Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2007 with funding from IVIicrosoft Corporation http://www.archive.org/details/athenaeoxoniense04wooduoft ATHENE OXONIENSES. THIRD EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS. VOLUME THE FOURTH. LONDON: PBIKTEP «Y THOMAS BATISOS, WHITEFRIARS. // ATHENJE 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, OR ANNALS OF THE SAID UNIVERSITY BY ANTHONY A WOOD, M.A. OF MEETON COLLEGE. A NEW EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS, AND A CONTINUATION By PHILIP BLISS, FELLOW OF ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE. VOL. IV.. Aiitirjuam exquirite malrem. ViRGlL. LONDON: i'kintei) follackington, hughes, hauding, mayor, and .tones ; payne and foss ; k. c. and j. rivikgton ; longman, huest, rees, orme, and brown; cadell and davies ; j. and a. arch; .1. mawman; black, kingsbdry, parbury, and allen; r. h. evans; j. booth; baldwin, cradock, and joy, london : and j. parker, oxford. 1820. N J^ ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FOURTH VOLUME. I CANNOT suffer this last portion of Anthony a Wood's laborious undertaking to appear before the public, without offering, in my own person, as editor, a few words of acknowledgment and apology : — of acknowledgment for the indulgent manner in which the additional notes to the original work have been generally received ; and of apology to the purchasers for the delay which has taken place in the publication of the present volume. Those persons who are conversant with literary undertakings, similar to this Athene Oxonienses, will have no difficulty in ascribing the late appearance of this volume to the laborious task of forming a general Index ; they will allow for the length of time absolutely necessary to perfect so extensive, so troublesome, and yet so indispensable a portion of the work ; and I may be permitted to hope, as I certainly believe, that all who have occasion to refer to it, will find it at once so ample, and of such important utility, as fully to compensate for any disappointment they may have experienced from the delay. An apparent incongruity will be discovered in the latter part of this fourth volume, which requires some explanation. When I first came to the account given by Bishop Tanner, from Wood's papers, of the writers living at the time of our author's death, it was my intention to have added further particulars of their lives, with a continued list of their publications ; and it will be seen that I proceeded upon this plan for some few pages : it was then remarked to me, by a friend on whose judgment I place implicit reliance, that, to preserve the unity of the work, the lives of those persons who died after the year 1699, should be reserved for the new Athence, by which means the original chronological arrangement would be fully and most properly adhered to. To this proposition I at once acceded ; and the more readily, because I found, that had I continued my additions, I must have extended the old work to Jive, instead of four volumes, as originally proposed. The reader will therefore perceive that tlie additional notices after col. 475 and 882, extend only to those persons whose vi ADVERTISEMENT. deaths occurred previously to I7OO : the others are reserved for the new portion of the work, which will, by this arrangement, be uniform and continuous. In the mean time the reader has a complete history of the Oxford writers for two centuries ; he possesses every word contained in the two former editions of Wood's AtJiemv, with some new lives, and a large number of additional notes and anecdotes ; together with a reference (it is believed) to every name that occurs throughout the four volumes. I shall now naturally be expected to say something on the subject of the New AtheruB; and it affords me the highest satisfaction to state, that by the liberal conduct of the proprietors of the work, and their ready acquiescence in all my wishes, I shall be enabled to prosecute this arduous undertaking without delay. Although I have already made very considerable collections for this purpose, I am not ignorant that a great deal remains to be done ; that it will require much time, and no small labour, to render a work composed of such various materials, and derived from such different sources, of general interest and utility. Nor is it so much with a view to lighten my own labours, as to ensure accuracy, and increase the value of what I shall offer to the public, that I again venture to solicit assistance, and request communications, from such persons as are in possession of authentic documents relative to our Oxford writers ; promising on my part, that I shall thankfully receive their aid, and that I will use their information faithfully, and with all impartiality. Nothing remains but that I should repeat my thanks for the valuable assistance I have received from my literary friends throughout the progress of the work now before the public. I am not conscious of having availed myself of any information without acknowledging the obligation at the time ; but I cannot suffer this last volume to appear without expressing how much I owe to Mr. Heber. I have to thank him for the loan of two valuable copies of the old AtJmiw, with manuscript notes ; I have to remind him of numerous acts of personal kindness and attention ; and although I never can express what I feel for the repeated instances I have experienced of his active friendship, yet it affords me some consolation, that I am enabled thus publicly to assure him, I shall never forget them. PHILIP BLISS. St. JoJirCs College, Oxford, October 15, 1819. WOOD CUTS USED IN THE ATHENiE AND FASTI OXONIENSES. VOL. I. Arms of Lord Grenville, prefixed to the Dedication. . the University of Oxford, ) , , * , fxr J fCol. 1. Anthony a Wood, J VOL. IL the Editor, col. 1. Bishop Kennet, col. 681. Bishop Tanner, Fasti, col. 1. VOL. III. Merton College, col. 1. VOL. IV. St. John's College, col. 1. ■ Thomas Baker, col. 437. ■ Bishop Barlow, col. 797. • Bishop Humphreys, col. 885. ■ Sir Phihp Sydenham, Fasti, col. 1. '2^ ATHENiE OXONIENSES. THE HISTORY OF THE WRITERS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, FROM THE YEAR OF OUR LORD, 1500. [681] OHN DOBSON, a minister's son, was lx>rn in Warwick- shire, became demy of Magdalen college about 1653, perpe- tual fellow in 1662, being then master of arts and a most cele- brated preacher; and in the year after he did repeat niemori- ter, in Dominica in Albis,thefourEaster sermons to the wonder of the auditory, in the uni- versity church of St. Mary's. In the month of September the same year (1663) he was expelled the university, for being author of a libel in vindi- cation of doctor Thomas Pierce against doctor Henry Yerbury ; st) that all the credit that he before had gained by his preaching, was lost among some : but Vol. IV. ^ik W^m^k "^osm Hpi^ being soon after restored, he continued in his college, t(X)k the degree of bachelor of divinity, and after- wards became rector of Cold Higham near to To- ccster in Northamptonshire, and of Cors<-omb in Dorsetshire, by the favour of sir William Farmorof Easton Neston, sometime his pupil (if I mistake not) in Magdalen college. He hath written, Queries upon Queries : or Enauirics into Cer- tain Queries upon Doctor Pierce'' s Sermon at White- hall, February the first. Lond. 1663. in two sheets in quarto. Doctw Pierce his Preaching confuted by his Practice. Sent in a Letter by N. G. to a Friend in Ixjndon. This was printed in half a sheet in quarto, [Bodl. 4to. Rawl. 128.] and was first pub- lished in Oxon. the twenty eighth of August 1663. It is written in prose and verse : the beginning of the first is, ' Dear George, I send thee a copy of a lampoon upon the president of Maudlin's,' &c. and the bcginnmg of the other, which is the lampoon, runs thus, B 3 TAYLOR. NEWTON. 4 ' Near to the ford, o'er which an ass Or an ox at least did pass,'' &c. About fight or ten days after was published in Oxon, another libel entitled, Doctor Pierce his Prcachinff exemplified in his Practice. Or, an Anti- dote to tJie Poiion of a scurrilous Pamp/ijet sent Inj N. G. to a Friend in iMmhn, &c. [Bodl. C. 13. 9. Line] Which libel, though written by doctor Pierce, yet Dobson t(X)k it upon liini, upon a close inquisition after the author, to save tlie debtor: wiicreujx)n the viccchaneellor by his Bannimiis dated the tenth day of September 1663, stuck up in public places in the university, did expel the said [682] Dobson, and discupnmne for ever the Ixwkseller calletl Edmund Thome living near the East-Gate of Oxon, for selling the said lilx;! or libels. Our author Dobson hath also publisli'd. Sermon at the Funeral of the Lady Mary Far- nior, Relict of Sir William Farmer Baronet, xvho died at London tlie eighteenth of July 1670, and was buried the Jifth of August Jbllmcing at Eastcm- Neston in Northamptmmiire ; on 1 Thes. 4. 13. London 1670. [Bodl. 4to. T. 43. Th.] He died •681. in the beginning of the year sixteen hundred eighty and one, out where he was buried, unless at Cors- comb, I know not. [Dobson died June 9, 1681, an. setatis suae xliii. From his epitaph in MS. Loveday.] TIMOTHY TAYLOR, son of Thomas Tay- lor of Hempsted in Hertfordshire, was born in that county, became a student in Queen's college 1626, Wed seventeen years, took the degrees in arts, that of master being compleated in 1634, (at which time he was of St. Mary's nail) holy orders, and then be- came vicar of Almeley in Herefordshire, where he preached twice every Sunday ; but the chancellor of the diocese commanding him to turn his afternoon's sermon into a catechism lecture, he upon that occa- sion settled himself to study the second command- ment more elaborately and mdustriously than before he had done, and so became dissatisfied concerning episcopacy and the ceremonies of the church. After- wards l)eing troubled in the bishops court for non- conformity, he did by consent leave Almeley, and Hved about three years in a small peculiar exempt from episcopal jurisdiction called Longdon in Shrop- shire ; where continuing till the rebellion began, he sided witli the presbyterians, and afterwards with the independents, anti became pastor to a congrega- tional church at Duckenfield in Cheshire. Tnence removing into Ireland about 1650, at which time he took the engagement, he became minister of Carick- fergus there, and much resorted to by presbyterians and independents. After the restoration of his ma- jesty king Charles the second, he was silenc'd, and thel-eupon removJtig to his hired house called the Grange near Carickfergus, carried on the trade of preaching in private, whereby he gained a comfort- able subsistence. In 1668 he removed to Dublin, took charge of a church of dissenters there, as col- league with Samuel Mather, and after his death with Natiianiel Mather his brother, and eontinuefi in that employment till his death. He hath written, A Defence of sundry Positions and Scriptures alledged, toju.st'ify the confrregatioual Way. Lon- tlon 164.5. quarto. It contains about 130 pages. Defence of sundry Positions and Sci-iptures Jbr tlie congregational Way justified, the second Part. London 1646. It contains about 46 pages. The " running tide on the top of every leaf is Congrega- tional Way justified. In the comjwsition of both which books he had the joint help of Sam. Eaton of Cheshire. Soon after was published by a presbyte- rian minister called Richard HoHingworth of Man- chester in Lancashire, a book entit. Certain Queries propounded to such as affect the congregational Way. and esjjecially to Mr. Samuel Eaton, and Mr. Timothy Taylor, &c. Lond. 1646. quarto. What other things our author Taylor hath pub- lished, I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he died of a lethargy on the thirty first of May in sixteen hundred eighty and one, and that he was buried on tlie third of June following in the church of St. Michan in Oxmantowne near to Dublin. GEORGE NEWTON, a minister's son, was born in Devonshire, entred a batler of Exeter col- lege in Michaelmas term 1617, aged sixteen years or thereabouts, took the degrees in arts, that of master being compleated in 1624, entred into holy orders, became minister of Hill-Bishops near Taun- ton, and in April 1631 was made vicar of Taunton St. Magdalen, by the presentation of sir William Portman baronet, and Robert Hill gent. After his settlement in that vicaridge, he behaved himself con- formable for a time ; but upon the breaking out of the rebellion, he sided witti the presbyterians, having always been puritannically ed ucated, preached against the king, and his followers, when Taunton was gar- rison'd for the parliament, and became a mighty man in that interest, and much followed and adored by factious people. In 1654, he was by ordinance appointed one of the assistants to the commissioners for the ejecting of such whom the godly party called scandalous, ignorant and insufficient ministers and schoolmasters ; in which employment he sufficiently gave an helping hand to the undoitig of many loyal persons ; and afterwards by his ana the preaching of other presbyterians and independents (who ridi- culously make preaching only their religion) the said town of Taunton became the most factious I)laceinall the nation. In 1662, about St. Bartho- onicw's day, he was deprived of his vicaridge for nonconformity, and for the present that place was supplied by Mr. Thomas James fellow of All-soules college in Oxon, much frequented by the loyal party there, and by the gentry adjoyning. After- warcis our author Newton preaching in several con- venticles very seditiously, he was seised on, im- 1681. [683] 5 NEWTON. WHARTON. H ► prison''d for several years, and justly suffered as a mover of sedition. He hath written and pablislied. An Expo-ntion with Notes unfolded and ap- plyed wi. John n. delivered in Sermons preaehed weekly on the LorcTs Day in the Congregation in Taunton Magdalene. London 1660. in a pretty large folio. It is dedicated to colonel John Gorges, governour of the city of London-Derry in Ireland, whom the author calls his brother. Several sermons, as (1) Magna Charta: or, the Christian's Charter epitomized; on Psalm Ql. 16. London 1661. in twelves. (2) Sermon at the Fu- neral of Mr. Joseph Allein ; on Luke 23. 28. Lend. 1672. ■ [1673. Bodl. 8vo. C. 251'. Line] and 77. Oct. &c. •^ An Account of the godly Life and Practice of Mr. Joseph Allein, and of the Course of his Mi- nistry in Taunton. London 1672, and 77. octavo. See more in Joseph Allein among these writers, vol. 1681. iii, col. 819. This George Newton died in sixteen hundred eighty and one, and was buried in the chancel of the church of Taunton St. Magdalene. Soon after was a monument, with an inscription, put over his grave : the contents of which follow. Hie jacet Corpus Georgii Newton Artium Magistri, qui obiit 12 Junii, 1681, anno a?tatis 79, postquam Officium Evangelists; in hoc oppido (viz. Taunton) per 50 annos fideliter prsestiterat. Non fictis ranestam lachrymis conspergite tumbam, Pastoris vestri nam tegit ossa pii. V'estra Salutifero planxit pcccata flagello Delicti sensu corda gravata levans. Absolvet pensum sancti & mercedc recepta Nunc cceli regno, ut stella corusca micat. GEORGE WHARTON, descended from an antient and genteel family living in Westmorland, richly possessed with lands and inheritances therein, ■was born at Kirby-Kendal in that county the fourth of April 1617, spent some time in the condition of a sojourner in Oxon. 1633, and after, but his natural [6841 S^'^y *•" astronomy and mathematics was so predo- ' minant, that little or nothing of logic and philosophy could take place in him. Afterwards he retired to his patrimony, prosecuted his genius (which was as- sisted by William Milbourne curate at Bransepeth near Durham) and by the name of George Naworth (Wharton) of West-Awckland published almanacks: •But being soon discontented at the then growing rebellion, he turned all his inheritance into money, espoused his majesty's cause and interest, and raised a gallant tr(X)p of horse therewitli. After several frenerous liazards of iiis person in battle, he was at ast, " on or alwut March the twenty first 1645," totally routed by the rebellious party near Stow on the Would in Glocestershire, wliere tlie noble and valiant sir Jacob Astley was taken prisoner, and himself received several scars of honour, which he carried to his grave. Afterwards he retired to Oxon, tiie then seat of his majesty, and had, in rccompencc of liis losses, conferred upon him an employment under sir John Heydim tnen lieutenant general of the ordnance, which was to receive, ana pay off, money for the service of the magazine an(^ artillery ; at which time Edward Sherburne gentleman (after- wards a knight) was commissary general of the .said artillery. It was then, that at leisure hours, he fol- lowed his studies, was esteemed a member of Queen's college, being entretl among the students there, and might, with other officers, have had the degree of master of arts confer'd on him by the members of the venerable convocation, but he neglected it. After the surrender of the garrison of Oxon, at wliich time the king's cause did dayly decline, our author Wharton was put to his shifts, and lived as opportunity served, went to the great city, lived as privately as he could, and wrote several small things tor a liveiyhood. But they giving offence to the great men then in power,' he was several times seized on, and imprison'a, as in the Gate-house at West- minster, in Newgate, and at length in Windsor Castle : At which time being threatned with greater punishment, he found William Lilly, his anti^onist, a friend. After his majesty's restoration he liecame treasurer and pay-master to the office of his ma- jesty's ordnance, repaid Lilly his curtesy, gained so well by his employment, that purchasing an estate, he was, in consideration of his former sufferings under, and for, king Charles the first, and for par- ticular services to king Charles the second, created a baronet, by patent dated the thirty first of Decem- ber 1677 ; which honour, his son sir Polycarpus Wliarton now enjoys. Sir George was always es- teemed the best astrologer that wrote the epheme- rides of his time, and went beyond William LiUy, and John Booker, the idols of the vulgar, was a constant and thropac'd loyallist, a boon companion, a witty droll and waggish poet. He hath written, Hemeroscopions, or Almanacks from 1640 to 1666. Printed aU in octavo. The six first came out under the name of George Naworth, and there- fore by Lilly usually called Noworth. The rest (that for 1646 being, as it seems, omitted) came partly out under the name of captain George Whar- ton, and partly under George Wharton esq;. ' In that Almanack which he published in 1644, he began to fill the blank leaves of the respective months with chronological notes; which continuing so (now and then interruptedly) till 1657, he then put them at the end of every Almanack, under the ' [A" 1647, 25 Sept. Ordered, that it be referred to the committee of the militia to examine and find out who were the authors, publishers, printers, venders of the two pam- phlets, one intituled No Merlin nor Mercury, but a new Al- manack (Sfc. by Captn. Geo. Wharton, Student in Astro- nomy ; the other, Betlum Hibernicule, &c. and iliat they lake effectual course to seise and suppress them, &c. and to examine concerning the wardensof the company of stationers giving money to one Gyles for the use of capt° Wharton for ihem. Journals oj' the House oj' Commons, vol. v. page3l6 Cole.] B2 WHARTON. 8 title of Genta Briiannonim, and coinincnci>d tlii'in from 16(K), whereas before they were but from De- cember 1G41. These gests are all, or most jmrt, j involvetl in an oi-tavo book called The Hhtoriaiis I Guide, &c. In all the said Almancuks is a great deal of satyrical poetry, reflecting on the times and ' rel)ellious jiersons thereof; which since hath been coUectetl together antl printctl in his works. [685] Mercurio-ciplico Mcut'ix : or, an Anti-caveat to all siich, as have (heretofore) had tJie Mi^ortunc to be cheated and deluded, hij tlutt great and traiter- ous Impostor Jofin Booker, in an Answer to hisjri- vofoui Pamphlet, entitled- Mercuriiis Ccelicus : or, a Caveat to all the People of England. Oxon. 1644. in twelve sheets in quarto. England")! Iliads in a Nntshcl : or, a brief Chro- nology of the Battels, Sieges, Conflicts, S^c. from December 1641, to tlic twenty flph of March 1643. Oxon. 1645. octavo. Taken from his Almanacks for 1644, and 45. Mostly involv'd also in the said Hist. Guide, Scc An astrological Judgment upon his Majesty's present March, begun from Oxon 7 May 1646. Printed in qu. [At Oxford, 1645. Bodl. 4to. W. 4. Art BS.] Bellum Hybernicale : or Ireland's War Astrolo- gically demonstrated from tfie lute celestial Congress of tzoo malevolent Planets, Saturn and Mars, in Taurus, the Ascendent of that Kingdom, &c. Printed 1647. qu. ■ Merlini Anglici Errata. Or tJie Errours, Mis- takes, ^c. of Mr. William Lilly''s new Epliemeris for 1647. Printed 1647. Mercurius Elencticus : communicating the unpa- raUeVd Proceedings at Westminster, the Head-quar- ters, and other Places, &c. — Printed by stealth in London. This Mercury, which began the twenty ninth of October 1647, came out sheet by sheet every week in quarto ; and continuing interruptedly till the fourth of April 1649, it came out again with ■ number 1, and continued till towards the end of that year. I have seen several things that were published under the name of Mercurius Elencticus, particularly, " The Anatomy of IVestminsterJuncto: " or a Summary of their Designs against the •' King, City and Kingdom printed (1648) in " one sheet and half quarto ; and also" the first and second part of The last Will and Testament of Philip Earl of Pembroke, &c. Printed 1649, quarto, but whether George Wharton was the au- tlior of them I know not. A List of the Names of the Members of the Hou.se qfComnutns: observing which are Officers of the Army, contrary to the self-denying Orditiance, to- gether with such Sums of Money, Offices and Lands, as they luive given to tliemselves for Service done, and to be done, against the King and Kingdom Printed in one sheet in (juarto, 1648. It was all taken from the first part of Tlie Histmy of Indepen- dency, written by Clement Walker. In the said list are tlie names of an hundred |K»rsons; and to it was addinl a second century, by the same author Wharton, printctl on one side of a sheet of paper, the same year, and subscrilied M. El. i. e. Mercu- rius Elencticus. The reader is to note, that in 1657, and 58, came out Tivo Narratives of tlie late Par- liament (so culled) their Election and Appearing, ^c. with the Account of the Places of Projit, Sala- ries and Advantages which they hold and receive under the present Power, &c. Printed in quarto, but by wliom they were written I know not. Sure It is that the author 1x)rrows several things from the said Histoiy of Independency, and the sdd List, or Two Centuries ; and from them all [)ut together, doth borrow the author of another )ook entit. The Mystery of the good old Cause, briefly unfolded in a Catalogue of such Members of the late Long Parliament that held Offices both Civil and Military, he. Lond. 1660. octavo. Who the author of this Mystery was, I cannot yet tell : Sure it is, if sir WiUiam Dugdale told me right, that Clement Spelman,' who was cursitor baron, published about the same time a Character of the Oliverians, on one side of a sheet ; which Clement (after he had written and published a large preface to his father's (sir Henry Spelman) book, De non temerandis Eccle,siis, and some other little things (as I suppose) he concluded his last day in June (after [686] Whitsontide) an. 1679: whereupon his body was buried in St. Dunstan's church in Fleetstreet Lon- don. George Wharton hath also written, A short Acccmnt of the Fasts and Festivals, as well of the Jews as Christians, &c. Tlie Cabal of the twelve Houses Astrological, from Morinus Written 1659, and approved by Will. Oughtred. A learned and useftd Discourse teaching the right Observation, and Keeping of the lioly Feast of Easter, &c. written 1665. Apotelesma : or, the Nativity qftlte World, and Revolution thereof Short Di,scourse of Years, Months, and Days of Years. Something touch ing tlie Nature of Eclipses ; and also of their Efl'ects. Of tlie Crises in Diseases, Sfc. Of tlie Mutations, hiclinutions and Eversions of Empires, Kingdoms, &c. Discourse of the Names, Genus, Species, ^c. of all Comets. Tract teaching how Astrology may be restored, from Morinus, &c. ^ Secret Multiplication of the Effects of tlie Stars,' from Cardan. Sundry Rules, shewing by wliat Laws the Wea- tlier is governed, and liow to discover the various Alterations of the same. He also translated '' [See Secretary Thurloe's Stale Papers, as pabl. by Birch, vol. vii. page 8/0.] 9 WHARTON. TROUGHTON. 10 1681. from Latin into English, The Art of Div'miiiff, bij the Lines and Signature-t, engraven in tlie Hand of Man, &c. written by John Rothman M. D. Loncl 1652. octavo. jBodl. 8vo. R. 13. Art. BS.] This is sometimes called Whartmi's Chiromancy. Most of which foregoing treatises, were collectecl together and published, an. 1683, in octavo, by John Gad- bury, born at VVheatley near to, and m the county of, Oxon, the thirty first of December 1627, son of William Gadbury of that place farmer, by his stol'n wife the daughter of sir John Curson of Water- perry knight, bound an apprentice to Thomas NichoUs a taylor living in the parish of St. Peter in the Bayly in Oxon, left him after the great fire hapnetl in that city 1644, and having a natural genius to the making of almanacks, improved it at London under William Lilly, tiien called the English Merlin, and afterwards set up the trade of ahnanack-making, and fortune-telling for himself; in which he became eminent.' Our author Whar- ton hatii also written. Select and choice Poems Composed during the civil war, which I have be(bre-mention''d. At length dying in his house at Endfield in Middlesex, on the twelfth day of August, about one or two in the morning, in sixteen hundred eighty and one, and was buried on the twenty fiftii of the same nionth, in the chapjx'l of St. Peter ad vincula within the Tower of London, leaving then behind him the character of a most loyal and generous chevalier. JOHN TROUGHTON, son of Nathaniel Troughton a clothier, was bom in the city of Co- ventry, educated in the free-school there under ' [John Gadbury quondam taylor to Will. Lily, is a monster of ingraliuidi-. Life of IVitl. Lily, \>. 35. The graceless Gadbury wrot the contrary, but seniel et semper nebulo et mendax. Wood, MS. Note in Ashmole. ' Accidentally I spoke with Mr. Gadbury, who is ex- tremely incenst against you. He tells me what you haue vrrote, and I am sorry for it, for he was civil to you, and is 'an ingeniose loyall person. He sayes that you have printed lyes concerning him, and he wonders you should meddle with him, having never been of the university.' Original Letter from Aubrey to fVood, dated Aug. 20, iCgS, among Tanner's collections in the Bodleian library. No. 45 I . ' I wonder at nothing more then y' Mr. Gadbury should take it amiss of those things y' I say of him, for whereas y« geoerality of scholars did formerly take him to have been bred an academian because he was twice at Oxon. and so consequently not to be much admir'd, now their eyes beinge opened and knowing y' his eJication hath been mechanical, they esteem him a prodigie of parts, and therefore are much desirous y' his picture may hang in the public gallery at y« schooles. Pray recommend me to him, and desire him, y' if I speake any things y' are untrue, he may rectifie them : put them intoy' hands and to be sent to me. ' Sent in a letter to Mr. .\ubrey to be cora'unicated to Mr. Gadbury, in the latter end of Nov. iCye.' In Ant. a Wood's hand. MS. Ballard, in the Bodleian, xiv. 99. Mr. Gadbury lived in Brick court. College street, West- minster, and was buried in the vault in St. Margaret's church, Westminster, March 28, 1704. See in the Catal. MSS. Angl. el Hib. ii. 281, the titles of four MSS. ' Joannis Gadburii motuum coelestium supputa- toris perilissimi.'] Samuel Frankland, l)ecame scholar of St. John's college, an. 1655, afterwards fellow and bachelor of arts ; but upon the restoration of king Charles the second, being ejected, to make room for one who had been expell'd by the visitors in 1648, he retired to a market-town in Oxfordshire commonly called Bister; where living a moderate nonconformist, read academical learning to young men, and some- times preached in private, whereby he got a com- fortable subsistence. Upon the issuing out of his majesty's declaration for the toleration of religion, dated the fifteenth of March 1671 , this Mr. Trough- ton was one of those four (Dr. Henry Langley, and rflQ«i Thomas Gilbert, and Henry Cornish, bachelors of 1"°'] divinity, being the other three) who were appointed by the principal heatls of the brethren to carry on the work of preaching within the city of Oxon. The place where they held their meetings was in Thamestreet, without the north-gate, in an house which had been built, a little before the civil war began, by Thomas Pun, alias Thomas Aires; where each person endeavouring to shew his parts, this our author Troughton was by the auditory of scholars (who came among them meerly out or no- velty) held the best, and was by them most ap- C lauded. The truth is, though the man had been lind, occasion'd by the small pox, ever since he was four years old, yet he was a good school divine and metaphysician, and was much commended while he was in the university for his disputations. He was not of so busy, turbulent, and furious a spirit, as those of his persuasion commonly are, but very mo- derate : And although he often preached as occasions offer'd themselves in prohibited assemblies, yet he did not make it his business by employing all the little tricks and artifices, too frequently practised by other hot-headed zealots of his fraternity, viz. by vilifying and railing at the established ordinances of the church, libelling the conformable ministry, by keeping their meetings at the very time when the services and administrations of the church are regu- larly performing, &c. He did not, I say, by these and such hke most unwarrantable contrivances en- deavour to withdraw weaker persons from the sacred bosom of the church, in order to fix and herd them in associated defying conventicles. He was respected by, and maintained an amicable corresjwndence with, some of the conformable clergy, because of his great knowledge and moderation. He hath written and pubhshed, Lutherus Redivivus : or, tlie Protestant Doctrine (^ Justification by Faith only, vindicated. And the plattsible Opinion of Justification by Faith and Obedience proved to be Arminian, Pojnsh, and to lead unavoidably to Socinianism. Part 1. London 1677. oct. This is reflected on by Thomas Hotch- kis in his preface to the second part of A Discourse concerning imputed Righteousness, &c. London 1678. octavo. Lutherus Redivivus : or, the Protestant Doctrine of Justification by ChrisCs Righteousness imputed 11 TROUGHTON. GIBBES. 12 Kiel. k) Believers, explained and vindicated. Part 2. Lond. 1678. Wtavo. Letter to a Friend touchuig GocTs Providence about .sinful Actions ,• in Answer to a Letter enti- tled. The Heconcilabkness of God's Prescience, 4'<"- and to a Postscript of that Letter. London 1678. octavo. Popery the grand Apostasy. Being the Sub- stance (if certain Sermons preached on 2 Thess. 2. from ver. 1. to 12, on Occasion of t/ie desperate Plot of the Papists against tlie King, Kingdom and Protestant Religion. To which is added a Sermon on Rev. 18. 4. preached 5 Nov. 1678. Lond. 1680. octavo. An Apology for the Nonconformists, shewing their Reasotis, both for tlmr not Conforming and for their Preaching publicly, thd forbidden by Law. Lond. 1681. quart. An Answer to Dr. StilUngfleefs Sermon, and his Defence of it ; and so much as concerneth the Nonconformi.Hs preaching. Printed with the Apology. This learned and religious person Mr. John Troughton died in an house of one of the brethren, situate and being in All-saints parish within the city of Oxon, on the twentieth of August in sixteen hundred eighty and one, aged forty four years ; whereupon his body was carried to Bister [6881 before-mentioned, alias Burchester, and buried in the church there. At which time Abraham James a blind man, master of the free-school at Woodstock (sometime of Magdalen hall) preaching his fimeral sermon did take occasion not only to be lavish in the commendations of the defunct, but to make se- veral glances on the government establisird by law.* Now I am got into the name of • So that an an- Troughton, I cannot, without the dMor there named „.^^^ ^f concealment, but let the M 4 „„.i „;,.«i reader know this story of one ot M. n. ana vicar , . . , J . , ., qf Bister (a zeal- that name, which IS tins. While ous man for the his majesty king Charles the first, church of £ng- of ever blessed memory, was a pri- land)complatmng ^ Carisbrook in the Isle of to the diocesan of . , ipAO \ u- him, James wos Wight, an. 1648, he was his own glad to retract chaplain, as not thinking it fit to what he had said accept of any of the presbyterian b^ore him, to pre- ministers upon that account, albeit, vent an ejection -a? j i. ^i! i j from his school, ^ occasion offered, he thankfHl, which otherwise and was civil to them, when they would inevitably apphed themselves to him for that twie come to pass, purpose. Among others one iret it.< Troughton, who was chaplain to colonel Robert Hammond govemour of the Isle of Wi^ht, and preacher to the soldiers of the garri- son ot Carisbrook, would many times be in the presence chamber when his majesty was at dinner: And though he was a young man, yet he was a scholar, had good education, and would argue nota- * [^Wood ha? scored out this sentence and written in the margin, • Mr. IMackwcIl denies this.' See his own copy iii Ashmole.] ' ' bly in defence of some tenets he held in op)X)sition to certain ceremonies and disci})line in the episco|jacy. The king usually after meals would walk lor near an hour, and take many turns in the j)resence-cham- ber; and when he found the chaplain there, he would ploasurably enter into disputation with him, and the chaplain would be very earnest in defence of his opinion. The king never checked him for his confiaence, but allowea him his liberty, and would be very pleasant and merry with him. The king being a goosing the continuance of Mr. Jam. Maxwell, and Mr. Patr. Maule their attendance upon his royal person, as grooms of his majesty's bedchamber, in which place they had several years served the king. Next day his majesty's servants came, as at other times, into the presence chamber, where all dinner time they waited ; but after his majesty rose from dinner, he acquainted them with what had passed 'twixt him and the commissioners, and thereupon they all knelt and kissed his ma- jesty's hand, and with great expressions of grief for their dismiss, they poured forth their prayers for his majesty's freedom and preservation, and so left Holdenby. All that afternoon the king withdrew himself into his bedchamber, having given orders that none should interrupt him in his privacy. Soon after this, his majesty purposing to send a message to the parliament ; he, after dinner, called Philip earl of Pembroke to him and told him that he would have Mr. Herbert come into liis chamber, which the earl acquainting the commissioners with, Mr. Tho. Herbert, our author, was brought into the bedchamber by Mr. Maxwell, and ujxm his knees desired to know the king's pleasure : He told him he would send a message to the parliament, and having none there that he usually employed, and unwilling it should go under his own hand, called him for that purpose. Mr. Herbert having writ as his majesty dictated, was enjoyn'd secrecy, and not to communicate it to any, until made public by both houses, if by them held meet; which he carefully observed. This errand was, as I conceive, Ht.i Majesty's Message for Peace, dated from Holdenby 12 May 1647. About a week after, the king was 17 HERBERT. 18 [692] pleased to tell the commissioners, that seeing that Mr. Jam. Levingston, Hen. Moray," John Ash- burnhani, and Will. Legge were ior the present dismist, he had taken notice of Mr. Jam. Harring- ton and Mr. Tiio. Herbert, who had followed the court from Newcastle, and having received satis- faction concerning their sobriety and education, he was willing to receive them as grooms of his bed- chamber, to wait ujxm hi.s person with Mr. Maule and Mr. Maxwell ; which the commissioners ap- proving, they were that night admitted, and by his majesty instructed as to the duty and service he ex- pected from them. So as they thenceforth attended Iiis royal jK^rson, agreeable to that great trust, with due observance and loyalty, and were by Maule and Maxwell affectionately treated. Bemg thus setlcd in that honourable office and in good esteem with his maj. Mr. Herb, continued with him, when all the rest of the chamber were removed, till his majesty was, to the horror of all the world, brought to the block. It was then that Mr. Herbert was fully satisfied that the king was not the man that the presbyterians, independents, and other factious people (who obtained their ends by lies and slanders) made him to be. He clearly found that he was no papist, no obstinate person, no cruel or bloody man, no false dealer, &c. but purely a man of God, which made him in an high manner lament his untimely death. His majesty tho' he found him to be pres- byterianly affected, yet withal he found him very observant and loving, and therefore intrusted him with many matters of moment, among which was his sending by him from the isle of Wight his gra- cious message to the parliament, which in the even- ing he gave sealed up to him (directed to the speaker of the lord^s house) with a letter to his daughter the princess Elizabeth, who was then at St. James's with her governess. The wind was then averse, and much ado Mr. Herbert had to cross the sea. But no delay was suffered in regard the king had com- manded him to hasten away, that his letters might be delivered next day before the lords rose. When he was landed at S. Hampton, he took post, and it may not be forgotten, that at one stage the post- master (a malevolent person) understanding from whom the paccjuet came, and that it required ex- traordinary s]»ed, he mounted him upon an horse that hatl neither good eyes or feet, so as usually he stumbled much, wliich, with deep ways and dark weather, would have abated his hast and endanger the rider : Yet so it fell out by good providence, that the horse, albeit at full gallop most of that 12 miles riding, neither stumbled nor fell, at which the people at the next stage admired. The king's pac- quet was within the time limited dehvered to Wil- 9 [Bisliop Biirnci calls him Henry M array, and says he had been |.aae and wliipping boy to ihe king, and had great credit with him. not only in procuring privaie favours, but in all his counsels. See a not very favourable character of llim Hhtoru (jf his own Time, i, 244.1 Vol. IV. Ham lord Grey of Werk, at that time speaker. VVhich done, Mr. Herbert waited on the young frincess at S. James's, who gave him her hand to iss, and was overjoyed at his majesty's kind letter, to which her highness the next day returnetl an an- swer by the said Mr. Herbert, who at his arrival at Cari.sbrokc, had the king's thanks for his diligence : And for a Ijadge of the fiair esteem that king Charles II. had of him ' for faithfully serving his royal father during the two last years of his life,' he did, after his restoration, by lett. pat. dat. 3 July 1660, advance him to the dignity of a baronet by the name of Thomas Herbert of Tinterne in Monmouthshire, because Little Tinterne about half a mile from Tin- terne abbey was his own estate and the seat of Tho. Herbert before-mention'd. He hath written, A Relation of some Years Travels into Africa and the greater Asia, especially/ the Teriitories of the Persian Monarchy, and some Parts of ihe Oriental Indies and Isles adjacent. Lond. 1634. [Bodl. G. 5. 