. John Floyd a Jesuit. (2) one Horiican.
(3) Luniley an English-man, and (4) Nich. Smith »
a regular, who, with liis brethren, did make so jjreat
astir about this bishop's authority, and were height-
ned to that animosity against the secular priests,
(the bishop being of tliat number) that the jwpc wa.s
forced to rouse and declare himself concern''d in so
great a scandal to the unity of the Rom. church.
And because he would not proceed to cure this
schism, until he rightly un(rersto<xl the original
ground thereof, he dispatchetl over into England
Gregory Panzani a civilian and Rom. priest, an.
IG'il, with a commission of oyer and terminer of
hearing and determining the quarrel ; if not, tocer-
tifv to iiim the state of the cause, and where the
fault lay. This was the up})er mantle of the plot,
which liad readily in it enotigh to overspread more
secret designs, so that they were not transparent to
vtilgar eyes. But tho' his instructions would not
own any other lading, yet some, especially the j)uri-
tannical party, heltl it for certain that they hatl tiiken
in other contrivances of pernicious import to the

And tlicrefore we doc now againe renew our former com-
mand for his apprehension, and doe hereby further signifie,
that whosoever shall lodge, harbour or relieve the said Smith,
or any other priest, Jesuit, or other, having taken orders by
authority prelendcd to be derived from the sea of Rome, shall
iiicurre the danger of our lawes made against the harbourers,
lodgers and relievers of priests, to the iiill ex(eot thereof,
which by the staUites of this our realme is felony.

And we doc further hereby declare, (whicli we shall really
performe) that whosoever shall discover the said Smith, and
can c him to be apprehended, as aforesaid, shall have a re-
ward of one hundred pounds in monv to be presently paid
unto biin by us, and shall also have the benefit of all such
penalties and forfeitures, which shall or may accrue unto us,
and be forfeited by that person, in whose house the said
Smith shall be found to have been harboured or concealed.

And we further charge and command hereby (as by our
former proclamation we did) all and singular our judges,
justices of peace, majors, shcrietls, constables, and all other
our officers, ministers and loving subjects, that if they shall
find any person offending herein, that then they, and every of
them proceed with all diligence and readincsse, not onely
against the said Smith, but also against all such as shall har-
bour, conceale or connive at his concealment, or shall not
use their best endeavours for his discovery and apprehension,
according to the uttermost extent of our lawes.

Given, &c. the 24 day of March.]

" Edw. Knott Jesuit, went sometimes by the name of
Nich. Smith, Qogcre.

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SMITH.

WYBERD.

church and state of England. He tarrieti here till
1636, having by that time procuretl an indifferent
fair agreement between the seculars and the regulars.
What else was to be done in the matter, was to be
performed by seignior George Con' the pojx;'s
agent, sent into England the same )'car of Panzani
Ills departure, ^^s for the bishop of Chalcedon, he
was a general read st-holar in the controversies be-
tween the papists and protestants.in histories whether
civil or profane, and did great service for the cause
he professed. He hath written,

An Aiusuer to the Challenge of Thorn. Bell an
Apostate Printed 1609.

The prudential Ballance of Religion ; tcherein
the Catlmlic and Protestant Religion are weighed
together with the Weight of Prudence and right
Reason — printed in a thick oct. an. 1609. [Bodl.
8vo. B. 30. Th. Sold.] This is the first part, and
is containetl in two books : afterwards were two other
parts composed by the said author, which I -have
not yet seen.

■ Collatio Doctrinw Catfiolicorum 4- Protestantium
cum ipsis Verbis S. Scripturtc. LiirisII. Par. 1622.
[Bodl. B. 6. 10. Line] " or 1624." qu.

Flores EeclesiaMica' Historiw Gentis Anglorum.
Lib. 7. Par. 1654. fol. [Bodl. BS. 134.]

A Survey of a late Book entit. The just Vindica-
tum of the Chureh of England from the unjust As-
persion of criminal Schism, by John Bramliall

Bishop of Derry. printed 1654. Whereupon

Braranall came out with a reply in 1656 ; but our
author being then dead the controversy ceased. He
also wrote The Life and Death of tJie Illustrious
Lady de Muiite acuto,^ which I have not yet seen.

' [De Geo. Con, vide Janum Nicium Erilhrceum. Num.
74. p. 132. Baker.]

" \yila iilustrissimce ac piisslmce Magdalence Monlis-Aculi
in Anglia Vice-Comilissce, scripta per Richardum Smilheum
L.inculn. S- Th. D. qui illi eral a sacris Confessionihus.
I{omce,apudJac.Mascardum, l60y. 8vo. penesuie. Baker.

Printed permissu Superiorum 1()27. 4to. penes me. It was
wrote originally in Latin ; translated into English by C. F.
Baker.

Anthony Wood had never seen Smitlj's Lije nf Lady
Montacute ; it is probably rarely to be met with. There is
a copy in the public library at Kedcross street, London, the
properly of the London dissenters, bequeathed to them by
Dr. Daniel Williams, one of the ejected clergy. It is in
12mo. 83 pp. printed at Rome, 1609. Lady Montacute, it
appears, was a daughter of William lord Dacres of Gilles-
land, and born in 1538. At the age of 13, she went to the
old countess of Bedford to be educated in the Catholic faith :
was much admired in the court of queen Mary ; Solicited by
lord Arundel, but bestowed her hand on the lord viscount
Montacute : Had many children by him, three or four of
whom survived her. She survived her husband many years,
and resided at Battle in Sussex : Was a good Catholic to the
lime of her death, and a great patron of the Romish clergy.
Among those whom she favoured, is mentioned Thomas More,
great-grandson of sir Thomas More. Smith is Uvish in his
praises of this lady. — Qusre, if among the Catholic martyro-
logics might not be found many anecdotes of persons who
find a place in other biographical works of a higher cha-
racter? They have been little sought after with this view.

HUMTER.]

At length, after he had lived 88 years in this vain
and transitory world, he gave way to fate at Paris
on the eighth day of March in sixteen hundred fifty 166J.
and four, which according to the French accompt is
the 18th of March 1655, and was buried near to
the altar in the church of the English nunnery of
the order of S. Austin, situate and being in th6
suburbs of S. Victor there. Over his grave was a
monument soon after put, witli an inscnption there-
on, the contents of which you may see in Hist. <^
Aniiq. Univ. Oxon, lib. 2. p. 298. a. Before, or
after, his death a MS. containing Several Letters,
and Epistles to tlie Pope, to some Cardinals, Bishops [188]
and Superiors, written by the said Smith bishop of
Chalcedon, came into the hands of Edward Knott
the Jesuit, and afterwards into those of Dr. Seth
Ward late bishop of Salisbury. See more of the
said bishop of Chalcedon in Will. Bishop, an. 1624.
vol. ii, col. 356.

[Epistola historica de mutuis Offlciis inter Se-
dem Apostolicam Magna Britannia Reges Chris-
tianos Anglice olim scripta ad .sei-eniss. M. Brit.
Regem Jacobum per Ric. Smytheum, nunc Episco-
pum Chalcedonensem, Latlne versa per Rtcarduin
Lascelles. Colonic 1637, tw. Detl. to king Cliarles I.
Rawlinson.]

« JOHN WYBERD, son of Walt. Wyberd of
" Tackley in Essex, gent, was born, as the matricu-
" lation' book tells us, in the county of Essex, be-
" came a commoner of Pemb. coll. in 1638, aged '
" 24 years, having, I presume, spent some time be-
" fore in another university, was entre<l into the
" public liljrary under the title of ' PMlogogia
" StudioHus^ 12 May 1640, left the university about
" two years after, upon the breaking out of the civil
" war, travelled beyond the seas, took the degree of
" doctor of phvsic in the university of Franeker, in
" July 1644, and afterwards became well vers'd in
" souie parts of geometry. Afterwards he setled in
" London, and in 1654 he liy the name of Johan.
" Wybertlus Trinobans Anglus, (for so he is writ-
" ten in his certificate or letters testimonial written
" in his behalf at Franeker) was incorjwrated doctor
" of pliysic in this university of Oxon, and after-
" wards was, as I presume, of the coll. of physicians.
" He hath ^tTitten,

" Tactometria rel Tetngmenomctria : or, tlie i6.s4.
" Geometry ()f Regulars practically proposed, Lond.
" 1650. oct. and other things, as I suppose, but
" such I have not yet seen."

EDWARD BOUGHEN, a Buckingliamshire
man born, was elected from Westm. school a student
of Ch. Ch. in the year 1605, aged 18 years, and
after he had l)een some time standing in the degree
of master, was made chaplain to Dr. Howson bish

» Reg. Malric. PP. fol. S7S, b.
' Ibid.

BOUGHEN.

COLF.

3<J<>

of Oxford. Afterwards he had some cure at Bray
in Berkf5, and in 1636 became rector of Woodchurcn
in Kent ; wlience being ejected by the presbyterians
in the time of rebellion, he retired for a time to
Oxon, where he was actually created doctor of di-
vinity a little before the surrender of the garrison
there to the parliament's forces, an. 1646. After-
wards he resided at Chartham in Kent, but in what
c»ndition I know not as yet. His works are these,

Several sermons, as (1) Sermon of Confirmation,
preached at the first Visitation of John Lord Bishop
of Oxon, 27 Sept. 1619; on Jets 8. 17. Lond.
1620. qu. [Bodl. 4to. M. 28. Tli.] (2) Sermon
eoncernirtff Decency and Order; on 1 Cor. 14. 40.
Lond. 1638. qu. and two or more other sermons
which I have not yet seen, viz. one on 1 Cor. 1. 10.
and another on 1 Joh. 4. 1, 2, 3. Both printed at
Lond. in qu. 1635.

Treatise shewing tJie Nidlity and Invalidity of
tJie Presbyterian's Ordination of Ministers, accord'
inff to the Parliamenfs Ordinance, an. 1644.
This book I have not yet seen,' and therefore can
say no more of it, only that it stood unanswer'd by
the presbyterians, either Scots or English.

Principles of Religion : or, a short Exposition
of the Catechism of the Church of England. Oxon.
1646. [Bodl. 8vo. A. 17. Th. BS.f Mid several
times after at London,' oct. One of which editions
bears this title, A sliort Exposition of the Catechism
of the Church of England, •with the Church Cate-
ddsm it self and Order of Coiifirmation, in English
and Lat. for the Use of Scholars. Lond. 1671. tw.
[1673, Bodl. 8vo. B. 302. Th.]

Mr. Geree's Case of Conscience sifted ; wherein
is enquired whether the King can with a safe Con-
science consent to the Abrogation of Episcopacy.

* [Observations upon the Ordinance of the Lords and
Commons at Westmituler. After Advice had with their As-
sembly of Divines, far the Ordination of Ministers pro Tem-
pore, according to their Directory for Ordination, and Kides
for Examination therein expressed. Die Mercurij, 2 Octob.
i6i4.— -Oxford, Printed by Leonard Lichfield, Printer to the
yniversity. 1645. Bishop Barlow's copy iu the Boillcian (C.
8. Sg. Line.) has the following note on the back of the title.

' Writt by one Bowen, who flyinge from the rebells an.
1643, had writt a larger volume of Bishops, which (Dr. Jer.
Taylor's booke of the same subject preuentinge him) he
printed not. This present treatise is an extract of that greater
worke, or alt least those parts of it which conccrn'd his sub-
ject.'

The tract commences — ' I will not (juarrell with the ordi-
nance or authors thereof, because it ariscih from them, who
have neither skill nor authority to provide for ordination.' — ]

' [Kcnnet (.Reg. and Chronicle, p. 842) records an edit.
Lond. for W. G. 1663, 8ro. from which he quotes some sin-
(lularities. In the forms of prayer annexed— /or the king —
That our sovereign king Charles may be strengthened with the
faith of Abraham, endued with the mildness of Moses, armed
with the magnanimity of Joshua, exalted with the humility
of David, beautified with the wisdom of Solomon. For the
(jueen — That our most gracious queen Catharine may be holy
and devout as Hester, loving to the king as Rachael, fruitful
as Leah, wise as Rebecca, faithful am] obedient as Sarah,"
&c.j

Lond. 1648. qu. [Bodl. C. 1. 3. Line] Sec in John
Geree, col. 245, who made a Reply to this.

Two Letters to Mr. T. B. giving an Account of Cfar.
the Church Catholic, where it was before the Refirm- 10«4.
ation, and whether Rome toere, or be, the Ch. Ca-
tholic. Lond. 1653. Ans-.ver'd by P.. T. esq; print-
ed, as 'tis said, at Paris 1654, in a little oct. By
which R. T. is mearit, as I have been informed by
some Rom, Catholics, Thoma.s Read LL. D. some-
times fellow of New coll. in Oxon. This Dr.
Coughen, as I have been informed, lived to .see his
majesty restored, and what before he had lost, he did
obtain.

[ Unanimity qfJiulgment and Affection necessary
to Unity of Doctrine and Unijhrmity in Discipline.
A Sermon preached at Canterbury at the Visitation
of the Lord Archbishop'' s Seculiars, in St. Margcb-
refs Church, Apr. 14, 1635. Reprinted in 1714,
with a preface by Tho. Brett LL. D. rector of Bet-
teshanger in Kent ; giving some account of the au-
thor.* This is the sermon on 1 Cor. 1. 10. noticetl
by Wood.

Boughen died soon after the restoration, aged 74,
plus minus. So Dr. Brett. Bakek.]

ISAAC COLF, a Kentish man, bom of genteel [189]
extraction, was educated in Ch. Ch. and as a member
thereof took the degrees in arts, that of master be-
ing compleated an. 1611. Afterwards cntring into
the sacred function he became at length rector of S.
Leonard's church in East-cheap within the city of
London, where he was much reverenced by the or-
thodox party for his religion and learning. In tlie
beginning of the civil wars, commenc'd by the pre.sb.
he was forced by them to give up his rectory to one
H. Roborough scribe to the assemb. of divines.
Whercujxm retiring to Chaldwell in Essex, the libe-
ral man devised liberal things, viz. an almes-house
for poor people at Lewsham in Kent, with a consi-
derable maintenance. He hath written.

Commentary on the eleven fir.st Verses of the Clar
fourth Chapter of S. Matthexv. Lond. 1654. oct. iC^*-
and other things which I have not seen. When, or
where he died I cannot teU, or where his reliques
were lodg-'d.

[Isaac Colfe A.M. admiss. ad rect. de Chadwell
com. Essex. 23 Octob. 1635. Reg. Laud.

Isaac Coif was rector of Chadwell in Essex, but
it was Abraham Coif A.M. who was admitted to the
church of S. Leonard East-cheap, 30 Jan. 1609,
which he was forced to give up to H. Roborough,
scribe to the assembly of divines. This Abraham
was likewise vicar of Lewisham in Kent, where he
endowed a free-school, and alms-house : he died at
Lewisham, 5 Dec. 1657, and was buried in the
church-yard there, hard by the south wall of the
chancel, where is this inscription : Here under lyeth
buried the body of Abraham Coif late minister of

■• [Kennet, V.eg. and Chmn. 843]
CC3

WORTLEY,

this parish of Lewishain, who departed this hfc tlie
fifth day of December, Anno Domini 1657. Kkn-

XET.]

" FRANCIS WORTLEY, son of sir Rich.
" Wortley of Wortley in Yorkshire, knt. wa.s born
'* of an antient and knightly family there, became a
" commoner of Magd. coll. in the year 1608, aged
" 17 years, made a knight in Jan. 1610, and a ba-
" ronet in tlie year following,' being then est^med
" an ingeniovis gentleman. Afterwards, selling on
" liis patrimony, he trod in the steps of his worthy
" ancestors in hospitality, charity, and good neigh-
" bourhood. But when he saw a predominant paity
" in the parliament that began 3 Nov. 1640 would
" raise an armv against their king, he very readily
" raised a troop of horse for the service of his ma-
" jesty, and afterwards being made a colonel, forti-
" fied his house called Wortley-Hall for his use, did
" go(x] service, and was much valued by liim ; but
" when the king's cause declined he was taken pri-
" soner, committed to the Tower of London, and
" lost most of his estate for his generous loyalty.
" This well-bred person, ^who was numbred among
" the poets of his time, hath written,

" His Diitif delineated in his pious Pity and
" Christian Commiseration oftlie Sorrows and Siif-
" firings of the most virtuous, yet unfortunate
" Lady, Elizabeth Qu. of Bohemia, S^c. Lond.
" 1641. in one sh. in qu. 'Tis a poem.'

" Declaration from York, in Vindication qfhim-
" self from divers Aspersions and Rumours con-
" ceming the drawing of his Sword and other Ac-
" tions, wherein he desires to give the World Satis-
" faction. Lond. 1642. qu. in one sh.

* [June 29.]

' [It commences,
If all thevcrtues which the critticks call
Virtues divine, and vertues cardinull.
If these toprether inixt with royall blood
Can scarcely make a claime to merit good ;
If her great merits could not impctrale
So much, as not to bee unfortunate,
And in misfortunes to exceed so farre
As if the worst of all her sexe shee were :
How light would our best works be in Heav'ns skale.
If shee thus farre in point of merit failc.
Had shee beene Rome's, her supcrerrogation
Had beene sufficient for the Brittish nation ;
And would have made the papall sea as great
As Rome was, when it was Augustus' seate.
Who would not have a blessed pilgrim beene
Had hee ere read the story of this queene ?
Had not the Romane doctrine been disputed
That others merits cannot bee imputed.
The Anti-nomists (though th'are very loath
To trust in works) their threed-bare faiths would cloath
In her rich meriu ; so ev'n they might hope
By merits to be sav'd without a pope.
The character of patience. Job, even hee
Must loose some glory, if compar'd with thee:
The story of thy sufi'crings who can tell?
This I dare say, it hath no paralell.— — ]

" Characters'' and Elegies.^ Lond. 1646. in qu.
" The elegies are mostly upon loyalists who lost
" their lives in the king's service during the rebellion,
" and at the end of them arc q)itaphs ; as, elegy
" and epitaph on Robert earl of Lindscy, Spencer
" earl of Northampton, Robert earl of Kingston,
" Robert earl of Carnai-van ; licrnard lord Stuart
*' earl of Lichfield, John lord Stuart, and George
" lord Aubigny, all three the sons of Esme duke of
" Richmond. After which follows an elegy and
" epitaph on Lucius vise. Falkland, sir Charles
" Cavpndish, and others, as sir Bcvil Greenvill, the
" valiant sir John Smith alias Carington, sir Hen.
" Spelman, knight, &c. He the said sir Fr. Wort-
" ley hath also written,

" Mercuriu-i Britannicus his Welcome to Hell,
" Tifith the Devir.s Blessing to Britannicus. Lond.
" 1647. in one sh. in qu. It was written against
" March Nedham author of the Mercurii Britarir-
" nici.

" A Loyal Song of the Royal Feast, kept by the
" Prisoners in the Tower, in Aug. 1647, &c. — '■
" printed on one side of a broad sheet of paper :
" with several other such like trivial things which I
" have not yet .seen. Afterwards being released
" from the Tower he compounded for that part of
" his estate which was left, in Goldsmiths hall,* be-
" came much in debt, lived in the White-Friers near
" Fleetstreet in London, but when he died (which
" was there, as I have been told) I cannot tell, nor
" do I know any thing else of him only that apjili-
" cations in his business relating to his estate were '
" made in parliament in the iK'ginning of March
" 1656 ; and a little before that time, was published
" under his name,

" Truth asserted by the Doctrine and Practice
" of the Apostles, seconded by the Testimony of
" Synods, Fathers and Doctors, from the Apostles
" to this Day, vl::. that Episcopacy is Jure Divino.
" Printed at London in qu."

[Of the antiquity of the family of Wortley of
Wortley, there can be no doubt. Of the hospitality

Ijractised by sir Francis, the best protif that can now
)c offered is, perhaps, to be found in one of Taylor
the water-poet's pamphlets, entitled Part of fhi^s
Summer's Traves, or News from Hell, Hull and
Hallifax, from York, Linne, Lincolnc, Chester,
Coventry, Litchfield, Nottingham and the Dcvells
Ass a peake. With many pleasant Passages wor-

' [See an extract from, and list of, these characters in
Earlc's^f/crocosmogmo/jy, or a Piece of the World discovered
in Essays and Characters, edit. Lond. 181 1, page 2yS, 299.]

» [It appears from his dedication ' to the lovers of honour
and poesie,' that these Characters, &c. were written during
his confinement, to divert the melancholy thoughts of his
imprisonment.]

9 [He paid 500/. as of Carlelon, Yorkshire. See Catalcgue
of Compounders, lG.55, 8vo.]

' " Bulsir. Whitlock \ah\i Memorials of English Affairs^
" &c. p. 646. an. 1656."

[193]

Clar.

GRIFFITH.

GENTILIS.

[DYER.]

394

thy your Observafimi ami Reading. By John
Taylor. Imprinted by I. O. ISnio. At p. 24, 25,
26, wc find an amusing account of his honourable
entertainment by sir Francis Wortley at his house
and park. This was in Sept. 1639.

The mother of" sir Francis Wortley was Elizabeth
daughter of Edward Houghton of Causton in War-
wickshire esq. who took to her second husband Wil-
liam Cavendish, earl of Devonshire. In his title he
was succeeded by his son, sir Francis Wortley, the
second and last baronet of this family, who left his
estate to his illegitimate daughter Ann Newcomen
alias Wortley, who married Sydney Montague, se-
cond son of the first earl of Sandwich, who took the
name of Wortley. Hunter.

There is a rare head of Wortley by A. Ilertocks,
a half sheet in folio ; from Granger's accoimt of
which we are led to suppose that Wortley died in
1652 : but the inscription, I take it, means only
that he was prisoner in the Tower in that year.]

ALEXANDER GRIFFITH, a Welsh man
bom, was educated in Hart-hall, took one degree in
arts, an. 1618, retired to his country, and there had
a school or a small cure, or both, conferred upon
him. In 1631 he proceeded in his faculty, being
then, or after, beneficed in South Wales ; but after
the rebellion broke out, he suffered for his loyalty,
and at length was sequestred from his spiritualities.
He hath written,

Strena Vavasoricnsis : or, a New-years Gift for
the Welsh Itinerant.'i. Or an Hue and Cry after
Mr. Vavasor Porccll MctropoUfan of the Itinerants,
and one of tfie Executioners of the Gospel by Colour
of the late Act Jor the Propagation thereof in Wales,
&.C. Lond. 1654. in 4 sh. in qu. Therein is a true
relation of the birth, course of life, and doctrine of
the said Vav. Powell.

A true and perfect Relation of the wliole Trans-
action concerning the Petition cjf the six Counties
of South Wales, and the County of Monrrumth,
Jormerly presented to the Parliament of the Com-
moJiivealth of England Jor a Supply of godly Mi-
nisters: and an Account of Ecclesiastical Revenues
therein, &c. Lond. 1654. in seven sheets and half in
qu. [Bodl. 4to. G. 14. Th. BS.] He is supposed
also to be the author of, or at least to have nad a

hand in, a pamphlet eiitit. Mercurius Cambro-

Britannicus : or. News from Wales, touching the
miraculous Propagation of the Gospel in those
Parts, ^c. Lond. 1652. in 3 sh. in qu. Of what
other things he is the author, or promoter, I know
not, nor whether he lived to be restored to his spi-
ritualities.

ROBERT GENTILIS, son of Aubrey Gen-
tilis mentioned among these writers under the year
1611, [vol. ii, col. 90.] was bom in London, matri-
rulated as a member of Christ Ch. 19th of Apr.
1 599, in the ninth year of his age, took the degree
of bach, of arts as a member of Jesus coll. in the be-

ginning of July 1603, was translated to S. Joint's
coll. soon after, and became collector in the Lent
following for proctor W. Laud of that house:
Thence he was elected probationer fellow of Alls,
coll. in 1607, by the enrteavours of his father, who
got him sped into that house by an argument in law,
as being imder the statutable years. In the said
coll. he continued for some time, took a degree in
the civil law, but turned a rake-hell, became king
of the beggars for a time, and so much given up to
sordid liberty, if not downright wickedness, that he
not only spent all that he could get from his father,
(whom he would often abuse) Ijut also afterwards
what he could get fi'om his mother, to whom also
he was very disoliedient, as she in her last will con-
fes.setli. Afterwards he travelled beyond the seas,
took uj) and became a sober man ; and at his return,
was a retainer to the royal court, and received
a pension from the king. He hath translated from
Ital. into English. (1) The History of the Iiujui-
sition. Lond. 1639. qu. written by Paul Servita.*
(2) Of the Success and chief Events of the Monar-
chy of Spain, and of the Revolt of the Catalonians.
Lond. 1639. in tw. [Bodl. .Svo. M. 12. Art. BS.]
written by marcjuis VirgilioMalvezzi. (3) Considera-
tions on the Lives of Alcibiades and Coriolanus.
Lond. 1650. in tw. written by the same author.
Also from French into English Le Chemin abrege :
or, a compendious Method f>r the Attaining of
Sciences in a short Time, together xaith the Statutes
of the Academy founded by the Cardinal of Riche-
lieu.' Lond. 1654. oct. [Bodl. Svo. W. 12. Th. BS.]
And lastly from Spanish, as it seems, into English,
The Antipathy betweentJie French and the Spaniard.
Lond. 1641. in tw. [Bodl. Svo. A. 19. Art. BS.]
ded. by the translator to sir Paul Pindar knight, to
whom in his epist. he promiseth something that shall
be his own invention, that is, to publish something of
his own writing, but whether he was as good as his
word, I know not. One Robert Gentilis, a monk of
the order of S. Benedict in the monastery of Pont-
fract in Yorkshire wrote A Book of Homilies, and
therefore is numbred ■* among our English writers,
but quasre whether he was not an outlander !

[ROBERT DYER, a writer of whom we know
but little, was matriculated of Hart-hall, as the son
of a plebean, December 9, 1619, in the sixteentli year
of his age. He commenced B. A. Dec. 10, 1622, and
proceeded to his master's degree, which he took on
the 30th of June 1625. After this, he seceded to
Lincoln college, (whether a.*; a dependent or inde-
pendent member I am unable to learn from the re-
gisters of that society,) and finally became lecturer

' [Printed also at page 855 of the trannlation of The His-
tory of the Council of Trent, by sir Nathaniel Bretit, Lond.
lf)7(), folio. Bodl. L. 2. 4. Th.J
' [Dedicated by the translator to John Selden.]
■• Vide in Append, illuztrium Anglice Scriptorum per Jo.
Pilseum, cent. 4, nu. Q.

Clar.
1664.

[191]

'695

[DYER] ROBINSON.

RENNET.

Ctar.
1C54.

at Devizes in Wiltshire. I applied for information
respecting Dyer to the rev. James Lediaril, rector
of that place, and he very obligingly infornLs me
that no other mention is made ot him in the parish
registers tlian the baptisms of two of his children,
viz. Mary, bapt. 28 August 1633, Richard, bapt.
May 1, iSSi. Dyer wrote

T/ie Christian's T7ieorico-Practicon or ?iis whole
Duty, consisting of Knoxdedge and Practice, ex-
pressed in two Sermons or Discourses at S. Maryes
i*i Oxon; on John 13, 17. Printed Lond. 1633, in
twelves, and dedicated bv the author to Robert
Drew, esq. a justice of tlie peace for WUts, and
Mrs. Jane Drew his wife. It is probable he was
also author of other things, but sucn I have not yet
met with.

Mr. Lediard informs me that one James Dyer
was inducted to the rectory of Devizes Nov. 24,
1681, and buried there August 18, 1690 ; but it is
impossible to say to what family he belonged, as no
further particulars appear respecting him.]

HUGH ROBINSON bom in St. Mar/s parish
in tlie county of Anglesea, educated in grammatical
learning in Wykeham's school near Winchester, ad-
mitted perpetual fellow of New coll. after he had
served two years of probation, an. 1605, took the
degrees in arts, that of master being compleated in
1611, and about three years after leaving his col-
lege, he became chief master of Winchester school,
afterwards archdeacon of Winton, canon of Wells,
doct. of div. and archdeacon of Glocester, in the

Slace, as it seems, of Sam. Burton deceased. In
le beginning of the civil war, wlicn the puritan or
presbyterian Degan to be dominant, he sided with
them, took the covenant, and having lost in the war
time the profits of his canonry and archdeaconry,
obtained the rectory of Hiuton near Winchester m
Hampshire, whence a loyal person a little before had
been ejected. He was an excellent linguist, able
divine, and very well seen in antient histories. His
wcffks are the.se,

Preces. Written for the use of the children of
Winchester school in Lat. and Engl.

Grammaticalia qiuvdam, in Lat. and Engl.

Antiqmv Historice Synopsis. All which were
printed at Oxon. 1616. in a large oct.

Scholcjc Wintoniensis Phrases Lntinw. The La^
tin Phrases of Winchester School, &c. Lond. 1654.
[Bodl. 8vo. R. 6. Art. BS.] 64. oct. pubhshed by
Nich. Robinson (his son).

- Annalium Mundi universalium, i^r. Tomus
Unicus, Lib. 14. absolutus, &c. Lond. 1677. fol.
Which book coming into the hands of Dr. Tho.
Peirce dean of Salisbury, he did, by the king's
command, revise, amend, and fill it up with many
things that were wanting. He hath also written
something in vinilication of the Scotch covenant,
which I liave not yet seen ; nor do I know any thing
elae of him, only that he dying on the same day, on

which James duke of Richmond died, (so have I
Iwen informed by' his daughter) which was the 30th
of March in sixteen hundred fifty and five, was bu- 1655.
ried near to, and within, the nortli door of the chan-
cel belonging to the church of S. Giles's in the Fields .
near to London. In his archdeaconry ol" Gloc. suc-
ceeded one John Middleton in 1660. After him
succeeded Edw. Pope, who dying in Dec. 1671,
John Gregory of Cambr. succeeded.

CHRISTOPHER BENNET, son of John Ben-
net of Raynton in Somersetshire, Mas bom there, or
in that county, became a com. of Line. coll. in Mich,
term in the year 1632, and that of his age 15, took
the degrees in arts, entred on the physic line, but
doctorated in that faculty elsewhere. Afterwards
he was made a member of the coll. of physicians at
London, and much frequented for his practice in that
city. His works are,

Theatri Tabidorum Vestibulum, &c. Lond. 1654.
oct. [Bodl. 8vo. A. 10. Med. BS.]

Exercitationes Dianoeticce cum Historiis demon-
straiivis, quibus Alimentorum <^ Sanguinis Vitia
deteguntur in plerisque Morbis, Sic. Lond. 1(>55.°
He liath also corrected and enlarged, HealtKs Itn-
provement : or, Rules comprizing and discovering
the Nature, Method, and Manner of preparing all
Sorts of Food used in this Nation. Lond. l655.
qu. Written originally by Tho. Moufet.' This Dr.
Bennet was buried on the second day of May in
sixteen hundred fifty and five, in S. Gregory's iCss.
church near to the cathedral of S. Paul within the
city of London, leaving then behind him, as 'tis
said, one or more things fit for the press.

[I have an elegant print of Christopher Bennet
l)y Pet. Lombait, wth a distic by Dr. Chr. Teme
in his praise. Mr. Granger has made a foul mis-
take in his lxK)k, vol. 2, p. 322, gi^ ing this print for
Dr. Teme himself, though the distic is in commend-
ation of the iK^rson it represents ; which would be
too bare-facea adulation,' Coi.E. The head is pre-
fixed to his TJicatri Tabidorum Vestibulum, 1654.]

' The wife of sir Will. Boiirman cleric of the greencloth
to Icing Charles II.

^ [Thealri Tabidorum Vestibulum seu Exercitalinnes Dio'
noelicce cum Historiis el Expcrimentis Demnnstralivis. Qfii-
hus Alimentvtum Rcspectu Subactionis et Dislributionis; nee
non Sanguinis et Sued Nulritii innatanlis, Respeelu Qua-
litalis Consist enliw, Maturitalis et Circulationis Vitia dete.
guntur in Morbis plerisijue prasertim Pthisi, Atrophia et
Heetica. nruoXsyia anneetitur, et rubrnlis Sanguinis Causa
propalalur. Per Cliristoph. Bennettum M. D. et CoUegii
Londinensis Sncium. I.ondini, Ti/pis Tho. Newcomb, Im-
pensif Sam. Thomson ad Insigne Equi candidi, in Coemeterio
Pavlino, M.DC.LIV. Such is the entire title of Beimel's
medical work, from which it seems that Wood has eon-
founded the title, and made him the author of two treatises
instead of one.]

' [Of Tho. Moufet see vol. i, col. 574.]

' [This error has been corrected in the subsequent editions
of Granger's Bioer. Hist, of England, which are, on several
accounts, preferable to the first, more especially from the
great improvemeata in the Index.]

WOOD.

ANGELL.

WIDDOWES.

398

EDWARD WOOD, son of Tlio. Wood .ilias i
Wood or Awood baclielor of arts and of tlie civil
law of tliis university, by Maria la Petite eonunonly
called Pettie, his wife, (descended from a genteel
and antient family in the county of Oxon) was Iwrn
^9~] in tlie parish of S. John Bant, in an house oji]X)site
to the forefront of Mert. coll. within the university
of Oxon, educated in grammar learning in tlie free-
school at Thame under his kinsman Will. Hurt
M. A. (afterwards warden of the coll. near Winton
and D. of D.) elected probationer fellow of Mert.
coU. in 1648, and in 1655 was installed one of the
proctors of the university, being then noted for a
good disputant, orator, and preacher. His works
are.

Several sermons, as (1) Cffthc Knoxdedgc of God
by the Book ofNalure, In hvo Sermons ; on Rom.
1. 19, 20. Oxon. 1656,' and 74.' oct. [Bodl. 8vo.
W. 10. Th. BS.] (2) Of the Knowledge of Jems
Christ b)j the Book of Scripture, in txvo Serm. on

2 Tim. 3. 16, IT. printed with the former two

sermons. (3) His last Sermon, preached at S.
Mary's in Oxcm. 20 March 1654 ; on Philip 3. 8.
Jirst part printed also with the former sermons.
All which were then acceptable to the generality for
the good practical divinity contained in them, but
since not. He died in his proctorship on the 22d
l665. of the montli of May in sixteen hundred fifty and
five, aged 28 years (he being then the eldest of my
brethren) and was buried two days after in Mert.
coll. church, not far from the grave of his father ;
at which time were present the whole body of con-
vocation and juniors of the university.

JOHN ANGELL wa.s born, as I conceive, in
Glocestershire, where receiving part of his juvenile
education, made his first entry into Magd. hall
about the beginning of the year 1610. Afterwards
taking the degrees in arts and holy orders, became
a frequent and painful preacher. At length about
1630 being made a lecturer at Leicester, continued
there several years, a man mighty in word and doc-
trine among the puritannical brethren of that place,
" where he was suspended by the dean of the arches
" for preaching without any licence," A. D. 1634."
About the year 1650, being forced by the indepen-
dent faction to leave his place, because lie refused to

' [Published by his brother, the authorof Athen* Oxon.
yir. Ant. Wood, l65(), with a preface. Baker.]

' [The Bo<lleian copy has the dale 1674, it is true, but it
ij^evideutly the old edit, with a new title. I suspect there
never tvas more than one impression of Edward Wood's ser-
mons.]

' [Archb. Laud's Annual Accounts of his Province to the
King at the end of his Hist. ofTroulles and Tryal, p. 531.

The deane of the arches hath suspended one Mr. Angell
who hath continued a lecturer in Leycester, for these divers
yeares, without arty license at all to preach ; yet took liberty
enough. I doubt his violence hath crack't his braine, and
do therefore use him the more tenderly, because I see the
hand of God hath overtaken him. These accounts ate for
the ycare 1034. Wood, MS. Note in Ashmole.]

take the engagement, the comjjany of mercers in
London gave iiim a call, anil ciiose him lecturer of
Grantham in Lincolnshire ; (it being one of the
lectures tliat had been given to liie said company by
viscountess Cambden') whereuj)on .setting at that
place he shone (as 'tis ' said) as a burning light,
initil God translated him to sliine above as a star
for ever. To wliicii may be added, that as his name
was Angell, so (saith anotlier'' of his persuasion) he
was a man indeed of angelica! uiulerstanding and
holiness, a burning and shining light, &c. He hath
written.

The Right Government of the Thoughts: or, a
Discovery of all vain, unprofitable, idle, and wicked
Thoughts, &.C. Lond. 1659. oct. [Bodi. Svo. N.
85. Th.]

Four sermons (1) The right Ordering of the
Conversation, tico Sermons on Psal. 50, last Verse.
(2) Funeral Sermon at the Burial of John Lcrrd
Darcey, 27 Aug. 1636 ; on Psal. 39- 5. (3) Pre-
pctration to the Communion; on 1 Cor. 11. 28.—
All printed at Lond. 1659. oct. He was buried in
the church at Grantham before-mentioned, on the
sixth day of June in sixteen hiinth-ed fifty and five;
at which time being attended to his grave by many
divines of the neighbourhood, Mr. Laur. Sarson
bach, of div. sometimes fellow of Eman. coll. in
Cambr. did then deliver before them a large oration
of mortality, and in praise of the defunct. This
Mr. Angell, who had tiie year befiare his death been
appointed by parliament an assistant to the commis-
sioners of Lincolnshire for the ejection of such, who
were then called scandalous and ignorant ministers
and school-masters, was several times heard to .say
before he fell sick, that it was his great desire to
live to see the conclusion of the year 1660, hinting
that he was very confident that then would be great
revolutions in the kingdom of England.

THOMAS WIDDOWES, son of Thomas Wid-
dowes, brother, I think, to Giles,' mentioned under
the year 1645, was born at Mickleton in Glocester-
shire, entred a student in Gloc. hall in 1626, aged
14 years, where continuing about 8 terms was made
demy of Magd. coll. by the favour of Dr. Frewen
president thereof. Afterwards taking the degrees
m arts, lie was by the endeavours of the same per-
son made master of the college school at Glocester
in the place of Joh. Langley, an. 1640, at which
time Dr. Frewen was dean of the cath. church
tliere. But Widdowes being soon after outed for
his loyalty, he became minister of Wootlstock, and
master of the school there, founded by Richard
Cornwell citizen and skinner of Lond. 27 Ehz. Dom.

' T. B. in the pref. to The right Government of the
Thoughts, &c.

4 "Tho. Case in his pref. to The Morning Exercise; or,
some short Notes, &c.

' [He was brother of Giles before mentioned, according to
sir Rob. Atkyns, Hist, if Glostershire, 1712, page 556.}

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399

LATCH.

GOLDSMITH.

1655.

1585, wlierc continuinj^ for some time was removal
to the free-school at Nortlileech in Glocestershirc, a
place of more value. He hath written,

The just Devil of Woodstock : or, a true Narra-
tive oftftc several Apparitions, the Frights and Pu~
nishmcnts, inflicted upon the Rumpish Commis-
sioners sent thither to survey Manors and Hotises
belonging to his Majesty,^ Lond. 1649. qu. It is
a diary, which wa-s exactly kept by the author for
his own satisfaction, intending not to print it. But
after his death tiie copy conimg into the liands of
another person, "twas printed in Dec. 1660, and had
the year 164'9 put in the Ixittoni of the title, as if it
had been then printed. The names of the commis-
sioners were Cix'kaine, Hart, Unton, Croke, Care-
less, and Hoe captains; llich. Croke the lawyer,
afterwards recorder of Oxon. and Browne the sur-
veyor. The Ixxjk is very immrtially written, and
therefore worth the reading ny all, especially the
many atheists of this age. Our author also hath
written,

A sliort Survey (if Woodstock — Taken from an-
tient authors, and printed with the former. He
hath also written, as I have been told, certain mat-
ters pertaining to the faculty of grammar, for the
use of his scholars, which I have not yet seen. He
was buried in the churcli of Nortlileech before-men-
tion'd on the 26th of June in sixteen hundred fifty
and five. In the year 1649 was printed in one
sheet in qu. a poem entit. Tlic Wooditock Scuffle ;
or, most dreadful Apparitions that were lately seen
in tice Manor-house of Woodstock near O^rford, &c.
the beginning of which is,

' It were a wonder if one write.*,'' Sic.
but who the author of it was, I cannot tell.

JOHN LATCH, a Somersetshire man born, de-
scended from a genteel family of his name living at
Upf)er Langford near to Churchill in the said coun-
ty, was by the care of his uncle Latch educated in
academical learning in Oxon. particularly, as I have
l)een informed, in S. John''s coll. where he made a
considerable proficiencv in literature. Afterwards
he retired to the Middle-Temple, studied the mu-
nicipal laws, but being very sickly, livctl a solitaiy
and studious life, and improved his natural talent as
much as his abilities of botly would permit. He
hath written,'

Reports of divers Causes, adjudged in the three

'' [See this story, aticsied by Mr. John Lyclall of Trinity
college, Oxford, in Aubrey's Mucellanies, Lond. iCgO, 8vo.
page 70, and the whole account, at great length, in Plott's
Natural IlistoTij oj Oxfordshire, Oxford, IO77, folio, cliap.
viii, sect. 37 — +3.]

' [The following testimony of the value of these reports
is prefixed to the book, but it seems the opinion of the emi-
nent lawyers wlio lent their names, that Latch was not the
original writer :

' These reports are all of Mr. Latche's hand : but as we
conceive, not originally taken by him, but excerpted out of
some other manuscript : but, being a person of great learning
in his profession, he would not have taken this pains, if he
had aot thought them worthy of his transctibing j and bc-

first Years of K. Ch. I. in the Court of the King's
Bench. Lond. 1662. fol. [Bodl. S. 1. 9. Jur.] He
paid his last debt to nature at Hayes (as it seems)
111 Middlesex, in the month of August in sixteen
hundred fifty and five, and was buried in the church
there. Some years before his death he had em- '*'**■
braced the Rom. cath. religion, partly, if not alto-
gether, by the persuasion of one called Francis Har-
vey (whose right sirname was Hanmer) a pretended
solicitor, and a broker for letting out money, esteem-
ed by the fanatical party of that time to be either a
Kom. priest or Jesuit, for by his endeavours his
estate came to the soc. of Jesus. Sotm after fell
out great controversies between his uncle Latch,
who pretended to be executor to his nephew, and
others entrusted by the Rom. catholics. What the
event of the matter was, I know not, only that Han-
mer was committed to Newgate jirison, for convey-
ing away his will, and the matter it self was exa-
mined by the protector in September following.

FRANCIS GOLDSMITH, or Goii.dsmith,
son and heir of Francis Goldsmith of S. Giles's in
the Fields in Midd. esf[; son of sir Franc. Gold-
smith of Craford in Kent knight, was educated un-
der Dr. Nich. Grey in Merchant Taylors school,
became a gent. com. of Pembroke coll. in the be>> [1941
ginning of 1629, was soon after translated to S.
John's coll. and after he had taken a degree in arts,
to GreyVinn, where he studied the common law
several years, but other learning more, and wrote.

Annotations on Hugo Grotius his Sop/iompanes,
or Joseph, a Tragedy. Lond. 1652. oct. Which
tragedy was, with annotations, printed then in Eng-
lish. He also translated from Lat. H. Grotius his
Consolatory Oration to his Father, in verse and
prose, with epitaphs, and also his Catechism into
English verse, entit. Lucidenta e sacra Seriptura
Testimonia,^ &c. which tran.slations were printed

cause the reports of these years in the king's bench are want-
ing in Mr. justice Crook's reports of that court (he being in
those times a judge of the court of common-pleK) we think
them fit to be printed, as a supplement thereunto ; Orlando
Bridgeman. Matthew Hale. Thomas Malet. Robert Hide.
Edward Atkins. Thomas Twisden. Thomas Tyrril. Christo-
pher Tumor. Samuel Brown. Wadham Wyndhani.']

8 [Wood is wrong here : the Testimonies from scripture
were added by Grey, as the following title shews : Uugonis
Grotii Baptizalorum Pucrurum InsliluHo. AUernis Interro-
galionibus ct Hcsponsiunilus : Cui accesscrunl Grteca ejus-
dcm Mctaphrasis a Clir. IVase liej^ulis Coll. Cantab, el An-
glicana Vcrsio a Fr. Goldsmith, ylrmigero: Una cum lucu-
lentis e .SS. Testimoniis a N. G. In Usum Scl.olarum.
Quarto ICditio el emendatior et Olserratiunculis in Grcecam
Metajihrasin ad Calccw appensis auctior. Adjiciunlur iiidem
huic Edilioni Effigies Hugonis Grotii et Francisci Goldsmith.
Londini, Typi4 GartrcdcB Dawson, et prustant venales apud
Johannem Hardfsly ad insigne Aijuihe-Imperialis in vico
vulgo vocato Duck-lane, t65b. Bodl. Svo. Mar. 399. Dedi-
cated by N. G. (that is Nicholas Grey,) in lour lines to
John Hales, and in a prose address to his loving and be-
loved scholars Francis Goldsmith and Chrijtopher Wase.
There was another edition in Svo. Lond. 16C8, with Gold-
smith's English version at the end.]

GOLDSMITH.

MATTHEW.

40-2

idbn

with the amiotfltions licforc-nientionecl. See more
in Nich. Grev among tliese writers, under the year
1660. What otlier tilings Fr. Goldsmith Iiatli
written or translated, I know noti nor any thing
else of him, only that he dying at xVshton in North-
amptonshire either in Aug. or Sept. in sixteen hun-
dred fifty and five, was, I presume, buried there,
leaving then behind him a daugh. named Catharine,
afterwards the wife of sir Hen. Dacres knight. His
father Francis Goldsmith died the 16th of Decemb.
16.34, and was buried in the chancel of the church
belonging to the parish of S. Giles's in tlie Fields
near to I^ondon beforc-mentioncfl.

[In Alderton church, Northamptonsliire, against
the south wall of the north isle, under an atcliieve-
ment of arms, is this inscription :

Neare this place lieth interred tlie body of Fran-
cis Gouldsmitn esq. the sonne of Francis, the sonne
of sir Francis Gouldsmith of Crayford in the county
of Kent. He married Mary, the daughter and sole
heir of llichard Scot of Little-Lees in Essex esquier.
He died the 19th of August 1655, and had issue
Francis and Francis Gouldsmith, who died both
young, liveing at his death Katherine his only
daugliter and heir ; in memory of whom his deare
and loveing wife hath caused this to be erected.

And in another part of the isle,

Francis Goldsmith of Gray's Inn esquier buried
August 29, 1655.

Mary relict of Francis, November 25, 1675.

Dame Katharine wife of S'' Henry Dacres of
l^ondon knif^ht, daughter of Francis and Mary,
March 22, 1684.^

The head of Goldsmith (already mentioned in a
note) is engraved by T. Cross. It has no name of
the person represented, but at the Iwttom are the
four following lines :

His outward figure heere you find.
Of Grotius who hath drawne the mind,
Whose counterfeits how they agree
With the originalls, read and see.

Granger mentions a head in small oval of Gold-
smith with a name, which has never fallen in my
way.]

TOBIE MATTHEW, the eldest son of Dr.
Tob. Matthew arclib. of York, by Frances his wife
daugh. of Will. Barlow sometimes bishop of Chi-
chester, was born, as it seems, in Oxon. ' while his
father was dean of Ch. Church, matriculated as a
member of that house in the beginning of March
1589, being then eleven years of age, and the year
following had a student's place conferred on him.
By the benefit of a good tutor and pregnant parts.

[Bridges, Hist, of Northamptonshire,

[Sci " " '

"84, 285.1
See Legenda Lignea, p. 131, 2, &c. He (Tob. Math.)
was born at Salisbury, Oct. 3, lO??, according to his mo-
ther'sown account in Thoresby's Hcaria Lrodiensis, p. 174.
Baker.]

VOT,. III.

he became a noted orator and disputant, and taking
the degrees in arts, lie afterwards travelled into va-
rious coinitries beyond the seas. At his return he
was esteem'd a well qualify 'd gentleman, and to lie
one well vers'd in the affairs of other nations, " and
" therefore was taken into the acquaintance of that
" noted scholar sir Francis Bacon of Grey's-inn,
" who having an esteem for him, and Matthew for
" Bacon, there passed between them divers letters,
" which if collected together might make a pretty
" volume." At length leaving tne church of Eng-
land by the persuasions of fath. Parsons the Jesuit,
to the great grief of his father, he entred himself
into the society of Jesus, but whether he took holy
orders is yet to me uncertain. Afterwards growing
famous for his eminency in jx)litics, he came into
England, upon invitation, in January 1621, to the
end that the king might* make use of his a.ssistance
in certain matters of state. On the 10th of Octob.
1623 he received the honour of knighthocxl from
his majesty then at Royston, for his great zeal in
carrying on the Spanish match to be had with prince
Charles ; at which time, not only the king, but the
chief of the nobility, and others at court, had a high
value for him, and so continued for several years
after. He was highly valued by the most noble
Tho. earl of Strafford, with whom he went into
Ireland and continued there for some time, to the
end, that his advice and counsel might be used ;
which, tho' advantageous in several resjiects to that
generous count, yet it was disliked by many,' espe-
cially those of the precise party, after they had un-
derstood Tob. Matthew's character from one Andr.
ah Habernficld, in a pretended discovery'' of a plot
of treason against the king, sent in a letter from sir
Will. Boswell his majesty's aigent at the Hague to
Dr. Laud archb. of Canterbury, in the month of
Octob. 1640, which runs thus, ' Sir Tob. Matthew
a Jesuited priest, of the order of politicians, a most
vigilant man of the chief heads, to whom a bed was
never so dear that he would rest his head tliereon,
refreshing his body with sleep in a chair for an hour
or two ; neither day nor niglit, spared he his machi-
nations, a man principally noxious, and himself the
plague of the king and kingdom of England ; a
most impudent man, who flies to all banquets and
feasts, called or not called ; never quiet, always in
action and perpetual motion, thrusting himself into
all conversations of superiors. He urgeth confer-
ences familiarly, that he might fish out the minds
of men. Whatever he observeth thence, which
may bring any commodity or discommodity to the

^ Cambd. in Anna/. Reg. Jac. I. MS. sub. an. lC22.

' [Pryiiiic, in Home's Master.piece, in fol. p. 60l, saith,
Tliai sir Tob. Mauhcw made a voyage into Ireland with ihe
lord deputy SlraHord to stir up the papists there to contribute
men, arras, and money, to subdue the Scotch covenanters.
Wood, MS. Note in Ashmole.']

* See in Rome's Master-piece, &c. published by VV.
Prynne, 1643, p. 19, 20.

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403

MATTHEW.

TURNER.

part of the conspirators, he communicates to the
pope's legat, and the more secret things lie himself
writes to the ixjix-, or to cardinal Barbai'ino. In
sum, ho adjoins himself to any man's company, no
word can be sjH)kon, that he will not lay hold on,
and communicate to his })arlv. In the mean lime
wliatever he hath Hsiieil out, he reduceth into a ca-
talogue, and every summer carrieth it to the gene-
ral consistory of the politician Jesuits, whidi secretly
meet together in Wales, where he is an acceptable
guest,' &c. He was a person extremely hated by
the presbyterians, and more especially by Prynne,
who s|)ared not to say, because he was acquainted
with Dr. Laud archb. of Cant, that he was sent
into England by the pojje (Urban VIII. with whom
he was in great esteem) to reconcile England to the
church of Rome ; in which work also, he (as they
further say) received a pension from the said card.
Barbarino the protector of the English nation at
Rome. But letting these bare reports pass, I shall
only tell you that he had all his lather's name, and
many of his natural parts ; was also one of consi-
derable learning, good memory and sharp wit, mix-
ed with a pleasant affability in behaviour, and a
seeming sweetness of mind, though sometimes, ac-
corchng to the companv he was in, pragmatical and
a little too forward. He hath written and translated
several things, but all that I have yet either seen or
heard of, are only these,

A rich Cabinet of precious Jewels. When .

printed (unless in 1623) or where, I know not.

A Collection of' Letters. Lond. 1660. oct.

Character of the most excellent Lady, Lucy Coun-
tess of Carlisle — Printed with the collection : She
being the goddess that he adored, was the reason
why sir John Suckling brought him into the poem
called The Session (or Cmirt) of Poets, thus,

Toby Mathews (pox> on him) what made him

there.''
Was whispering* nothing in some-bodv's ear.
When he had the honour to be named in court.
But, sir, you may thank my lady Carleil for't.

The said Lucy was daughter of Hen. Percy earl
of Northumberland, who dying issueless in Nov.
1660, was buried in the church at Petworth in Sus-
.sex by her ancestors.

Letters to several Persons. Lond. 1660. oct.
printed with the Collection and Character, wth his
picture ' before them. Among which letters, are
perhaps those of his writing in the Cabala, Myste-
ries of' State, published in 1654, and in the Cabala
or Scrinia Sacra, printed at Lond. 1663. He also

s 'Twas the word that he often used in company.

" 'Twas his custom always to be whispering in company.

' [By J. Ganiman. There is a small head of him in one
of the plates to lord Orford's Anecdotes ofPainlinf;, in which
work, however, Matthew had not the slightest cl.iim for an
introduction. The portrait he is supposed to have attempted
of the infanta was drawn, like the character of the couatess
of Carlisle, with his pen, not his pencil.]

wrote a book to shew the benefit that proceeds from
wa,shing the heat! every morning in cold water ;
which I have not yet seen, and had gone far in the
H'lstory ()fthc late T'lmes, but leaving it imperfect,
it ne\ er yet saw light. He translatecT into Enghsh
(1) S. Austiii's Coiifissions, printed in oct. sold in
IGUi (about which time it was printed) for sixteen
shillings a copv, tho' as one" sjutli it might have
been afforded for 2s. 6d. (2) The Life (f S. Te-
resa pr. about 1623. in oct. (3) The penitent Ban-
dito : or, the Hi-itory of the Conversion and Death
of the most illustrious Lord Siffiiior Troilo Savelli
a Baron of Rome. Printed about the same time.
The second edit, of it came forth in 1663 in oct.
He also translated into the Italian tongue. The
Kssays of Francis Lord Bacon, printed at Lond.
" 1618." in oct. He concluded his last day at
Gaunt in Flanders on the 13th of Octob. in sixteen
hundreil fifty and five, (according to the accompt
they there follow) in the iiouse of the third proba-
tion of the English FF of the society of Jesus, and
was buried in a vatilt under the church belonging
to them, without any kind of jjonip or splendor in
funeral, according to his wiU. On his coffin of
wood was a leaden jjlate fastned, with this written
thereon. Hie jacet 1). Tobias Mattha'i.

JEROM TURNER son of George Turner was
born at Yeovill in Somersetshire, educated in gram-
mar learning there, made his first entry into the
university in Easter term 1633, aged 18 years, and
sotm after being made batler of S. Edmund's haU,
took the degree of bach, of arts as a memlKjr there-
of, in the year 1636, and completed it bv deter-
mination. Not long after he became scltoohnaster
of Beer (belonging to Seaton in Devon) where also
he preached as an assistant to his very good friend
Hugh Gundrey " sometime of St. Alb. hall," his
father's kinsman, for the space of two years. Thence
he removed to Axmouth in the said county, where
he served as an assistant also to Will. Hook then
minister of that place, (afterwards in New England,
and at length master of the Savoy in the Strand
near London) with whom he continued about two
years more. From thence he removed to Compton
two miles from the place of his nativity, where he
continued a while, and thence removed to sir Thorn.
Trenchard to be his chaplain, continuing there tUl
1641, alxnit which time, the civil war breaking out,
he was forced to fly to Southampton for refuge,
where he cimtinued during the heat of the wars, and
preached with the great approbation of the prc.sby-
terian ministers and people there. So much, it
seems, they were taken with his sermons, that they
earnestly persuaded him to print an exposition he
had matle on the first chapter of the epistle of S.
Paul to the Ephesians, but he could not be prevailed

" John Gee, in a cat. of popish books, at the end of his
book called The Foot out of the Snare.

1655.

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won KM AN-

BIGNELL.

WILLIS.

4iM)

16.95.

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upon to do it. Tlio wars being over, and Ncithcr-
burv a great country parish iti Dorsetshire being
voiti of a minister, he, by the solicitations of friends
went tliithcr, and liecame tlieir pastor in the lx>-
gimiing of Oct. 1 ()46, wlicre he continued a con-
stant preacher, doing goml in his zealous way to his
dying day; His love to learning was very great,
and his delight to exorcise himself was greater than
his weak body coukl ])car. He had a strong me-
mory, which he mainUiined good to the last by tem-
perance. He was well skillVl in Greek and Hebrew,
was a fluent' jircaclier, but too nuich addictetl to
Calvinism. He hath transmitted to posterity,

A Brciifit-Plate for the Keeping of the Heart;
bebtff the Substance of certain Sermons on Prov.

4. 9^^. former part. Loud. 1G60. in (x-t.

A rich Treasury for the Promises, hehig the
Substance of other Sermons on Mlcah 7. 15. Lond.
1660. Oct. Some, or all, of these semions, were pub-
Uslied in 1650. in oct. Which two treatises (The
Breast-plate and Rich Treas}iri)) were publislied
by Hugh Gundrey before-niention\l and one Jo-
seph C'rabl), who dedicated tliem to William lord
Sydenham, a member of Oliver's council, one of his
lords, and .sf)metinies a gent. com. of Trin. coll. in
this university.

Exposition on the First Chapt. of the Epist. of

5. Paul to the Ephesians whether this was pub-

Ushed after his death I cannot tell. He paid his
last debt to nature on the 27 of Novemb. in sixteen
hundi-ed fifty and five, and was buried (I suppose)
in the church of Ncitherburv, having before mar-
ried Joane, the daugh. of George Scullard of Rum-
sey in Hampshire, and been apjiointetl an assistant
to the commissioners of Dorsetshire and Pool, for
the ejection of such whom the g^xlly party called
scandalous, ignorant and insufficient ministers and
schoolmasters.

GILES WORKMAN son of Will. Workra.
was born at Newton-Rag^iath in Glocestershire, cn-
tred a batler in Magd. hall in the year of his age
18, Doni. 1623, took the degrees in arts, and after-
wards became vicar of Wallford in Herefordshire,
master of the college sch<x)l in Glocestcr, and at
length by the favour of Matth. Hale esq; (after-
wards lord chief justice of the KingVbench) he be-
came rector of Alderley in Glocestershire. He hath
written,

A modest Examination of Lay-men's Preaching;
discovered to be neither xcarrantcd by the Word of
God, nor allowed by the Judgment or Practice o/'
the Churches of Christ in New England, &c.
I>ond. 1646. in about 6 sh. in qu. What else he
liath published, unless one or more sermons, which
I have not yet seen, I know not, nor any thing bc-

' Paslor vigilantiss. ilocirina & pietate insignis, &c. So
Fred. Lossius a physician o( Dorchester in his Obscrvalioncs
Medicinatei. Lond. 1672. ocl. lib. 2. observat. 7. p. 121.

sides, only tliat he dying in sixteen hundretl fifty
and five (as his eldest son hath informed me) was
buried in the ciuirch of Alderley before-mcntion'd.
This jxTson, who was a (juiet and peaccal)lc puri-
tan, liad a brother called John Workman a schis-
matical lecturer in Glocestcr, who by medling with
things indifferent, created not only trouble to his
diocesan, but to the archb. of Canterbury, as you
may fully see in Canterbury's Doome.

" HENRY BIGNELL son of Foulk Bignell of
" Soulderne in Oxfordshire, was bom in S. Mary's
" parish within the city of Oxon, in July 1611, be-
" came a p(K)r scholar or servitor of Brasen. coll.
" in midsuninier or act term 1629, where continu-
" ing till he was bachelor's standing, he retired to
" S. Mary's hall, and as a member thereof took one
" degree in arts. Afterwards entring into holy or-
" ders he taught a petty-sch(X)l, and became a nack-
" ney and scandalous preacher. In 1645 he was
" made rector of the churcli of S. Peter in the Bay-
" lie in Oxon, but turned out thence for scancfal
" and drunkenness. Afterwards he continued in
" Oxon in a sharping condition, and gave and pre-
" sented to several persons his sermons in manu-
" script for relief uncfer the name of a |)ersccuted and
" loyal minister. But in the year 1653 he was per-
" petually silenced, and commanded to leave Oxon
" by the saints then in power, because he was
" drunk and could not for stammering and faulter-
" ing (for which he was hiss'd by the scholars then
" present) speak out his funeral harangue from the
" reader's pew in S. Mary's church, which he pre-
" tended to deliver at the burial then of his grand-
" mother. This person, who was not at all fit for
" his function, nor deserving the name of a scholar,
" (tho' he had parts in him which were drown'd)
" and therefore ought to be buried in silence, hath
" written and published,

" The Sons Portion, containing moral Instruc-
" tions for the Education of Youth in Knowledge,
" S:c. Lond. 1640. oct.

" English Proverbs with other trivial things

" not worth the naming. At length about 3 or 4
" vears before the restoration of kin"; Charles II.
" he went with sir John Danvers, one of the king's
" .)*<*'f?^'*'» '"to tl"-' western islands by the West In-
" dies, where he liveil for some time as a minister,
" but soon after died."

THOMAS WILLIS, whom some jx^dagogical
writers call Volkxtius, was born of a genteel fa-
mily of his name living at Fenny-compton in War-
wickshire, began to be conversant with the muses in
S. John's coll. in Easter term 1602, aged 19 years
or thereabouts, t(X)k the degrees in arts, and soon
after became sclKX)lmaster at Thistleworth or Istle-
worth in Middlesex, where he spent near 50 years
of his time in the instruction of youth, for whose use
he wrote these things following,
DD2

xQbb.

Clar.
1O55.

407

WILLIS.

FISHER.

Ctar.
1655.

[198]

Vest'ibulum L'nif^uw Lathuv. A D'utionarij for
Childmi, coihfisthiff of two Parts, i^-c. couta'mhiff
near ten t/tousand IV^ords, besides thrice tlie Num-
ber derived from, and known by, them. Sec. Lund.
1651. Oft. [Bodl. 8vo. W. 12. Art. BS.]

Phraseoloff-ia An^lo-Latina. Anglicisms Lati-
nized, &c. Loud. 1()55. Oct. [BotU. 8vo. W. 18.
Art. BS.] Tliis is the same which hath anoUier
title soraetiines set to it, running thus, Proteus
vinctus : Sive JEquivoca Sermonis Anfflicani, Or-
dine alphabetico digestu, ^ Latine reddita. To

this book was afterwards added Parwmiologia

Anglo-Latina. Or, a Collectimi of Engl, and Lat.
Proverbs and proverbial Sayings matched together.
Both which were printed in one vol. at Lond. 1672.
Oct. This last was wrote with a design to supply
what was defective and wanting in our author Willis
his Phraseologia, Sec. by Will. Walker, bred up in
school learning under Joh. Clerk bach, of div. some-
time public schoolmaster of Lincoln, afterwards
teacher of a private school in Fiskerton in Notting-
hamsliire and a writer of .school-books ; under
whom he the said Walker being ripen d for the
university, was sent to Trin. coll. in Cambridge,
where he took the degrees in arts and one in divi-
nity ; afterwards he became master of the public
school at Lowth in Lincolnshire, (founded by K.
Ed. VI.) then rector of Colster worth ' in the same
county by the donation of Dr. Tho. Pierce, as pre-
bendary, I think, of Lincoln, (who had been for
several years a great encourager of Mr. Walker's
useful studies) and at length master of the free-
school at Grantham, where he continued to the time
of his death, which hapned in the beginning of Ja-
nuary, or diereabouts, an. 1684.* This person,
who was very useful in his generation, hath written
and pubhshed, (1) Treatise of English Particles.
several times printed. (2) Troposchematologia,
RhetoriccB Libri duo. Lond. 1668. dedic. to his pa-
tron Dr. Pierce before-mention'd. (3) Explana-
tions of {lie Royal, commonly called Lilly's, Grantr-
mar, in two parts. Lond. 1670. 74. oct. (4) Mo-
dest Plea for Infant Baptism. Cantab. 1677. in
tw. (5) English Examples of the Lat. Syiitaxis,
&c. Lond. 1683. oct. with his picture before it ;
aged 59 years; and other things, as 'tis probable,
which I nave not yet seen, particularly his Dic-
tionary of English and Latin Idioms, and his book
entit. De Argumentorum Inventione Libri duo, &c.
in oct.

« EDWARD FISHER the eldest son of a

' [Mr. Walker was an intimate acquaintance of sir Isaac
Newton's, being minister of Colsterworth, where he died
in l684. Letter from Dr. Stukeley to Dr. Mead. See
Gentleman's Magazine for 1*72, p. 622.]

' [Walker was buried at Colslerworin, with this inscrip-
tion on his monument: Heicjacent Gulielmi Walkeri Par-
ticulae. Obijt I Aug. Anno Dom. l684 : a;tat. (5|. MS.
Note in Mr. Helers Copy. He had a son who was rector
oi Sunning, in Berkshire.]

" knight, became a gent. com. of Brasen-nose coll.
" 25 Aug. 1627, took one degree in ai'ts, and soon
" after left that house. Afterwards being called
" home by his relations, who were then, as I have
" been informed, much in debt, he improved that
" learning which he had obtained in the university
" so much, that he became a noted jx;rson among
" the learned for his great reading in ecclesiastical
" hi-story and in the lathers, and for his admirable
" skill in the Greek and Hebrew languages. His
" works are these,

" An Appeal to thy Conscience, as thou wUt an-
" Sicer it at the great and dreadful Day of Jesus
" Christ. Oxon. 1644. qu.

" Marrow (rf Modern Divinity : or, tJte Cove-
" nant of Works and Grace, &cc. — I'rinted 1646.
" &c. in oct.

" A Christian Caveat to the old and neio Sabba-
" tarians : or, a Vindication of our old Gospel Fes-
" tival, &c. Lond. 1650. [Bodl. C. 13. 1. Line]
" 52. 53. [Bodl. B. 23. 17. Line] 55. qu. This
" was answered by Giles Collier vicar of" Blockley
" in Worcestershire, and by Joh. CoUings bac. (al-
" terwai-ds Dr.) oi'divinity, minister of S. Stephen's
" church in the city of Norwich, in a book entit.
" A Caveat Jbr Old and new Prophaneness. Lond.
" 1653. in qu. In which lxx)k he answers also that
" of Alan Blane entit. Fcstorum Metropolis. Our
" author Fisher hath alst) written,

" An Answer to 16 Queries touching- the Rise
" and Observation of Christmas, p?-opou}ided by
" Mr. Joh. Heming of Uttoxcter in Staffordshire.

" This was pnnted with the Christian Caveat.

" an. 1655. What other things this Edw. Fisher
" (who was a royalist) hath wiitten I know not,
" nor any thing else of him, only that I take him
" to be the same Edw. Fisher, who was the eldest
" son of sir Edw. Fi.shor of Mickleton in Glocester-
" shire knight, descended from an anticnt family of
" his name living sometimes at Fisherwyke on the
" river Trent in Staffordshire ; which sir Edward
" dying on the 29th of Decemb. 1654, was buried
" in Mickleton church near the body of his father
" Edw. Fislier, esq; who died on the 16th of Sept.
" 1627. I have been informed by the letters of the
" vicar ^ of Mickleton written in Octob. 1690, tliat
" Edward Fisher the writer before-iiKiition'd being
" exceedingly run into debt, he diii, lo avoid the
" payment of' them, retire to Caennarthen in Wales,
" where he taught school meerly to get bread : but
" being discovered lie fled into Ireland, and dying
" obscurely there, his botly, as he farther tells ine,
" was conveyed to London, and buried there in the
" grave of his wife ; but the time when, or the
" place where he was buried, he told me not."

[In the Bodleian is a quarto tract ascribed to
Fisher; I know not on what authority, though I
have no reason to question it. The Feast of Feasts :

^ Henry Kirkham.

Clar.
\&3b.

MATON.

LANGLEY.

HALES.

410

or the Celebration of the sacred Nativitif of our
blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ ; grounded
upon the Scriptures, and confirmed bij the Practice
of the Christian Church in all Affcs. Oxfhrd:
Printed bif Leonard Lichfield, Printer to tlie Vni-
vcrsity. \<o^\. Bodl. C. 14. 5. Line]

ROBERT MATON son of WiU. Maton of
Tudworth in Wilts, was born in that county, be-
came a commoner of Wadh. coll. in Mich, term, an.
[199] 1623, aged 16 years or thereabouts, took the de-

Erecs in arts, and afterwards holy orders, but where
eneficed, unless in liis own country, I cannot tell,
nor any tiling else of him, but that, as to opinion,
he was always in his heai't a millenary, which he ne-
ver discovered in public till the rebellion broke out,
and then the press being open for all opinions, he
published these things following,

Israel's Redemption : or, a prophetical History
of our Saviour's Kingdom on Earth, that is, of the
Church CatJiolic, and triumphant; on Acts 1. 6.
Lond. 1642. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. M. 169. Th.]

Discourse of Gog and Magog, or the Battle of
the great Day of God Almighty; on EzeJc. 38. 2.
— Printed with tlie former lx)ok.

Comment on the 9.Qth Chap, of the Rev. Lond.
1652. qu.

IsracVs Redemption redeemed : or, the Jews'' ge-
neral and miraculous Conversion to the Faith of
the Gospel, and Return into their own Land, and
,, our Saviour''s Personal Reign on Earth, proved

ll' from the Old and New Test. &c. of Purpose to sa-

' tisfy all Gainsaycrs, and particularly Mr. Alex.

Petrie Minister of the Scottish Church at Roter-
dam. Divided in two parts. Lond. 1646. qu.
Which book being answer'd by the said Petrie, it
^g°5 came out again under this title with additions and

amendments, A Treatise of the fifth Monarchy :
or Chrisfs personal Reign on Earth one Tlmusand
Years with his Saints, kc. Lond. 1655. qu.

[There is a head of Maton, by Cross, according
to Granger. Biogr. Hist, of England, iii, 52.]

" WILLIAM LANGLEY son of a father of
" both his names of Abingdon, was born there or in
" Berkshire, became a student in Pemb. coll. an.
" 1629, aged 19, but took no degree. One Will.

ir. " Langley late of S. Mary's in the city of Lichfield

'*• " minister, hath written,

" The persecuted Minister, in Defence of the
" Ministry, the great Ordinance of Jesus Christ.
" Lond. iC.56. in 2 parts in qu. [Bodl. 4to. L. 2.
" Til. BS.] dedicated to sir Tho. Leigh knight,
" by an ejiistle dated from his study in Lichfield
" 9 Jul. 1655. Quaere whether he died in 1655 .?"

son of Rich. Hales, by Ids wife the daughter of
Beauchamp; was born in the parisii of S. James
within the city of Bath and educate*! in grammar
learning there. At 13 years of age he was sent to
the university in the beginning of the year 1597,
and was for some time a scliolar of Corp. Ch. coli.
At length the jirodigious pregnancy of his parts be-
ing chscovered by the liedge-beaters of sir Hen.
Savile, he was encouraged by them to stand for a
fellowship of Merton coll. Whereupon an election
being appointed and made in 1605 (3 Jac. 1.) and
all the candidates sifted and examined to the utmost,
he was the first that was chosen. In which election,
as he shewed himself a jxrson of learning aljove his
age and standing, so thro' the whole course of his
bachellorship there was never any one in the then
memory of man (so I have been informed by cer-
tain seniors of that coll. at my first coming tiieiv-
unto) that ever went beyond him for subtle disputa-
tions in philosophy, for his elotjuent declamations
and orations ; as also for his exact knowledge in the
Greek tongue, evidently demonstrated afterwards,
not only when he reatl the Greek lecture in that
coll. but also the public lecture of that tongue in tlie
schools. His profound learning and natural endow-
ments, (not that I shall take notice of his affability,
sweetness of nature and complaisance, which seldom
accompany hard students and critics) made him be-
loved of all good men, particularly of Savile before-
mentioned, who found him, tho' young, serviceable
in his edition of S. Chrysostom's works, and there-
fore often mention'd with honour by that noted
Grecian Andrew Downes, Greek professor of Cam-
bridge. Afterwards he was made fellow of Eaton
coll. partly, if I mistake not, by the help of Savile,
and partly by sir Dudley Carleton, with whom he
went, in the quality of cnaplaln, when he was sent
ambassador to the United Provinces, at what time
the synod of Dort was celebrated,* Jan. 1618, where [200]
our author Hales did good service in several respects,
so far as his capacity did permit him. From that
time tiU about the year 1638, no great matters occur
memorable of him, only his acquaintance with Will.
Chillingworth, whom he assisted in his great work,
as I shall anon tell you, which made him to be noted
among the learned, especially for certain opinions
that were not thought fit to be by him entertained.
In that year, I say. Dr. Laud archb. of Canterbury,
who had received cognisance of his great worth, did
send for him to I^ambeth, sifted, and ferreted him
alxjut from one hole to another, in certain matters of
religion that he partly then, but more in his younger
days, mainUuned: And finding him an absolute
master of learning, made him, ujion his complyance,
one of his chaplains, and procured a canonry of

JOHN HALES a younger son of Joh. Hales, " [^^e a long leUcr of his to sir Dudley conccrnina some

(steward to the family of the Homers in Somerset- ''■»"*»c'i<'"s in this mongrel synod, in the Letters fnm'and la

shire) eldest son of Edw. Hales of Highchurch in f."" ^"""^ C";'^'"". published at Lond in 4to. 1757, at the

thp «aid rr>,.ntv c^« ^f T^ Tj 1 cJi &'"-""'%" '" expeiice ot lord Roysion, whicli letter is not printed m his

tne said county, son of Jo. Hales of the someplace. Golden Remains. Cole.]

411

HALES.

Windsor for him, installed therein 27 of June 1639,
whicli, with his fellowship, was all that this most in-
eomparable person, whom I may justly stile a walk-
ing fibrarv, enjoy'd. He was a man highly esteemed
by learned men Ix'yond, and within, the seas, from
whom he seldom faifd to receive letters every week,
wherein his judgment was desir'il as to several points
of leaiMiing. He was a very hard student to the last,
and a great faster, it being his constant custom to
fast li'om Thursday dinner to Saturday : and tho'
a person of wonderful knowledge, yet he was so
modest, as to be patiently contented to hear the dis-
putes of persons at t.iblc, and those of small abilities,
without mterjwsing or speaking a word, till dcsir'd.
As for his justness and uprightness in his dealings,
all that knew, have avouched him to be incom-
parable : For when he was bursar of his coll. and
had received bad money, he would lav it aside, and
put good of his own m the room of it to pay to
others. Insomuch that sometimes he has thrown
into the river 20 antl 30/. at a time. All which he
hath stood to, to the loss of himself, rather than
others of the scxiiety should be enilamaged. AfVer
the civil war began, occasion''d by the ini<|uity
of the restless presbyterians, he was tum'd out of all,
and into his fellowship was thrust by the authority
of parliament, one Pen warden, who being afterwards
touched in conscience for the wrong he had done so
worthy a person by eating his bread, went and vo-
luntarily would have resigned up the place again to
him, but Mr. Hales refused, telling him, that the
jiarliament having put him out, he was resolved
never to be put in again by them. As for his ca-
nonry of Windsor,it lay void till his majesty's restora-
tion, an. 1660, and tlien 'twas bestowed on Anth.
Hawles D.D. sometimes of Queen's coll. in Oxon.
At length he, being reduced to necessity, was l()rced
to sell the best part of his most admirable library
(which cost him 2500/.) to Cornelius Bee of Lon-
don Iwokseller, for 7007. only as I have been inform-
ed by persons of unquestionable veracity. 'Tis true
that one of the Sedlcian family of Kent did invite
him to live in his family, with an allowance of 100/.
]ier an. the keejjing of two horses and a servant's
diet, but lie being wedded to a rctir'd and studious
life, refused to accept of that generous offer; yet
about that time he accepted of a quarter of that sa-
lary, with his diet, in the family of one madam
Salter (sister, if I mistake not, to Dr. Duppa bishop
of Saruni) who Ii\ ed near Eaton, purjwsely that he
should instruct her son Will. Salter ; but he being
blockish. Hales could do nothing ujwn him. After-
wards a declaration issuing out, prohibiting all per-
sons from harlwuring malignants, that is royalists,
he left thatJamily, notwithstanding the lady desired
him to the contrary, telling him, that she would un-
dergo all danger that might ensue by harbouring
him, and retiring to Eaton, he took up his quarters
and sojourned in an house next to the Christopher
Inn, belonging then to Hannah tlie widow of John

Dickenson, (a servant from his youth to our author
Hales) and afterwards the wife and wdow of one
Sim. Powney ; which Hannah was very careful of,
and respectful to, him, as having formerly at her
marriage received of his bounty. Other persons of
the loyal party, woidd have exhibited to, had they
not been equal sharers in affliction with, him, and
therefore it was that he died in an obscure condi-
tion, much pitied by many then in being, but by
more in the next generation, jiarticularly by such
(which you'll say is a wonder) that were no friends
to the church of England, who did ' reckon it not
one of the least ignominies of that age, that so emi-
nent a jKTson of the church of England (as Hales
was) should have been by the iniquity of the times
rctluced tf) those necessities under which he lived,
&c. And whereas he had been heard to say in his
former days that he thought he should never die
a martyr, yet he was known to live a confessor, and
died little less than a martyr for the doctrine and
disci))line of the church of England. The pub-
lisher ^ of his Remain.^ doth tell us, that ' He was a
man of as great sharpness, quickness, and stability
of wit, as ever this, or perhaps any, nation bred.
His industry did strive, if it were ])ossible, to etjual
the largeness of his capacity. Pro|X)rtionable to his
reading was his meditation, which furnished him
with a judgment beyond the vulgar reach of man.
So that he really was a most prodigious example of
an acute and piercing wit, of a vast and illiniited
knowledge, of a severe and profound judgment,' Sec.
He tells us also, that he was true and just in his se-
cular transactions, and charitable beyond example,
and as a Christian, none w;is ever more acquainted
with the nature of the Gospel, because none more
studious of the knowledge of it than he. That he
was solicited to write, and thereby to teach the
world, but would resolve against it ; yet did not
hide his talent, being so coiiimuiiicative that his
chamber was a church, and his chair a ]ni!j)it, and '
was as communicative of his knowledge, as the celes-
tial bodies of their light and influences, ^^'hen the
king and court resided at Windsor, he was much
frequented by noblemen and courtiers, who delighted
much in his company, not for his severe or retired
walks oi learning, but for his jx)lite discourses,
stories and poetry, in which last, 'tis supposed, he
was excellent; for a noted" poet of that time doth
bring him into The Session of Pods, thus :

Hales set by himself most gravely did smile,
To see them about nothing keep such a coile.

* See in the Rehrarsiil /ransprus'd, written by Andr. Mar-
vell, pr. \6-2. p. 175.

"* Dr. Jo. Pearson bisliO|) of Cheitcr in his preface to Jo.
Hales his Hemains.

' Pet. Heylyn in his Life aud Draih of Dr. W. Laud
Archh. of Cant, under the year l038.

^ Sir Joh. Suckling in his Fragm. aurta, or Poems. Lond.
1(348. p. 10.

HALES.

414

Apollo had s[)ied liim, but knowing his mind,
Past by, and call'd Falkland a that sate just bcliind.

Those that nmiember and were well acquainted
with ]Mr. Hales, have said, that he had the most in-
genious countenance that ever they saw, that it was
sanguine, chearful, and full of air : also that his sta-
ture was httle and well prorK)rtion''d, and his motion
auick and nimble.' And they have verily sup|)osed,
lat had not extremities contributed to the shortning
of his days, nature woidd have afforded him life till
he had been 90 years old or more. The things that
he hath ^vl•itten are these.

Orat'to funchns hi Obitum CI. Equ'itis Tho.
Bodleii, 29 Mar. 1613. Oxon. 1613. qu. [Bodl.
4to. O. 14. Art.] printed again in 1681. in the Col-
lection of Lives; jjubhshed by Dr. Will. Bates.

Di.'isertatio de Pace c^ Coitcordia Ecclesice. Eleu-
theropoli 1628. in tw. [l^odl. 8vo. Q. 3. Art. again in
1630, Bodl. 8vo. B. 1 7. Line.] This book, w-liieh is
much celebrated by famous authors, is printed in
the same character and at the same supposed place,
as his Brevis di.sgui'iitio, and therefore by the gene-
rality is taken to be written by our author.^

Brevis Disquisitio, an ^ quomodo vulgo dicti
Evangelici Ponti/icios, ac noiiiiiiatim Val. Maffni
De Acatholicontm credendi Rcffufa Judicium, solide
utque evidcnter refutarc qticant. Eleutli. 1633. in
16. [Bodl. 8vo. C. 328. Lhic] Tliis book con-
taineth, as the puritan then said,^ sundry, both Sti-
cinian and I'elagiau points, as also that the botly
which shall be raised in tlie resurrection is not idem
numero; xVnd that souls tlo not live till the resur-
rection, besides other points, &c. 'Tis true that
certain of the principal tenets were cunningly in-
serted therein, pretending them for the best expe-
dients to appease some controversies between the ch.
of England and Home.''

" The Way toxcard the Finding of a Decision
" of the chief Controvermes now debated concerning
" Church Government. Lond.1641. qu. in 6 sheets.
" [Bodl. C. 8. 25. Line] This has not any author's
" name to it, but in the title of one of them among
" bishop Barlow's books is put down, by John Hales
" of Eaton, ut creditur."

A Tract concerning Schism and Schismatics,

* Lucius lord Falkland.

' [Aubrey says he was a prctlie little man, sanguine, of a
chearful countenance, very geiitele and courleous. The same
writer visited him within a year of liis death and found him
readingThomasa Kem])is, in a kind of violet-coloured cloaih
gowne, with buttons and loopes. lie adds that Hales loved
canary, but moderately to refresh his spirits. Letters from
tilt Bodleian Library, with Aubrey's Lives, 8vo. 1813, page
364.]

' [Wrote by Przipcovius an Anti-Trinitarian. See San-
dius, Bihliolh. Antilrin. p. 123. Baker.]

■* [This is said by Dr. Ward in a letter to bishop Usher.
See Usher's Letters, \fii. 181. Baker.]

* [Wrote by Joach. Stegmannus Antitrinitarian. See
Sandius, page 133. Baker.]

wherein is briefly discovered the Original and Caune
of all Schism.^ — All or most of this pamphlet waa
taken, as 'tis .said, from Socinus, and written about
the year 1().36, partly, as some think, out of discon-
tent, that he had no preferment conferr'd on hini,
paitly, as others say, for the encouragement of some
great masters of wit and reason to dispute the autho-
rity of the chuirli, and partly at the request of liis
friend W. Chillingworth, who desired some such
matter of him, to be used by him in the composition
of his book entit. The Religion of Protestants, he.
Several copies of it were transnutted from hand to
hand, and one coming into those of Dr. Laud, he
therefore sent for him, as I have already told you,
entred into a long discourse with him about certain
particulars therein, and being drawn over to his
mind, our author Hales, as 'tis ^ said, recanted, and
was then resolved (tho' before inconstant) to be or-
thodox, and to declare 7 himself a true son of the
churcli of England both for doctrine and discipline.
This tract was afterwards published without a name,
in one large sJi. in qu. an. 1642, [Bodl. B. 23. 7.
Line. Printed at London again in 1673. Bodl.
Mar. 51.] when tlie press was open for every opinion.
And since it hath given great advantage and use to
some that have not loved, nor are lovers of, the
church of Engl, as (1) E. S." in his Irenicum. (2)
Dr. Job. Owen in his Plea for the Non-conformists.
(3) The author of Separation no Schism, wrote
against Dr. Jo. Sharp's Sermon before the Lord
Mayor; on Rom. 14. 19. (4) Andr. Marvell in his
Rehearsal transpros'd, part 1. &c. So that advan-
tage being taken by it, and the tract several times
printed, some of the orthodox clergy have an-
swer'd it ; among which have been, (1) Rob. Co-
noid M. A. in his Notion ^ of Schism in tico Letters.
The last of which is against Hales. (2) Tho. Long
B. D. in his Character of a Separatist, but more
largely in his book entit. Mr. Hales' Treatise of
Schism examhi'd and censur''d, &,c. One Philip
Scot also, a Rom. cath. doth modestly accost our
author in his Treatise of the Schism of England,

* [^A Trade concerning Schisme and Schismatit/ucs wherein
is briefly discovered the original Causes nj' all Schisme.
ffrillen by a learned and judicious Divine. Together with
certain Animadversions upon some Passages thereof. Oxford,
by Leon. Lichfield, 1642, 4to. pp. 33.

The animadverter begins thus. This tract, I musl con-
fess, is handsomly and acutely penned and many things in it
well worthy our observation : yet because I greatly honour
antiquity, and highly reverence the holy fathers of the church,
I must crave pardon if I deal plainly and roundly with the
author thereoi', who in some passages, as I conceive, doth too
much neglect antiquity, and indeed all aulhoritye, &rc. Mr.
'W^ood takes no notice of this edit. Kennet.]

* Sam. Parker in his Reproof to the Rehearsal transpros'd,
p. 135.

' Pet. Heylyn, as before, an. l638.

* \^Edw. Stillingftcet. It was written at large by the au-
thor, but totally blotted out by Jam. Frazer the licenser.
Wood. MS. note in Ashmole.~\

9 Printed at Lend. 1677. oct.

415

HALES.

ROLLE.

1660.

[ 203]

Amstcrd. 1G50. in tw. but he goes aiiotlier way to

work. See more in \Vill. Page among these writers,

under the year 16GG.

GoMcn Remains. Lend. 1659. 1673. l)oth in

qu. These Remains " of 1659" consist of 9 ser-
mons,* miscellanies, let-
ters and expresses from

• Sf viral sermons as I Serm.
at S. Marie s on Tuesday in
Easter week ; on Pel. 3. lO.
Oxnn. I()I7, qu. and divers
others, U'hicli you may see in
his Remains. One Joh. Hales
lialli a Sermon nf Duells ex-
tant, on Numh. 35, 33. wfiick
I lake to he the same with our
author, yet it is not printed in
his said Remains. Another
also Concerning the .Ibuse of
obscure and difficult Places rif
Scripture, &c. Qitcerc. First
edit."

the synwl of Dort, &c
" The edition in 73 hath
" besides the same nine
" sermons four more." '

Tract concerttinff Sin
against the Holy Ghost.
Lond. 1677. oct.

Tract concerning the
Sacrament of the Lord's
Supper A just cen.

sure of which you may
see in a lx)ok entit. An Account of the Greek Church,
<.^c. written by Tho. Smith B. of D. of Magd. coll.
printed 1680, p. 169.

Paraphrase on S. Mattheid's Gospel.

Tract concern i7ig the Pox&er o/" the Keys, amd
Aurictilar Coiifession.

Miscellanies With these is printed his Tract

concerning Schism beforc-mentionM, according to
the orig. copy. These four last things arc printed
and go with his Tract concerning Sin against the
Holy Ghost. j\t length, having lived to the age of
seventy and two years, he concluded his last day at
Eaton, in the house of Hannah Powney before-men-
tioned, on Monday the nineteenth day of May, at
abovit eight of the clock at niglit, in sixteen hundred
fifty and six, and was, according to his desire, buried
(but little better than in private) in Eaton college
church-yard.* Over his grave was ai'terwards an
altar monument erected, at the charge of one Pet.
Curwcn sometimes a scholar of Eaton and his great
admirer, with an inscription thereon, which partly
runs thus: Musarum & Charitum amor Johannes
Halesius (nomen non tam hominis quam sciential)
hie non jacet, at lutum quod assumpsit optimum in-
fra ponitur, nam certe supra mortales emicuit mo-
ribus suavissimis, ingenio subtilissimo, pleno pectore
sapuit mundo sublimior adeoque aptior Angelorum
consortio, &c.

[See Walker's Sufferings qftlie Clergy, andDes

'• [Sermons preached at Eaton htf John Hales late Fellow
of that College, 9nd edit. Loud. 1673. 4to.

1. Pr. at Shrovc-tidc at Eton coll. on Luke xvi. 25.

2. On 1 Cor. vi. 13.

3. On Galat. vi. 7.

4. OnMatth. xxiii.38. Wanley.]

' [Wood has marked this passage nut in his own copy, and
has inserted the account of the editions of the Golden Re-
mains as it now st:inds. He had before stated them thus
' Ij>nd. 1659, 73, 88. oct.']

* [An. 1656, Mays, Mr. Hales, prebend of Windsor, bu-
ried at Langley by Windsor. Mr. Rich. Smitli's Obituary.
Sed Quaere. Baker.

JVLaizeaifs Historical and Critical Accotint trf Hales,
which gives msyiy new circumstances, and remark-
able transactions of his life.

A Discotirse of the several Dignities, and Cor-
ruptions, ofMan''s Nature, since tlie Fall. Lond.
1720. 8vo.

As to the genuineness of this book, be pleased to
know that ]\Ir. Hales, in the hard times of usurpa-
tion, was content to become a tutor to a lady's son
in Buckinghamsh. from whence, after about a year's
stay, retiring elsewhere, and dying soon after it was
preserved among the pajiers of the said lady who was
my relation. This MS. was writ over by a very ig-
norant amanuen.sis and full of false spellings, but
corrected by Mr. Hales himself, with his own hand
in several places, where the mistakes were most ma-
terial.

It bore Mr. Hale's name in the title page, in his
own hand, &c. — Some ingenious gentlemen that
have perused it, make no question at all of Mr. Hales
being the author of it, being a very well writ treatis :
— Anonym. Letter to Curll (the publisher) 27 Ap.
1719. Wanlev.

There is a small head of Hales, without the
engraver's name, prefixed to his Golden Remains.]

HENRY ROLLE second son of Rob. Rolle of
Hcanton, son and heir of Hen. Rolle of Steventon
in Devonshire, was born at Hcanton (called by some
Heanton Sachvill) in the same county, became a so-
journor of Exeter coll. in 1606, aged 17 years, con-
tinued there more than two years, and then went to
the Inner Temple, of which lie liad been admitted a
member on the first day of Feb. 6 Jac. I. Doni.
1608 ; where being settled he neglected no opportu-
nity to improve his knowledge in the common law,
which was much advanced by the foundation of lite-
rature that he had laid in this university. From his
first admission till his call to be a Serjeant, he hail con-
temporaries of the same society of great parts, learn-
ing and eminence, as namely sir Edw. Littleton, af-
terwards lord keeper of the great seal, sir Edw. Her-
bert, afterwards attorney general, sir T^o. Gardiner,
afterwards recorder of London, and that treasury of
.all kind of learning Joh. Seidell. With these he
kept a long, constant and familiar-conver.se and a^--
quaintance, and therefore greatly improved both his
own learning and theirs, especially m the common
law, which he principally intended. For it was the
constant and almost daily course for many years to-
gether of those great traders in learning, to bring in
their acquests therein, as it were in a common stock
by natural communication, whereby each of them in
a great mea-sure became the participant and common
possessor of each other's learning and knowledge.
He did not undertake the practice of the law till ne
was sufficiently fitted for it, and then he fixed him-
self unto one court, namely the King's-Bench, where
was the greatest variety of business. By this means
he grew master of the experience of that court.

ROLLE.

HOWE.

418

whereby liis clients were never disappointed for
want of his expeiiencc or attendance. He arguetl
frequently and pertinently : his arguments were fit-
ted to prove and evince. They were plain and
learned, short and perspicuous, and tlio' nis words
were few, yet tiicy were significant and weighty.
His skill, judgment and advice in jjoints of law and
pleading were sound and excellent. In the latter
end of king James I. and beginning of king Charles
I. he was burgess for Kellington in Cornwall to
serve in the parliaments then held, and in the 14 of
king Charles I. Dom. 1G38, he was elected summer
reader of the Inner Temple, but a pest being then
in the city of London he did not read till the Lent
following, and in 1C40 he was made serjcant at law.
Afterwards he sitled with the puritans, when they
made a cliange in tiie government, occasional by a
predominant party of them in both the houses of
parliament, took tlic covenant, and was sworn one of
the judges by Mr. Sam. Browne one of the commis-
sioners of the great seal, after he had made a speech
in the Kings Bench, 28 Oct. 164.5. In Oct. 1648
lie was made lord chief justice of the King^s-Bench,
and in the next month ensuing he was sworn tliere-
unto. On the 14 of Febr. following he was voted
one of the 38 persons to be of the council of state,
sate among them in that, and in other years follow-
ing, and several times after was one of the judges
for the western circuit,' where 'twas usual with him
in his respective charges to the grand jury to settle
the people's mind, as to the then present govern-
vernment. It is observed by an eminent person*
of his profession, that altho' our author Rolle, ' when

^ [In 1654 when some of the royalists seiz'd Salisbury in
the time of the assizes, they seiz'd and brought out chief jus-
tice RoHe in his robes, and the sheriff, and major general
Wagstaffe, who commanded the royalists, would have hang'd
them, but Penruddocl< (who was one of the chief of the
royalists) so prevail'd, that the judges were dismissed, having
only their commissions talieu away from them : but when the
royalists were afterwards taken, Rolle refused to be employed
in the service of trying them, raising some scrufdes of law,
whether the men could be legally condemned ; saying, he
thought himself unfit to give his judgment in tliis case,
wherein be might be thougnt a party concerned. Some time
after, Cromwell imposing taxes by his own authority, one
Cony, a merchant, refused to pay custom, and when it was
Tiolcnlly taken from him, he thereupon sued the collector at .
the conuuon law. Cromwell cruised Cony's counsel to be
sent to the Tower, so that Cony wm necessitated to plead for
himself, referring to the judge, whetlior that tax being not
authorized by parliament, ought to be pairt by the law of the
land. Rolle wanting courage, would not p,ive jud"me:it
against the usurper, and being too much an hotiosi man to
give it for him, he took time till the next ensuing i^rm, to
consider what rule he should give in the case. In the mean
time, upon consideration that his continuance in that statv)n
was like to ensnare him more and more, he desired by a lettei
to Cromwell, to have his quietus, and serjcant Glynn was
appointed to succeed him, who took care, before he came to
sit on the bench, to have the business accommodated with
Cony. MS. note in Mr. Heler's copy.]

■* Sir Matth. Hale in his preface to The Abridgment rj'
divers Cases and Resolutions of the Common Law, &c. wiii-
len by Hen. Rolle.

Vol. III.

he was at the bar did exceed most others, yet when
became to the exercise of ])is judicatures, nis parts,
learning, prudence, dexterity and judgment were
more jjerspieuous. He was a patient, attentive and
observing nearer, and was content to bear with soine
impertinencies, rather than lose any thing that might
discover the truth in justice of" the cause. He was
a strict searcher and examiner of businesses, and a
wise discemer of the weight and stress of them
wherein they lay, and what was material to them. r2041
He ever carried on as well his search and examina-
tion, as his directions and decisions with admirable
steadiness, eveness and cle;imess. Great experience
rcndred business easy and familiar to him, so that
he gave convenient dispatch, yet witliout precipi-
tancy and surprise. In short, he was a jierson of
great learning and experience in the common law,
profound judgment, singular prudence, great mode-
ration, justice and integrity,' &.c. As for his works
which are extant, they are these.

An Ahrulffment qfrnani/ Ca^es and Resolutions
of the Common Law, alphabetically diffestcd ■under
several Titles, &c. Lond. 1668. fol. [Bwll. D. 1.
15. Jur.J The materials of this book were not
fully his own, but in a great measure collected out
of other books and reports for his own private use,
without any intention to make them public.

Reports of divers Ca.<ies in the Court of King-s
Bench, in the Time of K. James I. Lond. 1675.
fol. [Bodl. Z. 1. 9. Jur.]

A Continuation of the said Reports in the same
Court in the said Kings Reign. Lond. 1676. fol.
[Bodl. Z. 1. 12. Jur.] which coinpleats the reign of
king James I. At length, after he had shew'd him-
self a mutable man in his last days purposely to gain
wealth and the favour of certain people then domi-
nant, he paid his last debt to nature on the 30th of
July in sixteen hundred fifty and six, and was bu- 1056.
rieti on the fourth day of Sept. following in the
church of Shapwick near to Glastenbury in Somer-
setshire ; the manor of which ho some years before
had purchased, and had his mansion house tliere. ■
The great men of tlielaw livuig in those times used
to say tliat this Hen. Rolle was a just man and that
Matth. Hale was a good man ; yet the former was
by nature penurious, and his wife made him worse :
the other was contrary, being wonderfully cliaritable
and open-handed.

WILLIAM HOWE, son of "'"• Howe, was
bom in London, educated ;» Alerchant TaVlors'
school, became a r«"inoner of S. John's coH. m
1637, and in thai of his age 18, or thereabouts, took
the degrees in arts, entred u|X)n the j)hysic line,
bore arms for his majesty king Charles I. in Oxon,
at what time the generality of scholars then remain-
ing in the university did the like ; and being very
f(irwa?d in expressing his loyalty, was afterwards
made captain of a troop of horse. But upon the de-
clining of his majesty's cause, he desisted, prosecuted
EE

419

HOWE.

PENDARVES.

his study in physic, retired to London, practised
that faculty, first in S. Laurence Lane, ana then in
Milk-street, and was commonly called by the name of
doctor Howe. This person being a noted herbaUst
or simpler of his time, wrote and pubhshed,

Phytologia Britannica, natales cxhibens indige-
narum Stirpium Sponte emergentium. Lond. 1650.
Oct. [Bodl. 8vo. A. 32. Med. BS.] and obtained,
corrected and published a Ixxik of Matthew de
L'obell the king's botanist, entit. Stirpinm Illustra-
tiones ; plurimas elaborantes inauditas Plantas,
subreptitiis Jo. Parhin^oni Rapsodiis (ex Codice
MS. insalutato) sparsim gravatce, &c. Lond. 1655.
qu. before wliich our author Howe put an epistle to
tne reader. He died in his house m MUk-street in
the month of Aug. or beginning of Sept.* in sixteen
itisC. hundred fifty and six, and was buried, according to
his will, I suppose, in the church of S. Margaret
within the city of Westminster, in a gi-ave at least
six foot deep, on the left side of the body of his mo-
ther. He left behind him a choice library of books
of his faculty, but how they were bestowed I cannot
tell.

JOHN PENDARVES son of Jo. Pendar\es of
Crowan in the county of Comwal, was bom there,
or at least in that county, admitted a poor scholar or
servitor of Exeter coll. on the eleventh of Decemb.
in the year 1637, and in that of his age 15, where by
the benefit of a good tutor, he became a tolerable
disputant. In the latter end of 1641 he took the
degree of bach, of arts, and compleated it by deter-
mination. At which time all things in the nation
tending to a confusion, he left the coll. in July 1642,
sided with the rout, and by a voluble tongue having
[2051 obtained the way of canting, went up and down (un-
sent for) preaching in houses, barns, under trees,
hedges, &c. At length after several changes, he
settled his mind on anabaptism, and having got a
numerous multitude of disciples, made himself heatl
of them, defied all authority, contradicted and op-
• posed all orthodox ministers m their respective oflices
and employments, challenged them to prove their
calling, and spared not many times to interrupt
them m their pidpits, and to urge them to disputes.
At length after several challenges, Jasp. Mayne
D. D. ot Ch. Church (who had been much troubled
with him at Pyrton near Watlington in Oxfordshire)
utiat.i.o^lf *Q be his respondent. So that the eleventh
ot sept. Iboa, ^.oijjjr appointed for the encounter in
the church at Wathngv^n, were present innumerable
people on each sule ; but r..ndar^-es being back'd
with a great party of anabaptists ana \ho. scum of the
people, who behaved themselves very rude a,»A in-
solent, the disputation was so interrupted, that it

' [William How M.D. commoner of St. Johns in Oxdrd,
Idled as a physician first in Laurence Lane London, an' then

in Milk-street, wrot some good pieces Dyed at hU house

the last of August 1656, buried in S. Margaret's Westmin-
sier, by his inolhcr, 3 Sept. l6d6. Kennet.]

came to nothing. This fellow (who was lecturer at
Wantage, and iiastor to the anabaptists at Abingdon
in Berkshire) tlio' he accountetl himself a true oorn
English man, yet he wa.s so ill deserving to be
reckoned so, as that like to another Herostratus, he
(with his brethren) did endeavour by raising a de-
sperate combustion utterly to undo the distressed and
tottering church of England, which in few years be-
fore was accounted glorious and renowned. And as
we may really supjx)se that he cUd these things to no
other end but to gain wealth and make himself fa-
mous to posterity; so would it (I know) be account-
ed worthy by some, if my omission of his name could
bury him in oblivion. But so it is, that his works
are fled abroad, and have been, and are yet, enter-
tained by, and taken into the hands of, many ; and
therefore if I should do it 'twould be to little pur-
pose. The titles of such that I have seen are
these,

Jrrows against Babylon : or. Queries seriniig to
a clear Discovery of the Mystery of Iniquity. Lond.
1656. qu. Answer'd by Will. Ley minister of
Wanting alias Wantage, Christop. Fowler of Head-
ing, and Joh. Tickell of Abingdon, in Berks.

Endeavours Jbr Reformation in Saint '* Apparel.

Queries Jor the People culled Quakers. These

last two are printed with tlie ArrcKos against Ba-
bylon.

Prefatory Epistle to a BooTc entit. The Prophets
Malachy and Isaiah prophecying to tlie Saints
and Professors of this Generation, &c. Lond.
1656. qu.

Several sermons, as (1.) Of the Fear of the Lord;
on Rev. \5.Jbrmer part of the fourth Verse. Lond.
16.57. qu. &c. with others, " as also His Sighs for
Sion^ and other theolog. tracts, which I have not
yet seen, particularly the disputation between him
and doctor Mayne, which Pendarvcs and his party
printed, as I have heard, to their own advantage.
At length after a short life spent in continual agita--
tion, he surrendred up his last breath at London
about the beginning of Septemljer in sixteen hundred
fifty and six. Whose body thereupon being em-
bowelled and wrap'd up in sear-cloth by the care of
the brethren, and afterwards preparations made for
his funeral, the body was same weeks after conveyed
by water to Abingdon in Berks before-mentioned :
where being lotlgcd in a grocer's house on a Satur- '
day, was prayitxg^ and preaching by die anabaptists
in the said lv*«se on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday,
not withtHit reflections on the then government by
Oliver and endeavours made to raise mutinies.
About three of the clock in the afternoon of the said
Tuesday, being the 30th of Sept. and the next day
after that of S. Michael, his body was conducted
from the said house by the brethren, to a little gar-
den ground then lately purchased for a burial-place
for the anabaptists, situate and being in Oxstreet at
the west end of the said town, where it was with
great lamentation by them dejxjsited. At the same

1 656.

BIIICKBEK.

CAPEL.

422

time was such a great party of that faction present,
that Oliver being suspicious of some miscliief that
might arise, sent maj. general Joh. Bridges with
eight troops of horse to those parts, who taking up
his quarters at Wallingford, many of his men at-
tended in and near Abingdon during the time of
praying, preaching, and burying. After the burial,
[2061 ^^^^ tumults raised by preaching, which would have
ended in blows, had not the soldiers intercepted, and
sent them home.

SIMON BIRCKBEK, son of Tho. Birck. esq;
was born at Hornbie in Westmorland, became a
student in Queen's coll. in the year 1600, and that
of his age 16, where he was successively a poor
serving child, tabarder or poor child, and at length
fellow, being then master of arts. About which
time (viz. 1607) entring into holy orders, he became
a noted preacher in these parts, was esteemed a good
disputant, and well read in the fathers and school-
men. In 1616 he was admitted to the reading of
tlie sentences, and the year after became vicar ot the
church of Gilling, and of the chappel of Forcet near
Richmond in Yorkshire, by the favour of his kins-
man Humph. Wharton, esq; receiver-general of his
majesty's revenues within the archd. of Richmond,
die bishopric of Durham and county of Northum-
berland. In which place being settled, he was much
esteemed by the clergy and laity of the neighbour-
hood, for Ins exemplary life and conversation. He
hath written,

T'he Protestant '« Evidence, slieioing that for
1500 Years next after Christ, divers Guides of
God's Church have in sundry Points of Religion
taught as the Church of England now doth. Lond.
1634, [Bodl. 4to. B. 46. Th. Seld.] 35. qu. There
again with many additions in fol. an. 1657. [Bodl.
G. 8. 13. Th.] Tliis book was valued by Selden
and other learned men ; because therein the author
had taken great and worthy pains in producing out
of every century witnesses to attest the doctrine of
the church of England in the points by him produced
against the contrary doctrine of the Trent council
and church of Rome.

Answer to a Romish Antidotist. Lond. 1657. at
the end of the former book, printed in fol.

Treatise of Death, Judgment, Hell, and Heaven.
—He was buried in the chappel of Forcet before-
raention'd, on the 14th of Sept. in »xteen hundred
fifty and six, near to the font there. Over his grave
was soon after a grey marble stone laid, wi\h an in-
scription thereon engraven, which for brevity a. sake
I shall now pass by, and only tell you, that this our
author Birckbek submitted to the men in powei
in the times of usurpation, and therefore kept his be-
nefice without fear of sequestration.

iCifi.

RICHARD CAPEL was born of good parent-
age within the city of Gloucester, educated in gram-
mar leai-ning there, became a commoner of S. Alban s

hall in the be^ning of the year 1601, and in that
of his age 17, elected demy of Magd. coll. soon af-
ter, and in the year 1609 he was made perpetual
fellow of that house, being then mast, of arts, which
was the highest degree he t(M)k in this university. '
While he continued there, his eminency was greaiy
was resorted to by noted men, especially of the Cal-
vinian party, had many pupils put to his charge, of
whom divers became afWwards noted for their learn-
ing, as Accepted Frewen archb. of York, Will.
Pemble,« &c. Afterwards leaving the coll. upon the
obtaining of the rectory of Eastington in his own
country, became eminent there among the puritani-
cal party for his painful and practical way ot preach-
ing, his exemplary life and conversation, and in
doing many good offices for those of his function.
When the book concerning sports on the i^ord's day
was ordered to be read in all churches, an. 1633, he
refused to do it, and thereupon willingly resigning
his rectory, obtained licence to practise physic from
the bishop of Gloucester : so that settling at Pitch-
comb near to Strowd in the said county, (where he
had a temporal estate) was resorted to, especially by
those of his opinion, for his success in that faculty.
In the beginning of the grand rebellion he closed
with the presbyterians, was made one of the assem-
bly of divines, but refused to sit among them, and
was, as I conceive, restored to his benefice, or else
had a better confer'd on him. He was esteemed by
those of his opinion an excellent preacher, and one
that kept close to the footings of Jo. Dod, Rob.
Cleaver, Arth. Hildersham, and Jo. Rainolds; of
the last of whom he would often say, that he was as
learned a man as any in the world, as godly also [3071
as learned, and as humble as godly. He hath
written,

God's Valuation of Man's Soul, in two Sertnotu
on Mark 8. 36. Lond. 1632. qu.

Tentations ; tJieir Nature, Danger, and Cure ;
in Jour Parts. Lond. 1650. oct. &c. Each part
came out by it self before that time.

Brief Dispute touching Restitution in the Case

of Usury. Printed with the Tentations. This

Brief Dispute, with the Short Discourse of Usury,
by Rob. Bolton, and the Usurer Cast, by Chr. Jel-
linger, M.A. are replyed upon by T. P. — Lond-
1679. [Bodl. 8vo. S. 13. Jur.]

Apology in Defence of some Exceptions against
some Partindars in the Book of Tentations. Lond.
1659. oct.

Remains : being an useful Appendix to his ex-
cellent Treatise of Tentations, &c. Lond. 1658. oct.

s [The Period 'f the Persian Monarchie. Wherein sundry
Places of Nehemiah and Daniel are cleered : Exlraclea,
contracted, and Englished for the most Part out of Doctor
Raytiolds, by the late learned atid godly Man ff^lliam Pem-
ble nf Magdalen Halt in Oxford. Published and enlarged
since his Death by his Friend Richard Capel. Lond. iCSI,
13(k1I. 4to. B. 47. Jur. Capel, it seems, published another
work of Pemble'a. See these Athenje, vol. ii, col. 331.]

EE2

423

CAPEL.

WINGATE.

He paid liis last debt to nature at Pitchconib bcforc-
meution'tl on the 21st of Sept. in sixteen hundred
i6j6. fifty and six, and was buried witliin the precincts of
the eluirch there. His father s name was Christopher
Canel, a stout alderman of tlic city of Gloucester,
ana a <|;«xk1 friend to such ministers that had suffer'd
for nonconformity. He was \iovn at Hoo-cajjel in
Hex-efordshire, and by Grace his vfife, daughter of
Rich. Hands, had issue Rich. Capel beforo-men-
tion'd.

[Capel was of antient famUy in Herefordshire,
born A. D. 1586 ; his father alderman of Glou-
cester.

In tlie days of king James I. he attended at
court on the chicfest favorite, and continued there
till the death of that learned knight sir Tho. Over-
bury, his very friend. Some Jiccount of his life by
his friend Val. Marshall of Elmore, prefixed to his
Remains, Lond. 1658. 8vo. Taxner.]

EDMUND WINGATE, son of Rog. Wingate
of Bornend and Sharpenhoe in Bedfordshire, esq;
was Ikjiti in 1593, became a commoner of Queen's
coll. in 1610, and took one degree in arts ; which
being compleated by determination, he retired to
Greys-Inn, where he had entred himself before that
time a student for the obtaining knowledge in the
municitval laws. But his geny being more bent to
the noble study of mathematics, which had before
been promoted and encouraged in Queen's coU. did
at length arrive to great eminence in that faculty,
and was admired by tliose few in London that then
professed it. In 1624 he transported into France
the rule' of proportion, having a little before been
invented by Eclm. Gunter of Gresham coll. and
communicated it to most of the chiefest mathemati-
cians then residing in Paris : who apprehending the
great benefit that might accrue thereby, importun'd
him to express the use thereof in the French tongue.
Which being performed accordingly, he was advised
by monsieur Alleawne the king's chief engineer to
dedicate his book to monsieur the king's only brother,
since duke of Orleans. Nevertheless the said work
coming forth as an abortive (the publishing thereof
lieing somewhat hastned, by reason an advocate of
Dijon in Burgundy began to print some uses there-
of, which Wingate had in a friendly way communi-
cated to him) especially in regard Gunter himself
had learnedly explained its use in a far larger vo-
lume. For albeit it were great presumption in
Wingate to assume to himself the reputation of
having better abilities to describe any of the uses
thereof, yet he could averr upon his own knowledge,
that he did forbear to explain its use, because he
took it for granted, none would meddle with it, bu*
such only who were already well able to underst-«nd

' This nilr of proporiion in arithm. and geopietry was

rectified by Mr. Browne and Mr. .Tam. Atliinsoii,

teachen of the mathcinaticks, pr. at Loud. 16S3. in tw.

how to number upim it, having l)efore hand ac-
quainted themselves with the manner of numbring
upim scales, and with tlie natiue of logarithms.
After our author Wingate's return from France,
where he taught the king's daughter Henrietta Ma-
ria (afterwards queen of England) and her ladies
the English tongue, he im]X)rtun'd Gunter to make
a fuller explanation lv>w to number upon it, (viz. the
rule of proiwrtion) to the end that the use thereof
might by that means be made more public; but his
answer was, ' That it could not be expected that the
rule should speak,' intimating thereby, that the
practitioner should (in that point) rely much upon
discretion, and not altogether depend upon precepts
and examples. Some time before the grand rebel-
lion broke out, he the said Wingate became a bencher
of Greyi»-Inn, (having a seat then at Ampthill in
Bedfordshire) afterwards took the covenant, was
made justice of the peace, recorder of Bedford, and
had other places of profit conferr'd on him. In
1650, or therealxjuts, he took the oath called the
engagement, became known to Oliver, and was one
of the six persons that were elected for the town and
county of Bedford to serve in that parliament called
by Oliver that met at Westminster 3 Sept. 1654,
about which time he was appointed one of the com-
missioners for his coimty of Bedford to eject such
whom they then called ignorant and scandalous mi-
nisters and schoolmasters. He hatli written.

The Use of the Rule of' Proportion in Arith-
metic and Geometry, therein it inxo'ted the Con-
striictio7i and Use of the same Rule in Questions
that concern Astronomy, Dialing; Geometry, Na-
vigation, Gaging, S^c. Prmted at Paris in

the French language 1624. in oct. [Bodl. 8vo. A.
91. Th.] and at Lond. in 1645 [Bodl. 8vo. F. 1.
Art. BS.l and 58. in oct. [Bodl. 8vo. T. 15.
Th. BS.]

Of natural and artififial Arithmetic (or Arith~
metic made easy) in two Rooks. Lond. 1630. oct.
[Bodl. 8vo. W. 2. Art. Seld.] with An Ap^yetidia
concerning Eqiuition of Time. The first of which
books, which treats of natural aritlimetic, is only a
key to open the secrets of the other, performed by
logarithms; and lx)th bon-owed from John Neper
ban)n of Markiston in ScotJand, and Hen. Brigges.
But that way and method which our author takes,
is not bv multipli«ition and division, but by addi-
tion and substniction, by which a man may resolve
more ques«ons in one hour than by the other in a
whole cmV. In 1650 the first of die said hooks was
reprJnted at London in oct. [Bodl. 8vo. W. 3. Art.
Srfd.] and enlarged with divers chapters and neces-
sary rules, and an appendix of John Kersey, teacher
of the mathematics in London, and surveyor, born
at Bodicot near Banbury in Oxfordshire, an. 1616,
and died in Chandois-street near S. Martin's lane
in Westminster of a consumpticm alxiut 1677, after
he had publishetl two volumes Of Algebra in fol.
&c. The second book was enlarged and reprinted

WINGATE.

42d

bv our author Winwate at London 1652. fx;t. [B(m11.
8vo. W. 4. Art. Seld.] &c.

Tables of Logarithms of the right Sines and
Tangents of all the Degrees and Minutes of f/ie
Quadrant : To which is annexed their Use for tlie
llesoltUion of all the most necessary Problems in
Geometry, Astronomy, Geographij, and Naviga-
tion, &c. Lond 1633. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. W. 23. Art.]
It is printed with tlic Table of Logarithms of all
Numbers from 1 to 100000. contracted by- Nathan
Roe, niiiiister of Benacre in Suffolk.

77te Construction and Use of the Logarithmeti-

cal Tables, and Resolution of Triangles, &c.

This book was first written and published in French,

afterwards in English Lond. 1635. oct. [Bodl.

8vo. W. 5. Art. Seld.] The said treatise is nothing
else but an orderly compendium, as well of the con-
struction, as also of the joint and several uses of
Brigges his logarithms of the sines and tangents of
all the degrees and minutes of the quadrant : And
altho^ this our author s tables be not the very same
as theirs, yet are they all taken and collected out of
them, and do all participate of the self-same nature
and operation.

A71 exact Abridgment of all Statutes in Force and
Use frovi the beginning of Magna Charta until
1641. Lond. 1642 and 1655. oct. [Bodl. Svo. J. 11.
Jur.] continued under all their proper titles, of all
acts in force and use, until the year 1670, &.c. by T.
M. Lond. 1670, in a thick oct. Thence conti-
nued to 1681. " in a large" (x!t. [Bodl. Svo. W. 11.
Jur. and again Lond. 1694, Bodl. Svo. A. 47. Jur.]'*
This abridgment hath been made use of upon divers
occasions both in studies and employments, espe-
cially at the as.sizes and sessions of peace.

The Body of (lie Common Laic if England, as it
stood in Force before it was altered by Statutes or
Acts of Parliament or State ; together zvith a Col-
lection of such Statutes as have altered, or do other-
wise concern, the same. Lond. 1655. oct. 2d edit.
[Bodl. Svo. J. 12. Jur. third edit. Lond. 1662,
Bodl. Svo. B. 34. Jur. Seld. fourth edit. 1678.]

Ludus Mathematicus : or, an Explanation of the
Deseription, Construction, and Use of the Nume-
rical Table (f Proportion. Lond. 1654. oct. [Bodl.
Svo. H. 48. Art. Seld.]

Construction and Use of the Line of Proportion,
whereby the hardest Questions tf Arithmetic and
Geometry in brolcen and zchole Numbers are re-
solved by Addition and Substruction. LiA\d. in oct.

Tactometria, seu Tetagne-nometria, or, tlw. Geo-
metry (f Regulars practically proposed (fler an
exact and neio Manner, zvith Rules for gageing
Ve-isels. Lond. in oct.

The exact Surveyor of Land, to plot all Grounds,
to reduce and divide the same, by the plain Table,
77tcolodite, and Circumferentor, &c. Lond. in oct.

" [Worrall omits this edit, but gives the dates of two other
cclilions : viz. 1663, lOaO. The latter I doubt.]

Maxims of Reason: or, the Reason of the Com-
mon Laxo of England. Lond. 1658. fol. [Bodl. M.
6. 10. Jur.'l

Justice Revived: Being the wJiole Office of a
Country Justice of I'eace ; briejly and yet more
methodically than ever yet extant. Lonil. [1661 J
oct.i* said to be written in the title by E. W. 01'
Greys-inn, esq; wliich I take to be our author Edni.
Wingate.

" A Table of Accounts very useful for aU Sorts
" of Tradesmen tw." '

Statuta Pacis : or, the Table of all the Statutes
which any Way concerned the OJfice (fa Justice of
Peace, the several Duties (f Sheriff's, Head-Officers
of Cotporatk>ns, Stewards i/J Leets, Constables, &c.
Lond. in tw.

The exact Constable, with his Original, and
Power in the Offices of Churcli-wardens, Over.ieers
of tJie Poor, Surveyors of the Higli-ways, Trea-
surers of the County-stock, and other inferior Offi-
cers, 8ic. Lond. in tw. said to be written by E. AV.
of Greys-inn, esq; which I take to be our author.
He also published Britton (sometimes bishop of
Hereford, as 'tis said) An ancient Treatise of the
LaxD. Lond. 1640. oct. 2d edit. What other b<x)ks
he hath written or published I know not, nor any
thing material of him besides, only that he dying in
Greys-inn-lane in Holbourn near London, was bu-
ried in S. Andrew's church there, on the 13th day
of December in sixteen hundred fifty and six, and
that (as I have been informed) he wa-s master of
arts of this university, and born at Sharptnho be*
fore-mention'd : Both which I take to be false, be-
cause that his admission to that degree occurs not
in the pubhc register, and that in the Book of Ma-
triculation sub. tit. ' Coll. Regina;' he is matriculated
as a Yorkshire man born (his fatlier or uncle hav-
ing then lands at Flamburg and Great Kelk in that
county) as his elder brother Roger was, an. 1608.

lWingate''s Remains: or the ClerFs Tutor to
Arithmetiek and Writing. Being a Miscellany
Arithmetical and Mathematical. Containing all
the plain and general Rules of Arithmetiek, Com-
putation of Interest, both simple and compound.
Valuation of Leases and Annuities. The Mea.mring
of Board, Glass, Timber, Stone, Gauging of Casks,
and the Measuring of Land. With Variety of
Tables useful in Trade or Commerce, ready cast
up. Also a Copy-Book of Mr. Cocker's, Consist-
ing of the most necessary Hands' ti^ed in Fyngland.
The .Kcond Edition, by Edmund Wingate F^q.
Lond. 1676, Svo. Bod'l. Svo. P. 145. Art. The
first edition of this work was printed under the title
of Tlic Clark's Tutor, London, 1671. See it in

' iJuslice Revived, being the whole Office qf a Country
Justice, by E. JV. of Grays Inn Esq. Lond. l6(5l, 13mo.
seems to be a new title page to the old book. Tanner]

' [Priin»d London 1694, at the end of John Beilby's Se-
veral useful and necessary Tables for the Gauging nf Casks,
&c. in 12mo. Bodl. 8vo. S. 172. Art.]

lf)5<).

427

STANWIX.

GEKEE.

BLANE.

[210]

160O.

Bodl. 8vo. O. 46. Art. Cocker's Copy Book, which
was engraved, as well as written, by himself, apjiear-
ed fkst in 1667, as Tlie ClerkS Tutor for yVrithig-.'i

RICHARD STANWIX, son of James Stan-
wix, was bom of an ancient and genteel family with-
in the city of Carlisle in Cumberland, educated in
the free-school there under Mr. Tho. Robson some-
time of Queen's college, admitted a poor serving
cliild of the said house, being then put under the
tuition of Mr. Charles Robson (son of Thorn, be-
fore-mention'd) about 1625, aged 17 years: where
profiting much in good letters, was made one of the
tabarders about the time that he was standing for
the degree of bach, of arts, and fellow, when master.
About that time entring into holy orders, he was
soon after, through the recommendations of liis pro-
vost Dr. Potter, made chaplain to Tho. lord Co-
ventry lord keei^r of the great seal of England,
and after his death to John lord Finch, (who suc-
ceeded him in that honourable office of L. K.) our
author then being bach, of divinity. Soon after the
said L. Finch withdrawing himself to the Nether-
lands, U}ion the a])proaching troubles in the long
parUament, which tineatned his ruin, our author re-
turned to his college, where continuing for some
time without expectation of any advancement in
the church, was at length preferred by sir Rich. Sal-
tonstail (sometimes of Queens coll.) to the rectory
of Chipping-Warden in Northamptonshire, which
he kept, during the time of the civil war, to his
death. He hath written,

A Holy Life here, the only Way to Eternal Life
Jtereqfter: or, a Discourse gi-ounded on 2 Cor. 10.
4. yVfurein this Truth is especially asserted, that
a Holy Life, or the habitual Observing of the Laws
of Christ, is indispensably necessary to Salvation.
Lond. 1652. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. A. 74. Line] &c.

Appendix laying open the common Neglect of the
said Laws among Christians, and vindicatirig sitch
Necessity of observing them from tliose general Ex-
ceptions that are loont to be made against it

printed with the former. He had also prepared
anodier book for the press concerning the Socmian
controversies, which is not yet made public. At
length, after he had submitted to the men in power,
during the times of usurpation, yielded to the stroke
of death in sixteen hundred fifty and six, or there-
abouts. Whereupon liis body was buried m the
church of Chipping-Wardcn before mentioned. To
which place I did formerly send for his epitaph,
thinking therein to receive more knowledge of the
person, but no return hath been yet made.

[WootVs complaint of no return to his letters in
search of information relative to the subjects of Ivs
work, "lay, I am sorry to remark, be rejx-ated even
in these days. I feel however the more obliged to
many gentlemen whose kind attentions have render-
ed the remark inapplicable to tliemselves-

In the chancel of Cheping-Warden church, on a

brass plate, lying on a grave-stone, is the following
inscrijjtion.

Upon the death of Richard Stanwix B. D. rector
of this j>arish, who died upon the 8th of April,
1656.

Here underneath this stone, amongst the mould,
Lyes he, whose praise and worth cannot be told.
Admire we may, but never can we speak.
How godly, learned, prudent, grave and meek
This our friend was. In heaven sure many such.
Of whom ne'er could be spoken half so much.
Rest then, blest soul! may all to whom thou

preach'dst.
Live as thou didst, and practise what thou

teach'dst.
In this their race (like thee) then none shall faint.
And each be, as thou art, a glorious saint.=]

STEPHEN GEREE, elder brother to Jo. Ge-
ree mention'd under the year 1648, was a Yorkshire
man born, and at 17 years of age, an. 1611, became
a student in Magd. hall, where going through the
courses of logic and philosophy, took one dcgi'ee in
arts, afterwards holy orders, and was either a mini-
ster or schoolmaster, or both. In the time of re-
bellion I find him minister of Wonnersh near to
Guildford in Surrey, at which time being a zealous
brother for the cause that was then driven on by
the saints, he was removed to a better place called
Abinger in the said county. His works are these,

Several sermons, as (1.) The Ornament of Wo-
men : or, a Description of tfie true Excellency of
Women, Serm. at the Funeral of Mrs. Elizab.
Machel, 15 Apr. 1639, m Prov. 31. 29, 30. Lond.
1639. in tw. [Bodl. 8vo. G. 40. Th.] and others
which I have not yet seen.

The Doctrine of the Antinomians by Evidence of
God's Truth plainly confuted: in an A7iswer to
divers dangerous Doctrines in the seven first Ser-
mons of Dr. Tob. Crisp's fourteen, which were first

published, &c. Lond. 1644. qu.^ " This book

" was answered by Rob. Lancaster."

Tlie Golden Mean, being some Considerations,
togetlier with some Cases of Coiiscieme resolved,
for a more frequent Admin istratimi of the Sacra-
ment of the Lord's Supper. Lond.1656.au. What
other books or sermons he hath written I know not,
nor any thing qUe of him.

ALA^ BLANE or Blaxey, a Cumberland
man Iwrn, son of Tho. Blaney rector of Acton or
Avfceton in the same county, became a jwor serving
^hild of Queen's coll. in thie beginning of the year
1625, aged 16 years, (afterwards tabarder, but ne-
ver fellow) took the decrees in arts, that of master
being compleate<l in 1632, holy orders, and hatl a
benefice confer'd on him, but lost it in the time of
rebellion. Afterwards he retired to Standish in

» [Bridges, Hul. 0/ Northamptonshire, i, 11?.]

Clar.
1056.

HIGFORD.

CRANFORD.

430

Gloucestershire, lived there with the tenant of the
great farm belonging to Joh. Button of Shirburne
m the said county, esij; preached there and at Whit-
minster a small curacy near it, but never had any
living, or was a settled incumbent in that diocese,
only much countenanced in his labours by the said
Button : To whom lie dedicated this book following.
Fe-Horum Metropolis. The Metropolitan Femt :
or, the Birth Day of our Saviour Jesus Christ,
proved hu Scriptures to be annuallu kept Holy, &c.
Lond. 1652. qu. published under the name or letter

B. who calls himself ' Pastor fido, in exile.' It was
printed there again in 1654. oct. under the name of
Alan Blaney, and answered by John CoUinges ba-
chelor (afterwards doctor) of divinity, and minister
of S. Stephen's church in the city of Norwich, in a
book entit. A Caveat for old and new Prophaneness,
&c. Lond. 1653. qu. In which book he also an-
swers that of Edw. Fishei-, esq; entit. A Christian
Caveat to the old and new Sabbatarians : or a Vin-
dication of our old Gospel Festivals, &c. Our au-
thor Blaney translated also from Latin into English,
Synagoga Judaica, &c. Written by Joh. Biix-

-,. torfius — Lond. 1656. qu. and perhaps other things.

165O. Much about that time he left Standish, and lived
near Berkley in Gloucestershire. At length retiring
to London, died there, as I have been informed by
the chanc. of the dioc. of Glouc. who made enquiry
after him at or neai- Berkley.

WILLIAM HIGFORB an esquire's son, was
born at, or near to, Alderton in Gloucestersliire,
became a gent. com. of Oriel coll. in 1595, and
being soon after translated to that of Corp. Clu".
was put under the tuition of Seb. Benefeild, where
[211] by the benefit of good discipline and natural parts,
he became a well qualified gentleman. Afterwards
taking a degree in arts, he retired to his father's
seat, became a justice of peace, and much respected
by the lord Chandois, and other jjersons of quality
in his country. He left behind him a large book
in MS. of his own writing, entit.

Institutions, or Advice to his Grandson, in 3

Parts Which being epitomized or contracted

by Clem. Barksdale a minister in Gloucestershire,
was by him published at Lond. 1658. in oct. [Bodl.
8vo. B. 3. Art. BS.] Other matters fit for the press
he left behind him ; which being not understood by
his children, were lost. He died m his house at
Bixton near to Alderton on the sixth day of Apr.
1C57. ^^ sixteen hundred fifty and seven, and in that of
his age 77. His father also had been educated in

C. C. coll. under 'the tuition of Will. Cole, and hia
grandfather sir John Higford, under Joh. Jewell,
both whom were afterwards zealous puritans, as the
son was.

[There is an account of the Higford family in
Rudder's History of Gloucestershire, page 220,
from which it apix;ars that he married Mary, daugh-
ter of John Meulx of the isle of Wight, and had a

son John born in the year 1607, whose descendant
tiie rev. Henry Higford was rector of Alderton and
lord of the manor of Bixton wlien Rudder pubhsh-
ed, an. 1779. The name was formerly written Hug>
ford.

Sir John Higford, mentioned by Wood, was
knighted by queen Elizabeth in her progress to
Sudeley castle, Gloucesters. See Nichols's Pro-
gresses ofEliz. vol. 2.

The title of Higford's book as pubUshed by Barks-
dale is The Institution of a Gentleman in III Parts.
Ijy William Higford Esq. Virtus verus Ilonos.
London, Printed bij A. W. for William Lee at the
TurFs Head in Fleet Street, 1666.' 12in<). pp. 97.
with a dedication to lord Scudamore, autl ;uldress
to the generous reader by Barksdale. Before the
book is Epitaphium Guliclmi Higford,* and Fama
loquitur, m English verse, in praise of Higford.

At p. 28, he says, Tiie lord Edmund Chandos,
knight of the garter, in mucli infirmity of Inxly did
advance towards Glocester to do sir John Higford
honour, when he was first high siierifF, but falling
more sick in the journey, returned to his castle
(Sudeley) and died before the a.ssizes were ended.
The lord Giles Chandos employed sir Jolin Higford
in the government of his estate and in the lieute-
nancy of the county, and for his good service done
therein promoted Iiim with the order of a knight
(in those days communicable only to persons of
worth and quahty) 14 Sept. 1591.

Again p. 42, Sir John Higford, who was an emi-
nent man in his country, had for his tutor the fa^
nious bishop Jewel ; my father doctor Cole, an ex.-
ceilent governour; myself doctor Sebastian Bene-
field, native of I'resbury,' a very learned man : all
three of Corpus Christi coU. Oxon.

At J). 29, speaking of himself, Higford says. The
lord Grey Chandos truely noble bpth in leai-ning
and amies, brought me first into the commission of
the peace, and did me many graces both in court
and country. Pabk.]

JAMES CRANFORB, son of Jam. Cranford
master of the free-school at Coventry, was bom in
that city, became either commoner or batler of Ba-
liol coll. in Lent term 1617, aged 15 years or there-
abouts, took the degrees in arts, entred into the
sacred function, became rector of Brookhall or
Brockold in Northamptonshire, and at length of S.
Christopher le Stocks near to the Old Exchange in
London, which, if I mistake not, he obtained upon
the ejection of a loyalist in the beginning of the
grand rebellion. He was a painful preacher as to

' [This must be a second edit, or a new liilc-page to that
of Ifi58. Edit.]
■• [Hlcjacet Higford us. Quis? Saxo sufiicit isti
Jnscnptum nomen : Caetera Fama docet.
Higford lyes here : we onely write his name
Upon the grave, and leavcthe rest to fame.]
' [Sec these Athene, vol. ii. col. 487.]

431

CRANFORD.

BLAKE.

the d(x;trinc lie pi-ofesseil, (iK-ing a zealous presby-
terian) an exact liiiiruist, veil acquainted witli the
fathers, not unknown to the selux)hnen, and fami-
liar with the modern di^•ines. He hath written,

CoJi/'ittatioii of' the Anahaptwts. Lond. in qu.

ETposition on the Prophesies of Daniel. Lond.
1644. «|u.

Hwresco-Machin : or, the Mischief rehieh Here-
sies do, and the Means to jrrevent them. Serin, in
PavTs before the Ijyrd Mm)<yr, 1 Fehr. 1645 ;
rwi 2 Tim. 2. 17. Lond. 1646. qu. What other
books he hath published I know not, nor anv thing
else of him, only that he concluding his last day on
1637. the 27th of Apr. in sixteen Iiundred fifty and seven,
was buried in the church of S. Christopher before-
mention'd. In the beginning of the rebellion he
was appointed by the presbyterians a licenser of the
press m London, which gave him occasion to write
several epistles before books that were to be pub-
lished;^ one of which was set before a Ixjok entitled.
The Tears of Ireland, wherein is represented a
List of the unheard-of Cruelties of hlood-tMrsty
Jesuits and the Popish Faction. liond. 1642. oct.
Which lx)ok, as I have been informetl by one of his
persuasion, was also collected by him. Qianr ?

[1642. 16 Jan. Jacobus Cranford A. M. coll. ad
eccl. Sancti Christopheri Lond. per resign. Joh.
Hansley. Rcff. Land.

1660. 17 Aug. Joh. Pierson S. T. P. coll. ad
rectoriam S. Christopheri juxta le Stocks, London,
per mort. Jacobi Cranfortl S. T. P.

He left a son, James Cranford, who succeeded
his father in the church of St. Christophers, and
died in August 1 660. Kennet.]

THOMAS BLAKE, a Staffordshire man born,
w^as entred into Ch. Ch. in the year 1616, and in
that of his age 19, (but whether in the condition of
a student or servitor, I know not) took the degrees
in arts, holy orders, and had some petit employment
in the church bestowed on him. At length when
the presbytcrian began to be dominant, he adhered
to that party, " subscribed to tJie lawful words oJ\
" the Covenant 1648, among- the ministers qfShrop-
■" shire,'"* and soon after shewing him-
* '""^ '** self a zealous brother while he was pas-
first edii' ^^ "^ ^- Alkmond's in Shrewsbury,
(where I find him in 1647,) he received
a call, and was made minister of Tamworth in Staf-
fordshire and Warwickshire, Avhere also being a
constant preacher up of the cause, was thought fit
by Oliver and his council to be nominated one of
tne assistants to the conmiissioners of Staffordshire,
for the ejecting of such, whom they then called ig-
norant and scandalous ministers and schoolmast/?rs.
His works are these,

BirtKs Privilege : or. Right of Infants Bap-

" [Sec two prefixed to the first and second parts of ^A-
wanh's Cangra:na, Lond. 1O46, Jiodl. B. 4. 1. Line, anil
4to. B. 47. Jur.]

tlnn. Lond. 1644. qu. In which year one Charles
JiliK-kwtxxl having published a took entit TTie
Storming of Antichrist in his two strong Gurri-
sons, o/' Compulsion of Conscience, and Jnfanfs
Baptism, &c. Our author came out with aliother
book entit.

Infants Baptism freed from Anti~Ch ristianism ;
against Mr. Blackwood, kc. Lond. 1645. qu. Af-
terwards our author published.

An Answer to Mr. Tombes his Letter, in Vindi-
cation of the Birth, Privilege, or Covenant Holi-
ness of Believers and their Issue, in the Time of
the Gospel, together with the Right of Infants to
Baptism, &c. Lond. 1646. See more in Jo. Tombes.

Vindicicc Fcuderi-s. A Treatise oftlie Covenant
of God with Mankind, in the several Kinds and
Degrees (f it : wherein the Condition of the Cove-
nant (f Grace cm Mmi's Part is asserted, &:c. seve-
ral Corollaries containing many controverted Heads
of Divinity, ^c. Infant Baptism maintained in its
Latitude, &c. Lond. 1653. qu.

The Covenant scaled : or, a Treatise of the Sa-
crament of both Covenants Polemical and Practi-
cal; specially oftlie Sacrament oftJie Covenant of
Grace, &c. Lond. 1655. qu. [Bodl. 4to. L. 42. Th.]
C^ommended to the reader by the epistles of Hich.
Vines of S. Laurence Jewry in Lond. and Christop.
Cartwright of York.

Postscript to the rev. and learned Mr. Rich.
Baatcr, in which these folloioing Questions are
friendly debated, ^c. with an Encptiry into the
Judgment (f Anti(pnty about .several Things in
Refrcnce to Justif cation — This postscript is added
to The Covenant scaled, &c.

Mr. Jo. Humphrey's second Vindication of a
Disciplinary, Anti-Era.stiati, Orthodox, Free Admis-
sion to the I,ord''s Supper taken into Considei'ation.
Lond. 1656. qu. Tins is written by way of letter.

Several sermons, a.s (1.) Serm. on Gal. 2. 15. —
printed 1644. qu. (2.) Serm. cm Acts 20. 36. &c,
— sprinted 1658. qu. and others which I have not
yet seen, nor his * Meditations, called
Living Truths in dying Times, print- * inr Ins An
ed in 1665. in tw. He was buried in
the church at Tamworth before-men-
tioned on the eleventh day of June, in
sixteen hundred fifty and seven, at
which time manj' of the ministers and
others of tl^e neighbourhood being
present.. Mr. Anth. Burgess' of Sut^
ton polneld stept up into the pulpit and preached

'V [A. Bnrgess coll. Jo. quiulr. adm. in malr. acad. Cant.
Jnl. 3, l6'J3. lie". Acad. Caul. Deiu socius coll. Eman.
Cant, ciroa an. IO37. Baker.

See a letter from sir Francis Bacon to sir George Villiers,
de-iring his interest to restore Dr. Burgess to prench, and, if
possible, to procure him the preachership of Gray's Inn.
Letters of Sir F. Bucun. Lond. 17l>2, page IO7. 1 have not
been able to see his sermon at the funeral of Blake, though
I have inspected a volume, containing one hundred and
twenty of his discourses, in Exeter college library.]

stvcr to H.
Co.r, uloul
I'tcc Admis-
sion to the
Sacrament,
and his Me-
ditations 4:c.
firsl edit.

1657.

WATS.

LANGLEY.

434

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i6a7.

his funeral seniMiii, wlitTciii, in the conehision, he
sail! many things of the defunct relating to his
learning and gcxiliness. The sermon is scarce, and
I could never see a copy of it, otherwise I might
have been more large oi our learned author.

GILBERT WATS, of kin to Rotherani the
second founder of Line. coll. became either a batlcr
or servitor of that house in the year 1607, took the
degrees in arts, and in 1616, Nov. 9, was elected
feUow thereof for the coimty of York. Afterwards
he lx>came a very florid preacher, tho' seldom ap-
peared in public, and in 1642, when the king and
nis court were in Oxon, he was actually created
doct. of divinity. He was a person that understood
several languages well, was esteem'd an excellent
wit, and a master ot so smooth a pen, whether m
Lat. or English, that no man of his time exceeded
him. He hath translated from Lat. into English
the lord Bacon's book entitled, De Augmentis
Scientiarum. Lond. 1633. Oxon. 1640. qu. &c.
In which work he hath come so near that English
part which was originally written by the said lord,
that it is a hard matter to discover any difference
in their stiles, as was the general vogue of scholars
living when the translation first came out. Since
tliat time, but many years after, have been some
who have wished, that a translation had been set
forth, in which the gcny and sjririt of tlie lord Ba-
con had more appeared ; and in a letter written and
subscribed by certain gentlemen to Dr. Will. Raw-
ley his sometimes chaplain, it appears that they

were importunate for another version, ' It is

our humble sute to you (say » they) and we do ear-
nestly solicite you to give your self the trouble to
correct the too much tlefective translations of the
book De Anff. Scientiarum, which Dr. Wats hath
set forth. It is a thousand pities that so worthy a
piece should lose its grace and credit by an ill ex-
positor, since those persons who read that transla-
tion, taking it for genuine, and upon that presump-
tion not regarding the Latin edition, are thereby
robbed of that lienefit, which (if you would please
to undertake the business) they might receive. This
tendeth to the dishonour of that noble lord, and the
hindrance of the atlvancement of learning,' &c.
The said Dr. Wats also did translate from Ital.
into Engl. Davila's lx)ok containing The History
of the Civil Wars of France; but sir Ch. CottereU
and William Aylesbury, esq; having had the start
of him in that work, prevented him from printing
it. He died at Einsham near to Oxon, in his re-
turn from the city of Bath, (where he had overcome
his antient body by too much sweating) on the
ninth dav of Sept. in sixteen hundred fifty and se-
ven, and was buried in that chancel of All-saints

* See Daconica : or the Lord Bacons Remains. Loud.
1O71J. in Oct. p. t6, 27.
Vol. III.

church in Oxon, commonly calle<l the college chan-
cel. Its belonging to Lincoln coll. and not to the pa-
rish of All-saints. At which time he left behind
him these three MSS. of his comjwsition, which
would have l)een published by tiie author had he
lived a little longer, viz. (1.) DigressimiJi rm tlie
Advancement to Learning. (2.) An Apology far
the Instauration of Sciences. (3.) Imperial Po-
It tic 9

[1642, 11 Jun. Gilb. Watts S. T. B. admiss. ad
ecclesiam de Willingale-Doe, com. Essex, per pro-
motionem Tho. Winniffe S. T. P. ad episcopatum
Line, ad pres. regis. Reg. London.

Jo. Redman A. M. ad eand. eccl. de Willingale-
Doe, 19 Jul. 1660, per mort. Gilb. Watts ad pres.
regis, per lapsum. Reg. I^ondon. Kennet.

Gilbert Watts was son to Richard Watts, who
was son of John Watts of Mickleton co. Salop, by
Ann his wife, daughter of Richard Scott alias Ro-
theram of Barnes-liall in the parish of Ecclesfield,
West Riding co. York. Hence his relationship to
Scott alias Rotherham the second founder of Lin-
coln college. See the will of that prelate published
by Hearne, with the Liber niger, in which the ma-
nor of Barnes &,c. is bequeathed to his cousin John
Scott. The Scotts of this place ended in a sir Ri-
chard Scott, who died 17 July, 1638, and who has
a handsome monument in the church of Ecclesfield,
on which is a very long inscription in Latin, perhaps
written by his kinsman Gilbert Watts. To the
elder brother of this Gilbert, viz. Richard Watts,
M. A. fellow of Trinity college, Cambridge, vicar
of Chesterton, and chaplain to Thomas carl of Straf-
ford, sir Richard Scott left his estate at Barnes.
There were several other brothers of Gilbert Watts,

Richard Watts -was the progenitor of a family
living in good repute, for several generations, at
Barnes-hall. Two of his grandsons were clergy-
men : viz. Richanl Watts of Trin. coll. Camo.
M. A. vicar of Harworth in Nottinghamshire, and
William Watts, D. D. fellow of Lincoln college,
Oxford, chaplain to the bishop lord Crew, and pre-
bendary of Durham. See Hutchinson's Hist, (yf
Durham, ii, 194. At length the family ended in
an heiress, who married sir William Horton of Cha-
derton, bart. and was mother of sir Watts Horton
who died, not long ago, at Hereford.

Mr. Watson, who wrote the History of Halifax,
collected an account of this family, tor his tinend
sir William Horton. The above particulars are
from his papers. Hunteb.]

JOHN LANGLEY was born near Banbury in
Oxfordshire, became a com. or batler of Magd. hall
about the year 1612, took the degrees in arts, and
some years after was made master of tlie college
school in, and prebendary of the cath. church of,
Gloucester. In which school teaching about 20
years, was elected chief ma.ster of that of S. Paul

435

LANGLEY.

GUMBLEDEN.

FRENCH.

1657.

in Lond. in the nwni of Dr. Alex. Gill, in Jan.
1640, wliere, as at Glouc. he educate<l many wlio
were afterwards serviceable in church and state.
He was learned in the whole body of learning, and
not only an excellent linguist, grammarian, histo-
riaai, co9nH)grapher and artist, but a most judicious
divine, and so great an antiquary, that his deliglit
and knowledge in antii|uitics, especially those of our
own nation, doth deserve greater commendation
than I can now in a few lines express. He was be-
loved of leariKxl men, particularly of Selden, and
those that atlhered to the long parliament, but had
not much e.?teem from the orthodox clergy, because
be was a puritan, and afterwards a witness against
archb. Laud at liis tryal, as may be elsewhere" seen.
He hath written,

Totiu^ Rketorkw Adumbrat'to in Usum Scholw
Paulina;. Camb. 1644. Lond. 1650. &c. oct.

Introduction of Grammar. — Several times print-
ed. He also translated from Lat. into English the
book of Polid. Virgil, entit. De Rerum Inventori-
bus; which book had been translated by Job. Bale
in the tmie of K. Ed. 6. but in old and rude Eng-
lish. Our author Langley also had made several
collections of histories and antiquities, that he had
gathered in his travels through several parts of Eng-
land ; which, after his death, coming into the pos-
^ssion (as 'tis said) of his brother Uving near Ban-
bury, he sold them with his collection of coins,
merely for money sake. He died in his house joyn-
ing to S. Paul's school on the 13th day of Sept. in
sixteen hundred fifty and seven, and was buried in
Mercer's chappel in Chcapside : at which time A
Funeral Sermon on Acts 7. 22. touching the Use
of Human Learning, was preached by Dr. Edw.
Reynolds, sometime dean of Christ Church in Oxon,
wherein he said much to the honour of the defunct.
The reader is to note, that one John Langley was
minister of West Tuderley in Hampshire, was elect-
ed one of the assembly of divines in 1643, and after-
wards became a pubhsher of several matters of di-
vinity ; but he is not to be understood to be the
same with the former Job. Langley.

[Langley had a very awfull presence and speech,
tha.t struck a mighty respect and fear in his scholars,
which however wore off after they were a httle used
to him, and, through his management, they both
feared him and loved him. He was so fearful of any
miscarriage in the duties of his place, that in a for-
mer sickness he desired, if he should then have died,
to have been buried at the school door, in regard he
had in his ministration there come short of the du-
ties which he owed unto the school. He was so
■ much in favour with the company of mercers, that
they accepted of his recommendation of his suc-
cessor.

When he was buried, ail the scholars attended

• In Canlerbtfry's Doom, p. 75, &c.

his fimeral, walking before the corps (hung with
verses instead of eschutcheons) from the school to
Mercer's chappel, with white gloves on.']

JOHN GUMBLEDEN, a Hampshire man
born, was entred a batler of Broadgate's hall in the
latter end of 1616, aged 18 years, made student of
Ch. Ch. soon after, took the degrees in arts, preach-
ed at Longworth in Berkshire several years, and
was admitted to the reading of the sentences in [214]
1632. Upon the turn of the times he sided with
the presbyterians, became chaplain to Robert earl
of Leicester, and afterwards for a short time rector
of Coytie in Glamorganshire. He hath pubhshed,

Several sermons, as (1.) Serm. on Gen. 6. 5, 6, 7.
—printed 1626. qu. (2.) Serm. on Gen. 22. 1,2.
— print. 1627. qu. (3.) God's great Mercy to Man-
kind in Jesus Christ, at Paurs Cross 1628; on
Isa. 53. 6. Oxon.« 1628. qu. [Bodl. 4to. M. 46. Th.]
(4.) Two Sermons preached before the Univ. of
Oxon. on Matth. 11. 28. and an Acts 10. 3, 4.
Lond. 1657. qu. as also another on Acts 1. from 1,
to 5, which I have not yet seen.

Christ tempted, the Devil conqucj-ed: or, a short
Exposition on Part of the fourth Chapter of St.
Matthew's Gospel. Lond. 1657. qu. He concluded
his last day in September or October, in sixteen 1657.
hundred fifty and seven, and was buried in the
chancel of the church at Coytie before-mention'd.
He had other things of the like nature, fit for the
press, lying by him ; which, had he lived, he would
have published.

JOHN FRENCH, son of John French of
Broughton near to Banbury in Oxfordshire, was
born at Broughton, entred into New Inn 1633, age<J
17 years, t<x)k the degrees in arts, entred on the
physic hne, practisetl his faculty in the parliament
army by the encouragement of the Fiennes, men of
autliority in the said army, and at length became
one of the two physicians to the whole array, under
the conduct of sir Tho. Fairfax, knight. In 1648,
at which time the earl of Pembroke visited tliis uni-
versity, he was actually created doctor of physic,
being about that time physician to the hospital call-
ed the Savoy, and one of the college of physicians.
His works are Uiese,

The Art of Distillation : or, a Treatise of the

' [So the MS. note in Mr. Hebcr's copy, but the whole
is taken from Knight's Ufe of Dean Colel, |)age380, &c.]

^ [G'd's great Mercy, &c. at Pauls Cross 011 Palm Sund.
1620^ Wanley.

Three Sermons. {\.) The Old Worlds general Corruption
and Destruction, preached at SI. Maries in Oxford Jan. 29
1624 ; upon Gen. 6, vers. 5,6, 7-

(i.) Abrahams Tryall, a Serm. preached at Winchester
Sept. 12, 1024; on Gen. 22, ver. I.

(3.) The Sending of the Holy Ghost, a Serm. pr. at Abing-
don in Berkshire Ap. 17, 1026; on Acts 2, iff. 8, 3, 4.
Wanlev.]

LAURENCE.

BURTON.

438

clw'iccst spaff'irical Preparation.'^ performed by Way
of DistUlatioH, &c. in six Books. Lond. 1651,
[BocU. 4to. F. 2. Med. Scld.] 63, &c. qu.

The Lmidon Distiller, exactly and truly shewing
the Way to draiv all Sorts of Spirits and Strong-
Waters — printed with The Art of Distillation, &c.
The Yorkshire Spato : Or, a Treatise of Jour
Medicinal Wells, viz. the Sjjaw or Vitrloline Well,
Sj'C. their Causes, Virtues, and Use. Lond. 1652.'
in tw. [Bodl. 8vo. S. 69. Med.] One J. F. med.
doct. hath translated from Lat. into Engl. (1.) A
neit) Light to Alchymy, and a Treatise of Sulphur.
Lond. 1650. qu. written by Mich. Sandivogius.
(2.) Nine Books of the Nature of Things. Lond.
1650. qu. written by Paracelsus. (3.) A Chymical
Dictionary, explaining hard Places and Words,
met zoithal in the Writings of Paracelsus, &c.
Lond. 1650. qu. Whicli J. F". this translator, I
take to be the same with our author Joh. French,
" who also translated into English, Joannis Rud.
" Glauberi de Opere Minerale Par. 1. Lond. 1651.
" qu. and also Glauber's Fumus Novus Sf de Oleis.
" Lond. 1651. qu. With some other treatise of
" Glauber''s Concei-ning Tincture of Gold, all re-
" printed in Lond. 1652. qu." He died in Oct. or
1657- Nov. in sixteen hundred fifty and seven, at, or near,
BuUogne in France, being then phy.sician to the
English army there. He had a brother named Wil-
liam French of Caius coll. in Cambridge, said also
to be doctor of physic, and physician to the army in
Scotland, where he died in the beginning of the
year 1650.

THOMAS LAURENCE, a minister's son, was
lx)rn in Dorsetshire, became scholar of Bal. coll. in
1614, aged 16 years, elected fellow of Alls. coll. in
1618, being then bach, of arts. Afterwards pro-
ceeding in tliat faculty, he became a noted preacher
in the university, was made " chaplain to the earl of
"Pembroke," prebendary of Lichfield, doctor of
div. chapl. in ord. to K. Ch. 1. by the endeavours
of Dr. Laud archbishop of Cant, (with whom he
was in much esteem) master of Bal. coll. and Marg.
professor of the university* 1637: At which time
ne was accounted famous for scholastical divinity, a
profound theologist, and exquisite in the excellen-
cies of the Greek and Lat. tongues. After the de-
clining of the cause of K. Charles I. and upon a
[215] foresight thereupon of the ruin of all things that
would follow, he grew melancholy, careless, and did
much degenerate m his life and conversation. At
length, when the commissioners appointed by par-
liament came to visit the university, he resigned his
headship to prevent expulsion. Afterwards he sub-

' [A new litle page was put to this book, bearing date
Lond. )054. See Bodl. 8vo. K. 26. Med.]

< [As Margaret professor, he had the sixth stall in the ca-
lhcdr.ll church of Worcester. See Abingdon's Antiquities
of the Church of Worcester, Lond. 1723, page 148.]

mitted to their authority, had a certificate* under
the commissioners or visitors hands, dated 3 Aug.
1648, whereby they attested that he had engaged
to observe the directory in all ecclesiastical admini-
strations, to preach practical divinity to the people,
and to forbear preaching any of those opinions tliat
the reformcfl church hath condemned. Being thus
dismissed with the loss of all he had in the univer-
sity, he retired to his friend coll. Valentine Walton
one of the king's judges, to whom he had shew'd
many singular courtesies while he was a prisoner of
war in Oxford garrison, and at length, by exchange,
hatl procured his release. I say tliat he retiring to
the said colonel, and laying open his condition be-
fore him, he did commiserate it so much, that he
did not only exhibit to his wants for the present,
but soon after settled upon him a little chappelrey
called Colne in the parish of Somersham in Hunt-
ingdonshire, which he enjoyed to the time of his
death. The reader may be pleased here to note
that Somersham with its appurtenances, being part
of the qu. joynture, the said col. Walton got it to
be settled on him and his |X)Steritv for ever, for the
services he had done for the parliament : And tho'
the church thereof did belong to the Margaret pro-
fessor of Cambridge, yet, by his power, he got the
tithes of Colne to be separated from it, and be set-
tled on the chappel of Colne, (whereby lie made it
a little rectory) purposely, as 'tis thought, for the
.sake of his learned friend Laurence, who hath these
things following going under his name, viz.

Several sermons, as (1) The Duty of the Laity
and Piivilege of the Clergy, preached at S. Marys
in Oxon. 13 JuJy 1634, being then Act-Sunday ;
on Exod. 20. 21. Oxon. 1635. qu. [Bodl. BB. 35.
Th] (2) Of Schism in the Church ()f God, preach-
ed in the Cath. Ch. at Sarum, at the Visitation of
Will. Archb. of Canterbtiry 23 May 1634; on 1
Cor. 1. 12. Oxon. 1635. qu. (3) Serm. before tlie
King's Maj. at Whitehall 7 Feb. 1636 ,• on Exod.
3. 5. Lond. 1637. qu. [Bodl. 4to. PI. 37. Th.] In
this sermon he moderately stated the real presence,
and thereujMjn suffered trouble for it: Also, for
other passages therein, he was charged by the puri-
tans to be a grand Arminian. He hath also written,

Index Materiarum <§• Authorum. MS. fol. in the
Bfxlleian library, and other things fit for the press,
as I have been credibly informed by those that well
knew the author, who dying in great obscurity, at
Colne in Huntingdonshire before-mention'd, was bu-
ried in the chappel there on the tenth day of De-
cemb. in sixteen hundred fifty and seven. Had he 16,57.
lived 3 years longer he would have been consecrated
bishop of a certain see in Ireland, to which he had
been nominated some years before his death, but
the name of the see I cannot now tell you.

WILLIAM BURTON son of Will. Burton
sometime of Atcham in Shropshire, second son of

Reg. Fisit. p. 182. 1.Q4-

FF2

439

BURTON.

AYLESnURY.

Tho. Burton of Longnorc near to Shrewsbury, son
and lieir ot" Edw. Burton of" the same pliu-e, (who
dietl in 1558) was Ixirn witliin the precincts of the
Austin Friers in I^ontlon, as his daughter" liath in-
formeti nic, educatetl in Paufs school under Alex.
Gill senior, iKHranie a student in Qu. coll. in Easter
term 1625, aged 16 years, being then accounted a
good Grecian. But having not wherewitlial to
maintain him, the learned Mr. Allen, wlio ibund
him to be an ingenious youth, took him to himself
to Gloc. haU and conferred on him the Greek lecture
there, which he kept during his continuance in the
university. In l630 he took the degree of bacii. of
civil law, but indigence, which commonly attends
good wits, forcing him to leave the university, he
became the a.ssistant or usher of Mr. Tlio. Farnabie
the famous schoolmaster of Kent: witii whom re-
[2161 maining some years, was at length made master of
tlie free-school at Kingstim ujx)n Thames in Surrey,
where he continued till two years before his death ;
at which time being taken with the dead palsy, he re-
tired to London, where he lived to see tne most part
of his last lx)ok, called A Com. on Antoninus Ms
Itmerai-y, printed. He was an excellent Latinist,
noted philologist, was well skiU'd in the tongues,
was an excellent critic and antiijuary, and therefore
beloved of all learned men of his time, esjiecially of
the famous Usher archb. of Armagh. He hath
written and jiublished these things following.

Laudatio funchris in Ohitum Viri excellentiss. D.
Thomw Alicni. I.ond. 1632. Ox. 1633. qu. The
said speech was spoken by the author in the refec-
tory of Gloc. hall before the iKxly was carried thence.
Afterwards another was sj)okcn at tlic grave in Trin.
coll. chap, by George Bathurst, as I have elsewhere
told you, which with Burton''s were Iwth ])rintcd to-
gether. [See them Bodl. 4to. W. 14. Art. Seld.]

Annotations on the first Epistle of Clement the
Apostle to tJie Corinthians. Lond. 1647. [Bodl.
AA. 20. Th. Seld.] and 52. in qu. Wherein, as
much reading is shew'd by the author, so some
things therein do rankly smell of presbytery. The
said first epistle being set forth in Latin by Patrick
•Yong in 1633, was translated into English by our
author, who thereunto did add the said annotations,
as a very proper and suitable remedy, if rightly at-
tended to, to cure the many distracting schisms of
those loose and dissolute times, when ])ublished.

Grcecw Ling^ta; Historia. Lond. 1657. oct. [Bodl.
8vo. Y. 10. Art.] 'Tis the sum of one or more
speeches delivered in the refectory of Gloc. hall
1631.

Veteris Linfftwe Persica; Historia.'' Lond. 1657.

' Apollonia the wife of one Calverly of Pcwier-streeJ ip
Weslminsler. ,

'• [I know not wliclhcr Lingua: Persica; An^twa ought to
be leckoned among Burton's writings. Tlie title page does
not call it his, I tliinl< ; I have been told, that Dr. Langbaia
■wrote it, but this may be easily known by enquiry. Hum-

fUKETS.]

oct. This is printeil with the former book, and be-
fore them is an epistle written by way of commenda^
tion, by the learnetl Langbaine, friend to our author
Burton.

A Cotnmentary on Antoninus his Itinerary, or
Journeys of the Roman Empire, so far as it con-
cerneth Britain, &c. Lond. 1658. fol. [Bodl. K. 4.
16. Art. a jjresentation copy from the author to
bishon Barlow] with the author's jncture " before it.
He also translated from Lat. into English a book
entit. The beloved City: or, the Sainfs Reign on
Earth a thousand Years, asserted and illustrated
from 65 Places of holy Scripture. Lond. 1643. qu.
Written originally by Jo. Hen. Alstedius professor
of the university at Herborne. Our author Will.
Burton gave way to fate on the 28th of Decemb.
in sixteen hundred fifty and seven, and was buried iCb-j.
the same day in a vault, belonging to the students
of S. CleiTients inn, under part {)f the church of S.
Clements Danes without Temple-bar near London,
leaving then behind him several jjapers and collec-
tions of antiquity, manuscripts, and coins, which
came into the hands of Tho. Thymic esq; sometinte
his scholar at Kingston, afterwards gent. com. of
Ch. Church, then of the bedchamber to the duke of
York, a bart. after the death of his father, (sir Hen.
Fred. Thyime of Kemsford in Gh)cestershire,) pos-
sessor of the large estate belonging to Tho. Thynne
of Longleet in Wilts, (murdered by certain fo-
reigners 12 Feb. 1681) and at length viscount Wey-
mouth. There have been several writers of both
our authors names, as AVill. Burton «)f Leicester-
shire, Will. Burton a divine, and Will. Burton a
pretender to astrtmomy, a specimen of which he
gave us in an Ephemeris tor 1655, which was
printed at Oxon.

WILLIAM AYLESBURY son of sir Tho.

Aylesbury of the city of Westminster bart. was
born in that city, became a gent. com. of Ch. Ch.
in the beginning of 1628, aged 16 years, took one
degree in arts, and afterwards was by king Charles I.
made governor to the duke of Buckingham and his
brother the lord Francis Villiers, with whom he tra-
velled beyond the seas. While he continued in
Italy, it hapned that walking in the garden of the
house where he lodged, he was shot with a brace of
bullets in his thigh, by men avIio watched him on
the other side of the wall, (a usual adventure in
that country) and assoon as he fell, the men wlio
had do;je it leaped over the wall, and looking upon
him beg'd his pardon, and said they were mistaken,
for he was not the man that they intended to kill,
which was all the satisfaction he had. After his re-

turn into England, and delivery up of his charge
of the two noble brothers to the king, who highly
approved of the care he had taken of their educa-
tion, as it appears by the grant his maj. was pleased

• [Engraved by Hollar.]

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AYLESBURY.

SEDGWICK.

442

to give him of the first place of groom of his l)ed-
chainbor, which sJioiild l)ecomc void, the king was
pleased to command him to translate Davila's his-
tory, (he being a perfect master of the Italian lan-
guage) which he aid, with the assistance of his con-
stant friend sir Charles Cotterel, and pubhshed it
under this title. TJie History of the Civil Wars of
France, written in Italian by Henry Canterino
de Avila. Lond. 1647. fol. \vritten in
• To whichxcas 15 books.* " Of the first there was a
tioTfril " ®^°"'^ edition, Lond. 1678. in tlie
books more. " Prefatory epistle of which it is said,
first edit. " that it was sir Ch. Cotterel's work,
" all but some pieces here and there in
" the first four books." In the year 1648 our trans-
lator Aylesbury went beyond the sea and dwelt at
Antwerp with his relations till 1650, at which time
being reduced to great straights, stole over into
England, where he lived for some time among his
friends and acquaintance, and stjuietime at ()xon,
among certain royalists there. At length Oliver
Cromwell sending a second supply to the island of
Jamaica, he engaged himself in that expedition, in
the quality of a secretary to the governor, as 1 have
heard, wheie he died in the year sixteen hundred
1657. fifty and seven, otherwise had he lived till the re-
storation of king Charles II. he migiit have elu)sen
what preferment in the court he ]>leased, by the
help of Edwaril earl of Clarendon, who married his
.<yster.

OBADIAH SEDGWICK, elder brother to
John, mentioned under the year 1643, was born in
tlie parish of S. Peter in Marlborough in Wilts,
and tiiere, or near it, wa.s educated in grammar
learning. In 1616 he was sent to Qu. coll. being
then 16 years of age, but making no long stay
there, he retired to Magd. hall, ttxjk tlie degrees in
arts, entred into the sacred function, and became
chaplain to sir Horatio Vere baron of Tilbury, with
whom he went into the Low Countries in quality of
a chaplain. After his return he retired to Oxon,
and performing certain exercise, he was admitted to
the reaxling of the sentences in the latter end of
1629. Afterwards he was preacher to the inha-
bitints of S. Mildred's parish in Breadstreet within
the city of London, which he quitting upon no
-;ood account before the beginning of the rebellion,
e became the scandalous and seditious minister (as
one' calls him) of Coggeshall in Essex.' But soon
ajfter, upon appearance of the said rebellion, he re-
tired to the said city again, and being a voluble
preacher,* he was thought fit not only to exercise

* Br. Ryves in hh Mere. Ruslicus, printcfl l6-t7. p. 212.

' [1639, (J Jul. Obediah Sedgwick S. T. B. admiss. ad
vicariani de Coggesiiall per mortem Joh. Dod, ad pres. Rob.
com. Warwick. Reg. Lond. Ken net.]

' [One Mr. Sedgwick late abiding wuh my lord of Til-
bury, now in the city much followed (Mr. Gataker's leUer
U) Dr. Ward, Feb. 17. l630, MS.) Tanker.]

g

his jjarts at S. Mildreds l)efore-mention'd, but also
before l)Oth houses of parliament ; the members of
which constituted him one of the assembly of di-
vines, as being a covenanter to tlie purpose. Wliilc
he preached at S. Mildreds, which was only to ex-
asperate the people to relK'l and confound episc«-
pacv, 'twas usual with liim, especially in hot wea-
ther, to unbutton his doublet in the pulpit, that his
breath might be the longer, and his voice more
audible to rail against the king's party, and those
that were near to him, whom he called popish
counsellors. " He was a great leader and abettor
" of the reformation pretended to be carried on by
" the presbvterians ; whose pious and peaceable
" maxims (like razors set with oyl) cut the throat.
" of majesty with a keen smoothness." This he
did in an especial manner, in Sept. 1644, when he,
with great concernment, told the people several
times that God was angry with the army for not
cutting off delinquents, &c. Afterwards, about
1 646, he ))ecame minister of the church of S. Paul
in ('ovent-Garden,' where, as also sometimes in the
country, he kept up the vigour of a presbytcrian
ministry, which for divers years prospered according
to his mind to the converting of many, and con-
viction of more. In 1663 he was appointed one of
the number of tryers or examiners of ministers, ap-
pointetl by parliament ; and the year after, he was
by the members thereof constituted an assistant to
the commissioners of London for the ejection of [218]
such whom they then called scandalous antl ignorant
ministers and schoolmasters. At length finding him-
self decaying by his too zealous caiTying on the co-
venanting work, he resigned his charge in Covent^
Garden about two years before his death, and re-
tired to Marlliorough. So<m after the eai-1 of Bed-
ford, upon some consideration, conferr'd the said
church on the son-in-law of our author Sedgwick
called Thomas Manton, as zealous a presbytcrian
as the former, where he continued till the act of
uniformity ejected him, as I shall tell you when I
come to liim. As for our author Sedgwick he hath
these things following going under his name.

Several sermons, as (1) Military Discipline Jvr
a Chriitian Soldier; on 1 Cor. 16. 13, 14. Lond.

1639. oct. [Bodl. Svo. A. 58. Th.] (2) Chrisfa
Coun.sel to hin lanfftiishin^ Church of Sai'dis : or,
the dyinff and decaying Christian, 8cc. being the
Effect (^certain Sermons on Rev. 3. 2, 3. Lond.

1640. in a large oct. [Bodl. Svo. G. 85. Th.] (3)
Christ the Life, and Death the Gain, at the Fune-
ral of Rowl. Wilson a Member of Parliament ; on
1 Philip. 1. 21. Lond. 1650. qu. Before which is
An Account given of some Years more than ordi-
nary Experience of the superlative Worth of that
eminent Servant of Chri.st Rowl. Wilson (befiyre
mentioned) a Member of the Pari, of England and

' [He officiated here for some years, as minister of this
church before it was made parochial. Kennbt.]

443

SEDGWICK.

PASOR.

qftlie Jtonouruble Council of Stale, and one of the
Aldermeti and Sheriff's <>f the City o/' London, by
George Cokayne Teaclier of t/ie Gospel at S. Pan-
eras in Soper-Lanc in London. This llowl. Wil-
son was son of Rowl. Wilstm a merchant of Lon-
don, was a colonel in the parliament arniv, was no-
minated one of the king's jiidjjes, but relused to sit
among tliem, and died much lamented by the citi-
zens 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, ot a solid, solx^r temper and jutlgment, and
very lionest and just in all his actions. (4) The
Fountain opened aiul t/ie Water of Life fioioing
forth for the Refreshing of thirsty Sinners, S^c. in
several Servians on Isa. 55. 1, 2, 3. Lond. 1657.
qu. [Bodl. 4to. A. 47. Th.] (5) The Riclws of
Grace displayed in the Offer and Tender (f Salva-
tion to poor Sinners, 4"c. in several Sermons on
Rev. 3. 20. Lond. 1658. in tw. second edit. (6)
JElisha's Lamentation upon the sudden 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. <ju. This
Will. Strong had been fellow of Katharine hall in
Cambridge, was aftcrwai-ds rector of More Chrichel
in Dorsetshire ; which place he leaving in the time
of the rebellion, upon pretence of being disturbed
by the cavaliers, he retired to London, became mi-
mster of S. Dunstan's in the West, one of the a.s-
semb. of divines, a holder-forth before the parlia-
ment and at length preacher of the gospel at Wcst-
minst. abbey, as before 'tis said; in which church
he was buried on the fourth day of July 1654, but
removed to St. Margaret's church-yai"d adjoining,
after the restoration of king Ch. II. as I have else-
where told you. He hath several theological trea-
tises and many sermons extant, as also The Parable
(fthe Prodigal, which I have not yet seen.

Parliamentary sermons, as (1) England'^s Pre-
servation, &c. preached* before the H. of Commons;
on Jer. 4. 3. Lond. 1642. qu. (2) Humane Va-
nity;' on Esther 9. 3. Lond. 1643. qu. (3)
Thanksgiving Sermoji, 9 Apr. 1644, [frthehap-
pie and seasonable Victory of Sir Will. Waller and
Sir Will. Balfore &c. over Sir Ralph Hopton and
his Forces raised against the Parliament ;'\ on Psal.
3. 8. Lond. 1644. qu. [Bodl. 4to. II. 7. Th. BS.]
(4) An Ark against a Deluge, &c. Fast Sermon
on Heb. 11. 7. Lond. 1645. qu. 'Twas preached
22 of Oct. 1644. for the uniting of tlie army toge-

■• [On the 25th of May, l6t2. Rawlinson.]

' [I have not ventured to aher the words of my .author,
4)ut he must certainly mean the following :

Haman's Vitnily, or a Sermon displuying the Hrlhlesse
Issues of Churcli-dcslroying Adversaries. Preached lo the
honourable House of Commons at their late solemne Tkatiks-
piving, hein^ on June \b, 1{)43, &c. Lond. 16'43, in 4to.
iiodl. 410. K. 7. Th. BS.

The text is not, as Wood has it, on Est. 9. 3, but Est.
<J. 1.]

titer, (5) Nature and Danger of Heresies, Fast
Serm.'^ on Rev. 12. 15, 16. Lond. 1647. qu. [Bodl.
4to. H. 7. Th. BS.] He also preached three more,
which I conceive were printed.

Speech in Guildhall in Lond. 6 Oct. 1643. to ob-
tain Money to carrif on tlie War, and for tfie ScoUt
Assistance. Lond. m qu.

The best and zaorst Malignant — Printed 1648
qu. This I have not yet seen.

Tlie doubting Christian resolv''d: A Treatise of
the Nature, Kinds, Springs, and Remedies tf
Doublings. Lond. 1653. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. S. 87.
Th.]

'J 'lie humbled Sinner resolved wlmt he should do
to be saved: or. Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ
the only Way for sensible Sinners, discovering the
Quality, Objects, Acts, S^c. of justifying Faith,'' Sic.
Lond. 165d. qu. [Bodl. 4to. A. 47. Th.]

'The Sheplierd of Israel: or, an Exposition of
the 23(Z Psalm, together with tJie Doctrine of Pro-
v'ldence, practically luindled. Lond. 1658. Pub-
lished by. Humph. Chambers, Simeon Ash, Edm.
Calamy and II. Byfield, presbyterian ministers.

Synopsis of Christianity, in a clear Exposition
of tiie Creed, ten CommaTtdments and the Lord''s
Prayer. Lond. in oct.

Anatomy of secret Sins, ^c. wherein divers
weighty Cases are resolved, Sfc. together with the
Remiss'iblene.is of all Sin, and the Irremissibleness
qftlie Sin agai71.it the Holy Ghost. Lond. 1660. qu.

The Bowels of tender Mercy .scaled in the ever-
lasting Covenant, &c. Lond. 1661. fbl.

A .shnrt Catechism What other tilings he hath

written I know not, nor any matter else of him,
only that he died very wealthy at Marlborough be-
fore-mention'd, (being lord of the manor of Ash-
mansworth in Hampshire) about the beginning of
January in sixteen hundred fifty and seven, and
was buried near to the body of liis father in the
chancel of Ogbourne S. Andrew near to the saitl
town of Mai-lborough in Wiltshire, not with his
feet towards the east, but towards the south, bo-
cause tliere wanted room to lay his body otherways.

" MATTHIAS PASOR, son of George Pasor
" (a learned professor of div. and Hebrew in the
" academy of Herbome) by ApoUonia his wife dau.
" of Pet. Hendschius a senator of that place, was
" born there on the 12th of Apr. 1599, and being

' [Preached before the house of commons, January 87,
1641. Kawlinson.]

^ (The humble Sinner resolved what he should do to be
saved. By Obadiah Sedgwick, B. of D. and late Mini-
ster of the Gospel in Covent Garden. London, I636, 4to.
To the right honourable William, earl of Bedford, baron of
Thornaiigh, Obadiah Sedgwi-^k, in testimony of his real
thankfuUncss for all his singular res|ject unto him, and great
incouragement in the work of the ministry in Covent Gar-
den, and of his pious care in settling so able and faithfull a
successour to carry on the work of the gospcll in the said
place, presentelh this ensuing treatise. Kenj>-kt.]

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1657.

PASOR.

LANGBAINE.

440

" a. cliild of frrcat hopes was taught Lat. and Greek
" tliorc, and soon after Hebrew at Marpurg. In
" 1616 he was sent by his relations to Heidelberg,
" where he was adornVl with the degree of master
" of arts, and about that time prosecuted his stucHes
" in divinity. In 1619 he became philosophy pro-
" fessor and presided the j)hvsic chsj)utations there,
" and in 1620 professor of the mathematics, in
" which employment he continued till 6 of Sent.
" 1622, at which time Heidelberg being taken by
?• the ai-my under the conduct of the duke of Ba-
" varia,« he was not only ejected, but lost his books
" and MSS. On the 18th of Oct. following, he re-
" turn'd to his parents at Herborne, where he found
" a comfortable employment, in the academy there
" till towards the latter end of 1623, and then going
" to Leyden in HoUand, was a constant auditor
" there for a month's time or more of some of the
'• most eminent divines of that place, and had se-
" veral conferences with Tho. Erpenius concerning
" Arabic, and with Willebred. Snellius concerning
" divinity. Afterwards he went over the seas into
" England, and with his testimonials retired to Oxon,
" where being incorporated master of arts in Jime
" 1624, he began to teach in private Hebrew and
" mathematics, and in the end of that year he re-
" tired to Paris, where he improved himself much
" in the Arabic and Syriac tongues under the king's
" professor of that place. In 1625 he retired to
" Oxford again, t<x)k up his quarters in Exeter coll.*
" continued his studies there, and by the consent of
" the chief members of the university he read lec-
" tures of Arabic, Chaldee and Syriac twice in a
" week ill term time in the divinity school, for which
" he received a good reward. The society of Mer-
" ton for their share paid 21. for the year 1626,
" and 1/. for 1627, and no doubt there is but that
" other societies paid accordingly. He liath writ-
" ten,

" Oratio pro Linguce Arabicw Professione, pub-
" lice ad Acculemicos habita in Schola TJieologica
" Universitatis Oxon. 25 Octoh. 1626. Oxon. 1627.
" qu. [Bodl. Mar. 399.]

" Marsilhis Patavinus, &c. which, with other
" things by him written and published, I have not
" yet seen. After our author had continued two
" years or more in his second retirement to that
" place (in which time he also read a Hebr. lecture
" m New coll.) he was invited to be the ordinary
" professor of moral philosophy in the academy of
" Groningen, which he performing with good ap-
" plause for some time was made mathematic pro-
" fessor there in the room of Nich. MaJier, which

' [Mr. Pasor had been one of the professors at Heldel-
bcrgh, was driven thence by the persecutions of prolestants,
.im\ was a painfull and diligeiit reader for Arabic and Chal-
dee in Oxford.]

'' [He lived in Exeter coll. Jan. 1629, but before Oct.
!(J29, went to Groningen, where he was made professor of
moral philos.]

last he changing for that of divinity, by the fa-
vour of the curators of the said academy, he was
created doctor of that fiiculty by the famous Sam.
Maresius, an. 1645. He died at Groningen on
the 28th of January in sixteen liundred fifty and
eight according to the aca)unt there followed,
which is 1657 with us, and was there, I ])resume,
buried, leaving then behind him the character of
a person generally learned, of great morals and
religion.'"

GERARD LANGBAINE, a great ornament
of his time to this university, was " son of William
" Langbaine, and" born at Bart<m kirke in West-
morland, educated in the free-school at Blencow in
Ctimtierland, became a student in Queen's coll. un-
der the tuition of Mr. Tho. Wetherall, in the be-
ginning of 1626, aged 18 years, where he was suc-
cessively 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 c^"
the year following provost of his college. In June
1646 he was admitted D. of D. being then in gene-
ral esteem for his great learning anil 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 ex-
cellent linguist, able philosopher and divine, a good
common lawyer, a public-spirited man, a lover of
learning and learned men, beloved of Dr. Usher,
Selden, and the great Goliaths 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 rhapsodies of
collections that he left behind him, appear. As for
those things that he hath written and published,
they are these.

Notw in Librum Dionysii Longint de ffrandi
Eloquentia sive sublimi Dicendi Genere, &c. Oxon.
1636 [Bodl. 8vo. L. 73. Art.] and 38. oct. The
said Longinus is translated into Latin, and hatli tlie
Greek on one side, and the Lat. on the other, and
the notes which are in Lat. ' aie at the end of the
book. These things I note, because the same work
being done by other liands, this may be distinguished
from it.

Brief Discourse relating to the Times ofK. Ed.
VI. Or, the State of' the Times, as they stood in
the Reign of K. E. VI. by Way of Preface to a
Book entit. The true Subject to the Rebel : or, the
Hurt of Sedition, &c. written by sir Joh. Cheek

knight Oxon. 1641. qu. [Bodl. 4to. M, 14. Th.

BS.]

Life of Sir Joh. Cheek KnigJtt Set also be-
fore the said book, which Langbaine reviewed, cor-

' [These noles'by Langbaine were remitted into an edition
of Longinus publ. by James Tollins, Tr. ad Rhen. l69lt
4to. Bodl. C. 10. 15. Line]

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447

LANGRAINE.

reeled and puhlisluHl, ii|)on a fbresiglit that a relwl-
lion would nreak out, as shortly after it did, against
king Charles I. of ever blessed nieinory.

Episcopal Inheritance : or, a Reply to the hnm-
ble Examlnniion of n printed Abstract, or the An-
twers to nine Reasons of the House of Commons
Offainst the Votes of Bishops in Parliament. Oxon.
1641. qii. To which is added A Determination of
Ow late learned Bishop of Salisbury ( Davenant )
EiifflisJted. These two were reprinted at Lond.
1680.

Review of the Covenant, wherein the Original,
Grounds, Means, Matter, and Ends of it are exa-
mined, &c. printed 1644. [Bodl. 4to. H. 22. Th.l
and at Lond. 1661. qu. [Bodl. A. 14. 12. I-inc.]

Answer to the Chanc. Masters, and Scholars of
the University of Oxford, to the Petition, Articles
of Grievance, and Reasons of the City of Oxon ;
presented to the Committee for regulating the Univ.
of Ox. 24 July 1649. Oxon. 1649, in six sh. in qu.
[Bodl. 4to. M. 13. Th.] There again 1678, and in
a book entit. A Defence of tlie Rights and Privi-
leges of the Univ. of Oxon, &c. Oxon. 1690. qu.
published by James Harrington bach, (soon after
master) of arts, and student of Ch. Ch.

Qucestiones Oxoniw pro More sohnni in Ve.i-
periis propo-iitce An. \65\. Oxon. 1658. qu. [Bodl.
4to. J. 12. Art.] Published, with verses following
made by the said author, by Mr. Thomas Barlow
of Qu. coll. among several little works of learned
men.

Plntonieonim aliquot, qui ettamnum supersunt,
Authorum, Greccorum imprimis, mox 4" Latinorum,
Syllabus Alphabeticus. Oxon. 1667. oct. It was
drawn up by our author Langbaine at the tlesire of
[221] archbishop Usher, but left imperfect : which being
found among his papers, was, with some few altera^
lions, (where there was found good reason of so
doing) placed at the end of Alcinoi in Platonicam
Philosophiam Introditctio, published by Dr. Jo.
Fell, dean of Ch. Ch. He the said Langbaine did
edso publish, (1) Tlie Foundation of the Univ. of
Oxon, with a Catalogue of the principal Founders
and special Benefactors of all the Colleges, and
total number of Students, &c. Lond. 1651. in 3 sh.
in qu. [Bodl. Gough, Oxon. 3.] mostly taken from
the Tables of Joh. Scot of Cambridge, which had
been printed in 1622. (2) The Foundation of tJie

University of Cambridge, with a Catal. &c.

printed with the former cat. in 3 sh. and taken from
the said Tables. He also drudged much in finish-
ing archb. Usher's Ixwk entit. Chronologia sacra,
but dying when he had almost brought it to an end,
Barlow before-mentioned conipleatetl it.* The said
Langbaine translated into Lat. Reasons ofthepre-

• [When asked upon liis death bed what was his will
concerning his collections for the Chronologia sacra, arch-
bishop Usher answered to this efFect. — ' That he desired they
might be committed to his dear friend Dr. Langbaine, pro-
vost of Queens cuiledge, the only man, on whose learning as

■lent Jiulgment of tlie University concerning the
solemn League and Covenant, Stc. and assisted San-
derson and Zouch in the composure of them. Also
into English, A Review of tlie Council of Trent,
written in French by a learned Rom. Catholic,
Oxon. 1638. fol. wherein may be seen the dissent of
the Gallican churches from several conclusions in
that council. He gave way to fate on the tenth day
of Febr. in sixteen hundred fifty and seven, and was jg^.
buried about the middle of the inner chappcl of
Queen's coll. having ahttle before setled 24/. per an.
on a free-school at the place of his nativity ; towards
the purchasing of which, he received 20/. from a
certain doctor of Oxon, who desired to have his
name concealed. See his epitaph in Hi.it. tj- Antiq.
Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 125. a. He left behind him
13 quartoes and 8 octavoes, in MS. with innu-
merable collections in loose papers, all written with
his own hand, collected mostly from ancient MS.
in Bodley's library and elsewhere, in order to some
great work which he intended, if life hatl been spared,
to have published. He also had made several cata-
logues of MSS. in vai-ious libraries, nay and of
printed books too, in order, as we suppose, for an
universal catalogue in all kind of learning. But
whereas 'tis' re{)orted that he took a great deal of
jiains in the continuation of Br. Twync's Apol. An-
tiq. Acad. Oxon, and that he was intent upon it
when he died, I find no such thing : and those per-
sons that had the pcruwil oihis library after his deatli,
namely Dr. Barlow and Dr. Lait)j)lugh, have assured
me that tliey have seen nothing at all towards, or in
order to, it. See more of Dr. l^angbaine in Artli.
Duck, an. 1649.

[The Privileges iftlie University of Oxford, in
Point of Visitatio7i : cleerly evidenced by Letter to
an iMnourable Personage. Together with the Vni-
versities An.ncer to the Summons of the Visitors.
Anno MDCXLVII. 4to. containing one sheet and
an half. This is ascrilxnl by Gough '' to Langbaine,
probably on the authority of a MS. note in his own
copy, which see Bodl. Gough. Oxford, 107. There
was another edit, which purports to be Printed ^br
Richard Royston, 1647, among Gough's lxK)ks,
marked Oxford, 8. but this seems to be nothing
more than a new title pa^.

well as friendship be could rely, to cast them into such a
form, as might render them fit for the press.' According to
which bequest, they were put into the hands of that learned
Dr. who in order thereunto, had them transcribed, and then
set himself to fill up the breaches in the original (the quota-
tions ill the margine being much defaced with rats) : about
which laborious task, that learned and good man studying in
the publick library at Oxford, in a Tery severe season, got
such an extreme cold, as quickly (to ihcgreatgrief of allgood
men) brought him to his end, Feb. an. 1657. Parr's Life 0/
Archb. Usher, 1()8(), pat'c 13.]

' Th. Fuller in his JVurthies of England in Cumberland,
followed, without acknowledgment, Dy his plagiary David
Lloyd in his JUemovs, Sic. p. 5 18.

♦ [Britiih Topography, li, U4. Gough calls it au 8vo.
but Be is evidently wrong.]

HOARD.

WARNER.

450

Ten letters to Selden from Langhaiiie are printed
by Heanie in the apjiendix to Leland''s Collectanea.
The tbllowinfj is given from one of Ileame's mis-
cellany volumes MS. Rawl. Misc. 398, fol. 152.

' For his loveing frind Mr. Clarke at the printing
house in Charter-howse-yard, These :

S''. It hath pleased Grod to visit my family with
sickncsse and my self. Last Wednesday I huryed
a child who was very deare to me. I am at present,
and have bene this week, under very many strong
indispositions ; cold in the botly, head ache, wind
on the stomack, fitts of the colicque. My Dr. thinks
I may escape a fever. I have neither eat meat or
bread, nor drunk any beare these five days, which
hatli brought me very low and faint. The Lord
fitt me for whatever he shall call me to — life or
death. I desire your prayers, for your friend Ge-
rard Langbaine. Sept. 19.1657. Foot-Baldon, three
miles from Oxford.'

In Trinity college library, now marked S. 5. 8.
is a copy of Vossius's Greek historians, with several
MS. annotations by Langbaine. This copy is re-
markable for having belonged to Ben Jonson, who
gave it to Langbaine, by whom it was presented to
Dr. Ralph Bathurst, the president of Trinity.]

SAMUEL HOARD, a Londoner born, became
either clerk or chorister of All-souls coll. in 1614,
aged 15 years, where continuing till he was standing
for the degree of bach, of arts, he retired to S.
Mary's hall, and as a member thereof took die de-
grees in arts. Afterwards being made chaplain to
Robert earl of Warwick, was by him presented * to
the rectory of Moreton near Ongar in Essex, and
about the same time was admitted bach, of divinity.
He was well read in the fathers and schoolmen, was
a good disputant and preacher, a zealous Calvinist
in the beginning, but a greater Arminian afterwards.
He hath written,

GocTs Love to Mankind, manifested by disproving
his absolute Decree for their Damnation.^ Lontf.
1633. [and 1656]' qu. 1673. oct. " Mr. Mason is
" thought by some to have a hand in this work,
" which was" answer'd by Twysse of Newbury and
Davenant B. of Salisbury. Which book being
quoted ])y Edw. Reynolcls in some controversial
writings between him and Th. Pierce of Magd. col-
lege, the latter therefore upon diat occasion sent for
the book, and found « therein that the author of it
was a convert from the Calvinistical sect, which he
there opposeth, and that he professcth in the entrance
to give the reasons by which he was moved to change

' [In lf)26, Morani's Hist, of Essex, i, 146, nolc H.]
" [He had the counige lo publish this book, one of the
best on the subject then (says Morant) at a time when it was
accounted a greater crime than treason to boggle at the doc-
trine of absolute predestination, with all its blasphemous con-
sef|ueuces. History nf Essex, i, 146.]
" [LoVEnAY.]

« bee his Divine Purity dtfended, chap. 6. p. o3.

Vol. III.

his opinion in some controversies debateil l)etwoen

the remonstrants and their op^xisites. ' Behold

the liberal and ingenious confession of that conscien- [222]
tioiis and learned Calvinist ; (saith Pierce of* Hoard)
first I say conscientious, because he was not ashamctl
to retract his errors, nor to publish his retraction ;
nor did he fear what might follow by his contracting
the displeasures of a revengeful party. Next I say
learned, because he confiiteth his former judgment,
in an unanswerable manner, which is the likelier to
be so, because an answer hath been attempted by the
learned men of that party, who could arrive no
higher than to attempt it (neither of them avowing
the very same doctrines which he opjx)sed) and be-
tray a dissatisfaction in other performances, why else
was it attempted by more than one .'' Last of all I
say Calvinist, and then discover the reasons why the
motives to his repentance must needs precede his
change of life. He disliked that sect, before he left
it, however his leaving of it might tread upon the
heels of his dislike,'' &c. He hath also published.

Several sermons, as (1) The ChurcKs Autliority
asserted ; on 1 Cor. 14. 4. Lond. 1634. qu. [1637,
Bodl. 4to. C. 57. Th.] preached ' at Chelmslbrd at
the metropolitical visitation of William lord archb.
of Canterbury. (2) The SouFs Misery and Reco-
very : or, the Grieving of the Spirit, how it is
caused and hmo redressed ; on Ephes. 4. 30. Lond.
1636. Oct. [Bodl. 8vo. B. 201. Line] and 1657. in
qu. with many additions, &c.^ He departed this
mortal life on the 15th of Febr. in sixteen hundred 165 J.
fifty and seven, and was buried in the chancel of the
church of Moreton before-mentioned. At which
time, as I have been credibly informed, he left other
things fit for the press ; but in whose hands they are
detained, I could never yet Icam.

[Sam. Hoard M.A. Oxon. incorporat. Cant. an.
1622. Sam. Hoard S. T. B. O.von. incorporat. Cant,
an. 1632. Bakek.

Sam. Hoard S. T. B. coll. ad preb. de Willesdon
in eccl. Paul. 29 Mar. 1637, per resign. Hen. Mason.
Reg. Lond. Kenxet.]

JOHN WARNER, son of Will. Warner of
Harsfield [or Hasfield] in Glocestershire, was bom
in that county, entred into Magd. hall in 1628, aged
17 years, took the degrees in arts, and at length be-
came vicar of Christ Church in Hampshire, where
he was much resorted to by those of the presbyterian
persuasion. His works are these,

Temporal Losses spiritually improved, &c. Lond.
1643, Sec.

Diatriba Fidei justificantis, qua Justifcantis :
or, a Discourse of the Objects and Office of Faith
as justifying, &c. " Dedicated to John Lisle one ciar.
" of the lords commissioners of the great seal.'" Oxon. 1657.

f Ibid. p. 54.

' [Preached May i; l636. Tanner.]
- [Reprinted in Gandy'a collection of tracts, I70g. Love.
DAY. See it Boill. 8vo. L. 137- Th. page lOQ.J .

GG

451

PARKER.

LAWRENCE.

[223]

Clar.
J 657.

1657. "large" Oct. [Bodl. 8vo. C. 409. Line] and
nther things as 'tis probable, which I liave not yet
seen.

HENRY PARKER, the fourtli son of sir Nic.
Parker of Ratton in the parish of Willington in
Sussex knight, by Kathanne his wife, daugh. of
Joh. Temple of Stow in Bucks, esq; was born in
Sussex, (at Ratton I think) became a commoner of
S. Edm. hall in the latter end of 1621, aged 17
years or therealwuts, took the degrees in arts, that
of master l)eing conipleated in 1628, he lx;ing then a
member of Lincoln's inn, and about that time a
l)arrester. When the grand rebellion began he sided
with the presljyterians, and became secretary to the
army imder Robert earl of Essex, " an. 1642,'" in
which office he continued .some years to his enrich-
ment, " and was a recruiter in the long parliament
" for a borough in Sussex." Afterwards he turned,
and became an independent, went lieyond the .seas
and lived for some time at Hamborough. At length,
when Oliver Cromwell canie to be general, he was
called thence to be a brewer's clerk, that is, to be
secretary to the .said Cromwell, with whom he was
in great esteem. He hath written,

A Discourse concerning Puritans. Tending to
a Vindication (if tliase xclio unjustly suffer hy the
Mistake, Abuse, and MisappUcation of that Name.
Lond. 1641. in 9 sheets in qu. which is the second
edit, much enlarged.

Observations upon some of 7ii,<i Mqjcsty''s late
Answers and Expresses. Lond. 16-1'2. qu. " twice
printed."' Answer'd by Dudley Digges'' of Alls,
coll. " as also * by one John Jones a gentleman of
" the inns of court, a prisoner for his loyalty in
" Southampton, July 1643, whose book is entitiled,
" An Examination of the Observations upon his
" Majesty's Answers, wherin the Absurdities of the
" Observator''s Positions and Inferences are dis-
" covered 1643. qu. in 3 sheets and a half."

Of a Free-Trade : a Discour.^e seriously recom-
mending to our Nation the xconderful Benefits of
Trade, inc. Lond. 1648. in 5 sh. in qu. [Bodl. 4to.
A. 5. Art. BS.]

Answer to a poy.tcmous seditious Paper of David
Jenlcyns. Lond. 1647. qu.

The Scots holy War : or, the Mischief of the
Covenant to Great Britain. Lond. 1657. qu. He
is also supposed to be author of A political Ca-
techism: or, certain Questions concerning tJie Go-
vernment of this Land. Lond. 1643. qu. answer'd
in his majesty's own words : as also of Jus Populi :
or a Discourse wherein clear Satisfaction is given,
as well concerning the Rights of Subjects, as the
Right of Princes, &c. Lond. 1644. qu. [Bodl. C.

' [The second edition corrected from some gross errors of
the prcsse, Bodl. C. 8. 30. Line]
' [See thai article at col. 64.]
' [And hy Sir John Spelman, see col. 62.J

14. 5. Line, with a note by bishop Barlow attributing
the lx)ok to Parker.] 9 sh. and half: and also of
other pamphlets which have the letters II. P. put to
them. This person, who was a man of dangerous
and anti-monarchical principles, died distracted in
the time of Oliver lore! protector, as I have been in-
formed by Fab. Philipps of the Inner-Temple esq;.
There was another of Iwth his names, who was a
liarrister of Greys-inn, and a burgess for Orford in
Suffolk for that ])arlianient which began at Westm.
17 Octob. 1679, but he was a younger brother of
sir Philip Parker of that county, and tho' able to
write, yet he hath published nothing as I can yet
learn. He died about the month of Sept. 1681, and
his library was exposed to sale in Dec. following.
" One Henry Parker, son of Edmund Parker of
" Borington in Devonshire esq; aged 17 years, was
" matriculated of Exeter coll. an. 1635."

[Parker published, with a recommendatory pre-
face, with his name set thereto, a virulent pamphlet''
against the monarchical government of this king-
dom, whilst king Charles II. was in Scotland, enti-
tuled. The true Pourtraiturc of the Kings of Eng-
land draivnjrom their Titles, Successions, Reigns
and Ends. 4to. 1650. Watts.

We may add also to his works :

1 . The Altar Dispute, or a Discovrse concerning
the severall Innovations of the Altar, wherein is
discussed severall of the chiefe Grounds and Foun-
dations whereon our Altar Champions have erected
their Buildings. London, Printed by R. Cotes for
Samuel Enderby, Sfc. 1641. BotO. 4to. A. 7.
Th. BS.

2. TJie manifold Miseries of civill Warre and
Discord in a Kingdome : by the Examples of Ger-
many, France, Ireland, and other Places. With
some memorable Examples of God^s Justice, in pu-
nishing the Authors and Causes of Rebellion and
Treason. London, Printed for George Lindsey,
July the second, 1642. Bodl. 4to. A. 5. Art BS.

3. Severall j^^n/sonnus and scdicious Papers of
Mr. David Jenkins answered By H. P. Barrester
of Lincolnes Inne. London, Printed foyr Robert
Bostock, &c. 1647, 4to.

4. 7 he Cordiall of Mr. David Jenkins : or Jiis
Reply to H. P. Barrester of Lincolnes Inne an-
swered. London, Printed for Robert Bostock, &c.
1647.

5. Letter to the hon. WiUium Lentlmll Esq.
Speaker of the House of Commons, shezdng in
what Manner the Death of Charles- I. toas taken
Abroad at that Time. Dated Hamburgh Feb. 23,
1648, 9- Printed in the Gentleman's Magazine for
March 1765, vol. xxxv, page 109.]

« RICHARD LAWRENCE, son of George

^ [Qucere, says Peck (MS. notes) if this Parker was not
author of The True Pourtraiture 'f ihe Kings of England,
4to. ?]

WARING.

454

[224]

" Lawrence of Stepleton in Dorsetshire, gent, be-
" came a commoner of Ma^d. hall in Act term 163(5,
" aged 18 years, but left the university before he
" took a defrree. I take tliis person to be the same
" with U. Lawrence author of

" The Wolfstript of Ms Sheep.i Cloathing, &c.
" Lond. 1647. qu.

" The Anti-chr'ist'ian Presbyter, or Anti-chrlst
" tramformcd, &c. Lond. 1647. qu. Quaere, whe-
" ther this is not the siune with the former.

" Gospel Seimration separated from its Abuses :
" or, the Sahifs Guide in Gospel Fellowship, &c.
" Lond. 1657. oct.

" I find another Rich. Lawrence, who writes him-
'' self esq; author of Tlie Interest of Ireland in its
" Trade and Wealth stated, in two Parts, &c.
« Lond. 1682, 83. oct."

ROBERT WARING, son of Edm. Waring of
Lea in StafFordshire, and of Owlbury in Shropshire,
was lx)rn" in Staffordshire, elected from Westm.
school a student of Ch. Ch. in the year 1630, and
that of his age 17, took the degrees in arts, and af-
terwards bore arms for his majesty Charles I. within
the garrison of Oxon, was elected proctor of the
university in 1647, and the same year history pro-
fessor, but deprived of it, and his student's place, by
the impetuous visitors, authorized by parUament,
when they came to the university under pretence of
reforming it. Afterwards he retired to Apley in
Shropshire upon the invitation of sir Will. Whit-
more a great patron of distressed cavaliers, lived
there obscurely for a time, and buried his exceOent

Earts in the solitudes of a country life. Afterwards
e travelled with the said person into France, where
he continuing about an year, returned into England,
sickned soon after, and died in Lincolns-Inn-Fields
near London. He was a most excellent Lat. and
Engl, poet, but a better orator, and was reckoned
among the great wits of his time in the university.
He hath transmitted to posterity these things fol-
lowing.

A public Conference betwixt the six Presbyterian
Ministers and some Indepeiulcnt drmmanders held

at Oxford on the I2th of Nov. 1646 Printed

1646 in two sh. in qu.

An Account of Mr. PrynrCs Refutation of the
University of Oxford's Plea, sent to a Friend in a

■second Letter from Oxon printed 1648, in 2 sh.

in qu. [Bodl. C. 14. 14. Line] The first letter was
written by Rich. Allestrie, as I shall tell you else-
where.

Eiffigies Amoris: sive quid sit Amor efflagitanti
responsum. Printed at Lond. 16 iQ, in tw. ^Bodl.
8vo. S. 29. Th. BS.] pubUshed from the original
copy by Mr. Jolin Birkenhead on the desire of the
autnor, who would have his name concealed because
of his loyalty. The third edition came out, after the
restoration of his majesty, by Will. Griffith of

' Rc^- Malric. PP. fol. 24. b.

Oxon, with an epistle before it written by him to tJie
said John Birkenhead then a knight, wherein he
gives not only a just character of our author, but
also of sir John. To the said edition is joined our
author''s Carmen Lapidorinm, written to the me-
mory of Ben. Johnson, which Griffith finding mise-
rably mangled in Jonsonus Virbius, or Verses on
the Death if Ben. Johnson, he, with his own hand,
restored it to its former perfection and lustre, by
freeing it from the errors of the press. Mr. Grif-
fith in his Prwloqnium concerning our author Wa-
ring, saith that Cartwright, Gregory, Digges, &c.
together with Jo. Birkennead, were ' numina Oxonii
tutelaria,' every one of them had ' ingenium caelitus
delapsum, qua; quasi nuinina dum intra maeniareti-
nuit sua, perstititOxonium, nee hostili, cedens fraudi,
nee infestis inimicoruin succunibens armis,' &c. The
fourth edition of it was printed at Lond. 1668,
and an English edition of it came out in 1682 under
the title of The Picture of Love unveird, done by
John Norris of Alls. coll. who in his preface to it,
saith, that the author of it ' is admired by him for
sweetness of fancy, neatness of stile, and luciousness
of hidden sense, and that in these respects he may
comjiare with any other extant,' &c. At length our
author Waring contracting a malignant disease, too
prevalent for nature, he gave way to fate, to the
great rehictancy of all those who knew the admirable
virtues and learning of the person. The next day,
being the tenth of May, in sixteen hundred fifty and
eight, his body was conveyed to the church of S.
Michael's Royal, commonly called College-hill, (be-
cause Whittingdon coll. stood there) where, after his
sorrowful friend and ac([uaintance t)r. Bruno Ryvcs
(afterwards dean of Windsor) had delivered an ex-
cellent sermon to the numerous auditory of royalists,
his lx)dy was deposited close under the south wall,
at the up{X!r enct of the isle on the south-side of the
chancel. Ten days before, was buried in the said
church the most noted jxiet of his time Jo. Cleave-
land, and within few days after was buried in Wa-
ring's grave the Iwdy of his eldest brothercalled Walt.
Waring, esteemed by some an ingenious man. Four-
teen years after the death of Rob. Waring was pub-
lished A Sermon preached at S. Margurcfs West-
minster, at the Funeral of Mrs. Susaniui Gray,
IJau. of Hen. Gray Esq; of Enfield in Staffbrd-
shire, " xoJio on the 29<A of Oct. 1654, began Iier
" eternal Sabbath ;" on 2 Sam. 12. 15, to 2k Lond.
1672. qu. [Bodl. C. 7. 16. Line] This sermon
(which I have not yet seen) hath the name of Rob.
Waring M. A. set in the title, as author, which I
take t<i be the same with our author before-men-
tion'd. " At the end is a consolatory letter to the
" mother of the said Susan, written as it seems by
" this Rob. Waring, and several elegies on the said
" Mrs. Gray's death by Oxford « and Cambridge-
" men of that time."

' [These of Oxford were (R. Reading) Thomas Ireland,
and ileiiry Bagshaw of Ch. Ch. and Edw. Thtirman and
GG2

1()58.

455

HARRIS.

RUDYERD.

[225]

l65P.

[Job ("harhoii of Staunton in com. Nolt. esq.
hath an original picture of tliis Mr. Waring. I saw
it 1 June 1733. Pkck.]

JOHN HARRIS, son of Rich. Harris of Pad-
hurv in Bucks, sometime fellow of New coll. and af-
terwards rector of Hardwick in the same county, was
Iwrn in the parsonage liouse at Hardwick, educated
in grammar leiu-ning in Wykehanrs school near
Winchester, athnittea perpetual fellow of New col-
lege in 160(5, t(X)k the degrees in arts, and became
so atlmirable a Grecian, and so noted a preacher,
that sir Hen. Savile used frequently to say that he
was second to St. (^hrysostome. In 1617 lie was
unanimously elected one of the proctors of the uni-
\crsity, and two years after was made Greek pro-
fessor thereof; both which offices he executed to his
great honour and credit. Afterwards he became
prebendary of Winchester, rector of Meonstoke in
Hampshire, d(x;t. of divinity, and at length in Sept.
lC-'50 warden of Wykeham's coll. near \Vinchester,
he being then preb. of Whitchurch in the church of
AV^ells. In the beginning of the grand rebellion
raised by the prcsbyterians, he sided with them,
was elected one of the assembly of divines, took the
covenant and other oaths, and so kept his warden-
sliip to his dying day. He hath written,

A sJiort View of the Life and Virtues of Dr.
Artli. Lake mmetime Bishop of Bath and Wells.
Lond. 1629. in 6 sh. and an half in Ibl. As also
several letters to the noted anti-arminian Dr. AV.
Twysse, of which one was Of GmT s Jinite and inde-
finite Decrees, another Of the Object of Predestina-
firni, which, with Twysse's Answers, were published
by Hen. Jeanes in a folio b(X)k which he published
at Oxon 1653. Our author Harris died at Win-
chester on the eleventh day of August in sixteen
hundred fifty and eight, aged 70 years, and was
buried in the chappel belonging to the coll. of W.
of Wykeham near Winchester. Over his grave
was soon after a tomb-stone laid, with an inscription
on a brass plate fastned thereunto ; the contents of
which I shall now for brevity's sake pass by. In
his wardenship succeeded Will. Burt, D. D. whom
I shall mention elsewhere.

« BENJAMIN RUDYERD, son of James
" Rudyerd gent, a third son of the house of Rud-
" yerd in Staffordshire, by Mary his wife, daugh.
" of Laurence Kidwelly of Winchficld in Hamp-
" sliire, was bom in Hampshire on S. Stephen's
" day 1572, in the parish, as I conceive, of East
" Woodhcv near to Kingscleere, educated in gram-
" mar learning for the most part in Wykeham's scIkxjI
" near Winchester, matriculated in this university
" as a member of S. John's coll. 4 Aug. 1587, at

Tbo. Martin of the same house. Wood, MS. note in Ash-
mule, which proves he had seen the book subsequent to the
);ublicatioi) uf the first exlilion of these Atheiix.]

' which time were three more of his sirnamc of

■ Hampshire (his brethren I think) matriculated

• also, viz. Laurence Rudyerd aged 17, John 16,
' and James 12, vears of age. How long he conti-
' nued in that coll. or whether he took a degree, it
' appears not. However by the polite learning he
•attained to there, and by his conversation with

• learned men in the great city, he became an ac-

■ complisird gentleman, and an excellent poet, as

■ several of his specimens shew, particularly his
' answers by w'ay of repartee to the poems of Will.

eai-1 of Pembroke. He was held in high value by
' the great men of his age for his ingenuity, espe-
cially by John Hoskyns sen. Rich. Martin, John
Owen the ejiigrammatist, Ben Johnson, Su;. the
last of whom hath written an ingenious epigram ^
to h'ni. His youthful years were adorn'il with all
kind of polite learning, his middle years with
matters of judgment, and his latter with state affairs
and )X)litics. In the reign of king James I. he was
several times a jiarliament man, and was had in
so great esteem by that king that when Humph.
May was matle chancellor of the dutchy of Lan-
caster, 9 March 16|f, he forthwith made our au-
thor Rudyerd ' surveyor of the court of wards and
hveries in his place, and on the 30th of the said
month honoured him with the degree of knight-
hood. Afterwards he served in several parlia-
ments in the reign of king Charles I. and in 1640
he was elected burgess for Wilton to serve in the
two parliaments that were in that year called ; in
the last of which, which began 3 of Nov. he ad-
hered to the presbyterian party, took the cove-
nant, sate in the assemb. of divines (as being
a]ijx)inted by ordinance of parliament) and was
favoured by the ])arliament so much, that when
they put down the court of wards in 1646, they
recompenced him for his surveyorship with 6000/.
and lands, as it seems, out of the estate belonging
to the marquis of Worcester. But when the in-
dependents carried all before them, and he with
40 more were turned out of the house of commons
and imprison'd for a time, he in great discontent
receded to his estate in the coimtry, where he

■ chiefly spent the remaining part of his days. As

■ for those things that go under his name, they are
' about forty

" Parliamentary Speeclies .ipoken in Parliaments

■ sitting ?w the Reigns of King James and King

■ Charles I. as (1) Speech concerning the West-

• India Association, 21 Jac. 1. (2) Speech where-

• by he acted the Part of a Moderator, tvhen sevc-

■ ral Members of the House insisted on Grievances,

■ An. 1627. (3) Speech in Behalf of the Clergy.

• Oxon. 1628. in two sh. in qu. jirinted also clse-
' where. (4) Speech concerning the Kin^s Supply
'• with Money, 28 Apr. 1 628 . \5) Several Debates

^ \i. Johnson in his Epigr. numb. 121.

' Camden in Annal. Reg. Jac. 1. an. l6l8. MS.

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FARINGDON.

HARRIS.

458

and the oilier concerning Parlia-

" and ArgiimenU in the Case of the Didr of Bucks,
" when a Remonstrance teas to be drawn np against
" him. An. 1628. (6) Sjicech upon the Receipt of
" his Majesty's Answer to the Petition against Re-
" cusants. Tliis is printed in a book cntit. The
" Sovereigns Prerogative and the Sidnecfs Privi-
" leges disrnsscd, &c. — Lend. 1657. fol.

" Tico Speeches spoken in the Parliament that
" began at Westminster 13 Apr. 1640, one about
" Grieva7ices, - - - . _ ..

" ments.

" Divers SpeecJies in the Parliament which began
" at Westm. 3 Nov. 1640, as (1) Speech for frequent
" Parliaments. (2) Concerning Ch. Government.
" (3) Concerning Eplicopal Clergy. (4:) Coticern-
" ing Religion. (5) Of the King and Kingdoni^s
" Business. (6) Of Evil Ministers of State. (7)
" About Puritans. — Nov. 5, <^~c. 1640. Besides
" seven at least that were spoken in that yeaj', and
" afterwards pi-inted.

" Seven Speeches or more spoken in ParUamcnt,
" or Committees, in the Year 1641 . — which were all
" printed at several times. Six or more speeches ^
" spoken in 1642, which were also printed, besides
" several in the year 1643 and after, which for bre-
" vity I now omit. See more in Will. Herbert
" among these writers under the year 1630. At
" lengtli having hved to a fair age, did willingly
" surrender up his last breath on the 31st of May
1C58. " in sixteen hundred fifty and eight, whereupon his
" body being buried at the upper end of the chan-
" eel belonging to the church of West Woodhey in
" Berksliire, where he had an estate, (part of tlie
" manor of which joins to that of East Woodhey in
" Hampshire) had a comely monument set up for
" him on the east wall, just under the east- window,
" by his faitliful and loving servant John Graunt,
" with an epitaph engraven thereon made by our
" author sir Benjamin in his younger years, tlie be-
" ginning of which runs thus :

" Pond world leave off this foolish trick
" Of making epitaphs upon the dead ;

'• Rather go write them on the quick,
" Whose souls. Sec."

[There is an excellent head of Rudyerd by J.
Payne, from the original picture by Mytcns, and a
small oval by Hollar.]

ANTHONY FARINGDON was born at Sun-
ning in Berks, admitted scholar of Trin. coll. the 9
.Tnnel612, aged 16 years, fellow in 1617, and three
years aftci-~M. of A. about which time entring into
holy orders, he became a noted preacher in these
parts, an eminent tutor in the college, and a worthy
example to be imitated by all. In 1634 he was

'■ [One of which was for accommodation between the
king and parliament ; spoke July gth ; reprinted in the Har-
Uian Miscellany. Whalley.]

made vicar of Bray near Maydenhead in Berks (being
then bach, of div.) and soon after divinity reader
in the king's chappol at Windsor. At the first of
which places ctmtinuing, not without some trouble,
till after the civil distempers broke forth, was tunic<i
out thence, and at length out of all by the impetuous
and restless presbyterians. So that lest he, nis wife
and children should l)e reduced to extremities and
starve,' sir Jo. Robinson kinsman to Dr. Laud
archb. of Canterb. andsome of thegootl parishioners
of Milkstreet in I.,ondon, invited him to be pastor
of S. Mary Magd. there ; where preaching to the
great liking of the loyal party, published some of
the sermons he had delivered to them, viz.

Forty Sermons. Lond. 1647. fol. the first vol.
[Bodl. M. 12. 9. Th.] Afterwards were published
by his executor.

Forty Sermons. Lond. 1663. fol. The 2d vol.
[Bodl. M. 12. 10. Th.]

Fifty Sermons. Lond. 1673. fol. The 3d vol.
[Bodl. M. 12. 11. Th.] He gave way to fate in his
house in Milkstreet, in the month of September* in
sixteen hundred fifty and eight, and was buried in
the church of S. Mary Magd. there. He left be-
hind him in MS. several memorials of the life of the
famous John Hales of Eaton ; which, if life had
been spared, he would have finishM and made them
public' But what became of them afterwards I
cannot tell, unless they were transmitted to the hands
of Will. Fulman of C. C. coll. who, to my knowledge,
had taken great pains to recover the memory of that
worthy person from oblivion.

ROBERT HARRIS, afamed puritanical preach-
er of his time, was born at Broad-Camden in Gloces-
tershire, an. 1.578, educated partly in the free-school
at Chipping-Camden, and partly in the free-school
at Worcester under Mr. Hen. Bright. Thence he
removed to Magd. hall in the latter end of 1595,
took one degree in arts, holy orders, and preached
for some time near Oxon, (at Stadham as it seems)
and at length being made rector of Hanwell near to
Banbury in Oxfordshire, was admitted to the reading
of the sentences in 1614. There he continued till
the civil war broke out in 1642, in all which time he
was a constant lecturer in those parts, which, with
other lectures in market towns, were the chief pro-
moters of the rebellion.^ Upon pretence of great

■^ [Hales of Eaton assisted Farinfrdon in his distress, by
supplying him with money, to support himself and family;
for wnich Faringdon was very grateful, and oflered money to
Hales in his necessities, but he refused it. See the Life of
Mr. Hales by Des Maizeaux. Whalley.]

" [An. 1058, Oct. 9, Mr. Faringdon, preacher in Milk-
street, died in the country: a famous preacher. Mr. Ri.
Smith's Olituary. Baker.]

* [Dr. Walker, in his account of Mr. Faringdon, says
they were lost. Watts.]

^ [In 1C45 he was one of the tryers of those who were to
be chosen ruling elders in London. Journals of the House nf
Commons, vol. iv, page 389. Cole.]

1 658.

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HARRIS.

LOVELACE.

trouble and daii<jer that might ensue from tlie sol-
diers of each ])arty when the war began, he retiretl
to London, was made one of the assembly of divines,
and minister of S. Botolnh's church near Bishopsgatc
in that city. In 1()4<6 lie was a))jx)inted one of the
six ministers or anostles to go to Oxon to preach the
scliolars into obedience to the parliament, and about
that time liad the rich rectory of Petersfield in Haiii])-
sliire confer'd upon him, which he kept with Han-
well for a time. In 1647 he was made one of the
visitors of the university of Oxon by authority of
jiarUament, anil in the year following was actually
created doct. of div. and made president of Trin.
coll. by the said authority, and so consequently
rector of Garsingdon near to Oxon. In lo.54 he,
witli Dr. Jo. Owen, Dr. Tho. Goodwin, Dr. Hen.
Wilkinson of Ch. Ch. Dr. Edm. Staunton of C. C.
coll. »k.c. were appointed assistants to the commis-
sioners of Oxfordshire to eject scandalous and igno-
rant ministers and school-masters, as they were then
called ; in which office he, and they, were not a
little busy. What else the reader is desirous to
know of him, may be seen in his hfe, (such as 'tis)
wTitten by his friend and kinsman WiU. Durham,
whom I sliall hereafter mention. In the mean time
the reader is to know that Dr. Harris wrote and
published these things following.

Nine and thirty SermonsJ

Treatise of the Covenant of Grace.

Remedy uffainst Covetousness. Most, or all,

of which naving been printed severally, were printed
in one vol. at Lond. 1635, fol. [Bodl. G. 8. 6. Th.]
and went by the name of Mr. Harris his works.

Several Sermons, being a Supplement to his
Works formerhj printed injhl. Lond. 1654. S;x>n
after the.sc sermons and the aforesaid works were all
printed together with this title. Dr. Rob. Harris his
Works revised and corrected, and collected into one
Volume, with an additimi cyf sundry Sermons, ^c.
Lond. 1654, 55, fol. Among whicn are two preli-
minary sermons and his Concio adclertim, 1. Oxonue
Jamdudum habita, 2. Dein posthabita c^ repudiata,
3. Nunc demum in Lucem edita ; on J.oh. 21. Part of
tfiellth and allfhelStk Verse. This with another
Lat. sermon of Dr. Dan. Featley were printed at
Utrecht in 1657 in tw. and both entit. Pedum pas-
torale, he.

Advice and Counsel to Ms Family — Written in
1636, and printed at the end of his life.

Two Letters in Vindication of himself from the
Slanders of an vnknoxun Writer. — Printed 1648 in
one sh. in qu. The said unknown writer was the

' [Samvtls Fvnerall: or a Sermon preached at the Fvne-
rall of Sir Anlhonie Cope, Kniglit and Bwronrnt, By Mr.
Robert Harrice. Al Lninlun Printed iij Felix Kiri!fsl!:r.,
&c. ifilS, ■ito. D^il. to the lailie Anne Cope late wife to sir
A. C. dated Hariwell Jidy II, ' the same daye whereon
(foiire ycercs before) your worthy husband was there inier-
red.'— ' For mine owiic part, the Lord hath already stripl me
of the [KJore man's portion, health.']

author of J Letter from O.mn, dat. 17 Jpr. 1648,
which letter is the second ytart of Pegasus, or the
Jly'tng Horse from Oxon, bringing tlie Proceedings
of the Visitors and ot/ier Bedlamites tliere, by tfte
Command qftltc Earl of Montgomery. The slan-
ders, as Dr. Harris calls them, were non-residency,
exchange of churches and plurahties, as also the
guilt oi" covetousnes.s, which he used to preach
against. The pluralities were, as the author of the
letter tells us, Hauwell worth 160/. per ann. Han-
borough in Oxfordsh. towards 300/. Beriton and
Petersfield in Hampshire not above 500/. or 600/.
more, besitles 4, shill. a dav for the a.ssembly mem-
bership, and 10 shillings for apostleship in Oxon.
But the reader must know, that he lost llanwell in
1643 when he retired to London and was made one
of the assein. of divines, and did not keep all the rest
together, yet whether he was restored to Hanwell
when the war ceased in 1646, I cannot justly tell.
He departed this mortal life in Trin. coll. on tlie
eleventn of Decemb. late in the night, in sixteen
hundred fifty and eight, aged 80 years, and wa.s bu-
ried at the upper end of the chapjjel of that college.
Over his grave was a fair monument set up in tlie
wall, with an inscription thereon, wherein he is said
to have been ' per decennium hujus collegii praeses
aeterniim celebrandus. Perspicacissimus indolum
scrutator, jiotestatis arbiter mitissimus, merentium
fautor integerrimus,'' 8cc. The rest you may see in
Hist. ^- Antiq. Univ. Oxon, lib. 2. p. 301. b.

RICHARD LOVELACE, the eldest son of sir
William Lovelace of W<x)llidge in Kent knight, was
bom in that county, educated in grammar learning
in Charter-house school near London, became a
gent, commoner of Glocester hall in the beginning of
the year 1634,* and in that of his age 16, being then
accounted the most amiable and beautiful person
that ever eye beheld, a person also of innate mo-
desty, virtue and courtly deportment, wliich made
him then, but especially after, when he retired to
the great city, much admired and adored by the fe-
male sex. In 1636, when the king and queen were
for some days entertained at Oxon, he was, at the
request of a great lady belonging to the queen, made
to the archb. of Cant! then chancellor of the univer-
sity, actually created, among other persons of cjua-
lity, master "of arts, tho' but of two years standing;
at which time his conversation being made public,
and consequently his ingenuity and generous soul
discovered, he Ixjcame as much admired by the
male, as before by the female, sex. After he had
left the university he retired in great splendor to
the court, and being taken into the favour of George
lord Goring, afterwards earl of Norwich, was by him
adopted a soldier, and sent in the quality of an en-

s [He was matticulated at Gloucester hall June 27, l634.
as ' hlius 1°" Gul. Lovelace de Woolwich in com. Kant.-
arm. an. nal. ifi.' Reg. PP. f«l. 2/7]

LOVELACE.

462

sign in the Scotch expedition, an. 1639. After-
wards, in the seconil expedition, lie was conimis-
sionated a captain in the same regiment, and in that
time wrote a tragedy called Tlic Soldier, but never
acted, because the stage was soon after sujjpress'd.
After the pacification at Berwick, he retired to his
native country, and took possession of his estate at
Lovelace place in the parish of Bethersden, at Can-
terbury, Chart, Halden, &c. worth at least 500/. per
an. About which time he was made choice of by
the whole body of the county of Kent at an assize,
to deliver the Kentish petition to the house of com-
mons, for the restoring the king to his rights and for
setling the government, &c. For which piece of
service he was committed to the Gatehouse at West-
minster, where he made that celebrated song called
Stone Walk do not a Prison make, &c.9 After 3
or 4 months imprisonment, he had his liberty upon

9 [I give this exquisite song from a M.S. in my own little
collection, which is, to all appearance, contemp')rary with
the author.

His beinge in prison.

When Loue, with vnconfined winges,

Honer'd within my gates.
And my diuine Althea bringes

To whisper at my grates ;
When I lyc tangled in her hayre.

And fettered in her eye, —
The birds, that wanton in the ayrc.

Know not such libertie.

When flowing cupps runne swiftly round

With noe allaying theanies.
Our carelcsse heades with roses bound,

Our heartes with loyall flames ;
When thirsty griefes in wine we stcepe,

When healths and draughts are free, —
Fishes, that tipple in the deepe.

Know no such libertie.

When, like committed linnets, I

With shriller notes shall singe
The sweelnes, mercy, maieslie.

And glories of my kinge ;
When I shall voyce aloud how good
^ He is, and great should be, —
Enlarged winds that curie the flood

Know noe such libertie.

Stone walls doe not a prison make.

Nor iron barrcs a cage,
A spotlesse mind and innocent

Calls that an hermitage ;
If I haue frcedomein my loue

And in my sonic am free, —
Angells alone that are aboue

Enioy such libertie.

The late Dr. Percy, bishop of Dromore, found, as he tells
lis, the seventh line of this song thus in the original :

The gods that wanton in the air —
And takes credit to himself for the alteration, which it will
be allowed, on all sides, would have been a judicious amend-
ment: but it is almost unnecessary to obserie, that the MS.
whence the foregoing has been printed, was written years be-
fore the bishop was born, and that the line there stands as
nis lordship proposes.

The birds that wanton in the ayw
Know not such libertie.]

bail of 40000/. not to stir out of the lines of
communication, without a pass from the speaker.
During this time of confinement to London, ne hved
beyond the income of his estate, cither to keep ui)
the credit and reputation of the king's cause by fur-
nishing men with liorse and arms, or by relievin"'
ingenious men in want, whether scholars, musicians,
soldiers. Sec. Also by furni-shing his two brothers
colonel Franc. Lovelace, and capt. Will. Lovelace
(afterwards slain at Caermarthen) with men and
moncv for the king's cause, and his other brother
callecf Dudley Posthumus Lovelace with moneys for
his maintenance in Holland to study tactics and for-
tification in that school of war. After the rendition
of Oxford ganison, in 1646, he formed a regiment
for the service of the French king, was colonel of it,
and wounded at Dunkirk, and in 1648 returning hito
England, he, with Dud. Posthumus before-men-
tion'd, then a captain under him, were both com-
mitted prisoners to Peterhouse in London, where
he fram'd his poems for the press, entit.

Lucasta : Epode,i, Odes, Sonnets, Songs, &c.
Lond. 1649. oct. The reason why he gave that
title was, because, some time before, he had made
his amours to a gentlewoman of great beauty and
fortune named Lucy Sacheverel, whom he usually
called Lux casta ; but she upon a strong repcjrt that
Lovelace was dead of his wound received at Dun-
kirk, soon after married. He also wrote,

Aramantha: A Pastoral printed with Lu- [229]

casta. Afterwards a musical composition of two
parts was set to -part of it by Hen. Lawes, some-
times Servant to king Charles I. in his public and
private music. After the murther of king Charles
I. Lovelace was set at liberty, and having by that
time consumed all his estate, grew very melancholy,
(which brought him at length into a consumption)
became very ptwr in body and purse, was the object
of charity, went in ragged cloaths (whereas when he
was in his glory he wore cloth of gold and silver)
and mostly lodged in obscure and dirty places, more
befitting the worst of beggars, and poorest of ser-
vants, &c. After his death, his brother Dudley
before-mention'd made a collection of his poetical
papers, fitted them for the press, and entitled them,

Lucasta: Posthume Poems. Lond. 1659. oct.
the second part, with his picture before them.'o
These are all the things that he hath extant : those
that were never published, were his trag. called The
Soldier or Soldiers, before-mention'd, and his co-
medy called The Scholar, which he composed at 1"6
years of age, when he came first to Glocester hall,
acted with applause afterwards in Salisbury-Court
He died ' in a very mean lodging in Gun-powder

'» [There are two heads of Lovelace; one by Hollar, dated
I Coo, the other by Faithorne.]

' EJ^*^ following is Aubrey's account of Lovelace.

' Richard Lovelace esq. obiit in a cellar in Long Acre, a
little before the restauralion of his ma"«. Mr. Edm. Wyld,
&c. had made collections for him, and given him money.
He was of in Kent, 500/. or more. He was an extra-

463

LOVET-ACE.

CAPPEI.L.

alley near Shoe-lane, and was buried at the west-
end of the cliiirch of S. Bride alias Bridget in Lon-
don, neai" to the body of his kinsman Will. Love-
lace of Grevs-Inn es<j; in sixteen hundred fifty and
iC58. eight, having before been accounted by all those
that well knew him, to have been a person well
vers'd in the Greek and Lat. p)ets, in music,
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 de-
jected estate in his worst part of poverty, but for
orevity's sake I shall now pass them by. At the
end of his Posthume Poems are several elegies writ-
ten on him by eminent poets of that time, wherein
you may see nis just character.

[To Lucasta ; going to the wars.

Tell me not, sweet, I am inikind,

That from the nunnery
Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind

To wars and arms I fly:

True, a hew mistress now I chace,

The first foe in the field ;
And, with a stronger faith, embrace

A sword, a horse, a shield.

Yet this inconstancy is such

As you too shall adore ;
I could not love thee, dear, so much,

Lov^d I not honour more.]

" LEWIS CAPPELL (Lmhv. Cnppellus)
" younger brother to James Cappell, and both the
" sons of James Cappell counsellor of the parlia-
" ment at Ravenna, was Ixirn in Sedan in the jiro-
" vince of Campaigne in France, ujxjn the borders
" of Luxemburgh, 'an. 1585, educated in the aca-
" demy then there, retired to Oxon, for the sakes of
" Holland and Prideaux, an. 1.610, and was, as I
" have been informed, a sojourner in Exeter coll.
" and for a time there wore a gown. In Febr. the .same
" year he answered publicly in divinity disputations
" m the school appointed for that faculty, and did
" other exercises m order to the taking the degree
" of bach, of divinity, but whether it was confer'd on
" him it doth not appear in the register, and there-
" fore if such a thing was done it might be perhaps
" in a simile primo, or in an assimulatio jiarva. In

ordinary handsome man, but prowd. He wrote a poem called
Lucasta, 8vo. l04(). Ho was of Glouresler-hall, as I have
been told. He had two younger brothers, viz. col. Fr. L.
and another that died at Carmarthen. Geo. Petty, haber-
dasher, in Fleclstrcet, carryed xxs to him every Munday
morning, from sir — — Many and Charles Cotton esq. for
months, but was never repayd.']

" 1612 he gave books to the public library, because
" he had sjient much time there in laying a founda-
" tion of literature, which afterwards j)ro<luced most
" noble structures. After lie had returned to his
" country lie was made Hebrew professor of the
" university of Saumur, which he kept to, or near,
" his dying day. Hugo Grotius, who does much
" commend his Crltlca Sacra, doth « say thus of him
" and them. — ' In (|uo nescio niagisne indefessam
" sedulitatem mirari debeani ; an uberrimam erudi-
" tionem, an judicium limatissimum, qua- trcs laudcs
" in hoc opere ita inter se certant, ut in ambiguo ma-
" neat, cui de tribus prima jwhna debeatur.' This
" Mr. Cappell hath published many works; in which
" he hath shewed a wonderful depth of judgment
" and skill in all that belongs to tlie critics of the
" holy scripture. The titles of them mostly fol-
" low,

" Arcanum Punctat'wnis rcvelatum ; or, De
" Punctis Heb)a'ori/m,Y>nnted inHoUandby Thorn.
" Erpenius, at which time it made a great noise in
" the world. It was reprinted at Amsterdam, with roqni
" other of the author's works, an. 1689. •■ '

" Historia Apostolica illustrata, ex Actis Apos-
" tolorum 4- Epistolis PauUnis, sttidiose inter sc
" collatis, coUecta, ordineqite secvndum Annortim
" Numerttm accurate dtgestO' 4" »*'* Compendium
" contracta, &c. Genev. 1634. qu. [Bodl. AA. 47.
" Th. Seld.] AU, or most of which is remitted into
" the first vol. of Critici Sacri, printed at Loud, in
" fol. 1660.

" Histwite Judaiccc Compendium ex Josepho
" contractum. Printed with H'lst. Apost.

" Spicilcg'mm post Messem : hoc est, nova non-
" nuUorum N. Testaments Locorum Illustratio
" uUpic ExpUcntio. Gen. 16.'32. qti. [Bodl. AA. i

" 62. Th. Seld.T This is printed at the end of '

" Joh. Cameron's book entit. Myrothecium Evan-
" gel'tcum, &c.

" Dlatribie dua\ (1) De Interpretatume Loci
'■'■Matth. 15. 5. (2) De Voto Jepthcc. This is
" printed with Spici/cgium.

" Tempti Hierosolymitani DeUncat'io triplex.
" This is printed in the first vol. of Critici Sacri.
" Lond. 1660. fijl.

" Ad novam Dnvidis Lyram, Animatlversioncs,
" cum gemina Diatriba ; una de Voce Elohim,
" cdtera de Nomine Jehovw. Salmiu-. 1643. oct.

" Diatriba de vcris S^ antiqtiis Ebrworum Literis.
" Opposita D. Joh. Buxtorjii, de eodem Argumento,
" Dissertationi. Anistel. 1645. in tw. [Bodl. 8vo.
« C. 33. Th. Seld.]

" Josephi Scaligeri Defensio contra Buxtor-
"Jium.

" Exercitatiobrevis ad obscurum Zoliaris Locum
" iUustrandum. These two last are printed with
" Diatriba de veris, &c.

2 In Episl. ad Gallos.

465

CAPPELL.

ROUS.

466

" Critka Sacra. Par. 1650. fol. [Bodl. A. 3. 11.
" Th. Selcl.] Tliis made as great a noisu as Arca-
" nitm Punctafionis, &c. and got him tlic^ ill will
" of his own party, (the protestants) as if he had
*' made it liis only business to maintain tlie opinion
" of the Rom. church against the authority of the
*' scrijitiH'cs, and to undermine the Hebrew text.
" The printing of this book was opposed at Geneva,
" Sedan, and Leyden for ten whole years ; but at
" last father I'etau a Jesuit, father Morin of the
" Oratory, father Marsenne a Minim, got leave of
" the king of France to have it jjrinted at Paris.
" This appeared strange to the court of Rome,
" which was ready to condemn it, because it was a
*' thing unheard of, that a protestant's book treating
" of divinity should be printed with the king's leave
" at Paris. But it was Cappelfs son that oversaw
" the impression, for the father did not appear in it
*' at all. Father Simon cjuotes a letter that father
" Morin wrote to card. Francis Barbarini, upon this
" subject ; wherein he intimates, that they would do
" Cappell a kindness in condemning his book, be-
*' cause it had got him a hatred of all his own party;
" but thpt at the same time it would be prejudicial
*' to the Rom. cath. cause, to which those Critka
" were serviceable. This letter was printed in Eng-
" land, and added to a collection of letters, entit.
" Bibliotheca Orkntalis, &c. wherein is also the
" cardinal's answer to father Morin. Lewis Cajv
" pell hath also written,

• " De Critka nuper a se edita, ad rev. Sj- doctiss.
" Virum I). Jacob. Uiserium Armacanum in Ili-
" bernia Epi.scopum, Epi.itola apologetica, in qua
" Arnoldi Bootii temeraria Criticx Ccnsura refel-
" litiir. Salni. 1651. qu. [Bodl. AA. 14. Jur. Seld.]
■" The said Bootius accused Cappell of having coni-
" bin'd witli father Morinus to destroy all tlie ori-
" ginals of the IJible ; but Cappell shews to the con-
" trary that in his Critica he was against the opinion
" of father IVIorinus, but that father being concern'd
" in the p\ib!ishing his book with his son John Cap-
" pell, had cut oft' what was against himself, whicii
" IS all printed with the said Apol. Epist. which
" may be .seen at large there.

" Chronolosi-ia Sacra a condito Miindo ad eun-
" dem recmiditum per Dom. N. J. Chriatum, atque
" inde ad ultimam Judworum per Romanos Capti-
" vitatcm dcdiicta, &c. Par. 1655. qu. [Botll. 4to.
" C. 1. Th. BS.l This Chrcm. is printed in the pro-
" logomena in the beginning of the Polyghi Bible,
" &c.

" De Gente Cappellorum. This, wherein he
" hath made an abridgment of his life, I have not
" yet seen, otherwise I would have spoken more
" largely and satisfactorily of him. He died in
\Gb%. " sixteen hundred fifty and eight, and was buried,
" as I presume, at Saumur, leaving then behind the

' " Pee the Great Ilistoricnl, Geographical, and Poetical
" Dict'wnani, gcc. Loud. 11)94, vol. 1. iiiCuppell."
Vol. III.

" character of an universal scholar, and one of the

" greatest and most renown'd critics that France I ggi i

" ever before had produced."

FRANCIS ROUS, a younger son of sir Anth.
Rous, knight, by Elizab. his first wife, daughter of
Tho. Southcote, gent, was born at Halton in Corn-
wall, and at 12 years of age became a commoner of
Broadgate's hall, an. 1591, where continuing under
a constant and severe discipline, took the degree of
bach, of arts; which degree being compleated by
detennination, he went afterwards, as it seems, to
the inns of court, tho' some there be that would
needs persuade me that he took holy orders, and
became minister of Saltash in his own country.
Howsoever it is, sure I am, that being esteemed a
man of parts, and to be solely devoted to the puri-
tanical party, he was elected by the men of Truro
in his own country to serve in parliaments held in
the latter end of king James, and in the reign
of king Charles I. In 1640 also he was elected
again for that corporation, to serve in tliat 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
Windsor the same year,'' in the place of Dr. Rich.
Steuart who then followed, and adliered 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 Oliver's 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 lx)ttle, 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 sign-
ing a parchment or paper, pretended to do. The

* [Clemcnl Walker, In his Hist, of Independency, part I.
page 14;j, reckntiing up the preferment bestowed by the
godly among the independents, haih this: Mr. Rovvse hath
Eaton college worth 800/. per ann. and a lease of that col-
lege worth 600/. per ann. Cole.]

' Second Nurratv:c of the late Parliament so called, 8co.
printed l658. p. 17.

HH

4f>7

llOl'S.

colourable fouiulatiou for this ajx)stasy, upon the
mouarcliical foundation, being thus liiid, and the ge-
neral himself (as protector) seated thereon, he be-
came one of his coimeil, and trusted with many mat-
ters, as being apjiointetl in tlie latter end of the same
year the first and prime tryer or approver of public
preachers, and the year after a commissioner tor the
county of Coniwall, for the ejection of such whom
thev then called scandalous and ignorant ministers
and. schoolmasters. Afterwards he sate in the fol-
lowing parliaments imder Ohver, and beini^ an aged
and venerable man, was accounted worthy to be
taken out of the house of commons, to have a nega-
tive voice in the other house, that is, the house of
lords, over aU 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 entliusiastical canting is used,
tlie titles of which follow.

The Art of Happiness, coitsisting- of three Parts,
wJiereqf tlie first scarcheth out the Happiness of
Man. The second, ^c. Lond. 1619- oct. [Bodl.
8vo. R. 75. Th.] at which time the author hved at
Xianrake in Cornwall.

; The Diseases of the Time attended hy their
Jie^ncdies. Lond. 1622. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. R. 6.
Th. BS.]

Oyl of Scorpions. The Miseries of these Times
[232] iurnedinto Medicines and cur inff themselves. Lond.
1C23. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. R. 6. Th. BS.]

Testis Veritatis. The Doctrine of K. James of
the Ch. of England, plainly shexced to be one in the
Points of Predestination, Frce-xcill, and Certainty
of Salvation. Lond. 1626. qu. [BotU. 4to. L.
31. Th.]

Discovery of the Grofimds, both Natural and Po-
litic, ofArminianism Printed with Test. Ve-

ritatM.

The only Remedy that can cure a People xohcn
all other Remedies fail. Lond. 1627. in tw. [Bodl.
8vo. C. 19. Th. BS.]

Tlie Heavenly Academy. Lond. 1638." in tw.
[Bodl. 8vo. R. 21. Th. Scld.] dedicated to John
lord Roberts of Truro.

Catliolic Charily : complaining and maintaining
that Rome is uncharitable to sundry eminent Parts
of the Catlu Church, and especially to Protestants,
and is tliercfore Uncatholic : and so a Romish Book
called Charity mistalcen, though undertaken by a
second, is it self a Mistalcing. Lond. 1641. oct.
[Bodl. 8vo. R. 5. Th. BS.]

Meditations, endeavouring the Edification and
Reparation oftheHmise of God.

The great Oracle. Even the main Frame and

Body cf the Scriptures, resolving the Question,

'' [This was reprinted Lond. 1702, iZuio. Rawlin-

SON'.]

Whetlter tn Mutt's Free-Will and common Grace
stands the Safety of Man, and the Glory of God in
Man\^ Safety.

'The Mystical Marriage : or. Experimental Dis-
coveries of the lieavcnly Marriage between a Soul
and her Sariour. Lond. 1653. in tw. All which
treatises, in number eleven, were reprinted in one
folio at Lond. 1657, under the title of The Works
<f Francis Rous, Esq;. Or Treatises and Medita-
tions dedicated to the Saints, and to the eaxellcnt
throughout the three Nations, licfore which works
is the pictin-e of the author, aged 77 3'ears, arr.
1656, engi-aven by the curious hand of \Vill. Fai-
thome.

" Dr. BarloAv has noted this Fr. Rous, provost of
" Eaton, to ha\e been the author of

" The Laztf Illness of obeying the present Govern-
" ment, propo.ied by one that loves all Presbyterians,
" Lovers of Truth and Peace. Lond. 1649. qu. 2
" sh." [IJodl. B. 18. 2(1 Line]

Parliamentary s}ieeches, 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 tlie upper House 16</i of March 16iO,
agaitist Dr. Jo. Cosin, Dr. Roger Maincaring, and
Dr. Will. Bcale, upon the Complaint of Mr. Pet.
Smart. Lond. 1641. in one sh. m (|u. (3.) Sp. in
the H. of Commons against making Dr. Jo. Pri-
deaux, Dr. Th. Winniff, Dr. R. Holdsicorth, and
Dr. Hen. King, Bishops, till a settled Government
in Religion uas established. Lond. 1642. in one
«h. in qu.

Mella Patrum : nempe omnium quorum per pri-
ma nascentis (J- patientis Ecclcsiw triu Secula,
usque ad Pacem sub Constantino divinitus datum,
Scripta prodienint, atque adhuc minus dubiw Fidei
supersunt. Lond. 1650. in a diick large oct. [Bodl.
8vo. R. 1. Th. BS.]

Interiora Regni Dei. Lond. 1665. in tw. He
also translated The Psalms of David into English
Metre. Lond. 1646. oct. This translation, tho' or-
dered by the house of commons to be printed 4 Nov.
1645, yet, if I am not mistaken, all or most of it
was printed in 1641. The said psalms were also

turned into metre by Will. Barton. pr. by order

of pari. 1645. oct. Our author Rous gave way to
fate at Acton near London, on the seventh day of
January in sixteen hundred fifty and eight, and was 1C5}.
buried " on the 24th of that month'" in Eaton coll.
church, near to the entrance of that chappel jo3ming
thereunto, formerly built by Rog. Lupton provost
of the said college, " Mr. Oxenbridge preaching his
" funeral .sermon.'" Soon after were hanged up over
his grave a standartl, jjennon, &c. and other ensigns
relating to barons, containing in them the anns of
the several matches of his family. All which con-
tinuing there till 1661, were then pulled down with
scorn by the loyal provost and fellows, and thrown
aside as tokens and ba^lges of damn'd baseness and
rebellion. Those of his i>arty did declare openly to

46'9

SANDBROOKE.

COCKAINE.

STYLE.

470

{233]

if).-.i

tlie world at his death, that ' he needed no monu-
ment besides his own })rintod works and tiie memo-
rials of his hist will, to convey his name to jKjsterity.
And that the other works of his life were works of
charity, wherein he was most exemplary, as the poor
in many parts would, after the lossofliim, tell you,'
&C. The poet of Broadgate's called Ch. Fitz-Geffrey,
did celebrate ' his memory while he was of that
house, and after his death Pembroke college (built
in the jilace of Broadg.) did the like for his ' bene-
faction to the members thereof.

[The Balm of Love to heal Divuions, and tJie
Wounds made by them ; and to make the Body of
Christ wlwlc and entire for its own Beauty,
Strength, and Safety : partly j^resented in a for-
mer Discovrse wlien it might ?Mve prevented, and
now, after many Evils for Want of Pi-evention,
reinforced in a second. By Fr. Rous, a Member
of tJie House of Commons. Lond. 1658, 4to. Tan-
ner.

Speech in Parliament touching the Augmenta-
tion of Minister s Livings, in 1628. MS. Warton,
in the library of the arclib. of Canterbury. Caial.
numb. 577, p. 222.]

WILLIAM SANDBROOKE of Gloucester
hall took one degree in the civil law in 1630, and
about that time entring into holy orders, became
rector of the church of S. Pet. in the Bayly in
Oxon, 1635, where he was much frequented by pu-
ritanical people, and precise scholars, as Rogers
principal of New-inn w-as, who had his turn in
preaching there. In the beginning of the civil wars
he left the university, and betook himself to a sea
employment, in the quality of a chaplain, imder the
earl of Warwick admiral for the parliament, but
being weary of it by the year 1644, he officiated as
vicar of S. Margaret's church in the city of Roches-
ter by the leave of one Mr. Selvey the true incum-
bent, who having a good temporal estate, allowed
Sandbrooke the whole profits of the living. After-
wards he was appointed by the presbytcrian party
one of tliree lecturers in the cathedral there, pur-
posely to preach down the blasphemies and heresies
of Rich. Coppin and his besotted and bigotted fol-
lowers.^ This Mr. Sandbrooke hath published,

I'he Church, the jjroper Subject of the new Co-
Tenant, in three Sermons [on Ephes. 1. 22, 23.']
Lond. 1646. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. R. 7. Th. BS.]

Several sermons, as (1.) Fun. Sermon on Col.
2. 6. — printed 1657. in oct. &c. which, and others,
I have not yet seen. He died at Rochester in six-
teen hundred fifty and eight, and was interred in

' In lib. 2. Affaniarum.

"Vide Hist. & Antiij. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 334.

9 [This account I gave to Mr. Wood in ray journey from
Oxford into Kent, 1 08 1. Kennet.]

' [Delivered, says the title-page, first in three sermons at
Kochester; afterwards coutracted into two, and delivered
jgaiu al Gravcscnd.]

the south isle joyning to the parish church of S.
Margaret before-mention\l (remarkable for being'
the place of burial of one of the Saxon kings, as the
people there sav) on the fifteenth day of March,
leaving then behind him tlie cliaracter of a godly
and painful preacher.

« THOMAS COCKAINE was descended from
" an ancient family of his name living in Derby-
" shire, but whether born there I cannot tell, edu-
" cated in Corp. Ch. coll. but took no degree in this
" university, and wrote,

" An English Greek Lexicon, containing tfte
" Derivations and various Significations of all tfie
" Words in the New Testament, with a Compleat
" Index in Greek and Lat. Lond. 1658, 8lc. ocU
" He had assistants in this work.

" Explanation on Rom. 2. witJi all the Gr. Dia^
" lects in the New Testament, printed with the
" former book, both very useful tor private Chris-
" tians, and recommended to the churches by seve-
" ral ministers of the presbytcrian and independent
" persuasion. Of the same family with this Tho-
" mas, was George Cockaine the independent mi*.
" nister of S. Pancras church in Soper-lane in Lon*
" don, author of a Fast Sermon preached before
" the H. of Com. in S. Marg. Ch. in Westm. 29
" Nov. 1648 ; on Psal. 82. Ver. 6, 7, 8, afterwards
" chaplain to Bulstrode Whitlock one of Oliver's
" lords, and a prime leader in his preachings in
" those times,^ but reflecting in bis wtitings on the
" quakers, he is animadverted upon by George
" Fox in his Great Mystery, p. 21."

" WILLIAM STYLE an esquire's son, and a
" Kentish man born, became a gent com. (with his
" younger lirother George) of Brasen-n. coll. an.
" 1618, aged 15 years, but before he took a degree,
" he retired to the Inner-Temple, and became a,
" barrister, but instead of prosecuting the practice
" of the law, he pleas'd himself with a retired and
" studious condition, the effects of which are these,

" The Practical Register : or, the accomplished
" Attorney, ccmsisting of Rules, Orders, and the
" most principal Observations concerning the Prao-
" tice of the common Law in his Majesty s Court«
" at Westminster, but more particidarly applicable
" to the Proceedings in the King's Bench, a.? weU
" in Matters Criminal as Civil. Lond. 1657.' oct.
" [Bodl. 8vo. J. 9. Jur.] &c.

' \Dimne Apologie, or a Scripture Prognostication of the
sad Events which ordinarily arise from the good Man's Fall
by Death ; Icing the Substance of a Sermon preach' d in Ste-
phen's Walbronk Jan. I(), 10.^7, al the Funerals of the ho-
nourable Col. JVilliarn Underwood, one of the Aldermen ef
the City nf London. Lond. 1658, qu. On Isaiah 57, ver. \.
Dedicated to the widow. RawliNson.]

' [The second edition, with additions, was printed Lond.
1670, (of which a copy, with numerous MS. notes by Tho.
Tourncur, Bodl. Rawl. 8vo. £33) the fuuith edit, with large

Clar.

additions, Lond. 1707-]

HH2

471

BULSTRODE.

LLOYD.

47^2

[234]

Clar.
I6i8.

*' Narrationes Modcmw : or. Modem Reports,
" began in the now upper Bench Court at Wcst-
" mtnster in the hcfrinning of Hillarij Term, 21
" Car. L and continued to the End of Mich. Term,
" An. 1655, as well on the Criminal as on the
^^ Plea Side ; most of which Time the late Lord
" ChieJ' Justice Kofi had the Rule there. Lond.
" 1658. fol. [Bwll. S. 4. 12. Jur.] He the said
" Mr. Style did translate from Lat. into English,
" Contemplations, Sighs and Groans of a Chri.s-
''tian. Lond. 1640. oct. [Bodl. 8yo. R. iiS. Th.]
" Before the title of which is the picture of a man*
" in a gown looking vip to heaven, with a scroul
" issuing from his mouth, wherein is written, / see
" better. Another scroul issues from his right hand
" hanging down, in which is written, IJoUmo 7Cor.se;
" and in his left hand is the book of contemplations
" originally written in Latin by John Michael Del-
" her. The said Mr. Style also did correct and
" much enlarge, The Common Law Epitomiz'd,
" xcith Directions how to prosecute and defendper-
■" sonal Actions, &c. Lond. in oct."
• [Will. Style of the Inner Temple esq. 1640,
translated out of Spanish, and dedicated to prince
•Charles, Galateo Esjxtgnol, or the Spanish Gallant,
&c. Lond. 1640, 12mo. Written by Lucas Gracian
de Antisco. Tanner.

William Style esq. and Mary his wife, occur as
patrons of the rectory of Kenardington, in Kent, in
July 1623.*

Styles's Reports are singularly valuable from the
circumstance of being the only cases extant of the
common law courts for several years, in the time of
the usurpation, during which su- Henry Rolle, and
afterwards John Glynne, sat as chief justice of the
upper bench.* ]

"EDWARD BULSTRODE, second son of

" Edw. Bulstrode of Hughley, commonly called

" Hedgley, and by some Hedgley-Bulstrode, in the

" parish of Upton near to Beaconsfield in Bucking-

" hamshire, esq; by Cecilia his wife, daugh. of sir

" Joh. Croke of Chilton in the same county, was

'" born in Buckinghamshire, became a commoner of

•" S. John's coll. in 1603, aged 15 years, left it

" without a degree, and went to the Inner Temple,'

" of which he was afterward a l>arrister. At both

" which places he was encouraged in his studies by

" sir James Whitlock, sometime fellow of the said

"coll. of S. John, whom our author Bulstrode stiles"

'.' ' Antistes literarum & . sapientiie, & non solum

" doctus sed natus sapiens.'' In the 8th of Car. 1.

■• fThis, whicli is, to the full, as much a portrait as hun-
dreds menlionefl by Granger, is omitted in that gentleman's
Biographical History rif England.lj
■ * [Hasted's Ilisl. vf Kent, vol. lii, page 1 18, b.]

* fWorrall's Law Catalogue, page 231.]

7 fAdmilted S6 Jan. l605 ; called to the bar 13 Jan. I6l3 ;
W the bench 2J Nov. l6ig. Wanley.]

* £ln the preface to his Reports.'}

" [4 Nov. 1632'] he was Lent-reader of his iim;
" and in the time of the grand i-ebellion, siding with
" the presbyterians, and taking the covenant, was,
" by the endeavours of his nejjhew Bulstrode Whit-
" lock, a leading man in the long jiarliament, and a
" favourite of Oliver, made one of the justices of
" North AVaies,' an. 1649, and afterwards taking
" the engagement, he was employed sometimes as
" an itinerary justice in England, particularly at
" Warwick, an. 1653, in which county he had an
" estate at Astley. He hath written and published,

" A Golden Chain : or, Mi-bcellany of divers
" Sente?ices erf the sacred Scriptures, and of other
" Authors, collected and knit together for the SouPs
" Comfort. Lond. 1657. oct.

" Reports if divers Cases. Lond. in 3 vol. or
" parts. The first part was published in 1657, the
" second in 1658, [These two Bodl. M. 2. 13. Jur.]
" and the third in 1659, all rejorinted with many
" hundred new references 1691-^ What other things
" he hath extant I know not, nor any thing else of
" him, only that he dying in or near the Inner
" Temple in the beginning of April in sixteen hun-
" dred fifty and nine, was buried in the body of
" the church, on the south side of the pulpit be-
" longing to the said Temple, on the fourth day of
" the said month, he being then one of the masters
" of the bench thereof He had an elder brother
" named Henry Bulstrode, who, when he was about
" 60 years of age, was governor of Ailesbury in
" Bucks for the parliament in the time of the pres-
" byterian rebellion, an. 1643.'"

" RICHARD LLOYD, son of Dav. Lloyd of
" Henblas in Llangristiolis in tlie isle of Anglesey,
" was educated in all kind of virtue and learning
" befitting a youth under his father in his own
" house, entred a student in Oriel coll. an. 1591,
" aged 17 years, and in the year following was ma^
" triculated a member of the university as a Me-
" rionethshire man born. Afterwards taking the
" degrees in arts, he entred into holy orders, be-
" came rector of Sonning, vicar of Tylehurst in
" Berkshire, and bach, of divinity. At length lopon
*' the breaking out of the gi-and rebellion in 1642,
" he suffered much for the great affection and zeal
" he had for king Cliarles the martyr and his cause,
" by being four or five several times imprisoned by
" the rebels, and at length deprivVl of his spirituah-
" ties. Afterwards, being in a manner ruiivd, he
" retir d to Oxon, taught a private school several
" years in the parish of S. Peter in the Bayly, and
" wrote for the use of his scholars,

" A Latin Grammar : or, a Compendious Way
" to obtain a sufficient Knowledge of the Latin
" Tongue, and the Use of it, both in Pro.ie and
" Verse, Oxon 1658. oct. third edit, and other

5 [Wanley.]

> [He was chief justice of Wales. Wanley.]

5 [Worrall says in lC88. Law Catalogue, \, t36.]

Ifcg.

[235]

HANSON.

IIUSSEI.L.

EDMONDSON.

474

" things of tlic same faculty which I lijive not yet

" seen. He siirrendred upliis pious and loyal soul

" to God in the month ot June in sixteen hundred

1059. " ^jj'jy jj^jj nine^ .|,,J ^^3 buried in tlie church he-

" longing to the ])arish of S. Peter in the Bayly be-
" fore-men tion\l, leaving then behind him a son
" named Will. Lloyd, afterwards bishop of S. Asapli,
" then of Litchfield, and at length of Worcester, as
" also three daughters, one married to Isaac l}ack-
" house, M. A. and I'ellow of S. John's coll. after-
" wards rector of Northoi-p in Flintshire ; another
" to Jam. Davies, M. A. and fellow of Jesus coll.
" afterwards rector of Barton Mills in Suftblk, and
" a third to Jonathan Blagrave, M. A. of Magd.
•" hall, afterwards rector of Longworth in Berks,
" chaplain in ordinary and sulvalmoncr to their
" majesties, and prebendary of Worcester. As for
" David Lloyd, father of Richard whom we have
" here mentioned, he had been bred in Oxon, but
" in what coll. or hall I cannot tell. Afterwards
" retiring to his estate in Anglesey, he became a
" very learned gent, and an ingenious poet, as seve-
" ral pieces of his poetry in manuscript, and a Welsh
" Prosod'ia in MS. also (composed by him before
" Job. Dav. Rhees composed his) shew. He was also
" a very good linguist, and imdcrstood perfectly
" seven several languages besides the British, as Mr.
" Hugh Roberts, minister of Aberstraw, testifies in
" his elegy composed by him on his death. He was
" also well skiird in the stTiptures, as it appears by
" notes written by him in Welsh on the margin of
" his Hebrew Psalter, and on his Bible also. He
" educated his own sons at home, of which three
" were divines, viz. Joh. Lloyd, M. A. and of Oriel
" coll. as it seems, and afterwards rector of Beau-
" maris in his own country. Will. Lloyd, M. A.
" rector of Llanelian in Anglesey, a very learned,
" industrious, and religious good man, whose daugli-
" ter and heir was the wife of Dr. Rob. Morgan
" sometimes bishop of Bangor, and Rich. Lloyd be-
" fore-mention'd. The mother of these, and the
" wife of old David Lloyd, was Katharine tlie
" daughter of Richard Owen Tudor, of Pen-
" mynydd, the family of the famous Owen Tudor,
" from whom all our princes, since Hen. 7. (who
" was his grandchild) are descended. This Katha-
" rine was a poet also, as well as her husband, as it
" appears by a Welsh poem of hers, writ by way of
" advice to her sons of Oriel coll.'

« JOHN HANSON, son of Rich. Hanson, mi-
." nister of Henley in Staffordshire, was entred a stu-
" dent of Pemb. coll. an. 1630. aged 19 years. One
" Joh. Hanson of Abingdon in Berks hath written,
1609. " The Sabbatarians confided by the new Cove-
" nant. A Treatise shewing; that the Command-

' [The greatest part of this account is taken from bishop
Humphreys's communication, as will appear from the artic'e
KICHAKD LLOYD, in the F.\sri, under the year l628,
coj. 441.] ^

" ments are not the Moral Law, but with tJuir Or-
" dinances. Statutes, and Judffments, the old Co-
" venant, &c. Load. 1658. oct."

WII-LIAM RUSSELL, son of a fatlier of both
his names, was liorn at AVickware in Gloucester-
shire, educated in the grammar school at Wotton
Underedfje in the said county, betame a batler of
Line. coll. in Lent term 163.5, took one degree in
arts, and then Uuiglit scluwl for a time at Satlbury
in his own country. At length John Langley being
called away to be chief master of S. Raid's school,
he became master in his r<x)m of the public college
school in the city of Gloucester, where by his singu-
lar industry, happy way of teaching, and by nis
great skill m the tongues and holy scripture, many
learned youths were sent thence to the universities.
His worKs are these.

The old Protestants conscientious Enquiries con-
cerning the new Engagement printed in qu.

'Twas ^vritten against the oath called the engage-
ment.

BXa(r(^))fiO)c7ov/'ay. The Holif Ghost vindicated —
in oct. written against Job. Biddle. He gave way
to fate on the 5th of July in sixteen hundred fifty 1659.
and nine, aged 42 years, and was buried in S. Mi-
cliaefs church within the city of Glouc. See his
epitaph in Hist. ^ Antiq. Univ. O.ron. p. 167. a. b. [236]
He left behind him three most ingenious sons, and
excellent scholars, who were afterwards successively
masters of arts and fellows of Magd. coll. The
eldest was Samuel, who died 22 July 1670, aged
22, the next was William who died 8 Dec. 1672,
a^ed 22, and the third was Richard, who dying 21
ot Oct. 1681, aged 28 years, was buried by his said
two brethren on the south side of jMagd. coll. outer
chappel. One Rich. Russel a Rutlandsh. man bom,
as It seems, bred in the English coll. of secular
priests at Lisbon in Portugal, was by the king of
that country designed to go into England as an in-
terpreter to don Francisco de Mello earl of Ponte,
ambassador extraordinary from the said king to king
Charles IL to settle the marriage between him and
donna Katharina the infanta of that country. Afler
RusselTs return into Portugal, he was rewarded for
his pains with the bishoprick of Portalegi-e, where
he now lives, but whether of the same family with
Will. Russell before-mention-d I cannot tell.

HENRY EDMONDSON, or, as he writes
himself, Henricus Edrntaidus ab Edmundo, was
born in Cumberland, and in the beginning of the
year 1622, and in that of his age 15, he was entred
a student in Queen's coll. where, ai\er he had un^
dergone the servile pl.-u'cs of a poor child and tabar-
der, was, when master of arts, admitted fellow.
Afterwards he was made usher of Tunbridge school
in Kent under Dr. Nich. Grey, and in 1655, when
Thomas Widdowes died, he was constituted by the
I)rovost and fellows of Queen's coll. master of the
well-endowed free-school at Nortldeech ui Glouces-

47.5

JERIMIN.

HOG AN.

shire, where he continued to the time ol" his deatli.
He Imtli written,

Lingua Linguarum. The natural Language of
jMiiguagcs]; Khcrein it is desired and endeavoured,
that Tongues may be brought to teach tliemselves,
Qnd Words may be best _ fancied, understood, and
remembered, &.c. Loud. 1655. oct. &c.

Hoinonyma ^- Synonyma Linguw Latino; con-
juncta <§- dhtincta. Oxon. 1661. oct. and other things,
as 'tis prohahle. He was buried in tlic church of
Nortlileecli on the 15tli day of July in sixteen luin-
1C59. dred fifty and nine, leaving then the character be-
Itind hiiu of a most able person in his profession,
and of one who had done great benefit for the pub-
lic by his sedulous and industrious education of
youtli.

[Edmondson also wTote Incrucnta Contentio sive
Bellum Rationale, a collection of arguments, pro
. and con, divided into seven parts, viz. Academia,
Aula, Campus Martins, Respubhca, Domus Exte-
rior, Domus Interior, Domus Superior. It is dedi-
cated to sir Henry Worsley, bart. and dated calend.
Jan. 1646-7. MS. Rawl. in Bibl. Bodl. Misc. 226.]

MICHAEL JERMIN, [or German*] son of
Alex. Jerm. merchant and sheriff of Exeter, son of
Mich. Jermin, twice mayor of the said city, was
born at Knowston in Devonshire, entred a sojourner
in Exeter coll. in the beginning of 1606, aged 15
years, admitted scholar of C. C. C. 23 Sept. 1608,
master of arts in the latter end of 1614, and probat.
fellow of the said house in *April the
• ^.'^^"/^P"'- year following. Afterwards he was
made chaplain to the lady Elizabeth,
consort to the prince elector Palatine of the Rliine,
made doct. 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 king Charles I. and at length in 1638,'
or merealxjuts, he was made rector of S. Martin's
church near Ludgate, within the city of London,
which was all the preferment, I think, that he en-
joyed. He was alwavs reputed a pious and labo-
rious man in his calling, learned and well read in
most parts of divinity, as in tliese his labours follow-
ing is evident.

Paraphi-astical Meditations by Way of Com-
mentary on the Proverbs, Sec." Lond. 1638. fol.
[Bodl. "G. 7. 6. Th.]

Commentary on Ecclesiastes, &c.' Lond. 1639.
fol. [Bodl. G. 7. 6. Th.]

Exemplary Life and Death of Mr. Jurdaine

1— printed in qu. One Ferdin. Nicolls minister of

■* [So it is spelled in the regist. of Bancroft bishop of Lon-
don.]

' [h should be i628, for in that year he appeared at a vi-
sitation as rector of this church of St. Martin. Ncwcourt,
lieptrlorium, i, 4lG.]

'' [Dcdic. to king Charles I.]

' [Dedic. to Elizabeth, queen of Bohemia.]

S. IMaiy Arches in Exeter, hath written The Life
and Death of Jgnat. Jurdaine, sometimes Alderman
of the City of E.reter. AVhether he be the same
Jurdaine, whose life Dr. Jermin wrote, I know not,
for I have not yet seen it, nor T/i£ Fathers In^t
st ruction to his Child, pritittxl at Lond. 1658. oct.
said to be >vritten by Jermin. At length after he
had suffer"d nnieh for the royal cause in the time of
the rebellion by sequestration of liis rectory, plun-
dering, and other miserie-;, lived as opportunity
served, and on the benevolence of some generous
loyahsts. Afterwards retiring to Kemsing near to
Sevenoke in Kent, lived obscurely with his son-in"-
law for about 7 years before his death. In filler

E reaching at Sevenoke on the 14tli day of August;
eing then the Lord's day, in sixteen hundred fifty
and nine, dropt dead from his liorse in liis 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 cojiy of
which you may see in Hist. <§• Antiq. Univ. Oxon.
lib. 2. p. 243. a.

ZACHARY BOGAN, son of Will. Bogan,
gent, was born at Little Hempston in Devonshire,
became a commoner of S. Alban hall in Mich, term
under the tuition of Ralph Button, a puritanical
fellow of Mert. coll. in the year 1640, and that of
his age 15, admitted scholar of C. C. C. 26 of
Nov. the year following, left the university when
the city of Oxon was garrison'd for the king, re-
tum'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 fol-
lowing, 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 Archeeologiee Attias
Printed several times before 1674. in qu.

A View of the Threats and Punishments recorded
in Scripture, alphabetically composed, tcith some
brief Observatioiis on sundry Texts. Oxon. 1653.
oct. [Bodl. 8vo. C. 316. Line] dedicated to his
father.

Meditations of the Mirth of a Chriitian 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. [BodJ.
8vo. V. 96. Art.]

Help to Prayer, both extempore, and by a set
Form : as also to Meditation, &e. Oxon 1660. tw.
[Bodl. 8vo. B. 241. Line] published after the au-

' [i/omeraj 'E/Srol^w : sive, Comparatio Homeri cum Scrip-
iorihus sacris quoad Normam Loiiuendi. Subncctitur Jle-
siodus '0(x>i{i^««». OxonicB, Excudehat H. Hall, Impensif S-
Robinson, m.dc.lyiii.] ■"

[237]

1649.

477

BOGAN.

JIERLE.

47«

thor's death by Dan. A gas fellow of C. C. C.
''• who prefixed an epistle dedicatory to Will. Bo-
esq; at Gatcomb house in Devonshire.""

£an.

1G59.

[238]

He also wrote a large and learned epistle to Edni.
Dickenson, M. A. of Mert. college, set before a
book going under his name, entit. Delphi Pha-nici-
zantes, &c. Oxon. 1655. oct. [Bodf. 8vo. D. 1.
Art. BS.] At length this our author Bogan, who
had contracted an ill habit of body by studying,'
surrendred his pious soul to God on the first day
of Septemb. in sixteen hundred fifty and nine ;
whereupon his lx)dy was committed to the eartli
about the middle of the north cloister belonging to
the coll. of Corp. Christi, joining to the S. side of
the chappcl there. At that time, and before, the
nation bemg very im.settled, and the universities ex-
pecting nothing but ruin and dissolution, it pleased
Mr. Bogan to give by his v/ill to the city of Oxon
500^. whereas had the nation been otherwise, he
would have given that money to his college. His

Eicture drawn to the life hangs in the council cham-
er joining 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 Prideaiix Herle near Lystwithyel in Corn-
wall, where tho' his ancestors have lived several ge-
nerations in genteel fashion, yet they were originally
of West-Herlc in Northumberland. At 14 years
of age, in 1612, he became a sojourner 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 pre-
ferments that immediately followed I know not:
Sure I am that he was rector of one of the richest
churches in England, which is at Winwick in Lan-
cashire, 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 assem. of di-
vines in 1643, being then a frequent preacher be-
fore the long parliament; and in the year 1646,
July 22, lie was voted by the members of the said
parliament prolocutor of that assembly, after the
death of Twysse. In 1647, he with Steph. Mar-
shall went with certain commissioners appointed by
the parliament into Scotland, to give them a right
understanding of the affairs in England, but what
he (lid there, was chiefly to give constant notice of
the Scots resolutions and the forwardness of their

" [And an epistle to the reader. Wood, MS- Note in
Ashrnole.'\

> [Utinam ip=c -nhSia^at n%T\ citius didicisscm,
omnium domilrici indomitiim non prxbuissem. So i
E/8c. p. G4, igl, 221. LovEDAV.]

^ [Charles Herle a ])reacher up of the covenant
rebellion ; — not to spare the killing of the king, &c
geliiim Armalum, a Specimen nf several Doctrines
Dlructive lo our Government, preached by the knovm
nf the pretended Reformation. Lend. 1663, 4to.
study D. 2C, jwges 27, 28.]

nieque
n Horn.

urgcr to
Evan-
&c. de-
Leaders
Wood's

levies. After the king was beheaded, lie retired to
his rectory of WinwicK, having first received satis-
faction from the ])arliamcnt for liis service, and
losses he sustained at Winwick after he hatl fled to
London for ])rotection during the heat of the war;
where he was esteemed by the factious partv the
prime man of note and jiower among tlie clergy.
In 1654 he was by the authoiity of pari, apjiointed
one of the asjsistants to the commissioners of Lane
for the ejection of such whom they then called scan-
dalous and ignorant ministers and schoolmasters, in
which olKce 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 tilings following,

Several sermons, as (1) J Pair of Comjiassesjhr
tlie Church and State; Sermon bejhre the House
of Com. at their monthly Fast; ult. Nov. 1642;
mi Zach. 8. 19. Lond. 1642. qu. (2) David's
Son^ of three Parts, Thanksgiving Sermon before
the H. of Lords for God's great Deliverance e^the
Pari. City and Kingdom from the late Ccm.Hpiracy
against all three, (that is, for the Discovery of the
Design of Nath. Tomkyns, Rich. Chaloner, &c.)
to reduce London to the Obedience of the King; on
Psal. 95. 1. Lond. 1643. qu. (3) David's Reserve
and Rescue, Sermon before the H. of C. 5 Nov,
1644; on 2 Sam. 21. 16, 17. Lond. 1645. 46. qu.
[Bodl. 4to. H. 7. Th. BS.] (4) Sermon before the
H. of Com. on 1 Kings 22. 22. Lond. 1644. qu.
This I have not yet seen, and therefore I know not
yet to the contrary but that it may be a thanksg,
serm. 18 July 1644 for the victory over prince Ru-
pert at Marston Moore near York. (5) Abraliam's
Offering, Serm. before the L. Mayor and Aldermen
of London; onGen.22.2. Lond. 1644. This also
I have not yet seen, nor another on 2 Sam. 22. 22.
printed there the same year, in qu. nor a thanks-
giving sermon before the house of C. preached 12
May 1646 for the taking of several towns in the
west by the pari, forces, as also a fast sermon before
the house of lords 24 June the same year.

Microcosmography, in Essays and Characters —
printed 1628. in oct. or tw.^

Ccmtemplaiions and Devotions on all the Passages
of our Saviours Passion. Lond. 1631. in oct. or tw.

An Answer to Dr. Fern. Lond. 1642. The same
I supjxjse which is entit. An Answer to misled Dr.
Hen. Fearne according to his own Method of his
Book, &c. — ^jirinted the same year in 6 sheets in qu.

The Independiency on Scriptures of the Inde-
pendency of Churches : zc'heirin the Question of In-
dependency of Ch. Government is temperately first
stated, secondly argued, &c. Lond. 1643. in 6 sh.
and half in qu. This book was answer'd by Sam.
Rutherford D. D. of the New coll. in S. .iindrew's

' [Wood has here been guiltvof a great mistake in ascrib-
ing to Christnpher Herle the work of John Earle, or Karles,
bishop of Salisbury, of whom see under the year l605.]

479

HERLE.

HIGGS.

ill Scotland, (wliodied 1661), replied upon by Rich.
Mather minister of Dorchester in New England.

Workllij Policij and Moral Prudence; the Va-
liity and Folly of the one, the Solidity and Usef'iil-
71CS.1 of the other, in a moral Discourse. Lond.
1654. Oct. This came out again in ilie year fol-
lowing in (Kt. with this title, Wisdom\i Tripos, con-
ccining Worldly Policy, Moral Prudence, and
Christian Wisdom. [Rodl. 8vo. H. 12. Art. BS.]
What other things arc published under his name I
know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he
died at Winwick in the latter end of Septemb. in
sixteen hundred fifty and nine, and was buried on
• Csp. the 29th day of the same month in the chancel of
the church there, as I have been infonned by the
letters of Dr. Richard Sherlock his next successor
in tlie rectorj' of Winwick saving one.

[A" 1642, 3, Feb. 17. Ordered, That this house
doth allow and approve of the free offer of Mr.
Herle, a learned and orthodox divine, to preach
every Tuesday in the afternoon, at 4 of the clock,
in the new church, in Tothill-fields, and doth au-
thorize the same accordingly. Journals of the
House of Commons, vol. ii, page 972. Cole.

AhaVs Fall by his Prophefs Flatteries: being
the Substance of thi-ee Sermons upo7i 1 Kings 22.
22. I will be a lying Spirit in the Mouth of all his
Prophets. The Jir.st Sermon preached before the
honourable the Commons House of Parliament.
Tlie second before the honoiirai)le the Lord Major
of London, with tlie Aldermen his Brethren. Tlie
third at the Abbey Church in Westminster, where
it teas much acquarrelled hf some, and as much de-
sired, to be published by others. Tlie which is here
rather done, because laying open the Grounds of all
our present Miseries, specially in these tico Wordi
His Prophets, it may well serve to supply what is
wanting in the following Answer to D. Ferji's second
Reply to the last Answer of him whom tJie Printer
stiVd the Fuller Ansxverer of the Doctor^s first
Treatise, called the Resolving of Conscience upon
this Question, Whether upon this Supposition, The
King ioill not defend, but is bent to subvert. Reli-
gion, Lazes, and Liberties, Subjects may take up
Arms. Printed by R. A. for J. Wright in the
Old Baily, 1644. nu. Bodl. 4to. H. 7. Th. BS.
Dcdic. to his worthily much esteemed and choicely
learned friend Mr. Thomas Fuller B. D.]

GRIFFIN HIGGS second son of Griff. H ggs
(by Sarah Paine his wife, dan. of Rob. Paine of
Caversham in Oxfordshire) son of Nich. Higgs, de-
scended of a wealthy and honest family living in
[239] Glocestershire, was born at Stoke Abbat, commonly
called South Stoke, near Henley in Oxfordshire,
and was baptized there on the day of S. Sim. and
Jude in tlie ycai- 1589. After he had been trained
up in grammar learning at Reading, he was sent to
S. John's coll. in the beginning of the year 1606,
where making great proficiency in logic and philo-

sophy under Mr. Rich. Tilleslcy his tutor, he was
worthily esteemed the flower of the under-graduats
of that house, whether for oratory or dis])utations;
After he had taken the degree of bach, of arts, he
wrote in Lat. verse,

Nativitas, Vita &,- Mors D. Thomce White
Militis &; Alderm. Civitatis Lond. <.^ Fuvdatoris
Coll. S. Johaimis Bapt. O.ron. This is a MS. in
the custody of the president of tliat house, and hath
this beginning,

' Inclyta; Whitjeae primordia condere gentis.''

Also in prose,

A true and faithful Relation of the Rising a/nd
Fall of Thorn. Tucker Prince of Alba Ferrtunata,
Lord of S. John''s, with the Occurrents which hap^
ned throughout his whole Dominion. — This is also
a MS. bound Avitli the former, and hath this begin-
ning, ' It hapned in the year of our lord 1607, the
31st of Oct. being AUsaints eve,' &c. This book
which is in fol. contains verses, speeches, plays, &c.
as also the description of the Christmas pnnce of S.
Job. coll. whom the juniors have annually for the
most part elected, from the first foundation of the
college : And in the beginning of qu. Elizabeth's
reign, John Case afterwards doctor of physic and a
noted philosopher did with great credit undergo
that office. When the said Tooker was elected
prince, he assumed these titles, viz. ' The most mag-
nificent and renowned Thomas, by the favour o
fortune, prince of Alba Fortunata; lord of S. John's;
high regent of the hall ; duke of S. Giles's ; mar-
quis of Magdalen's ; landgrave of the grove ; count
palatine of the cloysters ; chief bailiff' of Beaumont ;
high ruler of* Rome ; master of the manor of Wal-
ton ; governor of Gloccster Green ; sole commander
of all titles, turnaments and triumphs ; superin-
tendent in all solemnities whatsoever.' The said
Tooker, who was fellow of S. John's coll. was after-
wards bach, of divinity, prebendary of Bristol, &c.
and the custom was not only observed in that coll.
but in several other houses, particularly in Mert.
coll. where, from the first foundation, the fellows
annually elected, about S. Edmund's day in No-
vember, a Christmas lord, or lord of misrule, stiled
in their registers rex fabariim and rex rcgni faba-
rum : * Which custom continued till the reformation
of religion, and then that producing puritanisin, and
puritanism presbytery, the professors of it looked
upon such laudable and ingenious customs as popish,
diabolical and antichristian.* Our author Higgs
was, about the same time that he wrote and collect-
ed the said folio book, elected probationer fellow of

4 Rome is a piece of l.ind so called near to the end of the
walk calle.l Non uhra on the nortli i-ide of OxOn.

* [See An-tis's Supplement lo Aslimole's History touching
Garter King at Arms, page .300. Rcgist. of the Garter, 1724,
folio; Bodl. C. 7.9. J"r.]

" [And in its stead appoinlcd the singing of psalms on
Christmas eve, and Christmas night in the refectory or hall,
by the president, fellows, commoners, &c. and even the
choir. Watts.]

481

IIIGGS.

HIGGONS.

482

Mcrt. coll. an. 1611, ami taking the degree of mas-
ter, had holy orders coiii'err''d on him and two small
cures successively in that college gift. In 1622 he
did undergo with great courage, tho' of little sta-
ture, the procuratorial office of the university, and
being afterwards bach, of div. was in the year 1627
sent to the Hague by his majesty to be chaplain to
his sister Elizabeth qu. of Bohemia ; in which em-
ployment he continued at least 12 years. In the
year 16j', he performed his exercise at Leyden for
the degree of cu^ctor of divinity, and was forthwith
created doctor of that fac. by tlie famous Andrew
Rivet. At length being called home from his ser-
vice to his majestv, he was by the endeavours of
Dr. Laud made rector of the rich church of Clive
or Cliff near to Dover in Kent, chauntor of S. Da-
vids, and upon the removal of Dr. Sam. Fell to the
deanery of Ch. Ch. in 0.\on, was made dean of
Lichfield, in 1638 (the cathedral of which he adorn-
ed to his great charge) and chapl. in ord. to his ma-
jesty. At length the civil wars breaking forth he
suflfcr''d for his majesty's cause, was plundred, se-
questred, lost his spiritualities, 8cc. So that retiring
L~'*"J to the place of his nativity spent there the remain-
der of his days in great rctiredness, study and de-
votion. He hath written, besides those uiings be-
fore-mentioned,

Problemata Thcologica. Lugd. Bat. 1630. qu.

Miscellanea: Theses Theologicce. Lugd. Bat.
1630. qu. These were defended by him, when he
was made doctor at Leyden 12 Feb. 1630, accord-
ing to the accompt there followed. He wrote other
thmgs worthy ot the press, but are not yet made
public. At length after he had spent most of his
time in prosperity, and part in adversity, yet all in
celibacy, he surrcndred up his pious soul to God at
South Stoke Ixifore-mentiou'd on the 16th day of
1039. Decemb. in sixteen hundred fifty and nine, and was
buried in the chancel of the church there. About
that time was a comely mon. set up in the wall over
his grave, with a large inscription thereon, written
mostly by himself, the contents of which shall now
for brevity's sake be omitted. By his last will and
test, he gave 51. to the church of S. Stoke, and 100/.
to buy land for the poor of that town. Six hundred
pounds also he gave to purchase free land of soccage
to the value of 30/. per an. for the maintenance of a
•choolmaster there, to be purchased by the warden
and feUows of Mert. coll. whom he appointed pa-
trons of the school to be erected there. He also
gave several books to the public library at Oxon,
was a benefactor to S. John's coll. and a greater to
Merton ; to the last of which he gave all his library,
that had been for the most part plundered in the
time of rebellion, and put into the hbrary at Staf-
ford. But ujwn several attempts that the members
of that house made to gain it, they were as often re-
pids'd by the Staffordians to their great charge. He
gave to the said coll. also as much money as would
cJearly purchase 10/. per an. to be bestowed on one

Vol. in.

of the society thereof to lie kcejKT of the library
there, " and also money to found a divinity lecture,
" and 15/. per an. to enlarge the ]X)stniasters al-
" lowancc."

[Griffin Higgs's True and faitlifiiU Relation
mentioned alx)vc, was printed in tiie year 1816 un-
der the title of An Account ofilie Chrutmas Prince,
as it was exhibited in the University of Ojjbrd in
the Year 1607. Notv first published jfiom the ori-
ginal Manuscript. London: Printed by T. Ben~
slcy and Son, Bolt Court, Fleet Street ; Jbr Robert
Triphook, 23, Old Bond Street. This contains the
whole of Higgs's narration, and several extracts
from the dramas exhibited on the occasion, with a
dedication to the president and fellows of St. John's,
and a short advertisement, ^v^itten by the editor of
these Athen.«. The number of copies printed was
250.]

THEOPIIILUS HIGGONS, son of Rob. Hig-
gons, was born at Chilton near Brill in Bucks, edu-
cated partly in the free-school at Thame in Oxford-
shire, macle student of Ch. Ch. in 1592, aged 14
years or thereabouts, took the degrees in arts, that
of master being compleated in I6OO, he being then
noted to be a young man of pregnant parts and a
tolerable Lat. poet. During his residence in the
said house, he was esteemed a jjerson to be much
stained with puritanism, and to be violent against
all such that were suspected to favour the Romish
see. When he was censor also, he was so zealous
as to saw down a harmless maypole, standing within
the precincts of the said house, because forsooth he
thought it came out of a Romish forest. Upon the
promotion of Dr. Ravis dean of Ch. Ch. to the sec
of Gloccster, he was honoured so far by him as to
be taken into his service, and to be made his domes-
tic chaplain ; with whom continuing till about the
time he was translated to London, made suit to be
lecturer at S. Dunstan's ch. in Fleet-street : Which
desire of his being obtained, he was much followed
there by all sorts of people for his sweet and elo-
quent way of preaching. But so it was that many
of his contributary auditors thought that his long
prayers and spitting pauses were too short, because
the reverend bishops (yea his own lord and master)
were ever left out for wranglers and antichristian
hierarchies.' After he had been settled for some
time in that place, he married a wife, but in such a
clandestine manner, that his father, relations and
many of his admirers did much blame him for it.
So that being sensible of the disrespect that follow-
ed, and neglect of many that loved him before, he
left his wife, and went into the north parts of Eng-
land. From whence returning soon after to Lon-
don, he published a small book in print flatly against
the absurdities, which he afterwards strongly seem-

' [This taken from sir Edward Hoby's Lclttr to T. II.
page 13.]

II

4H3

HIGGONS.

484

ed to miuntain. But ali this availed nothing, for
being a perst>n very ambitious, and finding not pre-
ferment suitable, as he thought, to liis merits, did
thereujjon, anil by a contraction of debts occasioned
by his marriage, fall into a deep discontent. Which
Jbeing quickly jK'rceived by some, especially by one
called Fluduc a priest (the same I suppose with
Joh. Floyd* a Jesuit) a person excellently learned,
[8411 3* '^'^^ "' philosophy as theology, was by his endea-
vours drawn over to the church of Rome, and forth-
with did write a little pamphlet Ofvcnud and mor-
tal Sin, flat, as 'tis said by some, against the princi-
ples of the Romish profession, but of this pamphlet
I can give no account because I have not yet seen
it. Afterwards he sliip^d himself for France, and
" spent two years at Doway and" at S. Omers*
• and being settled (to which last place his father went
at S. Omers. First afterwards to fetch him home, but
'^''- could not). He wrote.

His first Motive to adhere to tfte Roman Church,
Sfc. with an Appendix against Dr. Laur. Humphrey,

Dr. Ric. Fkld, and Dr. Tho. Morton, &c.

JPrinted 1609- in oct. Which motive, as he saitli,
was drawn up chiefly uix)n the detection of some
egregious falshoods in the said Humphrey's pervert-
ing S. Austin, and Field's traducing S. Ambrose,
and learned protestants in their writings, touching
the question of purgatory, and prayer for the dead.
But this was otherwise made apparent by sir Ed-
ward Hoby's letter to him in answer to his motive ;
Vo which, if it may Ix- seen,^ I refer the reader.

* [Natione Anglus, patria Canlabrigiensis socieiati se ad-
dlxit an. 1592. Obiit 16 Sept. lC)4f). Scripsit L.aline contra
Ant. de Dominis Archiepiscopum Spalat. sub nomine An-
nosi Fidelis Verimonlani. Sotvellus, p. 449. Baker.]

' [Tlie following passages from sir Edward Hoby's Letter
to Mr. T. H. late Minister, now Fugitive, Lend. 1609, 4to.
fwhich is a rare book) throw some light on the character
and actions of Higgons.

' That famous coUedge of Christs Church in Oxford, which
you haue ill repaied, for the sweete milke which you haue
sucked out of her breasts, haih not yet forgotten how you
were euer stayed with puritanisme, how violently aduerse
you were to all such, as were suspected to fauour the Romish
sea. She doth yet smile to think, what paine you took, be-
ing censor of the house, in putting your hand to the sawing
downe of a poore harnielesse May-pole, because you thought
it came out of a Romish forrest. When you were lecturer
at S. Dunstons, your contributoric auditors thought your long
prayer and spitting pawses too short, because the reuerciid
bishops (yea euen your owne lord and master) were cucr left
out for wranglers and antlchristian hierarchies, not worthie
to bee named in the same day with your holie pastors and
sanctified ministers. Thus haue you euer afiected singula-
ritie. * • * to magni6e yoursclfe, and gaiue the more credence
with those, vnto whose barber you were driucn by the tem-
pestuous stormc of your extremities, you did picke these
imaginarie cauillations ; which had they been reall doubts
indeed, might with your greater credit and charitie, haue
been dscided in a more priuate scene. Hee that hath but
halfe an eye may see there is a pad in the straw : happilie you
haue done this, either whollie to escape, or to agiie the bet-
ter with your creditors, that seeing your sudden alienation,
their desperate debts may be more easily compounded : hap-
pilie hauing missed a former preferment, you thinke by this

Afterwards he Ayent to Roan, where he lived for
some time, but finding not that which he expected,

meanes to be wooed by the state to returne to your first loue :
happilie the yoke of wcdiocke being somewhat biirtheusome
to your shoulders, was an inducement to make you cast off
the plough. Surely not only some, but euen all of these
were the cords, that haled on your First Motiue. Your
debts were (the world knoweth) very clamorous ; the misse
of your preferment was grieuous : and the mariagc-god Hy-
tnenasus was none of your best friends. To ease your selfe
of all these, which Atlas himselfe could hardlie vndergoe,
you thought good to cast anchor in a neW sea, and to fish in
troubled waters. And for as much as you could not be well
rid of your wife, creditors, and other grieuances, as long as you
held your profession, you chose rather with Hymenaeus and
Alexander, to make shipwracke of this, then to haue your
ship ouerchar^ed with those. The Jesuites you knew were
no ordinarieguls, and therefore, if you meant to besanctua-
rised by them, it lay you in hand first audere aliquid quod
carcere dignum, to ascerlaine them by some audacious pro-
tect of your future fidelitie : as you haue now done, by making
your own pen a cross-barre of restraint for any welcome re-
turne vnto your old home. Into what a pitifuU straight
(poore soule) were you then driuen ? was there no other way
to repaire your ruinous fortunes, but by giuing a bill of di-
uorce vnto that faith, whereunto you were first vnited ? it
cannot, it cannot, howsoeuer you pretend, but grieue you to
the heart, that you haue with £!sau, sold your birth-right for
a messe of pottage, which many teares will hardlie redeenie.
1 cannot blame you, if at the sight of M.R.E. (Richard Et-
kins houshold chaplainc vnto the now lord bishop of Lon-
don) your old fellow chaplaine and friend, you had Peter's
teares in your eies, for the deniall of your master. 1 do easily
belecue, vpon his credible report, that at such time as he de»
sired your companie to Bruxels, or to England, you smote
your hand vpon your heart, and in great passion vtiered these
words, ' O that 1 might safely returne, for that is my desire.'
The small liking you haue to the Romish religion, yousuffi-
cientlic manifested, when as being reconciled to that syna-
gogue, by one Flud a priest, you did yet, after your returne
out of Yorkshire, write a little pamphlet Q/"w«ia// and mor-
talt Sinnes, flat against the principles of that profession.
And were you not now in huckster's hands, whose vigilant
eies haue mewed you fast vp in their idolatrous cage, I dare
say you had been in England long since, for so did you pro-
test, as you hoped to haue anie part in the passion of our Sa-
iiiour Christ, that within three weekes at the furthest, (ifyou
liued so long) you would bee here after your father's returne :
who, good man, took a tedious tourney to seeke out his lost
Sonne, who neiier opened his mouth to aske him blessing for
liis paines. Was it not gricfe enough, trow you, to the old
man, to see his sonne Theophilus Higgons, turned into
Thomas Forster, as if you had been ashamed to answere to
your father's name? to see you so straaelie habited, so bare-
lie arniyed, so gastlie visaged, whom hee had so carefullie
tendred ? Was not this griefe enough, I say, but that you
must deprlue him also of that priuate dutie, which was due
Vnto him ? and contrarie to his expresse commandemenl and
request, and your owne solemne promise made to him, make
his presence knowne to your confessor, whereby he might
haue bin in danger, as much as in you lay, to haue lost, not
oiilie his vnnatural son, but euen his dearest life in a strange
land ? and that which is worst, make him a sorrowfull wit-
nesse of your periurous vow ? The like solemne oath did you
take in the presence of him by whom your father was accom-
panied, that vpon the faith of a Romane Calholike, and as
you hoi)ed to be saiicd, this booke of your's, which you theu
shewed him, should not be printed. This albeit it bee no
strange newes to your afflicted wife, and some of your de-
ceiued creditors, who are tbroughlie acquainted with many
such your voluntarie and intended peiiuries (as vpon youi

i:j

HIGGONS.

ROWLAND.

486

rlamely respe6t, preferment, and I know not what,
was at length regained to the English church by
Dr. Tho. Morton ' dean of Winchester (afterwards-
bishop of Durham) who had answcr''d one of his
b(X)ks, as I shall tell you anon.

A Schnlnstical Eommination of Man's Iniquity
and GocTs Justice. Lond. 1608, written before he
turned papist.

Apology refuting Sir Edxv. Hohifs Letter against
Ms first Motive.'^ Roan. 1609. in oct.

Sermon at S. PauFs Cross 3 March 1610 ,- oh
Ephes. 2, 4, 5, 6, 7. in Testimony of his hearty
Re-union with the Church of England and humble
Submission thereunto. Lond. loll. qu. This re-
cantation sermon he made upon his being regained
by Dr. Morton.

Reasons proving the Laxofulness of the Oath of
Allegiance. Lond. 1611.

Mystical Babel; or Papal Rome. A Treatise
on Apocalyps 18. 2. (in two Serm.) Lond. 1624.
qu. After his regainment to the church of England
he was promoted to the rectorj' of Hunton near to
Maidstone in Kent, lived there till the rebellion
broke out, and afterwards being sequestred, as I
have heard, lived in the house of one Dan. Collins
of Maidstone, where dying in sixteen hundred fifty
1659. and nine, a little before the king^s restoration, as the
said Collins who was afterwards jurat of Maidstone
told my friend, (for liis name stands not in the re-
gister there) was burled in the cemitery belonging to
the church of that place, near to the south east door
of the chancel, but hath no stone or mon. over his
grave.

[A Mirrour of Mercy and Judgement, or an ex-
act and true Narrative of the Lifi; and Death of
Freeman Sonds Esq. a Youth of nineteen, Sonne to
sir George Smids, of Lees-court in Shelwich, execu-
ted at Alaidstone August 21, lG55,J!)r murthering
his elder Brother. Written by R. Boreman B.D.^

next replle shall bee more particularlie specified, vnder whose
name soeuer you meane to couer it) ; yet is it a stiflicient
teslinionie, that not the approbation of your Romish re'igion,
bat the grimnie aspect of yourowne estate, halh driuen you
to this exigent.' — pp. 12 — 19.

At the end of this tract is a letter from Robert Higgons,
(father to Theopliilius,) to sir Edward Hoby, dated Chillon,
May 28, l60(), in which he corroborates sir Edward's
statements, and censures his son's conduct in very severe
terms;]

' [Or. Morton is said to have recovered bishop Crofl, men-
liontd hereafter under the year 169I. Watts.]

' [See these AtheN/E, vol. ii, col. igr,. The insufficiency
of his Motive is also shewn by Dr. Robert Abbot in The
Third part of the Defence of the reformed Catholic. 4to.
i6og, from p. 93 to p. 108. Watts.]

' [Richard Boreman was also author of

1. The Country -man's Calechisme: or the Churche's Plea
for Tyihes. Lond. l6,i2. 4to.

2. lltuiiM-B^ittfji^i;. The Triumph of Learning over Igno-
rance, and of Truth over Falsehood. Lond. ]6S3, 4to.

3. The Triumph ofFailh over Death: comprised in a Pa-
ntgyr'uk and Sermon at the Funeral of Dr. Combur. Lond.
1'654, 4to.

Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge ; rcith a Mii'
cellany of divers remarkable Passages and Prac-
tices of Master Freeman, by Theophilus Higgons,
Rector of Hunton. Lond. 1655, 4to. So Gough :
The original tract alx)vc mentitmetl I have never
seen. It was reprinted, with sir George Sondes's
own account at Evesham, in a small 8vo. without
date, but about the year 1792, but in this I can find
nothing actually written by Higgons, except a certi-
ficate of Sondes's confession of repentance.]

WILLIAM ROWLAND son of Griffin Row-
land of the city of Worcester, was born there, be-
came either a batler or sojourner of Exeter coll. in
the beginning of the year 1627, aged 17 years, took
the degrees in arts, holy orders, and was made either
a reader or curate of S. Margarct''s church in the
city of Westminster. In the time of the rebellion,
when he saw the church of England declining, he
changed his religion for that of Rome, and went to
Paris, where by the name of Rolandus Palingenius
he made a shift to get a livehhood by his mendicant
scribbles, his lepid vein, and art of poetry among the
English gentlemen, and other grandees of France.
He hath written,

Vnria Poemata. Mostly in Lat. some in EnglisW
and some in French, to which he would sometimes
make additions of copies to them, on new patrons,
as they came to his knowledge, just as Payne Fisher
afterwards did, to shark money from those who de-
lighted to see their names in print. This Will.
Rowland who wrote himself in the title of his poems
Gul. Rolandus Poeta Regius, was a boon droU, a
jolly companion and was generally called doctor,
having had that dcgi'ee conferred on him (as I have
heard) at Paris. At length retiring for health's sakie
to a village called Vambre near to that gi-cat city,
he having brought his body into a consumption by
too much lifting, ended his days there in sixteen
hundred fifty and nine, or thereabouts. I have
seen a book entit. Lcgcnda lignea, ^c. containing
a Character of some hopeful Saints revolted to the
Church of Rome. Lona. 1653. oct. In which book
p. 172; &c. you may see a full, if not too smart,
character of this Will. Rowland, but whether all is
true that is said of him there, (for the book is fuU of
scurrilities) may be justly questioned. Since I wrote
this, I find one Will. Rowland master of arts (and
dr. of physic as he writes himself) to have translated
into English (besides several books of physic that he
hath written) A Treatise of Spirits and Wind of-
finding Mans Body. Lonu. 1668. oct. [Bodl. 8vo.

4. An Antidote against Swearing. To which is annexed
an Appendix concerning an Assertory and Promissory Oath in'
Reference to the Statutes of the two now flourishing Univer-
iilies. Also a short Catalogue of some remarkable Judgments
from God upon Blasphemers. Lond, 1 662, 8vo.

5. A Mirrour of Christianity, and a Miracle of Chitrity ;
or a true and exact Nctrfatit>e of the Life and Death of Alice,
Duchess Duddetey. Lond. lf>6g, 4lo.]

112

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487

DINGLEY.

SALKELD.

A. 27. Med.] Written by Dr. Joh. Fienus ; but
the translation being by liini dedicated to the vir-
tuosi of the royal society, first founded 16G0, I can-
not take him to be the same with the former.*

ROBERT DINGLEY son of sir Joli. Dingley
of London knight, and nephew by tlic mother to Dr.
Hen. Hammond, was born in Surrey, entred a stu-
dent in Magd. coll. in the beginning of the year
KitJ-i, aged 15 years, took the tlcgrees in arts, holy
ortlers, and became a gi'cat observer of church cere-
monies, and a remarkable lH)wer to the altar ■when he
came into the chappel. Rut soon after the presby-
terians carrying idl before, he, as a vain man, sided
with them, became an enemy to those things, which
he before hat! a zeal for, and, for the love he Iwre
to tlie cause, became, by the favour of his kinsman
coll. Robert Hammond, governor of the isle of
Wight, rector of Brightestone alias Brixton or Bri-
son m the said isle, where he was much I'requented
by the godly party for his practical way of preach-
ing, and hated by the royalists for liis activity in
ejecting such that were by some called ignorant and
.scandalous ministers and schoolmasters during the
time that he was an assistant to the commissioners
of Hampshire, an. 1654, 55. &c. He hath written.

The Spiritual Tast described : or, a Glimpse of
Christ discovered, in fzco Parts, grounded on Psal.
34. 8. and on Mcdac. 4. 2. Lond. 1G49. oct. [Bodl.
8vo. P. 8. Th. BS.] Before which book, is tlic
iMcture of the author fat and jolly, in a ])resb. cloak.*
This book came out in 1651. with this title Dii'ine
Relishes q/' matchless Goodness, &c.

The Deputation of' Angels : or, the Angel-Guar-
dian. (1) Proved by the divine Light of Nature,
4"c. (2) From many Rubs and Mistakes, tScc. (3)
Applied and improved ^br our Information, i^c.
chiefly grounded on Acts 12. 15. Lond. 1654. oct.
As the former book was perused, and commended
to the world by Tho. Goodwin pres. of Magd. coll.
and Will. Strong, so this by Nicn. Lockyer of New
inn, afterwards provost of Eaton coll.

MessialCs Splendor : or, the glimpsed Glory of a
beauteous C/t7'i*<ia/i— — jn'intcd in oct.

Divine Opticks : era Treatise of the Eye, disco-
vering the Vices and Virtues thereof; as also how

* [He certainly was not the same with Rowland the poet.
W. R. the physician also translate<l The Complcat C/iipnicat
Dispensatory, in Jive Books : treating nf all Sorts of Metals,
Precious Stones and Minerals, of all vegetables and Animals,
and Things that are taken from them, as Musk, Civet, &c.
How rightly to know them, and how they are to he used in
Physick; with their several Doses, &C. fie. IFriten in Latin
by Dr. John Schroder that most famous and faithjul Chy-
mist. And Englished by William Rowland Dr. of Physick,
who translated Hippocrates, lUverius, Platerus, Sennertus,
Jiulandus, Cralo,and Bartholinus. Lond. iCGg, folio. Bodl.
P. 1.17. Med. And there was another William Rowland
(if I mistake not, differiua from the two former) who was
author of Judiciall Astrologie judically condemned, Lond.
ifeS. 8vo. dated Fnurnace, Nov. 15, 1051.]

f [Engraved by T. Cross.]

that Organ may be tuned: chiejly grounded on
Psal. 119. 37. Lond. 1655. in oct. [Bodl. 8vo. D.
8. Th. BS.l

Philosophical, Historical and Theological Ob-
servations of Thunder, ioith a more general View of
God's wonderful Works. Lond. 1658. (oct.) in which
year he had a sermon published on Job 26. 14. in
Oct. which I have not yet stH;n. But our author
Dingley having said and preached some things not

C leasing to the quakers, he was animadverted upon
y George Fox in his Great Mystery of the great
WJiore unjblded, &c. Lond. 1659. tbl. p. 361. &c.
He died at Brightestone before-mention'd, in sixteen
hundred fifty and nine, and was buried in tlie chan- i6i|.
eel of the church there, with this inscription on his
grave. Here heth the body of Mr. Robert Dingley
minister of this place, second son of sir John Ding-
ley knight, who died in the fortieth year of liis age,
on the twelfth day of January 1659.

JOHN SALKELD fourth son of Edw. Salkeld
gent, second brother to George Salkeld sometime of
Corbv Castle in Cumberland esquire, lineally de-
scended from sir Rich. Salkeld kmght, lord warden
of Carhsle in the time of king Rich. IIL was l)orn at
Corby Castle, and when very young jouniied tlirough
Oxon beyond the seas, but in what house he was en-
tred, unless 'in Qu. coll. I cannot tell. His conti- [243]
nuance there, as I have been informed, was so short,
(occasioned by his religion) that we can scarce reckon
him among the Oxonians. For so it was that his
father soon after conveyed bun into Sfwin, entred
him among the Jesuits in the university of Conim-
bria, where, as also at Corduba and Complutum, he
continued among them in the condition of a Jesuit
many years, and was assistant in the studies to the
famous Jesuits Franc. Suarius (who was his fellow
student several years) and Mich. Vasquez. After-
wards he was sent into Portugal, where he read phi-
losophy about six years, then into the English mis-
sion, but being taken and brought before king
James I. who had several times heard of him and his
eminency for learning, he entred into divers disputes
with him at several times. At length being over-
come by his sohd arguments, Salkeld turned Pro-
testant, was recommended to Dr. Kin^ bishop of
London for maintenance, and in Nov. 1613 became,
by the presentation of his majesty, vicar of Welling-
ton in Somersetshire, (being then bach, of div.)
where he used to boast of his conversion and to stUe
himself the Royal Convert. In 1635 he was made
minister of Church Taunton in Devonshire worth
to him about 200/. per an. whereupon one Walt.
Travcrs was instituted vicar of Wellington in his
place, on the I6th of July the same year. But after
the civil wars broke forth he suffered for the royal
cause, being esteemed by theobstinate and incredulous
presbytcrians a papist in his heart, or at le.-ist po-
pishly affected. He was a person profoundly read
m theological and other autliorsj and king Jam. I.

HICKS.

TAVERNER.

490

dotli stile him in his works the learned Salkcld, of
which character he would often glory. His works

are.

A Treatise of Angeh, &c. I^ond. 1613. oct.
[Bodl. 8vo. H. 23. Tli.] dedic. to king Jam. I.

Treatise of Paradise and the principal Cmiients
thereof &c. Lond. 1617. oct. [B(xll. 8vo. L. 67.
Th.] ded. to sir Franc. Bacon lord kcoper of the
great seal. He gave way to fate at Utt'culnie in De-
vonshire (liaving for 14 years before been sc((iiestred
of Ciiurch Taunton) in the month of February in
iCi^ sixteen hundred fifty and nine, aged 84 years or
more, and was buried in the church there, as I have
been informed by his son John Stilkeld of Uffculme
before-mention''d, gent. He then left behind him
several things of his composition fit for the press,
among which were t'.vo concerning controversies be-
tween Rome and the church of England, and ano-
ther of the end of the world ; which last, and one of
the former, were conveyed to London by his son, to
his kinsman sir Edw. Walker garter kmg of arms,
who comm\micating one of the siiid former things
to Dr. Sam. Parker chaplain to Dr. Sheldon archb.
of Canterbury, to know of him whether it was fit to
be printed, iie found it a solid piece, and the author
of it learned, but the design Cassandrian, Sec. as by
his letters I was informed,

WILLIAM HICKS son of Nich. Hicks gent,
was born at Kerris in the parish of S. Paulin near
to the Mount in Cornwall, an. 1620, and baptized
there on the second day of January the same year.
After he had been instructed in grammaticals in the
liigh school at Exeter under Mr. Will. Hayter, and
partly at Liskerd under one Granger, he became a
commoner of Wadham coll. in Lent term 1637, and
there ran thro' the classes of logic and philosophy.
But being taken thence in the beginning of the civil
war, before he could be honoured with a degree, he
was by his relations put in arms against the king,
and in short time became so fanatical in his opinion,
that he was esteemed by some to be little better than
an anabaptist. So that being looked upon as a zeal-
ous brother for the cause, he was made a captain
in the trained bands, and became very forward
against those of the loyal party. He hath published.

Revelation revealed : being a practical Exposi-
tion on the Revelation of S. John. Lond. 1 6.59.
fol. Wiiich l)ook lying dead on the sellers hands,
there was a new title afterwards put, Ix-aring date
1661. with the author's picture before it in a cloak.'

Quinto-Monarchia, cum quarto "O/toXoyia : or, a

friendly Compliance between Christ s Monarchy and

[244] *^^ Magistrates, being a Glass for tlve Quinto-Mo-

narchians, and all others that desire to know under

what Dispensations of Providence we now live, ^c.

— printed and bound with Revelation reveaVd, &c.

' [Engraved by D. Loggan.]

which was written (a.s the common report went in
Exet. coll. and Cornwall) by a kinsman of Will.
Hicks called Alexander Harrie a minister's son in
Cornwall, bachelor of divinity, and sometime fellow
of the said coll. of Exeter; which Ixwk (Revelaiioii
rev.) coming after his death into Hicks's liands, he
published it under his own name, without any men-
tion of A. IlaiTie, who was a learned man, and had
in great veneration by those that knew him. This
Mr. Hicks died at Kerris in the very beginning of
March in sixteen hundred fifty and nine, and was l6jj.
buried on the third day of the same month in the
parish church of S. Paulin before-mention'd. Be-
sides this Will. Hicks was another of Iwth his names,
author of Oxford Jests, and afterwards of Oxford
Drollery. Which books (several times printed in
oct.) answering not the expectation of Cambridge
men, because they have supposed that they were
written by a scholastical wit,' I desire therefore
that they should know that the said Will. Hicks who
stiles himself in the titles of his books a native of"
Oxon, as having been born in S. Thomas's parish of
poor and dissolute parents, was bred a tapster under
Tho. Williams of the Star Inn, inholder, where con-
tinuing till after the rebellion broke out, became a
retainer to the family of Lucas in Colchester, after-
wards clerk to a woodmonger in Dcptford, where
training the young men, and putting them in a pos-
ture of defence, upon the restoration of king Charles
II. obtained the name of Captain Hicks, and was
there living in 1669, when liis lx>ok of jests was

Eubhshed, which gave occasion of other books of the
ke nature to be afterwards made extant, as Cam-
bridge Jests, London Jests, England's Jests, Poor
Robin''s Jests, Westminster Quibbles in Verse, &c.
This Hicks, who was a sharking and indigent fellow
while he lived in Oxon, and a great pretender to the
art of dancing, (which he forsooth would sometimes
teach) was also author of Coffee-house Jests, the
third edition of which cjune out in 1684, and of
other little trivial matters meerly to get bread, and
make the jwt walk.

PHILIP TAVERNER son of Joh. Tavemer
of Wycombe (Great Wycombe) in Bucks, was born
in that county, admitted a ]XK)r scholar of Exeter
coll. 12 May 1634, aged 17 years, took one degree
in arts, holy orders, and was matle vicar of West
Drayton and afterwards minister of Hillingdon, both
in Middlesex. He hath written,

' [The Cambridge men have little reason to find fault with
the Oxford jests, bad as Hicks's collection may be. I have
now lying before ine Cambridge Jests : or willtf Alarums fur
melancholy Spirits, in I'-'mo. of v\hich let ttie wilsofour
sisier university lake the foUovvin;^ specimen, which I assure

tliem is a good sample of the whole. ' A W'elchman s g

from a bridge ; Good s — t, by Davy, said he, what a De-
vil, no plump ? for he expected to hear his excrement fall in
the water ; but all ihe while s— t iii his coat-pocket.' Jest
J79, page Ss.]

491

JHONES.

VENNER.

Clar.
\6bQ.

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Clar.

1659-

TIte Quakers Rounds: "■ or afaitltfid Account
" cf a large Discourse between a Party of them
" ciMed Quakers, viz. WiU. Fisher and Edic. Bur-
*' rougfis, Src. with Mr. Philip Taverner, Mr. Ric.
" Goodgreen and Mr. M. Hall Ministers of t/ie
" Gospel, at tite public Meeting Place of West
" Drayton, 6^. 18 Jan. 1657. Printetl at London
" 1658. qu. in 5 sheets." [Bodl. B. 23. 17. Line.]

Reply to Edw. Burroughs, Quaker. — Both which
arc animadverted upon by George Fox, quaker, in
bis book cntit. The great Mystery of the great
Whore unfolded. Sic. Lond. 1^59. fol. p. 283 and
308.

The GrandJhtJurs Advice, directed in special to
his Children. Lond. 1680, 81. oct. published after
the author's death for the common good. What
other books he hatli written I know not, nor any
tiling else of liim, only that he died and was buried
at Hillingdon, as I liave been informed by those of
the neighbourhood.

"BASSET JHONES was born of genteel pa-
" rents in Wales, particularly as it seems in Gla-
" morganshire, became a student in tliis university
" in 1634, having then his lodging, as I conceive,
*' in Jesus coll. Afterwards he travelled, studied
" physic and chymlstry, and some years after his
" return published

" Lapis Chym'wus Philosoplwrum Examini sub-
"Jectus, &c. Oxon. 1648. oct.

" Hermcelogium ; or, an Essay at the Ratio-
" Ttality of the Art of Speaking, as, a Supplement
" to Lilyc\s Grammar, philosophically, mythologi-
" caMy and emblematically offered. Lond. 1659.
" oct. perused and recommended to the reader as a
" rational book by Will, du Gard master of Mer-
" chant Taylor's school. Wliat else Jhones hath
'' published I cannot tell."

TOBIE VENNER was born of genteel parents
at Petherton near to Bridgwater in Somersetshire,
became a commoner of S. Alban's hall in 1594, aged
17 years, took one degree in arts, entred upon the
physic Une, practis'd that fac. for some time m tliese
parts, afterwards at Bridgwater " 1624," and lastly
m the city of Bath and near thereunto. In 1618
he took both the degrees in medicine, had then, and
always after, the name of a plain and charitable phy-
sician, was resorted to by ricli and poor, and vene-
rated by all persons for his happy and successful
practice in his faculty. He did not only shew the
right way for living long, but acted it himself, con-
firming the theory of the one with the practice of
the other for near 60 years. He hath written and
published these things following,

Via recta ad Vitam longam: or, a Treatise

wlierein the right Way and best Manner of Living

J'or attaining to a long and healtfiful Life is clearly

demonstrated. Lond. 1620, [BodJ. 4to. W. 2. Med.

second edition 4to. Lond. 1622, Bodl. Gough, So-
merset, 6.] 1650, &c. in qu. This plain book,
which was written in condescension to mean capa-
cities, got him most of his practice.

Compendious Treatise concerning the Nature,
Use and EJpcacy of the Bathes at Bath.

Advertisement concerning Hie taking of Phytic
in the Spring.

Censure concerning the Water of S. Vincenf*
Rocks near Bri.itol.

Brief and accurate Treatise concerning tJie
Taking of the Fume of Tobacco — These four last
were printed with Via Recta.

Philosophical Discourse ofdieterical Observation*

Jbr the preserving of Health Printed 1620. qu.

He died at Bath on the 27th day of March in six-
teen hundred and sixty, and was buried in the
south isle joyning to the great church there dedi-
cated to S. Peter. Over his grave was soon after
put a very fair monument, with the bust of the de-
funct, in the east wall, with a large inscription
thereon,^ made by Dr. Rob. Peirce a physician of
Bath, sometimes a com. of Line, college ; a copy of
which, with most envious notes on it, you may sec
in a book en tit. A Discourse of Bath, Sic. printed
1676. in oct. p. 170, 171. written by a physician of
note ' in that city.

" [Siste viator

Faucis te volo

Juxta hie situs est Venneri venerandus cinis.

Inter mortuorum claustra mortuus jacet

Maenua modo mortis antagonista,

Jjoctor et decor medicinae :

Cujus superbiam non formidabant segri,

Uti nee coiiculcabant lacilitatem :

Auxilium enim

Nee sordide obtulit.

Nee fastidloje negavit.

In hoc conversationis suavitati.

In illo professionis dignitati

Prospiciens,

Pauperum et divitum medicus,

Horum quod medicinam,

lUorum quod charitalem

Solus hie tain diu exercuisset,

Horum quidem omnium applausu,

Illorum civltatis hnjus delectu.

Nee plus defuit sanis, quani aegris pauperibus,

Mann non parca exhibens

His medicinam,

lUis alimoniam :

Viam reclam ad vitam longam

Non monstravit modo sed et peranibulavit

Thcoriam unius anni confirmans praxi 85.

Tandem itiner.mdo defessus discubuit;

I£t in hoc dormitorio obdormit

Grata mcmoria dignissimus

Doctor Tobias Venner,

Qui

Natus PeihertonisB,

Educatus Oxoniae,

Obiit Bathonite,

Mart. 27.

iceo.]

[Thomas Gtiidott.]

1«)0.

HAMMOND.

494

[246]

HENRY HAMMOND, son of Dr. John Ham-
mond,^ physician t« prince Henry, was born at
Chcrtsey in Surrey on the 526th of Aug. 1605, edu-
cated in grammar learning in Eaton school near to
Windsor, where lie was much advantaged in the
Greek tongue by Mr. The. Allen fellow of that
college. In the year 1622, Jul. ,S0. he was made
demy of Magd. coll. and the same year was ad-
mitted bach, of arts. In 162.'> he proceeded in that
faculty, and on the 26th of July the same year he
was elected fellow of that house, being then philo-
sophy reader, and a singular ornament thereunto.
In 1633 he had the rectory of Penshurst in Kent
conferr''d on him by the earl of Leicester, who a
little before had been deeply affected with a sermon
that lie 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 was made a
member of the convocation of the clergy, called
with the short parliament that began the 13th of
April the same year. In 1643 he liatl the arch-
deaconry of Cliichester conferred upon him by Dr.
Duppa liishop thereof, and the same year he was
nominated one of the assembly of divines, but sate
hot. About which time being forced to leave his
rectory by the presbyterians, he retired to Oxon iiir
shelter, and the year Ibl lowing was entertained by
the duke of Richmond and earl of Southampton, to
go, as their chaplain, with them to L(mdon 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 apjxiinted to attend the king's commis-
sioners at Uxbridge for peace, where it being his
lot to dispute with Rich. Vines a presbyterian mini-
ster that attended the commissioners appointed by
parliament, he did with ease and perfect clearness
disperse all tlie sophisms that had been brought by
him, or others, against him. In the beginning of
164.5, he was, upon the death of Dr. ^Vill. Strode,
made one of the canons of Ch. Ch. in Oxcm, and
chaplain in ord. to his majesty then there ; by vir-
tue of which place, (I mean the canonry) he became
orator of the university,' but had seldom an oppor-
tunity to shew his parts that way. In 1647 he at-
tended the king in his restraint at Woolwurne, Ca-
versham, Hampton Court, and the isle of Wiglit,
but being sequestred from the office of chaplain to
him about Christinas the same year, he retired to
his canonry in Oxon. and being elected sub-dean of
his house continued there till die visitors appointed
by parliament first thrust him out without any re-

• [Terra. Hilir. 1? Klir. Ma^ister Joh. Hamond legiim
docior curiae cimsistor. episcopalis l.uiidun officialis legitime
depuialiis. Plowden, flppor^s, fol. 471. Kennet.]

' r. — a canonry in Christ Cliurch in Oxlbrd became va-
cant, which the king immediately bestowed on doctor Ham-
mond, though then absent; whom likewise the university
chose their publick orator— Fell's Life, prefixed lo Ham-
mond's works, page vii.]

gard had to his great learning and religion, and
then imprison'd him for several weeks in a private
house in Oxon. Afterwanls he was confinM to the
house of sir Philip Warwick at (Mapham in Bed-
fordshire, where amtinuing several months, was at
length released. Whereupon retiring to Westwotxl
in Worcestershire, the seat of the loyal sir John
Packington, (to which place he had received a civil
invitation) remained there, doing much giKKl, to the
tlay 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 athnirer, 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 ekxiuent in the tongues, exact in an-
tient and modern writers, was well vers'd in philo-
sopliy, and better in philology, most learned in
schjjol divinity, and a great master in church anti-
quity, made up of fathers, councils, ecclesiastical
historians and liturgies, as may lie at large seen in
his most elalxirate works, the titles of which follow.

A practical Catechism. Oxon. 1644. and Lond.
1646. (lu. [Bodl. 4to. H. 22. Th.] There again in
1652, in two vol. in qu. This Catechism was first
of all published upon the importunate request of Dr.
Christop. Potter provost of Queen''s coll. to whom
he had communicated it, yet could never get him
to set his name to it.

Of

Scandal

Conscience

Oxon. 1644. qu. [Bodl. 4to.
H. 22. Th. ; Oxon. 1646.
BotU. 4to C. 5. Th. BS.]
Lond. 1650. qu.

Of resisting the lawful Magistrate under Colour
()f Religion. Oxon. 1644. Lond. 1647. qu. [Bodl,
4to. H. 22. Th.]

Of Will-xvorship. Oxon. 1644. qu. [Bodl. 4to.
H. 22. Th.]

Cmisiderations of prcwnt Use concerning the
Danger resulting from the Change of our Churcli-
Government. — Printed 1644 and 46. Lond. 1682.
qu.

Of Superstition. Ox. 1645. Lond. 1650. qu.

Of Sins of Weakness and Wilfulness. Oxon.
1645, [Bodl. 410. H. 22. Th.] 50. qu.

Explication of two difficult Texts Heh. 6. and
Heh. 10. Printed with Sins of Weakness, &c.

Of a late or Death-bed Repentance. Ox. 164<5.
qu.

View of the Directonj and Vindication of the LI-
turgjj. Ox. 1645. 46. &c. qu.

Of Idolatry. Ox. 1646. [Bodl. 4to. C. 5. Th. BS.j
Lond. 1650. qu. The reader is now to understand that
after the lord Falkland's book calkd A Discourse of
the Infallibility of the Church of Rome, was pubHsh-
ed, came out a book written by a Rom. cath. entit. A
Treatise apologetical touching the Ififallibility of the

49v5

HAMMOND.

Lond. 1647. qu.
joyned with the
second edit. Of
reskstmg the
Imeful Magi-
strate.

Church Catholic, &c. Printed 1645. Wliereupon
our author Dr. Hammond wrote and published,

A Vieiv of' the Exceptions which have been made
by a Romanist to the Lord Viscount FalklancTs
Discourse «/" the ItifullibiUty of the Ch. of Rome.
Oxon. 1646. qu.

The Power of the Keys : or of binding and

loosing. Lond. 1647. [Bodl. 4to. II. 15. Th. Seld.]

51. qu.

[247] Of the Word KRIMA.

Of the Zealots among thcJcxcs
and the Liberty taken by them ;
Of taking up the Cross.

Vi7idicatioii ofChrisfs repre-
smiting S. Peter, from the Ex-
ceptions of Mr. Steph. Marsliall.

Of fraternal Admonition and Corruption. Lond.
1647. 50. qu.

Copy 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 Exceptions to tlie Practical Cate-
chism^from the Censures affixt o» them by the Mi-
nisters of London in a Book entit. A Testimony to
tfte Truth of Jesus Christ, &c. Lond. 1648. qu.

Vindication of Three Passages in (lie Pract. Ca-
techism. Lond. 1648. qu.

Humble Address to the Lord Fairfax and Coun-
cil of War 15 Jan. 1648, to prevent tlie King's
Murder. Lond. 1649- qu. Answered soon after by
one who called himself Eutactus Pliilodemius, where-
upon he pubUshed

* " A Vindication of Dr. Ham-
* findicaiion of " mond'^s Address, ^c.jTrom the Ex-

llu Address, "ceptionsofEutactusPhilodemius;

iCso. «!/. first " '" ^^"^ Particulars, c^r. together

edit. * " with a brief Reply to Mr. John

" Goodwill's Obstructors of Justice,
" as Jar as concerns Dr. Hammond. Lond. 1649.
" qu. [Bodl. A. 1. 19. Line] It is to be observed
" here that John Goodwin in his book called The
*' Obstructors i>f Justice : or a Defence of the ho-
" nourable Sentence passed upon the late King by
" the High Court of Justice. Lond. 1649. qu. —
" answers (1) Tlie serious and Jaitliful Reprc-
" sentation and Vindication of .wme of the Mini-
" sters of London. (2) The humble Address of
*' Dr. Hammond ^c. (3) It replies upon Mr.
" John Geree's book entit. Might overcoming
« Rightr

An Appendix or Answer to what was returned
by the Apologist. Lond. 1650. qu. This apologist
was the Rom. catli. before-mention'd, author of A
Treatise apologetical, &c.

Of the Reasonableness of Christian Religion.
Lond. 1650. in tw.

Dis-wrtationes quatuor, quibus Episcopatus Jura
ex S. ScHpturis 4" prinurva Aiitiquitate adsiruun-.
tur, contra Sententiam D. Blotidelli, &c. Lond.

1651. qu. [Bodl. 4to. Y. 4. Th. Scld.] Before
which IxKjk is printetl and set this following,
. Dissertatio de Antichristo, de Mysterio Iniqui-
tatis, de Diotrcphc Sf de Gnosticis sub Apostolorum
jEvo se prodentihus.

