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For  The  Year  1843-4. 

VOL. 

I.  Travels  in  Holland,  the  United  Provinces,  England,  Scotland,   and   Ireland, 

1634-1635.    By  Sir  "William  Brereton,  Bart.    Edited  by  Edward  Hawkins, 
Esq.,  F.R.S.,  F.S.A.,  F.L.S. 

II.  Tracts  relating  to  Jlilitary  Proceedings  in  Lancashire  during  the  Great  Civil 
War.  Edited  and  Illustrated  from  Contemporary  Documents  by  George 
Ormerod,  D.C.L.,  F.R.S.,  F.S.A.,  F.G.S.,  author  of  «  The  History  of 
Cheshire." 

III.  Chester's  Triumph  in  Honor  of  her  Prince,  as  it  was  performed  upon  St. 
George's  Day  1610,  in  the  foresaid  Citie.  Reprinted  from  the  original  edition 
of  1610,  vnih  an  Introduction  and  Notes. 

1844-5. 

IV.  The  Life  of  Adam  ilartindale,  written  by  himself,  and  now  first  printed  from 
the  original  manuscript  in  the  British  JIuseum.  Edited  by  the  Rev.  Richard 
Parkinson,  B.D.,  Canon  of  ^Manchester. 

V.  Lancashire  ^leraorials  of  the  Rebellion,  1715.    By  Samuel  Hibbert  Ware, 

M.D.,  F.R.S.E.,  &c. 

VI.  Potts's  Discovery  of  Witches  in  the  county  of  Lancaster.  Reprinted  from  the 
original  edition  of  1613  ;  with  an  Introduction  and  Notes  by  James  Crossley, 
Esq. 

1S45-6. 

VII.  Iter  Lancastrense,  a  Poem  written  a.d.  1636,  by  the  Rev.  Richard  James. 
Edited  by  the  Rev.  Thomas  Corser,  M.A. 

VIII.  Notititia  Cestriensis,  or  Historical  Notices  of  the  Diocese  of  Chester,  by 
Bishop  Gastrell.     Edited  by  the  Rev.  F.  R.  Raines,  M.A.,  F.S.A.     Vol.  I. 

IX.  The  Norris  Papers.   Edited  by  Thomas  Heywood,  Esq.,  F.S.A. 


2  Puftlicattoni  at  tt^e  (!Ei)ttI)am  ^antt}}. 

1846-7. 

VOL. 

X.  The  Coucher  Book  or  Chartulary  of  Whalley  Abbey.       Edited  by  W.  A 

HuLTO.v,  Esq.     Vol.  I. 

XI.  The  Coucher  Book  or  Chartulary  of  Whalley  Abbey.  Edited  by  W.  A. 
HuLTOX,  Esq.     Vol.  II. 

XII.  The  Moore  Reutal.    Edited  by  Thomas  Heywood,  Esq.,  F.S.A. 

1847-8. 

XIII.  The  Diary  and  Correspondence  of  Dr.  John  Worthington.  Edited  by 
James  Crossley,  Esq.    Vol.  I. 

XIV.  The  Journal  of  Nicholas  Assheton.  Edited  by  the  Rev,  F.  R.  Raines, 
M.A.,  F.S.A. 

XV.  The  Holy  Lyfe  and  History  of  Saynt  Werburge,  very  frutefull  for  all  Chris- 
ten People  to  rede.    Edited  by  Edward  Hawkins,  Esq. 

1S4S-9. 

XVI.  The  Coucher  Book  or  Chartulary  of  Whalley  Abbey.  Edited  by  W.  A. 
HuLTOX,  Esq.    Vol.  III. 

XVII.  Warrington  in  1465.    Edited  by  William  Beamoxt,  Esq. 

XVIII.  The  Diary  of  the  Rev.  Henry  Newcome,  from  September  30, 1661,  to  Sep- 
tember 29, 1663.    Edited  by  Thomas  Heywood,  Esq.,  F.S.A. 

1849-50. 

XIX.  Notitia  Cestriensis,  or  Historical  Notices  of  the  Diocese  of  Chester,  by 
Bishop  Gastrell.  Edited  by  the  Rev.  F.  R.  Raines,  M.A.,  F.S.A.  Vol.  II. 
Part  I. 

XX.  The  Coucher  Book  or  Chartulary  of  Whalley  Abbey.  Edited  by  AV.  A. 
HuLTON,  Esq,     Vol.  IV. 

XXI.  Notitia  Cestriensis,  or  Historical  Notices  of  the  Diocese  of  Chester^  by 
Bishop  Gastrell.  Edited  by  the  Rev.  F.  R.  Raines,  M.A.,  F.S.A.  Vol.  II. 
Part  II. 

1850-1. 

XXII.  Notitia  Cestriensis,  or  Historical  Notices  of  the  Diocese  of  Chester,  by 
Bishop  Gastrell.  Edited  by  the  Rev.  F.  R.  Raines,  M.A.,  F.S.A.  Vol.  II. 
Part  III. 

XXIII.  A  Golden  Mirrour ;  conteininge  certaine  pithie  and  figurative  visions 
prognosticating  good  fortune  to  England,  &c.  By  Richai'd  Robinson  of 
Alton.  Reprinted  from  the  only  known  copy  of  the  original  edition  of  1589 
in  the  British  Museum,  with  an  Introduction  and  Notes  by  the  Rev.  Thomas 
CoRSEH,  M.A.,  F.S.A. 


?3u6ItratiflitjS  nf  ti^e  (CTjetfjam  ^atittn.  3 

VOL. 

XXIV.  Chetham  Miscellanies.  Volume  the  First,  edited  by  William  Laxgtox, 
Esq. :  containing 

Papers  connected  "with  the  affairs  of  Milton  and  his  Family.  Edited 
by  J.  F.  Marsh,  Esq. 

Epistolary  Reliques  of  Lancashire  and  Cheshire  Antiquaries,  1653-73. 
Communicated  by  George  Ormerod,  D.C.L.,  F.R.S.,  F.S.A.,  and  F.G.S. 

Calendars  of  the  Names  of  Families  which  entered  their  several 
Pedigrees  in  the  successive  Heraldic  Visitations  of  the  County  Palatine 
of  Lancaster.  Communicated  by  George  Ormerod,  D.C.L.,  F.R.S., 
F.S.A.,  and  F.G.S. 

A  Fragment,  illustrative  of  Sir  Wm.  Dugdale's  A^isitation  of  Lanca- 
shire.  From  a  MS.  in  the  possession  of  the  Rev.  F.  R.Ral\es,M.A.,  F.S.A. 

Autobiographical  Tracts  of  Dr.  John  Dee,  "Warden  of  the  Col- 
lege of  Manchester.    Edited  by  James  Crossley,  Esq. 

1851-2. 

XXV.  Cardinal  Allen's  Defence  of  Sir  William  Stanley's  Surrender  of  Deventer. 
Edited  by  Thomas  Heywood,  Esq.,  F.S.A. 

XXVI.  The  Autobiography  of  Henry  Newcome,  ^I.A.  Edited  by  Richard 
ParkIxVsox,  D.D.,  F.S.A.    Vol.  I. 

XXVII.  The  Autobiography  of  Henry  Newcome,  SI  .A.  Edited  by  Richard 
Parklnsox,  D.D.,  F.S.A.    Vol.  II. 

1852-3. 

XXVIII.  The  Jacobite  Trials  at  Manchester  in  1694.  Edited  by  William  Bea- 
MONT,  Esq. 

XXIX.  The  Stanley  Papers,  Part  I.  The  Earls  of  Derby  and  the  Verse  Writers 
and  Poets  of  the  sixteenth  and  seventeenth  centuries.  By  Thomas  Heywood, 
Esq.,  F.S.A. 

XXX.  Documents  relating  to  the  Priory  of  Penwortham,  and  other  Possessions  in 
Lancashire  of  the  Abbey  of  Evesham.     Edited  by  W.  A  Hultox,  Esq. 

1853  -4. 

XXXI.  The  Stanley  Papers,  Part  II.  The  Derby  Household  Books,  comprising  an 
account  of  the  Houseliold  Regulations  and  Expenses  of  Edward  and  Henry, 
third  and  fourth  Earls  of  Derby  ;  together  with  a  Diary,  containing  the  names 
of  the  guests  who  visited  the  latter  Earl  at  his  houses  in  Lancashire  :  by 
William  Farrington,  Esq.,  the  Comptroller.  Edited  by  the  Rev.  F.  R.  Raines, 
M.A.,  F.S.A. 

XXXII.  The  Private  Journal  and  Literary  Remains  of  John  Byrom.  Vol.  I. 
Part  I.     Edited  by  Richard  Parkixsox,  D.D.,  F.S.A. 

XXXIII.  Christopher  Towneley's  Abstracts  of  Lancashire  Inquisitions.  Edited 
by  William  Laxgtox,  Esq.    (In  the  Press.) 


3  t9uiltcatt0it^  of  tf)C  C|)trt)am  ^Drtrtp. 

1854-5. 

VOL. 

XXXIV.  The  Private  Journal  and  Literary  Remains  of  John  Byrora.     Vol.  I. 
Part  II.    Edited  by  Richard  Parkinson,  D.D.,  F.S.A. 

XXXV.  Stewards'  House  and  Farm  Accounts  of  the  Shuttleworths  of  Smitliils 
and  Gawthorpe.    Edited  by  John  Harland,  Esq.,  F.S.A.    {in  the  Press.) 

XXXVI.  The  Diary  and  Correspondence  of  Dr.  John  Worthington.      Edited  by 
James  Crossley,  Esq.,  F.S.A.    Vol.  II.  Part  I. 


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DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE 


DR.    JOHN    WORTHINGTON, 

MASTER  OF  JESUS  COLLEGE,  CAMBRIDGE,  VICE-CHANCELLOR  OF  THE 
UNIVERSITY  OF  CAMBRIDGE,  ETC.,  ETC. 


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ADDITIONS  AND  ERRATA. 

Page  1.  Add  at  the  end  of  Note — But  the  term  Neiv  disease  seems  to  have  been 
applied  to  other  epidemics  also.  The  Morbus  Epidemicus  in  1643, 
which  is  described  as  Febris,  putrida,  continua  et  contagiosa  (see 
pamphlet  published  1643,  by  command),  is  likewise  distinguished  by 
writers  as  The  neio  disease. 

„        8.     Note,  third  line  from  bottom.     For  forgot,  read  foi'get. 

„      18.     Note,  sixth  line.     Dele  note  of  interrogation. 

„      84.     Note,  fifteenth  line.     For  maxime,  read  maximi. 

„    109.     Note  2,  first  line.     For  Miss  Green,  read  Mrs.  Everett  Green. 


DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE 

OF 

DK  WORTHINGTON. 


Baker's  Collect.     Bibl.  Harl. 
Museum  Brit.     No.  7045. 


1661. 

June  2,  9,  16,  23,  30,  July  14,  21,  28,  Aug.  11,  18,  Sept.  1,  8, 
15,  22,  29,  Oct.  6, 13,  20,  Nov.  3,  5,  17,  24,  Dec.  1,  8, 15,  22,  29. 
I  preached  at  Ditton. 

July  7,  Nov.  10.     I  preached  at  Milton. 

July  17.    I  preached  at  Feversham  at  the  funeral  of  Mrs.  Sharp. 

Sept.  ]0.  Damaris  began  to  be  sick  of  an  ague  or  the  new  dis- 
ease.^ 


^  The  rickets  is  generally  noticed  at  this  period  under  the  name  of  the  new  disease, 
no  mention  having  been  made  of  it  in  the  bills  of  mortality  until  the  year  1634. — See 
"  G-raunt's  Natural  and  Political  Observations  upon  the  Bills  of  Mortality,"  4th  edi- 
tion, Oxford  1665,  12mo,  p.  46. 

VOL.  II.  B 


2  UIARY   AND   (ORKF*.r{)M)K\CK  [1661 

Dr.  Worthington  to  S.  Hartlib.^ 
Sir, 

I  had  both  yours ;  the  latter  of  which  ^yas  au  answer  to 
mine  of  August  24.  The  postscript  did  acquaint  me  with  what  I 
have  long  desired  (and  have  heretofore  written  to  you  about)  viz, 
the  new  edition  of  Eusebius  by  Valesius,^  a  very  learned  man,  as 
may  appear  by  his  Notes  upon  Ammianus  Marcellinus,  published 
by  him  not  long  since.  Hath  he  set  forth  all  Eusebius  his  Eccle- 
siastical History,  or  that  part  only  De  vita  Constantini  ?  For  he 
wrote  to  Bishop  Usher  about  his  assistance  in  that  part  of  Euse- 
bius.^  That  of  liucas  Dacherius,  if  it  be  a  faithful  collection  and 
edition  of  MSS.,  is  a  most  acceptable  work. 

If  you  consult  your  catalogue  of  books  printed  in  Holland  anno 
1642,  you  may  see  by  whom,  and  for  whom,  Yita  Davidis  Georgii 
was  printed ;  which  may  better  direct  to  the  procuring  of  it.  It 
was  put  to  the  press  ex  Musaeo  Ja.  Revii,  who  was  no  friend  to  the 
fancies  of  David  George.^ 

'  I  have  printed  this  letter  from  a  copy  in  MS.  in  my  possession,  which  -varies  a 
little  from  the  printed  one,  page  270  -  279  in  Worthington's  Miscellanies. 

2  For  an  account  of  Henry  Valesius,  or  De  Valois,  see  vol.  i.  p.  198,  note.  His 
edition  of  Eusebius's  Ecclesiastical  History  (not  merely  the  life  of  Constantine) 
appeared  Paris  1659,  fol.,  and  was  followed  by  Socrates  and  Sozomen,  Paris  1668, 
foL,  and  by  Theodoret  and  Evagrius,  Paris  1073,  fol.  Of  his  edition  of  Ammianus 
MarceUinns,  first  published  Paris  1636,  4to,  a  reimpression  in  folio  came  forth  at 
Paris  in  1681,  under  the  care  of  his  brother  Adrien  de  Valois,  with  additional  anno- 
tations. It  is,  though  not  the  best  critical  edition  of  Ammianus  MarceUinus,  well 
worth  possessing  on  account  of  the  beauty  of  the  typography  and  the  valuable  notes 
of  the  learned  editor. 

^  His  letter  to  Usher,  whom  he  addresses  as  "  omnium  Anglorum  doctissime,"  is 
contained  in  that  Prelate's  correspondence,  published  by  Parr,  (p.  613,  folio  edition,)  a 
collection  which  is  exceeded  in  interest  by  none  of  those  which  have  been  formed 
from  the  letters  of  British  or  Continental  scholars.  It  places  us  at  once  in  the  midst 
of  whatever  was  transacting  in  the  way  of  learned  research  in  these  islands  during  his 
time. 

"  Vol.  i.  p.  168. 


1661]  OF  DK.   WORTH  INGTOX.  3 

Mr.  Wray'  is  not  yet  returned  from  the  north  ;  I  sent  yesterday 
to  enquire ;  he  is  expected  the  next  week. 

I  never  saw  that  tract  of  Leo  ]Modena^s  of  the  Temple,^  ^^ 
French^  but  in  Dr.  Cudworth's  study ;  and  he  told  me  it  was  Mr. 
Wall's.  The  author  wrote  also  a  tract  in  Italian,  Of  the  Customs 
of  the  Jews. 

Mr.  Oldenburgh  being  at  Leyden,  I  presume  he  might  hear 
something  of  Josephus  and  of  Hesychius,  whether  either  of  them 
be  in  the  press ;  both  the  books  being  so  very  considerable,  would 
easily  invite  one  upon  the  place  to  such  an  enquiry. 

I  long  very  much  to  see  Buxtorf's  new  edition  of  the  Hebrew 
Bible,  and  his  Critica  Sacra,  which  by  the  time  they  were  first  put 
into  the  press,  one  might  hope  to  be  finished  and  brought  into  the 
world.  I  was  in  hopes,  when  you  first  mentioned  the  New  Testa- 
ment being  extant  in  Hebrew,  that  it  signified  more  than  a  late 
production  of  one  Il[obertson],3  If  it  be  he  that  went  about 
teaching  those  that  knew  not  Latin  to  construe  Hebrew,  I  am  not 
solicitous  about  enquiring  any  further  after  it.  To  perform  this 
undertaking  well,  requires  the  best  labours  of  one  thoroughly 
acquainted  with  the  Hebrew  in  the  Old  Testament,  and  in  the 
Jewish  Records ;  of  which  several  proofs  are  given  by  the  late 
more  accurate  interpreters.  Among  the  several  translations  of  the 
New  Testament  published  in  two  volumes  by  Elias  Hutterus, 
there  is  an  Hebrew  translation.  I  was  in  hopes,  that  the  Evange- 
lium  Nazarseorum  (or  Evang.  secundum  Hebrseos)  had  been  dis- 
covered ;  out  of  which  Ignatius,  Justin  M.  [artyr,]  Clemens  Alex., 
S.  Jerom,  &c.,  quote  some  passages  not  extant  in  our  Greek 
copies. 

Your  other  letter  gratifies  me  with  the  communication  of  an 

'  Mr.  "Wray,  or  Ray,  by  which  latter  name  he  is  best  known,  the  eminent  naturalist, 
vol.  i.  p.  330.  He  set  out  on  this  journey  July  the  •26th,  1661,  from  Cambridge,  and 
returned  the  30tli  August. 

2  Vol.  i.  p.  355.  ^  See  Robertson  noticed  vol.  i.  p.  365. 


4  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1661 

Angelical  Vision,^  as  is  supposed.  He  that  wrote  to  you  about  it 
on  August  9,  it  seems  was  not  firmly  persuaded  of  it,  nor  much 
solicitous  about  it ;  for  then  he  would  not  have  written  in  the  end 
of  the  letter  as  he  doth,  viz.  (Whether  this  matter  of  the  vision  be 
true  or  no,  that  the  man  hath  seen,  is  not  material  to  me).  For 
the  second  letter  of  Aug.  16,  it  is  more  particular;  yet  not  so  par- 
ticular but  that  many  things  would  be  enquired  after  before  one 
may  give  a  judgment  upon  the  whole.  Perhaps  that  relation  of  his 
message  written  with  his  own  hand  to  a  Lutheran  may  inform 
more  particularly;  or  that  writing  Avhich  he  intended  to  send  to 
the  Consistory  of  Amsterdam.  That  sins  many  and  grievous  reign 
in  those  parts  is  a  most  clear  and  sad  truth,  although  one  of  the  par- 
ticular sins  mentioned  by  the  Old  Man,  viz.  their  persecuting  one 
another  for  differences  of  religion  (he  had  before  spoken  of  the 
Reformed,  the  Lutherans,  the  Anabaptists,  the  Papists)  is  not  so 
clear;  there  being  a  toleration  of  men  of  several  persuasions  in 
those  parts.  And  that  God's  judgments  will  follow  upon  such 
sins  (without  repentance)  is  a  clear  and  experienced  truth.  We  see 
it  in  the  punishments  of  the  Jews  by  the  Romans,  and  before  by 
Nebuchadnezar  and  the  Chaldeans ;  as  also  of  the  whole  world  in 
the  days  of  Noah  :  yet  when  Christ  warned  the  Jews,  he  tells  them 
of  the  time,  viz.  that  within  that  generation  (about  40  years,  as 
Jonah  gave  warning  of  the  destruction  of  Nineveh  within  40  days) 
the  sword,  famine,  &c.  should  destroy  them,  Matth.  24;  and  the 
prophet  Jeremy  doth  particularize  the  time  and  persons  that 
should  destroy ;  and  Noah,  the  preacher  of  righteousness,  gives 
notice  of  the  time,  after  120  years ;  but  the  Old  Man  of  Friesland 
is  cautious ;  and  doth  not  particularize  tlic  time,  nor  the  nation 
that  should  come  with  the  devouring  sword  against  them.  It  hath 
been  the  ill  hap  of  many  heretofore,  that  have  attempted  to  act  the 
part  of  prophets,  to  see  their  prophecies  prove  false,  by  setting  the 

'  \Vhicli  was  reported  to  have  occurred  to  an  old  Frieslander  (vol.  i.  p.  357,  note). 
A  letter  from  Hartlib,  in  which  fuller  particulars  were  given  of  the  revelations  of  the 
(so  called)  angel,  would  seem  to  have  been  lost ;  but  see  his  letter  of  the  21th  Sep- 
tember 1661. 


1661]  OF   DR.   'SVORTHIXGTOX.  5 

time  too  short^ :  others  more  cuuningly  have  set  the  time  further 
ofF^  and  so  distant^  that  in  all  probability  they  would  be  off  the 
stage  before  it  was  fulfilled.  Yet  I  do  not  judge  anything  of 
deceit  to  be  at  the  bottom  of  the  old  Frieslander's  story,  if  he  be  a 
man  of  known  integrity,  and  one  in  whose  spirit  there  is  no  guile. 
But  some  well  meaning  men  have  through  the  strength  of  imagi- 
nation and  melancholy  thought  as  great  matters  as  this  Old  Man 
hath  spoken  of.  Whether  this  be  his  particular  case,  except  one 
had  a  very  particular  character  of  his  temper,  and  of  his  course  of 
life ;  and  knew  well  that  he  is  free  from  craft  and  design,  as  also 
from  the  being  made  a  tool  or  instrument  to  serve  the  designs  of 
others ;  I  say,  except  there  were  a  more  explicit  knowledge  of 
these  things,  one  cannot  so  well  determine.  I  shall  only  add, 
what  one  suggested  at  the  reading  of  this  narrative,  viz.  "That  the 
angel  said,  that  the  gospel  was  truly  preached  in  those  lands,  &c. 
This  (said  he)  is  such  a  confirmation  of  their  doctrine,  as  is  not 
usual.  There  was  a  synod  at  Dort,  which  agreed  upon  such  a 
doctrine.  The  Remonstrants  and  Lutherans  thought  that  the 
synod^s  doctrine  was  not  a  doctrine  according  to  godliness  j  and 
that  the  ancient  Fathers  and  holy  men  in  the  primitive  times  had 
other  thoughts  of  God,  and  will  hardly  be  persuaded  that  an  angel 
from  heaven  should  give  an  attestation  to  the  Dort-doctriue.'" 
This  and  another  passage  in  the  story  made  things  seem  more 
doubtful ;  which  perhaps  may  better  be  understood,  when  a  more 
particular  relation  shall  be  published.  There  is  mention  in  the 
letter  of  one  ^Ir.  Rulice,^  and  another  minister,  Mr.  Schotanus  ;^ 

1  As  was  Drabicius's  case  (see  vol.  i.  p.  358,  note) .  A  long  and  curious  list  might 
be  gireu  of  prophets  who  have  liyed  to  see  their  prophecies  falsified.  A  still  larger 
one  might  be  collected  of  apocalyptical  interpreters,  who,  like  Beverley,  the  author  of 
the  "Scripture  Line  of  Time,"  and  Hartlib's  friend  Sadler,  the  author  of  "  Olbia," 
(vol.  i.  p.  252,)  have  found  it  necessary  to  be  constantly  fixing  and  refixing  the  periods 
of  the  millenium  and  second  coming  of  Christ,  from  the  provoking  circumstance  that 
the  days  originally  named  for  their  accomplishment  in  the  lifetime  of  the  writers  had 
passed  by  without  any  extraordinary  manifestation. 

"  A  character  of  Eulice  is  given  in  Hartlib's  letter  of  the  —  October  1661- 

•*  Christian  Schotanus,    born   in  1603,    and   who  died    in   1671,  the  editor  of  the 


6  DIARY   AND   CORRESPONDENCE  [1661 

of  what  persuasion  are  they?  With  the  latter  of  these  the  Old 
Man,  it  seems,  was  well  acquainted. 

Thus  you  have  a  plain  answer  to  that  part  of  your  letter ;  and  as 
brief  as  I  could.  The  like  plainness  I  shall  use  as  to  your  other 
enquiry :  for  I  love  not  any  tedious  ambages,  or  sonorous  expres- 
sions ;  which  are  certain  arguments  of  a  poor  pedantry  of  spirit ; 
they  have  indeed  Xojov  ao(j)La<;,  and  may  amuse  the  unskilful,  but 
signify  little  to  those  who  in  understanding  are  men.  Your  en- 
quiry is,  what  I  think  of  Otto  Faber's,  or  rather  Van  Helmont^s 
notion,  (that  a  good  angel  never  appears  barbatus  ;  but  if  an  angel 
appears  with  a  beard,  it  is  an  evil  angel,  for  such  and  such  reasons 
mentioned.)^  I  was  very  desirous  to  know  what  they  were ;  I 
have  not  the  book  here,  but  I  sent  to  a  physician  (and  a  chymist) 
to  send  me  an  extract  of  that  passage  in  Helmont,  which  amounts 
to  this :  (That  Adam  was  primus  castitatis  infractor  virginisque 
stuprator,  and  therefore  as  Cain  the  first  homicide  had  a  mark  set 
upon  him,  so  Adam  had  a  mark  set  upon  him,  viz.  a  beard,  that  he 
might  be  like  to  that  salacious  creature  the  goat).  Not  to  detract 
from  Van  Helmont  in  any  deserved  matter  of  praise  for  his  chy- 
mical  operations,  yet  I  think  that  his  Kpirtjptov  in  this  particular 
(and  as  to  some  philosophical  notions  about  the  soul,  to  name  no 
others)  was  very  much  enfeebled,  and  out  of  order.  I  forget  not 
what  Dr.  More  hath  prudently  observed  concerning  philosophical 
enthusiasm  ^^  and  it  is  easy  to  observe  how  that  men  (especially  if 

"Nomenclator"  of  Elias  Levita,  Franeker  1652,  8vo,  and  of  tlie  "  Ilistoria  Sacra" 
of  Sulpicius  Severus,  published  also  at  Franeker  in  1664.  Scbotanus  lield  a  respecta- 
ble rank  as  a  writer  in  philology  and  divinity. 

'  Vol.  i.  p.  360,  note.  We  may  smile,  and  it  would  be  difBcult  to  avoid  doing  so, 
to  observe  the  simplicity  and  solemnity  with  which  this  excellent  man  discusses  the 
question  propounded,  but  Worthington's  character  for  good  sense  and  sound  judg- 
ment will  nevertheless  not  suffer  with  those  who  are  sufficiently  versed  in  the  theology 
and  philosophy  of  his  time  to  know  what  importance  even  the  greatest  divines 
attached  to  similar  questions. 

^  "  This  disease  many  of  onr  chemists  and  several  theosopbists,  in  my  judgment, 
seem  very  obnoxious  to,  who  dictate  their  own  conceits  and  fancies  so  magisterially 
and  imperiously,  as  if  they  were  indeed  authentic  messengers  from  God   Almighty. 


1661]  OF   DR.   WORTHINGTON.  7 

they  would  altum  sapere,  and  seem  somebodies  in  the  world)  may 
have  very  odd  and  extravagant  conceits  in  some  points,  who  yet  in 
other  things  may  be  sober  and  useful  and  not  injudicious.  When 
he  saithj  "  Priorem  deliquisse  Adamum,  Evam  vero  diutius  resti- 
tisse  et  ab  Adamo  vi  stupratam,  et  Adamus  illecebrarum  voces  et 
dein  minas  locutus  fuit :''  is  not  all  this  to  dictate  magisterially  ? 
(a  thing  very  unpleasing  to  the  ingenuous  and  free  pursuers  of 
rational  knowledge),  as  well  as  when  he  saith  afterwards,  (That 
Adam,  antequam  stuprasset  Evam,  had  a  most  sweet  treble ;  but 
afterwards  his  voice  brake,  and  became  hoarse ;  and  that's  the 
reason  why  the  voice  changes  circa  juventutem.)  Both  Scripture 
and  philosophy  give  us  other  accounts  than  Van  Helmont  doth  in 
that  section  34.  The  story  is  so  clear  in  Genesis  of  God's  giving 
Eve  to  Adam  for  a  wife  and  meet  help;  of  God's  blessing  them, 
"  Be  fruitful  and  multiply,"  &c.  that  I  need  say  no  more.  And  when 
men  tell  us  confidently  such  particularities  as  are  not  in  the  sacred 
story,  we  are  to  ask  them.  Whence  they  have  their  doctrine,  and 
who  revealed  to  them  such  particular  supplements  to  the  holy 
text  ?  But  if  they  speak  what  is  plainly  cross  to  the  unforced  and 
easy  meaning  of  the  text,  we  are  not  to  value  it.  There  could 
therefore  be  no  such  reason  for  Adam's  having  a  beard  and  Eve's 
having  none.  Philosophy  doth  easily  give  us  an  account,  why 
men  have  beards  rather  than  women. ^  What  did  Van  Helmont 
think  of  some  women,  that  when  grown  in  years,  and  furthest  from 

But  that  they  are  but  counterfeits,  that  is,  enthusiasts,  no  infallible  illuminated  men, 
the  gross  fopperies  they  let  drop  in  their  writings,  will  sufBcieutly  demonstrate  to  aU 
that  are  not  smitten  in  some  measure  with  the  like  lunacy  with  themselves."  — More's 
"  Enthusiasmus  Triumphatus"  in  his  Philosophical  Works,  edit.  1712,  fol.,  p.  29. 

^  The  very  amusing  chapter  in  Bulwer's  "Artificial  Changeling,"  1653,  4to,  pp. 
193-216,  on  this  subject,  may  be  consulted  by  those  who  are  desirous  of  ascertaining 
the  opinions  of  learned  writers,  and  amongst  them  J.  C.  Scaliger,  Platerus,  Hofman, 
Zonardus,  and  Ulmus  in  his  treatise  "De  fine  Barbae  Humanse,"  with  respect  to 
this  point.  Bidwer  is  very  vehement  against  the  "  beard  haters,"  "  a  generation  of 
scofiers  of  nature,  who  with  their  pincers  fight  against  her,  fit  companions  for  the 
apostate  Julian,  who  styled  himself  Mysopogon,  as  much  as  to  say,  the  hater  of  a 
beard." 


8  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1661 

the  salacious  goatish  qualities,    have  had  Adam's   mark,   viz.   a 
beard?     And  the  voice  then  grows  hoarse  as  they  grow  into  years. 
You  may  remember  that  in  Levit.  21,  God  forbade  the  Levites  to 
shave  off  the  corners  of  their  beard  :^  and  one  would  be  prone  to 
think  that  if  to  have  a  beard  were  to  wear  God's  mark  of  Adam's 
un cleanness,  he  would  rather  have  injoined  the  Levites  (who  were 
in  an  especial  manner  near  to  God)  to  have  shaved  off  not  only 
part  of,  but  all  their  beards ;  and  therein,  as  in  other  things,  to  be 
separated  from  the  people ;  nor  should  we  have  read  of  the  high 
priest's  beard,  (as  we  do  in  Psal.  133)  that  a  person  so  high  and 
sacred  as   Aaron  the  high  priest    should  wear  so  disgraceful  a 
badge.     To  this  might  be  added,  that  often  in  the  Prophets,  the 
cutting  of  the  hair  and  shaving  off  the  beard  is  represented  as 
proper  to  mourning  and  humiliation,  and  is  joined  with  putting  on 
of  sackcloth,  &c.  which  supposeth  the  hair  and  beard  to  be  orna- 
ments (as  well  as  their  better  apparel)  and  therefore  fit  to  be  laid 
aside  in  time  of  public  calamities.     But  of  this  enough  :  not  out  of 
love  to  a  long  beard  (which  I  desire  not)  nor  out  of  a  desire  to  contra- 
dict Van  H.[elmont]  but  because  you  importune  me  to  write  about 
it,  have  I  enlarged  thus  much.      As  for  Van  Helmont's  inference, 
(That  therefore  no  good  angel  ever  appeared  barbatus;)  I  do  as 
little  believe  it,  as  that  the  good  angels  are  like  little  plump-cheek'd 
boys,  as  the  painter  makes  them.     I  will  not  trouble  myself  in 
turning  over  historical  books  about  this  matter ;  but  for  the  pre- 
sent content  myself  with  two  stories  that  now  come  to  my  memory. 
The  first  is  recorded  by  Melancthon  (an  holy  and  peaceable  man)^ 

'  On  wliicli  Maimonidcs  has  an  elaborate  comment. 

2  The  image  of  this  "  holy  and  peaceable  man,"  as  Worthington  well  calls  him,  rises 
from  out  the  sea  of  controyersy  like  one  of  those  "  birds  of  calm  "  which  are  said  to 
have  sat  "  brooding  on  the  charmed  wave."  In  the  history  of  the  earUer  part  of  the 
sixteenth  century  the  eye  rests  upon  no  portrait  more  delightful  than  that  of  the 
"  EcclesisD  Reformatse  Corculum,"  as  Bishop  Montagu,  or  "  Germanise  summum 
decus,"  as  Gesner  styles  him.  Transcendent  as  were  his  merits  as  a  reformer,  as  a 
promoter  of  learning,  as  a  cultivator  of  science,  we  almost  forgot  them  all  in  the  con- 
templation of  the  amenity,  the  purity  and  grace  of  his  personal  character.  These 
seem  to  have  acted  as  a  spell,  the  influence  of  which  still  pi'cvails,  upon  the  minds  of  his 


1661]  OF   DR.  WOKTHINGTOX.  9 

in  his  Commentaries  upon  Dan.  10,  viz.  How  that  Simon  Grynseus^ 
being  at  Spires  in  the  year  1529,  (where  and  when  the  Diet  was 
then  held)  and  having  heard  one  in  his  sermon  (his  name  was 
Faber)  defend  some  doctrines  which  seemM  to  him  very  erroneous, 
he  discoursed  with  him  in  a  mild  way  concerning  those  errors. 
The  preacher  being  vexed  hereat  inwardly,  designs  mischief  to 
Grynaeus ;  which  accordingly  had  succeeded,  if  not  prevented  by 
this  extraordinary  means  ;  ^iz.  —  Grynseus  and  Melancthon  being 
together  in  an  inn,  and  at  dinner,  one  comes  to  the  inn,  and 
desires  to  speak  with  Melancthon;  who  upon  the  notice  arises 
from  the  table,  meets  with  an  old  grave  man,  who  told  him  of  the 
mischief  designed  against  Grynseus,  and  wished  that  he  would 
forthwith  hasten  out  of  the  inn  and  the  city ;  which  was  accord- 
ingly done,  and  so  Grynasus  was  preserved  from  that  imminent 
danger.2     INIelancthon  thought  him  that  appeared  to  be  an  angel 


countrymen,  and  to  have  installed  the  well-known  "  Dominus  Philippus  "  amongst  the 
household  gods  of  Germany.  It  is  somewhat  honourable  to  England  that  the  first 
collection  of  the  detached  portions  of  his  correspondence  was  undertaken  here  and 
published  at  Loudon  in  1642,  fol.,  along  with  the  letters  of  Erasmus,  More,  and  Lu- 
dovicus  Yives.  A  good  English  life  of  him,  for  that  by  Cox  (1815,  8vo.)  has  not 
supplied  the  desideratum,  is  yet  wanting,  with,  what  woidd  of  itself  form  a  very  at- 
tractive volume,  a  supplement  of  Jlelancthoniana,  bringing  together  his  thoughts, 
opinions,  and  criticisms  from  his  correspondence  and  various  works.  It  has  been  in 
part  attempted,  but  so  far  I  have  seen  nothing  which  is  worthy  of  the  name. 

1  Symon  Grrynseus,  the  intimate  friend  of  Melancthon,  was  born  at  Veringen,  in  the 
county  of  Hohenzolleru,  in  1493,  and  after  distinguishing  himself  as  one  of  the  most 
learned,  zealous,  and  able  of  the  scholars  of  that  age,  died  at  Basil  of  the  plague  in 
1541.  For  a  reference  to  the  various  writers  who  have  noticed  him,  see  "Saxii  Ono- 
masticon,"  vol.  iii.  p.  141.  In  1531  he  took  a  journey  into  England,  his  chief  object 
being  to  visit  the  libraries  in  this  country,  from  some  of  which,  if  Anthony  Wood  is 
to  be  believed,  he  carried  off  several  G-reek  books,  "  because  he  saw  the  owners  were 
careless  of  them."  Anthony's  accuracy  has  however  been  doubted,  and  certainly  no 
learned  foreigner  who  has  visited  this  country  ever  bore  a  higher  character,  Erasmus, 
Gesner,  and  Melancthon  being  profuse  in  their  praises  of  him. 

-  The  following  more  circumstantial  version  of  this  story  is  given  in  that  curious 
repository,  Turner's  "  History  of  Remarkable  Providences,"  (1697,  fol.)  p.  13.  ""When 
Melancthon,  with  others,  was  on  a  time  at  Spires,  Faber  preached,  and  spake  many 
shameful  things  touching  transubstantiatiou  and   the  worshipping  of  consecrated 

VOL.  II.  C 


10  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1661 

(though  he  loved  uot  to  be  very  positive  and  confident)  for  he 
thereupon  takes  notice  of  the  goodness  of  God  in  sending  his 
angels  for  our  protection.  And,  if  an  angel,  that  he  vras  bar- 
batus,  is  very  probable^  from  what  Melancthon  saith  of  him ;  he 
was  senex  singularem  gravitatem  vultu  oratione  et  vestitu  prae  se 
ferens.     The  other  story  is  of  one  Samuel  Wallis^  of  Stamford ; 

bread,  ■vchicli  when  Grynaus  had  heard  he  came  to  him  when  his  sermon  was  done, 
and  said  that  forasmuch  as  he  had  heard  his  sermon  concerning  the  sacrament  he 
was  desirous  to  speak  with  him  privately  about  that  matter,  which  when  Faber  heard 
he  answered  with  courteous  words  and  friendly  countenance  that  this  day  was  most 
of  him  desired,  that  he  should  speak  with  Grynseus,  especially  concerning  such  a 
matter,  and  bid  him  home  to  his  house.  The  next  day  after  Gryna>us,  suspecting 
nothing  amiss,  went  his  way ;  who  returning  to  them  said  that  to-morrow  he  should 
dispute  with  Faber :  but  in  the  meantime  he,  practising  to  entrap  Grynseus,  went  to 
a  nobleman  and  opened  to  him  the  whole  matter,  and  at  length  he  obtained  what  this 
nobleman  commanded,  that  the  burgomaster  should  cast  Grynseus  into  prison.  When 
they  had  scarcely  begun  dinner,  there  came  an  old  man  to  the  place  where  they  dined 
and  sent  for  Melancthon  to  come  and  speak  with  him  at  the  door,  asking  him  for 
Grynaeus,  whether  he  were  within  ?  to  whom  he  made  answer  that  he  was :  he  said 
moreover  that  he  was  in  danger,  which  if  he  would  avoid  he  should  fly  forthwith, 
which  when  he  told  Grynseus  and  counselled  him  to  ilee,  he  did  as  he  was  wished. 
Melancthon,  Dr.  Cruciger,  and  he  arose  from  the  table,  went  out,  their  servants  fol- 
lowed, and  Gryna;us  went  in  the  middle  ;  they  had  not  passed  four  or  five  hours  but 
by  and  by  the  servants  were  where  they  lodged  seeking  for  Grynseus,  and  not  finding 
him  there  they  left  ofi"  searching.  He  asked  many  if  they  knew  this  man,  being  de- 
sirous to  give  him  thanks  for  his  good  turn,  but  none  could  tell  who  he  was  or  could 
see  him  afterwards.  I  think  verily  this  man  toas  an  angel.  Wlien  they  had  brought 
Grynseus  to  the  Rhine  he  took  a  boat  and  passed  over  in  safety." 

'  Rather  a  halting  conclusion  from  the  premises.  Surely  "gravitas  vultu"  does 
not  imply  a  beard.     For  Melancthon's  words  see  Op.  (edit.  1602)  part  ii.  p.  476. 

2  A  more  particular  account  of  this  case  is  afforded  in  Turner's  "History  of  Re- 
markable Providences,"  p.  9,  and  in  the  appendix  to  Ennemoser's  "  Story  of  Magic," 
(Bohn,  1854,  I2mo)  vol.  ii.  p.  385  ;  from  the  latter  of  which  the  following  extract  is 
made  :  — 

"Samuel  Wallace,  of  Stamford,  in  Lincolnshire,  a  very  pious  good  man,  a  shoe- 
maker by  trade,  having  been  thirteen  years  sick  of  a  consumption,  upon  Whitsunday, 
after  sermon,  1659,  being  alone  in  the  house,  and  reading  in  a  book  called  Abraham's 
'  Suit  for  Sodom,'  heard  somebody  knock  at  the  door ;  upon  which  he  arose,  and  went 
with  his  stick  in  one  hand,  and  holding  by  the  wall  with  the  other,  to  see  who  was  at 
the  door,  where  he  found  a  grave  old  man  with  hair  as  white  as  wool  curled  up,  and 
a  white  broad  beard,  of  a  fresh  complexion,  little  narrow  band,  coat  and  hose  of  a 


1661]  OF   DR.  WORTHINGTOX,  11 

who,  having  been  in  a  sick  and  languishing  condition  for  13  years, 
was  in  the  year  1658  wonderfully  restored  to  health,  by  one  that 

purple  colour,  and  new  shoes  tied  with  black  ribbands,  without  spot  of  wet  or  dirt 
upon  him,  though  it  rained  when  he  came  in,  and  had  done  all  that  day,  hands  as 
white  as  snow,  without  gloves,  who  said  to  him,  '  Friend,  I  pray  thee  give  to  an  old 
pilgrim  a  cup  of  small  beer.'  Samuel  Wallace  answering,  '  I  pray  you.  Sir,  come  in ;' 
he  replied,  '  Call  me  not  Sir,  for  I  am  no  Sir ;  but  yet  come  in  I  must,  for  I  cannot 
pass  by  the  door  before  I  come  in.'  Wallace,  with  the  help  of  his  stick,  drew  a  little 
jug  pot  of  small  beer,  which  the  pilgrim  took,  and  drank  a  little,  then  walked  two 
or  three  times  to  and  fro,  and  drank  again,  and  so  a  third  time  before  he  drank  it  all. 
And  when  he  had  so  done,  he  walked  three  or  four  times  as  before ;  and  then  coming 
to  Wallace,  said,  '  Friend,  I  perceive  that  thou  art  not  well.'  AVallace  replied,  '  Xo, 
truly.  Sir,  I  have  not  been  well  these  many  years.'  Then  he  asked  what  his  disease 
was.  Wallace  answered,  'A  deep  consumption,  as  our  doctors  say,  'tis  past  cure.' 
To  which  the  old  pilgrim  replied,  '  They  say  well ;  but  what  have  they  given  thee  for 
it  ? '  '  Truly,  nothing,'  said  he,  '  for  I  am  very  poor,  and  not  able  to  follow  the  doc- 
tor's prescriptions  :  and  so  I  have  committed  myself  into  the  hands  of  Almighty  God, 
to  dispose  of  me  as  he  pleaseth.'  The  old  man  answered,  '  Thou  sayest  very  well ; 
but  I  will  tell  thee  by  the  almighty  power  of  God  what  thou  shalt  do ;  only  observe 
my  words,  and  remember  them,  and  do  it ;  but  whatsoever  thou  dost,  fear  God,  and 
serve  him.  To-morrow  morning  go  into  thy  garden,  and  get  there  two  red  sage 
leaves,  and  one  leaf  of  blood-wort,  put  these  into  a  cup  of  small  beer,  let  them  lie 
there  for  the  space  of  three  days  together ;  driuk  thereof  as  often  as  need  requires, 
but  let  the  leaves  remain  in  the  cup ;  and  the  fourth  morning  cast  them  away  and  put 
three  fresh  ones  in  the  room :  and  thus  do  for  twelve  days  together,  neither  more  nor 
less.  I  pray  thee  remember  what  I  say,  and  observe  and  do  it  :  but  above  all,  fear 
God,  and  serve  him.  And  for  the  space  of  these  twelve  days  thou  must  neither  drink 
ale  nor  strong  beer  ;  yet  afterwards  thou  mayest,  to  strengthen  nature ;  and  thou  shalt 
see  that  before  these  twelve  days  are  expired,  through  the  great  mercy  and  help  of 
Almighty  God,  thy  disease  will  be  cured,  and  the  frame  of  thy  body  altered,'  &c.  — 
with  much  more  to  this  purpose :  adding  withal,  '  that  he  must  change  the  air,  and 
then  his  blood  would  be  as  good  as  ever  it  was,  only  his  joints  would  be  weak  as  long 
as  he  lived :  but  above  all,'  said  he,  '  fear  God,  and  serve  him.' 

"Wallace  asked  him  to  eat  some  bread  and  butter,  or  cheese :  he  answei-ed,  'Xo, 
friend,  I  will  not  eat  anything  ;  the  Lord  Christ  is  suiBcient  for  me ;  neither  but  very 
seldom  do  I  driuk  any  beer,  but  that  wliich  comes  from  the  rock  :  and  so,  friend,  the 
Lord  God  in  heaven  be  with  thee.' 

"  At  parting,  Samuel  Wallace  went  to  shut  the  door  after  him  ;  to  whom  the  old 
man,  returning  half  way  into  the  entry,  again  said,  '  Friend,  I  pray  remember  what  I 
have  said,  and  do  it :  but  above  all,  fear  God,  and  sei-ve  him.' 

"  Wallace  said  he  saw  him  pass  along  the  street  some  half  a  score  yards  from  his 
door,  and  so  he  went  in.     But  nobody  else  saw  this  old  man,  though  many  people 


1.2  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1661 

kuock'd  at  his  door,  and  came  into  his  house,  and  together  with 
the  holy  counsel  he  gave  him,  directed  him  to  make  use  of  two 
red-sage  leaves  and  one  bloodwort  leaf  steeped  in  beer  for  three 
daySj  and  for  a  whole  month  to  he  in  the  fresh  air  in  some  country 
town ;  and  tokl  him  Avhen  he  should  recover,  which  fell  out  accord- 
ingly. The  whole  story  I  have  transcribed  from  the  man's  own 
narrative  written  by  him  in  a  plain  way.  (And  he  is  of  good 
esteem  for  a  plain  upright  man.)  I  am  not  certain  but  that  it  is 
in  print.  Several  circumstances  in  the  story  make  it  probable, 
that  he  that  came  to  him  was  a  good  angel;  and  if  so,  that  he 
appear'd  as  a  grave  old  man,  very  tall  and  strait,  of  a  very  fresh 
colour;  his  hair  as  white  as  wool,  and  his  beard  broad  and  very 
white,  is  expressly  related  by  S.[amuel]  W.  [allis]  in  his  narrative. 
But  I  have  wearied  you  with  too  long  a  discourse  upon  this  argu- 
ment; which  indeed  hath  encreased  to  this  prolixity  beyond  my 
intentions  when  I  began  this  letter  to  you.  If  you  had  not  par- 
ticularly desired  my  thoughts  thereon,  I  should  have  passed  by 
Van  Helmont  and  Otto  Faber,  without  the  least  disturbing  them. 
You  may  see  what  Dr.  More  suggests  iu  his  3*^  book  against 
Atheism,  chap.  14,  That  angels  have  no  settled  form,  but  what 
they  please  to  give  themselves  upon  occasion. ^ 

were  standing  at  their  doors  near  Wallace's  house.  Within  four  days,  upon  the  use 
of  this  drink,  a  scurf  arose  upon  his  body,  and  under  that  a  new  fresh  skin ;  and  in 
twelve  days  he  was  as  strong  as  ever  he  had  been,  and  healthful,  excepting  only  a 
little  weakness  in  his  joints.  And  once  in  twelve  days,  by  the  importunity  of  some 
friends,  drinking  a  little  strong  ale,  he  was  struck  speechless  for  twenty-four  hours. 
Many  ministers,  hearing  the  report  of  this  wonderful  cure,  met  together  at  Stamford, 
and  considering  all  the  circumstances,  and  consulting  about  it,  for  many  reasons  con- 
cluded the  cure  to  be  done  by  the  ministry  of  an  angel.  A  particular  good  friend  of 
mine,  Mr.  Lawrence  Wise,  minister  of  the  gospel,  deceased,  had  the  whole  relation 
from  Wallace's  own  mouth ;  for  going  soon  after  this  into  Scotland,  he  took  Stam- 
ford in  his  way,  and  went  to  Wallace's  house,  and  discoursed  an  hour  or  two  with 
him,  and  does  not  at  all  doubt  that  it  was  a  good  angel,  that  it  was  sent  by  the  Father 
of  spirits,  that  came  to  his  house  and  wrought  this  cure  upon  him." 

'  Dr.  More,  on  the  question  "  Whether  spirits  have  any  settled  form  or  shape," 
observes  in  his  "Scholia"  (Antidote  in  his  Philosophical  Writings,  edit.  1712,  p.  176): 
"  For  my  own  part,  I  do  believe  that  angels  have  naturally  both  a  plastic  and  human 


1661]  OF   DR.  WORTHINGTOX.  13 

I  have  now  spoken  to  the  several  enquiries  in  both  your  letters. 
When  ]Mr.  "Wray  returns^  I  shall  certify  you  what  discoveries  he 
hath  made  in  his  northern  journey.  I  conclude  with  the  assurance 
that  I  am 

Yours  affectionately, 

Sept.  5,  1661.  J.[ohn]  W.  [orthington.] 


S.  Hartlib  to  Dr.  Worthington. 
Sir, 

This  is  the  third  letter  I  am  sending.      The  two  former  Baker-s  Camb 
were  dated  Aug.  24  and  26,  which  was  sent  by  the  carrier.      But  I  or^voh  xxix'.'  as 
should  not  have  troubled  you  with  this  had  it  not  been  for  Mr.  Beal,  himse^r'^'^^ 
who  desired   the  kindness  of  your  answer  to  me  concerning  these 
matters ;  for  he  writes  in  his  last  of  Aug.  31  in  these  words  :  "  I  may 
now  tell  you  that  I  have  already  finished  some  specimina  to  prove 
that  a  fulness  of  Greek  and   Latin  may  be  taught  young  men  of 
ordinary  capacities  in  two  months,  if  I  find  them  so  far  prepared  as 
to  read  English  well,  and  (at  n:fost)  in  some  measure  to  have  learned 
their  English  accidence.     In  which  time  I  do  also  teach  them  the 
use  of  the  globes,  and  some  insight  into  geography,  history,  and 
the  pleasanter  parts  of  practical  philosophy.      To  perform  which 
I  do  begin  with  Lord  Bacon's  directions^  in  his  letter  to  Sir  H. 

shape,  and  ■which  I  take  from  the  vision  of  Ezekiel  to  have  been  the  doctrine  of  the 
ancient  Cabbala."  I  am  tempted  to  make  a  further  quotation  from  this  great  au- 
thority on  the  angelic  hierarchies.  "  Ficinus,  I  remember,  somewhere  calls  angels 
aerial  stars,  and  the  ^oorf  genii  seem  to  me  to  be  as  the  benign  eyes  of  God,  running 
to  and  fro  in  the  world,  with  love  and  pity  beholding  the  innocent  endeavours  of 
harmless  and  single-hearted  men,  ever  ready  to  do  them  good  and  help  them."  More 
is  indebted  for  this,  as  Milton  was  after  him,  ("  Paradise  Lost,"  book  iii.  v.  650)  not 
to  Platonism,  but  to  Scripture  —  Zachariah,  iv.  10. 

'  This  letter  of  Lord  Bacon,  with  the  accompanying  discourse  "  touching  helps  for 
the  intellectual  powers  in  youth,"  is  to  be  found  in  the  various  editions  of  his  works. 
He  lays  down  the  principle  that  "  the  motions  and  faculties  of  the  wit  and  memory 


14  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1661 

Savil/   now  printed  in   his  Resuscitatio.      This  argument  I   have 

may  be  not  only  governed  and  guided,  but  also  confirmed  and  enlarged  by  custom 
and  exercise  duly  applied ;  as  if  a  man  exercise  shooting,  he  shall  not  only  shoot 
nearer  the  mark  but  also  draw  a  stronger  bow." 

'  The  life  of  this  illustrious  scholar  and  patron  of  science,  in  whom  the  parish  of 
Halifax,  the  place  of  his  nativity,  and  Eton  College,  of  which  he  was  for  twenty-five 
years  Provost,  may  take  just  pride,  has  been  given  at  length  in  the  "  Biographia 
Britanuica,"  Chalmers's,  and  other  collections,  to  which  it  is  only  necessary  to  refer 
the  reader.  His  portrait  still  hangs  in  the  Provost's  house  at  Eton,  and  fuUy  bears 
out  what  is  said  by  Aubrey  :  "  He  was  an  extraordinary  handsome  man,  no  lady  had 
a  finer  complexion."  It  is  not  therefore  surprising  that  Queen  Elizabeth,  with  her 
partiality  to  manly  beauty,  should  select  him  to  read  "  Greek  and  Politiques  to  her." 
The  leading  ambition  of  his  life  was  to  rival  in  scholarship  Joseph  Scaliger,  to  whom 
he  was  undoubtedly  superior  in  accurate  science,  but  was,  as  undeniably,  the  inferior 
in  general  erudition  of  that  wonderful  man,  to  whom  every  one  of  his  contemporaries 
might  without  humiliation  be  content  to  vail  the  bonnet.  In  the  Savilian  Professors' 
Library  at  Oxford  there  was,  and  is  probably  still,  a  copy  of  Joseph  Scaliger's 
"  Mesolabium,"  his  attempt  at  the  quadrature  of  the  circle,  in  which  Sir  Henry  has 
frequently  written  in  the  margin,  opposite  to  the  A.B.,  CD.,  ex  construetioiie  of  the 
text,  "  Et  Dominatio  vestra  est  Asinus  ex  constructione."  In  fastus  and  supercilious- 
ness, if  the  report  of  some  who  knew  him  be  true,  he  fully  equalled  the  memorable 
Goliali  of  Leyden.  With  the  true  feeling  "  of  the  hard-headed  students  of  the  North," 
he  could  not  abide  wits ;  when  a  young  scholar  was  recommended  to  him  for  a  good 
wit,  Otit  upon  him,  Til  have  nothing  to  do  with  him;  give  me  the  plodding  student. 
If  I  would  look  for  vits  I  would  go  to  Newgate,  there  be  the  wits ;  and  John  Earl 
(afterwards  Bishop  of  Sarum  and  the  author  of  "  Microcosmography")  was  the  only 
scholar  that  ever  he  took  as  recommended  for  a  wit.  Like  the  unconquerable  Master 
of  Trinity  he  ruled  his  refractory  fellows  with  an  iron  hand.  Aubrey  tells  us  :  "He 
was  not  only  a  severe  governor,  but  old  Mr. Yates  (who  was  fellow  in  his  time)  would 
make  lamentable  complaints  of  him  to  his  dying  day,  that  he  did  oppress  the  fellows 
grievously,  and  he  was  so  great  a  favourite  with  the  Queen  that  there  was  no  dealing 
with  him ;  his  na;ve  was  that  he  was  too  much  inflated  with  his  luxury  and  riches." 
For  these  "  lamentable  complaints  "  there  might  possibly  be  some  reason,  but  the  re- 
sult of  his  long  government,  arbitrary  as  it  might  sometimes  be,  was  undoubtedly  to 
raise  the  character  of  the  great  foundations  (Merton  College,  Oxford,  and  Eton  Col- 
lege), over  which  he  presided.  Kothiug  that  has  ever  been  alleged  against  him  can 
tarnish  the  lustre  of  the  fame  he  acquired  or  diminish  the  gratefid  sense  entertained 
by  posterity  for  the  publication  of  the  "  Rerum  Anglicanarum  Scriptores,"  for  the 
elaborate  and  beautiful  edition  of  "  Chrysostom,"  which  foreign  countries  looked 
upon  with  envy,  and  a  scholar  at  the  present  day  may  contemplate  with  a  feeling  of 
national  pride,  and  for  the  munificent  foundation  of  the  two  professorships  of  astro- 
nomy and  geometry  at  Oxford.    With  a  full  recollection  of  these  benefits  the  traveller, 


1661]  OF   DR.  WORTHINGTON.  15 

prosecuted,  and  it  is  my  foundation. ^     In  Greek  (after  a  little  practice 

who,  traversing  the  township  of  Stainland  and  passing  by  the  site  which  one  eminent 
living  antiqiiary  has  fixed  for  the  Eoman  station  of  Cambodunum,  approaches  the  re- 
mains of  Bradley,  will  look  with  some  interest  on  the  spot  which  witnessed  the  early 
days  of  one  who,  born  in  that 

Terra  mala  et  sterilis,  dumetis  obsita  saxis 
Horrida, 
as  it  has  been  well  described,  "a  younger  brother  without  a  foot  of  land,"  ended  his 
days  amidst  the  noble  shades  of  Eton,  himself  the  honoured  centre  of  learning  and 
science  and  destined  to  give  them  a  lasting  impulse  through  future  generations. 

'  In  Hartlib's  nest  letter  the  details  of  Beale's  plan  of  tuition  are  more  fully  stated. 
From  the  following  interesting  extract  from  one  of  his  letters  to  Boyle  (Boyle's 
works,  folio  edition,  vol.  v.  p.  246),  in  which  he  gives  an  account  of  his  own  progress 
in  learning,  it  would  appear  that  he  was  considerably  aided  in  his  own  studies  by  a 
system  of  artificial  memory  which  he  had  devised  at  a  very  early  life:  — 

"  You  require  animadversions,  supplements,  and  chiefly  mnemonicals.  I  begiu  with 
the  last. 

"  It  is  a  very  trifle,  as  if  it  were  to  make  pins,  and  place  them  in  rows,  or  wire  cards 
for  the  clothiers  ;  which,  without  the  right  art,  is  an  ugly  hard  work ;  and  the  art  it- 
self is  but  a  shght  and  contemptible  device. 

"  If  you  shall  please  to  examine  what  Aristotle,  Cicero,  Quintilian,  and  Aquinas  have 
written,  with  great  wit  and  diligence  recommending  the  art,  and  specifying  all  the 
parts  of  it,  you  will  find  it  consist  of  as  few  and  simple  elements,  as  does  the  Turkish 
musick ;  two  strings,  or  three  at  most ;  two  notes,  or  three  in  all.  '  Ordinem  esse 
maxime,  qui  memoriae  lumen  afTerret,'  saith  Cicero,  from  his  own  experience,  and 
upon  the  authority  of  Simonides,  '  Itaque  iis,  qui  hanc  partem  ingenii  exercerent, 
locos  esse  capiendos,  et  ea,  quse  memoria  tenere  vellent,  effingenda  animo,  atque  in  his 
locis  collocanda ;  sic  fore,  ut  ordinem  rerum  locorum  ordo  conservaret,  res  autem 
ipsas  rerum  efiigies  notaret,  atque  ut  locis  pro  cera,  simulachris  pro  literis  uteremur.' 
These  few  being  all  the  parts,  and  these  being  so  argutely  illustrated  by  those  four 
forenamed  leading  wits,  so  fully  and  most  elaborately  by  Quintilian,  there  remains 
nothing  for  any  sober  man  to  undertake ;  only  the  practice  is  our  part  and  duty ;  and 
that  is  indeed  the  sum  total. 

"  And  truly,  in  my  childhood,  I  found,  that  all  the  art  was  a  kind  of  clock-work,  or 
wheel-engine,  as  Aristotle  describes  it :  the  joining  of  spring  wheels,  and  other  parts 
of  the  watch,  in  such  coherence,  that,  by  the  touch  of  any  part,  the  whole  and  every 
part  may  be  pxit  in  motion,  and  yet  all  in  order. 

"  And  by  reading  Ovid's  '  Metamorphoses '  and  such  slight  romances,  as  the  '  De- 
struction of  Troy,'  and  other  discourses  and  histories,  which  were  then  obvious,  I 
had  learned  a  promptness  of  knitting  aU  my  reading  and  studies  on  an  everlasting 
string.  The  same  practice  I  continued  upon  theologues,  logicians,  and  such  philoso- 
phers, as  those  times  yielded.    For  some  years  before  I  came  to  Eton,  I  did  (in  secret 


16  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1661 

of  their  memories  upon  nouns  and  verbs  applied  to  the  gnomas  col- 
lected amongst  the  small  poets)  I  make  it  less  than  a  week^s  work  to 
perfect  them  from  Greek  to  Latin  and  from  Latin  to  Greek  in  the 

corners,  concealed  from  others'  eyes)  read  Melancthon's  'Logicks,'  Magirus's  'Physica,' 
Ursin's  '  Theologica,'  which  was  the  best  I  coidd  then  hear  of.  And  (at  first  reading) 
by  heart  I  learned  them,  too  perfectly,  as  I  now  conceive.  Afterwards,  in  Cambridge, 
proceeding  in  the  same  order  and  diligence  with  their  logicians,  philosophers,  and 
schoolmen,  I  coidd  at  last  learn  them  by  heart  faster  than  I  coidd  read  them  ;  I  mean 
by  the  swiftest  glance  of  the  eye,  without  the  tediousness  of  pronouncing  or  articula- 
ting what  I  read.  Thus  I  ofttimes  saved  my  purse,  by  looking  over  books  in  stationers' 
shops ;  and  good  reason,  when  I  grew  to  the  maturity  of  discerning,  that  much  more 
was  published  under  great  names,  and  high  pretences,  than  was  fit  to  be  recorded. 
Constantly  I  repeated  in  my  bed  (evening  and  morning)  what  I  read  and  heard,  that 
was  worthy  to  be  remembered.  And  by  this  habitude  and  promptness  of  memory  I 
was  enabled,  that  when  I  read  to  the  students  of  King's  College,  Cambridge,  (which 
I  did  for  two  years  together,  in  all  sorts  of  the  current  philosophy)  I  could  provide 
myself  without  notes  (by  mere  meditation,  or  by  glancing  upon  some  book)  in  less 
time  than  I  spent  in  uttering  it :  yet  they  were  then  a  critical  auditory,  whilst  Mr. 
Bust  was  schoolmaster  of  Eton.  This  was  no  more  pains  than  to  empty  the  honey 
into  the  combs,  which  are  prepared  ready.  And  to  him,  that  considereth,  how  every 
perfect  reader  devours  the  whole  period  in  a  moment,  before  he  can  pronounce  the 
first  syllable  with  true  emphasis,  it  will  be  no  strange  or  incredible  matter,  that  one 
should  string  up  any  discourse,  and  sort  it  to  known  topicks,  and  provide  appendant 
topicks  for  novelties,  with  an  undisturbed  dispatch. 

"  In  these  beginnings,  I  accused  my  memory  as  much  as  any  man,  as  defective  for 
strange  names,  words,  alphabets  and  languages,  not  fully  understood ;  but  observing 
how,  in  the  prints  of  those  days,  the  names  were  printed  in  a  bright  Roman  print  (all 
over  the  pages  liquidly  distinguished  from  the  black  English  print)  I  reviewed  them 
apart,  and  learning  them  in  order,  made  such  as  I  had  learned  a  kind  of  topicks,  to 
assist  me  in  the  learning  of  the  rest,  and  made  them  and  the  paragraphs  the  handles, 
on  which  I  did  hang  the  particular  branches  of  the  story. 

"  Thus  by  the  alphabet  consisting  of  few  elements,  and  those  having  their  compar- 
titions  or  rests  upon  the  vowels  (the  leading  letters  linking  their  formations  into  syl- 
lables, as  they  fell  out  to  be  one,  two,  or  more  sjdlables)  I  found  a  regular  aid,  which 
afterwards  would  indiifercntly  serve  for  the  farther  acquest  of  any  words,  names,  or 
strange  language ;  and  the  spirit  delighting  in  order,  relations,  parallels,  similitudes, 
and  novelties,  I  did  daily  learn  the  names  of  places,  persons,  or  things,  so  as  to  annex 
them  always  to  some  former  impress ;  which  renewed  the  former  impression  and  se- 
cured the  new.  And  thus,  by  impressing  the  Parcrc,  Cyclops,  Furies,  Charites, 
Muses,  Sybills,  &c.,  their  names,  significations,  order,  and  number ;  one  fastned 
another,  and  gave  encouragement  for  the  like  promptness  in  other  like  matters." 


1661]  OF   DR.   WORTHINGTON.  17 

whole  clavis  of  700  sentences  of  Eil.  Lubin,  which  enables  them 
speedily  to  run  through  Proclus,  Diomedes,  Aratus,  Dionysius  Afer, 
and  other  old  writers  of  the  elements  of  philosophy,  that  under  one 
they  may  learn  the  elements  of  languages  and  of  arts.  And  this  I 
find,  that  by  this  habitude  of  promptness  in  the  acquest  of  these 
tongues,  they  are  not  only  enabled  and  fitted,  but  fired  and  inflamed 
to  get  the  other  learned  languages.  For  which  cause  I  do  now 
deplore  mine  own  want,  and  in  this  age  I  must  begin  to  learn,  for 
which  I  think  I  need  not  blush,  since  I  am  not  53  years  old,  which 
is  far  beneath  the  age  in  which  Oato  learnt  Greek.  This  engage- 
ment emboldens  me  to  solicit  you  into  a  trouble  to  procure  some 
friends  to  enquire  what  easy  grammarians  are  abroad  and  best  com- 
mended, what  their  bulk,  and  the  like  for  lexicons.  In  this  I  mean 
any  other  eastern  language  except  the  Hebrew,  Chaldee,  and  Syriac 
(of  which  I  am  provided).  I  mean  the  Arabic,  Coptic,  ^Ethiopic, 
Armenian,  Persian,  &c.       I  have  sent  for  Walton's^  Introductio  ad 

^  Introductio  ad  Lectionem  Linguarum  Orientalium,  concilium  de  earum  studio 
feliciter  instituendo  et  de  Libris  quos  in  hunc  finem  sibi  comparare  debent  studiosi. 
Per  Brian  Walton  ;  Lond.  Roj-croft,  1655,  12mo.  Dr.  Clarke  obsei-ves  that,  "  short 
as  are  his  didactic  examples,  they  are  still  of  great  utility  to  a  learner."  It  came  out 
contemporaneously  with  the  first  volume  of  Walton's  Polyglot,  of  the  history  of 
which  immortal  work,  as  well  as  of  the  life  of  its  author,  a  good  account  is  given  in 
Todd's  Memoirs  of  Walton,  2  vols.  8vo,  London,  1821.  In  the  second  volume 
Todd  has  very  properly  reprinted  the  "  Considerator  Considered,"  one  of  the  finest 
specimens  we  have  in  the  language  of  well-merited  and  bitter  castigation.  Dr.  John 
Owen,  his  antagonist,  though  indisputably  a  man  of  extensive  learning  and  no  ordi- 
nary powers,  is  a  mere  child  in  the  hands  of  Walton,  and  needed  all  the  support  of  a 
strong  party  of  pupils  aud  admirers,  and  of  the  reputation  which  he  had  acquired  by 
works  of  real  value  and  importance,  to  enable  him  to  bear  up  against  such  an  attack. 
The  excellence  of  this  little  work,  the  only  published  English  production  of  its  author, 
except  that  on  the  London  tythes,  might  lead  us  to  inquire  whether  more  are  not  in 
existence.  Where  are  his  MS.  sermons  ?  and  has  the  tract  which  appeared  at  Oxford 
in  defence  of  the  Chm'ch  of  England,  entitled  "Answer  to  an  Ungodly  Pamplet," 
&c.,  been  yet  discovered  ?  Todd  was  unable  to  find  the  latter,  and  is  inclLued  to 
question  its  existence,  but  he  had  evidently  not  referred  to  the  original  authority  for 
the  fact,  "  The  Parliamentary  Intelligencer  for  December  3-10,  1660,"  which  is  so 
clear  and  positive  that  there  can  be  little  doubt  of  the  appearance  of  the  work  and  its 
authorship.  Who  would  like  to  lose  a  defence  of  the  Church  of  England  by  Walton, 
or  can  forget  liis  generoiis  determination  when  it  was  imder  a  cloud,  "  Ecclesise  Angli- 
VOL.   II.  U 


18  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1661 

Lection.j  so  that  I  shall  spare  your  friends  the  pains  that  will  there- 
in occur.  Neither  will  any  grammar  do  me  much  good  in  my  way 
of  learning  languages,  except  I  may  be  informed  of  some  considerable 
treatise  fit  to  be  read  in  those  tongues.  For  after  the  first  air  of  the 
grammar,  and  promptness  in  the  character,  I  search  after  the  use  and 
style  of  the  language.  I  would  also  know  the  usual  price  of  Schind- 
ler's  Lexicon  Pentaglotton,^  or  who  else  hath  done  better,  and  whe- 
ther Walton  hath  performed  what  he  undertook  in  that  kind.  The 
incomparable  Angelus  Caninius^  undertook  the  Punic  tongue  ;  but  I 

canje,  utut  jam  despicata;,  monumentum  perenne  eiigere,  in  omne  aevum  duraturum, 
quo  omnibus  pateat  earn,  cum  maximis  augustiis  premeretur,  oraculorum  divinorum 
et  animarum  curam  non  deposuisse,  nee  defuisse  inter  ejus  filios  qui,  etsi  cTKv^aXa 
et  irtpiKaOdpfiara  tov  kSct/xov  et  Trdi/rajv  TrepjifTj/ua  habeantur,  ejus  auspiciis  opus,  quo 
orbi  Christiano  utilius  post  canonem  SS.  Scripturse  consignatum  nullum  evulgatum 
(absit  invidia  verbo)  elaborarunt."  Praef.  in  Bib.  Polyglott  ?  His  most  enthusiastic 
reception  at  Chester  on  taking  possession  of  his  bishopric,  and  his  instalment  on  the 
11th  September,  1661,  excited  the  gall  of  his  puritan  adversaries  in  the  highest  de- 
gree. The  following  extract,  from  Burghall's  "  Providence  Improved,"  is  worth  re- 
printing as  a  curiosity  :  "  Some  remarkable  passages  happened  in  the  coming  down  of 
Bishop  Walton  to  Chester,  and  while  he  was  there,  ist,  his  coach  was  overturned 
and  his  wife's  face  sorely  hurt  by  falling  out  of  it.  2ndly,  the  troops  of  horse  that 
came  to  meet  him  (Sir  George  Booth's  and  Philip  Egerton's)  fell  at  odds  on  Tilston 
Heath  about  precedence,  and  were  ready  for  blows.  3rdly,  coming  through  Tarpor- 
ley,  and  the  bells  ringing  for  him,  a  man  was  almost  killed  with  the  stroke  of  a  bell. 
4thly,  Captain  Cholmondeley's  wife,  going  to  visit  him  with  a  present,  fell  and  broke 
her  arms.  5thly,  a  man  coming  to  Chester  to  congi-atulate  him,  and  to  complain  of 
somebody,  fell  down  before  him  and  died  ;  which  much  amazed  and  frightened  him. 
Gthly,  Dr.  Winter,  a  pious  and  learned  man,  being  silenced  by  him,  told  him  to  his  face 
he  would  have  no  comfort  for  so  doing  when  he  must  appear  before  Christ,  which 
was  not  long  after.  Within  a  while  Mr.  Lightfoot,  his  chaplain,  died  also." —  Tracts 
printed  at  Chester,  1778,  vol.  ii.  p.  947. 

'  This  lexicon  was  first  published  at  Hanover  in  1612,  after  the  death  of  its  author, 
Valentine  Schindler.  In  the  Historia  Bibliothecse  Fabricianse  (1719,  4to,  vol.  iii. 
pp.  236-7)  are  collected  the  opinions  of  several  emii\ent  Hebrew  scholars  upon  this 
important  work. 

2  The  "incomparable"  Angelus  Caninius  was  one  of  the  greatest  linguists  of  the 
sixteenth  century,  but  the  materials  for  his  biography  are  scanty.  His  "HcUon- 
ismus"  which  was  republished  by  Crenius,  who  has  prefixed  a  preface  de  claris 
Angelis,  has  met  with  the  highest  praise,  and  is  his  masterpiece.  It  is  preferred  by 
Tanaquil  Faber  to  all  the  Greek  grammars  which  had  been  published  up  to  his  own 


1661]  OF   DR.   WORTHINGTON.  1^ 

never  saw  what  he  or  others  performed  in  it.  I  desire  also  to  know 
the  bulk  and  price  of  Valerius  Probus  de  Notis  Antiquis.^  Our  con- 
stant and  very  kind  friend  Dr.  Worthington  is  well  able  to  direct  me 
in  all  these  matters,  and  if  you  please  to  add  your  requests,  I  believe 
he  will  bestow  this  favour  upon  me ;  and  herein  to  oblige  you  and 
him,  I  shall  now  further  acquaint  you  that  myself  having  some 
promptness  in  most  kind  of  characters,  I  do  thereby  delight  my 
young  students,  and  (as  it  were)  play  them  into  the  familiar  use  of 
any  character  that  belongs  to  such  languages  as  are  within  my  reach ; 
and  I  do  assume  to  myself  a  more  than  ordinary  promptness  in 
teaching  others  (with  ease  and  delight  on  both  sides)  as  much  as 
myself  can  learn,  as  Mr.  Waller  ^  did  lately  in  my  hearing  tell  the 
Vic.  Ranelagh^  in  how  short  time  I  made  him  prompt  in  arithmetic, 

time.  Mr.  Hallam  observes  :  "  Caninius  is  much  fuller  than  Clenardus.  The  syntax 
is  very  scanty,  but  Caninius  was  well  conversant  with  the  mutations  of  words,  and  is 
diligent  in  noting  the  differences  of  dialects,  in  which  he  has  been  thought  to  excel." 
Joseph  Scaliger  tells  us  that  this  "  incomparable  "  man  was  a  wholesale  plagiary  from 
Vergara,  of  whose  grammar,  now  a  scarce  book,  Mr.  Hallam  gives  an  account  (Intro- 
duction to  Lit.  of  the  16th,  17th,  and  18th  Centuries,  second  edition,  1843,  vol.  i. 
p.  487.)  Magius,  in  the  dedication  to  his  treatise  de  Equuleo,  mentions  Caninius's 
introduction  to  the  Syriac  and  Punic  languages. 

'  This  very  useful  treatise  of  Valerius  Probus,  the  grammarian  of  the  time  of  Nero, 
was  published  in  Gothofredi  (D.)  Auctores  Latinse  Lingute,  Geuev.,  1595,  4to,  and 
has  been  since  very  frequently  reprinted.  It  seems  to  be  a  different  work  from  that 
noticed.by  Aulus  GeUius,  xvii.  9,  "  de  occulta  literarum  significatione." 

2  Waller,  the  poet,  of  whom  Beale  remarks  in  one  of  his  letters  to  Boyle  (Boyle's 
works,  folio  edition,  vol.  v.  p.  427) :  "  When  we  communicated  studies  at  Beconsfield, 
he  told  me,  that  he  could  not  trust  his  memory  with  the  Lord's  prayer,  or  a  bene- 
diction for  the  table ;  yet  I  then  admired  his  prompt  sagacity,  both  for  elegances  of 
language,  and  for  depth  of  matter.  And  since  those  days,  the  greatest  assemblies  of 
England  have  found  his  harangues  impregnable,  and  the  politest  wits  do  find  enchant- 
ments in  his  poems.  His  case  was  this.  He  rode  on  a  winged  horse,  Pegasus,  whose 
flight  was  so  swift  and  fervent,  in  a  progress  for  fresh  acquests  (as  the  bees  on  mount 
Hybla)  that  he  could  not  endure  to  task  it,  or  to  fetter  it  upon  repetitions  of  known 
things.  Or  it  was  the  curiosity,  delicacy,  or  niceness  of  his  spirit,  which  did  rather 
constrain  him  to  blank  his  mental  tables,  than  to  leave  there  any  records,  that  were 
not  choice  and  singular.  And  this  in  calmer  stile  was  the  case  of  Dr.  Andrews,  and 
other  very  profound  persons." 

^  Arthur  Jones,  the  second  Viscount  Ranelagh,  who  died  the  I7th  January,  1669. 
His  lady,  the  sister  of  the  excellent  Robert  Boyle,  herself  ^torthy  of  all  praise,  had 
been  noticed,  vol.  i.  p.  164. 


20  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1661 

but  more  to  the  applause  of  his  apprehensions  than  of  my  didactic 
skin.  For  a  specimen  I  here  send  Dr,  Worthington  a  small  letter, 
with  my  most  affectionate  service,  to  which  1  believ^e  he  needs  no 
key,  the  device  being  simple,  the  model  in  printed  books,  at  least  in 
rule,  if  not  in  particular  example^  and  being  only  an  arithmetical 
operation.  In  this  two  characters  are  necessary  to  import  each 
letter.  To  this  device  I  prefer  the  other  art  of  making  each  charac- 
ter signify  two  or  more  letters,  which  (to  best  use)  I  could  perform 
if  I  knew  about  twenty  distinct  and  diftering  characters  belonging  to 
twenty  languages.  And  in  this  pleasant  but  trifling  way  I  could 
make  an  introduction  to  twenty  several  languages  or  more  at  once, 
of  which  I  intend  you  a  full  account.  And  for  the  key  to  this,  lest 
it  should  involve  you  more  than  the  matter  is  worth,  I  here  send  it 
with  No.  3.  Dr,  AVorthington's  enquiries  are  so  large  that  I  should 
be  much  instructed  if  I  knew  the  answers.  I  have  longed  for  Mat- 
thew [in]  the  original  Hebrew, ^  and  I  thought  this  inquisitive  age 
would  find  it  out.  But  I  know  not  how  we  should  trust  a  vulgar 
fame  in  such  a  point."  Thus  begging  the  favour  of  answering  all 
the  aforesaid  particulars,  I  subscribe  myself  ever. 

Sir, 

Yours,  &c., 
Sept.  5,  1661.  Sam.  Hartlib. 


Sir, 


Dr.  Worthington  to  S.  Hartlib. 


woithington'3  I  hope  vou  received  mine  last  Saturday,  which  contained 

Miscellanies,  .  . 

P-  279-  a  large  and  particular  answer  to  your  enquiries.     As  for  yours  of 

Sept.  5,  (though  it  came  at  a  time  of  much  interrupting  business, 
by  reason  of  friends  and  countrymen  coming  to  me  from  the 
neighbouring  Stourbridge  fair,  yet,  rather  than  I  would  seem  less 

'  Papias  (Eusebiu3,  Hist.  Ecc.  iii.  39)  asserts  that  this  gospel  was  first  written  in 
Hebrew  for  the  use  of  the  Jewish  Christians,  but  no  trace  of  any  such  original  He- 
brew text  has  yet  appeared,  and  the  actual  existence  of  it  seems  very  doubtful. 


1661]  OF   DK.   WORTHINGTON,  21 

mindful  of  what  is  desired  by  you  and  Mr.  Beal,)  I  hasten  to  make 
some  return  to  Mr.  Beal's  enquiries,  and  in  the  order  he  placeth 
them. 

To  the  enquiry  about  the  best  grammars  and  lexicons  extant, 
viz.  for  the  Arabic,  Coptic,  Ethiopic,  Armenian,  and  Persian  lan- 
guages, my  answer  is  this,  that  the  Lexicon  Polyglotton,  now  in 
the  press  at  London,  will  give,  I  hope,  great  satisfaction  as  to  the 
languages  in  the  Bibha  Polyglotta,  and  there  will  be  also  gram- 
mars for  the  several  languages. 

By  another  enquiry  of  Mr.  BeaFs,  viz.  what  Dr.  Walton  hath 
undertaken  in  this  kind,  it  may  seem  that  he  hath  not  as  yet  heard 
of  the  design,  which  is  not  pursued  by  Dr.  Walton,  but  by  Dr. 
Castell,  (sometime  of  Emmanuel  College,)  whose  labours  about  the 
Bibl.  Polygl.  were  not  inferior  to  any  one's.  He  and  Mr.  Clerk,^ 
(an  assistant  also  in  the  Great  Bible,)  persevering  in  their  endea- 
vours to  do  yet  more  good,  about  three  years  since  printed  some 
proposals  for  the  printing  of  grammars  and  lexicons  for  the  lan- 
guages in  the  Great  Bible.  In  Cambridge  they  found  good  accept- 
ance, (and  Dr.  Castell  professeth  he  received  nowhere  so  much 
encouragement  for  the  work  as  there,)  and  when  some  number  of 
subscribers  had  paid  the  first  sum,  they  began  to  open  the  press. 
But  Mr.  Clerk  is  called  to  an  office  in  Oxford.  Dr.  CastelP  yet 
resolves  to  go  on  cum  bono  Deo,  and  with  the  assistances  of  such 
persons  as  were  fit  for  the  work,  and  patient,  he  hath  finished  all 
the  first  tome ;  the  other  tome,  now  in  the  press,  and  the  grammars, 
■will  be  finished  as  soon  as  may  be  with  convenience.  That  which 
hath  retarded  the  work  has  been  the  paucity  of  subscribers  (be- 
sides the  unfaithfulness  of  some  that  subscribed).      Dr.  Walton 

1  Samuel  Clarke,  one  of  Walton's  learned  coadjutors  in  the  Polyglot,  considered 
in  his  own  time  only  inferior  to  Pocock  as  an  orientalist.  He  was  a  native  of 
Brackley,  in  Northamptonsliire.  In  1658  he  was  appointed  to  the  ofBce  of  archi- 
typographus  of  the  University,  to  which  was  annexed  that  of  superior  beadle  of  law. 
He  died  in  1669.  —  Todd's  Walton,  vol.  i.  p.  243. 

-  This  magnaminous  and  most  laborious  scholar  has  been  noticed,  vol.  i.  p.  243. 
There  is  something  extremely  touching  in  Worthington's  references  to  him  and  his 
great  undertaking. 


22  DIARY   AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1661 

was  more  active,  aud  had  many  active  friends ;  he  had  also  some 
benefactors  that  contributed  to  that  great  work.  Dr.  Castell  is  a 
modest  and  retired  person,  indefatigably  studious,  (and  for  many 
years  his  studies  were  devoted  to  these  eastern  languages,)  he  hath 
sacrificed  himself  to  this  service,  and  is  resolved  (for  the  glory  of 
God  and  the  good  of  men)  to  go  on  in  this  work  though  he  die  in 
it,  and  the  sooner  for  the  great  pains  it  requires  —  so  great  that 
Petraeus^  and  some  others  that  were  engaged  by  him  to  assist,  were 
forced  to  desist,  as  being  unable  to  endure  such  herculean  labours. 
I  never  see  Dr.  Castell,  nor  think  of  him,  but  his  condition  affects 
me.  He  hath  worn  his  body  in  the  unexpressible  labours  which 
the  preparations  of  such  a  work  for  the  press  require.  He  hath 
been  forced  to  sell  some  of  his  no  great  temporal  estate  to  procure 
money  for  the  paying  off  the  workmen  at  the  press,  the  money 
subscribed  falling  short,  and  there  being  such  a  scarcity  of  persons 
so  nobly  affected  as  to  contribute.^  God  preserve  him  in  health 
that  he  may  lay  the  headstone.  God  raise  up  some  that  may 
move  others  of  ample  fortunes  to  ennoble  themselves  by  encourag- 
ing a  work  of  so  universal  and  diffusive  a  good.  God  reward  him 
in  the  comforts  of  this  life  also.  Persons  deserving  highly  for 
their  endeavours  of  the  public  good  would  have  found  not  less 
encouragement  in  the  heathen  world.  Such  a  one  at  Athens 
would  have  had  the  favour  of  the  Prytaneum.^  Would  such  places 
were  erected  in  Christendom  ! 

In  this  Lexicon  Polygl.  it  cannot  be  expected  that  the  observa- 
tions upon  a  word  should  be  so  large  as  in  dictionaries  which  are 
for  some  one  language ;  yet  is  not  the  Lexicon  Polygl.  thin  and 
bare,  like  a  lank  nomenclator.  It  was  one  particular  of  my  advice 
that  they  would  do  more  than  express  the  word  and  its  Latin,  that 
they  would  confirm  the  signification  by  good  authorities  quoted ; 
and  that  for  the  Arabic  words  they  would  have  a  special  respect,  as 

'  Theodorus  PetrsDus,  frequently  named  in  the  first  volume  of  this  work. 
^  A  better  commentary  can  hardly  be  produced  on  Johnson's  line,  "  What  ills  the 
scholar's  life  assail,"  than  is  afforded  in  (he  dedication  to  Castell's  lexicon. 
•''  Vol.  i.  p.  245. 


[1661  OF  DR.  ^voRTHINGTO^^  23 

to  the  Arabic  version  of  Scripture,  so  to  the  Mahometans^  Bible, 
the  Alcoran,  besides  the  respect  to  Avicen.  It  may  be  hoped  that 
sometime  the  original  Arabic^  of  the  Alcoran  may  be  printed, 
which  would  better  direct  and  enable  Christians  to  deal  with  Maho- 
metans. Erpenius^  hath  discovered  an  excellent  method  of  printing 
in  that  specimen  he  printed  relating  to  the  story  of  Joseph.  Hot- 
tinger  hath,  in  print,  engaged  himself  to  the  world  to  print  it,  with 
a  version.  I  do  not  like  starved  lexicons. ^  When  the  signification 
is  confirmed  by  good  testimonies,  (as  in  Buxtorfs  Talmudic  Lexi- 
con,) and  when  fit  apothegms,  proverbs,  observations,  &;c.,  are  per- 
tinently brought  in  under  such  a  word,  the  reader  better  remembers 
the  signification,  and  reads  with  more  delight. 