5. Th.] 38, [Boill. H. 8. 13. Art] &c. 1677. which is the fourth impression, wherein many things are added, which were not in the former. All the impressions are in fol. and adom'd with cuts. He also, at the proposal of John de Laet his fa- miliar friend living at Leyden, did translate some books of his India occidentalis, but certain business interposing, the perfecting of them was hindred. He left behind him at his death an historical account of the two last years of the life of king Ch. I. the martyr, which he entit. Threnodia Carolina ; ' written by him, an. 1678. in qu. on this account, viz. that the parliament a little before taking into their consideration of ap- pointing 70 thousand pounds for the funeral of the said king, and for a monument to be erected over his grave, sir Will. Dugdale then garter king of arms, sent to our author sir Thomas living at York, to know of him whether ever the said king spoke in his hearing, where he would have his body bestowed in burial ; to which sir Tho. returning a large an- swer, with many observations and things worthy of note concerning that king : Sir William thereupon being much taken with it, as containing many things which he never heard of before, did desire him by another letter to write a treatise of the actions and sayings of the said king from his first confinement to his death ; which he did accordingly. About the same time, the author of this book, having oc- casion to write to sir Thomas for information of certain persons then, or about that time, attending the king, he thereupon sent him several letters in answer to his queries, with divers other matters by way of digression : which letters contain, as it seems, the cliief contents of Thren. Car. and are several times quoted in this work. He also assisted the said ' [Reprinted by Dr. Charles Gnodal, physician of the Charter- House, with some other tracts relating to Charles ^, Lond. 1702, and lastly with a preface, Lond. 1813, 8vo.] c 19 HERBERT. 20 sir Will. Dugdalc in his compiling the third vol. of Mcmast. Anglic, as I .shall tell you when I come to Bpcak of tliat kniglit in the Fasti, an. 1(>4!£. At length this worthy jierson sir Thorn. Herlx-rt, who was a great observer of men and things in his time, died in his house at York on the first day ol" March * >■ (S. David's day) in sixteen hundred eighty and one, [698] aged 76 years,* and was buried in the church there commonly called S. Crux or S. Cross, situated in the street called Fossegate.' Over his grave was a monument soon after erectetl, by his widow Eliza- beth, daughter of sir Gervas Cutler of Stainlwrough in Yorksh. knight, with a large inscription thereon. Wherein we are Instructed that he took to his first wife, Lucia daughter of sir Walt. Alexander servant to king Charles I. by whom he had issue Philip, Henry heir to his father, Montgomery, Thomas, William, &c. This sir Thomas a little before his death gave several MSS. to the public library at Oxon, and others to that belonging to the cathedral at York ; and in the Ashmolean musa?um there ai-e certain collections of his, which he made from the registers of the arclibishops of York, given there- unto by sir W. Dugdale Knight. I find one Tho. Herbert to be author of a poem entit. An Elegy upon the Death of Thomm Earl of Strafford, &c. Printetl in one sh. in qu. an. 1641. but Inm I take not to be the same with our author sir Thomas, nor to be the same with sir Tho. Herbert knight, clerk of the council at Dublin, to Hen. Cromwell lord heutenant of Ireland, an. 1657, 58. With the said letters which the author of these Athen.« Oxon. received from sir Tho. Herbert, he received from him an account of the last days of king Charles I. of ever-blessed memory, with an earnest desire, that if he should have any occasion to make mention of that most pious and good king, that he would by no means omit him for these reasons. (1) Because in the said account there are many things that have not been yet divulg'd. (2) That he was grown old, and not in such a capacity as he could wish to publish it, and (3) that if he should leave it to his relations to do it, they, out of ignorance or partiahty, may spoil it. Upon his de- sire, and these reasons given, he did then promise him to find some place to receive it in a work that he was then consulting, which is this of the Athen.k OxoNiENSEs. And this place, under Tho. Herbert * [ — Reliquiae Tho. Herbert e nobili et antiqua Herbert- orum de Colebrook in agro Monumclhensifamilia oriundi "ex hac luce pieutissime emigravit t Die Marlii anno Domini 1681, setatis suae 76. Drake's Eboracum, page 198-9. Baker.} 1 [In St. Crux church, York, are several inscriptions of the Herbert family, which may be read in Drake. The fa- mily soon sunk into obscurity. Elizabeth, the widow of sir Thomas Herbert, took to her second husband Henry Edmunds of Worsbro' in the west riding of the county of York, esq. She was buried in the church at Worsbro' on the 16 May. 1696. Hunter.] ^ the author of that account, being most proper, as I conceive., it shall be here set down. How therefore tlie said king was taken out of the Scots hands at Newcastle and tlicnce carried to Hol- denby in Northamptonshire, and thence hurried away to the army and to Hampton Court, and thence frighted or jugled into the isle of Wight, and thence hurried to Hurst castle and afterwards to Wind- sor, I shall tell you hereafter in the Fasti following, in tlie history or characters of those men, that 1 shall there mention, who were actors in those mat- ters. When his miijesty was conveyed from Hurst castle to that of Windsor and tliere for a time settled, just before Christmas day, an. 1648, he seemed to take more delight than in any place he had l»een since his leaving Hampton-Court: For there he had the liberty to walk when and where he pleased within the castle, and on the large tarras without, which Itxjks towards the coll. of Eaton, and hath a deliglitful view of the river Thames, of many pleasant hills and valleys, villages and fair houses far and near : so as no place in this kingdom may compare with it, save the little castle or lodge in Greenwich park, which has the sight of the great and noble city of London, the Thames, and ships of great burden daily under sail passing to and fro, with other things enumerated by John Barclay in his Argents. The greatest part of the forenoon the king spent in prayer and other exercises of piety ; and part of the afternoon he apjxjinted for health by recreating himself in walking, usually on the tarras before-mentioned, the governor of the said castle coll. Chr. Whitchcot,* as in other places, being for * [ Dr. Benjamin Whichcote In the church of St. Lawrence Jewry, London. M. S. Infra Insiilam Mediam In Ciincellis situs est Reverend us BENJAMIN WHITCHCOTE Ex antiqua Prosapia In Agro Salopiensj oriundus, Olim apud Cantabrigienses f^,, •■ Emnianuelensis Socius ? , ,. . *^""^" Regalis Pra;positus \ Acceptissimus ; Tandem hujiisce Ecclesioe Acceptissimus Vicarius. Quae (praeter caetcra) sua munia Quanta cum laude, quali cum fructu praestitit, Fama magni nominis longe lateque divulgata, Vocalius et diutius durantissimo marmore, proclamabit. Venerabilis iste Theologus, Pro spectatissima Probitale, Prudentia singulari, et Eruditione optima, Doctrina perquam Divina, Vitaque pari Doctrinae, Laude omni major. (Qualis qualis, quantus quantus fuit) Post valetudinem prosperam diu habitam, Morbo, potius quam Senecta, fractus (Annonum tamen ac Famae et Opum satur) Vitam minus vitalem cum mcliori commutavit Anno post Salutiferum Parium MDCLXXXIII. 21 HERBERT. the most part in his company (for want of others) to discourse with. None of the nobihty, and but few of the gentry, were suffered to come into the castle to see tlie king, save only upon the Sundays to sermons in S. George's chappel, where the chaj> lain to the governor or garrison preached. Colonel WhitchaJt behaved himself nevertheless very civilly towards the king, and his observance was taken no- tice of by his majesty : The soldiers also there gave no offence, either in language or behaviour, towards him or any that serv'd him. WhUst his majesty continued at Windsor, little passed worth the taking [694] notice of, only (1) That one night as the king was preparing to go to bed, he wound up both his watches as his custom was, one being gold, the other silver, and missing his diamond seal, a table that had the king's arms cut with great curiosity, and fixy to the gold watch by a gold chain, he could not imagine when, or where, he dropt it, yet thought he had it the day before when he looked upon his watch, as he walked on the long tarras. At length after Mr. Herbert had made great search for it in the walks that his majesty frequented, but in vain ; his majesty the next night discern'd it sparkling at one end of his chamber by the help of tne charcole fire, and the wax lights then burning in the said chamber. (2) That on another night his majesty appointed Mr. Herbert to come into liis bedchamber an hour sooner than usual the next morning, but so .S)tatis suae LXXIV. Patruo suo summe horioraiido Hoc monumeiitum posuerunt Executores ultimi Testameiili BelC W. His picture was given to archbishop Tenison, and by him left to his successor, and is now (1727) in the palace of Lam- beth. I have heard Dr. John Mapletoft often say, that when he had wrot his sermon, he oblig'd his wife to read it aloud to him, that if she stucl< at any word or period, or any thing sounded harsh to his own ears, he might immediately amend it. Dr. M'hichcoie's Reasons for his being in King's College. (Copied from his own hand-writing.) For satisfaction of conscience in respect of my being in King's College. 1. 'Twas the act of the then ruling power. 2. I am now indemnified for it by the now indubitable power. 3. 'Twas not then my contrivance when time was. 4. I had an invitation or willing acceptance of persons in- terested. 5. Their necessity required me, and I served their neces- sity. 6. For so doing I laid down my living at Cadbnry of proportionable value. 7. I satisfied myself with reasonable allowance, scil. about the matter of maintenance there, while 1 discharged the duly of the place. 8. The party ejected had by this means a better compen- sation then otherwise he would have had, and in a way in part to my losse. A common error. General supposition pro loco el tempore make a title. Kennet.] it haj)netl he overslept his time, and awakened not till the king's silver Dell hastned him in. ' HerViert (said the king) you liavc not observed the command I gave last mght ;' and thereupon he acknowledged his fault. ' Well (said the king) I will order you for the future, you shall have a gold alarum-watch, which as there may be cause, shall awake you: write to the earl of Pembroke to send me such an one presently.' He wrot^, and the earl immediately sent to Edw. East his watchmaker in Fleetstreet about it, of M'hich more will be said at his majesty's coming to S. James's. (3) That on a third night an accident hapncd which might have proved of ill consequence, if God in his mercy had not prevented it. Mr. Heibert lodged in a Uttle back room near his majesty's bedchamber towards Eaton coll. It had a back stair, which was at that time ram'd up with earth to prevent any passage that way. In this room he had a pallet, which, for that the weather was very sharp, he laid somewhat too near the chimney, near which were two bsuskets fiU'd with charcoal for the use of his maj. bedchamber. While Mr. Herbert was asleep, a basket took fire, either from some sparkle from the charcoal in the chimney, or some other way he knew not of, but the room was soon hot, and the fire got to the pallet-bed, which quickly rouzed Mr. Herbert out of^his sleep; who thereupon ran to the king's bedchamber door, and in a frightful manner with that noise awakened the king. Those without, being soldiers, hearing the king's chamber was on fire, desired entrance that they might help to quench it, but through the good- ness of God, those within, without other assistance, did suppress it by stifling it with clothes, and con- fining it to the chimney which was spacious. Mr. Herbert did hutnbly beg his majesty's pardon for the disturbance he gave, not knowing how to help it, the king said he did but his duty. Soon after the governor acquainted his majesty that he was in few days to be removed thence to Whitehall. To which his majesty made little or no reply, seeming nothing so dehgqted with this re- move, as he was with the former, viz. from Hur^ to Windsor Castles, and turning himself alK)ut said, God is every where alike in wisdom, power and goodness. Some information he had received, how preposterously things went in both houses of par- liament, and how that the officers of the army were hatching a thing called ' The agreement of the people,' designing thereby an alteration of the go- vernment, and trial of his person by some way that was extraordinary and linpresidentcd. So that im- mediately he retired into his bedchamber, and was a good while private in his addresses to God, ever having recourse to him by prayer and meditation, in what condition soever he was, as being the surest way to find comfort. ■The day prefix'd being come (which was' about* s [On the 23rd of December. Loveday.1 '' Iter Carolinum ; Being a succinct Relation of the n*«i- C 2 23 HERBERT. 24 * Til a f t''e IQ'Ao/'/V&rwar^* 1648) his ma- January. First j^'X '^'"'^ coach near the Keep in edii. Windsor Castle, at which time was a guard all along of musciiiets and pikes; hotli officers and soldiers expressing civility [695] as he passed hy. At the great gate a party of horse commanded by major Tho. Hairison was drawn up into the market-place and Pescod-street end in the town of Windsor, who followetl the coach, which passed through Brainford, Hammersmith, and the direct way to his majesty's house at St. James's within the lilwrty of Westminster. His lodgings there were furnished by Mr. Clem. Kinnerslie his majesty's servant in the wardrobe, strict guards were placeer, before he either eat or drank, or ■discours'd with any, he went to prayer or to reading in the liiBi.E. Whilst he was in this sorrowful condition, none of his nobility, chaplains, or counsellors, nor any of his old attendants, had the liberty to repair to him to converse about any matters ; yet he had private notice that the house of commons in a resolve had declared that by the laws of England it was treason in the king to levy war against the parliament and kingdom : which resolve, as he had farther been in- formed, they sent up unto the lords for their con- currence, wlio, as soon as they had heard it read, rejected it, and after some debate did pass two votes, &c. He had also information from private hands of the late proceedings in the house of com- mons, and of their violent secluding and seizure of several memliers by force, by some eminent army officers, under a notion of purging the house, as also of their votes passed concerning him. By which he was very apprehensive of their ill intentions to- wards him and his government, and did believe that sUaled Marches, Belreals and Sufferings of his Majesty Charlei the I. from January 10. an. l04l, /o the Time of his Deaihi648. Loiid. lOCO. qu. Collected by a daily attendant upon his «acred majesty all the said time. [Reprinted in CoHerlanra Curiosa, ii, 495.] his enemies aimed at his deposing, and confinement in the Tower, or some such like j)lace, and that they would seat his son the prince of Wales in his throne, if he would accept of it, but as to the taking away his life by tryal in any court of justice or sub dio, in the face of "the people, he coulci not believe, there being no such precedent, or mention in any of our histones. 'Tis true his grandmother Mary queen of Scots suffered under queen Elizabeth, but in England she was no sovereign, but a subject to law. And indeed some kings of England had been lamentably murdered by ruffians in a clandestine way, as the chronicles inform us, but the facts were neither owned, nor approved of by any king. These were his majesty's imaginations till he came unto his tryal in Westm. hall, when then he alter'd his mind. Nevertheless his faith overcoming his fear, he con- tinued his accustomed prudence and patience (so as no outward perturbation could be cliscerned) with Christian fortitude, submitting to the gootl pleasure of the Almighty, sometimes sighing, but never breaking out mto passion, or uttering a reproachful or revengeful word against any that were his adver- saries, only saying, God forgive their impiety. For about a fortnight after his majesty's coming to St. James's house, he constantly dined in the presence-chamber, and at meals was served after the usual state, the carver, sewer, cup-bearer, and gent, usher attending and doing their offices respectively. His cup was given upon the knee, as were his co- vered dishes, the say was given, and other accus- tomed ceremonies of state observed, notwithstanding this his dolorous condition, and the king was well pleased with the observance afforded him. But soon after the case was alter'd, for the officers of the army being predominant, they gave order at a council of war, that thenceforth all state, ceremony, or accustomed respect unto his majesty at meals should be forborn, and his menial servants, tho' few in number, should be lessened. And accordingly the king's meat was brought up by soldiers, the dishes uncovered, no say, no cup upon the knee, or other accustomed court-state was then observed, which was an uncouth sight to the king, he then saying, that the respect and honour denied him, no sovereign prince ever wanted, nor yet subjects of high degree according to ancient practice, and add- ing. Is there any thing more contemptible than a despised prince ? So that seeing things were so or- dered, the best expedient he had to reconcile them, was to contract his diet to a few dishes out of the bill of fare, and to eat in private. His eating was usually agreeable to his exercise, and his abstinence was in no wse displeasing. His temperance pre- served his health, especially in the two last years of his life and reign, without any indisjiosition or re- course to physic : So as in all probability, had not his thread of life been immaturely cut, he might have surpassed the age of any of his royal ancestors. On Friday the 19th of Jan. his majesty was re- [6961 25 HERBERT. 26 moved from S. James's to Whitehall and lodged in his bcd-<;hambcr. After which a guard of mus- queteers were placed, and centinels set at the door of his chamber. Thenceforth Mr. Herbert (who constantly lay in the next room to the king, ac- cording to the duty of his place) was ordered to bring his pallet into his majesty's bed-chamber, to the end that he might be nearer to his royal jierson, and so accordingly he did rest every night after, during his majesty's life, in the said bed-chamber near the royal bed. The next day, Jan. 20. the king was removed in a sedan or close chair from Whitehall to sir Thoni. .Cotton's house near the west end of Westminster- hall. Guards were placed on both sides of King- street, in the palace-yard, and Westminster-hall. As his majesty was carried through the garden door belonging to Whitehall (which is between the two gates leading to King-street) none but Mr. Herbert went bare by him, because no other of his majesty's servants were permitted by the soldiers. At Cotton- house there was a guard of partizans, coUonel Francis Hacker sometimes, and col. Hercules Hunks at other times commanding them. His majesty being summoned by Hacker to go to the court then sitting in Westminster-hall, where scrjeant John Bradshaw was president,' and seated in a chair, and about 72 persons, members of the house of com- mons, officers of the army, and citizens of London sate ujxm benches some degrees above one another, as judges; Hacker, I say, by order of the court (which was erected in the same place where the judges of the king's-bcnch use to hear causes) brought his majesty to a velvet chair opposite to the president, at whicii time John Cook the solicitor- general was placed on the king's right hand. I shall pretermit the judges names, the formality of the court, and the proceedings there by way of charge, as also his majesty's replies, in regard all those particulars have been published at large by several writers. Nor indeed was much to be olv served, seeing his majesty having heard the allega- tions against him, would sometimes smile, but not acknowledge their jurisdiction, or that by any known law they had any authority to proceed m that man- ner against the king, it being without example also : whereujwn the court made no farther proceedings on that day. Afterwards his majesty was conveyed to CJotton-house, where sir Tho. Cotton the master thereof and Mr. Kinncrslie of the wardrobe did make the best accommodation they could in so short a time in the king's chamber. The soldiers that were ujwn the guard were in the very next chamber to that of the king; which his majesty perceiving, he commanded Mr. Herbert to bring his pallet and place it on one side of the king's bed, which he did, and there slept. ■ [Oct. 31, 1659, Mr. Jo. Bradshaw judg of the shcrives court in Guildhall, who pronounced scnience of death upon his sovereign, died. Mr. Ric. Smith's Obituary. Baker.] Sunday the Slst of Jan. Dr. Will. Juxon the good bishop of London had (as his majesty desired) the liberty to attend the king, which was much to his comfort, and (as he said) ' no small refreshing to his spirit, esj)ecially in that his uncomfortable condition.' The most part of that day was spent in prayer and preaching to the king. Monday 22 Jan. col. Hacker brought his majesty the second time before the court then sitting, as for- merly, in Westminster-hall. Now the more noble the person is, the more heavy is the spectacle, and inclines generous hearts to a .sympathy in his suffer- ings. Here it was otherwise, for as soon as his ma^ jesty came into the hall, some soldiers made a hideous cry for justice, justice ! some of the officers joining with them : at which noise the king seemetl somewhat abashed, but overcame it with patience. Sure, to persecute a distressed soul, and to vex him that is already woiinded at the heart, is the very pitch of wickedness, yea the uttnost extremity malice can do, or affliction suffer, as the learned bishop of Winchester (Bilson) saith in one of his sermons preached before queen Elizabeth upon Good-Friday, which was here very applicable. As his majesty re- turned from the hall to Cotton-house, a soldier that was upon the guard said aloud as the king passed by, ' God bless you, sir !' The king thank'd him, but an uncivil officer struck him with his cane upon the head, which his majesty observing said, ' The Eunishment exceeded the offence.' Being come to is apartment in Cotton-house, he immediately fell upon his knees and went to prayer ; which being done, he asked Mr. Herbert it he heard the cry of the soldiers in Westminster-hall for justice ^ He an- swer'd he did, and marvell'd much at it. So did not I (said the king) for I am well assur'd the sol- diers bare no malice towards me, the cry was, no doubt, given by their officers, for whom the soldiers would do the like if there were occasion. His ma^ jesty likewise demanded of him, how many there were that sate in the Court, and who they were ? He replied there were upward of threescore, some of them members of the house of commons, others commanders in the army, and others citizens of London, some of whom he knew, but not all. The king then said, he viewed all of them, but knew not the faces of above eight, and those he named. The names, tho' Mr. Herbert told me not, yet they were generally supposed to be Thomas lord Grey of Grobie, William L. Monson, sir Henry Mildmay,« sir John Danvers, Oliver Cromwell who liad shew'd 8 [It was that very Mildmay, who having been knighted by king Charles the first, made master of his jewel-house, and distinguished by other envied marks of his favour, was not yet afraid to imljrue his sacrilegious hands in the blood of that his most gracious and munificent master, by an instance of ingratitude, as well as impiety, monstrous beyond all ex- ample. When Dr. Barwick was examined sir Henry Mild- may was the person who cried out loudest for putting him to the torture. See Life of Barwick, page 183 J [697] 27 HERBERT. 28 leciiuDg civility to him at Childerlie, Newmarket mid Hiimpton-Coui't, major Harrison, lieut. gen. Tho. Hniiimond, &c. Tuesday Hii Jan. The king was the tJiird time sunnioned, and, as ibrnierly, guarded to tlie court : where, as at other times, he persisted in liis judg- ment, that they hat! no legal jurisdicUon or authority to proceed against him. Ufwn which Cook the so- licitor hegan to offer some things to the president of tlie court, but was gently interrupted by tlie king, laying his staff upon the solicitor s arm ; the liead of which being silver, hapned to fall off, which Mr. Herbert (who, as his majesty apjx)inted, waited near his chair) stooped to take it up, but falling on the contrary side, to which he could not reach, the king took it up himself. This was by some looked upon as a bad omen. But whereas Mr. Herbert puts this passage under the 22d of Jan. is a mistake, for it hapned on the first day of the tryal when the charge was read against the king. The court sate but a little time that day, the king not varying from his principle. At his going back to Cotton-house there were many men and women crouded into the passage behind tlie soldiers, who, as his majesty pass''u, .said aloud, God almighty preserve your ma- jesty ! for which the king returned them thanks. Saturday ^7 Jan. The pre.sident came into the hall and seated himself in his scarlet gown : where- upon the king having quick notice of it, he forthwith went, seated himself in his chair, and observing the president in his red gown, did imagine by that sign that it would be the last day of their sitting, and tha-efore he earnestly pressa the court, that altho' he would not acknowledge their jurisdiction for those rea-sons lie had given, yet nevertheless he desired that he might have a conference in the painted chamber with a committee of lords and commons before the court proceeded any farther : whereupon the president and court arose and withdrew. In whicri interval the king likewise retired to Cotton- house, where he and Dr. Juxon were private near 16981 *" hour, and then colonel Hunks gave notice that the court was sate. The king therefore going away, he seated himself in the chair : The president told his majesty that his motion for a conference with a committee of lords and commons had been taken into consideration, but would not be granted by the court in regard he would not own their jurisdiction, nor acknowledge them for a lawful assembly. Whereupon the king with vehemency insisted that bis -reasonable request might be granted, that what he had to offer to a committee of either house might be considered before they pronounced sentence. His majesty had the former day mov'd tlie president that the grounds and reasons he liad put in writing for his disavowing their authority miglit be publicly read by the clerk, but neither would that desire be granted. The president then gave judgment against the king, who, at the president's pronouncing it, was observed to smile and lift up his eyes to heaven, as appealing to tlie divine majesty the most supreme judge. The king at the rising of the court was with a guard of halbertliers returned to ^Vhitehall in a cl»)se chair through King-street : Both sides whereof had a guard of foot soldiers, who were silent as his majesty passed, but shopstalls and windows were full of j)eople, many of whom shed tears, and some of them with audible voices prayed for the king till he was carried through the privy garden door to his bed-chamber ; whence after two hours space he was removed to S. James's. Nothing of the fear of death, or indignities offer'd, seem'd a terror or provok'd him to impatience, nor uttered he a re- proachful word reflecting upon any of his judges, albeit he well knew that some of them were, or liad been, his domestic servants; nor against any mem- ber of the house, or officer of the army, so wonderful was his patience, tlio' his spirit was great, and might otherwise have express'd his resentment upon several occasions. It was a true Christian fortitude to have the mastery of his passion, and submission to the will of God under such temptations. The same night, after which sentence was pronounced, coll. Hacker, who then commanded the guards at S. James's about the king, would have placed two musqueteers in the king's bed-chamber ; with which his majesty being acquainted, he made no reply, only gave a sigh. Howbeit the good bishop Dr. Juxon and Mr. Herbert apprehending the horror of it, and disturbance it would give to the king in his meditations and preparation for hisi departure out of this uncomfortable world, they never left the coll. till he had reversed his order by withdrawing those men, representing it as the most barbarous thing in nature. The king now bidding a farewel to the world, his whole business was a serious preparation for death, which opens the door unto eternity. In order thereunto he laid aside all other thoughts, and spent the remainder of his time in prayer and other pious ejaculations and exercises of devotion, and in con- ference with that meek and learned bishop before- mentioned, who, under God, was a great support and comfort to him in that his afflicted condition. And resolving to sequester himself, so as he might have no disturbance to his mind, nor interruption to his meditations, he ordered Mr. Herbert to excuse it to any that might have the desire to visit him. I know (said the king) my nephew the prince elector will endeavour it and some other lords that love me, which I would take in good part, but my time is short and precious, and I am desirous to improve it the best T may in preparation : I hope they will not take it ill, that they or any have not access unto me, only my children : The best office they can do now, is to pray for me. AVhat he had said, fell out ac- cording!}', for his electoral highness, accompanied with James duke of Richmond, William marq. of Hertford, Thomas earl of Southampton, and Moun- tague earl of Lindsey, with some others, liaving got 29 HERBERT. 30 leave, came to the bed-c-hatnl)er iloor, where Mr. Herbert, pursuant to the king's coinniand, ac- quainted liis higliness and the said noblemen witii what the king gave him in cliargc, and thereupon they acquiesced, and presented their humble duty to liis majesty with their prayers : which done, tliey returned with hearts full of sorrow, as appearetl by [C99] tlieir faces. The prince of Wales also, then in Holland, did by the states ambassadors intercede to the parliament, and used all possible means to pre- vent, or at least to defer, his majesty's execution, and applyed themselves likewise to tlie army. At tliis time (Jan. 30. Mr. Herbert .should have said) came to S. James's Edm. Calamy, Rich. Vines, Jos. Caryl, Will. Dell, and some other London ministers, who presented their duty to the king,. with Uieir humble desires to pray with him, and perform other offices of service if his majesty would please to accept of them. The king returned them thanks for their love to his soul, hoping they and all other good subjects would in their addresses to God be mindful of him, but in regard he had made choice of Dr. Juxon, whom for many years he had known to be a pious and learned divine, and able to administer ghostly comfort to liis soul, suitable to his present condition, he would have none other. The ministers were no sooner gone, but John Good- win minister in Coleman-street came likewise upon the same account to tender his service, whom the king also thanked and dismist with the like friendly answer. Mr. Herbert about this time going to the Cockpit near Whitehall, where the lodgings of Philip earl of Pembroke were, he then, as at sundry times, enquired how his majesty did, and gave his humble duty to him, and withal asked if his majesty had the gold watch he sent for, and how he" liked it. Mr. Herbert assured his lordship the king had not yet received it. The earl fell presently into a passion, marvelfd thereat, and was troubled least his majesty should think him careless in observing his commands, and told Mr. Herbert that at the king's coming to S. James's, he, as he was sitting under the great elm tree near sir Ben. Rudyerd's lodge in the park, seeing a considerable military officer of the army going towards S. James's, he went to meet him, and demanding of him if he knew his cousin Tom Herbert that waited on the king, the officer said he did, and was going to S. James's. The earl then delivered to him the gold watch that had the larum, desiring him to give it to Mr. Herbert to present it to the king. The officer promised the earl he would immediately do it. ' My lord (said Mr. Herbert) I have sundry times seen and pass'd by that officer since, and do assure your lordsliip he liath not delivered it to me according to your order and his promise, nor said any thing con- cerning it, nor has the king it, I am certain.' The . earl was very angry, and gave the officer his due character, and threatned to question him. But such was the severity of the times, that it wa.s judged dangefous to reflect upon such a person, so as no notice was taken of it. Nevertheless Mr. Herlxirt, at the earl's desire, did acquaint his majesty th»T6- with, who gave the earl thanks, juuj rjud, ' had he not told tlie officer it was for me, lie would probably have delivered it : he well knew how short a time I should enjoy it.' This relation is in prosecution of what IS formerly mentioned concerning tlie clock or larum-watch which his majesty would liave to lay by Mr. Herbert's nallet to'awaken him at tlie hour m tlic morning wliich his majesty should appoint when he was at Windsor. The name of this officer Mr. Herbert told me not, only tliat he was executed after the restoration of king Charles II. and there- fore I take him to be either major Harrison or col. Hacker. That evening Mr. Hen. Seymour, a gent, be- longing to the lied-chamber of the prince of Wales, came by col. Hacker's permission (who commanded the guards at S. James's) to his majesty's chamber door, desiring to sjxjak with the king from the said prince: and being admitted he presented to the king a letter from him, dated from the Hague S3 Jan. 1648, old stile. At Mr. Seymc^ur's entrance he fell into a passion, having seen his majesty in ^ florious, and now in a dolorous state : and having iss'd the king's hand, he cla.sp'd about his legs and mourned in a most lamentable condition. Hacker came in with this gentleman, and beholding these things was very much abash'd. But so soon as his maj. had read his sons sorrowing letter, and heard what his servant had to say, and he imparted to him what his niaj. thought iit to return, the prince's servant took his leave, and was no sooner gone but the king went to his devotion, Dr. Juxon praying [7001 with him, and reading some select chapters out of the sacred scripture. The same evenmg also the king took, a ring from his finger, having an emerald set therein between two diamonds, and gave it to Mr. Herbert, and commanded him, as late as 'twas, to go with it from S. James's to a lady « living then in Canon-row on the back-side of King-street in Westminster, and to give it to her without saying any thing. The night was exceeding dark, ana guards were set in several places, (as at the houses, in the gardens, park, at the gates near Whitehall, in King-street and elsewhere) nevertheless getting the word from col. Matth. Tomlinson ' (then there, and in all places wheresoever he was about the king so civil both towards his majesty and sucli as at- tended him, as gained him the king's gtxxl opinion, and as an evidence thereof gave him his gold pick- tooth case as he was one time walking in the pre- 5 [See the Life of Wood, vol. i, pnge xxviii, xxix, &c.] ' [Coloiicl Matthew Tomlinson and colonel Richard In- goldsby were excepted in the act of 12 Car. II. incapacitating all those who gave sentence of death in the illegal high courts of justice, from bearing office in England. SlatuUi at large, vol. ii, page 409-] 31 HERBERT. 32 scnce-flianiber) Mr. Herbert pass\l currently, tho' in all places where sentinels were, he was biu stand iill the corporal had the word from him. Being come to the lady's house he delivered her the ring : ' Sir (said she) "give me leave to shew you the way into the parlour :' where being seated, she desired him to stay till she returned : in a little time after she came and put. into his hands a little cabinet closed with 3 seals, two of which were the king's arms, and the third was the figure of a Roman : which done, she desired him to deliver it to the same band that sent the ring ; which ring was left with her: and afterwards Mr. Herbert taking liis leave, the word served him in his return to the king, at which time he found that Dr. Juxon was newly gone to his lodging in sir Hen. Henn's house near S. James's rate. Mr. Herbert gave the cabinet into the hands of his majesty, who told him that he should sec it opened next morning. Morning bemg come, the bishop was early with the king, and after prayers his majesty broke the seals and shew'd them what was contained in the cabinet. There were diamonds and jewels, most Sart broken Georges and Garters. You see (said e) all the wealth now in my power to give to my children. That day the bishop preached before the king on Rom. 2. 