The Chri,stian''s Obligation to Peace and Cha-
rity ; delivered in an Advent Sermon at Caris-
brook Castle, An. 1647. and now publisfied ivith
nine Sermons more. Lond. [1649- qu.''] 1652. qu.
2d edit.

Paraphrase and Annotations upon all the Books
of the Netc Testament. Lond. 1653. and 59. fol.

Letter of Resolution to six Queries of present
Use to the Church of England. Lond. 1653. oct.
[Bodl. 8vo. H. 10. Til. Seld.] The first query is
Of resolving Controversy.

[Afurifaj *fov7(j£f; or a] Review of the Para-
phrase and Annotations on the N. Test, with sonic

Additions and Alterations, 8i.c. printed in oct.

[Lond. 1657. Bodl. Mar. 222.]

Of Schism : or, a Defence of the Church of Eng-
land against the Exceptions of the Romanists.
Lond. 1653. [Bodl. 8vo. H. 23. Th. BS.] 54. in
tw. Answer'd in a book entit. Schism disarnid,
&c. to which is an Appendix in Answer to Dr.
John BramhaWs Just Vindication of the Church of
England. Printed 1653 in a httle oct. Both which
were written by -Jo. Sergeant alias Smith,* bom at
Barrow in Lincolnshire, admitted a student in S.
John's coll. at Cambridge 1637, aged 16 years, but
before he took the degree of bach, of arts he was
chosen by the master Dr. W. Beale and some of the
seniors of that society to be secretary to Dr. Th.
Morton bishop of Durham, who had sent to them
to make clioice of a fit person for him out of that
college, to which he was a great patron and bene-
factor. After he had continued there in good esteem
about a year, he fell into some difficulties about re-
ligion, and thereupon quitting that employment,
being then bach, of arts, he went to the Enghsli
coll. of seculars at Lislwn in Portugal an. 1642,
where he resumed and perfected his studies, and ,

was afterwards prefect of studies in the said college. |

In the year 1652 he returned into England, where
he was electetl secretary of the secular clergy, and L-**^J
put upon wTiting controversy ; the titles of wliich I
shall elsewhere mention, as they lie in my way.^

Reply to a Catliolic GentlemaiH s Answer to the
most material Parts of the Book of Schism. Lond.
1654. [Bodl. 4to. H.l. Th. BS.]' 55. qu.

4 [Tanker.]

5 [Jo. Sergeant Lincolniensis, filiua Gulielmi S. <le Baron
com. pr.-Etlict. yeoman, natus ibid, lileris gramat. institiuus
.Tpucl Barton, com. prs'Jict. in scliola i)rivata sub magistro
liiwson, per sex menses ; annos natus 17, admiss. est sub-
sizator (in coll. Jo.) sub magisiro Broxholme, fidcjussore.
Apr. 1'.'. 1639. Rce.. Coll.Jii. Cant.. Vide Warner's //if-
toria Perseculionis Catliol. &c. MS. Baker.]

« [Afelhodus compcndiosa gua rede pervesltgalur el certo,
invenitur Fides Christiana. Paris l674. lS!ino. Kawlin-
SON.]

HAMMOND.

49a

Account of II. T. his Appendi.t to his Manual
of Controversies coHCC)~n'mg the Abbot of Bangor s
Answer to Augustine printed with the Reply.

Vindication of the Dissertations concerning Epis-
copacy, from the Exceptions of the London Mini-
sters in their Jus Divinum Ministcril Evangelici.
Lond. 1654. qu.

Of Fundamentals in a Notion referring to Prac-
tice. Lond. 1654. [BcxU. «vo. H. 28. Th. BS.] and
58. in tw.

Account of Mr. Dan. Caxadreys'' Triplex Dia-
tribe, concerning Superstition, WilUxoorship, and
Chnstmas Festival. Lond. 1654. 55. qu. [Bodl.
4to. H. 1. Th. BS.] This Account was answered
by the said Carvdrey minister of Billing Magna in
Northamptonshire, m a book entit. 77te Account
audited and discounted. Sec. Lond. 1658.

The Baptizing of Infants reviewed and defended
from the Eaxeptions nf Mr. Tombes, in his three
last Chapters of his Book entit. Antipa:dobaptisvi.
Lond.n655. qu. [Bodl. 4to. H. 1. Th. BS.]

D fence of the learned Hugo Grotius, Sic. Lond.
1655. qu.

Seccmd Defence of Hugo Grotius : or, a Vindi-
cation of the Digression concerning him. Lond.

1655. qu.

Answer to the Animadversions of the Disserta-
tions concerning Ignatius Epistles, and the Epis-
copacy in them asserted Printed in qu. [Lond.

1654, Bodl. 4to. H. 14. Th. Seld.]

TJte Disarmer's Dexterity examined; in a second
Defence of the Treatise of Schism. Lond. 1656. qu.
[Bodl. 4to. H. 1. Th. BS.] Soon after Jo. Ser-
geant came out with Schism dlspatclid, &c. ivith
an Appendix. Lond. 1656. in a large oct. being a
reply or rejoynder not only to Dr. Hammond but
to Dr. Bramhall.

The Degrees of Ardency in Chrisfs Prayer, re-
conciled with his Fulness of habitual Grace, in
Reply to the Author of a Book entit. A Mixture of
scliolastical Divinity, &.c. by Hen. Jeanes. Lond.

1656. qu.

Parenccsis, S^c. A Discourse of Heresy in De-
fence of our Church against the Romanist. Lond.

1656. oct.

Continuation of the Defence of H. Grotius, in
an Answer to the Revieio of his Annotations. Lond.
1651 qu. [Bodl. 4to. J. 3. Th. BS.] To which is
added a postscript.

Reply to .lome Passages of the Reviewer in Ids
late Book of Schism concerning his Charge of Cor-
ruptions in the primitive Church and some other

Particulars Printed with the Continuation of

the Defence, &c.

The Grounds of Unformity, from 1 Cor. 14.
40. vindicated from Mr. Hen. Jeanes''s Exceptions
in one Passage in the View oftlie Directory. Lond.

1657. qu.

' [Dan. Cawdrey coll. Peir. A. M. l6l3. Baker.]
Vol. in.

Paraphrase and Annotations &n the Book of
Psalms. Lond. 1659. fol. [Bodl. M. 3. 17. Th'.]
These annotations were remitted by Mutthew Poole
into the second vol. of Synopsis Criticorum^——
Lond. 1671. fol. with tliis character — ' doctissimus
Hammondus, in quibus multa reperiet lector acu-
mine plusquam vulgari, parique eruditione con-
scripta, nonnulla etiam singulana.' The said Poole
alst) selected much out of his Annotations on the
whole New Test.

The Dispatcher dlspatclied : or, an Examination
of the Romanisfs Rejoynder to Dr. Hammxmd^s
Replies, wherein is inserted a View of tlieir Pro-
fession, and oral Tradition, in the Way of Mr.
White. Lond. 1659- qu. By this Mr. White is
meant Thom. de Albiis.

Brief Account of a Suggestion against The Dis-
patcher dispatched. liOnd. 1660. qu.

[Xaf<f xai Ejfii'nj, or a] " Pacifick Discourse of
" God's Grace and Decrees, &c. Lond. 1660. oct."
[Bodl. Mar. 261.]

Two Prayers. Lond. 1660. oct.

The Dally Practice of Piety : Also Devotions
and Prayers in Time of Captivity. Lond. 1660.
oct.

Spiritual Sacrijice : or, Devotions and Prayers,
jittcd to the main Uses, &c. — This I have not yet
seen ; and therefore I do not know how it differs
from the former.

His last Words^ — Printed in a loose sheet

Solemn Petition and Advice to the Convocation,
with his Directions to the Laity how to prolong
their Happiness. Camb. 1661. oct. Pubhshed by
Tho. Smyth of Ch. coll. in Cambr. author of Tlie
Rise and Growth of Quakerism.

De Canprmatione sive Benedictione, post Bap-
tismum, solenni, per Impositionem Manuum Epis-
copi celebrata, Commentarius ex Sententia Ecclesiw
Anglicance. Lond. 1661. oct. [Bodl. Mar. 314.]

Several Sermons. Lond. 1664. fol. They are in
number thirty-one, and some of them were before
published.

Of Hell-Torments. Ox. 1664. in tw. Or, An
Assertion of tlie Exigence and Duration of Hell-
Torments, &c. Oxon. 1665. oct.

An Accordance of S. Paul with S. James in the
great Point of Faith and Works.^ Oxon. 1665. oct.

Answer to Mr. Rich. SmitlCs Letter concerning
tlie Sense of that Article in the Creed, He descended

* \The lust Jf^ordt uhich were writ ly the Reverend,
Pious and Learned Dr. Hammond, being two Prayers for
the peaceful Resettlement of this Church and Stale, and the
Manner nfhis Death, ate annexed to the L'fe and Death rf
Mr. Tf'iHiam Moore, late Fellow of Caius Vr.llege and
Keeper rf the Vninenity Library : as it was delivered in m
Sermon preached at his funeral Solcmnily , Ap. I'l, lOig, in
St. Maries Church in Cambridge ; by Tuo. Smith, li. D. his
Successor, 8vo. Canib. l()Co. I'ublished by Cha. Bcriit and
dated from the Middle Temple. Wanlev.]
• 9 [This, and the foregoing work, were priuied in one vol.
Whalley,]

KK

[249]

499

HAMMOND.

lC60.

into Hell: dated 29 Apr. 1659 Lond. 1684..

Oct. [Bodl. Mar. 267.] The said R. Smith's letter
■was dated from Little Moor-fields near London in
the said month 1659. This R. Smith being a cu-
rious jxirson in matters of that nature, did make A
Collection of several Expositions and Opinions of
ChrisCs Descent into Heli, and had several confer-
ences witli the learned Selden upon that argument,
which he left in writing behind him, as I shall else-
w here tell you.

Paraphrase and Annotations upon tJi^ ten first

Chapters ^the Proverbs. Lond. 1683. fol. All,

Of 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 cele-
brated author had spent his life in great retiredness,
lucubration and devotion, he surrendrcd up his
njost pious soul to God, in the house of sir John
Packington bcfore-mention'd, on the 25th day of
April in sixteen hundred and sixty, aged 55 years :
whereupon his body was on the morrow in the even-
ing buried in the chancel of Hampton church near
to Westwood bcfore-mention'd, with the whole office
and usual rites of the church of England, not at that
time restored or practised by public command . Over
bis grave was soon after a comely monument erected,
witli an inscription thereon, composed by Dr. Humph.
Henchman, afterwards bish. of London, a copy of
which you may see in Hist. (§• Antiq. Univ. Oxon.
lib. 2. p. 203. a. But a larger tlian that was made
by the affectionate jien of Mr. Tho. Pierce, after-
wards president of Magd. coll. in Oxon, a copy of
which you may see in the beginning of the first vol.
of Dr. Hammond's works published by W. Fulman
before-mentioned. The reader is to know that one
Hen. Hammond wrote a book entit. Ouragraphy, or
Speculations on the Excrements of Urine, ^c. Lond.
1055. 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 had a brother
" named Tho. Hammond, but whe-
" ther he was bred a scholar I
" cannot yet tell : one of both his
" names was a sojourner in Oxon.
" 1632, and was cntred a student
" in the public library in August
" that year — when Robt. earl of
" Essex was voted general of the
" forces raised, and to be raised, to
" fight against the king in Jul.
" 1642, he had a commission given
" him to be captain of a troop of

' who was Iro-
ther to Tho. Ham-
mond sometimes a
colonel, and after-
wards a lieutenant
general in the army
that the lon^partia-
ment raised against
king Charles I.
ana tffterwards
ene of the judges of
that blessed prince,
lul died before the
resluuration of K.
Ch. 2. and so et-

' [Prefixed to Fulmnn's edit, of Hairimond's works is the
life of that excellent man by dean Fell, a work well worthy
the perusal and attention of every Christian. This has been
reprinted at the Clarendon press, together with Gilbert Bur-
nett's Life of Hale, in small 8vo. Oxford 1?0G.]

caped the halter,
or at least perpe-
tual imprisonment
an d CO nfiscation qf
estate. Finl edit.

horse among those forces that
were then put under the com-
mand of Will, earl of Bedford,
was afterwards at Edghill fight,
did so good service that lie was
made a colonel ; and in the fatal battle at Naseby
was noted for his valour and prudent conduct.
Afterwards upon the rendition of the city of Exeter
for the use of the parUament in April 1646, he
was made governor of it, and soon after made
heut. gen. of the ordnance. On the 20th of Jan.
1648, a little before king Charles I. was brought
to his tryal, he the said Hammond did, in the
head of divers chief officers of the araiy, present
that vile and base paper called The Agreement of
the People, xenth a Petition to the Parliament Jbr
Justice to be done on his Majesty; and when his
majesty was several times brought before the high-
court of justice to be trycd for liis life, he tlie said
Hammond sate among the judges, and stood up
as consenting when sentence passed on him. But
soon after, being suddenly cut off from the face of
the living by a natural death, he sav'd the hang-
man a labour, or at least escaped perpetual impn-
sonment and loss of his estate, which would inevi-
tably have follow'd, had he lived to the time of
the restoration of king Charles XL* The said
Dr. Hen. Hammond had also a
nephew named Robert, (second
son of his eldest brother named
Rob. Hammond of Chertsey m
Surrey, esq;) who became a com-

' moner of Alagd. hall in the be-

' ginning of the year 1636, aged

' 15 years, where continuing 3

' years or more, left that place

' without the honour of a degree.

' This jierson, who had been puri-

' tanically educated, did, by the

' persuasions of his uncle Thomas,

' take up arms for the blessed

' cause, when the grand rebellion

' broke out in 1642, was made by

' the endeavours of the said uncle

' a captain'' afterwards a major

' under coll. Edw. Massey, while . „

' he was governor of the city of '^9"'^ '<> *"*" "J/"

' Glocester, where, having killed M„,jZuhesl"d

' one major Gray in Oct.

' 1644, upon a provocation to fight

' given by the said Gray, was tried

■ for the same, &c. Afterwards

■ he became a colonel of a regiment

■ of foot, and so continued till the
• war was terminated — AVhcn K.

■ Charles I. was a prisoner at

■ Hampton-Court, Dr. Hen. Ham-

■ mond, the learned divine beforc-

J " W'hillock's Memorials, p. 9?. b."

* The said Dr.
lien. Hammond
vas also uncle to
Robert Hammond
a colonel nffoot in
the said army,
made governour of
the isle of fVinUt
in the beginning
of Sept. \(ii7,and
about the 14 of
Nov. following his
majesty put his
person in trust un-
der the protection
of him in the said
isle, after he was
frighted away
from Hampton
court. In the mid-
dle of July 1648
his majesty de-

colonel was a matt
if honour, andhad
carried himself ci-
vibi and respect-
ively to him. Af-
terwards it was
believed that he
had forfeited the
king's good opi-
nion, feCc. First
edit.

[250]

HAMMOND.

CHALONEH.

50%

" mention''d, conducted this his nephew to his ma-

" iesty, and recommended liim to him as a penitent

"convert, an. 1647, wiiich his majesty taking well,

" he g.avc him his hand to kiss. In the beginning

" of Sept. following, the said col. R. Hammond was

" made by the parliament governor of the isle of

" Wight, and about the 14th of Nov. following

" that, his majesty after he had been frighted from

" Hampton-Court, upon several informations that

" there was a bloody design to destroy him (hatched

" by the adjutators at Putney) did chuse rather to

" put himself into his liands, (for the safety of his

'' person, conceiving it to be the best way for the

" good and peace of the kingdom, he being a mem-

" bcr of the army) rather than any other. Where-

" upon he became very civil to him, managed his

" trust with sufficient cn-cumspection and something

" of asperity ; so, as continued him in the applause

" of most men in power, both in the two houses of

" parliament and in the army. He did constant-

" ly attend on his majesty, most times walking

" and discoursing with the king whensoever he

" for refi-eshment walk'd about the out-works of

" Carisbrook castle (there being none in the garri-

" son so tit and forward as he) which gave him the

" opportunity to ingratiate himself in his majesty's

" favour : all which time he kept a fair correspond-

" ence with the parliament, wnom ever and anon

" he acquainted concerning several matters relating

" to the king and his party, and of other affairs, ac-

" cording to the instructions which he had befm-e

" received from them. It must be now known that

" one Rich. Osborne, gent, usher to the king, wrote

" a letter to Philip lord Wharton in the beginning

" of June 1648, telling him that there was a design

" of removing his majesty away by poison, by one

" Edm. Rolph a major under Hammond, and that

" Hammond was conniving at it, and favoured

" him in the matter : whereupon the parliament,

" who were acquainted with it, taking notice of the

" matter, Hammond freed himself from having any

" thought that way, and Rolph was quitted by his

" jury: and about the middle of July following, his

*' majesty declared to divers of his party, and wished

*' them to declare it to others, that the governor co-

*' lonel Hammond was a man of honour and trust,

" and had carry'd himself civilly and respectfully to

" his majesty, that Osborne had unjustly and un-

" gratefully aspersed him the said governor ; and as

" touching the preservation of his person from poi-

" son, or any such horrid design, he was so con-

" fident of the honesty and faithfulness of Hammond,

" that he thought himself as safe in his hands, as if

•' he were in the custody of his own son. But

" Cromwell or else the adjutators of the army being

'■' jealous that Hammond was too much a courtier,

" and that the king had too much confidence in

" him, letters came to Hammond from Fairfax the

" general about 20 Nov. 1648, requiring him to re-

*• pair to his head fjKai-terf, and that Isaac Ewt*

" his lieutenant coll. be appointed to take the charge
" of his majesty in the isle of Wight: but Ham-
" mond supposmg this to be one of Cromwell's po-
" litics, lie sent word to the parliament of that mat-
" tcr, with the general's letter enclosed : whereupon
" they voted that Hammond should stay in the isle
" of Wight, and attend his charge there. But be-
" fore that time" it was believed that he forfeited the
king's go(xl opinion of him, by that uncomely act of
looking into his niiijesty's scrutore at Carisbrook
castle. At that time his majesty's servants Mr. Ja.
Harrington and Mr. Tho. Herliert were in the bowl-
ing-green at Carisbrook, waiting upon the king,
who finding the weather somewhat cold, bid Her-
bert go for his cloak : Herbert therefore entringthc
bed-chamber, found Hammond the governor 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 go-
vernor come in. Herbert being inform'd of their
designs, was afraid to reprove the governor, but as
he return'd to the green with his maj. cloak, he gave
the page a shaip rebuke ; with which the governor
being acquainted, threatned Herbert with a dismiss
for censuring that act of his, and had doubtless cx-
pel'd him the castle, if his majesty out of his good-
ness had not past it by without reproaching the go-
vernor, or taking notice thereof; as I have been m-
formed by letters from the said Tho. Herbert,
created a baronet after the restoration of king CharlcH
II. " After the king was beheaded, col. Hammond
" was sent into Ireland, or went there with Crom-
" well, and left at Dublin to carry on the parliament
" designs, died there of a high fever 24 Oct. 1654.

" Hammond's Letter to the Parliament, whereby
" he frees himself from having the least suspicion
" of poisoning his majesty, printed by order of par-
" liament, you may see in Whitlock's Memorials^
" p. 310."

[Hen. Hammond Oxon. incorporatus Cantabr.
1626. Baker.

A portrait of Hammond, engraved by Clamp from
the original picture at Magdalen college, was pub-
lished by S. Harding, about 20 years since.]

JAMES CHALONER, a younger son of sir
Tho. Chaloner mention'd before, under the year
1615,' was bom in London, and at 13 years of age,
1616, became a commoner of Brasen-nose 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 par-
liament, 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 Yorkshire,
to sit in that unhappy parliament which began at
Westminster 3 Nov. 1640, upon the receding of two
loyal persons (who had been elected by the members
of that borough) to his majesty at Oxon. About

[iMl]

' [See vol. ii. col. 157.1

'KK2

503

CIIAI.ONER.

GEE.

GREY.

504

[252]

l660.

the same time lie ttx)k the covenant, and afterwards
siding witli the indeix?ndents, was, hy tlie jx)wer of
Fairfax the generalissimo, apjiointwl seeretary to
the connnittee lor tlie reformation of tlie university
of Oxon in 1647, and in the year following, nj)on
Cromwell's invitation, one of the judges of king
Cliarles I. Afterwju-ds he was appointed one of the
three connnissioners by the said Fairfax to survey
and take an account of the isle of Man, an. 1652,
which isle had l)een given to him the said Fairfax by
the parliament for the great service he did them
against the king, and at length was made governor
of one of tlie castles there, known, if I mistake not,
by the name of Peel-castle. He hath written,

A short Treatise of the Ink of Man. Lond. 1656.
fol. [Bodl. G. 1. 13. Art.] divided into six chapters.
Illustrated with cuts, and published by Daniel King
of Cheshire, at the end of the survey of Chesliire,
entit. The Vale Royal of England : written by Will.
Smith and Will. Webb gentlemen. This Dan.
King, who was a pitiful pretender to anti(iuities, 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 Enghsh. After-
wards he married a light huswife, who stealing that
money from him which for many yeais before he
had been scraping together by his progging and ne-
cessitous 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, wlio
was esteemed by some an ingenious man, and a sin-
gular lover of antiquities, he had made divers aillec-
tions of arms, genealogies, seals, monuments, 8cc. 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 emi-
nent antiquary, as some of his collections from the
said books inform me. The said Chaloner also had
made collections of arms, monuments, &c. in Stafford-
shire, Shropshire, and Chester; which coming into the
hands of John, son of Augustine, Vincent, Windsor
herald, were by him entitled Chaloner's Collections
for Staffordshire, Salop, and Cliester, marked with
J. C. *What became of them after his death, which
hapned in Drury-lane in January 1671, I know not.
In March or April in sixteen hundred and sixty,
were messengers sent from the superior power then
in being to take into their custody the said James
Chaloner, and to secure his castle for the use of his
majesty ; but he having received timely notice of
their coming, dispatched away himself by poyson,
taken, as 'tis said, in a posset, made by his concu-
bine, whom he there for several years had kept,
leaving then behind him a son named Edmund of
about 19 years of age, begotten on the body of his
lawful wife named Ursula, daughter of sir Will.
F^rfax of Stecton in Yorkshire.

EDWARD GEE, son, as I conceive, of Edw.
Gee, mentioned among the writers in the first vol.

under the year 1618, was born at a market town
in Oxfordshire called Banliury, an. 1613, bred in
Newton scIuk)! in the parish of Manchester in Lan-
cashire, became a coninioiUT lA' ]5rasen-nose coll. in
Mich, term, an. 1626, took one degree in arts, and
left the university for a time. At length entring
into the sacred function, he proceeded master in the
said faculty 1636, being about that time chaplain to
Dr. R. PaiT bishop of tlie Isle of Man, and a minister
in Lancashire. Afterwards, when the rcbelhon
broke out, he sided with the jjresbyterians, took the
covenant, and for his great activity in prosecuting
the holy cause, became rector of the rich church of
Eccleston in the said county, " before 1648," in the
place of Dr. Parr before-mentioned, and an active
man while he was an assistant to the commissioners
of the said county for the ejection of such whom
they then (1654, an. 2. Oliv. protect.) called scan-
dalous and ig-norant ministers and schoolmasters.
He hath written,

A Treatise of Prayer and ofdiimie Providence,
Lond. 1653, 61. oct.

The divine Right and Original of the civil Ma-
gistrate from God,* " fas it is drawn , . .
" Inj the Apostle S. Paul in those Words, „„ /j„m. 13.
"Rom. 13. 1. There is no Poxccr but i. hr^i edit.
" of God) illustrated and vindicated in
" a Treatise chicjly vpmi that Text, ^c."" Lond.
1658. in a large oct. [Bodl. 8vo. C. 119. Line]
Soon after was another part of this put out, concern-
ing the oath of allegiance, which I have not yet
seen. He died the 26th of May, in sixteen hundred
and sixty, and was buried in the parish church of lOGa
Eccleston liefore-mentioned.

NICHOLAS GREY was bom in London,
elected student of Ch. Ch. from the college school at
AVestminster in tlie year 1606, aged 16 years, where
making great proficiency in learning under the tui-
tion of Mr. Sam. Fell, took the degrees in arts, and
being noted for a pure Latinist and Grecian, was
made the first master of Charter-house or Sutton's
hospital school. After he had taught there some
)-ears, he married against the statute of that school
and hospital, so that thereby being made uncapable
pf the place, the governors thereof gave him a bene-
fice, (Castle Camps in Cambridgeshire I think)
where for some time he hved as 'twere out of liis
element. On the 29th of January 1624, he was
admitted chief master of Merchant^Taylor's school,
where continuing till 1631, he was then, or soon
after, made chief master of the school at Eaton coll.
and at length fellow of that house ; but whether he
})roceeded D. of D. in the university of Oxon (which
degree was confcr'd on him about that time) I know
not, for it appears not so in the public register. In
the.time of the rebellion he was turned out from his
fellowship and jiarsonage by the presbyterians, was
put to difficult shifts, and with niuch ado rub'd on
for some years. At length obtaining the mastership [253]

GREY.

TERRY.

50()

of Tunbridge school in Kent, in, or bciore, the
reign of Oliver, (in the place of Tho. Home made
master of Eaton school) continued there till t lie king's
return, and then being restored to his parsonage
and fellowship, was in hopes to spend his old age in
peace, retiredness and plenty, but he died stwn alter,
as I sliall anon tell you. His works are these,

Dktlonary in English and Latin, Lat. and Eng-
lish.— Several times pfuited at London, but when
first of aU published, I know not. This dictionary,
mostly taken from that of Rider, liad many addi-
tions put to it by Grey, but a second or third edit,
of Holyok's diet, coming out, prevented (as "'tis said)
the publication of them. He also published Lucu-
lenta e sacra Scriptura Testimonia, ad Hugonis
Grotii Baptizatorum Puerorum Institutionem.*
Lond. 1G47, 50, 55, &.c. oct. Which Catechism
lyas written by Hug. Grotius in Latin verse, turned
into Gr. verse by Christ. A Vase 13. of A. and fellow
of King's coll. in Cambridge,* (since superior beadle
of law in Oxon) and into English verse by Franc.
Goldsmith of Grey's-inn esq;. This book is dedi-
cated to John Hales fellow of Eaton coll. by Dr.
Grey, who hath also published, Parabolce Erange-
licce Lat. redditce Carmine paraphra.stico varil Ge-
neris in Usum Scholw Tunbrigiensis. Lond. in
pet. when printed I know not, for 'tis not put down
in the tit. or at the end. He gave way to fate, in
a [KXH- condition, at Eaton, in sixteen hundred and
i66o. sixty, and was buried in the choir of the church or
cliappel there, near to the stairs that go up to the
organ loft, on the 5th day of October, as I have
been informed by the letters of John Rosewell B. D.
sometime fellow of C. C. coll. in Oxon, afterwards
school-master of Eaton, canon of Windsor, and fel-
low of Eaton college.

EDWARD TERRY, was bom at Leigh near
Penshurst in Kent, educated in grammar in the free-
school at Rochester, entred into Ch. Church in 1607,
and in tlie year after was elected student thereof;
where, with incredible industry, going thro' the
Courses of logic and philosophy, took the degrees
in arts, that of master being compleated in 1614.
In the year following he took a voyage with certain
merchants into East-India, where, after his arrival,
he was sent for by sir Tho. Roe ambassador from
the king of England to the great mogid, with whom
he lived as chaplain in the court of that mighty em-
peror for more than two years. At his return he
retired to his college, an<I having some small cure
bestowed on him,. became at length rector of Great
Greenford ^ in Middlesex, which he enjoy'd about
SO years, and submitted to the men that bore sway
in the time of rebellion. He was an ingenious and

« [See article Francis Goldsmith in the present vo-
lume.]

' [See my MS. Collections (in the British museum) vol.
XV. p. 183. Cole.]

" [Eilw. Terrv A. M. admis^. ad reel, de Greenford-magna
com. .Middl. 20 Aug. Ifeg. Kennet.]

jx)lite man, of a |)it)iis and exemplary conversation,
a gcKKl preacher, and ntiich respected by the neigh-
lx)urliood where he lived. He liath written and
published.

Several sermons, as (1) Lawless Liberty, preacJied
before the Lord Mayor of London in the Cat/iedral
ofS. Paul; on Psal. «. 3. Lond. 164<). qii. (2)
The Merchanfs and Marine r''s 1 'reservation arid
Thank.igiving, 2>rcached 6 Sept. 1649, to the East-
India Company, vpon a late lletitrn of their Ships;
on Psal. 107. 30, 31. Lond. 1649. (|u. and other
sermons publishetl in 1641. in qu. which I have
not yet seen.

Catechism for the Use of the Parishioners ofGr.
Greenford. Lond. 1646. oct. • '

Sum of Religion Printed 1647. qu.

Characters of a wicked Heart, hypocritical, and
sincere Heart. Printed in one sh.

Voyage to East-India. Whcixin some Things
are taken Notice of in his Passage thitlier, but
many more in his Abode there, within that rich and
most spacious Empire of the Great Mogul. Lond.
1655. oct. with the author's picture before it.' The
narrative of this voyage was written and digested
into order by the author after his return thence,
and by him dedicated and presented in MS. to
prince Charles, an. 1622. Afterwards it was added
to the travels of Pet. de la Valle, and abridged in
Sam. Purchas his second part of Pilgrims, book 9.

Corolary of serious and heedful, but sad. Con-
clusions " Printed at the end of the Voyage be-

fore-mention'd.

Cliaracter of K. Cfuirles II, with a short Apo-

' [.Aged 64, iGS.";. Engraved by R. Vaughan.]
^ [Wood does not quote this part of the volume correctly.
It commences at page 452, section xxxi, and is as follows:
The Corotlarie and Conclusion of serious and heed/ull, hut
sad Considerations which shall he my Corollary and Conclu-
sion. At the end of this CoroUarie are the following lines
on 'Dum in vita sumus in via.'

Thislirs our way in which where ere we be
We miss our path, if that felicitie
Be not our ulmost aym, towards which we meet
With cross-ways, rubs and streights that cause our feet"
To stumble, or to faint; yet must we on.
What e're we meet, until! our journey's done.
We seek a country, cannot find it here.
Here in this pilgrimage, i" th' whole world, where
The streightest, smoothest paths, which most do please.
Are cldg'd with loyl and trouble, but want ease.
Our God and country too are both above.
We keep our way, whiles that we thither move;
. But loose it when our motion doth not tend
To that hop'd period, which may make our end
Happy and safe. There is no standing still
Here in this life ; we do extreamly ill .
When we proceed not, for if once we slack
To press towards the mark, we then draw back.
Who therefore sees beyond his eyes must know.
He hath a further journey still to go.
For though he could, with weary paces, get
The world's great round, his tyresoine progress yet.
Were not all pass'd : siill must he think his ear
Fili'd with that voice £lias oft did hear ;

[254]

507

TERRY.

POWELL.

1G60.

^Sy heforc it, an Introduction to it, and Conclusion
after it. Lond. 16(iO. qu.

From which king lie expected the deanery of
Wind.sor to l)c conier'd iipou him, but upon what
eround, seeing that he suffered neither for his, or
uis father's cause, I know not. He departed this
mortal life on the 8th day of Octob. in sixteen hun-
dred and sixty, and was buried in the chancel of
the church of Great Greenford bcfore-mention''d, as
I have l)een inlbnned bv his son » Edward Terry ' a
non-conformist divine, sometime master of arts and
ftjUow of University college,

THOAfAS POWELL, son of John Powell rec-
tor of Cantreffe near to, and in the county of, Breck-
nock, was boni there in 1608, made his first entry
into this university in 1625, elected scholar of Jesus
coU. in 1627, took the degrees in arts, and after-
wards was made fellow of that house. About which
time applying his mind to the faculty of theology,
he entred into the sacred function, and at length
became rector of the place of his nativity. In the
time of the civil war he sufferM much for the king's
cause, and l)eing aequestred of his spiritualities,
ship'd himself beyond the seas for a time. After
the return of Charles XL to his kingdoms, he was
restored to them, was actually created doct. of div.
and made canon of S. David's, and would \vithout
doubt have risen higher in the church, had he not
been untimely snatch'd away from it. He was a
person well vers'd in several sorts of learning, was
an able philosopher, a curious critic, was well skill'd
in various languages, and not to be contcmn'd for
his knowledge in divinity. He hath written,

EUmenta Optica; : nova, Jhcili Sf compendiosa
Mefhodo explicata, &c. Lond. 1651. oct. Com-

What cloest thou here Elias? up, be gone!
And, after many days, still cry'd, go onne!
Who follows close God's call, and way runs best
Till he receives his penny, take his rest.
In three parts of the world I've been, now come
To my last journey that will bring me home.

Ed. Terry.]

' [He had a son named James born at Greenford, who
was matriculated of Penibrolie college in April l641, aged
15. Reg. Malric. PP. fol. 273.]

' [26 Febr. 1660, Edwardus Terrcy clericus in art. mag.
ad red. de Greenford-magna in com. Mid. per mort. Edvardi
Terrcy clerici et patris tiaturalis et legitimi prsfati Edwardi,
ad prais. Gul. Christmas, civitatis London, mercatoris. Reg.
Sheldon.

24 Dec. 1661, Johannes Castell clericus ad rect. eccl. pa-
roch. de Greenford-magna, per resign. Edv. Terry. Ibid.
Kennbt.

C.Tiiiiny says that Terry, the son, was many years nscful
at University coll. in instructing and governing young gen-
tlemen and scholars : and of great fame for his many exer-
cises in the coUedge and schools ; and particularly for his
funeral oration at the interment of Mr. Joshua Hoyle, mas-
ter of that college. Mr. Terry's living at Greenford was
worth to him better than 200/. per ann. He was much ho-
noured for his work's sake, and as a lover of truth and peace.
He was living in 1702. See Calamy's Abridgment qf the
Life (ff Baxter, priuled I702, |Mge«82.]

mended to the world by the copies of verses of
Olor Iscanus-and Eugcnius Philalethes his brother.

Qiiadriffa Sahitlf : or, the four general Headt
of Christian Religion surveyed and eseplained.
Lond. 1657. oct. At the latter end of which are^
some annotations of the same author in the Welslj
tongue.

A Catechifttical Trad of the Lord^i Prayer, the
Creed, and Ten Commandments. — This I have not
yet seen, and therefore I know not to the contrary,
but that it may l)e the same with his Catechism \n
Welsh and English.

Humane Industry : ora History of most manual
Arts, deducing the Original, Progress and Im-

r-ovcmentofihem, &c. Lond. 1661. in oct. Thi^
have in my study, but his name is not set to it.

He translated from Italian into English Stoa

Triumphans. T-.sfo Letters of the noble and learn-
ed Marquis VirgiUo Malvezzi, one in Praise of
Banishment, tlie other in Contempt of Honour ;^
and from French into English, (1) Recueil de no-
velles Lettres : or the last Letters of Monsieur df
Balsac. (2) The unfortunate Politic: or the lAfk
of Herod. He left behind him a MS. of his com-
position unpublished, entit.

Fragmenta de Rebus Britannicis. A sliort Ac^
count of the Lives, Manners, and Religion of the

British Druids and the Bards, &c. As also two

translations, one from the Latin, and another frotn
the Italian, tongue. That from the Latin hath
this title. The Insubrian History, containing an
exact Account of tlie various Fates, civil Commo-
tions, Battles and Sieges acted upon tlie Theatre
of Lombardy, and the adjacent Parts of Italy, ^c.
written originally by the learned Puteanus. And
that from the Italian hath this, T%e Christian po-
litic Favourite : err, a Vindication of the politic
Transactions cf the Count-Duke de S. Lucar, tlie
great Minister cf State and favourite Counscllcrr
to Philip the ith of Spain. Written originally by
Virg. Malvezzi l)efore-mention'd. It was before tra-
duced, but in this translation all things were righted
therein, by our author T. Powell, wlio giving way
to fate at London on the last day of December in
sixteen hundred and sixty, was the next day buried
in tlie church of S. Dunstan's in the West m Fleet-
street, Lond. leaving then behind him tlic character
of a most ingenious and polite person.

° [Olor Iscanus (Hen. Vaughan) chaplain to Fra. Leigh,
earl of Chichester, an* )649. v. subscript, dedicationi hujus
libri. MoRANT.]

^ [^Stoa Triumphans: or Two sober Paradoxes, viz. 1,
The Praise of Banishment. 2. The Dispraise qf Honors.
Argued in two Letters by the noble and learned Marguesse
f^irgilio Malvezii. How translated out of the Italian, with
some Annotations annexed. Feli.v E-rilium tfuod talent me-
ruit PrcBconem. London, Printed by J. G. l651, l£mo.
Bodl. 8vo. M. 11. Art. BS. Dedicated by the translator lo
his truly honoured friend David Gwin, esq. in which be
mentions Gwin's honoured brother then de.i(I, and speaks of
the manifold kindnesses and seasonable favours received from
Gwin himself.]

RUMSEY.

ZOUCHE.

530

iCfio.

WALTER RUMSEY, an eMiuire's son, was
bom in Monmoutlisliire, at Llannover as I have
been informed, became a gent. com. of Glocester-
hall in 1600, aged 16 years, but leaving that house
without a sciiolastical degree, retired to GreyVinn,
studied the municipal law, was made barrister,
bencher, lent-reader 9 Car. I. and at length a judge
in South-Wales, being then so notetl for his pro-
fession, that he was usually called ' The picklock
of the law.' In 1640 he was elected one of the
knights for Monmouthshire to serve in that piirlia-
nieut which l)cgan at Westminster 13 Apr. and
might have been chosen again to serve in the long
parliament, but refused it. He was an ingenious
man, had a philost)phical head, was a good musi-
cian, and most curious for grafting, inoculating and
planting, and also for ordering of jjonds. But that
which he is to be most noted for, is, that he having
been always much troubled with flcgm, was the first
that invented the provang, or whalebone instrument
to cleanse the throat and stomach ; which hath not
only been since used by noted physicians and vir-
tuosi at home, but by those beyond the seas. At
length he wrote a book of it, and its use, entit.

Organon Salutis. An Instrument to cleanse the
Stomach. Lond. 1657, [Bodl. 8vo. D. 3. Art. BS.j
59, Oct. To which he added.

Divers new Experiments of the Virtue of To-
bacco and Coffee Before both which are two

epistles written to the author, one by sir Hen.
Blount in praise of tobacco and coffee, and the other
by Jam. Howell in praise of those two and the
provang. What other books our author Rumsey
hath written, I know not as yet, nor any thing else
of him, only that he dying in his house at Llan-
nover about sixteen hundred and sixty was buried
in the parish church there, near to the bodies of his
relations. He had a son named Edward,* who was
entred a gentleman -commoner of Broadgate's hall,
an. 1623, 21 Jacobi I.

[In the title-page to Rumsey's Organon Salutis,
he is called Wili.iam, not Walter, which would
lead one to suppose it written by some other per-
son than he educated at Gloucester hall. But Au-
brey, who knew him well, gives the following ac-
count, which seems conclusive evidence in Wood's
fiivour.

Walter Rumsey, of Lanover, in com. Monmouth,
esquier (I'ome there) was of in Oxon, after-
wards of the societieof Grayes Inne, where he was a
bencher. He was one of the judges' in South Wales,
viz. Caermarthen, Pembrokeshire and Cardigan
circuit' He was so excellent a lawyer, that he was

* [Edti. Rumsey Monuensis, fil. Giiall. Rumsev, tie
I.Unoiier in com. n'd. arm. amios naius 13. Reg. Matric.
Unit). Oxon. PP. fol. 2(J6, b.]

* [That thejKr/ge was tlif author of the Organon Salutis,
tliere can be no doubt : he is mentioned as such in several
parts of the work it^If.]

called th€ picklock of the lawe. He was an inge>
niose man, and had a philosophicall head ; he was
most curious for grafting, inn(x;ulating and planting,
and jxmds. If he hatl any old dead plumbe-tree,
or apple-tree, he lett them stand, and planted vines
at the Iwttome, and lett them climbe up, and they
would beare very well. He was one of my councell
in my law-suites in Breconshire, about the entaile.
He had a kindnesse for me, and invited me to his
house, and told me a great many fine things both
naturall and antiquarian. He was very facetious,
and a gootl musitian, played on the organ and lute.,
He could comjx)se. He was much troubled with
flegme, and being so one winter at the court at
Ludlow (where he was one of the councellours,)
sitting by the fire spitting and spewling, he tooke a
fine tender sprig, and tied a ragge at the end, and
conceived he might putt it downe his throate, and
fetch up the flegme, and he did so. Afterwards lie
made this instrument of whalebone. I have often-
times seen him use it. I could never make it goe
down my throate, but for those that can 'tis a most
incomparable engine. If troubled with the wind it
cures you immediately. It makes you vomit with-
out any paine, and besides, the vomits of apothe-
caries have aliquid veneni in them. He wrote a
little 8vo booke, of this way of medicine, called Or-
ganon Salutis : London, printed for Daniel Pake-
man, at the Rainebow in Fleetstreet, 1659, the
second edition. ]

RICHARD ZOUCHE, or Zoucheus as he
sometimes writes himself, the cadet of an antient
and noble family, wa.s born of worthy parents in the
parish of Ansley in Wiltshire, educated in gram-
maticals in Wykeham's school near Winchester,
admitted perpetual fellow of New coll. after he had
ser\'ed two years of jjrobation, 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 king's professor
of that faculty in the year following,^ was chosen,
by the endeavours of his kinsman Edward lord
Zouche lord warden of the Cinque-Ports, a burgess,
twice at least, for Hyeth in Kent, to serve in par-
liaments in the latter end of king James I. became
chancellor of the dioc. of Oxon, principal of S. Al-
ban's hall in 1625, and at length ' judge of the high
court of admiralty. In 1648, when tlie visitors ap
pointed by parliament sate in the university, he sud-

"5 [James, by the grace of God &c. To all to whom these
presenls sliall come greelinj;. Know ye that we, — do give
and graunt unto Richard Zouche, doctor of the civil Jaw,
the office or roome of reading of our civil law lecture in our
univcrsiiy of Oxford, together with the yearly fee of fonrly
pounds — Witness ourself, 22 Sept. reign 18. 1620. Rymer>
Fwdern, xvii, 252. Kbnnet.]

' [Wh. 1 Oct. iqVl, MS. LOVEDAY.]

ZOUCHE.

inittctl to their power, and so consequently kept his
princi})alitv and jirofessorship thirinff the times of
usurpation. ^Vlter tlie king's return lie was restoretl
to the admiralty, tho' lie kept tliat Iionorable office
but for a small time, was one of tlie commissioners
for regulating the university, and might have risen
higher than the admiralty had he lived. He was
an exact artist, a subtile logician, exfwrt historian,
and for the knowletlgc in. and practice of, the civil
law, the chief |ierson of his time, as his works much
esteemetl Iwyond the seas (where several of them
are reprinted) partly testify. He was so well vers\l
also in the statutes of the university, and contro-
versies between the members thereof and the city,
tliat none after Twyne's death went beyond him.
As his birth was noble, so was his behaviour and
discourse ; and as personable and handsome, so na-
turallv sweet, pleasing and affable. The truth is,
there was nothnig 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,
[256] ■ The Dove, or Passages of Cosmography. Lond.
1613. oct. This is a poem, which lie wrote in his
younger days, and dedicated it to Edw. lord Zouche
tis kinsman.

Elementa JiirisprtidenticB Dejinit'ionibus, Regu-
Ks, df Sententiis select'ioribus Juris civU'is ilhi-strata.
Oxon. 1629. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. F. 21. Jur.] 1636.
qu. in 7 parts. [Bodl. 4to. Z. 5. Jur. Seld.] Lugd.
Bat. 1652. in 16". [Bodl. 8vo. Z. 5. Jur.] Amstel.
1681. in tw.

Descriptio Juris Sf Judiciifeudalis, secundum
CoTistietiidines Mediolani <§• NormMii. pro Intro-
ductione ad Jurisprudentiam Anglicanam. Oxon.
1634, [Bodl. 8vo. F. 21. Jur.] and 36. oct.

Descript. Juris <§• Judicii temporalis secundum
Consuettidines Jeudales <§• Normanicos. Oxon. 1636.
qu. in 4 parts. [Bodl. 4to. Z. 5. Jur. Seld.]

Descript. Juris <$• Judicii Ecclesiastici secundum
Canones 4- Constltutiones Anglicanas. Oxon. 1636.
qu. in 4 parts. This book, with Descript. Juris <Sc
Judicii Temporalis, &c. were reprinted with Dr.
Mocket's tract De Politia Eccl. Anglicance. Lond.
1683. oct. [Bodl. Mar. 248.]

Descr. Juris <§• Judicii sacri ; ad quam Leges,
quae ad Religionem ^ piam Causam respiciunt, re-
Jenmtur. Oxon. 1 640. qu. Lugd. Bat. &. Amstel.
1652. in 16". [Bodl. 8vo. Z. 5. Jur.]

Descript. Juris 4" Jtidicii Mtlitaris; ad quam
Leges, quce Rem Militarem, ^ Ordinem Persona-
rum respiciunt, referuntur. — Printed with the for-
mer.

Descript. Juris ^ Judicii Maritimi ; ad quam
qua: ad Isaingationem ^ Negotiationem maritimam
respiciunt, referuntur — Printed also with the for-
mer.

/wrw <J- Judicii^eciaUs, sive Juris inter Gentcs,

&)• Quastionwn de codem Explicatio, &c. Oxon.
1650. qu. in two parts. [Bodl. 4to. Z. 4. Jur.
Seld.]

Cases and Questions resolved in the Civil Law.
Oxon. 1652. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. Z. 6. Jur. Seld.] In
the year following was published a book entit. Spe-
cimen Quastionum Juris civilis, cum Desiguationc
Authorum. Oxon. 1653. qu. There is no name to
it, and therefore I cannot yet say 'twas written by
Dr. Zouche. It is now to be oiiscrved that don
Pantalion Sa, brother to the Portugueze ambassa-
dor, having killed one Greeneway a gentleman of
Line, inn in the New Exchange within the liberty
of Westminster on the 22d of Nov. 1653, and
thereupon imjirisoned, there was a dispute l)etweeii
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 pandect of the law, being sent
for from Oxon, he cleared their doubts ; whereupon
Sa being trietl by the civil law, and executed on
Tower-hill 10 July 1654, our author thereupon
wrote this Ixxik following.

Solutio Quastio?iis dc Legati delinquentis Judice
competente. Oxon. 1657. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. A. 16.
Jur. BS.] Afterwards he published these books
following,

Eruditionis ingenum Specimina, scil. Artium,
LogiccP, DialccticcE, 4" Rhetoriccc, necnon Morcdis
Philosophia: M. T. Ciceronis Definiiionibus, Pra:-
ceptis Sf sententiis, illustrat. Oxon. 1657. in tw.
[Bodl. 8vo. A. 5. Jur. BS.]

Qiwcstiomim Juris Civilis Ceniuria, in 10
Classes distribute. Ox. 1660. oct. Lond. 1682. in
tw. the third edit.

The Jurisdiction of the Admiralty of England
asserted, against Sir Edward Colcc''s Articuli Admi-
ralitatis, in tlie Q2d Chapter of his Jurisdiction of
Courts. Lond. 1663, in a large oct. published by
Dr. Tim. Baldwin fellow of Alls. coll. It was after-
wards once or more reprinted. Our learned author
Dr. Zouche died in his lodgings at D(x;tors com-
mons in London on the first day of March in six- iggc.
teen hundred and sixty, and was buried in the
church of Fulhani in Middlesex, near to the grave
of his eldest daughter Katharine, sometime the wife
of William Powell alias Hinson esquire. He had
a hand in the University Rea-mns against the Co-
venant, as I have before told you in Dr. Gerard
Langbaine.

[Dr. Zouch had a son, William Zouch, who was
matriculatcxl of Alban hall, June 28, 1639, aged
14.»

His poem entitled Tlie Dove is so rare, that I
have seen a copy marked in a bookseller's catalogue
at fourteen guineas. An extract from it (descrip-
tive of Great Britain) will be found in Beloc's

8 IRfg. Mairic. Univ. Oxon. PP. fol. 310.]

ZOUCHE.

WROTH.

514

Anecdotes of Literature, vol. ii, pp. 72 — 76.« I give
the invocation, which will be as good a .specimen of
Zouch's versification as any I can select.

Take wing, my muse, and like that sikier doue
Whicli o'er the world new bath'd, did hou'ring fly
The low-coucht seas, and high-plac't land aboue,
Discerne with faithfull, though with fearefull eye,
Tliat what both land and sea resounding ring
Wee may to this all-maker's prayses sing.

He who directs the sparrowes tender flight.
And sees him safely reach the hurtlesse ground.
Guide thee in all thy passages aright,
And grant thy course be sure, thy resting sound :

From mount of oliues, as from hill of baycs
• Blest with the branch of peace though not of
praise.

' [As I have been anticipale<l by Mr. Beloe in the extract
I should have chosen, the reader shall have Zouch's account
of

FRANCE.

France, Europe's Eilen, Westerne Paradice,
Part pal'd wiih mouniaines, moated part with seas.
The famous seed-plol of the flovvre de lyce.
Wants notiiing which the curious sense may please
Except the easie arbour of repose,
Vnder the shadow of the sou'raigne rose.

The more then earthly once reputed powers,

■ Driu'n from the troubled and dislemper'd East,

. There placing since their fancy-pleasing bowers.

Where they more freely might disport and feast :

Choysest delights of them esteem'd most deare,

Seeme to haue planted and disposed here.

Joues oake, whose root he makes his conscious pillow.
And thicke-lean'd boughes his shady canopy:
Sicke-thoughted Inno's pale, forsaken willow,
Crowne of contempt-conceiuing iealousie.

That one the ayric mouniaines, this doth grow
Where crystall riuers through coole vallyes flow.

Vnder the lawrels, worth-adorning wreaths.
Mars and Apollo ioynd in friendship rest ;
. Yet Mars short-winded angry accents breathi
Late basely of great Henry dispossest;

And scarce Apollo halh lamenting left.

Of his diuine Du Bartas quite bereft.

Amongst the oliues fruite-concealing leaues,

Pallas and all the virgin muses sing j

To chearefidl Ceres, well-growne ripened sheaues.

The rurall nymphs as rarest poesyes bring,
Venus and Cupid midst the myrtels sport,
The elms doe Bacchus and his vines support.

Great Britaines ocean, with his conquering tide,
Piissing the entrance of their yeelding shore.
Hath prou'd their plenty, and represl their pride,
Halh tride their vertue, not impaird their store.
And nmch admiring, most himselfe admir'd.
His right reserued, hath his force reiir'd.

The fayrest of-spring of the floudy peeres.
With due obseruance to his crv'stall throne.
Doe pay the tribute of their siluer teares :
Rich Seyne, sweet Loyre, and great Garond, the Rhone
Hasting his banke-disdaining course t'enlarge.
Doth in the streighter seas his streanie discharge.
Vol. in.

And you, whose care our floating house yet saues

From sinking in the deluge of despayre.

Whilst with poore feather'd oares she passe the

waues
Of this all-vulgar-breath'd, storme-threatning, ayre :
Deare Lord, vouchsafe with patient looke t'attend
Her flights, both trembling rise, and humble end.]

" THOMAS WROTH, the eldest son of Tho.
" Wroth of die Inner Temple, esq; and he the

Thorough Geneua's deare and constant lake
He comes to Lyons, hauing left Sauoy,
Where meeting Soane from Burgundy, they take
By Daulphny to Auignion, thence with ioy.
Passing by Prouence, they at Aries attaine
A spatious entrance to the midland mayne.

Well-planted Champaigne, Seyne first watring, fals

On Paris, scituate in the isle of Fraunce,

About whose stately ciltie's goodly wals.

Many of Aniphitriie's daughters daunce,

Till all conioyning Norman vales giue place.
They reach the harbour of the hau'n of grace.

Hence did that worthy duke first hoyse his sayle.
Whom right conducted, conquest secra'd t' attend ; '

Fortune assisted with a prosprous gale.
The floure of vertue Fraunce along did send.

Which vnto English fields remou'd, and set,

Prepar'd a rooine for great Plantagenet.

Amongst them, not the meanest of the flocke,
Allan, the earle of le-ser Briltain came,
Deriuing from thestemmes of antient stocke.
That sometimes flourishing, now fading, name : '

Which, though it little to earth's moysture owe,
Blest by the deaw of Heau'n, againe may grow.

The siluer crescent, in the sable skve,
Seeines to resemble Loyres cornuted streames.
But farther foUow'd wiih attending eye.
It lookes like fuU-fac'd Phosbe's scattring heames.
She midst the lesser stars great lustre showes.
This mongst the minor flouds abundant flowes.

Rising in Auergne it descends to Neucrs,
Then, passing Orleans, turneth downe to Tours,
Whence, bending vnto Nanis, it Poictou seuers
From Brittainc, whore this borne of plenty powers

Her much encreased, scarce contained, store

Ouer the surface of the westerne shore.

So when the second Henry first set forth.
Simply attended with the strength of Mayne;
Proceeding forward, his atlractiuc worth
Adding braue spirits to his spreading traine.
Whilst to a larger state his hopes aspire.
His late-got greatness all the land admire.

From out the frontier hils, through Gascony,

Garond to Toulouse lesse obserued goes.

Then entertaining from all parts supply,

Passelh to Bordeaux, and by passing growes.
That ere at Blay it reach the watry realme,
Her sea-beseeming waues the land ocr-wheJme.

How did the sou'raigne of St. George his knights.

His new enobled garter here aduance,

Whilest bis admired order's worth incites

The states succeeding of amazed France
To follow after, though preceded farrc,
With badge of golden fleece, and sparkling starref
Xj 1-1

515

WROTH.

CAREY.

125T]

Oar.
Id60.

" third son of sir The. Wroth of Durance in Mid-
" dlesex, kniglit, was bom in London, became a
" commoner of Gloucester hall in the be^nning of
" 1603, agetl 19 years or thereabouts, left the uni-
" versity witliout a degree, and went, as I presume,
" to the Inner Temple to study tlie common law.
" On the 11th of Nov. 1613, he received the ho-
" nour of knighthood at Theobald's, being then in
" good esteem among some persons for his poetry,
" for his encouragement of poets, and for nis love
" to learning and learned men. He hath wntten a
" book entit.

" An Abortive of an idle Hour: or, a Century
" of Epigrams. Lond. 1620. in qu. [Bodl. 4to. ]\i.
" 3. Art. BS.] and to it hath added,

"^ Motto upon tlie Creed written also in

" verse : and hath translated from Lat. into Engl.
" Tlie Destruction of Troy : or, the Acts qfMneas,
^'■Jrom the second Book of the Mneids of Virml,
*' Sfc.^ The Latin is on one side, and the English
" on the other. Afterwards he spent most of his
" time at Petherton Park in Somersetshire, sided
" with the dominant party upon the turn of the
*' times, took the covenant, became a recruiter for
" some town in Somersetshire to serve in the long
" parliament that began 3 Nov. 1640, sate in the
" nouse after it had Ssen purged of all the presby-
*' terians, and when the king was beheaded. Af-
" terwards he took the engagement, was appointed
" by Oliver one of the commissioners for Somerset-
" shire, for the ejecting of such whom they then
•* (1654) called scandalous, ignorant, and msuffi-
** cient ministers and schoolmasters, and in 1656 he
" was a pari, man for Bridgwater to sit in that par-
" hament called by Oliver, that began at Westm. 17
*' of Sept. 1656, and again for the same place in
" Richard's parliament, an. 1658, and in the healing
" pari, which began 25 Ap. 1660. How long he

Crecy and Poitiers saw the princely bands
Ecclips with feath'ry clouds the lowring day.
And Agincourt in dannger, trembling stands.
Whilst Henryes valour oer it towring lay :
Each place but passable by searching fame,
Gaue way to Neuil's, and great Talbot's name.

This will afford a pretty exact idea of Zouch's Dove, nor
should I have troubled the reader with so long an extract, but
that few will have an opportunity of inspecting the original.]
' [Wrath's Translation from Virgil, Epigrams, and Motto,
were printed together Lond. l620, containing ten sheets in
quarto. — ^Ded. to sir Robert Sidney, lord viscount Lisle.
In Leuem. Ep. 7-
I will not, no ; and that's as much as, I :-^
This phrase cost Leuis her virginitie.

Ad seipsum. Ep. bQ.
Nor pine, nor pranck, in pouerty or wealth ;
Nor curious be, nor carelesse, of thy health j
To others doe as they should doe to thee ;
Loue th'actiue life, yet not too busie bee.
Maturely ponder, eare thou dost propounde.
Prepare thy mind to want, and to abound :
1 giue my selfe this counsell to indeere
Mee to iny telfe, since to my selfe most neere.]

" lived afterwards, being about 80 years of age, I
" know not."

HENRY CAREY or Cary, son of sir Rob.

Carey the first earl of Monmouth of his name, wa»
born in Buckinghamshire, became fellow-commoner
of Exeter coll. in Lent term 16|?, aged 15 years or
thereabouts, took the degree of bach, of arts in Feb.
16L3, (about which time he, with Bevill Grcenvill,
of Ex. coll. also, were nominated and elected col-
lectors 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
foreign coimtries. In 1625 he was known by tlie
name of the lord Lepington, his father being then
created earl of Monmouth, and in 1639 earl of Mon-
mouth, being then noted for a person well skili'd in
the modem languages, and a general scholar ; the
fruit whereof he found in the troublesome times of
rebellion, when by a forced rctiredness he was capa-
citated 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.

Speecti in the House of Peers 30 Jan. 1641,
upon Occasion of the present Distractions, and of
his Majesty''s removal jfromWhitelmll. Lond. 1641.
He translated from Italian into English, (1.) Ro-
mulus and Targuin: or, de Principe <Sj- Tyranno.
Lond. 1637. in tw.»[Bodl. 8vo. M. 158. Art J writ-
ten by marcj. Virg. Malvezzi: in praise oi which
translation sir John Suckling hath an admirable
copy of verses, in his Fragmenta aurea, &c. Lond.
1648. p. 24. (2.) Historical Relations irfthe United
Provinces of Flanders. Lond. 1652. fol. [Bodl. BS.
128.] written by Guido cardinal Bentivoglio. (3.)
History of the Wars of Flanders. Lond. 1654.' fol.
[Bodl. BS. 128.] written by the said cardinal. This
translation hath the earl of Momnouth's picture be-
fore it. (4.) Advertisements from Parnasstts i7i
two Centuries, with tJie Politic Touchstone. Lond.
1656. fol. [Bodl. BS. 140.] written by Trajano Boc-

' [This is the first edition, published with a cypherH. C. L.
that IS Henry Carey, (lord) Lepington. The second edition,
to which the verses by Suckling, with others by sir Robert
Stapylton, sir Will. Davenant, sir Fr. Wortley, Carew and
Townsend, were first added, appeared in l638, with this al-
teration in the title : ' By H. L'' Gary of Lepinto :' the third
was printed Lond. l648 ; all in I2mo. Each of these edi-
tions has an engraved title-page by Will. Marshall, in which
the dates and his lordship's titles have been evidently altered.]

' [The History of the Wars of Flanders, writlen in Italian
hy that learned andfamous Cardinal Bentivnglio- Englished
liy the right honourable Henry Earl of Monmouth. The whole
Work illustrated with a Map of the Seventeen Provinces, and
above twenty Figures of the chief Personages mentioned in
this History. London, Printed for Dnrman Newman, and
are to be sold at his Shop at the King's Arms in the Poultry.
1678. folio, pp. 387, title, verses, tabic, &c. 26 more. "To
this edition is a continuation from the year 167I to \(>7.b.
The commendatory verses are hy R. Baker, Ph. Frowde, Ed.
Waller, aud Will. Davenant.]

CAREY.

518

[258]

calini. (5.) Politic Discourses, in three Books.
Lond. 1657. fol. [Bodl. US. 100.] written by Paul
Paruta a noble Venetian ; to which is added, A
Short Soliloquy, in which Paruta briefly examines
the whole course of his life. (6.) History of Venice,
m trco Parts. Lond. 1658, fol. [Bodl. K. 1. 5. Art.]
written by the said Paruta, with The IVars of Cy-
prus, wherein the famous Sieges of Nicossia and
Famagosta, and the Battel of Lepanta are con-
tained. He also began to translate from the said
Itahan language, The History of France, written
by the Count Gualdo Priorato, but died after he
had made some progress therein. Afterwards it was
finished by William Brent, esq; and printed at Lond.
1677.* fol. [Bodl. D. 4. 18. Art.] being the same per-
son that had before \vi-ote a book entit. A Discourse
upon the Nature of Eternity, and the Condition of
a sepai-atcd Soul according to the Grounds of
Reason, and Principles of Christian Religion.
Lond. 1655. in asmalloct. [Bodl. 8vo. C. 84. Line]
written while he was a prisoner in the Gate-house
at Westminster. It was afterwards printed there
again in 1674. in 6 sh. and a half in qu. [Bodl. 4to.
E. 7. Jur.] By the way it must be known, that tho'
we have had several of the Brents who have been
students in this university, yet this Will. Brent was
not, but educated while a youth in the coll. of
Enghsh Jesuits at S. Omers. Afterwards being
entred into the society of Greys-Inn, he became a
barrister, and a solicitor or such like officer, under
Tho. earl of Strafford when he was lord lieutenant
of Ireland. He was born at Stoke Lark in Glou-
cestershire, in the parish of Ilmington in Warwick-
shire, and having suffered much for his religion by
imprisonments, payments of money, and I know not
what, lived privately several years at Foxcote in
Warwickshire, and in his last days at London. He
died " near Little Turnstile in Holbom" in the pa-
rish of S. Giles in the Fields near London, " 21
May" 1691,* aged 80 years, or more. He the said
Hen. Carey, E. of Monmouth, did
also translate from French into En-
glish, (1.) The Use of the Passions.
Lond. 1649.* oct. [Bodl. 8vo. S. 18.
Art. BS.] (2.) Man become Guilty,
or the Corruption of his Nature by Sin.^ Printed
at Lond. Both written by Job. Franc. Senault;
before the first of which, is the picture of the said

* [The Bodleian copy is dated I676.]

' [Second edit. Lond. 1671, 8vo. Both impressions should
haTe the bust by Marshall and an engraved title-page by the
same artist, representing the various passions enchained by
Reason, under the direction of Divine Grace.]

° {Man become guilhj : or The Corruption of Nature by

Sinne, according to Si. Augustine's Sense, written, fsfc.

London, Printed for tViltiam Leukc, and are to be sold at
his Shop at the Signrofthe Crown in Flectstreet, betwixt the
two Temple Gates, 160O, 4to. pp. 390, dedic. to the countess
of Rutland. &c. 14, and a leaf of errata. Prefixed is the
shoulder piece, as Wood calls it, engraved by Marshall.]

• in the begin-
ning of the
year\6gl. first
edit.

earl (a shoulder piece)' standing on a pedestal.
What other translations this noble count hath made
besides, unless T/ie Hist, of the late Wars of
Christendom, printed in fol. 1648, which I have not
yet seen, I know not, nor any thing else of him, only
that he pving way to fate on the 13th of June in
sixteen hundred sixty and one, was buried in the
church of llickmansworth in Hertfordshire. He
had an ingenious brother named Thomas, whom I
have mentioned in the Fasti 1613.' One H. Cary
a lawyer hath written. The Law of England : or, a
true Guide for all Persons concerned in Ecclesias-
tical Courts. Printed 1666. in tw. but what rela-
tion he had to the earl I know not.

[On a monument in the chancel of Rickmanswortli
church, are these inscriptions :

1. Here lies interred (in hopes of a joyful resurrec-
tion) the body of the right honourable Henry Cary,
baron of Lepmgton, ean of Monmouth, [son of Ro-
bert earl of^ Monmouth] and Elizabeth Trevaniazi
his wife, which Robert was the tenth son to Henry
Cary, baron of Hunsdon. He died the 13 of June
anno Domini 1661, aged 65 years. He was married
41 years to the lady Martha Cranfeild, eldest
daughter to Lyonel earl of Middlesex, and had bv
her ten children, two sons and eight daughters, vi-
delicet Lyonel, the eldest, never married, was slain
anno Domini 1644, at Marston Moor fight, in his
majesties service, and Henry who died of the small
pox, anno Domini 1649, and lies interred at the
Savoy. He left no issue but one son since deceased,
also the last heir male of this earPs family: the
daughters were as followeth, Anne, Philadelphia,
Elizabeth, Mary, Trevania, Martha, Theophila,
and Magdalen.

2. Within this place lies also buried the bodies of
the above-named Robert earl of Monmouth, Eliza-
beth countess of Monmouth, his wife, and the ladies
Philadelphia, Trevania, Theophila, and Magdaline
Cary, and the bodies of James lord Clenobwy and
the lady Jane Hambleton his sister, being the
children of the aforesaid lady Anne Cary, wliich she
had by James Hambleton viscount Clenoby, earl of
Clanbrasill of the kingdom of Ireland.

3. Sacred to the memory of the right honourable
the lady Elizabeth Cary, one of the daughters and co-
heirs of the right honourable Henry lord Cary ba^
ron ofLepington and earl of Monmouth. She die<l
the 14 of December in the year of our Lord 1676,
and in the 46 year of her age, having lived all her
time unmarried, but now expecting a joyful resur-

' [Lord Orford, by mistake, says that this is a good bust of
the earl by Faiihorne, who he adds, when he took pains, was.
an admirable engraver. But it so happens, that the engraver
of this bust was William Marshall, who though in general a
coarse and hasty performer, is not to be despised, since his
heads, though often very rough sketches, bear evident marks
of authenticity, and resemblance to the originals. The best
head he ever engraved, in my opinion, is one of Dr. Doune
when young.]

* [Sec Fasti Oxon. col. 352.]
LL2

I06I.

519

TAYLOR.

IIOLYDAY.

rection, and to be joyned to her only spouse and sa^
viour Jesus Christ, lies interred near the swd earl
her father.

4. Here lies interred the body of James Hamblcton
lord Clenoboy, eldest son to James earl of Clanbra-
sill, bom September the 7th 1642. Deceased May
the 8th 1658.^

We may add to his lordship's translations :

An History of the civ'tll Warres of England, be-
tweene the tico Houses of Lancaster and Yorke.
The Originall whereof is set downe in the Life of
Richard the second ; their Proceedings in the Lives
of Henry the Jburth, the fifth, and sixth, Edxoard
the fourth and fifth, Richard the third, and Henry
the seventh, in xohose Dayes timj Iwd a happy Pe-
riod. Written in Italian ' in three Volumes, by sir
Francis Biondi, Knight, Gentleman of the Privie
Chamber to his Majesty of Great Britaine. En-
glished hy the right hmiourable Henry Earle of
Monmouth, in two Volumes. Imprinted at London
by I. H. and I. D. for John Benson, ^-c. — 1641,«
foUo. Bodl. AA. 49. Art. Seld.

Heads of lord Monmouth, engraved by Faithome,
were prefixed to many of his folio translations, but
good impressions are rarely to be met with. I have
.seen some with this singularity: the inscription, ' Deo
cari nihUo carent' reversed, from an inattention on the
engraver's part to do so in the plate. There is also
a head and autograph of this nobleman by Thane,
in 8vo.]

WILLIAM TAYLOR was born at Kighley in
Yorksh. 30 Sept. 1616, entred a batler in Magd.
hall in 1631, took one degiee in arts, was made
school-master of Keniton or Keynton in Hereford-
shire, proceeded in his faculty, went to Cirencester
in Gloucestershire about the latter end of 1639, be-
came schoolmaster there in the place of Henry

' [Chauncey's Hiit. of Hertfordshire, page 481.]
■ [Translator's epistle to the readers his coiintrymen.
That traDslatiuns are at the best but like the wrong side of
hangings, is granted. Vet he who cannot get to see the right
side, may, by the other, guesse at the story therein represent-
ed. This of mine may yet seeme to be of a worse condition ;
as onely the reducing back to our owne languaee that which
hath beene collected from our home stories, and published in
a forreigne tongue : so as it may almost be termed the turning
into English what was turned out of English. But iheauthour
hath had his end : the making the valour and honour of our
kingdome knowne to his owne countrymen ; for which we
owe him a nationall ihankes. 1 have chosen this way to pay
mine, by affording you all a means how to acknowledge
yours, and thus 1 have part of my end likewise. The re-
mainder being my observance of his desires, and the shunning
of spending niy time worse. The Italian saith, Chi non puo
quel che voulc, quel che puo voglia. If 1 could coine anie
thing out of my owne braine worthy of my countrymen, they
should have it : since not, let them accept of this piece of
gold changed into silver, and therein of the good will of
iheir

compatriot

Monmouth.]
• ' [The second vol. printed an. l646. This is, probably,
the work alluded to in the text, col. 518, as The Hist, of the
Wars nf Christendom ."^

Toppe,' then ejected by tlie puritanical townsmen.
Hut that town Iwing taken by storm by the royal
party 2 Feb. 1642, Topja" was restorecl. So that
Taylor retiring to London, became preacher at
Bowe near that city, and afterwards nnnister of S.
Stephen's church in Coleman-street, in the place of
Joh. Goodwin turn'd out by the parliament. But
meeting with opposition there, he exercised his func-
tion for some tune in a church in Woodstreet, and
kept a lecture at S. Giles's near Cripplegate every
Sunday, and another lecture on a week day at S.
Peter's Conihill. Afterwards being recalled by the
rump parliament to S. Stephen's, he kept it to his
dying day. He was a frequent preacher, not only
in his own, but in other churches, and a laborious
and learned man in his profession. He hath writ-
ten and published.

Sermons, as (1.) Serm. on Phil. 2. 10. and others,
as 'tis said, which I have not yet seen ; and also col-
lected and reviewed several of Mr. Christop. Love's
sermons before they went to the press, ancT set epis-
tles before some of them. He died on the fifth day
of Sept. in sixteen hundred sixty and one, and was \G(i\.
buried ♦ in the chancel of the church of S. Stephen
l)efore-mention'd, at which time Dr. William Spur-
stow of Hackney preached his funeral sermon, where-
in he spoke many things to his honour, which for
brevity's sake I now omit. This Will. Taylor,
tho' he was a zealous presbyterian, yet he was a
lover of the king in all revolutions, as a doctor of his
persua.sion hath often told me. " This Will. Tay-
" lor left a son of both his names, afterwards a pres-
" byterian minister, and chaplain to Philip lord
" Wharton, who hath reviewed Dr. Manton's Post-

" humous Works. His wife is Mary daughter to

" Mr. Hen. Jolly of Chute in Wills. So the great
" Historical, Geographical, and Poetical Diction-
" ary,^ &c. vol. 2."

BARTEN HOLYDAY, son of Thomas Holy-
day a taylor, was born in All-saints parish withm
the city of Oxford, in an house opposite to Line,
college, entred into Ch. Ch. and exhibited unto by [25
his kinsman Dr. Ravis, sometime dean of that house,
an. 1605, aged 12 or more years, and was, I think,
at that time a chorister. Afterwards, when he was
about to take the degree of bach, of arts, he was
elected one of the students, being then noted to have
a most admirable vein in poetry and oratory. In
1615 he proceeded in arts, took holy orders soon
after, became a most eloquent and quaint preacher,
and had two benefices in the dioc. of Oxon. con-
ferr'd on him, whereof one was the rectory of Cro-
well. In 1618 he went as chaplain to sir Franc.

• ' [See before at col. 83, note 4.]

< [Oil the 1 2lh of Sept. Rawlinson.]

' [All of Will. Taylor (in this Diclionary) is taken from
Ath. et Fasti Oxon. and there they bring in his scriveling
son, which makes me think he had a hand in this dictionary.
Wood. MS. note in Ashmole.l

HOr,YDAY.

r>23

Steuart, when he conducted to Spain Ucdicus Sar-
miento de Acunna the earl of Gundainore, after he
had continued several years in tlie Englisli court as
an ambassador from tlie king of tiiat country ; in
which journey behavina; himself in a facete and
pleasant way, did much obtain the favour of that
count. Afterwards he became chaplain to king
Charles I. and succeeded Mr. Will. Bridges, son of
Dr. John Bridges bish. of Ox. in the archdeaconry
of Oxon. before the year 1626. In 1642 he was,
by virtue of the letters of the said king, actually
created, with others, d(x;t. of divinity, and sheltered
himself in and near Oxon during the time of rebel-
lion ; but wlien the royal party declined, and the in-
dependent had taken place, u]X)n the installation of
Oliver to the protectorship, he, who before had lost
his livings, and the profits of his archdeaconry, did
side with that faction so far, as to undergo the exa-
mination of the triers, or rather Spanish inquisitors,
in order to be inducted into the rectory of Chilton in
Berks, in the place of one Tho. T.,aurence ejected for
being not compos mentis. For which act lie was
much blamed by his ancient friends and acquaintance
of the orthodox clergv, yet commended by some tor
making provision for a second wife that he a little
before, in his elderly years, had taken, and the
children to be had by her. After the king's restora-
tion he left that living to make room for the true
owner, returned to Eisley near Oxon, to live on his
archdeaconry, and might, ha<l he not acted the vain
man, been made a bishop, or at least a dean of a
rich church. His poetry and sublime fancy were
such, that fani'd him second to none in his time in
the university, witness in some manner his smooth
translation of rough Persius, which he made before
he was 20 years of age, tho' in these times much un-
dervalued by juniors. As Scaliger said of Claudian
and his works, solo argumento ignobiliore oppressus
addit de ingenio, quantum deest materiae, so may it
be of Holyday and his poem, viz. whatsoever is mean
in Persius is so choicely adorned by his geny, that
if it stand out of the presence of ignorant and despe-
rate emulation, it mav be graceful. His philosophy
also, expressed in his book Dc An'ivia, and well ian-
guag'd sermons, speak him eminent in his genera-
tion, and do enough shew him to have traced the
rough parts, as well as the pleasant paths, of poetry.
His works are these.

Several sermons, viz. (1.) Three Sermons upon
the Passion, Resurrection., and Ascension of our
Saviour. Loiul. 1626. qu. [Bodl. BB. 35. Th.]
The first at Ch. Ch. on Goodfriday 1621. on 1 Cor.
2. 8. The seajnd at S. Mary's on Easter Tuesday
1623. on 1 Cor. 15. 20. and the third at Ch. Ch. on
Ascension-Day 1625. on 1 Pet. !3. 22. (2.) Tuo
Sermons at VauTs Cross, the first preached 21' of
Mar. 162k on E:^ek: 37. 22. Loml. 1626. qu. [Bodl.
BB. 35. Th.] The other preached the 5th of Aug.
1623. on PsaJ. 18. 48, 49.— Printed there the same
year. (3.) Nature <f Faith, on Ilcb. 11. 4. Lond.

1654. qu. [Bodl. 4to. S. 47. Th. Seld.l (4.) Mo-
tives to a godly Life, in 10 Sermons. Oxon. 1657.
qu. (5.) Four Sermons against Dlshyalty, jrrcaclied
in the Times (f the late Troubles. Oxon. 1661.
(x;t. The first of which is Of Obedience ; onExod.
20. 12, &c.

Technogamia : or, the Marriage of Arts, a Co-
medij. Lond. 1630. qu. [Bodl. 4to. H. 24. Art.]
acted publicly in Ch. Ch. hall with no great applause,
13 Febr. 1617. But the wits of those times l>eing
minded to shew themselves before the king, were
resolved, with leave, to act the said comedy at
Woodstock ; whereupon the author making some
foolish alterations in it, it was accortlingly acted on
a Sunday night, 26 Aug. 1621. But it being too
grave for the king, and too scholastic for the audi-
tory, (or as some have said, that the actors had
tiiken tcH) much wine before they began) his ma-
jesty (Jam. 1.) after two acts, oft'er'd .several times
to withdraw. At length being persuaded by some
of those that were near to him, to have patience till
it was ended, least the young men should be dis-
couraged, sate down, tho' much against his will.
Whereu}X)n these verses were made by a certiEtin
scholar ;

At Christ Church Marriage, done before the king,
Least that tho.se mates should want an offering,
The king himself did offer ; what, I pray }
He offer'd twice or thrice to go away.

Several witty copies of verses were made on the said
comedy, among which was that of Pet. Heylin of
Magd. coll. called Whoop Holyday. Which giving
occasion for the making other copies pro and con,
Corbet dean of Ch. Ch. who had that day preached
(as it seems) before the king with his band starch'd
clean, did put in for one ; for which he was reproved
by the graver sort, but those that knew him well,
took no notice of it, for they have several times said,
that he loved to the last boys-play very well. '

Philosophiw poUto-barbarw Specimen, in quo de
Jnimd, H ejus Habitibus intellectualibus Qiuestiones
aliquot, Libris 2. illustrantur. Oxon. 1633. qu.
[Bodl. 4to. P. 65. Art.]

Survey of the World, in 10 Books, a Poem?

" [From this poem the reader shall liavc the ixietical adctress
as a sufficient taste of Barten Holyday's composition.

To the studious reader.
As weary travelour thai climbes a hill
Loolscs back, sills down, and oft, if hand have skill,
Landskippes the vales, with pencil ; placing here
Medow, there arable, here forest, there
A grove, a city, or a silver-slreame.
As offring to yield heauiv to his scheme ;
Then decks it for the gallery, and views
If th' eye and phansy count it pleasing news :
So now my thoughts and hopes, that long have climb'd
Learning's ascents, by which true art's sublim'd,
Turne, rest, and their owne vvancirings view. Here light
They see, by which they see ; there deepest night.
The world's new chaos : here a tinsell'd sky,
That does with beauly please and pose the eye j

[260]

523

IIOI.YDAY.

GOUGHE.

Oxon. 1G61. oct. [B<kH. 8vo. C. 53. Line] AVliich
passing; tlie censure of scholars, it was jiidgctl by
tlicm to be an inconsiderable piece, and by some,
not to he his. But so it was, that it Iwing published
just before his death, it was taken for a posthumous
work, which had l>ecn by him composed in his
younger days. 'Tis said by some that he was au-
tlior of a com. called. The Gentile Crq/i, but whe-
tlier true, I doubt it.' Sure I am, he translated
from Lat. into English, (1.) Satyrs of Perxius.
Oxon. 1616. sec. edit. [Bodl. 8vo. D. 52. Art.]
There again 1635.' Reviewed and amended, and
also augmented \vith illustrations by the translator
--—Oxon. 1673. fol. [Bodl. G. 4. 13. Art.] In
this translation he consulted above a dozen expositors,
yet in his preface to the translation, he hath these
words, ' I may without ambition say, it is a new thing
Persius understood. To have committed no faults
in my translation (salth he, according to his elegant
way of writing) had been to ti-anslate my self and
put off man.' (2.) Satyrs of Juvenal illustrated
with Notes and Sculptures. Oxon. 1673. fol. At
the end of which is the fourth edit, of Persius before-
mention''d, both which were published by Will.
Dewey of Tortdean in Gloucestershire, gent, whose
mother Dr. Holyday had taken to his second wife.
(3.) Odes of Horace. Lond. 1652. oct. Whether
printed before that time I know not. This transla-
tion is so near that of sir Tho. Hawkins, printed
1638. in oct.' or that of Hawkins so near this, that

There earth, beast, fowle, mystical man, whose braine,

A lease world, would the greater world containe.

These, if by nature's herald, art, well plac'd.

Present nature and art by union grac'd.

To view which, no new Alpes wee need, whose height

Shows Europe's dress, which thence may'st please or fright.

Wee need no Ararat to show Asian glory.

It selfe having arli'd-up rich Asia's story.

No Alias need wee, Africa's proud eye.

The mysteries of its deserts to discry.

The new world's Andes wee can wisely spare ;

The prospect there, but not quicic death, is rare.

Wee need no Tenariffa, which does shoole

So high, my eye I'de lend it, not my foot.

No cunning mountaine need wee, whence the Devil

Would show the whole world's glory, not the evil :

Fear'd hee 'twould spoile his bribe? but here below

From art, not mountaine, truth enough wee show.

If then thy eye venters to bee so kind

Soone view the long view of a searching mind.

Thine

Barten Holyday.]

' [And very justly. It was written by the well-known
Thomas Decker, and was acted in 1599, when Holyday was
under ten years of age. The play is now supposed to be
lost.]

* tjF'fth edit. 1650, 12mo. Rawlinson.]
' [The first edition of sir Thomas Hawkins's transl. of
Horace appeared Lond. lG25. in4to. (Bodl. 4to. AI.37. Art.)
with a very neat engraved title, representing two figures. Ly-
ric Poetry and Imitation, with a bust of Horace above. Se-
cond edit. ; third, ' reviewed and enlarged with many
more." Lond. 1635, 12mo. (Bodl. 8vo. H. 16. Art. BS.)

whether of the two is the author, remans to me, aa
yet, undiscovered. This Dr. Holyday, who was
highly conceited of his own >\orth, especially in liis
yoimgcr days, died in the house belonging to the
archdeacon of Oxon, situated and being in a vil-
lagc called Eisley near to that city, on the second
day o{ Octob. in sixtet>n hundred sixty and one,
and was three days after buried at the f«K)t of bishop
King's monument, under the south wall of the isle
jovning, on the south side, to the choir of Christ
church cathedral. At which time his bones being
laid close on the right side to those of W. Caitwright
and Jo. Gregory, what had it been for an admirer
of those learned and pious men to have put a me-
morial over their graves ? As for sir Thom. Haw-
kins, knight, before-mention'd, he was an ingenious
man, was as excellent in the fac. of music as in
poetry, and translated from the original,' Unftappy
Prosperity ; expressed in the History ofJEl. Seja-
nus and Pki/ippa the Catanian, with Observations
on the Fall qfSejanus. Lond. 1639. in oct. or tw.
sec. edit. What other translations he hath made,
or what books he hath \»Titten, I know not,* nor
any thing else of him, only that he was of Nash Court
in the parish of Boughton under the Blean in Kent,
where dying in the latter end of 1 640, as it seems,
was buned in the parish church of Boughton, near
to the graves of his father sir Tho. Hawkiiis, kt. and
of Anne his mother. He had an ingenious brother
named John Hawkins, doctor of physic of London,
and a nephew called John Kirton, doctor of the
same faculty, who is to be mentioned elsewhere.

JOHN GOUGHE, commonly called Goffe, son
of the rector of Stanmer in Sussex, was born in that
county, began to be conversant with the muses in
Merton coll. an. 1624, made demy of that of S. Mar.
Magd. in 1627, aged 17 years or more, perpetual
fellow 29 July 1630, being then bach, ot arts.
Afterwards proceeding in that faculty, he entred
into orders, and became a preacher in these parts.
In 1642, Sept. 26, he was inducted into the vicaridge
of Hackington alias S. Stephen near to the city of
Canterbury, in the place of James Hirst deceased.
From whence being ejected soon after for refusing
the covenant, was, with other loyal clergy-men, cast
into the county prison in S. Dunstan's parish in the
suburbs of the said city. In 1652 he, by the en-
fourth still farther ' enlarged with many more.' (Bodl. 8vo.
C. 164. Art.) The 8vos have engraved titles, somewhat re-
sembling, but very inferior to, the quarto, in design and exe-
cution.]

' [In French, by P. Mathiew; 1st edit. 4to. l632.
Wan LEV.]

» [Qu. whether this sir Tho. Hawkins was not the trans-
lator of all, or a great part of, Caussin's Hol^ Court ? Tan-
NBR. Tanner's conjecture is right; Hawknis translated the
greater part of that bulky work, the first part of which he de-
dicated to the queen mother Henrietta-Maria, the second
to the duchess of Buckingham. The fourth edition of this
book was printed in folio, London l678j see it, Bodl.
L. 5. 15. "Th.]

\C^6\.

GOUGHE.

LUSHINGTON.

rm

deavours of his brother William, whom I shall anon
mention, was inducted into the rectory of Norton
near Sittinglxiurne in Kent on tlie thirteenth day
of March, and in the year 1600, he being restored
to his vicaridge of S. Stephen, was actually created
doctor of divinity in the beginning of Decenil)er the
same year, and mducted again according to tiie ce-
remonies of the church of England into the rectory
of Norton on the 4th of March following, which
were all the spiritualities he enjoyed. He hath
written a book entit.

Ecclesiw Anglicante ©PHNilAI'A, in quapertur-
hatissimus Rcg^ni Sf Ecclesiw Status, sub Anabap-
tistica Tyrannide Ingctur, Lond. 1661. oct. [Bodl.
8vo. G. 4. Th. BS.] Also a ,large Latin epistle
written to Dr. Edw. Simson,'^f before a book writ-
ten by him, entitled, Chronicon Catliolicum, &c.
Oxon. 1652. fol. [Bodl. A. 1. 8. Med. Sekl.] He
concluded his last day in the parish of Norton be-
fore-mentioned, and was burieil in the chancel of
the church of S. Alphage in Canterbury on the 26th
l66i. day of Nov. in sixteen hundred sixty and one.
This person, who was a zealous son of the church
of England, had an elder brother named Steph.
Goffe, originally of Mert. coU. afterwards of S. Alb.
hall, and a bigot of the church of Rome ; and an-
other brother named William, whether elder or
younger I know not, who was originally a trader
m London, afterwards a presbyterian, independent,
• one of the judges of king Charles I. and one of

Oliver's lords ; who to save his neck from the gal-
lows, did, upon a foresight of tlie king's return in
1660, leave the nation, and died obscurely in a
strange land.' The father of the said Goffes was
Steph. Goffe, sometime bach, of arts of Magd. coll.
a good logician and disputant, but a very severe

' [Goughe left England, with his father in law, general
Whalley, another of the king's judges, a few days before the
restoration ; they landed at Boston, in America, waited on
Endicot the governor, informed him who they were, and
took up ihcir residence in a neighbouring village, and were
greatly respected till the hue and cry followed' them from
Barbadoes. Thev were then warned to make their escape,
and accordingly they removed to Newhaven, a place about
an hundred and fifiy miles distant. Here they owed their
lives to the iniiepidity of the minister John Davenport, who,
when their pursuers arrived, preached to the people from
this text, • Take counsel, execute judgment, make thy sha-
dow as the night in the midst of noon day, hide the outcasts,
bewray not him that wandcreih. Let mine outcasts dwell
with ihee, Moab, — be thou a covert to them from the face
of the spoiler." (Isaiah xvi, 3,4.*) Large rewards were
offered for their apprehension, or for any information which
might lead to it. Davenport was threatened, for it was
known that he had harboured them : — Upon hearing that

• [It is sinjiiLir how much more apposite to the case of
Gough and his fellow-outcasts is the text of the old Geneva
> Bihte, which, by the way, is an excellent translation.

• Gather a counsel, execute judgement : make thy shadowe
as the night in the midday: hide them that are chased out:
bewraye not him that is fled. Let my banished dwel with
thee: Moab, be thou their couert from the face of the de-
•troyer.' Ediu 4lo. 15()0, fol. 288.]

puritan, eminent Hot his training up, while a tutor,
several that proved afterwards very noted scholars ;
among whom must not be forgotten Rob. Harris,
D. of D. sometime president of Trin. colL in Oxon.

THOMAS LUSHINGTON, a famous scholar
of his time, was bom at Sandwich in Kent, matricu-
lated in the university, as a member of Broadgate's
hall, in Lent term 160', aged 17 years, but how
long he stayed there it appears not. Sure it is,
that he having had some puolic employment in the
country or elsewliere, did not take the degree of
bach, nor that'of master, of arts, till 1618, in which
year lie was a commoner of Line. coll. Not long
after he returned to Broadgate's again, and was
there at the time when it was converted into the
college of Pembroke, where he spent some years in
tlieological studies, took die degree of bach, of div.
and soon after, for the great respect that Corbet
bish. of Oxon. had for him, he made liim one of his
chaplains.* In June 1631 he became prebendary
of Bemister Secunda in the church of Salisbury, on
the promotion of the said Corbet to the see of

he was in danger, they offered to deliver themselves up, and
actually gave notice to the deputy governor of the place of
their concealment; but their friend had not preached ia
Tain, and the magistrate took no other notice than to let
them be advised not to betray themselves. Their hiding-
place was a cave on the top of West Rock, some two or
three miles from the town. Once when they ventured out
for provisions, they hid themselves under a bridge while their
pursuers past over it:— Once they met the sheriff who had
the warrant for their apprehension in his pocket, — but they
fought for their lives, and, before he could procure assistance,
escaped into the woods. After lurking two or three years in
the cave, or in the houses of their friends, they found it ne-
oessary to remove, and were received at Hadley by Russell,
the minister of the place, with whom they were concealed
fifteen or sixteen years. It was during their residence at
Hadley, that a singular opportunity was afforded to one of
the fugitives to render momentous assistance to his preservers.
During a long war between the English settlers and Meta*
com, sachem of Pokanoket, the Indians, having laid Deera-
field in ashes, surprised Hadley during the time of public
worship. The men of the town had long been in the habit
of taking their arms with them when they attended divine
service — they were however panic-stricken and confused,
and in all human probability not a soul would have escaped
alive, had not an old and venerable man, whose dress wa»
diflerent from that of the inhabitants, and whom no one
had seen before, suddenly appeared among them ; he rallied
them, put himself at their head, gave his orders like one ac-
customed to battle, led them on, routed the enemy, and
when the victory was compleat, was no longer to be found.
This deliverer, whom the people, thus preserved from death
and torments, long believed to be an angel, was general
Goughe! — In l688 Whalley died at Hadley, infirm in body
and decayed in mind; and about a year afterwards all tradi-
tion of Goughe is lost. One is willing to hope, (says a
writer in the Quarlerlt/ Review, from which publication •
the whole of the preceding account is taken) that he returned
to England — but Wood, who seems to have ascerlainal his
death before l6g2, had probably some better authority fof
saying, that he died obscurely in a strange land.]
• [For November 180t), vol. ii, p. 32.]

•• [See these Athen*, vol. ii, col. 885.]

527

LUSIIINGTON.

Oxoii, and in the year following proceeding in his
faculty, the said bishop t(K)k him with him when he
was translatetl to Norwich, bestowed on him the
rectory of Burnliani-Westgate in Norfolk, and got
him to be chaplain to king Charles I. When the
grand rel)ellion broke out, he lost his spiritualities,
and lived obscurely in several places, publishing
then divers books to gain money for his mainte-
nance. At length upon the return of king Charles
II. in 1660, he was restored to his spiritualities,
and had offers made to him of great dignities in the
church, but being then aged and infirm, he chose
rather to keep what he had with quietness, than be
a dean with riches. He was esteemed a right re-
[262] verend and learned theologist, yet in many matters
imprudent, and too much inclined to the opinions
of Socinus. His preaching also while he remained
in the university was generally well esteemed, and
never gave distaste but in one sermon, which, tho'
esteemed by some to be admirable, yet by more,
blasphemous. An account of which you shall have
as it foUoweth. In the year 1624, (22 Jac. 1.)
nothing but war with Spain sounding in the cars of
the vulgar upon the breaking off of the Spanish
match with prince Charles, it pleased this our au-
thor Lushington to utter in his sermon on Matth.
28. 13. at S. Mary's on Easter Monday, these

words ' Now the peasant thinks it conies to his

turn under pretence of his privilege in parliament,
that he should dispose of kings and commonwealths,''
&c. Afterwards also thus. ' Nothing now con-
tents the commonalty but war and contention,' &c.
For which, as also for several other passages, re-
flecting on the Spanish match, he was called into
questitm by Dr. Piers the vice-chancellor, and by
him was a time appointed for him to recant what he
had said. Which being done, not without the con-
sent of certain doctors, the rcpetitioner was com-
manded to leave out divers passages of the said ser-
mon, which he, according to custom, was to repeat
the Sunday after, commonly called Low Sunday.
His recantation sermon on Acts 2. 1. latter part,
which he preached the very next day after the re-
petitioner had delivered his four sermons, I have
seen, and therein I find, that his meaning for the
first passage, was only to reprehend ' the seditious
doctrines of Knox, Buchanan, and others, and the
tumultuary practices of the common people, for-
merly used both in town and country to affront
their prince, because of their privilege to elect par-
liamentary persons. The word now hath the lati-
tude of this age, that in parliament I intended not
hx»lly in relation to the vulgar, who have a voice
to elect knights and burgesses, but at the present
themselves hold no place personally in the parlia-
ment,'' &c. As for other passages he said, ' he had
no intent to cross the present resolution for war,
but only to check the inordinate desire of it, some-
what too frequent in most mens mouths, and it
seemed to liiiu somewhat harsh to hear m the chap-

pel. Give Peace in our time, O Lord, and presently
m the chamlK?rs, G<xl, send us War again,' &c.
Besides this recantation (which his friends caused to
be put upon him lest he should be called into ques-
tion by tlic parliament) he was severely check'd by
the vice-chancellor and doctors lor using certain
passages not befitting the ])lacc, especially on such
a text which treated concerning the resurrection of
our Saviour. The truth is, this our preacher was
a person more ingenious than prudent, and more
apt upon most occasions to display his fancy, than
to procetxl u|M)ii solid reason ; if not, he would not
in his said sermon have descanted on the whole life
of our Saviour, purposely to render him and his at-
tendants, men and women, objects of scorn and
aversion, as if they liad been a pack of dissolute
vagabonds and cheats. But the best of it was, that
tho' he then assumed the person of a Jew ish pha-
risee and persecutor of Christ, yet presently after
changing his stile, as became a disciple of Christ,
he w ith such admirable dexterity (as ''tis * said) an-
swered all the cavillations and invectives before
made, that the loudly repeated ajiplauscs of his
hearers hindred him a good space from proceeding
in his sermon. He hath written and published
these things following.

' Sereous Cressy in his Tanalicism fanatically imputed to
the Colli. Cli. ly Dr. Slillinsjieel, printed 1672, p. 13.

[Taihis pretty tale I should make no reply, since in the
judgment of no dispassioned man, it cannot be thought to be
parallel to any thing the doctor hath said or done: Yet 1
sliall endeavour to convince Mr. Cressy, that his memory
hath not been faithful to him, in preserving the merit of
tiiai case and sentence, and shall give him cause to believe
that I was likewise present at that strmon, by putting him
in mind that it was preached by one Mr. Lushinpton.a man
eminent for his parts, upon those words in the Evangelist —
./)nd his discil>les came and stole him vliitsl we slept : which
gave him occasion to help the souldiers in their defence,
in which he gave them leave to use some light expressions
against the witnesses for the resurrection, which were not
decent upon that subject; but that part was quickly ended,
when he put into the mouths of the disciples, to whom he
likewise assigned a part, words very worthy of them, and fit
to be uttered^ in that place, and with which the gravest audi-
tors were abundantly satisfied, though they were displeased
with some light and scandalous expressions in some other
pans of the sermon: Which when he begmi with quelle
novclle, as if he came thither to ask and hear news; but
under favour of Mr. Cressy's memory, nothing of this was
the ground of the sentence or his recantation ; but a parlia-
ment being then sitting, the preacher had unwarily, and very
uimecessarily let fall some words which reflected upon their
proceedings, particularly that now every pe.isant in parlia-
ment, by the priviledge of his vote there, cared not how he
behaved himself towards the king, or the church, or to that
effect; which made those who loved hlin best willing to
censure him there, that he might escape a harder judgment
in another place : Whereupon the vice-chancellor, who was
Dr. Pierce (afterwards bishop of Bath and Wells) com-
manded a copy of the sermon, which being delivered and pe-
rused by him, and a delegacy of the doctors, Mr. Lushington
was reprehended for the light and scandalous expressions he
had used upon a subject too much above those excesses; and
was ordered to make a recantation sermon for what he had
said of the parliament j and had a text likewise given him

LUSHINGTON.

530

Commentary on the Hebrews. Lorul. 1646, [Bodl.
J. 7. 8. Til.] 47,' fol. Publishetl under the capital
letters of G. M. animadverted ujwn by Rich." Por-
ter bach, of div. fellow of S. John's coll. in Cam-
bridge, and prebendary of Norwich, in liis book
entit. God Incarnate ; shewing tJiat Jesus Christ is
tlhe only and most high God, &c. Lond. 1655. oct.
[Bodl. 8vo. G. 8. Th. BS.l In the epistle dedi-
catory before it he saith, 'he was drawn to write
that book by the importunity of some religious
friends, and by the iniquity of a most blasphemous
., book lately printed and called, A C<ymmentary on

11 the Hebrews, written by a nameless D. of D. who

now resides in this county (Norfolk) but formerly
[963] in Broadgate's hall (so it was then called) wherein
■i he hath vented such blasphemies against Jesus

W Christ, as (without special revocation and repent-

ance) will in the end bring both himself, and all his
seduced sectaries, to that woful Broad gate, of which
mention is made Matth. 7. 13- Lata est porta, quas

»ducit ad perditionem, &c. The said commentary
hath laid the axe to the root and foundation of our
Christian religion by ungoding Jesus Christ, and
blasphemously denynig his grand and most gracious
work of redemption. And it is to be feared that
tlie pernicious doctrines therein contained, have
many abettors and favourers in these dangerous
times; albeit his commentary is the first of all the
serpent's nest that dared to peep out, and appear in
our English print, who both by his book, and by
his personal insinuations, hath already (as we know)
perverted many from the saving truth of the gospel,
to the evident danger both of theirs and his own
soul : and his impious ambition to be the ring-leader
of this blasphemy, hath in this county (Norfolk)

10 that purpose ; the words concerning the apostles in that
of the Acts ; And they assembled together with one accord in
one place ; which recantation he performed with great inge-
nuity and much applause. If these particular recollections
do not induce Mr. Cressy to concur in the truth of the rela-
tion, I doubt we shall find few equal arbiters to determine
the difference between us ; for this sermon, if I am not very
much deceived, was preached in April l624 or 25, of which
I believe that there be not many surviving auditors besides
Mr. Cressy and my self.' Animadversions upon a Book in-
tituled ' Fanaticism Fanatically imputed to the Catholick
Church, By Dr. Slitlingfteet, And the Imputation refuted
and retorted by S. C By a Person of Ihnnur (i. e. Edward
Hyde, Earl of Clarendon) London 1(J74, 8vo. page 23.]

' [In a catalogue of books printed for Edw. Dod, book-
seller, in the beginning of Dr. Will. Smith's Catechism,
Lond. 1656, 8vo, is

The Eapiatiou of a Sinner, in a Comment on the Epistle
to the Hebrews hy T. L. D. D. a learned and reverend Di-
vine. Tanner.]

^ [Not Rich, but Edmund, Porter. Edm. Porter Vygor-
niensis admissus discipulus coll. Jo. Cant. an. l6l3 — Ego
Edm. Porter Vigorn. admissus sum in perpet. socium pro
doniina fundatrice Mar. 22, 1615. Reg. Coll. Jo. Cant.

Edm. Porter S. T. P. regiis Uteris, dat. Aug. 2. ree. 12.
(166O). o . 6 6

See Edm. Porter's God incarnate, &c. printed l65S, with
Animadversions on this Commentary on the Epistle to the
Hebrews. Baker.]

Vol. in.

procured to him such a title and character, as was
fastnetl on Marcion the heretic by Polycarpus, when
he called him Primogcnitum Satanse,' * &c. Thus
the author before quoted. But the reader must
know that the said Commentary o/ti tlie Hebrews,
was long since written in the Latin tongue by a fo-
reigner, either Joh. Crellius, Slightingius, or by
some other Socinian, and was translated into Eng-
lish by this our author, not without some alterations
and additions. He also published,

Covvmtntaiy on the Galatians.^ Lond. 1650. fol.
Translated from Crellius ; and wrote,

Logica Analytica, de Principiis, Regulis 8; Usu
Rationis recta; Lib. 3. Lond. 1650. oct. dedicatetl
by the author to Thom. Some esq. his then patron.
But the copy coming from the author into the hands
of Nich. Bacon great nephew to Francis viscount
S. Albans, was by him published, ' propter operis
perfectionem, (as he saith) in quo nihil dictum,
quod non statim probatuni est, vel a principiis,
primo 8t per se notis, vel a propositionibus inde de-
monstratis: deinde etiam propter ejus usum vel
fructum eximium.' There was another part written
by the same author De Argumentatione, when this
was published ; but whether ever it came to light I
know not. '

The Resurrection rescued Jrom the Soldiers' Ca-
lumnies, in two Sermons at S. Mary^s in Oxan;
on Matth. 28. IS, and cm Acts 2. latter Part of the
first Verse. Lond. 1659. in tw. then published
under the name of Rob. Jones, D. D.

Treatise of the Passions according to Aristotle
afid TJiomas Aquinas.

Treat, upon the Theology of Proclus. — These
two last are written in Latin, and go about in MS.
from hand to hand, and are not, as I conceive, yet
printed. At length our author retiring in his last
days to some of his relations living at Sittingbotirne
near IMilton in Kent, where he lived for some time
in great retiredness, surrendred up his soul to God
on the 22d of Decemb. in sixteen hundred sixty 1661.
and one, aged 72 years, and was buried in the
south chancel of the church there. Over his grave
was soon after set up against the south wall cdf the
said chancel a comely monument, containing an arch
of alabaster supported by two pillars of black mar-
ble ; between wnich is the statue or bust to the
middle of our author Lushington in his doctor's
gown, holding his right hand on his breast, and

' [Jussus erat R. M. humiHime supplicare, ut nimium fa-
voris indulgere noUet D. Lushingtonn, sacellano olim re^o ;
si forsan officio deiiuo fungendo se offeret, antequam de sus-
pecta ejus fide et dogmatibus certius cognoscerelur. This
was an instruction from the bishops to Mr. John Barwick,
when he was sent by them to the king at Breda, 1660. .See
MS. Barwic. Baker. See also the Life of Barwick, page
272.]

' [In Dod's Catal. (ut supra).

The Justification of a Sinner, being the main Argument of
■ St. PauVs Epistle to the Galatians. tVritten by the Author
of the Expiation of a Sinner. Tanner.]
M M

531

VAUGHAN.

CHALONER.

[2G4]

1661.

having in his letl a liook, leaning on a cushion.
Over Ills lieiul is an urn, and luider liini a square
table of black marble, with a large inscription there-
on, beginning thus, ' Siste, viator, raro calcabis
doctos simul & mansuetos cineres, ^c' Under all
are piles of books. On the stone that covers his
grave is another insc-ription, beginning thus, ' Hie
jacet Thomas l^ushingtonus olim Collegii Lincolni-
ensis & Penib.'' &c. The copies of both which you
may see in Hint, c^ Atitiq. Univ. Oa'on. lib. 2. p.
335. b. in the first of which is an high character
given of him.

HENRY VAUGHAN son of John Vaughan
gentleman, was born at Cathie or Catiilin in Me-
rionethshire, l)ecame a commoner of Oriel coll. in
Midsum. term 16.'i2, aged 16 years: whence being
elected scholar of Jesus coll. continued there for
some time under a severe discijjline, took the de-
grees in arts, was made fellow of that house, and
afterwanls became preiicher while king Charles I.
kept his court in Oxon in the time of the grand re-
bellion. In July 1643 he was presented by the
univ. of Oxon to the vicaridge of Penteg in Mon-
mouthshire, by virtue of an act made in pari, liegan
at Westm. 5th of Nov. 3 Jac. I. to dis-inable recu-
sants to present persons to livings in their gifts.
What other preferments he had, or what he suffer'd
for his loyalty, I know not, nor any thing else of
him, only that be wrote,

Several sermons, as (1) Sermon preached before
the House of Common.s at Oxo^i. on Matth. 5. 20.
Ox. 1644. qu. [Bodl. 4to. D. 60. Th.] &c.

Cmifercncc had between Mm- and Jo. Tomhcs
B. I), hi S. Mar}f.H Church in Abergavenny, 5
Sept. 1653, touching Iiifant-Baptism. Lond. 1656.
qu. and that he died and was buried at Aberga-
venny about sixteen hundred sixty and one, as I
was .some years since informed by his pupil, sir
Leolin Jenkyns sometime principal of Jesus coll.
.afterwards judge of the prerogative court of Can-
terbury.

THOMAS CHALONER a younger son (yet
elder than James Chaloner before-mention'd) of sir
Tho. Chaloner knight, was born - in Buckingham-
shire (at Steeple-Clayton near Buckingham as it
seems) became a sojourner of Exeter coll. in the be-
ginning 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 settled at, or near, Gisburgh in York-
shire, where there is an estate belonging to the name
and family, was elected a burgess for a corjwration

^ Reg. Matric. P. pag. 436.

in Yorkshire to serve in the long parliament, about
1643, wherein he iK'came a frequent speaker, an
enemy to the king, his family, and government, " a
" witness iigainst archb. Laud. 1644,'' 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 fa-
ther endunnl (and so consecjuently he) for being de-
prived of the propriety of the allom mines in York-
shire,'' which he had discovered al)out the latter end
of qu. Elizalieth. In 1647, he with col. Jo. Tem-
ple were appointed commissioners of parliament in
Mounster, was one of the king's jutfges in 1648,
and soon after made a member of the council of
state. In 1658 he was elected a burgess for Scar-
borough in Yorkshire, to serve in that parliament
calletl by Richard, to meet at Westm. 27 of Jan.
but afterwards shewing himself a zealous rimiper,
upon the turning out of the fag-end of that parlia^
ment, called the rinup, by col. Jo. Lambert and his
party, on the 13th of (.)ct. 1659, he was committed
to prison by Ch. Fleetwootl then made commander
in chief of all tlie forces in England, where continu-
ing till 27 of Deccmb. following, was then released
by the memljers of the rump parliament, who had
retaken their places the day before, and on the 2d
of Jan. following he was appointed I)y 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 re-
ligion, and loved to enjoy the comfortable imjxjrt-
ances of this life, without aiiv regard of laving up
for a wet day, which at his last he wanted. The
things that he hath jjublished are these,

A?i Answer to the Scotch Papers delivered in tlie
H. of Commons concerning the Dispo.'ial of the
Kings Person. Lond. 164ft qu. [Bodl. C. 13. 16. "
Line] In answer to which divers did exercise their
pens, some scoffingly and some in earnest ; where-
upon came out this pamphlet entit.

The Justification of a safe and weU-grmmded
Ansioer to the Scottish Papers printed under the
Name of Mr. Challoncr his Speech (or Answer)
which doth maintain the Honour of the Parliament
and Interest of tlie Kingdom of England. Lond.
1646. qu. Written as 'twas usually said by Tho.
Chaloner. Afterwards came out against Chaloner
— Lea; talionis : or, a Declaration against Mr.
Cluiloner, the Crimes (rfthe Times, and the Man^
ners of you know wJiom. Lond. 1647. in one sh. in
qu. and als<j An Answer to a Speech 'without Doors :
or. Animadversions upon an unsafe and dangerous
Ansxver to the Scotch Papers under the Name of
Mr. Chaloner his Speech, &c. in one sh. in cju.

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

' [See these Athena, vol. ii, col. 157]

CULPEPER.

FERNE.

534

sheets in uct. This book, at its first appearance,
made a great noise, and pusled the presbyterian
rabbies for a lime : at leii^jth tlie autlior thereof be-
ing known, and liis story found to be a ineer sham,
the book became ridiculous and was put to posterior
uses. At length in the beginning of the year IGGO,
upon a foresight that king Charles II. would be re-
stored, he therefore (knowing very well that his
former actions would not endure the touchstone)
withdrew himself beyond the seas, and settling in a
fearful condition at Middleburgh in Zeland, died
*""'• and was buried there alwut sixteen hundred and
sixty-one. Since my writing of this I find that this
Mr. Chaloner published A Speech containinir a
Plea Jar Monarchy, An. 1639. But therein being
several restrictions, came out an answer to it by way
of Address to General George Monkc.

THOMAS CULPEPER or Cqi.epeper, was
born of a genteel family at Harietsham in Kent, be-
came a commoner of Hart Hall in 1591, aged 1'3
years, departed 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 king James I. on the
23d of Sept. 1619; secondly that he wrote,

A Tract against the high Kate of' Usury, pre-
sented tothe PnrliameiUin 16^3 printed several

times,' (the fourth edit, of which came out at Lond.
1668, pretacVl with a discourse by his son sir Tho.
Culpeper) and thirdly that dying "at HoUingboiu-ne
l6Ci. in Kent in sixteen Inmdred sixty and one, was buried
in an isle joyning to the church there, on the SSth
of January the stime year, leaving then behind liim
the character of a good man. There is a stone
over his grave, but hath no inscription on it.

" HENRY FERNE, the eighth and youngest
son of sir John Feme knight, was born within the
city of York, educated in the free-school at Up-
pingham in Rutlandshire by the care of sir Thom.
Nevill of Holt in Leicestershire, who had then
lately married his mother, where he improved his
time so well in two years that he was sent to tlie
univ. of Oxon, and was admitted a commoner of
S. Mary's hall, an. 1618, where he continued
about two years under the tuition of a noted
tutor. Afterwards, upon what account I know

* \The Necessity of ahalinu, Usury, re-asserted ; in a Re-
ply to the Discourse nf Mr. Thomas Manly entituled Usury
at six per Cent, examined, &c. Together with a familiar
and ino^ffensive Way propounded for the future Discovery of
Summes at Interest, that so they may be charged with their
equal Share of puhlick Taxes and Burthens, the long Defect
whereof hath e.xceedingly fomented Usury, embased Land,
and much decuy'd the letter Half if the Kingdom. By Sir
Tliomas Culpep(r,Jun. Knight. Loudon I f)70, 4to. In the
preface to this work, (which is a defence of a former treatise
on the same subject by ihc same author) the son says, — ' in
the year 1 620 my fatlier wrote his treatise, as appearcs by the
date of its first edition, and in lG23, 1 take it, ihc act past ']

not, liis frientls removed him to Trin. coll. in
Cambridge, where he was admitted pensioner,
and making great proof of his proficiency he was
elected fellow. After he had taken the degree of
bach, of div. he was made domestic cha])lain to
Dr. Morton bishop of Durham, witli whom, alter
a year's continuance, he was invited by his coll. to
take the living of Masham in Yorkshire; but
continuing not long there, his brother-in-law Hen.
Nevill of Holt, esq; conferr'd upon him the living
of Medboum in Leicestershire, and s<K}n after the
bishop of Lincoln gave him the archdeaconry of
Leicester, which was then void, but by whose
death or by whose resignation, I cannot justly
tell.* In 1642 he took the degree of doct. of div.
and in the beginning of July that year he was made
choice of to answer the divinity act in the com-
mencement then held in Cambndge. Which be-
ing done to his great honour, he retired forthwith
to Leicestershire, and when his maj. king Charles
I. came to Leicester on Friday the 2iid of the
said month, (where he continued 4 nights) he
preached before him so admiralily well, that his
maj. made him his chaplain extraordinary, till a
place in ordinary should fall void ; and in tlie lat-
ter end of Atig. following, when his maj. continued
at Nottingham alxjut 3 weeks (in which time he
set up his royal standard) he preacheil again be-
fore nim to his great liking. In Nov. following
he put out his case of conscience touching rebel-
lion, owning it under his name, having the honotir
to be the first that printed any thing (as 'tis siud)
for the king, and soon after being forced from
Mcdbourne by the rebellious party, retired \xi
Oxford for shelter, and constantly preached gratis
in S. Aidate's church, the patronage of which be-
longs to Pembroke coll. In 1643 he was incor[K>-
rated doctor of thv. as he had stood at Cambridge,
and abotit the same time became chaplain in ord.
to his maj. by virtue of an order delivered to him
by one of the secretaries of state with this comple-
ment, that his maj. wa.s sorry that he had nothing
to send along with it. Soon after, news being
brought that Dr. Tho. Comber ma.ster of Trin.
coll. in Cambridge was dead, his maj. made him
master ; but the news proving false, liis maj. not-
withstanding gave him a jMitent for it, when it
should fall void. While Dr. Feme continued in
Oxon he was made choice of to go as chaplain to
one of the lortls commissioners apjxjinted to go to
Uxbridgc, conceiving that there might be some
use matle of him tliere, as afterwards there was :
But before he went thither, some of the lords de-
sired him to state the controversies in short be-
tween episcopacy and presbytery, which he did
very suddenly and exactly: And afterwards it
being shewn to John earl of Lowdon lord clianc.

* [He succeeded William Warr. Nichols, Hist, of Lei-
cestershire, i, page iGi).]

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" of Scotland, chief coinnussioner for the estates of
" the parHament of that kingdom to treat with the
" kings commissioners there for a peace, he said
" openly that that paper should he answer'd, but it
" never was. From Uxbridge Ur. Feme returned
" to Oxon, where he continued till the king took
" the town of Leicester, which gave him some hopes
" of returning to liis living at Mcdl)ourne, but nis
" maj. being soon after worstetl at Nasebv (where
" he much encouraged the soldiers to fight) he
" slip'd away for his own safety to Newark garrison,
" and continued constantly preaching there till his
" niaj. commandetl that the said garrison should be
" surrendred up to the use of the parliament. At-
" terwards he went into Yorkshire, where he conti-
" nued among his relations, till the king sent for
" him to the treaty in the isle of Wight. So that
" whereas he had been the first that pleaded the
" king's cause against the reliels, so was he the last
" that preached Dcfore him there : a copy of which
" sermon his maj. soon after sent for. About that
" time being deprived of all he had in the church, he
" lived privately upon that little he had, and had
" private disputes with some of the Romish party,
" which occasioned him to put out certain tracts of
" that nature in print. Upon the return of king
" Charles II. an. 1660 he confirm''d his father's
" grant to him of the mastership of Trin. college,
" where he continued alx)ut an year and half, in
" which time he was chose twice vicech. of Cam-
" bridge, prolocutor of the convocation, dean of
" Ely m the place of Dr. Edw. Martin deceased in
" Aug. 1661, and bishop of Chester. But he con-
" ceiving that his residing upon the deanery and
" college, would not well consist with his arch-
" deaconry and living, he resigned up the former to
" the bishop, who confer'd it in June, an. 1661, on
" Dr. Rob. Hitch (sometime, as 'tis said, tutor to
" Dr. Feme,) who Jilso resigning it, Clem. Bretton"
" succeeded in the beginning of Aug. 1662, and him
" Will. Outram D.D. and preb. of Westminster, a
" very learned man, as his printed books shew, who
*' dying US Aug. 1679, aged 54, was buried in the
" great cross-isle ioyning on the south side of S.
" Peter's church m the city of Westminster. As
" for his living, Medboum, he put it into the
" hands of his brother-in-law who had formerly
" fflven it to him. At length being consecrated
" bishop of Chester in Ely house in Holbourn, on
" Shrove-Sunday 9 Feb. 1661, in the room of Dr.
" Brian Walton deceased, great matters were ex-
" pected from him as to benefaction and learning,
" but by that time he had sate about 5 weeks, was
" suddenly taken from among the living, to the
" great grief and reluctancy of all the true .sons of
" the church of England, and of the loyal party.
" Much might be said of his remarkable devotion
" and piety, exemplified in his constant prayers and

" [Of whom see Nichols, llisl. nj Leicesl. i. C66.J

" fastings, both pubhc and private, thro' his whole
" life, but e3j)ecially in the sat! times he hved : as
" also of his temper and disposition, which was so
" sweet and harmless, so even, so ingenuous and
" Christian, that such who have convers'd with him,
" have desired to sit at his feet continually. The
" character given of him by one who knew him from
" a youth, was, that if he had any fault 'twas that
" he could not be angry : And others of his intimate
" acquaintance observed, that he was never known
" to lie guiltyof censuring of others, either privately
" or publickly, and that also such was his public
" spint that he never declined any service that might
" tend to the advancement of the church or state.
" They that would know more of him may enquire
" after what manner he acted both privately in the
" college, and pubUckly in the university. As to
" the coll. he readmitted all those that he found fel-
" lows made in the time of the rebellion, and as to
" the university, he suffer'd none to preach in S.
" Mary's but such as were conformable, and re-
" nounced the presbyterian orders. His works are
" these,

" The Resolving of Conscience, upon this Qws-
" tion. Whether upon such a Supposition or Case,
" as is Tuno usually made (the Kmg will not dis-
" charge his trust, but is bent or reduced to subvert
" religion, laws and liberties,) Subjects may take
" arms and resist ? and whether that Case is rune ?
" &c. Cambr. 1642. [Reprinted at London in the
" same year, Bodl. 4to. S. 22. Jur.] Ox. 1643. qu.
" [Bodl. U. 27. Th.] Whereujion came out, (1)
" An answer by anon, entit. Answer to mis-led Dr.
" Feme, according to his oxon Method, &c. Lond^
" 1642. in 6 sh. in qu. [Bodl. 4to. F. 8. Th. BS.)
" (2) Scripture and Reason pleaded for defensive
" Arms : or the ichole Controversy abotit Subjects
" taking up Arms. Wherein,besides other Parnph-
" lets, an Anszaer is punctually directed to Dr.
" Fernc''s Book entit. Re.mlvlng of Conscience.
« Lond. 1643. qu. [Bodl. 4to. F.' 8. Th. BS.]
" Published about the latter end of Apr. the same
" year by divers reverend divines. (3.) Tlie wounded
" Conscience cured, &c. by Will. Bridge a preacher,
" &c.' He (Feme) hath also written,

" Conscience satisfied, that there is no Warrant
"for the Arms now taken up by Subjects. By

' [On this controversy, the following tracts also appeared
against Dr. Feme.

1 • A fuller Answer to a Treatise written hy Dr. Feme en-
tituled The Resolving of Conscience, fife. ±)oue hy another
Author. Lond. Ifi42. 4to. Bodl. C. 14. 2. Line.

S. The Truth of the Times vindicated : wherehy the Law-
fulnesse of partiamentari/ Proceedings in Takirig up Arms is
justified Sfc. ly Will. Bridge. Lond. l643. Bodl. 4to. T.
23. Jur.

3. TheSuljeclofSupremacie. The Right of Casar. Re-
solution of Conscience, iSfc. Lond. 1(343. 4to. Bodl. C. 14.
4. Line.

And see the present volume of these Athsn^s, col.
478, 479-]

FERNE.

HARVEY.

538

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1061

" fVay of Reply unto several Answers made to a
" Treatise Jriendly published for the Resolvinff of
" Conscience upon the Case. Especially unto that,
" which is entit. AJ'uller Answer, &c. Oxon. 1643.
" in 11 sh. inqu.

" A Reply to several Treatises pleading for ilie
" Arms now taken up by Subjects in the pretended
" Defence of Religion and Liberty. Ry Name, unto
" the rev. and learned Divines with pleaded Scrip-
" tare and Reason for defensive Arms, The Author
" of the Treati.ie of Monarchy^ and the Author of
" Afoller Reply. Oxon. 1643. qu. [Bodl. 4to. U.
" 27. Th.] Afterwards came out A Vindication of
" tlie Treatise of Monarchy, written by him who
" was author of the treatise it self, an. 1644. qu.

" Episcopacy and Presbytery considered, &c.

" Oxon. 1644. qu. [Bocll. 4to. C. 16. Th.] Printe<l
" alsoatLond. 1647. 1649. qu.

" Several sermons, as (1) Sermon at the public
" Fast 12 Ap. 1644. at S. Marys in Oxon. before
" the H. of Commons, on Judges 5. 15. Ox. 1644.
" qu. [Bodl. 4to. D. 60. Th.J (2) Sermon before

" the King at Newport in tlie Isle of Wight

" printed 1648. qu. &c.

" Certain Considerations of present Concern-
" ment: touching this reformed Church of England.
" With a particular Examination of An. Champney
" (Doctor of tlie SorbonJ his Exceptiorus against
" the lawfol Calling and Ordination of the Pro-
" testant Rishops and Pastors of this Church.
« Lond. 1653. in oct. [Bodl. 8vo. F. 6. Th. BS.]

" A compendious Discourse upon the Case as it
" .Hands between the Church of England and of
" Rome on the on€ Hand, and again between the
" same Church of England and those Congrega-
" tiojis which have divided from it on the other
" Hand. Lond. 1655. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. F. 6. Th.
" BS.] sec. edit, enlarged with some expUcatory ad-
" ditions.

" Of the Division between the English and Ro-
" mish Church, upon the Reformation ; by Way of
" Answer to the seeming plausible Pretences of the
" Romish Party. Lond. 1655. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. F.
" 6. Th. BS.] sec. edit, much enlarged.

" Ansxoer to Mr. Spencers Rook entit. Scripture
" mistaken, &c. Lond, 1660. oct. This religious
" and learned Dr. Feme died on Sunday March 16,
" in the house of his kinsman Mr. Nevell, situate
" and being in S. Paul's church-yard in London,- in
" sixteen hundred sixty and one, being the fifth
" Sunday after his consecration, aged 59 years, and
" was on the 25th day of the said month of March,
" an. 1662, solemnly inter'd in S. Edmund's chap-
" pel within the abljey church of S. Peter withm
" the city of Westminster, at which time two he-
" raids of arms did then attend at the said solemnity.
" Soon after was a gray marble stone laid over his
" grave, with an inscription engraven on plates of

» " By Philip Hunton."

" brass round almut the verge tliereof,* which for
" brevity's sake I now pass by. I have seen an
" epitaph ma<le for him, which was designed to be
" put upon his grave, but was not ; part of which

" runs thus Vir sane eximius, & longiori aevo &

" immortali laude ac memoria dignus ; utpote doc-
" trinfi, ])ietate, prudcnti^, summaque erga princi-
" pem fidelitate suae a'tatis nulli secundus, imo fa-
" cile primus, &. i)essimis temporibus optimus. Qui
" postquam assictuis & indefessis lalwribus, curis &
" vigilns, pro Deo & Rege &, Ecclesia exantlatis se
" raacerasset, exhaustis sensim corporis viribus, 1am-
" padis instar, absumptus, extinctus est Martii 16,
"An. Dom. 1661, set. 59."

[Feme wrote, according to Nichols,' A brief Sur-
vey of Antiquity for the Trial of the Romish
Doctrine.l

CHRISTOPHER HARVEY, a minister's son

of Cheshire, was born in that county, became a
batler of Brasen-nose coll. in 1613, aged 16 years,
took the degrees in arts, that of master being com-
pleated 1620, holy orders, and at length was made
vicar of Clifton m Warwickshire. His works are
these,

The right Rebel. A Treatise discovering tlie
true Use of the Name by the Nature of Rebellion,
with tlie Properties and Practices of Rebels. Ap-
pliable to all both old and new Phanatics. Lond.
1661. oct.

Faction supplanted: w, a Caveat against tlie
ecclesiastical and secular Rebels, in two Parts. 1.
A Di.s-cour,ie concerning the Nature, Properties arid
Practices of Rebels. 2, Against the Inconstancy
and inconsistent Contrariety of the same Meifs
Pretensions and Practices, Principles and Doc-
trines. Lond. 1663. oct. pen'd mostly in 1642, and
finished 3 Ap. 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. " He also published Aii Exposition on the
" 27, 84, 85, and 87 Psalms. Lond. 1647. qu.
" written by Tho. Pierson ^ late pastor of Bramp-
" ton Brian in Herefordshire : which Pierson was
" then dead."

[Sir John Hawkins, in his edition of Walton's
Complcat Angler, conceives that this Christopher
Harvey was the author of The Synagogue, a col-

' [Hicjacet Henricus Feme S.T. P. Johannis Feme Mi-
litis (Civiiatis Eboracensis a Secretis) Filiiis Natu Octavos:
Collegii S. Trinitatis Cantabrig. Praefectus, simul Cestrien-
sis Episcopus, sedit a taiUum Septimanis. Obiit Marlii l6.
Anno. Dom. lC62, iEtat. 39,]

' \IlUt. of Leicestershire, i, 724.]

''■ [Christoplicr Harvey was executor to Mr. Tho. Pierson,
formerly of Emanuel college, A. M. Vide my MS. collec-
tions (in the British Museum; vol. P. page 123. Cole.]

Clar.

\m\.

639

WHITBY.

JESSOP.

Clar.
1661.

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lection of ]OTcnis aj^nended to George Herbert's
Temple. \Valtoii, after having repeated some lines
of Herbert's, says, ' and since you like these verses
of Mr. HerlH?rt's so well, let me tell you what a re-
verend and learned divine, that pro/hies to 'imitate
him, and has- indeed done so most excellently, hath
writ of our b(K)k of connnon prayer,' &c. : he then
rehearses some lines on the common prayer, which
are subscribed C'A. Harvie, and which are actually
taken from The Si/nagofrue.

There can be no doubt but a C^h. Harvie was the
author of this {xjem, particularly as Walton contri-
buted some commendatory verses to it, which were
repaid by another copy prefixed to the Compleat
Angler, by Harvie ; but whether this was Christo-
pher Harvey, the vicar of Clifton, or some other,
remains to Ik' tiecided. If it was, it is at least sin-
gular that Wood, who was so inquisitive in these
matters, should have been ignorant of the circum-
stance.

Harvey died before the 4th of September 16fi3,
as on that day Sam. Bradwall cler. was instituted to
the vicaridge of Clifton, void by the death of the last
incumbent.']

" DANIEL WHITBY son t)f Tho. Whitby
" vicai- of Pf>dington in Bedfordshire, was born in
" that county, admitted a student of Brasen-nose
" coll. in the year 1627, aged 18 years, took the
" degrees in arts, holy orders, anil at length became
" rector of Thoyden-Mount in Essex, where conti-
" nuing with gootl approbation till the puritanical
" rebellion broke out, was then ejected by the com-
" mittee of religion for preaching in defence of the
" common-prayer. After his ejection he was enter-
" tained by Eclw. lord Conway, and living with him
" at Ragley in Warwickshire, where he officiated
" by the connnon prayer, he became intimate with,
" and well known to, Dr. Jer. Taylor and Dr. H.
" Hammond, who respected him for his learning
" and sufferings. After his majesty's restoratiim in
" 1660, he Ix'came rector of Preston near Bucking-
" ham and preb. of Chichester. He hath written,

" Vindication from Articles exhibited uffainst
" Jtim in the Exche(pier Chamber at Westminster.
" Oxon. 1644.

" Vindicati<m of the Form of Common-Prai/er
" tised in the Church of England ; on Matth. 6. 9-
" — Printed with his Vindication from Articles,
" &c. This sermon was preached at a visitation at
" Rumford in l''ssex, for which he was accused l)e-
" fore a committee sitting in the Exchequer Chani-
" ber before-menti(m'd. What other things he hatli
" written I cannot tell, nor any thing else of him,
" only that he dying at Preston before-mention'd in

" sixteen hundred sixty and was buried in

" the church there, as I have been informed by

3 \llistoTy of Warwickshire, by Diigdaic, enl. by Thomas,
edit. 1730, vol. i. page 11.]

" his nephew Dr. Dan. Whitby chauntor of Salis-
" bury.'*

[Daniel Whitby was instituted to the rectory of
Preston April 15, 1663. He died in 1674, before
the 16th of June, when Richard Banks succeeded
him. , Willis siiys he was buried in his own pa-
rish.*]

CONSTANTINE JESSpP, son of Joh. Jess,
of Pembroke in Pembrokeshire, minister of God's
word, was entred a student in Jesus coll. in 1624,
aged 22 years, whence, after he had gone a course,
he went mto Ireland, and was made bach, of arts of
Trin. coll. near Dublin. At his return he was in-
cor|X)rated in this university, an. 16fi1, and in the
year following proceeded in arts, being about that
time in holy ortiers ; but what his employment was
between that time and 1640 I know not. Sure I
am, that when the presbyterians began to be domi-
nant in 1641, he closed with them, took the cove-
nant, succeetled Joh. Owen in the ministry of that
factious town in Essex called Coggesliall, whence,
after he had exercised his parts there for a time, he
was translated to Winboume-Minster in Dorset-
shire, of which county he was an assistant to the
commissioners for the ejection of such whom they
then (16-54) called scandalous and ignorant ministers
and schoolmasters. " He was sometime minister of
" S. Nicholas in liristol." * Afterwartls he became
rector of Fyfield in Essex, where I find him in
1660,* which is all I yet know of him, only that he
is reported by a brother' to be a learned, faithful,
and suffering servant and minister of eJesiis Christ,
and that he wrote these things following ; the last
of which sJiews him to have been inclined to Armi-
nianism.

The Angel of the Church qf Ephcsiis, no Bishop
ofEphesus; on Rev. 2. 1. Lona. 1644 [Bodl. 4to.
J. 1. Th. BS.] and 1660. qu.

Concerning the Nature of the Covenant of Grace;
wherein is a DtM-overy of the Judgment qf Dr.
Twysse in tlte Point <f' Justification, clearing him
from Antinomiani.wi therein. Lond. 16.55. qu.
' [Bodl. 4to. Z. 84. Th.] Written by way of pre-
face to Joh. Grayle's book entit. A modest Vindica-
tion, &c. and contains 49 pages in a small charac-
ter, being more in matter than Grayle's book that
follows it. He left behind him at his death a son
of both his names, and a true son of the ehuivh of
England, who being importun'd when he procee<^led
D. of D. in this university 1685 to give the author
information concerning his fiither and his writings,

■■ [Hisl. andAnliq. of Buckingham. Lond. I75.'i. page 254.]

■■ [So Mr. Til. Collins ie!h tne. Wood, MS. note in
Aslimole.']

'' [He succeeded Alexander Reade (who was ejec.ed)
April 11, l64i. Walker's Sufferings of Ike Clergy, part 2,
page 3+2.]

' Ben. Woodbridge in his pref. to his Justification ly
Faith.

BROOKBANK.

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542

he seemcil not to care to have the nicmorv ol"
him perjx>tuatecl, otherwise tlie autlior would liave
spoken more fully of him and his end.

JOSEPH BROOKBANK, son of Geori;. Br.
of Halifax in Yorkshire, was entred a hatler in
Bras. coil, in Mich, term 1632, aged 20 year.s, t(K)k
one degree in arts, entred into the sacred I'unction,
and had some petite cure bestowed on liim. At
length retiring to London, he taught school in Fleet-
street, and exercised the ministry there. He hatii
■written and published,

Breviate of our Kings whole Latin Grammar,
vulgarly called Lillys : or, a brief Grammatical
TMe thereof, &c. Lond. 1660. oct. [BotU. 8vo. A.
153. Art.] "

The ivell-tund Organ : or an Exercitation,
wherein this Question isfullij and largely discuss''d,
Whether or no instrumental and oiganical Music
he lawful in lioly public Assemblies ? Affirmatnr.
Lond. 1660. qu. in 9 sheets and a half [Bodl. C.
13. 7. Line]

Rebels tried and cast, in three Sernums ; on
Rom. 13. 2. &c. Lond. 1661. in tw. How long af-
terwards he continued among the living I know not,
nor any tiling else of him.

BRIAN DUPPA or de Uphaugh was born at
Greenwich" in Kent on the tenth day of March, an.
1588, cdiicatotl in grammar learning in the condi-
tion of a kinjf's scholar in the college schcwl at West-
minster while Dr. Lane. Andrews was dean of that
church, of wh(jm he learned Hebrew. From thence
he was elected student of Ch. Ch. in the month of
May 1605, and thence to be fellow of Alls. coll. in
1612, being then bach, of arts. Afterwards pro-
ceeding in that faculty, he took holy orders, tra-
velled beyond the seas, and in the year 1619 he was
unanimously elected one of the ])roctors of the uni-
versity. In 1625 he took the degrees in divinity,
being then chaplain to the prince
• And in ihe year palatine.* " In the HisUmj of the

'made 'dca>^'lf " ^'"»«''^«* ^"'^ ^'^i/«^ if ^'"'**-

CA. C'A.'^°Fir1t " Laud, p. 366, this Dr. Duppa is
edit. " said to have been chaplain to the

" earl of Dorset, and that he was,
" by the endeavours of the said earl made to the
" duke of Bucks, preferred to be dean of Ch. C"h.
" in the place of Dr. Corbet promoted to the see of
"Oxon, A. D. 1629." In 1632 and 33 he did
execute the office of vicechanc. of the university
with great moderation and prudence, and in June
1634 he was made chancellor of the church of Sa-
lisbury in the place of Dr. Franc. Dee promoted to
the see of Peterborough. Soon after he was made

' [Duppa was certainly born at Lewisham, as is proved bv
his will, and Wanley (in his MS. notes lo these AthexjE)
quotes an original letter to Mr. Abraham Colfc, dated Rich-
mond, June 16, 1(J52, in which the bishop ca Is Lewisham
the place of his birth.]

tutor ,t(j prince Charles (afterwards king Charles
II.) which proved his future happiness, being then
accounted by all a most excellent man. On tlie
19th of May 1638 he was presented to the ricli
rectory of Petworth in Sus,sex, and being elected to
the see of Chichester upon the translation of Dr.
Rich. Mountaguc to Norwich, had restitution made**
to him of the temporalities of that see on the 12th
of Jime the same year : which church of Petworth,
he kept, I presume, for some time in commendam
with his see. In 1641 he was translated to Salis-
bury in the place of Dr. Jo. Davenant, who died on
the 20th of Apr. the same year : but soon after
episcopacy being silenced by the long parliament,
(which the prcsbyterians called the blessed parliam.)
when a prevalent party therein turned the nation
topsy turvey, he retired to Oxon for a time to wait
on his majesty and the prince, and left not the for-
mer tin his last days. After his maj. was beheaded,
this our worthy author and bishop retired to Rich-
mond in Surrey, where spending most of his time
in great devotion and solitude till the happy re-
storation of king Charles II. an. 1660, was trans-
lated to Winchester, on the 24th of Sept. the same
year, to the great joy and comfort of many lords
and gentlemen, as well as the reverend clergy, who
all had a deep sense and memory of his prudence
and piety, owing then a lasting tribute, not only for
his great example of virtue and godliness, but for
those excellent seeds and principles so happily laid
in the youth of the then .sovereign lord the king.
About that time he was made lora almoner, and be-
gan that conspicuous monument of his charity, an
almshouse, at the said place of Richmond. He was
a man of excellent parts, and every way qualified
for his function, especially as to the comeliness of
his person, and gracefuhiess of his deportment,
which rendred him worthy the service ol a court,
and every way fit to stand before princes. He was
beloved of king Charles I. of ha))py memory, who
made use of his pious conversation during his im-
prisonment in the i.sle of Wight, and so much re-
sjiected by his son king Charles II. that when this
worthy prelate lay on his death-bed at Richmond,
he craved his blessing on his bended knees by his
bed-side. He hath written and published.

Several sermons, as (1) The SouVs Soliloquy,
" and Conference with Conscience,"" &c. preached
before the King at Newport in the Isle of Wight
25 Oct. 1648, being the Monthly Fust during tlie
Treaty there ; on Psal. 42. 5. Lond. 1648. qu.
[Bodl. C. 1. 3. Line] (2) Angels rejoycing for
Sinners repenting; on Luke 15. 10. Lond. 1d48.
qu. [Bodl. B. 3.^2. Line] &c.

A Guide for the Penitent: or, a Model drawn
up Jbr the Help of a devout Soid wounded with
Sin. Lond. 1660.

Holy Rules and Helps to Devotion both in

'' Pal. 14. Car. 1. p. ig.

543

DUPPA.

PULESTON.

LOWER.

Prayer and Practice,^ in 2 Parti. Lond. 1G74. in
tw. witli the author's picture before tliem:' wliich
book was publislie<l by Ben. Parry of C. C. coll.
,'Tis said by some, |jarticularly the bookseller that
printed The Church Hist. (^Scotland, pen'd by
JDr. Joh. Spotswood archb. of S. Andrews, and
printed at I.ond. 1654. fol. &c. that he (Ur. Duppa)
did write the Li/i' of the said archbishop, winch
stands, and is put, iK'fore the said history. But the
reader is to know, that the person who wrote the
preface to the said history saith that the said life
was pen'd by a reverend person of that nation,'
meainng Scotland. So that if it be tnie which he
delivers, Duppa an English-man cannot be the au-

[271] thor; yet quan-e.?* He sun-endred up his pious
soul to the great God that first gave it, on the 26th

1668. of IMju-ch in sixteen hundred sixty and two, having
the day Ijefofe licen visited by his niaj. out of his
wontetl piety and goodness. He died as he lived,
honoured and beloved of all that knew him, a per-
son of so clear and eminent candor, that he left not
the least sjwt upon his life or function, maugre the
busy sedition of those brethren, who then, as oefore,
black'd the very surplice, and made the liturgy pro-
fane. He had a more than ordinary affection to
live at Richmond, where he privately resided seve-
ral 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 Ixxly being conveyed to
York-house in the Strand, where it lay in state for
some time, was decently conveyed thence on the
24th 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 bish.
of Cliichester, a most admirable and florid preacher
in his younger days, preached a sermon to tne great
content of the auditory, containing many elo^ums
of the defunct, which, as also his monuments of
piety and charity, I shall for brevity's sake now
pass by. Soon after was a fair mon. mostly of white
inarble, fastned to the wall over his grave, with an
inscription thereon. In the church register of Lew-
sham in Kent, I find one Brian son of Jeffrey
Duppa to be baptized there 18 March 1580, having
been bom in the vicaridge-house of that place.
Which Jeffry Duppa, who was vicar, I take to be

' [Translated into French by J. R. and printed at Berlin
i(kf), 12mo. Rawlinsom.I

' [Engraved by U. While.]

' [Had the auihor of the life been a Scot, he must pro-
bably have known, that archbishop Spotiswood has ivvo
things in print, besides his History, not known by that au-
thor. Baker.]

■• [Wood has omitted among Duppa's publications, his
Johnsonius Virbius, a collection of poems on the death of Ben
Junsun. Printed at Lond. whilst Duppa was bishop of Chi-
chester. See a letter from Howell to him on that subject in
the Collection {f Letters by thai author. Loud. l688, part 1.
page SSI.]

father of Dr. Duppa, and Brian to be his elder bro-
ther deceased.

HAMLETT PULESTON was bom at Old
Ailresford in Hampshire, atlmitted scholar of Wad-
ham coll. 20 Aug. 1647, aged 16 years, took a de-
gree 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
entit.

MonarchicE Britannicce singuhiris Protectio : or,
a brief historical Essay tending to prove God''s espe-
cial 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, btit
where buried I cannot tell. His father Rich. Pu-
leston was a learned doct. of div. was parson of Ab-
botsworthy in Hampshire, and tho' born at Bircot
in the parish of Dorchester in Oxfordshire, yet he
was descended from the antient and genteel family
of the Pulestons commonly called Pilstons in Flint-
shire.

[Hamlet Puleston also writ an empty pamphlet,
called Epitome Monarchice Britannicce, or a brief
Chronology of the British Kings, pr. at Lond.
1663. 4to. Humphreys.]

" WILLIAM LOWER, son of John Lower of
Tremere, a younger son of sir Will. Lower of St.
Winnow in Cornwall knight, was born at Tre-
mere, spent some time in Oxon, in the condition
of an hospes for the sake of the public library and
scholastical company, as his kinsman Dr. Rich.

Lower hath informed me; but his fancy being
gay, he troubled himself not with the crablx.'d
studies of logic and philosophy. Afterwards he
traveled, became a perfect master of the French
tongue, returii'd, adhered to the cause of his ma-
jesty when the puritannical rebellion broke out,
and was an officer in his army. After the king's
cause declin'd (he being then a knight) he suffer'd
as other roydists did, went beyond sea, liv'd
mostly at the Hague, where in peace and privacy
he enjoyed the society of the muses. After the
return of his majesty king Charles II. his uncle
Thom. Lower, esq; eldest son and heir of sir
Will. Lower of St. Winnow before-mention'd
died and left him his heir and executor ; whereby
he was in a capacity of doing good to his relations
of Tremere, which he did not, but followed the
vices of poets. He hath written,
" Phoenix in her Flames, Tragedy. Lond. 1639.
qu.

» [Historical Essays and Olservatinns, proving God's
especial Providence over the English Monarchy, and more
especially over that Family which now enjoys the same. By
H. Pulseston M. A. Advert, in Eng. Ittlelligencer, March
1063. Takner.]

LOWER.

FIENNES.

546'

Polyeuctes : or, the Martyr, Trag. Loml.

165.5

qu.

[272]

Kitig.

" Horatius, a Rom. Traff. Lond. 1656. tin. It
" is mostly a translation from the French ot Mon-
" sicur de Comeille.

" Tfie noble Iiigrat'itiule, a pastoral Trag. Com.
" Hague 1658. in tw. This is idso mostly a trans-
"■ lation irom French, and was reprintctl at Lond.
" in 1661 in tw. with sir Will. Lower's picture bc-
" fore it, aims, and motto thereunto, viz. ' Amico
" Rosa, in Amico Spina.'

" Enchanted Lover. s, a Pastoral. Hag. 1658.
" Lond. 1661, both in tw. and printed with The
" Noble Ingratitude.

" Amorous Phantasm, Trag. Com. Hag. 1658.
" Lond. 1661 both in tw. printed also with The
" Noble Ingratitude. 'Tis a translation mostly
" from the French of Mons. Quinault. He also
" translated into English (1) The innocent Lady:
" or, illustnous Innocence. Lond. 1654. oct. writ-
" ten originally in French by Rene de Cerezicrs a
" Jesuit. (2) The triumpfiant Lady : or, the
" crowned Innocence. Lond. 1656. oct. written in
" French by the said Cereziers. (3) The innocent
" Lord : or, the divine Providence. Being tfie in-
" comparable History of Joseph. Lond. 1655. oct.
" written originally m Frencli, and illustrated by
" the uiiparallerd pen of the learned Cereziers be-
" fore-men tion'd, almoner to the king's brother of
" France. This sir Will. Lower died in the bc-
" ^nning of the year sixteen hundred sixty and
" two, his will being proved 7 May 1662. and was
*' buried, as I presume, by his said uncle Tho.
" Lower in the church of S. Clements Danes, with-
" in the liberty of We-stminster : At wliich time he
" defeated his kindred of Tremere of his estate,
" which made, I suppose, his kinsman. Dr. Rich.
" Lower a younger son of that house, tell me in his
" letter to me, when I enquired after him, that the
" said sir Will. Lower ' was an ill poet and a worse
" man,' &c."

[A Relation, in Form of a Journal, of the Voiage
and Residence, which the most excellent and most
mighty Prince Chui-les the 2, King of Great-Bri-
tain SfC. hath made in Holland, from the 25 of
May to the 2 of June 1660. Rendered into En-
glish out of the original French, by Sir Wm. Lower,
Knight. Hague, 1660. folio of 116 pages, finely
printed, with several good prints of the ceremonies,
and several copies of bad verses at the end, by sir
Wm. Lower. Penes me. Cole.

See a list of Lower's pieces at col. 56, note 1, in-
serted there by a mistake. Mr. Bowie mentions
having in his possession a MS. copy of Lower's
translation entitled The Pleasures of the Ladies,
which I believe was never printed.

I take this opportunity of stating that since sheet
E was worked off, I have discovered a perfect copy
of sir Thomas Salusbury's Joseph, in Christ-church
hbrary (marked A. 103 raniphl.) The title of

Vol. in.

which is as follows : The History of Joseph : a
Poem. Written by Sir Thomas Salusbury, Bar-
ronet, late of the Inner Temple. London, Printed
by Thomas Harper, Jor Roger Ball, and are to be
sold at his Shope at the Signe of the Golden An-
clior in the Strand, neere Temple-Barre, 1636.]

WILLIAM FIENNES was the nearest kins-
man to William of Wykeham founder of New coll.
as being lineally descended from William lord Say
killed in tlie battle at Barnet 2 Ed. 4. Dom. 1471,
by his wife Margaret dau. and heir of Will, de
Wykeham lord of the manor of Broughton near
Banbury in Oxfordshire, son of sir Tho. de Wyke-
ham knight, son of Will. Perot by Alice his wife,
daughter of Will. Champneis by Agnes his wife,
sister to Will, of Wykeham bish. of Winton antl
founder of New coll. before-mention'd. This per-
son Will. Fiennes, whom we are farther to mention,
was bom at Broughton aforesaid, being the eldest
son of sir Rich. Fiennes (to whom king James I. in
the first year of his reign had recogmzed and con-
firmed the dignity and honour of the baron Say and
Sele) was trained up in granimaticals in Wykeham's
school near Winton, became a fellow commoner of
New coll. at aliout 14 years of age, in 1596; where
spending some time in logicals and philosophicals,
was called home for a time. Afterwards he tra-
velled beyond the seas, and at his return being in-
vested in a fair estate, did some yeari after give and
obtain a vast sum of money towards the war in the
Palatinate, which was very pleasing to his niaj. king
James I. 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 majestv, committed to custody iii the month
of June 1622 ; whence being soon after releasal, ho
was on the 7th of July 22 Jac. 1. Dom. 1624, ad-
vanced from a baron to be viscount Say and Sele,
at which time he stood up for the privileges of
Magna Charia, but after the grand rebellion broke
out he looked upon it as a ridiculous thing, such
was the niuttdiility of the man. The truth is, he
being ill-natur'd, choleric, severe and rigid, and
withal highly conceited of his own worth, did ex-
pect great matters at court ; but they faihng, he
sided therefore with the discontented party, the pu-
ritan, and took all txicasions cunninglv to promote
a rebellion. For so it was, that several years before
the civil war began, he being looked ujxm 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 hved in the house, yet could they never
discern their lord's companions. At other times

" Pcrsecutio •indecima, Printed lC48. |>. 103.

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547

FIENNES.

lie would be present at their meetings in the house
of Kiiightley at Fawsley in Northamptonshire ;
[273] where, as at other plat-es m the kingdom, tluy liad
dieir council eliamoers and chief sjK-akers : And
what embryos were conceived in tiie country, were
shaped in Greys-inn-lane near London, where tlic
undertakers for the isle of providence did meet,
hi-ought them to pass, and put them out to nurse in
London. In 1 639 he was a great favourer of the
Scotch covenant, and hatl much corresjiondence
with the Scotch commissioners : and when tlie long
parliament began in 1640 (for the continuance of
which, he persuaded (as 'tis sjiid) his majesty to con-
sent) shewed himself stxin after so active therein, as
in others before, that he with Pyni, Hamden, and
Strode,' (three of the five members) were esteemed
parliament-drivers, or swayers of all the parUaments
wherein they sat. Whereupon his majesty being
fully satisfied that he was discontented (as indeed he
was, for, for want of offices, he had run himself much
into debt) he conferred upon him the mastersliip of
the court of wards 17 May 1641, in the place of
Francis lord C'ottington (who some months before
had given it u]i to please a new favourite) and ad-
mittetl 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 forcetl from his parliament to take up arms in
his own defence, then " was this Will, lord Say a
" coltmel of a • regiment among the forces under
" William carl of Bedford against the king 1642,"
and did cause his house at Broughton to be fortified
for the use of the jwirliament, shewed himself an
enemy to prelacy, to archb. Laud, an incliner to a
republic, and I know not what, to advance himself
In the month of Aug. the same 3'ear, he was made
lord lieutenant of Oxfordshire by the parliament,
and was persuaded almost to fortify the city of
Oxon for their use, and to make Bulstrodc WhitltK-k
sometime of S. John's coll. (then a member of par-
liament) govemour 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
liis honom-, after Edghill fight, that the king nad
neither men, nor money, nor amis, but the parha-
ment had all these, &c" On the 27th of Dec. and
8th of Febr. in 1642, his maj. published two pro-
clamations, commanding all the officers of the court
of wards to attend him at Oxon, but this lord Say
refusing to come, was outlawed and attainted of
treason. So that he being put out of his place, and
a new seal m.ide 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

' [See a sermon, preached at Westminster Abbey, at the
funeral of Wni. Sirotle, esq. Sept. 22, l64,5, by Gaspar
Hickes, a member of the assembly. Baker .]

" [Francis Cottington was secretary to sir Charles Corn-

* WHS present
wil/i the par-
iiavteiil com-
missioners,
(Sfc. first ed.

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/, and sir Ben. Rudyartl the surveyor
of the said court with the sum of 6000/. 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 per.sonal treatv with his majesty,
yet the same year was one * of the parliament com-
mLssif)ners in tJie isle of Wight, wlien
they treated in order for peace with the
king. At which time tliis lord Say
did lx)ldlv urge to his maj. a passage
out of the three last ami corrupted
lx)oks of Mr. Rich. Hooker's Eccle.nastical Polity,
that tho' the king was singulis major, yet he was
iniiversis minor, which w.-is answer'd with great
prudence and dexterity by his maj. as may be else-
where seen. At that time the king's arguments
concerning several matters did so much work upon
him, that at his return to London he sided witli that
party in the liouse that voted that the king's answers
to the projxjsitions were a firm ground for them to
proceed upon for a peace. jVfter the king's death,
he altogether sitled with the independents, as before
he had done with the presbyterians, became great
with Oliver, who made him one of the other house,
tliat is house of lords. After the restoration of
king Charles II. at what time he had acted as a
grand rebel for his own ends almost 20 years, he
was rewarded forsooth with the honourable offices
of lord privy seal, " and lord chamberlain of the
" houshold," while others that had suffered in estate
and body, and liatl been reducetl 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 cof-
fers, was the occasion of the utter ruin of many. A
person ' of the lord Say's persuasion, who hatl run
with the times, as he did, purposely to raise a fa-
mily, 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
Seal was a seriously sul)tle piece, and always averse
to the court ways, something out of pertinaciousness ;
his temper and constitution ballancing him altogether

wallis, ambassador in Spain. See Slate I'apers, published
by Mr. Sawyer, \ol. ii, p. 278, &c. Bakkr.

A true copy of the epitaph in Spanish on the tomb of
Fnincis lord Cotiingloii, in the Jesuit's chiircli at Valladolid,
wlnre he died .lime 10, 1632, a:tat.74. The last words are
thus in English, ^'Ind willed his body to he deposited in t/iis
temple till such time as G:>d restored to his church the king-
dom of England. In May I0'78 his bones were broughtover
into England upon a prospect of popery coming in about
that time. Vide Carey's Pactjuet of Advices from Rome,
vol. 3, page 2tJ5. Kennet.]

9 [Lorn Clarendon. Cole.1

' Bulslr. Whillock in his Memorials of English Affairs,
an- 1 642. p. 60. b.

''Arth. Wilson in h\% Hist, of Great Britain, &c. an. ICSI.
p. 162.

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SIBTHOKPE.

550

on that side which was contrary to the wind ; so that
he seldom tackM alxiut, or went upright, tliough he
kept his course steady in his way a long time,' &c.
As for the things that he hatli published, the titles
of tliem are these,

Several speeches, as (1.) Two Speeches in Parlia-
ment. One upon the Bill against the Bishops, and
the other touching the Liturgy of' the Church of
Engl.' Lond. 1641. in two sh. in qu. [Bodl. C. 13.
14. Line] (2.) Speech in the GuihlhnU, London,
27 Oct. 1G42. 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 si>eeches for that

Eurpose, Philip lord Wharton,' Philip earl of Pem-
roke, Henry earl of Holland, and Will. Strode
one of the 5 members. (3.) Speech in Parliament
against the Supremacy of the Bishops, and their
Power in Civil A/fairs,' Lond. 1642. qu. This,
with the former against the bishojjs, were much ap-
plauded among the patriotical party, whose sense
they spoke out to the fidl, and were the core of the
canker bred in them against the church. These
speeches also did the clergy take to he the 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 obe-
dience to the king. After the war was ceased, and
no malignants there were (as he called the cavahers)
to oppose him, he shew'd himself an enemy to the
quakers, with whom he was much troubled, at
or near Broughtoii ; and thereupon wrote certain
books against them, as I shall tell you by and by.

The Scots Design discovered : relating their dan-
gerous Attempts lately practi-Kd against the En-
glish Nation, with the sad Co7isequence of the same.
Wherein divers Matters of public Concernment are
disclosed : and the Book called Tridhs manifest is

made apparent to he Lies manife.it. Lond. 1653.

qu. This is usually called, Vindiciw Veritatis, or,
an Amwer to a Discourse entit. Truth ifs mani-
fest, &c.

Folly and Madne.is mndc manifest : or, some
Things written to shew hoxo 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. (ju. Tliis I think
was printed before.

The Quaker.')' Reply manife-ited to he Railing:
or, a Pur.mance qftliose by the Light of the Scrip-
tures, wlio through their dark Imaginations would
evade the Truth, &c. Oxon. 1659, 60. qu. and
other things which I have not yet seen. At length

' [It was answered excellently by archbishop Laud, while
he was a prisoner in the Tower. It is annexed to the arch-
bishop's Hist, of his Tryal and Troiihles. Watts.]

■• [Philip lord Wharton spoke then two speeches which I
have in my study, marked Engl vol, 3, nu. 18. Wood,
Ms. note iw Ashmole.']

this noble author, after he hatl spent 80 years most-
ly in an tmtiuiet and discontented condition, had
been a grand promoter of the rebellion which Ixjgan
in 1642, " and had, in some resj)ect, l)een the i)ro-
" moter of the murder of king Ch. I.'" did die quietly
in his bed, but whether in conscience, I cannot tell,
on the fourteenth day of April in sixteen hundred '66s.
sixty and two : whereujwn his iKnly was buried in
Broughton church among the graves of his ances-
tors, and had over it, soon after, a rich and costly
monument erected, more befitting a hero, than a
rebel. He left behind him several stjns living at
the time of his death, among whom James his eldest
son was one, who succeeding him in his honours, was
made lord lieutenant of Oxfordshire, having always
been reputed an honest cavalier, and a quiet man ;
Nathaniel the second son, whom I shall mention else- ["'S]
where, &c.

ROBERT SIBTHORPE was initiated in aca-
demical learning in Line. coll. as it seems, but
leaving the university before he took a degree, en-
tred into holy orders, and taking to wife the daughter
of sir John Lamb of Rothwell in Northamptonshire,
chancellor of Peterborough, and afterwartls 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 iiither-in-law, made vicar of Brackley in
Northamptonshire, and by the endeavours of Dr.
Piers vice-chanc. of this university, doctor of divi-
nity, an. 1624, (being then a member of liinc. coll.)
tho' he before had not been honoured with any de-
gree in this, or, as I presinnc, in any other univer-
sity. He, with Rog. Manwaring were stiff assertors
of the king's cause and prerogative, and great pro-
moters for the raising a loan of money without the
knowledge and assistance of his parliament, an.
1 626. For which service both had j)referment, Man-
waring being afterwards made rector of Stanford
Rivers in Essex, &c. and Sibthorpe chaplain in ord.
to his niaj. prebendary of Peterlxjrough, and rector
of Burton Latimers in Northamptonshire; from
which two last he was violently ejected in the begin-
ning of the civil wars. He was a person of little
learning, and of few parts, only made it his endea-
vours by his forwardness and flatteries to gain pre-
ferment. 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 pragma-
tical, so intolerably ambitious, and so desperately
prmid, that scarce any gentleman might come near
the tail of their mules,' &c. He hath pubhshed,

* Andr. Marvell in hh Rehearsal Iranspos'd, &c. Lond.
1()72, p. 299.

*■ [The rev. Mr. Hugh Maplctoft, of Huntingdon, has

noie.l upon this p,is5age, (in his Athen^e) that it was not

said of Sibthorpe antl Manwaring in particular, but in ge-

neial of all the conformable clcray of that time. Watts.]

NN2

551

SIBTIIORPE.

HEYLIN.

Several sermons, as (1.) A Cmmterplea to an
Apostates Pardon ; on Jerem. 5. 7. Lond. 1618.
qu. [BwU. 4to. D. 55. Tli.] (2.) Apostolical Obe-
dience, an Assize Serm. at Northampton ; on Rom.
13. 7.- Lond. 1627. qu. [Bodl. 4t(). W. 31. Th.]
The whole scope of which is to justify the lawful-
ness of the general loan (then set on foot by the
king's ill counsellors, as one •* saith, to keep oft" par-
liaments) and of the king's imposing pubUc taxes
by liis own regal power without consent in ]>arlia-
nient, and to j)rove that the people in point of con-
science and religion, ought chearfully to submit to
such loans and taxes without any op]X)sition. For
which matters he was called into question, and cen-
sured by the jiarliament. He hath other things ex-
tant, 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 calami-
ties for his majesty's cause, but upon the return of
king Charles 1 1, in 1660, he was restored to iiis
prebendship, rectory of Burton Latimers, and other
ecclesiasticm benefices, if he had any besides them,
and that dying in a good old age, was buried on the
iGG2. 05th of April in sixteen himdred sixty and two, in
the chancel of the churcli of Burton Latimers. One
Robert Sibthorpe, son of a father of both his
names, rector of North-Cadbury in Somersetshire, be-
came a student of Bal. coll. in 1613, aged 18 years,
which is all I know of him, being not to be under-
stood to be the same with the former. And another
Robert 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 incor-
porations, an. 1619.

[Robert Sibthorp seems to liave been the son of
Mr. John Sybthorjie clerk, admitted to the church
of Ashent, in the diocess of Petriborough, 17 May
1564, by royal presentation.

Joh'es Sibthorp admissus fuit in ludi magistrum
de Water Newton in com. Hunt, et emanarunt
inde literae testimoniales sub sigillo ep'i Line, die 3.
Nov. 1604. Ex Libra Actorum WilPi CliaderUm,
Ep''i Line.

13 Feb. 1607 Rob. Sibthorpe A. B. institutus ad
vie. Sancti Egidii, per cess. ult. incunib. Reg. Dove,
Ep. Pctrib.

11 Martii 1618, Robertus Sibthorpe A. M. vica-
riam suam Sancti Egidii in villa North'ton, coram
ep'o resignavit, et ep'us postea instituit eund. ad
vie. Sancti Sepulcri, North'ton, ad pres. Joh'is
Lambe LL.D. Reg. Dove, Ep. Pefrib.

8 Apr. 1622, Ep'us instituit Rob. Sibthorpe A. M.
ad vie. S. Petri de Brackley, ad pres. Will'i Lisle,
armig. per resign, ult. incumb. Reg. Dove, EpH
Petrib.

23 Sept. 1629, E'pus instituit Rob. Sibthorpe

' [Lireiised by Geo. Londnn. Raker.]
* Will. Prynne in Canlirbury's Doom, \i. 245. [and see
Ruthworth's Collections, vol. i, page 436. Baker.J

S. T. p. ad rect. de Burton Latimer, ad pres. Ca-
roli regis, jure prasrog. per promot. Johis Owen
S. T. P. ad e'patum Asaph. Reg. Dove, E'pi
Petrib.

5 Maii 1662, Georgius Beck A. M. ad rect. de
Burton Latimers, vac. per niort. Rob'ti Sybthorpe,
S. T. P. Reg. Laney, E'pi Petrib. Kenxet.]

PETER HEYLIN, son of Henry Heylin, de-
scended from an ancient family of his name living
at Pentrie-Heylin in Mountgomeryshire, was born
in a market town called Burford in Oxfordshire, on
the 29tli of Nov. 1599, educated in grammar learn-
ing in the free-schcxjl there under Mr. Thom. North
first, and after under Mr. Edw. Davys, where pro-
fiting in trivials to a miracle, especially in {X)etry, (in
which he gave several ingenious specimens as occa-
sion offer'd) was in the year 1613 plac'd by his [276]
father in Hart hall under the tuition successively of
two tutors, viz. I\Ir. Joseph Hill, and Mr. Walt.
Newbury a zealous puritan." The next year he
stood to be demy of Magd. coll. but being then put
by, was the year following elected ; by which time
he had made a considerable j^rogress 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, cosmograi)hy lectures
in the common refectory of the siiid college, of
which the first being performed in the latter en<l of
July 1618, it was so well approved, that for that and
his other learning, lie was chose probationer, and
the year following peqietual fellow of the said house.
On the 22d of Feb. 1619, he began the composing
of his geography according to the hint which lie had
taken the year before in his cosmography lectures,
and finished it on the 29th 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 gra-
ciously received. In 1623 he was made deacon and
priest by Dr. Howson bishop of Oxon in S. Aldate's
church, and the year after having augmented and
corrected his geography, 'twas printed again and
presented to 'the prince, the author being then in-
troduced by Henry lord Danvers, who then spake
very affectionately in his commendations. About
that time Dr. John Young dean of Winchester pre-
senting 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 be-

5 [It was my happyncss to be bred under siieh a father as
very well understood the coiislitution of the church of Eng-
land, and was a diligent observer of all publicl; duties, which
were required of him in his place and station. And aliho'
my tutour in Hart hall (of which house 1 was, before I went
to Magdalen colledac) was biast on the other side, and ihal I
was then very yoinig, and capable of any impre-sioii which
he might think fit to stani|) upon me, \et 1 carried thence
tlic same principles I brought thither with me, and which I
had suckl in, .as it were, with my moliier's milk. His ep.
dcd. to his Sermon onlhe Tares, 4lo. idsg. Kennet.]

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554

fore England, he became so much offended, that he
gave orotT to the lord keeper to call in the lxx)k :
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 W2o he went into France, where spending about
six weeks in several jilaces, wTote the narticulars of
the said journey in a book, the original of which he

E resented to the said lord Danvers, but a copy of it
e kept by him, which at length (30 years after
or thereabouts) he published to correct a false
cojiy that had crept abroad. On the 24th of April
lo27, he answcr'd pro forma on these questions.
(1.) An ecclesia unquam fuerit invisibilis .f* (2.) An
ecclesia possit crrare .-" Both which he determined
negatively, contrary to the mind and judgment of
Prideaux the king's professor of divinity in his lec-
ture De Vi.nbilitate Ecclesia, who thereujion fell
foul upon him, calling him Bellarminian, Pontifician,
and I know not what, and did his best to beat him
from his groinids, but he held his own. This raised
great clamour for the present, which Prideaux in-
creased the Monday after when Heylin opposed
Mr. Will. Haies of Magd. hall, at which time lie was
once again proclaimed a papist by him in the pubhc
school of divinity, which might have done him more
mischief among his friends, but that (as he saith)
* Gcxi stood with him.' On the .5th of Aug. fol-
lowing, being Sunday, Mr. Edw. Reynolds preach-
ing to the university in the chappel of Mert. coll.
(of which he was fellow) touched upon the passages
which had happened between Prideaux and Ileylin,
impertinently to his text, but pertinently enough
unto his purpose, which was to expose Heylin to
disgrace and censure. But so it was, that tho' he
was then present, yet it did little trouble him, as he
himself acKnowledgeth. In Feb. 1627 he was, by
the letters of the lord Danvers, then earl of Danby,
commended to Dr. Laud bishop of Bath and Wells
for his advancement in the church : By virtue of
which, he was received by him ; (as our author
Heylin tells you at large in the life of the said bishop '

Sublished l668) at which time having several private
iscourses together, I.,aud fell upon the business at
Oxon between Prideaux and him, adding withal,
that he had read his supposition when he answered
pro forma ; (a copv of which Heylin had given
to him) and found therein that it was so strongly
grounded, that all the Pridcauxes were not able to
overthrow it in a fair way ; that also he would not
have him discouraged by noise and clamours, telling
him farther, that he himself had in his younger
days maintained the same positions in a disputation
in S. John's coll. for which he was much clamoured
at by Dr. Abbot then vice-chancellor, (afterwards
archb. of Cant.) and made a by-word and reproach

' la lib, 3. sub an. \C)27.

in the university; but he thanked God he had
overcome tiiat dilliculty and got the lietter of his
adversaries, and so might he. Finally he admo-
nished him, to hold in that moderate course he found
him in, and to a}>ply his study to the making up of
breaches in the walls of Christendom, &c. In the
latter end of 1628 he went as chaplain to the earl
of Danby lK'fore-mention''d into the isle of Guern-
sey, of which the said earl was governor, where
continuing about 3 weeks, returned into England,
drew up a discourse of that voyage, and in the
month of June in the year following, did present it
to Laud then bishop of London, to whose patron-
age, as it seems, he had committed it. The same
year also (1629) he was admitted to the reading oi'
the sentences, and nominated one of his maj. chap-
lains in Jan. the same year, " by means of his pa-
" tron the earl of Danby." ' So that being shipped
and in hopes of a good wind, he thought it did con-
cern him to do somewhat to be known at court,
especially by the great ones there. Whereupon he
fell into a resolution to effect the history of S.
George, patron of the most noble order of the Gar-
ter ; the studying and writing whereof took up all
the spring time of 1630. He found it full of diffi-
culties, the whole world being against him, and no
path to follow, but at length he overcame it. Upon
act Sunday the same year he preached the univer-
sity sermon at S. Mary's on this text, ' But while
men slept, the enemy came and sowed tares among
the wheat and went away,' Matth. 13. 25. In
which sermon he discovered ' the great mystery of
iniquity, which lay hid under the specious project
of the feoffees for buying in of impropriations, and
was the first who ever gave public notice of the
danger of it, to the undeceiving, of the people. It
made much noise, and brought to him more envy,
as he is pleased to say (if I mistake not) in his Hi'
story of the Life of Dr. Laud. The same year
also on S. Mar. Magd. day he resigned his fellow-
ship, having been married almost two years before.
In Oct. 1631 he was made rector of Hemingford in
Huntingdonshire by the procurement of Dr. Laud,
and on the first of Nov. following the king gave him
a prebendship of Westminster, void by the death of
Dr. George Darrell sometime fellow of All-s. coll.
Which matter, so soon as it came to the knowledge
of Dr. Williams bish. of Line, and then dean of
Westminster, it put him to extreme vexation, be-
cause this our author (Heylin) was beloved of Dr.
Laud, (between which bishops there was never a
right imderstanding) and that also there was likely

^ [Dr. Heylin a learned and able man. The earl of Dan-
by look care of him in the university, and got him to be
chapl. to his niajestie, and not archb. Laud. Hisl. of the
Troubles and Tryal of Archb. Laud, cap. 3g, p. 387. Wood,
MS. note in Ashmole.^

3 See more in Canlerbury's Doom, written by Will,
Prynne, p. 386. Also in Dr. Ilcylin's Life of Archb. Laud^
lib. 3. p. 210.

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HEYLIN.

to follow frn'ut discord between them, because of
several affronts tiiat AVilliams iiad before ghen him
for his forwardness, high conceit of liimself, and
confidence. The next year the king bestowed on
him tile rich jiarsonage of Houghton in the Spring
within the bishopric of Diu-hani, void by the pre-
ferment of Dr. Aug. I^indscl! to the bishojmc of
Peterborough ; which, ibr iiis own convenience, the
king gave way that he should change it with Dr.
Marshall for the rectory of Ailresford in Hampshire.
In 1633 he proceeded D. of D. and in the vespers
then held had these three questions following to an-
swer to. (1.) An ecclesia habeat authoritatem in
determinandis fidei controversiis .'' Aff. (2.) An
eccles. habeat authoritatem decernendi ritus & cerc-
monias ? Aff. (3.) An eccles. habeat authoritatem
inteipretandi Scripturas sacras.-" Aff. All which,
tho' taken verbatim out of the 20th article of the
church of England, were so displeasing to Prideaux
the professor, that- he fell into very great heats and
passion, in which he let fall certain matters very
unworthy of the place where utter'd, as also dis-
tastful to many of the auditory, (among whom were
[278] James du Perron the queen's almoner, afterwards
bishop of Angoulisme in France) which after drew
some censure on him. The particulars were these.
(1.) Ecclesia est mera chimera. (2.) Ecclesia nihil
docet nee deterniinat. (3.) Controversia; omnes
melius ad academiam referri possunt quam ad ec-
clesiam. (4.) Docti homines in acadeniiis possunt
determinare omnes controversias, etiam sepositis
episcopis, &c. Upon fxjcasion also of mentioning
the absolute decree, lie brake into a great and long
discourse, that his mouth was shut up by authority,
else he would maintain that truth contra omnes qui
sunt in vivis, which fetch'd a great hum from the
country ministers then present. What therefore
followed u|X)n this, you may see in Hht. <Sf Antiq.
Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 440. a. But so nettled was
Prideaux, that the king by Heylin's means should
take cognizance of that matter, that when he put in
his protestation against the utterance of those things
alledged against him, into the hands of the chan-
cellor of the university in Aug. following, he did at
the same time (tlie king being then at Wootlstock)
cause a pajwr to be spread about the court, touch-
ing the business of the vespers in the last act, veiy
much tending to Heylin's disgrace. Heylin there-
fore being not able to brook it, (for he was of an
high and audacious spirit) it so fell out, that when
in Oct. following came out his maj. declaration con-
teming lawful sports, which raised much clamour
against the king, and more against Dr. Laud ; Hey-
lin, for the appeasing it, fell upon a course of trans-
lating Prideaux liis Lectui-e upon the Sabbath, and
{mtting a preface to the same ; which being pub-
ished in print in Hilary term, an. 1G33, conduced
much to his majcsty''s proceedings in what he had
done, and also took off much of that opinion which
Prideaux had among the puritans. In 1638 he be-

of South Warnborougli in Hampshire,
s with Mr. Tho. Atkinson of S. John's

came rector
bv exchange

cull, for Islip near Oxon, and the same year he was
put into commission for die peace for Hampshire.
On Ap. 10, an. 1640, he was chose clerk of the
convocation for Westminster, and soon after brought
into gi-eat trouble by his old enemy Williams, bish.
of Lincoln, W. Prynne, and certain of his parishi-
oners of Ailresfoi-fl. By the first, because Heylin
had been a favourite of Laud, and had continual
contentions with him in the coll. of Westminster
about various matters relating to religion and the
government of that college. By the second, because
he had furnished the lords of the council with mat-
ter out of his Histrio-Mast'ix to pnxreed against him
in order to the losing of his cars, &c. and by the
last, because he had translated the communion ta-
ble from the middle to the upper end of the chancel
of the church at Ailresford, and brought in there
certain ornaments to be used in the celebration of
divine sei-vice. In the year 1642, leaving his preb.
of Westminster, and his rectories in Hampshire
upon a foresight of ruin to come, he followed the
king to Oxon, where having little to live upon, did,
by the king's command, write the weekly intelli-
gence called Mercurhis Aulicu.'i, which had been
begun by John Birkenhead, who pleased the gene-
rality of readers with his waggeries and buffoonries,
far more than Heylin. In the beginning of the
year following (1643) he was voted a delinquent in
the house of commons sitting at Westm. because of
his retirement to the king, and thereupon an order
was sent to the committee at Portsmouth to seques-
ter his estate, and seize ii}K)n his goods. Which
order being put in execution, his incomparable U-
brary was tiiken away and carried to Portsmouth.
In 1644 his singular good lord and patron Dr. Laud
archb. of Canterbury being beheaded, his hopes of
rising higher in the church were totally blasted : So
that upon the loss of him and his spiritual estate,
he stuck to his temporal (for which he compounded
in Goldsmith's hall) and to the earning of money
by writing books. In 1645 he left Oxon, and shift-
ed from place to place, like the old travels of the
patriarchs, and in pity to his necessity, some of his
friends of the loyal party entertained him. The
same year he settled for a time with his wife and
children in Winchester, but that city, with the castle,
being treacherously delivered up to their enemies,
he left them in a disguise, and being entertained by
several loyahsts, removed at length to Minster-Lovel
in Oxfordshire in 1647, where taking a farm of his
nephew col. Hen. Heyhn in the year following,
lived there six years or more exercising liis pen in
writing of books ; the publishing of which (especi-
ally his geography whicli he enlarged to a folio) was
a great relief to him. Thence he removed to Abing-
don in Berks, where he bought an house and land
called Lacy's court, which being but five miles from
Oxon, he was therefore furnished with books at his

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5.08

pleasure, eitlier from sliops, the libraries oCaecjuaint-
aiice there, (particularly JJarlow ofQu. eoU.) or by his
riepair to Botlley's library, and wrote several things
in defence of the church of England, and the true
genuine sense thereof. Afterwards he suH'er'il in
his estate by decimation ; which trick being brought
up by Oliver, while protector, many iaiuilies there-
by (esjXHjially such that had before comjx)utided)
were thereby undone. In 1G60, ujkju his majesty's
return to his kingdoms, he was restt)red to his spi-
ritualities, but never rose higher than subdean of
Westminster, which was a wonder to many, and a
great discontent to him and his; but the reason
being manifest to those that weU knew the temper
of the person, I shall forbear to make mention of
that matter any farther. He was a person endowed
with singidar gifts, of a sharp and pregnant wit,
solid and clear judgment. In liis younger years he
was accoimted an excellent poet, but very conceited
and pragmatical, in his elder a better historian, a
noted preacher, and a ready or exteinporanean
speaker. He had a tenacious memory to a miracle,
whercimto he added an incredible patience in study,
in which he persisted when his eye-sight failed him.
He was a b<»ld and undaunted man among his
friends and foes, (tho' of very mean jx)rt and pre-
sence) and therefore by some of them, he was ac-
coimtetl too high and proud for the function he
professed. On all occasions he was a constant as-
sertor of the church's right and the king's preroga-
tive, either in their afHicteil or prosperous estate, a
severe and vigorous opposer of rebels and schisma-
tics, a despiser of envy, and in mind not at all dis-
couraged. He writ many books u)K)n various sub-
jects, containing in them many things that are not
vulgar, either for stile or argument, and wrote also
history pleasant enough, but in some tliir^s he was
too much a party to be an historian, and equally*
an enemy to popery and puritanism. His works
which are very many are these,

Spurius; a Tragedy — Made in the year 1616.
Acted privately in tlie president's lodgings in Magd.
coll. but never printed.

Theomachia ; a Com. — Made in the year 1618,
but not printed.

. Microcosmus ; A Descriptmn of the great World.
Oxon. 1622, 24, [1627, ISodl. ^to. H. 23. Art]
Sec. qu. Enlarged afterwards to a great folio, entit.
Comrmgraphy hi four Book.i. T-ond. 1652, 1664,
77, [Bodl. H. 9. 8. Til.] 82. This Cosmography
was the last book that its author wrote with his own
hand, (1651) for after it was finished, his eyes failed
him, that he could neither see to write nor read
without the help of an amanuensis, whom he kept
to his dying day.

The History of that rtxost famous Saint and

* Sec in a book entit. Several Conferences letween a Rom.
Priesl, a Fariutic Chaplain, and a Divine of the Church if

Enj^tand, SCr. in Answer to Tho. Gadden's Dialogues

Lootl. 1679. Oct. written by Dr. Ed. Siillineflcet.

Soldier of Jesus Christ S. Gcojge of Caf}ptiUucia ;
asserted front tlt£ Fictions of the middle Ages M**
the CJnirch, mid Opposition of tlie present. Loud.
1631. [Uodl. 4to. U. 25. Art.] and 33. qu.

The Institution of the most noble Order of S.

Geofge, named the Garter. Printed with tbe

former.

Catalogue (fall the Knights of the Garter from
the first In.ititution to this present ; as also of the

principal Officers thereunto belongi^ig Printed

also with the Hist. ofS. George, 1631. and 33. In
which last edition is at the end, A review of the
whole work ; consisting of additions and emenda-
tions. On the 2d of Febr. 1630, being Candlenias-
tlay, the author of the said history and its adjuncts,
was brought by Dr. Laud bish. of London (a great
encourager of learning and industry) to his majesty,
being then in his bed-chamber at Whitehall, to
whom he did present them. Whereupon his ma-
jesty looking upon the book, he did graciously ac-
cept of it, and was pleased to hold some conference
widi the author about that argument. Afterwards
the author presented several copies fairly bound to
all such knights of the order of the Garter, and men
of eminency that were then in Lonilon and West-
minster, and w^as used by all of them w ith great re-
spect, save <mly by archb. Abbot, and AV'ilUara earl
of Exeter ; the first of which disliked the argument,
and the other snapped him up for a begging scho-
lar, which he was after much asham'd of, when it
came to be known. Soon after the said history was
much iinpugn'd by a discourse of Dr. G. Hakewill,
which was, as Heylin saith, full of most base and
malicious calumniations, both against the person and
religion of the author. Whereupon his majesty
having received notice of it from Laud, (who had a
copy of it sent to him from Oxon. by Dr. W. Smith
the vice-chancellor of that place, and he from Hake-
will to be ap])roved before it was to go to the preas)
commanded Heylin to consider of the matter, and
withal sent him to Windsor to search into the re-
cords of the order of the Garter there. Which com-
mand he aecorthngly obeying, occasion'd a second
edition of the said history, an. 1633, as I have be-
fore told you, wherein he answer'd all Hakewill's
allegations, letting pass his slanders. Upon the
coming out of which, Heylin heard no more of
Hake': ill till a second edition of his book of the
supposed decay of nature, entit. An Apol. or De-
claration of the Power, &c. wherein Heylin found
a retraction of the passages which concerned S.
George. About the same time Hakewill thinking
better to sit silent than to come out with a reply,
yet he thought it fit to acquaint his friends what
sentiments he had of the said second edition of Tlie
Hist, of S. George, in several letters sent abroad ;
one of which speaketh ' thus ' In the second impres-

* See in Will. Sanderson's book entit. Post-hast. A Re-
ply to Peter's (Dr. Heylin's) Appendix to his Treatise entit.
Bcipondet Pctrus, &ic. Lend. Idas. qu. p. 13.

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sion of his Ixxik ( The Hint, of S. George) wlicrc
he hath occasion to speak ot' the Roman writers,
especially the legendaries, he magnifies them more,
and when he mentions our men lie villifies them
more than he did in his first etlition : But the mat-
ter is not much, what he saitli of the one, or of the
other, the condition of the man being such, as his
word hardly j>asseth either for commendation or
slander,' &c. From the said Hist, of S. George,
written by Heylin, is a httle jmmphlet taken and
stoln, entit. The Hist, of that most famous Saint
and Soldier S. George of Cajrpadocia, &c. Lond.
1661. in 7 sheets in qu. Also another for the most
part, entit. The History of the Life and Martyr-
dom <)fS. George the titidar Patron of England,
&c. Lond. 1664. in 8 sh. in qu. written in verse by
Tho. Lowick gent. And many things are taken
thence also, with due acknowledgment, by E. Ash-
mole in his book of The Institutimis, Lazes, and
Ceremonies of the most noble Order of the Garter.
Lond. 1672. fol.

An Essay called Augustus Printed 1632;

since inserted into Heylin's Cosmography.

History of the Sabbath in tzvo Books. Lond.
1636. qu. [Bodl. 4to. H. 17. Th. Seld.] twice print-
ed in that year. Written to satisfy the scrupulous
minds of some misguided zealots, who turned the
observation of the Lord's day into a Jewish sabbath,
not allowing themselves or others the ordinary li-
Ijerties, nor works of absolute necessity, which the
Jews themselves never scrupled at. About that
time was published, A Letter to the Vicar of Grant-
ham, by l)r. Jo. Williams Bishop of Line, against
the Commu7iion Table standing Altar-ways; where-
upon Heylin ma<le a sudden and sharp reply entit.

A Coal from the Altar: or, an Answer to the
Bishop of Lincohi's Letter to the Vicar of Grant-
ham. Lond. 1636. qu. [1637, Bodl. HH. 29. Th.]
To which the bishop in a year afier returned an an-
swer under this title, 7'hc lioly Table, Name, and
Thing, &c. pretending withal that it was written
long ago by a minister in Lincolnshire, against Dr.
Cole a divine in qu. Mary's reign : whereupon Hey-
lin made a rej)ly as I shall anon tell you.

Brief Di.'scourse iri Way of Letter touching the
Form ()f Prayer appointed to be used by Preachers

before their Sermons, Can. 5-5. AVritten at the

request of the bishop of \\'inchester in the year
1636, and afterwards printed in the first part of
Ecclesia Vindicata.

Brief and moderate Answer to the seditious and
scandakms Challenges of Hen. Burton late of
Friday-street, in two Sermons preaehed by him on
the 5th Iff Nov. 1636, and in the Apology set be-
fore them. Lond. 1637. qu. [Bodl. HH. 31. Th.]

Antidotum Lincolniense : or, an Answer to a
Book entit. The holy Table, Name, and Thing,
&c. Lond. 1637. [Bodl. IMar. 184.] 38. qu. An-
other answer came out against the said holy table,
&c. entit. Two Looks over Lincoln : or, a View cf

his holy Table, Name, and Tiling, &c. Lond. 1641-
in 4 sh. and an half; written by Rich. Day, who
stiles himself minister of the gosjH'l, yet seems ra-
ther to be an enemy to the ceremonies of the church.
In which l)ook also Ileylin's Coal from the Altar, is
sometimes animadverted upon.

An nnifn-m Book of Articles to be nsed by all
Bi.ihops a7id Arcfuleacons in their Visitations. Lond.
1640. qu.

De Jure Paritatis Episcoporum — MS. written
1640, upon a proposition m the lord's house, whether
bishops should be of the committee for the pre-
paratory examinations in the cause of Tho. earl of
Strafford. Printed afterwards antl involved in his
Hi.itorical and Miscellaneous Tracts.

Reply to Dr. HakezvilPs Dissertation touching
the Sacrifice of the Eucfuirist. Lond. 1641. qu.*
See more in George Hakewill, under the year 1649-

An Help to English History : containing a Suc-
cession of all the Kings of England, and the En-
glish Saxons, tlie Kings and Princes of Wales,
Sfc. As also of all the Arch-l)i.ihop.s, Bishops,
Dukes, Marquisses, and Earls zvifhin the said Do-
minions. In three Tables. Lond. 1641, &c. oct.
I'ublished under the name of Rob. Hall gent. Se-
veral additions to this book were made by Christ.
Wilkenson, a bookseller living against S. Dunstan's
church in Fleetstreet, London ; the first edition of
which additions, with the book it self, came out in
1670, in oct. [Bodl. Rawl. 8vo. 583.'] with the
name put to the book of Pet. Heylin, who made use
of Dr. Franc. Gotlwin's Commentary of the Bishops
of England, in his succession of archb. and bishops,
and of Ralph Brook and August. Vincent their
respective Catalogues of the Succe.i,sion of Kings,
Dukes, Marquisses, Earls, &c. 'Tis saicf also that
in the same year, 1641, our author Heylin wrote
and published a book entit. Persecntio tJndecima,
&c. Lond. 1641, 48. qu. 1681. fol. but finding no
such thing in his diary, which I have several times
perused, I cannot be so bold to affirm that he was
the author.

History of Episcopcwy ; in tzvo Parts. Lond.
1642. qu. [Bodl. 4to. S. 88. Tli.] Published under
the name of Tiieophilus Ciiurchman. This makes
the second part of Ecclesia Vindicata, &c. Lond.
1657. qu.

Historical Narration of Liturgies, &c. — written
1642. Afterwards printed in the first part of Ec-
cles. Vindicata, &c.

* {Reply to Dr. HakcweU's Dissertalion tuuching the sa-
crifice uf the Eucharist . Loiul. 1041. 4to. This seems not
lo have been printed; for 1 find it mention'd both in -Mr.
Vernon's and Mr. Barnard's Life of Ur. Heylin as being
in MS. but writ in the year l041, when Dr. HakcweU's
book came out. Mr. Wood has added several things in MS.
to an interleaved copy of his Atlien;E in the museum of Mr.
Ashmole ; but he has made no alteration of this place, but it
stands as printed. Hearne.]

' [This useful book has been frequently reprinted ; but tiie
best edition is that enlarged by Wri^ghi, Lond. 1773. 8vp.]

HEYLIN.

5m

Relation of Lord Ralph HoptoiCs Victory near
to Bodmin in Cornwall, on the Idth of Jan. 1642.
Oxon. I64.T. in one sh. in qu. [Bodl. C. 14. 1.

Line]

Brief Relation qftfte remarkable Occurrences in
the Northern Parts, viz. The Landing of the Queen's
Majesty in the Bay of Burlington Jhm Holland,
and of the Repnlie given to the Rebels at the Toion
of Newark. Oxon. 1642. in 2 sh. in qu.
. View qftlie Proceedings in the Wcstjbr a Paci-
fication.

Letter to a Gent.in Leicestershire about the Treaty
at Uxbridge, shelving that all the Overtures rvhich
havebee7i madejcyr Peace and Accommodation have

proceededfrom his Majesty only Printed 1643.

m 4 sh. in qu.

The Roitndltead's Remembrancer : or, a true and
particular Relation of the great Defeat given to
the Rebels by his Mqjesty''s Subjects of Cornwall,
under the Command of Sir Ralph Hopton, on
Tuesday 16 May 1643. — Printed 1643. in one sh.
in qu. This paniplilet is generally said to have
been written by Heylin.
[282] Relation of the Proceedings of S. Joh. Gell. —

" Printed 1643. in qu. in a sheet and half." This
is the same, if I mistake not, with a pamph. entit.
Tliieves, Thieves : or a Relation of Sir Jo. GelPs
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. t^u. This sir John Gell,
who was son of Tho. Gell ol Hopton in Derbyshire,
gent, became a commoner of Magd. coll. in this
university in 1610, left it without a degree, exer-
cised himself in martial feats beyond the seas, re-
tired 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 entered into a plot against
the parliament, (in which col. Euseb. Andrews be-
ing engaged, suffer'd death, an. 1650.) for which
bemg imprison'd, was at length tried for his life be-
fore the high court of justice, but being found only
guilty of misprision of treason for concealing it, he
was condemned to lose his estate and to perpetual
imprisonment ; from the last of which he was re-
leased by order of parliament 5 of Apr. 16.53. 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, a.s I suppose, buried at Hop-
ton '(Quaere) having had this character ^ven of

• [Hopton is in the parish of Wirksworth, and is I think
only a single house. Certainly there is no church. Sir
John Gell w.is huricd at Wirksworth. He has a monument
in the church of tliat town, from which I copied ihc follow-
ing inscription :

Sacrum Memorise Johannis Gell, Baronctli, qui duxit
Ux.Elizab. Filiam Pcrcival Willughby, Militis, per quam
Progeniem habuit Miliccnt, Bridget, Johannem, Gulielm.

Vol. III.

him by .the presbyterians, while they were dominant,
tliat ' he was a man beloved of his coiuUry, and
feared by his enemies, valiant in his actions, and
faithful m his ends to promote truth and jieace.'
Of the Kmie family was Hob. Gell,' D.D. of Pampi».
ford in Cambridgeshire, " rector of S. Mary Alder-
mary," and sometime chaplain to the archbi.shop of
Canterbury ; which doctor died in the very be-
ginning of the year (25th of March or thereabouts)
1665.

The black 8B Cross : shewing that tlie Londoners
were the Cause of this present Rebellion, &c.

The RebePs Catechism, composed in an easy and
familiar Way ; to let them see the Heinousnesa of
their Offence, he- — Printed 1643. in 4 sh. in qu.
[Bodl. 4to. J. 16. Th.]

, Dijtcourse in An.neer to the commcm but grmmd-
less Clamour of the Papists nick-naming the Reli-
gion of the Church of England by the Name of a

Parliament Religion U'ritten in 1644 at the

request of George Ashwell of Wadluim coll. But
when this book was printed, it had this title follow,
ing put to it. Parliament's Poiver in Laws for Re-

qu. [Bodl. C. 14. '7. Line] ...

another edition printed at Lond. 1653. in 7 sh. in
qu. it hatli this title, The Way of Reformation of
the Church of England declared and justified,
against the Clamours of our Adversaries, reproach-
ing the Religion liere by Law established by the
Name of a Parliament Religion, &c. This was after-
wards printed in the first part of Eccles. Vindicata.

Brief Relation of the Death and Sufferings of
the most Reverend and Renowned Prelate the Lord
Archbishop of Canterbury, withaCopy ofhisSpeech,
and other Passages on the Scaffold, more perfect
tJian hath been hitherto imprinted. Oxon. 1644. in
4 sh. in qu. [Bodl. C. 14. 6. Line]

Bibliotheca Regia : or, the Royal Library, &c.
Lond. 1649, 50, and 59. oct. Heylin's name' is not
set to it, but 'tis generally known to be his collection
from sonie of the works of king Charles I. In this
lxx)k is inserted the conference between king Chailes
I. and the marquess of Worcester, at llagland ;
which by many is taken to be authentic, because
published by Heylin. See more among the writers
m the second vol. col. 525. in Lewis Bayly, an. 1632.

Stumbling Block of Disobedience, S^c. in Ansrcer
to an Examination of the two last Sections in Cal-
vin's In.Hitutions against Sovereign Monarchy

MS. written in 1644, printed at Lond. 1658. qu
[Bodl. 4to. H. 8. Th. BS.] with tliis title, Tfie

Eliznb. et Elianor. Obiit 26 Die Octobris, Anno Domini
M.DC.LXXI. jEiaiis s.is! LXXIX. See much relating
ioh\m in Sh&vi'i Hist. nfStiiffordshire. Hunter.]

[9 Rob. Gell, Fridsburgi, m com. Caniio editus b. T. B.
Crowajus. Baker.

Ecclesia S. Marise Aldermary Lond. vacavit per mort.
Rob. Gell, S. T. P. ante II Apr. 1665, quo temp. Tho.
Tompkins, A.M. ad cand.admifsus est. i?cg. Shcl. Kenjiet.]

00

r>m

HEYLIN.

[2881

Uttimblififf Block of Disobedience and Rebellion,
vunnhigly laid by Calvin in the Subjecfs Way, dis-
covered, censured and removed.

Tlte promised Seed Written in verse.

The Undeceiving the People in the Point of
Tilings, &c. Lond. 1648, [BodJ. C.8. 25. Line] 51.
Publislied under the name of Ph. Trelcinie, which
k an anagram for Peter Heylin. Reprinted at
Lond. in qu. 1657. in the (irst port oiEccles. Vindi-
cata.

Tlteologia Veterum: The Sum of Christian Theo-
logy contained in tlte Creed, according to tlte
Greeks and Latins, ^c. Lib. 2. Lond. 1654 and
1673. fol.

Full Relatum of two Joumies. The one into the
main Land of France: The oilier into some of the
adjacent Islands, in 5 Books. Lond. 1656. qu.
These adjacent islands are Guernsey and Jersey, &c.

Survey oftlie Estate of tlie tioo Islands Guernsey
and Jersey, with the Isles depending, S^c. in one
Book. Lond. 1656. qu. This is printed with the
lonner, and both were pubUshed by their author
Pet. Heylin, because a little before a false copy of
them had crept abroad imder the title of France
painted to tlie Life, as I -shall farther tell you anon.

Observations on Tlie History of the Reign of K.
Charles, publisKd by Hamon LEstrange iEsq;J'or
Illustration of tlie Story, &c. Lond. 165o. oct.
Upon the coming out of which observations L'Es-

trange printed another edit, of the said Hist.

Lond. 1654. fol. and at the end added a book entit.
The Observator observed : or. Animadversions upon
the Observations on the History ofK. Charles, &c.
Whereupon our author Heylin came out with this
book following, entit.

Extraneus Vapulans: or, the Observator res-
cued from the violent but vain Assaults of Hamon
U Estrange Esq; and the Backblows of Dr. Nich.
Bernard an Irish Dean. Lond. 1656. oct. In our
author's 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. Heylin's) under the title of France
painted to the Life, by a false and imperfect copy,
hath fathered it in StationerVhall on one Ricb.
Bignall a fellow to him utterly unknown. Second-
ly plundered of his good name by Ham. L'Es-
trange, esq; by loading him with abusive ' lan-
guage.

Ecclesia Vindicata: or, tlie Church of England
justified, (1) In the Way and Manner of her Re-
Jbrmation, &c. (2) In Officiating by a public Li-
turgy. (3) In prescribing a set Form of Prayer
to be used by Preachers before their Sermons. (4)
In her Right and Patrimony of Tithes. (5) In

' See Dr. Pet. Heylin's life written by John Barnard, D. D.
— Loml. I(i83. J). i24, SS5.

retaining the Episcopal Government, and therewith

the canonical Ordination of Priests and Deacons.'^

Lond. 1657. qu. [Bodl. 4to. Rawl. 152.] Dedi-
cated to Mr. Edw. Davys vicar of Shilton in Berks
(near Burford in Oxfordshire) sometimes hismaater
in the freegranunar scluwl at Burford. It contains
all those five pieces before-mention'd, which I have
told you were reprinted in Ecclesia Vindicata.

Respondet Petrus : or, the Answer of Pet. Hey-
lin D.D. to so much of Dr. Bernard's Book entit.
The Judgment oftlie late Primate of Ireland, «J-c.
as he is made a Party by tlie said Lord Primate
in tlie Point of the Sabbath, &c. Lond. 1658. qu.
[Bodl. B. 14. 4. Line] 'Twas not burnt as the
report ' was, or answer'd.

An Appendix in Answer to certain Passages in
Mr. Sanderson^ s History of the Life and Reign of
K. Charles, &c. — Printed with Respondet Petrus :
whereupon Will. Sanderson esq; came out with a
pamph. entit. Posthaste : A Reply to Peter''s (Dr.
Heylin s) Appendix to his Treatise entit. Respon-
det Petrus. Lond. 1658. in 3 sheets in qu. [Bodl.
C. 13. 4. Line] full of abusive language, and little
or nothing to the purpose.

Sliort View of the Life and Reign of K. Cliarles
(the second Monarch of Great Britain) from his
Birth to his Burial. Lond. 1658, in 6 sheets or
more in oct. [Bodl. 8vo. C. 26. Art. BS.] This
life I take to be the same with that (for they have
the same beginning) that was printed, with, and set
before, Reliquice sacrae Carolina. Printed at the
Hague 164', in a large oct

Examen Historicum : or, a Discovery and Exa-
mination oftlie Mistakes and Defects in some mo-
dern Histories,* viz. (1) In tlie Church Hist, of
Britain by TIm. Fuller. To which is added. An
Apology of Dr. Jo. Cosin Dean of Peterborough,
in Answer to some Passages in the Church Hist, of
Britain, in which he finds himself concerrCd. (2)
In the Hist, of Mary Queen of Scots, and of tier
Son K. James VI. The Hist, of King James I.
of Great Britain, and tlie Hist, of K. Cliarles I.
from his Cradle to his Grave ; by Will. Sanderson
Esq; Lond. 1658-9. in a large oct.

Appendix, in Answer to some Passages in tt

^ [Wood has given the title incorrectly in the first edit.
but it would be useless lo point out the variations in the
margin, since it was amended by himself in MS. as it Jtovt
stands.]

' See in the pref. to the reader before a book entit. A Jus-
tification of the Fathers and Schoolmen, &c. written by Hen.
Hickman, also in the said life writien by Dr. Barnard,

P' 237.

■• [Occasioned by the partiality and inadvertencres of the
several authors of some modern histories : in 2 books, 8vo.
1659; with three prefaces. The first to both parts of the
said Bxnmen, the 'iA and 3d to the other two parts, which
have distinct pages to each. The first, which is call'd
Ar.imadversions on the Church History of Britain, containing
2()4 pages, and the second part call'd Advcrtnements on the
Three Books after menlion'd, containing 202 pages ; to which
is added an appendix. WATTt.]

HEYLIN.

566

Vtlliers duke
of Bucking,
ham while,
&c. 1st edit.

scurrilous Pamphlet called A post-hast Reply, 4rc.
(or Post-hast ; a Reply, 6fC.) ay WilL Sanderson,

esq; This apjienclix is printed with Exam. His-

toricum. Soon after Th. Fuller ' came out with a
thin fol. full of submission and acknowledgment,
entit. The Appeal of Injured Innocence, which was
commonly bound with the remaining copies of
his Church History in quires ; and a foolish and
scurrilous pamphlet entitled, Peter pursued : or,
I>r. Heylin overtaken, arrested and arraigned upon
his three Appendixes. (1) Respondet^ Petrus. (2)
Answer to'' Post-hast Reply. (3) Advertisements
on three Histories, viz. of' Mary Queen of Scots, K.
James and K. Charles, Lond. 1658-9- in 8 sh. in
qu. written by Will. Sanderson before-mentioned,
of whom I desire the reader to know these things
following. (1) That he was bom in Lincolnshire.
(2) That in his younger days he was secretary to the
earl of Holland* while he was chancellor of the
• ig Georae university of Cambridge, and therefore,
I presume, graduated there, tho' scarce
understood Latin. (3) That he suffer'd
for the cause of his majesty king Charles
I. and after the restoration of his son in
1660, he was made gent, in ordinary of his majesty's
privy-chamber, and from him received the honour of
knighthood. (4) That dying in Whitehall on the
15tn day of July 1676, ag-ed 90 or more, was buried
in the north isle or transcept joining to the choir of
S. Peter''s church in the city of Westminster. Over
his grave was soon after a monument of alabaster
erected on the north wall with the bust of the de-
funct (in the place of colonel (Sim.) Mathews which
had been set up in the wall by the parliament, but
plucked down after the return of king Charles II.)
at the charge of Bridget his widow, daughter of sir
Edw. Tyrell knight. His histories before-mention''d
are not much valued, because they are mostly taken
from printed authors and lying pamphlets."

2%c Parable of the Tares expounded and ap-

5 [Tho. Fuller coll. Sid. A. B. 1624, 5; A.M. l628 :
S.T.B. 1635.

Tho. Fuller S. T. B. fit S. T. P. regiis Uteris, dat. Aug. 2.
reg. 12, l66o. Baker.]

* The author here means the appendix to Jtesp. Pelrus.

7 This hath no appendix, and tnerefore the author (San-
derson) is mistal<en, being it self an Append. ioExametiHis-
toricum,'or Advertisements on three Histories.

• [Sanderson wrote

Complete History nf Mary Queen of Scotland and her Son
King James of Great Britain. Lond. 1656. Bodl. BS. 125.

History of King James of Great Britain.

History of King Charles I. from his Cradle to his Grave.
1668. Bodl. BS. 126.

Graphice. The use of the Pen and Pencil. Or the most
excellent art of Painting. In two parts, foUo, Lond. l658.
Bodl. AA. 53. Art. From the preface to this work it would
appear that Sanderson, though an amateur only, was ' not
without some experience By his own private practice.'
British Bibliographer, iv. 225. See some curious extracts
there from Sanderson's book, particularly one at p. s;28, re-

plied in ten Sermons, with three other Sermons by
the same Author. Lond. 1659 and 61. qu.

Certamen Epistolare ; or, the Letter Combate
Tnanagcd by Pet. Heylin and Mr. Rich. Baxter qf
Kederminster, &c. Lond. 1659' oct. [Bodl. 8vo.
K. 58. Th.]

Intercourse qf Letters betrceen Dr. Heylin and
Dr. Nich. Bernard of Grcrf s-Inn, touching tJte in-
tended burning qftlw Book called Respondet Pelrus.
— Printed with Cert. Epist.

Letter Combate, Part 2, containing the Inter-
course qf Letters between Pet. Heylin and Mr. Hen.
Hickman ^ qf Magd. College, relating to the hvil<y-
rical Part qf a Book entit. A Justification qf tfte
Fathers and Sclioolmen, Sec

Letter Combate, Part 3. containing a Dissci-ta-
tion about Forms qf Government, the Power qf
Spartan Ephori, and the Jercish Sanhedrim, ma^
naged Letter-wise between P. Heylin and J. H.
(James Harrington) qf Westminster Esq;

Appendix to the Jbrmer Papers, containing an
Exchange qf Letters between Mr. Tlvo. Fidler of
Waltham and Dr. Pet. Heylin qf Abingdon.

Examination qf some Passages in Mr. Fuller's

late Appeal for injured Innocence. These

Letter Combates, Append, and Examination are
printed with Certamen Epistolare, which is the ge-
neral title to them.

Historia Quinqu-Articularis : or, a Declaration
qf the Judgment qf the Western Churches, and
more particularly of the Chttrch of England, in tlw
Jive controverted Points, reproached tn tlwse last
Times by tlie name qf Arminianism, &:c. Part 3.
Lond. 1^60. qu. [Bo^. B. 23. 8. Line]

Postscript to the Reader concerning some Parti-
culars in a scurrilous Pamphlet entit. A Review qf
Certamen Epistolare. In the same year (1660) was
published a book entit. — Fratres in Malo : or, the
matchless Couple represented in the Writings c^Mr.
Edw. Bagslmw and Mr. Hen. Hickman, in Vindi-
cation of Dr. Heylin and Mr. Tho. Pierce. Lond.
1660. qu. said in the title to be written by M. O.
bach, of arts, but all then supposed that Dr. Heylin
or Mr. Pierce, or both, had a hand in it.

Sermon preached in the Collegiate Church qfS.
Peter in Westminster on Wednesday 29 May 1661 ,-
on Psal. 31. 21. Lond. 1661. qu.

History qf the Reformation qf the Church of
England, from the first Preparations to it made
by King Hen. 8. until the legal Selling and Esta~
blishingqfit under Queen Eliz. he. Lond. 1661.
1670, and 74. fol. [Bodl. S. 9. 6. Th.] A chajac-

lating to Holbein's drawings in the king's collection, since
published by Chamberlaine.]

' [Hen. Hickman aul. Sanctse Catharinae, adm. in matric.
aca(l. Cant. Apr. 10, 1647.

Vide H. H. History of Arminians, p. 433. ct Lcudensium
Aposies, hyH. H. Lond. l660. 4io. B.^ker.]
002

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567

HEYLIN.

1662.

t?r of this book, and its design, is given by Dr.
Gilb. Burnet in his pref. to the first vol. of Tfi£
Hist, of the Reformation of the Church of England.
Lond. 1679, and 81. fol. answered at large by Mr.
George Vernon in \\\f< Life of Pet. Heylin, D. D.
Ix)ncl. 1682. oct. p. 189, &c! As for our author's
Hist, of the Heformation, &c. it was answered in a
Ixwk entit. — Pliui ultra: or, England'' s Reforma-
tion needing to be reformed. Being an Examina-
tion of Dr. Heylin'' s History of Uie Reformation
of the Church of England, &c. Lohd. 1661. in 7
Kh. in qu. said in the title page to be written by
H. N. O; J. Oxon. which, whether meant by Henry
HickmaA', I know not as yet.

Cyprian us AngUcus: or, the History of the Life
and Death of yVill. Laud Archb. of Canterbury,
&e; Lond. 1(668. [Bodl. K. 1. 19- Th.] and 71. fol.

Acr'ius rediv'ivus : or, the H'lst. oft/ie Presbyfe-
riam, &c. Oxon. 1670. Lond. 1672. fol. [Bodl. E.
«. 12. Th.]

Historical and Miscellaneous Tracts. Lond.
1681. fol. [Bodl. S. 9. 15. Th.] Several of these
arc mention'd before, as (1) Eccl. Vindicata. (2)
H'lst. of the Sabbath, in ^ Parts. (3) Hist.
Qu'inqu^-art'icularis. (4) Stumbling-block, &c. (5)
Tract, de Jure Paritatis, &c. with Dr. Heyliu's
life before them, written by George Vernon rector
of Bourton on the Water in Glocestershire, some-
time one of the chaplains of Alls. coll. Which life
being alter'd and mangled before it went to the
press by the bish. of Line. (T. Barlow) and the
bookseller that printed it ; Hen. Heylin son of Dr.
Heyhn, .made a protestation against it; and Dr.
Job. Barnard, who marrie<l Dr. Heylin's daughter,
wrote his life to rectify that of Vernon whicii was
alter'd, and Vernon wrote another, published in oct.
Our author Heylin also composed A Discourse of
the African Schism, and in 1637 did ujwn Dr.
.Laud's desire draw up The Judgment of Vf^riters
on tlwse Texts of Scripture on which tlie Jesuits
found the Popedom and the Autliority qftlie Rom.
Church. Both which things, the said Dr. Laud
intended, as materials, towards his large answer to
Fisher the Jesuit, which came out the year follow-
ing. He also (I mean Heylin) did translate from
Lat. into English, Dr. Pr'ideaux his Lecture upon
tlie Sabbath, as I have before told you, and put the
Scotch Liturgy into Latin, an. 1639, partly that all
the world might more clearly see upon what grounds
the tumults in Scotland, that then before brake out,
.had been raised. At length after our author Hey-
lin had sjjent his time partly in prosperity and
partly in adversity, he paid his debt to nature on
Ascension-day (May 8.) in sixteen hundred sixty
and two. Whereupon his body being buried be-
fore the sub-dean's stall within the choir of S. Pe-
ter's church within the city of Westminster, had a
monument soon after set up for him on the north
wall of the alley joining on the north-side of the

said choir ; a copy of the inscription '» on which you
may see in Hist. ^ Ant'iq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. pae.
205.

[Petrus Heilyn M. A. Oxon. incorp. Cant an;.
1621. Regist. Baker.

In MS. Rawl. Miscel. 353, are several papers re-
lating to Dr. Heylin and his parsonage of Alresford,
as well as his disputations with Dr. Prideaux ; his
original appointment as chaplain in ordinary to the
king ; a letter from the bishop of Winchester on a
demand of ten trees, made by Heylin as parson of
Alresford ; opinions of Littleton, Heath and Mal-
let on this and other subjects connected with the
living, &c. &c.

Heylin married Mrs. Letitia Highgate of Mid-
dlesex; and lieing suitor to her, he presented her
with a very rich gildetl Bible, with this copy of
verses :

Could this outside l)cholden be

To cost and cunning equally ;
Or were it such as might suffice

The luxury of curious eyes ;
Yet would I have my dearest look
Not on the cover, but the book.

If thou art merry, here are airs ;

If melancholy, here are prayers ;
If studiou.s, here are those things writ,

Which may deserve tliy ablest wit :
If hungry, here is food divine ;
If thirsty, nectar, heavenly wine !

Read then, but first thy-self prepare
To read witli zeal, and mark vnth care ;

And when thou read'st what here is writ,
Let thy best practise second it ;

"■ [It was written by Dr. Earle, and is as follows :

PETRI HEYLYN S T D.

Hulus Eclesiae Prsbedarij & Subdecani

Viri plane inemorabilis,

Egrcgijs Uotlbus instructissimi ;

Ingenio acri et seciiiido,

Judicio subucio,

Memoria, ad Prodigiiiin, tenaci,

Cui adiuxit incrcdibile studijs patientiam.

Quae, ccs?antibus Ocnils, non cessarunt,

Scripsit varia & pliirima.

Quae iam nianibus hominum terunlur,

Et argumentis non vulgaribus

Stylo non vnlgari siiffecit.

Et Malestatis Regiac assertor,

Nee florentis m.Tgis vtrivsqiie,

Quann afflictje

IdSqe perduelliu & Scbismatica Factionis

Iinpugnator acerrimus.

Contemptor Inuidiae

Et Aniimi infracto

Plura ciusmodi ineditanti

Mors indixil Silentium ;

Vt Sileatur

Efficere non potest.

Obijt Anno iEtalis 63 & 8 Die Maij A.D. 1668.
Posuit hoc illi Mscslissima Coiiiux.]

IIEYLIN.

LEY.

57<)

So twice each precept read shall be,
First in the book, and next in thee.

Much reading may thy spirits wrong,
Refresh them therefore with a song ;

And, that thy musick praise may merit.
Sing David's Psahns with David's spirit ;

That as thy voice doth pierce men's ears,

So shall thy prayer and vows the spheres.

Thus read, thus sing, and then to thee
The very earth a heav'n shall be ;

If thus thou readcst, thou shalt find
A private heaven within thy mind ;

And singing thus before thou die

Thou sing'st thy part to those on high.

There is a portrait of Heylin, engraved by R.
White, prefixed to his Historical Tracts, 1681,
folio.]

JOHN LEY was born in the antient borough
of Warwick, on the 4th of Feb. an. 1583, but de-
scended from tlie Leys of Cheshire, educated in
grammar learning in the free-school in the said bo-
rough, became a student of Ch. Ch. in 1601, where
continuing for some time after he was master of
arts, was presented by the dean and canons to the
vicaridge of Great IJudworth in Cheshire, and there
continued several years a constant preacher. After-
[286] wards he was made prelx;ndary ' of the catli. ch. at
Chester, sulwlean thereof (1605,) a weekly lecturer
on Friday in S. Peter's church in the said city, and
clerk of the convocation of the clergy once or twice.
But having always been puritanically inclined, he
sided with the presbyterians upon the defection of
the members of the hmg parliament, an. 1641, took
the covenant, was made one of the assembly of di-
vines, examiner in Latin to the said assembly, rector
of Ashficld in Cheshire, and for a time rector of
Astbury or Estbury in the said county, chairman
of the committee for the examination of ministers,
and of the committee for printing, one of the or-
dainers of ministers according to the presbyterian
way, &c. president of Sion coll. about 1645, and
afterwards when Dr. Ed. Hyde was ejected from
his rich parsonage of Brightwell near Wallingford
in Berks, he was appointed to succeed him by the
COTnmittee ; which, if I mistake not, he kept with
other benefices for a time. In 1653 he was ap-
pointed one of the tryers for the approbation of
public ministers, and the year following an assistant
to the commissioners of Berks, for the ejecting of
such whom they then called scandalous, ignorant,
and insufficient ministers and school-masters. Soon
after, upon pretence that he could enjoy but little
peace or hope of settlement for after-times at Bright-
well, (for the truth is, he was much hated while he
lived there) he obtained the rich rectory of Soly-

» [Collated April 4, l6V7. MS. Rawuhson.]

hull in Warwickshire from the patron thereof sir
Sim. Archer of Umlierslade near Tamworth knight,
before the year 1656, where he continued for some
time. At length breaking a vein within him, by
overstraining himself in speaking, became very weak
thereupon. So that being not able to go on in the
ministry, he resigned Solyhull upon some considera-
tion given, and went to Sutton Colfield in the said
county, where, after he had lived privately for a
short time, gave up the ghost in a fair age. He
was esteemecl in his time a man of note, especially
by those of the presbyterian persuasion, well versd
in various authors, and a ready preacher. His
works are these,

An Apology in Defence of the Geneva Notes cm
the Bible, inhich were in S. Mary's Ch. in Oxon
publicly and severely reflected on by Dr. John

Hownon When printed I know not. 'Twas

written about 1612, and submitted to the judgment
of bish. Usher, who did well approve of it.

Pattern qf Piety : or, religions Life and Death
of Mrs. Jane Ratcliff Widow, and Citizen qfCJies-
ter.'^ Lond. 1640. oct.

Several sermons, as (1) Serm. on Ruth 3... 11.
Lond. 1640. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. A. 58. Th.] (2) ^
Monitor of Mortality, in two Funeral Sermons oc-
casioned by the Death qf Joh. Archer, Son and
Heir qf Sir Sim. Archer (^Warwickshire, Kniffht,
and of Mrs. Harper qf Chester, and Iwr Dau^dar
Phebe ofVi. Years old. The first on James 4. 14.
and the other on Gen. 44. 3. Lond. 1643. qu.
[Bodl. 4to. L. 14. Th. Seld.] (3) Fury of War,
and Folly qf Sin, Fast-Sermon before the House
qf Commons ; on Jer. 4. 21, 22. Lond. 1643. qu.
[Botll. 4to. J. 1. Th. BS.] &c.

Sunday a Sabbath : or, a Preparative Discourse
Jbr Di.icussion qf Sabbatary Dmdds. Lond. 1641.
qu. assisted in this work by the MSS. and jidvice of
arcbb. Usher.

The Christian Sabbcdh maintained: in Answer
to a Book qf Dr. Pocklington stiled Sunday no
Sabbath.

Defensive Doubts, Hopes, and Reasons for Re-
fusal of the Oath, imposed by the sixth Canon of
the Synod. Lond. 1641. qu. [Bodl. 4to. L. 14. Th.
Seld. and with MS. notes, Bo<ll. 4to. Rawl. 90.]

Letter against Erection of an Altar, written 29
June 1635, to John, Bishop qf Chester.

Case qf Conscience concerning the Sacrament qf

the Lord's Supper. These two last things, were

printed, and go, with Defensive Doubts.

Comparison of the Parliamentary Protestation
with the late canonical Oath, and the Difference

• [^Pattern of Piel)/ : or religious Life and Death of that
grave and gracio>is Matron Mrs. Jane Ralclijfe fftdoie and
Citizen of Chester, of whom the Discourse is framed and ap-
plied so as the Commemoration if the Dead may hest serve
to the Edification of the Living, whether Men or Women,
jyhrreof Part was preached and the whole fVrittcn. Lond,
1640. 8°. Rawlinson.]

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between them ; as also tlie Opposition betiveen the
Doctrine of the Church of England and that of
R(me, &c. Lond. 1641. qu. [Botll. 4to. A. 74. Th.]

Further Discussion of the Case of Conscience

touching receiving of the Sacrament Printed

•with the Comparison.

" A Discourse concerning Puritans : A Vindi-

*' cation of those xvho impistly suffer by the Mistake,

[287] " Abuse, and Misapplication of that Name. &c. —

" printed 1641. qu. in 7 sheets and half." [Bodl.

C. 13. 12. Line]

Examination of John Saltmarslis new Query,
and Determination upon it, published to retard the
Establishment of the Presbyterial Government, &c.
Lond. 1646. qu. [Bodl. 4to. W. 5. Th. BS.]

Censure of what Mr. Saltmarsh hath produced
to the same Purpose, in his other, and latter Books,
which he calleth The Opening of Mr. PrynviS
Vindication.

Apologetical Narrative of the late Petition of the
Common Council and Ministers of London to the
honourable Houses of Parliament, with a Justifica-
iion of them from the Contumacy of the Weekly

Pamphleteers These two last things are printed

with the Examinat. of J. SaltmarsKs new Query,
&c.

lAghtfor Smoak : or a clear and distinct Reply
to a dark and confused Answer in a Book made and
entit. The Smoke in the Temple, by Joh. Salt-
marsh late PreacJier at Breasteed in Kent, now re-
volted from his pastoral Calling and Charge.
Lond. 1646. qu. To this book is joined — Novella
mastix: or, a Scourge for a scurrilous News-mon-
ger. In Answer to the ignorant and malevolent
Aspersions cast upon that Rev. and learned Divine
Mr. John Ley, Hy the Writer of a Pamphlet called
(by the Figure Antiphrasis) The perfect Passages.
Said there to be written by C. D. master of arts.

An after Reckoning with Mr. Saltmarsh : or, an
Appeal to the impartial and conscientious Reader,
«S-c. against his last Paper called, An End of our
Controversy; or an Answer or Letter, to Mr.
Ley''s large Book. 1646. qu. This book, as Mr.
Ley's special' friend hath told me, was written by
the saia Ley, yet the reader is to know that in the
title it is said that L. M. student in divinity wrote
it. The said book called, An End of our Contro-
versy, &c. was written in answer to Light for
Smoak. This Saltmarsh, by the way it must be
known, was descended from an antient family of his
name living sometime at Saltmarsh in Yorkshire,
but whether bom in that county, or at Strubby in
Lincolnshire, where was a branch of his name living
Tor three generations before his time, I know not,
educated in Magd. coll. in Cambridge, graduated
there, and afterwards beneficed, being esteemed
then a person of a* fine and active fancy, no con-

' Rich. Moore a nonconformist minister living at Welhe-
rock-hill in Worcestershire.

* Tho. I'ullcr iu liis Worthies of England, in Vorksh.

temptible poet and a good preacher. But upon tlie
turn of the times in 1641, he, as a mutable man,
became, of a zealous observer, a violent opposer, of
bishops and ceremonies. At that time lie was a
preacher at Northampton, and at other places,
where he was much followed by, and found esteem
from, such who entitled themselves The godly.
Afterwards he was minister of Braisted in Kent,
chaplain in the parliament army under sir Tho.
Fairfax, where he always preached the bonds of
love and peace, praying that that might be the cord
to unite Christians in unity. He medled not in tlie
pulpit with presbytery and independency, but solely
laboured to draw the soul from sin to Cnrist. Thus
he lived among soldiers in time of health ; and how
his departure was from the anny a little before his
death, you shall hear more anon, and in the mean
time I shall tcU you of several tilings that he hath
written, besides wliat are before-mentioned (which
shew him to be an aiitinomian) as (1) The Assem-
bite's Petition defended against his Exception. (2)
Holy Discoveries and Flames Printed in tw.

1640. (3) Free Grace: or, the Floxvings of
ChrisCs Blood freely to Sinners ; being an Expe-
riment ofJes. Ch. upon one who hath been in the
Bondage of a troubled Spirit, at Times for twelve
Years till now, &c. Lond. 1645. in tw. (4) A new
Qucere, " at this Time seasonably to he considered,
" as we tender the Advancement of Truth and
" Peace, viz. Whether it be ft, according to the
" Principles of true Religion and State, to settle
" any Chm-ch-Government over the Kitigxlom has-
" tily or not,'" &c. Lond. 1645. Septemb. 30. 1
sh. qu. [Bodl. C. 14. 7. Line] (5) Shadows fly-
ing away. Lond. 1646. qu. Animadverted upon
by Tho. Gataker in his Shadows with Substance,
&c. Lond. 1646. qu. (6) " The Smoak in the
" Temple ; wherein is a Design fr Peace and Rc-
" conciliation of Believers of the several Opinions
" of these Times about Ordinances, Ste. with a
"full Answer to Mr. Le/y, against his late nexv
" QuKre, Sj-c. Lond. 1646. qu. 2d. edition." [Bodl.
C. 13. 16. Line] (7) Dawnings of Light, where-
in the true Interest of Reformation is opened in ge-
neral, and in particular, for the Establishing of
weaker Judgments. Lond. 1646. in tw. (8)
Maxims of Reformation. Printed with the former.
(9) Reasons for Unity, Peace and Love, in Ans'.crr
to Mr. Tho. Edwards his Gnngra'na — Lond. 1646.
qu. (10) Groans fur Liberty, ^c. presented from
the Presbyterian Brethren, reputed the most learn-
ed among them, in some Treatises called Smectym-
nus, to the honourable Court of Parliament An.

1641, by Reason of the Prelate'''s Tyranny. Lond.
1646. qu. [Bcxll. C. 14. 9. Line] (11) A Beam
of Light to discover a Way to tlie Peace " both of
" Church and State by Way op' Con.sidcrotion.'"
(12) Some Queries for better understonding nf M r.
Edwards''s last Book called in Latin Gangrcciia,
" but in English a Book of Scandals,"" &c. (13)

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" An Expostulation with Mr. Edwards upon his
" Book caird Gangrcena."" (14) A Parallel be-
tween the Prelacy and Presbytery " These last

" four are printed with the Groans for Liberty!"
(15) The Divine Right of Presbytery, asserted by
tlie present Assembly, and petitioncdfor nccwdingly
to the House of Com. in Parliament, with Reasons
di-icussing this pr-etended divine Right. Lond. 1646.
in 3 sh. in qu. [Bodl. C. 14. 9. Line] (16) Spar-
Mes of Glory: or. Some Beams of the Morning-
Star, wherein are many Discoveries as to Peace
and Truth. Lond. 1647. in tw. (17) Wonderful
Predictions, declared in a Message, as from the
Lord, to his Excellency Sir Tho. Fairfax, and the
Council oflm Army. Lond. 1648. in one sh. in qu.
with other things wnich I have not yet seen, as (l)
Several Serm^is. (2) Practice of Policy, printed
in tw. (3) Flagellum Flagelli, &c. against Dr. Jo.
Bastwick, and lastly Animadversions on Mr. Tho.
Fuller's Serm<m, wherein he taxeth him of Popery.
At length* on the 4th of Decemb. 1647, he being
then at his house near to Ilford in Essex, told his
wife that he had been in a trance, had seen a vision,
and received a command from God, to go presently
to the army, to make known to them what the Lord
had revealed to him, which would be the last work
that he had to do for them, and taking leave of his
wife, he hasted to London that night, and declared
to sir Hen. Mildmay a parliament-man, that he was
sent by the Lord with a message to the army, to
make known some things unto them which God had
revealed unto him. Tlie next day being Sunday,
he with much ado got a horse, and about 3 of the
clock in the afternoon rode towards Windsor the
head-quarter of the army, and about 11 of the clock
at night came to a certam town about 7 miles distant
from Windsor, where he lay that night, and spoke
of many wonderful things that the Lord had reveal-
ed to him. But the man and woman of the house
gave no credit at first to what he said, tho\ l^efore
he left them, they did, and began to be taken with
his preaching discourses. Before break of day the
next morning, being Monday Dec. 6, he went to-
wards Windsor, and l>eing there about nine of the
clock, he repaired to the general council, wliere
some of the officers were met in expectation of the
general and the rest, to sit in council ; before whom
he spoke these words, with his eyes almost fix'd in
his head, or rather as if he had come out of a trance

* [The account from this pl.ice is taken from JVnnderful
Predtclions, declfired in a Message, as from the Lord, to his
Exceilency Sir Tlio. Fairfax and the Councell of his Army.
By John Salt ntanh. Preacher nf the Gnspetl : His severall
Speeches, and the Manner of his Death. (An iin|)riniatiir
by fjilliert .Mabbol, wiih two wooden cuts in the title-page,
of Mr. Sa!tmar:'h, in liis win'lingsheei, and holdititja llghied
torch, .ind general Fairfax liooicH.) Printed hij Hoi. Jllit-
son in Smithfietd, near the Queen's Head Tavern, ld48.
Penes me. Cole.

The print here menlioned would <uld a new article to
Granger.]

with fear and trembling to express what he had re-
ceived, ' I am come liither to reveal to you what I
have received from God. That tho' the Lord hath
done much for you, and by you, yet he liath of late
left you, and is not in your councils, because you
have forsaken liim. God will not prosper your con-
sultations, but destroy you by divisions among your
selves. I have formerly come to you like a lamb,
but God hath now raised in me the spirit of a lion,
because you have sought to destroy the people of
God. The controversy, that is now before you, calls
for the tenderest judgment, because it concerns the
faithful ones, those imprison'd of your own members,
having always stood oy you through the greatest
difficulties. — I advise all the faithful to depart from
you, lest they be destroyed with you,' &c. After-
wards he went to sir Tho. Fairfax tho general, but
did not move his hat to him, saying, ' I have had

a command from God not to honour you at all.

I have honoured you so much, that I have offended
God in doting ujxin your person. God hath re-
vealed unto me, that he is highly displeased with
your committing of saints to prison, that he will not
prosper you, nor can I honour you,' &c. After he
had parted with the general he- went to Cromwell
the fieut. genera], whom he met in the hall in
Windsor castle, and being by him asked how he
did, Saltmarsh stirred not his hat, but told him,
' The Lord was angry with him, for causing those
godly men to be imprison'd, slighted, and abused,
for those engagements which he had formerly owned,
and the persons such as he knew faithful in the
cause of God: That the armies faUing off from
their former principles, it would be their ruin and
destruction, and would raise such factions among
themselves, as would undo them,' &c. Cromwell
told him thereupon that some things were not so
well as he could wish, and wondred such passages
should fall from him. Saltmarsh then proceeded
and declared to him as he had done to the general
council of the army. At length Cromwell took a
paper out of his pocket, which he told Saltmarsh he
had received from him, and there read it, some of
which was not much different from what he had
said. An officer then present spake of something that
had lately fallen from another member of the army
relating to that purpose. Whereupon Saltmarsh
replied, ' Look you here now, out of the mouths of
two or three witnesses the truth of God is con-
firmed.' Whereujwn Cromwell said ' I am glad
that there is some tenderness of heart in you ;' and
then, after some other discourse, they parted. After-
wards Mr. Saltmarsh discoursed with other officers,
and with Hugh Peters, about the same matter; and
the next day being Tuesday Dec. 7. he went to
Cromwell again and told him he had one thing ye€
to deliver to him, which God required of him, and
that was, that ' he would immediately take effectual
course for the enlargement of the members of the
army that were committed for not complying with

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the general council, and tliat lie do not prosecute
against those tliat have been faithful,' &c. After-
wards he took his leave of the officers, telling them
that ' he had then done his errand, and must leave
them, never to see the army more.' That night he
went to London, and the next day he told chvers of
his- friends there what he had done at Windsor, and
then taking his leave, said his work was done, his
message delivered, and desired them to be careful of
his wile. On Thursday Dec. 9. he went from Lon-
don very cheerful and well, and arrived that night
at his house near Ilford, not sick at all, and told nis
wife what he had done. On Friday Dec. 10. he
told his wife that he had now finished his course,
and must go to his father ; and in the afternoon he
complained that his head did ake, desiring to lye
down upon his bed, where his wife took all possible
care of him : But whatsoever he received for suste-
nance, he could not retain it, yet he rested well all
that night. On Saturday Decemb. 11. an. 1647,
he was taken speechless in the morning, and in the
aifternoon about 4 or 5 of the clock, he died in great
peace and quiet, leaving then the character behind
him by some, of a bigotted enthusiastical person.
Afterwards came out a book entit. Saltmarsh re-
turn'dj'rom the Dead in Amlco Philalethe : or, the
Resurrection of James tJie Apostle, Sfc. being an
Exposition on thejifth Chap. ofS. James. Lond.

1655. qu. [BotU. 4to. B. 6. Th. BS.] published by
S. G. Thus far, with as much brevity as I could,
concerning this Jo. Saltmarsh, who was full of
poetical raptures and highly conceited of himself
and parts. See more in Will. Prynne. Now let's
go on with Joh. Ley and tell you what other books
ne hath pubhshed.

.' Elaborate Annotations on the Pentateuch, &c.
The first and second edit, enlarged, the text ex-
plained, &c. Lond. 1651. fol.

Learned Defence for the Legality of Tithes, Jbr,
and towards, the Maintenance (tf Gospel Ministers.
Oxon. 1653. qu.

■ Geiieral Reasons grounded on Equity, Piety,
Charity, and Justice against the Payment of a
jifth Part to scquestred Ministei's Wives and Chil-
dren. Lond. 1654. 55. qu.

• An Acquittance or Discliar ge from Dr. E. H.
(Edw. Hyde) his Demand of a Jifth Part oftlie
Rectory of Br. (Brightwell) in Berks, pleaded as
in a Court of Equity and Conscience. Lond. 1654.
qu. [Bodl. 4to. M. 11. Th. BS.]

Letter to Dr. Edw. Hyde, in Answer to one of
Ms, occasion''d by the late Insurrection at Salisbury
— ^Printed in 2 sh. in qu. 'Twas dated at Bright-
well 6 Apr. 1655.

< 'Debate concerning tlie English Liturgy, 4"C.
between Edxv. Hyde D. D. and Joh. Ley. Lond.

1656. qu. The debate is carried on in epistles be-
tween them.

Discourse or Disputations, chiefly concerning
Matters of Religion. Lond. 1658. qu.

Animadversions on two printed Books of Joh.

Onely a Lay-Preaclur. Printed witli the Di,t

course.

Equitable and necessary Cottsiderations for the
Association of Arms throughout Ens'land and
Wales. t, ^

Petition to the Lord Protector by divers, for the
Establishment of themselves, and other their Bre-
thren, for their 0W71 Lives, in the Places to which
they are admitted, to officiate as Ministers of the
Gospel, without Institution and Induction by the
Bis/iops.

Comparison of the Oath of the sixth Canon of

tJie last Synod <f Bishops, and the Protestation set

forth by the Parliament, in Ansieer to a Letter of'

Pedael Harlozt) Gent. Printed in qu. This

Harlow hath one or more things that are extant,
and was a professed creature of Henry earl of Man-
chester.

Attestation of the Ministers of Cheshire, to the
Testimony of the Ministers of the Province if Lon-
don, against Errors, Heresies and Blasphemies—'
Pr. in qu.

Exceptions many and Just ; being an Answer to
two injurious Petitions against Tythes. — These are
all the things that I hitherto know, that have been
written by our author Ley, and therefore I have no
more to say of him but this, that after he had lived
to see many mutations in church and .state, and had
enjoyed many places of profit, and benefices be-
longing to other men of the royal party, purposely
to gain wealth, did wUlingly give up the ghost at
Sutton Colfield before-mention'd, on the sixteenth
day of May in sixteen hundred sixty and two, and
was buried in the church there, leaving then tlie cha-
racter behind him by some, that he was one of the
f)illars of presbytery ; and by others, a person
earned ancl well read in the fathers and councils.
One Mr. Ley a learned divine, wrote a book about
1624, entit. The Christian Nomenclature, &c.
against the papists, mention'd in Joh. Gee's book
entit. The Foot out of the Snare, 8ic. Lond. 1624.
qu. p. 17. in mai-g. whether the same with our author
Joh. Ley I know not.

" WILLIAM BACKHOUSE, a younger son
" of Sam. Backhouse of Swallowfield in Berks,
" esq; (who died in 1626) was born in that county,
" became a commoner of Ch. Ch. an. 1610, aged
" 17 years, left it without a degree, and at length
" settling on his patrimony, became a most renown'd
" chymist, Rosicrucian, and a great encourager of
" those that studied chymistry and astrology, espe-
" daily Elias Ashmole, whom he adopted his son,
" and opened himself very freely to him the secret,
" which he afterwards told him in syllables, and
" bequeathed it to him as a legacy, as I shall tell
" you more at large when I come to speak of him.
" This noted person Mr. Backhouse hath translated
" from French into English. (1) Tlie pleasant

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Jx\CKSON.

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578

?' Fountain of Knmoledge, written in French by
" Joii. de la Fouiitaine, an. 1413, and translated by
" Hackhouse 1644. oct. (2) The Complaint of
" Nature ; and tliirdly anotlier hook entit. The
" Gohkii Fleece, Sec. written by Solomon Trismosin
•' master to Paracelsus, which book was printed in
" French at Par. 1612. in oct. He was also tlie
" inventor of" the Way wiser, in the time of George
" Villiers the first duke of llucks. What other
" things Mr. Backhouse hath done for the good of
•" learning I know not, nor any thing else of him,
" only that he died on the 30th of May in sixteen
lO<52. " hundred sixty and two, and was buried in the
." cliurch at Swallowfield before-mention''d, leaving
" then behind him the character of a gootl man, and
" of one eminent in his profession, as also a daughter
." named Floure, first the wife of Will. Bishop of
." Southwarnborough in Hampshire, esq; and atter-
" wards of his kinsman sir Will. Backliouse bart.^
" See of this Mr. Backhouse in Mr. Aubrey's col-
" lection of liermetic philosophy chap, xii."

[291] HENRY JACKSON son of Hen. Jacks, mer-

cer, was born in S. Mary's parish within the city of
O.Kon, admitted scholar of C. C. C. on the first of

• a'red 17 ^^- 1602, aged 16 years,* having for

• years or two years before been clerk of the said
thereabnnts. house, admitted probat. fellow thereof
First edii. 5 of Sept. 1612, to the reading of the
■sentences five years after, and at length u]K)n the
death of Dr. Seb. Benefield, sometimes his tutor, he
became rector of Meysey-Hampton near to Fairford
in Glocestershire, which was all the preferment he
ever look'd after ; for being a studious and cynical
•person he never expected or desired more. He was
a great admirer of Rich. Hooker and Joh. Rainolds,
whose memories being most dear to him, he did, for
the sake of the first, industriously collect and publish
some of his small treatises, and of the latter, several
of liis epistles and orations. He also did diligently
recognize, and added marginal notes, with a copious
index to, the twelve books of Jo. Lud. Vives,
(sometime rhetoric reader of C. C. C.) seven of the
former of which, are De corruptis Artibus, the
other five, De tradendls Disciplinis. He had also
made a collection of several of the works of Pet.
Aba^lard from antient MSS. of that author, had re-
vised, compared and collected them : All which he
did intend at his own charge to pubhsh, but the
grand rebelhon breaking fortli in 1642, the soldiers
belonging to the parliament rifled his house, .scat-
tered the said collection, and made it so imperfect,
that it could never be recovered. He hath written,

Vita Ciccronis, ex variis Auioribus collccta.
Commentarii in Ciceronis Quest. Lib. quintum.
Both which, dedicated by the author to Dr. Seb.

''' [Mr. Richards of Matlingky, near Heckfiel'l, Hants,
possesses sir William Backhouse's papers, among which arc
several chymical and astrological tracts. So said in 17i;8.
Loved A v.]
Vol. hi.

Benefield, are remaining under the author's hand in
my custody ; but whether they were ever printed!
cannot tell. He also translated from Englisli into
Latin, Commentm'n super 1 Caj). Amot. Oj)en-
heim 1615. oct. written by the said Dr. Benefield,
as I have elsewhere told vou. Also Joh. Fryth's
book Of Baptism, which he entit. De Baptismo Sf
Cognitione sui; next Joh. Hooper's Lectures an
the Creed, and la,stly Hugh Latymer's Oration to
the Convocation concerning the State of the King-
dom to be reformed by the Gosjjel: which last trans-
lation had l)efore been done by Sim. Gryneus. But
whether these three last (which are in M§. in my
hands) are pubhshed, I cannot tell : nor do I knaw
any thing of the translator besides, only, that he
dying on the fourth day of June in sixteen hundrad
sixty and two, was burietl in the chancel of the
church of Meis. Hamp. near to the grave of Dr.
Benefield before-mention'd. I find another Hen.
Jackson to bo author of l^he Description of the lit-
tle World or Body of Man, printed 1660 in oct.
but of what university he was, if of any, I know
not.

[Among Wood's IMSS. in the Ashmole Museum,
are

1. Vita Thoma Lupseti, ex Elogiis Georgii
Lillii aliisgue Scriptoribiis, j)er Hen. Jncksonum.

2. Collectanea Hcnrici Jacksoni. The last relates
chiefly to the monasteries of Gloucester, Maimsbury
and Cirencester.] •<

" HENRY VANE, or sir Humerous Vanity as
" he was usually called, the eldest son of sir Hen.
" Vane of Hadlow in Kent knight, sometime comp-
" troller of the houshold and secretary of state to
" king Charles I, by Frances his wife daugh. of

" Darcy of Essex, was born about the year

" 1612, bred with sir Arthur Haselrigg, Tho. Scot
" the regicide and other notorious antimonarchists
" in the college school at Westminster, partly, if
" not altogether, under Mr. Lambert Osbaldeston
" the cliief master thereof: At which time he was
" inclined, as most youths arc, to the vanities of the
" world, and to that which they call good fellowship.
" But about the 14th or 15th year of liis age God
" was pleased (as he ' saith) to lay the foundation or
" ground-work , of repentance in him, &c. At about
" 16 years of age he became a gent. com. of Magd.
" hall, as his great creature Hen. Stubli hath several
" times inforia'd me, liut when he was to be matri-
." culated as a member of the university, and so con-
" setjuently take the oath of allegiance jmd supre-
" macy, he (juitted his gown, put on a cloak, and
" studied notwithstanding for some time in the said
" hall. Thence being taken home by his relations,
" his majesty was acquainted that the heir of a con-
" siderable family about him was grown into the

.' " In his Speech nn the Scuffuld on Towtr.liill .// the Time
" oj his Execuliun."

P P

1063.

579

VANE.

[2D2] " dislike of the discipline and ceremonies of the
" churcii of En<^land ; and therefore tlie bishop of
" London taknig him to task lie gave him the slip,
" and by tiie instigation of some separatists of his
" neighlK)uiIiood he went beyond the seas and spent
" much time in New England and Amsterdam.
" At both which places Ix'ing sufficiently imbib'd
*' with many heterodox and dangerous opinions,
" sufficiently expressed at his return into Old Eng-
" land, exfx)s\l liim as a mark for the arrow from
" almost all sorts of people, rendring him a man of
■" contention with the whole earth. In the lie^n-
" ning of the jear 1640, he was chosen a burgess by
" a factious knot, for Kingston upon Hull, to serve
" in that parliament which began at Westminster
" on the 13tli of Apr. and in June following he re-
" ccived the honour of knighth<jod from his majesty :
" from which time till his father''s death, which was
" about 1654, he was usually called sir Hen. Vane
" junior, and sometimes written sir Hen. Vane of
" Raby castle, knight. In the same year (1640)
" he was elected burgess for the said place of King-
" ston to serve in that most unhappy parliament,
" which began the 3d of Nov. wherein he shewVl
" himself the most active person in that convention,
" either to gain to himself a name, popularity or
" riches. The first thing in that parliam. whereby
" he shew'd himself a politician and a most false
" person, was his secretly conveying out of his
" father's cabinet certain notes of a debate, taken
" while he was one of the select councellors of the
" Junto, held 5 May 1640 for the carrying on the
" expedition against the Scots, wherein finding
" many things to be made use of against the most
" noble Thomas earl of Straffisrd (hated by him for
" several self-end reasons) he pretended therefore to
" hold himself bound in duty and conscience to dis-
" cover them, and accordingly he did put them into
" the hands of Job. Pym a parliament man and an
" inveterate enemy to that count.* In 1643 he
" was one of the commissioners appointed by the
" pari, to go into Scotland to carry on the blessed
*' cause, took the covenant, and being esteemed a
" man of much religion was admitted to sit in the
" assembly of divines, where he had often an oppor-
" tunity of shewing his parts in theological mat-
" ters. About that time he totally outed sir Will.
" Russel, was made treasurer of the navy, a place
" worth, as 'tis said, at least 6000/. per an. in the
" time of war, especially if the lord treasurer be his
" friend. In the latter end of 1644 he was ap-
" pointed by the parhament one of their commis-
" sioners to treat of peace, \nth those appointed by
" the king, at Uxbridge ; where, by some royalists,
" his canting and false way of speaking and acting
" was discovered. In Dec. 1646 an ordinance was
" passed to enable him to make a surrender of his
" place of treasurer of the navy, and in 1648 he was

' [And this paper was the chirf means of his condemna-
tion. Macro.]

" one of the commons appointed by parhament to
" treat with the king in the isle of Wight for the
" settlement of the nation in peace : at which time
" he {lersuaded his majesty not to be prodigal in
" his concessions, that he had alreatly yielded more
" than was fit for them to ask, or him to grant, and
" undertook to make it evident to the whole world :
" yet afterwards this most restless man did most
" fiercely and perfidiously inveigh against the cou-
" cessions, as designed by his maj. under the species
" of peace to ruin the parliament and cominon-
" wealth. Yet at last, notwithstanding those terrors
" without, and troubles within, the house came to
" this resolve, that the king's concessions were a suf-
" ficient ground for peace ; which was carried by
" 200 voices against scarce 60 dissenters. In the
" lieginning of the long parliament he was a pro-
" moter of the rebellion, a frequent committee-man,
" a speech-maker, a preiu-her, an underminer, a
'' jugling fellow, and a plotter to gain the estates of
" other persons that adhered to his majesty in the
" worst of times. A noted writer ^ tells us, that ' he
" was born to disquiet the world, and to be a fire-
" brand of communities, yet still carrying his designs
'' of confusion under a feigned meekness and sim-
" plicity of the gosjjel.' When presbytery dwindled
" into other factions he was a sider with them how-
" soever notorious. From a presbyterian he became
" an independent, from that to be an anabaptist,
" and fifth monarchy-man, &c. And I am per-
" suaded if any one doth aptly verify the proverb,
" ' Convenient rebus nomina saspe suis,' there is
" often times an agreement between name and na-
" ture as there was in him. In sum, he was the
" Proteus of the times, a meer hotchpotch of reli-
" gion, chief ring-leader of all the Irantick secta-
" rians, of a turbulent spirit and working brain, of
" a strong composition of choler and melancholy, an
" inventor not only of whimseys in religion, but also
" of crotchets in the state, (as his several models tes-
" tify) and composed only of treason, ingi-atitude and
" baseness.' After the murder of king Charles I. he

' " Rich. Perinchief in his book called The Royal Mar.
" tyr : or, the Life and Death of King Charles J. LonH.
" 1676. oct. p. 174."

' [Not so Milton, who has honoured him with the follow-
ing sonnet.

To sir Henry Vane the younger.
Vane, young in years, bnt in sage counsel old.

Than whom a better senator ne'er held
The helm of Rome, when gowns, not arms, repell'd

The fierce Epirot and the African bold.
Whether to settle peace, or to unfold
The drift of hollow states hard to be spell'd,
Then to advise how war may best upheld
Move by her two main nerves, iron and gold.
In all her equipage: besides to know

Both spiritual pow'r and civil, what each means.
What severs each, thou hast learn'd, which few have
done:
The bounds of cither sword to thee we owe :
Therefore on thy firm hand Religion leans
In peace, and reckons thee her eldest son.]

r>8i

VANE.

582

" was several times elected a member of the council of
" state, was a commissioner in Scotland, andin 1652
" he was for a time president of the siime council,
" being then also one of the commissioners of the
" navy. Soon after, when he saw Ohver (who had .
" made him subservient to his designs) gape after
" monarchy, he became his great opposer, and en-
" deavoured to his utmost to ruin nnn, by siding
" with, and preaching among, anabaptists, and fifth-
" monarchy-men. But Oliver for his own security
" imprison d him several times, pai-ticularly in Ca-
" risbrook castle in the isle of Wight, whence he
" was released with Chr. Feake on the last of Dec.
" 1656. Afterwards he shew'd himself an enemy
" to Richard the protector, towards whose deposing
" he was very active, and endeavoured then to be
" one of the rulers of Israel, if the intended match
" between his son Henry and the daughter of maj.
" gen. John Lambert had not been spoiled by the
" restitution of the rump-parliament by the generous
" George Monk. On tne 9th of May, just after the
" laying aside of Richard, he was appointed by the
" said parliam. (of which he was a member) then
" restored by the army, one of the committee of
" safety, or of such who were to take care of the
" commonwealth, to sit for 8 days and no longer,
" and on the 13th of the same month he was ap-
" pointed by the said pari, one of the council of
" state, then by them set up ; by whom, he and six
" more were appointed commissioners to nominate
" commission-officers for the army of the common-
" wealth. On the 26th of the same month he was
" appointed the first and chief of the seven commis-
" sioners for ordering and managing the affairs of
" the admiralty, and in Sept. the same year he was
" president ot the council of state pro tempore.
" About which time he drew up a new model of
" government which he projwsed while Bulstrode
" Whitlock was in the cliair in these- particulars
" (1) ' That the supream power delegated by the
" people to their trustees, ought to be m some fun-
" damentals not dispensed with. (2) That it is de-
" structive to the people's liberties (to which by
" God's blessing they are restored) to admit any
" earthly king or single person, to the legislative or
" executive power of the nation. (3) That the su-
" prcam jxiwer delegated is not entrusted to the
" people's trustees to erect matters of faith or wor-
" ship so as to exercise compulsion therein.' When
" these particulars were debated, sir Henry gave
" reasons to maintain them, which for brevity's sake
" I shall now pass by. Afterwards when the rump
" pari, was silenced by maj. gen. Lambert and his
" soldiers, which was on the 13th of Oct. 1659, he
" was nominated one of the committee of ten, from,
" and by, the said council of state to consider of fit
" ways to carry on the affairs of the government,

' " Memorials of English yiffairs, &c. .iii. 1659."

and at the same time he and five more were ap-
pointed a committee to nominate officers of the
army. On the 26th of the same month he was
nominated one of the general council of officers,
alias committee of safety, wherein he, with Rich.
' Salwey and others haa a design to overthrow
' magistracy, ministry and the law. On the first
' of Nov. following, before which time gen. Geo.
' Monk had disliked from Scotland the proceedings
' of Lambert and the army, in setting aside the
' rump, he and others were appointed by the com-
' mittee of safety to consider of a form of govem-
' meat for the three nations, as a commonwealth,
' and to present it to the said committee. But
' Monk making preparations for his journey into
' England, he (as others) had a commission riven [294]
' to him by the said committee, to be a colonel of a
' new rais'd regiment of horse, in order to repel
' him. On the 1 6th of the same month of Nov.
' he was ap{x)inted one of the committee to treat
' with the three commissioners that Monk sent into
' England in order for an accommodation, but they
' effecting nothing for their piirpo.se, he became
' very averse to some of the chief men of his own

Earty, when 'twas by them proposed to him of
ringing in the king from his exile, purposely to
' prevent Monk from that design, and to secure
' and make conditions for themselves, when they
' fancied Monk would not, but leave them all in
' the lurch to shift for themselves. After the rump
' pari, was restored by the said Monk, he, (sir H.
' Vane) was by them sent for on the 9th of Ja-
' nuary following, and took his place in the house :
' Whereupon being question'd for his acting during
' the late interruption of parliament, (viz. Det ween
' the silencing of the rump by Lambert, and its re-
' storation by Monk) he did ingeniously confess
' his fault, and thereupon it was voted that he
' should forthwith repair to his house at Raby in
' the county pal. of Durham, and remain there
' during the pleasure of the parliament, and be
' discharged from bcuig a memuer thereof. After-
' wards he retiring among the anabaptists and other
' notorious sectaries, whom he instigated to rise and
' take up arms, it was ordered by the parliament
' on the first of Febr. following that he should be
' taken into custwly and sent to Raby. After his
' majesty's restoration he was ai'rested of high trea-
' son (being, I think, a person excepted) in the
' month of Jul. 1660, and thereupon committed to
■ the Tower with Archibald marques of Argyle,
(Randolph) Macdonnel marques of Antrim, and
sir Arth. Haselrigg, where continuing for some
time, he was sent prisoner to the isle of Scilley,
there to remain during his majesty's pleasure.
Afterwards he was brought to London, and being
for some time kept in custody in the Tower, was
on the 6th of June 1662 brought to his tryal in
the King's-bench in Westminster, and there in-
PP2

583

VANE.

" dieted of liigh-trcason for plotting and contriving
" the final destruction and death of the king, ma-
" llciously and treacherously : and that he, witli
" others, did take uptm him the government of the
" kingdom of England, &c. The witnesses to prove
" this were many ; and there being so much to he
*' said against him, "twas thought fit not to trouble
" the court with any of his crimes before the fatal
" day, 30th of Jan. 1648. His indictment being
" made out by a numerous and full evidence, he
" addressed liiniself to his defence, wherein he took
" up so much time, rej)eating the same things and
" words over aind over, with so many and frei]uent
'* pauses, as very much exercised the patience of
" the court and all others there present. At length,
** after many pros and cons had passed between
" them, the jury went out, but made a very short
" stay (not nuich longer than one of his jiauses)
" and brought him in guilty of high treason.
" Whereupon the sentence of death passed on him
" to be drawn from the Tower on a hurdle to the
" place of execution, there to be hanged by the
" neck till he be half dead, his privy members to be
" cut off, arid his bowels taken out and burnt, &c.
" Which sentence being taken off at the request of
" some of sir Henry's relations, (whose sufferings
" for his maj. and his father had been eminent) his
" majesty consented, that instead of being hang'd at
" Tyburn, he should be beheaded on Tower-iiill,
"just there where Thomas earl of Strafford was
" put to death by his and the treachery of his
" rather, which accordingly was done, as I shall
" anon tell you. Those things that were by him
" published and go under his name are these,

" Sevwal speeches, as (1) Speech in the House
" of Commons, at a Commttieejbr tlie Bill against
" Episcopal Government, Mr. Edw. Hyde sitting
" in the Clmir, 11 June 1641. Printed in one sh.
" and an half in qu. [Lond. 1641, Bodl. C. 13. 13.
" Line] (2) Speech in the Guild-hall, London, 8
" Nov. 1642, concerning his Majesty's Refusal of
" a Treaty of Peace. Lond. 1642. qu. (3) Speech
" at a Common-Juill, 27 Oct. 1643, wherein is
" sheied the Readiness of the Scots to assist tlie
" Kingdom and Parliament of England. Lond.
" 1643. qu. (4) Several Speeches in a Com. Hall
" at Lond. in Janu. 1643 in Examination of the
[295] " cunning Plot to divide and destroy the Parlia-
" ment and the City of London. Lond. 1643. qu.
" (5) Two Speeclies in the Guild-hall London,-
'•'■ concerning the Treaty at Uxiridge. Lond. 1644.
" qu. One was spoken 4 Mar. 1644, and the other
" on the 9th of Apr. following. He hath also
" written,

" The retired Afan's Meditations : or, the My-
'' stery and Power of Godliness, shewing forth tlie
" living Word, &c. Lond. 1655. qu. [Bodl. 4to.
" U. o. Th. BS.] There were Animadversions
" made on this book by one Martin Finch, who

" calls himself a preacher of the gospel. Sir H.
" Vane was also reported to be author of

" A Letter from a true and laicfiil Member of
" Parliament, i^-c. to one of the Lord.sofhis High-
" 7iess''s Council, upon Occasion of the last Declara-
" tion, shewing the Reasons of their Proceedings
'•''for securing tJie Peace of the Commonwealth,

"■published 31 Oct. 1655 Printed 1656. (ju.

" [Bodl. B. 10. 15. Line] Sir Henry dso wrote,

" A healing Question propounded and resolved
" upon Occasion of tJie late public and seasonable
" Call to Humiliation, in Order to Love and Union
" amongst the honest Party, &c. Lond. 1656. in 4
" sh. in (ju. This book tended (as 'twas then said)
" to the disturbance of the then government and
" the peace of the commonwealth. In the same
" year came out a lx)ok very accurately pen'd, en-
" tit. A Letter from a Person in the Country to
" his Friend in the City, giving his Judgment
" upon Sir Hen. Vane\v liealing Que stion.— —Tint
" who the author was I know not. Afterwards
" came out a lxx)k entit.

" The Proceedings of the Protector (so called)
" and his Council against Sir Hen. Vane Knt. SfC.
" us touching his Imprisonment in the Isle of

" Wight, &c. This was printed, as it seems, in

" 1656, in one sh. and an half in qu. In the epistle
" to the reader, it is said thus. — ' Thou hast here a
" true narrative of the whole proceedings against
" sir Hen. Vane knight, and his imprisonment in
" the isle of Wight, occasion being taken (as thou
" wilt find) from his writing and publishing a dis-
" course entit. A healing Question, &c. tending to
" the Compo.ture and Uniting all hmiest men's

" Hearts,'' &c. This pamphlet called The Pro-

" ceedings of the Protector, &c. tho' said to be pub-
" lished by a real well-wisher to Sion's prosperity
" and England's liberty, yet I take it to have been
" WTitten by sir Hen. Vane, or at least by his direc-
" tion and instruction. The said sir Heiu-y also
" wrote,

" A needful Corrective or Balance in popular
" Government. I^ond. in one sh. and an half in qu.
" [Bodl. C. 13. 6. Line] Expressed in a letter to
" James Harrington esq; upon occasion of a late
" treatise of his, ik.c.

" Of the Love of God and Union with God.
" When printed, or in what vol. I know not.

" An Epistle general to the mystical Body of
" Christ on Earth, the Church Universal in Ba-
" bylon, &c.— Printed 1662. qu.^ This was writ-
" ten in the time of his imprisonment in the isle of
" Scilley.

" The Face of the Times: Wherein is discover-
" cd the Rise, Progress and Issue of the Enmity
" and Conquest, between the Seed of the Woman

' [There is an edition printed in 12mo, l662, in the Bod-
leian, 8vo. C. 508. Line]

VANE.

586

" and the Seal of' the Serpent, &c. Printed 166iiJ.
" qu. This was also written in his ininrisoiunent
" in the isle of Scilley. At the end of which
"is,

^' A Letter to his Lady. Dat. from the isle of
" SciUey 7 Mar. 1661.

" His Meinorandums pleadable upon his Ar-
" rai^nmcnt.

" Matters containing the Substance of ichat he
" pleaded on the Jirst Day of' his Tryal, June 6.
" An. 1662.

" His ReU'Sons for an Arrest in Jttdgment.

" The Peoples Case stated.

" The Valley ofJehmhapJutt considered and open-
" ed by comparing- 2 Chron. 20, tcith Joel 3.

" Meditatitms concerning Man''s Life, perCd in
*\ his Prison State.

C Government.

"• Concerning-^ Friendship.
( Enemies.

" Meditations on Death.

" Notes of Exhortation to his Children and Fa-
^^ mily. Those lluit were taken on the 13th of
" June, being the day before his execution, are
" broken and imperfect.

" His Speech and Prayer on the Scaffold at the
" Time of his Execution. All which, from his me-
" morandums before-mention'd to this his speech,
" are in a book entit. The Life and Death of Sir
" Hen. Vane Kt. or, a sh(rrt Narrative of the main
" PcMsages of his Earthly Pilgrimage. Printed
" 1662. qu. As also partly in another entit. Tlw
" Tryal of Sir Hen. Vane Kt. at the King's-Bench
" Bar, Westminster, cm the 'M and 6th of June,
" &c. Printed 1662. qu. [Bodl. 4to. S. 37. Jur.]
" The first was written by a thorough-pac'd sec-
" tarist, George Sikes bach, of divinity, and some-
" time fellow of Magd. coll. in Oxon, and contains
" much of canting divinity and little of history I'e-
" lating to the man. The other was written by a
" sectarist also, and much in favour of sir Hen.
" Vane, and Ijoth printed by stealth, as much re-
" fleeting on justice and the passages of his tryal
" and condemnation. The aforesaid speeches, books
" and pamphlets are all the things that I have seen
" that were written or supjx)sed to be written by sir
" Hen. Vane : As for these things following, viz.
" (1) ^ Phanafick Prayer, Printed in Feb. 1659.
" on one side of a sh. of paper, said to be written
" by sir H. V. divinity professor of Raby castle ;
" (2) Sir Henry Vane''s last Sigh for the Com^
" mittee of Safety, &c. spoken by Way of Dialogue

" between him and Vice-Admiral LawsonYlth

" of Dec. 1659. and printed at Lond. in the same
" month, in 2 sh. in qu. ; and (3) Vanity of Vani-
" ties : or, Sir Henry Vane's Picture, lohich i^ a
" Ballad made to the Tune of The Jews Corant,
" and printed on one side of a sheet of paper in the
" latter end of 1661 : I siiy these, and such hke

things, were not of liis composition, but of certain
waggish people who were (fisjx)sed to make mirth
in the nation upon an object that was then de-
clining. But now let's brmg him to the last pe-
riod of his life: On the 12th of June 1662, his
majcstv (who said he coidd not be safe while sir
H. Vane lived) gave order that lie should lie
hanged and quartered at Tyburn, according to
the sentence, and that his liead should be fix'd on
some eminent place at Westminster-hall, as his
maiesty''s privy council should think fit, and his
quarters to be set on several gates of the city of
London, but at the request of some of sir Henry's
relations, as I have before told you, he was to be
beheaded on Tower-hill. On Saturday therefore
the 14th day of June (memorable for the fatal
battle at Naseby fought 17 years before, for which
sir Henry first moved for a thanksgiving to be
had for that victory) he was conducted from the
Tower by sir Joh. Robinson the lieutenant, and
the shenfF, and ascending the scaffold, entred
thereon after the manner of an old and stout Ro-
man. His friends that were with him and then
ascendeil the scaffold also, encircled him and laid
then' heads together to discourse : whereuiwn the
people who were spectators generally cried out
Which is the man to suffer ? which is sir Hen.
Vane .'' Whereupon sir Henry drew from his
company, saluted the spectators with his hat off
on each side of the stage, as if he had been going
to speak a prologue, and then returned to his
company with his hat cock'd. He came on the
scaffold between 10 and 11 of the clock on that
day, and being desired by the sheriff not to speak
any thing against the peace of the kingdom, he
solemnly promised it, and yet after a few words,
he fell to nis w^onted course of flinging al)out his
sedition ; whereupon being admonished by sir
Joh. Rol)inson, he again promised to wave all ex-
pressions that might give offence, and yet not-
withstanding this second promise he again broke
loose, insomuch as the sheriff' was forced to take
his papers from hhn ; but sir Henry (with more
choler than could be expected in a dying man)
instantly tore his papers all to pieces to prevent
the sheriff". He shewed not any sense of death
approaching, but carried himself all the time he
was upon the scaffold, passing up and down in a
careless manner, with that boldness and resolution
that was to be admired. After he had spoken a
long prayer with great devotion, he willingly laid
his head upon the block, which, at a sign given,
was chop'd off" at one blow. It was observed by
many, especially by those of his own persuasion,
that no sign of inward fear appeared by any trem-
blintr or shaking of his hancfs, or any other parts
of his hotly, all along on the scaffold: And an
ancient ti-aveller then present, and curious to ob-
serve all the demeanor of persons in such public

i66a.

587

VANE.

ROOK.

[297J " executions, ' did narrowly * eye his coinitcnance
" to the last breath, and his heacl immediately after
*' the separation : whereby he observed that his
" countenance did not in the least change. And
" whereas the heads of all Jie had seen before did
^' some way or other move after severing, which ar-
" gued some reluctancv, and unwillingness to that
" parting blow ; the head of this siiiFerer lay per-
" fectly still, immediately upon the separation. On
" which he said to this purpose, that nis death was
" by the free consent and act of his mind,' &c.
" Sir Henry Vane the father, bcfore-mention''d, who
" had been knighted by king James I. at Newmar-
" ket, 3 Mar. 1610, was by king Charles I. sent to
" the queen of Bohemia al)out a marriage for her
" son with the emperor s daughter, and the son to
" be brought up in the court of the emperor, to
" which the qu. would by no means answer. After-
" wards he was made one of the secretaries of state,
" proved false to his majesty in several respects, and
" was tlie occasion of dissolving that parliament
'• which began at Westni. 13 Apr. 1640 : several
" years before which time, he purchased the manor
" of Fayrelane in Kent of sir George Chowne."

[For further particulars of Vane see the Biofp-a-
phia Br'itannica, NeaPs Hist, of New England,
Clarendon's Hist, of the Rebellion, Whitelock's
Memorials, Rush worth's Historical Collections, Bur-
net's Hist, of his own Time, and most of the His-
tories of England, as well as the detached biography
of Charles the first and his successor. Many inci-
dents of his life and conduct Avill be found in Regi-
cides no Saiiits nor Martyrs. Lond. 1700, 8vo.
page 95, and still more in a curious pamphlet printed
m 1661, 4to. entitled Don Juan Lamherfo: or a
comical History of the late Times, a copy of which
is in St. John's college library.

There is a portrait of him by Houbrakcn and
another, engraved by Faithome though his name is
not put to it, which was prefixed to his Life in
1662.]

" LAURENCE ROOK of the family of the
" Rooks of Monks-Horton in Kent, was bom in
" that county, educated in grammar learning in
" Eaton school near Windsor, in academical in
" King's coll. in Cambridge, of which house he be-
" came scholar, an. 1639,* where continuing about
" 8 years (in which time he took the degrees in
" arts and submitted to the men then dominant) he
" retired to his estate in Kent for a time. After-
" wards being much addicted to experimental phi-
" losophy, he retired to Wadham coU." in 1650 for

4 " Tryal of Sir Hen.
1662, p. 05."

Fane, &c. prinled in qii. an.

's [[Ic was admiited al King's in l63C), but was not a
scholar of tliat house. Ward's Lives of the Professors of
Gresham College, page QO ]

'^ [Bringing with him two young gentlemen of the family
tii Uxunborough, to whom he was tutor. Pope's Life <if

" the sake of Dr. Wilkins warden, and of Dr.
" Ward astronomy professor, a member thereof,
" (both eminent in that part of philosophy) became
" a gent, commoner and continued there several
" years and accompanied Mr. Rob. Boyle (then a
" sojourner in this university) in his chymical ope-
" rations. Afterwards he was first made astronomy,
" then geometry, professor of Gresham coll. and
" fellow of the royal society, whose institution he
" had zealously promoted. He was a person of
" profound judgment, vast comprehension, prodi-
" gious memory and solid experience. His great
" skill in the mathematics was reverenced by all the
" lovers of that faculty, and his perfection in many
" other sorts of learning, deserves no less reverence
" and admiration. He hath written in English,

" Directwn for the OhservuVwns of the Eclipses
" of the Moon — And in I^atin,

" Discourse concerning tlte Observations of the
" Eclipses of the Satellites of Jupiter. — An ac-
" count of both you may see in The Hist, of the
" Royal Society'' p. 180, 183, besides Observations
" cf other celestial Bfxlies. At length Mr. Rook
" contracting a sickness by sitting up often to gain
" astronomical observations, was untimely snatch'd
" away by death in the midst of his labours to the
" great loss of posterity, which otherwise might
" have enjoyed some compleat pieces of astronomy
" of his composition. So that being left imperfect,
" they were preserved as rare things in the hands of
" Dr. Seth Ward who much admired and loved
" him. This Mr. Rook, who is to be numbred
" among the learned men and writers of Cambridge
" rather than of Oxon, died on the 27th of June in
" sixteen hundred sixty and two, aged 40 years, i66?.
" and was buried in the church of S. Rennet Finke
" in London.' The deplorable accident in his death
" was (as the author of The Hist, of the Royal
" Society tells us) that he deceased the very nigltf,
" which he had for some years expected, wherein to
" finish his accurate observations on the said satcl-
" lites, and therefore much regretted by all that
" knew his extraordinary worth both for knowletlge
" and probit)'. Soon after the aforesaid Dr. Ward
" bishop of Exeter caused a comely monument to
" be set over his grave, with a large inscription
" thereon, a copy of which you may see' elsewhere. 12981
" And thinking that too little to perpetuate the
" memory of so excellent a man as Tie was, gave a
" pendulum clock ' to the royal society, as a thing

Selh IVard, Bishop uf SaUiluTij, 8vo. Lond. \6Q~, p.ige
no.]

" " Written by Dr. Tho. Sprat."

« [li should be St. Martin's Outwich : his corps was at-
tended 10 the grave by most of the fellows of the royal so-
ciety then in town. Pope's Life of Bishop irard, page 120.
Watts.]

S" In tne appendix to The Sphere qf Marc. Manitius made
an English Poem, by sir I'jlw. Sherburne, p. 105."

' [Made by Fromantel, and then esteemed a great cu-
riosity. Watts.]

ROOK. MERRIOT.

STANLEY. JEANES.

590

" dedicated to Mr. Hook's memory, with an inscrip-
" tioti thereon to testify it,^ wherein he is said by
" lilm to have been ' vir onini literaruin gcnere iu-
" structissimus.' "

[Laur. Rooke coll. Caii, art. bac. 1639 ; A. M.
coll. Caii, 1644.

Laur. Rooke coll. Regal. A. M. 16*7. Reg.
Acad. Baker.

See my MS. Collections (in the British Museum)
vol. XV, p. 163. Cole.

He was of a melancholy temper and aspect, his
complexion swarthy, his eyes sunk in his head more
than ordinary, his voice hoarse and inward, a sign
that his lungs were not .sound; he was also much
subject to the scurvy. — He was profoundly skiU'd
in all sorts of learning, not excepting botanies and
music, and the abstrusest jx)ints of divinity.'

His death was occasioned, says Pope,'' by over-
heating himself in a walk from the marquis of Dor-
chester's house at Highgate, to the royal society,
then sitting at Greshain college.

The following epitaph was drawn up by Dr.
Bathurst :

M.S.

Hie subtus sive dormit, sive meditatur.

Qui jamdudum animo melitus est,

Quicquid, aut vita, aut mors habet.

V. C. Laurentius Rooke, e Cantio oriundus,

In CoUegio Greshamensi

Astronomiae primum, dein Geonietrias Professor,

Uti'iusque ornamentum et spes maxima ;

Quem altissima Indoles, Artesque omnifariae,

Mores pellucidi, et ad amussim probi,

Consuetude facilis et accommoda.

Bonis, doctisque omnibus fecerunt commendatis-

simum.

Vir totus, teres, et sui plenus,

Cui virtus, et pietas, et summa ratio,

Desideria motusque omnes sub pedibus dabant,

Ne se penitus saeculo subducere mortuus possit,

Qui iniquissima modestia vixerat,

Sethus Ward Episcopus Exon.

Longas, suavesque amicitias.

Hoc saxo prosecutus est.

Obiit Junii 27, Anno Dom. muclxii.

jEtatis suae xl.]

THOMAS MERRIOT was bom at Steeple
Langford in Wiltsh. educated in Wykeham's school
near Winchester, admitted true and perpetual fel-

' [Socictati Rcgali ad scientiam naturalem promovendam
institutiE, dono dedit reverendus in Christo pater Sethus epis-
copus Exon, cjusdem societalis sodaiis, in memoriam Lau-
rentii Rooke viri in omni lilerarum genere instructissimi,
collegii Grcsliamensis primum Astronomiae, deinde Geome-
triae professoris dictieque societatis nuper sodaiis: Qui obiit
Junii 26, Anno Dom. l662.]

' r trope's Life of Ward, page 1 10.]

» [Ibid, page liy.]

low of New coll. an. 1610, aged 21 years or more,
took one degree in the civil law, and for a time
taught in the grammar-school joy ning to the cloistir
tliere. Afterwards being jjresentcd to the vicaridge
of Swaclyve near Banbury in Oxfordshire by t!ie
warden and s<x;iety of the said coll. he preachtkl
tlierc and taught grammar to the time of his death.
He hath written,

Vulgaria: sive Miscellanea prosaica hinc ind-e
decerpta ; ad Discipulos non vulgares e Liidis lite-
rariis emittendos, quam maxime conducentia ; modu
solerter edoceantur S^c. in novem Classes distributu.
Oxon. 1652. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. W. 4. Art. BS.]

Adagia selectissima, &c. lb. eod. an. oct. " He
" has farther .several Latin copies of verses dispersed
" in books." He died at Swaclyve, on the IQtIi
day of July in sixteen hundred sixty and two, after
he had been vicar of that place 38 years, and was
two days after buried in the church there.

EDWARD STANLEY was bom of genteel
parents in the parish of S. Peter within the city of
Chichester, educated in Wykeham's school, made
pei-jjetual fellow of New coll. 1608, aged 20 years
or thereabouts, took the degrees in arts, left tJie
said coU. in 1623, and was about that time made
master of the .said school, and afterwards preben-
dary of Winchester, and doct. of div. He hatli
published.

Several Sermons ; three of ivMch were preached
in the Catliedral Church at Winchester. Thejirst,
on Sunday Aug. 19- An. 1660, at tlie Jirst Return
of the Dean and Chapter to that Church, on Psal.
14. 7. The second, on Jan. 30. Am,. 1661, heing
the Anniversary of King Charles I. of glorious
Memory, on Jer. 4. 20. And the third at tlie ge-
neral Assize held at Winton 25 Feb. 1661.; on
Isa. 1. 26. Lond. 1662. in oct. [BwU. 8vo. B.
290. Th.] In which year the author died and was
buried at Winchester, leaving then behind him the
character of a leained, godly and orthodox minister
of God's word.

HENRY JEANES, son of Christoph. Jeanes
of Kingston in Somersetshire, was born at Allensay
in that county, as I have been informed by one of
his rural disciples, became a commoner of New Inn
in Midsummer term, in the year 1626, aged 15
years, where pecking and hewing continually at
logic and physics, became a most noted and ready
disputant. After he had taken the degrees in arts,
he removed to Hart hall, took holy orders, and soon
after was cried up for a leamedf preacher in the
university. In the beginning of Aug. 1635, he was
presented by sir Joh. Windham to the rectory of
Beer-Crocomb and Capland in Somersetshire ; and
soon after became vicar of Kingston in the same
county. At length, upon the change of the times in
1641, he closed with the presbyterians, notwith-
standing he had before (while he continued in the

iCfi?.

1662.

591

JEANES.

university) beon a scoffer of them,'' and wlien Dr.
Walt. Raloigli was thrown out of t'hwiscy near
Bridjijwater, lie l)ecame rwtor of tlie church there:
where, <hn-ing the times of usurpation, he ttx)k into
his family divers youths designed for the imiver-
sity, and read to them (contrary to his oath) logic
and philosophy, and had oftentimes set disputations
among them, which he himself moderated. He was
a most excellent philosopher, a noted metaphysician,
and well grounded in polemical divinity. He was
also a schola-stical man, a contemner of the world,
generous, free-hearted, jolly, witty, and facetious,
[299] and m many things represented the humour of Dr.
Rob. Wild tlie poet. All which qualities do very
rarely 'or seldom meet in men of the presbyterian
persua.sion, who generally are morose, clownish, and
of sullen and reserved natures. The books that he
hath written and published are many, the titles of
most, if not all, follow,

Treatise concerning a Christians careful Absti-
fwixccfrom, all appearance irfEv'il, &c. Oxon. 1640.''
1660. Oct. and qu.

Want of Churcli-governmcnt no Warrnnt for a
total Omission of the Lord's Supper, &.c. Lond.
1650. qu. Ox. 1653. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. J. 1. Th. BS.]

Vindication of Dr. Will. Twysse from the Ex-
ceptions of Mr. Joh. Goodwin in his Redemption
redeemed. Oxon. 1653. fol.

The Examiner Examined : or, a Reply to Mr.
Fubeood's Examination of Want of Church-Go-
vernment no Warrant Jbr Omission of the Lord's
Supper. Lond. 1653. This Mr. Fulwood is the
same with Franc. Fulwood sometime of Emanuel
coll. ui Cambridge, afterwards minister of West
Alvington in Devonshire, archdeacon of Totness,
D. of D. and canon of Exeter, an eminent writer of
his time.7

A Mixture of scholastical Divinitiij xcith prac-
tical, in several Tractates." Oxon. 1656. qu. The
titles of those tracts are, (1.) Concerning the sinjul
Fear of Man. {^Z.) Of ChrisCs Incarnation. (3.)
Of the Resurrection of Christ. (4.) Concerning

^ [He was al fir>t- zealous for the imposiiioos of the pre-
latieal party, and fond of the modish notions ; 'till reading
the writers on the puritan side, he funnd them niisrepreicntcd
by their antagonists ; and seeing a strength in their argu-
ments, which he .ipprehended weak before he had wcij;hed
them, he heartily i'ell in with them, and strenuously defended
their cause. Calamy, Account of ejected Ministers, vol. ii,
page 585.]

'' [In Christ church library, marked Pamphl. A. 51.]

' \Some neccssarii and seasonable Cases of Conscience
about Things Indifferent in Matters of Hcligion. Lond.
l602. 12mo.

The authoi is supposed to be a Mr. Fulwood, one y' once
\yas as rigid as an inuependant in y"^ point of admission to y"
.L'' supper and therefore boldly quarreld Mr. Jeancs. But
now is turned E'pall, and is a right reverend deanc. The
above is a MS. note to this book in a cqj)y in Mr. Trotman's
library at Siston court, Gloucestershire.]

'^ [The sca>nd part of The Mi.riiire nf scholastical Divinity
with practical, was primed with the Letters on original Sin,
and the Reply to Hammond, Oxford, l66o, 4io. Bodl. A.
l-l. 17- Line]

t/i£ Fulness of Christ, and (5.) Of the Excellency
of Praise and Thanksgiving ; bemg all the effect
of certain sermons.

Dr. Hammonds aKtsveirlepoy ; or, a greater Ar-
dency of Chrisfs Love of God at one Time than
another, proved to be utterly irrcconcileable tenth
his Fulness of habitual Grace, and perpetual Hap-
piness and impeccability of the Soul. Oxon. 1657.
qu. [Boill. 4to. J. 3. Th. BS.] Replyed upon by
a third person in a book entit. The Re futer refuted.
See in Will. Creed under the year 1663.

Treatise concerning the Indiff'erency of human
Actions. Oxon. 1659. qu.

Brief and scltolastical Discorirse touching ilie
Ntittire of Thanksgiving, on Ephes. 5. 20. Oxon.
1 660. qu. Mostly the same mentioned in the fifth
head of A Mixture of Scholastical Divinity, &c.

Of Original Righteousness, and its contrary Con-
cupiscence. Oxon. 1660. qu. Written against Dr.
Jer. Taylor.

Sermini (enlarged into a Treatise) concerning
tlie last and general Judgment, ^-c. on Rom. 2. 16.
Oxon. 1660. qu.

Certain Letters between him and Dr. Jer. Tay-
lor concerning a Passage (fhis (Hen. Jeanes) in
his farther Explication of Original Sin. Oxon.
1660. qu.

Uniformity in human doctrinal Ceremonies,
grounded on 1 Cor. 14. 40. Or, a Reply to Dr.
Hammonds Vindication of his Grounds of Unifor-
mity. Oxon. 1660. qu.

Dr. Creeds voluminous Defence of Dr. Ham-
monds sKrey£<rls^oy briefly examined, and the Weak-
ness thereof fully discovered. Lond. 1661. qu.

Several sermons, as (1.) The Work of Heaven
upon Earth, 4~c- Serm. at Taunton in Somersetsh.
11 May 1648, being a Day .tct apart for the annual
Commemoration of the Deliverance of tluit Toivn,
by the Relief rchich they received on the Wfh of
May 1645,- on P.ml. 92. ver. 1. Lond. 1649. qu.
and others (besides what are before-niention''d) as
also an Ansicer to John. Milion'^s Book entit. Icono-
clastes, &c. printed 1651. (|U. and sjiid to be \mtten
by one Jeans," which I have not yet seen. He gave
way to fate in the citv i>i Wells some few (la^s be-
fore the fatal day of S. Bin-tholoniew, in the month
of August, in sixteen hundred sixty and two, and i6()2.
was buried in the cathedral church there. At which
time one of his jx?rsuasion intended to preach a
sermon of moptality: but Dr. Piers the then bishop
of that place, who had no affection i()r Jeanes, be-
cause he knew him to have been an heretic and often
had caird him so, examined the sermon least any
thing therein might be s{X)ken in commendation of
him and his opinions.

[Hen. Jeanes A. B. ex aula Nov. Oxon. incor-
porat. Cant. an. 1632. Bakek.

9 [By mistake, as I preiume, for Jane ; and he likewise
the mistaken author. See my note prefixed to that book.
Baker.]

BIDDLE.

5{)-

He seems to liave writ something in defence of
Dr. Twiss agcainst Mr. J. Goodwin, tor wliich Mr.
Goodwin animadverted upon liim in his preface to
his Triuimmi, Lond. 1658. 4to. Tanner.]

JOHN BIDDLE or Biddei.lus, as lie is by
some authors written, son of Edw. Bid. a taylor,
(^500] was born at Wotton-Under-Edge in Gloucester-
shire, baptized on the 14th of January 1615, and
afterwfiras lx;ing a youth of gi'cat hopes, was, by the
benevolence and exhibition of George lord Berkley,
educated in grammar learning in the free-schcxjl
there, by John Rugg and John Turner successive
masters thereof. Under the last he made so great
proficiency in his studies that he englished VirgiTs
Bucolics, and the Txvo Jirst Satyrs of Juvenal.
Both which were printed at Lond. in 1634. in oct.
and dedicated to John Smith of Nibley in the said
county, esc^; Mecaenas of the Wottonian muses. In
the beginnmg of that year (having a little before
composed, and recited before a full auditory, an
elaborate oration in Latin, for the gracing the fu-
neral of an honourable school-fellow) he was entred
a student of Magd. hall, and for a time, if I mistake
not, was put under the tuition of John Oxenbridge,
a person then noted to be of no good principles.
Before he had taken the degree of master of arts,
(being about that time a tutor in the said hall) he
was invited to take upon him the care of teaching
the school wherein he had been educated, by the
overseers thereof, but refused it ; and after he had
compleated the said degree, which was in 1641, he
became master of Crypt school within the city of
Gloucester, where for a time he was much esteemed
for his diligence in his profession, severity of man-
ners, and sanctity of life. At length the nation be-
ing brought into confusion by the restless presbyte-
rians, the said city garrison'd for the use of the
parliament, and every one vented his or their opinions
as they pleased, he began to be free of his discourses
of what he had studied there at leisure hours
concerning the Trinity, from the holy scriptures,
having not then, as he pretended, convers'd with
Sociman lx)oks. But the presbyterian party, then

Erevalent there, having notice of these matters, and
nowing full well what mischief he might do among
his disciples, the magistrate summoned him to a]>
pear before him ; and after several interrogatories,
a form of confession under three heads, was pro-
posed to Iiim to make, which he accordingly did 2
May 1644, but not altogether in the words pro-
ix)sed. Which matter giving them no satisfaction.
Fie made another confession in the same month more
evident than the former, to avoid the danger of im-
prisonment which was to follow, if he should deny
it. Afterwards being more satisfied in his mind by
reading various authors, he drew up several argu-
ments against the generally received deity of the
Holy Ghost, which he intended shortly after to
print ; but being betrayed by one, whom lie took to
Vol.. III.

be his sure friend, wlio had, as it seems, a copy of
them, he ac(|uainted the magistrate and parliament
committee then in the said city, of the matter.
Whcreuixm, after they had perused them, they com-
mitted the author, then lalx)uring under a leaver,
to the common goal there, on the 2d of Decemb.
1645, to remain in that place till the {larliament
should take cognizance of^ the matter. But a cer-
tain person of note dwelling in Gloucester, who had
a resjject for Biddle (for the truth is, except his
opinions, there was little or nothing blame-worthy
in him) he procured his liberty, by giving sureties
for his apjxjarance when it should please the parlia-
ment to send for him. About the month of June
in 1646, the learned Usher primate of Ireland tra-
velled through that city in his way to London, and
liaving before heard of him, spake to and used liim
with all fairness and pity, as well as with strength of
arguments to convince him of his dangerous error,
telling him that either he was in a damnable error,
or else that the whole church of Christ, who had
in all ages worshipped the Holy Ghost, had been
guilty of idolatry : But Biddle, who had little to say,
was no whit moved either by the learning, gravity,
piety, or zeal of that good archbishop, but conti-
nued, as "'tis said, obstinate. After he had remained
about six months at liberty in Gloucester, he was
cited to Westminster to make his defence ; but being
put off by the parliament to a committee to be
examined, his crime was by them laid closely to his
charge. The crime he denied not, and desired
withal that some theolojj^st, whom they sliould ap-
point, might dispute with him concerning thfit cri-
minal matter in hand. But it Ixjing delayed from
day to day, Biddle desired a certain knight (sir Hen.
Vane) of that committee that his cause might be
heard, or he set at liberty. The kniglit proposed it,
and shewed himself a friend to Biddle, who there-
upon was confin'd more close than before. Where
upon came out his book for the satisfaction of all
people with this title,

Twehte Questions or Arguments drawn out of
Scripture, xvhcrein the commonly received Opinion
touching the Deity of the Holy Spirit is clearly
and fully rcfutcdr — Printed 1647. in qu. [Bodl.
Crynes 845.] Before which is printed a letter
tending to the said purpose, written to the said sir
Henry Vane, a member of the house of commons :
and at the end is An Exposition of five principal
Passages of the Scripture allcdgedlnj the Adversa-
ries to prove the Deity of the Holy Gliast.' These,
I say, being published, and making a great noise in
the world, the author was summoned to appear at
the bar of the house of com. and being asked whether
lie owned that book of Tivelve Questions, &c. and
the opinions therein, he answered yea, and that they
were nis : whereupon being remitted to his prison,
they ordered on the 6th of September 1647, that

' [Reptinled, wilh his life, in idgi, 4to. Rawlinsok.]

QQ •

[aci]

595

BIDDLE.

the said book, blasphemous ngainst tlie deitv of
Christ, be called in and burnt by the hand of the
common hanffiTuin, and that the autiior lie examined
by the committee of plunderM ministers: both which
were done, viz. the Iwok burnt on tlte 8tli of the
same month, and he examined. While these things
were in doing, the l)ook vended so fast, that the
same year it was jirinted again in oct. and after-
wards answered by Matthew Poole, M.A. of Eman.
coll. in Cambridge in his Plea for the Godhead of
the Holy Gliost, &c. Soon after, or at tlic same
time, was publislied of Biddle's writing,

A Confession of Faith touching the Holy Tri-
'nity according to Scripture. Lond. 164^. oct.
[Bodl. Crynes 845.] It consists of seven articles,
each of which is confirmed all along by subjoyned
proofs and reasonings on them ; which for the most
part tend to disprove the deity of our Saviour.
Before the said confession is put a preface against
the Holy Trinity ; and about the same time came
out of our author's composition,

The Testimonies of Irenwns, Justin Martyr,
Tertullian, Novatianus, Theophilus, Origen, (xvho
lived in, the two first Centuries after Christ teas
born, or thereabouts) as also of Arnobius, Lactan-
tiu^s, Sfc. concerning that one God and the Persons
of tlie Trinity, together tcith Observations on the
same. — Printed in oct. [Bodl. Crynes 845.] UjX)n
the coming out of which things the assembly of
divines, sitting at Westminster, made their endea-
vours to the parliament, that he might suffer death
in the month of May 1648, but what hindred it I
cannot tell, unless it was the gi-eat dissention that
was then in the said parhament : However his con-
finement was made close. Some time after the pub-
lication of Biddle's first book, it happened that Joh.
Cloppenbiircli, 1). D. and professor in tiie university
of Frisia, A^as at Bristol in England, where meeting
with Will. Hamilton a Scot, late fellow of All-s.
coll. in Oxon, the said William did not only then
furnish him with a copy of that Iwok, but debated
the controversy with him. Afterwards upon the
return of ClojM)enburch to his own coimtry, he did
excellently well answer it in Latin, which he had
translated (so much as he answer'd) in a small
treatise, entitled, Vindicitc pro Deitate Spiritus
.tancti, adversus Pneumatomachum Johan. Bidel-
ium, Anglum. Printed at Franeker 16j2. qu.
[Bodl. AA. 22. Th. Seld.] It mu.st be also noted,
that upon the publishing of the said book of Biddle
(I mean his Tzcelve Questions) Samuel Mare.sius,
T). D.« and chief professor of that faculty at Gro-
ningen, did take occasion in his epist. ded. before
his first vol.' entit. Hydra Socinianismi (written

' [Sam. Maresiin (circa an. 1625) in Angliam transfre-
tavit — Oxoniam recta lendens — ubi comitia regni cclebran-
lur. Paucis exinde iransactis seplimanis — ad mores Anglo-
nim penilius exploraudos, &c. Vide Filas Professorum
^Icad. Grcningrr. Baker.]
•' Printed at G'ronning. an. l65l. riii.

against Joh. VolkeKus and Jo. Crellius) to give this
account of the growth of Socinianism. — ' Vigesimus
jam pra?teriit annus, ex quo pestilentissima lia?c nii-
trix, viz. Socinianismus in Sarmaticis paludibus pri-
mum nata, caput erexit, S: per GerniMuiaui, ac Bel-
giam nostram sibilis & halitu fanlissimo gra-ssata,
etiam tetrum suuni virus su}x>rato oceano intulit in
Angliam, in qua. tristi hoc tempore dicitur incredi-
biles progressus fecisse,' &c. As for the Cotrfession
of Faith, &c. before-mention'd, it was examined and
confuted by Nich. Estwick rector of Warkton in
Northamptonshire, in a l)ook ])ublished by him in
qu. an. 1656.'' Which being dedicated to Edward
lord Mountague of Botighton,* he takes occasion to
say that ' Biddle's writings have not been enclosed
within the confines of our nation, but have taken
their wings, and have fled beyond the seas, to the
disreputation of our dear country, in the reformetl
churches, insomuch that IMaresius professor of di-
vinity at Groning^en is bold to avouch (I cannot .say
either truly or charitably) tliat Socinianism hath
fixed its seat here in England, and displayed openly

the banner.s of its impiety.' The said Estwick

also had some years before held forth an antidote
against the poyson of Biddle's Twelve Argtiments
against the Deity of the Holy Ghost.^ Since which,
as 'tis usual in deceivers (so Estwick words it) Bid-
die grew worse and worse, and levied his forces
against the Holy Trinity, and published notwith-
standing other matters replenished with Socinian
tenets. Our author Biddle continued yet in re-
straint, and none of the assembly durst venture to
give him a visit, cither out of charity, or to con-
vince him of his errors ; nor indeed any divine of
note of the other party, only Mr. Pet. Gunning
who had several friendly conferences with him. At
length some of the laity of London, and others of
the country would come to him, either to see or
converse with him ; who being taken with his reli-
gious discourse, and saint-like conversation, a cer-
tiiin justice of peace of Staffordshire prevailed so far
with his keeper, that, upon security given for his
appearance upon the least summons, lie should be
surrendred up to him. Whereupon he was con-
veyed into Staffordshire, and not only made by liim
his chaplain, but also preacher of a church tiiere.
These matters soon after being known at London,

* \_Mr. Bidle's Confession of Faith touching the Holy Tri-
nity, wherein his chief Designe to overthrow that sacred My-
stery, and the Deity of our Jilessed Saviour is examined and
confuted. JVith yi I Arguments to prove the Deity of the
Son of God. liy Nicltolas Estuick, B. D. sometimes Fellow
ff Christ's Collcdg in Cambridg, and now Minister if God's
IVard at fVarktou in Northampton-Shire. London, Printed
by Tho. Ma.vey, (S'c. \6r><i. Bodl. 4lo. E. 1. Th. BS.]

s [In the same e|iisile, he (Nich. Estwick) lakes notice
(of what is to both ilieir honour) that by that lord's inierest
ike. lie had been pormilicd to exercise his ministry, without
br inn; preyed to loke, the covenant. Baker.]

*■ [Enliluled n.,://.<ttToX'--/ia, or a Treatise of the IJ, Ghost:
pr. Lond. 1 648, 4to. Baker.]

BIDDLE.

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[S03]

John Bradshaw president of" the council of state,
his capital enemy, sent a messenger for him, and
committed him more close than before. Soon after
the said justice of peace died, left Biddlc a consider-
able 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 tne Septuag'mt of
the Old Testament, which he was about most accu-
rately to pubhsh: 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 tune a com-
fortable subsistance. In Feb. 1651 was published
by the parliament a general act of oblivion, that re-
stored, among others, our author Biddle to his full
hberty, which he improvVl 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 mi-
nisters in London were exceedingly offended at it,
but could not hinder it by secular power, which
then favoured hberty of religion and conscience.
Alx)ut that time part of the second impression of
his Twelve Arguments, the Ccnifession of Faith,
Testimonies, Sec. which as I have told you were
published in oct. lying dead on his, or the book-
seller's hands, there was this title put to them, The
Apostolical and true Opinion concerninff the Holy
Trinity revived and asserted, &c. Lond. 1653. oct.
but no alterations or augmentation made in them,
as 'tis expressed in the said title set before them,
which were put and sold together in one volume,
the long parliament being then dissolved. After-
wards was written and published by the said Biddle,
A Txvqfold Catechism, the one simply called a
Scripture Catechism, the other a brief Scripture
Catechism for Children. Lond. 1654. [Bodl. 8vo.
T. 13. Th. BS.] The la.st of which two was printed
again by it self in 3 sheets in a little octavo the
same year. Soon after, the Twofold Catechism
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 public
complaint by some made of it in the house, being
instigated thereunto by frequent and open preach-
ments against it. Wliereupon 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 referred to a committee,
he was examined by them, and in conclusion ad-
hered 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 12th of Dec. 1654, that ' the whole
drift and scope of the said Tu:oJhld Catechism is to

teach and hold forth many blasphemous and here-
tical opinions, and that in the preface of the said
catechism the author thereof aoth maintain and
assert many blasphemous and heretical opinions, and
doth therein cast a reproach upon all the catechisms
now extant.' They then voted also that ' all the

Crinted books entit. The Tw<)fbld Catechism be
urnt by the hand of the common hangman. That
the shenffs of London and Middlesex be authorized
and required to see the same done accordingly in
the New Palace-yard at Westminster, and at the
Old Exchange. That the master, wardens, and
assistants of the company of stationers in London,
be required immediately to make search for all tlie

f)rinted books as aforesaid, and seize all the said
)ooks, and deliver them to the sheriffs.' The next
day Biddlc 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 before-mention'd places on the 14tii of the
same month. But this was not lall ; for the mem-
bers of pari, perceiving full well what mischief the
said Tivafold 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 16th of the same month, that the
whole drift and scope, &ec. and that it be burnt, &c.
The particulars in the said catechism which moved
them thereunto were partly these. (1.) The in-
finite 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 omnijMtent 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 di-
vine lordship, without a divine nature. (7.) There
is no Godhead of the Holy Ghost. (8.) Christ was
not a priest whilst he was uptm 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
J'ather onlv, separated from the Son and Holy
Ghost, is tlie first Cause of all things that pertain
to salvation,' &c. The rest I shall omit for bre-
vity's 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
Txoofold Cat. be burnt, and the master, wardens,
&c. to seize upon all copies, and to deliver them to
the sheriffs, in order to their burning, &c. In the
mean time they consultetl what to do with Biddlc,
but came to no result, tho' pressed eagerly on by
tiie presbyterian ministers to take away his life. On

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BIDDLE.

tlie 10th of Febr. following, he, the printer, and
bookseller of tlie said Catechism, with another in
the custody of a messenger, as also Theauraw John '
Tany (who burnt tlie 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.
[304] On the 2d of ]\Iay 1655 they accordingly appeared,
but were put off till the next term 28 May follow-
ing : Which day appearing, he and they were with
much ado set at liberty. Afterwards Biddle fall-
ing into the company of one John Griffin, said to
be an anabaptist teacher, discourses pro and con
were st) high between them, that there was a public
dispute appointed to be held to decide the matter.
The place wherein they were to dispute was tlie
stone chappel in S. Paul's cathedral, and tlie ques-
tion, Wliether Jesus Christ be the most High or
Almighty God? The time being come, they ap-
peared, but Griffin being put to it for want of the
true way of argumentizing, the disputation was de-
ferred to another day. Whereupon Griffin being
cousciou.s to himself that he was not able to grapple
with Biddle, he and his party brought it so to pass,
that upon report of more blasphemies utter'd by
Biddle, he was, by command from Oliver the pro-
tector, seized on tne 3d of July (being the day be-
fore they were to make an end. of the disputation)
an. 1655, and forthwith committed prisoner to the
Poultry compter. Soon after, being translated to
Newgate prison, he suffered more misery, was
brougjit to a public tryal for his hfe at the sessions
house in the Old Bayley, upon the obsolete and
abrogated ordinance, called the Draconick Ordi-
nance, against blasphemy and heresy, of May 2.
an. 1648. To the indictment hereupon, he prays
council might bo allowed him to pleaa the illegality
of it ; which being denied him by the judges, and
tlie sentence of a iiiute threatned, he at length gave
into court his exceptions ingrossed in parchment,
and with much strugling had council allowed him.
But Oliver the protector well knowing it was not
for the interest ot his government either to have him
condemnetl, or absolved, took him out of the hands
of the law, caiis'd him to be detained in pri.son, witli
intentions to bestow him elsewhere.* At length
several prime persons of the anabaptistical party
remaining in London (some of whom, as 'tis said,

' Tho. Tany, goldsmith, who, by the Lord's voice, that
he heard, changed his name from Thomas, to Theauraw
John Tany, on the 23d of Nov. l64g, living then at the
Three Golden Keys without Temple-bar, London. He was
then, and before, a blasphemous Jew.

*> [I have heard Dr. Jolin Mapleloft, a relation of Mr.
Tho. Firmin, say, that Mr. Firinin lold him he was a disci-
ple of John Biddle while a very youne man, and then ad-
ventured to deli\er a petition for his release out of Newgate
to Oliver Cromwell, Who gave him a short, severe answer,

had entertmned his opinions) drawing up a petition
in his behalf in the month of Sept. an. 1655, pre-
sente<l it to Oliver, to obtain his mercy towards nim
under pretence of liberty of conscience. On the
28th of tlie same month tney were to receive an an-
swer to it, but before the said Oliver gave one, the
petition was read in the hearing of divers of them,
under whose hands it had been presented: which
being done, many of them did disown it, as being
alter'd both in the matter and tide of it since they
signed it, and so looked upon it as a forged thing.
Tney then desired, that the original which they had
signed might be produced, but Jerem. Ives and
some others of the contrivers and presenters of it
were not able to do, nor had any thing to say in ex-
cuse of so foul a miscarriage. However his high-
ness Oliver did then open before them the great ,
evd of such a practice, and also, how inconsistent it
was for them, who professed to be members of the
church of Christ, and to worship him with the wor-
ship due to God, to give any countenance to one
who reproached themselves, and all the Christian
churches in the world, as being guilty of idolatry ;
shewing also that if it be true which Biddle holds,
viz. that Jesus Christ is but a creature, then all
those that worship him, with the worship due to
God, are idolaters, and that the maintainers of that
opinion of Biddle are guilty of great blasphemy
against Christ, who is God equal with the fatlier, ■
&c. Afterwards the petitioners being dismissed, and
Biddle understanding his doom, he wrote a letter
to Oliver, that he would be pleased to admit him
into his presence for the hearing of his case. But
being denied, and Oliver continually baited by

Eresij. and indep. ministers to have him banished,
e the said Bidcuo, as a reviver of the blasphemous
opinion owned by Arius, was removed from New-
gate to Plymouth 10 Oct. 1655, in order to his
tran.sportation to the isle of Scilley beyond the land's
end in Cornwall, there to remain in S. Mary's
castle in close custody during life ; where for the
present we'll leave him, and in the mean time tell
you, that his Twofold Catechism was answered by
Dr. John Owen then dean of Christ Church, and
animadverted upon by Maresius before-mention'd
in his preface to the reader before his second ' tome [305j
oi Hydra Spcinianlsmi, and by Nich. Arnoldus pro-
fessor of divinity in Franeker in West-Frisen, in
the latter end of his preface to the reader before his
book ' entit. Religio Sociiiiani, seu Catechesis Suco-
viana major, &c. As for Maresius, he is very
large against him, and deplores the sad condition of
England, that after all tlie contests that it hath had
against the hierarchy, Arniinianism, pojiery, and I
know not what, should at length be overwhelm'd

that he would not for a curll-pated boy shew any counle-
nance to a man that denied his saviour Jesus Christ. Keh*

NET.]

s Edit. Groning. an. Ifi54. in qn.
> Edit. Amstel. 1654. in qu.

BIDDLE.

6(B

1662.

witii Sociniaiiism, all sorts of" sectaries, atheism, &c
Which character, as falling from the pen of a per-
son, well known to be no friend to episc«j)acy,
seems to be a considerable argument to prove (even
in his persuasion) that the pretended strictness and
severity of the then established church goveniment
was not so effectual a remedy against all libertism
in opinions and practice, as was the episcoparian gcv
vernment then lately thrown out of doors. After
Biddle had continued prisoner, not without im-
provement as to, and in, his opinion, to the begin-
ning of the year 1658, he, by the intercession of
many friends, was convey 'd from S. Mary\s Castle
by habeas coi-pus to the upper bench at Westm.
where appearing without any thing laid to his
charge, was set at -liberty by the lord chief justice
Ja Glynn. While he was in prison (where the
protector allowed him a hundred crowns per an. for
his subsistance) he solely gave himself up to the
studying of several intricate matters, and of the
various opinions concerning the beast in the Apo-
calyps, Antichrist, and the personal reign of Christ
on earth ; which being digested according to his
mind, he cxplain'd them, after his return, in conven-
ticles, held every Sunday in the afternoon, before
his disciples. Which being done, he published
them with this, or the like, Stle,

Learned Notes on some of the Clmpters qf the
Apocab/ps. Or thus, An Essay to the Explaining
t>fthe Revelation. When, or where, printed, or in
what vol. I know not, for I have not yet seen them
or it After Oliver's death, and Richard set in the
throne, a parliament was called, mostly consisting of

?resbytenans, whom, of all men, he most dreaded.
Vhereupon by the advice of a noble friend then in
authority, he caused Biddle (for whom he had a
respect) to be convey Yl away privately into the
country ; where remaining till that parliament was
dissolved (which was soon after) he returned to the
city and carried on his conventicles and disputes for
some time without contradiction. At length his ma-
jesty Charles II. being restored to his dominions,
ancf with him the church of England, he took other
measures, held his meetings more private, and but
seldom. However his waters being narrowly watch'd,
he was taken in the house of a certain citizen while
he was conventicling, in the beginning of July 1662:
whereupon being carried before sir Rich. Browne,
then lately lord mayor, was by him imprisoned, and
used, as his party saith, with great cruelty, espe-
cially in this respect, that he hindred all sureties or
bail to be given for him. So that, by the filth of a
prison in hot weather, contracting a disease, he died
thereof in the month of September (one tells me
the second, and another the 22d day^) about five of
the clock in the morning, to the great grief of his
disciples, in sixteen hundred sixty and two : Where-

» [Sept. 20, if)02; Mr. Biddle ihc Socinian died. Mr.
it. omilhs Obituary. Baker.]

upon his body being convey'd to the burial place
joining 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 tliat he was master of arts of the university
of Oxon, and that he had given to the world great
specimens of his learning and piet}-, &c. He had
in him a sharp and quick jutlgment, and a prodi-
gious memory ; and being very industrious withal,
was in a capacity of devouring all he read. He was
wonderfully wefl vers'd in the scriptures, and could
not only repeat all S. Paul's epistles in English, but
also in the Greek tongue, which made him a ready
disputant. He was accounted by those of his per-
suasion a sober man in his discourse, and to have
nothing of impiety, folly, or scurriUty to proceed
from him : Also, so devout, that he seldom or
never pray'd without being prostrate or flat on the
ground, as his hfe,' which I have, attests. Soon
after his death his Timfold Catcclmm was turned
into Latin, and printetl in oct. 1665. The first
called A Scripture Catechism was done by anon.
The other called A brief Scripture Catechism Jbr
Children, was done by a youth calletl Nathaniel
Stuckey, and at the end of it was printed, (1) Ora-
tiuncula de Passione 4" Mortc Christi, made by tlic
said Stuckey. (2) E.remphim Literarum Jeremice
Felbingeri ad Joh. Biddellum, dated at Dantzick
Si Aug. styl. vet. 1654. This Nath. Stuckey, who
had been pai-tly bred up in grammar and logic by
Biddle, or at least by his care, died 27 Sept. 1665,
aged 16 years, and was buried close to the gi-ave of
Biddle, as it appears by an inscription engraven for
him on one side (at the bottom) of Biddle's monu-
ment. A certain * author tells us that the said
Biddle translated into English the Alchoran, and
the book called Tlw 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 natiira as the Three
grand Impostors, (meaning Moses, Mahomet and
Christ,) is by many knowing men doubted.* After

' Joannis Biddelli (Angli) Acad. Oxoniensis quondam
Arlium Magislri ceteberrimi Vila. Lond. 168?. in 3 fh.and
an half in oct. The author of which was, as I have beqn in-
formed, (for there is no name set to it) one Joh. Farrington
J. C. T. of the Inner-Teniple.

* Jam. Heath in his Brief Chron. of the late intestine War,
&c. in the latter end of the year l654.

5 [Very right! but unless some acquaintance of mine have
told me lyes, for lying sake. Dr. Trontbeck had the very
book, as they have averred with circumstances. Be it how
it will, the liest account hereof that ever I saw, is in Morho-
Jius Poly-histor. p. 71. Humphreys.

The Life of that incomparable Man Fauslus Socinus Se-
nensis, &c. Iranslated from the Lat. into Engl. &c. by I. B.
(which I lake to be John Biddle) printed at Lend. l6.^3.
8vo. This might give occasion to the report of his translating
the Alchoran, &CC. Three Impnslnrs instead of one. Baker.

Sec more on this subject in Bayle art. Pel. Aretin, and in
the Opuscula of FabriciuSj 1738, page 48.]

[306]

603

LENTHALL.

tlie coining 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 Biddle's things before-mention'd reprinted in
the beginning of the year 1691, viz. (1) His 12
Qtu'sticms, with An Expantion of five principal
Passages, &c. (2) A Cmi/ession oj^'Faith, &c. (3)
The Testimonies of Irenwus, &c. And before
them, was set a short account of his life, taken from
that written in Latin by J. F. as I have here in the
mar^n told you.

WILLIAM LENTHALL, second son of WIU.
Lenth. of Lachford in Oxfordshire, by Frances his
wife, daughter of sir Tho. Southwell of S. 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 Hereford-
shire, who in the beginning of king Edw. 4. mar-
ried ' with the daugh. and heir of Pyperd of

Lachford before-mentioned. 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 king 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 manor ' of Lachford from his father,
to hold by king's service of the manor 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 Haseleys did for many descents '
belong to the Pyperds, whose manor-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 reign of Edw. 3. the said manor-place,
with the patronage of the rectory of Haseley, was
given to the college at Windsor ; of the dean and
canons of which, the said farm-place is, and hath
been for several generations, held by the said Lent-
halls. As for Little Haseley, now called Haseley-
Court, where in the time of king Hen. 8. was ' a
right fair mansion-place, with marvellous fair walks
toperarii operis and orchard and pools, (belonging
to sir William Barentine, whose daughter Mary,
[3071 Anth. Huddleston esq; took to wife) was also
numbred among the antient possessions of the Py-
perds, and was neld of their manor by knight's ser-

" The said Will. Lenthall died on the 28th June 1497-
(18 Hen. 7.) and was buried in the south isle joining to the
body of the church of Great Haseley in com. Oxon.

' So John Leiand in his second vol. oi Itineraries, p. 8.
hut in a visitation book of Oxfordshire made by one of the
heralds, I find that Will. Lenthall of Lachford married Ka-
tUarine daugh. of John Badby, by Jane his v^•if«, daugh. and
heir of Rich. Pyperd.

» llin. in rol. 2. p. 8. Lei. p. 8.

« Ibid. p. 7.

' lb. p. 3.

vice. As for this Will. Lenthall, of whom We are
now to speak, lie became a commoner of S. Alban's
hall in the year 1606, where continuing aliout 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 coun-
sellor of note, and in the IS of Charles I. Lent-reader
of the said inn, Iwing 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 Oxfordshire, to serve in that short
parliament which began at Westm. 13 Apr. 1640,
and in October following he was chose again for the
same place to serve in that unhappy convention
called the long parliament, began 3 Nov. die same
year : At which time being elected speaker, (worth
to him 2000/. j)er ann.) he kept that honourable
office, by siding with the leading party, till its dis-
solution, without any adherence to the king, when,
by force, he left that parliament. Whether he
acted justly in his place, 'tis to be question'd, for-
asmuch 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 'tis 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 " and
snotty" wife named Elizabeth, daugh. of Ambrose
Evans of Lodington in Northamptonshire gent, he
became master of the rolls 8 Nov. 1643, worth, as
'tis said, 3000/. per ann., one of the commissioners
of the great seal, 1646, worth 1500/. per ann.,
chamberlain of Chester 1 647, in the room of James
earl 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 chancellor of the dutchy of Lancaster, worth
1000/. per ann. and any thing else that he desired.
Besides these honourable places, he had 6000/. at
one time given to him bv the parliament, and at
another, the rectory and demesnes of Biirford in
Oxfordshire, with a stately house there, lately be-
longing to Lucius viscount Falkland, as the author
of tlie * 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/. or there-
abouts, purchase of the said Lucius the priory
house (the stately house before-mention'd) and land
belonging thereunto, descended to him from Eliza-
beth daugh. and heir of sir Laurence Tanfeild lord
chief baron of the Exchequer, sometime 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 witli the king in the isle of Wight, upon
the propositions of Hampton-Court, there were for

' Printed at Lond. in oct. an. lC6o. p. 1?.

LENTHALL.

m>

it 57 yeas, and against it 57 noes : Whereupon he,
as speaker, turn'a the scales to yeas, which was the
best thing he ever did. Oliver once made a sponge
of, and squeezed from, him 1;)000/. and turning him
(and his tribe the long parliament) out of doors, in
1653, after he had sate it out in all changes and re-
sisted 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 bel-weathcr in the house of
commons, was thought fit for his comjiliance and
money to be one of the other house. In 1654 he
wa.s elected one of the knights of Oxtbrdshire, and
burgess for the city of Giocester, to serve in tliac
parliament called by Oliver, to meet at Westm. 3d
of September the .same year ; of which parha-
ment lie was chosen speaker. When that conven-
tion caird the rump parliament was invited by the
army to sit again 6 May 1659 (for they had been
turned out by Oliver in 1653) he became speaker
also, as he had been before, and on the ^3d of
the said month, he was constituted and appointed
[JOoJ keeper of the great seal for the commonwealth of
•England for eight days only next ensuing. But
that parliament (which was tilled up by the mem-
bers,-secluded thence in 1648) being dissolved on
the 16th 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 be-
sides, where he had canvasM 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

' [12 May lf)6o. Upon a debate of the proceeding? of
the high court of justice for the trying and jivlgirn; of Charles
Stuart, king of England — some exception was taken to some
words spoken by Mr. Lenthall, a member of the house, in
the debate of ihe bill of general pardon, to the effect follow-
ing; vii. ' He that first dre%v his sword against the king,
committed as high an offence, as he that cut off the king's
head.' Mr. Lenthall, standing up in his place, explained
himself, and withdrew. Resolved, that Mr. Lenthall be
called to the bar, and there receive the reprehension of this
hoi\se. — ^Thc speaker give him a sharp reprehension to the
effect followins :

Mr. Lenthall, This house hath taken very great offence
upon some words you have let fall upon debaie of this busi-
ness of the bill of indemnity, which in thejudgment of this
house hath as high a reflection on the justice and proceedings
of the lords and commons in the last parliament in their
actings before l648, as could be expressed. They appre-
hend there is much of poyson in the words, and that they
were spoken out of design to set this house on fire, they
tending to render them that drew the sword to bring delin-
quents to condign punishment, and to vindicate their just
liberties, into ballance with ihem that cut ofl' tlie king's
head; of which act they express their abhorrence, and de-
testation, appealing to God, and their conscience bearing
them witness, that ihev had no thought against his person,
much less against his life.

Therefore I am commanded to let you know, that had
those word* fallen out at any other time but in this par-

posterity that estate he had purcliased in the name
of other people. But being at length to be called to
an account for what he had done, the healing par-
liament that then met, resolved on the eleventti of
June, that he the said William Lenthall be one of
the twenty to be excepted out of the general act of
indenmity and oblivion, to suffer such pains, penal-
ties 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 shotild after the first of Sept. 1660, accept
or exercise any office, ecclesiastical, civil, or mili-
tary, 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 e.scaped 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 king's 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 befbre-mention'd,
where he built a pretty chappel joining thereunto,
shewing great love to scholai'.s and the neighbouring
clergy, wc heard no more of him till the time of his
death. He was a person very inconstant and wa^
vering in his principles, of a slavish temper, a taker
of all oaths, whether covenant, or engagement, .or
those to be faithful to Oliver and Richard, besides
what he had before done to king James and king
Charles I. He minded mostly the heaping up of
riches, and was so besotted in raising and settling 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 uttered or writ-
ten by him, are these following.

Several speeches, as (1) Speech to his Majesty in
the High Court of Parliament 5 Nov. 1640, when
he was presented Speaker. (2) Speech at his pre-
senting these 3 Bills , 1. For the SliortningqfMich.

liament, or at any time in this parliament but when they
had considerations of mercy, pardon and indemnity, you
might have expected a sharper and severer sentence than
that I am to pronounce. But the disposition of his majesty
is to mercy, he hath invited his people to accept it, and it is
the disposition of the body of this house to be healers of
breaches, and to hold forth mercy to men of all conditions,
so far as may stand with justice and the justification of them-
selves before God and man. I am therefore commanded to
let you know, tliat that being their disposition and the pre-
sent subject of this daye's debaie being mercy, you shall
therefore last of mercy. Yet I am to give you a sharp re-
prehension, and I do as shjrply and severely as I can (for
so I am commanded) reprehend you for ii. Journals of the
Commons, vol. viii, page 24. Kennet.]

* [He had a long time kept intelligence with gen. Monk,
loved the king, and had conveyed him monies, which was
well for him. Str John Tyrell's MS. Memoirs. MoRANT.]

' It is to be observed that when, with some difliculty, he
obtained leave to kiss the kins's hand, after his return from
exile, he, out of guilt, fell backward, as he was kneeling-.

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Term, 2. For tlte Pressins of Mariners for the
King's Ships. 3. For the Kemainder of' six entire
Subsidies. (3) Speech in Parliament 13 May
1641. (4) Speech in the Lords House of Pari.
22 June 1641, concerning the Bill for Tonnage
and Poundage. (5) Speech before the K. in the
Lords H. of Pari. 3 Jul. 1641, concerning the
Passing of Three Bills, viz. of Poll-Money, Star-
Chamber, and HigJi-Commission. [Printed in 4to.
1641. Bodl. C. 13. 11. Line] (6) Speech to both
Houses of Pari, at tlie Passing of the Bill for
Tonnage and Poundage, 2 Dec. 1641. (7) Speech
to Sir Tho. Fairfax Gen. of the Pari. Army, to
congratulate his Successes and Victories over the
Kings Army, 14 Nov. 1646. (8) Speech to his
Excellency Sir Tho. Fairfax General, after the
Army Jiad granted the Members of Pari, 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 qf
Houses of the Univ. qf Oxon, together with the
Protestation and Declaration xoith it, 8 Feb. 1641.
[Printed at Oxford 1642. Bodl. C. 14. 1. Line]
(3) Let. to the Sheriffs qf several Counties by the
Command of the H. of C. An. 1641. (4) Letter
to all Corporations in England, and to the Justices
of Peace qf all Counties, written about the same
time. (5) Letter to the King concerning the great
Affairs and State qftlie Kingdom. (6) I^et. (xvith
tluU qfthe Speaker qf the House qf Lords) to the
Lords Justices, and Council qf the Kingdom qf
Ireland, dated 4 July 1643.

Declaration, wherein is contained tJie Grounds
and Reasons tluit moved him to absent himselffrom
the Service qftlie House, on Friday 30 Jul. 1647.
Oxon. 1647. m one sh. in qu. [Bodl. C. 15. 1. Line]
This Declaration was written upon occasion of his
going away with the mace, and a party of the house
of commons with him, to the army at Windsor.

Arguments, whereby Monarchy is asserted to be
the best, most antient and legal Form qfGox'ern-
ment ; in a Conference held at Whitelwll xeith Oli-
ver L. Protector and a Committee of Pari, in April
1657. — Printed at Lond. with the Arguments and
Speeches of other Persons^ to tJie same Purpose,
an. 1660, m oct. The design was to persuade Oli-
ver to take upon him the kingship of Great Britain
and Ireland. " This was reprinted with tiiis title,
*' Treasoti's Master-piece: or a Conference at
" Whitehall, beticccn Oliver the late Usurper and
" a Committee of the tJien pretended Parliament ;
" Jclio desired Him to take upon him the Title of
" King of England, Sec. Lond. 1680. oct." All
which pamphlets, one excepted, were printed at
Lond. in qu. and not one of tiiem exceeds the quan-
tity of a sheet of paper. I am persuaded that many

' [ Speakers, besides those that I have mentioned in my
book arc sir Charles Wolesley, lord Bro^hill and sir Rich.
Onslow. Wood, MS. Nolc in Aslimole.']

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
moiling, turmoiling, perfidiou.sncss, and I know not
wliat, he laid down his head and died in his house
at Buribrd before-mentioned, on that memorable
day the 3d of Septemb. in sixteen hundred sixty
and two, and two days after was buried without
pomp in a little isle on the nortli side of the church
there, next l)elow that isle where the costly tomb of
sir Lau. Tanfeild stands. At that time the body
of his only wife Elizabeth, who died the 19th 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 liours to say, that he de*
sired 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 rec-
tor of Witney near Btu-forn : who administring to
him ghostly counsel, and desiring to know how he
had kept and observed the fifth commandment, re-
membnng him that disobedience, rebellion, and
schism were the great sins against it, made this con-
fession— ' Yes, there is my trouble, my disobedience
not against my natur;d parents only, but against
the pater patria?, our deceased .sovereign. I confess
with Saul, I held their clothes whilst they nutrdcred
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 for-
give me,' &c. Tlien the said doctor urged liim to
confess, if he knew any ol' those villains that plottetl
and contrived tliat horrid murder, which were not
then detected; to which he answci-'d, 'I am a
stranger to that business, my soul never entred into
that secret; but what concerns my self I v/ill con-
fess freely. These things are especially laid to my
charge, wherein indeed I am too guilty; as first
that I went from the parliament to tlie army. 2.
Tliat I proposed the liloody qtiestion for trying tlie
king. And 3. That I sate in parliament after tlie
king's death. To the first I may give this answer,
tliat Cromwell and his agents deceived a wiser m.in
than my self, I mean that excellent king, and tlien
might well deceive me also, and so they did. I
knew the presbjterians would never restore the king
to his just rights, these men (tlie independents)
swore they woisld. For the second no excuse c.in
be ma<le, but I have the king's pardon, and I
Almighty God will shew me his mercy also

166?.

hojie
; yet

[OrBrcdock, aiicrwards bishop of Chichester. Macko.]

LENTHALL.

CHAMBERS.

610

even then, wlien 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 'twas my own baseness
and cowardize and unworthy fear to submit my
[310] 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 tlie 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 Iyer of the age he lived in, bred in
- C. C. C. 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 trial of the
king, was a colonel while Oliver was protector,
from whom he received the honour of knighthood
on the 9 March 1657, was one of the six clerks in
chancery, and for a time governor of Windsor
castle. In 1672 he was elected high-sheriff of Ox-
fordshire, and in the latter end of 1677 he received
the honour of knighthood from his majesty king
Charles II. This person, who hath two, or more,
speeches in print, spoken in the times of usurpa-
tion, died at Besills-Lee near Abingdon in Berks
(the manor of which his father purchased of the
Fettiplaces) on the ninth day of Novemb. 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 Katha-
rine Hamilton, of the noble family of the Hamiltons
in Scotland, particularly of those of Pasley, and by
her had issue John ' and James Lenthall. He died
at Burford on the 5th of Sept. 1686, aged 27 years

' 'Tis said that one Mrs. Katharine Johnson, a pretender
to prophecy, did some time before tell Will. Lenthall that
the oath of abjuration .ngainat the royal fjmily should be en-
deavoured to pass in parliament : which if he would deny,
he should afierwards be forgiven for what he had done
against the king. So that upon her warning, he, (upon liic
proposal of that oath) absented himself from the house for
.ibout ten days, under pretence of the gout. See more in a
book emit. The Mystery and Methnd of his Majesty's happy
Restoration, &c. by John Price, D. D. — Lond. l"680. oci.
p. 40.

5 [His son John was a gentleman commoner of St. John's,
and a mere rattle. Watts.!

Vol. III.

or thereabouts, and was buried near to the grave of
his grandfather.

[Lenthall was a man of a very narrow, timorous
nature, and of no experience or conversation in the
affairs of the kingdom beyond what the mere drud-
gery in his profession (in which all his design was
to make himself rich) engaged him in. He was in
all respects very unequal to the work of speaker of
the house of commons, and not knowing how to
preserve his own dignity, or to refrain the licence
and exhorbitance of others, his weakness contri-
buted as much to the growing mischiefs, as the ma-
lice of the principal contrivers. Macro.

See The Death-bed Repentance of Mr. LentJuill
Speaker of the Long Parliament extracted out of a
Letter written from Oxford Sept. 1662; at the end
of Herbert's Memoirs, &,c. 8vo. 1702, attested in an
advertisement to the reader. Kennet.']

HUMPHREY CHAMBERS, a gentleman's
son, was born in Somersetshire, became a commoner
of University college in 1614, aged 15 years, stood
for a fellowship in Merton coll. in 1619, but put
aside as insufficient, notwitlistanding 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 refectory or chap-
pel 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 Cl»-
verton in his own country, on the death of John •
Bewshen. Afterwards he took the degree of bach,
of div. and was esteemed by the neighbouring mi-'
Uisters 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 assembly of
divines, and maintained a horse and man at his own
charge in actual service against the king. " He
" was minister of Stretchley in Shropshire 1648.'"
Soon after he had the rich rectory of Pewsey near
to Marlborough in Wilts, bestowed on him for his
good^ervice, 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

' [This letter was twice printed in the year l662 ; the aii-'^
ihenticity of it is vouched for by Dr. Dickenson then (I7OS)
living in St. Martin's lane, in the following note — ' Sir, 1
have carefullv read over Mr. Lenihal, the speaker of the long
parliament's Dealh-hed Repentance, and do assure the truth
of all that is there said. The minister, who then prayed
with him, confess'd him, and gave him absolution, was Dr.
Bredock, afterwards bishop of Chichester. Besides what I
read in the letter, I very well remember one very observable
passage, which 1 had from Mr. Lenthal's own mouth in his
last sickness ; which was, that gen. Monk did assure king
Charles II. — That had it not been for Mr. l,cnthal's secret
concurrence and assistance, he could not have brought about
the restaiiration. This is what I perfectly remember, tho'
many other passages declaring his affection to the church and
state pass'd from him in his last sickness. This, sir, you
may be confident is the very truth, which can be owned by.
nie.' See Botll. 8vo. A. 24. Jur.]

RB,

mi

CHAMBERS.

GAUDEN.