The  Arabic  in  this  Lexicon  Polyglotton  will  take  in  all  or  most  of 
Golius  his  late  Arabic  Lexicon  printed  at  Leyden  in  folio.^    For  the 

'  The  Arabic  text  was  published  by  Abr.  Hinkelmann,  Hamburgh,  1694,  4to,  and 
has  been  critically  revised  and  reprinted  by  G.  Fluegel,  Leips.  1834. 

■^  Historia  Josephi  Patriarchse  ex  Alcorano  Arabice  cum  versione  Latina  et  Notis 
Erpenii,  1617,  4to.  Thomas  Erpenius  was  born  at  Gorcum  in  Holland  in  1584,  and 
after  becoming  one  of  the  first  Oriental  scholars  of  his  time,  died  at  the  early  age  of 
forty.  For  a  list  of  his  works  see  Chalmers's  and  other  Biographical  Dictionaries. 
He  appears  to  have  been  indebted,  as  Worthington  mentions,  to  WiUiam  Bedwell, 
the  great  English  Orientalist,  for  his  first  instruction  in  Arabic,  and  was  the  active 
promoter  of  the  study  of  that  language  on  the  Continent.  WTiat  is  even  more  sur- 
prising than  his  acquirement  of  Eastern  languages,  he  had  read  through  aU  the  works 
of  Suarez,  and  could  give  an  accurate  account  of  almost  every  page  of  that  inter- 
minable commentator,  to  whose  twenty-two  solid  folios  the  pigmies  of  the  present 
day  look  with  astonishment  and  despair. 

3  A  sentence  worthy  of  a  good  old  scholar.  A  lean,  lank  lexicon  is  a  prodigy 
demanding  expiation.  Dr.  Johnson  exulted  that  his  dictionary  would  issue  "vasta 
mole  superbus ;"  and  Barker  of  Thetford,  in  the  last  conversation  I  had  with  him, 
claimed  as  his  greatest  merit,  not  his  Junius  discoveries,  nor  his  monument  (in  two 
goodly  octavos)  to  Dr.  Parr,  but  that  he  had  "  plumped  up  the  meagreness  (!)  of 
Harry  Stephens." 

*  In  1653,  James  Golius,  who  was  born  at  the  Hague  in  1596  and  died  in  1666, 
was  the  pupil  and  successor  of  Erpenius,  whom  he  followed  in  the  Arabic  chair  at 
Leyden.  He  travelled  in  the  East,  where  he  became  thoroughly  master  of  the 
Turkish,  Persian,  and  Arabic  tongues,  and  brought  back  with  him  a  most  valuable 
collection  of  Oriental  MSS.,  which  were  deposited  in  the  Library  at  Leyden.  Eor  an 
account  of  his  publications  see  the  General  Dictionary,  tit.  Golius. 


24  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1661 

better  advancing  of  this  work  we  lent  them  a  treasure  out  of  our 
University  library,  viz.  about  ei^^ht  or  nine  volumes  MS.  of  Mr, 
BedwelP  (who  taught  Erpenius),  being  a  large  Arabic  Lexicon  com- 
posed by  him,  the  fruit  of  many  years'  labours,  which  he  devoted  to 
our  library. 

The  care  for  the  Persian  Lexicon  and  Grrammar  doth  chiefly  lie 
upon  Mr.  Seaman, ^  of  whose  skill  in  the  Turkish  language  I  wrote 
to  you  heretofore ;  the  same  that  out  of  Turkish  MS.  translated  and 
published  the  Life  of  Sultan  Orchan :  he  hath  translated  some  of 
the  New  Testament  into  that  language.  Golius,  professor  at  Leyden, 
did  some  years  since  promise  to  publish  a  Persian  Dictionary,  and 
to  illustrate  it  with  Persian  proverbs,  apothegms,  &c.,  but  as  yet 
I  have  seen  no  performance. 

For  the  Coptic,  I  doubt  not  but  Mr.  Beal  hath  heard  of  Athanas. 
Kircheri'^  Prodomus  Copticus,  in  4to ;  his  Lingua  Egyptiaca  restituta, 
in  4to ;  his  Obeliscus  Pamphylius,  in  one  volume  folio ;  and  lastly 
of  his  CEdipus  in  three  or  four  volumes,  in  a  small  folio.  Mr. 
Petrseus  (lately  with  us  in  England)  is  the  next  that  I  know  fit  for 
such  undertakings.     He  hath  a  strong  impetus  enforcing  him  to 

'  The  name  of  this  eminent  man,  who  first  gave  an  impulse  to  Arabic  learning  in 
Europe,  who  taught  Erpenius  and  Pococt,  and  to  whom  Lightfoot  expresses  the 
highest  obligations  and  Selden  gives  a  glowing  tribute  of  praise,  has  most  unaccount- 
ably been  omitted  in  our  biographical  dictionaries,  with  the  exception  of  the  recent 
one  of  Eose.  Nearly  all  that  seems  to  be  known  of  him  is  that  he  was  vicar  of  Tot- 
tenham, being  presented  to  that  living  by  Archbishop  Laud.  A  list  of  his  printed 
works  will  be  found  in  Watts's  Bib.  Brit,  under  WiUiam  Bedwell.  His  Arabic  Lexicon 
still  exists  in  MS.  in  the  Public  Library  at  Cambridge,  and  other  of  his  MSS.  amongst 
Laud's  MSS.  in  the  Bodleian  Library. — See  Mr.  Brewer's  note  in  his  excellent  edition 
of  Fuller's  Church  History,  vol.  v.  p.  371. 

2  William  Seaman,  whom  Wood  incidentally  styles  "an  English  traveller,"  an  assist- 
ant of  Dr.  Castell,  in  his  lexicon,  and  the  first  Turkish  scholar  of  his  time  in  England, 
but  whose  name  does  not  appear  in  our  general  biographies.  His  works  are — 1.  The 
Eeign  of  Sultan  Orchan,  second  king  of  the  Turks,  translated  into  English  from 
the  Turkish  of  EiTendi.  Lond.  1652,  8vo.  2.  Ball's  Treatise,  contaming  all  the 
principal  grounds  of  the  Christian  Keligion,  translated  into  Turkish.  Oxford,  1660, 
12mo.  3.  Novum  Testamentum  Turcice  versum  per  Gul.  Seaman.  Oxon,  1666,  4to. 
4.  Grammatica  Turcica.    Oxon,  1670,  4to. 

'  Kircher  is  noticed  vol.  i.  p.  58. 


1661]  OF  DR.  WORTBINGTOX,  25 

travel  again  into  the  East.  The  king  of  Denmark  allows  a  salary  that 
sufficeth  for  his  provision  in  journies,  &c.,  but  not  to  purchase  MSS. 
He  hath  a  great  desire  to  procure  and  publish  MSS.,  but 

Magnis  conatibus  obstat 

Res  angusta  domi 


Salmasius,^  in  his  De  annis  Climacter.  promised  his  labours  for  the 
explaining  the  Coptic  language,  out  of  which  he  would  undertake  to 
give  an  account  of  the  uEones  in  Irenseus,  it  being,  as  he  thought, 
a  vain  attempt  to  explain  them  otherwise. 

For  the  Armenian,  I  know  nothing  more  than  what  is  mentioned 
by  Dr.  Walton.  Some  books  in  that  and  other  languages,  with 
many  coins,  Mr.  Nicholas  Hobart  (who  brought  them  from  Con- 
stantinople) by  his  last  will  gave  to  our  University  library.  Here- 
tofore you  wrote  to  me  the  welcome  news  of  two  Armenian  priests 
preparing  to  print  the  Armenian  Bible  at  Amsterdam.  Can  you 
forget  to  enquire  what  was  done  in  it  ?     You  write  often  to  Amster- 

1  Por  an  account  of  Salmasius  see  vol.  i.  p.  324.  The  following  is  the  passage  to 
■which  Worthington  refers  in  his  treatise  De  annis  Climactericis  (Leyden,  1648,  8to, 
p.  575)  :  "  Omnia  ilia  vocabula  (i.e.  .5i)onum  Yalentini  appellationes)  mere  ^Egyptiaca 
sunt,  ut  alibi  monstrabimus."  Salmasius  does  not  appear  to  have  performed  his  pro- 
mise. The  bock  just  mentioned,  in  which  he  makes  it,  is  one  of  the  most  character- 
istic of  his  works.  It  displays  erudition  without  stint  or  limit,  acuteness  often  wor- 
thily and  as  often  unworthily  applied,  and  a  mind  constantly  at  work  on  points  import- 
ant and  unimportant,  on  great  questions  and  little.  The  days  of  such  books  are  past, 
when  a  man  could  more  lightly  under  the  incumbrance  of  immense  stores  of  learning, 
and  while  on  his  journey  step  aside  at  every  turn,  not  "  to  sport  with  Amaryllis  in  the 
shade,"  but  to  have  a  tilt  with  Joseph  Scaliger  ("miserrime  hallucinatus  est  Scaliger") ; 
or  with  Picus  of  Mirandula  ("  falsus  est  Picus  Mirandulanus  ")  on  some  by-point ;  or 
engage  single-handed  with  Cardan  and  the  tribe  of  astrologers ;  or  launch  a  thunder- 
bolt against  some  Jesuit  Patristic  editor  ("errat  insulsum  pecus  Loioliticum")  ;  or  ex- 
plain the  meaning,  never  properly  understood,  of  "gradarius  equus"  ;  plunge  down 
into  the  depths  of  Petosiris,  Necepso,  hexagons,  tetragons,  and  trigons,  emerging  in 
an  emendation  of  Mauilius  ("  proculdubio  sic  scripsit  ManUius"),  or  Jidius  Firmicus 
(ca?cutiunt  interpretes,  ita  legendus  est"),  and  an  enquiry  whether  wine  di-inkiug  pro- 
longs life,  arriving  at  the  sensible  conclusion  ("plurimum  refert  quale  sit  viniun"), 
and  as  to  the  pernicious  effects  of  water  drinking  ("  gutturosos,  torminosos,  et  poda- 
grosos  facit ") ;  and,  after  completing  a  volume  of  a  thousand  pages,  find  that  he  was 
only  just  beginning  to  enter  upon  his  subject. 

VOL,  II.  E 


26  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1661 

dam.  One  would  be  solicitous  about  the  issues  of  good  things  in- 
tended. And  that  friend  who  enquires  of  this  particular,  may  know 
of  the  priests  what  account  they  have  of  that  translation  for  its  an- 
tiquity.     They  tell  us  of  one  as  ancient  as  S.  Chrysostom's  times. 

As  for  the  enquiry  concerning  books  in  such  languages  (without 
which  the  pains  and  time  spent  upon  grammar  will  not  receive  a 
due  recompence)  I  must  say,  that  my  pursuit  of  those  languages  was 
cooled  by  that  very  consideration,  that  there  were  no  printed  books, 
none  but  jNISS.  which  are  kept  close,  and  are  not  for  common  use  ;  nor 
did  I  much  care  for  to  trouble  myself  about  the  keys  when  there  was 
no  treasure  of  things  to  be  come  at.'  But  I  have  often  wished  that 
there  were  a  corban^  for  the  advancement  of  such  studies,  that  out  of 
some  public  stock  some  (and  they  would  not  be  many)  might  be  en- 
couraged to  study  those  languages,  and  to  travel  into  Egypt,  Persia, 
&c.,  and  be  enabled  to  purchase  those  intellectual  treasures  for  the 
enriching  of  others.  But  we  are  rather  for  their  gums  and  spices, 
for  what  may  minister  to  luxury  and  pride,  than  for  what  is  intel- 
lectual, or  the  preserved  remains  of  such  ancients  who  were  the  glory 
of  their  times. 

But  if  Mr.  Beal  would  give  his  young  students  a  taste  of  Arabic  and 
Persian,  I  know  not  what  may  gratify  them  better  than  Warner's"^ 
Century  of  Persian  Proverbs,  done  also  into  Latin  and  explained, 
printed  at  Leyden  1644.  As  also  Erpenius's  Century  of  Arabic 
Proverbs,  translated  and  explained ;  together  with  Locman's  Fables 
translated  and  explained ;  both  which  are  bound  with  the  edition 
of  his  Arabic  Grammar  in  4to,  at  Leyden  1636.  There  is  also 
Historia  Saracenica  published  by  him  in  folio,  as  also  some 
Arabic  authors  by  the  most  knowing  in  this  language,  Mr.  Pocock  ; 
and  some  Persian  authors  by  Schickard,  Graves,  Gentius,  &c.  I 
should  be  glad  to  hear  that  Mr.  Pocock  had  published  the  Philoso- 
phical Fiction  in  Arabic,  Avith  a  translation,  of  which  you  wrote 

'  A  consideration  which  has  had  its  weight  with  more  than  Worthington  in  regard 
to  the  study  of  the  Oriental  languages. 

-  From  the  Hebrew,  signifying  an  offering  or  gift  put  into  the  poor  man's  box. 
^  See  Warner  highly  praised,  vol.  i.  pp.  161,  172. 


1661]  OF  DR.  WORTH  INGTOX.  27 

heretofore.  There  are  by  Erpenius  and  Hottinger  composed  certain 
Collections  of  Arabic  MSS.  (besides  other  printed  catalogues;)  but 
these  rarities  unpublished  come  not  within  the  enquiry. 

For  Schindler's  Lexicon  Pentacjlotton  I  have  it  not,  and  it  is  long; 
since  T  perused  it.  I  liked  several  Hebrew  observations  in  it ;  but 
then  I  had  not  Kimchi's  Roots  or  Lexicon,  nor  Pagnin's  Lexicon^ 
(with  the  additions  of  Mercer  and  Cevellerius  and  Bertram)  which 
translates  much  out  of  Kimchi  and  other  Rabbinical  authors ;  (the 
edition  at  Lyons  in  1575  is  a  most  fair  and  pleasing  edition.)  These 
with  Buxtorf  make  me  less  solicitous  about  Schindler,  otherwise  a 
desirable  author  ;  the  price  of  which  is  about  20s. 

Concerning  the  performances  in  the  Punic  tongue  I  have  but  little 
to  write.  Bochartus^  in  his  large  geographical  volume  makes  much 
use  of  his  Phoenician  conjectures,  and  that  the  Poeni  were  a  Phoeni- 
cian colony  is  not  much  controverted.  There  is  in  Plautus  his 
PcEnulus  a  specimen  of  the  tongue,  where  Hanno  acts  his  part,  upon 
which  Mr.  Selden^  hath  done  somewhat :  but  a  larger  and  an  inge- 

'  The  excellent  Hebrew  Lexicon  of  Sanctes  Pagninus,  first  published  by  Gryphius 
at  Lyons  in  1519  foi.,  and  afterwards  with  the  important  improvements  and  additions 
of  Jo.  Mercerus,  Ant.  CevaUerius,  and  Bonav.  Corn.  Bertram,  at  Lyons  in  1575,  and 
Genev.  1614  fol.  Genebrard  (Chronologia,  lib.  iv.)  observes  of  Pagninus  that  he  had 
beaten  all  the  Rabbins  in  this  province ;  and  Buxtorf,  the  Aristarchus  in  Hebrew 
lexicography,  styles  this  the  most  perfect  Hebrew  dictionary  (Epist.  ad  Ai'ianum), 
Bertram's  elegant  preface  on  the  labours  of  himself  and  his  coadjutors  is  well  worth 
reading. 

-  For  a  notice  of  Bochart  see  vol.  i.  p.  169. 

^  "What  Selden  has  written  in  reference  to  the  Punic  in  the  Poenulus  will  be  found 
Seldeni  Op.  vol.  ii.  p.  220.  The  general  facts  of  the  life  of  this  oracle  of  learning,  in 
the  six  folios  of  whose  collected  works  the  widest  range  of  erudition  is  exhibited  in  the 
most  splendid  profusion,  are  too  well  known  to  need  repetition.  The  very  respectable 
editor  of  the  last  edition  of  the  "  Table  Talk"  (ed.  1854  8vo)  Dr.  Irving,  styles 
Aikin's  Life  (1812  8vo)  "  a  judicious  and  well  written  one."  It  seems  to  me,  like  all 
Dr.  Aikin's  biographies,  neither  to  be  distinguished  by  much  research,  appreciation  of 
character,  or  critical  discrimination.  Certainly  a  better  is  deserved  by  him  who  has 
been  styled  "  the  glory  of  the  English  nation  "  than  that  or  any  other  which  has  been 
yet  published.  The  character  of  Selden  has  never  yet  been  more  truly  drawn  than  in 
that  sentence  of  Anthony  Wood,  "His  mind  was  as  great  as  his  learning,  full  of 
generosity,  and  harbouring  nothing  that  seemed  base."  In  his  works  he  was  too 
much  engrossed  in  digging  out  his  ore  from  the  qiiarry  to  be  very  careful  to  polish 


28  DIARY   AND   CORRESPONDENCE  [1661 

nious  discourse  upon  it  we  may  find  in  Petitus  his  Miscellanies,  1.  2, 

aud  refine  it,  and  thus  he  is  generally  rugged,  parenthetical,  and  obscure  ;  and  yet 
many  passages  might  be  referred  to  in  his  English  works,  aud  particularly  in  his 
prefaces  and  dedications,  which  in  happiness  of  illustration  and  felicity  of  language 
are  unexcelled.  What  he  has  left  in  verse  would  seem  to  indicate  capabilities  which, 
whether  they  would  have  advanced  him  to  a  high  place  amongst  poets  or  not,  would 
iu  all  probability,  if  further  cultivated,  have  given  more  harmony  and  grace  to  his  prose 
style.  His  plan  of  composition  he  himself  tells  us.  "  In  the  course  of  composing, 
the  testimonies  were  chosen  by  weight,  not  by  number,  taken  only  thence  whither  the 
margin  directs,  never  at  second  hand.  Neither  affected  I  to  muster  up  many  petty 
and  late  names  for  proof  of  what  is  had  wholly  by  all  from  autient  fountains.  The 
fountains  only,  and  what  best  cleared  them,  satisfied  me."  (Op.  vol.  iii.  part  ii.  p. 
1072.)  Profoundly  master  of  English  law,  he  grasped  a  much  wider  supremacy,  and 
inrolled  himself  amongst  the  retainers  of  "  true  Philology,  the  only  fit  wife  that 
could  be  found  for  the  most  learned  of  the  gods.  She  being  well  attended  in  her 
daily  services  of  inquiry  by  her  handmaids,  curious  Diligence  and  watchful  Industry, 
discovers  to  us  often  from  her  raised  tower  of  judgment  many  hidden  truths  that  on 
the  level  of  anyone  restrained  profession  can  never  be  discerned.  Is  not  the  company 
of  this  great  lady  of  learning,  with  her  attendants,  as  fit  for  a  student  of  the  common 
laws  of  England  as  for  any  other  pretending  faculty  soever  ?  I  never  heard  that  she 
was  engaged  alone  to  any  beside  Mercury."  "  Nor  hath  the  provei'bial  assertion,  that 
the  Lady  Common  Law  must  lie  alone,  ever  wrought  with  me  further  than  like  a  badge 
of  his  family  to  whom  (by  the  testimony  of  the  wisest  man)  every  way  seems  full  of 
thorns,  and  that  uses  to  excuse  his  labour  with  a  lion  is  in  the  way."  (Op.  vol.  iii. 
p.  88.)  Of  his  English  works  his  Notes  to  the  first  eighteen  Songs  of  Drayton's 
Polyolbion  and  his  Titles  of  Honor  are  the  most  pleasing.  In  the  latter  particularly 
all,  that  learning  the  most  profound  and  varied  and  research  and  industry  the  most 
incessant  coidd  produce,  are  brought  together  on  the  subject.  Of  his  Latin  treatises 
those  De  Dis  Syris,  De  Jure  Naturali  apud  Hebricos,  and  his  Mare  Clausum,  which 
last  has  given  him  an  undoubted  title  to  national  gratitude,  are  his  greatest  works ; 
but  it  is  impossible  to  consult  any  of  his  writings,  Latin  or  English,  from  the  most 
elaborate  even  to  a  letter,  such  as  that  to  Ben  Jonson  on  tbe  text  on  counterfeiting 
of  sexes  by  apparel,  without  feeling  some  astonishment  at  the  immense  stores  he  had 
always  at  command  —  stores  in  which  nothing  was  common  or  trite,  and  which  had 
not  overlaid  or  encumbered,  as  his  works  fully  manifest,  whatever  Le  Clerc  may  have 
asserted,  the  exercise  of  his  reasoning  and  discriminating  powers.  His  "  Table  Talk," 
notwithstanding  the  doubts  of  Dr.  Wilkins  and  the  deficiency  of  decisive  external 
evidence,  is  too  delightful  a  record  of  this  splendid  scholar  to  be  relinquished  on  mere 
suspicion.  The  freedom  of  many  of  the  opinions  affords  a  sufficient  explanation  of 
the  reason  why  it  was  not  published  during  the  lives  of  Scldeu's  executors,  to  whom 
it  was  dedicated.  To  say  that  all  of  it  is  not  worthy  of  his  learning  or  judgment  is  to 
say  nothing ;  for  what  great  man  always  talks  wisely  ?     And  we  like  Dr.  Johnson  all 


1661]  or   DR.  WORTHINGTON.  29 

c.  2.    This  is  that  Petitus^  whose  great  labours  upon  Josephus  I  can 

the  better,  and  Selden  certainly  not  a  bit  the  worse,  because  he  did  not  always  speak 
judicially  or  as  in  a  concio  ad  clerum.  It  must  have  been  an  era  in  the  life  of 
a  young  student  in  those  days  to  be  admitted  to  go  along  with  Whitelock  or  Hale  to 
that  "  noble  dwelling"  in  Whitefriars  where  Selden  lived  with  the  Countess  of  Kent, 
to  whom  he  had  been  secretly  married,  and  "  where  he  kept  a  plentiful  table  and  was 
never  without  learned  company,"  and  where,  with  the  tall  frame  and  expressive  gray 
eyes  which  Aubrey  has  depicted,  he  might  be  seen  descanting  at  the  head  of  that  table. 
The  "Bos well"  to  whom  we  are  so  much  indebted  ought  not  to  be  passed  by,  as  he  is  by 
Dr.  Irving,  as  if  he  was  a  mere  mythical  personage.  Richard  Milward,  the  compiler 
of  the  "  Table  Talk,"  of  Trinity  College,  Cambridge,  was  a  substantial  clergyman, 
Eector  of  Braxted  in  Essex,  and  was  installed  into  a  Cauonry  at  Windsor  on  the  30th 
June  1666.  His  death  took  place  on  the  30th  September  1680.  He  does  not  appear 
to  have  come  out  with  any  publication  in  his  lifetime.  There  is  not  I  believe  even  a 
sermon  of  his  extant.  Enough  for  him  to  have  collected  and  chronicled  the  wisdom, 
the  playfulness  and  wit  of  one  of  the  greatest  scholars  and  philologers  that  ever 
lived,  whose  mind  was  saturated  not  merely  with  all  that  books  and  reflection  acting 
upon  them  coidd  furnish,  but  with  the  living  inspirations  derived  from  the  converse 
of  the  poets,  the  philosophers,  the  divines,  the  antiquaries,  and  every  eminent  lawyer 
since  the  commencement  of  the  century  during  one  half  of  which  he  flourished ;  the 
familiar  talk  of  one  whom  Bacon  honoured  and  whom  Jonson  cherished  as  his  friend, 
who  had  gone  step  by  step  with  Drayton  in  search  of  many  a  river  nymph  along 
many  a  winding  stream,  and  had  saluted  the  birth  of  "  Britannia's  pastorals."  Of 
such  a  man  happy  is  the  "  Boswell."  Though  what  he  has  given  us  bears  no  com- 
parison to  what  with  his  opportunities  he  might  have  collected,  yet  let  us  be  grateful 
to  the  memory  of  Richard  Milward  for  having  done  so  much,  and  for  having  furnished 
us  with  a  volume  which  Dr.  Johnson's  authority  has  pronounced  to  be  the  first  of  its 
class. 

'  See  Petitus  noticed  vol.  i.  p.  137.  His  correction  and  explanation  of  the  "  much 
vexed"  passages  in  the  Poenulus  may  be  seen  pages  58—88  in  his  Miscellaneorum  Libri 
Novem,  Paris  1630,  4to,  a  volume  which  shows  extensive  and  various  learning  and 
great  critical  skill.  How  little  his  explanation  finally  settled  this  crux  criticorum  will 
appear  from  the  following  note  of  F.  H.  Bothe  in  his  Plautus  (edit.  Aug.  Tau.  1823, 
vol.  iii.  p.  466)  :  "  Aut  nihil  ant  parum  hie  vidisse  Phil.  Pareum,  Comici  editorem, 
Sam.  Pctitum  in  Miscellan.,  Thorn.  Reiuesium  in  'lo-r^pou^eVois  Linguce  Punicte,  Jo. 
Clericum  in  libro  Gallice  scripto  Bibliotheque  Universelle  et  Historique  de  I'annee 
1688  seu  torn.  ix.  p.  256,  Sam.  Bochartum  in  Phaleg  et  Canaan,  Operum  ejus  Lugd. 
Bat.  editorum  tom.  i,  p.  721  sqq.,  Geo.  Hen.  Saphunium  in  Commentatione  Philo- 
logica  quae  prodiit  Lips.  1713,  aliosque  tam  veteres  tam  recentiores  pluribus  exsequitur 
Bellermannus,  quce  apud  ipsum  legi  satius  est,"  It  is  amusing  to  see  how  quietly  and 
coolly  a  commentator  disposes  of  his  predecessors.  Whether  they  happen  to  be  giants 
or  pigmies. 


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never  think  of  without  a  fear  lest  they  should  perish,  or  else,  if  bought 
by  some  Romanists,  be  lost  to  the  world,  as  were  the  remainder  of 
Bishop  Mountagu's^  Exercitations  upon  Baronius,  sold  for  money  into 
the  hands  of  Romanists.  How  might  Cocceius  and  Elzevir  adorn 
and  complete  the  edition  of  that  most  useful  historian  Josephus  if 
they  would  part  with  money  to  purchase  Petitus  his  notes,  to  which 
Grotius  and  Sarravius^  refer,  and  expect  great  satisfaction  from  them. 

"  All  wait  alike  tli'  inevitable  hour," 
and  have  to  give  up  their  peculiar  author  or  peculiar  passage  to  a  fresh  critic  with  a 
newer  commentary.  At  the  present  clay  it  would  not  be  difficult  to  find  at  least  fifty 
critics  who  would  be  as  little  satisfied  to  take  Bellerman  as  the  Qidipus  of  the  Poenulus 
as  he  was  to  acquiesce  in  the  learned  divinations  of  any  of  the  commentators  who 
had  gone  before  him. 

1  Eichard  Montagu,  Bishop  of  Chichester,  who  died  1641,  one  of  the  most  learned 
and  able  of  English  Divines,  but  little  known  or  read  in  proportion  to  his  merits  at 
the  present  day.  His  biography  will  be  found  in  the  Biog.  Brit,  and  Chalmers,  but 
it  has  never  yet  been  gone  into  with  sufficient  attention  and  research.  He  is  remem- 
bered rather  as  the  Arminian  prelate  than  as  the  well  matched  opponent  of  Baronius 
and  Selden.  His  Latin  folios  are  masterly  performances,  and  are  exceeded  by  none  in 
wide  grasp  of  erudition  and  that  power  of  dealing  with  it  which  makes  even  a  folio 
pleasant  readimr.  His  English  Answer  to  Selden  on  Tithes  is  one  of  the  most  delight- 
ful books  to  be  met  with  on  the  shelves  of  old  Philology,  and,  whether  conclusive 
against  that  transcendent  scholar  or  not  on  the  portion  of  his  work  against  which  it 
is  directed,  is  certainly  read  with  much  more  pleasure  than  the  elaborate  and  striking 
treatise  which  it  opposes.  It  abounds  in  interesting  passages,  and  has  long  been  a 
favourite  companion  of  the  Editor  of  this  volume.  The  anecdote  in  the  text  does  not 
appear  to  have  been  noticed  by  Bishop  Montagu's  biographers.  It  is  not  stated  by 
Worthington,  by  whom  the  sale  was  made,  but  as  Millicent,  the  Bishop's  Chaplain, 
turned  Jesuit,  and  is  said  to  have  carried  away  the  MSS.  which  Montagu  had  been  at 
great  expense  in  collecting,  it  is  most  probable  that  the  continuation  of  his  Aualeeta 
disappeared  through  the  same  channel. 

-  Claudius  Sarravius,  or  Sarrau,  whose  very  entertaining  Latin  Letters  to  different 
learned  men  were  republished  by  Burman,  and  printed,  along  with  Gudius's  Corres- 
pondence, at  Utrecht  in  1697,  4to.  Sarravius  looked  up  to  Salmasius  as  the  monarch 
of  letters,  and  the  principal  part  of  his  "Epistles"  are  addressed  to  him.  Without 
this  interesting  collection  the  materials  for  the  biography  of  the  eminent  scholars  who 
flourished  1635-50  would  be  incomplete.  Sarravius  always  writes  with  liveliness 
and  spirit,  and  his  letters  are  full  of  literary  history  and  critical  opinions,  opinions 
not  however  too  much  to  be  relied  on  when  they  respect  any  adversary  of  Salmasius, 
to  whom  he  thus  strongly  expresses  his  adhesion :  "  Salmasium  amo  impensius  et 
contra  omnes  eruditi  sajculi  viros  magnos."     (Sarravii  Epist.  edit.  1697,  p.  154.) 


1661]  OF   DR.  WORTHINGTON.  31 

The  fate  which  befel  Picherellus^  his  labours  makes  me  fear  the 
worst  concerning  his  countryman  Petitus's  MSS.  Picherellus  (a 
person  of  great  learning,  judgment  and  ingenuity)  having  finished  his 
commentaries  upon  Matthew  and  Luke,  (and  what  an  excellent 
criticum  jecur  he  had  may  appear  by  his  paraphrase  and  notes  in 
Cosmopaeian  a  Mose  descriptam,  extant  in  that  little  volume  of  his 
Opuscula)  he  was  persuaded  by  the  famous  Thuanus^  that  he  would 

'•Peter  Pielierelliis,  a  Roman  Catholic  Divine  of  great  learning  and  acuteness,  and 
who  in  many  points  approximated  to  the  Protestant  faith.  He  is  praised  in  the 
highest  terms  by  Beza,  J.  Casaubon,  and  Grotius,  and  to  him  Du  Thou  addressed  the 
beautiful  lines  beginning  — 

"  Senex  optime,  cui  vita  beata 

Jam  nunc,  tethere  qualis  in  supremo 

Vivo  vivitur  atque  sentient! 

Prudenter  facis  atque  Christiane 

Dum  quiE  ignobile  suspicit  pavetque 

Vulgus,  negligis  et  subinde  rides. 

Hoc  est  vivere,  non  timere  mortem 

Et  morti  nimias  moras  trahenti 

Non  horrescere  proximam  senectam,"  &c. 
All  that  remains  of  his  Commentaries  and  other  works  is  contained  in  a  small  12mo, 
published  by  Andrew  Eiivet  at  Leyden  in  1629,  pp.  368,  the  quality  of  which  is  so 
excellent  as  to  render  the  loss  of  the  great  bulk  of  his  writings  a  subject  of  deep 
regret.  His  admirable  paraphrase  and  commentary  on  the  first  chapter  of  G-enesis 
extend  from  p.  241  to  p.  331  of  the  volume. 

-  The  fate  of  this  great  historian,  whom  to  know  is  to  love  and  to  read  is  to  admire, 
and  not  to  be  acquainted  with  is  a  literary  loss  the  extent  of  which  those  only  who 
are  well  acquainted  with  his  work  can  form  an  estimate  of,  has  been  truly  singular. 
In  his  own  country  no  edition  of  the  Latin  text  of  his  history  has  appeared  since  the 
one  commenced  by  Robert  Stephens,  of  which  the  first  volume  only  was  published  at 
Paris  in  1618 ;  while  on  the  contrary  he  has  been  brought  out  in  England  with  a  care, 
expense  and  splendour  which  have  never  been  bestowed  on  our  native  historians,  one 
of  the  most  brilliant  politicians  of  the  day,  Carteret  afterwards  Lord  Granville, 
receiving  and  revising  the  proofs  as  they  came  from  the  press,  and  nearly  all  the 
nobility  and  leading  meu  of  the  time  promoting  the  publication.  In  translation  we 
have  not  been  equally  successful,  that  begun  in  1729  having  only  proceeded  as  far  as 
the  twenty-sixth  book  of  Du  Thou's  history,  and  the  one  announced  by  John  Gee  in 
1751  having  failed  apparently  for  want  of  encouragement,  while  there  is  a  French 
translation  of  the  entire  work.  We  yet  want  a  new  edition  of  the  Latin  text  in  a 
convenient  form,  Buckley's  excellent  and  beautifully  printed  one  being  too  large  and 
cumbrous  for  continuous  perusal,  and  the  only  issue  in  a  pocket  size  being  the  eleven 


32  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1661 

apply  his  labours  to  Paul's  Epistles,  which  he  did,  and  not  long 
before  his  death  completed  his  annotations  upon  them.  But  what 
became  of  this  tarn  pretiosa  supellex  (as  Thuanus  speaks)  after  his 
death,  and  how  these  best  of  goods  came  to  be  lost,  could  not  be 
known ;  but  they  were  made  away,  the  labours  of  many  years,  the 
careful  productions  of  a  clear  and  piercing  judgment.  There  were 
also  some  precious  remains  of  the  learned  Schickard,^  which  the 
incomparable  Peireskius  upon  the  news  of  his  death  was  very  solici- 
tous about ;  but  I  never  heard  that  they  were  published  after,'  if 
they  were  preserved. 

To  the  enquiry  concerning  Valerius  Probus  de  Notis  Antiquis, 
scil.  Romanorum  (with  whom  Suetonius  concludes  his  tract  De 
Illustribus  Grammaticis,)  his  treatise  is  a  very  little  one,  I  mean  all 
of  him  that  I  have  seen ;  and  together  with  Magno  de  Notis  Juris, 
and  also  Petrus  Diaconus  de  Notis  Literarum  more  Romano,  and 
some  other  like  treatises,  it  is  printed  amongst  the  Auctores  Latinse 
Linguae,  viz.  Varro,  Ver.  Flaccus,  Festus,  Non.  Marcellus,  &c. 
This  collection  of  such  authors  into  one  body,  with  the  notes  of  the 
learned  Dionysius  Gothofredus^  upon  the  chief  of  them,  is  printed  in 

volumes  printed  by  Drouart  (1609-13)  which  are  of  great  rarity  and  do  not  extend 
further  than  the  eightieth  book.  His  charming  narrative  "De  Tita  Sua"  has  been 
translated  into  English  in  the  version  begun  in  1729,  but  it  ought  to  be  reprinted  in 
a  smaller  form,  and  would  with  fitting  illustration  make  one  of  the  most  attractive  in 
the  series  of  autobiographies.  Whether  contemplated  in  his  history  or  in  his  life,  in 
his  writings  or  in  his  character,  the  mind  still  derives  the  same  impression  of  this 
admirable  man. 

'  William  Schickard  a  famous  Ilebraist  and  mathematician,  born  in  1592,  died 
in  1635,  For  references  to  the  diiferent  writers  who  have  noticed  him  see  Saxius's 
Onomasticon,  vol.  iv.  p.  591  :  Gassendus's  Life  of  Peiresk  is  not  however  men- 
tioned amongst  them,  where  Schickard  is  frequently  named  as  a  correspondent 
and  friend  of  Peiresk.  "  Hearing  of  the  death  of  the  excellent  Schickardus,  whom 
the  plague  had  taken  away  November  foregoing,  he  used  all  diligence  possible  that 
such  works  as  he  left  unprinted  might  be  preserved  and  set  forth,  which  he  did  by 
mediation  and  assistance  of  Matthias  Berneggerus  of  Strasburg,  a  renowned  man." 
Gassendus's  Life  of  Peiresk  in  English,  book  v.  p.  135,  Lond.  1657,  12mo. 

^  Dionysius  Gothofredus  or  Godofredus,  a  very  learned  jurisconsult  and  critic,  who 
(amongst  other  works)  edited  the  Corpus  Juris  Civilis,  Cicero,  and  the  collection  of 
Auctores  Lat.  Linguje  above  noted,  and  annotated  upon  Seneca.      His  conjectures 


1661]  OF   DR.   WORTHINGTON.  33 

a  thick  4to.  The  edition  I  have  is  that  of  Colen.  1622,  and  it  cost 
me  about  six  or  seven  shillings,  T  do  not  well  remember  which. 

This  is  all  for  the  present  to  the  several  enquiries  in  Mr.  Beal's 
letter,  which  I  have  been  enforced  to  write  at  such  pieces  of  time  as 
I  could  redeem  from  other  occasions.  Had  I  had  a  vacant  season,  I 
might  have  contracted  my  thoughts  into  a  lesser  room  and  prevented 
this  tediousness.  One  passage  in  my  former  lines  (viz.  that  about 
the  Alcoran)  puts  me  in  mind  of  what  I  have  read  in  Orinesiusi  j^ig 
discourse  De  Oonfusione  Linguarum  (it  is  at  the  end  of  the  chapter 
De  Lingua  Arabica)  viz.  "  Johannes  Zechendorfius  (Rector  Scholse 
Cygneae,  dominus  et  affinis  mens  perpetim  honorandus,  vir  in 
<y\(OTToyvo)(Tia  nostra  undiquaque  versatissimus)  totum  Alcoranum 
Latinitate  interlineari  reddidit,  dogmata  Mahumedica  in  margine 
ejusdem  detexit,  eaque  scite  confutavit,  atque  ita  totum  librum  con- 
fecit,  ut  jam  nil  nisi  impressorem,  a  typis  Arabicis  probe  instructum, 
is  ipsus  desideret."  Thus  Crinesius,  Professor  at  Altdorpht  Nori- 
corum,  wrote  above  30  years  since.  If  that  Zechendorf  be  dead,  I 
fear  it  may  be  with  his  labours  herein  as  with  Picherellus,  Schickard, 
&c.  If  the  MS.  be  not  lost,  it  may  be  of  use  to  Hottinger  in  his 
like  design.  I  wish  that  all  learned  men  who  have  spent  themselves 
upon  any  worthy  and  useful  argument,  would  secure  their  papers 
from  being  lost  or  embezzled  through  the  avarice  or  folly  of  execu- 
tors. If  they  would  communicate  them  to  the  world  before  they 
themselves  leave  it,  all  would  be  secured. 

on  that  author  gave  rise  to  a  fierce  controversy  between  him  and  Janus  Gruter,  in 
answer  to  whom  Gothofredus  published  "  Pro  conjecturis  in  Senecam  brevis  ad 
Gruterum  responsio,"  Francf.  1591,  12mo.  He  did  not  spare  his  adversary ;  but  his 
"  Eesponsio"  is  mere  milk  and  water  when  compared  with  the  truculent  performance 
of  another  opponent  of  Gruter,  J.  P.  Pareus,  who  in  his  Analeeta  Plautina,  which  he 
added  as  a  seventh  volume  to  Gruter's  Fax  Artium,  lays  on  "  tortore  flagello"  without 
remorse.  It  would  be  difficult  to  match  this  book  and  Scioppius's  Scaliger  Hypo- 
bolimeus,  as  scientific  models  of  scholastic  castigation,  in  the  whole  extent  of  literary 
controversy. 

'  Christopher  Crinesius,  an  able  Oriental  scholar,  who  published,  besides  the  treatise 
mentioned  in  the  text,  a  Syriac  Lexicon  and  other  works.  See  Leigh's  Eeligion  and 
Learning,  1663,  foho,  p.  173. 


34  DIARY  AND  CORUESPON DENCE  [1661 

To  return  to  Mr.  Beal.  I  am  very  glad  that  lie  finds  vacancy 
from  his  other  cares  to  bestow  some  hours  upon  the  institution  of 
youth,  he  finding  in  himself  a  great  promptness  in  such  didactic 
work.  I  very  well  remember  the  great  esteem  that  Erasmus  of 
ever  blessed  memory  had  for  such  work ;  and  in  his  letter  to  Colet  ^ 
he  tells  a  pretty  story  of  a  discourse  he  had  with  a  Master  of  Arts  in 
Cambridge  when  he  was  enquiring  for  a  fit  person  to  undertake  the 
care  of  PauFs  School ;  and  concludes,  "  Vides  sapientiam  Scotisti- 
cam,  et  habes  dialogum."^  I  have  often  wished  that  the  institution 
of  youth  were  designed  more  to  the  advancement  of  piety  as  well 
as  learning,  and  that  the  virgin  innocency  of  childhood  might  be 
secured  by  the  best  methods  of  diligence.  This  both  Colet  and 
Erasmus  had  always  inter  principes  curas.  I  wish  that  the  tedious- 
ness  of  grammar  rules  might  be  prudently  lessened,  nor  do  I  think 
the  putting  of  them  into  verse  hath  given  any  relief.     Herewith  I 

'  Of  Colet,  see  vol.  i.  p.  114.  The  best  portrait  of  this  excellent  preceptor  of  youth 
is  that  furnished  by  Erasmus  in  his  letters,  in  which  Colet's  memory  will  be  perma- 
nently embalmed. 

"  The  following  is  the  passage  referred  to,  which  is  contained  in  a  letter  from  Eras- 
mus to  Colet,  dated  "  Cantabridgiso,  postridie  Simonis  et  Judte,  1513.  (Erasmi  Epist. 
edit.  Lond.  1642,  fol.  522  )  "  Yeuit  in  mentem  quiddam,  quod  ridebis  scio.  Cum  inter 
magistros  aliquot  proponei'am  dehypodidascalo  quidam  non  infimpe  opinionis  subridens: 
Quis,  inquit,  sustineat  in  eci  scliold  vitam  agere  inter  2}ueros  qui  posset  nhivis  quomodo- 
cunque  vivere  ?  Respondi  modestius,  hoc  munus  mihi  videri  Tel  in  primis  honestum 
bonis  moribus  ac  Uteris  iustituere  juventutem,  neque  Christum  cam  setatem  coutemp- 
sisse  et  in  nuUam  rectius  collocari  beneflcium  et  nusquam  expectari  fructum  uberiorem, 
utpote  cum  ilia  sit  seges  et  sylra  Eeip.  Addidi  siqui  siut  homines  vere  pii  eos  in  hac 
esse  sententia  ut  putent  sese  nullo  officio  magis  demereri  Deum  quam  si  pueros  trahant 
ad  Christum.  Atque  is  corrugato  naso  subsannans  :  Siquis,  inquit,  relit  omnino  servire 
Christo  ingrediatur  monasterium  ac  religionem.  Respondi,  Paulum  in  charitatis 
officiis  ponere  veram  religionem :  charitatem  autem  in  hoc  esse  ut  proximis  quam 
maxime  prosimus.  Rejccit  hoc  tanquani  imperitc  dictum.  Ecce,  inquit,  nos  reliqui- 
mus  omnia,  in  hoc  est  perfectio.  Non  reliquit,  inquam,  omnia  qui  cum  possit  plurimis 
prodesse  labore  suo  detrcetat  officium  quod  humilius  habeatur.  Atque  ita  ne  lis  ori- 
retur,  hominem  dimisi.  Vides  sapientiam  Scotisticam,  et  habcs  dialogum."  The 
dialogue  is  too  characteristic  of  Erasmus  to  be  omitted.  He  docs  not  mention  the 
name  of  his  opponent,  who  in  his  "  Reliquimus  omnia  "  seems  to  have  included  his 
duties,  his  charity,  and  his  Christianity. 


1661]  OF   DR.   AVORTHINGTOX.  35 

send  a  little  essay^  of  Mr.  Wase,  pray  send  it  from  me  to  INIr.  Beal ; 
1  wish  it  had  been  better  bound ;  I  had  it  thus  from  London.  I 
the  rather  send  it  to  him  because  it  was;  the  composure  of  one  that 
had  his  education  at  Eton  and  Kinf^^s  College.  It  may  signify 
somethiufT,  thoufjh  it  condescends  to  those  that  are  but  out  of  their 
accidence,  whom  yet  Mr.  Beal  finds  to  be  capable  enough  for  his 
purposes.  This  Mr.  Wase  came  from  Eton  about  twelve  years  (or 
more)  since.  He  now  lives  in  Essex. ^  He  was  one  of  the  rarest 
youths  in  the  school  when  he  was  there.  Many  years  since  be 
turned  Grotius's-^  Catechism  into  Greek  verse,  and  another  school- 

'  The  essay  intended  is  doubtless  his  "Essay  on  Practical  Grammar,"  Lond.  1660, 
12mo.  Christopher  Wase,  the  author,  an  excellent  scholar  and  grammarian,  was 
born  at  Hackney,  in  Middlesex,  and  admitted  scholar  of  King's  College,  Cambridge, 
in  1645.  He  afterwards  became  fellow  of  that  body,  but,  for  refusing  to  take  the  co- 
venant, was  ejected  from  his  fellowship  and  obliged  to  leave  the  kingdom.  He  was 
subsequently  taken  at  sea  and  imprisoned  at  Gravesend,  from  whence  he  contrived  to 
escape,  and  served  in  the  Spanish  army  against  the  French.  He  was  taken  prisoner 
in  an  engagement,  but  released  soon  after  and  came  to  England,  when  he  was  ap- 
pointed tutor  to  "William  Lord  Herbert,  eldest  son  of  the  Earl  of  Pembroke  and  Mont- 
gomery. He  appears  to  have  found  a  good  friend  in  Evelyn,  who  notices  him  in  his 
diary  (February,  1652)  :  "  I  brought  with  me  from  Paris  Mr.  Christopher  Wase. 
He  had  been  a  soldier  in  Flanders,  and  came  miserable  to  Paris.  From  his  excellent 
learning  and  some  relation  he  had  to  Sir  R.  Browne,  I  bore  his  charges  into  England 
and  clad  and  provided  for  him  tUl  he  could  find  some  better  condition,  and  he  was 
worthy  of  it."  Soon  after  the  Restoration  he  was  appointed  master  of  the  Free 
School  of  Tunbridge,  in  Kent.  His  death  took  place  August  29th,  1690.  Besides 
the  works  noticed  in  the  text,  and  some  translations,  he  published —  1.  InMirabilem 
Caroli  Secund.  Restitutionem  Carmen,  Lond.  1660,  fol.  ;  2.  Considerations  concerning 
Free  Schools  as  settled  in  England,  Oxford,  1678,  8vo  ;  3.  Animadversiones  Nonianse, 
Oxford,  1685,  4to  ;  and  4.  Senarius  sive  de  Legibus  et  licentia  veterum  Poetarum, 
1687,  4to.  His  "  Considerations  on  Free  Schools  "  is  a  valuable  tract,  but  the  most 
learned  and  able  of  his  works  is  the  last,  his  "  Senarius."  Its  merit  has  been  fuUy 
allowed  by  the  most  eminent  critics  in  classical  litei-ature,  even  by  those  who  have  felt 
themselves  compelled  to  dissent  from  some  of  his  metrical  conclusions. 

'■^  At  Dedham,  near  Colchester,  in  Essex,  where  he  was  at  this  time  schoolmaster. 

^  Grotii  baptizatorum  puerorum  institutio  cui  accesserunt  Grseca  ejusdem  Meta- 
phrasis  a  C.  Wase  et  Anglicana  Yersio  a  F.  Goldsmith,  1647, 12mo.  A  second  edition 
of  this  appeared  in  1650,  and  a  third  in  1668,  with  a  somewhat  different  title  aud  the 
addition  of  a  "  Praxis  in  Grsecam  Metaphrasin  per  Barthol.  Beale." 


36  DIARY   AND   CORRESPONDENCE  [1661 

fellow  (lid  it  into  English,  and  Dr.  Grey^  added  testimonies  of  Scrip- 
ture. Mr.  Wase  published  that  ancient  poet  Gratius^  Faliscus  his 
Cynegeticon,  or  poem  of  hunting,  and  translated  it  into  English 
verse  and  added  notes.      This  he  did  when  he  was  tutor  to  the  Earl 

'  Dr.  Nicolas  Grey  was  Wage's  schoolmaster  at  Eton. 

-  There  are  few  more  attractive  little  books  than  the  volume  referred  to,  which 
bears  for  its  title  "  G-ratii  Falisci  Cynegeticon,  or  a  Poem  of  Hunting  by  Gratius  the 
Paliscian ;  Englished  and  illustrated  by  Christopher  Wase,  Gent.;"  Lond.  1654, 12mo. 
It  is  recommended  by  Waller  in  an  elegant  copy  of  verses,  in  which  he  sings, 
"  The  Muses  all  the  chase  adorne. 

My  friend  on  Pegasus  is  borne. 

And  young  Apollo  winds  the  home ;" 
and  concludes, 

"  None  does  more  to  Phcebus  owe. 

Or  in  more  languages  can  show 

Those  arts  which  you  so  early  know." 
The  preface  and  notes  are  lively,  scholarlike,  and  amusing.  Wase  vindicates  with 
great  spirit,  in  a  passage  which  may  be  taken  as  a  specimen  of  his  style,  the  diversion 
of  hunting :  "  The  exercise  of  hunting  neither  remits  the  mind  to  sloth  and  softnesse, 
nor  (if  it  be  used  with  moderation)  hardens  it  to  inhumanity ;  but  rather  encHnes 
men  to  acquaintance  and  sociablenesse.  It  is  no  small  advantage  to  be  enured  to  bear 
hunger,  thirst  and  wearinesse  from  one's  childhood,  to  take  a  timely  habit  of  quitting 
one's  bed  early,  and  loving  to  sit  fast  upon  a  horse.  What  innocent  and  naturall  de- 
lights are  they,  when  he  seeth  the  day  breaking  forth,  those  blushes  and  roses  which 
poets  and  writers  of  romances  onely  paint,  but  the  huntsman  truly  courts  !  when  he 
heareth  the  chirping  of  smal  birds  pearched  upon  their  dewie  boughs,  when  he  draws 
in  that  fragrancy  of  the  pastures  and  coolness  of  the  air !  How  jolly  is  his  spirit  when 
he  suffers  it  to  be  imported  with  the  noyse  of  bugle-hornes  and  the  baying  of  hounds, 
which  leap  up  and  play  round  about  him!  Nothing  does  more  recreate  the  mind, 
strengthen  the  limbs,  whet  the  stomack,  and  clear  up  the  spirit  when  it  is  overcast 
with  gloomy  cares,  from  whence  it  comes,  that  these  delights  have  merited  to  be  in 
esteem  in  all  ages,  and  even  amongst  barbarous  nations  by  their  lords,  princes,  and 
highest  potentates.  Then  it  is  admirable  to  observe  the  naturall  instinct  of  enmity 
and  cunning,  whereby  one  beast  being  as  it  were  confederate  with  man,  by  whom  he 
is  maintained,  serves  him  in  his  designes  upon  others.  A  curious  mind  is  exceedingly 
satisfyed  to  see  the  game  fly  before  him,  and  after  that  hath  withdrawn  itselfe  from 
his  sight,  to  see  the  whole  line  where  it  hath  passed  over  with  all  the  doublings  and 
crossworks  which  the  amazed  beast  hath  made,  recovered  again,  and  all  that  maze 
■wrought  out  by  the  intelligence  which  he  holds  with  dogs :  this  is  most  pleasant,  and 
as  it  were,  a  masterpiece  of  naturall  magique ;  which  in  this  author  is  amply  set  down 
in  great  variety.  Afterwards,  what  triumph  is  there  to  return  with  victory  and  spoilcs, 
liaving  a  good  title  both  to  his  meat  and  repose.'' 


1661]  OF   DK.   AVORTHINGTON.  37 

of  Pembroke's  son.  He  hath  of  late  employed  himself  about  a 
shorter  (and  cheaper)  dictionary'  for  young  scholars.  He  began 
with  the  English,  of  which  there  was  great  need,  there  being  very 
improper  and  impertinent  Latin  for  some  English  words,  to  the 
great  discouragenent  of  young  scholars,  and  for  some  words  no  Latin 
at  all.  The  dictionary  is  either  printed  or  near  finishing,  and  I  hear 
it  will  be  a  cheap  one,  as  I  wish  all  things  of  general  use  might  be 
made  to  be. 

In  the  beginning  of  his  letter  Mr.  Beal  writes  of  his  acquainting 
his  students  with  geography  and  practical  philosophy.  I  know  not 
whether  he  hath  heard  of  the  new  edition  of  Ferrarius^  his  Lexicon 
Geographicum,  printed  by  Mr.  Daniel  at  London,  in  folio.  There 
was  an  unhandsome  quarto  edition  of  it  before,  bad  for  paper,  but 
worse  for  print,  every  leaf  being  full  of  mistakes.  I  was  often  soli- 
citing Mr.  Daniel  to  reprint  it.  I  sent  him  (for  an  help)  a  former 
(lesser)  draught  of  the  book,  but  better  printed,  which  was  nowhere 
to  be  found  but  in  Jesus  College  library.  I  have  been  an  eyewitness 
of  the  great  pains  of  Mr.  Dillingham,  that  corrected  it  at  the  press ; 
but  before  a  sheet  was  printed  he  was  enforced  to  examine  the 
author  and  he  had  all  the  assistances  of  maps  and  books;  and  it 
was  as  much  as  he  could  do  to  read  a  sheet  in  a  day. 

There  is  a  late  handsome  edition  of  Epictetus  his  Practical  Philo- 
sophy.    Dr.  Meric  Casaubon^  hath  published  his  Enchiridion,  toge- 

1  Dictionarum  Minus,  a  compendious  dictionary,  English-Latin  and  Latin-English, 
Lond.  1662,  4to,  a  second  edition  of  which  was  printed  in  1675,  8vo.  It  is  a  compen- 
dium of  Calepine,  but  done  with  so  much  jiidgment,  says  Dr.  Littleton  in  his  Latin 
preface  to  his  dictionary,  that  one  can  hardly  find  anything  in  it  which  savoureth  of 
barbarism.  —  Nichols's  Lit.  Anecdotes,  toI.  t.  p.  208. 

-  It  was  published  in  1657.  This  useful  geographical  lexicon,  by  P.  A.  Ferrarius, 
first  appeared  in  Mdau  in  1627,  4to.  The  London  edition,  printed  by  Daniel,  to 
which  Worth  ington  refers,  is  certainly  a  great  improvement  on  the  previous  edition. 
Ferrarius  published  other  works,  a  list  of  which  will  be  found  in  "Watt. 

'  Dr.  Meric  Casaubon's  edition  of  Epictetus  was  piiblished  in  1659,  12mo.  J.  C. 
Schroderus,  a  subsequent  editor  (edit.  Epic.  Delphis,  1723, 8vo),  places  Meric  Casaubon 
next  to  Wolfius  :  "  Cui  ut  in  loco  sic  iu  dignatione  secundus  succedit  Mericus  Casau- 
bonus,  vir  eruditione  in  tantum  caeteris  sequiparandus  quantum  ipse  magno  patri  Isaaco 
Casaubono  doctrina  et  elegantia  cedit."  —  Pra^fat. 


38  DIARY  AND   CORRESPONDENCE  [1661 

ther  with  a  parapbi'case  upon  it  in  Greek  and  Latin,  written  by  an 
ancient  Greek  Christian,  as  also  Cebes's  Fable,  and  all  with  short 
notes. 

JBut  I  shall  weary  with  this  long  scribbling  both  you  and  Mr. 
Beal,  to  whom  I  am  obliged  for  the  ingenious  specimen  enclosed, 
and  for  his  notices  which  he  hath  found  so  successful  in  the  institu- 
tion of  youth.  I  have  filled  up  all  the  paper.  I  must  conclude 
with  the  assurance  that  I  am 

Yours  always, 

Sept.  9,  1661.  J.[ohn]  W.[orthington.] 


Baker's  Canib. 


S.  Hartlib  to  Dr.  Worthington. 
Though  I  be  very  ill,  yet  I  cannot  but  acknowledge  the  respect 
red  to'^p  13^'''^  whicli  is  due  to  your  large  letter  of  the  5tli  Sept.,  which  was  very 
welcome.  I  suppose  you  have  received  my  letter  with  ]\Ir,  Beal's 
several  requests.  He  writes  again  as  followeth  :  "  Mr.  Oldenburg 
may  perhaps  be  able  to  add  some  help  to  my  former  suit  in 
recounting  what  grammars,  lexicons,  and  other  writings  of  help  to 
languages  are  abroad  in  the  old  Punic,  Coptic,  Samaritan  charac- 
ter, Ethiopic  or  other  eastern  tongue.  I  do  not  exclude  the 
Persian,  Turkish,  Chinese,  Mauritanian,  Armenian,  or  any  other 
strange  character.  Though  I  gave  myself  in  my  last  the  name  of 
a  pedant,  yet  I  do  not  make  it  any  part  of  my  profession,  nor  did 
I  ever  help  my  shallow  purse  with  such  revenues ;  only  to  encou- 
rage others  and  to  direct  schoolmasters,  (some  of  them  being 
legally  under  my  cognisance,)  I  have  given  some  few  speciraina 
amongst  my  special  friends.  Your  commendations  of  Breviarium 
Linguae  Grtecse  and  Do  Idiotismis  Linguse  Grtecse  have  encouraged 
me  to  send  for  them,  if  the  stationer  can  find  them  by  these  only 
titles.  I  have  hitherto  used  Manuale  Seidelii  and  Lubini  Sen- 
tentise  as  they  are  reprinted  in  the  lexicon  of  Schrcvelius,  and  these 
seem  to  be  large  enough  for  our  purpose,  Avho  do  quicken  and 
strengthen  the  ingeny  by  use   and    much  practice  to  prosecute 


1661]  OF   D|{.    WORTHINGTOX.  39 

every  hint  (as  is  necessary  iu  the  use  and  explication  of  characters 
in  cryptology)  and  helping  the  memory  with  a  little  of  formations 
of  kindreds  of  coraposita  upon  every  word  that  newly  occurs.  I 
perceive  you  did  not  quite  understand  the  method  which  my  last  wri- 
ting described  in  pedantry  ;  and  therefore,  if  it  please  you,  you  may 
communicate  it  to  Dr.  Worthington,  and  that  he  may  spread  it 
[in]  the  north  as  I  do  here  in  the  west,  I  will  repeat  it  more 
plainly  enlarged.  As  their  reasons  begin  to  open,  at  14,  15,  and 
16  years  of  age,  I  acquaint  them  with  Lord  Bacon's  Resuscitatio, 
page  225;  thence  I  engage  them  to  read  in  private,  and  to  give  me  a 
memorative  and  exact  account  of  the  substance  of  Dr.  Meric  Casau- 
bon's  treatise,  Of  Use  and  Custom, i  which  by  strange  providence 
(for  neither  had  seen  this  task  or  the  other)  is  an  enlargement 
of  the  same  argument  by  express  examples,  modern  and  ancient. 
Then  I  show  what  hath  been  done  wonderfully  in  the  advance- 
ment of  our  spiritual  capacities  (and  particularly  of  some  men's 
memories)  by  art  and  practice.  Then  I  make  them  prompt  in  all 
the  rules  and  practice  of  artificial  memory.  All  this  while  I  ravish 
them  with  some  of  the  pretty  wonders  of  cryptography  and  such 
other  mathematical  or  practical  experiments  as  I  have  at  any  time 
found  by  reading,  trials,  or  converse.  By  this  time  their  spirits 
are  hardened  to  the  patience  of  studying,  and  are  become  as  per- 
fect daviMaroTToc  in  the  practice  of  their  memory  as  tumblers  are 
in  the  agility  of  their  bodies.  And  thus  being  quickly  prompt  in 
reading  a  language  lately  unknown,  and  taught  from  a  few  heads 
to  search  out  derivatives  and  to  reduce  it  to  practice,  first  upon 
short  sentences,  they  are  unawares  masters  of  all  difficulties,  and 
hugely  delighted  with  their  own  successes  and  conquests.  Sir, 
your  friend  that  intends  for  Egypt  should  be  well  informed  what 

'  This  very  interesting  treatise  is  noticed  vol.  i.  p.  62,  note.  In  his  essays  on  similar 
topics,  Meric  Casaubon  is  always  entertaining  and  learned,  and  produces  his  extensive 
and  discursive  reading  in  a  most  agreeable  manner.  He  was  a  favourite  writer  of 
Bishop  Warburton,  who  in  one  of  his  letters  tells  iis  he  had  read  him  "  through  and 
through."  I  have  traced  many  of  the  Bishop's  opinions  and  the  leading  points  of 
his  grand  hypothesis  in  the  Divine  Legation  to  their  sources  iu  Meric  Casaubon. 


40  BIAUY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1661 

Coptic  MSS.  are  amongst  us  already,  and  what  are  worthy  his 
enquiry,  and  especially  their  old  learning/^  Thus  far  Mr.  Beal, 
the  letter  being  dated  Sept.  7,  with  this  addition  :  "  I  hear  that 
Dr.  Seth  Ward^  made  a  sermon  in  Whitehall  of  special  note,  to 
prove  our  Saviour  a  most  generous  person,  and  the  Christian 
religion,  if  rightly  understood,  a  most  noble  and  ingenuous  philo- 
sophy. Is  it  abroad?"  But  I  am  forced  to  make  an  end,  only 
that  I  must  tell  you  that  another  letter  is  brought  me  from  your 
hands,  with  a  book  called  Methodi  Practicoc  Specimen,  &c. ;  but  I 
having  no  time  to  peruse  either  letter  or  book,  I  must  defer  my 
answer  till  next  occasion,  remaining  ever. 

Worthy  Sir, 

Your  truly,  &c., 
Sept.  12,  1661.  S.  Hartlib. 


S.  Hartlib  to  Dr.  Worthington. 
Worthy  Sir, 
Baker's  Camb.  I  expcct  evcrv  dav  to  havc  answer  from  Mr.  Beal  upon 

MSS.  as  refer-  ,        •      ,  •  -r        i  •  t       -n 

red  to  p.  13.  your  large  glottical  service.  In  the  mean  time  I  will  go  on  to 
answer  to  the  remaining  particulars  in  both  your  letters.  I  wiU 
enquire  whether  Valesius  be  all  Eusebius  his  Ecclesiastical  His- 
tory, or  that  part  only  De  Vita  Constantini.  I  told  you  before 
that  Mr.  Oldenburgh  was  returned  into  England,  and  Mr.  Dury  is 
going  a  great  way  up  into  Germany,  but  whither  he  doth  not  yet 
mention.  I  shall  enquire  whether  Buxtorf's  new  edition  of  the 
Hebrew  Bible  and  his  Critica  Sacra  be  finished  and  brought  into 
the  world.  In  my  former,  as  I  take  it,  I  have  given  you  an 
account  from  Mr.  Rulicc  concerning  the  angelical  vision  or  the 
man  of  Eriesland;  but  not  finding  it  in  my  notes,  I  shall  re- 
peat it  again.  It  was  in  these  words  :  —  "I  have  received  the 
extracts  of  your  friends'  letters,  which  I  have  imparted  to  Mr. 

'  This  sermon  was  not  included  in  the  collection  of  Bishop  Ward's  sermons,  pub- 
lished in  1674,  8vo,  and  does  not  appear  to  have  been  printed. 


1661]  OF  DIl.  WOKTHINGTOX.  41 

Rulice^  who  will  be  able  to  give  you  a  more  perfect  account  of  the 
esteem  to  be  had  of  the  man^  because  he  said  he  would  speak  to 
Schotan,  one  of  the  oldest  preachers  of  this  city,  Amsterdam,  a 
wise  and  grave  man,  to  know  of  him  what  esteem  and  knowledge 
he  hath  of  the  Frieslandish  old  man  to  whom  the  angel  appeared. 
I  am  fully  of  ]Mr.  Beal's  mind,  that  God  will  not  make  use  of  any 
whose  life  is  not  answerable  to  his  will  to  be  a  witness  for  him, 
amongst  men,  of  his  counsels ;  and  if  he  permits  any  to  know 
future  things  it  is  rather  to  try  men's  dependence  upon  him  in  refer- 
ence to  his  revealed  will  than  to  give  them  any  true  warning  of  that 
which  may  befall  unto  them  for  their  good.  Yet  I  am  of  opinion 
that  God  hath  given  power  to  some  subordinate  spirits  in  nature 
to  know  future  events  which  are  near  at  hand,  and  that  he  permits 
those  events  to  be  revealed  indifferent!}^,  sometimes  to  good  and 
honest,  and  sometimes  to  dishonest  and  vicious  persons,  or  at  least 
to  such  as  are  not  sober  and  temperate  in  the  course  of  their 
life.  I  have  seen  a  letter  of  John  Baptista  Coen  the  learned  Jew,^ 
who  turned  Christian  and  was  with  our  godly  and  judicious  friends 
here  at  Amsterdam  some  years  ago.  He  gives  to  his  friend  an 
account  in  Latin  concerning  a  woman  whom  he  calls  a  fatidica, 
whom  he  consulted  withal  before  he  went  from  Amsterdam,  who, 
he  saith,  did  foretel  unto  him  the  truth  of  all  that  hath  befallen 
him  for  some  years  past.  He  went  to  her  of  purpose  to  ask  what 
success  he  should  have  in  the  journey  which  he  then  intended  to 
take  in  hand ;  and,  as  the  custom  is  in  consulting  of  her,  the  party 

'He  is  mentioned  occasionally  in  Hartlib's  letters  to  Bojle :  "  We  expect  erery 
week  to  Lear  more  from  Johannes  Baptista  Coen,  who  hath  been  a  great  while  with 
Faber,  that  famed  pretender  in  France,  but  is  now  at  Dieppe.  It  is  not  impossible 
but  I  may  tell  you  in  my  next  that  lie  is  not  far  from  the  place  where  once  Charing 
Cross  did  stand."  —  Letter  of  February  28,  1653-4.  "  Mr.  Austin  I  hear  is  gone  to 
the  Duke  of  Holstein,  and  I  am  to  send  this  letter  after  him.  I  shall  count  it  a  true 
civility  in  him  if  he  shall  acquaint  me  with  the  proceedings  of  Coen  from  thence 
according  to  my  instructions.  For  hitherto  I  have  been  able  to  learn  nothing  but 
that  that  chemical  and  experimenting  man  hath  spent  vast  sums  of  monies  out  of  the 
foresaid  Duke's  purse,  and  that  he  hath  brought  nothing  yet  to  perfection."  —  Letter 
of  March  25th,  1656. 

VOL.  II.  G 


42  DIARY   AND   CORRESPONDENCE  [1661 

who  makes  the  enquiry  must  be  let  blood,  and  she  looking  upon 
the  blood, ^  and  in  the  meantime  drinking  strong  water,  (they  call 
it  here  brandywyne,)  speaks  that  Avhich  is  the  prediction  to  be 
told  unto  him.  She  told  him  that  he  was  to  go  to  speak  with  some- 
body about  a  business  which  would  not  take  effect  with  the  party 
to  Avhom  he  should  speak  first,  but  afterwards  he  would  succeed 
in  it  with  another.  And  such  things  as  these,  and  far  more  par- 
ticularly in  many  things  which  he  knew  she  could  not  know  from 
anybody,  for  they  were  in  his  own  mind  only,  and  yet  he  saith 
that  it  is  fallen  out  as  she  told  him.  This  example  I  allege  to 
show  what  God  doth  permit,  and  that  spirits  may  by  the  sight  of 
a  man's  blood  penetrate  into  much  of  God's  will  concerning  him 
and  his  ways,  and  of  the  events  thereof;  which  spirits  I  suppose 
are  of  a  natural  temperament  as  it  were,  indifferent  to  good  or  bad 
intents.  Mr.  Rulice  writes  as  followeth:  —  "■  Concerning  that  man 
out  of  Friesland,  I  have  enquired  after  him  by  one  of  our  minis- 
ters, out  of  Friesland  also,  who  knows  him.  He  saith  that  he  is 
an  honest,  plain  man,  and  being  here  with  him,  brought  him  salu- 
tations out  of  Friesland,  and  told  him,  that  having  now  these  forty 
years  prayed  that  God  would  by  an  angel  make  known  to  him  how 
it  should  be  with  these  countries,  that  at  eleven  o'clock  at  night 
in  such  a  week  and  month,  his  chamber  was  as  lightsome  as  it  is 
by  day,  and  an  angel  came  to  him  and  told  him  that  God  would 
punish  these  countries  with  famine,  pestilence,  and  sword,  if  they 
repented  not.  I  asked  my  colleague,  the  minister,  whether  that 
man  desired  him  to  make  it  known  to  us  ministers,  or  to  the  Con- 
sistory, or  whether  he  had  given  him  a  writing  to  deliver  to  us, 
(both  these  things  Mr.  Dury  told  me  should  be  done,)  but  the  mi- 

'  This  curious  mode  of  divination  seems  to  Lave  been  derived  from  the  Cimbrians, 
who,  vfhen  they  took  the  field,  were  accompanied  by  aged  prophetic  women,  who  were 
clad  in  white,  had  bare  feet,  and  wore  an  iron  girdle.  The  blood  of  the  slain  was 
brought  in  a  sacrificial  kettle,  from  which  they  divined.  Those  who  wish  to  become 
fully  acquainted  with  the  history  of  this  species  of  divination  may  consult  C.  Ar- 
noldus's  learned  and  elaborate  dissertation  De  Divinatione  per  Sanguinem,  published 
at  Wittenburg  in  1721,  4to. 


1661]  OF  DR.   WORTHINGTON.  43 

nistei%  an  ancieut  godly  sincere  man  of  my  college,  told  me,  No. 
But  when  he  had  said  to  the  man  of  Friesland  that  he  had  no 
ground  to  make  such  a  prayer,  (that  God  hy  an  angel  would  in- 
form him,  &c.,)  he  said  he  would  speak  no  more  of  it.  This  is  all 
I  can  say,  he  said  he  was  commanded  to  tell  the  ministers  his  re- 
velations, and  if  they  did  not  warn  the  people,  that  those  judgments 
would  begin  at  their  houses ;  yea,  that  he  was  threatened  that  in 
case  he  did  not  make  known  that  revelation  he  should  be  three  years 
dumb.  But  how  it  agrees  with  this,  how  he  went  away,  told  it  none 
of  the  ministers  here,  and  to  his  countrymen  only  in  particular,  but 
not  that  it  should  be  made  known  to  any,  I  know  not.  Truly  we 
need  not  much  seek  after  such  revelations.  Our  sins  tell  us  how 
it  will  be  with  us.  And  the  Lord  be  blessed,  the  people  hear  it 
continually.  I  am  going  now  to  preach  out  of  INIatthew  24,  in 
the  exposition  of  which  chapter  I  am  come  to  36,  37,  38  ver.,  which 
I  must  now  begin  to  handle." 

Thus  far  INIr.  Dury  and  Mr.  Rulice.  I  am  called  away,  and 
therefore  will  conclude  with  Mr.  Worsley's  advertisement,  in  these 
words  :  "  As  to  the  lexicons,  pray  let  Mr.  Beal  know  that  for  the 
Hebrew  (wherein  only  I  can  pretend  to  anything  of  a  curiosity) 
I  scarce  find  any  but  hath  its  peculiar  excellency ;  and  therefore 
though  Pagnin,  with  the  additions  of  Mercerus  and  Cevellerius, 
be  accounted  instar  omnium,  yet  I  have  found  most  choice  and 
most  worthy  things  in  Forsterus,^  in  Marinus^  his  Area  Nose,  and 
in  Schindler,  and  in  each  of  them  what  I  sometimes  could  not 

^  John  Fosterus,  a  learned  lexicographer,  whose  "  Dictionarium  Hebrseum"  was 
published  Basle  1556,  fol.  Paguinus  relied  upon  the  Eabbins  ;  Fosterus  on  the  other 
hand  explodes  them  altogether  and  derives  his  work,  to  use  his  own  expressions,  "  non 
ex  Rabbiuorum  commentis  nee  nostratium  Doctorum  stulta  imitatione  descriptum, 
sed  ex  ipsis  thesauris  sacrorum  Bibliorum  et  eorundem  accurata  locorum  coUatione." 
Some  able  critics,  in  particular  Schickard,  and  Gartwright  in  his  prolegomena  to  his 
Annotations  on  Genesis,  have  shown  that  Fosterus  has  carried  his  dislike  to  the 
Jewish  Doctors  and  their  expositions  much  too  far. 

2  Marcus  M  arinus,  whose  Area  Nose  appeared  Venice  1593,  fol.,  one  of  the  most 
elaborate  of  Hebrew  lexicons,  of  which  Wolfius  remarks,  "  Optandum  certe  foret  ut 
opus  elegautissimum  nee  adeo  obvium  in  plurium  manibus  vcrsaretur." 


44  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1661 

find  iu  others.  I  think  Avenarius^  not  wholly  to  be  despised. 
For  David  de  Porais,^  I  have  heard  him  commended  and  seen 
him,  but  have  him  not  myself.  Buxtorf  s^  last  Lexicon  Tal- 
mudicum  hath  in  many  places  also  most  choice  Hebraical  obser- 
vations. The  Lexicon  Polyglotton,  he  will  see  what  it  is  by  the 
printed  papers,  the  supervisor  of  which  is,  for  his  care,  ardency, 
assiduity,  and  intolerable  labour  and  pains  thereof,  never  suffi- 
ciently to  be  commended.""     I  am. 

Worthy  Sir, 
Your  most  faithful,  &c., 
Sept.  24,  1661.  S.  Hartlib. 


S.  Hartlib  to  Dr.  Worthington. 

Worthy  Sir, 

Baker's  Camb.  Yesterday  JNIr.  Beal  sent  me  an  account  as  followeth  :  — 

redtofp'ra!''^  "  I  should  now  acknowledge  yours  of  Sept.  21,  containing  Dr. 

Worthington' s  bounty.     To  his  great  pains  and  frequent  favours 

I   owe  much  more  than  I  will  attempt  to  express.      His  most 

learned  instructions  arrived  here  in  good  hour  to  give  entertaiu- 

'  Jo.  Avenarius  published  his  Hebrew  Lexicon  first  in  1568  and  afterwards  in  1589, 
fol.  From  the  mention  of  it  in  the  text  it  would  appear  to  rank  but  low,  but 
Pfeifferus  and  Wolfius  notice  it  very  favourably  There  are  in  it  many  derivations  of 
words  in  the  German  and  other  languages  very  ingeniously  traced  from  the  Hebrew. 

-  E.  David  ben  Isaac  de  Porais  or  Pomarius,  who  gives  his  lexicon  a  Hebrew  title 
signifying  Germcn  Davidis.  It  came  out  at  Venice  in  1578.  Joseph  Scaliger  in  a 
letter  to  Buxtorf  (Epist.  244)  makes  but  small  account  of  it.  "  Lexicon  David  de 
Pomis  tanti  non  est  ut  tantopere  a  me  expeteretur.  Nam  ne  inter  mediocriter  quidem 
doctos  gentis  sua;  eum  pono." 

'  Published  from  the  joint  labours  of  the  two  Buxtorfs  at  Basle  in  1639,  fol,,  in 
which  all  their  stores  of  Kabbinical  and  Oriental  learning  are  unfolded.  Bochart 
extols  it  (Hieroz.  P.  i.  p.  446)  as  "  illud  mirabile  opus  triginta  annorum."  Thirty 
years  were  certainly  better  bestowed  on  this  important  work  than  on  the  Astrologia 
Gallica  of  J.  Baptist  Morinus,  or  Vaugelas's  French  translation  of  Q.  Curtius,  both 
which  took  exactly  the  same  time  to  bring  to  their  completion. 


1661]  OF  DR.  WORTH INGTON.  45 

ment  to  one  Mr.  Long,^  miuister  at  Bath,  wlio  was  once  of  Emma- 
nuel College  in  Cambridge,  and  bare  great  reverence  to  Dr.  "\Vor- 
tbington,  as  many  others  do  in  these  parts.  His  studies  are 
wholly  confined  to  the  main  business  of  his  calling,  and  being  well 
entered,  he  was  willing  to  be  directed  in  any  of  the  Eastern  helps 
to  the  clearness  of  the  text.  We  had  this  mutual  emulation. 
It  is  hard  to  say  which  of  us  was  best  pleased  with  the  fulness  of 
these  informations.  But  mine  was  the  obligation ;  by  my  oppor- 
tunities at  Dr.  Worthington's  great  charge,  I  am  enabled  to  gratify 
many  correspondents.  I  have  had  the  same  passion  for  Piche- 
rellus,  whose  ingenuity  I  have  much  applauded,  as  you  and  ]\Ir. 
Brereton  may  testify.  And  I  once  had  a  solicitous  eye  upon 
Bishop  Montagu's  labours ;  I  deemed  his  collections  fit  to  be 
re\iewed  and  published  by  Dr.  ]Meric  Casaubon,  who  might  be 
allowed  his  marginal  asterisms  in  the  right  of  his  father,  as 
BlondeP  hath  offered  upon  Grotius  de  Imperio.  Mr.  "Wase  hath 
done  so  well  in  restoring  us  to  the  life  of  Virgil's  contemporary 
that  I  am  sorry  he  should  descend  to  the  care  of  a  vulgar  dic- 
tionary. I  cannot  bow  myself  to  such  abecedarian  slavery,  but 
only  as  it  is  the  best  mnemonical  expedient  to  the  acquest  of 
languages.  Yet  I  have  wished  that  some  very  ingenious  person 
would  reduce  to  the  alphabet  of  a  dictionary,  the  best  notes  of  our 
learned  critics  and  philologers,  as  is  in  part  done  by  Ausonius 
Popma,-^  and  those  adjoined  to  his  brief  volume.  But  I  should 
wish  the  references  clear  and  easy.      Mr.  PagC^  and  I  have  much 

1  Thomas  Long,  B.D.,  Prebendary  of  St.  Peter's,  Exon,  and  Vicar  of  St.  Laurence, 
Clyst,  Devon,  a  learned  divine  of  the  Church  of  England,  who  was  born  at  Exeter  in 
1621  and  died  in  1700.  A  list  of  his  numerous  publications  may  be  seen  in  Watt. 
He  took  a  part  in  the  controversy  as  to  the  author  of  Eikon  Basilike. 

-  In  his  "  Scholia  ad  Grotium  de  Imperio  Potestatum  summarum  circa  sacra.' 
Paris,  1648,  8vo. 

^  He  alludes  to  A.  Popma's  very  useful  work,  De  Differeutiis  verborum,  which  has 
gone  through  many  editions.  Saxius  in  his  Onomasticou,  vol.  iv.  p.  26,  gives  a  list  of 
Popma's  works  and  references  to  the  authors  who  have  mentioned  him. 

•*  The  person  meant  is  probably  William  Page,  Eector  of  East  Locking,  in  Berk- 
shire, who  was  born  in  1590  and  died  in  1663.      He  had  the  character  of  being  well 


46  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1661 

lamented  Mr.  Dunscombe'  of  King's  in  Cambridge  (a  man  of  rea- 
sonable intellectuals  and  incessant  industry),  who  droAvned  himself 
in  his  Thomasius.2  A  better  dictionary  had  given  more  Aving  and 
better  relish.  So  we  thought  of  Abraham  Wheloc^  in  Arabic,  and 
the  same  we  heard  of  Andreas  Downes'^  in  Greek.  If  to  each  Ian- 
versed  in  the  Greek  fathers,  an  able  disputant  and  a  good  preacher.  A  list  of  his 
works  is  given  by  Wood,  amongst  which  are  —  1.  The  Peacemaker,  or  a  Brief  Motive 
to  TJnity  and  Charity  in  Religion,  Lond.  1652, 16mo ;  and  2.  A  Translation  of  Thomas 
h  Kempis,  1639,  r2mo,  with  a  large  epistle  to  the  reader. 

1  Beal  doubtless  alludes  to  him  in  his  letter  to  Boyle  (Boyle's  works,  vol.  v.  p.  428) 
where  he  is  enforcing  the  necessity  of  orderly  arrangement  in  the  acquisitions  of  the 
mind.  "  By  sorting  his  ware  in  fit  places,  he  (the  student)  may  find  in  these  immense 
chambers  (of  memory)  room  and  fit  places  for  much  more  that  henceforth  may  be 
produced  at  command.  And  a  littb  at  ready  call,  in  time  of  need,  is  better  than  a 
great  deal  out  of  reach  or  unuseful.  I  knew  an  industrious  student  (his  name  was 
Deane  and  Combe  too)  he  studied  dictionaries  and  had  them  by  heart,  but  another 
with  a  few  hundreds  of  words  would  have  written  better  than  he  both  in  prose  and 
verse.  Tor  use  and  practice  enables  us  to  have  our  wardrobe  at  fuU  command. 
Every  poet  and  orator  finds  that  when  his  spirit  and  imagination  is  heated  he  hath 
such  a  brisk  power  over  all  his  new  and  old  notions  and  readings,  words  and  conceits, 
and  such  variety  throngs  upon  him  (beyond  his  own  expectation)  that  he  is  con- 
strained to  confess  inspiration," 

-  The  Latin  dictionary  of  Thomas  Thomas,  or  Thomasius,  as  he  is  here  called,  first 
published  in  1588,  which  met  with  so  favourable  a  reception  that  it  went  through 
fourteen  impressions.  The  tenth  edition  was  printed  in  1615,  to  which  Philemon 
Holland  added  a  supplement.     Thomas  was  succeeded  by  Rider  and  Holyoake. 

^  This  eminent  Oriental  scholar  was  born  about  1593  at  Loppington  in  Shropshire, 
and  died  in  London  whilst  printing  his  Persian  Gospels  in  1653.  He  was  the  first 
Professor  of  the  Arabic  and  Saxon  tongues  in  the  L^niversity  of  Cambridge  and  Keeper 
of  the  Public  Library  there.  He  was  one  of  Archbishop  Lasher's  correspondents  and 
a  zealous  promoter  of  Walton's  Polyglot,  in  the  preface  of  which  he  is  noticed  as  one 
to  whom  the  editor  was  particularly  indebted.  The  preacher  of  his  funeral  sermon 
(William  Sclater)  says  of  him  :  ' '  That  which  I  observed  worthy  of  universal  imita- 
tion in  him  was  his  humble  and  exceeding  modestie  — ■  much  like  to  the  violet,  a  flower 
of  a  sweet  and  delicious  scent,  yet  growcth  least  in  the  garden,  covering  itself  often 
with  its  own  leaves  :  howbeit,  as  the  odoriferous  fragraucy  thereof  cannot  but  be  dis- 
covered, so  he,  together  with  his  accomplishments,  could  not  be  concealed ;  j'ea,  as 
Syracides  says  of  Simon,  the  son  of  Onias,  he  was  as  the  morning  star  in  the  midst  of 
a  cloud."  There  are  several  letters  to  and  from  Wheelock  in  Sir  H.  Ellis's  Letters  of 
Literary  Men  (Cambd.  Society)  1843,  4to. 

■*  Andrew  Downes,  Greek  Professor  at  Cambridge,  and  one  of  the  translators  of  the 


1661]  OF   DR.   'SVORTHINGTON.  47 

guage  some  centuries  of  proverbs  Avere  well  chosen,  they  might 
give  us  the  style  and  salt  and  peculiar  genius  of  the  nations  that 
used  that  language.  But  I  do  hardly  bear  the  insipidness  of 
Lubin's^  collections,  and  less  those  of  ]Mr.  Comenius  in  Latin.  I 
mean  his  seAcn  hundred  sentences. ^  I  must  be  more  civil  here- 
after than  to  lay  such  intolerable  burdens  on  Dr.  AYorthington,  and 
I  am  not  a  little  solicitous  to  devise  some  testimony  of  my  thank- 
fulness. But  at  this  time  am  very  weak,  haWng  lately  opened  a 
vein  to  decline  violent  symptoms."  Thus  far  Mr.  Beal.  I 
thought  to  have  added  some  other  extracts  of  his  former  letters,  but 
my  wonted  pains  will  needs  hinder  me.  Hereafter,  God  willing, 
they  may  be  imparted.  I  hope  you  received  my  former  letter  of 
September  24,  which  was  sent  by  post.  If  you  dare  beheve  me,  I 
am  really 

Honoured  Sir, 

Your  much  devoted,  &c. 
October  1,  1661.  S.  Hartlib,  Sen. 