16. In the Day when God shall judge, &c. inferring from thence, that ' Altho' God's judgments be for some time deferred, he will never- theless proceed to a strict examination of what is both said and done by every man. Yea the most hidden things and imaginations of men will most certainly be made to appear at the day of judgment, when tlie Lord Jesus Christ shall be uyjon his high tribunal,' &c. It may not be forgotten that sir Hen. Herbert master of the revells, and gent, in ord. of his maj. privy chamber (one that cordially loved and honour'd the king, and during the war had sufTer'd considerably in his estate by sequestration and otherwise) meeting Mr. Tho. Herbert his kins- man in S. James's park, first enquired how his ma- jesty did, and afterwards presenting his duty to him, with assurance that himself with many others of his majesty's servants did frequently pray for him, desir'd that his maj. would be pleased to read the second chapter of Ecclesiasticus, for he should find comfort in it, aptly suiting his present con- dition. Atcordingly Mr. Herbert acquainted the king therewith, who thanked sir Harry, and com- mended him for his excellent parts, being a good scholar, soldier, and an accomplish'd courtier, and for his many years faithful service much valued by the king, who presently turned to tliat chapter, and read it with much satisfaction. Monday Jan. 29. the princess Elizabeth and the duke of Glocester her brother, came to take their last farewel of the king their father, and to ask his blessing. The princess lieing the elder was the most sensible of lier royal father's condition, as ap- peared by her sorrowful look and excessive weep- ing. Her little brother the duke seeing his sister weep, he ttxjk the like impression, tho' by reason of his tender age, he could not have the lite appre- hension. The king raised them both from oflf' their knees, he kiss'd them, gave them his blessing, and setting them on his knees, admonish'd them concern- ing their duty and loyal observance to the queen their mother, the prince that was his successor, love , to the duke of York and his other relations. The L'^l] king then gave them all his jewels save the George he wore, which was cut in an onyx with great curiosity, and set about with 21 fair diamonds, and the reverse set with the like number ; and then again kissing his children had such pretty and per- tinent answers from them both, as drew tears of joy and love from his eyes. And then praying God Almighty to bless them, he turned alwut, express- ing a tender and fatherly affection. Most sorrow- ful was this parting, and the young prime shed- ding tears ana crying most lamentable, moved others to pity that formerly were hard-hearted : And at the opening the chamber door the king returned hastily from the window, kissed them, blessed them and so parted. This demonstration of a pious affection exceedingly comforted the king in this his affliction, so that m a grateful return, he M'ent immediately to prayer, the good bishop and Mr. Herbert being only present. That day the king eat and drank very sparingly, most of it l)eing sjjent in prayer and meciitation. It was some hours after night e'er Dr. Juxon took leave of the king, who willed him to be early with him the next morning. After Dr. Juxon was gone to his lodgings, the king continued reading and praying more tlian two hours. The king commanded Mr. Herbert to lye by his bed-side upon a pallet, where he took small rest, that being the last night his gracious sovereign and master enjoyed. But nevertheless the king, for four hours or thereabout, slept soundly, and awaking about two hours bef()re aay, he opened his curtain to call Mr. Herbert (there being a great cake of wax set in a silver bason tliat then, as at all other times, burnt all night) and perceiving him to be disturb'd in his sleep, called again and bid him ri.se, for said his majesty, ' I will get up, having a great work to do this day,' and then asking Herbert what troubled him, he told his majesty he was dreaming : I would know your dream said the king, which being told, his majesty said it was remarkable.* ^ [A copy of a leUer from sir Th. Herbert to Dr. Sam- ways, and by him sent to tbe archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Sandcroft, referre-hop Tanncr'i, and Mr. Cotr'» cooies of tbe AtheiuE.] :33 HERBERT. 3i Jan. 30. Tuesday. Herbert (saith the K.) this is my second marriage day, I will he as trim today as may be, for before night I hojie to be espoused to my blessed Jesus. He then appointed what cloaths he woukl wear, Let me have a shirt more than ordinary (said the K.) by reason the season is so sharp, as probably may make me shake, which Sir, After his late majesty's remove frotn Windsor to St. James's, albeit accor'ling to the iliuy of my place, 1 lay in the next room to the bed-chamber, the king then commanded me to bring my pallate into his chamber, which I accord- ingly did, the night before that sorrowful day. He ordered ivhat cloaths he would wear, intending that day to be as neat as could be, it being (as he called it) his wedding-day. And having a great worl< to do (meaning his preparation to eter- nity) said. He would be stirring much earlier than he used. for some hours liis majesty slept very soundly : for my part, I was so full of anguish and grief, that 1 looli little rest. The king, some hours before dav, drew his bed- curtain to awaken me, and could by the light of wax-lau.p perceive me troubled in my sleep ; the king rose forthwith, and as I was making him ready, Herbert (said the king) I would know why you were disquieted in your sleep? I replied. May it please your majesty, I was in a dream. What was your dream, said the king, I would hear it? May It please vour majesty, said 1, 1 dreamed, that as you were making ready, one knock'd at the bed-chamber door, wliieh your majesty took no notice of, nor was I willing to acquaint you with it, apprehending it miglit be colonel Hacker. But knocking the second time, your majesty ask'd me, if I heard it not ? Isaid I did ; but did not use to go without his order. Why then go, know who it is, and his business. Whereupon I opened the door, and perceived iliat it was the lord archbp. of Cant. Dr/ Lawd in his pontifical habit, as worn at court; I knew him, having seen him often. The archbp. desired he might enter, having something to say to the king. I acquainted your majesty with his desire; so you bad me let hitn in ; being in, he made his obeysance to your maje.*ty in the middle of the room, doing the like also when he came near your person, and falling on his knees, your majesty gave him your hand to kiss, and took him aside to the window, where some discourse pass'd between your majesty and hiin, and 1 kept a becoming distance, not hearing any thing that was said, yet could perceive your majesty pensive by your looks, and that the archbishop gave a sigh; who aftt r a short stay, again kissing your hand, returned, but with face all the way towards your majesty, and making his usual reverences, the third being so submiss, as he fell prostrate on his face on the ground, and I immediately slept to him to help him up, which I was then acting, when your majesty saw me troubled in my sleep. The impression was so lively, that I look'd about, verily thinking it was no dream. The king said, my dream was retnarkable, but he is dead ; yet haintea by the king for regulating the university of Oxon, in which office he shew'd nimself active enough. In 1664 he left the university, and setling with his neck, il was immediately restored to its situation, the coffin was soldered up again, and the vault closed.'] I68i. [706] 43 LLEWELLIxV. 44 wife and family in a market town in Bucks called Great Wyconibc, practised his faculty there, was made a justice of the }jeace for that county, and in 1671 was elcctetl mayor of tliat corporation; in which offices he behaved himself severe against the fanatics. He hath written, Men-miracles. A Poem. "| Divers Poems. I Printed 1646. in oct.* Satyrs. \ [In St. John's college Eleg-ies. I library.] Divine Poems. J Among his elegies is one upon Rob. Burton alias Democritus Junior of Ch. Ch. another upon the eminent poet and orator Will. Cartwright, a third upon Dr. Lautl archb. of Cant, and a fourth upon sir Hen. Spelman the antiquary.* ♦ [An impression of his poems in l66l was entitled, The Marrow of the Muses, Phillips styles him ' the not uncom- mendeil writer of a book of facetious poems.'] s [One of his best poems is, I think, an Etegie on the Death of Sir Bevile Grenvile, page 1 1 6. To build upon the merit of thy death, And raise thy fame from thy expiring breath. Were to steole glories from thy life, and tell The world, that Grenvil only did dye well. But all thy dayes were faire, the same sun rose The lustre of thy dawning and thy close. Thus to her urne th' Arabian wonder flyes. She lives in perfumes, and in perfumes dyes. E're storiiies and tuaiulis (names unclrcadcd here) Could in their bloome and infancy appeare. He in the stocke and treasure of his minde Had heapes of courage and just heaie combin'd : Where, like the thrifty atit, he kepi in store Enough for spring, but for a winter more. In peace he did direct his thoughts on warres. And learn't in silence how to combat jarres. And though the times look't smooth, and would allow No Iracke of frowne or wrincle in their brow. Yet his quicke sight perceiv'd the aae would lowr. And while the day was faire, fore.-aw the showr. At this the prudent augur did provide Where to endure the storme, not where to hide. And sought to shun the danger now drawne nigh. Not by concealement, but by victory. As valiant seamen, if the vessell knocke. Rather sayle o're it, then avoid the rocke. And thus resolv'd, he saw on either hand. The causes, and their bold abettors, stand. The kingdom's law is the pretence of each. Which these by law preserve, these by its breach ; The subjects' liberty each side mainetaines. These say it consists in freedome, these in cliaines. These love the decent church, but these not passe To dressc our matron by the Geneva glasse. These still enshrine their God, but these adore Him most at some Arauna's threshing flore. Each part defends their king a several way, By true subjection these, by treasons they. But our spectator soon unmask't the sin. And saw all serpent through that specious skin : And midst their best pretext did still despaire. In any dresse, to see their moore looke faire. And though the number waigh'd i'th' popular scale. As li^ht things floaie still with the tyde and gale, ■ He with the solid mixt, and did conclude Justice makes parties great, not multitude. Verses cm the Return of K. Ch. II. James Duke of York, and Henry Duke ofGloeester. Lond. 1G60. in 3 sh. in fol. Eleffy on (lie Death of Henry Duke ofGloeester Pnntetl 1660. (in a fol. pajjer.) Wickham wakened: or, the Quaker's Madrigal in Rhime dogiel. — Printed 1672 in one sheet in qii. Written while he was mayor of W y combe against a practitioner of physic who was a quakcr and took much from his practice. He died on the 17th of March in sixteen hundred eighty and one, and was buried in the middle of the nortn isle joyn- ing to the chancel of the church of Gr. Wycombe before mentioned. Over iiis grave was soon after a black marble stone laid, with this inscription thereon.* Hie jacet Martinus Lluelyn eruditus Medicinaj Doctor, ex MAc Christi oliiii Alumnus, saeviente Civilis belli incendio (dum Oxonium pra?sidio inu- niebatur) cohorti Academicorum fideli Pnefectus erat adversus ingruentum Rebellium ferociam : posteaquam sereniss. Carolo secundo inter juratos Medicus, & Colleg. Med. Lond. socius. Aulas sanctae Marias dudum Principalis, dein hujusce co- mitatus Irenarcha, necnon municipii hujus semel Praetor, Regia; authoritatis & religionis Eccles. An- gliae legibus stabilitae streiiuus assertor, inconcussus amator, celeberrinius & insignis Poeta. Qui res egregias &, sublimes pari ingenio & facundia de- pinxit. Bino matrimonio foelix septem liberos su- perstites relitjuit, Lajtitiam & Martinum ex priore, Georgium, Ricardum & Mauritium, Martham &, Mariam ex posteriore nuper aniantissima conjuge, nunc mcestissima vidua Martha, Georgii Long de Penn Generosi fili;i. Heu ! quam caduca corporis huniani fabrica, qui toties morbos fugavit, ipse tan- dem niorbo succimibit anhelus, doctorum & pro- borum maximum desiderium. Obiit xvii. Martii MDCLXXXI annoque a;tatis LXVI. [I,lewellin has not been recorded in any list of English dramatic writers, though from pages 77 and 80 of his Poems, it seems he had a title to such a place. He there addresses lord B. and Dr. Fell of Ch. Ch. upon presenting them with a play, and evi- dently alludes to it as his own composition. I have not discovered the title. Several short commendatory poems by this writer, are, as I conjecture, to be found in the works of his And with this constant principle possest. He did alone expose his single breast Against an armie's force, and bleeding lay. The great restorer o'th' declining day. Thus slaine, thy valiant ancestor did lye. When his one barke a navy durst defie. When now enconipass'd round, he victor stood And bath'd his pinnace in his conquering blood. Till all his purple current dry'd and spent He fell, ami left the waves his monument. Where shall next famous Greenevil's ashes stand ? Thy grandsire fils the seas, and thou the land.] ' [Written by the rev. Mr. Is. Milles. Sec his Life, pages 43, 44, 47, 72. Lovedav.] l68f. 45 CASE. 46 contemporaries, and these were not printed with Men Miracles, &c. One of these I remember to have seen prefixed to Christ. Bennet's Theatri Ta- bidorum Vestibulum, 8vo. 1654.] THOMAS CASE, son of George Case .vicar of Boxley in Kent, was Ixirn in that county, became student of Ch. Cli. upon the recommendations of Tob. Matthew archb. of York, in the year 1616, aged 17 years or thereabout, took the degrees in arts, holy orders, preaclied for some time ni these [707] parts, and afterwards in Kent, at, or near, the place of his nativity.' At the turn of the times in 1641, he closed with them, and being schismatically ad- dicted, he became an enemy to the bishops and Uturgy, a great boutifieu and firebrand m the church, a leader and abettor of the pretended re- formation, and what not, to vent his spleen, to be- come popular in the city of London, and so conse- quently to get preferment and wealth, which before he wanted, and therefore discontented. About the same time he was minister * of S. Mary Magd. Ch. in Milk-street in London, upon the sequestration thence of a loyalist, where it was usual with him at his invitation of the people to the Lord's table for the receiving of the sacrament to say ' ' You that have freely and liberally contributed to the parlia- ment for the defence of God's cause and the gospel, draw near,' instead of ' You that do truly and earnestly repent,'' &c. To the rest he threatned damnation, as coming unwillingly to the holy sacra- ment. In 164'3, he, as a grand lover of the cause, was made by ordinance of parliament one of the assembly of divines, being then, as before and after, a frefiuent preacher before the members of the said f)arliamcnt, and about that time the Thursday's ecturer at S. Martin's in the Fields. He was so zealous a covenanteer also, that he published a ser- mon about the solemn league and covenant, advised all to take it, and was angry with those that did not, tho' they understood it not. He was, during the war (as most of the bretliren were) a common preacher of rebellion. At length he, and they, being cozened of their king, and the designs they had upon him, by the independents, he became a bitter enemy to that party, plotted with Love, Jenkins, &c. and with the Scots, to bring in his son king Charles II. an. 1651, Case being about that time minister of S. Giles's in the Fields near Lon- don ; but their plot being discovered, and Love the ' [His first pastoral charge was at Erpingham in Norfolk, out of which place he v/as forc'd by bishop Wren's severity. He was summon'd to the high commission court, and bail'd : but before answer could be given to the articles prefer'd ajainst him, the court was taken away by act of parliament. He first set up the Morning Exercise. Calamy, Ejected Ministers, ii, 707.] • [Read rector. Rawlinscn.] ' So in .4 Letter from Merc. Civicus to Merc. Ruslicus : or London's Curifession, 6^c. Printed l6t3. p. 26. See also in Merc. Aiil. I9 Feb. 1042. Corypheus suffering for the rest, our author Case, with his brethren that were in the conspiracy, made ' a petition to Oliver by way of acknowledgment and submission for what they had done. In the year 1653 he made it liis endeavours to be one of the triers for tlie approbation of ministers, appointed by Ohver, but was rejected; yet when the presbyte- rians began to lift up their heads in tjje latter end of 1659, upon the generous j)roceedings of general Monk, he was constitutefl by act of pari, dated 14 of Mar. that year, one of the ministers for the ap- probation and admission of mini.sters acwrding to the presbyterian way. But that foppery being soon after laid aside, he himself, upon the coming out of the act of conformity, an. 1662, was laid aside also; yet ever after so long as he lived, he was not want- mg to carry on the beloved cause in conventicles, for which he sometimes suffer'd. He hath written and pubhshed, Several sermons, as (1) Two Serm. before tfie House of Commons ; on Ezelc. 20. 25. and on Ezra 10. 2, 3. Lond. 1642. sec. edit. (2) God's Rising; his Enemies Scattering ,• before the H. of C. a( their Fast 26 Oct. 1642 ; cm Psal. 68. 1, 2. Lond.' 1644. qu. (3) The Root of Apostacy and Founr tain of true Fortitude, Thanksg. Serm,. before the H.ofC.Q Apr. 1644, _/or tJu great Victory given to Sir Will. Waller, and the Fmres loith him, against the Army of Sir Ralph Hopton ; on Dan. 11. 32. Lond. 1644. qu. (4) Deliverance-obstruc- tion : or the Set-backs of Reformation, Fast Serm. before the H. of Lord.i 26 Mar. 1646 ; on Exod. 5. 22, 23. Lond. 1646. qu. (5) A Model of true spiritual Than! fulness, Thanksgiv. Serm. 19 Feb. I6i5, for reducing the City of Chester by the Pari. Forces under the Command of Sir William Brere- ton; on Psal. 107. 30, 31. Lond. 1646. qu. (6) Spiritual Whoredom discovered in a Fast Serm. before the H. of C. 26 May 1647 ; on Hosea 9. 1. Lond. 1647. qu. (7) Sermon before the House of Commons, 22 Aug. 1645, being the Day appointed for tlie soltmn Thanksgiving unto God for the Parliament Forces their gaining of Bath and Bridgeivater, Scarborough and Sherburn Castle, and for the dispersing of tlie Club-men, and the good Success in Pembrokshire ; on Isa. 43. 14. Lond. 1645. qu. Other sermons, as (1) God's Waiting to be gra- cious unto Jiis People, together with England's En- couragements and Cuu.ses to wait on God, delivered in certain Sermons at Milk-street in Lond. oti Isa. 30. 18. Lond. 1642. qii. (2) Sermoti on Ezek. 50. 5. Lond. 1643. qu. (3) Jehosaplmfs Caution to his Judges ; on 2 Chron. 19. 6, 7. Lond. 1644. 45. qu. This sermon, which I have not yet seen, was preached, if I mistake not, in Aug. 1644, upon the occasion of a court martial : From the epistle before which, and from the sermon it self, the independents ' Memorials of Engl. Affairs, an. 1 65 1. L708] 47 CASE. NEEDLER. 48 took great advantage, and auoted it when the pres- bytenan plot was discovered to bring into England king Charles II. an. 1651 ; at wiiich time Chr. Love who was the chief man in that plot, and our author Ca.sc another, were to be brouglit to their trval. The sermon is all tor revenge of bUxxl, in- nocent blotxl, spilt; and 'tis in a most high and desjK'rate manner a downright prov(x;ation to do justice upon delinquents, that is cavaliers, or those that adhered to the king, to spare not one of them Hving, &c. (4) The Quarrel of the Covenant, with the Pacification of the Quarrel, in 3 Sermons on I.£v. 2(j. 25. ami on Jer. 50. 5. Lond. 1644. qu. (5) The Vanity of Vam-glory, fxineral Sermon at the Burial of Kinffsnwll Lucy; on 1 Cor. 1. ver. 29. Jcifh 31. Lond. 1655. in tw. (6) Sensuality dissected, Sernum hefore divers Citizens of London bom in Kent. Lond. 1657. qu. (7) EliaKs AbateiTMn : or. Corruption in the Saints ; Sermon at the Funeral of Walt. Rosewell, M. A. at Cliat- ham in Kent; on Jam. 3. 17. Lond. 16-58. in tw. (8) Serm. on Prov. 31. 19. Lond. 1658. oct. (9) Fun. Sermon on Malachi 3. 17. Lond. 1659. qu. (10) Farewell Sermon at Barthohmewtide ; on Rev. 2. 5. Lond. 1662. oct. (11) How the Sab- bath ought to he sanctifyed ; on Lsa. 58. 13. 14. Lond. 1674. [Bodl. C. 1. 6. Line] 76. qu. 'Tis in the Supplement to the Morning Exercise at Crip- plegate. (12) Sermon on 2 Tim. 1. 13. preached m tlie morning exercise at S. Giles's in the Fields, in May 1659; wliicli sermon is extant in a bresbyterian [70i)l visitors of the university, in 1648, by sui)mitting to their |X)wer and accepting of, by way of creation, the degree of bach, of the civ. law. Whether he afterwards took orders from a bishop, I know not : sure I am, that he being a well gifted brother for praying and preaching, he was some years after mafle minister of Margaret Moses in Friday-street within the city of London, where continuing till after his majesty's restoration, was ejected for non- conformity, an. 1662. He hath written, Expo-ntory Notes, with practical Observations, towards the Opening of the five first Chapters of the first Book tf Genesis, delivered by Way cf Ex- position in .several LorcTs-days Exercises. Lond. 165-5, in a large octavo. Several sermons, as (1) Sermon on Matth. 5. 29, 30. ^'Tis the third serm. in the Morning Exer- cise at Cripplegate, j)reached in Sept. 1661. Lond. 1661. (]u. (2) Sermon on Matth. 4. 10. ^'Tis the thirteenth serm. in the Morning Ex- ercise against Popery, preached in South wiirk, &c. Lond. 1675. qu. (3) The Trinity proved by Scripture, Serm. on 1 John. 5. 7. in the Morning Exercise methodized, &c. jjreached in S. Giles's in the Fields, in May 1659. Lond. 1676. qu. What other things go under his name, I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he dying at North Warnborough in Hampshire (where for some years he had exercis'd his functicm in private) in the month of May or June, in sixteen hundred eighty .gg„ and two, was according to his will, as I presume, buried frugally in some church-yard, I think in that of North AVarnborough before mentioned : At which time he left behind him a son called Culverwell Needier, another named Benjamin, and a brother in law called Rich. Culverwell minister of Grundes- burgh. < iiVg. Matric. In. Ox. PP. fol. I 13. a. 49 GAWEN. MUNDAY. HUNTON. 50 I 1683. 1082. [710] « NICHOLAS GAWEN, a western man bom, educated in Queen's coll. but before he took a degree, he became chaplain in a ship, and took a ramble into Portugal. After his return he wa.s appointed minister and preacher of the word of God, about three years after his majesty's restora- tion, at a market town called Bister ni Oxford- shire, being only deputy lor Mr. Will. Hall, who by indisposition was made imcapable of sei"ving the cure there. In 1670 Mr. Hall died, and then our author Gawen was made vicar of Piddington near to the said town of Bister, where he finished his course. He hath written, " Christ's Pre-eminence ; in a Question pro- pounded, discussed and resolved, that Christ was the first that with Flesh and Blood entred into the Kingdom of Heaven. Oxon. 1666. qu. [Bodl. B. 8. 2. Line] This is dedicated to Dr. Tho. Lamplugh archdeacon of Middlesex and principal of S. AJban's hall, who, as it seems, had been tutor to Gawen while of Qu. coll. He was buried in the church of Piddington before-mentioned on the 26th of June, in sixteen hundred eighty and two. Had this person taken any degree in this university, I should have put him into the Fasti among the authors of lesser note." ) HENRY MUNDAY, " son of Henry Mun- day," was born in a market town called Henley in Oxfordshire, became one of the portionists of Mer- ton coll. in the beginning of the rebellion, took one degree in arts, in 1647, and kept pace with the in- terrupted times to enjoy some petit employment. In 1656, May 20, he was elected master of the free grammar school at Henley before-mention'd, which eing well endowed and replenish'd with scholars, was very beneficial to him. At length following the practice of physic, it feO to decay, and had not death prevented justice, he would have been ejected. He hath written and published, Commentariis de JEre vitali. 2. De Esculentis. 3. De Potulentis, cum Corallario de Parergis in Victu. Oxon. 1680. in a large oct. [Bodl. 8vo. D. 23. Med.] Lugd. 3 edit. 1685 in qu. He died by a fall from his horse, in his return to Henley from the house of John lord Lovelace at Hurley, on the 28th of June in sixteen hundred eighty and two, aged about 58 years; and the next day his Ixidy was buried in the north chancel of the church at Henley. In the said school succeeded Dan. Ashford M. A. and vice-pr. of Hart hall (sometime of Wadh. coll.) who by his industry and vigilancy made it flourish. PHILIP HUNTON, son of Ph. Hunton of Andover in Hampshire, was born in that county, became either batler or servitour of Wadham coll. in Lent term 1622, of which house he was after- wards scholar, and master of arts. At length entring into the sacred function, he became succes- VoL. IV. sively schoolmaster of Aburie in Wilts, minister of Devises, afterwards of Hatchbury, and in fine of Westbury in the said county; and as minister of the last place, he was appointed an assistant to the commissioners of Wilts, for the ejecting of such whom the presbyterians, independents and other factious people called scandalous, ignorant and in- sufficient ministers and schioii as by law established. Ma- cro.] . * 111 hia book call'd Llymas the Surcerer. \i. 25. was fined 300/. or more, and tlie rectory of Lan- dumog was sequestred for the jiayment of it. Which fine AN'iuchester ofFer'tl to remit wholly, if he would confess he had spoken those words against him and ask forgiveness : But when he woukl not, the se(|uestration continued, and 20A of it was sent to our author, and some given for the repairing of the cathedral of Bangor, and the rest for otner pious uses. About the same time he was condenin'a and censur'd ab officio & iK-neficio by his dif)cesan, occa* sioncil by some controversy that hapned between them about a reading pew in the church at Landur. nog, the particulars of whidi you may read at large ' elsewhere. So that being in a manner undone, did, much about the time oif the breaking out of the Popish plot, publish. Of the Heart, and its right Sovereign : and Rome no Mother-Church to Englutul. Or, an historical Account of the Title of an EngUA Church; and by what Ministry the Gospel was first planted in every Comity. Lond. 1678. oct. A Remembrance of the Riglds of Jerusalem above, in tlie great Question, Where is tlie true Mother Church of Christians P Printed with the former book. At that time the author taking part with Tit. Oates, his old acquaintance, Ez. Tongue, Steph. Colledge, &c. and other factious people to gain their ends by making a disturbance in the nation by the Popish plot, he wrote and pubhshed, Elyrnas ike Sorcerer: or a Memorial towards the Discovery of the Bottom of this Popish Plot, Sec. Published upon Occasion of a Passage in tlie late Dutchess of VorFs Declaration Jhr clumging her Religion. Lond. 1682, in 8 sh. in fol. This book was written and published in spleen against the bishop of ^Vinchester, grounded upon a passage in The History of Calvinism, written by monsieur Lewes Maimburgh ' a French Jesuit, wherein he resolves the dutchess of York's declaration for popery, into the seeming encouragement of two of the most learned bishops in England. One of these our author dotli endeavour to make the reader to understand (tlw' he nameth him not) to be Win- chester. Notice of this book therefore coining to the said bishop of Wine, he would have prosecuted the matter so far in his own vindication, as to have the said Elyrnas the Sorcerer to be publicly burnt, and the author to be further punished : But before he could compeiss his design, the author died. How- ever V^'inchester, that he might not sit silent, pub- lished his own vindication, as to M. Maimburgh's words, in his preface to certain treatises that he published in 1683. Rich. WaXson also D. D. of this university and chaplain to his royal liighness the duke of York did answer it " first m Iwilf a sheet in " fol. entit. An Answer to ElymMS tlie Sorcerer, in ^ lb. in Elym. the Sore. ' Printed in French in the beginuing of the year 1682. 53 BLOUNT. 54 r [712] 1682. I I « Jul. 1G82, and soon after" in a " fuller" book entit. A fuller Answer to Elyman the Sorcerer : or to the most material Part (of a feigned Memorial) towards the Discovery of the Popish Plot, ^c. in a Letter addressed to Mr. Thorn. Jones. Published ot Lond. in Feb. 1682. in 8 sh. in f'ol. with the date in the title of 1683 set to it. Our author Jones also published his Sermon preached at the Funeral of Ez. Tongue, I). D. which I have not yet seen.*' At length tliis person, who was troubled with a rambling and sometimes crazM pate, dying at Tot- teridge in Hertfordshire on Sunday the eighth of OctoD. in sixteen hundred eighty and two, was buried in the chapjx;! or church ot that place. He had a little before been received into the house there Ix-'longing to Franc. Charlton esq; and the same who jvas suspected ' to be in Monmouth's rebellion, an. 168.5, and the same whose sister Margaret had been married to Mr. Rich. Baxter. HENRY BLOUNT third son of sir The. Pope Blount of Tittenhangcr in Hertfordshire knight, son of Will. Blount of Bloimts-hill in Staffordshire, was bom at Tittenhanger before-mention'd, which is in the parish of Ridge, on the loth of December 1602, educated in the free-school at S. Alban's, where, by the help of his pregnant parts, he made such large Steps in learning that before he was 1 4 years of age ■• he was transplanted to Trinity coll. of which he be- came a gent, commoner, and there, not so much upon his relation to sir Tho. Pope the founder thereof, as upon account of his own mtrinsick worth, end the facetiousness of wit so peculiar to him, he had in a particular manner the deference and respect of the said coll. After he had taken one degree in arts, he retired to Greys inn, studied the municipal law, and at length, u]X)n his retreat thence, sold his chamber to Tho. Bonham of Essex the ])oet. In 1634, May 7, [after having viewed Italy, France, and some little of Spain '] he embarked at Venice for Constantinople in order to his voyage into the Le- vant, returned about two years after, became one of the gentlemen pensioners to king Charles I. and by him knighted 21 Mar. 1639. Afterwards he at- tended him at York, Edghill battle and at Oxford for a time, and then leaving him, he retired to Lon- don, where being esteemed a cavaher was called be- ' [.4 Sermoti prearhed at St. Michaels Wood Street, at the Funeral of Ezreet Tange D. D. memorable/or his good Ser- vice in Ihejirst Discovery of the horrid Popish Plot. On 2 Tim. ver. 7, 8. Lond. l'68l, 4io. Dedicated to the duke of Monmouth. Rawlinson.] ' [So Frazer: I say conceru'd. Wood, MS. Note in Ashmole.'\ * [He was admitted in l6l5,aiideilucated under the tuition of the leariicil Robert Skynner, one of the fellows, after- wards bishop of Worcester (of whom see the Account of bishops under the jear lG7<)). At the same time his elder brother was adniiited a gcnllenian-comraoner. Thomas quitted collefse in lOld, Henry in \6ig. Warton's Life of Sir Thomas Pope, 8vo. Lond. 1780, p. 206.] * [See his Voyage, p. 3. LovbDay.] fore the house of commons and questioned by them for his adherence to his majesty : But he remon- strating to them that he did no more than what hi» place re<]uired, that is, his duty to wait, he was ac- quitted. So that closing with that {>arty, he waa appointed one of the committee of 21 persons in Jan. 1651 to consult about the reformation of the law, to consider of the inconveniences in it, and mischiefs which frequently arose from the delays, and other irregularities in the administration thereof, and about that time he shewed himself active against the payment of tythes, and endeavoured that every minister should not have above 100/. per an. for hiu Cains in administering the gospel. In 1654, Jul. 5. e, with Dr. Rich. Zouch, Dr. W. Clerk, Dr. Will. Turner civilians, Mr. Lucy, &c. sate in the upper bench in Westm. hall for the trial of Pontalion Sa brother to the Portugues ambassador, three more Portugueses and an English boy, for a murther and a riot committed by them in the New Exchange, and on the 1st of Nov. 1655 he was apjxrinted one of the committee to take into consideration the trade and navigation of the commonwealth, &c. He wa« esteemed by those that knew him a gentleman of a very clear judgment, great experience, much con- templation (tho' not of much reading) and of great foresight into government. He was also a person of admirable conversation, and in his younger years was a great banterer, which in his eloer he disused. He hath written and published, A Voyage into the Levant : ' " or, a brief Rela- " tion of a Journey lately perfbrm'dfrom. England " by Way of Venice into Dalmatia, Sclavonia, Bos- " nato, Hungary, Macedonia, Thessaly, Thrace^ " Rhodes, and Egypt, tinto Grand Cairo, j^c." Lond. 1636. 2d edition, qu. In other editions in tw. it hath this title, A Voyage into the Levant, being a brief Relation of a Journey performed _from England, by Way of Veiiice, through the Turkish Empire and Egypt, unto Grand Cairo, &c. It is so well esteemed abroad, that (as I have been in- formed) it hath been translated into French and Dutch : In the first of which languages I have seen a iMiok entit. Voyage de Levant. Par. 1632. qu. written by D. C. He also wrote (as I have lieen informed hy some of his relations, tho' his sons know nothing of it) a pamphlet entit. The Eaxhange Walk ; printed much about the time that Hen. Ne- vUl published his pamphlet called The Parliament of Ladies, &c. 1647. This sir Hen. Blount, whom •■ [This little work is the voyage of a sceptic : it has more of the philosopher than the traveller, and would probably never have been written, but for the purpose of insinuating his religious sentiments. Yet his reflections are so striking and original, and so artfully interwoven with the thread of his adventures, that they enliven, instead of embarrassing, the narrative. He has the plausible art of colouring his para- doxes with the resemblance of truth. So little penetration had the orthodox court of Charles the first, that merely on the merit of this book, he was appointed one of the band of pensioners. Warton, ul sup.] E2 [713] 55 BLOUNT. BROWNE. 5t> I have mentioned in .Toll. I^ylie in the fii-st vol. col. 19m. 676.' and in Walt. Rumsey in the third, col./tf(i, oct. A calm Ventilation of Pseudodoxia Epidemica, or Doctrine nf vulgar Errours set forth hy the Hands of the most sedulous Tho. Browne Dr. in Physick. hy the still Gate of John Roiimon his Fellow-Citizen and Collegian. Lond. lt)o8. oct. Rawlinson.] ' See a discourse by way of introduction to Baconiana; or certain genuine Remains of Franc. Vise. S. Alhans. Lond. 1679. oct. p. 76, 77. Written by Tho. Tenisou. D. D. lately Jimnd out in Norfolk, &c. Lond. 1658. oct [Bodl. 8vo. B. 367. Linc.J &c. The Gardeti of Cyrus: or, tfie Quincunical, Lozen^ or Net-work Pluntatimis of the Antients, artificially, nuiurally, mystically considered, xtnth sundry Observations, &c. Printed witli Urn- burial. Certain Miscellany Tracts: (1) Observations upon several Plants mention''d in Scripture. (2) Of Garlands, and coronary or Garden-pla/nts. (8) Of' the Fishes eateii by our Saviour with his Dis- ciples, after his Resurrection J'rom tfie Dead. (4) Ansiver to certain Enquiries relati7iff to Fishes, Bird,i, Insects. (5) OJ' Hawks and Falcmiry, an- tient and modern. (6) Of Cymbals, ^-c. (7) Of Ropalie or gradual Verses, i^c. (8) Of Langu4igeH, and particularly of the Saxon Tongue. (9) Of' arttfic'ial Hills, Mounts or Burrows in many Parts c}f England. (10) What Place is meant by that Name. (11) Of the Answers if the Oracle of Apollo at Delphos to Crcesus King qf'Lydia. (12) A Prophecy concerning the future State of several Nat'ions. (13) Musceum Clausum, or Bibliotheca abscondita, &c. All these were printed at Lond. 1684 in oct. [Bodl. 8vo. A. 129. Art.] with the author's picture before them ° (shewing hmi to have been an handsome man) and an epistle written by Dr. Tho. Tennison the ptiblisher ot them, who saitn that there is on f(X)t a design of writing the author's life, and that there are already some memorials col- lected for that purpose by one of his anticnt friends, and puts the reader in expectation of receiving hereafter some other remaining brief discourses; among which is his Repertorium : or, some Account of the Tombes, Monuments, «^c. in the Cath. Ch. of Norwich. This learned and worthy physician (whose works were published in fol. l6iB6, with liis picture also before them) died in his house in Nor- wich, on the 19th day of Octob. in sixteen hundred eighty and two, and was buried within the railes at the east end of the chancel, in the church of S. Peter in Mancroft within the said city. Over his grave was a monument soon after erected by his re- Rct dame Dorothy, who had been liis affectionate wife 41 years, with this inscription thereon. M. S. Hie situs est Thomas Browne M. D. & Miles, An. 1605 Londini natus, generosa familia apud Upton in agro Cestrensi oriundus, Schola primum Wmto- niensi, postea in Coll. Pembr. apud O.xonienses, bonis hteris baud levlter imbutus ; in urbe hiic Nor- doviccnsl Medicinam, arte egregia & ficlici successu professus. Scriptis, quibus tituli, Religio Medici & Pseudodoxia Epidemica, aliisque per orbem notissi- mus. Vir prudentissimus, integerrimus, doctissimus. Obiit Octob. 19, an. 1682. I'ie posuit ma;stisslma conjux D. Dor. Br. There is also an English epitaph, which, for brevity's sake, I shall now pass « [A very good engraving by P. Vaniirebanc] [715] |68S. 59 imowNE. TANNER. 60 [Chrittian Morals, by Sir Tlioman Browne of Noncich M. 1). and Author of Religio Medici. PubH«fied/'rom t/ic Original and mrrect Manuscript qft/u; Auilun- ; bi/ John Jcjjrnf D. D. Arch-Deacon of Xoncich. C'aiiibritlgc, 1716, 8vo. Detliaitecl to l)avid, earl of Buchan, 8sc. l»y Eliz. Littleton.' Wan'i.ev. Post humous yyorks of the learned Sir Thomas Broune Kt. M. D. late of Norwich: Printed Jrom his original Manuscripts, viz. 1. Repertorium : or tiu Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Norwich. 2. An Account of some Urnes, 6^c.Jbund at Bramp" ton in NorfbOi, Anno 1667. 8. Letters betioeen Sir IVilliam Dugdale and Sir Tho. Browne. 