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)658.

doctor of div. in the Pembrochian creation, and had
several Ixxiiics bestowed on liiin by that convention
called by the presbyterians the blessed parliament.
After the king's restoration he was sufFerd to keep
his parsonage l)ecause no body laid claim to it, he
being then accounted the prime leader of the faction
in those mrts ; hut 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 rceigh
rdigioiis Fasts in ; Fast-Sermon before the Hotise
of Com. 9.1 Sept. 1643; on Zach. 7. 5, 6, 7. Lond.
1643. qu. [BwU. 4to. H. 6. Th. BS.] He was also
one of the three that preached before the house of
lords on tlie 22 Oct. 1644, being a fast-sermon upon
the uniting of the army together ; but whether 'tw.is
printed I find not. (2) PauVs sad Farewell to the
Ephesians, preached at tlie Funeral of Mr. John
Grayle, Minister of Tidworth in Wiltsh. ; on Acts
20. 37, 38. Lond. 1655. qu. [Bodl. 4to. Z. 84.
Th.] and others which I have not yet seen.

Motive to Peace and Love [delivered in a Ser-
mon at PauVs the first Lord''s Day in June, Anno
Dom. 1648.'] Pnnted 1649. qu. [Bodl. 4to. H. 5.
Th. BS.]

Animadver.sions on Mr. W. DeWs Book, entit.
The crucified and quickned Christian. Lond. 1653.
qu. [Bocil. 4to. B. 47. Jur.]

Apology for the Ministers of the Cmmty of
Wilts in tfieir Meetings at the Election of Members
Jbr the approaching Parliament. In Answer to a
Letter sent aid qftlie said County, pretending to
lay open the dangerous Designs of the Clergy in
Refererwe to the approaching Parliament, by some
of the defani'd Ministers of tlie Gospel of the samt
County. Lond. 1654, in 4 sh. in qu. In the writ-
ing of which Apology Dr. Chambers was assisted
by Joh. Strickland, Adoniram Byfield' and Pet.
Ince, presb. ministers.

Ansxeer to the Cliarge of Walt. Bushnel Vicar of
Box in Wiltshire, published in a Book of his entit.
A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Commis-
sioners appointed by Oliver Cromieell Jhr ejecting
scandalous and ignorant Ministers, &c. 1660. qu.

Vindication qftlie said Commissioners. — Printed
with 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 tiling else of him, only that he was buried
in the churcli of Pewsey before-mention\l, on the
eighth day of Sept. 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. sometime fellow of Gonvill and
Cains coll. in Cambridge, chaplain to James duke

' [Ded. 10 Philip earl of Pembroke and Montgomery.]
' [Adoniram Rylield coll. Eman. A. B. 1623. Reg. Acad.
Cant. Baker.]

of York, and afterwards prebendary of Wells and
Salisbury, as I shall elsewhere at large tell you.

JOHN GAUDEN, son of the minister of May-
land in Essex,* was bom there, or at least in that
county, educated in grammar learning at S. Ed-
mund's-Bury in Suffolk, and afterwards, at about
16 years of age, was admitted a student of S. John's
college in Cambridge under one Mr. Wright;
where making great proficiency in academical learn-
ing took the degrees in arts. In 1630, or therc-
alx)uts, he removed to Wadham coll. in tiiis uni-
versity, where he became tutor to Francis and Will.
Russell, sons of sir Will. Rus.sell, baronet, (into
whose family he about that time liad matched) and
after their dep<irture, to other gentlemen of qualit)'.
While he continued there, the greatness of his paits
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 BrightwcU near
Wallingford in Berks, beneficetl at Chippenham in
Cambridgeshire, D. of D. and when the assembly
of divines was to be setled in 16453, he was nomi-
nated one of them to the parliament by sir Dudley
North and sir Tho. Chichley (knights for Cam-
bridgeshire 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. Gauden's book, entit. Anti-Baal-
Beriih, &c. printed at Lond. 1661. p. 89, 90. At
that time (1643) he being a covenanter, as the pres-
byterians and fanatical ptxjple generally affirm, tho'
positively * denietl by himself, he had the rectory
and deanery of Bocking in his own country confer'd
upon him, " by an order of the house of lords to
" archbishop I^aud," ^ which he kept during the
time of usurpation ; and was, as before at Bright-
well, 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 king

■• [Joh. Gawding A. M. admiss. ad vie. de Mayland,
com., Essex, 13 Decemb. logs, ad pres. Will. Wiseman.
Reg.' Grindall. Ken net.]

=> In his Anti-Baal-BerM, p. 275, 276.

* [In the beginning of the yeare (Mar. 25 or thereabouts)
]()42, Dr. John Ganden, chaplaine to the earl of Warwick,
a suiter to the archb. of Cantab, for the rectory of Bocking
in Essex. The lords in pari, ordered, that the archbishop
should collate Dr. Gauden to Bocking, which he did Apr. 1,
1642. So in The History of the Troubles and Tryal of
Will. Laud Archb. nf Canterb. cap. 15, p. lij+. Wood,
MS. Note in Ashmole.

Dr. Gauden was presented to the living of Bocking in 41,
and as I am well informed, he had his first presentation from
the parliament, but not looking upon it as a safe hold for so
great and reputable a benefice, which is called a deanery,
he, by the intercession of friends, at last, procured a pre-

[312]

GAUDEN.

t)l4

Charles II. 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 dif-
ferent factions, as also from the sacrilegious hands
of those false brethren, whose scandalous conversa-
tion was consummate in devouring church-lands,
and then with impudence to make sacrilege lawful ;
I say for these liis services, his majesty confer'd
upon him the bishoprick of Exeter, to which being
consecrated in S. Peter's 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. Mor-
ley's 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 im-
proved by unwearied labour. His works are these.
Several sermons, as (1) The Love of Truth and
Peace; on Zach. 8.19- Lond. 1641. qu. [Bodl.
4to. G. 12. Th. BS.] (2) Three Sermons preached
upon several public Occasions. Lond. 1642. qu.
[Bodl. 4to. G. 13. Th. BS.] The first of which
preached before his majesty, is on Heb. 12. 14.
The second before the judges at Chelmsford in
Essex, is on Zach. 8. 16. and the third at S. Mary's
in Oxon. on Act Sunday, 11 July 1641, is on
Ephes. 4. 23. (3) Funerals made Cordials : Ser-
fiwn prepared, and (in part) preached at the solemn
Interment of the Corps of Rob. Rich, Heir appa-
rent to the Earldom of Warrvick (who died at
Whitehall 16th of Feb.' An. 1657, a^ed 23 Years,
and tms honourably buried on the 5th of March
folhywing) at Fclsied in Essex. Lond. 1658. qu.
[Bodl. 4to. L. 44. Th.] (4) Sermmi preached at
the Funeral of Dr. Ralph Drownrig Bis/iop of
Exeter (17 Dec. 1659) on 2 Kings 2. 12. Lond.
1660. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. B. 26. Th. BS.] (5) Slight
Healing gfptiblic Hearts, Sfc. Serm. in S. PauVs
Cathedral before the lyyrd Mayor, Lord General,
Aldermen, ^c. 26 Feb. 1659, being a Day of solemn
Thanksgiving unto God for restoring of the se-

sentation from archb. Laud, the rightfiill patron to it, then
in the Tower. Vid. Dr. Hollingworth's Defence, &c.
against Dr. Waliier.

He came into the rectory and deanery of Booking not in
1641 as Dr. Hollingworth, but in lf)43, and so the more
likely to come in by the interest of the parliament, nor does
it appear that his title was ever confirmed hy archb. Laud.
One Richard Colebrand succeeded 7 Dec. )660, hy the kind's
present. Kennet.]

' [Quoere whether not consecrated 18 Nov. l66o? Kem-

NET.

John Gauden S.T. P. was elected Nov. 3, l6()0, confirra-

A r 'n''' ""'' •^?"*'^"'e'' "«"* '■^'V : Thus Reg. Juxon,
A. C. But Jfpg. ipiius says, consecrated Dec. 2. He was
uithronized Dec. 1 1, Le Neve, Fasti Ecclesioe Angl. 1716,

eluded Members of Parliament to tlie House ofCorii'
mons, ^c. on Jerem. 8. 11. Lond. 1660. qu. [B(xll.
4to. N. 4. Th. BS.] Therein is somewhat added
above what was preached. (6) God''8 great Demon-
strati<m and Demands if Justice, Mercy, ^c. Serm.
on Micah 6. 8. before the H. of Com. at their so-
lemn Fast before their Jirst Sitting, 30 Apr. 1660.

Lond. 1660. qu. [Bodl. 4to. N. 4. Th. BS.]

And other sermons which I have not yet seen.

Certain Scruples and Doubts of Conscience about
Taking the solemn League and Covenant, tendred
to the Con.sideration of Sir Laur. Bromfield and
Zach. Crqfton. Loiid. 1643, and 1660. qu.

Hierapistes : or, a Defence by Way of Apology
of the Ministry and Ministers of the Church ^
England. Lond. 1653. qu. [Bodl. 4to. G. 10. Th.
BS.J

Christ at the Wedding : or, tJie pristine Sanc-
tity and Solemnity of Christian Marriages. Lond.
1654. qu. [Bodl. 4to. G. 14. Th. BS.]

The Case of the Minister''s Maintenance by
Tithes, plainly discussed in Conscience and Pru-
dence, &c. Lond. 1653. qu. [Bodl. 4to. G. 14. Th.
BS.] It must be now known that Oliver Cromwell
by his declaration did require all persons not to en-
tertain in any capacity whatsoever, any person en-
gaged 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 au-
thor to write this pamphlet,

A Petitionary Remon.itrance presented to Oliver
Protector 4 Feb. 1655, in Behalf of his distressed
Brethren of the Church of England, deprived of all
public Employment by his Declaration^ 1 Jan. 1655.
Lond. 1659. qu. [Bodl. 4to. H. 3. Art. BS.] At
the same time Dr. Usher primate of Ireland went
from lleigate to Whitehall on purpose to the said
protector, to intercede for his indulgence towards
them. He took also the safest opportunities for [313]
mediating for them for the space of more than a
month, but was forced at last to retreat to his coun-
try retirement (and so to his grave) with little suc-
cess 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 bowels,
&c. But if another author » may be believed, his
intercessions did take effect.

Ecclesiw AnglicancE Suspiria : setting forth her
former Constitution, compared with Ker present
Conditio7i, in 4 Books. Lond. 1659. fol.

Aniisacrilegus : or, a Defensative against the
Plaiusibleness, or gilded Poison of that nameless
Paper, (stipposed to be the Plot of Dr. Cornelius
Surges and his Partners) which attempts the
King's Majesty by the Offer of Jive hundred thou-

' Further Continuation of the Friendly Delate. Lond.
IC70. in Oct. p. 147, 148.

9 The author of The fourth Plea of the Conformists for the
Non-Conformists. Lond. l683.qu. in a postscript at the end.
IIR2

615

GAUDEN.

sand Pounds, to make good by an Act of Parlia-
inent to the Purchasers of Bishop's ^-c. Lands, their
illegal Bargain for 99 Years. Lond. 16C0. in 2
sh. and an half in qii. [Botll. 4to. N. 4. Th. BS.]

Account ()f the Life and Death of Dr. Ralph
Broxvnrig, lately Bisk, of Exeter. — This is at tlic
end of his funeral semion bcfore-mention''d.
• The Loosing ofS. Peter's Bondt, setting forth
the true Sense and Solution of the Covenant in
Point of Conscience. I^ond. 1660. qu. ' AnswerM
by one John Rowlands in a pamphlet printed in qu.
the same year.

Analysis oftlie Covenant. Lond. 1660. qu. [Bodl.
4to. H. 3. Art. BS.] Soon after caine out two
answers. Tlie first of which was entit. after this
rude manner, An Anatomy or Confiitation of iluxt
idolized Piece of Nonsense and Blasphemy of Dr.
Gaudcn, &c. No name is set to it. The second
was .S'. Peter''s Bonds abide: by Zach. Crofton.
Botll which were printed at Lond. 1660. qu. These
two were soon after replied upon by John Russell
of Cliinkford in Essex, in a little piece in qu. entit.
The solemn League and Covenant discharged : or,
S. Peter's Bonds not only loosed but annihilated,
SfC. attested by our Author Gauden, Lond. 1660.
in 3 sh. and half in qu. Whether the said John
Russell be the same with him who became gent,
com. of Wadham coll. 1630, in wlilch year Will.
and Fran. Russel liefore-mentioned were entred
students of the same house, I cannot yet tell. About
tlie same time came out another book entit. Anony-
tmia Questionist in Defence of Dr. Gauden, &c.

And soon after this Analepsis Analeptica. The

Fastning of S. Peter'' s Bonds in seven Links or
Proportions : or, the Efjicacy and Extent of tlie
solemn League and Covenant asserted and vindi-
cated against the Doubts and Scruples of Dr. John
Gauden's Anonym. Questionist, Mr. John RusseWs
S. Peters Bonds not only loosed, ^c. Dr. Featley
his League illegal, falsly fathered on Mm, and The
University of Oxon their Reasons for not taking

the Covenant, ^c. Written by Zach. Crofton

Minister of S. Botolph's Aldgate in London. After
tliis our author Gauden came out with,

Anti-BaaUBerith : or, the Binding of the Cove-
nant and all Covenanters to their good Beltaviour.
By a Just Vindication of Dr. Gauden's Analysis
(that is, his Resolving the Covenant to Law and
Justice, to Duty and Conscience, to Reason and Re-
ligion ; or, to his Dissolving it) against the Caco-
tomy 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, imth an Answer to that monstrous
Paradox, of No Sacrilege, no Sin, to alienate
Church Lands, without and against all Lazes of

' rOed. to sir Lawrence Bromfield, knight and colonel;
in which the author says that he finished it in two days. See
Kennel's Rrgisler and Chronicle, page 179]

God and Man, &c. Lond. 1661. qu. [Bodl. 4to.
W. 6. Th. BS.] The said Crofton came out soon
after with a reply entit. Be rith- Anti-Baal ; " or
" Zach. Crofton'' s Appearance before the Prelate
" Just'tce of Peace,'" &c. Lond. 1661. qu.

Considerations touching the Liturgy 'of the
Church of England,^ in Reference to his Majcstys
late Declaration, &.c. Lond. 1661. qu. [Bodl. A. 1.
13. Line] AnswerVl by a vain and idle book entit.
Rhetorick restrained: or. Dr. Jo. Gauden Lord
B'lsh. elect of Exeter, his Considerations of the Li-
turgy of tlie Church of England considered and
clouded. Published under the name of Tiio. Bold
of Exon ; attested by Zach. Crofton, and printed at
London the same year.

Counsel delivered to 44 Presbyters and Deacons,
after they had been ordained by him in the Cath.
Church 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.

I^ife of Mr. Ricliard Hooker. — Tliis is written
in a large preface before Mr. Hooker's works, which
Dr. Gauden published at London 1661. fol. In
the said life and preface, he doth with great con-
fidence use divers arguments to satisfy the world
that the three books joined to the five genuine books
of the said Mr. Hoolcer, are genuine and pen'd by
him, notwithstanding those poisonous 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 cf Ep'iscopacy. Lond. 166j- 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

faudy prelate did put forth A Pillar of Gratitude,
c. wherein having in many rhetorical strains bit-
terly scolded against his quondam feUow-cove-
nanters, he liath this angry and uncharitable pas-
sage, ' That the projects of presbyterians have froth

• [At page 33, he says, ' I cannot but commend the can-
dour, justice and ingenuity of Mr. Baxter, who lately pro-
fessed to me, that he saw nothing in the liturgy which might
not well bear a good construction if men looked upon it at
became Christians with eyes of charity." At page39> ' I have
heard it from others, and find it myself, that many aged poor
people being now asked very easy questions of their faith,
since the long disuse of the liturgy, the catechism, and other
plain principles of religion, as creed, commandments and
lord's prayer, have confessed they had forgot what heretofore
they could have given some good account of.' See Kennel's
Register and Chronicle, page 305.]

' Jn Mr. Hooker's life written by Isaac Walton.

* In a book entit. ■ Mirahilis Annus secundus : or,

the second Year oj Prodigies. Being a true and imparlitit
Collection of mani/ strange Signs, &c. printed 1662. numb.
21. p. 86,87.

GAUDEN.

BAGSHAW.

618

in their heads, and blood in their bottom ; as the
water of those men that labour with the stone and
strangury, and have their wounds from within.' It
pleased God within a few days after the publishing
of this book to smite the bishop with that torment-
ing distemper, which he there makes use of, to set
off his false and scandalous impeachment of so con-
siderable a part of the most conscientious and
peaceable people in the land. He lay in a very
great extremity of torture, and by reason of the
stopping of his water, his life was in great hazard,
and so was forced to send for a chyrurgeon, who,
by making use of his probe, did help him to make
water, which was froth at the top, and blood at the
bottom : And that the Lord might make him more
sensible of it, he repeated the stroke a second time
after the same manner, as we have been credibly in-
formed from very eminent and considerable persons.
We could heartily wish, that there were now alive
another Mr.^ Rogers of Wethersfield * who would
deal effectually with the conscience of this proud
prelate, that he might be blessed with a more sancti-
fied use of the hand of the Lord, in the visitation of
the strangury, than of his broken leg, in the fortner
times,' &.C. Thus the nameless author in his Mira-
bilis Annus secundus. The first of which Years
was published in Aug. 1661, the second in Aug.
1662, and the third m Dec. the same year; but
whether any more followed I find not. They were
pubhshed purposely to breed in the vulgar an ill
opinion of the change of government and religion
after the king's restoration.

A just Invective against tliose of the Army and
tlieir Abettors, zcho murthered K. Ch. I. cm the SOth
of Jan. 1648, witlt some other poetic Pieces in
Latin, referring to those tragical Times, written
10 Feb. 1648. Lond. 1662.

Discourse of artificial Beauty in Point of Con-
science, betxceen tteo Ladies. Lond. 1662. oct.'

Discourse concerning public Oaths, and the Law-
Julness of swearing in Judicial Proceedings, in
order to an-noer the Scruples of the QuaJcers.
Lond. 1649. Lat. ibid. 1662. English.

Prophecies concerning the Return of Popery.

Lond. 1663. qu. Published then with other pro-

rSlSl pliecies of that subject, written by Dr. Whitgift

*■ J archb. of Cant. Robt. Sanderson, Rich. Hooker, &c.

The whole Duty of a Communicant: being
Rules and Directions for a worthy receiving the
mast Ju)ly Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. Lond.
1681, &c. in tw. He hath written other things
which I have not yet seen, particularly a tract
about Tender ConMzenccs, which is answer'd by
Sam. Fisher. He gave way to fate in the bishop s
1662. V^^^ at Worcester on the 20th of Sept. in sixteen
hundred sixty and two, aged 57, and was buried in
the chappel at the east end of the choir of the cath.

* Tim. Rogers.

« Wethersfield in Essex.

' [Sec article Jeremy Taylor in this vol.] ^ "s

!•«

ch. there. Over his grave was soon after erected a
fair monument, containing his effigies to the middle,
in his episcopal habit, with an inscription under it ;
a copy of which is printed in Hist. 4" Antiq,
Univ. Oxon, lib. 2. p. 328. a. What the disease
was which took him out of this mortal life, I know
not; neither dare I say (says' one) for all the
world, that the disease that befel him (and of wliich
he died) befel him for his fierceness against the
presby terians : and it was the very disease, unto
which he had compar'd the presby terians sennons,
and it befel him not long after he had made that
odious comparison, &c.

[Jo. Gauden, Essex, admissus in coll. Jo. Cant,
circa an. 1618, 19: A. B. 1622, 3: A. M. 1626,
utrobioue designatus Joannensis. Reg. Acad. Cant.

Quidam lo. Gaudinge, Dorcestriensis, admissus
erat socius coll. Jo. Cant. Mar. 21, 1595. Is vide-
tur fuisse pater hujus lo. Gauding episcopi Wigorn.
Vide Newcourt, RejKrtorium, vol. ii, page 412.
Baker.

Gauden was a false son of the church of England.
His character is but very imperfectly touched on by
the author. For a fuller and more perfect account
of him, see the appendix to the Engbsh Life of Dr.
Barwick. He pretended to have been the author of
Emcoy Bao-iAixi). Whalley.

This bishop was reported to be the autlior of
Ei'xtuv Bao-iAfxi) ; but this was sufficiently disprov'd
by a pamphlet published in 8vo. at London 1693,
which is call'd A Vindication of King diaries the
Martyr, proving tJiat his Mqje.Hy was the AutJior of
Eixuiy BacriXiKrj against a Memorandum said to be
written by the Earl of Anglesea, and against tfie
Excej)tions of Dr. Walker, and others. Loveday.'

We may add to the list of Gauden's works :

The Religious and loyal Protestation of John
Gauden Dr. in Divinity, against the present de-
clared Purposes and Proceedings of the Army and
others, about the Trying and Destroying our Sove-
raign Lord the King. Sent to a Collonell to bee
presented to the Lord Fairfax, and his generall
Councell of Officers, the first of January 1648.

London, Printed for Ricfiard Royston 1648.

Bodl. C. 15. 4. Line. Translated into Latin and
printed by Rob. Barker at York, without date,
Bodl. 4to. N. 10. Jur.

Cau.m Dei : God's Pleading his own Cause set

foHh in two Sermons preached at the Temple in

November, 1659. By Dr. Gauden, Bishop (f

Excester. London, 1661, 8vo. Bodl. 8vo. H.

159. Th.]

EDWARD BAGSHAW, a younger son of a

" The author of The Nonconformists vindicatedjrom the
Abuses put upon thim by Durelt and Scrivner, &c. Lisnd.
1679. p. '70.

^ [On ihis subject fee Nichols's Literary Anecdotes, vol. 1.
pace 322, Bedford's English Life of Barujick, page 36 1 , and
Laing's History qf Scotland. My own opinion is thai Gau-
^ den was not the author and that Charles was.]

619

BAGSHAW.

NICOLLS.

gentleman, descended from those of his name living
m Derbysh. was bom in London, became a coni-
moner of Brasen-nosc coll. under the tuition of Mr.
Rob. Bolton in Mich, term, an. 1604, took one de-
gree in arts four years after, setled in tlie Middle-
Temple, studied the nnmicipal law, and at length
became a Ijencher and a knowing man in his profe.v
sion. In 15 Car. I. he was elected Icnt-reader for
that society, and beginning to read 24 Febr. did
select for the argument of his discourse the statute
of 35 Ed. 8. cap. 7. wherein he laboured to suppress
episcopacy, by lopping oft" the branches first, and
afterwards by laying the ax to the root of the tree,
" insisting in his readings on these two '" points. 1.
'* That a parliament may be held without bishops.
" 2. That bishops may not meddle in civil affairs.''''
But after he had read once. Dr. Laud archb. of
Canterbury had notice of it, who forthwith acquaint-
ing the king, he commanded the lord keeper (Finch)
to prohibit ' him from proceeding any farther ;
which accordingly was done. So that Bagshaw
being looked upon as a discontented and seditious
person, was the year following chose (with Joh.
White another lawyer, known afterwards by the
name of Century White) a burgess for the borough
of Southwark, to serve in that most wicked conven-
tion that began at Westm. 3 Nov. 1640. But soon
after, perceiving full well what mad courses the
members thereof took, he left them, (after he had
expressed his envy among them against the bishops)
went to Oxon, and sate in the parliament there
called by his majesty : where continuing for some
time, was taken by the rebels in Oxfordshire, and
sent to London to the house of commons, who
forthwith committed him prisoner to the king's-
bench in Southwark 29 June 1644, where he had
been, with great shoutings and acclamations, elected
burgess of that place by the fiery zealots for the
cause. Afterwards he suff\;red in his estate in
Northamptonshire, but what his requital was, after
the return of his majesty 1660, (about which time
he was treasurer of the Mid. Temple) I know not.
Sure I am that he hath these things following going
under his name.

T%e Life and Death of Mr. Rob. Bolton. Lond.
1633. qu. [Bodl. B. 24. 5. Line] Wherein the
author shews himself a Calvinist, commends Calvin
and Luther much, and speaks against the inno-
vations in the church then used, with reference, I
presume, to Laud, whom he had no affection for.

Several speeches, as (1) Sp. in Parliament, 7
Nov. 1640.' Lond. 1640. qu. (2) Sp. in Pari.
conceTming Episcopacy and the London Petition.''
Lond. 164t. qu. &c.

w History of the Trouhlet and Tryal <{f Archbishop Laud,
p. 269. chap. S6.

' Sec the Life of Archb. Laud, written by P. Heylin, part
«. an. 1639.

' ' [These two speeches were reprinted in Nalson's Collec-
<ionf, i, 4g7«76l. Loveday.]

Tko Arguments in Parliament : Tfte first con-
cerning the Canons, t/te second concerning the Prce-
munire upon those Canons. Lond. 1641. qu. [Bodl.
4to. A. 1. Jur. BS.]

Treatise defending the Revenues of the Church
in Tithes and Glebe. Lond. 1646. qu.

Treatise maintaining the Doctrine, Liturgy, and

Discipline of the Church of England. These

two last were written by their author during his long
imprisonment.

Short Censure of the Book of Will. Prynne, en-
tit. The University of Ow/brets Plea refuted.— ——
Printed 1648. in 2 sh. in qu. [Bodl. C. 15. 2. Line]

Just Vindication of the questioned Part of his
Reading had in the Middle-Temple-Hall, 24 Febr.
1639. Lond. 1660. qu.

True Narrative qftlie Cause of silencing him by
the Archi. of Cant. Printed with the Just Vin-
dication. See Joh. Rushworth's third volume of
Collections, pag. 990.

The Rights of the Crown of England, as it is
estahlisfied by Law. Lond. 1660. oct. [Bodl. 8vo.
A. 20. Jur.] Written by him also during his im-
prisonment. He departed this mortal lite on the
12th day of Sept. or Octob. in sixteen hundred
sixty and two, and was buried in the church at
Morton-Pinkney in Northamptonshire, as I have
been informed by his son Hen. Bagshaw D. D. some-
time a student of Christ-Church in Oxon,' who
having pubUshed several things, ought hereafter to
be remembrcd in the Append, to these Athen.*.
I shall make mention of another Edw. Bagshaw,
son of the aforesaid Edward, under the year 1671.
\^A sitort Defence of the Reformation qftlie Church
of England by King Edward and Q. Elizabeth.
Wherein her Doctrine, Liturgie and Discipline are
considered andpreferd before all others. 8vo. Lond.
1654. in MSS. seemingly about that time, in the

title-page of a copy I have seen ' By Edward

Bagshaw of the Middle Temple, Esq^'' — Wax-
ley.]

« FERDINANDO NICOLLS, a genUeman's
" son of Buckinghamshire, was eflucated in Magd.
" coll. took the degrees in arts as a member thereof,
" that of master being compleated in 1621. After-
" wards he entred into holy orders, and at length
" became minister of S. Mary Arches in the city
" of Exeter, a grand presbyterian, if not worse, and
" one of the assistants to the commissioners of De-
" vonshire and the city of Exeter for the ejection of
" such, whom they then (16-54) called scandalous,
" ignorant, and insufficient ministers and school-
" masters. He hath written,

" The Lije and Death of Ignatius Jourdain,
" one of the Aldermen of the City of Exeter, who
" departed this Life 15 Jtdy 1640. Lond. 1655. in

3 [1670, lb Jiin. Hen. Bagshaw, S.T. B. coll. ad eccl. S.
Buttoiphi, Bishops-gate, per leiigu. Joh. Lake, S. T. P.
Reg. London, Kenkbt.J

ifm.

COLE.

WEAVER.

622

" tw. [Bodl. Grou^ ; Devon. 1 8.] 'Tis the 2d
" edition, and enlarged by the author. One Ni-
" colls, whose Christian name I cannot yet learn,
" was author of Abraham's Faith : or, the good
" old Religion, proving tJuit the Doctrine and
" Discipline of the Church of England is the only
" true Catholic and unchangeable Faith of God's
" elect. Printed in qu. in the beginning, or in the
" time, of the grand rebellion ; as also author of A
" Catechism (^the Principles of Religion. Printed
" in oct But whether the same wim Ferdinando,
" I think not. He dietl suddenly in sixteen hun-
1662. " dred sixty and two, and was buried in the chan-
" eel of the church of S. Mary Arches before-men-
" tion'd, near to the communion table. Soon after
" was a stone laid over his grave, with this inscrip-
" tion engraven thereon. ' Here lyeth the Ixxly
" of Mr. Ferdinando NicoUs, wlio, upon the 1 4>th
" ofDecemb. 1662, being the 64th year of his age,
" and the thirtieth of his ministry in this church,
" dyed in the face of the congregation, whilst the
*•' psalm was singing.' He died, as I have heard,
" of an apoplectical fit tliat then took him."

WILLIAM COLE, son of Joh. Cole of Ad-

derbury in Oxfordshire bach, of div. and sometime

fellow of New college, was born, and educated in

grammar learning there, entred * " one of

• entreda t^g clerks of New college" in 1642, and

,1. .- soon after was made one of the portionists

the um- . ' ,. -.r

versiiu in commonly called post-masters oi Merton

1642. first coll. by his mother's brother John French
edit. one of the senior fellows of that house, and

public registrar y of the university. When
he was standing for the degree of bach, of arts, he
■was made a public notary, to the end that he might
suprply the said place of registrary when Mr. French
was either absent or indisposed. In the latter end
of 1650 he took one degree in arts, his uncle being
then dead, left the university, retired to London,
and lived several years at Putney near that city,
where he became the most famous simpler or her-
[317] bahst of his time. At length u{X)n the king's restora-
tion, in 1660, he was made secretary to Dr. Duppa,
bishop of Winchester, in whose service he died. His
works are these,

TTie Art of Simpling: or, an Introduction to
the Knowledge and GatJiering of Plants, wherein
the Definitions, Divisions, Places,
'efdkult "r ^^^'^"P*"^^ *■> "Differences, Names,
^cZrlldof. filll " ^'^rtties. Times tffourishing and
edit. " gathering. Uses, Temperatures,

" Signatures, and Appropriations
" of Plants, are methodically laid dozen.'''' Lond.
1656. in tw.

Perspicillum Microcosmologium : or, a Prospec-
tive Jbr the Discovery of the lesser World. Wherein
Man is a Compendium; " Theologically, Pliiloso-
" phically, and Anatomically described and com-
" par'd with the Universe: to the End that Men

" mem understand, that Self-Knotvledge is delight-
" fm, and necessary to be enquir''d after. Lond.
" 1666. in tw. bound and" printed witn the former.
Adam in Eden: or. Nature's Paradise. The
History of Plants, Herbs, Flowers, with their
several original Names, &c. Lond. 1657. fol.
Into this book, if I am not mistaken, is remitted
TTie Art of Simpling. As for the book entit. TTie
Garden of Eden: or, an accurate Description of
all Flowers, &c. which was printed in 1653, 'twas
written by that learned and great observer sir Hugh
Plat knight. Our author Will. Cole died cither at
Winchester, or at Famham in Surrey in sixteen
luindred sixty and two, aged 36 or thereabouts, but 1C62.
where buried I know not. I find another Will.
Cole who published a book entit. A Rod for tlie
Lawyers, who are hereby declared to be the grand
Robbers and Deceivers of the Nation, &c. Lond.
1659. qu. But of what university he was, if of any
at all, I know not.

THOMAS WEAVER son of Tho. W^eaver was
born in the city of Worcester, applied his poetical
geny to academical learning in Ch. Ch. an. 1633,
aged 17, took the degrees in arts, that of master
being compleated in 1640, about which time he was
made one of the chaplains or petty canons of the
cathedral ; from which place being ejected by the
Parliamentarian visitors in 1648, he shifted from
place to place and lived upon his wits, a specimen
of which he published to the world entit.

Songs and Poems of Love and Drollery.—
Printed 1654. in oct. In which book is a ballad
entit. Zeal over-fieated : or, a Relation of a La^
mentable F'lre which Imppened in Oxon in a reli-
gious BrotJier''s Slum, &c. to the tune of Chivey
Chase. The said religious brother was Tho. Wil-
liams a milliner, living sometime against Allsaints
church where holy Cornish teached, (that is Hen.
Cornish a presbyterian minister, canon of Ch. Ch.)
by authority of parhament, an. 1648. But the
said songs and poems being looked upon by the
godly men of those times as seditious and libellous
against the government, he was imprison'd and af-
terwards tried for his life. Whereupon his book
being produced in open court (after it had been
proved that he was the author of it) the judge read

some pages, and then spake to this effect,

' Gentlemen, the person that we have here before us
is a scholar and a man of wit. Our forefathers had
learning so much in honour, that they enacted, that
those that could but as much as read, should never
be hanged, unless for some great crime, and shall
we respect it so little as to put to death' a man of
parts ? I must tell you, I should he very unwilling
to be the person that should condemn him, and yet
I must be forced to it if the jury bring him in
guilty,' &c. So that upon this harangue, too large
to be all here set down, the jury brought him not
guilty : Whereupon being set at bberty, he was ever

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SANDERSON.

after highly valued by the boon and generous royal-
ist. He hath also certain epigrams extant, which I
have not yet seen, and wrote the copy of verses
called Tfie ArclibisJwp of York's Revolt, * printed in
the Poems ofJoh. Cleaveland, besides divers pieces
of poetry printed in several books published in his

[318] time. After his majesty's return m 1660 he was
made exciseman for Leverpole in Lancashire, and
was commonly called caj)tain Weaver, but prose-
cuting too much the crimes of poets, brought him to
his grave in the church there, in the prime and
strength of his years, on the third day of January

l6^. in sixteen hundred sixty and two. About the be-
ginnuig of the year 1656 was a book published
entit. Choice Drollery, xtnth Songs and Sonnets.
Which giving great offence to the saints of that
time, who esteem'd it a lewd and scandalous thing,
it was order'd by the protector's council to be burnt,
on the 8th of May the same year. But who the
author of that book was, I cannot yet tell. •

ROBERT SANDERSON a younger son of
Rob. Sanderson, was born at Rotheram in York-
shire on the 19th of Sept. 1587 (29 Elizab.) edu-
cated in the grammar school there, sent by his rela-
tions to Line. coll. in the beginning or the year
1601, afterwards matriculated * a member of the
university as a minister's son, took the degree of
bach, of arts in Lent term 1604, elected fellow of
the said coll. 3 May 1606, having then a metaphy-
sical brain and matchless memory. In Mich, term
1607 he was admitted master of arts, and in July
following he compleated that degree by standing in
the act. In 1611 he was made deacon and priest
by Dr. King bishop of London, in 1614 he stood to
be proctor of the university, but missed it, and the
year after he published his logic lectures that he
had before read in the public refectory of Line.
coU. So that his name being then famous, he was
elected proctor with great ease and wiUingness, an.
1616. The next year he was admitted bach, of div.
and the year after that became rector of Wibbcrton
near to Boston in Lincolnshire, but surrendred it
up (as he did his fellowship) in 1619, because it
was a bad air. The same year he became rector of
Bothby-paynel in the smd county, * was made chap-
lain to Dr. George Mounteyne bishop of Lincoln,
and not long after prebendary of the collegiate
church of Southwell in the dioc. of York and preb.
of Lincoln. Dr. Laud bish. of Lond. got him to

* Dr. Joh. Williams.

* Reg. Malric. P. page 3^5.

' [In the MSS. notes of bishop Sanderson he has set down
the names of some of the rectors of Boothby-Paynel thus :

Ambrose Ward who dyed l603,sepult. teb. 81.

Tho. Burton B. D. sometime fellow of Lincoln Coll.
Oxon. Removed to the vicarage ofEdmonton, com. Middle-
sex, l6lg.

Robert Sanderson B. D- fellow of Lincoln college and
sometimes p<ipill to the said Tho. Burton and proctor of the
university of Oxon. induct. 4 Sept. 1619. Kemnet.]

be chaplain to king Charles I. by commending him
to be excellent in all casuistical learning, and ac-
cordingly in Nov. 1631 he was sworn chaplain in
ordinary'. So that having occasion to be some-
times near to him, the said king took great content
in conver.sing with him, whereby our author gained
great cretlit 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
king and court left Oxon, after they had fieen 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 sa-
tisfaction of the covenanters, and presbyterian party
in the long parliament. In July 1642, he was no-
minated by nis majesty the regius professor of di-
vinity of triis 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 set-
tling of church affairs (as Prideaux bishop of Wor-
cester 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 assembly of divines, but sate'
not among them. In 1647 he had the most con-
siderable hand in drawing up the University Rea-
sons against tJie 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 parlia-
ment, 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 pubhc and private conferences with him
to his majesty's great satisfaction. About that
time his maj. translated into English our author's
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
pari, visitors, and so tonsequendy from his canonry
of Ch. Ch. and soon after he retired to his cure at
Bodiby, where living obscurely, took upon him to
put the king's Meditations in his Solitude into
Latin, which being half done, Dr. Earle prevented
him from finishing it, by doing that work himself

' [The King used to say, I carry my ears to hear other,
preachers, but I carry my conscience to hear Mr. Sanderson,
and to act accordingly.

He was always too bashful and timorous, so that his fear
would never suffer him to preach without book.

His memory was so great, that he could repeat all the ode»,
of Horace, Tullie's Offices, and much of Juvenal and Ptr-
sius, without book. MACRO,/row Walton.']

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626"

While he remained there, he was plundcr'd, impri-
soned, wounded, and tlio' brought into a low and
obscure condition, yet many receded to him for the
resolution of cases of conscience. Which being also
resolvetl liy letters, many of them have been pre-
.served, ana printed for the benefit of }X)sterily. In
Aug. 1660 he was restored to his professorship and
canonry by his majesty's commissioners, and by the
commendations of Dr. Sheldon to his majesty king
Charles II. he was soon after made bishoj) of Lin-
coln, received consecration thereunto in the abbey
church at Westmmster, 28 Oct. the same year.
After which, retiring to his manor of Bugden in
Huntingdonshire belonging to his see, he bestowed
much money in repairing his house or palace there.
AU authors, csijecially tiioee that are famous, do
speak honourably of him. The learned Usher of
Armagh stiles him ' judicious Sanderson,' upon the
return of a case he proposed to him ; and Ham-
mond, ' that stayed and well weighed man Dr. San-
derson, &c. who reeeiveth things deliberately and
dwells upon them discreetly.' Besides also his
great knowledge in the fathers and schoolmen, and
profoundness hi controversial divinity, he was ex-
actly vcrs'd in the histories of our nation, whether
ancient or nKxleni, was a most curious antiquary,
and an indefatigable searcher into ancient records,
as his labours in MS. 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 ii\ the hands of private
gentlemen, &c. evidences belonging to cathedral

and other churches, &c. This l)ook is endorsed

with Cartte X, shewing that there were other vo-
lumes, as indeed there are, in number about twenty,
(as I have been told by Hen. Symmons his some-
time secretary) which are, as I conceive, disperse{l
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 preserva-
tion of them from ruin, that when he published
Articles of Enquiry, in order to the visiting of his
diocese in 1661, he, in the conclusion of them, de-
sired tlie ministers to make a return of all such mo-
numental 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 be-
came of them after his death, I cannot tell. * His
published works are these,

" [Mr. Bailey was infotmcd, the bishop's MSS. are in the
possession of Mr. I,oe, rector of Ingham, in Suffolk.

Mr. Sympson, the antiquary of l.incoln, had some of bish.
Sanderson's MS. collections, particularly tiie MS. X men-
tioned above. V. my MS. Coll. (in the British Museum)
vol. xl. pages 112. 113. CoLB.l

Vol. III.

Lofficce Artis Compendium. Oxon. 1615. 18.
[Bodl. 8vo. S. 101. Art.] 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. [Bodl.
4to. C. 86. Th.] (2) Twenty Sermons. Lond.
1626. fol. among wliich are the two former. (3)
Two Serm. on 1 Tim. 4. 4. and Gen. 20. 6. Lond.
1628. (ju. [Bodl. 4to. P. 44. Th.] (4) Twelve
Serm. viz. three ad Clcrum, three ad Magistratum
and six ad Populum. Lond. 1626. and 32 fol. (5)
Two Serm. on 1 Pet. 2. 16. and Rom. 14. 23.
Lond. 1635. qu. [Bodl. HH. 32. Th.] (6) Twenty
Serm. fo)-mcrly 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.
your 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 num-
ber 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 author's life before them, written by Is. Walton,
&c. " The Serm. ad Clerum was preached at a
" visitation holden at Grantham in tlie county and
" diocese of Lincoln, 8 Oct. 1641, on Matthew 16,
" 19.— Oxon. 1670 qu. [Bodl. C. 8. 19. Line]
" published by the author's own copy. Dr. Bar-
" low's note of this sermon follows, ' This posthu-
" mous sermon was printed on this occasion : Mr.
" John Iloswell bac. of div. and fellow of C. C. C.
" Oxon, meeting with Dr. Tho. son of the bishop
" of Lincoln, he shew'd him a copy of this sermon
" fairly written with the bishop's own hand, Mr.
'■^ Roswell, liked it (as he had reason well) and de-
" sired it might be printed. But Dr. Tho. Sander-
" son was unwilling, because his father forbad the
" printing of any of his papers after his death.
" That year 1669, Mr. George Reywell, (fellow of
" C. C. C.) being in Lancashire, found that a pres-
" byterian (chaplain to the lord De la Mere, sir
" George Booth) had rejwrted, and possess'd many
" in that county with the belief of it, that bishop
" Sanderson before his death repented of what he
" had written against the presnytcrians, and on
" his death-bctl would suffer no hierarchical minis-
" ter to come to pray with him. hue desir'd and had
" only presbyterians about him. Mr. Reywell sig-
" nifies this to Mr. Roswell, desires him to enquire
" of the truth of this, and signify it to them. He
" consulted Mr. Jo. Pullen of Magd. hall, who was
" my lord's houshold chaplain, and with him in all
" his sickness and at his death ; he assured him
" that the said bishop (as he lived, so he) died a

" [Eighih edit, corrected and amended. Lend. I(i8<), fol.
Bodl R.'l. 8. Th.]

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" true son of the church of England, that no pres-
" byterians came near him in all his sickness, that
" he hat! no prayers Ox^sides his own privately to
" himself) save those of the church, nor any but
" his own chaplain to rcatl them. Besides Mr.
" Pullen gave him a part of the bishop's last will,
" wherein he gives an account of his faith in oppo-
" sition to papists and presby terians : and this ser-
" mon being the last which the bishop wrote with
" his own hand, at the importunity of Mr. Roswell,
" Dr. Tho. Sanderson pennittetl it to be printed to
" vindicate liis father's honour and juiigmcnt, and
" to confute that lying presbyterian report which
" occa.sion'd the publishing of the Ixxik. — The
" whole story of tnis is in Dr. Barlotd's Genuine
" Remains. Lond. 1693. p. 634, 635, &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 con-
trary entertainment in the world : And this I con-
ceive comes to pass, because the way and manner of
preaching is in a sliort time much altered from
what it was but a little before. Insomuch that in
compliance with the whimsical and ricUculous fickle-
ness of an humoursome age, what of this kind was
but just now received from the press with all possi-
ble marks of acceptance and approbation, is soon
after, as not suited to the fashionable mode of the
nice and delicate palate of the present times, de-
cryed and condemned by the same persons as flat,
duU and insipid. Notwithstanding this observation
generally almost holds good, yet Dr. Sanderson's
sermons, and indeed all his other genuine works,
have not by their age lost the least of their former
repute. For such is that sohdity and clearness of
reason which runs through all his discourses and
writings, pen'd in such a manly and lasting lan-
guage, that so long as men malce these the only
tests and measures of their judgings and censures,
as they do still, so must they needs hkewise in
after-ages continue in the greatest esteem and vene-
ration, and he be always placed in the highest and
first rank of English writers.

Dr. SandersorCs nine Cases. Two Cases of
ConscieTice resolved. Lond. 1628. oct. Three
more added — Lond. 1667. 8. oct. Another — Lond.
1674, and another in 1678. In all nine, and repr.
1678, and 1685. in oct. The last of which was of
the Liturgy, licensed March 30, Anno 1665.

De Juramenti promissorii Obligatione Praelec-
tiones septem in Sdiola Theol. Oxon. 1646. Lond.
1647. [Bodl. 8vo. S. 25. Th. Seld.] 70. 76. and
83. in Oct. Printed also at Lond. in Engl. 1655.
oct. [Bodl. 8vo. S. 22. Th. BS.] This is the book
which I have before hinted, that was translated into
English by king Charles I. writ with his own hand,
andby him .shewed to his servants Jam. Harrington
and Tho. Herbert, commanding them then to exa-
mine it with the original, which they did, and found
it accurately translated. Not long after his maj.

connnunicated it to Dr. Juxon bishop of Lond.
Dr. Hammond and Dr. Sheldon his majesty's chap-
lains in ordinary, but the particular time when, I
cannot tell.

Oratio habita in Sehola Theol. Oxon. cum pub-
licam Profes-iionem auspkaretur, 26 Oct. 1646.
Lond. 1647. 70. 76. 83. oct.

Censure of Mr. Anton. Ascliam* , m 4 ^

his Book of the Confuswyns and Re- * ^ ', .;., '

, . "^ n y~i T 1 ""' edit.

volutions of Government. Lond.

1649. The next year came out a reply to that

censure by Anon. " Lond. 1650.' qu." [Bodl. C.

13. 1. Line]

De Obliffatione Conscientice Prcelectiones decern,
Oxonli in Sehola Theol. habita;, Jn. 1647. Lond.
1660. 70. 76. 82. oct. [Bodl. Crynes, 372.] The
same in English came out with tliis title. Severed
Cases of Conscience discussed in 10 Lectures at
Oxon. Lond. 1660. oct. Published at the instant
desire of Rob. Boyle esq; an encouragcr of Dr. San-
derson's studies in the time of his affliction.*

Episcopacy (as established by Laio in England)
not prejudicial to Regal Power, he. Lond. 1661.
73. 83.' oct. [Bodl. Godw. 299.]

His Judgment for settling the Church, in exact
Resolutions of sundry grand Cases. Oxon. 1663.
qu. This is at the end of a book entit. Reason and
Judgment ; or, special Remarks of the Life of Dr.
Saiulerson late Bishop of Line. Reprinted (I mean
His Judgment) at Lond. 1678. oct.

Physicce Scientice Compendium. Oxon. 1671. oct.
Whether ever before printed I know not.

His Judgment co^icerning Submission to Usurp-
ers. Lond. 1678. oct.

Pax Ecclesia. Lond. 1678. oct. in English.
These two with His Judgment for settli^ig, &c.
before-mention'd, and the Oxford Reasons, are to
be seen in his life printed in oct. [Bodl. Mar. 231.]

Discourse concerning the Church, in these Par-
ticulars, (1) Concerning the Visibility of the true
Church. (2) Concerning the Church of Rome, &c.
Lond. 1688. in about 5 sh. in qu. Published by
Dr. Will. Assheton of Brasen. coll. from a MS.
copy which he had from Mr. Josias Pullen of
Magd. hall in Oxon, domestic chaplain to the said
bishop at the time of his death. He also had the
chief hand in a book entit. Reascms of the Univer-
sity of Oxon against the Covenant, &c.' wherein
the matters that refer to reason and conscience are
his ; yet notwithstanding, tho' Dr. Zouch drew up
the law part, the whole goes under his name. He

' \_A Relil'i la a Paper of Mr. Sandersaii's concerning a
Censure nf Mr. A. A. his Book nj llie Confusions and Revo-
lutions of Government. Lond. I6a0. qu. Wood, MS. Note
in Ashmole.']

' [^Prelections on the Nature and Olliga/ion of Promissory
Oaths, and of Conscience, transl. from Sanderson, were print-
ed in three \ol. Lond. 1722, 8vo.]

' [Printed Oxford l647, Bodl.4io. R.4g.Th. Lond. 1678.
Bmll. Mar. S3 1, and translated into Latin, and printed Lond.
1648. Bodl. 4to. N. 10. Jur.]

SANDERSON.

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also wrote (1) The large preface before a book
which he faithfully {)iiblished out of the original
copy, entit. The I'invcr communkuted by God to
tJie Prince, and the Obedience required of the Sub-
jects. Lond. 1661. in qu. [BotU. B. 25. 7. Line]
there again in 1683. oct. Written by Ur. Jam.
Usher archb. of Armagh. (2) The preface to a
collection of treatises made by the said archb. bear-
ing the title of Clavi Trabales: or. Nails Ja-Hyied
by some great Masters of Assemblies, &c. published
by Nich. Bernard D. 1). Lond. 1661. L.Bodl. B. 9.
20. Line] It consists of several treatises written
by Dr. Usher, Mr. Ric. Hooker, Lane. Andrews,
Adr. Saravia, &c. (3) Propliecies concerning the
Return of Popery. Printed in a book entit. Fair
Warning: the -second Part. Lond. 1663. and left a
fragment of an Answer to Dr. Tho. Bayly s CJial-
lenge: Which challenge a certain* autnor calls a
piece of transparent sophistry, as was ever called de-
monstration: And tho'' the weakness and inconse-
quence of it hath been sufficiently displayed, yet
such is the pleasure of some men, that it hath been
printed and reprinted with as much assurance, as if
not the least notice had been ever taken of it. He
also had the chief hand in reviewing the Common
Prayer at the Savoy, an. 1661, being one of the
commissioners appointed for that purpose, and was
the author and writer of several letters to Dr. Ham-
mond, in Dr. Hammond's Works, about those
knotty points, which are by the learned called the
Quinqarticular Controversy. Several treatises also
he had lying by him, which were esteemed by those
that had seen them most wortliy of publication ;
but a little before his death, he caused them to be
burnt, least after, they might come out imperfectly
for lucre sake. " I have been told that Dr. Rob.
" Sanderson made a collection of the monuments of
" Oxford and Oxfordshire, and that Mr. Symons his
" secretary had them." This learned prelate sur-
rendred up his pious soul to God on Thursday,
January 29, in .sixteen hundred sixty and two, and
was buried in the chancel of his church at Bugden
before-mention'd, in the 76th year of his age. Over
his grave was soon after a marble stone laid, witli
an inscription engraven thereon, made by himself, a
copy of which being printed in Hist. <^ Antiq. Univ.
Oxon. shall be now omitted, and in its room snaJl this
be said, that whether you consider him in his writings
or conversation, from his first book of logic to his
divinity lectures, sermons and other excellent dis-
courses, the vastness of his judgment, the variety of
his learning, all laid out for public benefit, his "un-
parallel'd meekness, humility and constancy, you
cannot but confess that the church of England
could not lose a greater pillar, a better man, and
more accomph.sh'd divine. Pray be pleased to see
more of him in a book entit. The Life of Dr. San-

* Will. Asheton in his epistle befor-: bish. Sanderson's
DiicouTse nfthe Church, Sec. before-meiition'd.

derson late BisJwp of Lincoln. Lond. 1678. oct.
Written by Isaac Walton, and in the book before-
mention'd, entit. Reason and Judgment : or, special
Remarks, Sec. " In 1678 his life was publish'd by
" Isaac Walton, to which edition of his Ufe were
" added several tracts. The first of which was
" entit. Bishop Sanderson'' s Judgment concerning
" Submission to Usurpers, and is the same, word for
" word, with the Case of the Liturgy. The next is
" called, Pax Ecclesicr, whose Subject is concerning
" Predestination, and Free-will, &c. writ as it ap-
" pears about 1626, when the controversy of Moun-
" tagu's Appello was on foot ; and is much different
" from his judgment concerning those points pub-
" lish'd by Dr. H. Hammond in his Letters con-
" cerning God\s Grace and Decrees printed 1659-
" The iid discourse is entit. Bishop Sanderscm^s
"Judgment in one View Jbr the Settling of the
" Church, and is propos''d by Way of Question and
" Reply. The questions are form'd by the pub-
" lisher. The answers are made up of scraps and
" parcels without any alteration taken out of the
" prefaces, and of several places of his printed ser-
" mons. — So that all in that volume were published
" before, except that entit. Pax EcclesicE which
" differs from his after settled judgment."

[One of his (Sanderson's) ancestors seems to have
been his namesake, perhaps his grandfather. Ro-
bertus Sanderson prior sive gardianus fratrum mino-
rum villas de Richmund, Ebor. dioc. et ejusdem loci
conventus salutem reddunt Henrico Regi VIII. die
19 Januar. reg. 30, 1539. Rymer, Fccdera xiv, 623.
Kennet.

Dr. Zouch in his valuable edition of Iz. Walton's
Lives has noticed the uncertainty which exists re-
specting the place of this reverend prelate's birth.
Wood follows Walton. But the evidence appears
to me conclusive, that he was a native of Sheffield,
and not of Rotherham. In a MS. account of Shef-
field, written about sixty years ago, it is mentioned
as the general belief that he was born at a house in
that town, called The Lane-head-house. This how-
ever is certain, that the three children of the bishop's
father, of whom Robert was the second, were all
bajjtized at Sheffield. The parish register has this
entry :

1587, Sep. 20. Rob'tus Saund'son, fil; Rob'ti
Saund'son.
To which some curious hand has prefixed an index,
to denote that this was the name of a person of
some note. According to all accounts he was bom
on the 19th, the day before his baptism. It further
appears, that Robert Saunderson, the bishop's
father was living at Sheffield, 9 March 1587, 8;
for at that time by the style of Robert Saunderson
of Sheffield, he was constituted guardian to Thomas
Stringer son of Thomas Stringer, of Whiston, gent.
then lately deceased. It might possibly be this
very guardianship which led to his remoTal from
Sheffield ; for Gdthwaite the vilWe in the parish
SS2

t)31

SANDERSON.

VILVAIN.

of Rotherhain, at which place he is siiid bv Walton
to have reside<l, is very near the residence of the
Stringers. His youngest child was baptizeii at
Sheflield 9 Dec. 1588.

In 160ii Robert Sauiulerson the younger had a
legacy of 16/. 10.9. bv tlie will of John Saunderson,
his uncle, who was a tanner at Grimesthorp in the
parish of Slieflield : a sum larger than was be-
queathed to cither his brother or sister, and pro-
bably desined as an encouragement to him in the
prosecution of his studies.

His Historical Collections are now in the librarv
of sir Joseph Banks. See the preface to Turner's
Grant/uxm. Hcxtkr.

J Soveraigne Antidote against Sabbatarian
Errors, said to be wrote by Rob. Saunderson ;
printed Lond. 1636. Quaere. Baker.

Eirivo^ij, seu Eplanatio Juramcnti, rjuod de ob-
servandis Statutis Universitatis a singulis prcrstnri
solet. Qvatenus scilicet seu quoiuiqne obligare Ju-
rantes censendum sit. Printed in the Exccpta e
Corpore Statutorum Oxon.

Articles of Visitation and Enquiry concerning
Matters ecclesiastical, exhibited to the Ministers,
Church-Wardens and Side-Men of every Parish
•within the Diocese of Lincoln, in the first Episco-
pal Visitation of the right reverend Father iri God.

Robert With the Oath to be administred to

the Church- Wardens, and the Bishop's Admanition
to them. Lond. for A. Scile, 1662, 4to.'

The History and Antiquities of the Cathedral
Church of the blessed Virgin St. Mary, at Lincoln,
containing an exact Copy of all the monumental
Inscriptiims there, in Number 163 as they stood in
1641 ; most of tchich xca^ soon after torn up, or
oilierwise defaced. Collected by Robert Sanderson
S. T.P. Printed by Peck, in his Desiderata Curiosa.

Bishop Kennet mentions two letters from San-
derson to bishop Thomas Barlow, dated 1656, and
1657 on a controversy with Jeremy Taylor, con-
cerning original sin. See the Register and Chron.
page 633.

There are portraits of this worthy man in folio,
by Dolle and Loggan ; in 8vo. by Hollar and R.
White; and one m 4to. by John Baldrcy, prefixed
to Walton's life by Zouch.]

ROBERT VILVAIN a most noted physician
of his time in the West parts of England, son of
Peter Vilvain " sometime steward of the city of Exe-

' [One of his directions to the ministers is 'Also the
clergy within the county of Lincoln are desired to bring with
them in writing, a note of all such coats of arms as are in
the church windows, and of all such monuments, grave
stones, and inscriptions, whether of ancient or later times,
as are yet remaining in their several respective churches or
chapels, or the chancels thereof." See Kennet's Register
and Chronicle, page 728, and col. 685 of this vol.]

1 [Peter Vilvain, father to Robert, died 25 Sept. lG02,
Ann Vilvain his widow, 24 Sept. l6l6; boih buried in the
chancel of Allhallows church in Gildsmiih street in Exelcr.
Wood, MS. Note in Ashmole.'\

ter, bv Anne his wife, was Iwrn in the parish of
Allhallows in Goldsmith-street within the .said city,
and educated there in grammar learning. In Lent
term 1593 he Ixjcame a sojournor of Exeter coll.
aged 18 years, where going through all courses of
scholastical exercise with incredible industry, was
elected fellow of that house in 1599, and the year
after proceeded in arts: At which time his geny
leading to the study of medicine, lie entred on the
physic line, practised that faculty, and at length
(loll) took both the degrees therein, and resigned
his fellowship. Afterwards he retired to the city of
Exeter, practised there, and was much resorted to
for his great knowledge and experience in physic.
In his younger years he was esteemed a very good
poet, orator, and disputant, and in his elder, as
eminent for divinity as his proper factdty, and might
have honoured the world at that time with the issue
of his brain, but neglecting so to do, for the sake
of lucre and practice, gave us nothing but scraps,
whimseys and dotages of old age, which are these,

Theorcmata Thfologica: Theological Treati.ses
in eight The.ies of Divinity, viz. (1) P7-oducticm
of Man's Soul. (2) Divine Predestination. (3) The
true Church Regimen. (4) Predictions of Messiah.
(5) Chrisfs two Genealogies. (6) The Revelation
revealed. (7) Chrisfs Millenar Reign. (8) The
World's Di.tsolution. Lond. 1654. qu. [Bodl. B.
3. 5. Line] To which are added,

Supplements subjoyned, as (1) ^ Supply con-
cerning Holy-days and Christ's Birth-Day's Feast.
(2) An Addition nf Man's Soid. (3) An Ecclesias-
tical Polity. (4) Of Saints eternal Reign. (5)
Of Christ's eternal Reign. (6) Several Sorts of
Essays ; one of which is an Essay to Mr. Tho.

Hobbes cmicerning his Leviathan To these the

author added,

A Postscript of all Forms He also wrote,

A Compend of Chronography : ccmtaining four
thousand thirty Years compkat from Adam's Crea-
tion to Christ's Birth, &c. Lond. 1654. in 5 sh.
in qu.

Enchiridium Epigrnmmatiim Latino- Anglicum.
Or an Epitome of' Essays, Englished out of La-
tin, zcithout elucidat Explications ; containing six
Classes or Centuries of (1.) Theologicals. (2.)
Historicals,^c. Lond. 1654. in a thick oct. [Bodl.
8vo. B. 69. Line]

A Fardel of 76 Fragments. Or additional
Essays, which is the seventh Cla^s — Printed with
the Enchiridium. " He also pubUsird, A short
" Survey of our Julian English Year, with the
" Definition, Deviation, DimenJiion, and Manner
" of Reformation. Printed on one side of a sheet
" of paper, but when, not expressed." He was
buriecl in the choir on the north side of the high
altar of the cath. church in Exeter, in sixteen hun-
dred sixty and two, and soon after had this epitaph
put thereon, the copy of which was sent to nie ny
Rich. Izacke, esq; diamberlain and antiquary of

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166;.

LAKE. BAYLIE.

JAMES.

HAYWOOD.

634

that city. Dorinitorium Roberti Vilvain, Medicinae
Doctoris, qui obiit Viccsinu) prima clie Februarii
An. Saint. 1662 ^tatis sna^ 87. He was a liberal
benefactor to two hospitals tbrpoiir children in that
city, and in the Year 1633 gave S^l. per an. for four
poor scholars (each to have 8/. per an.) to come
from that free-school in the said city, founded by
Hugh Crossing, esi|; (sometimes twice mayor there-
of) to Exeter coD. or any place else in Oxon, either
coll. or hall.

" EDWARD LAKE was bom of a genteel
" family, educated till he was bach, of arts in S.
" Cath' hall in Cambridge, retired to Oxon, and
" entring himself a com. of S. Alban's hall, was in-
" coqx»rated in the same degree on the 15th of
" Dec. 1627, and on the 24th of Jan. following was
" admitted l)ac]i. of the civil law. After the re-
" storation of king Charles IL I find him to be
" chancellor to the bishop of Lincoln, and a baronet,
" as also author of

" Memoranda, touching the Oath Ex Officio,
" pretended Self-accusation, and Cancmical Purga-
" tion. Together with some Notes about the
" making of some nerc, and Alteration and Eocpla-
1662. "natiofiofsomcoldLaws. Lond. 1662. qu. [Bodl.
" B. 5. li. Line] dedicated to Will, earl of Straf-
" ford, and humbly submitted to the consideration
" of the parliament then sitting."
' [Sir Edward Lake married the daughter and
coheir of Simon Bibye esq. of Bugden in Hunting-
donshire, and died, without issue, in 1674. He
was buried in llie cathedral of Lincoln, where is an
inscription to his memory, which may be seen in
Collins''s English Baronetage, vol. iv. page 135.]

THOMAS BAYLIE a Wiltshire man born,
was entred either a servitour or batler of S. Alban's
hall in Mich, term, 1600 (43 Elizab.) aged 18
years, elected demy of Magd. coll. in 1602, and ])er-
petual fellow of that house 1611, he being then
master of arts. Afterwards he became rector of
Maningford Crucis near to Marlborough in his own
country, and in 1621 was admitted to the reading
of the sentences, at which time, and after, he was
zealously inclined to the puritanical party. At
length upon tlie change of tlie times in 1641, siding
openly with them, he took the covenant, was made
one of the assemb. of divines, and soon after hatl,
for the love he Ixjre to the righteous cause, the rich
rectory of Mildenhall in his own country (then be-
longing to Dr. Geor. ^lorley a royalist) conferr'd
upon him. Where being settled, he preached up
the tenets held by the fifth-monarchy-men, he ])eing
by that time one himself, and afterwards became a
busy man in ejecting such that were then (1645
and after) called ignorant and scandalous ministers
and schoolmasters. He hath written,

De Merito Mortis Christi, c^ Mode Conversionis,
Diatriba duo. Oxon. 1626. qu.

Concio ad Clerum habita in Templo B. Marice
Oa'im. 5 Jul. 1682. in Jud. Ver. 11. printed with
the former. He hath also, as I have been infonned,
one or more I'.nglish sermons extant, but such I
have not yet seen. After the restoration of his ma-
jesty, he was turned out from Mildenhall ; and dy- [3^4]
mg at Marlborough in sixteen hundred sixty and iCoj.
three, was buried in the church of S. Peter there on
the 27th day of March the same year : whereupon
his conventicle at that place was carried on by aiv-
other brother as zealous as himself.

WILLIAM JAMES, or Jamesius as he writes
himself, son of Hen. James, (by Barbara his wife
daugh. of Will. Sutton, mention'd in the second
vol. col. 546.) and he the son of one James citizen
and alderman of Bristol, was born at Mahone in
Monmouthshire, educated in his first years of know-
ledge at Blandford Forum in Dorsetshire under his
uncle Will. Sutton, .son of the before-mentioned
Will. Sutton; and being extraordinary rath-ripe,
and of a prodigious memory, was entred into liis
Accedence at five years of age. In 1646 he was
elected a king's scholar of the coll. at Westminster,
where making marvellous proficiency under Mr.
Busby, his most loving master in the school there,
was elected thence a student of Ch. Ch. an. 1650.
Before he had taken one degree in arts, his master
made him his assistant in the said school, and upon
the removal of Adam Littleton into Edw. Bag-
shaw's place, he was made usher and at length'
second master. This person while he was very
young (about 16 years of age) wrote and published,

'EISAmrH' in Linguam Chaldaam. In Usum
Scholce Westmonast. Lond. 1651. in 6 sheets or
more in oct. Dedic. to Mr. Rich. Busby his tutor,
parent, and patron ; and also had a chief hand in
the English Introduction to the Lat. Tongue, Jot
the Use of the lower Forms in Westm. Scltool. —
Lond. 1659. oct. He died in the prime of his
years, to the great reluctancy of aU that knew his
admirable parts, on the third day of July, in sixteen l663.
hundred sixty and three, and was buried at the
west end of S. Peter''s, called the abbey church in
Westminster, near the lowest door, going into the
cloister.

WILLIAM HAYWOOD, a most exceUent
preacher of his time, was born (being a cooper's son
of Ballance-streel) in the city of Bristol, elected
scholar of S. John's coll. by the endeavours of John
Whitson alderman of that city (an encourager of
his studies) an. 1616, aged 16 years, and was soon
after made fellow of that house. Dr. Laud had a
respect for him and his learning, made him one of
his domestic chaplains, chaplain in ord. to king
Charles I. and in 1636 he was by his endeavours
actually created D. of D. About that time he be-
came vicar of the church of S. Giles's in the Fields
near Loudon, and in 1638 was made caiwn of the

635

HAYWOOD.

eleventh stall in the collegiate church at Westmin-
ster, in the room of Gabr. Grant deceased. But
this person being esteemed by tlie puritan ' ' a U-
censer of popish books, a purger ot orthodox pas-
sages against popery, papists, Arminianism, a great
creature of Dr. Laud, and a practiser of popish ce-
remonies,"' was, in the beginning of the rebellion,
thrown out of his vicaridge upon the petition and
articles* exhibited against him in the long parha-
ment by his parishioners,' was imprison'd m 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, lie 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 king
Charles II. he was restored to liis vicaridge, ca-
nonry, 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. ofS. Giles's in the Fields, by
Way of Preparative upon tlie Articks of the Creed.
The first is on 1 Cor. 13. 13. and the other on Heb.
11. o. Lond. 1642. qu. Out of which were some
of the articles framed against him, charging him as

1 See in 4 book entit. Canterbury's Doom, &c. published
by Will. Prynne.

• The said articles were answer'd by R. M.

* [The Petition and Articles exhihited in Parliament
against Doctor Heywood, lale Chaplen to the Bishop qf Cnn-
terhurie. By the Parishioners qfS- Giles in the Fields. With
some considerable Circumstances fworlh ehstrving) in the
Hearing of the Businesse before the grand Committee Jvr
Religion, and oj" his Demeanour since. London, printed l6+l.
(Bodl. C. 13. 14. Line.) At page 3 of this tract we have —

Doctor Heywood's Superstitious and Idolatrous Manner of
Administration of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper in the
Parish Church of Saint Gyles.

The said church is divided into three parts : the sanctum
sanctorum being one of them, is separated from the chancell
by a large screcne in the figure of a beantifull gale, in which
is carved two large pillars, and three large statues: on one
side is Paul witli his sword, on the other Barnabas with his
booke, and over them Peter with his keyes, they are set
above with winged cherublms, and beneath supported with
lions.

SeTen or eight fool within this holy place is a raising by
three steps, and from thence a long raile from one wall to
the other, into which place none must enter bul the priests
and the subdeacons, this place is covered before the altar
with a fairc wrought carpet, ihe altar doih stand close up to
the wall on the east side, and a deske raised upon that, with
three degrees of advancement ; this deske is overlaid with a
covering of purple velvet, which hath a great gold and silke
fringe round about, and on ihis desk is placed two great
bookes wrought with needle worke, in which are made the
pictures of Christ, the Virgin Mary with Christ in her arms,
and these are placed on each side of the deske ; and on this
altar is a double covering one of tapestry, and upon that a
long fine lawne cloth, with a very rich bone-lace. The walls
are hanged round within the rayle, with blue silke tafiata
curtaines. In the exteriour acts of administring the sacra-
ment; For the preparation to this duty, the said doctor and
three subdeacons doe all goe from the body of the said
church unto the west end, being there cloathed according

fuilty of Arminianism. (2.) Sermoti tending' to
'eace : preached before his Maj. at Ncxcjwrt in tlie
Isle of Wight, during the Time of tlie Treaty :
on Rom. 12. 18. Lond. 1648. qu. [Bodl. C. 1. 3.
Line] (3.) Funeral Sermtyn 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. an
Rom. 5. 5. — Lond. 1660. qu. and anotlier oti 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 rememl)er, I have seen one or two in
Dr. Barlow's hbrary. He the said Dr. Haywood
was buried in the collegiate church of S. Peter at
Westminster, near to the bottom of the stairs lead-
ing up to the pidpit, on the 17th day of July 'in
sixteen hundred sixty and three, leav-ing then be-
hind him the character of an excellent tutor while
he was fellow of S. Jolin's coll. a general scliolar,
and a meek man in temper and conversation. Near
to his grave was iiis beloved son John Haywood
master of arts before-niention'd, (who died the 22d
of Feb. following) buried.

[1631, 21 Nov. Gul. Haywood S. T. B. coll. ad
preb. de Chamberlaynwode in eccl. Paul, Lond.
Reg. Lond.

1663, 17 Jul. Gul. Master A. M. coU. ad preb.

to their order, some in scarlet, silke, and fine linnen, thiy
bend their course towards the east, every one at their first
entrance saluting the church dore with low congies, then
they all move to the middle of the church, where they all
duckc downe towards the east, then they all advance to the
beautifull gate, where they stand ; Then every one bowing
to the ground three severall times as they goe, they enter
into the sanctum sanctorum, in which place they reade their
second service, and it is divided into three parts, which is
acted by them all three, with change of place, and many
duckings before the altar, with divers tones in their voyces,
high and low, with many strange actions by thtir hands,
now up then downe. This being ended, the doctor takes
the cups from the altar and delivers them to one of the sub-
deacons who placelh them upon a side table, then the doctor
kneeleih to the altar, but what he doth we know not, nor
what hec meeneth by it. Thisdumbe devotion beina ended,
and the altar more holy, the cups are returned to him in the
same manner as he gave them, which ihc doctor receives
kneelinp:, and so doih he place them ui>on the altar with
great adoration, in the hendina of his body, and in touching
each of them with his finger. The breid being set upon a
plate, and some of the wine powred into a bowie, all are
covered with a fine linnen cloth, which cloth hath the cor-
ners laid in the figure of a crossc. This being ended, he
continues his dumbe devotion on his knees towards the east,
his backe being towards the people, he takcth money out of
his pocket, and laieth it on the ground for a time, and then
he taketh it up, and oflereth it, being on his knees, with a
very great bending of his body to the altar ; which gift i$
reserved in a bason onely for that use. In these dumb de-
votions of his, the organs play in a dolefull low tune. When
this is finished, the doctor begins the consecration, which
being ended, the number of beckings, bowings, and bend-
ings by him and the subdeacons before the altar, are im-
pious, ungodly, and abominable to behold.]

' [Jul. 22, 1663, Dr. Heywood, rector of St. Giles in the
Fields, died. Mr. R. Smith's Obituary. Bakeb.]

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1C63.

CREED.

KENDALL.

638

lOCs.

de Chamberlaneswode, per mortem Gul. Heywode,
S. T. P.

1663, 23 Jul. Joh. Pell, A. M. coll. ad eccl. de
Layndon, per mort. Gul. Heywood, S. T. P.
Ibid.

Rob. Rounnan cler. admiss. ad eccl. S. Egidii in
cainpis, Lond. 18 Novemb. 1663, per raort. Willi'
Heywood, S. T. P. Kennet.]

WILLIAM CREED son of Joh. Creed, was
bom in the parish of S. Laurence within the borough
of Reading in Berks, elected scholar of S. John's
coll. in 1631, aged 16 yeai's 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 adher'd to the
cause of his majesty, and in 1644 was elected to,
and executed the procuratorial office of this univer-
sity. 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 E'ast-Code-
ford, or Codeford S. Mary, in Wiltshire. In the
month of June 1660 (his majesty king Charles II.
being then restored) he was made the king's profes-
sor 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
13th of Sept. the same year prebendary of Lyme
and Halst(x;k in the church of Salisbury, " being
" then rector also of Stockton in Wilts." 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,

TTie Refiitcr Refuted : or Dr. Hen. Hammond's
'ExT£»£r£?ov defended again.st the impertinent Cavils
ofMr.Hen.'jeanes. Lond. 1659, 60. qu. [Bodl.
A. 9. 1. Line]

Several serm(ms, as (1.) JudalCs Purging of the
melting Pot ; an Assize Sermon at Salisbury ; on
Isai. 1. 25, 26. Lond. 1660. qu. [Bodl. C. 8. 21.
Line] (2.) JudaKs 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 19th of July in sixteen hundred
sixty and three, and was buried with solemnity in
the next north isle joining to the choir of the said
cathedral, near to the rehques of Democritus Junior,
being then accompanied to his grave by all the de-
grees of the university. See his epitaph in Hist. ^
Jntiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 287. a. In his arch-
deaconry of Wilts, succeeded Thorn. Henchman *
very nearly related (if not son) to Dr. Henchman
bishop of Sarum, in the beginning of Aug. the same

* [1672, 13 Jul. Tho. Henchman S. T. P. coll. ad preb
de Canllero in eccl. Paul. Reg. London. Kennbt.] •

year, and in his professorship of divinity Dr. Rich.
Allestrie canon of Ch. Ch.

[Guil. Creed, Readingensis, A. B. fuit senior col-
lector quadriigesimalis. A. M. 1639- Ann. 1644
fuit acadeniia; procurator. Erat concionator facun-
dus. Rebellione ineunte, se regiis partibus firmiter
addixit. Fuit nempe eccles. Anglieanae propugna»
tor strenuus. Pro concionibus coram regenabitis
creatus est S. T. B. ann. 1646. Ejectus est ann.
1648. Per usurpationis tamen tempora rector de
Codford Orientuli in agro Wilts extitit. Post reffls
restaurationem creatus est S. T. P. et Jul. 12, 1661,
nominatus theologia; professor regius, in loco Do-
mini Rob. Sanderson : paulo post, archidiac. Wilton,
pr»bendarius et residentiarius Sarisburias, turn ctiam
eristens rector de Stockton, Wilts. Sepult. est in
eccles. cathcdr. Christi (cujus professorio jure
fuit canonicus) an. 1668. Fuerat aevo pessimo ec-
cles. columen egregium, acutus theologus, praeser-
tim in theologia scholastica versatissimus, subtilis
disputans ']

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 granunar learning in the said city,
where his father George Kendall, gent, mostly lived,
was entred a sojourner 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 noted philosopher
and theologist, a disciple and admirer of Prideaux
and his doctrine, and as great an enemy to Armi-
nius and Socinus as any. At the change of the
times in 1642, being then bach, of div. ne closed
with the presbyterians then dominant, (notwith-
standing the king that year, to mitigate his discon-
tent, 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 rec-
tory some years after, and obtained the ministry of
a cnurch 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 king Charles II. 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 re-
mainder of his days in a retired condition. His
works are these,

CoUyrium : or, an Ointment to open the Eyes of

the poor Cavaliers This pamphlet, which I have

not yet seen, was pubhshed after the cavaliers had

' Uieg. el. Catal. Sociorum Coll. Di. lo. Bapt. MS. auc-
tore Gul. Oerham prsesidc]

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t)39

KENDALL.

CLAGETT.

1663-

been defeatetl in the West by the forces belonging
to the parliament.

Vindication of' tlie Doctrine commonly rcccivedin
Churches concerning GchTx Intentions erf special
Grace and Favour to his Elect in the Death
ofChriM. Lond. 1653. fol. [In St. John's college
library.]

Of Christ's Prerogative, Power, Prescience,
Providence, drc. from the Attempts lately inade
against them by Mr. John Goodwin in his Book
entit. Redemption redeemed.

Digressionsconcerningthe Impossibility of Faith's
being an Instrument of Justification, iSfC. — 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 xvho 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. Reclemp. re-
deemed. Lond. 1654. fol. [In St. John's college
library.] This book is animadverted upon by the
said John Goodwin in his Triumviri : or, the Ge-
nius, 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 Apology for
University Learning, as necessary to Country
Preacliers : Being an Answer to Mr. Home's *
Books xcTierein he gores all University Learning

Printed in fol. with Sancti Sanciti before-

mention'd.

" A Verdict in the Case depending between Mr.
" John Goodwin and Mr. John Home, concerning
" the Heavens preaching the Gospel; maintain'd
" by Mr. Goodwin in his Pagan's Debt and Dotcry,
" as welLas his Redemption redeem^l. — This is set
" before the said Mr. Home's book called, Th^e
" Pagan Preacher silenced. Lond. 1655. qu. This
" Verdict contains 1 sh. and half This John
" Home was a preacher at South Lynn in Norfolk,
" and turn'd out of that vicaridge by the Bartholo-
" mew act 1662."

Fur pro Tribunali. Examen Dialogismi cut
inscribitnr Fur prcvde-ftinatus. Oxon. 16-57. oct.'
[Bodl. 8vo. J. 11. Th. BS.j

De Doctrina Neopelagiana. Oratio habita in
Comitiis Oxon. 9 Jul. 1654.

Txvissii Vita ^ Victoria. De Scientla media
hrevicula Dis.iertatio, in qua Twi.mi Nonien a
Calumniis Francisci Annati Jesuitcc vindicatur.

Dissertatiuncula de novis Actihus sintne Deo
ascribendi? These three last things are printed
and go with Ftirpro Tribunali. At length after a
great deal of restless agitation carried on for the
cause, our author died at Cofton before-mention'd,

* John Home.

^ [See Birch's Life o/Tillohon, page )6o.]

on the 19th day of August in sixteen hundred sixty
and three, and was buried in the chap])el joining to
his house there, leaving then behind him the cha-
racter of a person well read in polemical divinity,
the character also of a ready disputant, a noted
preacher, a zealous and forward prcsbyterian, but
hot-headed and many times freakish. 1 sluUl make
mention of another George Kendall by and by.

[22 Aug. 1642, upon a petition of the inhabitants
of Hempsted co. Hert. Mr. Geo. Kendall, an ortho-
dox divine is recommended by the H. of Commons
to be lecturer of that parish. Tannek.

In 1624, bishop Browrigg gave him a prebend of
Exon, which prebend he had again in 1660, and
lost it, with his living, for nonconformity in 1662.

He was moderator of the first general assembly of
the ministers of Devon in 1655. Macro.]

NICHOLAS CLAGETT was born within the
city of Canterbury, entred a student of Mcrton
coll. in the beginning of the year 1628, took one ["3271
degree in arts, went afterwards to Magd. hall, and
as a member of that house Uwk the degree of master
of that faculty, being then esteemed by the generality
thereof a very alile moderator in philosophy. Af-
terwards, at two years standing in that degree, he
became vicar of Melbourne in Derbyshire, and
some years after minister" of S. Miiry's church at S.
Jidmoiidsbiiry 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 Abuse of God's Grcwe discovered in the
Kinds, Causes, Sfc. proposed as a seasonable Cheek
to the wanton Libertinism of the present Age.
Oxon. 1659. qu. [Bodl. 4to. C. 11. Th. BS.]
He paid his last debt to nature on the twelfth "5^-
day of Sept. in sixteen hundred sixty and three,
aged 56 years or thereabouts, and was buried
in the chancel of S. Mary's church before-men-
tioned. He left behind him a son named Wil-
liam Clagett, educated in Emanuel coll. in Cam-
bridge (of which univ. he was doct. of divinity')
afterwards preacher to the honourable society of
Greys-inn, chaplain in ord. to his majesty, and lec-
turer of S. Mich. Basishaw. This person, who died
at London in the beginning of the year (latter end
of jMai-ch) 1688, " and was buried in a vault under
" part of the church of St. Michael Basishaw,"
hath published several things, as (1.) A Discourse
concerning the Operatimis of the Holy Spirit :
with a Confutation of some Part of Dr. 0-,oens
Book upon that Subject. In three Parts. In the
second part of which, is An Ansieer to Mr. Jo.
Humphreys'' Animadvers'ions on the first Part.
(2.) " A Reply to a Pamphlet caWd, The Mischief
" of Impo.<iitions : which pretends to ansicer the
" Dean of S. PauTs Sermon concerning the Mis-

" [He was lecturer of St. Marie's church at Burj'. Baker.
In the first edit, ifigz, he was cjll«l rulor. Cole'.]

CLAGETT.

ROYS.

t>42

'•' chief of Separatian. Loncl. 1681. (ju. [B(xll. C.
" 10. 4. Line] (3.) Arisjucr to the Dltsenter^s
" Ohject'wn.i against the Common Prayers, itnd
" ,':mnc other Part of the Divine Service jrrescriWd
" in the Liturgy trfthe Church ofEnglaiul. Lontl.
« 1683.7 qu. in 7 sh. [Bodl. C. 10. 12. Line] (4.)
" A Discourse concerning the pretended Sticrament
" of Extream Unction, S(c. in 3 Parts. With a
" Letter to the Vindicator of the Bishop of Condom.
" Load. 1687. qu." [B(kU. C. 11. 6. Line] (5.)
Notion qf Idolatry considered and confuted. Lond.
1688, Sec. " (6.) Several captious Queries con-
" cerning the English Ref)rmation, Jirst in Latin,
" and ajierwards by T. W. in English ; briefly
" and fully answered. Lond. 1688. qu. (7.) An-
" sviers to the Representers Reflections upon the
" State, and a View of the Controversy. With a
" Reply to tlie Vindicator'' s J'ull Answer ; shewirig
" that the Vindicator has utterly ruitid the new
" Design of expounding and representing Popery.
« Lond. 1688. qu. [Bodl. C. 11. 9. Line] And
" other things."' Another son also he left behind

' [^Printed again in 1685, 4lo. (Bodl. A. g. 4. Line.) and
in lb94, in Cases written to recover Dissenters, &c. folio,
()agc 265. Bodl.C. 1. 8. Th.]

• [The follinving (together with the seven pieces already
recorded in the text,) is bcheved to be the most perfect list
of his worl<s yet published :

A Discourse concerning the Operations nj" the Holy Spirit.
Lond. U)78. Oct. The second Part; with an Answer to
Mr. Hiimfrey's Animadversions on the Jirst. Lond. l6S0. 8vo.

Difference of the Case between the Separation of Pro-
testants from the Church of Rome, and the Separation of
Dissenters from the Church of England. Lond. l08J. 4to.
(Botll. C.i>. 26. Line.)

Of the Humanity and Charity of Christians, a Sermon
preached at the Suffolk Feast, Nov. 30, l686, Lond. l687.
4to. Printed again I693, 8vo. (Bodl. 8vo. Z. 284. Th.)

Discourse concerning the IVorship of the blessed Virgin
and the Saints. Lond. 1686. 4to. (Bodl. 4io. Z. 48. Th.)

Persuasive to an ingenuous Trijal of Opinions in Religion.
Lond. 1685, 4to. (Bodl. 410. Z. 55. Th.)

Paraphrase, with Notes, on the si.xlh Chapter of St. John,
usainst Transubstantiation, Lond. 1G86, 4lo. l603, 8vo.
(Bodl. 8vo. Z. 284. Th.)

The present State of the Controversy between the Church
of England and Rome ; or an Accouht of Boohs on both
sides. Lond. 1()87, 4io. (Bodl. C. 1 1. 9. Line.)

An Answer to the VIII. Theses laid dotvn for the Tryal of
the English Reformation in Church Government. Lond.
1687, 4to. (Bodl. C. 11.6. Line.) The first part was written
by Obadiah Walker.

View of the whole Controversy between the Represente' and
the Answerer. Lond. l687, 4to'. (Bodl. 4to. R. 88. Th.)

A second Letter, from the Author of a Discourse concerning
extreme Unction, to the Vindicator of the Bishop of Condom.
Lond. 1688, 4to. (Bodl. C. 8. 9. Line.)

Answer to the Representer's Reflections upon the State and
View of the Controversy ; with a Reply to the Vindicator's
full Answer. Lond. 1688, 4to. (Bodl. C. 11. 9. Line.)

Queries concerning the English Reformation briefly and
fully considered. Lond. I6K8, 4lo. (Bodl. C. 9.7. Line.)

Eraminalion ff Bellarmin's 7th and \ilh Notes of the
Church, «i2. The Union of the Members among themselves and
with the Head. Lond. l687, 4to. In The Notes of the
Church as laid down by Cardinal Bellarmin examined, pages
1.37 and 285. (Bodl. 4lo. Z. 56. Th.)

Vol. III. '

him named Nich. Clagett M. of arts, wiio is now, or
at lca,4t was lately, preacher at S. Mary's in S. Ed-
niondsbury before-mentioned, author of a serm.entit.
A Persuasive to Peaceableness and Obedie7ice, &e
Lond. 1683. qu. and of another preaclK-d at S. Ed-
mondsbury liefore William bishop of Norwich, &e
4 May 1686, &c.

JOB ROYS, son of a father of Iwth his names,
a scrivener of London, and he the son of another
Job of Lubenham in Leicestershire, was born in the
county of Middlesex, in the parish, as it seems, of S.
Giles's Cripplegate an. 1631, educated partly in the
free-school at Abingdon in Berks, (founded by John
Royse 1563.) became a student in Pembroke coll.
1650, and soon after was elected one of the j)ost-
masters of Mert. coll. where continuing under the
tuition of a severe presbyterian, became well quali-
fyed with the spint, took one degree in arts, an.
1655, left the coll. s(X)n after, and retiring to the
great city, became a puling levite among the brethren,
for whose sake, and at tlieir instance, he wrote and
published.

The Spirifs Touch-stone : or, tJie Teaching qf
Christs Spirit on the Hearts qf Believers ; being
a clear Discovery Itow a Man may certainly know,
whether he be really taught by the Spirit of God,
&c. Lond. 1657, in a pretty thick octavo. [BotU.
8vo. K. 61. Th.] 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 prac-
tical divinity, you would have found him a simple,
shiftless, and ridiculous person ; and secondly, that
dying in sixteen hundred sixty and three, was bu- i6<J3.

The Stale of the Church of Rome when the Rfformation
began. Lond. 1688, 4to. (Bodl. 4io. Z. 55. Th.)

Seventeen Sermons preached upon several Occasions, with
the Summ of n Conference on Evbruary 21, 1686, between
Dr. Clagett and I'alher Goodcn, about the Point (f Transub-
stantiation. Lond. 1(!89, 8vo. (Bodl. Godw. 148. subt.)

Eleven Sermons preached upon siveral Occasions, with a
Paraphr'ise and Notes upon the 1 , 2, 3 , 4,5. 7, and 8 Chap-
ters of St. John : with a Discourse vj' Church Unity, and Di-
rections how in this divided Stale of Christendom to keep
within the Unity of the Church. Lond. 1693, 8vo. (Bodl.
Godw. 149, subt.)

The Religion of an Oath, a Discourse proving the Danger
and Immoralily of Prophune Swearing. Lond. 17OO, 8vo.
(Bodl. 8vo. J. 82. Th.)

Pre/ace to the School of the Eucharist, 4io.

Authority of Councils, and the Rule of Faith, 4to.

William Clageit was born at St. Ednumds Burv, Sept. £4,
1646, and was educated at Emanuel college, Cambridge.
Afterwards he became one of the preachers at his natrve
place, preacher at Grays Inn, rector of some parish in Buck-
inghamshire, and leciurer of St. Michael's Basishaw, Lon-
don. He married Th<,niasin North, a kinswoman of lord
keeper North, and died of the small pox March 28, 1688.

After his death, say.s Watts {MS. NolesJ was published
a vol. of his sermons in 8vo. 1688, by his friend William
Wake, and in 1720, by his brother Nicholas, archdeacon of
Sudbury, two volumes more, containing thirty-three scr^
mons ; 10 whereof, in vol. 2, are on prayer and the Lord's
prayer.]

TT

643

JENKYNS.

[^28] ried in some cluirch in or near London ; Ik-ing tlicn
weary of tlie change of the tiiues, and the wicked-
ness, 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, be-
came a commoner of S. Edmund's hall in the year
1597, at which time several Weichmen were students
there. After he liad taken one degree in arts he
ictired to Greys-Inn, studietl tlie common law, and,
when barrcster, was restjrtcd to by many for his
counsel. In the first of Car. I. he being then a
bencher, was elected sunmier reader, but refused to
read. Afterwards he was made one of the judges
for South Wales, continued in that office till the re-
bellion broke out, at which time he either imprisoned
divers jx-rsons 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, wiien that city was surprized by the
parliament forces 18 Decemb. 1645, be was hurried
up to London, and committed jmsoner to tlie
Tower. Afterwards being brought to the bar in
Chancery, he denied the authority of that court be-
cause theirseal was counterfeited, and so consequently
the commissioners thereof were constituted against
law : whereiip)n being «)mniitted to Newgate prison,
he was im[x?ache(l of treason and brought to the bar
of the commons house ; but denying their autho-
rity, and refusing to kneel, was for his contempt
fined 1000/. and remitted to his ])rison, and thence
translated to Wallingfbrd-castle. Aliout that time
he Used his utmost endeavours to set the pai'liament
and army at otlds, thereby to promote the king's
cause, but it did not take effect according to his
desire. Afterwards passed an act for his tryaJ in
the high court of justice, an. 1650, so that our au-
thor 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 'tis said) urging to his fellows
that ' sanguis martyrum est semen ecclesiae,' and
that that way of proceeding would do them mischief,
they tliought good not to take away his life. Af-
terwards he was sent to Windsor-castle, where re-
maining 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 Brightwcll near Wallingford) to whom
all the loyal jiarty of that city fliK-ked to hear his
doctrine. After tlie restoration of king Charles II.
'twas 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 chancellor," but our author saimlng such an act

' [Kdward carl of Clarendon. N. B. The first edition of
this vol. was in l6<)2, in which year 'twas burut by order of

after all his sufferings, he retired to his estate in
Glamorgansliire, then restoretl 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 wiis often used by sir Jo. Banks and Will.
Nov in their attorneyships. He was also a vigorous
mamtjiiner of the rights of the crown, a heart of oak,
and a pillar of the law ; sole author of his sovereign's
rights, England's laws, and the people's liberties
M'hen thev were invaded and trampled under feet
by restless and base men. His writings are these.

His Recantation (or rather ProtesUition) deli-
vered at Westm. 10 Apr. 1647. to Mil. Corbet the
Cfuiiriium of' the Committee Jar Examination.
Printed in a half sheet.

Vindication while he tca.^ Prisoner in the Tower,
29 Apr. 1647.— Pr. in 1 sh. in ((U. [Bodl. 4to. E. 3.
Art. BS.] This, when published, was referred to
a committee of complaints, who ordered tliat the
printer and publisher thereof should be tried at tlie
King's-bench.

Tlie Armys Indemnity; with a Declaration
■shewing, how every Subject of England ought to

be tried for Treasmi, &c. Written 10 June

1647. in 1 sh. qu. [Bodl. C. 8. 30. Line]

Sundry Acta of Parliament mentioned and cited
in the Army's Indemnity, set forth in Words at
large Pr. 1647. qu.

Apology for the Army, touching the eight Que-
ries upon the late Declarations and Letters from
the Army, touching Sedition falsly cluirgcd upon
them.—Fr. 1647. qu. [Bodl. C. 15. 1. Line]

Discourse touching the Inconvenietwes <f a long
continued Parliament, and the Judgincnt of t)i£
Law (f the Land in that Behalf. Lond. 1647. in
one sh. and half in qu. [Bodl. C. 14. 12. Line]

" His Declaration ichile Prisoner in the Tower,
" 17 March 1647. The beginning is, ' The com-
" mon law of this land is,' &c. Printed on one side
" of a sheet of paper.

" A Scourge for the Directory and revolting

the university, and A. Wood was expell'd and fined 40/. ;
Henry, earl of Clarendon, son of the chancellor, being then
high steward of the university. Wood said, that this he
could prove by written and printed evidences. And indeed
John Aubrey esquire's leUcr to Wood, in which he gives
this account, is yet to be seen. Loveday.

Tliis was one passage for which the author, A. Wood, and
his book, were censured.

'Twas John Aubrcv esq. that nave Mr. Wood that account
of the lord chancellor (Hyde) vvhicli chiefly occasioned the
prosecution against him. ' Mr. Wood used to keep his
vouchers. Sec. From Mr. Tbo. Heanie. Baker.

See the whole proceedings in the case between Wood and
the university, or rather lord Clarendon, in the first volume
of this work, pases cxl— cxlix. 1 have nothing to add to
what is there said of the matter, except to remark that W'ood
has altered the passage thus in MS. (in his own copy of the
book in Ashmole's mitsouni) ' would he liavr given money to
the then corrupt lord Chancellor, Hype.' Some person
has attempted to erase the word corrupt, but ii is still very
legible to those who are familiar with the liaud-writing of
our author.]

[329]

JENKYNS.

646

" Synod, which luith sitten tJiesc five Years, more
" for 4.5. a Daij than for Conscience Sake. Lond.
"■l()47. one sh. qii. [Hodl. C. 15. 1. Line] - See
" more in News-Book 1663. nu. 16. p. 128."

Cordial Jbr the ffood People of iMndon : in a
Reply to a Tiling called. An Answer to the poyson-
ous seditimis Paper of Dav. Jenkyns. By I/. P.

Barrester of Line. Inn. I'r. in 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 Commxms sitting in

the Chancery at Westminster, 14 Feb. 1647.

Pr. in one sheet in qu.

Answer to the Immttation put upon his Plea in
Chancery, in Feb. lo47. — Pr. in one sheet in qu.

Remonstrance to the Lords and Com. of the two

Houses of Parliament, 21 Feb. 1647. Pr. in

one sh. in qu. [Bodl. C. 14. 12. Line]

Lex Terra;, tlie 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 num-
ber thirteen) were printed together at Lond. 1648.
m twelves, [Bodl. 8vo. J. 23. Jur.] and went by the
name of Judge Jenkyns his Wmks. They were
also published there again in the same vol. in 1681,
[Bodl. 8vo. P. 55. Jur.] at what time tlie said
works were esteemed very seasonable to be perused
by all such as would not be deluded by the unpa-
rallePd arbitrary proceedings and seditious pam-
phlets of that Ucentioiis and ungrateful time. They
were also printed again two years after that time in
tw. [viz. in 1683.] Before the said editions is his
picture to the life, and imderneath these verses
made by Joh. Birkenhead.

Here Jenkyns stands, who thundering from the

1 ower.
Shook the Iwld senate's legislative power ;
Six of whose words, twelve rheams of votes exceed.
As mountains mov'd by grains 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) ten-
dered to the Parliament, Ass. of Divines, and
Tr eaters, 4-c.— Pr. 1648.

' [In the Bodleian (8vo. I. 5J3. Jur.) is bishop Barlow's
copy of Jenkins's works, on the blank leaf of which he has
written

' These 2 verses were part of that copy of sir John Birken-
head's vnder judge Jenkins his picture on the other side of
the next Icafe, and the rogiiy printer, because his paper (and
honesty) was too short, left them out :

IVhose law (like Gods) Ihrough noise and earl/u/uake's liurFd
Invokes as each line were terilifrom tli other world.'
The printer however could have nothing to do with the

Pads Con.mltum. The Antiquity, Extent, and
Practice of several Country Corporation Court.?,
especially the Court Leet : with an AhHrewt of the
Penal Statutes. Lond. 1657. <x;t. [Bodl. 8vo. N.
10. Jm-.] Published under Dav. Jenk3m8 his
name, but thsowned and disclaimeil by him.

Exact Metliod for keeping a Court of Survey
for the setting forth and bounding of Mamrrs,
Sic. Lond. 1657. This also was disowned by
him.

Difficult Questions in Lata proposed and resolved.
— Printed with the Exact Afethod, and disowned
also.

Rerum Judicatarum Centuriw octo. Lond. 1661.
fol. ^ in English.

A Proposition for the S(fe(y of the King and
Ki7igdom both in Church and State, and Prevention
of the common Enemy. Lond. 1667. in tw. 2d
edit. [Bodl. 8vo. B. 15. Line]

A Reply to the pretended At^nver to it. — Printed
with the former. I have seen a little thing entit.
Conscientious Quei-ies from Mr. Jenkyns : or, the
Grounds tfhis late Petition and Submissioti 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 T.orrlo.i,
one of Christop. Love's plot for bringi.,g in king
Charles II. 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 churcli there. He died a.s he lived, jn-eaching
with his last breath to his relations, and those that
were about him, loyalty to his majesty, and obe-
dience to the laws of the land.

[In this pkce I cannot refrain from offering my
readers an extract from a letter from sir Peter
Pett knight, advocate general to king Chai'les II.
in Ireland, and a member of the house of commons
in that kingdom : it is addressed to Anthony a
Wood, and preserved in the Bodleian library :

1 shall have occasion ere long in print to do

'^ [Second edit. Lond. 1734, folio.]

^ [Sec a good account of this person in Calaniy's Ejected
Ministers, ii, 1?. He was dcsccnde<l from a fa«nily of good
repute at Folkstnne in Kent ; His fuller was disinherited on
account of his attachment to puritanisui, and became minis-
ter of Sudbury, Suffolk : his mother was a grand-daughter of
John Rogers the martjr (mentioned in vol. i. col. 455, note
3.) lie died Jan. ig, 1G84-5, in Newgate.]

* [Dec. (J, ifiOS; Judge Jenkins, a^ed 81 years, died in
Wales. Mr. Ric. Smith's Ohituanj. Baker.

On the (ith instant (Decemb.) thai eminent loyal and re-
nowned patriot judge Jenkyns departed this life at his house in
Cowbridge tlie 81 year of his age, and in ))erfect sense and me-
iTiory. He died as hee 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. In fine, he
has carrycd with him all the comforts of a quiet conscience,
and left behind him an unspoiled fame, together with a per-
fect memory of a president, which only this age could have
neeiled, and the next will hardly imitale. Inletlig. publisht.
m4to. num. l6l. from Thursd. Sept. 17, 1663. Keknet.I
TT2

16O3.

[330]

647

JENKYNS.

NEWMAN. POTTER.

justice to voursi-lf and the Aihcnw O.ronicnses, with
great art, learning and lal)oiir most usefully com-
posed ; I am heartily sorry for the ill usage you have
had from some. Vour words in your letter of some
designing unmercifully to make you a tool to please
the capricious humour of one, arc obscure to me ;
but the following ones alnnit their designing to
{iatch up the rcjiutation of a lord who hath been
dead almost these twenty years, I well enough un-
derstand. The account of the progress of the suit
in the Vice-Chancellors'' court hath long ago been
sent me by a correspondent of mine in Oxon. ' I
heard there, during the pendency of the suit, that
that learned' and loyal person Mr. Dodwell was
likely to make your peace vnih the earl upon terms
easy to you. ]}ut it .seems I was therein misinform-
ed. I should be glad to hear from you (if it Ije so)
tliat his lordship shewed any good nature to you, in
the remittal of the costs you were condemned in, or
that in any matter he took not the advantage of the
summuni jus against you after sentence : for I love
to hear g(X)d of all mankind, and j)articularly of my
enemies. And I can assure you, that that lord
hath given me ten thousand times more trouble
than he hath to vou, or than has been given me by all
mankind, throughout the whole time of my life, and
that by his taking out a jiatcnt in Ch. 2ds. time for
derelict lands, and wliich by my interest in king
James, I obtained his order in council to repeal.
And, according to the rule ^e^e xai (pe^ov, I have un-
dergone troubles from him, and he from me, and
so I supjKJse he will yet from you. Perhaps the
course of your life may much wear away before any
second edition of your Athcnw, or any opportunity
mven you for enlargement therein. Nor is matter
in so bulky and dear a volume so likely to arrive at
the notice of many as in a book of small bulk and
price.

I knew very well that glorious confessor of loy-
alty Judge Jexkins, and was intimately acquainted
with him. And he gave me an admirable manu-
script Of Common Laxv of his own composing, that
he began at that time you mention he fived at Ox-
ford, and finished after his return to Windsor Castle.
It was a scandal to the age, that he was not made a
judge in Westminster hall. After the restoration,
I asking him how it happened he was not, he told
me, he was represented at court as a superannuated
man, and unfit for such a place. But revera, I knew
him then to be a very acute man, and of infinitely
quicker parts than judge Mallet, who was then
made lord-chief-justice of England. Old Clarendon
has as much power then as ever premier minister
had. * * * If ever you come to spend any time in
this town, you may fish out facts enow of incontest-
able truth about old Clarendon, in the Journals of
the house of commons and of the lords, where

g'rhaps I may get yoji leave to search gratis. Sir
obert Howard, sir Edward Seymour, and colonel
Titus, who teased that lord in pM-liament, are still

living, and in this town, and you may on occasion
find them communicative men.

I am, with all hearty respect, sir,

your most humble servant,
P. Pett.]
From my lodging at a Drugster's,
over against the Goat tavern, by
Ivy bridge, in the Strand.

" SA:VIUEL NEWMAN, a learned divine of
" his time, received some education in this univer-
" sity, but being puritanically affected he left it,
" went into New England, became a congregational
" man, minister of the church of Rehoboth there, a
" zealous man in the way he professed, indefatiga-
" ble in his studies, and marvellously ready in the
" holy scriptures. lie hath written,

" A CoiiconJaiire of the Bible. Lond. 1643, 50.
" in a large thick fol. [Bodl. C. 2. 9- Th. BS.
« Printed also at Cambridge, 1082, Bodl. G. 6. 17.
" Th.] and dying in Decemb. or thereabouts, in six-
" teen hiuulred and sixty and three, was buried at
" Rehoboth. 1 find one Sam. Newman Iwrn at or
" near Chadlington in Oxf<)rilsliire, who was entered
" into Magd. coll. in the condition, as it seems, of a
" servitour, in the latter end of 1616, aged 16
" years, and to have taken a degree in arts as a
" member of S. Edm. hall, and s<x)n after to have
" left the university. Whether this Sam. Newman
" be the same with him who «rote the Concordance
" before-mentioned, I camiot affirm, because I have
" been informed by the letters of INIr. Increase
" Mather, president of Harwarden coll. in New
" England, dated 6 Jan. 1690, that he thinks Mr.
" Sam. Newman, author of the Concordance, was
" horn in Yorkshire, and that (as he takes it) he
" was in the 65th year of his age when he died."

[Samuel Newman was born at Banbury, 1600;
ob. in New England July 5, 1663. V. Hist, of
Nezc E/ii>-land,^ Uh. 3. Bakek.J

CHARLES POTTER, son of Dr. Christop.
Potter, provost of Queen's college, was born in the
parish of S. Peter in the East in Oxon, became stu-
dent 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

Tlwses QuadrfLgesimales in ScJiolis Oxonice pub-
licis pro Forma mscussae. An. 16H- Oxon. 1651.
in tw. [Bodl. 8vo. P. 14. Art. Seld.] Afterwards
he took the degree of master of arts, travelled be-
yond 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

s [I should not have offered my readers this meagre note,
but Cotton Mather's History of New England, is not in the
Bodleian hbrary. I have however hopes that the next editor
of the ATHEK.K may liave the use of the book, since 1 have
repeatedly urged the propriety of purchasing it.]

16C3.

HULETT.

TOY.

650

changed his religion for tliat of Rome, was made one
of the ushers to Henrietta Maria the qu. mother of
England. He died in his lodgings in Duke-street
near the Strand, in the middle ot Deccmb. in six-
1C63. teen hundred sixty and three, and was buried in
the church of S. Paul in Covent-Garden, within the
hlierty of Westminster, near to the grave of his
great uncle Dr. Barnab. Potter, sometime bishop of
Carlisle. While the said Ch. Potter was an under-
graduate of Christ Church, Tho. Scverne, M. A.
and student thereof (son of Joh. Severne of Broad-
way, afterwards of Powick in Worcestershire) was
his tutor, and ^vrote and composed the said Theses
Quadragesima les, and therefore he (who is now
hving at AV^orcester)]^ is to be taken for the author
of that book, much commended when it was first
publislied.

JOHN HULETT, son of Silvester Hulett,
[ gent, was born in London, entred a commoner in

New Inn in the beginning of 1627, aged 20, took
the degrees in arts, afterwards travelled into several
parts of the world, piu"ticularly into llussia and
Muscovia, and improved himself in several sorts of
learning, opecialiy in geography and mathematics.
After his return he settled in Oxon, taught scholars
those arts, and became a useful person in his gene-
ration. He hath written and published.

Several Epfiemerides.

ited several
times in oct.

He died in his lodgings in Cat-street on the 21st
1603 '^'^y °^' December in sixteen hundred sixty and

three, and was buried in the church of S. Peter in
the East within the city of Oxford; leaving then
behind several written specimens of his profession,
which without doubt might be useful if made
extant.

[331] JOHN TOY, son of Joh. Toy, was bom and

bred in grammar learning within the city of Wor-
cester, became either a servitor or batler of Pem-
broke coll. in 1627, aged 16 years, took one degree
in arts, entred into orders, and became chaplain to
the bishop of Hereford ; under which title lie took
the degree of master of arts in 1634. Afterwards
he was made master of die free, then of the king's,
school within the place of his nativity : wliich last
he kept for 20 years space, and furnished the uni-
versities with several hoj^eful youths. He hath
written and published,

Worcester's Elegy and Eulogy. Lond. 1638.
qu. [Bodl. 4to. M. 3. Art. BS.f a poem. Before
which. Will. Rowland the poet (mentioned among
these writers under the year 1659.) hath two Lat.
copies of verses.

''[ [Tho. Severn died at Worcesler, 6 Oct. 1698. See In-
scription on his gravestone, in the ^n/iy.o/ /f'orc^i/er. 8vo.
page 53. Kejihet.]

kjeveiui jiij/ric'meriues.

Description and f «"«f '"f ] Print
Use of the ] «rf "^ , \ tirr

Q,uisquiHu; poeticue, Tyruncvlis in Re metrica
nan inutilia. Lond. 1662. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. B. 332.
Line]

Fun. Serm. on Mrs. — Tomkyns, on Job 14. 14.
— Printed 1642. qu. And whether he was author
of Gi'ammatices Grwca: Enchiridion in Usum
Scholw Collcgialis VVigorniw. Lond. 1650. oct.
I know not yet to the contrary. He gave up the
ghost on the 28th of Decemb. in sixteen hundred
sixty and three, and was buried in the cathedral •^■'
church at Worcester. Over his grave was a mon.
soon after put, with an inscription thereon,' wherein
he is stiled ' Vir ingenii perjwliti, industriae inde-
fessse, eruditionis singularis exiniia' morum suavita-
tis, vita- integer, pubis instituendse scientissimus,
pietate, fide, modestia gravitate nulKique non vir-
tute spectabilis,' &c.

[Worcesters Elegie and Evlogie. By J. T.
Mr. of Arts. London, Printed by Tlw. Cotes, for
Humphry Blunden, at his shop, at the Castle in
Cornehill, 1638. At sign. C. another title-page
Worcester'' s Evlogie, or a grateful acknowledge-
ment of her Benefactors by J. T. Mr. of Arts.
London, Printed he. as before, 4to. containing
title-page, dedication to Thomas Coventry esquire
(on A 2.) ; Then commendatory verses in Latin by
Will. Rowlands, and others in English by T. N.
(on a sheet marked §.) Other lines to the author
by I. R. (on sign. A 3.) The signatures then run
regularly toE 3, after which comes F. one leaf only,
and G. two leaves, which conclude the volume. I
have been thus particular, because Gough (British
Topography, ii, 389,) has erroneously described
the book as duodecimo, and because any one who
}X)ssesses the volume may conjecture it imperfect
without its really being so.

The Elegie records

' A sweeping plague, which from a flowing state,
Brought Worc'ster to the lowest ebbe of fate.

The poet continues.
We need not search in natures mysteries
To start the cause from whence this curse did rise ;
If envious starrcs shot poyson from their sphere,
Or from th' earths hollow bowels belcli'd it were,
Or angry winds did pufFe it ; these obey
And work his fates which earth and heaven doth

sway.
What staffe so ere did strike, 'tis safe to know
'Twas an Almighty arme did weld the blow,

And what stirrcs him to strike ? the monster sinne^

* * •

'Twas then this bosome-plague, that spawne of hell.

For which on us heaven's heavy thunder fell.

Was this alone the cause .'* unhappy case !

Had we ta'en time for cure, with nerbe of grace.

The rew of jjenitence, and sovereigne sage

Of wisedome, these had stopt th' avenger's rage.

' [See the whole of this ins. in the Ant. nf Worcester, 8vo,
p. 5'J.]

6'51

TOY.

LLOYD.

Had we for siilve our owne teares dranke, and spread

That best of jxiiildurs, dust, ujxin our liead,

We might Iiuve turn\l upiii our foes this I'eare,

The dire AjwUo ne'er had come so necre:

But, spight of lianging danger, needlesse we

Slept on the downe of dull security;

Gave vengeance leave to seaze us luipreparM,

And woundetl are, ere we can wake to ward.

Yet Tore the figlit alarmes tlie Lord did threat.

Twice he first touch'd us, and did twice retreat;

That bv this patient anger we might know

By penitence t'avert tlie falling blow.

Feavers forerunne, with spotted livery,

To shew, the mortal markes were marching nigh :

And last (no lucky omen) in each field

Unwonted ravens dismall musters held :

Brought hither by divining nostrils breath,

As to Achelmada, the field of death.

Each lioiu-e gave oft mementos for the grave ;

Thus lieaven when arm'd to kill, is kind to save.

When all this fairc forl^earing bears no fruit,

Aljaddon's sent, due wrath to execute.

The plague's begimnc, some fall, the rest doe feare.

As some nocturnall fire discovered were ;

Which, with his flaming top begins to blaze

Utjon the neighbour walles, the people gaze ;

Alike the neere, and they that live aloofe.

Doe feare the flame, each for his projjer roofe.

While some fall, others on flight meditate.

They throng for life who first sliould threed the gate.''

« * *

The Benefactors eulogised by Toy as having as-
sisted the distressed inhabitants of Worcester are 1
The city of Bristol ; 2 The corporation of Tewks-
bury ; 3 John lord bishop of Worcester ; 4 The
dean and chapter ; 5 The clergy of the diocess ; 6
James Littleton LLD. chancellor of Worcester ; 7
Godfrey bishop of Gloucester ; 8 Sir Robert Bark-
ley knight ; 9 John WUde, sergeant at law ; 10
Sir Walter Devereaux knight and baronet; 11 Sir
Edwai-d Seabright, knight, and liaronet ; 12 Sir
John Hanbury ; 13 'William Bai'klcy of C^otheridge
esq. 14 Master Child, justice of the peace; 15
Master John Dickins of Newland ; 16 William
Jefferies esq. 17 Martin Sands esq. 18 Henry
Townscnd esq. 19 Samuel Sands cscj. 20 Master
John Clent of Knightwich ; 21 Captain Clent ;
22 Droitwich ; 23 Master Edward Barret of Wycli ;
24 Master Thomas Allen and Master Harris of
Wych; 25 Master Thimias Tomkiiis, bachelor of
music; 26 Master GylesofWitlcy; 27Anonvmo; 28
Mrs. Fleet, of Hallow, Gower of Bolton, Winford
of Asley, Lane of London, widdowes.

This plague commenced on the 3rd of June
1637, and continued till the 9th of April 1638,
during which time the total number of deaths
within the liljcrties of the city was 1505. The ca-
lamity was recorded by another minor |x)et, Philip
Tinker gent, who wrote Worcester's Affliction exhi-
bited in Elegiac Verse. This was first printed, ac-

cording to the title, from the original MS. at Wor-
cester, Dy J. Grundy, no date, in 4to.]

" DAVID LLOYD was Iwrn in the ancient
" seat of his ancestors called Berthlwyd in the pa-
" rish of Lanidlos in the county of Montgomery
" and dioc. of Bangor, iKH-ame either clerk or choi-
" rister of All-s. coll. in Mich, term 1612, aged 14
" years, elected prob. fellow of that house in 1615,
" perpetual fellow the next, and in 1628 he pro-
" ceeded in the civ. law. Aiterwards he liecame
" chaplain to the earl of Derby, and comptroller,
" as ■'tis said, of his house : but whether he became
" warden of Ruthvn in Denbighshire, 1)efore the
" civil war began, I cannot justly tell. Sure I am,
" that he was instituted to the rectory of Tref.
" draeth in Anglesey on the 2d of Dec. 1641, and
" resigning it in 1642, was instituted to Llangyn-
" haval on the 11th of July that year, and to the
" vicaridge of Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd on the 21st of
" Dec. following : that also upon the breaking out
" of the rebellion he became a great agent and suf-
" ferer for his majesty king Charles I. and endured
" a long confinement ; that upon the restoration of
" his son he succeeded Andr. Morris in the deanery
" of S. iVsaph, and comjwi-tion of Llansannan, and
" about the same time had a prebendship of Chester
" bestowed on him ; all little enough tor one that
" had suffered much, and had acted deeply in the
" service of his majesty. This person, who was
" always esteemed an ingenious man, and poetically
" given, did write,

" The Legend of Captain Jon^s, in two Paris.
" Lond. 1656. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. J. 5. Art. BS.]
" The first part relateth his adventures to sea, his
" first landing, and strange combat with a mighty
" bear, &c. The second ^gins with his miraculous
" deliverance from a wreck at sea by the support
" of a dolphin. Sec. These two pai-ts are written
" ill very good burlesque, in imitation of a Welsh
" poem "called Ou'dt Richard John Grculmi. This
" Legend q/'Capt. Jones hath a picture set before
" the title, representing the stud captain armed cap-
" a-pee, well mounted on a war-horse, encountring
" an elephant with a castle on its back, containing
" an Indian king sh(X)ting with arrows at the cap-
" tain; under wliose horse's feet lie the bodies of
" kings, princes, and lyons, which had been by him
" the said captain kilhl. After the title do "follow
" several copies of ingenious verses made in praise
" of the work by Oxford scholars, atnong whom
" capt. Hen. Jones of Llang(K>d in Anglesey, some-
" time of Qu. coll. in Oxon, hath one. Tlie said
" capt. Jones, on whom the legend was made, lived
" in the reign of qii. Klizalieth, and was inigreat
" renown for his high exploits, when sir John Nor-
" ris and liis noble brethren, with sir Walt. Raleigh,
" were endeavouring for die honour of their nation
" to eternize their names by martial exploits. Our
" author Dr. Lloyd hath also written,

LLOYD.

PAGE.

654

" Swiff)!, Sonnets, Elemcs, &c. — some of which
" arc pnntod in several books. He died in the
1C63. " winter time of sixteen iiundrcd sixty ami three,
" but wliere buried I cannot tell : sure I am that
" by hi.s generosity and loyalty having nm himself
" much into debt, some wag, or, as they say, him-
" self made this, viz.

" This is the epitaph

" Of the dean of St. Asaph,

" Who by keeping a table

" Ketter than he was able,

" Run into debt

" Whicli is not paid yet.

" He had an uncle called Oliver Lloyd, who was
" a benefactor to Jesus coll. an. 162.5, and a younger
" brother named Oliver also, sometime fellow of
" All-s. coll. and doctor of the law, afterwards eject-
" ed thence by the parliamentarian \isitors an. 1G48,
" but restored in 1660, and dying at London (near
" D<x;tors Commons I think) about the 17th of
" March 1662, was there buried."

[I am now assured by capt. Henry Jones of
Llangoed's widow, that Dr. David Lloyd, wardi-n
of Ruthin, is the author of the Legend of Captain
Jones, which she often heard her husband (who
knew it well, and hath a copy of verses before the
Legend) aver. Huiii'iiuEYs.

The first edition of the Legend of Captain Jones
was printed in 4to. Lond. 1648, and is in the Bod-
leian. This has no commendatory verses, but ]X)s-
sesses the frontispiece, engraved by Will. Marshall.
The Svo. edit, of 1656 has had different title-pages,
one ' Printed for Humphrey Moseley' Sec, the
other ' for Richard Marriot' who was the proprietor
of the 4to.

The following is Lloyd's address to the reader.

Reatler, y'have here the mirrour of the times,

Old Jones wrapt in his colours and my rimes.

Receive him fairly, pray, nor censure how

Or what he tells ; the matter hee'l avow ;

And for tiie forme he speakes in, I'll maintain it.

It comes as neere his veine as I could straine it.

For 'twere improper to set forth an asse

Cap])arison'd, and pannell a great horse.

My part claims no invention's praise, for (know it)

Where ere there's fiction in't, there he's the poet.

His last deeds, here epitomiz'd, intreat

Some thundering pen to set them forth compleat.

Let him whose lofty muse will deign to doe it

Drinke sack and gunjwwder, and so fall to it.

The whole poem is very laughable, but it is not
of sufficient rarity to warrant any further specimen.]

WILLIAM PAGE received his first breath in
the parish of Harrow-on-the-hill in Middlesex, ap-
plied his mind to academical studies in Bal. coll. m
Mich, terni 1606, aged 16, t(X)k the degrees in arts,
and in the year 1619 was elected fellow of All-s.

coll. Afterwards, by tlie favour of Dr. Laud bishop
of I^oridon, he succeeded Dr. Joh. Denison in the
rectory of the free-school at Reatling, and about the
same time was presented by the society of the siiiil
coll. to the rectory of East Lockyng near to Wan-
tage in Berks, wliich he kejit to the time of his
death, but his school not, for he was sequestred of
it by the eonniiittce of parliament in 1644. In the
year 1634 he proceeded dcxitor of divinity, at wliich
time and after, he wa.s esteemed well vers'd in the
Greek fathers, a good preacher and disputant. He
hath written,

A Treatise of Justification of Bowing at the
Name of Jesus, by Waij of Answer to an Appendix
against it. Oxon. 1631. qu. [Bodl. Rawl. 4to. 67.]

An Kxamination of stick considerable Reasons as
are made bij Mr. Prynnc in a lieply to Mr. Wid-

dowes concerning the same Argument Printed

with the former.

Of which treatise, or treatises, I find in a letter *
written by Will. Baker (secretary to Dr. Abbot
archb. of Canterbury) directed to the author Page,

these passages following ' Go(k1 Mr. Page, my

lord of Canterbury is informed that you are pub-
lishing a treatise touching the question of bowing at
the name of Jesus : an argument wherein Mr. Giles
Widdowcs foolishly, and Mr. W . Prynne scurri-
lously, have already to the scandal and disquiet of
the church exercised their pens. His graee hath
formerly shewed his dislike of them both, and hear-
ing that you take up the bucklers in a theam of so
small necessity, and of so great heat and distemper,
which will draw a new reply (for Prynne will not
sit down as an idle spectator) and beget bitterness
and intestine contestations at home among our selves,
he is much offended that you do stickle and keep
on foot such questions, which may be better sopited
and silenced than maintained and drawn into sidings
and partakings. jVnd therefore I am wished to ad-
vise you to withdraw your self from tliese or the
hke domestic broils ; and if y(mr treatise be at the
press, to give it a stojj, and by no means suffer it
to be divulged,' &.c. This letter being written at
Lambeth 31 May 1632, the contents thereof flew
to Fulham, where finding Dr. Laud bishop of Lon-
don, he wrote this following^ letter to the vice-chanc.
of the univ. of Oxon, dated 22 June following,
' Sir, these are to pray and require you in his ma-
jesty's name, that a b(X)k lately printed at Oxon,
and made by Mr. Page of All-s. college, be pre-
sently set to sale and published. It is, as I am in-
formed, in defence of the canon of the church,
about bowing at the name of Jesus, and modestly
and well written. And his majesty likes not that a
book boldly and ignorantly written by Mr. Prynne
against the church, should take place as die church's

^ In Gestis Cancellariatus Univ. Oxon. Gul. Laud, MS.
p. 28.

3 J bid. p. 27.

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655

PAGE.

SMITH.

opinion against her self, or as unable to be answer'd
by the church,'' Sec. What else our author Page
hath wTitten are.

Certain Animadversions upon some Passages in
a Tract conceming Schism and Schismatics, &c.
Oxon. 164~. qu. Which tract was written by J.
Hales of Eaton.

Tlie Peace-maker: or, a brief Motive to Unity
and Charity in Religion, l^ona. 1652. in sixt. He
hath also pul)lished a Sermon on 1 Tim. 5. 3, 4, 5. —
Printed in qu. which I have not yet seen ; ami also
translated from Lat. into Engl. Tho. a Kenipis his
treatise De Imitaticnu Christi, in 4 books. — Oxon.
1639- in tw. Before which translation (by him
amended and corrected) he hath set a large epistle
to the reader. This Dr. Page departed this mor-
tal life in the parsonage-house of Lock^'ng ])efore-
mentioned on the 24th of Febr. (l)eiiig tlien Ash-
l66i. Wednesday) in sixteen hundred sixty and three,
and was buried in the chancel of the church there,
as I have been informed by Mr. George ^Vshwell,
who had the care of his library and interment com-
mitted to him. See more in Dr. Sam. Page under
the year 1630. vol. ii. col. 486.

[A Widdowe indeed (i. e. a book of the duties of
widows, and a commendation of that state to his
mother ;) by Dr. Page, fellow of All Souls. MS.
in Bibl. Bodl. Tanner.

This MS. is now marked Bodl. 115. and was
given by the author, under the following condition :
' Liber Bibliothecae Bodleyanse ex dono authoris ad
instantiam et rogatum bibliothecarii : sed ea con-
ditione, ut ipsi datori dum viveret, sicubi occasio
sese offerit, extra bibliothecam eodem uti integrum
esset.' '

' [A summary collection of all llie cliapters in the two
books —

I. The firstdnly of a widdowe indeed which is desolation.
The secondc duty which is hcipe in God.

The thirde duty which is prayer.
The fourth duty which is fasiiiige.
The fifie duty, soliiariiies.
The sixte duty, tacitnrnitye.

The seuenth duty which is a mournefull countenance.
The eight duly is modest apparell.
The ninth duty, workes of piety.
The tenth duly, workes of pitly.
The lawfulnes of secondc niariage confirmed.
Their opinion who deny the lawfulnes of seconde
mariage confuted.

II. The dignity of widdowhood in respect to other estates.
Diverse particular reasons why widdowhood is to be

esteemed abuue seconde uiariages.

Other reasons why widdowhood is to be preferred be-
fore seconde mariages.

The excellency of widdowhood illustrated from the
examples of godly widdowcs mentioned and commended
in holy scriptures and auncicni fathers.

Widdowhood further aduanced frnm ilie examples of
heathens, vnreasonable and senseles creatures.

A widdowe indeed should refrayne from marryinge
againe in respect of her children, if she hauc any.

The examples of the olde lawe no sufficient warrant
to extoll seconde mariages in these dayes.

But Dr. Page was author of another treatise of
still more singular and gallant nature, which is now
in MS. in the Bodleian. This is

Woman''s Worth : or a Treatise proving by sun-
dry Reasons that Women doe excell Men.

The contents are as follow :

Eue more excellent than Adam.

Eue less sinfull then Adam.

Mary makes amends for Eue's fault.

Women more chast then men.

Women more religious then men.

Women loved Christ more then men.

Women wiser then men.

Women more valiant than men.

Women's badness better then men's goodness.

Women bare rule ouer men.

Women more charitable then men.

Pulehrius in toto Deus optimus ordine rerum
Plasmate faemineo ntm fabricavit opus.
Amongst God's creatures you'U not find,
A goodlier work then woman-kind.]

SAMUEL SMITH a minister's son, was born
in Worcestershire, entred a batler of S. Mary's hall
in the beginning of 1603, (1 Jac. 1.) aged 15, left
the university without a degree, became beneficed
at Prettlewell in Essex,- and afterwards, about the
begiiming of king Charles I. i:a his own country;
where continuing till the rebellion began in 1642,
did then, or the year following retire to London for
shelter, sided with the presbyterians, and became a
frequent preacher among them. Afterwards he re-
turned to his cure, had another confer'd on him in
Shropshire,' " viz. Cound," was an assistant to the
commissioners of that county for the ejection of
such whom they called scandalous and ignorant mi-
nisters and schoolmasters, lived after his majesty's
restoration, and soon after was, as I have been ni-
formed, silenced. His works, ■which are mostly ser-
mons, are these,

David'' s blessed Man : or, a short Exposition
upon the Jirst Psalm, &c. Lond. in oct. Printed
the tenth time in 1638, and the fifteenth time in
1686. in tw.

St. Paul's wishinge yonger widdowes to marry no argu-
ment for the excellency of seconde mariages.

St. Paul's coinniandinge widdowcs to be threescore
yeares old before ihey be chosen, debarielh not yopger
women from being widdowes.

The ciire and trouble of gouerninge a family ought not
to raoue a widdow indeed to marry againe.

The wrongs and ininries ihat are done vnto a widdowe
ought not to compell her to seconde mariage.]
' [Sam. Smith, cler. adniiss. ad vie. de Priltlewell, com.
Essex, 30 Nov. I6l5, ad pres. Kob. dom. Rich. Reg. Ban-

CTofl. KUNNET.]

' [I find Sam. Smith lo be minister of Connd in Shro(>.
shire, l648, at which time he subscribed to the lawfulness
of the covenant. Wood, MS- NuU in Ashmole.']

SMITH.

REYNELL.

6.58

[334]

Clar.
1C63.

David^s Repentance: or, a plain and familiar
Exposition of the b\st Pmlm, &c. Lond. 1618, 19.
in tw. &:c.

Several sermons, as (1.) Joseph and his Mistress,
&c. in 5 Sermons on Gen. 39- 7, 8, 9, &c. Lond.

1619. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. S. 157. Th.] (2.) Noah's
Dove: or, Ty dings of Peace to the Godly, Fun.
Sermon on Psal. 37. ver. 37. Land. 1619. oct.
[Bodl. Svo. S. 158. Th.] (3.) Chrisfs Prepara-
tion to his own Death, in three Sermons on Luke
22. 39, 40, 41. Lond. 1620. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. O.
33. Th.] (4.) Christ's last Supper : or, the Doc-
trine of the Sacrament, in 5 Sermons cm 1 Cor.
11. 28, 29. Lond. 1620. oct. [B(xll. Svo. G. 98.
Th.] (5.) A Chri.itian Task, Sermon at the Fu-
neral of Mr. John Laxoson, Gent, at Prettlewell in
Essex, 28 Dec. 1619; on Psal. 90. 12. Lond.

1620. oct. (6.) The great A.ssize: or the Day of
Jubilee ; in which we mu.H make a general Ac-
compt of all our Actions before the Almighty : in

four Sermons on the ZOth Chapter of the Revel. 5jc.
— Printed at Lond. one and thirty times, the la-st
impression of which was an. 1684. oct.* At the
end. are Prayers to he .said privately by ,iingle
Persons. (7.) A Fold for Christ's Sheep, in tzvo
Sermons upon the first Chapter of the Canticles,

ver. 7, 8. Printed two and thirty times; the

last impression of which was at Lond. 1684. oct.
(8.) The Ethiopian Eunuch's Conversion; the
Sum of 30 Sermons upon Part of the 8th Chapter
of the Acts. Lond. 1632. oct. [Bodl. Svo. A. 100.
Th.]

Tlie Christian's Guide, with Rules and Direc-
tions for leading an Holy Life. As Meditations

and Prayers suitable to all Occasions Printed

several times in tw.

The chief Shephard : or, an Exposition on the
^M Psal. Lond. 165G. oct.

The admirable Convert: or, the Miraculous
Conversion of the Thief on the Cross, Sec. Lond.
1632. oct.

Moses his Prayer : or, an Exposition of the
19th Psal. &c. Lond. 1656. oct. [Bodl. Svo. 'S. 28.

Looking-Glass for Saints and Sinners: or, an
Exposition on the 2^ Epist. of S. John. Lond.
1663. oct. [Bodl. Svo. S. 153. fh.] He hath writ-
ten other things which I have not yet seen, and was
living an aged man near Dudley in Worcestershire,
in sixteen hundred sixty and three. I have made
mention of another Sam. Smith under the year
1620, vol. ii, col. 283 ; who was first of Magd. hall,
and afterwards of Magd. coll. and shall of a third,
sometime of S. John's coll. (now living) when his
turn comes.

[Calamy records the first Samuel Smith as
of Cressidge, in Shropshire, and ejected thence.

■♦ [Calamy sayi in his time it had beca printed fotly limes.
Ejrcled Ministers, " ■;'>■' 1

voi,. in.

ii, 567.]

He was a very holy judicious man, and after his
ejectment went to die m liis native country.*]

EDWARD REYNELL, a cadet of the antient
and genteel family of his name living at West Og-
well near to Newton Bushel in Devonsliire, was acl-
mitted to the fellow's table of Exeter coll. 30 May
1629, aged 17 years or thereabouts; where con-
tinuing under the tuition of a noted tutor till July
1632, went (as it seems) to one of the Temples at
London, and was at length made barrister. But
his geny being inclin'd more towards divinity, he
pubhshed these matters following in prose.

Eugenia's Tears for Gr. Britain's Glory: or.
Observations refecting on these .sad Times. Lond.
1642.

Advice concerning Libertinism : shewing the
great Danger thereof, and exhorting all to Zeal of
the Truth. Lond. 1659. in tw.

" Eternity weighed with the temporal andfading
" Things of this Lfe, Sec."

Celestial Amities: or, the Soul sighing fyr t/tc
Love of her Saviour. Lond. 1660. oct.

7'he Benefit of Afflictions. — Printed with Celest.
Amities, &c. Whether he hath written other tilings
I know not, nor any thing else, only that he was a
reserved and precise person, and cfying at West-
Ogwell after his majesty 's return (about 1663) was
buried there. I have sent once or more to his ne-
phew at West Ogwell, and I have spoken several
times to his kinsman Dr. George ReyncU lately fel-
low of C. C. C. to have farther information 01 the
said Edw. Reynell, but they, like nice and capri-
cious people, desire that ' his name may be forgot-
ten, and what he liath done may sink in the pit of
oblivion.' Such like answers I have received from
|xx)r-spirited " and crop-ear'd" persons ujK>n my
enquiry after other writers.

[ReyneU's nephew and kinsman do not deserve
the reproach which our author has cast on them :
it was out of tenderness to his inemory that tiiey re-
questetl what he did might sink into the pit of obli-
vion. In short, he destroyed himself, as we learn
from Prince," in the following words : ' He always
led a single life, and was greatly addicted to meian-
clioly ; insomuch, it prevail'd over hiui to accelerate
his own dissolution ; which he accomplisli'd by the
improbable assistance but of a bason of water in his
chamber.'

The same author ' adds another title to the list
of ReyneU's works :

The Lfe and Death of that religious and ver-
tuous Lady the Lady Lucia Reynell of Ford. To
which is added, A consolitary Epilogue for dejected
Souls. Lady Reynell was the daughter of Robert
Brandon of London esq. and wife to sir Richard
ReyncU, knight, (of the Middle Temple and an

Ejected Ministers, ii, .^67.]

H^orlhies of Devon, edit, folio, paie 524.]

Ibid, page 323.]

uu

Clar.

Kids.

r>5u

REYNELL.

AMBROSE.

IS335]

officer in tlie Exclutjucr, wlu> <ii«l July !^9, 1585.)
She wa.s excellently adorned with all Christian
graces and vertuoiis accomplishnients, and founded
an almshouse, for four minister s widows, near New-
ton-Bushel, allowing to each a dwelling-house of
three rooms, with a garden-plot, and five pounds
j^r ann. for ever.]

ISAAC AMBROSE, a minister's stm, descend-
ed from tho.se of his name living at Lowick, and
they from the Ambroses anciently living at Am-
brose hall in Lancashire, was born in that county,
became a batler of Bras. coll. in the lx?ginning of
the year 1621, aged 17 years, took one degree in
arts, holy orders, had some httle cure in his own
country conferred on him, and afterwards relief
from William earl of Bedford, (whereby he and his
family were refreshed) who caused him also, if I
mistalce not, to lie put into the list of his majesty's
preachers appointed for the county of Lancaster.
Afterwards, upon the change of the times in 1641,
lie sided with the presby terians then dominant, took
the covenant, l)ecame a preacher of the gospel at
Garstang, and afterwards at Preston in Amounder-
ness in his own country, " an. 1648," a zealous
man for carrying on the beloved cause, and active
against the orthodox clergy when he was appointed
.an assistant to the commissioners for the ejecting of
such whom they then (1654, 2 Oliv. protect.) called
scandalous and ignorant ministers and schoolmasters.
He hath written,

Prima, media, 4* ultima : or, ilie first, middle
and IcLst Things; wlierein is set fmth, 1. The
Doctrine of Regeneration, or the new Birth. 2.
The Practice of Sanctification, in the Means, Du-
ties, Ordinances, both private and public, for Con-
tinuance and Increase of a godhj Life. 3. Certain
Meditations of MairCs Misery, in his Life, Death,
Judgment, and Execution : as also of God''s Mercy

in our Redemption and Salvation. The Prima

and ultima were printed at Lond. in 1640. c|U.
sometimes bound in two vol. sometimes in one. The
Media is chiefly taken out of the most eminently
pious and learned writings of our native practical
divines, with additions added to them of Ambrose's
composition. It was first printed at Lond. (with
his Prima and Ultima) 1650. qu. " and after in
» 1659. qu. [Bodl. B. 14. 9. Line] To which is
" added a Sermon of redeeming the Time preacKd
" at Preston 4 Jan. 1657. at the Funeral of Lady
" Margaret Houghton; on Eph. 5. 16.'*" The au-
thors whom he doth abridge in the said Media, are
mostly separatists, and 'tis licensed by Mr. Charles
Herle, and recommended to the world by John
Angier, Thorn. Johnson, and Joh. Waite B. D.
in their respective epistles before it. At length all

" [This sermon, which was preached at Preston in Lan-
cashire, was revised and somewhat enlarged, and at the im-
portuni'y "f some friends now published. Lond. 16S8, 4to.
Kawlikson.]

three were j)rinted at London in a large fol. 1674.
with the author's picture before them, aged 59
years, an. 1663, reprinted 1682, antl 89. fol.

Redeeming the Time ; Senn. on Ephes. 5. 16.
Lond. 1658^qu.

Looking unto Jesus. A Viexv of the everlasting
Gospel, or the SouVs Eying of Jesus as carrying
on the great Work of Mans Salvation. Lond.
1658. qu. Printed with the former. In the pen-
ning of which, he took most delight, as being a sub-
ject, as he complains, almost wholly neglected by all
others.

War with Devils, Ministration of, and Commu-
nion xcith. Angels. — Printed also with the former.
At the end of this treatise, are subjoined two letters,
the first written by Rich. Baxter, dat. at Lond. 29

by n
the

Nov. 1661. .-md the other by Will. Cole, dat. at
Preston 8 Oct. 1661. He died suddenly, of an
ajxjplexy, as I have heard, but when, I know not.

[Isaac Ambrose, A. B. coll. yEnei-Nas. Oxon. in-
corj)orat. Cantabr. an. 1631, 2. Reg. Gratiarum.

Isaac Ambrose coll. M.agd. Cant. A. M. 1632;
et etiam ut Oxon. incorporatus. Reg. Acad. Cant.

Obiit 1663-4; ict. 72. Baker.

See an account of one Dr. Ambrose in Heylin's
Life of Laud, psige 219 ; who seems a difftrent
person from this. Cole.

' Isafick Ambrose was somt^time minister of Pres-
ton, but he afterwards rcmov'd to Garstang, where
the act of uniformity found him in 1662. He livetl
and died a non-conformist, and was .a man of that
substantial worth, that eminent piety, and that exem-
plary life, both as a minister and a Christian, that
'tis to Ih> lamented that the workl should not have
the benefit of particular memoirs concerning Jiim,
from some able hand.' So s.iys Calamy,** who adds
' One thing that was {)eculiar in him deserves to be
mention'd here. 'Twas his usual custom once in a
year, for the space of a month, to retire into a little
hut in a wood, and, avoiding all humane converse,
to devote himself to contemplation. Possibly by
this practise, he w.as fitter for his sacred ministra-
tion all the rest of the year. He liv'd in the latter
part of his life at Preston, and when his end drew
near, was very sensible of it. Having Uiken his
leave of many of his friends abroad, with unusual
solemnity, as if he foresaw that he should see them
no more, he came home to Preston from Bolton,
and set all things in (jrder. In a little time some
of his hearers came from Garstang to visit him. He
discoursed freely with them, gave them good coun-
cel, told them he was now ready whenever his Lord
should call, .and that he had finish'd all he design'd
to write ; having the night before sent away his dis-
course concerning angels to the press. He accom-
pany'd his friends to tlieir horses, and wlien he came
back, shut himself in his parlour, the place of his
soliloquy, meditation and prayer; — they tho't he

3 [Account of ejected Ministers, 8vo. ii, 410.]

Ciar.
lCC3.

AMBROSE.

WIDDIIINGTON.

t)t>2

stay\l long, and so open'tl the dcxir, and found him
just oxpirnig. This was in the year 166^, a.'tat. 72.
He was hofy in his Hfe, Iiappy in his deatli, and
honoured by Got! and all gtM)tl men.']

« THOMAS WIDDRINGTON or Wiiii-
" EINGTON of Chisbourne Grange in tlie county of
" Northumberland, descended from an antient fa-
*' mily of his name living sometimes at Withrington
" castle in the saiil county : of which family were
" divers gentlemen of gw)d birth, and knights,
" whose valour ' in the wai' hatli from time to time
" been remarkable. At about 16 years of age he
" sjjeut some time in cme of our northern colleges
" in Oxon, and I think in Cambridge, but took no
" degree, and afterwards retiring to Greys-inn in
" Holbourn to obtain knowledge in the municipal
" law, became a barrester, noted for his profession,
" recorder first of Berwick upon Tweed, then of
*' the city of Y<jrk, a knight on the first of Apr.
" 1639, (which honour he received from king
" Charles I. then at York) a burgess for Berwick
" before-mention''d, to .serve in tliat parliament
" which began at Westm. 13 Apr. 1640, and again
" for the same place, to serve in tliat unhappy pari.
" which began on the 3d of Nov. the same year :
" In which pari, shewing himself an active man and
" taking the covenant, was esteemed by all persons
" a zefuous prcsbyterian. But when that cause
" seemed to decline, he struck in with the inde-
*' pendents, became by their power an additional
" member to the commissioners in the army, in
" June 1647, and in the beginning of March fol-
" lowing one of the four commissioners for the great
" seal of England for 12 months only, next ensuing,
" which passed by an ordinance in pari. dat. 15th
" of the same month. This gi-eat favour was done
" unto him, because that he was esteemed by the
" men of those times ' a gent.^ of known integrity,
" and of great abilities in his profession, and bro-
" ther-in-law to the general (Fairfax) whose sister
" he had married.' The otlier three were Henry
« earl of Kent, Will, lord Grey of Werk, and Bul-
" strode Whitlock. The last of which was well
" known and understood in the house by his long
" attendance there, and by them judged not unca-
" pable of the said imployment : Besides also the
" general had an affection for him, and he had a
" go<xl interest in the house, and Cromwell and his
" party were willing to engage him as far as he
" could with them. In Octob. 1648 he the said
" Widdrington with sir Tho. Beddingfield, Rich.
" Keblc, Franc. Thorpe, and John Bradshaw, all
" of Greys-inn, were by the pari, made Serjeants at
" law, and scxm after Widdrington was made one
" of the king's Serjeants. But when several of the
" house of commons were turned out, and impri-

' " Camden in Bri/an. in com. Northumberl."
' " Bulstrode Whiilock in his Memoriuls of Enelish Af-
Jairs."

' son'd by the army, he nnicli resented it, and was
' with Whitlock eager for settling the kingdom by
' the ])arliament, and not leave all to the sword.
' Afterwards when they saw that the king would
' be brought to his tryal, they were against it,
' would fam have been absent from the house but
' could not tell where \a go, and therefore when
' they entred the house the members lix)k''d shie
' uix)n them. After the king was beheaded, they
' about the 8th of Feb. entred into the commons
' house with the gi-eat seal, which being broken bc-
' fore them, the house gave the said Widdrington
' and Whitlock the pieces and the purse belonging
' to them. At that time they constituted the said
' two persons conmiissioners of the new great seal,
' but our author Widdrington stood up and ex-
' cused himself very earnestly, because of liis un-
' healthfulness and some scruples of conscience ;
' but that excuse would not be allowed. At length
' ujxjn a long debate, the house did excuse him,
' and to manifest their respects for his former ser-
' vices, and that they took no notice of his scruphng
' their authority, they ordered that he should prac-
' tise within the barr, and gave him a quarter's
' wages more than was due to him. Afterwards
' takmg the engagement he was sworn one of the
' commissioners of the great seal, by the favour of
' Oliver on the 5th of Apr. 1654, and in Aug. fol-
' lowing was elected burgess for the city of York
' to sit m that parliament called by the said Oliver
' to meet at Westm. on the 3d of Sept. next en-
' suing, he being then one of the commissioners for
' the north-riding of Yorkshire for the ejection of
' such who were by the faction called scandalous,
' ignorant and insufficient ministers and school-
' masters. In 1656 he was elected burgess again
' for the same place to serve in that parliament
' which began at Westm. by Oliver's power on the
' 17tli of Sept. the same year, of which parliam.
' he was chosen speaker, but being sometimes
' sickly, Whitlock was his deputy. On the 26th
' of June 1657 he, as speaker, did invest and in-
' stall Oliver to the protectorate, with an elegant
' speech, which afterwards was made public, and
' about that time w;i.s one of the lords commis-
' sioners of the treasury. On the 26th of June
' 1658 he was made lord chief' liaron of the ex-
' clie(]uer. In the beginning of Jan. 1659 he was
' nominated by the pari, to be one of the council
' of state. In the middle, he, with Joh. Fountain,
' and Tho. Tyrrel were voted commissioners of

■ the great-seal ; and soon after Widdrington was

• chosen burgess for Berwick upon Tweed and for
' York, to serve in that parliam. which began at
' Westm. 25 Apr. 1660. Soon after the restora-

• tion of king Charles II. he was made seijeant at

• law, by the corrupt dealing of a great man of that

■ profession. In 1661 our author Widdrington

' " VVliiil. Mem. p. 6'74. b."
UU2

[336]

663

WIDDRINGTON.

HEATH.

" was elected a biirpess for Bcnvick bcfore-nien-
" tion'd to serve in that jxirl. which began at Westni.
" 8th of May 1G61, lie being then accounted by
" many an accomj)Ush'd person in all arts, as well
" as in his own profession of the common law, but
" being then grown old and craz'd, he did seldom
" sit. This jx-r.'Min hath extant under his name,

" Several speeches, as (1) Speech to his Majesty
" in his Passage through Benciek tojcards Edin-

" burgh, 2 Jitne 1G33. See in the Historical

" Collections of John Rushworth, part 2, an. 1663.
" (2) Sj). to his Majesty vihen he arrived at York
" 30 Mar. 1639, in his Journey against the Scots.
" — See in the said second part, an. 1 639- (3)
'' Speech at a C(ynference between both Houses of
" Pari. 20 Jul. Ifril, at the Transmis.iion of the
" Impeachment against Matth.- Wren D. D. late
" Bishop of Norwich, now of Ely. Lond. 1641. in
" one sh. in qu. (4) Speech at the Swearing of
" Judge Hen. Rolk to the Office of Lord Chief
" Justice of the Kin^s-Bench, 15 Nov. 1643; with
" other speeches of the like nature, when other
"judges or Serjeants were sworn. (6) Speech at
" the Investiture of Oliver Ijyrd Protector 26 Jun.
" 16.57. The beginning of which is, ' May it
" please your highness ; you are now upon a great
" theatre,' &c. He hath also written,

" A Description or Survey of the City of York.'^
" — This is as yet in MS. and is mentioned to be
" the work of sir Tho. Widdrlngton by Dr. Tho.
" Fuller in his Worthies of England in Yorkshire,
" at the end of his discourse of the city of York.
" At length having lived to a fair age, lie paid his
" last debt to nature alwut the 22d day of May in
\(iSt. "sixteen hundred sixty and four; whereupon his
[3371 " bo<l.y ^^ buried in the chancel of the church of
" S. Giles's in the Fields near I^ondon in Middle-
" sex. Ten j'ears after his death his relations put
" up a monument of white marble to his memory,
" on the north side of the said chancel. The chief
" of this person's family is Will, lord Widdring-
" ton." '

JAMES HEATH son of Rob. Heath the king's
cutler, living in the Strand leading from London to
Westminster, was bom, I presume, there, educated
in Westminster school, became a student of Ch. Ch.
in Mich, term 1646, aged 17, ejected thence by the
parliamentarian visitors in 1648, lived afterwards
upon his patrimony, and adhered to king Charles

« [ A copy in MS. among Mr. Cough's books in the
Bodleian. 1

' rVVilliam Widdrin;»ton was crtatrd lord Widdrlngton
of Blankney, Lincolnshire, lti44 : he was slain in the fight
at Wigan, on the king's side, August l651. His son Wil-
liam, second lord Widdrlngton, was succeeded by his son
William third lord W. whose son William fourth lord W.
was engaged in the rebellion of 1715. He was arraigned
and found guilty of high treason 17l6, but received a pardon
in 1717. He died at Bath 1743, having had a son Henry.
See Brydges'b Peerage, 8vo. 1812, vol, ii, 14 ; ix, 4i2.]

II. ill his exile till it was almost spent, and then
man-ied, which hindred his restoration to his stu-
dent's jilace in 1660. About that time, having se-
veral children, he was forcetl to write books and
correct the press for bread to maintain them. He
was a good school-scholar, had a command of his
Engl, and Lat. pen, but wanted a head for a chro-
nologer, and was esteemed by some a tolerable
poet. He hath communicated to the world,

A brief Chronicle of the late intestine War in tlie
three Kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland,
&c. Lond. 1661. oct. enlarged by the author and

compleated from 1637 to 1663, in four parts.

Lond. 1663. in a thick oct. Some copies have in
them the pictures of the most eminent soldiers in the
said war, which makes the book valued the more by
some novices. Hut this Chronicle being mostly
compiled from lying pamphlets, and all sorts of
news-books, there are innumerable errors therein,
especially as to name and time, things chiefly re-
quired in history. To this Chronicle is added A
Continuation from the End of\G&'2 to 1675 by Joh.
Philipps (nepliew by the mother to Job. Milton) —
Lond. 1676. fol. [Bodl. K. 1. 18. Art.) Which
continuation is mostly made u]) from gazetts. An-
other edit, is continued to 1691.

Elegy upon Dr. Tho. Fuller, that mo.it incom-
parable Writer, who deceased 15 of Aug. 1661.
Lond. 1661. on one side of a sheet. This Dr. Th.
Fuller was author of The Chureh History from the
Time of Christ, till the Year 1648, and of divers
other things.

The Glories and niagnijicent Triumphs of the
blessed Restitution of King Charles II. from his
Arrival in Holland 1659, till this piresent, &c.
Lond. 1662. in a large oct. It reaches to the month
of May 1661, and hath added to it the names of
the then companions of the order of the garter, the
nobilit}', archb. and bishops, judges, baronets, and
the marriage of Katherina of Portugal to king
Charles II. and their noble reception by the city of
Lond. by water from Hampton-court to their land-
ing at Whitehall 28 Aug. 1662.

Flagellum : or, the Life and Death, Birth and
Burial of Oliver Cromwell the late Usurper. Lond.
1663. The third edit, came out with additions at
Lond. 1665. all in oct.^

Elegy (leith Epitaph) on the much lamented
Death of Dr. Sanderson late L. Bishop of Lincoln,
who deceased in the latter End of Jan. 166^. Lond.
1663. on one side of a sh. of paper.

A new Book of Loyal English Martyrs and Con-

fessors, who have endured the Pains and Terrors

of Death, Arraignment, S(c. Jbr the Maintenance

of the jti.it and legal Government of the.te King-

doms both in Church and State. Lond. 1663. in tw.

* [The fourth edition in Ififig, with a very good print or
effigies of his person, I have. Baker. Another cdilitm 8vo.
Lond. 167a, with a very indillcrcnt portrait of Cromwell, is
in the Bodleian ; 8vo. P. 118. Art.]

LISLE.

6d6

Brief hut exact Survey of the AJ'airs of the
United Netherlands, comprehending more fully
than any Thing yet extant, all the ^Particulars of
that Subject, &c. Printed in tw. but wlu-n I know
not, for I have not yet seen it. He died of a con-
sumption and dropsy in Well-close near to the Lame
Hospital in the parish of S. Bartholomew the less in
London, on the 16th of August in sixteen hundred
sixty and four, and was the third day after buried in
the church of that parish, near to the skreen-<loor,
leaving then behind him several children to be
maintained by tiie parish, as also the foundation of
other matters, which he intended to have published
if life had been spared.

JOHN L'ISLE son of sir Will. L'isle of Woot-
ton in the isle of Wight in Hampshire, knight, was
born there, became a commoner of the upper order

' [338] of Magd. hall in the year 1622, aged 16 or tliere-
abouts, took a degree in arts, went to one of the
Temples, and at length became a barrister and
counsellor of note. In the year 1640 he was chose
a burgess for Winchester to serve in that parliament
which began at Westm. 13 of Apr. and again for

I the same place in that unhappy convention that met

on the 3d of Nov. ibllowing. In which last pari, he
improved his interest to the purpose, liougnt state
lands good cheap, was made master of the hospital
of S. Cross near Winchester (which belongs to a
divine) upon the ejectment of Dr. Will. Lewis;
which office he voluntarily surrendring up into the
hands of the parliament in the latter end of June
1649, it was conferr''d upon John Cook the then so-
licitor general.' In Dec. 1647 he was appointed
one of the commons to carry to his mai. in the isle
of Wight the four bills (dethroning bills) and in
Jan. 1648 was one of the judges to condemn to
death his said majesty. Soon after he was consti-
tuted a member ot the council of state, and one of
the lords commissioners of the great seal, helped in
parliament to change the government from kingly to
parliamentary, and from that to kingly again, and
did swear Oliver protector at his first installing chief
magi.strate, contrary to the four » acts of parliament
which he helped to make, with others that made it
treason so to do. In 16.54, he by the name of John
L'isle, one of the commissioners of the gi-eat seal,
and recorder of Southampton, was chose burgess for
that place to serve in the parliament wliich began 3d
of Sept. the same year, was afterwards taken out of
the house, to have a negative voice in the other
house, that is, house of lords, and made president
of the high court of justice for a time ; by whose

■ [Die LiiHEB 14Maii, l660; The house enquiring after
the persons who sate in judgment upon the late Iting's ma-
jestie; Resohtfi, that Mr. John Cook who is now in cus-
tody in Ireland be forthwith sent over hither in safe custody.

K^SNET.] '

" See the acts in the book called The Looking Glass, pae.

43, 44, o 1 t:

violence acted tiiere, fell many gallant and heroic
spirits ; some of which I am now aJwut to mention.
He hath extant under his name,

Several spccche.s, as (1) Speech spoken in a com-
mon Hall, London, 8 July 1645, concerning Obser-
vations on the Kings Cabinet of Letters. See
more in Tho. Browne, under the year 1673. (2)
Speech ivhile he was Pres. of the High Court of
Justice at the Pronouncing of Sentence of Death on
Sir Hen. Slingsby ofRedluyu.se in York.ih. and Dr.
Joh. Hezcit, Jun. 2. An. 1658. (3) Speech when
he gave Sentence of Death on Colonel Edxo. Ash-
ton, Edm. Stacy, Oliv. Allen, Will. Carrent, Joh.
Betteley, Hen. Fryer, and Joh. Sumner, July 2,
1658, &c. Which speeches I have seen printed.

Monarchy as.ierted to be the best, nwst antient,
and legal Form of Government, in a Conference
had with Oliver L. Protector at Whitehall, in Apr.

1657.' Pr. at Lond. 1660. in oct. with other

conferences and speeches to the same purpose made
by others ; among whom are Rog. Boyle baron of
Broghill in Ireland, sir Charles Wolseley, sir Rich.
Onslow of Surrey, &c. all Oliver's lords. A little
before the return of king Charles II. he, with other
regicides, fled beyond the seas, and L'isle .settling
at I^osanna " in Switzerland," he was treated by the
magistracy of that town as chancellor of England,'
being always vested with the robe of that dignity.
At length certain Irish men taking it as a grand ju-
front that the people of that place should harlxiur
him (as they did Edm. Ludlow, Will. Goffe, Ed-
ward Whaley, &c. for a time) and shew him so
much respect and honour as they did, one of them
vcnturM upon him (as he was going to church, ac-
companied with the chief magistracy) and shot him
with a musquetoon dead in the place, on the 21st of
Aug. in sixteen hundred sixty and four. Which '664.
done, two more Irish men rode into the press, and
trampling on the btxly of L'isle with their horse's
feet, fled through the guards and escaped with little
hurt. Afterwards he was buried with solemnity in
the said church there, as I have been credibly in-
formed, leaving then behind him a widow named
Alice, who for entertaining one Joh. Hicks* a non-
conformist minister and a follower of James duke of
Monmouth in the time of his rebellion, was for
high treason therefore beheaded at Winchester on
the 2d of Sept. 1685. In like manner did fall one [3391
Isaac Dorislaus or Dorislaw a Dutchman born, ori- -'

ginaUy a schoolmaster, and afterwards doctor of the
civil law at Leyden.' Whence coming into England

9 [See col. ()07, as well as under the year 1675, article
Whitlock.]

' [Die Mercur. 6 June 166O; Resolved that John Lisle
be one of the seaven persons to be excepted out of the act of
general pardon and oblivion for life and estate. Journals of
the House of Commons. Kenn et.]

' [This John was brother to the learned Dr. George
Hickes, as may be seen by the pedigree hi Thoresby's Duca-
tus Leod. Hunter. And see Calamv, iii. 336.1

' [Lord Clarendon, Hist. 0/ the Rehelliun, iii. 228, says.

m7

L'ISLE.

LAMB. BYFIELD.

upon no gtxxl account, was cntcrtainetl by Fiilk
lord Brook, and hv liiin ai»ix)intcd to read a liistory
lecture in Cuml)rid»e, wliicli lie was alM)ut to found
some years before his death : Hut in liis very first
lectures decrying monarchy, was, ujmjh the complaint
of Dr. Jo. Cosin, master of Peter-house, to tiie
viceclianc. (which afterwards came to his majesty's
knowledge) silenced, and alxjut that time marrying
an English woman near to Maldon in Essex, lived
there for some time. Afterwards he became judge
advocate in the king's army in one of his expeditions
against the Scots, advocate in the army against the
king under Robert earl of Essex, afterwards under
sir Tho. Fairfax, and at length one of the judges of
the court of admiralty, and an assistant in drawing
up and managing the charge against king Charles I.
in order to his execution. I say that this Doris-
laus did fall as L'isle afterwards did, for he being
thought to be the only fit man to be sent by the
parliament, as an envoy to his country-men, to pro-
secute their designs, he arrived at the Hague in good
equipage, in the beginning of May 1649, his ma-
jesty king Charles II. being then there in his exile.
Which bold and impudent act being much regretted
by certain generous royalists attending his said ma-
jesty, about 12* of them in disguise repaired to his
lod^ng, and finding him at supper, stab'd him in
several places and cut his throat ; whereupon one
of them said ' Thus dies one of the king's judges.'
This generous action was performed on the 12tn of
May or thereabouts, but reported by the generality
to be performed by one col. Walt. Whitford * son of
Dr. Walt. Whitford of Monckland in Scotland by
cleaving his head asunder with a broad sword. Af-
terwards they quietly departed, and 'twas not known
(but privately) for some time after, who did the
fjict. Within few days following, this desperate at-
tempt coming to the knowledge of the parliament,^
they became so much enraged that they resolved to
sacrifice the life of a certain royalist of note, " (sir
Lewes Dyves)" then in their custody : and certainly
they had done it, had he not made a timely escajic.
Afterwards they caused the body of Dorislaus to lie
conveyed into England, and to be buried with so-
lemnity in the abbey church at Westminster on the
14th of June following, where continuing till Sept.
1661, was then taken up, with the Ixxlies of other

lie was born at Dclpht, brefl al Leyden, and afterwards lived
long in London, haviii<£ been received into Gresham collcee
as a professor in one of those chairs which are endow'd for
public lectures in that society. This latter account is how-
ever denied by Dr. Ward, who declares thai he never be-
longed to that society.]

* rClarendon says sit.']

^ [See Clarendon's Hist, of the Rebellion, book xii. ed.
folio, iii. 275.]

' [// Declaration of the Parliami nl of lingland, of their
jvit Resentment of the horrid Murlher perptlrated on the
Bodii nf Isaac Dorislaus, Doctor of the Laws, their Resident
at the Hague, on the \2th of May, l()4i). London l649, '
sheet in folio. See it in Wood's study Numb. 305, 10.]

Croinwellians, and Imried in a hole in S. Margaret's
chiircli-yard luljoyniiig. He hath published, as 'tis
said, several things, but all that 1 have seen of his,
is J)c Prwlio Nuportano.'' Lond. 1640. in 4 sheets
and half in qu.

JAMES LAMB .son of Rich. Lamb was bom
in Allsaints parish within the city of t).\on, 2 Febr.
1598, bred in the free-school joyning to Magd. coll.
was a commoner for a time of Brasen. coll. and as a
member thereof took the degree of bach, of arts in
1615, and then or soon after translated himself to S.
Mary's hall. Afterwards he became chaplain to
Thomas earl of Southampton, and after the king's
restoration in 1660 he was not onlv actually created
D. of D. as a member sometimes of the said hall, but
for his sufferings as a loyahst was made canon of
Westminster and rector of S. Andrew's church in
Hollxiiun ' near London. He had a most exact stile
in penning and in discoursing, was a sententious
and acute preacher, and above all had an excellent
facidty in opening and explaining the Oriental lan-
guages. He hath written,

Grammat'tca Arabica. In 3 vol. in qu.

Danielis Proplutiw Liber, Syriace. In onu
vol. qu.

Collectiones ad Lexicon Arabicum spectantia.
Forma oblonga. In 4 vol. oct.

Flexio Verborum Arabicorum. In one octavo.
All which are written with his own hand, and are
at this day kept as rarities in the Bodleian library. . .
He died in sixteen hundred sixty and four, and was
buried in the abbey church of S. Peter within die
city of Westminster, near to the stairs going up to
the pulpit, and not far from the grave of Dr. Samuel
Bolton, on the twentieth day of Octob.

RICHARD BYFIELD half brother to Nich. [3^
Byficld meiition'd under the year 1622, was liornin
AVorcestershire, and at 16 years of ;ige in 1615 be-
came either a servitor or batlcr of Queen's coll. in
Mich. term. Afterwards taking tlie degrees in
arts, he left the university, and tliroiigh some petite
emjiloyments (of wliich tlie curacy or lectureship of
Istleworth was one) became rector of Long Ditton in
Surrey, a leathiig man for carrying on the blessed
cause, a reformer of his church of superstition (as he
called it) by plucking up the steps leading to the
altar and levelling it lower than the rest of the chan-
cel, by denying his parishioners (particularly his

'i [Prcbliuin Nuportanum Return Fide Iradelat Is. Durisliius
I. C. Al page I/O of The Commentaries nf Sir Francis
Vere; publ. by William Dil'inghaui, D. D. Cambridge
1037, folio. Bodl. H. 7- I'J. Art.]

" [1002, 4 Jan. Jacobus Lamb S. T. P. admiss. ad eccl.
S. Andrea: Hclborn, per promot. doctorisHacket, ad ep'atum
Cov. el Lichf ad pres. reels. Reg. Londou.

lf)64, 5 Nov. Joh. Taylor S. T. B. admiss. ad eccl.S. And.
Holborn, per mortem Jacobi Larnb S. T. B. ad pres. Tho.
com. Suthampt. Hid. Kevnet ]

BYFIELD.

STEPHENS.

670

patron that gave him L. Ditton ») the sacrament,
unless they would take it any way, except kneeling,
&c. He was one of the assemb. of divines, a great
covenanter, an eager preacher against bis!u)])s, cere-
monies, &:c. and being a frequent and constant
holder-forth was followed by those of the vicinity,
especially such who were of his jiersuasion. In
163i he was appointed an assistant to the com-
missioners of Surrey for the ejecting of all such
whom thev then called ignorant and scandalous mi-
nisters and schoolmasters, and was not wanting in
any thing, whereby he might express his zeal for
the aforesaid cause. His works are these,

The Light of Faith and Way of HoUness, shew-
ing how and what to believe in all Estates and
Conditions. Lond. 1630. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. C.
244. Th.]

Doctrine of the Sabbath vindicated: or, a Con-
futation of a Treatise of the Sabbath, xeritten by
Mr. Edw. lirerewood against Mr. Nich. Byjield.
Lond. 1C32.' qu.

The Power of the Christ of God : or, a T7-eatise
of the Power, as it is originally in God the Father,
and by him given to Christ his Son, &c. Lond.
1641. qu.

Several sermons as (1) Zinris Answer to the Na-
tion's AmbassadDrs, ^c. Fast Sermon before the
H. of Commons 25 June 1645 ,- on I.ta. 14. 32.
Lond. 1645. qu. (2) Sermon on 1 Cor. 3. 17.
Lond. 1653. qu. &c.

' [Calauiy's account of a disagreement between Mr. By-
field and his pairou is as follows :

There once hapned to be a great difference between Mr.
Richard Byfield and his patron sir John Evelyn, about re-
pairing the church. Mr. Byfield went to Oliver Cromwell
(who was at that time protector) and complain'd of his pa-
tron. Heconlriv'd how to get them both with him togeihcr,
and at length having compass'd it, found their account agreed
exactly, except in one thins- For sir John charg'd Mr. By-
field with reflecting upon him in his sermons. Whereupon
Oliver told Mr. Byfield, it was very ill done, for that sir John
was a man of honour in his country, and if he had done any
thing amiss, he ought to have told him of it privately, and
with respect. Mr. Byfield took God to witness, that he had
never design'd any reflection upon him in his sermons, and
he did it with that solemnity and seriousness that Oliver be-
liev'd him. And thereupon turning to sir John Evelyn,
Sir, sai<l he, I doubt there is something indeed amiss : the
word of God is penetrating, and finds you om : search your
. ways. This he spake so pathelirally and with such plenty of
tears, that both sir John and Mr. ByHeld, and the re-t that
were present, fell to weeping also. He made them good
friends before parting ; he saw them shake hands and em-
brace each other before he dismiss'd them. To bind the
fricndshi|) the faster, Oliver ask'd sir John what it would
cost to repair the church ? He told him the workmen
reckon'd it would cost 200/. He call'd for his secretary
Malin and gave him orders to pay sir John Evelyn 100/. to-
wards the repair of the church : and now, sir, said he, 1 hope
you'll pay or raise the other hundred, which he thankfully
undertook to do ; and they lived very amicably afterwards.
Account ofejecled Ministers, n, 665.]

' [Wood may |<:rhaps have seen a second edition of The
Doctrine, &c. but the Bodleian copy (4to. H. 33. Th.) is
pr. at London l63l : and I can scarcely suppose there were
two editions called foratsu short an interval.]

The GospeFs Glory without Prejudice to the
Laic, shining firth in the Glory of God the Father,
Son, and Holy Ghost, for the Salvation of Sin-
ners, who through Grace do believe according to
the Draught of the Apostle Paul in Rom. 3. 34.
Lond. 1659.

Beginning of the Doctrine of Christ. Lond.
1660 in tw. Whether any otiier matters were by
him pid)]ished, I know not, nor any thing else of
him, only that after he had been ejected from Long
Ditton for nonconformity, he retired to Mortclack in
Surrey where dying in December, in sixteen hun- jgfj^^
dred sixty and iour, was buried in the church there,
leaving this character behind him among tlie godly,
and such that frequented his conventicles, that he
was a pious, gotxl, and harmless man. He had
another brother called Adoniram Byfield, who came
first to be known for the love he bore to the righteous
cause, by being chaplain to colonel CholmondeIey''s
regiment, in tne army of Robert earl of Essex the
generali.5simo for the parliament, in 1642, and soon
after for his being one of the scribes to the assemb.
of divines, and a most zealous covenanter. He was
afterwards minister of Collingborn Ducts * iit Wilts,
was an assistant to the commissioners of
that coimty for the ejection of such * "linUifr of
whom they then (1654) called scandal- ""^f ''^Co/-
ous. Ignorant, and msufncient mmisters ^,//^ Y\rst
and schoolmasters. He died about the edii.
time of his majesty's restoration, as it
seems, for on the 12th of Feb. 1660 Katharine his
relict had letters of administration granted to her,
to administer the goods, debts, &c. of him the said
Ad. Byfield of the parish of S. Martin's in the
Fields m Middlesex lately deceased.

[The real Way to good Works, 12mo.

A Treatise of Charity, 12mo. both recorded by
Calamy.] "

JEREMY STEPHENS son of Walt. Stephens
sometime rector of Bishop's Castle in Shropshire,
was born there 1592, entred a student in Brasenn.
coll. 29 March 1609, where by continual lucubra-
tion he diligently ran through all the forms of logic
and philosophy, and took the degrees in arts, that
of master being compleated in l6l5. In Deccmb.
the siime year he was made deacon, and about that
time chaplain of Alls. coll. In 1616, May 26, he
received the orders of priesthood, and in 1621 was 13411
made rector of Quinton m Northamptonshire. Five
years after that, he had conferr'd ujx)n him the rec-
tory of Wotton within a mile of Quinton, which,
witli Quinton, were bestowed on him by king Charles
I.' In 1623 he was admitted to the reading of the
sentences, and in 1641 was made prebendary of

- \Eject. Minis!. 665 in margin.]

3 [2.i Januar. 1621, Jeremias Stephens A. M. ad reel, de '
Quinton, ad pres. regis. Reg. Dove Ep. Pelrib.

13 Jul. l62fi, Jeremias Stephens A.M. ad reel, de Wotlon
ad pres. Car. regis. Beg. Dove. Kennet.]

671

STEPHENS.

EATON.

Biggleswade in the church of Lincoln, by the fa-
vour of Dr. Laud archb. of Canterbury, as a reward
of his lalM)urs, with sir Hen. Sjjelman, in tlie edition
of the first tome or volume of the Councils. In
1644 he was sccjuestred from all his ecclesiastical
preferments by a committee silting at Northampton,

Elunder'd, imprison'd, Ijarbarously used and si-
aiced. After the king's return in 1660, he was
restored to them, and for a requital of his suff'ering.s
liad the prebcndship of Ilfracomb in the church of
Salisbury conferred upon him, upon the resignation
of Edw. Davenant. He hath written and published
these things following,

Nota in I). Ctjprian. de Unitaie Ecclesits'.
Lond. 1632. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. O. 72. Th.]

Notw in D. Cypr. de Bono Patientice. Oxon.
1633. oct. [BoiJl! 8vo. C. 60. Th. Seld.] Both
which were collated with antient MSS. by the care
of certain Oxonian thcolojjists.

Apology fw the antient Rigid and Power oftlm
BisfMps to sit and Vote in Parliaments. Lond.
1660, [Bo<ll. A. 1. 20. Line] the question then of
restitution l)eing under debate. In the year 1663
he began to print the History of Sacrilege, designed
and began by sir Hen. Spelman, and left to Ste-
phens to perfect and publish ; but that work stick-
ing long in the press, both the copy and sheets
printed off perished in the grand conflagration of
London 1666. Besides these he finished and fitted
for the press divers other pieces, whereof the argu-
ment of some were superseded by the king's happy
restoration, such as,

A Comparison between tite Belgic, Gallic, Bohe-
mian and Scotch, with the Engliih, Coi'enunt.

Account of the Priticiples and Practices of the
Presbyterians.

The Sequestration of the Clergy by Joh. Pym
and Joh. White.

Other things which he finished but prevented
their publication by death, are these,

Treatise of the Laws of England.

Tite Design of the Cormorants upon the Church
Lamls, defeated in the Time of K. Hen. 5. effected

in the Days of K. Hen. 8. and other things.

He also publishetl B. Gregorii magni, Episcopi
Romani, de Curd ptistoruli Liber vere Aureus, ac-
curate, emcndatus ^- restitutus e Vet. MSS. cum
Romand Editione collutis. Lond. 1629. oct. This
was the book that the most renown'd king Alfred
translatetl into the Saxon language, and recom-
mended to all the diocesses of his kingdom in that
great dearth of learning, when scarce a priest on the
north of Huniber was found able to translate the
Lord's Prayer, or to understand the Latin service.
This I say he published, being collated with antient
MSS. by the care of several Oxford doctors and
bach, of divinity. In the year also 1633 he was
joyned with sir Hen. Spelman to assist in compiling
and publi.shing the first tome of the English Coun-
ci!s, a work that cost them seven years labour. And

tho' the book bare the name of Spelman, yet is the
assistance of our author Stephens acknowledged by
Spelman in the preface to the reader in these words.

' Quo autem auspicio in lucem prodibunt (me

jam sene propemodum exhausto) secundus & tertius
(viz. tomus) baud ausim polliceri. Nisi illos vir
dilectus & bono natus pubhco Jeremias Stephanas
typis curaverit mandandos, cujus operu primus hie
tomus (me adhuc tantum non invito) in lucem pro-
diit.' After this, viz. in 1641, Spelman died and
was buried in the abbey church of S. Peter at
Westminster, near to the door of S. Nicholas's
chappel, 24 Oct. and then some years after, our
author Stephens published SpelmarCs larger Works
of Tithes, to which he put a large preface to the
reader; also his Apology for the Treatise, De non
tem.erundis Eccle.iiis — with four Uttle treatises an-
nexed thereunto, on the same subject by different
hands. At length Mr. Stephens surrendring up
his pious soul to God, at Wotton before-mention'd,
on the ninth day of January in sixteen hundred
sixty and four, was buried in the chancel of the
church there. Over his grave was a comely monu-
ment intended to be put, in the year 1672, but
whether yet performed I know not. The inscrip-
tion which was designed to be engraven thereon,
you may see a copy of in Hist. <Sf Antiq. Univ.
Oxon. lib. 2. p. 224. a.

SAMUEL EATON, son of Rich. Eaton vicar of
Great Budworth in Cheshire, was born in a little
village called Crowley in that parish, and educated
in this university, as his relations have informed me;
but in what house, they cannot tell. In the public
register called the Matricula it appears tliat one
Sam. Eaton a Cheshirewinan bom, and the son of a
minister, was matriculated or made a member of
this university in Apr. 1602 (44 Elizab.) Jie being
then a student of Broadgatc's hall, and in tlie 17tii
year of his age. But whether this person who
took the degrees in arts, be the same Sam. Eaton,
whom we are further to mention, I cannot tell,
unless I could be certified that he was 80 years of
age or more when he died,^ which was in 1664 as I
shall tell you anon. After he hail leil the univer-
sity, (I mean him, whom I am now to speak of) he
entred into the sacred function, took orders accord-

* [If Dr. Calamy be right when he says, that Mr. Samuel
Eaton was aged C8 at the time of his death, U)6J, {Account
(if Ejected Ministers, ii, 412) it is obvious that tliis Siiniutl
Eaton could not be he who was eniered in l0'O2. 1 raiher
take the SaimicI Eaton so enlereil as a Chcshiie ma-i, and
son of a minister l602, to be a person of that name, >vho was
son of Robert Ealon rector of Moberley and Grapenhall (or
Grasseiihall) co. Ceslr. and himself rector of the latter place.
This Samuel Eaion died about 10.34, leaving a son Byram
Eaton, who was principal of Gloucester hai), and whose
dnuahier was a benefactress to Worcester college. This fa-
mily produced many clergymen in the seventeenth century,
as appears by the pedigree en'ered at Dngdale's visitation of
Yorkshire lt)f)6, by Ralph Eaion, (nephew to Samuel) at
that time rector of Darficld. Hu.nter.]

EATON.

CANON.

674

Ing to tlie chuivh of" ]'<nglancl, ami was beneficed in
his own counlry ; but having been ))nritanically
ndueated, he ditf dissent in some particulars relating
to the ceremonies thereof": Whereupon, tlntling his
place too warm tor him, he revolted and went into
New England ; where he studied in the university,
and preached among the brethren there. Af"ter-
wards, when a gaj) was made in the church of" Eng-
land for the reception of" all opinions, u|X)n the
violent pnx-eedings of" the puritans, lie returned to
liis native country, sided with them and tixjk the
covenant, kept pace afterwards with the independ-
ents, took tlie engagement, was an assistant to the
commissioners of Cheshire for the tMcction of such
whom the godly party called scandalous, ignorant,
and insufficient mmisters and schoolmasters, and be-
came a most pestilent leading jierson in the trade of
faction in the said county and in Lancashire. In
the time of the reliellion he was teacher of the
church at Duckenfield in the parish of Stockport in
Cheshire, and afterwards of Stockport, where he
feathered his nest and was held in wonderfid esteem
by the faction. At length, after his majesty''s re-
.storation, being silenced and forced thence, yet he
carried on the trade of conventicling in private, and
was thereupon brought several times into trouble
and imprisoned. Among .several things he hath
written, take those following.

The Mystery of God incarnate: or, the Word
made Flesh, cleared up, &c Lond. 1650. oct.
written against John Knowles a Socinian, who had
answered our author Eaton's Paper concerning the
Godhead of Christ.

Vindication, or farther Confirmation, of some
other Scriptures produced to prove the Divinity of
Jesus Christ, distorted and miserably wrested and
abused by Mr. John Knowles, &c. Lond. 1651.
oct.

The Doctrine of ChrisCs Satisfaction, and of

Reconciliation of God's Part to the Creature

Printed with the Vindication.

Discourse concerning the Springing and Spread-
ing of Error, and of the Means of Cure, and of
Preservative against it. Pr. also with the Vin-
dication.

Treatise of the Oath of Allegiance and Covenant,
shewing that they obVige not. Lond. in qu. An-

, swered* by " the author of the Ex-

ly aiion. itt his " ^rcitution (yfthe lJswper''s Poxeer, in
Vindication of " a pamphlet entit. A Vindication of
iheOniho/Al- " the Oath (if Allegiance, in A7iswer to
tepaiice print. « a Paper dispers'dby Mr. Sam. Eaton
first '.ciu' ''''' " pretending to prove the Oath of Alle-
" giance void and non obliging, &c.
" printed 1650. qu. in 6 sh."

The Quakers confuted, &c. — Animadverted upon
by that sometimes noted and leading quaker called
George Fox in liis book entit. The great Mystery
of (he great Whore unfolded: And Antichrisfs
Kingdom revealed unto Destruction, &c. Lond.

Vol. in.

1659. fol. page 1, 2, &c. See more of the works of
this Sam. Eaton in John Murcot, under the year
1654, and in Tim. Taylor under the year 1681.
At length, after a life sjKiit in confinual action for
carrying on the cause, he surrcndred up his last
breath at Denton in the parish of" Manchester in [34i3]
Lancashire (where he had sheltred himself among
the brethren after his ejet-tion) on the ninth day of
January in sixteen hundred sixty and four, and '""i-
was buried in the chappel there on the thirteenth
day of the same month. Besides this Samuel, I
find one Nathaniel Eaton, who published Inquisitio
in variantes Theologorum quorundam, Sententias
de Sabbato ^- Die Dominico, i^-f. siib Prwsidio D.
Gul. Amesii, SS. J. P. Franek. 1633. oct. but
this Nathaniel seems to have been bred in Cam-
bridge, and the same who was the first master of
the coU. at Cambridge in New England ; > whence
being ejected for his immoralities, lie went to Vir-
ginia for a time, and thence to England. After the
restoration of his majesty king Charles II. he con-
formed, was beneficed at Biddiford in Devonshire,
and died in the prison called the KingVbench on
the account of debt. " One Nathaniel Eaton who
" writes himself Dr. of philos. and medicine, and
" vicar of BishopVCastle in Shropshire, publish'd
" a book entit. De Fastis Anglicis, &c. in 1662."

NATHANIEL CANON a gentleman's son,
was born at Reading in Berks, cntred a commoner
of S. Mary's hall in 1597, aged 16 years, (his
father then living in London) took one degree in
arts, entred into the sacred function, became minis-
ter of Wokingham or Okinghani, and afterwards
vicar of Hurley, in his own country, being then, or
about that time, bach, of divinity. He hath pub-
lished.

Several sermons, as (1) The C.ryer ; Sermon at
Pati,r.s Cross 5th of Febr. 1609 ,- on Isaiah 58. 1.
Lond. 1613. qu. (2) Three Sermons, the first
Discovering a double and fake Heart, on 1 Kings
21.9. The second called The Blessedness of the
Righteous ; on Psal. 37. ver. 37. and the thirds
The Court of Guard, or Watch of Angels ; on
1 Sam. 17. 17, 37. Lond. 1616! oct. Besides
these he hath at least four more sermons extant, the

first of which is <m Psal. 119. 136. Printed

1616. oct. another on 1 Pet. 4. 4. Pr. 1619.

oct. &c. He conclude<l his last day at Hurley be-
fore-mentioii'd, after he had ran with, and sub-
mitted to, all mutations, in the month of February
in sixteen hundred sixty and fijUr ; whcreujwn his \Q(U,

l)ody was buried in the chancel belonging to the
church there on the 12th day of" the same month.
He was 46 years vicar of Hurley, was a constant
preacher, and much followed by the neighbour-
hood.

■■[Vide Hist, of New England, by Cotton Mather, lib. 3,
pg. 213 &c. lib. 4, |jjg. 126. Baker]

XX

f}7>

AUSTIN.

BYTHNER.

OSBORNE.

[344]

Clar.
\tHM.

SAMUEL AUSTIN, a Coniish man \xm\, was
entred a commoner of WatUiani coll. under tlie
tuition of Gilb. Stokes chapl. of tliat house in 1652,
aged 16 \ears, took one degree in ai-ts, conipleated
it by determination, and then went to Cambridge for
a time. But such was the vanity of this person,
that he lieing extremely conceited of liis own wortii,
and over-valuing his jxwtical fancy, more than that
of Cleveland, who was then accounted by the brava-
does the ' hectoring prince of poets,' fell into the
hands of the satyricid wits of this university, who
having easily got some of liis prose and jxHitry,
served him as the wits did Tho. Coryat in his time,
and published them under these titles,

Naps upon Parnassus. A sleepy Muse nipt and
pinrht, tliough not awakened, Sfc. Lond. 1658.
Oct.

Characters Printed with the former. Both

which were usher\l into the world by more than
twenty copies of verses (advantaging the sale of the
book) by such that liad the name of, or at least pre-
tended to be, poets. Among them were Tho. Flat-
man, Tho. Sprat, and Sam. Wcxxlford, since noted
and iamed for their poetical works. Silvanus Tay-
lour and George Castle of Alls. coll. the former
better at music, the other at lying and buffooning,
than poetry. And among others, not now to be
named, must not be forgotten Alexander Amidei a
Jew and Florentine born, then a teacher of Hebrew
and other tongues in the university, afterwai'ds a
convertetl Christian and reader of a Hebrew lec-
ture in Sion coll. Lond. Our author Austin hath
also written and piibhshed,

A Panegyric on K. Ch. II. Lond. 1661. oct.
wherein, just after the preface, he promised to jjub-
lish more jwems, conditionally the said Panegyric
took ; the subjects of which are there set down.
But what prevented him, unless death, which hap-
ned about the plague year in 1665, I cannot tell.

« VICTORIN BYTHNER a Polonian born, and
" one who was blessed witha most admirable geny for
" the obtaining of the tongues, came to Oxon in the
" ripeness of his years, was matriculated, wore a gown,
" and read a Hebrew lecture several yeai's in the
" great refectory at Ch. Ch. before the grand and
" unparallePd rebellion broke out, an. 1642, became
" a useful person, and instructed many scholars in
" this uaiversity ; for whose sake he wrote some of
" these, books following, viz.

" Letliargy of the Soul, &c. printed 1636 in

" oct.

" Tabula directoria : in qua totum TO TEXNI-
" KON Lingua; sanctae, ad amussim delineaiur,
" Oxon. 1€^7. printed on one side of two sh. of
" paper pasted together, and dedicated to sir Hen.
" Wotton provost of Eaton coll.

" Lingua Eruditorum : Hoc est nova <Sf metho-
" dica Institutio Linguae sanctce, &c. Oxon. 1638.
" oct. This is called his Hebrew Grammar, and

was afterwards reprinted,* [viz. at Cambridge in
1645 ; Bodl. 8vo. C. 64. Line]
" Manipulus Messis magnte : sive Grammat.
cxemplaris, &c. Lond. 1639. oct.
" Clavis Lingucc sancta: universas Voces Penta-
teuchi Sententiis BibUcis comprehetidens, carum-
que Analysis critice exhibens. Camb. 1648. oct.
[Bodl. 8vo. B. 238. Line]

" Lyra prophetica Davidis Regis. Sive Ana-
lysis Critico-practica Psabnorum. In qua, &c.
Lond. 1650, [Bodl. AA. 34. Th. Seld.] Stc. qu.
" Brevis ^ per.spicua Institutio Chalduica, ad
intelligeiulum Libros Codicis sacri, Chaldwo Idio-
mate conscriptos, pra'cipue comparata. This is

Erinted with Lyra prophetica, and dedicated to
is mother the university of Oxon, which, when
garrison'd for the use of his majesty, he, the au-
thor Bythner, retired to Cambridge, afterwards
lived in London, and I think afterwards, for a
time, in Oxon. It was afterwards reprinted with
Lingua Eruditorum, &c. Lond. 1664. oct.
About which time retiring into Cornwall, he
practised physic there for some time, and con-
cluded his last day.'"

JOHN OSBORNE, a forward zealot for carry-
ing on tlie righteous cause, was the son of John
Osborne of Crediton in Devonshire ; whence, after
he had been trained up in trivial learning, he was
sent to New Inn, in the year 1634, aged 16 years,
took the degrees in arts, and became a frequent
preacher up of the presbytcrian design. At length
having sufficiently proved himself to be one of them,
was made one of the vicars of Bampton in Oxford-
shire, in the place of a loyalist ejected : where con-
tinuing till the act of conformity put him out,
preached in conventicles in the neighbourhood, and
thereupon was imprisoird for several weeks in Ox-
ford castle. Afterwards being let loose, he retired
to the gi-eat city, taught school and lived in S. Bar-
tholomew's parish near Little Britain, to the time,
as I take it, of his death. He hath published.

The Mystery of tlie Rcsurrectiooi , on Acts 24.
15. Lond. 1651. qu.

Conference between him and Rich. Coppin of
Westwell near Burfiwd, at Bw{fbrd in Oxfordshire,
concerning the Resurrection of the Body — Printed
with The Mystery, &c. He also took a great deal
of pains in making A Catalogue of our English
Writers on the Old and Neio Testament, and had
printed about 8 sheets of it, but Will. Crowe ' of
Suffolk, school-master of Croydon in Surrey (the
same I mean, who hung himself about the latter
end of 1674) coming out before hiin on the same

" [It was appended to the various editions of his Lyra
Prophetica: editions of which were printed in l6tj4, 1679,
&c.]

' [Will. Crowe, coll. Caii, conv. 2. admissus in maln'cu-
l.im acad. Cant. Dec. 14, l(J32. Baker. See Wolfii
Bibl. Heir. 2, 276. LovDDAy.

Clar.

Clar.
1664.

KENDALL.

HALL.

678

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Clar.
1664.

subject in 1659, prevented him from going any
fartner. This Catalogue, which hath been several
times since printed, is called by some Osborne's,
but by the generality Croxoe's, Cutaloffue. One
John Osborne hath translated into English for the
use of schools, Comenius his Vestibuli Ling-uai-um
Atu;tiuirium, &c. Printed several times, and in 1670
it was printed at London, in oct. Whether this
Jo. Osborne be the same with the former, I cannot
yet tell.

[This (that is, the first named) John Osborne
wrote also, An Indictment Offcmi.it Tythes, or
Tytlies no Wages for a Gospel Minister. Lond.
1659. 4to. Peck.]

GEORGE KENDALL, son of Rich. Kendall
of Rowell in Northamptonshire, was born in that
county, became batler of New-inn, in the year 1630,
and that of liis age 16 or thereabouts, took one de-
gree in arts, and afterwards was actually created
master of that faculty when king Charles I. was en-
tertained at Oxon, an. 1636. He hath written a
book entit.

An Appendix to the unlearned Alchymist, where-
in is contained the true Receipt of that excellent
Diopfioretic and Diuretic Pill, purffing by Sweat
and Urine, commonly known by Mattheiv's Pill,
&c. Lond. 1664. At which time he practisetl phy-
sic, but whether graduated here in that faculty, or
licensed to practise it, it appears not. What other
things he hath written, I cannot tell, nor any thing
else of the author.

THOMAS HALL, son of Rich. Hall clothier,
by Elizabeth Bonner his wife, was lx>rn in S. An-
drew's palish mtliin the city of Worcester, about
the 22 July 1610, bred up to grammar learning in
the king's school there, under the famous Hen.
Bright, who perceiving him to be a youth of preg-
nant parts, he was by his persuasion sent to Baliol
coll. in 1624 : But being his chance to be put under
the tuition of a careless tutor, he was removed to
Pembroke coll. then newly founded, and became
pupil to Mr. Tho. Lushington, reputed by the ge-
nerality of scholars eminent for his philosophical
learning. After he had taken the degree of bach,
of arts, and had compleated it by public determina-
tion, he returned to his country, and for a while
taught a private school, and preached in the chap-
pels belonging to Kings-Norton in Worcestershire.
Afterwards being a frequenter of the lectures at
Birmingham in Warwickshire, maintained and held
up by old puritans, they so much operated on his
spirit, that he relinquished his former principles, ad-
hered to that party, and in many respects became
an enemy to the church of England, and in fine so
ri^d in his persuasion that he was disliked by the
brethren. Much about the same time he served
the cure of Kings-Norton under his brother Mr.
John HsJJ, who at length resigned it all unto him.

and for his farther encouragement got the free-
school adjoining to be added to it. Both which
employments took up most of his time, and were all
the preferments he ever had in the church. For
being a single person, a lover of Ixwks and learning,
and of a retired and obscure life, never looked far-
ther than his beloved Kings Norton. At the turn
of the times in 1641, he shew'd himself openly a
presbyterian, and complied together with that party,
not for preferment sake, but because they were
against bishops and ceremonies. At length in 1652
having the testimony of godly and able men, had
the degree of bach, of divinity confer'd upon him
by the then members of the university, but with
this condition that he should preach a Latin sermon
as part of his exercise, and an English sermon in-
stead of his other exercise : Both which were, as I
conceive, accordingly done, tho' his admission ap-
pears not. He was accounted a person by those of
his own * persuasion of great integrity and single-
heartedness in his ministry, of a free and liberal
heart, just, and one that lived much by faith, of an
holy and unblameable hfe, of humble deportment
and carriage, a great lover of peace, a plain and
profitable preacher, that he was much in commu-
nion with God in pubhc, abundant in thanksgiving
to God, careful how to spend his time, &c. His
works are these,

The Pulpit guarded with seventeen Arguments,
proving the Unlavfulness, Sinfulness and Danger
of suffering private Persons to take upon them
j)itblic Preaching and Expounding the Scriptures
zcithout a Call, &c. Lond. 1651. qu.' Answer'd
by one Tho. Collier, of whom more anon.

Six Arguments to prove our Ministers free from

Antichristianism, &c. Printed there the same

year in qu.

Tfie Font guarded with twenty Arguments, con-
taining a Compendium of that great Controversy
of Infant-Baptism, " occasion'' d partly by a Dispute
" at Beoly or Bcwdley in Worcestershire, 13 Au-
" guM 1651, against Joseph Pagett dyer, Walter
" and John Rose of Bromesgrave, butchers, John
" Evans a scribe, and Fran. Loxley, shoemaker,
" &c." Lond. 1651, 52, qu. [Bodl. A. 1. 18. Line]

The Collier in his Colours, ^c. wherein you have
the flthy, false, heretical and blasphemous Tenets
of one Collier an Arrian, Arminian, Socinian, &c.
Lond. 1652. qu. [Bodl. A. 1. 18. Line] The said
Tho. Collier was a husbandman, sometime teacher
to the church at York, and in 1652 a teacher at
Westbury in Somersetshire.

' See in a book entit. A Pearl in an Oyster-shell : or pre-
tious Treasure put in perishing Vessels, &e. Lond. l67.'i. oct.
pen'd by Richard Moore sometime rector of Aldchurch in
Worcestershire, ejected thence for nonconformity, and now
(l682) lives at Wethercock-hill near Kings Norton in the
said county.

' [In St. John's college library. An edit. l652. Bodl.
C. I. 1. Line]

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679

HALL.

Prcccunsor Praxiirsoris : or, a Word to Mr.
Tombcs, currente Calamo. Lond. lG5i2. qii. [Bodl.
A. 1. 18. Line]

The LoatfuiomneiS of long' Hair : or, a Treatise
containing' many Arguments against it, &c. Lond.
1654. oct.

Reasons and Arguments against Painting,
Spots, Naked Breasts, Arms, &c. Lontl. 1654.
oct.

Vindiciae Literariim. The Schools guarded : or,
the Excellency and Usefulness of humane Learning
in Subordination to Divinity and Preparation to
tlie Ministry, &c. Lond. 1654, 55, &c.

Centuria sacra. About an hundred Rules for
the Explaining and clearer Understanding of the
Jwly Scriptures, &c. Lond. 1654. oct.

Rhetorica .lacra : or, a Synopsis of the mast ma-
terial Tropes and Figures contained in the sacred
Scriptures. Lond. 1654. oct.

Hlitrio-mastix. A Whip for Webster (as 'tis
conceived) the quondam Player. Or, an Examina-
tion of one John Webster s delusive Examen of
Academies. Lond. 1654. oct.

Coiifutation qf'the Millenarian Opinions, plainly
demonstrating that Christ will not rcig-n visibly
and personally on Earth with the Saints for 1000
Years, i^c. with a Word to our Fifth-monarchy
Men. Lond. 1657. qu.

Practical and polemical Commentary or Expo-
sition upon the third and fourth Chapters ofS.
Patil to Timothy. Lond. 1658. fol. Much com-
mended by a man of his persuasion named Joli.
Ley (of whom I have spoken under the year 1662)
in one of his books which he shortly after published.
In which 'tis .said that ' for congruity of the truth
with the holy text, pertinency and fulness of jjrofit-
able matter, it is the best that hitlierto hath been
extant in the church of Christ.'

Apologia pro Ministerio Evangelico, in qua
plane ^ plene ostenditur ejus Necessitas, Dignitas,
Efficacia <§• Utilitas, &c. Francof. 1658. m oct.
Printed in English also at Lond. 1660. qu.

Beauty of Holiness : or, a Descriptimi of the
Excellency, Amiablcness, Conifort and Content,
which is to bejmmd in Ways of Purity and Holi-
ness. Lond. 1658. oct.

Funebria Florae. The Downjhl of May-games ;
wJierein is set forth the Rudeness, Prophaneness,
^c. in the said heathenish Customs, Sec. Lond.
1660, there again the second and third time in 1661,
in 7 sh. in qu.

Samaria'' s Down fal ; or, a Commentary by Way
of Supplement on the Jive last Verses of Hosea 13,
&c. Lond. 1660. qu. This is a supplement to Jer.
Burroughs his Commentary, which was defective
as to these five verses.

Beauty of Magistracy, in an Exposition of the,
82d Psal. wfierein is set forth the Necessity, Uti-
lity, Dignity, Duty and Morality of MagiMrates.
Lond. 1660. qu. assisted in this work by George

Swinnocke, M. A. and minister of Great Kimbel in
Bucks.

Exposition on the Mi, 5th, 6th, lith, 8th, and
9th Chapters of Amos Lond. 1661. qu.

Worcestershire Petition for the Ministry of Eng-
land, with a Defence of it. printed in qu. Be-
sides these books our said author Tho. Hall did
translate paraphrastically and gi-ammatically The
second Book ofOvid^s Metamorph. wliich he entit.
Phaeton s Folly : or, the Down ful cf Pride : Also
The first Elegy of Ovid's Book De Tristibus.
Both printed at Lond. 1655. oct. Furthermore he
made an Explanation and Grammatical Tiansla-
tion of the thirteenth Book of Ovid's Metamor-
phosis, wliich he entit. Wisdom's Conquest, &c.
Lond. 1651. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. H. 15. .tVrt. BS.j and
finally left other matters at the time of his death fit
for the press ; among which is his work upon the
71st Fsal.' He died a nonconformist on the thir-
teenth day of April in sixteen hunilrcd sixty and
five, and was burieil in the church-yard of King's-
Norton beforc-mention'd, to the school of which
place (which he procured the jjarishioners to build)
he gave his study of b<x)ks in his life-time. Also
to the library of Birmingham scluxjl, which was
erected before that of Kings-Norton, he was a gcxxl
benefactor, and gave several volumes that he had
bought, and prevailed with many of his bretlirea
to do the like.

[The champion and biographer of the noncon-
formists gives a very high character of this writer.
He was, says Calamy,'^ of an holy and unl)lameable
life, very humble and easie of access : His doors
and ears were open to the poorest, and the meanest
inhabitant of his parish shoidd as soon have his
request granted, if in his jwwcr, as the greatest.
He was a great lover of jKjace, but would in no
case part with purity to purchase it. He was a
plain, but fervent and profitable preacher; and he
taught by his life as well as by his doctrine. He
was a man of very lively and active spirit, never
cast down with discouragements : and tho' he was
often menac'd and imprison'd by soiddiers, and pes-
tered with sectaries of all sorts, and at last ejected
and silenced, yet he was still the same : as ready
for his duty as ever, when opportunity oft'er'd. In
a word, he was profitable in his life, and peaceable
in his death. He was, says the same writer,^ of a
free and liberal heart : and when outward comforts
fail'd, he liv'd by faith. In his last sickness his
stock was reduc'ci to six pence, but he was easie,
and said it was enough, and it prov'd so, with pro-
vidential additions, for before 'twas gone, several

• [Calamy /JE/ec/frf Ministers, ii, 767) mentions .in Ex-
position on Psalm 82, liy liall, as having been published,
bill gives no date.]

5 i^Ai count of ejected or silenced Ministers, 1713, i-ol. ii»
page 7fl6]

3 Ill-id, ib.]

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1(565.

HALL.

uriiGEs.

082

si-aPil paiiurs of inotiev were sent liim by unknown
I'riemls to supply his occasions.

Sal Terru: : or a Guard to the Minii/ters and
their Maintcnauce.

A scriptural Discourse qftlie Apostacy of Anti-
christ. 1655, 4to.

Both tlie above are ascribed to Hall by Calamy,
as is Hometus Encrvatus : or a Treatise a^-ainst
the Milleniaries. See BocU. 8vo. O. 87. Th.]

CORNELIUS BURGES was descended from
the Burj^resses of Batcomb in Somersetshire, but
whether Ijorn there, I cannot justly say. In the
year 1611 he made his first entry into tliis univer-
sity, but in what coll. or hall he took up his quar-
ters is uncertain : Sure I am, that about the first
foundation of Wadham coll. he translated himself
tliereuiito, and as a member thereof took the degree
of bach, of arts. Afterwards retiring to I^inc. col-
lege, he proceeded in the same facult\', took holy
orders, anil Iiad some cure bestowed upon him,
which I take to be the rectory (rf S. Magnus church
in London, or the vicaridge of Watfi)rd in Hart-
fordshire, or both:-" which two he afterwards held
with liis lecture at S. Paid's. In the beginning of
the reign of king Charles I. he became one ol' his
chaplains in ordinary, and in 1627 took both the
degrees in divinity as a compounder ; at which time
undertaking to answer the doctors in the divinity '
act, shew'd him.self so sorry ii disputant and so suf-
ficiently ignorant in the terms of logic, that instead
of saying negatur ma,|or and negatur minor, he
coultl say nothing but negatur id. Whereupon
Prideaux the regius professor said to him openly
with a merry jear, 'tii potes bene jjrjcdicare, sed
non [wtes bene disputare,'' that he might probably
be a g(K)d preacher, tho' he had shewed himself a
silly disputant. At that time anil several years
after, lie shewM himself a zealous man for the church
of England, and. it could never be thought in the
least by those that knew him that he would have
swerved from it. But having not tliat preferment
confer'd upon him which he expected, tho' he was a

* [I6l3, 21 Dec. Cornelius Burges A. M. adiniss. ad vi-
cariam de Watford, per deprivat. Antonii Watson ; ad pres.
Caroli Morison mil. ct baronetti. Ree. London: (com.
Hcrtf.)

l641,eoJiiI. Sam. Bourman S. T. B. admiss. ad eccl.
Sancti Magni, Martyris, Lond. per resign. Cornelii Burses,
S. T. P. ad donalionem episcnpi. Ibid. Kennet.

Dispensatio concessa Corn. Burges A. M. ordinario regis,
ut una cum vicaria eccl. parocli. dc Watford, dioc. Lnnd.
rectoriam S" Magni Martyris infra civital. Lond. recipere
possit, et quoad vixcrit retinere. Dat. 16 Jan. an. 1025.
Rymcri Fadera, torn, xviii, p. OO7.

Feb. C, 161.4 ; Ordered, That Corn. Burges D. D. do de-
liver up to Mr. Phil. Goodwin, minister of Watford in the
CO. of Hertford, all keys &c. belonging to the vicaridne
house of Watford, or shew cause to the contrary. Books ~nf
the Cnnmitteefur plundered Ministers . B A K* R J

* Pet. Heylin in his Letter Combate — Lond. IO59. p. 82.

])luralist, and lixjked " upon by the high comnii8.sion
as one guilty of adultery, and a vexer of two jki-
rishes with continual suits of law, wherein he could
find little or no remedy, he liecame' a scandalous
and schismatical lecturer, using many expressions in
his sermons that moved people to sedition. For
which also lieing questioned, he became incensed
against the bishojis, and afterwards very busy to
jnck holes in the coats of his brethren, and r.ike up
tile very ashes of the dead to discover their cor-
ruptions. In 1635 he preached a Latin sermon to
the London ministers in S. Alj)hage church near
Sion coll. wherein he pressed all to diligence in
preaching, and spoke of the connivance of bishops
at the growth of Arminianism and popery;" for
which being summoned into the higli commission
court and put to charge, made him afterwards im-
placable against them. Upon the approach of the
troublesome times in 164(), he, with Steph. Mar-
shall, Edni. Calamy, Calybute Downing, &c. did
first whisper in their conventicles, then openly
preach that for the cause of religion it was lawfid
for the subjects to take up arms against their lawful
sovereign. Wliich doctnne being also followed by
the rest of the elders, the people of Ijondon did vio-
lently rush into rebellion, and were found pliable
by the faction in jiarliament to raise tumults, make
out-cries for justice, call for inntK-eiit blood, sul)-
scribe and prefer petitions against the lioly liturgy
and the hierarchy, and to strike at root and branch,
especially if our author Burges did but hold up his
finger' to his mirmidons, or capt. (afterwards colo-
nel) John Venn sent his summons by his wife, to
assemble the zealots of the city. In the beginning
of the long parliament he was appointed by tlie
lords one of the sub-committee to settle religion :
who meeting in the Jerusalem chamlier at West-
minster, our author Burges became speaker for his
party the presbyterians. In which office he made a
vehement invective against deans and chapters and
the unprofitableness of such corjiorations, and did
aggravate to debauchedness the lives of singing
men, and they not only useless but hurtful by their
vitious conversation. At the same time also being
looked upon as a doughty champion for the holy
cause and a zealous covenanter, 'twas usual with
him and the said Venn to lead up the tumults of
the city to the parliament doors to aee that the godly
party (for so tneir faction was calfd) in the house
might not be out-voted, and then turning back and
beholding the rabble, would say ' These are my
band-dogs, I can .set them on, and I can take them

* Suirr Sadness : or, historical Observations upon the
Prucicdiiigs, Sic. Oxon. 1643. p. 32.

' Sec Canterb. Doom, p. 173.

' [He gives an account of this in his Case of Bishop's
Lands, p. 28. Cole.]

' Letter from Mer. Ci9^(t Mtr. Rustic, printed 1643,
p.Q.

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RUIIGES.

oft' again,' &.c. by which means above four parts in
five of the lords, and two parts in three of tlie com-
mons were frighted out of the house, to leave tlie
faction absohitc masters thereof These things also
he did wlien tlie most noble carl of Strafford was
tried for his life. So that being the ring-leader of
the rout, and the only scandal to his profession in
all London, was thought fit by the blessed parlia-
ment, (as by the faction it was called) to be one of
those- gi>dly divines tiiat were to hold forth before
them, to l)e one of the sub-committee for the ad-
vancement of moneys to carry on the war against
the king, and to be with John White the centurist,
assessors to the assembly of divines. But before
that time Essex the general finding him a zealous
instrument to carry on the cause, matle him his
chaplain to that regiment of horse, which was next
under him. In Dec. 1643 the Londoners sent Will.
Gibbes and John Fowke aldermen, and others of
the common council to the house of connnons to de-
sire that the cath. church of S. Paul might be set
of)en again, and that there might be a lecture every
Sunday night (as was formerly used) after the ai ter-
noon's sermon, and another on the week-tlay, and
that Dr. Corn. Burges might be the man, (who
having been several times put to his compurgators
in that consistory, was the ablest and fittest for that
Sunday-nights lecture) desiring their honors to allow
the doctor a pension of 400/. per an. out of the re-
venues of the cathedral, for his encouragement in
that service. Which being a poor pittance, (God
wot) they not only confirmed that pension, but gave
him the dean's house thereof for his habitation ;
both .setletl soon after by act of parliament. The
first motion of this did proceed from the militia of
London, among whom the doctor used to ride with
his case of pistols, was called colonel, and shew'd
himself very officious to assist plundering at the
Globe tavern in Holbom. Afterwards growing
very rich, he purchased several lands, as the manor
of Wells belonging to the bishop tliereof, and the
habitation of the dean there, whicli he mostly pluck-
ed down and rebuilt. And being so done he wrote
a book to shew that there was no sacrilege or sin to
alien or purchase the lands of bisiiops and chapters:
which lieing taken into the hands of many curious
readers, had the licentiousness of a second imjires-
sion, an. 1059.' But ujiou the king's restoration
he lost all, having about an year before been off'er'd
twelve thousand and odd pounds for his house and
lands at, and near. Wells; whereujwn retiring to
Watford in Hertfordshire before-mention'd, lived
obscurely there, and died in a mean condition, as I
shall anon tell you. He hath written and published
these matters following,

' [The second impression, as I apprehend, was wrote
npnn a prospect of llie king's coming in, and danger of
U>sing all : for il is wrote in a 'very mortified stile. This is
his case concerning buying bishop's lands. Cole.]

A C/uiin of Graces drawn out at length Jbr Re-
fortnat'um of Manners. Lond. 1622. in tw.

New Discovery of personal Tithes : or, the tenth
Part of Men''s clear Gains jyroved due both in Con-
science, and by the Laws of this Kingdom. Lond.
1625. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. L. 70. Art]

Tlie Fire of the Sanctuary ncivly discovered ;
or, a compleai Tract of Zeal. Lonil 162.5. in oct.
[Bodl. 8vo. C. 170. Til.] Which book, upon its
author s grand defect, was answer'd bv Anon, in a
panipliJet entit. A Whip, he. printed l643. Where-
upm an old puritanical poet named Francis Quarles
(the .sometime darling of our plebeian judgments)
who seemed to have a great resjx?ct for our author,
came out with a reply, entit. The Whipper whip''d,
&c. printed 1644, wherein, in the first page he stiles
Dr. Burges a man of singular parts, &c.

Bapli.imal Regeneration of elect Infants, pro-
Jessed by the Church nf England, according to tlie
Scriptures, the primitive Church, the present re-
formed Churches, and many particular Divines
apart. Oxon. 1629. qu.« [Bodl. 4to. M. 45. Th.]

Vindication (yf the Reasons against Bislum's
Votes in Parliament. Lond. 1641. qu. Whether
he was author of the Reasons I know not

Several sermons, as (1) Sermon at a public Fast
before the House of Commons, 17 A^ov. 1640; on
Jer. 50. 5. Lond. 1641. qu. (2) Sermcm before
tlie House of Commons, 5 Nov. 1641 ; on Psal. 76.
10. Lond. 1641. qu. Wherein are many things of,
and against, the papists and Jesuits. (3) Serm.
before the H. of Com. 30 March 1642, mi Jer. 4.
14. Lond. 1642. qu. (4) Vanity and Misch'iefqf
tlie Thoughts of an Heart wnxcashed. Sermon be-
fore the House of Commons on their Day of Humi-
liation SOth of Apr. 1645, on Jer. 4. 14. (as before)
Lond. 1645. qu. [Bodl. 4to. M. 12. Th. BS.] (5)
Necessity (vf Agreement xoith God, Fa.it-Scrm. be-
fore the H. of Lords 29 Oct. 1645; on Ainos 3. 3.
"Lond. 1645. qu.* " (6) Prudent . ;,„-rf„ „,;;,„
" Silence, preached m Mercer.^. y,,,j^,, j ,,ave not
" Chappcl to the lA)rd-Mayoi- and yet seen, as Ser-
" City, 14 Jan. 1648. .ihcicing the mon on 2 C/iron.
"great Sin and Mischitf oT de- L^- 2- another on

... ■ jjr. a A K Kzia 10. S. 3.;

» stroying Kings, ^c. on Amos 5 „ „,-^j ^^^^^.^
" 13. Lond. 1660. oct. dedicated p„,dent Silence
" by one epistle to king Charles IL preached 12 Jan.
" aiid by another to tne houses of '648: whether the
"lords and commons. He hath same with that a-

, ^ ^ 1 • 1 T eatnst the deslroy-

" other sermons extant, which I 7„^ „y- ;f,„/,^
" have not yet seen, as one on 2 preached about
" Chron. 15. 2. another on Ezra 10, the same time, I

a Qci gr c ■" cannot tell; and

Sion Coll. what it is and doth. A J^^^ sTiV/H-in "
Vindication of that Society against fd \66o in octavo,
two Pamphlets, kc. Lond. 1648. qu. First edit.

■ [Dedicated to Francis Russel, earl of Bedford. Raw-

LINSON.]

BURGES.

68«

-This

IS a

H'ls Case (IS Lecturer in PuuFs.
little pamphlet. By the way the reader is now to
know, tliat it hatli been confidently affirmed that
our aiitiior before lie was engaged in buying bishop's
lands, did concur witli Ur. Joli. Hacket (in nis
Ansiocr to Dr. HuckcCs Speech in 1641.) that the
alienating of any thing setfed by divine rigiit upon
tlie church, is sacrilege. This he confessed he did,
but he was put upon it suddenly by tiie house of
commons in May 1641, and had no time given him
but one hour. However afterwards he was so zeal-
ous in that point, that he, before he iiad purciiased
sucii, was a forward preacher for it ; and after he
had made purchases, he wrote and published a book
entit.

No Sucriled^e nor Sin to aliene or purchase the
Lands of Bishops or others, zehose Offices are abo-
lisKd. Lond. 1659. 2d edit. [BodI.8vo!C.598.Linc.]
" Of this book there was a 3d edition. Lond. 1660.
" qu. revised and abreviated for the service of the
" parUanient. With a Word by Way of ' Postscript
" to Dr. Pearson and his No Neccs-uty.'"

A Case concerning the Laicfuhiess of Buying
Bishop'^s Lands.^ — This last I have not yet seen,
nor another paper reported to be his, wherein the
king's majesty is attempted by the offfer of five hun-
dred thousand p)unds, to make good by an act of
parliament the purchases of bishop's, dean's, and
chapter's lands for 99 years. Printed 1660. See
more in Joh. Gauden among these writers, an.
1662.

Apology for Purcha.^es of Lands kite of Bishops,

Deans and Chapters. Tiiis 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 iiand m it, I know not.

" Concerning these tracts it will not be improper
" to acquaint the reader what Dr. Barlow has noted
" on one of them, ' Corn. Burges was a liei'ce pres-
" byterian, a great stickler for the parliament against
" the king and bishops, an. 1640. (nota loquar &
" mihi certc cognita) afterwards he bought good
" store of church lands, especially lands belonging
" to tlie church of Wells ; where he had, and built
" (or rebuilt) the dean of Well's house at the ex-
" pence of 1.500/. or 2000/. He was bid for his
" purchase not long before the king's return, about
" 20000/. but refus'd it. And the king iniex-
" pectedly (to him) returning in the year 1660, and
" bishops and deans being restored, he lost all his
" purchas'd lands, and became so poor (ingens jus-
" titia divinae documentum) that he had not bread
" to eat, as it appears in his own letter to sir
" Richard Browne."

Reasons slieicing the Necessity of Reformation
qftltepvblic (1) Doctrine (2) Worship, ^c. Lond.

1660. qu. [Bodl. A. 13. 3. Line] Whicii, tho' in
the title it is .said, that divc>rs ministers of sundry
counties in England wrote, yet Mr. Baxter* saith
that our author Burges pen'd, tliem. They were
answei-'d by Dr. Joh. Pearson and Dr. Hen. Savage ;
tlie tbrmcr of which was replied ujxm by our author
Burges in a postscript to a piece of his wliich 1 have
not yet seen : Answer'd or rejoin'd to by the said
Pearson in a little tiling entit. Answer to Dr. Bur-
ges his Word by Way of Postscript, in Vindication
of No Necessity, he.

Antidote against Antisobrius. Printed about

1660.

Some of the Differences and Alterations in ihe
present Comnum-prayer Book, from the Book e-ita-
blished by the Act in the Jifth and sixth of Ed. 6.

and first of Q. Eliz. Printed in one sn. in qu.

1660.

The Book of Common-prayer, iic. 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 tlie king's restoration, our author Burges
being deprived of all the church-lands that he had
purciiased at very easy rates, and of his pension
from S. Paul's cathedral, notwithstanding he tugged
hard to keep some, he retired to his house at Wat-
ford 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
tiiat 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 satisfy 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 London in 1660.) for
relief, and in his letter told iiim that he was brought
to great want and poverty, and that lie was eaten up

with a cancer in his neck and cheek 1 am (saith*

he) leduced to want a piece of bread, as this liearer
my son may better inform you ; but, sir, mistake me
not, I do not beg, I only acquaint you with my con-
dition, 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, 3'et if he would preach a recantation
sermon in S. Paul's 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/. only. Afterwards dying obscurely
and in want, was obscurely buried in the middle of
the body of the church at Watford before-men-

^ [his printed at London in 4to. 1659. It i? in 2 parts. * In Dr. Jo. Hinkley's Fascic. Literarum. Lond. 168O.

The S'"" declares the difference between Dr. Burgess and the oct. nag. 34.

... ^,,- ,. . . . . ■ Seein Is. Basire in hisSacrJMgearroJgnerf. Lond. 1668,

corporation of Wells ; in it are some curious particulars re
laling to him. Cole.]

sec. edit, in tlie preface.

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DIGBY.

iOQi.

[3511

tinned, oiitheniiitli ilay of Juno in sixlti'ii liuiulrwl
sixty ami live. Alxmt three weeks l)eii>re liis death,
he sent certain eonunon-prayer !xM>ks to the ))uhHc
Ubrary at Oxoii, anil in a spare leaf hel<)re the title
of one of them, he wrote tnis note foUowinj^ with
his own hand, dated at Watford 16 May \&i5. ' I
Cornelius Burges being a". 1627, by my decre and
much honoured mother the renowred university of
Oxford, made doctor in divinity, am much grieved
that I am able to do nothing worthy of her, yet I
hinnblv offer that I have, viz. This first book of the
' first of Ed. 6. ns also the second book of common-
prayer in 5 and 6 of Ed. 6. wherein this hath seve-
ral alterations, ujwn the censures of Bucer, extaiit in
his book Scripta Jnglicuna. I also adde a third
book of common-prayer renewed and establislied in
1 Eliz. which Ixwk 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 ' tw. wherein I have noted * all the tlif-
f erences between that iKwk established by this great

Carliament an. 1663, and the former book established
efore. All these I most humbly and thankfully
give to my said honourable mother of Oxford, (I
being ready to dye) beseeching her to account of
these four small mites, as our Lord and blessed Sa-
viour did of the poor widow's two mites, that by cast-
ing in that, cast in all she had. — Cornelius Burges.'
The common-prayer baik wherein this note was
written, was printed in fol. at Lond. 1549, in the
month of June. At the Iwttom of the title of which,'
is this written by Dr. Burges. ' This is one of the
very first hooks of common prayer in the beginning
of Edw. 6. which book, at tfie request of archb.
Cranmer, was reviewed and censured by Martin
Bucer, and then reformed accordingly in the 5th of
Edw. 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.''

[Corn. Burges S.T.D. Oxon. incoi-porat. Cantabr,
an. 1647. licff. Baker.

Burgess made a speech in the house of commons,
against deans and chapters, in answer to Dr. Hacket.
He preached a sermon at Mercer's chajje! on Jan.
14, 1648, in which he with great freedom inveighed
against the design that was then on foot of taking
oW the king; and feared not the consequences.
And about the same time, he appeared at the head
of a number of ministers, and drew up a paiier, (to
which they all subscribed) entituled A Vindication
of the Ministers of the Gospel in and about London
j'rcnn the unjust Aspersions cast vpoti their J'ormer
Actings for the Parliament, as if they had promoted
ttie Bringing of the King to capital Punishment :

6 It should be 2 Ed. 6. Dom. 1541).

' "Tis in oct. H. 138, Th. in Bib. Bod. printed at Lond.
lC63.

* The book is tntcrleav'd, and therein, as in the margin,
iiehath noted many things willi his own hand.

9 [See the boolt Bodl. K. 1. li. Th.]

and this pajK'r they openly published. So far from
being, as Wood says, ' a zealous covenanter,' when
he sat in the assembly of divines he argued against
iinjxjsing the covenant, and refused the takmg of
it, till he was sus|iended : but having once taken it,
he tlwught himself obliged to keep it, and was
grieved he could not prevail with others to be of the
same mind or to act agreeably. Mac kg.]

KENELME DIGBY, the magazine of all arts,
or as one ' stiles liim, ' the ornament of this nation,'
son and heir of sir Everard Digby of Dry-stoke in
Rutlandshire, knight, by Mary his wife, daughter
and sole heir to Will. Mulsho of Gothurst common-
ly called Gadhurst in Buckinghamshire, was born
at Gothurst on the eleventh « day of July 1603, (1
Jac.'l.) yet Ben. Johnson for rhime sake will have'
it June, thus ;

Witness thy action done at Scandoroon
Upon thy birth-day the eleventh of June.

About the year 1618 he was sent to Gloucester hall,
after he had been trained up in the Protestant reli-
gion (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
the quality of a gent. com. for more than two years,
he went beyond the seas for a time, and at his re-
turn received the honour of knighthood from his
majesty then at Hinchingbrook (who before had
restored* to this our author Digby his estate for-
feited by his father) on the 28th of Octob. 1623.
In the year 1628 being then admiral of a fleet going
to the Levant (about which time I find him written,
e secretiori conclavi ad Carol. 1. & in rebus mariti-
mis administrator pra'cipiuis) he acquired great ho-
nour by his gallant comportment at Algier, in res-
cuing many English slaves, and by bcai-ing 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 "tis reported) on the eleventh of June (his
birth-day, as Ben. Joh. will have it) yet a pamphlet
that waspublish'd the same year, giving an account
of all the transactions of that "fight, tells us it was on
the 16th of the same month; which if true, then
the fortune of that day is again niarr'd.* For this

' Edw. Leigh in his Treatise nf Religion and Learning,
&f-. lib. 3. cap. lO.

- As in the book of naiiviiics collected l)y Dr. Hich. Na-
pier of Biickinglianuhire, MS. in the hands of Ehas Ash-
luolc, esq; and in an almanack for 1673, publislied by Joh.
Gadbory.

' In his Underwoods, pag. 243.

* [Not so: it was decided at hiw, that the king had no
title to the estate. See Biographia Britannica, v. 185,
note.]

■■ [Articles of Agreement made letwcene the French King,
and those of Rochetl, upon the Rendition of the Town the
thirtieth of October ta>l, IC28. .Iccording to the French
Copies printed at Rochell and Roan. Also a Relation of a

DIGBY.

690

his valour, and by liis travels into several countries,
and ccjnverse witfi the virtuosi of most civilized na-
tions, he " became

The af'^e's wonder for liis noble parts,

Skill'd in six tongues, and learn d in all the arts.

He was not only m.aster of a gtx)d, gracefid, and
judicious stile, but also wrote an admirable hand,
both last and Roman. His ))erson was handsome
and gigantic, and nothing was wanting to make him
a compleat chevalier. He had so graceful elocution
and noble address, that had hebeendropt out of the
clouds in any part ol'the world he would have made
himself respected ; but the Jesuits, who cared not
for him, spoke spitefully, and said ' 'twas true, but
then he must not have stayed there al)ove 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 so-
ciety at home. Which is the reason why many say,
that as he was most exactly accomplislfd with all
sorts of learning, so was he guilty withal of extra-
[352] vagant vanities. Nay one,' a most noted author,
doth not stick to say that this our eminent virtuoso
was the PUny of our age for lying, having been

Erovoked to say so, not only from the said reports,
ut from another, which put men to a very great
wonder, viz. of a city in Barbaiy under the Iking of
Tripoly 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, utensils,
&c. every thing remaining in the same posture, as
children at their mother's breasts, &c. But this
report the reader is to understand that sir Kenelme
hiid from an Englishman," Mr. Fitton, residing
in Florence, library-keeper to the gi-eat duke there,
by letter dated 2 Jul. 1656, and he from the great
duke, who a httle before had written to the bassa of
Tri{x>ly to know the truth. Which strange accident
been look'd upon as the great wonder of the world,

brave and resolute Sea-Fighl, made by Sir Kenclrn Digbyon
the Bay of Scandaronr, the l6 qf June last past, with certain
Galegasses undGaleasscs, belonging to the Slates of Venice ; to
his ^real Commendation, and to the Honour of our English
Nation. 4to. lC28. Such is ihe title of the pamphlet al-
luded to by Wood, but it is remarked by Oldys, that the Ox-
ford biofirapher read no more than the date in the title-page,
since the account of the battle states it to have taken place
on the eleventh of June ; the sixteenth being the day on
which the account of it was written. It may ne added, in
contradiction to Dr. Napier and Gadbury, that Ferrar, in his
epitaph on sir Kenelm, inakc> the eleventh of June memo-
rable for his birth day, the day of his victory, and that of his
death. Oldys, Catalogue of the Harleian Pamphlets, No.

I'JO.]
" So in sir Kcii. Digby's epitaph, made by H. Ferrar.
'' HcD. Stiibbe in his Animadversions upon the Plus Ultra
of Mr. Glanvill. p. l6l.

" [See a paper on the subject, proving the account to be

no invention of Digby's, in Viook's Philosophical Experiments

and Observations, publ. by Derham, Lond. 1726, 8vo.

page 38^).]

Vol. III.

was put into the common news-book of that time
called Mercrtrhi.t Pol'ifkiis, 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 un abuses ; which indeed belongs to a
true philost)])her. In the beginning of the civil
wars * he shew'd himself active for
the king's cause, " was imprison'd * grand rebellion

,, , ,6 , ' ,. , .' -,,,. commrncd by the

" by the long parliament in Win- Presbyterians. So
" Chester house, had leave to depart Woon, who has
" thence in July 1643 by the suit thus altered it in
" of the French queen,^ and to the margin of his

« travel into France," and after- ''^^■" '^"''CT.^n
, ,-1 J x- tue Ashmolean

wards was forced to compound tor n,useum.
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 'tis said, cringed to Oliver, but in what sense,
whether in order for the good of the Rom. Catholics,
or for the carrying on of some public design, I can-
not now tell. About the same time he being chan-
cellor 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 ve-
nerated by all people, as being a person not only of a
majestic port and carriage, but of extraordinary
parts and learning. At length growing high, and
huffing his hoUness, he was in a manner neglected,
and especially for this reason, that having made a
collection of money for the afflicted Catholics in
England, was found to be no faithful steward in
that matter. As for his works they are these,

Letter ffiving- an Account of tTie Fight with tfie
Venetians at the Bay qfScanderoon.

Conference xcith a Lady about Choice of Religion.
Par. 1638. [Bodl. 8vo. D. 25. Th. Seld.] &c.
Lond. 1654. oct. Answer'd by Will. Twisse, but
never published. " In some of archbishop Laud's

9 [He had leave to depart from both houses Aug. 3, lC43,
by the mediation of nueeii Mary of Medicis. Cole.

Whereas upon the mediation of her ma'> the queene of
France, it hath pleased both houses of parliament to permht
me, to goe into that kingdome : In humble acknowledgment
of their favour therein, and to pre.-erve and coiifirme a good
opinion of my sincere zcalc, and honest intentions to the
honor and service of my country ; 1 do here upon the fayth
of a Christian, and ilie word of a gentleman, protest and pro-
mise that I will neither directly nor indirectly negotiate,
pronmie, consent unio, or couceale any practice or design
prejudicial! to the honor or the safety of the parliament.
And in witnesse of my reality herein, I have hereunto sub-
scribed my name, this third day of August IW.'?. Kenelme
DiGBV. Hearne's JVnlteri Hemingford Chronicon; Append,
page 583 ; where also is the letter from the parliament to
the French queen.]

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' letters at the end of his Hintory of his Troubles
" and Trijal, p. 610. there is liis lordship's letter
" to sir Keiielme Dighy dated at Lambeth Ji7 March
" 1636, wherein it appears that the said knight had
" then newlv changed his rehgion for that of the
" Roman, wliich Ijcing done unknowing to the arcli-
" bishop, he took it amiss, endeavour''d to re-unite
" him, but in vain."

Observations vpan Religio Medici. Lond. 1643,
44. Oft. &.C. They were tlie conceptions ol" one
night, and of an liasty birtli. The said Rel. Medici
was pen'd by Dr. Tho. Browne, as I shall elsewhere
tell you.

Treatise oftlic Natvrc of Bodies. Par. 164-4. fol.
Lond. 1658, 1665, and 69. all three in qu. An-
swcrVl by Alex. Rosse in a Ixjok cntit. The Philo-
sophical Touchstone: or, Ohscrvfitums on Sir Ken.
Diffbi/s DiscMir.tes of the Nature of Bodies, and of
tlie reasonable Soul, S:c. in ivhich his erroneous Pa-
radoxes are refuted, &c. Lond. 1645. ()u.

Treatise o/" the Nature of Mav\i Soul. Par.
1644. fol. Lond. 1645, 58, 69. qu. This (which was
[353] 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 TIkj.
White who writes himself Thomas Anglus e.x Albiis
Ea.st-saxonum. — Par. 1651. fol.

Observations on the ii2d Stanza in the ninth
Canto of the second Book ofSpencer''s Fairy Queen.
Lond. 1644. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. A. 7. Med. BS.]

Institutionum Peripateticarnm Libri quinqnc,
cum Jppendice Thcologica de Origine Mundi.
Par. 1651. fol. set at the end of the two transla-
tions made bj' 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. [Botll.' 8vo. G. 10.
Th. BS.]

Of the Cvre o/" Wounds by the Powder of Sym-
pathy. Lond. 1658. oct. Sjjoken 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 entit. Theatrum Sympathe-
ticum, published by Job. Andreas Endter, at No-
rimberg 1662. in qu. and is also printed in the
German language. This is the so much approved
sympathetical jiowdcr said to be prepared by Pro-
methean fire, curing all green wounds that come
within the compass of a remedy in a short time, and
likewise the t(K)th-ach infallibly.

Discourse concerning the Vegitation of Plants.

' [John Leybourne, afterwards bishop of Adraniiic and
one of the four apostolical vicars in England, in the reign of
king James the second. Watts.]

' [These letters are in MS. in Kawlinson's collection in
the Bodleian. Rawl. Lett. 70.]

Lond. 1661. oct. and 69. qu. Sjwken on tlie 23d
of Jan. 1660, in a large meeting of the royal so-
ciety in Gresham coll. Printed in Lat. at Am-

sterd. 1663, and 69. in tw. under tliis title, Dissert,
dc Plantarum Vegitationc.

Choice and cvperimental Receipts in Physic and
Chirurgery.

Cordial and dUtilled Waters and Spirits, Per-

fumes and other Curiosities. These two la.st

things were translated out of several languages (for
sw they were collected and written) by George
Hartman sometime steward to sir Kenelme the col-
lector, and by him published at Lond. 1668. oct.
[B<xl]. 8vo. tr. 18. Mid.] The first was printed
afterwards under this title, Medicina exjjerimeiu.
talis. Franc. 1677. oct.

His Closet opened; idiereby is discovered se-
veral Ways of ninking Mctheglin, Sider, Cherry,
wine, &c. Lond. 1(569, 77. wt.

Excellent Directions for Cookery, &c. Lond.
1669, 77. oct.

Choice Collection of rare Chymicul Secrets and
Experiments in Philosophy. As also rare and un-
henrd-of Medicines, Men,sfrvums arid Alkahcits,
with the true Secret of Volatirdng tlie fi.rt Salt of
Tartar, &c. Lond. 1682. (x-t. &c. Published by
Hartman befoiv-mention''d, who had operated for
sir Kenelme for many years. Those are all the'
things which he hath written,, that I yet know of,
except, as some arc pleased to say, (which I .scarce
believe) tlie Letter to Dr. Sam. Turner concerning
the Church and the Revenues thereof. I..ond. 164o,
47. which he published at the request of the earl of
Dorset. See more in Rich. Stuart imder the year
1651. He also translated into English, ^ Treatise
of adhering to God. Lond. 1654. oct. Written by
Albert the great, bishop of Ratisbon. To conclude :
he paid his last debt to nature in his house in Co-
vent Garden, on the eleventh day of June in sixteen
hundred sixty and five, and was buried in a vault
built at his own charge, under the east end of the
south isle or alley joining to the choir of Ch. Ch.
within Newgate in London, by the body of Venetia
his sometime wife, daughter and co-heir of sir Edw.
Stanley of Tongue-castle in Shropshire ; to whose
memory he had, some years before his death, erected
over the said vault a stately altar monument of
black marble, and thereon had caused her bust,
made of copper gilt, to be fastned, with f()ur in-
scriptions of coj)per gilt to be affixed to the said
monument. Which being done, he caused the
draught or picture of the said monument, with the
several inscriptions, to be entred in a large folio
book of vellum, containing the history of the family
of Digby, which our author caused to be made of
all matters relating thereunto that could be found
from record either remaining in the custody of his
family, or in the Tower, or any office in London;
together with the pictures of their monmnents that
coidd be foimd in any church whatsoever, in which

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thev hail been buried Wliich ])oc)k, as his son
Jolin hatli said, did cost his father about 1000/.
The next year after our author sir Kenchne was
buried, the said monument with bust was sjK)iied
and defaced when the church it self was burTit in
the dismal conflagration that then happened in Lon-
don. His study of books (being a most aihnirable
collection) which he had conveyed into France in
the time of the rebellion, fell, after his death, for
want of his being naturalizeil, into the French king's
hands, of whom being beg'd by a certain gentle-
man, it was sold, as the re]X)rt then went, for ten
thousand crowns. Sir Everard Digby, father to sir
Kenehne, was a most gootlly gentleman, and the
handsomest man of his time, but much pitied for
that it was his ill fate to suffer for the powder-plot
in 1605, aged 24; at which time when the execu-
tioner plucked out his heart, (when his body was to
be quartered) and according to the manner held it
up, saying. Here is the heart of a traijtor, sir Eve-
rard made answer. Thou Rest. This a most fa^
mous^ author mentions, but tells us not his name,
in his Hlstorla Vitcr c^ Mortis. The said sir Eve-
rard was son of Everard Digby of Drv-stoke be-
fore-rnention'd, sometime master of arts and fellow
of S. John's coll. in Cambridge, an. 1579, a pub-
lisher then, and after, of several books, (as the Bod-
leian Catalof^ue will tell you) among which is, A
Dissmmve from talcing axcay the G<xxh and Liv-
ings of the Church, &c. Printed at Lond. in qu.''
Tnis I'Aerard the writer died at Drv-stoke in 159~,
or there<ilx)uts. Sir Ken. Digby had a younger
brother called sir Joli. Digby, who very readily
servM his majesty king Cliarles I. when his parlia-
ment took up arms against him, was a colonel, and
afterwards a major gen. in the western parts of
England, while Mr. Job. Digby, a younger son of
John earl of Bristol, was a gen. there for his maj.
as I have elsewhere told you : " which sir John
" Digby was wounded at Taunton, and died at
" Brldgewater."

[Amongst the brethren of the Charter-house re-
signing to the king in 1538, 29 Hen. 8. ' per me
Evererdum Dygby.' Rymer, Fccdera, xiv, 589.

1567, 15 Jun. rev.'""^ contulit Kenelmo Digbye
eccle.siam de Veteri Romney, Cant, per mort. WiU^i
Lott, ult. rect. Reg. Parker.

Benjaminus Charier S. T. P. coll. ab arch'epo
Cant, ad eccl. de Veteri Ilomney, vac. per mort.
Kenelmi Digbye cler. ult. rect. 29 Apr. 1603. Reg.
Whitgifte. Kennet.

It seems that sir Kenelm Digby was exiled with
Walter Montague, in Septeniber 1649. In the

' Franc, lord Bncon. [See a letter on this subject in The
Genlhnmn's Magazine, for 1795, vol. Ixv, page OQO.]

^ [He pviblished in 1587 in 4to. De Arte Natandi Lihri
duo : Quorum Prior Reguias ipsius Artis, Pos/eriur vera
Praxin Demonslrationemque curttinet. 'Tis dedicated to Rd.
Wonrlley esq. the booli is wrote in dialogue and has several
cutis. LOVEDAY.J

Parliamentary History of England under that year,
page 169. the following is found — 'Aug. 31. The
nouse having l)een informed that sir John Wintour,
sir Kenelm Digby, and Mr. Walter Montague
(persons of whom frequent mention has been made
in the proceedings of this piu-liament,) had been
seen in town ; they ordered the first to be appre-
hended, imprisoned and proceeded against accord-
ing to law ; and the two latter to depart the king-
dom, never more to return, without leave of the
parliament, on pain of death and confiscation of
their estates.'

Sir Kenelm was exiled also during the life of the
king, when he fought a duel with a nobleman of
France,' who had drank Charles's health under the
name of ' the arrantest coward upon earth.' Sir
Kenelm ran this person thrt)ugh the Iwdy, and
hastning to the French king, received his pardon
for it. An account of this, was published in one
sheet in 4to. Sir Kenehne Digityes Honour main-
tained, &c. among Heame's booKs in Bodley.

Letter from sir Kenelm to secretary Tiiurlowe,
in the Thtirlowe State Papei-s, vol. iv, page 591.

There is an excellent character of sir Kenelm
Digby by lord Clarendon in his own life, in which
he terms lady Venetia a woman of an extraordinary
beauty and as extraordinary fame, as an illustration
of wiuch, hitherto misundersto(xl,pa.ssage the curious
reader will not be displea.sed with the following ac-
count of this lady from Aubrey's papers in the Ash-
mole museum. — ' Venetia Stanley,' says he, ' was
(laughter of s'' Edward Stanley, of Eynstoun, in
com. Oxon, son of s'' Tho. Stanley k'.* younger son

to Edw. E. of She was a most beautiful

desireable creature ; and being matura viro was left
by her father to live with a tenant and servants at
Euston abbey,' (his land or the E. of Darby's) in
Oxfordshire; but as private as that place was, it
seemes her beautie could not lye hid. The young
eagles had espied her, and she was sanguine and
tractable, and of much suavity (w''" to abuse was
greate pittie). In those dayes Richard earle of
Dorset (eldest son and heire to the V treasurer)
lived in the greatest splendor of any nobleman of
England.8 Among other pleasures that he enjoyed,
Venus was not the least. This pretty creature's

5 [Lord Mount-le-Ros.]

* [Sir Thomas Stanley was son of Edward carl of Derby,
by the lady Lucy Percy, daughter of Thomas earl of North-
umberland. Edit.J

' [At the \V. end of the church here were two towers as
at Welles or Westminster abbey, w'"" were standing till
about 1656. The rooms of the abbey were richly wainscot-
ted, both sides and roofe.]

" [He lived in the greatest grandeur of any nobleman of
his lime in Engl. He had oO gentlemen, and gave to each
30 lib. per annum, besides keeping his horse. G. Villers
(aficr duke of Bucks) was a petitioner to have had a gentle-
man's place under him, and miss't it, and within a 12 month
was a greater man liiniselfe; but the duke ever after bore a
grudge to the E. of Dorset. From the countesse of Thanet.]

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LEWGAR.

fame quickly caine to lus_ IqP ' earcs, wlio made no
delay to catch at such an opportunity. I have now
forgott who first brought her to towne, but I have
heard my uncle Danvers say (who was her contem-
jwrary) that she was so commonly courted, and
that by grandees, that 'twas written over her lodg-
ing one night in literi.s uncialibus,

PBAY COME NOT NEER,
FOE DAME VEXETIA STAXLEY LODGETH HERE.

The earle of Dorset aforesayd, was her greatest gal-
lant, who was extremely enamoured of her, and had
one if not more children by her. He setled on her
an annuity of 500 lib. jier annum. Among other
young sparkes of that time, s"' Kenelme Digby grew
acquainted with her, and fell so much in love with
her that he married her, much against the good will
of his mother ; but he would say ' that a wise man
and lusty could make an honest woman out of a
brothell-house.' S"^ Edm. Wyld had her picture,
(and you may imagine was very familiar with her)
which picture is now at Droitwich, in Worcester-
shire, at an inne ; where now the towne keujie
their meetings. Also at Mr. Rose's, a jeweller, in
Henrietta-street, in Covent-garden, is an excellent
piece of hers, drawne after she was newly dead.
She had a most lovely sweet turn'd face, delicate
darke browne haire. She had a perfect healthy
constitution, strong ; good skin ; weD proportioned ;
enclining to a bona roba. Her face, a short ovall ;
darke browne eie-browe, about w'''' much sweetness,
as also in the opening of her eie-lidds. The colour
of her cheekes was just that of the damaske rose,
which is neither too not nor too pale. She was of a
just stature, not very tall.

' S"' Kenelme had several pictures of her by Van-
dyke &c.' He had her hands cast in playster, and
her feet and her face. See Ben Jonson's 2^ vo-
lume, where he hath made her live in poetry, in his
drawing of her both body and mind : —

' Sitting and ready to be drawne.
What makes these tiffany, silks, and lawne.
Embroideries, feathers, fringes, lace.
When every limbe takes like a face !' &c.

' When these verses were made she had three
children by s' Kenelme, who are there mentioned,
Kenelme, George and John. She dyed in her bed
suddenly. Some suspected that she was poysoned.
When her head was opened there was found but
little braine, w'''' her husband imputed to her drink-
ing of viper-wine ; but s-pitefull women would say
'twas a viper husband who was jealous of her * *
«««««« J Jjjjyg heard some say,— e. g.
my cos. Eliz. Falkner, — that after her marriage she
redeemed her. honour by her strict living. Once a
yearc the earle of Dorset invited her and s"^ Kenelme

to dinner, where the earle would behold her with
much passion, and only kisse her hand. S"^ Kenelme
erected to her meniorie a sumptuouse and stately

inonument at Fryars, Christ Church (neer

Newgate-street) in the east end of the south aisle,
where her body lyes in a vault of brickworke, over
which are three steps of black marble, with 4 in-
scriptions in copi^er gilt affixed to it : upon this altar
her bust of copper gilt, all w"*" (unlesse the vault
which was onelv opened a little by the fall) is utterly
destroyed by the great conflagration. Among the
monuments in the lxx)ke mentioned in s' Ken. Dig-
by's life, is to be seen a curious draught of this
monument, w* copies of the several inscriptions.
About 1676 or 5, as I was walking through New-
gate-street, I sawc dame Venetia's bust standing at
a stall at the Golden-crossc, a braziers shop. I pre-
sently rememl)ered it, but the fire had got off the^
guikling: but taking notice of it to one that waar
with me, I could never see it afterwards exjwsed to
the street. They melted it downe. How these cu-
riosities would be quite forgott, did not such iiUe
fellowes as I am put them downe !

' Mem. At Goathurst, in Bucks, is a rare origi-
nal] picture of s" Kenelme Digby, and his lady Ve-
netia, in one peice by the hand of s"^ Anthony Van-
dyke. In Ben Jonson's 2'' volume is a poeme called
' EupJieme, left to Pasteritic, of ye noble Lady, the
Latlie Venetia Dig-by, late Wi/e of Sr Kenelme
Di^y, K'. a Gentleman absolute in nil Numbers:
con»isthig of these ten Peices, viz. Dedication of her
Cradle; Song of h-er Descent : Picture of her Bo-
die ; Picture of Tier Mind ,• Her being chose a
Muse ,• Her faire Offices ; Her happy Match ;
Her hopeful Issue; ^rr AnOQEnsiS, or. Rela-
tion to the Saints ; Her Inscription or Crowne.''

' Her picture drawne by s"^ Anth. Vandyke hangs
in the queene's drawing-roome, at W incisor-castle,
over the chimney.

' Venetia Stanley was (first) a miss to s"' Edmund'
Wyld, so he had her picture, w='' after his death,
Serjeant Wyld (his executor) had, and since y' Ser-
jeant's death hangs now in an entertaining roome at
Droitwich, in Worcestershire. The serjeand lived
at Droitwich.

' Venetia Stanley's picture is at the E. of Rutland's
at Belvoir.'

So far Aubrey.

There are several engraved portraits of sir Ke-'
nelm Digby, the best of which are by Gay wood.
Cross, Stent, and Houbrakcn, with one very gootl
one by Cot)per in Lodge's Illustrious Heads. At
the seat of my friend Fiennes Trotman, esq. at
Siston-court, Gloucestershire, is a jwrtrait, on cop-
per, of the lady Venetia, of whom Hollar engraved
a head in 1646.]

9 I Her picture by Vandyke is now at Alberinarlevs, in T/-»TjrxT t ^wrr' * t> i. i> • i
Carmarihenshire, at Mr. Cornwalleys' Sonne's widowe's . ^^^^ LEWGAR was born of genteel parents
(the lady Cornwalleys' house) who was the da. and hcire of '" London, admitted commoner of Tnn. coll. in the
Jones, of Albermarleys.] beginning of tile year 1616, and in that of his age

LEWGAR.

QUAULES.

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1665.

14, took the degrees in arts, holy orders, and in
16532 was admitted to the reading of the sentences,
being about tliat time beneficed in Essex. After
Will. Chillingworth retunied from beyonil the seas,
he had several conferences with him about matters
of religion; wherein Chillingworth shewing himself
a person of great dexterity, Lewgar was at length
meerly by the force of his arguments induced to
believe that the Roman church was a true church,
and that the protestants were all in the wrong, as
he used often to tell his friends, and withall to add,
that ' Chillingworth was of no meek and winning
spirit, but higli and conceited, and so consequently
unfit for a religion that required humility and obe-
dience,' &c. Afterwards our author I^ewgar left
his benefice and religion, and upon the invitation of
Cecil lord Calvert, called lord Baltimore, (who had
been his intimate acquaintance while he was a gent.
com. of Trin. coll.) travelled into Maryland, be-
longing to the said lord ; where, after he had spent
several years, and had buried his wife, he returnetl
into England some years before the restoration of
king Charles II. with father Andrew White a Je-
suit, who had been sent thither to gain the barba-
rians to his religion. After which time he lived in
Wild-street near London, in the house of the said
lord Baltimore, where he wrote,

Erastus Junior : a solid Demonstration by Prin-
cijilcs. Forms of Ordination, Common Lmws, Acts
of Parliament, that no Bishop, Minister, nor Pres-
byter, hath any Authoiity to preach, ^c. from
Christ, but from the Parliament. Lond. 1659, 60.

Erastus Senior: schokistically demonstrating
this Conclusion, That admitting- Lambeth Records
to be true, those called Bisliops here in England,
are no Bishops either in Order or Jurisdiction, or
so much as legal, &c. Lond. 1662. oct. [Both. 8vo.
C. 157. Line] He died of the plague in the parish
of S. Giles's in the Fields near to London, in six-
teen hundretl sixty and five, by too much exposing
himself in helping and relieving poor Rom. catnolics,
as I have been informed by his familiar friend Ro-
bert Pugh a secular priest, who hath told me that
lie the said Joh. Lewgar hath published other
things, besides Erastus Jun. and Erastus Sen. but
the just titles of them he could not tell. " There
" was publish'd under this John Lewgar's name,
" A Conference between him and Mr. Chilling.
" loorth, tehetfter the Roman Church be the CatJio-
" lie Church, and all out of her Communion Here-
" tics or Schismatics. Lond. 1687. qu." One Joh.
Lewgar nearly related to, if not descended from,
the before-mentioned J. Lewgar died in the island
called Barbadoes, an. 1675, in which year also died
Cecil L. Calvert.

JOHN QUARLES son of Franc. Quarles' the

' [Fran. Quarles, son of James Q. of Rumford esq. was
educated in Chr. coll. Cambr. cup-bcarcr to the queen of

poet, was an Esscxian l>orn, became a batler of
Exeter coll. in the latter end of 1642, and in that
of his age 18, bore arms within the garrison of
Oxon for his majesty, antl was afterwards, as 'tis
said, a captain in one of his armies : i)ut u]X)n the
declining of his majesty's cause, he retired to Lon-
don in a mean condition ; where he wrote several
things meerly for maintenance sake ; among which
were these,

Regale Lcctum Miscria:: or, the English Bed
of Misery : in which is contained a Dream. Lond.
1649. oct.

Elegy upon that never to be forgotten Ch. I. late -
(but too soon martyr d) King of England.

Elegy and Epitaph on Arthur lord Capell, be-
headed 9 Mar. 1648.

A Curse against the Enemies of Peace.

His Farewell to England. These four last

things were printed with Reg. Ledum Miserice, be-
fore-mention'd. Afterwards he took his rambles
beyond the seas, but whether in the condition of a
tutor, or bare traveller, or pilgrim, I know not.
After his return, he Uved as occasion served, and
published.

Fans Lacrymarum: or, a Fmintain of Tears': ^
^0771 rehence doth flozo Engiand^s Complaint.

JeremiaKs Lamentations paraph ra.ted, with di-
vine Meditations.

Elegy upon that Son of Valour Sir diaries Im-

cas. These three last things were several times

printed in oct. one edition came out in 1677.

The Tyranny of the Dutch against the English.
Lond. 1653. oct. written in prose.

Continuation of the History of Argalus and Par-
thenia. Lond. 1659. in tw. He also j)ublished in
verse. The Rape of lAicrece committed bij Tarquin
the 6th, &c. Lond. 1655. in oct. Written by Will.
Shakespear gent, and added to it Tarquin banish-
ed: or, the Reward of Lust. Lond. 1655. oct. in
verse. He hath also written,

Divine Meditations upon several Subjects:
whereunto is annexed Goo's Love, and Man''s Un-
worthiness, with several divine Ejaculations. Lond.
1659, &c. oct.

Triumpfuint Cliastity ; or, JosepKs Self-conflict,
when by his Mistress he was enticed to Adultery :
shewing the ponverful Motions betwixt the Flesh
and ilie Spirit. Lond. 1683. oct. a divine poem.
This person J. Quarles (who perhaps hath written
other things) was esteemed by some a good poet,
and a gi'eat royalist, for which he sufFer'd, and lived
therefore mostly in a poor condition. At length
upon the raging of the plague in and near London,
he was swept away there among thousands that died

Bohemia, and secretary to James archbishop of Armah, and
chronologer to tlie city of London, lie died Sept. 8, l644,
aged 52 years, and was buried in St. Leonards church in
Foster-lane. See his life wrote by his widow Ursula Quarles.
Dr. Duport has a copy of Latin verses on his death. Ba-
ker.]

\

my

CODRINGTON.

FISHER.

1005. of that disease, in sixteen hundred sixty and five ;
but where his carkass was lotlged I cannot tell.
One Joli. Quarles occurs archdeacon of Northamp-
ton an. 164(), and was livinj; after the restoration of
king Charles II. but he is not to be taken tlie same
with Joh. Quarles the poet.

[Mr. John Quarles rector of Uffington, com.
Line. KiiKKET.

Of John Quarles the poet there arc three en-
graved heads : By Faithorne, an octagon ; by Mai--
shall, in an oval of bays; and anonymous with
eight verses

' See liere a phoenix,' &c.]

ROBERT CODRINGTON was born of anan-
ticnt and genteel family in Gloucestershire, elected
demy of Magd. coll. 29 of July 1619, aged 17 years,
being then some months standing in that house,
took the degrees in arts, that of master being com-

!>leated in 1G2(), antl al'terwai-ds (upon his return
rom his travels) lived in the quality of a gent, in
[35oJ Norfolk for several years, and there took to him a
wife. At length retiring to I.,ondon spent the re-
mainder of his days, and there finished his course.
This person, who was always aecounted a ]>uritan,
hath written and translated these things following,

Tfie Life and Death of the Ulti.itriou.s Mobert
Earl of E.'i.tex; i^-c. containing at largv the Wars
he munagvd, and the Commands he hud in Holland,
the Palatinate, and in England, &c. Eond. IGM).
in about 7 sheets in <ju. In this Ixxjk he shews
himself a i-ank parliamenteer.

Collection of many select and excellent Proverbs.

Tlie Life ofJEHop. This is written in French

and Latin ; which, with that written in English by
Tho. Philipot, are put before JEsofPs Fables in
Eng-Ush, illustrated with 112 Sculptures bij Francis
Barloiv. — Lond. 16GG. fol. He also translated from
French into English, (1) Treatise of the Know-
ledge of God. Lond. 1634. Written by Pet. du
Moulin. (2) Heptameron : or, the History of tlie
Fortunate Lovers. Lond. 1654. in a thick oct.
Written by Margaret de Valois queen of Navar,
who divided it into eight days journey. This trans-
lation is dedicated to the lover of all gootl leai'ning
Tiio. Stanley, esq;. And also from Lat. into Eng.
(1.) Tlie History of Justin, taken, out of tJie four
and forty Books of Trogus Povipeius, containing
tlie Affairs of all .tiges ami Countries, both in Peace
and Warjjrom the Beginning of the World until
tlie Time of the Rom. Emperors. Lond. 1664. (se-
cond edit.) 1672. Oct. 82. in t\v. (2.) ^Esop's Fa-

bles, printed in oct. Qi.) Ignoramus, a Com.

Lond. 1662. qu. with a supplement, which (out of
respect to the students of the common law) was hi-
therto wanting. (4) Prophecies of Christoph. Kot-
terus, Christiana Poniatovia, andNich. Drahicius,
three Jo mou.i German Prophets, &.c. Lond. 1664.
oct. second edition. (.5.) Life and Death of Alex-
ander the Great, King of Macedon. In 10 Books.

Lond. 1673. oct. Written by Q. Curtius Rufus.
He hath also translated (from French) the last vol.
of Nich. Caussiifs Holy Court, which I hare not
yet seen : nor do I know any thing else of him,
only that he died of the plague in Lond. in sixteen
hundred sixty and five, but where buried I cannot 1665.
vet tell, and that he had other matters lying by
}iim fit for the press.

[The Memorials of Margaret de Valo'is first
Wife to Henry the 4th King of France «§• Navarre,
compiled in French by her oi^n Hand, and trans-
lated into English by B. C. 8vo. 1662. MoEAXT.]

SAMUEL FISHER, son of John Fisher a ha-
berdasher of hats and mayor of Northampton, was
born there, or at least in Northamptonshire, became
a student in Trin. coll. in Mich, term an. 1623,
aged 18 years, took one degree in arts, as a member
thereof, at which time being puritanically inclined,
he translated himself to New-inn, where, by the
stay that he made, which was about two years after
he had taken the degree of M. of A. he was tho-
roughly settled in his opinion, and, as 'tis verily
thought, he entertained then more opinions antl
principles than one of his coat ought to have done.
About the year 1632 he was presented to the vica-
ridge of Lydde in Kent ; where, under the charac-
ter of a very jxiwerful preacher, he lived in con-
formity (tho' continuing still in his puritiinism) till
about the year 1643, near which time he held a
strict confederacy with some of the religious zealots
of his town, who apphed them.selves to him for spi-
ritual advice in reference to their scruples of con-
science, as to which of the new differing sects they
ought to adhere. Whilst their thoughts were here-
in wavering, our author Fisher enjoyn'd himself
and tliem to the obsei-vance of several fast-days,
wherein he, as the mouth of the re-st, was to apply
himself to God by prayer, to require his immediate
direction and guidance. After many of these reli-
gious consults, during the continuance of their being
dissatisfied, two persons professing themselves ana-
baptists retired to Lydde, and under the title of
Messengers of God, desired of our author the li-
berty of using his pulpit the next Loi-d's dav ;
which motion he seemed very inclinable to grant,
but the church-wardens strictly forbad it. \\'liere-
upon the said anabaptists, on the Saturday follow-
ing, preached by turns in the open market-place
amongst a great concourse of jx?ople, wherein our
author had placed himself so near, as to have the
conveniency of hearing their several harangues. In rqen
the conclusion our author desired a conference with *-
them, and after some debate, he publicly disowned
his former tenets, revolted from the church of Eng-
land, and was immediately re-baptized, ]>ositiveK'
aflfirining that this opportunity was the return which
God had made to his foregomg fasts and prayers;
and with this plausible pretence he gained several
proselytes, renounced hi? cure, and zealously pro-

FISHER.

Jin

pagated his opinions, as well by keeping a constant
conventicle, as by public challenges and disputes
with several of the neighbouring ministers, and
writing several controversial pamphlets, all reprinted
in tbl. as I shall anon tell you. About 8 or 9 years
after his apostacy, he turned a very zealous quaker,
and in the company of one of that sect he under-
took a voyage to Rome, whether under jiretence of
converting tlie pope, I cannot say it. T'j)on their
return thence about 16.58, his companion was in a
very |ioor miserable condition, but our author in a
very genteel equipfige, having been (as 'twas cre-
dibly supposed in Kent) made in his absence a. Rom.
priest. In the year following, he, as a quaker, held
a public disputation at Sandwich with Mr. Tho.
Danson, as I shall tell you anon ; wherein several
pro]X)sals being made to him about his religion, he
first denied not that he had been at Rome, but that
he received a pension from the pope, he utterly de-
nied ; which then, as 'twas said, was very probable,
if not true ; for it was reported from very good
hands, that in his late travels to Constantinople,
and thence to Rome, he had as good bills of exchange
as most gentlemen that travel, and yet it was well
known then that he had no visible estate ; and the
quakers that came to the dispute, did report that
he did bear his witness against the p>pe and cardi-
nals of Rome, and yet they suffered him not to be
medled with, &c. Secondly, it was sworn by suffi-
cient and credible men of Sandwich that had some
discourse with hiin at Dunkirk, that he told them,
that he looked upon the Jesuits and fryers there to
be soiuuler in doctrine than those we call the reformed
churches. And thirdly, that on the first day of the
dispute, he made very light of the charge of popery
against him, when Amesius against Bellarmine was
produced ; and with a gesture of derision he replied
that Bellarmine held many truths which must not
be rejected because he held them, &c. As for the
books which he published, the titles of them foOow,
but the respective years when they were published,
I know not.

Ani'i-cliabolvtm : or, the true Account of a true
Counterfeit.

One Word yet to the Disputers and Sc7-ibes of
the Ashford Duputation : or an Epilogetlcal Post-
script on the Apologetical Preface.

Anti-hahism : or, the Bahlsh Disputation at Ash-
^ ford for Baby-baptism disproved.

The second Part of Antt-babism : or, a Review
of their Review.

Anti-rantism : or, ChrisCndom unchristn'd.

Antt-sacerdotism. Sacerdotale Delirium delinea-
lum. The Dotage of the Priests discovered. Or
a new Edition, with no small Additicni in Way of
Emendation, c^c. of the third Part of that treble
Treatise, which is extant about tfie Asliford Dispu-
tation, entit. A pathetical Exhortation to the Pastors

to oppose the Growth of Anabaptism, &c. All

which things being reprinted in fol. had this title set

before them. — Christianismus redivivus. ChrisCu-
dom both unchristned and new-christned : or, that
good old Way of Dipping and in Churching of
Men and Women after Faith and Repentance pro-
Jessed, (commmily, but not properly called Anabap-
tism) vindicated J'rom tliat two-edged Sivord of me
Spirit (the Word of God) from, all Kind of Ca-
lumnies that are cast upon it, &c. Lond. 1655. fol.

Rusticus ud Academicos in Exercitationibus ex-
postulatoriis, Sj- Apologeticis quatuor. The Rtislic's
Alarum to the Rabbines : or, the Country correcting
the University and Clergy ; and (not witliout gxx)d
Cause) contesting for the Truth, against the
nursing Mothers and their Children. In four
Apologetical, and expostulatory Exer citations. —
Wherein i^s contained, as well a general Account of
all Enqiiirers, as a general Answer to all Opposers
of the Tnost truly Catholic and most truly Chri.it- [358]
like Ch?-istians called Quakers, and of the true
Divinity of their Doctrine. By Way of entire
Enter course held in special with four of the Cler-
gie''s Chieftains, John Owen D. D. Tho. Danson
M. A. Joh. Tmnbes B. D. and Rich. Baxter of
Kcderminster, Sec. Lond. 1660 in a thick quarto,
with an additional appendix.

A positive true Testimony according to the er-
ternal Letter, to the internal and eternal Light —
Printed with the former, in Eng. and Lat. in two
columes.

Bu.\ij Bishop besides the Business, or Dr. Gau-
den overseen, &c. Lond. 1662. qu. This, which I
have not yet seen, is the same, I suppose, with the
book about tender consciences.

Three Disputations at Sandwich with Tlio. Dan-
son, An. 1659. Lond. 1664. oct. 3d edit. Pub-
lished by the said Tho. Danson sometime fellow of
Magd. coll.

Baptism before or after Faith and Repentance.
Lond. 1669. fol. The same I suppose, (for I have
not yet seen it) with the folio bcfore-mention'd,
Christianismus redivivus, &c. only the title alter'd.
What else he, or others under his name, iiave pub-
lished I know not, nor any thing else of him, save
only, that after his majesty's restoration he lived ob-
scurely in London, kept conventicles, and thereupon
was imprison'd in Newgate, and was accounted the
CoryphiKus of the quakers. At length being at li-
berty, he retired to a village called Dalston in the
parish of Hackney in the county of Middlesex,
where he died (of the plague as 'twas said) in Sept.
or Octob. in sixteen Imndred sixty and five. This jQg^
person in his disputes did always decline a direct
answer to the question what university he was of,
which gave some of the neighbouring ministers in
Kent occasion to suspect that the said Fisher was
bred in some foreign jwpish imiversity ; and the
rather because he would often plead for popish
tenets, tho' when pressed to tell whether he did
really beheve them, he would pretend he did it dis-
putandi gratia, to hold an argument for discourse

703

CHEYNELL.

[359]

sake. One or two of both his names ha\'e ])ul)lis])e(l
several matters, and therefore they are to he remem-
bred elsewhere.

FRANCIS CHEYNELL, son of John Choy-
nell doct. of phys. sometime fellow of C. C. C. iw
Bridget his wife, was born in Cat-street in S. Mary s
piirish within the city of Oxon, an. 1608, and on the
sixth of July the same year received baptism there.
After lie had l)cen educated in granmiar learning
either in the school of that noted Grecian Edw. Syl-
vester (who taught in Allsaints parish) or else in the
free-school of Magil. coll. or in both, he became a
member of this university in the beginning of the
year 1623 : And being bach, of arts of two years
standing, or more, he was by the intercession of his
mother (then the widow of Dr. Rob. Ablwt bishop
of Salisbury) made to Dr. Brent the warden of
Merton cofl. (who had married Martha the only
daughter of the said bish. by his first wile) elected
probationer fellow thereof, in the year 1629. After
ne had proceederl in arts, he entred into the sacred
function, and was a curate in, or near, Oxon for a
timc^ But when the face of things Ix^gan to alter
in 1640 and 41, he manifestly shewM himself, what
he was before but in part, viz. a presbyterian, and
an enemy to the bishops and ceremonies of the
church : So that closing with the mighty men of the
predominant party, "i he took the covenant, became
one of the ass. of divines in 1643, a frequent preacher
before the members of parliament, rector of the
rich parsonage* of Petworth in Sussex, in the place
of an honest and loyal doctor ejected thence, one of
the apostles to convert the university from loyalty to
presbytery, an. 164G, a visitor apjiointed by parlia-
ment 1647, — 48, to take possession of, and enjoy,
the places of other persons, as the Margaret profes-
sorship of the university, and presidentship of S.
John's coll. But being forced tf) leave those two
places soon after to his great grief (Ix^ing then doct.
of div.) he retired to Petworth wliere he remained a
useful member for the covenanting cause till the
king's restoration, and then, or at Bartholomew
tide two years after, he was deprived of that par-
sonage. I have said much of him ' elsewhere, and

' [Cheynel was, saysC»laniy, a man of considerable learn-
iiioand abiliiie*. He was invited by Mr. Holniaii to accept
of a living from him, not far from Banbury, of several hun-
dreds a year, where he lived awhile, and had a ruffle with
archbishop Laud while in his height. Ejected Ministers,
675.]

' [In the besinninp of the war, he was mosily with the
earl of Essex, and whilst with him, was a very goodly per-
son, of great streneth and undaunted courage ; and his com-
mands were as readily obeyed by any colonels in that army, as
the general's own. Calamy, Ejected Ministers, ii, 675.J

< [Calamy says it was let for 7001. per ann. when Chey-
nell took possts'^ion of it. Account of ejected or silenced
Ministers, ii, 675.]

■■ In Hist, and Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. I. p. 367- b. 3C8.
b. 389 a. b. 370. a. 38(). a. 389. a. 3yl. a. b. 394. a. 398. b.

therefore I shall only now tell you that he was
accounted by many, esixx-ialiy l)y tliose of his
))arty (who had Iiiiu always in great veneration) a
gfxxl disputant and preacher, and better he might
have iK'en, anil of a more sober temper, had he not
been troubled with a weakness in his head, which
some in his time called craziness. He hath com-
mended to posterity these tilings following.

Several sermons, as (1) Croff.v Alarum, Fa-it Ser-
mon before the H. of Common.^ 31 May 1643 ,• em
Zaeh. 2. 7. I-ond. 1643. qu. [Bodl. 4to. T. 4. Th.
BS.] (2.) Tlie Man (d'iflonour, Fa.st Sermon be-
fore the H. ofLorchi 26 March 1645 ,• on Psal. 49.
20. Lond. 1645. qu. [Bodl. 4to. T. 4. Th. BS.l
(3.) Plot for the Good of Pros perity, communicated
in a Fast Scrm. before tlie H. of Com. 25 March
1646 ,• on Gen. 18." 19- Lond. 1646. qu. [Bodl. 4to.
T. 4. Th. BS.] &e.

The Rise, Growth and Dangler of Socinianism,
&c. Lond. 1643. tju. [BikU. C. 14. 4. Line] 'Tis
the effect of 3 or more sermons.

ChillinffKortfii Novissima: or, the Sickness,
Heresy, Death and Burial of Will. Chillingworth,
Clerk, erf Oxford, and in the Conceit of Ms Fellow
Soldiers, the Qv£en''s Arch-engineer and grand In-
telligencer, &:c. Lond. 1643. qu.^

Speech at the Funeral erf Mr. ChillingwortJCs lie-
retical and mortal Book.

Prophane Catechism collected out of Mr. Chil-

UngjoortKs Works. These two last things are

printed with Chillingzcorthi Novissima.

Divers Letters to Dr. Jasp. Mayne concerning
fake Prophets Printed 1647. qu.

Copy of some Papers passed at Oxford hetioeen
the Author of the Practical Catechism (H. Ham-
mond) and Mr. Cheynell. Lond. 1647. qu. Pub-
lished by Dr. H. Hammond.

Truth triumphing over Error and Heresy: or,
a Relation of a Disputation at Oxon in S. Marys
Church betzoeen Mr. Cheynel and Mr. Erlmrtj a
Socinian, &c. Lond. 1646. 47. in one sh. in qu.
[B(xll. C. 15. 1. Line]

Account given to the Parliament by tlie Ministers
sent by them to Oxon. Lond. 1 647. in about 8 sh.
in qu. It mu.st be now known that several Socinian
books being published about that time against the
Holy Trinity by John Biddle, Jo. Fry, and others,
it was thought fit by the leading men of the pre.s-
byterian party of the univ. of Oxon. that one or
more of them should make answer to them. Where-
fore this our author Cheynell being looked u|X)n as
a Goliah among them, he was at a meeting of the
delegates of the said university 19 Eeb. 1649 de-
sired' by them to set forth a book touching the
vindication of the Trinity, so that he undertaking

400. a. b. 402.a. b.403. b. 404. a. 405. a. 407. a. 408. a. 410.
b. 41 1, a. b. 413. b.— lib. 2. p. 34. h. 305. a.

« [1644, 4to. Mr. Chillingworih died Jan. 24, 1643-4.
Bakek.]

' Reg. Convocat. Univ. Oxon. T. p. 97-

CIIEYNFXI..

7()f>

the matter, came out a b(^)lv written by him tlius
entit.

Th€ divine Trinunity of the Father, Son, and
Hoh) Ghost, Sec. Lond. 1650. [Bodl. 8vo. C.
14. Til. BS.] Dedicate<l to the univ. of'Oxon. in a
Lat. epist. written by Cheynell. Much about tlie
same tmie came out a book written by him bearing
this title :

A Disctission of Mr. Frye''s Tenents lately con-
demri'd in Parliament : and Socinianism proved to

be an unchristian Doctrine ^Tis not said to be

where printed, or when, or by whom written, but all
then took it bv the stile to De Cheyneirs, as indeed
it is. Whereupon Fry being not able to retort,
wrote a book, not without railing, against the pres-
byterian clergy, entit. The Clergy in their Colours;
&c. Lond. 1d50. oct. wherein p. 7. he speaks of
Cheynell thus — ' But to use such expressions
causelesly, or from a spirit of malice, is worthy of
reproof; and therefore I may justly blame Mr.
Cheynell (the author of the Divme Trinunity) for
railing at my Bellows. If an ipse dixit, or foul
mouthed language be a sufficient confutation, I con-
fess I am fully answered ; for he is plentiful in it.
But what do I mean .'' doubtless the sign was in
^ Aries when he writ, and it might be in the cuckoe-
month too ; and therefore he is the more to be ex-
[360] cused ; and till the man writes soberly, or I meet
with one in his wits that quarrels with my aforesaid
book, I shall not be careful to vindicate it from
blasphemy and error, though the doctor is pleased
to bestow those liveries upon it,' &c. — What other
things our author Cheynell hath written, I know
not, nor any thing else of him only that after he was
turnVl out from Petworth he retired to an obscure
village called Preston, lying between Chichester and
Midhurst in Sussex (at which place he before had
purchased an estate) where dving in a condition,
little better than distracted," in the month of Septemb.
1665. '" sixteen hundred sixty and five, was buried in the
church tliere, leaving then behind him several sons.
You may see more of him in William Chillingworth,
under the j'ear 1643. As for John Fry before-
mention'd, who was a man of more than ordinary
parts, he was of Bursoy in Dorsetshire, but whether
he was educated in this, or in another university, I
cannot yet tell. 'Tis true that one Jo. Fry became
a commoner of Exeter coll. an. 1616, aged 17 years,
l)ut he was matriculated as a native of Devon, and
an cstjuire's son, and so consequently cannot be the
same with the former; who in 1640 was one of the
burgesses elected by the men of Shaftsbury in his
own country to serve in that unhappy parliament
which began at West. 3 of Nov. the same year, but

"* [He was indeed disorder'd in his brain, some years be-
fore his death, but he was perfectly recover'd to a sound
mind before he retir'd from Pctworlh. Caiamy, Ejected
Ministers, ii, 6/0.1

Vol.. III.

his election being voleii void, lie sided notwith-
standing with the faction, was seemingly a presbyte-
rian, and afterwards all tilings to all men. So that
being esteemed very capable of caiTying on the be-
loved cau.se, he was first matie a committee man of
his county, and afterwards was called into the house
of commons by the independents, uj)on tiieir ex-
cluding the active presby ceriaas, 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
king Charles I. but personally sate in judgment
when sentence was past for his decollation. About
that time he being observed by some of the house of
commons to be a person of strange principles in reli-
gion, an Arian, Socinian, and I know not what, and
also to be a person of no good morals, he was pub-
hckly complained of in the house by colonel Job.
Downes one of the regicides and afterwards a mem-
ber of the council of state. Whereupon Fry pub-
lished The Accuser ashamed : en; a Pair of Bellows
to bloxo off the Dust cast upon J oh. Fry a Member
of Parliament by Col. Jo. Downes, who charged
the said John Fry of Blasphemy and Error. Printed
at Lond. in Febr. 1648. in oct. To which he
added (1) ^ Word to the Priests, Lawyers, Roy-
alists, Self-scelers, and rigid Presbyterians. (2)
A brief Ventilation qfthatchaffie and absurd Opinion
of three Persons or Substances in the Godhead.
Afterwards, being exasperated by the presbyterian
ministers and some independents, he wrote and pub-
lished, 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 'twas said, to Mr. John Davy of Taunton Mag-
dalen 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, ' tlmt cluiffie and
absurd opinion of three persons or subsislamxs inthe

Godhead.'' (2) In that in p. 22. running thus

' that gross and carnal opinion of three (listinct per-
sons or subsistences in the godhead. Persons and
subsistences, are subsistences or accidents. As for
the word person, I do not understand tliat 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 eitlier tell you
'tis a man, or else they are not able to give you any
answer at all. As for the word twcidcnt, I suppose
none will attribute that to Gtxl, ibr according to my
poor skill, tliat 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 testify,' &c. These things being di.s-
cusscd, it was resolved by the members of parlia-
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[361] ment that ' tliov were erroneous, propliane and
highly scandalous.'' Afterwards they proceeded to
the book called TheCkrffy hi their Cohurs,whev{in,
p. 34. is this said by the author — ' I cannot let pass
one obser\ation, and tiiat is the strange posture
those men put themselves into, when they Ixigin
their prayers before their sermons, whether the fools
and knaves in stage plavs took their pattern from
these men, or these men from them I cannot deter-
mine, &c. what wry mouths, squint eyes they make,
&c. how like a company of conjurers do they mum-
ble out the beginnmgs of their prayers, that the
Eople mav not hear them,' &c. These passages
ing debated, the parliamimt resolvefl 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 pill : but I may say with S. Paul, kc. ' When
I was a child,' &c. Every man that knoweth any
thing, knoweth this, that it is reason that distin-
guishes 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 par-
liament that they were erroneous. Afterwards they
resolved that tlie said book called The Accuser
ashamed, and the other called The Clergy in their
Colours be burnt, and that the sheriffs of London
and Middlesex be authorized and required to cause
all the printed copies of both the said lxx)ks, and
every of them, wheresoever they should lie found,
to be burnt, some in the new Palace-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 jwmp and great splendor. At the same time
it was resolvetl that the said Job. Ery be disenabled
to sit as a member of parliament ; so that being so-
lemnly cashier'd he had more liberty to keep com-
pany with Jo}in Biddle, which he did, as with
others of that opinion. This person who had ran
through most, ii" not all, religions, even to rantism,
died soon after, and thereby saved the hang-man
his labour.

[28 Octob. 1637, Franciscus Cheynell A.M. ad
vie. de Marston S. Laurentii, ad pres. Phil. Holman
armig. Reff. Dec. Ep. Petrib. Kennkt.]

« THOMAS JONES son of Edw. Jones of
" Nanteor in Cardiganshire was Iwrn there, elected
" probationer fellow of Merton coll. in 1638, aged
" 20 years or thereabouts, travelled into France
" and Italy, after he was master of arts of some
" years standing, with George son and heir of sir
" Nathan. Brent, an. 1G47. but returned unfortu-
" nate as to his charge, and submitted to the vi-
" sitors appointed by parliament, 6 Aug. 1649.
" Afterwards he applied his mind to the study of

" the civil law, took tlie degree of doctor of that
" faculty, an. 16o9, and in the next year published
" these things following,

" Oratio habita in Auditorio juridico, cum Reci-
" tatlones soleuues in Titulum de Judiciis auspi-
" catus est. Oxon. 1660. in oct. [Bodl. 8vo. A. 9.
" Th. BS.]

" De Judieiis, ubl de Persmia 4" Officio Judicis
" apyd Ebrwos ^- Romanos late dliputatur, printed
" with the former.

" De Oriffine Dominii 4" Servitutis Theses
" JuridiccB, jirinted also with the former books ;
" in all which the author shews himself a good
" Grecian and Hebrician. Afterwards tlie author
" retired to London to practise his faculty at Doc-
" tor's Commons, in which city, in great Wood-
" street dying of the plague in the latter end of
" Sept. or beginning ot October in sixteen hundred
" sixty and five, his carcass was buried among those
" that died of that disease."

[In bishop Tanner's copy of these Athen.e, fre-
quently quoted in this edition, and now preserved
in the Bodleian, is the foregoing life of Thomas
Jones in Anthony a Wood's own hand. This
original draught contains the following additional
sentence, which is one of the (probably many) omis-
sions made by that editor, in the discharge of his
trust."

' The reader now, by the way, may understand
that tho' this Dr. Jones was a learnccl man (for so
he was esteemed by his contemporaries and others)
yet he shewed himself very base and unworthy to
the place that gave him maintenance, especially in
this particular ; that he did dissent from his bre-
thren, (the felJowes of jMerton coll.) in the election
of one of their body to govern them, and was the
prime and chief instrument to introduce a stranger
over, and consequently a great trouble to, them, as
it afterwards evidently appeared. Which stranger
(sir Tho. Clayton) having unworthily presided the
said coll. 33 yeares, hfith with his family (women
and childi-en) been a great burden thereunto, and a
grief to those that wish well to the prospt'rity of
their tender parent. Now, if any one should en-
quire the reason why Jones should act such a vile
part, I shall answer, that he did it, in hopes of pre-
ferment, which the new governour (Clayton) proi-
mised to get for him, for his falsness and knavery ;
but when the governour had got jxissession, and
was setled in his wardenship, he slightetl him with
scorne ; whereupon Jones, (a most covetuous
WTetch) grew first discontented, and a little after
(thro' the neglect of the society) crazed : sf> that
finding his college very uneasie to him, he went
forthwith to Doctor's Commons in London, to
gaine practice in his facultie, but that failing, be-
cause of his distemper, he took a lodging in Great

' [See preface to this edition, vol. 1. page 10]

JONES.

ELLIS.

710

Woodstreet in that city ; where remaining in great
discontent, till the great plague raged, was, by the
just liand of God, overtaken by tliat distemper,
and cut off from the living, l)eing a just reward for
his knavery and roguery.'' ' ]

JOHN ELLIS received his first breath in the
parish of Llanderkuin near to Harlech in Merio-
nithshire, 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 seve-
ral classes of logic 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 admittetl doctor of his
faculty in the university of S. Andrew, on the day
before the cal. of August 1634, and in Oct. folio w-
[362] irig 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, e.sq; became rector of Whitfield near
that place; which benefice lie keeping till about
1647 was made rector of S. Mary's church in a
market town called Dolgelhy or Dolgethle in his
own county, where he continued till the time of his
death, sidmg with all parties and taking all oaths.
His works are these,

Clavis Fidel, seu Brevia qucedam d'tctata in
■Si/mliolum Apostolorum. Oxon. 1642. [Bodl. 8vo.
d. 6. Th. BS.] 4H. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. A. 23. Th.]
Translated into English by Will. Ft)wlcr a com-
poser in the art of printing — Camb. 1669. oct.

Comment, in Obadiam Proph. Lond. 1641. oct.
[Bodl. 8vo. P. 144. Th.]

" Vindlcice CathoUcce ; ^ or the Rights gfparticu-
" lar Churches rescued and asserted against that
" meer (hit dangerous ) Notion, of one Catholic,
" visible, governing Church, he."" Lond. 1647. qu.
[Bodl. C. a 29. Line]

Defensio Fidei : seu Responsio succincta ad Ar-
giimcnta, quibus impugnari solet Confessio Angli-
cana, una cum nova Articulorum Versione. Lond.
1660. He concluded his last day at Dolgothle be-
1665. fore-mention'd, in sixteen hundred sixty and five,
and was buried in the ch. yard there belonging to
S. Mary's church aforesaid. In his rectory suc-
ceeded his kinsman Tho. EUis bac. of div. some-
time fellow of Jesus coll. son of Griffin Ellis of
Dolbehman in Caernarvanshire, " (of whom shall

' [The above account must be read with much allowance
for Wood's temper. No man bore a greater affection to the
house of his education than he did, and he loolsed on it as
an imperative duty to decry every thing which he deemed in-
jurious to its credit and prosperity. See much more on this
subject in the Life of our author (written by liimscU") pre-
fixed to the first vol. of these Athek«, pp. xlii — I.]

' [Qu. if this was not written by John Ellis the rector of
Waddesdon >]

" be mention made elsewhere')" who having been
well vers'd in British histories, and a singular lover
of antiquities, matle many additional to the History
of Cambria published by Dav. Powell, as I have
before told you ; which being so done, the book wa.s
licensed and put into the press at Oxon. But by
that time he liad printed 20 sheets or more, out
came Percie Enderoie with his book entit. — Cam-
bria triumphans, &c. Or antient and modern Bri-
tish and Welsh History. Lond. 1661. fol. In which
book, Tho. Ellis finding that Enderbie had seized
upon those materials that he had collected for the
fabric of his work, he did desist from going any
further, and caused what had been printed of his
work to be sold for wast paper.* He died at Dol-
behman in the beginning of the year (in Apr.) 1673,
and was buried in the church Ijelonging to that
town. As for Enderbie who was an author of no
considerable note, as having not had that just edu-
cation which is requisite for a genuin historian, he
hath done his work but very meanly, being mostly
a scribble from late authors, and gives not that satis-
faction, which curious men desire to know. And
therefore I am persuaded that had Ellis finished
his work, 'twould have been more acceptable to
scholars and intelligent persons, as having had more
opportunities and advantages by reason of his birth,
and a continual succession of his family in Wales
to know such matters, than Enderbie, who was a
stranger ; (for he was born at, or near to, the city
of Lincoln, and knew little or nothing of Wales till
he settled there by a clandestine marriage with the
daughter of sir Edw. Morgan of Lantamam in
Monmouthshire baronet) but upon some encourage-
ment received from certain gentlemen, and from the
library at Lantarnam, he undertook it partly for
fame, but more for money, sake. This person, who
translated into English The Astrologer anatomiz'd :
or, the Vanity of Star-gazing Art discovered, writ-
ten by Benedict Pererius. " Lond. 1674, oct."
died at, or near, Carleon in Apr. 1670, leaving
some other things (as 'twas said) fit for the press,
but if they be no better than his Cambria tri-
umphans, 'tis no matter if they suffer the same fate
as the papers of Tho. Ellis did. Besides the be-
fore-mention'd John EUis was another of both his
names and a writer, bred in Cambridge, and after-
wards rector of Waddesdon in Bucks,' father to
Phihp Ellis' bred in Westminster school, but in no

' [Viz. Under the year lfi72.]

* [See under thevcar 1666, col. 728; article Robert
Vaughan.]

* [1661, 24 Octob. Joh. Ellis clericus, ad primam por-
tionem reclorice de Waddesdon com. Buck, ad secundam
piirlionem eodem die, ad pres. regis. Reg. Sanderson.

1661, 8 Nov. Joh. Ellis ad tertiam portionem rectorife de
Waddesdon, ad pres. d. regis. Ih. Kknnet.]

'' [.lohn Ellis of Waddesdon had several children, all edu-
ciitcd in Westminster-school and eminent :

John Ellis, student of Ch. Ch. secretary to the earl of
Ossory, and utider-secretarv of state many years.
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ELLIS.

GRIFFITH.

university in England, because he had changed his
religion for that of Rome,' consecrated a titular
bishop in the chapjx;! belonging to S. James's house
in Westminster on Sunday 6th of May 1688.

MATTHEW GRIFFITH was born of gen-
teel parents in London, became a commoner of
Brasen. coll. in the beginning of May 1615, aged
16 years or more, took one degree in arts as a mem-
r3631 ^^ "^ Gloc. hall, then holy orders and soon after
became lecturer of St. Dunstan's church in the
West, under the inspection, as 'tis^ said, of Dr.
John Donne, whose favourite he was. Afterwards
he was made rector of S. Mary Magd. near Old
P'ish-street in London by the presentation of the
dean and chapter of S. Paul's, where shewing him-
self a grand episcoparian, was in the beginning of
the rebellion scqucstredfrom his rectory, plundered,
and iniprison'd m Newgate ; whence being let out,
he was forced to fly, but taken and afterwards ini-
prison'd in Peter-house. At length getting loose
thence, he retired to the king at Oxon, by virtue of
whose letters he was actually created D. of D. in
■ June 1643, and made one of his chaplains. After-
wards, upon the declining of the kmg's cause, he
returned to London, and there by stealth read and
continued prayers and other ordmances, according
to the church of England, to the poor cavaliers
during the usurpation ; ' for which he suffer'd seven
violent assaults, as 'tis said, and five imprisonments,
the last of which was in Newgate in the beginning
of the year 1660. After the king's return, he was
restoretl to liis rectory, was made preacher to the
honourable societies of the Temples, and rector of
Elation near Woodstock in Oxfordshire, but whe-
ther he was made a prebend of a church, or a dean,
which he much deserved, I know not.' He hath
written and published.

Several sermons, as (1) Sermon on Psal. 37. vcr.
1. Lond. 1633. oct. (2) Patlietical Persuasion to
pray Jbr public Peace; on Psal. 122. 6. Lond.
1642. qu. [Bodl. B. 20. 16. Line] For several

Sir Will. Ellis, secretary of state to king James 11. now
living at Feme.

Phil. Ellis, Popish bishop.

Wiklbore Ellis, student ofCh. Ch. bishop of Kildare, and
dean of St. Patrick's, Ireland.

.... Ellis, country clergyman. Takner.]

' [Sfctind Sermon preach'd before the King and Queen,
and Queen Dowager, in /heir Majesties Chappel at St.
James's, upon All-Saints Day, November I. ll)85. By the
reverend Father Dnm. Ph. Ellis, Monk oj" the holy Order of
S. Benedict, and of the English Congr. Lond. 1 686, 4to.
Bodl. C. 7. 16. Line]

* In the Memoirs of noble and reverend Personages, writ-
ten by Dav. Lloyd — Lond. 1668, fol. p. 521.

9 [^Particularly to myown knowledec (says Mr. Newcourt)
at the little obscure cliurcli of S. Nicholas Olave, on the
back-side of Old Fish-strcct. Kennet.]

' [Nullas tanien ecclesiasticas dignitales consequulus est,

qui moerucrat omnes Ab aedibus generi sni generosiss.

Ludovici Nappier armig. ad banc aedem de Bladon cum moe-
rore maximo delatus. Pagan. Fisher Elogia Seputchralia,
p.(jg. Baker.]

passa£;es in which sermon he suffered imprisonment.
(3) Sermon touching the Power of' the King; on
Eccles. 8. 4. Lond. 1643. qu. His name is not set
to it, but the general report, then and after, was,
that 'twas his. (4) The I ear of God and the King,
pressed in a Serm. at Mercers Chappel, 25 March
1660 ; on Prov. 24. 21. Lond. 1660. qu. kc. In
which sermon shewing himself too zealous for the
royal cause, before gen. George Monk durst own it,
was, to please and blind the fanatical party, im-
prison'd in Newgate, but soon after released.'^
There was an answer made to this by John Milton,
entit. Brief Notes upon a late Sermon titled, Tlte

Fear of God, &c. Whereupon came out a little

thing called No blind Guides, &c. addressee! to the
author in two sheets, in Rog. Lestrange his Apo-
logij. Lond. 1660. qu. (5) Communion Serm.
preached at Serjeants Inn before tJie Judges ; on
Rom. 12. 4, 5. Lond. 1661. qu. (6) Catlwlic
Doctor and his spiritual Catholicon, on 1 John 1.
7. Lond. 1662. qu. (8) Tlie King's Life-guard;
an anniversary Sermon preached to the honourable
Society of both the Temples, 30 Jan. 1664. on 1
Sam. 26. 9. Lond. 1665. qu. Besides which he
hath others that are extant, but such I have not
yet seen, as Tlie Samaritan revived ; another called
The blessed Birth, &c. He hath also written,

Betliel : or, a Form for Families ; in which aU
Sorts of both Sexes, are so squared, and framed by
the Word, as they may best .serve in their several
Places, for useful Pieces in God^s Building. I^ond.
1654. qu.

Briefhistorical Accowit of the Causes of our un-
happy Distractions, and the ordy Way to heal litem'.
Lond. 1660. oct. This is added to a second edi-
tion of the sermon called The Fear of God and the
King, &c. This most zealous and loyal person de-
parted this mortal life at Bladon before mention'd,
on the 14th of Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and
five, and was buried in the chancel of the church
there. He had before broken a vein in the earnest
pressing of that necessary point, ' Study to be quiet
and follow your own business.' In the said rectory

'' [Extract from a letter from the earl of Clarendon, dated
Breda, April l6, l660. Appendi.v to the English Life qf
Barwick, 8vo. Lond. 1724, page 5, 7.

' I am heartily ulad that Dr. Morley is with you, whom
you will find a very worthy and discreet person, and fit to
keep you company, in allaying the too much heat and dis-
temper, which some of our friends are in this unseasonable
conjuncture very much accus'd of; insomuch as this very
last post hath brought over three or four complaints lo ihc
king, of the very unskillful passion and dislc.nper of some
of our divines in their lale sermons; with which, they say,
that both the general and the council of state are highly
offended ; as truly ihey have reason to be ; if, as they report,
there have been such menaces and threats against those,
who have hitherto had the power of doing hurt, and are not
yet so much depriv'd of it, that theyonght to be undervalued.
One Dr. Griflfith is mention'd for having preach'd a sermon
of that kind, and since printed it, and dedicated it to the ge-
neral J who they say is extreamly offended at it.']

1665.

GRIFFITH.

WAllMESTllY.

714

ofBladon (Woodstock being a chappel of ease to
it) succeeded Henry Savage D. D. master of Baliol
coll. of whom I shall make mention among these
writers under the year 1672.

[1640, 29 Apr. Matth. Griffith A.M. admiss.
ad ecclesiam S. Benedicti Sherehog, per mortem
Cadwallader Morgan, ad pres. regis. Reg. London.

On a white free-stone, on the groiuid, in the
church of Cant.

' Here lieth interred the body of Sarah the wife
of Matthew Griffith D. D. cliaplain to king Charles
I. She was daughter of Richard Smitli D. D.
chaplaine to queen Anne, and had issue five sons
and five daughters, whereof three only survived
lier; viz. Sarah Edwards, Elizalieth Napier, and
Mary Wollyclie. She dyed the 18th day of March,
1677, and in the 80th year of her age.' Kennet.]

THOMAS WARMESTRY son of Will.
Warm, registrary of the cath. church at Worcester,
was born, and educated in grammar learning, in that
city, became a student of Ch. Ch. in 1624 or there-
abouts, took the degrees in arts, that of master
being compleated in 1631, and had some spiritual
cure in his own country conferred upon him soon
after. In 1640 he was clerk for tne diocese of
Worcester in the two con^■ocations of the clergy
held that year, and in 1642 he retired for security's
sake (the nation being then in a combustion) to the
king at Oxon, where he was actually created D. of D.
the same year, and afterwards lost what he had be-
fore obtained in the church, notwithstanding he liati
always before been accounted a jiuritan. After the
king's cause declined, he lived mostly in London,
was the distributer of money (obtiiined fi-om gene-
rous loyalists) to sufferers for the royal interest, was
chief confessor to loyal martyrs, a constant and in-
defatigable visitor and comforter of sick and distress-
ed cavaliers, (for so the royalists were called) very
zealous also in converting infidels, industrious in re-
claiming the loose, and establishing the wavering,
zealous and careful in preparing his auditors for
the sacrament of the Lord's supper and for death.
After the king's return in 1660 he was restored
to what he had lost, was made prebendary of Glo-
cester, and in the year following dean of Worcester,
upon the death of Dr. Joh. Oliver;^ in which dig-
nity he was installed 27 Nov. 1661. He hath writ-
ten and published,

A Convocation Speech against Images, Altars,
Crosses, the new Canons and the Oath. Lond. 1641
in 3 sh. in qu. [Bodl. 4to. P. 20. Art. BS.]

Pax Vobis : or, a Charm Jbr tumultttous Spirits,

' [John Oliver S. T. P. installed preb. of Winchester on
the death of Dr. Tho. Goad, Sept. 21, l638 : also dean of
Worcester. Gale's Antiq. Wlnchesler. 123.

l66o, .5 Febr. Johannes Oliver cler. admiss. ad deeanatum
ruralcm de Stanford in com. Line, ex donatione rev. patris
Robcrti Line, episcopi, pleno jure, ralione episcopatus Line.

KfcMNET.]

being an Advice to the City of London to Jbrbear
their disorderly Meetings at Westminster. Lond.
1641. qu. [Bodl. 4to. A. 9- Art. BS.]

Ham us OlixuL : or, a Petition ^br Peace to his
Maj. and the Houses of Parliament. Oxon. 1642.
qu. [Botll. 4to. S. 54. th.]

AnsKcr to one W. Bridges concerning the pre-
sent War, and taking up Arms against the King

Printed 1643. qu. [Bodl. 4to. U. 27. Thfj

This W. Bridges, I take to be the .same with him
who wrote Some short Annotations cm The loycd
Convert. Lond. 1644. in 4 sheets in qu. but not
the same, I presume, with Will. Biidges preacher
at S. Dunstan's in the East, London, author of
JoaUs Counsel, and David''s sea-iotiable Hearing it.
Serm. before the House of Com. at the public Fa.it
22 Feb. 1642; on 2 Sam. 19. 5, 6, 7, 8. Lond.
1643. qu. and of other tilings. I find one Will.
Bridge to have been fellow of Emanuel coll. in
Cambridge, and afterwards a minister in Norfolk,
but to avoid the censures of episcopal consistories,
he with Jerem. Burroughs withdrew themselves
into the Low C^otintries. " Archbishop Laud, in
" his annual accounts of his province to the king
" for 1636 thus mentions this man, ' Mr. Bridge
" of Norwich rather than he will conform, hath left
" his lecture and two cures and is gone into Hol-
" land.' — King Charles's note uptjii this is, ' Let
" him go, we are well rid of him.'" Upon the
change of the times occasion'd by the presbyterians.
Bridge returned, became minister at Yarmouth in
Norfolk, a frequent preacher before the long parlia-
ment, a notorious independent, and a keeper up of
that faction by continual preaching during the time
of usurpation, silenced upon his majesty's return,
carried on his cause with the said Jer. Burroughs
in conventicles at Clapham in Surrey till about the
time of his death, which banned in 1670. I say
this Will. Bridge who while lie lived pubhshe<l .se-
veral sennons and theological tracts, and after his
death had 8 of his sermons made public, which are
entit. Bridge''s Remains, &c. Lond. 1673. oct.
with his picture before them,* is not to be taken to
be the same with Will. Bridges before-mention'd,
because of the different w-ritings of their names.
Dr. Wiirmestry hath also written,

An hearty and friendly Premonition to ilie City
of London before their Meeting in their common
Hall in 1648, whereby they have an Opportunity
to become the happy InMruments of their oten
Safety, and the Peace and Preservation of the
Kingdom. Lond. 1648. in two sheets in qu.

Vindication of the Solemnity of the Nativity of
Christ [shcwiitg the Grounds upon which the Ob-
servation of that and oilier Festivals is Justified in
the Church.] — Printed 1648. qu.

Answer to certain Queries prcypcmnded by one
Joseph Hemming in Opposition to the Practice of

* [Engraved by W. Sherwin.]

POINT Z.

EARI.E.

tlic Church in the Solemnity oftlie said Nativity.
— Printed wiili the Vindication.
[365] Siffh-s of the Church and Commonwealth of Eng-

land. Lond. 1648. in tw.

A Box of Spiknai-d : or, a little Manual of
Sacramental In,itriiction and Devotion, especially
lielpful to the People of God, at, and about, the
Time of receii^ing the LoriVs Supper. Lond. 1664.
third etlit. in tw. printed tlicre again in 1671 and
74 in 24.

The baptized Turk : or, a Narrative of the
happy Conversion qfSignior Rigep Dandulo, the
only Son of a Silk Merchant in the Isle ofTzio,
SfC. and of his Admission upon Baptism by Mr.
Pet. Gunning at Exeter-house Chappel, 8 Nov.
1657. Lond. 1658. oct. [Rodl. 8vo. W. 11. Th.
BS.] This nan-ative was drawn up by our author
Warniestrv, who caused the picture of the said
Dandulo in a Turkish habit to be put Iieforc it.*

Tlie Countermine of Union: or, the Jciuifs
Mine of Divi.sion, being a, short Platform, of Expe-
dients forr Peace, Lond. 1660. Wliat otlier biwks
he hatli extant I know not, nor any thinjr else of
him, only that he dying on the 30th of ()ctob. in
Hi()5. sixteen hundred sixty and five, aged 60 or there-
abouts, wa,s buried, by his father, grandfather, and
other relations, in the body of the cathedral at Wor-
cester, not far from the north door. Over his grave
is an inscription engraven on a black marble, the
copy of which vou may see in Hist. S^- Antiq. Univ.
Oxon. lib. 9. p. 279- b. In his deanery succeeded
Dr. Will. Thomas, of whom I shall make mention
in his proper place.

[Anno 1657, 23 -lune. The parliament desires
his liighness to remove from Margarets, Westmin-
ster, one Warmestree, who is employed as a lec-
turer there (being a notorious delmquent) and to
appoint some pers(m of eminent godliness and abili-
ties, to be y)ul)lick preacher there : wjiich the par-
liament doth apprehend to lie a matter of very great
concernment to the good of this place.° Coi.nc.

He was notoriously abused after his death in a
scurrilous pamphlet entit. More Neiosfrom Roma ;
and in one calrd A new Font erected in the Cathe-
dral Church of Glocester in Oct. 1663. Watts.]

ROBERT POINTZ son of sir John Pointz
was born of, and descended from, an antient and
noble family of his name living at Iron-Acton in
Glocestershire, was educated for a time in the
quality of a gent. com. in this university, but in
what coil, unless in that of Lincoln (for I cannot
find him matriculated as yet) I know not. After-
wards he studie<l for a time in one of the Temples,
and when king Charles I. was crown'd in 1625, he
was made one of the knights of the Bath. He hath
written,

* [II was engrave 1 by Cross, and is not of common oc-
currence.]

* [Journals of Ihe House jjf Commons, vol. vii, p. SGg.]

A Vindication of Monarchy and the Govern-
ment long e-italdiihcul in. the C/i. and Kingdom of
England, a^inst the pernicious Assertions and
tumultuous Practices of the Innovatms during tJie
last Parliament in the Reign of K. Charles I.
Lond. 1661. qu. He was buried in the church of
Iron-Acton among the graves of his ancestors, on
the tenth day of Nov. in sixteen hundred sixty and l665.
five, aged 79 years or thereabouts, leaving then
behind liim a son named John a knigiit, who died
in the Middle Temple at London m 1680, and
left behind him a relict named Anne, but not the
estate at Iron-Acton, because it had been conveyed
away by his father. One of his name and family
called captain John Pointz wrote and published
Tlie present Prospect of the famous and fertile
Island of Tobago, ^c. xvith Proposals Jhr the En-
couragement of all those that arc minded to settle
thire. Lond. 1683. in 7 sh. in qu.' Whether he
was of any univer.sity I know not.

[Letter from .sir Robert Pointz to the marquis of
Ormonde in Carte's Collection of Original Letters
concerning Englandjrmn 1641 to 1600. 8vo. 1739,
page 19. J

JOHN EARLE received hLs first being in this
vain and transitory world within the city of York,
was admitted probationer^ fellow of Merton coll. in
1620, ageil 19 years or thereabouts, and proceeded
in arts four years after. His younger years were
adorned with oratory, poetry, and witty fancies ; and
his elder with quaint preaching and subtile disjjutes.
In 1631 he was one of the proctors of the university,
and about that time chaplain to Philip, earl of Pem-
broke, who, for his service and merits, bestowed
upon him the rectory oi' Bishopstou in Wilts. Af-
terwards he was constituted chaplain and tutor to
Charles prince of Wales, after Dr. Duppa was made
bishop of Sali-sbury,' was actually created doct. of

' [A true Belalien of Ihe Taking of Roger Manwring
Bishop of Si. Davids, coming from Ireland in a disgtiis'd Ha-
bit, in the Ship call'd the Eagle, the US of June, 1()42. By
Captaine John Pointz. Also Ihe Relation nf Ihe sudden
Rising of the Lord Strange in Laukashire, and of his Inten-
tion of the Taking of the Magazine «/' I.arpoole. Likewise
concerning the Lord Digbies coming over in the Ship calfd
the Providence, his being chased at Sea by our Ships. And
how Sir Edward Stradting, and Colonell Ashburnham were
with a French Man of fVar taken coming from Holland in a
Pinnace; going for Yorke. Unto which, is annexed a Con-
spiracie against Sir Henry Tickbourn Governour of Droghe-
dah, by Captain Garner, and how Tradah had like to have
been betrayed by the Rebels. Also an Order against Pro-
claiming any Proclamation, Order, or Declaration, cnntrnry
to any Order or Ordinance of both Houses of Parliament.
London, Printed by Tho. Banks, July Q, l641. 4lo. This is
a single sheet in Wood's study, Numb. 374, and is charac-
terized by the Oxford biographer as containing ' silly things.'
It appears indeed to be much on a par with the last dying
speecnes hawked about the streets at the present day.]

■ [It was not upon Duppa's becoming bishop of Salisbury,
for that was in l()4I, whereas he (Duppa) occurs tutor in
l645. See a Iclicr from the king to his sou, d.ited Aug. 5,

EARLE.

718

div. in 16¥^, elected one of tJie assembly of divines
in the year following, but refused to sit among them,
and chancellor of the cath. ch. at Salisbury in the
place of Will. Chillingworth deceased, in the latter
end' of tlie same year 1643. Afterwards he suf-
fered, and was deprived of all he had, for adhering
to his majesty king Charles I.' suffered in exile with
his son king Charles II. whom, after his defeat at
Worcester, he saluted at Roan upon his arrival in
Normandy, and thereupon was made his chaplain
and clerk of the closet. After the king's return he
was made dean of Westminster, keeping his clerkship
still, was consecrated bishop of Worcester, after the
death of Dr. Gauden, on the last of Noveml). (S.
Andrew's day) 1662, and at length was translated
to the see of Salisbury 28 Sept. 1663, void by the
translation thence to London of Dr. Humph. Hench-
man. This Dr. Earl was a very genteel man, a
contemner of the world, religious and most worthy
of the office of a bishop. He was a person also of
the sweetest and most obliging nature (as one ' that
knew him well, tho' of another persuasion, saith)
that lived in our age, and since Mr. Rich. HookiT
died, none have lived, whom' God had blest with
more innocent wisdom, more sanctified learning, or
a more pious, jx-aceable, primitive temper, than he;
so that this excellent person seeni'd to be only like
himself, and venerable Mr. Hooker, and only the fit
man to make the learned of all nations happy, in
knowing what hath been too long confin'd to the
language of our little island, I mean by his transla-
tion of the said Mr. Hooker's book called Ecdes.
Polity, as I shall tell you anon. He hath written.
Ah Elegy upon Mr. Franc. Beaumont the Poet.

Afterwartls printed at the end of BeaumonCs

Poems. Lond. 1640. qu. Put out with a poetical
epistle before them, subscribed by Laur. Blaikelock
a presbyter tan * bookbinder * near Tem-
'alooksell- pjg.ijjjf^ afterwards an informer to the
gjj, committee of sequestration at Haber-

dashers and Goldsmith's-hall, and a beg-
gar defunct in prison.

l645, in which his majesty desires the (jrince to convey him-
self to Frnnce, whensoever he shall be in apparent danger of
falling into the rebels' hands, and there be under the care of
his mother, ' who (says the kinj;) is to have the absolute full
power of your education in all things, except religion : and
in that, not to meddle at all, but leave it entirely to the care
of your tutor, the bishop of Salisbury, or to whom he shall
appoint to supply his place. Clarendon's Hiit. of the Rebell.
ii, d27, ed. fol.]

9 [Feb. 10, 1643-4. Walker, Sufferings of the Clergy,
part li, page 63.]

' [He was an intimate acquaintance with Dr. Morlcy, after-
wards bishop of Winchester, and lived with him one year at
Antwerp, in sir Charles Cotterell's house, who was master
of the ceremonies. Thence he went to France, and attended
upon James, duke of York. Macro.]

^ Ser. Cressy in his Episl. Apologetkal, p. 46, 47.

» See in Tlie Life <f Mr. Rich. Hooker— Loni. J 670. p.
1)5. written by Isa. Walton.

* [This I had out of some of Mr. Ashmole's pamphlets.
Wood, MS. note in Ashmole!]

Micro-co.imography : or, a Piece of iJie World
characterised in Essays and Characters. Lond.
1628, [Bodl. 8vo. P. 154. Th.] &c. in tw.» Pub-
lished under the name of Edw. Blount. He also
translated from English int« Lat. Eixu))' Bao-iXtxr,
which he entit. Imago Regis Caroli primi in
yErumnis ^ Solitttdine. Hag. Com. 1649 in tw.
[Bodl. 8vo. C. 433. Line] and also Tlie Laws of
Eccles. Polity in 8 Books, written by Rich. Hooker
of C. C. C. This is in MS. and not yet printed.''
Dr. Earle Iwing esteemed a witty man, while he
continued in the university, several copies of his in-
genuity and poetry were greedily gathered up, some
of which I have seen, particularly that Lat. poem
entit. Hortus Mertoviensis. The beginning of whicii
is ' Hortus deliciaj domus politas," &c.' He had also
a hand in some of the figures, of which alrout 10
were published, but which figure or figures claim
him as author, I know not. The figure of .six I
have,* bearing this title, Tlie figure of Six, con-
taining these six Things, Wit, Mirth, Pleasure,
pretty Observations, new Conceits, and merry Jedts.
These figures were not pubhshed all at once, but at
several times. At length this worthy bishop re-
tiring to Oxon when the king, queen and tlleir
respective courts settled there for a time, to avoid
the plague then raging in London and Westminster,
took up his quarters in University coll. where dying
on the 17th of Novemb. in sixteen hundred sixty i66i.

'■• [Editions o( Microcosmography &xc
I. l628.

Called in the title • ihe fift edition much

5.

1629.

cnlarg

ed.'

6.

1633.

7.

1638.

8.

160O.

fl-

16.59.

ic.

1669.

11.

1732.

12.

1786.

13.

1811.

I have never seen the 3d, 3d, or 4th ; that of 1738 had a new
title-page dated 1740, The World display'd, Sec]

^ [Bp. Earle's Latin translation of Hooker's book of £cc/wi-
asticat Polity , which was his entertainment, during part of his
exile at Cologne, is utterly destroyed by prodigious heedless-
ness and carelessness : for it being written in loose papers,
only pinned together, and put into a trunk unlocked, after
his death, and being looked upon as refuse and waste paper,
the servants lighted their fire with them, or else put them
under their bread and their pies, as often as they had occa-
sion ; as the present earl of Clarendon has more than once
told me, who was ordered by my lord his father, about a
year after the bishop's death, to attend upon the widow, at
her house near Salisbury, and to receive them from her
hands, from whom he received this deplorable account of
their loss ; himself seeing several scattered pieces, not follow-
ing in order, the number of pages being greatly interrupted,
that had not undergone the same fate with the rest. Original
Letter from Dr. Smith to Hearne, (in the Bodleian library)
dated Sept. 13, 1705.]

' [This is printed in the fourth volume of Aubrey's Natu-
ral History of Surrey, page 167, &c.]

" [I regret to state that this volume is not now to be found
in Wood's study.]

719

BRADLEY.

WILDE.

[367]

1(565.

and five, was buried near the hijjjh altar in Mert.
coll. cluinli, on the !*.5tli <lay of the said month,
l)eing then ationipanied to liis grave from the
public sclux)ls by an herald at arms and the princi-
pal jxjrsons of the court and university. In tlie see
of Salisbury succeeded Dr. Alexander Hyde some-
time fellow of New coll. of whom will be large men-
tion made in his proj)er place.

[Jo. Earle A. M. coll. Mert. Oxon. incorporat.
Cantabr. an. 1632.

See MS. letter of his to Mr. Sancroft, who had
relieved him in distress, dated Bruxels Jun. 30.
(circa an. 1659.) See MS. vol. xxxiv, p. 117-
Baker.

John Earle was son of Thomas Earle, gentleman,
registrar of the archbishop's court at York.'
, In 1811 the editor of the present work published
an edition of the bishop's Mkrocosnw<j;raphy, with
some few notes, and a large appendix ; the latter
containing, among many other tlrngs,

1. Lhies on the Death of Sir John Burrmiglis.

2. Lines on the Death of' the Earl of Pembroke.

3. Correspondence between Dr. Earle and Mr.
Baxter.

Besides which Dr. Earle wrote

4. Lines on. the Return of the Prince from
Spain. . Printed in the Mnsw Anglicana;, i, 286.

5. Contemplations an the Proverbs : with a Dis-
course xvritten in Memory of Lord Falkland.'}

" THOMAS BRADLEY a Berkshire man
" born, became a batler of Exeter coll. in 1616 aged
" 16 years, took one degree in arts and then left the
" coll. Afterwards he was made chaplain, as I con-
" ceive, to John lord Savile, whose daughter Frances
" he marrying, became rector of Castleford and
" Ackwortn near to Pontfract in Yorkshire. In
" the beginning of the civil war he adlier'd to the
" king's cause, retired to him at Oxon, was actually
" created D. of D. 1642. and made his chaplain.
" Upon the declining of his majesty's cause he was
" deprived of his spiritualities and lived obscurely,
" but at the return of his son king Charles II. he
" was restored to his l)enefices, antl had a dignity
" bestowed on him. . He hath written,

" Comfort from the Cradle as well as from the
" Crais of Christ, being Meditations on Isa. 9. 2.
" The Substance whereof was delivered in twoSer-
" moiis. Oxon, 1650. qu. [Bodl. A. 5. 15. Line]
" He hath published, as I conceive, other things,
" but such I have not yet seen ; nor do I know any
" thing else of him, only that he died about sixteen
" hundred sixty and five, leaving then behind him a
" son named Savile Bradley sometime fellow of
" New coll. and after the restoration fellow of that
" of Magd."

[Wood says Bradley diet! about 1665, whereas he

» [GuMm's Heraldry, 1704, page 282.J

' [See Lord Clarendon's Stale Papers, il, 330.]

was installed prebendary of North Newbald, in the
church of York, Nov. 1666, which dignity he re-
signed in 1670.

He publishetl A Sermon preached in the Minster
at Yorke at the Assizes there holden the thirtieth
Day of March 1663. York 1663, 4to. On Job
29. ver. 14, 15, 16, 17. Dedicate! to sir Thomas
Gower, knight and bart. high-sheriff of the county.
Rawlinson.]

GEORGE WILDE son of Hen. Wilde a citizen
of London, was born in the coimty of Middlesex,
elected scholar of S. John's coll. from Merchant
Taylor's school in 1628, aged 19 years, entred on
the civil law line, took one degree in tliat fac. 1634,
became one of the chaplains to Dr. Laud archb. of
Cant, who had an esiK'cial respect for him, and
would have jireferr'd Inm above the vicaridge of S.
Giles's church in Reading, had not the civil dis-
tempers broke forth. In the heat of the rebellion
he adhered to the cause of his majesty, was an ap-
pointed preacher before him and the parliament m
Oxon, beilig then in great esteem for his eloquent
preaching, and therefore had the degree of doctor of
the civil law conferr'd u[)on him. Afterwards being
turned out of his fellowship by the parliamentarian
■visitors in 1648, he suffer'd nuich, yet kept up a re-
ligious meeting for the loyalists in Fleet-.3treet Lon-
don.' After his majesty's restoration, he was, in
requital for his loyalty, made bishoi> of I^onilon-
Derry in Ireland, where he was highly valued for
his public spirit, religious conversation and exem-
plary piety. In his younger years he wa.s accounted
aper.son of great ingenuity, and in his elder, a man
of singular prudence, a grace to the pulpit, and,
when in Ireland, as worthy of his function as any
there. He hath written.

The Hospital of Lovers, or Loves' Hospital, a
Comedy Acted in S. John's coll. public refec-
tory belbre the king and queen 30 Aug. 1636. but
'twas not, as I conceive, iirinted.

Hermophns, a Com. — written in Lat. and several
times acted, but not printed.

Sermon preached upon the 3d of March, in St.
Mary's Ch. in Oxon. before the House of Commons,
on Psal. 129. 8, 9- Oxon. 1613. qu.' [Bodl. 4to.
D. 16. Th.] and other things, as 'tis said, luit such
1 have not yet seen. He departed this mortal life
at Dublin on Friday 29tli ot December in sixteen
hundred sixty and five, and was binied in Christ
Church there, at which time Mr. George Seignior
his chaplain, (sometimi-s fellow of Trin. coll. in Cam-
bridge, " and chaplain to the earl of Burhngton

' [' One Dr. Wildf, livinj; in Fleel street, li.is a private
church there, which is contrived in privat chnnibtrs, with
seals, a pulpit, and all things necrssarie for that purpose;
and every forenoon (but especially the wcdnesdayes ami fri-
daycs, between nine and ten of the clock) are assembled
most of the Ch. St. agents.' Tliurloe State Paptrs, folio,
1748, vol. i, page 7 15.]

1665.

»EAUVAIS.

VAUGHAN.

722

Clar.

1(565.

1C70)" preached his funeral sermon, to which I
refer the reader for his farther character, being, as
'tis said, mjule public' In I^ondon-Derry suc-
ceedetl Dr. Hob. Mossom dean of Ch. Ch. in
Dublin.

[Geo. Wilde, LL. B. coll. Jo. Oxon. incorporat.
Cantabr. an. 1635. Rcff. Acad. Cmit. Baker.

He was rector of Biddenden in Kent : sequestred,
and restored in 1660. Tanner.]*

« CHARLES DE BEAUVAIS was hom in
" the isle of Guernsey, became a student in the
" university in 1613, but in what coll. or hall I can-
" not yet tell, and on the 18th of Apr. in the year
" following he was entred into the public library,
" being then a young man most conversant in the
" study of learned arts, as 'tis expressed in one of
" the registers. Afterwards he left the university
" without any degree, and whether he spent any
" time in prosecution of his studies at Cambridge I
" cannot tell. Sure I am that thro' some little em-
" ployments he became rector of Withiam in Sus-
" sex, where, and in the neighbourhood he was
" much respected for his learnmg. He hath writ-
" ten,

" De Disciplinls 4" Scientiis in Genere : Sf de
" recto Ordine quo sunt in Scliolis S^ Academiis
" docenda, &c. Lond. 1648. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. L. 35.
" Art. Seld.]

" Recta Delineatio Disciplincc universalis, seu
" primcE Philosophicc ; itcmque Logicw. Printed
" with the former book.

" Tractatus brevis de Ritihus <§■ Cteremoniis Ec-
" clesice, in Genere <^ in Specie. Lond. 1662. in
" oct. 2 sh. [Bodl. 8vo. C. 721. Line]

" Exercitations concerning the pure and true,
" and the impure and false, Religion. Lond. 1665.
" oct. [Bodl. 8vo. J. 3. Th.J In some of which
" books the author shews himself a great enemy to
" the papists. What other things he hath written
" I know not, nor any thing of his last end."

[Mr. De la Mothe in his Entretiens sur le Cor-
respondence fratemelle dEgllic Anglicane avec les
Eglises Etrangeres, 8vo. 1707, p. 260, says that
Dr. Durel in his Vindicia Anglicanw, 4to. 1669,
p. 424, must mean him (Beauvais) by Bclerium,
whom he mentions with Dr. Peter Du-Moulin, Dr.
Primrose, who without episcopal ordination enjoy'd
English benefices, which Mr. De la Mothe has fur-
ther confirmed. Watts.

Des Arts et Sciences hvmaines. Par Charles de

I

[This seems to be a mistake, his funeral sermon being
leached by Dr. Mossom, who succeeded liiin. It waspub-
ished in i66a-6, being preached on Friday the 12th of Ja-
nuary. Whallev.]

[* Hasted (Hist, of Kent) says that he was inducted Feb.
19, 1640, and afterwards resigned. He certainly does not
seem to have been restored, for Moses Lee obiained ihe rec-
torv in 1 660.1

Vol.. iir.

Beavvais, Ministre de la Parole de Dieu. Queiully,
1638. 8vo. Bodl. 8vo. L. 86. Med.]

THOMAS VAUGHAN, who stiles himself in
all or most of his writings, which ho published, En-

fenius PhilaletJies, was the son of Tho. Vaughan of
.lansomfreid, but bom at Newton in the parish of
S. Bridget near Brecknock in Brecknockshire, an.
1621, educated in grammar learning under one
Matthew Herbert, entred in Jesus coll. in Mich,
term, 1638, and was put under the tuition of a
noted tutor ; by whose lectures profiting much, he
took one degree in arts, was made fellow of the said
house, and afterwards taking holy orders from Dr.
Manwaring bishop of S. David's, had al»ut that
time the rectory of S. Bridget before-mentioned con-
ferr'd upon him by his kinsman sir George Vaughan.
But the unsetledness of the times hindring him a
C[uiet jMssession of, he left, it, retired to Oxon, and
in a sedate repose prosecuted his medicinal geny, (in
a manner natural to him) and at length became
eminent in the chymical part thereof at Oxon, and
afterwards at London unaer the protection and pa^
tronage of that noted chymist sir Rob. Murrey or
Moray knight, secretaiy of state for the kingdom of
Scotland. He the said Vaughan was a great ad-
mirer of the labours of Cornel. Agrippa, whose
principles he followed in most of his works, and to
whom, in matters of philosophy, he acknowledged
that next to God he owed all that he had, and
therefore in his praise he did often passionately »
break out into poetical strains, as that he was

Nature's apostle, and her choice high priest,
Her mystical and bright evangelist, &c.

As he was a great admirer of Agrippa, so he was no

treat favourer of the Aristotelian philosophy, con-
emning it as ' altogether imperfect ancf false, a
meer apothecary's drugg, a mixture of inconsistent
contrary principles, which no way agree with the
harmony and method of nature.' The whole ency-
clopjcdia of which, abating the demonstrative ma-
thematical part, he « says ' is built on meer imagina-
tion without the least light of experience,' and there-
fore he wishes that ' all true sons of his famous Ox-
ford mother, would look beyond Aristotle and not
confine their intellects to the narrow and cloudy ho-
rizon of his text.' Our author seems also to have
had as little kindness for the Cartesian philosophy
as the fomier, for he says' that the author of it
' was a whim and a wham, a fellow that invented ri-
diculous principles of his own, but hath cast them
into .such a method, tliat they have a seeming ,de-

Eendency, and (scholars) mistake his knavery for
is reason,' &c. The truth is, our author Vaughan
was so wedded to his beloved Agrippa, that nothing

5 In Anlhropos. Theomae. p. 53, 54.

« Ibid. p. 63.

' In Man-Mouse, p. 114.

3 A

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723

VAUGHAN.

[369]

could relisli «itli him but his works, especially his
Occult Philosophy, wliich he would defend in all
discourse and writing. He wiis a great chymist, a
noted son of the fire, an experimental philosopher,
a zealous brother of tlie Ilosie-Crucian fraternity, an
understander of some of the Oriental languages, and
a tolerable good English and Latin |X)et. He was
neither pa])i»t nor sectary, but a true resolute pro-
testant in the best sense of tlie church of England.
His works are these,

and the Descent thereof from Adam doumward,
proved, &c. Lond. 1650. oct.

J perfect and full Discovery of the true Caelum
Terra:, or tlie Magicians heavcnlu Chaos andjirst
Matter of all Things. — Printed with Magia Adam.

The second Wash: or, the Moore scoured once
more ; being a charitable Cure for the D'v-
stractions of Alazonomastix. Lond. 1651. oct.
The first wash was the Man-mouse. This worthy
person Dr. Hen. More" (of whom we heard no

Anthroposophia Thcomagica : or, a Discourse of farther as to this matter) was Iwrn of Calvinistical

the Nature of Man and his State after Death,
grounded on his Crcator''s Proto-chymistry, and ve-
rified by a practical Examination of Principles in
the great World. Lond. 1650. oct. [IJodl. «vo. O.
64. Th.J Dedicated to his brethren of the Rosie-
Cross.

Animct magica abscondiia : or, a Discourse of the
universal Spirit of Nature, with his .strange, ab-
struse, miraculous Ascent and Descent. Lond.
1650. oct. It is joyned with the former book, and
they go both together. But the reader is to know,
that our author having reflected on some of the
writings of Mr. Hen. ivfore fellow of Christ's coll. in
Cambridge, particularly, as it seems, on his Psycho-
dia Platonica ; More thereupon came out with
a l)ook entit. Observations upon Anthroposophia
Theomagica and Anima mag. abscond, under the
name of Alazonomastix Philalethes — Par. alias Lond.
1650. oct. Which observations being somewhat
satyrical, charging our author to be a magician, and
withal affirming that nothing but an implacable en-
mity to immorality and foolery, and a zeal of dis-
countenancing vanity, moved him to write agahist
him, (in which his writings he stiles our author ' a
Momus, a mimic, an ape, a meer animal, a fool
in a play, a jack-pudding,' &c.) our author there-
iijwn came out with an answer in vindication of
hunself, entit.

Tlie Man-Mouse taken wi a Trap, and tortured
to Death for gnawing the Margins ofEug. Phila^
letlies. Lond. 1650- oct. Written in the greatest
buffoonry and scolding ima^nable, out-stripping
the pattern laid before hnn by his adversary ; ana not
only plays and quibbles on his name like a novice,
but falls fouly on his university in a childish man-
ner. All which doth fully make out the fantastical-
ness of the title. But this also was repUed upon by
the said More under the name of Alaz. Philalethes
in a book entit. The second Lash against VaughairCs
Anthropos. Camb. 1651. oct. \Vliich answer and
reply of More did afterwards so little please him,
tho' they tended to a good end, that he thought not

parents in a market town in Lincolnshire, called
Grantham, and there for a while bred up under a
master of the same persuasion. At about 14 years
of age he was sent to Eaton school near Windsor,
where he usually spoke very shghtly of the opinions
of Calvin, and about three years after he was entred
into Christ's coll. in Cambridge, where he became
fellow,' a great tutor, and a most noted philo,sopher.
He died on the \st of Sept.* 1687,
aged 73 years, and was buried in ^ '^'/'"^tJcIi^
the chappel of Christ's coll. as I have ^ ' ^ ' '
been informed thence.

Lumen de Lumine : or, a new magical Light
discovered, and communicated to the World. Lond.
1651. oct.

Aphorismi Magici Eugeniani. Printed with
Lum. de Lum. and both dedicated to the univ. of
Oxon.

Aula Lucis : or, the House of Light : a Dis-
course written in the Year 1651. Lond. 1652. oct.
Published not under the name of Eug. Philalethes,
but under the two letters of S. N. a modern specu-
lator, being the two last letters of Thomas Vaughan.

Large Preface with a sliort Declaration of the
physical Work of the Fraternity of the Rosie Cross
— Set by him before a book entit. The Fame afid
Ccrtfession of the Fraternity ofR. C. cmnmxmly of
the Rosie Cross. Lond. 1652. oct. Which Fame
and Coii/es.sion was translated into English by an-
other hand. I have seen another book entit.—
Themis aurea. The Laws of the Fraternity of the
Rosie Cross. Lond. 1656. oct. Written in Lat. by
count Michael Maierus, and put in Enghsh for tlie
information of those who seek after the knowledge
of that honourable and mysterious society of wise
and renowned philosophers. This Enghsh transla-
tion is dedicated to Elias Ashmole esq. by an epis-

tie subscribed by rp' J' \ H. S. but who he or they

are, he the said El. Ashmole hath utterly forgotten.
Euphrates. A Discourse of the Waters of the

East ; or if tlmt secret Fountain, whose Water
fit to have them translated into Latin, with the rest j^ws from Fire, and carries in it the Beams of
of his Philosophical Works, which were printed
1679. fol. See the general preface to the said works
concerning the occasion and stile of the aforesaid ' l^': H*^"- More was born at Grantham, Oct. is,

"i 1 riM ^r I, 1. .u 1 •. 1014, being son of Alex. M. e^q. He- died Sept. I, 1087,

answer and reply. Iho. Vaughan hath also writ- ^^^^'^^^ ^^^ ^.^ i,„^^^^j ;„ „,'^^ ,„„,„, chappel Sept. 3.
ten, lti87. See his Z,j/e by Mr. Ri. Ward. Baker.]