Dr.  Worthington  to  S.  HartUb. 
Sir, 

Yours  of  September  24  and  October  1  I  received.     Y'our  Worthinston'i 

.  Miscellanies, 

letter  oi    September   24  mentions   Mr.   Dury  s  going  into   Ger-p-29i. 

Bible.  Few  men  have  done  more  to  promote  the  study  of  the  Greek  language  in  this 
country.  His  Prelectiones  in  Lysiam  wei-e  printed  at  Cambridge  in  1593,  8to,  and 
those  in  Demosthenes's  PhUippicam  TI.  de  Pace  at  Loudon  in  1621,  Sto.  See  the 
notices  of  him  in  the  Life  of  John  Boyse  in  Peck's  Desiderata  Curiosa. 

^  Eilhard  Lubin,  of  whom  mention  has  been  made  before,  was  an  useful  labourer  in 
the  vineyard  of  classical  literatiire,  whose  Horace  and  Juvenal  were  at  one  time  much 
in  request.  The  work  referred  to  is  his  Clavis  Linguae  Grrtecfs,  frequently  published 
in  8vo  and  12mo. 

-  The  book  of  Comenius,  which  is  noticed,  is  his  "  VestibuU  Latinse  Linguae  Auc- 
tarium."  It  is  included  in  the  folio  volume  of  his  Opera  Didactica,  vid.  part  iv. 
p.  9,  and  is  dedicated  to  "  Johanni  Eulicio,  Ecclesife  Amstelodamensis  Pastori  Tigi- 
lantissimo,"  evidently  the  "Mr.  Rulice"  so  frequently  mentioned  in  these  letters. 


48  DIARY   AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1661 

many.  If  he  visit  Hottinger  at  Heidelberg,  he  may  be  particu- 
larly certified  about  what  he  hath  pubHcly  promised  concerning  the 
edition  of  the  Alcoran.  In  my  letter  to  Mr.  Beal's  enquiries  I 
mentioned  a  passage  out  of  Crinesius  de  Confusione  Linguarum, 
p.  62  [for  the  passage  see  p.  33].  Thus  Crinesius  wrote  in  the 
year  1629;  he  was  then  Professor  of  Divinity  at  Altdorpht  Nori- 
corum.  Whether  Zechendorf  be  dead,  or  his  labours  lost,  I  know 
not ;  I  think  if  the  book  had  been  printed  we  should  certainly  have 
heard  of  it. 

I  suppose  you  have  seen  or  heard  of  Descartes^  his  second  volume 
of  letters,  wherein  many  or  most  of  them  are  about  matters  betwixt 
him  and  Mersennus.2     They  are  all  in  French  that  are  in  this 

'  See  Descartes,  noticed  vol.  i.  p.  300.  His  letters  are  full  of  interesting  matter, 
and  indeed  form  a  commentary  upon  his  other  works,  which  would  be  obscure  in 
some  places  without  them.  His  correspondence  with  Dr.  Henry  More,  and  which  is 
included  in  More's  Philosophical  Works,  1712,  folio,  is  not  the  least  curious  of  his 
writings. 

2  Marinus  Mersennus,  a  French  writer,  of  very  extensive  erudition,  a  monk  of  the 
order  of  Minims,  was  born  at  Oyse,  in  the  province  of  Maine,  in  1588,  and  died  at 
Paris  in  1648.  He  was  a  sort  of  centre  of  the  learned  correspondence  of  his  time,  and 
in  theology,  philosophy,  medicine,  music,  and  literature,  no  question  ever  came  amiss 
to  him.  He  seemed  to  live  to  solve  doubts  and  discuss  difficulties,  and  to  enact  the 
part  of  an  intellectual  thrashing  machine  of  no  ordinary  calibre.  His  enemies  said  ho 
sometimes  raised  spirits  that  he  could  not  quell,  and  propounded  doubts  that  he  was 
unable  to  dissolve,  but  his  candour,  disposition  to  assist  others,  and  thirst  for  know- 
ledge, were  truly  admirable.  He  ordered  his  body  to  be  opened  by  his  physicians 
after  death,  in  order  to  learn  the  cause  of  his  disease  which  they  had  been  ignorant 
of,  and  to  enable  them  to  succeed  better  in  curing  those  who  should  afterwards  bo 
seized  with  tlie  same  disease.  They  observed  his  directions,  and  found  an  abscess 
two  inches  above  the  place  where  they  opened  his  side,  so  that  if  the  incision  had 
been  made  at  the  proper  time  his  life  might  have  been  saved.  Of  his  correspondence, 
which  was  carried  on  with  Gassendi,  Descartes,  Hobbes,  and  nearly  every  philosopher 
and  scholar  of  his  day,  it  is  to  be  regretted,  only  a  very  small  portion  has  survived, 
but  that  is  quite  sufficient  to  make  us  ardently  wish  for  more.  Of  his  voluminous 
works  a  list  is  given  by  his  biographer,  Hilarion  de  Coste,  in  his  French  life  of  Mer- 
sennus (Paris,  1649,  Svo)  and  by  Niceron  (vol.  xxxiii.  p.  142).  Those  who  are  not 
deterred  by  the  appearance  of  a  Latin  folio  of  upwards  of  1100  pages,  closely  printed, 
will  fmd  "a  perpetual  feast  where  no  crude  surfeit  reigns"  in  his  Questiones  in 
Genesim,  Paris,  1623,  folio.     It  would  be  difficult  to  find  a  more  entertaining  book 


1661]  OF  DR.  WORTHINGTON.  49 

second  volume ;  no  letters  to  the  Princess  Elizabeth. ^  I  did  much 
rejoice  when  I  heard  of  ]\Ir.  Dury's  journey  into  Germany,  for  this 
(among  other)  reasons,  that  possibly  he  might  visit  that  excellent 
princess.  I  have  read  in  some  of  your  papers  an  extract  of  a 
letter  of  hers,  wherein  she  mentions  some  letters  of  Descartes  to 
herself,  which  are  not  in  the  first  volume  of  his  letters,  and  are 
more  worthy  to  be  printed  than  sevei'al  others  in  that  volume. 
She  also  thought  that  the  methodizing  and  placing  of  the  letters 
might  have  been  to  better  advantage.  If  those  letters  unprinted 
might  be  imparted  to  the  public,  they  would  be  a  great  ornament 
to  the  second  edition  of  these  epistles ;  for  I  have  spoken  with 
some  to  deal  about  it  with  one  who  is  able  to  translate  well  out  of 
French  into  Latin,  that  so  the  letters  in  French  might  be  done 
into  Latin,  the  language  which  would  make  them  most  generally 

of  its  kind,  and,  be  it  observed,  it  is  not  a  mere  book  of  compilation,  as  our  own 
Willett's  is  in  a  great  measure,  but  a  work  which  bears  the  stamp  of  the  author's 
own  mind.  It  is  completely  interlaid  with  digression,  and  touches  upon  an  immense 
variety  of  subjects,  from  Paracelsus's  Homunculus  to  the  mystic  proprieties  of  the 
number  77  ;  from  the  proper  mode  of  dancing  to  the  reason  why  a  corpse  bleeds  at 
the  touch  of  the  murderer ;  from  the  questions  of  Trithemius  to  the  exact  shape  and 
material  of  Adam's  first  breeches.  He  was  deeply  learned  in  music  and  was  quite  an 
enthusiast  in  the  science,  so  much  so  as  to  look  upon  it  as  a  part  of  religion.  It  is  to 
be  doubted  whether  he  could  have  believed  any  faith  to  be  orthodox  where  the  music 
was  heretical.  Mersennus's  Questions  on  Genesis  brought  him  into  severe  conflict 
with  Robert  Fludd,  the  English  Rosicrusian,  against  whose  cabalistic  errors  he  is 
very  vehement.  Fludd  answered  with  much  acrimony  but  little  logic  in  his  "Sophise 
cum  Moria  certamen,"  Francof.  1621),  folio,  and  his  "  Summum  Bonorum  per  Jo- 
achimumFrizium,"  1629,  folio.  To  these  answers  Merseunus  made  no  reply.  Gassendi 
had  so  completely  exposed  Fludd  and  his  philosophy  in  his  Epistoliea  Exercitatio, 
1628,  r2mo,  that  the  Rosicrusian  was  probably  deemed  unworthy  of  further  notice 
by  his  first  opponent.  It  has  been  often  repeated  by  bibliographers  that  the  leaves 
669  to  676  in  the  Questiones  in  Genesim,  which  contain  a  list  of  persons  whom  Mer- 
sennus  stigmatized,  and  some  very  unjustly,  as  atheists,  were  suppressed  in  nearly  all 
the  copies,  and  that  a  perfect  one  with  those  leaves  is  of  the  greatest  rarity,  "  albis 
corvis  rarior."  In  the  course  of  my  examination  of  numerous  copies  of  this  work, 
three  of  which  are  in  my  own  library,  I  have  never  yet  met  with  any  in  which  the 
leaves  did  not  occur.  It  seems  therefore  a  matter  of  doubt  whether  they  were  ever 
actually  suppressed. 

'  For  a  notice  of  this  most  philosophical  Princess,  see  vol.  i.  p.  210. 

VOL.  II.  H 


50  DIARY   AND   CORRESPONDENCE  [1661 

useful.  And  whereas  the  publisher  of  the  first  volume  of  the 
letters  (not  being  so  well  acquainted  with  Latin)  did  publish  the 
contents  of  the  Latin  letters  in  French,  all  might  be  made  more 
complete,  and,  if  need  be,  better  placed  for  the  order  according  to 
the  matter  of  them,  besides  the  correcting  of  an  infinite  number  of 
errata  in  the  first  edition.  And  both  these  volumes  of  letters  put 
into  one  would  make  a  handsome  book.  I  need  not  write  to  you 
of  the  both  pleasure  and  profit  in  reading  the  epistles  of  worthy 
men.' 

When  you  hear  of  Buxtorf's  design  at  Basil,  write  a  line  about 
it;  it  is  very  long  in  the  press  methinks,  and  I  wonder  that  it 
sticks  so  long  there.  In  my  last  letter  to  you  but  one  I  enquired 
about  Mr.  Rulice,  of  what  way  or  persuasion  he  was ;  from  him  I 
perceive  came  most  of  the  relation  concerning  the  old  Frieslander 
to  whom  an  angel  is  said  to  have  appeared.  By  this  last  letter  of 
yours  I  perceive  there  is  little  more  discovery  made  of  that  matter 
and  the  long-bearded  angels,  of  which  I  think  enough  is  said  in 
relation  to  Van  Helmont. 

Mr.  Wray  is  returned  from  his  northern  journey ;  he  hath  tra- 
velled about  700  miles  in  all.  He  went  from  Cambridge  to  Peter- 
borough, to  Crowland,   to  Boston,    Lincoln,   Hull,    Scarborough 

'  As  yet  few  collections  of  the  letters  of  bis  great  contemporaries  had  been  made. 
The  correspondence  of  Usher,  of  Grotius,  of  Gerard  John  Yossius,  of  Ruarus,  of 
Thomas  BarthoUnus,  of  Conringius  with  Bornibergius,  of  Nicolas  Heiusius,  and  of 
Guy  Patin,  had  yet  to  appear,  from  which  Worthington  would  have  derived  "  both 
pleasure  and  profit,"  all  of  them  containing  elements  and  materials  very  dissimilar, 
yet  all  equally  necessary  to  any  one  who  wishes  to  become  acquainted  with  the  literary 
history  of  the  age  in  which  Worthington  lived  and  the  characters  and  peculiarities  of 
Bome  of  its  most  distinguished  scholars.  Of  the  last,  Guy  Patin,  the  French  letters 
only  have  been  published.  His  Latin  letters  form  a  collection  still  more  extensive 
and  entertaining.  A  MS.  transcript  of  them,  prepared  for  the  press,  is  in  my  posses- 
sion. The  length  of  the  correspondence,  which  would  if  printed  have  reached  at  least 
half  a  dozen  volumes,  was  probably  the  reason  why  the  publication  was  not  proceeded 
with  ;  but  the  variety  of  Patin's  inquii'ies,  the  liveliness  of  his  style,  the  freedom  with 
which  he  gives  his  opinions,  and  his  thorough  knowledge  of  the  literary  men  of  his 
age,  and  the  gossip  of  the  daj^,  render  it  an  excellent  commentary  on  the  scientific  and 
critical  annals  of  the  middle  of  the  seventeenth  century. 


1661]  OF  DR.  WORTHINGTON.  51 

spaw,  the  wells  at  Kuaresborougli.  At  Hull  he  met  with  caraways 
growing  wild,  which  Gerard  took  no  notice  of.  From  Knares- 
borough  wells  he  brought  away  some  petrified  moss.  At  Aldbo- 
rough^  in  Yorkshire  he  met  with  several  pieces  of  old  Roman  coin, 
and  some  of  the  Roman  pavement ;  he  and  his  company  brought 
away  with  them  some  of  both  (as  also  at  their  return  some  of  the 
Roman  coins  at  Littleborough  in  Nottinghamshire,  which  the 
country  people  call  swines'  pennies,  because  the  swine  rooting  into 
the  ground  oftentimes  turn  them  up  with  their  snouts).  Tlu'ough 
the  bishopric  of  Durham  and  Northumberland  they  passed  into 
Scotland^  and  went  as  far  as  Stirling.  They  were  in  the  Bass 
Island,  and  both  saw  and  fed  on  the  Soland  geese,^  but  they  found 
all  was  not  true  which  is  usually  reported  of  them.  They  came 
back  by  Glasgow,  Carlisle,  and  through  Westmoreland,  and,  if 
some  of  the  company's  horses  had  not  failed,  had  gone  to  Kendal 
to  visit  the  woman  whose  strange  story  I  wrote  to  you  of.*      He 

'  "  At  a  place  called  Alborough  we  gathered  up  amongst  the  people  divers  ancient 
Koman  coins,  both  brass  and  sUver,  which  are  daily  found  in  the  plowed  fields  and 
about  the  streets  there.  Those  pieces  that  have  radiate  crowns  on  the  heads  of  the 
efiigies  they  call  Saracen's  heads,  all  the  rest  Aldburgh  halfpennies." —  Itinerary  in 
Eay's  Kemains,  1760,  8vo,  p.  162. 

^  Ray  does  not  seem  to  have  liked  his  eutertaiument  in  Scotland.  He  says  :  "  The 
Scots  have  neither  good  bread,  cheese,  or  drink.  They  cannot  make  them,  nor  will 
they  learn.  Their  butter  is  very  indifferent,  and  one  would  wonder  how  they  could 
contrive  to  make  it  so  bad.  Tkei/  have  rarely  any  hellows  or  warming  patis.  The 
people  seem  to  be  very  lazy,  at  least  the  men,  and  may  be  frequently  observed  to  plow 
in  their  cloaks.  They  lay  out  most  they  are  worth  in  clothes,  and  a  fellow  that  hath 
scarce  ten  groats  besides  to  help  himself  with  you  shall  see  come  out  of  his  smoky 
cottage  clad  like  a  gentleman."  He  mentions  that  "  he  saw  Argyle  and  Guthry,  their 
heads  standing  on  the  gates  and  toll-booth  [at  Edinburgh.]  At  the  time  we  were  in 
Scotland  divers  women  were  burnt  for  witches,  they  reported,  to  the  number  of  120." 
Pages  188-198. 

^  These  were  the  Bernacles  which,  according  to  old  historians,  grew  out  of  shells  or 
trees.  *'  In  Scotia  Anatum  seu  Ajiserum  Genus  Bernacles  ex  conchis  aut  arboribus 
vulgo  nasci  perhibetur." — E.  Ottonis  Notitia  rerumpublicarum,  p.  297.  Ray  ob- 
serves :  "  The  young  ones  are  esteemed  a  choice  dish  in  Scotland,  and  sold  very  dear 
(Is.  8d.  plucked).  "VVe  eat  of  them  at  Dimbar.  The  laird  of  this  island  makes  a  great 
profit  yearly  of  the  Solan  geese  taken,  as  I  remember,  they  told  us  £130  sterling." 

4  Vol.  i.  p.  3J.0. 


52  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1661 

saith  he  met  with  few  plants  but  what  he  had  found  elsewhere ; 
very  little  to  be  observed  of  plants  in  Scotland.  The  best  counties 
for  plants  were  Westmoreland  and  Yorkshire.  But  of  these  and 
the  like  matters  he  can  give  the  best  account  himself. 

Mr  Beal  puts  too  great  a  value  upon  my  large  letter.  I  am 
glad  if  I  may  in  any  measure  be  serviceable  upon  any  useful  occa- 
sions. Mr.  Wase,  whose  little  book  I  sent,  is  now  removed  from 
Dedham,  and  chosen  to  the  school  at  Tunbridge;  he  was  nomi- 
nated for  Merchant  Tailors'  school  in  London,  and  it  was  carried 
by  one  voice  against  him  for  one  who  was  son  to  one  of  that  com- 
pany. He  is  fitted  for  other  (and  more  splendid)  employments 
than  the  composing  of  a  dictionary ;  but  I  look  upon  it  as  a  great 
piece  of  humility,  and  also  of  charity,  to  undertake  this  work, 
which  being  very  imperfectly  performed  by  others,  and  A\nthal  so 
useful  and  necessary  for  youth,  is  not  to  be  neglected ;  and  if  it  be 
not  undertaken  by  some  worthy  person  that  can  deny  himself  in 
stooping  to  such  a  condiscent  [condescension],  it  will  never  be  well 
performed,  and  young  scholars  will  always  be  abused  in  the  first 
setting  out  of  their  studies.  If  some  dull  and  mean  persons  should 
undertake  these  designs,  there  will  be  but  little  advantage  for  the 
better  facilitating  of  youth  in  their  first  studies.  Tunbridge  school 
is  not  so  obscure  as  Dedham.  Indeed  that  more  public  school  in 
London  (or  any  such)  would  have  been  happy  in  him,  whose  worth, 
when  he  Avas  at  Eton,  did  so  shine  out,  that  Dr.  Whichcote  at  his 
first  coming  to  the  Eton  election  (about  fifteen  years  since)  took 
notice  of  it,  and  made  choice  of  Wase  for  King's  College,  who  had 
no  friends  to  recommend  him,  nor  anything  but  personal  worth, 
which,  if  it  were  always  duly  regarded  in  all  places,  would  make  a 
flourishing  nation. 

In  a  former  letter  of  yours  you  speak  of  Dr.  Seth  Ward's 
preaching  a  sermon  at  court,  upon  a  very  important  argument ;  1 
never  heard  of  it  before  your  letter,  nor  do  I  know  yet  whether  it 
were  printed.     He  succeeds  Bishop  Reynolds'  in  his  church  at  St. 

'  Edward  Eeynolds,  Bishop  of  Norwich,  was  boru  at  Southampton  in  1599  and  died 
at  Norwich  1670.    In  1620  he  became  Probationer  Fellow  of  Merton  College,  Oxford, 


1661]  OF  DR.  WORTHINGTON.  53 

Laurence  Lane,  and  hath  some  preferment  in  the  cathedral  of 
Exeter. 

INlr.  Smith^  of  Christ  College  (who  was  our  puhlic  library  keeper, 

was  afterwards  made  Preacher  of  Lincoln's  Inn,  and  on  the  Rebellion  breaking  out 
joined  the  Presbyterian  party,  was  nominated  one  of  the  Assembly  of  Divines  in  1643, 
and  took  the  Covenant.  In  1648  he  was  appointed  Dean  of  Christehurch,  but  ulti- 
mately refusiiig  the  engagement  was  ejected  from  his  deanery.  He  is  said  to  have 
been  the  author  of  "  The  Humble  Proposals  concerning  the  Engagement,"  Lond. 
1650,  4to,  which  was  answered  by  John  Dury  in  his  "  Just  Eeproposals  to  Humble 
Proposals,"  Lond.  1650,  4to.  Exerting  his  influence,  which  was  very  considerable 
with  the  Presbyterian  party,  to  bring  in  Charles  the  Second,  he  received  the  bishopric 
of  ]S^orwich  as  his  reward  on  the  Restoration.  Sir  Thomas  Brown,  an  unexception- 
able witness,  speaks  highly  in  favour  of  his  personal  character  and  the  manner  in 
which  he  sustained  his  episcopal  office.  Anthony  Wood's  fulmination  is  less  against 
himself  than  his  wife,  one  of  the  "  womankind,"  which  was  the  plague  of  poor  An- 
thony's life.  He  calls  her  "covetous  and  insatiable."  The  works  of  Bishop  Reynolds 
have  been  collected  in  six  volumes  8vo,  Lond.  1826.  Amongst  them  his  "  Treatise 
of  the  Passions  and  Faculties  of  the  Soul"  may  be  selected  as  one  of  the  best  of  his 
compositions.  It  is  written  with  great  vigour  of  style  and  power  of  illustration,  and 
will  well  reward  a  perusal.  Those  who  like  to  see  the  same  subject  differently  treated 
may,  for  the  purpose  of  comparison,  consult  Thomas  Wright's  entertaining  work, 
"  On  the  Passions  of  the  Mind  in  Greueral,"  of  which  the  best  edition  was  published 
Lond.  1630,  4to.  Bishop  Reynolds  wanted  not  learning,  ability,  nor  fancy,  and 
though  he  cannot  be  placed  in  the  very  highest  rank  of  English  divines,  on  the  same 
pinnacle  with  Taylor,  Pearson,  Cudworth,  and  Barrow,  yet  he  will  always  occupy  a 
very  respectable  place  amongst  the  theological  writers  of  the  seventeenth  century, 
whose  works  form  a  necessary  part  of  every  good  library  of  English  literature.  He 
should  certainly  not  have  been  entirely  omitted,  as  he  is,  amongst  the  divines  noticed 
in  Cattermole's  Literature  of  the  Church  of  England. 

*  Thomas  Smith,  whose  skill  in  Oriental  learning  Walton  has  highly  extolled  in  the 
preface  to  his  Polyglot,  and  who  was  one  of  the  original  correctors  of  the  press  during 
the  progress  of  that  work.  He  translated  Daille's  Apology  for  the  Reformed  Chiu-ches, 
to  which  he  prefixed  an  excellent  preface,  containing  the  judgment  of  an  university- 
man,  concerning  Mr.  Knott's  last  book  (Infidelity  L'nmasked)  against  Mr.  Chilling- 
worth,  and  which  is  an  able  vindication  of  Chillingworth  against  the  two  Jesuits 
Knott  and  Lacy.  This  translation  was  published  in  1653,  12mo.  He  also  printed  a 
short  life  of  Mr.  William  Moore,  of  Cambridge,  which  appeared  in  1660,  12mo,  and  a 
sermon  of  Colet,  which  came  out  in  1661,  12mo  (see  vol.  i.  p.  345).  Todd  in  his  Life 
of  Walton,  vol.  i.  p.  257,  has  given  an  interesting  letter  from  Hammond  to  Smith,  in 
which  he  expresses  strongly  his  opinion  of  Knott  and  warmly  praises  Grotius.  It  is 
to  be  regretted  that  more  is  not  known  of  this  Thomas  Smith  and  that  his  remains 
are  so  scanty.  He  is  not  to  be  confounded  with  the  Oxford  Thomas  Smith,  the  author 
of  the  Diatriba  de  Chaldaicis  Paraphrastis,  1663,  12mo,  and  other  learned  works. 


54  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1661 

one  well  versed  in  books)  is  lately  dead  of  the  new  disease,  which 
spreads  all  over  England,  but  is  least  in  the  north. 

The  remainder  of  this  paper  is  to  assure  you  that  I  am 

Yours  affectionately  to  serve  you, 

October  7,  1661.  J.[ohn]  W.  [orthingtou.] 


S.  Hartlib  to  Dr.  Worthington. 
AVorthy  Sir, 
Baker's  Camb.  I  hopc  you  liavc  received  my  two  last  of  September  24 

red to^p.  is!*^'  and  October  1,  which  was  an  answer  to  your  glottical  or  philologi- 
cal letter  from  Mr,  Beal.  I  made  bold  to  impart  your  large  letter 
to  Mr.  Patrick  concerning  the  old  man  of  Friesland  and  Otto 
Faber.  He  was  pleased  to  return  the  following  lines  :  "  I  give 
you  hearty  thanks  for  communicating  to  me  Dr.  Worthington's 
excellent  letter.  To  the  two  last  stories  in  it  concerning  bearded 
angels  I  can  add  this,  which  I  read  long  ago  in  a  sermon  of  Dr. 
Thomas  Jackson^  upon  13  Luc.  5.     In  the  reign  of  James  the  IV. 

'  Tlie  passage  referred  to  will  be  found  in  Dr.  Thomas  Jackson's  works,  vol.  ii. 
p.  358  (folio  edition).  The  historian  from  whom  he  derived  this  well-known  story  is 
Buchanan.  (See  Buchanani  Opera,  edit.  Edinb.  1715,  fol.,  vol.  i.  p.  251.)  Sir  Walter 
Scott  has  alluded  to  it  in  "  Marmion." 

"  For  that  a  messenger  from  heaven. 
In  vain  to  James  had  counsel  given 
Against  the  English  war. 

(^Marmion,  canto  iv.  14.) 
"  Tliis  story  is  told  by  Pitscottie  with  characteristic  simplicity:  'The  king,  seeing 
that  France  could  get  no  support  of  him  for  that  time,  made  a  proclamation,  full 
hastily,  through  all  the  realm  of  Scotland,  both  east  and  west,  south  and  north,  as 
well  in  the  Isles  as  in  the  firm  land,  to  aU  manner  of  man  betwixt  sixty  and  sixteen 
years,  that  they  should  be  ready  within  twenty  days,  to  pass  with  him,  with  forty 
days'  victual,  and  to  meet  at  the  Burrow-muir  of  Edinburgh,  and  there  to  pass  for- 
ward where  he  pleased.  His  proclamations  were  hastily  obeyed,  contrary  to  the 
council  of  Scotland's  will ;  but  every  man  loved  his  prince  so  well,  that  they  would, 
on  no  ways,  disobey  him ;  but  every  man  caused  make  his  proclamation  so  hastily, 
conform  to  the  charge  of  the  king's  proclamation. 

" '  The  king  came  to  Lithgow,  where  he  happened  to  be  for  the  time  at  the  council, 


166]]  OK   DR.  WOllTHIXGTOX.  55 

of  Scotland  (who  was  coBtemporary  with  our  Henry  the  VIII.)  a 
little  before  the  famous  battle  in  Flodden  Field  (as  I  remember)  a 

very  sad  aud  dolorous,  making  his  devotion  to  God,  to  send  him  good  chance  and 
fortune  in  his  voyage.  In  this  mean  time,  there  came  a  man  clad  in  a  blue  gown  in 
at  the  kirk-door,  and  belted  about  him  in  a  roll  of  linen-cloth ;  a  pair  of  brotikings* 
on  his  feet,  to  the  great  of  his  legs  ;  with  all  other  hose  and  clothes  conform  thereto ; 
but  he  had  nothing  on  his  head,  but  sydef  red  yellow  hair  behind,  and  on  his  haffets,t 
which  wan  down  to  his  shoulders  ;  but  his  forehead  was  bald  and  bare.  He  seemed 
to  be  a  man  of  two  and  fifty  years,  with  a  great  pike-staff  in  his  hand,  and  came  first 
forward  among  the  lords,  crying  and  speiring§  for  the  king,  saying,  he  desired  to  speak 
with  him.  While,  at  the  last,  he  came  where  the  king  was  sitting  in  the  desk  at  his 
prayers ;  but  when  he  saw  the  king,  he  made  him  little  reverence  or  salutation,  but 
leaned  down  grofling  on  the  desk  before  him,  and  said  to  him  in  this  manner,  as  after 
follows  :  "  Sir  King,  my  mother  hath  sent  me  to  you,  desiring  you  not  to  pass,  at  this 
time,  where  thou  art  purposed ;  for  if  thou  does,  thou  wilt  not  fare  well  in  thy  journey, 
nor  none  that  passeth  with  thee.  Purther,  she  bade  thee  meU||  with  no  woman,  nor 
use  their  counsel,  nor  let  them  touch  thy  body,  nor  thou  theirs ;  for,  if  thou  do  it, 
thou  wilt  be  confounded  and  brought  to  shame." 

" '  By  this  man  had  spoken  thir  words  unto  the  king's  grace,  the  evening  song  was 
near  done,  and  the  king  paused  on  thir  words,  studying  to  give  him  an  answer ;  but, 
in  the  mean  time,  before  the  king's  eyes,  and  in  the  presence  of  all  the  lords  that  were 
about  him  for  the  time,  this  man  vanished  away,  and  could  no  ways  be  seen  or  com- 
prehended, but  vanished  away  as  he  had  been  a  blink  of  the  sim,  or  a  whip  of  the 
whirlwind,  and  could  no  more  be  seen.  I  heard  say.  Sir  David  Lindesay,  lyon-herauld, 
and  John  Inglis  the  marshal,  who  were,  at  that  time,  young  men,  and  special  servants 
to  the  king's  grace,  were  standing  presently  beside  the  king,  who  thought  to  have  laid 
hands  on  this  man,  that  they  might  have  speired  further  tidings  at  him :  but  all  for 
nought ;  they  covld  not  touch  him ;  for  he  vanished  away  betwixt  them,  and  was  no 
more  seen.' 

"  Buchanan,  in  more  elegant,  though  not  more  impressive  language,  tells  the  same 
story,  and  quotes  the  personal  information  of  our  Sir  David  Lindesay  :  '  In  iis  (i.e. 
qui  proprius  astiterant)  fuit  David  Lindesius,  Montanus,  homo  spectatse  fidei  et  pro- 
bitatis,  nee  a  literarum  studiis  alienus,  et  cujus  totse  vitse  tenor  longissime  a  menti- 
endo  aberrat ;  a  quo  nisi  ego  haec  uti  tradidi,  pro  certis  accepissem,  ut  vulgatam  vanis 
rumoribus  fabulam,  omissurus  eram.' — Lib.  xiii.  The  king's  throne,  in  St.  Catharine's 
aisle,  which  he  had  constructed  for  himself,  with  twelve  stalls  for  the  knights  com- 
panions of  the  order  of  the  thistle,  is  stiU  shown  as  the  place  where  the  apparition  was 
seen.  I  know  not  by  what  means  St.  Andrew  got  the  credit  of  having  been  the  cele- 
brated monitor  of  James  IV. ;  for  the  expression  in  Lindesay's  narrative,  '  My  mother 
has  sent  me,'  could  only  be  used  by  St.  John,  the  adopted  son  of  the  Virgin  Mary. 
The  whole  story  is  so  well  attested,  that  we  have  only  the  choice  between  a  miracle 

*  Buskins.       +  Long.       t  Cheeks.       §  Asking.       0  Meddle. 


56  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1661 

grave  old  man  came  to  him  as  he  was  in  his  chapel  at  evening 
prayers,  and  warned  him  not  to  go  further  in  that  expedition  which 
he  had  then  in  hand;  for  if  he  did,  it  should  be  much  to  the 
damage  of  him  and  all  his  followers.  He  also  warned  him  not  to 
use  the  familiarity,  company  and  counsel  of  women,  for  it  would 
prove  to  his  loss  and  disgrace.  The  event  is  known,  that  he,  pro- 
ceeding in  that  expedition,  lost  his  own  life,  with  the  flower  of  all 
the  Scotch  nobility ;  so  that  the  historian  thinks  the  calamity 
could  be  paralleled  in  no  nation  besides  the  Egyptian.  That  he 
had  a  beard  is  very  likely,^  though  he  do  not  mention  it;  for  he 
calls  him  Senex  capillo  in  rufum  flaveseente  ac  in  humcros  pro- 
misso,  fronte  in  calvitium  glabro,  capite  nudo,  veste  longiuscula 
cyanei  coloris  amictus,  ac  linteo  cinctus,  csetero  aspectu  venerabilis. 
Sir  David  Lindsey,^  a  person  far  from  lying  and  of  great  integrity, 
was  then  present,  and  related  this  to  the  historian,  from  whom 
Dr.  Jackson  hath  it.  And  truly  methinks  it  is  very  agreeable  to 
reason  that  the  angels  in  such  a  shape  should  appear  upon  the  like 
grave  occasions,  that  they  may  affect  the  minds  of  those  before 
whom  they  present  themselves  with  greater  reverence  to  the  mes- 
sage. I  wish  you  could  get  your  friend  with  whom  you  corre- 
spond to  enquire   after  a  book  of  Sebaldus   Schuellius^  against 

or  an  imposture.  Mr.  Pinkerton  plausibly  argues,  from  the  caution  against  incon- 
tinence, that  the  queen  was  privy  to  the  scheme  of  those  who  had  recourse  to  this  ex- 
pedient, to  deter  King  James  from  his  impolitic  warfare." 

Drummond's  version,  which  seems  to  be  taken  from  Buchanan  (Hist,  of  Scotland, 
edit.  8vo,  1682,  p.  217)  does  not  give  any  fresh  particulars. 

•  On  the  contrary,  here  is  a  most  minute  description,  without  any  mention  of  a 
beard.  The  presumption  is  therefore  (to  discuss  a  point  so  important  with  all  fitting 
gravity)  decidedly  against  the  spectre  being  a  bearded  one. 

2  "  Sir  David  Lindesay  of  the  Mount, 

Lord  Lion  King-at-arms,  "      {Marmion,  canto  iv.  7,) 
is  a  personage  too  well  known  to  render  it  necessary  to  give  any  summary  of  his  bio- 
graphy.    Of  his  poetical  works  an  elaborate  edition  was  published  by  George  Chalmers 
in  1806,  in  three  volumes  8vo. 

^  The  life  of  this  learned  man,  though  not  given  in  the  general  Biographies,  has 
been  particidarly  written  by  J.  B.  Riederer,  and  published  at  Altdorft  in  1744,  4to, 
in  which  is  a  full  account  of  his  various  works. 


1661]  OF   DR.   WORTHINGTOX.  57 

Abarbanel.*  Tt  is  cited  sometimes  by  Hoornbeck,^  a  professor  at 
Leyden,  but  no  bookseller  in  London  ever  heard  of  it."  Having 
written  thus  far,  I  received  your  last  of  October  7.  I  shall  write 
(God  willing)  to  !Mr.  Dury  of  Hottinger.  Some  say  that  Mr.  Dury 
is  gone  to  the  Prince  of  Gotha,^  the  glory  of  the  princes  of  that  house, 
whose  character,  as  I  remember,  I  have  given  you  in  some  of  my 
former  letters.  I  take  notice  of  yovir  passage  out  of  Crinesius  de 
confusione  linguarum,  and  shall  write  accordingly  to  Mr.  Dury  of 
it,  but  especially  about  the  Princess  Elizabeth,  who  lives  for  the 
present,  as  I  take  it,  with  the  landgrave  of  Hesse.  I  wish 
heartily  that  both  these  volumes  of  letters  were  put  into  one  book 
and  published.  I  have  heard  nothing  expressly  about  Buxtorf's 
design,  but  I  believe  it  is  published.  Mr.  Petrseus  was  lately  with 
me,  going  for  Oxford,  to  continue  no  longer  than  a  month,  and  to 
return  back  to  Rotterdam  to  perfect  and  print  more  of  his  trans- 
lations of  the  lesser  prophets,  which  are  near  done  all  of  them. 
There  should  have  come  along  with  him  a  famed  linguist  or  Pala- 
tine  scholar,   one   Mr.  Nisselius,'^    who   hath   near   printed   the 

1  Isaac  Abarbanel,  one  of  the  most  eminent  of  Jewisli  expositors,  whose  Hebrew 
Comment  on  the  Pentateuch  and  Prophets  has  been  highly  praised.  Hugh  Broughton, 
himself  a  match  for  a  whole  phalanx  of  Eabbins,  does  not  give  him  a  very  favourable 
character.  "  Some  Jews  of  malice  study  to  pervert  all  Christian  doctrine,  as  this  man 
Abrabaneel  or  Barbanel,  a  Eabbin  of  great  pains  and  wit  but  not  of  grace,  and  only 
to  be  followed  when  he  is  clearly  on  our  side."  —  Hugh  Broughton's  Observations 
upon  the  first  ten  Fathers.  See  Saxius,  vol.  ii.  p.  505,  for  a  reference  to  notices  of 
Abarbanel. 

-  The  Life  of  this  very  learned  and  able  Dutch  Divine  has  been  written  by  David 
Stuart  and  prefixed  to  his  treatise  De  Conversione  Indorum.  He  was  a  great  orna- 
ment of  the  University  of  Leyden,  where  he  died  in  1666.  A  list  of  his  works,  which 
are  very  numerous  and  were  principally  written  in  defence  of  various  points  of  faith, 
will  be  found  in  the  General  Dictionary,  art.  Hoornbeck.  Bayle,  by  no  means  gene- 
rally favourable  to  theologians  of  his  class,  mentions  him  in  the  highest  terms. 

3  Ernest  the  Pious,  who  considerably  augmented  his  province  of  Gotha  and  caused 
it  to  be  erected  into  an  independent  priucipaUty  by  the  German  Diet.  He  promoted 
the  welfare  of  his  subjects  and  restored  order  and  tranquillity  in  his  dominions,  which 
had  been  desolated  by  the  thirty  years  war.     This  pattern  of  princes  died  in  1675. 

■*  J.  G.  Nisselius,  a  learned  printer  at  Leyden,  who  died  in  1662.  He  published 
"  Fcedus  inter  Muhamedem  et  Christiante   Eeligionis   populos  initum,   Arabice  et 

VOL.  II.  I 


58  1)1  AKY   AND   COUKESPONDENCE  [16G1 

Hebrew  Bible  with  points,  very  neatly,  exactly,  and  portable.  It  is 
one  of  the  best  prints  that  ever  I  saw  of  that  sacred  volume  printed 
at  Leyden.  Having  a  week  or  two  respite  he  thought  to  have 
gone  for  England,  to  see  and  know  the  state  of  our  universities. 
But  just  at  the  nick  of  time  that  he  should  have  gone,  he  was 
countermanded  and  was  left  behind.  It  is  not  likely  now  that  he 
will  come,  else  I  should  have  been  very  willing  to  show  him  any 
possible  courtesies.  This  recommendation  came  from  Mr.  Rulice, 
who  is  now  one  of  the  public  ministers  at  Amsterdam,  a  very 
honest  man,  but  a  Presbyterian,  somewhat  narrow  spirited,  yet 
keeping  a  fair  correspondence  with  many  others  which  are  not  of 
that  way.     He  lived  a  great  many  years  with  the  late  Mr.  Cotton^ 

Latine"  (Lugd.  Bat.  1661)  and  several  other  works.  Eeimann  observes :  "Perrara 
sunt  omnia  J.  G.  Nisselio."     (Bib.  Theol.  HUd.  1731,  8vo,  p.  940.) 

'  The  Life  of  John  Cotton  the  eminent  Puritan,  the  apostle  of  Boston  in  New 
England,  has  been  written  with  much  unction  by  the  author  of  the  biography  in  Samuel 
Clarke's  Lives  (1677,  fol.)  and  with  still  more  by  his  grandson  the  famous  Cotton 
Mather  in  his  Magnalia,  of  which  most  original  work  a  new  American  edition  has 
recently,  and  no  present  coidd  be  more  welcome,  been  published  at  Hartford  (1853, 
two  vols.  Svo).  The  latter  of  Cotton's  biographers  thus  commences  his  Life:  — 
"  Were  I  master  of  the  pen  whereivith  Falladius  embalmed  his  Chrysostom  the  Greek 
Patriarch,  or  Posidonius  eternized  his  Austin  the  Latin  oracle  among  the  ancients,  or 
toere  I  owner  of  the  quill  whereivith  among  the  moderns  Beza  celehrated  his  immortal 
Calvin,  or  Fahi us  immortalized  his  venerable  Beza,  the  merits  of  John  Cottomvould 
oblige  me  to  employ  it  in  the  preserving  Jus  famous  memory."  In  plain  prose,  however, 
John  Cotton  was  bom  at  Derby  on  the  4th  December,  1585.  In  due  time  he  became 
Fellow  of  Emmanuel  College,  Cambridge.  \Vhile  yet  in  an  unrcgenerate  condition, 
Mr.  Perkins  died,  "  and  when  he  heard  the  beU  toll  for  the  funeral  of  Mr.  Perkins  his 
mind  secretly  rejoiced  in  his  deliverance  from  that  powerful  ministry  by  which  his 
conscience  had  been  so  oft  beleaguered."  Soon  after  a  change  came  over  him,  and 
being  called  upon  to  preach  at  St.  Mary's,  instead  of  a  learned,  he  preached  a  plain, 
practical  sermon.  His  biographer  records  that  "  the  vain  wits  of  the  University  dis- 
covered their  vexation  at  this  disappointment  by  not  humming^^  which  was  their  mode 
of  applauding  a  popular  preacher.  Dr.  Preston,  afterwards  the  leader  of  the  Puritan 
party,  being  present,  before  the  sermon  was  ended  found  himself  "  pierced  at  the 
heart,"  and  thus  Cotton  "  became  a  spiritual  father  to  one  of  the  greatest  men  of  his 
age."  He  afterwards  settled  himself  as  minister  of  the  Church  of  Boston  iu  Lincoln- 
shire, and  married  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Horrocks, "  the  sister  of  Mr.  James  Horrocks  a  famous 
minister  in  Lancashire."     His  house  at  Boston  was  full  of  young  students,  some  of 


1661]  »  OF   DR.   WORTHINGTO.V.  59 

of  Boston  and  ]\Ir.  White'  of  Dorchester,  having  been  formerly 

whom  were  sent  out  of  Germany,  some  out  of  Holland,  but  more  out  of  Cambridge, 
for  Dr.  Preston  would  still  advise  his  new  fledged  pupils  to  go  and  live  with  Mr. 
Cotton,  so  that  it  grew  into  a  proverb  that  Mr.  Cotton  was  Dr.  Preston's  seasoning 
vessel.  His  Puritanism  made  him  obnoxious  to  the  High  Commission  Court,  and  he 
foimd  it  necessary  to  leave  old  Boston  for  New  Boston  in  New  England,  where  he  was 
called  upon  to  frame  a  platform  of  law,  in  which  he  took  the  Mosaic  code  as  his 
model.  He  flourished  in  high  reputation  at  New  Boston  till  his  death,  which  took 
place  in  December,  1652.  His  custom,  his  grandson  informs  us,  was  "  to  sweeten  his 
mouth  with  a  piece  of  Calvin  before  he  went  to  sleep."  In  preaching  he  thought  with 
old  Mr.  Dod  "  that  Latin  was  flesh  in  a  sermon."  His  delivery  was  set  off  "with  a 
natural  and  becoming  motion  of  his  right  hand."  "The  hardest  flints  have  been 
broken  upon  this  soft  bag  of  Cotton."  It  is  mentioned  that  while  he  was  preaching, 
"  a  woman  among  his  hearers  who  had  been  married  sixteen  years  to  a  second  husband 
now  in  horror  of  conscience  openly  confessed  her  murdering  her  former  husband  by 
poison,  though  thereby  she  exposed  herself  to  the  extremity  of  being  burned."  He 
was  an  indefatigable  student,  and  called  twelve  hours  a  scholar's  day.  His  biographer 
tells  the  following  anecdotes,  which  are  amusing  enough.  "  Mr.  Cotton  had  modestly 
replied  unto  one  that  would  much  talk  and  crack  of  his  insight  into  the  revelations, 
Brother,  I  must  confess  myself  to  want  light  in  those  mysteries.  The  man  went 
home  and  sent  him  a  poimd  of  candles,  upon  which  action  this  good  man  only 
bestowed  a  silent  smile.  He  would  not  set  the  beacon  of  his  great  soul  on  fire  at  the 
landing  of  such  a  little  cock  boat."  "  A  company  of  vain  wicked  men  having  inflamed 
their  blood  in  a  tavern  at  Boston,  and  seeing  Mr.  Cotton  come  along  the  street,  one 
of  them  tells  his  companion,  '  I'll  go,  said  he,  and  put  a  trick  on  old  Cotton.'  Down 
he  goes,  and,  crossing  his  way,  whispers  these  words  into  his  ear  :  '  Cotton,'  said  he, 
*  thou  art  an  old  fool ! '  Mr.  Cotton  replied :  '  I  confess  I  am ;  the  Lord  make  both 
thee  and  me  wiser  than  we  are,  even  wise  imto  salvation.'  "  His  prose  works  were  nu- 
merous, and  are  particularly  referred  to  in  the  "Magnalia"  (vol.  i.  p.  280J.  Cotton 
Mather  informs  us  that  the  children  of  New  England  were  to  that  day  most  usually 
fed  with  his  excellent  catechism  which  is  entitled  "  MUk  for  Babes."  That  "  savoury 
treatise,"  "  The  Way  of  Life,"  seems  to  have  been  amongst  the  most  popular  of  his 
works.  Of  his  poetry  we  have  an  extraordinary  specimen  given  in  his  life.  The  fol- 
lowing is  an  extract : 

"  "When  Grod  saw  his  people,  his  own  at  our  town. 

That  together  they  could  not  hit  it, 

But  that  they  had  learned  the  language  of  Askelon, 

And  one  with  another  could  chip  it, 

He  then  saw  it  time  to  send  in  a  busie  elf, 

A  joiner,  to  take  them  asunder,"  &c.,  &c. 

Clarke's  Lives  (p.  224). 
'  John  White,  usually  called  "  Patriarch  of  Dorchester,"  was  bom  at  Stanton,  St. 


60  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE    "  [1661 

recommended  by  the  late  K.  [ing]  of  Bohemia  to  the  University  of 
Cambridge,  where  Dr.  Preston^  took  special  care  of  him.     He  is  a 

John,  in  the  county  of  Oxford,  in  1574,  and  died  at  Dorchester  in  July,  1648.  He 
was  one  of  the  Assembly  of  Divines,  a  person,  says  Wood,  of  great  gravity  and 
presence,  and  who  had  always  iufluence  on  the  Puritanical  party.  A  neighbour  of 
his,  a  physician,  of  the  name  of  Lossius,  has  highly  extolled  him  in  his  Observationes 
Mediciaales,  Loud.  1672,  8vo.  p.  35,  "but,"  observes  Wood,  "it  must  be  known  that 
these  things  were  spoken  of  him  after  White  had  bequeathed  to  the  said  physician 
one  of  his  pieces  of  plate."  Wood,  however,  allows  that  he  was  one  of  the  most 
learned  and  moderate  in  the  Assembly  of  Divines.  A  list  of  his  works  will  be  found  in 
the  Athena)  Oxou.  vol.  iii.  p.  235. 

'  John  Preston,  a  very  famous  Puritan  divine,  a  most  interesting  biography  of 
whom  is  contained  in  Clarkes  Lives  of  Thirty-two  English  Divines  (p.  75),  was  born 
at  Heyford,  in  Northamptonshire,  in  1587,  but  "was  descended  from  that  family  of 
the  Prestons  that  lived  at  Preston,  in  Lancashire,  from  whence  his  great  grandfather 
removed  upon  occasion  of  a  fatall  quarrel  with  one  Mr.  Bradshaw,  a  neighbour  gentle- 
man, whom  in  his  own  defence  he  slew,  and  satisfied  the  law,  and  was  acquitted  for  it ; 
but  not  the  kindred,  who  waited  an  opportunity  to  be  revenged,  as  the  manner  ia  those 
northern  countries  then  was.  It  fell  out  not  long  after,  that  Master  Bradshaw's  next 
brother  meets  Master  Preston  near  to  the  place  where  he  had  slain  his  brother,  and 
told  him  he  should  do  as  much  for  him,  or  he  woidd  revenge  his  brother's  blood.  Mr. 
Preston  told  him  he  had  slain  his  brother  against  his  will,  and  in  his  own  defence ; 
that  he  bare  no  evil  will  unto  them ;  desired  him  he  would  forbear,  but  when  nothing 
would  prevail,  they  fought,  and  Bradshaw  fell  again.  But  Master  Preston  was  trou- 
bled and  grieved  at  it,  for  he  saw  a  fire  was  kindled  that  would  not  easily  be  quenched, 
and  therefore  resolved  that  he  would  leave  that  fatall  and  unlucky  countrey,  though 
he  was  a  gentleman  of  a  very  fair  estate ;  and  walking  one  day  pensive  in  Westminster 
Hall,  one  Master  Morgan,  of  Heyford,  with  whom  he  was  acquainted,  came  imto  him, 
and  asked  why  he  was  so  sad  ?  to  whom,  for  answer,  he  relates  the  former  story. 
Master  Morgan  knowing  him  to  be  a  gallant  man,  was  very  sensible  of  his  estate,  and 
told  him  if  he  would  go  with  him  to  Heyford,  he  should  have  a  good  farm  to  live  in 
for  the  present,  and  what  accommodation  he  could  afi'ord  him.  Master  Preston  thanked 
him,  and  after  some  consideration  of  the  matter  resolved  to  take  his  offer,  and  so 
Master  Preston  of  Preston,  in  Lancashire,  became  a  kind  of  farmer  in  Northampton- 
shire, where  he  afterwards  lived  and  died." —  Clarke's  Lives,  pp.  75-6. 

John  Preston,  his  grandson,  became  distinguished  at  the  University  of  Cambridge, 
ia  which  he  was  admitted  of  King's  College,  but  afterwards  removed  to  Queen's.  The 
account  given  by  his  biograplier  of  the  manner  in  which  he  managed  a  solemn  dispute 
before  King  James  on  his  visit  to  Cambridge,  though  rather  long,  affords  so  singular 
a  picture  of  the  times  and  of  the  university,  that  it  deserves  to  be  extracted.  Preston 
was  the  opponent  in  the  act,  Dr.  (afterwards  Bishop)  Wren  the  answerer,  and  Dr. 
Keade  moderator.     "His  (Preston's)  great  and  first  care  was  to  bring  bis  argument 


1661]  OF   DR.   WORTHINGTON.  61 

perfect  Englishman,  and  hath  preached  in  English  for  many  years 
both  in  England  and  at  Amsterdam  in  former  years.     Most  of  the 

unto  a  head,  without  aflronts  or  interruptions  from  the  answerer,  and  so  made  all  his 
major  propositions  plausible  and  firm,  that  his  adversary  might  neither  be  willing  nor 
able  to  enter  there,  and  the  minor  still  was  backed  by  other  syllogismes,  and  so  the 
argument  went  on  unto  the  issue,  which  fell  out  well  for  blaster  Preston ;  for  in  dis- 
putations of  consequence,  the  answerers  are  many  times  so  fearful  of  the  event,  that 
they  slur  and  trouble  the  opponents  all  they  can,  and  deny  things  evident,  which  had 
been  the  case  in  all  the  former  acts ;  there  was  such  wrangling  about  their  syllo- 
gismes that  sullied  and  clouded  the  debates  extreamly,  and  put  the  king's  acumen  into 
straits :  but  when  Master  Preston  still  cleared  his  way,  and  nothing  was  denied  but 
what  was  ready  to  be  proved,  the  king  was  greatly  satisfied,  and  gave  good  heed, 
which  he  might  well  do,  because  the  question  was  tempered  and  fitted  unto  his  con- 
tent, namely,  whether  dogs  could  make  syllogismes.  The  opponent  urged  that  they 
could.  An  enthimeme  (said  he)  is  a  lawful  and  real  syllogisme,  but  dogs  can  make 
them.  He  instanced  in  an  hoimd  who  had  the  major  proposition  in  his  mind,  namely, 
the  hare  is  gon  either  this  or  that  way  ;  smels  out  the  minor  with  his  nose,  namely, 
she  is  not  gon  that  way ;  and  follows  the  conclusion,  ergo  this  way  with  open  mouth. 
The  instance  suited  with  the  auditory,  and  was  applauded,  and  put  the  answerer  to 
his  distinctions,  that  dogs  might  have  sagacity,  but  not  sapience,  in  things  especially 
of  prey,  and  that  did  concern  their  belly  might  be  nasutuli,  but  not  logici ;  had  much 
in  their  mouthes,  little  in  their  minds,  unless  it  had  relation  to  their  mouths  ;  that 
their  lips  were  larger  than  their  understandings :  which  the  opponent,  still  endea- 
vouring to  wipe  off  with  another  syllogisme,  and  put  the  dogs  upon  a  fresh  scent,  the 
moderator  (Dr.  Eeade)  began  to  be  afraid,  and  to  think  how  troublesome  a  pack  of 
hounds,  well  followed  and  applauded,  at  last  might  prove,  and  so  came  in  into  the 
answerer's  aid,  and  told  the  opponent  that  his  dogs,  he  did  believe,  were  very  weary, 
and  desired  him  to  take  them  off,  and  start  some  other  argument ;  and  when  the  op- 
ponent would  not  yield,  but  hallooed  still  and  put  them  on,  he  interposed  his  author- 
ity and  silenced  him.  The  king  in  his  conceit  was  all  the  while  upon  Newmarket 
Heath,  and  liked  the  sport,  and  therefore  stands  up,  and  tells  the  moderator  plainly 
he  was  not  satisfied  in  all  that  had  been  answered,  but  did  believe  an  hound  had  more 
in  him  than  was  imagined.  I  had  myself  (said  he)  a  dog,  that,  stragling  far  from  all 
his  fellows,  had  light  upon  a  very  fresh  scent,  but  considering  he  was  all  alone,  and 
had  none  to  second  and  assist  him  in  it,  observes  the  place  and  goes  away  unto  his 
fellows,  and  by  such  yelling  arguments  as  they  best  understand,  prevailed  with  a 
party  of  them  to  go  along  with  him,  and  bringing  them  unto  the  place  pursued  it 
unto  an  open  view.  Now  the  king  desired  for  to  know  how  this  could  be  contrived 
and  carried  on  without  the  use  and  exercise  of  imderstanding,  or  what  the  moderator 
could  have  done  in  that  case  better,  and  desired  him  that  either  he  would  think  better 
of  his  dogs  or  not  so  highly  of  himself.  The  opponent  also  desired  leave  to  pursue 
the  king's  game,  which  he  had  started,  unto  an  issue,  but  the  answerer  protested  that 


62  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1661 

relations  concerning  the  old  Frieslander  came  from  Mr.  Dury,  and 
not  from  him.  I  hear  no  more  of  the  Frieslander,  but  got  lately 
the  enclosed  from  INIr.  Comenius,  which  are  a  continuation  of  those 
visions,  most  of  which  are  printed  in  the  book  called  Lux  in  Tene- 
bris.i  I  thank  you  for  the  apodemical  narrative  which  you  have 
made  concerning  Mr.  Wray.  I  hope  that  Mr.  Wray  himself  will 
set  out  the  observables  of  his  botanical  journey.  I  fear  Mr.  Beal 
is  fallen  sick,  because  he  complained  in  his  last  of  an  illness,  and 
hath  not  written  this  week.  I  am  of  your  opinion  concerning  Mr. 
Wase  in  compiling  a  profitable  dictionary.  You  do  not  tell  me 
where  Dr.  Whichcote  is  at  present ;  I  have  few  such  friends  as  he 
hath  been  to  my  distressed  condition.  I  can  hear  nothing  neither 
of  Dr.  Seth  Ward's  sermon.  I  fear  it  is  not  in  print.  If  I  hear 
the  contrary,  you  shall  soon  G.[od]  'W.[illing]  hear  of  it.  I  am 
sorry  for  Mr.  Smith's  departure,  whom  I  knew  very  well,  if  it  be 


his  majestie's  dogs  were  always  to  be  excepted,  who  hunted  not  by  common  law,  but 
by  prerogative.  Aud  the  moderator,  fearing  the  king  might  let  loose  another  of  his 
hounds,  and  make  more  work,  applies  himself  with  all  submisse  devotion  to  the  king, 
acknowledging  his  dogs  were  able  to  out-do  him,  besought  his  majesty  for  to  believe 
they  had  the  better ;  that  he  would  consider  how  his  illustrious  influence  had  already 
ripened  and  concocted  all  their  arguments  and  understandings ;  that  whereas  in  the 
morning  the  reverend  and  grave  divines  could  not  make  syllogismes,  the  lawyers  could 
not,  nor  the  physitians ;  now  every  dog  could,  especially  his  majestie's.  All  men 
acknowledged  that  it  was  a  good  bit  to  close  with.  It  was  grown  late,  and  so  the 
congregation  was  removed  unto  the  Regent  House,  and  the  king  went  off  well  pleased 
with  the  busincsse.  The  other  acts  were  easily  forgotten,  but  the  discourse  and  logick 
of  the  dogs  was  fresh  in  mouth  and  memory,  and  the  philosophy-act  applauded  uni- 
versally. The  king  commended  all  the  actors,  but  above  all,  the  opponent." — Clarke's 
Lives  (pp.  80-81).  Preston's  subsequent  career  as  the  leader  of  the  Puritan  party, 
and  his  connexion  with  Buckingham,  form  part  of  the  general  history  of  the  times, 
and  are  fully  enlarged  upon  by  his  entertaining  biographer,  Thomas  Ball  the  preacher, 
of  Northampton  (Ibid.  p.  114),  and  the  historians  of  the  period.  He  died  in  1628, 
having  not  quite  reached  his  forty-first  year.  Ilis  various  sermons  and  other  works 
were  exceedingly  popular  in  his  own  day,  but  their  superiority  is  not  so  marked,  when 
compared  with  the  great  mass  of  the  sermons  and  treatises  of  the  contemporary  di- 
vines, as  to  ensure  them  a  permanent  and  abiding  reputation,  and  a  place  amongst  the 
standard  productions  in  English  theology. 

'  See  for  an  account  of  Lux  in  Teuebris,  vol.  i.  p.  138. 


1661]  OF   DR.   WORTHINGTON.  63 

he  of  Christ  College  in  Cambridge,     Thus  I  take  humbly  my  leave, 
remaining  always 

Worthy  Sir, 

Your  heartily,  &c., 
[—  October,  1661.]  S.  Hartlib  sen. 


Dr.  Worthington  to  S.  Hartlib. 
Sir, 

I   received   a   little  tract  called   Health's    Storehouse  worthmgton's 

Miscellanies, 

and  a  letter  from  you  without  date,  in  which  I  find  a  fit  parallel  p-  295- 
story  to  the  two  others  I  wrote  to  you  about  bearded  angels. 
I  am  glad  that  you  have  an  interest  in  the  acquaintance  of  Mr. 
Patrick,  whom  I  mentioned  to  you.  You  told  me  you  would 
write  to  him  for  the  favour  of  his  books,  which  I  suppose  you 
have  received  and  found  to  be  worthy  of  perusal.  The  character 
of  the  Prince  of  Gotha  (the  glory  of  the  princes  of  that  house) 
you  suppose  you  may  have  sent  it  to  me ;  but  if  I  had  received 
any  such  paper  I  should  not  forget  it,  because  such  characters 
are  rare  and  desirable  and  I  should  have  fixed  it  in  my  mind ; 
we  do  not  easily  forget  what  we  love  to  read.  When  I  go  to 
Cambridge  I  may  enquire  about  Sebaldus  Schnellius  against 
Abarbanel ;  I  never  saw  it,  and  if  it  be  not  to  be  found  in  London 
I  doubt  I  shall  not  meet  with  it  in  Cambridge.  I  am  glad  Petrseus 
is  publishing  his  translations  of  the  lesser  prophets  :  in  what  lan- 
guage are  they  ?  He  is  most  for  the  Coptic  language.  I  sent  to 
London  to  enquire  about  Valesius  his  edition  of  Eusebius,  but 
they  do  not  hear  of  it  there.  If  Petrseus  call  upon  you  before  his 
return  to  Holland  you  may  know  whether  Josephus  be  in  the 
press.  I  suppose  he  or  Nisselius  may  be  well  acquainted  with 
Cocceius  the  Leyden  professor,  and  with  Elzevir  the  printer,  be- 
cause they  both  are  engaged  in  printing  business,  as  your  letter 
mentions.  Dr.  Whichcote  goes  this  week  to  London.  He  hath 
had  a  quartan  ague,  and  is  not  likely  to  be  free  from  it  till  spring. 


64  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1661 

He  hath  taken  a  house  upon  Bednal  Green.  Mr.  Smith  that  died 
was  he  of  Christ  College,  whom  you  knew?  he  was  an  industrious 
man,  and  fit  to  be  the  keeper  of  the  public  library.  ISIr.  Barrow 
hath  begun  this  term  his  Greek  lectures.  He  is  off  from  Sopho- 
cles, and  reads  upon  one  of  Aristotle's  best  pieces,  viz.  his  Rhetoric/ 
which  was  thought  more  considerable  and  useful  to  discourse  upon 
than  Sophocles  his  Electra.  I  wish  he  would  pubHsh  his  great 
and  long  travels^  (as  you  wish  that  ]\Ir.  Wray  would  his  shorter 
ones).  I  remember  he  told  me  that  when  he  was  at  Constan- 
tinople one  Bobelius^  (he  who  wrote  that  Turkish  story,  being  a 
Spahi  and  a  servant  in  the  seraglio,  and  who  gave  him  that  collec- 
tion of  Tv^rkish  proverbs,^  both  which  I  sent  you)  showed  him  his 
translation  (in  writing)  of  Comenius  his  Janua  into  the  Turkish 
language  j  so  that  the  book  has  been  attempted  in  more  languages 
than  Mr.  Comenius  perhaps  knows  of.  Is  the  quarrel  ended 
between  Comenius  and  the  author  of  Irenicum  Irenicorum?^  that 
he  may  in  his  latter  years  compose  himself  to  more  pacate  studies, 
and  leave  younger  men  to  deal  with  martial  theology,  from  which 
old  men  should  be  at  rest.  Dr.  More  is  returned  to  Cambridge. 
His  volume  goes  on  apace  at  the  press.  To  conclude,  I  wish  I 
could  hear  of  your  health  confirmed  into  some  tolerable  settlement, 

^  Barrow's  Lectures  on  Aristotle's  Rhetoric  were  lent  to  a  person  who  never  re- 
turned them,  and  are  now,  it  is  to  be  feared,  irrecoverably  lost.  See  Hill's  life,  pre- 
fixed to  the  first  volume  of  Barrow's  English  works,  Lond.  1716,  folio. 

"  The  principal  record  we  now  have  of  these  travels  is  his  very  interesting  Iter 
Maritimum  a  portu  Ligustico  ad  Constantinopolim,  November  6th,  1657.  Vid.  Opus- 
cula  Latina  (vol.  4  of  his  works),  1687,  foL,  pp.  211-226.  In  this  poetical  itinerary 
he  seems  to  have  taken  Rutilius  as  his  model.  Like  his  other  Latin  poems,  it  deserves 
more  notice  than  it  has  yet  received,  and  it  is  to  be  regretted  that  he  did  not  give  a 
full  account  of  the  whole  of  his  travels,  instead  of  detached  portions  only,  either  in 
the  same  form  or  in  prose. 

'  Tlie  person  referred  to  is  Albert  Bobovius,  musician  of  the  seraglio,  who  vrrote 
"A  True  Relation  of  the  Designs  managed  by  the  old  Queen,  wife  of  Sultan  Ahmed," 
for  which  see  Barrow's  works,  vol.  iv.  folio  edition,  p.  196. 

■*  "Adagia  qua;dam  Turcica,"  which  are  printed  at  page  192  of  the  4th  vol.  of 
Barrow's  works. 

^  Zwicker,  of  whom,  and  of  Comenius's  quarrel  with  him,  see  vol.  i.  p.  292. 


1661  ]  OF   DR.  WORTHINGTON.  65 

and  that  you  had  also  vacancy  to  peruse  those  many  bundles  of 
papers  youi-  study  is  furnished  vriih,  that  so  out  of  them  you  might 
extract  such  select  passages  as  would  make  a  Silva  Silvarum,  or  a 
Collection  of  Memorable  Things,  as  Goulart  did.^  Under  several 
general  heads  you  might  fitly  dispose  and  rank  such  memoirs  of 
different  natures  and  importances,  in  several  kinds  of  knowledge, 
as  would  be  useful  as  well  as  delightful  by  reason  of  the  variety  of 
matters  therein  represented.  The  like  is  also  done  by  the  learned 
Camerarius^  iu  his  Operee  Subcesivee.  Here  is  printing  at  Cam- 
bridge an  English  Concordance,  as  full  (it  is  said)  as  Newman,  but 
so  contrived  that  it  will  not  be  above  12s.,  which  is  half  the  price 

^  Simon  Goulart,  a  Protestant  divine,  who  was  born  at  Seulis  in  1543  and  died  at 
Geneva  in  1628.  He  was  a  voluminous  writer,  but  the  work  referred  to  is  his  very 
entertaining  "  Histoires  Admirables  de  nostre  Temps."  Paris,  1607,  2  tom.  8vo, 
Tome  troisiesme  et  quatriesme.  Gen.  1614,  8vo.  The  two  first  volumes  were  trans- 
lated bvE.  Grimestone,  and  entitled,  "Admirable  and  Memorable  Histories,  contain- 
ing the  Wonders  of  our  Time,  done  out  of  French,"  Lond.  1607,  4to.  This  work 
afforded  many  plots  to  our  early  dramatists. 

-  Philip  Camerarius,  a  son  of  the  celebrated  Joachim  Camerarius,  whose  letters  he 
edited  jointly  with  his  brother  Joachim.  Philip  was  born  at  Tubingen  in  1537  and 
died  at  Nuremberg  in  1624.  He  was  a  learned  lawyer,  and,  in  his  intervals  of  leisure, 
put  together  his  Horse  Subsecivfe  sive  Meditationes  Historicse,  of  which  he  published 
three  centuries  in  1615  in  a  thick  4to  volume,  reprinted  at  Frankfort  in  1644  and 
1658,  certainly  one  of  the  most  agreeable  miscellanies,  though  now  little  read  or  no- 
ticed, that  have  ever  been  compiled,  and  which  contains  a  vast  amount  of  curious,  in- 
teresting and  valuable  matter.  The  author  was  proceeding  with  a  fourth  century, 
when  it  was  cut  short  by  his  death.  There  is  an  English  translation  of  the  first  cen- 
tury only,  under  the  title  of  "  The  Living  Librarie,  or  Meditations  and  Observations 
historical,  natural,  moral,  political,  and  poetical,  done  into  English  by  John  Molle^ 
Esquire,"  Lond.  1621,  folio.  The  translator  in  his  preface  observes  of  the  author  : 
"Being  wearied  and  tired,  his  usual  manner  was  to  retire  and  betake  himself  unto  the 
reading  of  historical  authors  fuU  of  delightful  varietie,  yet  withal  very  advantageous 
and  profitable.  This  kind  of  studie,  or  rather  recreation,  was  so  pleasing  unto  him, 
that,  conversing  with  such  books,  he  imagined  himself  as  in  the  flourishing  spring 
time  of  the  year,  seated  in  some  curious  garden,  set  and  beautified  with  all  kind  of 
fruitful  trees,  pleasant  plants  and  fragrant  flowers,  with  the  fruit  and  odours  whereof 
he  revived  his  wearied  spirits  as  with  a  proper  repast,  pulling  and  culling  thence 
sundry  observations  both  delightful,  memorable,  and  profitable,  which,  like  the  indus- 
trious bee,  he  used  to  asport  and  make  his  own,  by  committing  them  to  his  serious 
cogitations  and  second  thoughts  as  to  an  hive." 

VOL.  II.  K 


GO  DIARY   AND   CORRESPONDENCE  [1661 

of  Newman's,  There  is  a  book  said  to  be  extant  called  Mirabilis 
Annus/  which  I  suppose  you  have  seen  or  heard  of,  it  containing 
many  stories  of  prodigies  and  strange  occurrences.  There  is  a  late 
story2  of  a  boy  that  died  at  Cambridge,  struck  on  the  eye  by  a 
woman  that  appeared  to  him  and  had  for  ten  years  haunted  his 
father's  house  in  the  Isle  of  Ely ;  but  the  particular  relation  is  not 
yet  perfected  so  as  to  be  fit  to  send.  Dr.  Ingelo  lately  called  on 
me,  but  could  not  stay.  I  suppose  Mr.  Brereton  is  returned  out 
of  Cheshire.     I  shall  now  only  add  that  I  am 

Yours  in  all  reality, 
October  36,  1661.  J.[ohn]  W.[orthington.] 


S.  Hartlih  to  Dr.  Worthington. 
Honoured  Sir, 
Baker's  camb  Your  last  is  dated  October  26,  1661.     Mr.  Patrick^  is  a 

red  to'^p^ia'^'^    pious  and  very  useful  man,  and  ready  to  do  me  any  good  that  lies 

1  See  vol.  i.  p.  268. 

2  Tlie  following  version  of  tbe  story  is  given  by  Baxter  ;  "  Mr.  Franklin,  minister 
of  a  town  in  the  Isle  of  Ely,  bad  a  cMld  to  wbicb  a  spirit  often  appeared  at  bis  father's 
bouse,  and  grew  so  bold  and  free,  as  very  ordinarily  to  come  in  whilst  company  was 
in  tbe  bouse,  and  Mr.  Franklin  in  tbe  room,  and  sit  down  by  the  boy.  At  due  years, 
about  tbe  year  1661  or  1662,  be  was  bound  an  apprentice  to  a  barber  in  Cambridge 
(or  at  least  as  a  probationer).  One  night  tbe  spirit  appeared  to  him  in  the  usual 
habit  of  a  gentlewoman,  and  would  have  perswaded  him  go  home  again,  asking  him 
what  be  did  there  ?  &c.  The  boy,  after  some  treaty,  replied  he  would  not  go.  Upon 
which  be  received  a  great  blow  on  tbe  ear,  and  grew  very  ill ;  and  continuing  so,  bis 
master  presently  took  horse,  and  rid  to  acquaint  his  father.  In  the  forenoon  of  that 
day,  tbe  boy  sitting  by  tbe  kitchen  fire,  bis  mistress  being  by,  suddenly  cries  out,  Ob 
mistress,  look,  there's  the  gentlewoman !  The  woman  turns  to  look,  sees  nothing  : 
but  wbUe  her  head  was  turned,  bears  a  noise  as  of  a  great  box  on  tbe  ear ;  then  turn^ 
again,  and  sees  tbe  boy  bending  down  bis  neck ;  and  be  presently  died.  About  tbe 
same  hour,  so  near  as  they  could  guess,  vvbilo  tbe  master  was  sitting  at  dinner  in 
the  Isle  of  Ely  with  tbe  father,  the  appearance  of  a  gentlewoman  comes  in,  looking 
angrily  ;  and  taking  a  turn  or  two,  disappeared.  Attested  by  Mr.  Baxter,  Mr.  Cooper, 
and  Mr.  Franklin  himself. — Historical  Discourses  of  Apparitions  and  Witches,  p.  64." 

3  Of  Mr.  (afterwards  Bishop)  Patrick,  see  tbe  notice  vol.  i.  p.  336. 


1661]  OF   DR.   WORTH IXGTON.  67 

in  his  power.  I  count  myself  very  happy  in  his  acquaintance,  and 
must  profess  always  my  obliging  respects  to  Dr.  Whichcote,  who 
made  up  the  match  between  us.  As  soon  as  I  can  find  the 
character  of  the  Prince  of  Gotha  (for  it  is  mislaid  amongst  a 
number  of  papers)  it  shall  be  imparted  unto  you.  I  pray  you 
enquire  diligently  about  Sebaldus  Schnellius  against  Abarbanel, 
I  woidd  willingly  pleasure  worthy  Mr.  Patrick  with  it  or  anything 
else  that  might  do  him  service.  The  lesser  prophets  of  Petrseus 
are,  as  I  take  it,  in  the  Ethiopian  language.  I  wonder  you  cannot 
hear  of  Yalesius's  edition  of  Eusebius.  If  Petreeus  call  upon  me 
(or  upon  any  other  occasions)  I  shall  not  fail,  God  willing,  to 
enquire  whether  Josephus  be  in  the  press  or  not  at  Leyden.  It  is 
likely  they  are  acquainted  with  Cocceius,  Nisselius,  and  Elzevir ; 
but  to  look  into  my  catalogue  of  books  printed  in  Holland  is  no 
more  in  my  power,  the  wretched  man  (where  all  my  books  stood) 
having  suffered  (with  a  world  of  other  MSS.)^  distraction  or 
embezzlement,  so  that  I  cannot  as  yet  tell  what  is  remaining  or 
not,  the  catalogues  themselves  being  lost  or  made  away.  This  is 
one  of  the  greatest  and  sorest  evils  which  hath  befallen  my  tor- 
mented and  afflicted  condition  for  so  many  years.  This  day  a 
gentleman  of  Gotha  was  with  me  who  has  the  receipt  of  a  perfect 
and  never  failing  cure  of  a  purely  tertian  ague,  which  I  do  not 
despair  to  obtain  hereafter.  Eut  if  it  had  been  of  a  quartan  ague, 
I  should  have  waived  all  formal  civilities  to  do  service  to  worthy 
Dr.  Whichcote.  Mr.  Smith's  departure  is  truly  to  be  lamented, 
being  so  fit  a  keeper  of  the  public  library,  for  there  are  few  of  that 
ability.  I  have  cause  to  wish  with  you  that  j\Ir.  Barrow  would 
publish  his  great  and  long  travels,  as  well  as  Mr.  Wray  his  shorter 
ones.  Mr.  Comenius  himself  hath  written  of  the  translation  of  his 
Janua  into  the  Turkish  language.     I  hope  the  quarrel  is  ended 

'  Hartlib  was  particularly  unfortunate  in  this  respect.  A  fire  afterwards  occurred, 
as  he  mentions  in  a  subsequent  letter,  from  which  his  papers  and  MSS.  received  great 
damage.  Had  the  whole  of  his  MS.  Collections  and  Correspondence  been  preseiTcd 
entire,  they  would  have  formed  an  admirable  foundation  for  the  Literary  and  Philoso- 
phical History  of  England  in  the  middle  of  the  seventeenth  century. 


68  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1661 

between  him  and  the  Irenical  antagonist.  There  are  two  or  three 
books  of  his  which  should  have  been  sent  to  you  also  but  that  the 
number  of  them  came  short.  He  is  fully  resolved  for  the  future  to 
undertake  no  other  treatises  but  only  the  pausophical  work  and 
the  P.  M.i  I  am  very  glad  to  hear  that  Dr.  More's  volume  goes 
on  apace  at  the  press.  I  wish  you  could  write  the  like  of  Dr. 
Cudworth.  My  health  is  still  very  hazardous,  and  more  torment- 
ing than  before ;  but  1  have  great  cause  to  conclude  that  it  is  in 
order  to  a  perfect  cure.  The  stone  is  like  a  bull  enraged,  that  will 
not  fall  with  one  blow.  But  strong  is  the  Lord  God  Almighty 
even  in  this  case  to  save  his  poor  servants  that  trust  in  him  alone. 
His  name  be  blessed  for  ever.  At  Amsterdam  there  hath  been 
public  thanksgiving  in  the  churches  for  so  wonderful  a  cui'e  of  the 
tormented  man  that  hath  been  forced  to  keep  his  bed  above  six 
years,  and  hath  been  strangely  tormented  above  these  thirteen 
years.  Your  Sylva  Sylvarum  is  very  well  advised ;  but  1  intimated 
before  what  a  wretched  fate  is  befallen  all  my  best  papers,  which  I 
thought  were  most  safe.  The  better  Concordance  is  a  very  grate- 
ful advertisement.  I  long  for  a  fuller  relation  of  the  boy  that  died 
at  Cambridge.  Mr.  Patrick  takes  it  for  granted  that  I  have  heard 
more  fully  of  it.  ]Mr.  Brer.[eton]  hath  been  returned  these  six 
days.    He  went  to  see  Dr.  Whichcote,  and  is,  no  less  than  myself. 

Your  most  humble  servt., 
Nov.  2,  1661.  S.[amuel]  H.[artlib.] 


Dr.  IVorthington  to  S.  Hartlib. 
Sir, 
Worthinffton-s  Yours  of  Nov.  2  I  rcccivcd  Nov.  10.     There  are  but 

Mi|ceiiauies,    ^^^  ^^  ^^^^^  particulars  which  require  an  answer;  both  I  suppose 
for  Mr.  Patrick's  satisfaction. 

For  the  first :     Upon   enquii'y  I   cannot    meet    with    Scbaldus 
'  Philosophia;  Mcthodus. 


1661]  OF   DK.   WORTHINGTOX.  69 

Sclinellius  against  Abarbanel.  I  know  nobody  that  ever  saw  it 
except  Dr.  Cudworth,  wbo  does  but  think  that  he  saw  it  some 
years  since ;  and  if  that  be  the  book  he  thinks  he  saw,  he  thought 
then  there  was  nothing  extraordinary  in  it. 

The  other  particular  is  about  the  barber's  boy,  to  whom  the 
spectre  is  said  to  have  appeared,  but  as  yet  I  have  no  such  perfect 
account  of  it  as  is  fit  to  be  communicated.  Some  have  thoughts 
of  going  over  to  the  boy's  father  and  to  make  a  more  diligent 
enquiry  into  all  particulars.  Till  that  be  done,  the  story  will  be 
very  imperfect  and  unfit  to  make  any  judgment  upon.  The  boy's 
father  Avas  expected  at  Cambridge,  but  he  came  not. 

With  your  letter  I  received  a  paper  containing  something  from 
Dr.  Tongue  about  tapping  of  trees. ^  This  is  that  Tongue,  I  sup- 
pose, who  spake  to  you  about  gi'eat  things  he  had  prepared  upon 
the  A-pocalypse ;  but  I  do  not  think  they  were  perfected,  for  then 
you  would  have  written  of  them.  I  have  seen  none  since  Mr. 
Mede's  Clavis  Apocalyptica,^  that  hath  brought  forth  to  the  world 
what  hath  been  much  observable,  but  what  has  been  lighted  at 
his  flame. 

'  Inserted  in  Philosophical  Transactions,  ann.  1670,  num.  57,  &c. 

2  Which,  as  Worthington  observes  (Preface  to  Mede's  works)  "  was  his  First-born, 
Ms  might  and  the  excellency  of  his  strength,  as  Jacob  spake  of  his  First-bom,"  and 
"for  the  which"  (Miscellanies,  p.  56)  "  he  deserres  the  name  the  Egyptians  gave  to 
Joseph  the  IsraeUte,  Zaphnath  Paaneah,  i.e.  xpvKTwv  evperris,  as  Josephus  interprets  it, 
and  to  the  same  sense  both  Onkelos  and  Jonathan  the  Chaldee  Paraphrasts."  Of  his 
noble  discovery  of  the  synchronisms,  Worthington  remarks  (Preface  to  Mede's  works)  : 
"  The  glory  of  first  discovering  these  is  particularly  due  to  Mr.  Mede,  and  upon  this 
score  shall  the  present  and  succeeding  ages  owe  a  great  respect  and  veneration  to  his 
memory,"  and  afterwards  "  I  shall  not  need  to  show  how  necessary  it  is  for  those  that 
go  down  to  this  Prophetic  Sea  to  steer  by  the  guidance  of  these  synchronisms,  that 
lightsome  Pharos,  and  indeed  the  only  Cynosura  to  direct  those  that  are  upon  this 
great  deep."  Worthington' s  judgment,  which  is  a  very  sound  one  with  respect  to 
several  of  the  commentators  on  the  Apocalypse,  may  be  foimd  on  reference  to  his 
"  Miscellanies ;"  but,  as  there  is  no  index  to  that  work,  it  may  save  trouble  to  observe 
that  he  notices  Hugh  Broughton  (pp.  34,  37,  146,  193),  Brightman  (9,  120),  Archer 
(119),  Dr.  Homes  (85,  121),  Alstedius  (85,  121,  195),  CorneHus  a  Lapide  (193),  Dr. 
Henry  More  (73,  85),  and  Grotius  and  Hammond,  whom  he  styles  "the  famous 
Duumviri,  leaders  in  the  new  way  of  interpreting  the  Apocalypse"  (32,  33,  and  passim). 


70  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [K)61 

If  Mr.  Wall  be  come  to  town  and  see  you,  will  you  remember 
what  was  written  about  Leo  Modeua  of  the  Temple  of  Jerusalem  ? 
It  is,  I  think,  a  stitched  book  in  quarto.  I  am  sorry  for  your 
losses  in  the  paper  treasures  you  committed  to  such  as  ought  to 
have  been  more  regardful  of  such  a  depositum.  The  more  need 
have  you  to  secure  what  remains,  lest  a  like  fate  should  befall 
them.  And  out  of  these  (if  the  other  cannot  be  retrieved)  you 
might  make  perhaps  a  worthy  Collection  of  Memorable  Things. 
Such  a  Silva  Silvarum,  if  you  had  thought  on,  would  have  been  as 
much  to  the  public  good,  and  have  rendered  you  as  considerable, 
as  any  other  performance  that  I  can  think  of.  Heretofore  I  wrote 
about  Dr.  More's  letters  to  you  (some  whereof  were  large) ;  you 
said  you  could  have  them  in  readiness  if  there  were  to  be  any  use 
made  of  them ;  I  wish  the  former  sad  fate  hath  not  befallen  them. 
You  must  do  as  those  in  a  shipwreck,  that  are  busy  to  regain  as 
much  as  they  can  of  what  was  lost,  and  do  more  thankfully  enjoy 
what  is  left. 

Dr.  Whichcote's  ague  (as  he  writes  to  me)  continues  to  afflict 
him  sorely.  That  receipt  you  speak  of  for  a  tertian  ague  may  be 
a  very  charitable  and  gainful  discovery  if  procured. 

I  perceive  by  the  news  book  that  LudolpVs^  Lexicon  vEthiopi- 

'  "  Jacobi  Ludolphi  J.  C.  et  Ducis  SaxoniiE  Consiliarii  Lexicon  ^Ethiopico-Latinum 
ex  omnibus  libris  impressis  nonuullisque  MSS.  collectum  et  cum  docto  quodam 
jEthiope  relectum,  cum  iudice  Latino,  Appendice  et  Syllabo  vocum  Harmouicarum 
quae  in  lingua  jEthiopica  cum  aliis  conveniunt.  2.  Grammatica  ^-Ethiopica  omnium 
quse  hactenus  extant,  maxime  completa.  3.  Confessio  fidei  Claudii  Regis  Ethiopia;, 
Eegio  cuidam  prajfecto  Portugalleusi  missa,  Latine  versa  et  notis  aucta.  4.  Liturgia 
S.  Dioscori  Patriareba;  Alexaudrini  Lat.  et  iEthiopice  J.  M.  Wanslebio  addita.  A 
work  very  useful,  botb  to  tbe  late  Polyglot  Bibles  and  tbe  great  Lexicon  now  in  band, 
and  for  all  tbose  tbat  desire  to  attain  knowledge  in  tbe  Oriental  languages,  with 
whicb  it  batb  an  affinity.  Printed  by  Thomas  Koycroft,  and  sold  at  tbe  printing- 
house  in  the  Charter-house  Yard,  Loudon."  Mercurius  Publicus  Xovembcr  7tb,  1661. 
Ludolf  complains  much  of  the  want  of  care  on  tbe  part  of  Wansleb  in  superintending 
tbe  printing  of  this  important  work.  A  second  and  much  improved  edition  of  the 
Dictionary  appeared  at  Frankfort  in  1698,  and  of  the  Grammar  in  1702. —  See  Ludolf, 
noticed  vol.  i.  p.  137. 


1661]  OF   Dll.   WORTHINGTOX.  71 

cum  is  printed  aud  extant.  I  wish  them  good  success  at  the 
press  about  the  other  volume  of  the  lexicon,  and  that  Dr.  Castell 
may  have  a  better  gale  to  carry  him  to  the  desired  port. 

T  do  not  desire  you  to  trouble  yourself  about  sending  those  two 
or  three  new  pieces  of  Comenius  to  me  ;  I  desire  only  to  know  the 
names  of  those  books  and  of  what  they  treat. 

I  have  now  no  more  to  add ;  but  commending  you  to  the  care 
and  love  of  the  Father  of  Mercies,  I  rest 

Yours, 

Nov.  14,  1661.  J.[ohnl  W.[orthington.] 


S.  Hartlih  to  Dr.  Worthington. 
Honoured  Sir, 

Your  last  is  dated  14th.     Yesterday  Mr.  Patrick  sent  me  a  Baker's  Camb. 

,  ,  .  •!!       J    •  •  1  1  •    1      T  MSS.  as  refer- 

large  account  concerning  some  lilustnous  providences,   which  1  red  to,  p.  13. 

may  impart  unto  you  by  carrier  as  soon  as  my  amanuensis,  who  is 

fallen  dead  sick,  is  recovered.     I  thank  you  for  the  advertisement 

of  Sebaldus  Schnellius,  which  I  shall  send  shortly  to  Mr.  Patrick. 