4. Mis- cellanies. To which is prefix'd his Life. There is also added Antiquitatcs Capellce D. Johannis Evangelisto' ; hodie Scholac Reg'iw Norvicensis. Aut/iore Johanne Burton A. M. ejusdem Ludi~Ma- gittro. Illustrated with Proipects, Portraitures, DrauglUs of Tombs, Monuments, &c. Lond. 1712. with a good head of sir T. Browne by M. Vander Gucht. Tliis book was pubhshed by John Hare esq. Richmond Herald. So Dr. Rawlinson in his copy, Bodl. 8vo. K. 115. Line] THOMAS TANNER, son of a wealtliy citizen of London, was born in the parish of S. Mattliew in Friday-street within that city, an. 1630, educated in Paul's school, and thence sent to Pembroke hall in Cambridge, where he took the degi-ee of bach, of arts. Afterwards going to Oxon when the visitors appointed by pari, sate there, he was incorporated in the said degree in Feb. 1650, and about that time was made one of the fellows of New coll. by the said visitors. In less than two years after he Sroceeded in arts, having some time before had the egree of M. of A. conferred on him at Edinburgh in his rambles into Scotland, wiiere the doctors being Uikcn with the forwardness, prettiness and oonceitedness of the youth, did confer on him that » [The preface. If any one, after he has read Religio Me- dici and the ensuing discourses, ran make doubt whether the same person was author of them both, he may be assured by the testimony of Mrs. Littleton, sir 'ITiomas Browne's daughter, who hved with her father when it was composed by him ; and who, at the time, read it written by his own hand: and also by the testimony of others (of whom I was one) who read the MS. of the author, immediately after his death, and who have since read the same; from which it hath been faithfully and exactly transcribed for the press. The reason why it was not printed sooner is, because it was unhappily lost, by being mislay'd among other MSS. for whicn search was lately made in the presence of the lord arch-bishop of Canterbury, of which his grace, by letter, in- formed Mrs. Littleton, when he sent the MS. to her. There is nothing printed iu the discourse, or in the short notes, but what is found in the original MS. of the author, except only where an oversight had made the addition or transposition of lioinc words ncccss-iry. John Jeffery, arch-deacon of Norwich. WxNtBY. There was a second edition of this tract published in 1766, for which Dr. Samuel Johnson wrote a life of Browne.] degree. In the beginning of May 1C60 he was admitted the sen. pixxitor of the university, btit lieing soon after ejected his fellowship of" New coll. by tile king's commissioners, to make room for that person, whose bread he had eaten for 10 years, he removed to Hart hall, where he continued till his Eroctorship was terniinatetl : by which office he and is brother proctor were great gainers by the many creations in several degrees that year made. After- wards he retired to Greys inn, of which he was. alxjut that time a barrister, and having consumed a considerable part of the estate left him by his rela- tions, travelled beyond the seas, was at Rome, and in Flanders he served in the wars as a volunteer for one summer. After his return, having by that time but httlc left, he took holy orders, threw himself upon the church (a usual thing ■with bankrupts) became minister t)f Colleton in Devon, and of anor ther cliurch in Somersetshire : Both which he kept for some years, but having an unsetled head, he got himself to be made chaplain to Dr. Morley bishop of Winchester, who giving to him ' the rectory of Brixton or Brightstone in the isle of Wight, he setled there for a time : But the air agreeing not with his constitution, Mr. James Rudyerd presented him to Winchfield in Hampshire: so that being thereby incapacitated to hold Brixton with it, he changed Brixton for North Waltham" near to Ba.singstoke in the .same county, both which he kept together for alx)ut three years and then finished his course, oecasion'd sooner, than otherwise it might have been, by ttximuch drudging at his study to carry on the duties required of him. He hatli written and published. The Entrance of Manzarini.' Or, some Memo- rials of the State of France between the Death of the Cardinal of Richlieu, and the Beginning oftlie late Regency. Oxon. 1657. oct. [Botll. 8vo. T. 10. Art. BS.] But his contemporaries then in tlie university, knowing him to be too forward and con- ceited, did generally report that he was not the author of the said book, but another man's plagiary. Whereupon he came out with another part entit. The Entrance of Mazzarini, continued through [716] the first Years Regency of Anna Maria of Austria, Qu. Dmcager ()f France, and Mother of the present Monarch Louis XJV. &c. Oxon. 1658. (X!t. [Bodl. 8vo. T. 11. Art. BS.] And in the epistle before it to the reader, he saith that he was only a divulger of things that were before public in other languages, intimatmg that this, as the former book, were rather translations from, or collections out of, other authors, than barely his own conipositions. ■ [About 1676. Tanner.] ' [Nov. 3, 1C79, being chaplain to the earl of Thanet, and rector of North Waltham, obtained a dispensation to take the rectory of Winchfield. SancROFt.] ' rrhij is wrote in a very conceited and affected stile, and is dedicated to Philip viscount Lisle, one of the lords of the council : penes me. Cole] 6'1 GOUGH. WICKENS. LAURENCE. t)2 i 1682. k 1683. I Euphuia, or the Jets and CfMracters ()f G(xjd Nature. Lcmd. 1665. oct. Afler the writing of this book the author entred into holy orders and afterwards published, Several sermons, as (1) ^ Call to the Shtdamitc, or to tJw scatter d and divided Members of the Church; on Cantic. 6. 13. Loud. 1673. qu. [B(m11. 4to. I. 37. Th.] (2) Wisdom and Prudence exhi- bited, preaclied befiyre L. Ch. Justice Rains ford and L. Ch. Just. North, in their late Western Circuit ; on Prov. 8. 12. Lond. 1677. qu. [Bodl. 4to. J. 39. Th.] &c. Primordia : or, the Use and Growth of thejir.^t Church of G(kI described. Lond. 1683. oct. To wliich are added Two Letters of James Ruduerd Esq; written to our author Tanner: One aliout The Multiplying of Mankind till the Fkmd, the other concerning The Multiplying of the Children of Egypt. He died in the month of Octob. in six- teen Hundred eighty and two, and was buried in the church at AVincnfield bcfore-niention\l, leaving then behind him in the hands of Ehzabeth his widow, the second -part of Prinwrdia in manuscript. WILLIAM GOUGH commonly called Goffe, son of Will. G. minister of Earl-Stoke in Wilts, was born there, became a sojourner of Exeter coll. under the tuition of Dr. Narcissus Marsh, in Mich, term 1671, aged 17 years ; but when his tutor was made Erincipal of S. Alban hall, he was translated to that ouse, and took one degree in arts as a member thereof, an. 1675. Afterwards leaving the univer- sity, he repaired to London, where he sided with the whiggish party upon the breaking out of the Popish plot, an. 1678, industriously carried on the cause then driven on, and wrote, Londimim TriumpJwns : or, an historical Ac- count of the grand Injlncnce the Actions of the City of London have had on the Affairs of the Nation, for many Ages past : shewing the Antiquity, Ho- nour, Glory and Renown of this famous City, tlve Groimdt of Iter Rights, Privileges and Francliises, the Foundation of her Charter, &c. Lond. 1682. in a large octavo. He died of the small pox about the beginning of Nov. in sixteen hundred eighty and two, and was buried in the parish church of S. Dunstan in Fleet-street, commonly called S. Dun- stan''s in the West, in London. ROBERT WICKENS son of Joh. Wickens, of'* Shitlanger in Northamptonshire, was born in that county, entred a servitor of Ch. Ch. in Lent term, an. 1632, aged 17 years, took the degrees in arts, (that of master being comjileated in 1639) holy orders, and about that time taught school near Camptlen in Glocestershire, and afterwards at Wor- cester. At length, he being made rector of Toden- ham in Gloc. (where for some time also he had taught •♦ Lib. Matric. Uttio. Oxon. PP. fol. 26. a. grammar) on the death, as I presume, of Dr. Tho. lies, wrote and puiilished, Lutinum Sf Lyceum, Grccca cum Latinis, sive Grammatica; Artis in utr&que Lingua lucidiisima nd. 1685. in 9 slieets in fol. He also left behind him written with his own hand, Chancery Reports MS. in fol. in the hands of his son Daniel earl of Nottingham. At length his body being worn out with too much business, which his high station and office required, he yielded to nature in his house in Queen-street near Covent- Garden, on the 18th of Decemb. in the afternoon, 1688. in sixteen hundred eighty and two ; whereupon his body was buried on the 28th of the same month in the church of Raunston before mentioned, near Oulney in Bucks. On the 20th of the said month his majesty was pleased to commit the custody of the great seal to the right honourable sir Francis North, lord chief justice of the Common-pleas, with the title of lord keeper of the great seal of England, and on the 22d he was sworn at the council-board, and took his place as lord-keeper. This noble earl of Nottingham left behind him several sons, the eldest of which named Daniel, who had been some- time gent. com. of Ch. Ch. succeeded his father in his honours, having been before a parliament-man, one of the lords commissioners of the admiralty and Erivy counsellor. The second is named Heneage, red also in the said house, and afterwards in the Inner Temple, who became solicitor-general in the place of sir Franc. Winnington, but removed thence about the 21st of Apr. 1686, and sir Tho. Powis Eut in his place, about five days after.' He hath een several times elected burgess by the imiversity of Oxon, to serve in parliaments for the members thereof. [The earl of Nottingham was justly esteemed the great oracle of the law in his time, and so perfect a master in the art of speaking, that he passed for the £nglish Cicero; yet his great understanding, his eloquent tongue, and his titles of honour, did not give his name so lasting a lustre, as that piety and virtue, wherewith he adorned his high station which is but too often starved in so rich a soil, and thriveth best in a private life. Among the many very com- mendable qualities of this great man, his zeal for the welfare of the church of England, was not the least conspicuous ; which particularly shewed it self, in the care he took in disposing of those ecclesi- astical preferments which were in the gift of tlie seal. He judged rightly, in looking upon that privilege as a trust for the good of the church of God, of whicli he was to give a strict account, and therefore being sensible that the several duties ' [Powis was aUorney general at the trial of the seven bishops in l688. See a letter from him to archbishop San- croft excusing! liis ' acting in that most unhappy prosecution, which (says he) was the most uneasie thing to me, that ever ill my Ufe time I was concerned in.' Gutch's Collectanea Curiosa, ii. 067] of his great ]Wht, as first minister of state, as lord chancelK)!-, and as .sjK-aker of tlie house pf lords, would not allow his lordship time and leisure to make that encjuiry which was necessary, to know the characters of such as were candidates for prefer- ment, he devolved this particular province upon his chaplain, whose conscience he charged with an impartial scrutiny in this matter; adding withal^ that he would prefer none but those who came recommended from him, and tliat if he led him wrong, the blame should fail upon his own soul.* We may add to his writings, An Aj-ffument on the Claim of the Crown to Pardon on Impeachment, folio. Two of his speeches and an official letter will be found in the Harleian MSS. neitlier of tjie three of any importance. There is a very good portrait of this nobleman, after sir Peter Lely, engraved by Fry, in Lodge's Illustrious Personages, 1817.] ANTHONY ASHLEY COOPER baronet, son of sir John Cooper of Rockboume in Hamp- shire, knight and hart, by Anne his wife daughter and sole heir of sir Anth. Ashley of Wimbourne S. Giles in Dorsetshire, was born at Wimbourne ou the 22d of July 1621, (19 Jac. 1.) became a fellow commoner of Exeter coll. in Lent term 1636, under the tuition of Dr. Prideaux the rector there8 May 1672, off of South- would-bay (the duke of Yorl< bein" then admiral) yet this war was not comrautiieated to the ])arlia- ment till they did resit 4 Feb. 1672: In the oj-)en- ing of which session, I say that ShaftslHu-v did, in a speech the next day, promote and much forward tlie said war, and enforced it moreover with a rhe- torical flourish Delenda eat Carthago, that a Dutch commonwealth was tcxi near a neighbour to an English monarch, &c. By which advice the triple- league, which had been made between us, the Dutch and the Sweed, in the latter end of the year 1667 (at which time William Albert count of Dona embas- sador from Sweedland was here in England) was broken, and thereujion an alliance was made with France : In which act we are to thank Henry Coventry secretary of state, for his pains, if his own affirmation may be credited, when he went into Sweedland, 1671. In the same session of parliament, Shaftsbury had a principal hand in jiromoting and establishing the Test, to render papists uncapable of jiublic employments : And this lie did (as 'tis thought) because he perceiving the court to be sick of him, provided himself, by having a hand therein, with a retreat to the favour and applause of the populacy. " Sir Will. Temple in his Memoirs of, " &c. Lond. 1692. oct. p. 71, saith that this ' earl " of Shaftsbury applied in his sjieech Delenda est " Carthaffo to our interest in the destruction of " Holland; yet when he saw the parUament and " nation sullen upon it, and that the king could not " pursue it with so much ill humour in both, he " turn'd short upon the court and the rest of the " cabal, fell in with the popular humour in the city " as well as parliament, descried the present designs " and conduct, tho' with the loss of his chancellor's " place, and was believ'd to manage a practice in " Holland for some insurrection here.' " On the 9th of Nov. 1673 (he being then president of his majesty's council for trade and plantations) the great seal was taken from him by the endeavours of James duke of York, who found him untractable, and not fit, according to moderation, for that high place (or as another tells ' us for his zeal and activity in pro- moting the bill for the aforesaid test) and thereupon he grew much discontented, and endeavoured several times to make a disturbance. On the 16th of Feb. 1676, he, with George duke of Buckingham,' James 9 The aiitlior of Tlie third Pari nf no Protestant Plot, p. 56. ' l_AIS. note of Dr. Brian Fairfax. George Villiers duke of Buclc. son of the noble favourite, by Catharine daughter and heir of Francis Manners earl of [724] 75 COOPER. 76 earl of Salisbury and Philip lord Wliarton were "sentenced by the house of lords to be committed prisoners to the Tower, under the notion of contempt, for that they refuse\ hat he had maintained in the Ixxly of his book, occa.sioned (be- sides what Rog. 1.,'Estrange said against it in some oi his Observators, which came out soon after its publication) Edward Pelling rect. of S. Mart, church witliin Ludgate.^ Lond. (tlie supposed author of Protestant Apostate, &c. Lond. 1682. qu.) to point out from p. 21 to 35, the true original (viz. Persons's book Of Succession put out under the name of N. Doleman) from whence he transcribed many of his most pernicious and destructive principles, as well in the Great and weighty Considerations, SfC. con- sidered, as in the Postscript. Soon after one Wa. Williams of the Middle Temple barrister, did put out an answer to the said Postscript entit. Jn An- swer to sundry Matters contained in Mr. Hunfs Postscript, to his Arg-umentjbr the Bishops Rigid in Judging- capital Causes in Parliament, viz. 1. As to his publishing a scandaloius Letter to the Clergy, &c. Lond. 1683. in 4 sh. in qu. Dr. G. Hicks also in the preface to Jovian, or an Anstcer to Julian the Apostate, as also in the first edit, of the book it self, p. 237, and elsewhere in the same work, doth plainly insinuate that this factious and rebel- lious author contributed no inconsiderable assistance towards the composing of Julian the Apostate, being a sJwrt Accmmt of his Life, &c. written by Sam. Johnson.' And Mr. Tho. Long of Exeter, in the epist to the reader before his Vindication ^ of the Primitive Christians, &c. points at several foul passages in the said Julian, clearly to be seen in Mr. Hunt's Postscript ; and in the very entrance of the Appendix to the Vindication, and in other places, doth positively affirm, that both Hunt and Johnson have borrowed great part of their respective • Joh. Dryden in The Vindication or Parallel of the French holy League and Cov. &c. against Mr. Tho. Hunt's Drfeiice itf the Charter, and the authors of the Reflections. — Lond. l683. qoart. pag. 39. ' [E. P. coll. Trin. Cant. A. M. l665. Baker.] ' [1669, I Mar. Sam. Johnson cler. A.B. achuiss. ad eccl. de Coringhaai, com. Essex, per mortem Joh. Cacott, ad pros. Rob. Biddulph. I{eg. Lond. Tho. Borrow A. M. ad eand. 4 Febr. 168G, per deprivat. Sam. Johnson. Mr. Johnson was deprive*! of this church and degraded from his orders by the bishops who were commissioners during the suspeiuion of the present bishop of London, in order to his being whipt &c. but after the revolution he relurn'd to his orders and living without any remission or ceremony, Mr. Borrow recedingout of fear, Kennet. See also Newcourt, Repertorium, ii, 1 94.] ♦ Printed at Lend. I()83. libels from Joh. Milton's villainous defence of tlie murther of king Charles I. Mr. Himt hath also written, (3) " Mr. Emerton^s Marriage with Mrs. " Bridget Hyde considered: wherein is discoursed " the Bights and Nature of Marriage, &c. Lond. « 1682. qu. 6 sh. [Bodl. C. 10. 5. Line] Writ (as " they say) by Mr. Tho. Hunt the lawyer. So Dr. " Barlow. (4)" A Defence of the Charter and mu- nicipal Rights of London. Lond. 1683. qu. [Bodl. C. 14. 10. Line] For the publishing of which he was ordered to be taken into custody : whereupon he fled into Holland in June, or thereabouts, an. 1683, aged about 56 years. See more in the second vol. of this work, col. 73. The said Defence was answer'd by Anon, by way of letter to a friend in a treatise entit. The Laxoyer outlawed: or, a brief Anszcer to Mr. Hunfs Defence of the Charter, &c. Lond. 1683. in 5 sh. in qu. It is also taken for granted by one ' who may reasonably be supposed to have fully known the truth of what he asserts in this matter, that tho' Tho. Shadwell the poet (bred in Cambridge) l>e author of the rough draught of the following libel, yet the finishing of it was done by Tho. Hunt: which piece is thus entit. Some Re/lections on the pretended Parallel in the Play called, Tlie Duke of Guise ; in a Letter to a Friend, Lond. 1683. in 4 sh. in qu. RICHARD OWEN, son of Cadwallader Owen, sometime fellow of Oriel coll. afterwards minister of Llanvechen in Montgomeryshire, was born in that county, entred into the said coll. an. 1620, aged 15 years, or thereabouts, and made fellow thereof in 1627, he being then bach, of arts. Afterwards he proceeded in that faculty, took holy orders, and in 1635 he was presented by the university of Oxon to the vicaridge of Eltham in Kent, by virtue of an act of parliament began at Westm. 5 Nov. 3 Jac. disinabling recusants to present to livings. In 1638 he resigned his fellowslnp, and the same year took the degree of bach, of divinity, being about that time also rector of S. Swithin's, London-stone.** In [730] the beginning of the civil wars he adhered to his majesty, and was thereupon thrown out of his livings, that of S. Swithins being lost in 1643, or there- abouts, and suffered much, for about 17 years time, for the royal cause. After the return of king Charles II. he was restored to what he had lost, became minister of S. Mary Cray in Kent,' was actually ^ Joh. Drj'dcn before quoted in his Vind. of the Parallel, p. 40. " [Ric. Owen S. T. B. adniiss. ad eccl. S. Swithini Lond, 2 Sept. l03g, per mort. Ric. Cook; ad pres. Tho. Arlhing- lon pro hac vice. Reg. Laud. Will Basset A. M. ad eandcm 18 Jul. 1 683, vac. per mort. Ric. Owen. Heg. Henchman. Kennet.] ■ [He was not minister of Si. Mary Cray, but of North Cray, of which he became minister in iCiO'. He was created D. D. in August 1()()0, and in the same month and year was_ collated to the piebciid of Rcculvcrslaiid in the church of St, Pauls. Kennet.] 85 TOWGOOD. SMALWOOD. m created doct. of div. of this university, and in high esteem for his holy life and conversation, for his orthodoxness in judgment, conformity to the true, ancient doctrine and discipline of the church of Eng- land, and in the former revolutions for his loyalty to his sacred majesty. He hath written and pub- lished, Serm(yn at S. Marj/s in Oxon, on S. Luke's Day 1637 ; mi 2 Cor. 8. 18. 1 have seen this in ma- nuscript, which for its rarity went from hand to hand, but whether ever made public I know not. Paulus Miiltifbrmis. Concio ad Clerum Londi- nensem, in 1 Cor. Cap. 9, Vcr. 22. Lond. 1666. qu. He hath also tran.slated into English all, or most of, the satyrs of Juvenal, which I have not yet seen, and hath written something of controversy. l68j. He dyed about the latter end of January in sixteen hundred eighty and two, and was buried in the chancel of the church at Eltham before-mention'd, having had some dignity in the church in those parts. [Rich. Owen was the son of Cadwalader Owen A. M. vicar of Llanbrynmair, and rector of Llan- fechar, com. Montgomery, by his wife Blanch, the daughter and coheir of John Roberts esq. younger brotlier to Lewis Anwyl of Park in com. Meriomth esq. This Cadwalader Owen, who, as I think, was of Oriel coll. was in his time reputed a great dis- putant, and generally called by the name of Sic doceo. He was instituted to the sine cura of Llan- brynmair Febr. 10, 1610, being vicar before of the same place. He was also rector of Llanfechan, and (as Lewis Dwn in his herald's visitation sayth) was a justice of the peace in com. Montgomery. He dyed in 1617. I have heard he was a writer, but what he writ, I know not. For his son Richard Owen, he was fellow of Oriel coll. and rector of London Stone and Eltham. He is sayd to have put Dr. Bates's Elenchus Motuum Nuperorum into Latin, and published a Latin sermon called Paulus Multiformis, on 1. Cor. 9. 22. and perhaps others. He had some lands of inheritance from his ancestors in the parish of Tracefynydd, com. Merionith, which he sold to sir Thomas Middleton of Chirk. Humphreys.] RICHARD TOWGOOD or Toogood, was bom near Brewton in Somersetshire ; became a ser- vitor or poor scholar of Oriel coll. an. 1610, took the degrees in arts, holy orders, and preached for some time in these parts. Afterwards he retired to the city of Bristol, was made ma.ster of the school in the College Green there, and thence he was removed to the pastorship of All-saints ciiurch. Afterwards he took the degree of bach, of div. and was made one of the chaplains to king Charles I. to whose cause adhering m the time of the rebellion, he suf- fered much for it, being then vicar of S. Nicholas church in Bristol : but at the return of his son he was restored, was made, as I conceive, prebendary of Bristol ; and u|X)n the promotion of Dr. Glenham to the see of S. Asaph, had tJie deanery thereof given to him by his majesty, in requital of his suf- ferings, which lie kept to his dying day. He hath published. Several sermons, as (1) Disloyalty of ' Language questioned and censured, preached affainst the Li- centiousness of seditious Tongues, on Job 84. 18. former Part of the \Sth Verse, Printed at Bristol 1643. Oct. To which is added, A brief Corollary, questioning and censuring rebellious Actions. The running title of which in the Corollary it self is this. Who can touch the Lord's anointed and be guilt- less? (2) A singular Master-piece of furious Sedition, preached Jan. 15. an. 1642. on Psal. 94. 20. — Printed with Disloyalty of Language ques- tioned, &c. (3) The Almighty his gracious Token of Love to his Friend Abraham, preached in the Cath. Ch. of Bristol 3 Jan. 1674; on Acts 7. 8. former Part. Lond. 1676. qu. [Bodl. C. 7. 16. Line] &c. He died in sixteen hundred eighty and three, and was buried in the north isle of the choir at Bristol, ovcr-against the tomb of sir Charles Vaughan. Soon after was a flat stone laid over his grave with this inscription thereon, Richardus Tow- good S. T. B. obiit Aprilis 21. An. Dom. 1683. ffitatis suaj octogesimo nono. Spes mea reposita est in coelis. In his deanery succeeded Sam. Grossman bach, of div. of Cambridge, and preb. of Bristol, son of Sam. Crossm. of Bradfield Monachorum in Suf- folk, who had it c(mferr'd ujxin him by his maj. in the beginning of May following. He hath written and published several things, as The Voting Man^s Monitor, &c. Lond. 1664. oct. and several sermons^ among which are Two Sermons preached in the Cath. Ch. of Bristol, 30 Jan. 1679, and 30 Jan. 1680, being the Days of public Humiliation for the execrable Murder of King Charles I. Printed at Lond. 1681. qu. Also A Sermon preached 23 Apr. 1680, in the Cath. Church of Bristol before the Gentlemen of the Aj-tillery Company newly raided in that City.^ Pr. at Lond. 1680. qu. And An humble Plea for tlie quiet Rest of God's Ark, pi-eached befbre Sir Joh. Moore Lord Mayor of Lond. at S. Mildreds Ch. in the Poultry, 5 Feb. 1681. Lond. 1682. qu. &c. He died 4 Febr. 1683, aged 59 years, and was buried in the soutli isle of the cath. ch. in Bristol. After him followed in the said deanery Rich. Thompson, as I shall tell you elsewhere. MATTHEW SMALWOOD, son of Jam. Smal. of Middlewick in Cheshire, was bom in that county, became a student in this univ. 1628, aged 16 years, scholar of Brasen-n. coll. two years after, took the degrees in arts, and left the university for a time. In 1642, Nov. 1, he was actually created master of arts, being then in holy orders, and a 1 683. [731] « [On 2 Kings xi. 1 1 . Wanlet.] G2 87 DUREL. 88 1683. suH'erer in those times, if I mistake not, for the royal cause. After his niajesty's restoration in 1660, lie was actually creatc-. '' In his preface to the divines of all the reformed churches, before his i>'. l\ccl. Angl. Find. ^ [^.Srrm. at Mary Aidermanhury 5 Nov. l65 1 , heing the firsl lie prcach'd tifler Itis Releasement. 4to. Lond. 1652. VVANLBr. The still Destroyer, or self seeking discovered : together with the Curse it brings and the Cure it requires, a Herman 91 DUREL. 92 before the long parliament, and a fun. sermon also on 2 Pet. 1. 15. was preached 12 Sept. 1675, by the occasion of tiie much lamented death of the learned Dr. Laz. Seaman. But several piussages therein giving offence, came out soon after an answer to some part of it, entit A Vitulication of the Confoim- irtff Cler£^ from the unjust Aspersions of Heresy, [784] . Sepulchri London, per mortem Tho. Beri>ford, S. T. P. lie<:,- Lond. Will. Bell admiss. ad vie. S. Sepulchri Lond. 14. Oct. 1662. per privationem Tho. Gouge. Kknnet.] « [Will. Bell S.T.B. coll. ad preb. de Reculversland 23 Mar. I()()5. Obiit 19 die Jul. l683. Kennet.] 9 [Will. Bell S. t. P. coll. ad archidiat. S. Albani 88 Apr. 1071, per raort. Christ. Shute. Ed. Carter A. M. ad eand. archid. 9 Aug. 1683, per moit. Bell. Kennet.] 1683. [736] 95 BELL. BARNARD. 9(J Alban^s conferred upon Imn by the said bislioj), was the same year sworn chapl. in ord. to liis majesty, and in 16(58 he pnweeded doc-tor of his fiu-iihy, and was lor his enunence in preaching made soon after one of the lecturers of the Temple, &c. He hadi published, Several sennons, as (1.) City Security stated, preacJtrd at S. PauFs before the I^ord Mayor ; on Psal. 127. latter Part ofthefirst Ver. Lontl. 1660. qu. (2.) Joshuds Resolution to serve GmI with his Family: recommended to tlte Practice of the Inha- bitants ofS. Sepulchre's Parish Jrom 24 of Josh. 15. latter Part. Lond. 1672. qu. sec. edit. (3.) Serm. preached at the Funeral of Mr. Aitth. Hin- toH late Treasurer ofS. Bariholomexcs Hospital, 15 Sept. 1678, at S.'Sepukhres. Lond. 1679. qu. He the said Dr. Bell died July 19, and was buried in the chancel of S. Sepulchre's church before-men- tioned, on the 26th day of July in sixteen hundred i683. eiglity and three, leaving then behind him a precious n.ime among his parishioners for his charity, preach- ing, and other matters, of which they could not speak enough ; and was st)on al'ter succeeded in the said vicariuge by Edw. Waple bach, of div. of S. John's coll. in Oxon. On the marble stone which covers the sjiid Dr. Bell's gi-ave I find this written, M. S. Heic jacet Gulielnuis Bell SS. Theologiffi Professor, Ecclesiae hujus Pastor vigilantissimus; vir optimu.s, ingens Ecclesia; Anglicana? ornamen- tum, si primajvam spcctes pietatem, faelicisslmum ingenii acumen, morum suavitatem & integritatem ; partibus regiis inconcussam fideUtatem, vel chari- tatem (denuo) vix imitabilem. Nee plus dicere decoriun, nee fas minus. I tu. & fac similiter. Pientissimam exhalavit animam Julii 19. an. Chr. 1683. ajtatis 58. As for Th. Gouge before-men- tioned who was D. D. he was buried in the church of S. Ann Black-fryers 4 Nov. 1681, at which tune Dr. Joh. Tillotson dean of Canterbury preached his funeral sermon ; which, with an account of his life therein, being extant, you may, if you please, satisfy your self more of the |X'rson, who, as 'tis said, did translate several things into Welsh, as the Bible, Wliole Duty of Man, A Catechism, &c. Besides the said Will. Bell, I find another of both his names, master of arts, and late preacher of the word at Hyton in Lancashire, author of The Excellency, Necessity, and Usefulness of Patienee. As also of, Tlie Patience of Job, and the End of the Lord : or, the glorious Success of gracious Suffering opened and apj)lyed. Both which were printed at Lond. 1674 m Oct. with a preface to them written bv Mr. Rich. Baxter. [Bodl. 8vo. Z. 42. Th.] VVhich Will. Bell, who was a nonconformist and living at Sinderland in the parish of Asliton-Underline in Lanca-shire in June 1668, I take to be the same with him who was author of (1.) Well doing, well done to, Serm. on Jer. 22. 15. Printed 1650. qu. (2.) Enoch" s Walk; mi Gen. 5. 24. PrinU-d 1658. oct. (3.) Incomparable Company Keep- ing, or a Conversation on Earth in Heaven, Pr. in oct. Whether this Will. Bell Ix; the same W. Bell (sldnem and imposture,' &c. Much more of such black lan- Ijuage the said author here quoted hatli in his ♦ pre- face to bishop Bramhall's treatise, which lie pulv- lished, but shall be now omitted. Here you .see the characters given by persons of several persuasions according as their affections led them ; but what I my self knew of him, which may, I hope, be racn- tion'd without offence, envy or flattery, is (let ra.sh and giddy heads say what they please) that he was a person well skill'd in the tongues, rabinical learn- ing, Jewish rites and customs ; that he had a great command of his English pen, and was ii7. Reg. Baker] Tlie Nature of Apostacyfrom tlie Profession of the Gospel, and the Punishment of Apostates, in an Expo.ntion on Hebrews, Chap. 6. Ver. 4, 5, 6, &c. Lond. 1676. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. C. 113. Line] The Reason of Faith ; or an Atiswer unto the Enquiry, whether we believe the Scripture to be the Word of God; with the Causes and Nature of that Faith wherewith we do so. Lond. 1677. oct. TTie Doctrine of Justif cation by Faith through the Imputation of the Righteousne-is of Christ, ex- plained, confirmed and vindicated. Lond. 1677. qu. [Bodl. 4to. W. 14. Th.] Briefly an.swered by the aforesaid Tho. Hotchkis in a Post.icript at the end of the second part of his Di.Kourse concerning im- puted Righteousness. Lond. 1678. oct. The Causes, Ways and Means of Understanding tlie Mind of God as revealed in his Word with As- surance therein. And a Declaration of the Per- spicuity of the Scriptures, with the external Means of the Interpretation of tliem. Lond. 1678. oct. [Tiodl. 8vo. Z. 144. Th!] The Church of Rome no safe Guide : or Reasons to prove tJiat no rational Man, who takes due Care of his eternal Salvation, can give himself up to the Conduct of that Church in Matters of Religion. [746] Lond. 1679. qu. [Bodl. 4to. J. 38. Th.] Xf (roXoyi'a : or, a Declaration of the glorious Mystery of the Person of Christ, God arul Man : with the infinite Wisdom, Love and Power of God in tlie Contrivance and Constitution tliereqf. At also of the Grounds and Reasons of his Incarnation, &c. Lond. 1680. qu. A Continuation of the Exposition of the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrexvs, viz. on tlie 6, 7, 8, 9, and lOth CJuipters. JVherein, together with the Explication of the Text and Ccmtext, the Priestlux)d of Christ as typed by tlu)se ofMelchise- deck and Aaron with an Acccmnt of their distinct Offices, (^c. are declared, explained and confrmed. Lond. 1680. fol. [Bodl. B. 9- 3. Th.] This is the third vol. of Exposition on Hebrews. A brief Vindication of the Nonconformists from the Charge of Schism, as it was managed against them in a Sermon preached before the L. Mayor ; by Dr. StiUingJleet Dean qfS. PauPs. Lond. 1680. qu. A character, first of this answer, 2. of Mr. Baxter's, which is in qu. 3. Of the Letter written* out of the Country to a Person of Quality in the City. 4. Of B. Alsop's book calFd Mischiefs of Imposition. 5. Of The Rector of Sutton committed zvith the Dean afPauTs, or, a Defence of Dr. Stil- ling fleefs Irenicwn, Sfc. against his late Sermon entit. Tlie Mischief of Separation, against the Autlior of The Christian Temper (said to be written by John Barret M. of A.) in a ^ Letter to a Friend ; I say the respective characters of these five answers ■• Printed at Lond. 168O. qu. 5 Lond. 1680. qu. « lb. ltJ80. qu. Ill OWEN. 112 [747] to Dr. Stillingfleet's sermon before-mention'd, toge- ther with that of The peaceable Desiffti renewed, &c. wrote by John Humphrey (with which Dr. Stillingflect begins first) are to he found in the pre- face to the siiid cUxjtor's Unrea.scmableness'' of Se- paration, &c. Which characters as are thus given, are reflected on by a short piece entit. Reflections on Dr. StiHingJieet''s Book of the Unreasonableiuss of Separation. Lond. 1681. qu. Written by a con- formist minister in the country, in order to jjeace. The Nature and Efficacy of the Sacrifice of Christ, as typed by all the Sacrifices of the Law, the Erection of the Tabernacle according' to the heavenly Pattern ; with the Institution of all its Utensils and Services ; their especial Siffnificaticm and End, &c. Lond. 1681. An Enquiry into the original Instituticm, Power, Order, and Communion of Evangelical Churches, the first Part. Lond. 1681. qu. [Bodl. A. 1. 14. Line] Answer to a Discourse of the Unreasonableness of Separation, written by Dr. StilUngfieet Printed with the Enquinj. Discourse of the Work of the lioly Spirit in Prayer, K'ith a brief Enquiry into the Nature and Use of mental Prayer and Forms. Lond. 1681. oct. An humble Testimony unto the Goodness and Severity of God in his Dealing with sinful Churches and Nations : or, the only Way to deliver a shrful Nation from titter Ruin by impendent Judgments : in a Discourse on Luke 13. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Lond. 1681. oct. Printed with the Discourse of the Work, &c. The Grace and Duty of being spiritually mind- ed ; declared and practically improved. Lond. 1681. 82. qu. This is the sum of certain sermons. A brief Instruction in the Worship of God, and Discipline irf the Churches of tlie Nezo Testament, by Way of Question and Answer, with an Expli- cation and Confirmation of those Answers. Lond. 1682. oct. &c. Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ, in his Person, Office and Grace, with the Difference between Faith and Sight, applied to the Use of them that believe. Lond. 1683. 84. &c. oct. Opus jx)sth. " A Continuation of the Exposition oftfie Epistle " of Paul the Apo.itle to the Hebrexes, viz. on the " 11, 12 and 13 Clmpters, compleating that ela- " borate Work, ^-c. with an Index oftlie Scriptures " expUiiri'd in this Vol. ^c. together with a Table " to the Sd Volume, preceding this, &c.^ Lond. « 1684. fol." [Bmll. B. 9- 4. Th.] Treatise of the Dominion (rf Sin and Grace ; wherein Sin''s Reign is discovered, in whom it is, 1 lb. l681. qu. sec. cdil. ' [.\ii alir'rigment of the whole of (his 'Exponliun on Ihe Hebrews w.is printed in four volumes, 8vo. Lond. I79O, wi;h a life of the author, &c. by Edward Williams.] and in whom it is not ; how the Law supports it, how Grace delivers firom it, by setting up its Do- minion in the Heart. Lond. 1688. oct. Tlie true Nature of a Gospel Church and its Government; wherein tliese J'ollowing Particulars are distinctly handled. 1 . The subject Matter of ihe Church. 2. The formal Cau.w of a particular Church. 3. Of the Policy of the Church in ge- neral, &c. Lond. 1689. qu. [Bodl. C. 7. 3. Line] Afterwards came out certain Animadversions on the said book, written as was thought by Mr. Edm. Ellis of Devonshire. A brief and impartial Account of the Nature of tlie Protestant Religion, its present State in the World, its Strength and Weakness, with the Ways and Indications of the Rrnn or Continuance (f its public national Profession. Lond. 1690. qu. Continuation, or the second Part of that Book Jhrmerly printed, tlie Difference between Faith and Sight, being Meditations and Disccnirses concerning the Glory of Christ applyed unto converted Sin- ners, and Saints under spiritual Decays, in two Chapters from John 17. 24. Lond. 1691. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. F. 29. Line] " Txco Discourses concerning the Holy Spirit " and its Works, &c. Lond. 1693. oct." [Bodl. 8vo. Z. 266. Th.] Our author Dr. Owen, with Dr. Tho. Jacomb, Dr. Will. Bates, Dr. Jo. Collings, Mr. Pet. Vinke, Joh. How, Dav. Clarkson," and Ben. Alsop, did undertake in June 1682 to finish the English Annotations of the Holy Scripture, in 2 vol. in fol. which were began by Matthew Pole or Poole, and carried on by nim to the 58th chapt. of Isaiah, and there is no doubt but that Owen did his share in that work ; • who also hath written pre- 9 [David Clarkson coll. Trin. A. B. lCG4 : A. M. aul. Clar. l648. Baker. See Calaroy's Life of Baxter, page 288 ; and Birch's Life oJ'Titlotson, page 4, .'i97-J ' [Calainy corrects Wood's mistake as to this point in the following words : ' He (Poole) also wrote a volume of En- glish Annotations on the Holi/ Scripture; intending to have gone thro' it if God hiid spar'd his life : but he went no far- ther than the 50th chapter of Isaiah. Others undertook to compleat his work, but the Oxford collectour hath mistaken their names, for he mentions Dr. Bates, Dr. Jacomb, Mr. Clarksou, and Mr. Alsop, as persons concerii'd in it, without any ground in the world. He says, he did notdoubl but Dr. Owen also had his share in the work. But they who are 10 be influenced by his posiiive assertions, and much more by his doubts, are in a fair danger of being bewilder'd. In op- position to his doubtful one, I'll here add a true list of the compleaters of that useful work. The ."igih and tiOth chap- ters of Isaiah were done by Mr. Jackson of Moulsey. The notes on the rest of Isaiah, and on Jetemiah, and Lamenta- tions, were drawn up by Dr. Collins. Ezekiel by Mr. Hurst. Daniel by Mr. Cooper. The Minor Prophets by Mr. Hurst. The Four Evangehsts by Dr. Collins. The Acts by Mr. Vinke. The Epistle to the Romans by Mr. Mayo. The Two Epistles to the Corinthians, and that to the Galatians, by Dr. Collins. That to the Ephesians by Mr. Veal. The epistles to the Philipiuns and Cotossians, by Mr. Adams. The two epistles to the Thessalonians, by Mr. Barker. The epistles to Timothy, Titus, and Philemon, by Dr. Collins. That to the Hebrews, by Mr. Obachah Hughes. The epistle ll;3 OWEN. GUISE. 114 f '0 7 faces and epistles before divers books, by way of recommendation, among which are liis and Dr. Tho. Goodwin's epist. before Dr. T. Taylor's works. A prefiice also to the Exposition (jf the Song of' Solo- mon, written by Jam. Durham sometime minister of the gospel in Glascow. Printed 16G9. in qu. An epist. commend, (with another by Mr. Baxter) to The Christimis daihj Walk in holy Security and Peace, written by Hen. Scudder. Printed 1674, the eleventh edit. An ep. by way of reeom. to A new and useful Concordance of the Holy Bible, &c. Another before The Ark of the Covenant, and a large preface to The true Idea of Jansenism, as I have already told you in Theoph. Gale, &c. But as for Jo. Bradshaw's Ultimum Vale, being the last Words that are ever intended to be spoke of him ; as they were delivered in a Sermon preuclid at his In- terment, printed in two sh. in qu. and said to be written by Joh. Owen, D. D. time-server general of England, is not his, but fathered upon him by one who desired then to make sport in the great city. At length he the said Dr. Owen having spent most of his time in continual agitation to carry on the cause, to promote his own interest, and gain the applause of people, he did very unwillingly ' lay down his head and die at Eling near Acton in Mid- dlesex on S. Bartholomew's day in sixteen hundred l()83. eiglity and three, having a little before been know- ing of, and consenting to, the presbyterian plot that was discovered some time before his death : where- upon his body was conveyed to a house in S. James's, where resting for some time, was, on the 4th of Sept. following, attended by about 20 mourners and 67 coaches that followed, to the fanatical burying place called by some Tyndale's burying place, joyning on the north side to the New Artillery Garden near London ; where it was buried at tlie east end thereof. Soon after was an aJtar tomb of free-stone erected over his grave, covered with a black marble plank, with a large inscription thereon, part^ of which runs thus, Johannes Owen S. T. P. Agro Oxonicnsi oriundus, patre insigni Theologo Theologus ipse insignior, & seculi hujus insignis- simis annumerandus : communibus humanarum li- terarum suppetiis, mensura parum communi in- structus; omnibus quasi ordinata Ancillarum serie sua; jussis familiari Theologia', &c. Obiit Augusti 24. anno a partu virginco 1683. yEtat. 