Magia Adamica: or, the Antiquity of Magic, ' [A. B. coll. Chr. an. 1635. Baker.]

VAUGHAN.

HOPKINS..

726

m.

tfie Sun and Moon. Lotid. 1655. oct. [Bodl. 8vo.
M. 5. Art. RS.] He hath also translated into En-
glish, The Chymisfs Key to open and shut: or,
the true Doctrms of Corruption and Generation.
Lontl. 1655. Written by Hen. Noilius. He hath
also left several Lat. j)oems behind him, which are
in the hands of his brother Henry, called by some
Olor Iscanus, esteemed by many fit to be published.
One Eugenius Philalethes hath written, A brief
natural History intermixed with Variety ofphih-
nophical Discourses upon the Burninff of Mount
JEtna, with Refutations, &c. Lond. 1669- oct. but
by the language of it, it seems not to be written
by our Eug. Phil, but another ; and besides, when
Olor Iscanus sent me a catalogue of his brother's
works, the title of that book was not put among
them. One who calls himself Eireneus Philalethes
a citizen of the world hath published Ripley redi-
vivus, &c. and another who writes himself Eireneus
Philoponos Philalethes, hath published 7%e Mar-
roio of Alchymy, &c. in two parts. Lond. 1654 and
55. oct. Both which parts (the second containing
two lxx)ks) are written in verse, and so consequently
the author is to be numbered among the poets. As
for our author Eug. Phil, alias Thorn. Vaughan, he
did accompany sir Rob. Murrey before-mention'd
to O.xon, at what time the great plague at London
drove their majesties and their respective courts to
that place, where he continued for a time. Soon
alter taking up his quarters in the house of Sam.
Kem rector of Albury near to Thame and Ricot in
().\fordshire, died there " as it were suddenly, when
'" he was operating strong mercury, some of which
" by chance getting up into his nose killed him," '
on the 27th of Feb. in sixteen hundred sixty and
five, and was buried on the first of March following
in the church belonging to the said village of Al-
bury alias Oldbury (about 8 miles distant from
Oxon,) by the care and charge of the said sir Robert
Murrey : Of whom by the way, I must let the
reader know those things ; viz. That he was bom
of an antient and noble family in, or near, the High-
lands in Scotland, that his youth was spent in good
letters, partly in the university of S. Andrews, and
partly in France, where he had afterwards a military
employment in the service of Lewis 13, and was at
length a lieutenant-colonel and an excellent soldier.
That he was general of the ordnance in Scotland
against king Charles I. when the presbyterians of
tliat kingdom first set up and maintained their cove-
nant. That at the restoration of king Charles II.
he was made one of the privy council of the said
kingdom, and about the same time became one of
the first contrivers and institutors of the Royal So-
ciety, of which he was made the first president.
This person tho' presbyterianly affected, yet he had
the king's ear as much as any other person, and was

' [So Mr. Harris of Jesus coll. Wood, MS. Note in

.flshiiioie.']

indefatigable in his undertakings. He was a single
man, an abhorrer of women, a most renowned chy-
mist, a great patron of the Rosie-Crucians, and an
excellent mathematician. His several relations and
matters of experiment, which are in the Philosophi-
cal Transactions, shew him to be a man well versed
in experimental philosophy. He died suddenly in
his pavilion in the garden at White-hall, on the
fourth day of July (some hours after he had in-
formed my friend of the death and burial of Eugen.
Philalethes) an. 1673. (25 Car. 2.) and was, at the
king's charge, buried in the abbey church of S.
Peter in Westminster, near to the grave of sir Will.
D'avenant, sometime laureat poet to the said king.
I find another Rob. Moray son of a Scotchman, to
be author of a little pamphlet entit. Composition-
credit: or, a Bank of Credit made current by com-
mon Consent in Lond. more useful than Money.
Lond. 1682. in one sh. in qu. and author of An Ad-
vertisement ^or the more easy and speedy collecting
of Debts ; and of other things. But this person
who wa.s born in the Strand near London, was a
milliner and of the company of Cloath workers, after-
wards clerk to the general commissioners for the re-
venue of Ireland, then clerk to the commissioners of
the grand excise of England, and in the latter end
of 1679 the first inventor of the penny-post in Lon-
don,* which was carried on by one " Will." Doc-
wray, " merchant."

GEORGE HOPKINS son of Will. Hopk. was
born at Beaudley in Worcestershire, 15 Apr. 1620,
educated partly there in school learning under Joh.
Graile, and partly at Kinfare in Staffordshire, be-
came a batler of New inn in Lent term 1637, took
one degree in arts in 1641, and then left the univer-
sity for a time, being puritannically affected. After-
wards he sided with the presbyterians, took the co-
venant, retired to Oxon after the garrison thereof
was surrendred for the use of the parliament, sub-
mitted to the visitors appointed by them, took the
degree of master, and soon after became minister of
Allsaints parish in Evesham in Worcestershire. In
1654 he was by the then parUament appointed one
of the assistants to the commissioners of Worcester-
shire, for the ejection of such who were then called
scandalous, ignorant, and insufficient ministers and
schoolmasters, and soon after published,

2 [Robert Morray here, and liken ise under the year l680,
article EzRAEL Tongue, is sayd to be the inventer of the
penny-post : whereas the Present Stale of England, part Ed.
p. 255. ed. 1()84. says, it was Mr. VVilliain Dockwray.
Humphreys.

Robert Moray was not properly inventor of Penny Post,
whatever he mi^ht suggest that way ; the author or first in-
ventor is truly said in The Present State of England, part 2,
page 255, edit. 1684, to have been Mr. William Dockwray,
who lost the benefit of it by the wronp; name only, and had
a pension out of it allow'd by king William, which he long
enjoy 'd, living in my parish of St. Tho. Apostles, united to
Aldermary. Kennet.]

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727

SCUDAMORE.

STREAT.

VAUGHAN.

Salvation Jrofn S'm hy Jesus Chrint : or, the
Doctrine of Sanctification (zchich is the greater
Part of our Salvation) Jounded upon Christ, te/io
is both the meritorioius and ejficient Cause of Sancti-
fying Grace, Sic. Lond. 1655. oct. This book
wliich is levelled against Antlnomianisra, was preach-
etl in seven sermons in a weekly lecture at Evesliani
on Matth. 1. 21. In the author's dedication of the
book to the borough of Evesham, he saith that to
tiiem he had dedicated himself to the work of the
gospel from his first beginning to be a constant
preacher of it, and saith afterward that Dr. Bayley
preached to them part of The Practice of Piety be-
fore he published it. — See among the writers in tlie
second volume col. 525. In 1662 our author Hop-
kins left his cure of All-saints for want of con-
formity, and retiring to Dumbleton in Glocestershire.
died there at aljout one of the clock in the morning
l66C. of the 25th of March (Annunc. dav^ in sixteen
liundred sixty ^and six : whereupon nis body was
buried in the chancel of the church there. During
the time he lived in that town, lie constantly, with
his whole family, frequented the parish church and
pubhc prayers on holidays and Sundays in the
afternoons when there was no sermon. He never
failed to receive the holy communion as oft as it
was celebrated, and did all things required of a
lay-member of the church of England. Besides his
knowledge in divinity, he was a verv good mathe-
matician, an example of great candor and mode-
ration, ami such as is rarely found among the non-
conformists, &c. as I have been informed, by one
of his near relations.

JAMES SCUDAMORE, son of John Scud,
of Kenchurch in Herefordshire, was born in that
county, educated in Westminst. school, transplanted
to Ch. Ch. in Midsummer term 1661, aged 19
years, and soon after was made one of the students
of that house. This person, who was poetically
given, wrote

Homer a-la-mode. A mock Poem upon the first
and second Books of Homer s Iliads. Oxon. 1664.
in 9 sh. in oct. [Bodl. 8vo. R. 19. Jur.] and in the
next year he took the degree of bach, of arts. After-
wards retiring to his relations then living in the city
of Hereford, was drown'd in the river adjoining,
(to the great reluctancy of all those that were
acquainted witii his pregnant parts) as he was re-
1(566. creating himself by swimming, in the month of July
in sixteen hundred sixty and six : whereupon his
body was conveyed to tlie graves of his relations,
where he was, with great lamentation, interred. In
1681 was published in oct. Homer OrJa-mode, the
second Part, Jw English Burlesque ; or a mock
Poem upon the ninth Book of Iliads. Invented
Jiyr tlie Meridian of Cambridge, where the Pole of
Wit is elevated by several Degrees ; but who the
author of it was I know not.

WILLIAM STREAT was bom of genteel
parents in Devonshire, l)ecame either a batler or
sojourner of Exeter coll. in the beginning of the
year 1617, aged 17 years or thereabouts, took the
degrees in arts, holy orders, anil was benefic'd in
his own country. IJpon the change of the times in
1641 he sided with the presbyterians, and preached
very scismatically, being alx)ut that time rector of
South-Pool near to Kingsbridge in Devonshire.
Wiien the cause of king Charles I. declined, he
preached bitterly against him and liis followers,
blasting them with the name of bloody papists;
and when his son king Charles II. was in exile he
became a desperate enemy to, and continually

E reached against, him : And every trivial thing that
e could hear, or read in those satyrical prints call-
ed Merc. Politici and other pamphlets against him,
lie sure he publishetl in the pulpit to his parish-
ioners, as I Jiave been credibly informed by some
ministers of his neighbourhoixl. After the restora-
tion of king Charles II. an. 1660 lie wheeled about,
as many covetous and poor-spirited saints did,
sneak'd to the great men then in authority, con-
formed, and kept his rectory to his dying day, to
the great reluctancy of the generous royahsts of
those parts. He hath written a book entit.

T/ie Dividing of the Hoof: or, seeming Con-
tradictions througfiout sacred Scriptures, resolved
and applied, &c. Lond. 1654, in a pretty thick qu.
dedicated to God and God's people. Other matters,
they say, he hatli published, but such I have not
yet seen, nor do I Know any thing else of this au-
thor, (who should rather have been buried in obli-
vion, than mentioned) only that dying at South-
Potil he was buried in the church there in sixteen
hundred sixty and six, leaving then this ciiaracter
behind him among the said ministers of liis neigh-
lx)uriuxxl, that he was as infinite a rogue, and as
great a sinner that could lie, and tliat 'twas pity
that he did escape punishment in this life.

ROBERT VAUGHAN, was born of an antient
and genteel family in Merionithshire, was entred a
commoner of Oriel coll. in the year 1612, and in
that of his age 20, where passing his course in logic
and pliilosophy, retired without a degree to his pa-
trimony in the said county called Hengwrt or Ilcng-
herst near Dolgethle, became noted for his admira-
ble skill in the hi.stories and antiquities of his own
country of Wales, having had a natural geny to
them, and t(X)k infinite pains in describing the ge-
nealogies of the most antient families thereof. The
things of his composition that are extant are only
these,

British Antiquities revived. Oxon. 1662. qu.
[Bodl. 4to. Z. 16. Art.]

Pedigree of the Earl of Carbury ( Vaughan)
Lord President of Wales.

Short Accourd of the five Tribes (f Cambria. —
These two last are printed with the first. He hath

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VAUGHAN.

FAIRCLOUGH.

730

1066.

also several letters extant,' which lie formerly wrote
to the learned and relijjious Dr. Usher primate of
Ireland : in one of which, dated 14 Ap. 1651, he
tells the said primate that he had translated into
tlie English tongiie The Annals of Wales, which he
then sent to him to be perusetl. " Out of his zeal
" to preserve the antiquities of his countrey he was
" pleased to impart some choice notes whicn he had
" been above 40 years in gathering, and were (most
" of them) never before in print, to Thomas Ellis
" bach, of divinity of Jesus college, to have them
" pubUshed ; the notes were made and added to
" the History of Wales nmu called Cambria, which
" had been published by Dr. David Powell 1584,
" with some of his annotations thereunto, which in
" the edition of it that year had a mark of a rose
" added to them, to distmguish them from the Hi-
" story itself. Now so it was that the impression
" of that History made by Dr. Powell being all
" vended, gone and almost worn out, he (Mr.
" Ellis) did reprint most of the said History with
" Powell's notes so marked as I have told, and
" afterwards the notes of Vaughan with this mark
" ^, which are in many respects as good if not
" better than Dr. Powell's, but by that time he had
" printed 128 pages or more of the said book he
" desisted. His additions to the Hixt. of Wales
" are in Ashmole's museum, num. (iGS. See more
" in Tho. Ellis. This Mr. Rob. Vaughan in his
" addition to the History of Wales saith. That sir
'* John Vaughan of Trowescoed the great lawyer,
" is a member of this present parliament l662,
" which shews that his additions were printed by
" Mr. Ellis 1663, as they were — and Enderby's
" book came out in 1661." Mr. Vaughan died at
Hengwrt before-inention''d in sixteen hundred sixty
and six (being then a justice of peace) as I have
been infonned by Mr. Thorn. Ellis sometime rector
of Dolgethle, and was buried in the church of that

?arish, wherein Hengwrt (said ■* to be in Kynton's
.and in the lordship of Huntingdon) is situated.
He left behind him a choice hbrary of MSS. in the
British tongue, now, as I have been informed, in
the custody of sir William Williams of Greys-inn
baronet, occasion''d by a law-suit concerning it.

JOHN FAIRCLOUGH, commonly called
Featley, son of John Featley of Oxon (elder bro-
ther to Dr. Daniel Featley) was born in Northamp-
tonshire, became either clerk or chorister of Alls,
coll. in Mich, term 1620, aged 15 years, took one
degree in arts four years after, and in 1626 liad the
honour to be the first preacher of the gospel in the
infancy of the mother colony of S. Christophers in
the West-Indies. How long he continued there, I
know not : sure I am, that after his return he be-

' In the C'lllection nf Letters at the end o( Archb. Usher's
Life, fol. n. 2t) 1 , 270. &c.
* 111 O^c. Armorum, H. 8. fol. 32. b.

came beneficed in Surrey, chaplain to king Charles
I. and prebendary, as it seems, of Lincoln. In the
beginning of the rebellion he lost all, was for a time
curate at Acton for his uncle Dr. Featley ; antl in
June 1643, he, with his wife, children, and ser-
vants, shipped themselves for S. Christophers bc-
fore-mention'd ; where he and they continued seve-
ral years. After his majesty's return in 1660, he
became one of his chaplains, was installed chantor
of Lincoln in the same year, was in the next actually
created D. of D. and soon after had the vicaridge
of Edwinstow in Nottinghamshire (worth about 60^.
per an.) confer'd on him by the dean and chapter of
the said church. He hath written and published.

Several sermons, as (1) Serm. to the West-India
Company; on Josh. 1. 9, Lond. 1629. qu. (2)
Obedience and Submission, at S. Saviour''s in
Southwark at a Visitation 8 Dec. 1635 ; oti Heb.
13. 17. Lond. 1636. qu. &c.

A succinct History of the Life and Death of the
learned andjxmious Divine Daniel Featley, D. D.
Lond. 1660. in tw. Printed at the end of a book
entit. Dr. Daniel Featley revived: proving titat
tlie Protestant Church is the only Cath. and true
Church.

A Divine Antidote against the Plague; or
Mourning Tears in Soliloquies and Prayers: as,
1. For this general Visitation. 2. For those jvJuise
Houses are shut up of the Plague, &c. I^ond. 1665.
He also published a book entit. Tlie League illegal.
Lond. 1660. qu. Written by his said uncle Dr.
Featley, and dedic. to Edw. earl of Clarendon by
the publisher, who put an introduction to the book.
He died at Lincoln in sixteen hundred sixty and lfi<S6.
six, and was buried in one of the chappels, joining
to the cath. church. Of the same family with this
Dr. Jo. Featley, a true and zealous son of the church
of England, was Richard Fairclough commonly
called Featley a nonconforming minister, and a fre-
quent preacher in conventicles, (sometime minister
of Wells in Somersetshire, afterwards a preacher in
the city of Bristol) one or more of whose sermons
you may see in the book called Tlie Morning
Exercise against Popery, &c. Lond. 1675. qu.
He died 4 July 1682, aged 61, and was inter'd
in the burial place joining to the Artillery-yard
near London, in the presence of 500 persous, who
accompanied him to his grave.' Of the same family,
tho' remote, was Sam. Fairclough bom at Haveril
in Suffolk, 1594, bred in Qu. coll. in Cambr. and
died 1677. You may read of him in The Lives of

* [His e|iilD|)h in Bunhill fields. 'Here lyeth the body
of Nfr. Ricliard Fairclouuh, tlie worthy son of the lale reve-
rend divine Mr. Samuel Fairclongh of Sufl'olk. He was
sometime fellow of Emanuel colledge in Cambridge, after-
ward rector of Wells in Somersetshire: a person, like his
father, eminent for his natural parts, acquired learning, and
infused grace. Endued with a most piercing judgment, rich
fancy, and clear expression. And therefore a good expositor,
a rare oratour, an excellent preacher. His spirit and temper
was most kind and obli^ng, most publick and generous.

731

FAIIICLOUGH.

WARNER.

sundry eminent Persons in this later Age, Su;.
Lond. 1683. fol. collected by Sam. Clark, p! 153.

[John Featloy was sworn and admitted chaplain
to king Charles 2 on Jun. 29, 1660. Aug. 13,
1660, he obtained a presentation irom the lord
chancellor Hyde to the precentorsliip of Lincoln,
and Sept 3, 1660 a presentation to the prebend
of Melton Rosse cum Scuuiellsty. Sept. 24, 1660,
he was installed, first into the .said prebend, and then .
into the precentorsliip. Ex Colkctun. AISS. Jo-
fuinnis Featley. Kennet.

A Fountain of Tears emptying itself into 3 Ri-
tnUets, viz. of 1 Compunction, 2 Compassion, 3
Devotion ; or Sobs of Nature sanctify ed by Grace,
languaged in several Soliloquies and Prayers upon
various Subjects, for t1i£ Benefit of all that are
in AJjUiction ; and particularly in these distressed
Times of Warr. By John Featley the least cftlie
Apostles, and Chaplain to his Majesty. Amster-
dam 1646, 12mo. Ded. to king and parliament,
epist. to the reader dated from his house in Flush-
ing April 17, 1646. Calls Dr. Dan. Featley his
unde — ^lost two children at sea, Tannek.]

JOHN WARNER received his first breath, as
'tis said, in the parish of S. Clements Danes, within
the liberty of Westminster, was elected demy of
Magd. coll. as a Surrey man born, an. 1599, aged
16 years, where being put under the tuition of a
careful person, made a considerable progress in his
studies, took the degrees in arts, and in 1605 was
made perpetual fellow of tliat house, being then
esteemed a witty man, a good logician and philoso-
pher. In 1610 he resigned his fellowship, was
about that time rector of S. Dionyse Backchurch in
London," and afterwards taking the degrees in di-
vinity was made one of his majesty's chaplains,
prebendary of Canterbury, governor of Sion coll.
dean of Lichfield in the place of Dr. Aug. Lindsell
(promoted to the see of Peterborough) an. 1633,
and in the year 1637 being nominated bishop of
Rochester upon the death of Dr. Jo. Bowles, was
consecrated thereunto on the 14th, and installed
[374] 21st of January the same year, being then noted
for a g{K)d school divine, and one well read in the
fathers. In 1639 he perceiving the want of a fixed
'font in the cath. ch. of Canterbury, built one at his
proper chaige, which, whether more curious or
more costly, was difficult to judge; and the same

A great conleniner of riches, and desire of vain glory.
Chearfull vet watchfull ; 7.ejlous yet prudent, a pleasant
companion, and a most faillifull friend : a pious guide and
instructor by doctrine and example. Ob. Jul. 4, l682,
aetat. 6l. 'In the most deservinu; memory of him and bis
family, ibis monument was erected as a testimony of grati-
tude for many obligations, by Thomas Pctci^al of the Mid-
dle Temple gent. an. Dom. lG82. Kennet.]

6 [Jo. Warner S. T. P. aduiiss. ad eccl. S. Dionysii
Backchurch Lond. 26 Sept. l623, ex coll. arch. Cant.
lUg. JIbdt. Prins co 1. ad eccl. S. Michaelis, Crooked-
lane, mensc Junip l6l4, quam resign. 1619. Kennet.]

year it was consecrated by John lord bishop of
Oxon. In the beginning of the long parliament he
shew'd himself a zedous assertor of episcopacy in
the house of lords, speaking for the function as long
as he had any voice left, and very pertinently
and valiantly defended the antiquity and justice (if
bishop's votes in the house of parliament. After-
wards he did not suffer with his brethren, by having
the lands of his sec taken away, but by compound-
ing for his temjjoral estate, which was considerable.
He hath written,

Church Lands not to be sold : or a ttecessary and
plain Answer to the Question of a conscientious
Protestant, Whether the Landi of Bishops and
Churches in England and Wales may be sold?—
Printed 1646, 48. qu.

Letters to Dr. Jer. Taylor concerning the diop-
ter of Original Sin in the Umtm necessarium

Printed in the said Dr. Taylor's Collection of Pole-
mical Discourses. See more in Dr. Taylor among
these writers, under the year 1667. He hath also
one or more sermons extant which I have not seen,
and perhaps other things. Quaere. At length he
giving way to fate on the 14th of Octob. in sixteen
hundred sixty and six, was buried in the cath. ch. "i^i^-
of Rochester, and soon after had a stately monu-
ment erected over his grave, with a large epitaph
thereon, wherein 'tis said that he died in the year
of his age 86. By his last will and testam.' he left
his personal estate, for an hospital or alms-house to
be built as conveniently as might be near the cath.

' [His last Will and Testament. In the name of God.
Amen. I Jolm Warner twenty-nine years bishop of Ro-
chester and eighty-six years old — do make this my last will

and testament To the poor of S. Clement Danes, I give

twenty pounds; and to the poor of Bromley HO lb. To
Thomas and Charles the sons of Benjamin Lee deceased, to
each 100//'. To Joan danchter of Catharine Lee 100//-.
Whereas I formerly gave for making and remaking of a font
in the caih. church of Canterbury 500 lb, I now give unio
the same body (JOO lb. to be bestowed in books, for the laie
erected library. Foruierly 400 lb. to the cath. ch. of Roches-
ter, I now add 800 lb. to the same purpose. Formerly 1000 lb.
to the cath. ch. of S. Paul's, I add no more than bOlb. For-
merly 300 lb. to the library of Magd. coll. Oxford, and lately
to tlie same use 1000 lb. more, I add no more than 50 lb. 1
give ont of my mannor of Swayton for the maintenance of
four scholars born in Scotland 80 /^. yearly and lor ever,
which the said scholars shall be placed in Bailiol coll. Ox-
ford, there to enjoy their annuities or exhibiiinns uinill tbcy
are masters of arts, and fit to be admitted into holy orders
according to the churcii of F^ngland. The said scholars to
be chosen by the archbishop of Canterbury and bishop of
Rochester. Item, 1 give for the buying in of impropriations
in the diocese of Rochester and laying them to ilie smallest
of the vicaridges there and not elsewhere, 2000 lb. vvliicli
my executors are to issue out of my personal estate, and
without whose disposal I will have nothing done in ibis
affair. Item I do give out of my mannor of .Swayton 450 //'.
yearly for the maintenance of twenty poor widows, being
the relicts of orthodox and loyal clergymen and of a chap-
lain to minister in holy things: to ilie chaplain 50tb, to
each widow 20 lb yearly, with an hospital or alinshoiuse to be
built by my executors or their trustees out of my personal
estate, to be seated as near as may be to the cath. ch. of Ro-

WARNER.

WALL.

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cli. of Rochester, and laiuk for the ni:iiiitc'iiiiiu'c
therein of twenty poor widows (tlio' luniself liad
always led a single life) the relicts of ortluKlox and
loyal clergv-men, and a chaplain to administer holy
things to them according to the church of England.
To wliich chaplain he bequeathed 50/. per an. and
to each of the widows 20/. per an. always reserving
so mucli out of their exhibition, as may keep in
good repair tlie said hospital or alnieshou.se. The
election of the chaplain is to be made out of Magd.
coll. in Oxon, and not out of any other house :
And the election of the said 20 widows, is to be
made by his executors for the time being, and after
their decease, by such trustees as they shall appoint.
In his life-time, and at his death, he gave 1000/.
for the encrease of the hbrary of Magd. coll. with
books. Five hundred pounds at his death to buy
books for the late erected library at Rochester.'
Two hundred pounds in his life-time for the repara-
tion of Rochester cathedral, and at his death he be-
queathed 800/. more. To the repair of S. Paul's
cath. ch. in London he gave 1050/. To the buy-
ing in of impropriations in the dioc. of Rochester,
to be laid to the smallest vicaridges in the said dioc.
2000/. To S. Clem. Danes 20/. to Bromley, where
his bishop's seat is, 20/. and an yearly pension to
S. Dionyse Backchurch. By his said last vAM also
he bequeathed 80/. per an. to issue out of liis manor
of S\saytoii for the maintenance of four scliolars of
the Scotch nation to live and abide in Bahol coll. to

Chester: the eleclion of the said chaplain out of Magd. coll.
Oxford : the widows to be made by my executors, and after
their decease by such trustees as they shall appoint. I give
to my present cliaplaiu Mr. Will. Hopkins \Oll'; to each of
iny servants 10 !b ; to Mr. Miles Smitli all my episcopal robes,
with niy coach and harnei-s. My mannor of Aps to my ne-
phew Dr. John Lee, unlill his eldest son shall atiain to 22
years — the mannor of Swayton to my nephew John Lee and
nis song, on this condition, they shall use the sirnaine of
fVarner on\y — My executors lord chief justice Bridgman, to
whom I give all my silver and gilt plate — Sir Philip War-
wick, kniaht, to whom I give 200 li — Ur. Thomas Pierce
pres. of MagdI. coll. to whom I give SiOO Ih. Dr. John Lee
archdeacon of Rochester to whom I give all my printed books
and written papers — A grave stone with this inscription ' Hie
jacet cadaver Johannis Warneri totos annos xxix episcopi
Roffensis, in spem resurrectionis ad vitam oeternani.' This
will signed with my hand and seal 4 Sept. l660.
Probat. 7 Febr. l666. (1666-7) Jo. Warner, Roffens.

He died Octob. 14, l666, and was buried in his ch. of
Rochester, where on a tablet under an arch, supported with
two Corinthian black marble pillars, is the inscription al-
luded to by Wood.

An act ibr settling certain charitable uses devised by John,
late bishop of Rocliester, anno 22 Car. H.

This lihel on bish. Warner in the Scots Scouts Discove-
ries, 4lo. l642 — ' All Lent long his majestie's chaplains
instead of fasting, preached fighting, and instead of peace
preacht punishing of rebels : amongst whom Wilie Warner
of Rochester having got a bishopiick for making one sermon,
he gave the king another gratis, wherein he railed at the re-
bels, as his patron has promised him a belter bishoprick.'
Kennet.]

• [Not so, but at Canterbury ; sec Kennel's abridgement
of his will in the preceding note.]

be chosen from time to time by tlie archb. of Can-
terbury and bishop of Rochester, and each to have
20/. yearly till they were masters of arts, and then
to return to their country and there be ministers of
God's word, &c. But the overseers of the said
will being not willing to place the said scholars in
that college, neither the master and fellows thereof
altogether willing to receive them, thoughts were
had of making Glocester-hall a college for them ;
;ind thereupon till they should come to a final reso-
lution concerning that matter, the scholars for the
present time were placed there. At length when
Dr. Tho. Good became master of the said coll. of
Baliol, wliich was in 1672, he took order that they
should be translated thither, where they yet remain.

[1619 Warner succeeded Dr. Fotherby in the
rectory of Smead (qua;re Smarden ?) Dr. WariVs
Letters. He was also rector of Bishopsboum, aixl
one of the proctors for diocese of Canterbury, in
the convocation 1620. Tanner.

He was clerk for the chapter of Cant, in the con-
vocat. Feb. 13, 1623. Kennet.

See a reflection an Warner's covetousness in the
Appetid'u' to Dr. Barwiclcs Life, page 547. Coi.e.
' The bishop of Rochester I have no interest at all
in, nor I believe any else, so much as to get an
hand into his purse.']

JOHN WALL was Iwrn of genteel parents in
the city of London, elected from Westni. school a
student of Ch. Ch. an. 1604, aged 17 years, took
the degrees in arts, holy orders, and afterwards
exercised his function for several years in S. Aldate's
church in Oxon. In 1624 he proceeded in divinity,
being about that time chaplain, as I conceive, to
Philip lord Stanhope, and in 1632 he was installed
canon of his house in the place of D. L. Hutten de-
ceased, which he kept to his dying day, notwith-
standing the several revolutions in his time. In
Nov. 1644 he was made prebendary of Yatminster
secunda in the church of Sarum, given to him by
Dr. Duppa bishop thereof, which also keeping till
his last day, was succeeded therein by Tho. Hyde
of Qu. coll. by the lavour of Dr. Hyde bish. of
Salisbury. This Dr. Wall was a quaint preacher
in the age he lived, and Dr. WUhams bishop of
Lincoln did use to give this character of him while
he remained with him in his family, that ' he was
the best read in the fathers of any he ever knew.'
The truth is he was always a severe student, lived
a retired life, and spent his time in celibacy and
books. His works are these.

Several sermons, as (1) Sermon at Shelford in
Nottinghamshire, on the Death of Mr. John Stan-
hope Son and Heir to Philip Lord Stanhope Baron ■
of Shelford; whose Corps was translated from Ch.
Ch. in Oxon, to the Septdchers of his Fathers in
the Church of Shelford; on 2 Sam. 12. 23. Lond.
1623. oct. [Bodl. Svo. D. 26. Th.] (2) JacdPs
Ladder ; on 1 Pet. 5, 6. Oxon, 1 626. oct. [Bodl.

[375]

735

WALL.

TOWERS.

8vo. D. 26. Th.] (3) Jhr Seraphkw. The Saa-
phbis Wings to raixe ns nnU) Heaven, in six Ser-
mons, partly at S. Peters in Westminster, partly
at S. Aldate's in Ojrini. Lontl. 1G27. iju. [BixlT.
4to. A. 42. Til.] The first of which is eiitit. Tlie
Soul''s Ornament ; on Cant. 8. 6. (4) Christian
Progress, Serm. at SJielfvrd in Nott. on Mutth.
21. 9. Oxon. 1627. oct. [Bixll. 8vo. G. 125. Th.]
(5) Tlie Lion in the Lamb : or. Strength in Weak-
ness, Serm. at Shelf, in Nott. on Rev. 7. 10. Oxon.
1628. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. H. 58. Th.] (6) Chri-itian
Reconcilement: or, God at Peace toith Man in
Christ, Serm. at S. Mary^s in Oxon. mi Rom. 5.
11. Lond. 1658. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. G. 13. Th. BS.]
(7) Sermon on Rom. 10. 15. Printed 1627. oct.
This last I have not yet seen. " (8) A Divine
" Tlieatre, or a Stage ^r Christians, Sermon at
« Ch. Ch. in Oxon. ; on Luke 3. 6. Oxon. 1662.
" oct.'^ [Bodl. 8vo. C. 273. Line]

Ramus Oliva- ; sive Concio habita ad Clerum in
Templo B. Maricc Oxon. 8 Junii pro inchonndo
Termino, in Luc. 24. 36. Oxon. 1653. in a small
oct. [Bodl. 8vo. W. 13. Th. BS.] Dedicated to
Oliver Cromwell.

Solomon in Solio: Christtis in Ecclesia; sive
Concio Latine habita ad Clerum in Templo B.
Marine Oxon. prima Mali, in Cant. 3. 9, 10. Oxon.
1660. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. A. 118. Line] Repaid his
la.st debt to nature in his lodgings in Peckwater
quadrangle belonging to Ch. Ch. on the 20th of
i()GG. October in sixteen hundred sixty and six, and was
buried in the second isle joining to Ch. Ch. choir
on the north-side. See his epitaph in Hist. 4" An-
tiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 287. The reader is now to
know that this person having got a plentiful estate
in, and from, his college, did a little before his death
shew himself upon some small distast so ungrate-
ful to it, that instead of bestowing moneys thereon
to carry on the public buildings belonging thereunto,
he gave a thousand and twenty pounds " in his hfe-
" tmie, and one thousand and forty by his will,"
to the city of Oxon, to be employ'd for certain cha-
ritable uses, and a greater sum to two^ flattering-
persons ' that wanted it not, or were any thing of
kin to, or cared a straw for, him. The picture of
this Dr. Wall drawn to the life, with his doctoral
habit and square cap, hangs at this day in the
council chamber belonging to the city of Oxon,
joining on the east-side to the upper Guild-hall.
Besides this John Wall, was another of both his
names and time, bach, of divinity, sometime mini-
ster in Colchester, afterwards preacher of God's
word at S. MichaePs Cornhill in London, autlior
of None but Christ: or, a plain and Jhm.iliar
Treatise of the Knoxcledge of Christ, exciting all
Men to study to know Jesus Christ and him cruci-

' [Flattering, false, and craflic veterani. Wood. MS.
Note in Ashmole.']

' Sebasl. Smith, D.D. canon of Cii. Ch.and Rich.Croke
recorder of the city of Oxon.

_/ied ; 7i'ith a partictUtir Applicatori/, and saving
Knowledge, in divers Servums on 1 Cor. 2. 2.
Lond. 1648, 50, 56. oct. But this John Wall,
who was a presbyterian and much favoured by sir
Harl)ottle Grimstone, was, as it seems, educated in
Cambridge.

[1. The Watering of Apollos. Delivered in a
Sermon at St. Marie's in Oxford the 8 of August
1624. By John Wall, Doctor in Divinity (if Ctirist
Church. Oxford 1625. On Acts 18, ver. 28. Bodl.
8vo. T. 96. Th. Ded. to John lord bish. of Lin-
coin, keeper of the great seal.

2. Evangelicall Spices, or the Incense of the
Gospell. Delivered in a Sermon at Christ Church
in Oxford. By John Wall, Doctor in Divinity of
Christ Church ; on Apoc. 8. 4. London 1627,^
8vo. Ded. to George lord Berkley. In Christ-
church library. A. 82. Pamphl.]

WILLIAM TOWERS, son of Dr. Jo. Towers [376]
bishop of Peterborough, was born in Northampton-
shire, elected from Westm. school student of Ch.
Ch. an. 1634, aged 17 years, took the degrees in
arts, that of master being compleated an. 1641. In
the latter end of the year following he was made
prebendary of Peterborough, in the place of Dr.
Jo. Pockhngton deceased, and in 1644 parson of
Barnack in Northamptonshire : Both which were
only titular to him for some years. In 1646 a little
before the garrison of Oxon was surrendred to
the parliament (to which place he had retired for
refuge) he was actually created bach, of divinity;
and afterwards, being deprived of all his spirituali-
ties, was patronized by Francis lord Newjwrt, and
lived upon mean places and employmetits : the last
of whicli, before his majesty's restoration, was the
curateship of Upton near Northampton. After-
wards he was restored to his preb. of Peterborough
and parsonage of Bamack, and had that of Fislier-
ton near Lincoln confer'd upon him. His works of
learning are these,

Atheismns Vapulans: a Treatise against Atheism.
Lond. 1654. oct. [B«xll. 8vo. T. 12. Th. BS.] Pub-
lished also before that time, without the author's
name to it.

Polytlieismus Vujmlans ; or, a Treatise proving
that there is a Got/— Printed with the former book.

Several sermons, as (1) Sermon again. st Murder ;
occasicnUd by the Massacre of the Protestants in the
Dukedom (^ Savoy ; on Exod. 20. 13. Lond. 1655
qu. [Bodl. 4to. R. 4. Art. BS.] (2) Obedience
perpetually due to Kings; on Psal. 21. 1. Lond.
16o0. qu. (3) Tltankiigiving Sermon for itie
blessed Re.Horation of K. Ch. II. ; on Psal. 21 .
fcrrmer part of the jirst Verse. Lond. 1660. qu. &c.
At length this loyal and religious person, W. Towers,

' \^vangel%cal Spices ; or the Increase of the Gospell, in a
Sermon ly Dr. Wall. Among books printed for J. Clark,
in Cornhill, l658. Tanmer.] ,

i

TOWERS.

SHIRLEY.

73H

going from his rectory of Fisbcrton to visit some
friends living at Uflington near to Stanford in Lin-
colnsliire, fell sick there, anil d\ ing on the 20th of
1666. October in sixteen hundred sixty and six, was bu-
ried two days after in the chancel of the church at
that place. Soon after was a little inscription put
over liis grave, but removed some years ai'ter, when
the chancel was new paved, after a burying vault
had been made under part of it.

JAMES SHIRLEY, the most noted dramatic
poet of his time, did make his first entry on the
stage of this transitory world in, or near, the parish'
of S. Mai"y Wool-church (where the Stocks-Market
now is) within the city of London, was descended
from the Shirleys of Sussex or Warwickshire, as by
his arms (if he had a right to them) painted over
his picture hanging in the school-gallery at Oxon,
appears, educated in grammar learning in Mer-
chant-Taylor's st-hool, and transplanted thence to
S. John''s coll. but in what condition he lived there,
whether in that of a servitour, batler, or commoner,
I cannot yet find. At the same time Dr. Will.
Laud presiding that house, he had a very great
affection fo"- him, especially for the pregnant parts
that were visible in him, but then having a broad
or large mole upon his left cheek, wliich some
esteemed a deformity, that worthy doctor would
often tell him that he was an unfit person to take
the sacred function upon him, and shoidd never
have his consent .so to do. Afterwards leaving this
university without a degree, he went to Cambridge,
where I presume he t(X)k those in arts : so that soon
after entring into holy orders, he became a minister
of Gixl's word in, or near to, S. Albans in Hert-
fordshire. But being then unsetled in his mind,
he changed his religion for that of Rome, left his
living and taught a grammar school in the said town
of S. Albans ; which employment also he finding
uneasy to him, he retired to the metropiilis, lived in
Greys-inn, and set up for a play-maker, and gained
not only a considerable livelvhood, but also very
great respect and encouragement from jiersons of
cjuality, especially from Henrietta Maria the queen
consort, who made him her servant. When the re-
bellion broke out, and he thereupon forced to leave
London, and so consequently his wife and children,
(who afterwards were put to their shifts) he was in-
n vited by his most noble patron William ear! (after-
wards marquess and duke) of Newcastle to take his
fortune with him in the wars, for that count had
engaged him so much by his generous liberality
towards him, that he thought he could not do a
worthier act, tlian to serve him, and so consequently
his prince. After the king's cause declined, he re-
tired obscurely to London, where, among others of
his noted friends, he found Tho. Stanley, esq; who
exhibited to him for the present. Afterwards fol-
lowing his old trade of teaching school, which was

3 So I have been inform' d hy his sun, the butler of Fur-
nival's inn, in Holborn, near London.
Vol. in.

Lond. 1633. qu.

Comedies. Lond. 1637. qu.

mostly in the White-friers, he not only gained a
comfortiible subsistence (for the acting of fHays was
then silencetl) but educated many ingenious youths,
who afterwards proved most eminent in divers fa-
culties. After his majesty's return to his kingdoms,
several of his plays which he before had made, were
acted with good applause, but what office or employ
he had conferred ujx)n him after all his sufferings, I
cannot now justly tell. His works* are these,

The Wedding; a Comedy. Lond. 1629. qu.

Grateful Servant, Com. Lond. 1630. qu.

Love Tricks: or tlie School of Comr>lcmenls

Pr. 1631. oct.

CJuinges, or Love in a Maze, Com. Pr.
1632. qu.

The Triumph of Peace. A Mask presented by
the four Houses or Inns of Court before tlie King
and Queen In the Banqueting House at Whitehall,
3 Feb. 1633. — Printed scveial times within the com-
pass of one year.

Wittij Fair One, Com.

Contention for Honour and
Riches, a Mask.

The Traytor, Trag.

Bird in a Cage, Com. .

The last of these was dedicated to Will. Prynne
then a prisoner for high misdemeanors.

Gamester,

Hide Park,

Example,

1 'oung Admiral,

Lady of Pleasure,

IJuke''s Mistress,Tras. Com. ) -r , ,„„„

Royal Master,Com | Lond. 1638.

Maids Revenge, Trag. Print, at the same

place 1639. qu.

S. Patrick for Ireland: The first Part. A His-
tory. IjOikI. 1640. qu.

Opportunity, Com.

Pastoral culled the Arcadia.

Loves Cruelty, Trag.

Constant Maid, Com.

The last was also printed at the same place
1G67. qu.

Poems, &c. Lond. 1646. oct. with his picture

beibre them.

Narcissus: or, tlie Self-lover. Lond. 1646. oct.
Poetry.

Via ad Latinam Litiguam complanata, &c. Lond.
1G49. Oct. Written in English, and dedicated in
fine language to William, son of Philip, lord
Herbert. Before this bt)ok are several copies of
verses in praise of the author, made by the poets of
that time, among wliom is Edward Sherluirne, esq;.

" Grammatica Anglu-Latina, an English and
" Latin Grammar. The Rules composed in En-
" gUsh and Latin Verse ; for the greater Delight
" and Benefit of the Learners. Lond. 1651. oct."

•I [As ntjost of these nre in the Bodleian, I have oiniiled
the references to save room.]

SB

Lond. 1640. qu.

739

SHIRLEY.

740

■Com.

Com.

Lond.
Oct.

1652, 53,

Brothers. \

Sisters. )

Doubtful Heir. \ ,.,

Imposture. )

Cardinal, Trag.

Court Secret, Trag. Com.

The first five were acted at the private hou.se in

Black-friers, the last was never acted. They have

the picture of the author before them, as before his

poems, and tho' not like to it, yet it most resembles

that in the school-gallery.

Gentleman of Venice, Tr. Com. | Lond.l655.qu.

Folttictan, irag. ) ^

Manudiuctio : or, a Leading of Children by the

Hand to the Lat. Tongue by a .^hort Vocabulary,

and Jhmiliar Forms of Speaking, in Engl, and

Lat. Lond. 1656. oct.

Honoria and Mammon. Lond. 1660. oct. [Bodl.
[378] 8vo. Rawl. 529.] The scene Metropolis or New
Troy, represented by young gentlemen of quality,
at a private entertainment of some persons of ho-
nour. Before this play is a shoulder-piece of the
author standing on a pedestal ; and thereunto is
added, The Conte7ition ofAJax and Ulysses for the
.Armour of Achilles.

Cupid and Death. A private entertainment, re-
presented with scenes and music, vocal and instru-
mental. Lond. 1659. qu.

CoroTiation. [Lond. 1640. 4to.] \ p^^

Hiimorous Courtier. [Lond. 1640. 4toJ j
Triumph of Beauty, a Mask. [Lond 1646, 8vo.]
These last three I nave not yet seen, and there-
fore I cannot tell when, or where, they were printed.
He the said James Shirley was half author also of
these two plays following, viz.
The Ball, Com. )

The Trag. ofChabot Admiral V-Lond. I639.qu.
of France. )

The other half author or partner was George
Chapman a poetical writer in the reigns of king
Jam. and king Charles I. and not the meanest of the
English poets of his time ; who dying the 1 2th of
May 1634, aged 77 years, was buried in the yard
on the south side of the church of S. GUes's in the
Fields near London. Over his grave, near to the
south wall of the church, was soon after a monu-
ment erected, built after the way of the old Romans,
by the care and charge of his beloved friend Inigo
Jones the king's architect : whereon is engraven
this, ' Georgius Chapmannus Poeta Homericus,
Philosophusvcrus(etsi Christianus Poeta) plusquam
Celebris,' &c. He hath been highly celebrated
among men for his brave language in his translation
of Homer''s Iliads, those I mean which are trans-
lated into tessaradecasyllabons, or lines of fourteen
syllables. Our autlior Shirley did also much as-
sist his generous patron William duke of New-
castle in the composure of certain plays, which the
duke afterwards published ; and was a drudge for
John Ogilby in his translation of Homer's Iliads,

and Odysses, and some of Virgil's works, into
English verse, with the writing of annotations on
them. At length after Mr. Shirley had hved to the
age of 72 years at least, in various conditions, and
had seen much of the world, he with his second
wife Frances were driven by the dismal conflagra-
tion that happened in London an. 1 666, from toeir
habitation near to Fleet-street, into the parish of S.
Giles's in the Fields in Middlesex, where being in a
manner overcome with aftHghtnients, disconsola-
tions, and other miseries occfision'd by that fire and
their losses, they both died within the compass of a
natural day : whereupon their bodies tvere buried in
one grave in the yard belonging to the said church
of S. Giles's on the 29th of Octob. in sixteen hun-
dred sixty and six. I find one Henry Shirley, '^^'
gent, author of a play called, T/ie Martyr d Soldier.
Lond. 1638. qu. Which Ilenry I take to be bro-
ther or near kinsman to James.* As for John
Ogilby, who was a prodigv in that part of learning
which he profess'd, consicfering his education, was
born in, or near to, Edenburgh in Scotland, in the
month of Nov. (about the 17th day) an. 1600. His
father, who was of ancient and genteel extract, had
run out of his estate, and being a prisoner in the
King's-Bench, could give his son but httle education
at school ; however the youth being very industrious,
obtained some knowledge in the Latin grammar,
and afterwards so much money, as not only to re-
lieve his father and get him out of prison, but also to
bind himself an apprentice to one Draper a dancing-
master hving in Greys-Inn-lane in Holbourn near
London : Soon after he being dextrous in that art,
and by insinuation into, and complying with, his
master's customers, got so much money from them
as to buy out the remaining part of his time, and set
up for himself. But so it was that he being after-
wards selected from the company of masters to be
one of those that should dance when the duke of
Buckingham's great mask was to be represented,
it happened that by his high dancing and cutting of
capers according to the then mode, he did, by a false
step, sprain a vein in the inside of his leg, which
ever alter occasioned him to go lamish. Afterwards
he taught to dance the sisters of sir Ralph (after-
wards lord) Hopton at Wythain in Somersetsliire ;
where, at leisure hours he learned from that gene- [379J
rous and accotnplish'd knight how to handle the pike
and musquet, and all postures belonging to them.
When Thomas earl of Strafford became lord lieu-
tenant of Ireland, he was entertained by him to
teach his art in his family, and having a command
of his pen, as to the writing a good hand, was also
employed sometimes to transcribe several matters

* [Tills person was also author of the following plays, |

nc\er primed.

1. The Spanish Duke of Lerma.
2 The Duke of Guiie.

3. The Dumb Bawd.

4. Giraldo, Ihc constant Lover.'\

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SHIRLEY.

74^2

for that most noble count. In his family it was,
that he first of all gave proof of his inclinations to
poetry, by translatinji some of /T2sop.s Fables in
versej^ which afterwards when he came to understand
Latin better, and had commimicated them to se-
veral scholars, he made public : And being then one
of the troop of guard belonging to his lord, he com-
posed in English verse a witty thing entit. Tlie
Character of a Trooper. About that time he be-
came, by the favour of the said lord, master of the
revels in the kingdom of Ireland, built a little
theatre to act plays in, in S. Warburgh's-strect in
Dublin, and was then and there valued by all inge-
nious men for his great industry in promoting mora-
lity and ingenuity: But the rebellion breakmg out
soon after in that kingdom, he lost all, and was se-
veral times in jeopardy of his life, particularly when
he had like to be blown up by gunpowder in the
castle of Refernam near Dublin. Much about the
time that the war was terminated in England, he
left Ireland, and in his return being wreckt at sea,
went to London in a poor condition. Thence, after
some short stay, he footed it to Cambridge, where
his great industry and greater love to learning being
discovered, was encouraged by several scholars there,
who, in compliance to his zeal, r&solved his many
doubts put to them, and in fine made him so great a
master of the Latin tongue, that he translated The
Works of Pub. Virffil Mara, which lie published

with his picture before them in a large oct.

Lond. 1649, 50, and dedicated them to his most
noble patron William marquess of Hertford, and
thereujwn obtained a considerable sum of money in
his pocket. At that time living in London, ^sop
the prince of mythologists became his quarry, de-
scanted on his plain song, and paraphrased his short
and pithy sayings, whereby he rais'd his voice to
such an heighth that he took the degree among the
minor poets, after the publication of that autlior
with this title : Fables of ^sop Paraphrased in
Verse, and adorn''d with Sculptures. Lond. 1651.
qu. In commendation of which sir Will. D'avenant
then a prisoner in the Tower, and Jam. Shirley
made verses. Hitherto his translation of Virgil con-
tinuing in a mean oct. he printed it in a royal folio
with this title. The Works of Piibl'ms Virg'd'ms
Maro, translated, adorn'd with Sculpture, and il-
lustrated with Annotations. Lond. 1654. It was
the fairest edition that till then the Eftglish press
ever produced, and hath his picture licfore it also,
as most of the books which he published have.
The said sculpture and the very same cuts, were
also by him put into the bare Latin edition of that
author, without annotations, which was by him pub-
lished at London in 1658, in a large fol. He also
pubhshed the said author with sculpture and an-
notations in a large oct. — Lond. 1675, and 85.
Which was much bought up by young scholars and
gentlemen, such who could not spare money to pur-
chase the folio, that being reserved for libraries and

the nobility. 13y the nublication, with annotations,
of that most noble author, Mr. Ogilby obtained the
rei)utation ol" a good translator, a faithful inter-
preter, and of one that had dabled well in another's
Helicon. About that time, viz. 1654, he, by his great
and unwearied diligence accompanied with an unsa-
tiable desire of obtaining knowledge, did learn the
Greek tongue of one of his country-men called
David Whitford, at that time usher to Jam. Shirley
before-mention'd : And being in a manner master
of it, he put out Homer his Iliads translated, adorned
tvith Sculpture, and illustrated with Annotations.
Lond. 1660. fol. This author, the king of Par-
nassus, being by him performed with great cost and
labour, was by him dedicated to his most gracious
majesty king Chai'les II. In the same year he put
out The Holy Bible, according to the translation
set forth by special command of king James I. with
the Liturgy and Articles of the Church of England,
with chorographical sculpture. This was printed at
Cambr. in a large fol. and on very large paper. In
the beginning of the year following he received
orders from the commissioners for the solemnity of
his maj. coronation, for the conduct of the poetical
part thereof, as speeches, emblems, mottoes and in-
scriptions, and thereupon drew up for the present.
The Relation of his Majesty s Entertainment pass-
ing through the City of London to his Coronatkm :
with a Description cf (lie Triumphal Arches and
Solemnity. Lond. 1661. in 10 sh. in fol. This I
say was put out for the present, but by command
from his majesty, the author did, with most ml-
niirable sculpture, and speeches at large, publish it
soon after in a royal folio ; and it hath been much
made use of in succeeding coronations. About the
same time (1662) he went into Ireland, being tlien
by patent made master of the revels there, after sir
Will. D'avenant had made some strugling for that
place : and at Dublin he built a noble theatre which
cost him about 2000/. the former being ruined in the
troubles. Afterwards he put out Homer his Odys-
ses translated, adorned with Sculpture, and illus-
trated with Annotations. Lond. 1665. fol. dedicated
to his most noble lord James duke of Orniond lord
lieutenant of Ireland. He then a second time be-
took himself to Mio\), became a mytliologist, and
not only paraphrased it, but was a designer of his
own or new fables therein. This was called the se-
cond vol. being adorned with most admirable cuts,
and printed at L(md. 1665. [and jigain in 1668] fol.
having been by him iKrfonned, during his retire-
ment, in the time of sickness, at Kingston upon
Thames. This author was afterwards published in
lesser volumes with this title. The Fables of JEsop,
Paraphrased in Verse, adorned with Sculptures,
and illustrated with Annotations. Lond. 1673, 74.
in two vol. in oct. The next things that he com-
posed were. The Epliesian Matron, and The Roman
Slave, two heroic poems dedicated to Thomas earl
of Ossory : And altho' a second part met with a fate
3B 2

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not common, yet it was estecmctl equal with the
former. Afterwjircls lie WTote CnroVies an evic
Poem, in 1 il Books, so called from our miracle of he-
roes king Charles L l>einjj the Ix'st pattern of true
prudence, valour, and Christian piety. This was
utterly lost in the grand conflagration that hapjx?ned
in London in the beginning of Sept. 1666, when then
the habitation of our author Ogilby in the AVhite-
friers near Fleet-street was burnt, and he himself
imdone, having but 51. left to begin the world again.
But so it was that he had such an excellent inven-
tion 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 pro])osals which were embraced by rich and
great men, that in short time he would obtain an
estate again. He never failed in what he undertofjk,
but by his great industry and prudence went through
it with profit and honour to himself S(x)n 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
majesty's cosraographer, and geographic printer, cand
by proposals printed several books that he and his
assistants had translated and collected, as (1.) An
Emhasny from AVrc Butavia to tlie Emperor of
China, &c. Lond. 1669- fol. adorned witn maps,
prospects, and various sculptures, as all the btX)ks
following which he published were, (2.) Description
of Africa, &c. Lond. 1670. fol. This is the first
part of his Engii/sh Atlas. (3.) Descript. of Ame-
rica, &c. Lond. 1671. fol. This is the second.
(4.) Atlas Japanensis : Being' remarkable Ad-
dresses by yVay ()f Emhassij from the East India
Company of the United Provinces to the Emperor of
Japan, &c. Lond. 1670. fol. (5.) Atlas Chhicnsis :
Being t}i£ second Part of a Relation of remarkable
Passages in two Embassies ^from the East India
Company of the Un. Prov. to the Viceroy of Simla-
mong, &c. Lond. 1671. fol. (6.) Asia, the first
Pari ; being an accurate Description of Per.sia,
and ilxe several Provinces thereaf,h.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 Eiiglish Atlas. (7.) Description of Europe,
not finished by tlie author who intended it to be the
fourth part of the Engl. Atlas. (8.) Britannia,
An Historical and Geographical Description of
Britain, &c. The first part fol. All wnich 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 g«es
under his name, A Pocket Book of Roads in Eng--
land, and A new Map of the City nf Londim, as it
is new built, &c. Printed in one siieet of large
psiper. 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

iMndon, Westminster, and Southwark, and A Sur-
vey of Essex, with the Roads therein e.ractly mea-
sured, &c. At length Mr. Ogilby having live<l to
a fair age, gave way to fate on tlie fourth day of
Sept. 1676, and was buried in the ^ault under part
of the church of S. Bride alias Bridget in London :
At which time many persons of great knowknlge
usually said, that had he been carefully educated
when a young man, in an university, he might have
proved the ornament and glory of the Scotch nation.

[Add to Shirley:

Eccho, or the unjbrtunate Lovers, a Poem. Lond.
1618. 8vo. In this he styles himself ' in art.
bacc' '^

He wrote also the following plays, the first of
which alone was printed.

1. Andromana, or the Merchants Wife, a Tra-
gedy. Lond. 1660. 4to.

2. St. Albans, a Tragedy, 1639.

3. Look to the Lady, Comedy, 1639.

4. The General.

5. Roxania ; or Love's Victory, Comedy.

I am happy to see a new edition of this excellent
dramatist\s pnxluctions announced as under the
superintendance of that able editor WiUiam Gif-
ford.j

JAMES HOWELL was born' in Caermar-
thenshire, 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 a.scendant was that hot con-
stellation 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 jiure cadet, a
true cosmopolite, not born to land, lease, house, or
office, was in a manner put to it to seek his for-
tune ; 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 q£
several languages. Some years after his return, he
was sent into Spain 1622, to recover of the king of
that place a rich English sliij), seized on by his
vice-roy of Sardinia for his master's use, upon some
pretence of prohibited gixxis therein. Tiiree 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 hiin was made his
secretary. So that residing in York for that pur-
pose, he was by the mayor and aldennen of Rich-
mond 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

^ \Censura Li/eraria, ii. 382]

' Lib. Mntric. P. pag. 473.

* In his Epist. or familiar Letters, vol. 1 . § 6. nii. 60.

745

HOWELL.

746

Robert oarl of Lt-icester, ambassador extraordinary
from our kinjf to the king of Denmark ; beftire
wliom and his children he shew\l liiniself a quaint
orator by divers Latin speeches s]x)ken befoi'e tlicm,
shewing the txicasion of tlieir anibassy, to condole
the death of Sophia queen dowager of Denmark,
gi-an(hnother to Charles I. king of England. After-
wards going through several beneficial employments,
particularly tlie 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 Parnassus, (which he held in
fee of the muses) he solely dedicated himself to
write and translate books; which, tlio' several of
them are meer scribbles, yet they brought liim in a
comfortable subsistence, during his long stay there.
After the king's return in 1660, we never heard of
his restoration to his place of clerk of the council,
(having before flattered Oliver and sided with the
commonwealtirs men) only that he was made tlie
king''s historiographer, being the first in England
that Ixjrc that title ; and having no beneficial em-
ployment, he wrote books to his last. He had a
singular a^nmnand of his pen, whether in verse or
[382] prose, and was well read in modern histories, espe-
cially in those of the countries wherein he had tra-
velled, had a parabolical and allusive fancy, ac-
cording to his motto Scnesca non Segnesco. But
the reader is to know that his writings having been
only to gain a li\elih<)od, and by their dedications to
flatter great and noble persons, are very trite and
empty, stolen from other authors without acknow-
ledgment, and fitted only to please the humours of
novices. His works are these,

Dodona's Grove: or, the Vocal Forest. Lond.
1640," [Bodl. AA.51. Art.] 44. qu. [Bodl. 4to. L.
83. Art.] Much cried up and taken into the hands
of curious people at its first publication. The se-
cond part of it was printed at Lond. in 1650. oct.
[Bodl. Bvo. H. 31. Alt. Seld.] and tho' not so
much admired as the first (which was translated
into French and printed several times) yet tliere
was a translation made of it into the new refined
French by one of the prime wits in the academy of

Beaux Esprits of Pans. Par. 1652. qu. [Bodl.

4to.H. 30.Art. Seld.']

' [The first edition was in folio lfi40, the 4lo. of 1644 is
called in the title ' the second edition,' other copies ap-
peared in 16.50, 1655, and, wilhouidate, in 12aio.]

' [A presentation coiiy from the author to Seldcn. The
book was printed at Paris in l641, but has a new dale
pasted over the original one. Howell has written with his
own hand — ' Ex dono authoris D. Johanni Selden Anclorum
Trismegisto, Viro, si quis Monalium, Omniscio, ad orna-
mentum Patriae et Reipub. Liierariae salutem nato, In coelo
(cientiarum stellse prim:e inagnitudinis, Restitutori Tempo-

Ou le Pnrler des Arbrcs. Par. 1648. qu. The
English copy I have not yet seen, this being dif-
ferent from the Vocal Forest, which bears another
title in the French edit.

The Vote : or, a Poem-Royal, presented to hit
Majesty for a New-years Gi/i, by Way of Dis-
course ''tiiiixt the Poet and his Muse, Cal. Jan.
1641, Lond. 1642. in two sh. in qu. [Bodl. 4to.
D. 7. Art. BS.]

Instructions for Foreign Travel. Lond. 1642.
in tw. dedicated to prince Charles.* There again
with additions, 1650. in tw. [Bodl. 8vo. H. 29.
Art. Seld.]

Casual Discourses and Interlocutions between
Patricius and Peregrin, touching the Distractions
of the Times, with the Causes of them. Writ-
ten by the author in the prison calfd the Fleet,
presently after Edghill battel, being the first book
that came forth for the vindication of his majesty.

Mercurius Hibernicus : m; a Discourse of t/uit
horrid Insurrection, and Massacre which happened

lately in Ireland. W'ritten in the Fleet 1643.

« Bristol. 1644. qu. 2 sh. and half."

Parables reflecting wpon the Times. Lond. 1644.
in 2 sh. in qu. at the latter end of the second edit,
of Dodona's Grove.

England's Tears for the present Wars, &c.
Lond. 1644. in 2 sh. and half in qu. There again
in 1650. in tw. Put into Lat. under this title,
Angliw Suspiria iSf Lacrymce, &c. Lond. 1646. in
tw. [Bodl. Bvo. F. 15. Art. BS.]

Preheminence and Pedigree of Parliaments in 2
Sections. Lond. 1644. in tw. There again in 1677.
in 3 sh. in qu. [Bodl. C. 12. 8. Line]

Vindication of some Passages reflecting upon
him. in a Book called. The Popish Royal Favou-
rite, penn'd by Mr. Prynne. Lond. 1644. in tw.
Printed with the very next pamphlet before-men-
tioned.

A Clearing of some Occurrences in Spain at his
Majesty'' s being there, cited by the said Mr. Prynne

out of the Vocal Forest This is also prmted

with the former.

Epistolce Ho-Eliana". Familiar Letters Domestic
and Foreign, divided into sundry Sections, partly
Historical, Political, and Philosophical. Lond.
1645, 47. qu. Lond. 1650. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. H. 32.
Art. Seld.] There again 1655 and 73. in oct. All
which impressions contained 2 vol. and had, to the
last, added a third and fourth volume. Many of
the said letters were never written before the author
of them was in the Fleet, as he pretends they were,
only feigned, (no time being kept with their dates)

rum, Scriptorumquehujus sseculi facile principi,Opusciilum
hoc. Honoris ergo, miilitur archivis suis reponendum, pyg-
maeum munus voluntatis gigantese. 3° non. Mali, l652.']

" [To this edition a head of Charles when a boy was pre-
fixed, engraved by Glover, but having only his initials. To
that in i6.50 a miserable copy of this scarce portrait was
placed.]

747

HO^VELL.

74»

and purposely published to gain money to relieve
his necessities, yet pve a tolerable history of those
times.^

A Nocturnal Progress : or, a PeramhulaSuyn of
most Omntrks in Christendo^n, performed in one
Night by Strength of Imagination. — Written in
the Fleet, 1645.

LtiMra Ludovici : or, the LifeqfLem^ 13. King
of France, and of his Cardinal dc Richelieu. Lond.
1646. fol. [Botll. F. 2. 18. Art. Seld.] Divided into
7 lusters, and dedicated to prince Charles at his
court in the isle of Jersey.

An Account of the deplorable and desperate Con-
dition that England stands in. An. 1647, in a Let-
ter to Francis Cardinal Barberini. — Written from
tlie Fleet. 1647.

Letter to the Earl of Pembr. concerning the
Times, and the sad Condition, both of Prince and
People. — Printed 1647. in two sh. in qu. [Bodl.
4to. H. 25. Art. Seld.]
[383] Bella Scot-Aiiglica. A Brief of ail the Battels

and Martial Encounters which have Imppened
''twixt England and Scotland, from all Times to

this present Printed 1648. [Bodl. 4to. H. 25.

Art. Seld.]

Corollary declaring the Causes whereby the Scot
is come of kite Years to be so fieightned in his Spirits
— These two last are in 3 sh. in qu.

The Instruments of a King : or, a short Dis-
course of the Sword, Sceptre, and Crown, &c.
Lond. 1648. in 2 sh. in qu. [Bodl. C. 15. 2. Line.

IVinter Dream Written in prose, and printec

1649. in 3 sh. in qu. [Bodl. 4to. H. 25. Art. Seld.]

A Trance, or News from Hell brought first to
Town by Merc. Acheronticus. Lond. 1649. in 2
sh. and half in qu. [Bodl. C. 15. 6. Line.] Written
in prose.

Inquisition after Blood: to tlie Parliament in
Statu quo nunc, and the Army Regnant, &c. —
Printed 1649. in two sh. in qu. [Bodl. 4to. H. 25.
Art. Seld.]

Vision, or Dialogue between the Saul and tlie
Body. Lond. 1651. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. H. 49. Art.
Seld] &c.

Survey of the Signory of Venice, of her admired
Polity and Method of Government. Lond. 1651. thin
fol. [Bodl. F. 2. 16. Art. Seld.]

Discourse of the Interests of the Republic of Ve-
nice, rcith the Rest of t/ie States of Italy. — Printed
with the Survey.

' [Editions of Howell's Letters —

1. l645. "

2. 1647.

3. 1650.

4. 1655.
i. 1673.

6. 1688.

7. I7O8.
8.
9. 17S6.

10. 1737-

11. 1754-

And 1 puri)ose, God willing, at some fu-
ture time, to ^ive a new and corrected
impression of this excellent book, with
notes and an appendix, for which work
I have for a long time past been making
the necessary collections.]

Some sober Inspections made into the Carriage
and Consults of the late Long Parliament, &c.
Lond. 1653. oc-t. Dedicated to Oliver lord pro-
tector, whom he compares to Charles Martel, and
complements him in smooth language. The fburtli
edition* of this book came out in 1660, with several
additions containing Refections upon Government
in general, with some Prophetic Paragraplis., and
a Supplement of divers signal Passages, which the
other three editions had not.

Hist, of the Wars of Jerusalem Epitomiz'd —
Printed in Oct.

Ah, Ha ; Tumulus, Thalamus : Two Counter-
Poems ; the first, an Elegy upon Edward late
Earl of Dorset. The second an Epithalamium
to tlie L. Marquess of Dorchester ; with an Hy-
menccum or Bridal Sonnet of four Stanzds, ac-
cording to a choice Air set tliereunto by Mr. Will,
Webb. Lond. 1653. in two sh. in qu. [Bodl. 4to.
H. 25. Art. Seld.]

A Dialogue Published and couched under

the name of Polyander. Written alx)ut the time
that Oliver began to l)e protector. In this dialogue
he gives his opinion for a single person against all
other governments.

The German Diet : or, the Ballance of Europe,
wherein the Power and Weakness, Glory and Re-
proach, Virtues and Vices, &c. of all the Kingdcmis
and States of Christendom are impnrtialhi poised.
Lond. 1653. fol. [Bodl. F. 2. 17. Art. Sold.] The
author's picture from head to foot is set before the
title, leanmg under a British oak.

Parthonopccia : or, the History of the most re-
nowned Kingdom of Naples, with a List of their
Kings, &c. Lond. 1654. fol. The first part of it
was written by Scipio Mazzella ; englished from Ital.
by Samson Lennard herald of arms. The second
part was compiled by our author Jam. Howell, who,
besides some supplements to the first part, draws
the thread of the story to these present times. Col-
lected and translated from several modem Ital.
authors.

Londinopolis. An Histoj-ical Discourse, or Per-
lustration of the City of London and Westminster,
with the Courts of Justice, Antiquities, and new
Buildings. Lond. 1657. fol. [Bodl. K. 4. 17. Art.]
'Tis a short discourse, mostly taken from Jo. Stow's
Survey of London, and his contiiiuators.

Discourse of the Empire, and of the Election of
tJie King of the Romans, &c. Lond. 1658. oct.

Lexicon Tetraglotton. An EngUsh-French-Ita-
lian-Spanish Dictionary. Lond! 1659, 60. fol.
[Bodl. C. 1. 19. Art.]

A particular Vocabulary or Nomenclature in
English, Italian, French, and Spariish, of the
proper Terms belonging toseveralArts and Sciences,
to common Professions arid Callings, both liberal

4 [Second edit. Lond. |655. Bodl. 8vo. H. 15. Art. BS.
third, Lond. 1 6.06. Bodl. 8vo. C. 82. Line]

HOWELL.

750

and mechanic, S^c. in 52 Secdans. Lond. 1659.
Printed witli the fbruier book.

Proverb,^ ; or, old sayed Sawcs and Adages in

English, (or the Saxon Tongue) Italian, French,

and Spanish : whercunto the British,Jur tJieir great

[384] Antiquity and Weight, are added— -This is also

printed with Lex. Tetragl.

A Cordial Jbr the Cavaliers. Lond. 1661. An-
swered as soon as it peep'd abroad by Rog. L'Estrange
in a book entit. A Caveat for the Cavaliers : which
having given ott'ence to divers persons, he pubhshed
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 .wber In.^pections made into those Ingre-
dients that went to the Composition of a late Cor-
dial Jhr the Cavaliers. Lond. 1661. Upon which
L'Estrange briefly reflects in the close of a piece of
his entit. A modest Plea both Jbr the Caveat and
Author of it.

A French Grammar, and a Dialogue consisting
of all Gallicisms, with Additions (yfthe most useful
and significant Proverbs, &c. Printed at Lon-
don twice, the last time was in 1673. fol. He also
added to A French and English Dictionary, com-
posed by Randal Cotgrave, Sundry Animadver-
sions, with Supplements of many hundreds of Wcyrds
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 Discour.ses and Inter-
locutions betxveen Patricius and Peregrin, &c.
Lond. 1661. oct. Printed in a book entit. Divers
Historical Discourses of the late popular Insurrec-
tions in Great Britain and Ireland.

Apology for Fables mythologiz'd — Printed in the
said book also.

Twelve Treatises of the late Revolutions. Lond.
1661. oct.

New English Grammar Jbr Foreigners to learn
English, with a Grammar Jor the Spanish or Cas-
tilian Tongue, with special Remarks on the Portu-

fuese Dialect, Jor the Service of her Majesty.''
.ond. 1662. oct.

Discourse concerning the Precedency of Kings.
Lond. 1663. fol. Translated into Latm by B.
Harris L. P.— Lond. 1664. oct.

Poems on several cJwice and various Subjects,
occasionally composed. Lond. 1663. oct. CoUected
and published by one who calls himself serjeant-
ma^or Payne Fisher, sometime poet laureat to
Oliver.

Treatise concerning Ambassadors — Translated

into Lat. by John Harmer of Magd. coll. Lond.

1664. oct.

5 [The author stiles this book, ' Liberorum Cerebri
Quintus post Quadraginia. J. H.' Bowlk.]

Concerning the Surrender of Dunkirk, that if
was done upon good Grounds. Lond. 1664. (x,t.
[Bodl. 8vo. P. 31. Art. BS.]

He also translated from Italian into English. (1.)
S. PauTs late Progress upon Earth, about a Di-
vorce, ^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 public about the year
1642, and being forced to fly from Rome for ao
doing, in the company, and under the conduct of
one that pretended a friendship to him, was betray-
ed at Avignon, and there first hanged, and then
burned. (2.) A Venice Looking-glass ; or, a Let-
ter written very lately Jrom Lond. to Card. Bar-
barini at Rome, by a Venetian Clarissimo, touchy
ing the present Distempers in England. Printed
1648. in 3 sheets in qu. [Bodl. 4to. H. 25. Art.
Seld.] (3.) An exact History of the late Revolu-
tions in Naples, and of their monstrous Successes
not to be paralleVd by any antient or modern His-
tory. Lond. 1650. oct. Pubhshed 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 wliich it appears,
that the said revolutions were occasion'd by the ex-
cessive gabells laid upon common vendibles : which
exciting the mobile, headed by Tomaso Anello,
commonly called Masaniello a fisherman, aU things
in Naples were for some time turn'd topsy turvy.
(4.) A Letter of Advice sent Jrom the prime States-
men cj Florence how England may come to herself

again. Dated at Flor. 12 Mar. 1659. Printed

at the end of The second Part cf casual Discourses,
&c. before-mention'd. He also (Ja. Howell) trans-
lated from French into English, The Nuptials ofPe-
leus and Thetis ; consisting of a Mask and Come-
dy, or the great Royal Ball acted lately in Paris six
Times, &c. Lond. 1654. qu. and from Spanish into
English, The Process and Pleadings in the Court [385]
of Spain upon the Death of Anthony Asclmm,
Resident Jbr the Parliament of England, and of
Joh. Baptista Riva his Interpreter, &c. Lond.
1651. fol. The said A. Ascham, who was bom of a
genteel family, was educated in Eaton school, and
thence elected into King's coll. in Cambridge, 1633.'
Afterwards taking the degree of master of arts,
closed with the presbyterians in the beginning of
the rebellion, took the covenant, sided with the in-
dependents, 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 sovereign. At length being looked upon as suf-
ficiently antimonarchicaJ, was by the rump parlia-
ment sent their agent or resident to the court of

^ [T'was Ferrante Pallavicino. Bowle.]

' [See my MS- Collections (in the British museum) vol.

XV, p. 143. Cole.

See also Harleian Miscellany by Park, iv, 880, and 01dys'»

Catal. of Pamphlets, Numb. 38.J

751

HOWELL.

GLYNNE.

lo<2.

Spain, in the latter end of the year 1649- In the
Ix-einning of Juno following he arrived at Madrid,
and had an apartment apix)inted him in the court ;
but certain English royalists then in that city, tak-
ing it in great disdain that such a notorious rel)el
(one of the destroyers of their nation, as they call'd
liim) should come there from the murtherers of his
sacred majesty of England, six oi' them named Joh.
Guillim, \\\n. Spiirk, Valentine Progers, Jo. Hal-
sal, Will. Arnet, and Hen. Progers, repaired to his
lodging : Two of them .stood at the l)ottoni of the
stairs, two at the toj), and two entretl his chamber,
of whom Spark bemg the first, drew up to the
table where Ascham and another were sittmg, and,
pulling off his hat, said, ' Gentlemen I kiss your
hands, pray which is the resident.^' Whereufjon
tile resident rising up, Guillim t(X)k 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 died. Whereu|X)n Jo.
Bap. Riva his interpreter thinking to retire to his
chamber, four others that were without the cham-
ber, gave him four wounds, whereof he presently
expired. Afterwards five of the Englishmen tofjk
sanctuary, but were haled thence, iinpri.son'cI, and
Spark suffer'd. The sixth person named Hen. Pro-
gers, fled to the Venetian ambassador's house, and
so escaped. The ssiid Anth. Ascham, who was
slain 6 June 1G50, hath written A Discourse,
■wherein m examined, ichat is particularli/ lawful
duriiig the Confusions and Revoltttions of Govern-
ment ; " or hoxojar a Man may Imcfdly coitfbrm
" to the Powers U7id Commands oftJwsc, xvho tcith
" various Successes Jiold Ki/igdoms divided by
" Civil and Foreign Wars, &c. Likexoise wlwther
" tfie Nature of War be inconsistent with the Pre-
" cepts of Christian Religion .?" Lond. ICtS. oct.
" in three parts, and with additions.* Lond. 1649.
" Oct." [Bodl. 8vo. B. 154. Line] and other things,
as 'tis probable, but such I have not yet seen. But
all this by the by ; an for Jam. Howell he pul)-
lished— — Co^^cwfi Posthuma : Divers clwice Pieces

' [There were nine additional ch.npters to this edition, on
the following subjects —

1. Of the original of property.
S. Of llie nature of money.

3. Whether in the riolent changes of princes and eover-
nours, and .ifter ihe killing of five royal heirs and successors,
the people who then subniiilcd brokeany oaths of allegiance
or supremacy .'

4. Of the original of magistracy.

5. Of the original of civil government in the confusion of
families.

6. Of the time for legitimating new obedience after con-
fusions.

7. Whether prescription can give a right or title, espe-
cially such as will except against our obedience in plenary
possession ?

8. Of the several forms of government.
g. Of political justice 3

of that renmtmed Antiquary Sir Rob. Cotton, &c.
Lond. in oct.s and the late Kings Declaration in
Lat. Fr. and Engl. an. 1649. At length after he
had taken many rambles in this world in his younger
years, and had suffered confinement in his last, gave
way to fate in the beginning of Novemb. in sixteen 16O6.
hundred sixty and six, and was buried on the north
side of the Temple church in London, near the
round walk. Soon after was a moiuiment set up
in the wall over his grave, with this inscription
thereon. ' Jacobus Howell Cambro-Britannus, Re-
gius Historiographus, (in Anglia primus) qui jx)st
varias jieregiinationes, tandem naturas cursuin pere-
git, satur annorum & famae, domi forisque hue
usque crraticus, hie fixus 1666.' This monument
was pulled down in 1683, when the said Temple
church was beautified and repairetl.

[James Howell wrote a prose address to his
much esteemed friend Mr. [John] Battle, prefixed
to that person's Merchants Remonstrance, 4". 1648.

Letter to the very worthy Translator of this ex-
quisite Piece The Art Ivow to kno'ic Men, Prefixed
to Davies (of Kidwelly) his translation from De la
Chambre, Lond. 1665, 8vo.

Commend, lines to Eromena, or Love and Re-
venge, translated by Ja. Hayward of Gray's Inn.
Lond. 1635iJ, folio.

Commendatory verses to D'Ourilly's False Fa-
vourite Disgraced, a Trngi-Comedy, Lond. 1657,
liJmo. These arc reprintetl in Censuru Lilcraria,
vol. ii, p. 76.

Various letters by Howell in the first \olume of
the Straffbrde Letters, none of which are ])rinted
in the Epist. Ho-Elian(V, which is one of the most
amusing volumes extant.

The excellent head of Howell by Melan and
Bosc was first placed before the French translation
of his Vocal Forest, 1641.]

JOHN GLYNNE, third son of Will. Glynne,
esq; "(or knt. as Mr. Vauglian ')" was born at
Gfyn-Llyvon in Caernarvanshirc, (the ancient seat
of liis ancestors) bred in the coll. school at West-
minster, went full ripe in grammar learning to Hart
hall in Mich, term 1621, aged 18 years, where
continuing alwut three years, he retired to Lincoln.s-
inn, became barrister, a counseller of note and
bencher. Afterwards he was made steward of roo/n
Westminster, recorder of London, and in 1640 L"^°oJ
was elected twice a burgess for Westminster to
serve in those two parliaments called that year. In
the last of which, commencing 3 of Nov. he was
appointed one of those doughty champions to bait
the most noble and worthy Thomas earl of Straf-
ford, in order to bring him to the block ; which
b.ing done, he shewed him.self a great enemy to the
bishops and their function, a zealous covenanteer, a
busy man in the assembly of divines, (among whom

' [iC'O, printed dedication to sir Rob. Pyc, l6jl. Colk.]
' " History of IVaks. p. 31."

753

GLYNNE.

GRIFFITH.

754

he sometimes sate) and what not to promote his in-
terest and gain wealth. So that being then well
known to be an useful member for carrying on the
blessed cause, lie was made clerk of the petty bag
in sir Edw. Wardour's place, (a known royalist)
esteemed to be then worth 1000/. per an. and what
other places he could not take because of his pro-
fession, he got them to be conferr'd on his creatures*
and kindred. In 1647 he, with other parliament
men, took a pique against the army, and would
needs have them disbanded: whereupon they im-
peached him and ten more of high-treason on the
16th of June the same year, and forthwith by or-
der of parUament they were sent prisoners to the
Tower. In January following he was deprived of
his recorder's place, but then wheeling about and
flattering the independents, he was made serJeant at
law in Oct. 1648, and in July following Will. Steel,
esq; was elected recorder in his place, not, as 'tis
supposed, without consideration given to Glynne.
In the beginning of the year 1655 he was sent into
the West (Hen. Rolls en. justice refusing) to ar-
raign that brave and valiant gen. col. John Pen-
ruddock and others his associates taken at South
Moulton (after the rising of the cavaliers at Salis-
bury) by article-breaking Unton Croke. " Upon
" which occasion the author of Hudibras, the 1st
" and 2d parts, &c. Lond. 1674. oct. canto the 2d,
" p. 92. aliout velis & remis, had the verses follow-
" mg, which were not allow'd to stand in the first
" edition 1663, because Glynne and Maynard were
" then living:

" Did not the learned Glynne and Maynard
" To make good subjects traytors strain hard ?
" Was not the king by proclamation
*' Declar'd a rebel o'er all the nation .'*''

For which good service, (as 'twas then called) and
his complying principles to advance the protector's
interest, he was made lord chief justice of the up-
per bench : To which office he was sworn 15 June
1655, by Fiennes and L'Isle commissioners of the
great seal. The la.st of which did then make a
learned speech, wherein he spoke much in com-
mendation of the good government (as he term'd
it) that they then lived under. About that time
our author Glynne was made one of Oliver's other
house, that is, house of lords, and so long as that
person lived he was much favoured by him. " John
" Gl3mne seijeant at law was chose knight for Caer-
" narvanshire to serve in the parliament which be-
" gan at Westminster 25 Apr. 1660." After the
restoration of king Charles II. he was made his
eldest Serjeant at law, by the corrupt dealing of the
then lord chancellor;' and on the 16th of Novemb.

° See in the Mystery qflhe good old Cause, &c. Lond.
1660. Oct. p. 11.

' [It was chiefly for this expression, that the lord Claren-
don prosecuted the author, for defamation of his father, and
had judgment against him in the vice-chancellor's court.
Vol. hi.

1660, he by the name of John Glynne of Henley

fiark in Surrey, &c. received the honour of knight>
lood. Under his name are these things following
extant.

Divers Discourses in the managing of the Evi-
dence against Tho. E. of Strafford. See Joh.

Rushworth's Ti-yal of the said earl.

Replication in the Name of all tJie Commons of
England to the general Answer of Tho. Earl of
Strafford, 8^c. 13 July 1641. Lond. 1641. in 2 sh.
and Tialf in qu.

Several speeches, as (1.) Speech at ilie presenting
the Sheriffs of London, in Octob. 1644. (2.) Speech
to the Point of Jus Divinum, and ths Presbyterian
Government. This was spoken for an whole hour
together in Nov. 1644, ujxin the advice of the as-
sembly of divines, that the presbyterian govern-
ment was jure divino, &c.

Monarchy asserted to be the best, most ancient,
and legal Form of Government, in a Conference
had at Whitehall with Oliver Lord Protector, and [387]
a Committee of Parliament, in Apr. 1658, and
made good by several Arguments.* Lond. 1660.
Oct. besides other things which I have not yet seen.
He departed this mortal life in his house situated
in Portugal-row in Lincolns-inn-fields near London
on the 15th of Nov. in sixteen hundred sixty and \Q^.
six, and was buried with great solemnity (being ac-
companied to his grave by three heralds of arms)
in his own vault under the altar in the chancel of
the church of S. Margaret within the city of West-
minster, as I have been informed by his son sir
Will. Glynne of Bisseter ahas Bumcester in Oxford-
.shire, baronet, who dying 28 of Aug. 1690, was
buried also in the same vault. See more of sir Jo.
Glynne in sir Will. Jones in the second vol. col.
673 under the year 1640. I have seen a book entit.
A true Accompt given of the Proceedings of the Right
Honourable Lord Glynne, the Lord Ch. Justice of
England, and the Honourable Baron Rog. Hill,
one of the Barons of the Excliequer, in their Sum-
mer Circuit in the Counties of Berks, Oxon, &c.
Lond. 1658. qu. But the reader must know that
this being writ in drolling verse by one that called
himself Joh. Lineall, the lord Glynne was so far
from having any knowledge of it, or consenting to
its writing, that there was great enquiry after the
author to have him punished for his abuses of, and
smart reflections on, nim.

GEORGE GRIFFITH waslwm at Penrhyn in
Caernarvanshire 30 Sept. 1601, educated in Westm.
school, elected student of Ch. Ch. i^i 1619, took the
degrees in arts, became an eminent tutor in his
house, and a preacher in these parts. Afterwards
Dr. John Owen bishop of S. Asaph, (to whom he

Hist, ff England, iii, 669. Another passage see in David
Jenkyns, col. 643, rather more offensive. Baker.]
< [See Pennant's Tour in Wales, p. 103.]

ac

755

GRIFFITH.

GAYTON.

756

~ was chaplain) conferr''d on liim the rectory of Llan-
vechen in Montgomeryshire, wliich he cliaiiged for
Llanyniyiiech, situated partly in Shropshire and
])artly in Montgomeryshire. In 1635 he proceeded
D. D. l)eing tlien, or ahout that time, canon (and
as some say archdeacon) of S. Asaph, and minister
of Llancliinio in the said county of Montgom. In
the time of tlie rebellion he lost all or most of his
spiritualities, did giwd service for his majesty and
tne church in several respects, and therefore re-
warded after his majesty's restoration, as I shall
anon tell you. While he lived at Llanymynech,
ivhence, I think he was not ejected, he wrote,

A modest Answer to a bold Challenge of an iti-
nerant PreacJier, (Vav. Powell) Printed 1652.

The beginning of which is, ' Accepi hodie chartu-
1am,' &c. To which Vav. Powell making a reply
in most false and barbarous Latin, beginning,
' Domine in quartam ultimas diei hebdomada?,' &c.
our author madft a r^oynder beginning thus,
' Ehem ! ouid tandem video ?' 8ec. All which
I)eing in oruer to a public disputation, Griffith after-
wards, when he saw himself abused thereby, pub-
lished,

Animadversions on an imperfect Relation in the
Perfect Diurnall, Numb. 138. Aug. 2. An. 1652.
containing a Narration of a Disputation betzoeen
Dr. Griffith and Mr. Vavasor Powell near New
Clmppell in Montgomeryshire, 23 Jul. 1652.
Lona. 1653. qu. See more in Vav. Powell, an.
1670. Our author Griffith also wrote,

Some plain Discourses on the Lord''s Supper,
instructing the Ignorant in a due Preparation for
that holy Sacrament, and representing the great
Danger of Communicating amiss. Oxon. 1684. in
tw. It was then corrected, and had an epist. to
the reader set to it, by Andr. Allam, M. A. and
vice-principal of S. Edm. hall. Our author also
took upon him the translation of the new Common-
Prayer-Book in the Welsh tongue : but whether he
ever finished it I know not. In a convocation of
the clergy held 1640, he made a motion for a new
edition of the Welsh Bible, set out many years
before by Will. Morgan bishop of S. Asaph. At
length having successfully asserted the truth and
cause of the church of England in Wales, in the
times of usurpation, in disputing with itinerants,
keeping up the offices and ceremonies thereof, &c.
he was by his majesty's grace and favour made
bishop of S. Asaph, to which being consecrated 28
of Octob. 1660, in king Henry 7th's chappel at
Westm. sate there till the time of his death, and
[388] ^^P^ ^^^ archdeaconry of S. Asaph in commendam
with it. In 1662, in a convocation of the clergy
then held, he concurred' effectually in drawing up
the act of uniformity, and making certain alterations
in the Common Prayer then set out, and 'tis
thought the form of baptizing those of riper years

* D. Lloyd in his MemoWt, &c. p. 600.

was of his composing. He died on the 28th of Nov.

in sixteen hundred sixty and six, and was buried in 1606.

the choir of the cath. church of S. Asaph. Soon

after was a monument placed over his grave, with

this inscription engraven thereon, ' Hie jacet corp.

Rev. in Christo Patris ac Dom. D. Georgii GriflSth

S. T. P. hujus Ecclesise Asaph. Episc. sacratissimi,

cujus altera melior pars, choro coelesti associata est,

28 die Novembris, an. Dom. 1666, setat. 65, & con-

secrationis 7"'°. Qui plura desiderat facile uivesti-

get'

EDMUND GAYTON, or de Speciosa villa, as
he entitled himself, son of George Gayton of Little
Britain in London, was born there, elected scholar
of S. John's coll. from Merchant Taylor's school in
the year 1625, aged 16, became afterwards fellow
of that house, master of arts, superior beadle of arta
and physic of this university, in the place of Joh.
Bell deceased, an. 1636, bach, of pnys. actually
created, by virtue of a dispensation from the dele-
gates 1647, turn'd out of his beatUeship in the year
following by the parliamentarian visitors, lived after-
ward in London in a sharking condition, and wrote
trite things meerly to get bread to sustain him and
his wife. After the king's return in 1660, he was
restored to his place by the king's commissioners,
but having got an itch in scribling, followed that
sometimes, but more the vices of poets, of which
number he pretended to be one, and one eminent
he might have been, had he not been troubled with
the faculty of too much lifting. He hath written
some good, others most vain and trashy, things,
as you may partly see by the catalogue following,
which according to method must be here set down,
tho' rather fit to be buried in oblivion.

EpulcE Oxonienses : or, a jocular Relation of a
Banquet presented to the best of Kings, by the
best of Prelates, in the Year 1636 in the Mathe-

matic Library at S. Jo. Bapt. Coll. This is a

song, and musical notes are set to it, in two parts,
with this beginning, ' It was (my staff upon't) in
thirty-six,' &.C. [Wood's study. Numb. 423.]

Chartce scriptw: or, a nezo Game at Cards,

called. Play by the Book. Printed 1645. qu.

Written, if I am not mistaken, in verse.

Pleasant Notes upon Don Quixot. Lond. 1654.
fol. [Bodl. AA. 49. Art.] Written in prose,
mix'd now and then with verse ; which is accounted
our author's master-piece.

Hymna de Febribus. Lond. about 1655. qu.
[Bodl. 4to. Z. 93. Med.] in Lat. verse.

Will. BagnaPs Ghost: or, the merry Devil of
Gadmunton, in his Perambulation qfflie Prisons of
London: Lond. 1655. qu. [Bodl. 4to. A. 9. Art
BS.] Written mostly in verse, the latter end in"
prose. The title is in imitation of Shakcspcar's
comedy, called, The Merry Devil of Edmonton,

* [So called by our author on the authority of Kirkinan,
but without foundation.]

GAYTON.

HOOLE.

758

which last word was changed into Gadmunton, he-
cause it conies near the aiitlior's name.

" The Art of LovfixvHy, or, a dUvtcrical InxtU
" tufion. Lond 1(J59. qu. [Bodl. A. 1. 21. Line]
" written in verse. There were commendatory
" verses before it written by sir Tho. Allen, sir
" Robert Stapylton, Henry Johnson, LL.D. Joh.
" Heath, (Jam. Heath) captain Franc. Aston of
" St. John's coll. &c.

" Walk, Knaves, Walk; a Dhcourse intended to
*' have been spoken at Court, and noxo published
*^Jbr the Satisfaetion of all tJwse that have partici-
" pated of public Employments. By Hodffe Tiir-
" berville. Chaplain to the late lA)rd Hewson.
" Lond. printed in the year 1659. But the true
" author was Mr. Gayton, who wrote it (as I re-
■" member) in the Kings-Bench prison."

Wit revived : or, a new excellent Way of Di-
vertisemcnt, digested into most ingenious Questions
and Anszoers. Lond. 1660. in tw. Published under
the name of Asdryasdust Tossoffacan.

Poe7n upon Mr. Jacob Bobard^s Yew-men of the
Guards to the Physic-Garden, to the Tune of the
Counter Scuffle. Oxon. 1662, on one side of a sh.
[389] of paper. He also was (if I mistake not) author of
A Ballad on the Gyants in the Phy.nc Garden in
Oxon, who have been breeding Feet as long as Ga-
ragantua was Teeth. Ox. 1662. on one side of a
large sh. of paper.'

Diegerticon ad Britanniam. Ox. 1662, on one
side of half a sh. of paper.

Poe7n rcritten from Oxon to Mr. Rob. Whitehall
at the Wells at A.itrop. Oxon. 1666. in half a sh. of
paper on both sides. To which Robin made an
answer, but 'twas not printed. The said Edm.
Gayton did also collect and publish Harry Mar-
ten\i Familiar Letters to his Lady of Delight, &c.
with other things of that author, not without some
enlargements of his own, which hath made many to
suppose that they were not written by Marten, but
devised by Gayton, who also wTote a buffooning
answer to a letter called A Copy of Henry Marten's
Letter in Vindication of the Murther of King
Charles : Which answer is printed with the letters
before-mentioned. At length this our vain and im-
pertinent author Gayton ciying in his lodgings in
Cat-street near the public schools, on the 12th day
l666. of Decemb. in sixteen hundred sixty an<l six (having
had verses of liis compisition published but 7
days before) was buried in S. Mary's church in
Oxon, near to the entrance thence into the lower
part of the steeple, or near to the tomb of Edm.
Croston, with monies given for that piii-pose by the
vicechancellor. Three days after his death, there

they should chuse, and desired them liy all means
that they would not elect a jK)et,' or any that do
liliellos scril)ere, adding withal that the late beadle
(Gayton) w'as such an ill liusband, and so improvi-
dent, that he had but one farthing in his p<x;ket when
he chetl, &c. But notwithstanding this exhortation,
which was just, the black-pot-men, or such who are
called boon, blades, who, (with shame be it spoken)
carry all before them in elections, did instead of
electing a master of arts (for there were two that
stood) to that beneficial place, (which liath lieen
done time out of mind) did chuse a yeoman-l)eatUe
(Solad. Lichfield) who had formerly kept a public
inn, and was good for nothing "but for eating,
drinking, smoakmg, and punning.

{^The Glorious and living Cinque Ports of our
Jbrtimate Lsland thrice happy in the Persons of his
Sacred Mqjestie. The Illustricms and Puissant
Prince his royall highnesse James Duke of Yorke.
The two victorious and Loyall Generals, their
united Excellencies Prince Rupert and George Duke
of Albermarle, &c. Oxon. lo66. 4to. Tis a poem
in a sheet and half. Heaene.*]

CHARLES HOOLE son of Charles Hoole,
was born at Wakefield in Yorksh. educated in the
free-school there under Rob. Doughtie a Cantabri-
gian who had taught in that school 50 years or
more, sent to Line. coll. by the advice of his kinsman
Dr. Rob. Sanderson, in Mich, term 1628, aged 18
years, where, by the help of a good tutor, he be-
came a proficient in the Greek and Hebrew tongues
and in philosophy. After he had taken one degree
in arts, he entrcd into the sacretl function, retired to
Lincolnshire for a time, and by the endeavours of
Sanderson before-mentioned, he was made master
of the free-school at Rothcram in Yorkshire, and
then proceeded in arts. In the beginning of the
civil war he went to London, and by the invitation
of certain noted citizens he taught a private school
there, between Goldsmith's-alley in Redcross-street,
and Maidenhead-court in Aldersgate-street. After-
wards, leaving that place (about 1651) he taught
another private grammar school in Token-house
Garden in Lothbury, not far from the Royal Ex-
change ; where, as in the former school, the gene-
rality of the youth were instructed to a miracle.
About the time of his majesty's restoration he was
invited into Monmouthshire, with hopes of great
reward, but promises answering not expectation, he
returned to London ; and Dr. Sanderson being
then made bishop of Lincoln, he appointed him his
cha])lain, gave him a prebendship in the church of
Lincoln, and would have done greater matters for
him if he had lived. About that time he became
rector also of Stock near to Chelmsford in Essex,
where he mostly spent the remainder of his days

was a convocation for the election of his successor
in the beadleship : In the beginnhig of which the
said vicechancellor (Dr. Fell) stood up and exhorted
the masters in a set speech to have a care whom

" \_MS. Collect. \q\,<229. In another volume of Hcatjie'j
» [Boih those are in Wood's study, Numb. 423; "38, 39.] Odlecliuns, (v. 60.) he calls Gavtort • a vain trifling author.']

3 C 2

759

HOOLE.

ROET.

widi great content to himself and his parisliioners.
He was a noted royalist (and therefore suffered for
it in the beginning of the wjirs) was a good Latinist,
Grecian and Hebritian, and adniirably skilled in clas-
[390] sical learning. He hath transmitted to posterity
tliese things following,

Pueriles Cojifabulatlunculce, Anglo-lattn(r, in va-
ries Clausulas distributa', &c. Lond. 1633. 53.
&c. oct

AdiUis ^facilis ad Linffuam Latinam, &,c. Lond.
1641. 49. &c. oct. in Lat. and Engl.

Terminationes ^•E.rempla Declinatinnum »^ Con-
Juguthnum. Lond. 1650, 57, &c. in Engl, and Lat.
in oct.

Maturini Corderii Colloquia Sclwlastica. Lond.
1653. 71. &c. in Engl, and Lat. in oct.

Plain and easy Primmer for Children, reherein
the Pictures of' Beasts and Birds for each Letter in
the Alphabet, are set doii'n, &c.

Grammar in Lat. and Engl. Lond. 1654. oct.
At first intended for the use of his private school,
but since found the most necessary and easiest for
attaining the Latin tongue, of any then extant.

Esopi Fabulcc. Lond. in oct. Engl, and Lat.

The common Rudiments of Latin Grammar,
usually taught in all Schools. Lond. 1657. oct.
[Bodl. 8vo. A. 153. Art.] The first part or book.

The Construction of the eight Parts of Speech.
The second part or book.

The Examples of tJve English Rules grammati-
cally construed The third part or book. The

fourth edition of this Grammar in three parts was
published in 1G64, having been before approved by
Bishop Sanderson and others, to be ' the shortest,
orderuest and plainest, for ease, both of master and
scholars, that had been then extant.'

Examination of the common Accidence. Lond.
1657. &c. Engl, and Lat.

Vocabularium parvum, &c. Lond. 1657. oct.
Engl, and Latin.

Catonis Disticha de Morihus. Lond. 1659. 70.
&c. oct. Engl, and Lat.

Th£ Usher'' s Duty : or, a Platform of Teaching
Lily's Grammar. Lond. 1659. in tw. The letters
C. H. are set to it in the title, and therefore I sup-
pose it was written by our author Ch. Hoole.

Dicta Insignia septemSapientiumGroccice. Lond.
1659. 70. oct. in Engl, and Lat.

Mimi Publiani, sive Senecce Proverbia. Lond.
1659. 70. oct.

Examinatio Grammaticce Latince in Usum Scho-
lar um adornatcc, &c. Lond. 1660. oct.

New Discovery of the old Art of Teaching
School, in four Treatises. Lond. 1660. oct. [Bodl
8vo. O. 6.'Med. BS.J Written 1637 for the use and
benefit of Rotheram school ; and after 14 years trial
by diligent practice in London, it was published
with enlargements.

Sententice pueriles Angl. Lat. &c. Lond. 1681.
Oct. Printed then with CoUoqtiia Corderii.

Publii Terentii Comoedia: sex Angl. Lat. &c.
Lond. 1676. oct.

Centuria Epistolarum, ex tritissimis classicis Au-
tlwribus, viz. Cicerone, Plinio 4' Textore, selecta-
rum, &c. Lond. 1677. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. B. 248.
Line] Lat. and Engl. The English on one side,
and Latin on the other.

Sententice pueriles, &c. Lond. 1677. Enghsh
and Latin.

PhraseologicE pueriles Angl. Lat. Lond. in oct.
In the year 1653 he published the Nexo Testament
in Greek, with all the jwsitions of the most difficult
words which are gi-anmiatically resolved in George
Pasor's Lexicon, put in the margin thereof. After-
wards were several editions published, and that
which came out in 1674 was ill corrected, and
printed on bad paper, and in a worse character.
He also translated from Latin into Enghsh, The
visible World: or, a Picture or Nomenclature of
all the chief Things that are in the World, and of
Mela's Employments therein. Lond. 1659. oct. The
book, which is adorned with pictures to make chil-
dren understand it the better, was originally written
by Job. Amos Commenius. This most noted gram-
marian Ch. Hoole paid his last debt to nature at
Stock before-mention'd, on the 7th day of March in ^„

sixteen hundred sixty and six, and was buried in ^
the chancel of the church there, under an arch in
the wall, near the communion table. I have been
informed by one of his relations, that he the said
Mr. Hoole hath 24 books and translations extant : ^qm -t
which number is before set down, but whether in \y"'^\
order as they came out, I cannot tell, for I liave
not yet seen all their editions.

[1660, 10 Dec. Carolus Hoole A.M. admiss. ad
eccl. de Haverstock per resign. Will. Pindar S.T.P.
ad pres. Alberici com. Oxon. Reg. London.

Tho. Langrish cler. admiss. ad eccl. de Stock, 6
Apr. 1667, vac. per mort. Car. Hoole. Kennet.

This Charles Hoole, in 1642, became rector of
Ponton-magna, in com. Line, whence he was se-
questred and one Tho. Rastal thrust into his place.
Peck.]

ISAAC ROET an Enghsh-man of an antient
and genteel family, studied for some time in Oxon,
but in what coll. or hall, it appears not in the matri-
culation book, or whether he took any degree, from
any of the registers. He hath written a book
entit.

Testis adumbrata in Libris V. Aphorismorum,
&c. Lond. 1666. oct. Which is all I know of him ; Clar.
nor should I have known that he ever studied in the "'^^•
university, had he not in the title of the S£ud book
wrote himself ' ohm Oxoniensis.'

WALTER BUSHNELL son of WiU. Bushn.
of Corsham in \^'^ilts, 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

BUSHNELL.

WITHER.

762

1666.

Malmsbury in his own country, where continiiinpj 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 wrote,

A Narrative of the Proceedings qftfie Commis-
sioners appointed by Oliver Cromwell, for ejecting
scandalous and ignorant Ministers, in the Case of'
Walt. Bmhnell Clerk, Vicar of' Box in tJie Count?/

of Wilts. Which book being not permitted to be

published, after he had made it fit for the press,
was, at his majesty''s 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 liapning in the beginning of the
year sixteen hundred sixty and seven, he was bu-
ried in the church at Box, having then lying by
him, one or more things fit to be printed, as I have
been informed by some of the neighbourhood.

[See a very good account of Bushnell''s case, and
the injustice of the proceedings against him, in
Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy, part i, pages
180—193.]

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 to Alton
in the said county, on the eleventh day of June
1588, (30 Ehz.) educated in gram, learning under
the noted schoolmaster of those parts called Joh.
Greaves of Colemore, sent to Magd. coll. in the
year 1604 or thcrea])outs, where being put under
the tuition of Joh. Warner, (afterwards bish. of
Roch.) whom, if I mistake not, he served, made
some proficiency' with much ado in academical
learning; but his geny 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 after-
wards to Lincolns inn, to obtain knowledge in the
municipal law. But still his geny hanging after
things more smfX)th and delightful, he did, at length,
make himself known to the world (after he had
taken several rambles therein) by certain specimens
of {X)etry ; which being dispersed in several hands,
became shortly after a public author, and much
admired by some in that age for his quick advance-
ment in that faculty. But so it was, that he shew-
ing himself too busy and satyrical in his Abuses
stript and whipt, was conunitted prisoner to the
Marshalsea, where continuing several months, was
then more cried up, especially by the puritannical
party, for his profuse pouring forth of English
rhime, 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,

'' See in the beginning of our author's book entit. Abu:es
whipt and slripl, and there you'll find an account of himself
while he studied in the univ. of Oxon.

which he pretended to predi(;t. In 1639 he was a
captain of liorse in the expedition against the Scots,
and quarter-master gen. of the regiment wherein he
was captain, viz. of that regiment of, or next under,
the carl of Arimdel, general of the forces in the .said
expedition. But this our author, who was always
from his youth puritannically affected, (sufficieiuiy
evidenced in his satyrs) sided witii 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 [392]
estate he had, and with the moneys received for it
raised 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 Surrey
Wither had got into his clutches) desired his ma-
jesty 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 Ohver 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 king's
restoration in 1660, he lost all the lands that had
belonged to royalists and bishops,' which he before
had either bought, or had conferr'd upon him for
the love and zeal he had to the blessed cause. And
being tlien look'd upon as a dangerous person to the
king and state, especially for a scandalous and sedi-
tious 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 house 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 166^^) an impeachment was ordered to be
drawn up against him. In both which prisons he
continued three years and more, wrote several things
by the connivance of the keeper, of which some were
afterwards made public,yet could never refrain from
shewing himself a presbyterian satyrist. He began

' {See Gale's JViiichesler, W ; ig, 20, 23.]

^ [Die LuniE, 24 Mariis Hi6l, 2. — Upon information that
George Withers had be -n the author and publisher of a
scandalous and seditious pamphlet to enrage the people, and
to vihfy and defame the members of this house, and to
blemish the honour and justice of this house and their pro-
ceedings, and was now a prisoner in Newgate — Ordered,
That the said George Withers be brought in custody of the
Serjeant at armes attending this house, or his deputy, to the
barr of this house, at 4 aclock this afternoon to be examined
touching the matters objected against him. Kennet.

The Prisoner's Plea humbly offer' d in a Kerrionslrance with
a Petition annex'd to the Commons in Parliament assemblei
by G. ffyther, falsly charged to have composed a Libell
against the said Commons, and therefore now a Prisoner in
Newgale. Lond. l()6l, l2mo. Tanner.]

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WITIIEK.

very early, being precisely etliicatecl from his cliild-
hood, to express and publish those a/iceptions,
whith the affections and inclinations to yoiitn had
awakened in him, endeavouring to seas(jn them with
morality and piety, as subjects of that nature are
cajMible of; suiting them to the capacities of you'iR
men, who delight to see their own natural ])assions,
represented as 'twere 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 edu-
cated, were desirous to peruse his future writings,
and to take l)etter heed of that, whereof else per-
haps 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-jx)et a fit match for
him with his wild and rambling rnimes. The things
that he hath written and published are very many,
accounted by the generality of scholars mere scrib-
bles, and the fancies of a conceited and confident, if
not enthusiastical, mind. The titles of them follow.
Iter Hibermcum : or, an Irish Voyage.^
Iter Bar. or, a Nortlie?-7i JoKrney. f Written
Patrick\s Purgatory. C in verse.

Philaretes Comjjlaint. )

These four were called his Juvenilia, and tho'
the original MS. of them was lost, yet they were re-
covered and printed more than once.'

Prince Henry's Obsequies : or mournful Elegies
upon Ms Death. Loud. 1612* [1617] and 1622.
[1633] oct.

A supposed Interlocution between the Ghost of

Pr. Henry and Great Britain Printed with the

former.

Abuses stript and idiipt : or sati/rical Essays, ?»»
two Books. Lond. 1613, 14, [Bodl. 8vo. W. 1. Art.]
15, and 22 in oct.^

3 [From the term Juvenilia being applied to other pieces
subsequently published in l6'Ja, and 1633, our author has
here erroneously stated that these four pieces were recovered,
which does not'appear to have been the case. Wither him-
self numbers them among those manuscripts which were lost
when his house was plundered, or by other casualties; and
offers the restorer of them such satisfaction as he shall
reasonably demand. Park, British Bibliographer,!, 180.]

■• [This first edition is in quarto, and will be found in the
Bo<llcian, (4to. H. 8. Art.) Prince Henries Obseyvies or
Movrnejhll Elegies vpon his Death : With a supposed Inter-
loctttion ietiveene the Ghost of Prince Hetirie and Great
Briltaine. Bt/ George IVyther. London, Printed by Ed.
Allde.fur Arthur Johnson, at the white Horse neere vnto the
great North-doore of Saint Paul. l6l2. In the title is a
wood- cut of the prince lying in a car, drawn by six horses,
caparisoned, &c. ' To the right honorable Robert lord Sid-
r.cy of I'enshurst — George Wither presents these elegiack
sonnets, and wisheth double comfort after his two-fold sor-
row' ; this was ihe death of sir William Sidney, his son.]

' [It is conjectured by Mr. Dalrymple, that there was an

Satyr written to the King (Jam. I.) rchen he rcas
Prisoner in tlw Marshul.wa for his first Book.
I>ond.l6l4. [Bmll.Svo. L. 16." Art. HS'.] 15. [Bodl.
Svo. W. 1. Art.] 22. in oct.s Which first book is
the sanie, I stipjwse, with Abu.tcs K-hipt and stript,
which stands first in the six of his jxx'tical pieces
that lie published in 1622, of whicii the said satyr is
one, entit. in the first edit. A Satyr dedicated to his
most excellent Majesty.

Eclogues. Lond. 1614. oct. [Bodl. Svo. T. 14.
Art.] at the end of the Sheppards Pipe,i written
by Will. Browne of the Inner Temple, to whom
one of the said Eclogues is dedicated.

The Sheppard-1 Hunting: being certain Eclogues
made during the Time of the Authors Impri.ion-
ment in the Manhabca. Lond. 1615 [Bo<ll. Svo.
W. 1. Art.] and 22. oct.« AVhich book, as 'tis said,
contains more of poetical fancy than any other of his
WTitings.

Preparation to the Psalter. Lond. 1619. in a
thin fol. in prose. [Bodl. W. 1. 10. Th.]

Soliloquy : or, the Author''s Preparation of him-
self unto the Study and Use of the Psalter.

This, written in verse, is printed at the end of
Prep, to the Psalter.

Hymn of Thanksgiving after Sickness.——
This also is printed with it.

Fidelia ; a Poem. Lond. 1619- sec. edit. [Bodl.
Svo. L. 16. Art. BS.] and 22. oct.»

Ea'crci.ies on the first Psalm, both in Prose and
Verse. Lond. 1620'. twt. [Bodl. 8vo. W. 48. Tli.]

Withers Motto. Nee Jiabeo, nee careo, nee euro.
Nor have I, nor want I, nor care I. Lond. 1618.
and 21. in wt. [Bodl. Svo. O. 19- Art.'] written in
verse, and detlicated to any body. Whereupon Job.
Taylor a water |K)ct came out with a book entit.
Taylor'' s Motto. Et habeo, 4' careo, ^ euro. I have,
I want, I care. Lond. 1621. oct. dedic. to every
body. This Job. Taylor was boi-n in the citv of
Glocester, went to sch(K)l there, and having got into
his Accidence was bound an apprentice to a wa-
terman in London, which, tho' a laborious employ-
ment, yet such was his prodigious geny to }X)etry,

edit, of this work so early as l6ll : otlicrs neie printed iii
1617, iG'-iQanil 1(>33.1

^ [Other editions 1620, l633.]

' [Printed again Svo. 1G2O, and lastly in 1772. In the
last of these editions, this highly poetical production is as-
signed to Browne, the author of Britannia's Pastorals; but
in the edition of 1620 it is given to Wither. This however
would be of insufficient authority, as it is deemed a spurious
impression of his works, did not Wither himself affirm, that
the Shepherd's Pipe was ' composed jointly by hiui and Mr.
W. Browne.' See his Fides Anglicana, pagegi. Park.]

s [Other editions were in l6s;0and l633 ; but the best is
one, collated with the early copies, by sir Samuel Kgerton
Brydges, and printed by Bensley, I2mo. Lond. 1814, with a
copy of the author's portrait from the print by Holle prefixed.

[393]

Of this impression only an hundred copies were laken off.]

9 [It appeared also in 1(520, l633, and lastly 12mo. 1815,
of which an hundred copies only were printed. ]

' [Again l633, l641.

WITHER.

766

that he wrote above 80 books, of which many were
ill that faculty, that made great sport in their time,
and were most of them esteemed worthy to be re-
mitted into a large folio. Had he liad learning be-
stowed on him according to his natural parts, which
■were excellent, he might have equalled, if not ex-
celled, many who claim a great share in the tcmj)le
of the muses. Ujwn the breaking out of the rebel-
lion in IGJ'S, he left London, retired to Qxon,
(where he was much esteemed by the court and
■poor remnant of scholars for his facetious company)
Kept a common victualling-house, and did great ser-
vice for the royal cause, by writing pasqiiils against
the roundhead.s. After the garrison ot Oxon was
surrendred, he retired to Westminster, kept a pub-
lic house in Phenix-alley near liOng-Acre, and con-
tinued constant in his loyalty to the king. After
whose murder, he set up a sign over his door of a
mourning-crown ; but that being esteemed malig-
nant, he pulled it down, and hung up his own pic-
ture, under which were these verses written.

There's many a head stands for a sign,
Then, gentle reader, why not mine ?

On the other side.

Though I deserve not, I desire
The laurel ■wreath, the poet''s hire.

He died in the year 1654, aged 74 years, and was
buried in the yard belonging to the church of S.
Paul in Covent-Garden, as I have been informed
by his nephew a painter of Oxford, who gave his
picture to the school gallery there, where it now
hangs, shewing him to have been of a quick and
smart countenance. But all this of Taylor do I
siieak by the by. Now let's proceed to the rest of
the works of G. Wither, which are these,

Epitlialamia : or, nuptial Poems upon the most
blessed and happy Marriage between Frederic the
5. Coimt Palatine of' the Rhine, and Princess Eli-
zabeth sole Davghter of K. James. Lond. 1622.
oct.«

Canonical Hymns and Songs.

Hymns and Songs of the Church. Lond. in tw.'

' [First printed in 4to. l6l3, again l620, l622, l633,
8vo. and in Reslilula, 1814.]

' [James by the grace of GnJ — to all and singular prinleis,
booksellers — ^Whereas our wel-belovcd fubject George Wi-
thers gentleman, by his great Industrie and diligent sludie
hath gathered and composed a book intituled Hymnes and
Songes of the Church, by him faithfullie and brieflie trans-
lated into lirick verse, which said booke being esteemed wor-
thie and proffitable to be incerted in convenient manner and
due place into evcrie Englishe u>alnie book in mceter — We
give and graunt full and free license, power and privilcdge
unto the said George Withers, his executors and assignes
onelie to imprint, or cause lo be imprinted, the said book —
for the term of fifty and one years— &c. Witness ourself at
Westm. the 17 day of Febr. reg. 20, 1C22-S. Rynier, Fa-
dera, xvii, 454. Kennet. The Hymnes and Songs of the
Church were printed in 4to. and 12mo. in 1623, and in 8vo.
without date.J

Songs of Moses and other Hymns of the old
Test.*

The Scholar''s Purgatory, disccwered in the Sta-
tianer''s Commonwealth, and de.icril>ed in a Dis-
course apologetical, as loellfor the public Advan-

tage (^the Church, the State, and whole Common-
xcealth of England, as for the Remedy of private

Injiiries. ■Where, or when printed, it appears

not. 'Tis written in prose, and printed 111 oct.
[Bodl. 8vo. E. 65. Line]

BritaiiCs Remembrancer, containing a Narra-
tion of the Plague lately past, a Declaration of
Mischiefs present, and a Prediction of Jwlgments
to come," &c. Lond. 1628. oct. [Bodl. Svo. W. 21.
Art.] Written in verse 1625.

Psalms of David in lyric Verse illustrated.'
Lond. 1632. oct. or tw.

Prophecy of our present Calamity, and (except
we repent) future Misery. — Written 1628. printed
in 1 sh. fol.'

Emblems illustrated : or, a Collection of Em-
blems antient and modem. Quickned with metrical
Illustrations, both moral and divine : and disposed
into Lotteries, that Instruction and good Counsel
may be fathered by an fumest and jjleasant Recrea-
tion, in 4 Books. Lond. 1634, 35. fol.

Apology to the Lords of the Council, in Justifi-
cation of the Reproof of Vices in his Poems.

Discourse concerning the Plantations of Ulster
in Ireland, with Pre-conjectures of wliat Conse-
quences would probably ensue. Printed in prose.

Meditations on the ten Commandments. — Printed

■* [7'/jc Songs of the old Testament, translated into English
Meiisiirrs : prefervit.g the naturall Phrase and genuine Sense
of (he Holy Text ; and with as little Circumlocution as in
most Prose 'Translations. To every Song is added a new and
easie Tunc, and a short Prologue also; delivering the Effect
and Use thereof, for the Profit of the unlearned Reader.
Itiai, 12mo. This coniains fourteen of these versions of
scripture afterwards entitled Songs <fthe Church. Park.]

5 [VVither, in tliis pneui, gives us the following assurance
of his integrity and courage :

1 have thrice

Imprisonment endur'd ; close prison twice :—

And, being guarded by God's providence,

I lately walked through the pestilence.

And saw, and felt, what Nature doth abhor.

To harden me, and 10 prepare me for

This worke : and therefore neither all the graces

Of kings, nor gifts, nor honourable places

Should stop my mouth : nor would I smother this.

Though twenty kings had sworne that I should kiss

The gallows for it; lest my conscience should

Torinent nie more than all men living could.

For I had rather in a dungeon dwell

Five years, than in my soul to feel a hell

F"ive minutes : and so God will be my friend

1 shall not care how many I offend.]

« Ifhe Psalms of David, translated into lyric Verse ac-
cording to the Scope of the Original and illustrated, &c.
Printed in the Netherlands, 12mo. l632. Wanley.]

' [Printed also in 4to. about l642, and again l683 fol.
It is a selection of extracts from the 8lh canto oi Britain" i
Rememlrancer.']

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7ei7

WITHER.

in verse witli sculptures. Tlii.s was lately published
^ain under this title, Divine Poems (hi) Way of
-Paraphrase) on the ten Commandments ; illus-
trated'Tcith 12 Copper Plates; sheicing how per-
sonal Punishments have been inflicted, &c. Lond.
1688. oct.»

Halelnjah : or, Britain's second Remembrancer,
bringing to Remembrance (in praisful atid peni-
tential Hymns, spiritual Songs, and moral Odes)
Meditations, advancing the Glory of God, 4"C. ccym-
posed in a threefold Volume. The first contains
Hymns occasional, second Hymns temporary, third
Hymns personal, 8cc. Lond. 164:1. in tw.

The doubtful Almanack: or, very suspicious
Presages of great Calamities yet to come — Printed
in one sh. in qu. but when, unless in 1641, it a}>
jjears not.'

Proclamation in the Name of the King of Kings

to all the Isles of Gi-eat Britain Printed in a

large oct.

Campo-Muscc : or, tlie Field^Musings touching
his TniHtary Engagement Jbr the King and Pari.
Lond. 1643. [Bodl Svo. F. 12. Art. BS.] 44. oct.

Mercurius Rusticus. Printed 1643. This was
writteti in imitation of the weekly intelligences then
published, offering between jest and earnest, some
particulars to consideration, relating both to civil
and military transactions, and hinted notions then
pertinent to those times, &c. The beginning of this
Merc. Rust, (to distinguish Merc. Rust, written by
Dr. Ryves) is ihi.s, ' By your leave, gentlemen,
when seriousness takes not effect, perhaps trifling
may,' &:c.

Letter of Advice touching the Choice of Knights,
■Cit. and Burgesses in Pari. &c. — Printed 1644.

Vox paciflea : A Voice tending to Pacification of
God''s Wrath, and Offering those Propositions, or
Conditions ; by the Acceptation or Performance
•wliereqf, in some good Meaiure, a firm and conti-
nual Peace may be obtained. Sic. Lond. 1645. oct.
in 6 books or can toes.

What Peace to the Wicked— Vr. 1646. This,
which is a jjoem, is an expostuliitory answer to a
derisory question concerning peace.

Justiciarius jmstificatus. Lond. 1646. This
being an apologetical discourse in English, reflect-
ing upon sir llich. Onslow of Surrey knight and
parliam. man, arose a debate in Ajir. the same year,
m the house of commons, occasion'd by the said sir
Richard, concerning several unhandsome expres-
sions therein against him. At length in Aug. fol-
lowing it was voted by them that G. Wither author
thereof should pay to the sai«l sir R. Onslow 500/.
for damages, and that the btwk be burnt by the
hand of the common hangman ; at which time Wi-
ther was in prison for it, and continued there about
an year.

' [Printed again Ifk)?. and again 1728, 8vo.]
9 [li was printed in l6+fi, l)iu is disclaiineu by Wither,
iu a pamphlet published, fur that purpose, in the same year.]

Opobalsamum Anglicanum. An English Balm
lately pressed out of a Shrub, and spread upon these
Papers, Jbr the Cure of some Scabs, Gangrenes
and Cancers, endangering the Body of this Com^
monweale, &.c. LoncH 1646 in 3 sh. and an half in
qu. in verse.

Amygdala Britannica : Almonds Jbr Parrels.
A Dish of Stone-Fruit, partly shelVd and partly
unsheird: tohich (if crack' d, picked and digested)
may be wholsom against those epidemic Di.itempers
of the Brain, now predominant, &c. — Printed 1647
in qu. in double columes, in tw. sh. in verse.

Carmen expostulatorium — Printed 1647. This
was written to prevent the engaging these nations
into a second war, when the dividing of the city
and army was then by some endeavoured.

A Si rjuis:' or Quceries, with other Verses
annexed — Printed 1648. Presented to the mem-
bers of parliament in their single capacities, related
to the autlior's particular interest.

A Petition^ and Narrative to the Pari. — Printed
1648.

The tired Petitioner.^ — Printed in a single sheet
in verse, about the same time.

Carmen Eucharisticon : A private Tliank-obla-
tion exhibited to the Glory of the Lord t J' Hosts,
Jor the timely and wonderful Deliverance vouch-
safed to this Nation, in the routing of a numerous
Army of Irish Rebels before Dublin by Mich. Jones
Lieut. Gen. Jor the Pari, of England. Lond. 1649,
in one large sh. in qu. in double columns. Of which
poem, and its author, several things are said by the
writer of Me jrurius Elencticus, numb. 10. p. 152.
published 3 Scj)t. 1649.

Se defendendo.* — Not said when printed. 'Twas
an apology written by him in prose, to vindicate
himself from such aspersions as had been injurious-
ly, and without any probable cause, cast u|X)n him
by malicious detractors.

A tlumkfid Retribution. Lond. 1649. in verse.

• [A single Si Quis, and a Quadruple Quere : with the
Occasions of them. Presented to the Members rfthe honor-
able House of Commons, touching a I'elilion : with certain
Verses annexed, and lately Inyd at their Feet in the said
House of Commons, by Major G. W. 4lo. two leaves. Bri-
tish Bibliographer, i, 314.]

» [Wither primed a Petition to the Parliament rfthe Com-
monwealth qf England &c. Jan. 1654, a single sheet in fol.
and according to Mr. Park, A Petition and Narrative &c.
was printed in l658 or 9 in 4to. See Brit. Bibl. 329.]

' [He that hath money to promote his ends

Needs neither strain his wits, nor tire his friends :
He that hath friends his matters to contrive.
May, though be have not wit nor money, live :
He that hath wit, and wants the other twain.
May live, but not without some want and paiu.

Willier of himself.]

■• \_Se Defendendo : a Shield and a Shaft ngainst Detrac-
tion ; Opposed and drawn by Capt. Gcors,e irtther, by Occa-
sion of scandalous Rumours, touching his Desertion ofFarn-
hamCaslle, and seme othir malicious Aspersion!. Lond. l643,
410.]

[395]

WITHER.

770

77»e British Appeal, xoith GofTs merciful Replies
on the Behalf' tj" the Commonwealth of England
contained in a brief comviemorative Poem, &c.
Loud. 1651. oct.

The dark LantJiorn, contarnhiff a dim Discover//,
in Riddles, Parables, and Semi-riddles, intermiaul
with Cautions, Remembrances, and Predictions,
&c. Lond. 1650, [1652] 53. oct. in verse.

Poem concerning a perpetual Parliament
Printed with the Dark Lanthorn.

A sudden Flash, on the Stile of Protectai:——
Printed in oct. [1657.]

Westrow revived: afumeral Poem.'—— Printed
in Oct.

Vaticinium caaualefi Printed 1655. 4to.

Boni Ominis Votum. Printed 1656. This poem
was occasioned by the summoning of extraordinary
grand juries out of the eminent baronets, knights,
esquires, gentlemen, to serve in their counties at a
sunmer assize, 1656.

A Cause allegorically stated, with an Appeal
therein to all impartial Censurers. — Printed 1657.

Address to the Members of Pari, in their single
Capacities Printed 1657. a poem.

Salt upon Salt ; made out of certain ingenious
Verses upon the lute Storm, and the Death of his
Highness, <Sfc. by which Occasion is taken to offer
to Consideration the probable near approaching of
greater Storms, and more sad Consequences. Lond.
1659. oct. in verse.

A bitter szoeet Passion of the Soul, compressed in
A Hymn to God — Printed at the end of Salt upon
Salt.

Poetic Frensy, occasion''d by Gen. MonFs re-
storing the Parliament. — Printed in a large oct.

Speculum specnlativum : or, a considering Glass ;
being an Inspection i7ito the present and late sad
Conditions of these Nations, ik-c. Lond. 1660. oct.
poem.

Glimmerings discovered, of what will probably

ensue hereafter Printed with the former. 'Tis

a poem.

Postscript in Answer to some cavilling Objections
tnade against the Author of this considering Glass,

since the composing thereof Printed also with

the former.

Fides Anglicana: or, a Plea for the public Faith
of these Nations, lately pawned, forfeited, and
violated by some of their Jbrmenr Trustees, to the
rendring it as infamous, as Fides Punica was

'' [WeslTow revived; a J'unerall Poem without Fiction:
composed by George Wither Esfj; that God may be glorified
in his Saints; that the Memory of Thomas Westrow Esq.
may le preserved ; and that others, by his exemplary Li/'e
and Death, may be drawn to Imitation 0/ his Venues. I653.
VVeslrow had been a great friend to Wither, and had assisted
him in the time of his distress with various presents, to the
amount of 500/.]

" [i4 Rapture occasioned by the late miraculous Deliver-
ance </ his Highnesse the Lord Protector fri.m a desperate
Dunger.']

Vol. III.

heretofore, &c. Lond. 1660. oct. prose. [Bodl. 8vo.
C 720. Line]

Triple Paradox, affixed to a Counter Mure
raised again.st the furious Batteries <)f Restraint,
Slander, and Poverty, &c. Lond. 1661. oct. poem.

Crums and Scraps lately Jmmd in a Prisoner's
Basket in Newgate. Lond. 1661. oct. poem.'

Metrical Paraphrase on the Lord''s Prayer.—
Printed 1665. 1688. oct. verse.

Memorandum to London, occasicnCd by the Pesti-
lence in the Year 1665. — Pr. in oct. a poem.

Sigh for the Pitcliers, with three private Medi-
tations. Lond. 1666. oct.

Fragmenta prophetica : or, his Remains, being
a Collection of the several Predictions dispersed
throughout his Works. Lond. 1669. oct.^ Before
which is his picture in armour, and his head bare,
adorn'd with a laurel.

An Interjection, being a sudden Ejaculation cast
in at the collecting of Fragm. proph.

Metrical Paraphrase cm the Creed. Lond. 1688.
oct. verse. "Pwas at the end of the 2d edit, of the
Paraphrase on the 10 Com. before-mention''d.

Besides all these which I have mostly seen and
perused, ai-e many others which I have not seen,
only their trite and im{)erfect titles, as they follow.
(1) The Scourge. (2) The Mistress of Philarete.*
(S) Vaticinium poeticum. All these written in
verse, and the last reprinted in Fragm. Proph.' (4)
Caveat Emptor, in prose. (5) Britain's Genius.''-
Pr. in oct. (6) Carm. Ternarium semicynium. ver.
(7) Speech without Door." (8) His Disclaimer. ^

' [See a long list of the contents of this vol. hi the British
Bibliographer, i, 42S.]

* [This is the third edit. o(\\\i Ecchoes from the sixth
Trumpet, &c. wliieh first appeared in 1666, and secondly
under the title oi Nil Ultra in 1668, 8vo.]

' [Vaire Virtue the Mistresse of Phil'arele. Written by
IJim-sclfe. l622, 8vo. l633, 12nio. At the end of which is

A Miscellany of Epigrams, Sonnets, Epitaphs, and such
other Verses as were found written with the Poeme foregoing.
Probably the Riddles, Songs, and Epigrams, recorded by
Wood below.]

' [Not so, at least it does not appear in any edit, of Fragm.
Proph. yet seen.]

' [Prosopopaia Britanica: Brilans Genius, or Good An-
gel, personated; reasoning and advising, touching the Games
now playing, and the Adventures now at hazard in these
Islands : and presaging, also, some future Things not un-
likely to come to passe. Discovered by Terras Fitius fa well
knowne Lover of the publike Peace) when the begetting of a
national Quarrel! was first feared. Expressed in two Sec-
lions or Readings, &c. Lond. l648, 8vo.]

' [^The Speech without Doore delivered July Q, 1644, in
the Absence of the Speaker, and in the Hearing of above
0000003 Persons then present, who unanimously consented to
all Propositions therein contained, and voted tlie same fit to
be further divulged, as very pertinent to the publike Welfare.
Lond. 1644, 4io. It is a pamphl. of seven leaves and was
presented to the members at the door of the house of com-
mons. British Bibliographer, 1810, i, 306.]

■• \Major Wither s Disclaimer : being a Disavowment of a
late Paper enlituled the Doubtful Almanack ; lately puhlitk-
ill in the NuTfe f the said Major Wither. Lond. l646, 4to.
one sheet.]

3D

[396]

771

WITHER.

772

These two last are in prose. (9) Know thy self.
ver. (10) The Delinqtienfs Purgaticm. prose.
(11) Sinner's Confession, verse. [Printed in 1658
or 1659.] (12) A Cordial of Confection, &c.
prose. [Printed 4to. 1659.] (13) Verses to the in-
dividual Members of Parliament.^ (14) Episto-
lium vagum prosau-metricum. (15) Furor poeti-
cus. {\6) Three Grains of Frankincense. [Printed
1651.] (17) The Protector.^ The three last are in
verse. (18) Epistle to the three Nations. [Printed
1662, Svo.] (19) Epistle at random. Pr. in qu.
[1659.] (20) EccJtoes from the sixth Trumpet
reverberated, by a Review of neglected Remem-
brances. Pr. in [1666 in] oct. &c.

Besides these 20 pieces and others, which were
printed, were many others of his composition which
were not, as (1) Exercises on tfie nine Psalms, next
fblloxmng the first. These, which he intended to
add to the Exercises on the first Psalm (printed
1620) were lost, and could never be recovered. (2)
Treatise qfantient Hieroglyphicks, with tlieir va-
rious Significations. Lost. (3) Pursuit of Hap-
piness, being a Character of the Extravagancy of
the Author's Affections and Passions in his Youth.
Written in prose. (4) Riddles, Songs, Epigrams.
(5) The Dutchess, in verse. (6) Domestic Devo-
tions, prose. (7) Funeral Elegy. (8) Tract of
Usury, &c. prose. (9) T^e Cotfession of his
Faith, both in Fundamentals, and in Relation to
most Points controverted by Men of several Judg-
ments in Religion. (10) Precatory Meditation aiid
Soliloquy with God, on the Behcdfafhis Children
and their Posterity, if they have any. (11) Dis-
course to a Friend touching the Consolations in
close Imprisonment. (12) Familiar Epistles. (13)
The true State of the Cause between the King and
Pari. Wr. in prose. (14) Declaration in the Per-
son of Oliver Cromwell, given into his men Hand,
and tending to the Settlement of such a Government
as he never intended. Wr. in prose. (15) Private
Address to Oliver, offering Things pertinent to his
Consideration. This written in prose and verse,
was sealed up and given into his hands. (16)
Addr. to Oliver for the third cf Sept. 1658. Given
also into his own hands. (17) Addr. to Rich.
Cromwell. Given into his own hands. These four

[Vents presented to several Members nf the House nf
Commons, repairing thither the ^3d of December, l648 :
heing the next Day after their Humiliation. With an im-
printed Petition thereto annexed.

The humiliation here spoken of, was a public and national
fast : The verses are an appeal to the justice of the house :
Tlie petition contains a financial statement of his pecuniary
concerns as they relate to the state, and to the commitlee of
public accompts. Park.]

* [The Protector. A Poem hrirfty illustrating the Super-
tminency of that Dignity : and rationally demonstrating, that
the Title of Protector, providentially conferred upon the su-
preme Governour of the British Republike, is the most honor-
able qfall Titles, and that which promiseth most Propitious-
nets to these Nations ; if our Sins and Divisions prevent it
not. 1655, 8vo.]

last tilings contained the duties and failings of 01.
and Richard, and forewarnings of what soon after
came to pass. There also goes about in MS. his
Poem of the History of tJie Pestilence, or proceed-
ings of Justice and Mercy, being the same, I sup-
pose, which I have befbre-mention'd. He hath
also translated from Greek into English, witli the
help only of two copies, Tlie Nature of Man,
printed 1636 in tw.' Written originally by Ne-
mesius. At length after this our author Greorge
Wither had liv^ to the age of 79 years, mostly
spent in a rambhng and unsettled condition, con-
cluded this life on the second day of May in six-
teen hundred sixty and seven: Whereupon his
body was buried between the east door and south
end of the church, (which stands north and south)
belonging to the Savoy hospital in the Strand near
London. One George Wither was a dignitary in the
church and a writer, before the former George was
born, as I have told you in die Fasti an. 1565, but
what relation there was between them, I cannot tell.
[Mr. George Withers was borne at Bentworth
near Alton, in Hantshire, on the eleaventh of June,
1588. He married Elizabeth, eldest daughter of
H. Emerson, of South Lambeth, in com. Surrey,
esq. whose ancestors lye entombed in the choir of
St. Saviour's, Southwark, neer the monument of
bish. Andrews, with a statue of white marble. She
was a gi-eat witt, and would write in verse too. He
was of in Oxon. He would make verses as

fast as he could write them : and though he was an
easie rhymer, and no good poet, he was a good
vates. He had a strange sagacity and foresight
into mundane affaires. He was an early observator
of quicquid agunt homines : his witt was satyricall.
I thinke the first thing he wTote was Abuses whipt
4" stript for which he was committed prisoner to (I
believe) Newgate. 1 believe 'twas tempore Jacobi R.
He was a captain in the parliament army, and the
parliament gave him for his service Mr. Jo. Den-
ham's estate at Egham in Surrey. The motto of his
colours was Pro Rege, Lege, et Grege. After the
restauration of his majestic he was imprisoned in the
Tower about three quarters of a yeare. He dyed
on the 2d day of May, 1667, and lieth interred
within the east dore of the Savoy church, where he
dyed. He was pupiU to bishop Warner of Roches-
ter. Aubrey.

A MS. note in the British museum copy of Wi-
ther's Bonl Ominis Votum, 1656, calls the author
* Master of the statute office, given him by the lord
protector lately.'

' [The Nature of Man. A learned and useful Tract,
written in Greek by Nemesius, surnamed the Philosopher,
sometime Bishop of u City in Phoenicia, and one of the most
antient Fathers of the Church. Englished, and divided into
Sections, with Briefs of their principall Contents. Lond.
l63(i. 12mo. Among Tanner's hooks in the Bodleian.

' The dedication of his translation of Nemesius is dated
from his cottage under the Beacon Hill Dear Farnham, May
23, 1636.' Tamnbr.]

1607.

WITHER.

774

" See a curious affidavit of Hunt Wither, of Fid-
diii"' in the county of Southampton, grandson of
the |)oet, ill sir Egerton Brydges's reprint of T1i£
Shepherd's Hmifinff, 1814, from the original in
the college of arms. This Hunt W. styles himself
a colonel of foot in her majesties army and brigadier
general in the service of his catholic majesty Charles
the third, king of Spain. Aged forty .seven at the
time of his making the affidavit, January 17, 1709.

Add to Withers's works —

Juvenilia, a Collection of tliose Poems which
were heretofore imprinted and written by George
Wither, 12". Lond. 1633.

The gi-eat Assizes holden in Parnassus hy Apollo
and his Assessours. At which Sessions are ar-
raigned Mercurius Britannicus, Aulicus, Civicus,
the Scout, Sfc. 4to. 1646. See a good account of
this tract in the British Bibliographer, vol. i, page
513, &c. It was ascribed to Wither by Dalrymple,
and in corrolwration of that gentleman's supposition
I have to state, that Hearne, who rarely affirms
any thing without sufficient authority, expressly
says that Wither was the author. See the MS.
Collections of that antiquary (in the Bodleian li-
brary) vol. v, page 167.

An Allarumfrom Heaven, or a Memento to the
great Councell and Magistrates of England, &c.
By G. W. a cordial Ijyver of the Peace of England.
Lond. 1649, 4to. This is pointed out by Mr.
Henry Ellis, of the British museum, as likely to be
by Wither, and the supjMsition is very plausible.

A timelie Caution, comprehended in thirty-seven
double Trimeters. Occasioned hy a late Rumour
of an Intention suddenly to adjourn this Parlia-
ment: and superscribed to tliose whome it most
concerns. Sept. 10, 1632, by G. W. afaitl^'ul Ser-
vant to this Hepublick. 4to. four leaves. In verse.

The Prisoners Plea: humbly offered in a Re-
7nonstrance. With a Petition annexed, to the Com-
mons of England in Parliament ojisembled ; by
George Wither, falsely charged to have composed
a Lybel against tlie said Commons, and therefore
now Prisoner in Newgate. It containeth also many
Interjections not to be de.spised. As also a colateral
Corolary qfpublick Concernment, and in particular
touching the Blood-shed, whereunto God is now
making Inquisition. 1661, 8vo.

Vox Vulgl: being a Welcome home Jrom the
Counties, Citties and Burroughs, to their prevari-
cating Members : saving the Honour of the Hou.se
of Commons, and of every Jaithfull and discreet
Individual Member therec^. This was intended
for the private consideration of lord chancellor Cla-
rendon, but was seized when unfinished, and the
author taken into custody. See Journals of the
House of Commons, March 24, 1661, 2.

Verses intended to the King's Majesty. By Ma-
jor George Wither, whilst he was Prisoner in New-
gate. 1^2, 8vo.

Pnxlftmation in the Name of the King of Kings,
to all the In/iabitants qftJw Isles of Great Britmn :
and especially to those w/io have hypocritically prC'
tended to Justice, Mercy, Honesty and Religion.
As also to them wlio have lived in open Proi)haneness
and Impiety ; summoning tliem to Repentance fry
defiouncing God\s Judgment, and declaring his
Mercy offered in the Everlasting Gospel. War-
rantably proclaimed and preached hy George Wi-
ther, thougJi not by any humane Ordination.
Whereto are added some Fragments of the same
Autltor''s omitted in the first Impression of the
Booke intituled Scraps and Crums, and a few which
were collected since that Impression and during his
Imprisonment. 1662. 8vo.

Tuba pacifica : Seeusonablc Precautions, whereby
is sounded forth a Retreat from the War intended
between England and the United Provinces of
Lower Germany. By George Wither, a Lover of
Peace, and heartily well affected towards both Na-
tions. 1664. 8vo.

Three private Meditations : which being firr the
most part of publick Concernment, are therefore
published by their Author George Wither. The
first is a private Thanksgiving, consisting of three
Hymns, whereby God is magnified for his Mercy
vouclisqfed in the late Ingagement between the En-
glish and the Dutch in June 1665 : composed after
celebrating tJte publick Thanksgiving comnmnded
by the King. The second is a Sacrifice of Praise
and Prayer by him offered to Almighty God for his
providential Respect to him, his Wife, and Child-
ren, during his Imprisonment in the disgraceful
Goal of Nervgate, tehcn left destitute of all ordinary
Means of Subsistence, by being deprived both of his
Estate and Liberty. The third, intituled Nil Ultra,
is a Solikxpium, wherein this Author expresses tlie
Improbability (f an effectual Proceeding furtlter,
to prevent the Sins and Plagues increasing by
Ought that he can offer to Consideration. 1665, and
sec. edit. 1666, 8vo.

A grateful Acknowledgment of a late trimming
Regulator. 1688, 4to. In verse.

An Apology to the Lords of the Council in Jus-
tification of the Reproof of Vices in his Poems.

Tfie Persecution of the Tongue among Brethren.

A Legacy to my Children and an Elegy. The
three last not printed.

Extracts from Juvenilia or Poems by George
Wither. Lond. 1785, 8vo. Printed for presenta-
tion to his friends, by Alexander Dalrymple, esq.
hydrographer to the East India company.

Wither has occasional verses in Browne's Bri-
tannia's Pastorals 1613, 1616; Drayton's Po/^o/-
iio7t 1622, part 2; Smith's Virginia 1626; Hay-
man's Quodlibets, 1629; Wastel's Microbiblion
1629; Blaxton's English Usurer 1634; Carter's
Expedition into Kent and Sussex 1650; and Mr.
Bindley has a MS. Poem on tfie Death of Sir Ar-
3D2

775

WITHER.

SMITH.

77«

timr Chkluster, with lines by Wither, which have
been printed in the second vol. of The Bibliogra-
pher, page 2!i7.

Wither has, within the last few years, received
ample justice for tlie neglect and contempt with
which his contem|x)raries treated him as a poet;
nor have Iiis merits been over-rated, for I know of
no writer from whose works more exquisite passages
can be culled, than from his. I regret that I have
only room for one specimen taken from tlie Shea-
herd's Hunting, the whole of which is eminently
beautiful.

WiUy.
Shepherd would these gates were ope,
Thou mighfst take wim us thy fortune.

Philarete.
No ; I'll make this narrow sco{)e
(Since my fate doth so importune,)
Means unto a wder hope.

Cuddy.
Would thy shepherdess were here,
Who beloved, loves thee so dearly :

Philarete.
Not for both your flocks I swear.
And the g^n they yield you yearly,
Would I so much wrong my dear.
Yet to me, nor to this place
Would she now be long a stranger ;
She would hold it no disgrace
(If she fear'd not more my danger)
Where I am to shew her face.

Willy.
Shepherd, we would wish no harms.
But some thing that might content thee.

Philarete.
Wish me then within her arms.
And that wish will ne'er repent me
If your wishes might prove charms.

Willy.
Be thy prison her embrace,
Be thy air her 8W(!etest breathing.

Cuddy.
Be thy prospect her sweet face.
For each look a kiss bequeathing,
And appoint thyself the place —

Philarete.
Nay, pray hold there, for I should scantly then
Come meet you here this afternoon again.
But fare you well, since wishes have no power.
Let us depart, and keep th' apix)inted hour.

There is a fine portrait of Wither by J. P.
(Payne) prefixed to his Emblems, fol. another in
4to. by F. Delaram and one in 8vo. by W. Holle,
which last has been copied for the Bibliographer.^

JAMES SMITH son of Tho. Smith rector of [397]
Merston in Bedfordshire, and brother to Dr. Tho.
Smitli sometimes an eminent physician of Brasen.
coll. was born in the said town of Merston, matri-
culated as a member of Ch. Ch. in Lent term 1624
aged 18 years, and soon after was transplanted to
Line. coll. where he continuetl for some years a com-
moner. Thence he was preferred to be chaplain at
sea to Henry earl of Holland, who was admiral of a
squadron of ships sent for a supply to the isle of Ree.
Ailerwards he was domestic chaplain to Tho. earl of
Cleevland, who had an especial respect for him for
his ingenuity and excellent parts. In his service he
continued six years, had a benefice in Lincolnshire
which he kept for a time, and in 1633 took the
degree of bacn. of div. by accumulation, being then
much in esteem with the poetical wits of that time,
particularly with Philip Massenger, who call'd him
his son. Will. D'avenant, John Mennes, &c. From
his benefice in Lincolnsh. he removed to Kings
Nimphton in Devonsh. and leaving a curat there, he
went as chaplain to the before-mention'd earl of
Holland lieutenant general of the English forces in
the first expedition against the Scots. Returning
thence soon after, he settled at Kings Nimphton,
where he resided during all the changes of govern-
ment, by compliance with the power that was upper-
most. After his majesty's return, he was made one
of the canons of S. Peter's cathedral in Exeter,
archdeacon of Barnstaple, chaplain to Edw. earl of
Clarendon, and in July 1661 he was actually created
doct. of divinity. In the next year he became
chauntor of Exeter in the place of Dr. S. Ward pro-
moted to the episcopal see of that place, and in 1663
was presented to the rectory of Alphyngton in De-
vonsnire, (at which time he resigned Kings Nymph-
ton and his archdeaconry) where he finished nis
course. His chief works, that are of poetry, are in

Musarum Deliciw : or, the Muses Recreation,
containing several Pieces of poetic Wit. Lond.
1656. Oct. second edit. (See more in John Mennes
under the year 1670.) and also in another book
entit.

Wit restored, in several select Poems. Lond.
1658. oct. Which book, I say, is mostly of our au-
tlior Smith's composition. At the end of which is
his translation or poem, called Tlu Innovation of
Penelope and Ulysses, a mock Poem. Lond. 1658.
oct. And at the end of that also, is Cleavehmds
Rebel Scot, translated into Latin. He also com-
posed.

Certain Anthems Not the musical, but poeti-
cal, part of them ; which are to this day used and
sung in the cath. ch. at Exeter. At length paying
his last debt to nature at Alphyngton on the 20th
day of June in sixteen hundred sixty and seven, his l667-
body was conveyed to Kings Nymphton before-men-
tioned, and was buried in the chancel belonging to
the church there, near to the body of Elizabeth his
first wife. Over their graves was soon after put a

BERY.

HUGHES.

comely monument, with an inscription thereon, (on-
larged after the death of his second wife, who died
4 years after him) the contents of wliich shall now
for brevity's sake be omitted.

JOHN BERY or Bury was born [at Tiverton,*]
in Devonsliire, admitted scholar of C. C. C. 9 Feb.
1597, and in the year 1603, he being then bach, of
arts, became tanijuam socius of Baliol coll. or the
first fellow that was put in there, to receive the
benefaction of Peter Blundcll, by the appointment
of sir John Popham lord chief justice of the KingV
Bench. Afterwards he took the degree of master,
and retiring to his own country, became minister of
Heavitrec, canon of Exeter and rector of Wid-
worthie. In Dec. 1643 were the chancellor's let-
ters read in a convocation of doctors and masters in
tlie behalf of him the said Bury (then bach, of div.
as in tlie said letters is expressed) that he might be
actually created doctor of that faculty, but he being
then absent in the king's service, was to have that
degree conferr'd upon him, when he should desire
it ; but whether he did so, or was diplomated, it ap-
pears not in the registers. He hath written and
pubUshed,

Several sermons, as (1) The School of Godly
Fear, an Assize Sermon at Exeter 20 March 1614,
L398] on 1 Pet. 1. 17. Lond. 1615. qu. [Bodl. 4to. A. 75.
Th.] (2) The moderate Christian preached at
Exeter at a triennial Visitation, on 1 Cor. 10. vers,
ult. Lond. 1631. qu. &c.

God's Method Jbr Maris Salvation : or, a Guide
to Heaven, leading between Errors on both Hands,
&c. Lond. 1661. in two sheets in oct. 'Tis a cate-
chism for the use of his parishioners at Widworthie.
What else he hath published, I know not, nor any
thing besides of him, only that he dying on the 5th
1667. day of July in sixteen hundred sixty and seven,
aged 87 years or thereabouts, was buried in the
cathedral church at Exeter, having been before a
liberal benefactor to the work-house belonging to
that city, as I have been informed by his son Ar-
thur.

GEORGE HUGHES, distinguished, while liv.
ing, from others of his sirname, by the addition of
Plymouth to his, was born " of a plebeian family '
in Surrey, particularly, as I liave been informed by
a learned " nonconformist, in the borough of South-
wark, was sent by his relations to Corp. Ch. coll. in
the beginning of the year 1619, where continuing in
the condition of a clerk or chorister till he had com-

« [Wood, MS Note in Ashmole.]
■» Lib. Matric. PP. fol. 78. b.

• [His mother was fifty two years of age when Hughes
was born, and had never a child before, though she had three
husbands before Mr. Hughes's father. Sh~'e lived to her
ninety sixth year. Calamv, Ejected Minisleri, 1713, vol. ii.
pase 222. J

' Dr. Lazarus Seaman.

tJeated iiis bachelors degree by determination, tranit-
ated himself to Pembroke coll.' took the degree of
master of arts as a member thereof, entred into th»
sacred function, and for a time exercised the mi-
nistry in, and near, Oxon. Afterwards he wa«
lecturer of Allhallows church in Breadstreet within
the city of London,* took the degree of bach, of div.
in the year 1633, and about that time' became
vicar 01 S. Andrew's church in the then factious
town of Plymouth in Devon, where continuing in
great liking among the godly party, did, for benefit
and interest sake, side with the presbyterians in the
beginning of the most wicked rebellion raised by
them, was a zealous and forward man against the
king, his party, and bishops, took all oaths that fol-
lowed, was an enemy to the orthodox clergy, and in
1654 was one of the assistants to the commissioners
of Devon, to eject such who were then called scan-
dalous and ignorant ministers and school-masters.
" From which time to the king's restoration he was
" esteem'd by the royalists of those parts, and by
" others too, to be a person of a very proud, haughty
" and ambitious spirit, and one that exercis'd a kind
" of patriarchal sway in Devonshire." In 1662,
when the act of conformity took place, he left his
cure in Plymouth, lived tnere, and exercising his
function in private, that is in conventicles, among
the brethren, contrary to the act, was, with Tho.
Martin the late lecturer of that church (a conventi-
cler also) conveyed into S. Nicholas island near
Plymouth, an. 1665, where they remained about 9
months. In which time our author Hughes wrote
an answer to Joh. Serjeants book entit. Sure-footing.
At length his health being much impaired, as the
brethren reported, and his legs black and swoln,"
he was ofFer'd his liberty, upon condition of giving
security of a 1000^.' not to live within 20 mues of
Plymouth: Which being accordingly effected by

' [He was made one of the first fellows by Dr. Clayton
the then master, having at that time a general reputation for
great proficiency in his studies. Calamy, ut supr.]

* [Upon some instances of his nonconformity to the cere-
monies, he was silenced by archbishop Laud, when he re-
tired, says Calamy, to Mr. Dod, the famous old puritan mi-
nister, at Fawsley in Northamptonshire, desiring his advice
in his present circumstances, and particularly about going
over to New England, which he had some thoughts of. The
good old man dissuaded him from that design, and recom-
mended hiin to the lord Brook at Warwick, where he resided
for some time, and marry'd a gentlewoman of Coventry.
During his residence here, the old lady Maynard, mother to
the famous lawyer sir John Maynard, soUicited him to accept
of a presentation, she had obtain'd for him of the earl of Bed-
ford, to Tavistock in Devonshire. This he accepted out of a
desire of more publick service, tho' it had but a very small
stipend annex'd to it, and the aforesaid earl made him his
chaplain.]

» [He came to St. Andrews in Plymouth in l644, accord-
ing to Calamy, who seems to have been at much pains to
procure intelligence concerning Hughes.]

^ [He had_ besides contracted an incurable dropsy and
scurvy, occasioned, as was supposed, by the saltness of the
air.]

' [Calamy says 2000/.J

779

HUGHES.

HEYllICK.

tlie brethren without his knowledge, lie retired to
Kinesbridge in Devonsh. found entertainment in
tlie iiouse of one Daniel Elley a brother, and was
much frequented to the last by tlie fanatical party.
He was tne most noted presbytcrian (if not inde-
pendent) of his time in Devonshire, and a most eager
defender of his, against the prelatical, })arty, and
ceremonies of the church of England. His works
are these.

Several sermons (1) Fun. Sermoti on 2 Khigs
13. 14. Printed 1632. qu. (3) Fun. Sermon on
Psai. 16. 10.— Pr. 1642. qu. (4) Dry Rod bios-
soming, printed 1644. qu.' (5) Vce-Euga-Tiiba :
or, the Wo-Joy Trumpet, &;c. Fast Serm. before tlie
H. g/* Commons 26 May 1647. on Rev. 11. 15.
Lond. 1647, qu. [Bodl. 4to. Z. 81. Th.] &,c.

Exposition on the small Prophets. Lond. 1657.
fol.

Sure Footing in Christianity examined. Lond.
1668. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. A. 12. Line]

Exposit'um on the Book of Job. Lond. 1669. fol.

Apiwrisms, or select Propositions of the Scripture

truly determining the Doctrine of the Sabbath

Printedl670. 71. oct.
rggg] Exposition on Genesis, and on 23 Chapters of

Exodus. Anisterd. 1672. fol. and other things which
I have not yet seen. He paid his last debt to na-
ture in the house of D. Elley of Kingsbridge before
1667. mentioned in the beginning of July in sixteen hun-
dred sixty and seven, and was buried in the church
there near the pulpit. Over his grave is this in-
scription fastned to a pillar just opposite to the pul-
pit. 'In memoriam suaveolentem setemiim colendam
viri desideratis.simi Georgii Hughes SS. Th. B. Ply-
mudensium nuper pastoris vigilantissimi, sacrae sen-
sus pagina; pemtiores eruere, homines concione flec-
tere,precibusDeura,mire edocti. Qui(solisa,>mulum)
ab oriente auspicatus cursum (ortu Londinas) occi-
dentale dehinc sidus diu claruit, lucem in vita
spargens undique, moriens luctuni : Vitaeque (vere
vitahs) curricmo in an. Ixiv perducto optnna per-
functus, perpessus mala, requiem tandem invenit;
animo quidem in coelis, corpori verc> in subjacente
tumulo, ipsis Julii nonis, an. salutis MDCLXVII.
Symmistae longe charissimi Georgii Geofridi A. M.
cujus exuviae ante ter-novem annos ibidem sitae,
nunc primum in cineres solvuntur, novis miscendos.

Nacta sacros cineres servata fideliter uma,
Haec uterum satio tibi fcecundabit inertem.
(3 fcehx tumuli matrix, de morte renatos
Olim tarn claros hosce enixura Gemellos !

Posuit honoris & amoris ergo Thomas
Crispinus Exoniensis.'

• \_A dry Rod blooming and Fruil-bearinf;, or a Treatise of
the Pain, Gain and Use qfC/iaslenings. Preached partly in
several Sermons, hut now compiled more orderly and fully for
the Direclion and Support of all God's chastened that suffer
either in Christ or for Christ in these Dayes. By G. Hughes
B. D. Pastor of the Church in Plymouth. London, Printed
Ly T. Puinc&ic. l64t. Bodl. 4io. H.C. Th. BS.]

The said Tho. Crispin a ricli fuller of Exeter,
and founder of a free-.scliot)l in Kingsbridge about
the year 1670, was at the charge of .sotting up the
said marble monument, and Mr. Joh. Howe who
married Hughes his daughter drew up the inscrip-
tion, as I have been intonned by a neighbouring
minister of that place.

[See a very good defence of Hughes, from Wood's
insinuations against his loyalty, in Calaniy's Ejected
Ministers, where also is an excellent character
given of him. He seems indeed to have been hardly
dealt with by our author, whose political sentiments
often interfered with liis candour and obscured his
judgment.

We may add to Hughes's works :

The Joint Testimonies of the Ministers of Devon
roith their Brethren, Ministers of the Province of
London, unto the Truth of Jesus Christ, zcith a
brief Confutation of the Errors, Heresies and
Blasphemies of tliese Times, Anno 1648. This was
subscribed by seventy-two ministers.

Calamy says that the two Expositions, the one
on the smaller prophets, the other on Job, were not
written by Hughes.]

RICHARD HEYRICK a younger son of sir
Will. Heyrick of Beaumannour in Leicestershire
knight (who fined for alderman of London and died
about 1653) was born in London, educated in Mer-
chant Taylors school, became commoner of St.
John's coll. in the beginning of the year 1617, aged
17, took the degrees in arts, was electetl fellow of
Alls. coll. [on the 14th day of January '] 1624, and
about that time entred into holy orders. Afterwards
he was beneficed in Norfolk, made warden of Christ's
coU. in Manchester in Lancashire " by means of arch-
" bishop Laud,' yet" sided with the presbytcrians
in the beginning of the rebellion, took the covenant,
was made one of the assemb. of divines, carried on
the cause with great zeal, was in the plot, for which
Christopb. Love suffered, and afterwards became an
assistant to the commissioners of Lancashire for the
ejection of such, whom they then (1654) called
scandalous and ignorant ministers and schoolmasters.
Upon the aj)proach of his majesty's restau ration, he
seemed to be zealous for it, and turning alxiut, as
many of his party did, kept his wardenship to his
dying day. He hath extant,

Several sermons, as (1) Three Sermons preacJied
in tlie Collegiat Church of Manchester, thejirst on
Psal. 122. 6. the second 2 The.9. 2. 15. and the
third on Gen. 49. 5, 6, 7. Lond. 1641. in oct.
[Bodl. 8vo. H. 13. Th. BS.] (2) Qu. Esther's
Resolves, or a Christian Patternfor Heaven-born
Resolution ; Fast Sermon before tlie House of Com.
on Esther 4. 16. Lond. 1646. ou. [Bodl. 4to. M.
12. Th. BS.] Besides others which I have not yet

9 [fleg. Coll. Omn. An. M.S.]

' " In the History of the Troubles and Tryal of Archbishop
Laud. cap. 39. p. 369."

HEYRICK.

TAYLOR.

782

16C7.

[400]

seen, among which is A Sermon on 2 of' Kings 1 1 .
ver. 12. Lond. 1661. qu. He departed this mortal
life on tiie sixth day of Aug. in sixteen hundred
sixty and seven, aged 67, and was buried in the
coUegiat church of Manchester. Soon after was a
comely monument put over his grave at the charge
of Aiina-Maria his relict, with a large inscription
thereon made by his ancient and entire friend Tho.
Case a London minister, who had been intimately
acquainted with him while he was a student in the
university of Oxon ; part of it runs thus. ' Siste,
viator, morae pretium est; sub eodem cippo cum
venerabili Huntingdono primo hujus collegii Cus-
tode, jacet decimus quartus ab eo successor Ricardus
Heynck, Gulielmi Heyrick equitis aurati filius,
Collegii Om. Animarum apud Oxonienses socius
olim studiosissimus, ecclesia; de North-Reps in agro
Norfolciensi deinde pastor fidissimus, hujusce de-
nique coUegii per triginta duos annos (multa alia
ultro sibi oblata Beneficia aversatus, hac soKi digni-
tate contentus) Gustos sive Guardianus vigilantissi-
mus. Qui judicium solidum cum ingenio acutissimo,
singularem zelum cum prudentia eximia, gravitatem
summam cum egre^a morum suavitate, generis no-
bilitatem,nomlmscelebritatem & quaecunque minores
animas inflare solent, cum humilitate unica felicis-
sime temperavit. Infelices sui seculi eiTores non
effu^t modo, sed & strenue fugavit,' &c.

[He was also rector of Thornton in Cheshire,
which he held with the wardenship of Manchester.
MS. Sancrqff. Tannee.

Apr. 23, 1642, Heyrick with Mr. Charles Herle
were approved of by the parliament to be the two
divines for Lancashire to be consulted with about
church matters.* Cole.]

JEREMY TAYLOR tumbled out of his mo-
ther's womb into the lap of the muses at Cambridge,'
was educated in Gonvill and Caius coll. there till he
was M. of A. Afterwards entring into holy orders,
he supplied for a time the divinity lecturer's place
in the cath. of S. Paul in London, where behaving
himself with great credit and applause far above his
years, came to the cognisance of that great encou-
rager of learning, ingenuity, and virtue. Dr. Laud
archb. of Cant, who thinking it for the advantage of
the world that such mighty parts should be afforded
better opportunities of study and improvement, than
a course of constant preacliing would allow of, he
caused him to be elected fellow of Alls. coll. an.
1636 : where being setled, love and admiration still
waited upon him ; while he improved himself much

' [JoumaU of the House of Commons, vol. ii, page 543. J
' [Jereniias Tailor filius Nathanielis Tonsoris Cantabrigiae
r.atus et ibidem liieris instructus in schola publica sub M™
Levering p' deccniiiuni anno Ktatis sua 15° admissus est in
collegium nostrum Augusti 18° 1626, pauper scholaris fide-
jussore M'° Bachcroft. Solvit pro ingress ■xij''. Lib. Admiss.
Colt. Caii. Bonney's Life of Taylor, Lond. 1815, 8vo.
page 4.]

in bo<jks. But this the reader is to know that tho'
he came in meerly by the psiramount interest of the
said archbishop,' yet it was done against the statutes
of the coll. in these two respects. First because he
had exceeded the age, within which the said statutes
make candidates capable of being elected, and
secondly that he had not been of three years stand-
ing in the university of Oxon, only a week or two
before he was put in. However he being a person
of most wonderful parts and like to be an ornfunfient
thereunto, he was dispenced with, and thereby ol)-
tained in that house much of that learning, where-
with he was enabled to write casuistically. About
the same time he was in a ready way to be con-
firmed a member of the church of Rome, as many
of that persuasion have said, but upon a sennon
delivered in S. Mary's church in Oxon on the 5. of
Nov. (Gun-powder-treason day) an. 1638, wherein
several things were put in against the papists by the
then vicechanc. he was afterwards rejected with
scorn by those of that party, particularly by Fr. i
S. Clara his intimate acquaintance ; to whom after-
wards he expressed some sorrow for those things he
had said against them, as the said S. Clara hath se-
veral times told me.' About tliat time, he became

* [From Tanner's MSS. in Bodley.

To the warden and fellows of All Souls Coll. Oxford.
Saluiem in Christo.

These are on the behalf of an honest man, and a good
scholar: Mr. Osborn being to give over his fellowship, was
with me at Lambeth, and, I thank him, freely proffer'd me
the nomination of a scholar to succeed in his place j now
having seriously deliberated with myself touching this busi-
ness, and being willing to recommend such an one to you as
yon might thank me for, I am resolved to pitch upon Mr.
Jeremiah Taylour of whose abilitys and sufficicncys every
ways I have rcceiv'd very good assurance. And I do hereby
heartily pray you to give him all furtherance by yourself and
the fellows at the next election, not doubting but that he
will approve himself .1 worthy and learned member of your
society. And tho' he has had his breeding, for the most
part, in the other university, yet 1 hope thatsliall be no pre-
judice to him, in regard that he is incorporated into Oxford
(ut sit eodem ordine, gradu, &c.) and admitted into Univer-
sity college. Neither can I learn that there is any thing in
your local statutes against it; I doubt not but you will use
him with so fair respects, as befits a man of his rank and
learning, for which I shall give you thanks. So I leave him
to your kindness, and rest

Lambeth House, Your loving friend

October £3, l635. William Cant.]

5 [' There is reason for believing, that the antiquary
(Wood) was too credulous on this occasion : for if the vice-
chancellor had done what was reported, he must have com-
pletely new modelled the whole discourse, it being as direct
an attack upon the principles which actuated that party, as
can well be imagined. That a man like Taylor should deli-
berately pronounce such a discourse, and afterwards childishly
lament it in the ears of the very party he had so strenuously
and successfully opposed, is scarcely to be credited. In the
first ' letter written to a gentleman who was tempted to the
Romish church,' written many years after, he denies the
charge in terms too plain to be misinterpreted. After an-
swermg such parts of the subject as related to the particular
case of the person he is addressing, he says, ' the other things

783

TAYI.OIl.

one of the chaplains to the said archb. of Cant, who
bestowetl upon liiin the rectory of Uppino^liain in
Rutlandshire, and otiier matters he would have
done for him in order to his advance in tiie church,
had not the rebellion unluckily broke out. In the
year 1642 he wa.s with others, by virtue of his maj.
lettei-s sent to this imiversity, actually created D. of
D. in that noted convocation lield on the first day of
Nov. the same year, he beinj^ then chaplain in ord.
to his said majesty, and a frequent preacher before
him and the court m Oxon. Afterwards he attended
in his majesty's army in the condition of a chaplain ;
where tho' he had not a conmiand of his tin)e and
books, yet he laid the foundation of several treatises
in defence of espiscopacy, the liturgy, ministry, and
church of lilngland. Upon the declining of the
king's cause, he retired mto Wales, where he was
suffer'd under the loyal earl of Carbury of the
Golden Grove in Caermarthenshire to ofliciat, and
keep school, to maintain him and his children. From
which, tho' it continued but a few years, were several
youths most loyally educated, and afterwards sent
to the universities. In this solitude he began to
write his excellent discourses, which are enough of
■themselves to furnish a library, and will be famous
to all succeeding generations for the exactness of
wit, profoundness of judgment, richness of fancy,
clearness of expression, copiousness of invention, and
general usefulness to all the purposes of a Christian.
[401] By which he soon after got a great reputation among
all persons of judgment and indifference and his
name grew greater still, as the world grew better
and wiser. When he had spent some years in this
retirement, in a private comer, as 'twere, of the
world, his family was visited with sickness, and
tliereby lost the dear pledges of God's favour, three
sons of great hopes, within the space ^ of two or three
months. And tho' he had learned a quiet submis-
sion to the divine will, yet this affliction touched
him so sensibly, that it made him desirous to leave
the country : And going to London, he there for a
time officiated in a private congregation of loyalists
to his great hazai'd and danger. At length meeting
with Edward lord Conway, a person of great ho-
nour and generosity, that lord, after he had under-
stood his condition, made him a kind ))roft'er, which
our author Taylor embracing, it carried him over
into Ireland, and setled him at Portmore, a place
made for study and contemplation; which he there-
fore dearly loved. And there he wrote his Cases

1 am to speak of is, ihe report yoii have heard of my inclina-
tion 10 go over to Honje. Sir, ihai parly which need auch
Jying stories for (he support of their cause, proclaim their
cause 10 be very weak, or themselves to be very evil advo-
cates. Sir, bo confident, they dare not tempt me to do so,
and it is not the _^Vs/ lime they have endeavoured to serve
their ends by saying such things of me. But, I bless God for
it, it is perfectly a slander, and it shall, I hope, for ever
prove so.' Bonney, Life of Jeremy Taylor, 8vo. Lond. Ibl.^,
page 11.1

° See Dr. Geo. Rust's SermeH at Bisk. Taylot't Funtral.

of Conscience, a book that is able alone to give its
author innnortality. By this time the wheel of
providence brought about the king's happy restora-
tion, and out of a confused chaos Iwauty and order
began to appear : Whereupon our loyal author went
over to congratulate the prince jmd ijeople's happi.
ness, and bear a part in the universal tnuniph. It
was not long after, his sacred majesty began the set-
tlement of the church, and Dr. Taylor being re-
solved u|3on for the bishopriek of Downe and Con-
nor, was consecrated thereunto at Dublin on the
27th of January 1660, and on the 21st of June
1661 he had the administration of the see of Dro-
more granted to him by his majesty, in considera-
tion, tnat he had been the church's champion, and
that he had suffer'd much in defence of its cause.
AVith what care and faitiifulness he discharged his
office, all uixm the place knew well, and what good
rules and directions he gave to his clergy, and how he
taught them the practice of them by his own example.
Upon his being made bishop he was constituted a
privy counsellor, and the university of Dublin gave
him their testimony, by recommending him for their
vicechancellor, which honourable office he kept to
his dying day. He was esteemed by the generality
of persons a compleat artist, accurate logician, ex-
quisite, quick ana acute in his reasonings, a person
of great fluency in his language and of prodigious
readiness in his learning. A noted'' presbyterian
also (his antagonist) dotli ingeniously confess that
Dr. Taylor ' is a man of admirable wit, great parts,
hath a (juick and elegant pen, is of abilities in criti-
cal learning and of profound skill in antiquity,'
&c. and another'* who knew him well tells us, that
' he was a rare humanist, and hugely vers'd in all
the polite parts of learning, and had thoroughly con-
cocted all the ancient moralists, Greek and Roman
poets, and orators ; and was not unacquainted with
the refined wits of the latter ages, whether French
or Italian,' &c. But he hail not only the accom-

Elishments of a gentleman, but so universal were
is parts, that tney were proportion'd to every
thing. And tho' his spirit and humour were made
up of smoothness and gentleness, yet he could bear
with the harshness and roughness of the .schools,
and was not unseen in their subtilties and spinosi-
ties. His skill was great both in the civil and canon
law and casuistical divinity : And he was a rare
conductor of souls, and knew how to counsel, antl
to advise ; to solve difficulties, and determine cases,
and quiet consciences. To these may be added his
great acquaintance with the fathers and ecclesiasti-
cal writers, and the doctors of the first and purest
ages both of the Greek and Lat. church ; which he
hath made use of against the Rom. catholics, to
vindicate the church of England from the challenge

' Hen. Jeanes in his cpist. to the reader before Cerluin
Letters letu.eeu him and Jer. Taylor, Lond. Ifi()0.
' G. Rust ut sup.

78.5

TAYLOR.

7M)

of innovation, and to prove her ancient, catholic,
and apostolical. Add to all these, he was a i)erson
of" great humility, had nothing in him of pride and
humour, but was courteous and affable and of easy
[402] access. He was withal a person of great charity
and hos))itality : and whosoever compares his plen-
tiful incomes with the inconsiderable estate he left
at his death, will be easily convincVl that Charity
was steward for a great proportion of his revenue.
To smn up all in a few words of another » author,
' This great prelate had the good himiour of a gen-
tleman, the elmjuencc of an orator, the fancy of a
poet, the acuteness of a schoolman, the profound-
ness of a philosopher, the wisdom of a chancellour,
the sagacity of a prophet, the reason of an angel,
and the piety of a saint. He had devotion enough
for a cloister, learning enough for an university, and
wit enough for a coll. of virtuosi. And had his
parts and endowments been parcefd out among his
poor clergy that he left behind him, it would per-
haps have made one of the best dioceses in the
world.' His works of learning are very many, and
all that he hath written, are, I conceive, set down
in the following catalogue.

The Golden Grove: or a Manual of daily
Prayera and Litanies, fitted to the Days of the
Week, &c.' — This is sometimes called TJie Guide
of Itifant Devotion,^ and was composed at the Gol-

' G. Rust ut Slip.

' [The Golden Grove, or a Manual of Daily Prayers and
Letanies, Jilted to the Dayes of the fFee/t. Containing a
ihort Summary of what is to be letieved, practised, desired.
Also Festival Hymns accordinq; to the Manner of the ancient
Church. Composed for the Use of the Devout, especially of
younger Persons : by the Author of the Great Exemplar.
London, Printed by J. F.for R. Unysfon, at the Angel in
Ivie Lane. Itydf,. Bodl. 8vo. .1. 0. Th. I5S. with a folding
frontispiece by Hollar : which frontispiece isof jircat rariiy ;
and very curious, inasmuch as it represents a prospect of
the Golden Grove and its surrounding scencrv, with a view
of the house formerly inhabited by lord Carberry, but now
in ruins. This same plalc, with alleralions, appeared as a
vignette, to the edit, of Polemical Discourses, fol. l6o7.

A Prayer for Charity. (Page 1 08.)
Full of mercy, full of love.
Look upon us from above :
Thou who taughl'st the blind man's night
To entertain a double light.
Thine and the dayes (and that thine too)
The lame away his crutches threw.
The parched crust of leprosie
Return'd unto its infancy :
The dumb amazed was to hear
His own unchain'd tongue strike his ear :
Thy powerful mercy did even chase
The devil from his usurp'd place.
Where thou thy self shouldst dwell, not he.
O let thy love our pattern be;
Let thy mercy teach one brother
To forgive and love another.
That copying thy mercy here
Thy goodness may hereafter reare
Our souls unto thy glory, when
Our dust shall cease to be with men. Amen.]
[It is, according to Bonney, an enlargement of The

Voi;. in.

den Grove in the county of Caermarthen before
mention'd. Several impressions have been made of
it, mostly in the vol. calfd twelves, one of which
was made at Lond. 16.56 or therealiouts, and the
fourteenth itnpression came out in 1683.

Festival Hymns according to the Manner of the
ancient Church.

Of the sacred Order and Officct of Epiicupacy
by divine Institution, Apostolical Tradition and
Catholic Practice. Or thus, Episcopacij stated, &c.
Oxon. 1642. qu. [Bodl. 4to. T. 4. Th'.]

" A Discourse concerning Prayer ex tempore,
" or by Pretence of the Spirit, in Justification of'
" authoriz'd and .set Forms of Liturgy, printed
" 1646. in 5 sh. qu." [Bodl. C. 14. 11. JLinc]

An Apology for authoriz'd and set Forms of
Liturgy against the Pretence of the Spirit. " 1.
" For ex tempore Prayer; and 9dly, Forms of
" private Composition."'' Lond. 1649. qu. [Bodl. C.
15. 6. Line]

The real Presence and Spiritual of Christ in,
the blessed Sacrament, proved against tJie Doctrine
of Transuhstantiation. Lond. 1654. oct. [Bodl.
8vo. T. 6. Th. BS.]

Discou?-se of the Liberty of Prophesying.' Lond.
1647. qu. [BotU. 4to. t. 7. Th. Seld.] In the
writing of which Ixwk the author made use of a like
stratagem (as Hales did in writing his book of
schism) to break the presbytcrian jMJwer, and so
countenance divisions between the factions, which
were too much united against the loyal clergy. For
in the said book (as a certain ♦ author saith) he in-
sists on the same topics of schism and heresy, of
the incompetency of councils and fathers to deter-
mine our. ecclesiastical controversies, and of scru-
pulous consciences; and urgeth far more cogent
arguments, than Hales did, but still he had pre-
pared his 2oipov ^d,pfLa.KOv an antidote to prevent any
dangerous effect of his discourse. For the judicious
reader may perceive such a reserve (tho' it ly in
ambuscado, and is compacted in a narrow compass)
as may easily rout those troops, which began too
soon to cry victoria, and thought of nothmg else
but of dividing the spoil. And if the learned au-
thor cUd this and was blameless, the goodness of the
end in such cases denominating the action, I see no
cause * why our author, whose ends were for the re-
storing of peace, seeing he represented the causes of
the war so frivolous and inconsiderable, ought to be
represented as a criminal or adversary. This book
of Liberty of Propliecying was animadyerted upon

Catechism for Youth in Wales, 1 652, and was printed in
1653. ii/e, page 22 1 .]

' [Toleration tolerated: or a late learned Bishop's Opinion
concerning Toleration of Religion. IVith some brief Observa-
tions thereon, folio, one sheet. Bodl. C. 9. 6. Line. This is
an extract from bishop Taylor's Liberty of Prophesying.']

* Tho. Long in his preface to the book entil. Mr. Halet
his Treatise of Schism, &c.

* Ibid. See aho in Responsio Roberli Grovii ad Lib. qui
inscrib. Celcusma, &c. Lond. 168O. qu. p. 80.

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by Sam. Rutherford prof, of divinity in the iiniv. of
S. Andrew's in his Free Disputation offainst pre-
tended Liberty of Conscience, &c. LoncT 1649. <|u.
Vindication nfthe Ghrij trf the divine Attributes,
in the Question of original Sin. Lond. 1656. in tw.

Measures and Offices of Friendship : in a Letter
to the most ingenious and excellent Mrs. K. P.
Lond. 1657. 2d. edit, in tw. [Bodl. 8vo. B. 307.
Line] By this K. P. is to be understood Kathe-
rine Philipps tlic wife of Jam. Philipps of the priory
of Cardigan, esq; daughter of John Fowler of Buck-
[403] lersbury in Lond. merchant, by Catherine his wife,
daughter of Dan. Oxenbridge doctor of physic.
Which Kath. Fowler alias Philipps (by the way it
must lie observed) was born in the parish of S.
Mary Wool-church in Lond. and baptiz'd there on
tlie eleventh of January 1631, bred up in a school

at Hackney under Mrs. Salmon, where she

then much delighted in jx)etry, notwithstanding
brought up in the presbyterian way. After her
marriage with Ja. Philipps, she went into Ireland
with the viscountess of Dungannon (Trevor) and
at Dublin she translated from French into Enghsh,
the tragedy called Pompey, which was several times
acted in the new theatre there, with great ajiplause,
an. 1663, and 64, in which last year it was made
public. While she was young, she was very for-
ward in Enghsli learning, by the blessedness of a
quick and happy memory ; at riper years she was
esteemed the most applauded poetess of our nation,
and not without reason, since her name is of a
fresh and lively date from a publish'd vol. in fol. of
her poetical works, bearing this title. PoertM by the
most deservedly admired Mrs. Katherlne Philipps,
the matchless Orinda. To which is added Mon-
sieur Corneille's Pompey, and Horace's Tragedies;
with several other Translations out of French.
Lond. 1667. fol. with her picture, a shoulder piece,
before them standing on a pedestal, and underneath
written Orinda. These poems, which were first
printed in oct. an. 1664, without the translations,
are commended to the world by the jx)ems of Abr.
Cowley, Tho. Flatman, Jam. Tyrrel esq; &c. At
length she being overtaken with the small pox, died
of it in Fleetstreet, and was buried 22 June 1664,
in the church of S. Bennet Sherehog (at the end of
SythVlane) in London, under a great grave-stone,
where her father, grand-father, and grand-mother
were before buried. Dr. Taylor hath also pub-
lished.

Sermon at S. Mary's in Oxon upon the 5th <^
Nov. 1638; on Lnhcd- 54. Oxon. 1638. qu. [Bo<U.
HH. 30. Th.l

All which books, and sermon before-mention'd,
were printed in one vol. under this title, A Collec-
tion of polemical and moral Discourses. Lond.
1657. ioi. To a third edition of which collection,
^v herein are omitted, The Golden Grove, and the
Sermon at St. Mary's, are added, (1.) A Dissua-
sive J) om L'opery, the first and second part; writ-

ten while he was B. of Downe and Connor, and re-
ceived with so general approbation, that several
impressions of them were made in qu. and oct.
This Dvisuasivefrom Popery was answered first by
a book bearing this title. Truth will out, or a Dis-
covery of some Untruths smoothly told by Dr. Jer.
Tayhr in his Dissuasive fromPopery, &c. — Printed
16o5. qu. written by his friendly adversary Edward
Worsely" a Jesuit, of the family of Worseley in
Lancashire : And secondly by John Sargeant a sec.
priest, in one of his appendices to Sure-Footing
in Christicmity, as I shall elsewhere tell you. (2.)
Unum necessarium : or the Doctrine and Practice
of Repentance rescued from popular Errors, &c.
Lond. 1655. oct. (3) Txvo Anszvers to the Bisliop
of Rochester's (Warner) heo Letters, concerning
the Chapter of Original Sin in the Unum necessa-
rium. Lond. 1656. in tw. (4.) A Discourse of
Coiifirmution. (5.) Two Letters to Persons changed
in their Religion. This was first pr. at Lond.
1657. in tw. and put at the end of the second edit.
di Measures and Offices of Friendship. (6.) Three
Letters to a Gentlewoman that was tempted to the
Communion of the Romish Church. The said edit,
containing the said six treatises or books, bears this
general title XufjiffoXov ©soXtiyixoy Or a Collection
of Polemical Discourses ; wherein the Church of
England is defended in many material Points, &c.
Lond. 1674. m a large fol. [Bodl. H. 2. 1. Th.]
The other books that our author Dr. Taylor hath
written, and go under h;.^. name, are these.

New and easy Lnsiitution of Grammar, for the
Use of the Youth of Wales. Lond. 1647. oct. This
is commonly said to be his, j'et there have not been
wanting some that have said that it was written by
Dr. Taylors usher or assistant named Will. Wyatt.'
See more in the Fasti, an. 1661. among the created
bachelors of div.

Txeenty-five Sermons preaclied at Golden Grove ;
being for the Winter half Year; beginning on
Advent Sunday, and continuing till Wliitsunday.
Lond. 1678. fol. the fifth edit, with his picture be-
fore them, as before many of his other books.

Ticenty seven Sermons preached at Golden
Grove ; being for the Summer half Year, begin-
ning on Whitsunday, and ending on the 25th Sun-
day afer Trinity. Lond. [1651] 1678. fol. sixth
edit.

A Supplement of eleven Sermmis, preached since
his MaJ. Restoration. Lond. 1678. fol. seven of
them were before printed at Lond. 1664. fol. To
wliich, three more being added, were printed again

" [Edw. Worslaeus— diu inter Protestanles, doctrina ct
beneticio ecclesiasiico emiiiuil — at pravoruin dosmatuin de-
tecta faI^itale, ad ea rermanda aiiimuni adjecit — Jesuita e
collegio Leodicnsi. Vide FUirum Anglo-Bavaricum, LeoHii,
IdSA, 4ti). p. 53, 54. Baker.]

' [It was the joint production of Taylor and Wyatt. See
a long account of the Dook, which is very rare, in Bonncy's
Life, page 44.]

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790

at the same place an. 1667. fol. The ninth sermon
of the said eleven, is that preached at S. Mary's in
Oxon before-niention'd. The general title set be-
fore the said twenty five, twenty seven, and the
supplement of eleven sermons, with other tilings
contained in the said vol. runs thus, 'Enau?!^. A
Course of Sermons for all the Sundays in the Year,
^c. with a Supplement of eleven, Sermons preached
since his Mqj. Restoration.'* Whereunto is ad-
joyned, jt Discourse of the Divine Institution, Ne-
cessity, Sacredncss, and Separation of the Office
Ministerial, &c. written by the special command
of king Charles I. with Rules and Advices to the
Clergy, &c. This great voL is closed with a Ser-
mon on 1 Jolu 3. 2. 2)rcaclicd at the Autho?-''s (Dr.
Taylor) Funeral by George Rust, who succeeded
him in the see of Dromore, as I shall anon tell you.

A slwrt Catechism Jbr the Institution of young
Persons in the Christian Religion. Lond. 1652.
Oct. or tw.

An E.rplicafion of the Apostolical Creed.

Printed with tlie Short Catechism, and both com-
posed for the use of the schools in Wales.

A Discourse of Baptism, its Institution and Effi-
cacy upon, all Believers. Lond. 1652. qu.

A Consideraticm of the Practice of the Church in
baptizing Infants of believing Parents, and the

Practice justified Printed with the former Dis-

cmirse.

The great Exemplar of Sanctify and holy Life,
according to the Christinn Institution, described in
the Life and Death of Jesus Christ. In three parts.
Lond. 1632. fol. sec. edit.' Lond. 1667. fol. 4th
edit. The sixth edit, of which book bearing the
title of Antiguitates Christiana;, &c. is printed to-
gether with another book entit. Antiquitates Apos-
ioliccE : or, the Lives, Acts, and Martyrdoms of
the holy Apostles of our Saviour, &c. [Lond. 1675,
Bodl. J. 4. 3. Line] Written by Will. Cave,
D. D. chapl. in ord. to king Charles II. sometime
of S. John's coll. in Cambr. since minister of Ishng-
ton near Lond. canon of Windsor, and author of
several books.

Cleriis Domini: or, a Discourse of the Divine
Institution, Necessity, Sacredncss, and Separation
of the Office Ministerial, &c. Lond. 1655, in a thin
fol. This is mention'd before, but not so full.

A farther Explication of the Doctrine of Original
Sin. Lond. 1656. oct. The first explication is in
his Unum necessarium before-mention'd, chap. 7.
Both which explications being very heterodox, were
generally condemned.

A Collection of Offices, or Forms of Prayer, in
Cases ordinary and extraordinary, &c. Lond.
1658. oct [Bodl. 8vo. T. 7. Th. BS.]

The Psalter or Psalms of David, after the Kings
Translation, with Arguments to every Psalm

• fThe first edit. Lond. l653, Bodl. H. 7. l6. Th.]
' [First edit. Lond. 1649, Bodl. A. 7. 18. Line]

Pr. with the Collection of Offices. See before in the
first vol. in Christoph. Ilatton, an. 1691, col. 583.'

The Epiiesian Matron. Lond. 1659. in tw.

Certain Letters to Hen. Jeanes, concerning a
Passage of his (Jeanes) in the Explication of Ori-
ginal Sin. Oxon. 1660. pubhshed by the said H.
Jeanes.

The toorthy Communicant : or, a Discourse of
the Nature, Effects and Blessings, suisequent to
the xvorthy Receiving of the Lord's Supper, &c.
Lond. 1660, 67, [1674, Bodl. 8vo. B. 277. Th.]

&C. Oct.

Cases of Conscience, occurring in tlie Duty of
him that ministers, and him that communicates. —
Pr. with the Worthy Com.

Letter concerning praying with the Spirit, &c.
Lond. 1660. qu. set before Hen. Leslie B. of Downe
and Connor his Discourse of Praying with tlie
Spirit and zvith Understanding, in two Sermons
preached at Hillsborough an. 1659, on 1 Cor. 14.
ver. 15. Lond. 1660. qu.

Rule and Exercise of holy Living, Sec. together
with Prayers containing the wJiole Duty of a Chris-
tian, &c. Lond. 1668, eighth edit* The twelfth
edit, came out in 1680,' and all printed in tw.
and Oct.

Rule and Exercise of holy Dying, &c. Lond.
1668 eighth edit. The twelfth came out in 1680,*
and all printed in tw. and oct.

Ductor Dubitantium : * or, the Rule of Conscience
in all her general Measures, serving as a great In-
strument for the Determination of' Cases of Con-
science. In four books. Lond. 1660. fol. [Boidl. BS.
149, 150.] which was the first edit. I think. There
again 1676. third edit.

Rules and Advices to the Clergy of tlie Dioc. of
Downe and Connor, &c. Dubl. 1661. oct. Lond.
1663> [Bodl. 4to. J. 16. Th.] &c. See before.*

-a Uissuasivejrom fmery to tne
People of Ireland. Lond! 1664. qu. * Discourse 'f.n.
This seems to be different from tbe ff^ ^'"'"^ '"

r ^ T\- • 1 /■ foint of Con-

two parts 01 the Dissuasive before- scieme, letwreit
mention'd. Qu. two Ladies. Pr.

Succinct Narrative of the Life of '^.^'^^ "='• F'^t
Dr. Jo. BramhaU Archb. qf Ar-

edii.'

■ [See bishop Kennel's note on ihis subject as above.
Besides the editions already mentioned nnder the article
Hatton, there was a fifth in JOo?, and an eighth (the oxxv
alluded to by Kennel) in l()72.]

' rFif" «dit. 1650, tA'cniy eighth, 1810.]

' Fnurieenth edit. Lond. I6'8fj. Bodl. Svo. Y. 26. Tb.]

•I [First edit. l65l, l2mo.]

' [The Duct. Dul. was abridged by Rich. Barcroft,
cnrate of Christ Church, Surrey, and pnbl. under the title of
The Rule of Conscience, or iiishnp Taylor's Dud. Duh.
abridged, in 2 vol. Lond. 1725, Hvo.]

° [yirtlficinl Hnrid.'ome)iess is ascribed to Dr. Gauden in
another yart of this vol. but it seems rather to have been the
work ofObadiah Walker. It had a second e(htion in l66?,
under the title of A Discourse nf Arlijicial Beauty, ttilh
K/tne ^alyritai Censures en the tiulgar Errcrs ij' these 'Titfes.

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792

1667.

• Cfirislian Con-
solation taufflit
from Jive Htads :
I Failh ; 2 Uopc ;
3 Holy Spirit ; 4

moffh, arid Primate of all Ireland. — This is in, or
«t the end of, the Sermon preached at his Funeral
16 Jill. \&j',i, by our author Dr. Jer. Taylor.
Which sermon is numbretl among tliose beibre-
mentiou'd.

Discourse upon the Beatitudes. — Left by the au-
thor uufinisli'if.*

Contemplations of the State of
Man in this Life, and in that which
is to come. Lond. 1684. (x;t.

Moral Demonstration, proving,
that the Religion of Jesus Christ is
Prayer ;bTheSa- from God. Lend. 1687. oct. set at
crome/./.. Lond. ^^e end oi A Copii of a Letter writ-

1071. oct. First . . r^ .T ^"^ •' , , ,

pji,_ ten to a Oentlczvoman newly seduced

to the Church (^ Rome, printed then
again at Lond. (being one of tne five letters before-
mention'd) with some other little works of the said
author. The said Moral Demonstration had before
been printed with one of the edit, of his Case-f of
Conscience. These are all the books and sermons,
as I conceive, tliat this most worthy and eminent
author hath written, and therefore I shall only add,
that he being overtaken with a violent fever, sur-
rendred up his pious soul to the Omnipotent at
Lisburne alias Lisnegarvy on the thirteenth day of
August in sixteen hundred sixty and seven, and was
buned in a chappel of his own erection on the ruins
of the old cathetlral of Dromore. In that see suc-
ceeded his most dear and excellent friend, (who
preached his funeral sermon, and afterwards made
It public) named George Rust, D. 1). sometime
fellow of Christ's coll. in Cambridge,' a learned
divine, and an eloquent preacher; who dying in

Now these Salyrical Censures were first published together
with The Art of Oratory, which is generally allowed to be
Obadiah Walker's. Wood in his first edit, ascribes the worii
to bishop Taylor, but this mistake was corrected in the
second.

For this note I am obliged to Mr. Watts, the librarian of
Sion college.]

■I [Geo. Rust aul. S. Calh. A. B. 1646-7; A. M. coll.
Chr. 1(J60. Reg. Acad. Cant. Baker.

. Dr. Rust was one of the first that overcame the prejudices
of the old education in Cambridge, and was very instrumen-
tal to enlarge others (minds). After the restauration, bishop
Taylor, foreseeing the vacancy in the deanery of Connor,

Dec. (about S. Thomas day) in 1670, was buried
in the same vault, wherein the said bishop Taylor
had been deposited. After him succeeded in the
same see (Dromore) Dr. Essex Digby, and him
Capel Wiseman dean of Raphou, sometime fellow
of AU-s. college, an. 1683.

[23 Martii, 1637, Jeremias Taylor cler. A. M. ad
rect. de Up])ingham, ad pres. Will. Lond. ep. Reg.
Dec. Ep. Petrib.

Edward I^angsdale doctor of physick was interretl
at Leedes in Yorkshire, Jan. 7, 1683. The famous
bishop Jeremy Taylor married liis sister ' by whom
he had a daughter married to Dr. N. Marsh, primate
oflreland. Kennet.

Jeremy Taylor, son of Nathaniel and Mary, was
born in Trinity parish, Cambridge ; baptised Aug.
15, 1613. Reg. S. Trin.

Jeremias Taylor coll. Caii, admissus in matricu-
1am acad. Cant. Mar. 17, 1626. Reg.

Jer. Taylor coll. Caii A. B. Cant. 1630-1. Reg.

Nominatus ad locum socii, a Wilfmo archi'epo
Cant, in coll. Omnium Animarum Oxon. Nov. 21,
1635. See MS. vol. xxxiv, p. 157. Baker.

Jeremias Taylor Cant. Incorp. 20"° Octob. Term.
Michael. 1635.^

By the All Souls register it appears that Taylor
was elected probationer fellow November 3, 1635 ;
and actual fellow Jan. 14, 1636-7.'

List of bishop Taylor's works in the order of
their publication (according to Bonney.)

1. Sermon on the Anniversary of Gunpowder
Treason. Oxford 1638.

2. Episcopacy asserted. Ox. 1642.

3. Psalter or Psalms of David. Ox. 1644.

4. Discourse concerning Prayer Extempore or
by Pretence of the Spirit. 1646.

5. New and easie In-ititution of Grammar. 1647.

6. Liberty of Prophecying. London 1647.

7. Apology for Liturgy. Lond. 1649-

8. The Great Exemplar. Lond. 1649.

sent to Cambridge for some learned and ingenious man : the
motion was made to Dr. Rust, who accepted it, and went
into Ireland, and shortly after was made clean accordingly.
He died three years after he was made bishopof Dromore, m
the prime of his years. Macro.]

• » [Taylor was married May 27, l63g. His wife's name was Phoebe. See a letter to her brother Dr. L. in Bonney's Life,
p. 15. BishopTaylor had four sons and three daughters.

I

4
Edward
buried at
Lisburn in
Ireland,
March 10,
lf)6o-i.

T"
3

Two sons
died of the
small pox
in Wales.

Jeremy Taylot=p Phoebe Langsdale.

I.

William,
buried at
Upping-
ham, May
28, 1642.

Phoebe
died single.

2
Joanna= . . . Harri-
son, a bar-
rister in
Ireland.

Mary=Dr. Marsh.

■' V^'^S- Congregal. Q. l6.]

See an account of his being first admitted as a member of University college, in a preceding note.]

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794

9. Sermcm. at the Funeral of' Frances Countess of
Carbiinj. Lond. 1650.

10. 06oXoyia £xXsxri)ti). I.oml. 1650.

11. The Ride and Exercises of' Holy Living.
Lond. 1650.

12. The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying.
Lond. 1651.

13. Twenty-e'ight Sermons. Lond. 1651.

14. A short Catechism. Lond. 1652.

15. A Di.icourse ofBnptism: Lond. 1652.

16. Two Di.icourses of Baptis7n. Lond. 1G53.

17. The Real Presence. Lond. 1654.

18. 'Eviaurof. Lond. 1655.

19. The Golden Grove. Lond. 1655.

20. Unum Necessarium. Lond. 1655.

21. Deiis JHstificatus. Lond. 1656.

22. Answer to a Letter written by the B'lsltop of
Rochester. Lond. 1656.

23. Discourseof artificial Handsomeness. liond.
1656. -^ ■'

24. Di.scour.'ie of Friendship. 1657.

25. 1.\jit.^o>.iv 'H8(xo-iroX£/:!,ij£oy- Lond. 1657.

26. Ductor Dub'itant'ium. Lond. 1660.

27. The Worthy Communicant. Lond. 1660.

28. Sermon at the Consecration of two Arch-
hishops and ten Bisliops in St. PatricJc's Dvhlin.
Lond. 1661.

29. Rules and Advice to tlie Clergy of Down
and Connor. Lond. 1661.

30. Sermon at the Opening of Parliament. Lond.

Via IntelUgent'iw. Lond. 1662.

Sermon at the Funeral of the Lord Primate.

E^Sofjias sn^oXii^acio;; « Supplement toEviauTt;

Dis.mas'iveJrom Popery, Part 1. Lond. and

1661.

31.

32.
1663.

33.
1663.

34.
Dublin. 1664.

35. D'lSsuaMve Jrom Popery, Part 2. 1667.

36. SujujSoXov QgoXoyixov. 1684.

37. Opusculu.

There arc engraved portraits of bishop Taylor by
Lombart in folio and 8vo. That prefixed to his
Polemical Discourses 1657, fol. is the best. 11. W.
(Robert White) engraved one in 8vo. a half length,
and another was prefixed to Bonney's Life, 8vo.
1815, engraved in the dotted manner, by W. T.
Fry.]

STEPHEN SKINNER, son of Joh. Skin, of
London, gent, was born either in that city, or in
the county of Middlesex, applied his studies to
academical learning in the condition of a commoner,
as it seems, in the royal foundation called Christ
Church, an. 1638, aged 16 years or thereabouts:
but before he could take one degree, the inost un-
natural rebellion l)roke out to the gi-eat horror and
reluctancy of all good men : so that travelling beyond
-the seas, he matte progress in the studies of arts and
philosophy in several universities, with very great

improvement. In 1646, or thereabouts, he re-
turned to his native country ; and the garrison of
Oxtbrd being that year reduced for the use of the
})arliament, he returned to the then disconsolate
nutses, and tcK)k both the dcgr. in arts that year.
Al'terwards he finished his rambles in several coun-
tries, as in France, Italy, Germany, the S^ianish
Netherlands, &c. visited tlie courts of divers princes,
frequented several universities, and obtaineil the
company and friendship of the most learned men of
them. At length upon the renovation of the uni-
versity of Heidelberg by Charles Lewis elector Pala-
tine, he was adorned there with the degr. of doctor
of physic, and held in admiration by all learned men
at that place. Afterwards returning once more to
his native country, cand to his mother the univ. of
Oxon (then quite altered to what he had left it) was
there incorpt)rated in the same degr. an. 1654.
About which time settling within the city of Lincoln,
practised his faculty there and in the neighlxjurhood
with good success, and therefore nuich resortetl to by
jK-rsons of all quality, and beloved of the gentry.
He was a person well vers\l in most parts of learn-
ing, understood all Iwoks whether old or new, was
most skilful in the oriental tongues,'^ an excellent
Grecian, and in short a living library. He hath
written.

Prolegomena Etymohgica, with a large preface
to it ; and these things following,

Etymologicon Linguw AngUcancv.

Etym. Botanicum.

Etymologica Expo-ntio Vocum Forensium.

Etymol. Vocum omnium AngUcarum.

Etym. Onomasticon, &c. He died of a malig-
nant i'ever at Jjineoln beforc-niention''d on the fifth
day of Septemb. in sixteen hundi-ed sixty and seven,
and was buried in the cath. church there. After
his death his belbre-mentionM works, which had
been by him left imperfect, came into the hands of
Thomas Henshaw of Kensington near London, esq;
who correcting and digesting them, and adchng
many words to them of his own, they were pub-
lished at London (with an epistle before them to
the reader of Mr. Henshaw''s writing) an. 1671. fol.
[Bodl. R. 1. 1. Jur.] with this title, Etymologicon
Liyigucv Anglicana', &c. In which book those
words, and additions, and explanations, that have
the letter H put to them, were done by the said Th.
Henshaw a noted critic, sometime a commoner of
Univ. coll. and therefore hereafter to be numbered
among the Oxford writers. See more of Dr. Skin-
ner m Hist, t^" Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. pag. 280.

JOHN READING bom of sufficient parents in
Buckinghamshire, was admitted a student in Magd.

' [The very contrary is said in the second page of Hcn-
sliaw's preface, whence much of this account is extracted;
and indeed the aceonnt of Skinner in the Hisl. iSf Antic/.
Univ. Oxon. ii, 280, is much in Hensliaiv's words, but here
and there altered for the better. Love day.]

[4061

1667.

795

READING.

liall in the lieginning of the year 1604, aged 16
years, took the degrees in arts, that of master being
"conipleated in 1610, at wliich time, a little before
the comitia, he had entred himself a commoner of
S. Alb. hall. On the last of Feb. 1612 he was or-
dained deacon by John bishop of Oxon in the church
of Newenham Courtney, and on the 19th of June
-1614 he was made a priest by the said bishop in
the church of Dorchester, in the coiuity of Oxon.
About that time he became chaplain to Edward lord
Zoucli of Haringworth, lord warden of the Cinque
Ports and governor of Dover castle : with whom

foing to Dover, where he preached divers semions,
e was, at the instant request of the parishioners of
S. Mary's, (who were very much taken with his
preaching) made minister of that church 2 Dec.
1616. So that being settled there, he was very
much resorted to for his frequent and edifying
sermons, and held in great esteem by the neighbour-
hood, especially by the puritanical party. After-
wards he was madechapl. in ord. to king Charles I.
and bach, of divinity, but whether of this university,
it appears not. Upon the change of the times, oc-
casion'd by the violent presbytcrians, he seemed
much to discoimtenance them in his sermons and
discourses, and therefore in Apr. 1642 his study of

books at Dover was plundered by one Sandys

of Northborne in Kent, a militia officer, who usually
shew'd his valour by plundering several of the loyal
inhabitants in the county of Kent; and in Nov.
following he was, by the command of sir Edw. Boys
a parliamenteer, taken violently by soldiers out of
his study (being then upon his Paraphrase upon
the whole Evangelist of S. John, and had gone as
far as the 8th and 9th verse of tlie 5th chap.) and
sent to prison and banishment for a year and seven
months, and not at all restored to his cure of souls
at Dover : which sir Edward, that he might comply
with the schismatics, did prosecute, so long as he
lived, our author Rea^ling, to his utter undoing.
On tlie 17th of Jan. following (1642) his majesty
having had notice of his sufferings, sent his letters to
archb. Laud, then a prisoner in the Tower, that he
bestow the parsonage of Chartham in Kent upon
him, then void by the death of Dr. Isaac Bargrave
dean of Canterbury : which being siecordingly done,
as much as lay in the archbishop's power, Mr.
Reading did not receive any profit from it, or from
l^Tl a prebendship of Canterbury, about that time be-
stowed on him, because much opposed by sir Nath.
Brent vicar-general, " and Mr. Edw. Corbet (as you
" may see above,) got Chartham." In the month
of July 1644, sir William Brockman did freely
bestow upon him the parsonage of Cheriton in Kent,'
^md about the same time he was appointed by the

1 [Johannes Reading institutus in eccl. de Chcrilon a
vicario generali l644, 13 Jul. niandat. inductiojiis habuit
I(i44, 18 Jul. Ue;^. Cant. Ad recloriam dc Chartham insti-
tutus S6 Jul. lW50. licg, Juxon. KenmEt.J

assembly of divines to be one of the nine divines to
write Annotation on the New Testament. Not
long after, ujjon the discovery of a plot for the taking
of Dover castle bv the cavaliers, he was inhumanly
.seized on in a cold winter night in his house in Che-
riton, by the command of major Boys (son of sir
Edw. before-mention'd) and hurried to Dover castle,
and the next day sent to that of Leeds, with many
others of the town of Dover. Where continuing for
some time, he composed the book called 7^he Guide
to the lioly City. At length being discharged from
his imprisonment by the committee of those parts,
they ordered also his goods that had been plundered
should be restored to him. However Boys of Chil-
ham a set]uestrator (different from either of the
former) had money of him before he would part with
them. On the 10th of March 1650 he publicly dis-

Kuted (upon the receipt of a challenge some days
efore) with Sam. Fisher an anabaptist in Folkston
church in Kent. The subject of the debate was,
' Whether all Christians indefinitely were equally
and eternally obliged to preach the gospel without
ecclesiastical ordination, or contrary to tlie commands
of the civil magistrate,' or to that purpose. Fisher
pleaded the affirmative, fetching most of his argu-
ments from Jer. Taylor's Discourse of the Liberty of
Prophecying: After the debate was ended, our
author Reading thought himself obliged to answer
several passages in the said book of Dr. Taylor,
which gave too great a seeming advantage to fana-
ticism and enthusiasm. In the year 1660, May 25,
(about which time he Was restored to his cure at
Dover) he spake a short speech to his majesty
Charles II. at his first landing there to take posses-
sion of those kingdoms from whence he, by a bar-
barous usurpation, had been ejected : which being
done, he presented to him a large Bible with gold
clasps in the name of the corporation of Dover.
About that time he was restored to his prebend.ship
of Canterbury and rectory of Chartham near it,
which he ke})t to his dying day. He was, in the
opinion of many, a severe Calvinist, and one who had
not only defended the irresistibility of grace in se-
veral sennons, in opposition to what Joh. Goodwin
had delivered in the same pai-ish church of S. Mary
in Dover, but in his oral disputes with Fisher the
anabaptist, being then as zealous in disproving that
man's tenet of universtd redemption, as he was in
asserting jioedobaptism against Reading. Farther,
since his majesty's return, he did in a public sermon
in the cath. ch. at Canterbury reprehend and dis-
prove some doctrine to that effect, which had been
in the same place then lately delivered by Dr. Thom.
Pierce prebendary of that church. He hath writ-
ten and published,

Several sennons, viz. (1.) J fair Warning qfler
Sickness. Lond. 1623. qu. (2.) JoFs Hour; a
Funeral Sermon at Dover 10 Mar. 1623. Lond.
1624. qu. (3.) Moses and Jethro: or, the good
Magistrate, preached at S. Marys in Dover, on

READING.

THOMAS.

798

tlie Election Day, on Exod. 18. 24. Loud. 1626.
qii. [Bodl. 4to. A. 42. Th.] (4.) DavicTn So-
liloquy, containing many Ccmrfiwts for afflicted
Minds, in sundry Sermons at S. Marifs in Dover,
on Pml. 42. 11. Lond. 1627 in tw. [Bodl. 8vo. P.
210. Th.J (5.) Characters of true Blessedness,
preached in the same Church 21 Sept. 1637, at the
Funeral of Mrs. Alice Percivall, Wife of Anth.
Percivall, Esq; on Psal. 84. 4, 5. Lond. 1 638. in
tw. [Bodl. 8vo. R. 11. Th.] dedic. to the said An-
thony then captain of Arcliff' Bulwark near Dover,
comptroller of his majesty's customs in Kent, &c.
" (6.) Sermon in the Cathedral Church qfCanter-
" bury ccmcerninff Church-music, on 2 Kinffs 3.
" 15, 16. Lond. 1663. (]u." [Bodl. C. 7. 15. Line.]
With several oth.er sermons printed 1621, 1642, 8(.c.
which I have not yet seen.

Brief Instructions concerning ilie lioly Sacra-
ment, /or their Use who prepare them.wlves to re-
ceive the Lord's Supper. Lond. 1645. oct.

A Guide to the Holy City : or Dhrctions and
Helps to an Holy Lije, &c. Oxon. 1651. qu.
[408] J^n Antidote against Anabaptism, in a Reply to

the Plea for Anabaptists. Or Animadversions on
that Part if The Liberty of Prophecying, which in
Sect. 18. p. 223. bcarcth this Title, ' A particular
Consideration (f the Opinions of the Anabapti.its.''
Lond. 1654. qu. In another title of this btxjk,
which bears date 1655, it runs thus, A parlicidar
Answer to all that is alledged in Favour of tlie
Anabaptists by Dr. Jcr. Taylor, in his Bonk called
The Liberty of Prophecying. In the 18th Section
of which, tlie Doctor luith mention d more, or Things
in more plausible Terms, than ever the Anabaptists
have alleged for tlieir own Opinions.

Survey of the controverted Points concerning
(1.) Infant-baptism. (2.) Pretended Necessity if
Dipping. (3.) The dungerous Practice of Re-
baptizing. — This was jinnted with the Antidote
1654. qu. and is sometimes called Anabaptism
routed, &c.

An Evening Sacrifice : or. Prayers for a Family
in these Times of Calamity.

Speech made before K. Ch. II. on the Shore, where
lie landed at Dover, 25 May 1660. Lond. 1660, on
one side of a sh. of paper. To which is added a
Lat. copy of verses, with their English, by Rich.
Bradshaw. This our author Mr. " (or as he is
" stiled in the title page of his last sermon Dr.y
Reading, who hatl spent his time partly in prospe-
rity, and partly in affliction, surrendrcfl uji his last
breath on the 26th of Octob. in sixteen hundred
■sixty and seven, and was buried on the 30th of the
said month in the chancel of his parish church of
Chartham near to Canterbury bcfore-mention''d,
leaving then behind him fit for the press, (1.) Seve-
ral Sermons preacltd bfore the King. (2.) Com-
ments on the whole Bible. The former are in the
liands of Joh. Reading his son living in Essex ; and
the other in those of William, another son living in

Dover. (3.) A Whip for Sacriledge. Written in
Ansivcr to a Pamph. of Anth. Parsons, [or Pear-
son ♦] entit. The great Case of Titlies. Tlii.s Whip
is contained in 13 sheets, and is now in the hands of
Basil Kennet,* M.A. of the university of Dublin,
rector of Dimchurch, and vicar of Postling in Kent.
(4.) A Lat. MS. in fol. containing a large Comment,
Paraphrase, and E.rplication on the whole New
Testament, dedic. to general George Monke, and
sent to be printed at Lond. in 1666, but being pre-
vented by the great fire that happened there that
year, it was delivered into the hands of Dr. Wren
bishop of Ely ; and whether it be recovered from
the hands ot his heirs or executors, I know not.
The said Mr. Kennet hath also another tract con-
cerning Proper Sacrifice, in vindication of sir Edw.
Deering from the attempts of a Popish priest or
Jesuit ; but being imperfect, 'twas not designed, I
presume, by the author Mr. Reading for the press.

WILLIAM THOMAS was born in a market
town in Shropshire called Whitchurch, and edu-
cated in gram, learning in the free-school there.
In 1609, May 17, he was admitted a student of
Brasen-n. coU. aged 16 years, t(K)k the degrees in
arts, that of master being compleated in 1615, and
in the year 1616, Jan. 4. he was admitted rector of
Ubley alias 01>ley near to Pensford in Somerset-
shire, by the free and unsolicited bounty of Th.
Egerton baron of Ellesmere, and lord chancellor of
England. This person Will. Thomas, being always
a puritiui, closed with the presbyterians when they
raised a rebellion against his majesty 1642, was a
frefjuent preacher against his cause and followers,
and was esteemed one of the chief ministers in his
time of that persuasion in the neighbourhood where
he lived. He afterwards took the engagement, as
before he had the covenant, and in 1654 he was ap-
pointed an assistant to Oliver's commissioners for the
ejecting such \\hom they then called scandalous,
ignorant, and insufficient ministers and schoolmasters.
Afterwards he ran thro' the remaining part of the
changes, and took die oaths again, after his majesty's
return, of allegiance and supremacy. His works are
these,

The Dead spcaAung: or, the living Names of
two deceased Ministers of Christ, vi^. Mr. Sam.
Oliver Pastor of Wells, and Mr. Sam. Croke, ^c.
containing two several Speeches delivered at the
Funerals if them. Lond. 1653. qu. [Bodl. B. 3. 2.
Line] With them is printed a Sermon preached

urn.

■* [Wood. MS. Note in Ashmole.']
5 [Bnsil Kciincit indnclcil iiilo

the virariclgc of Poslin,
Kent, Aiid. 8, 16(18: buried Nov. 28, 1680.

Basil Kciinett, son of B. K. was baptized Oct. 29, l674
(brother of White and Godfrey Kennett) which said B. K.
senior had 3 sons and 3 daughters : his wife Mary Kennett
was buried Sept. 13, lC7(). Poslin Register.

Value of I'oslin was then about 40 pounds per an. and
Dimchurch about 80 pounds per anu. From the rev. Conxcrt
Middleton. Bakkr.J

799

THOMAS.

HILL.

[409] at the Funeral of Sam. Oliver, by JdIi. Clictwind,
soraetinic of Exeter college, tiieii a fjixlly brother,
and alter the king's return prebendary of Uristol.^

Railinff rebuked: or a Defence of'tlie Alinistcrs
of this Nation, by Way of Answer to the unpa-
raUcFd Calumnies cast iipo7i fJiem in an Epistle
lately published by Tho. Speed Merchant of Bristol,
vnhappily become the Quakers Advocate, &c. Lond.

1656. qu. Answer'd by George Fox, quaker, in his
book entit. The great Mystery of the great Wliore
v7ifolded, &c. Lond. 1659- M. p. 237, &c.

The Protestanfs Practice: or the Compleat Chris-
tian, being a true and perfect Way to the Celestial
Canaan. Lond. 1656. m tw.

A Vindication of Scripture and Ministry, in a
Rcpynder to a Reply not long since published by
Tho. Speed, formerly (but unsuitably) Merchant
in the City of Bristol, and a Preacher lately (but
more sadly) Merchant and Quaker, &c. Lond.

1657. qu. Answer'd also by Geo. Fox in the afore-
said book, p. 104, 105, &c.

A Preservative of Piety, in a quiet Rea-ioning
for those Duties of Religion that are the Means
and Helps appointed of God for the preserving and
promoting of Godliness, kc. Lond. 1662. qu.

Exposition on Ruth. Lond. 166 — in t\v.

The Countrie's Sense of London's Sufferings in
the late most lamentable Fire, discovered in the
Opening and improving the Lamentation of Jere-
miah. Lond. 1667. oct.

Scriptures opened, and sundry Cases of Con-
science resolved, in plain and practical An.swers to
several Questions upon the Proverbs of Solomon,
Jerem. Lam. Ezek. and Daniel. Lond. 1675 and
83. oct. He died at Ubley before mcntion^l in
sixteen hundred sixty and seven, and was buried in
the chancel of the church there. Over his grave
was soon after a mon. put up by his son Mr. Sam.
Thomas with this inscription following. Hie jacet
Gulielmus Thomas, Eccle.sia; hujus i{cctor ])]us
quam quatlragonarius, qui populum docuit, publico
& domatim, .sermone & cxemplo. Quern non tarn
mors rapuit, quam ille mortem ; munere scilicet,
prius cedere coactus, quam mimdo, vitam, quam
pro grege diutius insumere, ut Pastor, non potuit,
avidissime summo Pastori reddidit, Nov. 15. an.
Dom. 1667. ajtat. 74. I shall make mention of an-
other William Thomas, under the year 1689.

[See in Calamy's Ejected Ministers, ii, 587 —
597, a long account of this writer, whence it ap-
pears, that he met with trouble for refusing to read
the book of sports, and was suspended ab officio ct
beneficio in 1635. After throe years suspension he
was restored upon intercession being made to archb.

* \The Watch charged : or a TFaming to GoiTs Watchmen ;
in a Sermon preached at Jiridgwater, on eg Septemh. l658,
on the Day set apart for Ordination, It/ John Chelwind Mast.
of Arts, Preacher of the Gospel, and one of the joint Pastors
for the City and Parish of Cuthberts in Wells. Lond. lt)5g.
12mo. Keknet.]

1667.

Laud in his behalf. Calamy has given various ex-
tracts from MS. papers left behind him, which he
entitles

1 Xfa\iji.a.ra,.

2 Preees Audita:.

3 Preees jjro Futuro.

4 Vota.]

WILLIAM HILL son of Blacklecch Hill, was
bom at Cudworth in Warwickshire, at which time,
his father, who in his yoimger years had been a
pettv attorney, was then bailif of Hemlinglbrd hun-
dred, which is one of the four hundreds in War-
wickshire and the largest ; by which employment
gaining a considerable subsistence, lived in a fa-
shionable condition, and bred up his children very
well. This William being ti-aincd uj) in grammar
in his own country, became a student in Merton
coll. alx)ut the Ixjginning of Mich, term, 1634, aged
15 years, being then esteemed a sober and inge-
nious youth, and soon after was made one of the
|X)stniasters of the said coll. After he had taken
one degi'ce in arts he was a candidate for a fellowship
of that house, and shewing himself a most excellent
proficient in Greek, Latin, and ])hysics, was elected

Erob. fell. an. 1639- But soon after the time that
e was admitted bach, fellow, he was prefer'd to be
master of the free-school at Sutton Colficld in his
own country, and soon after to a rich wife, tho' the
daughter of a plain country-man : which school he
brought into great credit during his alxxle there.
In 1641 he proceeded in arts, and having not long
after buried his wife, he removed to London, where,
having obtained a considerable practice in physic,
he mai-ried a young lass, daughter of one Mr. Bur-
ges a physician, son of Dr. Joh. Burges sometime
parson of Sutton Colfield before mentioned, who
brought him forth a child that lived, within tlie
seventh month after marriage. In 1649 and 52,
he had leave from the delegates oi' the university
to accunnilate the degrees in physic ; but whether
he did so, it doth not appear in our registers.
Afterwards, (as before) being a man of those times
and a sider with factious people, he was preferred
to be chief master of the great school at Dublin in [410]
Ireland, where continuing till the restoration of
king Charles 2, was then, as it seems, forced to
leave that place. So that removing to Finglass a
village near to that city, taught tlierc privately to
the time of his death. He hath written,

Dionysii Orbis Descriptio Grace. Lat. Common-
tario critico c^- geographieo, in quo Controversicc
plurcpquc quae, in vetcri Geographia occurrnnt, CX'
plicantur, ^- Obscura plurima elucidantur, ae To-
bulis illustrata. Lond. 1658.' 59- 1663. 1679. &c.
In a large oct. used in many schools, and by most
juniors of the university of'^Oxon. He hath also

' [Dedicated to Henry Cromwell lieutenant of Ireland.
Rawlinson.]

HILL.

EEDES.

D'AVENANT.

802

epitomized some of the works of Laz. Riverius a
physician, whicli I have not yet seen ; nor a certain
MS. of his which he wrote to justify his lawful be-
getting of the aforesaid child by himself: which
MS. he shewed to two physicians for their appro-
bation before it went to tlie press ; but they looking
upon the work as done by a meer scholar, unknow-
ing in the world, returned it with seeming content,
and afterwards jcer'd liini behind his back for an
antedated cuckold. He died of a pestilential fever,
which took away most of his family, in the month
1C67. of November, in sixteen hundred sixty and seven,
and was buried on the 29th of the said month, just
before the minister's seat in the church at Finglass
before mentioned. I find another Will. Hill of
Merton coll. also, (the son of a committee-man, a
notorious schismatic of Herefordshire) who became
one of the bible-clerks of that house in the latter
end of 1647, and afterwards did all, or most of his
exercise, with nmch ado, lor the degree of bach, of
arts, and so abruptly left the college. But while
he continued there, he shew'd himself a dunce, a
tale-bearer to the parliamentarian visitors that then
acted in the university, and a factious person. Soon
after his father provided for hiin a parsonage that
had belonged to an honest man, and a wife: the
first of which he keeping till his majesty's restora-
tion, was then ejected and put to his shifts. At
length repairing to London, he fell into the com-
pany of desperate fanatics, as fifth-monarchy men,
anabaptists, independents, &c. and did seemingly
plot with them to surprize the king at Whitehall,
the lord chancellor Clarendon, George duke of Al-
bemarle, major gen. sir Richard Browne, &c. to
have the Tower, Windsor castle, and other holds
delivered to them, and of reducing the kingdom to
a free state. These things being freely imparted
to him by one, or more of the said fanatics. Know-
ing that he and his father had been villEuns in the
time of usurpation, he secretly betrayed all to the
said sir Rich. Browne. Whereupon the said sir
Rich, putting him into a way to gain more intelli-
gence, which he accordingly did, draw'd them on,
till almost the time that they were to rise and be in
arms, which was to be on the vigil of Allsaints day,
an. 1662. But two days before that time, when all
things were in a manner made ready, some of the
principal actors were seized on by the said sir Rich.
Browne, and sir Joh. Robinson lord mayor of Lon-
don, according to the directions of the said Will.
HiU, viz. Tho. Tongue, Geo. Phillips, Franc.
Stubbs, Jam. Hind, Joh. Sailers, and Nath. Gibbs.
All which coming afterwards to a tryal at Justice-
Hall In the Old-Baily, four of them were condemned
and afterwards suflrered at Tyburn, on the 22d
of Dec. following, viz. Tongue, Phillips, Gibbs,
and Stubbs. Soon after came out a pamphlet in
qu. entit. A brief Narrative of that stupcndious
Tragedy, late intended to be acted by the satanicai
faints of these reforming Times, humbly j^ resented
Vol. in.

to the King's Majesty, &c. Before which is printed
and set A Narrative of the said Plot, written by
the said Will. HiU to the king's most excellent ma-
jesty: and in the pamphlet following, wherein is
the tryal and condemnation of the said persons,
Hill is one of the princijial speakers, as oeing a
chief witness. Afterwards for a reward of his
loyalty, he had a considerable Iwnefice bestowed
u|X)n him in Glocestershire ; but being hate<l by one
party for his falseness, and liy another for his fac-
tiousness, did enjoy it but few years, he dying upon
the place.

JOHN EEDES son of Nich. Eedes, was born
in the city of Salisbury, entred a student in Oriel
col. 1626, aged 17 years, took one degree in arts,
and afterwards became a minister in the isle of
Shepie; whence being ejected in the time of the
rebellion, suffer'd much by imprisonment in Ely-
House, and other miseries. At length returning to
his native country, he became curate of Broadchmke,
which, with much ado, he held for about two years,
and then was made vicar of Hale in Hampshire.
He hath written in answer to Will. Eyre ot Salis-
bury,

The Orthodox Doctrine concerning Justification
by Faith, asserted and vindicated. Lond. l654. qu.
After his majesty's restoration he did not return to
Shepie, but continued at Hale (which is not far
from Sarum) where he was first rob'd in his own
house, and then murder'd, by thieves, in sixteen
hundred sixty and seven or thereabouts, and was
buried in the church there.' What other things he
hath published, or left behind him fit for the press,
I cannot tell.

WILLIAM D'AVENANT made his first entry
on the stage of this vain world in the parish of S.
Martin within the city of Oxford, about the latter
end of the month of Febr. and on the third of
March following, an. 160|, he received baptism in
the church of that parish. His father John Dave-
nant was a sufficient vintner, kept the tavern now
known by the name of the Crown, (wherein our poet
was born) and was mayor of the said city in tlie
year 1621. His mother was a very beautiful wo-
man, of a good wit and conversation, in which she
was imitated by none of her children but by this
William. The father, who was a very grave and
discreet citizen (yet an admirer and lover of plays
and play-makers, especially Shakespeare, who
frequented his house in his joumies between

• [Walker in The Sufferings of the Clergy, notices one of
the same name, though certainly not this Eedes, who was a
very great sufferer for the royal cause, and died before the
resioralion. He was B. D. rector of Honiton and Clift St.
Lawrence in Devon. 1 know nothing more of Mr. Eedcs,
says Walker, but that he had several children at the lime of
his sequestration ; that he was very ill used, and that he was
a very worthy person ami much a gentleman. See Siiff.
qfCler. part ii, puge 236.]

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Warwickshire and London) was of a melancholic
disp)Osition, and was seldom or never seen to laugh,
in which he was imitated by none of his children
but by Robert his eldest son, afterwards fellow of
St. John's coll. and a venerable doct. of div. As
for William, whom we are farther to mention, and
may justly stile 'the sweet swan of Isis,' was edu-
catecf in grammar learning under Edw. Sylvester,
whom I sliall elsewhere mention, and in academical
in Line. coll. vmder the care of Mr. Dan. Hough,
in 1620, 21, or thereabouts, and obtained there
some smattering in logic : but his geny, which was
always opposite to it, lead him in the pleasant paths
of poetry, so that tho'' he wanted mucn of university
learning, yet he made as high and noble flights in
the poetical faculty, as fancy could advance, with-
out It. After he had left the said coll. wherein, I
presume, he made but a short stay, he became ser-
vant to (Frances) the first dutchess of Richmond,
and afterwards to Foulk lord Brook, who being
jwetically given (especially in his younger days)
was much delighted in him. After his death (an.
1628.) he being free from trouble and attendance,
betook liimself to writing of plays and poetry,
which he did with so much sweetness and grace,
that he got the absolute love and friendship of his
two patrons Endimyon Porter and Hen. Jermyn
afterwards earl of S. Alban's ; to both which he de-
dicated his jxjem, which he afterwards published,
called Madagascar. Sir John Suckling ^ also was
his great and intimate friend, who exercised his
fancy on that book, and other of his poems, but
could not let him pass without this censure in his '
Session of Poets.

Will. Davenant, asham'd of a foolish mischance,
That he had got lately travelling into France ;
Modestly hoped the handsomness of his muse
Might any deformity about him excuse.

This sir John, son of sir Joh. Suckling of Whit-
ton in Middlesex knight, sometime ' one of the se-
cretaries of state, afterwards controller of the hous-
hold to king James and king Charles 1. to which
last he was of the privy council : who dying 27
March 1627 (at which time sir John the poet was

' [Sir John Suckling the poet was born at Withain in
Middlesex in l6l3; his mother going eleven months witli
him. He spoke Latin at five years old, and wrot it at
nine. He made a campaign under Gustavus Adolphiis, and
at his return to England, he raised a iroop of horse for the
king which cost him 12000/. But his endeavours not meet-
ing with success, he laid it so much to heart, that he was
seized with a fever, of which he died at i'8 years of age.
Macro.

See a long, and, in many respects, a very entertaining ac-
count of Sucklinn in Aubrey's Lives, artixed to Letters from
die Bodleian Library, 8»(>. 1813, vol. ii, page 44+.]

' 111 his poems ciUed Fragmenia aurea. ilond. l648. Oct.

- The said sir Joh. Suckling was made one of the princi-
[jal secretaries of state, 30 of March iCa?. So Cambdeu in
his Annals qfK. James I. an. itiSZ.

19 years of age) was buried in the church of S. An- [412]
drew, in the city of Norwich. The smd mischance
which sir John mentions, hapncd to D'avenant by
lying with a handsome black girl in Axe-yard in
Westminster, on whom he thought when he spoke
of Dalga in his Gondibert, which cost him his nose ;
and thereupon some wits were too cruelly bold with
him, and his accident, as sir Jo. Menncs, 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, espe-
cieilly 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 tlie conspira-
tors to seduce the army against the parliament, he
absconded, but upon the issuing out of a proclama- ^

tion to have him and others taken, he was appre-
hended at Feversham in Kent, and committed to
the custody of a scrjeant at arms. Among the said
conspirators Hen. Percy esq; brother to the earl of
Northumberland was one, who " was originally of
" Ch. church, created lord Percy of Alnwick 19
" Car. and" afterwards lived and died a perfect
Hobbist at Paris. Hen. Jermyn esq. (afterwards
earl of S. Alban's) 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 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 enter-
tained by William marquess of Newcastle, and by
him made pro-prefect or lieutenant-general of his
ordnance. In Sept. 1643 he received * the honour

' [The reader shall have that portion of it which relates
to this circumstance ;

— You heard of late, what chevaliers

(Who durst not tarry, for their eares)

Proscribed were for laying a plot

Which might have ruin'd God knows what !

Suspected for the same 's Will. Davenant;

Whether he have been in't, or have not.

He is committed, and like sloven

l.o'ls in his bed in garden Coven.

He had been rack'd, as 1 am told.

Hut that his body would not hold.

Soon as in Kent they saw the bard —

(As to say truth, it is not hard.

For Will, has in bis face the flawes

Of wounds receiv'd in country's cause ;)

They flew on luni, like lyons pasfant.

And tore his nose, as much as was on'l.

And call'd him supersiiiious groome.

And popish dog, and cur of Rome :

But this I'm sure was the first time.

That Will's religion was a crime.

Whatere he is in's outward part.

He's sure a poet in his heart.

Musarum Deliciw, Lond. l656, l2mo. p. 8.]
■• Thomas Walkley in his New Catalogue of the Dukes,
Marquesses, Earls, Viscounts, Barons of England, (Sfc. alia
Baronets, Knights, &c. Lond. l658. oct. p. l63.

D'AVENANT.

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of knighthood from his majesty near to Glocester,
that city being then besieged, at which time sir
William was in great renown for his loyalty and
poetry. But upon the declining of the king's 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
sethng for a time in Pans, where Charles prince of
Wales then was, he began to write his romance in
verse called Gondibert, and had not wrote scarce
two books, but being very fond of them, 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,
8lc.) 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 there-
unto by Henr. Maria the queen mother of Eng>-
land,' who got leave for him so to do from the king
of France) he did effect it so far, that he and his
company were ship'd in their way thither, and had
got on tlie 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. 16-51, but upon the mediation
of Joh. Milton and others, especially two godly al-
dermen of York (to whom he had shewed great ci-
vility, when they had been taken prisoners in the
nortli 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 c^era to be
performed by declamations and music : And that
they might be performed wth all decency, seemli-
ness and without rudeness and profancness, John
Maynard serjeant at law, and several sufficient citi-
zens were engagers. This I talian opera began in Rut-
land-house in Charterhouse-yard, " May 23. 1656,"
and was afterwards translated to the Cock-pit in
Drury-lane, and delighting the eye and ear ex-

' [When Charles the first Was in the hands of the Scots,
and ihey insisted that he should consent to the extirpation of
episcniacy in England, as he had in Scotland, which the
king refused ; sir Will. Davcnant was sent over from France
witli a letter of credit froin the queen ; and when he ofi'ercd
to the Iting some rensons in which he mentioned the church
slightingly, as if it were not of importance enough lo weigh
down the benefit that would attend the concession, the liing
was transported with so much indignation, that he gave him
a very sharp reprehension, and forbid him to presume to
come azain into his preience. Macro.]

* [See Letters from the Bodleian LiuTary, &c, Oxford
J813, 8vo. vol. ii, pages 305 and 307-]

treamly well, was much frequented for several
years. So that he having laid the foundation of
the English stage by this his musical drama, when
plays were, as damnable things, forbidden, did,
after his majesty's restoration, revive and improve it
by painted scenes, 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 Lincoln's-inn Fielas. He hath writ-
ten and published,

The Tragedy ofAlbovine King of the Lombards.
Lond. 16«9. qu.

Just Italian, Trag. Com. Lond. 1630. qu. [Bodl.
4to. S. 34. Art.]

Cruel Brother. Trag. Lond, IflSo. qu. [Bodl.
4to. S. 34. Art.]

Caelum Britannicum. Masque at WJiitehall. 19

of Feb. 1633. This is attributed to D'avenant,

but Th. Carew and Inigo Jones' drew It up.

Triumphs of Prince U amour. A Masque pre-
sented by his Highness at his Palace in the Middle
Temple, tlie 9,mofFeb. 1635. Lond. 1635. qu.»

' [Mr. Inigo Jones was born on the I5th day of July
1572, and was brought up by William, earl of Pembroke,
lord steward of the royal household, at whose charge he tra-
velled much abroad and studied at home (in the times of
king James and king Charles I.) for representations, masques
and more solid buildings, and proved of singular skill both
in the theory and history of architecture, as appears by
that excellent discourse written by him, upon king James's
motion, called Stone- Henge-Ueslored, that still remaining
tnagnificent fabrick of the banqueting house at Whitehall, as
also that late lofty portico at the west end of the cathedral
of S. Pauls, in London, were both of his design and
contrivance, the figures whereof adorned his monument in
the church of S. Beunet near Paul's wharf, the former on the
east side and the latter on the west. During the times of the
parliamentary rebellion he was a great sufferer for his loyalty,
having paid 345/i. for his composition, as I find in tlie Ca-
talogue of the Compounders printed l655. He died on the
22d day of May iGsi, and was buried in S. Bennet's church
aforesaid, against the north wall, whereof was a monument
erected to his memory by his scholar Mr. John Webb, (who
married his niece) with an epitaph, which notwithstanding
the violence of those flatnes which destroyed that church,
and the greatest part else of the city of London, in the be-
ginning; of Sept. 1666, I co|)ieil on' thence near four year*
after, viz. 1670, and wliich was as foUoweth :

Ignatius Jones Arm.

Architectus Reg. Mag. Brit, celeberrimus

Hie jacet.

Aul. Alb. Reg. sedificavit,

Templum D. Pauli restanravit :

Natusld.JuliiMDLXXII.

Obiitxi Cal. Junli MDCLL

Vixit Ann. LXXIX D« XXX IIX.

(And lower underneath)

Uxoris Patruo amantissimo

Praeceplori suo meritissimo

Haeres et Discipulus

Posuit Moerens Johan. Webb.

Ex Notts MSS. mil"" Griffith. Kennet.]

' [Wood, Alh. Oxon. speaking of the Triumphs of Prince
1)' Amour, a production of sir William Da\cnant's, calls it
A Mastjue presented ly his Highness at his falace in {fit

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808

Flaionic Ijnwrs, Tr. Co. Lond. 1636, &c.

Tlte Wits, Com. Lond. 1636, &c.

Britannia Triumpfians : a Masque presented at
Whiteltatt by the Khtffs Map and his Lords on
Sunday after Twelfth night. An. 1637. Lond.
1637. qu. In this masque sir W. Davcnant was
assisted by Inigo Jones surveyor of his majesty's
works.

Temple of Love : Masque before the Queen at
Whitehall.

Salmacida Spolia. A Masque presented to tlie K.
and Qu. at Whiteliall 21 Jan. 1639. Lend. 1639.
qu. The subject was set down by D'avenant and
Inigo Jones, the invention, ornament, scenes, &c.
by Uie said Jones ; and what was spoken or sung
was by the said D'avenant then her majesty's ser-
vant, and the music belon^ng to it composed by
Lewis Richard master of her majesty's music.

Unfortunate Lovers, Tr. Lond. 1643. 49. qu.
[Bodl. 4to. D. 7. Art. BS.]

MadagoJicar, mith other Poems. Lond. 1648. oct.
2d edit. iBfxD. 8vo. H. 16. Th. BS.]

Love and Honour, Tr. Co. Lond. 1649. qu.
[Bodl. 4to. D. 4. Art. BS.]

A Discourse upon Gondihert, an heroic Poem.
Par. 1650. in tw. This was written by way of
pref to his Gondihert in prose, dat. at tlie Louvre
m Paris 2 Jan. 16'^ To which is added the
answer of Th. Hobbes of Malmsbury.

Gondihert, an heroic Poem, in 3 Books. Lond.
1651. oct. [Bodl. 4to. D. 8. Art. BS.] On the first
two, finished before the author took his voyage to-

Middle Temple, the 24lh of Feb. jC35 : where by his high-
ness, you are not to understand Prince Charles, afterwards
Charles II. for he had no palace there, but Charles the
Elector Palatine, who was then in England, (Rapin, vol. ii.
p. 8g4) and was lodged, I presume, whereabout Palsgrave
Head Court now is ; though Kapin says he and his brother
Rupert were lodge<l in the king their uncle's palace. But
ouery whether Charles 1. had any palace in the Middle
Temple. Cibber, vol. ii. p. 80. takes it right, that the ex-
hibitor was the elector; but he is mistaken in making him
brother-in-law to Charles I. for he was his nephew; the
brother-in-law, Frederic, father of Charles the Elector, and
the nephew of Charles I. being dead when the mask was
presented : this was l635, and he died l632.

MB. Both Wood and Cibber say the mask was presented
by his Highness; and yet by Cibber's account it appears to
have been presented by the Society of the Middle Temple
for the entertainment of his Highness. This matter may be
cleared by a view of the Mask in sir William Davenant's
works, particularly of the masker's names. S. Pegge's Ano-
nymiana, page 174.

Pegge's supposition is perfectly correct, though the title of
PrincfD'/fjnoar expresses it, as Wood has done, ' presented
ty his highness, '&c. The mask was an entertainment provided
for the prince elector ; one hastily prepared (says the address to
the reader) as from eager hearts that could delay no ceremony
that might render an expression of their loves. The maskers
were Tho. Mauiisel, Will. Morgan, Will. Wheeler, Mich.
Hutchenson, Laur. Hide, Tho. Uourke, Edw. Smyth, Edw.
Tumor, Tho. Way, Tho. Trencliard, Geo. Probert, Phil.
Morgan, John Freman, John Bramston, Clement Spillman,
John Norden, Will. Lysle, John Stepkin, Charles Adderley,
John Ratcliffc, Rich. May, Giles Hungerford.}

wards Virginia, Al)r. Cowley liath 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. Tlie third book of
\}i\e ssiiA Gondihert, or most part of it, was finish'd
during his imprisonment in Cow's Castle in the isle
of Wight, an. 1650. But such who took them-
selves to be the wits of that time, as sir Joh. Den-
ham, Jo. Donne, sir Allen Broderick, &c. did club
together and made abusive verses on that poem, in
a little book entit. Certain Verses written by several
of tlie Autltor's Friends to be reprinted zvith the se-
cond Edition of Gondihert. Lond. 1653. oct. in one
sh. and an half: Whereupon sir Will. D'avenant
came out with a little thing entit.

Tlie incomparable Poem Gondihert vindicated
Jrom tlie Wit-cabals of four Esquires, Clinias, Da*
metas, Sancho, and Jack-Pudding. Lond. 1653.
oct. in 1 sh. Which, tho' it seems to be written by
D'avenant's friend, yet he himself was the author.
It was printed at the end of a second edition of the
said Certain Verses, &c. witli Hero and Lcander a
mock Poem.

The first Day''s Entertainment at Rutland House
by Declamations and Music. Lond. 1657. oct.
[Bodl. 8vo. D. 3. Art. BS.] Published in Sept.
1656, notwithstanding the nicety of those times.*

Play-house to be let, containing the History of
S. Franc. Drake, and the Cruelty of the Spaniards
at Perue. Com.

News from Plymouth, Com.

Law against Lovers^ Com.

The Distresses, Tr.

The Siege. Co. or Tr. Com.

Fair Favourite, Co.

A Panegyric to his Excellency the Lord Gen.
Monk. Lond. 1659. On one side of a sheet of
paper, printed in the beginning of March the same
year.

A Poem upon his Majesty's most liappy Return
to his Dominions. Lond. 1660. qu. [Bodl. 4to. J,
12. Art.]

The Siege of Rhodes, Tr. Com. in two parts.
Lond. 1663. qu. &c.

Poem on the King^s most sacred Majesty. Lond.
1663. qu. ^ -^ ^

Man's the Master, Com. Lond. 1669. qu. [Bodl.
4to. W. 19. Art.]

Poems on .several Occasions.

The Tempest, or the encfuinted Island. Com
Lond. 1676. qu. This play was originally Shakes-
pear's (whom and his works D'avenant much ad-
mired) as those that have seen his Sea Voyage may
easily discern.

The seventh or last Canto of the third Book of
Gondibert. Lond. 1685. oct. never before printed.

Most of which comedies, tragedies, trag. com.

9 [I have it, about QO pages. The vocal and instrumental
musick was composed by Dr. Charles Coleman, capt. Henry
Cook, Mr. Henry Lawes and Mr. George Hudson. Gole-.J

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masques and poems were printed together in a large
folio— Lond. 1672.— 3. [BotU. A. 2. 18. Art.] with
the author''8 picture before them (adorned with
a wreath of lawrel) and a notch in his nose, as over
the first letter of his sirname. At lengtli this noted
and celebrated author having lived to about his
grand climacterical year, made his last exit in his
house in Little LincolnVInn-Fields, in the parisii
of S. Clement's Danes near London, on the seventh
1668. day of April in sixteen himdrcd sixty and eight,
and was two days after buried in the south cross isle,
or south transcept of the abbey church of S. Peter
within the city of Westminster, without any lawrel
upon his cofnn, which, I presume, was forgotten.'
His body was deposited in the very place, or near it,
where his antagonist Tho. May the English Lucan
had been buried, of whom I shall speak more anon,
and in the mean time give you the epitaph of sir
Will. D'avenant, made on him soon after his death,
which runs thus.

Here lies a subject of immortal praise,

Who did from Phoebus' hand receive his bayes :

Admir'd by all, envied alone by those

Who for his glories made themselves his foes :

Such were his virtues that they could command

A general applause from every hand :

His Exit then, this on record shall have,

A Clap did usher D'avenant to his grave.

In tlie office of poet laureat succeeded Joh. Dry-
den, son of Erasmus Dryden of Tichmersh in Nortii-
amptonshire, third son of Erasm. Dryden of Canons
Asnby in the same county, baronet : which John
was IJorn at Oldwincle (called by some Aldwincle)
near to Oundle in the same county, (being the very
same place that gave breath to Dr. Tho. Fuller the
historian) educated in grammar learning in the col-
lege school in Westminster, elected thence a scholar
of Trin. coll. in Cambridge, an. 1650, and is now
highly celebrated among ingenious men for his
poetry, and other polite learning. " In the office of
" poet laureat (and historiographer royal) succeeded
" John Dryden, Tho. Shadwell, esq; in the begin-
" ning of the reign of king Will. III. Dryden being
" then remov'd for being a papist. The said Tho.
" Shadwell died suddenly (of an apoplexy) at Chel-
" sea near London in Nov. 1692, and was buried in
" the church there the 24tli of the same month ;
" at which time his friend and accjuaintance Nicholas
" Brady minister of St. Katharine Cree-Church in
" London and chaplain to James duke of Ormond
" preached his funeral sermon entit. J Sermon
" preacKdat the Funeral of Thomas Sliadwell Esq;

" <S'C- on Revelations 14, part of tlie 13</t verse

" Lend. 1693. qu. wherein are several things said
" in honour of the defunct."

As for Tho. May before-mentioned, he was the
son of Th. May of Mayfield in Sussex knight, by

' [There is over Davcnant's pravc a' small square stone?,
with these words : Orare Sir William Dave'nanl ! Whal-

• The Reign of
lien. 2. London
in Oct. writtenalso
in verse, and dedi-
cated to K. C'A, /.
l'"irbt edit.

his wife, the daughter of Rich, of Homdcn on

the hill in Essex, was educated in all kind of hu-
mane learning when he was a youth, and in acade-
mical in his manly years in Cambridge.* After-
wards, his geny bemg chiefly enclined to poetry, he
retired to, and mostly lived, in, the city of West-
minster, where performing divers things for the
honour of this nation, never paralell'd by any
English man before, was graciously countenanced by
king Charles I. and his royal consort ; but he finding
not that preferment from either, which he expected,
grew chscontented, sided with the presbyterians
upon the turn of the times, became a aebauchee aA
omnia, entertained ill principles as to religion, spoke
often very shghtly of tne Holy Trinity, kept beastly
and atheistical company, ot whom Tho. Chaloner
the regicide was one ; and endeavour'd to his power
to asjxjrse and invalidate the king and his cause.
Among several things that he hath written and
translated, some are these. (1 ) The Tra^. of An-
tigone the Theban Princess. Lond. 1631. oct. (2)
The Heir, a com. Acted 1620. Lond. 1633. qu.
(3) Tlie victorious Reign trfK. Ed. 3 in 7 Books.
Lond. 1635. oct. Written in verse by the special
command of king Charles I. (4) *
The Reign <yf King Hennj II.
" in 7 Books, title torn, dedicated
" to king Charles I. in a jwern in
" octavo, and hath at the end in
" prose, A Description of King
" Hen. II. with a short Survey of the Changes in
" his Reign. Bib. Sheld." (5) Trag. ofClcopaira
Qu. of JEgypt. Acted 1626. Lond. 1639. oct.
Dedic. to sir Ken. Digby. (6) Trag. of Julia
Agrippina Empress of Rome. Acted 1628. Lond.
1639. oct. (7) Supplemcntum Lucani, Lib. vii,
Lugd. Bat. 1640. oct. Written in so lofty and
happy Lat. hexameter, that he hath attained to
much more reputation abroad, than he hath lost at
home. (8) The old Couple, Com. Lond. in qu.
(9) Historitc Parliamentl Angliw Breviarium, iri-
bus Partibus explicitum. Lond. 1649 or thereabout,
in oct. It was afterwards translated into English
by the author, with this title. Breviary of the His-
tory of the Parliament of England, in three Parts,
Sec. Lond. 1655. oct. sec. edit. Before which is the

Iricture of the author in a cloak, with a wreath of
aurel over his head. He hath also translated from
Lat. into Engl. (1) Lucan's Pharsalia; or, tlie
civil Wars of Rome, between Pompcy the Great and
Julius Caesar. In 10 Books. Lond. 1635. oct. third
edit, with annotations made by Th. May on each
book. (2) A Continuation of the Subject ofLucatis
Historical Poem, till tlie Death of Julius Cccsur.
in 7 Books. Lond. 1635. oct. sec. edition,' with an-
notations made by Th. May on each book. (3)

' [In Sidney college. Tho. May admissus in sociorum
coinmeatnmSept. 7, Kiog. Reg. Colt. Sidn. Baker.] ,

3 [First edit, of the Continuation, l630; second edit, of
the Pharsalia, 1631 ; both in small 8.vo.]

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HALL.

VirfflFs Georg-ks, four Books. Lond. 1622, oct.
with annotations on each book. (4) Selected Epi-
grams of Martial. Lond. 1629. oct. At length
this person Tho. May (who had been favoured by
the rcl>ellious parliament so much, as to be made
their historian) going well to bed, was therein
found next mormng dead, an. 1650, occasioned, as
some say, by tying Yiis night-cap too close under his
fat cliin and cheeks, which choak'd him, when he
turned on the other side. Afterwards his body being
conveyed to the abbey church of S. Peter in West-
minster, was buried on the West side of the large
South isle or transcept there : And soon after had a
large monument of white marble set in the W. wall
over his grave, with this inscription thereon made by
March. Nedham. ' Quern Anglicana Respub. ha-
buit vindicem, ornamentum Literaria, saech sui Va-
tum celeberrimus, deliciae futuri, Lucanus alter
plusquam Romanus, Historicus fidus, Equitis au-
rati filius primogcnitus, Thomas Maius h. s. e. Qui
paternis titulis claritatis sua; specimen usque adeo
superaddidit, ut a supremo Anglorum senatu ad
annates suos conscribendos fuerit ascitus. Tandem
fide intemerata Parliamento prrestita, morte inopin-^
noctu correptus diem suum obiit id. Nov.

* 11 X .• f humanae "I ... ^ f M.DC.L.
A hbertatisj ^^^^^^ J restitutae | jj

.(Etatis suae Lv.
Hoc in honorem servi tarn bene merit!, ParUa-
ment. Reipub. Angl. P.P.' Soon after was an
epitaph maHe in answer to it, beginning thus. ' Asta,
viator, &, poetam legas Lucani interpretem, quern
ita feliciter AngUcanum fecerat, ut Maius simul &
Lucanus videbatur,' &c. But before his body had
rested in the said south isle eleven years, 'twas taken
up, with other bodies that had been unwarrantably
buried there, from 1641, to his majesty's restoration,
and buried in a large pit in the yard belonging to
S. Margaret's church in Westminster, where to this
day it continueth. At the same time his monument
also was taken down, and thrown aside ; and in the
place of it was set up that of Dr. Tho. Triplet, an.
1670.

[416] ALEXANDER HUISH was born in the pa-

rish of S. Cuthbert within the city of Wells, became
either a batleror commoner of Magd. hall, 1609, from
whence being taken by the foundress of Wadham
coll. was made by her one of the original scholars
thereof, an. 1613, and in the same year he took the
degree of bach, of arts, being the first of all that ob-
tained that degree as a member of that college.
Afterwards Ijeing master of his faculty, he entred
into holy orders, became a noted preacher, and in
the year 1627 was admitted to the reading of the
sentences. Afterwards he was made rector of Beck-
ington, and of Hornbloton in Somersetshire, the
last of which he obtained on the death of Thom.
Clarke, by the presentation thereunto of Joh. Mil-
bourne esej; in the beginning of Febr. 1638. After-

wards he became a sharer of afflictions for the king's
cause in the sad time of rebellion, and tho' driven
from place to place, yet, in the quiet rep)se that he
sometimes obtained, he did improve his talent for
the public good of learning. After the return of
his majesty Charles II. an. 1660, he was restored to
what he before had lost, and the same year Sept. 12,
was collated to the prebendsliip of Whitlackmgton
in the church of Wells ; the gift of which he had
before obtained. He was a person well read in the
fathers, a noted critic, a good linguist, and a solid
and sober divine. He hath written.

Lectures on the Lord's Prayer ; in three Parts.
Lond. 1626. qu. [Bodl. 4to. H. 46. Th.] He also
was much assisting to Dr. Brian Walton in the
compleating the Polyglot Bible ; was one of the four
correctors of it at the press, and took great pains in
the Septuagint translation, the Greek text of the
Neto Testament and the vulgar Latin, compared
with the most ancient Alexandrian MS. copy with
the old edit, of the Septuagint, printed at Rome
according to the Vatican copy, and Rob. Stephens,
his edition of the Greek text of the New Testament,
and did diligently collect the various readings of the
Alexandrian copy, which are throughout the work
put under the Roman edition of the Septnagint,
and Stephen's edition of the Greek text of the Nezv
Testament. In the sixth vol. of the said Polyglot
Bible, our author Huish hath A Greek Hymn with
the Latin to it ; written by him on S. Hilary's day,
13 Janu. (styl. vet.) 165} in the year of his great
climacteric 63. At length having lived beyond the
age of man, and done extraordinary benefit for the
common good, died in the beginning of the year (in
Apr. as it seems) in sixteen hundred sixty and eight,
and was buried either at Beckington or Hornbloton.
In his prebendsliip succeeded Henry Dutton bach,
of div. sometime fellow of Corp. Chr. coll. in Oxon,
to which he was collated on the 22d of April, in the
same year. See more of Alex. Huish in the second
vol. an. 1617 in John Flavell, col. 207.

GEORGE HALL son of Dr. Joseph Hall some-
lime bishop of Exeter, and afterwards of Norwich,
was born at Waltham Abbey in Essex, (where his
father had been a constant preacher for above 20
years) had the seeds of virtue sown in him very early
by his said father, who, when this his son was ripe
for the univ. sent him to Exeter coll. an. 1628, aged
16 years: where living in the condition of a com-
moner under a noted and careful tutor, he became
fellow of that house, an. 1632, and afterwards pro-
ceeding in arts, took holy ordci-s, became archdeacon
of Cornwall, and vicar of Mayhenet in that county.
What his sufferings were in the time of rebellion I
know not : Sure I am that several years before his
majesty's restoration, he was first preacher of S.
Bartholomew's near to the Old Exchange, and after-
wards vicar of S. Botolph's church without Alders-
gate, in London; and that after his majesty's re-

1668.

HALL.

WALLER.

814

1(568.

^toratioii he becramc one of his chaplains, canon of
Windsor in the place of Dr. G. Go<Khnan who had
held it in commendam with the sec of Gloccster,
doctor of divinity actually created, and archdeacon
of Canterhury. At length upon the death of Dr.
Hen. Feme, he was consecrated bishop of Chester,
on the eleventh day of May, an. 1662, and about the
same time had the rectory of Wigan in Lancashire
conferr\l on him by sir Orlando Bridgman then
chief justice of the Common Pleas : Which rich
rectory he kept in commendam with his sec to his
dying day. He hath written and published,

Several sermons, viz. (1) GocTs Appearing Jbr
the Tribe of Levy, Serin, preached at S. Paufs 8
Nov. 1653 to the Sons of the Ministers ; mi Rom.
8. 31. Lond. 1656. qu. [Bodl. 4to. N. 5. Th. BS.J
(2) Serm. at Court; on Psal. 7. 9. Lond. 1666.
Oct. &c. He hath also written a book against papists
and popery, entit.

The Triumphs of Rome over despised Pro-
testancy. Lond. 1655. qu. there again 1667. oct.
[Bodl. 8vo. A. 59. Line] " This book, as Dr. Bar-
" low saith, is really an answer to a popish pamphlet
" entit. The Reclairri'd Papist : or, the Prayers of
" a Popish Knight reformed by a Prote.stant Lady,
" by tlie Assistance of a Presbyterian Minister, and

" Ms Wife an Independent. Printed 1655. exit."

He paid his last debt to nature in the rectory-house
at Wigan before mentioned, on the 23. of Aug. in
sixteen hundred sixty and eight, and was buried at
the east end of the rectors chancel there. Over his
grave was soon after a large marble stone laid, witli
this inscription thereon. ' P. M. S. ejus repostus pul-
vere in sacro cinis expectat istic ultima; sonum Tuba?,
mendace qui ne falleret titulo lapis, sonum hoc se-
pulchro jussit incidi suo.

Georgius Hall S. Th. Pr. Ecclesiffi Dei servus
inutilis, sed cordatus, D. Josephi Hall Pra?sulis
pientissimi, primo Exoniensis, dein Norwicensis,
scriptls semper victuri filius (imo umbra potius) sex
inter septemque annos sedit, non meruit, Cestriie
Episcopus; denatus aitatis sua; anno LV. Christi
vero MDCLXVIII. — Mirare, lector, Prajsulis mo-
destiam, aliunde quicras csetera.' By his last will
and test, he gave to Exeter coll. after the decease of
his wife Gertrude, (who was afterwards buried under
tlie same marble) his golden cup and all his estate
of land at Trethewen in S. Germans in Cornwall, to
the end that they be employed to the best commo-
(Uty and advantage ot 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.

[Georgius Hall Cestr. episcopus archid. Cant,
commendat. 18 Sept. 1663. Reg. Lond.

Georgius Hall S. T. P. installatus in canonicatu
Windsor 8 Jul. 1660. Frith, CWrt/. Kennet.

An. 1668, Aug. 22, Geo. Hall, bishop of Chester,

once preacher at Alder.sgate-street, diet! at Wiggan

Lancashire. Mr. Ric. Smith's Obituary. Bakek.

Bishop George Hall died of a wound received by

a knife in his pocket, in a fall from the mount in
his garden at the rectory house at Wigan.* Cole.]

WILIJAM WALLER son of Tho. Waller
knight, lieutenant or constable of Dover-castle and
chief butler of England, ;ishe is sometimes stiled, by
Margaret his wife, daughter of Sampson Lennard
lord Dacre, was born at Knolle in Kent, matri-.
culated at his first a)ming to the university as a
member of Magd. hall in Mich, term an. 1612, aged
15 years, but making no long stay there, was trans-
lated to Hart hall, where he spent most of his time
during his alx)de in Oxon. Afterwards he went to
Paris, and in an academy there 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 Wanstcd 20 June
1622, and took to wife Jane daughter and heir of
Rich. Reynell of Fourd in Devonshire, knight, who
dying at Bath in the month of May 1633, was bu-
ried m the south transcept of the church of St. 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 bur-
gess for Andover in Hampshire to serve in that
most unhappy parliament, that began at Westm. 3
Nov. 1640, wherein he shew'd himself an active per-
son against the prerogative and every thing that
l(X)ked 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

t)arliament one of their generals to fight against their
iing, an. 1642, in which year, and after, he per-
formed, in the opinion of those of his own persuasion,
many notable exploits, yet not without great viola-
tion 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 be-
loved cause, he took the covenant twice in the house
of commons, meerly to put forward some that had
not taken it before, and was not wanting on all occa-
sions to promote and carry on the war. But being
soon after very unfortunate by losing two armies in
the service of the said parliament, caused a diminu-
tion of his former fame, which was raised up near to
a competition or emulation with Robert earl of
Essex tile captain general. " He laid down his
" commission Apr. 2. 1645." 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 amongst the
presbyterians in the house of commons against the
designs of the independents, was one of tlie eleven

* [Sec Birch's L'lfc n/Archl, Tillotson,^%t 37]

815

WALLER.

members impeached by the army of high treason.
Whereiipjn 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 anny on the 6tli of December, and on
the llth of Jan. following he was committed pri-
soner to S. James's house, and afterwards to Wind-
sor and Denbigh ca.stles, and to the Tower of
London during the reign 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 patnot of his
country, was committed to custody upon suspicion
of being engaged in sir George Booth's insurrection,
in Aug. 1658, where continuing till the beginning of
Nov. following, gave then bail for his further ap-
pearance. " In Feb. 1659 he was nominated one
•' of the council of state, and was elected one of the
*' knights for Middlesex for that parliament that
" began at Westminster 25 April, leeO." What
he got by his sufferings at the kmg's restoration, an.
16o0, I know not; sure I am he was no loser.
Under this person's name were printed these things
following.

Letter to Robert Earl of Essex General of the
Parliament Forces, concerning a great Victory
attained by him at Malmsbury in Wilts, dated 23
March 1642. Lond. 1643. March 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 tlie late Proceedings, Victory
and good Success obtained by the Pari. Forces
under his Conduct at the Taking of the Town and
Castle of Arundel in Sussex, Dec. 20, and Jan. 6.

an. 1643 Sent to William Lenthall speaker of

the house of coin, and printed in one sh. in qu.

Narratiwi of a great Victory obtained by the
Pari. Forces under his Conduct at Alton in Surrey,
13 Dec. 1643. Lond. 1643 in one sh. in qu.

Letter of a great Victory obtained against Col.
Sir James Long, High SJteriff of Wilts, at the
Devises, Lond. 1644, in one sh. in qu. or more. It
is dated 13 Mar. 1644. Concerning these his victo-
ries, tho' little, or inconsiderable, yet they were
highly cried up by the godly brethren. See more
in a lx)ok very partially written by a grand presby-
terian named Josiah Ricraft a merchant of London,
entit. A Survey of England's Champions, and
TridlCsJaithful Patriots. Or a Chronological Re-
ntemcnt of tlie principal Proceedings of the most
prosperous Armies raised for the Preservation of
Religion, the Kings Majesty s Person, the Privi-
leges of Parliament, and the Liberty of the Sub-
ject, Sfc. with a most exact Narration of the several
Victories, Sj-e. with the lively Portraitures of tlie
several Commanders. Lond. 1647. oct. with the
author's picture before it.

Divine Meditations upon several Occasicms ; with
a daily Directory,^ Lond. 1680. oct. They were

5 [This volume contains much good sense cloathed in a
quaint dress. As it is not easily met with I have given an
extract from his fifth meditation, p. 26.

Upon the contentment I have in my books and study.

Here is the best solitary company in the world : And in
this particular chiefly excelling any other, that here I am
sure to converse with none but wise men ; but abroad it is
impossible to avoid the society of fools. What an advantage
have I by this good fellowship, that besides the help which
1 receive from hence, in reference to my life after this life,
I can enjoy the life of so many ages before 1 lived? that 1
can be acquainted with the pa>sages of three or four thou-
sand years ago, as if they were the weekly occurrences!
Here, without travelling as far as Endor, I can call up the
ablest spirits of ihove times; the learnedst philosophers, the
wisest counscllours, the greatest generals, and make them
serviceable to me ; I can make bold with the best jewel*
they have in their treasury, with the same freedome that the
Israelites borrowed of the ^Egyptians, and without suspitioa
of felony make use of them, as mine own. I can hear
without trespassing, go into their vine-yards, and not only
eat my fill of their grapes for my pleasure, but put up at
much as I will in my vessel, and store it up for my profit and
advantage.

How doth th is prospect at once set off the goodness of God
to me, and discover mine own weakness? his goodness in
providing these helps for the improvement of mine under*
standing ; and my weakness in needing them. What a piti-
ful simple creature am I, that cannot live to any purpose-,
without the help of so many other men's brains ? Lord, let
this be the first lesson that I learn from these silent coun-
scllours— to know my own ignorance ; other knowledge
pulfcth up, this edifieth.

it was a scoffing and contrarisorae speech in Festus to
Paul, that much learning made him mad: but it was seri-
ously and sadly said by the prophet Jeremy, that every man
(every idolatrous wicked man,) is foolish or brutish (which
is mad almost) by his own knowledg.

It is possible (or a man to know so much, that at last by
overvalkiing his knowledg, he may come to know nothing
as he ought to know; and we have an unhappy proof of
this in the example of our first parents, who out of a fond
desire to know more than came to their share, transgressed,
and thereby brought themselves to that pass that they knew
only their own shame, and were ashamed of their own
knowledge. Whilst others please themselves in high no-
tions, and speculations, it shall be my study to follow the
Apostle's rule, and be wise unto sobriety.

But we have a generation of people in the world, that are
so far from putting themselves upon the hazard of knowing
too much ; that they affect a kind of Socratical knowledg
(though it be the clear contrary vvay,) a knowledg of knowing
notliing ; they hale learning, and wisdom, and understanding
with that perfect hatred, that if one could fancy such things
to be in Paradise, one would think (if 1 may speak it, as I
mean it, without profanene«s) that the devil could not tempt
them to come near the tree of knowledg. I cannot say these
are in a state of innncency, but I am sure they are in a state
of simplicity — But among those few persons (especially those
of quality) that pretend to look afier books, how many are
there that affect riuhcr lo look upon them, than in themi
Some covet to have libraries in their houses, as l.idies desire
to have cupboards of plate in their chambers, only for shew j
as if they were only to furnish their roomes, and not their
mindes :' if the only having of store of bookcs, were suffi-
cient to improve a man, the stationers would have the ad»
vantage of all others ; but certainly bookes were made for
use, and not for ostenlation ; in vain do they boast of full
libraries, that are contented to live with tinpiy heads.

WALLEll.

LASSELS.

818

1663.

[419]

written in his retirement from business and public
employ, and hath set before them his picture en-
graven to the life,* " under which it is put falsly
" that he died Sept. 19. 1669." He hath also writ-
ten,

Vindication Jhr his taking up Arms against the
Kiiiff — This he left behind him in MS. but whether
publish VI I cannot tell.' In 1680 was jiublished in
one sh. in foUo, Sir Will. Waller his Vindlcatkmy
hy a Friend tJiat understood his Life and Conversa-
tion.
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 Middle-
sex on the nineteenth day of Sept. in sixteen hundred
sixty and eight, and was buriecl * 9 Oct. in the mid-
dle of the chancel, or in the upper
part of the middle isle of the cliap-
pel in Tuttlc-street,^ Westminster :
Whose funeral, as to honour, being
then falsly managed by an herald
painter without the advice of any
of the officers of the coU. of arms,
his atchievement, helmet with a false crest, banners,
&c. which weJ-e hung over his grave by the said

* was buried in
the new chappel
near the chancel,
in theahbeychurch
of S. Peter in
ffeslminster.
First edit.

In opposition to these extreams, I meet with another sort
of people, that delight themselves in reading; but it is in
such a desultory way ; running from one book to another, as
birds skip from one bough to another, without design, that
it is no niervaile if they get nothing but their labour for their
paines, when they seek nothing but change, and diversion ;
they that ride post can observe but little.

It is in reading, as it is in making many book es, there may
be a pleasing distraction in it, but little or no profit. I would
therefore do in this as merchants use to do in their trading ;
who in a coasting way, put in at several ports, and take m
what commodities they afford, but settle their factories in
those places only, which are of special note : I would by the
by allow myself a traffick with sundry authors, as I happened
to liiiht upon thcai for my recreation, and 1 would make the
best advantage that I could of them ; but 1 would fix my
slndy upon those only, that are of most importance to fix
me for action, which is the true end of all learning ; and for
the service of God, which is the true end of all action.
Lord, teach me so to study other men's works, as not to neglect
mine own, and so study thy word, which is thy work, that it
may be a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path, my
candle to work by. Take me off from the curiosity of know-
ing, only to know ; from the vanity of knowing, only to be
known; and from the folly of pretending to know more
than I do know ; and let it be my wisdome to study to know
thee, who art life eternal. Write thy law in my heart, and
I shall be the best book here.]

^ [By Nicholas Yeates, an obscure artist, whose works are
very rare. Besides this liead, another, from an orii^inal
picture at earl Harconrt's, was prefixed to his yindication,
17f)3.J

^ [^f^indicalion of the Chnrncler and Conduct of Sir Wil-
liam JValler, Knight, Commander in chief nf the Parliament
Purees in the IVest. Explanatory nfhis Conduct in taking up
Arms against King Charles the First. Written by himself,
and now frsl published from the original Manuscript with an
Introduction by the Editor. Lond. 1793, 8vo.]

» [Built by sir Rob.Pye. Wood, MS. Note in Ashmole.l
Vol. III. ■■

painter, were soon after plucked down by the aforc-
mcntioifd officers, and tlirown a.side as false things.
He left behind iiim a son of l)oth his names, some-
times a gen. com. of Wadham coll. afterwards a
knight, antl justice of the peace for the county of
Middlesex, " an active man against tiie papists
" when Oats his plot broke fortii an. 1678,» by
" imprisoning them, rifling their houses of goods,
" under the notion of searching after papers, and
" chappel-stuft", called by him popish trinkets. He
" was also a great man for carrying on the trade of
" petitioning his maj. for the calling of a parliament ;
" was chose a burgess for Oxford parliament, and
" left out of the commission of peace in Apr. 1680,
" for taking one Higgie out of the Gate-house in
" Westminster, whither he hnA been committed for
" treason. Afterwards he withdrew himself into
" Holland, to avoid trouble that might come upon
" him for taking away the said goods, and returned
" not till the prince of Orange made his expedition
" into England. By his care it was, as 'tis said,
" that a collection from the records of Berne was
" made of Tlie tragical History of Jetzer, or a
"faithful Narrative of the feigned Visions and
"false Miracles of the Dominicans oftJie Convent
" of Berne in Switzerland, to projiagate their Su-
" perstitions, &c. Tiiis was several times printed,
"[third edit. Lond. 1680, Bodl. 8vo. Z. 30. Jur.J
"and in that which came out in 1683 in 8vo, 'tis
" said that it was translated from sir William's
" French copy, by an impartial pen."

" RICHARD LASSELS was born of genteel
])arents in Richmondshire, within the province of
York, was an hospes for some time in this univer-
sit}', as those of his persuasion have told me, but
whether before or after he left England, they
could not tell, spent several years in the English
coll. at Doway, and was at length a secular
priest : Afterwards taking great delight in seeing
foreign countries, he travelled thro' Italy fix'e
times as tutor to several of the EngUsh nobility
and gentry, whereliy obtaining great knowledge
of places, men, manners and customs, was es-
teemed the best and surest guide or tutor for
young men of his time, and drew up for the use
of them, and others, that should come after,
" The Voyage of Italy, or, a compleat Journey
thro' Italy. In trvo Parts: with the Characters
of the People, and the De-icripticm of the chief
Toivns, Churches. Monasteries, Tombs, Librae
ries, Palaces, VilUus, Gardens, Pictures, Statues
and Antiquities. Paris 1670, in oct. [Bodl. 8vo.
E. 57. Art.] or in two vol. in oct. collected, cor-
rected, and set forth by his old friend and fellow-
traveller Simon Wilson a secular priest. What
other things Rich. Lassels hath written I know
not, nor any thing else of him, only that he dying

9 [See sit J. Dalrymple'a Memoirs, pp. 65, 103.1
3G

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RHODES.

ALLEIN.

820

J 668.

[420]

1668.

" at Mountpelier in France in the month of Sept.
" in sixteen lunulred sixty and eio;ht, aged 65 or
" thereabouts, was buried in the church ot'tiie bare-
" footed Cannchtes, in the suburb of" that city, a.s I
" havebecn informed by my most worthy andnever to
" be forgotten acquaintance llalpli Sheldon of Beoly,
" cs(j; who was tlien present, and took some order
" about his burial. Of the same family of this
" Rich. Lassels was Hen. Lassels gent, sometime a
" cornet under col. John Lane of Bentley in Staf-
" fordshire, for his majesty king Charles I. against
" his rebellious subjects, and was with the said co-
" lonel highly instrumental in preserving his majesty
" king Charles II. after his defeat at the fatal battel
" at Worcester in Sept. 16.51, as you may fully see
" in a liook entit. Boscobel : or, the compleat Hls-
" tory of his sacred Majestt/s most miraculous
" Preservation after the Battel of Worcester, 3
" Sept. 1651, &c. penM with great tnith and fide-
" lity by Thorn. Blount of the Inner-Temple,
" esq."

a gentleman's son of

RICHARD RHODES,

London, was educated in Westniinstcr school, trans-
planted thence to Ch. Ch. and soon after was made
student thereof, being then well grounded in gram-
mar and in the practical part of music. He wrote
and compos'd.

Fiord's Vagaries, a Comedy — Which, after it
liad l)een publicly acted by the students of Ch. Ch.
in their common refectory on the 8th of January,
1663, and at the Theatre-Royal by his majesty's
servants, was made public at Lond. 1670, and after-
wards in 1677. qu. This person, who only took
one degree in ai'ts (at which time he made certain
compositions in music of two or more parts, but not,
as I conceive, extant) went afterwards into Franco,
and took, as I have heard, a degree in physic at
Mountpelier : But being troubled with a rambling
head, must needs take a journey into Spain, where,
at Madrid, he died and was buried, in sixteen hun-
dred sixty and eight. In which year also George
More M. of A. and fellow of Oriel coll. died there
also, being then in attendance on the English am-
bassador.

JOSEPH ALLEIN, son of Tobie Allein, was
born in a market-town in Wilts, called The Vies or
Devises, an. 1633, and being when a child forward
to learn, was educated in grammar there; which
faculty he in a short time conquering, was instructed
by a minister of that, or a neighbouring, place in
the art of logic. At 16 years of age he was sent to
Line. coll. (being then well skill'd in the Lat. and
Gr. tongues) where continuing till the 8th of Nov.
1651, was then admitted scholar of that of Corp.
Chr. and in short time after, if the Wilts, fellowship
should hap{)en to be void, as it did, he would con-
sequently liavc been fellow. But he esteeming him-
self" as most admirably well gifted for extempore

prayer, as indeed he was by those of his party, who
t(X)k him to be a precious young man (lor he and
his friend could hardly ever walk or discourse to-
gether, but before they jiarted, they must, at his
reiiuest, go and pray together) he humbly desired
the president of tlie said coll. that ujwn the next va-
cancy of a chaplainshi]), he would confer that office
ujx)n him, purposely (as was conceived by some)
that he might shew his excellencies in public twice
in a day. I say that he being solicitous for that
place, liis acquaintance would often dissuade him
from taking it, as being much inferior to a fellow-
shi]5 : yet take it he did, prised it, and looked upon
it as his honour and happiness to enjoy it. Tiiis was,
I presume, in the beginning of the year 1653, for in
July that year, he, as chaplain of Corp. Ch. coll.
was admitted bach, of arts. But before he could
stay to take the degree of master, he received a call
to assist George Newton minister of Taunton S.
Magdalen in Somersetshire, an. 1655; where being
ordained in a public association meeting of the bre-
thren, he administred all ordinances jointly with
Mr. Newton. Soon after our author Joseph re-
ceived another call to take to wife a fair and holy
sister ; which being ' effected, he would (as in jest)
complain to his intimate friend of C. C. C. of the in-
conveniences of marriage, viz. that whereas he used
to rise at four of the clock in the morning, or be-
fore, his loving spouse would keep him in bed till
about six. Also whereas housed to study 14 hours
in a day, she would bring him to eight or nine.
And lastly that whereas he used to forbear one meal
a day at least for his studies, she would bring him to
his meat, &c. At Taunton in this employment
under Mr. Newton he continued till Bartholomew-
tide, called by his ])arty the black day, an. 1662, at
which time being deprived of it for non-conformity,
sate silent for a time to his great regret. At lengtli
receiving a third call for the propagation of the gos-

!)el, he would by all means go into China to do it,
)ut being dissuaded by the brethren he fed the flock
of God's people in private. At length he being
snapp'd for a conventicler, was committed to prison
at Ilchester, where he continued some years not
without teaching and jireaching, and writing letters
to the chosen of G(kI in Taunton. Several pieces
of his practical divinity he hath written, of v hich
these are published,

A most familiar Explanation of the Assemblies
shorter Catechism. Wherein their hn-gcr Anszacrs
are broken into lesser Parcels, thereby to let the
Liirhtby Dcffrees into the Minds erf the Learners—
When this was first printed, I cannot find. Sure I
am the last edition came out at Lond. 1674. in oct.
[Bodl. 8vo. B. 302. Th.]

A most brief Help Jbr the necessary, but much

' The marri.ige was consummated 4 Oct. \Gbri. So
Theodosia his widow in The Narrative nf his Life from his
Silencing to his Death, p. gl.

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ALLEIN.

GOVE.

822

Tieglccted, Duty of Sclf-exuminatUm to he dully
jteruseJ. — Printed with llu- former book.

Letter of Christian Couimel to a destitute Flock.
— Printed with the former nho.

Christian Letters full of spiritual Instructions,
&.C. Lond. 1672. oct. They ar« about 40 in num-
ber, and were all written in prison to persons of his
church. Five more were added to the second edit.
— Lond. 1677. oct.

Cases of Conscience, kc. Lond. 1672. oct. This
goes under his name, and without doubt he was the
author of it.

Remains: being a Collection of sundry Direc-
tions, Sermons, sncramcntul Speeches and Letters,
not heretofore ptiblished. Lond. 1674. oct.

The true ^Vay to Happiness, in a serious Trea-
tise, shezoinff (1 ) What Conversion is not, ^c. (2)
W/uit Conversion is, 4"C. — This book, commended
in two epistles, one by Mr. Rich. Baxter, the other
bv Rich. A Heine, was printed at Lond. 1675. oct.
[Bodl. 8vo. Z. 29. Th.] It is the same book, with
that of the same author which Avas publ. in 8vo. an.
1672. entit. An Alarum to the Unconverted, &c.=
The other part of the title is altogether the same
with this before mentioned ; and at tlie end of tliis
new impression (if they be different in more than
their titles) is a copy of English verses, said to be
made on the reading of Mr. Jos. Alleine's book
entit. An Alarum to the Uncmiverted, whicli plainly
shews that they are tlie same. Mr. Baxter' tells
us that he was also author of,

The Synopsis of the Covenant. Or God spealcing

from Mount Gerizim, See. Printed in Mr. Rich.

Alleine's book, entit. Heaven opened, &c. being the
third part of his Vindicice Pie tat is ; in which book
is also printed another shorter piece, entit.

A Soliloquy representing a Believer\s Tryal in

God's Covenant, &c. Also another shorter than

that called

A Form of Words expressing' Man\s covenanting
with God. — Besides these he hath also written,

Prayers for Ids People's Use — And a little thing
entit.

A Call to Archippus : to persuade the .silent
Noncoifmmists, to pity Semis And left behind

"^ \_An Alarme to unconverled Sinners, in a serious Treatise,
shewing

1 fffiat Conversion is not, and correcting some Mistakes
aloul it.

2 What Conversion is, and wherein it consistcth.

3 The Necessity/ of Conversion.

4 The Marks of the Unconverted.
!> The Miseries of the Unconverled.
() Directions for Cunversinn.

7 Motives to Conversion.

fVhereunto are annexed divers practical Cases of Con.
science judiciously resolved. By Joseph Alleine late Preacher
qf the Gospel at Taunton in Somersetshire. London, Printed
and are to be sold by Ncvil Simmons at the Princes Arms in
St. Pauls Church-yard. lfi72.]

" III the Introduction before Jos. Alleine's Life, p. 17.

him at his death, several theological MSS. written
and com]X)scd by him, but all, or most, are imper-
fect, except tills,

Theologice Philosophicw, ,sive Philosophiijc TTieo-
hgiccc Specimen: In quo atcrni Dei Providcntia
solius Naturw Ltimine comnrobatur, he. Written
an. 1661, and licensed for tne press, but being Lat.
and Greek, and such books having too few buyers
in England, none yet are found that will be at the
charge of printing the said book. He gave up the
ghost in Novem. in the year sixteen hundred sixty
and eight, and was buried in the chancel of Taun-
ton S. Magd. At which time Mr. G. Newton
preached a sermon before a large auditory, mostly
consisting of dissenters, wherein were many things
said to the great honour of the person that then lay
dead before him. Over his grave was only this en-
graven on a stone,

Here Mr. Joseph Allein lies
To God and you a sacrifice.

Not long after was published his life * written by
Mr. Rich. Baxter (who wrote also the introduction)
Rich. Alleine, Rich. Faireclough, George Newton,
his widow Theodosia Alleine, and two conforming
ministers, who conceal their names. From whicn
sermon and canting farce or hfe, especially that ri-
diculous discourse of Theodosia, tlie reader may
easily understand what a grand zealot for the cause
this our author Jos. AUeme was, and how his life
was spent in actions busy, forward, (if not pragma-
tical) and meddling without intermission. The said
Theodosia a jirating gossip and a meer Xantippe
finding Jos. Alleine to be a meer scholar and totally
ignorant of women's tricks, did flatter, sooth him
and woe, and s(X)U after mai'ried, and brought him up
to her lure. After she had biu-ied him, and being
not able to continue long without a consort, she
freely courted a lusty chaundler of Taunton, alien-
ated his affections by false reports, from a young
damsel that he was enamoured with, and by three
days courting, they were the fourth day married,
as I have been credibly informed by several persons
of Taimton, and so obtained him meerly to supply
her salacious humour.* In 1691, our author Al-
leine had another book put out under liis name,
entit. A sure Guide to Heaven, &c. printed in tw.

RICHARD GOVE, a gentleman's son, was
born at South Tavistock in Devonsh. became a
commoner of Magd. hall in Lent term, an. 1604,
aged 18 years, where going through the courses of
logic and philosophy, he took the degree of M. of
A. an. 1611. Afterwards entring into holy orders,

•> Printed at Lond. I672 and I677, in a large octavo.

^ [Theodosia Allen was accounted among her partie a re-
ligious woman, and a good neighbour : shee died before Mon-
mouth's rebellion began. Wood, MS. Note in Ashmole.J
3G2

1668.

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823

GOVE.

DENHAM.

824

1668.

he became chaplain to John lord Paulet, and in
Aug. 1618 was by him presented to the rectory of
Henton S. George in Somersetshire ; at which
place, much about the same time, he taught a gram-
mar scliool. In the time of tlie rebelFion he was
outed thence for liis loyaUy, as some of iiis relations
have said, but I think fiilse ; and afterwards re-
tiring to the city of Exeter, closed so mucli with
the presbytei-ians, that he became minister of S.
David's church there, and for several years was
much frequented by them. About the time of his
majesty's restoration, he went to East Coker in So-
mersetshire, (where he had lived for some time be-
fore he went to Exeter) at which place he taught
school for some time, and aftcrwarcls was made mi-
nister of it. His works are,

Tlie Sainfs Honey-comb fuil of divine Truths,
touching both Christian Belief and a Christian
Life, in two Cent." Lond. 1()52. oct. [Bodl. 8vo.
J. 5. Art. BS.]

The Communicanfs Guide, directing both the
younger and elder Sort how they may receive the
Sacrament of the Lord''s Supper. Lond. 1654. oct.
[Bodl. 8vo. J. 5. Art. BS.]

Pious Thoughts vented in pithy Ejaculations.
Lond. 1658. oct. as also A Catechism, print, in oct.
which I have not yet seen. He died on the vigil
of the nativity of our Saviour, in sixteen hundred
axty and eight, and was buried in the chancel of
the church of East Coker before mentioned, but
hath neither inscription or monumental stone over
his grave.

JOHN DENHAM the only son of sir John
Denham knight, sometime chief baron of the Ex-
chequer in, and one of the lords justices or commis-
sioners of, Ireland, by Eleanor his wife one of the
daughters of sir Garret More knight, sometime ba-
ron of Mellifont in that kingdom, was born within
the city of Dublin, but being brought thence very
young, at what time his father was made one of the
barons of the Exchequer in England, an. 1617,' he
was educated in grammar learning either in London
or Westminster, and being made fuU ripe for the
university, was sent to Trinity coU. where he be-
came a gent. com. in Michaelm. term, an. 1631,
aged 16 years. But being looked upon as a slow
and dreaming young man by his seniors and con-
temporaries, and given more to cards and dice, than
his study, they could never then in the least ima-
gine, that he could ever inrich the world with his
fancy, or issue of his brain, as he afterwards did.
From Trin. coll. where he continued about three

• [This is printed by R. Royston. He is stiled preacher
of Henton S. Genrge. Tanner.]

' [Sir Jo. Denham, one of the barons of the Exchec.
died 6 Janu. l638, buried in the chancel of the church of
Egham in Surrey. He married to his second wife Eleanor,
&c. Wood, MS. Note in Ashmote.']

years, and had been examined in the public schools
for the degree of bach, oi" arts, he went to Lincolns
inn,« where tho' he followed his study very close to
tiie appearance of ail persons, yet he would game
much, and frequent the company of the unsancti-
fled crew of gamesters, who rook'd him sometimes
of all he could wrap or get. But his father having
received notice of these matters, took him severely
to task, with many thrcatenings to cast him off, if
he did not forbear from so domg. Whereujwn he
wrote a little Essay against Gaming, shewing the
vanities and inconveniences, which he presented to
his father to let him know his detestation, of it.
After his father's deatli, (who died 6 Jan. 1638,
and was buried in Egham church in Surrey) he fell
to gaming again, and shortly after stpiandred away
several thousands of pounds that were left Iiim, &c.
In the latter end of tlie year 1641 he publislied the
tragedy called 7%(7 Sophy, which took extremely
much and was admired by all ingenious men, par-
ticularly by Edm. Waller of Beaconsfield, wlio then
said of the author, that he broke out like the Irish
rebellion, threescore thousand strong, when no body
was aware, or in the least suspected it. Shortly
after he was prick'd liigh sheriff for Surrey, and
made govcrnour of Farnham-castle for the king :
But he being an inexpert soldier, soon after left
that office, and retired to his maj. at Oxon, where
he printed his poem called Cooper'' s-H ill: which
hill is in the parish of Egham in Surrey above
Runey Mead, hath a very noble prospect, and the
author of it from thence doth aclmirably well de-
scribe several places in his view there, which he
mentions in that most celebrated poem. In "April"
1648, he 3 conveyed or stole away, James duke of
York from S. James's in Westminster, then under
the tuition of Algernon earl of Northumberland,
and carried him into France to the prince of Wales
and the qu. mother, and not long after was sent
with William (afterwards lord) Crofts as envoies to
the king of Poland by the said prince, then king
Charles 2. In 1652 or thereabouts, he retum'd
into England, and being in some strcights (for by
gaming and the war he had squandred away much
of his estate at Egham and elsewhere, and the rest
ordered to be sold by the parliament 15 July 1651)
he was kindly entertain'd by the earl of Pembroke
at Wilton ; where, and sometimes at London, he

' [He was generally temperate as to drinHng, but one
time when he was a student of Lincolne's inne, having been
merry at y' taverne with his canieradcs, laie at night, a fro-
lick came into his head, to gett a playsierer's brush and a
pott of mVe, and blolt out all the signes between Temple
barre and Charing rrosse, w"''' made a strange confusion the
next day, and 'twas in ternie time. But it happened that
they were discovered, and it cost him and them sonic moneys.
This I had from R. Estcourt esq. that carried the inke jjot.
Aubrey, MS. Lives in the Ashmolc Museum.']

' [Quaere. Sec Birch's History of Ihe Royal Society, ii,
407.]

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DENHAM.

82t)

continued with that count more than a year: In
which time he did translate one of Virgirs JEnehls
and burlesqu'tl it, but whether he ever pubhsh'd it,
I know not. King Charles 1. did grant Xa him the
reversion of" tlie place of surveyor of his buildings
after the decease of Inigo Jones : Which place he
entring upon at the restoration of king Charles 2,
an. 1660 (for the said Jones' died 21 July 1651,
aged 79 years or thereabouts, and was buried in
the church of S. Bennet near to Pauls-wharf in
London) he enjoyed it to the time of his death, and
got by it 7000/. In the year following he was
made knight of the Bath at tlie coronation of king
Charles 2. and became much renown'd in the court
of that king for his ingenuity ; but upon some dis-
content arising from a second match,* he became
craz'd for a time, and so consequently contemptible
among vain fops.' Soon after being cured of his
distemper, he wrote excellent verses on the death of
Abr. Cowley the prince of poets, and some months
after followed him. The things that he hath WTit-
ten and translated have been many, but those that
are published are only these.

The Sophy: a Tragedy. Lond. 1642. qu. and
1667. oct.

Coopers-Hill: a Poem. Oxon. 1643 in one sh.
and an half in qu. Printed again with additions at
Lond. 1650 [Bodl. 4to. P. 82. Th.] and 55 Mn qu.
[Bodl. BB. 16. Art. Seld.] There again in 1667-
68 in oct. A poem it is which for the majesty of
the stile, is, and ever will be, the exact standard of
good writing. It was translated into Latin verse
by Moses Pengrey, as I shall elsewhere tell you.

' So have 1 been informed by ibe letters of James Webb
of Bulleigh ill Soniersetsh. gent, son of John Webb who
married the cousin german of the said Inigo Jones.

' [He married his second wife, Brookes, a verv

beautiful young lady, an. dom. l6fi , sir John was ancient
and limping. The dul<e of Yorke fell deeply in love with
her : This occasioned sir John's distemper of modnesse, which
first appeared when he went from London to see the famous
free-stone Quarries at Portland, in Dorset. When he came
within a mile of it, turned back to London againe, and would
not see it : He went to Hounslowc, and demanded rents of
lands he had sold many yeares before, &c. His second lady
had no child, and was pnysoned by the hands of the co. of
Roc. with chocolate. Aubrey, MS. Lives in the Aslt. Mh-
seum.'\

' [See a note of Mr. R. Thyer, who published in I'-ig in
two vol. 8vo. at London, Mr. Butler's Genuine Remains in
Prose and Verse, among which at page 166, vol. i. is ' a pa-
negyric upon sir John Denham's Recovery from his Mad-
ness.' See also an ingenious French book wrote by Anihonv,
count Hamilton, and called Les Memoires de Mr. le Cnmle
de Grammont, where is a great deal concerning sir Jolin
Denham and his last young wife. Cole.]

'' [This professes to be the first authentic edition. In the
address to the reader, signed J. B. we are told that ' though
there have been five impressions this now in your hand is the
onely true co|)ie.' It is said to have been derived from the
author's own papers, and to be disiinguished from the spu-
rious editions by the 'excellent al'egory of the royall stag
lopt ofl' by the transcriber.']

Jn Essay affainst Gaming. Lond. in about 3
sh. in oct. This I have not yet seen.'

Cato Major, of old Age, a Poem. Lond. 1648.
in tw. in four parts, &c.

The De.Hructmi of Troy : or an Essay upon
the second Book of VlrgWs /Eneids. Lonu. 1656.
in 4 sh. and an half in qu. written in the year 1636.

Panegyric on his Excellency the Lord General
George Monk, Commander in Chief, &c. — Printed
at Lond. in one sh. in qu. in the month of Mar.
165^5. Tho' the name of John Denham is not set
to it, yet the frequent report was then among the
academians that he was the author of it.

Various Poems and Ti-anslations. Lond. 1667, [424]
68, [Bodl. 8vo. D. 82. Art.] See. oct. Among which
is The Destruction of Troy, Cato Major, (before
mentioned) and A Poem mi Mr. Abr. Cowley's
Death and Burial among the antient Poets:
Which last was a little before printed by it self, in
one sh. in fol. in Aug. 1667. Among them als<j,
as I remember, is The Prologue to his Majesty at
tlie first Play presented at the Cock-pit in White-
hall, being Part of that noble Entertainment which
their Majesties received Nov. 19. An. 1660, from
his Grace the D. of Albemarle. Which prologue
was printed by it self at Lond. 1660, on one side
of a broad sh. of paper.

A new Version of the Psalms of David ^ This

I have not yet seen, only mention of it in an excel-
lent copy of verses made in its commendation by
Mr. Sam. Woodford sometime of Wadham coll. in
his Occa.sional Compositions in English Rhimes.
Lond. 1668. p. 146.

The true Presbytei-ian witliout Disguise : or, a
Character of a Presbyterian'' s Ways and Actions.
I.,ond. 1680. in half a sh. in fol. The name of sir
John Denham is set to this poem, but then ques-
tion'd by many whether ever he was the author of
it. See other works of his poetry in sir Will. D''ave-
nant, before-mention'd. He died at his office (near
to Whitehall) whicli he before had built, in March,
in sixteen hundred sixty and eight, and was buried '^^5'
on the 23d of the same month, in the S. cross isle or
transcept of the abby church of S. Peter in West-
minster, near to the graves of Jeffry Chaucer, and
Abr. Cowley. In the year 1666, were printed by
stealth in oct. certain poems entit. Directions to a
Painter, in four copies, or parts, each dedicated to
king Charles 2. in verse. They were very satyri-
cally written against several persons engaged in the
war against the Dutch, an. 1665, and at the end of
the said four parts, is a cony entit. Clarendon's
House-warming, and after tliat his epitaph, both
bitterly reflecting on Edward earl of Clarendon, his

■^ [The Essay on Gaming is called The Anatomy of Play,
tpritten by a worthy and learned Gent. Dedicated to his
Father to shew his Delestalion of it. Lond. 1(546. small
8vo. BowLE.]

« [Printed at London, 1714, 8vo. Published by Heighes
Woodford, LovEi>.\y.]

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DENHAM.

RATE.

house caird Clarendoii-liouse, and liis ways of get-
ting and scraj)ing ii]» of wcaltli. To which Direc-
tions, \\\o sir Jolin DiMihani's uanii' is sot, vet they
were thoiiijlit by many to have been written by
Andr. Marvell, esq. The printer tliat printed
tlicm, being (hscover'd, stood in the pillory for the
same.

[Sir John Denham was (says Aubrey) of the tall-
est but a little incurvetting at his shoulders, not
very robust. His haire was but thin and flaxen,
with a moist curie. His gate was slow, and was
rather a stalking (he had long legges) which was
wont to putt me in mind of Horace De Arte
Poetica.

Hie dum sublimis ructatur, et errat,
Si, veluti merulis intentus decidit auceps

In puteum foveamve.

His eie was a kind of light goose-gray, not big, but
it had a strange piercingness, not as to shining and
glory, but (like a Momus) when he conversed with
you, he look't into your very thoughts.]

GEORGE BATE a most noted physician of
his time, son of John Bate of Burton or Bourton in
Buckingliamshire, was born at Maids-morton near
to Buckingham, becjime one of the clerks of New
coU. in the beginning of 1622, aged 14 years, was
thence translated to {)\\. coll. for a time, and thence
to S. Edm. hall, look the degrees in arts as a mem-
ber of tlie last, entred on the physic line, and took a
degree in that faculty 1629, at which time being
licensed to practise, exercised it, in and near Oxon,
for some years among jjreciseand puritanical people,
lie being then taken to be one of tlieir number.
In 1637 he proceeded in his faculty, and became
thereu]K)n more noted among men, especially when
king Charles I. (to whom he was chief physician)
and his court kept their residence several years in
Oxon in the tune of the grand rebellion. After-
wards when his majesty and liis cause declined, he
retired to London, closed with the times for interest
sake, became physician to the Charter-house, fellow
of the coll. of physicians, and at length cliief physi-
cian to Oliver while lie was general, and afterwards
when protector, and did not stick (tho' he pretended
to be a concefiled royalist) to flatter him in an high
degree. Upon the restoration of king Charles 2.
an. 1660 he got in with the royal party, (by his
friends rejjort tliat he ' by a dose given to Ohver
hastned him to his end) was made chief physician
to kingCharles, and amemberof the Royal Society.
His publislic'd works are these.

The Royal Apology ." or, tlie Declaration of the

' [In 1650, when general Cromwell had a severe .ngiie
and relapse in Scotland, the council of state sent him two
eminent doctors, Dr. Wright and Dr. Bates, for whose ad-
vice and good effect of it, Cromwell returned thanks in a let-
ter, Eilinburgh, June 5. Kennet.]

I * [In my copies, it is the book, called the Regal Apology,
which has the word Canvassedin the title (pr. l648) but the

Commons in Parliammt, 11 Feb. 1647, canvassed.

Printed 1648 in about 14 sh. in qu. [Bodl.

4to. T. 23. Jur.] There was also a book cntit.
77ic Regal Apology, printed, as 'tis said, at Paris
the same yeai- in qu. but who the author of it was, I
know not, unless the king himself.

Elcnchtis Motuutn nupenmim in Anglia, simtd
ac Juris regii ac Parliamentarii brcvts Narratio.
Par. 1649. Franc, ad IMjeu. 1650, -51. qu. W'\\iQh
being communicated to Dr. Pet. Heylin before it
went to the press, or else when the second part was
joyned to it, were by him made many observations
on it, which much tended to the honour of the king
and church. This first part oi' Elcnchu.s was trans-
lated into English by an unknown hand, and printed
at LfHid. 1652. in oct. The second part of the said
Elenchus, wherein the author was assisted by some
papers lent to him by sir Edw. Hyde lord chancellor
of England, was jirinted at Lond. in Lat. 1661, and
at Amsterdam in the yeai- following in oct. &c. and
reprinted with the first part at Lond. 1663. in oct.
Sec. Of wliich two parts and their author, hear
what a learned ' writer .says (after he had condemned
George Hornius, Honorius Reggus, a Scotch ' Ano-
nymus, and Salmonetus * ScotoBritannus, who
have written very falsly concerning our EngUsh

affairs) thus ' Eorum omniimi (jui hactenus de

rebus ajiiid nos nuper gestis scripserunt Latino
idiomate, unus Bateus dignus est, qui legatur;
(luancjiiam etiam ab Anonymo scriptore propena
nimium in Puritanos animi nuper est accusatus,' &c.
A third part of Elenchus Motuum was slightly com-
posed, and continued from newer books to the year
1669, by Tlio. Skinner a doctor of phys. of tliis
university ; published in l^atiii with the former
parts at Lond. 1676, which would have been far
better perfoiined by our author Bate, if he had
lived but one year longer. At length, after the im-
pressions had all in a manner been vended, one A.
Lovel, M. A. of Cambridge, " who lives by scrib-
bling," gave us a translation of all the Elenchi, but
not well done — '• — Pr. at Lond. 1685. oct. In
which year he had two translations of other inen"'s
works extant, the mentioning of which, as being not
pertinent, is now to be omitted. But the two parts
pubhshed by Dr. Bate having several jiassages in
them that gave offence, not only to the papists but
cavaliers, for the reason before given, one Robert
Pugh, who had been an officer in the king's army,
wrote an answer to them entit. Elenchus Elenchi,
&c. Par. 1664. oct. To which Bate made a reply,
but, as his son hath told me, he did not pubhsh it,

book printed at Paris, is called. The Roy all Apology. In
the liilc page of this last, I find under my own hand, that it
was supposed to be written by chancellor Hide, but I canno*
remember, "ho it was that told me so. Ilu imphreys.]

9 John Durell in his S- Ecclesia Anglicani, i^c. Vmdiciir.
Lond. !()()(). cap. 28. p. ,332.

' Qui scripsit Ilistoriam Mnluun nuperuramin Scolia,

" yui Gallicc scripsit De Rebus Anglicis.

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only put it in MS. in the Cottonian library; and
upon that report tlid I in my Hht. ^ Antiq. Univ.
Oxou. say as much in the liteot'^ Dr. Bate. Where-
upon Pugh having had notice of, or else had read, it,
he made a search after it in the said library (as he
himself hath told me several times) but could not
find it, otherwise he would have made a rejoynder.
Now here by the way I must let the reader know,
that this Rob. Pugh was born at Pcnryhn in tlie
parish of Eglos-Rosse in Caernarvansh. and edu-
cated in the Jesuit's coll. at S. Omer's : afterwards
coming into England, lie bore arms for the king,
and was a captain in that war that began \QVZ :
Which being done without the consent of the supe-
riors of his order, he himself being then a Jesuit, he
was ejected from among them. Afterwards he en-
tred himself among the secular priests, became con-
fessor to Henrietta Maria the queen mother of
England, and by P. Innocent the 10th was created
protonotarius publicus ajiostolicus, an. 1655. Be-
sides the former IxKik, he wrote Bnthonieiis'mm ^
Aquisffranen,sium Thermanim Cmnparatio, rmriis
Adjunctli illmtrata. Lond. 1676. oct. Written by
way of epistle to his patron Roger Palmer earl of
Castlemain, dated at IJatli 7 kal. Aug. 1675. Also
another book Of the .several States and Govern-
mcnts that have hecn in Eng-land .since 1642.
Which is in MS. in tlie said earfs hands. I have
seen also a Latin ode of his composition, made on
the inmiatiire death of Sidnev Moinitague, who
either died of a wound, or in the flames or waters,
in the sea-fight between the English and Dutch, on
the 5th of tlie kal. of Jun. 1672, being then in the
ship of his kinsman Edw. earl of Sandwich. "Pis
printed on one side of a broad sh. of paper. " Tiiis
" Rob. Pugh w as thought to be the author of this
" pamphlet, To all the Royalists that suffered for
" his Muje.sty, and to tlie Rest of tlie good People
" of England, tlie humble Apologij of the English
" Cutliolics. — Printed and published at London in
" Nov. 1666. — The author was enquired diligently
" after (by the house of commons) but not found.
" The printer fled, but his presses were broken by
" the command of the house of lords.* The begin-
" ning of the jiamphlet is — ' My lords and gentle-
" men, the arms which Christians can use against
" lawful powers,' &c. Dr. Barlow saith it was writ
" by one Pugh a pretended phy.sician and a Welsh
" man ; answer'd by Will. Lliiiyd of Jesus college
" (now bishop of Litchfield) who ^vrit The late
" Apology in Belialfofthe Papists, reprinted and
" ansicered in Behalf' of the Royalists — Lond.
" 1667. qu. This was reply'd upon by this Ixxjk
" following, A Reply to the Answer of the Catholic
" Apology : or a clear Vindication of the Catholics
'^^ of England from all Matter of Fact charg'd

' Lib. 2. p. 3.';4.

» [House of Commons rather, as is said rigliily in ihe ar-
ticle William Lloyd.]

" against them Iry tlieir Enemies. Printed 1668.
" Oct. At the end of this reply is a catalogue of
" those catholics that suffered for their loyalty in the
" rebellion. Those things here said to be written
" by Hob. Pugh, by others are thought to have
" been written by Rog. earl of Castlemain." At
length upon the breaking out of the plot called by
some ' the popish plot,' and by others ' Oats's plot,'
he was, with other priests, committed to Newg,ate
prison in London ; where being' not able to un-
dergo hardship, and coldness of weather, he siir-
rendred up his last breath about 12 of the clock at
night, on the 22d of January 1678, aged 69 years
or thereabouts ; whereupon his body was buried the
next day in the yard or liurying place belonging to
tlie parish of Clirist Church, situate north-west at
some distance from the said church, within New-
gate, London ; where, I remember, I saw his grave
soon after, under the middle part of a brick wall, on
the north side of the said yard. He was a person
of a most comely port, well favour'd, and of excel-
lent parts, and therefore he deserved a better end.
Our author Dr. Bate also, witli Franc. Glisson,
and Ahasuerus Regemorter doctors of physic, and
fellows of the college of physicians, did compile a
book entit.

De Ruchitide, sive Morbo puerili, qui vulgo the
Rickets dicitur. Lond. 1650. oct. Chiefly composed
by Glisson : whicli book was afterwards translated

intoP^nglish by Philip Armin. Lond. 1651. oct.

and about that time also by Nich. Culpeper, as I
concei^■e, who wTites himself a student in physic antl
astrology, author of divers physical books and al-
manacks. " Wdl. Salmon, professor of physic,
" translated into English Pharmacopceia Bateana :
" or, Bate's Di.spen.sntoj-y — Phil. Transac. num.
" 206. 1693. See an account of the translation
" there." Dr. Bate died in his house in Hatton-
Garden in Holboum near London,* April 19, in
sixteen hundred sixty and nine: Whereupon his
body was carried to Kingston upon Thames in
Surrey, and was buried by tliat of his wife Elizabeth
(who died the 17th of Apr. 1667) in an isle, or
rather a vestry, joining on the north side of the
chm-cli there. Over his grave is a monument fastned
to the east wall of the said vestry, between the two
east windows, with an inscription thereon, which for
brevity sake * I shall now omit ; and only tell you,
(1) That after his death was pubUshed, Pharmaco-
pwia Bateana. In qua octingenta circiter Phar-
muca, pleraque omnia e praxi Georgii Batei Regi
Cur. 2". Proto-medici excerpta, &c. Lond. 1688,
and 1691, oct.' by the care of J. Shipton an apothe-

5 [An. 1608, April 19, Dr. Geo. Bates, a learned physi-
cian, died at Kingston upon Thames, and there buried.
Mr. Ric. Smith's Obituary. Baker.]

* I See it in Aubrey's Natural Hist, and Aniin. of Surreu,
] . 36.]

' [Bodl. 8vo. M. 60. Med. Translated into English, with
additions, by W. Salmon, pr. Lond. l6g4, Bodl. 8vo. M. S3,-

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MATHER.

cary. And (2.) That wlicrcas there hatli l)een one
George Bate who hatli pubHshed, The Lives, Ac-
tions, and Execution of the prime Actois and prin-
cipal Contrivers oft/iat lutrrid Murder of our late
piou.i and sacred Sovereign King- Cluirles I. &c.
Lond. 1G61. oct. he is not to be understood to be
the same with the doctor, but another far inferior to
him in all respects, one that had ran with tlie mu-
table times, and had after his majesty's restoration
endeavoured, by scribling, to gain the favour of the
royalists.

" THOMAS READ, a most noted royalist of
" his time, was bom at Linkenholt in Hampshire,
" educated in grammar learning in Wykeham's
" school near Winchester, became perpetual fellow
" of New coll. after he had served two years of pro-

[427] " bation an. 1625, entred upon the law-line, took
" the degrees in that faculty, that of doctor being
" compleated in 1638, and in 1642 trailed a pike
" for his majesty in the univ. of Oxon, among the
" masters of arts, bachelors, and under graduates,
" under the command of capt. Will. Holland, son of
" the famous Dr. Thorn. Holland sometime regis
" professor of divinity, and soon after became an
" ofticer among them. In Oetob. 1643 he was, by
" his majesty's command, admitted principal of
" Magd. hall, upon the flight of Dr. Jo. Wilkinson
" to the parliament, served his majesty in his army,
" but upon the declining of his cause he changed his
" religion for thatof Rome, became a secular priest,
" as one that knew him well hath informed me, tho'
" others say he was a Carthusian. And after the
" restoration of king Charles II. coming into Eng-
^' land, he was civilly treated, and tacitly (or as some
" say clancularly) admitted into Doctors Commons
" at London to obtain a bare livelihood, where he
" was afterwards surrogate for sir William Merick
" judge of the Prerogative. This person, who was
" always esteemed a good scholar and civilian, hath
" written,

" An Answer to Two Letters to Mr. T. B. giving
" an Account of the Church Catholic, where it was
" before the Reformation, &c. Par. 1654, in oct.
" This Answer, which was published under the two
" letters of R. T. esq; I have not yet seen, and
" therefore I cannot justly say whether it be the
" right title. See more in Edward Boughen among
" these writers in this vol. col. 388. This Dr. Read,
" who, as 'tis said, hath written other matters of
" controversy, died in Exeter House in tlie Strand
" near London (to which house Doctors Commons
t' had been liefore translated after the dismal confla-
" gration of L(mdon) in the beginning of the year

iWJg. " sixteen hundred sixty and nine, and was, as I pre-
" sume, buried in the church belonging to the nos-

Med. Another edition of the Latin, with Arcana God-
dnT(liana,a.m\ an appendix printed at Amsterdam, I7O9, 8vo.
Bodl. 8vo. K. 33. Line.]

" pital called the Savoy, for in the parish belonging
" thereunto Exeter House is situated."

RICHARD MATHER, son of Tho. Mather

by Margaret his wife, was lx)rn at Lowton in the
parish of Winwick in Lancashire, an. 1596, educated
m grammar learning in the school at Winwick,
distant alx)ut four miles from Lowton, and thence
was called to teach a public school at Toxteth Park
near to Liverpool in the said coimty, an. 1612,
where pretending to receive a new light within him,
was converted to godliness an. 1614. Thence he
went to Oxon and was admitted a student in Bra-
sen-n. coll. 9 May 1618, being then about 22
years of age ; where he met with some that had
been his scholars, and became acquainted with a
most zealous and godly divine, from whom he gained
nmch in his studies. Afterwards being invited by
the jxjople of Toxteth to take upon him the ministry
there, he retiu-ned into his own country, and preached
the first sermon among them on the 30th of Nov.
following, and alwut that time married Katharine
daughter of Edward Holt of Bury in Lancashire.
Eor fifteen years, or more, he preached every Sun-
day at Toxteth, and on Tuesdays at Prescot, and
was much frequented at both places by the precise
party. But so it was that being a severe Calvinist,
and little or no friend to the church of England, he
was suspended for nonconformity to ceremonies, an.
1633, but quickly restored, and soon after was sus-
pended again by the visitors when they visited
Chester diocese. In 1635 he, with his family, left
Lancashire, and removed to New England, where
putting in at Boston in Aug. the same year, the
people of Dorchester in that county gave him a call
to be their minister : Whereupon settling at that
place, he continued among them in the laborious
work of the gospel to his dying day. He hath written.

Answer to 32 Questions. '\

Discoiase about the Church vLond. 1643. qu.
Covenant. J

These two things pass under the name of the
Elders of New England, but Matlier was the author
of them.

Anszeier to Mr. Charl. Herle and to Mr. Saw.
Rutlierfbrd ; wherein is defended the congregatimiul
Way of Church Government, and how it differs
Ji-om the Presbyterian. I^ond. 1646. qu.

" A Reply to Mr. Rutherford, or a Defence of
" the An.%wer to Mr. Ilerle's Book against tlie In-
" dependency of Churches. Lond. 1647. qu."

An Heart-melting Exhortation, togetlier with a
Cordial Consolation, presented in a Letter from,
New England to his dear Country-men of Lan-
cashire, kc. Lond. 1650. in Iw. [B(xll. 8vo. A. 10.
Th. BS.] Tho' the name of Will. Tomson a Lan-
cashire man born, and pastor of Braintry in New
England, is set to this book with that of Mather,
yet Mather was the sole author of it, as his son hath
informed me.

MATHER.

H34

i66g.

A Catccht.wi : or, the Grounds and Principles of
Christian Religion, set forth by Way of Question
and Answer, &c. Loud. 1G50. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. C.
17. Th. 13S.]

Sermons on the second Epistle of S. Peter

They were transcribed by him for the press, but are
not yet made public.

Treatise ()f Justification. Cambr. InN. E. 1652.
qu. He also prepared for the press,

A Defence ctftlic Churches in Netc England. —
Written against W. Ratlibond minister ot the gos-
pel : and had a principal hand in drawing up The
Platform of Church Discipline, agreed unto by the
Elders and Messengers of the Churches assembled
in the Synod at Cambridge in N. E. An. 1G48.
He also leit boiiind him a MS. of his composition,
to prove that The Power of Rule and Govcr-nment
in the Church belongs only to the Elders, and not
to the Fraternity. At length after he had spent
the greatest part of his time in the zealous ministry
of the gospel, surrendred up his pious soul to liim
that first gave it on the 22d of Apr. in sixteen hun-
dred sixty and nine : whereupon his body was buried
at Dorchester in New England before-mention''d.
He had several sons that were non-conforming mi-
nisters, as (1.) Samuel, whom I shall mention among
these writers under the year 1671. (2.) Nathaniel,
sometime minister of Barnstaple in Devonsh. after-
wards at Rotterdam in Holland, now pastor of a
congregation in London, " who is the author of
" The Righteousness of God through Faith upon
" all, without Difference, who believe. In tico Ser-
" mons mi Rom. 3. 22. Lond. 1694. qu." (3.)
Eleazer, who died pastor of the church at Noi'th-
ampton in N. Engl, after he had been a preacher
there eleven years. (4.) Increase, or as he writes
himself in his Latin books, Crescentius Matherus,
born at Dorchester in N. E. educated in Harwarden
coll. in Cambridge there, and thence, after six years
standing, removed to Ireland, where in Trin. coll.
near Dublin he proceeded mast, of arts 1658, aged
19 years or thereabouts. In 1661 he returned to
liis native country, was elected president of the coll.
wherein he had been educated an. 1681, and in May
1688 he came into England to acquaint king James
II. from the principal gentlemen in New England
of the state of his subjects in that territory, whose
civil liberties and properties were then invaded in an
intolerable manner. This person who is also now,
or at least was lately, pastor of a church at Boston,
[and president of Hai-warden college, in Cambridge »]
in his native country, hath written several things,
as (1.) Discourse concerning the Mystery of Is-
raets Salvation; on Rom. 11. 26. Lond. 1669.
Oct. (2.) The fir,<it Principles of New England
concerning tlie Subject of Baptism and Communion
of Chu7ches, Cambr. in N. E. 1675. qu. (3.) A
brief History of the War with the Indians in New

« [Wani-ev.]
Vol. III.

England, from the 24//t of June 1675, (when
the first English Man wa^i murthered by the
Indians) to the 12</t itf Aug. 1676, wlt£n Philip
alius Metacomct was slain, Sfc. together with a
serious Exhortation to the Inhabitants of that
Land. Boston in N. E. 1676. qu. Afterwaid
reprinted at Lond. (4.) Some important TrutJu
about Conversion, delivered in sundry Sermons.
Lond. 1674. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. Z. 35. Th.] (5.)
The Divine Right of Itifant Baptism asserted
and pi-ovedJ'rom Scripture and Antiquity. Bost. in
N. E. 1680. qu. (6.) Practical Truths tendingto
promote Godliness in the Power of it. Bost. in
N. E. 1682. (7.) Diatriba de S'igno Filii Ho-
minis, H. de sccundo Messiw Adventu, &c. Amstel.
1682. oct. (8.) An Essay for the Recording cyf
illustrious Providences: xcherein an Account is given
of many remarkable and very memorable Events,
which have hapned in this last Age, especially in
N. England. Boston in New Engl. 1684. oct. with
his picture before it. (9.) Discourse concerning
the Person, Office and Glory of Jesus Christ. Bost.
in N. E. 1686. oct. (10.) De Successu Evangelii
apud Indos in Nova Anglia, Epistola cul cl. Virum
D. Joh. Lensdcnum Ling. Sanctce in Ultrajectind
Academia Professorem scripta. Lond. 1688. in one
sheet in oct. [Bodl. 8vo. J. 35. Line] (11.) TU
Wonders of Free-Grace : or a compleat History of
all the remarlcable Penitents that luive been executed
at Tyburn, and elsezohere, Jirr these last thirty
Years. To which is added a Sermon preached in
the hearing of a condemned Person, immediately
before his Execution. I.,ond. 1690. in tw. [Bodl.
8"vo. Z. 279. Th.] &:c. " (12.) A further Account
" of the Tryal of the New England Witches, &c.
" Lond. 1693. qu. [Bodl. C. 8. 4. Line] (13.)
" Cases of Conscience concerning Witchcraft and
" evil Spirits personatiy^g Men."" This IMr. Mather,"
who is a person of learning, candor and civility,

' [Increase Mather. He was the youngest son of Mr.
Ricliard Mather, and was born at Dorchester in New Eng-
land, where his father was minister, an. lfi3g. He took the
degree of batchelor of arts in Haward college in lb'56. In
1657 he took a journey to England, and after visiting his
friends in Lancashire, cross'd the sea again for Ireland, where
he was kindly recciv'd by his eldest brother, Samuel Mather,
who was at that time minister in Dublin and had invited
him thither. He enter'd himself in Trinity college there,
and in iCsS proceeded master of arts; he was chosen fellow
of the college but did not accept it, the air of that country
not agreeing with him, wherefore he returned to England
and was for some time a preacher to Mr. John Howe's parish
at Great Tcrrington, Mr. Howe being in close wailing as
chaplain to the proleclor in the county of Devon. Tlien
upon an invitation of the governor of Guernsey he went
thither and there preach'd till the lime of the restoration, but
coming under a necessity either of conforming or quitting 1 he
place, he left Guernsey and came into England, where, llio'
he was offer'd a living of some hundreds a year if he would
conform, he refns'd it and sail'd for New England, and thare
he settled in the new church in the north part of Boston,
there he married the daughter of Mr. John Cotton, by whom
he had Dr. Cotton Mather, so well Jinown by his wriiinjs.-
3H

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BYAM.

hath a son by his wife, the daughter of the famous
Mr. John Cotton of N. England, named Cotton
Mather, now pastor of a clmrcli in Boston, and in

In 1680 the synod sale at Boston and the confession of faith
was agreed upon ; Mather was the moderator and drew up
the preface to it. Id i683, K. Charles, by a declaration re-
quired from the inhabitants of New England a full submis-
sion and an entire resignation of their charier to his pleasure,
or else signified a quo warranto should be prosecuted. Mather
being desired to be present at a publick assembly of the
freemen of Boston and give his thoughts about that matter,
complied, and publicklydeclar'd against their having an hand
in their own ruin, and persuaded them rather to leave them-
selves in the hands of God and submit to his pleasure in a
faithfull discharge of their duty, than deliver themselves
immediately into the hands of men, by a full submission
and entire resignation to their pleasure. The question was
carried in the negative, neminecomradiccute, and this had a
great influence on the country in general. Some impertinent
people, that they might be revcng'd on him for this, forg'd a
letter, full of impertment as well as treasonable expressions,
no one of which was his, and dating it Boston 1683, iliey
subscrib'd his name to it, and sent it to one at Amsterdam.
This letter was read before the king and council, but it car-
ried such evidences of its being a forgery, and tho' sir Rog.
L'Estrange publish'd some scraps of it, with his comments,
yet there was no prosecution of him. Judgment was enier'd
against the charier of Massachuset's colony. K. Charles died
soon after, and in l6'86 K. James sent a governour, with a
commission, that enabled him with three or four other men,
to make what laws and levy what taxes ihey pleas'd, &c. but
in a little time, the king published a dccl.nration fir liberty
of conscience ; some of the ministers of New England and
their churches, drew up addresses of thanks to him for the
benefit enjoy'd by this declaration, and Mather was dcsir'd to
take a voyage to England and deliver them. A copy of the
letter foremention'd, coming to New England, iVlaiher,
writing to a gentleman that had it, vindicated himself and
named a person whom he suspected to have a hand in the
contrivance ; this per.ion arrested Mather in an action of de-
famation and 500/. <!amage, purely, as was apprehended, with
a design to stop his voyage, but the jury cleare<l him and
order'd the plaintifl'to pay costs of suit, and he embark'd fur
England in 1(388 : coming thither, he presented the addresses
to K. James, and laid before him ihe state of ihe country
and was favour;ibly received. Upon the revolution, he
waited on the prince of Orange, and was inslrumental in pre-
venting the sending a letter to New England (in common
with the other plantations) confirming their old governor till
farther order, wnich would have had pernicious consequences.
Mather's great endeavour was to get New Enghnd reseiled
upon their charter foundalion, bnl he was disappointed in his
attempt of getting their charier restored by a bill in parlia-
ment, through the unexpeclcd dis-olution of parliament.
His next attempt was to get a writ of error in judgment, by
which the case relating to the Massachuset's colony mi^ht
be brought out of Chancery into the King's-bench, but
herein he also failed, and therefore, all he had left lo do, was
to petition the king for a new charter containing all the old
one, with the addition of new and more ample privileges,
which he, after some time, obtained, and then in ltiQ2 he set
sail for New England in the company of sir William Phipps,
whom the king sent over governour, and at Boston, there
being a meeting of the great and general assembly of the pro-
vince, the speaker of the house of representatives, or com-
mons, publickly returned him thanks for his faithfull and
indefatigable endeavours to serve the country. He now
returnetl to his employment, the care of his churches and of
the college of which he was president, and was created doctor
of divinity, but in I7OI he resigu'd his charge in the college
because the general assembly requir'd the president to reside

great rej)utation among the people, in N. Engl,
author of (1) Late memorable Providences relating
to Witchcrqfls and Possessions, ckarly manifesting,
not only that there are Witches, but that good Men
(as well as others) may possibly haiw their Lives
shortned by such evil Instruments of' Satan. Lond.
1 691 . sec. edit. " (2) The Life and Death of Mr.
" John Eliot tcho toas tlie Jirst Preacher of the
" Gospel to the Indians in America, &c. Lond.
« 1694. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. Z. 274. Th.] and other
" things."

HENRY BYAM son of Laur. Byam of Luck-
ham alias East Luckham near Uunster in Somerset-
shire clerk, was born there on the last of Aug. 1580,
and in Act term 1597 was sent to Exeter coll. where
he contiiuied in the condition of a sojourner till he
was elected a student of Ch. Cli. 21 Dec. 1599. In
both which houses, he, by the advantage of an in-

fenious and liberal education, joyned with his own
iligence and industry, soon became one of the
greatest ornaments of this university and the most
noted person there for his excellent and polite learn-
ing : which being seconded with j udgment and ex-
perience, when he began to serve at the altar, made
nira like a burning and shining light, and to be looked
upon as the most acute and eminent preacher of his
age. Much about tlte time that he took the degree
of bach, of div. an. 1612 he was called home to his
own country, and succeeded his father in the rectory
of Luckham before-mention''d, and Will. Fleet in
that of Selworthy adjoyning. From which time till
the rebellion broke out, nothing occurs memorable
of him, only that about the year IGiiG ' he became
prebendary of Exeter, and when a parhament after-
wards was conven'd, he was, by tlie unanimous con-
sent of the clergy of the diocese wherein he liv''d,
elected to be their clerk in convocation. In the
beginning of the civil war he was the first person that
was seized on, in the parts where he hved, by Rob.
Blake then a captain of dragoons, afterwards general
at sea under Oliver ; from whom, after some time of
imprisonment, making an escape, he fled to the king
at Oxon, where, among many loyalists, he was ac-
tually created doct. of divinity. Before that time he
had raised both men and horse for his majesty, and
tliAi, or after, had engaged his five sons (of which
four were captains) in that just quarrel, exposing all
his estate, whether spiritual or temporal (which was
not inconsiderable) to rapine, plunder and seques-
tration, his children to distress and danger, and liim-

at Cambridge. He continued at Boston till he was past
eighty, and was not at all infeebled in his iniellecluals. He
died in I72i and was honour'd with a greater funeral than
ever had been seen for any divine in those parts, and his
church bore the expence of it, and the ministers of Boston,
for nine or ten weeks successively, did in his own pulpit ex-
press their condolence with his church. Macro.]

' [He was collaiel March 17, 1G36, to a prebend in the
churchof Exeter, on the death of Sampson Strode. Walker^
Sufferings of Ihe Clergy, part ii, page £9.]

BYAM.

SAMWAIES.

838

self to many grievous shifts and exigencies. His
wife and daughter also that were left at home, were
so iinicli troubled by the rebels, tliat they endeavour-
ing to avoid their cruelties by flight over the sea
into Wales, were both drowned. All these suf-
ferings our author Dr. Byam patiently endured,
that lie might keep a good conscience, not out of
any base or greedy desire of reward, but meerly
out of generous and religious principles. When the
prince of Wales (afterwards King Charles II.) fled
Irom England, this our author went with him, first
to the island of Scilly, and afterwards to that of
Jersey, where the prince left him, as his chaplain, to
pi-cacn in his chapel in the castle called Elizabeth,
and there he remained till that garrison was taken
by the parliament forces. From which time till the
[430] king's return, he lived in a poor and obscure condi-
tion ; but as soon as that glorious star appeared in
the British firmament, he was made canon of Exeter
and prebendary of Wells. And then when he might
have obtained what he would have asked, he con-
tented himself only with what his majesty was
pleased freely to bestow upon him. However, had
not his own modesty stood in the way, 'tis well
known his majesty's bounty towards him had not
rested here, but he must have died a bishop. Which
honourable function he really deserved, not only for
sanctity of life but for learning, charity and loyalty,
scarce to be equall'd by any in the age he Uved. His
works are these.