An  exact  narrative  about  the  barber's  boy  will  be  very  welcome 

whenever  it  can  be  sent.     I  did  not  send  my  paper  so  much  for 

lopping  of  trees  as  for  Mr.  Beal's  mnemonical  undertakings,  of 

which  he  hath  written  another  essay.     Dr.  Tongue  is  at  Dunkirk, 

as  I  take  it,  a  very  stirring  and  laborious  man.^     He  is  very  like  to 

publish  his  Apocalyptical  notions  in  print  when  better  perfected. 

He  lives  Avith  one  of  the  Harlowes  at  Dunkirk.       The  Revelation 

Book  translated  out  of  High  Dutch  hath  almost  nothing  but  what 

worthy  ]\Ir.  Mede  hath  published.     Mr.  Wall  hath  not  yet  been  in 

town  for  ought  I  know.       I  shall  not  fail,  God  willing,  to  put  him 

in  mind  concerning  Leo  Modena  whenever  I  see  him.     As  much 

as  my  health  will  permit  I  shall  never  forget  a  collection  of  memo- 

'  A  "stirring  and  laborious  man"  certainly,  as  the  short  sketch  of  his  career,  vol.  i. 
p.  196-7,  will  abundantly  manifest. 


72  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1661 

rable  things  out  of  my  remaining  letters.  I  suppose  you  have 
forgotten  that  long  ago  I  have  returned  all  Dr.  More's  Cartesian 
letters  and  his  answers  unto  them.  I  wonder  that  none  out  of 
Germany  writes  anything  concerning  the  Princess  Elizabeth.  Dr. 
Whichcote's  is  more  my  affliction  than  I  will  write.  If  I  can  pro- 
cure the  receipt  for  a  tertian  ague  it  would  be  truly  a  very  chari- 
table and  gainful  discovery.  But  the  author  comes  seldom  at  me. 
If  I  get  it  at  any  time  it  shall  be  yours,  I  received  lately  a  letter 
from  Ireland  from  Mr.  Robert  Wood,^  another  cordial  friend  of 
mine.  He  writes  from  Dublin  October  30,  1661,  as  followeth  :  — 
"  I  fell  sick  again  of  another  fever  this  autumn,  which  though  not 
so  violent  and  acute  as  that  I  laboured  under  last  year,  yet  it  kept 
me  prisoner  in  my  chamber  and  Aveak  as  long  as  the  former,  which 
happened  I  think  chiefly  by  reason  of  a  relapse  I  had  in  being  a 
little  over  venturous.  But  now  I  praise  God  I  am  in  as  good  health 
again  as  ever,  except  only  a  little  more  tender,  which  makes  me  sub- 
ject to  colds,  &c.  I  should  be  glad  to  hear  of  your  health,  at  least 
of  the  mitigation  of  your  pains."    Thus  far  honest  ]\Ir.  Wood.    The 

^  Robert  Wood  was  born  at  Pepper  Harrow,  near  Godalming,  in  Surrey,  eirc.  1622, 
and,  after  figuring  in  various  capacities  during  a  life  of  change,  died  at  Dublin  in  1685. 
He  was  educated  at  Oxford,  became  President  of  St.  John's,  went  into  Ireland,  and 
was  sent  by  Henry  Cromwell  as  his  spy  into  Scotland,  returned  to  England,  was  one 
of  the  first  Fellows  of  the  College  at  Durham  founded  by  Oliver  Cromwell  in  1657, 
and  a  Member  of  the  Rota  Club.  On  the  Restoration,  like  Marchmont  Needham,  he 
took  up  the  profession  of  physic,  and  it  seems  probable  that  of  law  too,  in  Ireland, 
and  becoming  an  out-and-out  Loyalist  was  appointed  Chancellor  of  two  Dioceses,  of 
which  Meath  was  one.  He  then  settled  for  a  time  in  England,  and  became  teacher  to 
the  Blue  Coat  children  in  Christ  Church  Hospital,  in  Loudon,  in  mathematics  and 
navigation.  He  afterwards  returned  to  Ireland,  and  was  made  Accountant  General 
to  the  Commissioners  of  Revenue  there.  He  seems  to  have  had  the  reputation  of 
considerable  mathematical  skill  and  to  have  been  one  of  the  large  crop  of  ingenious 
adventurers  of  whom  Sir  William  Petty  is  the  type,  who,  with  elastic  consciences  and 
a  constant  eye  to  the  main  chance,  contrived  to  feather  their  nests  in  those  eventful 
times.  Anthony  Wood,  who  did  not  approve  of  such  harlequin  transformations  as 
"  honest "  Robert  Wood  exhibited,  says  sourly  of  him  :  "  He  was  a  covetous  person." 
(Athena;,  vol.  iv.  p.  167.)  He  seems  only  to  have  published  "  The  Times  Mended,  or 
a  Rectified  Account  of  Time  by  a  new  Luni-solar  Year,"  Lond.  1681,  folio. 


1661]  OF  DR.  WORTHINGTON.  73 

names  of  those  new  Comeuian  books,  which  you  shall  have  as  soon 
as  I  get  any  copies,  are  these  following  : —  (1.)  Joh.  Amos  Comenii 
de  Iterato  Sociniano  Irenico,  Iterata  ad  Christianos  Admonitio, 
sen  Pseudo  Irenici,  veri  autem  Christo-Mastigis,  Danielis  Zwickeri 
superbus  de  Christo  ^ternitatis  Throno  dejecto  Triumphus, 
\irtute  Dei  dissipatus,  &c.  Anistel.  1661,  pp.  212  in  Svo.^  (2.) 
Socinismi  Speculum  uno  intuitu  quicquid  ibi  creditur  aut  non  cre- 
ditur  exhibens,  ex  ipsorummet  propria  confessione  concinnatum  a 
Joh.  Amos  Comenio.  Amst.  1661,  Svo.^  (3.)  Oculus  Fidei,  The- 
ologia  Naturalis,  sire  Liber  Creaturarum,  specialiter  de  homine  et 
natura  ejus,  in  quantum  homo  est,  et  de  his  quse  illi  necessaria 
sunt  ad  cognoscendum  Deum  et  Seipsum,  omniaq.,  quibus  Deo, 
proximo  sibi  obligatur  ad  salutem,  a  Raymundo  de  Sabunde,  ante 
duo  ssecula  conscriptus,  nunc  autem  Latiniore  stylo  in  compendium 
redactus,  et  in  subsidium  incredulitati  Atheorum,  Epicureorum, 
Judseorum,  Turcarum,  aliorumq,  Infidelium,  nominatim  Sociniano- 
rum  et  aliorum  Christianorum  Mysteria  Fidei  sure  non  attenden- 
tium,  a  Johanne  A.  Comenio  oblatus.  Amsterodami  1661,  in  8vo, 
pp.  381. '^     I  am  ever. 

Honoured  Sir, 

Yom's  faithfully,  &c., 
Nov.  19,  1661.  S.[amuel]  H.[artlib.] 

'  One  of  the  tracts  in  Conienius's  controversy  with  Zwicker.  See  vol.  i.  p.  292. 
Like  all  Conienius's  works,  it  is  worth  reading.  His  indefatigable  adversary,  who  is 
the  perfect  model  of  an  agile  controversialist,  had  attacked  him  as  a  magniloquent 
Thraso,  on  account  of  his  Pansophieal  promises.  Comenius  rejoins  by  printing  a 
laudatory  and  very  sensible  letter  from  Marinus  ITersennus,  and  winds  up  his  testi- 
monials with  an  eulogium  from  the  "  Illustrissimus  Posnaniensis  Palatiuus,  D.  Chr. 
de  Bnin  Opalinskj."  (Ast  quale  nomen!)  Against  such  an  authority  what  could 
Zwicker  allege?  Comenius's  address  to  his  opponent  might  be  made  by  many  a  con- 
troversialist in  many  a  controversy  :  "  Zwickere,  poenitet  me  stercoreum  hoc  tecum 
certamen  ingressum,  in  quo  T^hico  sen  J'incor,  semper  ego  maculor"  p.  85. 

^  A  tract  ia  86  pages,  12mo,  being  a  sort  of  compendium  of  the  Eacovian  Catechism, 
with  a  refutation  by  Comenius. 

3  This  modernization  of  Eaymoud  de  Sebonde  is  noticed  in  vol.  i.  p.  272. 


VOL.  II. 


74  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1661 

Dr.  Worthington  to  S.  Hartlib. 
Sir, 
worthington's  Yours  of  November  29  I  received,  together  with  a  paper 

p.  301.  '  of  Mr.  BeaPs  mnemonical  design.  Dr.  More's  letters  to  Descartes 
came  safe  to  Christ  College  (aud  they  will  be  published)  but  I 
meant  Dr.  Morels  letters  written  to  you,  which  heretofore  you 
wrote  that  you  could  upon  occasion  find  out.  I  thank  you  for  the 
titles  of  the  three  Comenian  books ;  they  are  not  known  at  Cam- 
bridge. That  of  Raymundus  de  Sabunde  in  a  new  Latin  dress  I 
least  set  by,  for  I  have  the  old  one ;  and  for  the  other  two,  I  do 
not  desire  to  put  you  to  any  trouble  about  them  except  you  should 
have  some  store  of  copies  sent  you. 

Here  is  lately  brought  to  me  a  brief  in  the  behalf  of  John  do 
Kraino  Krainsky,  who  conies  as  Deputy  of  the  Protestant  churches 
in  Lithuania,  to  solicit  for  their  relief,  and  for  means  to  carry  on 
the  printing  of  the  Bible  in  their  language,  one  half  of  it  being 
dispatched,  bnt  by  their  sufferings  they  are  disabled  from  going 
through  with  the  work.  Do  you  know  this  agent,  John  de  Kraino 
Krainsky  ?  What  is  become  of  Boguslaus  Cliylinski,i  who  had  a 
collection  in  both  Universities  and  elsewhere  for  the  like  purpose  ? 
How  does  the  design  of  the  Royal  Herring-Buss-Fishing^  pro- 

'  For  an  account  of  tliis  learned  Pole,  see  vol.  i.  p.  180, 

"  One  of  the  numerous  projects  which  were  formed  at  this  time  to  rival  the  Dutch 
in  their  herring  fishery.  "  The  false  estimates  that  were  long  current  of  the  extent 
aud  value  of  the  Dutch  herring  fishery  appear  to  have  generated,  on  this  side  the 
Channel,  the  most  exaggerated  ideas  of  the  importance  of  the  business.  '  It  has  given 
the  Dutch,'  said  Andrew  Yarranton  in  1681,  '  their  mighty  numbers  of  seamen,  their 
vast  fleets  of  ships,  and  a  foundation  for  all  their  other  trades.'  (England's  Improve- 
ment, 2nd  part,  p.  129. )i  And  it  is  affirmed  in  a  statement  said  (though,  perhaps,  on 
no  good  grounds)  to  have  been  drawn  up  by  Sir  Walter  Ealeigh,  for  the  information 
of  James  I.,  in  1618,  that  3,000  Dutch  vessels,  having  on  board  50,000  men  and  boys, 
were  then  employed  in  the  herring  fishery  on  the  coasts  of  Great  Britain,  and  that  no 
fewer  than  9,000  additional  vessels  and  150,000  'persons  more  are  employed  by  sea 
and  land,  to  make  provision  to  di-ess  and  transport  the  fish  they  take,  and  return 
commodities,  whereby  they  arc  enabled  and  do  build  yearly  1,000  ships  and  vessels, 
&c.'     (Raleigh's  works,  by  Birch,  i.  130.)      The  gross  exaggeration  of  this  statement, 


1661]  OF   DR.  WORTHINGTON.  75 

ceed,  for  which  we  had  a  collection  in  these  parts  ?  If  pursued 
closely  and  effectually,  it  may  employ  many  of  the  numerous 
swarm  of  poor. 

The  Lithuanian  translation  minds  me  of  what  you  sometime 
wrote  of  the  Armenian  translation  printing  in  Amsterdam.^    W  hen 

both  as  respects  the  number  of  vessels  and  the  number  of  hands  employed,  is  obvious. 
At  the  period  referred  to,  the  entire  population  of  the  United  Provinces  did  not  cer- 
tainly exceed  2,400,000  persons,  of  which  fully  a  half  may  be  set  apart  as  being,  from 
age,  youth,  &c,,  unfit  for  active  pursiiits  ;  and  to  suppose  that  a  sixth  part,  or  200,000 
persons,  of  the  remaining  portion  of  the  population,  including  females,  should  have  been 
engaged  in  the  herring  fishery  and  the  employments  immediately  connected  therewith, 
is  so  very  absurd,  that  one  is  astonished  it  should  have  been  believed  for  a  moment. 
Most  probably,  indeed,  it  never  would  have  obtained  much  currency,  but  for  the  cir- 
cumstauce  of  its  having  been  mtroduced  by  M.  Delaeourt  into  his  '  Memoirs  of  John 
de  Witt'  (p.  24,  Eng.  trans.),  which,  having  been  erroneously  ascribed  to  that  states- 
man (see  chapter  on  Miscellaneous  Works),  acquired  an  influence  and  authority  to 
which  they  were  not  really  entitled.  But,  though  vastly  exaggerated,  the  Dutch 
herring  fishery  far  exceeded  that  of  any  otlier  country ;  and  for  this  superiority  the 
Hollanders  were  indebted  to  the  skill  which  they  had  early  acquired  in  the  business  ; 
to  the  economy  with  which  all  their  operations  were  conducted,  which  made  Andrew 
Yarranton  say  that  'we  fish  intolerably  dear  and  the  Dutch  exceeding  cheap'  (ubi 
supra,  p.  131) ;  and  to  the  easy  access  afforded  by  the  great  rivers  that  traverse  their 
country  to  the  interior  of  Europe,  where  the  herrings  were  principally  disposed  of. 
The  English  had  no  similar  advantages  on  their  side  ;  and  the  use  of  fish  has  never 
been  popular  among  the  bulk  of  our  people.  Hence,  though  pamphlet  after  pamphlet 
was  written,  holdiag  out  the  example  of  the  Dutch,  and  calling  upon  the  public  to 
patronize  the  fishery  as  the  surest  means  of  increasing  the  national  wealth ;  though 
company  after  company  was  formed  for  its  encouragement ;  and  though  immense 
sums  were  lavished  upon  bounties  for  its  encouragement,  which  at  one  time  rose  to 
the  all  but  incredible  amount  of  £159  7s.  6d.  per  barrel  of  merchantable  fish  (Wealth 
of  Xations,  p.  231),  the  fishery  made  no  real  progress.  It  merely  dragged  out  a  sickly, 
miserable  existence ;  and  it  is  only  in  our  own  times,  and  since  it  was  left  to  depend 
on  its  own  resources,  that  it  has  become  of  importance."  —  M'Culloch's  Literature  of 
Pohtical  Economy,  1845,  8vo,  pp.  231-2. 

'  Which  finally  appeared  under  the  title  of  "BibUa  Armena  juxta  versionem  LXX. 
Interpretum,  jussu  Jacobi  Characteri  Armenorum  Proto-Patriarchae  adomata  et  edita 
studio  Oskau  Wartabied  (id.  est)  Episcopo  Yuschuaran  in  Armenia  de  Dominatione 
Persica,  juvante  Salomone  de  Leon,  ejus  Diacouo."  Amstelodami.  iEra  Armenorum 
1115,  Christi  1666,  4to.  The  Armenian  version  was  probably  made  by  Miesrob  about 
the  year  413  from  the  Septuagint,  but  the  Greek  text,  from  which  we  must  sujipose  it 
to  have  been  made,  does  not  agree  altogether  with  any  ous  of  our  recensions.      Some 


76  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1661 

you  first  heard  of  it,  it  could  not  but  beget  in  you  a  desire  to  know 
the  issue  of  it,  and  in  your  letters  to  Amsterdam  upon  other  occa- 
sions this  so  desirable  a  business  could  not  but  take  a  part.  The 
best  solicitudes  are  those  that  concern  the  most  important  good  of 
man ;  so  that  our  thirst  after  the  good  of  men  in  any  part  of  the 
world  will  engage  to  such  enquiry,  there  being  few  things  more 
worthy  of  our  notice-taking. 

In  some  former  letters  you  desired  me  to  give  you  a  catalogue 
of  the  renowned  Spenser's  works  unpublished. ^  I  made  the  best 
enquiry  to  find  the  intimations  of  them,  which  lay  scattered  at 
great  distances  in  the  epistles,  prefaces,  or  notes  of  his  works.  I 
think  about  fourteen  I  recounted  to  you.  And  you  told  me  you 
had  written  into  Ireland,  where  his  last  being  was.  I  suppose  by 
your  silence  that  you  could  never  get  any  satisfactory  answer. 
There  are  but  few  indeed  that  mind  anything  but  what  is  in  the 
road  to  profit.  You  could  not  but  have  been  desirous  to  know 
the  issue  of  that  paper  message,  and  to  see  your  dove  return  with 
an  olive  leaf,  or  a  laurel  leaf,  which  hath  a  peculiar  respect  to 
poets. 

I  hope  Mercator^  hath  restored  to  you  Venus  in  Sole  Visa.  I 
have  no  copy  of  it;  you  had  both  the  author's  drafts.  In  two  or 
three  years'  time  so  small  a  tract  might  have  been  written  out  by 
him,  and  it  might  have  been  published  by  this  time  had  he  not 
detained  it  in  his  hands. 

The  large  account  you  mention  that  you  received  from  Mr. 
Patrick  I  do  the  more  value  and  presume  to  be  considerable 
because  it  comes  from  him.  I  am  glad  that  you  are  making  the 
best  improvement  of  your  remaining  papers,  in  selecting  such  as 
are  most  memorable  and  digesting  them  into  some  general  heads. 
Quod  felix  faustumque  sit. 

critics  arc  of  opinion  that  the  Armenian  version  was  interpolated  in  the  sixth  century 
from  the  Syriac,  and  in  the  thirteenth  from  the  Latin  Vulgate.  It  is,  remarks  Dr.  A. 
Clarke  (Bib.  Diet.  vol.  i.  p.  279),  much  esteemed  among  the  critics. 

'  See  vol.  i.  p.  2G1. 

^  Mercator  and  Ilorrock*',  or  Ilorrox's,  A'cuus  in  Sole  Visa  is  noticed  vol.  i.  pp.  130-1 . 


166]]  OF  DR.  WORTHINGTON,  77 

There  is  lately  come  to  settle  in  London  one  Mr.  Spearing,^ 
B.D.,  Fellow  of  Queen's  College,  a  worthy  person,  well  known  to 
Mr.  Patrick.  Dr.  Reeves,^  now  Dean  of  Windsor  (being  his  kins- 
man) upon  his  resignation  of  the  Three-Cranes  Church  in  Thames 
street,  recommended  Mr.  Spearing  to  the  patron,  the  Bishop  of 
Worcester,^  who  hath  bestowed  it  upon  him. 

I  have  lately  seen  the  new  edition  of  Eusebius  by  Valesius ;  it 
is  a  fair  book.     I  wish  I  could  see  Josephus  in  the  like  happy  cir- 

1  This  was  James  Speeriug,  or  Spearing,  who  held  another  living  in  Essex,  and  died 
in  1672.  —  Kennet's  Kegister,  p.  570. 

-  Dr.  Bruno  Ryves,  who  is  now  principally  remembered  as  the  author  or  editor  of 
the  "  Mercurius  Rusticus,"  in  which  the  misdeeds  of  the  Presbyterians  and  Republi- 
cans, and  the  sufferings  of  the  clergy  at  the  time  of  the  Grand  Rebellion,  are  very 
particiilarly  chronicled.  It  was  originally  published  as  a  newspaper,  and  afterwards 
the  Alercuries  were  reprinted  m  one  volume,  of  which  several  editions  have  appeared. 
It  seems  to  have  formed  a  sort  of  groundwork  for  Walker's  "  Sufferings  of  the  Clergy." 
Ryves  was  himself  a  great  sufferer  under  Presbyterian  rule,  and  as  a  reward  for  his 
loyalty  and  recompense  for  his  losses  had  the  deanery  of  Windsor  conferred  on  him 
at  the  Restoration.  He  died  in  1677  at  the  advanced  age  of  81,  and  was  buried  in 
the  chapel  of  St.  George,  at  Windsor. 

^  Dr.  George  Morley,  who  had  been  promoted  to  the  bishopric  of  Worcester  shortly 
before.  Morley  is  too  well  known  as  the  adopted  son  of  Ben  Jonson,  the  friend  of 
Falkland,  Chillingworth  and  Waller,  as  the  divine  who  accompanied  the  brave  Lord 
Capel  to  the  scaffold,  as  the  loved  and  trusted  confidant  of  Hyde,  and  as  a  munificent 
benefactor  to  the  Church  of  which  he  was  an  ornament,  to  render  it  necessary  to  give 
any  extended  notice  of  him  here.  The  great  historical  painter  has  not  forgotten  him 
in  that  delightful  part  of  his  own  memoir  in  which  he  sketches  so  vividly  the  friends 
and  companions  of  his  earlier  years.  In  1662,  upon  the  death  of  Dr.  Duppa,  Morley 
was  translated  to  the  bishopric  of  Winchester.  He  died  in  1684,  having  attained 
to  a  good  old  age.  He  had  a  controversy  with  Baxter,  who,  excellent  man  that  he 
was,  (and  who  can  deny  his  surpassing  merits  ?)  could  only  Hve  in  that  atmosphere. 
The  Bishop  must  have  smiled  to  see  Baxter's  second  on  that  occasion,  Edward 
Bagshaw,  who  had  warmly  defended  him,  plunging  shortly  after  into  a  still  fiercer 
controversy  with  his  friend.  Bagshaw  began  with  attacking  the  tremendous  Busby, 
and  he  who  had  had  the  hardihood  to  meet  such  a  man  in  full  career  could  not 
be  expected  to  spare  either  Bishop  or  Presbyterian.  Still  in  all  his  pamphlets,  and 
Anthony  Wood  has  only  reckoned  haK  of  them  (the  editor  believes  he  has  the  whole), 
he  exhibits  a  purity  of  style  which  at  that  time  was  very  rare,  and  which  was  evi- 
dently formed  upon  an  intimate  acquaintance  with  the  best  classical  models.  He 
deserves,  and  his  singular  career  would  impart  great  interest  to,  a  fuller  biography 
than  has  yet  been  given  to  him. 


78  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1661 

cumstances,  or  the  long  expected  Hesychius.  But  I  can  only 
wish ;  it  is  in  the  power  of  others  to  do  more  if  they  were  not 
heart-bound  and  mere  self-lovers  and  self-seekers. 

These  are  all  the  particulars  which  come  now  into  my  mind ;  to 
which  I  shall  add  no  more  but  that  in  all  reality  I  am 

Yours  aflFectionately, 

Dec.  3,  1661.  J.[ohn]  W.[orthiugton.] 


S.  Hartlib  to  Dr.  Worthington. 
Worthy  Sir, 
Eater's  Camb.  I  had  lately  a  letter  of  27  Nov.  from  INIr.  Comenius,  where- 

red  to'p.  il'^'^  in  he  writes  as  foUoweth :  —  "O  Deus,  Deus,  in  quse  nos  tempera 
reservati !  Jussit  orare  Christus  ne  fuga  nostra  fieret  hyeme.  Isti 
vero  persecutores  nostri  data  opera  hoc  agere  videntur,  ut  fuga 
nostrorum  in  hyemem  incidat,  ubi  moutibus  et  nivibus  circum- 
clusi,  quo  se  vertaut  nescii,^  ad  apostasiam  facilius  propellantur. 

'  This  lamentation  of  Comenius  on  the  sufferings  of  the  unhappy  Bohemians,  as- 
sailed on  all  sides,  reminds  us  of  the  fine  lines  in  which  James  Montgomery  pictures 
the  pastor  leading  out  the  remnant  of  United  Brethren  from  the  land  of  their  sires  : 
"  — When  poor  Comenius,  with  his  little  flock. 

Escaped  the  wolves,  and  from  the  boundary  rock. 

Cast  o'er  Moravian  hills  a  look  of  woe, 

Saw  the  green  vales  expand,  the  waters  flow, 

And  happier  years  revolving  in  his  mind, 

Caught  every  sound  that  murmur'd  on  the  wind  ; 

As  if  his  eye  could  never  thence  depart, 

As  if  his  ear  were  seated  in  his  heart. 

And  his  full  soul  would  thence  a  passage  break. 

To  leave  the  body,  for  his  country's  sake ; 

While  on  his  knees  he  pour'd  the  fervent  prayer, 

That  God  would  make  that  raartyr-land  his  care. 

And  nourish  in  its  ravaged  soil  a  root 

Of  Gregor's  Tree,  to  bear  perennial  fruit. 

nis  prayer  was  heard :  —  that  Chiuch,  through  ages  past, 

Assail'd  and  rent  by  persecution's  blast ; 


1661]  OF   DR.  WORTHINGTON.  79 

Valde  illorum  causa  sollicitus  sum,  dum  Csesareanis  Provinciis  ita 
circumdatos  "vddeo,  ut  sub  alicujus  Protestantis  Principis  protec- 
tionem  sese  dare  nimis  longinquum  sit,  nee  forte  per  insidiatores 
et  viarum  obsessores  licebit.  Deus  misereatur,  viamq.,  per  invia 
ostendat,  ne  quis  ei  confessus  reperiatur  confusus.  Ameu."  You 
see  tlie  very  sad  condition  of  tbose  Protestants.  Of  the  last  col- 
lection which  was  made  for  those  Bohemian  Protestants  in  Eng- 
land, there  were  left  yet  i?900  in  the  hands  of  the  treasurers 
undisposed,  which  should  have  been  made  over  unto  them  by  the 
trustees  for  that  purpose.  But  they  have  been  forbidden  to 
meddle  further  with  those  moneys  with  a  promise  that  the  whole 
sum  should  be  made  over  by  his  majesty's  order.     The  business 


Whose  sons  no  yote  could  crush,  no  burtlien  tu-e, 

TJnawed  by  dungeons,  tortures,  sword,  and  fire, 

(Less  proof  against  the  world's  alluring  wiles. 

Whose  frowns  have  weaker  terrors  than  its  smiles  ;) 

— That  Church  o'erthrowu,  dispersed,  unpeopled,  dead. 

Oft  from  the  dust  of  ruin  raised  her  head, 

And  rallying  round  her  feet,  as  from  their  graves. 

Her  exiled  orphans  hid  in  forest-caves ; 

Where,  midst  the  fastnesses  of  rocks  and  glens. 

Banded  like  robbers,  stealing  from  their  dens, 

By  night  they  met,  their  holiest  vows  fy)  pay, 

As  if  their  deeds  were  dark,  and  shunn'd  the  day ; 

Wlule  Christ's  revilers,  in  his  seamless  robe, 

And  parted  garments,  flaunted  roimd  the  globe ; 

From  east  to  west  while  priestcraft's  banners  flew. 

And  harness'd  kings  his  iron  chariot  drew  : 

— That  Church  advanced,  triumphant,  o'er  the  ground, 

Where  aU  her  conquering  martyrs  had  been  crown'd. 

Fearless  her  foe's  whole  malice  to  defy, 

And  worship  God  in  liberty,  —  or  die  : 

For  truth  and  conscience  oft  she  pour'd  her  blood. 

And  firmest  in  the  fiercest  conflicts  stood, 

Wresting  from  bigotry  the  proud  controul 

Claim'd  o'er  the  sacred  empire  of  the  sold, 

Where  God,  the  judge  of  all,  should  fill  the  throne, 

And  reign,  as  in  his  universe,  alone." 

(Montgomery's  Crreenland,  edit.  1850,  p.  73-4.) 


80  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1661 

lies  with  my  Lord  C.[larendon],  but  it  is  so  much  delayed  that  last 
week  I  received  another  petition  with  a  letter  to  the  Earl  of 
Anglesea,  who  is  my  very  special  good  lord.  I  have  made  appli- 
cation to  him  about  it.  When  it  is  done,  I  shall  not  fail,  God 
willing,  to  give  you  notice  of  it.  Mr.  Dury  writes  from  Frankfort 
as  followeth :  —  "As  for  my  affairs,  they  are  in  a  hopeful  way  of 
progress.^  For  the  Elector  of  Brandenbui'g  and  the  Landgrave  of 
Hesse  are  fallen  upon  a  way  to  engage  the  Lutheran  Princes  to 
concur  in  the  work,  and  I  with  the  advice  of  the  Divines  of  Cleve 
am  fallen  upon  another  way  to  deal  with  the  Lutheran  Divines. 
They  have  signed  the  Councils  whereupon  we  are  agreed,  and  give 
me  authority  in  their  name  to  propose  them  unto  others,  which  I 
am  preparing  to  do,  but  before  I  begin  I  intend  to  take  advice  also 
at  Cassel.  The  Princes  will  deal  with  the  Princes  of  the  Lutheran 
party,  and  those  with  their  Universities,  to  bring  them  to  some 
amicable  conference,  according  to  the  example  given  this  year  at 
CasseP  between  the  Divines  at  Rintelen  and  Marpurg.  And  I 
suppose  my  way  of  dealing  will  be  with  the  Divines  who  are  not 
subordinate  unto  the  Universities,  but  depend  upon  inferior  magis- 
trates, as  in  the  free  cities  and  countries,  who  have  Superintendents, 
that  with  the  permission  of  their  superiors  I  may  deal  with  them 
and  oblige  them  to  declare  their  sense  of  that  which  I  (God  will- 
ing) shall  propose  unto  them ;  whereof  the  particulars  in  due  time 
may  be  imparted  unto  you  if  God  continue  your  life  and  put  you 
in  a  state  able  to  make  use  thereof  for  a  public  good.^   I  would  be 

*  Happy  was  it  for  Dury  that  to  his  sanguine  temper  his  great  work  of  pacification 
seemed  always  in  a  hopeful  way  of  progress.  The  star  he  followed  ever  shone  brightly 
to  his  sight,  though  to  all  other  eyes  the  horizon  seemed  as  dark  as  Erebus. 

"  A  relation  of  this  conference  is  given  in  Dury's  Ircuicorum  Tractatuum  Prodromus. 
Amst.  1662,  r2mo,  pp.  520-534. 

^  Whatever  may  be  thought  of  his  knowledge  of  the  world,  or  the  judgment  with 
which  his  plans  of  comprehension  and  pacification  were  constructed,  or  his  talent  for 
dealing  with  the  difiicidt  circumstances  in  which  he  was  placed,  it  is  impossible  not  to 
admire  Dury's  irrepressible  ardour  and  determined  perseverance  in  pursuit  of  his  holy 
object.  Nothing  could  bafllc  or  dispirit  him.  From  country  to  country  he  passed  on 
his  noble-minded  mission,  and  the  failure  of  one  day  was  forgotten  in  the  expectations 


1661]  OF  DU.   WORTHINGTOX.  81 

glad  to  hear  that  matters  were  well  settled  in  Euglaudj  and  tliat 
your  health  and  other  allowances  were  restored  unto  you,  which  I 
beseech  the  Lord  to  grant  in  due  time,  when  it  shall  be  most  for 
your  comfort  and  his  glory.  To  his  fatherly  care  and  mercies  I 
commend  you."     The  letter  is  dated  Nov.  yv,  1661.    Thus  I  rest. 

Worthy  Sir, 

Your  faithful,  &c., 
Dec.  3,  1661.  S.[amuel]  H.[artlib.] 


S.  Hartlib  to  Dr.  Worthington. 
Sir, 

Last  week  I  received  from  vou  no  letter  at  all ;  but  I  ?,%^|'"'^  ^^f^- 

"  '  iSloa-  as  reier- 

had  a  letter  again  from  Mr.  Comenius  in  these  words  :  —  "  Quid  ^^'^  ^°  p-  ^^• 
agitur,  obsecro  ?  Quid  vivis  ?  Quid  vales  ?  Solusne  tuus  vesicse 
calculus  tam  pertinaciter  obsidet,  ut  ne  quidem  illi  medicinse  qua 
hie  (Amstelodami)  miracula  patrari  dicuntur,  cedat !  Quse  heec 
inveterati  mali  ^ds?  De  te,  deq^  collecta  nostra  laetiora  audire 
gestimus,  augescentibus  apud  nos  malis.  In  Polonia  denuo  perse- 
cutiones  recrudescunt.  Deus  miserere  !  et  fac  ut  Rex  quoq^ 
Anglise  nostri  misereatur.  Ecquid  autem  spei !  vel  saltem,  per 
illam  viam  quam  ostendisti,  Dominum  Comitem  de  Anglesey  ? 
Yeneruntne  recte  ad  ilium  datfe  ?  una  cum  novo  ad  Regiam 
]\lajestatem  supplice  Libello  I     Quaso  doce,  et  aliquo  bono  recrea 

of  the  next.  There  was  not  a  prince  in  Eui'ope  who  could  aid  him  in  his  object  that 
he  omitted  to  see ;  there  was  not  a  theologian  of  eminence  from  Hall  and  Davenaut 
to  Hottinger  and  Spanheim,  whose  assistance  he  did  not  endeavour  to  secure.  One 
is  glad  to  find  that,  after  undergoing  toils  and  troubles  innumerable,  the  kind-hearted 
Landgravine  of  Hesse  provided  a  secure  retreat  for  him  at  Cassel  in  his  advanced  old 
age,  and  that,  notwithstanding  aU  his  disasters  and  that  he  had  utterly  failed  in  his 
endeavours  to  imite  any  differing  sections  of  Protestants,  the  good  man's  last  thoughts 
were  fixed  on  a  still  more  magnificent  scheme  of  bringing  together  iato  one  fold  all 
denominations  of  Christians,  by  propounding  to  them,  what  he  thought  certain  to  ac- 
compHsh  the  object,  his  own.  new  exposition  of  the  Apocalypse ! 

VOL.  II.  AI 


82  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1661 

auutio.  Amen.  E  Borussia  de  Moscoruni  clade^  mira  adferuntur : 
misera  gens,  Moscovitse,  ad  plagas  nati,  nil  nisi  plagas  accipere 
assueti  ad  incitas  rediguntur.  Gens  ignavissima,  stupidissiraa,  sed 
ita  sunt  judicia  nunc  Dei ;  [ejus]  est  terere  regna  regnis,  et  popu- 
los  populis,  ut  noster  denuo  qusedam  submittens  mirari  continuat 
Drabicius,  quern  Deus  in  faucibus  hostium  illeesum  conservat 
mirabiliter.  Turcicum  bellum  recrudescet  anno  vertente,  minatur 
cuim  ob  fractam  pacem,  binoq-,  exercitu  in  se  ac  terras  suas  factum 
irapetum.  Nisi  Persa  impediverit  redibit  cum  furore.  Nunc  in 
Transylvania  res  suas  stabilivit,  introducto  (ac  recepto)  Principe 
novo  Michaele  Abaffi,  paupere  quidem  Nobili,  sed  ex  antiqua 
stirpe  et  prudente  (ut  scribunt)  annorum  triginta  et  aliquot. 
Remisit  eis  Turca  quinquennale  tributum,  tantundem  otium  pro- 
raisit,  si  constantes  fuerint.  Kemeiri  Janusb  ejectus,  a  suis 
dcsertus,  fugit  ad  Ragocium  Juniorem  Patakum  usq,.  Caesareanus'^ 
exercitus  mire  adtritus  (fame,  peste,  nuditate)  redit.  Ah  !  quan- 
tos  gentium  motus !  Orandum  est,  ut  qui  orbi  prsesidet,  ita 
turbines  ejus  teraperet,  ut  saluti  cedant  Ecclesise.^'  The  letter  is 
dated  Dec.  2,  1661. 

From  Paris  they  write  22  Nov.  as  followeth  :  —  "  The  Jansenists 
run  great  danger  of  being  ruined  in  this  kingdom  of  France,  the 

'  "The  great  victory  obtained  by  the  Polish  army  against  the  Muscovites  is  daily 
confirmed  and  enlarged,  it  being  said  that  the  rest  of  the  Muscovites,  who  thought  to 
save  themselves  by  flight,  were  met  by  a  party  of  Tartars,  who  put  them  all  to  the 
sword.  The  Confederate  army  in  Poland  continue  stUl  in  their  rebellion. — Dantzick." 
"  Our  army  hath  taken  from  the  enemy  above  four  hundred  colours  in  the  late  en- 
counter, and  hath  slain  a  great  number  of  Muscovites.  —  Kcydon  in  Lithuania." 
—  Mercurius  Publicus  of  the  12th  Dec,  1661. 

2  "  Vienna,  16th  Nov.  Letters  from  Transilvania  to  his  Imperial  Slajesty  import 
that  the  Lord  Field-Marshal  Montecuculi,  for  want  of  provision  and  by  reason  of  a 
number  of  sick  men,  hath  been  forced  to  retire  with  his  whole  army  for  Tockhay. 
The  Turks,  by  the  means  of  some  treacherous  boors,  have  found  a  passage  into  the 
province  of  the  Seckliers,  by  whom,  by  a  sudden  and  unexpected  surprizal,  they  were 
forced  to  submit  and  acknowledge  the  new  Prince  Abassi,  with  whom  All  Bashaw 
hath  left  part  of  his  army,  and  himself  is  gone  with  the  rest  to  Temeswar  and  Greek 
Weistenburgh  into  their  winter  quarters."  —  Merciirius  Publicus  of  Dec.  5th,  1661. 


1661]  OF   DR.   WORTHI.NGTOX.  83 

Pope^  having  sent  a  Bull  obliging  them  to  sign  a  Formal  that  is 
altogether  contrary  to  them.  jNIany  of  them  are  resolved  to  quit 
all  and  to  depart  their  country  rather  than  subscribe."  Thus  the 
letter.  Just  now  I  received  your  last  of  Dec.  2.  I  have  more  of 
Mr.  BeaFs  Mnemonical  design,  but  must  not  overburden  you. 
He  is  Minister  at  Yeovil  in  Somersetshire,  and  a  most  active  soul. 
I  know  very  few  like  him  in  the  whole  kingdom.  "  If  my  business 
(saith  he  in  his  last  of  Nov.  30)  had  given  me  any  leisure,  I  had 
given  some  satisfaction  to  you.  Three  funeral  sermons  I  preached 
this  week,  on  Tuesday,  Thursday,  and  this  day.  And  now 
I  prepare  for  the  great  and  more  than  ordinary  business  of  the 
Lord's  day  to-morrow.''  And  in  another  letter  thus  :  —  "  From 
your  last  I  have  a  double  trouble,  at  the  loss  of  your  precious 
papers,  lest  they  should  fall  into  the  hands  of  malice  and  calumny. 
For  that  reason  we  lost  the  labours  not  only  of  Mr.  Hales,^  who 
abhorred  the  perils  of  scribbling,  but  others  the  ablest  that  ever 
were  born.  For  it  is  an  impregnable  dilemma,  that  it  is  no  better 
than  actum  agere  to  write  what  others  do  write  or  know  or  believe. 
And  it  is  a  bold  kind  of  madness  to  write  that  which  others  do  not 
believe.  It  hath  oftentimes  tempted  me  to  set  fire  to  a  whole  ton 
of  papers  (for  I  am  become  as  voluminous  as  Tostatus,^  sometimes 

'  Pope  Alexander  Yll.  had  declared,  by  a  solemn  bull  issued  in  1656,  that  the  five 
propositions  which  bad  been  condemned  were  the  tenets  of  Jansenius,  and  were  con- 
tained in  his  book.  The  pontiff  was  now  following  up  his  bull  by  requiring  a  decla- 
ration to  be  subscribed  by  all  those  who  aspired  to  any  preferment  in  the  Church,  in 
which  it  was  affirmed  that  the  five  propositions  were  to  be  found  in  the  book  of  Jan- 
senius in  the  same  sense  in  which  they  had  been  condemned  by  the  Church. 

"  For  a  notice  of  the  ever  memorable  John  Hales,  see  vol.  i.  p.  183.  Bishop  Pear- 
son, in  the  preface  to  his  "  Remains,"  remarks  :  "  While  he  lived,  none  was  ever  more 
solicited  and  urged  to  write,  and  thereby  truly  to  teach  the  world,  than  he;  none  ever 
80  resolved,  pardon  the  expression,  so  obstinate  against  it.  His  facQe  and  courteous 
nature  learnt  only  not  to  yield  to  that  solicitation ;"  and  Farindon  observes  in  his 
letter  which  follows  :  "  I  have  drawn  in  my  mind  the  model  of  his  life,  but  I  am  like 
Mr.  Hales  in  this,  which  was  one  of  his  defects,  not  to  pen  anything  till  I  must 
needs."  —  Remains,  1688,  8vo.  < 

^  Alphonsus  Tostatus,  the  Spaniard,  the  prodigy  of  human  diligence,  who  read 


84  DIARY   AND  CORRKSPONDENCK  [1661 

almost  a  quire  in  a  day)  or  if  I  do  reserve  my  scribblings,  it  shall 
be  for  a  following  age/^  Dated  Nov.  14,  1661.  I  cannot  tell 
whether  I  shall  find  Dr.  More's  letters^  written  to  me  or  not,  but 
if  he  hath  a  mind  to  publish  any  of  them,  when  God  gives  me  any 
lucida  intervalla,  I  will  look  for  them.  The  receipt  for  a  tertian 
ague  is  not  now  in  my  power,  the  gentleman  (one  Colhaus)  retiring 
himself  into  the  country  till  he  hath  learnt  English.  Hereafter, 
God  willing,  I  may  obtain  both  it  and  some  other  observations 
about  Vasa  Chylifera,  which  Dr.  Bartholinus^  of  Denmark  doth 

everything  and  never  forgot  anything  that  he  had  read,  —  who,  occupied  in  incessant 
public  duties,  which  of  themselves  would  seem  sufficient  to  engross  his  entire  atten- 
tion, yet  found  time,  dying  at  the  age  of  40,  to  leave  behind  him  writings  which 
now  fill  twenty-seven  folios,  and  would  have  filled  as  many  more,  if  a  large  portion 
had  not  been  lost  at  sea.     His  well-known  epitaph, 

"  Hie  stupor  est  mundi  qui  scibile  discutit  omne," 
is  only  a  literal  truth.  Nor  let  it  be  supposed  that  his  folios  are  a  dry  and  sterile  ex- 
panse, without  a  refreshing  spring  to  cheer  the  wearied  traveller.  The  present  writer 
has  frequently  consulted  them,  and  never  without  admiring  the  knowledge  of  anti- 
quity, the  sound  theological  views  on  many  points  on  which  he  was  clearly  in  advance 
of  his  age,  and  the  vast  variety  of  illustration  which  they  display.  In  his  works  a 
vigorous  and  perspicacious  intellect  shines  upon  us  through  all  the  rude  inelegance  of 
his  style.  No  one  appreciated  him  more  highly  than  Isaac  Casaubon,  always  a  fair 
critic,  and  whose  suffrage  is  never  given  without  sufficient  grounds.  "  Tostati  acumen 
placet ;  viri,  si  in  meliora  ssecula  incidissct,  longe  maxime." —  (Exercitat.  in  Baronium, 
p.  25.)  After  such  an  attestation,  little  attention  needs  to  be  paid  to  the  unfavour- 
able judgment  of  Walchius  (Bib.  Theol.  vol.  iv.  p.  449),  which  would  seem,  like  many 
of  his  criticisms,  to  have  been  founded  on  a  very  superficial  knowledge  of  the  author 
on  whom  he  passes  his  opinion. 

'  The  letters  from  Dr.  Henry  More  to  Hartlib  have  never  been  published,  and  it 
may  be  doubted  whether  they  are  now  in  existence. 

-  Thomas  Bartholinus,  one  of  the  most  learned  and  celebrated  physicians  of  the 
seventeeth  century.  A  life  of  him  and  list  of  his  works,  which  have  never  been 
published  in  a  collected  form,  will  be  found  in  Niceron,  vol.  vi.  p.  131.  He  was  born 
at  Copenhagen  in  1616,  and  died  there  in  1680.  In  addition  to  profound  skill  in  his 
own  profession,  his  acquirements  in  philology  and  general  literature  were  most  ex- 
tensive, and  his  opinion  on  all  critical  questions  was  regarded  with  the  highest  respect 
by  the  greatest  scholars  of  his  day.  He  seems  to  have  possessed  much  in  common 
with  a  famous  jihysician  and  author  of  our  own.  Sir  Thomas  Brown,  Bartholinus 
had  the  same  partiality  for  singular  topics  and  novel  disquisition,  the  same  ardour  of 
enquiry,  the  same  range  of  various  erudition,  the  same  candour,  good  sense,  and  re- 


1661]  Of  OR.   WORTHINGTOX.  85 

very  highly  approve.  ]\Ir.  Wood  wrote  me  a  kind  and  gratifying 
answer  to  two  or  three  letters,  but  he  says  nothing  of  them  but 
that  he  received  them  before  his  last  sickness.  When  I  write 
again,  I  shall,  God  willing,  put  him  in  mind  of  this  particular.  I 
know  John  Krainsky  the  Deputy  of  Lithuania  hath  obtained  a 
patent  for  the  relief  of  the  oppressed  Protestants  in  that  great 
Dukedom.  But  by  my  former  letter  you  will  see  what  reason  Mr. 
Comenius  hath  to  supplicate  his  INIajesty  for  the  remainder  of 
those  moneys  which  hath  been  collected  for  the  distressed  Polo- 
nians,  Moravians,  Bohemians,  and  Hungarians.  The  Lithuanian 
language^  is  of  no  great  extent,  which  makes  me  wonder  so  much 

ligious  feeling,  and  the  same  marked  peciJiarity  and  mannerism  of  style.  There  are 
frequently  veins  of  thought  and  striking  traits  of  language  in  his  numerous  works 
which  bring  to  mind,  but  it  must  be  confessed  without  his  grander  and  more  imagi- 
native characteristics,  the  solemn  and  original  author  of  the  "  Urn  burial."  It  is 
perhaps  from  these  features,  the  subjects  on  which  he  writes,  and  the  wide  range  he 
traverses,  that  he  may  still  be  taken  up  with  more  interest  than  any  other  medical 
author  of  his  time.  His  treatises  —  De  Latere  Christi,  1646,  12mo,  De  Luce  Anima- 
lium,  1647,  12mo,  De  Cruce  Christi,  1651,  12mo,  De  !Xivis  usu  Medico,  1661,  12mo, 
Epistoltfi  Medicinales,  1663-7,  4  vols.  12mo,  De  Cometa  Consilium  Medicum,  1665, 
12mo,  De  Peregrinatione  Medica,  1674,  4to,  De  Libris  Legendis,  1676,  12mo,  De 
Sanguine  Yetito,  1673,  12mo,  De  Morbis  Biblicis,  1672,  12mo,  De  Transplantatione 
Morborum,  1673, 12mo,  —  are  all,  as  I  can  testify  from  attentive  and  amply  rewarded 
perusal,  full  of  curious  and  entertaining  matter,  —  matter  to  which  the  diction,  which 
is  quite  his  own,  lends  an  additional  attraction.  A  peculiar  interest  attaches  to  his 
tract,  De  Bibliothecis  Incendio  ad  filios,  1670,  12mo,  written  on  the  lamentable  loss  of 
his  fine  library  of  books  and  manuscripts  by  fire,  and  which  it  is  impossible  to  read 
without  admiring  the  equal  temper  and  lofty  philosophy  which  it  displays.  Every 
one  who  has  sustained  a  similar  loss,  whether  by  the  same  cause  or  a  reverse  of  for- 
tune, may  derive  consolation  from  this  admirable  tract,  which  gives  a  most  impressive 
picture  of  its  excellent  author ;  and  those  who  are  induced,  by  reading  it,  to  cultivate 
a  knowledge  of  his  other  productions,  wiU  find  none  of  them  (even  the  works  which 
are  written  upon  medical  theories,  now  exploded)  from  which  they  may  not  carry 
away  pregnant  words,  striking  passages  and  illustrations,  new,  ingenious,  and  pro- 
found. 

^  This  dialect  has  no  literature  except  the  statute  or  code  of  laws  of  Lithuania, 
published  in  the  sixteenth  century,  and  the  official  records  of  that  coimtry  till  the 
middle  of  the  seventeenth  century,  when  it  was  superseded  by  the  Polonian  language. 
The  Lithuanian  is  quite  difterent  from  the  Moscovite  or  modern  Kussian.  It  is  a 
dialect  called  generally  that  of  White  Russia, 


86  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1661 

the  more  at  the  trauslation  of  it,  the  Polonian  being  the  more 
general  and  ordinary  language  amongst  them,  especially  of  the 
better  sort  of  countrymen,  merchants,  gentlemen,  and  noblemen. 
But  not  Krainsky,  but  one  Chilinsky  is  the  principal  actor  in  that 
affair,  who  is  lately  returned  into  England  to  prosecute  that  busi- 
ness, being  a  professed  Lithuanian.  I  know  Krainsky,  he  was 
once  with  me,  but  I  never  could  see  him  any  more.  Mr.  Dury, 
while  he  was  in  England,  conversed  often  with  him.  The  other, 
Chilinsky,  hath  printed  part  of  his  translation,  which  was  in  a 
fair  but  small  character ;  so  much  as  was  done  in  it  was  presented 
to  his  Majesty. 

The  Royal  Herring-buss  proceeds  very  well,  and  last  Sabbath 
day  public  collections  were  made  in  all  the  Churches  of  London 
to  carry  on  that  design.  It  will,  as  you  write,  employ  many  of  the 
numerous  swarm  of  the  poor. 

Upon  your  mention  again  of  the  Armenian  translation,  I  pur- 
pose, God  willing,  to  write  once  more  to  have  a  categorical  answer 
from  Amsterdam.  Mr.  Comenius's  son-in-law  (Mr.  Figulus)'  was 
the  prime  author  that  wrote  of  it,  but  he  is  now  at  Dantzig,  else  I 
should  have  had  a  punctual  account  of  that  business  before  this 
time.  I  never  received  any  answer  out  of  Ireland  concerning 
Spenser's  works,  but  I  purpose,  God  willing,  to  try  once  more,  as 
I  said  before.  Mr.  Mercator  being  so  mainly  employed  in  the  new 
English  Encyclopedia,  of  which  no  doubt  you  have  heard,  a  full 
body  of  fortification  -p-  it  will  shortly  be  done,  and  then  I  hope  I 
shall  give  you  a  better  account  of  Venus  in  Sole,  &c.  I  sent  by 
carrier  the  large  account  which  I  had  from  Mr.  Patrick ;  I  hope  it 
is  in  your  hand  before  this  time.     If  my  health  by  God's  blessing 

'  See  an  account  of  him,  vol.  i.  p.  156, 

2  In  the  list  of  the  works  of  this  eminent  astronomer  and  mathematician  there  does 
not  appear  to  be  any  encyclopedia  or  treatise  on  fortification.  He  was  now  employed 
on  his  "  Hypothesis  Astronomica  Nova,"  which  was  published  at  London  in  1664, 
foHo.  His  reputation  at  the  present  day  rests  mainly  on  his  "  Logarithniotechnia 
sive  Methodus  coustrucndi  Logarithmos  nova,"  Lond.  4to,  in  which  he  struck  out  an 
improvement  in  the  construction  of  logarithms. 


1661]  OF   DK.   WORTHINGTON.  87 

be  restored,  I  shall  endeavour  to  make  the  best  improvement  of 
my  remaining  papers ;  but  now  I  have  no  time,  nor  will  my  health 
serve  at  all  for  such  labours.  I  shall  write  to  Mr.  Patrick  of  Mr. 
Spearing's  coming  to  London,  which  I  know  he  will  be  very  glad 
of.  I  am  glad  you  have  seen  the  new  edition  of  Eusebius.  I 
have  entreated  Mr.  Oldenbiirg  to  write  eifectually  both  into  the 
Low  Countries  and  into  France  about  Josephus.  Though  he 
writes  weekly,  yet  he  can  give  me  no  account  to  this  present.  I 
can  hear  nothing  more  of  Hesychius.  I  can  only  wish  and  write; 
but  it  is  in  the  power  of  others,  as  you  say,  to  do  more.  Yea,  so 
far  am  I  from  being  encouraged  in  my  great  laboui's  for  the  pub- 
lic, that  most  of  my  friends  do  blame  me  for  not  minding  better 
my  privacies.  But  the  Lord,  Avhom  I  serve  in  all  his  occasions 
and  providences,  is  faithful,  who  will  not  leave  me  nor  forsake  me. 
He  can  take  me  to  himself,  and  leave  the  world  to  weary  them- 
selves in  their  many  privacies.  But,  O  my  soul,  enter  not  thou 
in  their  secrets,  which  is  the  unfeigned,  continual  desire  of  him 
who  subscribes  himself  ever, 

Sir, 
Your  very  affectionate,  &c. 
Dec.  7,  1661.  Sam.  Hartlib,  Sen. 


Dr.  Worthington  to  S.  Hartlib. 


Sir, 


Yours  of  Dec.  3  I  received,  which  begins  with  sad  passages  worthingjton'a 
of  Mr.  Comenius  his  letter.      I  sympathise  with  their  sufferings,  p.  304. 
But  I  fear  that   he  and  others  have  cause  to  be  humbled  for 
their  too  much  glorying  in  the  late  King  of  Sweden,^  and  owning 

^  In  the  first  edition  of  "  Lux  in  Tenebris,"  published  in  1657,  4to,  occurs  a  pro- 
phecy of  Drabicius  (p.  96),  of  two  heroes  who  were  to  arise  and  perform  wonders, 
"per  hos  glorificabor  in  nationibus  Terrae  et  efi'undam  super  eos  eorumque  posteros 
in  facie  Terrse,  oleum  benedictionis  mese.     Et  murus  mens  igneus  proteget  eos  ab 


88  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1661 

his  invasion  of  Poland;  being  transported  with  his  strange  suc- 
cesses at  firstj  which  were  afterwards  as  strangely  dashed;  and 
comparing  him  to  Moses  and  Joshua,  as  if  he  had  by  as  good 
authority  from  heaven  gone  on  to  make  wars  with  other  nations  as 
they  did.  These  and  other  considerations  arising  from  some  pas- 
sages in  his  panegyric  to  Gustavus,  make  me  think  that  they 
might  have  borne  their  sufferings  with  more  peace  if  they  had 

hostibus.  Vo9  autem  Duo  dilecti  milii  eritis  a  latere  ipsorum  ut  Josue  et  Caleb." 
Drabicius  understands  these  two  mighty  champions  of  the  Church,  who  are  to  be  at- 
tended by  success  in  all  their  efforts,  to  refer  to  the  two  sons  of  Prince  Eagotski,  or 
Eacoczi,  George  and  Sigismund.  Upon  which  Comenius,  who  apparently  thought 
that  Drabicius  was  outstepping  his  province,  which  was  to  prophesy,  but  his  to  inter- 
pret, observes  (p.  97),  that  as  Sigismund  was  dead,  which  the  prophet  did  not  know 
(quod  ignorabat  adhuc  Videns),  and  one  of  the  two  was  in  a  German  dress,  the  pro- 
phet was  clearly  mistaken  (palam  est  ilium  opinione  sua  hie  fuisse  falsum).  So  far 
Comenius  was  safe  enough.  Nothing  could  be  more  certain  than  that  a  dead  prince 
woiild  not  do  for  a  living  champion.  Comenius,  unfortunately  for  his  character  as 
an  interpreter  of  prophecy,  goes  on  in  the  most  decided  terms  to  declare  Charles 
Gustavus,  king  of  Sweden,  and  George  Eagotski,  who  were  at  this  time  (1656)  allies, 
to  be  the  two  wonder-working  agents  referred  to  by  the  prophecy.  Upon  this  hint, 
Drabicius,  in  his  subsequent  revelations,  prophesies  a  glorious  career  for  the  King  of 
Sweden  (Eex  Swecise  ibit  feliciter  —  me  illius  opera  uti  velle  eo,  quo  usus  sum  Josue 
et  Calebi  Ezechife  et  Josife  ad  renovandum  purum  cultum  meum).  When  all  these 
ghttering  prospects  had  "melted  into  thin  air"  by  the  disasters  and  death  of 
Charles  Gustavus,  Comenius,  in  the  enlarged  edition  of  Lux  in  Tenebris,  published 
in  1665,  4to,  is  obliged  to  add  to  the  words  before  quoted  in  reference  to  Drabicius 
("palam  est  ilium  opinione  sua  hie  fuisse  falsum")  " Aimon  et  nos,  post  septennium 
deinde  ?  Cum  Georgius  Eacoci  Carolo  Gustavo  Palatino,  Swecia;  Eegi  junxisset  ? 
Plane  pcrsuasi  fiiimus  illos  ipsos  esse  Josuam  ct  Calebum  electos  Dei  hac  revelatione 
exhibitos.  Quid  ergo  jam  dicemus  ?  An  conditionatam  fuisse  promissionem  vel 
potius  expectandam  adhuc  veram  impletiouem  a  succcssoribus  eorum."  To  such 
miserable  shifts  was  the  poor  interpreter  reduced.  His  prophet,  however,  has  finally 
to  bear  the  brunt.  Comenius  takes  him  to  task,  and  rates  him  in  good  set  terms 
(scrips!  ad  Drabicium  acriter,  p.  370).  The  prophet  writes  a  lamentable  letter  in 
reply  (Eescripsit  ad  hfec  lamentabiliter,  p.  371).  Comenius  is  still  more  bitter  (ad 
hcec  ego  iterum  majori  etiam  amaritudine,  p.  372).  The  prophet  rejoins  by  such 
solemn  appeals  and  assurances  as  seem  ultimately  to  have  satisfied  his  honest  and 
well-meaning,  but  credulous  translator  and  interpreter,  who,  by  Avay  of  atonement, 
comes  out  with  a  new  edition  in  a  very  thick  volume  of  the  Lux  in  Tenebris,  in  which 
and  the  continuation  Drabicius's  revelations  are  carried  on  to  November,  1667,  when 
they  cease. 


1661]  OF  DR.  WORTHINGTON.  89 

kept  themselves  pure  from  this  spot.  I  should  be  glad  to  hear 
they  had  the  relief  designed  for  them.  I  wish  his  petition  a 
fair  acceptance.  Your  letter  of  Dec.  7  I  also  received,  which 
relates  the  same  tragical  matter.  God  grant  a  gracious  issue,  and 
fit  them  for  it.  Mr.  Beal's  dilemma  doth  not  hinder  some  from 
adventuring  to  do  good  to  the  world,  though  the  world  may 
not  befriend  its  benefactors,  but  treat  them  ill  for  their  best 
of  charities.  Bona  agere,  et  mala  pati,  regium  est.  We  must  be 
so  charitable  as  to  do  men  good  against  their  will,  and  not  let 
them  lie  in  the  dirt,  though  they  complain  and  are  angry  with. 
those  that  would  help  them  out.  In  dispensable  and  speculative 
notions  it  is  not  tanti,  nor  always  so  advisable,  to  engage  so  far  as 
to  disquiet  men  or  to  excite  their  passion ;  but  to  engage  in  such 
discourses  as  tend  to  clear  and  confirm  those  truths  that  are  most 
essential  and  fundamental  to  the  happiness  of  mankind,  such  as 
tend  to  -vindicate  the  attributes  of  God  and  solve  the  phenomena 
of  Pro\idence,  and  rescue  Christian  religion  from  what  hath  hin- 
dered its  growth  and  stained  its  native  excellencies  and  done  it  so 
much  disservice  in  the  world  —  for  a  man  publicly  to  engage  here- 
in is  an  argument  of  an  heroic  spirit,  ennobled  and  raised  above 
the  hopes  and  fears  of  this  world,  and  possessed  with  a  great  sense 
of  the  interest  of  the  Avorld  to  come.  This  is  indeed  the  true 
Instauratio  Magna,  infinitely  above  the  knowledge  of  external 
nature  or  unheard  of  curiosities.  Such  discourses  cannot  be  so 
well  spared;  as  for  those  of  a  lower  design  than  this.  Minus 
moleste  caremus.^ 

I  never  received  the  large  account  which  you  had  from  Mr, 
Patrick  and  you  now  write  that  you  sent  me.  I  should  be  loth  it 
should  miscarry;  I  put  a  value  upon  what  comes  from  so  con- 
sidering a  person. 

Mr.  Comenius  in  his  letter  writes  strange  things  of  the  success 

'  When  Worthington  leaves  "  bearded  angels  "  and  applies  liis  mind  to  what  he  so 
well  understood  —  the  weaknesses,  the  failings,  the  duties  and  interests  of  his  fellow- 
creatures  —  his  judgment  and  clear  intelligence  are  always,  as  in  this  instance,  con- 
spicuous. 

VOL.   II.  N 


90  DIARY  AND  CORRfiSPONDENCE  [1661 

against  the  stone ;  I  doubt  not  but  you  are  acquainted  with  that 
which  hath  effected  such  wonders.  O  that  I  might  hear  that  you 
are  a  new  instance  of  its  prevailing  virtue,  or  that  God  affords 
so  much  ease  and  abatement  of  pain  as  may  enable  you  with  more 
alacrity  to  pursue  your  intended  collection  of  the  most  memorable 
papers.  So  commending  you  to  the  care  and  tender  mercies  of 
God  All-sufficient,  I  rest 

Yours  affectionately, 
Dec.  13,  1661.  J.[ohn]  W.[orthington.] 


S.  Hartlib  to  Dr.  Worthington. 
Sir, 
Baker's camb.  I  had  another  letter  from  Serrarius,  writing  in  these 

red  t'o?p!^i3^'^  words  :  "  I  hope  you  have  received  more  of  the  medicament  which 
I  sent  lately  by  ship ;  or  if  not,  I  have  reason  to  give  you  a  caveat 
or  proviso,  because  we  find  not  the  constancy  of  the  effect  which 
we  saw  at  first ;  what  the  matter  is  I  cannot  yet  learn,  or  clear  it  to 
you.  So  much  I  must  tell  you,  that  even  our  first  man,  Godefrey, 
whereon  we  saw  and  admired  the  effect,  lies  down  again,  as  he 
protested,  in  as  bad  an  estate  as  ever ;  yea  worse,  by  reason  both 
of  the  stone  and  of  vehement  and  frequent  pressings  in  the  blad- 
der. Pray  salute  Mr.  Cohelaus  (who  brought  the  first  doses  of 
the  medicament  to  you),  and  impart  to  him  this  strange  relapse." 
In  the  letter  of  the  same  date,  Dec.  9,  Mr.  Comenius  adds  with 
his  own  hand  :  "  Salutabat  me  antequam  has  obsignaret,  amicissi- 
mus  noster  Dfius  Serrarius,  Si  quid  ad  te  vellem.  Vellem  sed  nihil 
materise  suppetit  de  mcdicina  dilaudata  a  te  tam  avide  expectata, 
admitte  quaso  consilium,  vanam  spem  dimitte.  Excidimus  magna 
expectatione  circa  rem  illam.  Deo  nos  permittamus  totos.  Ego 
promissa  a  te  solatia  (de  bene  expedito  per  Dm.  Comitcm  miscro- 
rum  negotio)  avidissime  expecto,  multo  vero  magis  tot  famelici  et 
esurientes,  Deus  omnium  miserator  misercatur  omnium."       Thus 


1661]  OF   DR.   WOUTIIIXGTON.  91 

far  he.  I  have  used  the  aforesaid  medicament,  but  it  is  so  press- 
ing and  tormenting  that  I  have  been  forced  to  leave  it  till  I  hear 
again  from  Mr.  Serrarius.  Mr.  Boyle  hath  promised  me,  if  he  can 
find  the  stone  called  Ludus^  by  Helmont,  he  will  let  Mr.  Poleman 
have  it  for  my  sake;  for  he  is  lately  fallen  acquainted  with  an 
English  adeptus,  who  hath  promised  that  if  he  can  procure  him 
the  aforesaid  Ludus  he  will  undertake  to  make  of  it  that  Oleum 
which  Helmont  praised  to  dissolve  the  stone  in  the  body  within 
fourteen  days  infallibly.  There  is  at  Amsterdam,  writes  a  very 
special  friend,  in  a  letter  of  December  2  from  Amsterdam,  one 
Matthias  Nicander,  who  undertakes  very  great  and  unusual  mat- 

^  Hartlib's  sufferings  from  the  stone  seem  to  have  been  excruciating,  but  it  may  al- 
most be  doubted  whether  he  did  not  suffer  more  from  the  remedies  which  he  was 
always  in  search  of  and  ever  ready  to  apply.  Helmont' s  grand  specific  was  an  oil  to 
be  extracted  from  the  salts  produced  by  calcining  the  stone  called  Ludus  Paracelsi, 
and  was,  in  truth,  borrowed  from  that  great  empiric.  In  Helmont's  paradoxical 
treatise  De  Lithiasi  (Ortus  Medicinse,  1652,  4to,  p.  699),  he  thus  refers  to  it,  and  it 
would  be  indeed  a  pity  to  use  any  language  but  his  own :  "  Ad  veram  geuerati  Duclech 
resolutionem  liquationemque  primatum  obtinet  Ludus  Paracelsi  non  quod  silex  sit  et 
pueri  cum  illo  luduut  prout  aliqui  interpretati  sunt  ipsius  etymon  sed  quia  Ludus 
semper  tali,  tessei-ae,  aut  cubi  forma  eruitur.  Cujus  prccparatiouis  hsec  est  descriptio. 
Ludus  optime  contusus  calcinatur  et  usque  ia  olei  formam  bullitus,  quod  uuico  fere 
Tcrbo  vocat  Fel  Terrse  et  Altholizoi  cori-ectum.  Quod  sonat,  Al,  tho,  oU,  gesotten." 
It  must  be  admitted  that  the  name  "  Ludus "  was  anything  but  a  misnomer,  as  it 
seems  to  have  been  a  perfect  Will  of  the  Wisp  to  Boyle  and  his  correspondents.  In 
a  letter  to  Clodius,  Boyle  says  (Works,  vol.  v.  p.  242)  :  "  Of  the  Ludus  I  can  yet  learn 
nothing."  Hartlib  writes  to  Boyle  (Ibid.  p.  263)  :  "  My  son  assures  me  that  he  will 
not  faU  to  prepare  the  Ludus  after  Helmontius's  way,  as  soon  as  it  is  possible."  May 
8th,  1654.  Again,  Hartlib  to  Boyle  (Ibid.  p.  297) :  "My  son  might  have  prepared 
Ludus  Helmontii  by  this  time,  but  he  wants  bowels."  April,  1659,  and  passim. 
Hartlib's  son-in-law,  Clodius,  seems  to  have  wanted  not  bowels,  but  the  stone  itself, 
out  of  which  the  oil  was  to  be  extracted,  and  which  his  foreign  correspondents  were 
always  promising  to  send,  but  which  never  made  its  appearance.  Helmont  says  he 
found  it  "  ad  ripam  Scaldis  prope  Antwerpiam  ubi  lateres  coquuntur,"  and  that  in 
colour  it  was  "  pallescens,  subinde  crusta  perspicua  per  commissuras  obductus."  It 
seems  however  to  have  become,  at  the  time  of  the  present  correspondence,  a  very 
scarce  commodity,  and  the  dLQiculty  does  not  appear  to  have  been  in  extracting  the 
oU,  which  the  adepts  were  perfectly  ready  to  do,  but  in  finding  the  stone.  Well  was 
it  denominated  Ludus  Paracelsi. 


92  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1661 

ters,  of  which  no  doubt  Mr.  Comenius  may  write  hereafter.  Sir^ 
having  written  thus  far^  I  get  a  special  communication  from  Paris, 
Dec.  14,  in  these  words :  "  I  have  received  notice  from  Castres  in 
Languedoc,  that  there  is  an  operator  that  cuts  those  that  have  the 
stone  without  sounding  them,  and  quite  otherwise  than  others,  in 
such  a  manner  that  the  patient  hath  not  so  much  as  a  fever  after 
it.  I  have  been  promised  a  copy  of  the  certificate  which  contain- 
eth  the  manner  of  this  operation ;  when  it  cometh  to  my  hands  it 
shall  presently  come  to  yours,  if  God  permit.  I  pray  do  not  for- 
get to  write  to  Amsterdam  to  enquire  whether  it  be  true  that  a 
means  is  found  out  there  to  cut  the  stones  in  the  kidneys."  Just 
now  your  last  letter  of  Dec.  12  is  brought  to  my  house.  The 
sufferers  Avith  Comenius  are  rather  to  be  pitied  than  upbraided  for 
their  confident  distempers.  There  are  many  more  that  have  split 
themselves  upon  that  rock.  I  fear  this  nation  is  more  to  be 
remarked  in  this  kind.  But  God's  judgments  are  always  just, 
though  they  may  be  secret.  Mr.  Comenius's  petition  to  his 
Majesty  is  not  yet  delivered.  But  the  Earl  of  Anglesey  is  watch- 
ing continually  mollia  tempora  fandi.^  Mr,  Beal  I  hope  will  walk 
courageously  for  all  his  discouraging  dilemma.  He  is  now  mainly 
endeavouring  to  do  good  to  the  world  with  a  piece  of  the  best  of 
charities.  He  sent  me  back  the  extracts  out  of  my  letters  which 
once  I  wrote  unto  him,  concerning  Morley's^  Mnemonical  under- 

'  Which  it  was  difficult  to  meet  with,  where  money  applications  were  concerned, 
even  with  this  most  good  humoured  of  monarchs.  And  all  this  was  merely  to  enable 
the  poor  sufferers  to  obtain  the  charitable  contributions  which  had  been  subscribed 
for  their  benefit ! 

-"There  are  in  my  hands  five  very  large  parchments  of  strange  alphabets,  titles, 
and  notations,  which  Mr.  Hartlib  bestowed  upon  me  as  the  device  of  Caleb  Morlcy, 
who  (at  a  great  age)  showed  the  most  wonderful  specimen  of  artificial  memory  that 
ever  was  showed,  as  I  think.  And  the  English  Court,  for  many  years,  saw  the  proof 
of  it.  But  by  his  death  (which  was  sxidden,  by  a  fall  from  his  horse)  these  rolls  are 
laid  aside  as  unintelligible,  and  the  art  deplored  as  irrecoverably  lost,  or  the  author 
suspected  of  magic.  Now,  by  casting  my  eye  on  these  rolls,  I  am  become  confident 
that  I  can  interpret  every  line,  tittle,  and  blot  (for  there  also  are  several  kinds  of 
mnemonical  marks).     And  I   can  point  out  in  which  order  every  parcel  is  to  be 


1661]  OF  DR.   WORTHINGTON.  93 

takings,  which  are  here  adjoined.  If  God  restore  my  health, 
which  is  exceedingly  impaired,  I  shall  not  fail  to  look  out  Dr.  More's 
letters,  and  to  set  them  by  themselves  upon  all  occasions.  I  sup- 
pose by  this  time  Mr.  Patrick^s  large  account  concerning  some 
providences  is  come  to  your  hands.  Mr.  Haack  going  to  London 
did  undertake  for  the  sending  of  that  letter.  I  pray  do  not  fail, 
God  wiUing,  to  let  me  know  when  you  have  received  it.  By  the 
copy  of  Mr.  Comenius^s  letter  in  the  beginning  you  A^ill  read  the 
sad  news  concerning  the  stone.  I  labour  under  the  painful  and 
tormenting  effects  of  it,  that  I  have  reason  to  despair  of  my  life, 
which,  if  God  continue,  shall  be  spent  more  than  ever  through 
grace  to  his  glory  and  the  good  of  many ;  to  which  effect  only  I 
humbly  beg  the  assistance  of  your  faithful  prayers,  who  am 
bound  by  so  many  obligations  to  subscribe  myself  in  all  conditions. 

Sir, 
Your  much  tormented  friend,  &c., 
Dec.  16,  1661.  S.  Hartlib,  Sen. 

learned.  And  tLat  these  rolls  were  apprehended  by  Dr.  Groad  (then  chaplain  to  the 
Archbishop,  and  famous  at  Dort,  a  stiff  and  staunch  person)  to  be  useful,  may  appear 
by  these  words  at  the  close  of  the  last  roll  under  his  hand :  '  This  alphabet,  consisting 
of  five  pieces  of  parchment,  and  being  a  disposure  of  vowels  and  consonants  tending 
to  an  art  of  facility  and  method,  invented  by  Mr.  Caleb  Morley  and  presented  by  him 
to  the  King's  Majesty,  I  have  perused,  and  think  it  convenient  and  profitable  to  the 
purpose  of  the  author,  and  therefore  fit,  according  to  his  desire,  to  be  printed  and 
published  by  his  appointment  and  to  his  use.'  " —  Beal's  letter  to  Boyle  of  the  25th  of 
February,  1662  (Boyle's  works,  vol.  v.  p.  423).  In  a  subsequent  letter  of  the  29th  of 
September,  1663,  Beal  writes:  "Mr.  Hartlib,  in  a  large  letter,  gave  account  of  Mr. 
Morley's  very  incredible  performances.  In  following  letters  I  pressed  him  to  all  par- 
ticulars concerning  Morley  as  far  as  he  could  give  me  any  answer ;  only  he  told  me  of 
a  scroll  of  parchment  which  he  bought  in  Duck  Lane,  that  it  was  Morley's,  but  so  un- 
intelligible to  all  mortals  that  he  had  cast  it  amongst  his  waste  papers.  Tor  a  view 
of  this  scroll  I  solicited  some  weeks  or  months  before  he  could  be  at  leisure  to  find  it 
out.  As  soon  as  he  sent  it,  at  first  cast  of  my  eye,  I  saw  it  was  a  very  costly  and 
elaborate  model,  containing  between  forty  and  fifty  feet  length  in  parchment,  en- 
grossed in  a  beautiful  hand,  subdivided  and  glued  into  five  rolls  of  differing  importance. 
I  intend,  God  willing,  to  leave  those  rolls  and  all  the  mnemonical  books  and  other 
accounts  of  that  art  (which  Mr.  Hartlib  seut  me)  in  Gresham  College,  for  the  use  of 
the  Eoyal  Society."—  (Boyle's  woi-ks,  vol.  v.  p.  431.) 


94  DIARY   AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1661 

Dr.  Worthington  to  S.  Hartlib. 

Sir, 
worthin^ton-s  Your  last  Came  to  me  a  little  before  the  holidays,  aud 

p.  306.  '  there  being  but  one  particular  of  enquiry  in  it,  which  I  could  not 
then  satisfy,  I  thought  to  stay  till  the  twelve  days  were  over  (I 
being  from  home  for  some  time,  and  employed  in  business)  to  see 
whether  I  should  be  able  to  satisfy  it,  as  both  you  and  myself 
desired.  The  enquiry  was  about  Mr.  Patrick's  intelligence,  an 
account  of  which  you  say  you  gave  to  Mr.  Haack  to  be  conveyed 
to  me,  but  as  yet  I  have  not  received  it,  and  so  cannot  satisfy  you, 
as  I  hoped,  about  it.  I  am  sorry  it  is  miscarried,  because  it  came 
from  so  worthy  a  person,  and  because  it  was  upon  a  memorable 
argument ;  and  I  give  that  paper  for  lost,  except  Mr.  Haack  could 
remember  the  party  to  whom  it  was  delivered.  I  am  sorry  the 
famed  receipt  about  the  stone  proves  otherwise ;  I  wish  men  were 
more  humble  and  modest  in  such  matters,  and  would  <ppovetv  et? 
TO  acocppovelv ;  but  it  is  not  the  first  time  that  those  kind  of  men 
have  been  immoderate  in  extolling  their  medicines.  God  teach  us 
to  cease  from  men  more,  and  humbly  to  depend  upon  him,  and  to 
glory  in  him  alone. 

Dr.  More's  volume  begins  to  draw  towards  a  conclusion,  and 
there  will  be  a  considerable  addition  in  his  Conjectura  Cabbalistica^ 

'  This  profound  and  original  treatise,  which  is  thoroughly  imbued  with  More'-s  fine 
fancy,  and  characterised  by  more  than  his  usual  eccentricity  of  speculation,  was 
written  at  the  desire  of  Lady  Conway  (see  an  account  of  her,  vol.  i.  p.  140),  and  there 
is  reason  to  believe  that  a  portion  of  it  was  contributed  by  her  ladyship.  It  is  dedi- 
cated to  Cudworth,  of  whom  he  says :  "  I  do  not  know  where  to  meet  with  any  so 
universally  and  fully  accomplished  in  all  parts  of  learning  as  yourself,  as  well  in  the 
Oriental  tongues  and  history  as  in  all  the  choicest  kinds  of  philosophy."  The  main 
object  of  the  work  is  to  prove  that  "  the  ancient  Pythagorick  or  Judaick  Cabbala  did 
consist  of  what  we  now  call  Platonism  and  Cartesianism  —  the  latter  being,  as  it  were, 
the  body,  the  other  the  soul  of  that  philosophy  —  the  unhappy  disjunction  of  which 
has  been  a  great  evil  to  both ;"  aud  to  "  resuscitate  that  ancient  and  venerable  wisdom 
again  to  life,  and  bring  together,  as  it  were,  the  soul  and  body  of  Moses,  fitly  invest- 
ing or  cloathing  him  with  the  covering  of  his  own  most  sacred  text  —  an  hardy  exploit 
and  not  much  unlike  the  raising  from  the  dead  the  dislimbed  Hippolitus."  —  (Preface 


1661]  OF   DK.   WORTHINGTON.  95 

about  the  mystery  of  numbers,  wherein  Pythagoras  and  his  fol- 
lowers were  engaged,  whose  design  was  thereby  to  intimate  the 
profoundest  truths,  and  under  that  veil  to  secure  them  from  the 
unworthy  and  unprepared,  agreeably  to  the  custom  of  the  wise 
men  in  the  first  ages  of  philosophy. 

In  some  former  letters  you  have  told  me  of  the  good  esteem 
and  use  Mr.  Beal  hath  of  Schrevelius^s^  Lexicon  for  facihtating 
the  study  of  Greek  in  his  young  students;  I  can  now  acquaint 
you  that  there  is  one  who  employs  his  labours  to  make  that 
lexicon  far  more  useful  and  beneficial,  by  adding  to  it  where  it  is 
defective  and  making  it  a  complete  dictionary,  and  not  to  serve 
only  for  the  explaining  of  Greek  words  in  some  few  authors,  as 
now  it  only  reaches  to  Homer  and  some  few  more ;  and  though  it 
be  designed  to  be  made  thus  complete,  yet  the  volume  shall  be  (as 
it  now  is)  in  octavo.  The  person  who  undertakes  it  is  Mr.  Scatter- 
good^    (sometime  of  Trinity  College   in  Cambridge)    an   expert 

to  Philosophical  Works.)  He  further  declares:  "Though  I  call  this  interpretation 
of  mine  Cabbala,  yet  I  must  confess  I  receirecl  it  neither  from  man  nor  angel.  Nor 
came  it  to  me  bj  Divine  Inspiration,  unless  jou  will  be  so  wise  as  to  call  the  season- 
able suggestions  of  that  divine  life  and  sense  that  vigorously  resides  in  the  rational 
spirit  of  free  and  well-meaning  Christians  by  the  name  of  Inspiration.  But  such  in- 
spiration as  this  is  no  distracter  from,  but  an  accomplisher  and  an  enlarger  of  the 
human  faculties.  And  I  may  add  that  this  is  the  great  mystery  of  Christianity  that 
■we  are  called  to  partake  of,  The  perfecting  of  the  human  nature  hy  the  partici- 
pation of  the  Divine."  The  addition  to  this  work,  alluded  to  by  Worthington,  was, 
"An  Appendix  to  the  Defence  of  the  Philosophical  Cabbala,"  which  appeared  for  the 
first  time  in  the  collection  of  More's  Philosophical  Writings,  published  in  1662,  folio. 
In  the  subsequent  edition  of  this  collection  in  1713,  folio,  Latin  Xotes  or  Scholia,  ex- 
planatory of  the  text,  are  subjoined  to  each  chapter. 

^  Cornelius  Sehrevelius,  well  known  from  his  variorum  editions  of  the  Classics,  now 
little  prized,  and  from  his  Greek  lexicon,  which,  corrected  and  improved  by  different 
scholars  who  succeeded  him,  has  been  a  popular  manual  up  to  the  present  time.  He 
died  at  Leyden  in  1667. 

2  Anthony  Scattergood,  Prebendary  of  Lincoln  and  Lichfield,  and  Eeetor  of  Win- 
wick  and  Telvertoft  in  Northamptonshire,  and  Chaplain  to  Archbishop  Williams  and 
Bishop  Hackett.  In  Kennett's  Eegister,  p.  708,  is  King  Charles  the  Second's  letter 
to  the  University  of  Cambridge,  for  Scattergood  to  be  created  D.D.  for  his  pains  in 
digesting  and  fitting  for  the  press  the  collection  of  Critici  Sacri.  His  death  took 
place  in  1687. 


96  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1661 

linguist.  It  was  he  tliat  weut  through  those  great  labours  of 
perusing  and  preparing  the  books  for  the  BibUotheca  Critico- 
Sacra^  in  nine  volumes,  lately  published,  a  work  of  infinite  labour. 
I  am  also  informed  that  Thomas  his  Latin  Dictionary  is  under  the 
like  care;  there  is  one  that  employs  his  pains  about  giving  it  a 
greater  perfection,  that  a  book  of  general  use  amongst  young 
scholars  may  be  made  more  advantageous  to  them.  He  that  un- 
dertakes this  is  Mr.  Goldman^  (sometime  of  Christ  College),  who 
published  the  Latin  notes  of  Mr.  Boyse^  (one  whom  Sir  H.  Saville 

^  Francis  Goldman,  or  G-ouldman,  was  educated  in  Christ's  College,  in  Cambridge, 
was  for  some  time  Rector  of  Sonth  Okendon,  in  Essex,  and  died  in  1689.  He  pub- 
lished a  Latin  dictionary  in  4to  in  1664,  which  was  afterwards  reprinted  several  times, 
and  the  Cambridge  edition  in  1674,  much  enlarged  by  William  Robertson,  and  fur- 
ther, in  1678,  by  Dr.  Scattergood.  — Nichols's  Anecdotes,  vol.  t.  p.  208. 

"  John  Boyse,  or  Boys,  whose  share  in  the  translation  of  the  Bible  and  Sir  Henry 
Saville's  noble  edition  of  Chrysostom,  will  always  make  his  name  remembered,  was 
the  grandson  of  a  clothier  at  Halifax,  in  Yorkshire.  His  father,  William  Boyse,  was 
born  at  Halifax,  educated  at  St.  John's,  Cambridge,  and  ultimately  took  up  his  resi- 
dence at  Nettleshead,  in  Suffolk,  where  his  son,  John  Boyse,  was  born  in  1560.  He 
was  sent  in  due  time,  like  his  ftither,  to  St.  John's,  where  he  became  one  of  the  most 
learned  scholars  of  his  day,  and  was  chief  Greek  Lecturer  in  the  College  ten  years  to- 
gether. His  eminence  in  learning  caused  him  to  be  selected  not  merely  as  one  of  the 
translators  of  the  Bible,  but  also  of  the  committee  of  six  who  had  to  revise  the  whole 
translation.  He  was  one  of  the  principal  assistants  of  Sir  Henry  Saville  in  his  edition 
of  Chrysostom,  printed  at  Eton  CoUege  and  published  in  1613  in  8  volumes,  folio. 
Sir  Henry  manifested  more  approbation  of  his  notes  than  of  those  of  Mr.  Andrew 
Downes,  the  famous  Greek  Professor,  who  was  so  displeased  with  Boyse  in  conse- 
quence, that  he  never  was  reconciled  till  his  death.  Boyse  became  afterwards  Rector 
of  Boxworth  and  Prebendary  of  Ely,  and,  continuing  an  indefatigable  student  to  the 
last,  died  at  a  good  old  age  in  1643.  After  his  death,  his  "  Veteris  Interpretis  cum 
Beza  collatio"  was  published  at  London  in  1655,  r2mo,  and  is  a  sufficient  evidence  of 
his  erudition  and  critical  skill.  A  biography  of  Boyse  has  been  written  by  Dr. 
Anthony  Walker,  and  published  for  the  first  time  in  Peck's  Desiderata  Lib.  8,  folio  ed., 
pp.  36-58.  There  are  few  similar  productions  which  will  afford  greater  pleasure  from 
the  quaintness  and  genial  spii-it  with  which  the  biographer  describes  his  hero's  career. 
The  university  man  and  student  of  the  olden  time  are  shadowed  forth  with  great 
strength  of  outline.  He  mentions  the  three  rules  which  Dr.  Whitaker,  the  celebrated 
Regius  Professor,  gave  to  Boyse  as  a  student,  for  the  preservation  of  his  health : — 
"  1.  Always  to  study  standing ;  2.  Never  to  study  in  a  window ;  3.  Never  to  go  to 
bed  with  cold  feet,  which  he  most  constantly  observed."     Boyse  married  a  wife  of  the 


1661]  OF  DR.   WORTHINGTON.  97 

much  esteemed,  and  used  in  his  noble  edition  of  Chrysostom) 
upon  the  Four  Evangelists  and  Acts.  This  Mr.  Goldman  was  one 
that  was  employed  also  in  the  late  edition  of  the  Critics  before 
mentioned  upon  the  Bible. 