67. Besides this John Owen, I Hnd another of both those names, chaplam to Henry lord Grey of lluthen, author of Immoderate Mourning for the Dead prov\l un- reasonable and unchristian, &c. Sermon on 2 Sam. "{James, Iwo epistles of Si. Peler, and the epistles of St. Jiide, by Mr. Veal. The three episiles of St. John l)y Mr. Howe. And the book of the Revelation by Dr, Collins.' Kjecled'Ministcrs, ii, 14 — 16.] ' [Abominably false, as appears by the letter dictated to his wife, and written two days before his death, to Charles Fleetwood esq. Macro. And see his LiJ'e, page xxxvii. Bodl. 8vo. C. 83. Jur.] ' [See the whole in his Life.'] Vol. IV. 12. 21, 22, 23. Lond. 1680. in oct. and perhaps of [748] other tilings. [The Character of Imagery in the Church of Rome laid open, or an Antidote against Pt^ery, written in the Year 1682, in Answer to this Ques- tion— How is the practical Love of Truth, the best Preservative against Popery? Lond. 1712, 8vo. Seventeen Sermons, (with the dedication at large, together with the doctor's life.) Lond. 1720, 2 vol. 8vo. Rawlinsox. There is a good head of Dr. Owen by Vertue, prefixed to his works folio, 1721 ; another by R. White, and a third, a mezzotinto, by J. Vander- velde.] WILLIAM GUISE, or Guisius [or Gise *] as in his book following he is written, son of John Guise, was born of a knightl}- family ' living at Alv loads court near to Glocester in Glocestershire, be- came a commoner of Oriel coll. an. 1669, aged 16 years, afterwax'ds fellow of that of AU-s. master of arts, and in holy orders. In 1680 he resign'd his fellowship, being about that time married and in great esteem for his oriental learning, but soon after cut off by the small-pox to the great reluctancy of all those who were acquainted with his pregnant parts.* After his death Dr. Edw. Bernard Savilian professor of astronomy published a book which Mr. Guise turn'd into Lat. and illustrated witli a com- mentary,' entit. Misnce Pars ; Ordinis primi Zeraim Tituli sep- tem. Ox. 1690. qu. Before which is put the trans- lation into Latin by Dr. Edw. Pocock of Mosis Maimonidis prcpfatio in Misnam. Mr. Guise died in his house in S. Michael's parish in Oxford, on the third of Sept. in sixteen hundred eighty and three, and was buried in that chancel called the 1683. College Chancel in St. Michael's church within the said city. Soon after was set up a monument over his grave at the charge of his wiclow named Frances, ■• [For so he spells hiinself in the blanl< leaf of his Erpe- nius, in which he has written several notes. See it Bodl. C ?■ 4. Art. As also his Gravii Elementa Ling. Persicce, lti4g, with notes by himself and Golius, Bodl. Mar. 1 ig.] 5 [Klniote, a mansion house of the Gises, antieni by their owne lineal descent, being in elder times of Apsety-Gise neare Brickhill : and from the Beauchamps of Holt, who acknowledge Hubert de Burgo, earl of Kent, beneficious to them, and testifie the same by their armories. Wood, MS. Note in Ashmole.] * [Joh. Henr. Otho in praefat. Le.v. Rabh. ' Sequitnr (in- }uit) par amicorum ex Anglia, D. Bernhardus, collcg. D. ohan. Oxon. socius, et in academia mathematum prof, et D. Gulielnuis Gise, collcg. Oricntalis socius, viri slupendae erudiiionis, in quibos clcganler habitat oinnis literatiira Oricntalis, praecipiie in D. Gise ferme ad miraculum usque. Vix enim ulluiii in universoorbe terrarum genus est idiomatis, cujus extent monumenta consecraia percnniiati literarum, quod non assiduitate laboris, aetate nondum 24 aiinos super- gressus, pervestigarit." Konigius, Bibliotlieca velus et nova, pag. 348.] ' [The whole of which is inserted in Surenhusius's edition, Amsterdam, ifigS, folio. Bodl. C. 5. 4. Th.] 115 BOLD. SCROGGS. 116 l683. daughter of George Soutlicote of Devonshire, esq; with an inscription thereon, beginning thus, MS. Gulielmi Guise Equcstri apud Glocestrenses fa- milia orti, e Coll. Oriel, in Coll. Onin. Anini. astiti, I^inguar. (praecipue Orientalium) peritissinii, Critici, Rhetoris, Matlieinat. Theologi, in omnibus ade6 exiniii, ut raro quisquam in singulis ; in juventute, ut raro quisquam in senio: quern, ne pcrfectionis Iiumanae apices transiret, &c. [A few of Guise's MSS. are among the Marshian MSS. such as a transcript of the Koran, widi a colla- tion (Marsh 53!i), and severtd volumes of excerpta historical and geographical.] HENRY BOLD, fourth son of Will. Bold of Newstead in the parish of Buriton in Hampshire, sometime capt. of a fcwt company, descended from the .ancient and genteel family of the Bolds of Bold- hall in Lancashire, was born in Hampshire, elected probationer fellow of New coll. from Winchester school 1645, or iherealwuts, ejected thence by the parliamentarian visitors in 1648, and afterwards going to the great city, became a member of the examiner's office in chancery, and excellent at trans- lating the most difficult and crabbed English into Latm verse. He hath written, Poems Lyrique, Macaronique, Heroiqtie, &c. Lond. 1664. oct. Ded. to col. Hen. Wallop of Far- ley Wallop in the county of Southampton ; and to the ingenious he saith thus If thou wilt read, so ; if not so : it is so, so, and so farewell— ^—Tliine ujwn liking H. B. Among these poems is Scar- ronides ; or Virgil Travestie,^ &c. He hath also written, Latin Sotig:^ with their English : and PoemsS> Lond. 1685. oct. Collected and perfected by capt. Will. Bold his brother. This Hen. Bold died in Chancery-lane near Lincolns-inn on the 23d of Oct. (being the first day of the term) in sixteen hundred eighty and three, aged 56 or thereabouts, and was buried in the church at Twyford (West Twyford) near Acton in the county of Middlesex. I shall make mention of another H. Bold in the Fasti an. 1664. WILLIAM SCROGGS, son of Will. Scroggs, was born in a market town in Oxfordshire called Dedington, became a commoner of Oriel coll. in the beginning of the year 1639, aged 16 years, but soon after was translated to that called Pembroke, where being put under the tuition of a noted tutor, be- vame master of a good Latin stile, and a consi- derable disputant. Soon after, tho' the civil war broke forth, and the university emptied thereupon of the greatest part of its scholar.s, yet he continued ' [I have a copy of the bonk of this date, but nothing of Virgil in it. At the end he says, expect a second part. Q > if ever published ? Mora sjt.] » [A Poem to his Sacred Muj. K. Clta: IT, at his happy Return, fol. Lond. ifiOO. Q'y if in ihc 8vo. edit. It begins^' So comes the sun.' Morakt.] there, bore arms for his majesty, and liad so nnich time allowed him, that he proceeded master of arts in 1643. About that time he being designed for a divine, his father jMocured for him the reversion of a good parsonage ; but so it was that he being en- gaged in that honourable, tho' unfortunate, expe- dition of Kent, Essex, and Colchester, an. 164'8, [T^^] wherein, as I have been credibly informed, he was a captain of a foot company, he was thereby disin- gaged from enjoying it. So that entring himself mto Greys-inn, studied the municipal law, went diro' the usuiil degrees belonging to it, was made Serjeant at law 25 June 1669 and knighted ; and tlie same year on the 2d of Nov. he was sworn his majesty's .serjeant. In 1678, May 31, he was made lord chief justice of the king's bench, upon the re- signation of sir Richard Rainsford ; but not long after his advancement, the jwjii.sh conspiracy was di.scovered : so that his place obliging hnn to have the chiefest hand in bringing sonte of the principal conspirators conccrn'd therein to public jti slice, he, in several tryals of them, behaved himself with so undaunted a courage and greatness of spirit, giving such ample testimony of his true zeal for the pro- testant cause, that he gained thereby for a while an universal applause throughout the whole nation, being generally esteemed as a main patriot and sup- }X)rt of his country, whose all scem'd then (especially to the fanatical party) to lye at stake, and to he threatned with apparently impendent ruin. But at length the implacable and giddy-headed rabljle be- ing possess'd with an opinion, that he had not dealt uprightly in the tryals of some of the conspirators (he mitigating his zeal when he saw the popish plot to be made a shooing-horn to draw on others) which caused articles of impeachment to be drawn up against him (read in the house of commons and in- grossed,' and on the ITth of Jan. 1680 sent up to the house of lords) he *as removed from his high office about the eleventh of April 1681, meerly to stop their mouths, and so obtain quietness. "Where- upon sir Francis Pemberton, knight,*" was sworn to the said office on the next day,' as it seems, and the day following that he paid liis duty to his majesty. Soon after sir William retired to his estate at Weald- hall near Burntwood in Essex, where he enjoyed himself for a time in a sedate repose. He was a person of very excellent and nimble parts, a good orator and a nuent speaker, but his utterance being ' [Sec them Bodl. P. 1. \6. Jnr.] ' [F. P. coll. Eman. conv. 2. adm. in matric. acad. Cant. Dec. 17, l(>44. F. P. coll. Eman. A. B. 1644-5. Reg. Acad. Cant, Bakf.r.] 3 [Pemberton's rise was so particular, that it is wprth the being remembred : In his youih he nii.sed with such lewd company that he quickly spent all he had ; and ran so deep in debt that lie was cast into a jayl, where he lay many years: but ho followed his studies so close in the jayl, that he became one of the ablest men of his profession. Burnet, Hist, of his own Time, i, 501.] 117 SCROGGS. 118 accompanied with some stops and hesitancy, his speeches affected more in the reading, than tliey did wlien heard with the disadvantage of liis delivery. Under his name were printed, Several speeches, as (1.) " Speech to the Lord " High Chancellor of England at his Admiiiistring " the Place of' one of his Majesty's Justices of the " Cmirt of Common Pleas. Lond. 1676. 1 sh. " and half in fol. [Bodl. P. 1. 16. Jur.] (2.)" Speech before the L. Chancellor, when he was made L. Ch. Justice of the Kings-Bench. Printed in lialf a sh. in fol. (3.) Speech in the King's-Bench in Westm. Hall on the first Day of Mich. Term,. 1679. Lond. 1679. in 3 sh. in fol. Answer'd by an idle fellow, and remarks made on it, in one sh. in fol. entit. A Neio Year's Gift for Justice Scroggs, &c. He hath other speeches e.xtant, as I shall tell you by and by. Notes on the Writing found in the Pocket of Laur. Hill, when he and R. Green were executed, «1 Feb. 1678.— Pr. in one sh. in fol. Atiswer to the Articles against him, given in by Titus Oates and Will. Bedloe in Jan. 1679. Lond. 1680. in two sh. and an half in fol. He hath also several discourses, arguings, and speeches printed in divers tryals and condemnations while he was lord chief justice, as in (1.) The Try al of William Sfaley Goldsmith,f or speaking Treasonable Words against his Majesty, &c. 21 Novemb. 1678. Lond. 1678. fol. (2.) Trjjal ofEdw. Coleman, Gent, for Con- s-piring the Death of the King, Subversion of the Government, &c. 28 Nov. 1678. Lond. 1678. fol. This Coleman was, as I have heard, a minister's son, had been bred in Cambridge,* and was some years before reconcifd to the ch. of Rome by a R. priest.^ (3.) Tryal of Will. Ireland, Thcmias Pickering, and Jo. Grove for Conspiring to Mur- der the King, &c. 17 Dec. 1678. Lond. 1678. fol. (4.) Tryal of Rob. Green, Hen. Berry, and Laur. Hill for the Murder of Sir Edmond-bury Godfrey, Knight, 4-c. 10 Feb. 1678. Lond. 1679. fol. (5.) Tryal and Condemnation of Tlw. JVliite alias Whitebread, Provincial (fthe Jesuits in England, Will. Har court, pretended Rector of London, John Fenwick, Procurator if the Jesuits in Engl. JcHin [750] Gavan, alias Gawen, and Ant. Turner, all Jesuits ; for High-Treason in conspiring the Death of the K. the Subversion of Government, <^c. 13 and \^of June 1679. Lond. 1679. fol. (6.) Tryal of Rich. Langlwrne, Esq; Courisellor at Law, for Con- spiring the Death of the King, 4"C. 14 June 1679. Lond. 1679. fol. (7.) Tryal of Sir George Wake- «nan, Baii. Will. Marshall, Will. Rumlqj and Jam. Corker, Benedictine Monks, for Higli-T reason, in Conspiring the Death of the King, Sj-c. 18 July, 1679. Lond. 1679. fol. Rut the generality of people 4 [E<1. Coleman coll. Trin. Cant. A.B. l655 : A. M. 1659. Reg. Acad. Cant. Baker.] ^ [See more of this Coleman in Burnet's Hist, qf his own Time, i, 363, 393.] sup|K>sing that Scroggs had dealt very unjustly with Wakeman, in letting him go free, and not con- demning him to be hang'd, came out ObaervutUms on the Tryals of the said Persmis, by one that called himsell Tom TickJe-foot the talK)urer, late clerk to justice Clodpate — Lond. in 3 .sh. in fol. In which pamphlet the author intimates as if Scroggs was a butcher's son. Soon after this came out two other pamphlets to the same purpose, one entit. Tlte Tickler tickled, in 2 sh. and an half in fol. and the other A Dialogue between Clodpate and Tickle- foot, in 3 sh. in fol. lx)th reflecting on Scroggs, as also a piece of poetry that was published at that time called Scroggs upon Scroggs, in tw. sh. and an half in fol. (8.) Tr. Conviction and Condemna- tion of Ad. Brommich and Will. Atkins for being Romish Priests, at Stafford Assize, 13 Aug. 1679 ; and of Charles Kerne another R. Priest, at Here- ford Assize 4 of Aug. the same Year. Lond. 1679. in 5 sh. in fol. (9.) Tr. and Condemnation of Lionel Anderson alias Munson, Will. Ru-ssel alias Napier, Charles Parris alicts Parry, Hen. Star- key, Jam. Corker, and Will. Marshall for Higl^- Treason as Romish Priests, ^c. together rvith the Tryal of Alex. Lumsden a Scotch Man, and the Arraignment of David Joseph Kemi^hfor the same Offence, Sfc. 17 Jan. 1679. Lond. 1680. fol. (10.) Tryid of Sir Tho. Gascoigne Bart, for High- Treason in conspiring, <^c. ll Feb. 1679- Lond. 1680. fol. Which sir Thomas being found guilt- less and set at liberty, he left the nation, and setling for a time among the Engl. Benedictine monks at Lambspring in Germany, was there seen and visited by Will. Carr an English gent, sometime consul for the English nation in Amsterdam, in his ram- bles in those parts ; of whom he makes ^ this men- tion— ' From the prince's court (meaning of Hessen) I directed my journey to Hanover, taking Lamb- spring in my way, a place where there is a convent of English monks; and there I met with a very aged worthy and harmless gent, sir Tho. Gascoigne, a person of more integrity and piety than to be guilty, so much as in thought, of what miscreants falsly swore against him in the licentious time of plotting,' &c. (11.) Tr. of Roger Earl of Castle- mainefor High-Treason in Conspiring the Deaih of the King, Sfc. 23 Jtm. 1680. Lond. 1681. fol. The reader is to note that this tryal was not pub- lished immediately after it was done, as all others were, but in Janu. following, which was more than half an year after the said tryal had been passed : and 'tis thought that it would never have been printed, had it not been to bring an odium upon Scroggs (to the end that he might be turned out of his office for his partiality, as 'twas by many thought, in the said tryal) for his too much baiting of Titus Oates, endeavouring (as they farther added) to lessen '' In his Remarks of the Government of several Parts qf Germany, Denmark, Sweedland, &c. Printed at Amsterd. 1688. in iw. p. 143. 12 119 SCROGGS. OLDHAM. 120 his evidence. (12.) Tr. of Hen. Care, Gent, upon hifbrmation brought against him, Sfc. charging him to be the Author of a scandalou.i, false, and nialiciows Book entit. The Weeklij Packet of Advice Jrom Rome ; or tfie History ofPopcrij, particularly of that ofthejirst of Aug. 1680, xchercin Scroggs is scandalized as to the Tryal of Sir Geo. Wake- man, &c. 2 Jul. 1680. Lond. 1680. fol. (13.) Tr. ofEliz. Cellicr, (J-c. WJun. 1680. Lond. 1680. fol. in 4 sli. In all which tryals our author Scroggs being chief judge and siieaker, they were by his authority printed. At length he giving up the ghost at Weald-hall Ijefore-inention'cl oa Thursday 1683. the 25th of Octob. in sixteen hundred eighty and three, was burietl in the parish church belonging thereunto (South-wcald.) The late industrious Gar- ter sir W. D. informed me by his letters dat. 28 Jun. 1684, that ' the said sir Will. Scroggs was the son of an one-ey'd butcher near Smithfield Bars, [751J and his mother was a big fat woman with a red face, like an alewife, that he was a very il]-humour''d man, and, as I have heard, he would never pay his tythcs His boldness got him practice by the law, and some wealth, wherewith he purchased a lordship called Weald,' &c. But the reader must know, that the said jx;rson (sir VV. D.) never speaking well of him after he had refused to pay the fees of his knighthood to the coll. of arms, of which he was to have had a considerable share, he is therefore desir'd to suspend his belief of the said character given of him the said sir W. Scroggs till farther proof may be made to the contrary.' JOHN OLDHAM, son of Joh. Oldham a non- conformist minister, and he the son of Joh. Oldliani sometime rector of Nun-eaton near Tetbury in Glocestersh. was born at Shipton (of which his father was then minister **) near the said town of Tetbury, and in the same county, on the ninth day of Aug. 1653, bred in grammar learning under his father tUl he was nigh fit for the university, afterwards sent to the school at Tetbury, where he spent about two ! rears under the tuition of Henry Heaven, occasioned )y the desire of one Yeat an alderman of Bristol, ' [Burnet, if he maybe believed, corroborates sir William Dugdalc's account as to Scroggs's character. ' He was, (says the bishop) more valued for a good readiness in speaking well, than either for learning in his profession, or for any moral virtue. His life had been indecently scandalous, and his fortunes were very low. He was raised by the earl of Daiiby's favour, first to be a judge, and then to be the chief justice. And it was a melancholly thing to see so bad, so ignorant and so poor a man raised up to that great post.' Hist, of hit own Time, i. 448.] " [He was also minister otNewlon in Wiltshire, where he vras silenced in itiCa. Mc lived to a good old age, and continued preaching to a small congregation of dissenters, at WottOn-under-Edgc, iu Gloucestershire, and died in that neighbourhood (about 172b) without leaving any thing in print ; though he left a good name behind him among all that knew him. Calamy, Ejected Ministers, Continuation, vol. ii, page 880.] who had a son then there under the said master, whom Oldham accomjianied purposelv to advance him in his learning. This occasioned liis longer stay at school than else he needed, but conduced much to his after advantage. In the beginning of June 1670 he became a batler of S. Edmund's hall under the tuition of Will. Stephens bach, ofdiv. where he was observed to be a good I>atinist, and chiefly to addict himself to poetry, and other studies tending that way, to which the bent of his genius led him more naturally than to any other. Four years after he took the degree of bach, of arts, but went away and did not compleat it by determination. So that living for some time after with his father, much against his humour and inclinations, got to be usher of Croyden free-school in Surrey, where he continui'd for about three years : In which time he became acquainted with that noted poet for obscenity, and blasphemy, John earl of Ilochcster, who seemed much delighted in the mad, ranting, and debauched specimens of poetry of this author Oldham. Afterwards he was tutor to the grandsons of sir Edw. Thurland (a late judge) living near Reigate in Surrey, with whom he continued till 1681, and then being out of all busi- ness and emj)loy, he retired to the great city, set up for a wit, and soon after became tutor to a son of sir Will. Hicks near London : where, at his leisure hours., by the advice and encouragement of Dr. Rich. Lower, he ajiplyed him.self to the study of physic. At length being made known to that most generous and truly noble William earl of Kingston, he was taken into his patronage, lived with him in great resjject atHolme-PierpontinNottinghamshire, where he made his last exit, as I shall tell you anon. This noted poet hath written, Satyrs upon the Jesuits (in numlier four) tuith a Prologue zvritten in the Year 1679, upon Occasion, of the Plot (Popish Plot) togetlier with tlie Satyr against Virtue, and some other Pieces by the same Hand. Lond. 1681, 82. oct. The first satyr is called Garnets Ghost, &c. which was printed against the author's consent. Lond. 1679. in one sheet in fol. The Satyr against Virtue was committed to the privacy of two or three friends, from whose hands it stole out in print, against the author's knowledge Lond. 1679. qu. Some nexo Pieces never before published, viz. (1.) Horace his Art of Poetry imitated in EiigUsh. (2.) Paraphrase upon Horace, Book 1. Ode 31. and Book 2. Ode 14. (3.) Tlie Praise of Homer, an Ode. (4.) Two Pastorals out of Greek, Bion. One in Imitation of the Greek ofMoschus, bewail- ing the Death of the Earl of Rochester, the otlier in Lamentation of Adonis, imitated out of the Greek of Bion of Smyrna. (5.) Paraphrase upon the \Qlth Psalm. (6.) Paraph, on the Hymn of S. Ambrose, Ode. (7.) A Letter from ilie Country to a Friend in Town, giving an Account of the Au- thor''s Inclinations to Poetry, in Verse. (8.) Upon a Printer that exposed him by printing a Piece of [752J 121 OLDHAM. CROSSE. 122 hh; groslij mangled andfauliij. All these were printed in one vol. in oct. at Lond. 1681. He wrote also a Satyr, in Pindaric verse, supposed to be spoken by a Court-Hector : in.serted ni the jxjems of John earl of Rochester, printed 1680. p. 115: which is. the same with his Satyr against Virtue beforc-mention"'d. Poems and Translations. Lond. 1683. oct." Remains, in Verse and Prose. Lond. 1684. oct. Which Remains consist of (1.) Counterpart to the Satyr against Virtue, in Person of the Author. (2.) Virg. Eclogue 8, the Enchantment. (3.) Verses to Madam L. E. upon her Recovery from a late Sickness. (4.) El. on the Death of Mrs. Katha- rine Kingscourt, a Child of excellent Parts and Piety. (5.) A Sunday Thought in Sickness. (6.) To the Memory of his dear Friend Mr. Charles Morxeent : a large Pindaric. (7.) To the Memory of the loorthy Gent. Mr. Harman Atwood: Pin- daric. (8.) Character of a certain ugly old Pur- son. This last is the worst and most offensive of all the rest. These Rernain,i are usher'd into the world by the commendatory poems of Joh. Dryden, esq; Thom. Flatman, Nahum Tate, Tho. Durfey, Tho. Andrews, and Tho. Wood of New coll. There is also an Anonym, with an eclogue, and another with an epitaph, on the author. As for Charles Mor- went, on whom the' large Pindaric before-men- tion''d was made, which makes about the third part of the Remains, he was born at Tetbm-y in Glou- cestershire, his father being an attorney there, bred up in grammar learning under Mr. Th. Byrton, M. A. of Line. coll. at Wotton under Edge in the said county, became a commoner of S. Edm. hall in 1670, and bach, of arts four years after. Soon after he retired to Glouc^>ster, fell sick of the small pox, died of it, and was inter'd in the cathedral there, wliere there is a monument over his grave. He was a handsome, genteel and good-natured man, and very well beloved in the said hall. Our author Oldham made also a little poem, to which mu.sic was set by a doctor of that faculty, bearing this title, A second Mu.iical Entertainment on Cecilia's Day, 22 Nov. 1684. The Words by the late ingenious Mr. Joh. Oldham, efore he flourished. A new Enlerlude called Thersytes. Tliys En- terludefotowynge dot he declare home thai the greatest Boasters are not the greatest Doers. — Imprinted at London, by John Tysdale, and are to be solde at hys Shop in the vpper Ende of Lombard strete, in Alhallowes Church Yarde neare vnto Grace Church. See extracts from it in the British Bibliogra- pher, vol.i, page 173.] ' [Dianea ; an excellent new Romance. Written in Italian Vot. IV. " Lond. 1654. [Bodl. 8vo. L. 10. Art. BSJ At " length after he had lived beyond the age of man, " yielded up his last breatli at Derby, upon the " breaking of the great frost in Feb. in si.xteen " htindred eighty and three : whereiipon his body " being conveyed to Polesworth in Warwickshire " before-mention'd, was privately buried there on " the 13th of the same month in the chancel of the " church there. His lordship of Pooley, which had " belonged to the name of Cockayne from the time " of king Richard H, was sold several years before " he died to one Humphrey Jennings esq; at which " time sir Aston reserved an annuity from it for him- " self during his life. The fair lordship of Ash- " bourne also was some years ago sold to sir William " Boothby bart." [See an account (chiefly drawn from his own works) of sir Aston Cokayne, with a very minute list of the most interesting poems in his book, in the British Bibliographer, vol. ii, pages 450 — 463. The head mentioned by Wood has been reingraved, by C. Wilkin, for the same work.] THOMAS GAWEN, son of a minister of the city of Bristol of both his names, was born in a market town in Glocestershire called Marsfield, edu- cated in Wykeham's school near Winchester, made perpetual fellow of New coll. an. 1632, aged 22 years, took the degrees in arts, holy orders, tra- velled, was at Rome, and accidentally sometimes fell into the company of John Milton the antinio- narchist. After his return, he became chaplain to Dr. Curl bishop of Winchester, who gave him a prebendship in that church, and the rectory, as I conceive, of Exton in Hampshire he being then much valued for his learning, Greek and Latin poetry. About the latter end of 1642, having the year before left his fellowship, he was appointed by the said bishop to he tutor to his son, then a com- moner of Magd. coll. where being esteemed a person of admirable breeding, his company was much de- sired and courted by reason of his travels and dis- course, which savoured at that time nothing of popery, but rather an aversion from it ; of miich great notice was taken among those with whom he communed. Afterwards upon the delivery up of his charge, and a foresight of the ruin of the church of England, he travelled again to Rome with the heir of the Dorcestrian Pierponts, spent some time there and in other parts of Italy, and returning thro' France, met with an intimate friend of his by Geo. Francisco Jjoredano a nolle Venetian. In foure hooks. Translated into English by Sir Alton Cokaine. Lon- don, Printed for Humphrey Moseley, at the Sign of the Princes Arms in St. Pauls Church-yard, l6o4. Ded. to Lady .Mary Cokaine vicecountess Citllen — • My best of friends coloncll kdward Stamford, gave me the author, and intreated me to teach him our language.' Oldys in his MS, Notes to Langbaine says there was an edit, of Dianea in 8ro. 1(343.] K 168}. [758] 131 GAWEN. GORE. 13^2 l68i. (then lately of Miigd. coll.) at Paris, with whom having several conferences, that person found his discourse changed, and some tincture tlierein of tlie Romish dye. Whereupon he acquainting Dr. Steph. Goffe of the person, he desired his company, but could not by any means persuade him to come within the verge of the court of the queen mother of I'^ngland then there, and the reason of it was, as they conceived, because he would keep his opinion undiscovered, to the end that he might afterwards gain some profit from the church of England. After his majesty s return, he was restored to what he had lost, became rector of Bishops-stoke in Hampshire and of Fawley, but the last he never enjoyed, be- cause not inducted thereunto. About that time being discovered to be what he was, a Roman ca- tholic, he willingly left all he had, and to prevent danger that might ensue from his clerical bretliren, he procured himself, by the endeavours of Dr. Goffe and lord abbat Mountague, to be sworn a servant to Henrietta Maria the qu. mother before-mentioned. Afterwards he went a third time to Rome, married an ItaUan woman well bom, and had a child by her ; but because he had nothing with her, left her and the child, and returned to his native country, his wealth being kept for the children of his brother, who was then P. of the P. P. at London. About that time he took up his quarters in the city of Westminster, was in some trouble alwut the plot, 1679, lived a retired hfe, a perpetual student in re- ligionary controversies, and wrote many things, of which some are extant, as, A brief Explanation of the several Mysteries of the holy Mass, and of the Actions of the Priest celebrating, very necessary for all Roman Catholics, for the better imder standing thereof. Lond. 1686. Oct. Certaifi Reflections upon the Apostles'" Creed touching tlie Sacrament. Divers Meditations and Prayers, both before, and after tlie Communion. These two last, go and are bound with the Brkf Explanation, &c. Other things also which he left behind him, that are not as yet, I suppose, extant, are (1) A-Treatise of mental Prayer. (2) How to gain a Jubilee or Indulgence. (3) Of the Name of God Jehovah. (4) Meditations belonging to spiritual Exercise. (5) Treatise touching tlie Reading of Sainfs Lives, &c. And among the translations mto Latin which he made, was Joh. Cleaveland's poem calPd The Rebel Scot ; and among those from Spanish into English, The Life of S. Vincent of Caraffa the General of the Society of Jesus. He died m his house situated in the Pail-Mall within the liberty of the city of West- minster, on the 8th day of March in sixteen hundred eighty and three, and was buried in the church of S. Martin in the Fields, within the said city, leav- ing then behind him the character among men, especially those of his persuasion, of a learned and religious i)erson. THOMAS GORE was Iwrn of an ancient and genteel family living at Aldriiigton alias Alderton in AVilts. an. 1631, at which place his ancestors, who originally came from AVhitlegh near Melkesham in the said county, have lived alwut 300 years. In the time of the rebellion he was educated in gram- mar learning at Tetbury in Glocestershire under Mr. Tho. Tully, where being rip'ned for the uni- versity, became a commoner of IMagd. coll. in the month of May 1647, under the tuition first of Joh. King fellow of that house, and afterwards, with leave from the president, under the said Mr. Tully fellow of Queen's coll. After he had continued in Magd. coll. more than three years, and had per- fornrd his exercise for the degree of bach, of arts, he retir'd to Lincoln's inn, whence after he had spent some time in the municipal laws, he receded to his patrimony at Alderton, where prosecuting his natural genius which he had to heraldry and anti- quities, wrote and pubhshed these things following. A Table shewing how to blazon a Coat of Ai-ms ten several Ways. Printed 1655 on one side of a single sheet, and taken verbatim, as it seems, from Joh. Fern's bri.> nAA^A " this note- To which he afterwards added ' Others say his name was Spenser " (the same who answer'd Dr. Laud's book) and " Dr. Lenthall was his associate, who was first of " Christ's coll. in Cambridge, then fellow of Pem- " broke hall, a preacher and in orders After- " wards turning papist, would have profess'd the " civil law, but his superiors made him profess " physic, and a physician now he is 1663— —This " Dr. Breton master of Emanuel coll. (who was at " the debate) assures me.' A Jesuit who went by " the name of Spenser a Lincolnshire man is said to " be the author of Questions propounded for Reso- " lution of unlearned Pretenders in Matters ofReli- " gion, to the Doctors of the prelatical, pretended re- '■\fornCd Church if England. Pans (alias Lond. " as it seems) 1657 octavo 4 sh." View and Corrections of the Common Prayer, An. 1662, At which Mr. Baxter, if I mistake not, carped. The Paschal or Lent-Fast Apostolieal and per- petual. Lond. 1662. qu. [Bodl. A. 1. 2. Line] This at first was but a sermon preached before the king, who forced it into the press by his repeated commands ; and thereupon he added so much to it, as to make it a compleat treatise on that subject. Appendix containing an Answer to the late printed Objections of the Presbyterians against the Fast of Lent. printed with the former book. See in the Fasti lo69 among the incorporations, in Will. Saywell. At length, this worthy bishop, who continued single all his days, wholly ai^dicted to his studies and the ser\ice of God, and had made preaching and doing all the good offices proper to a bishop so much his delight, that, according to the usual saying, he died in his calling ; did surrender up his pious soul to God on Sunday the sixth day * The same, as it seems, who was aftcnvards bishop of Chester. ' [One of the disputants of the Romish persuasion was William Johnson alias Terret. See Baxter Of the true Church, i>. 1. 3. Baker] 145 GUNNING. DURHAM. 146 l(i84. [7C7] of July in sixteen luiiuircd eighty and four; where- upon his body was buried witli due solemnity in the cathedral church of Ely. A.sDr. Fr. Turner some- time fellow of New coll.' succeeded him in the mastershi)) of that of S. John's chiefly by his means, so did lie likewise in the l)isho])rick of Ely ; between whom there passed many affectionate endearments. Much moi'c may be saiil of this most pious and learned bishop, but he being not totally ours, I shall omit it, and commend voii to his largre character given of him in a book entit. A Discourse delivered in two Sermons in the Cathedral at Ely, in Sept. 1684, &c. p. 4, 5, &c. Written, spoken and pub- lished by Humph. Cower D.D.^ master of S. John's coll. in Cambridge (in the place of Dr. Turner before-mention'd) and one of the preliendaries' of Ely, printed 1685. in qu. [Peter Gunning admitted into Clare hall 1629, where he had a double scholarship. A. B. 1632. Elected fellow on New-years-day the same year. A. M. 16.'}5. S. T. B. at Oxford 1646, where he continued 'till the surrender : after lived with the viscountess Falkland, then with lord Hatton. In the year 1656, sir Rob. Shirley settled an annuity of 100 |)ounds on him for life, in whose house he continued 'till his death in the Tower. After con- tinued pidjlickly officiating for the church of Eng- land (witli his assistant Mr. William Chamberlain) 'till the restoration. In 1660 he was made king's chaplain, 1). D. and prcb. of Cant, and about Christ- mas inducted into the parsonage of Stoke-Bruerne and Cotesmore, by the presentation of lord Hatton and sir Edward Heath. This is the bishop's own account, agreeing pretty well. Bakek. There was published in Bibliotheca Literaria, numb. 2, in 1722, A Letter from Bishop Gunning to Archbishop Sheldon coticerning the Power cyf Me- tropolitans. LoVEDAY. There are two heads of Gunning : one by Loggan, the other (a mezz.) by J. Smith.] ' [Francisciis Turner cler. A. M. admiuend. ad rect. He Therfield com. Hartf. siibscripsit ariiculis 20 Dec. l6f)4. y/«/oo7-. MS. Ken NET.] * [Son of Stanley Gower, of whom see the preface of bishop Usher's 18 Sermons, printed l.ond. 1 600. See his life of Richard Roihwell amongst Clark's Lives. See his at- leslalion to Dr. Owen's Treatise of Redemption, or Satus FJectorum, &c. printed lG+8. Baker. Humphrey Gower was educated in Paul's school under Samuel Cromleholme, with whom he removed from Dor- chester free-school to this of Pauls. He has left in his will twenty pounds rent-charge out of his Triplove estate in Cam- bridgeshire, after the death of his executor, for exhibitions towards the iiiainlenance of two indigent scholars, which shall be sous of clerjivmen, and educated in one or both of these schools. He died in St. John's college, Cambridge, and is buried in the college chappel with this inscription. MS. Deprvsiiuni Viri admodum reverend! Hunitredi Gower, S. T. P. Coll. Div. JohannisPrasfecti, S. Theol. pro Domina Marjj,arcla Professoris, Kcclesia; Eliensis Canonici ; ^ui Col- legium per annus irininta et auiplius strenue ac teliciter rciierat. Obiit 'J7 Manii anno Domini I7I 1 : iElal. suae 74. AJ ACRO."l VOL.IV. WILLIAM DURHAM, son of Joh. Durh. of Willerslcy near (Jam|xlen in Glocostershire, wan l)om there, educatet! in grammar learning under one Mr. Sturby who kept a private school at Broad- way in the same comity, became a student of New iiui in 1626, aged 15 years, ttxik the degrees in arts, holy orders, and when alwiit an years .stjinding in the degree of master, he wa.s made curate to Dr. Thom. Bunbury rector of S. Mary's church in Reading. In the beginning of the civil war he left that place, retired to London, and there, after .some short stay, was chosen preacher of the rolls in Chan- cery lane, at which time he t(x>k the covenant. From thence, by a j)resentation, he went into Berks, and became rector of Burfield, being about that time bach, of divinity, and thence was translated to the rich rectory ofTredington in Worcestershire, which before, I cannot say immediately, had been enjoyed by Dr. Will. Smith sometime warden of Wadham coll. After his majesty's restoration he was ejected thence to make room for Dr. Jos. Crowther of S. John's coll. who before had obtained a presentation thereunto : whereujxjii our author Durham retiring to London, liveil there for some time without a cure. At length upon his conformity to the church of England, sir Nich. Crisj)e presented him to the rectory of S. Mildred's in Bread-street ' within the city of London (to which parish, that of S. Mar- garet iVIoses was joyned after the dreadful fire in the said city) where he finished his course. He hath extant, Several sermons, as (1) Maran-AtJui : The se- cond Advent, or Chrisfs Coming to Judgment, an Assize Serm. at Wartoick, Q5th trf' July 1651 . on Jam,. 5. 9. Lond. 1652. qu. (2) Serm. before the Artillery Company at S. Andreisis-undershcvft, 30 Aug. 1670; on 1 C'or.l6. 13. Lond. 1671. qu. [Bodl. 4to. B. 92. Th.] (3) Sermon before the L. Mayor and Court of Aldermen at S. Mary le Bow, 21 Nov. 1675 ; on Prov. 29. 