Thirteen Sermons, most of them Preached before
Ms Majesty King Cluirles II. in his Exile. Lond.
1675. in oct. [Bodi. 8vo. S. 15. Th.l They were
deliver'd before the king in the island of Scilly and
Jersey, at which time this worthy Ur. was chapl. in
ord. to his majesty, who was his constant auditor,
admiring equally his learning and his loyalty.
Among them are these two Lat. sermons. Osculum
Pacts : Concio ad Clerum habita Exonice in trien.
Visitat. D. Jos. Hall Epi^c. Exon. in S. Marc,
cap. 9. ver. tdt. And Nativitas Christi: Concio
in /Ed. S. Mar. Ox. habita pro Gradu An. 1612,
in Matth. cap. 1. ver. 18. Also, if I mistake not,*
is his sermon entit A Return from A^-ffier, prcaclied
at Miiiltead in Somers. 16 Mar. 1627, at the Re-
admis.^ion of a relapsed Christian into our Ch. cm
Rev. 2. part of the 5th vers. Lond. 1628. qu. [Bodl.
8vo. P. 44. Th.] All which 13 sermons were pub-
lished by Hamnet Ward M.D. vicar of Sturmister-
Newton-Castle in Dorsetshire. He the said Dr.
Byam hath other elaborate pieces that were fairly
written with his own hand and ready for the press,
if the executor will oblige posterity so far as to pub-
lish them : but these I have not yet seen. At length
after he had lived to a great age, and had seen
many changes in the world, concluded his last day
on the 16tli of June, and was buried in the chancel
o\' the church at Luckham, on the 29th of the same

' [Ii's no mistake. Loved.w.J

month, in sixteen hundred sixty and nine. On the 'Wig.
wall near to his grave, is a comely inoiiument lii-st-
ncd, with this inscription thereon, made byDr.AVard
before-mention'd. ' Non procul hinc sun mannore
congenito, sepultum jacet corpus Ilenrici Byam ex
antiquiss. Byamorum familia oriundi, SS. Theologiae
Doctoris insignissimi, hujus ecclesia; & proximae Scl-
worthianae Rectoris, Pastorisque vigilantis.sime, ec-
clesiae Cath. Exon. Canonici, ecclesiaL-que Wellensis
Prebendarii, sereniss. Majestatis Car. ll. Regis Ca-
pellani & Concionatoris ordinarii, necnon ejusdem,
saiviente ilia tyrannide & semper execranda Phana-
ticorum rcbellione, terr^ marique comitis, exuhscjue
simul. Ex meliore luto ejus constructum corpus
]x)st annos tandem octoginta & novem, an sal.
Millesimo sexcentesiino sexagesimo nono, morti non
triumphant! quam invitanti placide cessit. Sed
extat adhuc viri hujus optinii celebrius multo hoc &
ornatius monumentum non marmore perituro, sed
typis exaratum perpetuis, scripta scilicet ejus plane
divina; ubi animi vires & sunimum ejus ingenii
acumen intueberis simul & miraberis. Lugubrem
hunc lapidem honoris & reverentiae indicem posuit
fiUus ejus obsequentiss. Franciscus Byam.'

RICHARD SAMWAIES sonof Ric. Sam. was
born at lUminster in Somersetshire, of which his
father was vicar, was admitted scholar of Corp. Ch.
coll. 26 Mar. 1630,' aged 16 years, was " 18 Jan.
1638" fellow, M. of A. and m holy orders. In
1648 he was ejected his fellowship by the visitors
appointed by parliament, and afterwards, being a
shiftless person, suffer'd great misery and hardship
for his loyalty. In 1660 he was restored to his fel-
lowship by the king's commissioners, was actually
created bach, of div. and on the death of Hen. Jack-
son beaime rector of Meisey-Hampton inGlocester-
shire. He hath written,

England's Jaithful Reprover and Monitor, under
9 Heads ; directed Jirst to the Church of England,
2 to the inferior Ministers of the Gospel, 3 to the
Nobility and Gentry, S^c. zoith a Postscript. Lond.
1653. in oct. [Bodl. 8vo. H. 23. Th. BS.] Besides
which he had one or more books fitted for the press,
but were lost. He died 21 Aug. in sixteen hun-
dred sixty and nine, and was buried in the chancel *^9"
of the church of Meisey-Hampton, near to the grave
of liis predecessor, H. Jackson before-mention'd:
Whereupon Will. Fulman succeeded him in that [431]
rectory, as I shall tell you hereafter. One Peter
Samwaies hath written An Exposition on Catechis-
tical Principles, but whether ne was related to the
former,* or was of this university, I cannot yet
tell.'

3 [In the beginning of l630. Wood. MS. Note in Ash-
wio/c]

■• [Ves, he was his cousin by a zealous cavalier of whom
see nn account in Walker's .Sufferings of the Clergy.']

^ [Peter Samwaies rector of Maiden : —

Tiie wise and faithful .Steward, or a Narralioa qf the

3H2

839

KING.

840

HENRY KING the eldest son of Dr. John King,
(whom I have mention VI in the second vol. of this
work, under the year lOai col.294.)hy Joan his wife,
daughter of Hen. Freeman of Staffordshire, was
bom in the same house and chamber at Womal in
Bucks, wherein his father liad received his first
hreatli, in the month of January 1591, and was
baptized there on the I6th of the said month,
educated partly in grammar learning in the free-
school at Thame in Oxfordsh. and partly in the col-
lege school at Westminster : from which last he was
elected a student of Ch. Ch. in 1608, being then

Eut under the tuition of a noted tutor : Afterwards
e took the degrees in arts, entred into holy orders,
became a most florid preacher, and successively
chapl. in ord. to king James I. of pious memory,
archdeacon of Colchester, residentiary of S. Paurs
cathedral, canon of Ch. Ch. chapl. in ord. to king
Charles I. D. ofD. and dean of Rochester, in which
dignity he was installed 6 Febr. 1638, but whetiier
in the room of Dr. John Richardson, who occurs ^
dean of that church in Apr. 1636 (in which month
and year he died) or in that of Dr. Walt. Balcan-
quall, who had the grant of the deanery of Durham
made to him in 1638, but not installed therein till
May 1639, I cannot justly tell. In 1641 he was
made bishop of Chichester, (being one of those per-
sons of iniblemished reputation that his majesty,
tho' late, promoted to that honourable office) to
which being consecrated (at Westminster as it seems)
on the 19th of Decern!), the same year, sate there,
without any removal, saving only tiiat by the mem-
bers of the long parliament, to the tune of his
death. AVhen he was young he delighted much in
tlie studies of music and poetry, which, with his wit
and fancy, made his conversation much accepted.
When he was elder, he applied himself to oratory
and philosophy, and in his reduced age fixed on
divinity ; in which faculty he became eminent, as
his sermons partly shew, which remained fresh in
the minds of his auditors many years after his death.
His works are.

Several sermons, as (1) Sermon preached at
PauVs Cross 25 Nov. 1621. upon Occasion of that
false and scandalous Report (lately printed) touch-
ing ike supposed Apostacy of Dr. John King late

exemplary Death of Mr. Benjamin Rhodes, Steward to the
Rl. ILml'le Thomas Earl of Elgin, isfc. briefly touched in a
Funeral Sermon, and since enlaraed. Together ivith some
remarkable Passages concerning Mrs. Anne Rhodes his Wife,
who dying a few Hours after him, was buried together in the
same Grave with him in Maiden Church, in Bedfordshire
j4ug. ith, 1657, Svo. Lond. if),')7. VVanley.

Devotion digested in several Discourses and Meditnlions on
the hordes Prayer, togetiier with addilioniil Exercitations on
Baptism, Loris Supper, Heresies, isfc. By Piter Samwaies
fellow lately resident in Trin. Coll. Cambridge. Lond. lG52,
ISmo. He was chaplain to Elizabeth, countess dowaaer of
Peterborough, to whom he dedicates this book ; was "after-
wards D.D. and rector of Bedal, co. Ebor. 1P8I. Tanner.]

" In Reg. Pile, in the Will ofTicc near S. Paul's cath.
Loml.Qu. 52.

B. of Lond. onJoh. 15. 20. Lond. 1621. [Bodl. 4to.
K. 1. Th.] To which is added The Examination
ofTho. Preston taken before the Archh. of Cant, at
Lambeth 20 Dec. 1621," concerning his being the
Author of the scandalotts Report (f Bishop King's
Apostacy. (2) David's Enlargement : the Morn-
ing Sermon on Act Sunday, on Psal.32. 5. Oxon.
1625. qu. [Bodl. 4to. J. 12. Th.] See more in John
King in the second vol. an. 1638. col. 632. (3) Sermon
of Deliverance, at the Spittle on Easter Monday, on
Psal. 91. 3. Printed 1626. qu. (4) Two Ser-
mons at Whitehall in Lent, on Eccles. 12. 1. and on
Psal. 55. 6. Printed 1627. in qu. (5) Serm. at
PauTs on his Maj. Inaugu7-ation, on Jer. 1. 10.
Printed 1640. in qu. (6) Sermon at Whitehall9X)
May, being the hajypij Day of his Maj. Inaugura-
tion and Birth ; on Ezel: 21. 27. Lond. 1661. qu.
(7) Serm. at the Funeral of Bt-ian Bishop of Win-
chester in the Abbey Ch. ofWestm. 24 Ajjr. 1662,-
on Psal. 116. 15.' Lond. 1662. qu. (8) Visitation
Serm. at Lezvis, 8 Oct. 1662 ,• on Titus 2. 1. Lond.
1663. qu. (9) Sermon preacfied 30 Jan. 1664 tit
Whitehall, being the Day of the King\i Martyr-
dom ; on 2 Chron. 35. 24, 25. Lond. 1665. qu.

Exposition on the LorcVs Prayer, delivered in
certain Sermons,^ on Matth. 6. 9. &c. Lond. 1628.
qu. [Bodl. 4to. L. 35. Th.] It must be now ob-
served that this worthy bishop being at divine
service on Sunday in a certain church (at Langley,
I think, in Bucks) and hearing there a psalm sung,
whose wretched expression quite marr'd the pen-
man's matter, and his devotion, he did at his return
home that evening, tr}' whether from the version of
our Bible, he could not easily and with plainness,
suiting the lowest understanding, deliver it from
that garb, which indeed made it ridiculous. From
one to another he passed on until the whole Ixxjk
was run through : Which done, he could not resist
the advice and importunity of better jtidgments than
his own, to put it to press. He was, as he con-
fcssVl, discouraged, knowing that Mr. George San-
dys, and then lately one" of our pretended re-
formers, had failed in two different extreams. The
first too elegant for the vulgar use, changing both
meter and tunes, wherewith they had been long

' [This sermon at p. 42, 43, contains a remarkable parti-
cnlar ; viz. an expedient for preserving the succession of
bishops (Kiot)) wherein this bishop was forward ; tho' charged
here with being |)uritonical. Baker.]

^ \^An Exposition upon the Lord's Prayer delivered in
certain Sermons in the Cathedral Church of S. Paul, by
Henry King, Archdeacon of Colchester, and Residentiary of
the same Church. Lond. Printed by Anne Griffin, 1034, 4to.
pp. 373. Ep. ded. to the sacred majestic of my sovereign
lord .Tnd uia^icr king Charles. Most gracious sir. Though 1
haie had two masters, I never had but one patron. When
by tlie directions of your majcstie's blessed father, my first
royall master, somewhat was done to disprove that (since
confessed) scandall touching my father's revolt from his reli-
gion, I then addressed myself to your princely protection,
which you s-o liberally aflbrdeil, &c. Kennet.]

9 Francis Rous, or Will. Barton.

[432]

KING.

84^2

i66g.

acquainted ; the other as flat and poor, as lamely
worded, and unhandsomly rlumed as the old, which
with more confidence he undertook to amend. He
therefore ventur'd in a middle way, as he ' himself
■said, aiming without affectation of words, and en-
deavouring to leave them not disfigur'd in the
sense. This version soon after came out with this
title.

The Psalms of David from the neta Translation
•of the Bible, tunid into Meter, to be suns; after the
old Tunes used in Churches. Lond. lOol. St. in
tw. Scc. He hath also written,

" A deep Groan JitcKd at the Funeral of the
" incomparable and i^'lorious Monarch King Charles
" /. &c. printed 1649. 1 sh. said to be written in
" the title by D. H. K. The same printed the
" same year inidcr the letters of J. B." [Both these
are in Wood's study.]

Poems, Elegies, Paradoxes and Sonnets. Lond.
1657.- oct. [Bodl. 8vo. A. 16. Art. BS.] When
these poems were first published, all the report was
that Dr. Philip King brother to the said Hen. King
was the autlior, and thereupon it was put into the
Bodleian Catalogue under the said Philip's name.

Several Letters Among which arc extant one

or more to the famous Dr. Usher primate of Ire-
land ; and another to Isaac Walton concerning the
three impei-fect l)ooks of Rich. Hooker s Ecclesias-
tical Polity, dat. 13 Nov. 1664. Pr. at Lond.

1665. oct.

" Dr. Henry King hath composVI several an-
" thems, one of which, for the time of Lent, begin-
" ning thus. Hearken O God, &c. was composed to
" music by Dr. John Wilson, gentleman of his
" majesty's chappel."

Divers Lat. and Gr. Poems Many of which

are extant in several books. What remains to be
observ''d of this prelate is, that he was always puri-
tannically affected, and tlierefore to plea.se the puri-
tans he was promoted to the see of Chichester :
That after episcopacy was silenced by the long par-
liament he mostly lived in the house of sir Rich.
Hobart (who had married his sister) at Langley near
to Colebrook in Bucks : That being restored to his
see at the return of king Charles II. became es-
teemed by many persons of his neighbourhood and
diocess, ' the epitome of all honours, virtues and
generous nobleness,' and a person never to be for-
gotten by his tenants, and by the pwr : That also
being not removed to a better see, became discon-
tented, as I have heard, and a favourer thereupon
of the presbyterians in his diocese : And lastly that
dying on the first day of Octob. in sixteen himdred
sixty and nine, was buried on the south side of the
choir (near the communion table) belonging to
the catliedral church of Chichester. Soon after was

• See in the CoUectinn of Letters, at the end of Archh.
Usher's L'fe, printed iCsO. nn. 265.

■' [Small 8vo. Lond. l0!34, Printed for Henry Hcrringliam,
jK;ncs Mr. LortofTrin. coll. Camb. 1774. Cole.]

a comely monument put over liis grave, with an in-
scription thereon, wncrcin 'tis said that he was
' antiquA, eaque regia Saxoniura apud Danmonios
ill agro Devoniensi, prosapia oriunuus, that he was
natalium splendore lllustris, pietate, doctrinl & vir-
tutibus illustrior,' &c. Near to his body was in
short time after buried his eldest son named John,
to whose, as also to the memory of the said bishop
King, did his widow Anne, daughter of sir Will.
Russell of Strensham in Worcestersh. Kt. and Bt.
(now the wife of sir Tho. Millington Dr. of phys.)
erect the said monument at her proper charges.

[1615, 24 Jan. Hen. King A.M. coll. ad officium
penitentiarii et preb. Sancti Pancratii, per mortem
Rogeri Fenton, S. T. P. Reg. King, Ep. Lond.

1617, 10 Apr. Henr. King A. M. coll. adarchid.
Colcestre per mort. Tho. Withers S. T. D. Ibid.

1641, 15 Mar. Ric. Steward LL. D. admiss. ad
officium penitentiarii, et preb. S. Pancratii, per pro-
mot. Henr. King, ad episc. Cicestr.

Henr. King fuit rector eccl. de Fulham sine
cura ; tempus vero admiss. non constat.

1642, 25 Mar. Tho. Howell S. T. P. admiss. ad
eccl. de Fulham per promot. Henr. King ad ep.
Cicestr. ad pres. regis. Kennet.

I copy the following from King's very rare vo-
lume of poems, edit. 1657 :

The Dirge, (page 147.)
What is th'existence of man's life,
But open war, or slumber'd strife ;
Where sicknesse to his sense presents
The combat of the elements ;
And never feels a perfect peace
Till death's cold hand signs his release ?

It is a storm where the hot blood

Out-vies in rage the boyling flood ;

And each loud passion of the mind

Is like a furious gust of wind

Which beats his bark with many a wave

Till he' casts anchor in the grave.

It is a flower which buds and growes,
And withers as the leaves disclose ;
Whose spring and fall faint seasons keep,
Like fits of waking before sleep :
Then shrinks into that fatiil mold
Where its first being was enroll'd.

It is a dream, whose seeming truth
Is moraliz'd in age and youtli ;
Where all the comforts he can share
As wandring as his fancies are,
Till in a mist of dark decay
The dreamer vanish quite away.

It is a (hall which points out
The sun-set as it moves about :
And shadowes out in lines of night
The subtile stages of times flight,

843

TRAPP.

PRYNNE.

Till all obscuring earth hath laid
The body in perpetual shade.

It is a weary enterlude
Which doth short joyes, long woes, include.
The world the stage, the prologue tears.
The acts vain hope and vary'd fears :
The scene shuts up with loss of breath
And leaves no epilogue but death.]

JOHN TRAPP son of Nich. Trapp of Kemsey,
as it seems, in Worcestershire, was born at Crome
D'abitot commonly called Crumdebitot in the same
county, 5 June 1601, etlucated in grammar learning
Ttaai in the condition of a king's scholai- under Mr. Hen.
■^ -' Bright in the free-school at Worcester, and made
great proficiency in the three learned languages.
In 1618 he made his academical entry into Ch. Ch.
and lived there some years in the condition, as it
seems, of a servitor, under the tuition of Mr. George
Jav a student of that house, and partly by the l>e-
nefaction of Dr. Corbet then dean thereof. After
he had compleated the degree of master of arts, an.
16.'2i, he was invited to Stratford upon Avon in
AVarwickshire, to teach a free school there : where
shewing great industry in that employment, had the
small vicaridge of Weston upon Avon in Glocester-
sliire, (about two miles from his school) conferred
upon him : both which places, (with the church of
Luddington in WarwicKshire for some time) he
kept about 47 years. He was by those of thepuri-
tannical party esteemed to be a person endowed with
several virtuous qualifications, and to be one of the
prime preachers of his time. Yet this the reader
must know, that upon the breaking out of the rebel-
lion, he closed with the presbyterians, took the
covenant, and in his preachings and discourses be-
came violent against the king, his cause and his
adherents, yet lost nothing for so doing, but was a
gainer by it, as he was by the publication of these
books following, taken into the hands and admired
by tlie brethren, but by others not.

GocTs Love-tokens : or, the afflicted Man's Les-
sons brought to Light, and laid before him, ^-c.
on Rev. 3. 19. Lond. 1637. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. T.
78. Th.]

Tlieologia Theologia : or, a tnie Treasure of
holy Truths toucJmtg God's Word, and God in the
Word. Being a Discourse on Hebr. 1. ver. 1, 2, 3.
Lond. 1641. oct.

Comment upon the four Evangelists and tlie
Acts of tlie Apostles. When this was first pub-
lished I know not ; sure I am that his Exposition
ufS. Joh. the Evatig. was pr. at Lond. 1646. qu.

Comment upon all the Epistles of the Apostles,
and upon tfie Revelation Pr. in qu.

A Decad of common Places. Pr. in qu.

Clavis to the Bible. Or, a new Comment upon
tlve Pentateiicli, or 5 Books of Moses, wherein are
(1) difficult Places explained (2) Controversies
discussed. Sec. Lond. 1d50. qu.

Comment on Joshiui, Judges, Rtith, first and
second of Sam. fir.st and sec. of Kings, and first
and sec. of Chronicles.

iVo/ojno/tJ.vriANA'PETOS: or, a Commentary xipmt
the Books of Proverbs, Ecclesiaste.s, and the Song
of Songs ; wherein the Text is explained, some
Controversies are discussed, divers common Places
are handled, &c. Lond. 1650. qu. [Bodl. 4to. T.
7. Th. BS.]

Com. or Exposition upon ail tJte Books of tlie
New Test, wherein the Text is explained, some
Controversies are discussed, ^c. with a Decad upon
these Ten Heads, Abstinence, Admonition, Alms,
Ambition, Angels, Anger, Apostacy, Arrogance,
Arts and Atheism. Lond. 1656. fol. sec. edit, with
the author's picture before it. In this folio book are
contained the Comment on the Jour Evangelists
and Acts of the Apostles ; Com. upon the Epistles
of the Apost. and upon the Rev. as also the Decad
of com. Places before-mention'd.

Com. or Exposition upon the twelve minor Pro-
phets. Wherein the Text is explained, some Con-
troversies discussed, &c. Lond. 1654. fol. [Bodl.
BS. 157.]

The righteous Man's Recompence : Or, a true
Christia7i characterized and encouraged. Grounded

on Malac. S. 16, 17, 18. Printed with the Com.

or Expos, upon tlie twelve min. Proph.

Com. on Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, the Song of
Songs, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, E:ieMel
and Daniel. Lond. 1656 and 60 fol. In this folio
is contained the Com. on the Proverbs, Ecclcs. and
Song of Songs, before-mentioned, which were
printed in qu. 1650.

Com. on Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Job and
Psalms. Lond. 1656. fol. At length this volu-
minous author paying his last debt to nature on the
17th of Octob. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine,
was buried in the church of Weston upon Avon in
Glocestershire before-mentioned near to the grave
of his sometime wife. What other things he left
behind him fit for the press I know not. Since my
writing of this, I find that our author Trapp ' was
appointed an assistant to the commissioners of War-
wickshire, for the ejection of such whom they then
(in Oliver's reign) called scandalous, ignorant and
insufficient mimsters and schoolmasters.

WILLIAM PRYNNE, a most noted and fre-
quent writer of his time, was born at Swainswick
near Bath in Somersetshire, an. 1600, at which time
his father (as afterwards this his son whom we now
mention) was a tenant to Oriel coll. educated in
grammar learning (as I conceive) within the same
city of Bath, became a commoner of the said coll. of
Onel under the tuition of Giles Widdowes, an. 1616,
took one degree in arts in 1620, went afterwards to

' [Concerning his son and graniison see Gentleman's Ma-
gazine for 1/86, page 381.]

PRYNNE.

846

Line, inn to obtain knowledge in the common law,
where he was made successively barrester, utlcr bar-
restcr, bencher and reader. At his first coming to
that inn he became a great follower and admirer of
that noted puritan Dr. John Preston then lecturer
there ; who finding him to be of an enterprizing
nature, hot-spirited, and eager in pursuit of any
thing that was put into him, he was looked upon by
Preston and his party as the fittest person to adven-
ture upon such exploits, which a more sober and
considerate man durst not have ajipeared in. Where-
upon he was put into the roatl ot writing, not with-
out the helps and advice of Preston and the brethren,
and having maile or gotten a common-jjlace-book,
published several matters against the loosness and
debauchery (so he took it) of the times, as against
drinking of healths, long or womanish hair, stage-
plays, wherein the queen (Henr. Maria) was in a
gross manner reflected upon several times, and other
matters relating to the church, discipline and mem-
bers thereof; which were altogether looked upin as
aliene from his profession, and pragmatical and im-
pudent for him so to do. Alx)ut the time of Christ-
mas, an. 1632, he published a book en tit. Histrio-
ma-stix, &c. wherein breathing out nothing but dis-
grace to the nation, infamy to the church, reproaches
to the court, dishonour to the queen, and some
things which were thought to be tending to the
destruction of his majesty s ]>erson, as Dr. Pet. Iley-
lin an enemy to our author Prynne tells •• us; great
complaints therefore were made of that b(x>k, not-
withstanding it had been licensed by ]\Ir. Tho.
Buckncr chaplain to Dr. Abbot archb. of Canter-
bury. Before I go forward with this matter, you
may be pleased to hear what a certain '" author saitli

of it, tluis ' About this time (meaning the latter

end of 1632) Mr. Prynne published his book called
Histrio-mastix, by license of archb. Ablwt's chap-
lain, which being against plays, and a reference in
the table of the book, to this effect, — women actors
notorious whores, relating to some women actors
mentioned in his book as he affirmeth. — It hapned,
that about six weeks after this, the queen acted a
part in a pastoral, at Somerset-house, and then the
archbishop Laud, and other prelates, whom Prynne
had angered, by some books of his against Armi-
nianism, and against the jurisdiction of the bishops,
and by some prohibitions which he had moved, and

got to the high commission court. These prelates

and their instruments, the next d.ay after the queen
had acted her pastoral, shewed Prynne's book against
plays, to the king, and that place of it, ' Women
actors notorious whores,^ and they informed the king
and queen, that Prynne had purjxjsely written this
hooV. against the cjueen and her pastoral, whereas it
was published six weeks before that pastoral was

■• In his Life of IVttliam Archb. of Cant, part 1. lib. 3.
an. 1639.

' Bulstr. Whillock in his Memorials of English Affairs,
tinder the year l632.

acted. Yet the king and queen, though thus exas-
perated, did direct nothing against him, till Laud
set Dr. Heylin (who bare a great malice to Prynne
for confutmg some of his doctrines) to jktusc
Prynne''s booKs, and to collect the scandalous jwints
out of them ; which Heylin did, though (sis Prynne
affirms) not at all warranted by the text of his book ;
but these two gentlemen were well matched, and [435]
alike in other things, tho' so much different in di-
vinity, or shew of it,' &c. Thus our author here
quoted, of whom I shall hereafter make large men-
tion. Upon the said complaints concerning that
book, Heyhn being appointed to collect such pas-
sages out of it that were esteemed scandalous to the
king, queen, state, and government of the realm,
did, after some time, deliver them in writing to sir
John Coke or Cook secretary of state and to Dr.
I^aud bishop of London : the last of which did soon
after, on a sabbath-day morning, go to Will. Noy
attorney gen. and charged him to prosecute Prynne
for the said Ixxik, which Noy did rigorously enough.
Afterwards Prynne was sent for before the lords in
the inner star chamber, where being examined about
the said matters, was committed prisoner to the
Tower of London, on the first day of Febr. W532,
where remaining without permission of bail till tlie
month of Feb. 1633, was at last brought to a tryal
in the court of star chamber, (liaving been first pre-
condemned by the gentlemen of his own profession)
and afterwards sentencetl by that court on the 17th
day of the said month, thro' the eager prosecution of
the said Noy, to be fined 5000/. to the king, expel-
led the university of Oxford and Lincolns-inn, de-
graded and disinabled from his profession in the
laws, to stand in the pillory, first in the Palace-yard
in Westminster, and three days after in Cheapside,
in each place to lose an ear, (tho' this last part of his
censure was much moderated in the execution) to
have his b(X)k called Histr'iomastix publicly burnt
before his face by the hand of the hangman, and
remain prisoner during life. After this sentence
was executed (which was in May an. 1634.) he was
remitted to his prison : But all this was so far from
working any remorse in him, that it rather hardned
him in his ways, for on the 11th of June following,
as soon as he could provide himself of pen, ink, and
jwper, he wrote ^ a most .sharp and libellous letter
to Dr. Laud then archb. of Cant, touching his cen-
sure in the said court, and that which the archb. in
particular had declared against him. With this
letter the archb. ac((uainted his majesty, who there-
upon commanded him to refer it to attorney Noy.
Noy sent for I'rynne from his prison, and demanded
of him, whether the letter was of his own hand-
writing or not: to which Prynne cimningly replied,
that he could make no answer to that demand,
unless he could see the letter, and might read the
same. No sooner was the letter put into his hands,

^ In the Life of IVUliam, &c. as before part 1 . lib. 4,

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and Noy's back tum'tl a little towards him, but
presentlv he tore it to pieces, and flung tlie pieces
out of tlie window, to the end that the said letter
might not rise in judgment against him, it" the at-
torney should prcx-eed to an ore-tenus, as he meant
to do. For this affront, and the principal pastK-igcs
of the letter, the attorney acquaints their lordships
in oj)en court, but there was no remedy : for being
there was no proof of the misdemeanor but the let-
ter it self, ana that the letter could not be brought
in evidence as it should have been, the archb.
thought it a more noble act to remit the crime, than
trouble the court, or any of his majesty's ministers in
tJie prosecution of it. But herein Prvnne sped better
than some others, who had before been snarling at
him, and laboured to cxjiose him to scorn and dan-
ger. In Apr. the same year (which is a step back
in this discourse) he was solemnly degraded in the
univ. of Oxon, and his name dashed out of the
Matricula. In 1636 he published two books at
once, or immediately after each other. One of them
was called The Quench Coal, in answer to that called
A Coalfrmi the Altar ; against placing the Cam-
munion-Table Altarwisc. The other named Tlie
Unbishoping of Timothy and Titus, against the
Apostolical Institution of Diocesan Bishops. Hut
that which was entit. to him by the name of a libel,
was his pamphlet called News from Ipsxeich, in-
tended chiefly against Dr. Wrcnn then bi.shop of
Norwich, who had taken up his dwelling in that
town : and fell as scandalously foul on the archb.
himself and some of the other bishops also, and such
as acted under them in the present service. For
therein he descants very trimly (as he conceived) on
the archbishop himself with his arch-piety, arch-
charity, arch-agent for the devil, &c. With like
reproach he fell on the bishops generally, calling
them Luciferian lord bishops, execrable traytors,
devouring wolves, &c. witii many other odious
names not lit to be used by a Christian, and more
particularly on Wrenn, &c. In midsumm.er term
he was brought to his tryal in the star chamber, for
what he had done ; but his answer was so libellous
and fidl of scandal, that no counsellor could be
found to put his hand to it, according to the course
of that court. So that instead thereof he exhibited
a cross bill against the archbishop and his confede-
rates, (as he called them) charging them with the
greatest part of those reproaches which had been
made the subject matter of his Ibrmer libels : which
being signed by no hands but by his own, and tendred
so to the lord keejKT, was by him rejected, and him-
self taken pro confesso, his obstinacy in not answer-
ing in due form of law, being generally looked upon
by the court as a self conviction. On the 14th of
June an. 1637, he received his sentence, which
briefly was to this eft'ect, that he be fined 5000/. to
the king, to lose the remainder of his ears in the pil-
lory, to be branded on both cheeks with tlie letters
S. Im for a scliismatical libeller, and to be perpetually

imprison''d in Cacrnarvan casde. At the pro-
nouncing of which sentence the archb. made a long
and ekborate 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 estabUshed. On the 30th
of the said month the lord's censure was put in
execution in the Palace-yard at Westminster; ati
which time suffer'd also by clipping of ears
John Bastwick dr. of physic, not of this, but of
another, university ; and Hen. Burton, bac. of div.
minister of S. Matthew's church in Friday-street in
London. On the 27th of July following, our au-
thor Prynne was removed from the Tower to the
Fleet, and the same day, being guarded, he began
his journey towards Caernarvan castle in Wales :
froni which time till the 5tli 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 Loncaster
castle, or with the said party, the state found it ne-
cessary to remove him to Mount Orgueil castle in
the isle of Jersey. So that by virtue of a warrant
dated the 27th of Aug. Prynne was conveyed thi-
ther, not without great danger, in January follow-
ing : 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 releasement from
his prison, as also for the releasement of Bastwick,
who was then in S. Mary's castle in the isle of
Scilly, and for Burton in Casde Cornet in the isle
of Guernsey. So that our author Prynne and Bur-
ton, who were prisoners at no great distance, met
together at Guenisey, 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 tlie 28th of the same month they
triumphantly entrcd London, being then accompa-
nied by thousands on foot, and horse-back, and in
coaches, with rosemary and bays in their hats, cry-
ing ' Welcome home, welcome home, God bless
you, God be thanked for your return,' &c. to the great
defiance and contempt of autliority and justice. On
the 80th of the said month, they were both pre-
sented by their keepers, who came witli them, to
the commons house, where they had liberty granted
to frame new petitions in their own names, accord-
ing to their own liking, and to present them to die
house as soon as they could prepare them. The Sd
of Dec. following Prynne presented a large petition,
fully shewing his sufferings, and the grand tyranny,
a.s he cali'd it, of the archbishop, &c. for which after-

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wards he had' a large requital. Not long after,
ujwn the leaving of the house of commons by divers
members, purjxjsely to adhere to his majesty, he was
elected a recruiter for New]iort in Cornwall, to serve
in that most unhappy parliament. So that being
setled in the house, he became the most busy 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 wiiile he was prisoner in the Tower,
in public S])eeches against him in the parliament-
house, and in writing and publishing books and
pamphlets of, and agiiinst, him, that he could scarce
take quiet rest till lie had fetched off" his head, in
requital of his ears, that he (as Prynne pretended)
had taken off before. Put of these matters when it
was t(K) 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 re-
pent, and wished that when they had cut oft" his ears
they had cut oft" his head. " By order from a close
" connnittee he searchetl archbishop Laud's chamber
" in the Tower, took away many bundles of papers
" put his hand in the archbishop's pcxiketlvinff

" by his bed side, took away his Diary containing
" all the <x;currences of his life ; and his Book of
" private Devotions." He was trusted with the pro-
" viding of all the evidence against Laud at his
" tryal, and was relator and prompter and all.
" Never weary of any thing, so that he might do the
" archb. mischief, Sec." ' During the sitting of the
long parliament he shew'd himself a zealous cove-
nanteer in ordering and settling])resby tery, but when
the indejjendents began to ovcrto[) the brethren, he
shew'd himself a bitter enemy to them, and advanced
much the king's cause, especially in his declension.
In 1647 he was appointed one ot the visitors for the
univ. of Oxon by the said j)arliament, and how bu-
sily he behaved himself there, in Apr. 1648, I have
told you elsewhere. See in Ili'it. ^ Aittiq. Univ.
Oxmi. lib. 1. sub an. 1648. On the 6th of Dec.
1648, he, witli other members of the H. of Com.
were turn'd out from tlie 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 tlie said army, and
Oliver their leader ; doing them al.so 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 o])en defiance
to Oliver ; i'ov which he was imprison'd in Dunster
Castle in Somersetshire, and brouglit into trouble.
He then stocxl much upon Magna Charta, the liberty
of the subject (for which he was beloved by several

" See Prynne's book entit. A new Discovery nf the Pre-
late's Tyranny , p. 141. and elsewhere.

• " iiist. of Ike Troubles and Trytd of Archl. Laud, can.
"1(5. p. '.0.^, eo6."

9 " ll)i<l. cap. 21. p. 2i6."

Vol.. III.

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
'twere, weary of himself, began to look up at last,
and to settle on more moderate and quiet courses.
" Mr. Prynne's busy warm temper involvetl him in
" njany difficulties, as will appear by this list of the
" places and times of his first imprisonments under
" his professed enemies the prelates. (1) Tower
" of London, to which he was committed for liis
" Hlstrio-mastix, 1 Feb. 1632. (2) The Fleet,
" when his first sentence for his Histrio-viastix was
" exerted, 7 May 16:34. (3) Tower of London, to
" which he was committed from the Fleet 1 Jinie
" 1636. (4) Caernarvan castle in North-Wales, to
" which by his said sentence he was sent close pri-
" soner to the tower, 5 August 1637. (5) Mount
" Orgueil ca.stle in the isle of Jersey, where he was
" closely imprison'd, when remov'd from Caernar-
" van-Castle 17 Jan. 1637., whence he was sent for
" and enlarg'd by the parliament, 19 Nov. 1640.

" Places and times of his second imprisonments
" under false brethren and pretended friends. (1)
" Hell in Westni. by the army officers, for speaking
" his conscience and discharging his duty in par-
" liament, 6 December, 1648. (2) The Swan in
" the Strand by the same officers, for the same
« cause, Dec. 7. an. 1648. (3) The King's-head
" in the Strand by the same power and for the same
" cause, 2 Jan. 1648. (4) Diinster-castle in Somer-
" setshire, where he was close prisoner by a Whlte-
" hall warrant under Mr. Jo. Bradshaw's hand, ex-
" pressing no particular cause, 1 Jul. 1650, which
" Whitehall warrant was dated 25 Jun. 1650. (5)
" Taunton castle and the I.,amb tavern in Taunton,
" when remov'd from Taunton, by no particular
" warrant, 12 Jan. 1650. (6) Pendennis casde in
" Cornwall, where he remain'd close prisoner by a
" Whitehall warrant under Mr. Bradshaw's hand,
" mentioning no cause but Taunton's unfitness to
" restrain him in, 2 Jul. 1651." On the 21st of
Feb. 1659, he, as a secluded member of the com-
mons house, being restored to sit again, became in-
strumental for the king's restoration, and so forward
and bold that he o]K'nly 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 niailc the
war jigainst his father, Scc. Which I say being
then iinseasonably sjxiken, he was sent for by gene-
ral Monk and his privy counsellors, and admonished
to be quiet ; and then it was the business of Mr.
Will. Morice lo keep the then expiring parliament
steddy and clear from intermeddling in the change
of government ; in whicli case he did excellent ser-
vice, punctually obser\iiig the directions of the
general, who jiassionately longed for their dLssolu-
tion. In Apr. 1660 lie the said Prynne was chose
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a burgess for the city of Bath to sit in the healinw
pariiament that Ix'gan at Westm. 25th of the said
moiitli ; and after liis majesty's restoration, he, in-
stead of l)eing made one of the barons of the exche-
quer, whicii, as 'tis said, he sought after, was made
chief keeijer of his maj. records in the Tower of
London, with 500/. per an. salary ; (but afterwards
much lessenetl) purposely to employ his head from
scribling against the state and bishops. But so it
was that he extracting thence several books, did
in some of them, particularly in his two tomes of
An exact Chronological Vindication, &c. endeavour
to bring an odium upon the bishojjs and their func-
tion by giving an history in them of the pope's usurpa-
tions upon the king and subjects of England and
Ireland. In Aug. the same year he was appointed
one of the six connnissioners for appeals and regu-
lating the excise ; and in the month of Apr. 1661
he was again elected a burgess for Bath to sit in
that pari, that began at West, the 8th of May the
same year : But in July following lieing discon-
tented at some proceedings in the house, he pub-
lished a seditious paper against them entit. Sundry
Reasons tendred to ifw most honourable House of
Peers, SfC. agatn<it tlie new intended BUI Jbr go-
verning and reforming Corporations. This pam-
phlet coming into the hands of several members of
parliament who much complained against it, the
house appointed a committee to examine and enquire
after the author, the printer and pubhsher thereof.
The committee met and soon found that Prynne
was the author of it: And accordingly on the 15th
of the said month of July the whole matter was re-
ported to the hou.se : who, thereupon, being highly
provok'd, Prynne unable to conceal it any longer
(for 'twas proved that he had sent that pa|)er to tlie
printing-house, and that lie had corrected the proof
sheet and revise with his own hand) he flew to the
printing-house and commanded the compositors to
distribute the form, for they would be searched.
Which being done, Prynne desired to be heai'd, and
(unable to evade the evidence) confessed himself to
be the unhappy author. Then speaking largely,
setting forth what service he had done for the king
formerly, how kind and civil the king had been to
liim, &c. alledging that he had no mischievous in-
tent, but was sorry for what he had done, and hum-
bly craved their pardon ; the house then unanimously
called upon him to withdraw, and afterwards pro-
ceeded to debate it, and resolved upon the question,
that the said printed paper entit. Sundry Reasons,
&c. is an illegal, false, scandalous, and seditious
1 4391 pamphlet. Prynne afterwards was called in again
to receive the sense of the house, which was as
aforesaid. Then Mr. speaker (sir Edw. Turner)
worthily told him, how sorry he was that a person
of his years and experience should commit so foul
an offence, and one that had formerly much, and yet
now deserved to suffer all his punishments over
again, as imprisonment, pillory, &c. But the house

had considered his late services and hazards for his
majesty, and in contemplation of them, and his ex-
pressions of his sorrow, (which truly seemed very
great) the house shewed mercy unto him. Prynne
then did thankfully acknowledge the justice of the
house in their judgment of his great offence, that the
said paper was an illegal, false, scandalous and sedi-
tious pamphlet, that he did humbly submit there-
unto, and did render most humble thanks to the
house and every member thereof for their mercy
and favour to him : which words he spake with
great sense of his own offence, and the house's good-
ness, not offering to justify the least line of hisjiaper,
which his conscience toldhim he could not. Where-
upon the house being satisfied with his confession
and recantation, they did remit his offence, and
Prynne sat down in his place. From which time
to the day of his death we heard of no more libels
pubhsh'd by him. The books and little pamphlets
that he wrote, were theological, historical, political,
controversial, &c. but very few of his own profes-
sion : all which are in number near 200, as the titles
following shew, bound up in about 40 volumes in
fol. and qu. in Line, inn library : To which an emi-
nent I sage of the law, who had little respect for
those published in his time, promised to give the
works of John Taylor the water-jxict to accompany
them. 'Twas not only he, but many others after-
wards, especially royalists, that judged his books to
be worth little or nothing, his proofs for no argu-
ments, and affirmations for no testimonies, having
several forgeries made in them for his and the ends
of his brethren. They are all in the P'nglish tongue,
and by the generality of scholars are looked upon to
be rather rap.sodical and confus'd, than any way po-
lite or concise, yet for antiquaries, critics, and some-
times for chvines, they are useful. In most of them
he shews great industry, but little judgment, espe-
cially in his large folios against the pope's usurpa-
tions. He may be well intituled Voluminous Prynne,
as Tostatus ^Vlbulensis was 200 years before his
time called Voluminous Tostatus : for I verily be-
lieve, that if rightly computed, he wrote a sheet for
every day of his life, reckoning from the time when
he came to the use of reason and the state of man.
His custom when he studied was to put on a long
quilted cap whicli came an inch over his eyes, serving
as an umbrella to defend them from \ao much light,
and seldom eating a dinner, woidd every 3 hours or
more be niaunchmg a roll of bread, and now ami
then refresh his exhausted spirits with ale brought
to him by his servant.

Thou that with ale, or viler liquors,
Did'st inspire Wythers, Prynne, and Vicars,
And teach, though it were m despight
Of nature and the stars, to write, &c.

Thus Hudibras, part 1. — He was a right sturdy
' Will. Noy of Line, inn attorti. gen.

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and doughty champion for the cause, a puritan
beutifew, an inveterate enemy against tlie hierarcliy
of bishops, especially upon his imprisonment and
RufFerings for his Histrio-mast'tx, a busy, pragma-
tical and meddling man without end, and one that
had brought his body into an ill habit, and so con-
sequently had shortned his days, by too much
action and concernment day and night. M. Need-
ham the weathercock tells "^ us, that he was one of
the greatest paper worms that ever crept into a
closet or library, &c. and others that he never in-
tended an end in writing Ixwks, and that his study
or reading was not only a wearisomness to the flesh,
but to the ears : Nay a printed petition, whereby
some wags, under the name of the peaceable and
[441IJ well-affected jxMpIe of the three nations, did shew
that whereas Will. Prynne bencher of LincolnVinn,
had for many years last past (reckoning backwai'd
from 1659, in which year the said petition was pulj-
hshed) been an indefatigable and impertinent scribler,
and had almost nauseated the sober part of the said
nations with the stench of his carion pasquils and
pamphlets, for some whereof he had suffered under
the hierarchy in the time of the late king, &c. that
he might have an act of amnesty and pai-don for all
his treasons, seditions, Jesuitismes, contempts of
government, misunderstanding of the scriptures,
law and reason, misquotations and misapplications
of authorities to his pasquils, &c. Which petition
I say being published, and cried in Westm. hall and
about London streets, did so extreamly perplex
Prynne lor a time, that he became in a manner
crazM. To conclude : I must now let the reader
know, that there was no writer of his time, nor ever
before, except Bale, that was given more to calumny
and railing m his writings than he, especially against
the bishops, true churchmen of England, episcopa-
rians and papists, while in the mean time his brethren
that deserved justly to be chastised by his pen,
were omitted. As for his railing at the episcopa-
rians, all readers of his books penM against Dr.
31.aud and the bishops may in a plentiful manner be-
hold ; and what he says against the papists, let it be
truth or not truth, may also in them be easily dis-
cern'd. But for these last, the papists, let one of
their' number, who is a grave writer, characterize
our author Prynne for an egregious lye that he hath
committed against a rcd-Ietter'd-man and against
the English papists, when he would have them all

massacred in 1066. ' Yet of late this poysonous

humour of calumniating God's saints is become the
principal character of the new reformed gospel. I
will add one example more of a calumniator, at
least parallel to these ; viz. Mr. Will. Prynne a late
stigmatized presbyterian, who in his not long since
published censure of archb. Whitgift, charges S.

' In Mfrc. PiA. nil. 7.

Anselme * that lie induced sir Walt. Tyrrell to mur-
der king Will. Rufus. Now by the consent of all
historians, Tyrrell himself was no murderer, for it
was by the unhapj)y casual glancing of an arrow
that the king was slain. However it hapned, yet
certain it is that at that time S. Anselme was an
exird jierson in France : and whereas at the king's
burial many noble-men met, but few mouru'd for
his death, yet saith a late protestant ^ historian, of
all mourners Anselme expressed most cordial sorrow
at the news. That blasjjhemous tongue therefore
must expect that such envenomed darts as these,
shot agamst heaven it self, wUl, if he repent not, one
dav descend upon his own head, and the wounds
made by them never be cured. But alas, what
repentance can be expected in such a person who is
inveteratus dierum malorum, when we see in his
decrepit age his rancorous tongue against innocent
catholics yet more violently set on fke of hell, so far
as to solicite a general massacre of them by publish-
ing himself, and tempting others to damn their
souls also, by publishing through the whole king-
dom that in the last fatal calamity by fire, hapning
to London, (16G6) they were the only incendiaries.
This he did, tho' himself at the same time confessed
that not the least proof could be produced against
them : But, said he, it concerns us that this report
should be behevetl. Complaints of this most exe-
crable attentate were made, and several oaths to con-
firm this were offered ; but in vain. However surely
there is a reward for the innocent oppressed. And
whatsoever Mr. Prynne may think, doubtless there
is a God who judges the world. Let him therefore
remember what the spirit of God says, Quid dctur.
What must be given to thee, and what must be
assigned to thee for thy portion, O deceitful tongue .''
Sharp darts cast by an almighty arm with devour-
ing coals of juniper,' &c. The books and pam-
phlets that this unwearied writer hath published are
diese.

Tlie Perpetuify of a regenerate Maris Estate,
against the Saints total andjinal Apostacy. Lond.
1627. qu. [Bodl. 4to. C. 16. Th.]

Health's Sickness. Or a compendious and brief
Discourse, proving- tlie Drinking, and Pledging of
HealtJis, to be sinful and utterly unlawful unto
Christians, &c. Lond. 1628. qu. [Bodl. 4to. M.
46. Th.]

The Un-ioveliness of Love-locks, or a summary
Discourse, proving The wearing and nourishiiig
of Locks or Love-locks, to be altogether unseemly
and unlatvfvl unto Christians ; in which there are
likewise some Passages out of the Fathers, Si^c.
against Face-painting ; the Wearing of suppositi-
tious, powdred or extraordinary long Hair ; and
the Women's mannish, unnatural, impudent, un-

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ju i«-/i. x-iti. im. /. 4 See also in Prynne's Antipathy of the English Lordly

■* Scr. Cressy in liis Church Hist, if Britanny, hook 14. Prclaaj, 8ic. part 1. p. 10.
chrip. 4. p. 321. . Thoin. Fuller in his Ck. Hist. lib. 3. sect. 40.

312

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Christian Cutting of tfu" Hair, &c. Lond. 1628. qu.
in 12 sh. [Bodl. 4to. M. 46. Th.]

Brief Survey and Censure of Mr. Cozens hi.t
couzeniiiff- Derations. Lond. 1628. ([u. [Bmll. 4to.
M. 4€. Th.] Tliis was written against the Private
Dex'otions that were puhHslied by Jolin Cosin, after-
wards bisliop of Durliam, as containing Anninianism
in them, as Prynne says; who adds tliat it was
one of the * reasons why Laud archb. of Cant, did
malign him and caused his Histrio-mastix to be
called into question.

Anti-Arminianism : or the Church of England's
old Antithesis to new Arminianism, &c. Lond.
1630.' It was twice pr. that year in qu. [Bodl. B.
24. 2. Line]

Appendix concerning Boioing at the Name of
Jesu^. — See more in Giles Widdowes, under the
year 1645, who by the strangeness of his parts, was
fitted as 'twere on puqiose to duel with Prynne (as
Don Quixot with the wind-mill which no man else
was knight errant enough to encounter) about the
jiaid matter.

God no Impostor or Dehidcr : or, an Ansteer to
a Popish and Arminian Cavil in Defence of Free
Will and nnix^ersal Grace, xvherein God's Tender of
Grace, &c. Lond. 1629. 30. qu. [Bodl. B. 24. 2.
Line]

Lame Giles his Haiiltings, together with an Ap-
pendix concerning the Popish ()riginal and Pro-

frcss of Bowing at the Name of Jcsiis. Lontl.
631. (ju. Written against Giles Widdowes before
mcntion'tl.

Histrio-mastix: The Players Scourge, S^-c. against
the intolerable Mischief and Abuses ()f common
Plays and Play-houses. Lond. 1633. qu. [BodL
4to. A. 33. Th.]

Books written during his imprisonment in the
Tower of London.

Appendix, Sujyplementum, S^ Epilogus, ad Fla-
gellum PoDitificis: touching the Parity of Bishops
and Presbyters Jure divino — An. 1635. This Fla-
gellum was written by Job. Bastwick Dr. of ])hys.
of Padua, sometime of Emanuel coll. in Cambridge,
afterwards a practitioner at Colchester in Essex,^ in
which country he was born.

* In ^ new Discovery nf the Prelate! Tyranny, p. I.

' [The Church qf Enelund's old Antithesis to new Armi-
niantsme, where in 7 Ant i- Arminian Orthodox Tenents are
cuidenllit proiicd; their 7 opposite Arminian (once Popish
and PetnginnJ Errors are manij'cslly disprvued, to he the an-
cient, established, and vndnidted Doctrine of the Cliurch of
England, by the concurrent Ttitimony of the seucralt Records
ana If Titers if our Church, from the Heginning of her Re-
formation to this present. By Wiltiam Prynne Gent, lluspilii
Lincolniensis. Loml. l()2(). 4to. Bodl. 4to. P. 44. Th. This
i< ihc first edit, oi Antiarminianisrn, and was not known to
Wood.]

* [Lord Clarendon says thai Bastwick was • unknown to
cither university, or the college of physicians. ' llisl. of the
Rebellion, i. 158. and it seems very probable that Wood has
mistaken some person of the same name. In the catalogue
of scholars of Emanuel college, is the name of Bastwick,

A Breviate of the Bishops' intolerable IJsurpa-
timis and Kncroachments vpon the King's Preroga-
tive, and SubjecCs Liberties ; with an Appendix to
it An. 1635.

Certain Queries propounded to the Bowers at
the Name of Jesus, and the Patrons thereof— An.
1636.

The Unblshoping of Timothy and Titus ; proving
them no Diocesan Bi.shops of Ephesns and Crete,
and that Presbyters have a divine Right to cyrdain
Ministers, as 7cell as Bishops, with a Postscript —
Print. 1636, reprinted with additions at Lond. 1660.
qu. [Btxll. B. 25. 18. Line] the bishops then being
alxjut to be restored by king Charles 2.

LooVing-Gla.is for all Lordly Prelates An.

1636. [Bmll. A. iO. 21. Line]

Certain Queries propounded to Bishops, &c. —
An. 1636.

In.itructions for Church-Wardens concerning
Visitation- A7-ticks, Fees, Oathes, &c. — An. 1636.

News f-om Ip.swieh, di.icovcring certain late de-
testable Practices of some domineering lordly Pre-
lates, to tindei-mine the established Doctrine and

Discipline of our Church, &c. Printed, as 'tis

said, at Ipswich (but false) an. 1636 in one sh. in
qu. published under the name of Matthew White,
three times in that year, and another time in 1641.
He the said Prynne had also a sjKrial hand in the
writing of a book entit. A divine Tragedy lately
acted : or, a Collection of sundry memorable Exam-
ples of GocTs Judgment upon Sabbat h-brenkos, Sic.
printed by stealth an. 1636. qu. At the end of
which is an appendix, pr. in another character, con-
taining the sufferings of Prynne for his Histrio-
mastix, and the miserable end (as 'tis there said)
that befcl Will. Noy the chief instrument of his
suffcrinjjs.

Catalogue of such Testimonies in all Ages, as
plainly evidence Bishops and Presbyters to be both
one, equal and the same in Jurisdiction, Office, S^c.

by divine Law and Institutimi, ^c. An. 1637.

reprinted in qu. in double columes, an. 1641.

A tpteni-li Coal, with an Appendix to it, in Answer
to A Coal f -am the Altar, and other Pamphlets,
touching Altars, and bowing to, or towards, them
An. 1637. [Bodl. 4to. D. 36. Th.]

An humble Remonstrance against the Tax of
Ship-money lately imposed, laying open the Ille-
gality, Injustice, Abuses and Incmtveniences thereof
— Written 1636, corruptly printed withotit the au-
thor's privity at Lond. 1641. qu. Since which time
'twas reprinted by a perfect copy at Lond. 1643, in
4 sheets in qu.

under the ycir 1592 Now from a print of Dr. Bastwick
prefixed to his Flagellum Pontificum, Lond. l64l, it appears
that he was forty-seven years of age in lt)40, so that he was
born in 15g3, very near the time he is supposed to have been
atcollege. Hearne, MS. Diaries, \o\. I IS. p. 122.

An. 1654, Oct. (J. Dr. Bistwick, physitian, buried. Mr.
R. Smith's Obituary. Baker.]

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Additions to the first Part of a Dialogue between
A. and B. ronceriiififf the Subbath''s Morality, and
the Unlawfulness of Pastimes on the Lord's Day —
Twice printed in IttiG.

The Antipathy (tf the English lordly Prelacy,
both to legal Monarchy and cii'il Unity. Or an
historical Collection of the scveralearcrable Treasons,
Conspiracies, Rebellions, State-schisms, Contuma-
cies of antimonarehical English, British, French,
Scottish, and Irish lordly Prelates, against our
King, Kingdoms, S^e. — Enlarged and published by
Autliority, since tlw Author''s Knlargement and re-
turn from Exile. Lond. 1(541. in 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 gootl things he hath
omitted, such was, and is tlie charity, of him and
the brethren. Those matters also which Dr. God-
win bishop of Hereford did out of a piu-itannical
peak collect against the ancient Cath. bishops, he
also very rciulily hath collected together to brmg an
odium on their function.

Books coinjiilcd by Prynne during bis close im-
prisonment in Mount-Orgueil castle m Jersey.

Mount-Orgueil : or divitie and profitable Medi-
tations raised from the Contemplations of these
three Leaves of Nature's Volume, 1. liochs, 2.
Seas, 3. Gardens. Lond. 1641. qu. [Bodl. 4to.
P. 78. Th.]

A poetical De.Kriptlon of Mount-Orgueil Castle
in the L<sle of Jersey.

The Sours Complaint against the Bodys En-
croachment on her: and comfortable Cordials against
the Disconi/brts of Imprisonment — This is a jwem.

Plea.mnt Purge fir a Roman Catholic to eva-
cuate his evil Humours, consisting of a Century of

polemical Epigrams These three last things are

printed antl bound up with Mount-Orgueil ; or
divine, &c.

The reader is to observe that during the time of
Prynne's imprisonment was ])ublished a book entit.
Wood.itreet-C 'ompter^s Plea for its Prisoner : Or,
the sixteen Reasons which induce Nathan. Wickins,
late Serimnt to Mr. Will. Prynne, but now Prisoner
in the said Cmnpter, to refuse to take the Oath ex
officio, 'wherein, &c. — printed 1638, in 10 sh. in qu.
AVhich book, tho' put under the name of Nath.
Wickins, yet it was generally supjjosed that Prynne
was the chief comjx)ser, because of the many quota-
tions therein.

Books written by Will. Prynne since his enlarge-
ment and return from exile ; not to mention his
Petition to be recalled from Exile, he. which was
printed.'

^ [See .'/ Calalogut of printed Booh, written ly William
Prynne, (Sfc. iijore, during, sirice, liis Imprisoiiment. I-Kinil.
pr. fur Mich. Sparke, sen'. l(j}3, with Sparke, the stalioner's,
preface. 4to. Baker.}

New Discovery of tlw Prelate's 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 Com-
mission and Star-cliamber, &c. Lond. 1641. qu.
[Bodl. 4to. L. 75. Th.] In which book he does
archbishop Laud a great deal of iniu.stice, especially
in this respect, that all the things that make against
him, or sound ill to his name, he with great zeal
scrapes together, whilst any thing that sounds to his
h<jnour, or the least good that he hath done, he
doth omit.

" A terrible Out-cry against tJie Imjtering ex-
" halted Prelates : shewing the Danger and Unfit-
" ness of cmferring them in any temporal Office
" or Dignity, &c. Lond. 1641 qu. in onesh. [Bodl.

" C. 13. 14. Line] This book is not his, nor

" like his language, nor is it in the catalogue of his
" books, tho' his name be to it, with his picture in
" a wooden cut."

A .mvereign 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 P.ml. 105. Ver. 15. (Touch not
my anointed and do my Prophets no harm) from,
some false Glosses lately obtruded on by Priests and
Royalists. Lond. 1642, [Bodl. C. 14. 2. Line] and
44. in one sh. in qu.

* " The Treachery and Di.i- , y,^^ Treachery
" loyalty of Papists to their So- and Disloyalty ,,f
" vereigns, in Doctrine and Prac- P.ipists to then
" tice. Together with an exact Soveraigns. with
"Parallel of the Jurisdiction, If f'lfiP'

it D J n • ■! 7 • •) 7 Power nj Parlta-

Power and Privdcges claimed „„„„ /„a x;„g,
and exercis d by a^irpojnsh Par- doms, in 4 Parts.
" liaments. Prelates, Lords and Lond. i043 in a
" Commons, informer Times,with Icrge qu. First
" these now claimed and practised '^' "'
" by the present Parliament, &c. Lond. 1643, in a
" large qu. in lour parts, the first of whicli is in 6

" sh. under the title alxnc-mentionetl The se-

" cond part is entit. The .mvereign Power ofPar-
" liaments and Kingdoitis, w/ierein is vindicated
" their Interest in and Poiver over the Militia,
" Posts, t^-c. tlwir Right to nominate Privy Coun-
" cellars. State Officers, ^c. again.it the King's

" negative Voice in t}i£ Pa.ssing of Bills. The

" third partis Of the Lawfulness of Parliaments
" necessary defensive War against the King's nia-

" lignant Forces both in Law and Conscience.

" The fourth part is More of the Sovereign Power
" of Purliaments and Kingdoms in ordering the
" Militia, Ships, Magazines, Great Officers, &c. —
" with an"

Appendix manifesting hj sundry Histories that
in the ancient Roman Kingdom and Empire, <$'c.
the supreme Sovereignty of Power resided not in
Emperors and Kings themselves, but in their

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Kwgdoms, &c. This is printed at the end of The
Treachery and, &c.'

Rome's Master-piece : or, the grand Conspiracy
of the Pope and his Jesuitical Instruvicnts, to extir-
pate the Protestant Religion, re-establish Popei-y,
subvert Laws, Liberties, Peace, Parliaments, by
kindling a Civil War in Scotland, &c. Lond. 1643,

IB<xil. C. 14. 2. Line] and 44. in 5 sh. in qu.
liodl. 4to. P. 79. Th.l see more in Dr. Will. Laud
under the year 1644, who made notes in the margin
of tJie said book, .so far, and so much, as to vindi-
cate himself from certain a.spersions laid upon him
in the said book. " This performance entit. Rome's
" Master-piece, was composed by Prynne from cer-
" tain letters and papers, which he took from arch-
" bishop Laud in the Tower, when he was autho-
" riz'd to search and take away the said archbishop''s
*' papers. Into which Prynne hath juggled of his
" own pate, several slanders against the said archb.
" It is reprinted, with the archb. notes, at the end
" of the History of the Trouljles and Tryal of
" ArcJibp. Laud. Lond. 1695. fol. published by Mr.
" Henry Wharton."

The Opening of the Great Seal of England :
cmitaining certain brief historical and legal Ob-
servations, touching the Original, Antiquity, Pro-
gress, Use, Necessity of the great Seal ^ the Kings
and Kingdom of England in respect of Charters,
&c. Lond. 1643 in 5 sh. in qu. or thereabouts.

The Doom ofCowardise and Treachery. Or a
Loolcing-glassjhr cowardly and corrupt Governors
and Soldiers, who through Pusillanimity or Bri-
bery, betray their Trusts to public Pi-ejudice, &c.
Lond. 1643 in 10 sh. in qu. or thereabouts. [IJodl.
4to. P. 79. Th.] Written in relation to Nath.
Ficnnes his surrendring up Bristol for the king's
use. Sec more in Nath. Fiennes and Clem. Walker.
• Popish Royal Favorite. Or,a full Discovery of
his Maj. extraordinary Favour to, and Protection
of notorious Papists, Priests, Jesuits, Sfc. mani-
fested by sundry Letters of Grace, Warrants, &c.
Ibid. 1643, in about 10 sh. in qu. Answer'd by

N. D. in a book entit. VindicicE Caroli Regis.

Or, a loyal Vindication oftlie King, he. pr. 1645.
qu. in 9 sh.

Moderate Apology against a pretended Calumny :
in Answer to some Passages in The Prehemincnce
of Parliaments, published by James Howell, &c.
Lond. 1644 in one .sh. in qu. [Bodl. 4to. P. 79- Th.]

Check to Britannicus for his palpable Flattery,
&c. Lond. 1644. [In Oriel college library.] Writ-
ten against M. Needham concerning some passages
in one or two of his Merc. Briian. in vindication of
Nath. Fiennes. Whereupon came out soon after a
pamph. entit. A Check to the Checker, &c.

Tltc Falsities and Forgeries of the Anonumous
Author of a Pamphlet entit. The Fallacies of Mr.

• [See all the parts Bodl. 4to. Z. 27- Th.]

Will. Pi-ynne, discovered in a short View of his

Book intit. The Sovereignty of Parliaments

The Opening- of the Great Seat, &c. Ibid. 1644,
in one sh. in'qii. [Bodl. 4to. P. 79- Th.]

Four serious Questions touching Excommunica-
tion and Suspension from the Sacrament. Lond.
1644. qu.

Twelve considerable Quc.itions touching Church-
gOTcrnment " {sadly propounded out of a real
" Desire of Unity and Tranmiility in Church and
" State) to all sober minded Christians,^ &c. Lond.
1644, in one sheet in qu. [Bodl. 4to. T. 13. Th. BS.]

Independency examined, unmasked, refuted by
12 neto particular Lnterrogatories, &c. Lond. 1644
in two sh. in qu. [Bodl. C. 14. 2. Line] This was
answered by a brother-sufferer of Prynne (Hen.
Burton) and his late companion in tribulation. Lond.
1644, " and by another in a pamphlet entit. A Help
" to the right Understanding of a Discourse con-
" cerning Independe^icy, lately published by Will.

" Prynne 1644. in one sh. qu." Mr. Prynnes

book was twice pr. in that year.

A full Reply to certain brief Observations and
Anti-queries on Mr. Prynnis 12 Questions about
Churcft-government, &c. Lond. 1644. in three sh.
in qu. [Bodl. 4to. P. 79. Th.]

Brief Animadversions on Mr. John Goodwin'' s
Theomachia, &c. Lond. 1644 in one sh. in qu.

True and full Relation of the Prosecution, Ar-
raignment, Tryal and Condemnation of Nath.
Fiennes, late Colimel and Governour of the City of
Bi-istol, &c. Lond. 1644. qu. Clem. Walker was
half author of this pamphlet.

Just Defence irf John Bastwick Dr. of Physic
against ttie Calumnies of John Lilboume, Lieute-
nant Col. and his false Accusations : written ift
Way of Reply to a Letter of Mr. Vickars, &c.
Lond. 1645. in 5 sh. in qu. [Bodl. C. 14. 2. Line]

The Lyar confounded, or a brief Refutat'ion (f
Joh. Lilbourne's miserably mis-stated Case, mis-
taken, 6fc. against the high Court of Paii'iament ,
Sfc. Tlie honourable Committee of Examinations,
S!C. Lond. 1645. qu. 7 sh. [Bodl. C. 14. 2. Line]

Trxdh triumphing over Falshood, Antiquity
over Novelty : or, a seasonable Vindication of the
undoubted eccles'ia-Hical Jur'isd'ictlon, Right, Legis-
lative, and Coercive Power of Christian Emperors,
Kings, Magistrates, Parliaments, in matter of Re-
ligion, Church-government, <Sfc. in Refutation of
John Goodwins Innocencies Triumph, and his dear
Brother Burton''s Vindication of Churches com-
monly called Independent, &c. Lond. 1645. qu.
[Bod'l. 4to. P. 79. Th.]

Hidden Works of Darkness brought to public
Light : or, a necessary Introduction to the History
of the Archbishop of Cant. Tryal, &c. Lond. 1645.
ibl. [Bodl. B. 21. 10. Th.]

Suspension .suspended : or, the Divines of Sion
Coll. late Claim o^ the Power of suspending scan-

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dalous Persons,from the Lord's Supper, ^c. its hr'iejiy
examined, discussed, refuted, &c. Lond. 164(» m 6
sh. in qu. [Bodl. 4to. P. 17. Art. BS.]

Vifidicatum of four serio^ts Questions of grand
Importance, concerningExcommumcation, and Siis-
pensionfrofin the Loras Supper, Sj-c. against a rev.
Brother"^ of Scotland in a Sermon at S. Margaret's
Westminster 5 Sept. 1645. Lond. 1645-6. in 9 sh.
in qu. [Bodl. 4to. P. 79. Th.j Answer'd by Joh.
Saltniarsh in his pamph. en tit. The Opening of
Mr. Prynne's nezo Book called a Vhulication : or,
[445] Light breaking out from a Cloud of Differences,
or late Controversies, toherein are Iiiferences upon
the Vindication, &c. Lond. 1645. in 0 sh. in qu.

Fresh Discovery of some prodigious new x/^an-
dring blazing Stars and Firebrands, stiling them-
selves New Lights, firing our Church and State
into nezv Combu-^tions. Divided into 10 Sections,
comprising, &c. Lond. 1646. qu. 2d edit. [Bodl.
4to. P. 79. Th.] To which are added of Prynne's
collection Letters, Papers, ajid a Petition lately
sent from the Summer Islands touching the schis-
matical, illegal, tyrannical Proceedings ofsome In-
dependents there, &c.

Diotrcphes catechised: or, 16 important Ques-
tions touching the ecclesiastical Jurisdiction and
Censures, " contradistinct to Civil, now clballenged
" as of divine Right by some rigid Presbyterians
" and Independents,'" &c. Lond. 1646. in two sh.
in qu. 3tl edit. [Bodl. C. 14. 2. Line]

Twelve Questions of public Concernment, touch-
ing the Regulation of some Abuses in the Law and
legal Proceedings. Lond. 1646. qu. [In Oriel col-
lege library.]

Scotland''s ancient Obligation to England and
public Acknowledgment thereof for their brotherly
Assistance and Deliverance of them. Lond. 1646.
qu. [In Oriel college library.]

Scotland'' s public Acknowledgment of God'' s just
Judgments upon their Nation fotr tlieir Jremient
Breach of Faiths, Leagues, Oaths, &c. Lond.
1646. qu.

Canterhury\<i Doom : or, the first Part of a com-
pleat Il'istory of the Commitment, Charge, Tryal,
Condemnation, Execution of William Laud late
Archb. of Cant. &c. Lond. 1646. fol.

Minors no Senators. Lond. 1646. in 2 sh. in qu.
[In Oriel college hbrary.] Written against young
men (under age) sitting in the house of commons.

A Gagfo)rlcnig-liair''d Rattle-heads. Lond. 1646.
qu.

Plain and short Expedient to settle the Distrac-
i'wns of the Kingdom. Lond. 1647.

Counter-plea to the Coward'' s Apohmi. Lond.
1647.

Account of the K'nig's Mcijesty's Revenues and
Debts. Lond. 1647. [In Oriel coDege library.]

Declaration of the Officer'' s and Armie's illegal

'■ George Gillespie, as it scetns.

injurious Proceedings and Practices against the 11
impeached Members. Lond. 1647.

Eight Queries upon the Declaration, and late
Letter of the Army. Lond. 1647.

Nine Queries upon the printed Charge of tivc

Army against the 11 Members, Lond. 1647. [I*
Oriel college library.]

The Hypocrites unnrnsVd. Lond. 1647.

Nero Presbyterian Light, springing out of In-
dependent Darkness. Lond. 1d47.

The total arid final Demands of tTte Armij.'
Lond. 1647.

Brief Justification of the 11 accused Members
from a scandalous Libel. Lond. 1G47. [Oriel col-
lege library.]

A Plea for the Lord^: " or, a short and neces-
" sary Vindicat'ion of the Judiciary and Legisla-
" live Power of the House of Peers, ^c. against
" the late sed'itious Anti-parliamentary printed Pe-
" tit'ions. Libels, i^c. of Anabaptists, Levellers,
" Agitators, L'dbourn, Overton, ^-c. Lond. 1648.
" 4 sii. and half in qu.'" [In Oriel college library.]

The Levellers levelFd, &c. Lond. 1647. A
pamphlet with such a title March. Nedham pub-
lished the same year.

The Sword of Christian Magistracy supported ;
or, a full Vindication of Christian King's and Ma-
g'lstrat^s Autliority under the Gospel to punish Ido-
latry, Apostacy, Heresy, Blasphemy, and obstinate
Schism w'lth pecuniary, corporal, and, in scrnie
Cases, zcith capital Punishments. Lond. 1647. qu.
[Bodl. 4to. P. 3. Th. BS.] Translated into Latin
by Wolfgangus Meyerus, and printed in Germany
an. 1650.

Vindication of Sir Will. Lewes from his Charge.
Lond. 1647. The said sir William was one of the
11 accused members.

Fidl Vindication and Answer of the 11 accused
Members, vis. Denz. Hollis, ^c. to a late printed
pamphlet ent'it. A particular Charge or Impeacli-
ment in the Name of Sir Tho. Fairfax and the
Army against the 11 Members. Lond. 1647. in 6 sh.
in qu. [BotU. 4to. A. 9. Jur. BS.]

The Lords and Commons first Love to. Zeal for,
and earnest Vindication of their 'injuriously accused
and impeached Members, and violated Privileges,
Sfc. Lond. 1647. in 3 sh. in qu. [Bodl. 4to. A. 9.
Jur. BS.]

The University of Oxford's Plea refuted: or, a
full Answer to a late printed Paper ent'tt. Tlie Pri-
vileges of tlie University of Oxford in Point of
Visitation, ^c. Lond. 1647. in eight sheets in qu.
[Bodl. C. 14. 14. Line] Soon after came out a

' [The lotaU and f nail Demand) already made ly, and to
le expected from, the Agitators and Army : upon the Conces-
sion whereof they will rest fully satisfied, and disband when
they shall think seasonable, but not bejfore in all Probability.
Worthy all wise and honest Men's serious Comideration. Lon-
don, Printed in the Year 1647. 4to. one sheet. In Ori«l
college library, 2 V. d. I.]

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pamphlet of one sheet, cntit. An Accmint of Mr.
Pri/tine.s licfutatUm of the Uiiii'ersUi/ of O^rfbid'.i
Plea, <^f. IVn d liy Rob. Waring, as I have toltl
you I)cforc; and anotlicr in two sheets, entit. A
short Cauiure of the Book of Mr. WiU'iam Pryntic
entit. The University of OxfmU &c. Written by
Edward Hao;sliaw. Tlie said Jic/idation of Oxford
Plea, ]Hibhshed by Prynne, was all taken from the
)wpers of Dr. I^aud archbisliop, which he had seized
«i]wn at Lambeth some years before; I mean the
very same papers, which lie the said archb. had col-
lected and frametl in 16;35, when he endeavoured
to visit the university of Oxon as archbishop of Can-
terbuf}'.

Nine Propasak by Way of Interrogation, to the
General, Officers, and Sohliers of the Army, con-
cerning the Justice of tJwir Proceedings in Law of
Conscience again.it the Parliament. Lond. 1647. qu.
[In Oriel College Library.]

Twelve Queries of public Concernment. Lond.
1C47. in half a .sh. in <]ii.

Public Declaration and .wlcmn Protestation of
the Freemen of England, again.it the illegal, in-
tolerable, undoing Grievance of Free-quarter. Lond.
1648. in 8 sh. in qu. [Bodl. 4to. A. 9. Jur. RS.]

The MacluavilUan Cromrcellist. Lond. 1648.

Irenarclics ?-edii'ivus : or, a brief Collection of
sundry useful Statutes and Petitions in Parliament
(not hitherto printed) concerning the Neces.sity,
Institution, Oj^ce, Oaths, S^c. of Justices of Peace.
Lond. 1648. in 8 sh. in qu. [Rodl. 4to. P. 15. Art. BS.]

Ardualtegni: or, 12 arduous Doubts of great
Concernment to the Kingdom. Lond. 1648. [In
Oriel College Library.]

'The Case of the impcaclied Ixyrds, Commons, and
Citizeihi truly stated. Lond. 1648. in 3 sh. in qu.
[Bodl. 4to. A. 9. Jur. BS.]

Practical Law controuling, countermanding the
Common Law, and the Sword of War, the Sjcord
vf Justice. — Printed, as ''tis said in the title, at
Exeter, 1648.

Pleajor the Lords : or, a short, yet full and ne-
cessary Vindication of tlie judiciary and legislative
Poxver of the House of Peers. Lond. 1648, [Bodl.
4to. P. 15. Art. BS.] and 58. qu. [Bodl. 4to. A. 12.
Jur. BS.]

The Petition of Right of the Free-holders and
Freemen (if the Kingdom of England. Lond. 1648.
[Bodl. 4to. A. 9. Jur. BS.]

A nav Magna Churta. Lond. 1648. [In Oriel
College Library.]

The County of Somerset divided into several
Classes. Lond. 1648.

Mercurius Rusticus, corttaining News from se-
veral Counties (if England, and their joynt Ad-
dresses to the Parliament. Lond. 1648.

Just and solemn Protestation and Remonstrance
of the Lo?-d Mayor, Com7non-c(mncil-men, and Free-
men (yf Lond. Lond. 1648. The Substance of a
Speech made in tlie House ofCommcns on Monday

4 Decemh. 1648, ttmching the Satisfactoriness of
the Kings Answer to the Propositicms of both
Houses for Settlement ()f a firm lasting Peace, Sic.
Lond. 1648, in eighteen sheets in qu. Three
e<litions of which came out in less than within the
compass of one year. This speech, as those of
Prynne's opinion say, did so admirably well state
the said kmg's answer with such solid reasons,
arguments, and precedents out of divinity, law, and
history, that no man took up tlie bucklers against
him.*

Appendix Jhr the Kingdom's better Sati.sfuction

of some Occurrences since the said Speech This

was printed with, and added to, one of the editions
of the said speech.

True and perfect Narrative of tlie Officers and
Army'' s forcible seiz'tng divers Members of the Com-
mons House, Dec. 6 and 7. Lond. 1648.

Second Part o/" tlie Narrat'ive c<mcerning tlie
Armys Force upon tlie Comnum''s Hou.ie, and Mem-
bers. Lond. 1648. [In Oriel college library.]

Protestation (jftlie secured and secluded Members.
Ibid. 1648.

Vindicaticm of the impriscnid and secluded Mem-
bers (fthe House ()f Commcnis,from the Aspersions
cast upon them in the Mcyority (f the House, in
a Paper lately pr'inted and published, entit. An
humble Ansicer <yf the General Council of Officers
o/" the Army under Thomas Lord Fairfax, &c.
Lond. 1649. in 5 sh. in qu. [Bodl. C. 15. 6. Line.]

Demand (fhis (Prynne' s) Liberty to the General,
26 Dec. 1648, with his Answer thereto, and his An-
swer and Declaration thereupon.

Remonstrance and Declaration (f severed: Coun-
t'les. Cities, and Boroughs, against the Unfaith-
fulness of some of their Knights, Citizens and
Burgesses. Lond. 1648.

Brief Memento * to tlie present un-parliatnentaTy

[4 This whole long spcecli is primed at large by the au-
thors, Mr. Fr. Oriike, surgeon, .niid Mr. Caesar Ward,
printer, at York, of The Parliumentary or Constitutional
History of England, in the eighleenih volume, page 303; in
which appears Prynne's steady aUachment to the king's
cau.-e, when too late, as aUo his great learning and stubborn
integrity to his old principles. Cole. J

[5 1048, 10 Jan. The house this day did lake up the re-
port made by Mr. Humph. Edwards of the answer returned
by Mr. Pryn touching his owning the scandalous pamphlet,
intitule<l A brief Memento, &c. in tliese words following : ' I
will give no answer until I am commanded by a lawful an-
thorily.' — Resolved, that Mr. Pryn, by this answer, hath dis-
owned the authority of this house. Resolved, that Mr. Pryn
be forthwith sent for, in safe custody, by the sergeant at arms
attending on this house. Journals of the House of Commnns,
vol. vi. p. 115.

11 Jan. l648. The house was informed by the sergeant's
servant. That he did repair to Mr. Pryn and served the war-
rant upon him, who gave him this answer : viz. That upon
C Dec. last, as he was coming to do his duly in the house of
commons, he was taken by col. Prvdc and sir Hardres Waller,
and by them imprisoned, he knew not f>>r what cause : that
he yet remains inidef that restraint, and is not yet dischargp<l .
from that imprisonment; and that therefore he would not
come upon that warrani. lb. Cole]

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nm

Juncto, touching their present Intentions and Pro-
ceedings to depose and execute K. Charles, Jan. 1,
An. 1648. Lond.1649. in twelve sheets in qu. [Bodl.
C. 15. 5. Line] Reprinted at Lond. 1660. cjii.

" Letter to the General (sir Thomas Fairfax)
" dated 3 Jan. 1648, demanding what hind of a
" Prisoner he m ? and whose Prisoner ? 7oith an
" Appearance to his Action of false Imprisonment.
" With an additional Postscript. Both printed on
" one side of a sli. of paper." [Bodl. C. 15. .S.
Line]

Impeachment of Higli-Treason against Lieute-
nant-Gen. Cromxvell, and oilier Army Officers —
Jan. 1648.

Four considerable Positions fir the sitting Mem-

hers, Judges and others to rumi?iate upon. Jan.

1648.

" His Declaration and Protestation against the
" present Proceedings of the General and general
" Council of the Army and their Faction, now re-
" maining and sitting in the said Hoiise—— dated
" 19 Jan. 1648. The like wrote Clem. Walker on
" the broad side of a sheet." [Bodl. C. 15. 3. Line.]

Six Propositions of undoubted Verity, Jit to be
considered of in our present Exigency, by all loyal
Subjects and conscientious Christians, [a single leaf.
Bodl. 4to. A. 9. Jur. BS.]

Six serious Queries concerning the King's Tryal
by tfw nexe high Court of Justice. Lond. 1648.*

" This book following, written by an indepen-
" dent, hath the name of Wilham Prinne (not
" Prynne) set to it.

" Mr,. Prinne's Charge against the King ; slie-w-
" ing that the King's Design, Purpose, and Reso-
" lution, has always been en gag'' d, byass''d, and
" tended to settle, establish, 4*c. Slavery, in, among,
" over, his Dominions, Subjects, People, Sfc. Lond.
" 1648. qu. 1 sh." [Bodl. C. 15. 2. Line.]

Books written by the said W. Prynne after the
murder of king Charles I.

Proclamation pj'oclaiming diaries Pr. of Wales,
King of Gr. Britain, France, and Ireland, 1 Feb.
in tJie first Year of his Reign. An. 1648.

Declaration and Protestation of the Peers, Lords
and Barons against the Usurpations of some Mem-
bers of the Common House, 8 Feb. 1648.

Public Declaration and Protestation of the se-
cured and secluded Members of the House of Com-
mons, against the treasonable and illegal late Acts
and Proceedings of some Jew Coiifederate Members
of that House, since their JhrciMe Exclusion, 13
Feh. 1648.

New BabeTs Cmifusion: or, several Votes of the
Commons assembled in Parliament, again,H certain
Papers entit. The Agreement of the People, Sfc.
Lond. 1649. in one sheet, in qu. [Bodl. 4to. P. 15.
Art. BS.] See in Hen. Ireton under the year 1651.

[" See this ascribed to Clement Walker in the account of
th;)i vyriler. J

Vol. in.

Prynne tJie Member reconciFd to Prynne the Bar-
rester : or, an Answer to a scandalous Pamphlet
entit. Prynne again-it Prynne: wherein is dem/m-
strated that Will. Prynne Utter Barrester of lAn-
colns-Inn in his Sovereign Pmcer in Parliaments
and Kingdoms, is of the same Jtulgment with, and
no Ways contradictory to. Will. Prynne, Esq; a
Member of the House of Commons in his Memento,
&c. Lond. 1649. in four sheets in qu. [Bodl. 4to. P.
15. Art. BS.]

First Part of an Historical Collection of the an-
tient Councils and Parliaments of England, Jrom
the Year 673, till an. 1216, &c. Lond. 1649. in four
sheets in qu. [Bodl. 4to. P. 15. Art. BS.]

Legal Vindication of the Liberties of England
against illegal Taxes, and pretended Acts of Par-
liament lately enforced on the People : or. Reasons
assigned why he (Prynne) can neither in Con-
science, Law, or Prudence, submit to the new illegal
Tax and Contribution of 90 thousand Pounds the
Month, lately imposed on the Kingdom by a pre- [448]
tended Act of some Commons in (or rather out of)
Parliament. Lond. 1649, in 8 sh. in qvi. [Bodl.
4to. P. 15. Art. BS.] Reprinted, with additions, in
1660.

Arraigtiment, Conviction, and Condemnation of
the Westmonasterian Junctoe^s Engagement. Lond.
1650. [Bodl. 4to. A. 9- Jur. BS.] '

Brief Apology for all Non-subscribers, and Look-
ing-glass f)r all Apostate Prescribers and Siib-
scribers of ' the new Engagement, &c. Ibid. 1650.
in 2 sheets in qu. [In Oriel College library.]

" Summary Reasons against the new Oath and
" Engagement. And an Admonitimi to all such as
" have already subscriVd to it, &c. Printed 1649,
" 2 sh. qii. Dr. Barlow makes Mr. Prynne the
" author of this pamplilct." *

The Time-serving Proteus and Ambidexter Di-
vine, uncased to the World. Lond. 1650. qu. [In
Oriel College library.] This was written against
one John Durie, as I liave told you in the Fasti,
an. 1624.

Sad and serious Considerations touching the in-
vasive War against our Preshjterian Brethren tf

Scotland Written in Diuister Castle during his

close imprisonment there, in Sept. 1650.

A Gospel Plea (interzooven with a rational and
legal) for the ancient .'settled Maintenance and
Tenths of the Ministers (f the Gospel, &c. Lond.
1653. [Bodl. C. 13. 2. Line.] Reprinted with the
second ])art thereof, an. 1659.

Jus Putronatus : or, a brief legal and rational
Pleafo)- Advowsons and Patrons ancient, laziful,
just, and equitable Rights and Titles to present Iiu
cumbents to Parish ChurcJies or Vicaridges upon

' [' By Anon, and not by W. Prynne,' says a note in the
Bodleian copy, which was however given by Sparkes, Prynne's
bookseller, and is bound up with fourteen acknowledged
pieces of that author.]

' [See the bishop's copy, Bodl. A. 6. 7. Line]
3 K

867

PRYNNE.

Vacancies, &c. Lond. 1654. in 7 sh. in qu. [In Oriel
College library.]

Declaration and Protestation against the illegal,
detestable, and ofl condemned Tax and Extortion
of Excise in general, and for Hops in particular.
Lond. 1654. qu. [Bodl. 4t<). P. 16. Art. BS.]

First Part of a Seasonable, Legal, and Histo-
rical Vindication, and Chronological Collection of
ffie good old fundamental Liberties, Rights, Laxos,
Government (fall English Free-men. Lond. 1654.
55. qu. The second part of this was printed at
Lona. 1655. qu. [Sec both parts Bodl. 4to. P. 16.
Art. BS.]«

A new Discovery of Free-state Tyranny: con-
taining four Letters ; " together with a subsequent
" Remonstrance of several Grievances and Demands
" of Common Right ; rcritten and sent by him
" (Prynne) to Mr. John Bradshaw and his Asso-
" dates at Whiteludl (stiling themselves. The
" Council of State ) after their two Years and three
" Monflis close Imprisonment of him, &c. Lond.
" 1655. qu. [Bodl. 4to. P. 16. Art. BS.] This
" person, Will. Prynne, who was in the times of
" peace imprison'd, piUory'd, 8ic. for abusing the
" bishops, and writing scurrilous things against the
" court, was in like manner imprison'd in the time
" of the commonwealth and Oliver, by those who
" formerly took his part."

Srief polemical Dissertation, concerning the true
Time of the IncluxUioti and Determination of the
Lord's Day Sabbath, from Evening to Evening.
Lond. 1655. qu. [Bodl. 4to. S. 7. Th. BS.]

The Quakers unmask''d, ami clearly detected to
be bid the Spaiim of Romish Frogs, Jesuits, and
Franciscan Fryers, sent from Rome to seduce tlie
intoxicated giddy-lieaded English Nation, &c.
Lond. 1655. in 5 sh. in qu. [Bod. 4to. S. 7. Th.
BS.] Printed there again in 1664.

An old Parliamentary Prognostication made at
Westminster for the present new Year, and puny
Members there assembled. Lond. 1655.

Seasonable Vindication of free Admission to, and
frequent Administration of, the Jioly Communion,
to all visible Church Members, regenerate, or un-
regenerate, Sfc. Lond. 1656. qu. ^Bodl. 4to. P. 6.
Th. BS.]

New Discovery of some Romish Emissaries,
Quakers, as likezmse of some Popish Errors, unad-
visedly embraced, pursued by our anti-communion
Ministers. Discovering the dangerous Effects of
their discontinuing the frequent Administration of
the Lord's Supper. Lond. 1656. qu. in 8 sh. [In
Oriel College library.]

Legal Vindication of two important Queries of
present general Concernment, clearly discovering
from our statute, common, and canon Lazes, the
bounden Duty of Ministers and Vicars of Parish

[» Second edition corrected and enlarged, printed 1679.
Baker.]

Churches, to administer the Sacraments, as laell as
preach to their Pari.ihionos, and the legal Reme- [449]
dies against them, in Case of obstinate Refusal}
Lond. 1656. in qu. It was twice pr. in that year.

Short Demurrer to the Jews long discontinued,
barred Remitter into England; comprising an
exact Chronological Relation of their first Admis-
sion into England, their ill Deportment, Misdc-
meanoiirs. Condition, Sufferings, &c. Lond. 1656.
sec. edit, in qu. [Bixll. 4to. O. 16. Art. BS.] The
second part of the said Short Demurrer, &c. was
printed at the same place also in 1656. qu.

A Summary Collection of the jirincipal funda-
mental Rights, Liberties, Properties of all English
Free-men. Lond. 1656. qu. Two editions, the se-
cond of which was much enlarged.

Lord's Supper briefly vi?idicated, and clearly de-
monstrated to be a Grace-begetting, SouUconvertvng
(not a meer confirming) Ordinance. Lond. 1657.
Answered by S. S. minister of the gospel in a book
entit. Holy Things for holy Men : or, the Lawyers
Plea non-stiited, &c. Lond. 1657, 8. qu. [In Oriel
college library.]

The Subjection of all Traytors, Rebels, as well
Peers as Commons, in Ireland, to the Lazos, Sta-
tutes, and Tryals by Juries of good and laisful
Men of England, in the King''s Bench at West-
minster, for Treasons perpetrated by them in Ire-
land, i^-c. Being an Argument at Law made in the
Court of the King's-Bench, Term Hillar. 20 Car.
Reg. in the Case of Connor Magzeire an Irish
Baron, &c. Lond. 1658. [In Oriel college library.]
and 81. qu.

Probable Expedient for future Peace and SetUe-
ment. Lond. 1658.

Tzeelve serious Queries proposed to all Conscien-
tious Electors of Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses,
for the Assembly. Lond. 1658.

Tzeelve several heads of public Grievances, and
useful necessary Proposals of the Western Coun-
ties, Cities and Boroughs, to their Knights, Citi-
zens, a7id Burgesses, An. 1658.

Eight military Aphorisms, demonstrating the
Uselessness, Unprqfitableness,Hur fulness, and pro-
digal Expensiveness of all standing English Forts
and Garrisons, to the People of England, &c.
Lond. 1658,* in 5 sheets in qu.

[> There is a copy in Oriel college library somewhat dif-
fering in the title : A legal Resolution of two important
Quceres of general presettt Concernment. Clearly demon-
strating from our Statute, Common and Canon Laws, llit
hnunden Duty of Ministers, and Vicars of Parish Churches to
administer the Sacraments, as well as preach to their Pa-
rishioners ; with the legal Remedies to reclaim them from, or
punish and remove them for, their wilfntl obstinacy in deny-
ing the Sacraments to them. liy fPtlliam Prynne Esq. a
Bencher of Lincoln's Inne ; to whom these Queries were
newly propounded by some Clients. Lond. 16.06.]

[' Pendennis and other standing Forts dismantled; or
Eight military Aphnrismes dtmonslralin^ the Uselessness,
Hurtfulness, isfc. tf standing Forts ana Garrisons. Lond.
10'57> 4to. Tanner.]

PRYNNE.

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Tlie first Part' of a brief Register, Kakndar,
and Survey of several Kinds, Forms qfallFarlia-
mentary Writs, &c. Lond. 1659. [Bodl. 4to. P.
11. Jur.]

Beheaded Dr. John HewyCs Glwst, pleading, yea
crying for exemplary Justice against the misnamed
High Court of Justice. Lond. 1659.* qu.

Tlie true good old Cause rightly stated, and the
false uncased. Lond. 1659. two edit, in one sheet
in qu. Answer'd by anon, in three sheets in qu.
entit. Mr. Prynne's Good old Cause stated and
stunted 10 Years ago, &c. and by Hen. Stubbc in
his Commonwealth of Israel, &c.

The Republicans and others spurious good old
Cause, briefly and truly anatomized, to preserve
our Native Country, Kingdom, legal Government,
&c. Lond. 1659- three edit, in three sheets in qu.
[Bodl. 4to. L. 71. Th.] In answer partly to this
came out soon after, A Christian Concertation with
Mr. Prynne, Mr. Baxter, and Mr. Ja. Harring-
ton, for the true Cause of the Commonwealth, being
an Answer to Mr. Prynne's Anatomy of the Re-
public and his True and Perfect Narrative. To
Part of Mr. Baxter^s Holy Commonwealth, with

some Refections on his Catltolic Key. Written

by John Rogers.'

New Chcater''s Forgeries detected, disclaimed,
&c. Lond. 1659. [A single leaf, in Oriel college
library, 2 V. d. 8.]

True and Perfect Narrative of what was done,
spoken by and between Mr. Prynne, the old and
newly forcibly late sechided Members, the Army
Officers, and those now sitting, both in the Commons
Lobby House, and elsewhere, on the Ith and 9th of
May, &.C. Lond. 1659- in 14 sh. in qu. [Bodl. C.
13. 6. Line.] Whereupon came out a pamphlet of
one sh. in qu. entit, The Character or Ear-mark of
Mr. Will. Prynne, Autltor of a great many scan-
dalous Pasqnils, &c.

Ten considerable Queries concerning Tithes, t^c.
against the Petitioners and Petitions Jbr tJteir total
Abolition, as Antichristian, Jewish, burdensome,
&c. Lond. 1659. in one sh. in qu. [Bodl. C. 13. 6.
Line]

Answer to a Proposition, in Order to the Pro-
posing of a Commonwealth or Democracy. Lond.
1659.

Concordia discors : or, the dissonant Harmony

' ("The Second Part will be found also Bodl. 4to. P. II.
Jur.J

* [A cnpv in Oriel college library, dated Lond. iCOO, in
4to. Beheaded Dr. John UetBytls Ghost pleading, yea crying
far exemplarie Justice against the arbitrary, unexampled. In-
justice i:f his late Judges and £xecutioners in the new high
Coimmission, or Court of Justice, silting in fVestminster
Hall, &c.]

' [Another answer was The Commonwealth of Israel,

Irief Account of Mr. Prynne's Anatomy of the good i

a

Cavsf
NER ]

Frynne's Anatomy of the good old
H. S. Lond. 1659, 4to. in one shcel. Tan-

qf sacred public Oaths, Protestations, Leagues, Co-
venants, Ingagements, lately taken by many time-
serving Saints, Officers, without Scruple of Con-
science, making a very unpleasant Consort in tJu
Ears of our most faithfd, &c. Lond. 1659. in 6
sh. in qu. [In Oriel college library.]

Tlie Remainder of A Gospel Plea far the Tithes
and settled Maintenance of tJte Ministers of the
Gospel. Lond. 1659-

A brief necessary Vindication of the old and new
secluded Members, from the false malicious Calum-
nies ; and of the fundamental Rights, Liberties,
Privileges, \c. from the late avowed Subversions.
1. Of Joh. Rogers in his Christian Concertation
with Mr. Will. Prynne and others. 2. Of March.
Nedhani in his Inteirst will not lie. See. Lond.
1659. in 8 sh. in qu. [In Oriel college library.]

Short, legal, medicinal, useful, snfe, easy Pre-
scription to recover our Kingdom, Church, Nation,
from their present dangerous distractive, destructive
Cotfasion, and worse than Bedlam Madness, &c.
Lond. 1659. in one sh. and half in qu. [Bodl. C. 13.
4. Line]

Conscientious, serious, Theological and Legal
Queries propounded to the twice dissipated, self
created Anti-parliamentary Westminster Juncto,
and its Members. To convince tJiem of, humble
them for, &c. Lond. 1660. in six sh. and half in
qu. It was printed in Nov. 1659. [In Oriel col-
lege library.]

Seven additional Queries in BeJialf of the se-
cluded Members, propounded to the twice broken
Rump now sitting, the Cities of Westminster, Lon-
don, &c. Lond. 1660. in one sheet in qu. It was
published in Dec. 1659. [In Oriel college library.]

Ca.se of the old secured, secluded, and trvice ex-
cluded Members, briefly and truly stated, for their
oxen Vindication, &c. Lond. 1660. in 1 sh. in qu.
published in Dec. 1659. [Bodl. C. 15. 2. Line]

Full Declaration of the true State of the secluded
Members Case, in Vindication of themselves and
their Privileges, and (f tlie respective Counties,
&c. Lond. 1660. published in Jan. 1659. in seven
sheets and half in qu. [In Oriel college library.]

Remonstrance of the Noblemen, Knights, Gentle-
men, Clergy-men, Free-holders, Citizens, Bur-
gesses, and Commons, of the late Eastern, Southern,
Western Association, wlio desire to shew themselves
faithful and constant to the good old Cause, Sic.
Lond. I659. [In Oriel college hbrary.]

Ten Queries upon the ten nexo Commandments of
the general Council of the Officers of the Army, 22
Dec. I659. Printed in 1 sh. in qu. [In Oriel col-
lege library.]

Brief Narrative of the Manner how divers Mem-
bers of the House of Commons, that were illegally
and unjustly imprisoned or secluded by tlie Army''s
Force in Dec. 1648, and May 7. An. 1659, coming
on the 27 th of Dec. 1659, to discharge their Trust,
3K2

871

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872

zoere again shut out by the pretended Order lyfthe
Members sUtiitg, Stc. Lond. 1660. in one sheet and
an half" in qu. This was published in the latter end
of Dec. 1659. [I"^ Oriel college library.]

Six important Queries proposed to tfie Re-sitting
Rump of' tJi£ Long Parliament, fit to be satisfacto-
rily resolved, &c. Printed in Dec. 1659. in one

sh. on one side. [In Oriel college library.]

The Privikgcs of Parliament, zohich the Mem-
bers, Army, and this Kingdom have taken the
Protestation and Covenant to maintain Re-
printed in one sheet in qu. 5 Jan. 1659, the day
appointed to remember them. [In Oriel college
library.]

Copy of the Presentment and Indictment found
and exhibited by the Grand Jury of Middlesex on
the last Day of Hilary Term 1659, against Coll.
Matthew Mured, Coll. John Okey, and Others for
assaulting and keeping Sir Gilb. Gerard (and other
Members) by Force of Arms out of the Commons
House of Pari, on 9.1 Dec. 1659. Lond. 1660. [In
Oriel college library.]

Three sea.ionable Queries jiropo.ied to all tliose
Cities, Counties, and Boroughs, whose respective
Citizens, <S^c. have been forcibly excluded, unjustly
ejected and disabled to sit in the Commons H. by
those now acting at Westm. Lond. 1660. It was
pubhshed about the latter end of Dec. 1659, on
one side of a sh. of paper. [In Oriel college library.]
[451] Humble Petition and Address of the Sea-men

and Water-men in and ahout 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. Lond. 1660. [In Oriel col-
lege library.]

Seasonable and healing Instructions, humbly
tendered to tlie Free-holders, Citizens and Burgesses
of England and Wales, to be seriously commended
by tliem to their respective Knights, Citizens, Bur-
gesses, elected aiul to be elected for the next Parlia-
ment, 25 Apr. 1660. [In Oriel college library.]
. Books and pamphlets written after the restoration
of his majesty king Charles II.

Second Part of a brief Register, Kalendar, and
Survey of the several Kinds of Parliamentary
Writs (relating to tlie H. of Commons) &c. Lond.
1660. qu.

Bathonia rediviva. The humble Address of the
Mayor, Aldermen, and Citizens of the City of Bath
to the Kings most excellent Maje.Hty, presented by
Mr. Prynne 16 June 1660. Lond. 1660. [In Oriel
college library.]

. The first Part of the signal Loyalty of God's
true Saints and pious Christians (as likewise of
Pagans) toxoards their King, both before ami under
the Law and Gospel, expressed in and by their con-
stant pid)lic Prayers, Supplications, Intercessions,
Thanksgiving for them. Lond. 1660. qu. [In Oriel
college library.]

The 2<l Part of signal Loyalty ; together with
various Forms of Prayers, Supplications, Votes,
Acclanuitions, Ceremonies, and Solemnities tised at
tlie Cormxatlons of Emperors and Kings, especially
cf the Kings of England. Lond. 1660. qu. [In
Oriel college library.]

" A .seasonMe Vindication of the Supreme Au-
" tJiority and Jurisdiction of Christian Kings,
" Lords, and Parliaments, &.c. Lond. 1660. qu.*
" [In Oriel college library.] &c. Taken out of
" John Hus.

" A Supplemented Appendix to the premis''d Dis-
"ptitatlonqfJoh. Has. [In Oriel college library.}"

Sundry Reasons humbly tendered to the most
honourable House of Peers, by some Citizens and
Members of I^otid. and other Cities, Borouglis, Cor-
porations and Ports against the new intended Bill
for governing and reforming Corporations.
Some few of Uiese Reasons were pubiislied, and the
rest suppressed.

A sJtort sober pacific Examination of some exube-
rances in, and ceremonial AppurtenaiKes to, the
Commoti Prayer, &c. Lond. 1661. qu. [BotU. A.
1.13. Line]

Previa Parliamentaria rediviva : in 13 Sections,
containing .'several Catalogues (f the Numbers,
Dates of all Bundles of original Writs of Summons
and Elections, neivly found, or formerly extant, in
the Tower of London, &c. Lond. 1662. qu. [BodJ.
4to. P. 11. Jur.]

Apology for tender Consciences, touching not
bowing at the Name of Jesus. Lond. 1662. qu.
[Bodl. 4to. P. 14. Th. BS.]

The Fourth Part of a Register and Survey of the
.levered Kinds and Forms of Parliamentary Writs,
&c. Lond. 1664. qu. [Bodl. 4to. P. 11.' Jur.]

The first Tome : ' or, an exact chronological
Vindication and historical Demonstration cf our

" \_/l seasonable Findication iif the supremo Aulhcri/y and
Jurisdictinn nf C/iristian Kings, Lords, Parliaments, as well
over the Possessions, as Persons of delinquent Prelates and
Church-men. — London, Printed in the Year l668. Bodl. B.
18. 13. Line.

This copy was blsliop Barlow's, "ho has written ihe fol-
lowing MS. note on the title: 'This trifle was published
by Mr. Prynne and dedicated to the kinge in Nov. l60O,
and is now reprinted lC68, jnst as it came out at first, see
many pages, and words in the former as in this, and at the
end, pag. 1 13 the very errata arc the same in both, see that
the old errata are not corrected in this new edition : nay the
errata themselves which arc pretended to be corrected are
not, but the pretended corrections are errata and point to
pages and words which are not in those pa^es.' So far the
worthy bishop; but qna;re if the volume be not the very
same with a newly printed title page?

On the first page bishop Barlow writes — ' Hus a gooJ
man, but a man bad his errors. Page II he is arabaptisticall.
Lucifer Calaritanus (a confessor, &c.) that impiously railes
(as Prynne against the bishops) against the emperor Con-
stantinus pages 12 and 13, et passim.']

' [Of this celebrated book, usually known by the name of
Prynne's Records, it is affirmed by Dr. Rawlinson that

PllYNNE.

874

British, Roman, Saxon, Danish, Norman, English
Kings supreme Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, in, over
all spiritual or religious Affairs, Cau.ws, Persons,
4-c. xeithin their Realms of England, Scotland,
Ireland, and other Dominions, Jrom the original
Planting of Christian Religion, S^c. to the Death
(^ King Rich. I. An. 1199. Lond. 16G6, in a large
fol.

The second Tome of an exact Chronological Vin-
dication, ^c.from the first Year ofK. John 1199, to
the Death of K. He'n. 3. Dom. 1273, &c. Lond.
1665. in a large fol. This second tome came out
before the first.

Aurum Reginoc : or concerning Queen-gold, &c.
Lond. 1668. qu. [Bodl. 4to. P. 10. Jur.]

Animadversions on the foui'th Part of Sir Ed-
ward Cohrs Institutes of the Laws of England, &c.
Lond. 1669. fol. [Bodl.'M. 2. 15. Jur.]

The History of K. John," K. Hen. 3. and K.

twenty three copies only of the second volume were preserved
at the fire of London. The following extract from llie last
leaf of the fir5t volume, provci however, that this statement
is not quite correct :

To the reader. The late sudden, unexpected, dreadfull,
raging, consuming fire, kindled by our unparalled wrath-pro-
voking sins and abominations, transcendinj^all our forefathers,
(after so many miracles of fresh unpresidcntcd mercies and
deliverances of our kinn and kingdom from their modern
confusion^, and an outrageous pestilence) within three dayes
space turned no less than 88 parishes and parish-churches,
with the caihedral-clmrch of the opulent, great and glorious
city of London, into heaps of ashes and rubbish ; to the just
horror and amazement of all spectators of their flames or
ruioes ; which as it proved extremely prejudicial, destructive
to most companies of the city, yet none of them received so
grand losses and damages by that devouring conflagration, as
the company of printers and stationers ; most of whose habi-
tations, storehouses, shops, together with all their stocks,
books, bound and unbound, (by reason of their coinbustible-
ness and difficulty to remove ihein) were not only consumed
in a moment, but their ashes and scorched leaves, carried by
the violence of the vvinde in the aire, were scattered in sundry
places above l6 miles distance from the city, to the great ad-
miration of the beholders. Among other millions of books
thus suddenly consumed, whiles I was busie in endeavouring
all I could to excite others to resist and extinguish these su-
pinely overlong-neglected raging flames, and to prescrv-e the
publique records of the king and kingdom from their fury,
Mr. Thomas Ratcliffe's, my printer's house, near Doctors
Commons, with most of the printed copies of this tome, (then
fully finished at the press, except the intended tables to it;)
as likewise of the second lome formerly published, and of
the first book and third tome (wherein I had made some pro-
gress) were there burnt together with it ; not above 70 of
tliem being rescued from the fire, to my dammage of near
2000/. Upon which consideration, I have thought meet
not to make or print my intended tables to this tome for so
few copies, till God shall enable me to reprint it, &c.

There are copies of the three volumes in the Bodleian, All
Souls, Christ Church, St. John's, Oriel and Exeter college
libraries.]

, * [Third Tome of an exact Chron. Vindication and Histo-
rical Demonstration nf lite supreamEccl. Jurisdiction oj our
British, (Sfc. Kings. Lond. lOC)8. The Hist, of King John,
&c. a new title given by the bookseller \C>70 to make the
book more vendible. Baker.]

Edzi'. I. wherein the ancient Sovereign Dominion
of the Kings of England, Scotland, France and Ire-
land, c^c. is as,wrted and vindicated against all In-
croachments and Innovations xchat.socver, &c. Lond.
1670. in a thick fol. He also did revise, rectify in
sundry mistakes, and supplied with a preface, mar-
ginal notes, several omissions and exact tables, a
book entit. An exact Abridgment of the Records of
the Tower of London, from the Reign ofK. Edw. 2.
unto K. Rich. 3. o/" all the Parliaments holden in
each King's Reign, and the several Acts in every
Parliament, S^c. Collected by Sir Robert Cotton,

Knight and Baronet 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
Jrom under the sad Cloud of Obloquy: or, a Vindi-
cation of the Practice of the Church of Christ in
the Summer I.ilands, &c. Lond. about 1650.
Written by Nath. White bach, of divinity, and
pastor of tne church of Christ at Summer Islands.
(2.) A Discourse of the Spanish Monarchy. Writ-
ten by Tho. Campanella : which having been trans-
lated into English by Edm. Chilmead, and pub-
lished 1654, had a new preface put to it by Prynne,
with a title bearing the date of 1659. (3.) A Bre-
viat of the Life of Will. Laud ArchbisJiop of Can-
terbury, 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 presby-
terian clamours, entertained other kind of thoughts
of the archbishop than they had before. The
original of this Diary was found after his death by
Mr. Will. Dugdale and others, who were com-
manded 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 A.nnaria: or,
the Unreasonableness and Insupportable Burden
now pres,^ed upon the Shoulders of this groaning
Nation, by the headless Head, and unruly Rulers,
c^c. held forth in a Remonstrance, &c. Lond. 1659.
m one sh. in qu. (2.) Two Letters : one from Jolt.
Audland, a Qtidker, to Will. Prynne; the other.
Will. Prynne's Answer. Lond. 1672. in 3 sh. in fol.»
written by Samuel Butler, author of the much cele-
brated 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 bap-
tized there 13 Feb. 1612. His father ' named Sam.

P Printed in Butler's Genuine Remains, i, 371.]
[' An honest country fanner, had a small estate and rented
a greater. The son went for some little time to Cambridge,
hut was never matriculated, his father not being able to
maintain him there. He died iGSO, and was buried at the
charge of his good friend iVIr. Longvill, of the Temple, with-
out a monument, in whose hands his paperj are. See hit
life. Baker.]

[452]

875

PRYNNE.

[453]

Butler was a person of a competent estate, near
300/. per an. but most of it lease-lands held of sir
Tho. Russell, grand-father of sir Franc. Russell,
baronet, lord of the manor of Strensliam before-
mention'd. The son Sam. Butler, whom we are
fartlier to mention, was educated in grannnar learn-
ing in the coll. .sch«X)l at Worcester under Mr. Hen.
Bright, and from thence went, as his brother now
living affirms, to the university of Cambridge,* yet
otliers of the neighbourhood say to Oxon, but whe-
ther 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 Ijeen made a member of the uni-
versity, we should have known whether he was the
same, who was afterwards the famed author of Hii-
dibras. After Sam. Butler had continued in Cam-
bridge 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 music, and at length be-
came so noted for the first, that he was entirely be-
loved 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 jointure of a widow tnat he had man-ied.
After the restoration of king Charles II. he became
secretary to Richard earl of Carbury, lord president
of the principality of Wales and of the marches
thereof, who, as 'tis said, made Sam. Butler steward
of Ludlow Castle, when the court there was revived.
Afterwards he became secretary to Geo. duke of
Buckingham' when be was made chancellor 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 lord chan-
cellor 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 canie
out in oct. an. 1663, and was not only taken into his
majesty's hands, and read by him with great de-
light, 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

2 [Sam. Butler A. B. coll. Chr. l666; sed astas non con-
venit. S. B. coll. Caii. adm. in matric. acad. Cant. Jul. 1 1,
1659; nee huic convenit. Baker.]

1 [It is improliable that he was secretary to the second
duke of Buckingham, whose vile character he has drawn in
bis second volume of his Genuine Remains published in 1759,
in 2 vols. 8vo. by Mr. R. Thyer, page 72. Colf..]

< [In the Puhlick Intelligence, published by authority,
Decemb. 23, 1062 i ' There is stollcn abroad a most false

both printed together with several additions and an-
notations. And at length a third and last part, but
without annotations, as by the copy printed 1678
appears. In 1682 was published in (x:t. Butlers
Ghost : or, Hudibras. The fourth Part : -with Re-
Jlections on these Times. But whether he was the
author of it, I know not, for I have not yet seen it.
This Sam. Butler, who was a boon and witty com-
panion, 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 Co-
vent-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 William
Prynne, he died in his lodgings in Lincolns-Inn on
the 24th of October* 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 strangely tost from post to pillar.

His brains career were never stopping.
But pen with rheume of gall still dropping.
Till hand o'er head brought ears to cropping.

Nor would he yet surcease such theams,
But prostitute new virgin-reams
To types of his fanatic dreams.

But whilst he this hot humour hugs.
And for more length of tedder tugs.
Death fang'd the remnant of his lugs.

[Add to Prynne's works :

Independency examined, unmaslced, refuted by
twelve new particular Interrogatories detecting
both the manifold Absurdities and Inconveniences

imperfect copy of a poem called Hudibras without name
either of printer or bookseller, as fit for so lame and spurious
an impression. The true and perfect edition printed by the
author's original, is sold by Richard Marriot under St. Dun-
stan's church in Fleet street. That othernameless impression
is a cheat, and will but abuse the buyer as well as the author,
whose poem deserves to have fallen into belter hands.']

[5 Oct. 23, l6<)(); On Sunday morn. Mr. Wm. Pryn,
barrister of Lincoln's Inn, died. Mr. Richard Smith's
Obituary. Baker.]

I6f)9.

PRYNNE.

FIENNES.

B7<.i

that must attend it, to the Disturbance of Church
and State. Lond. 1651, 4to. in two sheets and a
half. Tanner.

Lord Bishops none of the Lord's Bishcms. Printed
Nov. 1640, 4to. said to be wrote by Wm. Prynne.
Bakek.

In his True and perfect Narrative is a curious
account of Prynne's bustling to regain his seat in the
parliament house against the rump in 1659. At p.
54 is his prophetic dream of Oliver's death and his
conversation with, and advice to, him. At page 64
he writes thus. ' Mr. Prynne having neither wife
nor child to provide for, not much to care for, and
never yet desiring any new office, advancement or
employment in this jiresent world, nor receiving the
least reward for all his faithfull publick services, nor
recompence for his manifold losses, sufferings, ex-
pences for the publick, to whom he hath ever been
a faithfull unmercinarie servant,' &c. This I put
down because Mr. Wood no where tells us whetlier
he was a married or a single man, or what family he
left behind him. In 1645 he was engaged in a con-
troversy (as Wilkes with Home) with that choice
spirit John Lilburne, who, at page 20 of Tlie Copy
of a Letter from L. C. John Lilburne to a Friend,
thus treats him : ' Now I say for Will. Prin the
lawyer, but rather the grand lyar (that would be
thought one of the wisest men in the world, though
indeed he be one of the arrantest fooles and idiots,)'
&c. Cole.

In Oriel library is a mutilated single sheet con-
taining the portrait of Prynne, in prison, with arms,
crest, &c. and the lines beginning ' All Flesh is
grass,' &c. On one side are The Places and Times
of his first Imjjrisonments under his professed
Enemies the Prelates, on the other The Places and
Times of his seconid Imprisonments under Jalse
Brethren and pretended Friends.

Most of Prynne's works will be found either in
the Bodleian or in Oriel College library, where are
twenty three volumes of his tracts, some single sheets
only, and very curious.

The best portrait of him is that by HoUar, the
next in estimation one engraved by P. Stent.]

NATHANIEL FIENNES second son to WUl.
Fiennes vicount Say and Selc, of whom I have
made mention before, was bom at Eroughton in Ox-
fordshire, educated in grammar learning in Wyke-
ham's school near Winchester, admitted perpetual
fellow of New coll. at his first entry therein, because
he was a founder's 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 a bur-
gess for Banbury to sit in that parliament which
began at Westm. in April the same year, and again
for the same place, to sit in that, that commenc'd the
3d of Nov. following : wherein shewing himself very
busy and zealous for the cause, had a commission

given to him to be captain of a troop, and after-
wards to be colonel of a regiment, of norse, under
Robert earl of Essex the capt. gen. of the parUament
forces raised to fight against the king. Afterwards
shewing himself a zealot for tlie covenant, and pro-
fessing himself in all respects to be a thorough-paced
parUamenteer, was made governor of the garrison of
Bristol, when first taken in for the use of the par-
Uament. Where, being no sooner settled, but he
used many insolencies and barbarities, too many
here to be named : among which was (1) His cau.sing
the king's proclamation, forbidding all sea^men and
mariners, and all officers of his navy, to take em-
ployment under Robert earl of Warwick, lately
made admiral of the king's royal navy by the par-
liament, to be burnt in the public market-place r454"|
there, 4 March 1642, by the hands of one of the
city sergeants, being then the chief market-day, not-
withstanding he connived at the publishing it the
day before. (2) In causing to be murdered, under
the notion of plotters against the parUament, two
eminent citizens of Bristol, Rob. Yeomans and
George Bowcher (notwithstanding his majesty 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 chuse but look upon it as the most barbarous
act which the impudence and cruelty of the said re-
bellion had produced against him. (3) In his, and
his murtherous crew's contempt and profanation of
God's 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 dri\'ing away the orthodox
ministers and substituting in their places, the most
infamous and notorious schismatics diat he could
pick out of Bristol and other places, as Joh. Tombes
of Lemster, Walt. Cradock, Bacon, Wal-
ter, Simonds, and one Matthew Hazard ; whom

tho' I name last, yet deserves to have precedency of
all the rest, as being a main incendiary in the rebel-
lion, violently egged on by his wife, whose disciple
the silly man was. But at length the said city of
Bristol being by col. Fiennes surrendered to prince
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
WiU. Prynne and Clem. Walker. So that he being
tried for Ids life for the same, before a council of
war, sitting at St. Albans, in Dec. the same year
(notwithstanding he had made a lai'ge defence for
what he had done in open parUament on the 5th
of Aug. going before) he was sentenced to lose
his head for a coward by the name of Nath. Fiennes
alias Fines, alias Fenys, alias Fienes ; but by the
intercession of his father and others of his relations,
he was pardoned, and by the palpable flattery and
prevarication of Merc. Britannicus alias March.
Nedham, he was justified for what he had done as"

879

FIENNES.

•to that matter: See more in tlic works of W.
Pryrine. Afterwards, tho' he the said N. Fienncs
was not trusted in any military matter, yet lie be-

■ came an active man in the ijarliament, and was made
a commissioner in several matters. But when he
saw the cause of the prcsbyterians decline, especially
upon the purging of the house of 4() of them (whereof

•he was one) by col. Tho. Pride, he struck in witli
the independents, took the engagement, became

• great witn Oliver, a member of all, or at least of
most of, the parhaments held between the dissolution
of the rump parliament, and the return of his maj.
king Charles II. was made one of the lords com-
missioners of the great seal, after Oliver was installed
lord protector, one of his privy council, lord privy
.seal in June 1655, a member and speaker of the
other house alias house of lords ; and tho' before he
had shewed himself an antimonarchist, yet then,

:when lie saw what Oliver aimed at, became a lover
,' of kingship and monarchy, purposely to gain honoiu-,

•and riches for the establishing a family which he and
the rest of the godly party aimed at. His works are
these.

Several speeches in parliament, as (1) Speech in
tlie House of Commons, in Answer to tlie third
Speech o/'Lo7-d Geo. D'lghy concerning Bishops and
the City of London's Petition, spoken 9 Feb. 1640.
Lond. 1641. iu 4 sh. in qu. [Bodl. C. 13. 14. Line]
The beginning is, ' Mr. speaker, two things have
fallen into debate this day,' &c. (2) Second Speech
in the Com. Hotise of Pari, touching the Suhjecfs

■ Liberty against the late Canons and the new Oath.
Lond. 1641. in two sh. and an half in qu. [Bodl. C.
13. 13. Line] (3) Speech cmwerning the Proffer
of the City of Lond. by the Lord Mayor to disburse
6000/. toxvards the sj/ppressing of the Rebellion in
Ireland. Lond. 1641. qu. (4) Speech containing
VinparalleVd Reasons for the ubolishing of Episco-
pacy, &,c. Lond. 1642. qu. In this is contained his
Speech agai7ist Bishops before-mentioned, and shews
that episcopacy is an enemy to monarchy. (5)
Speech or Relation made in the Hou.se of Commons

[•i55] concerning the Surrciuler of the City and Castle of
Bristol, 5 Aug. 1643, with the Transcripts and
Extracts of certain Letters, wherein his Care Jbr
the Prescrvatioti of tlie City doth appear. Lond.
1643, in 3 sh. and an half in qu. This was an-
swered by Clem. Walker.

True and exact Relation of both the Battels
fought by his Excellency Rob. E. of Essex and his
Forces against the bloody Cavaliers. The one of
the 92d of Oct. lust near Keynton below Edghill in
Warwiclcsh. the other at Worcester, by Col. Broreme,
Capt. Nath. and Jolt. Fiennes and Col. Sandys and
some others, &c. Lond. Nov. 9. an. 1642. in two
sh. in qu.

Letter to the Lord General (Essex) concerning
Bristol. Lond. 1643. in 1 sh. in qu.

Reply to a Pamphlet cntit. An Answer to Col.
Nath. Fiennes's Relation concerning his Surrender

of the City of Bri.'itol. Lond. 1643. in 2 sh. in qu.
[Bodl. Pamph.]

Other speeches in parliament, as (1) Speech be-
fore his Highness (01. Protector) and both Houses
of Pari, no Jan. 1657, being tJicfrst Day of their
Sitting. Lond. 1657, in 3 sh. and an halt in qu.
(2) Speech to his Highness " (Rich.) and" both
Houses of Pari. 27 Jan. 1658. Lond. 1659. qu. in
3 sheets. [Bodl. C. 13. 4. Line]

Monarchy asserted to be the best, most antient,
and legal Form of Government, in a Conference
lutd at JVJiitehall with Oliver L. Protector and Com-
mittee of Parliament, SfC. in Apr. 1657. Lond.
1660. oct. He also had an especial hand in a cer-
tain book called by an ^ author ' a legend or romance^'
entit. Anglia rediviva, being the Hist, of the Mo-
ticms. Actions, and Successes of the Army, (J-c
under Sir Tho. Fairfax, &c. published by Joshua
Spriggc, as I shall elsewhere tell you, but how true
that report is I cannot tell. At length our author
Fiennes retiring, after his majesty's return, to New-
ton Tony near Salisbury in Wilts, where he had an
estate that came to him by his second wife, Frances
daughter of Rich. Whitehead of Tuderly in Hamp-
shire, continued there to the time of his death ;
which hapning on the 16th of December in sixteen 1669.
hundred sixty and nine, was buried in the church
there. Soon after was a monument put over his
grave to his memory, as also to his two daughters
Frances and Elizabeth, who hoih died in the flower
of their age. This Nath. Fiennes had a younger
brother called John, who was a colonel for the par-
liament, and afterwards one of Oliver's lords, and
tho' a sectary, yet he was no great stickler, notwith-
standing guided partly by Nathaniel, but more by
old subtilty, the father. Another there was, who
was the fourth brother, named Richard, of whom I
know no gi-eat matter, only that he had a daughter
named Mary, who was married to \^'illiam,' the
only surviving son of Nathaniel Fiennes; which
Mary dying in child-bed 23 Oct. 1676, was buried
in the church at Broughton near to the gi-ave of her
grandfather William vie. Say and Sele.

[ The Scots Designe discovered. Relating tlteir
dangerous Attempts lately practised against the
English Nation, with the sad Consequence of the
same. Wherein divers Matters of jniblick Con-
cernment are disclosed. And the Book called Truths
Manifest is made apparent to be Lyes manifest.
London, Printed and are to be sold at the Mary-
gold in S. Pauls Church-yajxl. 1654. Bodl. 4to. S.
11. Art. BS. Tliis book had a second title Vindiciae
Veritatis, or an Answer to a Discourse intituled
Truth ifs manfest, &c. Printed in the year 1654.

' Clem. Walker, in iiis Hist, of Independency, pr. l64g.
sect. 12. p. 32.

7 [One William Fiennes, born in Oxfordshire, was ad-
mitted a fellow commoner of Emanuel college in Cam-
bridge, the nest of puritanism, Feb. 9, l63S. V. ray vol,
55, page 58. Cole.]

FOULIS.

CLARKE.

882

There is a head of our author by Vander Gutch,
inserted in Clarendon's Hist, of' the Rebell. 8vo. but
of what authenticity I know not.]

HENRY FOULIS or de Foliis second son of
sir Henry, son of sir Dav. Foulis, (of an antient
family in Scotland) baronets, was born at Ingleby
Manour in Clievland in Yorkshire, educated in
grammar learning, and in the presbyterian way,
within the city of York, became a commoner of Qu.
coll. under the tuition of Mr. Tho. Tully, (5 June
1654, aged 16 years and thereabouts, took the de-
grees in arts, that of master being compleated in
1659, and on the 31st of Jan. the same year he was
elected fellow of Line. coll. Afterwards entring into
holy orders, he applied himself for a time to the
study of divinity, and was admitted to the reading
of the sentences in 1667. Hut his geny being na-
turally inclined to the study of certain parts of history,
he waved his proper profession and betook himself
to the writing and publishing of books of that fa-
culty : the products of which do evidently shew him
to have been a true son of the church of England, a
liater of {wper}', presbytery and sectarism. He was
endowed with a most happy memory, understood
books and the ordering of^them so well, that wth a
"456] little industry he might have gone beyond the great
Philobiblos Jamesius. He had also in him a most
generous and public spirit, a carelesness of the
world and things thereof, (as most bookish men
have,) a most becoming honesty in his dealings, a
just observance of collegiate discipline, and a hatred
to fangles, and the French fooleries of his time. He
hath written and published.

The History of the wicked Plots and Conspi-
racies of our pretended Saints, the Presbyterians,
&C. Lond. 1662. Oxon. 1674, [Bodl. B. 25. 3. Th.]
both in fol. Which book, tho' full of notable girds
against that party, yet it hath been 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 public places, and in some
country churches, to be read by the vulgar. But as
by the publishing of this book lie hath much dis-
pleased tlie presbyterians, of whom some ^ have
fallen foul upjii him in their writings for so doing ;
fa hath he more displeased another party for the
writing of this book followinji :

The History of the Romish Treasons and Usurp-
ations, with an Account of many gross Corruptions
and Impostures of the Church of Rome, &c. Lond.
1671. [Bodl. C. 1. 14. Th.] and 81. fol. Which
book, had it not fallen into the hands of a knavish
booksellei-, 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 informed by a letter written by a noted man of

' Lo<I. Molinaeus, in Patron, hnnce Fidei, in cap. cui til.
fftt Specimen cnnlra Durelfum, p. 10. & a!ii.

Vol. til

that jiarty that tlie papists did l<x)k ujjon the said

book a.-; a simple thing That he (the author)

fought against his own shadow, and that all sober
catholics did disallow much of what he combats

against That he prayed much to the Lord that

he might live to see nis b<x)k publislied, and then
nunc dimittis, but it wa,s 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 tlie prime of his years, oc-
casioned by a generous and good-natur'd intem-
perance, on the vigil of the nativity of our Saviour,
in sixteen hundred sixty and nine, and was buried
under the north wall, at the ujiper end of the chan- '^Sg.
eel of S. Michael's church, within the city of Oxon.
on the 26th of Dec. being S. Stephen's day. In his
grave was afterwards buried William Stone, LL. B.
sometimes principal of New inn, who died 22
June 1685.

[Hen. Foulis A. B. Oxon. Incorporat. Cant. 1658.
Baker.

An Acccnmt of all Sermons preached before the
Parliament from A. D. 1640 to 1648, collected by
Mr. Henry Fowlis of Lincoln college. MS. among
Wood's collection, Ashmole's museum, 8480, 18.]

SAMUEL CLARKE, right famous for Orien-
tal learning, son of Thorn. 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 con-
tinuing about three years, left the university, then,
with the city, about to be garrison'd for the king's
use. Some time after the surrender thereof to tne
parliament, he returned to his colleore, submitted to
the visitors, and the same year (1648) he took the
degree of M. of A. The next year, July 24, he was
designed the first architypographus of the univer-
sity, and for his better encouragement in that office,
had the grant of the superior beadleship of the civil
law (wlien it should fall void) given to him, and
after his death to his successors in that jilacc for
ever. In 1650 he was master of a boai'ding school
at Islington near London, where continuing for
some time, did give his assisting hand towards the
correcting and publishing of the Polyglot Bible. In
1658 he made another return to the university, and
upon a foresight of the death of him that held the
superior beadlcsliip of law, was elected architypo-
graphus, 14 May 1658, and on the 29th 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, & [^7]

' Reg. Convoc. T. ad finem, p. 7.

3L

883

CLARKE.

in studiis philologicis versatisamus,'' &c. His works
are these.

Variw Lection-en <S; Observationes in Chaldaicam
Paraphrasin. These are in the sixth vol. of the
Pohjght Bibky beginning in pag. 17. You are to
understand tliat in this vol. which consists chiefly of
notes on tiie many versions of the other precedent
volumes, there are divers numbers of pages, and
therefore I cannot better refer you to his notes, than
I have done already.

Scientia metrica Sf rhythmica ; sen Tractatus de
Prosodia Arabka ex AufJioribu.s probatiss. eruta.
Oxon. 1661. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. L. 81. Art]

Septimum Bibliorum Polyglottmn Volumen, cum
Versiwiihus antiqitissimiii, non Chaldaica tantum,
sed Syriacis, jEtfiiopicis, Copticis, Arabicis, Per.iicis
contewtum. This i.^ yet in MS. and not printed.
He did accurately describe and turn into Latin
from the ori^nal autographe in Cambridge public
library, Pnraphrastes Chaldaus in Lib. Paralipo-
mcnum. Which book Dr. Edm. Castell ' consulted
when he composed his Lexicon Heptaglottcm, as he
tells you in the preface to the first vol. of that elabo-
rate 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, Chaklec
paraphrase, and the Persian gospels in the Polyglot
■Bible ; which last he translated into Latin. This
translation is placed next after the several versions
of the ajx)cryphal Iwoks. There *

Th're also goes j^jg^ „Qgg under his name a transla-

uriatr Ins name a .■ ^ i? tt u • i t ••

transtuiion out of tion out ot Hebrew mto I.atm,
Hebrew into La- entit. Masscceth Beracofh Titnhu's
tine, The Mishna Talmudicus, in quo agitur de Be-
ef Hie first Mas. nedie^onibus, Precibus <Sj- Gratia-
seceih or Tract qf ^^^^ Actionibus, odjecta Versione

llie Jalmua, call- r .. . r rr , t r-

ed BecaroHi ■ i. e. Latma. In Usum studwsorum Li-
ahmttheirprnyers terarum Talmudicarum in j^de
andformsofBtes- Christi. Oxon. 1667. oct. See

't^' ^^ "\''"' "lore in Tho. Greaves, an. 1676.
&c. l-.rst edit. jjg p^^ ,^j^ j^^^ ^|gj^^ j^ nature, in

his house in Halywell, in the suburb of Oxon, on the
27th 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 wliich

' [1638, l6 Apr. Joshua Blower A.M. admiss. ad eccl. de
Halfield Bevcrell, per resign. Edm. Castell S. T. B. Reg.
Land.

Theoph. Plerse cler. admiss. ad rect. de Wodeham Wal-
ter, com. Essex. 15 Nov. 167O, per resign. Edmundi Castle
S. T. P. Reg. Land.

Commissio concessa per Robertum Line, episcopum ad
instituend. Edinimdum Castell S. T. P. ad rect. de Higliam
Gobeon com. Bedf. vac. per resign. Georgii Lawson cler.
ult. incumb. ad pres. Georgii vicecom. Grandison. Keg.
Sanderson, Line. Ken nut.]

stood Tho. BennetM. A. of Ch. Ch. then corrector
of the university press, being put up by his dean
Dr. Job. Fell, as being the most fit person that
could be then thought on. But Bennet stirring
little in the matter, sunjxising the masters could not
otherwise but chusc, tlio' 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. C. who had been put
aside from being elected (when he stCKxl) after the
death of Edm. Gayton mentioned under the year
1666. This being done to the discontent of^Dr.
Fell, (as Lichfield's 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. AVilkins) obtained a mandamus that
Mr. Bold should be translated to that place, and
thereby make his once more vacant, and so conse-
quently bring his man therein. Soon after Wilkins
died, and a convocation thereujwn being called Oct.
6. an. 1671, Bold was translated to that ])lace (by
virtue of the said mandamus) to his advantage and
somewhat of disgrace. At that time were candi-
dates for the supply of that vacancy Mr. Bennet
before-niention"'d, Noah Perkinson M. A. of Hart
hall, and Gowin Knight M. A. and fellow of Mert.
coll. But before the election was to be made, Per-
kinson desisted, and Knight by the persuasions
(some say threatnings) of Dr. Fell, desisted also:
So that then the masters were left to Hobson's
choice, to chuse Bennet, and no body else. Where-
upon they perceiving full well that Dr. Fell was
resolved to get his man in mecrly by his authority,
without any application to them, and Bennet's little
stirring for it (only for form sake) without applying
liimself, according to the manner, with cap m hand
to gain votes, they were resolved to cross the mat-
ter. So that when the election was to be on the
10th of the same month, a majority of the masters
joyned together, (heatled and encouraged chiefly by
a clownish factious person) did in despight of Dr.
Fell, his mandamus and authority, of the heads of
houses, seniors, and the sober party, set up and
chuse a mcer stranger, who lived remotely from
Oxon, named Christop. Wase, (sometime fellow and
bach, of arts of King's coll. in Cambridge, and after-
wards a schoolmaster at several places) to the very
great discomposure of Dr. Fell, and something to
the discredit of the university, as if not able to afford
a man to execute the said office. Afterwards Wase
came to Oxon, was sworn and took possession of his
place : But Dr. Fell, who had received a character
of him, would never let him execute the archityp.
place, because, as he usually said, he was not fit for
it, as being not a person ot sobriety, &c. So that
from the death of Mr. Clarke to this time, the su-
perior beadleship of the civ. law and the architypo-
grapher's place hath been disjoyned.

[I am indebted to my friend Alexander Nicoll,

EYRE.

VAUGHAN.

886

esq. of Balliol college, and sub-librarian at the Bod-
leian, for the following list of M SS. preserved in that
library, under the name of Samuel Clarke, most of
which are written by himself. The number in all is
fourteen.

Three vols, in 4to. in which are contained a tran-
script of Abulfeda's Geography, collated with several
MSS. The last of these volumes contains a few
Turkish narrations at the end.

Additions and various readings to AbulfedcCs Geo-
graphy, 4to.

Astronomical Tables, 4to.

A Vocabulary of Arabic Words and Names of
Places, 4to.

Paralipomcnon Paraphrasis Chaldaica, Chald.
4" Lat. a seipso conversa ex Cod. Cantab. 2 vols. 4to.
At the ena of the last vol. are these words : ' Ab-
soluta est versio haBc Targum librorum Clu-onico-
rum, sive Paralipomcnon, 15". Novembris An. D.
1662. sub nocte.' At the end of the second vol.
a Transcript of an Arabic Treatise on the Ara-
bian Art of Poetry.

A Transcript oftJw Psalms in Persian, 4to.

Portion of a Persian and Turkish Lexicon, a
Treatise on Persian Prosody, a Latin Translation
of the 1*' Book of Thticydidcas, 4to.

Annotationes R.D. Kimchiin primum Psalmorum
Librum exHebraeo in Latinum Sermonem conversce,
Sfc. 4to.

Arabic Vocabulary, 8vo.

A Fragment mi the Councils of the Church, with
the \ii first CJuipters of Exodus in Arabic, 4to.]

WILLIAM EYRE son of Giles Eyre of White*
in Wiltshire, was born in that county, became
either a batler or a commoner of Magd. hall, an.
1629, aged 16 years; where continuing under a
severe discipline till he had taken the degrees in
arts, was appointed a tutor in that house, and about
the same time entred into the sacred function.
But being always schismatically enclined, he sided
with the factious party in the time of the rebelhon
against king Charles I. became a rigid Calvinist, an
enemy to tithes, and a purchaser of church reve-
nues. In those sad times of calamity he was made
minister of S. Edmund's church in the city of Salis-
bury, where, by his doctrine, he advanced much
the blessed cause, and in 1654 he was made an assist-
ant to the commissioners of Wilts, for tlie ejection
of such that were then called scandalous, ignorant,
and insufficient ministers and schoolmasters; in
which office ho shewed himself vci^y forward against
those people, of which, some were his acquaintance
and contemporaries in Oxon. After the king's
restoration he nrocceded in his usual preaching, but
in 1662 was silenced for nonconformity, and lived
for a time at, or near to, SaUsbury. But finding
that place and neighbourhood uneasy, he retired to

' [OlWliiit Parish ralhcr.]

Milksham near to Chippenham in "Wilts, where he
had purchased an estate, and continued there to the
time of his death. His works are,

An Assize Sermon at Salisbury; on Paal. 45.
6. Lond. 1652. qu.

Vindicicc Justificationis gratuitce : Justification
witltout CofiiditUms : or, a free Justification of a
Sinner, S^c. vindicated from the Exceptions and
Objections which are cast upon it by the Assertors
of conditimial Justification, S^c. against Mr. Ben.
Woodbridge, Mr. Jam. Crarifcn-d, and Mr. Rich.
Baxter. Lond. 1654. qu. [Bodl. A. 7. 6. Line]
" 1695. oct." Answer'd the same year by Mr.
Baxter in his btxjk entit. An Admonition to Mr.
Will. Eyre of Salisbury concerning his Miscar-
riages in a Book lately written for the Justification
of Infidels, against Mr. B. Woodbridge, &c.

Sermon on Acts 20. 9. Lond. 1658. oct. What
other things he hath published I know not, nor any
thing else of him, only that he was buried in the
church at Milksham before-mentioned on the 30th
of January in sixteen hundred sixty and nine, as the ig*?
register of that church informs me, which, I pre-
sume, follows the English accompt, and not the
common. Another Will. Eyre I find, who was not
long before this man's time educated in Emanuel
coll. in Cambridge, between whom and the learned
Usher primate of Ireland passed many letters;
sonie of which were De Textus Hebraici Veteris
Tc-^tamenti vai-iantihus Lectionibus, An. 1607. —
Pr. at Lond. 1652. [Bodl. 4to. T. 17. Th. Seld.]
The said Will. Eyre was living at Colchester in
Essex,3 an. 1617. (15 Jac. 1.)

EDMUND VAUGHAN son of the minister of
Ashted in Surrey, and nephew to Dr. Rich. Vaughan
sometime bishop of London, was born there, admit-
ted chorister of Corp. Ch. coll. an. 1621, aged 12
years, afterwards he was successively clerk, scholar
and fellow of that house, bach, of div. and at length
rector of Picliford alias Pisford in Northampton-
shire. He hath written,

The Life of Dr. Thom. Jackson sometime Presi-
dent of Corp. Ch. Coll. in Oxford ^'T was printed

and set before the said Dr. Jackson's Commentary
on the Creed, An. 1653, and afterwards before the
collection of his works, an. 1672. fol. This Mr.
Vaughan died on the purification of the Virgin
Mary in sixteen hundred sixty and nine, and was
buried in the chancel of the church at Picliford,
after he had suffer'd much, as a true son of the
church of England, and as a loyal man to his prince
and his cause, in the time of the grand rebellion
began and carried on by a predominant party in
both houses of parliament.

' [Will. Eyro S. T. B. adiniss. ad rect. de Horkeslcy
magna com. Es-cx 20 Jan. 1617, quae vac. per niort. ifjsiiis
ante 31 Mar. l6-ii'. Reg. Laud. Kennet.J
3L2

[459]

l6**

887

SWADLIN.

888

THOMAS SWADLIN born in Worcestershire,
applied his mind to academical studies in S. John's
coll. in the beginning of the year 1615, aged 16
years or thercal)outs, took one degree in arts, holy
orders, and hiul some little cure bestowed on him.
" He was esteemed good <at deciphering* characters."
At length about the time that Dr. Laud became
bishop of London, he was made minister of S. Bo-
tolph's church witliout Aldgatc there, where for his
ready and fluent way of preaching, he was much
frequentetl by the orthodox party ; but in the be-
ginning of the grand rebellion, being esteemed as
one of Dr. Laud's creatures, he was imprison'd in
Gresham coll. and afterwards in Newgate, was se-
questred, plundered, and his wife and children turn'd
out of doors. At length he with much ado getting
loose, but in a manner distracted by the great mise-
ries he endured, he retired to Oxon, where he was
created D. of D. an. 1646 ; about which time, and
after, he taught school in several places meerly to
gain bread and drink, as in London, and afterwards
at Paddington, &c. Upon the restoration of his
majesty king Charles II. he was re-invested in S.
Botolph's church, but being wearied out there by
the contentiousness of his parishioners, he left it,
and in the year 1662 he was presented to the vica-
ridge of S. James's in Dover upon the removal of
one John Davis an independent preacher, and to the
rectory of Hougham near to that place, by the
favour of Dr. Juxon archbishop of Canterbury ;
but the yeai-ly valuation of both not exceeding 80/.
per an. he was, at length, being grown crazy and
mfirm, presented (unsought after) to the rectory of
AlUiallows church in Stanford in Lincolnshire, by
the favour of Edward earl of Clarendon, lord chan-
cellor of England, about 1664 ; which he kept to his
dying day. His works are these.

Sermons, Meditations and Prayers upon tJie
Plague. Lond. 1636. 37. oct. The sermons are
on 2 Chron. 7. 13. 14. on Matth. 6. 2. 5. 16.
33. &c.

TTie Sovereign's Desire, Peace: The Subjects
Duty, Peace, in 3 Sermons : the first on Psal. 122.
6. the second cm Rom. 13. 1. and the third on Rom.
15. 2. Lond. 1643. qu. Which sermons were
preached in the summer-time, an. 1642, at S. Paul's
cath. and S. Botolph's near Aldgate, but such of-
fence was given to the nice and precise party for
several passages in them (tho' they contained pray-
ing for peace, and preaching for obedience to the
king) that he was as a malignant imprison'd from
the 29th October to 26 December 1642. In all
which time being unseen and unheard, he, by his
letter sent to the lord mayor for releasement, was
sent for by him. But bemg there accused of se-
veral things by John Levet a tallow-chandler, which
were only praying for ])eace and preaching up
obedience at an unseasonable time, he was remitted

* " Archbishop Laud's Dianj, An. l626. p. 35."

back to ])rison, not to Crosby-house, where he was
detained before, but to Gresham coll. where he con-
tinued a long time, and afterwards in Newgate,
where he had scarce straw allow'd him to lie in,
Avhilst his majesty was exclaimed against, when he
afforded' the rebels better usage. He hath also
written and published.

The Scriptures vindicated Jrovi tlie unsound [460]
Conclusions of Card. Bellarminc, and the contro-
verted Points between the Church of Rome and the
reformed Church, stated according to the Opinion
of both Sides. Lond. 1643. qu. [Bodl. 4to. T.
95. Th.]

Manual of Devotions stating each Day : with
Prayers and Meditations answerable to the Work
of the Day ; as also each Man's Calling; viz. tJie
Nobleman, the Soldier, the Lawyer, Tradesman,
&c. Lond. 1643. in tw.

" Mercurius Academicvs. Beginning Monday
" the 15th of December 1645. 1 sli. qu. written for
" the king and his party. The eighth week came

" out Monday the 2d of Feb. 1645 How long

" after it was continu'd I know not. These as Dr.
" Barlow saith were written by Dr. Tho. Swadlin."

The Soldie7-''s Catechism, composedfbr the Kin^s
Army, &c. Lond. 1645. oct. the eighth edit.

The Jesuit the chief if not the only State Heretic
in the World : or, a Venetian Quarrel digested info

a Dialogue Pr. 1647. qu. [Bodl. 4to. T. 23.

Jur.]

Mercurius Academicxis : communicating the In-
telligence and Affairs of Oxford, to the Rest of the
passive Party throiigliout the Kingdom. Com-
mencing from Monday in Easter-week, 1648.-^

Printed in one sheet in qu. How many sheets or
numbers ifollowed, I know not, for I have only yet
seen the first.*

A Letter of an Independent to '^Ij^J'/AZlfmi

M. John Glynne Recorder of Lond. "„, [(^^ lejn't'o

Pr. 1645. m tw. sh. in qu. His cvme nul at^avon.

name is not set to it, only com- in the beginning

mon reiDort makes him the au- "f Jan- iC43, lut

thor. f" """f ''•. {

know not. first

edit.

To all To .lome

Paupcrtatis eigo \ f Gratitudinis ergo

Ne per earn Fame. J ( Ne peream Infamia.

Whether it be better to turn Presbyterian, Ro-
man, or continue what I am. Catholic in Matter of
Religion. Lond. 1658. in two sh. in qu.

Six and thirty Qiiestions propounded for Reso-
lution of unlearned Protestants, &c. Printed

1659. qu.

Several sermons, as (1) Serm. on Psal. 136. 26.
Print. 1639. qu. (2) Divinity no Enemy to Astro-
logy, Serm. for the Society of Astrologers, in the
Year 1643, preached as it seems on Matth. 2. 2.
(3) The Hand of God; or. King David's CJioice ;
on 2 Sam. 24. 14. Lond. 1647. qu. &c.

Twelve Anniversary Sermons on the Funeral of

DAVENPORT.

890

K. Ch. I. Lond. ICGl. qu. Among tlicm is one on
1 Sam. 10. 27. another on 1 Kings 21. 19. a third on
Psal. 169. 30, &c. Wiiat otlier tilings he hath
written and j)ublishcd I know not, and therefore I
can only say that lie died on the 9th day of" Febr.
i6il. in sixteen hundred sixty and nine, and was buried
the next day in the chancel of AUhallows church in
Stanford before-mention\l, and that his last words
were ' Hie vixit temparibus quibus Carolum prinium
magnas Britannia', Francia; & Hibernia; llegem
ferino more trucidai'unt rebelles.' Which he would
have to be put over his grave.

JOHN DAVENPORT son of John Davenport,
and elder brother * to Christopher Davenport com-
monly called Franc, a Sancta Clara (whom I shall
in his proper place mention) was born in the city of
Coventry ^ in AVarwickshire, an. 1 597, and in gramma-
tical learning there educated. In the beginning of the
year 1G13 he was by his relations sent to Mcrton coll.
where continuing about two years under the tuition
of Mr. Sam. Lane, was for a certain I'eason, which I
shall tell you in the life of the said Christoph. Daven-
port, translated to Magd. hall, where continuing
under severe and puritannical discipline for some
time, he left it without a degree, retired to London,
became a noted preacher among the puritans, and
at length minister of S. Stephen's church in Cole-
' man-street.' In 1625 he retired to IVIagd. hall for
a time, performed his exercise for the degree of
bach, of div. accumulated and took that degree, and
in short time after retired to London again ; where,
by the brethren he was esteemed a person of excel-
lent gifts in preaching and in other qualities belong-
r46n '"? *" * divine. About the year 1630 he was ap-
pointed by certain factious and discontented persons
one of the feoffees for the buying in of impro-
priations ; but that project, tho' it seem'd good to
some, being quashM, he, about the year 1633, left
his pastoral charge under pretence of opposition by
the prelates, because he scrupled at certain ceremo-
nies, but without a certificate or testimony to shew
what he was or what he had been, and forthwith
went beyond the seas to Amsterdam witliout a call
or invitation. " Concerning this Mr. Davenport,
" in the annual account that archbishop Laud gave
" to the king, 2 Jan. 1633, at the end of the Trou-
" hies and Trijal of Archbishop Laud, I find thus,
■ " p. 526 : ' Since my return out of Scotland, Mr.
" Joh. Davenport vicar of S. Stephen's in Coleman-
" street, whom I us'd with all moderation, and about
" two years after thought I had settled his judgment,
" having him then at advantage enough (to have

' [Not a brother (as a certain wooden historian in his
Athene Oxon. has reported) yet akinsman of that Sancta
Clara. Life, hy Cotton Mather. Baker.]

" [His father having been mayor of Coventry. Baker.]
' [Joh. Godwin A. M. admiss. ad vie. S. Stephani Cole-
inan-strcet 18 Dec. 1633, per resign. Joh. Davenport. Ree.
Laud. Kennet.]

" j)ut extremity upon him; but forbore it) liath
" now resign'd his vicaridge, declar'd his judgment
" against conformity with the church of England,
" and is since gone (as I hear) to Amsterdam.
" Farther in the History of the Troubles and Tryal
" of Archbishop Laud, cap. 36. p. 348, it is said
" that, ' Jolin Davenport left his benefice in Lon-
" don, upon a warrant that came to summon him
" into tlie high commission and fled to Holland. —
" John Davenjx)rt was a dangerous, factious man,
" and so accounted in archbishop Abbot's, time
" (Ijefbre Laud was archbishop) and it seems pro-
" secuted then too. — Sir Maurice Abbot, then a
" parishioner of his, did labour hard to keep him.' "
At that place he endeavouring to be a minister in
the English congregation, and to join mth them in
all duties, he was much opposed by Mr. John Paget
an elder or one of the chief ministers there, and
especially for this reason, that he would not agree
with him in all things relating to baptism. Where-
upon our author Davenport, taking these, and
other matters, in great disdain, he wrote in his de-
fence.

Letter to the Dutch Classis, containing' a Just
Complaint against an unjust Doer ; wherein is
declared the 7niserable Slavery and Bondage that
the English Church at Amsterdam, is noza in, by
Reason of the tyrannical Government aiid corrupt
Doctrines of Mr. Jo. Paget their Minister • ■
Printed 1634. qu. [Bodl. 4to. D. 21. Th.]

Certain Instructions delivered to the Elders of
the English Church deputed, tchich are to be pro-
pounded to the Pastors of the Dutch Church in
Amsterdam. Printed the same year in a qu. paper.
About the same time he wrote (1) A Report of
some Passages or Proceedings about his Calling to
the English Church in Amsterdam, against John
Paget. (2) Allegations of Scripture against the
Baptizing of some Kind rf Infants. (3) Protestor-
tion about the publishing of his Writings. Which
three things were printed at Amsterdam 1634. qu.
In the year following most of the aforesaid little
scripts were answer'd by Paget, and at the same
time were answer'd by him the complaints of one
Will. Best, a member of Davenport's persuasion.
Whereupon Best came out with The Churclis Plea
for her Right; or, a Reply to an Ansuxr, &c.
Amsterdam 1635. qu. and soon after our author
Davenport with

An Apologetical Reply to the Ansrccr of Will.
Best, Rotterdam, 1636. qu. [Bodl. Mar. 169.]
About the same time Davenjxjrt, who took these
matters very ill, refused to join with the ministers
in their meetings, took away many of their disciples,
such especially that had an esteem for his notable
learning and singular parts, and preached and
prayed to them in private houses. In the begin-
ning of the rebellion, he returned into England, as
otlier nonconformists did, and had a cure bestowed
on him, but finding matters not go current with his .

891

DiVVENPOIlT.

MAYNAllD.

humour, he, Viy the persuasive letters of Mr. John
Cotton of New-England (who was esteemed the mis-
leader of him and John Goodwin) went into that
country and hccame pastor of Newhaven there,
where he continued in great esteem with those of his
persuasion, to the time almost of his death. His
other writings are these.

" The Knoicledge of Christ, <§-c. wherein the
" Typen, Prophecies, Genealogies, Miracles, Hti-
" miliation, c^-c. of Christ are opened and applied.
" qu. This is mentioned in a catalogue of lx)oks
" set before a book printed IGSS."
[462] His Profession o/^ Faith, made pt/blickly before

the Congregation at his Admission into one of the
Churches of God in New-England, containing 20
several Heads : 1. Concerning the Scriptures, &c.
Lond. 1642, in one sheet qu. [In Wood's study.]

Catechism containing the chief Heads of Chris-
tian Religion. Lond. 16.59. oct. publishctl at the
desire, and for the use, of the church of Christ at
Newhaven in New-England. In this Catechism one
Will. Hook a teacher there, had a hand ; I mean
the same Will. Hook who was sometime minister of
Axmouth in Devonshire, author of (1) Nerv Eng-
land's Tears Jor Old EyiglamFs Fears, &c. print.
1640-1. qu. (2) The Privileges of the Saints on
Earth above those in Heaven, pr. in oct. (3) Ser-
mon in Neiv England in Behalf of Old England.
pr. 1645. qu. and other sermons. He died in, or
near, London, 21 March 1677, aged 77 years, and
was committed to the earth in the burial place si-
tuated on the north side of the New Artillery-yard
or garden, near to the said city. See more of him
in Jerom Turner an. 1655.

Several sermons, as (1 ) The Messiah is already
come; on Acts 2. 36. Lond. 1653. qu. (2) GmTs
Call to his People to turn unto him, ^c. in two Ser-
m<ms on two public Justing Days in Nejo England.
Lond. 1670. qu. (3) Sainfs Anchor-hold in all

Storms and Tempests ; on Lam. 3. 26. sprinted

1661 in tw. and others, among which is his Sermon
on 2 Sam. 1. 18.« Lond. 1629. qu.

The Power of congregational Churches asserted
atul vindicated ; in Answer to a Treatise of Mr. Jo.
Paget, cntit. The Defence qf Churclir-government
exercised in Classes and Synods. Lond. 1672. oct.
He also had a considerable hand in writing The Life
of Mr. John Cotton before mentioned, published by
John Norton minister of Boston in N. England, and
had formerly with Dr. Rich. Sibbs published certain
works of Dr. John Preston, viz. his New Covenant,
or Sainfs Portion, in 14 Sermons, with four

At length he

otliers added, an. 1629. qu. &c.'

" [^ Roi/a! Edict for MUUary Exercises, pullislied in a
Sermon litforc the Artillery Company, on 2 Sam. 1,18, 4to.
Lond. Ifizp. VVanlev.]

^ [Dr. Preston was a chaplain in ordinary, master of
Entanuel college in Cambridge, and preacher of Lincolns
Inn.

Another work of Preston's published by Davenport and

having lived beyond the age of man, surrendrcd up
his soul to G(k1, at Hoston in New England (to
which jjlacc he had removed from Newliaven in
1668) on the thirteenth ]day of March ' in .sixteen
hundred sixty and nine, and was interred there, in
the tomb of the said Mr. Cotton, for whom, in his
lifetime, he had an extraordinary respect. He left
behind him An Expositioti on the Canticles, con-
tainetl in 100 sheets in a small hand-writing : Which
being esteemed very fit for the press, was recom-
mended by Dr. Sam. Anesly, and Mr. Ed. Veal,
and accordingly proposals were made for the print-
ing it, to be sold for 7 sh. in quires, in Mich, term
an. 1687. But soon after, the printing of it was
stop'd, and the merchant who designed afterwards to
publish it, died ; so 'tis questioned now, whether

ever it will see light.

JOHN MAYNARD, esteemed by those of his
persuasion an eminent and judicious divine, was
bom of a genteel family in Sussex, at, or near, Ri-
verfield, became a commoner of Queen's coll. in the
beginning of the year 1616, con)pounded for tlie
degree of bach, of arts as a member of that house,
and afterwards translated himself to Magd. hall. In
1622 he took the degree of mast, of arts as a com-
pounder, entred into holy orders, and at length be-
came vicar of Maighfield in his own country. But
when the rebellion broke out, he shew'd himself
more a puritan, and preached with more liberty, than
he did before ; whereupon being appointed one of
the assembly of divines, he took the covenant, held
forth several times before the members of the long
parliament, had other preferments, I presume, be-
stowed upon him; and in 1654 he was appointed
one of the assistants to the commissioners of Sussex,
for the ejection of such, whom they then called
ignorant and scandalous ministers and schoolmasters.
His writings are

Several sermons, as (1) Sermon preached before
the House qf Commons at tlieir solemn Fast, 26
Feb. 1644 ; on Prov. 23. ver. 23. Lond. 1645. qu.
[Bodl. 4to. M. 12. Th. BS.] (2) A Shadow of the
Victory of Christ, Fast Serm. before the House of
Com. 28 Oct. 1646; on Phil. 3. 21. Lond. 1646.
qu. [Bodl. 4to. M. 12. Th. BS.] &c.

The Young Man^s Remembrancer and Old Man's
Monitor. Lond. 1669. oct.

The Laxv qf God ratijied by the Gospel qf Christ :
or, the Harmony qftlie Doctrine qf Faith with the
Laxo qf Righteousness, wherein many of the Types
and Rites of the ceremonial Laxo are unfolded, ^c.
delivered in several Sermons. Lond. 1674. oct.

Sibbs, with their dedic. to Robert earl of Warwick, was His
Breast Plate of Faith and Love, in XHII. Sermons, there
being to the four first this running tiile. Of Faith ; to the
six next this. Of Effectual Faith, and to the eight last this.
Of Love. It was published on. 1630.410. Loveday.]

' [March 15, 1070 ; aged 72 years. See his Life by Cot-
ton Mather. Bakbr.J

16;;

[463]

MAYNARD.

SEDGWICK.

Clar. What became of this reverend author after his ma-
lO&y. jesty's restoration, I mean wlicther he conformed or
was ejected,^ I know not, nor any thing else of him,
only that about 1670 he became a benefactor to
Magd. hall, and that his libriu-y was exposed to sale
by way of auction, several years after his death, 13th
June 1687. I find anotlier John Maynard who
published a book entit. The XH Wonders of the
World, set and composed /or the Viol de Gumbo,
the Lute and the Voice to sing the Verse, &c. Lond.
1611. foL' But tliis was no divine but a most ad-

' [Calainy mentions him, in a very brief manner, among
the Ejected Minhtcrs, ii, (J83. He telh us that he alloweil
the whole of the tyihes of his parish of Mayfield to his as-
sistant, Klias Paul, reserving only the glebe and parsonage
house for himself.]

' [This very rare and very entertaining book will be foimd
in the Bodleian, marked B. b. 12. Art.

The XII, IVbnders of the World. Set and composed for
the Violl de Gamio, the Lute, and the Voyce to sing the
Verse, all three ioyntly, and none seiterall : also Lessons fur the
Lute and Bass Violl to play alone : ivith some Lessons to
play Lyra-wayrs alune, or if you will, lo Jill vp the Parts,
with another Violl set Lttle-way. Newly composed by John
Maynard Lutenist at the most famous Schoole of St. Julians
in Hartfordshirc. London. Printed hy Thomas Snodhamfor
John Browne, and are to he solde at his Shop in Saint Dun-
stones Church-yard in Flcetstreet. l6ll. folio, containing
twelve sheets. Ded. to his ever honoured lady and mistris the
lady Joaiie Thynne of Caufe castle in Shropshire. — ' This
poore play-worke of mine had its prime originall and birth-
wright in your own house, when by nearer seruice I was

obliged yours The powreluU perswasion of that nobly

disposed gentlewoman M''' Dorothy Thynne, your vertuous
daughter, whose breist is possest with an admirable heredi-
tary loue of mnsicke, and who once laboured mee to that
effect, hath not a little emboMned mee herevnto — Your
ladiships, in all humble scruicc, John Maynard.

1. The Courtier.

Long, longhaue I liiule in court.

Yet learn'd not all this while,
To sell poore sulers smoake

Nor where 1 hate to smile;
Superiors to adore,

Inferiours to despise
To flie from such as fall.

To follow such as rise.
To cloak c a poore desire

Vndcr a rich aray,
Nor to aspire by vice,

Though 'twere the quicker wav.

2. The Deuine.
My calling is deuine.

And 1 from God am sent,
1 will no chop-church be.

Nor pay my patron rent;
Nor yeeld to sacriledge.

But like the kinde true mother
Rather will loose all the childe.

Than part it with another.
Much wealth T will not seeke.

Nor worldly maplers serue.
So to grow rich and fat.

While my poore flocke doth staruc.

The remaining ten are equally good, and I regret that my
limite prevent me from giving the words of all the IVonders.]

mired lutenist at the famous school of S. Julian's in
Hertfordshire. Another John Maynard, who was
an eminent lawyer I shall mention nereafter, under
the year 1690.

WILLIAM SEDGWICK, sonofWiUiam Sedg-
wick of Lond. gent, wius born in Bedfordshire,
became a com. of Pemb. coll. in Mich, term, an.
1624. aged 15 years: Where being put under the
tuition of George Hughes profited more in div. than
philosophy. After he had taken the degrees in
arts, he entred into the sacred function, and became
rector of Famhani in Essex,'' where he behaved him-
self conformable to the church of England, but
upon the turn of the time in 164-1, he closed with
the presbyterians, (having before been instructed in
their principles by his tutor) put in a curate into
Farnham, and became chaplain to the regiment of
sir Will. Constable a parliamentarian commander,
the same who was afterwards one of the judges of
king Charles I. After the loyal clergy had been
ejected from their livings, he became the chief
preacher of the city of Ely, and was commonly
called ' The Apostle of the Isle of Ely,' but what
he enjoyed there and elsewhere for several years he
lost after his maj. restoration for want of confor-
mity. He was a conceited whimsical person, and
one very unsettled 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 revela-
tions, as he pretended, he would forewarn people of
their sins in public discourses, and upon pretence of
a vision that doomsday was at hand, he retired to
the house of sir Franc. Russel in Cambridgeshire
(whose daughter, Henry the son of great Ohver
Cromwell had married) and finding divers gentle-
men there at bowles, called upon them to prepare
themselves for their dissolution, telUng them that he
had lately received a revelation that doomsday would
be some day the next week. At wliich the gentle-
men being well pleased, they, and others, always
after called hirn Doomsday ^ Sedgwick, and the
rather for this reason that there were others of his
sirname that pretended to prophesy also. He hath
written and pubhshed,

Several sermons as (1) Zimi's Deliverance, and
Tier Friend's Duty : or the Grounds of expectivg,
and Means of procuring Jertisalem's Restoration :
Preached at a public Fast, 29 June, 1642, before
the House of Commons; on, Isa. 62. 7. Lond. 1643.

* [Will. Sedgwick A. M. admiss. ad rect. de Farnham
com. Essex 5 Febr. l()34, ad pres. Steph. et Jo. Sedgwick pro
hac vice ; quam resign, ante 27 Apr. l644. Reg. Laud.
Ken NET.]

* See in the second part of Hudibras — Lond. 1674, Cant.
3. p. 333. and in the annotations at the end. p. 408.

895

SEDGWICK.

HARDY.

qii. (2) Some Flashes of Liffhtnhiff in the Son
of Man ; in eleven Sermons. Lona. 1648. oct.
These sermons seem to have been preaclied on Luke
17. 20, 21,22, &c.

The Leaves of the Tree of Life, for the Healing
of the Nations, opening all Wounds of thi^i iT/'w^-
dom, and of every Part?/, and npph/ing a Remedij
to them, &c. Lond. 1648. qu. This b(X)k, as soon
[464] *•* 'twas published (wliich was in tlie latter end of
1647) the author went to Carisbrook castle in the
isle of Wight, and desired the governour's leave to
address himself to king Charles I. 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 pin-posely come
from London to discourse with him about liis spi-
ritual concerns, and was also desirous to present his
maj. with a book he had lately wTitten for his ma-
je-sty's 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 dis-
consolate condition. The king thereupon came
forth, and Sedgwick in a decent manner gave his
majesty 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 Har-
rington esq; son of sir John Harrington the epi-
grammatist in the time of queen Eliz. and king
James I, and being admitted into the castle upon
the hke charitable account, desired to have some
discourse with his majesty, but his maj. having
heard some odd things of him from Jam. Harrington
bcfore-mention'd, that he was a canting and prophe-
tical 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 Re-
buke 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-remon-ttrance : Or,
Justice done to the Army ; ichcrein their Principles
are new modefd, 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 <ind Paper, _first
sent to his Highness (Oliv. Cromwell) by certain
Gentlemen and others in Wales : And since printed

' [This was answered by T. Collier in his yindication of
the Army Remonstranoe. Tanner.]

and published to the World by some of the Sub-
scribers, &c. Lond. 1656. (]ii.

Aiiiviadversimis upon a Book en fit. Inqui.nticm
for the Blood (four Sovereign. Lond. 1661. oct.
What other thiiig.s this our author hath written and
published I know not, nor any thing else of him,
only that after the return of king Charles 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 promisetl an ac-
count of his death and burial, but my friend Dr.
S. C. of Gr. in Kent stands not to his word.

NATHANIEL HARDY, son of Anthony
Hardy, was born in the Old Baily in the parish of
S. Martin Ludgate in London,' on the 14th of
Sept. 1618, became a commoner of Magd. liall 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 msnared with the fair
pretences of the presbyterian party; but at the
treaty at Uxbridge between the commissioners ap-
pointed by the king, and those by the pai'liament,
to treat about peace, an. 1644, he was present, and
being desirous to be impartially informed in the
truth of that controversy, he was fully convinced of
his error, chiefly by the arguments of Dr. Hen.
Hammond. So that then being in the 26th year of
his age, he immediately, as 'tis 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 disciphne, as well in doctrine, as 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 presbyte-
rians. 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 king Charles
2, he preached his funeral sermon. In the year
1660 he, by his forward endeavours, got to be one

' [London was the place of my birth, baptisme, education,
and (excepting Oxford) in and about the city, hath been the
place of my abode, to this day. See his Serm. on the Fire of
London, pr. l6G0. See aico my MSS. vol. xxxv, p. 177.
Baker.]

* Lewis Burnet a Scot, M. A. of Aberdeen, lately a reader
in S. Mart. Church in the Fields, within the liberty of
Westm.

' [Nat. Hardy S. T. P. de novo inslitutus in ecclesia S.
Dionysii Baclichurch, Lond. fO Aug. 1()'(50, ad pres. dec. et
capit. Cant. Reg. Ju.roii. Kennet.]

[iGo]

HARDY.

89«

of those ministers that went with the commissioners,
appointed by the city of London, to the Hague, in
order to his majesty's restoration : And being there
on a Simday (i^Otli May) he with gi-eat confidence
preached a. sermon before Iiis majesty on tlie 29th
verse of the 26tli chapter of Isaiah, wherein lie ap-
phed liis discourse to the then present estate of
affairs in England so patlietically and learnedly, that
there was not any one present but admired his ele-
gancy and learning, ana secmetl nnich to be satisfied
with those things tliat he had delivered. After his
majesty's return lie was actually created doctor of
divinity, as a member formerly of Hart hall, was
made vicar of S. Martin's ch. in the Fields within
tlie hbcrty of Westminster, arclideacon of Lewis
and dean of Rochester; in which last dignity he
was installed (upon the promotion of Dr. Ben. Laney
to the see of Peterborough) on the 10th of Dec.
1660, being about that time rector of Henley in
Oxfordshire, and a frequent preacher before his
majesty. He hath published,

Several sermons preached upon solemn occasions,
as (1.) Justice triumphing; or the Spoilers spoiled,
at PauFs for the miraculous Discovery of the
Pozvder Plot, on the 6th of Nov. 1646, on Psal. 9-
16. Lond. 1656. sec. edit. qu. (2.) FaitKs Victory
over Nature; or the unparallerd President of an
unnaturally religious Father; at the Ftmeral of
Joh. Rushout Soil and Heir of Joh. Rushout Merch.
and Citizen of Lond. on Heh. 11. 17. Lond. 1648.
qu. [Bodl. D. 20. 5. Line] (3.) The Jraignment of
licentious Liberty and oppressing Tyranny, Fast
Serm. before the Hoicte of Peers in the Abbey
Church of IVe.stm. 24 Feb. 1648, on Ho-wa, 5. 10,
11, 12. Lond. 1647. qu. (4.) The safest Convoy,
or the strongest Helper, before Sir Thorn. Bcndish
Bt. his Maj. Embassador now resident ivith the
Grand Seignior at Constantinojjle ; on Isaiah 43,
frrmer part of the Qd verse. Lond. 1653. qu. (5.)
Love and Fear the insepai-able Twins of a blest
Matrimony, characterized in a Serm. at the Nup-
tials betiveen Mr. Will. Christmas and Mrs. Eliz.
Adams Daughter of Tho. Adams, sometime Aid.
and L. Mayor of Lond. on Ephes. 5. 31. Lond.
1653. f(u. (6.) Divinity in Morality, or the Gos-
pefs Excellency and the Preacher s Frailty, at the
Funeral of Mr. Rich. Goddard Minister of the
Parish of S. Gregory\s near Pauls, zcho died 12
May, 1653, and Kas buried the \6th of the same
Month, on 2 Cor. 4. firmer part of the Tth ver.se.
Lond. 1653. qu. [Bodl. B. 3. 2. Line] (7.) A
divine Pi-ospective : representing the just Man's
peaceful End, at Catherine Creechurch 14 Aug.
1649, at the Interment of the Remains of Sir Joh.
Gayer Kt. deceased 20 July 1649; on Psal. 37. ver.
37. Lond. 1654. qu. [Bodl. B. 3. 2. Line] (8.)
Merry in her Beauty: or, the Heighth of a De-
liverance from the Depth of Danger, on Phil. 2
former part of the Tilh ver. Lond. 1653. qu. It
waa preached upon his late unexpected recovery of

\ OL. III.

a desperate sickness. (9.) TJianlfulness in grain :^

or, a good Life the best Return, cm the same (xca-

sii/n, on Psal. 116. 9. Lond. 1654. qu. (10.)

Deatlis Alarum : or, Security''s Warning-piece, at

the Funeral of Mrs. Mary Smith (Daughter of

Mr. Isaac Coif formerly Minister of God's Word

at Chadwell in Essex, and Wfe if Mr. Rich.

Smith of Lond. Draper) who died 9 Nov. 1653;

on Matth. 24. 44. Lond. 1654. qu. (11.) The

Epitaph of a godly Man : err, tlie Happiness by

Death of Holiness in Life, at the Funeral of Mr.

Adam Pcmberton of the Parish of S. Foster''.'!

(Veda.stus) Foster-lane, who died the 8th of Apr. [4661

1655; cm Phil. 1. 21. Lond. 1655. qu. (12.)

Safety in the Midst of Danger, in tlie Ch. of All-

hcill. Barkin, 4 Jan. 1655, upon the Anniversary

Commemoration of that dismal Fire, which hapned

in the said Parish, 4 Jan. 1649, on Exod. 3. ver.

2. latter part. Lond. 1656. qu. (13.) Tlie pious

Votary and prudent Traveller, characterized in a

Fun. Serm. occasioii'd by the Voyage of Nath.

Wych Esq; President to the East Indies ; on Gen.

28. 20, 21. Lond. 1658. qu. [Bodl. 4to. J. 2. Th.

BS.] preached at S. Dion. Backchurch, 14 Mar.

1657. (14.) Mourning, Lamentation and Woe,

preached after the great Fire in London. Lond.

1666. qu. This I have not yet seen," nor certain

' [Two Miles, or a greatful Acktiowledgemenl of Gods stn-
gu/ar Goodness. In two Sermons preached in St. Dionis
Back-C/iurcli Augl.7 & 14, l653, occasioned ly kis late un-
expected Recovery of a desperate Sickness. The first entitled
Merry in her Beauly ; or the Height, &c.

The second, 'Thankfulness in Grain: or, See. Wanley.]
' [The title of that sermon is; Lamentation mourning and
woe sighed forth in a sermon preached in the parish church nf
St. Martin's in the Fields Q Sept. being the next Lor<ts day
after the dismal fire in the city of London. On Luke ly. 41.
Ded. to sir Tlio. Adams knight & b.aronet. Lond. 1()6(J, 4to.
Bodl. Pamphl. 123.

The other sermons not seen by our author are
i. Man's lust journey to hit long home. A sermon at the
funeral of Rob. earl of IVarwick, who died in London May
30. and was interred at Felitead in Essex June Q. iCsg. On
Ps. 146". 4. Ded. to Chailes earl of Warwick. Lond. 1659.
4(0.

'-'. Carduus Benedictus, Tlie advantage of ajffliclion, &r.
A Serm. at the funeralls of Mr. Tho. Bowt/er merchant who
died 8 Febr. \6bt), isf was buried 22 of tlie same monetii in
the parish church if St. Olaves Jewry. On Jam. 1. IS. Ded.
to Mr. Henry Bowyor, merchant. Lond. iG.So. 4(0.

3. The Pilgrim's wish, a Serm. preached in S. Bennet
Grace Church, at the funeral of Mrs. Anne Dudson (daughter
of Mr. Isaac Coif heretofore minister of Chalwell in Essex,
and late wife if Mr. Edie. Dudson of London, Draper) who
died 4. Jan. And was buried 1 \th do. 1658. On Phil. 3. 23.
Didic. to Mr. Edward Dudson & Mrs. Eliz. Man. Lend.
1659, 4to.

4. The Royal Commonwealth's Man, a Sermon at the fu-
neral of sir Tho. Adams knight &" baronet, &" alderman of
London. In St. Kutherine Creechurch, 10. Mar. 1OC7. On
Acts 13. 30. Ded. to Sir Will. Adams hart. Lond. l60Sf.
4to.

5. A looking glass of human frailty , a Sermon at the fu-
neral nf Mrs. Anne Calquit, lute wife of Mr. Nic. Calquit,
draper, who died 7th. and was interred igth rf April 16.S9,
at All-hallows the less in Thames street. On Psal. 39. 5.
Ded. to Mr. Nic. Calquit. Lond. 1659. 4to.]

3 M

899

HARDY.

MAPLET.

funeral sermons, as (1) On Hob. E. of Warwick.
(2) On Mr. Tho. Bom/er. (3) On Mrs. Anne
DuOson. (4) On Sir t/io. Adams. (5) On Mrs.
A. Colquit, &c. He hath also written and pub-
lished,

The first general Epl^tlc of St. John the Apostle,
unfolded and applied. In tico Parts. The first

Iirinted at Lond. 1C56. in qu. was delivered in 22
ectures on the first chap, and two verses of the se-
cond, in S. Dionyse Backchurch. The second part
])rinted at Lond. in 1659. in qu. was delivered in
37 lectures on the second chap, from the third, to
the last verse, in the said church. At length this
active and forward man, who had little or no cha-
racter among the true loyalists, especially tliat part
of the clergy who had suffered in tiie times of
usurpation, giving way to fate in his house at Croy-
don in Surrey on the first day of June, in sixteen
1670. hundred and seventy, was buried on the 9th day of
the same month in the chancel of S. Martin's
church in the fields beforc-mention''d. Soon after
his widow erected a monument on the north wall of
the said chancel to his memory, with an inscrij)tion
thereon, which being printed in Hist. 4~ Antiq.
Univ. Or. lib. 2. p. 375. col. 2. shall be now omitted.
His funeral sermon on 2 Cor. 5. 1. j)reached by Dr.
Sim. Patrick is extant, wherein you may see bis
character at largc.^ In the vicaridge of S. Martin's,
succeeded Dr. Tho. Lamplugh, and in the deanery
of Rochester, Dr. Peter ^lew ;■* the former was af-
terwards bish. of Exon. and archb. of York, and
the other bishop of Bath and AVells, and Win-
cliestcr.

' [To a vol. which I have containing 21 of Dr.
Hardy's sermons (viz. tliose mentioned by Ant.
Wood, and what are here added) is a general title

page Several Sermons preached tipcm Solemn

Occasions. The titles whereof apix-ar in the fol-
lowing paper. By Nath. Hardy, D. D. Dean of
Rocliester, and Clutplain in Ordinary to his Ma-
jesty. Loud. 1G66.

This catalogue mentions 7 sermons, &c. more,
viz.

The Choicest Fruit of Peace, gathered _from
the Tree of Life, presented to the Right Hon. the
House of Peers, at We.Hminstcr 30 April 1660.

7^he Hierarchy exalted and its Enemies hum-
hied. A Sermon preacVd on the first Sunday
in Advent, being the 9.nd (rf December 1660 after
the consecration of tlie Lord Bisliops in the Abbey
Church of St. Peters Westminster.

Tlie Apostolical Liturgy revived, a Sermon

' [Wood docs not seem apprized of anoilier funeral sermon
on Hardy by Dr. Richard Meagot, rector of St. Olavcs,
Southwark, and chaplain in ordinary to the king. London
1670. 4to.]

* fPctrus Mew LLD. archid. Berk, ct Hunting, coll. D.
Joh. Bapt. praeses, decamis Roff. rector cccl. S. Maris in
Redding, installatus canon. Windsor 30 Oct. l662, conse-
cratus cp. Batho-Wcll. 9 Feb. 1672. Frith, Catal. Kek-

NET.]

preached at the Assizes at Chelmsford 15 March,
1660.

A loial call to great Mourning, a Sermon pr.
before the Hon. House nf Commons of Parlia-
ment 30 Jan. 1661.

The first general Epistle of St. John unfolded
4'C. as in Wood. All in 4to.

The Royal Common-'icealth''s Man, or King
DavicTs Picture, represented iii a Sermon j)?-eached
at the Solemnity of tlie Funeral of Sir Tho. Adams
Knight and Baronet, <§• Alderman of Ixmdun, in
St. Kathcrine Church on tlie \Oth March 1667; on
Acts 13, 36, 4to. l,ond. 1668. Wanley.

We may add besides,

Wisdome's Character and Counterfeit delineated
in tzvo Sermons. The one on James 3. 1 7. the other
on Matthew 2. 8.^ The first sermon, Wisdome's
Character ; or the Queue of Graces, was preached
at tlie assizes holden at Aylesbury for the co. of
Bucks, 21 Mar. 1655. The second was printed
Lond. 1656, 4to. [Bodl. 4to. L. 44. Th.]

The Olive-Branch presented to the native Citi-
zens of London in a sermon at St. PauVs, May 9,1,
being the Day of their ycarii/ Feast ; on Psal. 122.
8, 9. Lond. 1658 4to. '[Bodl. Pamph. 106.]

A Sad Prognostick if approaching J udgment ;
or the Happy Misery of good Men in bad Times.
Scrm. preached at St. Grcgorics June 13. 1658. on
Lsaiah 57. 1. I^ond. 1658. 4to. In the preface to
this sermon he ob.serves, that some years before came
forth a little Manual <f several Prayers, to one of
which his name was affixed, but, says he, ' it is for
the most part made u]) of such expressions which
were not wont to be used by me.' He also takes
notice of other pieces j)riiited with his name in the
title, as The Herball of Divinity, &c. insinuating,
though not asserting, that he was the author.

The choicest Fruit of Peace, gathered from the
Tree of Life : a Sermon before the House of Peers
at Westminster Abbey, April 30. 1660; on Isaiah
57, 19. Lond. 1660. 4to.]

" JOHN MAPLET, son of a father of both his
" names, a sufficient shoemaker, was Iwni in the
" parish of S. Martin's le Grand in Loudon, edu-
" cated in the college school at Westminster, elected
" thence a student of Ch. Ch. in 1630, took the de-
" grees in arts, and, as 'tis said, holy orders, cntred
" upon the jjhysic line, was afterwards one of the
" proctors of the university ; and l)eing made Dr.
" of physic in 1647 (about which time he had the
" grant of the principality of Gloc. hall conferr'd
" on him, uixjn Deg. Wheal's death) he went into
" France in that or the yeai' following with his
" pupil Lucius tlie young lord Falkland, where
" continuing about two years, mostly at Orleans,
" Bloys and Saumur, he made many observations
" on those and other places, which he committed to

5 [From A Ca/aluguc of Hardy's Sermons, at the end of
Tlie Olive Branch.'}

MAPLET.

NEILE.

^2

" writinof in a neat and curious hand, with a parti-
" cular tract of his travels, in an elegant Latin style,
" which is promised by^ one of his faculty to be
" made public. Afterwards lie made another
" journey beyond the seas with Henry lord Falk-
" land, (brother to Lucius, who dy'tl in France)
" traveird into Holland and the Low Countries,
" and made other observations, which he committed
" to writing. Upon his return thence, he practised
" his faculty in tne summer time at Bath, and in
" the winter time at Bristol, with great respect and
" veneration from all people in those parts, and in
" 1660 lie was restored to his principality of Gloc.
" hall (from which he had been ejected) and soon
" after rcsign'd it. He hath written,

" Favitliur Epistks Jrom 1650 to 1666.

" They are written in Latin, chiefly to Dr. Jo. Wall
" canon of Ch. Ch. in Oxon.

" Medicinal Epistles, concerning the Effects of
" the Baths of Bath: of these some were published
[4671 " ''y ^'"- Tho. Guidot with this title : Epistolarum
" Medicarum Specimen de Thermarum Batho-
" niensium Effectis, ad clariss. Medicos D. Bate
" Eraser, Wcdderbourne, &c. London. 1694. qu.
" [Bodl. C. 2. 28. Line]

" Constiltations with Dr. Edm. Meara, Dr. Sam.
" Bave and others.

" Cosmetics.

" Poems and Epitajjhs on several Occasions and
" Per.ions.

" Treatise of his Travels into the Low Countries

" a7id France This and the rest are all written

" in Latin, but I think not yet published. He died
" on the fourth day of August, in sixteen hundred
670. " and seventy, aged 55 years, and was buried in

" the north cross-isle joyning to the church of S.
" Peter and S. Paul in the city of Bath. Over his
" grave was soon after a comely monument set up
" against the east wall of that isle, with an in-
" scription thereon, wherein this character is given
" of him, that he was ' Animi coqiorisque bonis
" prajditus, eruditione, modestia et comitate paucis
" secundus, Artium et Scientiarum omnium pano-
" plia instructus,'' &c. His style was terse,*' his
" words choice, but his periods a little too elaborate.
" He was learned, candid and ingenious, a good
" physician, a better Christian, and an excellent
" Latin poet. Besides this, hath been another Joh.
" Maplet, author of A Discourse of Metals, Stones,
" Herbs, Trees, Beasts, printed in oct." »

• Tho. Guidot in his Discourse of the Balk and the hoi
Waters there, &c. Lond. 1676. oct. p. 181.

' [See the rest at page 236 01" ihc Anlujuilies of the Church
of Bath. Lond. 1714. 8vo. Rawlinson.]

» Guidot ut supra.

' [This person was educated at Cambridge, M. A.

The work noticed by Wood was entitled A greene Forest, or
a naturall Jlislorie, printed in I567. Besides which, he
wrote The Diall if Destiny, wherein may he scene the con-
tinuail and custt,mable Course &c. nfthe seven Planets. IL'nio.
l.>81, and 1385!. See Brilish Bihliographer, ii. 47.]

WILLIAM NEILE, the eldest son of sir Paul

Neile knight, one of the ushers of the privy-chamber
to king Charles 2. eldest son of Dr. Rich. Ncilc
archb. of York,' was born in the archlip. palace at
Bishop's-Tliorp in Yorkshire, 7 Dec. 1637, became
a gent. com. of Wadliam coll. for the sake of Dr.
Wilkins the warden thereof, an. 1652, where by the
instruction of him and Dr. Ward he improved his
native genius very much in the mathematics. In
July or Aug. lo57 he divulged his invention of
' the equating of a straight line to a crooked or
parabola.' The demonstration of which is at large
set down in a book entit. Dc Cycloide ^- Corporibn.1
hide genitis, &c. Oxon. 1659. qu. p. 91, 92.
Written bv John Wallis D. D. one of the Saviiian
professors of the university of Ox. to which place I
refer the reader, where he may see also what oenefit
hath been made of it by Dr. Christopher Wrenn
and Will, viscount Brounker. Mr. NeUe hath
written,

De Afotu, Lib. 1.

Of Morality, in one Book. '

Whether these two are printed I cannot tell. He
died in his father's house at White Wallham in
Berks. 24th of Aug. in sixteen hundred and seventy,
and was buried in the church there, to the great
grief of his father, and resentment of all virtuosi and
good men that were acquainted with his admirable
parts. See more of him, and his invention, in the
Philosophical Transactions, an. 1673. nu. 98. p.
6146.' One sir Will. Neale knight, who had been
scout-master general to king Charles 1, and a stout
projwr man and a good soldier against his enemies
m the grand rebellion, died in Grays-Inn-lane in
Holborn on the 24th of March, the last day of the
year, 1690, aged 81 years, and was buried according
to his desire near the west door fast by the christning
pew in S. Paul's church in Covent-Garden, within
the liberty of West, but lie was no kin to the
former William Neile, because he was of the Neales
of Wollaston near Northampton.

[See Neile's epitaph printed at length in Hearne's
Accmint of some Antiquities betzeeen Windsor and
Oxford, appended to the fifth vol. of his edit, of
Leland's Itin. He was, says the antiquary, a vir-
tuous, sober, pious man, and had such a powerful
genius to mathematical learning, that had he not
been cut oft" in the prime of his years in all proba^
bility he would have cquall'd if not exceeded the
most celebrated men of that profession. That wliich

' [Dr. Rich. Neile, archb. of Vork. Mr. John Cotton in
his Answer to Mr. Roger JViUiams about Persecution (4to.
1647, p. 1 17) tells this story : Mr. Randall Bates, a heavenly
saint, was choaked in the prison, nor could he be released,
though Dr. Hering (a learned and beloved physitian) ear-
nestly solicited bishop Neale for his enlargement, as he ten-
dered his life: but the suit of the physician was repulsed
with reproaches, and the life of his patient spilt by that
rigour. Kennet]

* [See Birch's History if the Royal Society, vol. ii. p. 460,

1070.

3M

903

CHILDREY.

hasten'd his death was a deep melancholy, that was
unfortunately contracted by his being in love with one
of the maids of honour, whom he would fain have
married, but he could not gain the consent of his
father sir Paul Neile.]

JOSHUA CHILDREY, son of Robert Chil-
drey, was born within the city of Rochester, where
l)eing educated in grammar learning, became a stu-
dent in Magd. coll. in Lent term 1640, aged 17
years, and about that time was made one of the
clerks of the said house. But soon after leaving the
university, upon the eruption of the civil war, he
returned to his native country, and came not again
till the garrison of Oxon was surrcndred for the
[468] use of the parliament, at which time taking the de-
gree of bach, of arts, was two years after that ex-
pelled by the parliamentarian visitors. Afterwards
he taught school at Feversham in Kent, yet not
without .some disturbance by the godly party, where
continuing till his maj. restoration, was made cha]>
lain to Henry lord Herbert, was actually created D.
of D. and had the rectory of Upway in Dorsetshire
bestowed on him. In the year 1663, Jan. 23, he
was collated to the archdeaconry of Salisbury, on
the deatii of Dr. Anth. Ilawles,^ and on the first of
June 166i he was collated to the prebendship of
Yatminster Prima in the church of Salisbury by Dr.
Earle bishop of that place, he being then accounted
a learned and religious divine, a good astrologer,
and a great virtuo.so. His works arc,

Indago AsU-olog'ica : or, a brief and modest In-
quiry into some principal Points of Astrology, as
it teas delivered by the Fathers of it, and is now
generally received by the Sons of it. Lond. 1652. in
2 sh. in qu. [Bodl. 4to. E. 8. Jur.]

Syzygiasticon instauratum : or, an Epliemei'is of
the Places and Aspects of the Planets, 8j~c. calculated
for the Year 1653. Lond. 1653 oct. His chief de-
sign is to prove the aspects of the planets related to
the sun, of greater efficacy in the change of the air,
than when respecting the earth as center, &c.

Uritann'ia Baconica: or, the natural Rarities of
England, Scotland and Wales. Acco7-di7ig as they
are to be found in every Shire. Historiccdly re-
lated, acco7-ding to the Precepts of the Lord Bacon,
4"c. tvith Obse}-vatio7is upon them, and Deductions
from, them, &c. Lond. 1661. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. F.
148. Line] From which book Dr. Rob. Plot took
a hint for the writing The nat)iral History qf Ox-
fordshire. As for the other works of liis which arc
not extant, you may be pleased to know from his
letter* dated at Upway 12 Jul. 1669, written to Mr.

3 [Anlonius Hawles coll. Regiii. Oxon. S. T. P. iireben-
dar. et archid. Sarum. rector de Kiioyle, ct poslea de Kishop-
stoii in com. Wilts. inM.nll;itus in caiionicaiu niagi^tri Hales
infra capcUaiii rcg. de Wiiulcsor, 13 Jul. post regis rcdiium,
cui ill extcris rcgi'nilms a sacris fnit. Obiit Ifi Jan. I0'()3,
cui siiccessit Durell. Frith, Cidal. Keknet.]

' In a Journal Book of the Royal Society, MS.

Hen. Oldenburg secretary of the Royal Society
concerning some observations of the weather, philo-
sophical collections, Portland and Purbeck stones
sening for fuel, shifting of tydes at Weymouth, &c.
thus — —' In my next (God willing) I shall send
you part of my collections of naturals out of
%'oyagcs and itineraries. In the mean time take
this brief account of my studies so far as concerns
philosophy. Some two years before the happy re-
turn of the king, I bought me as many paper books
of about 16 sheets ajriece, as my lord Verulam
(Bacon) had histories at the end of his Novum Or-
ganon : Into which lxx)ks (being noted with the
figure and title given them by my lord) I entred all
philosoj)hical matters that I met wth observable in
my reading, and intend (God willing) to continue it.
This I acquaint you with, to let you see, how earnest
and serious I have been for several years in that
which is the business of the Royal Society, tho' in-
deed I first fell in love with the lord Bacon's pliilo-
sophy in the year 1646, and tried several experi-
ments (though such as I now reckon be not of any
moment) in 1647, 48, 49, 50; and besides these, I
have two larger paper books in folio, one of which
I call Chronologia naturalis, and the other Geo-
graphia naturalis; the former containing the time
of all droughts, comets, earthquakes, &c. and the
other the natural rarities of countries. These paper
books cannot be expected to bo yet full, and God
knows whether I shall live to see them filled. But,
God willing, such and so as they arc, I intend to
bequeath them to the Royal Society, whensoever I
die,' &c. He concluded his last day at Upway be-
fore mentioii'd (having never been of the said so-
ciety) on the 26th of j\ug. in sixteen hundred and
seventy, and was buried in the chancel of the
church there. In the latter end of Sept. following,
succeeded him in his archdeaconry John Sherman
doct. of div. of Camb. who dying in the parish of
S. Sepulchre in London (after a short enjoyment of
his archdeaconry) viz. in the latter end of the year
(in ]\Iarcli) 1670, was succeeded in the beginning
of May following by John Priaulx D. D. as I shall
elsewhere tell you. Besides this John Sherman was
another of both his names, but before him in time,
educated in grammai' learning in the Charter-house
school, in academical in Trin. coll. in Camb.* where
he arrived to great eminence in several sorts of lite-
rature. He " was bach, and after Dr. of divinity,
" and" wrote a book entit. White Salt, or a sober
Correction of a mad World in some Wcll-zeishcs to
Goodness. Lond. 1654. oct. [BotU. 8vo. F. 6. Th.
BS.] and another » called, Tlie InfalUbiUty if the

* [.'Vn. I0j7, Jo. Sherman erat A.M. et ad hue soclus
coll. Trill. Cant. Baker. He was ejected ilience in the
lime of the civil wars ; see Walker's Sufferings nfthe Clergy,
paso l()0.]

^ [Also one ciitit. A Greek in tlir Trwplc : iritig a Dis-
course un Acts \S. vcr.US. Cambr. l04l, 4to. Bodl. C. 13.
11. Line]

1670.

[469]

(

FORD.

YELVERTON.

900

holy Scripture asserted, " and the pretended InfaU
" ilbUity of the Church of Rome refuted, in Answer
" to two Papers and two Treatises of Father John-

" son a Romanist, about the Ground thereirf"

Lond. 1664 thick qu. [Botll. A. 19. 1. Line]
" This Dr. Sherman had suffered many things for
" his king and country ; and was one in wliom
" learning and religion had for many years met and

" had equal shares He livM to print, but not to

" publish, the last work, which was licensed 28 Sept.
" 1663." This le.arned, religious and conscientious
person, died in Aug. as it seems, an. 1663.

EDAVARD FORD, the eldest son of sir Job.
Ford knight, was born at Uppark in the parish of
Harting in Sussex, became a gent. com. of Trin.
coll. in tlie beginning of the year 1621, aged 16
years, but before he took a degree he left that
house, and whether afterwards he travelled or
studied in the inns of court, I know not. Sure it is
that about the beginning of the civil war, he was
prick'd high sheriff for Sussex, adhered to the king
at Oxon, from whom he received the honour of
knighthood tlierc, 4 Oct. 1643, and about that time
had a commission to be a colonel in his army against
the rebels ; for which afterwards he suffered equally
with other royalists. In Nov. 1647, when the king
made his escape from Hampton court, he with Dr.
Steph. Goffe were committed to safe custody, as
being suspected for the design of the king's escape.
In 1656 he, upon Olivers encouragement, and m-
vitation of the chief citizens of L(mdon, raised the
Thames water into all the highest streets of that
city, ninety three fcH)t high, in four eight-inch pipes,
to the wonder of all, and honour of the nation :
done at his own charge, and in one year's time, with
his rare engine that he had invented for that pur-
{X>se ; by winch several parts of the nation did af-
terwards find benefit in the draining of mines and
lands, much better and cheaper than any other de-
vice before. 'Twas he also that made the great
water enijine against Somerset-house for the ser^inji
the inhabitants of the Strand, and of other parts
adjoyning, with water ; which hindring the prosjxjct
of qu. Catharine the royal consort of king Charles 2,
she found means to have it pluck'd down. Some
time after liis majesty's restoration he invented a
new way of farthings, of which he made demon-
stration to the king and council so ])lainly, that they
were satisfied that they coidd not jwssibly be coun-
terfeited, and that one fartiiing could not be like
another, but that they should differ in some little
thing. And having then a design to get a patent
for the making of them for England, was put aside
by prince Rupert, and at length was content with
one only for Ireland : To which place taking a
journey soon after, he died there before he could
effect his design. He hatli written and published,

A Design Jor bringing a River frorn Rickinaiis-
worth in Hertfordshire to S. Giles's in the Fields

near London : The Benefits of it declared, and the
Objections against it answer''d. Lond. 1641. in live
or six sh. in qu.

Experimental Prcrposals Jtow tJie King may Jiave
Money to pay and maintain his Fleets, xcith Ease
to the People ; London may be rebuilt, and all Pro-
prietors satisfied; Money may be lent at 61. per
Cent, on Pawns, and the Fishing Trade set up,
and all without Straining or Thwarting any of
our Laws and Customs. Lond. 1666. qu.

Defence of Bill-credit — Printed at the end of the
former pamphlet. About the year 1663 he printed
an ingenious proposal for the raising of money by
bills of exchange, which should pass current instead
of money, to prevent robbery, but this I have not
yet seen. He died in Ireland, on the 3d of Sept. in
sixteen hundred and seventy, and his body being
brought into England, was buried in the church at
Harting by its ancestors. He was a great virtuoso
of his time, yet none of the Royal Society, and
might have done greater matters, if that he had not
been disincouraged for those thintrs he had done
before,

HENRY YELVERTON baronet, was born of
an ancient and genteel family' at Easton Manduit
or Mauduit in Northamptonshire, baptized there
6th of July 1633, educated in grammar learning in
S. Paul's school in London, admitted a gent. com.
of Wadham coll. in 1650, where he made as great
proficiency in several sorts of learning as his age
was capable of, and became so exact a I,atinist and
Grecian, that none of his time went beyond him.
He hath written,

" A Vindication of the Bishop of Worcester's
" (Morley) Letter touching Mr. Baxter from the
" Animadversions ofD. E. — Lond. 1662 qu. 2 sh.
" [Bodl. B. 12. 3. Line] Sir Henry Yelverton the

" author, as 'tis constantly rctMrted So Dr.

" Barlow."

A shm-t Discourse of the Truth and Reasonable-
ne.is of the Religion delivered by Jc.ms Christ.
Wherein the several Arguments Jiyr Christianity
are briejly handled, the Miracles done by our Sa-
viour. Apostles and Christians, &c. Lond. 1662
oct. [Bodl. 8vo. B. 378. Line] To which is added,
A Disquisition touching the Sybils and Sybilline
Writings, &c. Written by John Twysden, broth,
to sir Rog. Twysden of Kent, both the uncles of
sir H. Yelverton, who hath also written something
in vindication of the church of England against
Edw. Bagshaw of Ch. Ch. whicii I have not yet
seen;* and a preface to a book of Dr. Tho. Morton
bish. of Durham, entitled. The Episcopacy of the
Church of England justified to be Apostolical, from
the Authority of the Primitive Church, &c. Printed

7 [Chr. ct Roll. Ychcrloii Ncrthampt. ailmissi socio-com-
nieiisnles coll. l^egin. Caiilabr. Feb. '.C, lO'lS. Hakkb.]

' [i'his 1 sap|iosc was the Vindication nf Bishop Morley,
which Wood afterwards foitnU among Dr. Barlow's books.].

1670.
[470]

907

AIRAY.

KEME.

in oct Wliich hisliop sir Henry liad kept in his
family several years in tlie time of" that bishop's
persecution, and was as temler of him, as of his
parent, shewing thereby, as indeed he was, a true
son of the church of England. He died in the
1670. flower of his age on the 3a of October, in sixteen
hundred and seventy, and was huricHl at Easton
Manduit among the graves ol' his relations, leaving
then behind him by Susan his wii'e, sole daughter
and heir of CMiarles loid Grey of Ruthcn, Charles
his eldest son, afterwards a noble-man of Christ-
Church, anil called up to the house of lords, where
he took his place as lord Grey of Ruthen. He died
of the small-jjox immarrietl, in his lodgings in the
rail-mail, within the liberty of Westminster, on the
17th of May 1679, and was, as I suppose, buried
at Easton Manduit.

CHRISTOPHER AIRAY was born at Clifton
in Westmorland, became a student in Queen's col-
lege in Michaelmas term, 1621 , where going through
the servile offices, was made fellow when master of
arts : Alxjut which time entring* into holy orders
according to the statutes of that house, he became
a preaclier, was actually created bachelor of divinity
in 1642, and afterwards made vicar of Milford in
* Hampshire. He hath written,

FuJicicuhis PrcEceptorum Logiculitim, in Gratiam
Juventutli Academiw (Oxon) componitus. Oxon.
il660, second edition in octavo, and other things, as
'tis said, but such I have not yet seen. He died on
1670. S. Luke's day, in .sixteen hundred and seventy, and
was buried iii the chancel of his church of Milford
before-mention'd. Over his grave was soon after
put this epitaph. ' Memorise sacrum Christopheri
Airay S. T. Rac. olim. Coll. Reg. Oxon. socii, &
hujus ccclesias Vicarii vigilantissimi, viri summa; in-
tegritatis, judicii accrrimi & ingenii literarum om-
nium capacis ; qui difficillimo seculo inter a-stuantes
rerum fluctus clavum rectum tenuit. Mortalitatem
tandem exuit 18. Oct. annos natus 69. Sec'

SAMUEL KEME or Kem was Iwrn, according
to the ' Matriaila, in the city of London, became a
[4711 batler or commoner of Magdalen-hall in the be-
ginning of Act term 1621, aged 16 years, but how
long he continued there I know not. Sure I am
that a certain ' author tells us, that ' for those few
weeks he wore a gown in Magdalen-hall he obtained
a title of a most notorious lyar that ever wore long
ears.' In 1624 he was elected demy of Magdalen
college, at wliich time he said that he was born in
Surrey, and that he was in the nineteenth year of
his age. In that house he continued till after he was
bacli. of arts, and then taking holy orders he had a
cure bestowed on him. In 163d, the king being
then in Oxon, he was actually created bachelor of
divinity ; about which time he beaune rector of the

9 iii. vel Rep. Malric. PP. fol. 295. a.

' Merc. Aul. in ihe vJ3 week, an. I(i44. p. 11S3.

church at Oldbury commonly called Albury near
Ricot in Oxfordshire, and a retainer, if I mistake
not, to the family of Edward Wray of Ricot esq;
patron of the said church, by virtue of his marriage
with Elizabeth the daughter and heir of Francis
lord Norris, earl of Berks. At the turn of the
times in 1641, he put a curate into liis living, sided
with the rebels, took the covenant, was made chap-
lain to, and captain of, a trooj) of horse in, the
regiment of Basil earl of Denbigh, prayed and
preached often to encourage tlie soldiers to fight,
laid open to them the righteousness of their cause,
preached against the king and his followers, and en-
deavoured to make them believe, that all that were
about him, were papists or at least popishly af-
fected. " He was sometime chaplain at sea under
" the earl of Warwick, and minister of Deal ; and
" seems to have been the person to whom the fol-
" lowing passage in Tfie HlHory of the Trouble*
" and Tryal of' Archbishop Laud, cap. 19. p. 210,
" belongs, viz. ' Aug. 20, 1643, Sunday in the af-
" ternoon one preached in the Tower-church, in a
" buff-coat ancT a scarf, but had a gown on. He ,
" told the people they were all bless'd that died in
" this cause, with much more such stuff". His name
" (that I then heard) was Kem, parson or vicar of
" Low-Layton in Essex, and then chajilain of a
" troop of horse. At Reading it was usually re-
" ported of this Mr. Kem, that he would preach in
" the morning and plunder in the afternoon, was
" look'd upon as a saint in the puljiit, and a devil
" out of it." When any officer of the regiment was
kill'd, he was ready to preach his funeral sermon,
particularly that of major Pinkney slain in the be-
ginning of^ July 1644, and was ready at all hours
to do the like, provided the party died not a natural
death. When he was with the said earl at Wolver-
hampton, he jireached twice there before his lord-
ship as quarter-master general « to sir Tho. Mid-
dleton, and within two hours after his last sermon,
he fell to practice on one of his brethren, and
plundered a townsman to the value of 500/. tho' the
man was as notorious as any in Coventry, Banbury,
or Colchester, &c. This Kerne was asked at Nampt-
wich by a bricklayer, why the earl of Denbigh gave
offence by wearing long hair ? To which he made
answer (being then the chief leader in cases of con-
science) That to wear long hair was not against the
rule, but to have it was the thing forbidden by tlie
apostle, for tridy (said he) if my lord should have
long hair of his own, I hold my self bound to tell
him of it, but that which his lordship wears, is not
his own hair, and if S. Paul were in England, he
would not mislike it, tho' it reached down as low as
his knees. Such Levites as this Keme were Sprat
and Lorkin' the two twins of Greenwich, where

" The same author in the ihirtielh week, ending July 27.
an. 1644. p. 109.^.

' [See oiy i3/A'. CoWfc/ionj, (Brit.Mus.) vol. xv, p. l62.
Cole.]

KEME.

STRICKLAND.

910

thoy lihell'd and blasphemed every Sunday, accord-
ing to their talents. In Noveni. the same year
(1644) he went with his colonel, Basil earl of l)en-
liigh and the other commissioners, constituted by
parliament, to treat with his majesty at Oxon for
peace, where he, with great confidence, preached
before them, and about that time was made a major,
and became very active in several places within this
kingdom to carry on the cause as well by fighting
as ])reaching. Afterwards he took all oaths to keep
what he had and to gain more, tofjk all advantages
to rake and scrape what he could together, meerly

[472] tx) satisfy his unsatiable desire. Tlie truth is, he was
a man of a very servile spirit, a flatterer, a time-
server, an epicure, a letcher, " a knight of the post,"
&c. and yet always a pretender to saintship. " This
" major Keme wlien at the Bath in the time of
" Oliver Cromwell, would go to Bristol, preach
" there with a buff-coat on, and over that a scarlet
" cloak, with a pistol on each side of him lying
" on the cushion." After tlie restoration of king
Chariest, he turned about, endi-avouring to express
his loyalty, took the oaths again, as he hail done
when he toi/k the academical degrees, and when he
entred on tlie ministry, and all to keep his living of
Albury and the trade of eating and drinking. He
hath published.

Several sermons, as(l) The Martialinfs Dignity ;

on Dent. 23. 14 Printed 1640. qu. (2) The

Messenger s PrepuratiaJi for an Address to the
King firr a well-grounded Peace, preacJied at Oxon.
24 Nov. 1644, before the Commissioners of both
Kingdoms, the Morning before their presenting
the Propositions to his Majesty ; on Esther 4. Id.
Lond. 1644. qu. Dedicated to the said commis-
sioners. (3) The King of Kings his privy Marks
Jvr the Kingdoms Choice of new Members, &c.
preached at Bristol at the Choice of new Burgesses
of that City, 28 Feb. 1645; on Prov. 10. ver. 10,
11. Load. 1646. qu. The said city was then under
the command of the parliament. (4) l^hc Olive-
Branch, <^c. o« 2 Thes. 3. 16. Lond. 1647. qu.
(5) Serm. on 1 Cor. 13. ver. 14. Lond. 1647. qu.
This last, with otliers which he hath pubhshed, I
liave not yet seen. He died at Albury before

15^0 mentioned on the 22d of October, in sixteen hundred

and seventy, and was two days after burieil in the
chancel of the church there, near to an inscription,
which he before had caused to be painted on the
wall to the memory of Anne Ball only daughter of
John Ball citizen and skinner of Ijondon, Jemimali
PeUiam eldest daughter of Herbert Pelham of Lin-
colnshire and of Feriar's-court in Essex, esq; and
of Mary Bridgvr second daughter of Samuel Bridger
of Dursley in the county of Glocester. Which
three women had been the wives of him the said
Samuel Kerne, who at his death left behind him a
young buxom widow, with whom he had a good
portion, but left her nothing, as having spent all
that he could get to satisfy his epicurism.

JOHN STRICKLAND was bom of, and de-
scended from, an ancient and genteel family of his
name in the county of Westmoreland, became a
batler of Queen's college in the beginning of the
year 1618, aged 17 years, took the degrees of arts,
noly orders, and was made chaplain, as I have been
informed, to the earl of Hertford. In the month of
May 1632 he was admitted bachelor of divinity,
and in December following became rector of Mid-
dleton alias Pudimore Milton in Somersetshire by
the presentation of sir John Horner knight, &c.
This person, who was always puritannically affectetl,
sideil with the rebellious party in the beginning of
the civil war, took the covenant, was made one of
the assembly of divines, preached frequently before
the long parliament, exciting the members thereof
to ])roceed in their blessed cause, prayed several
times ■* blasphemously, ' and in 1645 or thereabouts
was made minister of S. Peter's le poor in London,
where he exercised his gifts against the king and
his party, and was never wanting to excite his
auditors to carry on the said cause. Afterwards he
was made nihiister of S. Edmund's church in Salis-
bury, was constituted an assistant to the commis-
.sioners of Wilts, for the ejection of such whom they
then (1654) called scandalous, ignorant and insuf-
ficient ministers and schoolmasters, and took upon
him great autliority in his apostleship, especially if
he had to do with the loyal and sufl'ering clergy.
He hath published.

Several sermons, as (1) God's Work of Mercy in
Sion's Misery, Fast Sermon before the House of
Commons, 27. Dec. 1643 ; on Isaiah 10. 20. Lond.
1644. qu. (2) A Discovery of Peace: or, tlie [473]
Thoughts of the Almighty j'or the Ending of the
Peoples Calamities, &c. (m Jerem. 29. 11. Lond.
1644. qu. (3) Immanuel: or, the ChurcJCs
Triumph in God with ns, &c. Thanksgiving Ser-
mon before the Honse of Lords, 5. Nov. 1644; on
P.sal. 26. 7. Lond. 1644. qu. (4) Mercy rejoicing
against Judgment, FaM-sermon before the House
(f Commons 29 Octob. 1645; on Isaiah 30. 18.
Lond. 1645. qu. In his epistle dedicatory to the
house of commons, he desires them to have a care
how thoy j)lant the towns in Cumberland and North-
umberland with able preachers, that they reform
the universities, &c. He hath other seniions extant
which I have not yet seen. See more of him in
Hum. Chamliers under the year 1662. This jNIr.
Strickland, who is stiled by one^ of his opinion

* See in a book emit. A short View of the late Troubles in
England. O.'ion. 1681. fol. Wrilten by sir Will. Dugdale,
p. oO'?. ^

5 [Wood iniplit as well have said he used to come into his
))u1pit naked, and without a rag of clo.iths on ; for one is not
more ridiculous than the <nher. So says Calamy, who how-
ever forgets to add that Wood's statement rests, not on his
own authority, but on that of sir William Dugdale. See
Ejected Ministers, page 755.]

s Fred. Lossius medic. Dorchest. in OLtervat.medicinalit.
Lond. lO/S. oci. lib. l.obscrvat. 8.

mi

POWELL.

' praeco fidelissiimis,'' and so he was esteemed by tlie
factions party, was ejected from his Hvinjj for his
refusal to conform to tlie service and ceremonies of
the churcli of England, an. 1662: Wlicreiipon
keeping conventicles in, and near, Salisburv, was
several times, as I have been informed, imprisoned.
1670. At length giving way to fate, in sixteen hundred
and seventy, was buned on the 25th of Octob. in
the chiirch of S. Edmund before-mention'd, being
then accompanied to his grave by many of his per-
suasion.

VAVASOR POWELL, having often told his
friends, and the brethren, not without Iwasting,
that he was once a member of Jesus college in Oxon.
I shall therefore upon his word number him among
these writers. Be it known therefore that this per-
son, who was famous in his generation for his ill name
among those that were not of his opinion, was born
in the borough of Knucklas in Radnorshire, son of
Rich. Howell an ale-keoper there, by Penelope his
wife, daughter of William Vavasor of Newtown in
Montgomeryshire. He was bi-ought up a scholar,
saith the publisher ' of his life, but the writer* of
Strena Vavasoriensis tells us that his emplo\-ment
was ' to walk guest's horses, by which finding no
great gain at such a petty alehouse, he was elevated
in his thoughts for higher preferment, and so became
an hostler (I would say groom) to Mr. Isaac Tho-
mas an inn-keeper and mercer in Bishop\s-Castle in
Shropshire,' &c. The time that he came to the said
college must be, if true, about 16.34, at which time
^ he was 17 years of age, being then encouraged in
his studies and exhibited to by his uncle ' Erasmus
Howell, but whether he was matriculated, or avoided
it to save a little money, as many have done that
intend to take no degree, I know not, nor what stay
or progress he made in his studies in the said college.
Sure it is, that soon after, his said uncle got him to
be setled at Clun in Shropshire, where lie taught
school first, and then was curate, or as Strena ' saith
' took upon him the habit of sir John, and lest with-
out ordination (under the episcopal government) he
might incur the danger of suspension, borrowed of
an old decayed minister (his near kinsman) his let-
ters of orders, raseth out the other, and inserts his
own, name, and under colour of these counterfeit
letters, he goes unsent, and begins to thunder out
of the pulpits as if he had been a fiery spirit raised
out of hell. But by reason of his nonconformity,
and the many en'ors he had broached, his calling
was question'd, and the orders being well scan'ci,
were found spurious and counterfeit, and he bound
to appear at the next great .sessions to be held for
the county of Radnor; (where hefrequently preached
after he had left Clun) so that upon his appearance

" Edw. Bagshaw, as 'lii reported, p. i06.
• Alex. Grifliih, p. 1,2.
^ Ibid, in E. Bagsnaiv.
» Page 2.

and indictment for nonconformity, forging of orders
and seditious doc-trine, he was with much ado re-
prieved from the gallows.' — Being thus disinabled to
preach in churches, he exercised his function in
houses, railing alwavs much against the common-
prayer, and when hunted from thence he would
preach in fields, under hedges, on the side of hills,
and in obscure vidlcys, ' so that Radnorshire which
before was a dark country (saith the canting and
ridiculous account of his fife) came to have much
light, and in short space many eminent professors
were begotten in it : at which Sabm began to rage
exceedingly, and stirred up some of his instruments
to persecute the truth, laying wait for his time and
liberty, some by a judicial way, some by violence,
till they drove him out of his country' He there-
fore finding the persecution so hot against him (so
are his « own words) that he could not be pennitted
to serve the Lord there, he did by the advice of his
brethren, leave his native country of Wales, and by
the guidance and providence of God was carried and
conducted safely to London, where he arrived in
August, 1 642. Being therefore setled in that place
(then free for all opinions) he preached for two years
together almost every day, either in churches or
houses, venting with great malice all that he read or
heard against the king and his proceedings, thun-
dred out strange notions and unheard-of blasphe-
mies, and took all occasions to promote the blessed
and righteous cause. At two years end he setled
at Dartford in Kent, where he spread his errors fijr
two years more, to the great ' cheating and seducing
of poor souls. No sooner was Wales reduced under
the power of the parliament, an. 1646, but he re-
ceived a call, and was desired to exercise his gifts in
his own country : Whereupon he retired to the
synod, that is the a.ssembly ot divines, to gain a tes-
tmionial from them, but Stephen Marshall question-
ing him about his ordination, told him that unless
he would be ordained, or take orders from the pres-
bytery they could not approve of him. To which
he answered that he was willing to be tried as a
Christian, and as a scholar, but had some doubt.s
about ordination, &c. At length after some argu-
ings about that matter, they gave him a certificate of
his religious and blameless conversation, and of able
gifts for the work of the ministry, subscribed by
Hexle tlie prolocutor and seventeen of the assembly,
11 Sept. 1646, being by that time patched up with
several notorious independents, of whom Philip Nye,
Pet. Sterry, &c. were of the number. Upon his
return into Wales, in the latter end of the said
month, there was great jov expressed among the
brethren, but the honest and loyal party perceived
full well that ' he returned * not out of any affection

* In the Acc'ivnt rfhis Conversion and Ministry, p. I I.
' Strena Fav. p. 3.

* Ibidem. Sec aUo in Merc. Camlro-Brilannus : or,Neics
from Wales, toiiehinf; the miraculous Propagation of lt>t Gos-
pel there, ftc. Loml. lO"52.

[474J

POWELL.

914

to the cause, but for his own designs, security and
advantage, and became as active and vigorous as the
perpetual motion of a tongue, or tlie invention of a
wicked brain could possibly be for the rooting out of
the ministry, branding the calling as anticliristian,
and rendring their persons by all scantlalous asper-
sions to become odious to the people. And for the
more speedy effecting thereof, he, together with
others of the same cut, promoted the act for propa-
gation of tlie gospel in Wales, so reaUy intcnaed by
the pious care and charity of those members of par-
liament, yet by the unworthy managing thereof by
our author and his fellow iunerants, it proved like
another Ephesian image of Diana for the benefit
only of this Demetrius and his tradesmen, the silver
shrmes taking up the whole devotion of that wor-
ship,' &c. By virtue of the said act most of tlie mi-
nisters and school-masters were silenced, and none
were left to preach the gospel save only Vav. Powell
and certain ignorant itinerants, who were, as 'twere,
liis journey-men. There was not one day but he
rode about the country, like an apostle, to scatter
his doctrine among simple people, insomuch * that
there were but few, if any, of the churches, chap-
pels, town-halls in Wales wherein he did not preach
Christ : yea very often upon mountains, and very
frequent in fairs and markets, &.c. For liis en-
couragement in this he liad a stipend and salary of an
hundred pounds yearly, allowed him out "of the

Erebends, deans, and chapters, and other tidies,
esides the vast emoluments of many other se-
questred benefices in North Wales, and the wages
of divers of the itinerants and schoolmasters, who
were the journey-men and stipendiaries, he being
accounted the inetrojxjlitan of tliem. Farther also
he and they, or such as were their agents, had* the
disposal of above forty tliousand pounds per an. in
tithes, gle'jes, impropriations, rents reserved, and
other ecclesiastical benefices and promotions from the
year 1649 inclusive, till the latter end of lGo3, at
which time it was unaccounted for. In that, and
the year after, he spoke against Oliver to his face,

E reached publickly against him, and wrote letters to
im, for assuming to himself the office of a single
person, that is, the protectorship, for which he was
more than once imprisonVl, tothe terror of his party.
In the latter end of 1654 he raised and headed a
party of fanatics on the rising of the cavaliers at
Sahsbury, and did all his endeavours to keep down
their rising in Wales : So that by his great autho-
rity and gains in those parts, he, from a poor boy,
(a groom or ostler, as the author of Strena tells you)
became gi'cat and wealthy, purchased some of the
king's fee-farm rents and lordsiiips, for the most
j>art in another man's name, and to perpetuate his
memory, built for himself a very fair and sumptuous
house m Kerry in Montgomerysliire. In 16.57 I

* So in his Life before quoted, p. 107.
" Slrena, p. b.

Vol. III.

find him in Oxford, where, being minded to shew
his parts, he did, by the iielp of some of the brethren
there, get into Alf-saints pulpit on Wednesday the
15th of July the same year ; and having got to-
getlier a great auditory in a very short time, as well
of scholars as laics (many of whom came jjurely out
of novelty) he did first of all very plentifully rail
against the universities and human learning, and
then against certain persons in Oxon : among which
was Mr. Hen. Hickman fellow of Magd. college,
for whom he told the auditory that the pope would
provide for him a mitre, and the devil a frying-pan,
&c. said upon no other account, as was conceived,
but because the said Mr. Hickman spoke publicly in
the divinity-scthool in the last vespers when he dis-
puted upon this question. An Ministri Anglicani
hahcant valulam ordinat'ionem ? that the church of
Rome, for ought he knew, was a true church, or to
that effect ; not that he was drawn to .say so by force
of argument, but opinion. Upon the approach of
the king's restoration, he was seized ujTon and im-
prison'd at Shrewsbury, and according to the opinion
of those of his persuasion, he suffered much : of
which matter hear what one' of his mind doth cant-
ingly deliver, ' Mr. Vav. Powell, who is accounted
by many ministers and others that knew him well,
to be a man of God, mighty in the scriptures, an
able and painful preacher of the gospel m a great
part of North and South Wales, usually preaching
as that learned, eminent and holy man of God John
Calvin did, six or seven times, or oftner every week,
to the saving of many from their sins, and fi-om hell
and swift destruction thereby, was seized upon and
iniprison'd at Shrewsbury, as also many of his friends
in several northern counties in W^ales, not for any
crime committed by him or them ; yea and divers
of their houses plundered by soldiers, shewing no
warrant for their proceedings therein. This was
about tlie latter end of Feb. 1659,' &c. He tells us
also, that in South Wales some of the congregation,
with that precious man of God Mr. Jenkin Jones,
who preacned the gospel in several counties, as Mr.
Vavasor Powell did, was imprisonetl also, as was
Thomas Gwinn a gentleman cavalier in W^ales, who
about 1657 was wrought upon by the ministry of the
said Jones, and brought over to his party : but the
said Jones and Gwinn were not imprisoned till his
ni.ijesty's restoration. About that time all the lands
and tenements that had lieen purchased by Vav.
Powell were taken from him, and lie removed from
Shrewsbury where he was much haunted by his
pai-ty, into Mountgonieryshire, and there kept in
close custotly, and from thence to the prison called
the Fleet in London. In 1662 he was translated
thence to Soutlisea Castle near Portsmouth, where
ccmtinuing five years, became intimate with Edward
Pagshaw of Christ Church, who also was committed

[4761

" Hen. .lessey in his hook entit.
England, &c. primcil l660. p. 13.

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Tlie Lord's loud Call to

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POWELL.

prisoner to that place while Powell was there. In
1667 he was removed by Habeas Coqjus obtained
in Mich, term ; and being set at liberty, he retired
to Wales ; but l)etbre ten months end, falling to the
trade ofconventicling and preaching sedition, he was
made prisoner again at Cai-diff 1668, and the year
fbllownig was sent to the Fleet again, (being then at
Lambeth, because not then rebuilt, after it had been
burnt down by the dismal conflagration that hap-
pened in Lond. 1666.) where he continued till he
was discharged by death. He was a person of good
natural parts, but a grand schismatic, a busy-body,
pragmatical, bold, and an indefatigable enemy to
monarchy and episcopacy. What his religion was I
cannot justly tell you ; some held him to be an ana-
baptist, others a fifth monarchy man ^ and a mille-
nai-y : sure it is he was neither presbyterian or inde-
pendent, but a most dangerous and pestilent man,
and one that did more mischief to his native country
of Wales, than can be imagined. As for those books
and pamphlets which go under his name, they are
these.

Disputation between Mm and Joh. Goodwin con-
cerning universal Redemption, field in Coleman-
street. Lond. 31 Dec. 1649. Lond. 1650. qu. The
reader may be pleased now to know, that Vav.
Powell, upon this dispute, supposing himself able to
encounter any minister in Wales, did after his set-
tlement there send a bold challenge to any minister
or scholar that opposed him or his brethren, to dis-
pute on these two questions, (1.) Whetlier your
calling- or ours (which you so much speak again.st)
he most warrantable, and nearest to the word of
God? (2.) Whether your mixt loays, or ours of
separation, be nearest the word of God? This
challenge being sent flying abroad 11 of June 1652,
it came into the hands of Dr. George Griffith of
Llanymynech in Shropshire, who looking upon it as
sent to him, he returned an answer in Latin two days
after, with promise, on certain conditions, to dispute
with him, either in private or public. On the 19th
of the same month, Vav. Powell returned a reply in
Latin from Redcastle, but so fuU of barbarities, that
any school-boy of 10 years of age might have done
better. After this the doctor made a rejoynder in
elegant Latin, wherein he corrected Powell for his
false grammar, barbarisms and solecisms, and did set
a day whereon they should meet to dispute on the
aforesaid questions: but the time, place, and me-
thod, with conveniences, being discussed and delayed
from time to time, the disputation was not held till
the 23d of July following. At that time Ixjth par-
ties meeting in the company of their friends, Powell's

' [He was a friend of Mr. Hanserd Knollys, whom he
cured by praying over him, and anointing him niih oil.
Mr. H. K. seems lo have been an antinomian and favourer of
the fifth monarchy men. Sec his life (viz. H. K.) by him-
self, and continued by Wm. Ki(Hn. Baker.J

cause fell to the ground, meerly, as 'twas conceived,
lor want oi" academical learning, and the true way of
arguing. So that he being then much guilty of his
own weakness, endeavoured to recover it and his
reputation by jjutting a relation of the dispute in
the news book called tlie Perfect Diurnal, as if he
had been the conqueror. Which relation redounding
much to the dishonour of the doctor, he the said
doctor did publish a pamphlet entit. Animadvcrsion.t
on, &c. See more m George Griftith among these
writers, an. 1666.

Vav. Powell hath also written and pubUshed,

Scripture's Co7icord: or.^ a Catechism compiled
out of' the Words of the Scripture, ^c. Lond. 1647.
oct. sec. edit. Lond. 1653. fifth edit. [Edit. 1673,
Bodl. 8vo. U. 53. Th.j

Several sermons, as (1.) Christ exalted by the
Father, God tliC Father glorified, and Man's Re-
demption finished, preached before the L. Mayor of
Land. Lond. 1649. qu. &c.

Christ and Moses Excellency : or, Sion a?id Si-
nalCs Glory ; being a triplex Treathie, distin-
guishing and explaining the tzvo Covenants of the
Gospel and the Law, &c. Lond. 1650. oct.

Dialogue betxveen Christ and a Pitblican, and
Christ and a doubting Christian.

" Common-prayer Book * no
" Divine Service : or 27 Reasons
" against forming and imposing
" any human IJturgies or Com-
" mon-prayer Book, &c. Lond.
" 1661. qu. 2d edit.

" Arguments to prove, tlmt
" LiOrd-BlsJwps, Diocesan Bishops,

* Common Prayer
Bonk no divine
Service. A small
Curb lo the Bi-
shops Career, Sjp.
Loiiil. 1 600, iti 5
sk. in fjH. first
edit.

and their

S^c.
Autliority, are contrary to the Word of God, and
" so consequently unlawful, ^-c. Aho a Discovery
" of the great Disparity between Scriptural and
" Congregational Bishops, and Diocesan Bishops.
" These were printed together. Lond. 1661. qu. in
" 6 sh. 2d edit, corrected and much enlarg'd."
[Bodl. C. 13. 8. Line]

The Bird in the Cage chirping, &c. Lond. 1661,
2. oct. Written whilst he was m prison.

The Sufferers Catechism Written also when

he was in prison.

Brief Narrative concerning the Proceedings of
the Commissioners in Wales against the ejected

Clergy Written upon the spreading of a report

that he was put in the Fleet ])rison for a great part
of the revenue of the ty thes of Wales : from which
aspersion, as the brethren called it, tho' a friend of
his had written a pamphlet called Examen 6^ Purga-
men Vavasoris, an. 1653, yet not knowing how far
such a report might influence to the reproach of the
gospel he did publish the said pamiihlet.

'The young Mans Conflict with the Devil

Printed in oct. Tliis I have not yet seen.

Sinful and sinless Swearing.

An Account of his Conversion and Ministry.

powp:ll.

IIAllMAll.

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Lond. 1671. oct. 'Tis a canting and enthusiastical

1670.

piece.

J Confession of Faith concerning the holy Scrip-
tures rrinted with the said Account, as also two

little appendices.

Some gracious, experimental, and very choice

Sayings aiul Sentences. Printed also with the

said Account.

Certain Hymns. There also.

His Death-bed Expressimis.

A nczc! and use/hi Concordance of the Bible :
with the chief Acceptations and various Signifi-
cations contained therein. Also Marks to distin-
guish the Commands, Promises and Threatenings.
Lond. 167], [Bodl. 8vo. G. 147. Th.] and 73. oct.
This was mostly done by Vav. Powell, but finished
by N. P. and J. ¥. &c. Commended to the world
by Edw. Bagshaw and J. Hardcastle, and afterwards
by Jo. Owen, D. D.

Collection of tltose Scripture-Prophecies which
relate to the Call of the Jezcs, and the Glory that

shall be in the latter Days. Printed at the end

of the said Concordance, to which was afterwards
(1673) added near nine thousand scriptures omitted
in the former edition : with the addition of the

scripture similies, &c. The most ingenious Mrs.

Kath. Philipps of the priory of Cardigan hath
among her jMetry a Poem upon the double Murder
of King Charles I. in anstcer to a libellous Copy of
Rhimes made by Vav. Powell, but in what book
those rhimes are, or whether they were printed by
themselves, I cannot tell. He died in the Fleet
prison before-mention'd on the 27th of Octob. in
sixteen hundred and seventy, and was buried at the
lower or west end of the fanatical burial place near
to Bunhill and the new artillery garden in the
suburb of London, in the presence of innumerable
dissenters that then followed his corps. Over his
grave was soon after erected an altar monument of
free-stone ; on the plank of which was engraven
this epitaph ' made by his dear friend E. Bagshaw
before-mention'd. ' Vavasor Powell, a successful
teacher of the past, a sincere witness of the present,
and an useful example to the future age, lies here
interred, who in the defection of so many, obtained
mercy to be found faithful ; for which being called
to several prisons, he was there tried, and would
not accept deliverance, expecting a better resur-
rection. In hope of which he finished this life and
testimony together, in the eleventh year of his im-
prisonment, and in the 58d year of his age, Octob.
27. an. 1671.

In vain oppressors do themselves perplex.
To find out arts how they the saints may vex.
Death spoils their plots, and sets the oppressed free.
Thus Vavasor obtain'd true hberty.

» [Since worn out. Baker.]

Christ him released, and now he's joyn'd among
The martyr'd souls, with whom he cries How long !

Rev. 6. 10.'

I have been informed by M. LI.' who knew and
was ax;quaintcd with Vav. Powell, that he was wont
to say that there were but two sorts of people that
had religion, viz. the gathered churches and the
Roman catholics, and would not allow it to the
church of England men, or to the presbyterians.
He farther informed me, that when he preached, a
mist or smoak would issue from his head, so great
an agitation of spirit he had, &c. and therefore twas
usually reported by some, especially those that fa-
voured him, that lie represented the saints of old
time, that had rays painted about their heads.

[A small Curb to tJie Bishop's Career, err imposed
Liturgies tryed, the Common Prayer Book anato-
mized, and Diocecan Bishcps questioned. Lond.
1660, 4to. Rawlinsok'.

See also a Letter from liim to Mr. George Griffith
in Peck'sDrnVferaiaCwrio^a, vol. ii, lib. xiii. page 25.]

JOHN HARMAR, an excellent Grecian of his
time, was born at Churchdowne, commonly called
Chursden, near to, and in the county of, Gloucester,
educated in Wykeham's school near Winchester,
became a semi-commoner or demy of Magd. college
1611, aged seventeen years or more, being then
about a year's standing in the university, took the
degrees in arts, that of master being compleated in
1617, which was the highest academical degree he
took, tho' afterwards he was always called by the
name of Doctor Harmar. About that lime he en-
tred into holy orders, was usher of the school joy ning
to his college, and a jM-eacher for some time in these
parts. At length he became the chief master of the
free-school at St. Alban's in Hertfordshire, and thro'
some petite and pedagogical employments, (of which
the under mastership of the college school of West-
minster was one) the king's Greek professor of this
university, and rector of the donative of Ewhurst in
Hampshire ; the patron of which being a convicted
recusant, the vice-chancellor and masters did elect
and present him thereunto 30 March 1659, by
virtue of the chancellor's letters (Richard CromweU
whom he highly flatter'd) written in his behalf.
But losing those two places after the restoration of
king Charles II. he retired to Steventon in Hamp-
shire, where he mostly lived on the joynture of his
wife. He was a most excellent philologist, and a
tolerable Latin jXjet; was happy in rendring Greek
into Latin, or Latin into English, or English into
Greek or Latin, whether in prose or verse ; which
we now call transversing and transposing. But as
in these he did excell, and therefore often made use
of by scholars, so did he go beyond all that I knew
of his condition, that aifected popular applause, he

' [This is Manin Llewellin of Christ Church.]
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being of so credulous a liuniour, as to take all that
was said or done to him, to redound to his honour
and cretlit, nuuli like the hmiiour of Tom Coryate,
who was a whetstone for the wits of his time. Be-
sides all this, he Ix-ing alst) a nieer scholar, and
therefore mostly in a jxior anil shabbcd condition,
whether in his way of living, or habit, he flattered
all men and powers that were uppermost, wiiether
lawful or usurpi)ig, and endeavoured to make him-
self known to all jjatrons of learning, if it were only
for a meals meat, « or to gain ajjplause. He hath
written and publishe<l these things following,

Prams Grammatica : vertim ^ genumum De-
clinationum 4' Conjugationum Usum liqmdo indi-
cans, ^'C. cum Scntent'm <§• Facetiis. Lond. 1622,
23. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. H. 17. Art. BS.]

Janua Llnguariim: sive Methodus 6f Ratio
compendiaria ^~ facilis ad omncs L'mguas, ad La-
tinum vero maxime apcriens, &c. Lond. 1627. cju.
the sixth edit.' There again in 1631.

Eclogae Sententiarum <§• Similitudimim, e D.
Chrysostomo decerpta, Grac. ^ Lat. cum Annot.
Lond. 1622. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. O. 6. Th. BS.]

Protomartyr Brttannus. Seu Elegia sacra in
Conversicmem Sf Maj-Ujrium S. Alhani. Lond.
1630. qu. in one sheet. [Bodl. 4to. M. 3. Art. BS.]

Lexicon Etymohgicon Grwcum, junctim cum
Scapula. Lond. 1637. fol.

De Lue Venerea, Libcllwi. This I have not yet
seen, only a Latin copy of verses written in praise
[479] of it in the Poems of Tho. Philipot, M. A. of Chu-e
hall in Cambridge.

Epistola ad D. Lambertum Osbaldestomim, cut
intexitur Apologia pro honoratiss. illustrissimoque
Viro ac Domino, D. Johanne Williams Archiep.
Eborac. ^ Anglia: Primate. Lond. 1649. oct. [Bodl.
8vo. B. 22. Art. BS.]

Oratio Oxonia:liahita,in Scliola publica Lingua;
Grasccc assignata, 15 Kal. Aug. 1650. Lond. 1650.
oct. [Bodl. 8vo. Z. 19. Th. BS.] Dedicated to
Francis Rous, afterwards one of Oliver's lords.

" Serenissinw invictissimoq; Olivero Anglicc,
" Scotii Sf Hibemiw Proteetori, Academicc Oxoni-
" ensis Cancellario Excellentissimo 'Zxtyx"-?^^^''-^''

" votivum Printed on one side of a sheet of

« paper— 1653." [Bodl. Crynes 898.]

Oratio sereniss. Protectoris Elogium complectens,
OxonicE liabita quinto Kal. Mail 1654. Oxon. 1654.
qu. [Bodl. Crynes 898.]

Ad Protectorem Carmina de Pace cum Belgis

' rFor a meal's meat, or inane applause. Wood. MS.
note m Ashmole.]

' [The Bodleian copy (4to. J. 18. Art.) is called ' Editio
sexta superioribus facta 1 Elimatior, 2 Explicalior, 3 Locu-
plelior." This isdated iCaO, Londini.ex officina H. Lownes.
Harmar dedicates his book to M. William Salter, one of
his majesties carvers in ordinary, who was instructed by him
in his university studies, as long as he stayed in Oxford, and
was a neighbour to that worthy college of which Harmar
was then a part.J

sancitd. This is printed with the Oration, and both
are contained in less than two sh.

Oratio gratulatofia Jnaugurafio ninobiliss. hono-
ratissimique Domini, D. Kichardi Crmnwelli, i^c.
in Oxonioisis Academiw Cancellariatum consecrati
&c. Oxon. 1657. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. A. 1. Med.
BS.]

Oratio steliteutica Oxoniw Jiabita 14 Oct. 1657.
sive StricturcE inhujus j-Evi Delatorcs <^ Pa.iquillos,
(^ in Terra: Filios (quos vocant) eorumque similes,
Elisw ; qui in Comitiis Oxoniensibus, Mense Julio
Annuatim celebrari solitis, &c. Lond. 1658. oct.
[Bodl. 8vo. C. 509. Line] This was published pur-
posely to flatter the presbyterian and independent
heads of the university, for which he was laughed
at by the masters and juniors.

VindicitJE Academia: Oxoniensis : sive Oratio
apologetica, qua Exercitiorum Academicorum in
Trimestre Vacat. a Crimine vindicatur, Oxon. 1662.
oct. [Bodl. 8vo. C. 509. Line]

Marci Tullii Ciceronis Vita, ex optimis quibus-
que Scriptoribus delibatn, c^ in compendium reducta.
Oxon. 1662. in a little oct. in 3 sh.

Oratio Panegyrica in hotior. Car. 2. <^c. in An-
gliam, plaitdente Orbc Britannico, remigrantis,
kabita OxonicE 27 Alaii 1660. Oxon. 1660, 63. oct.
[Bodl. 8vo. C. 620. Line]

Poemata Or. ^ Lat. de Rege ^- Regina, (§• in
nuptias Rcgias. 'J'hcse ])oems are [)rinted with the
sectmd edition of the said Oration, and both are
contained in two sheets in a large oct. He also
translated from Latin into J'^nglish, (1.) The Mirror
of Humility, or txio eloquent and acute Discourses
upon t1t£ Nativity and Pas.non of Christ, &c.
Lond. 1618. oct. \Vritten by Dan. Heinsius. (2.)
From Enghsh into Greek and Latin, The lesser or
shorter Catechism, made by the Assembly of Di-
vines, " under this title, Catechcns Religionis
" Christiance compendiosior, a Conventu vencran-
" dorum magna: Britannia Theologorum 4x. Con-
" cionat. Sj-c. in Linguam Grwcam pariter ^ La-

" tinam fraducta 4" «« Luccm edita Lond.

"1659. oct." [Bodl. 8vo. C. 701. Line] Ded. to

Dr. John Conant, Vicechancellor*.

'Land. iCsg.CO.

(3.) From English into Latin, A oct. Ded. /o Rich.
Treatise or Discourse concerning Cromwell, the

Amba.SSadorS. Lond. 1664. oct. parliament, and

Written by James Howell, and ""'""■"''i' ^. if

c ^1 1 /• -»* Oxon. first edit,

one or more ot the plays ot Mar-
garet dutchess of Newcastle, for which he was well
rewarded. He paid his last debt to nature at Ste-
venton in Hampshire (near to Newbury in Berks)
on AU-saints day in sixteen hundred and seventy,
and was buried m the church-yard there, partly, if
not altogether, at the charge of Nicb. Lloyd, M.A.
and fellow of Wadham college, who always had a
singular res}x;ct for him, and ftir his most excellent
knowledge in the Greek and Latin tongues.

[Harmar wrote a long epitaph in prose on Oliver

)670.

GARDINEB.

TIIURMAN.

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protector, in Latin ; wliich I have aniong my epi-
taphs. Wood.

Dr. Ilarmar, warden of Wincliester (of whom
see tliese Athkn-e, vol. ii, col. 139.) had the living
of Droxford, (or as sir Thomas Egerton writes it,
Drokynsford) Hants. His widow married Mr.
Chamberlain of Astley, Warwickshire (near Arhury,
the seat of the Newdigate family) who left Mr.
Whitcliall, sir John Newdigate's steward, her exe-
cutor. So her Ik)x of papers came to Arbury, ' and
we kept tlie choicest.' There are among them
Letters to Harniar by sir Tlio. Egerton, lord
keeper, Bancroft, archb. of Canterb. J. Castollers-*
(of whom see Wood's Annals ii, 230) in 1587;
David Haschcliiis, to Ilarmar at Geneva ; Thcod.
Canterus; and Hob. Cecyll, 1596 and 1600.
Churton.']

RICHARD GARDINER was born, and bred
in grammar learning, within the city of Hereford,
made student of Ch. Ch. in 1607, or thereabouts,
took the degrees in arts, holy orders, and became a
quaint preaither ami orator. At length by the fa-
vour of king James I. who had been nmch pleased
with a speech that he had spoken before him in the
Scotch tone when he was deputy orator, he gave
him the reversion of the next canonry of Christ
Church ; whicli afterwards falling void by the death
of Dr. Tho. Thornton, he was installed therein
1G39, and in the year following taking the degrees
in divinity, he was made one of the chaplains in or-
dinary to kmg Charles I. In 1648^ he was thrust
out of his canonry by the parliamentary visitors,
and for twelve years together lived obscurely in
Oxon. After the return of king Charles II. he was
restoi'cd to what he before had lost, and whatsoever
he got from tiiat time to the day of his death, he
bestowed on charitable uses, his kindred, and the
college which gave him breeding. He hath pub-
lished,

Manv sermons, as (1 ) Sermon at S. Mary's an
Act Sunday 1622 ; o?i Gen. 45. 8. Oxon. 1622. qu.
[Bodl. 4to. J. 17. Th.] (2.) Sermon on Christmas
Day; on St. John 1. the heghining of' the 14</t
Verse. Oxon. 1638. qu. (3.) Sermon on Easter
Day at Oxon. in St. Pete/s Church hi the East ;
onRom. 8. 11. Oxon. 1638. qu. [Bodl. HH. 30.
Th.] (4.) Sermon concerning the Epiphany, on
Matth. 2. vcr. 2. Ox. 1639. (pi. [BtxU. 4to. U". 62.
Th.] (5.) Sermon at St. PauVs Church on his
Majesti/s Day of Inauguration, 27 March 1642.
on'\ Tim. 2.1, 2. Lond. 1642. qu. [Bodl. 4to. P.

4 [Some of ihe leiters of Castollers relate to the French
church, pciiiioning relief for it, as Wood tells us in his
Annals in >u|)ra.]

<• [Letters of bishop Fell, archbishop Sheldon, &c. are
also m the archives at Arhury ; many of very high merit :
particularly those of Fell, shewing him to be a most truly
Christian divine.]

" riC47. See Clarendon's State Papers, vol. ii, page
39!)J

40. Th.] (6.) Sixteen Sermons preacfied in the
University of Oxon. and at Court. Lond. 1659.
oct. [Bodl. Svo. G. 9. Th. BS.] The first is on
Luke 13. 23, 24. The second on John 2. 11. and
the third on Luke 7. part of the 47th verse. &c.
(7.) Sermon at Bow Church in London, on the
Annivej-sary meeting of Herefordshire Natives, 24
June 1658; rni S. John 19. 27. Lond. 1659. oct.

Concio ad Clerum in Templo B. Maria; 14 Feb.
in 1 Tim. 4. 14. Ox. 1631. qu. [Bodl. DD. 48.

Specimen Oratorium. Lond. 1653. in two sheets
in oct. In which is (1.) A Letter frcnn the Uni-
versity of Oxon to King James L to thank himjbr
his Woi-Ks which he gave to the public Library.
(2 ) Oration in the Convocation when the Members
of the University received them. (3.) Funeral
Oration on Dr. Budden, 1620. (4.) Oration in
King Henry the Ith's Chappel at Westminster, 11
Nov- 1640, 'ivhen the Dean of Chichester '' was pre-
sented Prolocutor to the Convocation. (5.) Gratu-
lation, for the King's safe Return frcym Edghill
Battel ^d Oct. 1642. This little bo<jk was pub-
lished again in 1657, [Bodl. Svo. C. 223. Line] and
in 1662 in a little oct. with the additions of (1.)
Ai-t. Bac. ex. Ed. Ch. Oxcm Frogymnasmata. (2.)
Epistolw nonnullcc e Cumulo excerpta;, Nomine
Subdecani inscriptre. (3.) Orationes <^ Epistolee,
&c. All which were again printed at Oxon 1668,
1675, &c. He died on the 20th of December in
sixteen hundred and seventy, aged 79, and was
buried in one of the isles joyning to the choir of
Christ Church cathedral, on the north side. You
may see his epitaph in Hist. <S)- Antiq. Univ. Oxcm.
lib. 2. p. 287. a. In his canonry succeeded Robert
South, D. D. and student <>f Christ Church, being
but the fourth canon of his stall since the foundation
of the cathedral by K. Hen. 8. The first was Tho.
Day, LL. B. 1546. The second was Tho. Thorn-
ton, D. D. an. 1567 ; and the third Dr. Gardiner,
1629, as before I have told you.

HENRY THURMAN, the son, if I mistake
not, of Edward Thurman rector of Hallingbury in
Essex., (who had been thrown out of his living by
the committee of religion for a scandalous and ma-
lignant priest, an. 1643.) was educated in West-
minster school, and thence elected a student of
Christ Church in 1648. Afterwards taking the
degrees in arts, and keeping pace with the presby-
terian discipline, became a j)reacher some years be-
fore his majesty's restoration ; but when he saw how
matters were like to be carried upon his return, he
became very vehement in his preachings and dis-
courses against the presby terians and inde|>endents :
So that gaining the name of one of the royal party,
had a cure bestowed on him in Sussex. He hath
written,

' [Dr. Rich. Stuart. Wanley.]

1670.

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[OXINDEN.]

OWEN.

A Defence of human Learning in the Ministry:
or, a Treatise proving tliat it is necessary a Mi-
nister (or Preacher) should be skilPd in human
Learning. Oxon. 1660. iwt. [Bodl. 8vo. B. 92.
Line] Dedicated to Dr. John Wall a rich canon
of Christ Churcli, with a flattering epistle Ix-fore it,
for which he was then rewarded, but not altogether
to his uiind. This b<Jok being published in Michael-
mas term 1659, was looked upon as a seasonable
piece of service, because the universities and mi-
nistry did then lye at stake, and had certainly gone
to pot, had not Monk come opportunely out of Scot-
land for their relief. This Mr. Thurman died
L'**'1J about sixteen hundred and seventy in Sussex, as
1070. (),^g or lyfQ of jjjj. contemporaries in Christ Church
have informed me, but where buried they could not
further add.

[Praxis Grammatica in Decalogum et in qua
omnes et singulce Voces Decalogi Jtixta Axpitetav
clariss. Virorum Wilh. Schickardi et Joh. Buoc-
torfii necnoti Domini Vict. Bythncri minutim excu-
tiuntur, eorumgue Regulis vel Exceptionihus in
Grammaticis ipsorumpropositis applicantur. Lond.
1647. 8vo. Ded. to Ric. Busby. I have one with a
manuscript dedication to Dr. Henry King, bishop
of Chichester.

Oratiuncula adConsecrationcm Templi Ashborne-
hamiani in Dioccesi Cicestrensi Julii 13, An. Dom.
1667. MS. jienes Ric. Rawlinson. Dicat. Henrico
(King) Episcopo Cicestr. Rawlinson.]

[HENRY OXINDEN, eldest son of Richard
Oxinden of Little Maydekin, in Barham, or Denton,
Kent, by Katherine Sprakeling, daugliter of sir
Adam S'pr. knight, was born January 18, 1608-9.
On his own authority he came to Oxford, June 16,
1624, but to what college or hall I have not dis-
covered, as his name does not occur in the matricu-
lations of that year. It is probable, however, that
he was a member of Corpus Christi college, where
one of both his names was entered the latter end of
1626, aged 17. He proceeded to one degree in arts
in 1627, and in 1642 married Catharine Cullen.

Oxinden wrote —

1. Religionis Funus, et Hypocritw Finis.' Lond.
1647, 4to. 'Tis a jxiem in Latin hexameters.

2. Jobus Triumphans. Lond. 1651, small 8vo.
A poem of the same description with the former.

I know not of any other production of this writer
but an epitaph in English verse on sir Anthony and
dame Gertrude Perceval, printed, from the tomb-
stone at Denton church, in Cen.nira Literaria, vol.
X, page 25, and some commendatory lines to Ross's
Mrise's Interpreter, Lond. 1653. He died, and
1670. ^^* buried, at Denton in 1670, June 17.]

' [Prefixed to this book is an eiigraved licad of the author,
not known to Granger. It is dated 164", and has been
copied by Richardson.]

CORBET OWEN, son of William Owen of
Pontsbury in Shropshire, minister, was born at
Hinton in that comity, an. 1646, educated in the
first rudiments of grammar in a private school in
Shrewsbury, under one Scofield a loyal parson
(ennilated by the town free-school imder the go-
vernment of the saints) where he profited very
much, and more might he have done, had not his
friends sent him into France, and thence into
Flanders to be touched by the then exiled king for
the cure of the king's evil, of which he was once so
lame that he went upon crutches. In the month of
May 1658 he made his first entry into Westminster
school, and in the year following he was elected one
of the king's scholars there, where 'twas usual with
him to speak 40 or 50 smooth and elegant verses ex
tempore, in little more than half an hour. In 1664
he was elected student of Christ Church, and in
short time was well vers'd in the most crabbed sub-
tilties of philosophy. After he was bach, of arts he
applied himself to the study of physic, in which he
made so wonderful a progress, that had he lived he
would havd gone beyond aU of his time in that fa-
culty. In I67O he proceeded master of arts, and
had there been an act celebrated that year (which
was put off because of the death of the dutchess of
Orleance) he would have performed the exercise be-
longing to the senior of that solemnity, and thereby
would, as 'tis probable, have shew'd himself as
excellent for oratory, as he had the year before done
for his poetry. He was the most forward person of
his age in the university for his jx)lite learning.
He was enriched with a great and happy memory, a
most accurate judgment, and with a clear and quick
wit. He hath written,

Carmen Pindaricum^ in Theatrum Sheldonia-
num, in Solemubus magnijici Operis Encwniis.
Oxon. 1669. in 4 sh. in qu. [Bodl. C. 9. 15. Line]

Divers Poems, MS. — with translations of poetry,
particularly the Otho of Monsieur de Corneille,
(often acted on the French stage) which he rendred
into English verse. He died to the great reluctancy
of all those who wei-e well acquainted with the won-
derful pregnancy of his pai'ts, about the 18th day of
January in sixteen hundred and seventy, and was 167;.
buried in the church at Cundore in Shropshire.
Soon after was a large epitaph made for him by one
that intirely loved nim ; but whether it was put

' [This lax and lawless versification (the Pindarick style)
so much concealed the deficiencies of the barren, and nat-
tered the laziness of the idle, that it immediately overspread
our Ijooks of poetry ; all ihe boys and girls caught the pleasing
fashion, and they that could do nothing else, could write like
Pindar. The rights of antiquity were invaded, and disorder
tried to break into the Latin. A poem on the Sheldonian
Theatre, in which all kinds of verse are shaken together, is
unhappily inserted in ihe Musee AngUcana:. Pindarism pre-
vailed about half a century ; but at last died gradually away,
and other imitations suppiv its place.' Samuel Johnson,
Life nf Abraham Cowley. The poem here alluded to is that
by Corbet Owen, here rogislereil.J

MENNES.

LEIGH.

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OTer his grave, I know not. The beginning is tliis.
Siste, viator, &. irrita naturic virtutisciue nioliniina,
vel risu vel lachryniis prosequcre, &c.

JOHN MENNES, the third son of Andrew
Menncs, cs(j; (by Jane his second \vif'i\ daughter of
John Blechendon, estj;) son of Mattliew Mennes,
was born in the parish of S. Peter in Sandwich in
Kent on the eleventh of May 1598, and was t>chi-
cated in grammar learning in the free-sciiool there.
In the 17th year of his age, or thereabouts, he be-
came a com. of Corn. Ch. coll. where continuing for
some years, did advance himself much in several
sorts of learning, especially in humanity and poetry
and something in history. Afterwards he became
a great traveller, a most noted sea-man, and as well
skill'd in marine affairs, in building of ships, and all
belonging thereunto, as any man of his time. In
the reign of king James I. he had a place in the
Navy-Office, and in the reign of king Charles I.
was made controller of it. In 1636 I find him a
militia-captain, and in 16.39 he was captain of a
troop of horse in the expedition against the Scots.
In 1641 I find him a vice-admiral, and by that
title cUd he receive the honour of knighthood from
his majesty at Dover in the month of February the
same year. Afterwards, upon the breaking out of
the rebellion, he closely adhered to the cause of his
majesty, and in 1612 I find him captain of a ship
called the Ilainliow for his majesty's service, while
Robert earl of Warwick was vice-admiral, but how
long he continued in that employment I cannot tell;
sure I am that when his majesty's cause declined, he
left the nation and for a time adhered to prince
Rupert while he roved on the seas against the
usurpers in England ; who being successless, he
retired to king Charles II. in exile, took his fortune
as other royalists did, yet always in a gay, cheerful
and merry condition. After the return of his ma-
jesty from his exile, he " was made governor of
" Dover-castle, and" had the place of chief comptroller
of the navy conferred on him, which he kept to his
dying day, being accounted by all that knew him to
be an honest and stout man, generous and religious,
and well skilfd in physic and chymistry. This
person, who was always jwetically given, and there-
fore his company was delightful to all ingenious and
witty men, was author of the greater part of a book
entit.

Musarum DelicicE : or, the Muses' Recreation,
containing several Pieces of poetic Wit. Lond.
1656. Oct. 2d edit. James Smith whom I have men-
tioned under the year 1667 had so great a hand in
that book that he is esteemed the author almost of
half of it. Sir John Mennes hath also written.

Epsom Wells, a Poem. Printed in qu. and

divers other poems scattered in other men's works.
He hath also extant a mock poem on sir Will.
D'avenant and his Gondibcrt ,• and did assist, as I
have been credibly informed, sir John Suckling in

the composition of some of liis poetry ; on whom,
and his fine troop of horse that ran away when they
were to engage with the enemy, he wrote a scoffing
ballad. At length he having lived beyond tlie age
of man, concluded his last day in the navy-office m
Seething-I/ane within the city of London, on Sa-
turday the 18th of February in sixteen hundred and 167}.
seventy : Whereujxjn his body was bmied at the
upper end of the chancel of the church of S. Olaves
in Hart-street, on the 27th 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 liis first wife Eliza^
beth Warham, was named Matthew, who was
created knight of the Hath at the coronation of king
Charles I. The second w:is named Thomas, who
was buried in the church of S. Peter in Sandwich,
in Jan. 1631.

EDWARD LEIGH esq; son of Hen. Leigh,
wasljorn at Shawell in Leicestershire, 24th of March
1602, being the day and year on which qu. Eliza-
beth deceased, l)red in grammar learning under one
Mr. Loe of Walshal in Staffordshire, became a com-
moner of Magdalen liall under the tuition of Wil-
liam Pemble, an. 1616, ran through the severe dis-
cipline then and there used, and proceeded in arts in
1623 : But Kefore his regency was expired, he went
to the Middle Temple and studied the common law,
(wherein he had made considerable progress) yet be-
fore he had been there two years, he, with others
were forced thence by the great plague that vio-
lently raged in London, an. 1625. So that instead
of retiring into the country, he went into France
and spent there half a year ' with groat 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 W^ill. W^heat-
ley. But he dying in 1639 our author Lelgli re-
ceded to London, where continuing till the civil dis-
tempers 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. After-
wards, iqx)n a vacancy, he was appointed one of the
house of commons to sit in the assembly of divines
(as did Phihp earl of Pembroke, William \isc. Say,
live, of the house of lords) with Job. 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 [483]

' [Divers of the Proverbs, aCierwards printed, were he
sajs • observed by my sclfe when 1 was in France.']

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9^

custos rotulorum for the county of Stafford, and af-
terwards was nunibred among those preirbyterian
meuilK'r.s that were turned out of the house of com-
mons by tliearmy 6 Defemlwr 1048, and imprisoned
thereujjon in the public iim called the KingVHead
in the Strand. P'roni which time till towards the
king's restoration (wlien he with the rest of the
ejecti-d members then living, were restored by general
Monk to their places in jiarliament) he had little
else to do but to write books, the titles of which,
among others, which he wrote before that time, do
follow.

Selected and clioice Observation-^ conceiii'ing 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 fol-
lowed, were made by Henry Leigh the author's
eldest son, master of arts, of Magdalen hall, which
being printed with the former at Lond. 1657 in oct.
[Bodl. 8vo. L. 13. ArtL BS.] had this title put to
them, Analecta Cxsarurn Romanorum.' After-
wards they were illustrated with their several effigies

and coins Lond. 1664. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. M. 75.

Art.] and in another edit, that came out in 1670. in
oct. they had Observations lif' the Greek Emperors
added to them by the same hand.

Treati.se of Divine Promises, in 5 Books. Lond.
1633, [Bodl. 4to. W. 23. Th.] there again [the
second time, 1641, Bodl.Svo. L. 98. Th.] the third
time 1650, and the fourth in 1657. oct. [I3odl. 8\'o.
L. 14. Th. BS.]

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. [Bodl. D. 3. 18. Th.] In which book,
the author expressing his great skill in the lan-
guages, was the reason therefore why the learned
Usher primate of Ireland had a respect and kindness
for him.

' [Analecta de XII Primis Caesnnhus. Select andchoyce
Ol'servatio"' concerning the twelve first Cccsars Emperours of
Itnmt. The second Edition corrected and jnlnrged, and an
Aduertisement to the Header, with six more Emtierours an-
nexed thereunto. By Edward Leigh, a Member of the House
fj Caramons. Cerlaine choice French Proverbs, alphabeti-
cally disposed and Englished, added also by the same Author.
Printed at London by Moses Bell for Mathcio Walbancke at
Grates Inne Gate. Ib47. small 8vo. Bodl. 8vo. L. 77. Art.
' Ex (lono aulhoris.']

^ [Some copies had the following title : Select and choyce
Observations containing all the Romanc Emperours. The
first eiahteen by Edward Leigh M.A. of Magdalene Hall in
Oxford, the others added by his Son Henry Leigh, MA. also
of the same House. Certain choyce French Proverbs, alpha-
betically disposed and Englished, added also by the same
Edward Leigh. London Printed by Roger Daniel, for John
fFilli'ims, &c. U).")?. The book is deJicaled by the son to
his father, in which dedic. he returns thanks for the liberal
education he has arquired ' by a double apprentiship in two
famous and flourishing societies,' Magdalen hall, and the
Middle Temple.]

Suppleinent to the Critica sacra. Lond. 1662.
fol.

A Treatise of Divinity in three Books. Lond.
1646. qu.

The Sainfs Encovragement in evil Times : or.
Observations concerning the Martyrs in general.
Lond. 1648. and 1651. <Kt. [BotU. 8vo. L. 99- Th.]

Annotations on all the New Testament. Lond.
1650. fol. [B«ll. BS. 158.]

A philohg-icul Commentary : or, an Illustration
of the most obvious and useful Words in the Law,
with their Distinctions and divers Acceptations, as
they arc found as well in Reports Anticnt and Mo-
dern, as in Records and Memorials never pritttcd.
Lond. 1652. [Bodl. 8vo. A. 12. Jur. BS.] 58. 71.
oct. " Dedicated to Will. LTsle, esq; one of the
" lords commissioners of the great seal of England
" 1652."

A System or Body of Divinity in 10 Books.
Lond. 1654. [Bodl. U. 1. 2. Th. Seld.] and 62. fol.

Treatise of Religion and Learning in 6 Books.
Lond. 1656.' fol. [Bodl. BS. 152.] Which book,
lying dead on the bookseller's hands, had this title
put to it in 1663. Fa:lix Consortium: or, a fit
Conjuncture of Religion and Learning, in one en-
tire Volume, consisting of six Books, &c. J'rom
which treatise William Crowe of Suffolk, master of
the free-school at Croydon in Surrey, took many
things when he composed his Elenchus Scriptorum
in sacram Scripiurum, Sec. Lond. 1672. oct.

Choice French Proverbs. I^ond. 1657.64. oct.

Annotations on tlic five Poetical Books oftlic old
Test. viz. Job, Psalms, Proverbs, EcclcsiaMes and
Canticles. Lond. 1657. fol. [Botll. BS. 85.]

Second Consideraticms of the High Court of
Chancery, &c. Lond. 1658. in 2 sh. in qu.

England described : or, the Counties and Shires
thereof britfiy handled. Lond. 1659. oct. [Bodl.
8vo. L. 11. Art. BS.] Copied mostly from Camb-
den.

Choice Observations an all the Kings of England
firom the Saxons to the Death of King Charles I.
Lond. 1661. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. L. 12. Art. BS.]

Three Diatribes or Discourses, \. Of Travel. 2.
of Money. 3. Of Measuring, ^-c. Lond. 1671.
oct. [Bodl. 8vo."0. 46. Art.] This book is called
in another edition 1680. The Gcntleman'^s Guide, in
three Discourses, &c. He also published The Ma-
gistrate''s Authority, in two sermons. Lond. 1647.
qu. penn'd by Christopher Cartwright bachelor of
divinity and minister at York.* To which our au-

* [Chr. Cartwrighte coll. S. Petri, admissus in matr.
acad. Cant. Dec. 13, 1617.

Chr. Cartwright coll. S. Petri A. B. I62O. A.M. IG24.
Reg. Acad.

Jun. 29, 1617, Ch. Cartwright Eboraccnsis adni. fliit
pensionarius coll. S. Petri Cant, promagistro Raymcnt. Reg.
Coll. S. Petri. Natus erat in parochia S" Michilis voc.
Belfrecrs in civ. Ebor. Obiit an. l6'58. Vide Crowsum.

Ch. Cartwright was of Peter-house in Cambr. See Leigh
Of Religion and Learning, paj^c 165.

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930

thor Loijvh 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 iijjon any business that doth con-
cern 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 tlie chancel of the church of Rushall near
to Walshall, a market town in Staftbrdshire l)efore-
mention'd, as I have been informed by letters written
to me by his son Henry.

[I suppose, as he was one of the presbyterian ex-
cluded members, that he bore no good will to the
protector, whom it is probable he had in his eye at
page 6 of his Trtatiie of' Reliffion and Learning,
■when speaking of the many learned advocates for ,
Christianity at its first establishment, he thus delivers
liimself — ' The wise (he means the more learned)
lieathens did call the Christians idiots, and re-
proached them as illiterate : but the atheist cannot
name any age wherein the heathen had an Oliver to
oppugne our Christian profession, but we had a
Rowland to defend it.'

I think Mr. Wood does not do him justice in say-
ing so little of a person to whose labours probably
he was under obligations. The Treatise of Reli-
gion and Learning is full of biographical researches,
and though wrote in a puritannical method, and
violent against every thing but Calvinism, has many
curious passages in it. Coi.e.

The following lines by this author are, it is sup-
posed, now printed for the first time from a ma-
nuscript in the Bodleian.'

Vjion the Mar rage of an over-aged Couple.

It was that time, when the world's glorious lanipe
Vs'd to disperce the night's vnchearfuU dampe ;
The sullen niorne stole out of Thithon's bed
Mask't in a cloud, and scorn'd to shew her head.
The sun, iiist as he climb'd the early East
In a blacke tempest hid his golden crest :
No warbling bird vouchsaft to chaunt one lay
To welcome such a dire, vnhallowed day.
No nightingale, in' th' neighbouring wo(xls,did ringe,
Nor would the larke her sprightly mattens sing.
But 'stead of these were heard tlie balefuU owle,
The hoarse night raven, and the vulter fowle,
The howling wolfe, and yelling of mad dogges,
And, to all these, a quire of crokinge frogs.
Great nature felt a secret violence
And wittnesst it by vncouth accidents.
The day came slowlier on then it was vs'd
The yeare's sett seasons too were now confus'd.
Precipitated winter headlong reeles
And makes such haste, he treads on summer's heeles,

CI). Cartwriglit coll. Petri scripsit Carmina in Ohilum
Annce Regina, excusa 1619.

S •ciiis coll. S. Petri l62.'j. Scri])sil in nuptias Caroli rcjiia.
Baker.]

5 [Rawl. Poetry, Numb. II6.]

Vol,. III.

Castingc his snowy mantle o're the earth
That yet was dcck'd with ))art of Flora's birth.
All things disorder'd were ; and so 'twas fitt
For sucli a c/)U])le as this day past knitt.
No deity propitious all the while
On these vnseemely two vouchsaft a smile :
Hymen himselfe came forth vnwillingly
As shamed of such a pairc, and vext to sec
His s<icred riles so mock'd : his torch did throw
A faint and glim'ring light, being wasted low
Euen to a snuff'e ; the smoake that from it flew
Had chaing'd his yellow to a sabler hew.
No graces there, nor other nimphes were scene.
Nor any servant of the Cyprian queene
T'addorne the pomj)e, which now appeares in view,
A dissolate and ill-presaging crew.
The very flowres, where so ere they went,
Streight blasted, both their colour lost and scent.
A bride crept forth, whose tawny speckled skin
Was able to allay the hottest sinne
That raignes in younger bloods : her head was bald,
All ouer-growne with fillthy scurfe and scald :
Yet or'e her hollow temples there was made
With borrowed haire a sad and gloomey shade.
Shee seem'd to eate her lipes, her teeth each one
Out of hor rotten gumnies long since were gone.
Her poys'nous breath did so attainte the sence
As plainely shew'd the cause o' th' pestilence.
Like emptie bladders hung her loathsome breasts
Withei-'d and dri'd ; no better was the vest,
Which I'le conceale ; all if I should relate
'Twould draw upon me the whole sexe's hate.
But now the bridgroome comes propt by a couple
Of stronger shes, that saue his stale that trouble.
His greisly clfelocks on his shoidders lay
Poudred with dandruft'e ('twas his wedding day)
His nodding head kejit time with quicke dispatch,
Much like the restlesse ballance of a watch.
Deepe suncke in the hollow pitts were his dull eies
Which watred the drie soyle that round them lies.
His gastly rawlwn'd cheekes made him appeare
Like a Death's heath, not one poore tooth was there
Vpon his forehead's parchmant, well you might
Without offence, memento niori wright.
He was a colledge of diseases, all
A mouing corse and walking hospitall.
Thus fittly matcht slowly they crawle alonge
(Reuil'd and laught att by the gaping thronge)
T' the church, whose leane and hunger staruedwombe
Rather expects their Ixidies in a tombe.
And here no reuerend preist api^eares that might
The sacred cJiurche's solemne forme recite.
But a young motly Leuit's changling face.
Who mutt'ring ore (with an ilfauour'd grace)
Some idle wcjrds, straight ioynes their palsied hands
In his fanatickc, new-contriucd, bands.
So home they come. The tables ready spread.
And now (a Ipng and tedious grace being said)
Those that had teeth, did oate, our turtles supp't.
No mirth apijcar'd, their presence did comipt
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All joy and meriment ; it seem'd to he

No marrapc, but a funcrali obscxjuie.

Some card to dance, the l)ridegr<x)me''s gout cries no.

The bride's old aches scarce will let her goe.

Here's no repining att the lingring sunne,

No wishing that long-lcxiked-fbr night would come,

Vnlesse their wearied lx)nes doe call for rest : —

And see ! the brid's scharpe chinn knockes at her

breast,
The bridgroome snors, cadg'd in his basket chaire,
So both at last vndrest for pittie are.
Now in the nuptiall bed (strange prodigie)
Cold earth to earth, and dust to (fust they lie.
Here needs no nutes be scattred 'mongst the Iwyes
To drowne the virgine's shreikes with Towder noyse,
Unlesse the bride's shrill cough, or bridgroomes

cries
You would conceale, when the crampe rackes his

thighes.
Wrapt vp ni rug, like Greeneland beare, they lie
Suckmg their clawes, they fight for cloathes by

and by.
Could tliey but sture themselues — ^but 'twill not bee,
They'r fixt, like .some tombe's marble imagerie;
No kindly warmth their amorous breasts conioynes,
No action from stiffc limbes, or icy loynes.
Least they should freze togeather now I feare,
And so, being ioyn'd, loue's counterfeit appcare.
O ! what a happy offspring will arise
From the congresse of these antiquities :
As when a peice of stone or timbei", that
Long kist the earthe's cold surface, lying flatt.
At last remoucd, a swarme of insects small,
Worme, woodlicc, eare wiggs, tliere ingendred, crawle,
So from this loathsome paire, vnkindjy action.
Will spring an issue bred of putrefaction :
Egiptions plagues, and such diseases new
(As not Hippocrates nor Galen knew)
To vexe the world in its decrepit age.
And murder more than the sword's bloody rage.
Curses so strange pursue this nuptiall
That after times will call' it man's second fall :
And we esteeine these two, God's iron hand
Wherewith he scoiii-ges our rebellious land.
Their fatall house, like some fell dragon's den,
Abhor'd shall be, and shunned of all men.
Till milder heauen, to preuent the death
Of all mankind, stops their invenom'd breath.]

EDMUND STANTON, son of sir Franc. Stan-
ton knight, was born " at Woburn" in Bedford-
shire, became a commoner of Wadliam coll. in the
lieginning of the year 1615, aged about 14 years,
was admitted scholar of Corp. Ch. coll. on the 4th
of Oct. the same year, and afterwards fellow " 22
Mar. 1616." and M. of A. About which time
taking holy orders, he became minister of Bushy in
Hertiortlshire : but his title to the rectory being
weak, he changed it with Dr. Seaton for the church
of Kingston ujwn Thames in Surrey. In 1634 he

took the degrees in divinity, and being puritanically
affected, he sided with the presbyterians in the be-
ginning of the civil distemjx'rs, was made one of the
assembly of ilivines 1643 became a frequent preacher
within the city of London, and sometimes before the
members of the long parliament. In 1648 he was,
for the services done for the cause, constituted pre-
sident of C. C. C. by the authority then in being,
and so long as he kept that place he shewed himself
a zealous brother for the carrying on of the presb}'-
rian discipline. Soon after he took the oath called
the engagement, as before he had done the cove-
nant; but ujKjn the restoration of king Charles II.
being ejected to make r(X)m for him, whose bread he
had eaten for 12 years, he retired to a market town
in Hertfordshire called Rickmansworth, where exer-
cising his function among the brethren till S. Bar-
tholomew's tlay, an. 1662, was then silenced for non-
conformity.^ He hath published.

Several sermons as (J) liu pes Israelis : the Rock
of Israel, preached at S. Margaret s Westminster
before the House of Commons at their Monthhj Fast
24 April 1644,- on Dettt. 32. 31. Lond. 1644. qu.
(2) Phincas''s Zeal in Execution of Judgment, Fast
Sermon he fore the House of Ijyrds, 30 Oct. 1644;
on Psal. 106.30. Lond. 164.5. qu. (3) Scrmmat
Great Milton in the County of Oxon, 9 Dec. 1654,
at the Funeral of Mrs. EUzaheth Wilkinson late
Wife of Dr. Henry Willinson Principal of Magda-
len Hall ; on\ flus. \. \^. Oxon. 1659. qu. To
which is added 1. A Narrative of her godli/ Life
and Death, 2. Verses and Elegies on her Death,
made hy certain Presh/terian Poets of the Univer-
sity of Oxon, viz. John AVallis D. D. William Car-
pender M. A. of Christ Church, Edm. Hall of Pem-
broke coll. Dr. Henry Wilkinson the husband, &c.
He the said Dr. Stanton hath other sermons extant
which I have not yet seen.

Dialogue or Discourse betzceen a Mi7iister and a
Straiiger. Lond. 1673. oct.

Treatise of Christian Cmiference. Printed

with the Dialogue. He concluded his last day at
Bovingden in Ilertfordshire (after he had exercised
his gifts there in private for some years) on the 14th
day of July in sixteen hundred seventy and one, and
was buried in the church there. His life, such as
'tis, was written by one Richard Mayow ; wherein
the reader may satisfy himself more of the d<K'tor,
but not so full}', as may be wished, unless he reads
the appendix to it, written by William Fulman of
C. C. C. Sam. Clark in his collection of printed
lives 1683, involves all or most of that written by
Mayow, without taking any notice of the appendix,
either because he had not seen it, or that it was too
satyrical, or made much against the doctor, as it
doth with unquestionable veracity. Mayow was

s [And aficr preaching in several conventicles at London,
became pasinr nf a celebratetl meeting-house at Sailer's hall,
which was built on purpose for him. Watts.]

1071.

STANTON.

CASAUIiON.

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sometime minister of Kingston upon Thames, but
ejected thence for nonconformity 1662, and was
autlior of a book called^ Treatise of Closet Prayer.
I'r. in oct.'

" [KPrnTETXOAOriA: OT a plain Answer to I his practical
Question, what Course may a C/iristian take tn have his Heart
quickncd and enlarged in the Duty of Secret Prayer ? LoiiJ.
iCOt, lamo. In two sheets. This little volume- contains a
great deal of sound sense ami excellent advice. On the sub-
ject of a proper time for prayer our author's words arc as fol-
loiv : ' When we tind our hearts in a settled and composed
frame, then also it is a fil season for secret prayer, when (as
Davids) our hearts are fixt, and not pre-occupied with any
secular matters. To pray at another time is like playnig
upon an instrument that is out of tune ; what harsh and un-
plea^ins melody doth it make ? Many when they go to seek
God, they have their heart to seek. Few can say with
David that they have found their hearts lo pray. We render
it he found in his heart, but it may be read, he found his
heart to pray a prayer unto God. tlsually in the morning
the mind is most composed ; then a man meets with least
diversions in duty ; the evenings repose hath in f;reat part
discharged the mind of all tliat did distract it; and it were
well if we would be with God as soon as we awake ; if we
did otl'er up to him the first fruits of every day ; if as soon as
we lift onr bodies off our beds, we did in pra\er lift up our
souls to God. This was David's maimer, Fsal. 5. 3. Under
this head I will suggest these three cautionary rules. 1.
Do not take prayer in hand when you have any other
matter in hand : if so, your attendance upon God must
needs be with distraction, and your heart will be stollen from
you do what you can. Set by all worldly occasions when
you set about this duly : say to them as Abraham did to his
young men, stay you here while I go aside to worship God.
2. Do not ordinarily go to prayer when your anger is stirred,
and your mind full of perturbations ; if you do, lis ten loone
but you will offer up the sacrifice of a fool, and speak unad-
visedly with your lips. The Apostles advice is, that we lift
up to God holy hands without wrath. God was not in the
wind, nor in the eartliquake. nor in the fire that passed by
Elijah, bill in the still small voice. And you must be of
still and quiet spirits if you will see, or find, him. 3. Do
not usually engage in prayer uhcn you are enelin'd to sleep
He drowsincsse ; if so, yon are like to make but <lull and
drowsie work of it. Tlie rebukes of Christ could not awaken
his disciples to prayer when there hearts were heavy and
asleep. You must be wakeful! when yon pray, if you would
watch unto prayer. A second help is this. Allot and set
out a due proportion of time for this duty. It is not enough
to choose a fit time for prayer, but you must allow a sufficient
time 10 prayer. No service whether secular, or spiritual can be
done well, unless you allow a due proporiion of time for the
doing of it. How is prayer huddled and slubbered over
many times, for want of this? you think of m iking an end
as soon as you begin, you arc straightened in your prayers
because you are straightened in your time. Qu. If you
should ask. How much time must a Christian s'.t apart in a
day for secret prayer? Ans. In my answer, I must have
respect to the callings, and conditions of Christians; that
time is sufficient for one, which is not sufficient for another.
Tis observable that under the law there were different sacri-
fices for the rich, and for the poor ; God required that mens
sacrifices, should hold sime proportion with their aliilities.
And by parity of reason, God looks that the rich, and those
that have liitic else to doe, should double the time of the poor
in prayer, and of those whose callings call for their continuall
attendance. And yet I must add this too, let a mans condi-
tion be neier so mean, and let his imploymeiit be never so
urgent, it will not be a sufficient apology for his neglecting,
or curtailing tlie duly of prayer. Time uiu>t be redeem'd, and
that for this very end, to hold communion with God in this
duty.']

[1627, 19 Aj)r. Edm. Staunton A. M. institutus
in eccl. de Busny com. Hertf. ad pres. Hen. Ewer
de Medio Templo, Lond. armig. Reff. LoniUm.

Geor. Seton S. T. P. ad eand. eccl. 19 Dec. 1681,
atl jires. Car. regis, ratione simonia;. Reg. Land.

First afterntKjn lecturer at Whitney. At Bushy
he married a daughter of Mr. Scudamore of Wal-
ford. Kennet.]

MERIC CASAUBON son of the most learned
Isaac, son of Arnold, Casaubon by Joanna Rosseau
his wii'e; which Isaac married the daughter of
Henry son of Robert Stephen, both eminent men of
their times, as their works manifest. This person
Mer. Casaubon whom we are now to mention, who
was descended from both sides of learnetl parents,
was born within the city of Geneva in France, in
the month of September 1-599, and at 9 years of
age being brought into England by hi.s father, was
instructed by a private master till 1614, at which
time he was sent to Ch. Ch. in this university;
where being put under a most careful tutor Dr.
Edward a Meetkirk the king's Hebrew professor,
was soon after elected a student of that house, and
afterwards making a very considerable progress in
logic and philosophy, took the degrees in arts, that
of master l)eing com})Ieate(l in 16^1, at which time
he was much noted for his sufficienccs in the arts
and sciences. In the .same year, tho' he was then
young, he published a book in defence of his father,
against the calumnies of a certain Roman catholic,
as I shall tell you in the catalogue following :
Which making Inm known to king James I. he ever
afterwards hatl a gootl opinion of him. 'I'liat book
brought him also into credit abroad, especially in
France, wlience he had offers and invitjitions for
some promotion there, his godftither Meric de Vic
(.sometime governor of Calais) being then, or soon
after, lord keeper of the great seal of that kingdom.
The next book that he published was Viiidicatio
J'tifris, &c. written by command of king James in
defence of his father and the church of England
against the puritans of those days, of which book
he gave a farther account in his Nccessitij of Re-
JbrmatUm. About that time, he being beneficed in
Somersetshire, (at Bledon) by the favour of Dr.
Andrews bislioj) of Winton, and bachelor of divinity
did chiefly design to go tm where his father had left
off, against Baroiihis hit Annuls, but was diverted
by some accidental occasions or provocations. At
length when he came to maturity of years for such
a work, and had acquainted archbishop Laud his
great friend and patron with his design, (who was
very ready to place him conveniently in Oxon or
London, according to hi.s desire, to the end that he
might be furnished wltii books necessary for such a
purpose) the troubles and divisions began in Eng-
land : so that he, having no certain place, was forced
to sell a good j)art t)f liis books, and in coucliision
after 20 years sufferings, more or less, he was giown
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so old and crazy in body, that he could not expect
to live many years, and thereupon was forcea to
^ve over that proiect. Some yejus after his publi-
cation of the said two Ixxjks, he was made preben-
dary of Canterbury, (by the favour of Dr. Laud, if
I mistake not) rector of Ickham 4 miles distant
thence, and in 1636 he was actually created doctor
of divinity, by command from his majesty, when he
and his queen were entertained by the muses there.
In tJie beginning of the civil war that followed, he
lost all his spiritual i)romotions and lived retiredly
with that little lie had left. In 1649 one Mr.
Greaves of Greys-Inn, an intimate ac(juaintaiice
with our author Casaitbon, brought him a message
from Oliver Croniwtll then lieutenant general of the
parliament forces to bring him to Whitehall to
confer with him about matters of moment, but his
wife being tiien lately dead, and not, as he said,
buriedj he desired to be excused. Afterwards
Greaves came again, and our author being in some
disorder for it, fearing that evil might follcjw, he
desired him to tell liim the meaning of the matter,
but Greaves refusing, went away the second time.
At length he returned again, and told him, that the
lieutenant general intended his good and advance-
ment, and that his particular errand was that he
would make use of his pen to write the history of
the late war, desiring withal that nothing but mat-
ters of fact be impartially set down, kc. To whicii
he returned answer, that he desiretl his liumble
service and hearty thanks be returned for that great
honour ilonc unto him, and withal, that he was un-
capable in several respects for such an employment,
and could not so impartially engage in it, l)ut that
Jiis subject would force him to make such reflections
as would be ungrateful, if not injurious, to liis lord-
ship. Notwithstanding tiiis answer, Cromwell seemed
so sensible of his worth, that tho' he could not win
him over to his desires, yet he acknowledged a great
respect for him, and as a testimony thereof, he or-
dered that upon the first demand there should be
delivered three or four hundred pounds by a certain
bookseller in London (whose name was Cromwell)
whensoever his occasions should recpiire, without
acknowledging any benefactor at the receipt of it.
But this offer, as I have been informed by our
author''s son John Casaubon a chirurgion of*^ Can-
terbury, he scorned to accept, tho' his condition was
then mean. At the same time it was );)roposed by
the said Greaves (who belonged to the library at S.
James''s) that if our author would gratify liim in
the foregoing re<]uest, Cromwell would restore imto
him idl liis father's bcMiks, which were then in the
royal librai-y there, (given by king James, who had
invited him into England) and withal a patent for
300/. per an. to be paid to the family so long as the
youngest st)n of Dr. Isaac Casaid)ou should live ;
but tliis also was refused. Not long after there was
a proposal made by the then Sweetlish ambji-ssculor
in England from Cliristina queen of Swealland to

our author M. Casaulwn, whereby he was invited
by the said queen into her country to have the
government of one, or ins))ection of all her univer-
sities, and for an encouragement slie proj)ose<l not
only an honourable salary for himself, but offered
to settle 300/. jier an. upon his eldest son during
Ufe: But this also was waved, with full design to
spend the remainder of his days in England. After
the king's I'eturn he wtis restored to his spiritualities,
and went on in writing books, which he continuetl
almost to his last. He was a general scholar, but
not extraordinary in any one sort, imless in criti-
cisms, wherein liis fatlier's notes might probably
have set him up. He was also a religious man,
loyal to his prince, exemplary in his life and con-
versation, and very charitable to the poor. The
writings and translations which he published were
many, as the catalogue following will tell you.

Pietas contra Maledlcos patrii Nominis 4" Reli-
gimiis Hostes. Lond. 1621. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. Z. 23.
Th. Scld.]

Vindicatio Patris adver-ius Impostor em, qui Li-
brum ineptum <!^ imphtm De Origin'k Iuolatrij:
nuper sub Isanci Caiauboni Nomine puhlicavit.^
Lond. 1624. 25. in 8 sheets in qu. Which book
()/' the Original (>/' Idolatry, was translated out of
a French copy by Abr. Darcy, (Isaac Casaubon
having been dead about 10 years before) and was
dedicated to prince Charles, and presented to king
James and all the lords of the council. It is said
to have been written before Isaac Casaubon was
born, but liis name being fraudulently inserted in
the title page, Meric the son who was then a stu-
dent of Ch. Ch. informed his majesty by letters of
the wrong done to his father by making him the
author of such a bo<jk contrary to his genius and
constant profession, being full of impertinent alle-
gations out of obscure and late authors, whom his
father never thought worthy the reading, much less
the using their authority. After his majesty's
perusal of that letter he was mucli incensed at the
matter, and Dr. Mountaigne bishop of London hat! »
much ado to make his chaplain's peace for licensing
it, the printer and translator being for some time
kept in prison. Yet after all this, the same trans-
lation A\as printed at Amsterdam, with a justificatory
preface of the former edition, to make the book
more vendible for tiieir own profit, tho' discredit to
the memory of others. He the said ]Mer. Casaubon
hath also written,

Nota- 1^- Emendationes in Optatum Afrum Mile-

' [77(c Vindicalion or Tiffence of Isaac Casauhcn against
Ihnse ImlHislors thai lalrh/ pullished an impious mid unlearned
Pamphlet in/i/ulrd The Or/gina/ (f Idoliilries ISfc. under his
Name, by Meric Casaubon his Sonne. Published bi/ his Maj.
Command. Lond. 1()24. 4to. Dedicated lo the kii)g and
prince.

liiidoin findicalio, Laline, in /-7/0 et Epislvtis, iVc. Isaaci
Camuhoni, p. I I.i, (J, 7 &c. viz. ad calcem libri. Baker.]

'J Tho. [•'ullcr in his Church Hist. lib. 10. scci. vii, par.
17, 18, &c.

CASAUBON.

938

vitaiti Eplscopum de Schlsmate Donat'tstarum.
Lond. 1631. oct. [Rc.dl. 8vo. «. 121. Line]

Translation out of Greek into Engi'mh of, and

Notes npoji, Marc. Aurel. Antoninus his Medi-

[487] tations concerning himself. Loiitl. 1634. 35. qu.

llevised and corrected Lond. 1664. oct. 3d

edit. &c.

Treatise of Use and Custom, in Things natural,
civil, and divine. Lond. 1638. qu. [Bodl. 4U). U.
2. Jur. Seld.]

The Use of daily public Prayers in three Po-
sitions. Lond. 1641. qu.

Not^ 4" Emendationes in Marci Antonini Impe-
ratoris de seipso ^ ad seip.nini Libros XII. Lond.
1643. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. A. 8. Art. Seld.] Gull. Xy-
lander did first of all make the said book public in
Gr. and Lat. Which version our author did mend
in many places, and made it new, &c.

The original Cau.^e of temporal Evils. Lond.
1645. qu. [Bodl. AA. 17. Th. Seld.]

Discourse concerning Christ his Incarnation and
Exina/iition. Lond. 1646. qu. Before which is an
introduction Concerning the Principles of Christ-
ianity and Divinity.

De Vcrborum Usu, Sf accuratcv eorum Cogni-
tionis Uiilitate, Diatriba. Lond. 1647. in tw. [Bodl.
. 8vo. C. 75. Art. Seld.]

De quattior Unguis Commentationis Pars prior :
qiiw, de Lingua Hebraica: ^ de Lingua Suxonica,
&c. Lond. 1650. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. C. 37. Art. Seld.]
The author had not opportunity of finishing the
other two tongues, Gr. and Lat.

Some Annotations cm the Psalms and Proverbs
Done at the earnest recjuest of certain book-
sellers, whereof our author hath given a farther ac-
count in the first part of Credulity, p. 106. Which
Annotations were in the last edit, of the Assembly's
Annotations on the Bible, reprinted with some ad-
ditions.

Not(Z in Hieroclem de Providentia <^ Fato.
Lond. 1655. oct. []3odl. 8vo. A. 89. Line]

Treatise concerning Enthusiasm, as it is an

Effect of Nature ; but is mistaken by many for

either divine Inspiration, or diabolical Pos,iession.

Lond. 1655. [Bodl. 8vo. C. 43. Th. Seld.] 56. oct.

Translation into Eng. of and Notes on, Luc.

Floras Hist, of the Rirmans. Lond. 1658. 59. oct.

Notw in Epicteti Enchii-idion.

Notce in Cebetis Tabulam.

Notve in Paraphrasin Enclii-

ridii.

De nupera Homeri Editione Lugdund-Batavica
Hnckiana Di-iscrtatio. Lond. 1659. oct. [Bodl. 6vo.
C. 209. Art. Seld.]

Dissertatiunctda .ntper Loco Homcrico, quo Dei
in Hominem tarn Mentes quant Fortunas Imperium
asseritur. Printed with the former book, 1659.

Vindicatio7i of the Lord's Prayer as a formal
Prayer, and by Chrisfs Institution to be used by
Chri.itians as a Prayer, &c. Lond. 1660. [Bodl.

Lond. 1659. oct.
[Bodl. 8vo. F.
52. Line]

8vo. B. 13. I^inc] The first occasion of writing
this treatise, was the relation of a. strange affront
done publicly unto CMirisl, or, if you will, more
punctually to the Lord''s prayer in the chief church
of Oxon, by one (Dr. John Owen) that liad under
the usurj)ing powers the chief govermnent of that
famous university from 1652 to 1657. Concerning
the hcinousness of which affront, viz. by putting on
his hat when the Lord's ])rayer was re|x.'ating by
the preacher, see in Mr. Thomas I^ong's book entit.
No Prote-Htant hut Dissenter's Plot, &.c. p. 167, 168.
See also in Apologia pro Ministris in Angl'ui
cjectis : written, as 'tis said, by Mr. Hen. Hickman,
who blames him also for it. Tliis action is denied
by Dr. Owen that he ever did it, in a letter ' to Dr.
Lew. du Moulin, but therein he doth err much, for
several now living in Oxon know it well enough.

A King and his Subjects unhappily fallen out,
and happily reconciled, in a Serm. at Caiiterbury ;
on Hosea 3 Vcr. 4. 5. Lond. 1660. qu.

The Question to iclwm it belonged antiently to
])reach, and whether all Priests might or did. Dis-
cussed out of Antiquity, as also xohat Preaching is
properly. Ijond. 1663. qu.

Notw 4' Emendationes in Diog. Laertium de
Vitis, t5"c. Philosophorum. Lond. 1664. fol. [}?(k11.
C. 2. 4. Art.]

Of the Necessity of Reformatioin in, and before.
Lathers Time, occasioned by some z'irulent Books
written by Papi.sts, hut especially by that entit.
Labyrinthus Cantuariensis. Lond. 1^64. qu.

Answer concerning the neto Way (f ItfallilnlUy,
lately devised to uphold the Roman Cause ; the
holy Scriptures ; the antient Fathers and Councils
laid aside, against J. S. (the Author of Sure foot-
ing) his Letter lately published. Lond. 1665. qu.
The said letter by J. S. that is Joii. Sargeant, con-
tained exceptions against some passages in the
former book, viz. Of the Nece-isity, &c. wliich letter
was printed at the end of Surefooting in Christ-
ianity, and follows the four appendixes relating to
Dr. Tho. Pierce, Dr. Dan. Whitby, Dr. J. Stil-

lingfleet and Dr. Jer. Taylor Pnnted 1664 in a

large oct.

Nota; in ducts posteriores Terentii Comadias.
Amstel. 1669. in tw. [Bodl. 8vo. B. 234. Line]

Letter to Dr. Pet. du Moulin D. D. and Pre-
bendary of Canterbury concerning natural e.rperi-
mental Philosophy, and some Books lately set out
about it. Canibr. 1669. in 5 sh. in qu.

Of Credulity and Incredidity in Things natural

and civil, &c. in tzco Parts The first was

printed at London 1668. oct. The second in Things
divine and spiritual, was printed at the same place
also 1670. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. Z. 31. Art.] In this
last ]iart he takes a view of John Wagstaff 's book
entit. TJie Question of Witchcraft debated. Lond.

' See in Dr. Jo. DurcH's book entit. Vmdicice Ecclts. •
Angl. Cap. 3. p. 33.

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CASAUBON.

IRONSIDE.

1669. oct. But tlicsc- two parts lying dead on the
bookseller''s li.nnds, thev printed a new title to tlicni
running thus, A Trcnt'ise, proving Sptritu, WUchcs
and supernatural Operationx bi/ pregnant Instances
and Ei-idcnccf, &c. l.ond. 1G72. oct. the author
being then dead.

Nottr hi Poli/bhim. .\nistel. 1G70. oct. in the
third vol. published by Jac. Gronovius.

Notir 4' Emrndationes in Hieroclis Commenta-
r'nivi. Lond. 1673. oct.

Varicc Epistolw ad Ger. Joh. Vossium Sj- alios.
He also enlarged and amended the third edition of
his father^s Comnu'ntary on Aid. Pcr.iiiis Ms Satyrs,
Lond. 164'7. oct. And made fit lor the press a
lxx)k entit. A true and faithful Relation of what
passed for many Years beticeen Dr. John Dee and
some Spirits, &e. Lond. 1639. fol. To which book
M. Casaubon wrote a large preface confirming the
reality (as to the point of spirits) in the said Ke-
lation. At length, after a life spent partly in ad-
versity, but mostly in prosperity, he gave way t(j
167 1 . fate on the 14th of July, in sixteen hiuidred seventy
and one, and was buried in the south part of the
first cross isle joyning southward to Ch. Cli. cathe-
dral in Canter^jury. Over his grave was soon after
erected a handsome monument, the inscription on
which, you may read in Hist. ^- Antlq. Ihiiv. O.von.
lib. 2. p. 282. b. He had a design in his last days
of writing his own life, and would often confess that
he thought himself obliged to do it out of gratitude
to the divine providence, which had preserved and
delivered him from more hazardous occurrences than
ever anv man (as he thought) beside himself had
encountred with, particularly in his escape from a
fire in the night time, which hapned in the house
where he lived, while he was a boy, in Geneva.
Also by his recovery from a sickness while of Christ
Church in Oxon, when he was given over for a dead
man. Which recovery was made by a young phy-
sician that gave chymical physic to him. In his
wonderful delivery from drowning when overset in
a boat on the Thames near I^ondon, the two water-
men being drowned and he bouyed up by the help
of his priest's coat. In his bearing several abuses,
fines, imprisonments, &c. laid uix)n him by the
fanatical reformers in the time of his sequestration,
and other memorables. But these things being by
him deferred from time to time, were, at length,
liindred by death, which seized on him sooner than
he expected.

[Mericus Casaubon S. T. P. ad canonicatum ec-
clesias Cant, admissus est 1628, 19 Junii ; ad vica-
riam de iMenstre ab arehVpo collatus 1634, 4 Octob.;
inductus in ccclesia de ]\ionkt(m 1634, 25 Octob.;
a rebellibus ejectus anno circiter 1644. Vicariam
de IMenstre recepit 1660, et post biennium ab
archVix) obtinuit, ut earn cum rectoria de Jekham
permutarct ; ad banc admissus 4 Octob. J 662. Obiit
14 Jul. 1671, iKtat. 7.5, canoiiicatus 46. Sepultus in
ala australi ccclesise Ca«t. Wharton, Collect. ¥. p.
77. Kknnet.

Isaaci Casaidiani Epistohc inscrtis ad easdem
Rcsponsionibiis, qiiotqnot hactenus reperiri potue-
runt, secundum Sertem Temporis accurate digesiw.
Accedunt Jiuic terticc Editionl, praier trecentas
inedita,<t Epistolas, Isaaci Casauboni Vita; ejusdcm
Dedicationes, Prafationes, Prolegomena, Poemala,
Tramcntiim de Libertate Ecclesisa.stica. Item, Me-
rici Casauboni I. F. Epistohr, Dedicationes, Pra-
Jidiones, Prolegomena, et 'Practatiis quidam Ra-
j-iores. Curante Theodoro Janson ab Almelnvecn.
Rot-erodami, Typis Casparis Fi-itsch ct Michaelis
Biihm, 1709, folio. To this l)ook there is a gxxxl
head of Meric Casaubon, by V. Van Gunst.]

GILBERT IRONSIDE son of Ralph Ironside
bachelor of divinity, sometime fellow of Univ. coll.
(afti'rwards minister of Long-bridge in Dorsetshire)
by his wife, daughter of William Gilbert M. A. of
Magd. coll. and superior beadle of arts of the uni-
versity of Oxon, was born at Hawksbury near to
Sadbury in that county, on the 25th of November
(S. Katharine's day) an. l.'iSS, admitted scholar of
Trinity college the"^ 28th of May 1603, fellow 1613,
being then master of arts, and bachelor of divinity
in I6I9. At length he became rector of Winter-
bourn Stcpleton, and Winterl)ourn Abbots (joyning
together) in Dorsetshire: both which* he keeping
many years, was after the restora-
tion of king Charles II. nominated
to the see of Bristol. S(K)n after
being created D. D. was consecrated
thereunto in St. Peter's church at
Westminster <m the 6th of Ja-
nuary 1660. That which I am to
take notice of him further is, that
tho' he was never chaplain to any
spiritual or tem])oral lord, or to
any king or jjrince, or enjoyed any
dignity in the church, f yet being
wealthy, he was looked upon as
the fittest ))erson to enter upon
that mean bishoprick. He hath
written.

Seven Questions of the Sabbath.
Oxon. 1637. qu. IJesides which,
and a sermon jirinted in 1660,-
he had laid the foundation of
other theological treatises, aiul had
in some manner brought them to perfection, but
civil wars breaking forth, and old age following,
the publication of them was hindred. He died at
Bristol on the 19th of September in sixteen hundred
seventy and one, anil was buried in the calhi'dral
there, near to the entrance into tiic bisliop's stall, as

» [A Sermon preached al Dnrcliesler in the Cnunly of Dor-
set, at llie Proclaiming of his sacred Majrslii Charles II.
M(uj \b, l<i()(i. liii Gilbrrt Iroiisi/d-:, Bachelour of Divi-
nity, and Mimstir r/Strplefun in I'/ie said County, on Psu/m
K5, ver. S. Ded. to the Gentry of Dorsetshire. London, for
liol'. Claveli, \6()0,Ho. Krnnet.]

* bo'h which he
keeping tilt after
the kind's reslaii-
ration, was made
preb. of Thoker-
inglon in the
church of York, in
Oct. lOtiO; about
which time being
nominated to the
see of Brislow,
was consecrated
thereunto, {being
first created
D.D.J in S. Pe-
ter's church at
ffestm. on the ()
of January 166O.
Firsl edit.

•f- except the little
preb. before t/irn-
tioned- First edit.

[489]

1671^

DROPE.

MATHER.

PRICE.

942

1G71.

I have been informed by his son of both Iiis names,
lately bisliop of that see. Sec more in Joh. White
among these writers, an. 1G48.

[Wo<k1 is certainly wTongin stating that Ironside
never enjoyed any dignitv in the church, as he had
the prebend of Tockerington in the cath. church of
York, which he resigned before Oct. 7, 1 662.^]

FRANCIS DROPE a younger son of Tho.
Drope E. D.* vicar of Comnore near Alnngdon in
Berks, and rector of Ardley near Bister in Oxford-
shu'e, was born in the vicaridge house at Conmore,
made demv of Masrdalen college in IG-iS, and
ejected thence by the parliamentarian visitors in
1648, he being then bachelor of arts. Afterwards
he assisted Mr. William Fuller in teaching a private
school at Twickenham or Twittenham in Middle-
sex, where continuing till his majesty's return in
1660, was restored to his place, actually created
master of arts, made fellow of the said coll. in 166i2,
and afterwards bachelor of divinity and prebendary
of Lincoln. He hath written on a subject which he
much delighted in, and wherein he hatl spent a
considerable part of his time ; l)ut it was not printed
till after his deadi. The title of which is,

A slwrt and sure Guide in the Practice of raising
and ordering- Fruit Trecn. Oxon, 1672. oct. [BodT.
8vo. J. 55. Th.] A large and laudable ac(H)unt of
which, you may see in the Philo-wphical Transac-
tions, number 8(5. p. 5049, S;c. He died on the
26tli of Sejitember in sixteen luindred seventy and
one, and was buried near to the grave of his father
in the chancel of the church of Comnore before-
mentioifd.

SAMUEL MATHER the eldest son of Rich.
Mather mentionVl before, under the year 1669. col.
832. was born at Much WcKjlton in I^anc. 13 May
1626, transported with his father and family to New
England 1635, educated in Harwardencoll. at Cam-
bridge there, took the degrees in arts, returned into
England in 1650, became one of the chaplains of
Magdalen college by the favour of Mr. Tho. Good-
win then president, and was, as "'tis said, incorporated
in the degree of master of arts, tho' no such thing
occurs in the public register. Afterwards, being
known to be a man of parts and gifts, he received a
call to go to Leith in Scotland, to be there a public
preacher. In 1655 he removed to Dublin in Ire-
land, where he became a senior fellow of Trinity
college, and preached as a lecturer in S. Nicholas's
church there, and also before the lord deputy and
council in his turn. At which time tho' he was a

' [Willis, Ca/hedrah, i, I7I.]
« [A John Di

wrote

rope, M. A. and fellow of Magilaleii college,

Verses upon the most hopefnil and everflourishing Sprouts
nf Vulour, the indrjkligaile Gentry s of the Physick Garden,
priiued on one side a sheet (if paper in folioj Oxon. 1064.
Wood's study, numb. 423, 41.]

congregational man, and in his principles respecting
church government a high nonconformist, yet he
was observed by some to be civil to those of the
episcopal jjersuasion, when it was in his power to do
them a displeasure : And when the lord deputy
(Henry Cromwell) gave a commission to him and
others in order to the displacing of episcojial mi-
nisters in the province of Mounster, he declined it,
as lie did afterwards to do the hke matter in Dub-
lin, alledging that he was called into that country to
preach the gospel, and not to hinder others from
doing it. He was a religious man in the way he
professed, and was valued by some who differed
from him as to opinion in lesser and circumstantial
points in religion. After his majesty's restoration
he was suspended from preaching, till his majesty's
pleasure should be known, for two sermons which
were judged seditious, and being afterwards ejected
and silenced for nonconformity, preached to the
brethren in private so long as he lived. He hath
written,

Wholsmn^; Caveat for a Time of Liberty

Printed 1652. in oct.

A Defence of the Protestant Religion, bi Answei-
to Fiat Lux. bubl. 1671. qu.

All Irenicum : or, an Essay Jbr Union among
Reformers. Lond. in qu.

The Figures or Types of the Old Testament ex-
plained and improved. Dubl. 1683. qu. He died
on the 29th of Octob. in sixteen hundred seventy
and one, and was buried in the church of S. Nicolas
within the city of Dublin, where he used formerly
to preach a morning lecture.

OWEN PRICE a Mountgomeryshire man born,
was put in scholar of Jesus college by the parKa^
ment visitors, 12 October 1648; whence, after he
had continued four years therein, he was called to
the charge of a public school in Wales, where he
advanced his scholars much in presbyterian princi-
ples. In the year 1655, making a return to the
university, he was entred into Christ Church, (of
which, if I mistake not, he was made student) and
in the year following, did, by the favour of the de-
legated iMwer of the chancellor, accumulate the
degrees in arts. S<x)n after he became master of
the free-school near Magdalen college, where by his
industry and good way of teaching, he drew many
vouths of the city, whose parents were fanatically
given, to be his scholars. But upon the kings
restoration being ejected for lumconiijrmity, taught
school, in which he much delighted, in several
places, as in Devonshire, Besills-Lee near Abing-
don, &c. became useful among the brethren, and a
noted professor in the art- of pedagogy. He hath
written and published.

The Vocal Organ : or, a nero Art of Teaching
Orthography, Ivy observing the Instruments of
Pronunciation, and the Difference betxveen Words
of like Sound, whereby any cmtlandish, or mcer

[4«01

167

943

WHITE.

BAGSHAW.

Engi'islmmn, Wovian, or Child, maif spccdilij uttain
to the exact Sful/iiiff, Rmding, Writ'iiifr, o?- Pro-
nouncing of ami Word in the English Tongue,
tcithovt the Jdvantagc of its Fountains, the Grcclc
ajid Latin. Oxon. 1665. oct.

English Orthography : teaching 1 . The Letters
of every Sort of Print. 2. All Syllables made of
Letters. 3. Short Rules by ^Vay of Question and
Anszoerfbr Spelling,Reading, Pronouncing, Using
the great Letters and their Points. 4. Examples
of all Words of like Souml, &c. Oxon. 1670. oct.
He died in his house near to Magdalen college 25
1671. November in sixteen hundred seventy and one, and
wa.s two days after buried in the church of S. Peter
in the East, near to the door leading into the belfry,
within the city of Oxon.

[See in Peck's Desiderata Curiosa, hb. xiii, page
20, numb. 16, a letter from Owen Price, dated Mag-
dalen college June 21, 1658, to Henry Scobell,
secretary of Oliver's council, in which he complains
of not being able to obtain the mastership of West-
minster school, owing to ' the slownes of the go-
vernors.' Dr. Busby was at this time the master,
but from this letter it seems the independents had
an idea of displacing him, and were nearly succeed-
uig in their endeavours.]

JOHN WHITE was a Wiltshire man bom, be-
came a servitor of S. Alban'shall in Mich, term, an.
1600 ; whence, after he had continued for some
lime, went to Merton college, and there wa.s enter-
tain'd in the condition of a servitor to Mr. (after-
wards sir) Isaac Wake, but whether he made a
longer stay in Merton coll. or S. Albans liall, I
know not : we will not contend for, and therefore
let the Albanians take, him. After he had left the
university without a degree conferred on him, he
took holy orders, and had a cure bestowed on him
in his own country at Monkton-Deverel, and at
length became vicar of Cherton near to the Devises :
From which place being ejected in the time of the
rebellion he practised physic at Conock. Afterwards
being restored in 1660, he set himself to the writing
of poetry in his old age ; the effects of which are
contained in three volumes full of fooleries and im-
pertinencies.

[491] Miscellanea Variegafa,Anagrammata,Ej}igra7ii-

mata, Disticha, &c. The first vol. contains ana-
grams, epigrams, &.c. on the kings and nobility of

England Printed at Lond. 1663 in a large thin

oct. in the 79th year of the author's age. The 2d

vol. is on the bishops and clergy Lond. 1664 in

a thin oct. in the 80th vear of the author's age.

The third is on the gentry and other persons

Lond. 1665. in a thin (xl. in the 81st year of the
author's age. In all which books are also several
copies of English verses. He yielded to nature at
Cherton before-mentioned on the 6th of December

1671. in sixteen hundred seventy and one, and was buried
in the chancel of the church there on the north side

of the conunuiiion table, near the wall. Soon after
was this inseriptiou set up on the said wall. John
AVhite vicar of Cherton wa-s buried near this place
the 8th day of December, An. Dom. 1671.

EDWARD BAGSHAW son of Edward Bag-
shaw mentioned before, under the year 1662, col.
618. was horn at Broughton in Northamptonshire,
educated in AVestminstcr scIukjI, elected tlience a
student of Christ Clhurch, on the first of May 1646,
aged 1 7 years, yet capable of that place an year be-
fore, but liindred from coming to Oxon, because it
being a garrison for tiie king, the discipline in that
house was omitted. While he continued in the
state of under-graduat and bach, he did set an high
value upon, and expressed himself very often into-
lerably impudent, saucy and refractory to the censor,
and thereupon was either sc«nst, or put out of com-
mons, or forced to make his palinody in a declama-
tion in the public hall. Farther also when quadra-
gesimal disputations were publicly performed in the
schools, he would, without any provocation, take the
questions, either of an vinder-graduat or bachelor,
purposely to dispute with him and so consequently
shew his parts, and be shouldrcd out, or carried out
into the quadrangle on the shoulders of his admu'ers.
When a senior bachelor of Merton college (E. W.)
above the standing of M. of A. was present in the
schools in his formalities, accoi'ding as the statute of
his house required, Bagshaw in despight of those
things, which he called trifles,* did express some
scorn towards him, and therefore being reprehended
by the senior bach, he sent a challenge to him to
dispute, but the other scorning to encounter with
him, caus'd him to be kick'd into better manners.
In the year 1651 Bagshaw proceeded in arts, (an
year being then allowed to him) and was senior of
the act then celebrated, and being soon after put in
office, he shew'd himself a turbulent and domineer-
ing person, not only in his college but in the uni-
versity, where 'twas common with him to disturb
the vice-chancellor with interjwsed speeches, without
formalities, and his hat cock'd : Which posture also

5 [Dr. Pope in his TJfe nf Scl/i, Bishop rfSarum, giving
ail account of the dcMgii of repc.ihng the statute for caps and
liootls while he himself was proctor, means it of this Mr.
Kdw. Bagshaw what he says pige 33. ' The party resolved
to abohsii the statute enjoyniiig the wearing of caps and
hoods, crying out against them as the reliqucs of popery and
rags of the scarlet whore. To effect this their design, they
sent an envoy to me, to engage me to comply with then..
Tlie person whom they employed was a scliool-fcllow and
intimate friend of mine, who aliho" the son of a royalist, upon
some disappointments, especially a great one that happened
to him at VVestminster by the means of Mr. Busby, became
a presbyterian an<l common-wealth's man. He was a man
of learning, and knew it, and very hot and zealous in his
wav. He came to my chamber and told me his message:
Well, said I to him, what have you to say against caps and
hoods? He made a long discourse, &c. — VVhen the king was
restored, some considerable friends of his wh(un I knew, ad-
vised him 10 go into the country, and there to live peaceably

/

BAGSIIAW.

94(i

[492]

he used when he read the catechist lecture in liis
house. In June 1G5() he was appointed to officiate
as second master of Westminster sch<M)l in the place
of Joh. Vincent, and in December 1657 he was by
the then governours of that school made the second
master. Hut soon after, shewing himself too busy
in that office, pragmatical and ungrateful to the chief
master Rich. liusby, he was by his endeavours
outed of that place in May 1658, and A. Little-
ton sometime of Ch. Ch. was put into his room.
Soon after he became vicar of Amersden near Bister
in Oxfordsh. in the place of Mr. Ilich. Watkins
aomctime of Ch. Ch. also, upon his removal to
Whichford in Warwickshire, and in 1659, Novem-
ber 3, lie took upon him holy orders (as he himself
coiifessetli) from the hands of Dr. Kalph Brownrig
bishop of Exeter. After the restoration of king
Charles II. he was entertained by Arthur earl of
Anglesie to be his chaplain, and then left Amers-
den, but finding not preferment to be thrust upon
him, which he expected (so confident he was of his
own merit and abilities) he grew highly discontented,
and as he had always before sliew'd himself opposite
to that government that was in being, so then did he
to the hierarchy, which before he had in some degree
defended, such was the mutability of the man. In
Dec. 1662, he vipon his then return from Ireland
(where he had been gaping after great matters, but
without success, and therefore enraged) retired to
London among the faction, and being looked upon
as a dangerous person, as having then lately WTitten
and preached several matters against his majesty,
and present government, church and bishops, he
■was seized on by order of the council and committed
prisoner to the Gate-house in Westminster : where
continuing till the 16th of January, Avas removed
thence to the Tower of London, and thence after a
tedious imprisonment to Southsea (^astle near Ports-
mouth, on the 5th of April 1664. How long he
continued there I know not : sure I am that upon
his release, and return to London, he fell to the old

and conformably for the space of one year, at the end of
which they assured him, they would procure him some con-
siderable preferment in the church. Accordingly he went,
and Iryed, bui not being able to hold out so long, in a short
time he repaired to London seven times more imbiitcred
.ngainst ecclesiastical and kingly government. King Charles
sent for him, designing; to work some good upon him, and do
him a kindness; but he found him so obstinate and refrac-
tory, that he was forced to leave him to his own imaginations.
He afterwards married a blind woman, who fell in love with
him for his preaching, after which 1 met him in Covent-
garden, and accosted him freely. After the usual comple-
ments past, Ned, said I to him, jocularly, I hear thou hast
married a blind woman, dost thou intend to beg with her ?
Upon this, 1 perceived his countenance change, and he re-
turn'd me this answer — What is that to you ? May I not
marry whom I please? Nay, said I, if you are pleasd, I have
no reason to be offended. And so we parted, and 1 never saw
him after: bull understood since, that he died a prisoner in
a house near Newgate, whither lie was committed for his
violent oppofiiii(m to the government.' Kevwet.I
Vol. III. ^

trade of conventicling and raising sedition, for which
being ever and anon troubled, had at lengtli the
oaths of allegiance and supremacy tendretl to him,
but he bogling at them at first, anil afterwards deny-
ing to take them, was committetl prisoner to Newgate,
where he continued 92 weeks before his death. He
was a person of very good jiarts (which he himself
knew too well) well learned, but of a hot and rest-
less head, and was (as an eminent* presbyterian
who wrote against him saith) ' an anabajitist, fifth-
monarchy man, and a separatist, and a man of an
extraordinary vehement spirit, who had been exas-
perated by many years hard and grievous imprison-
ments And that the nonconformist ministers of

England were so far from being of his mind and
spirit, that when Mr. Baxter had written three
books against liim, as an anabaptist, or a millenary,
no one minister of England wrote in his defence nor
pleaded for him.' To these things I shall add, that
while he continued in Oxon, he was a very trouble-
some person, of a huffing, proud and scornful car-
riage, was very loose in his morals, over familiar with
another man's wife (yet living in Oxon), was false,
undermining, and no credit to Ix; given to his words
or promises. The books and pamphlets which he
hath written are these,

Dissertatkmes duw anti-Sociniana, " in quibus
"^ probatur (1.) Socmianos non debere diet Chris-
" tianos.'" Lond. 1657. qu. another edition in tw.
[Bodl. 8vo. C. 623. Line] (2.) Discmsio istim
Quwstionis, An bona Infldelium Opera sint j>eccata?
Aff. Print, with the Dissertat.

De Monarchia absoluta Dissertatlo politico, &c.
Oxon. 1659. qu. [Bodl. C. 13. 6. Line]

Appendix de Monorchia mixta ; at the end of
the former btxjk. These two were wrote against
monarchical government ; of which hear Mr. Bax-
ter's ' character. ' The arguments in this dis-
course seem to be such poor, injudicious, slender
stuff, that it was one occasion of my writing 20 ar-
guments against democracy, which I put into the
book, which I have since revoked, viz. Political

ApJiorlsms or lioly Commonwealth,^ &c. Which

btxjk was published at Lond. 1657 in a thick octavo.

Practical Discourse ccmcer7iing God's Decrees,
Part 2. Oxon. 1659- qu. [Bodl. 4to. B. 10. Th. BS.]
Dedicated to John Bradshaw who condemned king
Charles I. to die, and in his epistle complements in
an high degree that famous regicide. The said
Discourse, written to Tho. Pierce rector of Brington
in Northamptonshire, is the sum of two sermons,
and was answer'd by Laur. Womack archdeacon of
Suffolk at the end of a book, without his name set
to it, entit. — Arcana Dognmtum Anti-Remonstran-
tium: or, the Catvinisfs Cabinet unlocked* &^c.

^ Rich. Baxter in his Apology for Nonconformist Minislrrs,
p. l62.

' On his Second Admonition to Mr. Bagshaie, printed
I()71- in octavo, p. 151.

" [Printed Lond. 1659, Rodl. 8vo. C. 666. Line]

3P

947

BAGSHAW.

under this Title, ReJIections upon a practical Dis-
course, lately printed at Oxon. AVIiich Rejlcctiou.i
touching ii]X)n some nassa|Tcs relating to Bagsliaw's
quarrel with Mr. Richard Bushy, he presently con-
cluded that the said Mr. Pierce ([sometime of Magd.
a)llege) was the author, not only of them, hut of
the Arcana Dogmatum, &c. ancf therefore first of
all in some one piece of his he nibbles at Pierce's
name and WTitings, but finding him imconcernM at,
as not to take notice of, it, he soon after publisird,
A true and perfect Narration of the Differnicex
between Mr. Bushy and Mr. Bagshaxv, the first
[493] and seccmd Masters irf Westminster School. Loud.

1659, in four sheets in quarto, and in the preface
to it doth give himself ease upon Pierce, ny an-
swering the calumnies (as he calls them) in the said
Refiections that were thrown ujxin him. AVherc-
upon Pierce finding a grand mistake in the matter,
came out with a reply soon after, written by way of
Letter to Dr. Peter Heylyn, to vindicate himself as
being not the Author of those ReJIections, &c.

Saintship no Ground of Soxrveignty : or, a
Treatise tending to prove, that the Saints, barely
considered as such, ought not to govern. Oxon.

1660. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. C. 513. Line]

The great Question concerning Things indif-
ferent in rcligiou.s Wor.ihip, &c. Lond. KJfiO. qu.'

Tlie second Part of the great Question con-
cerning Things indifferent in religious Wo?:ihip,
&c. Lond. 1661. quArto. [Bodl. C. 13. 5. Line]

The Necessity and Use of Heresies : or, a third
and l^^t Part of tlie great Question about indif-
ferent Things in religious Worship, &c. pr.

1662. qu.

Discourse about Christ and Antichrist : or a De-
monstration that Je-ius is the Christ, &c. on Joh.
13. 17. and Acts 26. 8. Lond. 1661. qu. [In Christ
Church library, Pamph. A. 109.]

Treatise about the Resurrection pr. with the

Di.icour.ie about, &c.

Exercitatimies duce, altera Theohgica de Pres-
byteris et Epi.icopis, altera Academica de Philosophia
veteri, ejusque Usu, una cum duabus Rationibus
ejusd. Argumenti, &c. Lond. 1661. qu. [Bodl. C.
13. 8. Line]

Letter unto a Person of Horwur and Quality,
containing some Aninuuhersions upon the Bishop
of Worcester's {Dr. G. Morley) Letter, London
1662, in one sheet and an half in qu. [Bodl. B. 12.
3. Line] The said bishop's letter was written to
Mr. Baxter in vindication of himself from his mis-
reports. But to this letter of our author, w hich was
subscribed by D. E, came out the same year three
Answers, one by S. H. (Sam. Holden) bach, of arts
of lialliol college. A second calletl A Letter 7cith
Animadver,sions upon the Animadvcrior on the
Bishop of Worcestcr''s Letter, by J. C. M. D. in two

" [There were three editions of this book. Wood, MS.
Nule in Aihmule.']

sheets in qu. And the third by Rog. L'estrange,
entitled, A Whip frr the Schismatical Animad-
T'crtirr njnm the Bi.sh. of lVorceste7-\i Letter. Lond.
in (]U. But whilst the said Whip was in the press,
came out

The sec<md Part of Animadversions, zcifft am
An.ncer to all that Rog. L''cstrange intends to write.
Lend. 1662 qu. [BotH. B. 12. 3^ Line] subscriljed
by D. E. The soberest excesses of which, L'es-
trange took notice of in his pamphlet called A Me-
mento, being chiefly a jiaraphrase on sir Fr. Bacon's
E.^says. lUit our author Bagshaw not returning
any thing to the particulars therein charged U]x>n
him, tho' challenged by L'estrange, both before and
afterwards, to call him to make a ])articular proof
of what he had said concerning him, he came out at
length in print against I^'estrange with a pamphlet
entituled

A Letter to Edward Earl of Clarendon, Lord
High Chancellor of England, &e Lond. 1661. qu.
wherein he not only endeavours to vindicate himself,
as to his former actions in relation to church and
state, but also to use all means possible by little and
false stories to vilify and calumniate L'estrange.
Whereupon the same year, the said L'estrange pub-
lished an answer thereunto entit. Truth and Loyalty
vindicated Jrom the Rcprcxichcs and Clamours of
Mr. Edward Bagshau; &c. Lond. 1669. And
tho' our author Bagshaw in these three foregoing
papers was so forward as to appear in public for
Mr. Baxter, yet afterwards he had no thanks' from
him for his labour, saving that it troubled him that
Mr. Bagshaw had wrote so imskilfully for him against
the then bisho]} of Worcester.

Treatise about the .spiritual Nature of God and
his Worship (grounded on Joh. 4. 24.) Lond. 1662.
quarto.

Brief Enquiry into the Grounds and Reasons,
whereupon the infallibility of the Pope and Church
of Rome is said to he founded. Lond. 1662. qu.
[Bodl. A. 11. 8. Line] Answered by Ser. Cressy [494]
in a book entit. A non est Inventus. See in Hugh
Cressy under the year 1674.

Antidote against Mr. Baxter s Treatise of Love
and Unity, viz. the Cure of Church Divisions.
London 1671. quarto. Which being answer'd by
Mr. Baxter in his Defence of the Principles of
Love, &c. Lond. 1671. octavo, our author came out
with a rej)ly in 5 or 6 sheets in quarto, which I
have not yet seen. jVIr. Baxter calls it a libel, as he
doth the Antidote, in his bcxik entit. A Second Ad-
monitimi to Mr. Bagshaw, written to call him to
Repentance f)r many false Doctrines, Crimes, and
especially fourscore palpable Untruths in Matters
of Fact published hy him in two .imall Libels, Jvc.
Lond. 1671. octavt>. To this Second Admonition of

' See Mr. Iiaxler's pref. to his Second Admonition to Mr.
Edw. Bagslinw. Pr. 1()7I. oct. p. 11. [See also Keniiet's
Register and Chronicle, pages 609, 10.]

\

BAGSHAW.

NICOLSON.

950

iG/i.

Mr. Baxter, our autlior published a third answer,
entit. in pai-t,

A Review, or all Mr. Baxter s Calumniea con-
futed This was s(X)n replied upon by Baxter in

a small jncce Ix'aring this title. The Church told of
Mr. ildward Bag:shaxv',^ Scandal, and roarnd of
the dangerous Snares of Satan, Sfc. now la'idfor
them in his Love-killing' Principles, &,c. Ijond.
1672. qu.

Readij Way to prevent Sin. Lond. 1671. oct.
This I have not yet seen, nor his

Discourse of Conscience Printed in quarto,

nor liis

Letter to Sir Jo. Robin.ion Lieutenant of the
Toiver Written I supjjose when he was a pri-
soner' there. Mr. Baxter tells us that E. Bagshaw
wrote and published The Life and Death of Mr.
Vavasor Powell that faithful Minister and Con-
fessor of Jesus Christ, &c. Printed 1681. in

octavo : But how true his report is I cannot tell,
because there are such silly things and such canting
and impertinent stuff' in it, that no generous scholar,
or a scholar of academical breeding, as Bagshaw
was, would or could be author of" it. 'Tis true that
he did finish and compleat Vav. Powell's little thing
called A Collection of those Scripture Prophecies
which relate to the Call of the Jews, &c. added to
his Concordance of the Bible, yet I cannot believe
that he was author of the said life. At length after
liis time had been spent in a continued agitation, in
opposition to all that was in relation to the church
setled by law, he unwillingly laid down his head,
and died in an house in Tuttle-street within the city
of Westminster, on the 28th of December in sixteen
hundred seventy and one, and was buried on the
first of January following about the middle of the
yard, called the fanatical burial-place near Bunhill,
and on the north side of the New Artillery-Garden
near London, being then accompanied to that place
by near a thousand of protestant dissenters. Over
his grave was soon after built an altar-monument,
on which was this inscription (made by Dr. Jo.
Owen) engi-aven. ' Here lies interred the Body of
Mr. Edward Bagshaw Minister of the Gospel, who
received from GikI Faith to embrace it. Courage to
defend it, and Patience to suffer for it ; which by
the most desj)ised, and by many persecuted, es-
teeming the advantage of Birth, Education and
Learning as things ot worth to be accounted Loss
for the Knowledge of Christ. From tlie Reproaches
of pretended Fi'iends, and Persecutions of professed
Adversaries, he t(M)k Sanctuary by the Will of God
in eternal Rest, the 28th December in 1671.' On
the plank of black marble which covers the monu-
ment, are the arms of Bagshaw, impaling the pre-
tended arms of Peacock, the said Bagshaw liaving
some years before his death taken to wife a virtuous
and sujKjrannuated maid (but perfectly blind) named

' [' Close prisoner.' Dated March l6, 166^. Loveuay.]

Margaret, the daughter of .lohn Peacock ' of Chaw-
ley 111 the jiarish of Comnore near Abingdon in
Berks, hut had no is.^ue by her.

[Add the following to Bagshaw.

Letter to a Per.ion of Quality, the Day before hit
Commitment to the Gate-house. I^ond. l66'i, 4to.

BOWLE.

7'he Case and Usage of Mr. Edw. Bagshaw,
draxvn up by himself, the Night before he was to
have been sent away, being March 10, 1663-4, with
an Account of his Examination before the King.
London, Printed in the year 1664. a 4to. pamphlet
of eight pages. Loveday.]

WILLIAM NICOLSON, son of Christopher
Nicolson a rich clothier, was bom at Stratford near
to Hadleigh in Suffolk, on the first day of Novem.
1591, educated in grammar learning m the school
joyning to Magd. college, being then choirister of
that house. Afterwards, having made an entrance
into the logical class, he was made one of the clerks,
took the degrees in arts, that of master being com-
pleated in 1615, at which time, I conceive, he was
chaplain to Henry earl of Northumberland, then a
prisoner in the Tower of London and tutor to his
son the lord Percy. But his chief delight being
exercised in the faculty of grammar, and therefore
noted by many for it, he was made master of the
free-school at Croydon in Surrey ; to which office
lie was admitted 3 July 1616, in the place of one
Robert Davis, bach, of arts of Oxon, then displaced
for his frequent hunting with dogs, and neglecting
the school. From that time to the beginning of
1629 he continued there, doing great benefit by his
instruction, and then being succeeded by one Joh.
W^ebb M. of A. of Magdalen liall, our author
retired into Wales, where having a little before ob-
tained the rectory of Llandilo-vaour or Llandel-
lovar in Caermarthenshire^ was made soon after
residentiary of S. David's, and archdeacon of Breck-
n<x;k in the place of one Isaac Singleton, in the
beginning, as it seems, of the rebellion. In 1643
he was elected one of the assembly of divines, but
never, as I conceive, sate among them, and soon
after losing his spiritualities, he taught a private
school in Caermarthcnshire, and by his writings de-
fended and maintained the church of England (then
exceedingly clouded) against its adversaries. After
the king's restoration he was by the endeavours * of
Edward earl of Clarendon lord chancellor of Eng-
land designed bishop of Glocester by his majesty,
(by virtue of whose letters he was diplomated doc-
tor of divinity in the beginning of December 1 660.)