I  should  be  glad  to  hear  that  at  last  you  received  some  real  good 
by  what  is  recommended  to  you  for  the  removing  or  allaying  of 
your  pains,  that  your  strength  being  renewed  you  might  run  and 
not  be  weary,  walk  and  not  faint,  in  the  race  you  have  set  before 
you. 

I  was  now  about  to  make  up  this  letter,  but,  perusing  yours,  I 
find  in  the  margin  a  clause  which  seems  to  misconstrue  my  free 
and  plain  sense  concerning  that  particular  relating  to  Mr.  Come- 
nius  and  others,  as  if  what  was  written  did  signify  an  upbraiding 
of  the  sufierers.  I  should  afflict  myself  if  any  words  should  have 
come  from  me  to  that  sense.  But  I  desire  my  writing  may  be 
read  with  a  clear  and  candid  judgment.  I  am  very  secure  (until  I 
be  otherwise  convinced)  that  my  lines  were  innocent,  and  free 
from  such  a  blot.  What  I  wrote  was  plain  and  faithful,  and 
wholesome  for  them  or  for  any  in  our  nations  that  have  split 
themselves  (as  you  say)  upon  the  same  rock.  The  more  any  are 
awakened  into  a  true  and  right  discernment  of  any  former  failings, 
the  more  humbled  they  may  be,  and  so  the  nearer  to  obtain  mer- 
cies from  heaven  and  from  earth.      And  the  way  to  awaken  men 

name  of  Holt,  but,  "  he  miuding  nothing  but  bis  book  and  bis  wife,  through  want  of 
age  and  experience  not  being  able  sufficiently  to  manage  other  things  aright,  he  was, 
ere  he  was  aware,  fallen  into  debt;  the  weight  whereof  when  he  began  to  feel,  he 
forthwith  parted  with  his  darling  (I  mean  his  library).  This  caused  some  discontent 
betwixt  him  and  his  wife ;  insomuch  that  I  have  heard  that  he  did  once  intend  to 
travel  beyond  the  seas.  But  religion  and  conscience  soon  gave  those  thoughts  the 
check,  and  made  it  be  with  him  and  his  wife,  as  chirurgeons  say  it  is  with  a  broken 
bone,  if  once  well  set  the  stronger  for  a  fracture."  He  seems  afterwards  to  have  lived 
very  happily  with  her.  The  worthy  biographer's  summing  up  on  the  occasion  is  ad- 
mirable :  "  His  own  name  and  his  wife's  (before  she  married)  were  both,  by  interpre- 
tation, one ;  Bois  in  French,  and  Holt  in  Dutch,  signifying  wood.  -And  as  he  was  here 
a  pdlar  in  God's  house,  a  great  plank  in  the  ark,  so  I  trust  they  are  both  now  timber 
for  the  building  of  that  house,  not  made  with  hands,  eternal  in  the  heavens." 
VOL.  II.  O 


98  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1661-2 

is  to  deal  plainly  with  them ;  and  to  do  this  is  a  kindly  office  of 
friendship.  Faithful  are  the  wounds  of  a  friend  (saith  Solomon) 
but  the  kisses  of  an  enemy  are  deceitful.  Non  omnis  qui  parcit, 
amicus  est ;  nee  omnis  qui  verberat,  inimicus  :  Quos  diligo  (inquit 
Dominus)  redarguo,  et  castigo.  To  upbraid  any  is  against  my 
temper  as  well  as  against  my  principles.  It  is  more  natural  and 
agreeable  to  me  to  pity  men,  which  I  may  truly  do  though  I  deal 
plainly  and  freely  with  them.  And  for  those  persons,  I  have  more 
than  pitied  them  in  thought  or  word.>  The  collection  for  them 
was  when  I  was  Vice-Chancellor,  and  I  made  it  my  care  and 
labour  to  promote  the  contribution  from  the  University,  which 
was  considerable. 2  I  hope  they  have  received  the  fruit  of  that  real 
pity  which  both  I  and  others  expressed  to  them;  and  what 
obstructions  remain,  I  wish  were  removed,  that  they  may  receive 
the  remainder  of  the  contribution.  And  may  they  find  in  other 
places  such  as  shall  express  their  compassionate  sense  as  we  have 
done.     Our  Saviour  hath  pronoimced  the  merciful  blessed. 

I  have  now  filled  this  paper,  and  have  but  room  left  to  sub- 
scribe, 

Yours  affectionately, 

Jan.  9,  1661-2.  J.[ohn]  W.[orthington.] 


S.  Hartlib  to  Dr.  Woi'thington. 

Worthy  Sir, 

Baker's  camb.  Your  last  is  dated  Jan.  9.     I  must  enquire  again  at  Mr. 

red  tofp.'is!''  Haack,  who  carried  Mr.  Patrick's  intelligence  of  a  sheet  long  to  be 

delivered.     I   do  not  as  yet  give  that  paper  for  lost.      You   will 

please  to  give  me  notice  when  Dr.  More's  volume  is  quite  absolved. 

I  have  written  already  to  Mr.  Beal  the  other  glottical  news.     The 

'  Worthiugton  here  gives  a  true  and  faithful  description  of  his  character  and  prin- 
ciples. • 
'  See  vol.  i.  p.  108. 


1661-2]  OF   DR.   WORTHIXGTON.  99 

enclosed  Mneraonical  account  was  given  unto  him  long  ago.  He  is 
the  likeliest  man  in  the  kingdom  to  advance  that  art,  and  we  have 
already  many  sheets  more  on  that  subject  of  his  own  meditations. 
I  know  sufficiently  it  is  more  natural  and  agreeable  to  you  to  bear  a 
pity  towards  all  men.  The  Lord  reward  the  bowels  of  your  compas- 
sions, which  you  have  expressed  so  many  ways  for  his  Name's  sake. 
Of  the  collection  made  for  the  Bohemians  there  remains  yet  above 
.^900  lying  in  banco  at  Dublin.  Lord  Anglesey  spoke  once  to  his 
Majesty  about  the  remainder  of  the  English  collection ;  he  received 
a  gracious  answer,  but  was  interrupted  from  making  an  end  of  that 
conference.  I  received  lately  another  letter  from  Mr.  Serrarius  in 
these  words :  "  In  your  last  you  secured  me  of  pursuing  no  more 
your  taking  of  Reisner's  medicament  till  further  order.  Now,  Sir, 
what  shall  I  say  ?  I  crave  pardon  for  my  precipitancy.  It  grieves  me 
very  much  that  we,  thinking  to  relieve  you,  have  put  you  to  more 
[trouble] .  The  Lord  in  his  grace  repair  our  default,  as  I  beseech  him 
to  do.  Henceforth  I  desire  you  would  abstain  from  it,  as  I  hope  you 
have  done  since  your  last  writing.  For  having  now  made  more  full 
enquiry,  I  cannot  find  one  that  is  properly  cured  of  the  stone.  That 
boy,  indeed,  had  a  stone  in  pene,  which  was  drawn  out  by  a  sur- 
geon, and  drawn  forth  by  this  medicament,  but  the  boy  had  no  stone 
consumed  in  the  bladder.  If  there  be  an  adeptus  with  you,  behold 
I  have  got  a  brave  Ludus  for  you,  which  I  shall  send  by  the  very 
next  shipping.  Mr.  Comenius  thanks  you  for  the  good  hopes,  and 
beseecheth  you  to  urge  the  matter  the  most  you  can.  I  am  sending 
to  you  his  treatise,  newly  printed,  of  four  sheets  only,  in  8vo,  called 
Independentia^  seternarum  Coufusionum  Origo.    The  Armenian  that 

*  This  tract  was  originally  printed  at  Lesna  in  1650.  The  edition  mentioned  in  the 
text  is  entitled  "  Independeutia  eeteruarum  Confusionum  Origo,  natiouali  in  AngUa 
Synodo  anuo  1648  congregandse  spectamini  oblata  et  typis  anno  1650,  Lesnte  descripta 
recusa  vero  Amsterdami  anno  1661,"  12mo,  pages  64.  It  was  written  and  sent  into 
England  in  1618,  with  a  Tiew  of  throwing  oil  upon  the  waters,  at  that  time  of  eccle- 
siastical confusion,  but  in  what  mode  it  was  to  be  propounded  to  the  pubHc  does  not 
appear.  It  is  a  sensible,  but  rather  declamatory,  tract,  in  which  he  addresses  himself 
not  merely  to  the  errors  of  the  Independents,  but  to  those  also  of  the  Presbyterians 


100  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1661-2 

was  here  to  print  the  Bible  in  his  native  language,  died  here,  and  so 
left  the  work  in  ipsis  incunabulis.  Since,  we  expect  from  Armenia 
another  to  the  same  purpose,  who  is  not  yet  come.  We  hear  from 
Germany  that  Helmont^  is  secured  prisoner  in  the  name  of  the  Elec- 

and  Episcopalians.  He  lays  down  strongly  the  necessity  of  a  system  of  subordination 
and  dependence  throughout  the  whole  of  the  universe,  and  illustrates  his  proposition 
by  a  long  series  of  applications.  One  of  them  may  be  quoted :  "  Omnia  cohserere 
aliaque  ab  aliis  pendere  debent  nisi  seopas  esse  dissolutas  velis.  Exemplo  sit  Libellus 
hie  quern  manu  tenes  :  cujus  coagmenta  si  solveris  quid  erit  ?  Chartularum  congeries. 
Si  autem  gluten  quoque  Literarum,  quo  chartte  insideruut  et  adhscrent,  humore  aliquo 
solvere  sciveris,  ut  a  charta  sustentari  desinant  in  chaos  redibunt  omnia :  nee  rcstabit 
quod  legi  aut  menti  sensum  aliquem  ministrare  possit."     Page  10. 

'  This  was  the  celebrated  Francis  Mercury  Van  Hclmont,  the  son  of  John  Baptist 
Van  Helmont,  the  famous  chemist,  noticed  vol.  i.  p.  364.  The  "son  was  not  inferior 
to  the  father  in  acuteness,  subtlety,  and  comprehensiveness  of  mind,  but  has  been 
rather  thrown  into  the  shade  by  the  great  notoriety  of  that  far-famed  follower  of 
Paracelsus.  The  various  collections  of  biography  have  either  omitted  to  notice 
Francis  Mercury  or  have  given  a  meagre  and  mistaken  account  of  him.  The  only 
writer  who  has  made  any  approach  to  a  just  estimate  of  the  son  is  Brucker  (vol.  iv. 
p.  721),  who,  however,  does  not  appear  to  have  met  with  aU  his  writings,  which  are 
numerous,  and  most  of  them  of  uncommon  occurrence.  The  materials  for  his  life  are 
widely  scattered,  but  a  volume,  and  a  very  entertaining  one,  might  be  formed  from 
his  various  adventures  and  singular  and  original  publications.  Adopting  in  a  great 
measure  his  father's  principles  in  medicine  and  chemistry,  he  struck  out  his  own  pe- 
culiar path  in  philosophy  and  religion.  His  opinions  in  the  latter  corresponded  in 
some  respects  with  those  of  Dr.  Henry  More ;  and  the  groves  of  Ragley,  where  re- 
sided his  pupil  and  patient,  Lady  Conway,  who  understood  his  system  as  well  or  better 
than  he  did  himself,  witnessed  many  a  profound  discussion  between  these  two  super- 
subtle  philosophers.  In  the  early  part  of  liis  life,  Francis  Mercury  Van  Helmont 
traversed  the  greater  part  of  Europe  with  a  caravan  of  Bohemian  gipsies  to  learn 
thoroughly  tlieir  habits  and  language,  and  was  so  intimately  conversant  with  every 
variety  of  man  that  his  conversation  is  represented  by  those  who  were  thrown  into  his 
society  in  this  country  as  in  the  highest  degree  striking  and  instructive.  He  preserved 
to  his  death  the  reputation  of  having  acquired  the  great  arcanum,  and  his  carelessness 
with  regard  to  money  was  such  as  almost  to  indicate  that  he  had  a  perennial  means  of 
supply.  During  his  residence  in  this  country,  which  seems  singularly  enough  to  bo 
scarcely  known  to  his  Continental  biographers,  several  portraits  were  taken  of  him, 
now  remaining  in  various  coUections  and  perpetuating  one  of  those  countenances 
which,  once  seen,  live  in  the  memory  and  are  never  effaced  from  it.  In  the  latter 
part  of  his  life  he  was  thrown  much  amongst  the  Quakers,  who  claimed  hun  as  a 
proselyte,  but  he  despised  the  sect,  tliough  he  was  rather  favourable  to  some  of  their 


1661-2]  OV  DR.   WORTHINGTON.  101 

tor  of  Mentz,  with  whom  he  dined  newly  before,  and  parted  friendly 
from  him.  They  carried  him  to  Newburg  and  there  keep  him  close, 
so  that  no  man  may  come  to  him.  The  Lord  be  with  him,  and 
preserve  him  from  evil.  Amen.  I  had  a  letter  from  Mr,  Dury  this 
week.  His  negotiation  seems  to  go  on  favourably  hitherto  in  respect 
of  all  Reformed  Churches  on  this  side  Frankfort.  He  is  now  taking 
counsel  how  to  address  himself  to  the  Lutherans."  And  again : 
"  Concerning  one  that  should  have  found  out  a  means  to  cut  the 
stone  out  of  the  kidneys,  I  enquired  here  of  two  special  Doctors,  but 
they  know  of  no  such  thing.  From  Frankfort  they  write  to  me 
that  it  is  feared  Helmont  shall  be  carried  away  prisoner  to  the  Pope 
at  Rome.'  Let  it  be  how  it  will,  his  case  is  dangerous.  O  the 
treachery  of  the  world !  Grod  hide  us  under  the  shadow  of  the 
Cross  of  Christ,  where  the  malice  of  the  world  shall  not  find  us." 
Thus  far  he.     The  letter  is  dated  Jan.  5,  1661.     Thus  I  rest  ever. 

Worthy  Sir, 
Your  very  affectionate,  &c., 
Jan.  14,  1661-2.  S.  Hartlib,  Sen. 


Jan.  25.     This  day  cousin  P.  Whichcote  went  to  King*'s  College 
to  continue. 

opinious.  An  accurate  list  of  his  works,  printed  and  in  manuscript,  has  never  yet 
been  given,  and  is  beyond  the  scope  of  a  notice  like  the  present,  which  is  necessarily 
brief.  The  editor  of  this  work  has,  what  he  believes  is,  a  complete  series  of  them, 
and  has  long  collected  whatever  he  could  glean  from  manuscripts  and  printed  soiirces, 
with  a  view  to  some  biographical  account  of  their  very  extraordinary  author. 

'  What  Dury  feared  did  not  happen  on  this  occasion,  but  in  1663  F.  M.  Van  Hel- 
mont suffered  an  imprisonment  at  Rome.  (See  Commercium  Epistol.  Leibnitzianum, 
vol.  ii.  pp.  1099,  1103.)  In  both  cases  his  incarceration  probably  arose  from  the  free- 
dom with  which  he  expressed  his  opinions.  On  his  release  from  the  latter  imprison- 
ment he  was  received  by  the  Elector  Palatine  at  Heidelburg,  where  he  became  ac- 
quainted with  the  Elector's  sister  Sophia,  and  passed  much  of  his  time  afterwards  at 
her  court  at  Hanover. 


102  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1661-2 

Dn.  fVorthington  to  S.  Hartlib. 

Sir, 
Worthingtons  Youi's  of  Jail.  14  I  received,  as  also  Mr.  Patrick''s  paper 

p.  310.  '  of  illustrious  providences.  The  two  remarkable  stories  I  heard  of  at 
Cambridge,  and  perhaps  from  the  scholar  which  Mr.  Patrick  means. 
That  scholar  expecteth  a  more  full  and  large  account  of  the  second 
story;  and  if  it  cometli  to  my  hands  first,  I  shall  not  fail  to  repay 
you  in  a  timely  communication  of  it.  The  first  page  of  your  letter 
Jan.  14,  about  the  not-succeeding  medicament,  with  the  advertise- 
ments thereon  from  Amsterdam,  I  had  in  your  former  letter,  and  an 
useful  inference  from  it  I  wrote  to  you  in  my  last.  When  Dr. 
More's  book  is  finished  you  shall  hear ;  it  was  hoped  it  would  have 
been  finished  by  the  last  of  January,  but  some  other  occasions,  it 
seems,  have  hindered  the  press  from  making  that  dispatch  which 
was  expected. 

With  your  last  letter  I  received  a  memorial  of  Caleb  MorIey"'s 
design,  upon  which  no  judgment  can  well  be  made,  it  being  but  a 
general  story,  and  the  papers  it  seems  are  lost  which  should  have 
given  a  particular  account  of  the  work  that  he  so  long  travelled  with. 

Helmont's  case,  by  your  relation,  seems  not  a  little  dangerous ; 
but  if  he  be  posted  to  Rome,  the  more.  I  do  not  remember  any 
notices  in  any  of  your  letters  that  signified  the  occasion  of  his  trou- 
ble, whether  he  hath  provoked  them  by  any  free  speeches  which 
they  could  not  bear. 

The  Elector  of  Mentz  was  the  person  that  pretended  reconcilia- 
tion, or  removin"  the  distances  between  Romanists  and  others ; 
though  1  have  heard  nothing  of  late  concerning  the  success  of  the 
proposals  that  went  under  his  name.  The  great  /Jbea-orotxov  (and 
the  animosities  and  self-interests  of  parties  make  it  greater)  be- 
tween the  Lutherans  and  Calvinists,  and  other  divided  churches  in 
Christendom ;  when  shall  we  see  it  moulder  away  I  Christus  pax 
nostra  can  break  down  this  middle  wall  of  partition  also.  He  can 
make  these  one  as  He  and  the  Father  are  One.     Hut  there  must  be 


1661-2]  or  DK.  WOKTHINGTOX.  103 

a  new  spirit  put  into  them  before  they  be  of  one  mind  and  one 
heart,  having  the  same  love. 

Dr.  Whichcote  made  a  step  down  into  this  country  (his  presence 
being  necessary),  and  he  returns  by  coach  this  vs^eek.  His  ague 
seems  to  have  shaken  him  much.  Though  some  have  wished  him 
to  this  or  that  means  for  the  removing  of  it  (as  the  Jesuit^s  powder, 
&c.),  yet  it  is  thought  best  to  let  the  ague  have  its  course,  the 
spring  drawing  near  when  relief  is  hopeful,  and  not  to  contest  vio- 
lently with  it,  which  does  not  use  to  be  baffled  or  to  go  away  kindly 
when  so  dealt  with. 

I  hear  that  a  little  Arabic  discourse  is  lately  published  by  Mr. 
Pocock ;  if  I  mistake  not  it  is  the  Arabic  poet  Altograi.^     I  know 

'  "The  next  tiling  that  Dr.  Pocock  published,  was  an  Arabic  poem,  intitled 
Lamiato'1-Ajam,  or  Carmen  Abu  Ismaelis  Tograi,  with  his  Latin  translation  of  it 
and  large  notes  upon  it ;  a  poem  which  is  held  to  be  of  the  greatest  elegancy,  answer- 
able to  the  fame  of  its  author,  who,  as  the  doctor  gives  his  character,  was  eminent  for 
learning  and  virtue,  and  esteemed  the  phoenix  of  the  age  in  which  he  lived  for  poetry 
and  eloquence.  Dr.  Pocock's  design  ia  this  work  was  not  only  to  give  a  specimen  of 
Arabian  poetry,  but  also  to  make  the  attainment  of  the  Arabic  tongue  more  easy  to 
those  that  study  it ;  for  his  notes,  containing  a  grammatical  explanation  of  all  the 
words  of  this  author,  are  very  serviceable  for  promoting  the  knowledge  of  that  lan- 
guage, these  notes  being  the  sum  of  many  lectures  which  he  read  on  this  poem.  The 
speech  that  he  delivered  when  he  began  to  explain  it  is  prefixed  to  it,  which  perhaps 
contaius,  though  a  succinct,  yet  as  acciirate  an  account  of  the  Arabic  tongue  as  is  any 
where  extant.  After  the  general  history  of  it,  he  there  speaks  of  the  thiags  that  re- 
commend it,  and  particularly  of  these  four  —  perspicuity,  elegance,  copiousness,  and 
usefulness.  An  instance  of  the  first  of  these  he  gives  in  that  prompt  way  the  Arabians 
have  of  expressing  many  thiugs  clearly  in  a  very  few  words,  which  is  hardly  to  be 
imitated  in  any  other  language ;  and  the  second,  he  says,  appears  both  from  the  care 
employed  in  it,  cither  by  the  adding,  taking  away,  or  change  of  letters,  to  suit  words 
to  the  nature  of  the  things  they  signify,  and  also  from  the  sweetness  or  softness  of 
the  whole  language,  in  which  there  never  is  a  collision  of  two  or  more  consonants  but 
the  sound  of  a  vowel  always  intervenes.  As  to  the  copiousness  of  this  tongue,  he 
shews  that  there  is  no  comparison  between  it  and  any  other ;  the  strange  variety  it 
has  of  synonymous  words  being  such  as  one  would  stand  amazed  at.  There  are  in  it 
two  hundred  names  for  a  serpent,  which  he  there  gives  us ;  five  hundred  for  a  lion  ; 
and,  to  omit  some  other  instances,  so  many  for  calamity,  that,  as  he  observes  out  of 
an  Arabic  writer,  who  endeavoured  to  make  a  catalogue  of  them,  it  is  no  small  cala- 
mity to  recite  them.     The  whole  number  of  words  that  make  up  this  language  is 


104  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1661-3 

not  whether  the  Arabic  Philosophical  Fiction*  (we  have  sometimes 
written  about)  be  added  to  it ;  because  I  have  not  as  yet  seen  the 
book.  He  is  a  very  able  person  for  the  discovery  of  what  is  worthy 
in  that  language,  and  at  Oxford  there  is  a  great  magazine  of  Oriental 
books. 

The  second  volume  of  the  Lexicon  Polyglotton  is  not  yet  in  the 
press,  nor  will  it  be  begun  till  they  have  prepared  the  whole.  They 
have  done  something  concerning  every  letter  that  remains  in  the 
alphabet,  but  before  Christmas  they  had  perfected  all  as  far  as 
Samech ;  and  they  hope  in  April  to  have  done  the  whole,  and  to 
begin  the  printing,  which  will  be  dispatched  as  soon  as  may  be. 
They  found  the  inconvenience  of  undertaking  to  print  the  first 
volume  of  the  Lexicon  before  they  had  wholly  prepared  it  for  the 
press,  which  made  the  press  sometimes  to  stand,  and  yet  the  work- 
men must  be  paid,  else  they  would  hardly  be  kept  together,  so  that 
by  this  means  the  work  was  more  chargeable.  When  Dr.  Castell 
hath  served  the  good  of  the  world  in  this,  he  will  think  it  needful  to 
rest,  and  to  solace  himself  in  the  conscience  of  doing  good,  though 
his  reward  be  not  here.  God  is  not  unrighteous  to  forget  any  work 
or  labour  of  love. 

I  think  I  have  spoken  in  the  former  part  of  this  paper  to  the 
severals  in  your  letter,  I  shall  conclude  these  present  lines  with  the 
desires  of  your  health  and  welfare,  and  the  assurances  that  I  am 

Yours  affectionately  and  faithfully, 

Feb.  3,  1661-2.  J.[ohn]  W.[orthington.] 

reckoned,  as  lie  assures  us,  by  Hamezali  Aspabanensis,  from  an  eminent  lexicographer, 
at  twelve  millions,  three  hundred  and  fifty  thousand,  fifty  and  two.  .  .  .  This  book, 
Carmen  Tograi,  was  printed  at  Oxford,  in  the  year  1661,  by  the  particular  care  and 
direction  of  the  very  learned  Mr.  Samuel  Clarke,  archityjiographus  of  that  University, 
who  not  only  made  a  preface  to  it,  but  also  added  a  suitable  treatise  of  hi?  own,  con- 
cerning the  Arabic  Prosodia.  The  treatise  he  dedicated  to  Dr.  Pocock  in  an  epistle 
for  that  purpose."  —  (Pocock's  Life,  edit.  1816,  8vo,  pp.  217-9,  252.)  Bishop  War- 
burton,  who  had  not  the  highest  reverence  for  Oriental  learning,  often  in  joke  men- 
tioned to  young  students  the  number  of  words  in  Arabic,  which  Pocock  has  given 
(12,350,052),  as  a  wonderful  inducement  to  the  study  of  the  language. 
'  See  vol.  i.  p.  176. 


1661-2]  OF  DR.  WORTHIXGTOX.  105 

S.  Hartlib  to  Dr.  IVorthington. 
Worthy  Sir, 

I  have  received  some  remarkable  particulars,  which  I  ^i^^^'lJ^-^^^; 
must  needs  impart  unto  you,  for  honest  Mr.  Serrarius  is  pleased  to  '^"^  *"  p-  ^^■ 
write  as  followeth :  "  I  received  your  last,  whereby  I  see  to  my 
great  grief  in  what  torments  you  continue  still.  The  Lord,  I  say 
again,  pardon  our  precipitancy,  and  repair  our  fault  through  his 
bountiful  mercy.  It  comforts  me  to  see  you  in  such  a  frame  of 
spirit  as  to  take  all  at  God's  hands,  and  to  submit  to  his  providence, 
how  hard  soever  to  flesh  and  blood.  This  his  work  I  beseech  him 
to  strengthen  ever.  Amen,  Lord  God.  I  have  sent  you  the  Ludus^ 
in  the  packet  of  Mr.  Comenius.  For  Sebaldus  Schnellius  I  gave 
order  to  enquire  at  Leyden  at  Mr.  Hornbeck's.  Of  Helmont  we 
have  nothing  but  that  from  all  parts  it  is  verified  that  he  is  kept 
very  close  and  strict;  nobody  is  admitted  to  speak  with  him  but 
only  the  Prince  of  Newburg's  guard.  It  is  thought  that  they  will 
force  from  him  some  of  his  father's  secret  sciences,  and  if  not,  to 
deliver  him  up  to  the  inquisition  as  a  seducer  of  the  Prince  of 
Sultzbach,  from  having  brought  him  into  Holland  amongst  heretics. 
Mr.  Dury  is  coming  back  from  the  Landgrave  of  Hesse  to  Frank- 
fort on  the  Maine^  and  is  like  from  thence  to  go  towards  Geneva. 
It  seems  he  is  to  frame  an  Harmonia  Confessionum  inter  Pro- 
testantes,  unto  which  purpose  he  should  go  thither.  As  for  Godefrey 
the  patient,  he  seems  to  be  now  in  the  same  posture  as  before  he 
knew  this  chymaster.  He  was  soulCided  or  searched  a  week  or  two 
ago,  because  Reisner  would  persuade  men  that  Godefrey  feigned  to 
have  the  stone  and  had  it  not ;  but  it  was  found  he  had  a  huge  one, 
so  that  Reisner  in  the  presence  of  div^ers  was  put  to  shame.     I  kindly 

'  \\Tiether  the  Liidus  ever  arrived  or  not,  and  whether,  if  it  did,  the  adeptus  man- 
aged to  extract  the  oleum  which  was  to  work  such  a  wonderful  cure,  we  hare  no  in- 
telligence. Poor  Hartlib,  at  all  events,  was  not  destined  to  be  a  successful  instance 
of  its  application.  Empiricism  had  done  its  worst  with  him,  and  he  was  not  long  to 
endure  the  torture  of  disease  and  the  troubles  of  life,  which  seem  to  have  accumulated 
as  he  approached  to  its  close. 

VOL.  II.  P 


106  DIARY  AND   CORRESPONDENCE  [1661-2 

thank  you  for  the  communication  of  your  new  way  of  cutting  the 
stone.  I  have  imparted  the  same  to  some,  and  will  see  what  further 
use  can  be  made  of  it.  I  was  last  week  at  Glauber's^  house,  found 
him  yet  very  sick,  though  in  a  recovering  way  for  life,  though  not 
for  perfect  health.  He  said  that  against  next  Easter  he  would  give 
forth  what  he  promised.  Here  goes  strange  rumours,  and  are 
printed,  as  if  there  were  a  strong  insurrection  in  England,  which 
made  his  Majesty  to  fly ;  God  forbid  that  should  be  true.'^^  The 
letter  is  dated  Feb.  3. 

Mr.  Comenius  of  the  same  date  is  pleased  to  write  as  followeth : 
"  Res  in  Hungaria  et  Polonia  ita  confuste  adhuc  sunt,  ut  quorsum 
vis  providentise  tendat,  nondum  satis  in  conspectu  est.  Hostes  cer- 
te  nihil  nisi  reliquiarum  ecclesise  oppressionem,  totalemq.,  extirpa- 
tionem  moliri  ostendunt.  Quid  autem  Deus  adhuc  sit  permissurus, 
aut  qualia  illis  capistra  injecturus,  inter  spem  et  metum,  malleumq. 
et  incudem  constituti,  miseri  fideles  humiliter  coelos  prospectant. 
Evigila  Deus  propter  teipsum,  ovesq,  ad  mactandum  destinatos  eripe  : 
cujus  misericordia?  ego  te  commendo." 

I  thought  to  have  added  some  other  remarkable  matters,  but  it 
hath  pleased  God  to  visit  my  chamber  with  a  very  sad  and  fearful 
accident  of  fire,  my  boy  overheating  indiscreetly   my  iron   stove, 

1  For  an  account  of  John  Rudolf  Grlauber,  whose  chemical  discoveries  have  acquired 
for  him  a  lasting  fame,  see  Chalmers's  Biog.  Diet,  and  the  various  Encyclopaedias. 
His  pursuits,  like  those  of  most  of  the  experimentalists  of  his  day,  were  the  panacea 
and  the  philosopher's  stone,  and  though  he  missed  these  great  objects  of  his  search, 
he  undoubtedly  struck  out  many  brilliant  lights  by  the  way.  One  of  his  most  im- 
portant discoveries  is  that  of  the  salt  which  bears  his  name,  to  which  a  long  list  of 
others,  which  have  wonderfully  contributed  to  the  advancement  of  the  science  of 
chemistry,  might  be  added.  He  was  born  in  Germany  at  the  end  of  the  sixteenth  or 
beginning  of  the  seventeenth  century,  and  died  at  Amsterdam  in  16G8.  His  works, 
which  are  well  worth  a  minute  examination,  from  the  mixture  of  gold  and  alloy,  of 
truth  and  fallacy,  which  almost  every  page  discloses,  and  which  always  affords  a  study 
to  the  philosophical  observer  of  the  progress  of  the  human  mind,  were  translated  into 
English  by  Christopher  Pack,  and  published  at  London  in  1689,  folio. 

2  These  rumours  were  probably  occasioned  by  the  Sham  or  Presbyterian  plot,  a 
curious  account  of  which  is  given  by  Captain  Andrew  Yarranton  in  his  pamphlet,  pub- 
lished in  1681.     See  also  Ralph's  History,  vol.  i.  p.  53. 


1661-3]  OF  DR.  WORTHINGTON.  107 

which  burnt  in  pieces  a  wooden  mantle-tree,  and  would  have  set  the 
whole  house  on  fire  if  it  had  broken  out  in  the  night  season ;  yet 
many  of  my  things  were  spoiled.  But  blessed  be  God  that  it  was  so 
soon  observed  and  resisted,  it  being  at  noon  day.  I  pray  let  me 
know  in  your  next  whether  I  have  imparted  already  the  new  way  of 
cutting  the  stone,  used  by  the  operator  at  Castres.  I  could  wish  Dr. 
Whichcote,  now  being  with  you,  he  knew  my  sad  condition,  whose 
unfeigned  purpose  is  to  live  and  die, 

Worthy  Sir, 
Your  very  heartily,  &c., 
Feb.  6,  1661-2.  Sara.  Hartlib,  sen. 


S.  Hartlib  to  Dr.  Worthington. 

Worthy  Sir, 

I  hope  you  have  or  will  receive  all  my  former  which  I  taker's  Camb. 
have  sent  of  late,  for  as  yet  I  could  not  answer  your  last  of  Feb.  3  ;  red  tojp.  13. 
and  this  may  be  the  last  of  mine  for  aught  I  know,  being  very  much 
tormented  in  body,  and  afflicted  in  mind  by  reason  of  that  lamenta- 
ble fire  that  broke  out  in  my  study,  as  I  wrote  formerly.  I  am  glad 
Mr.  Patrick^s  paper  of  illustrious  providences  is  at  last  come  to  your 
hands.  Dr.  More's  book  will  be  always  very  welcome  to  one  that 
professeth  himself  so  exactly  obliged  to  so  worthy  a  gentleman. 
Caleb  INIorley's  design  will  not  be  lost,  if  it  please  God  to  spare  a 
little  longer  Mr.  BeaFs  ingenious  and  industrious  life.  He  will  go 
near  to  give  you  a  particular  account  of  the  Mnemonical  work  that 
he  so  long  travelled  with. 

Mr.  Serrarius  writes  again,  Feb.  7 :  "  From  Helmont  we  have 
none  other  tidings  but  that  he  is  still  prisoner,  and  that  very  close, 
no  man  being  admitted  to  him.  They  accuse  him  of  seducing  the 
Prince  of  Sultzback,  and  of  having  spoken  ill  of  the  Jesuits,  and 
such  like  matters ;  whereas  their  aim  seems  to  be  no  other  but  to 
force  out  of  him  some  of  his  father's  secrets.  The  Lord  comfort  and 
strengthen  him  with  that  glorious  power  wherewith  Christ  overcame 


108  DIARY  AND  CORRESFONDENCE  [1661-2 

the  workl.""  He  adds :  "  As  for  your  way  of  cutting  the  stone,  I 
communicated  it  to  Jacob  CorneHs,  a  man  of  special  industry  in  that 
kind ;  as  likewise  to  two  doctors,  who  liked  very  well  of  it,  and  will 
see  to  get  the  ]3ractice  of  it  on  foot,  and  make  many  much  beholding 
both  to  you  and  Mr.  Oldenburg."  He  adds  also  :  "  That  the  redemp- 
tion of  Israel  is  drawing  near  ;^  I  take  it  from  hence,  (1.)  That  in  gene- 
ral they  are  now  fitter  for  mercy  than  ever,  because  they  are  now  in  a 
very  suffering  condition  for  wars  not  caused  by  themselves  but  by 
others.  (2.)  Because  the  throne  of  that  monarchy  which  holds  them 
captive  is  not  only  obscured,  but  seems  to  be  ready  to  fall,  and 
therefore,  very  like,  they  ready  to  rise.     (3.)  Because  I  heard  lately 

'  Dr.  Nathaniel  Homes,  in  his  "Ten  Excrcitations,"  published  in  this  year  (1661), 
looks  forward  to  the  restoration  of  the  Jews  as  near  at  hand :  "  There  is  a  fair  proba- 
bihty  now  afore  us,  that  the  Turk  at  present  invading  Europe  will  open  a  wide  oppor- 
tunity to  the  Jews  to  arise  to  return  into  their  own  land,  Eor  either  the  Turk,  by 
this  expedition  into  Europe,  will  be  forced  to  dry  up  Euphi-ates  (I  mean  drain  it  of 
all  the  fighting  Turks  inhabiting  thereabout),  drawing  them  after  him  to  his  assistance 
in  this  war;  or  else,  after  he  hath  beaten  down  the  idolatrous  papacy  (as  he  cals  it), 
being  a  great  impediment  to  the  call  of  the  Jews  (and  therefore  expected  to  precede 
before  the  fall  of  the  Turk),  the  Turk  in  this  his  bold  attempt  will  be  forced  to  fall  in 
battel,  with  a  mighty  slaughter,  to  the  utter  weakning  of  his  empire.  By  either  of 
which,  so  coming  to  passe,  the  Jews  are  likely  to  be  encouraged  to  take  the  field,  as- 
sisted with  the  Persians  (greatly  incensed  of  late  against  the  Turk),  among  whom  the 
Jews  numerously  live.  And  when  we  see  the  Jews  with  their  assistants  able  to  keep 
the  field,  then  behold  the  critical  day  of  the  prelude  of  the  forty-five  years  (Dan.  xii., 
two  last  verses).  I  .=iay  then,  or  near  to  begin,  which  are  the  ante-scene  to  the  glo- 
rious state." — The  Resurrection  Revealed  raised  above  Doubts  and  Difficulties  in  Ten 
Excrcitations,  by  Dr.  Nathaniel  Homes,  Lond.  1661,  folio,  p.  179.  This  learned  di- 
vine's expectations  were  not  doomed  to  be  realized ;  however,  in  a  subsequent  work 
written  by  him,  in  my  possession,  which  is  so  rare  that  it  appears  to  have  been  un- 
known to  all  his  biographers,  entitled  "  Miscellanea,  consisting  of  Three  Treatises," 
London,  printed  for  the  author,"  folio,  N.D. ;  but  circ.  1666,  he  has  a  chapter  styled 
"  Some  Glimpses  of  Israel's  Call  approaching,  from  Scripture,  reason,  and  experiences," 
in  which  he  observes  :  "  For  the  present  year,  1665  (within  five  days  now  expiring), 
msyis  eyes  svjjlciently  'perceive  the  Jews  cease  trading,  pack  up,  and  are  marcldug." 
Page  16.  Probably  the  doctor's  eyes,  as  has  been  the  fate  of  many  an  Apocalyptical 
interpreter,  deceived  him  as  to  this  movement  of  the  Jews.  If  any  such  exodus  took 
place,  and  no  writer  has  mentioned  it  that  I  am  aware  of,  the  plague  of  London  would 
have  more  to  do  with  it  than  anv  call  in  an  eastern  direction. 


1661-2]  OF  DR.  WORTIiINGTON.  109 

of  a  Jew  from  Cracovia,  that  there  they  have  much  fasting,  pray- 
ings, and  humiliations  of  themselves  for  mercy  and  restoration  from 
the  hand  of  Grod ;  at  which  hearing  I  was  much  rejoiced  and  con- 
ceived a  hope  their  redemption  must  be  nigh."  Thus  far  Mr, 
Serrarius. 

We  hear  nothing  more  of  the  Elector  of  Mentz  his  proposals  of 
pacification.  I  have  heard  of  nothing  of  late  from  Mr.  Pocock,  Mr. 
Boyle  having  been  so  long  absent  from  him.  The  said  gentleman  is 
refuting  Mr.  Hobbes's  book,i  come  out  against  him  not  long  ago.  I 
thank  you  for  the  advertisement  you  have  given  of  the  second  vo- 
lume of  the  Lexicon  Polyglotton.  O  what  shame  it  is  that  labori- 
ous Dr.  Oastel  is  not  better  encouraged  nor  rewarded,  and  that  the 
great  pretending  world  knows  no  better  Dr.  Worthington  than  yet 
they  do.  But  your  great  labours  and  usefulness  shall  never  be  in 
vain  in  the  Lord,  to  whose  love  you  are  so  heartily  commended. 
Last  Thursday  the  Queen  of  Bohemia,^  seventy-two  years  of  age,  de- 
parted this  world.  She  died  at  Leicester  House  in  the  Fields.  His 
Majesty  would  have  removed  her  to  Denmark  or  Somerset  House 
had  the  physicians  consented  to  it.  But  of  this  I  doubt  not  you  will 
hear  more  from  others.     I  desire  to  live  and  die, 

Worthy  Sir, 
Your  most  affectionately  obliged,  faithful 
friend  to  love  and  serve  you^ 

Feb.  14,  1661-2.  Sam.  Hartlib,  Sen. 

^  This  was  Hobbes's  Dialogus  Physicus,  Loud.  1661,  4to,  to  whicb  Boyle  replied  in 
his  Examen,  Lond.  1662,  4to. 

^  The  eventful  life  of  this  eldest  daughter  of  James  I.  has  at  length  fouud  in  Miss 
Green  a  biographer,  who  wiU  do  ample  justice  to  the  subject.  Her  narrative,  in  a 
great  measure  compiled  from  sources  hitherto  unexamined,  is  at  present  carried  on  to 
1642  only  (Lives  of  the  Princesses  of  England,  vol.  v.  pp.  145-573),  but  will  be  con- 
cluded in  the  next  volume  of  her  work.  Hartlib  is  mistaken  with  respect  to  the 
Queen's  age.  The  Kingdom's  IntelUgencer  gives  it  more  correctly :  "  She  died  on  St. 
Valentine's  eve,  February  13  (which  was  the  eve  of  her  marriage,  1612),  in  the  66th 
year  of  her  age,  having,  with  inexpressible  patience  and  candour,  borne  the  successes 
and  changes  to  which  mortal  princes  are  subject,  and  at  last,  after  so  many  years'  ab- 
sence, returned  to  sleep  with  her  royal  ancestors  at  Westminster."  —  (Kingdom's  In- 
telligencer of  February  17,  1661-2.) 


110  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1661-3 


Feb.  2,  9,  16.     I  preached  at  Ditton. 

Feb.  18.    This  morning,  about  four  o'clock,  arose  a  mighty  wind. 


Dr.  Worthingion  to  S.  Hartlib. 

Sir, 
worthington's  Both  yours  I  received,  and  I  am  glad  that  my  former 

p.  313.  '  letter  of  February  3  came  safe  to  you.  Dr.  Whichcote  was  returned 
to  London  before  yours  came.  I  have  not  heard  from  Mr.  Fox- 
croft's  at  Finsbury  since  Dr.  Whichcote  returned  hither. 

I  was  sorry  to  hear  of  your  late  danger  by  the  fire  in  your  study, 
which  might  have  been  more  devouring  and  terrible  had  it  been  in 
the  night.  I  hope  that  the  violence  was  prevented  from  destroying 
many  of  your  papers,  and  that  Horrox  his  Venus  in  Sole  Visa  (if  it 
were  there)  is  safe.  I  have  no  other  copies  but  those  papers,  which 
are  the  author's  original,  and  I  question  whether  there  be  any  other. 

Something  answerable  to  your  sufferings  by  fire  I  have  experienced 
in  the  violence  of  the  late  wind.^  It  was  in  the  morning,  else  it  had 
been  more  dreadful.  I  feared  it  would  have  proceeded  to  have  done 
more  prejudice  than  the  uncovering  the  roofs  and  beating  doAvn  the 
walls  in  several  places  of  my  dwelling,  even  to  have  overturned  the 
structure,  as  it  hath  done  in  some  towns  and  some  parts  of  this  vil- 
lage. To  repair  these  damages  will  cost  money,  but  it  might  have 
made  our  houses  our  sepulchres,  and  buried  many  families  in  the  ruins 
of  their  houses.  God  always  inflicts  less  than  we  deserve.  Scarce 
any  wind  hath  been  known  like  to  this,  except  that  in  the  year  1636, 

'  "This  morning,  about  two  of  the  clock,  February  18,  began  a  most  violent  storm 
of  rain,  mixt  with  lightning,  which  lasted  about  two  hours,  after  which  followed  such 
an  impetuous  tempest  of  wind  that  I  think  the  like  was  never  known  in  these  parts. 
It  continued  till  almost  noon.  There  was  scarce  any  safety  within  doors  or  without. 
There  is  not  a  church  nor  house  in  this  city  but  hath  received  some  considerable  loss. 
The  highways  arc  so  full  of  fallen  trees,  that  travellers  can  hardly  pass."  —  Hereford. 
(Kingdom's  Intelligencer  of  the  21th  February,  1661-2.) 


1661-2]  OF   DR.  WORTHINGTON.  Ill 

in  the  beginning  of  November,  which  Dr.  Jackson  hath  taken  notice 
of  in  his  writings. 

I  hope  your  pain  of  the  stone,  though  grievous  to  endure,  is  not  so 
near  the  putting  a  period  to  your  days  of  service  liere ;  but  that  as 
heretofore  you  have  been  preserved  when  it  was  thus  with  you,  it 
may  be  so  still,  and  that  you  may  live  to  enjoy  that  contentment 
which  you  promise  yourself  in  this  improved  edition  of  Dr.  More's 
five  books  in  one  volume.  You  ask  me  whether  I  ever  received  the 
new  way  of  cutting  the  stone  used  by  the  operator  at  Castres  ?  I 
never  saw  it.  I  have  heard  of  a  Scotchman  that  had  a  new  way,  but 
whether  that  be  it  you  mean  I  know  not. 

The  character  of  that  excellent  Prince  Ernestus,  Duke  of  Wei- 
mar, is  so  good  that  I  could  have  read  it  if  enlarged  into  a  volume. 
I  remember  three  or  four  years  since  Mr.  Dury  spake  of  him  some 
things  to  this  purpose,  and  perhaps  he  wrote  the  letter  that  gives  this 
character.  Were  it  enlarged  into  more  particulars,  so  as  to  make  a 
little  Golden  Manual,  it  would  be  an  excellent  idea  for  some  to  look 
upon  when  it  is  thought  fit  to  be  published. 

The  news  of  tiie  Jews"  fasting  and  humiliations  is  very  grateful, 
and  if  it  were  not  only  in  some  one  or  few  places  (for  which  perhaps 
there  may  be  some  particular  reasons  or  occasions),  but  more  general 
and  universal,  it  is  the  best  of  the  three  grounds  your  letter  mentions 
of  the  hope  that  their  redemption  draws  nigh.  I  remember  R. 
Kimchi^  upon  Hosea,  and  others  elsewhere,  speak  of  a  great  Teshu- 
bah,  or  repentance^  as  preparative  to  their  restoration,  and  upon 
Isai  lix.  20,  they  say  "  Oonjuncta  est  poenitentia  redemptioni.""  But 
for  the  spirit  and  temper  of  the  Jews  and  of  their  writings,  it  seems 
very  distant  from  the  holy  religion  advanced  by  our  Saviour  in  the 
world.  There  is  very  little  sense  and  savour  of  what  is  divinely 
moral  in  their  writings.  The  Pythagoreans  and  Platonists  were  by 
many  degrees  more  evderot  ei?  jBaaiXetav  rov  ©eov,  fit  and  disposed 

'  David  Kimchi,  a  reno\NTied  Spanish  Rabbi,  who  died  at  a  very  advanced  age  about 
1240.  His  Hebrew  works  are  in  high  repute  amongst  the  Jews,  and  amongst  them 
are  his  Commentaries  on  the  Psalms,  Proverbs,  and  most  of  the  other  Books  (includ- 
ing Hosea)  of  the  Old  Testament. 


113  DIAUY    AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1661-2 

for  the  kingdom  of  God,  and  seemed  to  have  a  more  inward  apprehen- 
sion and  hearty  reHsh  of  what  was  virtuous  and  divine  ;  their  concep- 
tions were  more  generous,  and  more  expressive  of  what  is  worthy  and 
perfective  of  the  soul.  Whereas  there  is  a  great  silence  in  the  Jews' 
writings  about  what  is  practical,  and  refers  to  a  life  exemplary  in  good- 
ness ;  they  speak  in  the  scripture  phrase,  but  it  is  about  the  lighter  and 
lesser  matters  of  the  law ;  they  run  out  into  fond  niceties  about  letters 
and  words  ;^  they  are  great  self-lovers,  priding  themselves  in  the  pri- 
vileges of  their  nation  ;  and  are  very  unspiritual  in  their  thoughts  of 
Messias,  and  the  good  the  world  \vas  to  receive  by  him.  The  best 
thing  of  them  and  their  writings  is  that  which  relates  to  customs 
and  antiquities,  which  are  of  use  for  the  understanding  of  the  Scrip- 
tures. The  more  their  dogmata,  their  spirit  and  notions,  are  known, 
the  better  is  a  Christian  enabled  to  deal  with  them.  It  must  be  a 
mighty  spirit  of  humiliation  and  repentance  poured  out  upon  them 
that  must  make  such  a  people  ready  for  the  Lord,  whose  principles 
and  practices  are  so  undivine,  so  distant  from  the  spirit  of  Christ  and 
the  best  rules  of  the  best  life  delivered  by  Him,  the  Great  Prophet 
and  best  Teacher  of  Souls. 

Having  occasion  lately  to  look  into  Dr.  Lightfoofs'^  Horse  Hebraicae 
and  Talmudicse  Impensse,  1 — In  Chorographiam  terrse  Israeliticse, 
2 — In  Evangelium  S.  Matthsei,  printed  at  Cambridge  about  three  or 

'  This  brings  to  mind  the  fine  passage  in  Warburton's  Divine  Legation,  where  he 
adverts  to  the  light  to  be  derived  from  the  various  vrriters  on  the  Mosaic  Dispensa- 
tion. After  noticing  the  Christian  divines,  he  proceeds  :  "  Much  less  are  we  to  hope 
from  the  Jewish  doctors,  who,  though  they  still  inhabit,  as  it  were,  the  ruins  of  this 
august  and  awful  fabric  ;  yet  it  is  with  the  same  barbarity  of  taste  and  impotence  of 
science,  that  the  present  Greeks  hide  themselves  among  the  mouldering  monuments 
of  Attic  power  and  politeness  ; — who,  as  our  travellers  inform  us,  can  do  no  more  to- 
wards the  support  of  those  prodigies  of  their  forefathers'  art  than  to  whitewash  the 
Parian  marble  with  chalk,  or  to  incrust  the  porphyry  and  granate  with  tiles  and 
potsherds."  I  quote  the  passage  from  the  second  edition  of  volume  ii.  of  the  Divine 
Legation  (17i-2,  8vo,  p.  367).  Like  many  other  passages,  it  is  not  improved  by  the 
alterations  in  the  later  editions  of  that  delightful  work.  Warburton's  habit  of  con- 
stantly altering  his  language  in  the  successive  editions  of  the  Divine  Legation,  and 
generally  with  an  injurious  effect,  is  noticed  in  an  early  prolusion  of  the  editor,  "An 
Essay  on  Warburton  and  Johnson,"  —  (Blackwood's  Magazine,  vol.  viii.) 

2  See,  as  to  Lightfoot,  vol.  i.  p,  53. 


1661-2]  OF   DR.  WORTHINGTON.  113 

four  years  since,  I  thought  that  when  you  have  occasion  to  write  to 
Leyden,  it  would  be  very  acceptable  for  an}'  one  to  inform  Cocceius 
of  it.  For  (if  he  hath  not  seen  it)  the  first  part  of  it,  viz.,  Centuria 
Chorographica  might  be  of  some  use  to  him  in  his  edition  of  Josephus, 
because  much  of  Josephus  is  referred  to  all  along  and  further  ex- 
plained out  of  Hebrew  antiquities,  which  make  mention  of  the 
several  places  in  Jerusalem  and  the  Holy  Land ;  especially  those 
books  of  Josephus  de  Bello  Judaico  are  continually  referred  to  in  this 
treatise. 

I  have  seen  J\Ir.  Pocock's  Tograi,  a  short  Arabic  poem,  with  his 
notes  upon  it,  w'hich  yet  are  most  grammatical.  The  lofty  strain  of 
the  eastern  nations  is  discernible  in  it.  There  is  also  added  to  it 
Prosodia  Arabica,  a  new  work  by  Mr.  Clerk,  who  had  a  great  stroke 
in  the  Biblia  Polyglotta ;  and  I  was  much  pleased  to  read  in  the 
preface,  that  very  shortly  will  be  extant,  by  the  labours  of  Mr.  Po- 
cock,  Gregorii  Abul-Pharagii^  Historia  Dynastiarum,  a  specimen  of 

1  "  Gregorius  Abul  Pliarajius's  History  of  tlie  Dynasties,  translated  by  Dr.  Poeock, 
was  at  that  time  in  or  ready  for  the  Oxford  press,  the  edition  of  which  was  finished 
in  the  year  1663.  That  part  of  this  book  which  gives  an  account  of  the  rise  of  Ma- 
homet, the  doctor  had  published,  as  it  has  been  shewn,  several  years  before ;  and, 
upon  the  importunity  of  several  learned  men,  who  were  much  pleased  with  that  spe- 
cimen (more  particidarly  of  his  friend,  Dr.  Langbaine,  who  had  earnestly  pressed 
him  to  it  before  his  death)  the  whole  was  now  printed  in  the  original  Arabic,  with 
his  Latin  version  of  it.  This  Abul  Pharajius  was  a  Christian  of  the  Jacobite  sect, 
of  great  fame  for  learning,  not  only  among  those  of  his  own  religion,  but  among 
the  Jews  too,  and  Mahometans ;  and  this  work  of  his  is  a  compendium  of  the  general 
history  of  the  world  from  the  creation  to  his  own  time.  It  is  divided  by  him  into 
ten  dynasties  or  governments ;  for  so  many  he  reckons  up,  which  are  these  following. 
The  first  is  that  of  the  Holy  Patriarchs,  from  Adam  the  first  man  ;  the  second,  of  the 
Judges  in  Israel;  the  third,  of  the  Kings  thereof;  the  fourth,  of  the  Chaldeans;  the 
fifth,  of  the  Magi  or  Persians ;  the  sixth,  of  the  Greeks  that  were  idolaters ;  the 
seventh,  that  of  the  Franks,  for  so  he  calls  the  Eomans  ;  the  eighth,  of  the  Greeks, 
who  were  Christians  ;  the  ninth,  of  the  Saracens  ;  and  tenth,  of  the  J\J  ogul  Tartars. 
This  work,  as  is  noted  above,  was  published  anno  1663,  and  dedicated  to  his  Majesty 
King  Charles  the  Second ;  but  the  love  of  Arabic  learning  was  now  waxed  cold,  and 
the  entire  piece  of  Abul  Pharajius  in  the  year  1663,  met  with  smaU  encouragement, 
whilst  a  specimen  of  it,  anno  1649,  had  given  pleasure  to  all  the  learned  world."  — 
(Pocock's  Life,  by  Twells,  prefixed  to  his  Theological  works,  vol.  i.  1740,  folio,  p.  60.) 

VOL.  II.  Q 


114  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1661-2 

which  Mr.  Pocock  published  ten  years  since.  The  character  of  this 
MS.  history  is  thus  given  by  Abraham  Echellensis :  "  Gregorius 
Abul-Pharagius,  vir  sua  setate  doctissimus  in  Historia  Dynastiarum 
non  solum  diligenter  diserteque  ])rincipum  gesta  describit,  et  rerum 
varios  eventus  et  successus  ab  orbe  condito  ad  sua  tempora  enarrat ; 
sed  et  peculiari  quadam  sectione  recenset,  quinam  sub  singulis 
principibus  floruerint  viri  in  scientiis  illustres,  qurenam  et  qua 
lingua  ediderent  opera,  eorumque  apothegmata  et  praeclara  facta 
inserit."  So  Abraham  Echellensis  Maronita,  Syriac£E  et  Arabicse 
linguae  in  Acad.  Parisiensi  Professor. 

I  do  (as  you)  resent  Dr.  CastelPs  condition  and  merits.  As  for 
myself,  whom  you  also  reflect  upon,  if  God  will  use  such  a  nothing 
as  I  am,  I  have  devoted  myself  to  the  seeking  and  endeavouring 
what  may  be  for  the  good  of  men,  and  the  advancement  of  that  know- 
ledge especially  which  is  Kar  evae^ecav.  I  measure  and  value 
the  excellency  and  worth  of  things  by  their  respect  and  tendency  to 
the  best  end. 

I  have  filled  all  this  paper.  I  conclude  with  the  assurance  that 
I  am, 

Yours, 

Feb.  24,  1661-2.  J.[ohn]  W.  [orthington.]  ^ 


1661-2. 

Feb.  23,  Mar.  2,  16,  28,  80  (Easter  Day).  I  preached  at  Ditton, 
and  April  6. 

April  14.    Dr.  Pearson  was  [appointed]  Master  of  Trinity  College. 

April  20.     I  preached  at  Ditton. 

April  21 .  Dr.  Beaumont  was  [appointed]  Master  of  Jesus  Col- 
lege. 

May  4,  11.     I  preached  at  Ditton. 

'  Hero  tlio  correspondence  between  Worthington  and  Hartlib  terminates,  the 
latter's  foreboding  in  the  preceding  letter,  "  thia  may  be  the  last  of  mine,"  being,  it 
appears,  realized. 


1662]  OF  DR.  WORTHIXGTOX.  115 

May  14.     This  day  the  Queen  landed  at  Portsmouth,  about  four 
in  the  afternoon.* 

May  23,  1662.  This  day  died  Mr.  Sam.  Jewell,  Fellow  of  Jesus 
College,  one  of  singular  worth. 

May  18,  25.  I  preached  at  Ditton.  June  1.  I  preached  at 
Milton. 

Jun.  10.  I  went  from  Ditton.  Jun.  11.  I  came  to  London. 
June  27.  I  came  to  Cambridge.     Laus  Deo. 

Jun.  29,  Feb.  6.     I  preached  at  Ditton,  and  July  13. 

July  8.  I  began  to  send  some  pieces  of  Mr.  Mede  to  London  for 
the  press. 

Jul.  19.  I  was  at  the  Visitation  at  Cambridge;  paid  6s.  for 
exhibits. 

July  20.     I  preached  at  Milton,  and  July  27,  at  Ditton. 

July  31.  I  received  from  Mr.  Nay  lor  my  animadversions  on  his 
MS.,  which  I  sent  to  Mr.  Paschall. 

Aug.  3,  10,  17.     I  preached  at  Ditton. 

Aug.  20.     I  went  to  London.     Aug.  22.  Came  out  of  London. 

[Here  follows  a  certificate  from  the  Archbishop  of  Canterbury  and 
William  Sherman,  Registrar,  dated  the  21st  August,  1662,  of  Wor- 
thington's  having  made  the  declaration  of  subscription  required  by 
the  Act  of  Uniformity.] 

Aug.  23.     I  came  to  Cambridge.     Laus  Deo. 

Aug.  31,  Sept.  7,  14,  21,  28.  I  preached  at  Ditton,  and  Oct.  5, 
12,  19,  26. 

Sept.  29.     Damaris  began  to  go  alone. 

Nov.  2,  5,  9,  16,  22,  SO,  Dec.  7.     I  preached  at  Ditton. 

Dec.  12.  Damaris  fell  from  the  high  chair,  but  had  no  hurt. 
Laus  Deo. 

'  On  the  news  of  the  Queen's  landing,  all  the  bells  in  London  rang,  and  bonfires 
were  kindled  for  joy  of  her  arrival.  The  King  was  supping  with  Lady  Castlemaine 
that  night ;  but  there  was  no  bonfire  at  her  door,  though  at  almost  every  other  door 
in  the  street,  which,  says  Pepys,  was  much  observed.  See  Miss  Strickland's  amusing 
narrative  of  the  particulars  attending  the  Queen's  arrival.  —  Lives  of  the  Queens,  vol. 
V.  (edit.  1851)  p.  512. 


116  DIARY   AND   CORRESPONDENCK  [1662-3 

Dec.  14,  21,  25,  Jan.  4,  11,  25,  Feb.  8,  22,  Mar.  ],  8,  15,  22.    I 
preached  at  Ditton. 


To  his  Revd.  good  friend  Dr.  Worthington,  at  Ditton. 
[From  Dr.  Stephens.] 

The  civil  courtesies  that  I  have  formerly  received  from  you  in 
Jesus  College,  oblige  me  to  an  acknowledgement  and  to  make  a 
grateful  return,  if  in  anything  I  may  serve  you.  I  find  by  some  dis- 
course at  Ely  House  that  it  is  probable  you  will  be  lifted  at  for 
Ditton ;  and  although  your  title  may  prove  good,  yet  it  will  not  be 
maintained  without  trouble  and  expense.  And  I  believe  it  may  lie 
in  my  power  to  prevent  it,  if  you  will  embrace  a  fair  exchange. 
The  living  that  I  propose  lies  in  Suffolk,  in  an  excellent  good  air, 
and  has  a  very  convenient  house,  of  the  value  of  above  £M^^)  per 
annum,  to  speak  modestly  of  it.  The  difficulty  will  lie  on  my  part 
to  procure  the  presentation  to  both.  If  this  motion  be  agreeable  to 
you,  let  me  know  your  mind  in  a  line  or  two,  which  my  cousin  Day 
of  Cambridge  will  convey  to  me.  If  there  be  occasion,  I  will  come 
down  that  way  from  London,  and  discourse  forther  with  you  about 
it.  However,  conceal  the  intimation  I  have  given  you,  lest  my 
designed  courtesy  to  you  prove  a  discourtesy  to  myself.  I  shall  be 
very  glad  if  I  can  effectually  show  myself. 

Sir, 
Your  very  afi'cctionate  and  humble  servant, 

London,  Apr.  18,  1663.  Thos.  Ste])hens.i 


To  Dr.  Stephens  [from  Dr.  Worthington.] 
Worthy  Sir, 

Yours  of  April  18  1  received,  and  I  thank  you  for  the  kind- 
ness of  your  lines.     Those  poor  civilities  which  you  are  pleased  to 

'  See  an  account  of  Dr.  Thomas  Stephens  vol.  i.  p.  46. 


1663]  OF  DU.   WORTHINGTON.  117 

mention  were  but  such  as  I  thought  due  to  yourself  and  others  that 
had  been  of  the  College,  which  I  therefore  performed  with  all 
alacrity,  and  without  the  least  design  of  retribution. 

I  thank  for  your  intimation  of  the  discourse  about  Ditton,  a  place 
which  I  was  often  moved  to  by  Dr.  Collins,*  whose  respected  desire 
it  was  (almost  as  often  as  he  was  pleased  to  honour  me  with  his 
frequent  visits)  that  I  might  succeed  him  in  that  benefice.  But  I 
never  heard  from  him,  nor  any  other  person  in  the  least,  that  the 
Bishop  of  Ely  used  to  present  to  that  place,  till  many  years  after  (by 
the  notice  I  had  from  Dr  H.).  And  so  what  appearance  there 
might  seem  of  omission  of  due  respect,  it  was  purely  from  ignorance, 
and  that  unattended  with  any  pravity  of  disposition.  If  any  new 
antagonist  design  me  (notwithstanding  the  clearness  of  the  Act  of 
Parliament,  which  was  then  but  in  fieri  when  Dr.  H.  moved)  any 
new  trouble,  and  enforce  me  a  journey  to  Westminster  Hall  to 
prove  that  I  was  in  possession  before  the  25th  of  December  men- 
tioned in  the  Act,  I  cannot  help  the  trouble  of  a  journey,  but  the 
expenses  will  not  hurt  me.  I  shall  be  in  charity,  and  meditate  no 
other  revenge  than  to  return  good  for  evil,  and  to  pray  for  him  that 
God  would  forgive  him  the  trouble  he  gives  to  one  that  is  for  peace 
on  earth  and  good  will  to  all  the  world.  If  it  were  to  part  with 
cloak  or  coat,  the  case  were  otherwise  than  to  cast  away  awavTa  rov 
^lov,  and  that  not  upon  the  poor,  but  it  may  be  upon  those  that  are 
more  fit  to  give  than  to  receive. 

If  I  could  have  heard  of  some  place  of  competent  provision  else- 
where, so  it  were  near  to  good  libraries  or  to  some  place  of  books,  I 
had  not  this  occasion  of  writing.  The  remainder  of  my  life  I  have 
devoted  more  particularly  to  books,  and  the  service  of  ingenuous 
scholars  wherein  I  am  capable. 

As  for  the  latter  part  of  your  letter,  it  is  not  possible  for  me  to 
return  a  full  answer  to  so  important  a  matter,  except  I  understood 
more  of  the  particulars.  You  shall  be  heartily  welcome,  if  you  will 
be  pleased  to  call  on  me  in  your  return  to  Bury,  whereby  I  may  be 

'  See  vol  i.  p.  46. 


118  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1663 

better  enabled  to  speak  to  that  which  as  yet  I  am  too  ignorant  of, 
being  hinted  in  the  general. 

[John  Worthiugton.] 


To  Dr.  Stephens  [from  Dr.  Worthington.] 

Sir, 

Yesterday  I  returned  a  speedy  answer  to  yours.  It  came 
to  me  in  the  afternoon,  and  I  was  not  free  from  the  company  of  some 
neighbours  who  came  to  visit  us;  yet  because  I  understood  that 
a  speedy  answer  was  desired,  and  would  be  most  acceptable  to  you, 
I  delayed  not  to  gratify  you  therein,  though  an  affair  of  this  import- 
ance would  require  some  greater  proportions  of  time  for  consideration 
and  the  most  deliberate  thoughts.  Having  immediately  despatched 
away  an  answer  by  the  same  messenger  that  brought  yours,  I 
thought  afterwards  of  some  things  that  might  have  been  added.  I 
should  have  intimated  to  you,  to  prevent  all  possible  disappointment 
if  you  should  call  here  while  I  might  be  absent,  that  1  am  invited 
to  a  visit  of  some  friends  in  the  borders  of  Cambridgeshire,  which, 
though  no  long  journey,  and  my  absence  therefore  will  not  be  long, 
yet  it  might  possibly  fall  out  at  that  time  when  your  occasions  call 
you  to  return  to  Bury ;  and  therefore  if  you  please  in  a  line  to  sig- 
nify when  your  return  will  probably  be  this  way,  I  should  not  fail 
to  be  (God  willing)  in  the  way.  I  am  very  often  at  Cambridge  by 
reason  of  some  particular  studies  which  require  my  being  often  and 
long  in  the  University  library  and  booksellers''  shops,  and  it  might 
happily  so  fall  out  that  I  might  be  at  Cambridge  when  }0u  are 
there  also,  perhaps  at  your  cousin  Day''s. 

I  might  also  in  my  former  letter  have  wished  to  have  known  the 
name  of  the  place  in  Suftblk  (a  county  of  which  I  have  some  know- 
ledge in  some  parts)  which  might  tho  better  have  enabled  me  to 
write  more  fully.  As  also  if  you  had  signified  the  person  who 
desires  to  be  disposed  here  (for  by  your  letter  he  should  seem  to  be 
some  third  j)erson).     And  to  speak  aXi]d€La<i  koI  o-cocjypoavvTjs  piifiara, 


1663]  OF  DR.  WORTHINGTOX.  119 

if  I  be  disposed  in  some  other  cure  (although  a  donative  or  some 
place  that  affords  more  vacancy  for  studies  than  one  that  is  accom- 
panied with  a  cure  of  souls  is  more  desirable)  I  could  heartily  desire 
that  the  person  who  succeeds  were  such  as  would  express  personal 
charity  to  the  souls  and  bodies  of  the  people,  and  not  live  I  do  not 
know  how  many  miles  distant  from  them  and  be  seldom  here,  as 
being  loaded  with  several  other  benefices,  or  places  of  trust  and 
profit,  such  as  (according  to  what  I  mentioned  in  my  yesterday's 
letter)  is  more  fit  to  give  than  to  receive,  that  is,  to  part  with  some 
of  the  many  places  to  those  that  want,  than  to  desire  the  single  one 
(the  one  little  ewe  lamb  in  the  parable)  which  others  are  con- 
tent with  and  thank  God  for.  For  now  it  comes  into  my  mind 
that  that  clause  in  my  letter  might  (if  it  miscarry  or  meet  with  the 
uncharitable  and  prejudiced)  be  distorted  to  sense  which  I  hold 
unworthy  and  sordid.  It  is  enough  to  hint  by  the  way  this  touch 
of  my  innocent  meaning  to  you,  who  have  better  eyes  and  a  more 
generous  candour  to  read  what  a  friend  writes.  You  will  please 
to  excuse  any  imperfections  in  my  lines,  the  more  for  my  haste 
in  writing.  I  shall  conclude  this  postscript  or  appendix  to  the  other 
letter  with  the  subscription  of 

[John  Worthington]. 


Dr.  Whichcote  in  a  Letter  to  Dr.  Worthington,  April  23,  1663. 
— Were  your  case  mine,  I  would  readily  close  with  an  offer 
to  remove  into  Suffolk  to  ^£'140  per  annum  upon  good 
terms ;  and  he  is  a  good  friend  indeed  who  will  under- 
take  and  perform  such  a  thing  for  you.  For  such 
circumstantiated  accommodations  as  you  mention  one 
may  wait  all  the  days  of  his  life  before  he  meet  with 
them.  Besides,  such  a  present  remove  as  you  mention 
(from  molestation)  will  not  hinder  your  future  closing 
with  what  may  fit  you  better  for  time  to  come. 


120  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1663 


To  his  Rev.  good  friend  Dr.  Worthington,  at  Ditton,  ^-c. 
[From  Dr.  Stephens.] 
Sir, 

In  your  last  of  Tuesday  morning  some  proposals  are  made 
which  are  better  answered  by  discourse  than  by  letter.  If  your 
occasions  call  you  to  Cambridge  next  week  on  Wednesday  or  Thurs- 
day, be  pleased  to  ask  for  me  at  my  cousin  Day's ;  otherwise,  send 
word  of  your  purpose  of  being  at  Ditton,  to  give  me  opportunity  of 
waiting  upon  you.  You  will  then  find  that  I  have  no  other  design 
but  entirely  to  serve  you  honestly.  And  you  may  be  assured  that  I 
have  more  candour  than  to  make  a  sinister  construction  of  anything 
in  your  letters.     You  wnll  really  find,  Sir,  that  I  am  unfeignedly. 

Your  servant, 
London,  Apr.  25,  1663.  Thos.  Stephens. 


To  his  honourable  friend  Dr.  Worthington,  at  Dr.  Whichcote's  house 
at  Blackfriars,  ^c. 
[From  Mr.  Francis  Theobald.] ' 
Honoured  Sir, 

This  day  as  I  was  riding  to  Ipswich  I  overtook  Mr.  Fair- 
fax, and  told  him  that  you  were  at  his  house  to  have  spoken  with 

'  Mr.  Francis  Theobald,  the  writer  of  this  letter,  was  the  Patron  of  the  living  of 
Barking.  Mr.  John  Fairfax  was  the  Incumbent,  but  was  turned  out  by  the  Act  of 
Uniformity.  Calamy  (Ejected  Ministers,  vol.  ii.  p.  642)  gives  a  very  high  character 
of  him.  "He  had  a  most  attracting  and  captivating  power  in  his  preaching.  His 
words  were  as  apples  of  gold  in  pictures  of  silver.  He  was  to  his  hearers  as  a  very 
lovely  song  of  one  that  had  a  pleasant  voice.  He  never  courted  preferment,  nor 
would  accept  of  it  when  it  woxild  have  tempted  him  from  the  poor  people  of  his  first 
love."  He  died  at  his  house  in  Barking,  August  11th,  1700,  in  the  seventy-seventh 
year  of  his  age.  His  funeral  sermon  was  preached  by  Mr.  Bury  of  St.  Edmund's 
Bury.  His  publications  are :  1.  The  Life  of  Mr.  Owen  Stockton,  with  his  Funeral 
Sermon,  1681,  12mo ;  2.  Primitirc  Synagogrc,  a  Sermon  preached  at  Ipswich  at  the 
opening  of  a  new  erected  Meeting-house ;  3.  Sermon  on  the  death  of  Mr.  Newcomen, 
but  which,  Calamy  observes,  was  printed  by  Dr.  Collings  against  his  consent. 


1663]  OF  DR.   WORTHINGTON.  121 

him  in  reference  to  that  overture  that  was  made  to  you  of  Barking 
living ;  and  he  expressed  how  much  he  was  troubled  that  he  was 
not  at  home,  for  he  would  have  given  you  all  the  encouragement 
that  might  be  to  proceed  in  your  design,  and  accordingly  hath  now 
writ  his  sense  in  his  own  phrase  in  this  enclosed,  to  which  I  shall  re- 
fer you.  And  now  I  think  I  shall  need  to  say  no  more,  but  that  you 
shall  do  well  to  eye  the  providence  of  God  leading  you  in  this  trans- 
action, and  not  to  slight  it.  One  thing  is  considerable,  that  you  come 
to  the  Diocese  of  a  Rev.  Bishop^  who,  I  think,  is  known  to  you,  and 
from  whom  I  doubt  not  but  you  will  have  a  due  respect.  As  for 
me,  you  have  knovrn  me  so  long  that  you  cannot  but  think  that  we 
may  sweetly  and  comfortably  converse  together.  And  whatever  may 
be  represented  to  you  concerning  the  people  in  this  place,  you  will,  I 
am  confident,  find  them  unanimously  well  pleased  with  the  choice  of 
you  for  their  minister,  and  you  may  be  assured  that  you  shall  have 
all  the  assistance  and  encouragement  that  is  imaginable  from 

Your  unfeigned  friend  and  servant, 
Ipswich,  9  May,  1663.  Fra.  Theobald. 

I  pray  present  my  service  to  Dr.  Whichcote  and  his  lady.  I 
shall  (God  willing)  be  at  London  the  latter  end  of  this  week,  where 
I  hope  to  find  you  and  give  you  full  satisfaction  in  reference  to  the 
settling  of  your  thoughts  as  to  Barking  living. 


To  the  Rev.  his  honoured  friend  Dr.  Worthington,  ^c. 
[From  the  Rev.  J.  Fairfax.] 
Honoured  and  worthy  Sir, 

It  was  not  my  happiness  to  be  at  home  on  Wednesday- 
last,  when,  by  a  double  trouble  of  coming  to  my  house,  you  testified 
your  great  desire  to  speak  with  me  ;  which  I  cannot  but  understand 
also,  and  gratefully  acknowledge,  as  the  testimony  of  your  respect  to 

'  Bishop  Reynolds. 
VOL.  II.  B 


122  DIARY  AiND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1663 

me.  I  was  very  glad  at  my  return  home  yesterday  to  hear  by  my 
wife  what  your  business  was,  whereof  I  am  further  assured  this  day 
by  Mr,  Theobald.  I  have  therefore  speeded  this  letter  to  you  by 
the  first  post,  as  desirous^  if  possible,  to  make  you  some  satisfaction 
for  your  former  disappointment;  wherein  I  must  first  premise  my 
hearty  thankfulness  for  your  great  civility,  which  was  pleased  to 
take  any  notice  of  me  in  reference  to  the  living  of  Barking.  You 
may  be  confident  that  I  am  so  far  from  being  unwilling  that  you 
should  take  the  place  from  which  I  am  removed,  that  I  shall 
account  your  succession  the  matter  of  my  hearty  rejoicing,  and  the 
merciful  return  of  my  daily  prayers  to  God  in  behalf  of  my  people. 
I  suppose  Mr.  Theobald  hath  satisfied  you  concerning  the  value  of 
the  living.  If  you  desire  a  further  proof  by  my  experience,  you  may 
believe  the  living  to  be  worth  <£'140  per  annum  ;  and  if  all  dues  be 
well  paid,  you  may  find  it  better.  As  for  the  people,  I  should  do 
them  wrong  to  make  an  evil  report  of  them.  I  have  found  much 
respect  from  them.  You  will  find  but  few  whom  you  can  with 
delight  converse  with  as  a  scholar ;  but  I  hope  you  will  find  many 
with  whom  you  may  with  comfort  converse  as  a  Christian.  I  have, 
T  may  say,  some  interest  in  the  hearts  of  some  of  them  at  least, 
which  you  may  expect  shall  be  improved  for  you.  For  myself,  I 
shall  account  it  my  great  privilege  to  be  improved  under  your 
ministry,  and  in  the  enjoyment  of  your  desirable  society,  which  I 
promise  myself  your  humility  and  ingenuity  will  indulge  me.  Sir, 
if  the  place  and  people  be  acceptable  to  you,  I  desire  you  to  pursue 
your  thoughts  and  inclination  to  come  to  us.  And  wherein  my 
capacity  doth  empower  me  to  be  serviceable  to  you,  be  confident  you 
shall  find  me  your  most  ready  though  unworthy  friend  to  serve  you, 

John  Fairfax.  1 
Ipswich,  May  9,  1663. 

'  This  letter  boars  out  Calamy's  character  of  the  writer.  Considering  that  it  is 
written  by  an  ejected  Minister  to  his  successor,  it  displays  most  commendable  Chris- 
tian feeling. 


1663]  OF   DR.   AVORTHINGTON.  123 


To  his  Rev.  friend  Dr.  Worthington,  at  Dr.  Whichcote''s,  ^c. 
[From  Dr.  Stephens.] 
Good  Sir, 

I  have  represented  your  desires  to  Mr.  Wren^  with  all 
advantages  imaginable.  I  find  that  your  friend  Dr.  Wilkins  had 
prevented  me  in  most  that  I  had  to  speak.  He  seems  well  satisfied 
that  you  have  no  purpose  to  procrastinate,  because  the  time  to  which 
you  have  limited  yourself  to  give  your  final  determination  is  within 
so  few  days.  He  thinks  it  not  expedient  to  make  a  report  of  it  to 
my  Lord  of  Ely  this  week.^  All  that  I  shall  add  is  this,  that  as  I 
heartily  wish  you  content  in  what  you  shall  design,  so  I  desire  you 
may  come  to  a  speedy  resolution,  lest  I  be  in  no  capacity  to  perform 
those  civilities  to  you  which  I  have  purposed.  You  shall  always 
find  me, 

Sir, 
Your  very  faithful  servant, 
May  14,  1663.  Thos.  Stephens. 


To  Dr.  Worthington  [from  Dr.  Stephens.] 
Sir, 

That  you  may  go  out  of  town  without  any  fears  or  suspi- 
cion of  miscarriage,  remember  that  my  dispensation  fixes  me  upon 
Dittou,  so  that  I  am  incapable  of  any  other ;  and  all  that  I  have 
acted  in  it  has  been  by  order  from  Ely  House. 
Thus,  wishing  you  a  good  journey,  I  am,  Sir, 

Your  faithful  Servant, 
May  20,  1663.  Tho.  Stephens. 

•  Matthew  Wren,  eldest  son  of  the  Bishop  of  Ely,  for  an  account  of  whom  Birch's 
Hist,  of  the  Royal  Society,  vol.  iii.  p.  65,  may  be  seen. 
-  Bishop  Wren,  see  vol.  i.  p.  24. 


134  DIARY  AND  COllRESPONDENCE  [1663 


Dr.  Stephens  in  a  Letter  May  21,  1663. 
[To  Dr.  Worthington.] 
—  I  have  been  again  at  Ely  House,  where  my  instrument  is 
preparing ;  but  it  will  not  be  possible  for  me  to  despatch 
this  work,  because  with  my  best  diligence  I  cannot  yet 
meet  with  Sir  John  Birkenhead, ^  who  must  sign  my 
faculty  before  it  can  be  fitted  for  the  broad  seal.  You 
may  assuredly  quit  all  fears,  and  take  your  first  oppor- 
tunity for  your  journey  to  Norwich,  where  I  heartily 

•  Sir  John  Eirkenhead  was  appointed  Master  in  the  Faculty  Office  in  November, 
1660.  Cheshire  has  the  honour  of  giving  birth  to  this  brilliant  political  satirist, 
whose  father  was  Eandall  Birkenhead  of  Northwich,  saddler  and  publican,  and  who 
was  born  there  about  1615.  He  became  a  Servitor  at  Oriel  College,  Oxford,  and 
afterwards  amanuensis  to  Archbishop  Laud,  and  probationary  Fellow  of  All-Souls 
College.  During  the  Civil  War,  from  16f2  to  the  end  of  1645,  he  kept  up  in  his 
newspaper  published  at  Oxford,  "  Mercvirius  Aulicus,"  a  constant  and  merciless  fire 
of  wit  against  the  Roundheads.  He  was  assisted  by  Dr.  Peter  Heylin  occasion- 
ally, but  their  compositions  are  perfectly  distinguishable,  and  the  life  and  spirit,  the 
galling  and  bitter  satire,  were  evidently  imparted  by  Birkenhead.  It  was  long  said 
that  this  Mercury  was  the  production  of  a  club  of  wits,  but  for  this  report  there 
appears  to  have  been  no  foundation.  The  Republicans  called  in  the  assistance  of 
Marchmont  Needham  against  the  terrible  scourge  of  their  party  ;  but  with  all  his 
power  of  party  writing,  and  it  was  very  considerable,  the  "  Mercurius  Britaunicus" 
was  confessedly  inferior  to  the  paper  it  combated  in  lively  and  trenchant  wit,  and 
amusing  and  well  delivered  personality.  It  is  now  much  the  scarcest  of  the  news- 
papers published  in  the  time  of  the  Civil  Wars,  and  of  all  of  them  best  deserves  pre- 
servation. On  King  Charles's  return.  Sir  John  obtained  a  grant  of  the  office  men- 
tioned above,  was  knighted  November  14,  1662,  and  succeeded  Sir  Richard  Fansbaw 
as  Master  of  Requests.  He  died  in  Westminster  December  4th,  1679,  and  was 
interred  at  St.  Martin's  in  the  Fields.  A  list  of  the  pieces  attributed  to  him  will  be 
found  in  Wood's  Athense  and  Chalmers's  Biog.  Diet. ;  but  his  authorship  of  some  of 
them  seems  to  rest  on  very  insufficient  authority.  His  library  and  collection  of  manu- 
scripts sold  after  his  death  for  £1100.  Wood  and  Aubrey  seem  to  have  been  strangely 
prejudiced  against  him.  The  latter  gives  the  following  by  no  means  pleasing  picture 
of  this  great  newspaper  editor  of  the  olden  time  (Lives,  vol.  ii.  p.  239)  :  "  He  was 
exceedingly  confident,  witty,  not  very  grateful  to  his  benefactors,  would  life  damnably. 
Ho  was  of  middling  stature,  great  goggle  eyes,  not  of  a  sweet  aspect."  What  mince- 
meat Sir  John  would  have  made  of  the  historian  of  Surrey  if  he  had  only  been  aware 
of  the  colours  in  which  he  was  to  be  transmitted  to  posterity ! 


1663]  Olf  1>R.   AVORTHINGTON.  125 

wish  you  good  success  in  reference  to  Moulton.  Mr. 
Theobald,  now  with  me,  presents  his  true  respects  to 
you,  and  desires  you  not  to  fail  to  meet  him  at  his  house 
on  Friday  come  seven-night,  for  he  tells  me  he  hath 
hired  the  coach  against  that  time,  and  hath  put  off  other 
business  which  did  much  concern  him  on  purpose  to 
meet  you  there,  and  he  should  be  much  disappointed 
should  he  fail  of  his  expectation.  My  service  to  Mrs. 
Worthington,  whom  I  [shall]  trouble  either  on  Saturday 
night  next  week  or  on  Sunday  morning.  You  may  as- 
sure yourself  that  if  anything  falls  in  ]Mr.  Wren''s  power 
to  pleasure  you,  you  will  find  him  your  friend. 


For  his  honourable  friend  Dr.  TVorthington,  at  Ditton. 
[From  Mr.  F.  Theobald.] 
Good  Sir, 

Were  it  not  that  you  did  express  yourself  very  solicitous  to 
hear  from  me,  I  should  have  omitted  writing  to  you  hac  vice, 
because  Dr.  Stephens  hath  promised  to  give  you  a  full  account  of 
his  proceedings.  I  spoke  with  him  this  morning,  and  he  tells  me 
that  the  way  is  plain  before  him,  and  he  meets  with  no  obstruction 
at  all  in  his  business.  He  hath  the  presentation  from  the  Bishop, 
and  his  instrument  of  institution  is  preparing,  and  for  the  rest  of  the 
particulars  I  shall  refer  you  to  his  letter.  I  pray  set  out  so  timely 
for  Norwich  that  you  may  not  fail  to  meet  me  on  Friday  next,  for  I 
shall  leave  some  business  purposely  to  come  to  you,  and  therefore  if 
I  should  not  find  you  there  it  would  be  a  great  disappointment  to 
me.  I  shall  enlarge  no  further,  but  that  God  may  bless  your  under- 
taking is  the  prayer  of 

Your  most  real  friend  and  servant, 
London,  22nd  :\ray,  1663.  Fra.  Theobald. 

My  service  I  pray  to  your  good  lady. 


126  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1663 


Dr.  Stephens  in  a  Letter  May  22,  1663. 
[To  Dr.  Worthington.] 
Mine  yesterday  gave  you  an  account  that  my  instruments 
were  preparing.  I  can  now  assure  you  that  the  Bishop 
hath  given  me  the  presentation  to  Ditton.  I  am  advised 
by  my  counsel  not  to  take  admission  till  your  institution 
be  sealed  ;  otherwise  I  may  be  subject  to  the  disturbance 
of  any  hereafter  that  will  plead  a  plenarty.  I  desire 
you  therefore  to  make  all  the  haste  you  can  to  Norwich, 
that  you  may  get  the  Bishop's  fiat  on  Tuesday,  and  then 
you  will  easily  persuade  the  Registrar  to  make  such 
haste  with  your  instrument  that  you  may  be  admitted 
on  Wednesday  morning.  On  this  I  will  so  far  presume, 
that  I  will  take  my  institution  that  afternoon,  and  come 
down  in  the  Cambridge  coach  on  Thursday.  I  had 
much  discourse  with  my  Lord  of  Ely  about  you,  in 
which  I  assure  you  I  did  you  no  bad.  offices. — ^ 


[From  Dr.  Worthington's  Almanack.] 
Apr.  16, 1663.     I  preached  at  Ditton  forenoon  and  afternoon,  and 
administered  the  Sacrament. 