1. Lond. 1676. qu. A serimis Exhortation to the necessary Duties of Families and pergonal Instruction, for the Use of Tredington. Parish Printed in 1659. in tw. The Life and Death of that judicious Divine and accomplished Preacher Rob. Harris D. D. lately President of Trinity Coll. in Oxon, &c. Lond. 1660. Oct. He died on the seventh day of July in sixteen hundred eighty and four, and was buried in tlie chancel of the church of S. Mildred before-men- tion'd, in a vault belonging to the ministers thereof, just under the conmtunion table. [Among bishop Barlow's books in the Bodleian,' is a sermon ascribed to this author, and if it be the 9 [Will. Diirham S. T. B. admiss. ad eccl. S. Mildreds Breadbiriet, 23 I'eh. l6()3, per nonconform. Ric. Adami ; ad |)res. Nic0 I Clur. 1084. It is probable this is the same William Masters mentioned in the L'ifc of Blslu)]) Bull as vicar of Preston, who married Mr. Bull to Mrs. Bridget Gregory, according to the form prescribed in the book of prayer, tlie use oi" which was then forbidden under a great penalty. See Nelson's Life of Dr. George Bull, page 45.] " NATHANIEL HODGES, son of Thorn. " Hodges vicar of Kensington near London, (of " whom is mention made in the Fasti of this vol. " an. 1642,) was bred as it seems in Westminster " school, became student of Ch. CJi. by the favour " of the visitors, an. 1648, took the degrees in arts, " entred on the physic line, took the degrees in that " faculty, an. 1659, went to London, practised and " continued there during the violent raging of the " plague in 1665; by which he obtained a great " name and practice among the citizens, and was " about that time made fellow of the coll. of physi- " eians. He wrote, " VindicicE Medicinee 6f Medicorum. Jn Apology '^ /or the Profession and Professors of Physic, &c. "Lond. leeo.oct.' " AOIMOAOriA : sive Pestis nuperce apud Po- " pulum Londinensem grassantis Narratio histo- " rica* Lond. 1672. oct. He was living in 1684, " and died poor in Ludgate prison about that « time." [In the church of St. Steph. in Walbrook, against the wall in the north isle, a plain grey marble monument, with this inscription in capitals. Disce dies numerare tuos, nam psseterit astas Furtivo pede, sinceram fugit umbra quietem, Quasrens mortales nati ut succumbere possint, A tergo lictor, dum spiras victima mortis; Ignoras horam qua te tua fata vocabunt ; Mannora dum spectas, perit irrevocabile tempus. Hoc jacet in tumulo Medicus Nathanael Hodges, In spe ciclorum, nunc tcrrae filius, olim Qui fuit Oxonii, scriptis de peste superstes. Natus Septemb. 13. Ann. Dom. 1629. Obiit 10 Junii 1688. At the top of the monument these arms, ur, a crescent sable and chief of the ^ impal. gu. 3 fleurs de lis or. Wanley.} Or, On apyle GEORGE MORLEY, son of Francis Morlev, esq; by Sarah Denham his wife, sister to sir Jon. Denham one of the barons of his majesty's Exche- quer, was born in Cheapside within the city of London, on the 27th of Feb. 1597. He lost his father when he was six years of age, his mother ■' [A copy ill the Bodleian dated Lond. \f)bb. 8vo. J. 78. Unci 4 [Transljicd into Eiis;lish, nnd published in 1720, by Dr. .Tohn Qnincy, who added An Essay nn the different Causes fif Pestilential Diseases, and how they become contagious, bic. Bodl. 8vo. D. 70. AJcd,] when 12, and that little patrimony that he was born to, by his father's being engaged in other men's debts. At 14 years of age, or thereabouts, he was elected one of the king's scholars of the coll. at Westm. and in the beginning of the year 1615 he became student of Ch. C'h. " under tlie tuition of " Mr. John Wall," where with very great industry running thro' all the cla.sses of logic and philo.sophy, he took the degrees in arts. After he had continued in that royal foundation seven years in the degree of master, he was invited by Robert earl of Caer- narvon and his lady to be chaplain in their house, where he lived till he was 43 years of age, without having, or seeking, any preferment in the church. After this, he was nrefer'd to the rectory of Hait- field in Sussex, wnich, being a sinecure, he ex- changed with Dr. Rich. Steuart, then clerk of the closet to his majesty, for the parsonage of Milden- hall near Marlborough in Wiltshire. But before he had that charge, he had a prebendship of Ch. Ch. bestowed on him by the king (to whom he was chaplain in ord.) an. 1641, which was the only pre- ferment he ever desired, and of which he gave the first year's profit to the king, towards the charge of his wars, which were then commenc'd against him by a prevalent party of presbyterians in the long parliament : At the beginning of which he preached one of the first solemn sermons before the commons, but so little to their gust and liking, that they com- manded all the rest of the sermons, but not his, to be printed. Yet after this, being then doctor of divinity, he was nominated one of the a.sscmbly of divines by both houses, as Dr. Prideaux B. of Wor- cester, Dr. H. Hammond, Sic. were, but neither he, or either of them, appeared among them. As for his part, he always remained with his majesty, did him what service he could, as long as the war con- tinued. After which he was employed by his ma- jesty, then a prisoner at Hampton Court, to engage the university of Oxon not to submit to the illegal visitation, that had been began, but for the present intermitted, because of the violent proceedings of the army. Which affair he managed with such suc- cess, that the convocation did presently pass an act for that pui-pose, but with one dissenting voice only, tlio' they were then under the power of the enemy, that is, the parliament forces. After this, he was chosen by the members of the university, with some other as.sistants named by himself, to negotiate the making good of their articles which were framed at the surrender of the garrison of Oxon, to the said forces : which he did to tliat degree, as to gain time for the getting in of their rents, and to dispose of themselves, I mean as many of them as were resolved not to submit to their new masters. Soon after, he was one of the first that was deprived of all that he had in Oxon, or elsewhere, for not submitting to them, tho' he was offer'd by one of the grandees of the house of commons, to keep all that he had, with- out being put to say or do, or subscribe any thing L2 [769] 151 MORLFA''. 152 against his conscience, if he would but then give his word only, that he would not actually appear against them or their pnxjocdings.* See in Hi.it. i^ JntU]. Univ. O.von. lib. 1. 391. a. b. 393. a. 39*. a. 395. a. 396. a. &c. After this he was one of tlie divines that was sent for by the king to assist at the treaty in the isle of Wight ; which proving ineffectual, he resolved (having first assisted the gallant Arthur lord Capell, as Ins confessor, before liis execution, in the beginning of Mar. 1648) to quit his country and find out the young king, and never to return till he and the crown and the church were restoreil. With this resolution he left England in the 51st year of his age, and found him at the Hague, where he was graciously received by him. From thence he went first with liim into France, and from thence with him to the Scotch treaty at Breda, and there preach'd the last sermon that the king heard before he went into Scotland : whitiier being not suffer'd to carry any of liis own divines with him, he the said Dr. Morley went thereupon to the Hague, and after some short stay there, he went with his dearest friend Dr. Jo. Earle to live at Antweip, where they continued together in the house of sir Charles Co- terel master of the ceremonies, for the space of one ?'ear or thereabouts. At which time sir Charles »eing called thence to be steward to the queen of Bohemia, and Dr. Earle to attend on his highness James duke of York then in France, Dr. Morley continued still in Antwerp with the lady Frances Hyde (her husband sir Edw. Hyde being then am- bassador for the king in Spain) and all the time he was there, which was about three or four years, he read the service of the church of England twice every day, catechiz^l once a week, and administred the commiuiion once a month to all the English in the town, who would come to it, as he did afterwards at Breda for 4 years together in the same family. But betwixt his going from Antwerp and his coming to Breda, he was invited by the queen of Bohemia to the Hague to be iier chaplain : And he thereupon knowing her condition to be ncx;essitous, thought himself so much therather oblig'd both in con.science towards God, and in duty to tiie royal family (for she was sister to king Charles I.) to wait on her, and accordingly he did, and readily officiated Iwth in her family, and ui the English church there, about two years and an half, without expecting or receiving any salary or gratuity at all for so doing. There, as in all other places, where he lived, espe- cially at Breda, he was blest with a retirement full of satisfaction to himself, and with many opportuni- ties of doing much good to others also. For besides '' [As specious as lliis was, he rejected it, detesting even tile appearance of a rebel, and being cut out of opportunity cted in 1648, &c. and had filled up the vacant places, he was called to be bishop of Worcester, to which see he was con- secrate ,1 in the abbey church at Westm. on the 28th of Octob. 1660, and in the beginning of the next year had the honour to preach the king's coronation sermon, anil soon after was made dean of the chap- })el royal in the place of Dr. Sheldon. In 1662 he was upon the death ofDr. Dujijja translateu ^o the see of Winchester (confirmed therein 14 May the same year) where he hath truly verified the saying that the king gave when he bestowed the said bishop- rick on him, that he would never be the richer for it. For besides his expences in building and repairing his palace at Winchester, he hath laid out much more than the supplies the parliament gave him in the act, which impowered him to lease out Waltham [771] 153 MORLEY. 154 park, and his tenements which were built out of Winchester House in Southwark. He spent StKKW. in repairing the.castle at Famham, l)etl)re tlie year 1C72, and afterwards spent more, and above 4000/. in purcliasing Winchester House at Clu^isca to annex it to the see, wiiieh when he came to, he found not an house to dwell in, yet afterwards left two fair ones to his successors. At that time also he had not purchased one foot of land or lease, as if he had taken more care to enrich the pof)r than his rela- tions, and wliat his binclactioii was to the coll. that gave him education, you may see in //«<. <^- Ant'iq. Univ. Oxmi. lib. 2. p. 285. a. In the first j'car of his translation he visited his diocese in pers(m, and went into the isle of Wi<;ht, where had not been a bishop before, in the memory of man. In July 1664 he came to Oxon and visited in person those colleges which of right belonged to him as bishop of Winchester, was received, and entertained with great solenmity in all, only in Ch. Ch. coll. finding stub- borness he bound some to their gcM)d behaviour. Daniel Agas one of the fellows, who had been edu- cated there under the presbyterians, accused the bishop of injustice belVire his face, for granting and sending letters to the coU. in behalf of Tho. Turner (son of Dr. Th. Turner) to come in scholar, for which his impudence he was put out of commons for three weeks. This most worthy doctor, who was most famous for his great charity and benefac- tion while he sate at Winchester, was a person of approved and throughly tried loyalty, not of the number of those lukewarm irreligious temponzers, who had learned politicly to shift and quit their prin- ciples to make them suit to the times, and so pliably to tack about, as still to be ready to receive what- ever revolution and turn of affairs should hapjien, and by an easy submission to that government which was uppermo.'it, always to stand fair for promotion under a succession of contiinied usin-pations, tho' of a quite different nature and complexion. He was so firmly settled in, and fixed to, the ch. of England, that he constantly bore up against, and became im- pregnable either by the attempting allurements of a splendid papacy, or the reproachful and ignominious treatment of the ruder disciplinai-ian party. He had coui'age enough to own a persecuted church, and an exiPd prince, and as he vindicated on all occasions the honour and dignity of the former, both against the open assaults and batteries of her professed adversaries, and the more sly and under- mining insinuations of her jjretended friends ; so did he act with no less vigour, by leaving no projects unattempted, which carried in them any reasonable probability of success, wliereby he might effect his majesty's restoration to his crown ami just rights: which altlio' managed with his utmost skill, industry and best interest, yet fell short of his design. And as he was a constant adherer to his master in his suf- ferings, who reposed so great confidence in his ex- perienced fidehty, as to admit him to the honourable privacy of his most important and weighty concerns, so he was upon, and sinei-, the restoration, rewardctl by him, as I have before told you, for his many eminent and good services done by himself, anJ, ujTon his engagement, by others, for the royal cause and family. He was a great Calvinist, and esteemed one of the main patrons of those of that persua>ion. He was a good and picms prelate, who by temf)erance and a regular exercise did arrive to a good old age, having enjoyed ea.«e and quiet for many years, since that time he was forced to eat his bread in foreign countries. In the 74th year of his age, and after, he was without any remarkable tlecay, cither in his limbs or senses. His usual course then was to rise about 5 of the clock in the morning, winter and summer, and to go to bed about eleven at night, and in the coldest mornings never to have a fire, or warm his bed at night. He eat but once in 24 hours, and had never either gout, stone, stangurj', or head-ach, but enjoyed almost a constant health from his infancy, having never kept his bed for any sickness, but twice only. Afterwards his grinders began to cease, and those that looketl out of the windows began t<) be darkned, and other infirmities followetl to conduct him to his long home, where, that he might .safely arrive, and that it might be to him a place of everlasting rest and hap- piness, he did humbly in his last days beg all good men's prayers. As for his works of learning, they are these. Sermon at the Coronation of K. Ch. II. in ffie Co/Jeff iate Church of' S. Peter in Westm. 23 Apr. 1661; on Prov. 28. 2. I.cmd. 1661. (pi. Letter to a Friend in Vindication of himself from Mr. Baxter'' s Calumny. I.ond. 1662. qu. in six sh. and an half [Bodl. B. 12. 13. Line] The writing of which was occasion'd by some jiassages in Mr. Baxter's address to the inhabitants of Kederminstcr befoi'e his book entit. The M'i. charissimus : post- quam banc suam ecclesiam vita inculpabili 8c assi- duis concionibus per trienniuni fa;liciter rexisset, quo tempore (inter alia pietatis specimina) Parochi do- mum mod6 corruituram & instauravit & auxit. Im- mortalitati ver6 natus, coeloq; maturus, spe resur- rectionis terris valedixit, anno salutis 1684, Ktatis 63. die Novemb. sexto. [See an account of a MS. Latin sermon at St. Mary's in Oxford, and a Latin dissertation J)e Re- demptione, by Seth Bushell, in my 21 vol. of MS. Collections (in the British Museum) page 121. Cole.] NICHOLAS LOCKYER, son of Will. Lock, of Glastenbury in Somersetshire, was born in that county, entreu either batler or commoner of New inn in 1629, aged 17 years, took the degree of bach, of arts, but whether that of master it appears not : And about the same time entring into holy orders according to the church of England, had some cure conferr'd on him, but upon the change of the times, occasion'd by the iniquity of the presbyterians, he closed with, preached frequently among, them, took the covenant, and afterwards preaching among the independents he took the engagement. On the 10th of Dec. 1653, he was one of the independent mi- nisters that were presented to the parhament, to be sent commissioners by three in a circuit, for the M [777] 1684. 163 LOCKYER. 164 ejecting and settling of ministers according to the rules then prescribed, but that project taking not effect, he was appointed one of the commissioners by Oliver in the latter end of the said year, for the approbation of public preachers. In June 1654, he being then fellow of Eaton coll. in great favour with Oliver (to whom he was chaplain) and entrusted in several commissions, the then delegates of the uni- versity ordered that ' he the said Mr. Lockyer some- time of New inn, and master of arts of 12 years standing, might have the degree of bach, of divinity confer'd on him,' but whether he was admitted to tliat degree, or was ever master of arts of this uni- versity, it appears not, as it is told you before. In the latter entl of 1658,' he became provost of Eaton coll. in the place of Franc. Rouse deceased, was de- prived of it at his majesty's restoration ; and two J ears after, when the act of conformity was pub- shed, he lost an ecclesiastical benefice : so that car- rying on the trade of ctmventicling and plotting, he was shrewdly suspected, with Ph. Nye, to have had a hand in that stupendious tragedy intended to be acted by the fanatical saints on the king, royal fa^ mily, court and loyal party, in Nov. 1662, for which George Phillips, Tho. Tongue, &c. suffered death. He hath written. Several sermons, as (1.) Fast Sermon before the House of Commcnis 28 Oct. 1646; on Isa. 53. 10. Lond. 1646. qu. (2.) Fast Sermon before the House of Com. Aug. 1659 This I have not yet seen, and therefore know not the text. The sum of other sermons do here follow. A Divine Discovery of Sincerity, according to its proper and peculiar Nature, &c. Lond. 1&3.* oct. delivered in three sermons on 2 Cor. 11. 12. [778] Baulmjbr bleeding England and Ireland: or, seasonable In.Hructions Jbr persecuted CJt,ristians, &c. Lond. 1643, 49- oct. contained in the sum or substance of 20 sermons on Colos. 1. 11, 12. England faitlifully watcKd within her Wounds : or Christ as a Father sifting up with her Children in their sowning State. Lond. 1646. qu. painfully preached on Colos. 1. Christ's Communion with his Church Militant. Lond. 1647. oct. and 1672, [Botll. 8vo. Z. 79. Th.] which is the fifth edition : First preached and afterwards published for the good of God's churcli in general. The said fifth edit, which is in oct. also, hath the author's picture before it in a cloak, with 4 verses engraven under it.* The two first of which run thus. Note well the substance of this shade so bright, Lo, 'tis a burning and a shining light. An OUve Leaf: or, a Bud of the Spring, viz. > [Elected provost of Eaton 14 Jan. lO.'iS; admitted I Febr. So Th. Martin. Tanner.] < [First primed 1640, 8vo. ded. lo his aunt, lady Biidget Lyddall. Tanner.] > [By Hollar.] Chrisfs Resurrection, and its End, viz. the Cor- rection of Sinners, and a Chrisiian''s compleat Relief. Lond. 1650. oct. A Stone cut out of the Mountain : A Lecture Sermon preached at Edinburgh, concerning tlie Matter of visible Church Printed in tw.'' Re- futed by Jam. Wood a Scotch man in his pamphlet published 1654. qu. I mean the same James Wood who was afterwards professor of div. and provost of S. Salvator's coll. in the university of St. Andrew, who died about the year 1664. Whetiier he be the same Jam. Wood who was chaplain to, and a con- stant companion with, the most noble James mar- quess of Montross, when he made his first war against the covenanteers in Scotland, and accom- panied him when he left that nation, after his ma- jesty king Charles I. had commanded him to lay down his arms and disband, I know not Quaere. Spiritual Inspection : or, a Reviezv of the Heart : needful Jbr this loose and lascivious Season. Pr. in oct. The young Man's Call and Duty Pr. in a small oct. Useful Instructions for the People of God, in these evil Times. Lond. 1656. oct. Delivered in 22 sermons. " Some seasmiable Queries upon the late Act " against Conventicles. Tending to discover, how " much it is against the express Word of God, the "positive Law of the Nation, the Law and Light " of Nature, and Principles of Prudence and " Policy. And therefore adjudged by the Laro of " the Land to be void and null, &c. — Printed 1670. " qu. 2 sh. [Bodl. C. 12. 4. Line] Dr. Barlow's " note in the title runs thus — I am told (by one " who should know) that Mr. Lockyer (a noncon- " formist minister) was the author of this seditious " pamphlet — He is now, June 9, 1670, fled beyond « sea." A Memorial, of God's Judgments Spiritual and Temporal: or Sermons to call to Remembrance, &c. Lond. 1671. oct. First preached in six sermons, and then published for public use. What other things he nath published I cannot tell, nor do I know any thing else of him, only that he spending his last days at Woodford in Essex, where he kept, or at least frequented, conventicles, died a wealtny man on tlie 13th of Marcli or tliereabouts, in sixteen hundred eighty and four : whereupon his body was buried some days after in the chappel of S. INIary of Matfellon, commonly called Whitechappel near London, leaving then behind him two daughters called Abigail and Elizabeth. [Nic. Lockyer A. B. ex aula Novi Hospitii Oxon, incorporat. Cantabr, 1635. ^ [A little Stone out of the Mountain; Church Order Iriejiu opened ; a Lecture-sermon preached at Edinhurgh cnncerniug the Matter of a Viiibte Church. Leith, l652, printed in J2mn. Rawlinsok.] IfiSJ. 165 HEIGHMORE. GRANTHAM. 166 Nic. I.oc;kyer coll. Email. A. M. Cantabr. 1636. Reg. Acad. Cant. Bakek.] NATHAN AEL HEIGHMORE, son of a fa- tlier of both his names, sometime rector of Candel- purse or CJundel-jjurse in Dorsetshire, was ' born in the parish of Fordingbridge in Hampshire, elected scholar of Trin. coll. in 1632, took the degrees in arts, studied physic, admitted bach, of that fac. in 1641, and in the latter end of the next year was ac- tually created doctor thereof Afterwards retiring into the country, settled at length at Shireboume in Dorsetshire ; where and in the neighbourhood he became famous for the happy practice in his faculty, [779] and for the great love that he expressed to the clergy of those parts ; from whom, as 'tis said, he never took a fee, tho' much employed by that party. This person, whose memory is celebrated by divers au- thors, hath written, Corporis humani Disquisitio anatomica. Hag. Com. 1651. fol. To which he afterwards added an appendix, but before he could perfect it to his mind he died. The History of Generation ; with a general Re- lation of' the Manner of Generation as well in Plants, as Animals. Lond. 1651. oct. Discourse of the Cure of Wounds by Sympathy. — Pr. with the Hist, of Gen. De hysterica Passione 4" de Affectione hypocJion- driaca; Theses duw. Oxen. 8c Amstel. 1660. oct. De hysterica ^ hypochondriaca Passione Re- sponsio Epistolaris ad Doctorem Willis, Medicum Londinensem celcberrimum. Lond. 1670. qu. He also discovered a new ductus in the testicles, but whether published in a book by it self, I know not. He died on the 21st of March in sixteen hundred |68}. eighty and four, and was buried in the chancel of the church of Candel-purse before-mentioned, near the body, as I suppose, of his father. Afterwards was laid a plain marble stone over his grave, with this inscrij5tion thereon. Positas sunt hie reliquiae viri admodum docti Nathanaelis Heighmore in Med. Doctoris ; in spem resurrectionis ad vitam ajtemam. Qui obiit Martii 21. An. Dom. 1684. ^tatis suse 71. \ « THOMAS GRANTHAM was born in, or at least descended from those of his name in, Lincoln- ■ shire, became a student in this university in 1626, took one degree in arts as a member of Hart hall an. 1630, but whether that of master in this uni- versity it appears not. I take this person to be the same who afterwards entred into holy orders, ' had some little cure bestowed on him before the grand rebellion broke out, and the same person, who when it did break forth, sided with the do- minant party, and was successively of several opinions, and at length an anabaptist, which opi- ' Rfg. Sc/wl. Sf Soc. Colt. Trin. sub an. l63'-'. " nion in his last days he left This person, who " in some of his l)ooks writes himself master of arts, " I find to be curate of High Bamet in Hertford- " shire before the said rebellion began, and after " of Easton near to Tocester in Northanipton.shirc, " and author of these things following, " Several sermons, viz. (1.) A Marriage Serm. " called a Wife mLHaken, or a Wife and no Wife, " or Leah instead of Rachel ; on Gen. 29. 25. Lond. " 1641. qu. &c. " A Motion against Imprisonment : wherein is " proved that Imprisonment for Debt is against " tfie Gospel, against the Good of the Church and " Commonwealth. Lond. 1642. Qua;re, whether " this was not written by another Tho. Grantham. " Treatise against Infant-Baptism This I " have not yet seen, and therefore I know not whe- " ther that be the true or full title : * sure I am that " the book was answer'd by Joh. Home mini.ster of " Lin Alhallowes in Norfolk, in a certain book " whose title partly runs thus, The Cause of In- "fants maintained, against such as would d fraud " them of their Interest in the Church or Kingdom " of God: or, a Reply to Mr. Tho. Grantliam, &c. " Lond. 1675. qu. It was also answer''d by Joh. " Barret,' M. A. a nonconformist minister of Not- " tingham, sometime of Eman. coll. in Cambridge, " in his Feiv Notes upon T. G.^s (Tho. Grantham) " Antiqueries, with an Abstract of Mr. Baxter''s " plain Scripture-proof for Infants Church Mem. " bership and BajHism, &c. Tho. Grantham hath " also written, " Christianus Primitivus : or, the ancient Chris- " tian Religion in its Nature, Certainty, ExceU " lency and Beauty (internal and external) parti- " cularly considered, asserted and vindicated, from " the many Abuses which have invaded the sacred " Profession, by human Innovation, or pretended " Revelation, ^c. with divers Cases of Conscience " discussed and resolvd. Lond. 1678. fol. [BodJ. " D. 3. 8. Th.] " The Loijal Baptist: or, an Apology for (lie " baptised Believers, iS^c. delivered in tzvo Sermons " upon 1 Pet. 2. 17. Lond. 1674 and 1684. qu. " [Bodl. C. 11. 1. Line] I find one Tho. Gran- " tham M. A. of Peter liouse in Cambridge, who " after the restoration of king Charles II. professed " the speedy way of teacliing the Hebrew, Gr. and " Lat. tongues m the Barbican in London, at the * [.4n Answer to Mr. Thomas Grantkam's Book called a Dialogue between the Baptist and the Presbyterian. By Martin Finch, Pastor ijf a Church of Christ in Berwick. Lond. 1691. Infant Baptism Vindicated from the Exceptions of Mr. Thomas Grantham. By Sam. Petto, Minister of the Gospel in Sudbury. Lond. 169I. Both these are to be found Bodl. 8vo. E. 96. Line] ' [Guil. Barret, Anglus, scripsit Jus Regis, Basil, lOl*. 8vo. Baker. A Robert Barret wrote The Theorike and Practike of modtrne Ifarres, discoursed in Dialogue-wise. Lond. 1598.] M3 Clar. 1684. [780] 167 WOOD. OTWAY. 168 " sign of the Horshoe, and author of a little pam- " phlct entit. Charlcn the Second, Second to nmte, " Lond. 1661. in one or two sh. in qu. AVhethcr " this Thoni. Grantham be the same with Tho. " Grantliam before-mention"'d, who wrote himself « M. of A. I cannot tell. This Tho. Grantham " M. A. of Peter house, taught boys in London to " si^ak Latin at 13 years of age. He printed a " book concerning the teaching of children sooner, " which was dedicated to the pari, about 1650, in " two sheets. Edm. Wylde, esq; of Bloomesbury " hath the book. He taught 14 boys, and would " have no more, and tlicy learned but 4 hours in " the day, then play'd, but spoke Latin. Sir Edw. " Partridge's son, yet living (1680) was one of his " scholars, and the boys of Paul's school and others " were ready to knock Mr. Grantham's boys on the " head — Mr. Grantham wrote a Mastix against the " schtxilmaster." [Ayi-iendly Epistle to the Bisliops and Ministers of the Church of England Jbr plain Truth and sound Peace between the pious Protestants of the Church of England, and those of the baptized Be- lievers. Written with the Advice of divers Pastors and Brethren oftJie baptized Congregations. By Tho. Grantluim. London, 1680. Bodl. Svo. C. 710. Line, sent to bishop Barlow by the author.] ROBERT WOOD was born in the parish of Pepper-harrow near Grodalming in Surrey, educated in grammar learning in the sch(X)l at Eaton near Windsor, was made one of the Eaton }X)stmasters of Merton coll. in 1642, took the degree of master of arts seven years after, having a little before sul)- mitted to the authority of the parliamentarian vi- sitors, elected fellow of Line. coll. by their order, dated 19 Sept. 1650, in the place of Thankful Owen made president of S. John's coll. went after- wards with the leave of his society into Ireland, and became a retainer to Henry Cromwell lord lieute- nant of that kingdom, who sent him as a spy into Scotland to give him an account how affairs stood there. Afterwards he returned into England, be- came one of the first fellows of the coll. at Durham, founded by Oliver protector an. 1657, a great com- monwealth's man, and a frequenter of the Rota- club of Jam. Harrington. After his majesty's re- storation, he was turn'd out of his fellowship of Ejnc. coll. by the king's commissioners, and there- upon going mto Ireland again, he, for lucre sake (for he was a covetous person) expressed his loyalty 90 much, that he became doctor of phys. there (and of the law as I have heard) and chancellor of two diocesses, whereof Meath was one. So that pur- chasing an estate in that country, which he after- wards sold to buy one at Sherwill in Essex, he setded for a time in England, and became teacher of the blue-coated-children in Ch. Ch. hospital in London in the art of mathematics and navigation. At length giving up that place, he went again into Ireland, and was made one of the commisaoners of his majesty's revenue, and at length accomptant- gencral to the commi.ssioners of the sjiid revenue there, which he held at tlie time of his death, being then one of the royal society in England. AVUl. Oughtred the famous mathematician saith ' of this Dr. Wood (who had been sometimes his scholar) that he is ' philosophias atq; medicinse studiosus, vir optiinus atq; docti.ssimus, qui non calamo solum, & scriptorvim cxaminatione, nequid forte niihi in computationibus erroris exciderit, amicum praestitit officium, sed etiam bene maximam horuin partem (meaning his Clavis Mathematka) Anglice non ita pridem edendam transtulit.' Besides which he hath written, The Times mended: or, a rectified Account of Time Inj a new Lnni-solar Year ; the true Way to number our Days. Lond. 1681. in 4 sh. and an half in fol. An account and abstrai:t of which is in the Philosophical Collections, written by Mr. Rob. Hook, numb. 2. p. 27. an. 1681. A new Al-mon-ac for ever ; or a rectijied Ac- count of Time (beginning with March 10. an. 1 68°) by a Luni~iolar Year, or by both Luminaries : that is, by the Aloon's monthly Course primarily ; so as the first of the Month shall always be within about a Day of the Cluinge, and yet adjusted to the Suns yearly Cotirse also, viz. keejnng within about a Week thereof at a Medium. Described in, and Dedicated to tlie most noble Order of the Garter. Printed the same year, with the Times amended, &c. An account of which is also in the said Philo- sophical Collections, p. 26. He also wrote some things in mathematics, not yet published ; one piece whereof he was pleased, out of great friendship, and for long acquaintance sake, to dedicate to Mr. George Toilet, a teacher of gentlemen in London the faculty of mathematics. This Dr. Wood died at Dublin in Ireland on the ninth day of April in sixteen hundred eighty and five, aged 63, or there- abouts, and was buried in St. Michael's church there, notwithstanding he had desired his friends, some days before his death, tliat he might be buried in the church-yard of the parish church where he should happen to dye, thinking that churches were the less wholsome for coi-ps being buried in them. THOMAS OTWAY, son of Humph. Otway rector of Wolbeding in Sussex, was born at Trottin in that county, on the 3d of March 1651, educated in Wykeham's school near Winchester, became a commoner of Ch. Ch. in the beginning of 1669, lef% the university without the honour of a degree, re- tired to the great city, where he not only applied his muse to poetry, but sometimes acted in plays," ' In liis jjref. to the reader before his Clavis Madiemat. &c. Oxon. \Q:)2. edit. tert. '' [He does not seem to have obtained any reputation as an actor. On the contrary, we find from Downes's Boscius An- glicanus, that in 1672 he failed in the character of the king [781] l685. 16'9 OTWAY. MARSHALL. 170 I ■whereby he obtained to liinisclf a reputation amon<» the ingenious, and a comfortable subsistence to him- self, besides the favour and countenance of Charles Fitz-Charles commonly called Don Carlos earl of Plymouth, one of the natural sons of king Charles II. In 1677 he went in the quality of a cornet, with the new rais'd English forces designed for Flanders ; but getting httle or nothing by that em- ployment, returned with the loss of time to London, where he continued to the day of his death, by writing irf plays and little poetical essays. He was a man of good parts, but yet sometimes fell ' into plagiary, as well as his contemporaries, and made use of Shakespear, to the advantage of his purse, at least, if not his reputation. After his return from Flanders, which was in a poor condition, Rochester the biting satyrist brought him into his Session < of Poets thus : Tom Otway came next, Tom Shadwell's ' dear zany, And swears for heroics, he writes best of any ; Don Carlos his pockets so amply had filPd, That his mange ^ was quite cur'd and his lice were all kiird. But Apollo had seen his face on the stage, And prudently did not think fit to engage The scum of a playhouse, for the prop of an age. As for his works, which have been approved by tlie generality of scholars, a catalogue of them fol- lows, Akibiades, a Tragedy. Lond. 1675, 87. qu. 'Tis writ in heroic verse, and was the first fruits of the authors labours. Dan Carlos Prince of Spain, Trag. Lond. 1676. 79. Titus and Berenice, Trag. Lond. 1677. qu. Cheats ofScapin, a Farce Printed with Tit. and Ber. Friendship in Fashion, a Comedy.'' Lond. 1678. qu. TJie Poefs Complaint of his Muse ; or a Satyr against Libeh, a Poem. Lond. 1680. qu. The History and Fall ofCaius Marius ; Trag. 1680. qu. 77k? Orplian ; or the Unhappy Marriage ; Trag. Lond. 1680, 84, [1685, 1703,] &c. qu. " The Prologue of the City Heiress, or Sir Tim. " Treatall. 1681. '^ in Mrs. Behn's Forced Marriage; or the Jealous Bride- groom.'] » Ger. Langbaine in his Account of the English Dramatic Poets, &c. Oxoii. 1691. p. 39C. ■* In the Poems of Joh. Earl of Rochester, priated 168O. p. 113. ' TIio. Shadwell a dram, poet, afterwards poet laureat to king Will, and qu. Mary. * He returned from Flanders scabbed and lowsy, as 'twas Teported. ' [.Johnson {Lives of the Poets) tells us, that this comedy was, upon its revival at Drury-lane in I74r), hissed off ihc stage for immorality and obscenity.] T/w Soldiers Fortune; Com. Ldtd- 1681. qu. Vemce preserv'd; or, a Plot discovered. Lond. 1682. qu. The Atlteist ; or, the second Part of the Soldiers Fortune. Lond. 1684-. qu. Windsor Cattle, in a Monument to our late So- vereign King Charles II. of ever blessed Memory ; a Poem. Lond. 1685. in 4 sheets and a lialf in qu. [782] He also translated from Lat. into English, The Epistle qfPhcedra to Hippolytus, in Ovid's Epistles, translated by several Hands — Lond. 1680, 81. oct. Also The sixteenth Ode of Horace, in a book entit. Miscellany Poems, containing a new Translation // . of Virgits Eclogues, Ovid's Elegies, Odes of ~T[/ Horace, &c. Lond. 1684. oct. In which MisceU ^ lany Poems, is our author Otway's Epistle to R. D. in verse, p. 218. He Englished also. The History of Triumvirates ; the first Part of Julius Ccesar, Pompey and Crassus. The second Part of Au- gustus, Antony and Lepidus. Being a faithjid Collection Jrom the best Historians and other Att- thors, concerning that Revolution of the Rom. Government, which happened under their Autlwrity, Lond. 1686. oct. Written originally in the French language. At length after he had lived about 83 !:ears in this vain and transitory world, made his ast exit in an house on Towcr-hill (called the Bull as I have heard) on the 14th of Apr. in sixteen i685. hundred eighty and five : whereupon his body was conveyed to the church of S. Clement Danes within the liberty of Westminster, and was buried in a vault there. In his sickness he was composing a congratulatory poem on the inauguration of king James II. [' I have heard at Cambridge that Otway went to St. John's college in that university, which seems very probable, from a copy of verses of Mr. Duke's to him, between whom there was a fast friendship to the death of Mr. Otway.' Jacobs, Poetical Re- gister, 1719, page 193. Whereas Mr. Thomas Otway sometime before his death made four acts of a play, whoever can give notice in whose hands the copy lies, either to Mr. Thomas Betterton, or Mr. William Smith at the theatre royal, shall be well rewarded for his pains. Gazette, Nov. 29 : Observator, Nov. 27 and Dec. 4. 1686. In 1719, a tragedy called Heroick Friendship was printed as Otway's, though certainly not his production. His works were collected and publ. in 2 vol. 1712 and 1718; and in 3 vol. 1722, 1757, and lastly in 1812. The best portrait of him is that engraved by Houbraken. There is a small head, coarsely engraved, but with much spirit, by Lud. Du Guernier, which is prefixed to his works printed in 1712,] THOMAS MARSHALL, or Mareschai.lus, as in his Observ. in Evang. he writes himself, son of a father of both his names, was bom at Barkbey L/^ 171 MARSHALL. MARSHAM. 172 in Leicestershire, educated there in grammar learn- ing under Francis Foe vicar of that town, entrcd a batlcr in Line. coll. in Mich, term, an. 1640, aged 19 years, and on the 31st of July in the year fol- lowing he was elected one of Rob. Trapp's scholars in that house : much about which time he being a constant auditor of tiie sermons of the most learned and religious primate of Ireland Dr. Usher, de- livered in AllhaUowes church joyning to his coll. his affections were so exceedingly wrought ujx>n, that he was always resolv'd from thenceforth to make him the pattern of all the rehgious and learned actions of his life, and therefore ever after he could not endure those that should in their common dis- course and writings reflect in the least on that sacred prelate. Soon after Oxford being garrison'd upon the breaking out of the rebellion, he bore arms therein for liis majesty, in the regiment of Henry earl of Dover, at his own proper cost and charges, and therefore in 1645, when he was a candidate for the degree of bach, of arts, he was admitted there- unto without paying fees. But upon the approach of the parliamentary visitation he left the university, went beyond the seas, and became preacher to the company of English merchants at Roterdam and Dort, in the place of Henry Tozer deceased. In 1661 lie was admitted bach, of div. and four years after publishing Observations on the Evanffelists, did thereby revive his memory so much in his col- lege, that the society chose him fellow thereof with- out his knowledge or seeking,* 17 Dec. 1668. In the year following he proceeded in his faculty, was elected rector of his college an. 1672, upon the pro- motion of Dr. Crew to the see of Oxon, and after- wards was made chaplain in ordinary to his majesty. In the month of May, an. 1680, he became rector of Bladon near Wootlstock in Oxfordshire, and upon the promotion of Dr. Frarapton to the see of Grloucester, he was nominated dean of that church in Jan. 1680; in which deanery being installed on the 30th of Apr. 1681, he gave up Bladon in Feb. 1682. He was a person very well vers'd in books, was a noted critic, especially in the Gothic and En- glish Saxon tongue-s, a painful preacher, a good man and govemour, and one every way wortny of his station in the church. He hath written, Observatkmes in Evangeliorum Versioiies peran- tiquas duos, Golhka sail. <§• Anglo-saxonica, &c. Dordrecht. 1665. in a thick large quarto. [Bodl. 4to. E. 6. Th. BS.] The Catechism set forth in the Book of Common- prayer, briefly explained by short Notes, grounded upon lioly Scripture. Oxon. 1679. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. Rawl. 613.] and several times after. The said short notes were drawn up and composed by our author upon the desire and motion of Dr. John Fell bishop of Oxon, to be used by the ministers of his diocess 8 [See Memoirs of the Life of Mr. John Kettlewell. Lond. 1718, 8vo. |iai;e33.] in the catechising of the children of their respective parishes. In other editions that followed s(X)n after, [783] was added An Essay of Questions and Answers framed out of the same Notes, for the Exercise of Youth, by the same hand; which catechism with notes and essay, were translated into Welsh by John Williams a Cambridge scholar, tutor to a certain person of quality in Jesus coll. ui this uni- versity Printed at Oxon. 1682. oct. " This " Dr. Tho. Marshall did write An Epistle for the " English Reader, set before Dr. Tho. Hyde's " translation into the Midayan language of The "four Gospels of our Lord Jesus Christ and tlie " Acts of the holy Apostles Oxon 1677. qu. " which epistle is contain'd in a sh. and a half." He the said Dr. Marshall did also take a great deal of pains in compleating the lai'ge Engli-sh life of the aforesaid Dr. Usher (published by Rich. Parr some- time fellow of Exeter coll.) but died before it was published ; which hapning suddenly in his lodgings in Line. coU. early in the morning of the 19tli of Apr. (being then Easter Sunday) in sixteen hun- dred eighty and five, was buried in that chancel, i685. commonly called the college chancel, of the church of Allhallow's alias Allsaints within the city of Oxon. By his last will and test.^ he gave to the public library of the univ. of Oxon, aU such of his books, whether manuscript or printed, that were not then in the said library, except only such that were in his said will otherwise disposed : and the remaining part to Line. coll. library, I mean such that were not there, at that time, already, &c. Also so much money, which was raised from his estate, that came to 600/. and more, he gave to the said college ; with which was purchased fourteen pounds per an. a fee farm rent, issuing out of the manor of Little Dean in Glocestershire, and twelve pounds per an. a rent- charge, out of some lands in Brill in Bucks. Which benefaction three scholars of Line. coll. do now suc- cessively enjoy. In his deanery succeeded WiU. Jane D. D. can. of Ch. Ch. and the king's professor of div. in this univ. of Oxon ; and in his rectory of Line. coll. Fitz-herbert Adams bach, of div. and fellow of the said house,' who hath since been a con- siderable benefactor thereunto, and may in time be a greater. Besides the said Tho. Marshall (who was always taken to be an honest and conscientious puritan) was another of both his names, author of The King's Censure upon Recusants, that refuse the Sac7-ament of the Lord's Supper ,• dehvered in three serm. Lond. 1654. qu. [Bodl. 4to. M. 11. Th. BS.] and of other things. JOHN MARSHAM, second son of Tho. Mar- sham citizen and alderman of London, descended from the ancient family of his name in Norfolk, was 9 [He made Mr. John Kettlewell his executor, and left him 20/. and all his Socinian books.] ' [He was preb. of Durham l(J85, and rector of Wash- ington, June 27, 1719.] 173 MARSHAM. ALLAM. 174 I [784] i born in tlie parish of S. Bartholomew in London, 23 August 1602, educated in the coll. school at Westminster under Dr. John Wilson, became a commoner of S. John's coll. under the tuition of Mr. Tho. Walker (afterwards master of Univ. coll.) in the beginning of the year 1619, took the degrees in arts, that of master being compleated in 1625, in which year he went into France and wintered at Paris. In the two following years he visited most parts of that nation, and of Italy, and some of Ger- many, and then returned to London. In 1629 he went thro' Holland and Gelderlandht to the siege of Baldoc or Balduck, and thence, by Flushing, to Bologne and Paris to attend sir Tlio. Edmonds, embassador extraordinary, to swear the peace at Fountaine Bleau. During his abode in London he studied the municipal laws in the Middle Temple, and in 1631 he was sworn one of the six clerks in chancery. In the beginning of the civil war he left London, followed his majesty and the great seal to Oxon, and thereupon was sequestred of his said place by the members of pari, sitting at Westminster, plundred, and lost to an incredible value. After the surrender of the garrison of Oxon and the de- clining of the king's cause, he returned to London and compounded among several hundred of royalists for his real estate : At which time he l)etook him- self wholly to his stucUes and lived in a retired con- dition. In the beginning of the year 1660 he served as a burgess for the city of Rochester in that happy parliament that recalled the king, and took away the court of Wards ; about which time being restored to his place in chancery, he had the honour of knighthcxid eonferr'd upon him on the first of July 1660, being then of Whornplace " in the " parish of Cuckstone" in Kent, and three years after was created a baronet. He was a person well accomplish'd, exact in histories whether civil or pro- phane, in chronology and in the tongues. Pere Simon calls him in a preface to a work of his ' le grand Marsham dc Angleterre,' and monsieur Cor- caoy the king of France his libr. keeper, and all the great and learned men of Europe his contempo- raries, acknowledge him to be one of the greatest antiquaries and most accurate and learned writer of his time, as appears by their testimonies under their hands and seals in their letters to him, which would make a vol. in fol. He hath written, Diatriha Chroiwlog'ica. Lond. 1649. quarto. [Bodl. 4to. M. 61. Art. Seld.] Most of which was afterwards remitted into the book that follows ; Chronicus Canon JEgyptmcus, Ebratcus, Grmcus Sg DisquisUiones. Lond. 1672. fol. [Botll. H. 2. 11. Art.] This was reprinted in Lower Germany in qu. with a new index, and preface, wherein are given to the author very great encomiums by a foreigner unknown to him. There are many things worthy to be inserted thence, which, for brevity's 0ake, I shall now pass by. He aJso wrote the preface set before the first vol. of Monasticon An- glicanum. Lond. 1655. which he cntit. nPOriTAAION Johnmih Marshami. Printed in seven sheets and an half in fol. but much disliked and disrelish'd by some of the Rom. cath. party, but why, I cannot tell. He also left behind him at his death unfinish'd, (1) Canonis Chrimki Liber quin- tus : sive Imperium Persicum. (2) De Proviiu-iis Sf Legionibug Romanis. (3) De He nummaria, &c. At length departing this mortal hfe (at Bushy-hall in Hertfordshire) on the 25th day of May, in six- teen hundred eighty and five, his \xx\y was thereupon conveyed to Cuckstone near Rochester beforemen- tion'd (where he had an estate) and buried in the church there.* He left issue behind him, begotten on the body of Elizabeth daugh. of sir Will. Ham- mond of S. Albans in East Kent, two sons, viz. sir John Marsham now of Cuckstone baronet, who is writing The History of England, much more exact, as 'tis said, than any yet extant, and sir Robert of Bushy-hall knight, wlio succeeded his father in the place of six clerk. In the possessitm of the first of these two issir John's library, which tho' diminished by the fire that hapned in London 1(566, yet it is considerable and highly to be valued for the exqui- site remarks in the margin of most of the Ixkjks ; and in the possession of the other is his cabinet of Greek medals, as curious as any private collection whatsoever. ANDREW ALLAM, the son of a sufficient plebeian of both his names, by Bridget Derling his wife, was bom at Garsingdon near to, and in the county of, Oxon, in April 1655, and baptized there on the 23d of the same month, educated in grammar learning in a private school at Denton in the parish of Cudesdon near to his native place, under a noted master named Will. Wildgoose mast, of arts of Brasen-n. coll. (much fani'd for his dexterity in pe- dagogy) became a batler of S. Edmund's hall in Easter term 1671 ; where had it not been his mis- fortune to fall under the tuition of a careless and crazed person, he might have prov'd a protligy in several sorts of learning. After he had taken the degrees in arts, he became a tutor, moderator, a lecturer in the chappel, and at length vice-principal of his house. In all which offices he behaved him- self much to tlie credit, honour and flourishing thereof In 1680, at Whitsontide, he entretl into holy orders, and in 83 he was one of the masters of the schools, which last place he executed with very great judgment and prudence. He was a person of eminent virtues, was sober, temperate, mwlerate and modest even to example. He understood the con- troversial writings between conformists and noncon- formists, protestants and papists, far beyond his years, which was advanc'd by a great and happy ' [See Thorpe's /??gijhu7» iJo^ewff, 1 769, page 77 1 .] 1686. 175 ALLAM. WHITEHALL. ]7^i '^ [785] memory > And I am persuaded had he not been taken off" liy the said offices, he would have gone beyond all of his time and age in those matters, and might have proved an useful and signal n)einl)er to tile church of England, for which he had a most zealous resjiect. lie understood the world of men well, authors better, and nothing but years and experience were wanting, to make him a compleat walking library. His works that are extant are (1) The learned preface, or epistle to the reader, with a detlicatory epistle in the printer s name, set before The Ep'istle Congratulatory of Lysimaihus is'icanor, &c. to the Covenanters of Scotland, &c. Oxon. 1684. (2) The epist. with the account therein of Dr. Rich. Cosins's hfe, set before the said Cosins's book, entit. Ecclesias Anglicance Politeia in Fabulas digesta. Oxon. 1684. in a thin fol. The ded. epist. to sir Leolin Jenkins in the printer's name was writ- ten by Christopher Wase superior beadle of law in the univ. of O.xon. (3) Tlie epistle before, with a review and correction of, the book entit. Some plain jyiscotirses on the LonVn Supper, &c. AVrittcn by Dr. George Griffith bishop of S. Asaph Oxon. 1684. Oct. (4) Five or six sheets of his own hand- writing and composure, containing corrections in, and adcht. to, a book entitled — Anglice Notil'ta ; or, the present State of England, Sec. written by one ' who had been also of S. Edm. hall. They were made by Mr. Allam in the edit, of that book, printed at Lond. 1684. and were all, as I presume, inserted in that edition which came out at tliat place in 1687, but without any acknowledgement (with shame be it spoken) from the author of that Noiit'ia, who neither returned those thanks that he ought, out of common civility, to have done, or granted him his company or acquaintance, when he went to Lond. to desire it, purjxjsely to communicate such things by word of mouth, which he could not, with- out great trouble, by his pen, concerning various matters in that book. (5) He also Ix-gan, and made divers additions to Helvicus his Historical and Chronological Tlwatre, as occasion required, and would have quite finished the Supplement at the end, from 1660 to 1685, had he not been cut off" by cruel death. These things were printed with that author at Lond. 1687. fol. But the reader is to understand, that whereas there was a column in that book of the said edition 1687, made to con- tain the names of the famous Jesuits, from the first foundation of their order, to the year 1685, which was not in any of the Latin editions, 'twas not done by Allam, but by a busy body, nor that passage under the year lo78 which runs thus. Titus Oates discovers a pretended Popish Plot. (6) He had laid the foundation of a Notitla Ecclesice Angli- cancE ; wherein he would have spoken of the found- ation of all catliedrals, with a touch of their statutes ' [Edward Chaoibcrlain.] and customs.* Which done, to set down the names of the present bishop, dean, aichdeacon, canons and officers of each cathedral, but death also prevented the finishing this. He also many times lent his assisting hand to the author of this present work, especially as to the Notitia of certain modern writers or our nation, while the said author was day and night drudging after those more ancient. For tlie truth is (which hath been a wonder to him since his death) he understood well what he wanted and what would be fit for him to be brought into this work, which none else in the university could (as he and the author knew full well to their great re- luctancy) or would give any assistance or encourage- ment. Further it must not be forgotten that he translated into English, The Life of Iphicrates, written in Latin by Corn. Nepos, and remitted into the book of Uves of that author, translated by several Oxford hands, Oxon. 1684. oct. p. 99, &c. At length after a great deal of fear of, and avoidance from, the disease called the small-pox, he was in unseasonable weather overtaken by it : so that being not able to overcome its encounters, he did surrender up his spotless soul (being too worthy for this world and the people he lived with) and was wedded to his saviour Jesus Christ, on the 17th of June (about noon) in sixteen hundred eighty and five : where- upon his lx)dy was buried the same day, late at night, at the west end of the church of S. Peter in the East in Oxon, under the south wall, joyning on the south side of the tomb-stone of SUv. AVood. ROBERT WHITEHALL, son of Richard Whitehall sometime bach, of div. of Ch. Ch. after- ward rector of Agmundcsham commonly called Amersham and of Addington in Bucks, was born at Amersham, educated mostly in Westminster school under Mr. Richard Busby, became student of Christ Church in 1644, or thereabouts, ejected thence by the parliamentarian visitors in 1648 for giving tliis answer to, when required of, them, whether he would submit to their authority. My name's Whitehall, God bless the poet, If I submit, the king shall know it. But he cringing afterwards to his country-men and neighbours, the Ingoldsbies, especially to Rich. Ingoldsby the regicide (before whom he often acted the part of a mimic and buffoon purposely to make him merry) he was, upon submission made to the committee for regulating the univ. of Oxon, put in by them bach, fellow of Merton coll. an. 1650. Afterwards he proceeded in arts, was terra; filius with Joh. Glendall of Brasen-n. coll. 1655, entred ■* [These papers I think Dr. Kennelt jierus'd after his death, and extracted from ihein several materials, which will be of great service to him in a book he is now upon concern- ing the foundation of churches in England. Hearne.] 1685. [786] 177 WHITEHALL. ROBERTS. 178 on the physic Hne, and by virtue of the letters of Rich. Cromwell chancellor of this univ. ofOxon, he was actually created bach, of physic in 1657. " In " August that year he had leave from the society of " Merton coll. to go into Ireland at the desire of " Henry Cromwell (to teach a school.)" Since which time he made divers sallies into the practice of physic, but thereby obtained but httle reputation, and lesser by his poetry, to which he much pre- tended, having been esteemed no better than a meer jwetaster and time-serving poet, as these things fol- lowing partly shew. The Marriage of Arms and Arts, 12 July 1651, being an Accompt of the Act at Oxon to a Friend. Lond. 1651. 'Tis a poem in one sh. in qu. and liatli in the title the two letters of R. W. set down, being then, as since, generally reported to be his ; and he would never positively deny it. The occa- sion of the writing of it was this, viz. That an act having not been solemnized for several years before, it became such a novelty to the then students of the university (most of which had been put into places by the visitors) that there was great rudeness com- mitted by them and the concourse of people in get- ting into places and thrusting out strangers, durmg all the time of that solemnity, in S. Mary's church. Whereupon the vice-chancellor Dr. Greenwood of Brasen-n. a severe and choleric governor, was forced to get several guards of musquetiers out of the pari, garrison then in Oxon, to keep all the doors and avenues, and to let no body in, only such whom the vicech. or his deputies appointed. There was then great quarrelling between the scholars and soldiers, and thereupon blows and bloody noses followed. . Carmen gratulatorium Olivero Cromwell in Pro- tectorem Angliw inaugurato, 1653. Printed in half a sheet on one side. Carmen Onomasticon Gratulatorium Richardo Cromwell in Cancellarii Officium S^- Dignitatem Jceliciter electo. An. 1657. Pr. in half a sh. on one side. [Wood's study, numb. 423.] The Coronation, a Poem. Lond. 1661. in one sh. in qu. Carmen gratulatorium Edvardo Hide, Equiti aurato, summo Anglice 4* optato Oxoniw Cancel- lario, &c. Printed on one side of a sheet in Latin and English, an. 1660.* Urania, or a Description of the Painting of the Top of the Theatre at Oxon, as the Artist laid s [Whitehall, who had extolled Oliver Cromwell, and compared his son Richard to another Caesar, made no diffi- culty in congratulating Oxford on the restoration of Charles the second. Erect thy crest, triumphant Oxford, see The tutelary Gods take care of thee. And call one home from banishment to steer Thy shipwreck'fl barque, and be thy mariner : One thou maiost trust, whose faith two kings have prov'd Hence the delight of all, and most belov'd. Carm. Grut. Edwardn Hide, folio. Wood's study. Numb. Vi3, .-34.] Vol. IV. his Design. Lond. 1669 in 3 .sh. in fol. &c. [Wood's study, num. 423.] Verses on Mrs. Manj More, upon her sending Sir The. Mare's Picture^ (of her own drawing) to the Long Gallery at the public Sc/iools in Oxon. Oxon. 1674. on one side of a large half sheet. [Wood's study, numb. 423.] 'E^xrnx'X' 'Upw. Iconum quarundam extranea- rum (numero 258J ExpUcatio breviuscula, tto inform myself, is now missing, and the loss of it can never be sufficiently regretted by any one that considers the ereat abilities of the noble author. I will not say, it had the ill fortune to full into some liands who stifled it purposely for their own sakes, lest, if published, it should have exposed their mismanagement and treachery ; hut certain it is, tliat none of his lordship's friends can tell what is become of it ; so that whether it is actually destroyed for fear of telling some unlucky truths, or whether it is still in being, but unworthily confined to some obscure corner, 1 dare not pretend to determine. Preface to The Privileges, hcc. hereafter mentioned. Bodl. 8vo. R. 31. Jur.] matters for the abolishing of the test and penal laws, the pubhshing of which book was one. "Memoirs, intermix'd zmth moral, political, and " historical Observation.9, by Way of Discmtrse in " a Letter (to su- Pet. Pett) to wtiich is prefix'd a " Letter written by his Lordship during his Retire- " mc7it from Court in the Year 1683 Lond. " 1693. oct. publish'd in July, by sir Pet. Pett " knight,^ atlvocate-general for the kingdom of Ire- " land." At length after our author Arthur earl of Anglesey had acted the part of a politician " and " ran with the times" for more than 45 years, he gave way to fate in his house in Drury-lane within the liberty of Westminster, on Easter-Tuesday the 6th of Apr. in sixteen hundred eighty and six: whereupon his body being conveyed to Fambo- rough in Hampshire, where he had an estate, was buried in the church there. He left behind him a choice library of l)ooks,» which were exposed to sale, by way ot auction, in Oct. Nov. &c. following. [The Earl of Anglesey's State of the Govern- ment and Kingdom prepared and intended for his Majesty King Charles II. in the Year 1^82, but the Storm impending, growing so high, prevented it then. With a short Vindication of his Lordship from several A.spersions cast upon him in a pre- tended Letter that carries the Title of his Memmrs. By Sir John Tliompson, Baronet. Lond. 1694, in 4to. Bodl. C. 6. 7. Line. The Privileges of the House of Lords and Com- nums argued and stated, in txoo Conferences between * [But if hia lordship, together with the publick, has been asufterer, by having the above mentioned history (nflrelanti) which he compiled with so much exactness and impartiality, supprest or stifled by some of his enemies, he has been no less injur'd by one that stiles himself his good friend ; I mean by sir Peter P who a few years ago printed some of hia lordfhip's scatter'd and unfinish'd papers, which 'tis plain he never intended for the publick view, and gave them the spe- cious title of my Lord Anglesey's Memoirs; far from de- serving any such name they were only the effect of a few vacant hours in the country, and written with no other design by his lordship, than to relieve iiis melancholy rao- loents, and amuse himself under a long and tedious indispo- sition. Preface to The Privileges, &c. Bodl. 8vn. R. 31. Jur.] 9 [To lay up a noble magazine of learning for himself and hi; posterity, his lordship with incredible expence and pains had got together one of the most valuable collections of books that perhaps was ever seen in Europe, consisting of the choicest volumes written in all faculties, arts and languages; and tho' it had the ill fate to be dissipated after hisdealh in a publick auction, which was none of his lordship's fault, yet it ought to be mentioned to his everlasting honour, that he was one of the first peers of England, that took care to furnish himself with a judicious and well chosen library, in which he has happily been followed since by several persons of the highest rank and quality. This adiriirable collection my lord. Anglesey kept at his country seat at Blechington near Ox- ford, and after the example of the Borronieos, the De Puy's, the Teiliers and Colberts, of other countries, design'd that it shovild never go out of his family, but be inviolably preserved in the same. And as things of this nature are the more use- ful, as they are the more communicated, that the gentlemen of the neighbouring university should have free recourse to it whenever they had occasion. Preface, p. 6.] 1686. ^ 187 EEDES. DOLBEN. 188 both Houses, April 19, and 22, 1671. To which is added a Discourse, wherein tlie Rights of the House of I Ayr ds arc truly asserted. With learned Remarks on the seeminff Arguments and pretended Precedents offered at that Time against their Lord- ships. Written by tJie right honourable Arthur, Earl of Anglesey, late Lord Privy Seal. London, Printed and sold by J. Natt, near Stationer''s Hall, 1702, 12mo. pp. 179+24. There is a tolerable liead of lord Anglesey, en- graved by Bocquet from a drawing in the collection of R. Bull, esq. in Park's edit, of Walpole's Royal and noble Authors.^ " RICHARD EEDES, born at Feckenham in " Worcestershire, became either clerk or choirister " of C. C. coll. an. 1626, took one degree in arts, " became curate of Cleeve or Clyve in Glocester- " shire at Michaelmas 1632, proceeded in arts in " 1635, continued at Clyve in gfxxl esteem for his " conformity till the grand rebellion broke out, at [792] " which time following the prcsby terian cant became " eminent in those mrts among such who called " themselves the godly, and subscribed to the g(xxl- " ness and usefulness of the covenant. About the " yearl6-t7hc became vicar ofBeckfofd near Cleeve, " where continuing till about two years before the " restoration of king Charles II. he did by the per- " suasion of a parliament captain, who had a farm " in Cleeve, return to his old cure at Cleeve, where I find him in 1660, deluding himself then with the hopes of being rector thereof after the death of the ancient incumbent then u|X)n the place. But the rector and those hojies being deaa and vanished, he continued his ministry there in the vacation of that living till the memorable Bartho- " lomewVday, an. 1662, and then being deceived " with expectation of an idle dispensation for his " nonconformity to the habits and ceremonies of the " church, he silenced himself, yet dwelt nevertheless " for several years at Cleeve, where he duly fre- " quented the prayers and other offices of the " enurch, as much as his age would jpve him leave. " Some few years before his death he removed to " Gretton in the parish of Winchcombe in Gloces- " tershirc, where ne finished his course, as I shall " tell you anon. He hath published, " Several sermons, as (1) Great Salvation by " Christ Jesus, S^-c. on Heb. 2. 3. Lond. 1656. oct. " (2) Serm. on 1 Pet. 2. 7. &c. To the Great " Salvation is a prefatory poem, and therein these " four verses, " The whole is out of order, church and state, " In my prognosticks this is England's fate. " The land will mourn, and men will find it true, " Till Cesar come, who will give God his due. " He hath also written and pubhshed, " ChriH exalted, and Wi.idom Jtistified : or the " Sainfs Esteem ^ Jesus Christ, as most precious. Jiandled ; and tlieir wise Choice and Subjection to him, as their Lord and Saviour, vindicated. Lond. 1659. oct. commended to the world by the epistle of Mr. Rich. Baxter. Mr. Eedes died in the communion of the church of England at Gretton before mentioned in the beginning of April in sixteen hundred eighty and six ; whereupon his body being conveyed to Cleeve bv a vast crowd of those who knew and loved liim, was interreis epitaph was made by Leonard Welsted B. D. chaplain lo his lordship and afterwards vicar of Newcastle upon Tyiic, which was the archbishop's option upon the con- secration ofTh. Smith bishop of Carlisle. Grev.] Hanc provinciam ingenti animo & pari industria administravit, Gregi & Pa.storibus exemplo, Intra 30 circiter menses seculi lalwribus exhaustis Coelo tandem maturus Lethargia & Variolis per quatriduum lecto affixus. A. D. 1686, a;t. 62, Potentis. Princ. Jac. II. altero, die dominico Eodem die quo praeeunte anno sacras Synaxes In Eccles. sua Cathed. sentimanatim celebrandas instituerat, Coelo fruebatur. Maestissima conjux, magni Gilberti Cantuariensis Archiep. Neptis, Ex qua tres liberos suscepit, Gilbertum, Catharin. & Johan. Monumentum hoc posuit Desideratissimo Marito. In aede Christi sub illius auspiciis partim extructa, Bromleiensi Palatio reparato, in Caenobio Westmon. conservato ; In Senatu & Ecclesiis, Eloquentiae gloriA ; in Dio- coesibus suis Episcopali diligentia. In omnium piorum animis, justa veneratione semper victuro. [John Dolben admitted into orders by the bishop of Chichester in 1656, collated to the prebend of Cadington-major April 29, 1661 ; to the archdea- conry of London 11 Oct. 1662; collate long range of bulldinfj jovuing thereunto on the east side. For \vherea.s Phihp King auditor of Cli. Cli. had built very fair lodgings of poiish'd free-stone ilbout 1638, in, or very near that place, whereon the said long range was afterwards erected, they were by carelesness burnt on the 19th of Nov. 1669, and with them the south ekst corner of the said qua- drangle, liesides part of the lo Will. Sherlock, D. D. " lb. in Prodrom. p. 15. -i05 SHELDON. 20() A Treatise of holy Dedication both personal and domestic; recommended to the Viti'^cm of Lomhn upon their entring into their new Habitations. Lond. 1668. oct. This was written after the grand conflagration of London, and piiblislicd after tlie citizens had returned to their hal)itations when re- built. A short Account of the Life of Mr. Will. Whit- taker ' late Minister ofS. Mary Magd. Bermondsey in Southxoarh. Loud. 1674. 5. oct. Tliis is set be- fore Mr. Whktakcr's eighteen Sermons preached upon several Texts (>f Scripture. Dr. Jacombe also was one of the eight nonconforming ministers that undertook in 1682 to finish the English Annotations on the holy Scriptures, in two vol. in fol. began by Matthew Pool and by him carried on to the 58tn chapter of Isaiah ; and no doubt there is but that he did his share in that great work. At length he giving way to fate in the house of Frances countess of Exeter, situate and being in Little Britain, on [802] the 27th of March (being then Easter Sunday) in 1087. sixteen hundred eighty and seven, was buricdl five days after in the church of St. Anne within, and near, Aldersgate, in the city of London, in the pre- sence of very many, as well conformist, as noncon- formist, divines." I find one Sam. Jacombe bach, of div. to have been sometime fellow of Qu. coll. in Cambridge," and afterwards minister of S. Mary Woolnoth in Lombard-street in London in the times of usurpation, author of two or more sermons, of which one is entit. Aloses his Death, preached at Ch. Church in London at the funeral of Mr. Edw. Bright minister there.' I;Oiul. 1657. qu. Which S. jacombe, who was buried in his own church of S. Mar. Woln. on the 17th of June 1659, 1 take to have been brother of the before-iiiention'd Dr.-Tho. Jacombe. EDWARD SHELDON, a younger son of Edw. Sheldon of Beoley in Worcestershire esq; was Ijorn there, on the 23d of Apr. 1599, became a gent. com. of Gloc. hall in the time of Dr. Hawley principal thereof, about 1613, where spending three or more years, did afterwards travel beyond the seas, and became master of two languages (besides the Lat.) at least. Some years after his return, he setled on his patrimony at Stratton near to Ciren- cester in Glocestershire, which at length he lost, or was forced to quit, for the cause of king Charles I. and for his reUgion, in the time of the grand rebel- ' [Qiiidam Will. VVhiuker, admissus socius coll. Regin. Cant, virtute ordin. parliam. l644. Reg. Colt. Regin. Baker.] « [Jacombe left a very valuable library, which was sold by auciion for thirleen hundred pounds.] ' [Sam. Jacombe A. B. Leicestrcnsis electus socius coll. Regin. Cam. Manii 1, lf)48. S. T. B. Cantabr. coll. Regin. l6.58. Reg. Acad. Baker.] ' [^Moses his Death opened and applied in a Sermon at Christ Church London at the Funeral of Mr. Edward Bright Minister there, by Mr. Sam. Jncomh. M. A. Pastor of Mary fVooliiolh, London. In 4to. KeNNET.] lion raised and carried on by restless people. He hath translatetl from French into Engl. (1) The holy Life of Ga.iton Job. Bapt. de Renty a Noble- man of France. Lond. 1658. n the murder of his father, he became " duke, marq. and earl of Bucks, &c. After he had " been carefully trained u]) under several tutors, he " was sent to Cambridge tor a time, and afterwards " travelletl with his brother the lord Francis under " the conduct of Will. Aylesbury esq; son of sir " Tho. Aylesbury, bait. After liis return, which " was after the time that the grand rebellion broke " forth, he was conducted to Oxford to his majesty " then there, entred into Ch. Ch. and had a tutor " allotted to him, being then 15 years of age, but " whether he wore the gown of a nobleman I can- " not say, because most of the junior scholars hatl " thrown off their gowns to serve his majesty within " the garrison of Oxon. After the cause of king " Charles I. declined, he stuck to his son king " Charles II. was with him in his exile, and at the " battle at Worcester 1651 ; where being forced to " shift for himself, as most of the van(|uish'd royal- " ists did, escajjed and got beyond the seas, and " soon after was made knight of the most noble " order of the garter. Afterwards he stole over " into England, made court to lady Mary the " daughter and heir of Thomas lonl Fairfax and " married her the 19th of Nov. 1657, whereby he " obtained all or most of his estate, which before he " had lost. After the restoration of king Charles " II. at which time he was then possest of 20000/. " per an. as I have heard, he became one of the " gent, of the bed-chamber, one of the privy-council, " lord lieutenant of Yorkshire, and at length master " of the horse. In 1666 he maintained secret cor- " respondence by letters and other transactions, " tending to raise mutinies among some of his ma- " jesty's forces, and stir up sedition among his " people and other traitorous designs and practices, " Sec which being discovered ana made known to " his majesty and his privy-council, Buckingham 5 [It was richly dress'd ; took 13 ni^hls successively : and the carl of Briblol is said to have joined in it. Other cili- lions are 1663, 1704. Oldys.] ♦ [Wood has given a difl'erent date In his first edit, but has altered it, as it now stands, un the authority ofRalph Sheldon.] withdrew and absconded : Whereupon on the 8th of March the same year his majesty issued out a proclamation for his discovery and apprehension, but for the present in vain. At length yielding lumself, and making an humble submission to his majesty, his majesty did on the 13th of Sept- 1667, receive him into his favour and restored him to his place in the council and in the bed- chamber. In the beginning of June 1671 he was installed chancellor of the university of Cam- bridge, and in the same year was sent ambassador to the French king (he lacing then accounted the most vain and fantastical jwrson of any nobleman ' in the nation to please that great prince) who ' takiiv a liking to his person and errand, enter- ' tained him very nobly for several days together, ' and in conclusion gave him his sword and belt set ■ with pearls and diamonds to the value of 40000 ' pistoles,' as the account of his entertainment, ■ which I have seen in MS, attests. About the ' same time our king seeing that whilst he got no- ' thing but blows by sea, the French got all by ' land, he sent the said duke of Bucks, Hen. lord • Arlington and George lord Halifax to the French ■ king, keeping his court at Utrecht, 15 June • 1672, but with instructions as secret and dark as • those of making the war, and about the 21st ot" • July 1672 they return'd into England, having • effected nothing as to the states of Holland. At ' that time being one of the cabal at W hitehall, did ' at the re-sitting of the parliament in the begin- ' ning of Feb. following, endeavour in a speech to ' throw oft' the odium of the war with the Dutch ' from himself upon the lord Arlington another of ' the cabal, and in June or Jul. 1674 he resigned ' his chancellorship of Cambridge ; whereupon ' James duke of Monmouth did succeed him. At ' that time Buckingham being a great favourer of ' fanatics, he did in the beginning of Nov. 1675 ' put up a bill in favour of them, which was as- ' sen ted to. Upon the 16th of Feb. 1676 he ' (Buckingham) James earl of Salisbury, Anth. ' earl of Shaftsbury and Philip lord Wharton were ' sentenced by the house of lords to be committed ' prisoners to the Tower, under the notion of con- ' tempt, for that they refused a recantation for ' what die day before was spoken by them, viz. ' that Buckingham (just alter the king haxl ended ' his speech to both houses at their then meeting) ' endeavouring to argue from law and reason that ' the long prorogation was nulTil, and thiit the par- ' liament was consequently dissoly'd, was secontled ' by Salisbury, Shaftsbury and Wharton. For ' which reason I say, and for endeavouring to raise ' sedition, they were sent to the Tower. See more ' in Anthony Ashley Cooper eiirl of Shaftsbury, ' among the writers, in this volume, col. 75. Upon ' the breaking out of Oatcs's plot, he the said Buck- * [Improbable: perhaps livres. Cole.] [804] 209 VILLIERS. 210 V " ingham did side with the faction, and endeavoured " with other dis<;ontcnted lords to take all opjwr- " tunities to vex aiul cross the king ; lor which they " got the ill-will of the royalists and all such that " wished peace. He hath written, " An Epitaph upon Thomas late Lord Fairfax " Printed in half a sheet in fol. The beginning " of which is, " Under this stone doth lye " One born for victory, &c. " The Rehearsal, a Comedy. This, which *' was first of all acted on the Tth of Dec. 1671, was " several times afterwards printed in qu. and the " fourth edition came out in 1683. He had therein, " as 'twas then said, the assistance of Dr. Tho. " Sprat his chapkin. Mart. Clifford^ and Samuel " Butler alias Hudibras in the composing thereof. " But the author or authors having took too much " liberty in abusing the poet laurcat John Dryden " (who is caird therein Mr. Bayes) and several of " his plays, that person therefore requited the duke " to the full in his excellent poem entit. Absalom and *' Achitophel, printed at Lond. 1681 in a thin fol. " (and afterwards in qu.) where in p. 17 he gives " him this character, under the name of Zimri. Some of their chiefs were princes of the land, In the first rank of these did Zimri stand : A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong ; Was every thing by starts, and nothing long : But in the course of one revolving mtxjn. Was chymist, fidler, statesman and buffoon. Then all for women, painting, rhiming, drinking; Besides ten thousand freaks that dy'd in thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ, With something new to wish, or to enjoy ! Railing and praising were his usual theames ; And both (to shew his judgment) in extreams ; So over violent, or over civil, That every man, with him, was God or devil. In squandering wealth was his pecuhar art. Nothing went unrewardetl but desert. Beggar'd by fools, whom still he found too late. He had his jest, and they had his estate. He laught himself from court, then sought relief By forming parties, but cou'd ne'er be chief: For, spight of him, the weight of business fell On Absalom and wise Achitophel. Thus, %vicked but in will, of means bereft ; He left not faction, but of that was left. " Thus the poet : which character, being by all, " who knew, or had heard of the duke, esteemed ^ [He had been master of the Charter house; was buried in the chanccll of St. Margarets, Westminster, Dec. 1.T, 1677, where the duke of Buckingham desigii'd him a moou- inent. Tannek.] Vol. IV. " very just and compleat, I shall not, nor can I, add " any more to it. Now whereas the generality of. " peojile tliink that Mr. Dryden was bastinado'd at " Will's coffee-house in Covcnt-Garden for the said " character, by the endeavours of the duke, is false. " For .so it was, that in Nov. (or before) an. 1679, " there being An Essay upon Satyr spread about " the city in MS. wherein many gross reflections " were made on Ludovisa dutchess of Portsmouth " and John Wilmot earl of Rochester, they there- " fore took it for a truth that Dryden was the au- " thor : whereupon one or l)oth hiring three men to " cudgel him, they effected their business in the said " coffee-house at 8 of the clock at night on the 16th " of Dec. 1679 ; yet afterwards John carl of Mul- " grave was generally thought to be the author. " Howsoever it was, sure I am that the duke of " Bucks did not cause him to be beaten, but wrote, " or caus'd to be wrote, jRe/lections on t)ie said " Poem called Absalom and Achitophel, which being " printed in a sheet of paper, was, tho' no great " matter was in it, sold very dear. In which the " author commends those that Mr. Dryden discom- " mends, and discommends those which he cora- " mends. The duke of Buckingham hath also " written, " A sJiort Discourse upon the Reasonableness of " Mens having a Religion, or Worship of God. " Lond. \G8o. qu. in 3 sh. and an half: [Bodl. C. " 9. 