' [Another daughter, Susan, married sir Thomas Holt,
and was mother to lord chief justice Holt]

* [By bribing him, (as Wood insinuates in another |>art
of this work, article Accepted Frewen) on Dr. Hackei's
refusing tlie said hisUopricU. While he sat in this sec he
consecrated a font in the cathedral, for which he was sillily
libell.d in More News from Rnme. Watts.J
3P2

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SMITH.

WILLIAMS.

and on the sixth of January following he was con-
secrated thereunto in the at)l)ey church of S. Peter
within the city of Westminster, after it had laid
void several years, by the death of Godfi-ey Gotxl-
man. Which bishoprick he kept, without any
translation to another see, to his dying day, keeping
in commendani with it the archdeaconry of Breck-
nock, and the rectory of HishopVCIeve in Gloces-
tershire. He was a right learned divine, well seen
and read in the fathers and sch<x)l-men, but above
all, most excellent Jie was in the critical part of
grammar, in which faculty none in his time, or per-
liaps before, went beyondf him. His writings which
shew him to be a person of great erudition, pru-
dence, modesty and of a moderate mind, are these.

A plain, but full. Exposition of the Catechism
of tlie Church of England, enjoyncd to he learned
of every Child, before he be brought to be cmifirmcd
by the Bishop. Lond. 1655. 61. 6S. 71. qu. &.c.

Apology for the Discipline of the ancient Church,
intended especially for the Church of England.
Lond. 1659. qu.

Exposition on tlie Apostles Creed, delivered in
several Sermons. Lond. 1661. fol.

An easy Analysis of the ichole Book of Psalms.
Lond. 1662. fol. He died in the bishop''s palace at
Glocester on the fifth day of February in sixteen
l67j. hundred seventy and one, and was buried on the
eighth day of the same month, in a little isle jo^'n-
ing, on the south side, to the Virgin Mary's chappel,
in the cathedral there. Over his grave was after-
wards a blue stone laid, and on the wall near it a
table of t)lack marble erected, with this inscription *
following in golden letters. ' vEternitati S. In spe
beatae Resurrectionis, hie reverendas exuvias depo-
suit Theologus insignis, Episcopus ver^ primitivus
Guliclm. Nicolson, in agro Suff'olciano natus, apud
.!Magdalenenses educatus, ob fidcm Regi, & Ec-
clesia; aiilictac praestitam, ad sedem Glocestrensem
merit6 promotus, anno 1660. In concionibus fre-
quens, in Scriptis nervosus, legenda scribcns, &
faciens scribenda. Gravitas Episcopalis in fronte
emicuit, pauperibus quotidiana Charitate beneficus,
comitate erga Clerum & literatos^admirandus, glorias
ac dierum satur, in palatio suo ut vixit pie decessit
Febr. 5. annoKtatis LXXXII,Dom.MDCLXXI.
Elizabetha conjux praeivit, in hoc sacello sepulta
Apr. XX, an. Dom. MDCLXIII. Owenus Brig-
stock de Lechdenny in Comitatu Caermarthen Ar-
miger, praedictae Elizabethas nepos, hoc grati animi
nionumentum (executore recusante) propriis sump-
tibus erexit, an. MDCLXXIX.' The said Brig-
stock was grandson to the said Elizabeth.

" MILES SMITH, son of a father of both his

" names, of the city of Glocester, priest, and near of

[496] " ''•n to Dr. Miles Smith bishop of that city, was

* [Written by Mr. Bull, aficrwards bishop of St. Davids.
See his L\fe by Nelson, page £07- Loveday.]

born there, or at least near to that place, became
a servitor of Magd. college, under Mr. George
Langton in Lent term an. 1634, aged 16 years,
took one degree in arts, and uj)on the breaking
out of the rel)ellion in 1642 he adhered to the
cause of his majesty and did him service. In
1646 he was actually created bach, of the civil
law, and being afterwards a sufferer as a royalist,
was after the restoration of king Charles II. re-
ceived into the service of Dr. Gilb. Sheldon and
by him, when he became archbishop of Canter-
bury, was made his secretary. He hath written
and publi.shed,

" The Psalms of K. David paraphrased into
Engli.ih Meetre. Lond. 1668. oct. and perhaps
other things which I have not yet seen. He died
on the ITtli day of Febr. in sixteen hundred se-
venty and one, and was buried at the upper end
of the chancel of the church at Lambeth in Sur-
rey, near to the south end of the communion
table. Over his grave was soon after a black
marble stone laid, with a little inscription thereon
shewing that he had been secretary to archbishop
Sheldon. He left behind him a son of Iwth his
names, sometime a gent, commoner of Trinity
college, who dying in the j)arish of S. Peter in
the East in Oxon. on the 17th of Octob. 1682,
aged 18 years, his body was conveyed to Lam-
beth and there bm-ied. The .said Dr. Miles
Smith bishop of Glocester had a son named Miles
also, as I have told you elsewhere, which is all I
know of him."

GRIFFITH WILLIAMS was born in the
parish of Llanruc near to Caernarvon in Caernar-
vonshire, educated in a private school in Caernarvon,
applyed his muse to academical learning in Chr.
Church, in the latter end of 1603, aged l(i years,
but before he was honoured with a degree he left
that house, and by the persuasions of John Williams
(afterwards bishop of Lincoln) he removed to Cam-
bridge, where he prefer d him to a tutor, patroniz'd
him, furtherVl his entrance into the ministry, and,
after he had attained to the degree of master of arts,
got him to be chaplain to Philip earl of Mont-
gomery, being about that time also (1614'') parson
of S. Bennet Sherhoo;g in London. About the time
that he was admitted to the readmg of the sentences,
he was made ' parson of Lhan-Lhechid in Wales,
where he received good encoitragement in the mi-
nistry from sir John Wynne baronet and sir Rich.
Wynne his son, and was infinitely admired for his
excellent way in preaching and for his religious life

^ [l6ll, 11 Jan. GriflSniis Williams A. M. ad missus ail
ecclesiam Saiicti BcmdlctiSherhogi, |)er resign. Rob. Gray,
ad pres. regis. Rf^. King, Ep. Lond.

l6l6, 20 Dec. Hug. Maurice A. M. admissus ad eccl. S.
Benedicti Shcrhog, per resign. Griffini Williams, ad pres.
regis. Kennet.]

' flo l6l6. Tanner.]

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WILLIAMS.

954.

and conversation. He was then accounted a person
very well read in scholastical and historical divinity,
as also in the fathers, schoolmen and councils, and
therefore it was that he was made one of the chaiv
lains to king C'harles I. he being then D. D. In
1628 he became prebendary of the eighth stall in
the collegiate church of Westminster, in the room
of Dr. Laud, wlio til! then had kept it in commen-
dam with his bishopricks, and in 1633 he was made
dean of Bangor (installed therein 28 March 1634)
and archileacon of Anglesey ; which deanery had
before been enjoyed by Edm. Griffith. Afterwards
he was designed to be tutor to prince Charles ; but
archbishop Laud commending to Jiis majesty Dr.
Duppa for that employment, our author Williams
(who had been tutor to the lord Charles Herbert
son to Philip earl of Pembroke and Montgomery,
I mean that Charles who died at, or near, Florence,
an. 1631'.) was then jiut aside to his great discon-
tent. In 1641, he was, at the motion of his ever
honoured lord (the said earl) made to the king,
constituted bishop of Ossory in Ireland, to which
see being consecrated on the 20th of Septemb. in
the same year, had then leave given to him to keep
his deanery and archdeaconry hi commendam. In
the beginning of the rebellion he adhered to the
cause of his majesty, and the first book that he
wrote in his behalf against the rebels was his Vin-
dicicv Rcffiim, &c. for which he was fetcli'd away
from his liouse at Apelthorpe in Northamptonshire
by a tr(X)p of soldiers and carried prisoner to North-
ampton, 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 Mijuteries ; and
on that very day he was preaching at St. Mary's
before the house of connuons, the soldiers from
Northampton went and plunder^! his house, and
all his houshold-stuff at Aplethorji, where his wife
' and cliildren then resided, and sequestred his lands
for the use of the parliament. The next winter
following he wrote his J\ira Majcstatis, and ac-
cording to his ])oor abilities, out of the means he
had in Wales, lie gave into his majesty's own hands
every winter for three years together the testimony
of his loyalty and affection to tfie utmost of his
power. U|x)n the declining of the king's 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/.
per an. conditionally that he would submit himself
to the parliament, but he refused it, as he did also
the importimate invitation of his singular good
friend Dr. Williams archbishop of York for the
same purpose. Soon after he retired into Wales,
where for twelve years together (as he saith) having
not one penny of ecclesiastical means, nor 20/. 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/. IQs. per an.

to sir Gr. Williams, and 4/. land per an. besides of
his own. So that he lived worse tlian a fKwr curate,
with oaten-bread, l)arley-brcad, butter-milk, and
sometimes water, being not able to keep any droj)
of ale or beer for two lusters of years. He went at-
tir'd in very mean cloaths (as he farther adds) and
was forced to do many servile works himself about
his hou.se, garden, ana cattel : and all this he did,
as he said, rather than accept of means, benevolence,
or maintenance from the usurjiers, rebels, and the
robbers of Christ's church. He then also persuaded,
as he had done before, some of the earl of Pem-
broke's children, who had been his scholars, to ad-
here to his majesty, altho' their father was misled to
adhere to the parliament, but they refused. Hen.
Cromwell also, lord lieutenant of Ireland, while his
fatlier was protector of England, ofTer'd him, as he
did other Irish bishops, 100/. per an. 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 king's return
in 1660, he was restored to his bishoprick, deanery,
and archdeaconry, but rose no higher, nor was trans-
lated to any other place, because the king was in-
formed that he had kept pace with the parliamen-
teers, 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. Afterwarcfs
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 cathedral
church belonging thereunto. The works that he
hath written and published are these.

The Delights of the Saints. A most comfortahle
Treatise of Grace and Peace, &c. Lond. l622. oct.
[Bodl. 8va H. 98. Th.]

Seven Gold CandlesticJcs, or seven Lights of
Christian Relistion- Lond. 1627. qu. Lond. 1635.
fol. " ^

The true Church shewed to all Men that desire
to be Members of the same, in 6 Books, containing
the whole Body of Divinity. Lond. 1629. fol. [BodT.
M. 9. 12. Th.]

The " right Way to the"" best Religion ; icheretn
is largely explained the Sum and principai Heads
of the Gospel. Lond. 1636. fol. [Bodl. G. 8. 8. Th.]
This Ixjok contains 24 sermons at least, which he
had formerly preached, and mostly published, be-
sides some treatises, among which is The Delights
of the Saints, before-mention'd, and the seven last
are the Seven Golden Candlestichs.

Vindicuc Regum : or, the Grand Rebellion, tfuit
is, a Looking-glass for Rebels, whereby they may
see, how by ten several Degrees they shall a.s'cend to
the Heighth of their Design, &c. Oxon. 1643. qu. •
[Bodl. C.9. 4. Line] " reprinted Lond. 1666. fol."

95/5

WILLIAMS.

SOUTHOUSE.

[498] The Discorcnj of Mifstcries : or, the Plots and

Practices of a private Fcution in this present Par-
liament to oxrrthrmo the Established Relii^ion, &c.
—Printed 1643. qu. [Bodl. 4to. G. 10. Th.] " Lond.
" 166G. \'o\r

Jura Majcstatis : the Rights of Kings both in
Church and State ; granted, 1. Bij God. 2. Vio-
lated bij Rebels, and 3. Vindicated by the Truth.
Oxon. 1644. qu. [Bodl. 4to. G. 10. Th.] " Lond.
" 1666."

The only Way to preserve Peace, Sermon at the
public FcLst 8 March, at St. Marys in Oxon, be-
fore the House of Commons ; on Amos 5. 6. Oxou.
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 Succes-
sion 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 Scrip-
ture, &c. Lond. 1660. fol. [Bodl. C. 10. 20. Th.]

Seven Treatises very necessary to be observed in
these bad Days, to prevent the seven last Vials of
God's Wrath, that the seven Angels are to pour
down upon tlie Earth ; Revel. 16, &c. Lond. 1661.
fol.

The Declaration of the just Judgment of God,
1. Upon our late King's Friends. H. Upon the
King''s Enemies that rebelPd and ■warr''d against
him, &c. — This is printed at the end of the Seven
Treatises, &c.

" Truth vindicated, against Sacrilege, Atheism,
" and Prophaneness, and likewise against the eom-
" mon Invaders of the Rights of Kings, and de-
" mo7istrating the Vanity of Man in general, Lond.
" 1666. fol. This folio book contains, besides Truth
" vindicated, these things following of bishop Grif-
« fith. (1.) The Grand Rebellion ; on P.sal. 106.
"16. contained in twelve chapters. (2.) The Dis-
" covery of Mysteries. (3.) The Rights of Kings
" both in Church and State. These I have set
" down already, as having been printed by them-
" selves. (4.) The Vanity of Man ; on Psal. 39.
" 5. Verily, Verily, &c."

Four Treatises: Suffering of the Saints, Burn-
ing of Sodom, &c. Lond. l667. qu.

Several sermons, as (1.) The Happiness of Saints;

on John 20. 26. Printed 1657. qu. (!».) God's

War with the Wicked, Rebeh and Murtherers ; on
Isa. 57. 21. (3.) The Property and Prerogative
of true Saints ; on John 10. 27, 28. (4.) The
■monstrous Muitherqfthe most Iwly Jesus par alleVd
to the Murther of Kings ; on Acts 7. 32. (5.) The
four chief Duties of every Christiati Man; owl
Pet. 2. 1 7. (6.) Tlie chiefest Cause why we should
love God; on 1 John 4. 19. (7.) The lively Pic-
ture of these hard Times; on jer. 14. 10. (8.)
The Grand Rebellion, S^c. Psal. 106. 16. (9.)
The Tragedy qfZimri tJiat slew his King, tluit was

his Master ; on 2 Kings 9. 31. All these sennonK,
(except the first) witii others, were printed in folio,
an. 1662.

Other sermons, as (1.) Description of the Jour
Beasts, c.rpluined in four Sermons ; on Rev. 4. 8.
Lond. 1663. qu. (2.) The Ejection of four Devils ;
on Mutth. 17. 21. Lond.' 1664. 'qii. (3.) T/ie
saving Serpent ; on John 3. 14. Lond. 1664. qiu
(4.) i'he monstrous Murther of two mightij Kings ;
on 2 Cor. 24. 23. Lond. 1665. qu. (5.) The faith-
ful Shepherd; on Psal. 80. 1. Lond. 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. Printed 1666. qu.' Besides

all these, he hath several other sermons which I
have not yet seen. He hath also written a book of
his suff'enngs 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 cathedral church at Kilkenny. By
his last will and testament datetl the 1 6tli of Octob.
1671, and proved in the prerogative court at Dublin
on the eleventh of April following ; he bequeathed
his lands in Ireland called Fennoile, worth forty
pounds per an. to be settled ujxjn eight }X)or distress-
etl widows, for whom he had erected eight several
alms-houses in the parish of S. Kenny in his diocese.
In the said will was a passage by him inserted con-
cerning the noble James duke of Ormond, lord
lieutenant of Ireland tor not promoting him (as 'tis
thought) to a higher bishoprick : which being es-
teemed scandalous, was struck out of his will when
proved.

[Grif Williams, coll. Jes. Cant. A. B. 1605.

Magd. A. M. an. 1620. .R^.

Reg. Acad.

G. WiUiams coll.
Acad.

G. Williams coll. Jes. S. T. P. an. 1621. Ibid.

In 1643 was published in 4to. Ossoriana, or a
Bone for a Bl^lMp to pick : being a Vindication of
some Pas.tages in a Treatise lately published called
Anti-Cavaliri.im, from the impertinent Exceptions
of Gr. Williams calling hitnself Lord Bishop of
O.isory. Baker.

An Examination of such Particulars in the so-
lemne Leagve and Covenant as eonccrne the Law :
Proving it to be destructive of the Laioes of Eng-
land both ancient and moderne. Oxford, Printed
by Leonard, Lichfleld, Printer to tlie Vniuersity.
1644. This has been ascribed to Griffith Wil-
liams.]

« THOMAS SOUTHOUSE of Feversham in
" Kent, became a gentleman commoner of Queen's

* [The first edition w.ns primed Oxford l644, 4to.
Bodl. 410. D. 0"0. Th.]

Sec it

AILMER.

SAVAGE.

958

" college in I608, left it without a degree, went to
" Grevs-Iim in Holhourn, stiulietl the nuinicipal
" law, betanie a barrister, anil wrote,

" Monast'icoii Fevcrshnm'icnse in Agro Cantmno:
" or, a Survey of the Mona.itry of Fevcrsham in
" Kent, &c. Loud. 1(J71. in oct. Before which arc
" the commendatory verses of Th6. PhilijX)t (who
" hath an Appendix to it; Of the Descent of King
" Stephen) Koh. I'lat, alias Plot, and Tho. Cater,
" masters of arts. He had a son of the said house
" of Queen's college, wjio was a commoner called
'or. " — ^— ^ in whose house at Feversham king James
i/i. " II. lay some nights in his flight from England to
" avoid danger, whereupon he wrote an account of
" liis escape.'"

[Tho. Southouse died in 1G76, aged 35. In the
Bodleian, (Gough, Kent, TO) is a copy of his Mo-
nasticon Favcrshamiense, with a great number of
notes by his son Fihner Southouse, who intended to
write a history of the town of Faversham.^ Filnier
Southouse died in 1706, aged 30.]

JOHN AILMER was bom of genteel parents in
Hampshire, as it seems, educated in Wykeham's
school near Winchester, admitted perpetual fellow
of New college after he had served two years of pro-
l)ation, an. 1652, took the degrees in the civil law,
that of doctt)r being compleated in 1663, being then
and In-fore accounted an excellent Grecian, and a
good Greek and Latin poet, as appears by this
book, which he com{X)sed when a young man :

Mus{c sacrcE : sen Jonas, Jeremiw Threni, ^
Daniel Grieco redditi Carmine. Oxon. 1652. oct.
and also by divers Greek and Latin verses, dispersed
in various books. He died at Petersfield on Gootl-
J672. Friday, April 5. in sixteen hundred seventy and
two, and was buried in the church at Havant in
Hampshire, as I have lx>en informed by the letters
of my sometime friendly acquaintance jVIr. Isaac
Walton, dated at Farnhani 26 IMay 1683.

HENRY SAVAGE, son of Francis Savage,
was born of a genteel family at Dobs-hill in the
pansh of lOlderfield commonly called Eldsfield, in
Worcestershire, became a commoner of Bal. college
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 college, and two years after that (1630) he was
compleated master of his facidty. In the beginning
of the grand rebellion he travelled into France with
Wilham lord Sandys (whose sister, the lady Mary,
• he afterwards mamed) and by the ojiportunity of
that journey, he not cnly learned the language of
that country, saw the fasliions of their clergy and
universities, but learnVl to shake off the morosity
and rusticity which commonly attends severe stu-
dents. Soon after his return, he obtained the mas-

!) [Gough's British Topography, i. 404.]

tership or headship of his Iiouse, and in tlie year
following was admitted dtK-tor of (hvinity. After
the restoration of king ("harles II. and a submission
to the powers in the time of usin-j)ation, he l)ccamc
chaplain in ordinary to liis majesty, j)rebendary of
Gloucester an. 1665, and rector of ]iladon near
^Voodstock in Oxfordshire, on the death of Dr.
Matth. Griffith. He hath written and ])ublished,

(iutisfumes ires in novissimorum Comitiorum
Vesperiis Oxon. di.'tcu.ssw, An. 1652. viz. An Pado-
baptismu,i sit licit us f Aff'. Stc. Oxon. 1653. qu.
[Bodl. 4to. N. 21. Th.] ' S(Km after, these ciues-
tions were answered by John Tombesof Magd. hall.

Thesis Doetoris Savage, nempe Pccdohaptismum
esse licitum Confirmatio, contra llefntationem Mri.
Tombes nuper editum, &c. Oxon. 1655. ([u. [Bodl.
4to. S. 6. Th. BS.J

Vindicafu) ejus a Calumniis Mri. Tombes. Printed
at the end of Thesis Confirmatio, &c.

liea.ions shewing that there is no Need of such
Reformation ()f the public, \. Doctrine, 2. Worship,
3. Rites and Ceremonies, 4. Church-Government, [500]
and 5. Discipline, as is pretended, &c. Lond. 1660.
qu. [Bodl. A. 13. 3. Line] This small piece, as
likewise another of Dr. John Pearson, (since bishop
of Chester, the very learned author of the much
commended book On tfie Creed, of the Vindicice
Eplitolarum S. Ignatii, &c.) entit. No Necessity,
&c. which came out in qu. much at the same time
with this of our author Savage, wore wrote against
a pamphlet called Reasons .shewing the Necessity of
Reformation, &c. Lond. 1660. qu. See in Com.
Burgcs, an. 1665. col. 685. Which, tho' in the title, it
is said to have l)cen wrote by divers ministers of sun-
dry 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 af-
firms, offended the episcojml party. This is yet
further rendred the more [)robable, because, that
besides a reply made by W'ill. Hamilton, gent, to
Dr. Pearson's No Necessity, &c. Cornel. Burges
(as possibly judging himself more concern'd tiian
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 shelving, &c. were answer'tl again
more fully in the Retractions of John Ellis. Dr.
Savage hath also written,

The Dew of Hermtm which fell npon the Hill of
Sion : or, an Answer to a Book entit. Sion\s Groans
for her distressed, ^c. Offered to the King's Ma-
jesty, Parliament, and People. I^ond. 1663. qu.
[Bodl. 4to. N. 20. Th.] Some copies of the im-
pression of this book (The Dcxc, &c.) have this

' In Dr. Jo. llinkley'9 book emiX. Faiciculus Lilerarum, .
&c. Lond. ItJSO. Oct. p. 34.

959

COPPE.

1(>72.

title, Toleration, xvith its principal Objections, fully
coti/itted: or, an Answer to a Book entit. Sion''s
Groans, Sfc.

Baliofergtis : or, a ComnKntary upon the Foun-
dation, Founders, and Affairs (^ Baliol College;
gathered out of the Records thereof, and other Anfi-
(juifies,Sic. Oxon. 16(i8. qu. [Kodl.D. 4. 24. I-inc]
With MS. notes by Mr. Charles Godwin of Balliol
coll.] But the author having had no natural geny
to the study of antiquities and history, neither a
tuning head, nor indeed record enough from his
college, (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 college is
every year represented, as also the names of the fel-
lows) he hath committed many foul errors therein,
especially in this respect, that he hath made the said
college of Balliol 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, sometime archbi.shop of
Armagh, commonly called by writers Ricardus Ar-
machanus, Tho. de Wylton, Rich. Rotheram, Car-
dinal Joh. Moreton archb. of Canterbury, Cuthb.
Tonstall bish. of Durham, &c.

Natalitia Collegii Pembrochiani Oxonii, 1624.
Printed with Baliofergus, &c. Tliis Dr. Savage
died in Bal. college on the second day of June m
sixteen hundred seventy and two, and was buried in
the chappel belonging thereunto, next below the
steps leading to the altar, being the first that was
ever known to have received sepulture therein.' In
his headship of Bal. coll. succeeded Dr. Tho. Good,
whom I shall mention elsewhere.

ABIEZER COPPE, the son of Walt. Coppe,
was born in the ancient borough of Warwick, in
Warwickshire 20 May 1619, educated in gi-ammar
learning there, and at about 17 j'ears of age was sent
to All-s. coll. in the beginning of 1636, where conti-
nuing but for a siiort time (in the condition of a ser-
vitor I think) he became one of the number of por-
tionists, commonly called ]X)stmasters, of Merton
college ; at which time, tho' he was put under the
tuition of agocKl tutor, (Ralph Button, I think) yet
being naturally villous, all lectures or examples
could not reform him, or make him hve like a Chris-
tian. And it was then notoriously known, that he
would several times entertain for one night, or more,
a wanton huswife in his chamber (under that called
Oxoniam quare, as I have heard) in the little or old

' [In Mngdalen parish chinch, Oxford, is the following
epitaph ; — Hicjaceni exuvite JanKet Aletheae Filiarum Hcn-
rici Savage S. T. P. Coll. Ball. Magisiri, Qua? ohierunt ilia
9C. fcie quinquennis Aug. 2, I67O: Haec nnndiim quadri-
mestris Maii 2, 1671, T. E. R. D. Mar. 10. 14. Ergo retro
vivendum est ut porro fruamur. Kennbt.]

quadrangle, to whom carrying several times meat,
at the hour of refection, he woidd make answer,
when being asked by the way what he would do
with it, that ' it was a bit for his cat.' At length
the civil war breaking forth, he left the university
without a degree, adhered to the blessed cause, and
at first was a presbyterian : but the gap lieing
widened for all heresies to come in, he became an
anabaptist, and after a ranter, mugglctonian, and
what not to satisfy his wandring head and filthy
lusts. The stage of most of his villanies was War-
wickshire, where and in the neighlxiurliood, and in
other of his rambles, he had, while he was an ana-
baptist, baptized seven thousand people, as he brag'd
to some Oxford scholars while he was a prisoner in
Coventry. After he had left that opinion and had
turned ranter, 'twas usual with him to preach stark
naked many blasphemies and unheard-of villanies
in the day-time, and in the night to be drunk and
lye with a wench, that had been also his hearer,
stark naked. He was wont to say, when he wa.><
reprehended for swearing, that tho' it was usual
with him in common discourse and in his preachings,
yet 'twas not formally but materially, as thus, ' By
God's wounds I shall be saved,' and the like : But
he said these tilings when he was imprison'd for his
rogueries, and not before. When also he was
check'd by the brethren of the anabaptisrical party
for leaving them, he would swear that ' he would
rather hear an arch-angel blaspheme and curse God,
than hear a presbyterian {)r anabaptist preach.'
About the time of his publishing the Fiery flying
Roll, he was for that and other rascaliities imprison'd
at Coventry, where 'twas usual with him, after he
had swore and cursed most of the day, to be drunk
at night : And when he was to be removed thence
to London, a brother of his religion brought a col-
lection of fifty jioiuids to pay his debts there. This
brother, while he remained in that city, preached
twice in one day, and towards night lie preached
in the pri.son to Coppe and others of his gang :
AVhich being done, they enjoyed the creature so
much, that they were all downright drunk. To
omit many other of his pranks that he acted then
and before, I shall tell you what he hath written,
viz.

A fiery flying Roll, &c. Lond. lf)49. This book
I have not yet seen, and therefore I cannot give a
full account o{ it. In the month of January the
same year, he, as a most notorious sectarist, and
author of that book, was removed from Coventry to
the prison called Newgate in London, where, as
before, he did little else but swear and curse, and
obstinately held forth to all jieople that came to see
him, that ' God could not damn him :' and having
smooth arguments for what he said, induced many
to be of his religion. On the 2d of February ' fol-

' [Febr. 1, 1649-50.
mon$, vol. vi, page 354.

S(>e Journals of the House tf Com-
Cole.]

COPPE.

WHISTLER.

im

lowing, it was voted by the members of ))arliament
(who by tlieir most iniparallerd " and dialxjUcal"
actions, had been, and were then, the occasion of all
England's woes and miseries, and so let it stand
ujK)!) eternal record to their eternal shame) that the
said book entit. A Jiery Jtying- Roll, ' doth amtain
many horrid blasphemies, and danmable and de-
testable opinions, and that the said book atid all the
copies of it that could be found should be burnt by
the hands of the common hangman,' Sec. wliich ac-
cordingly was done. Tlie errors that Coppe held,
which he afterwards recanted, were iliese, (1.) That
there is no sin. (2.) That there is no God. (3.)
That man or the meer creature is very God. (4.)
Tiiat God is in man, or in tlie creature only, and
410 where else. (5.) That cursing and swearing is
[ no sin. (6.) That adultery, fornication, and un-

cleanness is no sin. (7.) That community of wives
is lawful, &c. Afterwards for fear of corporal
jjunishment, or perpetual exile in an obscure place,
Coppe recanted, and piildished another book, after
[502] he had been an year and an half in prison, entit.

Coppe's Return to the Way of Truth, in a
zealous and sincere Protestatimi against several
Errors; and in a sincere and zealous Testimony
to several Truths; or. Truth asserted against,
and triumphing over. Error ; and tlie Wings of
the Jiery flying Roll clijj't, &.c. Lend. 1661. qu.
Before which is a large preface shewing what the
author Coppe had been, and was then, to the par-
liament.

Letter in Answer to another of Mr. John Dury.

Printed with Copp^s Return ; as also another

to March. Nedliam. Afterwards Copjx; was set at
liberty, was kindly entertained among those of his
opinion, and being at Burford in Oxfordshire,
jjrcached there A Recantation Sermon 2f3 Septenib.

1651, but whether piinted I cannot tell. Sure it
is that Jolm Tickel a minister of Abingdon in
Berks (sometime of Christ Church) did write ani-
madversions on it, which are printed at the end of
his Bottomless Pit smoaking in Familism. Oxon.

1652. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. H. 17. Th. BS.] He the
said Coppe published also a book written by J. F.
entit. John the Divine''s Divinity ; or, the Con-
cession of the general Assembly, or Church of tlie
jirst horn in Heaven. Lond. 1649. Before which

book Coppe hath put an epistle dated at London
13 Jan. 1648, two or three clays (as he saith) before
the eternal God thundered at Great St. Helen's (in
london). This Iwok is a silly thing, full of blas-
|)hemies, and more fit for a posterior use, than to be
read by any man of reason or sobriety. Afterwards
the name of Cop])e being odious, he did ujwn the
king's restoration change it to Higham, and prac-
tising phj'sic at Barnelms in Surrey, and sometimes
preachmg in conventicles to maintain him and his,
went for divers years by the name of Dr. Higham.
At length being brought low by certixin infirmities
which he had contracted in his nuubles bv drinking

Vol.. m. ^ »

and whoring, died there in the month of August in
sixteen hundred seventy and two: whereujxm he
was buried by the name of Dr. Higham on the
south side of the body of the church tlierc, under
the .seats, on the 23d (lav of the same monti). One
Job. Higham hath published alnxik cjdicd A Look-
ing-glass for l^oyalty, printed 1675. oct. [Bodl.
8vo. 1*. 2. Art.] but he is not to be taken for the
same with the former, nor for another Job. Higham
a Roman catholic bookseller of S. Omers living in
the reign of K. James I. who translated from Spanish
into Engli.sh, Meditations upon the Mysteries (if
our holy Faith. S. Omers 1619, in twOj or more,
tomes in qu.

(Cop])e also wrote the following, which is a com-
pound of nonsense and fanaticism :

Some sweet Sips of some spirituall Wine, sweetly
and freely dropping Jrom, one Cluster of Grapes,
brought between tivo upon a Staffe^from Spirituall
Canaan (the Land of the lAving ; the Living Lord)
to A late Egyptian, and nozv bezvildered Israelites.
And to pp lU'ON a late converted Jew. Who must
(no longer) hunger or hanker after tlie Flesh-pots
of the Land of Egypt (which is tlie House of
Bondage) xehere they durst not minish ought fro^n
their Bricks of their daily Taske, but look for, and
hasten to spirituall Canaan (the Living Lord)
which is a iMnd of large Liberty, the House of
Happi7iess, where, like the Lord's Lilly, they toile
not, but grotv in tlie Land flowing zcith such Wine,
Milke, and Honey. Or One of tlie Songs of Sion
sung immediately, occasioned mediately by' a Pro-
phesie and Vi.sion of one of the LorcTs Handmaids
and young men, Mrs. T. P. and caprcssed by lier
hi an Epistle to A. C. An Extract whereiifis here
inserted, zaith a Reveluticm and Interpretation
thereof as from the Lord. London, 1649, 12rao.
Bodl." 8vo. C. 75. Line]

HENRY WHISTLER, an Oxfordshire man
l)om, was elected scholar of Trinity college \G0\,
aged 16 years, and four years after was made fellow
thereof. So that taking the degree of master of
arts, he entred into holy orders, became rector of
Little Whitnam in Berks, bach, of divinity 1615,
and about that time rector of Whitchurch in the
south part of Oxfordshire, near to which place he
was born. He hath wiitten and published a rapso-
dical piece entit.

Ai7n at an Upshot foor Infont Baptism by the
good Will of Christ, as Priest, Proj)het, and King,
kc. Lond. 1653. qu. [Bo<ll. 4to. W. 1. Th. Seld.1
He died in sixteen hinidred seventy and two, and
v,as buried in the chancel of his church at Whit,
church before-mention'd. Over bis grave is this in-
scription, ' Here lyeth the body of Henry Whistler
Baciielor of Divinity, who departed this Life the
24th Day of Aug. in the Year of our Lord 16T2,
in the 86th Year of his Age, having been Rector of.
this Parish 56 Years.'

3 q

1672.

1672.

963

NYE.

PHILIP NYE was bom of a genteel family in
Sussex,* entred a commoner of Brasen-nose college
21 July 1615, aged 19 years or thereabouts, but
making no long stay there, he removed to Magd.
hall, w-liere being put under the tuition of a puri-
tanical tutor, continuetl till he had taken the degrees
in arts. About that time he entered into noly
orders, and had some cure bestowed on him, but
where, unless in S. Michael's church in Cornhill,
[503] Lf)nd. where I find him in 1630, I cannot justly
tell.' But so it was, that he being schisniatically
enclined, did, with others of his persuasion, leave
his cure, purposely to avoid the censures of episcopal
consistones, and went beyond the seas into Holland
alxiut 1633, where continuing for the most part at
Arnheim in Gelderland, till about the latter end of
1640, at which time the members of the parliament
(afterward called the long parliament) were very
dominant and prevailing, he returned, and became
, soon alter by the favour of Edward lord Kimlwlton,

, ' (about that time earl of Manchester [a zealous

enemy to the king^]) minister of Kimbolton in
Huntingdonshire : and tho' he then and before
shew'd himself a severe censurer of bishops, and
those of the episcopal clergy for medling in civil af-
fairs, as cxcentric to their calling, yet he, with Hugh
Peters, Stephen Marslial, &c. did go beyond any of
them in that matter, more than for seven years to-
gether. In 1643 he was appointed one of the as-
sembly of divines, became a groat champion for the
presbyterian cause, and a zealous assertor of the
solemn league and covenant. In July the same
year he, with Stephen Marshall, (whose daughter
tie had taken to wife) were sent by the parliament
into Scotland to expedite their covenant, where in
set speeches he ' told the people that ' they were to
enter into such a covenant and league, as would
never be forgotten by them and their posterity, and
lx>th have occasion to remember it with joy.'' Also
that ' such an oath it is, as for matter, persons, and
other circumstances, that the like hath not been in
any age, sufficiently warranted by both human and
divine story ; for as God did swear for the salvation
of men and kingdoms, so kingdoms must now swear
for the preservation and salvation of kingdoms, to
establish a saviour Jesus Christ in England,' &c.
After his return both houses of parliament took the
covenant 25 of Sept. the same year ; at which time
Nye made some observations from the pulpit touch-
ing the .said covenant, shewing the warrant of it

■• [The antlent scat of the Nyes in Sus.sex is called Hayes,
marc Slinjjfoid. A John Nye of Sussex, son of Hen. Nye,
minister of Clapham in the same county, of Magd. hail ast.
14, an. 1634. Wood, MS- Note in Aahvwle.']

* [He was ejected, says Calainy (/y>c/frfMif!fs/^«, ii, 29,)
from S. Bartholomew, Exchange ; but I do not find him re-
corded by Ncwcourt as having ever been «n incumbent of
that piirish.]

^ [Wood, MS- in Ashmole. Evidently intended by the
author to be inserted in the text.j

' Merc. Aul. in Oct. 1043- p. (JIO.

from scripture, and was aliout the same time partly
rewardecl for liis g(X)d service with the rectory of
Acton near London, in the place of Dr. Dan. Feat-
ley ejected. But soon after disliking the proceedings
of the said assembly of divines, he dissented from
them for a time, as others did, being incited there-
unto by certain politicians, with promises of reward,
especially if they would oppose them and their in-
tended discipline to be settled. So that then closing
with the rising party, the independents, especially
with the grandees of the army, he did, by their
favour, hold rich ofl^ccs, and his counsel in pohtical
aftiiirs was often used by them. In Dec. 1647 he
with Stephen Marshall, were sent by them to the
king at Carisbrook Castle in the isle of Witjht, with
the commissioners then appointed to carry the four
bills (the four dethroning votes) and had for their
pains 500/. a piece given to them. About that time
also, he was employed by the .said gi'ardecs to get
subscriptions from the apprentices in I^ondon and
factious people against a personal treaty with the
king, while the citizens of that place were petition-
ing for one : Sec more in Jos. Caryl. In April
also the next year, he with the said Marshall and
Jos. Caryl were employed by the independents to
invite the secured and secluded members to sit in
the house again, but they effected nothing. In 1653
he was appointed one of the triers, or rather Spa-
nish inquisitors, for the approlwition of public
preachers ; in which office he acted the politician so
much, that he did not only get his son to be clerk
to them, but also enriched himself with bribes,
under-hand dealing, and with a living of 400/. per
an. by the help of the said Marshall, one of that
number. In 1654 he, with Dr. Laz. Seaman, Sam.
Clark, Rich. Vines, Ob. Sedgwick, Jos. Caryl, &c.
were appointed assistants to the commissioners ap-
pointed by parliament to eject such whom they then
called scandalous and ignorant ministers and school-
masters, ill the city of London, where he cspeciallv,
and they acted with no little rigor to the utter un-
doing of many loyal persons. In 1660, after his
majesty's restoration, it was debated liy the healing
parliament for several hours together, whether he
and John Goodwin that infamous and blackmouth'd
independent, should be excepted for life, because
they had acted so highly (none more except Hugh
Peters) against the king, and had been instrumental
in bringing all things into confusion. At length it
came to this result, that ' if Philip Nye, clerk,
should after the first of September in the same year
accept or exerci.se anv office ecclesiastical, civif, or
military, he should to all intents and ptii-jxises in
law stand as if he had been totally excepted from
life.' In Nov. 1662 he was vehemently suspected
to be in that plot, for which George Philips, Tliomas
Tongue, &c. were exwutcd, but how he freed him-
self from that siisjiicion I know not. Sure it is that
he was a most dangerous and setlitious person, a
jx)litic pulpit driver of independency, an insatiable

NYE.

my

escuricnt after rkJics, and what not, to raise a family
and to licap up wealth. He liatli written,

Letter Jrorti Scotland to his Brethren in Eng-
land conrerninff hit S'liccess of Affairs there.
Lond. 1645. qu. Stcpli. Marshall's name is also
subscribed to it.

Exhortation to tlie Taking of the solemn League
and Covenant, for lie formation and Defence of Re-
ligion, &c. Printed at Lond. in Feb. IG^S, and

there aj^ain once or twice. That edit, which came
out in 1645 is in tw.

The Ex'cellcnry and Lawfulness of the solemn
League and Covenant, set forth in a Speech to the
H. of Commons and the reverend Assembly of
Ministers, at the Taking of the said Covenant, 25
Sept. 1643. Lond. 1660. 2d edit. qu.

Apologetical Narration submitted to the honour-
able Houses (f Parliament. Lond. 1643. qu. In
this narration are joyned with Phil. Nye, others, as
Thomas Goodwin, Sidracli Simpson, Jerem. Bur-
rouglis, and Will. Bridge, all formerly in exile, but
tlien members of the assembly of divines. In an
answer to this by Anon, 'tis said that it was wiitten
by Tho. Goodwin and Phil. Nye only, as the title
of the said answer tells you thus, An Anatomy of
Independency : or, a brief Commentary and mo-
derate Discourse upon The Apologetical Narration
of Mr. Tho. Goodwin and Mr. Phil. Nye. Lond.
1644. qu.

An Epistolary Discour.ie about Toleration.
Lond. 1644. qu. In this discourse are joyned with
him Tho. Gtwdwin and Sam. Hartlib.^

The Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven andPoxoer
titer eof, according to the Word of God, &c. Lond.
1644. sec. edit. ' Thom. Goodwin had also a hand
in this book.

Mr. Anih. Sadler examined, or his Disguise
discovered ; sheioing the gross Mi.itakes, and most
)U)to?-ious Fulshoods in his Dealing with the Com-
missioners for Approbation of jMblie Preachers in
his Inquisitio Anglicana, &c. I^ond. 1654. qu.
Tho' no name is set to this pamphlet, yet 'twas

generally reported that it was wrote by Job. Nye
ach. of arts of Magd. coll. and clerk to the said
triers or commissioners, assisted therein by his
father.

IVie Principles of Faith, presented by Tho.
Goothoin, Ph. Nye, c^rf. to the Committee of Par-
liament for Religion, by Way of Explanation to the
Proposals fur Propagating the Gospel. Lond. 1654.
qu.

Beams of former Light, di,icovering how evil it
is to impose doubtful and di.<<j)utable Forms for
Practices upon Ministers, especially under the
Penalty of Ejection for Noncorformity unto the
same, &c. Lond. 1660. (jii.

* [Sam. Harilib a presbyterian Dutchman, a witness
aaainst Lauil, l6!4 : as in Tlie llisl. of I he Troubles (SfTryall
uf IVtll. Laud, cap. 40, page 3V7- V\'ooD, MS. Note in
Ailimole.']

Case of great and present Use, Ssc. — Printed
1677. oct.

The Lawfulness of ' the Oath (f Supremacy, and
Power of the King in Eccle-iiastical Affairs, with
Qu. Elizabetlis Admonition, &c. Lond. 168J3. qu.
It was then reprinted, and in 1687 lieing pnnted
again, it was dedicated by Henry Nye, the author's
son, to king James II.

Vindicattcm of Dissenters ; proving that their
particular Congregations are not inconsistent with
the King's Supremacy in Ecclesiastical Affairs —
Printed with 77«' Laiofiilness, &c. 1683.

Some account of the Nature, Constitution and
Power of Ecclesiastical Courts — Printed with the
former al.so, an. 1683.

The Lawfulness of Hearing thepublic Ministers
(f the Church of England : proved by Phil. Nye
ajidJohn Robinson. Lond. 1683. qu. [Bodl. C. 10.
12. Line] He hath also a sermon extant preached
before the citizens of London, an. 1659— -Printe<l
that year in qu. and perhaps more ; and .something
About Catechising, which I have not yet seen. He
died in the parish of S. Mich. CornhiU, or near it,
in Lond. in the month of September, in sixteen hun-
dred seventy and two, and was buried on the 27th day
of the said month in the upper vault under part of
the said church of S. Michael. I have been in-
formed bv those that knew this Mr. Nye, that ' he
had much more moderation in his last years, than he
ever before shewed.' To which I then made answer
that ' good reason lie had so to be, because he was
altogether incapacitated from being otherwise.'

[Mr. Wood hath omitted the most material pam-
phlet of Mr. Nye, which is The Case of Philip Nye
Miui.ster, humbly tendred to the Consideration of
Parliament, one sheet in 4io. wherein he answereth
these olijectioiis against himself; ' That he ax'teil as
a chief man in the commission I'or approbation of
pul)lic preachers ; tlierein exercised more than epis-
copal authority,; placed and displaced what minis-
ters he pleased generally thro'out the nation : 2.
That he stopped the cause of justice by his jwwer
with the protector, so that patrons wronged had no
remedy by law : 3. That persons presented by jia-
trons were refused, tho' ever so worthy, that he
might get livings for himself and his friends : 4.
That he hath gotten a great estate by bribes taken
by himself and son in the disposing of livings.—
Concluding, That he has been a preacher 40 years,
now infirm, and in the 65th year of his age, a wife
and 3 children to be provided for, &c.' Penes me,
Kennet.
Add l)esides

The King's Aut/tority in dispen,nng with Eccle-
■liastical Laws, asserted and vindicated. By tlie
late reverend Philip Nye, a congregational Divine.
London, 1687. 4to. Ded. to king James by his son
Henry Nye. Bodl. C. 8. 42. Line.

He was the principal man in the managing the
meeting of the congregational churches at the Savoy,
3(^2

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9t»7

NYE.

WILKINS.

by the protector's order, where the Declaration of
the Faith and Order and Practice in the congregn-
tionnl Churches in Enghtnd was agreed ii|X)n, and
consented unto, bv their eldei-s and messengers.
The meeting was 6ct. 12, 1658, and The Declara-
tion was printed 1659, in 4to. This Declaration
was in the year following translated into Latin, by
jirofessor Hornhcck, and jjuhlisird at the end of his
Kpistola ad Durwum dc Independentismo.^

Calaniv ' says that Nye had a coni))leat History
of the old Puritan Dissenters, in manuscript, which
was burnt at the fire of I^ondon.

Butler alludes to Philip Nye's Thanksgiving
Beard, as he terms it, in Hndihras's Heroic Ejnstle
to his Lady, and in a more particular manner in one
of his poems published by Thyer, under the title of
Butler's Remains, vol. i. page 177.]

JOHN WILKINS, son of Walter Wilkins ci-
tizen and goldsmith of Oxon, was Ixirn at Fawlslev
near to Daventry in Northamptonshire, in the
house of his motner''s father Jon. Dod the deca-
logist, educated in grammar learning under Edward
Silvester a noted Grecian, who taught a private
school in Allsaints parish in Oxon, entred a student
in New inn in Easter term, an. 1627, aged 13 years ;
but making no long stay there, he was removed to
Magdalen hall imder the tuiticm of Mr. Job. Tombes,
and as a member thereof t(M)k the degrees in arts.
Afterwards entring into holy order-s, he became
chaplain to William lord Say, and afterwards to
Charles count palatine of the Rhine and prince
elector of the empire, with whom he continued for
some time. At length upon the breaking out of the
rebellion, he closed with the yjrcsbyterians, having
always before been puritanically affected, and took
the covenant. Afterwards being designed by the
committee for the reformation of this university to be
warden of Wadham college, he was actually created
bachelor of divinity in the Pembrokian creation, 12
April 1648, and the next day was put into posses-
.sion of his wardenship in the place of a loyal person
then ejected. The next year lie was created doctor
of divinity, and about that time took the engage-
ment, that is, to be faithful to the commonwealth of
England as it was tlien established without a king
or house of lords. In 1656 or therealwuts, he took
to wife Robina the widow of Peter French, some-
time canon of Christ Church, and sister to Oliver
Cromwell protector of England : Which marriage
being contrary to the statutes of Wadham college,
because they prohibit the warden thereof from mar-
rying while he is warden, he obtained a dispensation
from Oliver to keep it notwithstanding. Afterwards
by the favour of Richard Cromwell, who succeetled
Oliver in the protectorship, he had the headship of
Trinity college in Cambridge confer/d upon him

» [Calainy, Ejeclcil Miuiftcrs, ii, 29, 30.]
' [Ibid, ib. page 30.]

I

(ujx)n the death of Dr. Jo. Arrowsmith) in the
beginning of 1659,* which is the Ik'sI preterment in
that university. Rut being ejected thence the next
car, about the time of his ii)ajesty''s restoration, he
lecaine preacher, as it seems, to the honourable
society of Greys inn, minister of S. Laurence in tlie
Jewry in London, in the place of Dr. Ward, t«)k
the oaths again, which he before had taken, when
hp took his academical degrees, and entred into the
ministry, and became a member of the royal society,
of and to which he was one of the council, antl at
length a considerable benefactor. Soon after he
was made dean of Rippon (in the room, as I sup-
pose, of Thomas Doa, D. D. rector of Malpass m
Cheshire, and sometime chaplain inordinary to king
James and king Charles I. who tlying the 10th of
March 1647, was l)uried in the church of Malpass)
and at length by the endeavours of George duKe of
Ruckingham [afavourerof fanaticismeand atheisme']
then in favour with king Charles II. he obtained
upon the death of Dr. George Hall the bishoprick
of Chester, to which he was consecrated in the chap-
pel kt Ely-house in Holborn on the 15th of No-
vember 1668, by Dr. Cosin bishoj) of Durham, Dr.
Laney bishop of Ely, and Dr. Ward bishop of Sa-
lisbury ; at which time Dr. John Tillotson preacher
of Lincolns inn,* delivered an excellent sermon upon
that occasion. This Dr. Wilkins was a |)erson en-
dowed with rare gifts, he was a noted theologist and
jireacher, a curious critic in several matters, an ex-
cellent mathematician and experimentist, and one as
well seen in mechanisms and new philosojihy (of
which he was a great * promoter) as any of his
time. He also highly advanced the study and per-
fecting of astronomy, both at Oxford whilst he was
warden of Wadham college, and at London whilst
he was of the royal society ; and I cannot say to the
contrary that there was any thing tleficient in him
but a constant mind and setled principles. Dr. Gil-
bert Burnet tells « us that this doctor 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

' [18 Mar. 1C68. Placet vos ut Johannes Wilkins. M'
coUegii S. et individ. Triiiiiaiis apiid no.*, ct Seihiis Warde
rtspective D"* in sacra ilieoldgia a|)ud Oxonienses incorpo-
rentiir hie apud iios C'aiUabrigieiises, el ul sint ci leputcutur
apiid DOS iisdeni gradu, anno el ordine. Rrg. Acad. Cant.

An. l058, Fobr. 2.^. Dr. Joh. .\rrowsniith buried. Reg.
Omnium Stinct. Cant.

So Dr. Wilkins probably succeeded him in March, about
ihc same lime tlial he was incorporated, the same year.
Baker.]

3 [Wood, HIS. Insertion in Ashmole.'\

* [Jo. Tillolson admitted in Clare hall Apr. 23, l647;
admitted fellow of the same 1(150, which year he commenced
A.B. Baker.]

■■ See in 'I'he Uisl.fif the Royat Society, &c. Lnnd. I667.
qu. Written bvTho. Sprat, part 2.

« In The Life and Death 0/ Sir Mai. Hale Knight, See.
Loud. lOS'i. in a large oct. p. 69.

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970

one or more of the royal society, say that ' all that
knew bishop Wilkins must needs acknowledge him
for his universal insight into all parts of learning,
solid jiulgment, rare prudence and dexterity in the
management of worldly affairs and transactions,
universal charity, ingenuity, temper .and moderation
of spirit, U) have left behind him but few ei|uals,''
&c. " Sir Peter Pett in his epistle to the reader
" before Dr. Barloio's Genuine Remains, saith
*' thus of bishop Wilkins. He was an ornament
" both of that university and the English nation,
" anil one who adorn'd the gosjx^l it self by his
" great intellectual and moral endowments." To
pass by the characters given of him in discourse by
the great men of the church of England, as by arch-
bishop Sheldon, bishop Fell, archbishop Dolben,
&c. who did malign him for his wavering and mi-
constant mind in religion, which I know will be di.s-
pleasing to many, I shall give you a catalogue of his
works.

Th£ Discovery of a new World : or, a Discomse
tending to prove tfuit His prohahle there may he
another hahttahle World in the Momi. Lond. 1638.
40. [Bodl. 8vo. A. C3. Th.l oct. and there again in
1684, which is the fourth edit.

Discourse concerninf^ the Possibility of a Passage

to tlie World in the Moon.'' I'nnted with the

Discovery.

Discourse concerning a new Planet : tending to
prove that 'tis probable our Earth is one of the
Planets. Ixmd. 1640. in oct. The autlior's name is
not put to any one of these three things ; but they
are so well known to be his, that Langrcnus in his
map of the mmjn (dedicated to the king of Spain)
names one of the spots of Lis selenographick map
after his name.

Mercury, or, the secret Messenger : shewing Jioxv
a Man may itith Privacy and Speed communicate
hi^ Thoughts to a Friend at any Distance. Lond.
1641, &c. [1694, Hodl. 8vo. S. 197. Art.] The
publication of which was occasioned by the writing
of a little thing called Nuncius inanimatus, by Fr.
Godwin.

Mathematical Magic : or, the Wonders tJutt may
be peijhrmedhy mechanicid Geometry, in txvo Books.
Lond. 1648. [Bodl. 8vo. N. 34. Ait.] 1680. oct.
The last edit, hath the author's 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. 5l'. 53. 56. [1669, Bodl. Rawl. 8vo.
197.] and 1675. oct. " 1693. 7th edit, with many
" additions to it by John lord bishop of Norwich
" and Dr. John Williams of St. Mildred's Poultrey."
[Bodl. Rawl. 8vo. 414.]

Discourse concerning the Beauty of Providence,
in all the rugged Passages of it. Lond. 1649. in

■ [When at Wadliam ceil!, lie auempteil lo make the art
of ll)iiig practicable. Watts.]

tw. [Bodl. Svo. B. 24. Th. BS.J Lond. 1677. fifth
edit, in oct.

Discourse comcerning the Gift of Prayer, shew-
ing what it is, wherein it consists, and hoxo far it is
tUtainablc by I>idu,<ttry, Src. Lond. 1653. [Bodl.
8vo. W. a'Tli. BS.]' and 1674. oct. " 1694. 7th
edition."

Es.iuy towards a real Character and a Philo,io-
phical Language.^ Lond. 1668. fol. [Bodl. L. 2. 14.
Art.] An account of which is in the Philosophical
Transactions, num. 35. The reatler may be pleased
now to know that one George Dolgarno a Scot,
wrote a btxjk entit. Ars Signorum, vulgo Cliaracter
univer.mlis ^ Lingua philosophicu. Lond. 1660. 61.
oct. This book, nefore it went to the press, the au-
thor eoninuinicated 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 Aberdeen, and bred in
the university at New Aberdeen, taught a pnvat€
grammar school with good success for about thirty
years together, in the parishes of S. Michael and S.
Mary Magdalen in Oxford, wrote also— Z)if/a#cafo-
cophus : or, ilie deaf and dumb Man\<i Tutor.
Oxon. in oct. and dying of a fever on the 28th of
August 1687, aged 60 or more, was buried in the
north body of the church of S. Mary Magdalen
in the suburbs of Oxon. Dr. Wilkins hath also
written,

An Alpliahetical Dictionary : wlierein all English
Words according to their various Significations,
are cither referred to their Places in the Philoso-
phical Tables, or explained by such Woi-ds as are
in those Tables- This is printed with the Essay.

Of the Principles and Duties of natural Religion,
two Books. Lond. 1675. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. A. 95. Th.]
Published by Jo. Tillotson, D. D.

Sermons preaclied upon several Occasions. Lond.
1682. oct. They are in number 15, and were pub-
lished by the said Dr. TiUotson. Our learned and
critical auUior 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 19th of
November in sixteen hundred seventy and two, and
was buried on the 12tli of December following under
tlie nordi wall of the chancel of the church of St.
Laurence in the Jewry before-mentioif d : At whidi
time Dr. William 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 epistle dedic. of Dr. Seth
Ward made to Dr. Jonatli. Goddard, put before the
Inquisitio in BulUcddi Astronomiw Fundamenta.

[2 Junii 1637, Johannes Wilkins cler. A. M. ad

« [V. pa. 1. of the preface lo this book, //7rt'a/(sf/ormfr/y
puihslied, proposing tke Hebrew Totigue to ie lite Jitlett
ffound. Wink for 0ns Design. Wa.vley.]

« [This is a mistake : he died of an equally painful disease,
a suppression of urine, the same that afterwards proved fatal •
to our author himself.]

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1678.

971

WILKINS.

MAYNE.

vie. de Fawslcy, ad pres. Ric. Kniglitley, arm. Rci^.
Dec. Ep. Petrih.

1661, Uw. 10, .Toll. Wilkins S. T. P. adiniss. ad
eccl. dc Cranford, com. Middl. jht mort. Tlio. Fuller
S. T. V. ad pres. Geo. baron de Uardlcy. 7^«f.
Lond.

1662, 11 Apr. .lull. 'SVilkliis S. T. T. admiss. ad
vicariam S. Laurcntii Jury, jxt promot. I'>dw. Rey-
nolds S. T. P. ad episc. Norwic. ad pres. regis.
Ibid.

1666, 7 Nov. Joh. Wilkins S. T. P. collatus et
admissus ad rect. de Polehrook, com. Northampton.
Reg. Henshaxc, Petrib.

1667, 19 Jul. Joli. Wilkins S. T. P. coll. ad preb.
de Chamberlains Wood.

1668, 13 Dec. Ben. AVhichcot S. T. P. admis.<
ad vicar. S. Laurentii in veteri Judaismo, per ces-
sioneni Joh. Wilkins S. T. P. ad pres. regis.

1668-9, 12 Jan. Hen. Hibcrt S. T. P. admiss. ad
preb. de Chamberlanes Wode, per promot. Joh.
Wilkins S. T. P. ad episc. Cestr. ad pres. regis.

Bishop Wilkins was a leiu'ned man, and a lover
of such : he was of a comely aspect and gentleman-
like behaviour ; he had been bred in the court, and
was allso a piece of a traveller, having twice seen the
prince of Orange's court at the Hague, in his jour-
ney to, and return fi-om, Heydelburg, whither he
went to wait upon the prince elector palatine, whose
chaplain he was in Engknd. Seth Ward, at his first
coming to Oxford, made choice of Wadliani coll. to
reside in, invited thereto by tlio fame of Dr. Wil-
kins, as were many others. The names of those
who met in the warden's lodgings to make philoso-
phical experiments were, Mr. Rob. Boyle, Mr.
Math. Wren, Dr. WiUis, Dr. Goddard, Dr. AVallis,
Dr. Bathurst, Mr. Rooke, &c. Kennet.

Engraved portraits of Wilkins are

1. By A. Blooteling, from a picture by M. Beale,
folio.

2. By R White, 8vo.

3. By Start, 8vo.

4. Without any name, prefixed to his Art of
Flying.']

JASPER MAYNE made his first entry on the
stage of this transitory world in a market town in
Devonshire called Hatherlagh,an. 1604, entredinto
Christ Church in the condition of a servitor, 1623,
being then encouraged in his studies by Dr. Duppa.
Afterwards he was chosen into the immber of stu-
dents, took the degree in arts, holy orders, and
liecame a quaint ))reaclH'r and noted poet. At
length, by the favour of the dean and canons of the
said house, he was made vicar of Cassington near
Woo<lstock, and of Pyrton near Watlington, in
Oxfordshire. In the beginning of the rebellion,
when the king took up his alxKle in Oxon, he was
one of those many divines that were ajijxiinted to
preach before him, the court, and ])arliament, and
for his reward was actually created doctor of divi-

nitv, 1646. Two vears after lie M-as deprived of all
riglit ho had to his student's place, ami s(Hm after of
the vicariilge of Pyrton, and at length of Ca.s.sington.
So that iieing in a manner put to his shifts, he was
preferr'd to lie cha])lain to the earl of Devonshire,
and so conse(|iK'ntly to bo a companion with Thomas
Hobbes of ^lalmslmrv, botwivn wliom there never
was a right undorstanding. j\ftor the king's return
ho was made canon of t^irisl Church in July 1660,
and about that time was not only restored to his vi-
caridges, but was made archdeacon of Chichester, in
the place of Dr. Hammond deceased, and chaplain
in ordinary to his majesty. All which he kept to
his dying day, and was ever accounted a witty and
a facetious companion. He hath written and pub-
lished.

The Citt/ Match ; a Comedy. Oxon. 1639, [Bodl.
T. 19. Jur. Seld.] fol. [1658, qu. 1659- oct.]

The Amorous War, Tr. Cmnedy. Oxon. 16.38.
qu. 59. [oct.] '

Several sermons, as (1) Sermon concernbtg Unity
and Agreement, in Carfax Church in Oxon. 9

Aug. 1646; on 1 Cor. 1. 10. Printed 1646.

qu. (2.) Serm. against false Prophets, on Ezek.
22. 28. — Printed 1647. qu. (3.) Serm. against
Schism, or the Separations of thc.ie Times ; on
Heb. 10. 24, 25. Preached in the Church of Wat-
lington in Oxfordshire, Kith sorne Interruption, 11
Sept. 1652, at a public Dispute held there betzceen
Jasp. Maync D. D. and one Joh. Pendarves an
Anabaptist. Lond. 1652. qu. See more in J. Pen-
darves, col. 419.

A late Sermon againstjalse Prophets vindkated
by Letter from the causeless Aspersions of Mr.
Franc. Chcynell. — Printed 1647. qu. See more in
Fbanc. Cheynei.l, col. 703.

Tlie People'' s War examined according to the
Principles of Scripture and Reason, &:c. In Ansicer
to a Letter .wnt by a Person of Quality, who desired

Satisfaction. Printed 1647. qu. [Bodl. 4to. C.

5. Th. BS.] These two last things, witii the three
sermons betbre-mention'd, were commonly bound
together, and sold with this general title to them,*
Certain Sermons and Letters (rf Defence and Reso-
lution, &c. Lond. 1653. (ju. One J. M. D. D.
wrote a bixjk entit. Difference about Church Go-
vernment, &c. Lond. 1646. qu. Whether written
by our author Jasjo. Mayne I cannot justly tell,
neither whetlier J. M. of Oxon, author of Policy
unveiled: or Maxims and Reasons of State, printed
in qu. in the times of usurpation, be the same with
Jasp. Mayne, or another. Qu.

' [The first edition was 4to. iGlS, to which a new title-
page was placed dated lf)A8, and the Cily Match placed with
it under ihc title Two Plaies. /he Cily Match a Comady,
and the Amorous H'arre, a Trugy-cnmoedy ; lolh long since
written by J. M. nfCh. Ch. in Oxow.]

' [They were all published with a general title page in
l')53, Certaine Sermons and Letters of Defence and Resolu-
tion, to some of the talt Controversies of our Times. Bodl.
410. U. 74. Th.]

MAYNE.

GETSIUS.

974

Couch ad Acad. Oxnn. pro More hahitn, in-
choante Termitio, 27 Mnii 16G2,- in Gal. 5. 1.
" Lontl. 1662. (|u;' [Bodl. C. 8. 20. Linc.J

Sermon at the Consecration of' Herbert Lord
Bishop (>f Hereford; o?j 1 Tiw. 4. 14. Lond. 1662.
qu. He also did render into English from the
original, part ofLnciaii's Dialogues, An. 1638 : To
which afterwards he adjoyncd tlie other D'udogne.i,
as they were formerly translated by Franc. Hicks.

Lond. 1663. 64. fol ; And translated from

Lat. into Engl. Dr. John Donn\s epigrams, which
our author Mayne entit. A Sheaf' of nmcellavij
Epigrams. Lond. 1652. cx;t. He made his
exit on the 6t]i of December in sixteen hundred
seventy and two, and was buried in the second isle
joyning, on the north side, to the choire of the ca-
thedral of Christ Church in Oxon. Over his grave
was laid s(X)n after a marble stone, at the charge of
his executors Dr. Robert South and Dr. Jo. Lani-
phire ; the short epita])li on which you may see in
H'lst. 4- Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 282. b. The
said Dr. Mayne by his will gave 500/. towards the
rebuilding of S. Paul's cathedral, and 100/. a ]5iecc
to his vicaridges of Cassington and Pyrton, but no-
thing to the ])lacc of his education, hecause he (as
Dr. Jo. Wall had done) had taken some distaste for
affronts received from the dean of his college, and
certain students, encouraged by him, in their grin-
ning and saucincss towards him.

[Mayne is supposed to have been the author of
some lines ' on worthy master Shakspeare and his
poems,' which were first printed in the folio edition
of Shaksi^oare's jjlays, 1632, with the signature
I. M. S. Jasjier ]Mayne, student.]

" JOHN DANIEL GETSIUS alias Goetz,
" was born at Odernhcim in the palatinate of the
" Rhine, and descendetl from the antient ' and noble
" family of the barons of Goetz, who, upon the
" account of religion in the persecution of the Albi-
" genscs, were forced to leave their native country
" of France above 400 years ago, and to fly into
" Germany for refuge, where they settled in the pa-
" latinate beforo-mention''d, and afterwards lived
" and flourished in great riches and honour till the
" house of Austria seized tliat principality, and
" made it uneasy for them to live in it any longer.
" From the said palatinate they went into Hesse,
" where they had large possessions, (Vwside a greater
" estate in the higher palatinate) but the father of
" our J. D. Getsius dying in the infancy of his son,
" his wife took care of the child to have him early
" and well educated in the principles of rehgion,
" under the care and tuition of D. Tossanus. Af-
" terwards he was sent to the university of Mar-
" purg, where he took the degree of master of arts,
" (which they call there doctor of philosophy) an.

3 " So have 1 been informed by letters from his son named
" Walter Getsius vicar of Brixham near Dartmouth in De-
" vonshirc."

" 1618, at which time it was besieged by the enemy,
" as Dr. Ijudov. Crociiis, chief professor of that
" university, tells us, in the certificate under his
" hand for the taking of the said degree. Soon
" after our author was constrainetl to cjuit Hesse,
" because of the [)revailing power of the house of
" Austria, and the barbarous outrages coimnitted
" by the armies, and thereupon made his escape,
" with some difliculty, to Vetera Castra to liis uncle
" Justus Baronius his mother's brother. This Ba-
" ronius, * by the way it must be known, did quit
" his sirname (Calvin) when he left the protestant
" religion, in which he was educated, and turning
" afterwards a zealous papist and persecutor of the
" protestants, did in hatred to the name of Calvin
" of Geneva, assume the name of* Baronius ; who
" being a dean received his kinsman at his first
" coming very courteously, hoping to win him over
" to the Roman catholic religion by preferment,
" and by promises of restoring liis family to the cs-
" tate that had lieen taken from it ; but the nephew
" being well principled, and inheriting his ancestor's
" zeal and regartl for the protestant religion, de-
" spised the teinjitation, and thereupon the uncle
" turn'd him out of his house with indignation, yet
" when his anger was somewhat allayed he sent his
" servant to take care of him, and to defray the
" charges he was at in the public inn, to which place
" he retired for a time when he was turn'd out.
" Soon after he went to Holland, and thence to
" England, and making some short stay in London,
" went thence to Cambridge the latter end of 1619,
" where he tarried more than two years, and applied
" himself to his studies under the reverend and
" learned Dr. Joh. Preston ; but having not where-
" withal to subsist in that university, he was ad-
" vised by his excellency Rusdorfius the king of
" Bohemia's ambassador to go to the said king then
" at the Hague, which was in the year 1623, but
" before his departure Dr. Jerome lieale gave him
" an ample testimonial of his piety, learning and
" good behaviour under his hand and the seal of
" his office. Afterwards upon his address to that
" king, his majesty thought it best for him to return
" to England, and thereupon sent with him coin-
" niendatory letters to tlie university of Oxon much
" in his favour ; whicli being baclc'd w ith others
" from the most noble William earl of Pembroke
" chancellor of that university, proved so beneficial
" to him and to four more of Ins countrymen, viz.
" Paul Wonecer, Marc. Zeigler, Joh. Hoffman,
" and Joh. Hen. Voghtius, niention'd also in the
" said letters, that each of them had a pension of
" 18/. ]X'r an. for the true payment of wliich sums
" Dr. William Piers then vicechancellor. Dr. R.
" Corbet dean of Christ Church, and other doctors

•• [Vkl. Cnntubomana, e.\.Tia\K)\U Poemala Slromala, pag.

123. LOVEDAV.]

■* " See in Dr. Tho. Morton's preface to his book entil. D«-_
" cisio Cunlrovcrsia in Euctiuristia, &c. Cantab. l640. cju."

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DOUGIITIE.

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" of tliat house obliged tlieniselves in a Latin in-
" strumcnt under tlieir resjXK;tive hands. By means
" of this stipend, which was faithfully paid i'our
" years, and with what our author Getsius after-
" wards tfot by teaching Hebrew (in whicii he had
" gotxl skII!) and by keeping likewise ol" pupils,
" which privilege was alloAved him in Exeter college
" by dcK'tor Prideaux rec-tor thereof, who had a
" good respwt and kindness for him, he was enabled
" to continue his studies in that college for about 7
" years; in which time he was admitted to the de-
" gree of master of arts, as he had been before in
" Cambridge, as his son Walter Getsius now vicar
" of Brixham near Dartmouth in Devonsh. hath
" informed me, tho' no such thing i;])pe:irs in the
" registers of this uni\'ersitv. In 1629 our author
" by the advice of Dr. Prideaux went to Dartn)outh
" before-mention'd with one Rob, Jago M. A. of
" Exeter college, where he taught school and
" preached at Townstall the motlier church lor
" about 7 years. Thence he was called away in
" 1636 and presented to the vicaridgc of Stoke Ga-
" briel, distant from Dartmouth about 5 miles,
" where he tiiught school al.so, and bred u]) many
" gentlemen's sons for the university, and others,
" among which was Valent. Greati-akes afterwards
" the famous Irish stroaker, who in gratitude for
" the care he took of him gave him a small annuity
'■ during his life out of his rents in Cornworthy
" near Stoke-Gabriel. When the unnatural war
*■'• broke out between the king and parliament, and
'' prince Maurice sent to reduce Dartmouth to the
" obedience of his majesty, which was accordingly
" done in the beginning of Oct. 1643, the prince
" was pleased to lay his commands on our author
" Getsius his countryman to preach before him at
" Dartmouth, in the absence of the minister who
" sided with the jjarliament, and was fled thence.
" He chose for his text Acts i27. ver. 21, 22. which
" sermon was some years after the occasion of great
" trouble to him, (because that therein he had many
" reflections on the rebels,) for upon their prevailing
" he was complained of to the conmiittee of parlia-
" ment for the loyalty he expressed tiierein, and
" thereupon was hurried to and fro very often, held
" in suspence for a long tin)e, and not only threatned
" to be sent for up to London at Goldsmiths-hall,
" but to be turn'd out of the kingdom for malig-
" nancy. At length by the endeavours of Arthur
•' Upton of Lupton, esq; who was of Exeter college
" in his time, and had a kindness for him, he was
" chsmiss'd with an admonition to live quietly with-
" out meddling with such matters any more that he
" insisted ujx)n in his said sermon. Afterwards he
" lived many years, and continued his diligence and
" laboriousness in preaching and educating of
" youth, whereby he obUiined great Jove and ve-
" ncration from the neighbourhood. He hath
" written,

" Tears shed in the B^talf of his dear Mother

" the Chunk of England, and Iter sad Distractions,
" &c. Ox. 1658. oct. dedicated to three persons, of
" whom Arth. Ujrton before-mention'd was one.
" And left ready fit for the press,

" The Ship in Danger, Sermon on Jets 27. ver.

" 21, 22. It was preached before prince

" Maurice, as I have before told you.

" Sylkdmji omnium Vocum Gnrcarum Nov. Test.
" una cum Etymologia Verhorum, ^ Nomenclatura
" omnium Troporum, Nominum propriorum ^ Vo-
" cabulorum Hebrworitm, Syriacorum, Gra-corum,
" Latinorum, alioriimque, quw in A''. T. occurrunt.
" Composed for the use of youths in schools.

" An Abstract of the Bible in Lat. Heroic Verse

" Comjx)sed also for the use of youth in schools:

" part of which is since lost.

" Treatise about the Quin<]uarticular Contro-
" versy, tlmt was canvased in the Council ofDori.

" All which are now in the hands of Walt.

" Getsius before-mentioned. Our autlior Jo. Dan.
" Getsius died on the 21th of Deceinb. in sixteen
" hundred seventy and two, aged 80 years, and v.as
" buried in his church at Stoke-Gabriel, leaving
" then behind him a son named Daniel," master of
" arts, sometime one of the chaplains of Alls, col-
" lege, then rector of Bigbury in Devonshire, who
" died 28 of November 1691, and Walter before-
" mentioned, sometime master of arts of Exeter coll.
" from whom I had this aci'ount of his father, in
" vindication of what was said of him to be a pres-
" bvterian, in the first edition of this second volume
« p' 416."

JOHN DOUGIITIE was born of genteel
parents ' at Martley near Worcester in Worcester-
shire, educated in grammar learning in Worcester,
under Mr. Hen. Bright, as it seems, and at 16 years
of age, or more, became a stuilent in this universily
in Lent term 1613. After he had taken the degree
of bach, of arts, he was one of those many prime
scholars that were candidates for a fellowship in
Merton coll. an. 1619, and being throughly sifted
by sir Hen. Savile the warden, was forthwith chosen
and made senior of the election, ^f'ter he had
compleated the degree of master of arts, he entred
into orders, and became much frequented for his
edifying sermons. In 1631 he was admitted to the
procuratorial office, but before he had served four
months of that year, he was deprived of it, and the
reason why, is told* you elsewhere. About that
time he became chaplain to the earl of Northum-
berland, and on th.e 11th of Jan. 1633 lie was pre-
sented by the warden and society of Merton college

^ [Dan. Getsius was curaie of Cowlcv, iSsg. Taknek.]
' [Dr. Thomas Doughtie, canon of Winsor, prccei-tor to
the ladies Mary and Amdc daughters of James, (lukc of York,
died Dec. 2, 1701, ;in. 65: buried in St. George's chapel,
Windsor. See his epitaph in Le Neve's Monumeuta Angl.
under 1701. Kennet.I

' In Hist, fs" Auliq. Univ. Oion. lib. I. p. 3.35.

1672.

DOUGIITIE.

BOURNE.

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1672.

to the rectory of Lapwortli in Warwickshire : where
continuing till the beginning of the civil war, he left
all there, purposely to avoid sequestration and im-
prisonment, and forthwith retired to the king at
Oxon. Soon after meeting with Dr. Duppa bisliop
of Salisbury, he preferred him to be lecturer of S.
Edmund's church within tliat city ; where conti-
nuing aliout two years, at which time the king's
forces were routed m the west, he retired to London,
and for some time foimd relief in the house of sir
Nath. Brent then living in Little-Britain. After his
majesty's restoration he became one of the preben-
daries of Westminster, rector of Cheame'' in Surrey,
and was actually created doctor of divinity. His
works are these,

Discourse made May 1. 1627. cmicerning the
Abstruseness of divine Mysteries, together toith our
Knoxvlcdffe of' them ; on Rom. 12. 16. Oxon. 1628.
qu. [Bodl. 4to. E. 4. Th.]

Discourse Feb. 17. 1628. fouchinff Church
Schisms, but the Unanimity/ of Orthodooc Professors ;
on Rom. 16. 17. Printed with the former Dis-
course.

The King's Cause rationally, briejly and plainly
debated, as it -itands de Facta, against the irrational
grotiJidle.w Misprisions of a still deceived Sort of
People. Oxon. 1644, in 6 sh. in qu. [Bodl. C. 14.
5. Line]

Velitationes polcmiccc. Or, polemical .short Dis-
cussions of certain particular and select Questions.
Lond. " 1651. [B(xll. 8vo. B. 114. Line] and"
1652. Oct. The two letters J. D. are only set to it,
and it was then, and is, taken to be of Dough ties
compositicm. There is a great deal of good reading,
and skill in the Greek tongue shew'd m the book.

Analccta sacra ; sive E.rcitrsns Philologici super
diversis sacra: Scripturx Locis, c^-c. Part. 2. Lond.
1658. [Bodl. 8vo. B. 4to. Line] and 1660. in a
thick Oct. He died at Westminster, after he had
lived to be twice a child, on the day of the nativity
of our Saviour in sixteen hundred seventy and two,
and was buried in the abbey church of S. Peter
there, near to the body of Dr. Brian Duppa some-
time bishop of Winchestei-, in the area on the north
side of the chappel of S. Edward. Over his grave
was soon after a stone laid, with this inscription
thereon. ' Johannes Doughtie S. T. D. hujus Eccle-
siaePrebendarius: obiit xxv. Deccmb. MDCLXXII.
aetatis suae Ixxv.'

IMMANUEL BOURNE, a minister's son,'
was bom in Northampton.shire, 27 December 1590,
cntred in Christ Church, an. 1607, but whether in
the condition of a student, commoner or servitor, I

'■' [Insliluiei! 3 Oct. iCfiS. Tanner.]

' [He was the eldest of twelve sons of the rev. Henry
Bourne, who became vicar of East Haddon, Northampton-
fhire, 15g6, and w.ns buried there l(i49. Nichols, Hist, of
t.rice.'tershire, ii, 386 ; Briilgcs, Uisl. tj' Northamptonshire,

Vol.. in.

know not, and took the degrees in arts, that of
master being complcateil not till 1616. About that
time, he, by the favour of Dr. William Piers canon
of Christ Church and rector of S. Christophers
church near the Exchange in London, became
preacher there, and was patronized in his studies
and calling by sir Samuel Tryon, knight, an in-
habitant in that parish.* In 1622 he was made
parson of Ashhover in Derbyshire, which he kept
several years, and wa.s resorted to much by the
puritanical ])arty. At length when the rebellion
broke forth in 1642, he sided with the presbyterians,
and being there molested by the loyal party at J\sli-
over and near it, he went to Lonclon, where he be-
came preacher to the congregation in S. Sepulchre's
church, and was much admired by the bretliren.
In the reign of Oliver, (about 1656), he, by the fa-
vour of those then in authority, became rector of
AValtham in Leicestershire, conformed at his ma-
jesty's restoration, and on the 12th of March 1669
was instituted and inducted into the rectory of Ail-
ston in the said county. This person, who was well
read in the fathers and schoolmen, hatli written and
published these things following.

Several sermons, as (1) The Rainbow, Sermon at
PauFs Cross 10 June 1617 ; on Gen. 9. 13. Lond.
1617. qu. [Bodl. NN. 5. Th.'] (2) The Godly
Maris Guide; on Jam. 4. 13. Lond. 1620. qu.
[Bodl. 4to. C. 79. Th.] (3) The true Way of a
Christian to the new Jerusalem: or, a threejfbld
Demonstration, ^c. on 2 Cor. 5. 17. Lond. 1622.
qu. [Bodl. 4to. W. 30. Th.] (4) Anatomy ofCon-
scicncc, Sfc. A.ssize Serm. at Derby ; on Rev. 20.
11. Lond. 1623. qu. [Bodl. 4to. A. 57. Th.] &c.

A Light /rom Christ, leading unto Christ, by the
Star of his Word. Or, a, divine Directory Jbr Self
Examination and Preparation Jbr the Lord's Sup-
per, &c. Lond. 1645. oct. In another edition or
another title, printed there in a thick oct. the said
book hath this i\\\c,A Light, ^c. Or, the rich Jewel
of Christian Divinity, ^c. by Way of Catechism or
Dialogue.*

- [He dates his True IVay of a Christian ' from my study
at S' Samuel Tryon's, in the parish of St. Christophers,
April 1(122;' and his Goodly Man's Guide to Heaven is ded.
to sir Samuel and luly Elizabeth Tryon.]

^ [Ded. to Robert lord Spencer, baron of Wormlayton.

' Your honorable disposition, right noble lord, in

giuing incourawement to the ministers of Christ, hath em-
boldened this Imle Lirde to shroud herselfe vnder the roofe
of your honorable fauour, and my selfe to dedicate this first-
lingc of my sti«lies vnto your Lordshippe, whom (with a
most thankeful heari) 1 must euer acknowledge my first in-
conrager in my worke, since I haue beene a poore and vn-
v.'orihy labourer in the vineyard of Christ. And if at this
tiviie 1 may obtaine your honorable lone in accepting this
small token of my thankfuliicsse, for those many and \ nde-
served fauours conferred vpon me by your honour, and by
that most noble knight (your right worthy sonne) sir WillLiin
Spencer, 1 shall receiue a most comfortable incitement to
goe one forwards in my studies. — ']

* [This edition, or the title paae, was printed in the year
following, 1646; See it Botll. 8vo. B. 30. Th. BS.]
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BOURNE.

CARYL.

Defence of Scriptures, and the Holy Spirit
apedklng in them, as the chief Judge of Cmitro-
versies of Faith, &c. Lond. 1656. qu. [Bodl. 4to.
B. 5. Th. BS.]

Vindication of the Honour done to the Ma-
gistrates, Ministers 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 qiiaker.
The said Defence and Vindication were both an-
swered by George Fox a ringleader of the quakers,
in his book entit. The great Mystery of tlie great
Whore tinfoldcd, &c. Lond. 1659- fol. p. 127, &c.

Deface and Justification of Minister''s Mainte-
nance by Tithes, and of Infant-Baptism, humane
Learning, and the Szcordo/'thc Magistrate, SfC. 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 Titlies Pi-inted with the Defence

and Justification, &c.

A Gold Cluiin of Directions xcith 20 Gold Links
(f Love topi-eserve Love firm, between Husband and
Wfe, Sec. Lond. 1669- in tw. dedicated to his

f)atron John lord Roos. What other matters he
lath written I know not, nor any thing else of him
only that he dying on the 27th of December in six-
l()72. teen hundred seventy and two, was buried in the

chancel of the church at Ailston befoi-e-mention'd,
and that soon after was a little inscription put over
liis grave, wherein 'tis said that ]>e died in the eighty
second year of liis age.

JOSEPH CARYL was born of genteel parents
in London, became a commoner or sojoumcr of
Exeter college, in the beginning of 1621, aged 17
years, where, by the benefit oi a good tutor and
discipline, he became in short time a noted dis-
putant. In 1627 he proceeded in arts and entring
mto holy orders, exercised his function in, and near,
Oxon for some time. At length, being puritanically
affected,, he became preacher to the honourable so-
ciety 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 covenanter
and a pretender to reformation, he was elected one
of the assembly of divines, among whom he fre-
quently 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 fi)r many
years he carried on the cause without interruption.
In January 1646 he, wth Stephen Marshail, both
by that time notorious indejx;ndents and great siders
with the army raised by the said parliament to
pluck down the king and his party, were appointed
chaplains to the commissionia-s sent by the said par-

liament to the king, then at Newcastle, in order for
an accommodation of pi'ace. Thence, by easy jour-
neys, they accompanietl the king and commissioners
to Holdenby in Northamptonshire ; where his ma-
jesty making some continuance, without any of his
chaplains in ordinary to wait upon him, (l)ecausc
they disrelislfd the covenant) they tlie said mi-
nisters, upon the desire of the commissioners, did
offer their service to preach before the king and say
grace at meals, but they were both by him deniea,
the king always saying gi-ace himself, with an audible
voice, standing under the state. So that our author
Car3'l and Mai'shall, (to whom the king neverthe-
less was civil) did take so great disgust at his ma-
jesty's refusals, that they did ever after mightily
promote the independent slander of the kin^s ob-
stinacy. 'Tis 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 tlie manner was among the saints, and mak-
ing ugly faces, his majesty 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, pru-
dence, and unexpressible devotion in his majesty,
yet there was no reluctancy in them, as there was m
some of the commissioners, especially in maj. general
Richard Browne. In September 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 bel'ore them, j-et his majesty
would not accept of him or of any of the rest among
his chaplains then with him, to pray or preach be-
fore him ; which did again enlarge his disgust.
The same year, January 30, some hours before the
king suffered death, the committee of parliament or-
dered that he, Philip Nye and other ministers should
attend the said king to administer to him those spi-
ritual helps, as should be suitable to his then present
condition, but the king being acquainted with it, he
would not be troubled with them : so that all tlie
desires that our author had to serve, or rather im-
pertinize, his majesty, were frustrated. In April
the next year, he with Marshall and Nye were em-
ployed by the grandees of the army to invite and
cajole the secured and seckided members to sit in the
parliament-house among the independents, but tliey
effected nothing. In September 1650 he and Job.
Owen an independent minister, were by order of
parliament sent to Scotland to attend Oliver Crom-
well, who desired their company at that place to re-
ceive comfort by their prayers and preachings. In
the latter end of 1653 lie was appointed one of the
triers for the approbation of public ministers, in
which office he lick'd his fingers sufficiently ; and in
the year after he was constituted an assistant to the
commissioners of London, appointed by parliament

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for the ejecting of ignorant and scandalous ministers
and school-masters, as they were tJicn by the godly
party so called. In 1659, November 1, he with
Whally, Goffe, &c. began their journey towards
Scotland to give George Monk general ot the ai"my
tliere, a right understanding of aft'airs in England,
in order to the avoiding effusion of more blooil, hut
they retui'ned unsatisfied, and on the 14th of March
following he was, with Edward Reynolds and others,
appointed by act of pai-liament to approve of and
admit ministers according to the presbyterian w-ay.
But that being nulfd at the king's restoration, he
receded to his cure at S. Magnus, where he conti-
nued till the act of uniformity ejected him. His
works are these.

Several sermons, as (1) The Works of Ephesus,
e.vplained in a Sermon before the House of Com-
mons at their solemn Fast 27 April 1642; on Rev.
2. ver. 2, 3. Lond. 1642. qu. (2.) The Nature,
Solemnity, Grounds, Projiertij and Benefits of a
sacred Covenant, S^c. preached to those that were to
take tlte Covenant, 6 October 1643,- on Nehem. 9.
38. Eond. 1643. quarto. (1^) The Saints thankful
Acclamation at Chrisfs Resumption of his great
Poiver and the Initials of his Kingdom, Thanks-
giving Sermon before thi House of Commotis 23
Apr. 1644,_^r the great Victory g-iven to tJie Parlia-
ment Army under the Command of the Lord Fair-
fax'at Selby in Yorkshire, and to other of the Par-
liament Forces in Pembrokeshire ; on Rev. 11. 16,
17. Lond. 1644. qu. {^ Arraignment of Unbelief'
as tlie grand Cause of our national Non-establish-
ment, Fast Sermon before the House of Commons,
28 May 1645 ; on Isa. 7. 9. Lond. 1645. qu. (5)
Heaven and Earth Embracing, or God and Man
approaching. Fast Sermon before the House of
Commons, 28 January 1645 ,■ on Jam. 4. 8. the
former Part of the Verse. Ltmd. 1646. qu. (6)
Joy out^joyed, ^c. Thanksgiving Sermon at S.
Martinis in the Fields, 19 Feb. I(i'i5,fhr Reducing
the City of Chester by the Parliament Forces under
the Command of Sir Williatn Brereton ; on Luke
10. 2. Lond. 1(346. qu. (7) EnglamFs Plus Ultra,
both for hoped Mercies ami required Duties, Thanks-
giving Sermon before both Houses of Parliament,
Lord Mayor and Aldermen, and Assembly of Di-
vines S, April l(yi6, for Recovering of the West and
[614] Disbanding 5000 of the King's Horse, ^c. on Psal.
118. 17. Lond. 1646. qu. Hugh Peters was the
other person that held out before the said auditory
on the same day, on Psal. 31. 23 : which sermon was
printed twice in 1646. Besides these he hath other
sermons which I have not yet seen, viz. (1) Fast
Sermon before the House of Commons, 29 July
1646: At which time Jeremiah Whitaker* held
forth before the said house, as Sam. Bolton and

5 [.leremiah Whitaker, minister of St. Mary Magdalen, in
Beriiiondsey. See liis epiiiiph in Sirype's edit, of Slow's
Survey. Kenxet.]

Simeon Ash did before the lords. (2) Thanks-
giving Sermon brfirre the Parliament at S. Mar-
garets Westminster, October 8, on PsaJ. 111. 1, 2,
3, 4, 5. (3) FaM Sermon before tfie Parliament
24 September 1656 ; on Jerem. 4. part of the ninth
Vc7-se, and (4) Fast and Thanksgiving Sermon
before the Parliament in August and October
1*659, &c.

Sermons upon other occasions as (1) DaxmTt
Prayer for Sohrmon, Lond. 1643. qu. [on Psalm
72, versl-s 1, 2, 3. Bo<ll. 4to. T. 4. Th. BS.] (2)
Sermon printed 1657. (3) Farewel Sermon at S.
Magnus ; on Rev. 3. 4. Lond. 1662. octavo. Printed
with other farewel sermons of certain London mi-
nisters of tlie j)resbyterian and independent persuo/-
sion, who were ejected from their respective churches
for nonconformity on S. Bartholomew's day 1662.
The names of them were Edm. Calamy, Dr. Th.
Manton, Tho. Case, Will. Jenkins, Rich. Baxter,
Dr. Tho. Jacomb, Dr. Will. Bates, Thom. Wat-
son, Tho. Lye, and Matth. Mead. The pictures of
all which are in the title page, and the title in the
middle of them running thus. The Farewel Ser-
mons of the late London Ministers, preached 17
Aug. 1662, &c. Our author Jos. Caryl hath also
written and published.

Exposition with practical Observations on tfie
Book ()f Job, delivered in several Sermons and

Lectures in S. Mainnis Church, &c.-

-Printed at

Lond. in 11 volumes in quarto. Afterwards pulv
lislicd in two large folio's.^ The first of which was
printed at Lond. 1676. and the other in 1677 with
tho author's picture' before it. Which vclumes are
epitomised in the second vol. of Matth. t'oole's Sy-
nopsis Criticorum.

The Nature and Principles of Love, as the End
of the Commandment, declared in some of his last
Sermons. Lond. 1674. oct. with an epistle prefix'd,
by Jo. Owen D. D.

Gospel-Love, Heart-Purity, and the Flourishing
of the Righteous, being his last Sermons. Lond.
1674-75. octavo.

He also had a prime hand in a book entit. An
English Greek Lexicon, containing the Derivations
and variou.i Significations of all the Word^ in tJie
Nero Testament, &c. Lond. 1661. (oct.) The
others that joynod with him in this work were GtHirge
(some call him " Thomas) Cockayne, Ralph Ven-
ning, Will. Dell, Matth. Barker, Will. Addcrley,
Matth. Mead and Hen. Jessey, all nonconformists.
Also a hand in another Ixjok called Sainfs Memo-
rials : or. Words fitly spoken, like Apples of Gold
in Pictures of Silver. Being a Collection ^divine
Seiitences by .several Presbyterian Ministers. Lond.
1674. oct. Those {larts which Caryl composetl are
(1) The Palmtree Christian, p. 51. (2) Putctical

See both vols. Bodl. U. 4. S. g. Th.1
'a very ^ood head, engraved by R. White.
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and Experimental Considerations and Characters of
the real Christian, p. 57. (3) On Goupcl Cliarifij.
p. 65. (4) The Heart anatomised, p. 74. (5)
Divine Sentences ; (xr, a Guide to a holy Life. p.
77. After which, in p. 109. follows his elegy and
epitaph. The other jiersons that had hands in the
said Saints Memoriak, were Edmond Calam y, and
James Jaiieway, whom I liave, and shall mention
elsewhere, as also llaljjh V'enning sometime of
Emanuel college in Camiiridge, who among several
things that he hath published, are Orthodox Para-
doxes : or, a Believer clearing Truth by seeming
Contradictions. Lond. 1647. tw. To w hicli is added
an Appendix : or the Triumph of Assurance over
the Law, Sin, tfte World, Wants, and present En-
joyments. He hath also several sermons extant, as
A Warninff to Backsliders, ^c. preached at PuiiTs
before tJte Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London ;
on Rev. 2. 5. Lond. 1654. qu. &c. He died on the
10th of March 1673, and was buried in the presence
of very many nonconfonnists ; at which time Rob.
Bragge preached his funeral sermon cntit. A Cry
Jor Labourers in GchVs Harvest ; cni Matth. 9. 38.
Lond. 1674. qu. At the end of which sermon are

[OloJ j^jjj, titles of nine books which had been written and
published by Ralph Venning. As for our author
Jos. Caryl, who was a learned and zealous noncon-
formist, he died in his house in Bury-street in Lon-

l67i. Aim, on the 25th of February in sixteen hundred
seventy and two, but where bin-ied, unless in the
church of S. Magnus before-mcntioird, wherein he
had for manyyeiu-s p<)sscss'd his auditors with many
unworthy things against king Charles I. and his son,
their followers and the prelatical party, I know not.
Several elegies were made on him after his death, of
which two or more I have seen extant.

JOHN RILAND, son of Richard Riland of
Radbrook in Gloce.stershire, was born at Over-
Quinton in that county, educated in grammar learn-
ing at Stratford upon Avon in Wai'wickshirc under
John Trapp, became a student in Magdiden hall,
in 1633, aged 14, and soon after of Magdalen col-
lege, where taking the degrees in arts, became per-
petual fellow of that house, in 1641. Afterwards he
submitted to the parliamentarian visitors in 1648,
was made archdeacon of Coventry bv Dr. Frewen
bishop of Lichfield, on the death of Dr. Jo. Arn-
way, rector of Bilton by Tho. Boughton esq; an.
1660, and of Birmingham (both in Warwickshire)
by sir Sam. Marrow, 1665. He hath written and
published,

Several sermons, viz. (1) Dooms-day Book opened,
an Assize Sermon at Warwick; on Rev. 20. 12.
Lond. 1660.!' qu. (2) Elias the Second his Coming
to restore all Things ; on Isa. 1. 26. Oxon. 1662.
qu. (3) Mo.^es the Peace-maker, his Offers to make
one of the two contending Brethren ; on Acts 7. 26.

9 [This date must be a mistake. Sec the next note.]

Oxon. 1662. qu. (4) Confirmation reviv'd; on
Psalm. 1. 3. Lond. 1663. qu.' 'Tis a visitation
sermon, and 'twas preached at Coventry before Dr.
Hacket bishop of Lichfield and Coventry. He died
on the third day of March, in sixteen hundred se-
venty and two, and was buried in the chancel of the
church of Birmingham before-mention'd. Over his
grave was a marble table h'xed soon after to the wall,
with this inscription engi-aven thereon. ' M. S.
Johannis Riland (nccnon chariss. conjugis Cicilia-
& filiolse iinicas Mariae) Coventria; Archidiaconi
& Parochie'e hujus Ministri, sinml & ornamenti.
Qui Athcos pariter & Fanaticos, &. quicquid depra-
vati moris & fidei, scelerosa a^tas, non tantum scrip-
tis & sermonibus, (utrisque licet nervosa) sedconstanti
& indeflexo vitae inculpatas decursu castigavit. Post
absolitta Oxoniai juventutis tyrocinia in Coll. Magdal.
ubi non dudum conmioratus est, quin socius co-
optatus : post vitain variisfjue locis & plagis injuria
temporum jxjractam ; hie tandem coiisedit, hie mo-
riebaiur 3 Martii Anno Salutis 1672, ^tatis 53.'

" RICHARD WHITLOCK, son of a father of
" lx)th his names, of Lond. gent, was born there,
" became a commoner of IMagdalen hall in Michael-
" mas term an. 1682, aged 16 years, t«)k the degree
" of bach, of arts, as an esquire's son, four years
'• after, elected fellow of Alls, college in 1638, and
" two years after was admitted bach, of the civil
" law, which was the highest degree he took in this
" university. He liath written,

" Zootomia : or, Observations on the present
" Manners of the EngU.ilt : Briefly anatomizing
'^ the Living from the Dead. Lond. 1654. octavo.
" [Bodl. 8vo.' W. 17. Art. BS.] In the tide of which
" he is stil'd doctor of physic, but it does not appear
" in our registers that he was so.

" A useful Detection of the Mmintcbanks of both
" Sexes — This is printed with Zootomia, and both
" commended to the world by a letter to the author,
" written by Dr. Jasp. Mayne, wlio saith for art,
" learning, and variety of matter, j)ut into a hand-
" some dress, the author hath exceeded any writer
" in this kind. After Mr. Whitlock had run with
" the times of usurpation, he wheel'd about at the
" restoration of king Charles II. took lioly orders,
" and had a small parsonage in Kent conterr'd on
" him by archbishop Sheldon, where he finished his
" course about 1672 or after, as I have been in-
" formed by Mr. Hem-y Birkhead his contemporary

' ^Confirmalion revived : and Doomsilai/ Books opened.
In two Sermons; The one preach' d nl Cnvenlry iefnre the
right reverend Father in God John Lord liishvp of Lichjiehl
and Coventry : upon his first Performance nj' Coujirmnliun in
that City, June 23, l6fi2. The other preach'd at IVarwick
before the right honourable the Judges nf Assize J' r that Cir-
cuit, uj-.iTi the i."' oj' July next following. By John Riland,
Archdeacon of Coventri/, and sometime Fellow of St. Mary
Magdalen College in 0.ron. London, Printed by I. G. for
Richard Royston, Bookseller to his sacred Majesty. 1 063.
4to. Bodl. 4to. T. 98. Th.]

1675-

Clar.
1673.

}i>

TONSTALL.

BRATHWAYTE.

98fj

" in Alls. coll. One John Whitlock ^ a preacher
" hiith jiublislied certain sermons, particularly A
" Funeral SermoJi on Mrs. Pierpont ; cm Psal. 35.
" ver. 5. Lond. 1658. qu. but whether he was of
" Oxon I cannot yet tell

" GEORGE TONSTALL, son of Tobias Ton-
" stall of Clcasby in Yorkshire, gent, was born in
" that county, became a commoner of Queen's coU
" lege in 16iiii, aged 17 years, took a degree as a
" member of that house, and then translated him-
" self to Magdalen hall, and as a member thereof he
" took the degree of master, an. 1640. About that
" time he was designed for the ministry, but the
" grand rebellion breaking out, he studied physic,
" and practised it. In A)5r. 164T he was, as a
" member of Magdalen hall, admitted bach, of
" phy.sic, which was the highest degree he took in
" this university. He hath written,

" Scarboi'ouffh Sj)aw fipagyrtcally anatomized.
" Lond. 1672.3 (wt.

"J Newyear's-Gifl for Dr. Rob. Wittk*

' [He was iheson of Mr. Richard Wli'iilock, merchant of
London, of a very ancient family. Wlicn he was prcpar'd
for acadeuiical studies, he was sent to Cambridge, and ad-
mitted in Emanuel college, under the learned Ur. Ralph
Cudworth. His proficiency was such as gain'd him great
esteem and acquaintance with ministers of note. There was
an intimate uuexampled friendship between him and Mr.
Reynolds, which begun at the university, and was above 30
years coniiiiuance. They fix'd together in Noititigham in
1651. Mr. Whillock hail the presentatioti to the place from
the theti niar<[iiess of Dorchester : and Mr. Reynolds was

join'd with hitn as lecturer. He had a good esUite of his

own, and was ready to do good with it. He was very cha-
ritable to poor scholars and others. He was one of an hum-
ble spirit and an upright heart. He died December 4, 17O8,
in his 83rd year. He hath in print a tr;ict entitkd Of keep-
ing ourselves from luiquUy ; Tiro Farewell Sermons ; on Rev
3. 3. Sermon at the Funeral of Francis Pierrepont Esij.;
and A short Account of the Life of Mr. JVitliam Reynolds.
Calamy, Ejected Ministers, ii, 521.]

' \^Scarlorough Spaw spagyrically anatomized by Geo.
Tonsiiill, Doctor of Physick. Lotnlon, Printed by J.M. for
the author. 1670. So the title of the Bodljian co|)y. 8vo. S.
232. Th.]

* [This w.i- in answer to Scarhrough-Spaw or a Descrip-
tion of the Nature and Vertues of the Spaw at Scarirough
Yorkshire, !sfc. by Robert ff^Utie, Dr in Physich- Lond.
l6f)7, 8vo. The same author replied to 'I'onstall in Scar-
hrovgh's Spagyrical Anatomizer dissected : or an Answer to
alt that Dr. Tonstal hath objected in liis Book against Scar-
hrough Spaw. Lond. 16/2, 8vo. Two years before this, in
1670, William Simpson Dr. in physick and practitioner at
Wakefield in Yorkshire answered Tonstall also in Hydrolo-
gicat Essayes, &c. Lond. in 8vo.

Tonstall was a minor, very minor, poet ; at the end of his
Scarborough Spaw, 1S7O, are six pages of verse beginning

Say, wise mytholoaist, whence did it rise
That cocks were .Esculapius' s.Tcrifice?
Was't that his genuine sons might only claim
Right to the pit, and be cocks of the game:
And fight for victory they car'd not how,
So laurel might adorn their curled brow ?
Then let'm take't. Here's one, whose wit's too brave
To be cmploy'd in calling fool and knave — ?£c.]

" This is printed with Scarltorouffh-S'paw, &c. in
" the title of which our author Tonstall is written
" doctor of physic."

RICHARD BRATHWAYTE, second son of
Thomas Brathwayte of Warcojj near Appleby in
Westmoreland, .son and heir of Thomas Brathwayte
of Bamside, son of Richard Brathwayte of Amble-
side in the barony of Kendall, became a commoner
of Oriel college, an. 1604, aged 16, at which time la-
was matriculated as a gentleman's son and a native of
the county of Northvmiberland. While he continued
in tliat house, which was at least three years, he
avoided, as much as he could, the rough paths of
logic and philosophy, and traced those smooth ones
of ])oetry and Roman history, in which at length he
did excel. Afterwards he removed to Cambridge,
as it seems, where also he spent some time lor the
sake of dead and living authors, and then receding
to the north parts of England, his father bestowed
on hiin Barnside before-mention'd : where living
many years, he became captain of a foot-company in
the trained-bands, a deputy-lieutenant in the county
of Westmorland, a justice of peace and a noted wit
and poet. He wrote and published several books in
English, consisting of prose and jx)etry, highly com-
mended in the age wherein pubhshed, but since
slighted and despised as frivolous matters, and only
to be taken into the hands of novices. The titles of
them are these,

Golden-Fleece,'' with other Poevis. London, 1611.
octavo.

The Pocfs Willow : or, the passionate Shepherd :
with snndrij delightful and no less passUmate Son-
nets, describing the Pa.ssions of a disccmtented and
perplexed Lover. Lond. 1614. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. T.
21. Art.] Written in lyric and anacreontic mea-
sures.

Annotations upon some of the Sonnets before

mentiorCd These are printed at the end of 77te

Poefs Willow.

The Prodigal's Tears: or, his Farewel to Va-
nity : a Treatise of sovereign Cordials, &c. Lond.
1614. octavo. [Bocll. 8vo. L. 102. Th.]

7Vic Scholar''s Medley : or, an intermixt Dis-
course tipon histoj-ieal and poetical Relations, &c.
pr. 1614. qu. [Bodl. 4to. L. 28. Art.]

Essays npmi the Five Senses. Lond. 1620. oct.
there again. 1635. in tw.

Natiire''s Emba.Hsy : or, the Wild Man's Mea-
sures: danced naked by 12 Satyrs. Lond. 1621.
oct. [Bodl. 8vo. O. 19. Art.]

■■' [The Golden Fleece. Whereunto bee annexed two Ele-
gies, entitled Narcissus Change and JEsons Dotage. London,
Printed by TK S. for Christopher Pursett, Hill. sm. 8vo.
pp. 1 12. Ded. to the right worshipfull ^L Robert Bindlns<e
esquire his approued kind unkle. Appended to the vol. are
Sonnets or Madrigals dcd. ' to the worshipfvll his approved
brother Thomas Brathwayte.' Bibliolheca Anglo- Poelica;
or a Descriptive Catalogue of a rare and rich Collection of
Early English Poetry. Lond. 1813, 8vo. page 20.]

987

BllATIIWAYTE.

[517J

167s.

Printed with
Nature's Em-
basft^, &c.

Lond.

Divine and moral Essays

Tlte Shepherds Taks.

OmpluUe : or, tlie inconstaiit
Sliepncrdess.

Odes : or Philomers Tears.

Timers Curtain drarcn ; divers Poems.
1G21. octavo. [B(xll. 8vo. S. 107. Art.]

Tlie English Gentleman ; eantaining sundry ex-
cellent Ruks or exquisite Observations, tending to
Direction of every Gentleman ofselecter Rank and
Quality, Jtow to demean, or accommodate himself in
the Management of public or private Affairs. Lon-
don 1630. [Bodl. 410. D. 20. Art.] and 33. quarto.
There again with enlargements, 1641. folio.

7V«? EngUnh Gentlewoman ; containing, &c.
Loud. 1631. [Bodl. 4to. B. 25. Art.]33.qii. There
again with enlargements 1641. foho.

Discourse of Detraction. Lond. 163-5. in tw.

Christian Resolves and divine Contcmphttions
Printed with the Discourse ()f Detraction.

Tlic Arcadian Princess: or, the Triinnph of
Justice. Lond. 1635. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. B. 136. Art.]

Survey of History : or, a Nursery for Gentry :
A Discourse historical and poetical, SfC. Lond.
1638. qu. [Bodl. Mar. 221.] Printed again in 1652.
qu. being then, I think, epitomized.

A Spiritual Spicery containing sundry sweet
Tractates of Devotion and Piety. Lond. 1638. in
tw. With which was printed a translation of A
Christian Dial ; by which he is directed, how he is
to dispose of his Hours tvhile he is living, &c.
written by Joh. Justus Lanspergius a Carthu.sian,
who died 1539.

Mercurius Britannicus : or, the English Intel-
ligencer. Tra. Com. Printed the second time,

1641. quarto.

Time's Treasury or Academy, for the Accom-
plishment of the English Gentry in Arguments of
Discourse, Habit, FasJtiart, Behaviour, <^c. all
summed up in Characters of Honour. Lond. 1655.
5Q. qu.

Congratulatory Poem to his Majesty upon his
happy Arrival in our lute discomposed Albion.
Lond. 1660. in two .sheets in qu.

Trag/comcdia, cui Tltulus inscribitur Regici-
diuni,pe7-spicacissimisJudiciisaccurafiusperspecta,
pen.9ata, cumprobata. Lond. 1665. or thereabouts.^
What other things he hath written and published I
know not, nor any thing else of him, only that in
his latter days he removed, upon an employment or
rather a second marriage, to Appleton near Rich-
mond in Yorkshire, where dying on the fourth day
of May in sixteen hundred seventy and three, was
buried in the parish church of Catherick near that
place ; leaving then behind him the character of a
well-bred gentleman and a good neighbour.

' \^Regicidium Sanguinis Scru(inium,Tragi-Cotnnedia me-
noratu clignissima, cedratis Tabulis imprintenda, 8vo. Loud.
l()65. To which is added, Budlamuet Novum, jjurs Secunda,
Scana Dritannia. Morant.]

[Brathwayte's |xx"tical works arc so scarce that I
have thought it right to be as particular as ixjssible
in my description of them. The lover ot biblio-
graphy will not object to this extension of the article,
long as I must make it.

1. Tlte Poets Willow: or the Pa.9sionate Sfiep-
heard : with sundry delighffull and no lesse pas-
sionate Sonnets : describing the Passions of a dis-
amtented and perplexed Lover. Divers Compositions
of Verses concording as well with the Lyricke, as
the Ariacreonticke Measures ; never bejf^bre pub-
lished: Being reduced into an exact and distinct
Order of metrical Extractions. Artem qui tractant
Musicam haec legant et Poesem ament.

Author: Impresse.
Nee mori timeo, nee opto.

Imprinted at London by John Beale,fbr Samuel
Rand, and are to be sold at his Sliop at Holborne
bridge. 1614. 8vo. pp. 83, and 12 of title, ded. &:c.

Ded. to master William Ascham in six stanzas.
Then Vpon the illustrate priiwe Henric, the author s
long meditated Tears, m twelve, alter which the
argument and poems, of which the following is
one;

To Elix:a. A Sonnet.

If faire Eliza thou that I haue lou'd,
And vowd more sacred bests vnto thy shrine
Then any loue that ei-c profcst him thine,
Haue but my ]X)ems by thy selfe approu'd

0 to what ble.ssed, vnexpected clime
Am I transported by this muse of mine.''

But if thou frowne, contract thy brow and lourc.
He neuer handle this rude pencill more.

1 haue not Zeuxes' hand to paint thy shame.
But I could wish to graue within thy mouncl
Some qu.oint deuise, where if I once were fouiui,
I know no feature of his liuely grape

Could me exceede : for I haue learnd the ground
Of that deepe art, albeit the most profound :
Be thou the module of that curious frame.
That my impression may adorne the same.

Adorne ? deforme thou saiest : poore poesie,
Cannot content Eliza's nuptials
Shees of a lighter straine, her festiuals
Sound and resound with purer harmonie :
She cannot brooke the sullen Saturnals
That mixe our ioyes with gladnesse : Juuenals
Best like Eliza : and they would like me
If I were Juuenall to sing to thee.

2. The good Wfc: or a rare one amongst
Women. Whereto is annexed an Exquisite Dis-
course of Epitaphs : including the Choicest thereof
Ancient or Moderne. Vxor bona chara siipelle.r.
Mvsophilvs. At London Printed for Richard
Redmer, and are to be sold at his shop at the west

BIIATHWAYTE.

990

End if St. Paurs Church. 1G18. ' small 8vo. con-
taining 156 pages not numbered. At sign. C. 2. a
fresh title page Remains after Death : Including by
way of' Introdtwtion divers memorable Observances
occasioned vpon Discourse of Epitaphs and Epy-
cedes ; their Distinction and Definition seconded
by approued Authors. Annexed there be divers se-
lect Epitaphs and Heaixc-attending Epods wcyrthic
our Ubseruation : The one describing what they
were which now are not: The other comparing
such as nozo are xoith those that were.

Dignum laude virum musa vetat mori
Mvsophilus.

Imprinted at London by John Bcalc, 1618.

By an article in Longman's Bibliotheca Anglo-
Poetica, 8vo. 181-5, Numb. 48, it seems the late
Mr. MaJone had a copy of the latter portion of tliis
book, namely Remains after Death, with Brath-
wayte's name in the title-page : this was considered
to be the only perfect copy known, but the present
notice shows that it was iindeser\'ing of that title ;
as the Bodleian contains the book in a far more com-
pleat state. At the back of the first title-page we
nave ' The distinct Sections in this booke contained
1 The good wife. 2 Observation vpon Epitaphs.
3 Epitaphs. 4 The Prodigals Glasse. 6 The
Mourners Meane.''

Taking this volume altogether, I think it one of
the most curious as well as one of the scarcest books
of the period to which it belongs. I regret that I
can give only one specimen,

Vpon the married life.

Happy state, yet 'las how few
Thinke them iiappy in their choice,
When they shun whom they did sue.
And in loath'd delights reio^ice ;

Loath'd though lou'd, since they are growne

To loue others, loath their owne.

But who marries to impart

Selfe and substance to his wife,

Joining with his hand his hai't,

Onely gaines this bUsse of hfe :
Yea, to him is solely giuen
To thinke eaith a kinde of heauen.

Happy then or haplesse most.
For of all this hath no meane,
Losing least, or euer lost,
Being still in her extreame ;

Good if vs'd, abused ill,

Onely well where there's one will.

At sign. H. 5, b. is a Latin epitaph, dialogue-
wise, on his father Thomas Brathwayte.

3. The Prodigals Teares: or his Fare-well to

' [See an edit, of this first part mentioned as printed Lond.
ItJiy, sni. 8vo. in Censura Lileraria, v. 36().]

Vanity. A Tratise of Soiwraigne Cordials t<> the
discmisolate Soule, surcharged with the heauy
Burthen of his Sinnes : Ministring M/itter of Re-
morse to the Impenitent, by the Expression of' Gods
Judgements. By Richard Brathzoatt. Avgvst.
Quid et eras et eras ; cur non hodie ? London,
Printed by N. O.fitr T. Gnbbins, ami are to be sold
at his Shop, neere Holborne Conduit. 1G14. Ded.
to Richard Hutton, sergeant at lawe. Tiiis is an
excellent tract, written in good style and abounding
with sound morality.

4. The Sclu)ller''s Medley, or an intermixt Dis-
covrse vpon Historical and Poeticall Relaticm.H. A
Subiect of it selfe well meriting the Approbation of
the Judicious, who best knoxv how to cMiJirme their
Knozdcdge, by th'is brief e Suruey, or generall Talk
of mixed Discourses. And no lesse profitable to
such as desire to better their Immaturity of Know-
ledge by morall Readings. Distinguished into
scuerall Heads for the Direction of the Reader, to
all such historicall Mixtures as be comprehended in
this Treatise. The like zehereoffor Variety if Dis-
course, viixed with Profile and modest Delight hath
not heretofore beene published. By RicJtard BratJt-
wayte Oxon.

Ho

Quod verum atque decus euro et rqgo
. . . . et omnis in Jwc sum.

London, Printed by N. O.for George Norton, and
are to bee sold at his Shop neere Temple-barre.
1614. 4to. pp. 118, title, &c. 8 more. Ded. to the
lord of Southampton ' learnings best fauourite.'

5. Natvre''s Embassie : or the wildt'-ma7is Mea-
svres: Danced naked by twelue Satyres, zvith
sundry others continued in the next Section.

JVilde men may dance wise measures; Come,

then, lu).
Though I be zcilde, my mectsures are not so.

Printed for Richard Wliitaker. 1621. pp. 264,
title, &c. 8 more. Ded. to sir T. H. the elder,
knight. At p. 73 another title. The second Section
of Divine and morall Satyres: zeith an Adiunct
vpon the Precedent, zchereby the Argument zmth
the first Cau^e of publishing these Satyres, be eui-
dently related. Disce et doce. London, Printed

for Richard Whitaker, 1621. Ded. to S' W. C.
knight, whom Brathwayte calls his countryman. At
pa^e 173, The Shepheards Tales. London, &c. as
before. At p. 215, Omphale, or tlw Inconstant

^ ShepJicardesse, as before. Dtnl. to the acconiplish'd
lady P. W. wife of S. T. W. knight, and daughter
to S. R. C. At page 237, His Odes or Philomels
Teares, as before, ded. to Thomas Ogle, esq.

6. Times Curtaine drazcne, or The Anatomie of
Vanitic, with other choice Poems, entituled Health

from Helicon. By Richard Brathzmyte Oxonian,
Ille ego qui quondam. London Printed by John
Dazason for John Bellamie, and are to be sould at
the South Entrance of the Roy all Exchange. 1621.

991

BRATHWAYTE.

ELLIS.

8vo. pp. 214. Dfd. to the univ. of Oxford; to
John oarle of Bridgewater. At sign. I. Pancdone :
or Health from Hc'kt/n : amtainhig Emblemes,
Epigrams, Elegies, with other cmttiiiuafe Poems,
full of idl generous Delight. London, &c. as before.
Ded. to sir Thomas Ganisford, knight.

Hymens choycc.

Fiure may shec be, but not opinion'd so,
For tliat opinion euer lackies pride ;
Lovhig to all, yet so, as man may know
Shee can reserue tlie proper name of bride :
For weak's that fort and easic is't to win
That makes a breach for all to enter in.

I'de haue her face and blush to be her owne,
For th' blush which art makes is adulterate ;
Splene may she haue, yet wise to keepe it downe ;
Passion yet reason too to mo<lerate :
Comely not gaudy, she and none but she
Weares the best clothes that weares to her degree.

7. The English Gentleman : containing sundry
excellent Rules or exquisite Observatitms tending to
Direction of every Gentleman ofselecter Ranke and
Qualitie ; 1u)w to demeane or accommodate himselfe
in the Manage of pnhltke or private Affaires. By
Richard Brathwait Esq. Londorn, Printed by John
Haviland, &c. 1630. 4to. Ded. to Tho. viscount
Wentworth. Engraved frontispiece by Marshall.

8. The English Gentleiaoman drawne out to the
full Body, expressing what Habilliments doe best
attire Iter, what Ornaments doe best adorne her,
what Complements doe best accomplish her. By
Richard Brathwait Esq. London, Printed by B.
Alsop, &c. 1631. 4to. Ded. to lady Arabella
Wentworth. Engraved frontispiece by Marshall.

9. Anniversaries upon his Panarete. — Par nulla
figura dolori. London Imprinted by Felix Kyng-
ston, and are to be sold by Robert Bostock, at the
Kings Head in Pauls Church-yard. 1634. small
Svo. pp. 48. ' To the indeered memory of his euer
loved, never too nmch lamented Panarete M"'
Frances Brathwait a distilling Viall of Funerall
Teares obsequiously offered.' She died, it seems,
March 7, 1633.

Patiaretis Tajj-mv

Teisis mc genuit, sponsatam Westria cepit,
Corpus Candalivm, pectus Olympus habet.

Neare Darlington was my deare darling borne,
Of noble house, which yet beares honor's forme,
Teese-scated-Sockbourne, where by long descent
Cogniers were lords.

10. Tlie Arcadian Princesse ; or the Trivmph of
Justice : Prescribing excellent Rules of Physicke

Jbr a sicke Justice. Digested into fowre Bookcs
andfaitlifuUy rendred to the originaU Jtalian Copy,

By Ri. Brathwait E,iq. Vulnerc clansa potius
cruciant. Greg. JMrukm, Printed by Th. Harper
Jbr Robert Bostocke, and are to bee sold at his Shoj}
in I'auls ChurcJi-yard at the Signc of the Kings
Head. 1635. 8vo. Ded. to Henry Somerset, eai"l
of Worcester. This should have a very neat en-
graved title by Marshall.

11. A Survey of History: or a Nursery for
Gentry, &c. &c. Lond. 1638.

12. Mercurius Britannicus.
JudiciaUs Censura ; 1 Febris Judicialis.

vel V

Curialis Cura. ) Sententia navalis.

Tragi-Comoedia Lutetiw. Summo cum Applau,nt
publice acta.

Mense terribili mandatur typis.
Quo Stygiis Judices appulere rypis.

4to. four sheets. No date.

The above are in the Bodleian library. The Ca-
talogue of the British Museum ascribes to Brath-
wayte. Lignum Vita': Lihellus in quatuor Partes
distinctus. Lond. 1658. 8vo.

The late Mr. Malonc also attributed to this
author The honest Ghost, or a Voice from tJw
Vault. London Printed by Ric. Hodgkinsonne
1658. 8vo.

But, in order to give the list of the Bodleian
pieces in regular succession, I have omitted one of
Brathwayte's earliest and mast curious productions,
which I once saw for a few minutes, scarcely time
enough to copy the title. This is

A Strappado for the Diiicll. Epigrams and
Satyres alluding to the Time, with diuers Measures
of no lesse Delight. By Mio-oo-uxo; to his friend
itkon^ale;. Nemo me impune laccssit.

At Lond^m printed by I. B.for RicJiard Redmer
and are to be sold at the west dove of Pauls at the
Starr e. 1615. 8vo.

At Sign. Q. 6. another title :

Jmvcs Labyrinth : or the true Loners Knot : in-
clvdingthe disa.itrous Fals qftrco star-crost Loners
Pyramvs Sf Thisbe. A subiect heeretqfbre Jiandled,
but nozo with much more Proprictie of I^assiwi, and
Varietie of Inuention continued: By Richard
Brathwayte. Res est soliciti plena, timoris Amor.
At London, &c. as before.'

There is a small oval head engraved by Marshall,
prefixed to his Survey of History, 1638; That in
the frontisp. to his English Gentleman, I should
certainly pronounce not to be intended for a por-
trait.]

" THOMAS ELLIS, son of Griffin Ellis of
" Dolbehman in Caernarvanshire, was born there,
" became a student in Jesus college in June, an.
" 1640, aged 15 years, and about the time that he

» [Morant mentions an edition of Loves Lahyrinth, in Svo.
Lontl. l6li.]

ELLIS.

LACEY.

IWt

1518]

" was admitted bach, of arts, which was in 1644,
" he bore arms for liis majesty within tlie garrison
" of Oxon. Afterwards he was master of arts, fel-
" low of, and a noted tutor in, his college, sub-
" niitted to the jx-Tsons in the times of usurpation,
" and so consccjuently kept his fellowship, as he
" did. But missing the principality of his house
" upon the resignation of Dr. Fr. Mansell (which
" he confidently expected) in the latter end of 1660,
" at which time Dr. Lcol. Jenkins was elected, he
" grew much discontented, and living a most retired
" and melancholy life in his college till 1665, he
" then left it and became rector of S. Mary's church
" in a market-town in Meri<mithshirc callefl Dol-
" gethle or Dole y Gillie, in the plai;e of his kins-
" man Dr. Job. l-'.llis deceas^l, he being then bach.
" of divinity. This Thorn. Ellis was a person of
" solid learning, had a natural geny to British his-
" tories, was a singular lover of the antiquities of
" his own country of Wales, and had not his mind
'* been jierturbVl by the variety of troubles which
" his place and office in the college requir''d, he
" would have done most wonderful things for the
" honour of his nation. It must be now noted that
" Dr. Dav. Towell did first of all j)ublish The His-
" toiij of Cambria noic called Wales, an. 1584,
" which he corrected, augmented and continued out
" of records and the best approved authors. His
" augmentations or additions in the said edition,
" were printed in a less character than the history
" it self, and had for distinction sake a cinquefoyle
" set before them. But this edition being worn out
" and scai'ce to be had, Rol). Vaughan of Hengwort
" in Merionithshire, esq; did intend to pid)hsh it
" again with his corrections of, and additions to it,
" marked with ^I to distinguish them from those of
" Powell: But he being diverted by manifold af-
" fairs, he put his said corrections and additions
" into tlie hands of Mr. Thomas Ellis ; who sorting
" them with those of Powell, and correcting the
" whole, and putting those additions whidi he him-
" self had made, he began to have them printed at
" Oxon bv Henry Hall, who having prmted 128
" pages of them in quarto, or more, Mr. Ellis would
" not go any farther ; and the reason was, as Dr.
" Michael lloberts sometime principal of Jesus col-
" lege hath told me, because of the publication of

" Cambria Triamphans : or, ancient and

" modern British and Welsh Histories, by Pcrcie
" Enderbie, who, as that doctor hath farther told
" me, had seized upon those materials which Mr.
" Ellis had got into his hands ; meaning, as I pre-
" sume, those of Robert Vaughan ; but how this
" can be I cannot well tell, for Cambria triumphuns
" was published in 1661 in fol. and the title of those
" papers of Mr. Ellis, containing l'i8 pages, bears
" the date of 1663. Howsoever it is, sure I am
" that all the impression of the said 128 jjages were,
" some few excepted, sold for waste paper, nnich
" against the mind of all tliose then in Oxon, that
Vol. III.

" were lovers of ven. antiquity. This Mr. Thomas
" Ellis, who was otlierwise learned and of great
" abilities, died at Dollx-hinan before-mentionM in
" the beginning of the year (in A[)ril I think) in
" sixteen lumdrcd seventy and three, and was buried
" in the church belonging to that town. As for
" Percie Enderbie, who was an author of no consi-
" derable note, as liaving not had that just edu-
" cation which is requisite tor a genuine historian,
" hath done his work but very meanly, being mostly
" a scribble from late authors, and gives not that
" satisfaction, which curious men desire to know.
" And therefore I am persuaded that had Ellis
" finislfd his work, 'twould have been more ac-
" ceptable to scholars and intelligent persons, as
" having had more opportunities and advantages by
" reason of his birth, and a continual succession of
" his family in AVales to know such matters, than
" ]"'intlerl)ie, who was a stranger ; (for he was born
" at, or near to, the city of Lincoln) and luiew little
" or nothing of Wales till he setled there by a clan-
" destine marriage with the daughter of sir Edward
" Morgan of Lantarnam in .S'Jonmouthshire ba-
" ronet ; but upon some encouragement received
" from certiiin gentlemen, and from the library at
" I-antarnam, he undertof)k it partly for fame, but
" more for money's sake. This person, who trani?-
" lated into English, The Astrologer anatomkid:
" or, the Vanity of the Star-gazinff Art discovered,
" written by Benedict Pererius, died at, or near,
" Carlecm in Monmouthshire in April 1670, leaving
" some other things (as 'twas said) fit for llie press;
" but if they be no better than his Cambria 1'ri-
" itmphans, 'tis no matter if they suffer the same
" fate as the pajxTS of Tliomas Ellis did."

WILLIAM LACEY was born in a market
town in Yorkshire called Scarborougli, became a
.student in this university (in Magdalen hall as he
usetl to say) in 1600, aged 16 years or thereabouts,
but whether in the condition of a batler or st^rvitor,
I know not, nor what continuance he made there.
After he had left the university, without the taking
of any degi-ee, he retired for a time to his native
country, and thence, by the persuasion of a certain
person, to the English college at Rome ; where, a
little after his arrival, father Persons the rector
thereof gave up the ghost. Thence he went to
Nancy in Lorain, wliere he entred himself into
the society of Jesus, an. 1611, at which time he
bound himself by oath to observe the four vows.
Afterwards he tailght humanity for some years at
S. Omer's, 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 inission
into England, he setled in the city of Oxon, where,
and in the neiglibonrho(xl, he administei-ed to the

' .Imncs Wa<i>worih in l>is Ixnik callcil The English Spa-_
riish Pilgrim : ])rinte<l .a l.oiid. llip second timr, |630. <)u.
p. 13.

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167.1.

995

LACEY.

THEYER.

R. C. till towards the latter end of his life. He
lived many years in a poor cottage witliout the east
gate of that city, standing on the site of the habita-
tion sometimes belonging to the brethren of the
Holy Trinity. In the said cottage did then live
two Roman catholic virgins of mean condition,
named Mary and Joan Meakyns, who from their
[519] childhood had dedicated themselves to piety and
good works, always lived singly, and amved Ixith
of them beyond the age of man. These two anti-
quated virgins were oAvners of the cottage, and did
very carefully attend this father, and took as niucli
care of him, as if he had been their own father or
brother. His fare was coarse, liis 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 Magdalen parish in the suburb of
Oxon, the hostess of which was one of his persuasion,
where he ended his days. He was esteemed by all,
especially by those of his own opinion, a learned
man, well vers'd in the poets, of a quiet disjwsition
and gentle beliaviour : which made him therefore
respected, and iiis company to be desired, by certain
scholars of the university, esjx-cially by Thomas
Masters and other ingenious men of New college.
But this their civility to, and esteem of, him was
not while tlie presbyterians governed, who made it
a most (Ireadtid and danmabic tiling to be seen in
the company of papists, esiiecially of Romish priests,
but before the rebellion broke fortli upon tiieir ac-
count, when then the men of the church of Eng-
land had a respect for papists, as they now have for
presbyterians. Tiie things that tins father hath
written are,

The Judgment of an University-Man concerning
Mr. Will. Chillingworth his late Pamphlet in An-
swer to Chaj-ity maintained Printed 1639. qu.

Reprinted at Cambridge in 1653 in oct. in a preface
to a book then and there published.' The character
that Edward Knot the Jesuit gives ^ of this book is,
that it is a witty, eruchte and solid work.

Heautomachia : Mr. Chillingworth against him-
self.

The total Sum.' These two are printed at

the end of The Judgment, &c. At length this fa-
ther Lacey, who had lived to be twice a child, died
in the Dolphin-inn before mentioned, on the seven-
1673. teenth day of July,* in sixteen hundred seventy and

' [A mistake. That Preface was wrote by Mr. Smith,
the editor of the translation of Decille's Apology, and is in
defence of Chillingworth apainst Knot. Whalley.]

'In his preface 10 Infidelity unmask'd.

' [The lolal Sum was wrote by Floyde, the Jesuit. VVhal-
leyTI

< [Micravit ex hac vita Oxonii die 3 Aug. lC73.

Scripsit Anglice, tacito suo notnhie, Judicium Academici
deLilello Gut. ChillingworlM, 1639, 4lo. Cui addita est ad

three, aged 89 years, and two days after his body
being carried to Sonierton near Dedington in Ox-
fordshire, (to which place he usually retired) was
buried in the church there, noted lor the splendid
moniinients of the Feniiours, lords of that town
and Roman catholics. From the same family of thi.<i
Will. Lacey was descended John Eacey the come-
dian, born near Doncaster in Yorksh. originally an
apprentice to John Ogilby a dancing-ma,ster, after-
wards one of the best and most a))j)lauded of our
English actors belonging to the king's play-house,
and from an actor to be author of these comedies
(1) The Old Troop: or Monsieur Ruggou. I^ond.
1672. (ju. (2) The dumb Lady: or the Farrier
made Physician. Lond. 1672. qit. (3) Sir Her-
cules Buff'oon, or the poetical Squire. Lond. 1684.
qu. This person who was of a rare shajx; of body
and gootl complexion, and had served his majesty
in the time of the rebellion in the (pialitv of a lieu-
tenant and quarter-master under coll. {'harles Ge-
rard (afterwards earl of Macclesfield) died on the
17th of September 1681, and was two days after
buried in the farther church-yard of S. Martin's in
the fields, I mean in that yard on tiie other side of
S. Marti n's-lane, within the liberty of Westminster.
His majesty Charles II. who had a great respect fw
hiin, caused several pictures of him to be drawn ac-
cording to several jxisturcs * which he acted in se-
veral parts, and do now, or else did lately, remain
at Windsor and Hampton-Court.

JOHN THEYER was Iwrn of genteel parents
at Cowper.s-hill in the parish of Brockwortli, near
to, and in the county of, Glocester, began to be
conversant with the intises in Magdalen college an.
1613, aged 16 years or thereabouts, where conti-
nuing about three years, partly imder the tuition of
John Harmar, retired to an inn of chancery in
London called New Inn, where spending as many
years in obtaining knowledge in the common law,*
he receded to his patrimony, and, as years grew on, [5201
gave himself up mostly to the study of venerable
antiquity, and to the obtaining of the ancient monu-
ments 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 botikish and studious man, a lover of learning and
the adorers thereof, a zealous royallist, and one that
had suffered much (in the rebellion that began 1 642)
for the king's and church's cause. He hatli written,

calcem, Heautomachia, &c. typis iisdein. Sotvelliis, Bill.
Script. Soc. Jesu, p. 315. Bakbr.]

'■> [He was drawn in these three characters: viz. Teagoe
in The Commitfee, Scruple in The Cheats, and Galliard in
The Variety. The last is still at Windsor Castle.

Lacy wrote also a comedy called Sawney the Scot, which
was brought out ihree years after the auilior's death, and
printed Loud. I (>():-;. 4to.]

•> [It vva> to this John Thcyer that Wood's mother, at one
period, thought o( sending our autlior, in order to his being
brought up as an attorney.]

THEYER.

STEDMAN.

CASTLE.

99B

Acrio-Mastix : or, a Vindicatkm of (he Aposto-
lical mid generally received Gorwrnvicnt of the
Church of Christ by Bishops, against the schisma-
tical Acrians of our Time. Wfierein is evidently
demonstrated that Bishops are Jure divino, &c.
Oxon. 1643. qii. [Bodl. 4to. T. 4. Th.] Dedicated
to kinji; Cliarles I. who afterwards made use of it in
his writings to Alexander Henderson, a preshyterian
Scot, wlio died at Edinburgh, 31 Aug. 164(), of
grief, as some tl)en saiil, because he could not per-
suade the said l<ing t(j sign the pro}X)sitions for
peace, which the members of parliament sent to him
at Newcastle bv their conmnssioners 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 " mcrita sua in rempub. lite-

rariam & ecdesiam,'' by virtue of the king's letters
sent to the vicechanccUor and convocation, dated 6
July the same year. About which time he the said
Theyer being discovered to be a man of parts, was
persuaded to embrace the Roman-catholic religion
by father " Franc." Philips a Scot, confessor to
Henrietta Maria the queen consort. He hath also
written,

A friendly Debate between the Protestants and

the Pap'ists MS. But before it was (|uite fitted

for the press the author died, and what became of
it afterwards, I know not. His death hapned at
Cowpers-hill on the 25th of Aug. in sixteen hundred
1673. seventy and three, and two days after was buried
among his ancestors in the church-yard at Brock-
worth before-mentioifd, 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 liim a library
of ancient manuscripts consisting of the nmnber of
about 800, which he himself hatl for the most part
collected. The foundation of it was laid by his
grantUather who had them from prior Hart, and he
from the library of Langthony when it was dis-
solved, besides houshold-stuff belonging to that

' rWhilst the king remained with the Scots army, tlicy
employed their AlexaiKler Henderson, and their other clergy,
to per'ii ide the l<ing 10 consent to the extirpation of episco-
pacy in England, as he had in Scotland ; and it «as, and is
siill bcliev'd, that if his n).ijestv would liave been induced to
have satisfied them in that particul;ir, they would either have
had a party in the parliament at Westminster to iiavc been
satisfied therewith, or that they would thcrenpon have de-
clared for the kin<;, and have presently joyn'd with the loyal
party in all places fi)r his majesties defence. But the king
was too conscientions to buy his peace at so |>rophune and
sacrilegious a price as was demanded, and he was so much
100 hard for Mr. Henderson in the argumcnialion (a^ appears
by the papers that passed between them, which were shortly
afier communicated to the world) that the old man himself
was so far convinced and converted, that he had a very deep
sense of the mischief he had himself been the auihor of, or
too much contributed to, and lamented it to his nearest
friends and confidents ; and dyed of grief, and heart-broken,
« iliiin a very short time after he departed from bis majesty.
L'nd Cl.irendon, llisi. nf the Relrll. iii, 'J3 ; ed. folio.]

' Reg. Cunooc. Un. Ojton. S. p. 33.

priory. Afterwards Charles Theyer (grandson to
our author John Theyer who in his last will had
betjueatiied them to him) did ofFer to sell them to
the university of Oxon, but the price being loo
great, they were sold tt) Robert Scot of London
bookseller, who soon after sold them to his majesty
king Ch. II. to be reposed in his library at S.
James's, he having first, as I have been informed,
cuird them.

ROWLAND STEDMAN was Ijorn at Corfton
in the parish of Didlebury in Shropshire, 1630, ad-
mitted commoner of Balliol college 13 March 1647,
and the year following removed to University coll.
In 1655 he was admitted master of arts, ami .soon
after became minister of Hanwell near Brentford in
Middlesex ; where continuing till 1G60 he removed
to Okingham or Wokingham in Berks, and thence,
two years after, was ejected for nonconformity. Af-
terwards he was entertained, in the condition of a
chaplain, by Philip lord Wharton, in whose service
he died. He hath written.

The mystical Union of Believers with Christ :
or, a Treatise wherein tJie great Mystery and Pri-
vilege of the Sainfs Union xvith the Son (if God w
opened, &c. Lond. 1668. (x;t.

" The sure Way to Salvation : or, a Treatise of
" the SainCs mystical Union with Christ ; wlu-rein
" that great Mystery and Privilege is open''d in

" the Nature, Property and Necessity of it

" in a large octavo."

Sober Singularity : or, an Antidote against In-
fection by the Example of a Multitude ; being
practical Meditatimis on Exod. 23. 2. &:c. I.,ond.
1668. oct. He died at Ulx)urne or Wobourne
(where the lord Wharton hath a seat) near to Bea-
consfield in Bucks on the 14th of September in six-
teen liundred seventy and three, antl was buried
two days after in the church there, leaving then
behind him the character of a zealous noncon-
formist.

GEORGE CASTLE, son of John Castle some-
time doctor of physic of this university, was born
in the county of Middlesex, in London as it seems,
educated partlv in gi'aminar learning in the free-
schtxil at Thame in Oxfordshire while Dr. Will.
Burt was the master, admitted a commoner of Bal-
liol college 8 ^\pr. 1652, aged 17 years or there-
abouts, elected probationer i'ellow of Alls, college in
1655, being then bach, of arts. Afterwards pro-
ceeding in that faculty, he applied his studies to
medicine with the help of his father's notes, took
the degrees in that faculty, that of doctor being
compleated in the year 1665, being about that time
a member of the royal society, and a candidate, as
it seems, of tiie college of physicians. He hath
written,

The Chymical GalcniM : A Treatise wlicrein the
Practice nf the Ancients is reconciled to the nftu
3 S2

[521]

1673.

999

CASTLE.

AVHARTOX.

1673.

Ducoveries in the Theory of Physic, &.c. London
1667. octavo. [B(xU. 8vo. G. 132. Mai.]

Rejicctions on a Book cntit. Medcla Medicinw.
I'rinUd witli the former book. Afterwaxds by
the favour of his intimate and dear friend Martin
Clifford master of Sutton^s-hospital aJia.s the Charter-
house, he became physician there, and practised his
faculty with go<xl success : ]}ut giving iiimself the
liberty of too fre(juent indulgcments, cither to please
his friend, or patient, or both, was taken away by
deatli in the prime of his yeajs on the 12th day of
October (or thereabouts) in sixteen hunilred seventy
and three, and was, I sup}X)se, buried in the chappel
belonging to the said hospital. By the way I must
tell you that the said Martin Cliiford had been
educated in Westminster school, and thence elected
into Trinity coll. in Cambridge, an. 1640,' where
he arrived to good learning, and might have been
eminent had not the wars hindred his progress. He
was the author of A Treatise of Humane Reason,
Lond. 1675 in four sheets in tw. [Bodl. 8vo. S.
122. Th.l Which book being made public in
August 1674, it hapned that Dr. B. Laney bishop
of Ely dined with many persons of quality in Octo-
ber following in the Charter-house ; and whether he
then knew that Mart. Clifford the master was author
of it, is uncertain. However he being then asked
what he thought of that Ixxik, answei-\l that 'twas
no matter if all the copies were burnt and the
.author with them, knowing by what lu- liad read in
theb<K)k that tiie author nid.kes every man's private
fancy judge of religion, which the Roman-catholics
liavc for these 100 years cast up)n ])r()testantism.
In December following were published Observations
upon a Treatise entitled, Ofhiimnne Reason. Lond.
1675, in tliree sheets in tw. commonly rejjorted then
to be written by the same hand, " but really by
" Edward Stephens of Cherrington in Glocester-
" shire, gent.'" and soon after another thing entitled
Plain Dealing: or, a full and particular Examina-
tion of a late Treatise entitled. Humane Reason.
Lond. 1675, in seven sheets in tw. said in the title
to be written liy A. M. a country gentleman.
Whereupon came out a reply called ^rt Apology
for the ■ Discourse of humane Reason, &c. Lond.
1680, in seven sheets in tw. with a Review of, ami
an Appendix to, it, written by Alb. Warren, who,
at the end of all, hath added Clifford's epitaph, and
_iust character, to whicli I refer the reader. This
Mr. Clifford died on the 10th of December or there-
abouts, an. 1677, and was buried in the chappel
belonging to Sutton's-hospital.' Soon after was
elected into his place of master of tliat hospital

9 [M^irt.Cliffoid coll. Trill, conv. 2. census. II Jul. l640.
Jteg. Baker]

' [Quaere — Mr. Clifford late Mr. of the Charter-house,
buried in the cliancell (of St.Marg. Westm.) Dec. 13, 1O77.
The duke of Bucks designed him a monument, but dying, it
was turned upon the carver's hand*. .See M.S. Hist, nf Si.
Margarel.t. Baker.}

Wilham Er.skyne esq; a member of the royal so-
ciet}-, cupbearer to his majesty and a younger son
of John earl of Miirr. " One Martin Clifford was
" lieutenant in Thomas earl of Ossory's remment,
" 1660." ^ '^

THOMAS WHARTON was descended from
the ancient and genteel family of his name living in
Yorkshire, educated in Pembroke hall in Cam-
bridge, retired to Trinity college in Oxon. before
the civil wars broke out, being then tutor or go-
vernour to John Scrope the natural and only son of
Emanuel earl of Sunderland, whom he begat on the
body of his servant-maid named ^Martha Jeaiies
daughter of John Jeaiies a taylor, living sometime
in the parish of Turfield near to Great VVycomb in
Bucks. When the rebellion began, our author
AVharton left the uni\ersity and retired to London,
where he practised physic under Dr. John Bathurst
a noted physician of that place. Af"ter (Jxfiw'd gar-
rison was surrendered for the use of the parliament
in 1646, he retired to Trinity college again, and as
a member thereof was actually creatcil doctor of
physic in the bcgiiming of the year 1647, by virtue
of the letters of sir Thomas Fairfax generalissimo of
the parliament army. Afterwards lie retired to
l^ondon, was admitted a candidate of the college of
])hysicians the same year, fellow thereof an. 1650,
and for five or six years was chosen censor of the
saiil college, he being then a person of eminent es-
teem and jjractice in the city, " was one of the
" lecturers in Gresham college.'" * He hath written,

Adenographia, sen Descriptio Glundnlariim to-
tius Corporis. Lond. 1656. oct. Amstel. 1659. oct.
In which book he hath given a more accurate de-
scription of the glands of the whole body, than was
formerly done. And whereas authors have ascribed
to them very mean uses (as supporting the divisions
by vessels, or imbibing the sujjerfluous humidities
of the body) he assigns them more noble and consi-
derable uses, as tlie preparation and depuration of
the siiccus nutritius, with several other uses be-
longing to different glands, as well for conservation
of the individual, as propagation of the species.
Amongst other things we ought particularly tt) take
notice of his being the first who discovered ^ the
ductus in the glandula; maxillares by which the
saliva is conveyed into the mouth. He hath also*

" [This, Dr. Ward affirms, is said without any foundation ;
lie having never been of that society. Vid. Ward's Lives of
the Professors nf Gresham College, pref p. xix. Cole.

Wood staled tiiis on the authority of Mr. Ashmolc, as the
following extract from his own copy of the Athen.e
proves,

'Jan. 21. 1633, Dr. W harton began his lecture at Gresham
coll. So Mr. Ashni. (pia^re what lecture?']

' Dr. Charles Goodall in his second preface in his Histo-
rical Account i<f the Colli ge's Proceeding against Empiricks,
added to The lioyal College of Physicians of London founded
and eilahlislied by Law, Sic. Lond. 1684. qu.

" ll;id.

[522]

SWINNOCK.

1002

^vcn an admirable account of niorhicl glands and
tlu-ir differences, and particularly of stniniiK and
scrophulaj, how new glands are oiten generatetl, as
likewise of the several diseases of the glands of the
mesentery, pancreas, &c. Which opinions of his he
often illustrates by anatomical observations. Wliat
else he hath written I find not, nor any thing be-
sides of him,'' only that he dying in his house in
Aldersgate-street in the month of ( )ctober in sixteen
1673. hundred seventy and three, was, as I supjwse, buried
in the church of S. Botolph, situate and being with-
out Aldcrsgate in I,ondon ; " others say," that he
" died 15 Nov. IGT-'J, and was buried in Basingshaw
" church in a vault."

GEORGE SWINNOCK was Iwrn in the an-
cient borough of Maidstone in Kent, an. 1G27,
brought u)) religiously when a child in the family of
Kob. Swinnoclc a most zealous puritan of that town,
educated in Cambridge till he was bacli. of arts,'
went to Oxon to get preferment in tlie latter end of
1647, at which time he entered himself a commoner
ol' Magdalen hall. Soon after he became one of the
chaplains of New college, and (m the sixth day of
October following (1648) he was made fellow of
Bal. college, by the autliority of the visitors ajv
ptrinted by jwrliament. In 1650 he became vicar
of llickmansworlh in Hertfordshire, and thereupon
resigning his fellowship on the 24th of November
the same year, took the degree of master of arts six
days after. In 1 660 or thereabouts, he was n)ade
vicar of Great Kimbel in Bucks, and in August
1662, being ejected for nonconformity, he was re-
cei\ed into the family of Richard Ilamden of Great
Hamden in the said county of Bucks esquire, and
continued with him for some time in the quality of
a chajilain. At length upon the issuing out of his
majesty's declaration for liberty of conscience in the
latter end of the year 1671 he retired to his native
place, where he continued in preaching and praying
rt523] among the godly till the time of his death. His
works are these.

The Door of Salvation opened hij the Key of
Regeneration : or, a Treatise containing the Na-
ture, Nccesnit//, Marku and Means of Regeneration.
I,ond. 1660, &c. in oet. and in (ju. commended to
the reatlers by the epistles of Edw. Reynolds D. D.
Tho. Watson of S. Stephen's Walbrook in Lond.
and Mr. Rich. Baxter, written in Jan. 1659- This
book was printed the third time at Lond. 1671. oct.

5 [Dr. Wharton is noted by honest Isaac Walton as a dear
friend that loves both inc and my art of angling. Complete
/Ing/fr. 99. edit. 8vo. 1808.]

° [Nov. 14, die Veneris (1673) circa merid. noctis obiit
Tho. Wharton med. apud a'des suas in Aldersgatc street,
fama optima ; sepuhus in minis ecclcsiae Sancti Michaelis,
Basishaw, ubi quondam inhabitavit, Nov. £0. Dc religions
hiijusmedici fama diversa. Obituary by R.S. (Smith) Baker.]

' [The bac. of arts of the ye.ir l647 arc wanting upon our
Register; in which year G. S. probably took tliat degree.
Baker.]

The CIwistian-MarCs Calling: or, a Treatise of
making Religion one's Business, w/ierein t/ie Na-
ture and Necessity of it is discovered, he. I^ond.
1661 . &c. qu. The second part of tliis liook, which
directetli parents, children, husbands, wives, mas-
ters, servants, in prosperity and adversity to do their
duties, was printed at Lond. 1663, &c. qu. and the
third part there in 1665, &c. qu.

Several sermons, as (1.) Tlie Pnstor\<i Farewel
and Wish of Welfare to his People : or, a valedic-
tory Sermon on Acts 20. 32. Lond. 1662. 011. It
was preached, as it seems, at Gr. Kimbell before-
mention'd. (2.) The Fading of the Fle.ih, and
Flourishing of Faith : or, one Cast ftr Eternity,
c^-r. Funeral Sermon on Mr. Caleb Swinnock of
Maidstone; on Psal. 73. 26. Lond. 1662. qu. To
which is added by the said author. The gracious
Person's incomparable Portion. (3.) Men are Gods,

Gods are Men ; two Assize Sermons. These

I have not yet seen, and therefore I cannot tell you
the texts.

Heaven and Hell epitomized, the true Christian
characterized, as also an Exlurrtation with Motii'es,
to be speedy about the Work (jf Conversion. Lond.
1663. qu.

The Beauty of Magistracy : in an Expositum
(if the 82d Psal. xoherein is set forth the Necessity,
Utility, Dignity, Duty and Morality of ma-
gistrates. Lond. 1660, &c. qu. As.sisted therein by
Tho. Hall, of whom I have spoken under the year
1665.

Treatise of the Incomparableness of God in his
Being, Attribiites, Works, and Word, opened and
applied. Lond. 1672. oct.

The Sinne7-''s last Sentence to eternal Punishment
for Sins of Omission: wJierein is discovered the
Nature, Causes, and Cure of those Sins. Jjond.
1675 and 79. oct. What other things this Mr.
Swinnock (who was accounted an eminent preacher
among those of his persuasion) hath written,^ I
know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he
died on the tenth day of November in sixteen hun-
dred seventy and three, and was buried in the
church at Maidstone beforc-mentionM. In that
most virulent and diabolical pamphlet calletl Mira-
bilis Annus sccundus ' is a story of one Air. Swin-
nock a minister in S. Martin's-lane near Canon-
street in Ivondon, sometime diaplain to one of the
sheriffs of that city, who for his conformity to the
church of England, and for wearing a surplice,
which he began to do tm the 21st of Sej)t. 1662,
(after he had often said among the brethren, he
would rather burn than conform, Sec. as the author
of the said Mirab. An. saith) it pleased the Lord
(as he furthei' adds) to strike hiin with sickness,

" [He pulilished Tlie Life of Mr. Tliomas Wilson, Curate
(if Maidstone in Kent. Newton, Hist, of Maidstone, p. 132.
Cole.]

" Mirnhilis annus swundus : or, the second Part of the
second Year's Prodigies, &i.Q. Printed l662. inqn. pag. 49.

1673.

1003

BROWNE.

which proved a viok'iit burning fever, wliereof
witliin a few days after, before another Lord's day
came alxjut, hedieil, &c. Who this Mr. Swinnock
was I eannot tell, neither dotli the author set down
his Christian name, otherwise we might liave said
sometliing more of liim, ami something to the dis-
proof oi' that most vile author.

THOMAS BROWNE was liorn in the county
of .Middle.sex, elected student of Christ Church in
1620, aged sixteen years, took the degrees in arl.i,
that of master l)eing c«mpleated in 1627, made

Sroctor of tlie university in 1636, and tlie year after
omestic chaplain to archbishop Laud, and bach, of
divinity. Soon after he became rector of S. Mary
the Great, called Aldermary, in London, canon of
Windsor in 1639, and rector of Oddington in Ox-
[534] fordshire. But upon the breaking out of the grand
rebellion, being forced fi"om his church in London
by the impetuous presbyterians, he retired to his
majesty (to whom he was chaplain) at Oxford : by
virtue of whose letters he was actually created d(x:-
tor of divinity in Feb. 1642, liaving then only the
profits of Oddington coming in to maintain him.
Afterwards he lost all for his loyalty, lived |)artly
l)eyond the seas in the condition of chaplain to Mary
]5nncess of Orange ; at which time he Iiecamc ac-
quainted with divers learned men in Holland, antl
suft'eretl equally as other generous royalists did.
After the return of his majesty, he was restored
to what he had lost, kept some of his sjnritualities,
especially AVindsor, to the time of histleath, without
any other jiromotion in the church. He hath writ>
ten and pul)lished,

A Copy of tlw Sermon preached before the Uni-
versity at St. Marys in Oxon. 24 Dec. 1633 ; on
P.^al. 134. 4. Oxon. 1634. qu. I have seen a ser-
mon of his on Joh. 11. 4. preached before liis pa-
ribfiioners of Aldermary while he was chaplain to
archbishop Laud. Which sermon being esteemed
a blasphemous piece by the puritanical party of the
said parish, they complained of it to the said arch-
bishop, who instead of liaving him punished, was
made (siiitl they) canon of Windsor ; and afterwards,
when the archbishop's writings were seized on at
Lambeth, the sermon was found lying on his table :
but this I presume was never printed. He hath also
written,

A Key to the Kings Cabinet : or. Animadver-
sions upon the three printed Speeches of Mr. Ulsle,
Mr. Tate, and Mr. Bi-ozone, (Members of the
HouM ()f Commons ) spoken at a Common Hall in
London 3 July 1645, detecting the Malice and
Falshood of tlieir blaspltcmous Ob.iervations upon
tlie King''s ami Queeu's Letters. Oxon. 1645. " in
" six sheets and a half in qu.'" [Bodl. C. 14. 3.
Line] The said speeches were spoken by Joh.
L'Isle, Zouch Tate, and Mr. Browne. Our author
Tho. IJrowne wrote also a Treatise in Defence of
H. Orotius, against an Epistle of CI. Salmasius

])e Posthumo Grotii, ptibliilied under the Name of
Simplicius Virinus — Hag. 1646. in oct. But tlie
said treatise or answer I liave not yet seen; nor was
he known to be the author of it till after his death,
at which time Isaac Vossius (to whom he had sent
a printed copy of it formerly, but never told him
who was the author) found the manuscript of it,
written witli his own hand, with a title page, owning
himself therein to he the author of it.

Diiscrtatio de Therapeutis Philonis adversu-t
Henricum Valesium. Lond. 1687. oct. Put at the
end (under the name of Tho. Bruno) of The In-
terpretation qfS. Clemenfs tico Epistles to the Co-
rinthian.^, made by Pat. Junius, Gottofredus Ven-
delinus, and Joh. Bapt. Cotelerius; published by
Paulus Colomesius. Our author Browne also did
translate from Latin into Englisli, Cambden's se-
cond vol. of the Annals of Queen Elizabeth, from
the beginning of tlie year 1589, to the end of 1602 :
which translation bears this title, Tomus alter <|"
idem : or, the History of the Life and Reign of
that famous Pri?icess Elizabeth, &c. Lond. 1629.
qu. [Bodl. 4to. M. 38. Art.] To which translation
our author Browne added An Appendix, containing
Animadversions upon .several Pa.s.sages, corrections
of sundry Errors, and Additions of some rcmark-
(d>le Mutters of the History (before-mention'd)
never yet printed. He died at Windsor on the
sixth day of December in sixteen hundred seventy
and three, and was burietl without, and (m the south
side of, the king's free-chappel there, dedicated to
St. George. Over his grave was soon after ercx;tcd,
at the charge of Dr. Isaac Vossius canon of that
chappel (sole executor to our autlior Browne) a
monument of free-stone, with a plank of marble
thereon, (joyning to the south wall, between two
buttresses of the chappel) and an insciiption en-
graven upon it, made by the said Vossius : from
which I am informed that he the said Browne was
esteemetl by all that knew him ' Vir apprime doctus
& eruditus, criticus acutus, facundus orator, felix
philologus, antiquitatum chronologia-ciue cultor so-
lertissimus, ainiginatum dileminatumque conscien-
tiarum dubitantium Qiidipus adnuxlum Christianus,''
&c. One Tho. Browne was elected from Eaton
school into King's college in Cambridge an. 1550,
was afterwards master of Westminster scliool, pre-
bendary of the collegiate church there 1565, doctor
of divinity, and a worthy and learned divine. He
wrote a tragedy called Thebais, and dying in 1584,
or thereabouts, was buried at AVcstminster. Wliat
relation there was between tliis and the former
Thomas Browne, I know not, nor whether he was
related to another Thomas Browne whom I sliall
mention among these writers under the year 1682.

[Tho. Browne JEtVis Christi Oxon. ahinmus,
ar'epi Cantuar. capellanus domesticus, per cessionem
Sam. Baker installatus canon. Windesor 28 Maii,
1639. Obiit Windesor 6 Dec. 1674, et per tcsta-
mentum suum Icgavit decano et canonicis hujus

1673.

[525]

PAWLET.

JANEWAY.

1006

Ifi7j.

libera; capcllae centum libras pro augmentatione vi-
cariariitn. Huie successit M. Younge. Frith, Catal.
Kennet.

19 Dec. 1661, Dr. Tho. Brown, late chaplain to
the princess of Orange, was recommended to succeed
bishop Monk at the provostship of Eaton, but 26
of Fcor. those letters were waved by the king, who
recommended Dr. Meredith. So Tho. Martin. Tan-
nee.

Mr. Desmaizeaux published in The present State
of the Repuhlick of' Letters, Sept. 1730, a Conch ad
Clerum of Browne''s for his bachellor of divinity's
degree, before the university of Oxford 8 June
1637, on Psalm 83, 13. being A Discourse of the
Revenues of the Clergy, giving some Account of
their Origin and History, and the great Sin and
Danger of either usurping or alienating them.
Mackc]

"JOHN PAWLET, son and heir of William
" marquess of Winchester, received part of his edu-
" cation in this imiversity, (in Exeter college, as it
" seems) afterwards travelled and l)ccame master of
" some of the modern languages. In 1628 he suc-
" ceeded his father in tiie iiuirquisate of Winchester,
" and afterwards translated from French into En-
" glish, (1.) The Gallery of Heroic Women. Lend.
« 1652. (2.) The Holy History. Lond. 1658. qu.
" written by Nich. Talcm, S. J. And other books
" wliich I have not yet seen. He died on the 5th
" of March in sixteen hundred seventy and three,
" and was buried at Inglefield in Berkshire : where-
" Ujxm Charles his eldest son, known by the title of
" lord St. John of Baring, succeeded him in his
" honour. William marquess of Winchester, one
" of the ancestors ' of this John, was a learned man,
" and wrote several things, among wliich is a book
" of essays, or some things called his Idleness,
" piinted at London 1586. in qu.'' wliich marquess
" had received some academical education in this
" university."

[Neither Wood nor lord Orford had seen another
translation of the marquis's,

Devout Entertainments of a Christian Scnde.

' [Grandfather.']

» fr- - • ■■

[The Lord Marqves Idleness : con/eining mani/iild Mai-
lers i>f iicceptuhtt Deuise ; as sage Sfn/etices, prudent Pre-
cepts, mvrall Examples, sweet Simililiiden, proper Compini-
sons, and oilier Hememhranres of speeialt Chaise. No Icsse
pleasant to peruse, than profitable to practise. Compiled Li/
the Right Hotwruble L. JVilliam Murcjucss of Winchester ,
that now is — Imprinted at London by Arnold Ilaljield,
\:iS6. 4to. Among Crynes's books in the Bodleian.

Aubrey, in a letter to Anthony a Wood, dated August I I,
1695, thus notices the book and its rarity at the time he wrote.
' 1 have enquired, says he, at several shops at Duck-lane and
Little-Britlain for the Marquess of VVinchesier's Idleness,
but cannot find it. It lay wast upon a stall in a black letter,
but 1 have forgot at what shop. But about l64() or l6.'jO, a
thin folio was printed by M.of Winton, a translation out of
French or Italian, viz. The dallertj of lleroiqui U'oemen.
Mr. Shrewsbury, bookseller, haih it.']

Composed in French, by I.H. Quarre, D.D. Trans-
lated into English by I. Marq. of Winchester.
Printed at Paris, 1649-

Di-yden's lines on this nobleman must claim a
place in these Athen.«.

He who in impious times undaunted stootl.
And midst rebellion durst be just and gtxjd,
Whose arms asserted, and whose sufferings more
Confirm'd the cause for which he fought before,
Rests here — rewardetl by an heavenly prince
For what his earthly could not recompence :
Pray, reader, that such times no more appear ;
Or, if they happen, learn true honour here.
Ask of this age's faith and loyalty,
Which, to preserve them, Heav'n confin'd in thee.
Few subjects could a king like thine deserve.
And fewer, such a king so well could serve :
Blest king, blest subject, whose exalted state
By sufferings rose, and gave the law to fate.
Such souls are rare, but mighty, patterns giv'n
To earth, and meant for ornaments to heav'n.

There is a small oval print of the marq. of Winch,
by Hollar.]

JAMES JANEWAY a minister's son, was
born, as it seems, at Lilly or Lulley in Hertford-
shire, became a student of Christ Church in 1655, or
thereabouts, took one degree in arts, and became
tutor for a time to one George Stringer in his mo-
ther's house at Windsor, the same, I mean, who
was afterwards a commoner and master of arts of the
said college. So that our author, who had all his
education under presbyterians and independents,
did, after his majesty's restoration, set up a conven-
ticle at Redriff near London, where to the time of his
death he was much resorted to by those of his per-
suasion, and admired for a forward and precious
young man, especially by those of the female sex.
His works are.

Several sermons, as (1.) Death imstung, preached
at the Funeral of Tho. Monsley an Apothecary,
Kith a brief Narrative of his Life. [Lond. 1671,
Bodl. 8vo. S. 3. Th.] (2.) Sermon at the Funeral
of Tho. Savage. (3.) The Duties of Mu.tters and
Servants ; on Ephes. 6. vcr. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. — Printed
in the Supplement to the Morning Exercise at Crip-
plegate, Lond. 1674 [Bodl. C. 1. 6. Line] and 76.
(4.) Marl's la.H End, Fun. Serm. on Psal. 89. 48.
Lond. 1675. oct.

Heaven upon Earth : or, the best Friend in the
vorst of Times. Lond. 1670, Sec. [1677, Bodl.Svo.
Z. 32. Th.] oct. Delivered in several sermons,

A Token Jbr Children ; being an eaact Account

of the Conversion, holy and exemplary Lives and

joyful Deaths, of .several young Children. Lond.

1671. the first part in oct. The second part was

printed there also in oct. an. 1672.'

' [In the Botll. copy, fivo. 11. 97. Th. the first part is dated
Lond. 1(37(3, ihctecond, Lond. 1673.]

1007

JANEWAY

BUSHELL.

Ini'isiblcs, Rculitics ; demonslrnted in the holy
Life and triuviphant Death of Mr. John Janeway
FcUoic of King s College in Cnmhridge. Loiul. 1673,
&c. (X-t. This Jolm Janeway, "ho was eltler bro-
ther to James our aiitlior, was born at Lilly in
Hertfordshire, 27 Oct. 163:3, bred in Paul's school
under Mr. John I^aiigley, became a zealous j^ircsby-
terian, and dying in June 1657, was buried m Kel-
sall church in Hertfordshire. This life is recom-
mended to the world with an epistle written by Mr.
llich. Baxter.

Tlie Sainfs Encauragcment to Diligence in
Chrisfs Service: xeith Motives and Means to
Christian Activity. To K'hich is added, as an Ex-
ample to pi'ove the Point handled, The Death-bed
Experiences of Mistress B. Lond. 1673.^ oct.

Legacy to his Friends, containing 0.1 famous In-
stances of GoiFs Providences in and about Sea-dan-
gers and Deliverances, with the Names of several
that were Eye-icitnesses to many of them. Lond.
1674', 75. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. U. 53! Th.] Before
which book is the author's picture in a cl<«k, aged
38 years ; and at the end of it is a sermon entit.
[526] 'S^<^ Dangers and Deliverances ; on Acts 27. 18, 19,
20. by Joh. llyther a nonconformist of Wajiping
near London. The said Legacy is .several tunes
made use of by Increase Mather in \\m Essay J'or the
Recordi ng of Illustrious Providences.

Sninfs Memorials : or. Words Jitly spoken, lilcc
Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver. Being a Col-
leeiion cyf divers Sentences. Lond. 1674. oct. Edm.
Calaiuv, Kalph V'cmiing, and Jos. Caryl had a
hand, besides Janeway, in the said Memorials. He
\Qn\- died on the sixteenth day of Mai-cli in sixteen hun-
dred seventy and three, and was buried four days
after in the church of S. IVIary in Aldermanbury
within the city of London, near to the grave of his
father. At which time his friend Mr. Nath. Vin-
cent j^reaclied his funeral .sci'mon ; which being ex-
tcUit, the reader may satisfy himself more of the cha-
racter of Mr. Janeway therein. Several elegies I
have seen, that were made on his death, as that by
Ralph Venning, who saith he died on the 10th of
March, another by Anon, who tells us the 12th of
the said month, &c. but both false.

" THOMAS BUSHELL was 1)om of, and dc-
" scended from, a genteel family of his name living
" at Cleve Prior in Worcestershire, received some
" education in Oxon, particularly as I conceive in
" Baliol college, and afterwards, for his generous
" spirit and mind nnich atldicted to curiosities, he
" was taken into the service of sir Franc. Bacon,
" viscount of S. Albans ; before whom, when lord
" chancellor, he bore the great seal, got much by
" that office, but more by the generosity of his mas-

■• [The Bodleian copy is diiied Ixind. I(i74 ; ilie address to
ihc Chrislian reader bv Kich. Baxter, .Sepi. 5, |()7.3. Sae
Uodkiau 8vo. U. 300. Tli.j

" ter, who was as 'twere an indidgent father to him.
" xlfter the declension of that nolile lord, he tra-
" veird, as it seems, beyond the seas, to satisfy liis
" curiosity in many matters of nature ; and at his
" return, his geny being much atlvanceil by his
" travels, esp^ciiilly ujwn his serious reading of his
" master's Philosophical Theory of Mineral Pro.ie-
" cations, or Discoveries, (wliich as 'tis confess'd
" did light the first candle to his future di.scoveries)
" he did follow the directions of it, as having always
" been enclined to search out hidden matters, and
" the secrets of nature ; or that he had, as otliers ob-
" served of him, an inclination and affection to mines
" and minerals, as the most honest gain and greatest
" gotxl to a conmion wealth. The first known and
" eminent discovery that he made was at Enston in
" Oxfordshire, where, or else near that jilace, he had
" land, and did use several times in summer season
" to retire. At ^ length cleansing a certain spring
" then called Goldwell, tho' quite overgrown witn
" briars and buslies, to place a cistern for his own
" drinking, he met with and discover'tl a rtx^k so
" wonJerfullv ordered bv nature her self, that he
" thought it worthy of all imaginable advancement
" by art. Whereu|K)n he made cisterns, and laid
" divers pipes between the rocks, and ])uilt a house
" over them, containing one fair room ibr banquet-
" ting, and several other small closets for divers uses,
" besides the rfx)ins above ; which, when finish'd in
" 1636, together with the rock, grove, walks, and
" all other purposes (done in the compass of a year)
" were all on the 23d of August j)resented by the
" said Tho. Bushell to the then queen Henrietta
" Maria, who (in aimpany with her royal consort
" king Charles I.) was graciously pleasetl to honour
" tlie rock, not only with her royal presence, but
" conmianded the same to be called after her name
" Henrietta. Ax. the same time (23 Aug. 1636) as
" they were entring the house enclosing the rock,
" there arose a hermit out of tliegroinid, and cnter-
" tain'd them \\ itli a s])eech in verse beginning thus,
" ' With bended knees thus humbly do I prav,'&c.
" which being concluded to their content, he did re-
" turn to his humble grave, iiis jx'aceful urn. Then
" was the rock presented by Mr. Bushell in a sonnet
" by another person (answer'd by an echo) begin-
" ning thus, ' I charge thee answer me to what I
" ask,' &:c. After that was done, a banquet was prc-
" scnted to them \rith a sonnet, sung within the pil-
" lar of the table, beginning thus, ' Come away blest
" souls, no more,' &c. and in conclusion a sonnet
" was sung to theking and queen with this beginning,
" ' Hark, hark, how the stones in the rock,' Sec. All
" which sonnets had music composed to them by
" that admirable musician Sim. Ive, who, if I mis-
" take not, was the same Sim. Ive of the parish of
" Christ Ciiurch in London, who died in the begin-

5 " Hr. Rob. Pl.it in his Na'ural History nfOifordskhe,
" printed 1077. in fol. cap. <). sect. 50."

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" ning of 1662, for on tlie 7th of July the same
" year tlicre was a commission granted from the
" prerogative court to Mary Bodvn, daughter of
" the said Sim. Ive, to administer his goods, cliattels,
" &c. Soon after Mr. Bushel became farmer of
" his majesty's mineriils in the principality of Wales.
" And as the renown'd Thucidides was jirefect over
" the minerals behmging to the state of Athens, so
" Mr. Bushel was accounted by many another Thu-
" cidides in the said principality. The chief stage
" of his action there was Cardiganshire, where as
" many of the hills are fruitless soil, so were those
" at Athens, as Pliny delivers ; but what he did, or
" was to do there, some construed his adventures to
" be but a fabric of a fantastical brain. He began
" with a chcarful heart to cut thro' five several
" mountains at their lowest level, which by the art
" of dialling appeared to l)e some sixty, some eighty,
" and some an hundred fathoms perpendicular : or
" thus, as I find it in a certificate under the miners
" hands, which was presented to the lords and
" others of his majesty's privy council, viz. that
" ' the said Mr. Bushel, at his inestimable charge,
" having cut six hundred fathom thro' the rock at
" the lowest levels, north and south, for discovering
" the lost vein at Cumsum Lock, lying east and
" west ; two hundred fathom thro' the mountain of
" Tallybont, at sixty fathom perpendicidar ; three
" several addits at Koginean, one alx)ve another,
" twenty and thirty fathom center ; another at
" Bryn-Lloyd fifty fathom in length, and thirty
" fathom center, working day and night for the
" draining of the water, which formerly in tlie time

" of customer Smith, and sir Hugh Middleton

" in their workings of mines royal was never used,
" they only woridng iijwn the sujierficies of the
" earth, the works being drowned with water before
" they could sink to the best of the vein, Iwth for
" quantity and quality, and so the charge exceed
" the benefit,' Sec. Mr. Bushel continued these
" battei-y-works four years night and day before his
" hopes could give him any happy assurance that
" the mineral beds of those subterraneal riches lay
" fast locked in those barren rocks, until his charge
" grew so great, that he became pitied by his
" friends, and insulted over by his enemies, which
" did anew jierplex his mind. He carried air thro'
" the mountains by pipes and bellows, without the
" vast chai-ge of sinking shafts. He saved wood by
" melting the lead-ore with turf and sea-cole chark :
" and at lengtls having obtained his desire in part,
" and having obtained a gi-ant of a mint from his
'.' majesty king Charles I. to coin silver, he did,
" with tlie effects thereof, cloath the said king's
" army at Oxtbrd with the said minerals produce,
" and brought the Scaid mint to serve his majesty's
" present occasions in his royal garrison of Oxford,
" when his other mint in the Tower of London was
" denietl him. Afterwards when the parliament
'• soldiers had got considerable footing in Wales,
Vol. HL

these mines ceased, and Mr. Rushcl was forceil to
change his quarters and shift as well as he could,
as other royalists did, to his great imjx)verishment.
After his majesty's restoration he, tho' then old,
prosecuted again his projects, and upon several of
the solicitations of liim and his friends, his majesty
king Charles IL did give his assent to the bill
passed in parliament about the latter end of April
1662, for confirming agi'eements between him the
said Tho. Bushel and the miners of the Kow-Pits
in Somersetshire, for recovering their drowned and
deserted works, which passed into an act on the
19th of May following : by virtue of which, a
firm foundation was laid to proceed on. So that
then it was not doubted that it would be made
manifest to the world that those Mendipn works
would be what the people themselves usually stiled
them, the English Indies for Lead Ore. Those
' that then said that Mr. Bushel was poor in purse,

• did then begin to perceive why he refused ail
' jiartnership in the said affair, being confident from

■ the practice of his own experience, to repair by

• this the ruin of his fortunes, sustained in the re-

• bellious and broken times, and prove a sufficient

• supply to perfect his enterprize of discoveries in

■ foreign ])arts, which may be confidently said ;
' altho' this work of Row-Pits was generally reputed
' to have been the overthrow of forty rich families
' tliat went before him in the said enterprize.
' This work was carried on and continued near to
' the time of his death, but with what advantage to
' himself I know not. He hath y)ul)lished,

" The several Speeches and Songs at the Pre-

• sentmcnt of the Rock at Enston to the Queen's
' most eocccUent Majesty, 23 Aug. 1636, &c. Oxon.
' 1636. cju. These K))eeches and songs seem to
' have been all made by Mr. Bushel, who, at his
' charge, caused Sim. Ive l)efore-mentionetl to com-
' ]X)se music to them, he being accounted an honest

• and able musician, and of excellent skill in his
' art.

" A Just and true Remonstrance of his Majesty's
' Mines Royalin the Principalitij of Wales. Lond.
' 1642. qu.

" Extract (or Abstract) of the Lord Chancellor
' Bacons Philosophical Theory of Mineral Proae-
' cutions. Lond. 1660. qu. and other things which
' I have not yet seen. He died in the n)onth of
" April (about the time of Easter) in sixteen hun-
' drcd seventy and four, aged 80 or more, and was
' buried in the little cloyster (where Dr. Sim. Pa-

• trick's lodgings lately were) belonging to the abbey
' church of S. Peter in Westminster, leaving then
' behind him the character of one always troubled
' with a beating and contriving l)rain, of an aimer
' at great and high things, wjiile he himself was
' always indigent, and therefore could never accom-
' plish his mind to his original desire, of one always
' borrowing to cjiiry on his designs, but seldom («•
' never paid,"

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1674.

1011

CRESSEY.

HUGH CRESSEY or Cressv, son of Hugh
Cressey, a counsellor of Lincolns-Inn, by (Mar-
gery) his wife, daughter of Dr. Tho. D'Oylic a phy-
sician of London, was bom in a market town in
Yorkshire called Wakefield, (descendetl from an
ancient and genteel family of his name living some-
time at Holme near Hodsack in Nottinghamshire)
and being educated in grammar learning in his na-
tive country, was, at 14 years of age, sent to tlie
university of Oxon in Lent term an. 1619, but tor
want of a vigilant tutor he lost much time, yet
having good natural parts, did, in the fourth year
after his coming to the university, take the degree of
bach, of arts, and in 1625 being a candidate for a
fellowship of Merton coll. he was elected proba-
tioner, and the year after was made true and perpe-
tual fellow: So that what time and learning he
before hatl lost, was, by a strict and severe discipline
then and there observetl, recovered and advancetl.
After he had taken the degree of master of arts, aiul
had entred into holy orders, he became chaplain to
Thom. lord Wentwortli while he was president of
tlie North, and afterwards when he was earl of
Strafford ; but what he obtained from that most
noble lord while he enjoyed that lionoin-able employ-
ment I know not.^ In 1638 he went in liie quality
of a chaj)lain, as I conceive, with his most honoured
lord IaicIus viscount Falkland when he went into
Ireland, and in the year after retui-ned into England,
but had nothing then and there conferM upon him.
In the latter end of 1642 he became, by the favour
and interest of tlie said viscount (then one of the se-
cretaries of state) canon of Windsor, in the room of
Dr. Gill). Primerose deceased, but was never install-
ed in that dignity, and much about the same time
had the deanery of Laighlen in Ireland conferred
upon him : in which year all things being in a con-
fusion, he received no profits from either dignity.
So that being destitute of a comfortable subsistance,
especially in the next year when he lost his most be-
loved lord Falkland at Newbury fight, he travelled
as a tutor with Charles Berkley, esq; (afterwards earl
of Falmouth) an. 1644, and upon a foresight that
the church of England would terminate through the

^ [' I have only one thing more lo trouble y'mr lordship
with at this lime, and that is concerning one Mr. Cressv, a
divine, who is lately arrived in Ireland. I have received
good testimony of his sufficiency, as a younger man, and had
thought to have recommended him to your lordship a jzood
while since, but that other businesses have caused me to slip
it. I pray you when he conies in your way, will you be
pleased to take notice of him from me ? And as he shall ap-
prove him?elf, by his good carriage, so let him stand or fall in
your lordship's estimation." Letter from archbishop Laud lo
lord deputy StraH'orde, dated July 10, H')34. KnowkisSira/-
forde Papers, i, 272,

' Mr. Cressy, the gentleman you recommend unto me,
proves to be judge Cressy's son, and my own chaplain, I trust
I shall be able to provide for him shortly, being like to speed
the better for your lordship's opinion of him.' Letter from
lord Slrafl'orde to archb. Laud, dated August 23, 1034. Jhid.
page 300.]

endeavours of the jieevish and restless presbyterians,
he Iwgan to think of settling himself in the church
of Rome. ^\ t length, after mature consideration, he
renoimced his religion, and made a public recanta-
tion at Rome of his errors and heresy (as they are
there called) before the Inquisition, an. 1646. VVhich
being so done, he returnee! to Paris, and there pub- [
lished his Motives that induced him to change his
religion, not that he was so considerable a person
that all the world should take notice of it, buttliat he
might 'bothgive some prtwf of the mature advice, and
also reasonableness of his change. A certain * author
tells us that it was not devotion, but necessityj and
want of a subsistence which drove him first out of
the church of England, and then into a mcmaster}'.
And ' another that he became a Roman catholic, and
was insnared to that new choice by the hones and
promise of being to be admitted an idle drone or
monk in the Charterhouse at Paris, where he might
live as warmly, as lapt all over in lamlvskins, and
like a bee in a ])lentiftil hive fed with the purest
amber honey, &c. But how such a bait should al-
lure him, no man that unilerstands the rules of that
order csm easily imagine it so to be, considering tliat
the monks thereof spend most of their time, whether
early or late, in prayer, in fasting, Kmeness and ab-
stinence from all flesh whatsoever, &c. Of this I
am sure that when he wrote and published his Mo-
tives, his mind became so humble, that it was his
eager desire to be a monk of the English coll. of
Carthusians at Newjiort in Flanders, a jioor place
God wot, and very slenderly endowetl, as the prior
thereof, Peter Bilcliff a Yorkshire man Ixirn, did
once tell me. But so it was, that he being dissuaded
from that order, because he could ne\'er be in a ca-
pacity, or masterof so much time as to vindicate him-
self or the Roman catholic church by writing, he
took upon him the habit of the Benetlictine order,
as I shall anon tell you. As stxm as his Motives
called Exornologesis were made public, he sent a
copy into England to his dear friend Dr. Henry
Hammond, who in a kind letter returu'd him thanks
for the book, and without the least exception against
the stile, gave ' this judgment of it, that an a'rioc
^tu^Hi did privily run through the whole contexture
of the book. He did not interpret wherein the fal-
lacy consisted, but added, We are friends, and I do
not propose to be your antagonist. At the end of
the letter, he kindly invited him into England, as-
suring him that he should be provided of a conve-
nient place to dwell in, and a sufficient subsistence to
live comfortably ; and withal, that not any one
should molest him about his religion and conscience.

" Prcf. to his Exomologesis.

8 Edw. E. of Clar. in his book entit. Animadversions on a
Book entit. Fanaticism funaticiiUy imputed, iic.

^ The auilior of Legenda Ligneii, with an Answer to tht
Moderator, chap. 3fi.

' Ser. Cressy in his Epistle Apolnget. to a Person iif Ho-
nour, &c. Sect. 5. p. 47.

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1014

[,^30]

Our author Cressey hnd reason to hclievc tliat the
said invitation was an effect of" a cordial friendship,
and lie was also informM that he was well enabled
to make g(M)d his promise, as having the disposal of
great charities, and being a very charitable man him-
self. Yet rendring such thanks as gratitude re-
quired of him, he told him that he could not ac-
cept of so very kind an offer, being engaged al-
most by vow to leave all pretensions to the world,
and to embrace ])overty tor his portion. Besides
also, such a friend as this, he had many more, se-
veral near his majesty ; among whom, one espe-
cially there was of the highest rank, to whom for-
merly, u|X)n the rebellion m Ireland, being destitute
of a present subsistence, he did acknowledge all
gratitude due, f<)r by his care alone he was provided
of a condition both honourable and comfortable.
So that if he had lost all other friends, he had reason
to assure liimself he would have freely contributed,
rather than extremity of want should have forced
him to quit the world. But to return ; while he
continued at Paris, Henrietta Maria, the queen of
England, was very civil to him, and being about to
leave that ])lace, she assign'd him an hundred crowns
to furnish him in his journey towards a monastery.
Afterwards, upon an invitation, he went to Doway,
took upon him the habit of the Benedictine order m
the coil, of the English moiiivs of that order there:
and being settled, he changed his name from Hugh
Paulin, (which he received at the font in Wakefield
church) to Serenus de Cressy, lived according to
their discipline for 7 years or more, and afterwards
liecame one of the mission in England. At length
upon the king's marriage with Katharine the infanta
of Portugal, lie became one of her servants, and
mostly lived in Somerset-house in the Strand,
within the liberty of Westminster, &c. One of his -
adversaries tells us, that Cressy was an author grave
and sober, whose rea.son was very keen and shai'p,
and that he was the Coripha»us of the Roman party :
which is true ; but I must take leave here to tell the
reader, that while he continued in Oxon he was ac-
counted a quick and accurate disputant, a man of a
good nature, manners and natural parts, and when
in orders, no inconsiderable preacher. But after he
had spent divers years in a religious order, jind was
returned into England, his former acquaintance
found great alterations in him as to parts and viva-
city, and he seemed to some to be possest with
strange notions, and to others, a reserved person,
and httle better than a melancholic. Which muta-
tion arose, not jierhaps known to him, upon his
solely giving himself up to religion, the refinedness
of his soul, and the avoiding of all matters relating
to human and prophane learning, as vanities. His
works are these,

* Dan. Whilby in his prcf. lo /I Ueplij la what S. C- hath
returned to Dr. Pitrces Sermuii. Loud. !()()•*.

K,ramo1oge»ii> : ' or, a faithful Narration (if the
Occasions and Motives (if his Conversion to Ca-
tholic IJnitij. Paris 1()47 and 53. in Oct. [Botll.Svo.
B. 325. Line] In the last edititm is an Appendix,
in zMch are cleared certain Misconstmctions of
his K.romohgesis, published Imj J. P. Autltor of the
P.refaec to the Lord Falkland'' s Discourse of Infhl-
lihiUfy. This Exomolofresis was the golden calf
which the English papists fell down and worshipped.
They brag'd that book to be unanswerable and to
have* given a total overthrow to the Chillingworth-
ians, and book and tenets of Lucius lord Falkland.

Sancta Sophia : or. Directions for tJie Prayer irf
Contemplatuni, ^c. extracted out of more than XL
Treatises, written hy the lute Reverend Father Avff.
Baker, a Monk of the English Congregation of the
holy Order ofS. Benedict. Doway 1d57. in 2 vol.
in a large oct.

Certain Patterns of Devout Exercises of imme-
diate Acts arid Affections of the Will — Printed with
S. Sopfda.

Roman Catholic Doctrines no Novelties : or, an
Anszver to Dr. Pierce''s Court Sermon, miscalled

The Primitive Rule of ReformMtion. Pr. 1663.

in oct. [Bodl. Mar. 303.]

A non est Inventus, returned to Mr. Edw. Bag-
shazv's Enquiry and vainly boasted Discovery of
Weakiiess in the Grounds of the ChurcKs Infalli-
'-yy—Pr. 1662. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. B. 370. Line]

Letter written to an English Gentleman, 16 Jtdy

1662, ivherein Bisliop Morley is concent dr—^
Printed among some of the said bishop's treatises
Lond. 1683. qu.

The Church History of Brit anny from the Be-
ginning of Christianity to the Norman Conquest,
&c. — Printed at Roan in Normandy 1668. fol.
[Bodl. U. 5. 11. Th.] 'Tis mostly taken from (1.)
Annales Ecclcsice Briiannicce. Printed at Leodes

1663. in 4 vol. written by Mich. Alford alias Grif-
fith a Jesuit. (2.) The first and 2d vol. of Mona.ft.
Anglic. Printed at Lond. 1655 and 1661. fol. (3.)
The Decern Scriptores Hist. Anglicana\ Printed
there also in 1652. fol. and the collection in MS.
(contained in several folios) made from several an-
cient MSS. relating to English antiquities, (chiefly
in the Cottonian library) oy Aug. Baker before-
mention'd. Many severe censures have been given
by learned men of the author Cressy for publishing
many miracles and monkish stories in the said Ch.
Hilt, of Britiiny, jiarticularly by that great master
of the English language, Edward, sometime earl of
Clarendon, who knew him well in the university to
be much averse to such matters, as also the author
of Reflections upon the Devotions of the Roman
Church, &c. Lond. 1674. oct. Yet let this be said

' [See A Colhclinn of several Tracts of Edward Earl of
Clarendnn, Lond. 172", folio; page 281.]

■' The Christian Moderator. Lond. i6.'j2. sec. edit, pen'd
liy John Auslen sometime of Canibr.

3T2

1015

CRESSEY.

TRAHEKNE. WHITFORD.

of hiin, that forasuuii-h that he dotli mostly quote
[531 j his authors for, and leaves, what he says, to the
judgment of the readers, he is to be excused, and in
the mean time to l)e connnended for his grave and
good stile, proper for an ecclesiastical historian.
After it was published, he went forward with a se-
cond volume, which was to conclude about the time
of the dissolution of monasteries made by king
Henry 8; but before he had finished 300 years
after the Norman conquest he died.

Answer to Part of Dr. Stillingjleei's Book, ent'it.

Idolatrii practised in the Church (yf Rome.

Printed 1672. in oct.

Fanaticism fanatically Imputed to the Cath.

Church by Dr. Stillin^eet, and the Imputation

refuted and retorted, &c. Printed lo72. oct.

IBodl. 8vo. B. 104. Line]

^ ,. , r< 41 r s') Pr.l673.oct.=

Qiiestwm. why are you a Catholic ■ f ru ii o a

Qu. why are you a Protestant? \\aA, j ■ .\

Epistle ApoloffeticaJ to a Person of Honour,

touching his Vindication of Dr. Stilling/leet

Printed 1674. oct. [In Wood's study.] The person
of honour was Edw. earl of Clarendon.

Reflections on the Oath of Supremacy This

I have not yet seen.* He also published Sixteen
Revelations of Divine Love, .shaved to a devout
Servant of our Lord, called Mother Juliana an
Anclwrete of Norjcich, wlu) lived in the Days of
King- Edward III. Printed 1670. <x;t. and dedi-
cated by Cressey to the lady Bloimt of Sodington,
widow of sir George Blount; and also changed
from old into modern English, more compendiously,
a book written before the change of religion, entit.
An Abridgment of the Book called the Cloud of
Unknozving, and of the Coun.sel referring to the
same. This is not printed, but in MS. and was
shewed to me by father Wilfrid R. a Benedictine
monk. See more in Maur. Chauney in vol. 1. coll.
459. At length Mr. Cressey having lived to about
the age of man, he surrendred up his last breath at
East Greensted in Sussex, in the house of Richard
Caryl, esq; on the tenth day of Aug. (S. Laurence's
1674. '^^y) in *^he year sixteen hundred seventy and four,'
and was buried in the church there, as I have been
informed by the superior of his order on this side
of the river Trent in England, named Gregory
Mallet alias John Jackson, who dying in the Sheldo-
nian family on the 10th of Sept. 1681, was buried
in the chancel of the church of Long Compton in
Warwickshire.

[Of Cressey lord Clarendon writes thus to Dr.

* [And again 1686, 4to. Peck.]

^ [^lie/lections upon the Oathes of Supremacy and Jlte-
giance. By a Catholick Gentleman, an obedient Son oj" the
Church, and loyal Subject to his Majesty. Printed in the
Year 16GI.8V0. pp. 96. Bodl. 8vo. B. 28>>. Line]

" [Aiig. 1674. About ihis lime died Serenus Cressey In
Sussex ; He who wrote & published The Church Historic of
Britain in fol. 1668. Mr.Ric. Smith's Obituary . Baker.]

Earle: See State Papers, Oxford 1773, vol. ii,
jjage 322. — ' Must I believe H. Cressey's resolution
to be poivin])toiy whilst he remains in such coni-
})any .? Truly 1 am exceedingly troubled for it.
What scrii])les or scandals could work this odious
alteration (for melhinks, apostacy is too cholerick a
word towards a friend) wliich you could not remove .''
It is a great loss to the churcJi, l)ut a greater to his
friends, dead, and alive ; for the dead suffer when
their memory and reputation is objected to question
and rejjroach. Is it a necessary consequence to the
conscience, that if a man turn to that church, he
must take orders in it .' Methiiiks, there is a duty
incumbent to the function, that might well terrify a
man that feels not a very strong impulsion, though
he were never so well satisfied m the religion itself.
If we cannot keep him a minister of our church, I
wish he would continue a la^'-nian in their's, whicli
would somewhat lessen the defection, and, it may
be, preserve a greater projwrtion of his innocence.'']

THOMAS TRAHERNE, " a sJioemaker-'s son
of Hereford *,"" was entred a com- • ^ Ilcreford-
moner of Brasen-n. college on the shire man bom.
first day of March 1652, took one f'fst edit.
degree in arts, left the house for a time, entred into
the sacred function, and in 1661 he was actually
created master of arts. About that time he became
rector of Credinhill commonly called Credncll near
to the city of Hereford, afterwards domestic chap-
lain to S. Orlando Bridgman loril keejier of the
great seal, and minister of Tuddington, called by
some Teddington, near Hampton Court in Mid-
dlesex, and in 1669 bach, of divinity. He hath
written,

Roman Forgeries: or, a true Account ofjalse
Records discovering the Impo.itnre.t and counterfeit
Antiquities of the Church of Rome. Lond. 1673.
oct. [Bodl. 8vo. B. 294. Th'.J

Christian Ethics: or divine Morality, opening
tlie Way to Blessedness, by the Rules of Virtue
and Reason. I>ond. 1675. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. G. 65.
Th.] He died at Teddington before-mention'd, in
the liou,se of S. Orl. Bridgman, and was buried on
the tenth day of October in the church there, under
the reading desk, in sixteen hundred seventy and
four. This person, who always led a single and a
devout life, \\'as well read in primitive antiquity as
ill the councils, fathers, &c.

DAVID WHITFORD a Scotch man born, son
of Dr. Walter Whitford of Monklaiid, bishop of
Brechan,** and of the house of Milneton, was elected
one of the students of Christ Church, from West-
minster school, an. 1642, aged 16 years, bore arms
for his majesty soon after within the garrison of

* [Waller Whiiford D. D. buried in the middle isle of
the cnancel of Si. Alargarei's Westminster, .rune I6, I()47.
Regist. Qujere if this was not the bishop, who might live
in this parish after turned out of Scotland. Tanner.]

1()74.

WHITFORD.

HYDE.

1018

Oxon, and elscwhurc, took one degree in arts, after
the surrender ot" that garrison, and in 1648 was
thrown out of liis student's place by the impetuous
visitors appointed by parhament. So that at pre-
sent being out of all employ, he adhered to the
cause of king Charles II. jiaid his obedience to him
when in Scotland, served him in the cjuality of an
officer at Worcester fight 1651, at which time he
came to obtain his rights and inheritances, then
most unjustly usurped by fanatics; was there
wounded, taken prisoner, brought to Oxon, and
tlience among other prisoners carried to London,
where by the unportunity of friends he was released.
Afterwards lie was relieved by Edward Bysshe esq;
king of ai-nis, and became usher to James Shirley
the jx>et when he taught school in the White-fryers
near Fleet-street in London. After the king's re-
turn in 1660, he was restored to his student's 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 I/auderdale, and
became his chaplain, I mean that earl whose sirname
was Maitland, who dying at Tunbridge Wells in
Kent on S. IJartholomew's day 1682, his btxly 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.
" I have been informed by others, that at Had-
" dington is a church excellently built of hewn
" stone, in a chapjK'l belonging to which is an ex-
" cellent burial place for the chief of the family of
" Maitland, and that this duke of Lauderdale is iii-
*' ter'd there." The said Dav. Whitford, who was
always accountetl an excellent Grecian and philo-
logist, hath published, with a translation in Latin
verse,

Mttswi, Moscld ^~ Bionis, quw extant. Omnia.
Lond. ICoo. qu. in Gr. and Lat.^

Selcctiora qitccdam Theocriti Ehhjllia, in Gr.
and Lat. [Printed with the former.] Both dedicated
to Bysshe before-mention'd, who is by Whitford
stiled ' a.syluni & perfugiimi affiictis & egenis.' He
also translated into Latin the said Bysshe Iiis notes
on old authors that have written of arms ajid ar-
mory, as I shall tell you when I come to speak of
that person, under the year 1679. He also wrote
an Appendix to The Compleat History oftlie Wars
in Scotland under the Conduct of James Marquess

' [jWusffi, Moschi el Bionis ijikb exiaut omnia : Quibus
accessere quwdam selecliora Theocrili Kidyllia. Impressa
majore Chardctere, Sculptura adnrnata, Latinoque Carmine
reddita ; Greeds e licgione apposilis. Aiitore Davide fVhile-
J'ordo. Londini, Typis Tliomce lioijcroj'tii, Impensis Jo.
Martin, Jac. AUeshye, el Tlio. Dicas, ad Insigne Campance
in Cocmiterio D. Pauli, ifog. 4lo. Bodl. Line. E. 1. ig.
This vol. contains two engravings by Faithorne in his very
best style, the one representing the meeting of Hero aim
Leander, the second the death of the two lovers.]

of Montr 0.16 or Montross, as I have been credibly
informed by those that knew him well : which //w-
tnrii was written by the learned and famous George
Wishart D. U. as I shall tell you elsewhere. What
other things this Mr. Whitford hath written, pub-
lishetl, or translated I know not, nor any thing else
of him, only that he dying suddenly in his chamber
in Christ Church in the morning of the 26th of
October 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 transcept joyning to the cathedral
church there, near to the body of his elder brother
called Adam Whitford bachelor of arts and some-
time student of the said house, who was buried the
10th of February 1646. There was another elder
brother, a stout and desperate man, called colonel
Walter Whitford, who had a prime hand in dis-

Eatching that notoiious villain Is. Dorislaw, as I
ave told you before in Jo. L'isle, col. 667. Which
colonel was not executed in Scotland by the cove-
nanting party there in June 1650 (as a certain '
author tells us) as having been one of the party
imder the illustrious and truly valiant Montross be-
fore-mention'd, but is still (Sept. 1691.) living in
Edinburgh, and in opinion a Roman Cath.'^ The
said author tells' us also, that about the same time
(June 1650) one Sptrtswood another officer, son of
a bishop, was beheaded on the said account, at
which time was an acknowledgment made, as he
farther adds, that ho was one of those that murdered
Dr. Dorislaus in Holland.

* EDWARD HYDE* son of Henry Hyde of

■ Bulbt. Whitlock in \ih Memorials of the English Affairs,
in the month of June ifoO. p. 444. a.

* [Soon after the officers who had beea taken with him,
(the marquis of Montrose) Sr. William Hurry, Sr. Francis
Hay, and many other?, of as good families as any in the
kingdom, were executed, to the numhcr of thirty or forty,
in several quarters of the kingdom ; many of tlicm being
suffer'd to be beheaded. There was one whom they thought
fit lo save, one Colonel VVhilford; who, when he was
brought to dye, said ' he knew the reason why he was put
to death ; which was only because he had killed Dorislaus
at the Hague ; who was one of those who had joyn'd in the
murthcr of the last king.' One of the magistrates, who were
|)resent to see the execution, caused it to be suspended, till
he presently inftirm'd the council what the man had said ;
and they thought fit to avoid the reproach ; and so preserv'd
the gentleman ; who was not before known to have had a
hand in that action. Clarendon's Ilis/ory of the Rebellion,
vol. 3, page 275.]

3 Whitlock p. 44?. b. in June l650.

* IViltshire Pisilation Book iti the Herald's office, ful. 1 18.
5 [The life of lord Clarendon differs so very materially \n

the first and second editions, that I have been compelled to
print the whole as it st.mils in the edit, of 1692, in the form
of a note. It was impossible that the reader could have
comprehended either, had 1 attempted to notice the varia-
tions in the margin, according to my usual custom.

* Edward Hyde, son of Henry Hyde * of Pyrton, in Wills,
(by Mary his wife, daughter and heir of Edw. Langford of

• WtltiUre vmialicn Booi in the Herald'aofRcr, fol. 113.

IC74.

1019

HYDE.

Pyrton in Wiltshire, (by Mary his wife, daughter
and heir of Edward Laiigford of Trobridge in tlic
same county) third son of Laurence Hyile of Goos-

Trobridge in the same county) third son of Laur. Hyde of
Gutsage S. Mich, in Dors, descended from .in antient and
gentile family of his name living at Norihbiiry in Cheshire,
was born at Dinton near Hinilon in Wilts, on the Kith of
Febr. or thereabouts an. lC03, entered a student of Maji.d.
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 l640, he was chosen burgess
for VVolton Basset in his own country, to serve in that par-
hanienl tiiat began at Westm. 13. of Apr. the same year, and
again for Sultash in Cornvrall to serve in that unhappy pirl.
that began on the third of Nov. following ; and wtien 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 king's hands, was made chancel-
lour of the exchequer, a privy-counsellor, and a knight. At
length upon the declining of the king's c.nuse, he ivith the
lords Culpeper and Capel accompanying prince Charles,
ship'd themselves at Pendennis Castle in Cornwall for the
isle of Scilly, then for Jersey, and afterwards for France.
From which lime our author HyJe adhering closely to the
said prince, and attending his motions in foreign pans, he
was by him when king sent embassador into Spain, made
his secretary of state, and at length lord chancellor of Eng-
land at Bruges in Flanders, 2y Jan. 1657. After tiie
king's restauration he was elected chancellor of the univer-
sity of Oxon, made baron of Ilindon 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 oUice of lord chancellor for
.seven years or more, the great seal was taken from him 30
Aug. 1667, and about four months after retired into France,
where he remained seven years, spending his time in several
pi ices there; under his name were these things following
published.

Several speeches, as ( 1 ) Speech in the House of Lords con-
cerning the Lord Presidents Court and Council in the North,
An. 1040. (2) Sp- at a Conference between both [louses, C)
Jul. 164 !, at the Transmission of several Impeachments
os^ainst the Lord Chief Baron Davenport, Baron Trevor and
Baron Weston. Lond. I()41. qn. &c. besides several ari;ii-
iiients and debates. See in John Uushworth's book ciilled
Historical Collections, in the first vol. of the second part, an.
I(i40, and in the Impartial Collection, &c. of Dr. John
Nalson.

A full Answer to an infamous and (railerous Pamphlet in-
lit. A Declaration of the Commons of England in Parlia-
ment assembled, cipressing their Reasons and Grounds of
passing their laic Resolutions touching no further Address or
Application to be made to the King. Lond. l648. qu.

Several speeches in pari, during his office of L. chancellor,
from his majestie's restauration to I()(i7. — They are in num-
ber at least 10, and were ))rinted in fol. papers.

The Difffrrncc and Disparity between the Estates and
Conditions of George Duke if Buckingham, and Robert Earl
of Essex. — See in Reliq. IVottonianw, &c. Lond. l(J72.octav.

Animadversions on a Book inlit. Fanaticism fanatically
imputed to the Cath. Church by Dr. Stillingjtecl, and the
Imputation refuted and retorted, by Ser. Cressey. Lond. '
1674. Oct. It was printed twice in that year, and once in
168S. oct.

Brief Vieic and Survey of the dangerous and pernicious
Errors to Church and State, in Mr. Hobbes Book intit. Levi-
athan. Oxon. l67(). qu.

Letter to his Daughter Ann Duchess of York, upon a re-
port of her inclinations towards popery, and at the same
time another to the duke upon the same subject. Written
about 1()70. It was printed at Lond. 1G8I.82. He hath

ago S. Mieli.iel in l)t»rsetshire, and of \Vest-Hatcli
ill Wilts, third son of llobtrl Hyde of Northbury
in Cheshire, son oi" Thomas, son of Hamnct Hyde
alias Hiiyd of the same })lace, wa.s l)orn at Uin-
t«jn near to Hyndon in Wiltshire, on tlie 16th of
February or tlierealwiits, an. 1G()8, was entred a
student of jMagdalen hall under the tuition of Mr.
Job. (JJiver of j\Ligdalen college in Lent term
1622, t(K)k one degree in arts, sto<xl for a Wiltshire
fellowship of Exeter college, but put a.side, went
afterwards to the Middle-Temple, was a barrester,
and in 1633, I finil him one of the chief persons of
the inns of court that did promote and put forward
the great masque that was presented by the gent, of
the said inns, at Whitehall on Candlemas night to
the king, queen and nobility, to the end that they
miglit shew their love to sucli innocent pa.stimes and
detestatioji of Prynn's book called IIi.strii)miisti.r,
which was by him peu'd purposely- against them,
stage-plays, interludes, &c. Afterwards looking
upon himself as a person of desert, and therefore fit
for an employment suitable to his profession, lie
took the same course that other discontented people
did, by uttering their minds in open jiarliament
against abuses, prerogative, ill counsellors and I
know not what. And for this end he procured
himself to be elected a burgess for Wotton-Basset
in his own country, to serve in that parliament
which began at Westminster on the 13tn of April
1640, but before he could gain an opportunity to
express his mind, that parliament was dissolv'd.
Afterwards lie got himself to lie chosen a burgess
for Saltash in Cornwall to serve in that ttnhappy
parliament, which began at the same place on tiie
third of November the same year, wherein he shew'd
himself very eager against certain gi'ievances,® a.s
he called them, particularly of the jirtx-eedings of
the court-marshal, and supercillious, magisterial and
illegal exercise (so he temfd it) of the earl marshal,

also written (l) A History or an Historical Account of Ire-
land, MS. which Kdni. Borlace made use of without ac-
knowledgment, in his book or books, whicli he published of
the affairs of that kingdom : so Dr. Jo. Nalson in his pref. to
his second vol. of his Impartial Collections of Records, itc.
(3) History from the Beginning of K. Ch. I. to the Restaura-
tion of K. Ch. 2. Ms ; as alsu an account of his own life,
which being hereafter to be published, you may be pleased
to lake this present discourse of him, only as a specimen of a
larger to come. He died of the terrible disease of the gout
at Roan in Normandy, on the ninth day of Decemb. (ac-
cording to our accompt) in sixteen hundred seventy and
four ; whereupon his body being conveyed into England,
'twas buried on the north side of the capella regum, in S.
Peter's, commonly called the abbey, church in Westminster.
The reader may be pleased now to know, that besides this
Edw. Hyde have been two more, of both his names and
time, that have been writers, as Edw. Hydejun. an eiuhusi-
astical jierson, who, among several things that he hath writ-
ten, hath puiilished A Jfonder and yet no IFonder : A great
red Dragon in Heaven, &c. Lond. 165I : And Edw. Hyde
first cousin to our author Edw. E. of Clarendon, as I shall
tell you al large elsewhere.

6 Bulst. Wtiitlnck in his Memorials of English Affairs, 8cc.
Printed 1682. p. 48. b.

HYDE.

1022

&c. He called those pr<M?eedings a piece of pa-
geantry, and shewed ' the ille";ality of then), and
the vexation to tlie subject l>y attendance and
expence, many times tor an hasty word, whereof
the law of Knghmd talies no notice, nor gives any
action for them; yet in this court (as lie said)
people arc summoned and wait, and are wrong-
fully treated :' and moving the house to declare
their sense of the said proceedings, he was secontled
in this motion, and the house voted the court and
their proceedings to be illegal, and a grievance.
Whereupon Mr. Hyde gained credit for what he
had done. Alwut the same time he shew\l his
parts much in several speeches against certain
judges, the bishops (being chair-man of the com-
mittee against them) lord president's court and
council in the north, shijvmoney, and I know not
what. In tlie month of May l6-t2, when the par-
liament alone, without the king's consent, had ap-
pointed lieutenants of each county, he with other
eminent lawyers gave their opinions' positively
against it, and thereujwn left the house ujxjn the
passing of it. Afterwards he retired to the king at
York, was graciously received by him, made " him-
self as familiar with the king, as if his fellow ; was
seen several times to pull his majesty by the cloak,
and when he talk\l with him, he would play with
the king's bandstrings, &c. which was kx)k\l upon
there, by some, to savour too much of imputlence.
About that time lie was made chancellor of the ex-
chequer as a reward for his loyalty, but the great
men at Westminster looking u]Hm him as a false
brother l)v leaving them, after he had kept pace
with them ; they in their directions ' given to llobert
earl of I'^ssex the general of their forces when he
marched northward to meet the king with a petition
from Ixrth houses in Aug. 1642, did (as the said
general was to do) declare pardon to those that
should withdraw from the king, except ten persons,
of which this Mr. I-aI. Hyde was one. After Edg-
hill fight he was at Oxon with his majesty, who
made him one of his privy council and a knight on
the 22(1 day of February 1642, and in January
1643 he sate as a member in that ])arliament that by
the king's command assembled at Oxon ; and in
Nov. 1644 when the commissioners from the parlia-
ment came to tlie king at Oxon to treat for a peace,
he professed his earnest desire and his endeavour
that it might be effected. UjX)n the declining of
the king's cause, he with the lords Culpeper and
Capell ship'd themselves at Pendennis-castle in
Cornwall for France in the beginning of March
1645, and sfjon after adhering to the prince and at-
tending him in foreign parts, he was sent by him
(when King) ambassador to Spain, made his secre-
tary of state, and at length, some years after the

7 Ibid. |). i6. a.

* So in a pamphlet entit. Adverlisements from York and
r>aventry, 20 Jul. I()42, prinliil in qu. p 2.
9 Memorials as before, p. bQ. b. 163. b.

death of sir Richard I.,anc knight (keeper of the
great seal) was made lortl chancellor of England at
Hruges in Flander.s, 29 Jan. 1657. After his ma-
jesty's restoration, he enjoyed the benefit of his
place with abundance, and was ujxmi the deatli of
William duke of Somerset, manjuess of Hertford,
&c. chose chancellor of the university of Oxon in his
room, on the 27th of October 1660. Which place
he keeping .about seven years, did put the university
to more trouble, than his successors afterwards did
in seventeen, by his continual letters sent thereunto
for degrees to be conferr'd on certain persons, for
dispensations of terms, absence, standing, &c. As
also for diplomas for degrees to l»e confer'd on men
aKsent, or cm such persons that the members of
convocation never saw or heard of: which l)eing es-
teemed very unreasonable, it put them often upon
muttering at his proceedings. As for sir Edward
Hyde he was soon after his election to be chancel-
lor, made baron of Hyndon in Wiltshire, viscount
Cornbury in Oxfordshire (which place or manour
then lately belonging to sir Joh. Danvers one of the
judges of king C'harles I. he had procured of the
king) and earl of Clarendon in Wiltshire, and, on
the death of Henry lord Falkland, lord lieutenant of
Oxfordshire. Soon after George earl of Bristol
being sent by the king to negotiate a match for him
with the princess of Parma, which he had almost
brought to ])erfection, the said earl of Clarendon
broke those measures by contriving a match with
Katharine the infanta of Portugal : Whereupon the
earl of Bristol being thus foofd, he prov'd a bitter
enemy to Clarendon, and was the chief that was
concern'd in the 19 articles of treasfin and high
misdemeanors given in against him on Julv 10, 1663.
But there being t)thcr articles of impeachment given
in against him, the great seal was taKenfrom him 30
Aug. 1667, and he retired into P' ranee, whereupon
an act of parliament passed to banish him England,
Scotland and Ireland and all the king's dominions,
unless hereturn'd by the first of February following,
which he did not do, but remain'd in France, where
he spent 7 years in several places. In his younger
years he was noted by some jiersons in the univer-
sity for his polite learning, good language ahd
poetry, and when in his elder, for his skill in the
(common law, politicks, histories and ci\il affairs.
Under his name were these things following pub-
lished.

Several speeches, as (1) Speech in the Hmtse of
Lor-(li conccrn'infr the Lord Preshlenfs Court and
Council in the North, an. 1640. (2) Speech at a
Conference betrceen both Houses, 6 Jul. 1641, at the
'rran.wiission of several ImpeacJimeuts against the
Lord Chief Baron Davenport, Baron Trevour and
Baron Weston. Lond. 1641. qu. [Bodl. C. 13. 13.
Line] &c. besides several arguments and debates
concerning tonnage, poundage, and against the cai"l
marshal's court. See in Joh. Rushworth's book
entit. Historical Collections, &c. in the first vol. o£ ,

1023

HYDE.

the second part, an. 1640. as also vol. 3. of part II.
p. 1056. 1360, and in the Impartial Collection of
tlie great AJfaim of' Slate, &ic. published by Dr. Jo.
Nalson.

Several SpeecJu:i in Parliament duritiff lii.s Chan-
cellomhip, from the Restoration of K. Charles II.
to 1667. They are in number at least ten, and
were j)rinted in ("olio papers.

A fall Answer to an infamous and traiterous
Pamphlet, entit. A Declaration of the Commons of
England in Parliament Assembled, expressing their
Reasons and Grounds of passing their late Rcsolii-
tions touching iw farther Address or Application to
he made to the King. Lond. 161'8. qu. [Bodl. B.
2.5. 6. Line] •
[6351 His humble Petition and Address to the I'ight ho-

nourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in

Parliament Assembled.'^ This was by command

of the parliament burnt by the hands of the common
hangman before the gate of Gresham college, then
the place of exchange, 12 Dec. 1667. This being
by him sent to the house by way of excuse and
apology for himself, was esteemed by the members
thereof such a vile imposture, that they throw^l it
from them with scorn, and connnanded it to be
burnt. The beginning of it is, ' May it jilease vour
lordships, I cannot express the insupportable trouble
and grief of mind,' &c. it is printed in a book entit.
State Tracts, &c. an. 1689. p. 377.

The Difference and Disparitif between the Es-
tates and Conditions of George Duke of BucMng-

ham and Robert Earl ofEsscr See in a l)ook

entit. Relifjuicc Wottoniana,' &c. Lond. 1672. (x-t.

Animadversions on a Book entit. Famdici.im fa-
natically imputed to the CatlioUc Church, by Dr.
Stillingfleet, and the Imputation refuted and re-
torted, by Ser. Cressy. Lond. 1674. oct. [Bodl. 8vo.
B. 285. Th.] It was printed twice that year.

Brief View and Survey of tlie dangerous and
pernicious Errors to Church and State, in Mr.
Hobbes''s Book entit. Leviathan. Oxon. 1676. qu.
[Bodl. BB. 15. Art. Seld.]

Letter to James Duke of York This was writ-
ten about 1670, with this beginning, ' Sir, I have
not presumed in any manner to approach your royal
presence, since I have been marked with the brand
of banishment,' &c.

Letter to Anne Dutchess of York.* — The begin-
ning is, ' You have much reason to lielieve that I
have no mind to trouble you,' &c. The writing of

' [See it also in Latin, Bodl. 4to. N. 10. .Tur.]

' lyuh Pelilitm is to be found in a vol. entit. The Pro-
ceedings (if Ihe House uf Cummnns touching the Impeachment
of Edward tale F.arl nf Clarendon, Sec. Lond. I7OO, Hvo.J

' [An edition of this trad ofLord Clarendon's was printed,
by itself, in 170(); and it is inserted in Slate Tracts, &c. See
the next note.]

* [See botli these letters in Slate Tracts : Icing a Collec-
tion if several Treatises relating to Ihe Government, Pri-
vately printed in the Reign of K. Charles II. Lond. I6()3.
folio. Bo<ll. C. 0. 13. Th.]

this letter, alxiut 1670, was upon occasion of her cm-
braiing tlie Iloman catholic religion ; which letter,
with that to James dtike of York, were printed in
one sheet in fol. but when, unless in 1681, I cannot
tell. He the said earl of Clarendon hath also writ-
ten, (}) A History: or, Historical Account of Ire-
land.^ ftlS. of which book Edmund Borlace made
use without acknowledgment, in his book or books
which he publishetl concerning the affairs of that
kingdom : So I find it in Dr. Joh. Nalson's preface
to his second vol. of An Impartial Collection, &c.
(2) Alterations in, and Additions to, a Book entit.
A Collection of the Orders heretofore used in Chan-
cery. Lond. 1661. oct. done by and with the advice
and assistance of sir Harbottle Grimston baronet,
master of the rolls. (3) History commencing with
King Charles I. and continued till the Restoration
of King Charles 11." MS. as also An Acccnint erf his
Life. There goes under his name also The natural
History o/" the Passions, printed in oct. l)ut by
many doubted whether he was the author of it, and
by more thought that it was the sharking trick of a
l)ookseller to set his name to it for sale siike. At
length, he the said eai-1 of Clarendon being ex-
treamly troubled with the gout, and disinabled to
make use of his jien, or any member, died in the
city of Roan in Normandy, on the ninth day oi
December in sixteen hundred seventy and four,' ac-
cording to the English accompt ; whereupon his
Ixxly being brought into England, 'twas buried on
the north side of the capella regum in S. Peter's,
commonly called the abbey church in Westminster.
The reader may be pleased now to know that besides
this Edward Hyde have been two more of Ixjth his
names and time, who have been writers, as Edward
Hyde jiuiior, an enthusiastical jx;rson, who, among
several things that he hath written, hath published,
A Wonder, and yet no Wonder. A great and red
Dragon in Heaven, &c. Lond. 1651. And Ed-
ward H^'de first cousin to the earl of Clarendon
before-mention'd, as I have told you at large else-
where. See in Alex. Hyde, among the bishops an.l667.

* [Printed in 810. 1721, 1726, 1730, and again at the
Clarendon press, in 4io. 18l().]

•^ [This is the well known History if the Rebellion, of
which there are the following edition?, though I cannot
answer for the list being coniplcat.

1. Vol. i. 1702, vol. ii. 1703, vol. iii. 1704, folio. Some
copies have all the titles dated 1704.

2. Vol. i. 1705; the remainder 1706, 8vo.

3. 1707, 8vo.

4. 1712, 8vo.

5. 1717, 8vo.

0. Dtililin, 1719, folio; a spurious edit.

7. I7.')l, 8vo. commonly railed the master's edition ; as it
wiis printed for mastersof art only.

8. 1732, 8v».

9. I8O7, 8vo.

10. I81C, six vol. 4to.]

' [On Wednesday Dec. y. l674, ili d at Rouen in Fr.incc,
Edw. Hyde, earl of Clarendon, once H ( hanc. of Kniilnnd,
buried at WeUm. Mond. Jan. 1 674 (in margine) Dietni!).
l674._J/r. Ric. Smith's Oliluanj. Uakkr.]

\m

VAUGHAN.

OXENBRIDGE.

1026

[A Letter sent from beyond the Seas to one
of the Church Ministers of the Nonconformisti,
by Way of Reply to many Particulars tohich fie
sent to the Author in a Letter ofNezcs, useful fw
these distemper d Times. By a Lover oftlie Esta-
blisKd Government both in Church and State. 1674."
Hawlinson.

Mr. Hide's Argvmerit before the Lords in the
vpper Hovse of Parliament. Aprill 1641. Pr. in
4to. that year. Bocll. C. 13. 13. Line.

The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon, Lord
High Chancellor if England, and Chancellor of
the University of Oxford, containing, 1 An Ac-
count of the Chancellor s Lifejrom his Birth to the
Restoration in 1(560. 2 A Continuation of the
Same, and of his History of the Grand Rebellion,
from the Restoration to his Banishment in 1667."
Written by Himself Printed from his origitial
3Ianuscripts, given to the University of Oxford, by
the Heirs of the late EarlqfClnrcndon. O^crrd, At
the Clarendon Printing-House, 1759, folio, in 2 vol.
large 8vo. ; 1761 in 3 vol. 8vo. 1817, in 9, vol. 4to.

A Collection of several Tracts of the right ho-
nourable Edward, Earl of Clarendon, Aut/ior of
t/ie History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in
England. Published f-om his Lordship''s Original
Manuscripts. London: Printed for T. Woodward,
at the Half-Moon over against St. Dunstan's Church
in Fleet Street, and J. Peele, at Locke''s Head in
Pater-Noster-Row. 1727. These tracts were ob-
tainetl from lord Clarendon's daughter, the lady
Frances Knightley.

State Papers collected by Edward Earl of Cla-
rendon. Commencing from the Year MDCXXI.
Containing the Materials from which his History
of the great Rebellion was composed, and the Autho-
rities on which the Truth of his Relation is founded.
Oxford. At the Clarendon Printing House. 1767.
3 vol. folio, 1767, 1773, 1786.

Religimi and Policy, and the Countenance and
Assistance each should give to the other. With a
Survey of the Poiver and Jurisdiction of the Pope
in tJie Dominions of otlier Princes. Oxford, at the
Clarendon Press, 1811. 2 vol. 8vo.

The best heads of lord Clarendon are

1. By M. Burghers.

2. By D. Loggan.

3. By B. Picait.

■ 4. By J. Fittler.]

JOHN VAUGHAN, a most noted and learned
lawyer of his time, was born at Trowscoed in the
county of Cardigan, educated in granmiar learning

* [In the Bndleian, amongst Dr. Rawlinson's books.]
'-' [This |X)rlion of the volume hail previously appeared in
two qtiario vulunie-, The History of the Reign of King Charles
the Second, from the Hesloration to the End of the Year I667.
Written by Edward Earl of Clarendon, Lord High Chancellor
of England. ityixTOT07. Printed for M- Cooper, at the Globe,
in Futer-Noster Row. The running title at the top of each
page is Rfflei/innsA

Vol. hi.

in the king's school within the city of Worcester ;
whence, after he had remained there 5 years, he was
sent to Christ Church in this university in the 15th
year of his age, and thence at 18, he went to the
Inner Temple, where for some time he chose rather
to follow his academical studies of poetry and ma- [5SoJ
thematics, than the municipal laws of England.
At length falling into the acquaintance of the learned
Selden and others, was instructed by them in the
value of civil learning : so that soon after he applied
himself closely to the course of that study, particu-
larly of the said laws, which he after made nis pro-
fession ; but when he began to become noted and
athnired in the parliament that began the 3d of No-
vember 1640, (of which he was a burgess for the
town of Cardigan) the civil war broke forth and
gave a stop to his proceedings. Whereupon leaving
London, he retired to his own country, and mostly
lived there till the restoration of king Charles II.
Afterwards being elected knight for the county of
Cardigan, to serve in that parliament which began
at Westminster the 8th of May 1661, his majesty
was about that time pleased to take notice of his
great worth and experience. Afterwards he con-
ferr'd the honour of knighthood upon him, and in
few days after, viz. May 22, an. 1668, he was so-
lemnly sworn Serjeant at law in the court of chan-
cery in Westminster hall, and the next day was
sworn lord chief justice of the common pleas. He
hath written and collected,

Reports and Arguments, being all of them .special
Cases and many ; zoherein Tie pronounced the Re-
solution of the whole Court of Common Pleas, at the
Time he was Lord Chief Justice there. Lond. 1677.
fol. [Bodl. Z. 1. 10. Jur.] Published by his son
Edward V^aughanesq; and other things, as 'tis said,
fit to be printed. " He was a person of great worth,
" an eminent lawyer and every way a mo.st accom-
" plish'd gentleman." He died in sixteen hundred 1674.
seventy and four, and was buried in the Temple
church near the grave of Jo. Selden. Over nis
grave was a large marble stone soon after put, and
over that was erectetl a marble table in the south
wall, near the round walk, with this inscription
thereon. Hie situs est Johannes Vaughanus Eq.
Aur. Capital. Justiciar, de Com. Banco, filius Ecl-
wardi Vaiighan de Trowscoed in agro Dimetarum
Ar. & LeticiiK uxoris ejus, filite Johannis Stedinan
de Strata florida in eodem Com. Ann. unus ^ qua-
tuor perdocti Seldeni Executoribus, ei stabili amicitia
studiorumque communione a tyrocinio intimus et
praecarus. Natus erat xiiii die Sept. an. Dom. 1608.
&denattis x. die Decemb. an. Dom. 1674. qui jtixta
hoc mannor depositus adventum Christi propitium
expectat. Multum deploratus.

JOHN OXENBRIDGE son of Dan. Oxenb.

sometime doct. of phys. of Ch. Cli. in this univer-
sity, and a practitioner of his faculty at Davcntry
commonly called Daintry in Northamptonshire, (and
3U

1027

OXENBRIDGE.

VEEL.

[537]

1674.

afterwards in London^ was bom in that county, be-
came a commoner of Line. coll. in 1623, aeed 18
years, and thence translating himself to Magd. hall,
took the degrees in arts, and soon after became a
tutor there : but being found guilty of a strange
singular and superstitious way of dealing with his
scholars, by persuading and causing some of them to
subscribe, as votaries, to several articles framed by
himself, as he pretended, lor their better govern-
ment, as if the statutes of the place wherein he lived,
and the authority of the then present government,
were not sufficient, he was distutor'd ' in the month
of May 1634. Afterwards he left the hall, and
shewing himself very schismatical abroad, was forced
to leave the nation : whereupon he, with his beloved
wife called Jane Butler, went to the islands of Ber-
mudas, where he exercised his ministry. At length
the long parliament making mad work in England
in 1641, &:c. he (as other schismatics did) returned,
preached very enthusia-stically in several places in his
travels to and fro, while his dear wife preached in
the house among her gossi[)s and others. So that
he being looked upon as a zealous and forward
brother for the cause, he had some spirituality be-
stowed on him, and at length was made fellow of
Eaton coll. near Windsor, m the place of one Si-
monds deceased, who had been thrust into the place
of Dr. David Stokes, in the time of the rebellion.
Upon his majesty's restoration, Oxenbridge was
outed of his fellowship, and afterwards retiring to
Berwick upon Tweed, he held forth there till the act
of conformity silenced him, an. 1662. Afterwards
he went to the West Indies and continued there at
Syrenham for a time in preaching and praying. At
length, having received a call, he went to New
England, where he finished his course. This per-
son was composed of a strange hodg-)Todg of opinions,
not easily to be described, was of a roving and
rambling head, spent much, and I think died but in
a mean condition. And tho"' he was a great pre-
tender to saintship, and had vowed an eternal love
to his wife before-mention''d, who died 22 Apr. 1655,
yet before he had remained a widower an year, he
married a religious virgin named Frances, the only
daughter of Hezekiah Woodward the schismatical
vicar of Bray near Windsor, who dying also in the
first year of her mamage (in childbed I think) aged
25 years, he took soon after, as I have been told, a
third wife, according to the fleshly custom of the
saints of that time. He hath written,

A double Watchword : or, tlie Dxdy of Watching,
and Watching to Duty ; both echoed Jrom Revel.
16. 5. and Jer. 50. 4, 5. Lond. 1661. oct. and per-
haps other things. He died at Boston in New Eng-
land in sixteen hundred seventy and four, and was
buried there. In the church or chappel belonging
to Eaton coll. was a monument with a large canting
inscription set up by this J. Oxenbridge for his first
wife Jane Butler, wherein 'tis said tliat while he

' Getla Canceilarialus Univ. Oxon. Gul. Laud, p. 76,

preached abroad she would preach and hold forth in
the house.* But the said iuscript. or epitaph giving

freat offence to the royalists at the restoration of
ing Charles II. they caused it to be daub'd or co-
vered over with paint. There was also a monument
and inscription set up for his second wife, the con-
tents of which and the other I have, but this last is
not defaced.

" ROBERT VEEL a younger son of William
" Veel of Simonds hall in Gloucestershire,' gent.
" was born at Alveston in that county, entred a
" commoner of S. Edm. hall, 25 Apr. 1663, aged
" 15 j'ears, continued there alxiut 10 terms, de-
" parted without a degree, went to the great city,
" lived after the manner of jwets in a debauch'd
" way, and wrote partly for the use of his idle and
" vain companions, but more to gain money to carry
" on the trade of folly, these frivolous matters fol-
" lowing, viz.

' [The family of Dr. Oxenbridge were, as might be ex-

fected, very indignant at the rude attack upon his memory,
t is indeed in Wood's very worst spirit. I had lately, for a
few months, in my possession, a fine folio MS. written about
the year 17O9, entitled, ' Memoirs nf the Life of Mr. Am-
brose Barnci , late Merchant and somelime Alderman of New-
castle-upon-Tyne' It is a most curious work, compiled from
Barnes's own papers. It is the property of a Mr. Airay now
of Newcastle, who is descended of the family. Brand men-
tions it in the preface to his history of Newcastle, and quotes
pretty largely from it in the body cf his worli. This Mr.
Ambrose Barnes married Mary Butler, sister to .lane Butler,
of whom Wood has given sostrangean account. They were
the daughters of Thomas Butler of Newcastle, merchant, liy
Elizabeth Clavering, of Callaley, his wife, who was atmt to
sir .lames Clavering, of Axwell. There was another sister of
the Butlers who married John Rogers, an ejected minister,
and they had three brothers, James, Gregory, and Thomas
Butler, of whom an account is preserved in these Memoirs.
Of the wife of Dr. Oxenbridge we have this .account. ' Mrs.
Jane Oxenbridge had an infirm body, but was strong in faith.
Her husband and she tumbled about the world in unsettled
times. Tliey lived sometime at Barwick upon Tweed, then
they removeil to Beverley, then to London, then to Win-
chester, then Barhadocs, then to Surinam, then to New?
England, and then to Heaven. Her husbjnd, (a grave divine
and of great ministerial skill) she being a scholar beyond
what is usual in lier sex, and of a masculine judgment in the
profound points of theology, loved comuionly to have her
opinion upon a text of scripture before he preached from it,"
&c. She is in another place described as excelled by few in
textual divinity. Some account is given of Dr. Oxenbridge,
which, as 1 do not find it in my notes from this MS. was pro-
bably of not much consequence, and there is also a most se-
vere invective against Wood for this ill-natured article.

Of Mrs. Caili'erine Philips, the niece of Dr. Oxenbridge,
our author says, ' This is the lady who among her sex has
distinguished herself by her celebrated poems and letters.
She was bred in the school at Hackney, and if it be any ad-
vantage to her character, as the author of the Fasti and
Athena: Oxonienses will have it, it must be owned that she
was a woman of the times, and loved poetry belter ihanprej-
lylcry.'

Dr. Cotton Mather has given sonic account of Oxenbridge,
and the ' canting inscription' Wood mentions, may be read
in Le Neve. It was written by Andrew Marvell. Hunter.]

3 [See some account of the Veel family in Archaeologia,
vol. xtv, pp. 73 — 83.]

«
i.

GODDARD.

SMITH.

1030

j " New Court Songs and Poems. Lond. 1672.

^ " in Oct.

" Poor Robin's Intelligence. Loud, in half a sh.
" weekly in fol. 1672, 73, &c. wherein many things
" being in.sertcd against the misses of tlie town, one
" of them, who writes her self K. C. gave him a use
" of reprehension in an idle tiling entit. Poor Robin\i
" Elegy : or, the Impostor silenced, &c. written in
" verse and prose, in half a sheet. This R. Veel
" published other tracts, continuing so to do till the
" time of his death, about sixteen hundred seventy
1674. " and four. As he lived obscurely so he died, and
" a hard matter therefore it is, (tho' needless) to trace
" him to his grave."

JONATHAN GODDARD, son of Henry God-
dard a ship-carpenter of Deptford, was born at Green-
wich in Kent, became a commoner of Magd. hall in
the beginning of 1632, aged 15 years, where conti-
nuing till he was standing for the degree of bach, of
arts, he then left that house, and went, as I pre-
sume, beyond the seas. On the 20th of Jan. 1642
he was created Dr. of phys. of the univ. of Cam-
bridge,* at which time lie was a practitioner of that
faculty in London, afterwards in the army raised by
the parliament, and at length to Oliver Cromwell,
with whom he went as his great confident into Ire-
land, and into Scotland after the murder of king
Charles I. In 16.31 he, by the said Oliver's power,
became warden of Mert. coll. and in January the
same year he was incorporated Dr. of his faculty in
this university. Afterwards he was elected burgess
for the university to serve in the little parliament,
an. 1633, and made one of the council of state in
the same year. About that time he became fellow
[538] of the coll. of physicians at London ; afterwards of
the royal society, and professor of physic in Gresham
coll. When he was ejected his wardcnship of Mert.
coll. (which was in I66O) he lived mostly in that of
Gresham, where (being an admirable chymist) he
liad a laboratory to prepare all medicines that he
used on his patients, besides what he operated for
his own satisfaction. He was also a zealous member
of the royal society* for the improvement of natural
knowledge among them : and when any curious ex-
periment was to be done, they made him their
drudge till they could obtain to the bottom of it.
He hath written,

A Discourse concerning- Physic and the many
Abuses thereof by the Apothecaries. Lond. 1668.
Oct. An account of which is in the Philosophical
Transactions, num. 41. He is said ^ to have written
of this matter (of the abuse of physic) more warily
and with greater prudence than Christ. Merret.

Discourse setting Jhrth the tinliappy Condition of

* [Jonathan Goddard aul. S. Cath.
Cant. an. 161.3. Reg. Acad. Baker.]

medicinae doctor.

544.]

See Birch's History of the Royal Society, vol. iii, page

en. Stnbbe in his Campanella revived, p. 21.

the Practice of Phy.tic in iMiidan, &c. Lond. 1670,
qu. [Bodl. 4to. C. 22. Med.]

Proposalfor making Wine. "> Sec in the Hist. Qf

Experiments of the Stone Vtlie Royal Sac. Pr.
called Oculus Mundi. } 1667. p. 143. 230.

Some Observations of a Cliamelion. See in

the Philosophical Transactions, nu. 137. p. 930, &c.

Experiments of refining Gold with Antimony. —
See there also, liu. 139. p. 953, 8ec. And left lie-
hind him at his death Lectures read at Chirurgcon«
Hall ; and other matters in 2 vol. in qu. fit, as "'tis
said, for the press. He had also lying by him at his
death,

Arcana medicinalia : Published at the end of the
second edit. o£ Pharmacoptria Bateana, hy Ja. Ship-
ton an aiMthecary Lond. 1691. oct. [BotU. 8vo.

M. 60. Med.]. He died suddenly of an apoplexy
at the end of Woodstreet in Cheapside, in his going
home from the Crown tavern in Bloomsbury (where
a club of virtuosi sometimes met) to his lodgings in
Gresham coll. about eleven of the clock in the night
of the 24th of Mar. in sixteen hundred seventy and
four, and was the third day after buried in the mid-
dle of the chancel of Great S. Helen's church in
London. He was master of a most curious library
of books, well and richly Iwund, which he intended
to bestow on the library belonging to the royal so-
ciety, but he dying intestate, it came into the hands
of the next heir, viz. his sister's son, a scholar of
Caius coll. in Cambridge. I find an excellent cha-
racter of this our author Dr. Goddard given by Dr.
Scth. Ward in his epist. dedic before Prcclectio de
Comctis <^ Inqiii.nt. in Bullialdi Astronom. Philo-
laiccp Fundamenta ; and in the epist. ded. before
Delphi " Phoenicizantes, &c. published by Edmund
Dickenson of Mert. coll. To both which I refer
the reader if he be curious to know farther of him.

"JOHN SMITH of Nibley in Glocestershire,
" sometime a student in this university, and after-
" wards a retainer to the noble family of Berkley in
" that county. He hath written,

" The History of the Family ofBerTilni Castle
" in Glocestershire, MS. faithfully extracted, partly
" out of public records, and partly from the great
" mass of antient charters, and other memorials still
" remaining in Berkley castle. This book * was
" much used bysir Will.Dugdalc, when he composed
" the history of Berkley in his first tome or vol. of
" his Baronagium.' '

' Edit. Oxon. 1 653. qu.

« Ed. Ox. Ui55. oct.

9 [See various cxiracts from it in Wharton's MSS. in the
Lambeth library. Catal. of the Archiepiscopal MSS. M.
Lond. 1812, page 87.]

[John Smith of "Nibley wrote the History of the lord
Berkeley's family, with great judament and industry. Tiie
BerkeKy fainilj is particularly obliged to this gentleman ; he
has coUccied their jiencalogical liijiory in three large folio
manuscripts; sir William Dugdale has abridged it, and
printed it in his Baronai^e nf England, nn(\ owns to have re-
ceived his whole information from Mr. Smith's writings."
3U 2

ifl/f.

Clar.
1674.

1031

HOLDEN.

SMITH.

Ctar.
1674.

« SAMUEL HOLDEN or Holding, son of
" Joh. Holclen commonly called IJnwkholdiriff of
" Powick in Worcestershire, was cntred a student
" in Line. coll. in the beginning of the year 1656,
" took one degree in arts, (being then esteemed an
" ingenious man and good disputant) and then
" entred himself a commoner of Bal. coll. on the 1st
" of Nov. 1661, but before he took the degree of
" master he was made one of the chaplains of New
" coll. being then in holy orders: and afterwards
" taking the said degree, became chapl. to Robert
" earl of Lexington, and at length a minister and
" preacher of God's word in Nottmgham. He hath
" written,
[539] " D. E. (i. e. Edward Bagshaw) defeated: or^ a

" Reply to a late .icurrilous Pamphlet vented against
" the Lord Bishop of Worcester's Letter, wherein/
•" Jie vindicated himself from Mr. Baxter's Mis-
" reports. Lond. 1662. qu.

" Two Sermons Preached at the Funerals of the
" right lum. Rob. Earl of Lexington and the Lady
" Mary his Wife; the first on Eccles. 7. 1, 2. and
" the second on Job. 14! 12. Lond. 1676. qu. The
" said earl died 11 Octob. 1668, but not buried till
" that of his birth-day, which was 21 Dec. foUow-
" ing, and his lady was burietl in his grave 25 Sept.
" 1669. What other things our author Holden
" hath written or published I know not, or the
" particular time when he died, or the place where
" buried."

RICHARD SMITH the son of a clergyman
named Richard Smith a native of Abingdon, (by
Martha his wife, daughter of Paul Darrel or Day-
rell of Lillingston Darrel in Bucks esq;) son of Ri-
chard, son of another Ric. Smith of Abingdon in
Berks, sometime gent, usher to qu. Elizabeth, was
Iwm at Lillingston Darrel before-mention'd, an.
1590, and after the beginning of the reign of king
James I. was sent to the univ. of Oxon, where his

No pedigree was ever better warranted, by more ancient and
authenticlx records. The whole country does at this day
stand indebted to his memory, for in three other folio manu-
scripts, he has left to posterity a full account of the strength
and state of this connty, as it was an iiiindred years since;
the names of the lords of mannors, the number of all men in
each parish fit to bear arms, their respective names, age, sta-
ture, professions, and all the armour and weapons of war arc
exactly in a true method set down and registered. In ano-
ther folio he gives the slate of the militia, as it was in the
reign of queen Elizabeth, and the beginning of king James.
He has set down in another folio the exact sums whicli each
person in this county paid to the subsidies in tlie year . —
And in another folio has gi\en a relation of the controverted
elections to parliament in this and some other coimties, which
fell out in his time. He has also writ a most elaborate ac-
count of the hundred of Berkeley, in a large thick folio, and
relates the customs of the several parishes and mannors, and
the pedigree almost of every tenant. This work was foriy
years in compiling. Atkyns' His/, of Glostersliirc, 1712,
page 579. Rudder in his .ATei/r Hist, of Gloucestershire, I77(>,
says that these MSS. were then in possession of Nicholas
Smith, esq. of Nibley, the fifth frpm him in lineal descent.]

stay being short, he was not matriculated, and tliere-
fore I cannot positively tell you of what coll. or hall
he was a member. Thence he was taken away by
his parents, and put a clerk to an attorney belong-
ing to the city of London, but his mind hanging
after learning, he spent all the time he could obtain
from his employment in books. At rijx-r years he
became secondary of the Poultrey-compter within
the city of London, a place of good reputation and
profit, being in his time worth about 700/. per an.
which he executed many years, but ujwn the death
of his son, an. 1655, (begotten on the body of his
wife Elizab. daughter of George Dcane of Stepney)
to whom he intended to resign his place, he imme-
diately sold it, and betook himself wholly to a pri-
vate life, two thirds of which at least he spent in his
Ubrary. He was a jjerson infinitely ' curious in,
and inquisitive after, books, and suffered nothing
considerable to escape him, that fell within the com-
pass of his learning, desiring to be master of no
more than he knew how to use. He was constantly
known every day to walk his rounds among the
lKX)kseller"'s shops (especially in Little Britain) in
London, and by his great skill and experience he
made choice of such books that were not ob^^ous to
every man's eye. He lived in times, which ministred
peculiar opportunities of meeting with books, that
were not every day brought into public light : And
few eminent libraries were bought, where he had
not the liberty to pick and chuse. Hence arose, as
that vast number of books, so the choiceness and
rarity of the greatest part of them, and that of all
kinds and in all sorts of learning, especially in his-
tory, of which he had tiie most considerable writers
of all ages and nations, antient and modern, espe-
cially of our own and the neighbouring nations, of
which, as 'twas thought, there was scarce any thing
wanting that was extant. He was also a great col-
lector of MSS. whether antient or modern that were
not extant, and delighted much to be poring on
them. He collected also abundance of pamphlets
published at, and before, the time of reformation of
religion relating to ecclesiastical affairs, and it was
supposed, that the copies of some of them were not
then extant in the world, and therefore esteemed as
choice as MSS. Among the books relating to his-
tory were his collection of lives, the elogia of illus-
trious men, the authors who have written the lives
and characters of writers, and such who have writ of
the foundations of monasteries. Nor was he the
owner of this choice treasure of books as an idle
possessor, or did he barely turn over the leaves, but
was a constant peruser of, and upon his buying, did
generally collate, them, ob.served the defects of im-
pressions, the ill arts used by many, and compared
the differences of editions : concerning which and the
like cases, lie, with great diligence and industry,

- See in tlie q)ist. to the reader set before Bihtiotheca
Smilhiuna, &c. Pr. at Lond. lC82, qu.

[540]

SMITH.

WOODWARD.

1034

1675.

entred many ntcmorable and very useful remarks
and observations upon very many of his Ixjoks under
his (n\ n liand. He hath written,

Letter to Dr. Hen. Hammond concemingtlie Sense
of that Article in the Creed, IIk DKSCEN'DEn into
Hell — Dated from liis house in Little Moreliekls
near London, (where he mostly lived after he had
buried his son) in Apr. 16-59. Which letter being
answer'd by Dr. Hammond in the same month, were
both afterwards jniblished, an. 1684. [Bodl. Mar.
267.] See more in Dr. Hammond under the vear
1600. This I think is all that R. Smith hatli ex-
tant. Those things that are not, are these,

" Treatise against Black Patches. So Mr. Mil-
" lington the bookseller."

Observations on the three ffrand Impostors.

Exposition on these Wwds used in the Form of
Marriage, With my Body I ttiee Wotiship. —
Written in qu.

Collection of Expositions of Baptism for the
Dead — Wr. in qu.

Collection of several Expositions and Opinions
of Chrisfs Descent into Hell — See more in Dr.
Hammond before-mentioned.

Miscellaneous Tracts, chiefly Theological.

Collection of Arms belonging to the Name of

Smith, in Colours MS. in oct. [Now in the

Herald's college.]

Vita S. Simonis Stock Angli Carmelitw. Col-
lected from the writings and MSS. of John Bale.

Life of Hugh Broughton and Cat. of his Works
' He also translated from Latin into English.

(1) Thcjifth Book of Histories of Corn. Tacitus.

(2) The Order of receiving the new Bishop after
his Con.iccration, he/ore he enter into the Cathedral
Church of Sali.iburt/ ; taken out of an old MS.
ritual belonging to that church ; and from French
into English, Boscjuire's Sermon before the Company
of Slioemakers in France, an. 1614. on the festival
of S. Crispin and Crispiana. Besides these and
others of his writing and translations, he made ten
thousand instances or remarks with his own hand
of authors either in, or before tlie title, or in the
margin of their works. This Mr. Rich. Smith,
who was a man of an excellent temper, great justice,
&c. died Ji6 March in sixteen huntlred seventy and
five,' and was buried in the church of S. Giles's
near to Cripplegate in London. Soon after was a

' [1675, March 26, Fryday, old Mr. Richard Smith, my
honoured friend, aged 85 yearcs, died, and was buried in
Cripplegate church, on the first of April following. He
was the coUecior of the aforesaid catalogue, and of many
most excellent boolis. He was a just man, and of good re-
port, and worthy of imitation. Augustine Newbold, 18
Apr. 1675. This Mr. Smith was secondary of the Poultry
compter about 20 yeares past. A. N. MS. lo. Episc. Etien.

Mr. Ric. Smith has left a History of Prinling. MS. lo.
nuper Episc. Eliens. and an Obituary of his own Time. Ihid.
Baker. This very curious Obituary, which has been fre-
<iuenily quoted in the additional notes lo these Athen/e,
was prmted at large by Peck in his Desiderata Curiosa.'\

marble monument erected over his grave for him,
his wife and children, with an inscription thereon,
which I'or brevity's .sake I shall now {)a.ss by. Af-
terwards there was a design to Imy liis choice
library for a public use, by a coUectitm of moneys
to be raised among generous persons, but the work
being public, and tiierefore but little forwarded, it
came into the hands of Richard Chiswell a book-
seller living in S. Paul's ch.-yard, London: who
printing a catalogue of, with others addetl to, them,
which came out after Mr. Smith's death, they were
exjx)sed to sale by way of auction, to the great
reluctancy of public-spirited men, in May and June
1682.

HEZEKIAH [or THO.MAS'] WOODWARD,
the youngest of the nine children of his father, was
born in Worcestershire, and after he had spent six
years, or more, in a grammar school, was sent to
Oxon in the beginning of the year 1608, and settled
in Bal. college, where being put under a careful
tutor, t(K)k a tlegree in arts in the latter end of the
year 1611. Afterwards lie retired to London,
taught school there several years, and was esteemed
eminent in his profession ; but having been always
puritannically attected, he sided with the presbyte-
rians upon the change of the times in 1641, was a
great zealot and frequent preacher among them
either at S. Mary's in Aldermanbury, or near it.
Afterwards he took the covenant, and shewed the
use and necessity of it in his discourse and preach-
ings : but soon after, when he saw the independents
and other factious people to be dominant, he became
one of them, and not unknown to Oliver ; who hav-
ing quartered more than an year in the vicaridge-
house at Bray near Maidenhead in Berks, during
the time of the rebellion, (in which time he had
opportunity to know the parish to be very large,
being a whole hundred of it self) he sent afterwards r ^A-t -i
thither our author Woodward, being then his chap- '■ ■'
lain or at least favourite, under the notion of doing
some eminent good to that great place, and to take
care of it and the souls therein. This was about
the year 1649, at which time one Mr. Brice, the
then vicar, left it, and was afterwards minister of
Henly in Oxfordshire. Here he continued ten years
or more, and had the good opinion of the rabble
and factious people, but of others of sense and judg-
ment, not. He was always very invective in his
sermons (which by the .sober party were accounted
dull) against the king, his followers, whom he call'd
malignants, the church of England, her rites, cere-
monies, and all forms of worship: and it is com-
monly now reported among the inhabitants of Bray,
that lie wrote a bf)ok against the Lord's prayer;
which was answer'd by Brice before mention'd.
He was also an eager man, and spent much time in
preaching against observation of times and days, as,

^ [SoCalamy, Ejected Ministers, CoaliDuauon, page 133.] .

1035

AVOODWARD.

Christmas, Easter, &c. against may-pJes, moriccs,
dancing, &c. He had a select congregation out of
his pansh of those that were to be saved, who fre-
quently met to pray in the vicaridgo-housc : which
it he had stayed an year longer or more, would have
destroyed all that were to l)e saved by falling upon
them ; for he was a great dllajjidator, suffered some
of the offices, stable and woodhouse to fill, made
hey-lofts of the chambers, and suffered one side of
the hall (the assembling room) to drop down. In-
somuch that Dr. Edward Fulham ' m\o succeeded
him at the king's restoration, was forced to build it
up in the first month he had it, and Mr. Fr. Cars-
well in short time succeeding Dr. Fulham, spent
about 1.50/. to make the house habitable. He re-
ceived his maintenance out of the then augmentatif)n
court, neglecting his tithes, and put whims into the
peoi)le''s heads that they were romish and anti-
chnstian, and only pleased himself in taking presents
of the people''s free-will offering, as most becoming
the gospel. By these courses he had almost ruined
a good vicaridge, for there are but few there now,
but what are so principled, as they think it a j)iece
of service to the establish''d religion to cheat or rob
the church, and an age is scarce able to repair that
mischief which he hath done there, as other saints
elsewhere. I have been inibrmetl from that place
by a very good hand, that he was a man very cen-
sorious and ready to damn all those that did not
comply with him in his fancies : also that he always
denied to pay, and cheated the wife of Mr. Faring-
don his predecessor in the vicaridge, of her fifths, or
fifth part of the revenues of the said vicai-idgc,
which he by law was to pay and .she to receive ; and
he thought it a sin to pay her, being the wife of one
of the antichristian crew of the church of England,
tho' she lived near him, and he knew full well that
she had five or six small children ready to starve,
and her husband a learned man. He would not
administer the sacrament in the church to his pa-
rishioners, nor baptize their children, unless they
were of his private church, and would not so much
as keep company with, or come near, those that were
not of his mind. He hath left an ill name behind
him, and none there have any esteem for his me-
mory, only anabaptists, quakers, or such that tend
that way. In this course he continued till his ma-
jesty's restoration an. 1660, and then leaving the
place to prevent ejection, he retired to Uxbndge,
where he carried on the trade among the brethren,
either more or less, to the time of his death. His
printed works are these.

Gate to Sciences. Written when he was a

school-master.

' [Edwardiis Fulham S. T. P. x<\h Chribti Oxon. alumnus,
rector de Mainpton Poile com. Oxon. prebtndarius Ciccsier.
vicatius dc Bray, rector de West lldesley com. Berk, instal-
latiu ill canoiiicatu Windesor loco docioiis Some 12 Jul.
l(J39; procuralnr acad. Oxon. et cacellanus eyhc. Oxon.
Frith, Calal. Kennet.]

The Chihrs Patrimony laid out upon tJie good
Nurture or Tilling over the whole Man. In two
parts. Lond. 1640, qu. &c. This came out after-
wards again with the title alter'd.

Vestibvlum : or, a Manudiiction towards a fair
Edifice by their Hands who are designed to open

the Way thereunto. Printed with The Child's

Patrimony.

The Church''s Thanksgiving to God her King,
&c. Lond. 1642. qu.

The Covenant cleared to the Consciences of aU
Men, &.C. Lond. 1643. qu.

Three Kingdoms made one hy the Covenant, &c.
— printed 1643.

Cause, Use, and Cure of Fear, &c. printed

1643.

The King's Chronicle ; in txco Sections. Wherein
we have the Acts of the wicked and good Kings of
Juduh J'ully declared, with the Ordering of their
Militia, and grave Observations thcreujnm, &c.
Lond. 1643. qu. Dedicated to the high court of
parliament, and written purposely to point out the
bad actions of his miijesty, who then sUxxl in his
own defence against the inveterate presbyterians and
tumultuous factions in London.

The SmCs Patrimony and Daughter''s Portion,
&c. Lond. 1643. qu.

Inquiries into the Causes of our Miseries, " when
" they i.ysuejorth upon us : and Keasufis zchere/bre
" they have born u^ down ,so low ; aiid are like to
" carry us yet lower, &C.'''' Lond. 1614. qu. " three
" sheets. [Bodl. C. 14. 6. Luic] And six sections"
written partly against a book entitled An Antidote
against the contagious Air of Independency, &c. by
D. 1'. P. Lond. 1644. qu. " and partly against Will.
" Prynne esq."

Sliort Letter intrcating a Friend^s Judgment
upon Mr. Edzcards's Book caird Antipologia, with
a large but modest Answer thereunto, &c. Lend.
1644. qu.

LorcTs-day the Sainfs Holy-day, Christmas an
Idol-day, &c. Lond. 1648. qu. About which time
came out, Christmas-day the old Heathens Fcast-
ing-day in Honour to Satan their Idol-God, &c.
W^hether written by Wotidward, quaere.

A Just Account in Truth and Peace by Brethren.
Lovers cyf, and Fellow-helpers to both, why they
must open themselves to the View of the World,

speaking to them as the House-top, &c. printed

at Lond. in qu.

Appeal to the Churches of Christ, fir their
righteous Judgment in Matters of Christ, the Con-
cernments of all his Glory, over zchom there is a
Defence, whether Chrisfs Way be not poured fiyrth
in Scripture to be traced by the Footsteps of his
near Ones. pr. at Lond. in qu.

Conference of some Christians in Church Fellow-
ship about the Way of Christ with his People and

the Resxdt therefrom, &c. Printed at Lond. in

quailo.

\

BEESELEY.

WILKINSON.

1038

Infant Baptism, and the first Quaere thereupon.
Whether all Parents hoiv notorious soever for
Wickedness, are privileged upon Account irf their
oicn Baptism, to present their Infants thereunto.
The Negative maintained — Pr. at Loud, in qu.
An inoffensive A7i,<i7oer to remove Offences taken
from some Passages in a printed Book, other some
from Report, which are cleared to be wholly mis-
taken by the Author of the Dialogue concerning the
practiced Use of Infant Baptism, in his Postscript
to his second Part, p. 103. &c. Lond. 1657. qu.
He hath also otliei* things extant, which I have not
yet seen, and had others fit for tlie press lying by
him at the time of his death ; which hapning at
Uxbridge in Middlesex, 29 of March in sixteen
hundred seventy and five, aged 87 years or there-
abouts, his body was carried to Eaton near Windsor,
and buried in the churchyard there near the grave
of his sometime wife Frances Woodward, who was
(as I have been told) interrd some years before him
in the said yard. He had one only daughter named
Frances, who became the second wife of .lohn Oxen-
bridge fellow of Eaton ct)llege, and dying in child-
bed in the 25th year of her age, was buried in the
chappel there, and hath a monument over her grave,
as I nave before told you.

HENRY BEESELEY, son of Rob. Beesley
chaplain of Mcrton college, was born in the parish
of S. Peter in the East in the city of Oxon, 22 July
1605, and in Mich, term 1621 was made either clerk
or portionist of the said college, where continuing
till he was bach, of arts, retired to S. Alban's hall,
took the degree of master as a member thereof, and
was for his ingenuity made one of the Terrw filii
in the act following. Soon after he became tutor in
the country to Tho. Pope the young earl of Downe,
whose guardian Joh. Dutton of Sherbourne in Glo-
cestershire, esq. did, for the great care he took of
his pupil, bestow on him the rectory of Swerford
near to Chipping-Norton in Oxfordshire ; which was
all the preferment, I think, that he enjoyed to his
dying day. Afterwards he became a sufferer in the
time of the rebellion, lived poorlj', and therefore for
that his loyalty, he was not only restored to what he
had lost up)n the king's restoration, but also was
actually created doctor of divinity. He was ac-
counted a wittv man and a good pfiet in his younger
years, and in his elder a good preacher and sober
divine. He hath published.

The SouFs Conflict, ^c. portrayed in eight se-
veral Sermons, sicV whereof were preached before
the King at Oxon. Lond. 16-57,° &c. octavo, and

^ [Bishop Barlow's copy (which was given liiiii bj- the au-
thor, and is now in the Bodleian, marked Svo. B. 187. Line.)
is dated iG.'iC. It is dedicated to J(din Dntlon of Sherborn
esq. — ' And if in order hereunto, these ensuin" disconrses,
by the blessing of God, may contribute, though in the least ;
I have the aiine iniende<l by me, and more than that, if
choosing your worship for my patron, ihey may express in

other sermons which I have not yet seen. He died
29 May in sixteen hundred seventy and five, and
was buried under the commimion-table at the east
end of the chancel of the church of Swerford before
mentioned. Tho. Pope earl of Downe who was his
patron, died in S. Mary's parish in Oxon 28 Dec.
16G0, aged 38 years,' leaving iK-hind him one only
daughter named Elizab. begotten on the body ol"
Ehzabeth ' his wife, daughter and one of the heira
of Will. Dutton of Sherbourne in Gl<x;estershire esq.
Which said Elizabeth his daughter was first married
to Henry Francis Lea of Dichley in Oxfordshire,
and afterwards to Robert earl of Lindsey. The
earldom of Dowfle went, after the death of the said
Thomas, to Tho. Pope esq; his uncle, whose male
issue also dying, the estate went away among three
daughters, the second * of which
was married to sir Francis North .* -EW"'- First
afterwards lord North of Guild- "'
ford. Both the said earls were buried at Wroxton
near Banbury in Oxfordshire, among the graves of
their ancestors.

HENRY WILKINSON senior, commonly
called Long Harry, son of Hen. Wilkinson men-
tioned before under the year 1647, was born at
Waddesdon in Bucks, became a commoner of Magd.
hall in Lent term 1622, aged 13 years, where
making great proficiency in his studies, he took the
degrees m arts, became a noted tutor, master of the
schools and divinity reader in his house. In the
year 1638 he was admitted bach, of div. preached
frequently in and near Oxon, yet not without girds
against the actions, and certain men, of the times.

some small measure the gre;\t obligation wherein I stand eii-
debied to you, who were pleased to admit me unto the tuition
of (then) your honourable charge, and since your son in law,
the earl of Down, unto whose vertuous education (besides
your sage precepts and grave example) no cost or care on your
part was wanting, ordering your family with such discipline,
as it might seem a school of morality. Then transplanting
him to the university, where he was placed in one of the
most eminent coUcdges,' &c.]

' [Thomas Pope, son of M illiam, the son of William Pope
first earl of Downe, was born at Coggcs lC22. His mother
was Elisabeth, eldest daughter of sir Thomas Watson knight,
of Halstead in Kent. At the age of nine years, on the death
of his grandfather, he became a baronet and second earl of
Downe, by succession. He was matriculated June 21, 1 639
(fic^. Malric. Univ. Oxon. PP. fol. 31, b.) a nobleman of
Christ Church. He married Lucy, daughter of John Duttoa
esq. of Sherborne in Gloucestershire. She died April 6,
l6o(), and lies buried in the church of Cubberley, near Chel-
tenham, in the said county. Having suffered severely for
his activity in the royal cause during the grand rebellion, in-
somuch that he was compelled to sell his house and estate at
Cog2C5, he left the kingdom about the beginning of Crom-
well's usurpation : .\nA making an advantage of his perse-
cutions, took the opportunity of improving himself by visit-
ing foreign eonntries. About the time of the restoration he
returned home, and dying, was buried at Wroxton, where is
an inscription to his memory, which may he seen in Warlon's
Life of Sir Thomas Pope, page 447, Appendix.]

« [Not Elizabeth bnt Lucy : see the preceding note.]

1075.

1039

WILKINSON.

HOI.YOAKE.

[544]

On the 6th of Scptcmb. 1(540, lie preached in liis
turn in S. Mary's ch. in Oxon, on Rev. 3. 16. So
then because thou art lukewarm, &c. Which ser-
mon being very bitter against some ceremonies of
the church, very base also and factious, and in-
tended meerly to make a party for the Scots, he was
summon'd the same day to make his recantation in
a form then prescribed lor him. Hut he obstinately
refusing to do it, was suspended from all execution
of his priestly function within the university and
precincts thereof according to the statute, till he
should make his palinody. Soon after, when that
unhappy parliament, called the long pari, began, he
complainixl to the members about the latter end of
Nov. of the usage he had received from the vice-
chancellor. Whereupon according to the command
of the committee of religion in the house of com-
mons the vicechanc. sent up a copy of his sermon
with his exceptions against it; whicli being received
from the hands of Dr. Richai-d Baylie, Dec. 9. was
by them perused, but they finding nothing, as they
said, that might make hmi guilty of punishment,
they released him from his suspension and gave
order that his sermon shoidd be printed, which ac-
cordingly was done.*" Upon this, our author Wil-
kinson grew very bold, preach'd and discoursed what
he pleas'd, setled afterwards in London to carry on
the cause, was made minister of S. Faith's, under
Paul's, one of the assembly of divines, became a
frequent preacher before the members of parliament,
ana rector of S. Dunstan's in the west ' about 1645.
At which time being esteemed a grand zealot for
promoting tlie designs then on foot, he was consti-
tuted by the said members one of the six ministers
to go to Oxon in 1646 (after the surrender of the
garrison there) to draw off by their preaching the
scholars from their orthodox principles to the prcs-
byterian persuasion, and soon after one of the visitors
to break open, turn out, and take possession : For
which service he Avas not only rewarded with a senior
fellowship of Magd. coll. (which he kept till he took
to wife a holy woman call'd the lady Carr) but also
with a canonry of Ch. Ch. a doctorship of divinity,
and, after Cheynell's departure, with tlie Margaret
professorship of the university. After his majesty
wa.s restored he was ejected, and thereupon went to
London, continued a non-conformist, lived and had
his meetings at Clapham in Surrey near London,
especially when the king's toleration was pubhshed
in the latter end of 1671, whereby he gamed from
the brethren a considerable maintenance. He was
a good scholar, always a close student, an excellent

Iireacher, (tho' his voice was .shrill and whining) yet
lis sermons were commonly full of dire and con-
fusion, especially while the rebellion continued.
Under his name were these things published, viz.

» [See Nalion's Collections, i, 700.]

' [Calamy says of St. Dunstan's in the East, but he docs
not occur in Ncwcourt as the incumbent on either of these
livings.]

Several seiTOons, as (1) Sermon against Luke-
zmrmne.ss in Ittiiff'um ; on Rev. 3. 16. Lond. 1641,
qu. [Hodl. 4to. T. 4. Th. BS.] (^) Babi/loiis Ruin,
Jeru.iak'm'it Risinff, Fmt Serm. before the Hmise
qfC(ym. 25 Oct. 1643; on Zech. 1." 18, 19, 20, 21.
Lond. 164;3. qu. (3) The gainful Cost,- Fast
Serm. bcjbre the House of Lords 27 Nov. 1644;
on 1 Chron. 21. 24. Lond. 1644. qu. (4) Miranda,
Stupenda : Or the xeonderful and a.itoniihing-
Mercies ichich the Lord hath wrought for England
in subduing and captivating the Pride, Power and
Policy of his Enemies, Thanksgiving Serm. before
the H. of Com. for the Surrender of Oxon, preacJied
21 July 1646 ;" on Numb. 23, 23! Lond. 1646. qu.
In his epist. ded. to the house of commons he doth
seriously exhort them to think of a sudden re-
formation of that university : aiul perhaps he had
thoughts then of being a visitor and to get what
might be obtained while the sun shined. (5) Serm.

on Luk. 17. 27, 28. Published in Tlw Morning

Exercise at Cripplegate, Lond. 1661. qu. (6)
Serm. on 2 Tlws. Z.Jram Ver. 3 to 10. Pub-
lished in The Morning E.vercise against Popery ;

preached in Southwark. Lond. 1675. qu. [Bodl.

D. 15. 10. Line] (7) How we must do all in the

Name of Christ ; on Col. 3. 17. Publ. in The

Supplement to the Morning Edcrcisc at Cripple-
gate, Lond. 1674. qu. [Bodl. C. 1. 6. Line] What
other things are published under his name I know
not, nor any thing else of him, only that he dying
at Clapham before-mention'd, in the beginning of
June in sixteen hundred seventy and five, his body
was thereupon conveyed to Draper's hall in Lond.
and thence conducted with solemnity by hundreds
of the brethren to the church of S. Dunstan in
Fleetstrcet before-mention'd, where it was interr'd.
I shall make mention of another Henry Wilkinson
under the year 1690, who for distinction's sake, was
commonly called Dean Hurry.

THOMAS HOLYOAKE or Holyoke son of
Francis Holyoke mention'd under the year 1653,
col. 346. was born at Stony Thorp near to Southam
in Warwickshire, educated in grammar learning
under one Mr. White at Coventry, became a student
in Queen's college in Michaelm. term 1632, aged 16
years, took the degrees in arts, mafle chaplain of the
said college, and m the beginning of the civil war,
when Oxford became the seat of king Cliai'les I.
and garrison'd for his use, he was put into commis-
sion for a captain of a foot comjiuny, consisting
mostly of scholars. In which office doing good
service, had the degree of doct. of div. conferr'd
upon him by the favour of his majesty, tho' no such
matter occurs in the public register of the university,
which was then sometimes neglected. After the
surrender of the garrison of Oxon for the use of the
parliament, he, by the name of Tho. Holj'oake,
without the addition of master, B. or D. of D. ob-
tained a Ucense from the university to practise

167s.

WOOLNOUGH.

WHITLOCK.

104^2

1874.

physic: whereupon selling in his own country he
exercised that faculty with good success till 1660.
In which year his maj. being restored to his king-
doms, Thomas lord Leigh naron of Stoncleigh m
Warwickshire presented him to the rectory of Whit-
nash near Warwick, and soon after was made pre-
bendary of the collegiate church of Wolverhampton
in Staffordshire. In 1674 Robert lord Brook con-
ferr'd ujwn him the donative of Breaniour in Hamp-
shire (which he had by the marriage of his lady)
worth about 200/. per an. free from presentation,
institution, and episcopal visitation; but before he
had enjoyVl it an year or therealwuts, he died, to
the great grief of his family. He hath written,

A large Dictionary in three Parts : 1. The En-
glish before the Latin. 2. The Latin 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
large folio. [Bodl. H. 3. 8. Art.] Before which is
an epistle written by the author's son Charles Holy-
oake of the Inner 'J'emple, whereby he dedicates the
book to Foulke lord Brook, and another written by
Dr. Tho. Barlow bishop of Lincoln, 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. Holy-
cake beforc-meution''d, and ujion 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 neighbourhwxl
wliere he lived, for his ingenuity and humanity,
died of an high fever at Breamour on the tenth day
of June in sixteen hundred seventy and five. Where-
upon his body was conveyed to Warwick and there
interr d by that of his father, in the great church
there dedicated to S. Mary the virgin.

THOMAS WOOLNOUGH a minister's son of
Glocestershire, as it seems, became either batler or
com. of Magd. hall, 1648, trained up there accord-
ing to the pred-yterian way, took a degree in arts,
afterwards had a cure in the interval, and at length
became rector of S. Michaers church in Glocester,
where he was frequented for his edifying way of
preaching. He hath extant,

Fideles Aquw : or, some pious Tears drop'd upon
tJie Hearse of' the incomparable Gentlewoman Mrs.
Sarah Gily, together with some Elegies upon her
Grandmother and Brother. Lond. IGGl. oct. [Bodl.
8vo. B. 26. Th. BS.]

Dust returning to the Earth: Sermon at the
Interment of Tho. Lloyd Es(j; late vf Wheaten-
Hurst in the County of Gloc. 22. Dec. 1668 ,- on
Eccles. 12. 7. Lond. iii the Savoy 1669. qu. [Bodl.
4ta S. 62. Th.] and one or more things, as "'tis 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 somctiinc wife, dauglitcr of

Vol.111.

Gaspar Estecourt of Radbourough in Glocestershire,
gent, descended of a knightly family of his name in
Wilts. Which Eleanor died on the ides of Decern.
1665.

BULSTRODE WHITLOCK, son of sir James
Whitlock knight, by Eliz. his wife, daughter 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
mother's uncle, on the 6th of Aug. 1605, educated
in grammar learning in Merchant Taylor's school,
became a gent. com. of S. John's coll. in Mich,
term, an. 1620 ; at which time he was )mncipally
recommended to the care and oversight of his fa-
ther's 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 archbp. of Cant, was to be brought to
a tryal for his life, especially in this respect when
he refused to be one of the commissioners, or num-
ber of the committee appointed by pari, 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 pro-
vision from them and a retired contemplation. At
length when the long parliament was to sit, being
then a coimsellor at law, he was chose a burgess for
IMarluw in Bucks, to serve therein, and shewing
himself very active in baiting the most noble Thomas 1 5461
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 de-
);uty-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-gentle-
men to sit among the assembly of divines. In 1644
he became attorney of the dutchy of Lancaster,
commissioner again for jjeace, and m the same year
■when Rob. earl of Essex was about to prove 01.
Cromwell an incendiary, he gave him the said Oliver
timely notice of the design (he being privy to it)
and thenceforth he became very gracious 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 king's party, was in danger to
have lost all, had he not freen himself from that
suspicion, especially by his urging his losses that he
had suft'er'd by the said party for his adhering to

' [See list and chnracters of the 43 members of the other
house, ill A second Narralive of the late Parliament, lfi58.
Rf printed hy one J. Morgan in Phoenix Bnlunuirus, 1738, "
[ii^jf 138. Cole]

3X

1043

WHITLOCK.

the parliament: in consideration of wliich he had
afterwards given to him 2000/. In 1C4G he was
sent for to the leaguer before Oxon by sir Tho.
Fairfax the general of the pari, forces, who being
admitted one of his council of war, he did often-
times, being a friend to the univ. of Oxon, express
his unwillingness that any thing of damage should
be done to it, and pressed for fionourable tenns to
be offer'd to the garrison there. In 1647 Ol. Crom-
well used his advice in many things, and therefore
by his power it was that in the beginning of March
ill the sjud year lie was made one of tlie four com-
missioners of the great seal, " which passed into an
" ordinance made by the lords and com. on the 15th
" of the same month." In 1648 Philip earl of
Pembroke, who was then lately made constable of
Windsor castle, and keeper of the forest adjoining,
constituted him his lieutenant of those places in the
month of July : and in the same year he was not
only named one of the king's Serjeants (which lie
refused to accept) but was made one of the throe
commissioners of the new great seal of the common-
wealth of England, 8 Feb. at which time the king's
great seal was publicly broken in the house of com-
mons. And farther also on the 14th of the said
month he was elected one of the thirty persons for
the council of state, wherein he sate and acted ac-
cording to his ability. In the month of June 1649
he was made high steward of the city of Oxon by
the mayor and citizens thereof, in the room of the
earl of Berks: Whom they, for his loyalty, dis-
placed, and about the same time they made him
their recorder. In Jul. following he was constituted
keeper of the king's medals and library, which in
1647 he had hindred from being sold: And that
employment he the rather took, because he was put
upon it by Selden and other learned men, and that
lie himself, being accounted learned, took great de-
light in such matters. However being not alwavs
at leisure to attend those places, he had a deputy
allowed him, and one John Dury a traveller did the
drudgery of the place.' On the 24th of Nov. 1651
he was continued one of the council of state, and
likewise on the same day in the year following. In
the beginning of Nov. 1653 he set forth with a gal-
lant retinue in the quality of an embassador into
Sweedland, being impowred thereto by Oliver and
the little parliament, and had a thousand pounds
per an. for his salary. In wliich embassy and
country behaving himself with great prudence to
thehkmg, and with the approbati(m, ofaW, Christina
queen of that country made liim a knight of the
honourable order of Amaranta, of which order the
queen herself is sovereign, and wears the badge
thereof (which is a rich jewel tied to a crimson
ribond) under her left breast. You may be pleased
to see more of this order in Elias Ashmole's book

' [See an account of ihis transaciion in his own Memorials,
pages 5;88, 41.5, 4 l(i; cd. I73'.'.J

entit. The Institutions, Laws and Ceremonies of
the Order of the Garter. Lond. 1672. fol. chap. 3.
p. 123, and the copy or draught of the badge be-
tween pag. 94. and 95 ; " on this account perhaps
" it was, that he is sometimes called sir Bulstrode
" Whitlock." After his return thence, which was in [547]
July 1654, he was in Aug. following made one of
the commissioners of the exchequer or ti-easury ; for
in his absence, alteration or pretended reformation
being made in the chancery, he stood off at his re-
turn from being any longer commissioner of the
seal. In Jan. 1656, he being then scrjcant at law,
was chose speaker of the house of com. pro tempore,
upon the indisposition of him lately chosen, and in
the year following he was summoned by Ohver tlie
protector to sit in the other house b}' the name of
Bulstrode lord Whitlock : which summons he obey-
ing, had thereupon a negative voice in that house
over the people, tho' be had helped to put it down
when it consisted of king and lords. In Aug. 1659
he was made president of the council of state ; in
Octob. one of the committee of safety ; on the first
of Novemb. keeper of the great seal pro tempore by
the appointment of the said committee, and on the
80th of Jan. following he retired into the country
for fear of being sent prisoner to the Tower by some
prevalent members in the rump pari, then newly re-
stored, for his being a member of the committee of
safety.* At which time lie leaving the seal with his
wife, lock'd up in a desk, she forthwith delivered it
to Lenthal the speaker. From which time, to that
of his death, we heaivl but little of him, only that he
lived retiredly, mostly at Chilton in Wiltsli. near
Hungerford in Berks, that he had been an observing
person thro' all changes, guided more by pohcy
than conscience, and that he had advantaged him-
self much in civil affairs by his relation to the public,
and his eminent station. To which I add that he
was an excellent com. lawyer, was as well read in
books as in men, and well vers'd in the oriental
tongues, and therefore belov'd of Selden (who
would have made him one of his executors) and the
virtuosi of his time. The things that he hath extant
are these,

Several speeches, viz. (1) Speech at a Conference
of both Houses, 17 Feb. 1641. Lond. I(j42. qu.
(2) " Speech when Serj. Jo. Wild icas sworn chief
" Baron ef the Exchequer, in Oct. 1648. It is a
" large speech in his Memorials, p. 344. (3)
" Speech when he rcajs made Commissioner of the
" new Great Seal; 8 Feb. 1648. Memorials, p.

'' [Die Jovis 14 Juiiii l660: The humble peiltion of Bul-
strode Whitlock was read. The question being (jropounded,
ihat Bulstrode VVhiilock esq. shall be one of the 20 persons
to be exempted out of the act of general pardon and oblivion
for and in respect only of such pains, penalties and forfeitures
tnot extending to life) as shall be thought fit to be inflicted
on him by another act intended to be hereafter passed for

that purpose. Passed in (he negative. Journals qf the

House ((/' Commons. Kennet.]

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[oiS]

" STS." (4) Speech to the Q. of Sweden, an. 1653.
The beginning of which is, ' Matlame, by command
of my superiors, the parliament of the common-
weahh of England,' 8cc. (5) Speech in Lat. to the
said Queen in May or June 1654.' The beginning
of which is, ' Multo equidem cum ta;dio ferrem,''
&c. (6) A learned and godly Sjietch, spoken when
Serjeant William Steel Recorder of the City of
London, joas made L. Chief Baron in the Court of
Exchequer at Wentm. 28 May 1655. (7) Speech
to the Mayor, Aldermen and Common-Council of
London, 9. Aug. 1C59. (8) Another Speech to

them, 8 Nov. the same Year : >- which two speeches

are publishetl in one sh. in qu.

Several Discour.ws in the Tryal of Tho. E. of

Sti-qffbrd See in Jo. Rush worth's Tryal of Tito.

Earl of Strafford.

Monarchy asserted to be the best, most undent
and legal Form of Government, in a Conference
had at Whitehall with Oliver Lord Protector and
a Committee of Parliament in Apr. 1657. Lond.
1660. oct. Made good by way of ai'guments in at
least five speeches tlieii by him spoken.

Memorials of the English Affairs : or an histo-
rical Account qfxvhat passed from the Beginning of
King Ch. I. to the Restoration of King Ch. I/.
Lond. 1682. fol. [Bodl. F. 2. 11. Jur.] This is no
more than a diary \\hich he bemn and continued
for his private use. In this book you'll find divers
of his discourses made on various occasions. It was
pubhshed by Arth. earl of Anglesie, but with ;i
very bad index to it, which is a disadvantage to the
book in many respects.^ He also left behind hi;n
several manuscript volumes of his own writing,
which are not detcrmin'd by the heir whether they
may, or shall, be published. Several things in his
life-time were fathered upon him, among which was
a Uttle thing pubhshed in Jan. 1659. entit. My
Lord Whitlocle's Reports cm Machlavel, Sec. wherein
the author tells us that ' when Whitlock was chose
a member of the long pari, he had then no interest,
but contented himself with seeing the fashions of
the pari, house. At length Pym's discerning eyes
espymg that curiosity, presently attacqued his vmcon-
cerned, undetermined mind, and with the proffers
of greatness and popularity brought him over to his
design, and became his second,' &:c. Also that when
he, with other commissioners, attended the king at
Oxon, with propositions from both houses in order
to peace, ' tne king shewed to the commissioners
during their stay there great respect, but of com-

* [At the end of Inaueuralio Olivariana, Carmen Votivum
Aiilore Fitz Pagann Fisheio, 4lo. 1654, is

Erudilissimi vere Domini Butslrudi Wliitlocki, Magtti An-
gliae SigUti Cuslndis fVindesoriensis Propugnaculi magtii
icienlissimi et Foreslariarum circumjacentium Proio^Consta-
bularii, Oratio habita Upsaliai coram Crislina auguslissima
Sneciarum, Golhorum, Finnorum, Vandalnrum, &c. Regina
pnlrntissima. Kennet.]

^ [A new edition, wiih many additions never before printed,
and a compleat index, Loudon, 173'i, fulio.]

missioner Whitlock he took small notice, &c. which
implanted in him ever after an imjilacable mahce to
him and his posterity, &c. That he was sent to
make speeches against the young king at Guild-Hall
when he was at Worcester, which he did with so
much vigour and confidence, that Tichboume the
next day durst throw the king's declaration into the
fire matle at the Exchange,' &c. with other passages
whicli for brevity's sjtke I now omit. At length he
dying of the stone in his house at Chilton park on
the 28th of July in sixteen hundred seventy and
five, was buried in an isle joyning to the cliurch of
Falley or Fawley near Marlow in Bucks, which he
liad built for a burying-jJace for his family. Among
the sons that he had by Rebecca his wife, daughter
of Tho. Renet alderman of London, was James
Whitlock,' first a captain, afterwards fellow of Alls,
coll. then a colonel in the pari, army, one of the
knights for Oxfordshire to serve in that pari, wliich
began at Westm. 3 of Sept. 1654, knighted by
Ohver 6 Jan. 1656, burgess for Ailesbury m Bucks,
to serve in the pari, which began at Westm. 27 Jan.
1658, &c.

[Whitclocke''s Notes upon the King's Writt Jbr
choosing Members qfParlement 13 Car. % Being
Disquisititms on the Government of England by
King, Lords and Commons. Lond. 1766, 2 vol. 4to.
Furnished from the original MS. by Charles Morton
M. D. first under hbrarian of the British Museum,
&c. &c.

There is a beautiful head of Whitlock by Faitli-
orne.]

THOMAS TOMKINS, son of Joh. Tomkins
sometime organist of S. Paul's cathedral, was Iwrii
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. Tomkin*
prebendary of Worcester, became a commoner of
Bal. college in act term 1651, probat. fellow of All«.
in 1657, and taking the degree of M. of A. was
elected one of the proctors of the university for the
year 1663. Afterwards he became chaplain to Dr.
Sheldon archb. of Cant, rector of Lambeth in Sur-
rey, Monks-Risborow in Bucks, and at length chan-
cellor of the cath. church of J^xeter, and 1). of D.
The archb. valued him so much that he kept him
many years chaplain in his house,* and resolving
never to part with him, made him rector of Lam-
beth before-mcntitm'd, which he kept to his dying

' [Another of his sons was sir Win. Whilclock, an emi-
nent lawyer.

W. Lilly left his estate to one of his sons. Moramt.]
* [The inipriinalur to the first edit, of Milton's Paradise
Lost was signed by ToinUins in his ofiicial capacity. That
poem was, says Newton, in dansicr of being suppressed by
the malice or ignorance of the licencer, who took exception
at some passages, and particularly at that noble simile, in the
first book, of tlie sun in an eclipse, in which he fancied that
he had discovered treason. Life of Milton by Thomas New-
ion, pref. to Paradise Lvsl. Lond. 174(), 4to. iwgc xxxviilj

3X2

iflT.'i.

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WILLIS.

1048

day. The books that he hath published are
these,

The RebeFs Plea examined: or, Mr. Baxter'' s
Judgment concerning the late War, " in these Par-
" tkulars, viz. The Original of Government, co-
" ordinate and legislative Pozeer in tlie ttoo Houses,
" S^c."" Lond. 16uO. qu. 6 sheets and an hall". [Bodl.
C. 13. 5. Line]

Short Strictures: or. Animadversions on so
much of Mr. Zach. Croftmi's'^ Fastning of S.
Peter'' s Bounds as concern tlie Reasons of trie Univ.
of 0x071 concerning the Covenant, Lond. 1661. oct.
[Bodl. 8vo. B. 341. Line]

The Inconveniencies of Toleration : or, an An-
sieer to a Book called A Proposition made to the
King and Parliament, fir the Safety and Happi-
ness of tlie King and Kingdom. Lond. 1667. qu.
" in 5 sheets and an half. [Bodl. B. 14. 15. Line]
" The Propos'ition, &c. came out in the beginning
" of August 1667. Mr. Tomkins''s Answer 10 Oct.

" that year ^but before the end of that month

" the anonymous author of the Proposition did re-
" print his book again, with a short reply to Mr.
« Tomkins.^'

The modern Pleas for Toleration, Comprehcn-
s'um, <5'f. considered and discussed. Lond. 1675. oct.
[Bodl." 8vo. B. 320. Line] This book came out the
second time with this title, The riero Distemper : or,
the D'issenter''s tisual Pleas for Comprehemion,
Toleration and renouncing the Covenant, consi-
dered and discussed. Lond. 1680. oct. To which
is a large preface written by Sam. Thomas chantor
of Ch. Ch. in Oxon, now vicar of Chard in Somcr-
setsh. The first edition of this book (1675) is re-
flected upon by Mr. Rich. Baxter in his Apology
for the NoncotformMfs Ministry, &c. from p. 147,
to 154. This Dr. Tomkins died at Exeter in six-
1675. teen hundred seventy and five, and his body being
carried into Worcestershire, was buried in the
chancel of the church at Marton near Droitwich.
Soon after was a marble table fastned to the wall,
[5491 o^'^*" ^^'^ K™^'") with this inscription thereon.
Thomas Tomkins SS. Theologiae Professor, Coll.
Om. An. Oxon. olim Socius, reverendiss. Archi-
episcopo Cantuariensi a sacris, Ecclesiae cathedralis
Exon. Cancellarius, Lambethanae, &c. Rector: Ec-
clesiae Anglicanae contra Schismaticos assertor exi-
mius. Vir ingenio, judicio, memoria, literatura &
eloquentift clarus. Exoniae morbo correptus, obiit
Augusti 20 an. Dom. 1675. aetat. 37. Cujus corpus
hue translatum, hie subtus quiescit. Over his grave
is laid a flat stone, with an inscription thereon, con-
toning his name, dignity, and death, which for

9 \Calechi2ing Gods Ordinance : or a short Trratite con-
cemtng that ancient, approved, soul-edifying, singularly ne-
cessary H.tercise of Catechizing. Delivered in sundry Sermons
at Bololphs Aldgale, London. By Zach. Croflon Minister
of the Word. The Second edit, corrected and enlarged.
London, Printed by R. [.for Tho. Parkhurst &c. 1657. 8vo.
In Ch, Ch. library, A. 72. Pamphf.]

brevity's sake I now omit. In his rectory of Lam-
beth succeeded Dr. George Hoojx'r of Ch. Ch. in
Monks-Risborow John Wolley M. A. of Trin. coll.
and in his chancellorship Dr. Joh. Copleston of
Cambridge canon of Exeter, the same who was
elected provost of King's coll. in that university, 24
Aug. 1681.

[Tho. Tompkins A. M. coll. ab arch. Cant, ad
eccl. B. Mariae Aldermary, Lond. 11 Apr. 1665 :
Cessit ante 4 Dec. 1669. Kexnet.]

THOMAS WILLIS, the most famous physician
of his time, was born at Great Bedwyn in A\'ilts. 27
Jan. 1621. His father was Tho. Willis ' of North
Henxsey near Abingdon in Berks, .sometime a re-
tainer to S. John's coll.^ (but no graduate) after-
wards bailiff" or steward to sir Walt. Smith of Bed-
wyn, and in his last days a constant inhabitant of N.
Henxsey, before niention'd. Which last Thomas
was son of another Thomas, a taylor, as I have
been informed, who mostly lived at Kennington
near Abingdon also.' As for Thomas our author

' [Obiit ill obsidione Oxon. l643. Bakf.r.]

' [He was a farmer at Church or Long Handborough,
Oxon. Rawlinson.]

3 [The following original Letter is preserved in bishop
Kennel's copy of the Athen«. Tliere is no superscription,
but it cannot be doubted that it was addressed to the bishop
himself:

Whaddon-hall, near Fenny Stratford, Bucks j
My good lord, March 7, 1725

1 am obliged to your lordshipp for the favour of yours
of the .'itii instant, and heartily thank you for recommending
mine to the bishop of Man, and Mr. Baker. I am an infirm
person of lale, but doe not love to be idle. 'Tis a great plea-
sure to mce that any thing I doc is acceptable to your lord-
shipp. I trudge on, and am giving account of cathedrals. I
doubt the members of Landafi will not be well pleased with
tiiec, and the now bishop of St. David forgive some animad-
versions 1 shall make about tliat chair (or have ratlier made
2 or 3 years agoe, since when my book has been delayed, and
tho' 'tis in an year and half's time advanced to the 4()2 page,
I cannot say when the bookseller will let it be published).
I most readily obey your lordshipp's commands in communi-
cating something of my good grandfather Dr. Willis. A.
Wood, who was his next neighbour in St. John Baptist's pa-
rish Oxon, and had a disagreement with the family, says se-
veral things untrue of his descent &c. as I am well assured.
Your lordshipp knows I have dabbled in heraldry, drawn up
many pedigrees, and tho' I cannot pretend to goe far with
ours, yet by an antient deed 1 have, &c. wee were an yeoman
family at Church Hanborough in Oxfordshire, about the be-
ginning of queen Elizabeth's reign, and tho' I have search't
the Hinxscy's registers and Kennington, where A. Wood
says my great grandfather's father resided, yet can't find so
much (as) a name of a Willis, till some years after I600, and
not one Thomas Willis in any of these places till about iCSO,
when one John son of Thomas Willis is said to have been
baptised, which is theonly Thomas Willis in those 3 parishes
whatsoever. In Great Bedwin register, co. Wilts, f met with
several Willis's before 1620, and an entry of the binh of my
good grandfather, who is the last of the name of Willis born
tliere : The words are these,

Thomas Wyllis the sonne of Thomas Willis and Rachaell
his wyffe was bnpt. the 14 of Fcbr. 162O.

I meet with a marriage of a Thomas Willis to one Joane
Whitbred 137fi, and divers births of their children, &c. and

WILLIS.

1050

he was bred in gnuinnar learning under Edw. Syl-
vester, who taught a private school in Allsaints

they shew an liouse at Bedwin where they suppose Dr. Wil-
lis's family lived, and so his ancestors might as well be born
here as where A. Woo<l tells us. Hinxsey registers are very
antient, viz. one about 1531), and another about 1564, and
yet no Willis's of old, iho' now there are several at both
places. Dr. Willis's father married one Kachacll Howell,
an anliciit ftimily at North or Ivy Hinxsey, and had about
40/i. or bOlb. per ann. as I judge by that which my grand-
father gave his brothers and sisters; but his great palron
seems to have been Dr. Francis Willis, president of St. John's
college, Oxon, dean of Worcesier, who brought hiui into
that college, where he was, as bishop Fell informs us, master
of arts. 1 have a book of my great grandfather's writing : he
wrote an excellent hand : was brougnt up to the law, lost his
life at the siege of Oxford, and lies buried in North or St.
Laurence Hinxsey chancel! with Kachjell his first wife, as
appears by his grave-stone. As to the account of Dr. Willis
I was told by very antient people of N. Hinxsey that he was
very charitable, when a boy, and would give his victuals
away, when he was sent to Oxford to schoole, to the [X)or,
so that bis parents, my great grandfather and grandmother,
were forced to watch him, and my great grandfather, the
Dr's. father, would often say this boy will starve himself, and
would latterly, on that account, make him cat his meat at
home, before he went to schoole. When he came into
business 'tis certain he maintained his brothers and sisters.
He paid several debts of his brother William, who dyed fel-
low of Trinity college, Oxford, as I find by his account, and
Mr. Benson his ncpiicw, archdejcon of Hereford, who dyed
a nonjuror aged about 86, last year, told mee. He had se-
veral sisters well married, and a puritanical brother, one
John VVillls, a good attorney, chapter clerk of Christ-church,
Oxon. who drew uji all the leases &c. of that college. It
was, I can assure your lordshipp, Dr. Willis's practise, when
he came into business, inviolably to reserve and give in cha-
rily all the fees whatsoever he took oir Sundays, which was
above a tenth parih of his gains, and as I find by bishopp
Fell's casting irp his accoitnt at Iris death, there was 237/i.
poor's money in the box. Bp. Fell's words are • Moneys due
to the poor 237/fc.' His inveirtory and stock came to
1528/. Os. 6rf. but they buried him, in Westminster abbey, ri-
diculously siraiptuous, for his funeral charges (tho' they did
itot afford him a grave-stone) came to 470/. 4». id. Bp. Fell
in a small Latin account of him printed to his posthumous
book, tells us his father was a master of arts of Oxon, and
speaking of his charily says ' nemo magis numificus; omnia
scilicet sibi, irihil aurem panperibus et miseris, ncgaverat.
Praeler ilia quae propria manu elargitus est, elymosynarios in

urbe, rure, elacademia sparsos habuit faeiliusquisabipso

centum aureos, quam a plerisque aliis extorserit toiidem asses

A prima ejus adolecentia ad ultimum vita: diem, nullam

pecuniarum quam acceperat, sumrnam pro suo habuit, donee
Deo et pauperrbus partem non contemnandam sacram fecis-
«et.' Bpp. Fell says much more of his charity, but as he
knew him near 30 years, your lordship will give him leave
to know him better than A. Wood : tho' he was but in his
Ubih year when he dyed, and not in his 57 as Bp. Fell inti-
mates, wherein A. Wood is more exact, from the university
register. As to his foutuling prayers atS. Marlins Westmin-
ster, and giving so much a year in charity, it is well enough
known, tho' that gralefull parish haveset aside his request In
his will, the very first lime, wherein he recommends and
desires ' that the reader of those prayers may be the school-
master of St. Martin's, if he is in orders.' The person he gave
it to was the then schoolmaster B. Barnet, who resigned it
to his son in law Mr. James Richardson, on whose death
about one year and eight months agoe, the vicar put in one
of his chapell readers, and iho' to make mee easy, he wrote
mee a letter of his willingness to serve me, that I should have

jiarish in Oxon, to whom he went every day from
N. Ilenxsey. In 16.'}6 he became a rettiiner to the
family of Ur. Tho. lies canon of Ch. Ch. and was
his batler there, where applying himself very severely
to his studies he took the tiegrees in arts, that of
master being compleated in 1642. About that time
Oxford being giU'risou'd for the king, ho, among the
scholars that were then remaining, bore arms in his
defence, and all the time that he could obtain, he
bestowetl on his beloved study of physic. In 1646",
the garrison being then surrendred for the use of
the pariiament, he took the degree of bach, of that
faculty, fell to the practice of it, and every Monday
kept Abingdon market. So that by his great care
and industry he in short time became famous in
these parts, setled in S. John Baptist's 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.
John Dolben, and sometimes Mr. Rich. Allistry did
constantly exercise in his house (as they had partly
before done in his lodgings in Canterbury qua-
drangle) the liturgy and sacraments accoraing to
the church of England, to which most of the loyalists
in Oxon, especially scholars that had been ejected
in 1648, did daily resort.* In 1660, after his ma-
je.sty's restoration, he became Sedley's professor of
natural pliilosophy, 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

in respect of my grandfather's charity, (who has been dead
above oO years, and so the parish have since his death re-
ceived 500/i.) a seat in the new church assigned for my self
to sit in, and rcUtions, of which I have several in the parish,
yet now the church is near finished, they think fit to deny
mee, and object to my not living in the parish, and give out
that I may let the pew for 4 or btb. per ann. and so save my-
self part of the cliariiy, which would be lime enough to ob-
ject when I pot it in praciise. 1 fear I have tired your lord-
shipp : my hand grows very weak, and I scribble poorly ; so
will cease, not to be farther troublesome, then to acknowledge
my readyness and zeal to receive your lordshipp's commands,
and how proud 1 shall be in all respects of professing my
self

Your lordshipp's most devoted humble serv'

Browne Willis.
1 make bold to trouble your lordshipp with another pacquet
to Mr. Baker, and repeal my thanks for your recommending
mee to the Bp. of Man &c.]

•< [In Mr. Browne Willis s study at Whaddon is a little
book in I2mo. printed at Lond. 1650, with this ih\c. Prayers
or Intercessions Jut their Use, who mourn in secret Jar the
publii/ue Calamities nf this Nation. Jftth an anniversary
Prayer for the 30 uf January. On a blank leaf is wrote
thus : ' N. B. 1 was informed by the rev. Mr. Roper of St.
John's college in Cambridge, that these are the prayers which
were used in Dr. Willis's oratory, during the former rebel-
lion. J. C. May 15, 1729.' In the liile-pase is wrote
' MaryCary,' and on a spare leaf is this added by NIr. Browne
Willis in his own hand : ' Prayers said by bishop Fell in his
bro: in law Dr. Willis's apartment in Oxford, the famous
physician.' This, with the rest of Mr. B. W. books, is now
removed to Stoneham in Hampshire, the seat of his grand*^
son. Cole]

1051

WILLIS.

dismal conflagration at London, he upon the in-
vitation of Dr. Sheldon archb. of Cant, went to tJie
city of Westm. took a tencnjent in S. Martin's lane,
and in very short time after he became so noted,
and so infinitely resorted to, for his practice, that
never any physician before went beyond liini, or got
more money yearly than he. About tliat time he
was made Jellow * of the college of
'One nf the coll. physicians, who for the most piu-t
I'lrstcdit. ^^ j^jj^ jjj gj.g^j^ esteem. The

truth is, tho' he was a plain man, a man of no car-
riage, little discourse, complaisance or society, yet
lor his deep insight, happy researches in natural and
experimental philosophy, anatomy, and chymistry,
for his wonderful success and repute in his practice,
the natural smcxrthness, pure elegancy, delightful,
unaffected neatness of Latin stile, none scarce hath
equaird, much less out-done him, how great soever.
When at any time he is mention''d by authors (as
he is very often) it is done in words expressing their
highest esteem of his great worth and excellency,
and placed still, as first in rank, among physicians.
And further also, he hath laid a lasting foundation
of a body of physic chiefly on hypotheses of his own
[530] framing. See more in the epistle to the reader be-
fore his works printed at Geneva, in two volumes
an. 1676. His works are these,

Diatribcc duw Medico-pMloscphiccE de Fermen-
tatione, altera de Febribus. Hag. Com. 1659. oct.
Lond. 1660. [1662, Bodl. Crynes 218.] 65, &c. in
tw. Answerd by Edm. de Meara a doctor of physic
of Bristol, and fellow of the college of physicians.'
See more in Rich. Lower, an. 1690.

Dissertatio Epistolica de Urinis. Printed with
the former book.

Cerebri Anatome. Lond. 1664. oct." Amstel.
1667. in tw. [Bodl. Crynes 197.] Whatsoever is
anatomical in that book, the glory thereof belongs
to the said R. Lower, whose indefatigable industry
at Oxon produced that elaborate piece.

De Ratione Motus Musculorum. Printed with
Cer. Anat.

Pathologia Cerebri S; Nervosi Generis Speci-
viina, in quo offitur de Morbis convulsivis 4" de
Scorbuto. Oxon. 1667. qu. [Bodl. C. 4. 5. Line]
Lond. 1668. [Bodl. Crynes 198.] Amstel. 1669.
kc. in tw. An account of which is in the Philoso-
phical Transactions, num. 31.

Jffectionum qucc dicuntur Hysterica 4- Hypo-

i [111 Mr. Walter Harris's adJitions to sir James Ware's
Wrtten af Ireland, vol. iii, pages l60, IpO, it is said that
> Coxly Cosin M. D. wrote a book in defence (as it is there
&aid) of Dr. Willis, under this title — IVtlRsiusrnaleiindicatus,
iice Medicus Oxoniensis Mendacitntis et Inscitite delectus.
Dnblinii 1667, 12mo. Edm. O Meara M. D. wrote Exa-
men DialriLce Thomie Witlisii D. M. de Pebrihus, Lond.
•1665, 8vo. To this Dr. Lower wrote an answer intituled
yindicalio Diatriloe fVillisii, &c. so that, 1 suppose Dr.
Cosin's book is wrote against Dr. Lower's Vindicatio. Cole.]
• • r A very fine edition of it in 4to. Lond. l(j()4, Bodl. 4to.
Q. 7. Med.]

chondricica' Puthologia Spasmodica, vindicata con-
tra Kespmistonem epistolarem Nathan. Highmore
M. D. Lond. 1670. qu. [Bodl. 4to. C. 22. Med.]
Leyd. 1671. in tw. [Bodl. Crynes 199.] &c.

Excrcitationes Medico^pJiysica; duw. 1. De San-
guinis Accensiane, 2. Dc Motu musculari. Tliis
IS printed with the book next before-going, and an
account of lx)th of them are in the Phil. Transact.
num. 57.

De Anima Brutorum, qucc Hominis vitalis ac
sensativa est, Exercitationes duei; &c. I.,ond. 1672.
in qu. and oct. [Bodl. Crynes 455.] &c. Amstel.
1674. in tw. And also of this, numb. 83. All
which books, except Affectiomim qua dicuntur, &c.
and that De Anima Brutorum, were translated into
English by S. P. esq; Lond. 1681. fol.

Pharmaceutice rutionalis : sive Diatriba de Me-
dicamentorum Opcrationibus in Humano Corpore.
Pars I. Oxon. 1674. [Bodl. 4to. W. 4. Med.] Pars
2. 1675. [Bodl. 4to. Z. 52. Med.] in tw. and qu.
Published by Di'. Jo. Fell, who in a ]X)stscript added
to the authors preface, gives some running account
of the said author, but false as to his parent. This
Pharmaceutice was translated into English by Anon.
Lond. 1679.' fol. [Bodl. P. 2. 12. Med.] but hemg
not well done it was corrected by S. P. esq; before-
mention'd, and involved in the former translation of
1681. Afterwards came out Tlie London Practice
of Physic : m- the whole pj-actical Part of Physic
contained in the Works of Dr. Willis, Jaifkfully
made English and printed together for the public
good. Lond. 1685. oct. with his picture before it.
AVhat are therein made English of liis works are
(1) His first and second parts of the Pharmaceutice
rationalis. (2) His Tract ofConvulsive Diseases.
(3) His Tract of the Scurvey. (4) His Tr. of the
Diseases of the Brain, and Gentis nervosum. (5)
His Tr. of Fevers : The other parts of his works
being theoretical are therein omitted. This transla-
tion IS said to be different from that containing the
same pieces, contained in his former translations of
all his works in fol.

A plain and easy Metlwd for preserving tlwse
that are xoell Jrom the Injection of the Plague, or
any contagious Distemper, in City, Camp, Country,
Fleet, Sfc. amd Jhr Curing such as are Itifected

■with it This was written in 1666, but not printed

till the latter end of 1690.' At length after a great
deal of drudgery, that he did undergo in his faculty,
(mostly for lucre sake) which did much shorten his
life, he concluded his last day in his house in S.
Martin's Lane before-mention''d, on the eleventh day
of Nov. in sixteen hundred seventy and five : »

' [It was also publ. in Latin that jear, pr.atOxon. in 8vo.
See it Bodl. Crynes 7o3.]

' [Publ. by his amanuensis J. Hemming. Morant. It
is dated in lligi (Bodl. 8vo. C. 60. Med.) and was reprinted

in 1722. RAWLtNSON.]

^ [Periit Londini Thonia? ille Willisius recondita enidi-
tione et ignota haclenus cerebri demonslratione Celebris.
Lyceum Palavinum, a Carolo Fatin, p. gfi. Cole.]

1671

STOrFORD.

ROBERTS.

1054

Wliercupon liis body was conveyed t<j the abbey
church of S. I'eter in Westm. and there iutcn-'d in
the large isle or transcept, joyninjj to tlie north-side
olthe choir, neai" to the body of Mary his iirst wife,
daughter of Samuel P'ell 13. D. sometime dean of
Ch. Ch. in Oxon : Which Mary died on the vicril
of Allsaints an. 1670. The said Dr. WiUis (who
left behind him the character of an orthodox, pious,
and charitable physician) did, some years before his
death, settle a salary for a reader to reatl prayers in
S. Martin's church in the Fields in Westmin. early
and late every day, to such servants and people of
that parish, who could not, through multiiilicity of
business, attend the ordinary service dady there
performed. All his Latin works were printed in
two volumes in qu. at Geneva 1676, as I have be-
fore told you, and at Amsterdam 1682. quarto,
[Bodl. CC. 45. Med.] by Gerard Blasius M. D.
and ordinary professor of the same faculty at that
place. '

JOSHUA STOPFORD, a Lancashire man
born, was entred into Brasennose coll. in Mich, term
1654, aged 18 years, being then or soon after scholar
of that house, went afterwards to Magd. coll. and as
a member thereof took the degree of bach, of arts,
an. 1657. Afterwai-ds he entred into orders, be-
came preb. of Donington in the church of York
(collated thereunto by archb. Frewen 9 Nov. 1660*)
and about the same time vicar of S. Martin's church
in Conystreet there. In the month of Ap. 1670 he
was created master of arts, and in the next month
was admitted to the reading of the sentences, being
at that time rector of Allsaints church in the said city
of York. He hath written,

Pagano-Papisvius : or, an exact Parallel between
Rome-Pagan and Rome-Christian in their Doc-
trines and Ceremonies. Loud. 1675, oct. [Bodl. 8vo.
C. 341. Lina] published in Michaelm. term 1674.
Before this work is a catalogue of books and authors
made use of bv this writer, which is very considerable
both for number and value : To which piece is
joyned another of smaller bulk, written by the same
author, cntit.

The Ways and Methods of Ronie\i Advance-
ment, whereby the Pope and his Agents have en-
deavoured to propagate their Doctrines, discovered
in two Sermons preacJied 5 Nov. 1671 -• on Rev. 18.
23, 24. — A catalogue of authors of the like nature
with the former, is also prefixed ; ' and in the epistle
to the reader 'tis said, that those two sermons were
published to vindicate them and their author from
the unjust aspersions and false accusations cast upon
them by a generation of men, who make lies and ca-

' [There are two very good heads of Willis, one engraved
by Loggan, ilie other by Vertiie.]

* [Willis Calhedrals, p. 130, says 27 Octob. l660 ; on the
promotion of Anthony Elcocke, who was made subdean.]

a [It is dedicated to Thomas Rokeby and John Biookc of
York, esquires. Kawlinson.]

iumnies a constituted part of their religion. 1 Ic diet!
in the month of November in sixteen hundred
seventy and five, and was, as I presume, buried in
the church of Allsaints bclbre-mention'd, and not in
the cathedral, because he resign'd his prelK-ndship in
1663. He wa.s a person very well read in substantial
and noted authors, and might, had hfe been sjwred,
have done good service for the cliurclj of England,
of which he was a most zealous member.

FRANCIS ROBERTS, son of Hen. Roberts,*
of Alslake in Yorkshire, was born there, or at least
in that county, entred a student in Trin. coll. in the
beginning of the year 1625, aged 16 years or there-
about, t(M)k the degrees in arts, that of master being
compleated in 1632, entred into the sacred function,
and had some little cure bestowed on him, but what
I cannot tell. Sure I am that he being always pu-
ritannically affected, closed with the presbyterians in
the beginning of the civil wars, went to London^
took the covenant and became minister of S. Augus-
tin's there, in the place of a noted loyalist ejected.
In 1649, Feb. 12, he was presented to the rectory of
Wrington in Somersetshire by his especial patron
Arthur lord Capell, son of the most loyal and ge-
nerous Arthur lord Capell then lately beheaded;
which rectory was then void by the death of another
presbyterian called Samuel Crook. In this rectory
our author Roberts shewing himself a zealous man of
those times, was among several ministers of his
county (of whom Richard Fairclough was one, and
Ralph Farmer another) constituted an assistant to the
commissioners for the ejectment of such, whom they
then (1654) called scandalous, ignorant and insuffi-
cient ministers and schoolmasters. After his ma-
jesty's return, he, rather than lose his living, and so
consequently the comforts of this world, did turn
about, took the oaths again (whereby he denied all
those that he had taken in the interval) and con-
form'd himself, without hesitation, to the ceremonies
of the church of England, and was nominated the
first chaplain by his patron, to serve him after he
was made earl of Essex, 13 Car. 2. What prefer-
ments he had afterwards conferr'd upon him I know
not, only that the degree of doctor of div. was con-
ferr'd on him by the university (I think) of Dublin,
at what time his patron (a favourer of such people)
was lord lieutenant of Ireland, in the place of John
lord Berkley, an. 1672. Under the said Dr. Ro-
berts's name were these things following pub-
lished.

Several sermons, as {\) A broken Spirit, God's
Sacrifice, Fast Sermon before the Hon,^e of Lords,
9 Dec. 1646. on Psal. 51. 17. Lond. 1647. qu.
Preached for the removing of the great judgment of
rain and water then upon the kingdom. (2) Chcc-
qtier of GoiTs Provi(J4;nces, made up of blacJc and

* Reg. Matric. PP. fol. 127. a.

I67i.

[!i59.-\

1055

ROBERTS.

TULLY.

167s.

•wh%te,funercU Serin, on Pml. 68. 13. Lond. 1657.
qu. and others wliicli I have not yet seen.

Believers Evidences for eteniai Life ; collected
out of the first EpiMle qfS. John, which is Catho-
lic, he. Lond. 1649. 55. oct.

Chivis Bihlioriim. Tlw Key of the Bible; iin-
locking the richest Treasury of the Holy Scriptures.
Whereby \. The Order. ± Names, ii. Times. 4.
Penmen. 5. Occasion. 6. Scope, and 7. Principal
Parts containing the subject Matter of the Books of
the Old and ?tew Testament are familwrly, and
hriejly opened, &c. Edinburgh and London 1G4J).
Oct. with the author's picture before it, aged 40.
Afterward.s it was printeil in quarto and folio, and
the fourth edition was pubHshed 1675.

The Communicant instructed: or practical Di-
rections for tlie xoorthy Receiving (f the Lord's
Supper. Lond. 1651. oct. with tlie autliors picture
beiore it. This was afterwards reprinted at least
tliree times.

Mysterium (§• Medulla Bibliorum. The Mys-
tery and Marrow of tlie Bible ; viz. GocTs Cove-
nant xinth Man in the first Adam before the Fall ;
and in the last Adam Jesus Chi-ist, after the Fall,
from the Beginning to the End of the World ; un-
folded and illustrated in jmsitive Aphorisms and
their EoBplanation.% &c. Lond. 1657. in two vol. in
fol. [Bodl. N. 2. 9. Jur.]

The true Way to the Tree of Life : or, the na-
tural Man directed unto Christ. Lond. 1673. oct.
What other things he hatli written, unless A Sy-
nopsis of Theology or Div. which is mentioned by
the author of the cat. of books in the libr. at Sion
coll. Lond. I know not, nor any thing else of him,
only that he dying at Wrington before-meiition\l in
the latter end of sixteen hundred seventy and five,
was, as I presume, buried in the church there. On
the 28th of Jan. the same year, his immediate suc-
cessor Mr. John Powell was instituted to the rectory
of Wrington, then void by the late death of Dr. Fr.
Roberts.

THOMAS TULLY, son of George TuUy, was
bom in S. Mary's parish in the city of Carlisle in
Cumberland 22 Jul. 1620, educated partly in the
free-school there under Mr. Joh. Winter, and after-
wards at Barton Kirk in Westmoreland, entred in
Queen's c<ill. in Mich, term, an. 1634, where, by the
benefit of a good tutor, Ger. Langbaine, and a se-
vere discipline, he became a noted disputant, and at
length through several advances, fellow of the said
college. In 1642 he wsis actually created M. of A.
and soon after, Oxford being garrison'd, he became
master of the grammar s<-hool atTetbury in Gloces-
tershire. After the surrender of the garrison, he
returned to his college, and became a noted tutor
and preacher, and in 1657 he was admitted bach, of
div. Soon after he was made*principal of S. Edm.
hall, 8Q that whereas from the surrender of the said
garrison and before, tliere were very few or no

students in that hou,sc, only some of Queen's coll.
that lotlged there, he by his diligence and .severe
government made it flouri.sh, equal with, if not be-
yond, any hall in Oxon. After his majesty's return
to his kingdoms he obtained a doctorshij) of divinity
by creation, a chaplainshin to his majesty by a friend,
the rectory of Grigleton alias Grittleton near Malms-
burv in AVilts. by a qucmdam pupil, and at length
in tlie montli of April 1675, the deanery of llippon
in Yorkshire from his majestv, by the death of Dr.
John Neile," who had that deanery conferr'd upon
him in the month of May, an. 1674, by the death of
the preceding incumbent. This Dr. TuUy was a
pious man, and many ways very learned, chiefly
read in the more ancient ^vriters, yet not .so wliolly
addicted to the perusal of them, but that at some
times he ttxik delight to converse with later authors.
Those that knew him and his constitution, ac-
counted it his great misfortune that he did betake
himself to write controversy, when as throughout
the whole managery of it, he laboured under many
bodily ills and Infirmities, which first by lingring
decays did sensibly impair, and at last wholly shat-
ter, his weaker frame and constitution. He was a
person of severe morals, puritanically inclin'd, and a
strict Calvinist ; which, as may be reasonably pre-
sum'd, was some stoj) to him in his way to prefer-
ment ; the want of which he did in some degree
resent, seeing so many of his juniors in the univer-
sity, and ail the king's chaplains twice told over
(during the time he served him) not more deserving
than himself, advanced before him. He hath writ-
ten,

Logica Apodcictica, sive Trnctatus brevis <§■ dilii-
cidus de Demmislratione ; cum Dissertatiuncula
Gas.^endi eodem perfinente. Oxon. 1662. in 2 sh. in
oct. Which tract is connnonly bound up at the end
of Manuductio ad Logicam, written by Philip de
Trieu, sometime chief professor of philosophy in the
Jesuit's coll. at Doway.

A J^ettcr to a Friend in Wilts upon Occasion of
a late ridiculous Pamphlet, icherein zca.i inserted a
pretended Prophecy ofThom. Bcckef. Lond. 1666.
m two sheets in qu. The said letter was written to
Tho. Gore of Alderton, esq; who gave Dr. Tully
the rectory of Grigleton, an(l the prophi'cy was pul>-
lished by one W. Pinker alias Littleton a minister,
who therein usurped Dr. Tully's name to his dispa-
ragement.

Pracipuorum Theologice Capitum Enchiridion
didacticum. Lond. 1665, 68, [1673, Bodl. 8vo. B.
287. Th. and again at Oxford 1683, Bodl.RawI. 8vo.
273.] &c. oct.

Appendicula practica de Ccena Domini. Printed
with the Enchiridion.

Symboli Apostolici '\Expositio. Ox. 1673.

Precationis Dominicce J oct.

[553]

' [[o. Neilc arlmisMii in aul. Pembr. Oant. an.
flectussociusOct. 29, lf)2(), he. Baker ]

IfisM;

TULLY.

105»

[554,]

Juxtificatio Paulina sine Operibus, ex Mente Ec-
clesia' Aiifflicayiw omniurnq; RcUquorum quas refor-
maUv audiunt, asserta Sf illustruta, &:c. Oxon. 1G74.
qu. [liotll. 4to. C. 103. Th.]

DissertatiunculadeSententia Paulina, &c. Printed
with Just. Paulina, written chiefly .against Mr.
George liulTs book entit. Harmouia ApostoUca,^
and Mr. R. Baxter's Aphorismn. But IVIr. Baxter
sitting not still (as he never yet hath done) published
an answer to it bearing this title, A Treatise qf'Jus-
tifying Righteousness, in two books. 1. A Treatise
of imputed Righteousness, 8i.c. with an Answer to
Dr. Tulli/s Letter, (which he calls angry.) 2. A
friendly Debate with the learned atul worthy Mr.
Christop. Cartivright, containing first his Ani-
madversions on his Aphorisms with my A/iszcer.
Secondly, his Exceptions against that Answer.
Thirdly, my Reply to the Sum of the Controver-
sies agitated in those Exceptions. All published
instead of a fuller Answer to the Assaults of Dr.
Tully\i Justificatio PauUyia. Lond. 1676. oct.
The Aphorisms of Mr. Baxter here defended against
Dr. TuUy were answer'd as to some passages, (1.)
By Will. Eyre of Salisbury in his Vindicice Justtfi-
cationis gratuitcr, &c. (2.) By John Crandon mi-
nister of Fawley in Hampshire, more largely in a
just volinne entit. Mr. Baxter's Aphorisms exoriz'd
and authoriz'd, &c. Lond. 1654. qu. To both
which Mr. Baxter quickly after publisli'd distinct

rephes, placed at the end of his A})ol. Lond.

1654'. qu. One calUnl An Admonition to Mr. Will.
Eyre, Sec. and another, An unsavoury Volume qf
Mr. John Crundon\s anatomvid, &c. But Crandon
died before this answer against him came out. The
said Aphorisms also were excepted against, and ani-
madverted upon, at their first coming forth 1650, by
many learne<l men (some of wliom wrote upon the
motion and desire of their author himself) among
whom were, Mr. George Lawson, Dr. John WalUs,
Mr. John Warren, and Mr. Christoph. Cartwright
were the chief which being (as he himself confesseth)
then but crude and defective for want of time, and
use of writing (this being his first) some suspected
It of error in doctrine, some of novelty, some of
divers undigested expressions, and some overvaluing
it, received those imperfections with the rest. Upon
this he published his suspension of these Apltorism.'i,
then his fuller explic. and def. of them in his Apo-
logy, &c. Afterward his additional explic. and de-
fence l)oth in his Confession qf Faith,'' &c. and in
\\\i Four Disputations of Justifieutiwi,'' &c. And
tho' he hath in these tiiree several pieces thus largely
explain'd himself and his Aphorisms, yet Dr. Tully
(as he comjilains) fell notwithstanding upon him,
without takmg notice of any of those following trea-

^ [See a lonj; account of ihis cnntroversy in Nelson's Life.
if Dull, 8vo. 17 ly, peel, xxxviii, |)agci 212, ;■ 13, &c.]
' Kilit. Lond. l6,')i.<iii.
« Ibid. l6.^H. qu.

Vol.. III.

tises, which clear and illustrate his former doctrine
in these {)oints. But whati-ver hath been the doctor's
dealing towards him on tiiis account, at wliich he
seems to be so much concern'd, of this I am assured
that liis publishing the above name<l Ixjok, consisting
of two parts, the fsu- greater part of the former
l)eing by his own acknowledgment written 3 or 4
years before, and nothing newly added, and imme-
diately directed against the <loctor, but barely the
6th, 7th, and 8th chapters, with the answer to the
doctor's letter, and the latter part Iwing wholly made
up of papers which had passed so many years before
between the learned Mr. Ciiri.st. Cartwright and
himself concerning his Aphorisms : his publishing,
I say, these in answer to the doctor's b<xjk which
came out some time after, was generally looked upon
as a scornful slighting, and very unfair way of his.
And tho' he thinks fit to call the doctor in the ge-
neral epistle to the reader more than once a wortny
person, yet for all this in the very entrance on the
sixth chapter of the first part, he sufficiently dis-
covers his anger against him in liberally bestowing
on a great part of liis Justificatio PatUina this foul
character, viz. that it is defective in point of truth,
justice, charity, ingenuity, and pertinency to the
matter. But his published papers wTotc long Xte-
fore those books, to which they are very improperly
by him called answers, is not unusual with nim :
and the ingenious and learned Mr. Hen. Dodwell
hath not long since complained of this his unjust
usage in relation to himself. To conclude : smce
the publishing of the said Justificatio Paulina, the
author thereof is characterized by some church men
and fanatics to have been a main jiillar of the church
in defence of her true dcK'trinc. Nay, and long be-
fore it was published, a certain hoUheadtd fanatic
tells us in a lxx)k ^ afterwards by him made extant,
that he, Tully, with Mr. Tho. Barlow, did keep
this university of Oxon from being poyson'd with
I'elagianism, Socinianisni, jKjpery, &c. The other
things that Dr. Tully hath written are these,

A Letter to Mr. Rich. Baxter, occasion d by se-
veral injurious Reflections of his upon a Treatise
entit. Justificatio Paulina. Oxon. lo75. qu. I Bodl.
4to. Z. 17.Art.]

Animadversion,^ 071 Mr. Baxter'' s Pamphlet entit.
An Appeal to the Light. Oxon. 1675. qu. Printed
with the aforesaid letter. " Our author by tlie
" name of Tho. Tully then of Queen's college,
" translated from French into English, A brief Rgr
" lation of the present Troubles in England. Oxon.
" 1645. qu. 8 sh. [Bodl. C. 14. 8. Line] written
" from London 22 Jan. 1644, to a minister of the
" reform'd churches in France." At length Dr.
Tully, after he had spent his last years in a weakly
and lingring condition, surrendred up his pious soul
to God, in the parsonage house at Grigleton before-

^ Lew. du Moulii) in his Account qf several Advance} tht
Ch. of Engl, hath made towards Rume, p. 3 1 .
3Y

1059

WEST.

TURNOUR.

lC7i- mention''d, on the fourteenth day of January in six-
teen hundred seventy and five, and was buried in
the chancel of the church tliere. In liis deanery,
whicli lie had not enjoyed a year, succeedeil Dr.
Tho. Cartwright sometime of Queen's college, in his
principaUty of S. Edm. Jiall, Steph. Penton, ]\I. A.
sometmie fellow of New coll. who was elected there-
unto by the provost and fellows of Queen\ coll.
(proprietaries of the said hall) on the 15th of Feb.
1675, but with this condition, that he resign his rec-
tory of Tingwick in Bucks, and that the society of
New coll. present a fellow of that of Queen's there-
unto, which was accordingly done ; and in his rec-
tory of Grigleton Rich. Hine, M. of A. of Merton
coll.

EDWARD WEST, son of Tho. West of the
ancient borough of Northanijiton, gent, became a
commoner of Ch. Ch. in the year 1651, and there

[555] received a severe discipline under a presbytcrian
tutor. After he had taken one degree in arts, he
translated himself to S. Mary's hall, where conti-
nuing till he was master of that faculty, took the
ministry upon him according to the presbytcrian
way, and was benefic'd. After his majesty's re-
storation he lived in, and near, London, a noncon-
formist to his dying day, being in high value for his
edifying preaching among the brethren in conven-
ticles. Under his name are published.

Several sermons, as (1.) Ho7c zee must f^overn

our Tongues; on Ephes. 4. 29- 'Tis m the

Supplement to the Morning Exercise at Cripple-
gate. Lond. 1674 and 76. qu. [Bodl. C. 1. 6. Line]
(2.) Purgatory a groundless and dangerous Doc-
trine; on 1 Cor. 3. 15. 'Tis the 24th sermon

in TJie Morning Exercise against Popery, ^-c.
preached in Southward. Lond. 1675. qu. &c.

His Legacy ; being a Discourse of the perfect
Man. Lond. 1 679. in a small oct. 'Tis grounded
on Psal. 37. 37. At length this zealous person having
preached twice to his congregation on the Lord's-
^ay, being then the 30th of January, and finished
his work, departed this life in the night of the same
day, and went to his rest in the 41st year of his age,

lC;5. in sixteen hundred seventy and five. Whereupon
his body was buried towards the west end of Tindal's
cemetery, commonly called the fanatical burial place,
joyning to the New ArtUlery-yard, or garden, near
London. Over his grave was soon after erected
an altar-monument of white stone, built on a brick
foundation, with this inscription engraven thereon,

The .saint whose dust this stone doth hide,
Sung Epicedium first, then dy'd.
His life lie spent lost man to save.
And yet's not silent in the gi-ave.
Reader no more, but underneath he lies.
Who, whilst he liv'd, th' world had one gootl, one
wise.

EDAVARD TURNOUR, son of Artliur Tur-
nour of Little Parendon in Essex, serjeant at law,
was bom ' in Essex, educated in gi-ammar learning
partly under a private tutor, but chiefly in the free-
school at Abingdon in Berks, under Dr. Tho. God-
win the famous school-master there, became a gent,
com. of Queen's coll. in Mich, term 1632, aged 15
years, where spending about 10 terms in logicals and
philosophicals, he afterwards retired to the Middle
Temple, applied himself severely to the study of
the municipal laws, and took the usual degrees be-
longing thereunto. After his majesty's restoration
he became attorney to James duke of York, re^
ceived the honour of knighthood, was elected speaker
for the parliament that began at Westminster 8
May 1661, afterwards made solicitor-gen. to his
majesty,lord chiefbaron of the exchequer 1671, and
the same year serjeant at law. Under his name were
printed,

Several speeches, as (1.) Sp. to the House of
Commons tchen they chose him Speaker, 8 May
1661. Lond. 1661. in one sh. in fol. (2) Speech to
his Majesty when he teas presented to him hy the
House of Commons to he their Speaker 10 May
1661. Lond. 1661. in 1 sh. in fol. [Bodl. P. 1. 16.
Jur.] (3.) Speech after the L. Chanc. had de-
clared the King's Approbation of the Clwice of
the House of Commons. Lond. 1661. in 2 sh.
in fol. [Bodl. P. 1. 16. Jur.] (4.) Sp. to the
King at the Passing of the Dill for Conjirmalion
of the Jet of Oblivion, 8 July 1661. Lond. 1661.
in 1 or 2 sh. in fol. [Bodl. P. 1. 16. Jur.] (5.)
Sp, to the K. at the Adjournment of the Pari. 30
July 1661. Lond. I66i. in 2 sh. in fol. (6) Sp.
upon the Parliamctifs Adjournment 20 Dec. I66l.
Lond. 1661. in 2 sh. fol. In which sj)cech, as 'tis
^ said, ' he compared the restitution of our monarchy,
to the return of the tide after a very low ebb,' at
which very time there happened at London-bridge
a very strange double tide ; which by the trouble-
some and factious party was looked upon as a pro-
digy. (7) Sp. upon the Commoti's Reasons and
Address presented to his Maj. 28 Feb. 1662. As
also his Report of the Substance of his Mqjest.
gracious Anszcer thereunto. Lond. 1662. in 2 sh.
m fol. or thereabouts. (8) Sp. to his Majesty, re-
presenting the humble Thanks of the House for his
gracious Acceptance of their Endeavours, hi the
Service of his Mqje.9ty and of the Public, &c. 17
May 1664. (9) Speech to his Maj. and both
Houses of Pari, at Oxon, at the Prorogatimiaf the
Pari 21 Oct. 1665. Oxon. 1665. in fol. (10)
Speech to the King\i Majesty at the Prorogation of
the Pari 8 Feb. 1666. Lond. 1666. in 2 s^i. in fol.
or thereabouts. " (11) Sp. to the King's Maje.Hy
" on Monday 2 Apr. 1670, upon the Adjournment

' Reg. Metric. PP. fol. i)3. a.

'' See in a book entit. Mirubdis Annus sccundtis, &c. the
first part. Printed l062. qu. p. 7.

[556]

I

GREAVES.

TOMBES.