May  3.     I  preached  at  Ditton,  &c. 

May  5.     I  came  to  Barking. 

May  7.     I  went  thence  and  came  to  Chelmsford. 

May  8.     I  came  to  London. 

May  10.     Mr.  Brooksbank  preached  for  me  at  Ditton. 

May  17.     Mr.  Hoard  preached  for  me  at  Ditton. 

>  The  two  papers  next  copied  in  the  manuscript  merely  relate  to  the  arrangement 
between  Worthington  and  Stephens  as  to  the  apportionment  of  the  tithes  of  Ditton, 
and  therefore  have  been  omitted. 


1663]  OF   DK.   WORTHIXGTON.  127 

May  20.  I  came  out  of  London.  May  21.  I  came  home  safe. 
Laus  Deo.     May  24.  I  preached  at  Ditton  [twice]. 

May  25.     I  went  from  Ditton  and  came  to  Norwich. 

May  27.  I  was  instituted  to  Moulton  (sine  cura)  and  Barking 
in  Suffolk.  May  28.  I  took  possession  of  Moulton.  May  80.  I 
took  possession  of  Barking.  May  31.  I  preached  at  Barking  on 
Ephes.  V.  1,  2. 

June  1.     I  returned  to  Ditton.     (Laus  Deo.) 

June  1, 14,  21.     I  preached  at  Ditton,  and  Jun.  28  and  Jul.  5,  12. 

Jun.  18.  ]My  wife  awakened  about  half  an  hour  past  one,  and  a 
quarter  before  three  she  was  delivered  of  a  son  :  none  being  with  her 
but  the  two  maids,  Mrs.  Thurlow,  and  Goody  Balls,  and  the  mid- 
wife Goody  Coat,  who  was  sent  for  in  haste,  !Mrs.  Nutting  not 
cominc;  soon  enough. 

Jun.  26.  My  son  John  Worthington  was  baptized  by  my  cousin 
Kenion,  John  Willys  Esq.  and  Paul  Whichcote  Esq.  being  god- 
fathers, and  the  Lady  "Willys  godmother. 

Jul.  19.  I  preached  at  Barking.  Jul.  26.  Uxor  was  churched. 
Jul.  26,  Aug.  2,  9.  I  preached  at  Ditton.  Aug.  13.  I  preached  a 
funeral  sermon.  Aug  16,  23.  I  preached  at  Ditton,  and  Sept.  13 
and  20,  forenoon  and  afternoon. 


To  his  Bev.  and  worthy  friend  Dr.  Worthington,  at  Ditton,  8^c. 

[From  Dr.  Stephens.] 
Good  Sir, 

By  your  last  I  find  you  had  designed  a  journey  this  week, 
if  your  expectance  of  me  had  not  deferred  it.  I  have  now  received 
a  letter  from  my  honourable  lord  the  Lord  Cornwallis,^  who  com- 
mands my  stay  this  week,  because  he  comes  down  with  the  Master 

'  Charles,  second  son  of  Lord  Comwallis,  who  was  elected  one  of  the  Members  for 
the  borough  of  Eye  to  the  Parliament  which  restored  King  Charles  II.  He  suc- 
ceeded to  the  barony  on  his  father's  death  in  1662,  and  died  in  1673. 


128  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1663 

of  the  RoUs^  and  others,  whom  I  am  obhged  to  wait  upon.  That  I 
may  not  therefore  disappoint  your  purposed  journey,  it  is  just  to  let 
you  know  that  I  shall  not  be  able  to  wait  upon  [you]  till  next  week, 
when  I  hope  to  see  you.  You  and  your  good  lady  have  much  obliged 
me  by  your  civil  invitation  of  my  wife,  who  returns  her  thanks 
and  service,  and  assures  you,  if  she  be  fit  to  travel,  she  will  trouble 
[you] .  Last  Friday  Dr.  Whichcote,  &c.,  gave  me  the  honour  of  a 
visit,  and  discovered  some  doubts  that  Ditton  might  be  otherwise 
disposed  of.  But  quit  your  fears.  Some  propositions  have  been 
made,  I  confess,  but  never  assented  to,  and  if  I  should  be  overpowered 
by  the  commands  of  my  superiors  (as  I  think  I  shall  not)  be  assured 
nothing  shall  be  acted  to  your  prejudice ;  for  the  world  shall  say 
that  I  am  an  honest  man,  and,  Sir, 

Your  very  faithful  servant, 
Bury  St.  Edm.,  Aug.  10,  1663.  Tho.  Stephens. 


[MS.  Notes.] 
I  shall  leave  100  sheets  undone,^  though  I  strive  all  I  can.    I  have 
done  above  200. 

>  The  Master  of  the  Eolls  was  the  Patron  of  Bishop  Burnet,  the  long-lived  Sir 
Harbottle  Grinistone,  who  died  in  1683  on  the  verge  of  ninety.  In  the  commence- 
ment of  his  public  life  he  supported  the  Republican  party  and  signalized  himself  by 
an  acrimonious  speech  against  Archbishop  Laud.  When  the  tide  set  in  for  the  recall 
of  King  Charles  II.  he  became  one  of  its  ardent  promoters,  and  was  chosen  Speaker 
in  the  House  of  Commons  which  met  April  25th,  1660,  and  Master  of  the  Rolls  in 
November  in  the  same  year.  He  was  a  good  lawyer,  and  performed  the  duties  of  his 
ofSce  with  great  respectability,  and  Burnet,  his  chaplain,  has  emblazoned  his  virtues. 
In  the  House  of  Commons  he  was  a  frequent  speaker  on  questions  affecting  religion, 
and  tho  illustrations  of  his  speeches,  if  homely,  must  be  admitted  to  be  forcible.  In 
the  debate,  April  4th,  1677,  on  the  biU  for  preserving  the  Protestant  religion,  he  ob- 
serves, that  "  he  believes  gentlemen  design  mending  this  bQl  to  attain  the  end ;  but 
when  it  comes  back  it  will  prove  an  unsavoury  thing  stuck  with  a  primrose,"  and 
"  we  may  as  soon  make  a  good  fan  out  of  a  pig's  tail  as  a  good  bill  out  of  this." 

"  Of  his  edition  of  Mede. 


1663]  OF  DR.  WORTHINGTON.  129 

People  speak  with  tears,  and  I  am  condoled  with  by  several  in 
the  University.     Aug.  I663.i 

Sept.  27.     I  preached  on  Eccl.  12, 13,  my  last  Sermon  at  Ditton. 

Conclusion  of  the  last  sermon  : 

I  know  not  of  any  one  practical  truth,  or  needful  point,  but  I 
have  insisted  on  it.  I  began  to  preach  to  you  first  of  the  precious- 
ness  and  worth  of  your  souls  (which  are  immortal  and  must  live  in 
eternity).  Afterwards  I  preached  of  the  four  last  things,  of  Repent- 
ance, of  Faith,  of  the  Creed,  of  the  Decalogue,  of  the  Lord's  Prayer, 
of  Christ's  Sermon  on  the  Mount;  besides  the  four  first  chapters  of 
Matthew  and  other  Scriptures  and  the  Epistles  in  the  afternoon.  I 
thought  to  have  gone  over  all  Matthew.  I  may  say  with  St.  Paul 
in  Acts  24,  I  have  declared  to  you  the  whole  counsel  of  God. 

Sept.  28,  1663.  I  came  away  with  my  family  from  Ditton  to 
Christ^s  College. 

Sept.  29.  We  came  to  Bishop's  Stortford.  Sept.  30.  To  Bednal 
Green2  by  London. 

At  Ditton  when  I  removed  I  left  my  books  in  the  granary,  done 
up  in  five  barrels,  less  or  greater,  and  three  boxes,  picture  of  the 
Queen  of  Bohemia,  &;c. 

Oct.  6,  1663.     My  wife,  John,  and  the  maid,  went  to  Frogmore. 

Oct.  11.  I  preached  at  Blackfriars,  London.  Oct.  12.  I  went  to 
Frogmore.  Oct.  16.  I  returned  to  Bednal  Green.  Nov.  17.  I  came 
from  Bednal  Green  with  my  family  and  goods,  and  lay  in  Gresham 
College.  Nov.  18.  I  went  to  Frogmore.  Nov.  24.  I  came  from 
thence.  Dec.  18.  I  went  to  Frogmore.  Dec.  28.  I  came  back 
from  Frogmore. 


Dr.  Stephens  in  a  Letter  Dec.  23,  1663. 
[To  Dr.  Worthington.] 
—  You  had  heard  from  me  before  this  time,  had  I  not  ex- 
pected you  in  the  country  to  settle  your  affairs  at  Barking 

'  On  his  removal  from  Ditton.  -  "WTiere  Dr.  Whichcote  then  was. 

VOL.  II.  S 


130  DIARY  AND   CORRESPONDENCE  [1063-4 

after  you  had  placed  your  family  in  London.  The  first 
thing  greeted  me  at  Ditton  was  an  excommunication 
against  an  inhabitant  for  not  coming  to  church.  The 
churchwardens  pressed  earnestly  upon  me  to  publish  it 
that  Sunday.  But  I  suspended  it  (as  I  might)  and 
desired  leave  to  speak  to  the  party.  He  appeared  to 
offend  not  out  of  faction,  but  a  wretched  irreligious 
neutrality.  After  some  exhortations  he  promised  an 
amendment ;  whereupon  I  paid  his  fees  and  got  him 
absolved.  I  hope  I  shall  hear  no  more  of  that  nature ; 
for  I  assure  you,  Sir,  as  your  Christian  charity  and  con- 
versation amongst  them  had  obliged  them  to  a  grateful 
sense  of  it,  and  made  them,  as  you  say,  much  affected  at 
your  depai'ture,  so  the  chief  of  them  (and  all  for  aught  I 
have  heard)  have  expressed  themselves  as  much  affected 
at  my  resolution  to  reside  upon  the  place.  I  wish  I 
may  live  to  be  esteemed  deserving  to  succeed  so  worthy 
a  person  as  yourself.  — 


1663-4. 

Jan.  1,  1663-4.  I  went  from  London.  Jan.  2.  I  came  to 
Barking  in  Suffolk.  Jan.  3.  I  preached  at  Barking.  Jan.  10.  I 
preached  at  Barking  twice.     Jan.  11.  I  came  from  Barking. 

Jan.  12.     To  London.     Laus  Deo. 

Jan.  24.     I  preached  once  at  Benett  Fynk. 


To  Mrs.  Worthington  [from  Dr.  Worthington] . 
My  Dear, 

I  am  glad  to  find  thee  still  in  a  continued  temper  of  in- 
diffferency  as  to  these  outward  things.  It  is  the  great  lesson  of 
humanity  to  be  resigned  to  the  will  of  God  in  all  things ;  and  to  be 


1CG3-4]  OF  Dll.  WORTHIiNGTON.  131 

perfect  in  this  lesson  is  a  great  step  to  perfection,  is  the  way  to  in- 
ward peace  and  quietness  of  spirit,  and  it  is  the  right  spirit  of  a 
Christian.  God  grant  that  we  may  abound  in  this  and  every  other 
grace;  we  shall  be  no  losers  by  it.  I  like  thy  careful  advice,  though 
I  am  not  (and  I  hope  shall  not  be)  over  solicitous  about  any  earthly 
things.  I  have  had  one  or  two  places  here  mentioned  to  me,  but  I 
like  not  the  circumstances ;  that  which  I  am  in  expectation  to  hear 
about  is  better  conditioned,  and  such  as  thou  wilt  like.  My  Lord 
Lauderdale  and  another  wrote  about  it  last  week.  There  is  also 
another  place  that  is  mentioned,  but  the  difficulties  in  the  way  seem 
more.  To  be  useful  in  the  world  and  most  free  is  more  in  my 
desire  than  height  and  greatness,  which  I  undervalue  and  despise  in 
respect  of  the  other.  I  have  considered  that  things  may  fall  out 
otherwise  than  friends  endeavour  and  desire  for  me,  and  I  hope  to 
be  as  free  from  trouble  then  as  now. 

Thine  always, 
Feb.  1,  1663-4.  J.[ohn]  W.[orthington.] 


Feb.  5.  T  went  to  Frogmore.  Feb.  10.  I  came  back  to  London. 
Feb.  21,  28,  and  Mar.  6.  I  preached  at  Blackfriars. 

March  7.  I  came  to  Sion  College.  Mar.  13,  20,  27.  I  came  to 
Blackfriars.  Mar.  29.  I  went  to  Frogmore.  Apr.  4.  Returned  to 
London. 


Mrs.  Worthington  to  Dr.  Worthington. 
My  Dear, 

I  could  wish  thou  hadst  never  took  Barking,  unless  you 
could  discharge  your  duty  there.  If  your  mind  is  quit  from  it,  so 
you  think  you  may  be  more  serviceable  in  another  place,  I  am  very 
free ;  only  I  would  desire  thus  much,  that  you  will  be  sure  to  get 
one  that  truly  fears  Cod  and  will  look  after  the  good  of  the  people, 


132  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1664 

your  everlasting  estates,  and  dwell  amongst  them,  so  as  to  gain  by 
life  as  well  as  by  preaching.  I  never  was  with  them,  yet  I  do  much 
desire  that  they  may  reap  some  benefit  by  your  taking  it.  John  is 
very  merry  and  lively,  and  dancing  with  Mr.  Winch  when  his  sister 
sleeps. 

Yours  always, 
March  23,  1663-4.  Mary  Worthington. 


Apr.  7,  1664.  I  went  out  of  London  and  came  to  Keldon  in 
Essex.  Apr.  8.  I  came  to  Barking.  Apr.  10,  Easter  Day.  I 
preached  at  Barking  and  administered  the  Sacrament,  and  in  the 
afternoon.  Apr.  14.  I  came  from  Barking  to  Whitham.  Apr.  15. 
I  came  to  London.     Laus  Deo. 

Apr.  17.  I  preached  for  Dr.  Wilkins  at  St.  Lawrence's.  Apr. 
24.  I  preached  at  Blackfriars.     1664. 


In  a  Letter  April  20,  1664. 
[From  Mrs.  Worthington  to  Dr.  Worthington.] 
—  How  is  Barking  I  Doth  he  perform  well  that  is  there  ? 
You  seem  to  speak  as  though  you  could  not  well  come, 
and  must  double  your  labour  to  get  to  an  end.  I  shall 
be  glad  of  thy  company,  but  desire  not  thy  hurt.  Pray 
do  not  labour  too  hard.  When  thou  art  minded  to 
come,  I  will  find  thee  a  bed  and  bedfellow.  Be  careful 
of  thyself,  and  study  not  too  late  at  nights.' 

'  There  needs  no  other  witness  than  these  two  letters  to  satisfy  us  that  Worthington 
was  happy  in  his  marriage.  They  bring  before  us  most  forcibly  the  religious,  atfec- 
tiouate,  and  carefid  wife  (without  disparagement,  be  it  remarked,  to  modern  excellence) 
of  the  days  of  our  forefathers. 


1664]  OF  DR.  WORTHIXGTON.  133 

Apr.  23.     I  went  to  Frogmore. 

Apr.  26.     On  Tuesday  night  between  10  and  11  died  my  father- 
in-law,  Chr.  Whichcote  Esq.,  at  Frogmore. 
Apr.  29.     My  father-in-law  was  buried. 
May  2.     I  came  to  London. 


To  Mrs.  Worthington,  at  Frogmore. 
[From  Dr.  Worthington.] 
My  Dear, 

Thine  I  have  received.  I  have  written  at  large  to  Sir 
Jeremy  Whichcote  about  taking  the  executorship,^  and  that  order 
might  be  sent  them  about  paying  funeral  debts  and  receiving  moneys 
for  the  sale  of  goods,  &c.  Else,  if  he  thinks  of  any  other  to  sell  and 
pay  out,  and  if  they  being  in  the  country  may  not  be  of  use,  and  to 
do  service  to  relations,  that  he  would  intimate  so  much,  that  I  may 
have  thee  and  the  children  with  me  at  London.  I  have  met  with 
friends  who  are  very  thoughtful  how  to  accommodate  me  with  a 
suitable  place,  and  hope  it  will  not  be  long.  No  more  now,  but  that 
I  am 

Thine  always, 
May  4,  1664.  J.[ohn]  W. [orthington.] 


May  8.  I  preached  at  Blackfriars.  May  15.  I  preached  at  St. 
Saviour's,  Southwark. 

jNIay  28.  I  went  to  Sir  Jeremy  Whichcote"'s  house  at  Hendon. 
May  29.  I  preached  at  Hendon  twice.  Jun.  1.  I  came  from  Hen- 
don to  London.  Jun.  9.  I  preached  at  Benet  Fynk  and  at  Black- 
friars. June  7.  I  went  to  Frogmore.  June  9.  I  brought  my  family 
thence  to  London. 

^  Of  Worthington's  father-in-law,  Christopher  ^Y^lichcotc. 


134  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1664 


in  a  Letter  to  Dr.  IVhichcote,  an.  1668. 
[From  Dr.  Worthington.] 
— In  my  tedious  and  lonesome  journeys  between  London  and 
Suifolk  in  winter,  and  my  painful  and  solitary  living  at 
Gresham  College,  God  did  preserve  and  comfort  me  and 
renew  my  strength,  that  might  have  been  consumed. — 
My  removing  from  Cambridge  to  Ditton  was  but  light ; 
but  my  removing  thence  to  London  and  Frogmore  and 
back  again,  with  much  of  my  goods  and  family,  was 
more  pressing. 


[From  Dr.  Worthington's  Almanacks.] 
Jun.  12, 1664.  I  preached  at  Benet  Fynk.  Jun.  19.  I  preached 
at  Benet  Fynk  and  at  St.  Lawrence"'s.  Jun.  22.  I  was  troubled 
with  gripings,  and  kept  my  bed  till  noon.  Jun.  26.  I  preached  at 
Benet  Fynk.  Jul.  3,  10,  17,  24,  31,  Aug.  7,  14,  21,  28,  Sept.  4, 
11,  18,  25,  Oct.  2,  9,  16,  23.  I  preached  at  Benet  Fynk.  Nov.  5, 
13.  I  preached  at  Benet  Fynk  and  Nov.  20.  Dr.  Wyndet^  died 
this  morning, 

Nov.  27,  Dec.  4,  11,  18,  25.  I  preached  at  Benet  Fynk.  Col- 
lected for  the  poor  £1  9s.  Od.  and  ^0  13s.  Od. 

'  James  Wiudet,  M.D.  "1664.  Nov.  20,  died  Dr.  James  Windett,  M.D.,  at  his 
house  in  Milk-street ;  buried  there."  —  Smith's  Obituary  ;  Peck's  Des.  Cur.  Book  xiv. 
p.  37,  fol.  ed.  "  He  was  a  good  Latin  poet,  a  most  excellent  linguist,  a  great  Rabbi,  a 
curious  critic,  and  rather  shaped  for  divinity  than  the  faculty  he  professed." — Wood's 
Fasti,  vol.  ii.  col.  112.  lie  was  the  very  learned  author  of  the  treatise  DeTita  func- 
torum  statu,  Lond.  1663,  4to.  reprinted  by  Crenius  at  Eotterdam  (1694, 12mo)  in  his 
collection  of  Tracts. 


1664]  OF  BR.  WORTHINGTON.  135 

Dr.  Cudivorth  in  a  Letter  Sept.  8,  1664. 
[To  Dr.  Worthington.] 
—  I  have  been  desired  both  by  some  at  Cambridge  and  some 
others  at  London  to  print  that  sermon^  which  I  preached 
last  at  Lincohi's  Inn,  which  I  had  preached  before  at 
St.  Mary's ;  which  I  would  not  do  unless  I  should  dedi- 
cate it  to  my  Lord  of  Canterbury. ^     But  I  cannot  tell 
whether  it  be  not  absurd  to  do  so,  because  it  was  not 
preached  before  him.     But  there  are  some  obligations 
upon  me,   and  some  prudential  reasons  why  I  should 
make  some  public  acknowledgment  of  my  obligations  to 
him,  and  I  have  nothing  else  in  readiness,  or  like  to  be. 
For  besides  his  presenting  me  to  a  living,  I  owe  my  sta- 
tion here  merely  to  his  favour,  there  having  [been]  a  great 
conspiracy  and  plot  laid  not  long  since,  when  he  was 
much  assaulted  also  and  set  upon  by  divers  for  his  con- 
currence; but  he  alone  diverted  the  business  at  that  time. 
If  you  think  it  not  incongruous,  I  will  send  up  the  ser- 
mon to  you  to  read  over  and  correct.     The  Bishop  of 
Ely  was  at  the  whole  charge  of  the  Chancellor's  enter- 
tainment.^    He  made  a  sumptuous  dinner,  But  neither 
the  Yice-Chancellor  nor  any  of  the  Heads  were  invited. 
At  night  the  Heads  went  to  visit  the  Bishop,  and  to 
thank  him  for  his  respect  to  the  University,  and  pre- 
sented  him   with  the   Latin  History  of  England  well 
bound. 

1  His  Sermon  upon  1  Cor.  xv.  57.  It  was  published  ia  1664,  4to,  but  as  there  is  no 
dedication  in  my  copy  of  that  date,  or  in  the  subsequent  edition  in  1676,  folio  (with 
his  Sermon  on  1  John,  ii.  3-4,  and  Discourse  on  the  Lord's  SupperJ,  it  is  to  be  pre- 
sumed that  the  intended  dedication  did  not  appear.  Cudworth's  published  sermons 
are  noble  compositions.  How  deeply  it  is  to  be  regretted  that  more  of  them  have  not 
survived. 

2  Sheldon,  of  whom  see  vol.  i.  p.  28. 
^  At  Cambridge. 


136  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1664 


Dr.  More  in  a  Letter  Sept.  —  1664. 
[To  Dr.  Worthington.] 
easily  believe  that  was  the  mistake  of  the  graver  that 
you  intimate.  I  was  in  a  merry  pin  when  I  made  Mr. 
Mede  look  so  like  a  Count  and  Commander  of  an  army. 
For  the  portliness  of  his  body  and  largeness  of  his  face 
he  might  be  so  indeed  ;  but  there  was  that  modesty  and 
melancholy  and  sedate  seriousness  in  his  look  that  did 
speak  him  a  scholar,  more  than  this  graver  could  hit 
upon  it  seems.* 


For  my  worthy  friend  Mr.  Evans"^  these,  at  IVindsor  Castle. 
[From  Dr.  Worthington.] 
Sir, 

Yours  I  received  last  night  late,  at  my  return  from  the 

'  It  does  not  clearly  appear  to  -what  Dr.  Henry  More  refers,  as  no  portrait  of  Mede 
was  engraved.  His  biographer  gives  the  following  description  of  his  person  :  "  His 
body  was  of  a  comely  proportion,  rather  of  a  tall  than  low  stature.  In  his  younger 
years  (as  he  would  say)  he  was  but  slender  and  spare  of  body,  but  afterwards,  when 
he  was  full  grown,  he  became  more  fat  and  portly,  yet  not  to  any  such  excess  as  did 
diminish,  but  rather  increased,  the  goodliness  of  his  presence  to  a  comely  decorum. 
His  eye  was  full,  quick,  and  sparkling.  His  whole  countenance  composed  to  a,  sedate 
seriousness  and  gravity ;  Majestas  et  Amor  were  well  met  here  —  an  awful  majesty, 
but  withal  an  inviting  sweetness.  His  complexion  was  a  little  swarthy,  as  if  some- 
what over  tinctured  with  melancholy,  which  yet  rather  seemed  to  serve  the  design  of 
his  studious  mind  than  to  clogg  it  with  those  infirmities  which  commonly  attend  the 
predominancy  of  that  humour."  —  Life,  prefixed  to  Mede's  works,  edit,  1664,  folio, 
pp.  58-9. 

-  Grcorge  Evans,  Fellow  of  Jesus  College,  Cambridge,  afterwards  a  Canon  of 
Windsor  and  Rector  of  Hicham  in  Berkshire.  He  took  his  degree  of  D.D.,  and  died 
March  2,  1701,  being  then  seventy-two  years  of  age.  He  was  licensed  preacher  at  St. 
Benet  Fink,  from  1663  to  June  1693,  when  he  resigned  to  his  son,  George  Evans, 
who  was  curate  there  in  1700.  —  (Newcourt's  Repertorium,  vol.  i.  p.  916.)  Dr.Wor- 
thington  seems  to  have  officiated  for  him  at  St.  Benet  Fink,  to  the  time  of  the  fire  of 
London. 


1664]  OF   DK.    WORTH  IXGTOX.  137 

Dean^  of  Paul's  funeral.     Dr.  Gunuing-  preached  upon  Philip  i.  21, 
22,  23,  24.     He  mentioned  ^300  given  by  his  will  to  St.  John's 

1  Dr.  Jolm  Banvick  was  born  at  Witherslack  in  Westmoreland,  where  he  is  still 
spoken  of  as  the  good  Dean  Barwick,  and  where  the  house  in  which  he  first  saw  the 
light  is  yet  pointed  out,  on  the  SOth  April,  1612,  and  after  a  life  spent  ia  most  active 
exertion  to  promote  the  Eoyal  cause,  died  Dean  of  St.  Paul's  on  the  22nd  October, 
1664:.  Few  biographical  works  are  fuller  of  interesting  materials  than  the  life  of  this 
excellent  man,  written  in  Latia  (1721,  8vo)  by  his  brother,  Dr.  Peter  Barwick,  which 
has  been  translated  into  English  and  pubhshed  with  valuable  notes  and  additions  by 
HUkiah  Bedford.  Dr.  John  Barwick  was  the  able  manager  of  the  Eing's  secret  cor- 
respondence during  the  Usurpation,  and  conducted  that  important  province  with  the 
greatest  courage,  ingenuity,  and  sagacity.  "Were  all  his  "hair-breadth"  scapes  and 
all  his  prompt  and  clever  expedients  during  the  period  in  which  he  was  so  employed 
duly  recorded,  probably  no  history  of  adventures  ever  written  would  be  more  amusing. 
His  constitution  seems  to  have  been  as  elastic  as  his  spirit.  He  was  dyiag  of  phthisis 
and  atrophy  when  imprisonment  in  a  close  dungeon  in  the  Tower  seems  to  have  ef- 
fected a  perfect  cure  and  sent  him  out  plump  and  in  good  condition,  to  the  astonish- 
ment of  the  doctors.  To  subdue  such  a  man  was  evidently  impossible ;  he  bore  a 
charmed  life,  and  against  all  odds  and  maugre  all  casualties  must  inevitably  carry  out 
the  ends  of  his  commission.  He  left  by  his  will  the  greater  part  of  his  estate  to 
charitable  uses.  "  St.  Paul's,  that  noble  structure,"  and  St.  John's  College  were  re- 
membered ;  but  neither  was  the  little  chapel  amidst  his  native  hills  and  "  winding 
scars,"  which  he  had  re-edified  in  his  lifetime,  forgotten.  The  children  of  the  poor  of 
the  village  of  Witherslack  were  to  be  instructed,  their  daughters  to  be  portioned,  the 
highways  to  be  repaired ;  nor  was  the  interment  of  the  dead,  for  which  he  directed  a 
place  to  be  provided,  imcared  for.  To  the  Curate  of  Witherslack  he  leaves  a  stipend, 
and  enjoins  "  that  he  be  diligent  in  catechizing  the  children  and  servants  of  the  in- 
habitants publickly  in  the  chapel,  that  he  instruct  the  said  inhabitants  out  of  the 
Homilies  of  the  Church,  but  that  he  do  not  presume  to  preach  unless  he  be  found 
sufficiently  enabled  and  thereimto  licensed  by  the  Bishop."  The  chapel,  in  one  of  the 
picturesque  vallies  of  Westmoreland,  still  bears  its  record  to  him,  who  may  be  con- 
sidered its  founder :  and  the  writer  had  no  slight  pleasure,  some  years  ago,  in  con- 
templating the  inscription  which  perpetuates  the  name  of  this  loyal  subject,  sound 
divine,  and  pious  christian.  As  an  author,  he  is  principally  remembered  by  his  excel- 
lent funeral  sermon  on  Bishop  Morton,  which,  with  his  accompanying  life  of  that 
prelate,  including  a  verv  accurate  list  of  his  works,  was  published  Lond.  1660,  -ito. 
The  able  tract  entitled  "  Certain  Disquisitions  and  Considerations,  representing  to 
the  conscience  the  Unlawfulness  of  the  Solemn  League  and  Covenant,"  Oxf.  1644, 
4to,  was  written  by  Dr.  Barwick,  in  conjunction  with  William  Lacey,  Isaac  Barrow, 
Seth  Ward,  Edmund  Boldero,  William  Quarles,  and  Peter  Gunning,  —  a  formidable 
league  against  the  League  and  Covenant. 

-  Peter  Gunning  was  born  at  Hoo,  in  Kent,  iu  161-3,  and  'Med  July  6,  1681.     At 
VOL.   11.  T 


138  DIARY   AND   CORRESPONDENCE  [IGCi 

College.  All  the  speech  is  that  Dr.  Sandcroft'  is  to  be  Dean  of 
PauFs.  I  thank  you  for  your  enclosed,  which  I  delivered  to  Mr, 
Royston,  who  told  me  here  before  that  he  could  send  it  by  Mr. 
Jerom,  whom  he  knows  well.  I  hear  nothing  of  any  such  employ- 
ment as  Dr.  Birstal  mentioned  about  the  library.  I  remember  some- 
what of  placing  the  books  in  the  University  library,  and  I  am  sure 
it  was  not  so  exact  as  it  should  be  for  placing  books  homogenial 
according  to  their  seniority,  as  the  books  were  placed  in  Jesus  Col- 
lege library  and  in  yours.  Dr.  Cudworth's  sermon  is  not  yet 
finished.  Some  have  written  to  him  to  add  two  or  three  more  to  it. 
If  so,  it  would  make  a  handsome  volume.  I  send  you  Dr.  More"'s 
volume  ;  it  is  perfect,  and  one  better  bound  than  usually.  Since  I 
saw  you  I  heard  that  the  Registrar  spake  to  one  that  he  had  not 
seen  my  license  to  preach,  and  that  he  thought  the  Bishop  would 
send  to  me.  But  having  occasion  to  speak  with  his  Chaplain,  I  took 
that  opportunity  to  show  him  the  license,  which  he  said  was  suffi- 
cient, and  that  he  would  speak  to  the  Registrar  that  he  saw  it.  If  I 
had  time  I  would  visit  Mr.  Jerome  myself,  but  I  have  not  any 
leisure  for  any  by-business,  except  it  be  very  urgent.  I  would  gladly 
finish  all  this  term  if  it  be  possible.  I  have  ventured  my  health 
and  denied  myself  as  to  my  ease  and  advantages  that  T  might  serve 

both  the  universities,  for  he  was  first  of  Cambridge  and  afterwards  of  Oxford,  he  dis- 
tinguished himself  by  his  high  character  for  learning  and  ability  and  zeal  in  support- 
ing the  King's  cause.  On  the  Restoration  he  was  made  Master  of  Corpus  Christi 
College  in  Cambridge,  and  afterwards  Regius  Professor  of  Divinity,  and  Master  of  St. 
John's  on  the  resignation  of  Dr.  Tuckney.  In  1670  he  became  Bishop  of  Chichester, 
and  in  1674  was  translated  to  Ely.  He  took  a  leading  part  in  the  Savoy  Conference 
(see  vol.  i.  p.  234),  and  has  accordingly  been  attacked  by  several  Nonconformist 
writers.  Bishop  Burnet,  whose  prejudices  render  him  a  very  suspicious  authority, 
censures  him  severely  for  his  conduct  on  that  occasion,  but  "  sophistry,"  which  he  at- 
tributes to  Gunning,  with  the  good  Bishop  is  often  only  another  term  for  argument 
on  a  different  side  of  the  question  to  that  which  he  himself  espoused.  A  list  of 
Bishop  Gunning's  tracts  will  be  found  in  Chalmers's  Biog.  Diet.  The  best  is,  per- 
haps, his  Paschal,  or  Lent  Fast,  Apostolical  and  Perpetual  (Lond.  1662,  4to),  which 
has  lately  been  republished ;  but  it  may  be  doubted  whether  any  of  them  fully  realize 
the  idea  which  his  contemporaries  appear  to  have  entertained  of  his  ability  and  argu- 
mentative powers. 

'  See,  as  to  Sancroft,  vol.  i.  p.  28. 


1664]  OF   DR.   WORTHINGTON.  139 

the  public  herein,  hibouring  day  and  night  herein  with  an  eye  to  the 
good  of  others  and  the  reward  in  the  Ufe  to  come.  And  as  for  this 
present  hfe,  I  desire  in  the  use  of  due  means  to  trust  that  merciful 
providence  whereof  I  have  had  experience  in  several  passages  of  my 
life.  God  can  influence  some,  and  in  his  good  time  open  a  way  for 
subsistence.  By  what  I  yet  find,  I  cannot  see  but  our  expenses  will 
be  beyond  our  receipts ;  and  yet  we  are  as  frugal,  both  for  diet  and 
apparel,  as  we  can  be.  I  would  not  for  the  increase  of  receipts 
multiply  cares,  as  considering  that  one  cure  of  souls  is  province 
enough,  and  that  it  is  a  hard  thing  so  to  discharge  one  as  to  give  a 
comfortable  and  faithful  account  thereof  at  the  great  tribunal  of 
Christ.  I  have  not  yet  received  a  penny  from  that  living  in  Suffolk, 
and  were  it  a  greater  thing,  I  should  not  dare  to  keep  it  with 
another.  I  have  written  to  one  who  I  think  would  be  very  useful 
in  the  place,  to  know  how  he  would  like  it  upon  my  leaving  it.  I 
hope  your  letter  will  be  sent  for  France  this  night  by  the  post.  I 
shall  be  glad  to  see  Dr.  Brideoak,^  who,  as  you  write,  will  favour  me 
with  a  visit  at  his  return  to  London.  So  with  mine  and  my  wife's 
respects  to  you  and  yours,  I  rest 

Yours  affectionately, 
October  28,  1664..  J.  Worthington. 


1  RalplL  Brideoak,  the  son  of  Richard  Brideoak,  of  Cheetham  Hill,  Manchester, 
by  Cicily,  daughter  of  John  Booth,  Esq.,  of  the  county  of  Chester,  was  bom  in  the 
year  1614.  He  was  educated  at  the  Free  Grammar  School  of  Manchester,  of  which 
he  afterwards  became  Master,  and  was  admitted  a  student  of  Brasenose  College, 
Oxford,  on  the  15th  July,  1630.  "WTiatton,  in  his  History  of  the  Manchester  School, 
p.  88,  gives  a  fiiU  account  of  his  career,  which  ended  ia  his  obtaining,  through  the 
Duchess  of  Portsmouth's  influence,  and,  as  Anthony  Wood  pretty  plainly  intimates, 
by  bribes  administei'ed  to  her,  the  bishopric  of  Chichester,  with  which  he  was  per- 
mitted to  hold  in  commendam  a  cauonry  of  Windsor  and  the  valuable  rectory  of 
Standish  in  Lancashire.  He  died  on  the  5th  of  October,  1678,  and  was  interred  at 
St.  George's  Chapel  at  Windsor.  Manchester  has  little  reason  to  be  proud  of  having 
given  birth  to  this  Bishop.  The  mitre  cannot  sanctify  meanness,  covetousness,  and 
secularity.  It  is  a  relief  to  turn  from  such  a  man  to  the  other  native  of  Manchester, 
whose  inmost  thoughts  and  wishes  are  before  us,  and  whose  spirit  was  so  different  to 
that  of  his  busy,  bustling,  fawning,  elbowing,  grasping  contemporary. 


140  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1664 


In  a  Letter  to  Mr.  Evans,  Nov.  9,  1664. 
[From  Dr.  Worthington.] 
—  There  is  little  news  here.  I  hear  Dr.  Ingelo  returns 
to-morrow,  so  you  will  have  the  news  (what  there  is) 
from  him.  I  have  no  time  to  stir  abroad  to  enquire  or 
to  hear  any  such  matters,  being  in  the  paroxysm  of  my 
business ;  and  I  would  velocius  movere  in  fine,  being 
desirous  to  be  at  rest.  There  are  only  five  sheets  as  yet 
printed  of  Dr.  Cud  worth's  sermon. 


Dr.  Cudworth  in  a  Letter  Nov.  5  and  Nov.  9,  1664. 
[To  Dr.  Worthington.] 
—  Yours   I    received,    but   have   been    extraordinary   busy. 
That  sheet  which  you  sent  is  very  well  done.     Nov.  5. 
Nov.  9.     Good  neighbour,  I  have  sent  an  epistle  to  the  Arch- 
bishop.    I  wish  the  sermon  might  be  printed  off  with 
all  speed,  and  this  epistle  if  you  like  it.  — 


In  a  Letter  to  Mr.  Evans,  Nov.  12,  1664. 

[From  Dr.  Worthington.] 

—  I  perceive  now  that  Dr.  Cudworth  will  not  at  this  time 

add  any  sermons  more.      I  have  earnestly  pressed  him 

(laying  other  things  aside)  to  despatch  his  studies  upon 

Daniel's   Weeks, ^    the  most  considerable  place  in  the 

'  This  has  never  been  published,  and  still  exists  amongst  Cudworth's  manuscripts 
in  the  British  Museum.  The  title  of  the  work  states  it  to  be  "  Upon  Daniel's  Pro- 
phecy of  the  LXX  Weeks,  wherein  all  the  Interpretations  of  the  Jews  are  considered 
and  confuted,  with  several  of  some  learned  Christians."  In  two  volumes,  folio.  Dr. 
Henry  More  observes,  in  his  preface  to  his  Grand  Mystery  of  Godliness,  that  "Dr. 
Cudworth,  in  that  discourse,  which  was  read  in  the  Public  Schools  of  the  University, 


1664]  OF   DR.   WORTHINGTOX.  141 

Testament  for  the  interest  of  Christianity.  Dr.  Sparrow^ 
is  Vice-Chaucellor.  Dr.  Boldero-  was  pricked  with  him. 
I  desire  vou  in  a  line  or  two  to  hint  to  me  what  you 
intended  to  write  but  [would]  rather  reserve  till  coming, 
because  it  may  haply  be  of  use  to  me  to  know  it  sooner. 


Dr.  Cudirorth  to  Dr.  IFoi'thinpton. 
Good  neighbour, 

I  sent  yesterday  an  epistle  to  my  Lord  of  Canterbury ;  but 
my  meaning  was  and  is,  that  you  would  be  pleased  to  consider  first, 
and  advise,  whether  it  be  desirable  to  dedicate  a  sermon  to  him  that 
was  not  preached  before  him.  I  think  I  proposed  that  scruple  to 
you  once  before.     Secondly,  whether  you  conceive  that  form  which 

had  undeceired  the  world,  -wliicL  had  been  misled  too  long  by  the  over  great  opinion 
they  had  of  Joseph  Sealiger,  and  that,  taking  Funccius's  Epocha,  he  had  demonstrated 
the  manifestation  of  the  Messiah  to  haye  fallen  ont  at  the  end  of  the  sLsty-ninth  vreek, 
and  his  passion  in  the  midst  of  the  last,  in  the  most  natural  and  proper  sense  thereof 
— which  demonstration  of  his  is  of  as  much  price  and  worth  in  theology  as  either  the 
circulation  of  the  blood  in  physic  or  the  motion  of  the  earth  in  natural  philosophy." 
When  shall  we  haye  a  pubUcation  of  Cudworth's  existing  Eemains  by  an  editor  who 
shall  bring  to  that  long-delayed  and  most  necessary  duty  the  judgment,  learning, 
diligence,  and  aifectionate  care  which  Worthington  has  displayed  in  collecting  and 
combining  the  precious  Tracts  and  Fragments  of  Smith  and  of  Mede ! 

^  Sparrow  is  noticed  yol.  i.  p.  5. 

-  Edmund  Boldero,  a  natiye  of  Bury  St.  Edmunds,  and  who  became  Master  of 
Jesus  College  in  Cambridge  in  May,  1663.  See  a  notice  of  him  in  "  Historia  CoUegii 
Jesu  Cantabrigiensis  a  J.  Shermanno,"  Lond.  1S40,  Syo,  pp.  42-3.  Dr.  Boldero  had 
been  a  follower  of  Mars  as  well  as  Mercury.  He  had  fought  for  his  Eoyal  Master 
both  with  his  pen  and  his  sword.  His  learning  was  considerable,  and  his  courage 
equal  to  any  emergency.  He  had  been  present  with  the  great  Montrose  in  all  his 
adyentures,  and  was  so  accompHshed  a  prison  breaker  that  chains  and  dungeons  were 
but  sport  to  him.  Jack  Sheppard  and  Tidocq  scarcely  surpassed  the  exploits  of  this 
worthy  and  gallant  head  of  Jesus.  His  biographer  observes  :  "  Xoyis  indies  yinculis 
onustus,  quasi  nullis  teneri,  de  carcere  in  carcerem  raptus,  quasi  nullo  claudi  poterat. 
Quorum  tamen  yel  ipsa  nomina  catenam  conficerent  quae  mehercule  yel  ipsum  Her- 
culem  constringerent,"  p.  43.  What  a  contrast  to  the  quiet  and  peaceable  career  of 
his  predecessor,  Worthinffton ! 


143  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1664 

I  sent  be  unexceptionable,  or  need  any  alteration.  Before  the  epistle 
be  sent  to  the  press  I  pi'ay  you  do  this ;  for  if  you  and  others  think 
it  incongruous  to  dedicate  a  sermon  to  him  not  preached  before  him, 
I  would  not  do  it.'^  But  the  machinations  of  some  here  against  me 
and  my  friends  made  me  not  unwilling  to  dedicate  it  to  the  Arch- 
bishop (if  there  be  no  absurdity  or  incongruity  in  it  because  it  was 
not  preached  before  him)  the  rather  indeed  because  of  a  certain 
compliment  in  a  letter  of  mine  to  him  formerly,  when  they  attempted 
to  engage  him  against  me  in  order  to  the  displacing  of  me,  which 
made  me  a  debtor  of  some  public  acknowledgment.  If  you  see  Dr. 
Wilkins  or  Mr.  Tillotson,^  pray  ask  their  opinion.  With  my  kind 
respects  I  remain 

Your  aifectionate  friend  and  servant, 
Nov.  10,  1664.  R.[alph]  C.[udworth.] 

^  Dr.  Cudworth's  scruple,  whether  well  or  iU  founded,  was  at  least  not  entertained 
by  Dr.  Parr,  who,  as  I  recollect,  dedicated  a  Fast  Sermon  to  two  Bishops  who  had 
not  heard  it  preached. 

"  Mr.  (afterwards  Archbishop)  Tillotson  seems  to  have  been  in  habits  of  the  closest 
intimacy  with  Worthington  and  his  friends.  The  life  of  this  excellent  prelate  (of 
whom  it  has  been  said,  by  one  who  knew  him  well,  that  "  he  taught  by  sermons  more 
ministers  to  preach  well  and  more  people  to  live  well,  than  any  other  man  since  the 
Apostles'  days,"  and  who  dying  left  no  property  behind  him  except  a  copy  of  his 
posthumous  sermons,  which  was  sold  for  two  thousand  five  hundred  guineas, —  a  fact, 
observes  an  amusing  writer,  almost  as  extraordinary  as  that  an  Archbishop  should 
die  without  money)  has  been  written  by  Birch  with  his  usual  accuracy  and  ful- 
ness of  information,  but  with  more  than  his  usual  heaviness.  (Lond.  1752,  8vo). 
The  memoirs  by  Beardmore,  Tillotson's  first  pupU,  subjoined  to  Birch's  Life,  are 
decidedly  the  most  pleasing  portion  of  the  volume.  Haugh-end,  in  the  township 
of  Sowerby,  in  the  parish  of  Halifax,  has  the  honour  of  being  the  Archbishop's 
birth-place,  his  baptism  taking  place  at  the  Pai-ish  Church  on  the  3rd  October, 
1630.  He  died  on  the  22nd  November,  1694,  deeply  and  universally  lamented.  So 
much  has  been  written  in  reference  to  Tillotson,  and  his  character  is  so  well  under- 
stood that  it  would  be  superfluous  to  give  any  extended  notice  of  him.  lie  was  for  a 
long  time  after  his  death  generally  regarded  as  the  pattern-writer  of  sermons,  and  it 
is  much  to  be  questioned  whether  we  do  not  owe  something  of  that  lower  style  which 
so  strongly  marks  a  large  proportion  of  the  pulpit  compositions  of  the  last  century  to 
the  strong  influence  of  his  example.  Fully  admitting  their  merits  as  clear  and  ra- 
tional discourses,  yet  surely,  when  we  compare  Tillotson's  sermons  with  those  of  his 
immediate  predecessors,  irregular,  uuequal,  even  extravagant,  and  unpruned  as  the 


1664]  OF   DR.   AVORTHINGTOX.  143 


In  a  Letter  to  Mr.  Evans  Nov.  18,  1664. 
[From  Dr.  Worthington.] 
—  Dr.  Cudwortli's  sermon  had  been  finished  ere  this  but  that 
the  death  of  old  Mr.  Flesher^  (who  died  suddenly  in 
his  bed)  hath  hindered  the  printing  work  for  this  week. 
This  night  he  is  buried.  To-morrow  they  return  to 
their  trade  again.     Jacobus  Acontius^  was  w^orth  your 

latter  frequently  are,  we  still  find  as  striking  and  essential  a  difference  as  between  the 
"  trim  gardens  "  described  by  our  great  poet,  and  that  other  scene  which  he  depicts  of 
vaster  range  and  more  majestic  character,  where 

"  Overhead  up  grew 
Insuperable  heighth  of  loftiest  shade 
Cedar  and  pine  and  firr  and  branching  palm 
A  sylvan  scene,  and  as  the  ranks  ascend 
Shade  above  shade,  a  woody  theatre 
Of  stateliest  view  :  yet  higher  than  their  tops 
The  verdurous  wall  of  Paradise  up  sprung." 
'  "1664.   Nov.  13.   This  morning  died  Mr.  Miles  Fletcher  [Flesher]  printer,  being 
well  at  seven  of  the  clock."  —  Smith's  Obituary ;  Peck's  Desiderata  Curiosa,  book  xiv. 
p.  37,  folio  edition. 

2  Of  this  acute  and  ingenious  native  of  Trent,  who  came  into  England  and  died 
here  in  or  about  1566,  though  noticed  by  Bayle  and  in  the  General  and  other  Bio- 
graphical Dictionaries,  and  Strype's  Life  of  Grindall,  one  would  be  very  glad  to  have 
fuller  information  than  has  yet  been  given.  All  that  we  have  of  his  shows  a  mind  far 
in  advance  of  his  own  age,  and  which,  had  time  and  opportunity  been  afforded,  might 
have  achieved  extraordinary  performances.  Queen  Elizabeth  gave  him  a  pension  as 
an  engineer,  and  he  dedicated  to  her  his  treatise,  "De  Stratagematibus  Satanse  in 
religionis  negotio,  Lib.  viii."  first  printed  at  Basle  in  1565,  12mo,  and  afterwards 
often  reprinted  and  translated  into  most  EiU'opean  languages.  His  other  works  con- 
sist of  an  excellent  treatise  De  Methodo  sive  recta  investigandarum  artium  ratione 
Hbellus,  Basle,  1558,  8vo ;  a  short  but  valuable  Letter,  addressed  to  Wolfius,  dated 
London,  Dec.  1562,  de  ratione  edendorum  librorum,  printed  at  the  end  of  some 
editions  of  his  Stratagemata ;  and  his  Ars  muniendorum  oppidorum  in  Italian  and 
Latin,  published  at  Geneva  in  1585.  He  had  made  some  progress  in  a  treatise  on 
Logic,  but  though  he  did  not  intend  to  make  it  a  long  one,  yet  he  felt  that  it  required 
much  time  and  consideration,  for,  observes  he,  "nee  tam  certe  vereor  eorum  qui 
regnare  nunc  videntur  judicia  quam  exorientem  quandam  sseculi  adhuc  paulo  cultioris 
lucem  pertimesco."  He  notices  the  difficulty  "  nova  inventa  latinis  verbis  exprimendi, 
homini  prfesertim  qui  bona  vitse  parte  inter  Bartoli,  Baldi,  et  ejus  farinse  hominum 
sordes  consumpta,  raultisqiie  anni?  aulicse  vitae  sero  admodum  ad  politiores  musas 


144  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1664 

reading.  I  thought  so  many  years  since,  though  one  in 
print  did  declaim  against  the  translation  of  part  of  the 
book  that  was  printed  (the  rest  was  also  finished  but 
not  printed,  and  I  think  Mr.  Hartlib  had  it)  and  the 
Assembly  did  snib  [snub]  Mr.  Dury  for  writing  a  pre- 
face to  the  English  translation.^      The  Latin  one  that  I 

accesserit,"  from  which  it  appears  that  he  had  passed  a  great  part  of  his  life  in  law 
studies  and  at  court.  His  Stratagemata  Satana3  has  been  as  highly  praised  and  aa 
bitterly  decried  as  any  production  of  the  sixteenth  century.  It  was,  perhaps,  the  first 
work  which  threw  out  a  brilliant  and  clear  light  on  the  subject  of  toleration,  and,  as 
such,  its  yalue  to  mankind  has  been  inestimable. 

'  The  history  of  this  translation  is  curious.  In  1631  the  Latin  work  was  pubUshed 
at  Oxford  in  12mo,  and  in  March,  1647-8,  a  translation  of  the  first  four  books  into 
EngUsh  appeared,  under  the  title  of  "Satan's  Stratagems,  or  the  Devil's  Cabinet 
Council  discovered,  whereby  he  endeavours  to  hinder  the  knowledge  of  the  truth 
through  many  delusions ;  by  Jacobus  Acontius,  a  learned  and  godly  divine,  banished 
for  the  Gospel;"  London,  printed  for  John  Macock,  1648,  4to,  pages  136,  exclusive  of 
introductory  matter.  Who  was  the  translator  is  not  stated,  but  to  the  tract  is  pre- 
fixed a  recommendatory  letter  from  John  Goodwin,  and  another  from  John  Dury. 
John  Goodwin's  address  is  written  in  his  usual  vein  of  masculine  and  nervous  elo- 
quence. Of  Acontius  he  observes  :  "  I  have  not  met  with  any  author  comparable  to 
this  for  a  Christian  genius  and  dexterity  in  teaching  that  desirable  and  happy  art,  aa 
well  of  composing  differences  in  matters  of  judgment,  as  far  as  a  composure  in  this 
kind  may  with  the  honour  of  truth  be  admitted,  as  of  opposing  that  which  is  not 
meet  to  be  admitted  to  composition."  He  concludes  his  epistle  by  a  fervent  wish. 
"  The  Father  of  lAght  and  God  of  Truth,  according  to  the  unsearchable  riches  of  his 
grace  in  Christ,  hreak  up  at  last  all  the  fountains  of  the  great  deep  of  Truth  and  oven 
the  windoios  of  heaven  that  knowledge  may  fill  the  earth  as  waters  cover  the  sea." 
John  Dury  in  his  letter  praises  the  author  as  "an  excellent  man,  and  thoroughly 
knowing  in  many  sciences ;  his  excellency  did  he  in  the  depth  and  solidity  of  his 
judgment  in  every  thing,  and  in  the  piety  and  moderation  of  his  spirit  in  matters  of 
religion."  He  further  remarks  with  truth  :  "  To  be  carried  along  with  the  stream,  or 
to  be  silent  when  matters  are  not  carried  according  to  our  mind  is  no  hard  matter  to 
any  that  hath  any  measure  of  discretion ;  but  to  row  against  the  stream,  to  labour 
against  wind  and  tide  and  the  whole  current  of  an  age,  and  that  without  offence  unto 
any,  and  that  strongly  and  irresistibly,  as  in  his  age  Acontius  did,  is  not  the  work  of 
an  ordinary  courage :  therefore  such  as  own  him  in  his  way  are  the  more  to  be  com- 
mended." The  publication  of  this  translation,  with  the  testimonies  in  its  favour, 
called  up  the  turbulent  and  inquiet  spirit  of  Francis  Chcynel.  He  had  baited  to 
death  the  illustrious  Chillingworth,  and  was  still  on  the  search  for  new  books  to  de- 
nounce and  new  heretics  to  drag  to  light  and  discovery.      He  gives  an  account  of  his 


1664]  OF  nil.  WOKTHINGTOX.  145 

have  is  not  the  Oxford  ill  printed  one,  but  another  of  a 

proceedings  in  his  work,  now  rather  imcommon,  entitled  "The  Divine  Trinunity  of 
the  Father,  Son,  and  Holy  Spirit,"  Lond.  1650,  12mo.  "  About  the  beginning  of 
March,  IGiT,  there  was  some  part  of  his  (Acontius's)  Stratagems  (translated  into 
English)  published  in  print  at  London.  I  confess  I  was  amazed  at  it,  but  could  not 
learn  who  was  the  translator  of  it.  We  were  at  that  time  required  to  look  after  all 
books  that  were  pernicious  or  dangerous,  and  I  did  complain  to  the  Reverend  As- 
sembly sitting  at  Westminster,  that  there  was  such  a  book  lately  published,  dedicated 
to  both  Houses  of  Parliament,  to  the  General  and  Lieutenant- General  of  all  the  forces 
raised  for  the  defence  of  the  Commonwealth.  Whereupon  the  Reverend  Assembly 
chose  a  committee  to  peruse  the  book  and  report  their  judgment  of  it  to  the  Assembly 
with  aU  convenient  speed.  L^pon  perusal  of  the  book  we  found  that  the  author  was 
recommended  by  Peter  Ramus,  but  we  did  not  much  wonder  at  that.  1.  Because 
the  book  is  written  with  much  art,  and  the  malignity  of  it  very  closely  couched.  2. 
There  are  many  plausible  pretences,  fair  insinuations,  and  divers  religious  expressions 
in  it.  The  man  was  master  of  his  passions  as  well  as  art,  or  else  he  had  not  been  such 
an  excellent  agent  and  solicitor  in  so  bad  a  cause,  and  so  complete  a  courtier  as  indeed 
he  was.  3.  Acontius  spent  a  great  part  of  his  time  in  the  study  of  the  mathematics ; 
he  was  excellent  in  the  art  of  fortification ;  and  therefore  Peter  Ramus  might  set  the 
higher  price  upon  him.  4.  He  hath  many  excellent  passages,  which  are  of  great  use 
against  the  papists.  But  that  which  we  admired  at  was,  that  a  member  of  our  own 
Assembly  should  recommend  the  book.  It  was,  therefore,  desired  that  Mr.  Dury 
might  be  added  to  that  committee.  WTien  Mr.  Dury  came  amongst  us,  and  saw  that 
he  had  given  too  fair  a  testimony  to  that  subtde  piece,  he  dealt  as  ingenuously  with 
us  as  we  dealt  with  him,  and  assured  us  that  he  would  be  ready  to  make  his  retracta- 
tion as  public  as  his  recommendation  had  been  made  without  his  consent,  because  he 
clearly  saw  that  they  practised  upon  his  passionate  love  of  peace  to  the  great  prejudice 
of  truth,  and  that  he  was  merely  drawn  in  to  promote  a  syncretism  beyond  the 
orthodox  lines  of  communication."  After  remarking  upon  several  passages  in 
Acontius's  book,  he  proceeds :  "  Tou  may  hereby  understand  the  modesty  of  the 
man,  and  cry  out  as,  he  did,  En  modestiam  satis  perfrictam,  usque  ad  os  impudentise 
perfrictam.  But  if  his  seventh  book  (which  the  translator  durst  not  adventure  to 
English  till  he  saw  how  this  would  take)  had  been  translated,  I  need  not  have  said 
any  more  for  the  discovery  of  this  subtle  Sir."  Cheynel  is  desired  to  make  a  report 
to  the  "Reverend  Assembly  concerning  the  danger  of  translating  and  printing  of 
Acontius  in  English,"  which  he  does  at  some  length  (see  report  in  Cheynel's  Divine 
Trinunity,  pp.  453-6) ;  and  "  upon  these  few  heads  of  the  report  I  discoursed  some- 
what affectionately  and  freely,  according  to  the  weight  and  moment  of  the  poiut  in 
question.  And  thereupon  the  Reverend  Assembly  did  unanimously  desire  the  Pro- 
locutor to  persuade  me  to  print  something  about  that  argument,  as  soon  as  the  heat 
of  our  employment  was  over,  for  the  satisfaction  of  the  kingdom.  I  was  very  willing 
to   obey  the  commands   of  tliat   Assembly."     Xo   doubt   he  was.     His   object   was 

U 


146  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1664 

longer  paper,  and  printed  beyond  sea.^  I  enquired  at 
Little  Britain  for  Palma  Christiana.  I  met  with  but 
one  that  thought  he  had  it.  He  said  it  was  a  stitched 
book,  and  must  have  the  more  time  to  look  it  out.  I 
told  him  I  would  call  some  days  hence.  Hath  Mr. 
DurelP  written  to  you?  or  doth  he  make  any  stay  in 

answered,  being  requested  "  to  print  something ;"  and  he  accordingly  publishes  his 
"  Trinunity,"  a  volume  of  about  fire  hundred  pages,  and  which  the  title-page  expresses 
to  be  by  "  Francis  Cheynel,  minister  of  that  Gospel  which  is  revealed  from  heaven  by 
Father,  Son,  and  Holy  Spirit  in  the  Holy  Scriptures  of  Truth."  In  his  preface  he 
calls  upon  all  statesmen  "to  beware  of  a  toleration  of  intolerable  errors,  and  informs 
them  that  Rev.  Mr.  Cotton  is  afraid  that  Antichrist  will  steal  in  at  the  back  door  of 
a  toleration."  Such  was  the  denouncer  of  Acontius,  whom  Worthington  alludes  to 
in  mentioning  "  that  one  in  print  did  declaim  against  the  translation."  Dury  did  not 
show  as  much  firmness  and  consistency  under  the  "  snubbing  "  he  received  as  might 
have  been  wished,  but  it  must  be  remembered  that  the  report  of  what  occurred  pro- 
ceeds from  a  most  violent  partizan. 

*  Probably  the  Basle  edition  of  1618,  8vo,  which  is  the  best,  and  includes  Acontius's 
letter  de  vatione  edendorum  librorum. 

"  John  Dur^ll  was  a  native  of  the  Isle  of  Jersey,  and  was  born  in  1625.  He  was 
entered  at  Merton  College,  Oxford,  but  shortly  after  the  commencement  of  the  Civil 
Wars  went  abroad  and  spent  several  years  in  France  and  Jersey.  On  the  Restoration 
he  returned  to  England,  and  was  instrumental  in  setting  up  the  new  Episcopal  French 
Church  at  the  Savoy  in  London.  In  February,  1664,  he  was  made  a  Canon,  and  in 
1677  Dean  of  Windsor,  and  died  in  June,  1683.  Wood  gives  him  the  honourable 
testimony  that  "  he  was  a  person  of  unbiassed  and  fixed  principles,  untainted  and 
steady  loyalty,  as  constantly  adhering  to  the  sinkmg  cause  and  interest  of  his  Sove- 
reign in  the  worst  of  times,  who  dared  with  an  unshaken  and  undaunted  resolution  to 
stand  up  and  maintain  the  honour  and  dignity  of  the  English  Church  when  she  was 
in  her  lowest  and  most  deplorable  condition."  —  (Athente,  Oxon.  iv.  p.  90.)  His 
Sermon  in  Defence  of  the  Liturgy  of  the  Church  of  England,  1661,  4to,  —  his  "View 
of  the  Government  and  Public  Worship  of  God  in  the  Reformed  Churches  beyond 
the  Seas,  wherein  is  shown  their  conformity  with  the  Church  of  England,"  1662,  4to, 
—  and  his  "EcclesiiB  Auglicanse  Vindiciffi,"  1669,  4to,  are  undeniable  evidences  of  his 
learning  and  ability.  He  was  fiercely  attacked,  amongst  other  adversaries,  by  Henry 
Hickman,  in  his  "  Apologia  pro  ministris  (vulgo)  Nonconformists,"  12mo,  and  his 
(for  there  can  be  no  doubt  of  the  authorship)  Bonasus  Vapulans,  1672;  and  by 
Dr.  Lewis  du  Moulin  in  his  Patronus  boniB  Fidei,  1672,  12mo,  a  curious  and  now 
scarce  work.     With  respect  to  both  of  his  answerers  it  may  be  said  that 

"  the  good  old  rule 

Sufficed  them,  the  simple  plan" 


1664]  OF   DR.   WORTHINGTOX.  147 

France?  I  had  a  letter  from  Mr.  Madock,  who  is 
settled  in  the  same  house  at  Rouen  where  Monsieur  Le 
Moyne^  is  dieted,  from  whom  also  I  had  an  account  of 
what  I  wished  Mr.  Madock  to  enquire  of.  Le  Moyne 
tells  me  that  he  has  been  for  a  long  time  endeavouring 
to  purchase  Petit's  Notes,  but  in  vain.  For  they  would 
not  permit  him  to  see  them  before  he  bought  them, 
which  he  thought  was  not  fair.       He  speaks  honourably 

of  Petit,  but  doubts  not  he  hath  also He  hath 

wrote  notes  upon  Josephus,  and  complains  of  the  miser- 
able editions  that  were  of  him.  They  at  Eouen,  after 
they  have  despatched  somewhat  of  Origen^  in  the  press, 
urge  to  have  his  Josephus  in  the  press.  And  they  in 
Holland  also  solicit  for  his  labours,  and  upon  good 
terms.  And  upon  some  considerations  he  thinks  it 
were  a  more  prudent  course  to  have  them  printed  in 
Holland  or  in  England  than  in  France.  This  is  the 
short  of  his  letter,  by  which  I  fear  that  Petit's  Notes 
are  not  so  perfect  as  those  that  would  sell  them  would 
have  men  think  they  are.  And  it  seems  that  Le 
Moyne''s  labours  are  in  readiness  for  the  press.  What 
interest  more  Mr.  Durell  may  have  in  Petit's  friends  I 
know  not.  I  suppose  he  is  acquainted  with  Le  Moyne 
(as  appears  by  his  book)   and  if  he  could  prevail  with 

that,  where  in  controversy  a  -writer  cannot  easily  be  answered,  the  wisest  course  for 
his  opponent  is  at  once  to  put  aside  all  argument  and  begin  to  revile  with  all  his 
might  and  main. 

'  Stephen  de  Moine.  To  this  very  learned  French  minister  of  the  Protestant  re- 
ligion, who  was  born  at  Caea  in  1624  and  died  at  Leyden  in  1689,  we  owe  the 
valuable  and  weU-known  collection  entitled  "Varia  Sacra  seu  Sylloge  variorum 
Opusculorum  Grcecorum  ad  rem  Eeclesiasticam  spectantium,"  Leyd.  1685,  2  vols.  4to, 
and  other  works  of  less  importance. 

2  This  was  Huet's  elaborate  edition  of  Origan's  Exegetical  works,  which,  however, 
did  not  appear  till  1668,  when  it  was  pubUshed  at  Eouen  in  two  voliunes  folio.  In 
his  autobiography,  Huet  gives  an  account,  written  in  his  usual  pleasing  style,  of  the 
commencement  and  progress  of  that  important  work.  —  Commeutarius  de  rebus  ad 
eum  pertinentibus,  pp.  107,  235-4:4. 


148  DIARY   AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1664 

Petit\s  friends,  and  purchase  the  Notes  at  such  a  price, 
or  near  it,  as  Le  Moyne  offered  or  would  be  wilHng 
to  give  (which  he  might  know  by  writing  to  him)  [it 
would  be  well]  :  I  wish  they  were  in  Le  Moyne's 
hands.  They  are  fittest  for  him.  And  he  having 
ttjken  so  great  pains  about  Josephus  (so  as  to  have 
finished  his  work,  which  I  knew  not  before)  it  would 
not  be  well  that  two  editions  of  the  same  author  should 
come  out  near  the  same  time,  which  would  be  to  the 
detriment  of  both  or  one  of  them.  Howsoever,  if  Le 
Moyne  cannot  have  them,  it  were  pity  that  they  should 
perish,  or  be  sold  to  the  Koman  party  (and  be  as 
bad  as  lost  if  they  came  to  finger  them)  and  therefore 
this  opportunity  of  Mr.  Durell's  being  in  France 
would  be  prudently  improved  :  there  will  scarce  be  such 
another  opportunity  for  dealing  in  this  matter.  If  he 
did  correspond  with  M.  Le  INIoyne,  he  might  best  know 
what  is  to  be  done  upon  the  spot.  I  would  not  have 
Le  Moyne  be  in  the  least  disturbed  or  discouraged  in 
his  labours.  For  that  Savoy  business,  do  you  know 
whether  it  is  or  will  be  vacant?  What  is  the  duty  of 
the  place,  and  what  the  value?  Do  you  know  who 
have  to  do  in  disposing  such  places?  If  they  be 
desirable,  they  are  soon  caught  up,  and  perhaps  it  is  by 

this  time  if  it  was  vacant There  are  some 

others  also  that  set  upon  me  for  a  city  life  ;  but  I  tell 

them,  and  with  truth,  that  this  alone  will  not  do 

Mr.  Stillingflect'si  book  is  out,  it  is  above  600  pages;  a 

1  The  work  referred  to  is  Stillingfleet's  Eational  Account  of  tlie  Grounds  of  the 
Protestant  Keligion,  being  a  Vindication  of  Archbishop  Laud's  Rehition  of  a  Con- 
ference between  him  and  John  Fisher,  from  the  pretended  Answer  of  T.  C.  Lond. 
1664,  folio.  The  book  answered  is  Thomas  Carwell's  "  Labyrinthus  Cautuarensis," 
1658,  folio,  one  of  the  ablest  and  most  specious  of  the  Roman  Catholic  controversial 
works,  a  reply  to  which  Stillingflcet,  at  that  time  Rector  of  Stitton,  and  known  by  his 


1664]  OF   DR.   WORTH  IXGTON.  149 

large  book  to  be  written  and  printed  within  a  year,  and 
by  one  that  preaches  twice  a  Lord's  day. — 

Ireuicum  and  Origines  Sacra,  was  requested  to  write  by  Dr.  Henchman,  Bishop  of 
London.  Nothing  can  show  more  conclusively  Stillingfleet's  ready  command  oyer 
his  stores  of  knowledge  and  the  promptitude  and  vigour  of  his  intellectual  powers, 
which  were  then  in  their  zenith,  than  this  work,  which  he  dispatched  with  great  ex- 
pedition, forwarding  six  or  seven  sheets  to  the  press  each  week  from  the  commence- 
ment to  the  conclusion.  From  this  period  to  the  time  of  his  death  he  appears  to 
have  been  regarded  as  the  selected  champion  of  the  Chxirch  of  England  in  Roman 
Catholic  controversy,  whose  iron  flail  was  always  at  its  service,  and  as  one  of  its  great 
oracles  in  ecclesiastical,  constitutional,  and  general  learning.  So  wide  is  the  range  of 
his  knowledge  and  so  extensive  his  grasp,  that  the  six  folios  in  which  his  works  are 
comprised  are  in  themselves  a  controversial  library,  and  afford  inexhaustible  materials 
of  defence,  whether  Revelation  generally,  or  Protestantism,  or  the  Church  of  England 
is  the  point  attacked.  His  dispute  with  Locke  is  the  only  failure  after  an  uninter- 
rupted career  of  victory,  and  one  may  feel  the  same  sympathy  with  the  venerable 
combatant,  the  hero  of  a  hundred  fights,  who,  when  assailed  by  the  supple  dialectician, 

Peccat  ad  extremum, 
as  we  should  if  Marlborough  had  "closed  his  long  glories"  with  defeat.  It  is  not, 
however,  necessary  to  believe  VVhiston's  story,  which  he  says  he  had  from  Dr.  Bentley, 
that  the  mortification  the  Bishop  experienced  from  the  result  eventually  killed  him. 
Like  most  of  Whiston's  stories,  it  wiU  not  bear  examination,  and  we  will  not  hold  our 
famous  metaphysician  as  responsible  for  the  death  of  his  great  contemporary.  Stil- 
lingfleet,  who  was  a  Fellow  of  St.  John's,  is  one  of  the  three  celebrated  divines  whom 
Burnet  considers  to  have  been  formed  in  the  Cambridge  school  of  Whichcote,  Cud- 
worth,  More,  and  Worthington.  In  doctrine,  his  agreement  with  them  in  essential 
points  is  doubtless  clear  ;  but  in  the  colours  of  composition,  in  the  grand  character- 
istics of  style  which  mark  their  writings, 

"  Igneus  est  ilUs  vigor  et  coelestis  origo," 
there  is  little  resemblance  to  be  traced  in  the  works  of  Stillingfleet,  who  holds  his  own 
high  rank,  but  can  scarcely  be  regarded  as  one  who  had  fuUy  imbibed  and  himself  re- 
flected the  peculiar  excellencies  of  that  unrivalled  school.  For  a  list  of  his  works  and 
the  particulars  of  his  life,  the  reader  may  be  referred  to  the  Life  of  him,  published 
after  his  death  in  1710,  8vo,  which  is  attributed  to  Bentley  in  the  manuscript  notes 
to  two  copies  which  I  possess,  evidently  wi-itten  by  contemporaries,  but  clearly  with- 
out any  grounds  to  warrant  such  an  attribution  ;  and  to  the  Life  by  Moraut  in  the 
Biogr.  Brit.  His  death  took  place  on  the  27th  March,  1699,  at  the  age  of  sixty- 
three,  after  he  had  been  ten  years  Bishop  of  Worcester. 


150  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1664 


For  my  honourable  friend  Dr.  Worthington,  at  Mr.  Evans's  house  in 
Threadneedle  Street,  near  Benet  Fynk  Church,  London. 
[From  Dr.  Cudworth.] 
Good  neighbour, 

I  thank  you  for  your  great  care  in  correcting  those  sheets 
which  you  sent  me.  As  for  the  dedication,  I  confess  I  should  pro- 
nounce so  at  first  sight,  as  Dr.  Wilkins  for  another  friend,  the  case 
being  generally  propounded ;  but  there  were  some  peculiar  circum- 
stances that  made  me  incline  to  it.  First,  that  as  he  was  my  patron, 
so  there  had  passed  some  compliments  from  me  to  him  in  a  letter 
about  a  year  since,  upon  which  he  proved  my  real  friend,  and  dis- 
appointed the  expectation  of  many  others  that  had  laboured  him 
against  me  to  turn  me  out  by  a  reference  from  the  King.  Secondly, 
the  Bishop  of  London'  is  much  possessed  against  me  and  the  College 
(without  cause)  and  therefore  I  would  keep  my  interest  in  the  Lord 
of  Canterbury.  Thirdly,  our  men  are  just  now  machinating  new 
mischief  here.  Fourthly,  as  I  do  excuse  the  smallness  of  the  thing 
in  the  epistle,  so  I  shall  do  it  more  eft'ectually  in  a  private  letter. 
Though  I  may  have  something  of  greater  bulk  to  present  to  him 
afterwards,  yet  it  will  be  a  great  while  first ;  and  I  shall  lose  my 
station  before  that,  unless  he  stand  my  friend.  Others  may  possibly 
mislike  the  action  that  know  not  the  circumstances.  Wherefore  I 
could  wish  you  would  send  all  the  printed  sheets,  with  this  enclosed 
copy  of  the  epistle,  and  this  letter  to  you,  to  Dr.  Ovvtram,^  who 

'  The  Bisliop  of  London  was  Humphrey  Henchman.  He  had  been  a  zealous 
royalist,  and  was  one  of  those  who  assisted  in  concealing  Charles  II.  and  were  in- 
strumental in  his  escape  after  the  battle  of  Worcester.  He  was  accordingly  re- 
warded with  the  bishopric  of  Salisbury  at  the  Restoration,  and  was  removed  to 
London  upon  the  translation  of  Sheldon  to  Canterbury.  AVhen  the  declaration  for 
liberty  of  conscience  was  published  he  was  much  alarmed,  and  strictly  enjoined  his 
clergy  to  preach  against  popery,  though  it  gave  great  offence  to  the  King.  He  was 
editor  of  the  Gentleman's  Calling,  supposed  to  bo  written  by  the  author  of  the 
"Whole  Duty  of  Man."  He  died  in  October,  1675.  It  does  not  appear  on  what 
grounds  the  Bishop  had  become  unfavourably  disposed  to  Cudworth  and  Christ's 
College. 

^  William  Outram  or  Owtram  was  born  in  Derbyshire  in  16'25.     He  became  a 


1664]  OF   DK.   -SNORTHINGTON.  151 

knows  more  of  the  present  circumstances  of  things  how  they  stand 
with  Christ's  College  than  any  body,  and  wishes  well  to  me  and  the 
College^  and  I  believe  would  not  put  me  upon  anything  which  he 
thought  indecorous ;  and  entreat  him  impartially  to  consider  all 
things,  and  send  his  judgment ;  and  in  the  meantime  stop  the 
printing  of  the  titlepage.  I  have  not  the  least  ambition  for  any  such 
thing  but  so  far  as  the  rules  of  laudable  prudence  would  direct.  We 
are  to  be  visited  this  day  se'nnight.     I  am 

Your  affectionate  friend  and  servant, 
Nov.  21.  1664.  R.  Cudworth. 


To  his  honoured  friend  Dr.  TForthingfon,  ^^c. 
[From  Dr.  Cudworth.] 
I  desire  that  you  and  Dr.  Owtram  would  determine  that 
business  which  I  referred  to  you  two,  and  it  will  please  me  as  well 
as  if  I  cast  the  scale  myself,  and  better,  knowing  that  you  can  judge 
more  indifferently.  And  I  pray  send  me  word  speedily,  and  I  will 
accordingly  write  a  letter  for  the  presenting  of  it  to  my  Lord  of  Can- 
terbury, if  Dr.  Owtram  will  trouble  himself  so  much.  But  if  the 
dedication^  be  conceived  not  so   decorous  and  prudential,  then  it 

FelloTV  of  TrinitT  College,  Cambridge,  as  he  was  afterwards  of  Christ's.  In  1670  he 
was  installed  Prebendary  of  Westminster,  and  was  some  time  Eector  of  St.  Margaret's, 
Westminster,  He  died  in  August,  1679.  This  eminent  Divine  enjoyed  extensiye 
popularity  both  with  Nonconformists  and  Churchmen.  The  Twenty  Sermons  which 
were  published  after  his  death  by  Dr.  Grardiner,  the  second  edition  of  which  appeared 
in  1697,  are  rather  disappointing,  and  do  not  realise  the  expectations  which  his  name 
woiild  natiirally  excite ;  but  his  treatise  "  De  Sacrifieiis,"  Lond.  1677,  4to,  is  one  of 
those  masterly  performances  which  cannot  be  read  without  high  admiration  of  its 
author.  The  learniag  is  so  well  digested  and  so  happUy  applied,  and  brought  to 
bear  with  such  force  upon  the  points  of  doctrine  which  he  undertakes  to  prove,  that 
it  will  always  be  included  in  any  list  of  the  great  standard  works  in  Theology  of  which 
this  country  has  just  reason  to  be  proud. 

1  The  dedication  in  this  case,  as  not  imfrequently  happens,  seems  to  have  given 
Cudworth  more  trouble  than  the  work  itself. 


152  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1664 

must  be  concealed  as  much  as  may  be.  It  pleases  God  to  exercise 
me  with  variety  of  troubles,  one  upon  the  neck  of  another,  and  I 
desire  to  submit  to  his  providence.  When  will  Mr.  Mede  be 
finished?     Our  kind  loves  to  you  both.     I  remain 

Your  assured  friend  and  servant, 
Nov.  24,  1664.  R.[alph]  C.[udworth.] 


Dr.  Cudworth  to  Dr.  Worthington. 
Good  neighbour, 

These  are  to  return  you  many  thanks  for  your  great  pains 
and  care  about  my  sermon.  I  received  the  copies  sent,  being  ten. 
I  pray  remember  me  kindly  to  Mr.  Royston.^  I  must  buy  some 
more  of  him.  I  entreat  you  to  let  me  know  the  several  expenses 
which  you  have  been  at  by  occasion  of  my  business,  and  I  shall  pay 
the  same,  being  much  obliged  to  you  for  your  trouble  besides.  I 
will  sometime  this  week  write  a  few  lines  to  Sir  W.  Morice.^  My 
other  business  is  not  yet  ready  to  begin,  but  I  thank  you  for  your 
kind  offer.     I  hope  you  will  not  leave  London  before  it  be  in  some 

'  This  worthy  man  was  the  principal  publisher  for  the  most  eminent  Divines  of  the 
period,  and  was  respected  by  aU  of  them.  His  name  on  a  titlepage  may  always  be 
taken  as  a  recommendation,  for  perhaps  it  would  be  difficult  to  show  that  he  ever 
sent  out  a  bad  or  valueless  book  in  the  whole  of  his  publishing  career. 

2  Sir  William  Morice,  a  kinsman  of  Monk,  was  Secretary  of  State  during  the  seven 
years  succeeding  King  Charles  the  Second's  restoration.  He  has  displayed  his  learning 
in  an  elaborate  treatise  entitled  "  The  Common  Kight  to  the  Lord's  Supper  Asserted," 
1651  4to,  and  1660  folio ;  but  his  familiarity  with  foreign  languages  and  his  know- 
ledge of  foreign  affairs,  two  important  requisites  for  sustaining  well  the  office  of 
Secretary  of  State,  were  disputed  by  many  of  his  contemporaries,  who  were  apt  to  say 
of  him,  as  was  jocularly  asserted  of  a  brilliant  successor  : 

"  His  ignorance  of  them  completely  declares 
That  to  him  they  must  ever  be  —  foreign  affairs." 
He  seems  to  have  carried  the  doctrine  of  Filmcr's  "Patriarcha"  into  private  life,  for 
it  is  recorded  of  him,  "  that  he  would  never  suffer  any  man  to  say  grace  in  his  own 
house  besides  himself;  there  he  said  ho  was  both  priest  and  king." 


1664]  OF   DR.  AVORTHIXGTON.  153 

forwardness.       With  my  affectionate  respects  to  ]\Irs.  Worthington, 
father  Whichcote,  and  all  my  friends,  I  remain 

Your  assured  and  obedient  servant, 
R.  Cudworth. 


In  a  Letter  to  Dr.  More,  Dec.  2,  1  ^Q^. 
[From  Dr.  Worthington.] 
—  I  received  yours  the  last  week.  The  second  was  of  such 
news  as  I  wished  and  hoped  for.  May  every  cloud  so 
clear  up  into  fair  weather^  may  every  storm  blow  over, 
that  you  may  in  tranquillitate  et  secessu  perfect  your 
designed  studies.  Your  book  of  the  SouFs  Immortality 
had  its  birth  or  growth  at  Ragley,  and  so  may  your 
Ethics  too,  which  may  conduce  to  a  happy  immortality. 
And  then  we  may  have  cause  to  salute  Ragley  woods 
with  that  in  Pastor  Fido,*  Care  selve  beate,  e  voi 
soUnghi  e  taciturni  orrori,  &c.     I  wish  Dr.  Cudworth 

'  "  Care  selve  beate, 

E  Toi  solinghi  e  taciturni  orrori, 

Di  riposo  e  di  pace  alberghi  veri, 

O  quanto  Tolontieri 

A  riredervi  i'  torno !  e  se  le  stelle 

M'  avesser  dato  in  sorte, 

Di  viver'  a  me  stessa,  e  di  far  vita 

Conforme  ale  mie  voglie, 

r  gia  co'  campi  Elisi 

Fortimato  giardin  de'  Semidei, 

La  Tostra'  ombra  geiitil  non  cangerei." 

—  Pastor  Fido  :  Atto  secondo,  Sceua  quinta. 
Thus  pleasingly  translated  by  Sir  Eichard  Eanshaw  : 

"  Dear  bappy  groves,  and  you  ye  solitary 
And  silent  horrors  where  true  peace  doth  tarry, 
With  how  much  joy  do  I  review  you !     And 
Had  my  stars  pleased  to  give  me  the  command 

VOL.  II.  X 


154  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1664 

may  despatch  his  in  time ;  but  if  he  should  delay,  it 
will  not  have  been  amiss  that  you  let  your  meditations 
run  to  the  end  of  their  course.  Yesterday  I  delivered 
your  Mystery  of  Iniquity'  to  the  Bishop  of  Winchester .^ 

Over  myself,  that  I  might  chuse  my  lot, 

And  my  own  way  of  life,  then  would  I  not 

For  the  Elysian  groves,  about  which  range 

The  happy  shades,  your  happy  shades  exchange." 
—  Pastor  Fido,  translated  by  Sir  E.  Fanshaw  (edit.  Lond.  1664,  8to),  p.  61. 
Worthington  docs  not  often  indulge  in  a  poetical  quotation.  He  had  evidently  a 
thorough  knowledge  of  the  great  poets  and  a  full  appreciation  of  what  is  finest  in 
their  works,  and  he  might  therefore  have  been  excused,  though  a  grave  theologian, 
if  he  had  done  so  more  frequently. 

1  "A  Modest  Enquiry  into  the  Mystery  of  Iniquity,  the  first  part  containing  a 
carefxil  and  impartial  Delineation  of  the  true  idea  of  Antichristiauism  in  the  real  and 
genuine  Members  thereof,  such  as  are  indeed  opposite  to  the  indispensable  purposes  of 
the  Gospel  of  Christ  and  to  the  Interest  of  His  Kingdom.  By  H.  More,  D.D. 
London:  printed  by  J.  Flesher  for  W.  Morden,  bookseller  in  Cambridge,  1664." 
The  second  part  is  entitled  "  Synopsis  Prophetica,  containing  a  compendious  Prospect 
into  those  Prophecies  of  the  Holy  Scripture  wherein  the  reign  of  Antichrist  or  the 
notorious  lapse  or  degeneracy  of  the  Church  in  all  those  points  comprized  in  the  idea 
of  Antichristiauism  is  prefigured  or  foretold,"  with  "  The  Apology  of  Dr.  Henry 
More."  (See  vol.  i.  p.  307.)  The  work  contains  567  pages,  exclusive  of  preface 
and  index.  In  this  work  More  follows  up  the  principles  of  interpretation  which 
Joseph  Mede  had  established  with  reference  to  the  prophetical  parts  of  Scripture, 
and  brings  all  his  learning  and  power  of  argument  to  bear  in  the  application  of  the 
prophecies  regarding  Antichrist,  the  man  of  sin,  and  the  woman  sitting  upon  a 
scarlet  coloured  beast,  to  the  Church  of  Eome.  Notwithstanding  his  general  agree- 
ment with  Mede,  he  differs  from  him  in  several  points,  as,  for  instance,  the  exposition 
of  the  beast  that  was  and  is  not,  the  seventh  king,  that  of  the  three  days  and  a  half, 
and  some  others.  He  attacks  with  more  sharpness  than  the  mildness  of  his  dispo- 
sition would  have  prepared  us  to  expect,  Grotius,  who  interpreted  the  beast,  which 
St.  John  saw,  the  Eoman  pagan  idolatry,  and  Eibera,  who  expounded  it  to  be  in- 
tended for  the  devil.  The  Mystery  of  Iniquity,  which  contained  an  usefid  "  Alphabet 
of  Prophetic  Iconisms,"  with  More's  following  works  in  explanation  of  Daniel  and 
the  Eevelations,  have  formed  a  valuable  repository  for  succeeding  writers  ;  and 
though  some  subordinate  parts  of  them  must  be  rejected  as  imsound,  yet  they  cannot 
be  regarded  as  even  now  superseded,  and  well  deserve  consultation  by  every  student 
of  prophetic  interpretation. 
-  Dr.  George  Morley,  see  p.  77. 


1664]  OF  DR.  WORTHINGTON.  155 

I  was  brought  to  him  by  the  Bishop  of  Exeter,^  and 
dined  with  him.  He  wished  me  to  return  his  thanks 
to  you,  and  said  he  would  be  ready  to  do  you  any 
service.  Lord  Chief  Justice  Bridgman^  (upon  Mr. 
Zanchy's  his  chaplain's  commendation)  and  Lord  Chief 
Baron  Hales^  read  your  book  with  diligence ;  and  the 
noise  perhaps  of  such  great  men  reading  it  might  make 
for  your  advantage  at  Cambridge.  So  that  there  is  no 
reason  for  you  to  be  discouraged  from  going  on  to  the 

third  part,  as  a  great  man  also  told  me Mrs. 