2. Line] three editions of it came out that " year. Soon after the first edit, came out, A short " Answer to his Grace tlie D. of Buckingliani's " Paper concerning Religion, Toleration, and Li- " berty of Conscience. Lond. 1685. in 6 sli. and an " half in qu. written by Anon, whereupon the duke " made a buffooning reply entit. " The D. of Buckingham his Grocer's Letter to " the unknown Author of a Paper entit. A short " Answer, &c. Lond. 1685. in one sh. in fol. Im- " mediately after was pubhshed by Anon. A Reply " to his Grace the Duke of Buckinghcm's Letter to " the Author of a Paper entit. A short Answer, &c. " Lond. 1685. in one sh. in fol. Afterwards came " out several pamphlets pro and con, written by " other hands, which I shall now omit ; only tell " you that in defence of Buckingham came out one " who calls himself the Pensylvanian, meaning Will. " Penn ; and another with his Apology for the " Church of England agaimH the Duke of Buck- " in^ham's Seconds, written by E. B. esq; the same " with Edm. Bohun, as it seems. The D. of Buck- " ingham hath also written, " A Demonstration of the Deity This which " is in prose I have not seen, nor know any thing *' of it, only that it was published about half a year " before the author's death. He hath also various " poems scattered in several books, as a copy on two " verses of a poem written by a person of honour, " viz. Mr. Edw. Howard, which is in E.ramen " Poeticum. The third Part of Miscellany Poems. [805] 211 VILLIERS. WASHBOURNE. HALL. 212 " Lond. 1693. p. 166. And a tmnslation out of " something of Horace, beginning, ' Fortuna ssevo *' laeta negotio,' &c. which is in The annual M'ls- " cellanyjbr the Year 1694, being the fourth Part " of the Miscellany Poems, p. 108. I liave also " seen in manuscript several of his speeches spoken " in ]«irliament, but wliether any extant I cannot ■" tell, besides (1.) His Speech at a late Conference. " Lond. 1668. 1 sheet in qu. (2.) His Sp. in the " House of Lords 16 Nov. 1675, lieginning, ' My " lords, there is a thing called property,' &c. Am- " sterd. alias London, 1675, one sheet qu. [Bodl. " B. 2. 1. Line.'] " There was also published A Letter of this " DuJce's to Sir Tho. Osbor7i. " At length concluding his last day in his house " in Yorkshire on the sixteenth day of Apr. in six- l687. " teen hundred eighty and seven, his body there- " upon was conveyed to Westminster, and. buried " in the chappel of king Hen. 7. within the limits " of S. Peter's church there, near, as I suppose, to *' the body of his father, having by that time con- " sumed the most part of the estate left to him by " his said father, notwithstanding the great estate he *' had by the marriage of his lady. In 1679 came " out against him a ballad and a litany,^ both printed " in single sheets on one side. The last of which " entit. The Litany of the D. of B. contains many " shrewd truths, and the notorious actions of his ' *' life, as the ballad partly does. And after his ** death were published one or more elegies." [The Works of his Grace George Villiers, late Duke of Buckingham, Lond. 1715, 12mo. 2 vol. Another edition Edinburgh 1754, a third, and the best, in 2 vol. 8vo. London for Evans, 1775. The Chances, a Comedy, Lond. 1682, 4to. This Was merely an alteration of the comedy bearing the same title written by Beaumont and Fletcher. The title page says ' corrected and altered by a person of honour,' and this person was well known to be the duke of Buckingham. I give the following lines from a MS. in the hand-writing of Anthony a Wood in the Ashmole Museum. Verses made by the Duke of Buckingham, on the 20"" of Julij, 1665 addrest to his Mistris. Tho' Philis youer preuailinge charmes, Hath forct my Delia frome mine amies, 1 \Tu)o Speeches. 1. The Earl of Shaftshury' s Speech in the House of Lords the iOth of October ifi/.^. 2. The D. if Buckingham's Speech in the House of Lords the l6lh of No- vember 1675. Together with the Protestation, and lieasons if the several Lords for the Dissolution of this Parliament ; Enlrcd in the Lord's Journal the Day the Parliament was prorogued, Nov. S2d l675. Amsterdam, Printed Anno Do- mini 1G75. three sheets in 4to. Both thes« were reprinted in 1693 in folio, in Slate Tracts ; being a Collection of several Treatises relating to the Government. Privately printed in the Reign of K. Charles U.'\ • [In ^w\.\tii Genuine Remains, byThyer, vol. 2, page72. Thinke not youcr conquest to maintaine, By rigor or unjust disdayne. In vaine, fare nimph, in vaine you striue, For Love douth seldome Hope suruiue. My hearte may languish for a time, As all beautyes in theire prime Have justifi'd such crueltye. By the same fate that conquered mee. When age shall come, att whose command Those troopes of beautye must disbande, A rivaul's strength once tooke away, What slaues so duU as to obey ? But, if you will leame a nobler way To keepe this empire frome decay. And theire for euer fix youcr throne. Bee kindc, but kinde to mee alone.] THOMAS WASHBOURNE, a younger son of Joh. Washlx)uriie of Wychenford in Worcester- shire, esq; was born there, entred a commoner of Baliol coll. in the beginning of the year 1622, aged 16 or thereabouts, took the degrees in arts, being then esteemed a tolerable poet ; ' holy orders, and in 1636 he was admitted to the reading of the sen- tences. In the time of the rebellion he had a pre- bendship in the cath. ch. of Gloucester conferr'd upon him, and suffer'd for the royal cause, but when his majesty king Charles II. was restor'd, he was setled and installed in it, actually created doctor of divinity, and became rector of Dumbleton in Glou- cestershire. He hath written and published. Divine Poems. Lond. 1654. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. W. 12. Th. BS.] Several sermons, as (1.) Serm. at the Funeral of Charles Cocks, Esq; one of tlie Masters in Chan- cery; on Psal. 90. 9, 10. Lond. 1655. qu. [Bodl. B. 3. 2. Line] (2.) The Repairer of the Breach, preaclied in the Cathedral of Gloucester 19 May 1661, being the Anniversary of his Majesty''s Birtli- day, and happy Entrance into his Imperial City of London ; on Isa. 58. 12. Lond. 1661. qu. &c. rfe died on the sixth day of May in sixteen hundred eighty and seven, and was buried in our Lady's chappel within the cathedral church of Gloucester. Soon after was a little monument set up on the wall over his grave, with an inscription thereon, wherein 'tis said that ho was ' Theologus vere Christianus, vere primitivus, per annos 44 Eccl. Cath. Gloc. Pre- bendarius,' and tliat he desired to have this written on his mon. that he was ' primus Peccatorum, mi- nimus Ministrorum Dei,' 8cc. EDMUND HALL was born, and educated in grammar learning, within the city of Worcester, entred into Pemb. coll. in 1636, agetl 16, left the univ. before he took a degree, sided afterwards with tlie forces raised by the parliament against his ma- is the character of ' A Duke of Bucks,' said to be intended for this nobleman.] " [See a sufficient specimen in British Bibliographer, vol. iv, p. 45.] [806] 1687. 213 HALL. PETTY. 214 {'esty king Charles I. took the covenant, and at ength became a captain among them. When the king's cause declined and the war ceased, he retired to his coll. was made fellow thereof, and in 1649 he took the degree of master of arts; much about which time he expressed liimself an enemy to Oliver for his diabolical proceedings, and was thereupon committed to custody, as I sliall tell you anon. About that time he became, tho' a Calvinist, a con- ceited and affected j)reacher several years in these parts, kept pace with the leading men during the mterval, complemented with the times at his ma- jesty's restoration, and endeavoured to express his loyalty, yet could not endure to be called captain. Afterwards he became minister of a market town in Oxfordsh. named Chipping-Norton, where being much frequented by the neighlwurhood, obtained the character, from some, of a fantastical, and from others, of an edifying, preacher. About the latter end of 1680, the rectory of Great Risington near North Leech in Gloucestershire falling void, it was conferred upon him by sir Edm. Bray, knight, and soon after he took to him, in his elderly years, a fair and comely wife. His sermons preached before the university of Oxon, had in them many odd, light and whimsical passages, altogether unbecoming the gravity of the pulpit : and his gestures being very antic and mimical, did usually excite somewhat of laughter in the more youthful" part of the auditory. His works are these, Lazarus' s Soars licFd "Written against Dr. Lazarus Seaman, who affirmed in a book published about 1648, that an usurper ought to be submitted to, proving it from Christ's paying tribute money to Caesar. • Lingua Teslinm. Manus Test. Digi- tus Test. These three pamphlets, the titles nf which at large, I could never get Jrom Ike author, were wrot by him against Oliver, (Sec. Firsl edit. " Manus Testium Movens ; * " or a Preshjterial Gloss upon " many of those obscure Pro- " phetic Texts iw Canticles, " Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, " Daniel, Habakkuk, Zacliary, " Matthew, Romans, and the " Revelations, which point at " tJte great Day of the Wit- " nesses Rising, Antichrists Ruin, and the Jews *' Conversion, near about this Time ; wherein M. " Nath. Homes, xmth the Rest of the Independent " Antichristian Time-servers are clearly corifuted, " and out of their oton Writings condemned, &c. " To this book may be joined Lingua TesM/um, " being its proper preface. Printed 1651. qu. " Testis Mundus Catliolicus. " Lingua Testium : wherein Monarchy is proved " (1.) To be Jure Divino. (2.) To be Successive " in the Church, S^c. Printed in the Year of the " Beasts of the Earth's Reign, 1651. qu. both fan- " tastical things. Weldon wrote against Lingua " Testium.'" These pamphlets were wrote by him against Oliver, to shew that he had slain the witnesses, was very antichrist, and impossible for him to reign above three years and an half: Whereupon being imprison'd by the council of state, continued there twelve months, and then with much ado, upon good bail given, he obtained his UlKrty. A Scriptural Discourse of the Apostacy and the Antichrist, by Way of Comment, upon tlie twelve first Verses (^2 Tlies. 2, 4*c. in 4 Parts Printed 1653, in about 20 sheets in qu. with a preface to it of about four. [Bodl. 4to. L. 8. Th. BS.] Discourse of slaying the Witnesses, and the im- mediate Effects thereof Printed with the former. These two last he wrote while he was a prisoner. Sermon at Staunton-Harcourt Church in the County of Oxon, at the Funeral of the Lady Anne Harcourt, who deceased 23 Aug. 1664; on Ezek. 24. 16. Oxon. 1664. oct. [Bodl. Svo. Z. 18. Th.] A Funeral Speech at her Grave Printed with the Sermon. This lady Anne Harcourt, daughter of sir Will. Waller, sometime a general of one of the parliament's armies, was the wife of sir Philip Harcourt, knight, son and heir of sir Simon. Which Philip dying at, or near, London, was buried by her alx)ut the 12th of Apr. 1688, leaving then a son behind him named Simon, recorder of A bingdon. Our author Mr. Hall, died in the month of August or thereabouts, in sixteen hundred eighty and seven, and was buried in the chancel of the church at Great Risington before-mention'd. His elder bro- ther, Thomas Hall, I have at large mention'd al- ready among these writers, under the year 1665, vol. iii, col. 677. WILLIAM PETTY, son of Anthony Petty a clothier, was bom in a httle haven town in Hamp- shire called Rumsey, on the 26th of May 1623, and while a boy he took very great delight m spending his time among artificers there, as smiths, carpen- ters, joyners, &c. whose trades, in some respects, he understood so well in short time at twelve years of age, that he could work at them. At that time he went to the grammar school there, had some smat- tering in the Latin, and at about 15 years of age he entred into the Greek tongue. Soon after he went to Caen in Normandy, and with a little stock of merchantdizing that he then improved, maintained himself there, learned the French tongue, and at 18 years of age the arts and mathematics. Afterwards he retired to Paris, studied anatomy, and read Vesa- lius with Hobbes of Malmsbury, who lov'd his company exceeding well, and was not wanting on all occasions to forward his pregnant geny. So that in short time being accomplished with such parts rf learning that began then to be in great esteem in England, he returned (after he had visited the Ne- therlands) into England, and on the 6th of March 1647, a patent was ordered for him, by the mem- bers of parliament, to endure for 17 years, to teach his art of double writing. At that time, being a man of fortune, he sid&a with the people then in P« [8071 1687. 215 PETTY. 216 authority, went to Oxou when tlie groat rout of loyal scholars was made by the parliamentarian vi- sitors, setled there for some time, followed the fa- culty of physic, exercised anatomy and chymistry much among young scholars, to his and their great benefit, and became deputy professor of anatomy for Dr. Thom. Clayton, who being possessed with a timorous and effemmate humour, could never endure the sight of a mangled or bloody body. On the 7th of March 1649 he, by the commcnclatory letters of certain persons then in authority, written to the de- legates of the university, was actually created doctor of physic, he being in tlie next year made fellow of Brasen-n. coll. in the place of Nath. Hoyle bach, of divinity, and in Dec. 1650 his name was wonderfully cried up for being the chief person in the recovery to life of one Anne Green, who was hang'd in Ox- ford castle on the 14th of the same month, for making away her bastard child ; at which time, in- stead of recovering her, he intended to have her made an anatomy. In the beginning of January following, he was unanimously elected anatomy pro- fessor of the university, upon Clayton's renouncing his interest therein, purposely to serve him, and shortly after, he was not only made one of the coll. of ph3'sicians at London, but music professor of Gresham coll. which last place he obtamed by the [808] interest of his dear friend capt. Joh. Graunt. In 1652, being recommended to the parliament to be one of the surveyors of Ireland, he procured a pa^ tent for that purpose, and in Aug. the same year he took a voyage thither, practised his faculty in Dub- lin among the chief of that city, got to be clerk of the council there, and secretary to the lord lieute- nant. In Dec. 1654 he began to survey (for which he received 365^. per an.) which was done in ten months time or thereabouts, with that exactness, that there was no estate to the value of 60Z. per an. but he did exactly shew it to its true value, and made maps of all that he had done. Those that he employed for the geometrical part, were ordinary persons, that circumambulated with their box and needle, not knowing what they did, but our author Petty knew right well how to make use of their la- lx)urs. 'Tis said that by this employment he ob- tained an estate in Ireland worth about 10000^. per an. but a great part of it being refunded, because their ibrmer owners were declared innocent, as to the then late rebellion, he had left him about 5 or 6000A yearly, and could from Mount-Mangorton in Kerry oehold 50000 acres of his own land. But this survey was but a single proof of the great ele- vation of his understandmg genius, which like a meteor moved above the sphere of other mortals. In Jan. 1658 he was elected one of the burgesses of Westlow in Cornwall to serve in Richard's parlia- ment, which began at Westm. on the 27th of the same month, wherein he was a considerable actor, as I have heard ; but that parliament being sofBalhurst,8vo. ^^6\ is a poem by Dr. Bathurst ' to Mr. William Basse, upon the intended publication of his poems, Jan. 13. l651.'] <> [Mr. Peck in his Desiderata Curioia, vol. ii, lib. xiii, page 30, says his true name was Cam. Helme, and not Christopher : but the same person, with all his super-exacti- tude, does not observe that he is called by Mr. Smith in his Obituary, Chatles Hclaies, at page 42, lib. xiv. Cole.] In Defence of the Liturgy. Oxon. 1661. in one sh. in qu. Memorials of worthy Persons. Txeo Decads. Lond. 1661. in tw. [Bodl. 8vo. B. 22. Th. BS.] The third dccad was printed at Oxon. 1662. in oct. The fourth there also, 1663. in oct. [Both these Bodl. 8vo. B. 23. Th. BS.] A Remembrancer of excellent Men, &c. Lond. 1670. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. W. 78. Th.] This, which goes for the fifth decad, contains the characters of 9 divines, and one lay-man, taken, and scribled as the rest of the decads were, from the sermons preached at their funerals, their lives, and characters occa- sionally given of tliem, in public authors. Masora. A Collection out of the learned Master Joannes Buxtorjius's Commentarius Masoreticus. Lond. 1665. oct. Collection of Scriptures illustrated by Mr. Rich. Hooker. Lond. 1675. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. Z. 145. Th.] Three Ministers com municafmg their Collections and Notions touching several Texts, at their Weekly Meetings. Lond. 1675. oct. Letter touching a College of Maids, or a Virgin- Society. Written 12 Aug. 1675. Printed in naif a sh. in oct. Hugonis Grotii Annotationes selectcr, ad VII Capita S. Matthcci.'' Oxon. 1675. in two sh. in committee man, or as the stile ran, one of the assistant-committee in Northamptonshire in the time of the rebellion. Afterwards scraping up wealth, and gaining credit thereby, he became one of the number of those that gave sentence against Arthur lord Capell, Rob. earl of Holland, and James duke of Hamilton, who were all beheaded. In 1650 he published a remarkable IxKik called. The Govern- ment qfthe People qf England, precedent and pre- ' \_Hugn Groliiis's Defence qf Christian Religion. Against Paganism, Judaism, Mahometism. Together with some Ac- count of the three former Discourses. For God, Christ, Scripture. Newly collected and translated hy C. D. Lon- don, Printed for John Barksdale Book-hinder next door to the Five Bells in New street. 1678. Bodl. 8vo. Z. 123. Th.] 9 Andr. Marvell in his Rehearsal Iranspos'd, second part. — Lond. lf>73. u. 7J. Vol. IV. sent, &c. and by virtue of a return dated 21 June 1655, he, by the name of Joli. Parker of tlie Tem- ple, one of the commissioners for the removing ob- structions at Worcester House in the Strand near London, was the next day sworn Serjeant at law, Oiiver being then lord protector. On tlie 18th of Jan. or therealx)uts, an. 1659, he was appointetl by the parliament one of the barons of tlie court of Exchequer, but being soon after removed thence, before, or at, the restoration of king Charles II. we heard no more of him afterwards, " only that he was " again regularly made serjeant at law by the en- " deavours of lord chancellor Hyde, at the first call " after the restoration of king Charles II." As for Samuel whom we are farther to mention, he was by the care of his parents, severe puritans and schis- matics, puritannically educated in grammar learning at Northampton, and being made full ripe for the university, he was by them sent to Wadham aJl. in midsummer or act term 1656, and being by them committed to the tuition of a presbyterian tutor, he did, according to his former breeding, lead a strict and religious life, fasted, prayed with other students weekly together, and for their refection feeding on thin broth, made of oatmeal and water only, they were commonly caWed grewellers. He and they did also usually go every week, or oftncr, to an house in the parish of Haly well near their college, posses,sed by Bess Hampton an old and crooked maid that drove the trade of laundrey ; who being from her youth very much given to the presbytenan religion had frequent meetings for the godly party, espe- cially for those that were her customers. To this house I say (which is commonly called the ninth hmisehclonemg toMert. coll.) they did often resort, and our autiior Parker was so zealous and constant a hearer of the prayers and sermons there held forth, a receiver of the sacraments and guch like, that lie was esteemed one of the preciousest young men in the university. Upon the king's return in 1660, being then bach, of arts, he was for some time at a stand what to do, yet notwithstanding he did pray, cabal and discourse to obstruct episcopal govern- ment, revenues and authority ; but being cnscoun- tenanc'd in his doings by the then warden of his college, Dr. Blandford, who, as 'tis said, did ' expel him, but false, he went to Trinity college, and by the prevaihng advice of Dr. Ralph Bathurst a senior fellow thereof he was * rescued from the chains and fetters of an unhappy education, which he afterwards publicly avouched ) n print. So that ever after being a zealous anti-puritan and strong assertor of the church of England, did cause an abusive and foid- mouth'd ^ autnor to say that he was worse than his ' So Lew. dii Moulin ill his book entit. Paironus bona Fidei, Sec. Lend. 1672.1). 18. » See Sam. Parker's epist. dedic. before tits Free and im- partial Censure, &c. 3 Lew. du Moul. before-mentioned in fits Spcvim. contra Durellum. in Patron, ton. Fid. p. I9. t Q 1815] 227 PARKER. 228 contemporary Foulis (meaning Henry Foulis of Lincoln collefje) the original ot' whose name tho' stinking and foul, as he suth, and in nature ibul, yet lie was always the same person in principles, "that is, a bitter enemy against the presbytcnans. In 1663 our author Parker proceeded master of arts as a grand compounder and a member of Trin. coll. and afterwards entring into holy orders he was frequently in London, and Ix'came, as 'tis said, chaplain to a nobleman and a great droller on the puntans, &c. In 1665 he published liis Tenta- mina, and dedicating them to Dr. Sheldon archb. of Canterbury made himself thereupon known to that great person. About that time he became fellow of the royal society, and in 1667, just after Easter, leaving Oxford for altogether, he was summonetl to Lambeth the Michaelmas after, and being made one of the chaplains to the said archbishop, was thereby put into the road of preferment. In June 1670 he was installed archdeacon of Canterbury, in the place, as it seems, of Dr. W. Saneroft, and on the 26th of Nov. following he had the degree of doct. of div. conferred on him at Cambridge, at which time Wil- liam prince of Aurange or Orange was entertained there. On the 18th of Nov. 1673 he was installed prebendary of Canterbury as he himself hath told me, and about that time had the rectories of Ickham and Chartham in Kent bestowed on him. In the beginning of 1685 he resigned his prebendship, pur- posely to please his friend Dr. John Bradford, but that person dying about 6 weeks after his instalment. Dr. Joh. Younger of Magd. coll. in Oxon did suc- ceed him by the favour of Josepha Maria the royal consort of King James II. to whom he had spoken an Italian oration in the said coll. when she was entertain\l at Oxon, 1683. On the 17th of October 1686 he was consecrated bishop of Oxon at Lamlieth in the place of Dr. Fell deceased, and had liberty then allow'd him to keep his archdeaconry in tom- mendam with it. Before I go any further with this person, the reader is to understand, these brief things following, viz. that after the death of Dr. Hen. Clark president of Magd. coll. a citation was stuck up to warn the fellows to an election of a new governour, but before the time was come to do it, came a man- damus from king James II. to the society, to elect to that office a junior master of arts named Anth. Farmer formerly of Cambridge, then *A. M. of the said coll. but the society taking little demy. First ^j. jj^, notice of it, they elected accord- 18I6] ■ ing to their statutes one of their so- ciety named Joh. Hough bach, of div. on the 15th of April 1687; whereupon his majesty resenting the matter, it was tried and discussed before his ecclesiastical commissioners newly erected by him : Before whom there were then attested such vile things relating to the hfe and conversation of Far- mer, that he was thereupon laid aside. On the 22d of June followingthe said ecclesiastical commissioners removed Mr. Hough from his place, which was no- tified by a paper stuck up on the west door of the cha))j)el, on the 2il of August following, subscribed by the said connnissioners ; whereu{X)n his majesty sent his mandate of the 14th of the said mimth to elect Dr. Sam. Parker bishog of Oxon, to be their |)resident; but they Jjeing not in capacity to elect »im because of their oaths and statutes, his majesty sent to Oxon three commissioners to examine matters and put his mandate in execution. So that after they had sate in the coll. two days, examined affairs and had commanded Dr. Hough thrice to deliver up the keys of the president's Icxlgings, which he refused ; thev thereupon installed in the chappel the proxy of Dr. Parker, (Will. Wij^ens, clerk) president, with the usual oaths : which being done they conducted him to the president's lodgings, broke open the doors, after thrice knocking, and gave him possession, 25 Octob. 1687. On the 2d of November following Dr. Parker took possession of them in his own person, being then in a sickly condition, where he contiimcd to the time of his death which was shortly after, as I shall tell you anon. So that whereas he was first a presbyterian and afterwards a true son of the church of England, he was then esteemed by the generality, especially when his Reasons /or abrogating the Test were published, very popishly enclinedy It was about that time said'' that ' he seemed very much to favour the cath. cause that he ijroposed in council, whether it was not expedient that at least one col- lege in Oxford should be allowed Catholics, that they might not l>e forced to be at such charges, by going beyond the seas to study The same bishop inviting two noblemen (R. Cath.) to a banquet, drank the king's health, to an lieretical baron there, wishing a happy success to all his affairs ; and he added, that the faith of the protestants in England seemed to him but to be little better than that of Buda was before it was taken ; and that tliey were for the most part meer atheists .that defended it,' &c. Thus a certain Jesuit of Liege to another at Friburg, in a letter ' dat. 2 Feb. 1687. And father Edm. Petre another Jesuit one of the privy council to king Jam. II. tells " us in the same month that ' the bishop of Oxon has not yet declared himself openly : the great obstacle is his wife, whom he cannot nd himself of, his design being to continue bishop, and only change communion, as it is not doubted but the king will permit, and our holy father confirm : tho' I do not see how he can be further useful to us in the religion in which he is, because he is sus- pected, and. of no esteem among the heretics of the English church : nor do I see that the example of his conversion is hke to draw many others after him, because he declared himself so suddenly. If he had ■* 111 the Third Collection of Papers relating to the present Juncture of Affairs in England, &c. pnblishcfl at Lond. in Dec. 1688. p."n. 5 Ibid. '' lb. p. 17, 18. 229 PARKER. 230 believ'd my counsel, whicli was to temporize for some longer time, he would have done better, but it is his temper, or rather zeal, that hurried him on,' &c. But to let pass these and other matters which are related of him by that party, the Roman Ca- tholics, I shall proceed to give you an account of his published writings, which are these. Tentami'iia Physico-Theolog'tca de Deo, sive Tlieologia Scholastka, &i-c. Lib. 'H. Lond. 166.5. qu. [Bodl. B. 2. 5. Line] Tliis book (an account of which is in the Phihsnphicul Transactions numb. 18.) is answered by Nat. Fairfax M. D.' in his book entit. Of the Bulk and Selvedge of the World. [Lond. 1674. Bodl.Svo. P. 166. Art] These Ten- tamina are much enlarged in a book, m a lar^e qu. entit. Disputationes de Deo, &c. as I shall tell you by and by. [8171 "^ J^f"^^ '^^^ impartial Censure of the Platonic •■ J Philosophy. Lond. 1666. (lu. [Bodl. 4to. E. 19. Th.] Ox. 1667. Oct. At which time, as his adver- sary tells * us, he was proclaimed under the hand of another masquerade divine ' The ivonder of his age.' An Account of the Natnre and Extent of the divine Dominion and Goodness, as they refer to the Origenian Hypothesis concerning the Pre-existence of Souls, &c. This book, which is printed with the Free and impartial Censure, is briefly reflected on by anon.' in a book entit. — Deus justificatus : or, tJie divine Goodness vindicated, &c. Ox. 1667. Lond. 1668. oct. A Discourse of Ecclesiastical Polity, xvherein tlie Autttority of the Civil Magistrate over the Con- sciences of Subjects in Matters of external Religion is asserted, &c. Lond. 1669- [Lond. 1670, in Balliol coll. hbrary. 1671, Bodl. 8vo. AV. 69. Th.] 79- oct. Of which book hear what Mr. Baxter ' says — ' I can shew you a manuscript of one both impartial and truly judicious, even the late judge Hale, expressing so great dislike of that debate (The Friendly De- hate) and Eccle-nastical Polity, as tending to the injury of religion it self, that he msheth the authors would openly profess that they would write for themselves, and no more so abusively pretend it is for religion,' &c. " Against this book and its *' author quickly came out a pamphlet entit. In- " solence and Impudence triumphant : Envy and " Fury enthrmi'd : tJie Mirror of Malice and Mad- " ness, in a late Treatise entit. A Discourse of ' [Dr. Calamy, page 803, says, he was called Dr. Fairfax ; he was a preacher among the dissenters, I presume, had not that degree, being siileJ by the Dr. only Air. Fairfax. Baker.] 8 Andrew Marvell in Rehearsid Tranapoa'd. Second part. p. 323. 9 [.'\nd in another entitled No Prceexislence, or a Brief Dissertation against the Hypothesis nf Human Souls, Living in a State Antecedaneous to this. By G. W. A. M. Lond 1(567. 4to.] ' In his Second Dffence of the Nonconformists, &c. Lond. )68l. p. 187. " Ecclesiastical Polity, Sfc. or the lively Portraicture " ofS. P. limnd and drawn by his own Hamls, 8fc. " beiiig in .shiimadvcrsicms on Naked Truth, was Dr. Franc. Turner head or master of S. John's coll. in Cambridge, conceiv'd and taken by Marvel to be a neat, starcht, formal and forward divine. (2) The Rise and Growth of Popery, &c. Lond, 1678. fol. The second part of which, from the year 1677 to 1682, was penn'd by Rob. Ferguson before mention'd ; said to be printed at Cologne, but really at Lond. 1682. qu. This Andrew Marvell, who is supposed to liave written other things, as I have told you in Joh. Denham, vol. iii, col. 827. died on the 18th of August 1678, and was buried under the pews in the south side of the church of S. Giles in the Fields, near London. Afterwards his widow published of his composition Miscellaneous Poems. Lond. 1681. fpl. which were then taken into the hands of many persons of his persuasion, and by them cried up as excellent. Scon after his death one Benj. Alsop a conventicling minister about Northampton and after at Westminster did put in very eagerly to succeed Marvell in buffoonry, partly expressed in his Antisozzo written against Dr. Will. Sherlock, in his Melius inquirendum against Dr. Joh. Goodman^ (chaplain in ordinary to king Andr. Marvel coll. Trin. art. bac. iGSS-Q. Andr. Marvel coll. Eman. A.M. l008. Pater, utopi.nor. And. M. Baker.] 3 [Inter presbiteros rite ordinatos in loco convenienti in Sarocbia S. Bololphi extra Aldgate Lond. 13 Febr. l660, — oil. Goodman S. T. B. Hezekiah Burton, ct Sam. Lowe artiuni mafjistri. Ttef^. Sanderson, Line. 1663, 5 Jun. Joh. Goodman S. T. B. admiss. ad vicar, de 233 PARKER. 234 Charles II. and rector of Hadliani) his Serious and compassionate Enquirij, &c. and m his Mlich'tef of' Impositions against Dr. StiUingfleet's sermon entit. The Mischief' of Sepnratimi, &c. In all which pieces, upon little or no ground pretending to wit, he took more than orilinary pains to appear smart, but the ill-natur'd jokes cudf still commcmly hang off; and when he violently sometimes dragg'd them into a sentence, tliey did not in the least become their place, but were a disgrace to, rather than an ornament of, his seemingly elaborate and acciu-ate ])eriods. This person took ujx)n him to act a part ; for the due and laudable performance of w-liich, neither the natural bent of his own genius, nor any acquired improvements this way, have in any mea- sure tolerably qualified him, notwithstanding the )X)or well-wisher to punning laboured under all these discouraging disadvantages, that he did still cou- ragiously go on in a way of pleasing, and at the same time, exposing, Inmself, and furnish'd his readers with matter only of laughter at him, and not at those whom he endeavoured to vilify, and was in 1682, and after, cried up as the main witmonger surviving to the fanatical party, which argued a great scarcity of those kind of crcatiu'os among them, when such little things, as this person, were deemed by them fit for that title. As for the other books which our author Parker hath written, the titles are these. Disputationes de Deo, «§• Providentia divina. D'lsp. 1. An Philosophorum. ulli, c^- qu'inam Athei fiwrunt, &c. Lond. 1678. qu. [Bodl. 4to. D. 77. Th.] In which is much of his Tentamina de Deo involved. See a character of this book and its au- thor in Dr. Hen. More's Prwfat'io generalisslma set before the translation of tlie first tome of his Philosophical Volume. Lond. 1679. fol. One Antonius le Grand a Cartesian philosopher of great note, now, or lately, living in London (author of 1. Institidio* Philosophiw secundum Principia D. lienati Descartes, &c. much read in Cambridge, and said in the title to be wrote ' in usum juventutis acadcmie.'E.'' 2. ll'tstoi-'ia » Natura', and thirdly of a small piece in tw. maintaining a great paradox, called De Carent'ia Sensiis 4" Cognitimiis in Brutis, &c.) published a book against some passages in the said D'lsp. de Deo, in which our author hath impar- tially examined and deservedly censur'd certain principles of the Cartesian philosophy as grosly atheistical, and destructive of religion. This piece of Le Grand is entit. Apoloffiapro Renato Descartes, &c. Lond. 1679. oct. " This Anton. Le Grand was Watford com. Hertford, per mort. Will. Davenant, ad pres. Arth. com. Essex. Reg. Lond. 1674, 22 Dec. Joh. Goodman S. T. P. coll. ad eccl. de Hadham per mort. Tho. Henchman S. T. P. 1675, 8 Apr. Joh. Barrow A. M. admiss. ad vicar, de Watford, per cessionem Joh. Goodman S. T. P. ad pres. Arihuii com. Essex. Kennet.] * Printed at Lond. 1G8O. qu. fourth edit. ' J'r. at Lond. 1C8O. qu. sec. edit. " l)orn at Doway in Flanders, bred a Dominican " fryar, lived in Ijondon several years, being there " over the mission. He is now (Aug. 1695) tutor " to the eldest son and heir of Fanner of Tu8- " more in com. O.xon. where he now Uves."' A Demonstration of the divine Autliority of the Lazv of Nature and of the Christ'tan Religion, in tioo Parts. Lond. 1681. (pi. [Botll. GG. 5i. Th.] The Case of tlic Church of England briejiy [820] stated, in the three first and fundamental Principles of a Christian Church. 1. The Obligat'ion of Chri.^tianity by div'ine Right. 2. The Juri.idiction of the Church by div'me Right. 3. 'J'he Institution of'Episc. Supejiority by div'ine Right. Lond. 1681. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. B. 72. Line] An Account of ilie Government of the Christian Church in the first six hundred Years. Particularly shewing, 1. The Apo.itoUcal Practice of dioce-ian and metrapolit'icnl Episcopacy. 2. TJie Usurpa- tion of Patriarchal and Papal Authority. 3. Th£ War of two hundred Years between the Bi.ihcips of Rome and Con.stantinople, of universal SuprC' macy. Lond. 1683. octavo. [Bodl. 8vo. Gmlwin 288, subt.] Religion and Loyalty : or a Demonstration of the Power of the Christian Church w'lthin it self. Supremacy of Sovereign. Powers over it and Duty of passive Obedience or Non-resistance to all their Commands, exemplified out of the Records, &c. Lond. 1684. octavo." [Bodl. 8vo. C. 187. Line] Religion and Loyalty. The second Part : Or tfie History of the Concurrence of the imperial and eeclesiasficalJurisdiction in the Government of the Church, Jrom the Beginning of tlie Reign of Jo- vian, to the End of Just'inian. Lond. 1685. oct. [Botll. 8vo. C. 422. Line] Reasons fir abrogating the Test, imposed upon all Members of Parliament, 30 Oct. 1678. Lond. 1C88. nu. [Bodl. Rawl. 4to. 92.] This book was hcensed by Robert earl of Sunderland secretary of state under king Jam. II, on the 10th of December 1687, and on the 16th of the said month It being published, all or most of the impression of 2000 were sold before the evening of the next day. Se- veral answers,' full of girds and severe reflections on the author, were soon after published, among which was one bearing this title, Samuel Lord Bishop of Oxon his celebrated Reasons fir abrogating the Test, and Notions of Idolatry, answered by Samuel Archdeacon of Canterbury. Lond. 1688, in about six sheets in qu. [Bodl. C. 9. 5. Line] Written by John Philipps nephew by the mother to Joha Milton. A Discourse sent to the late K. James, to persuade him to embrace the Protestant Religion, with a, ° [So Mr. Consiablc. Wood, MS. Note in Ashmole.'] ' [I'ransubstanlialion a peculiar Article of the Rom. Ccm tholick Faith, in Answer to Bish. Parker's Reasons for abro- gating the Test. Lond. 1(J88. Bodl. C.g. 5. Line] PARKER. CHURCHILL. 23t) Letter to the same Piir/}oiit: Lond. 1690. in about 6 sh. in qu. [Lonil. 1714. Bodl. 8vo. C. 732. Line] It was usually said that he was also author of A modest Aninccr to Dr. StiUin^flcefs Ircnicum. Lond. 1680. oct. and of another tiling calleil Mr. Baxter baptized in Blood ; and reported by ' A. Afarvell to be author also of Greg. Father Grey- beard before mentioned ; but let the report oi these matters remain with their authors, while I tell you that this our celebrated writer Dr. Sam. Parker dying in the president's lodgings in Magd. coll. auout seven of the clock in the evening of the twen- iCrJ. tieth day of March in sixteen hundred eigiity and seven, was buried on the 24tli of the same month in the south isle or part of the outer chappel belonging thereunto. In the see of Oxford succeeded Tnno- thy Hall, as I shaU tell you elsewhere ; in his presi- dentship Bonavcnture Gilford a Sorbon doctor and a secular priest, bishop elect of Madaura (in partibus infidelium) who being installe. I 245 FLATMAN. WARD. 246 I choice pieces shew ; the titles of the former of which are tlu>so, A P'mdarique Ode on the Death of the truly and 7g, or a thief in a jayle, 8tc. But being afterwards smitten ■with a fair virgin, and more with her fortune, did espouse her 26 Nov. 1672; whereufwn his ingenious comrades did sere- nade him that night, while he was in the embraces of his mistress, vnth the said song. [Flatman was A. M. of Cambridge, by the king's letters, dated Dec. 11, 1666; being then A. B. of Oxford, as is there said. Bakee. There is a letter of Flatman's to Dr. Sancroft, dated from Catherine hall, Cambridge, May 13, 1667. Tanner. lie is said to have writ Ilcraclitus Ridens. GiiKV. A Thought of Death. When on my sick bed I languish, Full of sorrow, full of anguish. Fainting, gasping, trembling, crying. Panting, groaning, speechless, dying. My soul, just now about to take her flight Into the regions of eternal night, — Oh tell me you, That have l)een long below, What shall I do.' What shall I think, when cruel death apjiears, That may extenuate my fears .'' Methinks I hear some gentle spirit say. Be not fearful, come away ! Think with thy self that now thou shalt be free, And find thy long expected liberty ! Better thou mayest, but worse thou canst not, be Than in this vale of tears and misery. Like Caesar, with a.ssurance then come on. And unamaz'd attempt the laurel crown That lyes on t'other side death's rubicon.] SETH AVARD, a most noted mathematician and astronomer of his time, was born in a litde market town in Hertfordshire called Buntingford, R2 1638. 247 WARD. 248 and on tlie 15th of Apr. 1617 was baptized there. His father wa.s an attorney of wxxl repute ' anion