KM*^

" ofihe Pari. Lond. 1670. in 2 sli. in fol." These
are all that I have seen, (besides several of his dis-
courses in the tryal of the king's judges, an. 1660.)
and therefore I have no more to say, only that he
the said su" Edw. Turnour, with justiee W. Ellis,
being appointed to go as judges of the assize for the
Nortolk eircult in the month of Feb. in the Lent
then ensuing, died at Bedford on the fourth of
iSIarch following, in sixteen hundred seventy and
ii;?!. five: whereupon liis botly being conveyed to Lon-
don, lay there for some days in state. After which,
he was (digna pouipa) carried to Little Parcndon
before-meution''d ; and according to his own com-
mand, he was inter'd in the chancel oi" the church
there under the marble stone that covered the grave
of his first wife.

\^Speech to the Kin^, May 19, 1662, at the Proro-
gation of ParUammt. Lond. 1662. Three sheets in
fol. Boiil. D. 10. 28. Line.

Speech to his Majesty at the Prorogatiwi of the
Parliament, 27 June 1663. Lond. 1663, 4to. Tan-
nek.

See his funeral certificate, which gives some ac-
count of his family, in Ralph Bigland's Observatiotis
Ml Marriages, Baptisms and Burials as preserved
in Parochial Registers. Lond. 1764, 4to.]

THOMAS GREAVES, younger brother to
John Greaves mention'd under the year 1652. col.
824. was lx)rn at Colmore in Hampshire, mostly
educated in the Charter-house school near London,
admitted scholar of C. C. coll. 15 Mar. 1627, where
making great progress in logic, philosophy, and
other learning, he took the degrees in arts, " became
" humanity reader of his college, fellow thereof
" 1636, and"" afterwards deputy professor of the
Arabic lecture, in the absence of Mr. Edw. Pocock,
an. 1637, bach, of div. in 1641, rector of Dunsby in
Lincolnshire in the times of usm-pation, and of
another place near London, had the degree of D. of
D. confer'd ujwn him in 1661, and a prebendship in
the church of Peterborough in the place of Mr. Will.
Towers deceased, an. 1666, being then rector ofBe-
nyfield in Northamptonshire : which last he resigned
kome years before nis death, through trouble from
his parishioners, who, because of his slowness of
speech and bad utterance, held him insufficient for
them and it, notwithstanding he was a man of great
learning. His works are these,

De Lingua; ArahiciE Utilitatc S^ Praestantia ;
Orafio Oxonii hahita 19 /«/. 1637, &c. Ox. 1639.
in three sheets in qu. [Bodl. BB. 20. Art. Seld.]

Observation es quccdam in Persicam Pcntateuchi
Versionem. They are in the sixth tome of Bib.
Polyglot, p. 48.

Annotationes quccdam in Persicam Interpreta-
tionem Evangeliorum. In the said sixth tome, p.
56. Which annotations were translated into Lat.
by Sam. Clerk. This learned j)erson Dr. Greaves

did, in his latter days, retire to AVeldon in Nortli-
amiitonshire, wliere he had purchased an estate;
and dying there on the 22d of May in sixteen hun- l67fi.
dred .seventy and six, was buried in the chancel of
the church at that place. Over his grave was soon
after a plain grave-stone laid in tiie N. east comer
of the said chancel, with this inst^ription thereon,
Thomas Gravius S. Th. D. Ecclesia; Petroburg.
Pra'bend. vir summae pietatis & eruditionis ; in Phi-
losophicis paucis .secundus, in Philologicis jieritissi-
mis par ; in liinguis Orientalibus plerisque major ;
quarum Persicam notis in ap|X'ndice ad Biblia Po-
lyghMa doctissime illustravit. Arabicam publice in
Acadeniia Oxon, professus est ; dignissimus etiam,
qui & Theolog-iam in eodem loco profiteretur. Pocta
insuper & Orator insignis, atque in Mathcmaticis
profundi doctus. Reipublicaj Literariae & Ecclesia-
Chi-istianae flebilis obiit Maii 22 an. 1676. ajt. sua-
65. I find one Thorn. Greaves a minister to have
written, A brief Sum of Christiun Religion, &c.
Lond. 1656. oct. whether by the former, or another
Thomas Greaves, I cannot yet tell.

[1660, 10 Decerab. Tho. Greaves cler. admisit.
ad rect. de Barkhamsted North Church com. Ilartf
ad pi'es. dom. regis. Reg. Sanderson, Line. Kkx-

NET.]

JOHN TOMBES was born in a maiket town
called Beaudley in Worcestershire, became a batler
of Magd. hall in the beginning of Lent term, an.
1617, agc{l 15 years, where, in short time after, he
shewed himself a most excellent disputant, a person
of incomparable parts, and well vers'd in the Greek [5571
and Hebrew languages. In 1623 he was appointed
catechism lecturer of the said hall, in the place of
Will. Pemblc deceased (whose pupil he had been)
and the next year proceeding M. of A. he became a
noted tutor there. About that time he entred into
hoi v orders, and shortly after was esteem'd so famous
for his preaching, that he was much courted to he
one of the lecturers at S. Martin's ch. commonly
called Carfax in Oxon : which cure he at lengtk
taking, was much followed for his excellent sermons,
especially by the puritanical party, who held him
in great admiration. In 1630 he left the university,
and l)ecame a preacher in the city of Worcester,
and the next year after he was admitted to tlie
reading of the sentences. But continuing at Wor-
cester not long, he went by virtue of a call to Leo-
minster, commonly called Lemster, a market town
in Herefordshire, of which place he became vicar,
beloved of the parishioners and neighlMurhood, and
resorted to far and near for his familiar and practical
way of preaching. As it was sus]x?cted while he
was in Oxon, so was it at Lemster and elsewhere
confidently believed, that he would in time (having
no preferment given to him suitable to his merits)
do a great deal of mischief to the church of Eng-
land, as most great scholars have done for want of
3 Y 2

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TOMBES.

it. In the year 1641, when the restless furv of the
presbyterians vented out into a dismal relwllion, this
our author sided with them, and in the following
year when Nath. Fiennes managed Bristol for the
parliament, and made mad work there in ejecting
loval citizens from the corjxiration and orthcxlox
ministers Irom the church, he, upon invitation,
came in to him ; and thereupon he and his followers
made him minister of All-saints church in the place
of one Williamson an orthodox man then ejected.
While he continued there, which was till Aug.
1643, (at which time the city was surrendred to the
king's jiarty) he did a great deal of hurt by his
schismatical preaching. Afterwards going to Lon-
don, he became master of the Temple, where he
preached against the errors of the antinomians, ex
male intellecta doctrina (as he ' says) de justificatione
toris, &c. But being supplanted of that place

peccati

by Rich. Johnson sometime ot Bras. coll. an. 1647,
he went to Beaudley, at what time Mr. Rich. Baxter
preached at Kidderminster, another market town
about three miles distant from that place. And ''tis
verily thought that he was put u|X)n the project of
going there, purposely to tame Baxter and his party,
who then carried all the country before them. They
preached against one another's d(x;trines, Tombes
ijeing then a preacher at Beaudley, which he kept
with Lemstcr, newly restored to him, being before
forced thence by the royal party, and published
books against each other. Tombes was the Cory-
pliaeus of the anabaptists, and Baxter of the presby-
terians. Both had a very great company of auditors,
who came many miles on foot round about, to ad-
mire them. Once, I think oftner, they disputed
face to face, and their followers were like two
armies : and at last it came so to pass that they fell
together by the ears, whereby hurt was done, and
the civil magistrate had much ado to quiet them.
All scholars there and then present, who knew the
way of disputing and managing arguments, did
conclude that Tombes got the better of Baxter by
far. In the year 16-53, being then, as before, fre-
quently in London, he was by ordinance appointed
one of the triers for the approbation of public mi-
nisters, but what preferment he got by that employ-
ment (which most of them had obtained) I find not,
unless it was the parsonage of Rosse, and the mas-
tership of the hospital at Ledbury, both in Here-
fordshire, which he kept with Lemster and Beaudley.
About the year 1658, he married Elizabeth the
widow of Wolstan Abbot of the city of Salisbury,
by whom enjoying an estate, lived mostly there to
the time of his death. At the king's restoration in
1660, when he then saw to what a woful condition
[5581 this poor nation of England had been brought unto
by restless men and their several opinions as to re-
ligion, he wilhngly submitted, sided with the royal

' In his cpist. del. before Animadversiones in Librum
Ceorgii Bulti, de Harm. .Ipotl.

party, but yet would never accept of either benefice
or dignity, which was oft'er'd to him. Set aside his
anabaptistical positions, he was confomriable enough
to the chun-h of England,* would frequently go to
common-prayers and receive the sacrament at Salis-
bury, and often visit Dr. Ward bishop of that place,
who respecletl Tomlies for his learning. Dr. San-
derson, sometime the learned bishop of Line, had a
great esteem for him, and so had one of his succes-
sors Dr. Barlow ; but the same respect that the last
bore to our author, the same he paid to all, of what
sect soever, that were learned. In 1664 he wa.s

C resent at the Oxford act, and there in the vespers
e did modestly challenge to maintain against any
person certain anabaptistical tenets, but none there
did then think it convenient then to grapple witli
him, and the rather for this reason, that he hatl
made those matters his study for more than 30 years,
and that none ever before went beyond him. He
seemed to many to be a very pious and zealous
Christian, and would never be violent, especially in
his latter days, against any party that was opposite
to his opinion, but be charitable and complaisant.
His body was little and neat limb'd ; he had a quick
searching eye, and was so exceeding apprehensive
that he would find out the end upon the first entry
of the disputes. He hath written and published,

Several sennons, as (1.) Vce Scandulizantium :
or, a Treatise of ScaiuhiUzing; S^c. prcacJied at
LemKter in Herefonhh. on Luke 17. 1, 2. Oxon.
1641. oct. [Bocll. 8vo. T. 43. Th.] (2.) Jehovah
J'lreth, or God's Providence in delivei-inff the
Godly, in two Sermons in Bristol, on a Thanks-
givinff Day 14 March 1642,_/or the Deliverance of
that City from Invasion and Plot hij the Malig-
nants; on 2 Pet. 2. 9. Lond. 1643. q'u. [Bodl. 4to.
T. 9. Th. BS.^] Before which is set by the author,
j4 short Narrative of the .said bloody and damnable
Plot. (3.) The Leaven of Pharisaical Will-zcor-
.ship ; preached at Lemster 24 Nov. 1641. on Matth.
15. 9. Lond. 1643. qu. (4.) Anthropolatria. The
Sin of Glorying in Men, especially in Ministers of
the Gospel; on 1 Cor. 3. 21. Lond. 1643, 45, 47,
qu. (5.) True old Light exalted above pretended
new Light : or, a Treatise of Jesus Christ, Sfc. in
nine Sermons. Lond. 1660. qu. He hath also, as
it seems, a sermon extant on 1 Cor. 7. 14. which I

■* [It should seem as if Tombes, wben at the university,
was conformable: for thus savs John Geree in his J'lnd. nf
Inf. Dapl. pp. 2, 3. ' Our acquaintance halli been long —
and after our departure from the univ. often renewed. O
what a grief it is, that there should be a disunion now ! We
had our diflerence of judgment formerly, but not of so high
a nature. What I suffered for, you wisli'd for, as the better,
tho' not as the only lawful way. .^nd now in that, blessed
be God, you are come over to ine : but you are gont' too far
on the right hand ; not only casting out the cross and surplice,
but the infant out of the church : herein you have exceeded,
herein I must oppose.' Cole.]

* [In which volume will oc found niost of Toiiibos's
smaller tracts.]

TOMBES.

lom

have not yet seen, only mention of it in tlie title of
a IkxjU written by Mr. Baxter running thus, Plain
Scripture Pnmf of Iitfant-Churih membership and
Baptism. Being the zchulc Arguments at a public
Dispute ivith Mr. Tomhes at BeaucUey, and An-
srvers to his Sermorn upon 1 Cor. 7. 14. xcith all his
Letters by Messengers, and his Calling Jbr Ansxccr.^
in Pulpit and in Print, with many Things relating
to Mr. Thomas Bedford, and Dr. Ward, and others
upon that Subject. Printed 1652, or thereabouts,
and in an. 165C.

Tim Treatises, and an Appendix to them, con-
cerning Injaid-baptism, &c. Lond. 1645. qu.
Written mostly against Steph. Marshall minister of
Finchingfield in Essex.

An Examen of a Sermon of Mr. Steph. MarsJiall
about Infant-Baptism, in a Letter sent to him, in 4
Parts. Lond. 1645. qn.

An Apology J()r tivo Treafi.^es, and an Appendix
to them, concerning Infant-Bapfhim, piddi.ihed 15
Dec. 1645, against the unpist CJiarges and Com-
plaints of Dr. NatJum Homes, Mr. John Geree,
Stephen Mar.shaJl, John Ley, and William Hussey ;
together ivith a Postscript by Way of Reply to Mr.
Btake^s Answer to Mr. Tombes\s Letter, &c. Lond.
1646. qu. [Bodl. Mar. 160.] See in Tho. Blake
under the year 1657. col. 431.

Exercitation about Infant-Baptism, in 12 Argu-
ments, &c. Lond. 1646. qu.

A serious Consideration of the Oath of the King's
Supremacy. Lond. 1649. qu.

Antidote again.st the Venom of a Passage in the
first Direction of the Eplst. ded. to Mr. Baxter^s
Book of the Saints everla.iting Best. Lond. 1652.
qu.

Precursor : or, a Forerunner to a large View of
a Dispute concerning Irifant-I)aptism, &.c. Lond.
1652. qu.

Anti-pwdobapti.^m : or, no plain or obscure
Scripture Pr(xf of Infants Baptism, or Church
Member.ihip, being the first Part ()f the full Review
of the Disimte about Irifant-Baptism, S^c. against
St. Marshall, John Geree, Rich. Baxter, Tlw. Cob-
bet, Tho. Blake, Josias Church, Nath. Stephens,
&c. Lond. 1652. qu.

Anti-pcedob : or, the second Part of a full Review
and Dispute concerning Infant-Baptlwi, ^c. against
the Writings of St. Marshall, Dr. Nath. Homes,
Dr. Daniel Featley, Dr. H. Hammond, Tho. Blake,
Tho. Cobbet, Rob. Bailee, Joh. Brin.sley, Cuthb.
Sydenham, Tho. Fuller, &c. Lond. 1654. qu. [Both
these parts Bodl. 4to. T. 5. Th. BS.]

Anti-pcedob. or, the third Part ; being a full
Review of a Dispute concerning Infant-Bapt. Sj-c.
against St. Marsliall, Rich. Baxter, J. Geree, Tho.
Blake, Tho. Cobbet, Dr. N. Homes, John Drew,
Jos. Church, Will. Lyford, Dr. D. Featley, Jo.
Brinsley, C. Sydenham, Will. Carter, Sam. Ru-
therford, Jo. Cragge, Dr. H. Hammond, Joh.
Cotton, Tho. Fuller, Jo. Stalkim, Tfio. Hall and

other.H, &c. Lond. 1657. qu. [Bodl. 4to. T. 8. Th.
BS.]

Rcfutatio Po-riticmis cju.sd. Confirmationi.9 Pwdo-
biipti.smum esse licitum afiirviantis ah Hen. Savage
SS. Th. D. in Comitiorum Vcsperiis Oxwi. Mense
Jul. 1650, projxmtw. Lond. 1653. qu.

Plea /or Anti-padobaptists against the Vanity
and Falshood of scribled Papers, entit. Tltc Ana-
baptists anatomized and silenced, in a public Dlt-
pute at Abergavenny in Monnundh-Hhire 5 Sept.

1653, betwixt Mr. Joh. Tombes, Joh. Cragge and
Hen. VaugJmii touching Infant-Baptism. Lond.

1654. qu.

Relation of a Conference had between Joh.
Tond)Cs B. D. and Hen. Vaugluin M. A. at Aber-
gavenny S Sept. 1653, touching Lfant-bupt. Lond.
1656. Oct.

Relation of a Dispute had between Joh. Tombes
B. D. Respondent, and Joh. Cragge M. A. Oppo-
nent, at Abergavenny 5 Sej)t. 1653, touching
Infant-bapt. Lond. 1656. oct.°

Animadversiones quccdam in ApJutrismos Ri-
chardi Baxter de Justificatione. Published by the
said Baxter without the author's knowledge, an. 1658.
I never saw this book, only the mention of it made
in our author's epist. ded. before his Animadver-
siones in Librum Georgii Bulli.

Sfiort Catechism about Baptism. Lond. 1659- in
one sh. in oct.

Felo de Se. Or, Mr. Rich. Baxters Self-De-
stroying; manifested in 20 Arguments against
Infant-Bapti.wi, &c. Lond. 1659. qu. [Bodl. 4to,
T. 14. Th. BS.]

A Discussion of Mr. Rich. Baxter''s ten Reasons
of his Practice about Infant-Baptism, delivered in
a Serm. at Beaudly ; on Colos. 3. 11. Lond. 1659.
qu.

Romanism discussed : or, an Answer to the nine
first Articles of H. T. (Turbervill) his Manual of
Controversies. Lond. 1660. qu. [Bodl, 4to. T. 10.
1 h. BS.]

Sephersheba: or, the Oath-Book. Being a
Treatise concerning S7ceari7)g, <Sfc. Lond. 1662.
qu. Delivered in 20 catechistical lectures at Lemster,
an. 1636.

Saints no Smiters, ^c. a Treatise shewing the

Doctrine and Attempts of Quinto-Monarchians or

fifth Monarchymen about smiting Poxcers to be

damnable and antichristian. Lond. 1664. qu, [Bodl,

4to. O. 27. Th.]

Thcodulia : or, a jUst Defence of hearing the
Sermons and other teach ing of the present Min isters
of the Ch. of England, against a Book unjustly
entit. (in Greek) A Christian Testimony against
them that serve the Image of the Beast, &c. Lond.
1667. oct. [Bodl. Bvo. M. 199. Th.]

" [These two conferences otherwise related, and an answer,
paragraph by paragraph, in The Arraignment and Cnnviction
of Anataplism, hy John Cragge, M. A. Preacher at LarUilia
Per/holy irt Monntoulhshire, Loni. l&iS, 8\o, TanneR.]

l(K>7

COLES.

STUBBE.

11)70.

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167(3.

Emanuc'l or Goil-7Han. A Treatise xvherein the
Doctrine of the first Nicene and Chalcedon Coun-
cils, concerning the two Nativities of Christ, is
asserted agyiinst the lately vented Socinian Doc-
trine. Lond. I(i69. Oct. [Bodl. 8vo. R. 120. Tli.J

Animadvcrsiones in Librum Georgii Bidli, cut
Titulum fecit Harmouia ApostoUca, &c. Lond.
1676. iKt. [Bodl. 8vo. O. 84. Th.] What otlier
tilings our autiior Tombe.s hath written and pub-
lislicd I know not, nor any thing else of him, only
that he diet! at Salisbury in sixteen hundred seventy
and six, and tliat lie was burietl on the 25th day of
May ill St. Edmund's ch. yard tliere, over against
the steeple, 011 the north side, at a good distance :
And lastly, that soon after was put over his grave a
flat stone witli this inscription thereon. Here lyeth
the body of Mr. John Tombes Bachelor of Divinity,
a constant preacher of God's Word, who deceased
the 2gd of May, an. 1676. aged 73.

GILBERT COLES .-^on of Edm. Coles of V\ in-
chester, priest, was Iwrn at Bui-field in Berks, edu-
cated in grmiiniar learning in AVykeham's school
near W inchestcr, admitted perpetual fellow of New
coll. after he had served two years of probation, an.
1637, took the degrees in arts, and in 1648, or
thereabouts, became fellow of the coll. near Win-
chester, but soon after was ejected by the visitors
appointed by parliament. Afterwards he was
elected fellow again by the society of New coll. for
the great respect they had for him, he being about
that time rector of East-Meon in Hampshire, and
accounted by many a learned man. Afterwards he
became rector of Easton near Winchester, doct. of
divinity, and rector of Ash in Surrey. He hath
written,

Theophilus and Orthodoxi/s : o>; several Con-
ferences betzveen tico Friends ; ths one a true Son
of the Church of England, the otlier fain off' to the
Church of Rome. Ox. 1674. qu. He died in six-
teen hundred seventy and six, and was buried in
the church of Easton before-mentioned. Over his
grave, his widow s(K)n after caused a stone to be
laid, with this inscription thereon, Gilb. Coles S. T.
r. hujus ecclesias Rector, Coll. Winton. Socius.
Obiit 19 Junii 1676, anno ajtatis suae 59, Moerens
conjux posuit hoc.

HENRY STUBBE the most noted person of
his age that these late times have produced, received
his first breath in an obscure village called I'artney
near Spilsbye in Lincolnshire, on the 28th of Febr.
an. 1631, at which place his father, who was a mi-
nister, then lived, but he being anaba])tistically in-
clin'd, was forced to leave it ; and thereupon he,
with his wife and children went into Ireland, and
there at Tredagh he found an employment, which
was, if you'll believe a nameless satyrical author ^

' So liave 1 been informed by letlers from his mother.
" Mercurius pTogmaticus, numb. I, Dec. 19. an. l65g.

the office of liciidle of the beggars, as being well
acquainted with tlie executive part of power at the
carts-tail. Upon the breaking out of tlie rebellion
in that country in 1641, the mother fled with our
author and another cliild towards England, and
landing at Leverpool in Lancashire, they all heated
it on the hoof thence to London, where she gaining
a comfortable subsistence by her needle, sent her
son Henry, being then 10 years of age, to the coll.
school at Westminster. At that time Mr. Rich.
Busbie was the chief ma.ster, who finding the bov to
have pregnant parts to a miracle, did much favour
and encourage him. At length sir Hen. Vane
junior (the same who was beheatlcd on Tower-hill
1662.) coming casually into the school with Dr.
Lamb. OsbaUleston, he did at the master's motion
take a kindness to the .said bov, frequently reliev'd
him with money, and gave him the hlierty to resort
to his house, and to ^ fill that belly which otherwise
liad no sustenance but what one penny could pur-
chase for his liinner : and as for his breakfast he had
none, except he got it by making .some bodies ex-
ercise. Soon after, sir Henry g«it him to be a king's
scholar, and his master perceiving him to be beyond
his years in proficiency, he gave him money to buy
books, cloaths, and his teacliing for nothing. In the
beginning of the year 1649, sir Henry got him to
be sped for a student's place in Ch. Ch. where
shewing himself too forward, pragmatical and con-
ceited, (being well stock'd with impudence at school)
was often kick'd and beaten : And in the year after
abusing the censor morum (Will. Segary that noted
disciplinarian) in a speech that he utter'd, was, for
so doing, and his impudence in other respects, whipt
by him in the public refectory. The same year the
oath called the engagement being fram'd by the
then parliament, was some time after sent to the

university by him. ' 'Twas I (saith he) that

brought the engagement down to Oxon (tliough I
took it not, being then an undergraduat) and having
got Dr. S. F. (Sam Fell as it .should seem) and Di'.
R. (Reynolds) to be turned out, I saved the remains
of the cavaliers of Ch. Ch. and Queen's coll. and
gave them opportunities to live securely and educate
others in their principles,' &c. While he continued [561]
undergraduate it was usual with him U> discourse in
the public schools very fluently in the (ireek tongue,
as it was at the same time with one John Pettie of
Baliol, afterwards of Queen's coll. and others, whose
names are forgotten. But since the king's restora-
tion, we have had no such matters, which shews
in some part, that education and discipline were
more severe then (as indeed they were) than after,
when scholars were given more to liberty and fri-
volous studies. After he had taken the degree of
bach, of arts and determined, he went into Scotland,
and sei^ved in the wars there for the parliament from

' Prcf. of Hen. Stiibbe to his Epistulary Discourse f«n-
cerning Phlebotomy, pag. 8.

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1653 to 1655. UixMi liis return he took the degree
of master, mid in the beginning of the year following
(an. 1(J57) he was, upon the death of Mr. Frane.
Yonge of Oriel coll. preferr'd, upon the motion
xnade of Dr. Joh. Owen dean of Ch. ('h. to Mr.
Thoni. Barlow the head-keeper of the Bodleian
library, to be the second-keeper of the same. Which
office he holding three years, being all that time
much favoured by the head-keeper, did, by tlie
benefit of a jirodigious memory, most wonderfully
advantage himself in several sorts of learning. At
length Dr. E. Reynolds being restored to his deanery
of Ch. Ch. in the latter end of 1659, (a little before
which time, viz. in Feb. Stubbe was complained of
in the })arliam. house, as one that palliated in print
sir Henry Vane's wickedness) he not only ejected
him from his student's place in the said house, but
found means to remove him from the library, and
especially for this reason, that he had written and
published a most jiestilent book called A Light
shinijiff out of' Darknes-i, wherein are many things
said against the imiversities and clergy. But if
youll believe the author, he'll tell ' you that that
book (which he calls the Invidious Qi/crict) was
written to terrify the jjresbyterians and make them
more complacential, yet withal protests that they
contained no tenets of his (for he knew tliey were
not defensible against the learned and judicious
episcoparians, tlio' they had force and address enough
against the more ignorant presbyterians) but were
written to excuse those who had made those to be
their assertions which were his doubts ; and this he
declared in the preface to that book. He tells us
also, that wiiat lie wrote in that lxx)k and others,
was against the presbyterian clergy, the presbyterian
universities, and the usurpations of Oliver and
Richard. After his ejection he retired to Stratford
upon Avon in Warwickshire to practise the faculty
ot physic, which he for some years had studied, and
after the king's restoration he made early and vo-
luntary applications to Dr. Geor. Morley for his
protection m his retirement, assuring him of an in-
violable passive obedience, which was all he could
or would pay till the covenant was renounced.
When the restoration of the bishops was made,
he, at the first motion of the said Dr. jMorley then
his diocesan, received confirmation at his hands, and
soon after took occasion to publish a translation
concerning the arts of granclure and submission
(which I shall anon mention) and in the dedication
thereof to make this mention of himself ' I have
at length removed all the umbrages I ever lay imder :
I have joyned myself to the church of England, not
only upon account of its being publickly imposed
(which in things indifferent is no small consideration,
as I learned from the Scottish transactions at Perth)
but because it is the least defining, and consequently
the most comprehensive and fitting to be national.'
In the year following he took a journey to the
' Ibid.

island of Jamaica, being designed physician «)f tliat
place by his majesty, wiio, as he" saith, honoured
liini with that title. In whicli place, having Ix-en
mostly sick during his alxxle there, he would have
otherwise advanced himself' much in the knowledge
thereof, and in experiments and things philosophical :
For M'hich reason al.so it was why he did not accept
of an invitation to go to Mexico and Peru to prac-
tise his faculty there. After his return, in 1665,
he lived for some time in and near London, and
thence going to Stratford bef "ore-men tion'd, and af- [562]
terwaixls to Warwick, setled in the last of the said
))laces, jiractised physic, and in the summer-lime
retired to Bath : at both which places he gained re-
pute and many patients by the diligence and care
lie t(H)k in his jirofession. As for liis writings, they
are many, and of various subjects ; some of which
that he published before the king's restoration, were
against monarchy, ministers, universities, churches,
S:c. provoking iill men to whom those interests were

dear. ' He then trampled (as' one that wrote

against liini saith) on the ashes of his niartyr'd so-
vereign, defended and adored his murtherers, stiled
all our kings a succession of usurpers, endeavoured
the extirpation of monarchy, and planting a demo-
cracy of independents, anabaptists, fifth-monarchy
men and quakers, in its room. He hath repre-
sented the meekest, justest, and best of kings, as an
hateful tyrant, and called our new sovereign (Charles
II.) an usurper. He then did write maliciously
against ministry, universities, &c. and vindicated
the quakers and the rest of the wildest and most
dangerous phanatics,' &c. But why our author
Stubbe did write so, he'll tell * you, 'twas to serve
his patron sir Hen. Vane, and to express his grati-
tude to him, who relieved him when he was a child
and after, and that because the quarrels and animo-
sities grew high betwixt the presbyterians and sir
Hen. Vane's friends, he sidccf therefore with him.

' My youth (saith * he) and other circumstances

incapacitated me fruiii rendring him any great .ser-
vices; but all that I did, and all that I wrote, had
no other aim ; nor do I care how much any man
can inodiate my former writings, as long as that they
were subservient to him,' &c. The truth is, all that
knew him here in Oxon, knew this of him for cer-
tain, that he was no frequenter of conventicles, no
taker of the covenant or engagement, no contractor
of acquaintance with notorious sectaries, that he
neither enriched, or otherwise advanced himself
during the late troubles, or shared the common
oiliuin and dangers, or prosperity of his benefactor.
Some years after the king's restoration, he took pet
against the royal society ^ (for which before he had

' In tlie pref. before ineniion'il, p. 12.

' Jos. Glamill, in his prcf. in his Prefatory Answer.

4 In his prcf. lo Legends no Histories.

5 In his prcf. to his Episl. Discourse concerning Phlebo-
tomy, I). 8.

" [bee se\eral of his letters on this tubject to the.hon.

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a great veneration) and being encouraged by Dr. Jo.
Fell, no admirer of that wK^ietj', iKt-anie in his
writinj;s an inveterate enemy aganist it for several
pretended reasons: among wiiich were, first, that
the members thereof intended to bring a conteni|)t
iijK)n antient and solid learning, upm Aristotle, to
undermine the universities, and reduce them to no-
thing, or at least to be very inconsiderable. Se-
condly, that at long running to destroy the esta-
blishctl religion, and involve the nation in po|ierv
and I know not what, &c. So dextrous was his
pen, whether pro or con, that few or none could
equal, answer, or come near, him. He was a person
oi most admirable parts, had a most prodigious me-
mory, tho' his enemies would not acknowledge it,
))Ut said he read indexes; was the most noted
Latinist and Grecian of his age ; and after he had
been put upon it, was so great an enemy to the vir-
tuosi of his time, I mean those of the R. Society,
that, as he saith, they alarm'd him with dangers and
troubles even to the hazard of his life and f<)rtunes.
He was a singular mathematician, and thoroughly
read in all political matters, councils, ecclesiasticid
and profane histories. He had a voluble tongue,
and was very seldom known to hesitate either in
public disputes or common discourse. His voice
was big and magisterial, and his mind was equal to
it. He was of a high generous nature, scorn'd
money and riches, and the adorers of them : which
being natural to him, was one of the chief reasons
■why he hated the presbyterians, wliom lie always
found to be " covetous," ialse, undermining, poor
spiritetl, void of generous souls, sneaking, sniveling,
&c. He was accounted a very good physician, and
excellent for those matters that compleat it, as sim-
})ling, anatomy and chyniistry : and in the times of
usurpation, that is, wliile Oliver and Richard ruled,
when then he thought it the nation's interest to sub-
vert the true monarchy of England, he was jws-
sionately addicted to tlie new philosophy, and
inotion''d several ways for the introducing it amongst
the gentry and youth of this nation : and the reason
was, as he ' saith, that it would render all the clergy
contemptible, lessen the esteem and reverence in
the church, and make them seem egregious fools in
matters of common discourse. But as he was so
admirabl3> well qualified with several sorts of learn-
ing and a generous spirit, so he was very unhappy
in this, that he was extream rash and imprudent,
and wanted common discretion to manage his parts.
He was a very bold man, utter^l any thing that
came into his mind, not only among his companions,
but in public coffee-houses (of which he was a great
freqiienter) and would often speak his mintl of par-
ticular persons, then accidentally present, without
examining the company he was in, for which he was
often reprimanded, and several times threatned to

Uob. Boyle, in ihnt gentleman's life by Dr. Birch, p'gcs 188,
18!), &<■■ ('"LE.]
' Prcf. to L'geiids, &c. as before.

1k! kick'd and lieaten. He had a hot and restless
head (his hair la-ing carrot-c-olour\l) and was ever
ready to undergo any enterpri/.c, which was the
chief rea.son that macerated his IkkIv almost to a
skeleton. lie was also a person of no fix'd princi-
jjles, and whether he behev'd those things which
every good Christian doth, 'tis not for me to resolve.
Had he been endowetl with common sobriotv and
discretion, and not have made himself and his learn-
ing mercenary and chea]) to every ordinary and
ignorant I'ellow, he would have been admired by all,
and might have pick\l and chus'd his prcierment.
But all these things being wanting, he becaikv a
ridicule, and undervalued by solder and knowing
scholars and others too. His writings and transla-
tions are these,

Hor(c Subseciva; : ,<teu Propheticf Jonw ^ Hisfo-
ricc Susanna Paraphras'is GrtLca Versibus heroicix.
Lond. 1651. <x-t. To which are added his transla-
tion into Greek of Miscellanea qweilam Epigrin//-
mata a Th. Randolpho, W. Chrashavio, &c.

Epistolu Lat. cum Poematihus Lat. ^- Grar. ad
D. Hen. Vane, Domini Hen. Vane de Ruhy Eq.
Atir. Fil. primog-en. Ox. 1656. printed on one side
of a sheet. The said Hen. Vane was then a student
or sojourner in the univ. of Oxon. but wore not a
gown, and soon after died.

Otium Literannn. Sive Miscellanea quftdam
Poemata. Ox. 1656. oct. They are printed with
the poems of Hen. Birkead of Alls. coll. In the
said vol. are our author Stiibbe his Deliciu' Poetaruvi
Anglicanoriim in Grwcum translatw, which were
printed again at Oxon. 1658. in wt. [Bwll. 8vo. A.
26. Art. BS.] and had at the end added to them by
him Elogiw Romce 4" Ve^ietiarum.

A severe Enquiry into the late 0-nctrocrita ; or,
(in exact Account of the gi-avivmtical Part of the
Controversy betxceen Mr. Thorn. Hol)bes, and John
Wallis, D. D. Lond. 1657. qu. [Bodl. C. 8. 31.
Line] In the said Ixxik the author Stubbe, a great
admirer of the said Hobbes, with whom he was inti-
mately acquainted, doth speak freely of Or. Wallis,
and why he doth so, is because, as he tells ^ us, he
was sul)-scribe to the tribe of Adoiiiram (i. e. Ado-
niram Byfield who was scribe to the assembly of
divines) and had been an active preacher in the first
war, and decyphered (besides others, to the ruin of
many loyal i)ersons) the king's cabinet taken at
Nascby ; and, as a monument of his noble per-
formances, de]K)sited the original, with the decv-
phering, in the public library at Oxford.' He tells
us also that he the said doctor was then the glory
and pride of the presbyterian faction, which our au-
thor Stubbe hated for his patron's sake. In the
said Enquiry he tells us that he hath penned a

'In the sail! Smtre Enquiry, png. 7-

^ [See Hcirue's Peter Laiii^lofl's Chronicle, pref. page
xlvii, and Davvs's Essay on the Art of Jiecyphering, in wliiclt
is inserted a Discourse of Dr. IVuUis. Lond. 1737, 4io.
Bodl. B. 19, 36. Line]

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farther discourse u|X)n that subject: but tliat, I
suppose, was never printed.

The Saviliau Professor's Case stated. Together
with the several Seasons urged against his Capa-
cifij of Stamling for the piihlic Office of Antiquary
in the University of O.con. Which are enlarged
[HGi] and vindicated against the Exceptions of Dr. Joh.
Wallis, &c. Lond. 1658. in S sh. and an half in qu.*
[Bodl. 4to. A. 6. Jur. BS.]

[Before I go any far-
ther, I must let tiie'reader
know wily, and upon
what account this book,
(The Savilian Profes-
sor s Ca.sc stated) was
written by Stubbe. Be
it knowne tliereforc that
after tlie death of tlie
ciistos archivoruin of the
uiiiv. of Oxford, named
Dr. Langbaine, were
two candidates for the
place, viz. first Dr. Rich.
Zouche, principal of S.
Alban's hall, and tlie
king's professor of the
civil law, a person famed
for his learning and
books extant in tlie La-
tine tongue, as well be-
yond the scasasat home,
and esteemed by all tlie
university to be most
knowing in the statutes
thereof; as having had
a considerable haml in
the framing and digest-
ing them (wherein many
before had failed) : to
be a man also skilfull in
the lawcs and in our
usuages, having been,
before the time that he
stood, thirty yeares an
assistant in our courts,
and exceeding knowing in the matters of contro-
versie and contests between the two corporations,
the universitie and city of Oxon. These things
Ijeing notoriously knowne, the generallity of the
universitie did esteem it a condescension in him ifhe
would accept of the said place of inconsiderable
value. The second, or other candidate, was Dr.
Joh. Wallis one of the Savilian professors, generally
esteemed uiKapable of the said place (1) By the
statutes of sir Ilcn. Savile concerning the saicf pro-
tipssors, which say, that after their admission they
■ihall not accept of any ecclesiastical bcnefiee, with
or without cure, or of any preicndship or cnnon-
.•ihip, or any archdeaconry rchatsoever : tliey shall
■not accept of the headship of any college, haliorhos-
Voi.. III.

* In bishop Tanner's copy
of the-ie Athen«, is the paper
now inserted in the body o("
the work. It is in the hand
writing of Anthony a Wood,
and was evidently intended as
text to the life of Stubbe, as
our author says at the begin-
ning, ' This to come in at
p. — ,' and afterwards, ' Goe
on with the title of The Com-
monwealth nf Israel.' Tanner
however, siitfcrcd the sentence
to stand as it appeared in the
first edition, and as now fol-
lows : The famous Dr. Rich.
Zouche, who had been an as-
sessor in the chancellor's court
for 30 years or more, and well
vers' din the statutes, liberties,
and privileges of the university,
did, upon j^reatintrcalies, stand
for the said place if antiquary
or cuslos archivorum thereof;
hut he beiri!^ esteemed aroyalist.
Dr. J. IV. was put vp and
stood against him, thn altoge-
ther uncupahU of that place,
because he vias one of the Sa-
vilian professors, a Cambridge
man, and a stranger to the
usages of the university. At
length hy some corruption, or
at least connivance, of the vice-
chancellor, and perjury of the
senior proctor {Byfield) W.
waspronouncedelected. Where-
upon our author Stubbe, v.'ho
was an eye and ear-witness of
all that had most unjustly pass-
ed, he therefore wrote and pub-
lished the said book.

pital, nor of any fellowship in college, or plui-e in
hospital ; no, nor of any publick office in tlie univer-
sity, as <f vice-cluincelloiir, proctor, clark of the
market, and the like, &c. See more in S^ H.
SavileV statutes and in The Savilian Prtfessour's
Case stated, before mentioned, p. 3. (2) That he
was then a person unknowing in the affaires of the
universitie, and .so if any suite was to be commenced
against the towne of Oxon. as likely there tlien was,
their privileges and liberties would lie trodden up)n.
See more in the said Case, p. 5. (3) That he was
a Cambridg man, and by liis oath there he was
obliged to fissist that university with axlvice : See
the oath in the said Case p. 19, 20; see also p. 21.,
And lastly that it would be a great di.sgrace to the
university of Oxon. not to find one among them fit
for the said place of custos archivorum, &c. See
there againe p. 21, wherein you'l find his unfitness
was looketl upon, because his education and studies
laid another way. These being the reasons of liis
incapacitie, he the .said Dr. Wallis did (after Dr.
Owen deanc of Ch. Ch. was pleased to communicate
to the masters of his house, such reasons as did
withold him in point of conscience from assenting to
Dr. Wallis his standing) .send little schedules (a
thing unknowne before) to his good friends in divers
colleges, to desire them to continue ■mhat inclinations
they had for him, and f they pleased to repaire to
him, he zeould satisfie them cmicerning his capacity
of standing. After this, some houres before the
election time, he printed the paper, and dispersed
copies thereof among his friends and some few
others, &c. See the said Case, p. 6, &e. wherein
you'l find it sufficiently answer'd and matle invalid
by Stulibe, who, as many observing men, then said,
that Wallis cotild for his owne ends make white
black and black white, as he d(;th to this day. On
the 17 of Feb. 1G57, the convocation met in the
afternoon to elect a custos archivorum ; and the
proctors by scrtitiny finding Dr. Zouch to have most
votes, did not, or would not, pronounce him, ac-
cording to the statute, elected, but niatle delayes,
while the friends of Dr. Wallis went out to fetch in
persons to give their votes : some of which were sel-
doine or never before in the conv(x;ation house, par-
ticularly George Marshall, warden of New coll. who
under pretence of sickness seldome or never came
also to St. .Marie's church, which made Dan. Danvers
of Trill, coll. to make excellent sport with him, in his
speech, when he was terrwfiUus. This foul under-
hand dealing by the presbyterians being soon dis-
covered, some of the friends of Dr. Zoucli went out
of the house and told him of it : whereupon he entretl
forthwith, and drawing up to the vicechancellour
(Dr. Conant) among the doctors on the right hand,
he told him openly with great gravity and a com-
posed mind, that he had occasioned the breaking of
the statute, in as much that that person (meaning
himself) who had most votes, was not pronounced
elected immediately after they were given in and,
3 A

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reckoned up, and that also he did not require the
proctor to aoe it, but suffered delaies to be made,
while the friends of his antagonist went out conti-
nually from the liouse to fetch in |wrsons from se-
veral colleges and lialls to give votes for him, &c.
Dr. Wallis hereupon being told of these matters by
his presbyterian friends, he rushed hastily into the
house, and drawing up to the vicechancellour on
the left hand, did there with very unseemly con-
fidence (not with gravity or a serious mind) denie
what Dr. Zouch had said, vindicated the proceedings
that hitherU) had passed, &c. and I know not what.
AVhereupon Mr. Tho. Jones a civilian of Mert.
foll. and our author Hen. Stubbe, having not pa-
tience to sit still and heare him proceed on false
groimds, they made reply and answer to all his
cavills, in vindication of Zouch, from the statute
book which then laid open before them. Uiron
this, Dr. Scth AVard, the otlier Savilian professor,
and Mr. Tim. Pooler of Trin. coll. rose up, and
were as hot for Dr. Wallis, and the matter lu-ing
bandied to and fro, mostly from the statute book, it
lasted an hour after candles had been lighted, which
was never knowne so lx?fore by any person then
present. Dr. Wallis having these and others on
his side, he talked without cea.singe with very great
boldness, and spared not to twit Dr. Zouch with his
malignancy, that is, loy.iltie, and was so cholerick
and passionate, that he said, that «o person that
zcas a cavalier could give a vote, or stand for a
place, and act against the protector, or to that
effect. These ana other things, (which for brevity
sake I slial now omit) he did openly and with clamour
speak, l)einge esteemed by the honest and sol)cr
party of the house, to be don with a great impudence,
especially in this respect, that Dr. Zouch was of
nonle race, had been doctor of the civil law before
Wallis was borne, as it was then thought, that he
had been several times a parliament man, had been
valued by K. Jam. and K. Ch. I. especially the
last, and in some resjiect by Oliver the protector,
who made use of his counsel, when none other
could be found, in the matter of the trial of the Por-
tuguese embassador's brother, who had kil'd a man
in the New Exchange, as I have told you in Dr.
Zouch under the ycare 1660. At length, after all
the wrangles and squabbles on both sides, Zouch
behaving nimself all the while with grreat modera-
tion and prudence, the senior proctor, Byfield, a
rigid presbyterian, who had dealt very falsly in the
matter, and, as 'twas generally said, had perjur d
himself, did pronounce Dr. Wallis elected, to this
effect : viz. Dr. Wallis Juibuit 105 vota, et cdius 98
— wliich word alius was esteemed then by the gene-
rallity to lie clownishly said, and very sutable to a
man of hi.s religion. At the same time Dr. Zouch
and Mr. Stubb did solemnly protest against the said
election as altogether illegall ; the last of wiiich, for
the honour of the first, did draw up in few dayes
after, and publish the said book called The Savilian

Professour'a Case stated, while in the meane time
finding no justice from the superior {)ower at West-
minster, caused afterwards the Oxford Quarist in
his Sundry Thinfru from several Hands concerninff
the Univ. of Oxford, printed in 1659, to make this
qua;re running thus, ' whether the Univ. of Oxford
be not sevcnd times run into a premimire, especially
by that solemn act of perjury in making Dr. Jo.
Wallis antiquary .^ Whether it be not a judgment
that hath since befallen Mr. Rich. Cromwell, secre-
tary Thurlow, connnissioner L'isle and Fiennes, &c.
that they never took notice of such perjury, though
they were engaged in honour, and by an appeale to
them, so to do ?' But so it was, that many things in
the said book being esteemed by the prcsbytcrians to
be unhandsomly said of Dr. Wallis, (which tho'
true, yet they took them to be abuses,) he the said
Stubbe, ujxm Wallis his continual complaints to the
vicechancellour, a ])re.sl>ytcrian also, was forced to
crave pardon of Wallis in public, or be expell'd.
But nt)w after this long digression, let's proceed to
the remaining titles oi' books written by the said
Stubbe.']

T/ie Commonwealth of Ltrael, or a brief Account
of Mr. Prynn's AnaUnny of the Good old Cause.
Umd. 1659. in oct. fB(xll.' C. i:5. 4. Line]

An Essay in Defence of the Good old Cause, or
a Dlicour.ie concerninff the U.ie and Extent of the
Power of the Civil Magistrate in Riivrence to
■ipiritual Affairs, &c. Loud. 1659. oct. [Bodl. 8vo.
E. 2. Line/] To which is a large preface concerning
the name of the good old cause, an equal common-
wealth, a coordinate synod, &c. and a vindication of
the honourable sir Hen. Vane from the aspersions of
Mr. Rich. Baxter in his Key for Catholics.

A Vindication of that prudent and honourable Kt.
Sir Hen. Vane^J'rom the Lies and Calumnies of
Mr. Richard Baxter Minister of Kidderminster, in
a Monitory Letter to the said Mr. Richard Baxter
Lond. 1659. 3 sh. qu.

A Letter to an Officer of the Army ccmcerning a
select Senate, mention''d by them in their Proposals
to the late Pailiament. Lond. 1659. qu. [B(xll. C.
13. 6. Line]

Miscellaneons Positions concerning Government.
Lond. 1659. qu. They are, I suppose, the pro-
posals of a model for the government of the three
nations, mention'd by his ' antagonist Mr. Glanvill.

A Light shining out of Darkness, or certain
Queries, &c. Lond. 1659. qu. Printed twice that
year, the second edition of which hath therein se-

• [Hearne alludes to the foregoing account in the pref. to
Peier Lang/nft's Chronicle, page xlviii, where, speaking of
the character of Wallis, given by the author iu his Fasti,
he rails it a character which Anthony afierwards enlarged,
notwithstanding it does notappearin the late spurious edition
of his ATHEN.C OxoNiKNiES, in which he is made to have
written things transacted after his death.]

« [Wood in his first edition had confounded this with the
former tract ; it now stands correct.]

' In his Prefatory Answer before-mention'd.

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veral atklitions ; and an Apology for the Quakers,
written by the said Stubbe.

The CommoTi-iCcalth of Oceana put in a Ballance,
and found too light. Or, an Account of the Re-
public of Sparta, with occasional Animadversions
upon Mr. Jam. Harrington and the Oceanistlcal
Model. Lond. 1660. qu. [Bodl. C. 13. 5. Line]

The Indian Nectar, or a Discour.tc concerning
Clwcolata, &c. Lond. 1662. oct. [Bodl. Svo. N. 3.
Art. BS.] Conferning the said sul>ject one Antonio
Cohninero of Ledesma a Spaniard and doct. of
physic hath learnedly written, and not unlikely the
first of all that hath so done. It was rendred into
English by one wlio call'd himself capt. James Wads-
worth, under this title, Chocolate: or an Indian
Drink, &.C. Lond. 1G52. oct. Which book our
author Stubbe had seen, and has, as I conceive, fol-
lowed him in sonic things.* As for the said Wads-
worth, the reader may know that he was the same
who wrote The English =■ Spanish Pilgrim, bom in
Suflblk (son of Jam. Wadsworlh bach, of div. of
Eman. coll. in Cambr. afterwards a Rom. cath. bred
in puerile learning at Sevil and Madrid in Spain, in
grammar and academical among the Jesuits at S.
Omers, but at riper years left them, and returned to
the church of England, was living in Westminster
in the time of Oliver, an. 1655, at which time he
was characterized by an English ° historian to be
' a renegado proselyte-turncote, of any religion and
every trade, and is now living 1655 a common
hackney to the basest catch-pole bayliffs, and to boot
a justice of the peace in his bench Ixwk enters him
and his wife pimp and bawd in his precinct.'

7'he miraculous Coriformist : or, an Account of
several marvellous Cures per formedhytheSlroaking
[565J of the Hands of Mr. Valentine Greatrakes, Oxon.
1666. qu. [Bodl. B. 15. 8. Line] with a Physical
Discour.^e thercujwn, &c. Before I go any farther
with the remaining titles of our author Stubbe's
books, I must make a digression, and tell you why
this book was written, and who the subject of it was.
Be it known therefore that this Val. Greatrakes,' son
of Will. Gr. esq; was born at Aff'ane in the county
of Waterford in Ireland, on S. Valentine's day (14
Feb.) 1628, was bred a protestant in the free-school
at Lismore, and at 1 3 years of age was designed to
l)e a student in the coll. at Dublin, but the rebellion
breaking out in that nation, he was forced with his
mother to fly for refuge into England, where by
the favour of his uncle Edm. Harris brother to sir
Edw. Harris knight, his mother's father, he was for
the present time reheved. After liis death, his

■* [The European Mercury : describing the High- ff^ays and
Stages from Place to Place, through the most remarkable
Parts of Christendom, ice. 12mo. Lond. l64l. Wanley.]

'■' Printed the second time at Lond. l630. qu.

' Will. Sanderson in The Reign and Death of King
James. Lond. l()55. fol.nnder the year l620. p. M)\.

' [See History of New England, lib. iv, cli. 2. at Sam.
Mather, who wrote against him ; and Jiaxler's Life, part l,
page76; pan 3, pages I0«, lOQ. Baker.]

mother, for his farther y)rogre»s in literature, com-
mitted him to the charge of Joii. Daniel GetsiuM a
high German, minister of Stoke Gabriel in Devon-
shire, with whom he spent some years in studying
humanity and divinity, and found irom his hands
mucli favour and love. After five or six years ab-
sence, he returned to his native country, at that
time in a most miserfible and deplorable estate,
which made him retire to the castle of C'apcniuin,
where he spent a year's time in contemplation, and
saw so much of the madness and wickedness of the
world, (as lie * saith) that his hfe became a burthen
to him, and his soul was as weary of this habitation
of clay, as ever was galiy-slave of the oar, which
brought his life even to the threshold of death ; so
that his legs had hardly strength to carry his en-
feebled body alxjut, &c. In 1649, or thereabouts,
he became a lieutenant in the regiment of Roger
lord Broghill* then acting in Mun- , ^,^„^ ^^^^^
ster against the Irish, papists and ,f Orrery.
others, then called the rebels, and in iMrst edii.
1656 a great part of the army there
of the English being disbanded, he retired to his
native country of Affane, the habitation of his an-
cestors, and by tlie favour of the then governor he
was made clerk of the peace of the county of Cork,
register for transplantation, and justice of the peace.
After his majesty's restoration, he was removed, as
I have heard, from his employments, and grew
thereupon discontented. In 1662 or thereabouts,
he had an impulse, or a strange persuasion in. his
mind (of which he was not able to give any rational
account to another) which did very frequently sug-
gest to him that there was bestowed on him the gift
of curinff the king's evil : which for the extraordina-
riness of it, he thought fit to conceal for some time,
but at length he communicated it to his wife, and
told her that he did verily believe that God had
given him the blessing of curing the said evil, for
whether he were in private or public, sleeping or
waking, still he had the same impulse; but her
reply was to hini, that she conceived this was a
strange imagination : yet to prove the contrary, a
iew nays after there was one Will. Maker of Saitcr-
bridgein the parish of Lismore that brought his son
Will. Maker to his house, desiring his wife to cure
him, who was a person ready to afford her charity to
her neighbours, according to her small skill in chi-
rurgery. On which, his wife told him there was
one that had the king's evil very grievously in the
eyes, cheek and throat : whereupon he told her that
she should now see whether this were a bare fancy
or imagination as she thought it, or the dictates of
God's spirit on his heart ; and thereupon he laid his
hands on the])laces affected, and ])rayed to God for
Jesus sake to heal him ; and then he bid the parent
two or three days after to bring the child to him

» In the Brief Account of Mr. I'ul. Greatrakes, and divers
nfthe strange Cures by him lately performed. Lond. |666. qo.
pag. 17-

3Z 2

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again, which he accordingly did, and then he saw
• the eye was almost quite whole, and the node which

was almost as big as a pullet's egg, was suppurated,
and the throat strangely amended, and in a month
discharged it self quite, and was perfectly healed.
Then there came to him one Margaret Mack-shane
of Ballinecly in the parish of Lismore, who hail had
the evil seven years and upwards, far worse than the
[566] former, whom lie cured to the wonder of all ; and
soon after his fame increasing, he cured the same
disease in very many other people for three years
following, not mcdling with any other distempers,
till about the end of those three years he cured some
that were troubled with agues ; all done by stroak-
ing with his hands. Afterwards he had the like
impulse on him, di.scovering that he had given him
the gift of healing ; which the morning following he
told to his wife and brotiier, but neither of them
could be prevailed with to believe it, tho' for his own
part he had a full assurance thereof within liim.
This impulse he liad on the Sunday after Easter-
day, 2 Apr. 1665, early in the morning, and on
Wednesday following he went to one Mr. Deans
house at Lismore, where there came into the house
to him a poor man, that with a pain in his loins and
flank went almost double, and had a most grievous
ulcerous leg very black, wherein were five idcers ;
who desired him for God's sake that he would lay
his hands on him, and do him what good lie could.
Whereu|X)n he put his hands on his loins and flank,
and immediately run the piins out of him, so that
he was released, and could stand upright witliout
the least trouble. Then he put his hand on his ul-
cerous leg, which forthwith changed colour and be-
came red, and three of the five ulcers closed up, and
the rest within few hours afterwards ; so that he
went out well that could hardly by the help of his
staff' craul in, and in two days after he fell to his
labour, being a ma.son by trade. After this, he
cured many diseases of all sorts by streaking, and
his name was wonderfully cried up. But the clergy
being jealous of these matters, he was cited to the
bishop's court, and by their authority was prohi-
bited to proceed any farther in his course. In Jan.
1665 he went into England, and by the invitation
of Edward lord Conway he repaired to Ragley in
Warwickshire, to cure, by stroaking, his lady, who
for many years had lalwured under a most violent
headach, but with all his endeavours he coidd not
cure her: yet continuing there three weeks, he
cured innumerable people in those ])arts, wliich
caused therefore our author Hen. Stubbe, who then
practised physic at Stratford upon Avon in that
county, and was daily at Ragley with that lord, and
an eye-witness of the cures, to write the said book
called The miraculous Cori/brmist, Sec. Afterwards
Mr. Greatrakes repairing to Whitehall by connnand
from his majesty, and performing several cures
there and in 1 -ondon, but more mistakes, as 'tis said,
caused Dav. Lloyd, a reader or chaplain of tlie

Charter-liouse, thereupon to write Wonders no
Miracles : or, Mr. Val. Greatrakes Gift of healing
examined, &c. Lond. 1666. (ju. [Bodl. B. 15. 8.
Line] Written upon occasion of a sad effect of his
stroaking, March 7, an. 1665, at one Mr. J. Cresset's
house in Ch;irter-house-yard. In which book the
author reflecting much on Mr. Greatrakes and his
reputation, making him but little better than a
cheat, that person therefore came out with his vin-
dication, entit. A brief Account of Mr. Val. Great-
rakes, and divers of his strange Cures by him
lately performed. Lond. 1666. qu. Written by him-
self in a letter to the honcjurable Rob. Boyle estj;
and thereunto did annex the testimonials of^ several
eminent and worthy persons of the chief matters of
fact therein related.^ From this digression let's now
proceed with our author Stubbe, wlio had a marvel-
lous dexterity in writing b<K)ks on all ix'casions.'

Philosophical Observations made in his Sailing
from England to the Curihhe-Islauds, and in Ja-
maica, S^c. — Ilemitteil \nto the Phi losoph. Transact.
num. 27, an. 1667, and num. 36. an. 1668.

Legends no Histories: or, a Specimen of some
Animadversions upon the History of the Royal
Society. Lond. 1670. in a large qu. [Bodl. 4to. B.
60. Art.] Wliich History was written by Mr. Tho.
Sprat.

Animadver,iions upon The History of making

Saltpeter, pcn'd by Mr. Tho. Ilenshaw Prints

and bound with Legends no Iti.stories, &c.

Animad. upon The Hist, of Making of Gun-

pojcder, written also by the said Mr. Heiishaw.

Printed and bound with Legends, &c. also, and to
it is added, An additional Review, written by Hen.
Stubbe.

The Plus ultra reduced to a Non plus. Or a [567]
Specimen of some Animadversions upon the Plus
ultra of Mr. Jos. Glanvill, S,'c- '^cith divers En-
quiries made about several Matters. Lond. 1670.
in a large qu. [Bodl. 4to. B. 60. Art.] Written
under pretence of vindicating his faculty against a
passage in the Plus ultra, which seemed to assert
that the anticnt physicians could not cure a cut-
finger ; which Glanvill denied ever to have affirmed
or thought.

Censure on certain Passages contained in The

9 [See in Bodl. B. 15. 8. Line. A Copy of Mr. Valentine
Greatarick's Letter to the Bishop nf C'/iesttr (Dr. Hall)
touchinge his Cures bv Stroakiiige. ^IS.")

' \_lnauguratio Olivariana, Auture Filz Pai/tw Fishero,
\Gb\, 4to. is prefixed an clegantGreek o(!e iniiinled In Oli-
varianum Inuitgurationem a Fitz-Pagano Plscalnre Fersibus
Heroicis deeantantam, subscribed H. Slubbes ex R'A. Christi,
Oxon. Kennet.

' A recent book in fol. wherein is contained a tteati.se (as
yet imprinted) whose title is. An Account nf the Life of Ma-
homet.' I have heard, says VVanley, that the author was Dr.
Henry Stubs the physician.

Catalogue of MSS- in the Harleian Collection, numb.
I87(J, voi. ii, page 2op. See also the sale catalogue of the
H(dlis library, 8vo. 1817, page 70, numb. ISSg, 1662, where
are two copies of Slubbe's Jlistory of Mahomet, in manuscript.]^

STUBBE.

1082

Hiatory of tlie Royal Society, &c. Oxon. 1670, in
about seven sli. in qu. Uechcatetl to Dr. Joh. Fell,
and soon after answered by two anonymi in the
same year, printed in qu. The former ot which was
written by way of letter to Mr. Stubbe.

CampancUu revived; or, aii Enquiry into The
HIH. of the Roy. Soc. See. Lond. 1670. [Bodl. C.
12. 4. Line.]

Letter to Sir N. N. relating to the Cause of the
Quarrel between Hen. Stubbe and the Royal So-
ciety, and an Apology against some of their Cavils.
Printed with Campanellu revived.

Postscript concerning the Quarrel depending be-
tween Hen. Stubbe and Dr. Chrisioj). Merrett.
Printed also with Canipanella.

Reply unto the Letter tvritten to Mr. Hen.
Stubbe in Defence of The History of the Royal
Society. Oxon. 1671. qu.

Reply to a Letter of Dr. Hen. More (printed
with Mr. Glanviirs Prefatory Answer to Hen.
Stubbe) with a Censure upon the Pythagorico-
Cabbalistical Philo.mphy promoted by him. Oxon.
1671.

A Preface against Ecebolhts (alias Joseph) Glan-

vill. Fellow of the Royal Society, &:c. These

two last are printed with the Reply unto a Letter
written to Mr. Hen. Stid)be, &c.

Medice, Cura Te-ip.sum. Or, the Apothecaries'"
Plea in some short and modest Animadversions
upon a late Tract entit. A short View of the Frauds
and Abuses of the Apotlwcaries, &c. by Christop.
Merret Dr. of Pliys. Lond. 1671. qu.

An Epistolary Discourse concerning Phlebotomy
in Opposition to George Thomson Pscudo-Chymi.st,
a pretended Disciple to the Lord Verulam. Lond.
1671. qu. [Bodl. B. 6. 3. Line.]

A Discourse concerning the Szccating-Sickness,
Temp. Hen. 7.

Relation of the .strange Symptoms hapning by

the Bite of an Adder and the Cure thereof

These two last are printed with the Epistolary
Discourse, &c.

A Caveat for the Protestant Clergy: or, a true
Account of tlw Sufferings of the English Clergy
upon the Restitution of Popery in the Days cifQu.
Mary. Lond. 1671. 78. in two sheets in oct. [Bodl.
This is said to 8vo. C. 591. Line.] " written* by
" way of letter, and subscribed Y.
" E. the two last letters of Hen.
" Stubbe ; to him also was as-
" cribed,

" Rosc-mary and Bays: or
" Animadver.sions upon a Treatise
" calVd The Rehearsal transpos\l.
" In a Letter to a Friend in the Country. Lond.
" 1672. qu. in four sheets." [Bodl. C. 9. 8. Line]

A Justification of the present War against the
United Netherlands, ^c. illustrated zvith Sculpture,?.
In Answer to a Dutch Treatise entit. Considerations
upon the present State (yf the United-Netherlands,
&c. Lond; 1672.

lewrillen by Hen.
Stubbe, bill mil I
suppose by our
aulhur, but by an-
other of both his
names, whom I
shall anon men-
tion. First edit.

A farther Ju.iti/ication of tlie present War
against the United NetherUiiuls, illustrated with se-
veral Sculptures. Lond. 1673. qu. [Bodl. 4to. K.
16. x\rt. ] For the compiling of these two last books,
the author was allowed the use of the I'aper OlHce
at Whitehall, and when they were both finished he
had given him 200^. out of his majesty's Exehe(|uer,
and obtained a great deal of credit from all pecjplo,
especially from the courtiers and all that belongetl
to the king's court. In the month of Octob. the
same year (1 673) when the marriage to Ikj between
James duke of York and Joseph Maria the princess
of Motlena was controverted m the house of com-
mons, where were 180 voices for, and 188 against
it, then did this our author Stubbe, about the latter
end of the said month, write and publish.

The Paris Gazette AVhich being against

the said marriage, and for the breaking it off, gave

great offence to many. It was printed in half a

sheet, as one of our Gazettes are now, and was by

the author with great confidence and impudence [.568]

presented to several parliament men. Whereupon

a writ being issued out against him, he was taken in

the begiimuig of the next month, hurried in the

dark from one private prison to another, threatned

with hanging, and was put to a great deal of charge.

So that all the credit lie had got before, was lost

among the generality.

Directions Jbr drinking the Bath Water.

Ars Cosmetica; or beautifying Art. These

two go under his (Stubbe's) name, and are printed
at the end of James Cook his translation from Latin
into English of a book written originally by Joh. Hall
entit. Select Observations on eminent Penions in de-
sperate Diseases. Which translation was re-printed
with additions in oct. an. 1679- He also translated
from Latin into English (1) Introduction to Geo-
graphy. Oxon. 1657. oct. Written by Philip Cluver.
(2) The Arts of Grandurc and Submission. Lond.
166.. and 1665. oct. [Bodl.Svo. P.218. Art.] Written
by John Casa archb. of Benevcnto. (3) The History
of the United Provinces ofAchaia. Lond. 1673. qu.
in four sheets and half, written bv Jacobus (iotho-
fredus, and others, as it seems, which I have not yet
seen. I have now no more to say of this learned
person, only that he being at Bath attentling several
of his patients living in and near W^arwick then
there, he was sent for to come to another at Bristol,
in very hot weather; to which place therefore going
a by-way at 10 of the clock in the night, on the
twelfth day of July in sixteen hundred seventy and 1676.
six (his head being tlien intoxicated with bibbing,
but more with talking, and snuflfing of piwder) was
drowned passing through a shallow river (wherein,
as 'tis suppjsed, his horse stiniibled) two miles
distant from Bath. So that his botly being taken
up the next morning and his death examined by the
coroner, was the next day after that (being Friday)
buried in the great church at Bath dedicated to S.
Peter and S. Paul, in the grave of Dr. Pet. Went-
worth, joyning on the north-side to the stately tomb

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of Dr. Jam. Mountagiic sometime bishop of that
city, situate and Ixnnfj; on tJie north side of the IxkIv
of that church. At whicli time his antagonist ]\Ir.
Glanvill preached his iinieral sermon, but said no
great matter of liim ; and s<H)n after a certain phy-
sician* of that place, wlio seenied to he gl:id for his
death, niaile this epitaph following on liini : Which,
tho' not yet put on his grave, shall be here set down
to his memory. Memorise Sacnnn. Post varios
casus 8e magna rerum discrimina, tandem heic re-
quiescunt mortalitatis exuvia; Henrici Stubbe, Me-
dici AVarwicensis, quondam ex ^de Christi Oxon.
rei Medicne, Historicae ac Mathematicaj peritissinii,
judicii vivi, & Librorum Heluonis ; <jui quuin multa
scripserat, & phires sanavcrat, aliorum saluti scdulo
prospiciens, propriam neglexit. Obiit, aquis frigidis
sufFocatus, 12 die Julij A. D. 1G76. a-tatis sua; —
" Besides this Hen. Stubbe was another of lx)th his
" names and time, a nonconforming minister, of
" whom see more among these writers in the year
"1680."'

EDWARD REYNOLDS, son of Austin Rey-
nolds one of tlie customers of Southampton (by
Bridget his wife) son of John Reynolds of I^ang-
port in Somersetshire, and he the son of another
John, was l)om in tlie parish of Holyrood within
the said borough of Southampton, in the month of
Nov. 1599, bred up in grammar learning in the
free-school there founded by king Ed. 6. in the 7th
year of his reign, became one or the portionists or
post-masters of Merton coll. in 1615, and proba-
tioner fellow in 1620, in which place (which he got
by his skill in tlie Greek tongue) as also throughout
Ins bachelorship, he shewed himself a gcx)d 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 honourable society of Lincoln's inn,
and rector of Braunston or Braynton in Northamp-
tonshire.'' At length the grand rebellion breaking
forth in 1642 he sided with the presbyterian party
(having long before that time been puritannically
affected) and in the year 164'3 he became one of the
assembly of divines, a covenanter, afrequent preacher
in London, and sometimes before the long parlia-
ment. 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 break
ojwn, turn out, and take p)ssession, dean of Ch. Ch.
in the place of Dr. Sam. Fell ejected, and viceclmn-
cellor of the university ; at which time he became
doctor of divinity })y actual creation, and what not.

' [Dr. Giiidott. Sic .Inlij. of the Abbey Church nf Bath,
l)agc 239. 8vr>.]

^ [In the first edit, here followed a short account of this
Henry Stubbe, which, witli additions, will be found under

lyso.j

* [1 Martii lG30, Etlwardiis Reynolds A. M. ad eccl. de
Brandeslon ad pres. Isaaci Johnson armlg. Reg. Piers, Ep.
Pctrib. Ken NET.]

But being forced to leave his deanery in the latter
end of KioO, because he refused to take the inde-
pendent engagement, he retired to his former cure
for a time. Afterwards he lived mostly in London,
preached there and flattered Oliver and his gang,
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 mushrtxjm prince to his throne, 11
October 1658. Also when hopes depended on
Monke's proceedings from Scotland, he struck in
with him, and who more ready than he (Dr. Rey-
nolds) 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 tlie pride and glory of the presbyte-
rian party. AVhen the secluded niemlx'rs were re-
stored 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 pres-
byterian discipline. In May following (1660) when
his majesty was at Canterbury in order to his restora-
tion, he and Edm. Calamy soother zealous pres-
byterian, were admitted his chaplains on the 26th
of that month, and alter his restoration he preached
several times before him, as he did also before the
houses of parliament. But in the hitter 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 virtue of the king's
letter, warden of INIert. coll. chusing rather to have
something than nothing. Soon after, upon the
feeling of his pulse, the king bestowed on him the
bishoprick of Norwich; which see he willingly
taking without a imlo, was, after he had taken the
covenant, and had often preached against episcopacy
and the ceremonies of the church of England, con-
secrated thereunto in S. Peter's church \rithin the
city of Westminster, on the sixth day of January
an. 1660; by virtue of which bishoprick he became
an abbot (a strange preferment, mcthinks, for a
presbyterian) I mean abbot 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 jiarts and endowments, of a very good wit,
fancy and judgment, a great divine, and much es-
teemed 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 Calvinistic.ol persuasion, &c.
and many there were that were of the like opinion :
One that knew him well saith ' that he was a person

' [Selh 'U'ard S. T. P. admiss. ad eccl. S. I.^.iircnlil Jii-
dsenriim, Lond. 1 1 Anr. ififis, ad prcs. reg. pi r proinot. Edw.
Reynolds ad episc. Norwic. Reg- Henchm. Keknet.]

° Dr. Tho. Fierce in his introduction to his Divine Purity
defended.

' Sir Th. Browne doct. of phys. in his Reperlorium of the
Cath. Church nf Norwich, MS.

REYNOLDS.

BRANKER.

108t)

of singular affability, meekness ami luimility, of
great learninjr, a frequent preacluT and constant re-
sident: And it was verily thought by his contem-
poraries, tiiat he would have never been given to
change, had it not been to please a covetous and
poUtic' consort, who put him U|wn those things he
aid. His works are these,

The Vanity of the Creature ; on Ecclea. 1. 14.

Siixfulness of Sin ; on Rom. 7. 9. and on 6. 12.

Use of the Law; on Rom. 7. 10.

Life of Christ ; on 1 Joh. 5. 12.

An Explication ©/"llO Psal.

Meditations on the ludy Sacrament of the Lord's
last Supper.

Explication of the 14 Chapter ofHosea, in seven
humiliation Sermons.

Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of tlie
Send of Man.
[570] All or most of which having been printed several

times in qu. were all printed in one folio at London,
an. 16;38, [Bodl. R. 1. 2. Th.] with the author's
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 esteemed by all that knew him
a jovial wet presby tcrian) that had read them several
times could not forbear to write two short poems in
commendation of tlicm.

Thirty Sermons preached on .leveral solemn Oc-
casions.' They were preached between the year

1634, and that of his <leath, and some of them had
l)een printed several times. At length they were
reprinted in the second impression of his works, at
Lond. 1679. fol. [BotU. I. 2. 4. Th.] Among them
is liis Latin sermon preached at Oxon. 1649. entit.
Animalis Homo ; on 1 Cor. 2. 14.'^ He also wrote
the A.is. of Divines Annotations which are on Ec-
clesiastes, [Bodl. A. 9. 3. Th.] which being ad-
mirably done, it was wished by many learned men
of the presbyterian persuasion that the rest had
been all wrote pari filo, & eruditione.' He also was
the author of tne Epistolary Preface to Will. Bar-
U^s Correptory Correction, Sfc. of some Notes of
T/io. Pierce concerning God's Decrees, especially

* Mary the ilaiii»hler of Dr. Joh. Harding someiiuie pre-
sident of Magd. coll. Oxon.

9 Rob. Wilde in his Iter Bor. and Poems, printed I67O,
Oct.

' [Amongst his sermons is Deaths Advanlage opened in a
Sermon preaclied the last Summer at Nurlhumpton at the Fu-
nerall of Pttir fVhalley Esq. then Mayor of the said Town,
and now published upon the earnest Desire nf his Friends.
Lond. 1657, 4lo. on Philipp. I. ver. 21. dedicated to John
Crew esq. Rawlinson.J

' [^Animalis Homo : Concio Laline hahita ad Academicos
Oxonienses nonu Die Octobr. l64C), pro inchoando termino
Authore Edivnrdo Reynoldo S. T. D. Acadcmicie Procancel-
lario. Londini iC.'iO, 4io. Kennet.]

' [Which are Mat. Poole's words to the preface in the 2nd
vol. of the Synopsis Criticorutn. See what Poole says in the
pref. to the third vol. concerning Gataker's share in that
work. LovEDAV.]

of Reprobation : which book of Barlce with the said
ep. preface, a second of Tho. Whitfield, and a third
of Dan. Cawdrey sometime of Cambridge were
printed at Loml. 1656. qu. " He is als<» said to l)e
" the author of T/u; humble Proposals of sundry
" k-arncd, pious ])ivi7ies icitliin this Kinffdom,
" concerninfr the Engagement intended to he iin-

" pos''d on them for their SuLscriptiuns I^ond.

" 1650. qu. one sheet. [BotU. A. 6. 7. Line] pub-
" lished in Dec. 1649. Answered by John Ducy
" in his pamphlet entit. Just Re-proposals to humble
" Pro/HMals : or, an impartial Consideration of,
" &c. Lond. 1650. qu. four sh." At length this
learned bishop Dr. Reynolds, who probably hath
written other things besides those I liave already
mentioird, made his last change in this world on the
28th of July in sixteen hundred seventy and six,
anil was buried at the upper end of the chappel
(built by him 1662) joyning to the bishop's palace
in Norwich. Over his grave was sot)n after fastned
a marble to the wall, with this epitaph engraven
thereon. H. I. S. I. Edoardus Revnohls SS. T. P.
primus it reditu Regis Caroli II. felicissimo Norvi-
censis Episcopus, quod honoris fiistigiuni uti minime
anibivit, ita pietate, prudentiii, comitate, modestlA,
loco, non animo elatus, ma.xime condecoravit. Pas-
torum merentium ]iater ainantis-simus, pacis pieta-
tisquc cultor devotissimus, potestatis arbiter a>quus
& mitissimus. Quantus fuerit Theologus, tam mul-
tifaria lectione instructus, quam S. Scripturis potens,
(juam felix eorundem intcrpres & fidelis Praeco,
silente hoc marmore, Scripta eloquuntur, caput eru-
ditum, OS facundum, cor coeleste spirantia, expirante
authore suavissimo ; cui nihil inerat duri aut acerbi
prater calculi stranguria;que cruciatus, quos Chris-
tiana, adeo atque invicta tulit fide & patientia, ut
aibi lapilli, licet mortis instrumenta tessera forent
vita; & victoria, imniortalibus ascriptus est, Jul.
XXIX. A. D. 1676 atatis sua 76. Mortolitatis
exuvia; prope hinc deposita; Augusti IX. Sacelluin
hoc ab ipso fundatum, dicatumque, denuo conse-
crariuit. In his deanery of Ch. Cli. succeeded Dr.
George Morley, afterwards the most worthy bishop
of Winchester, in his wardenship of IVIerton coll.
Sir Tho. Clayton phy.sician, and in his l>ishoprick
Dr. Anthony Sparrow of Cambridge, translated from
the see of Exeter.

[9 Januar. 1627, Edwardus Reynolds A. M. ad
vie. Omn. Sanctorum in North'ton ad pres. Fran-
cisci Fisher et aliorum. Reg. Dove, Ep. Pctrib.

1660, 20 Sept. Edward Reynolds D. D. installed
prebendary of Worcester. Kknnet.]

THOMAS BRANKER, son, if I mistake not,
of Tho. Branker sometime bach, of arts of Exeter
coll. was born in Devonshire, admitted batler of the
said coll. 8. Nov. 1652, aged 17 years or thereabouts,
elected jirobationer fellow 30 June 1655, being then
bach, of arts. Afterwards taking the degree of
master, he became a preacher, but refusing to cou-

1676.

1087

BRANKER.

MORICE.

fomi to the ceremonies of tlie church of England,
left his fellowship in 1662, retired into Cheshire,
where cont'orniing and taking ujwn him orders from
a bishop, lx;caine minister ot Whitegate : At which
time being well known to M'illiam lord Brereton,
[5711 tor his sufficiencies in mathematics and chymistry,
he gave him the rectory of Tilston ; but he keeping
that not long, was after\.ards made master of the
well endowed school at Macclesfield in the said
county, where he finished his course. He hath
written,

Doctrinw Spharicw Adumbratio \(\ . -i rna
Usus Globoriim artificialmm j
A Table ofoM Numbers less than one hundred
thousand, shewing those that are incomjmsk, and
resolving the Rest into their Factors or Coefficients,

&c. This is added by Branker to a translation

whidi he made from High-Dutch into English of
An Introduction to Algebra. Lond. 1668. qu. [Bodl.
4to. N. 15. Art.] written by Rhonnius : A laudable
account of which Table, and of the translation, you
may see in the Philosophical Transactions, num.
35. p. 688, 689. See the Fasti an. 1631, col.
468. He gave wav to fate in Nov. in sixteen hun-
1676. dred seventy and six, and was buried in the church
at Macclesfield before mentioned, leaving then behind
the character of an able mathematician.

WILLIAM MORICE, son of Evan alias Joh.
Morice a native of Caernarvanshire and chancellor
of the diocese of Exeter, by Mary his wife, daughter
of Joh. Castle of Devonshire, was born in the parish
of S. Martin's in the city of Exeter, educated in
grammar learning there, and in the beginning of the
vear 1619 or thereabouts, he was sent to Exeter
coll. (thro' his mother's motion) by sir Nich. Pri-
deaux of Souldon in that county, who some years
before had taken her to be his third wife ; where
continuing in the state of a sojourner under the
tuition of Mr. Nath. Carpenter (not without consi-
derable proficiency in learning) till he was bach, of
arts, was sent for home, and married to one of the
grand-daughters of the said sir Nicholas, by Humph.
Prideaux his eldest son deceased. In the year 1640
he was put into the commission of peace for the
aforesaid county, and five years after was elected
knight for that shire, upon a recruit, to serve in the
long parliament. In 1651 he was made high sheriff
of the said county, in 1656 he setled himself and
his family at Werington, which he then, or lately,
had purchased of sir Francis Drake ; and in 1658
he was chose a burgess for Westport in Cornwall to
serve in Richard's jiarlianient that began at Wcstm.
27 of Jan. the same year : And being related by his
wife to general George Monke, he was intrusted
by him with all his concerns in Devonshire, while
he was govcrnour of Scotland, and discharged him-
self so faithfully and prudently therein, as to re-
commend himself so far to the general's esteem, that
on his coming into England he made choice of him

for his chief if not onlv confident in the management
of that great affair of the king's restoration, and the
rather for this reason that our author I)eing gene-
rally esteemed a presbyteiian, it would please the
great masters at AVestminstcr who were most of that
religiim. Upon the said Monke's coming to Lon-
don, the secluded members from all parts of the
kingdom came thither, and were by his means
restored to the house of commons, of which number
our author Mr. Morice was one. This gentleman
was somewhat allied to him, as I have told you, but
more in his favour than his blood ; for he had a
great opinion ol" his prudence and integrity. He
was one that much conversed with Ixxiks, and had
then lately written one against the practice of inde-
pendent teachers, who would admit none in parochial
cures to the I^ord's supjier, but such only as, being
distinguished by their separation, were most pecu-
liarly their own flock. This had rendred * him very
grateful to the presbyterians, whose cause he seemed
most to serve ; for the ministers of the church of
England were generally contented wth the exercise
of their religion in private houses, tho' even these
also were often disturbed by soldiers and constables,
who used to hale them from their very communion
tables upon the more solemn festivals of their
despised church ; rending their surplices, where any [572]
were used, and tearing their mass-book (for that
was the name by which the crafty statesman, and
the more jugling gospeller taught the undisceming
multitude to call the English liturgy) into pieces.
The general, from and before the beginning of his
enterprize, had pretended to he a presbyteiian, and
had not then renounced his faith ; but at that time
it most behoved him to appear one, and to act his
part well in it ; for it was his last : %vheiefore our
author Morice was received into his house, which
much pleased the masters at Westminster, who
wei'e mostly of that religion as I have before told
you ; some few only excepted, who, by beholding
the calamities f)f the church, and their own errors,
had been converted ' into a better esteem of episco-

Cacy ; which the learning of our author could not
ut favour : So that he was lo<iked upon to have
the good repute onlv of a prcsbvterian. Him the
general retained as his elbow-counsellor, and a state-
blind ; concealing his own sen.se of tilings, and very
often speaking contrary to his own thoughts, that
so he might better understand the sense of others
and take his measures accordingly. About the same
time Mr. Morice received a letter from the king by
sir Joh. Greenvil (afterwards earl of Bath) to excite
him to influence the general to his restoration, which
he answer'd with assurance of his utmost zeal and
affection for that service: whereupon in Feb. 1659
he received from his majesty b}' the hands of the
said sir John (with approbation of the general) the

* Mystery and Mflhndiif his Majesty's i?fstoral!on. L'nd.
|6«0 |i. 1 18. wriueii by Joh. I'ricf, I). D.
- Ibid.

MORICE.

HALE.

1090

seal and siofnet, as the badge of tlie secretary of
statc''s office : About wliich time it was his business
to keep the tlien cxpirinjr session of j)arhaincnt
steddy, and clear from mtermedliiifr with the change
of the government ; in which case he did excellent
sen'ice, punctually obsei-ving the directions of the
general, who then passionately longed I'or their dis-
solution. On the 10th of March following, he was,
by the general's motion, made a colonel of a regi-
ment of loot, and governor of the fort and island of
I'lymouth, and after he had joyned with the general
in the great secret of the restoration, he was not
only knighted by his majesty, then at Canterbury,
in his way to London, 26 May 1660, but had the ,
office of secretary confirin''d imto him, and then
sworn also one of his majesty's privy council. In
1661, he was chosen for Plymouth to serve in that

Earliament which began at Westm. 8 of May, but
eing much taken up with his new employment, he
could not do his duty in the house so well and truly
as he wished he could. How influential sir William
was in his majesty's reduction and establishment,
may easily be collected from the letters under the
hands of his majesty, and sir Edw. Hyde lord
chancellor, now in the custody of Henry earl of Cla-
rendon : And may perhaps be made more manifest
unto the world upon the publication of an history
said to be written by the said sir Edw. Hyde, (af-
terwards E. of Clarendon) who was most particularly
acquainted with all the steps made in the transacting
of that whole affair. At Michaelmas in the year
1668 sir W. Morice did, upon his humble desire
made to his majesty, resign his secretaryship, and
was succeeded by sir John Trevor, son of sir John
Trevor knight, " both halters in the rebellion and
" adherers to tlie usurper ;" so that retreating into
the country, he passed the rest of his life in a quiet
retirement at Werington before-mention'd, situate
in the west part of Devonshire, where lie ei-ected a
lair library, valued at twelve hundred pounds;
which was the jmncipal divertisement and most sen-
sible pleasure he took during the last years of his
life. He hath written and j)ublished,

Coena qua.ii Koivri : The nexo Enclosures broken
dozen, ami the Lord's Supper laid forth in common
for all Church Memhers, having a dogvmtical Faith
and not being scandalous. In a Diatribe and De-
fence thereof. Lond. 1656. 57 qu. This b(X)k being
afterwards much enlarged, came out again with this
title. The comvion Right to the Lord's Supper as-
serted in a Diatribe ami a Defence thereof, <^-c.
Lond. 1660. fol. [Bodi. M. 9. 7. Th.] The first
edition of this l)ook came out as it seems in 1651.
■ ' 1 qu. in answer to one Humphry Saunders, who had
written a book of adininistring the sacrament to a
select company.

Letter to Gen. Monke, in Answer to his of the
23f/ of Jan. directed to Mr. liolle, to be communi-
cated to the Gentlemen (>f Devonshire This

letter is dated 28 Jan. 1659, and is said to be written

Vol. III.

by an excluded member of parliament, particularly
by VV^. Morice, as the general vogue then wa.s, yet
it is subscribed by R. M. He died on the twelfth
day of Decenib. in sixteen hundred seventy and six,
and was buried in Werington church, in an isle
belonging to his family. His elde.st son Williiini
Morice es(j; was made a baronet 20 of April 1661 .

MATTHEW HALE, son of Rob. Hale, esq.
a barrester of Lincoln's inn, by Joan his wife
daughter of Matthew Poyntz of Alderley in Glo-
cestershire gent, was bom at Alderley on the first
day of Nov. an. 1609, educated in grammar learn-
ing at Wotton Under-edge (the seat of his ancestors)
in the same county, not in the free-school there, but
under one Mr. Staunton the scandalous vicar (so
he was accounted by orthodox clergy of the neigh-
bourhood) of that town, became a commoner of
Magd. liall under the tuition of Obadiah Sedgwick
(mcntion'd under the year 1657. col. 441.) in Mich,
term 1626, where continuing about three years, laid
the foundation of some learning and knowledge
which he afterwards built upon, and might have
proceeded faj'ther had not his thoughts been di-
verted by certain juvenile vanities. Afterwards,
upon the advice of sir Jo. Glanvil serjeant at law,
who occasionally observ'd " in him a clear appre-
hension of things, a solid judgment and a great fit-
ness for the study of the law, he was taken off from
the design of being a soldier, which he intended,
and was admitted a student in Lincoln's inn, 8 No-
veml'.er 1629 : And being then deeply sensible how
much time he had lost, and that idle and vain things
had over-run and almost corrupted his mind, he re-
solved to redeem the time he had lost : And there-
fore for many years together he studied at the rate
of 16 hours a day, threw aside all fine clothes, and
betook himself to a plain fashion, which he continued
to uHe in many points to his dying day. Will. Noy
the attorney general being of the same inn, took
early ' notice of him, liirected him in his studies, and
grew to have such friendship for him, that he came
to be called Young Noy. The learned Selden also
stwn found him out, Avho tho' much superior to him
in years, yet he came to have such a liking of him
and also of Mr. John Vaughan of the Inner Temple
(afterwards lord chief justice of the Common I'leas)
that as he continued in a close fricntlship with them
while he lived, so he left them at his death two of
his executors. Hy his acquaintance it was that he
pursued other learning than that of his profession :
so that by great industry, accompanied with good
natural parts, he became well read in the civil and
Roman laws, attained to a great readiness in arith-
metic, algebra and other mathematical sciences. He
obtained also a great insight in philosophy, whether

6 Gillierl Burnet, D. D. in The Life and Death of Hir
Matlh. [late Kt. &c. Printed at Lond. In a large ocimo,
1()82. |). 10.

' Ibid. p. 19.

4 A

1676.

1091

HALE.

exiierimental or theoretical, physic, anatomy and
clnrurgery. He was well acquainted witli the an-
cient Greek pliilosophers, but want of occasion to
use thcni, wore out his knowledge of the Greek
tongue : And tho' he never studied the Hebrew, yet
by his great conversation with Selden, he understtx)d
the most curious things in the Ilabinical leiu-niug.
But above all these, lie seemed to have made the
Study of divinity the chief of all others, to which he
not only directed every thing else, but also arrived
at that * pitch in it, that those who have read what
ho has written on that subject, will think, that it
hath had most of his time and thoughts. Some
[5741 years before the imhappy wars broke forth he was
called to the bar, and when they did break forth he
sided with the presbyterians, having been for the
most part, when young, educated under severe pu-
ritans and under a puritannical discipline. And
being esteemed a plain honest man, a person of great
integrity and profound in the law, he was enter-
tained by both, as well loyal as presbyterian parties.
In 1643 he took the covenant, and, as I have been
often informed, he appeared several times with other
lay-persons among the assembly of divines. He was
then in great esteem with the parliament, and was
employed by the members thereof, as to his counsel,
about several matters, particularly in the reducing
the garrison of Oxford to their service ; who, as a
lawyer, was added to the commissioners appointed
by them, to treat with those appointed by the king:
And in that capacity he did good service by advising
them, especially Fairfax the generalissimo, to ha\e
in his eye a jireservation of that place (Oxon) so
famous for learning, from ruin. Afterwards, tho'
the loss of the blessed king Charles I. was a great
grief to him, yet he took the oath called the engage-
ment, and thereby was the more enabled to jjlead
and practise his j)rofes.sion. In January 1651, he
with Will. Steel esq; recorder of the city of London,
Charles George Cock esq; sir Henry Blount knight,
•yTohn Foimtaine esq; a common lawyer, Hugh Peters
clerk, John Kushworth of Lincoln's inn, sir Anthony
•Ashley Cooper, bart. &.c. were appointed bv the
parliament to consider of the reformation of the
law ; and accordingly they met several times in the
room formerly called the house of lords, but what
the result of their meeting was, I cannot yet tell.
On the 25th of January 1653, our author Hale was
by writ matle Serjeant at law, and soon after one of
the justices of the Common Bench, in which place
he acted with great justice and integrity, not without
the displeasure sometimes, as 'tis said, of the pro-
tector. In 1654 he was one of those five knights
who were elected for the county of Glocester to
serve in that parhament which began at Westminster
the 3d of September, purp)sely, as 'tis" said, to
obstruct the mad and wicked projects then on foot,
by two parties, that had very difTerent principles

•* Ibid. p. £8.
9 Ibid. p. 46.

and ends. In 1658 he was elected one of the bur-
gesses of the university of Oxon to serve in that
parliament called Richard's parliament, w hich began
at Westminster 27 January the same year, and in
April 1660 he was elected one of the knights for
Glocestershire, to serve in that jiarliament called the
healing and blessed parliament, which began at the
same place on the 25tli of the said month. Which
parliament calling the king home from his exile, he
was soon after made lord chief baron of the ex-
chequer and knighted. In the month of May 1671
he was, upon the death of sir John Keeling, ad-
vanced to the place of lord chief justice of the court
of King's Bench, and on the 18th of the said month
took the usual oaths before the lord keeper, and his
seat accordingly on that bench. ' He was an ' un-
wearied student, a jjrudent man, a solid philosopher,
a famous lawyer, the ])illar and basis of justice (who
would not have done an unjust act for any worldly
price or motive) the ornament of his majesty's go-
vernment, and honour of England ; the highest fa-
culty of the soul at Westminster hall, and pattern
to all the reverend and honourable judges, a godly
serious practical Christian, a lover of goodness and
all goo(l men, a lamenter of the clergy's selfishness
and unfaithfulness, Sec. a great contemner of riches,
pomp and vanity of the world, a pattern of honest
plainness and humility,' &c. As for his works re-
lating to learning they are these,

An E-itiay touching the Gravitation and Non-
Gravitation of Jfuid Bodien, and the licasons
thereof: Lond. 1673, 1674. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. Z. 38.
Th.]

Dijficiles Nugw, or. Observations on the Torri-
cellian Experiment. Lond. 1674. Oct.* Upon which
two ingenious discom-ses Dr. Hen. More of C'am-
bridge liath written Remarks, so Jar Jorth as they
may concern any Passages in his Enchiridion Me-
taphysicornm, &:c. Lond. 1676. oct.

Contefnptations Moral and Divine. 1 Lond. 1G76,
Ifi txco Parts. &c. in a

Directions touching the Keeping V large oct.
the Lord's Day. [Bodl. 8vo.

Poems on Christmas Day. J C. 25. Line]

Contemplations Moral and Divine. The second
Part. Lond. 1677. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. C. 26. Line]
They were both printed together at Lond. 1679.
[and 1695.] oct.

The primitive Origination of Mankind con-
sidered and examined according to the Light of
Nature. Lond. 1677. fol. [Bodl. G. 1. 10. Jur.j
This book came out a little before the author's
death, and why he published it, I shall give you
these three reasons. (1.) Because tliat some writings
of his (Contcmpl. Mor. and Divine) did \vithout

■ Richard ftixtor in his Addilionnl Notes on the Life and
Death nf Sir Matliiciv Hute, &c. Lond. l()82. octavo, p. 4,'5,
44.

' [Some copies, wilh Occasional Additions, are dated 1675.
See one Bodl. 8\o. Y. 14. Art ]

[575;

HALE.

1094

his privity come abroad in print, which he never in-
tended: and tliis Iwwk might have had tlie same
fate, if ni)t in his life time, yet after his death. (2.)
Because possibly there had been some more care
used by liim in the digesting and writing thereof,
than of some others that have gone abroatl in piib-
hc. (3.) That although he could never be brought
to value the writings of his that were then published
(as worthy of public view) yet he fbuml them well
accepted by many, which encouraged him to let this
book come abroad imder his own name, wherein he
used more care than in those lesser tracts, &c.

Ohscrvat'tmis touching the Pr'mciph'.s of natural
Motion, and especially touehiriff Rarefaction and
Conden,sation, toff-cther xcHh a Reply to certain Re-
marks touching' the Gravitation of Fluids, l^ond.
1677. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. O. 21. Art.] These Obser-
vations being in answer to Dr. Hen. More's Re-
marks before-mention''d, were replied upon by the

said doctor Lond. 1678.

The Primitive Origination of Mankind, consi-
dered and e.ramined according- to the Light of Na-
ture. I^ond. 1677. fol. An account of which is in
the Philosophical Transactions, nu. 136. p. 917.

London's Liherly: or, a learned Argument of
l^atti and Reason, An. 1650. This came out af-
terwards with this title, lMndon\s Liberties : or, the
Opinions of those great Laxcyers, Lord Ch. Justice
Hale, Mr. Justice (Will.) ^Vild, and Mr. Serjeant
Maynard, about the Election of Mayor, Sheriffs,
Aldermen and Common-council Men of London,
and concerning their Charter, Sec. Lond. 1682. fol.
At which time the press was at liberty without con-
troul.

Discourse touching Provisionjhr the Poor. Lond.
1683. in tw. [Bodl. 8vo. C. 720. Line]

Short Treatise touching Sheriffs Accompts.
Lond. 1683. oct. [Bodl. sVo. S. 200. Art.] To
which is joined his Tryal of Witches at the Assises
held at Bury S. Edmunds cm the 10th of March
1665, which was published by it self in oct. in 4 sh.
an. 1682.

Pleas of the Crown : or, a methodical Summary
of the principal Matters irlating to that Subject.
Lond. 1685. third edit.' in oct. The first edit,
came out in 1678. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. Bawl. 256.]

His Judgment of the Nature of true Religion,
the Causes of its Corruption, and the Churches^
Calamity, by Meris Additions a7id Violences ; icith
the desired Cure. Lcmtl. 1684. qu. Written in
three discourses at several times, published by his
great friend and admirer Mr. Rich. Baxter, and by
liim dedicated to the honourable judges. To this
book is anne.\\l 'The Judgment of Sir Franc. Bacon,
Sec. and somewhat of Dr. Is. Barrow on the same
subject.

Several tracts, as (1.) A Discourse of Religion

' [The second cJit. anpearcil Loiul. iCS-;, sec it R i)il1.8vo.
Il.'.'O. Jur.]

on three Heads ; Jirst the Ends and Uses of it ; se-
condly the Life <yf Religion and Super-additions to
it ; and thirdly the Superstructions upon it, and
Animosities about it. (2.) A Treatise touching
Provision for the Poor, before-mention'd. (3.) A
iMter to his Children, advising them horw to behave
themselves in their Speech. (4.) A Letter to one of
his Sons, after his Recovery ^om tlie Small-pox.
Lond. 1684. in oct. [Bodl. 8vo. W. 8. .)ur.]

Discourse of the Knowledge of God and of our
selves, first by the Light of Nature, secondly bi/
the sacred Scriptures. Lond. 1688. oct. [Bodl.
8vo. Z. 285. Th.]

Brief Abstract of the Christian Religion.

Considerations seaso7iable at all Times for the

Cleansing of the Heart and Lifii. These two

last were printed with the Discourse of the Know-
ledge (yf God, &c. He hath also translated into En-
glish, The Life of Pomponius Atticus, zcrittenby
his Cmitemporary and Acquaintance Cornel. Nepos,
&.C. — Lond. 1677. oct. To which are added by our
author Hale,

Observations Political and Moral tliereupon.

He also wrote the preface to, and published, tlie
Abridgment of many Cases and Resolutions, &c.
made by judge Henry Roll, as I shall tell you when
I come to him : and untler his (HaleV) name ought
to be put The Perjur''d Fanatic : or, the malicious
Conspiracy of Sir John Croke of Chilton, Henry
Larimore, and other Fanatics, against the Life of
Rob. Hawkins Clerk, and late Minister (f Chilton,
occa.fton''d by his Suit for Tythes. Discox'ered in a
Tryal at Aylesbury, before Sir Matth. Hale Lord
Chief Baron of the Exchequer. Lond. 1685. in 10
sh. in fol. Which Rob. Hawkins was afterwards
vicar (but a poor one, if not scandalous) of Beckley
in Oxfordshire. These, I think, are all that are
published under the name of judge Hale : The rest
that he hath written, and not yet extant, are many ;
among which are, (1.) Concerning tfie Secondary
Origination of Mankind, fol. (2.) Concerning Re-
ligion, fol. in 5 vol. (3.) If Policy in Matters of
Religion, fol.* (4.) De Anima. fol. written to
Mr. Jiich. Baxter. (5.) Dc Anima. fol. Trans-
actions between him and the said Mr. Baxter, ^c.
and many others as vou niay see ' elsewhere : and
left behind him as a legacy to Lincolns-Inn library
several volumes of collections niatle by him, mostly
from records in the Tower, and divers matters re-
lating to Gloucestershire ; all which may be of great
use to lawyers and antiquaries. At length after this

■• [Of the reconciling design as proposed by sir Oilando
Bridgoian and tlic lord ch. jiisiice Hales see the report of Dr.
Bmton, chaplain to the lord keeper Bridgman, from his 0"ii
mouth, reported by Dr. Sherlock in his yindication of the
liiglils of Ecctesiaslical Authority against the Protestant
JieconcilfT, p. 130. Kennet ]

s In Tlie Life and Death if Sir Matth. //o/? before-men-
tion'd, uriitcn by Dr. Gilb. Burnet, p. igi. Iy2. [Edit.
t)xf<)rd I80(), p. \3i, &c.]

4 A2

[576]

1095

HALE.

FORD.

most learned and religious |x?rson bad lived to the
afifc of 67, lie gave way to fate on Christmas day,
1676. 2-5 Dec. in sixteen hundred seventy and six : where-
u|x>n his body was buried on the ith of Jan. follow-
ing in the yard belonging to the church of Alderlcy,
among the graves of his mother's ancestors. At
which time Evan Griffith, the pious minister of that
place, preached his furieral sermon, which was after-
• % Inm the said ""r^^^ 'P!'''^ extant by him,* " un-
Grijfith, some- osr wKtmc, A Sei-monpreaclied
tunes of (Mel coll. " at AUlcrley in the County of
t« Oxon. as it « Gloit<: iJan. 1676, at the Fit-

S^"'F^?s°1dil^' "'''^'■«^ 9/ ^'^r Matth. Hale,
" Knight, late Lord Chit^ Justice
" of his Majesty's Court of the King.i Bench ; on
" Isa. 57. 1." Lond. 1677. qu. by E. Griffith, M. A.
" tho' I can't find his name among the masters of
" arts. One of both his names, a Glamorganshire
" man, aged 17, was matriculated of Brasen-nosc
" college 1616, took his bacli. degree in 1618."
This Mr. Griffith dying in the beginning of June
1681, (after he had been orte of the Wednesdays
lecturers at Wotton Under-edge in com. Glouc.
several years) was buried at Alderley before-men-
tionVl. To conclude; all that I shall further say
of this worthy person sir Matth. Hale, whom we
have now brought to his grave, shall be the very
same words which conclude his life, written by a
native of Edenburgh called Gilbert Burnet, D. D.
sometime professor of di^^nity in the university of
Glasgow, but then (1682) preacher at the Rolfs in
Chancerv-lanc, running thus, ' He w-as one of the
greatest patterns that this age hath afforded, whether
m his private de}X)rtment as a Christian, or in his
public employments, cither at the bar or on the
bench.' Which character being without doubt true,
as most things of him in the said life are, yet I must
take leave to tell the reader, that most knowing and
observing men had a better esteem of judge Hale
l)efore the said life was published, than after; as
also in some respects, before the publication of Ad-
ditional Notes on the Life and Death qf Sir Matth.
Hale. The author of which (Mr. Rich. Baxter, the
learnetl and most eminent nonconformist) takes often
occasion to reflect in them ° on the church of Eng-
land, and its orthodox sons.

[The following may be added to Wood's list of
sir Matthew Hale's productions :

Jura Coroner. His Majesties Royal Rights and
Prerogatives asserted against papal Usurpations,
and all other anti-monarchical Attempts and Prac-
tices. Collected out of the Body of the municipal
Laws of England. Lond. 1680, 8vo. Bodl. 8vo. C.
31. Ju'r.

A Collection of modem Relations of Matter of
Fact concerning Witches and IVitcTicraJi upon the
Persons of the People. To which is prefixed a
Meditation concerning the Mercy of God, in pre-

« P. 13, 14. 2.^. 35, 30, 37. 38, 39. 44.

serving us from the Malice and Power of nil
Angels. Written hy the lute Lord Chief Justice
Hale upon Occasion of a Tryal of several Witches
before him. Part I. ' Lond. 1693. 4to. Botll. C. 6.
9. Line.

A Treatise shewing ko7c it.wful, safe, reasonable
and beneficial the lurolUng and Registring of all
Conveyances of Lands may be to the Inhabitants of
this Kingdom. By a Person of great Learning and
Judgment. Lond. 1694. 4to.'

De S access i on i bus apud Anglos ; or a Treatise
of hereditary Descents. 8vo. 1700, 1735.

The Hi.Htory of the Common Law of England.
Lond. 1713, 1716, 1739, 1779, 8vo.

Historia Placitorum Corona'. The History of
the Pleas of the Crown. Now first published from
the original Manv.scrijit, and the several References
to tlie Records examined by the Originals, with
large Notes, by Sollom Emlyn if Lincoln s Inn
Esq. Lond. 1736, 2 vol. fol." with a good head of
the author by Vertuc. This book was reprinted in
two thick 8vo. vol. Lond. 1788, being carefully re-
vised and corrected ; with additional notes and re-
ferences to modem cases, &c. by George Wilson
Serjeant at law.

The Jurisdiction of the Lords'' House, or Par-
liament considered according to antient Records.
Lond. 1796, 4to. Published by Francis Hargrave
esq. with an introductory preface, including a nar-
rative of the same j urisdiction from the accession of
James I.]

THOMAS FORD was born of a plebeian family
in Devonsh. entred a batler in Magd. hall in Easter
term, an. 1619, aged 16 years, took the degrees in
arts, entred into orders, and became a very faithful
tutor in his house for several years. But being pu-
ritannically educated (as all in his time of the said
house were) and not able to endure certain passages
acted in the university, preached a very factious
sermon at St. Mary's on 2 Thess. 2. 10. for which
he was banished thence, an. 1631, as I have at large
elsewhere » told 3-ou. So that retiring into his own
country to get preferment, he was kept back from it,
by the endeavours of archbishop Laud, till such
time that he shoidd make his peace and recantation'
for what he had done. At length the small cure of
Oundle in >forthamptonshire being bestowed upon
him, he continued there, as I conceive, till the gi-and
rebellion began : at which time finding no opposi-
tion, he retired to the city of Exeter, and became
much resorted to for a time by those of the presby-
terian persuasion. But leaving that place, when
garrisoned for his majesty, he retired to London or
near it, became .one of the assembly of divines, in
the room of Mr. Bolls deceased, an. 1644, and fre-

' [Rawlinson.]

« [There were some copies on large ))apcr.]

*» In liist. & Aniiq. Univ. Ox. lib. I . page 334, 335, &c.

[577] i

FOUD.

FOWLER.

1098

1676.

quently preaclied up the cause there. Afterwards
upon the declining of the king's interest, lie went to
Exeter agiiin, was made minister of St. Laurenctf
church there, hecame the prime leader of the faction,
took the engiigcnient, as hefore he had done the
covenant, and was one of the assistants to the com-
missioners of Devon, for the ejection of such whom
they then called scandalous, ignorant, and insufficient
ministers and scluxjlniasters. After his majesty's
restoration he ccmtinued in his cure, till silenced for
nonconformity, an. 1662, so that preaching in private
among the brethren, he obtained a livelyhood from
them to the time of his death. A certain doctor of
divinity of his time and persuasion, that knew him
well, hath several times told me, that this our author
was a man of very great parts and of imbyassed
principles, one and the same in all times and changes.
He hath written,

A Treatise tending to prove the Lmofulness of
Singing- Psalms. Lond. 1G57 in oct. or tw. 'Tis
grounded on Ejihe;-.. 5. 19. One John Foord hath
written ExposHio Lihri Psalmorum. Lond. 1646,
qu. published by Thorn. Paget : but \vhether he
was ever of Oxford I cannot tell.

The Sinner condemned of' Himself': Being a
Plea for God., against all the ungodly, pi-ovingthem
alone guilty (if' their oxon Destruct'ion, &c. Lond.
1668, in Oct. containing 256 pages. He preached
once lietbre the lords of the long parliament, at a
fast held 29 Apr. 1646, and once, as it seems, before
the commons 30 July 164.5, and his sermons ^vith-
out doubt were published, but such I liave not yet
seen, nor a little thing jirinted in tw. going under
the name of Thorn. Ford, entit. The Anatomy of
the T'lmes. This Tho. Ford of Exeter died in the
latter end of Decemb. in sixteen hundred seventy
and six, and was buried on the 28th of the same
month in the church of St. Laurence before-men-
tion'd, near to the bodies of his wife Bridget and se-
veral of his children that had been there buried be-
fore him. I find one Thomas Ford, who entitles

himself FhilothaJ. to be author of Virtus redi-

viva. A Panegyric on mtr late King Ch. J. <Sfc.
attended with several other P'lecesfrom the said Pen,
viz. (1) ^ Theatre of Wits: being a Collection of
Apophthegms. (2) A Century of familiar Letters.
(3) Love's Labyrinth, a Trag. Comedy. (4.) Frag-
menta Poetiea : or poetical Diversitms ; concluding
with a Panegyric on his sacred Mqjesty''s Return,
1660, Oct. But whether he was ever of Oxon. I
cannot yet tell, nor whether he was the s<irae T. Ford
who translated into English Lusus Fortuna:, &.c.
Lond. 1649, oct.

[See in Calamy ' a long account of Thomas Ford,
and the controversy respecting his sermon. The
apologiser for nonconformity tells us he was born at
Brixton in Devonshire, in 1598, of parents of good
repute, ' who left his eldest brother above 200/. per

I [Ejected Ministera, vol. ii. 207-]

annum.' On what authority Wood calls his family
plel)eian I know not, since I am not able to find hint
in the register of matriculations under Magtialen
hall in 1619 or any previous or subsequent year.]

CHRISTOPHER FOWLER,'' son of John
Fowler of Marlborough in Wilts, was born there,
became a servitor of Magd. coll. in 1627, aged 16
or thereabouts, where continuing till he wa.s bach,
of arts, he retired to St. Edm. hall, took the degree
of master of that faculty, as a member thereof, entred
into holy orders, and preachetl for some time in and
near Oxon, and afterwards at West Woodhey near
Dunnington Castle in Berks. At length upon the
turn of the times in 1641 he closed with the presby-
terians, (having before been puritannically affected)
took the covenant and became a very conceited and
fantastical jireacher among them. For by his very
many odd gestures and antic behaviour (unbeseem-
ing the serious gravity to l)e used in the pulpit) he
drew constantly to his congregation a numerous
crowd of silly women and young people, who seemed
to be hugely taken and enamourVl with his obstre-
porousness and untlecent cants. He was then, as I
conceive, minister of St. Margaret's church in Loth-
bury, London, to which city he retired for safety,
under jire^ence of being disturbed by the nialig-
nants, as he called them, at Dunnington ; and soon
after, being a zealous brother for the cause, he be-
came vicar of St. Mary's church in Rejiding, an
assistant to the commissioners of Berks, for the
ejection of such that were then called by the gotlly
party scandalous, ignorant and insufficient ministers
and school ma,sters, and at length fellow of Eaton
coll. near Windsor, notwithstanding he had refused
the engagement. After his majesty's restoration he
lost his fellowship of Eaton, and being deprived of
his cure at Reading for nonconformity, retired
to London, and afterwards to Kennington near
Ncwington St. Mary in Surrey and carried on the
trade of conventiding to his last. His works are
these.

Damonitim Aferidianum. Satan at Ncnyn, or
Anti-christian Blasphem'ies, Anti-scriptural Divi-
lisms, Anti-moral LIncleaness, ^c. evidenced in the
Light of Truth, and punished by the Hand of
JiLstice. Being a .sincere Relation of the Proceed-
ings of the Commis.sioners of the County irf Berlcs
against John Pordage, late Rector of Bradjicld in
Berlts. Lond. 1655. qu.

Notes and Animadversions upon a Book of Jo.

Pordage entit. Innocency appearing, &c. Pr. at

the endofZ)t/'Wj. Merid. Tliis John Pordage, who
was the son of Sam. Pordage citizen and grocer of
the parish of St. Dionyse Backchurch in Lond.
(who died in the latter end of the year 1626) waa

■' [In the first edil. this life of Christopher Fowler stood
under the year 1678. It was afterwards inserted in the right
place, as it now stands. J

[578]

1099

FOWLER.

UIGBY.

called doctor by a charicntismus, and hail been
preacher at St. Laurence church in RccuVtng*
• in Lordon '>'^'*<>''' he caine to Uradfiekl. From
Firji edii. which last, being ejectetl by the said

comniissioner.s, a-shaving been conver-
sant with evil spirits, as they said, and for bias-
pheiuy» ignorance, scandalous l)eliaviour, tiivilism,
uncleanness, and I know not what, he therefore
Avi'ote the said l)ook of Innoccficy appearing; &c. in
his vindication. But that book availing notliing,
he continued notwithstanding ejected, and as the
commissioners said, he took jjart with the great
blasphemer Abiezer Coppe, and appeared in his be-
half before, when he was accriminated by, them of
various foul matters.

Daemon. Merid. the second Part, discovering the
Slanders and Calumnies cast upon some Coipora-
tions, icith forged and Julse Ai'ticles upon th^
Author, in a Pamph. entit. The Case of Reading
rightly stated,^ &c. by the Adlierents and Abettors of
the said J. Pordage. I^ond. 1(156. qu.

A Word to In/cint-baptism, and a Glance to Mr.
Pendarves his Arrows against Bcdn/lon, &c.

Answer to the Mayor, Aldermen and Assistants
of Reading in Berks, to a scandalous Pamphlet
entit. Tlie Case of the Town of Reading stated. —
These two last are printed with the second part of
Dwmon. Merid.

Sober Answer to an angry Epistle directed to all
public Teacliers in this Nation, and prefix'd to a
Book called (by Antiphrasis) Christ's Innocency
pleaded against the Cry of the chief Priests, xcritten
in Hast by Tho. Speed Quaker and Merchant of
Bristol, &.C. Lond. 1656, qu. Sim. Ford a minister
in Reading assisted our author Fowler in the compo-
sition of the said book, which was soon after animad-
verted upon by that noted qiiaker called George
P'ox in his book entit. The great Mystery of the
great Whore unjblded, &c. p. 295.*

Several sermons as (1 ) How Christians may get
such a Faith, as may be not cndy ■•■aving at last,
but comfortable and joyful at present ; on 2 Pet. 1.
8. This is in the Supplement to the Morning
Exercise at Cripplegate, Lond. 1674, and 76. qu.
(2) Scriptures to be read by tJie common People ;
on 1 The-9S. 5. 27. in Tlie Morning Exercise against
Popery preached in Southteark, Lond. 1675. qu.

[579] (3) Sernwn cm St. John 19. 42. Printed 1666,

(lu. This, or any others besides, that he hath pub-
lished, I have not yet seen. At length this our
author Christopher Fowler, who was esteemed little
better than crazed or distracted for some time before

reiised
|)Liinc(l

' [Which is a quarlu pamphlet of twenty page', addreiiS
toC^romwell and his councell. Symon Ford is compLiin
of in it, as well asCh. Fouler. Lovbday.]

♦ [^Ajusl Narrative of the Proreedings of the Commissioners
of Berks upon Arlieles of Blasphemy , pretended Visitations
of Uncleanneis, &c. exhililed against John Pordage, tale
Minister of Bradfield in the said County. Lond. I()— . 4lo.
Ded. to Oliver Cromwell. Uawlirson.]

his death, <leparted this mortal life in Southwark,
on the 15th day * of January in six- , ;„ ,/,^ ,^„^^
teen hundretl seventy and six, and rndoj January,
was buried within the precincts of in sixteen hun-
St. .John Baptist's church near Dow- "'^'•'^ seventy
gate (in the church yard I think) in ',';;f,/7/i"- '
London. As for John Pordage he-
fore-mention''d, commonly called Dr. Pordage (whom
I have heard Mr. Ashmole commend for his know-
ledge in, or at least his great affection lo, astronomy)
he was restored to Bradfield alter his majesty''s
return, Hvcd there several years, leaving behind him
a son named Samuel of Line, inn, author of Herod
and Mariamne Trag. and of The Siege of Babylon,
Trag. Com. also ol EUana a Romance, and of a
Translation of Troades. Which Sam. was steward
to Phili]) the second earl of Pembroke, and not to
old Philip or Philip the first, as I said in John
Reinolds, in the first edition of this work, under the
year 1614.

GEORGE DIGBY, son and heir of John Digby
earl of Bristol, was born in the city of Madrid in
SjMJn, in the month of Oct. 1612, made his first
entry into Magd. coll. 15 Aug. 1626, and was then
entred a nobleman there : at which time, and so long
as he continued there, he was very familiar, and
held great correspondence, with Pet. Heylin fellow
of that house; by whose directions and convensation
he improved himself much in several sorts of learn-
ing.* In 1636, just after his majesty had left Oxon,
where he had been splendidly entertained by the
members of the university, and by the archbishop at
St. John's coll. he was, among other persons of ho-
nour, 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 par-
liament (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 ap]X)inted 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 Straf-
fordians. He was also a friend to the bishops and

* [He was remarkably skill'd in astrology, which, in 1668,
made him very acceptable to don Jtian, general rjf the .Spa-
nish army in Flanders, after he was remov'd hy cardinal ^fa-
zarine from the French service. CKirtiulon, Hist, if Rdell.
book XV. Watts]

l07J.

DIGBY.

110-iJ

[580]

their function, wlieu Iwth were called into question
about that time, and a zealous enemy to the covenant:
all whieli do appear in speeches uttered in good
language and sweetness. On the 10th of June 1641
he was expelTd the house of commons, not only for
exceptions taken by them for words spoken concern-
ing an oath, which colonel G. Goring confessed he
had taken to be secret to, saying he was a perjur'd

t)erson, but because he was, the day before, made a
)aron, and inlnxluced into the upper house the very
same 10th of June. In the beginning of January
he went on a message from his majesty to Kingston
upon Thames to certain gentlemen there (some say
to give col. Tho. Lundsford a visit) in a cojich with
six horses, and no otiier equipage with him, save
only a servant riding by him, and a companion in a
coach. But his ftppearance there being represented
to the parliament as in a warlike manner, and every
coach horse reckoned for a troop, the house of com-
mons made a complaint thereof cm the 10th of the
same month to the house of lords: whereu{X)n it
being voted that he then took up arms for his ma-
jesty, he was proclaimed traitor, banished and made
the public hatred of the puritans or prcsbyterians.
But the king soon after leaving the parliament, be-
cause of their desperate proceedings, he drew by
degrees many lords and connnons after him, to-
gether with this lord from beyond the seas, and
theretbre he was excepted by the parliament in a
treaty of jieace 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 jwrliament, and in the next

J rear he woukl liave been questioird for an incendiary
)y the parliament sitting at Oxon, because of a mu-
tiny that hapned iimong the soldiers of the garrison
there ; but it ^\as dissolved before the members
could do any tiling in the matter. In the latter end
of 1645, being then a stirring active man, he went
into Ireland, where he did good service for his ma-
jesty, and underwent great hazards of his life, but
upon the declining of the king's cause, he left that
place, and on the 24th of Oct. 1648 he was exempted
from pardon by the parliament. Afterwards upon
the death of his father he became earl of Bristol,
and knight of the garter, being then in exile beyond
the seas, suffering much by the loss of his estate.
After the king's return he was restored to what he
had lost, and in the year after was instalfd (with
others) knight of the said order : * " about which
" time he was sent by his majesty
" king Charles II. to negotiate a
" match for him wth the princess
" of Parma, andhadalmostbrought
" it to perfection, but Edw. earl
" of Clarendon broke the said earl
" of Bristorsmeasures by contriving
*' the match with Katharine the infanta of Por-
" tugal : whereupon the earl of Bristol being thus

• became n fre-
quent sfiiakrT in
parliament, and
an enemi) to Cla-
rendon, irliile he
was lord chancel-
Inur. First edit.

" fool'd, he prov'd a bitter enemy to the lord Cla-
" rendon, and cngag'd Barbara Palmer, afterwai'ds
" countess of Castlemain and dutchess of Cleave-
" land, to be his enemy al.so, and between them
'* both he was at length ruin'tl." Under his ujune
were printed these things following.

Several speeches, as (1) Speech in Pari. 9 Nov.

1640, concerning Grievance.? and a Triennial Par-
liament. Lond. 1641, qu. Printed in the 1st vol.
of John Nalson's Impartial Collecticm, &c. p. 505.
(2) Speech in the H. of Com. to the Bill of trien-
nial Parliaments ; 19 Jan. 1640, Lond. 1641, qu.
Remitted into the third part of Joh. Rushworth's
Historical Collection.^. (3) Speech 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 dis-
courses of our author Digby. This speech sjioken
9 Feb. is called The Lard Digby' s third Speech.

(4) Speech in the House of Com. to the Bill of At-
tainder of the Earl of Straffnrd, 21 Apr. 1641,
Lond. 1641, in two sh. in qu. Remitted into John
Rushworth's Tryal of the Earl of Strciffbrd, p. 50.
and into John Nalson's Impart. Coll. vol. 2. p. 175.
On the 13th of July following, it was ordered by the
house of commons, 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 Palace-yard at Westminster, and
another part in Cheapside, and the rest, or third
part, in Smithfield. All which was accordingly
done because the said speech contained matters un-
true and scandalous (so the predominant party in
the house said) as they had reference to the pro-
ceedings of the committees of the lords of llie house,
and that of the commons, and to the evidence of the
witnesses produced in the cause of Strafford, &c.

(5) ///■* last Speech concerning the Earl of Straf-
ford, occa.iion\l vpon the Reading of the Bill of

Attainder tonchlng the Point of Treason, 23 Apr.
Lond. 1641, in two sh. and half in qu. This was
also burnt. " In answer to one of these speeches
" was printed a paper called The Lord Digln/s
" Speech to the Bill of Attainder of the Earl of

" Strafford torn in Pieces and bloitm axcuy.

" Printed 1641, in 1 sh. qu." (6) Sp. in the H. of
Lords 20 Jidy 1660 upim the Bill (f Indemnity.
Lond. 1660, in one sh. in qu. (7) Txco Speeches,
with .tome Observations upon them. Lond. 1674,
qu. The first was spoken in the house of jx;ers at
the first reiuling of the bill against popery, 15 Mar.
1672, the king being then present. 'l"he other, in
the house of commons, 1 July 1663, in vindication
of himself and sir Rich. Temple.

Several letters, as (1) Letter to the Queen's Ma-
jesty, dated at Midd/cborongh 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 [^°1J

1103

DIGBY.

he miglit do for him there; aiul acfordinpjly he
returned into England, not to London, (notwith-
standing the vote of the house of peers, tliat if he
appeiinnl not in 90 days, he shoidd be pnx-laimcd
traytor) hut to liis uiajcsty at, or near, York. Tlie
said Lcttii- was printed in 1G45J, <ju. (2) Letter to
the Qii. Majesty, dated at the Hague 10 Mai-. ICiS.
This also was printed at I..oud. 1642. qu. Which
letter, with another from Tlio. Eliot esq; written to
tlie said lord Dighy, dated at York 27 May 1642,
being intercepted by the rebels, were ordered to be
printed bv the parliament, 1 Aug. 1642, with en-
vious observations written u|H>n them by anonymus.

(3) Divers Letters, written atOu'on,in Dec. 1613,
tenditiff to divide the ParUament at Ltmdon. They
were intercepted by the rebels, and printed at Lond.
on the 16th of Jan. following, in a pamphlet entit.
A ainning Plot to divide and dcstroij the Parliament
and the City of Lond. Printed in about 6 sh. in qu.

(4) Divers Letters, written in De»i^n to hefraj/
Ahinffdonfor the King's 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 serjeant major general Richard Browne
(afterwards a baronet and lord mayor of Lond. in
1660) for the delivery of the gaiTison of Abingdon
in Berks, to the king then at Oxon, but after
Browne, in a false manner, had drifd the said lord
on so long, which he could not in honour do longei-,
tlien did he communicate the letters to the parlia-
ment, and they to a committee, who caused them to
Ik? printed. (5) Letter in the King-s Name to the
Irish Commissioners. Lond. 1645, qu. Answered
by the lord Muskerry one of those commissioners.
They were Iwtli intercepted by the forces belonging
to the parliament, and printed with this title. Two
remarkable Letters concerning- the King's Corre-
spondence with the Irish Rebels. (6) Several other
Letters, &c. These also were intercepted, and with
others had this title put to them. The Lord Digbi/s
Cahinet and Dr. (Steph.) Goff^'s Negotiations ; to-
gether Tcith his Mqjesti/s, the Qtieen\s and the Lord
JerttMCs and other Letters, taken at the Battel at
Sherborn in York.sh. " qu. Dorsetshire" ab(Mt the
loth of Oct. last. (1645) Ako Ob.iervations on the

' .tuid Letters. Lond. 1646, (|u. 'Tis a villanous
l)amphlet and much like the horrid publication of
the martyr''d king's cabinet by the malicious machi-
nation of the juncto of rebells. (7) Tzvo Letters to
the lA>rd Taaff' tlie Rebells'' General in Munster.
Lond. 1647, qu. The first was dated at Kilkenny
20 Aug. and tlic other at Wexford on the last of the
said month, an. 1647. AVhich letters being foimd
in the lord TaafTs cabinet after a tiglit in Ireland,
were sent to the parliament in England, who caused
them forthwith to he 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 othci-s to general Leven for peace, an. 1645,
but whether printed, I know not. Siue I am tliat

those letters tliat were taken in his cabinet at Siier-
lK>rn in Dorsetshire, an. 1645, by the parliament
forces, were ordered to be printed in Dec. the same

year. • " ApologyJ'or Himself ])ublished on the

" 4th of Jan. 1642, in 2 sh. in (|u. He is also said
" to be the author of y/ true and impartial Relation
" of tlie Battel betxceen his Majati/s Arm// and tliat
" of the Rebels, near Ailesbiiry in Berks, 20 Sept.
" 1643, &c. printed 1643, qu. in one sh. and half."
[Bodl. C. 14. 3. Line]

Letters between him and Sir Ken. Dighy Kt. con-
cerning Religion.^ Lond. 1651, Oct.

Elvira ; or, the Worst not always true; a Co-
medy.'' UiX)n the writing of which, he the lord

Digby (and not sir Kenelm) was brought into the
poem called The Session of Poets, made by sir John
Suckling.

Excerpta e diversis Operibiis Patrum, Lut'inomm
MS. He also translated from French into English,
Tlic three fir ■•st Books of Cassandra the famed Ro-
mance. Printed in (x;t. At length this eminent
count having lived to the age of 64 years or more,
died at Chelsea near London in Middlesex, having
been mucii afflicted with tlie gout, on Tuesday the
SOtli of March in sixteen hundred seventy and six,
and was buried in the church there : whereupon his
garter was given to sir Thomas Osburn carl ot'
Danby, lord treasurer of England.

[I shall add nothing more to the carl of Bristol's
article, than a general reference to all the historical
works treating of the period in which he lived, par-
ticularly to the Clarendon State Papers, where is a
very excellently drawn character, and a very impar-
tial one, of this nobleman.

Ellis, in his Specimens of early English Poetry,
has given a very indifferent taste of liis lordship's
poetical abilities. The following lines have cer-
tainly more merit tlian those hitluTto liefore the
public as lord Digby 's composition, and have the ad-
ditional value of appearing m print for the first time.''

Fair Archabella, to tliy eyes

That flame just blushes in the skies

Each noble heart doth sacrifice.

Yet be not cruell, since you may,
When ere you please, or saue or slay,
Or, with a frowne, benight the day.

" [The lord Bristol, who pretended not to be of the court
of Rome, tho' he profesl himself of that church, if he may lie
believed in what he nrolesied to the house of commons, had
given king CharleJ the same advice vvl)ich had been given to
Hen. IV. ' if he would be truly great, to be more a Pro-
te^ta^t than he was.' Plain Engliih, KigO, 4to. Kennet.]

' [According to Downcs, the prompter, lord Digby as-
sisted sir Sanuiel Tuke in

The Adventures of Five Hours, folio, lC63, &c. and pro-
duced two plays, chiefly taken from the Spanish :

1. 'Tis heller than it was.

2. Worse and Worse. Neither of which have been
printed.]

' [From a manuscript in Dr. Rawlinson's collection in the
Bodleian library.]

I6"7i.

1105

DIGBY.

PRICE.

]\m

I do not wish that you should rest
In any imknown, high-way breast,
The lodgin of each common guest ;

But I present a bleeding heart
Wounded by loue, not prickt by art,
That neucr knew a fonner smart.

Be pleas'd to smile, and then I Hue,
But if a frownc, a death you giue.
For which it were a sin to greive.

Yet, if it be decreed I fall.

Grant but one Ikkju, one boon is all —

That you would me your martyr call.

George, lord Digby.

The best head of lord Digby is that by Hollar, in
folio, dated 1642 ; there is a small one by Stent,
which is curious, and one by Houbraken from a
picture of Vandyke's.]

[582] JOHN PRICE, or Pnic.Eusas he writes himself

in his books, wherein he shews himself the greatest
critic of his time, was born in London, as one of his
contemporaries' hath informed 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 retuiue of ISIr. Howard one of the sons of Tho.
earl of Arundel, he being then a R. Catholic. At
length he went beyond the seas, and .settling for a
time in a certain university there, took the degree,
as 'tis said, of doctor of law, for by that name or
title he was written when he Iwrrowed an old MS.
copy of L. Apuleius from archb. Laud's MSS. in
Bodley's library. Afterwards he returned into Eng-
land, where continuing for some time, he went into
Ireland, and was taken into the service of Tho. earl
of Strafford lord lieutenant of that realm, and then
became acquainted with Dr. Usher the learned and
reUgious primate thereof. But the said most noble
count being brought into trouble and qucstion'd by
the parliament in 1640, he returned into England,
and published certain pamphlets for the king's 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 alwut 16.52, 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.-
Afterwards the said duke made him professor of the

'■> Tho. Lockey D.D. canon of Ch. Ch.

' [Joh. Price JEd. Ch. alumnus, made two verses on the
death of qu. Ann, who died 2 Mar. I6l8, in Annce Funebria
sacra. VVoon, MS. Note in Ashmote.']

'- [This is chiefly talien from his letter to archbishop
Usher, dated at Florence, 1053. See Usher's Life and Letters,
by Parr, page 5(J5 to 508. CoLE.l

Vol. III.

Greek language in the university of Pisa, where he
was held in great veneration not only for his great
sufficiencies in that tongue, but also m divinity, for
his great knowledge in the fathers, and in polite and
curious Icamirtg. His works are,

Notai (§• Ohiervationes in Apologiam L. Apnlei
Madaurensis Philosophi Platotiici. Par. 1635, qu.
To which are added certain fragments of antitjuity,
in copper cuts.

MatthausexS.Pagina,sanctis PatribiuiGracviq;
ac Lat'mis Gentium Scriptoribus ex Parte illustra-
tm. Par. 1646. oct.

Annotationci in Epistolam Jacobi. Par. 1646, in
a little octav. [WAX. 8vo. P. 12. Th. Scld.]

Acta Apostolorum ex S. Pagina, Sanctis Pa-
trihus Gra'cisgue ac Latinis Gentium Scriptoiibus
illustrata. Par. 1647, in tw. [Bodl. 8vo. P. 11. Th.
Seld.]

In uTidecim ApuleiancE MetamorpJioseos, sive
Milesiarum Libros Annotationes ubet-iorcs. Goud.
1650, in a large thick oct. [Bodl. 8vo. A. 2. Art.
Seld.] With Pricseus his picture before it, in a
cloak. Towards the pubUsliing of this \yook, he
borrowed an ancient copy of it from archb. Laud's
MSS.

Intlex Scriptorum, qui in Hesychii Grccco Voca-
bularia laiidantur, cmifectus, <§• alphabctico dis/Mr
situs. This is printed at the end of the former
lx)ok, viz. In undecivi, &c. 'Tis also printed at the
end of Hesychius' s Lexicon, published by Corn.
Schrevelius, an. 1668.

Commentarii in varies Novi Testamcnti Libros.
Involved in the fifth tome of the Critic;. — Lond.
1G60, fol. Among these his commentaries, arc
those on Mattherc, the Acts of the Apo.itles, and
James before-niention'd, remitted.

Annotationes in Psalmorum Librum. Involved
in the said 5 tome of Critics. Lond. 16(50. fol.

Epistles to sex'eral learned Men in Lat. and

English. This great critic, who had a rambling

head, left the territory of tliegrccTt duke of Tuscany,
and went to Venice under pretence of putting out
Hesychius his Lexicon there ; and afterwards going
to Rome, he was received, as I have heard, into the
retinue, or at least patroutago, of the famous card.
Franc. Barberini the protector of the English na-
tion, hved in his last days in the convent of St.
Augustiu in that great city, where dying in sixteen
hundred seventy and six, or thereabouts, was buried
in the church or chappel there. I have sent once
or twice for the'exact time of his obit, and for a copy
of his epitaph, if there be any over his grave ; but
as yet I have received no answer. I shall make
mention of another John Price among the incorpo-
rations in the Fasti, under the year 1680, but he
was doctor of divinity.

[The learned Junius in his £(y»io/f;^«</rt Angli-
canum, under the word ' gor-bellieci,' gives sonje
Greek lines by Agathias De publico amvarw Sniyr-
mr constructo, and adds

4B

1G7O.

[583]

1107

HICKS.

CAWTON.

1108

1677.

' Quos versus vo lilmitius adscripsi, ut eadcm
opera, in luemoriain (luetissinii et milii longa; aniici-
tiae coiitulM>rniicjue usu quondam conjunctissinii viri
Jo. Prictti,aildi'renielegantissimamcoruin versioncni,

I)rout is, (luein dixi, Pricffius eos 'lingua patria
udens transtulit.

Tlic most delicious cates, the costliest cheere,
Have lost their pleasant taste when emptied here.
Pheasants and high-priz'd fish, with sawces neat,
And all the coz'ning art of dressing meat.
Prove here but dung : here doth tlie beUie put
The load of all tliat pass'd the hungrie gut.
And men at length find how they play'd the fooles,
So dear to buy that which goeth out m stooles.']

GASPER HICKS a minister's son, was born in
Berks, entred a batler or com. of Trin. coll. in Mich,
term 1621, aged 16 years, took the degrees in arts,
holy orders, and at length became vicar of Lanerakc
in Cornwall, where he continued a constant preacher
under the name of a puritan several years. At
length upon the change of the times, he openly ex-
pressed his zeal for the cause in his sermons, ^iiore
tlian before he had done: but finding that place
uneasy to liiui, when the royalists were domi-
nant in that country, he retired to the great city, be-
came one of the assembly of divines, a frequent
E readier in London, and sometimes a holder-forth
efore tlie members of tlie long parliament. After-
wards upon the declining of the king's cause, lie
returned figain to Ills vicaridge, and had something
added to it in consideration of liis sufferings. In
1654 he was apjxiinted an assistant to the commis-
sioners of Cornwall for the ejecting such whom
they then called scandalous, ignorant and insufficient
ministers and sclioolmasters, and ever after, till the
act of conformity came forth, he was esteemed there
the chief of the prcsbyterian ministers. He hath
published.

Several sermons, as (1) The Glory and Beauty
ofGocTs Portion, Fast-sermon before the H. ofCom-
vimis 26 Jun. 1644 ; on Isa. 28. 5, 6. Lond. 1C44,
qu. [Bodi. 4to. H. 7. Th. BS.] Tlie author com-
plaining either in this, or another sermon, that he
had been plundred and wanted books, the Iioiise of
commons gave iiim 30/. to buy more. (2.) Senn.
at the Funeral of Will. Strode Enq; a Member of
the H. of Com. 22 Sept. 1645 ; on Acts 13. 36.
Lond. 164.5. qu. [Bodl. 4to. H. 6. Th. BS.] (3)
The Advantage of Afflictions ; Fast-.icrm. before
the H. of Lords 28 Jan. 1645; on Rosea 5. 15.
Lond. 1645, qu. [Bodl. 4to. H. 7. Th. BS.] and
other things, as 'tis probable, which I have not yet
.seen. After the act of conformity was published,
he was turn'd out of Lanerake, lived there, and near
it, several years, not without keeping up private
meetings, for which he was sometimes brouglit into
trouble : at length giving way to fate in .sixteen hun-
dred seventy and seven, was, according to his desire,
buried in the porch of the parish church of Lane-

rake before-mention'd. At his interment on the
10th of Apr. the same year, were present very many
of the godly party living near to, and remote from,
that place.

THOjMAS CAWTON son of Tho. Cawton a
learned and I'cligious puritan (sometime of Queen's
coll. in Cambridge) was bom, as it seems, at Wiven-
hoe near to Colchester in Essex, his father being
then parson of that ]jlace, educated in the Hebrew,
Syriac and Arabic tongues at Roterdam in Holland
under Mr. Rob. Sheringham, then an exile for his
loyalty, asTlio. Cawton the father' was for preach-
ing against the murder of king Charles I. and for
being in the same plot with Christoph. Love, for the "
raising of moneys to supply the army of king
Charles II. when he was about to come into Eng-
land (from Scotland) to gain his right there. After-
wards our author Tho. Cawton was by his father
setled in the university of Utrecht ; whence, after he
had spent 3 years in academical learning, he came
into England, and at length to Merton coll. in Oxon.
for the sake, if I mistake not, of Mr. Sam. Clarke
an eminent orientalian : where, at his first coming,
and after, he was much esteemed, and held in great
respect for his admirable knowledge in tiie oriental
tongues. In the beginning of the year 1660 he was
admitted bach, of arts, at which time was publicly
read his testimonial, dated 18 May 1659, subscribed
liy Joli. Leiisden the ordinary professor of the holy
tongue in Utrecht. Wherein, among other things,

I find * tliis of Cawton ' Totuni Vetus Testamen-

turn Hebraicum partim punctatum, partim non

punctatum perlegit & explicuit Regulas gram-

maticiE & syntaxcos Ilebraicaj optime perdidiscit.
Dcinde in lingua Chaldaica Daniehs & paraplirasibus
Chaldaicis, in lingua Syriaca Novi Test. & in lingua
Arabica, & commentariis Rabbinorum strenue sese
exercuit. Denique quaestiones philologico-Hcbrai-
cas circa Vetus Test. Hcbra^um moveri solitas, ita
perdidiscit, ut summo cum honore duas disputationes
philologicas publice defenderit, priorem de versione
Syriaca Vetcris & Novi Test, posteriorem vero, de
usu linguae Hebraicae in pliilosophia theoretica, il-
lius fuit respondens, hujus vero author & resjwndens.
Certe in disputatione hac componenda & in ejustlem
strenua def^nsione, ingenium &, eruditionem suain
omnibus palam fecit,' &c. Afterwards our author
Cawton continuing for some time in Mert. coll. was
at length, upon the resetling of the English liturgy
in the university, called thence, and afterwards
setling within the city of Westminster, lived a non-
conformist and kept religious meetings in private
to his last. His works, besides the former, are
these,

Dissertatio de Usu Linmioe Hebraicae, in Philo-
sophia Theoretica. Printed at Utrecht. [1659, 4to,

^ [See a letter from king Charles to the father, in Ken.
net's Register and Chronicle, pa§e 728.]
* Reg. Convoc. Un. Ox. qood iiicipil 1659. p. 9.

[584]

1109

HOLLAND.

RYVES.

1110

Bodl. Mar. 148.] And wrote also tlie life of his
father entit.

The Life and Death of that holy and rev. Man
of God Mr. Tlio. Cawtcni sometime Minister of the
Gospel at S. Bartholomezv's behind ths Royal Ex-
change, and lately P?-eacher to the English Congre-
gation of Rotterdam in Holland, &c. I^ond. 1662.
Oft. The life tho' it seems to be written by another
person, yet the son was the author ; who caused to
be added to it his father's sermon entit. God's
Rule for a godly Life, &c. preached hefore the I^rd
Mayor and his Brethren the Aldermen of London
at Mercer's Chappel the ^th of Feb. 1648 ; on
Philip. 1. 27. Lond. 1662; being the sermon for
whicli the author was committed prisoner to the
Gatehouse in Westminster.

Balaarns Wish : or, the Vanity of desiring with-
out endeavouring to obtain the Death of the Up-
right. Lond. 1670. 75. oct. 'tis a sermon. He died
igy,_ on the tenth day of Apr. in sixteen hundred seventy
and seven, aged 40 years or tliereabouts, and was
burled in the new church in Tuttle street within the
city of Westminister ; at which time Mr. Hen. Hurst
his friend, and sometime fellow collegian, spoke be-
fore a large auditory a funeral discourse : In the
latter end of which are many things deservedly said
of the defunct ; which being made public, I refer
the reader to it.

[Add to Cawton :

I'hilologi Mixti Dispntatio nona, qua; est De
Versione Syriaca Vet. et Novi Test. Utrech. 1657,
4to. Rodl. Mar. 274.

Disputationumex Theologia Naturali Sclectariim
Decima Septima continens Decisionem Qu(cstionis,
An Dcus crearc pos-fit Creaturam perfectissimam ?
Ultrajecti 1658. 4to. Bodl. Mar. 274.]

RICHARD HOLLAND was born within the
city of Lincoln, and for a time educated in this
university, but took no degree. Afterwards he
taught the grounds of getigraphy and mathematics
among the young scholars for aliout 50 years, grew
wealthy, <ind being always sedulous in his employ-
ment, several afterwards became eminent by his in-
struction. He wrote for their use,

Globe Notes. Oxon. 1678. oct. sec. edit, [and
1684, Bodl. 8vo. K. 27. Th.]

Notes how to get the Angle of the Parallax, nr a
Comet. Oxon. 1668. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. L. 5. Line]
1677. He died on the first day of May in sixteen hundred
seventy and seven, aged 81 years, and was buried
very deep behind the south door of the parish church
of St. Peter in the East within the citv of Oxon.
His employment in instructing yoimg scholars, was
afterwards taken up by Job. Caswell M. A. of Wad.
coll. afterwards vice-principal of Hart hall. Besides
this Rich. Holland, is another of both his names,
M. A. and rector of St. George's church in Stanford
in Lincolnshire, author of one or mere sermons.

BRUNO RYVES, kinsman to Dr. The. Ryves
mentioned under the year 1651. col. 304. was horn
in Dorsetshire, matle one of the clerks of New coll.
in 1610, where continuing till he was bach, of art.s,
became one of the ciiaplains of Magd. coll. 1616.
Soon after he proceeded in arts, iK-came a most
noted and florid preacher, viciir of Stanwell in Mid-
dlesex, rector of St. Martin's de le Vintry in Lon-
don,* chaplain to his majesty Charles I. and in
1639 proceeded doct. ol' div. But the rebellion
breaking out soon after, he was sequestred of his
rectory uy the pre.sbyterians, plunder'd and forced
to fly ; and at length losing his vicaridge, he shifted
from place to place, and by the favour of his ma-
jest}' had the deanery of Chichester ' and the master-
ship of the hospital there confcrr'd ujMin him, tho'
little or no profit accrued thence till after the restora-
tion of king Charles II. About which time being
sworn chaplain in ord. to him, had the deanery of
Windsor confcr'd on him, in which he was installed [585]
3 Sept. 1660, and so consequently was dean of
Wolverhampton in Staffordshire. Afterwards he
became rector of Acton in Middlesex,' was sworn
scribe of the most noble order of the Garter, 14 Jan.
1660, and about that time was made rector of
Haseley near to, and in the county of, Oxford ;
which, I think, is annexed to his deanery, as the
deanery of Wolverhampton is, but all separated
by Mr. Baxter » thereby to make him a great plu-
ralist, without any consideration had to his great
sufferings occasion'd by the presbyterians. He hath
written,

Mcrcurius Rnsticus: or, the Counfrie''s Com-
plaint, recounting the sad Events of this unpa-
ralleVd War. — Which Mercuries, in number at
least 19, commenciug from 22 Aug. 1642, came out
in one sheet, sometimes in two, in qu.

Merc. Rustic. The second Part, in Number 5,
giving an Account <)f Sacrileges in, and upon, se-
veral Cathedrals. After the war was ended, all

these Mercuries were pr. an. 1646 [Bodl. 8vo. B.
39s. Line] and 47. in oct. and had to them added
(1) A general Bill of Mortality of the Clergy of
Londo?i, 4'c. Or, a brief Martyrology and Cata-
logue of the learned, grave, religious, painful Mi-
nisters of the City of Lond. who have been imprison''d,
plundered, ^c.for their Constancy to the Protestant
Religion and their Loyalty fiom 1641 to 1647,
about which time it came out by it self in one sheet
only, pr. on one side. (2) Querela Cantabrigiensis :

* [Bruen Ryves A. M. admiss. ad eccl. S. Martini Vintry,
L'lntl. niense Sept. l028, per promot. Joh. Leisley ad episc.
insularmn in Scotia. Kennet.]

^ [Bruno Ryves S. T. P. in decanatu Cicestr. installalus
Jiilii 12, 1C60. Kennet.]

' [Anton. Sanders S. T. P. coll. ab arch. Cant, ad rect.
de Acton com. Middl. 23 Aujt. 1677, per mort. Bruini
Ryves. Reg. Lond. Kennet.]

" In his Addilianal Notes on Ihe Life and Death nf Sir
Mall. Hale, &c. Lond. ifise. oct. pag. 'i:t.

4B2

nil

BERKLEY.

WOODROFFE.

1677.

or, a Remonstrance by Wiii/ of' Apohgy for the
banixhed Members of thejtourishiiiff University of
Camirridffe. Written by a Member thereof (3)
Micro-Chronicon : or, a brief Chroiiokffy of the
Tinw and Place of t]i£ Battles, Sieges, Conjiicts,
and other remarkable Passages, which have hapned
betictjct his Majesty and the Parliament, from the
Beginning of tJie unhappy Dissent-ions to the iioth
of Mar. 1647. AN'hich Micro-Chron. I take to be
written by our autlior Ryves, and to have been
partly collected by him from England's Iliads in a
Nutshell, written by George Wharton. (4) A Ca-
talogue of the Names of all, or most Part of, the
Lords, Knights, Comvumders, and Persons of' Qna^
I'lty skiin, or executed by Lazo Martial, on both
Skies, from the Beginning of this unnatural War,
to the !^th of Mar. 1647. This also I take to be
collected by Ryves. The reader may be pleased
now to take notice, that that edition of Merc. lius-
ticus which came out in 1647, had more in it tlian
that of 1646. However Rich. Royston the book-
seller being minded to make another edition, he fol-
lowed only that wliich came out in 1646, so that
the third edit.' which he made in 1685 hath less in
it than that of 1647. Dr. Ryves hath also written
and published

Several sermons, as (1) Serm. on 1 Tim. 6. 10

Pr. in qu. 1652. (2) Fun. Serm. on 2 Tim.

4. 7. Pr. 1656. qu. (3) Serm. before the H. of

Commons, 15 Jan. 1661. Whether printed I

know not a-s yet, for I have not seen it. He tUed
at Windsor on the 13th day of July in sixteen hun-
dred seventy and seven, and was buried in the alley
or isle joyning on tlie south side to his majesty's
chappel of St. George there. Over his grave is this
inscription on a marble fastned to the south wall.
Rrunus Ryves, S. Theologian Professor, Reg. ma-
jestati a sacris, liberarum Windsorensis & WoLver-
liamptonensis capcllarum, a restitutione sereniss.
Caroli II. Regis Dccanus primus ; nobilissimi ordinis
•k Periscelidc Scriba,

Fide 1 f Regis ^

Zelo >.in rebus-] Ecclesise ,- pr(
Affcctu 3 (^Regni j

omovendis.

.Toto nupera; rebellionis temjwre nemini secundus,
celeberrimis hujus scH;uli concionatoribus, a primo
juventutis flore ad extremam usque senectam annu-
meratus, hie sepultus jacet, beatam cxpectans re-
surrectionem. Obiit Julii 13. an. Dom. 1677. antatis
suae 81. Some are pleased to say tliat this Dr.
Ryves hath written An Exposition on the Church
■Catechism, printed in qu. but mistaken, as I con-
ceive, because it seems to have been written by one
Edm. Reeves. Qua?re.

[586] WILLIAM BERKLEY, a knight's son, was

b(»D of an ancient and honourable family near to,

* [There is a fourth edit. Loud. 1783. Lovedav.]

and in the dicK-ese of, London, elected jirobationcr
fellow of Merton coll. in 1625, and four yeai-s after
was admitted master of arts. In 1630 he travelled
into various countries, and at his return was much
valued for his experience and knowledge in many
matters. In 1646 lie was sent to Virginia about
pubhc concerns, and in I66O, when colonel Mat-
thews the then governour of that country died, this
our author being then a knight, was (in consideration
of the service he had done there in defending the
people thereof from being kill'd by the natives, and
destroying the great numlwr of the Indians without
the loss of three men of iiis ow n) made governour
thereof by the unanimous votes of all that country,
and there continued in that honourable office tdl
1676, in which year he was sent for into England,
where he soon finishetl his course. He hath written.

The lost Lady, a Trag. Ccm. Lond. 1639. fol.

Descript'ion of Virginia Printed in fol. and

said in the title to be perfbrm'd by an eye-witness.

The Lazes of Virg'inia noio in Force, collected
out of tlve Assembly Records, and digested into one
Vol. revised and cwifirmed by the grand Assembly,
23 Mar. 1661, &c. Lond.' 16G2. fol. Published
by Franc. Moryson, and by him dedicated to sir
Will. Berkley, in whose epistle 'tis said that sir
William was author of the most and best of tiie said
laws, and that little addition had been made to what
he himself had done during the time of his govern-
ment, only what vitious excrescencics had grown in
the body of them, by the corrupt humour of the
times. This sir Will. Berkley was buried in the
middle chancel of the parish church of Twittenham
or Twickenham near Hampton Court in Middlesex
on the 13th of July in sixteen hundred seventy and
seven. Afterwards a vault being made for the lord
J. Berkley in the south chancel of the said church,
sir William's body was removed to it, and there de-
posited 4 Septemb. 1678. " For this sir "William
" Berkley was younger brother as it seems to the
" said John lord Berkley of Stretton. The reader
" may also further know, that Charles lord Berkley
" son and heir of John lord Berkley died of the
" small-pox in the Mediterranean sea, 6 March
" 1681, and was buried at Twittenham by his father

" This Charles dying without issue, was

" succeeded in his honour and estate by his next
" brother John, afterwards an admiral at sea, and
" the same, who with his fleet l)ombarded and burnt
" down Dieppe in France, and liombarded Havre
" de Grace m the same country in July 1694. "'

TIMOTHY WOODROFFE .son of Rich.
Woodroffe sometime vicar of Sherton, and after-
wards rector of Garsdon near Malmsbury in Wilts,
was born in tliat county, (at Sherston as it seems)
educated in grammar learning at Malmsbury under
Rob. Latymer, who taught school there 40 years,
and was master to Tho. Hobbes the I'anious philo-

»677

WAGSTAFFE.

SQUIRE.

1114

soplier. In 1610, T. Wtwdr. hc\na then sixteen
years of age, he was sent to Baliol coll. in Lent
term, and then matriculated as a minister's .son.
After he had taken the degrees in arts he translated
himself to St. ^Vlban's hall, and as a member thereof
he was admitteil and proceeded master of that fii-
culty. About that time he entred into holy orders,
and became chaplain in the family of the St. Johns
of Lidyard St. Johns in his own country, but before
he had continued long there, he, by the favour of
Dr. Williams bishoj) of Line, and lord keeper of
the great seal of England, was prcfer'd to the vica-
ridge of Inglesham near Highworth in Wilts, which
being about fourteen or more miles from Oxon, gave
him the opjxirtunit}' of spending much of his time
in Bal. college, where he set up a divinity lecture,
and himself read it for several years, he being then
bach, of divinity. In the beginning of the civil war
he suffered much by both armies, and was plun-
deretl of a very good library : Whereupon he left
his living and removed to London, and thence with-
out his seeking lie was invited to Great Dunmow in
Essex, where he was received as an angel, and be-
[587] came a frequent preacher. Not long after he was
invited by sir Rol). Harley knight of the Bath ' to
be one of the jjrcachers in the minster or cath. at
Hereford ; from whence by his favour he was again,
in the year 1649, removed to the parsonage of
Kingsland in the same county ; where, after many
years painful preaching, and much good done in
the neighbourhood by the practice of physic (wherein
he always gave his advice and remedies gratis) he
finished his course. He hath written and pub-
lished.

Heavens Alarum, ^-c. Sermon on Hosea 4. 3, 4.
Lond. in tw.

A religious Treatise upon ShneoiCs Song: or
Instructions advertising Jiow to live holily and dye
happily. Lond. 1659. oct. Built on Luke 2. 29,
30. and composed for the use of sir Rob. Harley
before-mentioned, when weakness and old age con-
fin'd him to his chamber. Before this book is a
commendatory epistle subscribed by Job. Row and
S. Wood, who stile the said book ' a sound and sa-
vory discourse, and such that wanteth not a pleasant
quickness to hold on the reader's appetite,' &c.
He died in the month of August in sixteen hundred
1677. seventy and seven, and was buried in the church of
Kingsland before-mentioned. Among several chiU
dren that he lett behind him at the time of his death,
were Tim. Woodroffe sometime of Magd. coll. now
a physician at St. Albans in Hertfordshire, and Ben-
jamin Woothoffe D. of D. and canon of Ch. Ch. in
Oxon.

JOHN WAGSTAFFE son of John WagstafFe

' [August 11, Friday, l()43, sir Rob. Harley was made
lieutenaot of tlie Tower, in the place of sir John Conicrs,
and he in the room of sir Will. Balfour. Wood, MS. Note
in Ashjnole.']

citizen of London, descended from those of iiis name
of Hasland hall in Derbyshire, was born in Cheap>
side within the city of London, became a aimmoner
of Oriel coll. in the latter end of 1649, took the de-
grees in arts, and applied himself to the study of
politics and other learning. At length l)eing caJl'd
from an academical life to the inheritance of" Has-
land by the death of an uncle, who died without
male-issue, he spent his life afterwards in a single
estate. But before he left Oxon he wrote and pub-
lished.

Historical Reflections on tJie Hisli/yp of Rome^
chiefly discovering those Events of humane AffairM
which most advance tlie Papal Usurpation. Oxon.
1 660. qu. [Bodl. B. 23. 10. Line] This book, tho'
much commendcxl at its first appearance, yet the
author was laughed at, because that he, being a
little cr(M)ked man, and of a despicable presence,
should adventure to encounter with so great a per-
son as the pope. After he had left the university
he wrote and published.

The Question of Witchcrcift debated : Or, a Dis-
course against their Opinion tliat affirm Witches.
Lond. 1B69. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. W. 78. Th.] To
which is added Lucian's Dialogue, called Lovers of
Lyes, translated by another hand. But an answer
coming out against the said book, entit. The Opinion
of Witchcraft vindicated, Lond. 1670. oct. written
by R. T. and reflections made on it by Dr. Ca-
saubon in his book OJ" Credulity and Incredulity ^
our author Wagstaffe came out with a second

edition, and additions therein. 'Lond. 1671. oct.

[Bodl. 8vo. P. 248. Th.] For the writing of which
book he was also laughed at by wfigs of this imiver-
sitv, because, as they said, he himself look'd hke a
little wizard. It was also frequently rejjortetl, that
he was author of a libellous pamphlet entit. Sundry
Things from several Hands concerning the Uni-
versity of Oxford, viz. {V) A Petition Jrom some
well ciff'ected therein. (2) A Model Jor a College
Rcfornuition. (3) Queries concerning the said
University, and several Persons therein. I^ond.
I659. 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 en-
deavoured to lay it at the door of Wagstaffe, who
dying in his lodgings opposite to the end of Chan-
cery-lane in Holbourn on the second day of Septemb.
in sixteen hundred seventy and seven, aged 44 or lfi77.
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, occasioned by a deep conceit
of his own parts, and by a continual bibbing of
strong and high tasted liquors.

WILLIAM SQUIRE or EsauiKE, wliose father [588]
was a proctor in the archbishop's court at York,
was born in Yorkshire, entred a student in Triiv
hall in Cambridge, an. J 647, took the degree of

1115

SQUIRE.

HARRINGTON.

«

bach, of arts in that university, 1G50; went thence
to Oxon for proferment, and entring himself a batlcr
in Brasen-n. coll. was incorporated in this university
in the same degree in 1652. Soon after obtiuning
a cliaplainship 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 ma-
esty''s restoration, was by the favour of Dr. Sheldon
ishop of London, promoted to the rectory of Ilau-
laston or Rolleston in Derby.shire, near Burton upon
Trent in Staffordshire. Afterwards, being sensible
of the increase of jxjpery in the nation, he published
these two books.

The Unreasonableness of the Romanists, re-
quiring our Communion zoith the present Romish
Church : or, a Discourse drawn from the Per-
pkxity and Uncertainty of the Principles, and
from the Contradictions betwixt tJie Prayers and
Doctrine, of the present Romish Church, to prove
t/iat it is unreasonable to require us to joyn in
Communion with it. Lond. 167!i. oct.

Some more Considerations, proving the Un-
reasonableness of the Romanists, in requiring us to
return to the Communion of the present Romish
Chuj-ch. Lond. 1674. oct. He died at Raulaston
before-mentioned, in the beginning of September, in
1677. sixteen liundred 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 Thomas
Wickham mast, of arts of Tnn. 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 16ii9, left it before he took a degree, tra-
velled into France, Germany and Italy, learned the
languages of those countries, returned an accom-
plisn''d gentleman, and afterwards for some years
waited u|X)n the jjrince elector Palatine in his cham-
ber. In the beginning of the civil war 1642 he
sided with the presbytcrians, and endeavoured to
get into the house of commons to sit as a member
there, but could not. In January 1646 he went as
a voluntier with the commissioners appointed by
parliament to go to the king at Newcastle, to treat
for a peace tmd settlement, and bring him nearer to
London. In the month of May 1647, he, with
Thorn. Herbert, were admitted grooms of the bed-
chamber to the said king then at Holdenby in
Northamptonshire, upm the di.smissing first of some
of his old servants, and secondly up<in the desire of
the commissioners, they being ordered so to do by
the parliament. His majesty, it seems, liad taken
notice, that those two {x;rsons had followed the
court since his coming from Newcastle : and being
satisfied -with the report he liad received concerning
them, as to their sobriety and good education, was
wilUng to receive them into his service to wait upon

his person in his bed-c-hamber, with Mr. Jam. Max-
well, and Mr. Patrick Maule (afterwards earl of
Penmaure in Scotland) who were then the only
persons of the bed-chamber that were remaining.
AVhile our author Harrington was in this capacity,
his majesty loved Jiis company, and did chusc rather
(finding him to be an ingenious man) to discourse
with him, than with the others of the chamber.
They had often discourses concerning government,
but when they hapncd to talk of a commonwealth,
the king seemed not to endure it. At that time it
was that Harrington finding his majesty quite an-
other 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 afTected with him, and took all occasions
to vindicate him in what company soever he hapned
to be ; but then again it being sometimes impru-
dently done, he did suffer for it in those captious
times, as by this story 'twill appear. His majesty
being hurry'd away from Holdenby to the heatl-
quarters of the army, and from thence conveyed by [5891
slow paces to Hampton-Court, and thence jugled
into tlie isle of Wig-lit, (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. 1G48, it hapned that Harrington, who was
then with his majesty 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 parliament army, concerning the late treaty
at Newport, wherein he magnified the king's wis-
dom in his arguments with tlie commissioners ujxin
the propositions for peace, and satisfaction the par-
liament had in his concessions, and probability in a
happy event, if this force in removing him to Hurst
Castle had not intervened and made an unhappy
fracture, (which created parties) enlarging also upon
his majesty's learned disputes with Mr. Rich. Vines
and other presbyterian dnines 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 author's example was evidenced.
For those captious persons with whom lie held dis-
course being full of jealousy, and apt to wrest his
words to the worst sense, they withdrew a little, and
at their return they told him plainly they were dis-
satisfied 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 satis-
faction and their better understanding, they inter-
rupted him, and told him in plain terms they could
not suffer his attendance' any longer about the
king. Which proceedings and dismiss, without

« So have I been informecl by letters from Mr. Tho. Her-
bert, made a baronet by king tharles 11.

HARRINGTON.

in«

390]

acquainting him with the occasion, was ill resented
by the king, who had Harrington in good esteem,
looking upon him as a gentleman qualified with
special parts, and having found him trusty, his ser-
vice was the more acceptable, yet blamed him never-
tlieless for not being more wary amongst men that
were at such a time full of jealousies, and very
little obliging to his majesty. Being thus dismist,
and Herbert only left to attend the king in his
chamber, I think he was never admitted agam when
the king was afterwards conveyed to Windsor, and
so to St. James's. However he was with him on the
scaffold when he suffered death, where, or else a
httle before, he received a pledge of his majesty's
affection. From tliat time always, even wlien Oliver
reigned, he would speak of the said king with the
greatest zeal and passion imaginable, and would
often say to his companions, that his death gave him
so great grief, that he contracted a disease by it, and
that never any thing went more near to him than
the death of that most wise and pious prince. Be-
fore I go any farther with Harrington, I will here
make a little digression concerning the condition
then of his majesty. Herbert was only then left to
wait upon the king in his bed-chamber, (for the
other two were Ijefore dismist) who, tho' sickly, and
in an aguish condition, yet he held out by his care-
ful observing his majesty's instructions : without
which, as the times then were, it had been imjws-
sible for him to have kept his station. To this de-
plorable condition his majesty being thus reduced,
he could not chuse but have some melancholy ap-
prehensions, as indeed he had, for accordingly about
midnight there was an unusual noise in the said
Hurst-Castle, that awakened him out of his sleep,
and was in some marvel to hear the draw-bridge let
down at that unseasonable hour, and some horsemen
enter, who being alighted, the rest of the night was
in a deep silence. The king being desirous to know
the matter, he rung his silver bell long before break
of day ; (which, with both his watches, he usually
laid upon a stool near the wax lamp that was set
near them in a large silver bason) ujx)n which call,
Herbert o{)ened the bed-chamber door to know his
majesty's pleasure. The king told him he would
rise ; and as he was making ready, he ask'd him if
he heard a noise that was made about midnight.
Herbert answer'd he did, as also the falling of the
draw-bridge, but he being shut up in the back-stair
room next to the bed-chamber, and the door by the
governour's order being bolted without, he neither
could nor would, without his majesty's order, ad-
venture out at such a time of night. The king
then bid him go and learn what the matter was,
which he did accordingly, and knocking at the back-
st^r door, the soldiers unbolted it without ; so that
entring into the next room he happily found captain
(Joh.) Reynolds' there alone by a fire, and after

' [Joh. Reynolds capt. of horse for the parliament 1O4O'.
Wood, MS. Note in Ashmole-I _ . -

some discourse, he enquired of him who they were
that came so very late nito the ca.stle last night, and
their errand. The captain in a joking way bad liini
be wary in carrying news to the IdlBg, for he was
among sujjercilious superintendants, and his comrade
was served for an example. Herbert thanked him
for his friendly caution, and at length got out of liini
who the commander was that came so late into the
castle, but would not discover what his business was.
Whereujxin he roturnetl to liis majesty, and told
him it was major Tho. Harrison that came so late
into the castle. ' Are you sure it was major Har-
rison,' said the king .' ' May it please your majesty
(said Herbert) captain Reynolds told me .so: the
king then making a little pause, .said, ' Then I be-
lieve it, but did you see major Harrison .''' ' No,
Sir,' said Herbert. Then the king said, ' Would
not captain Reynolds tell you what the majoi's
business is ?^ Herbert then reply'd, that ' he did
what he could to be informed, but all that he couhl
then learn from the captain was, that the occasion of
Harrison's coming would be known suddenly.' The
king said no more, but bad him attend him in the
next room, and forthwith his majesty went to his

Erayers. In less than an hour the king opened the
ed-chamber door, and beckoned to Herbert to
come in and make him ready. Herbert was in some
consternation to see his majesty so much discom-
posed, and wept : which the king observing, asked
him the meaning of it ; Herbert reply'd, ' Because
I perceive your majesty so much concerned at the
news I brought :' said the king thereupon, '■ I am
not afraid, but do you not know that this is the man
(Harrison) who intendeth to assassinate me, as by
letter I was informed during the late treaty .'* To
my knowledge I never saw the major, tho' I have
often heard of him, nor ever did him injury. The
commissioners indeed hearing of it, represented it
from Newport to the house of lords : What satis-
faction he gave them I cannot tell ; this I can, that
I trust in God who is my helper, I would not be
surprised, but this is a place fit for such a purpose.
Herbert, I trust to your care, go again and make
farther en((uiry into this business.' Immedifitely
after Herbert went out, and finding an opportunity
to speak in private with captain Revnolds (who
being a gentleman well educated,'' and at all essays
ready to express civility towards the king, with
whom he most times walked upon a long narrow
passage of stony groimd joyning to the castle, and
was always courteous to his servants) he told him
that the major's business wa.s to remove the king

■• [In the Inauguralio Olivariana Carmen Votivum Autore
Filz-Pagano Fishero, 1()54, 4(o. p. 98.

Epitlialamium in Nuptias itwiclissimi, generosissimiijue
vere viri Joannis Reynoldsi, Cnmmissarii generalis &c. et
speclatissima SusanncF Mildmay Henrici Mildmay mililis
liunoratissimi Jilice prcennbilis, &c.

I()62, a Octob. Job. Reynolds cler. A. M. ad reel, de Blaly
in com. Leic. perdeprivat. ult. incumb. virtute actus uniform,
legitime vac. ad pres. regis. Heg. Sanderson. Kennet.]

1110

HAllllINGTON.

thence to Windsor Castle, within three days at
farthest. Herbert Ijeheving tlie king woultl ))c
pleased with tlie exchange, by leaving tiie worst U)
enjoy tlio best castle in England, returned to his
majesty witli a mirthful countenance, little imagin-
ing (God knows) the sad consequence; but as soon
as the king lieard ^Vindsor named he seemed to re-
joyce at it. The major tarried two nights at Hurst
Castle, and when it was dark (having given ortlers
for the king's removal) he departed to the place
from whence he came, and what passed between the
king and him in liis majesty's going from Hurst
Castle to Windsor you shall liave an accoimt here-
after.' Now let's return to our author Harrington,
who when he thought that after the death of his
master, monarchy would never be restor'd, he fol-
lowed his own geny, which chiefly lay towards po-
litics iind democratical government. He made se-
veral essays in poetry, as in writing of love ver.ses,
and translating of VirgiFs Eclogues, but his muse
"was rough, and Harry Nevili an ingenious and well-
bred gentleman, and a good (but conceited) poet
being his familiar and confident friend, dissuaded
him from tampring with poetry, and to apply him-
[591] self to the improvement of his proper talent, viz.
politics and jxilitical reflections. Whercu[X)n he
wrote The Commomvealth of Oceana, and caused it
^ .to be printed* at London. At

Without his jjjg appearance of which, it was
name, hu stealth. ]»■' , , .' .

First edit. greedily bought up, and commg

into the hands of Hobbes of
Malmsbury, he would often say that H. Nevili had
a finger in that pye; and those that knew them
iwth were of the same opinion : And by that book
and liotli theii' smart discourses and inculcations
daily in coffee-houses, they obtained many prose-
lytes. In 1659, in the beginning of Midi, term,
tliey had every night a meeting at the then Turk's-
head in the New-palacc-yard at Wcstm. (the next
house to the stairs where people take water) called
Miles's coffee-house, to wliich place their disciples
and virtuosi would commonly then repair : and tticir
discourses about government and of ordering of a
comnionwefiltii, were the most ingenious and smart
that ever were heard, for the arguments in the par-
liament house were but flat to those. This gang
had a balloting box, and balloted how things should
be can-ied, 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
autiior and H. Nevili, who were the prime men of
this club, were Cyriack Skinner a merchant's son of
London, an ingenious young gentleman, and scholar
to Jo. Milton, which Skinner sometimes held the
chair; major John Wildnian, Charles Wolseley of
Staffordshire, Hog. Coke, AVill. Poultney, (after-
wards a knight) who sometimes held the cliair, Joh.
Hoskyns, Joh. Aubrey, Maximilian Pettie of Tets-

■■ [See under Thomas Harrtsoo in the Fasti, an. I'J'Jp.]

worth in Oxfordsh. a very able man in these mat-
ters, and who had more than once turn'd the coun-
cil-bt)ard of Oliver Cromwell, Mich. Mallet, Th.
Carteret of the isle of Guernsey, Franc. Cradock a

merchant, Hen. Eord, major Venner nephew

to Dr. Tob. Venner the physician, Tlio. Marriett
of Warwickshire, Hen. Croone a physician, Edw.
Bagshaw of Ch. Ch. and sometimes Hob. Wood of
Liric. 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 rotainan, and would sometimes

trouble Jo. Haarington 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 auditoi"s and spectators, would have
kick'd them down stairs, but Harrington's modeni-
tion and persuasion hindred them. The doctrine
was very taking, and the more because as to humane
foresight there was no possibility of the king's re-
turn. The greatest of the parliament men hated
this desitrn of rotation and ballotting, as being
against their power. Eight or ten were for it, of
wiich number Hen. NevUl was one, who proposetl
it to the house, and made it out to the members
thereof, that except they embraced that way of go-
vernment they would be ruined. The model 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 alter'd. No
magistrate was to continue above three years, and
all to be chosen bj' ballot ; than which choice no-
thing could be invented more fair and impartial, as
'twas then thought, tlio' opposed by many tor several
reasons. This club of commonwealths-men lastetl
till aliout the 21st of Feb. 1659; at which time the
secluded members being restored by general George
Monke, all their models vanished. After the king's
restoration, our author Harrington retired and lived
in private, but being looked upon as a dangerous
person, he, with maj. Joh. Wildman, and Praise-
god Barbon a notorious schismatic, 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. Afterwai'ds being set at liberty, he
travelled into Italy, where talking of models, com-
mon-wealths and government, he was reputed no
better than a whimsical or crack'd brain'd ])er.son.
'Tis true that his close restraint, which did not
agree with his high spirit, and hot and rambling
head, was the protarctic cause of his deliration or
madness ; I do not mean outragioiisncss, for he
would discourse rationally enough, and be facetious

" [See my IMS. Collections (British Museum) vol. xxxv,
p. 220. CoLt]

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in company, but a deep conceit and fancy that his

Kerspiration turned into flies, and sometimes into
ees. Which fancy possessed him a whole year Im.--
fore he died, his memory and discourse being then
taken away by a disease. So that he, who liad
been l)efore 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 fol-
lowing.

T7ie Commonwealth of Oceana. Lond. 1656. in
a thin folio, dedicated to Oliver lord protector, and
the model therein a<lmired by a noted author H.
Stubbe ' who was ready to crv 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 tran-
scends.' Yet the said author's mind being soon
after changed, he wrote Animadversicms on Oceana
as erroneous. The said Oceana was answer'd by
Matthew Wrenn son of Matthew bishop 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 Wad-
ham 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 tJie Commonwealth of Oceana
were not wrote by Mr. Wrenn, but composed by
the university, or at least by some eminent persons
in it; wliich is false. Soon after Wrenn wrote a
rejoynder to Harrington's reply, entit. Monarchy
ctsserted. Sec and afterwards our author wrote Po-
Uticaster, as I shall anon tell you. Mr. Rich.
Baxter also wrote something against the said Oceana
and sir Hen. Vane's Moddl: In answer to which
Harrington wrote ' a paper of gibberish' as Baxter
calls it, scorning at his ignorance in politics.
Whereupon he tlie said Baxter wrote his Political
Aplwrismes, called^ Holy Commonwealth^ pleading
in the beginning for the divine universal sovereignty
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
annex'd A Treatise of the late Wars to satisfy Sir
Franc. Nethersole by what Reascms he teas moved
to engage himself in the Parliaments War, con-

, 1 In his praf. to The Good Old Cause.
« Printer) at London l65Q. ocl.
Vol. III.

tains very many most pernicious principles and dan-
gerous tenets, and therefore were alterwards re-
tracted by the author, as having been unseasonably
printed. Many principles are taken out thence by
many of his adver.s<arie8, and thrown in his tlish and
objected against him: And in 1683, Jul. 21, the
l)ook was publickly burnt in the school-quadrangle
at Oxon, by the decree then passed in the convoca-
tion-house, as containing several matters therein
destructive to the sacred persons of princes, their
state and government, and of all human society.
Our author Harrington hath also written these
things following.

The Use and Manner of the Ballot Printed

on one side of a sheet of paper. In the middle of
which is a fair cut representing the session of ma-
gistrates belonging to a commonwealth.

The Prerogative of popular Government. A
political Discourse in two Books, the former con-
taining the first Preliminary of Oceana, enlarged,
interpreted and vindicated from all such Mistakes
or Slanders as have been alledged against it, under
the Notion of Objections. The second concerning
Ordination, against Dr. Hen. Hammond, Dr. Lct-
zarus Seaman,' and ilie Authors thojj'ollow. Lond.
1658. qu. [Bodl. 4to. H. 8. Th. BS.] The said
Lazarus Seaman had been one of the assembly of
divines, was " chaplain to the earl of Northumber-
land," master of Peterhouse in Cambridge, and
minister of AUhallowes Breadstreet in London.
Which two last places he lost after his majesty's
return, lived afterwards a nonconformist, mostly in
Warwick-court near Warwick-Lane in London,
where he died alxjut the 9th of Sept. 1675, much
lamented by the brethren in regard he was a learned
man. He hath two or more sermons extant, preached
before the long parliament, and A Vindication of
the Judgment of the reformed Churches concerning
0?-dination and Laying on of Hands, &c. Lond.
1647. qu. and other things.

Aplwrismes political. Lond. 1659. qu. [Bodl. C,
9. 8. Line] " 25 Aug. in 1 sh. and half, in number
76. but the sec. edit, is" in two sh. and half, and
therein they are in number 120.

Politicaster : or, a comical Discourse in Answer
to Mr. Wrenn's Book entit. Monarchy asserted,
against Mr. Harringtmi's Oceana. Lond. 1659.

Brief Direction shewing how a fit and perfect
Model of popular Government maybe made,Jbund,
or understood. Lond. 1659- in two parts. The
first containes 10 models ; the second part proposeth
a model of a commonwealth fitted unto the present
state of this nation, under five propositions or heads.
Printed in 3 sh. and a half.

9 [Lazar. Seaman coll. Eraan. A.B. I6S7-8. Jteg. Acad.
Baker.

See an account of him in Calamy (Ejected Ministers, ii,
1 6.) who says that his library was the first disposed of, in
England, by way of auction. It yielded, he adds, seNen hun-
dred pounds.]

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The Art of Laio-givitig. Lond. 1659. irv a little

oct

Pour Enclouer le Canon. Lond. 1659- in one sh.
in qu.

Discourse upoti this Sayiiifr .- The Spirit of the
NcUio^t is not yet to be trusted with Liberty, leH it
introduce Monarchy, or invade the Liberty of Con-
science. Lond. 1659. hi two sh. in qu.

A Propo.tition in Order to the Proposing of a
Commonwealth or Democracy — Pr. on one side of a
sh. of pjiper.

Discourse shewing that the Spirit of Parliaments,
with a Council in tJie Intervals, is not to be trusted
Jbr a Settlement, lest it introduce Monarchy and Per-
secution for Conscience. Lond. 1659. in one sli. and
an half. At the end are Certain Maxims calculated
unto the present State of England, by the same
hand.

A Parallel of the Spirit of the People with the
Spirit of Mr. Rogers. And an Appeal thereupon
unto the Reader, whetlier the Spirit of the People,
or the Spirit of Men like Mr. Rogers^ be the fitter
to be trusted with the Government. Lond. 1659. in
one sh. in qu. [Bodl. C. 13. 6. Line] Of this Mr.
Rogers, who was a noted anabaptist of his time, I
shall speak more at large in the conclusion of our
author Harrington. " There was a little pamphlet
" in one sh. qu. without date, entit'led, Mr. Har-
" ringtorCs Parallel trnparalleVd, or a Demonstra-
\^ tion upon it, and the Parable open'd.''''
' :' Valerius and Publicola : or, the true Form of a
popular Commotiwealth extracted e puris naturali-
bus. Lond. 1659. in 5 sh. in qu. written by way of
dialogue. At the end of wliich is

A sufficient Answer to Mr. Stubbe his Letter to
an Officer concerning a select Senate.

These last seven things, with liis Aphori.smes
political, I have seen bound all together, with this
general title put to them. Political Discourses :
tending to the Introduction of a_ free and equal Com-
itionwealth in England. Lond. 1660. qu. Before
which is the author's picture, which shews liim to
l)e an handsome man, and of a delicate curl'd head
of hair.

• Letters between him and Dr. Pet. Heylyn, con-
taining a Decertation about Forms of Government,
the Poieer of the Spartan Ephori and the Jewish
Sanhedrim. Lond. 1659. in oct. These letters are
printe<l in the tliird part of The Letter Combate^
pubUshed by tlie said Dr. Heylyn.

The Rota : or, a Model of a free State, or Equal
Commonwealth : once propo-^ed and debated in brief,
and to be again more at large proposed to, and de-
Ijutedby, a free and ope?i. Society qfingCJiious Gen-
tlemen. Lond. 1660. m 4sh. in qu. published in the
beginning of Feb. 1659. About winch time John
Milton published a jmmplilet called The ready and
easy Way to establish a free Commomecalth. Lond.
I6f| in two sh. and an half. In answer to which
came out a waggish censure, pretended to be made

by the rota. Printed in two sh. in the latter end of
iVIarch 1660. And a little before, was a sh. in qu.
})rintcd, entit. Decrees and Orders of the Committee [594]
of Safety of the Commomoealth of Oceana, pur-
posely to make tlie junto of the connnonweaiths
men ridiculous, it being then newly dispersed upon
Monk's restitution of the secluded memoers of par-
liament.

The Stumbling Block of Disobedience cunningly
imputed by P. H. unto Calvin renmxvd, in a Letter
to the said P. H. (Pet. Heylin) — This letter, wliich
hath J. H. set to it was printed in two sheets in qu.
about 1659. [Bodl. 4to. L. 44. Th.]

The Ways and Means xcherelnj an equal and klst'
ing Commonwealth may be .suddenly introduced and
perfi'ctly founded, inc. Lond. 1660. in one sh. in qu.
published in the beginning of Feb. 1 659. He also
translated from Lat. into English, two of Virj^l's
Eclogues and JEncis, which ne thus entitled. An
Essay upon tieo of VirgiFs Eclogues, and two of
his .^neis, towards the Tra^islation of the Whole.
Lond. 1657. 58. oct. ; [Bodl. 8vo. H. 11. Art. BS.J
and in 1659 was printed in oct. his translation of the
third, fourtli, fifth and sixth books of the said Virgil's
uEneis. This eminent author died within the city
of Westminster in sixteen hundred seventy and 1 677.
seven, and was buried in the chancel of St. Margaret's
church there, next to the grave of sir Walter Ra-
leigh, under the south .side of the altar where the
priest stands. Over his grave was this inscription
soon after put. Hie jacet Jacobus Harrington Ar-
miger, filius maximus natu Sapcoti Harrington de
Rand in Com. Line. Equitis Aurati, & Janas (uxoris
ejus) frliaj Guliehni Samwel de Upton in Com.'
Northampton. Militis, qui obiit Septimo die Sep-
tembris, a.'tatis sua; sexagesimo sexto, An. Dom;
1677. Nee Virtutes, nee animi dotes (Arrha licef
ffiterni in animam amoris Dei) corruptione eximere
queant corpus, &c. The said sir Sapcote Hamng-
ton was younger brother to sir Jam. Harrington of
Ridlington in Rutlandshire baronet, sons of sir
Edw. Harrington baronet, (by his wife, daughter
and heir of Rob. Sapcote of Elton in Huntingdon-
shire, esq;) younger brother to John lord Harring-
ton, sons of sir Jam. Harrington knight (by Lucy-
hiswife, daughter of sir Will. Sidney knight) son of
sir John Harrington knight who was treasurer of the
army to king Henry VIII.' Now as for Mr. Rogers
before-mention'd, whom our author Harrington
answer'd in his Parallel of the Spirit, &c. as 'tis
before told you, his Christian name was John, a
notorious fifth-monarchy man and analjaptist, Uving
in Aldersgatestreet in London, and the title of his
book which was answered, runs thus, A Christia/)i
Concertation with Mr. Prynne, Mr. Baxter, a/nd
Mr. Harrington, for the true Cause of the Com*

' [This last sentence transcribed from a Utter of sir Tho.
Herbert to sir Will. Dugdalo, dated Jan. I, )(i80, hi MS.
LovEDAV.]

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monzcealth, &c. Lond. 1659. This Mr. Rogers
•was a busy pragmatical man, and very zealous to
promote a quarrel between his mrty and Oliver
Cromwell, for his seemingly runnmg with them till
he had got the reins of government into his own
hands, and then to leave them with scorn. He,
with Christop. Feake, as impudent and forward as
himself, were the Coryphciei of their party (as Love
in his time was of the presbyterians) and were not
wanting upon all occasions to raise a commotion.
Wherefore it being thought requisite to secure them,
Oliver caus''d tliem to be imprisoned at Lambeth,
and to debar their party to have access to them, in
Dec. or thcrealxjuts 1654, (Rogers being then of St.
Thomas tlie Apostles in Southwark.) After they
had remained tlicre for some time, Rogers had pre-
vailed so far with liis party as to present an address
(which he himself had dra^vn up) to the said Oliver
for his enlargement. Whereupon, on tlie 7th of
Feb. the same year, Rogers was brought before the

Erotector's council sitting at Whitehall, who told
im what a high charge there was against him, and
tliat lie was not a prisoner for the cause of Christ,
but suffered as a busy-body, and an evil-doer, &c.
At length it being desired by his friends that the
cause might be debated between his highness the
protector and himself, it was with his higlmcss his
consent granted. Wliereupon in the evening of the
said day, Rogers with some of his friends were ad-
mitted into his highness's presence, where being told
of an high charge exhibited against him, Rogers
charged them that brought it in to be drunkards
and swearers. The protector asked him which of
them was so, that brought it in, but he could name
none of them that he knew. The protector pressed
him for scripture for his actings. He said the scrip-
ture was positive and privative: And being ask'd
which of those evil kings that he mention''d, that
God dostroy'd, he would parallel to this present
state ? He gave no positive but privative answer.
Whereupon the protector shewed what a disproiwr-
tion there was, those being sucli as laliourcd to
destroy the people of God ; but his work (speaking
of himself) was to preserve them from destroying
one another, and if the sole power was in tlie pres-
byterians, they would force all to their way, and
they (the fifth-monarchy-men) would do the like,
and so the re-baptized persons also : And his work
was to keep all the godly of several judgments in
peace, &c. And when Rogers cried down the na-
tional ministry, and national churcli, mentioned to
be anti-ehristian, the protector told him that it was
not so, for that was to force all to one form, tliat was
national, which was then done (as he said) in this
commonwealth, &c. Afterward maj. gen. Tho.
Harrison, col. Charles Rich, and some others, made
an address to the protector to desire the release of
him, Feake and others, or to try them. The pro-
tector shewed how he kept them from tryal out of
mercy, because if they were tried, the law would

take away their lives; So he was remitted to his
prison, and Feake and the rest were there to con-
tinue. On tlie 30th of March 1655, Oliver and his
council ordered that the said Rogers should be
removed to Windsor-Castle: whereuixm the next
day he was carried there, and liis wife rode after
him.

[ The Oceana of James Harrington, and his otfier
Works, some whereof are noio first publish'' dfrcmi
his own Manuscripts. The wliole collected, metho-
diz'd and review d, with an exact Account of his
Life prefix'd, By John Toland. Lond. 1700, folio.
With a head of Harrington by M. Vander Gucht,
from a picture by sir P. Leiy. Another edition
' to which is added an appendix containing all the
political tracts wrote by this author, omitted in Mr.
Toland's edition.' Lond. 1737, folio ; of which a re-
print appeared in 1747.]

RICHARD ATKYNS, whose birth was neither
glorious nor contemptible, as having been descended
from gentry on his father's side, and nobility on that
of his mother. His father was son and heir of Rich.
Atkyns of Tuffleigh in Gloccstershire esq; (at which
place, this our autlior, as I conceive, was born) chief
justice of West- Wales, and of queen Elizabeth's
council of the Marches of Wales, and brother to sir
Edward Atkyns of Lincolns inn, one of tlie barons
of the Exchequer. His mother was second dauglitfer
of sir Edwyn Sandys of Latimer in Bucks, baronet,
by his wife the lady Ehzab. Sandys dau. and heir
of Will, lord Sandys of the Vine near Basingstoke
in Hampshire, descended from* " Margery Bray,
" the only child of John Bray, next , .y.^^^ Bravs
" brother and heir to sir Reginald larons. First
" Bray knight banneret, and knight edit.
" of the garter, who died issue-less."
After he had been partly educated in English and
grammar learning under two bad masters, he was
sent to tlie college school at Glocester, where being
compleated for the university, he was at 14 years of
age sent to Baliol coll. an. 1629, and continued there
at least two years in the quality of a gent, commoner,-
studying the Zegardines philosophy more than that
of Aristotle or Ramus. Thence he went to Lincolns
inn, and soon after travelled into France with the
son of Tlio. lord Arundel of Wardour by a second
venter, but that son dying there before they went
farther, he returned, improv'd himself with the ac-
complishments of a courtier, and then married,
wliicli towards his latter end prov'd his ruin. After-
wards, upon the breaking out of the civil wars in
England, he raised a troop of horse at his own
charge for the king, and did liiin good service ; for
which afterwards he suffered much in his estate.
After his majesty's restoration, he was made (being
then a colonel) one of the deputy-lieutenants of
Glocestershire, where, and in that capacity, he ex-

Eressed himself not only loyal ujwn all occasions,
ut an affectionate son of the church of England.
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He was an ingenious and observing man, and saw
the vanity of this world sooner than others, tho' of
elder years ; which fitted him the better for another.
He hath written and published

Tlte Original and Growth of Printing, &c.
Lend. 1664. in 4 sh. in qu.

His Vindication. Lond. 1669- qu.

Relation of several Passages in the Western
War of England, xcherein lie was conceriwd.

Siglis and Ejaculations. These two last were

printed vnth the Vitidication. At lengtli being
committed prisoner to the Marshalsea in Southwark
for debt, died there on the 14th of Sept. in sixteen
1677. hundred seventy and seven, and two days after was
[5961 buried without any public solemnity in the parish
church of St. George the martyr, within the said
borough of Southwark, by the care and appointment
of sir Rob. Atkyns one of the justices of tne court of
common-pleas, and Edward Atkyns esq; afterwards
one of the barons of the exchequer, both nearly re-
lated to the defunct

WILLIAM LUCY, descended from an antient
and genteel family of his name living at Charlcote
in Warwickshire, was born at Husboorne (as 'tis
said) in Hampshire, became a commoner of, and was
enter'd as a Knight's son in, Trin. coU. an. 1610,
took one degree in arts, and then went to Lincolns
inn, and studied the municipal laws for some time.
Afterwards upon second thoughts, and perhaps a
desire of a sedate and academical life, he went to
Caius college in Cambridge, lived several years
there on his estate, and at length took the degree of
batch, of divinity. About which time being made
chaplain to George duke of Bucks, by his majesty's
special recommendations, (who then told the duke
that he should have an eye on him, as occasion
served) he was admitted doct. of div. at which time
some scruples being made, the king by his letters to
the univ. of Cambridge approved of what was done.
Much about the same time he became rector of
Burgh-cleere and High-cleere, in Hampshire ; where
continuing in a quiet repose till the grand rebellion
broke out, was often disturb'd for his loyalty, and at
length sequestred. After his majesty's restoration
he became bishop of St. David's by his nomination ;
to which being consecrated in St. Peter's church in
Westminster, on the second day of Decemb. 1660,
sat there till the time of his deatli. He was a person
of signal candor, and virtues requisite in a church-
man, which in the worst of times gained him gi-eat
esteem from the very enemies of his order and func-
tion. He hath written and published,

Observations, Censures, ami Coiifutations of no-
torious Errors in Mr. Hohhcs his Leviathan, and
other his Books. Lond. 1663. qu. put out at first
under the name of Christopher Pykc, (Lucius)
" Lond. 16,57. qu. [Bodl. 8vo. B. 215. Line] only
on the 12, 13, and 14 chapters of the Leviuthan.'"

Occasional Animadversions on some Writings of

the Socinians, and sucJi Heretics, of the same
Opinion with Mr. Hobbes. Printed with the Ob-
servations, &e.

Treatise of the Nature of a Minister in all his
Offices. Lond. 1670. qu. [Bodl. 4to. S. 66. Th.]

Ansxoer to Dr. Patr. Forbes concerning the Ne*
cessity of Bisltops to ordain: in Answer to a Ques-
tion proposed in these late unhappy Times by the

Author, Wfuit is a Minister? Pr. with the

Treatise of, &c. besides one or more sermons which
are extant. He died on the fourth day of Octob. in
sixteen hundred seventy and seven, and was buried 1677.
in the collegiate church of Brecknock in Wales.
Over his grave is the effigies of the defunct to the
middle part, in a gown and lawn sleeves, curiously
fram'd from alabaster, with the right hand holding a
book, and the left resting on a death's head : All set
up in the wall near his grave, with this inscription in
golden letters on a black marble. M. S. Vigilantis-
simi Prassulis Gulielnii Lucy, qui vetci-um natalium
prosapia, morum candore miro, ingenii acumine
perspicaci, literature reconditions claritate, integri-
tate vitae spectabili, virtutis omnigenae prassidio ad
amussim ornatus, & ad gradus episcopalis apicem
faeliciter evectus voce prajsidebat & exempio, meritis
& pietate, sacra infula dignissimus. .(Equam ser-
vavit in utraque sorte mentem adversis fulvi pro-
batus instai- auri, non fractus unquani fuit, nee
elatus rebus prosperis. Ecclesias Anglicanae fulge-
bat sidus lucidum, verbi divini (dum res tulit) con-
cionatur assiduus, veritatis ortliotloxaj vindex acer-
rimus, ordinis hierarchi decus & propugnaculum, &
sedis Menevensis per annos octodecim ingens orna-
mentum. Satur dierum & maturus coelo huic mundo
placide nee invitus valedixit, Octobris die quarto,
anno statis 86. Dom. MDCLXXVII.

[Will. Lucy de Husband (Husbome) in com.
Hantoniae, filius Thoma>, militis, prius Oxoniaa in
collegium Trinitatis admissus, ubi gradum bacca-
laureatus obtinuit ; postea in Gonvill : et Caii col-
legium viz. Jun. 12, 1615, in commeatum sociorum,
fidejussore venerabili viro Will'o Branthwait S. T. D.
magistro collegii. Reg. Coll. Caii.

Con. 16 Jun. 1615, Gulielmo Lucy in art. bac.
ut iisdem sit hie apud nos statu, ordine et gradu,
quibus est apud suos Oxonienses. Reg. Acad. Ba-
ker.]

JOHN ROWE sonof Joh. Rowe of Crediton in
Devonshire, was born there, or at least in that county,
entred a batler in New inn in the beginning of rsWl
1642, aged 15 years, but being soon after taken
thence, because tbe city of Oxon was garrison'd for
his majesty's use, and the said inn made a mint-
house, his friends sent him to Cambridge, where
taking the degree of bach, of arts, retired to Oxon
in 1648, to get preferment by the visitation then and
there made by order of parliament. So tliat selling
himself in that inn again, was incorjxjratcd in the
same degree in the beginning of Dec. and on the 12th:

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of the said month was admitted master of arts, as a
member of the said inn or hall, and much about the
■Same time was put in fellow of Corp. Ch. coll. in a
XiiAcolnshire place by the visitors then .sitting in
Oxon. Afterwards he was lecturer at Witney irt
Oxfordshire, where his sermons were much fre-
quented by persons of the presbyterian persuasion \
but leaving his fellowship sotm after, he became
preacher at Tiverton in his own country for a time,
and as a minister of Devonshire was appointeti an
assistant to the commissioners thereof, for the ejec-
tion of such that were then called scandalous, igno-
rant and insufficient ministers and sch(X)l-mastcrs.
Thence, upon the death of Will. Strong an. 1654,
he was called to succeed him as a preacher in St.
Peter's, commonly called tlie abbey church, within
the city of Westminster : At which place his ser-
mons being constant, and much taking with the men
of those times, he was frequented by the chiefest of
the quakers, to the conversion, as 'tis said, of some.
On the 14th of March 1659 he was appointed by
act of parliament, one of the approvers of ministers
accordmg to the presbyterian way, but the vigour
of that act soon after ceasing, and he, after liis ma-
jesty's restoration, being depriv'd for want of con-
formity, he set up a private meeting, in the parish
(I think) of St. Andrew's in Holbourn near London,
where he was assisted by Theoph. Gale. His works
are these,

Tragi-ComcEd'ia. A Relation of the strange and
ioonderful Hand of God, discovered at Witney, in
the Comedy acted on the 3d of Feb. 1652. Oxon
1653. qu. [Bodl. 4to. P. 11. 'Th. BS.] The said
comedy was acted by young men of the country, in
an old upper room in a public inn there, but the
floor falling under them, in the middle of the play,
some were slain and many hurt.

Three Sermons preached on tJiat Occasion ; on

Rom. 1. 18. Printed with the Relation. In

which sermons the author takes great liberty in
speaking against plays and the actors of them.

Several other sermons as (1) Maris Duty in
Moffnifyinff God's Work, Sermon on a public Day
of Tlianksf^ivinff, before the Parliament, 8 Oct.
1656; m Job. 36. 24, 25. Lond. 1656. qu. [Bodl.
4to. L. 44. Th.] The said thanksgiving was cele-
brated for the great victory obtained against the
Spanish West-India fleet. (2) The Sainfs Temp-
tations; wlierein the Nature, Kinds, Occasion of
Temptation, and the Duty of the Saints under
Temptation, are laid forth. As also the Saints
Fence, S^c. in Sermons. Lond. 1674. oct. (3)
Emanuel, or the Love of Christ eaplicatcd and ap-
plied in his Incarnation, being- made under the
Law, and his Satisfaction, in 30 Sermons. Lond.
1680. Publi.shed by Sam. Lee sometime fellow of
Wadliam coll. Pic also preached a sermon at the
interment of Joh. Bradshaw (president of the high
court of justice that condemned kuig Charles I. to
die) in the abbey church at West, the 22d of Nov.

1659, on Isa. 57. 1. but whether it was ever printed
I cannot tell. Sure 'tis, that he took great lilx-rty
in speaking much to the honour and praise of that
monster ot men.

Heavenly-Mindedness, and Earthly-Mindedness,
in two Parts. Lond. 1672. in tw. with an Appendix
of laying liold oti eternal Life. He also the said
John Rowe collected most of the materials of his
father's hfe entit. The lAfe and Death of John Rowe
of Crcditon in Devonshire. Lond. 1673. in tw. and
was one of the three (Thom. Manton and George
Griffith being the other two) who published Thirty
and one .select Sermons preached on .several Occa-
sions. Lond. 1656. written by Will. Strong some-
time preacher in the abbey church at Westminster.
He also left behind him at the time of his death, se-
veral things fit for the press, as (1) The Love of
Christ in his Intercession. (2) A Discourse con-
cerning the Person and Office of the Holy Spirit.
(3) A Discourse, Sfc. of the Trinity. (4) Sermons
upon the first Eighteen Ver.ses of the first Chapt. of
the Go.sp. of St. John, and also upon the fifteenth
Chap. All which may be publishetl liereafter. He
dieo in, or near to Greys-mn-lanc in Holbourn, in
sixteen hundred seventy and seven : whereupon his
body was conveyed to the burial place joyning tO
the new Artillery-garden and Bunhill-ficlds, near
London, and there buried in the presence of very
many persons of his persuasion, towards the east-
end of that place. Soon after was erected over hife
grave an altar-monument of a brick-tbundation, oxi-
vered with a plank of marble of a brown coloin*,
with this inscription engraven thereon. Here lyeth
tlie body of John Rowe, sf)metime preacher in
the Abliey at Westminster, who died Oct. XII. in
the 52d Year of his Age, an. 1677. I find one
John Row to have published Institutiones Linguae
Ebraiccc. Anist. 1649. in tw. but he must not be
understood to be the same with the former because
he was a schoolmaster in Scotland, and afterwards
an independent minister in Aberdeen, principal of
the king's coll. there, an. 1652, and primanus of
that university. Another .John Rowe is now of the
Middle Temple, and did lately publish judge Will.
Dallison's book of Reports, &c.

[Rowe had so considerable a knowledge of the
Greek, that he began very young to keep a diary in
that language, which he held on constantly to his
death. Macro.]

" CHRISTIAN RAVIS, Rafe, or Ravius,
" [also Ravy'J so many ways he is written, waS
" Iwrn in Berlin the chief city of the marquisate of
" Brandenburg in Germany, an. 1613, became a
" sojourner in Oxtm, after he had spent about 8
" years in certain foreign academies, an. 1638 :
" much about which time coming to the knowledge
" of the learned Dr. Usher primate of Ireland, by
" a letter that Ravis sent to him at Dublin, that

' [LOVEDAY.]

[598]

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[599]

" worthy person gave him an invitation to come to
'' him, and tliat ujwn very honourable terms : upon
" the knowledge whereof tliat excellently learned
" Hugo Grotius, (unawares to him) commended,
" and afterwards conveyed him with him to Jean
" Armand du Plessis cardinal of Ilichlicu then the
*' greatest minister of state in France ; who, after
" some discourses, inviting him to serve him in the
" orient, he modestly refused it by alledging his
" obligations to the English nation, and especially
*' to the learned Usher : wliereupon he dismissed
■" him with an honourable donative in the presence
" of that renowned ambassador, Grotius ; with
" whose son, (when a courtier in the court of the
" queen of Sweden, an. 1636) he had acquaintance
" at Stockholm. In 1639 our author Ravis was at
" Constantinople, where he became acquainted with
" the learned Mr. Edw. Pocock then there : and
" Mr. Ravis bringing with him great testimonials
" of his worth, was kmdiy received by the English
" ambas.sador there, especially by the consul of
" Smyrna Mr. Edw. Stnnger a worthy and learned
" gentleman, who, for Dr. Usher's sake was never
" weary of affording him all the favour he could.
" After Mr. Ravis's return into England (bringing
" with him then a choice treasure of oriental MSS.)
" he received so freely and largely of Dr. Usher's
" bounty, that he confessed himself to have had all
" along an exceeding rich supply from that learned
" and religious person : and tncreforc upon the con-
" sideration of all that, and that it should be done
" to a stranger only at the motion of the learned Dr.
" Elichman, Ludov. de Dieu and Job. Gerh. Vos-
" sius, did lay an unparalell'd burthen on his
" shoulders worthily to testify his thankfulnessfor the
*' same.' In 1642 Mr. Ravis was living in Gresham
" coll. in London, and afterwards in London house ;
" in both which places he taught yoimg men the
" oriental tongues, and was then subservient to the
^' dominant party in England. Afterwards he took
" another ramble to Amsterdam, Hague, Utrecht,
" and in the beginning of 1648, he having then
" taken the covenant, he was made fellow of Magd.
" coll. by the visitors appointed by the long parlia-
" nicnt, but continued there not above one year,
*' because he found few persons there and in Oxon
" that were then inclined to the study of the
" tongues, wherein was his excellency. Afterwards
' " he travelled into Swcedland, became professor of
" the said tongues in the university of Upsal there,
" but soon after was reduced to great poverty, be-
" cause that having man-ied a Swcedish woman, by
" whom he had children, it fell out that soon after
" the revenues belonging to the professors of the
" said university were made use of to bear the
" cliarges of the wars which the Sweed had against
" the Dane, about 1657. Afterwartls he settled at

' [Nearly the whnlc of this account, thus far, is taken
from Ravis's dedication of his Discourse nf the Oriental
Tongues to primate Usher. Lovedav.]

Kiel in Germany, where he lived to his last in a
comfortable condition. He hath written,
" Pancg-yrlccE Oraf tones chia de Liiiffuis Orient-
alibus. Ultr. 1643-44, qu. I Bodl. 4to. Z. 7. Art.
Seld.1

" Dissertatio de Scribendo Lexko Arabico, Ultr.
1644, qu. [Bodl. 4to. Z. 7. Art. Seld.]
" Obtestatio ad universam Eurcrpampro discendis
Rebus 8f Ltnguis Orientalibus, ac conjugandA
Africa: atq; Asice ErudUione, Ultr. 1644, in 8 sh.
in fol. [Bodl. AA. 4. Art. Seld.] This was written
4 years before at Constantinople.
" Ortliographi(b ^ Analoffke (vulgo Etymon
logiie) EbraiccE Delineatio, juxta Vocis Parte.i
abstractas. 1. Consonas. 2. Vocales. 3. Accentus,
&c. Amstel. 1646, qu. [Bodl. BB. 13. Art. Seld.]
" Prima Tredecim partium Alcorani Arabico-
Latini ,- vbi Textws Arabicus, &c. Or thusi,
Prima: aliquot Alcorani Suratir, &c. printed
beyond the seas in 1646, qu.
" Specimen Alcorani Arab. Lat. printed with the
former book, as also Catalogus clxi Manuscrip'-
torum Arahicorum Bibliotheca. Laiii-cntintB in
Escuriali Regis Catholici : which Catalogue was
made by Licent. CastilHus, 16 Aug. 1583.
" A Discourse of the Oriental Tongues, viz. He-
brew, Samaritan, Chaldee, Syriac, Arabic and
Ethiopic, Lond. 1649. 50, oct. It consists of the
antiquities, virtues, largeness, use, unity and
easiness of the said tongues. There is joyned to
this Discour.'ie a paper containing a cut wrought
from a copper plate, in form of an almanack, di-
vided into several columns ; one of which contains
the orthography, another the etymology of conso*
nants, vowels and accents, another the syntax, of
the holy tongue, &c.

" A general Grammar for the Hebrexo, Sama»
ritan, Chaldee, Syriac, Arabic and Ethiopic
Tongues. Lond. 1649, Oct. There be also other
cuts addotl to this for explanation sake, antl at the
end is added Sesqui-Decuria Epistolarum adop-
tivarum ex rariis Orbis Partibus Comrnissarum,
circa Orientalium Studiorum jyromoi'endorum
Curiam. Lond. 1648. oct. which epistles were
written by learned men to Ravis : among which
is one from Mr. Edw. Pocock, dated at Oxon 16

July 1647, partly rinining thus Clariss. &

doctiss. Vir. binas il to Htcras accepi, unaq; libellos
genuinam ingenii Raviani foetuin, & aft'ectus sin-
gularis indicium. And a little after he saith thus,

Concordantiarum compendium a te elabora-

tum avide expectamus, opus baud dubie usus
singularis omnibus ipiXeSpaloii futurum, &e. Our
author Ravis hath also written,
" EpistoliE varite ad doctiss. Viros, and other
things which I have not yet seen, as his Catena
Magnetica, his Pons Zionis, his Chronologia
BiUica, his Orbis hieraticus, his Arcana Biblica,
&c. He gave up the ghost in sixteen hundred
seventy and seven, at Cnilonium commonly called

VERNON.

MANTON.

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" Kiel, a city in tho dutchy of Holsatia in Germany,
" (as I liave been informed by Dr. Edw. Bernard,
" who partly knew the man) and was buried as I
" presmne in one of the churches tlierc. He had a
" brotlier called Job. Ravius, who was professor of
" elocjiience in the university of Rostock, who piib-
" lished Cornel. Nepos 1G36. Tractnttivi ile

" Propositwrnbus Modalibus contra Scharf. anno
" 1637, and Lofncam Novissimam. 1638.'"

FRANCIS VERNON was bom near Cha.ring
Cross in the parish of St. Martin's in the Fields
within the liberty of Westminster, but descended
from tho.se of" his name in Worcestershire, was
elected student of Ch. Cli. from Westminster school,
an. 1654, aged 17 years or thereabouts, took his
rambles before, and partly after, he was master of
arts. At length being possess''d vnth an insatiable
desire of seeing, he travelled into various parts of
the world, was taken by pyrates, sold, and endured
much misery. Afterwards, being let l(X)se, he re-
tired to his native country with intentions to spend
his time there, but having got an itch of rambling
ventured again, tho' dissuaded to the contrary, and
was afterwards hack'd to pieces in Persia. He hath
written,

Oxonium Poena. Oxon. 1667, in 3 sh. and an
half in qu. [Bodl. C. 13. 10. Line] But the
author being absent when 'twas printed, there are
committed many faults therein, especially in the
margin.

Letter to Mr. Hen. Oldenburg, dat. Jan. 10. an.
1675, giving a sliort Account of some of Ms Obser-
vations in his Travels from Venice thro' Istria,
Dalmatia, Greece, and the Archipelago, to Smyrna,

where this letter was written This is printed in

the Philosiyphical Transactions, numb. 124. p. 575.
an.- 1676. Afterwards being in Persia, arose between
him- and some of the Arabs a small quarrel concern-
ing an English pen-knife, that Mr. Vernon had with
him ; who shewing himself cross and peevish in not
communicating it to them, they fell upon him and
hack'd him to death near Spahan or Aspachan a
city in Persia, in sixteen hundred seventy and seven
or thereabouts. Whereupon his body was conveyed
to that city and there inter'd. He then left behind
him a piece of poetry to be printed, and several ob-
servations made in his travels not fit to be published,
because imperfect and indigested.

[Vernon lived at Paris 1669, 1670. See some
letters of his to Mr. James Gregory, by wliich he
seems to have been an ingenious man and acquainted
with {ill the mathematicians in France and Italy.
Tanner.

Vernon was secretary to Mr. Ralph Montagu,
afterwards duke of Montagu, when tlic latter was
sent, in 1669, ambassador extraordinary to Lewis
the XIV of France. During his residence in France
Mr. Vernon was very serviceable by his correspond-
ence to the Royal Society, to which he was proposed

as a candidate by Mr. Oldenburg on the 24th of
April 1672, and elected on the 22d of the month
following, and fidmitted on the 12th of June, upon
his return from France.

In a letter written from Athens to James Craw-
ford esq. the English resident at Venice, he men-
tioned, that he had well examine<l the ruins of the
temple of Delphi and all that was remarkable at
Thebes, Corinth, Sparta, Athens, &c. and had
clambered up most of the moimtains celebrated by
the antients, as Helicon, Parnassus, &c. That he
had spent some time on the banks of the river Ai-
jiheus, where he searched with much diligence for
the Stadium Olympicum, but could not find any
vestiges of it ; but that the pleasantness of that river
was a sufiicient reward for his pains : that Athens
had about six thousand inliabitants, and Sparta five
thousand; but that at Corinth there was nothing
but utter desolation, except the castle, which was of
a prcxhgious bigness, built on a hill above the city,
which then scarce deserved tiic name of a village :•
tliat he had particularly observed that place of the
isthmus, where a communication between the two
seas had been intended to be made : that his feUow
traveller sir GUes Eastcourt died on the plains of
Solona, as they went to Lepanto, which place sii"
Giles could not reach ; for his fever growing mcatf ^
violent with an unquenchable thirst, and he having
nothing but water to drink, died on the third day
after he fell sick. Mr. Vernon's Jomrnal of his
Travels is extant among the papers of the royal so-
ciety, being found among those of Dr. H<K)ke, as
appears from a letter of Dr. Richard Mead to the
rev. Edmund Cheshull, dated July 15, 1709. This-
joui-nal, which contains only short and imperfect
notes, but a great number of inscriptions, begins at
Spalatro, July 8, 1675, and ends at Ispahan, Sept.
14, 1676. Birch, History of the Royal Society,
iii, 357.]

THOMAS MANTON, son of Tho. Manton of
Whimpole in Devonshire, was born in that county,
as 'tis said in the public •• matricula, (tho' one of His
persuasion who knew him well, hath lately informed'
me that his birth was at Laurence Liddyard in
Somersetshire) and at 15 years of age, in l635, wa*
entred a ser\'itor in Wadham coll. in Lent term,'
where continuing 'till 1639, he translated himself to
Hart hall, being then accounted by those ()'et living)'
that well knew him, a hot-headed |x>rson, and as a
member thereof he t(K)k the degree of bach, of arts.-
Afterwards upon the turn of the times he became
preacher, tho' not in holy orders, at Culliton iu
Devon, whence, under pretence of some disturbance,
either by his diocesan, or the royal party, he went
to London, adhered to the presbyterians, and l)eing
a forward and florid preacher among them,' became,'

* Heg. Matric. Vnh\ Oxon. PP. fol. 2i8. b.

* [He was one of those ministers who signed both the papers
against the proceedings of the army in 1648. Macro.] I "

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MANTON.

after he had taken the covenant, minister of Stoke
Newington in Middlesex, and in 1647 and after, a
preacher before the members of the lone parliament.
When the indejiendcnts ruled, he closed with them,
took the oath called the engagement, and made a
flattering sjK-ech to Oliver (to whom he was chap-
lain) when he was inaugurated lord protector m
Westminster hall, and in the latter end of the same
year (1663) he was by him made one of the triers,
or rather Spanish inquisitors, for the approbation of
godly preachers. In the beginning of 1654 he was
by the favour of the delegates (appointed by the
chancellor of this university) actually created bach,
of divinity, and soon after, upon the resignation of
his wife's father ® called Obad. Sedgwick, he became
rector of St. Paul's church in Covent-garden ' near
London, where he was much freciuented by pi-esby-
terians and independents for his fluent and practical
•way of preaching. In the beginning of Sept. 1658
when the titmouse prince, called Hichard, was in-
augurated to the protectorate according to the humble
petition and advice, our author Manton, the pecu-
liar chaplain to that dignity, as prelate of the pro-
tectorship, said prayers and blessed him, his council,
armies, and people, and so concluded that scene. In
^the latter end of the year 1659 he was by act of
parliament (I mean that pari, to which the secluded
members were restored by general Monk^ consti-
tuted one of the triers or approvers of mimsters ac-
cording to the presbyterian way, and in the begin-
ning of the year following, he took holy orders at
Westminster from Thomas bishop of Galloway.^
Soon after his majesty being restored to his king-
doms (towards which he pretended to be a helper
when he could not hinder it) he was sworn one of his
chaplains in ordinary, and in that quality, he was,
by virtue of his majesty's letters, actually created
doctor of divinity among several royalists, who had
in a most miserable manner suffer'd for their loyalty.
He then, as 'twas observed by curious men present

^ [Obadiah Sedgwick was son, not father, in law to Dr.
Alanton. Macro. See also the preface to Calamy's Ejected
Ministers, ii, xiii.]

• ' [10 .Ian. l66o, Thomas Manton S. T. P. admissiis ad
ecclesiam Sancti Pauli Covent-Garden, London, ad pres.
W.illielmi Comitis Bedford. Subscriplis prius ariiculis fidei
ecclesia: Anglicanie tantuni, ct pra!stilo juramento de alle-
giant. et supreinitale etcanonicaobtdicnlia in omnibus Ileitis
et honestis, ct de simonia non commissa. Kennet.]

" [That the bish. of Galloway did, at that time, ordain
such of the English clergy as came lo him, and ihat without
(Jepianding either oaths or subscriptions of ihem, is certain ;
but whether Dr. Manton was one of them I cannot say. If
Wood supposes (as he seems to have done) that the doctor,
who had been a celebrated preacher for many years, re-
mained till then nn-ordained, he must niistal<e, for he was
ordained by bishop Hall before he was twenty, and Mr.
Joseph Hill of Uoitcrdain was positive that he never took
any other than deacon's orders, and never would submit to
4ny other ordination ; for it was his judgment that he was
properly ordained to the ministerial office, and that no powers
gn earth had any right to divide and parcel that out at their
pleasure. Macro.]

in the convocation house, looked like a person rather
fatted up for the slaughter, than an .apostle, (being
a round, plump and jolly man), but the others (the
royalists) resembled apostles by their most macerated
bodies and countenances, and were indeed, in that
respect, pitietl by many, comforted, and bless'd by
true hearts as they passed the streets. After his
majesty's restoration he did not read the English
liturgy in his church in Covent-garden, neither did
the parishioners enjoy it from the mouth of another,
till the latter end of 1661, at which time they peti-
tioned the bishop of London to have it read unto
them.9 In the interim this fat doctor had a fat
deanery ' design'd him by his majesty u])on a sup-
posal that he would conform ; and 'twas vei'Uy thought
that he would have taken it, (as Reynolds had the
bishoprick of Norwich) could he have been ascer-
tained that the king's declaration about ecclesiastical
affairs (published at his restoration) would have in-
dulged iiim while he was a dean, as then while he
was a parochial minister, or, as 'tis .said* had not a
female saint ^ who had read many of his books and
wrote much of his sermons, extracted from them
every sentence that made for the covenant, for the
government by presbytery, for the honour of Smec-
tymniis, or that made against the bishops and liturgy
of the church ; all put in a letter and sent by her to
him. Which of these two, was the reason, I am
not certain : sure it is that while these things were
agitating, and after he had taken a great deal of
pains, as a conimission'd person by his majesty, in
the Savoy conference alxjut the htiirgy, the act of
uniformity was published, and rather than he would
conform, he not only refused the deanery, but left his
rectory at Bartholomew day, an. 1662. Afterwards
he did set up a conventicle in Covent-garden, and
tho' imprison'd for it for some time in the Gate-
house, yet, as 'twas thought, he got more from the
brethren, than if he had been a dean, or had con-
tinuetl in his rectory. His works are these,

Many sermons as (1) Meat out of the Eater ;
or, Hopes of' Unity in and by divided and distracted
Times, Fast Sermon before the House of Commmis
30 June 1647 ,• on Zech. 14. 9. latter part. Lond.
1647. qu. (2) England's spiritual Languishing,

9 [See the petition in Rennet's Register and Chronicle,
page 358.]

' [Dr. Tho. Manton was offered at this time (November
iCfiO) the deanery of Rocbesicr, which Dr. Harding was in
great fear he would accept, and ply'd him with letters to
come to some resolution ; having reason to hope that upon
his refusal, he should obtain it, as he afterwards did. The
doctor kept it some time in suspense, being willing to see
whether the king's declaration could be gotto passinloa law;
which they had great encouragements given them lo expect,
and which would have gone a great way towards uniting the
principal parties in the nation, and laying the foundations of
a lasting pe:ice. Kennet, i?petf/cT and CAronic/f, page 302.]

">■ In A Letter lo a Friend concerning some of Dr. Jok.
Owen's Piinciples and Practices. Lond. IC70. p. 3(>, 37.

3 [This was lord Wharton's lady, Jane the daughter oC
Arth. Goodwin. Grey.] . ; . ;

MANTON.

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with the Causes and Cure, Fast Serm. before the
H. of Com. 28 June 1648; cm Rev. ± 3. Lond.
1648, cni. (3) The blessed Estate of them that die
in the Lord, " beinff a Sermon at the Funeral of
" Jane Blackrcell Wife of Mr. Elidud Blackrvell
" Pastor of St. Amir. Under sluvft Lond."" on Rev.
14. 13 — Lond. 1656, qu. (4) Scrmem before the
L. Protector and Pari, on a public Day of Humi-
liation, 24 Sept. 1656, on Amos 4. 12. (5) The
Sai7its Triumph over Death. Fun. Serm. on Ch.
Love, 25 Ai/ff. 1651 ,• on 1 Cor. 15. 57. Lond.
1658, Oct. (6) Sermon onMatth. 15. 7, 8. — Printed
in tlie book called The Morning Exercise at Crip-
plegatc. Lond. 1661. qu. (7) Farewell Sermon at
Bartholomew Tyde, on Heh. 12. 2. I^ond. 1662. oct.
This sermon tho'' put out under liis name, yet it
was disclaimed by him under his hand in the com-
mon news of Sept. 24. an. 1663, published by Roger
L'estrange.'' (8) How we ought to improve Bap-
tism ; on Acts 2. 38. Printed m the Supplement to
the Morning Exercise at Cripplegate, Lond. 1674,
and 76, qu. (9) Serm. on 2 Thess. 2. 15. Pub-
lished in the Morning Exercise again-it Popery in
Southwark. Lond. 1675, qu. (10) Serm. on Rom.

5. 12. Published in The Morning Exercise

methodized, &c. Lond. 1676, qu. (11) Twenty
Sermons on the Psalms, Acts, &c. Lond. 1678, qu.
with his picture before them, published by Dr.
Will. Bates. (12) Eighteen Sermons on the second
Chapt. of the sec. Epist. to the Thess. containing
the Description, Use, Growth and Fall of Anti-
chrlit, &c. Lond. 1679, oct. (1.3) Sermons on the
119 Psal. Lond. 1681, fol. They are in number
190, and have his picture before them.* This is
calletl Tlie first Vol. of Sermons. (14) A second
Volume of Sermons in tzco Parts. The first con-
taining 27 Sermons on the 25th of St. Matthexo ;
forty and five on the 11 th of St. John, and tivcnty
four on the sixth to the Romans. The .lecond Part
containing 45 Sermons mi the eighth to the Ro-
mans, and 40 on the fifoh Chapt. of the second
Epist. to the Corinthian,^ &c. Lond. 1684, 85, fol.
(15) 2Vt€ third Vol. ivf Sermons, in two Parts.
The first containing sixty six Sermmis on tlie
eleventh Chap, to the Hebrews. To which is an-
nexed, A Treatise of the Life of Faith. The second
part a)ntains A Treatise of Self Denial, with se-
veral Sermons on the Sacrament of the Lord's Sup-

* [I do utterly disclaim the Farewell Sermon and Prayer
printed in iiiv name anions other Farewell Sermons pre-
tended to be preached by some London ministers, as being
done without my privity and consent, and indeed as having
preached no farewell sermon at all, at the lime specified ;
and that which the ignorant publisher calls so, is strangely
di»gui>ed and misrepresented by his foolish mistakes. So
much I would have sisnified sooner to the world, if occasion
had been ofFred. Tlio. M anion. Cov. Garden, Sept. 23, 1 663.
Kennet.]

5 [Reprinted, with Some Memoirs of the Life and Cha-
racter of the reverend and learned Thomas Manton DD. by
William Harris, London ITSJS, 8vo.]

Vol. III.

per and ot/ter Occasions, &c. Lond. 1689, fol.
Besides these there i.s now (May 1691) prejMired for
the press a fourth vol. in fol. of select .sennons on
.several texts." " There was also publisliMl under
" the name of Tho. MantonD. D. Adviceto Mcmnters
" under the Imss of dear Relations ; in a Sermon
" on 1 Cor. 7. 30. Lond. 1694, j)ct. then published
" on the much lamented death of Mrs. Anne
" Terry, who died on the 9th of Nov. 16<)3. She
" was the daughter of the said Tho. Mantt^n."

A practical Commentary or Exposition, on the
Epistle of St. James, Lond. 1651, 53, qu.

Expo-ntion on the Epistle of St. Jitde. Lond.

1652, qu.

Smectymnus redivivus, being an Ansxoer to a
book entit. An humble Renum-itrance, 8cc. Lond.

1653, 60, 61. This book called Smectymnus, was
written, as I have elsewhere told you, by Steph.
Marshall, Edm. Calamy, Thorn. Young, Matth.
Newcomen, and Will. Spurstow, and first of all
published in 1641, being the year after the smA
Humble Remonstrance was published.

Practical Exposition of the Lord's Prayer. Lond.
1684, oct. with his picture before it. He also made
some additions to the second edition of The Life
and Death of Ignatius Jurdaine sometime Alder-
man of Exeter, written by Ferdinando NtcoUn
Minister of St. Mary Arches in Exeter.— —Land.
1655, in tw. Also an epistle commendatory be-
fore A Commentary or Exposition on the second
Epist. to tlie Corinth. Lond. 1655, fol. Written
by Dr. Rich. Sibbs ; ' was one of the three that
collected and published Thirty and one select Ser-
mons, written by Will. Strong, and wrote the epistle
to the reader before the second edit, of Tlie larger
and lesser Catechismes of the Assemb. ofDiv. Lond.
1658, qu. with several other little things of the like
stamp. He paid his last debt to nature, after he
hatl ran through many changes, on the 18th of Oct.
(St. Luke's day) in sixteen hundred seventy and

" [P'lbl. Lond. 1693, in folio; Bodl. C. b. I9. Th.]
' \_A learned Commentary or E.rposition upon the Jirsl
Chapter of the second Epistle o/S. Paul to the Corinlhians,
being the Substance if many Sermons formerly preached at
Graies Inne, London, by that rev. and judicious Divine
liichaid Sibbs D. D. sometime Master of Cath. Hall in
Cambr. and Preacher to that hvn. Society. Publishedfor the
publick Good and Benefit of the Church of Christ by Tho,
Manton B. D. and Preacher qfthe Gospel at Stohe Ncieing-
ton near London; |655 fol. with the pourlraiturc of Dr.
Sibbs, large face, piked beard, ruff, and night cap, black
velvet turn'd up with white sknllop'd lace, and ibis insciipt.
' Ric. Sibbs S.Theol. D. Aul. Katharina: Cantab. Mag. nec-
non llospiiio Grai. a S.Concionibus, ^lat. sux 58.'

Bowels opened: or a Discovery of the neare and deare
Union betu:ixt Christ and the Church, in divers Sermons on
the Canticles, by that reverend and faithfull Minister of the
ff^ord, Dr.Sibs, late Preacher unto the Hon. Society of Grays
Inne, and Master of Catharine Halt in Cambridge. Being
in Part finished by his own Pen, in his Life Time, and the
Rest if them perused and corrected by Those whom he in-
trusted with the Publishing of his Works, Lond. I(i41, 4to.
i. e. Tho. Goodwin and Phil. Nye. KENrTET.]
■^ 4D

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1139

MANTON.

JUNIUS.

seveu, and was accomjKinicd to his grave, in the
cliurcli at Stoke Newington near London befbro-
mention''d, bv liundreds of the brethren : at which
time Dr. Will. Jlates one of his persuasion (the
same, who also had been offered a deanery, with
our author, if he would conform) preached his fu-
neral sermon ; which being published, the reader, if
curious, may see therein tlic character and enco-
miums of him the said Dr. Manton.

[Manton's life was wrote by William Harris.
Printed 1725, 8vo. See page 7. — ' Anth. Wood
says he was accountetl in his college a hot-headed
person, which is as far from what was known to
lie the character of Dr. Manton, as it is agreeable
to his own. If he had not been a hot-headed writer,
Jie would not every where appear so full of pre-
judice and spite, nor have thrown out so many rash
and injudicious reflections upon the best men of the
established churcli, who had any degree of temper
and moderation, as well as upon the nonconformists,
and reserved his kindness and tenderness for the
popishly affected, and non-jurors.

' Mr. Wood says, he became a preacher, tho' not
in orders, at Culliton in Devonshire, and afterwards
that he took orders at Westminster from Thomas,
bishop of Galloway, in the beginning of 1660. He
seems to suppose, that he had preached without
orders all that time ; when he was certainly ordained
by bishop Hall, before he was twenty ; and iho'' he
was ordamed only to deacon's orders, he never would
submit to any other ordination. His judgment was,
that he was properly ordained to the ministerial
office, and that no power on earth had any right to
divide and parcel it out.

' Dr. Manton was married to Mrs. Morgan, who
was a daughter of a genteel family of Mansion in
Sidbury, Devon, and not Mr. Obadiah Sedgwick's
daughter, whom he succeeded in Covent Garden, as
Mr. Wood mistakes.' Rawlixson.

The Sainfs Triumph over Death : a Sermon at
the Funeral of Mr. Chr. Love in Lawreiice Church,
Aug. 9,5, 1651, by TJw. Manton. — At the end of
Mr. Love's XVII. Sermons. Lond. 1652, 8vo.
Tanner.

Words of Peace ; or Dr. Manton's last Sayings,
many of them taken from htm on his Death-Bed, or
observed on other remarkable Occasions. Tending
very mtwh to the Edification of Christians. Lon-
don, fyr P. Brooksby, 1677, a large sheet. Ken-
net.]

« FRANCISCUS JUNIUS, or Francois du
" JoN, son of the famous theologist Franc. Junius
" by Joan his wife daughter of Simon de L'Her-
" mite, was bom at Heidelberg a famous city and
" university in Germany, an. 1589, educated in
" puerile learning at Lcyden in Holland, and after
" his father's death (which hapned in 1602) he
" leam'd the mathematics, Svith mtentions to addict
" his mind to bcllic arts and serve under the prince

of Orange, but the wars wherein that prince was
cngag'd, being compis'd in 1609, he applied him-
self to other arts, especially to sacred letters ; at
which time he collected, digested and published
some of his father's writings. Afterwards he went
into France, and thence in 1620 he was wafted
over the seas into England, where, for his great
learning, and suavity of manners, he became very
gratefid to learned and good men. And being
much delighted in the place, and captivated, as
'twere, with the benevolence of illustrious men,
he setlcd his abode there, was received into the
family of the most noble Thomas earl of Arun-
dell, wherein he spent about 30 years; in which
time and for about 10 years after, he made several
excursions to Oxon. and was a sojourner there for
the sake of the Bodleian and other libraries, as also
of learned men of his acquaintance, at least eight
several times ; the last of which was in part of the
year 1658 and part of 1659. In all which time,
he kept a commerce of letters with Hug. Grotius,
Claud. Salmasius, Gerard Joh. Vossius (who had
taken to wife the sister of this Franc. Junius)
Dr. Jam. Usher archb. of Armagh, and other
noted men of that time. After he hatl been setled
some time in England, he found in several libra-
ries, especially in those of Bod ley and Cotton,
divers Saxon books of great antiquity ; which
being by him beheld, as here neglected, he began
to study that language, and the more, for this
reason, because the knowledge of it would add
much to the finding out the original of the Belgic,
(which was in a manner natural to him) German
and English tongues, and therefore did spend
much time and labour to obtain a true knowledge
of it. To this language of the Saxon, he added
a sufficient knowledge of some Northern tongues,
as the Gothic, Francic, Cimbric or Runic and
Frisic. After Mr. Junius had spent 30 years in
England he took a journey into West Frisen, or
to some towns in the west part of Frisic as Wor-
com (qu. Worcomum) Staveren, Malquer (qu.
Malqueram) whose inhabitants use the antient
and intaminated Frisic language, which is of a
great affinity with the English-Saxon ; where
spending about two years, return'd into Holland,
where he procured the most antient Gothic book
called the Stiver Book, because tlie four e-van-
gelists ai'e therein described in silver gothic letters.
Which book, after a great deal of j)ains that he
had taken, he published with a Gothic glossary,
and had thereunto added the observations of Dr.
Tho. Marshall as I have told you in his life. In
1674 our author Junius returned into England,
to the end that he might peruse such English-
Saxon books, which he had not yet perused, espe-
cially those in the Cottonian library and elsewhere,
and in 1676 he retired to Oxon, where, as in other
places, he was had in great reverence by learned
men, as I shall anon tell you, and in the mean

JUNIUS.

114^

" time give you the titles of such things that he hath
" written.

" De Pictnra Vcteriim, Lib. 3. Amsteld. 1G37,
" qu. [Bodl. 4to. A. 28. Art.] In the next year
" this hook was Enghshed, with some additions
" and alterations, by the author, and by liim dedi-
" cated to his singular good lady and mistress
" Alatliea, the wife of Thom. earl of Arundel earl
" of Surrey, daugh. of Gilb. earl of Shrewsbury.
" It was printed at Lond. an. 1638, in qu. [Bodil.
" 4to. A. 18. Art.] The last edition was reprinted
" at Roterdam in fol. 1694, [Bodl. C. 3. 11. Art.]
" with so many amendments and additions, that it
" may in a manner be called a new thing. To which
" is added of Fr. Junius his making, Cataloffus
" Architectorum, Mechanicorum, sed prcecipiw Pic-
" torum, Cwlatorum, Tornatorum aliorumg; Ar-
" tificiim <Sj- Opcrum qua fecerunt. Which edition
" was by the great care of Joh. Georgius Graevius of
" Utreclit made public in an excellent character and
" good paper, with the author's life set before it,
" and his picture before that. There is a great
" deal of admirable learning and most exact criticisms
" expressed in that book by the author Junius, who
" hath also written,

" Observat'iones in Willerami Francicam Para-
" phrasin Cantici Canticorum. Amsterd. 1655, oct.
" LBodl. 8vo. J. 8. Th. BS.]

" Glossariuvi GotJiicum in quatuor Evangelia
" Gothica. Dordr. 1665, qu. [Bodl. 4to. E. 6. Th.
" BS.] These are all that I yet know that are ex-
" tant. It must be now known that this learned
" author, who by another " is justly stiled ' Omni-
" faria doctrina & generis splendore ornatissimus,'
" retiring to Oxon in the month of Oct. 1676, pur-
" posely to dye there, gave his manuscripts and
" collections to the public library, where he had
" spent much time, and to have his bones laid in
" some church or chappel in Oxon, took up his
" quarters in a house opposite to Line. coll. for the
" sake of Dr. Th. Marshall rector of the said coll.
" a great critic in the Gothic and Saxon languages,
" as Junius was, from whom Marshall had formerly
" received instruction as to those studies. After-
" wards he intended to put some of his notes and
" collections in order, but being troubled by often
" visits he removed his quarters to an obscure house
" in Beef-hall lane in St. Ebbes parish, where he
" digested some notes and collections for the press,
" and matle a deed of gift of these manuscripts
" and collections following, to the public hbrary at
" Oxon.

" Fr. Junius his MSS. of his own composition
" which he left to the public library.

" 1. Glossarium quinq; Lingttarum Septen-
" trionalium. — This was caused to be written and

' Gerard. Jo. Vossius in lib. cui lit. De Orig. & Progressu
Jdolal. lib. 3. cap. 5. 8ic.

" described in 9 vol. in order to have been printed
" by the cfu-e of Dr. Job. Fell, bishop of Oxon.

" 2. N'utie, illustraiUts totam Hmtoriam Ecck- [604]
" sia,Hticam Ven. Bcdw.

" 3. Collatio Chronnloffitr Saxoniccc cum MS.
" 4' Additione triuvi Scfiedartnn auclior.

" 4. Guliel. Lainbai'di VcrsioS^Notccadunliquas
" Leges Anglorum 4" Saxonum correcta; ac variii
" Notis lUustratw.

" 5. Quxdam in Seldeni Notis ac Spicilcgio ad
" Eadtnerum emendata.

" 6. Spclmanni Psnllerium Saxotiicum interli-
" neare CoUat. cum MS.

" 7. Marginal Azotes on Douglas his Translation
" of Virgil.

" 8. Je-ffry Cliaucer''s Poems illustrated through-
" out with certain Notes.

" 9. Ccedmonis Paraphrasis cum cmyecturis ex-
" tcnworaneis in Indiculo.

" 10. Varia: Lectioncs ex MSS. in Gul. Somneri
" Lexicon Saxonicum.

" 11. Multi Scriptorum Anglo-saxonicorum ve-
" teres Codices, ut <§• multorutn ApograpJui, quae
" ipse Junius Manu sua ex vcteribus Membranis
" excerpsit 4" dcscripsit, in Bib. pub. Ox. citsto-
" diuntur, quorum Indices habes in Appendicc clar.
" Hickesii ad Grammaticam Islandicam p. 139. <Sr
" sequentihis.

" 12. In Willerami Paraphrasin Cantici Cantir
" co7-um Notw longc atictiores.

" 13. Tatiani Monotcsseron cum Prafatione Vic-
" toris Episcopi Capuw, cum Annotationibus am-
" plissimis Junii, ifi quibus coniparantur cum Fran-
" cica, Gothica <§• Angh-saxonica.

" 14. Vocabularius, qui inscribitur Teutonista,
" Edit. 1475, Jbl. interspersis per totum Notis
" Junii.

" 15. Ejusdem Auctarium Notarum in Tatia*
" num,justum Volumcn in qu.

" 16. Otfiidi Evangeliorum Liber, nitidissime
" scriptu,?, cum Indice Capitulorum i Junioparante
" novam Editionem.

" 17. Annonis Archiepiscopi Coloniensis Vita,
" Rhythmice.

" 18. Glossarium Theotisco-Latinum, cum Notis
" secundum Litteras Alpliabeti in diversis Fasci-
" ctilis, ^c.

" 19. Dictionarium Francicum mutilum, carens
" Initio A. B. C.

" 20. Dictionarium alterum Francicum. Hcec
" duo in Fascicidis sunt. Alterum etiam plenum.

" 21. Plures alios veleres Francicos Libros Manu
" sua descriptos, ^- Frisicos, reliquit Junius Bi-
« blioth. Ox.

" 22. Leges Frisiorum, Cod. MS. cum notit
" quibusdam in margine Junii.

" 23. Liber Legum Frisicarum impressus, in
" Fine mutilus, ad ex Ubbone Emmio Junius non-
" nulla prcemisit, cum ejusdem A^otis adspersispas-
" sim tnargini.

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PARRY.

BRETT.

PETRE.

" 24. Jus Camitatus Frisice ex Cod. Warneri
" Emnien, i^ aliw Leges Frisicoe ex Simonu Gub-
" hamue MSS. cum Notis Junii.

" Tliis our eminent autlior Junius continued in
" Oxon nil Aug. 1677; at which time he went
" ujx)n the earnest invitation of his nephew Dr.
" Isaac Vossius to Windsor, and continuwl for a
" time in good health and chearfulness there, and
" at Dr. Vossius's house near it. At length being
" overtaken with a fever, died of it in his said ne-
" phew's house near Windsor, on Monday the 19th
H*??. ". of Nov. in sixteen hundred seventy and seven :
" whereupon his body was conveyed, to Windsor
" and buried in the church or chap, of St. George
" within the castle there. In the year following
" was a table of white marble fixed to the wall near

" his grave, with an inscription thereon. See in

" these Fasti under the year 1676 — which is re-
" printed before the second edit, of Fr. Junius his
". t)ooks. entit. De Pictura Veterum, published by
" the said Joh. George Graevius."

JOHN PARRY, son of Edw. Parry sometime
bishop of Kiilaloc in Ireland, was born in the city
of Dublin, educated in Trin. coll. there till he was
bach, of arts : afterwards going to Oxon in the latter
end of 1650, was incorporated there in the same
degree, and about that time being made fellow of
Jesus coll. he proceeded in arts. At his majesty's
restoration he went into Ireland in the quality of a
chaplain to James then marquess (afterwards duke)
of Ormond lord lieutenant of that realm, took the
degree of bach, of div. at Dublin 26 Jan. 1660, and
in the next year returning to Oxon for a time, was
incorporated in the same degree. In 1662 Feb. 19
he, by the name of John Parry S. T. P. was in-
[605] stalled prebend of Bugthorp in the church of York,
on which day also Rob. Mossom D. D. was installed
preb. of Knaresburg in the same church. After-
wards, by the favour of Ormond, he became dean
of Ch. Ch. in Dublin, about the latter end of the
year 1665, (in the place of Dr. Mossom before-
mentioned, made bishop of Derry) and at lengtli
bishop of Ossory (in the place of Griffith Williams
deceased) by the same hand, an. 1672, with liberty
then given to him to kdfephis deanery in commendam.
He hath written.

Tears ioell directed: or pious Rejections upon
our Saviour''s Sufferings, and our ozen Sins, &c.
Lond. 1666, oct.

Diseotirses and Ejaculations upon the holy Fes-
tivals of the Circumcisimi, Epiphanu, Resurrection

und Pentecost. These two, which are printed

together, are grounded upon several parts of scrip
lure.

Sermon mi Nehem. 13. ver. 14. Ox. 1670.

Pmm/.» Meditations ami Prayers, I^ond. 1673. oct.
He also wrote the large ejiistle to sir James Ware,
eet before TAc Comment, of' the Bishops of Ireland,
written by that knight ; and digested, fitted for the

press, and published a l)ook written by his father
entit. David restored: or an Antidote against the
Prosperity of the Wiiked and Afflictions of t/te
Just ; in a seasonable Discourse on the 73 Psalm.

Printed in oct. 1660. This Dr. Joh. Parry

died 21 of Decemb. in sixteen hundred seventy and
seven, and was buried near to the body of his fa-
ther in the cliurch of St. Audoen in Dublin. In
the see of Ossory succeeded his brother Dr. B.
Parry, as I shall teU you among the writers in tlie'
next year.

[Parry was rector of Llan Jestyn in North Wales.
So Sancroft. Tannee.]

ARTHUR BRETT was descended of a genteel
family,^ but where born, unless in the city of West-
minster, I know not. In 1653 he was elected a
student of Ch. Ch. from AVestmin. school, and af-
terwards taking the degrees in arts, became one of
the terrae filii in the act celebrated in St. Mary's
church 1661, (Rob. Field of Trin. coll. lieing the
other) at which time he shew'd himself sufficiently
ridiculous. This person, who was a great pretender
to poetry, wTote and published.

Poem on the Restoration of King Ch. II. Lond.
1660, qu.

Threnodia. On tJie Death of Henry Duke of
Glocester. Oxon. 1660, in 2 sh. and an half in qu.

Patientia Victrix : or, the Boole of Job. in lyric
Verse. Lond. 1661, oct. " He writ Art Essay on
Poetry!" ' What other things he hath published I
cannot tell : sure I am that he taking noly orders
afterwards, had " the vicaridge of Market Laving-
" ton in Wilts." ^ bestowed * on
him, " but shortly quitted it," and
by his folly grew so poor, being as
I conceive, somewhat crazed, tliat
he desired the almes of gentlemen,
especially of Oxford scholars whom he accidentally
met with in London : in which condition I saw him
there in 1675. He died in his mother's house in
the Strand near London about sixteen hundred se-
venty and seven, but where his lean and macerated
carcass was buried (unless in the yard of St. Cle-
ment's church without Temple-bar) I know not.

WILLIAM PETRE, second son of William
lord Petre, was born in his father's house at West
Thorndon in Essex, became a gent. com. (with his
brother Robert, afterwards lord Petre) of Exet. coll.
about the begiiniing of Lent term, an. 1612, aged
10 years, and stK)n after, when AVadh. coll. was
finished by his great aunt, dame Dorothy Wadliam,
he was translated thither and became the first gent.

' [Arthur Brett a geDllemau's sonof Doion, was a student
in Exeter coll. Xb'/-;. Wood, MS. Note in Ashmole.']

' [So S' Tanner : (meaning Mr. afterwards bishop, Tan-
ner, then a bachelor of arts.) Wood, MS. Note in
ylshmote.']

■^ [Ibid, ib.]

* Some mean em-
ploymenl bestow-
ed on him. First
edit.

Ifi77.

1677.

GREENHILL.

1146

com. or nobleman thereof. Afterwards leaving the
university, without the taking of a degree, he went
to the inns of court, travelled and became a gent, of
many accomplishments. He hath translated into
English The Lives of Saints, with other Feasts of
the Year according to the Roman Calender. St.
Omers. 1669. Written in Spanish by Pet. lliba-
deneira of the society of Jesus. To which are added
a translation by the same hand of all those saints
which have been put into the calendar since the
author's (Ribadeneira) edition, until the year 1669,
besides those feasts of Sjiain which the author him-
self hath insertetl. This Mr. Will. Petre died on
the 16th of Jan. in sixteen hundred seventy and
seven, in his house at Stanford Rivers in Essex
(where he had an estate left him by his father) and
was buried in the church tliere,' as I iiave been in-
formed by his sister's son, that most generous and
well bred gentleman Ralph Sheldon of Beoly in
Worcestershire, commonly called Great Sheldon.

WILLIAM GREENHILL, born of plebeian
parents in Oxfordshire, entred a student ot Magd.
coll. in the condition of a clerk or servitor, an. 1604,
aged 13, and took the degrees in arts, that of master
being compleated an. 1612, at which time, as the
custom and statute is, he swore allegiance and fide-
lity to the king, his heirs and lawful successors :
which oath is taken by all who take but one degree ;
so that if they swerve from their lawful prince, as
presbyterians, independents, &c. have done, and ad-
here to another authority, they are perjur'd. This
W. Greenhill I take to "be the same who had some
small cure afterwards bestowed upon him, and as I
have heard, the same who gave moneys towards the
reparation of St. Paul's cathedral in London, and
the same who upon tlie turn of the times, occasion'd
by the puritan, did express those things more openly
which he before had conceal'd, viz. many vile mat-
ters against the bishops, orthodox clergy, the king,
his cause and followers, and was never wanting m
his discourses, prayers and preachings to atlvance
the blessed cau.se then most violently carried on by
the said puritan, he having been one himself ab
origine, and therefore sometime brought into trouble
for not observing the customs and canons of the
church. I say that this and the same W. Greenhill,
expressing himself then a rank covenanter was made
one of the assembly of divines by the long parlia-
ment, an. 1643, and much about the same time an
afternoon-lecturer at Stepney near London. But
leaving the presbyterians soon after he became for
interest sake, and not conscience, a notorious inde-
pendent, had two lectures more at least confer'd on
him in London (I think at St. Michael's in Corn-
hill and at St.- Giles's Cripplegate) which he kept

' [In the ch.incel, upon the ground : William Petre F,?q.
Son of Wilham Lord Petre, who died Jan. 15, 1677, aged
75. Also his wife Lucy, Daughter of Sir Richard Fermer of
Somerlon in Oxon Knt.]

with his lecture at Stepney, where, when Htigh
Peters * the pulpit buffoon tlid sometimes preach he
was by him called ' tiie Evening Star of Stepney.'
About that time when a petition was drawn up by
many citizens of London to be presented to the
parhaftient for the speetly setling of church govern-
ment, shewing the great mischief of the broaching
of all abominable errors. Sec. he was much against
it, and when 'twas brought to Stepney to lie read in
the church and subscrib'd, he, wth Jerem. Bur-
roughs another independent and the morning lec-
turer, were against the reading it, (tho' the vicar
Dr. Josh. Hoyle did order it to be read) shewing
thereby their great willingness that the churcn
should be supply'd with all sorts of sectaries. Af-
terwards he continued very active and forward in
his notorious schism, promoted the interest of the
army then on foot, took part with them in their
iliabolical proceedings in purging the house of com-
mons, their making no more addresses to the king,
applauded their proceedings against him in his lec-
tures, afterwards vindicated the murder of him, and
in an high manner flattered Oliver the tyrant.* In
the latter end of 1653 he was by the said Oliver
appointed one of the 38 commissioners or trj'ers for
the approbation of public preachers, in which office
behaving himself very forward, obtained one or
more benefices which had belonged to honest men :
and carrying on tlie cause and heaping up riches till
the restoration of his majesty, was then laid aside,
especially when tlie act of conformity appearetl ;
what became of him afterwards let others seek, while
I tell you what he hath published.

Exposition on the 9.^ first Chapters of Ezekiel,
with many useful Observations thereupo^i, delivered

in several Lectures in I^ond. printed at Lond.

in several volumes in qu.^ which came out at several
times.

Several sermons as (1) The Axe at the Root,
Fast-Scrm. before the H. of Com. 26 vi/;r. 1643;
mi Matth. 3. 10. Lond. 1643, qu. (2) Sermons
of Christ his last Discover 1/ of himself, viz. 1.
Christ tlie Root of all. 2. His Royal Descent, &c.
all from Rev. 22. 16, 17. Lond. 1656, oct. (3)
Sermon preached before the ^rl. on Ezek. 43. 2.

Lond. in qu. (4) Servian on Ezek. 18. 32.

This is in the moraing exercise at Cripplegate.
Lond. 1661. qu.

Tlie sound-hearted Christian : or, a Treatise of
Soundness of Heart, rvith several other Sermons.
Lond. 1671, oct. [Bodl. 8vo. V. 1. Th.| His
books were exposed to sale by way of auction 18
Feb. 1677, so I believe he died that year. Some-

■• [See GangrcBtia, pages 98, 99 ; and Trial of the Regicides.
Bakkr-T

* [Calamy, in his Abridgment if Baxter's Life, page 471,
saiih, Greenhill was pitched on to be chaplain to the king's
children. Grey.]

^ [In four volumes, and another vol. in 4to. on the rest of'
Ezekiel, published l6C)2. Grey.]

[607]

1147

JEMMAT.

STEPHENS.

thing of his is animadverted upon by George Fox in
his Great Mystery of the great Whore unfolded, &c.
p. 297.

WILLIAM JEMMAT or Gemote was bom
in the borougli of Reading in Berks, of wliich liis
father had been twice mayor in tlie reign of qu.
Elizabeth, educated in the free-scliool there, became
a student in Magd. coll. an. 1610, took one degree
in arts, which lieing compleated by determination,
he retired to Magd. hall, took the degree of master,
as a member thereof, holy orders, and became
preacher for a time at Leachlade in Glocestershire.
Afterwards he was made minister of Nettlested in
Kent, chaplain for a time to the earl of Northum-
berland, and for 14 years a licensed lecturer at
Istleworth in Middlesex. At length leaving that
cure in 1640 or thereabouts, he went to his native
place, exercised his function in praying and preach-
ing there among the brethren, took the covenant,
became minister of St. Giles's church in the said
borough of Reading, and was much followed and
admired by those of his persuasion. He hath written
and published these things following.

Several sermons, in number about seven.
Printed at Lond. 1623, 24, 27, 28. 1643, 44, &c.
Among them ' is one entit. St. Matthew's Conver-
sion,^ &c. another The Spiritual Trumpet, &c. and
A third The Bock: or, a setled Heart in unsetled
Times,^ &c.

Abridgment of Dr. John Preston's Works, Lond.
1648, 58, oct.

Exposition qfiJie Historical Prophecy of Jonah.
Lond. 1666, qu. dedicated to the lady Cecilia
KnoUys.

Now and ever, &c. Lond. 1666, qu. This I have
not yet seen. He also collected and published Five
Sermons, preoclied by Tito. Taylor of Camb. on

Occasion of the Gun-powder Treason Lond.

1620, qu. did also put into order, correct and pub-
lish the said doct. Plain and pithy Exposition of
the twelfih Chapter of St. John^s Revelation, Lond.

' \Ciyrona Pielatis. The Memorial of the Just. A Sermon
preached at the Funeral of Mrs. Mary Ba/hurst at Lechlade
in Gloucestershire Q De^ 1625; upon Luke viii. 52. Lond.
1627, 8vo.

This sermon is dedicated to the lady Eliz. Lawrence (mo-
ther in law to the dcceaicd) and at the end of it are sev'.
copies of verses to her memory, by her three brothers, &c.
Wan LEY.]

" [^A Spiriluall Trumpet exciting and preparing to the
Christian IVarfare. Sounded first in the vtmost Parts of the
Lords Campe, to one Wing; if the Armie, now in tlie midst
for the Benefit of alt. By William Jemmat, Master of Arts,
and Preacher of God's Word at Lechlade in Gloucestershire.
Lond. 1624, 12mo. Bodl. Svo. J.42. Th.]

9 [r//e liocke: or a setled Heart in unsettled Times. A
ihort Discourse minding and helping God's People to make
Use if their Faith for moderating their Feares in these sad
Times of the Sorrowes of Sion. Being the Heads of some
Sermons, preached lately, and now published for that Purpose.
By William Jemmat Pastor nf Nettlested, in the County of
Kent. Lond. 1644, l2mo. Bodl. 8vo. I. 7. Th. BS.]

1633. qu. entit. Chrisfs Victory over the Dragon,
&c. and lastly his book entit. Christ revealed : or,
the old Testam. complained, &c. Lond. 1635. qu.
Before which Sermons, Expontion and Christ re-
vealed, our author Jemmat hath put epistles, as also
before the said Taylor's Commentary of the Epist.
of St. Paul to Titus. \\'hich Taylor, commonly
called ' the Illuminated Doctor,' had for several
years been a minister in Reading, where he was,
held in great veneration by Jemmat in his tender
years, and indeed by all that were his auditors
there. Mr. Jemmat hath also translated into Lat.
some part of Dr. Thomas Goodwin's works, which
were printed at Heidelberg in 1658, oct. with his
name thus set in the title, Interprete Giiil. de magna
Crmventu, that is William of the Great convention.
Moot or Mote. At length after he had shew'd him-
self a mutable man according to the times he lived
in, died full of years on the 28th of Jan. in sixteen
hundred seventy and seven : at which time he left
a considerable legacy of books to the church of St.
Giles's beforementioned : in the chancel whereof he
was buried on the 31st of tlie said month. He had
two sons that were ministers, one named John who
was vicar of the said church, and the other Samuel,
who lived and died rector of Eastling in Kent.

NATHANIEL STEPHENS, son of Rich.

Stephens minister of Staunton Barnwootl in Wilts,
was born in that county, became a batler of Magd,
hall in Lent term an. 1622, aged 16 years, took the
degrees in arts, and afterwards became a puritanni-
cal preacher in his own country. At length upoa
the change of the times he closed with the presby-
terians, took the covenant, preached frequently
against the king's followers and prelacy, and was
not wanting on all turns to carry on the blessed
cause. At lengtli having the rectory of Fenny
Drayton or Draiston in the Clay in Leicestershire
confer'd on him, wrote and published,

A Precept Jbr the Baptism of Infants out of the
New Test. ^c. partly against the Cavils of Mr.
Everard in his late Treatise entit. Baby-baptism
routed, &c. Lond. 1651, qu. Animadverted upon
by Job. Tombes in his first part of Antipcedobap-
tism.

Plain and ea^ Calculation of the Name, Mark
and Number of the Name of the Beast, &c. Lond<
1656, qu. grounded on Rev. 13. 18. Which book
is much commended by Matth. Poole in his fifth
vol. of Synopsis Criticorum, on the Rev. and doth
acknowledge that he had some MS. notes from our
author concerning that matter which he had made
use of in that volume.

Vindicia- Fundamenti: Or a threefold Defence
of tlie Doctrine of Original Sin :. together with
some other Fundamentals of Salvation : tlie Jirst
against tlie Exceptions of Mr. Rob. Everard in his
Book entit. The Creation and the Fall of Man.
The second against the Examiners of the late As-

STEPHENS.

GALE.

1150

i

sembhjs Confession of Faith: the third against the
Allegations of Dr. Jer. Taijlor in his Umim neces-
sarium, and txco lesser Treatises of his. l^ond.
1G58, qu. [Bodl. E. 2. 14. Linc.J After his ma-
jesty's restoration, lie the said Mr. Stephens kept
his rectory of Fenny-Drayton, because the owner of
it had been for some years before dead, but upon
the pubhcation of the act of uniformity in 1662 he
left it because he would not ainform, resided for
some time in the said town, and preached there-
alwuts as a nonconformist. At length after several
disturbances, he removed to Stoke Gelding two
miles distant from Fenny-Drayton, and preached
there in conventicles, till he was disabled by lame-
ness some years before his death ; which hapning in
167^. sixteen hundred seventy and seven, was buried in
the church yard of StoKe Golding on the 24th of
Feb. the same year. One of both his names, an
esquire, was appointed one of the commissioners of
Glocestershirc, 1654, for the ejection of such whom
they then called scandalous, ignorant and insufficient
ministers and schoolmasters, who had before been
educated in this university.

THEOPHILUS GALE, son of Theoph. Gale
D. D. and sometime prebend, of Exeter, was born
in Devonshire, became a commoner of Magd. hall
after the surrender of the garrison of Oxon, made
demy of Magd. coll. by the visitors appointed by
parliament an. 1648, and afterwards fellow.' In
the year 1652 he proceeded in arts, became a fre-
quent preacher in the university and a great resorter
to the presbyterian and indep. meetings, especially
that of Tho. Goodwin in the president's lodgings of
his college. At the king's return he lost all the
right he had to his fellowship, to make I'oom for the
true owner, and being then wholly addicted to non-
conformity, travelled beyond the seas as a tutor to
the sons of Philip lord Wharton.' After his return
he lived in London, was for some time an assistant
to Joh. Rowe in carrying on the work of preaching
in his private congregation in Holborn, and pub-
lished these books following, which shew liim to nave
been a person of great reading, an exact philologist,
and phDo.sopher.

The Court of the Gentiles: Or a Discourse
touching the Original of human Literature both of

' [Calamy says he was unanimously chosen fellow of Mag-
dalen in 1(J50, when several of his seniors were past by.
While he continued there, he was a considerable tutor ;
among others to the famous bishop Hopliins, who always
paid him the greatest respect imaginable. Ejected Ministers,
Continuation, page 97.]

' [In Sepiember ifi&v! he went over into France with two
sons of the laie lord Wharton, viz. him that was afterwards
marquiss of Wharton, and Mr. Goodwin Wharton; and
settled with them at Caen. He staid in the town two years,
and had an iiitiiiiatc acquaintance with the great Bochatt,
who was, at that time, pastor and professor there. He left
my lord Wharton's sons in France, and return'd into England
in 1665 ; and after his return kept a private academy at
Newingtoii. Calamy, ut supra.]

ThiloUigjf and Philosophy fiom l/ie Scriptures and
Jewish Church., ^-f.' Part 1. of Philology, Oxon.

1669, and there again 1672, iKith in qu. [Hodl. 4to.
1*. 83. Th. first and second jiarts.] The second
part which is Of Philosophy, was printed at Oxon.

1670, and at Lond. 167o, both in qu. Of these two
parts there is a laudable acct)unt in the PhUoso-
phical TratiA'actions, numb. 74. p. 2231. an. 1671.
The third part Oft/ie Vanity ()f Pagan Philosophy,
was pr. at Lond." 1677, [Boidl. 4to. Z. 42. Th.J and
the fourth Of Rcjbrmcd Philosophy, was pr. there
the same year, [Bodl. 4to. E. 3. Th.] and Ixith in
qu. These four books or parts shew the author to
have been well read in, and conversant with, the
writings of the fathers, the old |)hiio.sopliers, and
those that have given any accoimt of them or their
works : as also to liave been a good metaphysician
and school-divine.

The true Idea of Jansenlivi, both historic and [609]
dogmatic. Lond. 1669, oct. [Bodl. 8vo. C. 180.
Line] The large preface to it was written by Dr.
Joh. Owen.

Theophily : or a Discourse of the SainCs Amity
with God in Christ, &c. Lond. 1671, oct.

The Anatomy of Infidelity : or an Explication
of the Nature, Causes, Aggravations and Punish-
ment of Unbelief. Lond. 1672. oct.

Discourse of Chrisfs Coming, and the Infuencfi
which the Expectation there(f, he. Lond. 1673. oct.
[Bodl. 8vo. T. 28. Th.]

Idea Theologi(,e, tarn caiitemplativce mam activcE,
ad Formam S. Scripturw delineata. Lond. 1673,
in tw. [Bodl. 8vo. B. 258. Line]

Wherein the Love of the World is inconsistent
with the Love of God ; Sermon on 1 Jo. 2. 15. Lond.
1674, and 76, in The Supplement to the Morning
Exercise at Cripplegate.

Phihsophia generalis in duos Partes disteV'
minata, una de Ortu Sf Progressu Philosophiw, SfC.
Altera 1. De 7ninorum Gentium Philosophiw. 2.
Dc novem Habitibus Intcllcctttalibus. 3. De Philo-
sophiw Objeeto, &c. Lond. 1676, oct.

Ars Sciendi ; sive Logica nova Methodo dispo-
sita, ^ novis Prwceptis aiicta. Lond. 1682, oct.
This is Joh. Claubergs Log^ and Ars cogitandi

' [Going to travel with the lord Wharton's sons, he left
his common-place books locked up in a writing-desk, with a
friend iti London, who set the desk by, in his counting house.
When he return'd back into England, and drew near Lon-
don, he saw the city in flames, and was told, by such as he
met with upon the road, that the street in which his friend
lived, with whom he had left his desk, was burnt to live
ground. This much concerii'd him, to think that he should
loose on a sudden the fruit of twenty years hard labour ; but
submitting to the providence of God, he rode on ; and meet-
ing his friend who congratulated him on his safe return, arid
acquainted him, that, in removing his goo<ls, to preserve them
from the flames, the last cart not beina; full, he looked about
him, in a hurry, and seeing his desk, cast it in to hejp ir;ake
up a load ; which he was not a little pleased to hear.- Had
the papers that were in the desk been there consumed, his
Court of the Gentiles had never come to light. Macro.] •

1151

HOOK,

GODOLPHTN.

(called the Jansenists Logic) digested into one
volume, with some alterations and enlargements.

A Summary of the two Covenants. This is

set before a Ixwk by him published, entit. A Dis-
course oftlie two Covenants, &c. Lond. 1678, fol.
written by Will. Strong sometime preacher in the
abby church at Westminster. This learned and
industrious person Mr. Gale did design to have
published other matters, but was cut off in the prime
of his years (agctl 49 or thereabouts) at Newington
Green near London in Middlesex, where then his
habitation was, in the latter end of Feb. or begin-
\(y}l. lung of March in sixteen hundred seventy and
seven, and was buried in the burial place of the dis-
senters joyning to the New-artillery-garden and
Bunhill-fields ni Cripplegate parish near London.
He left all his real and personal estate for the edu-
cation and benefit of poor presbyterian and inde-
pendent scholars, to be managed by certain noncon-
formists for their use. All his library also he gave
to the coU. in New England, except such philoso-
phical books which are needful for students of his
opinion in Old England.

[The Ars Sciendi Calamy expressly says was not
written by Gale. The author of the Lives of ffie
Ejected Ministers adds ' He wrote also The Life of
Mr. Thomas Tregos.se, and left several manuscripts,
which he had designed for the press, if he had liv'd.
The most considerable of them was a lexicon of the
Greek Testament, which would have -been much
compleater than any then extant. It was finish''d
no farther than the letter Iota ; but he had already
gone through several of the most considerable words,
under all other letters. He printed proposals for
publisliing it, but a very little before liis death,
wherein he gave a large account of his design. The
tide he has given it in his MS. is only Lexicon
Grccci Testamenti Etj/mologiciim Synmvymum, sive
Glossarium et Homonymum. It was to have made
a large folio.* ]

" WILLIAM HOOK was born of genteel
parents in Hampshire, whence being sent to Trin.
Coll. in 1616, took both the degrees in arts as a
member thereof, tint of master being compleated
in 1623 ; at whicn time lie was esteemed a close
student and a rehgious person. Afterwards en-
tring into holy orders, he was made vicar of Ax-
moudi in Devonshire, where he continued a puri-
tannical preacher several years : but being forced
to leave that harbour because of his seditious
' sermons, and nonconformity to the church in all
' particulars, he went to New England and there

• continued his practices without controul for some

■ time. At length when the puritan began to be

• dominant, and the grand rebellion about to break

■ out upon their account, he retum'd to Old Eng-

■ land, preached, as the rest of tlie brethren did,

* \Ejecled Miniiten, Continuation, page gs.]

agfunst episcopacy, and the ceremonies of the
church ; and carrying on the cause of the godly
party to the purpose, had a cure bestowed on him
tiiat hail belonged to an ortiiodox divine. After-
wards taking the covenant and expressing himself
in all respects a zealous brother, hatl, as 'tis said,
the mastership of the hospital called the Savoy
within the city of Westminster confer'd on him,
whicii he kept for a time. After the restoration
of his majesty king Charles II, he was silenced,
and tho' lirought sometimes into trouble for car-
rying on the trade of conventicling, yet he per-
sisted in his opinion, and whether he took another
voyage to New England, in truth I cannot tell.
He hath written and published,
" N^ew Englandi's Tears for Old England's

Fears, Fast-Sermon. Printed 1640, 41, in

' qu.
" Several sermons, as (1) Sermon on Job. 2. 12. —
printed 1641, in qu. (2) Sermon i7i New Eng-
land in Behalf of Old England, &c. printed
1645, in qu. and others.
" Tlie Privileges qftlie Saints on Earth beyond

■ those in Heaven, &c. Lond. 1673, in oct.

"■^ A Discourse (rf the Gospel-Day. printed with

' the former book. He had a hand also in a Cate-
' chism published under the name of Joh. Daven-

■ port, as I have elsewhere told you, and hath written
' other things which I have not yet seen. He died in
' or near London on the 21st of March in sixteen
' hundred seventy and seven, aged 77 years, and
' was committed to the earth in the burial place
' situated on the north side of the New Artillery
' yard or garden, near to the said city."

JOHN GODOLPHIN the third son of Joh.
Godolphin esquire, of the antient and genteel family
of Godolphin in Cornwall, was bom in the island of
Sciily beyond the land's end, in the said county, in
the castle there which belonged to his name, on St.
Andrew's eve, an. 1617, became a commoner of
Glocester hall in Mich, term 1632, where profiting
much in logic and philosophy, (as afterwards in the
civil law) under the tuition of Will. Sandbrooke,
was four years after admitted to the reading of any
book of the institutions, that is, to the degree of
bach, of the said law. In the beginning of 1643 he
was actually created doctor of his faculty, being
then puritannically inclined ; and going afterwards
to London, he sided so much with the men there in
power, that after he had taken the wicked oath called
the engagement, he was by act of pari. 30 Jul. 1653
constituted and appointedf with Will. Clerke doct.
of the civ. law and Charles George Cock esq; judges
of the atlmiralty, and in the middle of Jul. 1659,
(Clerke being then dead) he and Cock were consti-
tuted again, yet to hold and exercise the said office
but till the 10th of Dec. following. After his ma-
jesty's restoration he was made one of his advocates,
being then esteemed a learned man, and as well read

1153

GODOLPHIN.

GOOD.

1154

I

in divinity as in his own faculty, as mqy be seen in
the lMK)ks following' of his writing.

The Iwly Limbec ; or an EiVtrnctinn of the Spirit
Jrom the Letter of certain eminent Places in the
holy Scripture. Lond. 1650, in tw. Other copies
have this title The holy Limbec ; or a Semicentury
of spiritual Exti-ai-tions,^ &c.

The lioly Harbour, contaitiinff the whole Body
of Divinity : or the Sum and Suhitance of Christian
Religion. Lond. 1651, in a thin fol.

A View (if the Admiral Jurisdiction, wJierein the
most material Points concerninfr that Jurisdiction
are fairhj and submissively discu.i.ied, &c. Lond.
1661, oct. [Hodl. 8vo. V. Vi. Jur.]

A Catalogue of .inch that have been dignified
with the Office of Lcrrd high Admiral in this King-
dom, &c. Printed at the end of the said View, and
all or most taken from sir Hen. Spelman''s Glossary
m the word Admiralius.

The Orphan's Legcwy : or a Testamentary
Abridgment in three Parts. 1. Of last Wills and
Testaments. 2. Executors and Administrators.
3. Of Legacies and Devises, he. Lond. 1674, qu.
[Bodl. 4to. U. 4. Jur. 1677, Bodl. BB. 42. Th.]

Repertorium Canonicum : or, an Abridgment of
the Ecclesiastical I^aws of this Realm consistent
iaith the Temporal; wherein the most material
Points, &c. Lond. 1678, 80, [Bodl. HH. 26. Jur.]
&c. cju. He also translated into English out of
Garsius alias Ferrand, A71 Extract of the antient
Laws of Oleron. Lond. 1661, printed with The
View of Admiral Jurisdiction before-mention''d : to
which translation he put marginal observations. He
died in, or near, Fleetstreet, on the fourth day of
1678. Apr. in sixteen hundred seventy and eight, and was
buried in the north isle of Clarkenwell church near
London. As for Ch. Geor. Cock before-mention'd,
he was of the Inner Temple and a counsellor there,
but whether he wa.s ever of this univ. I cannot tell.
However this I know of him, that he being a great
antimonarchist, was in some manner contributary to
the death of king Charles I. that he was one of those
21 persons that were appnnted to be of a connnittee
to consult of a reformation of the law, in Jan. 1651,
he being then living and residing in Norwich ; that
he was one of the commissioners of the prerogative
court, one of the high court of justice in Nov. 1653,
and author of a canting, whimsical and enthusiasti-
[611] cal book entit. Engli.sli-Laxv : or, a summary Sur-
vey of the Houshold of God cm Earth, and that
both before and under the Law ; and that both of
< " Moses and the Lord Jesus, &c. Lond. 1651. in a
thin fol. To which is added. Essay of Christian
Government, under the Regiment of our Lord and

, * [ Wherein the Spirit is extracted from the Letter nf certain
ftninenl Places in the holy Scripture, and a compendious Way
discovered for the spiritual Improvement nf the literal Sense
m- Order to the better Understanding vf the Mind and
Meaning nf the Spirit therein. Lond. 166O, tw. Rawlin-

SOK.]

Vol. in.

King, the one immortal, invisible, ij-c. Prince of
Peace, Emanuel. Written by the same hand.

THOMAS GOOD became scholar of Bal. coll.
in the latter end of 1(524, aged 15 years, bach, of
arts in the beginning of Mich, term 1 628, and on
the 29th of Nov. the next year he was admitted
probationer fellow of that house, ran through oil
exercises of the coll. and university, till he was bach,
ol'div. in 1639. Afterwards, tho' he wa.s absent in
times of distraction, yet he kept his fellowship and
submitted to the men of the mterval. At length
having obtained a small cure at Coerley in his na-
tive country of Shropshire, he resigned his fellow-
ship in 1658, and at the king's restoration was, as a
sufferer for the king's cause, (as 'tis said in the uni-
versity register of that year) actually created D. of
D. About that time he was made one of the resi-
dentiaries of the cath. ch. of Hereford and rector of
Winstanstow in his own country, and at length, on
the death of Dr. Savage, master of Bal. coll. He
was in his yoimger years accounted a l)risk dis-
putant, and when resident in his coll. a frequent
[)reacher, yet always esteemed an honest and harm-
ess puritan. A noted ' author of the presbyterian
persuasion tells us, that he was one of the most
peaceable, moderate and honest conformists of his
acquaintance, and subscribed the Worcestershire
agreement for concord, and joyned with the presby-
terians in their association and meetings at Kedir-
minster, and was the man that drew the catalogue
of questions for their disputations at their meetings,
and never talked then to them of what he after-
wards wrote in his book called Dubitantius 4- Fir-
mianu^ : by which, when published, he lost his credit
among them and was lesser esteemed by Mr. Baxter
the pride and glory of that party. He hath written
and published,

Firmianus and Dubitantius: Or certain Dia-
logues concerning Atheism, Lnjidclity, Popery and
other Heresies and Schisms, &c. ()xon 1674. oct.
[Bcxll. ^vo. B. 296. Th.] Animadverted upon by
the said Mr. Baxter in a letter directed to him, dat.
10 Feb. 1673. in the Apology here quoted from
pag. 142. to 146. " There was also alwut that
" time printed by some anony mus; Certain Quceries
" offer\l to the Consideration of all serious andju-
" dicious Men, as an Appendix to the 3d Dialogue

" in FirmiamiJt and Dubitantius 1 sh. in oct.

" — Quest. Whether 11. Baxter was not the au-
" thor."

A brief English Tract of Ix)gic Printed

1677. in a little oct. of 2 sh. and an half He had,
as I have been informed, other things lying by him
at his death fit for the press, but of what subject
they treated, or in whose hands they are gotten, I
know not. He died at Hereford on the nmth day

^ Rich. Baxter in his Apol.fur the NonconfurmisCs Miuitl.
1>. 27. &e. Lond. 1681. qu. p. I4(j. -- ■-•••-J »-• '•'

4E

1155

WELLS.

POTTER.

1156

1078. of Apr. in sixteen hundred seventy and eight, and
was buritxl in the c-atlicdral church there. On tlic
S4th day of" tlie same month, was electetl in his place
of master of Hal. coll. John Venn M. A. and fellow
of that liouse.

[Petition from the Master (of Balliol) to the In-
liab'itunts of Worecstcrsh'ire, entreating them to
Jbiind tico Felloii'ships Jur that County. Wood's
study, 423, 49.]

BENJAMIN WELLS second son of John
Wells the famous mathematician of Deptford in
Kent, was born there, or at least in that county,
became a commoner of St. iVJban's-hall in 1632,
aged 16 years, took one degree in arts, and then
being translated to that of St. Mary, was admitted
master as a member thereof, an. 1639, and the next
year was elected probat. fellow of AU-s. college.
Afterwards entring on the physic line, he was ad-
mitted to practise that faculty in Dec. an. 1650,
having been about that time in some of the Western
Plantations. Afterwards he setled at Greenwich
alias East Greenwich in his native county, where he
practised his faculty, but being of a morose temper,
tho' able in his profession, was but little resorted to

[612] by patients, which was the reason he died very in-
digent. He hath written,

■ A Treatise of the Gout, or Joint Evil. Lond.
1669. in tw. and translated into English The Expert
Physician : learnedly treating of all Agues and
Feavers. Lond. 1657. oct. Written originally by
Dr. Bricc Bauderon. This Mr. Wells died at East
Greenwich before-mention'd, in x\pril in sixteen

1678. hundred seventy and eight, and was buried in the
church there on the 13th day of the same month.
John Wells esq; the father before mentioned, was
3tore-keeper of the naval arsenal at Deptford, a
charge of good credit, and requiring extraordinary
application, was much valued for his mathematical
sufficiencies by Briggs, Guntcr, Gellibrand, Ought-
red, &c. and learnedly wrote S'ciographia, Or

the Art of Shadozcs, plainly demonsti-ating out of
the Sphere how to project both great and small
Circles, upon any Place ichatsoever, 7cith a new
Conceit of the Reflecting ^ the Sun Beams upon a
Dial, Lond. 1635. oct. He married Catherine
daughter of Thorn. Wallenger esq; by Benedicta
Gonson his wife, who dying 5 Jul. 1634, aged 47,
was buried in the church at Deptford. Afterwards
Job. Wells went into Hampshire, and lived and
died at Brembridge, as 'tis said, leaving a son of
both his names to succeed him in his office at Dept-
ford.

FRANCIS POTTER was bom in the vica-
ridge-housc at Meyre in Wilts, on Trinity Sunday,
an. 1594, educated in grammar learning in the
king's school at Worcester under Mr. Hen. Briffht,
became a commoner of Trin. coll. under the tuition
of his elder brother Hannibal Potter, in the latter

end of the year 1609, took the degrees in arts and
one in divinity, continued in the coll. a close student
till his father died an. 1637, and then succeeding
him in the rectory of Kilmanton, (sometimes called
Kilmingtoii and Culmington) left the university for
altogether, retired to that place, led a single and
monkish life, without the conversation of ingenious
men, till the day of his death. He was from a boy
given to drawing and painting, and the founder's
picture that hangs in the refectory of Trin. coll. is
of his copying. His geny lay most of all in the
mechanics, he had an admirable mechanical in-
vention, and excellent notions for the raising of
water, and making water-engins : many of which
inventions being presented to the Royal Society
about the time of its first erection, were highly ap-
proved by tliem, and forthwith the members thereof
admitted him one of their number. Alx)ut the year
1640 he entertained the notion of curing diseases by
transfusion of blood out of one man into another :
the hint whereof came into his head from Ovid's
story of Medea and Jason. Which matter he com-
municating to the Royal Society about the time of
its first erection, was entred into their books. But
this way of transfusion having (as 'tis said) been
mcntion'd long before by Andr. Libavius, our au-
thor Potter (who I dare say never saw that writer)
is not to be esteemed the first inventor of that notion,
nor Dr. Rich. Lower, but rather an advancer. He
hath written and pubhshed.

An Interpretation of the Number 666. Wherein
not only the Manner, Jtow this Number ought to be
interpreted, is clearly proved and demonstrated;
but it is also shezoed that this Number is an ex-
quisite and perfect Character, tr^dy, exactly and
essentially describing that State of Government,
to zohich all other Notes of Antichrist do agree.
Oxon. 1642. qu. [BotU. 4to. P. 41. Th.] Which
book (as one^ saith) is the happiest that ever yet
came into the world; and such as cannot l)e read
(save of those persons that will not believe it)
without much admiration, &c. A book also called
The Key of the Scripture, written by a London
divine, wherein, being large upon the Revelations,
he prefers the said Interpretation before all others.
It was afterwards translated into French, Dutch and
Latin ; the last of which was done by several hands
and severally printed. One copy was all or mostly
performed by Tho. Gilbert of St. Edm. hall, printed
at Amsterd. 1677. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. L. 116. Th.]
And that, or the other, was partly remitted into
Matth. Poole's Synopsis Critic, in the second part [6131
of the fourth volume, on the Revelations. . What
answers were made to the said Interpretation, that
were printed, I think there were none: sure I am
that one I^ambert Morehouse minister of Pertwood,
about 6 miles from Kilmanton, accounted by some
a learned man, and a good mathematician, did write

' Joseph Mede of Cambr.

1157

POTTER.

WOODHEAD.

115«

I

I

against it, and seemed to be angry with the author
that 25 is not the true, but tlie propinquc root : To
which the author replied with some shai-pness. The
MS. of this controversy, Moreliouse gave to Dr.
Setli Ward bishop of Salisbury, an. 1668, before
which time he was preferM by Dr. Henchman then
bishop of that place to the sj)iritual cure of Little
Langford in Wilts, where he died about 1672. He
was a Westmoreland man by birth, was educated,
I think, in Clare-hall in Cambridge, and wrote
other things, but are not printed. As for our au-
thor Potter, he lived to a good old age, died per-
fectly blind at Kilmanton between Easter and Whit-
sontide (in the month of April, I think) in sixteen
1678. hundred seventy and eight, and was buried in the
chancel of the church there. His memory is pre-
served in Trin. coll. by a dial that he made and set
up on the north side of the old quadrangle, where
it doth yet remain. His father's name was Richard
Potter an Oxfordshire man born, sometime fellow of
the said coll. of the Holy Trinity, and afterwards
vicar of a little market-town in Wilts, and rector of
Kilmington or Kilmanton in Somersetshire before-
mentioird.

ABRAHAM WOODHEAD son of John
Woodhead of Thornhill in Yorkshire, was born at
Maltham in the parish of Albonsbury alias Ambury
in the said county, entred a student in Univ. coll.
under the tuition of Jonas RadclifT an. 1624, aged
16 years or thereabouts, and so<m after was made
scholar. Afterwards going through the several
classes of logic and philosophy with very great in-
dustry, he took the degrees in arts, 1;')ecame fellow
in 1633, entred into holy orders, passed a course in
divinity, and in 1641 was elected one of the proc^tors
of the university ; which office being quitted (not
without trouble, occasion'd by the denying of tlic
grace of Franc. Cheyncll, of which he complained
to the long parliament) he travelle<l into France
with a gent. com. of his house called Thomas liad-
cliff son of sir Geor. Radcl. and afterwards with
Thom. Culpeper, and Thorn. Strotle, both of the
same house. At length settling for a time in Rome
he was entertained by George duke of Buckingham,
whom he instructed in mathematics, and was much
respected b}' him. After his return into England,
(being deprivM of his fellowship by the visitors
appointed by parliament, for absence and non-
appearance, an. 1648.) he lived for some time in
York Hou.sc in the Strand near London, by the ap-
pointment of the said duke ; but Arthur lord Capell
being informed of the great merits of the person, he
entertained, and learned of him, the mathem.atical
sciences. In 1660 he was restored to his fellowship
by his maj. commissioners, and remained in his coll.
for a time : But his opinion, as to religion, being
then altered (as it had been since he was at Rome,
which he always very warily conceard) got leave of
the master and society to be absent, as inteniUng

again to travel, with the allowance of 20/. per an.
So that retiring to London, he afterwards setlcd at
Hoxton alias Hogsden, near to that city, where he
lived very obscurely and retiredly, upon that al-
lowance that the college made to him as a traveller,
all therein, except one, knowing not to the contrary,
but that he was beyond the seas." There I sav,
being setled, he not only caused youths to be trained
uj) in the R. Cath. religion (of which certiun mem-
bers of parliament did ojienly make mention in the
house, after the popish plot was discovered) but also
wrote and published divers books in vindication of
the church of Rome, and thereby gained the cha-
racter by the men of that party of the prime cham-
pion of England to stand up for their cause. A
noted ' author of the English church saith, that
' the author of The Guide in Controversies (Ab.
Woodhead) is a person most highly famed among
the Roman Catholics, and that he is, in his opinion,
the most ingenious and solid writer of the. whole
Rom. party.' His works ])lainly shew him to have
been a person of sound and solid judgment, well read
in the fathers, and in the jxilemical writings of the
most eminent and renowned defenders of the church
of England, who have quite down from the reforma-
tion succes.sfully managed the Protestant cause
against Rome. He was so wholly devoted to retire-
ment, and the prosecutions of his several studies,
that no worldly concerns sharetl any of his affections,
only satisfying himself with bare necessaries ; and so
far from coveting applause or preferment (tho' per-
haj)s the conij)icatiiess of his learning and great
worth might have given him as just and fair a claim
to both as any others of" his persuasion) that he used
all endeavours to secure his beloved privacy, and
conceal his name : And altho' he obtained these his
desires in great part, yet his calm, temjieratc, and
rational discussion of some of the most weighty and
momentous controversies under deliate between the
Protestants and Romanists, rcndred him an author
much fani'd, and very considerable in the esteem, of
Ixitli. He hath written very many things, some of
which were published in his life-time, and some after
his death, all without his own name or initial letters
of it, set to them. The catalogue of most of them
follow.

A brie f Aeeount of' ancient Church Government,
■with a Reflection on several modern Writings of
tfie Presbyterians (The Assembly of Divines their
Jus divinum Ministerii Angiicani, published 1654,
and Dr. Blondel's Apologia pro Sententia Hiero-
nymi, and others) touching this Subject. Lond.

'^ ['Ti> certain he travelled with Mr. Strode, Mr. Cnlpeper
and sirTho. Radclifs son, inslrucied the duke of Bnckinj^-
hani and his brother, in mathetnaticks, and long afier this
retire! to Hoxton. Ciuh. Constable at Burton Constable.
But if the D. of Buck's brother be meant, there must be a
mistake. Baker.]

9 Dan. Whitby in his cpist. before his Appendix following
The Absurdity and Idolatry of Host-worship.

4E2

[614J

11. ■;9

WOODHEAD.

1160

1662 [Bodl. B. 10. 4. Line] and 85, in four parts
in a thin quarto.* " Some say it
" was written by R. Holden a Sor-
" bon Dr. but falsely, for Ab.
" Woodhcad was without doubt
" the autlior of it."

The Guide in Controversies : or
a rational Account of the Doctrine
of the Roman Catholics coticerning
tJie ecclesiastical Guides in Con-
troversies of Religion : i-eflccting
on the later Writings of Protest-
ants; particularh) of Arehh. Laud,
and Dr. StilUngpect on this Sub-
ject. This book is divided into

* This book was
generatly reported
to have been writ-
ten by him, yet a
cerlatn R. Catho-
lick, who was ori-
ginally nf Univ.
coll. and muchpre-
lended to know all
the works that Mr.
IVoudhead hud
written (ivhich he
had with great
zeal bought and
collected for the
honour lie had to
the author) hath
several limes told
me thai he was not
the author of that
book, but Obad.
IValker.ViTi\.&i.i\.

four discourses; the two first of
which were printed at London
1666. in qu. But before they could
appear in public, they were burnt
in the grand conflagration at Lon-
don, except a very icw copies that
were saved, and vended abroad. The other two
discourses were published at London 1667, qu.
[Bodl. A. 13. 9. Line] and there again, all toge.
ther, with additions and some alterations, an. 1673.
qu. In the composition of this book ( The Guide)
I have been credibly informed by several R. Ca-
tholics, that one Perkins a learned man of that per-
suasion did assist the author.' Part of the third
discourse is refuted in a Ixmk entit. A second Dis-
course in Vindication of the Protestant Grounds of
Faith against t/ie Pretence of Infallihiltty in the
Roman Church, in Answer to {The Guide in Con-
troversies, hy R. H.) and against (Protestancy
isnthout Principles) and (Reason and Religion,
Sfc.) both tcritten by E. W. I say refuted by Dr.
Edw. Stillingfleet chaplain in ord. to his majesty —
Lond. 1673. oct.

Exercitations concerning the Resolution of Faith,

against some Exceptions Printed 1674. qu.

These Exercitations are in vindication of some part
of the third Discourse from what was said against it
by Dr. Edw. Stillingfleet in the Second Discourse,
just before-named.

An Appendij^ to tlie Jour Discourses concerning
Tlte Guide in Controversies : Further shewing the
Necessity and Infallibility thereof, against some

contrary Protestant Principles Printed 1675.

qu. Some copies of this book have this title, A
Discourse of the Necessity of Church Guides for
directing Christians in necessary Faith, &c. [Bodl.
B. 23. 12. Line] The second part of the Appendix
(printed with the former) containeth

Annotations on Dr. Stillingfleef s Answer to N.
O's Considerations of his Principles These two

' [By an original letter from Nicholson of University col-
lege to ("uihberl Constable, it apptars that Perkins did not
awiat Woodhead in the coin|K>sttion of the workj he only
lent his aid as an. amanuensis.]

parts contain, an answer to what Dr. Stillingfleet in
a piece of his called An Answer to several late
Treatises occasion''d by a Book entit. A Discourse
concerning Idolatry practised in the Church of
Rome, Sac. hath said against our author (Wood-
head) Ixis book named Dr. Stillingfleet s Prin- L"1^J
ciples, Sfc. coHsider''d, which I am now about to set
down.

Dr. Stilling fleets Principles, giving an Accouvi
of the Faith of Protestants, consider''d. Paris 1671.
oct. [Bodl. SVo. N. 43. Th.] This is answer'd in
Dr. Stillingfleet"'s first part named An Answer to
several late Treatises, ike. before-mention'd.

Considei-ations on tlie Council of Trent : being
thcjifth Discourse concerning The Guide in Cotu

troversies. Printed 1671. qu. [Bodl. A. 14. 15.

Line, and Lond. 1687, qu.''] 'Tis said that there
is a sixth part which is concerning the alienation of
church lands, but Qurere.

The Roman Clmrche^s Devotions vindicated from

Dr. Stillingfleets Misrepresentations Printed

1672. oct. '

The Roman Doctrine of Repentance and Indul-
geiu:e, vindicutedfrom Dr. Stillingfleef s Misrepre*
sentations — Printed 1672. oct. l^hese three last
books were, published under the initial letters of
N. O. or 0. N.' And the two last are briefly replyed
upon by Dr. Stillingfleet in the general preface to
Ins first above named ; wherein having only touched
on Seren. Cressy''s piece entit. Fanaticism Jana*
tically imputed, &c. wrote against him, saith these
things of our author N. O. (AVoodhead) compared
with Ser. Cressy (whose book he affirms to be
rayUng and the author mad) is a meer pattern of
meekness, and that he writes pertinently without
the other's bitterness and passion : And elsewhere in
the same preface he stiles him a moderate man. .

" Of the Benefit of our Saviour Jesus Christ to
" Mankind. Oxon. 1680. qu.''

An historical Narration of the Life and Death
of our Saviour Jesus Christ, in two Parts. Oxonj
1685. qu. [Bodl. 4to. U. 68. Th.] Published by
Obad. Walker, and then said, not to be of his com-
position, but of his tutor Ab. Woodhead. Before it ' —
went to the press it was viewed by Dr. Will. Jane
the king's professor of divinity, who made some de« ,

lotions and corrections in it ; yet afterwards they
were put in again by Mr. Walker, when it was in
the press. Several exceptions were made against
divers passages therein, and great clamouring there
was in the university against the book, particularly
by Dr. George Reynell of C. C. C. yet on the 13th
of Oct. the same year, when Mr. Nath. Boys of
Univ. coll. was introduced into his late majesty's
(king Jam. II.) presence, he (his majesty) was not
then only pleased to commend him for liis sermon,

' [Wood, MS- Note in Ashmnle.']

3 [And Lond. 1()7<), qu. No N. O. or O. N. set in th«
title to this edit. Wood, MS. Note in Ashmole.^

WOODHEAD.

1162

as being an ingenious and well pen^l discourse, (I
mean that sermon which he had preached in St.
Mary's churcli on the 26th of July going belore,
being then a tlianksgiving day, for which he was
forced to make his palinotly on the first of Aug.
following in the A})()dyterium for several things
therein savouring of popery) but al.w the said Hin-
torical Narration lately pubhshed, as he said, by
the head of Univ. coll. for a very good Ixxjk, and
wondered why any one should find fault with it, &c.

Two Discourses concerrmiff the Adoration of our
B. Saviour in the Eucharist. The first contains,
Animadversions upon the Alteruticms of' the Rubric
in the Commmi Service in the Common-praijer-Iiook
of the Church of England. The sccmid. The Ca-
tholics Defence for their Adoration qfmir Lord, as
believed really and substantially present in the holy
Sacrament of the Euchari.it. Oxon. 1687. qu.
[Bodl. C. 11. 5. Line] ])ubHshed in an. 1686. by
Mr. Walker without licensing by the vicech. by
virtue of the king's license granted to him to print
certain books (lying by him) at Oxon. But A. C.*
of Trin. coll. obtaining, by another hand, the said
book (while 'twas in printing) sheet by sheet, from
L. Lichfield the printer, came out an answer to it
about a month after entit. A Discourse of the lioly
Eucharist in the great Points of the real Pi-esence
and Adoration of the Host. In Answer to the two
Discourses lately printed at Oxon on this Subject.
To which is prefix' d a large historical Preface re-
lating to the same Argument. Lond. 1687. qu. pul)-
lished in Feb. 1686, and written, as 'twas then re-
ported, by Will. Wake of Ch. Ch. Another book
was also pubhshed against it entit. A Reply to two
Discourses lately printed at Oxford concerning the
Adoration of our blessed Saviour in the Eucharist.
Oxon. 1687. qu. Published in the latter end of
May that year, and written, as 'twas then commonly
reported, by doctor Hen. Aldrich > can. of Ch. Ch.
In the introduction to this book 'tis said that a
scandalous report was industriously spread about
the nation, as if Oxford converts came in by whole
shoales, and all the university were just ready to
declare. Upon the coming out of the first answer,
Mr. Walker perceiving that he had been falsly dealt
with by the printer in permitting his book to go
away sheet by sheet, as 'twas printed, he set up
cases of letters and a press in the back part of his
lodgings belonging to him as master of Univ. coll.
where he caused to be printed another lKX)k of Mr.
Woodhead entit.

Church Government, Part V. A Relation of the

4

lege

[Arthur Charlctt,
[See the epitaph o

afterwards master of University col-

on Robert Aldrich of Wcstmnre, gent.
in tl7c parish of Burton upon Trent, 1 6 March, i6a6. Le
Neve, sub anno. Kennet.

Hen. Aldrich was son of Hen. A. of Westminster, gent.
Ob. at Chr. Ch. 23 Mar. l()3g, go : buried in that cathedral.
Bakkr.]

English Reformation, and the Lawfulness tliereof,
examined by the Tlieses delivered in tlie fmr former
Parts. Oxon. 1687. qu. [Bodl. 4to. R. 60. Th.]
with king Alfred's picture in the title, cut in a
wooden Iwrder. This was published in the begin*
ning of April the same year; but the zealous men
of tlie church of England, then in the university,
jierceiving that Mr. Walker would cut their owa
throats at home (as they said,) were resolved to
answer whatsoever he published. So that about the
13th of June following were published Animadver-
simis mi the eight Theses laid down, and the In-
ferences deduced from them, in a Diicourse entif:
Church Ciovernment, Part V. lately printed at
Oxon. Oxon. at the Theatre, 1687. qu. " Written
" by George Smaldridge A. B. of Ch. Ch."

Two Discourses. Tlie first concerning the Spirit
of Martin Luther, and the Original of Refbrma-
tion. Tlie second concerning the Celibacy of the
Clergy. Oxon. (in Mr. Wallcer's lodgings) 1687.
qu. [Bodl. 4to. il. 60. Th.] This was published
in a very short time after Church Governme7it. To
the said two discourses came out An Answer to .lome
Considerations on the Spirit of Mart. Luther, and
the Origifuil of the Reformation, lately printed at
Oxon. fJxon at the Theater 1687. qu. puolishcd on
the 10th of Aug. the same year, ana written by Mr;
Franc. Atterbury of Ch. Cn.« " This was reflected
" upon by way of answer by Thomas Deane of
" University coll."

Pietus Romana ^ Parisiensis : or a faitJiftd
lielation of the several Sorts of charitable andpioui
Works eminent in the Cities ofRotne and Paris.
The one taken out of a Book written by Theodot
Amydenus, the other out of that by Mr. Carre, Oxon.
(in Mr. Walker's Lodgings) 1687. oct answer'd
in a book entit. Sotne Reflections upon a Treatise
called Pietas Romana t^ Par. lately printed at
Oxon ; To which are added, &c. Oxon. 1688. qu.
Written by James Harrington B. A. of Ch. Ch;
since a barrestcr of the Inner Temple. The Pietaa
Parisiensis before-mention'd was ^vritten by Tho.
Carre confessor of Sion. — Printed at Paris 1666.
in tw.

" * Of Faith necessary to Salvation, and of the
" 7iecessary Ground
"of Faith salvifi. * Catholic Theses.
« cal Oxon. ^""."uT^. ^""^''\Ox. i6sg. qu.

« r TVT i\r II ' """ Idolatry. f -" ^

(m Mr. Walker S Succession of the Clergy.

" lotlgings) 1688. Ancient Church Government.

" qu. king Alfred's Apocalyps paraphrased.

" picture, (founder ^ larger Discourse concerning Anti-

,,'^ c -wr ■ ii\ • cn^s^— rirst edit.

" or Univ. coll.) m

" the front of it : To which are annex'd the four
" following treatises. (1.) Of Infallibility. (2.)
" Concerning tlie Obligation of not professing or

'■ [Franciscus Atterbury A. M. ad rect. de Milton, alias
Middieton ad pres. Stephani Harvey ord. Bain, equitis, per
mort. uh. incumb. Id Apr. 1627. Reg. Dove Ep. Petrih.
Kennet.]

1163

WOODHEAD.

[617]

" acting Uffaimt our Judf^wnt, or Conscience.
"And tchcther the Obedience of Non-contradiction
" o;i/y, or aho of Assent be due to tlie Decrees of
" Councils— ^\ng Alf. picture in the front. (3.)
" ConcerningOlmlicnce to ecclesiastical Goiwrnours,
" and Tryid (fBoctrnies— King Alfred's picture in
" the front. (4.) Concerning Salvation possible to
" be had in a schismatical Communion. And con-
f cerning the Danger of living in, and tlie Neces-
" sity of parting fiom, a known Schismatical Com-
•" munion.

• " A compendious Discourse of the Eucharist —
5' Oxon. (in Mr. Walker's lodgings) 1688. <ju. [Bodl.
" C. 11. 10. Line] publish'd in the beginning of
" May 1688. To this Discourse are added two
" Appendio'es. The first of which was written by
"Franc. Nicholson M. A. of Univ. coll. The
•" other by Obad. Walker master of the said col-
" lege."

. Motives to lioly Living: or, Heads for Medita-
tion, divided into Considerations, Counsels and Du-
ties. Together xoith some Forms of Devotion in
Litanies, Collects, Doxologies, &c. Oxon. (in Mr.
Walker's lotlgings.) 1688. qu. published by him
about the 12th of July the same year.
. " The 2(Z and 3d Treatises of the 1st Part of
" ancient Church-Government. Oxon. (in Mr. Wal-
« ker's lodgings) 1688. qu. King Alf &c. The
" second treatise contains a discourse of the succes-
" aon of the clergy.

" Catholic Theses. Oxon. 1689. qu. not com-
« pleated. [Bodl. 4to. R.60. Th.]

" Concerning Images and Idolatry. Oxon. 1689.
" qu. compleated. [Bodl. A. 11. 17. Line]

" Apocalyps paraphras'd. Oxon. 1689. qu. not
" compleated.

" A larger Discourse concerning Antichrist. Ox.
" 1689- qu. not compleated."

The reader may now be pleased to know, that
when IVIr. Walker left Oxon, wliich was on the 9th
of Nov. 1688, to prevent the insults of the rabble,
upon the coming into England of the prince of
Orange, he caus'd to be lodged in the house of a
certain boatman near Oxford wharf many printed
copies of certain Ixxiks, written by our author
Woodhead, that had not either been sold, or were
but half finished, to the end that they might be con-
veyed by water to London, there to be disix)scd of
as he should think fit ; but the waters bemg then
too high for their passage, the said books remained
in the Ixiatman's hands till the 23d of Dec. following:
At which time some of col. Mordant's soliliers then
in Oxon. searching the house of the .said Iwatman,
a reputed fanatic, under pretence for the finding
out a popish priest which he was suspected to har-
bour, they discovered the said books, and finding,
upon examination, that they belonged to Mr. Wal-
ker, they seized on, and convey 'd, them away to the
polonel's (juarters, with intentions to have them
publicly burnt; but upon farther consideration,

they, at length, after they had detained' them several
weeks, did, as I have heard, restore them to the
person, whom Mr. Walker had apix)inted to look
after them. But to return : It was also rep)rted
very frequently that he (Wiwdiiead) wrote God:s
Benefits to Mankind. Oxon. 1680. qu. Published
by Mr. Walker as his own ; nay and many stick
not to say (which is a wonder to me ') that he was
the author of The ■wJwle Duty of Man, and of all
that goes under the name of that author. He the
said Abr. W(x)dhead did also translate from Lat.
into English St. Augustiii's Ccnfcisions : with the
Continuation of his Life to the end thereof, extracted
out of Possidius, and the Father''s ozvn unguesticni'd
Wo7-ks. Printed 1679 in a large oct. And frcMii
Spanish into Enghsh. (1) The Lfe of the Iwly
Mother St. Teresa ; Foundress of the Reformation
of the discalced Carmelites, according to the primi-
tive Rule. Printed 1669- [1671. Bodl. 4to. U. 26.
Art. Seld.] &c. qu. Written originally by her self.
(2) The History of Iter Foundations. (3) Her
Death and Burial, and the miraculous Incorruption
and Fragrancy of her Body. This S. Teresa was
bom 28 Mar. 1515, died 4 Oct. 1582, and was bu-
ried first at Alva, and afterwards in the monastery
of St. Joseph of Avila in Spain. (4) Her Treatise
of the Manner of Visiting the Monasteries of dis-
calced Nuns. These three last were printed with
her Life. (5) The second Part of the Works of
St. Teresa of Jesus, containing 1. The Way of
Perfection. 2. The Castle interior, or tlie seven
Mansions, &c. Printed 1669- qu. (6) The holy
Life of Gregory Lopez, a Spanish Hermit in the
West-Indies. Printed 1675. in oct. 2d edit. This
Gregory Lopez was born at Madrid 4 Jul. 1542,
died at Sancto-fe near Mexico, 20 Jul. 1596, and
had his life afterwards written by Franc. Loza, and
translated into several languages. Mr. Wcwdhead
also changed the stile of a lx)ok called The Scale
(or Ladder) of Perfection, written by Walt. Hilton
a Carthusian in the time of king Henry VI. Wliich
botik having been printed an. 1494, he, I say,
changed many antiquated words therein, and ren-
dred them more intelligible for ordinary capacities.
Lond. 1679. oct. He also changed the stile of
another treatise of the same author, written to a
devout man of secular estate, teaching him how to

lead a spiritual life therein Printed with Tlie

Scale, &c. At length after this most pious, learned
and retired person Jlr. Woodhead had lived to the
age of man, he surrendred up his most devout soul
to God, in his little cell at Hogsden beibre-men-
tioned, in sixteen hundred seventy and eight :
AVhereupon his bodv was conveyed to St. Pancras
church near Holbourn in Middlesex (distant about
half a mile from the back part of Greys inn)

' [TIrti' ru-eds nofulicr .nrgiimciit to confute this false re-
port, than to affirm that iliis worthy person lived aijd dud
a zealous Roman Catholk-k. Ballard, Memoirs nf IcarNed
Ladies, Art. lady Pakiiigion.]

WOODHEAD.

\\m

and was buried in the yard there, about 22 pat-cs
distant from the chancel of that cliurch, on the
south side. Afterwards was a raised altar-monu-
ment built of brick, covered with a thick plank of
blue marble, put over his grave ; and on the said
plank was this ingraven. A. \V. obiit Maii 4. A. D.
1678, aetatis suae LXX. Elegi abjectus esse in domo
Dei ; & mansi in solitudine, non quaerens quotl milii
utile est, sed quod multis. This monument being
built 2 or 3 years after his death, those that put it
up, caus'd his grave to be opened to view the coffin
and body, that they might Ik; sure that it was the
person for whom the said monument was erected :
And liad king James II. continued in his throne
two years longer, his body would have been removed
to the chappel in Univ. coll. and there had a monu-
ment '■< erected over liim equal to his great merits
and worth.

[I ani, indebted to the rev. Mr. Kirk for the fol-
lowing letter relative to Woodhead.

Dear sir, Lichfield, Nov. 19, 1814.

I greatly fear you have concluded, from the

»XAW.

Nomine sub isto, Lector, qualis ct quautus nuper

Vir saeculo latiierit suo.

Jam nulli in Posierum silendus,

Non hxc te tabula docct, scd monet tantum,

ut alibi quxras.

Fungatur iterum muiieris inani vice

Hie Caenotaphii honos,

ut omnes agnoscant quern nemo ignorat.

Hie ille Delius Anglus Hermes sacer,

Controversiarum Diicis cognomiue inclytus,

Peritus, Fidelis, Felix

Ecclesiasticae Authoritatis assertor fortis,

Conciliorumque Sanctorum Vindex iuvictu*

In cujus Scriplis

Qiizecunque sparsim in alijs distribui solent.

Naturae et Gratia; Charismata

Compressa, coacervata, superexcellentia:

Miramur, colimus, fruimurque.

Horum omnium

Pretiosa seroina, incrementa faelicia

Hujusque Collegii Alumnus et Socius

Hie juvenis suscepit, hie adultusexcoluit,

Hinc postea ob fidem Deo et Regi debitam

Ejectus ; palernoque simul sponlaneus Exul

Feiiciore solo et meliore Caelo

Mature excocta

Ad frugem, segetemque surrexit immensam

Opimamque Messem,

Secum mox Anglis postliminio redditam :

Scribendo, Vivendo, Moriendo,

Patriae, Ecclesiae, Caelo,

Expromsil, Exhausit, Coiisecravit.

Maii 4'° obiit Londini. A".") .Statis sac 70

J Salutisnostrae 1678.
P. W. Rogerius.

This epitaph was sent in a letter to Mr. A. Wood, by Mr.
W. Rogers, dated at Jusmore, July 31st lCi)2. It was de-
signed for an inscription on a monument to bj erected in tlie
chapel of Univers. coll. Oxon. to the honour of Mr. Wood-
head, who?e body was to have been translated thither, and
- reburied, had the times borne it.

Transcrib'd from the Rev''. Mr. Wagstaffe's copy, 27th
Dec. 1732. Wanley.]

length of my silence, that I have entirely forgot the
promise I made of writing, the last time I hutl the
pleasure of seeing you in Oxford. And I will ac-
knowledge, that you have every reason to draw such
an inference. And yet, I uo a.ssure you, that
scarce a day has past, that I have not rememlK^red
my j)romise. The fact, liowever, is, that I have
been so occupied, that I could not find time to col-
lect the scattered information I had j)rocured of Mr.

A. Wootlhead. I had written to Burton Constable
ftjr some information, and, to this day, have re-
ceived no answer, but learn from other quarters,
that my fiiend has Iwen on a tour, and had probably
left before my letter reached Holdemess. I can
therefore only give what information I have col-
lected from my own notes.

In the library of Mr. Constable, at Burton Con-
stable, near Hull, there is a volume of letters from
Mr. Nicholson, formerly of University college, to
Mr. Cuthbert Constable, who was the Catholic
MaKienas of his day. — From these letters, it appears
that Mr. Obadiah Walker was executor to Mr.
Woodhead, who left the MSS. of Mr. Woodhead
to Messrs. Deane, Nicholson and Perkins, all of
University college; and that Mr. Deane lodged
them in Wilde-House, which was burnt down about
the time of the revolution, and many of the MSS.
were burnt or lost ; that what remainetl, were con-
veyed to Lisbon by Mr. Nicholson ; that a warrant
had been issued by James the second for the publi-
cation of Mr. Woodhead's papers, at Oxford ; that
Mr. C. Constable applied to Mr. N. for the MSS.
with a promise that lie would publish them. Mr.
Nicholson received the proposal with joy and thanks,
and in 1728 sent the papers to London, and accom-
panied them with a sketch of Mr. Woodhead's life ;
which not appearing to Mr. C. to be sufficiently
circumstantial, he applied to Mr. Hearne of Ox-
ford, for additional matter. A volume of his letters
on this and other subjects connected with it, is at

B. Constable. In a letter of Aug. 17, 1730, Mr.
H. says — ' I always looked upon Mr. Abr. AVood-
head to be one of the greatest men that ever this
nation produced.' Andin another of April 8, 1734,
' I am sorry the life of that holy and learned man,
Mr. Abr. Woodheaxl, is at a stand for want of ma-
terials.'' Mr. C. printed the third part of Mr.
Woodhead's Church Government, and prefixed to
it the sketch of his life, sent by Mr. Nicholson, with
some additions. At the end is added a catalogue
of his works ; those in Wood and Dodd are very
imperfect. I have lieen twice within this fortnight
to a neighbouring library, in search of this life and
catjilogue, but have not found it; and indcetl have
never seen it, but at Burton Constable. In men-
tioning Mr. Woodhead's work entitled ' Dr. StiUing-

Jkef.s Principles considered,'' Mr. N. adds, ' Dr.
Seth Ward, bishop of Salisbury, said, this work con-
tained more rcco-sou than the huge volumes written
by Stillingfleet.' Perkins, he says, jcas otdy on

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GREISLEY.

HOLMES.

1678.

amanuensk^, at most, to Mr. Woodlwad. — Mr.
Woodhcad's MSS. are at B. ConsUible, also a vo-
lume of his letters to Dr. Wilby, a cath. physician
in Oxford.

This is all the information I can at present find in
my notes, and am sorry it is not more satisfactory.
Dear sir,

Yours very truly,

JoHK Kirk.]

. WILLIAM WHITE, who writes himself Gu-
LiEi.. Phalerius, was bom of plebeian parents in a
market-town called Whitney in Oxfordsliire, in the
month of June 1 604, was entred a student in Wad-
liam coll. in Act term 1620, took the degrees in
arts, holy orders, and preached for a time near
Oxon. At length the ma-stership of the free-school
joyning to Magd. coll. falling void, it was confer d
upon him some years before the civil war Ijegan :
wnere being setled, several persons by his care and
industry proved afterwards eminent. But being
ejected thence in the fatal year of 1648, he did,
about that time, privately obtain of Dr. Duppa
bishop of Salisbury the rectory of Pusev near Fa-
ringdon in Berks, situated within his diocese, and
kept it during the interval by the favour of friends,
and the smallness of its profits. After the king's
return. Dr. Tho. Pierce president of Magd. coll.
(who had sometime been his scholar) procured the
rectory of Appleton near Abingdon m the same
county, of the society of that house, to be confer'd
upon him : Both which livings he kept to his dying
day, and built houses on them, having been always
accounted a noted philologist, and a loyal and pious
divine. He hath published several small tracts, of
which these only have come to my sight.

Ad Grammaticam ordirmriam Supplementa, Sf
J'asdagogica alia. Sec. Lond. 1648, and 52. oct.

ViaadPacem ecclesiasticam. Lond. 1660. cju.

ParaphroJiis cum Annotatis ad difficiliora Loca
Catechismi Anglkani. Printed 1674. in Lat. and
Engl. He died at Pusey before-mention'd on the
first day of June (about the first hour of the morn-
ing) in sixteen hundred seventy and eight, and was
buried in the chancel of the church there, as I have
teen informed by letters written from one of his
.quondam scholars living in those parts.

[Add, Tlie plain Man's Path: printed in tw.
W00D.9]

HENRY GREISLEY son of Joh. Greislev of
Shrew.sbury gent, became a student of Ch. Ch. from
Westm. school, an. 1634, took the degrees in arts,
adher'd to his majesty's cause in the time of the
•rebellion, for which he suffer'd by ejection from his iidmitting any
-house, and expulsion from the university by the im-

£;tuous visitors, an. 1648. He hath translated from
rench into English (1) The Prince. Lond. 1648.

oct. Written by sieur de Balsac. (2) The Chris-
tian Man: or the Reparation of Nature by Grace.
Lond. 1650. in a large qu. Written originally by
Jo. Franc. Senault. Besides which translations he
hath certain specimens of poetry extant, which have
obtained him a place among those of that faculty.
After his majesty's restoration he became beneficed
in the church, and on the 19th of Apr. 1672, he
was installed prebendary of Worcester in the place
of Will. Owen M. A. deceased. This Mr. Greislcy
died about the beginning of Jime in sixteen hundred
se\'enty and eight, and was bury'd in the church of
Severnstoke. In his prebendship succeeded Mr.
Joseph Glanvill. I find R. G. sometime M. of A..
of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. to be the translator of A Dis^
conrse of Constancii. Lond. 1654. oct. Written in
Lat. by Just. Lipsms, but who he was, unless Rob.
Gomershall, I know not. Qusere.

NATHANIEL HOLMES commonly called
Homes, son of George Hoi. minister of Kingswood
in Glocestershire, was born ' in Wilts, became a
commoner of Magd. hall in the latter end of 1616,
aged 17 years ; whence, after he had continued there
for a little while, he was translated to Exeten coll.
for the sake of John Prideaux whom he much ad-
mired, and as a member thereof took the degree of
bach, of arts. Afterwards returning to Magd. hall,
he took the degree of master and became a frequent
preacher for a time in these parts. What his pre-
ferments were in the church afterwards, I find not,
imless it was a cure in Glocestershire. Sure I am
that he took the degrees in divinity as a member of
Exeter coll. that of bach, in 1633, and that of doctor
four years after ; and also that being a severe Cal-
vinist, he did ujxjn the defection of the members of
the long parliament, close with the prcsbyterians,
and when the rout of orthodox ministers in and near
London was made in 1642, and 43, he obtained
one or more cures, of which the church of St. Mary
Stayning was one. But being soon after delivered
from the presbyterian contagion, as he call'd it, he
with Hen. Burton B. D.'^ and minister of Friday-
street in London, became great advancers of the
faction, set up ' their independent congregations in
the beginning of the year 1643, and would admit no
man to the sacrament, but such as were mcinbers of
the same, or baptize any children, tho' hota within
the parish, (for whir-h they were supposed to serve)
but of such that should enter into tlieir new cove.>.
nant, and that they challenged to themselves a
power of examining the lives and conversations of
the members of their said congregation, casting out
whom they please, and for what thev list, and not
ng any to the eucharist, nor the children Olf

i-.-J [MS- imcrtion in AshmoU.']

' Lih. Malric. PP. fol. 293. b.

' [Hcnr. Rurlon : Ecclcsia S. Malhci Friday-street, Lond.
vac. per (Icprivationcm ejus, et ad eandcm admissus est Jos.
Brown A. M. ?2 Dec. l637. Reg. Laud. Kennet.]

^ Merc. Aul. in'the fifteenth week, an, l643. p. 184.

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1170

imo]

any to baptism, till they had satisfied the church,
tliat is tlu'inselves, in the .sincerity of their repent-
ance, and be again restored by them : Als(» that
neither tlf tliem woidd jx-rinit the sacrament of the
Lord's siijjper to be administred in tlieir jiarislies at
Easter in 1G4'J. Besides a con<rre<ijatit)n or more in
London, our author Holmes had several in tlie
coiuitry, particularly at Dover ; and like a bishop of
a diocese he would go twice or thrice in a year to
visit, purposely to pray and preach to them, and in
one of his sermons to the mendjers there, he ])rayed
God to bless and remember them who had but a bit
once in a quarter or half a year. He was accounted
by many, especially those t)f his persuasion, a pro-
found divirte, and to be well skilPd in tlie tongues,
particularly in the Hebrew, and by others a mu-
table and fantastical person. When the act of con-
formity was published he left his cure or cures, and
spent most of his time in the parish of St. Giles's
without Cripplegate, London, where he kept, or at
least frequented, conventicles. He hath written.

Usury is Injury : cleared in an Examination of
its hc.it Apology, alledged by a Country Minister
out of Dr. Ames in Ids Cases of Conscience. Lond.
1640. qu. [Bodl. 4to. T. 25. Jur.]

The new World; or the new reformed Church
discovered out of the 9,d Ejnst. of' Pet. ch. 3. 13.
Jirst briefly opened before some of the Nobility and
others in the Country : Afterwards more , fully de-
lineated and prosecuted before the honourable House
of Comnums 30 May 1641. Lond. 1641. qu. [Bodl.
4to. D. 39. Th.] Besides this he hath other sermons
extant, as (1) God's gracious Thoughts toicards
great Sinner.s, in two Sermons ; on Isaiah 55. 8,
9. (2) TImnJc.sgiving Sermmi before the House
of Com. in Ch. Ch. Land. 6 Oct. 1659- on Psal. 33.
1. Lond. 1659, qu. &c.

Vindication of Baptizing Believers. In some
Animadversions upon Mr. Tombes his Eccercita-
tions about Iiifant Baptism, as also upon his
Examen, &c. Lond. 1646. qu. [Bodl. C. 14. 9.
Line]

Dwmonology and Theology : Theflrst, the Ma-
lady, demonstrating the diabolical Arts, and de-
vilish Hearts of Men. The second, the Remedy,
demonstrating God a rich Supply of all good.
Lond. 1650. oct. This was answered by Anon.

Character of tlie crying Evils of the Times.
Lond. 1650. octavo.

" Ecclcnastica Methermeneutica, or"" Church
Cases clear d : Wherein are held forth some Things
to reclaim Professors that are slack-p>-incipled, An-
ti-churchian-9, Non-ch urcli~seekers, ChurcMevellers,
^^ ina Di.scuss. qfl^ Questions C with a paciflca-
tory Preface, « &c. Lond. 1652. oct." [Bodl. 8vo.
C. 61. Th.]

T7te Resurrection revealed: or the Dawning of
the Day-star, about to rise and radiate a visible in-
comparable Glory, far beyond any since tlie Creation,
upon the universal Church on Earth for a thousand

Vol. in.

Years yet to come before tlie ultimate Day of the
general Judgment to the Raising of tlie Jews, &c.
Lond. 1654, &c. fol. in seven l>ooks. [Bodl. L. 1.
2. Th.l This piece is looked ujx)n by some to be
learne<riy written, who take the author to be a per-
fect Chiliast or Millenarian, as Mr. Jos. Me<le, Dr.
Hen. More, antl many other orthodox, as well as
hetcrotlox divines. Peter Stcrry that high flown
bla.sphemer,* and Joseph Caryl perused this lxx>k,
and gave their judgments thereof, and the la.st of
them an imprimatur in the title. Whence His very
easy anfl proper to observe how ready and extreamly
forward the last pretended reformers were, not only
to countenance but patronize the many generally
cx])loded opinions (in matter of religion) of their
brethren however heterodox, erroneous and gnnind-
less: insomuch that divines by public appointment
were ordered to peruse their books, and after a
transient cursory view of, to represent them to the
world, in extravagant lavish characters of their ex-
traordinary worth and excellency. As for the au-
thor Holmes, tho' he was accounted a Millenarian,
yet he doth not contend for a carnal, sensual and
gross liberty, and worldly to be enjoyed Ijefore the
general resurrection by the saints, but spiritual, pu-
rified and refin'd freedom from the dominion and
enslaving vassalage of sin and corruption to be exer-
cised in holiness and sanctity.

Open Door for Man^s Approach to God. Lond.
1650. qu.

Of Gospel Music Printed in qu. This, and

the next going before, I have not yet seen. In the
year 1652 was publish'd by him the said Dr. Holmes
a folio book containing 16 several treatises, as (1)
Chrisfs Offering himself to all Sinners, as concern-
ing all Objection.'), on John 6. 37. (2) Mistakes
about Prayer. (3) Faith in Abstract, in its high
Acting, above outward Sense, inward Sensation
and natural Reason. (4) Antidote against Anti-
nomianism. (5) God's gracious Thoughts. This
is mentioned liefore. (6) Gods gracious Expres-
sions engaging to comfort tliem that accept of his
Grace, on 1 Cor. 1. 3, 4. (7) Moderation qfSpirity
for Quietatio7i of Mind in trying Times ; on Phil,
4.5. (8) Nccessaria: Or the Body of Div. neces-
sary to Salvation, on Rom. 8. 29, 30, 31. (9)
Soul-cordials against sore Discomforts, ivi a Com.

* [Sometime fellow of Emanuel coll. Cambridge ; now a
preacher of the gospel in London. So in the title of his
Sermon preached before the Parliament, Nov. I, l(i4g. Lond.
1650, 4to. Tanner.

News of Oliver Cromwell's death being brought to those
who were met together to pray for him, Mr. Sierry stood oj)
and desired them not to be troubled. For, said he, this w
good news, because if he was of great use to the people of
God when he was amongst us, now he will be much more
so, being ascended to Htaven to sit at the right hand of Jetus
Christ, there to intercede for us, and to be mindful of us oo
all occasions. Memoirs nf Edmund Ludlow, page OlS;. See
another instance iti Burnet's History of his own Time, vol. i,
page 83.]

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PARRY.

Qr Explications and Applications qftfie whole 43d
Psal. (10) The gracious Heart is not to seek
great Things in grievous Times, on Jet. 45. Ver.
S.Jbrmer Part. (11) GocTs Saving a People with
a notwithstamling their Sins, on Psalm. 106. 8.
(152) T/ie Christian Hammerers against the Anti-
chrislian Horns; on Zech. 1. 21. latter Part. (13)
The Churches Glory and Defence ; from Jsa. 4.
Ver. 5. (14) Tlu; only liapjyy People, described
out of Psal. 144. 15. (15) The Malady of a mixt
Communion. (16) Commentary literal or histo-
rical, and mystical or spiritual, on tlie whole Book
<ff Canticles. These 16 things I say were

Sirinted for the author in one vol. at Lonu. 1652.
bl. with the general title to them of TJie Works of
Nathaniel Holmes. But they lying dead on the
bookseller's hands, they printed a new title to them,
with the year of our Lord 1669, wliich hath made
them move among some of the brethren.
. Ten Exercilutions in Vindication of The Resur-
rection revealed. Lond. 1661. fol.

An Essay concerning the Sabbath ; or t?ie Sab-
batli-day restjrcmi Controversy, &c. Lond. 1673.
oct.

The brazen Serpent, or God's grand Design,
&c. Lond. 1673. qu. Besides several other things
.which I have not yet seen, as The Peasants Peace,
&c. At length this Dr. having lived till he was al-
j3M)st blind, departed this mortal life in the parish
of St Giles's without Cripplegate before-mention''d,
in the month of June, as I conceive, in sixteen
1678. hundred seventy and eight ; and was buried, as I
[621] suppose, accordmg to his will, in the chancel of the
church of St. Mary Aldermanbury in London, close
to the worthy mmisters there interred. He died
•rich, left behind him a widow called Sarah, a
daughter named Bethiah, and a brother called Ne-
hemiah Holmes oi' Machin in Hertfordshire clerk.

GILES COLLIER son of Giles Collier of Per-
shore in Worcestershire, was born there, or at least
in that county, became either a batler or servitor at
New inn, in Lent term 1637, aged 15 vears, took
the degree of bach, of arts, and dejwrted for a time,
closing then with the presbyterians. In 1648 when
the parliamentarian visitors were in Oxon he pro-
ceeded, in arts, tot>k the covenant, and afterwards
became vicar of Blockley near Evesham and Shipson
in V\'orcestershire, and a busy nian when he was
made an assistant to the commissioners of Worces-
tershire, for the ejection of such whom the gfully
party called scandalous, ignorant and insufficient
ministers and schcxjlmasters, an. 1 654 and after. At
his majesty's restoration he continued in Blockley,
and when the act of uniformity was published he
conformed not without the regret of .some loyalists
in the neiglilwurhood, whom he had much displeased
in the interv.;i. He hath written,

Vindiciw 'J'hcsium dc Sabbato : or a Vindication
q^' certain Passages in a Sermon qftfie Morality

of the Sabbath, from tlie Exceptions of which they
are subjected In/ Edw. Fisher Esq; in his Book
called A Christian Caveat, ^c. Lond. 1653. 56.
qu.

Appendix wherein is briefly examined this bold
Assertion of Edw. Fisher, viz. There is an equnl
Atithority and equal Antiquity for the Observation
of the ^th of Dec. as for the LoriFs Day.

Ansieer to 15 Questions lately published by Edw.
Fisher Esq; and the Suggestions thcreiti delivered
against suspended, ignorant and scandalous Per-
sons from the Lin-iTs Supper These two last

things were printed with the Vindiciw Thesium.

Fun. Sernum on Isaiah 51. 1.' Printed 1661.

qu. He died at Blockley in the latter end of July,
in sixteen hundred seventy and eight, and was 1678.
buried on the 30tii day of the same month nn the
church tliere. In the said vicaridge succeeded Sam.
Scattergood of Trin. coU. in Cambridge, as I shall
elsewhere teU you.

BENJAMIN PARRY, younger brother to Joh.
Parry before-mention'd, col. 1143, was Ixjm, as I
conceive, in Dublin, admitted in arts in Trin. coll.
there on the 5th of Decenib. 1648, came with his
brother to Jesus coU. in this university, took the
degrees in arts, and after his majesty's restoration
he was, by the favour of his commissioners ap-
pointed to visit this university, made Greek reader,
and so consequently fellow, of C. C. C. In 1()63,
Feb. 26, he was installed preb. of Knaresbergh in
the church of York, (he being then bach, of div.)
upon the resignation of Dr. Robert Mossom ; which
dignity he resigning upon his going into his own
country, was succeeded therein by Dr. Will. Ashton,
in Feb. 1673. On the first of May 1674 he was
matle dean of Kilkenny, and thence translated to
the deanery of St. Patrick at Dublin on the 24th
of March following. On the 27th of Jan. 1677 he
was consecrated bishop of Ossory in the place of his
brother deceas'd, which he kept to his dying day,
that shortly after followed. He hath written,

Chymia Cwlesfis : Drops from Heaven, or pious
Meditations on several Places of Scripture. Lond.
1659, [Bodl. 8vo. P. 15. Th. BS.l 73, in tw. And
also made fit i'or the press and published Holy Rules
and Helps to Devotion, &c. Lond. 1674. in tw.
Written by Dr. DupjKi bishop of Winton. This
Dr. Parry, who, I suppose, hath published no other
things, died on tiie fourth day of Octob. in sixteen lOys,
hniidrctl seventy and eight (having a little before
been married, but not t<j liis content) and was birried
near to the graves of his brother and father in St.
Audoen's church in Dubhn. In the see of Ossofy

' {The Taking-awoy nf righteous and mirriful Persons
must be taken to Heart ; applied in a Sermon at the Funerails
of . Mrs. Anne Mary Child, fVife of Thomas Child Esq. of
Norlhu'ick in the Parish of Blockley, IVvrcistershire. Oxford
.IfKJI. 410. On Isaiah &?, I. l5e(lic;ilcd to Mrs. Child,
daughicrof Mr. Child. 'HaWliiison.]

1173

LEYCESTER.

VINCENT.

1174

Succeeded Dr. Mich. Ward provost of Trin. coll. near
Dublin, and soon after " he was translated to Lon-
don-l>?rry.

[1671, 27 Apr. Benj. Parry S. T. P. admiss. ad
cccl. S. Antholini, London, per mort. ad pres. regis,
quani resign, ante 12 Maii, 1674. Jieff. London.
Kennkt.

Benj. Parry succeeded his brother John in the
rectory of Llan Jestyn in North Wales. Tanner.]

PETER LEYCESTER son of Pet. Leycester
esq. was l)orn at Nether Tabley in Cheshire, 3
March 1613, became a gent. com. of Brasen-n. coll.
[622] 13 Oct. 1629, but leaving that house without a de-
gree, he went, I presume, to the inns of court. Af-
terwards he retired to his patrimony, where, besides
the pleasures of a country-life, he exercised himself
mucli in the study of history and antiquities. After
the restoration of his majesty an. 1660. (for whose
cause he before had suff'er\l) he was created a
baronet, and probably had he sought, he might
have had beneficial places confer'd on him, but such
was the love he had to his native country, that
postponing all matters of profit, he studied and la-
boured to revive its antiquities, that had almost been
buried in oblivion, which he afterwards published
with this title.