Foxcroft  told  me  she  spake  to  ray  Lord  Conway  about 
me,  who  professed  a  willingness  to  help  upon  occasion 
(there  being  some  thereabouts  that  have  many  livings, 
and  some  of  good  value)  or  else  to  write  into  Ireland. 
I  told  her  I  had  no  mind  to  take  a  voyage  into  Ireland ; 
if  any  in  England  had  a  mind  to  better  preferment  there, 
and  had  the  offer  of  it,  I  had  rather  succeed  such  in 
England.  — 

'  Dr.  Seth  Ward,  sec  vol.  i.  p.  302. 

2  Vol.  i.  p.  106. 

•*  See  preface  to  Potts's  Discovery  of  Witches,  p.  5,  as  to  the  sketches  of  this  great 
judge  by  Bishop  Burnet  and  Roger  North.  The  life  of  Hale,  in  Lord  Campbell's 
Lives  of  Chief  Justices,  can  scarcely  be  accepted  as  a  fair  delineation  by  those  who 
wish  to  arrive  at  the  truth  of  a  character.  His  lordship's  critical  judgment  on 
Hale's  Origination  of  Mankind  is  much  too  favourable.  Taking  him  out  of  his  pro- 
fession, in  which  he  was  unsurpasi^ed  by  any  lawyer  of  his  time,  and  looking  only  at 
his  philosophical  and  religious  writings,  we  should  seek  in  vain  for  any  proofs  of  an 
intellect  of  a  very  high  order.  In  his  own  day  his  legal  fame  gave  a  currency  to  his 
claims  to  be  considered  as  an  oracle  also  on  other  subjects ;  and  they  seem  to  have 
been  admitted  on  the  strength  of  his  personal  character  rather  than  the  merits  of  his 
performances.  His  folio  may  be  taken  up  by  those  whose  curiosity  is  attracted  by  the 
name  of  Sir  Matthew  Hale,  but  the  defects  ai-e  too  radical  and  the  composition  too 
little  attractive  to  allow  of  any  frequent  recurrence  to  its  pages.  After  all,  the 
miniature  portrait  by  Roger  North  is  the  only  resemblance  which  can  give  pleasure  to 
those  who  wish  to  see  a  great  man  in  his  weakness  as  well  as  his  strength,  his  failings 
as  well  as  his  virtues,  and  who  consider  indiscriminate  panegyric  to  be  the  bane  of 
biography. 


156  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1663 


Dr.  W.  Dillingham  in  a  Letter  (anno  1663  uti  conjicio)  Nov.  16. 
[To  Dr.  Worthington.] 
Yours  of  Nov.  2nd  I  received,  and  thank  you  for  the  intelli- 
gence of  it.  I  wrote  and  sent  to  Cambridge  in  answer 
to  your  former,  but  it  seems  it  miscarried.  I  therein 
acquainted  you  that  Mr.  Estwick's^  papers  were  in  his 
executor's  hands,  one  Freeman  of  Hertfordshire,  who 
married  his  wife's  daughter  (or  grandchild,  I  know  not 
which) .  I  know  not  wdiere  he  lives  ....  I  thank  you 
for  your  advice,  though  I  durst  not  undertake  to  prepare 
the  copies  and  gather  the  index  of  the  Scholia,  as  Mr. 
Feild  desired  (which  would  have  been  six  hours'  work 
per  day  for  three  years)  ;  yet  I  may  say  I  am  not  alto- 
gether idle,  though  out  from  all  ways  of  getting  a  sub- 
sistence. But  it  is  the  time  of  God's  patience,  and  why 
should  it  not  be  of  ours  also  ?  I  have  somewhere  part 
of  a  letter  of  Mr.  Mede's  in  Latin  concerning  the  killing 
of  the  witnesses  which  I  had  of  Mr.  Estwick.  If  you 
have  it  not,  I  will  seek  it  up  and  send  it. 

'  Nicholas  Estwick,  Fellow  of  Christ's  College,  Cambridge,  and  Jlinister  atWackton 
in  Northamptonshire.  His  principal  work  is  his  Examination  and  Confutation  of  Mr. 
Biddle's  Confession  of  Faith  touching  the  Holy  Trinity,  1656,  4to.  He  also  published 
three  separate  sermons  and  a  treatise  on  the  Holy  Ghost,  1648,  4to.  He  was  one  of 
the  correspondents  of  Joseph  Mede,  and  Worthington  appears  to  have  recovered  and 
published  for  the  first  time,  in  his  edition  of  his  works,  three  letters  from  Mede  to 
Estwick  (Mede's  works,  pp.  1032-6),  in  the  last  of  which  he  gives  his  judgment  upon 
Archbishop  Williams's  Holy  Table,  Name,  and  Thing,  a  tract  which  must  always  in- 
terest from  the  liveliness,  wit,  and  erudition  which  it  displays.  Mede  admits  that  "  it 
is  written  very  ably,  and  with  much  variety  of  learning,"  but  seems  to  doubt  whether 
part  was  not  elaborated  by  another  hand  than  the  Bishop's,  from  "  the  strange  mis- 
takes, confusions,  concealments,  and  wrested  interpretations  of  the  answerer,"  which 
appear  in  it.  The  doubt  is  curious,  and  deserves  attention  if  the  tract  should  ever  be 
reprinted,  as  Lord  Hailes  had  at  one  time  an  intention  of  doing. 


1664.-5]  OF  DR.  WORTHINGTOX.  '       157 


Dr.  Cudworth  in  a  Letter  Jan.  1664-5. 
[To  Dr.  Worthington.] 
I  wrote  to  [ ]  this  week  that  I  would  send  the  begin- 
ning of  mj  Natural  Ethics  up  the  next  week.  I  shall 
follow  your  advice  to  send  up,  at  a  time,  about  the 
quantity  of  ray  last  sermon.  But  I  would  entreat  you 
to  speak  with  Royston  about  it.  I  suppose  it  will  be 
about  nine  or  ten  times  as  much  as  my  sermon  was,  and 
therefore  it  will  do  best  in  quarto.  But  I  would  have  it 
a  very  fair  letter,  I  think  that  of  my  sermon  will  do 
best,  and  a  large  paper  that  there  may  be  a  good 
margin,  1  and  the  book  will  show  the  handsomer  for  it 
on  the  outside  also.  M'hom  shall  I  get  to  carry  it  to 
Mr.  Cook  [Crook  ?] .  I  intend  to  send  it  on  Monday. 
By  reason  of  something  which  I  heard  since  my  last  to 
you  I  have  cause  to  make  complaint  of  one^  whom  I 

'  The  collector  of  "  copies  on  large  paper^^  however  he  may  be  scoffed  at  by  the 
profane,  may  clearly  quote  the  great  authority  of  Cudworth  for  his  predilection. 

2  Dr.  Henry  More.  Who  would  expect  that  literary  jealousy  could  fiud  any  en- 
trance in  the  long  cemented  friendship  of  these  two  admirable  men,  and  that  a  new 
page  was  very  near  being  added  to  the  history  of  "  Literary  Quarrels,"  by  "  Natural 
Ethics  "  and  the  teaching  of  the  divine  law  of  love.  Fortunately,  the  minds  of  both 
were  too  well  constituted,  their  sincere  admiration  and  respect  for  each  other  too 
fervent  and  deeply  rooted,  to  render  this  misunderstanding  any  more  than  a  passing 
cloud  over  the  bright  and  serene  atmosphere  of  their  intercourse  and  communication. 
With  all  our  reverence  for  Cudworth,  he  appears  in  this  correspondence  too  exacting, 
and,  considering  how  widely  he  and  More  always  differ  in  theu'  treatment  of  any  sub- 
ject, he  seems  to  have  entertained  fears  of  being  anticipated,  which  were  more  akin  to 
panic  terrors  than  rational  apprehensions.  However  conscious  he  might  be  of  powers 
and  capacity  to  grapple  with  the  extensive  field  of  what  he  calls  "  natural  ethics,"  how 
could  he  feel  justified,  as  regards  the  world  at  large,  in  interdicting  the  auxiliary  forces 
which  a  mind  like  More's  was  able  to  bring  into  action  in  furtherance  of  the  grand 
end  which  both  these  good  men  had  most  sincerely  in  view.  Perhaps  we  may  make 
some  allowance  for  his  sensitive  and  jealous  feeling,  from  considering  how  little  Cud- 
worth had  actually  brought  before  the  public  at  this  time  and  how  much  he  had  it  in 
contemplation  to  accomplish.  His  vast  grasp  had  taken  in  the  whole  extent  of  Pagan 
and  Christian  antiquity,  and  his  mind,  laying  it  out  in  regular  compartments  as  the 


158       '  DIARY   AND   COHKESPONDENCE  [1664-5 

have  been  an  entire  friend  to,  and  have  been  guilty  of 
no  fault  towards  him,  unless  it  be  that  I  have  too  much 
idolized  his  person,  as  it  is  possible  to  do  those  that  we 
much  value  and  love,  for  which  it  may  please  God  to 
exercise  me  in  this  kind.  T  impart  it  to  you  because 
you  are  an  indifterent  friend  to  both.  You  know  I  have 
had  this  design  concerning  good  and  evil,  or  Natural 
Ethics,  a  great  while,  which  I  began  above  a  year  ago 

subject  of  future  exhaustion,  was  full  of  designs  and  labours,  pregnant  v.'ith  good  to 
man  and  glory  to  himself,  which  he  conceived  that  his  gigantic  powers  would  enable 
him  to  work  out  to  the  full.  And  yet  the  world  only  knew  him  then  as  the  author  of 
a  tract  on  the  Lord's  Supper  and  two  Sermons,  which,  excellent  as  they  were,  he  well 
knew  bore  no  correspondence  with  the  mightier  demonstrations  he  had  in  store ;  and 
he  saw  himself,  in  imagination,  outstripped  by  every  competitor  in  the  race  for  fame. 
The  wide  domain  which  he  had  originally  destined  for  conquest  appeared  to  be  gradu- 
ally contracting  from  the  successive  appropriations  of  Pearson,  More,  Stillingfleet, 
and  others,  who  had  taken  possession  of  large  provinces  and  made  them  their  own, 
and  Cudworth,  in  capabiUties  and  ambition  equal  to  any,  and  in  learning  superior  to 
all,  began  to  fear,  however  unnecessarily,  that  all  the  territories  which  he  had  mapped 
out  for  himself  would  disappear  one  by  one.  More's  intended  treatise  was  like  the 
Trent  to  Hotspur,  — 

"  This  river  comes  me  crankling  in 

And  cuts  me  from  the  best  of  all  my  land 

A  huge  half  moon,  a  monstrous  cantle  out." 
It  would  have  been  a  lasting  subject  of  regret  if  this  feeling  on  the  part  of  Cudworth, 
which  some,  who  do  not  allow  for  the  failings  of  even  the  best  of  men,  may  be  inclined 
to  characterize  as  an  irritable  selfishness,  unworthy  of  his  amiable  and  excellent  cha- 
racter, had  deprived  us  of  More's  Enchiridion  Ethicum,  a  manual  truly  worthy  of  its 
exalted  author,  and  which  reflects  in  the  fullest  measure  his  mind  and  image.  It 
affords  us  what  is  finest  and  best  in  Platonism,  impregnated  and  sublimed  by  a  spirit 
derived  from  a  purer  code  and  infinitely  nobler  source,  and  it  long  continued  the  most 
popular  and  perhaps  the  most  useful  of  all  More's  numerous  works.  If  at  the  present 
day  it  has  survived  its  popularity,  it  has  at  least  not  been  superseded  by  any  book 
•which  better  deserves  a  lasting  place  in  any  library  as  an  admirable  ethical  compen- 
dium. Though  now  mentioned,  it  was  not  actually  published  till  1667.  Cudworth's 
great  work  on  "  Natural  Ethics,"  so  miu-h,  as  appears  from  the  text,  the  present  ob- 
ject of  his  solicitude,  and  from  which  he  anticipated  so  large  au  harvest  of  fame,  re- 
mains still  (and  the  fact  is  discreditable  in  the  highest  degree  to  the  taste  and  critical 
judgment  of  his  countrymen)  in  manuscript  in  the  British  Museum,  and  has  never  yet 
been  published. 


1664—5]  OF   V,R.  WORTHINGTON.  159 

(when  I  made  the  first  sermon  in  the  chapel  about  that 
argument)  to  study  over  anew  and  dispatch  a  discourse 
about  it.  No  man  had  so  frequently  exhorted  me  to  it, 
and  so  earnestly,  as  this  friend  (whom  you  know)  having 
formerly  several  times  said  he  would  leave  that  argument 
for  me,  calling  it  my  Metaphysical  Ethics.  He  knew 
by  my  discourse  (besides  ray  commonplaces)  any  time 
this  twelvemonth,  that  I  was  wholly  upon  it.  But 
about  three  months  since,  unexpectedly,  he  told  me  on 
a  sudden  he  had  begun  a  discourse  on  the  same  argu- 
ment. I  was  struck  into  an  amaze,  and  could  hardly 
believe  what  he  said,  but,  after  some  pause,  told  him 
that  he  knew  I  was  engaged  a  good  while  in  the  argu- 
ment and  had  taken  a  great  deal  of  pains  in  it,  and  it 
would  be  not  only  superfluous  but  very  absurd  for  two 
friends  at  the  same  time  to  w^ite  upon  the  same  argu- 
ment ;  and  therefore,  though  I  wondered  very  much  at 
this,  yet,  if  he  were  resolved  to  go  on  and  take  the  argu- 
ment from  me,  I  would  desist,  and  not  seem  guilty  to 
the  world  of  the  vanity  of  emulation.  Hereupon  he  was 
mute.  The  next  day,  my  mind  being  exceedingly 
troubled  with  the  great  disappointment  that  I  should  be 
foiced  to  lose  all  my  pains  and  study,  in  writing  I 
imparted  my  mind  more  fully  and  plainly  to  him. 
Whereupon  he  came  to  me  and  told  me  he  would  speak 
with  me  about  it  after  a  day  or  two.  So  he  did,  and 
then  excused  the  business,  that  he  could  not  tell  whether 
I  would  despatch  and  finish  it  or  no,  because  I  had  been 
so  Ion":  about  it:  that  Mr.  Fulwoodi  and  Mr.  Jenks^ 

1  Francis  Fulwood,  D.D.,  Cauon  of  Exeter,  who  published  a  Sermon  in  1667  and 
anotlier  in  1672,  and  a  treatise  entitled  "The  Pillars  of  Eome  broken"  (against  the 
Pope's  authority  in  England)  in  1679,  8vo. 

"  Henry  Jenks,  who  became  a  student  at  Emmanuel  in  1646,  and  afterwards 
Fellow  of  Gonvile  and  Caius's  College.  He  was  afterwards  Fellow  of  the  Eoyal 
Society,  and  author  of  "  The  Christian  Tutor,  or  a  Free  and  Eational  Discourse  of  the 


160  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1664-5 

had  solicited  him  to  do  this,  and  that  you  were  very 
glad  that  he  would  undertake  it ;  but  now  he  understood 
I  was  resolved  to  go  through  with  it,  he  was  very  glad 
of  it,  that  he  would  desist  and  throw  his  into  a  corner, 
wished  me  to  dedicate  it  to  his  Lordship  of  Canterbury, 
&c.  Hereupon  I  renewed  my  resolution,  and  set  myself 
more  earnestly  about  it ;  aiifl  then  I  wrote  to  you,  con- 
cealing this  business,  and  when  I  wrote  to  my  Lord  of 
Canterbury  did  intimate  (because  I  knew  he  expected 
something)  that  if  my  quiet  continued  I  did  ere  long 
hope  to  despatch  such  a  business,  which  he  hath  spoken 
of  since.  Notwithstanding  all  this  (as  I  hear  lately) 
before  he  went  into  the  country  he  told  Mr.  Fulwood  he 
would  go  on  with  it,  and  has  written  as  much  to  Mr. 
Standish  out  of  the  country.  Though  truly  I  have  so 
strong  a  persuasion  of  the  morality,  ingenuity,  and 
friendship  of  that  person,  that  I  cannot  yet  think,  when 
it  comes  to,  that  he  can  do  such  a  thing.  I  have  been 
far  from  envy,  rejoicing  in  his  performances  as  if  they 
were  mine  own.  He  hath  credit  and  fame  as  much  as 
he  can  desire.  That  he,  my  intimate  friend,  should 
entertain  such  a  design  as  this,  to  depress  and  detract 
from  my  single  small  performance  what  he  can,  and  to 
assume  to  himself  the  credit  of  this  ethical  business,  is 
so  strange  to  me  that  I  do  not  believe  it.  And  if  he 
should  violate  friendship  in  this  kind,  it  would  more 
afflict  me  than  all  that  Dr.  Widdrington^  ever  did,  and 
make  me  sick  of  Christ's  College,  and  of  all  things  in 
this  life There  were  some  other  slight  pretences 

Sovereign  Good  aud  Happiness  of  Man,  in  a  Letter  of  Advice  to  Mr.  James  King  in 
the  East  Indies,"  Lond.  1683,  8vo.     He  died  in  1697. 

'  Dr.  Widdrington,  who  had  endeayoured,  as  Cudworth  thought,  to  get  him 
removed  from  the  headship  of  Christ's  College.  A  letter  of  Dr.  Widdrington  will 
be  found  afterwards,  acknowledging,  on  the  part  of  the  College,  the  present  of  Mede's 
works  by  Worthington. 


1664—5]  OF   DK.   WORTH INGTON.  161 

mentioned,  that  his  would  be  in  Latin,  mine  English, 
his  shorter,  mine  longer,  which  signify  nothing.  All 
this  I  impart  to  you  privately,  because  a  common  friend. 
I  have  not  spoken  to  anybody  else  but  Mr.  Standish, 
and  something  to  Mr.  Jenks  and  Fulwood,  nor  shall  I 
till  I  see  the  issue,  but  suspend  my  judgment.  I  leave 
all  to  your  prudence. — 


To  the  Rev.  his  honoured  friend  Dr.  Worthington,  &^'c. 
[From  Dr.  Cud  worth.] 
Good  neighbour, 

I  am  heartily  sorry  that  I  miss  of  so  good  a  news  as  Ashwell 
and  you  of  this  accommodation.  But  T  hope  it  is  because  Providence 
designs  better  for  you.  It  is  sad  that  so  many  persons  that  have 
neither  learning  nor  morality  should  get  into  preferments  and  keep 
out  others  from  them  that  are  meritorious  on  both  accounts.  But  I 
see  that  one  must  look  beforehand.  It  would  be  convenient,  therefore, 
to  consider  now  what  place  may  be  like  to  be  void,  and  to  enquire  of 
some  friends.  But  I  would  not  wish  you  to  resign  Barking  by  any 
means  till  you  hav^e  a  better  place.  If  my  wife  were  well,  I  would 
step  up  to  London  next  week,  to  come  down  the  following  week. 
There  is  yet  a  sheet  unwritten  of  that  part  which  I  hope  to  send 
you  to-morrow.  Now  I  have  only  sent  you  the  titlepage.  That  of 
Ethics  which  you  say  is  true,  but  then  it  will  be  called  Morality,  if 
not  Ethics,  which  is  as  bad.  I  received  your  two  half  sheets,  and 
your  letter  was  carefully  delivered.  As  for  the  other  business,  not- 
withstanding what  I  hear,  I  cannot  yet  believe  that  my  old  friend 
will  serve  me  so ;  not  only  because  he  so  lately  promised  the  con- 
trary, but  because  I  conceive  the  thing  itself  plainly  inconsistent 
with  true  friendship  —  for  two  friends  writing  upon  the  same  argu- 
ment at  the  same  time,  as  one  book  will  hinder  the  other  from  sell- 
ing, so  they  will  be  both,  or  one  or  other  of  them,  judged  guilty  of 
emulation,  vainglory,  and  desire  to  ostentate  how  much  they  can  do 

VOL.   II.  Y 


162  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1664-5 

better  than  the  other,  and  one  will  detract  from  the  other ;  so  that 
had  I  not  been  so  far  engaged  that  I  cannot  now  retreat,  I  would  far 
rather  have  relinquished  the  whole  business,  which  in  November  I 
was  resolved  to  have  done  if  my  friend  had  resolved  peremptorily  to 
go  on,  though  I  should  have  lost  a  great  deal  of  pains  and  study. 
But  he  promising  to  desist,  I  have  since  engaged  myself  to  my  Lord 
of  Canterbury  that  I  would  do  something  shortly,  and  he  hath 
spoken  of  it ;  that  I  cannot  relinquish  this  business  as  otherwise  I 
would  do  if  he  had  so  great  a  desire  towards  it.  But  there  are 
arguments  enough  besides  for  him  to  employ  himself  in.  And  he 
hath  already  written  a  great  deal  of  morality  in  most  of  his  books, 
especially  Mystery  of  Godliness  and  Cabbala,  where  there  are  things 
that  I  intend  to  take  notice  of,  as  I  have  occasion,  in  this,  and  to 
acknowledge.  I  cannot  be  confined  merely  to  one  thing,  to  show 
that  there  is  such  a  thing  as  virtue,  that  it  is  not  a  mere  name,  with- 
out showing  what  it  is.  For  the  showing  what  it  is  must  prove  that 
it  is.  And  therefore  in  my  short  position,  according  to  the  bigness 
of  it,  I  had  proportionally  as  much  about  what  moral  goodness  and 
virtue  is,  and  the  species  of  it  enumerated.  It  is  impossible  to  prove 
that  virtue  is,  and  not  show  what  it  is.  I  shall  deal  ingenuously  in 
any  thing  in  which  I  have  been  in  any  way  beholden  to  him.  And 
truly  I  intended  to  have  communicated  all  or  most  to  him  before, 
and  to  have  taken  his  advice ;  and  I  expected  that  he  would  have 
contributed  anything  he  could  towards  it,  as  I  would  readily  do  to 
anything  to  serve  him.  Here  is  now  a  book  a  printing  (they  say  it 
is  Dr.  Beaumont's)  against  his  Apology.  I  have  seen  nothing  of  it, 
but  Mr.  Standish  hath  acquainted  him  with  it,  to  whom  I  also  have 
spoken  freely  about  this  business,  who  seems  to  be  very  sensible  of 
the  indecorum  of  two  such  friends,  as  we  have  been,  writing  at  the 
same  time  upon  the  same  argument.  Use  your  discretion,  writing 
what  you  think  fit.     I  am, 

Yours  ever, 
Jan.  lfi64-5.  R.[alph]  C.[udworth.] 


J  664-5]  01<   DR.  WORTHINGTON.  163 


To  his  honourable  friend  Dr.  Worthinyton. 
[From  Dr.  Henry  More.] 

Sir, 

I  wrote  to  you  thus  soon  merely  upon  the  account  of  con- 
veying the  inclosed.  For  I  understand  by  Mr.  Standish's  letter 
that  he  unawares  speaking  to  the  JMaster^  of  my  Enchiridion  Ethi- 
cum,  that  he  showed  again  his  disgust  of  my  design,  and  pretended 
that  if  I  persisted  in  the  design  of  publishing  my  book  that  he  would 
desist  in  his,  though  he  had  part  of  it  then  ready  to  send  up  to  be 
licensed  that  week.  Wherefore,  that  there  may  be  no  demur  in  that 
business,  I  wrote  to  Mr.  Standish  to  desire  him  to  tell  the  Master 
that  I  do  not  intend,  if  at  all,  to  publish  my  book  till  he  has  pub- 
lished his,  which,  if  it  will  not  satisfy  him,  I  shall  be  very  much  at 
a  loss  to  know  what  his  meaning  is.  I  pray  you  spur  him  up  to 
send  his  to  the  press,  sith  himself  acknowledges  that  part  thereof  is 
ready  already  to  be  licensed.  I  never  expected  to  be  thus  entangled 
in  such  serious  designs  by  men  of  friendship  and  virtue.  For  my 
part  it  is  well  known  I  have  no  design  at  all  but  to  serve  the  public, 
and  that  I  entered  upon  this  task  extremely  against  my  own  will, 
and  yet  I  have  finished  it  all  but  a  chapter.  Whether,  or  when 
I  shall  publish  it,  I  shall  have  leisure  enough  to  consider.  I  should 
be  heartily  glad  to  hear  you  succeed  in  the  business  you  communi- 
cated to  me  in  your  last  letter.  Nothing  would  be  more  welcome 
than  the  news  thereof  to 

Your  affectionate  friend  and  servant, 

Ragley,  Jan.  24,  1664-5.  H.  More. 


Dr.  More  in  a  Letter  Feb.  7,  1664-5. 
[To  Dr.  Worthington.] 
Sir, 

I   have  received   yours  of  Jan.  28,  and  am  exceedingly 

'  Cudworth  was  Master  of  Christ's  College,  Cambridge. 


164  DIARY  AND  COKRESPONDENCE  [1664-5 

sorry  that  both  you  and  myself  are  so  disappointed  in  our  hopes  in 
that  affair  you  wrote  of.  But  it  is  good  to  submit  all  to  Divine 
Providence,  and  to  have  so  hearty  and  warm  a  sense  of  the  things 
within  that  the  uncertainty  of  things  without  may  have  the  less 
influence  upon  us.  As  for  the  annotations  in  Dr,  Taylor's  Dissua- 
sive/ I  do  not  doubt  but  that  they  are  at  least  generally  true.  And 
let  a  man  write  as  certain  truths  as  the  Apostles,  that  Church  will 
never  fail  to  pretend  to  answer,  to  amuse  and  hold  up  the  minds  of 
their  party.  I  am  glad  Dr.  Cudworth's  book  is  in  that  readiness 
that  the  world  may  be  sure  of  that ;  for  I  am  not  so  fully  resolved  of 
publishing  my  Enchiridion,  till  I  have  further  considered  it  and  tran- 
scribed it.  Such  scrupulosities  as  he  makes  could  never  have  entered 
into  the  thoughts  of  any  man  but  himself,  I  think.  And  if  our 
friendship  be  so  well  known,  it  would  the  more  secure  us  both  from 
that  suspicion  of  emulation,  which,  how  much  it  is  in  myself, 
you  shall  understand  by  this  brief  but  true  narration.  Some  few 
friends  at  Cambridge  were  earnest  with  me  to  write  a  short  Ethics, 
alleging  no  small  reason  for  it.  I  did  not  only  heartily  reject  them 
more  than  once,  but  with  great  zeal,  if  not  rudeness,  alleging  several 
things,  which  were  too  long  to  recite,  indeed  in  a  manner  vilifying 
the  project,  preferring  experience  of  life  before  all  such  fine  systems, 
alleging  also  that  Dr.  Cudworth  had  a  design  for  the  greatest  curiosity 

*  The  first  part  of  Jeremy  Taylor's  Dissuasive  from  Popery  appeared  in  1664,  which 
was  followed  by  a  second  part  in  vindication  of  the  former  from  the  attacks  of  White 
and  Sergeant.  Bishop  Heber  considers  that  "  as  specimens  of  talent  and  acquirement 
the  two  Dissuasives  are  not  inferior  to  any  of  his  most  popular  productions."  This 
is  undoubtedly  true,  but  it  is  not  so  easy  to  agree  with  the  Bishop  in  his  further  re- 
mark, "  that  it  is  even  possible  they  will  be  read  by  many  with  less  weariness  and  a 
more  sustained,  though  a  different  kind  of  pleasure,  than  the  unmingled  and  almost 
interminable  wilderness  of  sweets  which  characterize  his  earlier  and  less  argumentative 
■writings."  In  his  controversial  treatises,  learned  and  able  as  they  are,  Taylor  is  only 
half  himself.  In  that  department  he  has  many  equals,  perhaps  some  superiors,  in  his 
own  age ;  but  in  his  practical  works  he  soars  beyond  all  competition.  In  those,  and 
those  only,  his  peculiar  and  unrivalled  genius,  with  its  fanciful  rays 

"Of  thousand  colourings 
Streaming  from  oil"  tlie  light  like  seraph's  wings," 
has  its  finest  and  fullest  play. 


1664-5]  OF  DR.   'SVORTHINGTON.  165 

of  that  subject.  But  nothing  would  content  them  but  my  setting 
upon  the  work,  that  it  was  uncertain  when  Dr.  Cudworth's  would 
come  out ;  and  besides,  mine  being  a  small  treatise,  running  through 
the  whole  body  of  ethics,  they  would  not  interfere  with  one  another. 
But  such  an  interpretation,  as  Dr.  Cud  worth  makes  of  it,  never  came 
into  any  man's  mind,  nor,  I  think,  ever  would  have  come  if  he  had 
not  started  it.  For  my  part,  till  I  had  by  chance  told  Dr.  Cud- 
worth  of  my  purpose  (which  I  did  simply  thinking  nothing),  and 
how  many  chapters  had  been  finished,  I  knew  nothing  either  of  the 
time  or  scope  of  his  writing,  or  if  he  intended  a  general  ethics,  as 
now  he  would  make  shew  by  his  title ;  and  therefore  I  had  not  the 
advantage  of  that  art'ument  afjainst  them,  which  was  the  fruit  of  his 
reservedness  (if  it  was  his  intention)  which  I  used  not  to  him  in  my 
projects.  But  the  effect  of  those  friends'*  earnestness  (to  tell  you 
plainly  how  the  case  stood)  was  this :  A  day  or  two  after  their  last 
importunity,  T  waking  in  the  morning,  and  some  of  their  weightiest 
allegations  recurring  to  my  mind,  and  also  remembering  with  what 
an  excessive  earnestness  one  of  them  solicited  me  to  this  work  (in 
which  I  thought  there  might  be  something  more  than  ordinary,  and 
that  he  was  actuated  in  this  business  I  knew  not  how),  I  began 
seriously  to  think  with  myself  of  the  matter,  and  at  last  was  so  con- 
scientiously illaqueated  therein  that  1  could  not  absolutely  free  my- 
self therefrom  to  this  very  day.  Xor  was  this  only  an  act  of  mere 
conscience,  but  of  perfect  self-denial.  For  it  did  very  vehemently 
cross  other  great  and  innocent  pleasures  that  I  had  promised 
myself  in  a  certain  ordering  my  studies  which  I  had  newly  pro- 
posed to  myself  at  that  very  time.  So  that  I  thought  of  nothing  in 
the  earth  in  this  act  but  a  satisfaction  to  the  severity  of  my  own  con- 
science and  the  public  good.  For  had  it  not  been  for  this,  I  must 
confess  I  should  have  made  bold  to  have  balked  the  desires  of  my 
friends,  notwithstanding  all  their  importunity,  it  went  so  highly 
against  the  hair  in  respect  of  my  other  more  pleasing  designs.  But 
when  I  was  once  engaged,  I  proceeded  not  without  some  pleasure. 
I  would  never  give  Dr.  Cudworth  so  solemn  an  account  as  this,  for 
fear  he  should  have  taken  the  pet,  and  deprived  the  world  of  his 


166  DIARY   AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1664-5 

» 

illucubrations,  which  I  doubt  not  will  prove  very  laudable  and  useful ; 
and  I  wish  also  advantageous  to  himself,  which  is  my  main  reason 
of  letting  his  go  before  mine,  if  mine  go  out  at  all.  For  I  have  no 
worldly  design  in  writing  my  book,  but  only  of  serving  the  public. 
This  is  most  certainly  true  (T  will  not  say  in  verbo  sacerdotis  but)  in 
the  word  of  an  honest  man.  As  for  those  particular  reflections  of 
his  which  you  hint  in  your  letter,  I  think  they  are  now  easy  to  be 
answered,  for  you  see  already  why  I  wished  him  to  proceed,  and 
why  I  advised  him  to  what  he  was  resolved  on  before,  I  mean  the 
dedicating  of  it  to  the  Archbishop,  and  I  am  glad  that  he  will  so 
readily  accept  of  it.  You  may  also  understand  by  this  how  far  it  is 
true  that  I  take  the  argument  out  of  his  hand  ;  for  what  I  meddle 
with  was  forcibly  put  into  my  hand,  and  I  could  not  refuse  it.  But 
nobody  takes  anything  out  of  his  hand,  unless  he  has  a  mind  to  cast 
it  out  of  himself,  and  for  the  public's  sake  and  his  own,  I  have  used 
all  possible  discretion  that  he  might  not,  I  never  heard  him  com- 
monplace on  this  subject  but  once,  nor  understand  where  the  argu- 
ment lies  in  that  allegation,  nor  in  that  his  papers  are  long  studied, 
for  I  profess  mine  are  not  (1  finished  all  the  last  of — ),  but  the  easy 
and  natural  emanations  of  that  life  and  sense  within  me,  which  I 
prefer  before  all  the  subtleties  of  wit.  You  may  also  take  notice 
that  I  am  not  unmindful  of  what  passed  betwixt  us  at  Cambridge, 
since  I  resolve  not  to  publish  my  book  (if  at  all)  before  his.  And 
that  where  friendship  is  sound,  there  will  be  no  such  suspicions  of 
emulation  as  he  surmises,  nor  any  such  want  of  decorum  in  two 
friends,  supposed  so  hearty  enemies  to  vice  and  falsehood,  to  endeavour 
certatim  to  profligate  them  and  destroy  them — the  one  stabbing  with 
a  dagger  (such  is  my  Enchiridion)  the  other  slashing  with  a  broad- 
sword.^  Morden  has  been  divers  times  at  me  to  write  such  a  book 
for  some  years  together,  as  also  several  of  ray  friends  for  some  short 
book  of  devotion,  which  haply  this  may  seem  more  like  to  some  than 
a  squabbling  ethics.  All  that  I  can  say  of  it  is,  that  I  never  meant 
more  simply  and  sincerely  in  anything  than  I  did  in  this ;   nor  do  I 

'  A  good  illustration  of  the  dilFerent  moans  which  More  and  his  Iricnd  would  iin- 
ploy  to  accomplish  tlicir  purpose. 


1664-5]  OF   DR.   WORTHINGTON.  167 

think  that  any  man  can  undertake  a  business  with  greater  plainness 
and  integrity  of  spirit.  And  I  hope,  if  the  thing  should  see  the  light, 
that  it  might  contribute  to  the  making  men  good,  if  not  disputatious 
and  subtle  witted.  But,  however,  I  have  that  satisfaction  of  mind, 
that  I  have  been  obedient  herein  to  the  voice  of  my  own  conscience, 
which  if  I  should  at  any  time  resist  I  should  be  afraid  I  never  sin- 
cerely obeyed  it.  But  I  must  not  upon  punctilios  be  complimented 
out  of  my  duty.  I  have  more  things  to  say  unto  you,  which  if  you 
put  me  in  mind  of,  I  shall  impart  to  you  at  our  meeting,  which  I 
hope  will  now  be  ere  long.  Unless  there  be  extreme  necessity  for 
it,  I  will  never  so  misspend  my  time  as  to  answer  the  observations^ 
upon  my  "Apology."    I  wish  you  good  success  in  your  index  labour. 

[Henry  More.] . 


To  the  Rev.  and  honoured  Dr.  Worthington,  ^c. 
[From  Mr.  F.  Theobald.] 
Worthy  Sir, 

I  understand  by  Mr.  Colbourne's  letter  that  you  have 
resigned  Barking  living.  That  being  so,  I  ought  to  have  had  notice 
given  me  by  the  Bishop  of  it ;  for  I  suppose  your  resignation  is 
delivered  in  to  him,  otherwise  you  cannot  properly  be  said  to  have 
resigned.  As  to  Mr.  Colborne,  although  I  have  a  very  good 
opinion  of  him,  jet,  by  reason  of  a  former  engagement,  I  cannot 
gratify  him  in  his  request.  There  is  one  Mr.  King,  a  worthy 
person,  whom  I  intend  to  present ;  and  I  have  had  some  discourse 
with  him  in  reference  to  your  concernments,  and  find  he  expresses 
himself  very  ingenuously.  I  desire  you  w^ould  write  a  word  or  two 
by  Stowe  carrier,  on  next  Thursday,  that  I  may  be  satisfied  whether 
you  have  given  in  any  resignation  to  the  Bishop,  and  what  your 
intention  is.  You  may  build  upon  it  that  Mr.  King  will  do  all  fair 
and  handsome  things  is  the  desire  of 

Your  servant. 
Barking,  13  Feb.  1664-5.  Fra.  Theobald. 

'  By  Dr.  Joseph  BeaumoBt.     See  vol.  i.  p.  307. 


168  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1664-5 


[From  Dr.  Worth ington*'s  Almanacks.] 

Dec.  11,  18,  25.  I  preached  at  Benet  Fynk,  and  Jan,  1,  8,  22, 
29,  an.  1664-5,  and  Feb.  5. 

Feb.  10.  John  began  to  be  sick,  a  great  heat  and  coughing,  no 
stomach.     Feb.  11.  Damaris  began  to  be  sick  ahke. 

Feb.  12.     Dr.  Ingelo  preached  at  Benet  Fynk. 

Feb.  14.     John  began  to  mend,  and  Damaris  a  little. 

Feb.  16.  I  finished  the  last  paper  of  Mr.  Mede's  works  for  the 
press.     I  began  this  work  in  Jul.  1662.^ 

Feb.  19,  26,  March  5,  12,  19,  24,  1664-5.  I  preached  at  Benet 
Fynk. 

'  So  that  this  laborious  and  very  important  undertaking  occupied  him  rather  more 
than  two  years  and  a  half.  The  publication  appeared  in  two  volumes  in  a  much  more 
convenient  size  (in  folio)  than  that  of  the  succeeding  edition  of  1672.  The  title  was, 
"The  Works  of  the  pious  and  profoundly  learned  Joseph  Mede,  B.D.,  sometime 
Fellow  of  Christ's  CoUege  in  Cambridge ;  corrected  and  enlarged  according  to  the 
Author's  own  Manuscripts.  London  :  printed  by  James  Flesher  for  Richard  Royston, 
bookseller  to  his  most  sacred  Majesty,  1664."  It  is  dedicated  by  Worthington  to  the 
University  of  Cambridge.  His  general  preface,  which  follows,  in  its  style  and  temper 
is  in  every  respect  what  might  be  expected  from  the  excellent  editor.  Every  one  who 
wishes  to  form  a  judgment  of  Worthington,  and  to  take  measure  of  the  man,  should 
read  it.  The  Life  of  Joseph  Mede,  which  is  subjoined  to  the  preface,  is,  he  informs  us, 
"  written  by  some  of  great  acquaintance  with  him,  and  that  always  had  a  just  esteem 
for  him."  Worthington's  son  states  in  a  letter  in  answer  to  inquiries  on  the  subject 
of  the  author  of  the  Life :  "  I  know  not  who  was  the  author  of  the  short  view  of 
Mr.  Mede's  Life,  but  that  which  was  prefixed  to  his  works  was  drawn  by  an  ancient 
friend  of  Mr.  Mede's,  who  covenanted  with  my  father  that  his  name  should  be  con- 
cealed, and  gave  him  leave  to  add  and  alter  as  he  thought  good,  and  accordingly  by 
the  rough  draft  I  find  my  father  made  several  improvements  thereof  and  very  large 
additions."  The  "  Appendix  "  to  Mede's  Life  is  mentioned  in  Worthington's  preface 
to  have  been  sent  from  "  another  doctor,  anciently  of  the  same  University,  one  who 
frequently  resorted  to  Mr.  Mede  and  thought  himself  richly  rewarded  by  his  discourse 
for  every  journey  he  made  to  his  chamber."  The  Life  of  Mede  and  Appendix,  with 
the  sketch  given  by  Worthington  in  the  preface,  afford  biographical  collectanea  of 
the  greatest  interest  and  value  regarding  ons  of  the  most  illustrious  ornaments  of  the 
Church  of  England,  and  are  worth  ever}'  attention  from  the  force  and  spirit  of  the 
composition,  and  the  cordial  sympathy  they  manifest  with  the  opinions  and  feelings 
and  character  of  this  eminent  light  of  prophecy. 


1664-5]  OF  DR.  WORTHINGTOX.  169 


Br.  Wlddrington  of  Chrisfs  College,  Cambridge,  March  15,  1664-5. 
[To  Dr.  Wortliington.] 
Sir, 

Soon  after  your  letter  of  March  1 0,  I  received  Mr.  Mede''s 
works  in  two  volumes  by  H.,  and  in  this  single  paper  I  must  beg 
leave  to  thank  you  very  heartily  for  altogether,  acknowledging  both 
your  extraordinary  kindness  to  me  and  to  our  College  and  to  the 
whole  University,  in  the  exceeding  pains  you  have  taken  to  let  the 
world  peruse  so  fair  and  legible  a  draught  of  our  incomparable  Mr. 
Mede  from  his  own  pen. 


For  my  much  honoured  friend  Dr.  Worthington,  ^c. 
[From  Dr.  William  Dillingham.^] 
Honoured  Sir, 

I  have  received  a  book  of  INIr.  Mede's  works,  for  which, 
though  inscribed  and  sent  from  Mr.  Royston,  yet  I  must  account 
myself  indebted  to  you,;  for  I  doubt  not  but  the  work  will  meet 
with  such  acceptance  as  may  make  you  not  to  repent  your  Herculean 
pains  bestowed  about  it.     Thus  with  my  hearty  thanks,  with  mine 

'  William  DiUingham,  D.D.,  E/Cctor  of  Woodhill,  Bedfordshire,  was  an  intimate 
friend  of  Worthington,  who  mentions  him  frequently.  (See  his  letter  to  Worthington, 
p.  156.)  He  seems  to  hare  been  much  employed  in  superintending  the  printing  of  the 
more  elaborate  works  of  the  London  and  Cambridge  presses.  His  care  in  editiug 
an  edition  of  Ferrarius's  Lexicon  Gfeographicum  is  noticed  iu  one  of  Worthington's 
previous  letters.  His  works  consist  of:  1.  Sermon  on  1  Thess.  v.  21,  1661,  4to ; 
2.  Sermon  on  2  Tim.  iv.  7,  8,  Lond.  1678,  4to ;  3.  Poemata  partim  e  G.  Herberto 
Latine  reddita,  adscitis  etiam  aliis  aliorum,  Lond.  1678,  8to  ;  4.  Poemata  ex  rariis 
auctoribus  selecta,  4to  ;  5.  Protestant  Certainty,  or  a  Short  Treatise  showing  how  a 
Protestant  may  be  assui-ed  of  the  Articles  of  his  Faith,  Lond.  1689,  folio ;  6.  The 
Mystery  of  Iniquity  Anatomized,  Lond.  1689,  folio  ;  7.  Yita  Laurentii  Chadertoni, 
una  cum  vita  Jacobi  Usserii,  Cantab.  1700,  8vo.  His  "Campanre  Undulenses" 
(Oimdle  Bells)  in  the  small  volume  of  his  Latin  Poems  I  read  many  years  ago  with 
great  pleasure. 

VOL.  II.  Z 


170  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1665 

and  my  wife's  kind  respects  and  service  to  yourself  and  good  Mrs. 
Worthington,  I  rest 

Yours, 
Oundle,  Apr.  3.  Will.  Dillingham. 


For  the  Rev.  Dr.  Worthington,  at  his  house  near  St.  Benefs  Fynk,  ^c. 
[From  John  Sherman.^] 
Worthy  Sir, 

Yours  found  me  abroad,  as  you  supposed ;  with  it  I 
received  at  my  return  Mr.  Mede's  book,  which  I  presented  to  our 
Master  and  Fellows,  as  you  commanded,  by  whom  I  am  directed  to 
return  their  thanks,  to  present  their  service,  and  to  let  you  know 
that  they  receive  it  as  an  instance  of  your  great  kindness  and  singular 
respect.  It  is  some  while  since  I  received  a  note  from  you  about 
the  charges  of  the  bibles,  &c.,  to  which  I  deferred  an  answer  because 

I  intended  for  London  ere  now ;  but  this (God  willing)  you 

shall  not  fail  to  be  waited  on  by 

Sir, 
Your  humble  servant. 
Coll.  Jesu.  Apr.  23,  1665.  Jo.  Sherman. 


In  a  Letter  to  Mr.  Evans,  March  31,  1665. 
[From  Dr.  Worthington.] 
—  As  for  my  affairs,  I  commit  them  to  the  All-wise  and 
All-gracious  Lord  of  all.  If  some  had  gone  through  so 
large  and  so  voluminous  a  work  as  I  did,  they  would 
have  swaggered  and  thought  themselves  highly  to  merit 
more  than  ordinary  favours.  In  a  letter  T  received  from 
Dr.  Ingelo  it  is  said  that  Mr.  Pede  (you  thought)  would 

'  John  Sherman,  afterwards  Master  of  Jesus  College,  whose  "  Historia  Collegii 
Jesu  Cautabrigiensis"  has  been  edited  by  Mr.  IlalliweU,  and  published  in  18i0, 8vo. 


1665]  OF   DR.  WORTHINGTON.  171 

undertake  Desiderius,i  and  he  wished  me  to  suggest 
what  directions  I  could  think  of,  which  I  did.  Doth 
Mr.  Pede,  or  some  other  undertake  it  I  I  wish  I  knew, 
because  I  would  endeavour  to  prevent  au  imperfect 
edition  designed  by  some.     Dr.  Gell^  is  lately  dead,  and 

'  This  design  appears  to  have  fallen  through  at  this  time.  In  1717,  Lawrence 
Howel,  A.M.,  published  a  translation  of  this  well-known  and  popular  work  under  the 
title  of  "  Desiderius,  or  the  Original  Pilgrim,  a  Divine  Dialogue,  showing  the  most 
compendious  way  to  arrive  at  the  love  of  God ;  London,  printed  by  William  Red- 
mayne  for  the  Author,  1717,"  12mo.  Sandius,  in  his  Bibliotheca  Antitrinitariorum, 
ascribes  the  work  to  Servetus,  but  this  is  a  mistake.  It  was  originally  written  in 
Spanish,  afterwards  translated  into  Italian,  French,  high  and  low  Dutch,  and  about 
the  year  15S7  into  Latin,  by  Laurentius  Surius.  Howel  mentions  in  his  preface  that 
Eoyston,  the  publisher,  (noticed  before,  p.  152)  had  declared  that  Bishop  Patrick  took 
his  Parable  of  the  Pilgrim  from  it,  and  that  it  had  formed  the  groundwork  of  the 
writings  of  many  authors  in  that  style. 

2  Robert  Gell,  D.D.,  born  at  Pampisford  in  Cambridgeshire,  afterwards  Rector  of 
St.  Mary,  Aldermary,  and  Chaplain  to  Sheldon.  He  died  25th  March,  1665.  This 
very  learned  writer  published  two  or  three  separate  sermons,  but  his  elaborate  works 
are  "An  Essay  toward  the  Amendment  of  the  Bible,"  Lond.  1659,  folio,  "from 
which,"  Orme  observes,  "  he  seems  to  have  had  no  high  opinion  of  the  translators  of 
our  received  version  but  a  very  high  respect  for  the  worshipful  and  learned  Society  of 
Astrologers,"  and  his  "Remains,"  collected  and  set  in  order  by  R.  Bacon,  which  were 
published  in  two  volumes  1676,  folio.  The  editor  observes  in  his  preface :  "  The 
Hebrew  and  Chaldee  words  have  been  most  carefully  perused  and  fixed  by  two  of  the 
most  learned  men  of  these  times,  viz.,  Mr.  John  Sadler  (see  Worthington's  Diary, 
vol.  i.  p.  252)  well  known  and  beloved  of  this  author,  lately  deceased,  whose  memory 
after  ages  will  celebrate  with  greater  honour  and  respect  than  was  afforded  him  in 
his  life-time.  The  other,  old  Mr.  Lancaster,  who,  though  by  his  retirement  he  hath 
rendered  himself  for  the  present  obscure,  yet  may  be  inrolled  among  the  very  chief 
in  the  knowledge  of  the  Eastern  tongues."  Perhaps  Dr.  Gell  might  carry  his  respect 
to  the  Society  of  Astrologers  and  his  fondness  for  spiritualizing  and  allegorizing  too 
far,  but  there  is  stiU  much  to  admire  in  his  writings,  which  contain  many  striking 
paragraphs  and  happy  explanations  and  applications  of  Scripture,  little  as  they  are 
noticed  at  the  present  day.  Baxter  indeed  mentions  him  in  rather  a  slighting  manner 
amongst  what  he  calls  the  "  sect  makers  "  of  his  time  (Life  by  Sylvester,  part  i.  p.  7-i)  but 
his  report  is  not  always  to  be  trusted  when  he  is  speaking  of  a  conformist.  The 
editor  of  GeU's  Remains,  Robert  Bacon,  who  describes  himself  "  Philologus,"  and 
whom  Dr.  Gell  styles  "an  honest,  pious,  and  prudent  man,"  referring  to  "the  many 
controversies  which  have  at  once  obscured  the  truth  and  put  a  damp  upon  that  divine 
love  which  was  once  the  glory  and  character  of  the  Christian  name,"  declares  that 


172  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1665 

the  Archbishop  bestowed  that  place  upon  his  Chaplain, 
Mr.  Cook.i— 


Sir, 


For  his  honoured  friend  Dr.  Worthington,  ^c. 
[From  Dr.  Henry  More.] 


1  perceive  now  that  1  wrote  to  you  May  1,  and  thank  you 
for  your  kind  and  friendly  answer.  If  I  had  thought  Dr.  Cudworth 
desired  it,  and  expected  it,  I  would  have  spoken  to  him  myself. 
But  I  thank  you  for  your  freedom  both  to  him  and  to  me.  It  never 
came  into  my  mind  to  print  this  Enchiridion  till  his  book  was  out, 
unless  he  would  have  professed  his  like  of  the  project.  I  am  very 
sorry  and  much  concerned  at  his  taking  my  writing  this  book  so 
heinously.  God  is  witness  of  the  sincerity  of  my  conscience  therein, 
and  how  it  was  a  mere  act  of  self-denial  in  me  to  undertake  it. 
What  1  told  you  in  my  letter  from  Ragley  is  very  true.  I  have 
transcribed  it  all.  Mr.  Jenks  and  Mr.  Fulwood  are  exceeding  earnest 
to  see  it,  and  would  transcribe  it  for  your  private  satisfaction.  JSut 
if  they  should  do  so,  and  it  be  known,  it  would,  it  may  be,  distaste 
Dr.  Cudworth,  whom  I  am  very  loth  any  way  to  grieve.  I  believe  he 
could  not  well  like  it  that  it  should  be  communicated  to  any  at 
London ;  but  if  yourself  have  a  mind  to  see  it,  and  could  get  a  fair 
and  true  copy  transcribed  of  it,  I  would  willingly  pay  the  transcriber 
and  the  copy  should  be  yours.  For  I  am  loth  that  what  I  have  writ 
on  so  edifying  a  subject  should  be  lost.      And  this  the  utmost  that  I 

"  this  holy  man  (Dr.  Gell)  endeavoured,  as  doth  in  his  works  appear,  by  all  holy 
means  at  once  to  enlighten,  reform,  and  renew,  or  restore  Christianity,  by  passing 
over  and  looking  above  all  the  sects  and  divisions  that  have  arisen  out  of  the  dark 
and  dismal  pit  of  the  long  apostacy  into  its  first  and  primitive  lustre,  unity,  love,  and 
peace."  —  Preface  to  first  volume  of  Remains. 

'  Thomas  Cook,  collated  by  the  Archbishop  of  Canterbury  to  the  Church  of  Stisted, 
Essex,  February  13,  1655,  afterwards  Archdeacon  of  Middlesex  and  Prebendary  of 
Willesdon.  lie  died  shortly  before  October,  1679.  — Nowcoui-t's  Rcpcrtorium,  vol.  i. 
p.  83. 


1665]  OF  DR.  ^VORTHI^'GTON.  173 

can  do  for  the  present  or  for  ever ;  and  my  reward  is  that  my  mind 
is  at  ease ;  and  I  hope  I  shall  with  a  good  conscience  for  the  future 
abstain  from  writing  any  more  books. ^  I  am  infinitely  pleased  in  my 
mind  that  I  find  my  obligation  of  writing  books  cut  in  pieces  in  me, 
and  myself  set  free  to  more  private  meditations.  I  have  lived  the 
servant  of  the  public  hitherto.  It  is  a  great  ease  to  me  to  be  manu- 
mitted thus,  and  left  to  the  polishing  of  myself  and  the  licking  myself 
whole  of  the  wounds  I  have  received  in  these  hot  services.  If  you 
desire  my  copy,  I  pray  send  me  w^ord,  and  you  shall  have  the  first 
part  from 

Your  assured  friend, 
C.O.C.,  May  10.  H.  More. 

'  See  vol.  i.  p.  311.  "He  hath  been  so  harrassed  -with  the  toil  and  drudgery  of 
writing  at  some  times,  that  he  hath  with  some  impatience  resolved  against  all  such 
undertakings  for  the  future  in  hast.  And  being  deeply  once  engaged,  he  said  to  a 
friend,  that  when  he  got  again  his  hands  out  of  the  fire,  he  would  not  very  suddenly 
thrust  them  in  afresh  ;  or  to  that  effect.  But  being  minded  afterwards  by  that  same 
person,  who  thought  his  expression  a  little  too  vehement,  of  the  great  common  good  that 
he  was  promoting,  and  the  principles  he  was  governed  by,  he  seemed  to  concurr  with  him 
very  freely  in  it ;  and  not  unwillingly  to  receive  his  admonition.  And  I  do  truly  be- 
lieve, that  the  Divine  Providence,  which  brought  him  into  the  world  for  a  publick 
service,  still  cut  him  out  some  new  work  as  the  old  was  done,  and,  though  under  much 
weight  and  labour,  as  powerfully  assisted  and  refreshed  him  in  it ;  to  his  own  lasting 
honour,  and  to  the  exceeding  great  benefit  of  the  commonwealth  of  learning  and  of 
the  Church  of  God.  He  would  say  sometimes  that  he  had  drudged  like  a  mill-horse. 
And  his  pains  in  all  this  were  the  more  considerable,  as  well  as  highly  charitable,  be- 
cause they  kept  him  so  much  from  the  far  more  pleasing  and,  as  to  himself,  beatifying 
introversions  of  his  own  mind  ;  insomuch  that  writing  to  a  friend,  he  there  tells  him, 
that  when  he  was  free  from  his  present  incumbent  businesses,  his  purpose  was  to 
recoil  into  that  dispensation  he  was  in  before  he  wrote  or  published  any  thing  to  the 
world  ;  in  which  (saith  he)  I  very  sparingly  so  much  as  read  any  books,  but  sought  a 
more  near  union  with  a  certain  life  and  sense,  which  I  infinitely  prefer  before  the  dri- 
ness  of  mere  reason,  or  the  wantonness  of  the  trimmest  imagination :  but  these  also 
are  useful  instruments  for  some  to  draw  them  to  good.  Thus  he  wrote  to  one  that 
affected,  as  he  conceived,  over  much  this  dry  reason  and  fancy,  without  so  due  a  sense 
of  that  other  principle  as  he  should  also  have  had." — Ward's  Life  of  Dr.  Henry  More, 
pp.  148-50. 


174  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1665 

[From  Dr.  Worthington's  Almanack,] 

Mar.  26,  1665,  Apr.  2,  5,  9.  I  preached  at  Benet  Fynk.  Apr. 
18,  at  Allhallows,  Barking.  Apr.  16,  23,  30,  May  7.  I  preached 
at  Benet  Fynk. 

May  8,  1665.  I  resigned  Barking.  Of  60  Sundays  since  Mr. 
Kettleby's  coming,  32  are  from  Michaelmas. 

May  14  (Whitsunday).  I  preached  at  Benet  Fynk,  forenoon 
(and  administered  the  Sacrament)  and  afternoon. 

May  19.  I  went  to  Hendon  in  Middlesex.  May  21 .  I  preached 
at  Hendon. 

May,  29,  Jun.  4,  11.     I  preached  at  Benet  Fynk. 

Jun.  14.     One  died  in  the  parish  of  the  plague. ^ 

Jun.  18,  20,  25.     I  preached  at  Benet  Fynk. 

Jun.  24.  John  was  in  danger  to  be  choked,  but  delivered.  Laus 
Deo.  Jun.  29.  A  girl  died  in  our  parish  of  the  plague,  in  the  same 
house  as  the  other  (a  porter).  The  other  two  remaining  in  that 
house  were  carried  to  the  pest-house. ^ 

1  "  1665.  10th  June.  In  the  evening  home  to  supper,  aud  there,  to  mj  great  trouble, 
hear  that  the  phigue  is  come  into  the  city  (though  it  hath  these  three  or  four  weeks 
since  its  beginning  been  wholly  out  of  the  city),  but  where  should  it  begin  but  in  my 
good  friend  and  neighbour,  Dr.  Burnett's,  in  Fenchurch  Street,  which  in  both  points 
troubles  me  mightily.  11th.  I  saw  poor  Dr.  Burnett's  door  shut.  11th.  The  town 
grows  Tery  sickly,  and  people  to  be  afraid  of  it,  there  dying  this  last  week  of  the 
plague  112,  from  43  the  week  before,  whereof  but  one  in  Fenchurch  Street  and  one  in 
Broad  Street  by  the  treasurer's  office."  —  Pepys's  Diary.  Dr.  Worthiugton  and  his 
family  were,  it  will  be  observed,  living  at  this  period  in  a  house  in  the  parish  of  St. 
Benet  Fink,  near  the  Church  and  close  to  Broad  Street. 

2  Defoe  has  brought  before  us  all  the  appalling  features  of  this  fearful  visitation 
with  unequalled  graphic  power  in  his  inimitable  "  Journal  of  the  Plague  Year."  It  is, 
however,  rather  surprising,  that  while  that  work  has  long  taken  its  place  amongst  the 
great  standard  productions  of  English  literature,  the  volume  which  followed  on  the 
same  subject,  and  beyond  all  question  by  the  same  author,  was  never  attributed  to 
him  before  a  notice  by  the  present  writer  in  the  Gentleman's  Magazine  of  October, 
1838;  and  that  since  that  date,  such  appears  to  be  the  scarcity  of  the  book,  no  other 
copy  has  made  its  appearance  in  the  London  sale  or  booksellers'  catalogues  than  that 
there  described  and  now  in  my  possession.  The  title  of  the  work  is,  "  Due  Prepara- 
tions for  the  Plague,  as  well  for  Soul  as  Body,  being  some  seasonable  Thoughts  upon 


1665]  OF   DR.  WORTHINGTON.  175 

Jul.  2.     I  preached  at  St.  Lawrence's.     And  Jul.  9  and  12,   I 
preached  at  Benet  Fvnk. 


In  a  Letter  to  Dr.  Evans,  July  10,  1665. 
[From  Dr.  Worthington.] 
—  You  have  heard  of  the  sickness  in  our  parish.  Two  died 
out  of  Mr.  Barber's  house.  The  other  two  remaining 
in  the  house  were  carried  to  the  pest-house.  Last  week 
a  maid  fell  sick  in  the  next  house ;  she  was  alone,  and 
was  carried  last  Saturday  night  to  the  pest-house.  Since, 
we  hear,  she  is  dead.  It  begins  to  spread  in  the  city. 
Many  are  gone  into  the  country  out  of  our  parish,  as 
out  of  others.  There  is  a  greater  solitude  than  one 
would  imagine.^     The  doctor  adviseth  my  wife  by  all 

the  visible  Approach  of  the  present  dreadful  Contagion  in  France ;  the  properest  mea- 
sures to  prevent  it,  and  the  great  work  of  submitting  to  it.  Psalm  xci.  10  :  There 
shall  no  evil  hefal  thee,  neither  shall  the  plarjue  come  nigh  thy  dwelling.  London : 
printed  for  E.  Matthews  at  the  Bible,  and  J.  Batley  at  the  Door  in  Paternoster  Eow, 
1722,"  12mo,  pages  272,  besides  introduction  11  pages.  It  may  be  considered  as  a 
second  part  of  the  "  Journal,"  and  is  worked  up  in  his  usual  form  of  narrative  and 
dialogue  with  equal  skill  and  effect.  Indeed  the  story  of  the  citizen  in  the  parish  of 
St.  Albans,  Wood  Street,  who  made  the  same  preparations  for  the  plague  as  if  a 
regular  siege  had  to  be  sustained,  and  who,  encircled  by  pestilence,  defied  all  its 
approaches,  and  of  which  my  friend,  Mr.  W.  Harrison  Ainsworth,  has  so  happily 
availed  himself  in  his  popular  novel  of  "  Old  St.  Paul's,"  has  always  appeared  to  me 
finer  in  conception  and  execution  than  anything  in  the  "  Journal  of  the  Plague  Tear." 
^  "  There  is  a  dismal  solitude  in  London  streets  :  every  day  looks  with  the  face  of  a 
sabbath,  observed  with  a  greater  solemnity  than  it  used  to  be  in  the  city.  Shops  are 
shut  up  ;  people  rare ;  and  few  that  walk  about,  insomuch  that  grass  begins  to  grow 
in  some  places,  and  a  deep  silence  in  almost  every  place,  especially  within  the  city 
walls. 

Within  the  walls. 

The  most  frequented  once  and  noisy  parts 

Of  town,  now  midnight  silence  reigns  e'en  there! 

A  midnight  silence,  at  the  noon  of  day  ! 

And  grass,  untrodden,  springs  beneath  the  feet ! 

Detdek. 


176  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1665 

means  to  get  out  of  the  city,  and  not  to  lie  in  the 
city  in  the  dog-days.  Her  time  is  near.  Our  friends  at 
St.  Alban's  have  writ  several  letters  to  us  to  come  away, 
and  would  provide  us  lodgings  thereabouts.  But  I  am 
loth  to  leave  the  parish  desolate,  and  would  not  decline 
the  service  of  the  place  except  there  be  imminent  danger 
of  appearing  there.  And  therefore,  that  I  might  not  be 
wanting  to  the  good  of  the  place,  I  have  hired  a  house 
at  Hackney,  whither  I  am  preparing  to  remove  my 
family.  It  is  dear  hiring  of  houses  near  the  city  at  this 
time ;  those  lodgings  at  St.  Alban's  would  be  far 
cheaper.  I  may  take  a  walk  (God  willing)  on  Sunday 
mornings,  and  come  in  good  time  to  the  church. — 


[From  Dr.  Worthington's  Almanack.] 
Jul.  13.     I  removed  out  of  London  to  Hackney.' 
Jul.  16,  22.    I  preached  at  Benet  Fynk.    July  24.  Mr.  Mawdrell, 
lecturer  of  Benet  Fynk,  died.     July  80,  Aug.  2,  6.  I  preached  at 
Benet  Fynk.     Aug.  6,  1665.     About  half  an  hour  past  ten,  or  less. 

The  great  street  in  Whitechapel  is  one  of  the  broadest  and  most  public  streets  in 
London ;  all  the  side  where  the  butchers  lived  was  more  like  a  green  field  than  a 
paved  street ;  toward  Whitechapel  church  the  street  was  not  all  paved,  but  the  part 
that  was  paved  was  full  of  grass  ;  the  grass  grew  in  Leadenhall- street,  Bishopsgatc- 
street,  Cheapside,  Cornhill,  and  even  in  the  Royal  Exchange :  neither  cart  nor  coach 
was  seen  from  morning  to  evening,  except  country  carts  with  roots,  beans,  pease,  hay 
and  straw,  to  the  market,  and  those  very  few :  coaches  were  scarcely  used,  but  to 
carry  people  to  the  pest-house  or  hospitals ;  or  some  few  to  carry  physicians  :  coaches 
were  dangerous,  sick  infected  persons  sometimes  dying  in  them."  —  Ilistorical  Narra- 
tive of  the  Great  Plague  at  London,  1769,  8vo,  p.  356. 

'  1665.  "6th  July.  Lord!  the  number  of  houses  visited,  which  this  day  I  observed 
through  the  town  quite  round  in  my  way  by  Long  Lane  and  London  Wall.  12th.  A 
solemn  fast  day  for  the  plague  growing  upon  us.  13th.  Above  700  died  of  the  plague 
this  week."  —  Pcpys's  Diary.  Though  Dr.  Worthington  removed  his  family  to  Ilack- 
ney  he  did  not  desert  his  post.  He  preached  regularly  at  St.  Benet  Fink  during  the 
whole  period  of  this  dreadful  risitation. 


1665]  OF   DR.   WORTHINGTON.  177 

my  wife  was  delivered  at   Hackney  of  a  daughter.      Her  labour 
began  when  I  was  to  go  to  London  to  preach. 
Aug.  13,  20,  27.     I  preached  at  Benet  Fynk. 


Mr.  William  Hayes  of  Painvorth  Agnes  in  a  Letter.,  Aug.  28,  1665. 
[To  Dr.  Worthington.] 
—  I  have  spent  another  week  in  Bedfordshire ;  and,  enquiring 
concerning  Dr.  Archer,  I  heard  what  I  wrote  to  you 
contradicted,  and  that  he  was  only  dead  in  the  judgment 
of  his  physicians,  who  had  given  him  up  for  a  dead 
man,  but  that  he  was  then  alive.  Blunham,  some  say, 
is  in  Mrs.  Archer's  dispose  when  her  husband  is  dead ; 
others,  that  it  is  in  the  Countess  of  Kent's. ^  His  other 
living  I  cannot  yet  hear  who  is  the  patron  of  it,  and 
what  I  heard  the  last  week  hath  kept  me  from  farther 
enquiry ;  for  I  was  told  that  Dr.  Walker  being  lately 
dead,  and  a  fellow  in  Cambridge  riding  for  his  living,^ 
heard  that  the  Earl  of  Warwick^  had  bestowed  it  upon 
you.  INly  cousin  Bloomer  wa-ote  how  much  they  were 
beholden  to  you  for  not  leaving  the  city  in  this  sad 
time.  The  Lord  keep  you  that  no  plague  come  nigh 
your  dwelling. 

'  Mary,  daughter  of  Jolin,  first  Lord  Lucas,  who  married  Anthony,  Earl  of  Kent. 

2  This  Cambridge  Fellow  would  ride  to  little  purpose,  as  Dr.  Anthony  Walker, 
Eector  of  Fyfield  in  Essex,  who  is  evidently  the  person  meant,  did  not  die  tUl  1692. 
His  interesting  Life  of  John  Boyse  has  been  before  noticed.  A  list  of  his  other 
works  may  be  seen  in  Wood's  Fasti,  vol.  ii.  p.  207.  His  last  publication  was  "A  true 
Account  of  the  Author  of  Eikon  Basilike,"  in  answer  to  Dr.  Hollinworth,  Lond. 
1692,  4to.  The  character  of  him  in  Kenuett  (Eegister  and  Chronicle,  p.  781)  is  any- 
thing but  favourable ;  but  his  biographical  tracts  and  funeral  sermons  are  certainly 
not  undeserving  of  attention, 

3  Charles  Rich,  the  fourth  Earl  of  Warwick  of  the  Rich  family,  who  succeeded  to 
the  title  in  1659. 


VOL.    II. 


178  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [166t 


[From  Dr.  Worthington's  Almanack.] 
Aug.  29,  1665.     My  daughter,  Anna  Worthington,  was  baptized 
by  Mr.  Jempson,  Sir  Jeremy  Whichcote  being  godfather,  and  the 
Lady  Anne  Whichcote  and  Mrs.  Lamb  godmothers.    In  this  month 
Damaris  and  John,  &c.,  fell  sick  of  agues,  &c. 

Sept.  1,  1665.  Mrs.  Angell  (a  Minister"'s  wife)  died  of  the 
plague^  in  the  next  house  to  ours,  and  no  other  died,  but  they  all 
continued  well  to  the  end  of  the  month.     Laus  Deo. 


Dr.  More  in  a  Letter  to  Dr.  Worthington,  Sept.  5,  1665. 

—  Receiving  a  letter  from  Mr.  Wilkins  touching  your  present 
peril  of  the  sickness,  I  could  not  abstain  from  taking 
notice  of  it.  But  I  am  glad  to  hear  you  are  well  in 
your  own  house,  though  the  next  be  visited.  God  may 
stop  it  there,  that  no  more  die  out  of  their  house,  or, 
however,  he  may  preserve  yours  from  the  infection. 
My  earnest  prayers  to  God  shall  not  be  wanting  to  your 
safety. — 

P.S.  You  did  well  to  abstain  from  writing  yourself,  by 
reason  of  the  persons  where  I  am,^  whose  fear  or  danger 
I  would  not  by  any  means  occasion.  If  your  neigh- 
bour's house  and  your  own  stand  free  for  a  month,  then 
you  will  be  in  statu  quo.  I  have  great  hopes  God 
Almighty  Avill  preserve  you  for  further  service  in  his 
vineyard. 

'  16G5.  "  Aug.  31st.  This  month  cuds  with  great  sadness  on  the  public  through  the 
greatness  of  the  plague  every  -where.  Every  day  sad  and  sadder  news  of  its  increase. 
In  the  city  died  this  week  7,496,  and  of  them  6,102  of  the  plague.  But  it  is  feared  that 
the  true  number  of  the  dead  this  week  is  near  10,000,  partly  from  the  poor  that  caunqt 
be  taken  notice  of  through  the  greatness  of  the  number,  and  partly  from  the  Quakers 
and  others  that  will  not  have  any  bell  ring  for  them."  —  Pcpys's  Diary. 

2  Lord  and  Lady  Conway,  at  Ragley,  where  Dr.  More  was  visiting. 


1665]  OF  DR.   WORTHINGTOX.  179 


[From  Dr.  ^V''o^thington"s  Almanack.] 
Sept.  6,  (Fast  day)  and  Sept.  10.     I  preached  at  Benet  Fynk. 

Sept.  13.  Mr.  Lamb^s  maid  died  of  the  plague. 

Sept.  4,  Oct.  1,  4,  15,  22,  29,  Nov.  5,  I  preached  at  Benet  Fynk, 

and  Xov.  8,  Fast  day.     Hymns  of  Syn.[esius,]  Resignation,  Life  of 

Christ.     Nov.  12.   T  preached  at  Hackney  twice. 


Dr.  Evans  in  a  Let  lei'  to  Dr.  TVorthington,  Oct.  8,  1665. 
—  The  plague  at  Cambridge  I  fear  increases  this  last  week. 
It  is  much  in  Bridge  Street,  and  so  up  towards  Sidney 
College.  Cambridge  is  almost  disuniversitied,  and  either 
there  will  be  no  winter  term,  or  nothing  to  do  in  it, 
which  makes  me  think  of  returning  to  Windsor  ere 
long ;  but  the  weather  now  growing  winterly,  and  the 
plague  being  near  Windsor,  deters  me  from  removing, 
and  the  healthfuluess  of  these  parts  invites  me  to  tarry 
where  I  am.  I  wrote  to  Sir  Charles  to  pay  in  J95  for 
me  either  to  the  Bishop's  collector  or  to  the  Lord  Mayor, 
for  the  relief  of  the  poor  sick  families  in  London.  The 
other  living  that  Dr.  Nichols^  had  was  Stisted  in  Essex, 
worth  =£'180  per  annum. 


[From  Dr.  Worthington"'s  Almanacks.] 
Nov.  19,  26,  Dec.  3,  6,  10,  ]  7,  24,  2.5,  31.      I  preached  at  Benet 
Fynk.     In  this  mouth  John's  ague  fits  abated,  and  were  but  little 
discernible.2 

1  Daniel  Xicholls,  presented  to  the  living  bv  Archbisliop  Juxon,  died  in  1665. 

-  It  appears  from  the  Bill  of  Mortality  during  the  plague  year,  issued  by  the  parish 
clerks,  that  in  the  small  parish  of  St.  Benet  Fink  47  died  during  the  year  ending  the 
19th  of  December,  1665,  whereof  22  were  carried  off  by  the  plague. 


180  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1665 

[Jan.  10,  16G7.  1  li.ave  at  Barking  and  Needham  in  Suffolk 
above  £-iO  owing  me ;  it  hath  been  owing  three  years. 
I  would  not  call  for  it  immediately  after  the  plague 
there,  though  I  believe  the  richer  sort  got  out  of  the 
town.  If  they  suffered  by  the  plague  there,  so  did  I 
suffer  loss  by  the  plague  at  London.  I  wrote  lately  to 
Mr.  Theobald  (the  patron)  that  when  he  feasted  his 
tenants  (the  parishioners)  at  Christmas,  he  would  stir 
them  up  to  pay  their  arrears.  This  I  hope  he  hath 
done,  and  I  desire  you  to  write  effectually  to  INIr.  Kettilby 
to  follow  it,  and  to  do  his  best  to  get  in  the  arrears, 
whereof  he  hath  a  note.  I  never  received  a  penny  from 
'  the  living  in  my  journeys  to  and  fro.  Mr.  Kettilby 
received  about  ^40  a  year.  He  now  preacheth  at 
Needham  (the  market  town  and  part  of  the  parish) 
where  there  is  a  chapel,  and  he  is  well  approved  of.  If 
he  would  do  his  best,  he  might  prevail  with  many  of 
them  to  get  in  the  arrears ;  and  I  think  gratitude  and 
ingenuity  should  oblige  him  to  it,  for  my  bringing  him 
into  those  parts.  He  is  well  provided  for.  If  my 
arrears  can  be  got  in,  I  intend  that  the  poor  of  the 
parish  shall  have  a  share,  though  I  am  out  more  than  I 
shall  receive.] 


In  a  Letter  written  fas  I  take  it  J  to  Mr.  Newlmrgh. 
[From  Dr.  Worthington.] 

Yours  I  received  by  Mr.  R.,  a  large  expression  of  the  large- 
ness of  your  heart  and  friendly  love.  I  rejoiced  thereby 
to  understand  your  health  and  safet}',  as  also  the  health 
and  strength  of  the  inner  man  by  your  preparedness  to 
help  and  relieve  your  neighbours  in  the  best  way  you 
can,  if  the  cup  of  this  great  affliction  should  come  unto 
them.       But   for  any  personal  visiting  of  such,   it  is 


1665]  OF   DR.   WORTHINGTON.  181 

not  for  you,  it  is  for  others,  whose  office  and  calling  doth 
more  particularly  oblige  them  thereunto. 
To  your  enquiry  about  what  outward  means  we  used,  this 
was  all': — a   little   of  conserve    of  wood    sorrel  and 

*  Worthmgton  does  not  appear  to  have  adopted  Dr.  Hodges's  preventive,  whose 
Methodus  Medendi  seems  to  have  been  derived  from  that  eminent  professor  Sir  John 
Falstaff.  His  concluding  laudation  of  sack  in  the  following  curious  account  of  the 
Doctor's  mode  of  life  and  visiting  his  patients  during  the  plague,  may  be  compared 
with  Sir  John's  well-known  panegyric.  "  Dr.  Nathaniel  Hodges,  who  wrote  the  best 
account  of  the  plague  in  England,  stood  the  storm  throughout  the  year  1665  ;  he  was 
not  only  a  constant  looker  on,  but  as  constant  in  his  visits  to  the  infected.  So  soon 
as  the  doctor  arose,  which  was  very  early,  he  took  the  quantity  of  a  nutmeg  of  his 
anti-pestilential  electuary ;  and  after  the  dispatch  of  private  business  in  his  family,  he 
went  into  a  large  room  where  crouds  of  citizens  were  always  waiting  for  him,  and 
there  he  commonly  spent  two  or  three  hours  as  in  an  hospital,  examiaing  the  several 
conditions  and  circumstances  of  all  who  came  thither, —  some  of  which  had  ulcers  yet 
uncured,  others  to  be  advised  under  the  first  symptoms  of  the  seizure ;  all  which  he 
endeavoured  to  dispatch  with  all  possible  care.  As  soon  as  the  croud  should  be  dis- 
charged, he  judged  it  not  proper  to  go  out  fasting,  and  therefore  got  his  breakfast ; 
after  which,  till  dinner-time,  he  visited  the  sick  at  their  houses,  where  entering,  he  had 
immediately  some  proper  thing  burnt  upon  coals,  and  always  kept  in  his  mouth  a  lo- 
zenge whilst  he  was  examining  the  patients :  he  iised  no  hot  things  for  alexipharmics, 
as  myrrh,  zedoary,  angelica,  ginger,  or  the  like,  by  which  many  deceived  themselves, 
and  raised  inflammations  on  their  tonsils,  and  endangered  their  lungs.  He  took 
care  not  to  go  into  any  sick  persons'  rooms  when  he  sweated,  or  was  short-breathed 
with  walking,  and  kept  his  mind  as  composed  as  possible,  being  sufficiently  warned 
by  such  as  had  grievously  suffered  by  uneasiness  in  that  respect.  After  some  hours 
visiting,  he  returned  home.  Before  dinner  he  always  had  a  glass  of  sack  to  warm  the 
stomach,  refresh  the  spu-its,  and  dissipate  any  lodgment  of  the  infection.  An  ancient 
apothecary,  very  convei'sant  with  the  doctor,  almost  always  his  companion,  assured 
Dr.  Tiirner  that,  in  visiting  the  sick,  they  often  took  five  or  six  gOls  a  piece  of  the 
choicest  canary  in  taking  their  rounds,  before  they  returned  home  to  dinner ;  and 
that  the  doctor,  when  he  was  got  ad  hilaritatem,  would  enter  without  fear  into  any 
infected  families  where  the  apothecary  durst  not  accompany  him,  but  rather  chose  to 
wait  at  the  sack-shop  till  the  doctor  returned  from  his  last  visit  for  the  forenoon,  and 
brought  him  his  orders.  It  was  their  custom  to  see  their  glasses  well  washed  with 
the  best  white  wine  vinegar,  and  having  taken  each  his  quarter  of  a  pint,  to  drop  their 
money  into  a  vessel  of  water,  placed  for  that  purpose  :  so  that,  in  all  likelihood,  they 
might  each  drink  his  bottle  of  this  nectar  daily,  between  the  hours  of  rising  and  lying 
down  to  rest.  Dr.  Hodges  chose  meats  that  gave  an  easy  and  generous  nourishment, 
roasted  rather  than  boiled,  and  pickles,  not  only  suited  to  the  meats,  but  the  nature 
of  the  disease.     He  rarely  rose  from  dinner  without  drinking  more  wine  ;  after  which 


182  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1665 

London  treacle,^  mixed  together  upon  the  point  of  a 
knife,  we  took  first  in  mornings,  and  twice  a  day  we 
fumed  the  house  with  brimstone.^ 
Afterwards  it  pleased  a  noble  ladj^  in  Warwickshire  (one 
whom  I  had  heard  much  good  of,  but  never  was 
acquainted  with)  to  send  me  and  my  family  seven  amu- 
lets. They  were  prepared  and  brought  to  me  by  a 
chemist  near  London,  commended  for  a  knowing  and 
honest  person  (and  he  seemed  to  me  to  answer  his 
character).     His  father  and  family   in   Germany  were 

he  had  persons  waiting,  as  in  the  morning,  for  advice,  and  when  they  were  dispatched, 
he  visited  again  till  eight  or  nine  at  night ;  and  then  concluded  the  evening  at  home 
by  drinking  to  chearfulness  of  his  old  favourite  liquor,  which  encouraged  sleep  and  an 
easy  breathing  through  the  pores  in  the  night ;  and  if  in  the  day-time  he  found  the 
appearance  of  infection  upon  him,  by  giddiness,  loathing  at  stomach,  or  faintness,  he 
immediately  had  recourse  to  a  glass  of  wine,  which  presently  drove  these  beginning 
disorders  away  by  transpiration.  In  the  whole  course  of  the  sickness  he  found  him- 
self ill  but  twice,  and  was  soon  cleared  of  its  approaches  by  these  means 

Gratitude  obliges  me  (says  the  doctor)  to  do  justice  to  the  virtues  of  sack,  as  it  is 
deservedly  ranked  among  the  principal  antidotes,  whether  drank  by  itself  or  impreg- 
nated with  wormwood,  angelica,  &e.,  for  I  have  never  yet  met  with  anything  so  agree- 
able to  the  nerves  or  spirits  in  all  my  experience.  That  which  is  best  is  middle-aged, 
neat,  fine,  bright,  racy,  and  of  a  walnut  flavour ;  and  it  is  certainly  true,  that  during 
the  late  fatal  times,  both  the  infected  and  the  healthy  found  most  benefit  from  it,  un- 
less they  used  it  too  intemperately."  —  Historical  Narrative  of  the  Great  Plague  in 
London  in  1665,  8vo,  pp,  208-12. 

'  "  Dr.  Salmon  being  in  London  all  the  plague  time,  cured  many  hundreds  of  that 
disease :  he  was  not  absent,  or  out  of  town,  from  the  day  the  plague  began  to  the  day 
it  ended,  and  had  several  thousand  patients  sick  of  that  disease  under  his  hands  :  he  is 
confident  he  cured  above  twelve  hundred  patients,  sick  of  the  plague,  only  by  giving 
them  his  London  treacle,  every  night  going  to  bed ;  and  he  believed  not  one  of  an 
hundred  he  gave  it  to  died."  —  Salmon's  Select  Cases,  p.  367. 

-  In  the  "  Directions  for  the  cure  of  the  Plague,"  issued  by  the  College  of  Physicians 
(1665,  4to),  brimstone  burnt  plentifully  in  any  room  or  place  is  recommended  as  ef- 
fectually correcting  the  air ;  and,  amongst  other  preventives,  "  some  may  use  London 
treacle,  the  weight  of  eight  pence,  in  the  morning,  taking  more  or  less  according  to 
the  age  of  the  party ;  after  an  hour  let  them  cat  some  other  breakfast,  as  bread  and 
butter,  with  some  leaves  of  rue  or  sage  moistened  with  vinegar,  and  in  the  heat  of 
summer  of  sorrel,  or  wood-sorrcl."    Page  11. 

3  Most  probably  Lady  Conway. 


1665]  01''  OR.   WORTHINGTOX.  183 

more  than  once  preserved  by  these,  nnder  God's  bless- 
ing, as  he  said.  They  were  done  up  in  little  silk  bags 
to  a  string,  and  so  to  fall  as  to  be  under  the  left  pap. 
These  I  laid  aside  for  a  time,  not  caring  to  meddle 
with  them  till  I  heard  of  some  that  went  to  visit  who 
did  wear  such  amulets,  and  till  I  knew  what  they  were 
made  of,  which  at  his  coming  to  me  the  second  time  I 
asked  him,  and  he  told  me  (as  some  physicians  here  did 
guess,  and  said  there  was  no  harm  in  them)  and  said  they 
were  of  a  dried  toad  (of  which  Van  Helmont^  writes) 
a  creature  that  is  spotted,  and  carries  the  signature  of 
this  contagion, 2  I  had  no  persuasion  of  any  great  good 
to  come  thereby,  but  my  great  care  was  to  inform  myself 
whether  they  might  not  do  hurt,  and  being  well  assured 
of  this,  we  made  use  of  five  of  them.  Two  we  gave 
away,  and  five  of  us  wore  them.  For,  considering  that 
they  were  sent  to  us  without  any  desire  or  expectation 
of  ours,  and  sent  in  kindness  to  us,  when  we  had  them, 
I  thought  we  might  do  amiss  in  neglecting  them,  except 
we  had  good  reason  against  the  use  of  them.  Two  of 
them  were  worn  by  the  children.  It  had  no  other  sen- 
sible effect  upon  any  of  us  but  this : — The  first  day  I 
used  it,  there  seemed  to  be  a  little  pulling,  or  drawing 
at  that  side ;  and  one  of  the  children  (the  girl)  had, 
where  the  bag  hung,  a  little  breaking  of  the  skin,  with 
a  dew  coming  out.  And  so  I  have  heard  of  some  in 
Hackney  that  used  to  go  up  and  down  with  such  amu- 
lets about  them,  that  those  had  the  like  effect  upon 
them,  in  greater  abundance  of  moisture.^ 

*  J.  B.  Tan  Helmont,  who  informs  us  that  he  learned  the  remedy  of  dried  toads 
from  one  Butler,  an  Irish  physician,  who  pretended  to  have  cured  many  with  it,  but 
he  coTild  not  thoroughly  learn  the  secret  because  the  man  was  banished  soon  after. 
"The  powder  of  toads,"  says  Hodges,  "was  prodigiously  extolled." 

-  According  to  the  doctrine  of  Crollius,  Hartman,  and  others,  who  held  that  each 
disease  had  a  corresponding  signature  in  some  animal,  Tcgetable,  or  mineral  substance, 
which  was  thus  specifically  appropriated  as  its  means  of  cure. 