Historical AntiqvHies in two Books. The first
treating in general of Great Britain and Ire-
land ,■ the other amtainiftg particular Remarks of
Cheshire, ami chiefly of Bucklow Hundred. Lond.
1673, fol. [BofU. trough, Cheshire. 1.] But therein
having made Amicia daughter of Hugh Cyveliok
earl of Chester a bastard, was as to that matter an-
swered in a book entit. A Defence of Amicia, &c.
by sir Tho. Manwaring of Peover in Cheshire
bart. who, with this our author Pet. Leyc. were
descended from her.' Whereupon sir Peter came
out with

' An Ansicer to Sir Thomas ManwarinffS Book
entit. A Defence of Amicia,* &c. Lond. 1673. oct.

Addenda: or some Things to he added to the
former Answer to Sir Thomas Manxearing's Book,
to be placed immediately after Page 90. Lond. 1673.
oct. He also wrote,

A Reply to Sir T/iomas Manwaring's Answer
to Sir Pet. Leycester''s Addenda, Lond. 1674. oct.
and

Sir Tho. Manwariitg's Law-Cases mistaken, and
tfie antient Law misuiulerstood, and the new Law
misapplied, &c. Lond. 1674. oct. There was a
waggish and merry ballad that went from hand to
hand in MS. concerning these petty controversies
between the two baronets, and great sport there was

[In

[Sc.

1679, upon the Heaih of Rob. Massam. Grey.]
See this point decided in sir Thomas Manwaring's
favour hy Du^dale ; Baronage, vol. i, page 41.]

■* [See the original MS. of this tract, v^■ith a complete col-
lection of all the pamphlets written on the subject, among
Mr. Gough's books in the Bodleian.]

made among idle and vain gentlemen concerning
the punctilios and minute things they insisted on ;
but at length at an assize held at Chester 1675 their
controversies were decidetl by the justicies itinerant,
who, as I have heard, adjudged the right of the
matter to Manwaring. As for our author sir Peter,
he diwl at Nether-Tabley on tlie eleventh day of
Octob. in sixteen hundred seventy and eight, and *^78.
was buryed by his ancestors in our lady's chappel
on the north side of the church at Great Budworth
in Cheshire. Over his grave was socm after set up
a comely monument for him and his lady, (who died
the 26tn of Jan. following aged 59 years) the in-
scription whereof being large, I shall now for brevity's
sake omit.

THOMAS VINCENT second son of John Vin-
cent, sometime a gent, of Lincolns inn, and after-
wards a minister, was Irorn in the antient Ixjrough
of Hertford in the month of May 1684, educated
partly in grammar learning in Westminster school,
and partly in that at Felsted in Essex, and in 1648
became a student of Ch. Ch. by the favour of the
parliamentarian visitors then and there sitting. In
1654 he proceeded in arts, at which time the go-
vemour of his house had so great an opinion of him,
that he chose him catcchist, which usually belongs
to a senior master. Soon after he left Oxon and
became chaplain to Rolnrt earl of Leicester, and
afterwards, tho' not in orders from a bishop, he was
made minister of St. Mary Magtlalen's church in
Milkstreet in London ; which place he keeping till -*^'

the day of St. Bartholomew, an. 1662,9 left it be-
cause he would not conform : Whereupon retiring
to Hoxton alias Hogsden near London, ]>reached in
a conventicle there to his dying day, l)eing always
held in great esteem for his piety by those of his
jiersuasion. He hath written,

Spirittuil Antidotejbr a dying Soul. Lond. 1665.
oct.

God's terrible Voice in the City by Plague and
Fire. Lond. 1667. oct. -

Of Chris fs certain and .ludden Appearance 6y
Judgment. Lond. 1667. oct. and several times after :
the sixth edit, came out in 1683 : and the book it-
self is grounded on Rev. 22. 20. last part.

Ansjcer to the sandy Foundation of Will. Pen [623]
the Quaker.

Defence of tlie Trinity, Satisfaction by Christ.,
and Justification of Sinners. Lond. 1667, in tw. or
sixt.

Wells of Salvation opened: or Words whereby
we may he saved. With Advice to young Men.
Lond. 1669. oct.

Explicatory Catechism : or an Explanation of
the Assembly''s shorter Catechism, w/ierein all the

' [He continued in I666, all the lime of the plague, in
the City, doing all the good he could ; visiting every body that
sent for him, and publickly preaching, constantly every
Lord's-day, at some great church: SIacro.]
4F2

IJ

/•:>

VINCENT.

DOMVILLE.

l878.

Answers are taken assunder under Questions and
Anstaers, tlie Truth explained and proved, Stc*
Lond. 1673, &c. oct.

The true Christian's Love of the unseen Christ :
or a Discourse chiejty tending to excite and promote
the decaying Love of Christ in the Hearts of
Christians. Lond. 1677. 84. in tw.

Appendix concerning' ChrisCs Manifestation of

himself to tliem that love him. Printed with The

true Christian''s Love, &c.

Holy and profitable Sayings. Lond. 1680.
Printed on one side of a sh. ot' paper.

Several sermons, as (1) Fire and BrimstoneJ'rom
Heaven,J'n»n Earth, in Hell: or three Discotirses,
1. Concerning the Burning of Sodom and Gomor-
rah formerly. 2. Concerning, &c. Lond. 1670.
pet. contained in several sermons. (2) Wherein
doth appear the Blessedness of Forgiveness, and
hoii) it may be attained; on Psal. y2. 1. Lond.

1674. 76. qu. in Tlie Supplement to t/ie Morning
Exercise at Cripplegate, published by Sam. Ansley.
(3) Sermon on 1 Tim. 4. 1, 2, and Part of the

fJiird Verse. This is the seventeenth sermon

ip The Morning Exercise against Popery, &c.
preached in a conventicle in Southwark. Lond.

1675. qu. (4^ Serm. on Isa. 57. 1, 2. — Printed
1667. oct. This I have not yet seen, nor certain
controversial writings between him and Dr. Will.
Sherlock. This Mr. Vincent died at Hogsden be-
fore-mention'd in the parish of St. Leonard's Shore-
ditch in the month of Octob. (the 15tii day as it
seems) in sixteen hundred seventy and eight, and
was buried in the new churchyard belonging to
Cripplegate parish, (as his brotiier Nathaniel hath
informed me) at wliich time Sam. Slater preached
his funeral sermon on Heb. 13. 7, afterwards pub-
lished ' under the title of Vincentius redivivus ; in
the beginning of which he tells us that the said Mr.
Vincent was buried the 27th of Oct. 1678.

[Calamy says that Vincent was a worthy, humble,
eminently pious man, of sober principles, and great
zeal and diligence. He had the whole Neio Testa-
ment and Psalms by heart : he took that pains, as
not knowing but they (as he has often said) who
took from him his pulpit and his cushion, might in
time demand his Bible also. Ejected Mitiisfers, ii,
32.]

SILAS DOMVILLE or D'omville alias Tay-
LOK son of Silvanus Taylor a committee-man for
Herefordshire in tlie time of the rebellion, a busy
man against the king's party, and a commissioner
for Herefordsiiire, and certain counties in Wales for
the ejecting of scandalous, ignorant and insufficient
ministers and schoolmasters, was born at Harley
near Muchwenlock in Shropshire, on the I6th of
July 1624, bred in the free-schools at Westminster
amd Shrewsbury, became a commoner of New inn

' Publ. at Loud. 1679. qu.

in the beginning of the year 1641, but being soon
after called thence, without the taking of a degree,
upon the eruption of tlie civil wars, he took part
with the rebels upon his father's instance, and at
Icngtli became a captain under colonel, afterwardg
major general, Edw. Massey; and when the wars
ceased he was made by his father's endeavours a
sequestrator of the royalists in Herefordshire, and
had in those times great power there; which he
used so civilly and ooligingly that he was beloved
of aU the king's party. His father setled upon him
a good estate in church lands which he had bought^
and had the moiety of the bishop's palace in Here-
ford setled on him, (the other part col. John Birch
had got into his clutches) on which he laid out
mucii money in building and altering. Upon the
rising of sir George Booth in Cheshire, in the bet
ginning of Aug. 1659, he received a commission to
be captain of a troop of horse for tlie militia of the
city of Westminster, and shew'd himself very active
in that employment; but at the king's* return he
lost ail, and was in a manner ruined. Soon after,
by the favour of certain persons whom he had be-
fore obliged, he became commissary of the ammu-'
nition and warlike provision at Dunkirk, and five
years after (about 1665) he was, by the endeavours
of sir Paul Neile and others, made keejjer of the
king's store-houses for shipping and other marine
matters at Harwich a sea^port town in Essex, where
he continued to the time of his death. This person
being a great lover of antiquities, did in the times
of usurpation ransack the library belonging to the
church of Hereford, of most, or at least of the best
MSS therein, and did also garble the MSS in the
library of the church at Worcester, and the evi-:
dences pertaining thereunto ; among which, as I
have heard, he got the original grant of king Edgar :
wlience tlie kings of England derive their right to
the sovereignty of the seas, which is printed in Mr.
Seidell's book called Mare Clausum, hb. 2. He
had got also into his hands a quarto MS. of great
antiquity which treated of the philosopher's-stone in
hieroglypliics, with some few Lat. verses underneath :
And being limn'd -wiih very great curiosity it was
presented to tlie view of his majesty king Charles II,
who offer'd 100/. for it, but was refused by the
owner. This person commonly called Captain Tay-
lor liatii written.

The History of Gavel-kind, leith the Etymology
thereof; containing also an Assertion that our En^
glish Laws arc for the most Part those that were
used by the antient Britains, notwithstanding the
several Conqtiests of the Romans, Saxons, Danes,
and Normans. Lond. 1663. qu. [Bodl. 4to. A. 2.
Jur. BS.]

Observations and Remarks upon many special

Occurrences of British and English History

Printed with the foniicr book. At the end of
which is an anonymous MS. by him published entit.
Brevis Relatio de Willielmo Comite Normannorum,

DOMVILLE.

HIBB?RT. [BAtLARD.]

1178

1678.

&c. The original of which is in the archives of
Bodley's library, communicated to him by Dr. Tho.
Barlow the head-keeper of that library. He had
also written and pubhshed several pamphlets before
the restoration of king Charles II. but his name
being not put to, would never after own them. He
also laboured four years or more in collecting various
antiquities, as arms, monumental inscriptions, &c.
in many places of Herefordshire, during his em-
ployment there under the two protectors: Which
oeing now, or at least lately, in the hands of sir
Edw. Hariey of Brompton Brian, may serve as an
apparatus f<)r him who shall hereafter write the an-
tiquities of that county. He wrote also The De-
scription of Harjvich, and all its Aj)purtenunces
and Antiquities ; which is now in MS. in a private
hand.^ He had great skill not only in the practical,
but the theoretical part of music, did compose se-
veral lessons, some of which were tried and played
in the public school of that fac. in this university,
while Dr. Wilson held the chair, before his ma-
jesty's restoration; and after that time, he being
well acquainted with that most admired organist to
the queen, called Matthew Lock, (who had married
one Garnons a Herefordshire woman) he did com-
pose several anthems ; two, or more of which were
sung in his majesty's chappel ; which being well
performed, his majesty was pleased to tell the author
that he liked them. " This capt. Silas Taylor hath
" made a composition of two parts in a book entit.
<' Court Ayres, or Pavins, Almaines, Cornnts, and
" Sarabands, &c. Lond. 1655. oct. published by
" John Playford." He had also good skill in the
mathematics and the tongues, and might have
proved excellent in them, had his continuance in
the university been longer or had he not spent most
of his time in military matters. He died on the
fourth day of Novemb. in sixteen hundred seventy
and eight, and was buried in the chancel of the
church of Harwich before-mention''d. He died
much in debt, so that all such MSS. and papers
that were then lying by him (some of which he liad
before pawned) were with his goods seized on by his
Creditors. His father Silvanus Taylor before-men-
tion'd, who also had l)een of the high court of jus-
^ce, and a grand Oliverian wrote and published.
Common good : or, the Improvement of Commons,
Forrests, and Chases by Enclosure : Wherein the
Advantage of the Poor, the common Plenty of all,
and the Increase and Preservation of Timber, mth

* [Since published by Mr. Samuel Dale, an apothecary of
Brentwood in Essex, under the title of The History and An-
tiquities nf Harwich and Dover Court, Topographical, Dyna-
slical and Political. First collected ly Silas Taylor alias
Domville Gent. Keeper of the King's Stores, and now much
enlarged in all ill Parts, with Notes and Observations re-
lating to natural History, illustrated with many Copper
Plates, presenting the Cliff itself, the Fossills contained therein
and other principal Things. Lond. 1730, 4to. Rawli nson.
A second edition, or rather 1 suspect a second title-page,
dated Lond. 1732. Bodl. Goo^h, Essex, Numb. 6.]

otJier Things of common Concernment, arc con-
sidered. Lond. 1652. in 7. sh. and an half in tju.
Dedicated to the supreme authority of the nation, [625]
the parliament of England. He liatl a son of both
his names sometime a commoner of Wadhaiii coll.
afterwards M. A. and fellow of that of All-souls, an
ingenious man, and well skill'd in the practical part
of music, who died at Dublin in Ireland in the be-
ginning of Nov. 1672.'

HENRY HIBBERT or Hubert a Cheshire
man born, became a student in Brasen-n. coll. an.
1618, aged 18 years, tcK)k one degree in arts and
departed. I take this person to be the same with
Hen. Hibbert, who was afterwards pastor of Trinity
church in Kingston upon Hull in Yorkshire, where
I find him in 1654 and after ; and afterwards pastor
of Allhallowes the Less in London, where I find
him in 1662, (being then accounted a presbyterian)
and soon after Dr. of div. and minister of St. Olave
in the Old Jewry. Henry Hibbert hath pubhshed

Several sermons, as(l) Waters of Marah, drarim
forth in tico Funeral Sermons preacKd in Oct.
1653, on Zech. 12. Part of the tenth Verse, and on
Ruth 1. Part of the 9.0th Verse. Lond. 1654 in oct.
[Botll. 8vo. J. 5. Art. BS.] (2) Rcgina Dierum :
or the joyful Day ; jrreaclCd before the Lord Mayor,
29 May, on Psal. 118, 24. Lond. 1661. qu. Mid
others which I have not yet seen.

Syntagma Theologicum : or, a Treati.^e 7cherein
is concisely comprehended the Body of Divinity, arul
the Fundamentals of Religion orderly discussed,
&c. Lond. 1662, with his picture* before it. [Bodl.
W. 1. 5. Th.]

Certain Divine Disccmrses, wherein are handled
these Jhlloxcing Heads, vis. (1) The express Cha-
racter of Christ our Redeemer. (2) Gloria Altis-
simus : or, the Angelical Anthem. (3) Tli£ Ne-
cessity of ChrisCs Passion and Resurrection, Sic.

printed with the former book. What other

things he hath published I know not, nor any tiling

else of Dr. Hibbert, only that he died in sixteen 1678..

hundred seventy and eight, and was I presume

buried in the church of St. Olave before-mention'd,

leaving then behind two daughters named Hannah

and Mary, who had letters of administration granted

unto them to administer his goods, chattels, &c. 18

Dec. 1678.

[JOHN BALLARD, son of Edward Ballard of
Weston-sub Edge, Gloucestershire, was bom in
Oxford in the year 1612 (his father sojourning there

' [There seems to be some mistake in this date, for SyN
vaniis Taylor occurs in the Alphabetical List of Fellows,
preserved in the college library, as fellow of All Souls ia the
year lG75.]

■* [Engraved by D. Loggan. It h.ns no name of the person
represented, but may be known by six lines beginning '

' This true effigies crau'd and well design'd,
Shewes the fainte snaddow of a brighter mind.']

1179

[BALLABD.l

NEDHAM.

1678.

at that time upon pleasure, being very hot in pur-
suit of liis entirely beloved study of the niathenia-
ticks.*) He was educated in grammar learning at
the free-school in Camp<len, in Gloucestershire, and
from thence was sent to Exeter college in Oxford,
of which house he was matriculated, as a gentle-
inan''s son, December 2, 1631.° He proceeded to
the degree of bach, of arts Feb. 13, 1633, and to
that of bach, of medicine November 28, 1635.' Af-
terwards he fixetl at Weston and practised jJiysic
with extraordinary success. ' He was,' says his ne-
phew," ' very skUful in anatomy, botany, and chy-
mistry, which last being his favourite study, he
made many curious discoveries and observations in
it, which 1 am afraid are irrecoverably lost. All
that I have yet seen of his is a copy of verses which
he composed, when very young, on the Cotswold
hills.' As his epitaph gives his true character, I
shall only add that dying at Oxford May 3, 1678,
he was buried, by his father, in the chancel of
Weston church under a very large blew stone, with

' [Original Letter from George Ballard, to Dr. Rawlinson,
dated Cainpden Aug. 10, 173?. MS. in the Bodleian
library.]
. ' [Reg- Matric. Acad. Oxon. PP.]

7 'Reg. Conareg. Q. 207.]
; ' Letter to Dr. Rawlinson.]

» [An Encomiasticke 10 the noble minded Gentleman, his
honoured friend, Mr. Robert Dover.

My humble Muse her fainting winges would raise
To sing the storie of thy games and praise :
But she distrusts her strength, and feares she might
With downy plumes, atlempt to high a flight.
The Cotswold sports, are taskc and subject fill
For highest raptures of a Heaven-borne witt :
Whose choycer spirits Phoebus selfe inspires
With purest flames of true Promethean fires.

• And such these sports have found, cv'n such whose veine
Clontenins the basenesse of an humble straine: .
Invited by the generall voyce of Fame,

. Have blaz'd the honour of brave Dover's name.
And with smooth pencill, of their various art,
So to the life havedrawne and linib'd each part,

■ That my unpoUish't lines might soone deface.
Their master- peice, and rob them of due grace.
But may I then be mute ? can this excuse
The rugged poem of an art-lcsse muse ?

It may, sith that to royalize thy glory.

The world turnes chronicle, and spcakes a story,
', That when thy better part ascends the skie,

Shall shine example to posteritie.

Fam'd Dover still a fresh appliuse shall gaine
, In ev'ry age, and life from death oblaine.

Some willing Genius shall thy manes beare

■ To heaven, and fix them in some higher spheare,
' To which they shall add lustre, influence,

And what's more glorious, each intelligence
_ .Prowd of that noble object they espy.

Shall tune their orbs to a new harmony.
' Thus shall the world in spite of Death and Fate,

Sing Colswold-games, an ever-living date.

John Ballard, Oxon.

Annalia Dvhrensia : Vpun ihe yecreli/ Celebration nf Mr.
Roherl Doners Otimpick Games vpon Coliwold Hill. Lond.
1636, 410. Sign. E. 4.]

the following inscription : H. S. E. Johannes Bal-
lard. M. B. Vir perquam doctus, Artisque prae-
sertim Apixjlinea;, quam summa cum Laude, Suc-
cessutjue admodum felici exercebat, peritissimus;
Anatomiara, Chj'miam, Herbas, adeo calluit, ut
nemo magis dignus, qui vel Galenura astate sujje-
raret; nondum Annus Septuaginta natus Oxonii
(inter Musas et Literatos sibi gratissimos) animam
efflavit Mali 2, Anno Dom. 1678: jEtotis suae 66.'
' This gentleman had two sons, John and George,
who considering their years (for they were both
snatched away by death before either of them had
attained the age of 30) were prodigies in learning,
being very skilful in almost every branch of litera-
ture. But their chief delight was in mathematicks,
astronomy, chymistry antl anatomy, of the last of
which they left a manuscript treatise behind 'em;
together with a couple of anatomies carved from
wootl, most exquisitelv performed with their own
hands : But those and many other curious things
of great value, coming into the hands of women
that had small reganl to learning or ingenuity, have
(to my no small grief) long since been sold, and
otherwise made away with.'*]

MARCHAMONT NEDHAM was bom in a
market-town called Burford in Oxfordshire, in the
month of Aug. 1620, and on the 21st of the said
month received baptism there. He was son of a
father of both his names, Ixjrn of genteel parents irr
Derbyshire (sometime bach, of arts of St. John's
coll. and Gloc. hall, afterwards an attendant on the
lady Elizab. Lucas, sister to John lord Lucas, and
wife of sir Will. Walters of Sarsden near Burford
before-mention'd) by Margery his wife, daughter of
John Collier the host of the George inn, then the
principal place for the reception of guests in Bur-
ford. But the said father dying in the year follow-
ing, the mother was the next year after that (scil.
in 1622) married to Christoph. Glynn vicar of the
said town, and master of the free-school there i
which Glynn perceiving his son-in-law to have very
pregnant parts, did take him under his tuition, and
spared not to encourage his forwardness. At about
14 years of age he was sent to All-s. coll. where
being made one of the choristers, continued there;-
till 1637, at which time he took the degree of bach-^
of arts. So that being not capable of keeping that
place any longer, because inconsistent with his def-.

fjree, he retired to St. Mary's hall for a time. At
ength being invited to London, he had confer'd
upon him an usher's place in Merchant Taylors
scliool, then presided by one Mr. Will. Staple ; but
how long he continued there I cannot justly tell.
Sure it is, that upon the change of the times, he be-

' [Mr. John Ballard, a physitian of Weston Subediie, 1678,
gave 100/. to the use of the [Kxir ; Mr. Thomas Ballard, his.
brother, gave the chimes to the church. Atkyns' Hiii. of ^
G/ui/frjAiVc, page 313. ed. I7J2-]
" ' [Ballard's Letter ut supra.] ,

NEDHAM.

1182

came an under clerk in Greys inn, where by virtue '
of a gootl legible court-hand, he obtained a com-
fortable subsistence. Soon after siding with the
rout, and scum of the peoj)le, he made them weekly
sport by railing at all that was noble, in his intelli-
gence called Merc. liritan. wherein his endeavours
were to sacrifice the fame of some lord, or person of
quality, nay of the king himself, to the beast witli
many heads. Diego writeth ■• that Bjircseiis meeting
with the devil sittmg at his ease uptMi a chair, bid
liim rise up and give j)lace to his betters. The tale
was moraiiz'd in BritannicHS, who might very well
have challenged the precedency of Satan, to have
thrust him out of his chiur, the seat of the scornful,
wherein he sale several, years, and out-railed all the
Sliimeis and llabsekehs, and out-lyed all the Sim-
mi^scs and Pseudolusses tJiat ever sate in that
chair. So that this Nedham being become popular,
and an active man in person among tlie rout, he was
commonly callcMl capt. Nedham of Greys inn, and
wliat he said or wrote was looked ujxjn as gospel.
About that time he studied physic, followed the
chymical way, and in 1645 began to practise it, and
by tliat and his writing, maintained himself in very
genteel fashion. But so it was, that whether by his
imprisonment in the Gatehouse for his aspersions of
his majesty, in the ojiening or explaining his Ca-
binet Letters, an. 16-15, or for some scorn or affronts
put upon him, he forthwith left the blessed cause,
and obtaining the favoiur of a known royalist to in-
troduce him into his majesty's presence at Hampton-
Court, an. 1647, he then and there knelt before
him, and desired forgiveness for what he had written
against him and his cause : which being readily
granted, he kiss'd his majesty's hand, and sfxjn after
wrote Afercurius Pragmat'icus : which being very
witty, satyrical against the presbyterians, and full
of loyalty, made him known to, and admired by the
bravadoes and wits of those times. But he being
naiTowly sought after, left London, and for a time
sculk'd at Minster Lovel near Burfbrd in Oxford-
shire, in the house of Dr. Pet. Heylyn. At length
being found out, imprison'd in Newgate and brought
into danger of his life, Lenthall the speaker of the
house of commons, who knew him and his relations
well, and John Bradshaw president of the high
court of justice, treated him fairly, and not only got
his pardgn, but, with promise of rewards and places,
persuaded him to change his stile once more, mcan-
mg for the independents, then carrying all before
them. So that being brought over, he v/rote Merc.
Politicus, so extream contrary to the former, that
the generality for a long time, especially the most
generous royalists, could not believe that that intelli-

3 Mercurius Anii-Bril'innkus, pari 2. p. 25. And in The
Hue und Cry afier liritannicus, by one who calls himself
Aulicus, priiilcij l643. p. I.

< Dief^o Tornis, edit. Venet. 1604. See the character of
Britanuicus at large in Sacra Nemesis, wriitai by Dan.
Feailey.

gence could iiossibly be written by the same hand
that wrote the M. Praffmatkiui. The tnitli is,
these last were written tor aliout an vear and an
half, and were endeavoured by the parliamenteers
to be stifled, but the former (the Politici) which
came out by authority,' and fliew every week into
all parts of the nation for more than 10 years, had
very great influence upon numbers of inconsiderable
jxjrsons, such who have a strange presumption that
all must neetls be true that is in print. He was then
the Goliah of the Philistines, the great champion of
the late usurper, whose pen in comparison of others,
was like a weaver's beam. And certainly he that
will, or can, jierusc those his intelligences caUed
Merc. Politici, will judge that had the devil himself
(the father of all lies) l)een in this Goliah's office, he
could not have exceeded him, as having with pro-
found malice calumniated his sovereign, scurrility
abused the nobility, impudence bla.sphemed the
church and members thereof, and industry poysoned
the people with dangerous principles. At the happy
return of the times in 1660, he being conscious to
himself that he. might be in danger of the halter
once more, sculk'd (some say he fletl into Holland)
till such time he could get his partlon, or that the
act of oblivion should pass. In the mean time were
not wanting some forward loyalists to complain of,
and write against him : among wiiich was a nameless
author entit. J Rope for Pol. or a Hue and Cry
after March. Nedham the late scu?rilous News-
writer, print, (in May) 1660. qu. wherein he sheweth
to the world the horrid blasphemies and revilings
against the king's majesty's person, his cause and
his friends, published in his weekly Politicus. In
Apr. also the same year, was put forth A Con-
fircnce between Tho. Scot and March. Nedham
concerning the present Affairs of the Nation;
wherein many of Nedham's rogueries are ript up
and laid ojx?n to the world. In the beginning also
of Jan. before going, when great hopes depended
ujxjn Monk's proceeding, a poem entit. A New-
years Gift for Politicus, said to be written by Will.
Kilbume, flew about, wherein he tells you that
Netlham wrote,

Politicus, Intelligencer
(As famous as old Meg Sjiencer)
Pragmaticus, the Spy, what not .''
Britannicus ; The Counter-Plot
Of Hell, &c.

But notwithstanding all verl>al and printed com-
plaints, he for money given to an hungry courtier "
obtained his pardon under the great seal, which was
his defence oftentimes, jiarticularly at Oxford act in

■■ [1639, Aug. I.'.. Resolved, that Marchamoni Needham,
gonileman, be and is hereby restored to be writer of the Pat-
lick Intelligence, as formerly. Journals of the House of
Commons, vol. 7. p. 758.' CoLE.} ' ■ ■ - .

0 [L. Chanc. Wood, MS. Note in Ashmolc.']

[627]

1183

NEDHAM.

1661, when then several set upon him in St. Mary's
church to hale him lx;fore a justice, and so to prison
for trca-son : so that I say being free, and at liberty
by virtue of that seal, wliicli he several times pro-
duced, he exercised the faculty of physic to his dying
day among the brethren, which was a considerable
benefit to him. He was a person endowed with
quick natural parts, was a good humanitian, poet
and Ixxm dmil: and had he l)een constant to his
cavaleering principles he would have been beloved
by, and admired of, all ; but being mercenary and
valuing money and sordid interest, rather than con-
science, friendship, or love to his prince, was much
hated by the royal party to his last, and many can-
not yet endure to hear him spoken of. Among
several things that he hatli written and published,
these following have only come to my sight.

Mercuritts Britannicun, communicating tlie Af-
Jbirs of Great Britain for the better Informattcm

of the People. These Mercuries began alx)ut the

middle of Aug. 1643, and were carrictl on thence
■week by week, every Monday in one sh. to the latter
end of 164G, or beginning of 1647. I have seen a
trag. com. entit. Merc. Britannicus, or the English
Intelligencer, reprinted in 1641. qu. but the author
of that was Richard Brathwaytc.

A Chech to the Checker of Britannicus : or the
Honour and Integrity of Coll. Nath. Fiennes re-
vived, restated Jrom certain Prejudices and Mis-
■takes occasion' d by late Mis-reports. Lond. 1644.

^"- ...

" Mercunus Britannicus wrote a sharp libel

" again-H his Majesty s late Messages for Peace,

" anno 1645. So Dr. Barlow Whereupon was

" published at Oxon. 29 Dec. 1645, a pamphlet
■" entit. Tlie Refusers of Peace inexcusable, printed
^' by his majesty's command. Oxon 1645. 1 sh.
" qu."

A Hue and Cry qfier tJie King, &c. Gene-
rally reported to have been written by this author,
particularly (1) By the writer' of the Brief Chron.
of the late intestine War, &c. who tells us that when
the king fled from Hampton-Court in Nov. 1647 to
the Isle of Wight, one Nedham published a most
execrable and blasphemous paper called, A Hue and
Cry qfier the King, See. But how it can be so, I
cannot judge, unless our author Nedham could
write treason and royalty in one breath ; for at that
time and some weeks before, he wrote Merc. Pragm.
as I shall anon tell you. (2) The writer of the
witty ' poem entit. Me7-c. Britannicus his Welcome
to Hell, wherein reckoning up most of the intelli-
gences that were wrote for tlie parliament, saith
wus.

Amongst all these (dear son Britannicus)
Thou Tiast shew'd thy self the best Mcrcurius ;

' Jam. Heath, under the year 1647.

" Printed at I/>nd. in one ah. in qu. l647.

Thou hast out-slander'd slander, and prevaifd,
And every railing rogue tiiou hast out-raiPd.
Thou bravely didst thy sovereign vilify,
Pursu'dst his honour with an Hue and Cry,
Abus'd the queen with scandals, &c.

But the reader is to know, notwithstanding these
writers, that the Hue and Cry was not written when
the king left Hampton-Court, but after his defeat at
Naseby, an. 1645. Our author Nedham hath also
written,

Tlie Case of the Kingdom stated according to
the proper Interests of the .several Parties engaged,

&c. When first published, I know not : the third

edition was printed at Lond. 1647. in qu.

The Levellers leveTd : or the Independent's Con-
spiracy to r(x)t out Monarchy, An Interlude. Lond.
1647. in two sh. in qu. Said in the title to be
written hy Merc. Pragmaticus. See in Will. Prynne,
under the year 1669.

Mcrcurius Pragmaticus, communicating Intelli-
gence Jrom all Parts, touching all Affairs, Designs,
Humours and Conditions througliout the Kingdom,
especially Jrom Westminster and the Head-quarters.
Tliere were two parts of them, and they
came out weekly in one slieet in qu. The former
part commenced the 14th of Sept. 1647, and ended
the 9th of Jan. 1648. The other which was entit.
Merc. Pragm. Jor K. Ch. II, &c. commenced the
24th of Apr. 1649, but quickly ended. There were
now and tlien other Pragmatici that peeped forth,
but they were counterfeit.

A Pica Jor the King and Kingdom, by Way of
Atiswer to a late Remonstrance of the Army. Lond.
in Nov. 1648. in 3 sh. in qu.

Digitus Dei : or GocFs Justice upon Treachery
ami Trea.son, exemplified in the Life and Death of
the late James Duke of Hamilton, being an exact
Relation of his traiterous Practices since the Year
1630, 4"c. toith his Epitaph. Lond. 1649- in 4 sh.
in qu. [Bodl. 4to. W. 36. Jur.] In the year before
came out a book entit. The manijold Practices and
Attempts of the Hamilton^, and partiadarly of the
present Duke of Hamilton now General (J the
Scotish Army, to get the Crown of Scotland ; in a
Letter Jrom a Malignant in London to his Friend
in Scotland. Lond. 1648. qu. in June. But who
the author of this was I cannot tell. " It is thought
" Nedliam, because 'tis all involv'd in the Digitus
« Dei.""

Mcrcurius Politicus. Comprising the Sum of
Joreign Intelligence, with the Affairs now on Foot
in the three Nations of England, Scotland, and
Ireland. These Mercuries came out weekly

every Wednesday in two sh. in qu. commencing
with the 9th of June 1649, and ending with the
6th of June 1650. At which time being Thursday
he began again, " with numb. 1. from Thursday
" June 6. to Thursday June 13, 1650. Beginning
" ' Why should not the commonwealth have a

1185

NEDHAM.

118tJ

[629]

" fool as well as the kiiifjj liad,' &c." ' Now an-
peared in print (saith a certain !> writer) as the weekly
champion of the new coinmonwealth, and to be-
spatter llie kin<; (Ch. II.) with the ijascst of stuir-
nlous raillery, one Marchamont Nedhani, laider the
name of Pohticus, a Jack of all sides, transcendcntlv
gifted in opprobrious and treasonable droll, and
hired therefore by Bradshaw to act the second part

to his starciU and more solemn treason Who

bejjan his first diurnal with an invective against
monarchy and the presbyterian Scotch kirk, and
ended it with an Hosanna to Oliver Cromwell, who
in the bej^nning of June returned by the wav of
Bristol from Ireland to London,' &c. These Afei-
curii PoUtici (wherein were many discourses against
monarchy, and in behalf of a free-stiite, especially
in those that were published l)efore 01. Cromwell
gaped after the supremacy) were constantly carried
on till about the middle of Apr. 1660, when tiien
(as several times Iwfore) the author was prohibited
by order of the council of state.' By virtue of
which order. Hen. Muddiman and Giles Dury were
authorized to publish their JnteHigence every Mon-
day and Thursday, under the titles of Parliament-
ary Intelligeiiccr and Mercnrius Publicus, which
continued (Dury soon after giving over) till the
middle of Aug. 1663, and then Rog. L'estrange
published the Intelligence twice every week in
quarto sheets, under the titles of The public Intel-
ligencer and The News. The first of which came
out the 31st of Aug. and the other on the 3d of
September an. 1663. These continued till the 29th
of Jan. 1665, at which time L'estrange desisted, be-
cause in Nov. going before were other kind of news-
papers piiblished twice every week in half a sheet in
folio. These were called The Oj:ford Gazette, and
the first commenced 7 Nov. 1665, the king and
Queen with their courts being then in Oxon. These
for a little time were written, I think, by Hen.
JMuddiman : But when the said courts removed to
London, they were intitled and calletl The London
Gazette ; the first of which that was publislied
there, came forth on the 5th of Feb. following, the
king being then at Whitehall. Soon after Mr.
Joseph Williamson, under-secretary of state, pro-
cured the writing of them for himself: and there-
upon employed Charles Perrot M. A. and fellow of
Oriel coll. in Oxon, who had a good command of his
pen, to do that office under him, and so he did, tho'
not constantly, to about 1671. After which time
they were constantly written by undcr-secretaries,
belonging to those that are principal, and do con-
tinue so to this day.

Thepnblic Intelligcncef; communicating the chief
Occurrences, and Proceedings rvithin the Dominions

vf England, Scotland, and Ireland, &c. These

Mercuries came out weekly every Monday, but

8 Jam. Heath, as before, iji his Chron. under the year
1650."
' fSee Whillock'S Memorials, uagcfioQ, edit. ITSS.}.
Vol. III.

contained mostly the same matter tliat wa« in the

Politici.

The Case of tJie Commonwialth of England
stated : or the Equity, Utility and Necessity (if a
Submission to the jrrescnt Government, against all
Scruples and Pretences of the opposite Parties,
viz. Royalists, Scots, Presbyterians, Levellcn, &c.
I.,ond. 1649. in two jiarts in (juarto. Tliere again
in 1650. ill qu. also. [Hodl. B. 18. 23. Line]

Discourse of the Excellency of a Free-state abovi;
Kingly GoxHrnment. I>ond. 1650. qu. published
with the former.

An Appendix added out of Claud. Salmasiiis his
Dcfnsio Regis and Mr. Hobbes de Co7-pore politico.

7Vyal of Mr. Joh. Goodwin at the Bar of Re-
ligion and right Reason, &c. Lond. 1657. qu.

The great Accwter cast donon, SfC. An Ansxocr to
a scandalotis Book entit. The Triers or Tormentors
tried and cast, &c. Written by Mr. Joh. Goodwin.
Lond. 1657. qu. [Bodl. B. 18. 11. Line.] The said
Goodwin did not reply in another pamphlet, only in
a book * which he the year after publislied against
other persons, doth characterize our author Ncdhani
as having a foul mouth which Satan hath opened
against the truth and mind of Gotl, &c. as being a
person of an infamous and unclean character for the
service of the Triers, &c. A man that curseth what-
soever he blcsseth, and blessoth whatsoever he
curseth, &c. That his book hath a double image
visibly stampt upon it, like our Philip and Mary
coin, and therein is a Nye ' of Oxford learning, as
well as a mouth of Oxford railing in the composi-
tion, 8cc.

Interest will not lye: or a View of En^^ncTs
true Interest in reference to the Papist, Royallisi,
Presbyterians, SfC. in Refutation of a treasonable
Pamphlet entit. The Interest of England stated.
Lond. 1659. in 6 sh. in large quarto paper.* [Bodl.
4to. S. 83. Art.]

The moderate Informer, communicating the most
remarkable Transaetions both civil and military in

the Commonwealth of England, &c. It ctmi-

mences with the 12th of May 1659, but not carried
on for alx)ve two or three weeks. Nedham, it
seems, was put out of his placcof writing the weekly
news in the time of Richard lord protector, occa-
sion'd by the pre.sbyterians : yet notwithstanding
tho' Joh. Can was put in his place, yet in spight of
opposition he carried on the writing of his Mercu-
ries.

News from Brussels, in a Letter from a near
Attendant on his Majesty s Person, to a Person of
Honour here, dat. 10 March stil. vet. 1659.

' Triumviri: Or Ihe Genius, Spirit and Deportment of
three Men, Mr. Rich. Eeshury, John Porson, and George
Kendall, in their late fVrilings, &c. Lond. l658. in tha
pref.

3 Philip Nye one of the chief Tryers.

■* [Lond. 4io. b') pages ■ well written and very severe. • I
liavc it. Co I.B.]

4G

1187

NEDHAM.

There is no name to this letter (full of rascallities
against king Charles II. and his court) but the ge-
neral report was then, that it was written by M.
Neciham, anil conveyed to the printer or bookseller
by that notorious schismatic and grand zealot for the
[630] gtxxl old cause called Praise-God Barel)one. It
was answer'd about a week after in another thing
in qu. entit. The late News err Message Jrom Brus-
sels unmask\l ; but by whom it was written I know
not.

A short History of the English Rebellion com-
pleatcd ill Verse. Lond. 1661. qu. 'Tis a collection
of all such verses which he before had printed before
each of his Merc. Pragmat. and was then by him
published to curry favour with the royalists. This
Short History was printed again in 1680. qu.* when
the presbyterians were busy to carry on their de-
signs under the pretence ot the PopLsh plot. He
did prefix to it The true Character of a rigid Pres-
byter, and added the coat of arms of sir John
Presbyter to that edit, of 1661, but the said cha-
racter was not of his writing.

Discourse concerning Schooh and Schoolmasters.
Lond. 1663. in one sh. and an half in qu.

Medcla Medicince. A Pleajbr the free Profession
and Renovation of the Art of Physic, 8tc. Lond.
1665. in a large oct. [Bodl. Svo. F. 5. Med.] An-
swered by two doctors of that faculty, fellows of the
coll. of physicians at London, namely John Twysden
in his Aledicina Veterum vindicata, &c. and Robert
Sprackling in his Medcla Ignorantia-, &.c. Our
author Nedham " saith that four champions were
employed by the coU. of physicians to write against
this book. Two of which- (he saith) are gone al-
ready : The third I hear (saith he) is often buried
in ale at a place called ' the hole' in the wall/ and
the fourth hath asked me pardon before compan)',
confessing that he was set on by the brotherhood of
the confederacy.

An episUilary Di,scour,se before Medicina instaii-
rata, or a brief Account of the ti-ue Grounds and
Principles of tli£ Art of Physic, &c. by Edw. Bol-
itestM.D. Lond. 1665.

; ': A Pacqnet of Advices ^ and Animadversions sent

from London to the Men of Shaftesbury, ^c. Oc-

(•a.sia)id by a .seditious Pamphlet entit. A Letter

from a Person of Quality to his Friend in the

C ountry, &c. Lond. 1676. qu. Of which book and

' [It is again reprinlcd in 4to. in a monthly pamphlet
tailed Phoenix Brilannicus. p. 174. anno 1732, by one J.
Morgan. Cole.]

. " In his pref. to Fr. de le Boe his New Idea of the
Praclke of Physic Printal lf)75.

' The Hole in the Wall is a noieiLale-house in Baldwin's
Gardens in Holbourn.

• [The Puclquels af Advice, and Chrhlianissimns Christian-
nnrfu» might be nil wrillcn by Ncedham, for ought I know;
but when they first came out, all people that I chanced to
inccl with, spoke of them as written by other men : hot
btcaiisc I know nothing but hearsay, I forbear to say fnrtbcr.

llliMfHREVS.]

its author, you may see in another entit. An Account
qfilie Growth of Popery and Arbitrary Government
in England. Lond. 1687. in a thm fol. p. 22.
Written by Andr. Manel, esq.

A second Pacqnet of Advices, ^c. occasiorCd by se-
veral seditimu) Pamphlets .tpread abroad to pei~vert
the People, .nncc the Publication of the former
Pacqnet, he. Lond. 1677. qu. This answers first a
pamphlet entit. Some Considerations upon the Ques-
tion, whether the Parliament be dissolird by its
Prorogation for 15 Months. (2) Another entit.
The long Parliament dissolv\l, written by Denzill
lord Holies : the author of which being sought after,
h';s chaplain, a nonconformist, named Cary or Carew,
own^l it to free his lord ; whereupon he was com-
mitted prisoner to the Tower of London, in the be-
ginning of Feb. 1676. This Cary after his lord's
death lived in Hatton Garden in Holbourn, and
practised physic.^ (3) A Letter from a Person
nexvly chosen to sit in this Parliament, to a Bencher
in the Temple ; with a pretended Answer of the
Bencher to the same. (4) A Narrative of the Cause
and Manner of the Imprisonment of the Lordi, now
close Prisoners in the Tower of London. The said
two Pacquets of Advices were written as "'tis ' said
by Nedham, and he encouraged thereunto by Edm.
Warcup a justice of peace, and Thomas earl of
Danby.

Christiatiissimus Christianandus :^ or. Reasons
for the Reduction of France to a more Christian
State in Europe. Lond. 1678. in 10 sh. in qu. [Bodl.
4to. Z. 52. Th.] Besides all these, he hath written
several other small things, which I have not yet
seen. He hath translated into English Mare clau-
sum, printed in fol. 1652 or thereabouts; but he
being then no way affected to monarchy, gave him-
self therefore the license to foist in the name of a
commonwealth instead of the kings of England, and
also to suppress the epist. ded. to the king. He
also addctl an Appendix to it concerning the so-
vereignty of the kings of Great Britain on the sea,
entit. Additional Evidences, which he procured, as
'twas thought, of Joh. Bradshaw. All which, be-
sides treasonable connncnts and false glosses, were
done in the life time of the learned author Joh.
Selden. After the restoration of king Charles II.
the English copy was corrected, perfected and re-
stored, by J. H. gent, and printed at Lond. 1662.
fol. He the said Nedham also hath written a pre-
face before the book entit. A new Idea if the Prac-
tice of Physic, written by ' Franc de le Boo, Sylvius ;
published in English at London in 1675. oct. In

5 [Tliis was Nicholas Cary. CtsXamy (Ejected Ministers,
vol. 2. p. 473.) records him as ejected from the town of
Monmouth ; and adds, afier bis tjeclment he came up to
London, and gave himself up lo the practice and study of
physick, and had success in curing ill affected eyes and ears
more than many. Anddy'd in Haiion-Garden in Holbourn.]

' See the third part of No Protestant Plot, p. 58, 69.

" [See note ' in preceding column.]

=> Fr. dc Ic Boc died at Lcydcn in Holl. 1665.

1181)

NEDHAM.

NEWTON.

11 1)0

1(578.

which ])ref'. towards tlic latter enil, our author Ned-
ham saith that he had then (IGTS and before) a pur-
po.se to piiblisli some essays to discover what may be
uQue by able men towards an advancement of know-
ledge m the power of plants, by examining their
natures by the principles and operations of the
chyniists : Also that he was about to form divers
treatises for public view, &.c. By the way it must
be known, that our author in tiie saicf preface,
doth shew him.self a great dislikcr of the common
way of the first stuaying of physic in the uni-
versities, and seems also to run down university
promotions or degrees, calling them in derision
the doctoral confederates, the scholastic family of
a fine breed, who come to town with the learned

cushion, cap, and scarlet The apothecaries boys

are able to tutor them in town-practice They

vaunt and make a noise with their anatomical rattle

spend much time in anatomy neglect the

chymical way, &c. Several things are fathered
akso upon him, of which he was not in the least
the author, as the publication of The Speeches of
Oliver Cromwell, Hen. Irefon and Joh. Bradshaw,
intended to have been spoken at their Execution at
Tyburn, the 30th of Jan. 1660, &c. Lond. 1660. in
one sh. and half in qu. said in the title to be pub-
lished by Marcham. Nedham and Payne Fisher,
servants, poets and pamphleteers to his infernal
highness. At length this most seditious, mutable
and railing author M. Nedham died suddenly in the
house of one Kidder in D'eureux-Court near Tem-
ple-bar London, in sixteen hundred seventy and
eight, and was buried on the 29th of Novemb. (being
the vigil of St. Andrew) at the upper end of the
body of the church of St. Clement's Danes, near the
entrance into the chancel. Soon after, that church
being puH'd down and rebuilt, and the letters on
his grave taken away or defaced, you shall have
in their place this epitaph made on him, an. 1647,
printed at the end of Merc. Britannicus his Wel-
cmne to Hell.

Here lies Britannicus, HelPs barking cur,
That son of Belial, who kept damned stir:
And every Monday spent his stock of spleen,
In venomous railing on the king and queen.
Who, though they botli in goodness may forgive

him,
Yet (for his safety) we'll in hell receive him.

With this person may well be coupled Henry
Care,*several tmies reflected upon by Rog. L'estrange
in his Observators, for a poor snivelling fellow ; who
after he had wrote several things in the behalf of
the church of England, and the presbyterians, and

■• [In iGSOCare was arraiRned, convicted and sentenced
for printing without license The JTeekly Pacguel of Advice
from Rome ; and by an order of the court of King's Bench, it
was ordained, that the book should not from thenceforth be
printed or published by any person whatsoever. But for this
order, and some other things, the house of commons, in 1 680,
iui|)cachcd lord ch. justice Scroggs of high treason. Macro.]

had reflected on Ixith the universities in several of his
writing's as |)opishly affected, was at length prevaiPtl
upon in the time of king James \\. to write for tin-
Roman Catholics, against the church which lie be-
fore had eagerly defended : Whereby it was made
manifest that what he wrote was not for religion or
conscience sake, which he before did pretend, but
meerly for interest. After his death, which hapnod
in Aug. 1688, was an elegj* written in his commenda-
tion, printed on one side of a sh. of ])appr, and a
satyrical thing called Henry Care's lust Will and
Testamait.

JOHN NEWTON son of Humphrey Newton
of Oundel in Northamptonshire, and )ie the second
son of Joh. Newton of Axmouth in Devonshire,
was born in Northamptonshire, became a commoner
of St. Edm. hall in Mich, term 1637, aged 15 years,
took the degree of bach, of arts in 1641, and in the
year following was actually created master of that
faculty among several esquires, gentlemen .and sol-
diers that belonged to the king and court then re-
siding in this university. At which time his geny [wJi]
being naturally inclined to mathematics and astro-
nomy, he, by continual industry, made great pro-
ficiency in them, which he found advantageous to
him in the times of usurpation. After his majesty's
return he was actually created doct. of div. made one
of the king's chaplains, and rector of Rossc in Here-
fordshire, in the place, I think, of Mr. Joh. Tombes
ejected ; which he kept to his dying day. He
hath written these things following, mostly printed
in qu.

Astronomia Britannica. Exhibiting the Doctrine
of the Sphere, and Theory of Planets decimally by
Trigonometry ami by Tables, ^-c. in three Parts.
Lond. 1656, 57. qu. [Bodl. 4to. N. 22. Art.]

Help to Calculation, with Tables of DecliTiat.'
Ascensions, &c. Lond. 1657. qu.

Trigonomefria Britannica : shexeing the Con-
struction of the natural and artificial Sines, Tan-
gents, and Secants, and Table of Logarithms, and
the Use of the said Canon in tlie Resolution of all
Triangles, plain or spherical, &c. in two books;.
Lond. 1658. fol. [Bodl. A. 1. 18. Art.] One com-
posed by our author Newton, the other translated
from the Lat. copy of Hen. Gellibrand.

Chiliades Centum I^garithmorum. Printed with
the former.

Geometrical Trigonometry, &c. Lond. 1659.

Mathematical Elements, in three Parts. Lond.
1660. 63. qu.

A perpetual Diary or Almanack.^— Engraven
on copper, and printed on one side of a sheet of
paper, 1662.

Description of the Use of the Carpenter'' s Rule.
Lond. 1667.

Ephemerides : or Diary shewing the Interest
and Rebate of Money at six per Cent. &c. Lond.
1667. ^

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PALMER.

ChiUades Decern iMgarithinontm. \ t „^j \Qffj

Talmiapartium ProportionaJium. )

Tlie Scale of Intereist : or the Use of decivml
Fraction, &u:.' Part^. Lond. 1688. oct. [Bocll. 8vo.
N. 54. Art.]

School Pastime fm- young Children : or an easif
and dcUghtful Method far the Teaching of Chil-
dren to read Engiiih directly. Lond. 16o9- oct.

Art of practical Gauging of Casks and Brewer's
Turn, &c. Lond. 1669.

Introduction to Uie Art of Logic. Lond. 1670.
78. in tw.

Introd. to the Art of Rhetoric. Lond. 1671. in
tw. [Bo<ll. 8vo. P. 144. Art.] Which a.s to its form
anil inethml, is the same with that of Ch. Butler,
and for invention and disposition, with that of the
first part of Mich. Radau''s Orator extemporaneus.
But these two introductions, I presume, are, or at
least most part of them, involved in The English
Academy tliat follows.

The Art of natural Arithmetic in whole Num-
bers and Fractions, vulgar and decimal, &c. Lond.
J 672. oct.

The English Academy ': or, a brief Introduction
to tJie seven liberal Arts, Grammar, Arithmetic,
Geometry, Music, &c. Lond. 1667. oct. Most of
which arts having before been published singly by
themselves, are in this book epitomized, and chiefly
intended for the instruction of young scholars, who
are acquainted with no other than their native lan-
guage.

Cosmography : or a View of tJic terrestrial and
celestial Globes, in a brief Exjdanation of the P7-in-
cipks of plain and solid Geo7>ietry,kc. Lond. 1679.
oct. [Bodl. 8vo. R. 80. Art.]
, Introduction to Astroiwmy, in two parts.

Introduct. to Geography. — These two are printed
with the Co.inwgraphy. This learned, but capri-
cious and humorous person. Dr. Newton, diet! at
Rosse bcfore-mention''a, on the day of the Nativity
of our Saviour, in sixteen hundred seventy and eight,
and was buried in tiie chancel of the cliurch there
under the south-wall, as I have been informed by a
gentleman of the neighbourhood in those parts. He
had an elder brother named Humph. Newton bach,
of the civ. law, and sometime fellow of Alls. coll.
who dying on the 6th of Sept. 1659, was buried in
the chajipel of that college. Besides the said Joh.
Newton, I find another, master of arts, sometime fel-
low of Clare hall in Cambridge, and afterwards
\'icar of St. Martin's church in Leicester, author of a
tfii'il sermon cntit. The penitent Recognition of Joseph" s
I""*'*! JSr«if/tw«, 4t. Lond. 1684. quart.

[1662, 8 Sep. Joh. Newton S. T. P. admiss. ad
rectoriam de Upminstre, per cess. Joh. Halke. Reg.
iMudon. Vac. per mort. ipsius ante 28 Mar. 1679.
Kkwkt.

Add to Newton's works, the following, omitted
by W.ootl :

1. Inslitutio Mathematica: or a Mathematical

,it)78.

Institution sJiewing the Construction and Use of
the Naturall and artificiall Sines, Tangents and
Secants, in Decimal Numbers, and also of the Table
of Logarithms, ike. Lond. 1654, 12m<). Bodl. 8vo.
F. 175. Line.

2. Tuhulve Mathematicae : or Tables of the na-
turall Sines, Tangents and Secants and the Loga-
rithms of the Sines and Tangents to every Degree
and hundred Part of a Degree in the Quadrant.
Lond. 1654, 12mo. Bodl. 8vo. T. 19. Me<l.

3. Tlic Complcat Arithmetician : or the :[cItole Art
of Arithmetick Vulgar and Decimal, In a plain and
easie Mctluul, suitable to the meanest Capacity.
London 1691. 8vo. Bodl. 8vo. G. 158. Art. Ded.
to John lord viscount Scudamore. — ' It hath been
my endeavour to eflFect two things for this town of
Ross, namely to procure a competent maintenance
for God''s minister there, that so the people may be
instructed in the principles of religion and true

Ciety ; and some endowment for an English school,
y which means the children may l>e the easier taught
what religion is, as well as instructed in those arts
and sciences which will conduce to their more com-
fortable subsistance and present I'jcing. The first of
these, by Grod's blessing and the assistance of your
(no less truly religious than) honourable grandfather,
is now effected to the glory of God in future ages;
and had it pleased God to have spared him to us
yet a little longer, his favourable countenance and.
assistance would not have been wanting in the other

as a thankful acknowledgement of the great

kindness of your honourable grandfather to me
(personally, but chiefly in assisting me to bring in
the tithes of Ross, Brampton, and Weston in this
county of Hereford to the church) I did intend to
send this little treatiee into tiie world in his name,
but since God's providence (in removing him to a
better place and more lasting honour) hath made
my intentions frustrate, whither should I go, or
unto whom should I address my self, but to you .''' —
In the ))reface, Newton says there is another httle
book of arithmetick, called The L ountry Scliool-
7naster, which he intends to publish shortly, whence,
unless the title page be, as it often proves, a device
of the bookseller to get off an old book, it seems that
Newton was still living in 1691.]

ANTHONY PALMER son of Anth. Palm.

was born at Great Comberton in Worcestershire,
became a student in Baliol coll. an. 1634, aged 16
years, admitted fellow thereof, after he had taken
one degree, the 29th of Nov. 1640 ; and in the year
after being then master of arts, he entred into noly
orders. But all things at that time being in a very
sad confusion in the nation, he sided with the presby-
terians then domin.ant, took the covenant, had some
em])loynient among them, and was all things to all
men, such was the mutability and vanity of the per-
son. At length the rich rectory of Bourton on the
Water in Gloucestershire being made void, he got

PALMER.

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into it, resigird his fellowship in Octob. 1G49, took
the engagement, and was afterwards an assistant to
the commissioners of the said county, for the ejecting
of such whom the bretliren called scandalous, igno-
rant and JiisiifHcient ministers and schoolmasters,
that Ls, loyal and orthotlox clergymen, being about
that time (1654) .-inabaptistically inclinVl, and a
great favourer of those of that persuasion and their
tenets. About the time of his majesty's restoration
he was by the force of some of tne royalists of his
town driven from his charge, as having lieen a most
jiernicious jjerson as to his doctrine, and a great
enemy to the loyal party : Whereupon he withdrew
and put in a curate, but he being disturbed, they got
one to read the common-prayer. In the year fol-
lowing there was published in that villainous imjws-
ture called, Annus Mirtibiiis : Or the Year of Pro-
digies and Wonders, &c. printed 1661, a story *
concerning this matter, and an account of a strange
judgment that befel two of his disturbers, viz. one,
who was soon after suddenly striken with death, and
anotlier, who wa.s smitten in a very strange manner,
&c. After our author Palmer had been forced to
leave that comfortable harlxwr, lie retired to London,
where we find him to have had a hand in, or at least
consenting to, that stupendious tragedy, which was
intended to be acted by the satanical saints, in Nov.
1662, for which George Philips, Tho. Tonge,
Franc. Stubbs, &c. suffer'd tlie 22dof Dec. the same
year. Afterwards he carried on the trade of con-
venticling to his last, and thereby obtained a com-
fortable subsistence from the brethren. His works
are these.

A Scripture Raile to the I^rdJ's Table, against
Mr. John Humphrcifs Treatise of free Admission
to ike Sacrament. Lond. 1654. oct. or tw. [Bodl.
8vo. P. U5. Th. BS.1

Memorials of Godliness and Christianity^ ,• zeith
iJie Watj (if making Religion one''s Business, &c.
Lond. io tw.

The Christiati's Freedom by Christ, or CkxTs
Deed of Gift to tfie Saints. Lond. in tw.

The Goxpel nexv Creature ; u:herein the Work of
the Spirit is opened, in Awakening the Soul ; to
ilie gaining Pardon of Sin, and an Interest in
Jesu^s Clirist is plainly opened^ &c. Lond. 1658.
1674. oct. BodL 8vo. B. 282. Th.]

The tempestuous Soul calmed hy Jesus Christ —
These two last are grountled ujwn certain texts of
scripture.* He hath written other things which I
have not seen, and therefore I shall only tell you,
that he taking his last fai-ewel of tliis world on the
26th of January in sixteen hundred seventy arid
eight, was burictl in the phanatical burial-])lace join-
ing to Old-Bedlam near to Morefields by London ;
where some years since I saw an altar monument of

» Page 79. nu. sy.

* [Being as the title says, an Extract of several sermons on
Matlh. 8. 23, 24, £5, 26, 2?. Printed Lond. 1(>73. Bodl.
«vo. B. 282. Th.]

stone over his grave. Several of the simame of
Palmer have been writers, and one Thorn. Palmer
who was minister of St. Laurence Poutitney in Lon-
don, did zealously a.ssert the former rel)ellion as well
witii his s«ord as pen. Upon his majesty's restora-
tion being ejected, he retired into Derbyshire,
where we find him at Aston carrying on the cause
by preaching, but being thence ejected, he lx!canie
an Itinerant preacher, and a gatherer of churches
liere and then;, and in the month of July or liiere-
al)outs, an. 166^3, he was .sectired in Nottingham
for preaching iii ctmventicles.' But soon after getting
Itxjse, we find him engaged in that fanatical hellish
plot in the north parts of England, which was dis-
covered in the Ijegmning of Oct. 166S, and for which [634]
several suffered death at York and elsewhere : *
But what became of Tho. Palmer I know not as yet-
Sure I am that his name was in his majesty's pro-
clamation for his apprehension, and was thereirf
described to be a tall man, flaxen hair'd and to be
between 40 and 50 years of age. " Of Ijoth these
names were several, viz. 1. Thomas Palmer was ma-
triculated asamember of Line. coll. and a Rutland-
shire man. May 9. an. 1617, aged 15 years, first
admitted bach, of arts as a meml)cr of Magd. hall,
the 12th of Dec. 1620, and determined as a member
of the said hall in the Lent following, but ttxik no
higher degree. 2. Tho. Palmer bach, of arts of
Cainb. was incorporated at Ox. 28 May 1620, and
t(X)k no higher degree here. 3. Tho. Palmer M.-
of A. vicar of St. Thomas and St. Mary llatclift'in
the city of Bristol, hath published Bristofs Military
Garden. Sermon on 1 Sam. 17- 39. latter part.'
Lond. 1636. qu. 4. Tlio. Palmer minister to
the regiment of maj. gen. Skij)pon, hath pub-*
lished The Saints Support in these sad Times,
Sermon at Tiverton in Devonshire, during the
Time that his Excellency the Earl of Essex Ge-
neral of the Parliamcid Forces quartered there,
on Psal. 37. 40. Lond. 1644. qu. The same
Tho. Palmer hath also wTittcn Christian''s Free-
dom: Or, GmFs Deed of Gifi to his Saints.
Lond. 1646. oct. and A Serm. on 1 Cor. 3. 22, 23.
Lond. 1647. oct. and seems to be the same with Tho.
Palmer our author. 5. Tho. Palmer who hath
written An Essay of the Means hotc to make our
Travels info Foreign Countries the more prqfitcddc
and honom-ahle. Lond. 1606. oct. at whicJi time the
author was living at Wringham in Kent. This
person I think was bred in Oxon. And therefore
all the.se Tho. Palmer" s mav be brought in with this
Tho. Palmer. 6. Tho. Palmer who hath written
The Map of Monarchy and Epitome of Papacy.
Lond. 1659. oct. This book I think belongs to
Tho. Palmer the fourth, before-mentioned."

" [This is all from the Public Neios, 410. Num. 14.
Kennet.]

" [He seems to have been anabaptistically inclined, by ihc
dating of his letter in l658. in Peck's Des. curiosu, vol. 2.
lib. 23. page 30. Cole.]

1195

FOULKES. IIENSIIAW.

HEAD.

" ROBERT FOULKES became a servitor of
" Ch. Ch. in Mich, term 1651, where he continued
" more than four years, under tlie tuition and go-
" vemment of nresby teriaiis and independents. Af-
" ter wards entrniff into thesficrcd function he became
" a preacher, ana at length vicar of Stanton Lucy
" iu liis own country of Shropshire, and took to him
" a wife. At length having got his maid with child,
" retired with her to London to be rid of her bur-
" then in private. But so it was that he being as-
" sisting with lier in making away with the child as
" soon as it was Ixirn, he was at length discovered :
" Whereu)X)n being imprison'd in Newgate, tried
" and convicted at the sessions in the Olcl-Baylie in
" London, received sentence to die on the 16tli of
" January an. 1678. But being repriev'd for a
" time, he ^vrote in his prison,

" An Alarm for Sinners: containing his Con-
"Jission, Prayers, Letters and last fVo7-ds. Lond.
" 1679. in 5 sh. and an half in on. [Bodl. 4to. J.
" 38. Th.] published by Mr. Will. Lloyd dean of
" Baaigor from the original copy, written with the
" author's own hand ; who before his death sent it
" to the said doctor, who with Dr. Gilb. Burnet and
" other ministers, did accompany him with their
" prayers and exhortations in his imprisonment.
" He was executed at Tyburn, not with other com-
" mon felons, but by himself, in the presence of a
167{. " very few persons, on the 31st of January in sixteen
" hundred seventy and eight, and was privately
" buried. At which time it was said by many
" persons, that had he been educated under an or-
" thodox government, or under papists, he would
" have abhorred such a foul act, for which he suf-
" fer'd."

JOSEPH HENSHAW son of Thomas, son of
Will. Henshaw of Sussex, descended from those of
his name of Cheshire, was born in the parish of St.
Giles's Cripplegate Lond. educated in Merchant
Taylor's school, became a commoner of Magd. hall
in 1621, aged 18 years or thereabouts, took one
degree in arts, holy orders, and became chaplain to
sir Jo. Digby earl of Bristol. " He was chaplain to
" George duke of Buckingham when he was mur-
" dered, who procur'd for him, while a jun. master,
[635J " a prebendship in the cathedral church of Peter-
" borough." In 1634 I find him parson of Stedham
with Hayshot in Sussex, and about that time
preacher at the Charterhouse and vicar of little St.
Bartholomew's," in London. In 1639 he proceeded
doctor of divinity, being then prebendary of Chi-
chester, and much in renown for his admirable way
of preaching ; but when the nation was turn'd topsy
turvy by tlie iniquity of the presby terians and otner

" [Ncwcourt finds this l.Tst preferment attributed to him by
mistaking Joseph ilcnshaw for John, the two first letters
being only written. And it is probable John had the
preacher's place too at the Charter-house. Macro.]

discontented people, he was dispoyl'd of all, suffcr'd
much for the royal cause, was a hrand snatch'd out
of the fire, and livetl for some time at Chiswick in
the house of the lady Paulet. At length, after his
majesty's restoration, he was made clean of Chi-
chester in Sept. 1660, ujion the promotion of Dr,
Ryves to the deanery of Windsor, and by virtue of
the king's conge d'l'slire, being elected to the see of
Peterborough 15 Apr. 1663, upon the removal of
Dr. Laney to Lincoln, was soon after consecrated,
and on the 28. of May (Ascension day) installed.
He hath written and published,

HorcE Sttccisivie : or spare Hours nf Meditations
upon our Duty to God, Others, and Ourselves.
Lond. 1631. [second edit, much enlarged. Bodl. 8vo.
T. 55. Th.] There again 1640. in tw. being the
fifth edit. In the year 1620, was published in oct,
a book entit. Horcc Subsessivw. Observations and
Discourses, but this book was written by Gilbert
lord Cavendish, who died before his father Wilham
earl of Devonshire, which William departed this
life in 1625. Our author Henshaw hath also
written

Dayly Thoughts : or, a Miscellany of Medita-
tions Iwly and human. Lond. 1651. oct. the third
edit, with enlargements. He departed this mortal
life in his house or lodgings in St. James's-street
Covent-Garden within the liberties of Westminster,
on Sunday the ninth day of March in sixteen hun-
dred seventy and eight : Whereupon his body
being conveyed into Sussex, was buried in the church
of East-Levant near Chichester, close by the body
of his only wife Jane, sometime daughter of Thomas
May of that place, and near to a .son that he had
buried there,

[One Joseph Henshawe takes the degree of A. M,
at Pemb. Hall. 1628.

Jun. 26. 1628. Josephus Henshaw (incorporat.)
ad eundem gradum quo apud Oxon: A. M. eodem
anno. Regr.

See MS. Collect, vol. 26. p. 371. a true account
of bishop Henshawe. Baker.]

" RICHARD HEAD was bom of English pa-
" rents in Ireland, but his father, who was a minister
" of God's word, being kilfd in the rebellion there,
" an. 1641, the mother conveyed him into England,
" and being trainetl uj) in literature, was by the
" help of some friends sctled for a time in Oxon, but
" in what hall or coll. tlierein, unless in tliat of
" Queen's (where several of his sirnanie, natives of
" Cumberland, had been educated) I cannot tell.
" Sure it is that making but little stay there, and
" less in academical learning, he was taken away
" and hound an apprentice to a Latin bookseller in
" London : and being made free when his time was
" expired, became partner ' witli Francis Kirkman

' Gerard Langbaine in ha Account of the English DrO'
matte Poets, &c. 0.\. 1(^1. p. 216.

I67f.

head;

BISCOE.

WELLS.

1198

" (if I mistake not) in the alley that fronts the
" north gate of St. Paul's cathedral called Canon
" Alley. But his geny being addicted to txxitry,
" and his natural parts excellent, he ga\ii nimself'
" much uj) to the extravagant pleasures of youtii,
" had a rambling head, neglected his trade, and
" retired to his native country for a time, where lie
" composed a play, entit.

" Hie iSj- Ubique : or, the Humours of Dublin.
" Com. Lond. 1663. qu. acted privately with general
" applause. Afterwards coming into England, mar-
" ried, followed his trade, and wrote several trivial
" tilings for his livelihood, viz.

" The English Rogue, described in the Life of
" Meriton Latroon, a witty Extravagant. Com-
" prehctuling tlie most eminent Cheats of both
" Sexes. Lond. 1666. in a large oct. This being
" the first part, there were three more parts* added
" by our author Head and Francis Kirkman before-
" mentioned, with a promise of a fifth part, which
" never came out.'

" Jacksori's Recantation, or the Life and Death
" of the notorious Highway-man norv flanging in
" Chains at Hampsted, &,c. Lond. 1674. At the
end is a postscript, testifying the said recantation
" to be true, written by Sam. Swiftnicks an Irish-
" man, and a great robber on the high-ways near
" London.
[636] " Proteus RedivivuJi : or, the Art of Wheedling

" or Insinuation, obtained by general Conversation,
" &c. Lond. 1675. oct. Another edition of this

came out in tw. furnished with many delightful

songs and various chapters, with additions in

every chapter, t<i almost one half of the book, an.
" 1684.

" Madam Wheedle: or, the fashtcmable Miss
" discovered, with all her modest Pretences, and
" subtle Stratagems, Lond. 1678. oct.

" Venu.'i's Cabinet unlocli'd.

" The Floating Liland : or, a Voyage Jrom Lam-
" bethania to Ramalia.

" A Discovery of Old Brazil.

" The Red Sea. These four last I have not

'* yet seen, nor his pamphlet against Mr. Rob. Wild
" the poet, in answer to his Letter to Mr. J. J. upon
" his Majesty's Declaration for IJberty of Con-
" science. An. 1672. which pamphlet was entit. if I
" am not mistaken, Moon-shine, &c. see in the
" Fasti under the year 1642. Our author Head
" hath also written,

" Nugw Venales: or, a complainant Companion :
" Being new Jests, Domestic and Foreign, Bulls,
*' R/iodomontados, Pleasant Novels and Miscella-

" nies. This was printed the third time at Lond.

" in tw. 1686. and there again with additions 1687.

* [These were printed Lond. 1671, 1674, IC8O. The first
part should have a rare, but very indifferent, portrait of the
atithor.l

3 [I have been assured that this fifth part is printed, but
iiave never been able to aee it.]

" This author R. Head, who had met with a great

" many crosses and afflictions in this life, was, an Clar.

" 'tis* said, ca.st away at sea, ati he was going to the lt'78-

" isle of Wight. One Joh. Head wa.s bach, of arts

" of New inn in this university, an. 1628, but whe-

" ther he was father to our author R. Head, who is

" said to be of the same house, of which his father

" had been sometime a student, I know not : And

" one Rich. Heatl I find to be a divine, who pub-

" lished several sermons in 1647, and after, but of

" what university he was I cannot yet tell."

JOHN BISCOE son of Rob. Biscoe was bom at
Great WycomlK' commonly called High Wycombe
in Bucks, became a commoner of New inn in the
latter end of the year 1662, aged 16 years, took one
degree in arts, . left the univer-sity about two years
after, entred into the sacred function, and became a

Creacher at Abingdon in Berks. When the puritan
egan to be dominant, he put in for one, naving
always been precisely educated, closed with the
presbyterians in the tune of their rebellion and took
the covenant ; and being found very ready to carry
on and propagate the cau.se, he was made minister
of St. Tnomas's in Southwark, t(X)k the engagement,
was made an assistant to the commissioners of Sur-
rey for ejecting of such who were called scandalous,
ignorant and insufficient ministers and schoolmasters,
and about the same time had the charge of the
church of St. George in the said Ixirough confer'd
on him, as I have been informed by those that
knew the man ; where, or else at St. Thomas's,
continuing till after his majesty's restoration, was
ejected for nonconformity. He hath written and
published. .

The gloi'ious Mystery of God's Mercy : or, a
precious Cordial for fainting Souls, &c. Lond.
1647. oct. This is the effect of certain sermons.

Tlie grand Tryal of triie Conversion, or sancti-
fying Grace, appearing and acting first and chiefly
in the T/u>ughts ; wlierein is opened the Mystery of
Iniquity in Mans Thoughts, &c. Lond. 1655. oct.
[Bodl. 8vo. N. 97. Th.] This also, as it seems, is
the effect of certain sermons.

The Mystery of free Grace in the Gaipel, and

Mystery of the Go.mel in the Law Printed in

Oct. Whether he liatli any other things extant, I
cannot tell : Sure I am, that, after his ejection, he
removed to several places, and preached in conven-
ticles; and that in his last days removing to the
place of his nativity (High Wicombe) concluded his
last there, to the great lamentation of the brethren,
in sixteen hundred seventy and nine: whereu|X)n jg^g.
his Ixxly being conveyed to the church at that place,
was buried on the ninth day of June, the same year,
in the north isle joyning thereunto.

JEREMIAS WELLS a Londoner Iwrn, bred ^qq<^^

■• Will. Winstanley in his Lives of the most famous En-
glish Pods, &c. printed at Lond. IO87. ill oct. p. 210.

1199

ISfAYOW.

SMITH.

BOYI.E.

in Mercliant Taylors scliool, IxH-amo scholar of St.
John's coll. in 1665, junior collector of the university
when bach, of arts, and one of the first persons that
spoke in verse in the first Encwnia at the dedication
of Sheldon's theatre, an. 1669- Afterwards, being
master of arts and fellow of his house, he was made
lecturer of St. Michael's Conihill, and curat to Dr.
Edwai-d Layfield of iUlhallows liarkin, in London.
He hath written.

Poems upon several Occa.tions. Lond. 1667. oct.

Chtiraefer of a London Scrivener Printed

with the Poems. He was buried in the church of
Allhallows Barkin before-mention'd, the 24th of
iO;g. August, in sixteen hundred seventy and nine, having
l)efore taken to wife the daughter of Dr. Layfield
before-mention'd, widow of sir John Mennes, and
always accounted an ingenious man.

JOHN MAYOW, descended from a genteel
family of his name living at Bree in Cornwall, was
Ixim in the parish of St. Dunstan's in the West in
Fleet-.street London, admitted scholar of Wadham
coll. the 27th of September 1661 aged 16 years,
chose probationer-fellow of All-s. coll. soon after,
upon trie recommendations of Hen. Coventry esq;
one of the secretaries of state ; where, tho' he had a
legist's place and took the. degrees in the civil law,
yet he studied physic, and became noted for his
practice therein, especially in the summer-time, in
the city of Bath, but better known by these books,
which shew the pregnancy of his parts.

De Respiratione, Tractatus unus. \ Oxon. 1668.

De Ruchitide, Tract, itn. j 69. &c. oct.

Of both which tracts is a large accornt given in
the Philosophical Transactions, nu. 41. p. 833. An.
1668.

De Sale Nitro <S" Spiritu Nitro
acerbo.^

De Respiratione Fcetiis in Utero
Sf Ovo.

De Motu Musculari <§• spiritibits
aimnalihus.

Of these three last (which were printed again
with the two first) is a large account given in the
' Philosophicar Transact, nu. 105. p. 101. &c. And
all five were printed together at the Hague 1681.
oct." He pdd his last debt to nature in an apothe-
cary's house, bearing the sign of the Ancher in
Yorkstreet near Covcnt Garden, within the liberty
of Westminster (having been married a little before,
not altogether to his content) in the month of Sept.
1O70. '" sixteen hundred seventy and nine, and was buried
in the church of St. Paul in Covent Garden. One
Joh. Mayo was minister of Catistock in Dorsetshire,
and published certain sermons, in 1630 and after,

^ .[Sec this anioiadvertcd on by Dr. Tho. Guidott, in his
Discourse of liathe, lyond. 1676, page C]
. * [And again in Bxbliolh. Anal, per Le CIcrc ct Mangc-
tum, Guncv. l685.]

Ox. 1674. in
a large oct.
[Bodl. 8vo.
G. 30. Med.]

but of what university he was, I know not yet ; nor
where Jo. Maio was bred, who was author of tht
Pope's Parliament, wherein arc throuffhli/ deli-
vered, and hr'if^htU) blazed out, the paltry Trash
aiid Trumperies of him and his puling- Prelates, ^'f.
whercunto is annexed the Life of Pope Joan. Lond.
1591. qu.

JOHN SMITH the eldest son of a gentleman,
was bom in Bucks, admitted a commoner of Bra-
sen-n. coll. 7 Aug. 1647, aged 17 years, took the
degrees in arts, entred on the physic line, proceeded
in that faculty 1659, and at length became one of"
the coll. of physicians, and eminent for his practice
in London. He hath written and published, , '

The Portraict of old Jffe: Wherein is contained
a sacred Anatomy both of Soul and Body, and a
perfect Account of the Infirmities of Age incident
to them both : Being a Paraphrase upon the sir
Jbrmer Verses of the twelfth Cluipfer of Eccle-
siastes. Lond. 1666. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. Mar. 302.-]
&c. 'Tis a philosophical discourse, though upon a
sacred theme, and therein is to he met with an in-
genious observation concerning the antiquity of thp
doctrine of the blood's circulation.' See in the Phr-
losoph. Transactions, numb. 14. p. 254. Matth.
Poole in his .second vol. of Synopsis, makes an
honourable mention and use of it. This learned
doctor died in his house in the parish of St. Helen's
the great in London, in winter time, either in Octob.
or Nov. in sixteen hundred seventy and nine, and
was buried in the church there, in a vault near his
wife. One John Smith a physician published The
compleat Practice of Physic, wherein is described,
&c. Lond. 1656. in tw. but he is not the same, I
suppose, with the former : Quaere.

" ROGER BOYLE, second son of Richard
" Boyle the first earl of Cork in Ireland of his name,
" was born I think at Lismore in that kingdom, on
" the 25th of Apr. 1621, received some of his aca-
" demical education in Oxon, but more as I have
" heard in Trin. coll. near Dublin, was afterwards
" baron of Broghill, and when the rebellion broke
" out there, and Philip lord Wharton was there-
" upon appointed by the parliament, general of tlie
" fiirces to go from England to quell the rebels
" there, this lord Broghill was then (in Apr. 1642)
" constituted captain of the second trixjp of horse
" under him. Afterwards performing signal ser-
" vices, he grew higher in command, but when

' [r>i«oxoj«i« B«o-iXixi. King Solomon's Pourlrailure of old
Age, (Sfc. By John Smith M. D. E Colt. Med. Lond. Cand.
et E Cull. JEnea-nasensiin Oxon. quondam Com. London, for
S. Thompson, 1666, 8vo. In the pref. 10 the re.yler are these
words — • it is here clearly demonstrated, that Solomon per-
fectly knew, and, as plainly as hia fig.ur:itive method would
give leave, described the circular motion of the blood.' — Ami
in the book, p. 245, he proves the agreementof king Solomoa
and Dr. Harvey. ' Kennet.J

1201

BOYLE.

1202

'twas expocted tliat lie sliouki joyn with the royal
liarty oi Enj.?laiul, when tliey jovned witli the
rebels to i'lghl it^amtit tlie lorees raised by parlia-
ment, he altogether deiij-cd it, as having been
puritannically educated ; notwithstanding which,
if a certain nameless * author may h^ believed,
' he was not looked upon by those of the good old
cause, as a jierson fit to be trusted with the com-
mand of one town or castle in Ireland,'' &c. After
his great services done at the defeat of the royal
party at Kerry, an. 1650, and the realm of Ire-
land soon after quieted, he went into England in
1652, became greater tlian bel'ore, and more inti-
mate with Oliver Cromwell, was cho:^Mi knight
for the couiitv of Cork, an. 1654, to sit with other
parliament men of Ireland, among the English
Knights and burgesses at AVestminster, in a ])ar-
liament held that year ; was made president of
the protector's council in Scotland, worth to him
1474/. per an. and in 1650, he was not only
chosen parliament man for Edinburgh, but a
knight tor the county of Cork, to sit in another
parlianicnt met at ^Vcstminster the same year.
At which time, and a little before, he expressing
himself altogether for the government by a single
person, purposely to please Oliver, he was by him
made one ot his lords, or a member of the other
house, and continued in great favour with him till
his death. Afterwards he was much respected by
Richard the protector, who advised with him, as
he did with Nath. Eiennes, John Thurloe, sir
Charles Wolseley and Bulstrode Wliitlock, about
the contiiuiing him in the protectorship. After
his deposition Broghill retired into Ireland, as
having lx>fore bt^en made chief govcrnour of the
forces within the jirovince of Munster, and when
general Monk declared for, and stootl up for, the
restoration of the rump parliament, he and his
forces declared themselves to joyn with him in
Feb. 1659. After the restoration of king Charles
II. to which he jjretended to be a great helper,
he was not only made (or rather by him con-
firmed) lord president of Minister, but also created
earl of Orrery in the month of Septemb. (alxjut
St. Matthew's day) an. 1660, at which time sir
Charles Coot knight and baronet, and lord presi-
dent of Conaught was made earl of Mountrath.
In Nov. following, he the .said Orrery with the
said Mountrath, and sir Maurice Eustace lord
chanc. of Ireland, were constituted by his majesty
lords justices of that realm; in which office he
continuing till 16G2 ; at which time Ormond was
matle lord lieutenant, he retired into England,
and \'.rote and pul;lishod several books, the titles
of which follow, after the first that I am now about

to set down.

" Monarchy asserted to be the best, most antient,

" "The author of .4 Second Narrative of the late Parlia-
ment (jo called) &c. Primed in qu. l6a8. p. ?2. numb.

Vol.. III.

" and kffal Form nf Government, in a Conference
" had with Oliver iMrd Protector at Whitehall, in

" Apr. 1657 Eoiul. 1660 in o<;f. printe<i with

" other conferences and speeches to the .same pur-
" p>se, made by sir Cliarles Wol.sely, sir Rich.
" Onslow, Will. Eenthall, &c. a^ to cajole (Oliver,
" and to jK-rsuade him as 'twere to take the kingship
" on him.

" Poem on tlie Death of Mr. AbrcJiam CmoltiK rfWOI
"««. 1667. "^ ^ '^^

" History of Henry the Fifth. Lond. 1668,
« &c. fol. [1^69, Bod'l. AA. 52. Art. and again
" 1672.] acted several times in the duke of York's
" theatre.

" Troii^edy of Mtmtayha tlie Son of Solyman the

" Mnrrnf/icent- Lond. fol. 1668. &c. [1669,

" Bodl. AA. 52. Art. Printetl with the former.]

" Black Prince, Tragedy. Lond. [1669] 1672.
" fol.

" Trypluyn, a Tragedy. — This going about from
" hand to hand in MS. was at length printed at
"Lond. [1669'] 1672. qu.

" Mr. Aiitliony, a Comedy. I>ond. 16{)0. qu.

" Parthenissa, a Romance. This I have

" not yet seen.'

" The Art of H^ar— printed in fol. [Lond. 1677,
" Bodl. G. 1. 4. Art.] and commended by many
" expert captains for the l)est |)icce extant in En-
" glish : He hath other things that are j)ublish'd,
" which I have not yet seen ; as Letters, Declara-
" tio^is, &c. while he was in command in Ireland,
" and other things. So that what remains farther
" to be said of him, is only that he, who was es-
" teeni'd by many jx-rsons the credit of the Irish
" nobility for wit and ingenious parts, and for a
" smooth stile both in prose and verse, in which last
" he wrote several of his dramatic histories before-
" mention'd, with good success and applause, died
" in Octob. in sixteen hundred seventy and nine, \6lQ.

" and was buried John Dryden

" the most eminent dramatist of his time, hath de-
" dicated a trag. com. to him entit. The Rival
" Ladies, 1675, wherein is a great encomium of him
" and his works ; as also of Edm. Waller, and sir
" Job. Denham. Sir Will. D'aveiiant also, in his
" poems, is large in his commendation ; and one
" who was no friend to the church of England tells
" you, that ' he was a great poet, statesman, soldier,
" and great every thing which merits the name of
" great and good,' &c. See in Easti 1665. Be-
" sides this Roger Boyle earl of Orrerey, was an-
" other Roger Boyle of the same family, who was
" bishop of Clogher in Ireland, and author of
" Siimmu T/ieolofficc Christiamv, printed 1687.-
" 88. in qu. and of otlier things.'"

9 [Two new Truf^edirs : The Black Prince and Tryphon ;
— London lOO'g, folio. Bodl. AA. 3?. Art.]

' [It was printed Lond. 1655, 4to. and 16/7, folio.]

' [Dublinii |68I. Rawlinson.]

' [^Inquisitinin Fidem Christianorum hnjusStfculi, Dublin,
l665, Bodl. 8vo. B. 300. Line]
4,H

IW$

BOYLE.

BIRKENHEAD.

[Lord Orrery is s'' to be tlie author of Animad-
ver.sions upon a Letter and Paper, fimt sent to Ms
Highness COl. Ooui J by certain Gentlemen nnd
otlurs in Wales: and since printed and published
to the World bi) some of the Siibseribers. By
one uhose Desire and Endeavmir is to preserve
Peace aiul Safety by removing Offence and En-
mity. Priiitetl in tlie yeiir 165G, in 4to. 14 slietts.
AVanlky.

To this may be addetl,

1. Tlie Irish Colours di,iplayed ; in a Reply of
an English Protestant to a IMter of an Irish
Herman Catholic. London, 1622, 4to.

2. An An.ncrr to a scandalous Letter lately
printed, and subscribed by Peter Walsh, &c. Y)uh-
lin 1662, 4to.

3. A Poem of his Majesties Happy Restoration,
in MS.

4. Staie Letters. Lond. 1742, fol.

5. Poems, Lond. 1717, 8vo.
And these dramatic pieces,

1. Guzman, a Com. Pr. Lond. 1G93, fol.

2. Herod, Trag. Lond. 1694, fol.

3. Altemira, Trag. Lond. 1702, fol.

These, with his lordship\s other trag. and com.
/except Mr. Anthony) were collected and published
in 1739, 2 vol. 8vo. witli a portrait of the author.]

, JOHN BIRKENHEAD son of Randall Birk-
enhead of Northwyeh in t'hesiiire sadler, was born
there, became a servitor of Oriel coll. luidcr the
tuition of Humphrey Lloyd (afterwards bish. of
Bangor) in the beginning of the year 1632, aged 17
years ; where continuing till he was bachelor of arts,
became amanuensis to Dr. Laud archbishop of Cant.
who taking a liking to him for his ingenuity, did by
his diploma make him master of arts, an. 16.39- and
by his letters c-onunendatory thcreuixm, lie was
elected probationer-fellow of All-s. coll. in the year
following. After the rebellion broke out, and the
king and his court had setled then)selves in Oxford,
this our author Mr. Birkenhead was appointed to
write the Mercurii Aulici ; whicli being very pleas-
ing to the loyal party, his maje.=ty recommended
him to the electors, that they would chuse him
moral philosophy reader : which being accordingly
done, he contmued in that office, with little proht
fcom it, till 1648,^ at which time he was not only
tumM out thence, but from his fellowship " by the
presbyterian ^•isitors." Afterwards he retired to
London, suffered several imprisonments for his ma-
jesty's cause, lived by his wits in helping young
gentlemen out at dead lifts in making poems, songs,
and epistles, on, and to, their respective mistresses,
as also in translating and writing several little tilings,
and other petite employments. After liis majesty's
restoration he was, by virtue of his letters sent to

■* [There is a letter of Birkenhead's prefixed to Rayn)ond's
Itinerary, bearing date at Amiens in July l648. Loveday.]

the university, actually created doctor of the civil
law, and in 1661 lie was elected a burgess for Wil-
ton to serve in that parliament whidi began at
^Vestminstcr on the 8th of May the .same year. In
1662, Nov. 14, he receivtxl the honour of knight-
hmxl from his majesty,* and in
Jan. 1663 he was ^nstitutetl * Kwg aarle^iht
one or the masters oi requests
{in the place of sir Richard Fanshaw when he went
aniba,ssador into Spain) he l)eing tlien also master
of the faculties,* and a nienilx;r of the royal society.
A certain " anonymus tells us that this sir Jon.
Birkenhead was a p(M)r alehou.se-kceper's son, and rrmi
that he got by lying (or buft<x)ning) at court, to Ix; ■- ■'
one of the masters of re<iuests and i'aculty oHice, and
in Ikkws at court 3000/. The truth is, liad he not
l)een given too mucli to bantering, which is now
taken up by vain and idle people, he might have
passed ior a good wit. Anil liad he also expressed
nim.self grateful and rcsjx'ctful to those that had
been liis benefactors in the time of his necessity,
which he did not, but rather slighted them, (.shewing
thereby the baseness of his spirit) he might have

f)assed for a friend and a lovmg companion. He
lath \vritten,

Mercnrius Aulicus: communicating the Intelli-
gence and Affairs of the Court (at Oa-on) to the

re.-it of the Kingdom The first of these was puly-

lished on the first of Jan. 1642, and were carried on
till about the end of 1645; after which time they
were publislied but now and then.' They werfe
printed weekly in one sheet, and sometimes in more,
m quarto, and contain a great deal of wit and buf-
fbonry. Mercnrius Britanniens pen'd by foul-
mouth'd Nedham, no more his efjual than a dwarf
to a gyant, or the goodness of his cause to that of
the kmg's, tells us that " the penning of these Mer-
curii Aulici was the act of many, viz. Birkenhead
the sc-ribe, secretary Nicholas tlie informer, and
George Digby the contriver. Also tliat an assess-
ment of wits was laid upon every coll. and ]iaid
weekly for the comnmnion of this thing called Mer-
cnrius Aulicus. But let this Iyer say what he wilJ,
all that were then in Oxford knew well enough that
John Birkenhead began, and carried them on, and
in his absence P. Hcylyn suj)plied his place and
wrote many of them.

Ne-iCsfrcrm Pcmbrol'e and Montgomery, Or Ox-
ford Manchester d, &c. Printed in 1648. in onfe

sh. in qu. 'Tis a feigned speech, as spoken by
Philip earl of Pembroke in the convocation-house at
Oxon. 12 Apr. 1648, when he came to visit and

* [Literae patentes pro oificia commissarii ad facullales
conce-^sep'.VVni. arrhic'puni Cant. Joli'i Bcrkenhead L.L.D.
dat. S"'". Novembris, an. l()(;0. Baker.]

c The author of .(J seasonable Argument lo persuade all the
grand Juries lo petition for a neiv Parliament, &c. Printed
1677. qu. |). 19.

7 [See several numbers Bodl. 4to. M. 63. Art. and 4lo. M.
12. Art. BS.]

>* In Merc. Britan. nu. 16.

1^5

BIRKENHEAD.

HOHKES.

1^2(>(J

[641]

1679.

undi) the university, as Edward earl of Manchester
had done tliat of Cambridge, while he was chancellor
thereof'. "JL'is exceeding waggish, and much imi-
tating the way of speaking of Pembroke.

Faitrs Churchyurd. Librl T/ieoloffici, Politiri,
Historlci, Mundinis Paulhii.i (una ciivi Temp/o)
prostnnt venalcs, &c. Printeil in tliree several sheets
in qu. an. 16-i9. These |)amj)hlets conttiin feigned
titles of Ixjoks and acts of parliaments, and several
questions ; all reflecting on the reformers and men
of those times.

The foitr-kgg'd Quaker. A Ballad to the Tune
of the 'jJoff and FAdcrs Maid. I>ond. 16.59. in 3
columes on one side of a sli. of paper. Such another
almost you niav see in Sir John Denhavis Poems
mid Trauslation.s.

'■'■A new Ballad of a Jummis German Prince:
" without date."

The A.i.u'mbly-man. (or the Character of an As-
sembly-man) written 1647. Lend. 166} in three
sheets in qu.' The copy of it was taken from the
author by those who said they could not rob, because
pll was theirs : .so excizM what they liked not, and
60 mangled and reformed it that 'twas no character
of an assembler, but of themselves. At length after
it had slept several years, the autljor published it to
avoid false copies.' It is also reprinted in a Ixwk
entit. Wit and Loyalty revived in a Collection of
some smart Satyrs in Verse and Pro.w on the late
Tivies. Lond. 1682. qu. said to be written by Abr.
Cowley, sir Joh. Hirkenhead and Hudibras alias
Sam. Butler." He hath also several scattered 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 Anniver-
sary on the Niiptiah of John Earl of Bridfficater,
22 Jul. 1652. He hatli also extant A Poem on ?iis
staying- in London after the Act of Banishment for
Cavaliers, and another called The Jolt, made ujxjn
the protector's (Cromwell) being thrown out of the
coach-seat or box of his own coach, at what time for
recreation sake, he would needs, forsooth, drive the
coach himself in Hyde park, drawn by six German
horses, sent him, as a present, l)y the count of Ol-
denburgh, while his secretary John Thurloe sate in
the coach, in July 1654. He the said sir Jo. Birk-
enhead died within the precincts of Whitehall, on
the 4th 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 d<x)r in the
church-yard of St. Martin in the fields within the
city of Westminster, leaving then behind liim a
choice collection of pamphlets, which came into the
hands of his executors sir Rich. Mason and sir Mud-

^ [Pr. ;il8oin 1704.]
' [1.1 1663, Bodl. C. 13.
410. T. 20. Jur.]

« re ■D...l_3. rf-* ;

9. Line, and again 1*04, Bodl.

' [See Buders Genuine Remains, by Thyer, vol. i. p.

diford Bramston. See more of him in Rob. Waring
among these writers, An. 1658. col. 453. Besides
this Joh. liirkenliead, was another of Ixrth his
names, a divine, who pid)lished a sermon in 1644:
on Rom. 13. 5. in qu.'

THOMAS HOMBES* son of Tho. HoblR-s
vicar of AVestpirt within the liljerty of Malmsbury
and of Charlton in Wilts, was lx)rn at Westport on
the 5th of Apr. l.'J88, which day was then Good-
friday, 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 edu-
catetl in granmiar learning at Malmsbury under one
Rob. Latymer, he was sent to Magd. hall in 1603,
where being puritannically educated, took the degree
of bach, of arts, an. 1607.' which being compleated
by determination, was, ujxm the recommendations
of the then principal, taken into the service of Will.
Cavendish baron of Hardwick (afterwards earl of
Devonshire) with whom Vicing in great estimation
for his sedulity, temperate and jocund humour, was
by him apjwinted to wait on his eldest son the lord
Will. Cavendish, several years younger than Hobbes.
Soon after he travelled with nim 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 imiversity to decay, and in some
manner to be forgotten, made use of all the spare
hours that he could obtain, to retrieve it first, and
then to build ujx>n it afterwards, minding more the
Gr. and Lat. tongue, than li)gic and philosophy,
because these two last seemed to l)e 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 sometimes to
the commentaries of the most eminent grammarians,
not that he might write floridly, but in a good
Latin stile, and with more consideration find out
the congruity of words, and s<i to dispose of them
that his reading might be perspicuous and easy.
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 |x>rsons, published about
the year 1628, to the end that the tollies of the de-
mocratic Athenians might be laid open to the men
of our country. The same year William earl of

' [He w.ns fellow of All-souls coll. The sermon was
preached .^l Chr. Ch. Oxoii. 3 Nov. 1C4+ before his majestic
after his return from Cornwall. Mora NT.]

* [This account was sent to A. W. by John Airorcy esq
to whom Wiltshire is indebted. Loveuay.]

^ [Tho. Hobbs A. B. Oxon. iocorpor. Cantabr. 1CO8
Rear. Acad. Baker.]

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Devonsliire Ixjf ore-men tion'd dying, after tliis our
author had sened him 20 years, partly in tlie office
of secretary, he travelled the next into France with
the son of sir Gervas Clifton : In wliich jx-regrination
he hcgan to make an inspection into the elements of
Euclid, and to be delighted in his method, not only
for the theorems therein, but ibr the art of reason-
ing. In 1631 he was recalled home by the carl 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 sei-ved in that
office three years, he travelled with him, as his go-
vernour, into France and Italy. While he remained
at Paris, he Iwgan 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 lie 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 re-
turned into England with his pupil (.since his bene-
volent patron) and remained with him in great
[642] respect in his family ; from whence he continued
commerce by letters concerning natural knowledge
with Marsennus. In the mean time the Scots, after
they had ejected their bishops, took up ai-ms against
thcu" king, being encouraged thereunto, and fa-
voured, by the pre.sbyterian ministers and others of
the lay-party of England. To stop their career, a
parliament was called in England, began at AVestm.
3 Nov. 1610 ; from the proceedings of which con-
vention, our author Hobbes perceiving in the be-
ginning, 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, Gas.sendus, and other eminent
persons for learning and reasoning. AVhile he re-
mained at Paris, he wrote his book De Civc,^ which
afterwards he reviewed, and addetl many things
thereunto. Soon after the jjarliamenteers prevailing,
many royalists of great note, particularly the prince
of Wales, retired to Paris: About which tune a
nobleman of the province of Languedoc invited our
author to go with him there, to live, and to be main-
tained with necessiiries by him ; but being com-

' [Dr. Scarborough lefi Oxford in ]646, and bcjaii to
practise in London. Amongst those who frequcnied his
nonse wa-. Mr. Hobbej then nc-vvly arrived from France,
where he hail obtained a great reputation for his book De
Cive, which is a good book, in ilie main, and much belter
than his Leviathan; for it! the first tlicrc is i'frt«»i sapienii,
enough said to let the intcliigeni reader know what he would
be at i but in his Leviallian he spre ids tiis liutter so thin, thai
the ciiiirsncss of his bread is plainly perceived under it. This
Mr. Hobs, I say, was just come from Paris to print his Le-
viathan at London, to curry favour with the government, &c.
Dr. Po|)e, Life qf Bishop Ward, 8vo. Itig?, p. 118. Ken-
WET.]

mended to the prince, that he might teach him the
elements of mathematics, he continued at Paris, fol-
lowed that employment very diligently, and all the
spare time that he could of)tain he sjient in writing
a Iwok entit. LeviatJian, not only most known in
England, but also in the neighlwuring nations,
which he procured to be printed at London, while
he remained at Paris in the 63d year of his age.
Soon after, being recalled home to the house of his
patron the earl of Devon, he published two books,
one Dc Corpora, and another De Hom'uw. The
first was oppugned by two theologists, who were af-
terwards ashamed (as 'tis said) of what they had
done ; the otlicr rested untoucli'd. Sixtn after he
published others, the titles of which I shall give you
anon, and only now say, that tho' he hath an ill
name from some, and good from otiiers, yet he was a
person endowed with an excellent philosophical soul,
was a contemner of riches, money, envy, the world,
&c. He was charitable and beneficial to his re-
lations and others. He was a severe lover of justice,
and endowed with great morals. Among tliose that
he lived with and was conver.sant, he was cheerful,
open, and free of his discourse, yet without offence
to any, which he endeavoured always to avoid.
Many wTiters do speak honourably of him in their
respective works, and Dr. Sam. Sorbicre his great
acquaintance doth mention him with venerable re^
spect in the Relation ' of his Voyage into Englandj
and tells us also that his picture (which was drawn
by the hand of Sam. Cooper the prince of limners
of the age he lived in) hangs in his majesty's closet
at Whitehall." His picture also hath been in great
esteem in France, insomuch that the virtuosi thereof
have come as 'twere in pilgrimage to the house of
Sorbiere to see it. Outlantlisli gentlemen also, when
they came to London, during the life-time of the
author, did make it one of their employs to visit
him, and Cosmo prince (since the great duke) of
Tuscany, went to him more than once, in the month
of May 1669, and discoiu-sed and was pleasant with
him. He also expressed so great veneration for
him, that he and some of his gentlemen carried with
them all his published works. His majesty also
king Charles II. delighted in his company w hen he
learned mathematics of him, and exjjress'd his esteem
so much of him after his restoration, that he allowed
him a pension of 100/. per an. out of his exchequer.
He was most excellently well skilPd in the Lat. and
Greek tongues, was a great critic and poet, and
alK)ve all a philos()))Iier and mathematician ; yet in
his last days, after lie had been exasjjeratcd by cer-
tain acadcmians, especially of Oxon, he express'd
himself in his writings an enemy to the imiversities,
scholastical divinity, metajdiysics, Aristotle, Dims
Scottis, &c. To conclude : ' A man he was of ex-

' Printed at P.iris in French, lC64. p. 6,7. &c.
* [A |X>rtrail of him at Cliatsworth with a glasa in hi*
hand.]

HOBBES.

PilO

cellent jwrts'' (as a noted ° autlior tells us) ' of great
wit, same reatliii";, and somewliat more thinking. —
[6431 ^"*-' ^''" '^**' spent many years in foreign })arts and
observation, understood tiie learned, as well as the
modern, languages, had long the reputation of a

freat philosopher and mathematician, antl in his age
a<l conversation with very many worthy and ex-
traordinary men ; to which, it may be, if he had
been more indulgent in the more vigorous part of
his life, it might have hail an influence upon the
temper of his mind, whereas age seldom submits to
those questions, enquiries and contradictions, which
the laws and liberties of conversation require : Antl
it hath iK-en always a lamentation amongst Mr.
Hobbes his friends, that he s|)ent too uuich time in
thinking, and too little in exercising those thoughts,
in the company of other men of the same, or of as
good, faculties ; for want whereof his natural consti-
tution, with age, contracted such a niorosity, that
doubting and contradicting men were never grateful
to him. — In a word, besides his eminent parts of
learning and knowledge, he was always looked upon
as a man of jirobity and a life free from scandal,' &c.
The books and other things that he hath written are
these.

De Mirabilibus Pecci. This is a Lat. poem, and
was printed at Lond. about 1636, 1'Bodl. 4to. D. 33.
Art.] and the second time there in 1666 in qu.
translated into English by a person of quality, and
printed with the Latin at Lond. 1678. oct. [Bodl.
8vo. II. 66. Art.] It treats of the wonders of the
Devil's Arse in Peak, near Chatsworth in Derby-
shire. Such a book also entit. The Wanders of the

Peak, was written by Charles Cotton, esq; Lond.

1681. qu. a poem.

Elementa Philosophica ile Cwe. Par. 1642,
[Bodl. 4to. H. 14. Art. Seld. Amst. 1647, Bodl. 8vo.
C. 9. Art. and 1657.] &.c.

Answer to Sir Will. Uavenanf-s Epist. or Pref.
to Gondibcrt. Par. 1650. in tw. afterwards printed
with GoiuUbert in qu.

Humane Nature: or the fundamental Elements
of Policy ; being a Discovery of the Facilities, Acts
and Passimis of the Soul of Man. Lond. 1650. in
tw. [Bodl. 8vo. P. 174. Art.] &c. " Seth Ward
" writ the epistle to the reader in the name of
" Franc. Bowman bookseller, before this book,
" after which follows an excellent Latin copy of
" verses, written by Ralph Bathurst A. M. col.
« Trin. Oxon."

De Corpore Politico : or of the Elements of the
Law. Lond. 1650. in tw. [IBodl. 8vo. H. 23. Art.
Seld.] Sec.

Leviatlian : ' or tJie Matter, Form and Power of

5 Edw. Hyde eurl of Clarendon in his Brief View and
Sitrveu of Mr. Hobbes's Leviathan, p. 2, 3.

' [bee an account of a fine MS. oi' the Lffia/AaK, supposed
to be thai pre'.eiiied by the author lo kingCharles the second,
in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1813, vol. Ixxxiii, p. 30. The
MS. was at that time in the library of Mrs. Hume the niece
aotl represcnlalivc of ll>c late carl Macartney.]

a Commotiwealth. l^ond. 1651. fol. [Bmll. A. 1. 17.
Art. Seld.] reprinted there again witli its old date,
an. 1680. fol. turned into Lat. by another hand, and
printetl at Amsterd. 1668. qu. [1670, Bodl. 4to. N.
26. Jur.] &c.

Review of the Leviathan Printed only with

the Englisli editions ; and in the place of that, in
those of the I^at. is an apnendix consisting barely of
three chapters. As for the Review and the writing
thereof, an eminent ' author will give you a belter
account than I can : therefore I pray go to hiin. It
is said by one ' who was no friend to king Charles
II. or monarchy, that the author Mr. IIol)i)es being
at Paris when his book was publishe<l, ' he sent one
of them as a present to the king of Scots, which he
accepted in regard he ha<l lx)en his tutor in the ma-
thematics, but being afterwards informed by gome
of his priests, that that book did not only contain
many principles of atheism and gross impiety (for
so they call every thing that squares not with the
clergy interest) but also such that were prejudicial
to the church, and reflected dangerously upon the
majesty of sovereign princes; therefore when Mr,
Hobbes came to make a tender ol' his service to him
in person, he was rejected, and wortl brotight him
by the marquess of Ormond, that the king would
not iulmit him, and withal told him the rca.son : By
which means Mr. Hobbes declines in credit with his
friends there of the royal stamp,' Sec. Manv have
been the authors that have written against this Le-
viathan, as may be seen in Auctariuvi Vita: Hob-
biun(F, and partly in the body of this work : But
more by far have been the censures of it, and those
severe too, as having no true divinity, or true philtv
sophy, or true jiolicy in it. The author several
times saith, that the law of nature is the law of Goti,
and yet all wickedness is lawful by the law of nature.
— That no homicide, or selfcide, or fratricide, or
patricide is against the law of nature. If so, 'tis a
wise law that forbids nothing. Also that there must
be a law of God winking at most unnatiu-al im-
pieties : Tltat which forl)ids nothing is no law. As
for policy, he lays the foundation of the go\ ernmcnt
in the populace, which overthrows all government,
and that might is right : But if he had consultecl
the scripture, the wortl of God would have shewed
that the foinidation of government was not laid in
the people. Read the Assyrian monarchy and the
rest, and you'll find that the beginning of goveni-
nieiit was not in the peojjle. See the story of Ro-
nuiliis, and there is the contrary. 'Tis true, people
are causa sine qtia non, but no finite. The jwwer
of the key, is not given by God out of the commune
of the j)cople, nor the power of the sword. As for
philosopliy, 'tis enough that he kicks off' Aristotle,
a man admiretl by all ages and all persons, iis a wise

5 The said l£dw. earl of Clar. in the same Brie/ Hew, &c.
p. 317.

' Match. Ne;lham in Merc. Pot. nu. 84. from Jan. 8. to
Jan, 15. an. iOSl. 2.

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secretary of nature. There are some tilings or
scales ot the Z^iw/Zm/i-whicli the reader cannot con-
ceive to be impregnable as yet, till he see farther and
plainer proofs ot them, ns (1) That the sovereign
hath no |)ower but from the t)eople, and that it is
only the mutual consent of the major part, trans-
ferring their natural right upon him that makes it
so. c!«p. 18. (2) That the parent hath no right or
power of dominion over the cliild by generation, as
his parent, or because he begat him, but only by the
cliild's consent, either express, or by other suf-
ficient arguments declared, cap. 20. (3) That the
victor can have no right or dominion over the van-
quislied, but only by the vanquished's consent, &c.
ibid. And as for tho.se matters which are looked
ujx)n as blasphemous by some scholars, and others,
I shall refer the reader to a little jiamphlct entit. A
Beacon set on Fire, &c. Lond. 1652. qu. p. 14, 15.
This book of the Leviathan, which hatli a great
name among, and is much celebrated by, many, con-
tains in it (notwithstanding some very odd prin-
ciples) good learning of all knids, pohtely * extracted
and very wittingly and cunningly dis^ested, in a
very commendable method and in a vigorous and
pleasant stile : wliich hath prevailed over too many,
to swallow many new tenets as maxims, without
chewing ; which manner of diet, for the indisgestion,
Mr. Hobbes himself did much dislike, &c. At
length after the parliament had censur'd it (as also
the book ()f Purgatory written by Tho. de Albiis)
in the month of Oct. 1666, (in which month a bill
was brought into the house against atheism and
profaneness ■) and some of the principal heads of this
university hat! found therein, as in that De Give,
several positions destructive to the sacred persons of

* Edw. carl of Clar. in his Survey of ihe Leviathan, p. 2.
See more in p. 5. C. 8. 306. 31 g. See also in the epistle ded.
to the king.

s [When complaint in parliament was made against him,
and some proceedings were depending, he was then at Chats-
worth, and extremely disiurb'd at the news of it, fearing that
messengers would come for him, and thai the earl would de-
liver him up, and the parliament commit him to the bishops,
and they decree him a herelick, and return him to the civil
magistrnie for a writ de haeretico comburendo . This terrour
upon his spirits made him often confess, that he had meant
no harm, and was no obstinate man, and would subscribe
any recantation that was offered to him ; for his prevailing
principle was, to suffer for no cause whatever. Under these
apprehensions of danger he wrote his Historical Narration of
Ucresie and the Puniihment thereof, labouring to prove, that
there was no authority to determine heresy or to punish it,
when he wrote the Leviathan, fie. And in the same fright,
he drew up an Apology for Himself and his Writings, setting
forth that the exceptionable things in hh Leviathan were not
his own, but submitted to the judgment of ccclesiast. autho-
rity, 8cc. And it is much to be doubted, that upon this oc-
cation he began to make the first shew of religion and com-
munion. He now frequented the chapel, and was conslaiil
to the sacraments, and when any strangers, in conversation
with him, scem'd to question bis belief, he would allways
appeal to his conformity in prayers and sacraments, and
rofcrt'd them to the chaplain for their farther satisfaction.
Kennet. Sec on to col. 1314, 1315.]

princes, their state and government, and of all

human society, the venerable convocation did, by

their judgment and decree past among them tm the ^_

21st of July 1683, condemn them as pernicious and -'^

damnable, and thereupon caused the said two book*

to be publicly burnt (with others of the like nature)

in their schot)l-court or quadrangle, just after the

dissolution of that convocation. Our author Hobbes

also hath written,

Compendium of Aristotle'' s RJietoric, and Ramus
his Logic.

Letter about lAberty and Necessity. Lond. 1664.
in tw. There again 1684. oct. the 3d. cdit.^ On
this letter were observations made and written by
Dr. Ben. Lanev, as I have told you in the Fasti,
an. 1617. " This letter is also answered by Dr.
" John Bramhall in his Dejence of true Libertu
"Jrom antecedent and ititrinsecal Necessity. Lona.<
" 1655. oct."

Elenientorum Philosophice Sectio prima de Cor-
pore; Part. 4. Lond. 1655. oct. [Botll. 8vo. H. 2.
Art. BS.] There again in Enghsh, 1(556. qu. [Bodl.
4to.N. 21.Art.] &c.

Six Lessons to the Professors of Mathematics of
ihe In.stitutio)t of Sir Hen. Savile (viz. Ward and
Wallis) Lond. 1656. qu. [Bodl. 4to. N. 21. Art,]
. The Marks of the absurd Geometry, rural Lan-
guage, Sj-c. of Dr. Wallis. Lond. 1657. oct. [Bodl^
4to. N. 21. Art-l

De Hominc Sect. 2. Lond. 1657. qu. [Bodl. 4to.
N. 21. Art] Amstel. 1668.

The Questions concerning Liberty and Necessity, [645]
and Chance, stated and debated betzecen him and
Dr. Bramhall Bishop of London-Derry. Lond.
1656. qu. [Bodl. 4to. B. 1. Art. BS.]

Examinatio ^ Emenilatio Mathematicm hodiemcc
Ssc. in sex Dialogis. Lond. 16(50. [Bodl. 4to. H. 3.
Art. BS.] Amstel. 1668, qu.

Dialogus Physicu.^, seu de Natura ^Eris, Lond,
1661. oct. [Botll. 4to. H. 3. Art. BS.] AmsteL
1668. qu.

Considertitimis npon the Reputation, Loyalty,
Manners and Religion of Tho. Hobbes, by Way of
Letter to a learned Person. Lond. 1662, and 1680,
oct.

De Dtiplicntione Cubi. Lond. 1661. [Bodl. 4to.
H. 3. Art. BS.] Amst. 1668. qu.

Problemata phy.sica, una cum Magnitudine Cir-
cuit. Lond. 1662. Amst. 1668. qu.

De Principiis <Sf Ratiocinatione Geometrarumf
contra Fa,stuosum Prqfessorem Geom^trice. Amst.
1668. qu.

Quadratura Circuli, Cubatio Sphcera; Duplicatio
Cubi ; una cum Responsione ad Objectiones Geome-
triiv Profhsoris Saviliani Oxonice editas. An. 1669.
liOnd. 1669. qu.

Resjmnsio ad Objectiones Wallisii Oxonice editas.
An. 1669. ad Quadraturam Circuli, &c. Lend.
1671.

0 [Edit. 1C76. Bodl. 8vo. S. 10. Art.]

HOBBES.

m4,

Rosetum Gemndricum, sive P roposUiotie.i aliquot

Jrustra anleUac tentdUr, cum Cen.iura brevi JJoc-

tr'mw Wallmana- deMolii. Lond. 1G71. qu. There

is some account given of" tliis biK)k in the Phitoso-

phical Transactions, nu. 72. an. 1671.

Three Papers presented to the Royal Society
against Dr. Wallis, with Considerations on Dr.
Wallis his Anjiwer to them. Lond. 1G71. qu.

Lu.v Miithematica, &c. 1 I-ond.

Censura doctrinw Wallisiana de Libra. V 16752.

Rosetuni Hobbesii. ) qu.

Princ'/pia (Jj- Problematu aliquot Gcometrica ante
desperata, nunc breviter earplicata c^ dcmoustrata.
Lond. 1674. qu.

Epistola ad Dom. Ant. a Wood Authorem His-
toriw t^ Antiq. Univ. Oxen. Dated 20 Apr. 1674,
printetl in half a sheet on (me side. It was written
to the said Mr. Wcxxi upon his complaint made to
Mr. Hobljes of several deletions and additions made
in, and to, his life and character (which he had
written of him in tliat book) by the publisher (Dr.
Jo. Fell) of the said Hist. 4" ylntiq. to the great
dishonor and disparagement of the said Mr. Hobbos.
Whereuptm, when that history was finished, came
out a scurrilous answer to the said epistle, written
by Dr. Fell, which is at the end of that history.

Letter to William Duke of Naecastle concerning
the Controversy had with Dr. Laney Bisltop of
Ely about Liberty and Necessity. Lond. 1676.
in tw.

Decameron Physiologicum : or ten Dialogues of
natural Philosophy, &e. Lond. 1678. oct. To
which is added the Proportion of a straiglit Line to
hold the Arch of a Quadrant. An account of this
book is in the Philos. Transact, nu. 138. p. 965.

His la.<it Words and dying Legacy Printed on

one side of a sheet of pa])er in Dec. 1679, published
by Charles Blount (son of sir Hen. Blount) from
the Leviathan, purposely to weaken and expose
Hobl)es's doctrine. Much about the same time was
published,

His memorable Sayings in his Books, and at the

Table Printed on one side of a broad sheet of

paper, with his picture lx;fore them.

Behemoth. The History of the Civil Wars of
England from 1640, to 1660. Lond. 1679, [Bmll.
8vo. B. 162. Line] 80, 82. oct. In which lKK)k
(containing many faults) are several things against
religion, ancient learning, universities, &c.

Vita Tliomw Hobbes : ' Written by himself in a
Lat. Poem. It was j)rinted at Lond. in qu. about
3 weeks after the author's death, viz. in tiie latter
end of Dec. 1679, and a fortnight after that, about
the 10th of Jan. it was published in English verse,
by another hand. Lond. 1680. in 5 sh. in fol.

7 [Cnii^ideralinns upon the Reputulinn, Loi/iUlii, Manners
andJteliaion itJTho. Hoiles nf Mnlmshnrij ; urillen iy hint-
ftlf, by fVay of a Leller to a learned Person. Lond. 1()80.
8vo. printed for William Crooke. Bak.er.]

The said Lat. copy was reprinted, and put at the
end of Vitw Hobbiana- Auctarium.

Hntorical Narration of Heresy and the Punish-
ment thereof Lond. 1680. in 4 sh. and an liuif in
fol. [Bodl. G. 1. 15. Art.] There again in lfj82.
oct. It is mostly taken out of the second chapter
De Harcsi of his Ai)|x>ndix to the Lciwtluin in
Latin, and seems to nave l)een wrote j)ur))oseIv to
vindicate its author from all default in the pul)lica>.
tion of the Leviathan. For after he hath deduced
from our Saviour's time the different punishments
(by way of history) by laws enacted and inflicted on [646]
those who were declared heretics throughout the
several ages of the church (having told what was
done in other parts of the world relating to this
p)int) he pr(x;eeds to reckon up the many laws here
m force against heretics, from the first profi-ssion of
Christianity, down to the late civil wars, and saith
that the court of high commission had the sf)le jxiwer
of declaring what was heresy, according to the mind
of the first four general councils (that is according
to the faith declared in the Nicene creed, as is mani-
fest from the councils themselves) invested in them,
in all queen Elizabeth's reign, that after this court
was taken away at the beginning of the late troubles,
thereby to satisfy the restless clamours of the pres-
byterian j)arty against it, no Ixxly sttxKl then em-
powered by lawful authority either to declare what
was heresy, or to punish any one proved to be this
way obnoxious. At this time he saith his Leviatlian
came forth ; for the writing of which, he could not
be deemed heretical : And the reasons which moved
him to compose and publish that Inwk (so much
justly excepted against) he there gives, and then
concludes. St) that 'tis manifest he aims and levels
at this as his end in this narration, viz. to vindicate
himself from the imputation of disturbing the peace
contrary to the known laws of the realm, bv his set-
ting forth such monsti-ous and dangerous tenets and
priiici))les in his Leviathan. He addeth also that at
the first parliament, after the king's restoration, the
episcoparians and piesbvterians accused it of heresy,
and yet there was no law then which declared what
it was. The falsity of the said Historical NarrfU
tion ofHere.ty, is shewn in a small treatise entit.
The Leviathan heretical: or the Charge E.rhibited
in Parliament against Mr. Hobbes justified, &c.
written by John Dowell vicar of Meltim-Mowbray

in Leicestershire ()xon. 1683. in tw. In which

book p. 137. the author saith that Oliver gaining
the protectorship, was so pleased with many of his
principles laid down in the Leviathan, which tended
to justify and supjwrthis usurpation, that the great
place of being secretary was profer'd to him.

Vita Thoma; Hobbes. Written !)y himself in prose,
and ])rinted at Caropolis alias London beti>iv Vita
Hobbiana' Auctarium, An. 1681, oct. There again
1682. qu.

A Brief of the Art of RJietoric, containing in
substatue all that Aristotle hath Kriiten in his three

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[6471

Books of tJuit Subject Printed in tw. but not

said when. Afterwards it was published in two

books I.ond. 1G81. oct. The first lK>arin^ the

Utle of T/ic Art of Wietoric, and the other ot TJie
Art of Wutoric plainly set forth; with pertinent
Exam plea for tfie more emu Understandinff and
Practice of the same. To wliich is added,

A Dialogue hetteeen a Philosopher and a Student
of the Common Lazes of England. — He hath also
written,

An A?isreer to Arclib. BravihalVs Bool; called
Tfie Catching of the Leviathan. Lond. 1682. oc-t.

Seven philosophical Problems, and ttco Propmi-
Uons of Geometry. Lond. 1682. oct. Dedicated to
the king in the year 1662.

An Apology Jbr Himself, and his Writings

In which he sets forth that those things he delivered
in the Leviathan, were not his own opinions, hut
submitted to the judgment of the ecclesiastical
power, and that he never maintained any of them af-
terwards, 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 concin-
nata. Aug. Trinob. i. e. Lond. 1688. oct. Besides
all these, he hath other things in MS. not yet
printed, among which is his Dejfence in the Matter
relating to Dan. ScargilBach. ofArtsofC. 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 Vitce Hobbiana; Auctarium, p.
108,109.

Mr. Hobbes hath also translated into English (1)
The History of the Grecian War, in eight Books.
Printed in 1628. and afterwards at LonJ. in 1676.
fol. written originally by Thucidides.* (2) The
Voyage of Ulysses ; or Homers Odys.9cs, B(x)k 9,
10, 11, 12. Lond. 1674. oct. in Engl'ish verse. (3)
Homers Iliads and Odysses. Lond. 1675. and 77,
Sec. in tw. in Engl, verse. Before which is a j)reface
concerning the virtues of heroic poesy. AVhat 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 scnolar,^ who was made a bishoj) some-
time after the restoration of king Charles XL did sav
it openly in the time of Oliver 0ie having been bred
uncier 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:

" [This translation is only from the Latin, as Dr. Priileaux
has observed in his notes ad Marmora Oxon. Baker.]

' [Bp. W. is probably meant, and yet probably would ncn
»ay it. Baker.J

I

which continuing for a considerable time, he made
use of some medicines by the advice of achirurgion,
,-et the physician judged it incurable by reason of
is great age, and natural decay. But he finding
little benefit of the said medicines, he asked the chi-
rurgion, whether he thought his distemjx'r 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 tlien to
be more afraid of the jjains he thought he should en-
dure before he died, than of death. About the 20lh
of Nov. his patron the earl of Devons. being to
remove from Cliatsworth to Hardwick in Derby-
shire, 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 conveyea to
Hardwick, and was, in ajijx-arance, as well after
that little journej', (being but 10 miles) as before it
But within few days after, he was suddenly stricken
with a dead palsy, which stupified his right side
from head to foot, and took away his speech, and
'tis thought his reason and sense too, which continued
about seven days before he died. So that being so
suddenly seizecl, he tlid not take the sacrament, not
seem to desire the company of any minister, which
in charity may be imputed to his want of under-
standing, tho' tis well known, as the earl of Devon-
shire's chaplain hath said, he several times (within
two years before his dcatli) received the sacrament
from him with seeming devotion. He dyed at Hard-
wick before-mentioned, alx)ut 10 of the clock at
night, on the fourth day of Decemb. in sixteen hun-
dred seventy and nine : Whereupon his body, being
wrap'd in a woollen shiioud and coffin'd, was two
days after accompanied by most of the earl of De-
vonshire's family and some of the neighbourhood
(after they had received a funeral entertainment) to
the parish church called Hault-Hucknell ; where, in
an islcjoyningto the church, he was inter'd with the
service in the common-prayer btwk, close to the rail
of the monument of the grand-mother of the then
present earl of Dev. Soon after was a marble-stone,
with an inscription thereon, laid over his grave, the
contents of which,' and a fardier account of the
jierson, you may at large see in Vitw Hobbianae
Auctarium, following the hfe in prose before-raen-

' [Epitaphinm Hobbianum.

Conaita bio sunt ossa

Thomae Hobbes, Malmsburiensis

Qui per multos annos survivil

Duobus Devonise Comitibus,

Patri et Filio.

Vir prnbus et fama Eruditionis

Domi Forisqiie bene cognitus.

Obiit Anno Domini 1C79

Mcnsis Dcceiiibris Die 4'*

^taiis suae 91.

Ken NET.]

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tion'd (written by liimself ) and published by Rich'.
Black bourne, bom in London, sometimes M. of A.
of Trin.- coll. in Cambridge, afterwards doctor of
phys. of Leyden in Holland : The materials of
which were all, or at least the most part, tjiken from
tlie EngHsh life in MS. of Thoni. llobbes, largely
and more punctually written by John Aubrey his
antient acquaintance, born at Easton-Piers near
Malmsbury, bred under the same master (who had
been a pedagogue above 40 years) that educated
Hobbes in grammatical learning ; afterwards he be-
came gent. com. of Trin. coll. in Oxon. then a student
in the Middle Temple, and afterwards a member of
the Royal Sot;iety. Mr. Hobbes by his last will
and test. dat. 25 Sept. 1677, did becjueath to Mary
Tircll daughter of his deceased brotherEdm. Hobbes
40^. To Eleanor Harding daughter of the said Edm.
40/. To Elizab. Alaby daughter of Thomas Alaby

[648] 200/. for her furtherance in marriage ; which Eliz.
was then an orphan, and committed to the tuition of
Mr. Hobbes exec, to the said Thomas, as also an
100/. (which the carl of Devon, gave him to dispose
in his will) to be equally divided among the grand-
children of his said brother Edm. Hobbes ; to the
eldest of which, named Thom. Hobbes, he had be-
fore given a piece of land. He also left considerable
legacies to his executor James Wheldon * a servant
to the earl of Devonshire, who before had, for many
- years, been his amanuensis.

[Mem. When I was at Chatsworth, after the

funeral of the duke of Devonshire in Sept. 1707, I

saw in the duke's library a bust in plaister of Paris,

-which seemed to be a lively figure of Mr. Hobbs,

■ •• ■ and some MSS. copies of his own books very fmrly

written, and the dedications subscribed by his own
hand. Mons. Huet told me, there was an old trunk
of his papers in the house, containing chiefly the cor-
respondence between him and foreigners. His me-
tiiod of life was said to be very singular. His profest
principle was to dedicate the morning to his health,
and the afternoon to his studies ; and therefore at
his first rising he walkt out, if the weather was dry,

' [I saw this James VVheidon at Hardwick, where he
was steward and receiver to the late duke of Devon. He had
been baker in the old earl's family, and attended Mr. Hobbs
in his chamber, and did many offices for him. For his di-
ligence and faithfulness he left him about one thousand
pounds, upon condition, as 'tis said, that he should not trust
a parson with any partofit. Kennet.

Bishop Kennet, who disliked the principles of Hobbes, en-
deavours both in his notes to the Athek.* and in his Me-
moirs of llie Cavendish Farnilu, to say as little favourable of
Hobbes as possible. The will of tliis great man has been
printed in the appendix to Letters from the Bodleian Lihrary,
ike: and it ap|K;ars that his bequest to Wheldon was made
without any stipulation whatever ; ' And I make and ordaine
James Wheldon, servant to the earle of Devonshire, my
executor, to whom I give the residue of my money and goods
whatsoever; and because 1 would have liim in some sort
contented for the great service he hath done me, I would
pray his majcsiie, to what Ilefl him, to add the arrcare of my
pension, or as much of it as it pleases his niaiestie.']
Vol. III.

or els within dtwrs, so fatigiietl himself a8 to be in a
.sweat, recommending that practice ujwn the ojiinion
that an old man had more moisture than heat,
and therefore by such exercise heat was to be ac-
quir^l and moisture exjx'ird. After his walk or
other motions, he took a comfortable breakfast, and
then went round the Itxlgings to wuit u|X)n the earl
and the countess, and all the children, paying SQine
short addresses to them. He kept these rounds till
about 12 a clock, when he had a little dinner pro-
vided for him, which he eat always by himself.
Soon after dinner, he had his candle and l2 pipes of
tobacco laying by it, then shutting his door, and
darkning some part of his windows, he fell to smoak-
ing and thinking and writing for several hours. He
had very few books, and those he read very little ;
thinking he was now only tt) digest what he had for-
merly fed upon.

He used to be thinking of his epitaph, while he
was living, and would suffer some friends to dictate ■
inscriptions for him, among which he was best pleasM
with this humour for a grave-stone — This is the
true Philosopher's Stone.

He had one natural daughter, whom he call'd his
Delictum Juventutis, and provided for her. Kek-

NET.'] . t

EDWARD BYSSHE, or Biss^cs, as he writes
himself, son of Edw. Bysshe of Burstow in Surrey
esq; a counsellor of Line, inn, was bom at Smallfield
in the parish of Burstow, the capital tenement of
which, he and six of his ancestors, or more, were not
only lords of, but of divers other lands in Home near
thereunto, and elsewhere in the said county ; aiid
some of them also owners of the manor of Bysshe or
Bysshe-court, situated and being between Burstow
and Smallfield. As for our author whom we are
now to mention, he became a comiVioner of Trin.
coll. in 1633, aged 18 years, but l)ei(ire he took a
degree, he went to Lincolns inn, studied the com-
mon law, and was made a barrestcr. In 1640 he
was chosen a burgess for Blechenley in Surrey to
serve in that parliament that began at Westminster
3 Nov. the same year, and afterwards taking the
covenant, he was alxjut 1643 made Garter king of
amis in the place of sir John Borough who had fol-
lowed his majesty to Oxon. On the 20th of Oct,
1646, there were votes* pissed in the house of com-
mons that he the said Bysshe should be Garter king
of arms and Clarenceaux, and Will. Riley should be
Norroy or the Northern king of arms, and that a
committee be appointed to regulate tlieir fees: -so

^ [See several other anecdotes of Hobbes in this author's
Memoirs if the Family of Cavendish, at the end of his Fu-
neral Sermon on Wiltium Duke if Devonshire, Loud. 1708,
8vo, page lOO, &c, and somp very, curious particulars by
Hobbes's friend Aubrey, in Letters from the Bodleian ii-
trnry, &c. 1813, vol. 2, page 51)3, &C.]

■• Bulst. Whitlock in \\\i Mtmorials of Rngliih affairs, iu.
l64Ci. p. 2C?g. b.

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SHIRLEY,

that if Bysshe was ever invested in the said office of
Clarenceaux (as several of the coll. of arms say he
was) then did he succeed Arthur Squibb, who had
obtained that office by the endeavours of his ' son-
in-law sir John Glynn a noted and leading member
in that parliament, upon the recess to his majesty at
Oxon ot sir Will, le Neve. Howsoever it is, sure I
am, that in the greatest part of the interrupted times
6ur author Bysshe was both Garter and Clarenceaux,
his geny being more adequate to arms and armory,
in which he did excel, than to the municipal laws.
In 1654, he was elected burgess for Rigate in Sur-
rey to serve in that convention (called the Litde Par-
liament) that met at Westm. the 3d of Sept. the
name year, and in 1658 a burgess for Gatton in the
same county, for that convention that met at the
same place the 27th of Jan. in that year. After the
king's restoration he was forced to leave his Garter-
ship, to make room for sir Edward Walker, who had
that office conferr'd on him by his majesty, on the
death of sir Hen. S. George, an. 1644. and with
much ado obtaining the place of Clarenceaux, (sir
Will. Le Neve being then distracted) had the honour
of knighthood confen-'d upon him. In 1661 he
was chosen burgess for Blechenley to serve in that
parliament that began at Westm. 8. of May the same
year : which continuing 1 7 years or more, he became
a })ensioner (as 'tis ' said) and received lOOZ. every
session, and yet was very poor. In the rebellious
times he was a great gainer by being a parliament
man, and thereupon became an encourager of leai'n-
ing and learned men, particularly that noted critic
John Gregory of Ch. Ch. He had a very choice
library of books, all richly bound with gilt dorses,
but after the king's restoration running much in debt,
became at length necessitous, and not only took
dishonest courses by issuing out divers grants of
arms under hand, as Clarenceaux, to the undoing
of the Heralds Office, meerly to supply his necessi-
ties, but also sold many of his books, which cost him
much, for inconsiderable prices. He had been one
that understood arms and armory very well, but
could never endure to take pains in genealogies, and
[6491 '" ^^^ younger years was esteemed a worthy and
virtuous person, but in his latter not, being then
much degenerated as to manners. His works of
learning are these.

Notce in quatuor Libros NicJiolai Upton, de
Studio militari.

Notw in Johannis de Bade Aureo Libellum de
Armis.

Notw in Henrici Spelmanni Aspidologiam.''

' Mystery of the good old Cause, printed at Lond. iCfiO. in
Oct. p. 1 1 .

' Seasonable Argument to persuade all the Grand Juries in
England to petition/or a new Parliament, &c. printed 1 677.
p. 17.

' [With these notes was printed sir H. Spelman's Latin
book in which he discourses with great variety of learning
concerning the original and different kinds ofthose marks of

These three things, which were all printed together
at Lond. 1654. fol. [Bodl. L. 4. 20. Art] were
written by sir Ed. Bysshe in Enghsh, but trans-
lated into Latin by David Whitford, to whom he
exliibited after his expulsion from the univ. of Oxon.
for several years. He also put out under his own
name a translation from Gr. into Lat. with some
notes and corrections, entit. Palladius de Gentibus
Indiw <^ Brachmanibu^. Lond. 1665. qu. in Gr.
and Lat. [Bodl. 4to. S. 74. Art.] To which he
added (1) S. Ambrosins de Moribus Brachmanno-
rum. (2) Anonymus de Braclimanibus : Both in
Gr. and Lat. Of which three pieces, see more in
Jo. Gregory under the year 1646 col. 205. Sir
Ed. Bysshe also gave out among his acquaintance,
before the king's restoration, that he would write
The Survey or Antiquities of the County of Surrey y
but when after that time he was fixed in his Cia-
renceauxship, and had got a knighthood, he did
nothing but detiirpate, and so continuetl worse and
worse till his death ; which hapning in the parish of
St. Paul in Covent-Garden on the 1 5tli of Decemb.
in sixteen hundred seventy and nine, was obscurely
buried, late in the night, in the church of St. Olave's
in the Jewry within the city of London, by Mr.
Green the minister of that church, nephew to the
relict of the defunct.

JOHN SHIRLEY, son of Jo. Shir, of London
bookseller, was born in the parish of St. Botolph
Aldersgate in London 7 Aug. 1648, entred into
Trin. coll. in Lent term 1664, became a scholar of
that house in 1667, took the degrees in arts, made
terrae filius in 1673, but came off dull. Soon after
he was elected probationer fellow of his coll. being
then esteemed a person of some parts, but behaving
himself very loosely, was expell'd when the year of
his probationsbip was expir'd, or rather before.
So that retiring to the great city, he married an
inn-keeper's daughter of Islington, corrected the
press, and wrote and scribled for bread several trite
things, as

A shoj-t Compendium of Chirurgery^ containing
its Grounds and Principles, more particularly
treating of Imposthumes, Wounds, Ulcers, Frac~
tures and Dissolutions. Lond. [1678, Bodl. 8vo. R.
3. Med.] 1683. sec. edit, in oct. In the title of
which he writes himself med. doctor, though never
took it in this university, or any other degree in that
faculty.

Discourse of the Generation and Birth of Man,
&c. Printed with the former.

77i€ Art of Rowling and Bolstring, that is, the
Method of dressing and binding up tlie several
Parts, &c. Lond. 1682. oct. printed with the sec.
edit, of the Compendium before-mention'd. " Quaere,
" whether these three were not by another person

honor now call'd arms. Gibson, Life of Sir Henry Spelmcn.
Watts. 1

1679-

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ft

" of both these names, for I have been informed
*' since by his brother,* that John Shirley of Trin.
" coll. writ only."

The Life of the valiant and learned Sir Walt.
Raleigh Kt. with Ms Trial at Winchester. Lond.
1677. oct 'Tis the same that was a little before
prefix'd to the works of the smd sir Walter, printed
in fol. He hath also written and published little
things of a sheet, and half a sheet of paper, but what
they treat of, I know not. He died at Islington
near London before-mention'd, on the 28th of Dec.
1679. in sixteen hundred seventy and nine, and was buried
in the ch. yard there two days after. One John
Shirley gent, hath written Tlie History of the Wars
of Hungary, or, an Account of the Miseries of that
Kingdom, &c. Lond. 1685. in tw. And one John
Shurley M. A. and gent, hath written Ecclesiastical
History epitomized ; containing ajaitliful Account
o^ tlie Birth, Life, and Doctrine, S^c. of the holy
Jesus : with the Lives of the Apostles, &c. in two

parts Lond. 1682. oct. But whether either of

these two was of Oxon, I cannot yet tell ; nor whe-
ther J. Shirley author of The renowned History of
the Life and Death of Guy Earl of Warwick, &c.
[650] Xiond. 1681. qu. be tne same with our author John
Shirley of Oxon.

DANIEL CAPEL, son of Rich. Capel men-
tion'd under the year 1656, was born in the city of
Glocester, educated in the coll. school there under
Will. Russel, was first demy and afterwards fellow
of Magd. coll. and about the time that he took the
degree of M. of A. which was in 1651, he became
a preacher. Afterwards he was successively mi-
nister of Morton, Alderley and Shipton in his own
country ; which last he resigning because, as I pre-
sume, he would not conform, lie fell to the practice
of physic in the town of Strowd in Glocestershire,
where he continued to the time of his death. He
hath written,

Tentamen Medicum de Variolis, and one or two
little things besides, which I have not yet seen. He
1679, (Hed at Strowd in sixteen hundred seventy and nine
or thereabouts, and was buried in the church there.
The next that follows, a most excellent school divine
and philosopher, is Fr. d S. Clara, not known or
called Christop. Davenport, after he had entred into
a religious order.

CHRISTOPHER DAVENP0RT,9 son of Joh.
Dav. (by Elizabeth Wolley his wife) the fifth son of
Hen. Dav. alderman of Coventry, grandson to a
younger brother of the Davenports of Cheshire,"*

' [An auctioneer in Oxford, but afterwards a bookseller in
Reading. Loveday. Wood (MS. note in Ashmole) calls
him a bookseller in Oxon.]

9 [Or Francis a S. Clara, Francis Hunt, or Francis Coven-
Irie ; for by each of these names was he known.]

'" [Quidani Christophorus Davenport adm. discipulus coll.
Trin. Cant, (ex fundationc) an. lC05. A. B. coll. Trin. an.
1606. Baker.]

was bom in the antient city of Coventry in War-
wickshire, and in grammar learning there educated.
At about 15 years of age, he, and his brother John,
were sent to Merton a)liegc, in the l)cginning of
the year 1613, and liecame pupils to Mr. Sam. Lan«
fellow of that house. They were only batlers, and
took tJie cook's commons, but the warden sir Henry
Savil, having received notice of them and tlieir con-
dition, he dismiss'd them unless they would Ijecome
commoners : but their {mrents being unwilling, John
thereupon went to Magd. hall, and iK-came after-
wards a noted puritan, and at length an independ-
ent, but Christopher continued longer in the coll.
especially upon sir Henry's recess to Eaton, but
uiwn his return withdrew. S<i that having spent
about two years among the Mcrtonians, he, by the
invitation of some Rom. priest then living in or near
Oxon, went to Doway an. 1615, where remaining
for some time, went to Ypres,' and entred into the
order of Franciscans among the Dutch there, 7 Oct.
1617. Afterwards he returned to Doway, and was
entred into the English Recollects there, of the same
order 18 Oct. 1618, which was then built for them
and dedicated to St. Bonaventurc the same year.
After he had ran a course there, and had read for
some time a lecture, he went into Spain, and in an
university there (Salamanca I tliink) he improved
himself much in tlie supreme faculty. Thence he
returned to Doway, where he read first philosophy,
and afterwards became chief reader of divinity in
the said coll. of St. Bonaventure, and in fine wa«
made doctor of div. of his order, but not of any
university. At length he became a missionary in
England, where he went by the name of Franciscus
k Sancta Clara, and at length was made one of the
chaplains to Henrietta Maria the royal consort of
king Charles the first, and became highly honoured
of all of his profession, and of many scholars too
(whether protestants or papists) for his great leam-
Aflcr his settlement in England, where he

inff.

continued going and coming more than 50 years,
he did very great service for the Roman cath. cause
by gaining disciples,' raising money among the En-
glish catholics to carry 011 public matters beyond
the seas, in writing of Ixxiks for the a<lvancement of
his religion and order, by his jx^rpetual and un-
wearied motion day and night to athninister amoiig
the brethren, and by tendring his service to consult
and help warping protestants, &c. When Dr. Laud
was made archb. of Canterbury,' he became his ac-
quaintance, not to make use of him as an instru-
ment to reconcile us to the church of Rome, as in-
veterate Prynne would have it, but for that he wa.s
much respected by the queen, that he was a person
of excellent parts, civil behaviour and of great com-
plaisance. This acquaintance, I presume, had its

' Vide Hist. Min. Provinc. /tngi. sect. 26.
^ [See The sincere _ Popish Convert, by J. S. 4to. and
Rennet's Reg. and Chron. 7!)'l]

^ [See Laud's Hist, of hi^ Trnulhs, kc. p. 38i.]
4 12

[651]

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DAVENPORT.

ori^nal from our author's desire of having a book
of his composition to be licensed for the press,
through the means of Dr. Aug. Lindsell chaplain
to the said archbisliop, who soon finding him to be
a person of learning and gi-eat motleration, did ac-
quaint his graix' of the man and his work. How-
soever it was, sure I am, that when articles of
impeachment * were drawn up against archb. Laud
in the beginning of tlie long parliament, 'tis said in
the seventh additional article * that ' for the advance-
ment of jxjpery and superstition within this realm,
die said arclit. hath wittingly and willingly re-
ceived, harboured and relieved divers popish priests
and Jesuits, namely one called Sancta Clara ahas
.Davenport, a dangerous person and Franciscan
friar, who hath written a popish and seditious book,
entitled Deiis, Natura, Gratia, &c. wherein the
■thirty nine articles of the church of England, esta-
'bUshed by act of parliament, are much traduced and
.scandalized. The said archbishop had divers con-
ferences with him, while he was in writing the said
Ixwk, and did also provide maintenance and enter-
tainment for one monsieur St. Giles a popish priest
at Oxon,V &c. To which article the archbishop
made this * answer. ' I never saw that Franciscan
friar (Sancta Clara) in my life, to the utmost of my
jnemory, alwve four times, or five at most. He was
first brought to me by Dr. Lindsell, I did fear he
would never exiwund them (the articles) so as the
church of England migiit have cause to thank him
for it. He never came to me after, till he was al-
most ready to print another book, to prove that
episcopacy was authorized in the church by divine
right, and this was after these unhappy stirs began.
His desire was, to have this book printed here, but
at his several addresses to me for this, I still gave
him this answer: That I did not like the way,
which the church of Home went concerning episco-
pacy : And howsoever, I woidd never give way that
any such book from the pen of any llomanist,
should be printed here : And the bishops of Eng-
land are very well able to defend their own cause
and calling, without calling in any aid from Rome,
and would so do when they saw cause ; and this is
all the conference I ever had with him' — Our author
S. Clara did at that time abscond, and sjiend most
of those years of trouble in obscurity, sometimes
beyond the seas, sometimes at London, other times
in the country, and now and then in Oxon at the
public library, .where he was with great humanity
received by Mr. Tho. Barlow head keeper thereof,
as our author dodi very gratefully acknowledge in
one of his works. At length, after the restoration
of king Charles IL when a marriage was celebrated
between him and Catherina of Portugal, he became
her theologist, or one of the chief chaplains about

■• Canlerhury's Doom, p. 34.

» [Sec Riishworth's Ilislorical Collections, 3rd Pari. vol.
2,1). 819.]
" Canttrbury't Doom, p. 427.

her; and was the third time chose provincial mi-
nister of his order for tlie province of England :
After the expiration of which (for it lasts, if I am
not mistaken, but for three years) he was once or
twice chosen again to that office lieibre his death,
being accounted the greatest and chiefest pillar of
his order, and the onliest person to be consulted
about the affairs thereof. He was excellently well
vers'd in school divinity, the fathers and councils,
philosophers, and in ecclesiastical and profane his-
tories. He was a person of very free discourse, but
Cressy was reserv'd ; of a vivacious and quick coun-
tenance, the other clouded and melancholy, and
quick of apprehension, but the other not, or at least
would not. All which accomplishments made his
company acceptable to great and worthy persons.
As for the books which this noted author hath pub-
lish'd, mostly written in Latin, are these.

Tract, adversus Judicia?-ium Astrolog-iam. Duac.
1626. oct.

Paraphrastica Expositio Articulorum Confes-
s'lonis Anglicce. This was printed first by it self,
and afterwards at the end of Tract, de Pradest.
following. This book was much talk'd against by
the Jesuits, who by all means would have it burnt,
but being soon after licensed in Rome, gave a stop
to any farther rumour of it. However in Spain it
was censur'd, and how and why, let the author tell
you in his 'own words sent to me, thus — ' You told
me that Mr. Leibume shew'd you the Index Ex-
piirgutorius of Spain, wherein was named the book
of articles, published by me. There was here (in
London) a Spanish ambassador in the time of
Oliver,* named Alonzo " de Car-
denas," who had gi-cat malice to * .^'"'jj. "'^ ,"'
the last king, and being informed
by a knave that the book was dedicated to, and ac-
cepted by, the king, whom lie esteemed his enemyy
he. suiTeptitiously procured in Spain to have it cen-
sur'd : He endeavoured to have it so done at Rome,
but they answer'd as Pilate, non invenio causam,

and therefore it passed safe —This man (Alonzo)

had been a Jesuit, and was esteemed not only to
have left them rudely, but to have given himself
over to get money,' Sic. — In a letter also from Mr.
Middleton (then chaplain to Basil lord Fielding
ambassador) to archb. Laud dated at V^enice in Dec.
1635, I find these passages, that the book of S.
Clara relished not well witli the catholicks, and that
there was a consultation about it, and some did ex-
trcnia suadere, and cried ad ignem. Father Tho.
Talbot a Jesuit of Paris told him so by letter, who
talking with the pope's nuncio at Paris altout it,
he told him 'twas the best course to let it dye of it
self, to which the nuncio, a moderate man, was in-
clinable.

Tractatxis de Prcrdestinatiwie, de Meritia <§• Pec-
catoruvi Remissimie, &c. Ludg. Bat. 1634. qu."

^ In his letter dated 6 Apr. 167s.

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DAVENPORT.

1^26

[Bodl. A A. 30. Th. Seld.] In the year following
the sail! book came out with this title, Detts, natura,
gratia : sive Tractatus de Privdcst'mutione de Me-
ritis, &c. [Lugd. 1635, Bodl. 8vo. C. 2.52. Th.]
This book was dedicated to king Charles I. to
seduce him (if you'll believe" Prvnne) to his re-
ligion, and induce him to establish the Romish
religion amongst us by his royal authority, as he
pretends to prove it from the dedicatory epistle:
also that the whole scope of the book it self, with
the paraphrastical exjKJsition of the articles at
the end of it, was to » reconcile, reduce botii our
king, church and the articles of our religion, which
he comments u|X)n, to the church of Rome. He
also endeavours to prove ' that St. Giles before-
mention'd, living in the Venetian ambassador's
house in London, an. 1635, was the author of that
book, " was the same person with S. Clara," and
that it was printed at London, but he is much mis-
taken, and makes a confused story of the said two
books, which is needless now to tell you.

Sifntema Fidei : sive Tractatus de Concilio uni-
versali, &c. Leod. 1648. qu. [Bcxll. 4to. T. 79.
Th.]

OptMculum de DefinibiUtate Cmitroversia; imma-
culate Conceptionis Dei Genetricis.

Tractatus de Schismate speciatim Anglicano.

Froffmenta : sett Historia minor provincia An-
glia Fratruvi M'moriim.

Mannale Missicmarionim Reffularium, prwcipue
Anglorum S. Francisci, Sec. Printed 1658, and at
Doway 1661. in octav.

Apologia Fpiscoponim, seu sacri Magistratus
Proptigiiatio, &c. Col. Agrip. 1640. oct. [Bodl.
8vo. C. 4. Th. Seld.]

Liber D/alogorum, sen Summa x^cteris Tlieologia:
Dialogismis tradita. Duac. 1661. in oct.

Problemata Sclwlastica S^ Controversialia Spe-
ctilattva, &e.

Corollarium Dialogi de Medio Statu Anima-
rum, &c.

Paralipomena philosophica de Mundo Peripate-
tico. This was published at Doway, under the
name of Francisc. Coventriensis, an. 1652. in oct.
[Bodl. 8vo. C. 41. Art. Seld.] All these, except
the 2d and 3d (most of which had been printed m
little volumes by themselves) were printed in two
volumes in fol. at Doway, an. 1665, which cost our
author (having no contribution given him towards
the press) 220/.

Religio Philosophia Peripatetici discutienda ; in
qua ojfertur Epitome Processus, Historia celeber-
rimi Miraculi, a Christo nuperrime patrati, in
Restitutione Tibiw abscissce, ^ sepultce, ab Aris-
totele in suis Principiis examinati. Duac. 1662.
oct.

» Ibid, in Cant. Doome, p. 423. and in his Introduction to
Archh. Laud's Trial, p. 143.
" lb. in Cant. Doome, p. 424. and 560.
' Ibid. 42fl.

Sitpplementiim Histoiia- Provinciw AnglUc, in
quo est Chronosticon cwitineii-i Cutalogum i^ prcc-
cipua Gcsta Provincial! um Fr. Min. ProvincuE
Angliae:. Duac. 1671, fol. to Ik; i>ut at the end of
Fragmenta, sen Hist. Min.'' &c.

Disputatio dc antiqua Proviruiie pra'cedentiu.
Printed there also the same year, and to be put in
the same vol. at the end of Snppkmentnm Hist.
This Disputatio was also printed in qu. in two sh.
an. 1670.

Enchiridicm of Faith, in a Dialogue concerning

Christian Religion. Printed under the name ol"

Franc. Coventrie 1655. <x;t.

Explanation of the Roman Catliolic Belief
Printed 1656. oct. [BocU. 8vo. C. 716. Line] " This
" was, as Dr. Barlow saith, presented to the lord
" protector, and some eminent members of the
" nouse 1656." It was reprinted 1670.

" A clear Vindication of the Rom. Cath. from a
"f)ul Aspersion ,• to wit, that they luive, and do
" promote, a bloody and a wicked Design of tfie
" Pope and Cardinals. — printed 1659. in one sh.
" qu." [Bodl. B. 2. 4. Line] 'Tis reported by a
nameless author ' that he (S. Clara) wrote and pub-
lished, Tfie Christian Moderator ; or Per.iecution
for Religion condemned, &c. Lond. 1652. in qu. sec.
edit.'' and that he, whom he calls that famous or in-
famous priest, presente<l one of them to a lady,
who told it to a reverend minister of this city (Lon-
don) that he was the author of that lx)ok. But let
this Anon, say what he will ; sure I am, that I have
been informed by Rom. Catholics of unquestionable
veracity, that neither he, nor William Birchley, .
was the author, but one John Austen l)om at Wal-

Eole * in Marshland in the county of Norfolk, and
red in St. John's coll. in Cambridge;" which
house he leaving, and his religion too, about 1640,
entred himself into the societj^ of Lincolns inn, with
intentions to follow the municipal laws ; but the re-

' [Supplemenlum Historice Provinrice Anglire conlinens
Calaloifum et prcecipua Gesfa Provinciatiiim Fratntm Mino-
rum Anglice. Aunecti/ur Disputatio de antiqua ProvindiB
Priecedenlia. Duaci Iti?!, fol. Ad c.Tlcem Scriptorum Or-
dinis Minorum, a Luca W^adiliiigo. Koniie iC.iO. fol. Vide
Wadrlingus Scriptores Ord. Minorum, Append, p. 2. Ba-^
KER.l

> The author of Tlie Beacon Jiaming with a Kon otslanle
Lond. 1652. qu. p. 7-

* [First edit. Lond. l651. Bodl. B. 25. I. Line]

' So I have been informed by Joh. Smith alias Sargcant a
sec. priest sometimes contemporary with J. Austen in Si. Joh.
coll. in Canibr.

° [Johannes Austin CantabriEiensis, filius Joh. A. de
Walpoole infri insnlam Elien. generosi jam defuncii, nalus
in Walpoole prsedict. Uteris gramaticis instilutus sub Ma-
gistro Trevillian In schola publica de Slccford per annum et
dimidium ultimo elapsum ; annos natiis nclodecim, adinissus
est pensionarius hujns collegil (viz. S. Joh.) sub magistro
Gierke, fidcjussorc ejus, Martii 31, l63l. Reg. Colt. Jo^
Cant. Baker. Quire if Walpole is not in the county of
Norfolk? Cole. It Is so, in the hundred of Frecbrlilge._
And there is another Walpole in the adjacent county, Suf--
folkj in the hundred of BIything.] >

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DAVENPORT.

WIIORWOOD.

WILMOT.

iCao.
[6541

* Two vol. of De-
votions after the
old way, printed
iu octavo, and qf-
terwards reprint-
ed ia 1672, with
a pr^ace to them
written ly Joh.
Sergeant. He also
wrot a third 00-
tome, &c. First

bellion breaking out soon after, he was driven thence.
It is to be noted by the way, tliat this Austen being
a man of good parts, and much in esteem with tlie
R. Catholics, he did write and pubHsh several
lxx)ks, that is to say (besides the three parts of The
Christian Moderator * wliich lie put out inider the
name of W. Birchley, " the first
" part of which came out 1652. 2d
" edition, to which was a 2d part —
" Lond. 1652. qu. and the M part
" was printed 1653. qu.) (1) Dc-
" votkms, in the antient Way qf
" Offices ; with Psalms, Hymns
" and Prayers, for every Day in
" the Week, and every Holy-day
" in the Year — Roan (afias Lond.)
" 1672. oct. 2d edit pubhsh'd with
" an epistle dedic. licfore it by John Sergeant.

*•' The first and second jwrt A character of this

" book caird Devotiona, &c. you may see in Dr.
" Harris his Farewel to Pcmery, p. 27." He also
wrote a third volume, which is not yet published.

(2) Treatlie in Bcluilf of tJie Oath qf AUcg'iance.

(3) Letterjrom a Cavalier in Yorkshire to a Friend,
written in the time of war, and other things; among
which must not be forgotten, A punctual Atistver to
Dr. Joh. Tillotson\i Book called The Rule qf Faith,
&.C. six or seven sheets of which were printed off,
but for what reason all were not finished, I cannot
tell. He died in his liouse in Bow-street in Covent-
Gardon near London, in the svimmer time, an. 1669,
and was burie<l in the church of St. Paul there.
Two parts of the .said Christian Moderator being
esteemed by certain Protestants to be like a ve-
nomous potion, as full of dangerous ingredients, &c.
was examined and animadverted upon in a book
called LegeTidar-lifrnea, &c. p. 29, 30, &c. One
Will. Austen of Lmc. inn esq; who died the 16th of
Jan. 1633, wrote — Devotionis Augustinianw Flam-
ma : or certain devout and learned Meditations,
&c. printed at Lond. after his death 1637. fol. but
of wliat kin he was to John I know not. As for our
author Christop. Davenport, alias Sancta Clara, who
mostly went by the name of Francis Hunt, and
sometimes by that of Coventrie, he died in Somerset
House in the Strand near London, on the 31st of
May, early in the morning (being then Whitmon-
day) in sixteen hundred aud eighty, and was buried
(not according to bis desire in the vault under
Somerset house chappcl, which tlie queen opposed)
but in the church belonging to the Savoy Hospital
in the Strand. It was his desire many years before
his death, to retire to Oxon in his last days, there to
die, purposely tiiat his bones might be laid in St.
Ebbes church, (to which the mansicm of the Fran-
ciscans of Grey Friars .sometimes joyned, and in
which several of his brethren were antiently inter-
red) particularly by those of his old friend John
Day a learned friar of his order (bom at the Mill in
the parish of St Cross ahas Halywell near Oxon)

who was buried at the west end of the said church
near the font, an. 1658, but troubles coming on by
the breaking out of the popish plot, his design was
frustrated. " Under this learned jjerson may Ije
" mentioned another of his own jiersuasion, viz.
" John Clare an Iri.sh man bom, who was an hospes
" for some time here, and afterwards going to Rome,
" became a Catholic priest, a member of the society
" of Jesus, and Repetitor Ph3fsicus in tlie English
" coll. there alxjut the time when Thoni. Owen a
" Welshman succeeded father Parsons in the rec-
" tory of the said coll. an. 1610, and afterwards was
" sent into the mission. This John Clare, who was
" esteemed among those of his persuasion for his
" learning and piety hath written,

" The converted Jew: or, certain Dialogues
" between Michcras a learned Jew, and otheis touch-
" ing Points qf Religion, controverted between Ca-

" tfiolics and Protestants printed 1630. in qu.

" and by the author dedicatee to the two univer
" sities Oxford and Cambridge. What other things
" he hath written I know not, nor any thing else
" of him, only that he is omitted in the Bibl. Soc.
" Jesur

" THOMAS WHORWOOD, second son of sir
Thomas Whorwood of Halton in Oxfordshire
knight, was bom at Hedington near Oxon, be-
came a gentleman commoner of Magd. hall in Mi-
chaelmas term 1635, aged 16 years, where conti-
nuing about three years under the tuition of that
noted puritan Henry Wilkinson senior, retired to
his patrimony in the said county, which he con-
sum'd several years before his death. As his
breeding had been puritannical, so he carried that
opinion to his grave, and when the press was open,
occasion'd by trie breaking out of the popish plot,
he wrote a book containing a great deal of ram-
bling stuff entit.

" Argumentum ad Hominem : or, an Argument
against Protestants, who hold that Papists, qua
tales ; or, living and dying Papi.its may be
saved. Lond. 1679. in 4 sh. in qu. [Bodl. C. 12.
14. Line] He died a bachelor on the fifth day cf
June, or thereabouts, in sixteen hundred and
eighty, and was buried in the church of St. Botolph
without Aldersgate in London, leaving then be-
hind him the character of a hot-headed, craz'd
person, and a violent presbyterian."

JOHN WILMOT eari of Rochester, viscount
Athlone in Ireland, and baron of Adderbury in Ox-
fordshire, was bom at Dichley near Woodstock in
the said county, April 1648,' educated in gram-

' [Bishop Biirnelt makes my I.'' Rochester to have been
only something above 38 yeais of age. But Gadbiiry in his
almanack for Itigs tells us, that he was born on April 10, 1 1*
mane, 1647. anil died July 2(j. 168O. being then somewhat
above 33 years old. He says he receiv'd the account of his
birth from his L'dshij) hiiMstll". .\nth. a Wood is guilty of

WILMOT.

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mar leaniinj^ in the free-school at Burford, under a
noted master called John Martin, became a noble-
man of Wadham college under the tuition of Phi-
neas Burj' fellow, and inspection of Mr. Blandford
the warden, an. 1659, actually created master of
arts in convocation, with several other noble per-
sons, an. 1661 ; at which time, he, and none else,
was admitted very affectionately into the fraternity
by a kiss on the left cheek from the chancellor of the
university (Clarendon) who then sate in the supreme
chair to honour that assembly. Afterwards he tra-
velletl into France and Italy, and at his return fre-
quented the court (which not only debauched him
but made him a perfect Hobbist) and was at length
made one of the gentlemen of the bedchamber to
his majesty king Charles II. and comptroler of
Woodstock park, in the place of sir William Fleet-
wood deceased. He was a person of most rare parts,
and his natural talent was excellent, much improved
by learning and industi-y, being thoroughly ac-
quainted with the classic authors, both Greek and
Latin ; a thing very rare (if not peculiar to him)
[655] among those of his quality. He knew also how to
use them, not as other poets have done, to transcribe
and steal from, but rather to better and improve,
them by his natural fancy." But the eager ten-
dency and violent impulses of his natural temper,
unhappily inclining hmi to the excesses of pleasure
and mu-th ; which, with the pleasantness of his un-
imitablc humour, did so far engage the affections of
the dissolute towards him, that to make him delight-
fully venturous and frolicksometo the utmost degrees
of riotous extravagancy, they for some years height-
ned his sprits (enflamed by wine) into one almost
Bninterrupted fit of wantonness and intemperance.
Some time before his death, were several copies of
his verses printed (besides what went in MS. from
hand to hand) among which were,

A Satyr against Mankind (ascrilx^d by some to
the duke of Buckingham) printed in one sheet in
fol. in June 1679. Answer'd in another sheet in
the next month by one Mr. Griffith a minister.
Andr. Marvell, who was a good judge of wit, did

the same mistake with Burnett. Hearnc, Pref. ad Tho. Caii
find. Antiij. Oxon. 1730, page 49.

The late right honourable lord, John earl of Rochester,
was born anno l647, on April the 1st day, 1 ih. 7ni. A.M.
and endued wiih a noble and fertile muse. The sun go-
verned the horoscojje, and the moon ruled the birth hour.
The conjunction of Venus and Mercury in M. coeli, in scx-
tile of Luna, apily denotes his inclination to poetry. The
great reception of Sol with Mars and Jupiter ))Osited so near
the latter, bestowed a large stock of generous and active
spirits, which constantly attended on this excellent native's
mind, insomuch that no sulyect came amiss to him. Gad-
bury 's Ephemeris, 8vo. 1698.J

8 [From A Sermon preached at the Funeral of the right ho-
norable John Earl of Rochester who died at IVoodstock-Park,
July 26. 168O, and was hurled at Spitshiry in Oxfordshire,
Aug. 9. By Robert Parsons, M. A. Chaplain to the Right
Honorable Anne Countess- DotBager of Rochester'. Oxford
itJeo, 4to. (Bodl. 4to. U. 34. Th.) page 7.]

use to say that Rochester was the only man in Eng-
land that had the true vein of satyr.

On Nothing ; a Poem. printed on one side

of a sheet of pajx;r in 2colunis. But notwithstand-
ing the strict charge which the earl of R<jchester
gave on his death-licd to those persons, in whose
custody his papers were, tt) burn all his pro])hane
and lewd writings," as l>eing only fit to promote vice
and immorality, by which he had so highly offended
the Omnipotent, and sham'd and blasj)hen)'d that
holy religion into which he hat! been baptized ; yet
no s<x)ner was his breath out of his Ixxly, but some

Iierson, or persons, who had made a collection of
lis jioetry in manuscript, did, meerly lor lucre
sake (as 'twas conceived) pubUsh them under this
title.

Poems on sexwral Occasions. Antwerp (alias
Lond.) 1680. [1685.] oct. Among which, as those
before-mention''d are numbred, so many of his com-
posure are omitted, and there is no doubt but that
other men's poems are mixed among tliem. They
are full of obscenity and prophanencss, and are more
fit (tho' excellent in their kinil) to be read by Bed-
lamites, than pretenders to virtue and modesty : and
what are not so, are libellous and satyrical. Among
them is a poem entit. A Ramble into St. James's
Park, p. 14, which I guess is the same with that
which is meant and challenged in the preface to the
poems of Alexander Radcliff of Greys inn entit.
The Ramble, an anti-heroick Poem, Poem, together
with some terrestrial Hymns, and earned EjactUa-
tions. Lond. 1682. oct. as the true composure of the
said Radcliff, but being falsly and imperfectly pub-
lished under the earl's ntime, is said there to be en-
larged two thirds, above what it was, when before in
print. The reader is to know also that a most
wretched and obscene and scandalously infamous
play, not wholly compleated, pas-sed some hands pri-
vately in MS. under tne name of Sodom and fathered
upon the earl (as most of tliis kind were, right or
wrong, which came out at any time, after he had
once obtainetl the name of an excellent smwth, but
withall a most lewd, jXK't) as the true author of it ;
but if that copy of verses inserted among his printed
poems before-mention'd, in pag. 129- wi-ote upon tlie
author of the play call'tl Sodom be really his, then
questionless the writing of this vile piece is not to be
laid to his charge ; unless we shoukl suppose him to
have turned the keennessand sharpness ot his piercing
satyr (for such is this) upon himself. He hath idsQ
written,

A Letter to Dr. Gilb. Burnet, written on hi-v
Deatli-bed. Lond. 1680. in one sh. in lol. And
that he was the author of it, the doctor himself ac-
knowledgeth in the History ' of some Passages qf
the Life and Death of John Earl of Rochester."-

" [Parsons, Funeral Sermon, page 28.]

' Printed at Lond. 1()80. in the prcf.andin page 133.

■' [A book, says Dr. Johnson, Lives if the PoeU, which

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WILMOT.

About the same time also was published a sheet in
tbl. ciitit. The tKO noble Converts ; or the Earl of
MarUmrough and the Earl of Rochester, their dying
■Requests to the Atheists and Debauchees of tJiis Age:
but this was feigned and meerly written by a scribler
[fi56] to ffct a little money. In Nov. 1684, was a play of
John Fletcher's published entit. Valentinian : a
Tragedy as "'tis altered by the late Earl of Rochester,
and acted ai the Theater-Royal. Lond. 1685. qu.
To which is put, by a nameless writer, a large pre-
face concerning the author and his writings, wherein
among too many things, and high-flown surfeiting en-
comiums, that are by him given of the said count, is

this, ' For sure there has not lived in many ages

(if ever) so extraordinary, and I think I may add,
so useful a person, as most English men know my
lord to have been, whether we consider the constant
good sense and the agreeable mirth of his ordinary
conversation, or the vast reach and compass of his
invention, and the wonderful depths of his retired
thoughts, the uncommon graces of his fashion, or
the inimitable turns of his wit, the becoming gentle-
ness, the bewitching softness of his civility, or the
force, and fitness of his satvr ; for as he was both the
delight and wonder of man, the love and the dotage
of women, so he was a contintial curb to imperti-
nence, and the public censor of folly,' &c. In

another place he saith thus, ' He had a wit that was
accompanied with an unaffected greatness of mind,
and a natural love to justice and truth: a wit that
was in perpetual war with knavery, and ever attack-
ing those kind of vices most, whose malignity was
like to be most diffusive, such as tended more imme-
diately to the prejudice of public bodies, and were
of a common nusance to the happiness of human
kind. Never was his pen drawn but on the side of
good sense, and usually imployed like the arms of
the ancient heroes, to stop the progress of arbitrary
oppression, and beat down the brutishness of head-
strong will ; to do his king and country justice upon
such public state-thieves, as would beggar a kingdom

to enrich themselves,' &c. To pass by other

characters, which the said Anonymus too too fondly
mentions of the count, I shall proceed and tell you
that he hath also written,

Poems, <^c. on several Occasions : with Valenti-
nian a Tragedy. Lond. 1691. [1709, 1710,] oct.
They were published in the latter end of Feb. 1690.
but the large preface before-mention'd is there omit-
ted. These jxjems, which are different from those
that came out in 1680, have before them an ad-
mirable pastoral on the death of the earl of Roches-
ter, in imitation of the Greek of Moschus, made by
Oldham ; and among them songs and letters, as also
(1) A Copy of English Ver.ies made on the King's
Return, in a book entit. Britannia rediviva, printed
at Oxon. under the name of the university, 1660.

t!ie critic eught to read for its elegance, tlie pliilosophor for its
arguuieni;, auci tlic sftiiit for its piety.]

qu. (2) A Latin and English Copy on the Death
of Mary Princess of Orange, in another book of
verses published under the name of the said univer-
sity, at Oxon. the same year in 4to. But these three
copies were made, as 'twas then well known, by
Robert Whitehall a physician of Mertmi college,
who pretended to instruct the count (then twelve
years of age) in the art of poetry, and on wIumii he
absolutely doted. (3) The translation of the ninth
elegy in the second book of Ovid''s Amours ; which
was published in a thing entit. Miscellany Poems:
containing a new Translation (if VirgiVs Eclogues j
Ovid's love Elegies, Odes ^Horace, <^c. by the most
eminent Hands. Lond. 1684. octavo. " Under the
" name of this John Wilmot earl of Rochester, are
" printed several poems in a book entit. A Collection
" of Poems by several Hands, &c. Lond. 1693. oct.'
" as also

" A Translation out of Horace. In Exdmen
" Poeticum. The third Part of Miscellany Poems,
" &c. Lond. 1693. p. 262.

" A Song- in Imitation of Sir John Eatmi's Song,
" p. 424.

" And in the Annual Miscellany Jbr tJie Year
" 1694, being the Uh Part of Miscellany Poems,
" &c. Lond. 1694. octavo, are ascribed to John earl
" of Rochester. (1) p. 190. Cornelius Gallus imi-

« tated, a lyric (2) p. 192. Apollo" s Grief, for

" having MlFd Hyacinth by Accident. In imita-
" tionof Ovid. (3) p. 194. A Song.

" This earl of Rochester hath also several poems
" and lampoons made on men that were then hving:
" and therefore I presume they are not in his
" poems ; as (1) On the Lord Mulgrave, in Mr.
" Sheldon's hbrary. (2) On the supposed Author
" of a late Poem in Defence of Satyr, with his
" (Rochester's) Answer."" At length, after a short,
but pleasant life, this noble and beautiful count paid
his last debt to nature in the ranger's lodge in
Woodstock-Park, very early in the morning of the
26th of July in sixteen hundred and eighty, and
was buried in a vault under the north isle joyning
to Spelsbury church in Oxfordshire, by the body of
his father, Henry sometime the generous, loyal and
valiant earl of Rochester, the same who had been
commissary general of the army in the Scotch expe-
dition, an. 1639, under Thomas earl of Arundel the
general,* and the same who had niaiTied Anne the
widow of sir Harry Lee of Dichley
before mention'd, and daughter of * """^ ''"'^ """" "
sir John St. John of Wiltshire. Tr%iu'''^n,
Which Henry earl of Rochester edit.
dying beyond the seas, in his at-
tendance on his majesty, on the 19th of Feb. 16.57,
aged 45 years, was, by leave obtained, privately bu-
ried in the before-mention'd vault, being the place of
sepulture only for tlie family of Lee, since honoured
>vith the title of earl of Litchfield. The said John
earl of Rochester left behind him a son named
Charles, who dying on the 12th of November 1681,

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was buried l)y his father on the 7th of Dotomher
following. He also left boiiind him three dangliters,
nametl Anne, Elizal)etii, and Maiet; so that the
male line ceasing, his majesty Charles II. confer'd
the title of Rociiester on Laurence viscount Kil-
lingworth, a younger son of Edwaril earl of Cla-
rendon.

[Wilmot earl of Rochester was naturally modest,
till the court corrupted liiui. His wit had in it a
peculiar brightness, to wliich none coidd ever ar-
rive. He gave himself up to all sorts of extrava-
gance, and to the wildest froiicks that a wanton wit
could devise. He would have gone about tiie
Streets as a beggar, and made love as a porter. He
set up a stage as an Italian niountebanck. He was
for some years always drunk, and was ever doing
some miscliief The king loved his company for
the diversion it afforded, better than his person :
And there was no love lost between them. He took
Jus revenge in many libels. He found out a foot-
man that knew all the court, and he furnished him
•with a red coat and a musket as a centinel, and kept
him all the winter long every night at the doors of
such lathes, as he believed might be in intrigues.
In the court a centinel is little minded, and is be-
lieved to be posted by a captain of the guards to
hinder a comlmt: so this man saw who walked
about, and visited at forbidden hours. By this
means lord Rochester made many chscovcrics. And
when he was well furnished with materials, he used
to retire into the country for a month or two to write
libels : Once, being drunk, he intended to give tiie
king a libel that lie had writ on some ladies : But
by a mistake he gave him one written on himself.
He fell into an ill habit of body : and in several fits
of sickness he had deep remorses ; for he was guilty
both of much impiety and of great immoralities.
But as he recovered he threw these off, and turned
again to his former ill courses. In the last year of
Ins life, I was much with him, and have writ a b(X)k
of wliat passed between him and me. I do verily
believe, he was then so entirely changed, that, if he
had recovered, he would have made gcxnl all iiis re-
solutions. Burnet, Hist, of his own Time, vol. i,
page 264.

Remains of the right himourable John., Earl of
Rochester. Being Satyj-s, Songs and Poems ; never
before Pvhlished. From a Manuscript Jbund in a
Gentleman s Library that icas Cot-cmporary icith
him. London: Printed Jbr Tho. Doyar ; and sold
by T. Harlin in the Nerc Exchange in the Strand;
W. Chetxcood at Cato''s Head in Rnssel Com't, near
tlie Play-Hoitsc ; and by the Booksellers of London
and Westminster, 1718. 12ma

An Ode to the Memory of the Right Hmwurahlc
John Lord Wilmot, Earl of RocJiester. By S. W.
(Samuel Woodforde) MS. in Bibl. Bodl. Rawl.
Poet. 25, 2.

See several poems by lord Rochester in the Bod-
leian, MS. Rawlinson, Poet. 81. Some of which I

Vol. III.

do not remember to have seen in print. His Letters
are scattered in several collections.

There are two p«)rtraits of tliis nobleman by R,
'hite : one in 8vo.
other large I'ol. 1681

White : one in 8vo. prelixcd to Buniet's Life, the

STEPHEN CHARNOCK, son of Richard

Chamock an attorney or solicitor, descended from
an antient family of his name living in Lancashire,
was born in the parish of St. Catharine Creechurch
in London ; educatetl in Emanuel college in Cam-,
bridge, mostly under the tuition of Mr. William
Sancroft, spent afterwards some time in a private fa-
mily, and a little niore in the exercise of liis ministry
in SouthAvark, in the time of the rel)ellion. In
1649, or thereabouts, he retired to Oxon, purposely
to obtain a fellowship from the visitors a|)pointed by
parliament when they cyected scholars by whole
shoals ; and in 1650 he obtained a fellowship in New
college, and thereby for several years did eat the
bread of a worthy loyalist. In 1652, he was incor-
}X)rated master of arts as he had stood in Cambridge,
and two years after he did undergo the office of
proctor of the university, being then taken notice of
by the gwlly party for his singular gifts, and had in
reputation by the then most learned |M-esbyterians ;
and therefore upon that account lie was the more
frequently put upon public works. After he had
discharged liis office, he received a call to go into
Ireland,' where exercising his ministry for about
four or five years, he was held in admiration by tlie
presbyterian, and .sometimes by the independent, and
had the concurrent applause of .some that were of
different .sentiments from him in matters of religion :
and such also who did not love his opinion, did not-
withstanding connnend him for his learning. After
the king was restored in 1660, he was ejected from
his public cxerei.se (being then, as I conceive, bache-
lor of divinity of Dublin) returnetl into England,
and in and about London he did spend the greatest
j)art of fifteen years without any ciJl to his own
work, whereby he took advantage to go now and
then either into Prance or Holland. In the five last
years of his life, he l)ecamc more known by his con-
stant preaching in private meetings in the great
city, gaining thereby infinite love and applause from
the brethren, who held him to be a person of excel-
lent parts, strong reason, great judgment, and (which
do not often go together) curious fancy. They also
esteemed him to be a man of high improvements

' [Where he lived in the family of Harty Cromwell, and
that with abundant respect. Calamy, Ejected Ministers,
ii, 56.

Bishop Parker, Hist, of his own Times, page 71 , speaks of
Chamock, who had been chaplain to H. Cromwell, w&s
after the restoration sent into England as an agent for the
presbyterians, and, upon discovery of a plot wherein he was
concerned, he changed his name to Clark at London, where
he had a conventicle, and dved A. D. l683. Quaere if Ste-
phen Charnock ? Grey. Probably it was the samc,_ the
bishop having mistaken the lime of his death.]
4 K

1^6

CHARNOCK.

and jjeneral learning, that his chief talent was his
preaching gift, in which he had few equals, that

[658] also he was good in tlie practice of physic ; in which
he had arrived to a considerable measure of know-
knlge, and lastly that he was a true son of the church
of England in tiiat sound doctrine laid down in the
articles of religion, and taught by our most famous
antient divines and reformers. As for his writings
tliey are many,* yet he published nothing while he
lived. However after his death, his friends ma<le
extant these things following to prevent false copies,
which were then likely to creep abroatl.

A Sermon of Reconciliati<m to God in Christ,
m 2 Cor. 5, 19. Lond. 1680. qu.

Treatise of divine Providenic, lit. In general.
"Mly. In jmrticitlar, tui relating to the Church of
GmI in the World, Londcm 1680. 1685. octavo.
Before which is an epistle written by llichard Adams
and Edward Vecl, who, as I think, published the
said Ixwk. This was afterwards involved in his
works.

His Works, containing several Discourses wpon
the E.rcellence and Attributes of God. 1682. ma
large fol. [Bodl. B. 23. 6. Th.] published by the
said two jiersons R. Adams and E. Veel.

His Works, Vol. 2. containing several Discourses
upon various divine Subjects. Lond. 1683. folio,
with a supplement. He died in the house of one
Richard Tymnis a glazier in the parish of White
Chappel near London, on the 27lh of July in six-

1680. teen hundred and eighty, aged 52 years or there-
abouts : Whereupon his bcnly lieing convej'ed to
Crosby-House belonging to sir John Langham (in
which house Thomas Wat.son master of arts some-
time of Emanuel college in Cambridge, pastor of St.
Stephen's church AValbrook in London, in the times
of usurpation, and the author of The Art of divine
Contemplation, and of other things, did hold forth
by praying and preaching = as our author Charnock
did) was tiience accompanied bv great numbers of
the brethren to St. Michael's church on Cornhill in
London ; where, after John Johnson his contempo-
rary in Emanuel and New college, had held forth in

« [Add to Cliarnock's works :

On OUT natural Enmity against God, in several Sermons.
Lond. 8vo. tncntioiied by Calaniy.]

* [When Mr. Watson was in the pulpit on a Icctiire-day,
before the Bartholomew act took place, among otiier hearers,
there came in that reverend and learned prelate bishop
Richardson ; who was so pleased with his sermon, but espe-
cially with his prayer after it, that he followed him home to
give him thanks, and earnestly desir'd a copy of his prayer.
Alas, said Mr. Watson, that is what I cannot give, for I do
not use lo pen my prayers ; it was no study'd thing, but ut-
lere<l as G(h1 enabled me, from the abundance of my heart
and alkciions pro re nata. Upon which the good bishop
went away, wondering that any man could pray in that man-
ner extempore. Afier his ejectment, he continued the ex-
ercise of his ministry in the city, as Providence gave oppor-
tuiiity, for many years : but his strength wearing away, he
retired into lisex, and there dyed suddenly in his closet, at
prayer. Calamy, Ejected Ministers, ii. 37.]

a funeral sermon, (wherein many things were spoken
in praise of tiie definiet) his body was committed to
the earth on the 30th day of the same month, at
the bottom of the tower under the belfry. I must
now, having a just opportunity laid before me, tell
the reader, that the name of Charnock is antient,
and in Lancashire is now, or at least hath been
lately, Charnock of Charnock, from whence was
originally descended Thomas Charnock a noted
chymist and Rosa-crucian t)f his time, Iwth at Fever-
sham (some say in the isle of Thanet) in Kent, an.
1526, and being very covetous of knowledge, he
travelled all England over to gain it, fixed in Oxon
for a considerable time, where it hajjned tliat he fell
into such acquaintance, that it ]>roved his future
comfort. Alkjut that time he became known to Mr.
James S. a .spiritual man living in the Close at Salis-
bury, who being a noted chymist, he entertained
Charnock to be his operator. In 1554, he obtained
the secret from his said master (James S.) who
dying about that time, left him inheritor of it, but
lost it by firing his tabernacle on New-years-day at
iKKHi, an. 1555. Soon after he learned tile secret
again, but not of William Byrd sometime prior of
Bath, who had bestowed a great deal of pains ftnd
money to obtain it, but of another, because Byrd
had been dead several years before. V\ hereupon
Charnock began a-new with the help of a servant,
and again by himself alone : in which work conti-
nuing nine months, which was within a month of his
reckoning, the Crows Head beg-an to appear black ;
but a war being prtK-laimed against the French, an.
1557, and he thereupon, by the malice of a gentle-
man (who was his neighbotir) prest for a soldier, his
operations were frustrated, and all cast aside. On
the first of January the same year, he began to
write The Breviary of natural Philosophy, and on
the 20th of July following he ended it: In the title
anil end of which, he stiles himself an unlettered
scholar, and student in the most worthv science of
astronomy and philosophy. This breviary is writ-
ten in old English verse, which, in the next cen-
tury, coming into the hands of the most renowned
Mercuriophilus Anglicus, who sometimes writes him- [659]
self James Hasolle, (Elias Ashtnole) was iunong other
authors of the like nature, published by him under
this title, Theatrum Chymicum Britannicum. In
1562, Charnock married Agnes Norden at Stokeland-
Bristow four miles from ]?ridgwater in Somerset-
shire, being then, or soon after, setled there, but af-
terwards at a jjlace called Coniadge ; and in th^
year after he buried Absolom his son. In 1566 he
finished his book calletl The jjrincipal Rules of na-
tural Philo.Hophy, Jigurativcly .set forth to the Ob-
taining of the Philosophers Stone. In which year
also he dedicated a book of The Science to queen
Eli/.du'th, anil dated tlie Roll at Stockland, as he
himself saith ; which Rollc is written in Latin, being
the same, I presume, with the Emblematical Scroiole,
suj)}X)sed to be invented by George Ripley, the in-

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side of which was c()iii))osc<l, as CliariKK'k says, by a
great master of the Ilorinetic- pliilosoijliy, ami writ-
ten bv a master of liis jk'II. Some notes in tlie void
spaces of it were written by Charnock's hand, which
stiew tliathc did not (or at least thoroiijrldy) under-
stand it. In 157J2 he wrote The Poncijofthc Roll ;
whicli roll seems to me to have been a kind of a
vade mecum, or a manual that the students of the
hermetic science carrietl alwut with them, and also
to be taken from Raymundu.s LuUius. The same
year he -wroX-i^JEnigma udAlchymiavt, and /Eniffma
de Alchym'ui, both in Enjrlish verse, and jirinted in
Theat. Chijm. before-mentioned. In 1573 he wrote,
as liimself saith, the fragment. Knock the Child on
the Head. See Theat. Chijm. pag. 425, and in the
year after he confessed that he never saw ' the white
ferment to the red, till the fiftieth year of his age.'
in 1576 appeared The Difficultt/ of the philosophical
Number in the Roll. Tliis roll so often mentioned,
is religiously kept to this day in a house at Comadge
before-mention''d ; where for his studies and carry-
ing on of his oj)erations, he made a little room and
contrivance for the keeping his work, and so inge-
niously ordered, that no accident of fire could befal
him, as it did on new-years-day 1555. It joyns as
9, closet to that which was his chamber, to make a
servant needless, and the work of giving attendance
more ea.sie to himself. On tlie door was drawn by
his own hand with course colours, but rudely, an
■emblem of his work : So likewise about the walls in
the chamber, are several pieces of his painting differ-
ing from each other, some of which are obscure and
almost worn out. Several fragments written by him,
are published in the said Theat. Chi/m. Brit, but
therein are omitted Charnock's Posey upon the
white and red Rose, and verses on the Philoso-
pJier^i Dragon xohich eateth up her mem Tail,
&c. This Rosacrucian Charnock paid his last debt
to nature in his house at Comadge, and was buried
■within the precincts of the church at Otterhampton
near to IJridgwater, the 21st of April 1581.

HENRY MARTEN commonly called Harry
Marten, son of sir Henry Marten mentioned among
these writers under the year 1641, col. 17. was
born within the city of (Jxford, particularly, as I
■conceive, in the parish of St. John Baptist, in an
house opjKisite to Merton college church, then lately
built by Henry Sherburne gentleman, and possessed
at the time of Harrv's birth by sir Henry his fatlier.
After he had been instructed in granmiar learning
in Oxon, he became a gentleman commoner of Uni-
versity college in the beginning of 1617,' aged fif-
teen years ; where, and in pulilic, giving a mani-
festation of his pregnant parts, had the degree of

* [Certainly not the beginning. He was mntriculatetl
October 31, 1617 — ' Henricus Marten, Oxoniensis, militis
filius, annos natus 1.^.' Reg. Matric. PP. fol. 187-]

l)achelor of arts conferM upon him in the latter end
of 1619. Afterwards he went to one of the inns of
court, travelled into France, and at his return his
father found out a rich wife for him, whom he mar-
ried something unwillingly, and therefore afterwards
living a part from her, and following other creiitures,
she was for sometime di.stemper'd. In the l«.'gin-
ning of the year 1640, he was elected one of the
knights of Berks, to serve in that parliament that
began at Westminster the thirteenth of April ; and
again (tho' not legally) in October to serve in that [660}
unhappy jiarliament that Ix'gan at the same place
on the third of November following. In wliich last
parliament he shew'd himself, out of some little
pit]ue, the most bitter enemy against the king in all
the house, as well in action as speech ; for which
being first reprimanded while the prcsbvterians
swayed therein, was afterwards for the incontinence
of his tongue committed prisoner to the Tower of
London, but soon after released.' " In the beginninc
" of the war he was governour of Residing which
" he very poorly quitted, and then it came into the
" king's hands." He was an enemy also to the
kingly office, and all lielonging thereunto, esjKtually
the regalia, which he causcti to be sold : ftir lieing
authorized by the said parliament about 1642, he
forced open a great iron chest within the college o£
Westminster, and thence took out the crown, rolies,
sword and scepter belonging .-intiently to king Ed-
ward the confessor, and used by all our kings at
their inaugurations ; and with a scorn greater than
his lusts and the rest of his vices, he ojienly dtv
clared that there should be no further use of
those toyes and trifles, &c. And in the jollity of
that humour he invested George Wither (an old
puritan satyrist) in the royal habiliments : who
being crown\l and royally array 'd (as well right be-
came him) did first march about tlie nxmi with a
stately garb, and afterwards with a thousand apish
and ridiculous actions exposed those sacred orna-
ments to contempt and laughter. Had the abuse
been"* stript and whip\l, as it .should have lieen,
the foolish fellow possibly might have mssed for a
prophet, tho' he could not be reckoned for a ytoet.
The said Henry Marten was a taker of all oaths,
whether that of allegiance, covenant, engjigement,
&c. The last of which being by him taken, he
would by all means, as the independent gang did,
make the covenant an old almanack out of date, to
the end that he and they might be rid of that tie of
preserving his majesty's person and authority, &c.
as the presbytcrians would with regret frequently

' [And readmitted to hi« place in the house. The words
he spoke were. That it was better one family should perish,
than that the people should be destroyed ; and being required
to expl.nin himself, he confessed that he meant the family of
the king. Macro.]

s P. Heylin in his Hist, nfthe Prethyleriant, printed 1673.
p. 452. ' ''

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Bay. He was also an eager enemy against lords,
gentry, lawyers and clergy, and a protestor for a
community of wealth, as well as ot women. He
was also a grand prodigal in not only spending
three thousjind jiounds per an. which liis father and
other relations left him (mostly lying in Berks) but
several thousand pounds, and one thousand pounds
per an. given to him and his heirs for ever out of
the duke of Buckingham's estate, by parliament, in
consideration of his losses (not of his members) for

I Uie holy and blessed cause. This viper, which had

been fostered in the bosom of the parliament, was
against the parliament it self, and against all ma-
gistrates, like a second Wat. Tyler, all pen and
inkhorn men must down. This his levelling doc-
trine is contained in a pamphlet called England's
Troubles troubled, wherein all rich men whatsoever
are declared enemies to the mean men of England,
and (in effect) war denounced against them. Be-
sides 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 sjxjnt to satisfie his filthy lusts. In
1648 he forbad the people tp stand bare at a ses-
sions in Berkshire and do homage and fealty to the
lords ; but in this he gulPd them (though they were
not sensible of it) because he gave that which was
not their due. Yet notwithstanding he robb'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
vhile he flatter'd them to be the supreme authority
and lords paramount, and the parliament to be theu-
servants, he used them like slaves conquered by the
parhamcnt. On the eighth of December the same
year, being the day after the parliament house was

(6611 purged of the presbyterians, in came Oliver Crom-
well out of the country, bringing in under his pro-
tection our sanctified member Harry Marten, who
Jiad spent much time in plundering that country,
had often bafled 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, be-
cause it fortun'd that day that the case of the se-
cured members was reported to the house: which
Harry interrupting, desired them to take into con-
sideration the deserts of the lieutenant general
(Cromwell) which, with all slavish diligence, was
presently done. So Harry by this device escaped
iree, who in the beginning of the next month, was
(with Hugh Peters) a zealous solicitor in parliament
to have the statute of banishment against the Jews
repealetl, according to their petition for the same
jiurposo then put up to the house. About the same
time Croinwell findmghima man fit for his purpose,
])iit him into the roll for one to sit as judge ujion
the life of liis bovereign ; in which tragedy he acted

his part so unconcernedly tliat he valued the life of
his prince no more than that of a dog ; yet after-
wards as the re|X)rt » goes, in a spec»ch 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 fourteenth of February following,
which was about a fortnight after the king was be-
heatled, 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 account of his
arrears, which came to twenty five thousand pounds,
whereupon it was orderetl that one thousand pounds
in land should be sctled injon him and his heirs r
About which time the Welsh counties Mere set on
work to desire Henry Marten for their commander
in chief. Afterwards Harrv |x>rceiving Oliver to
aim at high things, he left him, sided with the
levellers, and would have done them g<x)d serme,
had not the parliament given him three thousand
jx)unds more to put hiin upon the holy sisters.' In
November 1651, he was appointed again one of the
council of state, and had in a manner what he de-
sired ; 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 publicly called him
" (as he did sir Peter Wentworth)" a noted whore.'
master (as he did Thomas 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 twenty years
together were past, was at length called to an ac-
count for that grand villany of having a considerable
hand in murthering liis prince: of Avhich being
easily found guilty,* was not to suffer the loss of his

» See in the second part of The History if Independency
p. I4(). §. 134.

' [In a scandalous vol. entitled Remains of John Earl of
Rochester ISmo. 17)8, is an obscene poem Upon Six Holy
Sisters thai met at a Conventicle to alter the Popish Word qf
Prcaching.1

" [ l66'l , 7 Febr. In the house of lords, Henry Marten was
brought and demanded what he could say for himself, why
the foresaid act for his execution should not pass. And he
said, that the honourable house of commons, that he did so
idohzc, had given him up to death, and now this honourable
houfe of ))eers, which he had so much opposed, especially \n
their power of judicature, is now made the sanctuary to flee
to for life. He submitted himself to his maj' slie's gracious
proclamation, which he took hold of, and rendered himselfe
and hopes to receive mercy by it, and now sid)miils himself
to his majesty and the niercy'of lliis house. Journals of the
H. of Lords. Kennet.]

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1^42

life as others did (for it was then commonly rc-

1)orted that if they hiinij liiin, his body would not
lold together because ot its rottenness) but the loss
of his estate and perpetual imprisonment, for tiiat
he came in u|X)n the proclamation of surrender.
So that after one or two removes from ])rison to
))rison, he was at length sent to C'hepstow 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 sjU'eches, as (1) Speech at t/w Comrrum
Hall the 28th of July 1643, concerning Sir Wil-
[662] liani Waller, and what Course now is to he taken.
Lond. 1643. qu. (2) Speech in I'arl. &c.

TJie Imlependencij of England endeavoured to
be maintained against the Claim of the Scottish
Commissioners, in their late Answer ujmn the Bills
and Propositions sent to the King in tlie Isle of
Wight. Lond. 1648. in 3 .sh. and an half in qu.
[Bodl. C. 15. 2. Line]

The Parliament''s Proceedings justified, in de-
clining a personal Treaty with the King, &c.
Lond. 1648. in 3 sh. in qu.

" A Word to Mr. William Prynne Esq; and
" two for the Parliament and Army, reproving the
" one, and justifying the otJier, in tlieir late Pro-
" ceeding, &c. Lond. 1649. qu. in two sh."

Familiar Letters to his Lady of Delight.* Oxon.
1685. qu.

Politic and Oecmiomical Letters Printed with

the first, and I think with the second, edition of the
said Familiar Letters. In the beginning of the
said letters, is that in justification of the murther of
king Charles I. See more in Edmond Gayton,
under the year 1666. col. 756. 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
House of Commons before his Departure thence,
the 8th of June 1648. Printed m one sheet in
quarto, but 'tis a piece of roguej-y fathered upon

3 [Marten had been a violent enemy to monarchy; bnt
all that he moved for, was upon Roman or Greek principles.
He never entree! into matters of religion but on design to
laugh both at them and all morality ; for he was both an im-

f>ious and vitious man, and now in his imprisonment, hcde-
iver'd himself up to vice and blasphemy ; and it was said,
that this helped him to so many friends, that uix)n that very
account, he was spared. Macro.]

« [Coll. Henry Marlcn's Familiar Letters lo his Lath/ 'if
Delight : Also her kind Returnvs. fHth his Ilivall It. Pet-
iingnll's Heroicall Epistles. Printed hi) Edmundus dc Sl>e-
ciosa Villa. Bellosili Dobunorum. Printed for Richard
Davis, I fj()3. 4to. gO pages. Cole.

The Familiar Epistles of Coll. Henry Martin, found in his
Misses Cabinet. The Second Edition. London Printed for
Jo. Ilindmarsh, liookscller tu his Royal Highness, at the
Black Hull in Cornhill. 1 685. 4 to. 55 pages, besides a sheet
poni. title and dedication. Iti the Ashinulc Museum, numb.

looe.]

him. This person, who lived very poor, and in a
shablKHl condition in his confinement, and would be
glaxl to take a pot of ale from any one that would
give it to him, died with meat in his mouth, that is
suddenly, in Chepstow Ca.stle before-mention'd, in
September in sixteen liundred and eighty, and was
on the ninth day of the same month buried in the
church of Chepstow. Some time l)eft)re he died he
made this epit;iph by way of acrostic on himself,
which runs tlius,

Here, or el.sewherc (all's one to you, to me)
Earth, air, or water grijx?s my ghostless dust.
None knowing when brave fire shall set it free.
Header, if you an oft tryed rule will trust,
You'll glatlly do and suffer what you must.

My life was worn with serving you and you,
And now death's my pay, it seems, and welcome too.
Revenge destroying but it self, while I
To birds of prey leave my old cage, and fly.
Examples preach to the eye, care (then mine says)
Not how you end, but how you spend your days.
Aged 78.

Another epitaph was made by his daughter, who
usually attended him, which for brevity's sake I now
omit.

[The following accoimt (though somewliat of a
recapitulation) taken from Aubrey's papers, in the
Ashmole Museum, will not be unacceptable to the
reader :

He was son and heir of s^ Henry Martin knight,

judge of the arches, was borne at ' He was of

the university of. travelled France, but never

Italic. His father found out a rich wife for him,
whom he married something unwillingly. He was
a great lover of pretty girles, to whom he was so li-
bcrall that lie spent the greatest part of his estate.

He lived from his wife a long time K. Ch. L

had complaint against him for wenching: it hap-
pened that Henry was in Hyde parke one time
when his ma"^. was there, goeing to see a race. The
king espied him and saya aloud, ' Let that ugly

rascall be gonne out of the park, that w master,

or els I will not see the sjwrt.' So Henry went
away patiently, se<l manebat alta mentc repostum.
That sarcasme raysed the whole countie of Berics
against liim. He was as far from a puritane as
light from darknesse. About 1641 lie was chosen
knight of the shire of that countie, nemine contra-
dicente," and proved a ilcadly enemy to y'. king.
He was a great and faithfull lover of' his countrey,

'■■ [Sir Henry. L.L. D. was borne at Stoke Pogcs, in the
countie of Bucks. His f.ither a copv-hi)lder there of al>out
()0 lib. per ann. He was formerly a fellow of New cullcdge,
Oxon. He left his sonne .'JOOO lib. per annimi.]

* [He was very hospitable, and e.xcceding popular in
Berks, through the whole countie. Becket, in the |>arish of
Shrinehain, his chiefe scale, in y' vale of While Horse, now
major Wildnian's.] [

1680.

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GLANVILL.

and never gott a farthincr by the parliament. He
was of an incomparable witt for repirtees, not at all
covetous, lunnble, not at all arrogant, a.s most of
them were ; a great cultor of justice, and did always
in the house take the jiart of tlie oppressed. A".
1660 lie was obnoxious for haNnng been one of the
late kings judges, and he was in very great danger
to have suffred as others did, but (as he was a witt
himselfe) so the Lord Falkland saved his life by
witt, saying, ' Gentlemen, yee talke here of making
a sacrifice ; it was old lawe, all sacrifices were to be
without spot or blemish ; and now you are going to
make an old rotten rascall a sacrifice.' This witt
tooke in the house, and saved his life.

He was first a prisoner at the Tower, then at
Windsore (removed from thence because he was an
eie-sore to ma''" &c.) from thence to Chepstow
where he is now (1680). During his imprisonment
his wife releived him out of her jointure, but she

dyed S^ Edw. Bayntom was wont to say that

his comi)any was incomparable, but that he would
be drunke too soon. His speeches in the house were
not long, but wondrous poynant, pertinent and
witty. He was exceeding happy in apt instances ;
he alone hath sometimes turned the whole house.
Making an invective speech one time against old Sir
Henry Vane, when he had done with him, he sayd.

But for young Sir Harry Vane and so sate him

clowne. Severall cryed out — ' What have you to
say to young S^ Harry ?' He rises up : Why if
young Sir Harry lives to be old, he will be old Sir
Harry ! and so sate downe, and set the whole house
a laughing, as he oftentimes did. O. Cromwell
once in the house called him, jestingly or scoffingly.
Sir HaiTy Martin. H. M. rises and howes, ' I
thanke your mnjestle, I alwayes thought when you
were king, that I should be knighted.' A godly
memher made a motion to have all jirofane and un-
sanctified persons expelled the house. H. M. stood
up and moved that all fooles might be put out like-
wise, and then there would be a thin house. He
y/as wont to sleep much in the house (at least dog-
sleep). Aid. Atkins made a motion that such scan-
dalous members as slc-})t and minded not the business
of the house, shoulil he putt out. H. M. starts up.
— ' Mr. Speaker, a motion has been made to turne
out the nodders ; I desire the luxldees may also be
turned out.' He savd, that he had seen the Scrip-
ture fulfilled — Thou hast exalted the humble and
meeke ; thou hast filled the emptie with gtxxl things,
and the rich hast thou sent emptie away. See a
prettie speech of his in print about the comeing in
of the Saitts to assist and direct us.

See some further account of him in a small 8vo.
printed at London in 1700, intituled Regicides no
Sainti nor Martyrs, page 83. Cole.

Lord C'larendon relates that the earl of North-
umberland cudgelled Marten .it a conference be-
tween the two houses, for having broken open a
letter written by that nobleman, when at Oxford,

to his lady.
189.]

Hint, of the Rebellion, ii, 174,

JOSEPH GLANVILL was lH)m at a seaport
town in Devonshire called Plymouth,' became a
batler of, and entred into commons in, Exeter col-
lege, the nineteenth of April 1652, aged sixteen
years, where being ])ut under a good tutor (Samuel
Conant master of arts) and severely disciplin'd in
religion, logic and jihilosophj', makes me wonder,
cimsidering that that house was then one of the
chief nurseries for youth in the university, why he
should afterwards lament that his friends did not
first send him to Cambridge, because, as he used to
say, that new philosophy and tlie art of philoso-
phizing were there more than here in Oxon, and
that his first studies in this university did not qualify
him for the world of action and business. After he
had taken the degree of bachelor of arts, he went to
Lincoln college in the beginning of July 1656,
where taking the degree of master of arts in the
beginning of 1658, was about that time made chap-
lain to old Francis Rous one of Oliver's lords, and
provost of Eaton college. But he dying soon after,
Glanvill retum'd to Oxon, continued in Lincoln
college for a time, and became a great admirer of
Mr. Richard Baxter, and a zealous person for a
common- wealth. After his majesty's restoration, he [663]
turned about, became a latituciinarian, a great pre-
tender to the new ])hilosophv, wrote and published
The Vanity of Dogmatizing, to gain himself a
name among the virtuosi, was made a member of
the royal s(x;iety, entred into holy orders according
to the church of England, and, by the favour of sir
James Thynne, was presented to the vicaridge of a
market-town in Somersetshire called F'ronie'.Selwood
in the beginning of November I G&'Zi, in the place of
John Himiphrey a nonconformist. In 1666, June
the 23d, he was inducte<l rector of the great church
in Bath dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul, and in
July 1672 he changetl Frome for the rectory of
Streat, with the chappel of Walton annex'd, in
Somersetshire, with Richard Jenkins master of arts.
So that by virtue of the presentation to those two
churches by Tho. Thynne esq; Jenkins was insti-
tuted to Fromc, and Glanvill to Streat and Walton,
on one and the same day, \\7.. the twenty sixth of
July 1672. About that time he was made one of
the chaplains in ordinary to king Charles II. and at
length by the endeavours of Henry marquess of
Worcester (to whom our author's wife pretended
some alliance) he became one of the prebendaries of
Worcester, in the place of Henry Greisley deceased ;
in which dignity he w^as installed the twenty second
of June 1678. A certain author namecl Henry
Stubbe, who wrote much against, and did not care

' [His father was a mcrcliaiil in that town; and by his
coat armour descended from that anlient and wntile family
of the name, which somtimc florished at Tavestock.--
Prince, Worthies qf Devon, page 351.]

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n4/fi

[664]

for, him, saith » tliat Mr. Glunvill ' was the most im-
pudent Iyer in the world, that lie wonUl prove him
a Iyer, and so ignorant and illiterate a fellow, that
he was not fit to come into any learned comjiany, or
to open his mouth among them/ He tells " us also
that he did not understand Greek, only to read it,

he cimld ' not construe Aristotle, he knew"

not logic either in the practice or notion', that

he ' was an ignorant and inconsiderate fellow,

that as much as he pretends to have studied Aris-
totle, and the peripatetic philosopliy, yet he did not *
know that Aristotle held the gravity of the air, and
was therefore followed by the Avicennists and Aver-

roists, &c. that he was against' the fertility of

the way of notion and dispute ; concerning which
he affirmed that it pi-oduced no practical useful
knowledge. He chargcnl « liim with impiety and
indiscretion, with decrying the learning of the lord
Bacon, yet to excuse liis errour and insolence, he
nuule u.se of his great name, and thought it a suf-
ficient apology, that he could .shew that the subject
of his most obnoxious periods and jjassages were to
be found largely and often insisted on by so great
and learned a man. He tells us also that he was ' a
renegado presbyter, latitudinarian, a jiroud and con-
ceited person,' &c. Hut all these things, with many
more, having been sjwken by a rash jx-rson, and
one that was well known not to alwund with g(x)d-
nature, and seldom to have sjx)ken well r)f any body,
I shall take the liberty to give this character of him,
Glanvill (with which those that knew him, as I did
partly, will without doubt concur) viz. that he was
a person of more than ordinary parts, of a quick,
warm, spruce and gay fancy, and was more lucky,
at least in his own judgment, in his first hints and
thoughts of things, than in his after-notions, ex-
amined and digested by longer and more mature
deliberation. He had a very tenacious memory,
and was a great master of the J'inglish language,
expressing himself therein with casj- fluency, and in
a manly, yet withal a smooth stile. He catcht at
all occasions, as well in his di.scourse, as in his
writings, of depreciating that renowned master of
reason, and celebrated advancer of knowledge Aris-
totle, and of undervaluing his philosophy, although
it hath Ix-en received in the schools tor many ages
of great authority, with general approbation and
advantage ; and m the place of it he substituted
many petty newfangled and fantastical hypotheses
of that philosophy, which bidding defiance to the
old, boasts it self in the winning and glorious title

^.Ii> his Epistolary Discourse concerning Pldelolomy,
printed 167 1. p. 14, 15.
» Ibid. p. 22.
,25.
£6.
.27.
25, 26,
16.

6. 7.

' Ibid. p.
« Ibid.
3 Ibid. p.
* Ibid. p.
' Ibid. p.
*• Ibid, p,

of being new. This also must l)e saiti, that he did
not blame the use of Aristotle in the universities
among the junior students, but did altogether dis-
approve the streightness and sloath of elcler diiudi-
cants, from whom a more generous temper might be
expected than to sit down in a contented despair of
any fartlier prop-ess into science, than hath Ixjen
matle by their idolized sophy (as he is pli>;use<l to
term it) and di'priving themselves and all this world
of their liberty in philosophy, by making a sacra-
mental adherence to an lieathen authority : And
this it was, together with the jx-dantry and Ixiyish-
ness of humour that drew from him those reflwlions
he directed against Aristotle, in the letter which I
shall anon mention. Me did more especially ap-
plaud and rcH;ommend that more free and generous
way (as they call it) of promoting learning, now for
some years carried on and professed (though not at
this time (1690) and several years since, with that
active vigour, as at first) by the royal stK-iety : The
institution of which, its religious tendency towards
the advancement of true substantial and solid im-
provements, and great benefit which hath, aiul may
iiccruc thence to human life, by that real and useful
knowledge there aimed at, and in part ol)tiiined, he
hath, with some shew and appearance at least of
rea.son, defendefl against Henry Stubbe ; and all
this against the old way, which he calls a bare
formal scheme of empty airy notions, senseless terms,
and insignificant words, fit only to make a noise, and
furnish men with matter of wrangling and conten-
tion, &c. His reflecting on his university education
with such regret and dissatisfaction (declaring often
in common discourse, that his being trained up in
that trite and beaten road, was one of his greatest
unhappinesses that had ever befallen him) as it sa-
voured plainly of too much arrogance thus ra.shly to
condemn the statutable continued practice of such a
learned body, which doth not (as is by our mo<lem
virtuosi falsely pretended) so slavishly tye up its
youth to the magisterial dictates of Aristotle, as not
to be permitted in any cases to tlepart from his
sometimes erroneous sentiments, but gives them free
and boundless liberty of ranging and conversing
with the many and different writers, who set up wiia
the specious name of new philosophy, referring f till
to the authority of Aristotle as uncjuestionable in
the performance of public exercise; m) neither did
it seem to consist with those grateful returns which
his more benign mother the university might have
reasonably looked for from him, a.s souse slender re-
quital for her so frankly bestowing on him the
ground-work or foundation at least of all that learn-
ing, which aftenvards rendrcd him so mightily
known and famous to, and among, some people.
Mr. Richard Baxter, to wlumi our author wrote i
large ' courting letter, dated the third of September

' In Mr. Baxter's Second true Defence of the meer Noti-
confvrmists , &c. Loud. IC8I. cap. 14. p. 179-

1247

GLANVILL.

1661, (wherein it appears that he ndmiretl his
preacliing and writings) saitli that ' he " was a man

of more tljan ordinary ingeny, that he was ' one

of themselves here (though an originist) a most
triumphant conformist, and not the greatest con-

tenmer of nonconformists, and famous for liis

great wit,' &:c. which last commendation is given of
him by the most famous Th. de Albiis ' an eminent
writer of another persuasion. As for the books that
this our author Glanvill hath written (the titles of
which follow) some of them are new vamp'd, have
fresii titles of and sometimes new dedications put
to them : which, whether it was so contrived to
make the world believe that he was not lazy, but put
out a Ixwk every year, I leave to others to judge.

The Vanity of Dogmatizing: or Confidence in
Opinions, manifested in a Discourse of the Short-
[665] ness and Uncertainty of our Knowledge, and its
Causes; u-ifh some Reflections on Peripateticism,
and an Apology for Philosophy. London 1661.
octavo. [Bodl. 8vo. C. 680. Line] All, or most of
this book is contained in Scepsis scientijica, &c. as
I shall tell you by and by. It was answer'd by
Thom. Anglus ex Albiis East-Saxonum in his book
entitled Sciri, sive Sceptices Sj- Scepticorum a Jure
Disputationis Excltisio. Lond. 1663. in tw. By
this Tho. Anglus we are to understand to be the
same with Thomas White, second son of Richard
White of Hutton in Essex esq; by Mary his wife,
daughter of Edmund Plowden the great lawyer
in the reign of queen Elizabeth : which Thomas
White having been always from his childhood a
Roman Catholic, became at length a secular priest,
and a most noted philosopher of his time, as his

Eublished writings, much sought after and admired
y many, shew.' Hobbes of Malmsbuiy had a

• Ibid. p. 175.
» Ibid. p. 174.

' ' In epist.ded. juninribus Britannic, scholarumacademicis,
ad libr. cui tit. est Sciri.

* {The Grounds of Obedience and Government, Lond.
1655, 12mo. second edit, corrected and enlarged.

A Letter to a Person of Honour in Vindication qf Himself
und his Doctrine. l65y, l2mo.

Coutrovcrsi/ Logicke ; or the Method to come to Truth in
Debates of Relieivn. l6.'i(), I2mo.

Hushworth's Dialogues : or the Judgment of Common- Sense
in the Choyce <(f Religion. Paris 1(J40, 8vo. Corrected and
enlarged, Paris 1654, 8vo.

This Rushwor'.h was born in Lincolnshire, stndied in the
Knglish college at Doway, where he took holy orders and
was prefect with great applause under the tnasqncd name of
Charles Rossc. He was an excellent mathematician, and
pursued that close way of thinking in all his works : was
also a good divine and naturalist, and dyed in England in
IG37. Rawlinson.

So far Dr. Rawlinson's catalogucof White's works. Wood
has made a memorandum to insert a list of his productions in
this part of the Athen«, but has not left any materials for
so doing : so that I fear my attempts to supply the deficiency
will not be attended with perfect success.

De Mundo Dialogi Tres. Paris 1 642, 4to.
., Jtistitutionum PeripnfrHcarum ad Mentem summi Viri,
claritsimique Philosophi Kenehni Eguitis Digbaii, Pars Theor

great respect for liim, and when he lived in West-
minster, he would often visit him, and he Ilobbes,
but seldom parted in cool blood: for they would
wrangle, sijuabble and scold about philosophical
matters like young sophisters, though either ol them
was eighty years of age ; yet Hobbes being obsti-
nate, and not able to endine contradiction, (tho*^
well he nlight, seeing White, was his senior) yet
those scholars, wlio were sometimes present at their
wrangling dis]iutes, held that the latirel was carried
away by White; who dying in his lodgings in
Drury-lane, between the hours of two and three in

rctica. Item Appendix Theologica de Origine Mundi. Lond.
1C47, second edit. !2nio.

Instilutionum Sacrarum Peripatelicii incsdijicatarum : Hoc
est Theologies, super Fundamentis in Peripatetica Digbaana
jaclis, cxlructCE, Pars Iheorttica. 2 torn. l652. l2mo.

miicationis sua de Medio Animarum Statu Ratio. Paris
\6^>3, l2mo. This was translated by the author, and printed
in English in 1659, 12mo. Ded. to lady Mary Tucket.

A Contemplation of Heaven : with an Exercise of Love,
and a Descant on the Prayer in the Garden. Paris 1664,^
l2mo.

Tabulce Suffragiales de Terminandis Fidei Litilus, ab Ec-
clesia Catholicafi.rfe. Lond. 1()55, 12mo.

Euclides Metaphysicus, sive de Principiis Sapientia. Lond.
1608. 8vo.

Exercitatio Geometrica. De Geometria Indivisibiliumy^l .
Proportione Spiralis ad Circulum. Lond. l638.

Sonus Buccince : sive Tractatus de f-lrtutibus Fidei el
Theologice ; De Principiis earundem, et de Erroribus opposttis.
Col. Agrip. 1639, 12mo.

Monumetham excautatus : sive Animadversiones in Libellum

famosum, inscriptum De Anglicani Cleri retincnda in Apos-

tolicam Sedem Observantia, &c. Rotomagi I66O, I2mo.

Answered by P. R. in his Excantalionis Amuletum, Paris

1661.

Religion and Reason mutually corresponding and assisting
each other. Paris 1 660, l2mo.

Institutionum Etliicarum, sive Statera Morum aptis J?a-
tionuni Momentis lihralce. Lond. I66O, 12mo.

Answer to Lord Falkland's Discourse of Iiifallibility. L«nd.
1 660, 4to.

Excepliones duorum Theologorum Parisiensium adversut.
Doctrinum Albianam de Medio Animarum Statu et aliis, cum
Rrsponsis ad easdem. l662, l2mo.

Preface to sir Kenelm Digby's Demonstratio Immortalilatii
Animw, Paris.

Meditationes in Graliam Sacerdntum Cleri Anglicani.

Qiiceslio prcevia, et Mens Agustini de Gratia.

A Catechism, in English.

Meditations, in English.

The last five are given in a catalogue of White's writings
at the end of his Contemplation of Heaven, &c. 16.34.
Bishop Barlow supposes that he also wrote An Apology for
Tradition.

White was an acquaintance of Dr. Wallis, Seth Ward, Dr.
Wilkins, Ralph Bathurst, 3cc. to the latter he addressed his
Euclides Physicus, 1657. See a letter on that subject in
Warton's Life and Literary Remains of Bathurst, page l65.
See also piige 46 note.

This White was earnestly recommended to Charles II. by
a person of great nolejbutthe king, who, sailh Du Moulin,
hath a royal insight into persons and businesses, stopped him
with this short answer — ' No more of that, I know what
man he is.' Answer to Philanax Angl. 4to. l664, page 61.
See in Kennel's Reg. and Chron. page 023, Thomas White
alias Blackloe's submissions to the see of Rome, and his re-
cantation of certain positions inimical to the papal supremacy,
dated in 1657 and 1662.]

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GLANVILL.

1^250

the afternoon of the sixth day of July, an. 1676,
aged ninety four years, was buried ahiiost under the
pulpit in the church of St. Martin''s in the Fields,
within tiie liberty of Westminster, on the ninth day
of the same month. By his death the Roman ai-
tholics lost an eminent ornament from among them ;
and it hath been a question among some of them,
whether ever any secular priest of England went
beyoiid him in philosophical matters. Our author
Glanvill hath also written,

Lex Orientalis : or, an Enqmrij into the Opinion
oftlie Eastern Sages concerning tlie Pre-Existence
of Souls, being a Key to unlock the grand Mys-
teries of Providence, kc. Lond. 1662. octavo. [Bodl.
8vo. C. 678. Line] There again 1682. [Bodl. 8vo.
C 5. Line] See at the end of this catalogue of our

author's works. " AVhich last edition (1682) with

" a Discourse of Truth by Dr. Rust, was published
" by James Collins and Dy him dedicated to the

" honourable sir John Finch knight which

" James Collins, in his epistle to the reader, stiles
" Mr. Glanvill one of the most ingenious and florid
" writers of his age.'"

- . Scepsis Scientifica : or con/est Ignorance, the
Way to Science; in an Essay on the Vanity of
Dogmatizing and confident Opinion. Lond. 1665.
qu. '

J Reply to the Exceptions of tlie learned Tho^

Albius, &c. Or thus. Scir! tuum nihil est ; or

the Aut}ior''s Defence of the Vanity ()f Dogmatizing,
&c. printed with Seep. Scienf.

A Letter to a Friend ccmcerning Aristotle
Printed also with Seep. Scient.

Some philosophical Considerations touching the
Being of Witches and Witchcraft. In a Letter to
Robert Hunt E.^q; Lond. 1666. qu. But all or
most of the impression of this lxK)k being burnt in
the great fire at London, in the iK-ginning of Sep
temlxjr the same year, it was reprinted there again
1667. quarto. [Bodl. C. 13. 10. Line] The said
Philosophical Considerations were answer'd by John
Webster practicioner in physic and chirurgery in
the West Riding of Yorkshire, in a book which I
shall anon mention.

A Blow at modern Saducism, in some philo-
sophical Co7iside rations about Witclu:rqfl. Lond.
1d68. &c. quarto.' See more towards the latter end
of this catalogue of books.

Relation of the famed Disturbance at the House

of Mr. Mompe.tson Printed with the Blow at

Modern Saduci,sm. This disturbance in the house
of John Mumpcsson of Tedworth in Wilts, e.sq.*
was occasion'd by its being haunted with evil spirits,
and the beating of a drum invisibly every night,

3 [Sec an edit, bearing this dale l668, in octavo. Bodl. 8vo.
C. 447. Line]

* ILetler of Mr. Mompesson about the Daemon of Tedworth.
MS. in Wood's study, Mus. Ashmole.]

Vol. in.

from alxjut the lieginniiig of 1(563,' to the beginning
of the year following ami after.

liejlections on Drollery and Atheism— —pr. also
with A Blow at Mod. Sad.

Palpable Evidence of Spirits and Witclicrafl, in
an Account of the famed Disturbance by a Drum-
mer in the House of Mr. Mompe.ison, &c. Lund;
1688. This is most, if not all, the same with th«
former, only the title alterVl.

A WJiip Jbr the Droll, Fidler to the Atheist;
being Reflections on Drollery and Atheism. Lond.
1668. This is also mostly the same with Reflection.^
on Drollery and Atlieism bcfore-mention'd. 'Tis
reprinted, as if it was a new thing, by Dr. Henry
More, among the additions to the second edition of
Saducismus Triumphans.

Plus ultra : or, the Progress and Advancement
of Knowledge since the Days ofArlitotle, &c. Land.-
1668. octavo. [Bodl. 8vo. A. 131. Art.] An account
of which lxx)k you may see in the Royal or Philo^-
sophical Transactions num. 36.

Several sermons, as (1) Fast Semum on the
King^s Martyrdom ; on Rom. 13. 2. Lond. 1667.
(2) Catholic Charity, recommended in a Sermon
before the Lord Mayor of London, on 1 Peter 1:
Part of the 22d Ver.te, in Order to the Abating the
Animosities among Christians that have been occa^
sion'd by Differences in Religion,. Lond. 1669.
quarto. (3) Seasonable Recommendation, and De-
fence of Reason in the Affairs of Religion against
Infidelity, Sceptism and Fanaticism of all Sorts j
on Rom. 12. latter Part of the Jirst Verse. Lond;
1670. oct. See more sermons following.

The Way of Happiness in its Diffiadties and
Encouragements: cleared from, man-y popular and
dangerous Mistakes, liond. 1670. octavo. [Bodl.
8vo. C. 366. Line] This had also another title put
to it the same year, with alterations thus : A Dia-^
course concerning the Difficulties of the Way to
Happiness, whence they may arise, and how they
may be overthrown ; with an Account of the Short-
ness and Vanity of tlie animal Religion, &c. in oct

A seasonable Recommendation and Defence of
Reason in the Affairs of Religion, against Infide-
lity, Sceptism, and Fanaticisms of all Sorts. Lond.

1670. quarto. [In octavo; Bodl.Svo. S. 169. Art.]
Philosophia Pia : A Discourse of tJic religions

Temper and Tendencies of the experimental Philo-
sophy, which is profest by the Royal Society. Lonfl.

1671. octavo; [Bodl. 8vo. S. 169. Art.]

A Prcpfaratory Answer to Mr. Henrjf Stubbe,
tlie Doctor of Warwick, wherein the Malignity,
Hypocrisy, and Falshood of his Temper, Pretences
and Reports, Sfc. in his Ajiimadver.uons on Plus
ultra, are discovered. Lond. 1671. oct.

Afartlier Discovery of Mr. Stubbe, in a brief

s [The drom began to beat in the l>cginnii)g of March
1661,2. \Voov, MS. Note in AshitioU.)
4L

[666]

1251

GLANVILL.

[667]

Reply to the last PampJUet against Joseph Glanvill.
Lond. 1671. oct.

Ad Clerum Somersetentem Epistola IlPOl*!!-
NHSIS. Printed in one sheet in octavo at the end
of the FartJier Discovery.

An earliest Invitation to the Lord's Supper.
Lond. 1673. 74. [B«xll. 8vo. B. 308. Th.] 77. in
tw. [Bodl. 8vo. Z. 75. Th.]

Seasonable Reflections and Discourses in Order
to the Conviction and Cure of' the Scoffing Infide-
lity of a degenerate Age. Lond. 1676. octavo. [Bodl.
8vo. Y. 3. Art.] Made up of four sermons, viz.
(1) The Sin and Danger of scoffing at Religion,
on 2 Peter 3. 3. (2) Tne Churc/is Contempts J'rom
profane and fanatic Enemies, on Psalm 123. 3, 4.
(3) Moral Evidence of a Life to come ; on Matth.
22. 32. (4) The serious Considerations of a future
Jttdgmcnt ; on Acts 17. 31.

Essays on several Important Subjects in Philo-
sophy and Religion. London 1676. qu. [Bodl. 4to.
P. 52. Th.] Which essays (being seven in number)
except the last, were pubhshed smgly before by the
author; whose preface to them gives a particular
account of iiis new furbishing and vamping them up
in this collection.

■ An Essay concerning Preaclmig : Written for
tlie Direction of a young Divine, &c. London.
1678. octavo.

A seasonable Defence of Preaching and the plain
Way of it. Printed with the Essay concerning, &c.

Saducismus triumplians : or, full and plain Evi-
dence concerning Witches and Apparitions, in two

Parts. The first treats of tlie Possibility, the

second of the real Existence of them ; with a Letter
of Dr. Heni-y More on the same Subject. TJie first
Part con.iists of his Considerations about Witch-
craft, &c. reprinted herein the fifth time. The second
part is made up of an answer to part of Mr. John
Webster's Display of suppo.id Witchcraft, &c.
Lond. 1667. folio, and of our author''s former nar-
rative of the daemon of Tedworth, and a second re-
lation printed with it inlarged, together with a col-
lection of twenty six modern relations. The author's
imperfect preface to the second part, gives an account
of the several editions of his former treatise of
Witches, and relates the many motives which in-
duced him to those large additions in this edition.
The perstm who perused his papers after his death,
digested his materials (that were left somewhat in-
compleat) into order and distinctness, tied the pieces
methodically together, and supplied what was want-
ing by advertisements scattered through the whole
work. The last advertisement is the most con-
siderable, and as an appendage to the first part con-
cerning the possibility of apparitions. Sec. is added
an easy, true, and genuine notion, and consistent
cxphcation of the nature of a spirit, translated out
of the two last chapters of Dr. More's Enchiridion
Metaphysicum, &c. Lond. 1681. octavo, and there

again in 82, with large additions of the said More,
the publisher of lx)th editions: An account of
which atlditions he gives in the beginning of the
work.

Some Discourses, Sermons and Remains. Lon-
don 1681. qu. with his picture before them." Before
these sermons, in number eleven, (most of which
came out in small volumes) is prefixed a short pre-
face of Anthony Horneck, the publisher of the said
Discourses, &c. In which is briefly drawn our
author's character, mostly as to his eminent mi-
nisterial endowments, in very Uvely and graceful
strokes.

The zealous and impartial Protestant, shewing
some great, but less heeded. Dangers of Popery,
c^-c. in a Letter to a Member of Parliament. Lon-
don 1681. quarto. This book being published a
little before the author's death, was so displeasing
to some parliament men, that they would have
called the author to an account for it if he had lived
a little longer. " Mr. Richard Baxter in his Se-
" cond true Defence of the meer Nonconformist,
" &c. London 1681. quarto, hath some notes on
" John Glanvill's Zealous and impartial Protest-
" ant, &c.

" Letters to the DutcJiess of Newcastle!"''

Letter to the Earl of Bristol, with another to a
Friend, of the Usefulness of the universal Cha-
racter, with the Way of Learning it. MS.

which I think is not extant. See more of our
author Glanvill, and some of his writings, in Robert
Crosse, under the year 1683. He hath also pub-
lished Txco Discourses, viz. A Discourse (f Truth,
by Dr. George Rust Bishop of Dromore, and The
Way to Happiness and Salvation. London 1677.
in twelves, which discourses came out after\vards
(1683) in octavo with this title, Txi:o clioice and
useful Trcat'ises: The one Lux Orientalis, S^c.
The other a D'lscourse (f Truth, by the late re-
verend Dr. George Ru.st Lord Bishop of Dromore in
Ireland, with Annotations on them, by Dr. Henry
More as I suppose. These Annotations are full as
large as the discourses themselves, on which they
are written. The title to the latter Annotations on
Dr. Rusfs Discourse run thus. Annotations upon
the Discourse of Truth : In which is inserted by
Way of Digression, A brief Return to Mr. Bax-
ter''s Reply, which he calls A placid Collation w'lth
the learned Dr. Henry More, occasioned by the
Doctors Answer to a Letter of the learned" Psy-
thophor'ist ; (which letter of Mr. Baxter, Dr. More
pubhshed without the author's knowledge in the
second edition of our author GlanvU's Saducismus

* [EnghT.ed by Faithornc]

' [Jos. Glaiiville hath liivers letters extant, sent to Mar-
garet, duchess of Newcastle. The book is in Ashmolc's
library : Lellers and Poems wri/len and sent to Margaret
Duchess of Newcastle. Wood, MS. Note in Astimole-I

' Meaning Rich. Baxter.

1253

GLANVILL.

WAFEREH.

12.54

triumphans, &c.) wliereunto is annexed a devotional
Humn, tramlatcdjbr the Use of the sincere Lovers
of. true Piety. London 1683. oct. Mr. Glanvill
[6681 liath a pretty large letter before Dr. Rust's di.scourse,
concerning the .subject and the author of it. The
annotator to the reader, before his Annotations on
the last di.scourse, endeavours to make people be-
lieve that Dr. More is not author of the above-
■named Diffression against Baxter, but the begin-
ning of this epistle doth implicitlv own the same
person to be author. To conclude ; Mr. Glanvill
died in his house at Bath, on the fourth day of Oc-
108O. tober° in sixteen himdred and eighty, and was
buried in his church of St. Peter and St. Paul there,
on the ninth clay of the same month ; at which time
Josias Pleydell arch-deacon of Chichester preached
his fiuieral sermon, which afterwards was made ex-
tant. In his rectory of Bath succeeded William
Clement of Christ Church, in his prebendship of
Worcester Ralph Battell or Battle,' master of arts
^of Peter house in Cambridge, and in his rectory of
' Streat with Walton, Charles Thirlby archdeacon of
Wells.

[1660, 26 Jul. Joseph Glanvil A. M. institutus
ad eccl. de Wimbish com. Essex, ad pres. regis.
Meff. London.

1680, 26 Febr. Maurit. Glanvile A. M. admiss.
ad eccl. de Wimbish, com. Essex, per mort. Josephi
Glanvill, ad pres. Anna; Glanvill, vidua;. lb. Ken-
net.

See a letter of Joseph Glanville, dated St. Ed-
mund's Bury, Feb. 13, 1660, 1, to Peter-House,
where John Glanville, a Suffolk man, was then a
member, and fellow in 1664, and possibly his bro-
ther, in my vol. (British Museum) Ix, page 345.
Cole.

- An Account of Mr. Ferguson His Common Place
Book in two Letters. Lond. 1 675 4to. (The first
is a letter from Glanvill to Mr. Will. Sherlock, the
second Sherlock's answer.) Bodl. 4to. D. 34. Th.

On the north isle of St. Peters, commonly called
the abbey church, is the following inscription :

Advcrte Viator. Deponuntur hie Exiivia; Jo-
sephi Glanvile nuper Car. 2. a sacris; Wigorniensis
ecclesia; Pra;bendarii, Regalis Societatis Socii, et
Civitatis hujus Rectoris. Qui post 42 insumptos
Annos in Studio et Contemplatione Verbi et operum
Dei, bi.s Febre recidiva fatigatus, ad jEtemam Re-
quiem aspiravit 4 Die Nov. 1680. Uxor ejus se-
cunda e Selwinorum Prosapia, in com. Glocestrensi,
mcErens posuit.

His first wife was Mrs. Mary Stocker. Prince's
Worthies, 355.]

MYRTH WAFERER, son of Richard Myrth

" [November. Rawlinson.]

• [1662, 19 Nov. llad'us BaUle cler. A. M. ad rect.
Omii. Sanctorum, et vicariam S. Johannis in villa de Hart-
ford annexatus, per mort. Humfredi Tabot ult. incumb. ad
jjres. Johaiiiiis Harrison mil. Keg. Sanderson. Kennet.]

Waferer of Grewcl in Hampshire gent. Iiecarae a
portionisl of Merton college in 1624, aged sixteen
years or thereabouts, took one degree, and then
translated himself to St. Alijan's hall, where ap-
plying his mind to the study of divinity, t<x)k the
degree of ma.ster of arts, as a memlwr of the said
house, and at two years standing in that degree, he
wrote and published.

An Apolog-yfbr Dr. Daniel Featley against the

Calumnies of one S. E. in Respect of his Con-

ference liad xvith Dr. Smyth Bishop of' Chalcedon,

concerning the real Presence.^ London 1634. qu.

' [Among Crynes's books in the Bodleian, number ?<)fi, is
one of very extraordinary occurrence. The Heleclion of a Con-
ference lovching the Reatl Presence. Or a linchetovrs Ctn-
svre if a Masters Apotogie fur Doclour Fcallie. By L. J.
U. of Art, if Oxford. — Al Daway, By Laurence Kellam,
10.35. octavo, containing 600 pages besides 48 of title, preface
and errata. At page I, The Svmmeofa Conference letwixt
M. D. Smith now B. of Chalcedon, and M. Dan. Feally
Minister, about the reall Presence. With the Notes ofS. h.
In lliis we have tlie following curious account, which iniro-
duces the names of several persons better known to poetical
than to controversial readers. • In the yeere lOlS master
Daniel Feailie being in France, chaplaine to the embassadour
of onr late soueraigne, there came to Paris one M. Kneuct,
halfe-brotlier to jVI. John Foord, an honest and vertuous
gentleman then liuing in that cittie. This M. Kneuet, being,
vpon his arriual there, put in mind, that he was mistaken in
the matter of religion, which is the thing a man should priti-
cipallie attend vnto, and that before Luther all knowiie
churches did beleeue that which he saw there in Fraunce
openlie professed ; tould his brother (M. Foord) he would
see one of ours defend it before M. Featlie, whom he did es-
tecme a greate schoUer. Withall he acquainted M. Featlie
with the busines, and with the point he meant should be
discussed. M. F'eatlie thinking himsclfe alone hard enough
for the whole church of Home, vndcrtooke it, and to per-
formc it with the inorc applause, did prouide himsclfe dlli-
gentlie for encounter. At leingth, vjjon the third of Sep-
tember, word was sent to M. D. Smith (who being then in
towne was entreated to vndertake the cause) that he should
prouide himsclfe for the morrow. On the 4 of September
there met at M. Kneuet's chamber M. D. Smith, and M.
Featly. With M. D. Smith came his cozen M. Kainef'
(since doctour of diuinitie) and with M. Featly came one M.
John Porie, who had beene a burgcois (as it was said) in the
first parlament in king James his time. There were al^o
present M. John Foord, M. Thomas Kant, M. Uen. John-
son, M. Henrie Constable and others, not Knglish cmlie but
also French : for M. Feally presuming the victory, had made
the matter knowne. The conference began at noone ; and
by agreement M. D. Smith was this time to defend, M.
Featley to dispute. Afterwards vpon another dale, M. 1).
Smith was to dispute, and M. Feally to defend : the rest not
to enlermedle.'

At paste 129 A Relection of the Precedent Confcmire.
Wherein it is defended against the Exceptions of Mirth
Waferer Master of Art of Allan Hail in Oxford. And his
Apologicfor Daniel Featlie D. D. Censured by J.. I In
the address to the readers L. I. says — ' He (NVaferer) is a
master of art, and I a bachelour of art of Oxford. Many of
that vniuersitie, might 1 write my name at Icingih, would
know me.' In another pan of the V(d. (page I8()) We learn
of Mr. Knevet that ' upon the minister's (Featley) [lo 're
cariage in the dispute .•>na torgiuers.ition afterwards when be
should haue answered, disliked the Protestant cause — and
soone after was reconciled vnta the church, and at A'eiiice
died a catholikc.']

4L2

1255

STUBBE.

GREAVES.

1256

[Bodl. BB. 35. Th.] at which time he lived at (if
not minLster of) Odyham in Hampshire. In 1640
I find him j>arst)n of Conipton in Surrey, and De-
cember tliat vear to be called ' into (juestion by the
parliament tfien sitting, ' for sj)eaking scandalous
words concerning those lords that ])etitioned his ma-
jesty 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 ac-
quitted of that trouble it appears not. In the time
of the rebellion he sufFer'd for the king's 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 St. Al-
ban's hall. He died on the 5th of November in
1680. sixteen hundred and eighty, and was buried in the
cathedral church at Winchester, having several
years before, wrote one, or more books fit for the
press. Quaere.

« HENRY STUBBE, son of a father of both
" his names of Bitton in Glocestershire,* was born
" in that county, became a student in Magdalen
" hall in the latter end of 1623, aged eighteen
" years, admitted bachelor of arts the twenty sixth
" of January 1627, and master of arts the eighth of
" July 1630, took holy orders, and became a curate
" or vicar, sided with the puritans in the beginning
" of the rebellion, took the covenant, preached se-

" ditiously took the engagement, and as a mi-

" nistcr of the city of Wells was constituted one of
" the commissioners for the ejecting of such whom
'f they then (1654) called scandalous, ignorant, and
" insufficient ministers and schoolmasters — After
" his majesty's restoration, he lost what he had for
" want of conformity, retired to London and lived
" there. He hath among several things pertaining
"to divinity written

" Great Treaty of Peace, ExJiortatioti ofmaTcing
" Peace with God.' hond. 1676. 77. oct.

" Dissuasive from Ccniformity to the World.
" Lond. 1675. in oct. [Bodl. 8vo. Z. 79. Th.]

" GocTs Severity against Man's Iniquity. Print-
" ed with the Dissuasive.

" God's Gracious Presence, the Sainfs great
" Privilege, afarewel Sermon to a Congregation

[669] " "* London, on 2 Thes. 3. 16. Pnnted also

" with the Dissuasive.

" Conscience the best Friend upon Earth: or the
" happy Effects of keeping a good Conscience, very
« useful for this Age."" Lon&n [1678. Bodl. 8vo.
Z. 1.51. Th.] " 1685. in twelves, and other things

' John Nalson in his Impartial Collection, &c. Lond.

l682. fol. p. 600. see also p. 693.
* [Installed 15 Sept. lt)60. Rawunson.]
'■• [He was born, says Calaniy, at Upton in this county,

upon an estate that was given to his grandfather by king

James I. with whom he came from Scotland. Ejected

Ministers, \\, 31$).]

" which I have not yet seen ; among which is his
" Answer to the Friendly Debate, an. 1669 in 00-
" tavo. When he died I know not ; sure I am
" that after his death, which was in London, his
" books were exposed to sale by way of auction the
"29th of Nov. 1680."

[See a very amiable character of this writer in
Calamy, who adds

1. A Funeral Sermon Jbr a Lady in Gkmcester-
shire.

2. A Voice from Heaven ; xoith his last Prayer.
Granger, who mentions a small head of Stubbe,

gives us the title of a third book omitted by Wood :

3. Two Epistles to the professing Parents of
baptized Children, written a little before his death.

Calamy says that Stubbe was of Wadham col-
lege, which I cannot believe. He was certainly ma-
triculated of Magdalen hall, April 16, 1624. See
Reg. Matric. Univ. Oaon. PP. fol. 299, b.]

EDWARD GREAVES, younger brotlier to
John Greaves mention'd under the year 1652, col.
324. was born at or near Croyden in Surrey, admit-
ted probationer fellow of All-soules college in 1634,
entred on the physic line, took both tlie degrees in
that faculty in this university, that of doctor being
compleatcd in 1641, in which year, and after he
practised with good success in these parts. In 1643,
November the 14th, he was elected by the Merto-
nians the superior lecturer of physic in their college,
to read the lecture of that faculty in their pubUc re-
fectory, founded with the moneys of Thomas Lyn-
acre doctor of physic : But when the king's cause
declined, he retired to London, practised there, and
sometimes in the city of Bath, became a member of
the college of physicians, physician in ordinary to his
majesty Charles II. and at length a pretended ba-
ronet. He hath written and published,

Morbtis Epidemictis, An. 1643. Or the new
Disease, xeith 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 JEdibus Collegii Medicorum
Londinensium 25 Jul. 1661, Die Harva'i Memoriw
dicato. Lond. 1667. quarto. He died in his house
in Covent Garden on the eleventh of November in
sixteen hundred and eighty, and was buryed in the
parish church of that place dedicated to St. Paul,
within the liberty of Westminster. He had an
elder brother called Nich. Greaves, who from a com-
moner of St. Mary's hall, liecame fellow of All-
soules college in 1627,° afterwards proctor of the
university, and a dignitary in Ireland. There was
another brother called Thomas Greaves, whom I

8 [l6fi2, lilt, die, Ociob. GabrielTowerson cler. A.M. ad
rect. de Wellwyn in com. Hartf. per privat. Nicolai Greavfes
S. T. P. ult. iiiciiml). virtute actus uniform, legitime vacan-
tem, ad pres. cusiodis coil. Omn. Animariun, Oxon. Reg.
Sanderson. Ken net.]

1680.

1257

GATAKER.

LLOYD.

1258

[©ro]

liave mention'd among these writers, under the year
1676. col. 1061.

" CHARLES GATAKER or Gatache, son
** of tlie leiirned presbyterian Thomas Gataker, was
" born at Rothcrhitli coininonly called Redrith in
<' Surrey, educated in granunar leariiing in St. I'auPs
" school within the city of London, sent to Sidney
'.' aJlege in Cambridge at about sixteen years of
" age, and there put under the tuition of Richard
" Dugard batchelor of divinity, fellow of that house,
" and afterward rector of Fullesby or FuUethy in
" Lincolnshire. After he had taken the degree of
" bachelor of arts, he retired to Oxon, was entred a
" commoner of Pembroke college, took the degree of
^ master of that faculty in the latter cud of June
" 1636, became acquamted about that time with
" Lucius viscount Falkland, who having a respect
" for his ingenuity and learning, made him his chajj-
" lain as I have been informed, with intentions to
" have him prefer'din the church, but the civil war
" breaking forth, wherein that most noble lord lost
" his life, the expectation of our author was frus-
" trated. At length by the favour of Charles earl
* of Caernarvon, he became rector of lloggcrston or
" Hoggcston near to Winslow in Buckinghamshire
" about 1647, and continued there to the time of his
" death, (being always accounted a learned Cal-
'* vinist) without any removal. This person who
" submitted to the times of usurpation, hath writ-
" ten,

■ " The Way of Truth and Peace : or a Reconcilia-
" turn of St. Paul and St. James, concerning Jus-
'' Ijficdtion. London 1670. quarto. [Bodl. 4to. S.
" Gi. Til.] This is printed with An Antidote
" against Krroiir concerning Justification, S^c. on
" Rom. 3. 28. written by Thomas Gataker father to
" Charles. In the said Way of Truth, &c. the au-
" thor signifies his dislike of Harnwnia Apostolica,
'^ &c. written by Mr. George Bidl, and propounds
" a third way to reconcile St. Paul and St. James.'
i '* Answer to five captious Questions propounded
" by a Factor for the Papacy, by parallel Questio7is
" and pasitive Re.wlutions. London 1673. quarto.
« [Botll. C. 12. 5. Line. 1674. BchH. 4to. K. 16.
" Art.] To which is added A Letter to Mr. Fr. M.
'* an. 1636, written by l^ucius viscount Falkland,
" which F. M. is the said factor for the papacy, and
" the letter is to the same purpose.
■ " The Papisfs Bait : " or, their usual Method
" in gaining Proselytes answer''d, London 1674.
" quarto. To which is axlded A Letter of the Lord
'* Viscount Falkland, to the same gentleman, much
" to this present purpose.

" Examination of the Case of the Quakers, con-
" cerning OatliS propounded by them. An. 1673, to

1 [See Nelson's Life qf Bull, pages 101, 139, '45, 150,
164.1

' [This is nothing more than a new title bearing date
1674.]

" tfie Consideration of the Xing ami both Hmuei
" of Parliament, &c. Lond. 16TO. qu. [Ikxll. C. 12.
" 7. Line]

" lehnographiu Doctrintr de Jtistificatitme, SC'
" cuntlum Typum in Monte. I^>ndon KiHL (|U.
" [Bodl. B. 8. 15. Line] This Mr. Charles Gata-
" ker dying in sixteen hundred and eighty, was bu-
" ried m the chancel of the church iK'longing to
" Hoggerston before-mentioned. S(x>n after wjis a
" black marble st<mc Laid over his grave, with this
" inscription engraven thereon. Hie ac<iviiescit A
" lalxinbus Carolus Gatakerus (ex anticiua Gatake-
" rorum de Gataker Hall in Agro Salopiensi familia
" oriundus) fidelis Pastor hujus Ecclesia', Annos
" 33 ; pro cruditione & Pietate Filius inerito pri-
" mogenitus doctissimi & eeleberrimi Thonw Gata-
" ken, non ita pridem Rectoris Ecclesiie de Rother-
" hith in Comitatu Surrije. Firmus jx-rmansit in
" FidelitateSt Justitia, etiam in teterrimis & pericu-
" losissimis diebus : Tandem dilectus &, deploratus
" pacifice transivit ad astemam Pacem 20 die No-
" vembris 1680, & anno j^Ctatis sua; 67. Thomas
" Gataker the father, mention'd in the said epitaph,
" had been fellow of Sydney college in C^amnridge,
" afterwards preacher of Lincolns Inn, and lastly
" rector of Redrith, as before 'tis said.' He was son
" of another Thomas Gataker, sometime a student
" in Oxon, and afterwards pastor of St. Edmond's
" church in Lombard-street in Londcm, descended
" from those of his name of Gatacre hall, (as Ixjfore
" 'tis said) where that name hath lived from the
" time of Edward the confessor."

[Animadversiones in Librum cut Tit. Harm.
Apostol. per G. Bull. First publishetl by Bull with
his Examen Censura; sen Respon-sio ad Animadver-
siones, 1675, but the Animadversions were made in

1670. LOVEDAY.]

NICHOLAS LLOYD, [or Fi.oyd] son of
George Lloyd* " minister of Wonsington near
" AVinchester,' mm of David Lloyd
" vicar of Lockford near Stock-
" bridge in Hampshire, Iwrn at
" Holton in Flintshire," was edu-
cated in Wykeham's school there,
admitted scholar of Wadham col-
lege from Hart hall the 20th of
October 1653, aged nineteen years,
and afterwards fellow and master of arts. In the
year 1665, when Dr. Blandford warden of that ct^l-
lege became bishop of Oxon, our author Lloyd was
made his chajilain (being about that time rector of
St. Martin's church in Oxon) and continued with
him till he was translatetl to Worcester. At length
the rectory of Newington S. Mary near Lambeth in
Surrey falling void, the said Dr. Blandford, as

» [See vol. ii, col. 532.]

' [George Lloyil, or Floyd as the letters for priest's orders
style him, was ot Brasen Nose college.]

• a minislCT nf
God's tcord, was
torn al IVonson,
alias ff%nsington
ruar fVinchester
in Hampshire,
educated, &c.
First edit.

1 680.

1259

LLOYD.

TONGUE.

1680.

[671J

hisliop of Worcester, presented him to it, an. 1672.
which lie kept to his clying day. He hath written,

Dkfionarium Historicum, Geographicum, Pocti-
cum. Gentium, Hom'mum, Deorum GentiUum,
Ileg'ionum, Instilarum, Lmorum, Civitatum, Sfc. ad
sacras <§• profanas Historias, Poetarumq; Fabulas
intettigentUvi necessaria, Nomina, quo decet Ordinc,
cttinptcctens ^ illiistrans , &c. Oxon. 1670. folio,
(Bodl. B. 4. 2. Art.] mostly taken" from the dic-
tionaries of Car. Stephanus and Phil. Ferrarius.
Afterwards the author made it quite another thing,
by adding thereunto, from his great reading, almost
as tnuch more matter as there was before, with many

corrections, &c. London 1686. foho, [Bodl. L.

3'. 5. Art.] whereunto is added A Geographical
Index. An account of this book and of the author''s
first undertaking to write it, you may at large see in
TJie universal historical Bibliotheque, &c. for the

month of March 1686. London 1687. quarto

cap. 12. p. 149, &c. written by Edm. Bohun, esq;.
Mr. Lloyd died at Ne\\ington before-mention''d, on
the twenty seventh of November in sixteen hundred
and eighty, and was liuried in the chancel of the
church there, leaving then behind liim, among
those that well knew him, the character of an harm-
less quiet man, and of an excellent philologist.

[Aubrey {Natural History of Surrey, v. 140,)
says he has seen several manuscripts written by
Lloyd, particularly

1. Parenti Parentatio, or Funeral Obsequies, by
NicJiolas Lloyd, in Memory of his ever honoured
Father, Mr. Geo. Lloyd, together with some brief
Obscrtations upon the chief Passages of his L^^e
and Death, Anno Dom. 16.58, 12mo.

2. Z)c Aioi'tKriouODcou/xei'v;; n£fii',yi)ir(f, Dionysii Si-
tus Orbis Descriptio, una cum Commentatione Phi-
lologica, Geographica, Histoi-ica, Poetica, ct My-
thologica, ex 440 Auctoribus vetustis ac recentibtis
illustrata, Studio atquc Opera Nicolaii Lloydi.
Anno Dom. 1656. 4to. containing 389 pages.

3. Latin Translation qfOrphei Argonautica.

4." Observations on sevei-al Parts of the Holy
Scriptures.

And in the Rawlinson collection (Misc. 32) is a
folio vol. containing several of his papers and memo-
randums, amongst which we may enumerate

5. Of Homer and Hesiod ; Pindar and Aristo-
phanes.

6. Latin Letter to Dr. Potenger of Winchester.

7. Account of himself, which now follows.

' I was Ixjrn in y' parsonage house at Wonston
(alias Wonsington) in y'countie of South''ton. May
y" 28, anno D'nj. MDCXXX.

Bom ag'n p' baptismal] regeneration y' Sunday
following.

I lined at home (taught p' my ffather) till ao\
D'ni 1643. and lost time.

" [II cost him thifly years in compiling. Whalley.J

I was admitted a chorister of Winton coll. at y'
electio' there 1643, where I lost a year.

I was m'd a scholar of Winto' coll. Sept. 3,
1644.

I came fro' y' coll. Sept. 26, 1651, and lost a
year.

I was matriculated into y' vniv'sity of Oxon, and
entredinto Hart Hall, May 13, 1652, lost a year.

I was chosen scholar of Wadha' coll. June 30,
1653.

I was p'sented batchelour of arts, Jan. 16, 1655.

I was chosen fellow of y' coU. June 30, 1656,
Mr. Spratt and J in Mr. Lee's and Mr. Morland's
places.

I pray'd 1*' in y' chapell, Julii 8, vespert. we had
y" ex temp' prayer ; tlio we h** a kind of torni vsed by
som of th'.

I changed my chamber Julii 17.

I went to Hun ton w"' my father, and st'd there 14
night, and here begins my diarie, w'h J vndertook
by occasion of my br. Edward's, who kept one of
his.

I had the small pockes April 1657.

I was m'' of art at y'' act 1 658.

Pr. my 21" sermons at Hunton, June 13 and y*
20. 1658.

I was m'' minister p' D'" Skin'er bp. of Oxon. Jun.
25, 1660, at Lanto'.

I was chosen lecturer at Carfax in Lent 1664. I
was rector of Carfax fro' 65 to 70. Left y' place at
Lady day 167t

I was chosen vniversity rhetor ick reader in July
1665.

Dr. Blandford late o"^ warden now bp. of Oxon
m'' me his chapl. 1665.

I was chosen sub warden of Wadh. coll. 1 \ap^

Dec. 6. >•
And ag'n )^1670.

I came to Worcest"^ w"' my 1"* Aug. 9, 1670.

I came to Wor. w'' my 1' June 15, 1672, and
ag'n Jan. 3, 73.

I came fro' Aynho to Newington and was inducted
Apr. 28, 73.

I came to reside up' my lining Aug. 23. 77.']

EZRAEL TONGUE was born in the ancient
manor or town of Tickhill near Doncaster in York-
shire, on the eleventh of November 1G21, and being
educated in grammar learning in those parts, he
was by the care of his father Henry Tongue,' mi-
nister of Holtby in that county, sent to University
college ill the beginning of the year 1639, where
continuing under a severe discipline till he was ba-
chelor of arts, whch was about the time that the
grand rebellion coninienc'd, he chose rather to leave
the college, being puritanically inclin'd, than stay

3 [Who had been of Trin. coll. Cambridge. See the in-
scription to the universities before Simson's Citron. Calhol.

LOVEDAV.]

1261

TONGUE.

1262

with other scholars, and bear arms for the king
within the garrison of Oxon. So that retiring into
the country, he taught a httic sch(X)l within the
parish of Churchill near to Chippingnorton in Ox-
fordshire : where continuing for some time, returned
to Oxon upon the surrender of its garrison to the
parliament forces, settled in his college, and soon
after submitting to the authority of the visitors ap-
pointed by the said parliament, was by them con-
stituted fellow thereof in the place of Mr. Henry
Watkins then ejected, an. 1648. Thence, after lie
had spent a year or more therein, he went into
Kent, and married Jane the daughter of one Dr.
Edward Simson,'' who, being antient, resigned his
living (Pluckley I think) to him, and then took the
degrees in divinity in this university. But he being
much vex'd with factious parishioners and quakers,
left his benefice, and in the year 1657 he procured
himself to be made fellow of the new erected college
at Durham ; where being appointed one of them
that should teach grammar, he followed precisely
the Jesuits' methtxl, and the boys under him did by
that course profit exceedingly. Rut that college
being dissolved in the beginning of 1660, or rather
a little before ; he returned into the south parts,
setled at Islington near London, and in a large gal-
lery in a house belonging to sir Thomas Fisher, he
taught Iwys after an easy method, too large now to
tell you. He had also there a little academy for
girls to be taught Latin and Greek, and, as I have
been informed, one of them at fourteen years of age
could construe a Greek gospel. Afterwards, this
person, who had a restless and freakish head, went
with colonel Edward Harley to Dunkirk, and was
there a chaplain for some time: which place, with
the garrison, being sold by the English, he returned,
and that colonel setled him in the vicaridge of Lent-
warden in Herefordshire. Hut that being a poor
thing, he soon after left it, and by the favour of
the bishop of London he obtained the cure of St.
Mary Slayning in that city,* scarce worth twenty

* [Edw. Simson S.T. D. was rector of Eastling, dioc.
Cant. See his life prefixed to his Chronicon. Nothing is
there said of Pluckley. Baker.

This was the learned Edward Simpson of Trinity college
Cambridge, author of Chronicon Ca/liolicum. Ab Exordia,
Mundi ad Sutivilalem D. N. Jesu Christi, el exinde ad An-
num a Chrislo nolo LXXI. Oxon. lO.')2, fol. before which is
a curious portrait of Simpson set. 73. in gown, close black
cap, and full beard : underneath are the following lines :
Agnosco vullus quibus uni innotuit aevo,

Oraque Das(lale& delincata mann :
Pinje alios ; nam qui Calaclysmo condidit isthmuin,

Et tot commisit tempora, jure Bijrons.
Magno o Camdeno major Pupille ! Britannam

Hie tcrnam, Mundos astruis ipse Novos.
Ke.ipice .Mexander, plures qui praebeat orbes,
A lergo Simson conspiciendusadeat.

T. J.

Ezerel Tonge dedicates this work of his father-in-law to the
universities of Oxford and Cambridge.]
s [Israel Tongue S.T. P.adiniss. ad rect.B. Mariae Stain-

pounds per an. unless benevolence make it more.
Ik'ing setltnl there, the grand conflagration hapncd,
which burnt down his church antl parish to the
ground, an. 1666. So that la-ing for the present
destitute of a subsistence, he went soon after in the
quality of a chaplain to the garrison of Tangier,
where remaining till the church of St. Michael in
Wootlstreet was rebuilt, and the parish of St. Mary
united with it, he was sent for home and made
rector of that church ; which, with a lecture else-
where, he kept to his dying day. IFe was a jwrson
very well versM in Latin, Greek, and poetry, and
always took a very great delight to instruct youth.
He understtxxi chronology well, and spent mucii
time and money in the art of alchymy. He was a
jX'rson cynical and hirsute, shiftless m the world,
yet absolutely free from covetousness, and I dare
say from pride : But alK)ve all that he is to be
remembrea for, is, that he wa-s the first discoverer
to his majesty of that plot commonly called the
Popish plot, and by many Oates his plot, about the
25tn of Septeml)cr 1678, having a little Ix-fore l)cen
told of it by Titus Oates, who conferM together what
to do in that matter.' He hath written,

A short Compendium o/' Grammar.— Printed in
two sheets at most in oct.
Noun substantives the names of things declare,
And adjectives, what kind of things those are, &c.

ing Lond. 2Ct Junii, l666, vac. per morl. Eman. Austin : ad
pres regis. Reg. Lond. Kennet.]

" [Three days before Michaelmas Dr. Tongue came to me.
Ihadkncwnhim at sir Robert Murray's. He was a gardener
and chyuiist, and was full of projects and notions. He had
got some credit in Cromwell's time ; and that kept liiiii
poor. He was a very mem divine, and seemed credulous
and simple. But I had always look'd on him as a sincere
man. At this lime he told me of strange designs against the
king's person ; and that Coniers, a Benediciin, had provided
himself with a (x.inard, with which be undertook to kill
iiini. I was amazed at all this ; and did not know whether
he was crazed, or bad come to me, on design to involve me
in a concealment of treason. So I went to Dr. Lloyd, and
sent him to the secretary's office with an account of that dis-
course ofTonge's, since I woulil not be guihy of misprision of
treason. He found at the office, that Tonge was making
discoveries there; of which they made no other account, but
that he intended to get himself to be made a <lean. I told
this next morning to Littleton and Powel. And they looked
on it as a design of lord Danby's, to be laid beftire tne next
session, thereby to dispose them to keep up a greater force,
since the papists were plotting against the king's life : This
would put an end to all jealousies of the king, now the pa-
pists were conspiring asainst his life. But lord Hallifax,
when I told him of it, had another apprehension of it. He
said, considering the suspicion all people had of the duke's
religion, he believed every discovery of that son would raise
a flame which the court would not be able to manage.
Burnet, Hist, of Ms own Time, i, 424.

1 682. About a year before this, Tonge had died, who first
brought out Oates. They quarrelled afterwards ; and Tonge
eaine to have a very bad opinion of 0;ites, upon what reason
1 know not. He died with expressions of a very high devo-
tion : and he protested to all who came to see nim, that he
knew of no subornation in all that matter, and that he Was
guilty of none himself. Buruet, Hist, i, 510.]

[672]

1263

TONGUE.

CORBET.

And in 6 or 8 verses more are comprehended the
concords, &c.

Ob^rvatiom, Directions and Eiujuiries concern-
ing the Motion (^' Sap, in Trees Remitted into

the Philosophical Tranmetions, an. 1670. num.57.

Enquiries relating ptirliadarly to the Bleeding

g^ Walnuts Remitted into the same Transac-

tioiis, num. 58.

Leittcr about the Retarding oftlie Ascent of Sap,
t-J-c. and concerning the Running of Sap in Trees —
Tliere also numb. 68.

The Royal Martyr Whether printed, I can-
not tell, iK-cause Roger L'estrange refused to licence
?t,>n.l678.

The Jesuits unmasked : or, political Observations
upon the ambitious Pretences and s\d)tile Intreagucs
<^that cunning Society, presented to all high Poioers
as a seasonable Discourse at this Time. London

1678. qu.

The new Design* of the Papists detected : or, an
Answer to the last Speeches of the Jive Jesuites
lately executed, viz. TJunnas White alias White-
bread, William Harcourt alias Harrison, John Ga-
van alias Gaiven, Antliony Turner, and John Fen-
wick. Lond. 1679- in two sh. in fol.

An Answer to the Objections against the Earl
of Danby, concerning his being acces.tary to the
Murdering of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey. Lond.

1679. in one sh. in fol. There is no name to it, but
the general vogue then was that Dr. Tongue was the
author.

An Account of Romish Doctrine in Ca,ie of Con-
spiracy and Rebellion. Lond. 1679. qu. [Bodl. B.
22. 7. Line]

Jesuits Assa.t.vns : or, the Popish Plot further
declared, and demonstrated in their murthercms
Practices and Principles. Lond. 1680. in nine sheets
in fol. the first part. Whether the second was ever
published I know not.

The Northern Star. The British Monarchy,
^c. Being a Collection of many choice antientand
modern Prophecies : wlierein also the Fates of tlie
Roman, French, aiul Spanish Monarchies are occa-
sionally .set out. Lond. 1680. folio. He also com-
pleatccland published the Chronicon, written by the
aforesaid doctor Edward Simson sometime fellow of
Trinity college in Cambridge, printed at Oxon 1652.
folio. See more in Thomas Jones, an. 1682. He
also translated from French into English, (1) Popish
Mercy and Justice. Being an Account, not of
tlwse massacred in France by the Papists formerly ,
but of some later Per.iecutions of the French Pro-
testants. London 1679. quarto. (2) Jesuitical
Apfiori.sms : or, a summari/ Account of the Doctrine
of the Jesuits, and .mine other Popish Doctors, &c.
Lond. 1678. 79. quarto. (3) TheJcsuifs Morals:
or, tlw principal Errors which the Jesuits have in-
troduced into Christian Morality,'' &c. printed se-

[F.

or this traiislalion Oates sajd that Tongue was niaikcd

veral times, particularly at London in 1680. folio.
(4) Abridgment of Controversy, &c. WritUn by
Charles Drelincourt. (5) Combat Romaine, &c. by
the same author; and other things, as I conceive,
which I have not yet seen. He died in the house
of that factious dissenter, called the Protestant
Joyner, alias Stephen CoUedge, (who kept him in
his house, had much ado with him, and had been at
great charge to keep him in order, for the cai-rylng-
on oftlie cause then in hand) on the eighteenth day
of December, in sixteen hundred and eighty, and '^''*'-
was on the twenty third of the same month con-
veyed by a numerous train (most of them of the
godly party) from Scotch-Hall in the Black-Friars,
to St. Michael's church in Woodstreet within the
city of London ; where his funeral sermon wa&
preached by Thomas Jones sometime of University-
college in Oxon, ajid therein highly characterizea.
Afterwards the body was rejxjsed in the vault of the
church-yard of St. Mary Stay ning before-mentioned.
He the said Dr. Tongue left beiiind him, at hi^
death, two written folios touching alchymy, which
was the art wherein he was most excellent, and took [6751
delight, besides certain MSS. of his conijwsition
concerning divinity, which he wrote at Durham and
elsewhere, but whether fit for the press, I know noU
Some time before his death he invented, among
otlier things, the way of teaching children to write a
good hand in twenty days time, after the rate of four
hours in a day, by writing over with black ink,
copies printed from copper plates in red ink. Afteif
his death R. Moray projector of the Penny-Post did
cause to be engraven several plates, and then to be
printed off with red ink, by which means boys leara
to admiration.

JOHN CORBET, son of Roger Corbet shoo-
maker, was born, and educated in grammar learning,
within the city of Gloccster, became a batler of
Magdalen hall in the beginning of the year 1636,,
aged sixteen years; and in 1639 he was admitted
bachelor of arts. Afterwards he was made a master
of one of the schools, and a lecturer, in that city ;
but when it was garrisoned for the parliament''s use,,
he became dinner-chajilain to colonel Edward Mas-
sey govemour thereof, preachetl seditiously, vilified
the king and his party in a base manner, and would
several times say in common discourse, and in the
pulpit sometimes, that« ' nothing hath so much de-
ceived the world as the name of a king, which was
the ground of all mischief to the church of Christ.'
When the war was terminated, he was called to lie
a preacher at Bridgwater in Somersetshire ; whence,
after some time spent in holdin^r forth, he went to
the city of Chichester, where he was frequented by
schismatical people. At length being called to a
richer cure, he went to Bramshot in Hampshire;

out for destruction. See Burnet's History qfhis own Ttme.ri,

248.] ■'•0

» Afcrc.jiu/.in Julyan. j644. I). 1081.

1265

CORBET.

12f)t>

where beiiiff setled, it was his desire made to the
delegates of the convocation of this university, that
they would dispence with him for ten terms absence,
and give him leave to accumulate the degree of bju
chelor of divinity. Which desire being granted, his
supplicate in order thereunto followed tne fourteenth
of May 1658, and granted simpliciter, conditionally
that he perform all exercise requisite for the said
degree : But whether he did so, or was admitted to
that degree, it appeareth not in the register. At
Bramshot he continued till the act of uniformity
cast him out, anno 1662, and then he retired to
London (as most nonconformists did) where he lived

Srivately, taking no employment till his first wife
ied, and then he lived in the house with sir John
Micklethwaite president of the college of physicians,
and afterwards with alderman Webb ; afx)ut which
time he marrieda daughter of doctor William Twyss,
and then lived privately with Mr. Richard Baxter
at Totteridge m Hertfordshire. At length the
king's license or toleration being published in the
middle of March 1671, he was invited by the godly

Erty to Chichester, where he preached till a montli
fore his death : at which time removing to Lon-
don to be cut of the stone in the bladder, he died as
soon as he came to that city without effecting his
desire. One of his' persuasion tells us, that ' he
was a man so blameless in all his conversation, that
he never heard one jierson accuse or blame him, ex-
cept for nonconformity that he was of so great

moderation and love of peace, that he hated all that
was against it, and would have done any thing for
concord in the church, except sinning against God,
and hazarding salvation,' &c. He hath written and
commended to posterity,'
[674] An historical Eelatinn of the military Govern'

merit qf Ghcester^Jrom the Beginning qftlie Civil
War between King and Parliament, to the Removal
of Cokmel Massey Jrom that Government to the
Command of the Western Forces. Lond. 1645. in
18 sh. in qu. [Bodl. 4to. A. 5. Art. BS.]

A Vindication of the Magistrates of the City of
Glocester from the Calumnies ()f Robert Bacon,
printed in his Relation of his Usage there, which he
entitles The Spirit of Prelacy yet working, or Truth
from under a Cloitd. London 1646. quarto. [Bodl.
4to. A. 5. Art. BS.l

Ten Questions discussed, which tend to the Dis-
covery of close Antinomiamism. — Printed with tlie
■VinScation.

■ The Interest of England in the Matter of Reli-
gion, uitfolded in the Solution of three Qtiestions,
&c. London 1660. octavo, in two parts. Answered
(1) by Roger L'Estrange in his Interest mistaken :
or tite holy Cheat, &c. London 1661. and 62. in

' Richard Baxter in his Sermon al the Funeral qf John
Corbel. Lond. lf)8I. p. 28.

' [John Corbet or archbishop Maxwell suppo.^ed to be the
aHth«r of The Burthen q/Issachar, 8:c. Archbishop Brain-
hall said to have furnished materials. Baker.]

Vol. in.

octavo. Wherein it appears that our author Cor-
bet justifies in his sjiid bcK»k the nresbyterian cauK
of 1641, that he excludes the royal party that scrveti
the late king, from having any hand in the restoring
of this, that he revives the pretendetl mitdemeanourii
of the bishops, as occasioners of the last war, that he
maintains the actings of the presbyterians according
to the covenant, that he makes the two houses parti-
cipate of the sovereignty, and denies the lawfutnew
ot the Engli.sh ceremony, &c. (2) By an anonymus,
in his book entitled The Presbyterians uurna.ikcd,
&c. London 1676. octavo. Which l)ook came out
again in 1681, under the title of The Dis.wnter dis-
armed, &c. supjiosed verily to be written by Samuel
Thomas chantor of Christ Church in Oxon. This
is the author whom Mr. Baxter stiles « ' a shameless
writer, who published a bloody invective against
Mr. Corbet's pacificatory liook, called The Interest
of England, as if it had been written to raise a
war.'

" A Discourse of the Religion of Eiigland ; as-
" serting that reformed Christianity settled in its
" due Latitude is the Stability, and Advancement of
" this Kingdom. London 1667. quarto. [Bodl. B.
" 1. 4. Line] To which book were two answers.
" (1) A Discour.ie of Toleration. London 1668.

" quarto. [Botll. B. 14. 15. Line] no name to

" it, but writ by doctor Perinchief, preb. of West-
" minster, and suli-ahnoncr to the king. (2) Doliit
" an Virtus, or an Answer to a .seditious Discourse
" concerning the Religion of England, &c. but the
" author concealeth his name. London 1668. quarto

" in five sheets. Though this and doctor Pe-

" rinchiePs were published in Michachiiasterm 1667,
" Mr. Corbet not long after printed.

" A Second Discour.ie of the Religion of Eng-
« land; [Lond. 1668. Bodl. B. 18. .5'. I>inc.] which
" was animadverted upon by the said doctor Perin-
" chief, in a pamphlet entituled Indulgence not
"justified, being a Continuation of a Discourse of
" Toleration, in Answer to tlte Arguments of a late
" Book entitled: A Peofe-Offering, or a Pkajbr
" Indulgence, and to the Cavils of another calFd,
" Tfie second Discourse of the Religion of England,
" by John Corbet. London 1668. quarto seven sheets
" and half."

The Kingdimi of God among Men ; a Tract of
the sound State of Religion, &c. London 1679.
octavo.

T7ie Point of Church-unity and Schism dis-
cussed.

An Account of Himself about Conformity.
These two last are printed with T/ie Kingdom of
God, &c.

Discourse oftlie Religion of England, asserting
that reformed Christianity, setled in its due Lati-
t^ide, is the Stability and Advancement qf thia
Kingdom— ■'—In two parts.'

' lb. in Baxter's Serm. p. 31.
' piTiese are the same two parts before rccordn).] ■
4M

[675]

1^2t)7

CORBET.

SADLER.

1368

Self-employment in Secret: containing, (1)
Evidences upon Self-examination. (2) ThotifrfiU
upon painful Afflictions. (3) Memorials fin- Prac-
tice. London 1681. in tw. riiblishctl after tlie
dutlior's dcatli, with a prefatory epistle, by John
How.

Ah Account given of the Principles and Prac-
tices of several Nonconformists. )V7terein it ap-
pears that their Religion is no other tlian wliut is
prqfcst in the Church of England, &c. Lond. 1682
ijuarto.

All Enquiry into the Oath required of Noncon-
fijrmists by an Act made at Oxon. Wherein tlie
true Meaning of it and the Umcarraniableness of
Taking it, is consider'' d. London 1682. in three
sheets m quarto. [Bodl. C. 10. 5. Line.]

An humble Endeavour of some plain and brief
Eitplicaiicns of the Decrees and Operations of God,
about the free Actions of Men, more especially of
the Operations of Divine Grace. London 1683.
quarto. [Bodl. C. 8. 26. Line]

Remuiiu London 1684. in twelves, being

most of the nine tracts which he left behind him to
be published. He the said John Corbet had also
laboured much in compiling the first volume of
Historical Collections, published by John Rush-
worth ; and dying on the twenty sixth of December
i680. in sixteen hundred and eighty, was buried in the
church of St.. Andrew in Holbourn near London, as
I have been informed by the letters of Mr. Richard
Baxter, dated the twenty second of February fol-
lo^ving. Besides this Jonn Corbet, was another of
'both his names, minister of Bonyl one of the col-
legiat churches of the provostry of Dunbarton in
Scotland ; who, for not submitting to the covenant,
was ejected from that kingdom, and went into Ire-
land, where he published The Ungirding of the
Scotish Armour, &c. Dublin 1639. quarto, and
TJie Epistle Congratulatory ofLysimachiis Nicanor
to the Covenanters in Scotland, &c. printed the
year following in quarto. Which Mr. Corbet, who
was an antient man, and a minister of Galloway,
had his head cut off by two swineherds in the time
of the rebellion in Ireland, an. 1641. See more in
the epistle to the reader written by Andrew AUam
of St. Edmimd''s hall, set before the said Ephstle
Congratulatory, &c. Printed at Oxon. 1684. quarto.
Which epistle was written (as I have been in-
formed by a Scotish writer since I wrote these
things) by John Maxwell bishop of Ross in Scot-
land, who therein compares the presbyterians to the
Jesuits. Sed qu.

' ANTHONY SADLER, son of Thomas Sadler
of Chilton in Wiltshire, was bom in that county,
entered in St. Edmond's hall in the condition of a
batler, in Lent term 1627, admitted bachelor of
arts, and in orders, an. 1631, lx;ii)g then twenty
one years of age : Soon after he became cliaiilain to
an esquire of nis nauic in Hertfordshire, and, in the

beginning of the civil war, curat of Bishops-stoke in
Hampshire, afterwards chaplain to the lady Letitia
Paget dowager, and at length being presented to
the living of Compton-Hayway in Dorsetshire, was
refused to pass by the triers, an. 1654, and there-
upon no small trouble passed between him and
them. Soon after he was made vicar of Mitcham
in Surrey, where I find him in much trouble, anno
1664, (occasioned by Robert Cranmer of London
merchant, an inhabitant of that place) and after-
wards to be doctor of cUvinity, and chaplain ex-
traordinary to his majesty. He hath written and
published,

Inquisitio Anglicana: or, the Disguise disco-
vered, shezving the Proceedings of the Commis-
sioners at WJiiteltallfor tlie Approbation of Minis-
ters, &c. London 1654. in three sheets in quarto.* [6761
[Bodl. B. 18. 11. Line]

Several sermons, as (1) Benedictio, Valedictio:
or, the Remembrance of thy Friend, and thy End,
being a Farewell Sermon, preached at the House
of Letitia Lady Paget Dowager deceased ; on 2
Cor. 13. 11. London 1655. octavo. (2) Mercy in
a Miracle ; shewing the Deliverance and Duty of
the King and People ; on Matth. 8. 25. London
1661. quarto. It was preached at Mitcham in Sur-
rey the twenty eighth of June 1660, in a solemn
congregation for the restoration of his majesty to
his royal throne, &c.

A divine Masque. Lond. 1660. qu. ded. to the
lord Gen. Monke.

Strange News indeed, from Mitcham and Sur-
rey ; of the treacherous and barbarous Proceedings
of Robert Cranmer Merchant of London,'' against
Anthony Sadler Vicar of Mitcltam, &c. Lond.
1664. in one sh. in qy.

Schema-sacrum in Ordine ad Ordinem EcclesuB
Anglicance Caercmoniarum. London 1683. on a
broad side of a sheet of paper, written in Enghsh,
partly in verse, and partly in prose. This is the
second or third echtion, but when the first came out
I know not, nor any thing else of the author, only
that he died in sixteen hundred and eighty or there- i680.
alxjuts, leaving then behind him the character of a
man of a rambling head, and turbulent spirit.

[Bishop AVard, in a letter to archbishop Sancroft,
saith thus of Anth. Sadler (about 1681, when in a
jKaition to the archbishop he stiles himself rcHJtor of
Barwick S. James in Wilts.) He was once bene-
ficed in the diocess of London, where being prose-
cuted for divers irregularities and scandalous de-
bauchery, he was driven out of that dioc. by bishop
Henchman. After that, he got some cure in the

* [This was answered by Philip Nye, see under the year

lC7i, col. g()5.]

s [Tlieie be living at this lime, among divers others, two
knights of this iianic, sir Caesar Cranuier, once belrtnging 10
thecouit, anil sir William Cranuier, n worthy merchantof
London, and now deputy-governor ol" the Hamburgh com-
pany. Strypc, Memorialr ^ Cranmer, 1()94, page 419.]

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dioc. of Winchester, out of which he was driven by
my lord of Wint. that now is, for * * * • #
and other scandalous practices, all which I have
seen confessed under his own hand, in a written
paper remaining with my lord of Winton. Then
ne got a small vicarage in my dioc. where he had not
continued many months before the whole country
clamor'd at his debaucheries and marrying all
comers without banns or Ucense. Tannkr.

There was another Anthony Sadler, a puritan-
nical minister living at West Thorock in Essex,
who must not be mistaken for Sadler of Mitcham.
The former hved indeed much previous, dying on
the 20th of May 1643. His Dying Confensiwi, as
it is called, may be found at the conclusion of a
small volume entitled The Sinners Tears, written
by Tho. Fettiplace, of Peter-house Cambridge, pr.
London 1692.]

"THOMAS TURNER, son of sir Timothy
" Turner of Shrewsbury knight, serjeant at law,
" and one of the king's councd in ordinary for the
" marches of Wales, oecame a commoner of Baliol
*' college in 1651, took one degree in arts, went to
*' Greys inn, became a barrester, and wrote

" Tlie Case of the Bankers and tlieir Creditors
" stated and examined. London 1674. in five sheets
*' in quarto, there again in 1675 in quarto, with as
*' many additions as makes up eight sheets, [third
" edit.'l675, in ten sheets, Bodl. 8vo. C. 33. Jur.]

" The Joyful Nezcs of Opening the Exchequer to
" the Goldsmiths of Lombard-street^ and tlieir Cre-
" ditors, &c. London 1677. quarto, said in the
" title to be ' celebrated in a letter to the same
" friend in the country, to whom the banker's case
" was formerly sent.' In 1680. was a book pub-
" lished, entitled The Rights of the Bishops to
"Judge in Capital Cases in Parliament cleared.
" Being a full Jnswer to tzvo Books lately pub-
*' lished, the first entitled, A Letter from a Gentlc-
" man to his Friend, ^c. Tlie oilier, A Discourse
" of the Peerage and Jui-isdiction of the Lords
'' Spirittuil in Parliament, endeavouring to shezo
" the contrary, printed at London m octavo.
" Though no name is set to this book, yet it was
" reported by some to have been written by the
" said Thomas Turner; and by others by doctor
" Thomas Barlow bishop of Lincoln. However it
■' is, there is considerable reading from record shewn
■" tlierein. Sir Timothy Turner before-mentionetl
" dietl very aged in 1676, and his son Thomas the
« writer about 1680."

RICHARD ALLESTRY, or Allestree, son
of Robert, son of William Allestry^ of Alveston in

■ « rin All Saints church at Derby, are these inscriptions:
See Le Ne>e, Monumenta Anglicana, sub. anno.

■ I. Under this monument is interred the body of Willinm
Alltsirie Esq. recorder of Derby. He was twice married,

Derbyshire, was lx)m at Uppington near to Wrekcn
in Shropshire, educatetl in grammar learning moBtly
in the free-school at Coventry, where IMiilein. Hol-
land taught, liecame a commoner of Clirist Church
in Lent term, anno 1636, agetl fifteen years, being
then nut under tlie tuition of Mr. Richard Busby,
and about half an year after was made student of that
house. In 1642 he put himself in actual arms for
his majesty under sir John Byron, and when Oxford
was garrison'd for the king, he bore a musket
among tlic scholars for his service. In 164J3 he
proceeded master of arts, and the same year had
like to have lost his life by the pestilential disease,
that then raged within the garrison of Oxon. Soon
after he took holy orders, and became a noted tutor
in the house ; but when the parliament visitors came
under pretence of reforming the univenrity, he, with
hundreds more, were ejected. So that bcmg put to
his shifts, he was soon after entertainetl as chaplain
to Francis Newport of Shropshire esq; afterward
lord Newport of High Arcal : with whom conti-
niiing till Worcester fight, lie did, after the king'd
miraculous escape from the rebels there, attend hmi
at Roan in Normandy, and received his dispatches
to the managers of his affairs in England. Soon
after coming to Oxon, where he found his fViends
Mr. John Dollx;n, and Mr. John Fell Uving pri-
vately, and performing the offices of the church of
England to the loyal party there, he joyned with
them, and continued there till sir Anthony Cope of
HanwcU near Banbury prevailetl with him to live
in his family ; which for several years he did, hav-
ing liberty allowed liini to go or stay as his occasions
retjuired. By which advantage he was enabled to
step aside, upon messages from the king's friends^
which he managed with courage and dexterity.
But in the winter o( 1659, being snajit at Dover,'
in his return from his majesty in P'landers, he was
examined by the council of safety, and committed
prisoner to Lanil)eth house, where lie continued till
things moved towards his majesty's restoration. In
1660 he was made canon of Christ Church, and
soon after actually created doctor of divinity, and
about that time made one of the lecturers of the
city of Oxon, to instil principles of loyalty among
the citizens, who before had been led aside by schis-
matical teachers. In 1663, he iK'iiig then one of
the king's chaplains in ordinary, became regius pro-
first to Sarah daughter of ITiomas Smith gentleman, by
whome he had three sons and four daughters. His secona
wife was Mary daughter of William Aganl gent, by whom
he had three sons and foure daughters. He dyed the 4th of
September l(J56, aged 57-

2. Under this monument, neerc to the bodye of the within
written William Alleslrie Esq. lyeih interred Misiris Grace
Allcstrie, his daughter; who died the first day of December
1655, aged 24.]

' [Having been employed by the bishops to the king, in
the business of preserving the succession of episcopacy, by
filling up (with his leave and by a new consccratioa) the
vacant sets. See Dr. Burwick's Life. Baker.]
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fessor q( divinity upon the death of doctor Creed,
and two years after ^ he was made provost of Katon
college near Windsor, upon the death of doctor
John Meredith, which was all the preferment he
enjoyed," being little enough for such a sufferer as
he had been, and one that had often ventured his
neck to do his majesty service. He was a good and
most affectionate preacher, and for many jears by
his prudent presiding in the professor's chair, he did
discover perhaps as much learning as any, and much
more motleration, as to the five controverted points,
tlian most of his predecessors. He was also a person
richly furnished with all variety of choice solid
learning, requisite to recommend him with the
greatest advantage to the more intelligent world for
one of the most eminent divines of our age. He
hath written and transmitted to posterity.

The Privileges of tlie University of O.vford in
Point of Visitation, in a Letter to an honourable

Personage. Printed in one sheet and an half

in quarto. 1647. Whereupon William Prynne
came out with his University of Oxford's Plea re-
fitted, &c. and in answer to that R. Waryng wrote
An Account of Mr. Prynn^s Refutatimi, &c. and
Edward Bagshaw senior, with his Sliort Censure,
&c. " Some accounted ' Mr. John Fell to have been
" the author of this pamphlet about the university
" privileges."

Eighteen Sermons, whereof Jifteen were preacJied
before the King, and the rest upon public Occasions.
Lond. 1669. fd. most. of which had been before
published singly.

Of the Authority and Usefulness of the Scrip-
ture; Sermon an 2 Tim. 3. 15. Oxon. 1673. [1684]
quarto.

Forty Sermons, whereof twenty one are now first
published, the greatest Part preacKd before the
King, and on solemn Occasions. Oxon. 1684. fol.
[Bodl. G. 2. 10. Th.] These were pubhshed by
doctor John Fell bishop of Oxford,^ and had the

[678] nineteen sermons before-nientioii'd added to them,
with his picture before them.' He died in January

ifif*- in sixteen hundred and eighty, and was buried in
Eaton college chappel, on the north side of the high
altar or communion-table. Over his grave was soon
after laid a black marble-stone, with this engraven
thereon. Ricardus AUestree Praspositus, obiit 28
-Tan. 1 680 : * And on the north wall was set up a

' ■' [Ricardus Allestrec S. T. P. et prof, regius in Acad.
!0.xon. admiliend. ad prsefecturam coll. regalis B. MariiE de
litona, in com. Bucl(. tubscrip. anic. 10 Aug. 1660. Ex
bulbar. Kennet.]

'-' [He resigned his regius professorship, and Dr. William
James of Ch. Ch. succeeded May 19, 1C8O. Grky.]

' [Dr. Barlow sailh that the Privileees of the University
■vf Oxon. were written by Mr. John Fell. Wood, MS.
Sote in yiilimole.']

■ ^ -f With a pretace before them, giving some account of
his hfe.]

> I Engraved hy D. Loggan.] •

* [Sec iiiy MS. IJvtlectiotu, vol. xxx. p. 60. Cole.}

white marble table with this inscription thereon-
H. S. I. Ricardus AUestree Cathedrae Theologicae
in Universitatc Oxoniensi Professor Regius ; Eccle-
siiE Christi ibidem Pra;bendarius ; & Collegii hujas
Etonensis Pr8e{j<jsitus. Muniis istis singulis ita par,
ut & omnibus major. In disputationibus irrefraga-
bilis concionibus flexaninius, negotiis solers, vita in-
teger, pietate sanctus. Episcopales infulas eadeni
industna evitavit, qua alii anibiunt; ciii rectiuj
visum, Ecclesiam defendere, instruere, ornare, quam
regere. Laboribus studiisque perpetuis exhaustus,
morte, si quis alius, praematura obiit vir desideratis-
simus Januarii xxviii. an. MDCLXXX, wtatis
LXI. Nobile sibi monumentum areae adjacentis
latus occidentale quod k fundamentis propriis iiu-
pensis struxit, vivus sibi statuit. Brevem banc ta-
bellam haeredes Defuncto posuere. The fabric here
mentioned was a new grammar school, which coat
Dr. AUestry about fifteen hundred poimds. Dr.
Zachariah Cradock of Cambridge,* who had been
installed canon resident of Chichester, on the e\e>-
venth of February 1669, succeeded him in the pro^
vostship of Eaton, by virtue of the election there-
unto of the fellows: so that Edmund Waller the
poet, who had tug'd hard for it, was put aside. Of
the same family with Dr. Allestry, was another of
both his names of Derby, author of several alma^^
nacks before the rebellion began, one of which for
the years 1629, and 1633, 1 have seen ; but whether
he was educated in Oxon, I cannot yet tell.

"BARTHOLOMEW ASHWOOD, a War-
" wick shire minister's son, became a batler or com-
" moner of St. Alban's liaD, in the Latter end of
" 1638, j^ed sixteen years, but having been purii
" tannically educated, he was translated after some
" continuance in the sjiid liall to Exeter college,
" and there put under a tutor puritannically then
" esteemed, and took one degree in arts as a member
" of that college, and was soon after Ijeneficed, and
" became a man of the times. He hath written and
" published.

" The heavenly Trade; or, the best Mercluin-
" dizing: the only Way to live well in Impover-
" ishing Times; a Discourse occoMorHd from the
"•Decay of earthly Trades, and visible Wasts .of
"practical Piety in the Day zve live in, offering
" Arguments aiid Counsells to all, towards a speedy
" Revival of dying (Godliness, &c. London. 1679.
" 88. &c. in octavo. It was written to be a neces*
" sary book for all families.

" The best Treasure: or, the Way to he trply

5 [Zach. Cradock, Rutland, electus socius coll. Regin.
Cant. Aug. 2, 1654. Regii/r. Baker.

Zach. Cradock coll. Eman. A. B. an. 166O.

Z. C. obiit 1C95, and buried in Eton coll. chapel, v. my
vol. xxx, page 80. Cole.

See in the Thurhe Stale Papers, 1742, vol. v. page 528, a
letter from Ralph Cudworth to secretary Thurloe recom-
mending Zach. Cradock as a resident chaplain at Lisbon.
Jhis is dated lC56.]

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" Y\ch : Being a Discourse art Ephes. 3. 8. wJtcj-ein
" is opened aiid commended to Saints and Sinners, '
" the perstmitl and purchased Hiches of Christ, as
" the best Treasure to be pursud, &c. London'
" 1681 . octavo. Before wliicn book Dr. John Owen
" hatli a preface.

" Groans from Sion, a Sermrhi at the Solemniza-
" tion of tfte Funeral of A. C. Lomlon 1681 in
" twelves ; and other things which I liavc not yet
" seen. He dietl al»out tlie year sixteen hundred
" ami eighty. I find one Bartiioloinew AshwcKxl '^
" of Magdalen college in Oxon, to be matriculated
" as a Warwickshire man in 1591, aged thirteen
" years, and as a member of that house, to have
" taken the degrees in arts, that of master to l)e
" compleatetl in 1601. Which Bartholomew I take
" to be either father or imcle to our author bcfore-
" mentioned."

■WILLIAM BEN, or Benne, was born at, or
near to, Egremond in Cumberland in November
1600, educated in grannnar learning in the free-
school at St. Bee, transplanted thence to Queen's
college, where, if I am not mistaken, he was a ser-
vitor. Afterwards leaving the place without a de-
OTee, upon the obtaining a presentation to Okingham
m Berks, he setled there; but one Bateman his
contem}X)rary in Oxon, having got another pre-
sentation thereunto, they both, rather than go to
law, did joyntly perform the duties, and received
the profits thence. At length our author Ben be-
came chaplain to the marchioness of Northampton
hving in Somersetshire, left his interest in Oking-
ham to Bateman, and continuing in the service of
the said marchioness till 1629, he did by virtue of
a call from John White the patriarch of Dorchester,
go to that place,' and by White's endeavours was
cnade rector of Allhallowes church there, where he
continued in great respect from the precise party
till St. Bartholomew's day, anno 1662, excepting
only two year.s, in which time he atteniled the saiu
White when he was rector of Lamlieth in Surrey,
in the place of Dr. Featley ejected. Besides his
constant preaching at Allhallowes, he preached
gratis on a week-day to the prisoners in the goal,
situated in his parish, where being much frc>quented
by the neighbourhood, and no consequently the
room, wherein be held forth, not spacious enough
to contain the auditory, he caused a chappel to be
built within the prison walls, in good part, at least,
at his own charge. After his ejectment from All-
hallowes for nonconformity, he lived in Dorchester
to the time of his death, but for his preaching in
conventicles there, and in the neighbourhood, he

' [There was a Henry Ashwood who addressed some lines
in commendation of the Voyage to East India, 8vo. ifiSS,
written by Edward Terry, whom he styles his ' ancient
friend.']

7 [Where at the breaking out of the rebellion he much
prejudiced the people against the king. Watts.]

was often brought into trouble, and Dometimeti im-
prison'd and fined. He hath written,

Answer to Mr. Francis Bampfiehrs Letter ^ in'
Vindication of the Christian Sahbafh against the'
Jewish. London 1672. 77. (Ktavo. It is printed'
with the said BampdeWn Judffrnentjttr the Ohserva-'
tion of the JcTvish Sabbath: wherein Ben's An-'
swer begins page 9. and ends in page 86.

Soul-prosperity, in several Sermons ; im John
3. 2. London 16S3. octavo. This hoaV. contains
twelve sermons at least. He died in the latter end'
of the year (the twenty second of March as I have
been informed) of sixteen hundred and eighty, and-
was buried in the ywrA belonging to his sometime
church in the anticnt borough of Dorchester in Dor-
setshire before-mention'd. What I have farther to'
observe of this person is (1) That he was one of tlie'
assistants to the commissioners of Dorsetshire and
Pool for the ejecting of such whom they then (1654)*
called scandalous, ignorant and insufficient ministers
and schoolmasters. (2) That though he lived to
be eighty years of age, yet he never used sjicctacles,
though he read and wrote much, writing all his ser-
mons generally as large as he dehvere<l them, except
the words of the texts of scri))ttire cited by him.
(3) That it was always his custom, especiiilly when
he was at home, to pray in his study seven tunes in
a day, and in his prayers to give Gtxl thanks for
certain deliverances of him from dangers, wliich
happenetl the fifth of June 1636, tlie twenty tliird
of October 1643, the twelfth of August 164.5, &c.
See more in Francis Bampfield, an. 1683. '

« JOHN FARINGTON, son of Thom^is Far-
" ington alderman and justice of the jx-ace of the
" city of Chichester in Sussex, descendtnl originally
" from the Faringtons of Farington in Liuicashire,
" became a commoner of Brasen-nose college in the
" beginning of 1626, aged seventeen years, left it
" without a degree, antt went to Greys inn, where
" making some continuance, was called to the bar,-
" as it seems, and afterwards recedint^ to his patri-
" mony, became a sedulous student 111 antiquities,-
" collected several remarks of anti(|uities, in his own
" country of Sussex, having been encouraged there-
" unto by his countryman John Selden, to whom
" his lalxjurs being communicated, he did much
" appi-ove of them. But none of his collections are
" as yet published. He was afterwards a justice of
" the peace, sheweil himself very severe against the
" pajiists, when Oates his plot broke out in Sep-
" tember 1678, but died in sixteen lunulretl and
" eighty, or therealx)uts, and was buried among the
" graves of his fathers, who had lived in Chichester
" three generations before him."

« ELISH A COLES, bom, as it seems, in North-
" amptonshire, entrtnl into Magdalen college in the
" latter end of 16-58, left it without the taking of a
" degree, retired to London, taught Latin there to

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" youths, and English to foreigners about 1663.
" Afterwards he continued that employment with
" good success in Russell-street nearCovent-Garden,
" within the liberty of Westminster, and at length
'* became one of the ushers of Merchant-Taylors
" school; but upon some default, not now to be
'* named, he left all, and went into Ireland, where he
" ended his course. He was a curious and critical
" person in the English and Latin tongues, did
" much good in his calling, and wrote several useful
" and necessary Ixwks for the instruction of begin-
" ners, and therefore 'twas pitied by many that he
" was unhappily taken oft" from his prosperous pro-
" ceedings. His works are these,

" The Compleat English Schoolmaster: or, the
" most natural and easy Method of Spelling' and
" Reading English according to the present proper
" Prmmnctation of the Language in Oarford and
" London, &c. London 1674. oct.

" The newest, plainest and shortest Short-hand,
" contai7ting, 1. A hrief Account of the Short-hand
" already extant, with their Alphabets andfunda-
" mental Rules. 2. A plain and easy Method fir
" Beginners, less burthensome to the Memory than
" any other. 3. A new Invention for contracting
" Word's, with special Rules for contracting Sen-
" fences, and other ingenious Fancies, &c. Lond.
" 1674. octavo^ [Bodl. 8vo. P. 148. Art.]

" Nolens Volens : or, you shall make Latin xvhe-
" tlver you will or no, containing the plainest Di-
" rcctions that have been yet given upon that
« Subject. Lond, 1675. 77. oct.

" Tlie Youths vi.iible Bible, being an alpha-
" betical Collection (from tJie whole Bible) of such
" general Heads as were Judged most capable of
" Hieroglyphics, illustrated icith twenty four Cop-
" per Plates, Stc. Printed with Nolens Volens.

"An English Dictionary, explaining the difficult
" Terms that are used in Divinity, Husbandry,
" Physic, Philosophy, Laws, Navigation, Mathe-
" mattes, and otlicr Arts and Sciences, &c. I^ond.
« 1676, [1677, Bodl. 8vo. A. 130. Art.] and 1G92.
" octavo.

" A Dictionary English-Latin, and Latin-En-
" glish, containing all Things neccssai-y for the
" translating either Language into the Other, &c.
« Lond. 1677. in qu. [Bodl. 4to. F. 21. Art.] and
*' oct.

" The most natural and easy Method of learning
" Latin Iry comparing it with English : Together
" reith the holy History of Scripture War, or the
" sacred Art Military, &c. London 1677, in oct.
" [Bodl. 8vo. Z. 116. Th.]

" TJie Harmony of the four Evangelists in a
metrical Paraphrase on tlie History of mir Lord
and Saviour Jesus Christ. London 1679. 80. in
oct.

" Tlw young Scfiolars best Companion : or, an
exact Guide or Directory for Children and Youth
from the A B C to the Latin Grammar, compre-
hending the whole Body of the English Learning,
&c. Prlntefl at I^ondon in twelves. What other
things he hath extant I know not, nor any tiling
else of him, only that he died, and was buried in
Ireland, but the time when I know not. He had
an uncle called Elisha Coles born in Northamp--
tonshire, originally a trader in London, made
steward of Magtfalen college by Dr. Thomas
Goodwin the independent president thereof;
which place he quitting at the tune of his majesty's
restoration, he retired to London, became clerk to
the East India company there, and was author of
A practical Discourse of God's Sovereignty:
wnth other material Points deriving thence.
London 1673, quarto.* in which book he doth
strenuously dispute against the remonstrants.
This Elisha Coles, who always lived a dissenter
from the church of England, (as being an inde-
pendent) died in his house in Scalding-alley^ near
the Stocks-market in London, about the twenty
eighth of October 1688, aged eighty years or
more, and was buried in some yard or other be-
longing to fanatics. Qu." '

• [Seventh edition 8vo. 1718. WanLey.]
' [He had a son of both his names who was author of
X;i!r7ox«yia ; or a metrical Paraphrase on the History of our
Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Dedicated to Am Universal
Church. London 167'. 8vo.
To the reader.

In Gospel Harmonies I bear a part,

To make them portable iu hand and heart.

Elisha Coles, Junior.

And a very humble part poor Mr. Coles bore, witness
Peter's denial of Christ :

Now Peter followed Jesus at a distance ;
And when he was admitted (by th' assistance
Of an acquaintance there) he there attended
To see how this great business wonld be ended.
Then came the maid that let him in, and said.
Thou followest this Jesus (I'm afraid)
But he denyed him before them all
With whom he sate and warm'd him in the hall.
Just as the first cock crew, another maid
Beheld him going tow'rd the porch and said.
This fellow's one of them ; — But Simon swore.
He never saw the man in's life before.

Sign. H. 1.]

[681]

Ctar'.
1680.

INDEX

OF

LIVES CONTAINED IN THE THIRD VOLUME.

(Tfiose lires tJtat hai'e an Asterisk prefixed, contain additions in the text, those enclosed in brackets, are jperfectly new.
It mil bejfbund that additional notes are given to most of' the lives not distinguished by eiOur of the aoove marks. )

LIVES OF WRITERS.

N4fn».

Died or flouriihed.

C«l.

NirnM.

Died or louitetad

CpI.

•Abington or Habington Thomas

- 1647

222

Birkenhead John

- 1679

1203

Ailmer John

- 1672

957

Biscoe John - - -

- 1679

1198

Airy Cliristoplier - . -

- 1670

907

Bissa;us Edward . - .

. 1679

1218

Alford Joseph ...

claruit 1649

263

Blake Thomas ...

- 1657

481

Allein Joseph - . -

- 1668

819

Blanc or Blancy Alan

cl. 1656

428

♦Alien Ridiard - - -

. cl. 1649

262

Bogan Zachary -

- 1659

476

Allestree or Allestry Richanl -

- 1680.1

1269

♦Boughon Edward

- cl 1666

388

•Ambrose Isaac . . _

. 1663-4

659

Bourne Immanuel

- 1672

977

Angell John

- 1655

397

*Boyle Roger ...

- 1679

1200

*Amway John

- c/. 1651

307

♦Bradley Thomas

- cZ. 1670

719

Ashley Robert ...

- 1641

19

Branker Thomas

- 1676

1086

Ashwood Bartholomew

- circ. 1680

1272

♦Brathwayte Richard

- 1673

986

Aston Thomas

. 1645-6

184

♦Brent Nathaniel -_

- 1662

333

Atkyns Richard - . -

- 1677

1126

Brereton WiUiam

- cl. 1648

252

Austin Samuel - . -

- cl. 1664

675

Brett Arthur ...

- 1677

1144

Aylesbury WiUiam - -

- 1657

440

♦Bristol, George Digby, Earl of

- 1676-7

1100

♦Bristol, John Digby, Earl of .-

. 1652.3

338

Backhouse W iUiam

. 1662

576

Brookbank Joseph

. cl. 1661

541

*Bagshaw Edward

. 1662

618

♦Browne Thomas

- 1673

1003

♦Bagshaw Edward

. 1671

944

Bulstrode Edward

- 1659

471

*Bainbridge John

- 1643

67

♦Barges CorneUus - - _

-. 1666

681

♦Baker David

- 1641

7

♦BurhiU or BurghiU Robert

- 1641

18

Baker Richard ...

. 1644.5

146

♦Burton WiUiam

. 1645

153

[Ballard John

. 1678 ]

1178

Burton WiUiam . -

- 1657

438

•Barcham John

- 1642

35

Bury John

_. 1667

777

♦Bartlet WiUiam

. 1682

264

Bushell Thomas - - , -

- 1674

1007

♦Barton William

.. cil672

303

♦Bushnell Walter

- 1667

760

Bate George _ _ -

- 1669

827

Butler Charles

. - 1647

209

Baylie Thomas ...

. 1663

633

Byam Henry ...

. 1669

836

Beeseley Henry ...

. 1675

1037

♦Byfield Richard

.- 1664

668

Ben or Benne William

. 1680

1273

Bysshc Edward - - i

- 1679

1218

•Bennet Christopher

- 1655

396

Bythner Victorin

. cl. 1664

675

Berkeley William

- 1677

1111

Bery John ...

. 1667

777

Canon Nathaniel

- 1664-5

674

Biddle John

. 1662

593

Capel Daniel ...

circ. 1679

122«

Bigncll Henry ...

- c/. 1655

406

♦Capel Richard

. 1656-

421

Birckbcck Simon

- 1666

421

CappU Lewis ...

- 1668

4()3

1279 INDEX OF LIVES CONTAINED IN THE THIRD VOLUME.

1280

NUDM.

Died or flourisbed.

Col.

Namn.

Dxti

1 or Bouritlied.

Col.

♦Carey or Cary Henry

- 1661

516

Davenport Humphrey

-

1645

182

•Cartwriglit VN'illiam

- 1643

69

Davenport John

-

1669-70

889

Caryl Joseph

. 1672-3

979

Dawes Lancelot

-

1653-4

349

*Casaulx)n Meric

- 1671

934

Dawson John

.

1641

16

Castle George

- 1673

998

•De Beauvais Charles

cl. 1669

721

•Cawton Thomas

. 1677

1108

Dee Arthur

.

1651

285

Chalfont Richard -

. 1648

239

•De Foliis or Foulis Henry

.

1669

881

Chaloner James

- 1660

502

•Denham John

.

1668-9

823

Chaloner Thomas

- 1661

531

Dc Uphaugh Brian

-

1662

641

Chambers Humphrey

. 1662

610

•Devreux Robert, Earl of Essex

.

1646

189

Chamock Stephen

- 1680

1234

•Digby George, Earl of Bristol

-

1676-7

1100

*Cherbury, Edward Herbert, Lord

- 1648

239

•Digby John, Earl of Bristol

-

1652-3

338

Clieshire Thomas - . -

d. 1641

35

•Digby Kenelme

.

1665

688

•Cheynell Francis

- 1665

703

•Digges Dudley

-

1643

63

Ciiiklrey Joshua - - -

- 1670

903

Dingley Robert

-

1659-60

487

•Chillingworth WiUiam

- 1643-4

86

Domville Silas

.

1678

1175

Chilmead Edmund

- 1653-4

350

•Dorset, Edward Sackville, Earl of

1652

312

Clagett Nicholas

- 1663

640

Doughtie John

.

1672

976

Clara Francis a St.

- 1680

1221

•Downing Calybute

.

1644

105

•Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of

- 1674

1018

Drope Francis

.

1671

941

♦Clarke Samuel

- 1669

882

•Duck Arthur

.

1648

257

[Clifford Henry, Earl of Cumberland 1643 ]

80

*Dudley Robert, Dukeof Northumberland 1649

258

Cockaine Thomas ...

cl. 1658

470

Du Gres Gabriel

cl. 1645

184

*Codrington Robert

- 1665

699

Du Jon Francois

1677

1139

Cole William

- 1662

621

Duppa Brian

.

1662

541

•Coleman Thomas

- 1647

211

[Dyer Robert

cl

. 1654 ]

394

Colcpcper Thomas

- 1661-2

533

Coles Elisha

cl 1680

1274

•Earle John

.

1665

716

Coles Gilbert

- 1676

1067

Eaton John

.

1641

21

•Colflsaiic

- 1657

390

Eaton Samuel ...

.

16&t-5

672

Collier Giles ...

- 1678

1171

•Edmondson Henry

-

1659

474

•Coppc Abiezer

- 1672

959

Ecdes John

circ

■. 1667

802

Corbet John

- 1680

1264

Elderfield Christopher

.

1652

336

Coventrie Francis

- 1680

1221

Ellis John

-

1665

709

•Cox Benjamin

cl. 1647

208

Ellis Thomas

.

1673

992

•Cranford James

- 1657

430

•Elsynge Henry ...

.

1656

363

•Creed William

- 1663

637

Erbury William

.

1654

360

•Cressey Hugh

- 1674

1011

Esquire WiUiam

.

1677

1114

Crisp Tobias

- 1642-3

50

♦Essex, Robert Devreux, Earl of

.

1646

189

•Croke George

. 1641-2

26

Eyre William

.

1669u70

885

Crompton Wilham

- 1641-2

23

Culpeper Tljomas

- 1661-2

533

*Fairclough Daniel

-

1645

156

[Cumberland, Henry Clifford, Earl of 1643 ]

80

•Fairclough John

-

1666

729

Faringdon Anthony

.

1658

457

DarUm Nicholas

- cl. 1640

263

Farington John

fire

.1680

1274

Davenant William

- 1668

802

•Famabie Thomas

.

1647

213

Davenport Cliristopher

- 1680

1221

•Featley Daniel

-

164(5

156

]i281

INDEX OF LIVES CONTAINED IN THE THIIll) VOLUMi:.

128^2

Nfltnet.

Died or fl'iuiiithtd.

C>.l.

Nainn.

DMi «< •ou/l \n*.

— *-

Col

*Featlcy John

- 1666

729

*Grcn;ory Edmund

- cl. 1647

207

•Fell Samuel - - .

- 1648-9

242

•Gregory John

- 16t6-7

2().'>

*Ferne Henry

. - 1661-2

533

Greisley Henry -

- 1678

1167

*Fiennc^ Nathaniel

- 1669

877

Grey Nicholas

- 1660

504

Fiennes William -

.- 1662

546

Griflith Alexander

cl. 16.54

39!J

•Fisher Edward - - „ -

cl 1655

407

Griilith George - . -

- 1666

754

Fisher Samuel - - -

.- 1665

700

•Griffith Matthew .

- 16ft5

7)1

^Fitz-Simon Henry

- 1643-4

96

Grosse Alexander - . -

- 1654

368

Floyd or Lloyd Nicholas _ -

.- 1680

1258

Gumbleden John -

- 1657

436

Ford Edward

- 1670

905

*Ford Thomas

- 1676

1096

*Habington Thomas - - .

- 1647

222

*Foulis Henry - . - _

- 1669

881

•Hakewill George - - .

- .1649

263

Foulkes Robert

. - 1678-9

1195

•Hakcwill U'illiam.

circ. 1680

231

Fowler Christopher

- 1676-7

1098

*Hale Matthew

.- 1676

loyo

French John

- 1657

436

*Hales Jo^n - , - .

- 16.36

409

•Hal! George -. -

- 1668

812

♦Gale Theophilus -

. - 1.677-8

1149

*Hall Thomas - -

. 1665

677

•Gammon Hannibal

cl. 1643

103

Hainden John

- 161'3

59

Gardiner Richard -

- 1670

921

♦Hamilton James, Duke of

- 1648-9

247

♦Gataker or Gatacre Charles -

- 1680

1257

•Hammond Henry

- 1660

493

*Gauden John

- 1662

612

Hanson John - - -

cl. 1669

473

*Gayton Edmund - - _

- . 1666

756

•Harding Samuel ...

cl. 1641

31

Gee Edward

- 1660

503

*Hardy Nathaniel

- 1670

896

Gremote William . -

1677-8

1147

*Harmar John - - -

- 1670

918

Gentilis Robert

cl. 1654

393

•Harrington James

- imi

1115

*Geree John

- 1648-9

244

Harris John

. 1658

455

Geree Stephen - - -

cl. 1656

428

Harris Robert ...

- 1658

458

German Michael

- 1659

475

*Harvey Christopher

circ. 1663

538

Getsius John Daniel

- 1672

973

•Hayne Thomas

- 1645

173

•Gill Alexander

.- 1642

42

*Haywood William

- 1663

634

•Glanvill Joseph

- 1680

1244

Head Richard - - .

cl. 1678

1196

Glynne John - - - -

- 1666

752

Heath James

- 1664

663

Goddard Jonathan

.. 1674-5

1029

*Hemmings V\ illiam

cl. 1650

277

Godolphin John

- 1678

1152

•Henshaw Joseph . -

- 1678-9

1195

Godolphin Sydney - - -

- 1642-3

44

*HerlK;rt Edward, Lord Cherbury

- 1648

239

Godwin Thomas

- 1642-3

51

•Herle Charles

- 1659

477

Goetz John Daniel

- 1672

973

*Heylin Peter

- 1662

552

Goffe John

. - 1661

524

•Heyrick Richard

- 1667

780

•Goldsmith Francis

- 1655

400

•Hey rick Robert

c/. 1648

250

*Good Thomas

. - 1678

1154

Hibbert Henry ...

- 1678

1178

Goughe John

- 1661

524

Hicks Gaspar

- 1677

1107

Gove Richard - - -

- 1668

822

Hicks William

- 1659-60

4«9

•Grayle John

- 1654

362

•Higford William - _ .

- 1657

429

Greaves Edward

- 1680

1256

« Higgs Griffin

- 1659

479

•Greaves John . - -

- 1652

324

*Higgons Theophilus

. 1659

482

* Greaves Thomas

- 1676

1061

HiU William

- 1667.

800

Greenliill \\ illiam

circ. 1677

1145

•Hoard Sanmel

- 1657-8

449

Vol.. III.

4N

1283

INDEX OF LIVES CONTAINED IN THE THIRD VOLUME.

nu

Ninei.

Died or flourished.

dl.

Niacf.

•Hobbes Thomas - -

- 1679

1206

Lacey William

Holdcn or Holding Samuel

d. 1674

1031

♦Lake Edward -

Holland Richard

-. 1677

1109

Lamb James -

Holmes Nathaniel =

- 1678

1168

♦Langbaine Gerard

Holyday Barten

. 1661

520

♦Langley John

Holyoake Thomas -

. 1675

1040

Langley William

Holyoke Francis

- 1653

346

Lassells Richard -

Hook WiUiam

- 1677-8

1151

Latch John

•Hoole Charles ■ - - .

- 1666-7

758

Laud William

Hopkins George

- 1666

726

Laurence Thomas

Home Thomas

- 1654

365

Lawrence Richard

Howe William

- 1656

418

♦Leigh Edward -

*Howell James

- 1666

744

♦Lenthall William - "

*Hoyle Joshua

- 1654

382

Lewgar John -

Hubert Henry

- 1678

1178

Ley John -

•Hudson Michael

- 1648

238

Leycester Peter -

• Hughes George

- 1667

777

Lisle John -

Huish Alexander

- 1668

811

♦Littleton Edward

Hulett John ...

1663

649

♦Lloyd David

Hunt Francis - ' - '

- 1680

1221

* Lloyd or Floyd Nicholas

*Hyde Edward, Earl of Clarendon

1674

1018

Lloyd Richard

'

♦Loe William - - "

♦Jackson Henry

1662

577

Lorte Roger

•Jacob Henry -

1652

329

♦Love Christopher

James William ..."

1663

634

♦Lovelace Richard

Janeway James

1673-4

1006

♦Lower William

♦Jeanes Henry . . -

- 1662

590

♦Lucy William

Jemmat WilUam

1677-8

1147

Lushington Thomas

•Jenkyns David - - -

1663

643

Lydyat Thomas

Jermin Michael - -

1659

475

Lyford William --

Jeruvorthus Samuel - " - "

- cl. 1650

276

-

Jessop Constantine - ' -

- cl. 1661

540

Mabbe James •

Jhones Basset - ".- -

- cl. 1659

491

♦Man ton Thomas --

JollifF George - " - " -

- cl. 1653

351

Maplet John

Jones Richard - - -

- cl. 1653

344

♦Marten Henry

•Jones Thomas -' - -

1665

707

Marten Henry - ■

•Ireton Henry - •

-- 1651

298

♦Mason Henry -- •

•Ireton Gilbert - " . "

1671

940

♦Master Thomas -

♦Ironside Gilbert - " - "

1671

940

Mather Richard *

Junius Francis ...

1677

1139

Mather Samuel

♦Maton Robert

Kerne or Kem Samuel

1670

907

Matthew Tobie -

•Kendall George

1663

638

Maynard John

Kendall George

- cl. 1664

677

♦Mayne Jasper

♦Kinaston Francis -

- cl. 16*6

38

Mayow John

*King Henry

1669

839

♦Mead Robert
M^nes JiJin

Died or 6»uh«he<l.

Col.

1673

994

1674

633

1664

668

1657-8

446

1657

434

cl. 1655

409

1668

818

1655

399

1644-5

117

1657

437

cl. 1657

452

1671

926

1662

603

1665

696

1662

569

1678

1173

1664

665

1645

175

1663

652

1680

1258

1659

472

cl. 1645

183

cl. 1647

232

1651

278

1658

460

1662

544

1677

1127

1661

526

164«

185

1653

345

cl 1642

53

1677

1134

1670

900

1641

17

1680

1237

1647

220

1643

83

1669

832

1671

941

cl. 1653

409

1655

401

cl 16C9

892

1672

971

1679

1199

1652-,'J

342

1670-1

925

1285 INDEX OF LIVES CONTAINED IN THE THIRD VOLUME.

\^m

Narnr«.

Died or dourithcfl

Col.

NaaiM.

DM tr •oorMm

1. Ool.

Mcrriot Thomas -

-

-

1662

589

♦Puleston Hainlett

\mt

544

*Moiimoiith, Henry Cary, Earl of

1661

516

♦Pym John .. - ^

1646

72

Moricc William -

-

*

1676

1087

*Murcot John

-

*

1664

381

♦Quarlcs John

1665

697

Nedhain Marcharaont

«

_

1678

1180

Rafc Christian

1677

lliM)

*Nuile William

«

-

1670

902

Riileigh Walter -

1646

197

♦Newman Samuel

-

. -

16(J3

648

Ravis Christian

1677

1130

*Ne\vtoii John

-

-

1678

1190

Read Thoma.s ...

1669

831

Nicolls Ferdinando

-

-

1662

620

Reotling John

1667

,T94

Nicolson V\'illiam

-

-

1671-2

950

♦Reynell Edwiird ...

.c»rt.l663

668

•Northumberland, llobertDudley,Dukeof 1649

258

♦Reynolds Edward

1676

1083

*Nye Pliilip

-

-

1672

963

Rhodes Richard ....
Richanlson Gabriel -

1668
1642

819
37

*Orrery, Roger Boyle,

Eadof

- -

1679

1200

Rilaiid John ....

1672-3

983

*Osborne John

- -

-

cl. 1664

676

Roberts Francis ....

1676

1064

Owen Corbet

- - -

w

1670-1

924

Robins<m Hugh -

1655

395

Oxenbridge John -

-

-

1674

1026

Rochester, John Wilmot, Ej«-1 of

- 1680

1228

[Oxinden Henry

- -

-

1670 ]

923

♦Roe Tiiomas - .. . -
Root Isaac

1644
- t/. 1666

111
760

♦Page William

-

-

1663-4

653

Rogers Henry ....

- C/.1641

31

♦Paget or Paglt Ephraim

-

1647

210

Ilolle Henry

1656

416

Palmer Anthony

-

-

1678-9

1192

♦Rook Laurence ....

1662

587

♦Parker Henry

-

cl. 1657

451

Rous Francis

. c/. 1643

104

Parr Richard

-

-

cl. 1652

344

♦Rous Francis ....

1668-9

466

♦Parry Benjamin -

-

-

1678

1172

♦Rowe John

1677

1128

♦Parry John

-

»

.1677

1143

Rowland William

1659

486

Parsons Bartholomew

-

-

1641-2

25

Roys Job - -

1663

642

Pasor Matthias

-

-

1657-8

444

♦Rudyerd Benjamin

1668

466

♦Pawlet John, Marquis

of Wuichcster 1673-4

1005

♦Rumsey Walter

1660

609

Pendarves John

-

-

16.56

419

Russell William ....

1659

474

Petre William

-

jp

. 1677-8

1144

Ryves Bruno - • -

1677

1110

♦Phalerius Gulielmus

- .

-

v: 1678

1167

♦Ryves I homas - . . -

1651-2

304

♦Pink Robert

.

T

1647

225

♦Pointz Robert

-.

-

1665

715

♦Sackville Edward, Earl of Dorset -

1662

312

♦Potter Barnabas -

-

-

1641-2

21

* Sadler Anthony

- 1680

1267

Potter Chai-les -

.

1663

648

Saint Clara Francis a -

- 1680

1221

♦Potter Christopher -

-

-

1645-6

179

♦Salesbury or Salusbury Thomas

1643

55

Potter Francis

.

-

1678

1155

Salkejd John

1659-60

488

♦Powel ^'avasor

-

-

1670

911

Samwaies Richard - _. .

1669

838

Powel! Thomas -

-

-

1660

507

Sandbrooke William

1658-9

469

♦Price John

-

-arc. 1676

1105

♦Sanderscm Robert

1662-3

623

♦Price Owen

-

-

1671

942

♦Sandys George ...

1643-4

97

Prichard Rocs

-

-

1644

116

Savage Henry ....

1672

967

♦Prideaux John

-

-

1650

265

Say and Sele, William Fiennes, Viscount 1662

646

Prideaux Matthias -

-

-rj re. 1646

199

Scudaniore James ...

1666

727

Primerose David

-

-

cl. 1642

54

§«ager John

cl 1650

276

♦Prynne William -

-

-

1669

844

♦Sedgwick John ... -

1643

65

4N2

1 287 INDEX OF LIVES CONTAINED IN THE THIRD VOLUME

1288

N»*»«.

Died or ft 'Uriihed.

Col.

Nimei.

^♦•dor flourished

Col.

Swlgwick Olwdiah -

1657-8

441

Tavemer Phihp . . -

- cl. 1659

490

Setlgwick William

-drf.1668

894

♦Taylor Jeremy

1667

781

•Seidell John

1654

366

Taylor Silas - - .

1678

1175

•Shirley James

- - 1666

737

Taylor William

1661

519

Shirley John

1679

1220

Terry Edward - - .

1660

505

•Sibthorpe Robert

1662

550

Theyer John

1673

996

•Sidenham Cuthbert -

1654

351

Thomas William - - -

- cl. 1643

104

Simpson Nathaniel

1642

37

* Thomas William -

- 1667

798

Singe George

1653

347

•Thornborough John - -

1641

3

Skinner Stephen -

- - 1667

793

•Thurman Henry -

1670

922

•Slatyer William -

1640-7

227

Tipping William

1648-9

243

•Smart Peter

-circ. 1652

40

Tombes John

1676

1062

Smitli James

1667

776

•Tomkins Thomas

1675

1046

Smith John

- - cl 1674

1030

Tongue Ezrael

- 1680

1260

Smith John

1679

1200

Tonstall George -

- cl. 1672

985

Smith Miles

1671-2

951

Towers William

1666

736

•Smith Richard

1654-5

384

•Toy John - . -

1663

649

Smitli Richard

1675

1031

•Tozer Henry - - - -

1650

273

•Smith Samuel

- cZ.1663

656

Tralierne Thomas - -

- . 1674

1016

•Snelling Thomas

- c^.l650

275

Trapp John - - -

1669

84f3

•Somerset, Henry, Marquis

! of Worcester 1646

199

Tully Thomas - -

1675-6

1055

•Southouse Thomas ^ -

1676

959

Turner Jerom - - .

1655

404

•Spelman John

1643

62

Turner Peter

1651-2

306

Squire William -

. - 1677

1114

Turner Thomas

circ. 1680

1269

•Stafford Anthony -

- c/. 1641

33

* Tumour Edward - - -

1675-6

1060

Stampe William -

1653

347

Twisse William - -

1645

169

Stanley Edward

1662

590

*Twyne Brian - - - -

1644

108

•Stanton Edmund

1671

931

i

•Stanwix Richard -

1656

427

*Vane Henry

1662

578

Stedman Rowland

1673

998

Vaughan Edmund

1669-70

886

Stephens Jeremy

1664-5

670

Vaughan Henry - - -

1661

531

Stephens Nathaniel

1677-8

1148

Vaughan John - - -

1674

1025

•Steuart Richard

1651

295

Vaughan Robert - -

1666

728

Stone Samuel

- cl. 1662

54

Vaughan Rowland - - -

- cl. 1642

41

Stopford Joshua -

1675

1053

Vaughan Thomas

1665-6

722

Streat William -

1666

728

Veel Robert ...

1674

1028

Streater Aaron

- cl. 1642

55

Venner Tobie

1660

491

Strickland John -

1670

910

Vemeuil John . - _

1647

221

•Strode WilUam

1644-5

151

*Vernon Francis

-arc. 1677

1133

Strode William -

1645

176

•Vicars John ...

1652

308

Stubbe Henry

1676

1067

Vilvain Robert

1662-3

631

•Ktubbe Henry

circ. 1680

1255

* Vincent Thomas . - -

1678

1174

•Style William

- cZ. 1658

470

Volentius Thomas

- cl. 1655

406

Swadlin Thomas

1669-70

887

Swinnock George

1673

1001

Waferer Myrth - -

- 1680

1253

•Sydenham Cuthbert

1664

351

Wagstaffe John . - -

1677

1113

•Sydenham Humphrey

1650

274

•Walker Clement -

1651

292

1289

INDEX OF LIVES CONTAINED IN THE THIRD VOLUME.

1200

N'»mrs.

*VVallJohn - - - .
Waller William -

Died or BourUbed.

1666
1668

Col.

734
814

Ninri.

Wilkinson H^y
*Wilkins John

Died or liMihkttf.

1647
1672

Col.

880

yen

*Waiing Robert . . -

1658

453

Wilkinson Henry

1675

1038

*Warmstrey Gervase

1641

1

•Williams Griffith -

1671-2

962

♦Wannestry Thomas

Warner John
•Warner John ...

1665

- cl 1667

1666

713
450
731

Willis 'I'homus ...

Willis Thomas

Wilmot John, Earl of Rochester

- cl. 1655

1676

. 1680

406
1048
1228

*Wats Gilbert

1657

433-

•Wilson Arthur

- 16.52

318

V\"eaver Thomas - - .

1662-3

622

•Winchester, John Pawlet, Marijuis of 1673-4

1005

*Web or Webbe George
Weldon Robert
Wells Benjamin
Wells Jeremias ...
West Edward

1641
- c/. 1648
1678
1679
1675-6

29

252

1155

1198

1059

♦Wingatc Edmund

Wither George

Withrington Thomas

Wood Edward
•Wootlaxk Francis

- 1666
. 1667

- 1664

- 1655

- 1651

423
761
661
397
802

Wharton Thomas

1673

1000

*W<xxlhead Abraham

- 1678

1157

Whear Degorie
Whistler Henry - - -
♦Whitby Daniel
White John - . -

1647
1672
1674
1644-5

216
962
539
144

Woodroffe Timothy
Woodward liczekiah
Woodward Thomas
Woolnough 'Ihomas

- 1677

- 1675

- 1675

- 1675

1112
1084
1034
1041

♦White John
White John

1648
1671

236
943

• Worcester, Henry Somerset, Marquis of 1646
Workman Giles - - . 1655

199
405

* White William -
Whitford David -

1678
1674

1167
1016

•Wortley Francis
Wroth Thomas

cl. 1654
- cl. 1660

391
514

♦Whitlock Bulstrode
Whitlock Richard -

1675
- cl 1673

1042
984

Wyberd John

Wynell Thomas . - -

- 1654
cl. 164S

388
63

Whorwood Ihomas
•Widdowes Giles -
Widdowes Thomas

1680

1645-6

1655

1228
178
398

Yelverton Henry
Yerworth Samuel

- 1670
cl. 1650

906
276

Widdrington Thomas -
•Wilde George

1664
1665

661
720

•Zouche Richard

- 1660.1

510

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