'  On  the  subject  of  wearing  amulets  as  preservatives  against  the  plague,  the  medical 


184  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1665 


To  my  highly  honoured  friend  Dr.  Worthingion,  ^c. 
[From  J.  Nevvburgli.] 
Honoured  Sir, 

Yours  of  October  31st  brought  me  as  much  satisfaction  in 
the  happy  tidings  of  your  safety  and  preservation  in  these  sad  times, 

writers  of  this  period  differed.  Gideon  Harvey,  in  his  Discourse  of  the  Plague  (1665, 
4to),  sagely  observes:  "Amulets  are  commended  by  some  and  disproved  by  others," 
p.  22.  Theod.  Le  Medde,  M.D.,  in  his  "Elixyrlogia"  (1665,  4to),  concludes  in  very 
oracular  language,  "  that  amulets  are  of  use  is  not  to  be  disputed,  but  it  may  be  a  ques- 
tion whether  these  minerals,  shut  up  within  their  iutrauspirable  occluders,  do  irradiate 
or  beam  forth  spirituous  vapors  :  if  they  do  not,  what  use  can  they  be  of  ?  If  they  be 
placed  or  borne  about  the  body,  and  do  emit  and  send  forth  any  spirituous  and  thin 
parts,  we  may  suppose  them  of  ill  consequence,  but  being  placed  about  the  body,  if 
their  spirits  emitted  could  be  made  friendly  to  ours,  but  in  reasonable  proportion  of 
homogeuitie,  they  might  be  of  excellent  use  where  the  cause  is  ab  extra."  (We  trust 
Theod.  Le  Medde,  M.D.,  near  as  his  name  approached  to  that  of  the  expounder  of  the 
Apocalypse,  was  not  Worthington's  physician.)  William  Kemp,  of  Holborn,  Master 
of  Arts,  in  his  "Brief  Treatise  of  the  Pestilence"  (1665,  4to),  tells  us  that  "amulets 
are  worn  upon  the  breast  because  the  heart  is  the  place  principally  affected  in  this 
disease :  but  whence  and  how  they  have  their  operation,  the  learned  differ  in  opinion. 
Some  think  that  the  heart  becomes  thereby  somewhat  more  familiar  and  accustomed 
to  poison,  and  will  not  so  easily  be  hurt  or  overcome  by  it.  Others  are  of  opinion 
that  arsenick  and  such  like  hot  things,  whereof  amulets  are  made,  do  dry  up  noxious 
humours  and  disperse  offensive  vapors,  as  we  see  the  heat  of  fire  dryeth  moisture  and 
hinders  putrefaction.  Others  think  that  these  amulets,  being  placed  near  the  heart, 
the  vital  spirits  do  thereupon  by  a  certain  averseness  and  antipathy  unite  themselves 
together  and  become  the  stronger ;  as  we  see  springs  and  fountains,  by  reason  of  the 
coldness  of  the  ambient  air  in  winter  time,  do  keep  in  all  their  heat  and  even  smoke 
with  warmth.  Others  say  it  is  done  by  attraction,  and  these  amulets  by  a  kind  of 
sympathy  do  intercept  the  pestilential  vapors  before  they  can  be  received  into  the 
body,  or  else  presently  draw  them  out  before  they  can  settle  there  to  do  any  mischief 
to  the  heart,  it  being  in  this  case  as  with  one  that  is  stricken  of  a  viper  or  scorpion,  who 
is  best  cured  by  applying  and  binding  to  the  place  the  bruised  body  of  the  beast  that 
stung  him,  and  if  they  cannot  get  that  they  apply  some  other  venomous  creature  and 
the  party  will  presently  be  relieved  as  if  the  venom  had  been  drawn  out  by  a  cupping 
glass.  But,  whatsoever  the  cause  be,  they  are  much  commended,  and  Mercurialis  saith 
that  Pope  Adrian  the  Sixth  did  wear  one.  (Ho  then  gives  the  different  amulet  pre- 
scriptions of  Mercurialis,  Skenkius,  Sennertus,  and  Ehenanus,  in  which  white  arsenick 
seems  to  be  the  principal  ingredient.)  I  need  not  tell  you  that  i/ou  must  not  eat  them, 
but  sew  them  in  a  little  silk  bag,  fastening  it  to  a  jibbon  and  hanging  it  about  your 


1665]  OF   DR.  WORTHINGTON.  185 

as  it  was  dissatisfaction  to  me  so  long  to  be  ignorant  of  the  mercy 
God  hath  hitherto  vouchsafed  to  you  and  yours.  I  can  assure  you 
I  do  not  know  any  news  relating  to  a  private  person  ever  since  the 
beginning  of  the  contagion  (which  our  sins  have  drawn  upon  the 
nation)  that  aftected  me  with  so  great  joy.  I  pray  God  continue  his 
goodness  to  you,  which  I  trust,  for  the  good  of  many  souls,  will  not 
be  withdrawn.  I  cannot  but  particularly  rejoice  in  your  heroic  and 
truly  generous  resolution^  which  hath  kept  you  constant  to  your  flock 
in  these  perilous  times. ^  Doubtless  you  could  not  have  done  your- 
self or  them  right  in  following  the  steps  of  those  divines  who  left 
them  to  themselves  in  such  a  day  of  trial.'^     For  my  own  part, 

neck,  let  it  be  about  tlie  middle  of  your  breast.  You  are  to  avoid  all  xiolent  exercise 
and  OTerheating  of  yourself,  for  fear  of  growing  fainty  while  you  wear  it.  I  have 
known  some  of  these  worn  in  the  city  of  Bristol  in  the  time  of  the  plague,  and  the 
parties  sometimes  would  have  little  pimples  like  the  itch  rise  about  the  breadth  of  the 
amulet  in  their  breast,  which  they  rub  and  scratch,  but  never  had  the  plague,  and  are 
alive  till  now."  Thomas  Cock,  in  his  "  Plain  and  Practical  Discourse  upon  the  first 
of  the  Six  Nonnaturals"  (1663,  4to),  gives  a  qualified  opinion  on  the  subject.  He 
says  :  "  Amulets  have  not  as  yet  gained  universal  and  uncontrolled  repute  in  the 
world.  Galen  saith,  as  deleteries  they  are  inimical  to  nature,  especially  if  the  party 
that  wears  them  be  given  to  much  labour,  exercise,  or  motion ;  neither  can  I  advise 
such,  if  any,  with  hope  of  good  success  to  use  them ;  but  suppose  they  be  made  of 
alexiteries,  then  Galen  nor  any  judicious  person  doth  or  ever  did  dispute  or  question 
them.  And  those  that  have  written  and  argued  (not  without  cause)  against  delete- 
rious and  poisonous  amulets  made  of  toads,  arsenick,  quicksilver,  &c.,  yet  do  they 
highly  allow  of  such  as  are  alexiterical  and  cardiac"  (pp.  13,  14).  In  this  multitude 
of  counsellors,  Worthington  seems  to  have  acted  upon  the  conviction,  which  he  might 
very  safely  do,  that  dried  toad  in  the  form  of  an  amulet  could  do  no  harm,  while  the 
efiect  of  using  it  would  be,  which  was  in  itself  important,  to  give  confidence  to  the 
members  of  his  household  ;  and  let  it  be  remembered  that  our  great  philosopher,  Boyle, 
used  the  moss  of  a  dead  man's  skull  as  an  external  remedy,  and  endeavours  to  show 
how  the  eflluvia,  even  of  cold  amulets,  may  pervade  the  pores  of  a  living  animal  by  sup- 
posing an  agreement  between  the  pores  of  the  skin  and  figure  of  the  corpuscles. 

1  "  A  great  number  of  learned,  able,  and  pious  divines  of  the  establishment  main- 
tained their  stations  with  primitive  zeal  and  fervor,  among  whom  the  names  of  Dr. 
Walker,  Dr.  Horton,  Dr.  Meriton,  Dr.  Symon  Patrick  (afterwards  Bishop  of  Ely) 
will  be  respected  and  revered." — Historical  Narrative  of  the  Great  Plague,  Lond. 
1769,  8vo,  p.  321.  The  name  of  Worthington  ought  to  have  been  added  to  those  of 
the  four  exemplary  divines  above  mentioned. 

-  "  Great  was  the  reproach  thrown  upon  the  cliurch  clergy,  to  whom  some  people 

B  B 


186  DIARY   Ax\D   CORKESPO.NDENCE  [1665 

though  I  am  not  by  any  office,  either  civil  or  ecclesiastical,  obliged 
to  put  my  life  in  venture  for  the  sake  of  others,  and  though  I  do  not 
know  whether  I  shall  do  much  more  by  visiting  my  distressed 
neighbours  (in  case  it  should  please  God  to  send  his  destroying  angel 
into  the  neighbourhood,  as  it  is  very  probable  he  will)  than  express 
the  resentments  of  charity  and  compassion  towards  the  afflicted, 
with  such  relief  of  common  remedies  as  might  bo  otherwise  con- 
veyed ;  yet  I  hope  my  courage  will  not  fail  in  the  time  of  need, 
but  suffer  me  to  minister  to  others,  if  the  scourge  now  begin  nearer 
home,  while  life  and  health  continue  to  speak  me  capable  of  serving 
in  any  of  those  offices  of  love  and  kindness  wherein  I  may  discharge 
the  duties  which  I  think  as  a  neighbour  and  a  Christian  I  shall  owe 
them.  It  hath  hitherto  pleased  God  to  keep  such  a  resolution  in 
me,  which,  if  I  flatter  not  myself,  doth  not  abate  now  that  the  mes- 
senger of  death  is  making  nearer  approaches  to  us,  the  sickness  being 
newly  broken  out  in  Sherborne  (one  of  the  most  considerable  towns 
in  our  county)  about  fifteen  miles  distant  from  me.  There  is  a 
family  newly  come  into  this  parish  which  is  said  to  have  removed 
to  the  next  house  to  that  where  the  infection  is.  If  this  storm 
should  be  blown  over,  I  should  expect  another,  for  I  cannot  imagine 
the  country  can  escape ;  but,  as  from  that  great  and  lewd  city  sin 
and  wickedness  hath  been  dispersed  into  all  quarters  of  the  nation, 
so  I  believe  will  the  punishment  be  thence  derived  into  all  corners  of 
the  land. 

Your  affectionate  friend  and  servant, 
North  Stoden,  Nov.  12,  1665.  J.  Newburgh. 


To  my  very  worthy  friend  and  brother  Dr.  John  Worthington,  ^c. 

[From  Bishop  Ward.] 
Sir, 

I  am  ashamed  to  give  you  so  late  an  answer  to  the  favour 

were  very  abusive,  writing  verses  and  scandalous  reflections  for  deserting  their  flocks 
in  this  sad  time  of  trouble,  setting  on  church  doors,  Here  is  a  pulpit  to  he  let,  some- 
times, To  be  sold,  which  was  worse." — Historical  Narrative,  p.  409. 


1665]  OF   DR.   WORTHINGTON.  187 

which  1  received  from  you  some  weeks  since,  and  may  be  much 
more  ashamed  of  the  cause  of  it,  unless  you  should  make  use  of  your 
wonted  candour  towards  me.  Your  letter,  with  many  others,  was 
brought  to  me  when  I  had  very  much  company  with  me.  I  opened 
it,  and  finding  it  of  some  length,  laid  it  by  me,  intending  to  read  it 
when  the  company  should  be  gone.  My  servant,  thinking  I  had 
done  with  it,  as  with  others,  carried  them  away  together,  and  I 
never  found  it  till  very  lately.  This  is  the  cause  that  you  have  not 
heard  from  me,  not  knowing  how  to  direct  a  letter  to  you.  I  give 
you  this  account  that  you  may  not  think  me  so  unworthy  as  to  be 
guilty  of  any  neglect  towards  you,  whom  I  do  heartily  love  and 
honour,  1  and  shall  be  most  ready  to  serve.  I  hope  for  your  pardon. 
I  shall  not  sufter  such  a  thing  to  befall  me  a  second  time.  Sir, 
when  I  had  read  over  yours,  I  immediately  went  to  my  Lord  of 
London,  to  know  how  matters  stand  with  him  in  respect  of  you. 
He  assures  me  of  all  respect  towards  you  and  care  of  your  concern- 
ments, and  saith,  if  God  be  pleased  to  bring  him  to  London,  he 
will  do  his  utmost  to  invest  you  in  that  living  in  Essex,  and  that  is 
the  sum  of  what  I  have  from  him.  For  when  I  urged  him  to  think 
of  other  ways,  he  replied  that  he  thought  this  so  proper  for  you,  by 
reason  of  the  situation,  and  withal,  now  Michaelmas  is  past,  so  clear 
from  impediments,  that  he  could  not  take  off  his  thoughts  from  this, 
till  it  was  brought  to  an  issue.  Sir,  I  am  troubled  to  give  you  so 
lank  an  account,  but  I  hope  you  do  believe  that  I  will  do  what  I 
can  to  serve  you,  being  indeed 

Your  most  faithful  and  humble  servant, 
Oxford,  Nov.  10,  1665.  Seth  Exon. 


1665-6. 
[From  Dr.  Worthington's  Almanack.] 
Jan.  3,  7,  14,  an.  1665-6.     I  preached  at  Benet  Fynk. 

1  It  is  pleasmg  to  see  how  uuiversally  Worthington  was  honoured  and  appreciated, 
if  not  by  what  Hartlib  happily  calls  "  the  great  pretending  world,"  at  least  by  all 
those  whose  estimation  was  truly  valuable. 


]88  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1665-6 

Jan.  15.  Mrs.  Stonier,  the  clerk's  wife  of  Benet  Fynk,  died  of 
the  plague.  She  fell  sick  on  Jan.  7  in  the  evening;  in  the  morning 
I  saw  her  in  the  house^  and  she  seemed  well. 

Jan.  21.  I  preached  at  Benet  Fynk.  This  day  my  uncle  John 
Worthington  was  buried  at  Bowden,  Cheshire. 

Jan.  SO.  I  preached  on  Lament,  i.  12  at  St.  Stephen's,  Coleman 
Street.  Feb.  4,  7,  11.  I  preached  at  Benet  Fynk,  and  Feb.  18,  25. 
Feb.  28,  at  St.  Faith's. 


In  a  Letter  to  Dr.  Evans,  Jan.  18  or  20,  1665-6. 
[From  Dr.  Worthington,] 
I  have  been  full  of  thoughts  what  to  resolve  in  answer  to 
yours,  and  the  circumstances  I  am  in  have  occasioned 
that  thoughtfulness.  Had  Mr.  Spearing  been  in  town 
that  I  might  have  spoken  with  him,  or  were  we  not  in 
the  dark  about  Dr.  Wa:  as  yet,  it  would  be  more  easy 
to  resolve.  He  came  to  town  lately,  but  the  sickness 
increasing,  he  stayed  not.  He  told  some  of  the  parish 
that  he  desired  nothing  for  the  time  he  was  absent 
(they  did  not  mean  to  give  him  anything,  because  he 
made  no  provision  for  them,  but  they  provided  as  they 
could)  and  when  he  came  to  town  he  desired  only  ten 
shillings  a  sermon,  as  they  gave  to  others.  He  said  that 
the  parish  being  not  full,  many  being  yet  in  the  country, 
he  thought  by  Lady  day  they  would  be  returned,  and 
then  they  and  he  should  be  resolved  about  the  matter. 
But  some  of  them  question  whether  he  will  ever  return 
to  fix  with  them.  However,  if  Lady  day  were  come, 
and  there  had  been  a  meeting  about  this  business,  I 
could  better  resolve  what  to  do  about  taking  the  lease^ 
of  Benet  Fynk.      Or  if  Mr.  Spearing  were  in  town  and 

'  Of  the  glebe  belonging  to  this  living,  with  the  buildings  which  were  burnt  down 
afterwards  in  the  fire  of  London. 


1665-6]  OF  DR.   WORTHINGTON.  189 

would  let  me  have  it  as  a  sub-tenant  under  him  (now 
this  better  to  be  asked,  before  he  hath  such  a  thing, 
than  after)  the  first  tenant  taking  it  from  the  College, 
or,  if  I  might  so  hold  it  under  you,  I  should  like  it 
better  than  if  1  had  it  immediately  from  the  College ; 
not  but  that  I  would  bear  all  the  incident  charges. 
Although  the  College  was  thinking  (as  I  remember  you 
once  told  me)  to  determine  him  that  hath  the  lease  to 
the  cure ;  yet,  if  another  than  him  would  personally 
attend  the  cure^  I  suppose  their  end  was  attained,  to 
prevent  former  inconveniences,  Avhen  it  was  let  to  one 
that  would  not  or  was  not  in  a  capacity  to  attend  the 
cure.  Where  the  sub-tenant  is  in  a  capacity  and  as 
ready  to  attend  the  cure  (whilst  he  is  a  sub-tenant)  as 
the  other,  the  College  is  as  well  secured  about  the  supply 
of  the  place,  as  if  the  tenant  himself  did  attend .  If  it 
were  no  inconvenience  to  you,  I  could  wish  that  you 
would  hold  it  a  little  longer.  I  hope  by  that  time  to 
understand  something  of  some  place  to  retire  into,  in 
case  I  see  no  likelihood  of  public  employment  in  these 
parts,  or  in  the  city.  It  is  true  that  several  in  the 
parish  desire  my  being  here,  and  to  preach  also  in  the 
afternoon  ;  but  I  see  not  how  a  competency  vrill  be  well 
settled,  especially  if  the  sickness  increaseth,  for  then 
the  most  able  will  go  into  the  country  again.  For  that 
half  year  from  Midsummer  to  Christmas,  very  little 
came  in,  scarce  £1.  If  it  be  necessary  that  you  must 
surrender  (else  no  dealing  with  Dr.  B.^  far  be  it  from 
me  to  desire  your  inconvenience.  I  am  sensible  of 
your  kindness  in  keeping  the  title  so  long,  and  giving 
me  an  opportunity  of  service  and  the  receiving  of  the 
profits,  which,  if  they  had  been  more,  would  have 
pleased  you  better.      If  therefore  some  one  must   be 

'  Dr.  Brideoak,  before  noticed,  is  probably  here  intended,  as  in  right  of  his  Windsor 
canonrr  he  would  be  interested  in  St.  Benet  Fink. 


190  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1665-6 

mentioned  for  the  place  to  prevent  snapping  upon  your 
surrender,  and  to  secure  against  unavoidable  inconve- 
niences, you  can  tell  how  your  Dean  and  others  stand 
affected  towards  me.  If  Dr.  Hollis  had  been  alive,  he 
might  have  known  what  kindness  the  Bishop  of  Lon- 
don, as  also  the  Archbishop  (both  of  whom  recom- 
mended me,  by  your  letter,  to  the  Earl  of  Warwick) 
hath  expressed  towards  me,  desiring  my  abode  in  the 
city.  I  would  be  loth  to  undergo  that  pains  and  labour 
I  once  took  for  your  library,^  upon  the  condition  of  gain- 
ing a  place  for  them  which  hath  been  of  no  more  value 
than  the  tithes  of  this  place  of  Benet  Fynk.  If  a 
stranger  should  have  it,  I  doubt  it  would  signify  but 
little  to  him,  especially  if  the  sickness  increase,  to  make 
such  a  scattering  as  it  did  the  last  year.  If  you  think  it 
in  vain  to  nominate  me,  who  have  ventured  my  life  in 
ministering  to  that  place  during  the  plague,  and  have 
gone  in  cold  and  wet  and  foggy  mists  many  Sunday 
mornings  to  London,  I  had  rather  not  be  mentioned, 
but  Mr.  Spearing,  if  he  is  more  likely  to  secure  it  from 
other  attempts  —  though  it  were  better  if  he  were  first 
acquainted  with  it,  but  he  is  not  yet  returned  to  Lon- 
don. In  the  mean  while  I  know  not  what  else  to  say 
than  what  I  have  said  now  and  in  my  letter  to  Dr. 
Ingelo  last  Saturday  per  post.  You  and  he  may  pick, 
perhaps,  somewhat  out  of  this  confused  paper  and  that 
letter,  and  judge  upon  the  whole  matter  what  is  best  to 
be  done  in  these  circumstances.  I  wish  the  place  here 
may  be  secured  against  an  unfit  person.  Though  there 
are  not  many  rich  in  the  parish,  yet  they  are  generally 
a  good  conditioned  people.  I  thank  you  for  kind- 
ness about  Wolverhampton.  Old  Mr.  Walker  repre- 
sented it  as  far  more.  It  is  fittest  for  some  in  those 
parts :   I  know  not  how  soon  I  may  come  to  be  near 

'  The  library  at  Windsor. 


1665-6]  OF   DR.   WOKTHINGTON.  191 

that  part  of  England.  If  the  Chancery  sit  at  Windsor 
Castle,  you  will  better  know  what  is  to  be  done,  or  not 
done.  I  suppose  Mr.  W^ren  comes  along  with  the 
Chancellor.!  He  hath  been  spoken  to  by  his  two  great 
friends,  the  Bishop  of  Exeter  and  Dr.  Wilkins,  concern- 
ing me.  His  answer  to  them  was,  that  he  thought  that 
in  Essex  would  be  sure  to  me.  But  of  that  there  is 
very  little  likelihood,  and  the  less  now  that  the  sickness 
iucreaseth  and  is  likely  to  do ;  so  that  a  city  life  will  be 
less  desirable  to  them  that  can  live  in  the  country.  Dr. 
Brideoak  is  well  acquainted  with  Mr.  Wren.  I  hear 
he  hath  resigned  Whitney^  donative,  that  stood  so  con- 
veniently for  any  one  that  would  have  delighted  to  have 
studied  at  Oxford  library.  I  suppose  he  hath  hopes  of 
some  bishopric,  and  then  the  rest  of  his  places  go  too. 
Mrs.  Stonier  died  last  Monday  about  noon,  and  he  (Mr. 
Stonier)  continues  well  as  yet. — 


For  my  honoured  friend  Dr.  More,  at  the  Lord  Conway's  at  Ragley, 

Warwick. 
[From  Dr.  Worthington.] 
Sir, 

Yours  of  Jan.  16th  I  received,  and  sent  away  the  enclosed 
by  the  Tuesday  post.     I  intend  shortly  to  write  into  France,  and  if 

1  Mr.  Wren  was  his  secretary. 

^Dr.  Brideoak,  wlio  was  in  possession  of  this  rich  living,  which  he  resigned  on 
obtaining  higher  preferment,  had  other  objects  in  view  than  "  to  study  at  Oxford 
Library":  — 

"  —  his  looks  and  thoughts 
Were  always  downward  bent,  admiring  more 
The  riches  of  heaven's  pavement,  trodden  gold, 
Than  aught  divine  or  holy  else  enjoyed 
In  vision  beatific." 


193  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1665-6 

I  have  more  news  from  France,  shall  send  more  to  you.  I  met  last 
Sunday  a  French  minister,  and  enquiring  of  him  about  that  passage 
in  a  late  gazette,  which  spake  of  what  the  parliament  had  done 
concerning  the  children  of  Protestants  of  twelve  years  of  age,^  he  said 
it  was  a  favour  lately  obtained  of  the  French  king,  for  before  the 
like  was  done  when  they  were  but  six  years  old.  As  for  the 
Apocalyptic  Hymn,  how  notable  are  you  at  guessing  my  inward 
thoughts  !  I  confess  I  could  not  but  desire  that  you  had  leisure  and 
a  mind  to  put  it  into  verse,  but  I  did  not,  I  think,  so  much  as  inti- 
mate it.      Mr.   Woodford, 2  a  young  gentleman  in  Hampshire,  of 

1  He  alludes  to  the  decree  of  the  24th  October,  1665,  by  which  boys  at  fourteen 
years  of  age,  and  girls  at  twelve,  were  declared  to  be  capable  of  embracing  the  Koman 
Catholic  religion,  and  parents  were  under  the  obligation  of  providing  them  with  an 
alimentary  allowance  to  maintain  them  out  of  their  houses.  But  the  abjurations  of 
many  children  were  received  before  the  specified  age,  and  to  support  them  the  Advo- 
cates General  took  a  distinction  between  "  inducing"  children  to  change  religion,  and 
receiving  them  when  they  presented  themselves  by  a  voluntary  impulse. 

2  Samuel  Woodford  was  born  in  London  in  1636,  became  a  Commoner  of  Wadham 
College,  Oxford,  in  1653.  About  1658  he  was  resident  at  the  Inner  Temple,  where 
he  was  Chamber  Fellow,  Wood  informs  us  (vol.  iv.  p.  730),  with  Thomas  Flatman,  the 
poet.  In  1669  he  took  holy  orders,  and  ultimately  became  Prebendary  of  Winchester 
by  the  favour  of  his  great  patron,  Morley,  Bishop  of  Winchester.  He  died  in  1700. 
His  writings  consist  of:  1.  A  Poem  on  the  return  of  Charles  the  Second,  1660; 
2.  Paraphrase  upon  the  Psalms  of  David,  1667,  4to ;  3.  Paraphrase  on  the  Canticles, 
with  other  Poems,  1679,  8vo.  Woodford's  Paraphrases  and  Poems,  though  they  have 
little  title  to  the  extravagant  praises  bestowed  by  his  friend  Flatman,  are  by  no  means 
deficient  in  happy  passages,  and  would  aiford  room  for  some  very  pleasing  extracts. 
I  must,  however,  confess  that  his  prose  is  to  me  more  attractive  than  his  poetry.  His 
introductions  to  his  Paraphrases  on  the  Psalms  and  on  the  Canticles  wlU  always  be 
read  with  interest,  and  show  that  he  had  studied  attentively  the  laws  of  metre  and  the 
poets  of  our  own  and  other  countries.  In  the  introduction  to  the  latter  (published 
in  1679)  after  observing  of  Milton's  Paradise  Lost  that  "it  shall  live  as  long  as  there 
are  men  left  in  oiir  English  world  to  read  and  to  understand  it,"  he  gives  it  as  his 
opinion  that  "  if  the  author  had  thought  fit  to  give  it  the  adornments  of  rhythm  and 
not  avoided  them  so  religiously,  as  any  one  may  perceive  he  now  and  then  does,  to  the 
debasing  of  his  great  sense,  it  had  been  so  absolute  a  piece  that  in  spite  of  whatever 
the  world,  heathen  or  Christian,  hitherto  has  seen,  it  must  have  remained  as  the 
standard  to  all  succeeding  poets  and  poesy."  He  instances  as  an  example  of  verse 
which  is  in  fact  prose,  and  which  he  prints  as  such,  Eve's  address  to  Adam,  "  To  whom 
thus  Eve  replied  "  (Paradise  Lost,  book  iv.  line  440),  and  of  prose  which  is  in  truth 


1665-6]  OF   DR.  WORTHIXGTON.  193 

• 

Wadham  College  in  Dr.  Wilkins's  time  (at  ^hose  house  I  have  met 
with  him)  hath  lately  done  all  the  Psalms  into  Pindaric  odes  and 
other  varieties  of  verse.  Some  of  them  I  have  seen,  and  they  are 
done  very  well.  He  is  a  virtuous  person.  He  tasked  himself  to  a 
Psalm  every  week.  I  have  part  of  JSIr.  Tillotson's'  printed  against 
Serjeant. 2     It  will  prove  a  notable  piece.     Mr.  Stillingfleet's  Appen- 

verse,  the  passage  in  Milton's  Apology  from  Smeetymnus,  commencing,  "  Then  zeal, 
whose  substance  is  ethereal,"  &c.  He  designs  to  show  by  these  examples,  the  first  of 
which  is,  certainly,  most  unhappily  selected  for  his  purpose,  that  "  take  away  rhythm 
from  our  English  poetry,  and  it  remains  undistinguishable  by  any  other  character 
from  prose ;  at  least  not  so  distinct  but  that  through  the  masquerade  it  may  be  dis- 
covered, having  the  manly  limbs  of  this,  though  it  may  be  the  softer  habit  of  the 
other." — Preface  to  Paraphrase  upon  the  Canticles. 

1  This  very  able  work  of  Tillotson  was  entitled  "  The  Kule  of  Faith,"  and  was 
written  in  answer  to  Sergeant's  *'  Sure  Footing."  It  was  published,  with  an  appendix 
by  Stillingfleet,  in  1666,  8vo. 

-  A  hfe  of  John  Sergeant,  otherwise  called  Smith,  and  sometimes  Holland,  who  was 
bom  at  Barrow  in  Lincolnshire  circ.  1621  and  died  in  1701,  will  be  found  in  Dodd's 
Cathohc  Church  History,  vol.  iii.  p.  472,  but  a  separate  and  more  detailed  life  of  this 
voluminous  Eoman  Catholic  author,  who  died,  Dodd  tells  us,  "  with  his  pen  in  his 
hand,"  is  a  great  desideratum.  He  was  the  very  genius  of  controversy,  and  there  was 
no  great  English  Protestant  writer  of  his  own  time  that  he  did  not  encounter.  As  if 
it  were  not  sufScient  to  be  pitted  against  Hammond,  BramhaU,  Jeremy  Taylor,  Stil- 
lingfleet, Tillotson,  Whitby,  Pierce,  and  Tenison,  he  got  into  fierce  conflict  with  Talbot, 
the  Catholic  Archbishop  of  Dublin,  who  endeavoured  to  represent  his  doctrine  as 
heterodox,  especially  concerning  the  Rule  of  Faith.  A  very  curious  account  of  the 
proceedings  in  relation  to  Talbot's  charges  against  him  is  contained  in  Sergeant's 
"Clypeus  Septemplex"  (Duaci,  1677,  12mo),  his  "Yindicise  alterae"  (12mo),  and  in  a 
later  work  of  his,  of  great  scarcity,  which  appears  to  have  escaped  Dodd  and  other 
historians  altogether,  entitled  "EaiUery  defeated  by  calmEeason"  (Lond.  1699, 12mo), 
in  which  he  gives  an  interesting  narrative  of  the  whole  transaction.  His  metaphy- 
sical writings,  in  which  he  attacks  Anthony  le  Grand  and  Locke's  "Essay  on  the 
Human  Understanding,"  were  written  at  a  very  advanced  age,  but  show  no  falling  off 
in  the  subtlety,  ingenuity,  and  acuteness  which  mark  his  works  in  theological  con- 
troversy. I  have  Locke's  copy  of  Sergeant's  "  Solid  Philosophy  asserted,"  1697,  8vo, 
the  margins  of  which  are  filled  with  answers  in  Locke's  autograph  to  the  animad- 
versions contained  in  that  book.  It  is  somewhat  strange  that  neither  these  nor  his 
manuscript  notes  on  the  pamphlets  of  Dr.  Thomas  Burnett  of  the  Charter-house, 
written  against  the  "  Essay,"  which  are  also  in  my  possession,  have  ever  been  pub- 
lished or  noticed  by  his  biographers.  Of  Sergeant's  works,  Dodd  gives  a  long  but 
very  imperfect  and  confused  list.     It  is  to  be  hoped  that  in  the  new  edition  of  the 

VOL.  II.  C  C 


194  DIARY  AiND  CORKESPON  DKNCE  [1G65-6 

dix  goes  along  with  it.  Mr.  Pool^  (a  silenced  minister  in  London) 
hath  lately  published  a  book  called  the  Nullity  of  the  Romish  Faith, 
with  an   Appendix,    answering    what   is   in   Rushworth,^    White,^ 

"  Catholic  Cburcli  History  "  the  biographical  part,  which  at  present  is  very  defective, 
will  receive  the  improvement  and  correction  which  it  so  evidently  requires,  but  when 
are  we  to  expect  that  this  edition  will  be  completed  ? 

'  See  vol.  i.  p.  26,  for  a  notice  of  Matthew  Pool,  the  learned  compiler  of  the  Synopsis 
Criticorum. 

-  William  Riishworth  was  born  in  Lincolnshire,  educated  at  Douay,  and  became  a 
Catholic  priest.  He  died  in  1637.  —  (Dodd,  vol.  iii  p.  92.)  His  "Judgment  of 
Common  Sense  in  the  choice  of  Religion  by  way  of  Dialogue,"  was,  with  the  addition 
of  a  fourth  dialogue,  published  by  Thomas  White  (Paris,  1654,  12mo),  and  was  one  of 
the  most  popular  and  influential  works  on  the  Roman  Catholic  side  of  the  question 
which  the  seventeenth  century  produced. 

3  Dodd's  notice  of  the  life  and  list  of  the  works  of  this  celebrated  Catholic  writer 
(vol.  iii.  p.  285)  are,  as  usual,  very  deficient.  He  deserves,  and  materials  exist  for,  a 
fuller  and  more  satisfactory  biography.  He  was  the  second  son  of  Richard  White,  of 
Hutton  in  Essex,  Esquire,  and  Mary  his  wife,  daughter  of  the  famous  Plowden,  the 
lawyer.  He  was  educated  at  St.  Omer's,  Yalladolid,  and  went  afterwards  to  Douay 
and  appears  to  have  taught  divinity  there,  but  returning  to  England  devoted  himself 
to  theological  and  philosophical  pursuits.  He  died  at  his  lodgings  in  Drury  Lane, 
London,  July  6th,  1676,  aged  94.  Long  as  the  list  of  his  works  is  (Dodd  mentions 
forty-eight,  and  his  list  does  not  comprise  all),  there  is  scarcely  any  of  them,  whether 
the  subject  is  of  a  jjhilosophical,  theological,  or  ethical  nature,  which  may  not  be  taken 
up  with  some  degree  of  interest.  He  was,  as  is  well  known,  a  follower  of  Sir  Kcnelm 
Digby,  and,  as  Thomas  Auglus,  or  Albius,  and  Mr.  Blackloe,  was  constantly  before  the 
public  in  a  didactic  or  controversial  capacity.  As  to  subjects,  all  were  alike  to  him ; 
and  he  could  write  one  day  on  squaring  the  circle,  the  next  on  the  Torricellian  experi- 
ment, and  wind  up  with  the  Pope's  infallibility  and  the  freedom  of  the  will.  He  had 
many  a  skirmish  with  Hobbes,  who  had  a  great  respect  for  him,  and  when  he  lived  in 
Westminster  would  often  visit  him.  In  their  conversations  they  carried  on  their  de- 
bates with  such  eagerness  as  seldom  to  depart  in  cool  blood,  for  "  they  would  wrangle, 
squabble,  and  scold,"  says  Anthony  Wood,  "  about  philosophical  matters,  like  young 
sophisters,"  though  they  were  both  of  them  eighty  years  of  age.  The  scholars  who 
were  present  at  these  wrangling  disputes  held  that  the  laurel  was  generally,  in  conse- 
quence of  Ilobbes's  impatience  of  contradiction,  carried  away  by  his  opponent.  White 
wrote  English  with  elegance  and  perspicuity.  His  "  Grounds  of  Obedience  and  Go- 
Ternment"  (Lond.  1665,  12mo)  will  bear  a  comparison  with  Ilobbes's  writings,  and 
was  certainly  the  best  book  written  at  that  time  in  favour  of  submission  to  Oliver 
Cromwell's  government.  Nothing  can  manifest  more  clearly  the  want  of  care  and  re- 
search in  English  biography"  than  the  fact  that  neither  in  Dodd  nor  the  long  life  of 
Sir  Kenelm  Digby  in  the  Biographia  Britannica,  nor  indeed  in  any  other  biographer  or 


1665-6]  OF   DR.  WORTHINGTON.  '  195 

Cressy,^  fcc,  about  infallibility.      It  is  much  commended.     He  was 
sometime  my  pupil  at  Emmanuel  College,  and  a  nimble  youth  then. 

Mstorian,  as  far  as  I  cau  trace,  is  any  notice  taken  of  the  most  curious  and  interesting 
collection  of  letters  of  Sir  K.  Digby,  Thomas  ^Yhite,  and  others,  published  by  Dr. 
Pugh  under  the  title  of  "  Blacklo's  Cabal,  discovered  in  several  of  their  Letters,  clearly 
expressing  designs  inhuman  against  Eegulars,  unjust  against  the  Laity,  schismatical 
against  the  Pope,  cruel  against  orthodox  Clergymen,  and  owning  the  nullity  of  the 
Chapter,  their  opposition  to  Episcopal  Authority,"  the  second  edition  of  which  very 
rare  work,  printed  1680,  4to  (pages  126),  is  in  my  possession.  This  collection  ought 
undoubtedly  to  be  reprinted,  as  it  throws  the  greatest  light  on  the  history  of  the  time 
as  well  as  the  characters  of  Digby  and  White.  At  page  83  is  Sir  Kenelm  Digby's  case, 
■written  by  himself.  Pugh,  in  his  "  Epistle  to  the  Catholick  reader,"  prefixed  to  the 
book,  observes  of  White,  but  evidently  under  the  influence  of  strong  prejudice :  "  His 
temper  was  a  deep  melancholy,  which  he  increased  by  his  continual  studies.  He  had 
a  good  wit,  yet  clouded  with  a  certain  natural  obscurity,  which  accompanied  him  in 
all  his  writings,  which  he  found  too  tough  an  imperfection  for  him  to  overcome. 
Some  think  he  aifected  it  that  his  sentiments,  not  being  understood,  might  be  more 
esteemed ;  others,  that  that  might  give  occasion  of  divers  interpretations  of  his  mean- 
ing and  beget  several  schools,  as  there  are  several  in  Aristotle.  In  his  conversation 
he  afiected  a  certain  gravity,  or  stoical  apathia,  when  he  was  amongst  his  admirers, 
but  when  he  met  with  such  as  disliked  his  doctrine,  none  more  violent  than  he,  as  ap- 
peared by  what  he  writ  against  Dr.  Leybourn,  myself.  Dr.  Daniel,  the  Cardinals,  and 
the  Pope  himself;  so  he  verified  his  own  saying,  Xec  Divum  2ia>'eimus  v.lli.  At  last, 
in  a  very  great  age,  when  he  had  outlived  his  greatest  disciples,  his  doctrine,  and  his 
own  understanding  (he  was  grown  a  mere  child  again),  he  died  as  several  of  his  chief 
disciples  had  done,  sine  cruce,  sine  luce,  without  giving  any.  sign  of  a  Christian,  which 
shall  appear  more  at  large  in  his  life,  which  I  have  almost  ready  for  the  press."  Pugh 
writes  too  much  like  a  violent  partisan  to  be  altogether  credited,  but  his  Life  of  White, 
if  it  still  exist,  would  be  a  valuable  accession  to  Catholic  biography. 

1  Hugh  Cressy  was  born  at  Wakefield  in  Yorkshire  in  1605,  went  to  Oxford,  and 
entering  into  orders  became  Chaplain  to  the  Earl  of  Strafford.  In  1638  he  went  over 
into  Ireland  in  the  quality  of  Chaplain  to  Lucius  Cary,  Lord  Yiscount  Falkland,  and 
came  back  with  him  into  England  the  year  following.  In  1642  he  was  made  a  Canon 
of  Windsor  and  Dean  of  Laighlen  in  Ireland,  but  travelling  with  Charles  Berkley, 
afterwards  Earl  of  Ealmouth,  on  the  Continent,  he  was  converted  to  the  Roman 
Catholic  faith,  and  made  a  public  recantation  before  the  Inquisition  at  Rome  in  1646. 
On  the  marriage  of  Charles  II.  with  the  Infanta  of  Portugal,  Cressy  became  one  of 
her  chaplains  and  resided  for  the  most  part  in  Somerset  House,  but  towards  the  close 
of  his  life  he  retired  to  East  Grinsted  in  Sussex,  and  died  at  the  seat  of  Richard  Caryl, 
Esq.,  August  lOtb,  1674.  A  list  of  his  works  will  be  seen  in  Dodd  (vol.  iii.  p.  307). 
His  "  Exomologesis,  or  a  Faithful  Narration  of  the  Occasions  and  Motives  of  his 
Conversion  to  Catholic  Unity"   (Paris,  1647,  12mo),  is  certainly  a  skUfid,  and  was 


196  *■  DIAKY    AND   CORRESPONDENCE  [1665-6 

It  was  licensed  and  printed  at  Oxford.  The  Bishop  of  Winchester 
commends  it  much.  I  hear  that  the  same  Bishop  hath  some  of 
Mr.  ChilHngworth's  MSS.i       I  would  fain  engage  Dr.  Bates,  now 

long  considered  by  those  of  his  own  faith  an  unanswerable,  defence  of  the  Koman 
Catholic  Church.  Dr.  Hammond,  to  whom  he  sent  a  copy,  told  him  that  there  was  a 
vein  of  fallacy  which  ran  through  the  whole  contexture  of  it,  but  added,  "We  are 
friends,  and  I  do  not  propose  to  be  your  antagonist."  At  the  close  of  his  letter  he 
invited  Cressy  into  England,  assuring  him  that  he  should  b(;  provided  with  a  conve- 
nient place  to  dwell  in  and  a  sufficient  subsistence  to  live  comfortably,  without  being 
molested  by  any  about  his  religion  and  conscience.  —  (Chalmers's  Biog.  Diet.  vol.  x. 
p.  512.)  His  "Church  History  of  Brittany,  from  the  beginning  of  Christianity  to 
the  Norman  Conquest "  (Eouen,  1668,  folio),  with  all  its  apocryphal  legends,  is  still  a 
very  pleasing,  and  in  many  respects  valuable,  old  folio,  the  contents  of  which  no  one 
was  better  acquainted  with  than  the  late  Robert  Southey,  ^vith  whom  the  writer  had 
an  interesting  conversation  on  the  subject  of  this  work,  when  he  visited  Manchester 
some  years  before  his  death.  Cressy's  "  Epistle  Apologetical  to  a  Person  of  Honoiir," 
1674,  8vo,  contains  many  notices  of  a  personal  kind  which  deserve  to  find  a  place  in 
his  biography,  and  his  "  Sancta  Sophia,"  extracted  from  forty  small  treatises  of  Father 
Baker  (Douay,  1657,  2  vols.  12mo),  has  long  been  a  favourite  work  with  those  who 
cultivate  mystical  theology.  There  seems  to  have  been  something  peculiarly  amiable 
and  attractive  in  Cressy's  personal  character.  Even  those  who  dissented  from  him 
and  were  involved  in  controversy  with  him,  generally  write  of  him  in  terms  of  kind- 
ness and  respect. 

*  Probably  those  which  were  afterwards  in  the  possession  of  Henry  Wharton,  and 
purchased  from  him  and  presented  to  the  Lambeth  Library,  where  they  are  now  to  be 
found,  by  Archbishop  Teuison.  From  these,  various  additions  have  been  made  to  the 
successive  editions  of  Ghillingworth's  works.  Oxford  has  the  honour  of  having  pro- 
duced this  admirable  logician,  whose  "  Religion  of  the  Protestants,  a  Safe  Guide  to 
Salvation,"  will  last  as  long  as  the  language  in  which  it  is  written,  and  in  which  no 
finer  displays  of  reasoning,  conveyed  in  more  lucid  and  perspicuous  diction,  have  yet 
been  produced.  He  was  born.  Wood  tells  us,  in  St.  Martin's  parish,  in  a  little  house 
on  the  north  side  of  the  conduit  at  Quatervois,  in  October,  1602.  His  death  took 
place,  under  the  painful  circumstances  which  have  been  so  frequently  narrated,  in 
January,  1643,  when  he  had  only  just  before  attained  his  fortieth  year.  His  life  has 
been  written  at  large  by  Des  Maizeaux  (Historical  and  Critical  Account  of  the  Life 
and  Writings  of  William  Chillingworth,  Lond.  1725,  8vo),  and  the  events  of  it  are  so 
well  known  that  it  is  quite  unnecessary  to  recapitulate  them.  Whenever  the  name  of 
Chillingworth  is  mentioned,  that  of  his  persecutor  Cheynel  will  accompany  it,  not  to 

"  Pursue  the  triumph  and  partake  the  gale," 
but  to  be  gibbeted  to  the  latest  posterity.     His  Chillingworthi  Novissima,  that  most 
extraordinary  production,  seems  to  have  communicated  some  of  its  spirit  to  Mr. 
Whitaker,  the  historian  of  Manchester,  who,  in  his  "  Origin  of  Aiianism,"  seems  quite 


1665-6]  OF   DR.  WORTHINGTON.  197 

at  Hackney,^  (who  is  well  skilled  in  Italian)  to  extract  those  passages 
out  of  the  late  history  of  the  Council  of  Trent,  written  by  Cardinal 

disposed  to  make  a  present  of  Chillingworth  to  the  Socinians,  and  Dr.  Kippis  (see 
Biog.  Brit.  vol.  v.  corrigenda)  on  their  part,  with  a  readiness  which  is  very  amusing, 
is  perfectly  willing  to  accept  him.  Better  reasons  must,  however,  be  afforded  before 
the  Church  of  England  will  consent  to  part  with  one  of  its  greatest  ornaments,  even 
at  the  call  of  the  most  imaginative  of  antiquaries.  Aubrey  tells  us  that  Chillingworth 
"  was  a  little  man,  blackish  hair,  and  of  a  saturnine  countenance,"  with  which  descrip- 
tion the  portrait  that  Pennant  has  given  (Journey  from  London  to  the  Isle  of  Wight, 
vol.  ii.  p.  102)  seems  to  agree.  Of  his  collected  works  there  have  been  several  editions, 
but  a  new  one  is  still  needed,  which  shall  include  such  letters  and  scattered  pieces  as 
yet  remain  in  manuscript.  No  pains  should  be  spared  in  editing,  with  the  care  and 
attention  which  his  transcendant  merits  deserve,  the  author  whom  TUlotson  has  justly 
styled  "  the  glory  of  his  age  and  nation." 

'  William  Bates,  an  eminent  Nonconformist  divine,  was  born  in  1625  and  died  iu 
July,  1699.  For  au  account  of  him,  see  Kippis's  Biographia  Britannica,  vol.  i.  p.  687. 
Had  he  conformed,  so  excellent  was  his  character,  it  is  said  he  might  have  been  raised 
to  any  bishopric  in  the  kingdom.  His  moderation,  sweetness  of  temper,  and  agree- 
able manners  made  him  an  universal  favourite.  His  works,  which  are  numerous,  are 
not  unworthy  of  his  high  reputation.  His  style  is  elegant  and  forcible,  evidently 
formed  upon  the  best  models,  and  his  language  so  modern  that  his  discourses  might 
be  read  at  the  present  day  without  the  hearer  having  any  suspicion  of  the  period  when 
they  were  composed.  He  is  indeed  the  classical  writer  of  his  party.  Occasionally 
he  rises  into  passages  of  high  eloquence,  and  few  writers  could  put  an  importaiit 
point  in  fewer  words  with  more  startling  effect  than  this  great  Nonconformist.  No 
wonder  that  the  Dissenters  were  proud  of  retaining  such  an  honour  to  their  cause. 
His  Latin  collection  of  the  lives  of  eminent  persons,  "  Yitvc  selectorum  aliquot 
virorum,"  Lond.  1681,  4to,  will  always  cause  his  memory  to  be  respected  by  the 
lovers  of  biography,  to  whom,  by  bringing  together  the  dispersed  materials  comprised 
in  this  work,  he  has  rendered  most  useful  assistance.  His  residence  during  the  latter 
part  of  his  life  was  at  Hackney,  where  he  died. 

"  Sforza  Pallavicino,  created  a  Cardinal  in  1657  by  Pope  Alexander  the  Seventh, 
who,  in  his  "Philomathi  Musse  Juveniles,"  addresses  to  him  the  pleasing  lines,  be- 
ginning 

"  Intermissa  diu  carmLna  et  asperse 

Jam  jam  assueta  lyrse  plectra  silentio 

Quis  rursus  vocat  ad  Mseonidimi  chores 

Et  me  vatibus  inserit,"  &c. 

—  (PhUomathi  Musjp  Juv.  edit.  Paris,  1656,  folio,  p.  31.) 
The  great  work  of  Pallavicino,  who  died  in  1667  in  his  sixtieth  year,  is  his  "History 
of  the  Councd  of  Trent,"  written  in  opposition  to  that  of  Father  Paul,  but  which,  in 
most  respects,  only  serves  to  confirm  it.      Of  this  able  and  elaborate  historical  work, 


198  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1665-6 

Pallavicini  (in  opposition  to  Father  PaiiFs'  of  Venice)  which  he 
saith  would  soon  discover  the  ill  conditions  of  that  Council,  as 
recorded  by  the  Cardinal.  I  have  been  often  desired  to  visit  my 
native  country  (having  not  seen  my  friends  there  of  ten  years).  It 
may  be  that  1  find  it  more  desirable  to  retire  thither,  and  to  be  gone 
out  of  these  parts.  If  the  sickness  continues  this  year,  the  city  will 
grow  empty  again,  and  will  be  no  place  for  study ;  nor  will  there  be 
any  opportunities  for  any  public  agency  in  the  way  of  learning,  men's 
heads  and  hearts,  in  time  of  plague  at  home  and  wars  abroad,  being 
full  of  other  cares.  Nor  will  there  be  much  of  the  tithes  to  be  had, 
many  being  abroad,  and  those  that  stay  being  less  able ;  as  I  found 
that  from  Midsummer  to  Michaelmas  (a  quarter  of  the  greatest 
danger)  all  that  I  received  was  less  than  what  I  paid  the  Reader. 
And  yet  I  would  not  have  been  without  those  better  advantages 
which  the  sorrowful  occasion  the  last  summer  did  minister  to  the 
minds  of  those  that  were  here,  far  beyond  the  pleasures  then  to  be 
had  in  the  country.  If  I  meet  with  a  little  Zoar  in  the  north,  I 
hope  to  do  more  than  preach,  which  is  the  lesser  part  of  the  work  I 

and  unquestionably  it  is  a  Tcry  eminent  pei'formance,  the  best  edition,  in  the  Italian 
original,  is  that  of  Milan,  1717,  4to,  three  volumes ;  and  in  the  Latin  yersion,  that 
printed  in  1775,  three  volumes  folio. 

^  Of  Father  Paul  (otherwise  Paul  Sarpi)  and  his  famous  historical  work,  notices 
will  be  found  in  every  Biographical  Dictionary.  Let  it  be  remembered  as  one  of  the 
merits  of  King  James  I.,  whom  now  it  is  the  fashion,  with  what  fairness  or  justice  is 
another  question,  never  to  name  without  abuse,  that  we  owe  it  to  him  principally  that 
this  admirable  history  was  compiled  and  published.  Probably  no  work  was  more 
generally  read  or  had  greater  effect  in  England  in  the  seventeenth  century,  and  it  may 
be  almost  doubted  whether  there  was  any  collection  of  books,  however  limited,  which 
did  not  contain  it.  The  Italian  original  was  first  printed  at  London  in  1G19,  folio  ; 
the  sheets  being  forwarded,  Walton  tells  us,  as  fast  as  they  were  written,  into  England 
by  Sir  Henry  Wotton,  Mr.  (afterwards  Bishop)  Bedell,  and  others,  to  King  James 
and  the  Archbishop  (Abbot).  The  good  old  English  translation  by  Sir  N.  Brent,  the 
last  edition  of  which  appeared  in  1676,  folio,  has  long  been  superseded  by  Father  le 
Courayer's  French  version,  which  was  published  with  his  valuable  notes  at  London  in 
1736,  in  two  volumes  folio.  Twelve  sheets  of  an  English  translation,  in  4to,  by  Dr. 
Samuel  Johnson  were  printed  in  1738,  but  it  did  not  proceed  further.  Of  Father 
Paul's  entire  works,  tlie  best  edition  is  that  published  at  Naples  in  1790,  in  twenty- 
four  volumes  8vo. 


1665-6]  OF  DR.  WORTHIXGTOX.  199 

have  to  do,  and  which  cannot  be  so  minded  and  expedited  here  (if 
this  summer  prove  hke  the  last)  as  there.  I  cannot  be  too  sensible 
of  my  omissions,  and  of  the  little  I  have  done  for  the  good  of  others. 
It  ought  to  have  been  much  more ;  and  being  now  in  the  afternoon 
of  my  life,  I  ought  to  redeem  my  time,  and  to  labour  more  in  God''s 
vineyard ;  and  it  concerns  me  as  well  to  improve  my  one  talent, 
as  others  to  lay  out  their  two  or  five  talents,  none  of  us  to  be 
unprofitable.  I  must  answer  for  myself,  and  they  for  themselves, 
in  the  other  world.  God  grant  that  I  may  ever  seek  his  kingdom 
and  righteousness  first,  and  the  enlargement  thereof  in  the  world, 
and  then  I  shall  have  no  cause  to  be  solicitous  about  other  matters. 
Nobody  will  be  a  loser  by  me^  but  I  shall  lose  by  the  want  of  others. 
Yet  I  would  have  no  friend  troubled  for  anything  that  concerns  me. 
I  cannot  see  that  any  aflflictions  that  I  have  met  with  could  have 
been  spared,  and  that  it  could  have  been  so  well  for  me  to  have  been 
without  them.  There  is  far  more  danger  in  an  uninterrupted, 
flourishing,  high  condition,  than  in  that  which  is  otherwise.  I 
wrote  in  my  last  that  the  second  volume  of  Episcopius^  is  lately 
come  over,  a  larger  volume  than  the  other.      Polembergius^  hath  a 

^  The  life  of  the  illustrious  Ai-miniau  and  remonstrant,  Simon  Episcopius,  whose 
writings  will  connect  the  images  of  truth  and  liberty  with  his  name  more  lastingly 
than  the  medals  which  were  struck  in  honour  of  him  after  his  decease,  has  been  ably 
written  by  Philip  Limborch  in  Latin,  and  a  few  years  ago,  in  an  industrious  and  praise- 
worthy manner,  by  the  Kev.  F.  Calder  in  English  (1835,  8to)  ;  and  those  who  consiilt 
either  will  be  at  no  loss  to  form  a  distinct  and  satisfactory  idea  of  the  career  and 
merits  of  this  luminary  of  the  seventeenth  century,  whose  Institutions  Grotius  valued 
so  highly  that  he  carried  them  with  him  wherever  he  went,  and  from  whom  our  own 
Hales,  Hammond,  and  a  long  succession  of  great  and  memorable  theologians  may  be 
said  to  have  imbibed  much  of  their  spirit,  principles,  and  character.  He  was  bom  at 
Amsterdam  in  1583,  and  died  on  the  4th  of  April,  1643.  His  works  are  comprised  in 
two  volumes  folio,  first  printed  at  Amsterdam  1650-65,  and  afterwards  reprinted  at 
London  in  1678.  Those  contained  in  the  first  volume  had  been  pubUshed  in  his  life- 
time, those  in  the  second  were  partly  posthumous. 

-  Arnold  Polemberg,  a  learned  Arminian,  and  a  successor  of  Episcopius  as  Professor 
of  Divinity  at  Amsterdam.  In  IS^ichols's  "  Calvinism  and  Arminianism  Compared," 
1824,  8vo,  p.  506,  an  extract  is  given  from  a  letter  from  Polemberg  on  King  Charles 
the  Second's  restoration,  which  is  worth  consiilting,  with  Dr.  H.  More's  letter  to  him, 
which  is  given  at  p.  796. 


200  DIARY  AND  COllKESPONDENCE  [1665-6 

preface  to  the  reader,  wherein  he  saith  he  had  a  great  desire  to  dedi- 
cate it  to  the  Bishops  in  England,  but  that- the  war  between  us,  &c., 
made  it  unseasonable.  There  is  but  little  trading  in  books,  and 
like  to  be  till  the  times  are  quieter  and  more  healthful.  Dr.  Spur- 
stow^  came  at  Christmas,  to  his  house  at  Hackney,  yesterday  went 
to  London,  and  came  back  in  his  coach  about  six.  He  ate  his 
supper^  seemed  as  well  and  cheerful  as  usually,  a  little  afterwards 
went  up  to  his  chamber,  and  Avithin  an  hour  died  of  a  fit  of  the  colic. 
I  did  not  think  to  have  wearied  you  with  so  long  a  letter.  It  is 
time  to  conclude,  and  to  add  only  that  I  am 

Yours  to  serve  you, 
Jan.  24,  16G5[-6J.  J.  Worthington. 


These  for  his  Bev.  friend  Dr.  Evans. 
[From  Dr.  Worthington.] 
Yours  I  received,  and  am  glad  that  you  still  continue  your 
title.  If  Mr.  Spearing  will  let  me  have  a  lease  from  him,  or  (which 
is  less  about)  if  I  might  hold  it  under  you,  who  already  have  the 
lease,  it  would  be  easiest  for  me.  You  know  in  our  College-leases 
there  was  often  granted  a  licence  of  alienation  to  an  under-tenant. 
Though  your  College  doth  not  intend  to  practise  this  ordinarily,  yet 
is  it  not  to  be  gained  for  this  once  for  one  that  hath  a  long  time  been 
constant  to  the  work  of  the  place^  and  is  not  a  stranger  newly  come 

'  William  Spurstow  was  oue  of  the  authors  of  the  famous  Smectymnus  tracts,  the 
two  last  letters  of  which  word  arc  designed  for  the  initial  letters  of  his  Christian 
name  and  sirname.  He  was  likewise  one  of  the  Assembly  of  Divines,  and  afterwards 
one  of  the  Commissioners  at  the  Savoy.  He  had  been  Master  of  Katharine  Hall, 
Cambridge,  but  was  deprived  of  his  mastership  for  refusing  the  engagement.  Be- 
sides his  share  in  Smectymnus,  he  printed  a  treatise  on  the  Promises,  1659,  12mo, 
and  several  sermons.  His  "  Spiritual  Chymist  in  Six  Decades  of  Meditations,"  1666, 
12mo,  is,  perhaps,  the  most  pleasing  of  his  published  works.  "What  an  interesting 
book  might  be  compiled  from  extracts  of  the  various  English  authors  in  this  style  of 
composition,  beginning  with  Bishop  Hall ! 


1665-6]  or  mi.  worthington.  201 

to  the  place  ?     By  this  means  the  College  will  be  secured  concerning 

the  discharge  of  the  place  as  if  you  yourself  were  present.       And  it 

may  be  represented  that  it  is  not  certain  but  that  I  may  ere  long  be 

disposed  elsewhere,  and  then  if  there  seem  any  inconvenience  herein 

(though  I  see  none)  it  may  not  last  long.     But  if  it  publicly  appear 

that  I  am  engaged  to  this,  and  newly  promoted  to  it,  others  that  are 

thoughtful  for  my  disposal  elsewhere  will  conclude  that  I  am  fixed 

here,  and  so  their  endeavours  for  me  elsewhere  (which  they  have  in 

their  thoughts)  would  cease  or  cool.     Mr.  Turner^  is  going  away 

from  St.  Faith's,  and  I  was  thinking  to  mention  Mr.  Spearing  to 

some  of  the  parish  (which  takes  in  Paul's  Churchyard  and  part 

of  Paternoster  Row  and  Ivy  Lane).     I  am  told  that  the  tithes  are 

above  ^£"60  per  annum  and  well  paid,  and  that  they  use  to  add  to 

them,  that  the  income  will  make  about  seven  score  pounds  a  year. 

Are  you  acquainted  with  the  Master  of  the  Rolls  ?    He  allowed  Mr. 

Stillingfleet   =£'100  a  year  for  a  few  sermons  in  the  year.     Some 

friends  have  told  me  that  such  a  place  being  added  to  Benet  Fynk 

would  be  a  good  advantage  and  not  require  much  labour.      Mr. 

Stonier  and  his  family  continue  \A'ell  since  the  death  of  his  wife. 

You  enquire  concerning  books,  and  what  done  in  the  commonwealth 

of  learning.      Few  make  any  such  inquiries,  or  mind  such  matters, 

being  rather  intent  about  being  rich  or  great  in  the  world,  or  living  a 

life  of  pleasure  and  ease.     Since  the  plague,  little  hath  been  done  at 

the  press,  and  since  the  wars  few  books  have  come  over.     I  know  of 

none  but  the  second  volume  of  Episcopius,  a  large  book  (about  30s. 

price)  and  a  thin  folio  of  Brenius,^  one  of  his  scholars,  but  afterwards 

'  Brian  Turner,  collated  to  this  living  August  Oth,  1662,  enjoyed  it  till  the  churcli 
was  burnt  down  iu  1666,  soon  after  which  he  voided  it  by  taking  another  living  in  the 
country.- — Newcourt's  Repertorium,  vol.  i.  p.  350. 

"  Daniel  Brenius  was  born  in  1594,  and  became  a  pupil  and  follower  of  Episcopius. 
He  seems  to  have  exercised  no  public  function,  but  to  have  been  employed  as  corrector 
of  the  press,  and  to  have  lived  many  years  at  Amsterdam,  where  he  died  in  1664. 
(Bock,  Hist.  Antitrinitariorum,  vol.  i.  p.  72.)  His  works  were  published  at  Amster- 
dam, in  one  volume  folio,  iu  1666,  the  contents  of  which  are  particularized  by  Bock. 
He  appears  to  have  been  classed  amongst  Socinian  wi-iters,  principally  from  the 
"Arnica  disputatio  adversus  Judccos,"  1644,  4to.  There  is  little  doubt,  nevertheless, 
VOL.  II.  D  D 


202  DIARY  AND   CORRESPONDENCE  [1665-6 

Socinianized,  containing  short  notes  upon  the  Old  and  New  Testa- 
ments, with  several  tracts  at  the  end  which  some  commend  (above 
20s.  price).  Mr.  Tillotson's  book  against  Sargeant  will  be  finished 
this  term,  to  which  will  be  added  two  tracts  of  Mr.  Stillingfleet's 
and  Mr.  Whitby's.^  Dr.  Castell  returns  to  London  to-morrow,  and 
to  his  work.  If  there  were  any  great  care  for  the  encouragement  of 
the  studious  and  the  advancement  of  learning,  he  would  have  been 
before  this  in  better  circumstances,  and  his  work  would  have  more 

that  this  treatise  was  not  written  by  Brenius,  but  by  Martin  Euarus.  Amongst  his 
works  deserving  of  notice,  not  inchided  in  the  collection  published  in  1666,  is  "Spe- 
culum Christianum  virtutum  et  compendium  Theologise  Erasmicse,  ex  Erasmi  scriptis 
concinnatum"  (Rot.  1677,  16mo),  an  excellent  little  compendium, 

'  Few  writers  ever  carried  on  controversy  for  a  longer  period  than  Daniel  Wliitby 
whose  first  publication  in  answer  to  Cressy  came  out  in  1662,  and  who  continued  to 
write  books  almost  iip  to  the  time  of  his  death,  which  took  place  in  1726,  when  he  was 
eighty-eight.  His  piety,  learning,  and  extensive  charity  will  not  be  disputed,  but  his 
judgment,  sagacity,  and  reasoning  powers  do  not  appear  to  have  borne  a  due  proportion 
to  his  extensive  acquirements.  With  the  exception  of  his  "  Commentary  on  the  New 
Testament,"  which  is  stUl  held  in  estimation  and  deserves  to  be  so,  and  his  Discourse 
on  the  Five  Points,  1710,  8vo,  his  works  can  scarcely  be  said  to  have  survived  to  the 
present  day.  Absorbed  in  his  studies  and  controversies,  he  thought  little  of  secular 
affairs.  Wood,  who  in  that  respect  recognizes  him  as  a  kindred  spirit,  praises  him  for 
not  having  allowed  himself  "  leisure  to  mind  any  of  those  mean  and  trifling  worldly 
concerns  which  administer  matter  of  gain,  pleasure,  reach,  and  cunning."  Certainly 
Parson  Adams  himself  might  have  written  the  letter  to  Lady  Vere  (Biog.  Brit.  vol.  vi, 
part  ii.  p.  4220),  in  which  he  tells  her  that  "  the  hounty  and  excess  yoxi,  was  ever  guilty 
of  to  me  is  increased  ly  the  coming  of  six  pound  of  excellent  tohacco,  all  which  lie  upon 
my  conscience  to  be  beyond  my  merit  and  reach  of  a  just  gratitude,  had  not  he  that 
made  the  soul  accepted  the  utmost  for  proportion  for  himself.  I  shall  not  trouble  you 
with  lines  and  paper  payment,  but  serve  you  with  my  prayers,  and  seek  thereby  the 
welfare  of  your  honour  and  your  numerous  posterity,  humbly  craving  pardon  of  any 
carriage  or  word  from  me  not  suitable  to  such  a  present."  One  of  his  biographers 
observes :  "  No  man  was  more  easily  imposed  upon ;  he  knew  just  as  much  of  the 
world  as  Lord  Anson.  Never  was  there  a  greater  compound  of  learning  and  igno- 
rance, sense  and  folly.  He  was  unequal  to  himself  even  in  literature.  This  obliged 
him,  when  young,  to  submit  to  a  retractation  respecting  his  '  Protestant  Reconciler;' 
and  in  age  he  espoused  the  opinions  of  Dr.  Samuel  Clarke  respecting  the  divinity  of 
Christ,  contrary  to  his  former  strenuous  orthodoxy."  —  (Noble's  Continuation  of 
Grainger,  vol.  ii.  p.  112.)  A  full  account  of  this  learned  and  voluminous  writer  will 
be  found  in  the  Biog.  Brit. 


1665-6]  OF  OR.  WORTHINGTOy.  203 

subscribers.  And  by  this  time  Petit^s  labours  upon  Josephus  would 
have  been  procured,  concerning  which  I  had  an  account  (the  same 
with  what  I  had  before)  from  Mr.  Bright  at  Paris,  to  whom  I  pur- 
pose to  send  to-morrow.  Mr.  Ray  (of  Trinity  College  sometimes)  is 
at  Bordeaux,  and  there  is  Dr.  Croon,'  purposing  to  make  haste  into 
England.  I  doubt  not  but  Mr.  Ray  is  better  enriched  and  fraught 
with  observations  than  most  that  travel.  He  hath  been  in  Germany, 
Italy,  and,  I  think,  Spain  also,  and  is  now  in  France.^  Bee^  is 
zealous  to  begin  a  teuth^  and  last  volume  of  the  Critics.  He  hath 
desired  me  and  others  to  think  of  what  books  may  be  fit.  I  have 
thought  of  about  tweniy  tracts.  I  wish  (as  you  have  occasion)  you 
would  speak  and  consult  with  any  of  your  friends  about  books  that 
deserve  to  come  into  this  volume.  He  would  not  have  them  to  be 
over  large,  because  the  index  to  the  whole  will  take  up  a  good  part. 
j\Ir.  Retchford  hath  almost  finished  it.  I  hear  of  one  that  hath  some 
MSS.  of  Mr.  Chillingworth's.  I  must  renew  my  desire  about  a 
sight  of  that  MS.  of  ]Mr,  Hales's^  of  Confession  and  Absolution.  I 
hear  it  is  not  long,  and  therefore  not  tedious  to  transcribe.  Or  if 
you  could  by  a  safe  hand  (Mr.  Spearing  or  some  such)  transmit  the 
original  to  me^  1  shall  be  careful  to  return  it.  Pray  think  upon  it. 
I  sent  two  hymns  to  Dr.  lugelo,  one  in  verse   (I  have  six  other 

'  Dr.  William  Croan,  or  Croon,  one  of  the  originators  of  the  Eoval  Society.  See 
vol.  i.  p.  247. 

2  He  arrived  in  England  from  his  travels  abroad  about  the  beginning  of  March, 
1665-6.  His  account  of  his  journey  is  given  in  his  "  Observations  Topographical, 
Moral,  and  Physiological,  made  in  a  Journey  through  part  of  the  Low  Countries, 
Germany,  Italy,  and  France,  with  a  Catalogue  of  Plants,  not  native  of  England,  found 
spontaneously  growing  in  those  parts,  and  their  virtues,"  1673,  8vo. 

^  The  eminent  bookseller  and  publisher. 

*  Of  which  invaluable  collection  of  "Critici  Sacri"  nine  volumes  had  been  pub- 
lished, Lond.  1660,  folio.  The  prosecution  of  a  tenth  volume  was  doubtless  stopped 
by  the  fire  of  London,  in  which  Bee  was  so  large  a  sufferer. 

*  This  was  first  printed  in  the  supplementary  collection  of  Hales's  Tracts,  pubUshed 
in  1677,  8vo.,  and  is  there  styled,  "  A  Tract  concerning  the  Power  of  the  Keys  and 
Auricular  Confession,"  dated  from  his  study  the  8th  of  March,  1637.  Hales  has,  in 
this  tract,  given  full  scope  to  his  wit  and  pleasantry. 


204  DIARY  AND   CORRESPONDENCE  [1665-6 

hymns  from  the  same  hand).^  This  I  would  desire  Mr.  Rogers^  or 
Dr.  Child^  to  do  something  ahout  (according  as  I  wrote  then)  if  I 
were  near  them,  to  set  one  stanza  or  two  stanzas  to  an  easy  tune. 
The  other  is  in  prose.^  I  know  not  whether  it  can  be  done  into 
verse ;  I  am  sure  not  by  me,  who  never  had  an  happy  muse.  It  is 
so  pointed  as  to  be  sung  to  the  Psalms  in  prose ;  but  though  I  have 
heard  many  of  those  tunes,  I  never  could  find  above  two  that  were 

'  Which  would  appear  to  be  Dr.  Henry  More's.  See  Ward's  Life  of  him,  p.  354. 
-  This  eminent  musical  composer  (Benjamin  Rogers)  is  noticed  vol.  i.  p.  37.  A  full 
account  of  him,  and  criticisms  on  his  compositions,  will  be  found  in  Hawkins's  History 
of  Music,  vol.  iv.  p.  59.  Wood  tells  us  that  "  Dr.  Wilson,  the  professor,  the  greatest 
and  most  curious  judge  of  music  that  ever  was,  usually  wept  when  he  heard  Rogers's 
compositions  well  performed,  as  being  wrapt  up  in  an  ecstasy,  or,  if  you  will,  melted 
at  the  excellency  of  them."  He  further  informs  us,  and  it  is  too  interesting  a  part  of 
his  narrative  to  be  omitted,  that  Dr.  Thomas  Pierce,  who  had  a  great  value  for  the 
man  (he  himself  being  a  musician),  invited  him  to  Magdalen  College  and  gave  him 
the  organist's  place  there,  and  he  continued  "  in  good  esteem  till  1685,  and  then  being 
ejected  (the  reason  why  let  others  tell  you)  tlie  society  of  that  house  allowed  him  a 
yearly  pension  to  keep  him  from  the  contempt  of  the  world ;  in  which  condition  he 
now  lives  in  his  old  age  in  a  skirt  of  the  city  of  Oxon  unregarded."  —  (Fasti,  vol.  ii. 
p.  307.)  The  date  of  the  death  of  this  "most  admirable  musician,"  as  Wood  styles 
him,  who  was  first  brought  forward  and  encouraged  by  Worthington's  friend.  Dr. 
Nathaniel  Ingelo,  does  not  seem  to  be  known. 

^  A  portrait  of  this  very  celebrated  composer  of  sacred  music.  Dr.  William  Child, 
with  a  biography  of  him,  is  given  iu  Hawkins's  History  of  Music,  vol.  iv.  p.  414,  and 
he  is  likewise  noticed  at  some  length  by  Burney  in  his  "History  of  Music,"  vol.  iii. 
p.  363.  He  was  a  native  of  Bristol,  and  after  having  been  organist  of  St.  George's 
Chapel,  Windsor,  sixty -five  years,  and  produced  many  beautiful  compositions,  died  in 
1697  at  the  age  of  ninety.  With  a  liberality  which  did  him  infinite  credit,  he  paved 
the  choir  of  St.  George's  Chapel  on  being  paid,  after  a  long  delay,  the  arrears  of  his 
salary  as  organist.  His  epitaph  is  worth  transcribing : 
"  Go,  happy  soul,  and  in  thy  seat  above 

Sing  endless  hymns  of  thy  great  Maker's  love  ! 

How  fit  in  heavenly  songs  to  bear  a  part. 

Before  well  practis'd  in  the  sacred  art. 

Whilst  hearing  us,  sometimes  the  choir  divine 

Will  sure  descend  and  in  our  consort  join, 

So  much  the  music  thou  to  us  hast  given 

Has  made  our  earth  to  represent  their  hcav'n." 
''  This  was  by  Worthington,  and  was  printed  with  another  prose  hymn  of  his  at  the 
end  of  his  "Select  Discourses,"  Lend.  1725,  8vo,  pp.  525-8. 


1665-6]  OF  DR.   WORTHINGTON.  205 

tolerably  musical.  There  might  be  made  a  better  than  any  yet  in 
use.  Dr.  Spurstow  returned  to  Hackney  about  two  weeks  since. 
He  went  to  London  yesterday,  came  home  about  six,  ate  his  supper 
and  was  cheerful  as  usually,  went  up  to  his  chamber,  and  within  an 
hour  or  (less)  was  alive  and  dead.  He  died  of  a  fit  of  the  colic. 
This  is  all  I  have  of  news  at  present ;  and  the  last  clause  minds  us 
how  much  it  imports  us  to  be  doing  co?  Kaipov  e^o/jLev.  With  our 
remembrances  to  you  and  yours  I  rest 

Yours  affectionately, 
Jan.  24,  1665-6.  J.[ohn]  W.[orthington.] 


To  his  honoured  friend  Dr.  Eva/is,  at  Windsor  Casife, 
Feb.  12,  1665-6. 
[From  Dr.  Worthington.] 
As  I  said,  so  it  seems  the  shortest  and  easiest  way  for  me 
to  take  a  lease  from  you.  I  suppose  your  lease  is  not  for  three  years 
but  for  twenty-one  years.  And  I  know  no  other  way  so  accommo- 
date for  me  (upon  the  reasons  in  my  former  letter)  as  this,  if  it  be 
also  according  to  your  liking,  and  have  your  good  wall,  and  be  not 
disapproved  of  by  your  Society.  I  know  not  whether  you  need  their 
concurrence,  or,  if  you  do,  I  see  no  reason  to  doubt  of  their  favour.  I 
suppose  the  parish  will  do  as  much  for  me  as  for  another  (and  I  have 
done  that  for  them  which  every  minister  did  not  for  his  parish  during 
this  great  and  dangerous  visitation)  and  except  they  add  to  the  tithes 
(which  are  never  all  gathered)  there  would  be  but  little  encourage- 
ment for  any  one  in  the  place.  They  are  but  slow,  yet  they  intend 
this  week,  or  on  Sunday  next,  to  have  a  vestry  about  my  affairs,  and 
they  desire  me  to  begin  next  Sunday  to  preach  in  the  afternoon. 

Yesterday  in  the  afternoon  I  preached  at  St.  Faith's,  and  there 
are  that  wish  me  to  go  on  (Mr.  Turner,  the  minister,  has  taken  his 
leave  of  them  and  lives  with  Lord  Fanshaw^),  but,  as  I  hinted  before, 

'  Lord  Viscount  Fansha^v,  of  Dromorc,  in  the  kingdom  of  Ireland,  the  brother  of 
Sir  Richard  Fanshaw,  tlic  statesman,  negotiator,  and  poet. 


206  DIARY   AND   COURESVON  DENCE  [1665-6 

I  would  ask  Mr.  Spearing  how  he  likes  it,  to  take  the  whole  day,  or 
to  preach  in  the  afternoons.  The  parishioners  (most  of  them)  are 
such  as  know  scholars,  and  Royston  tells  me  that  they  have  always 
been  kind  to  their  minister. 

Yours, 
J.[ohn]  W.[orthington.] 


[From  Dr.  Worthington^s  Almanack.] 
Mar.  4,  7,  11.     I  preached  at  Benet  Fynk.     Mar.  18.  I  preached 
at  Benet  Fynk  twice. 

1666. 

Mar.  2.5,  1666,  April  1,  4  (Fast  day),  8,  13,  15,  22,  29,  May  2, 
6,  13,  20,  27,  31.  I  preached  at  Benet  Fynk.  June  3,  6,  10,  24, 
Jul.  1,  4,  8,  15,  22,  29.  I  preached  at  Benet  Fynk,  and  Aug.  1,  5, 
10,  12,  19,  26. 

Sept.  2,  1666.  I  preached  at  Benet  Fynk  in  the  forenoon  on 
Mat.  V,  3.  There  was  no  service  in  the  afternoon.  A  great  con- 
fusion in  the  city,  by  reason  of  a  dreadful  fire/  which  began  in  Pud- 
ding Lane.  On  Monday  night  or  Tuesday  morning  it  burned  down 
our  church,  and  went  through  the  parish,  not  leaving  a  house. 


In  a  Letter  to  Lord  Brereton,  anno  1666. 
[From  Dr.  Worthington.] 
Last  week  I  delivered  my  polyphon^  to  Mr.  Haak,  to  be  sent 

'  The  great  firo  of  London,  for  further  details  of  which  Evelyn's  and  Pepys's  Diaries 
of  this  date,  the  "Narrative,"  by  Edward  VVaterhouse,  London,  1667,  8vo.,  the 
"  City  Eemembrancer,"  1769,  8vo.,  vol.  ii.  pp.  1-73,  and  the  condensed  account  in 
Mr.  Peter  Cunningham's  excellent  Hand  Book  of  London,  may  be  consulted.  Wor- 
thington's  description  of  it  is  very  striking  and  graphic. 

-  Probably  the  same  musical  instrument  which  Playford  mentions  in  his  Introduc- 
tion to  Music.  —  Preface,  edit.  1670.      "Queen  Elizabeth,"  he  writes,  "was  not  only 


1666]  OF   DR.   WORTHINGTOX.  207 

with  other  things  to  your  lordship.  I  know  none  in 
London  but  Sir  Fr.  Prujean  and  Dr.  Ridgley  that  play 
on  it,  and  they  commend  it  for  a  sweet,  solemn  harpsi- 
chord, much  like  in  sound  to  the  Irish  harp.  Dr. 
Eidgley  hath  one  larger  than  mine,  which  cost  him 
dear,  but  mine  is  easier  to  manage.  I  procured  it  to  be 
strung  by  one  in  London,  who  is  the  only  man,  I  can 
hear  of,  that  knows  how  to  make  the  instrument.  I  have 
sent  in  the  box  a  book  that  hath  some  lessons  for  this 
instrument,  besides  other,  but  more  particular,  directions 
about  it  are  set  down  in  a  sheet  of  paper  I  have  put  in 
the  book,  which  were  sent  me  by  Mr.  Friend,  that 
belonged  to  the  music  of  King  James  and  Charles  I. 
About  the- fifth  leaf  from  the  turning  down  (where  the 
lessons  for  this  instrument  begin,  and  the  tuning  also  is 
set  down)  is  the  tune  of  Psalm  25,  which  T  was  wont  to 
play,  and  some  others.  It  will  be  less  hard  to  you,  that 
play  upon  other  instruments,  and  have  a  faculty  for 
music.  If  it  were  better  than  it  is,  it  should  have  gone 
to  your  lordship. 
In  the  letter  I  now  send,  your  lordship  will  find  some  hymns 
in  metre,  sent  me  from  a  friend,  and  one  in  prose.  That 
in  prose  I  collected  out  of  the  Apocalypse,  and  pointed 
it  so  as  the  reading  Psalms  are  pointed  to  be  sung  in 
cathedrals  ;  but  a  better  tune  than  either  the  Imperial 

a  lover  of  this  divine  science  (music),  but  a  good  proficient  therein,  and  I  have  been 
informed  that  she  did  often  recreate  herself  in  an  excellent  instrument  called  the 
Polephant,  not  much  unlike  a  lute,  but  strung  with  wire."  Worthington  had  con- 
siderable musical  knowledge  and  taste.  In  the  account  of  him  by  his  servant,  we  are 
told  that  "  he  sometimes  diverted  himself  by  playing  on  the  violl ;  at  other  times,  he 
would  sing  a  psalm  or  divine  song,  whilst  his  wife  played  on  the  organ ;  and  when  he 
was  at  Jesus  College  he  had  sometimes  consorts  of  music."  His  friend,  Dr.  Henry 
More,  played  upon  the  theorbo,  "  and,"  says  his  biographer,  "  the  pleasure  of  this,  and 
of  his  thoughts  with  it,  hath  been  at  times  so  overcomingly  great  that  he  hath  been 
forced  to  desist ;  though  at  other  times  again,  after  his  hard  studies,  he  found  himself 
in  an  extraordinary  manner  recreated  and  composed  by  the  sweetness  and  solemnness 
of  that  instrument."  —  "Ward's  Life,  p.  54. 


208  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1666 

or  Canterbury  (sweet,  easy,  and  solemn)  might  be  made 
by  your  lordship.^  It  contains  an  acknowledgment  of 
God's  greatness,  justice,  truth,  holiness,  power,  eternity, 
his  goodness  in  the  creation,  and  his  love,  and  the  love 
of  Christ,  in  the  redemption  of  the  world.  Such  hymns 
as  these  are  too  good  for  some^  fit  to  be  sung  by  more 
serious  persons^  for  Christian  societies  of  well  agreeing 
souls,  which  make  a  little  heaven  on  earth. 
In  the  time  of  the  great  visitation  I  penned  it,  and  reading 
over  the  Sacred  Scriptures,  did  by  the  by  select  such 
homogeneous  passages  as  might  be  put  together  into 
hymns  or  prayers.  I  have  cause  to  acknowledge  God"'s 
merciful  preservation  of  me  and  mine  at  London  and  at 
Hackney  (it  being  next  door  to  us)  and  when  I  went 
weekly  to  London,  there  occuring  frequent  spectacles  of 
mortality.  Though  I  preach  here  only  pro  tempore, 
and  the  place  is  another's,  yet  I  was  loth  to  leave  the 
place  destitute ;  and  while  people  were  willing  to  come 
(and  I  seemed  more  serious  and  prepared)  I  was  loth  to 
neglect  them,  having  no  place  of  my  own  to  go  to.  For 
that  in  Suffolk  I  had  resigned  and  left  a  good  while 
before,  as  thinking  there  would  have  been  an  accommo- 
dation, which  you  were  pleased  to  mention  to  me.  But 
though  your  lordship  hath  always  expressed  a  great  good 
will  towards  me,  and  told  me  of  a  secret  purpose  of 
devoting  somewhat,  in  lieu  of  the  tithes  sold,  to  public 
preaching,  yet,  as  I  before  said,  I  would  not  be  burden- 
some in  any  kind,  or  increase  any  inconveniency,  not 
knowing  whether  your  lordship  can  so  soon  despatch  all 
those  intricate  occasions  as  you  thought,^  which  I  should 
be  glad  to  hear  of. 

'  Lord  Brereton  was  cmiucnt  not  merely  for  his  taste  iu  music,  but  as  a  musical 
composer.  His  range  of  accomplishments  was  yery  extensive.  See  the  notice  of  him, 
Tol.  i.  p.  212. 

-  Lord  Brercton's  circumstances  were  very  much  embarrassed. 


1666]  OY  DR.  WORTHINGTON.  209 

As  for  myself,  I  have  silently  devoted  myself  and  the 
remainder  of  my  days  to  the  endeavouring  of  doing 
some  good,  as  I  am  able,  if  God  shall  afford  health, 
freedom,  vacancy  for  that  end.  And  I  trust  that  he 
who  hath  hitherto  cared  for  me  will  not  leave  me,  but 
so  provide  for  me  and  mine  as  is  fit  to  be  matter  of 
contentment  to  us. 


In  a  Letter  to  Dr.  Evans,  Sept.  11^  ^666. 
[From  Dr.  Worthington.] 
—  My  time  is  but  short  in  these  parts.  I  am  now  preparing 
for  my  removal  into  my  northern  solitude.^  God  hath 
discharged  me  from  any  further  employment  in  London, 
where  I  have  preached  for  some  time,  and  (through  his 
goodness)  not  without  some  fruit.  Some  of  all  persua- 
sions, and  that  had  wandered  through  all  forms,  placing 
the  kingdom  of  God  in  opinions  and  extra  essentials, 
have  been  awakened  to  other  thoughts,  and  received 
settlement  in  better  things,  as  I  have  received  it  from 
them  and  others.  A  serious  auditory  of  many  persons 
engaged  me  to  hold  the  place  longer  than  else  I  should. 
For  as  for  the  incomes  from  the  place,  they  were  not  so 
much  as  they  should  have  been ;  and  the  whole  was 
no  superfluity,  if  it  had  been  received.  Yet  do  I  not 
the  less  thank  you  for  the  place.  I  know  you  would 
have  been  glad  if  it  had  been  more.  By  reason  of  this 
late  dreadful  fire,  the  church,^  the  house,  and  the  whole 
parish  hath  been  consumed,  and  the  people  scattered 
(every  one  shifting  for  himself) ;  so  that  I  shall  lose^  in 
what  was  due  for  the  two  years  I  preached  there,  and 

1  He  was  invited  by  Lord  Brereton  to  iindertake  the  duties  of  preacher  at  Holmes 
Chapel,  in  Cheshii-e,  which  he  fuLfilled  only  for  a  short  time,  residing  at  Brereton  Green. 
"  Of  St.  Benet  Fink. 
VOL.  11.  E  E 


2U)  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1666 

would  have  been  due  at  Michaelmas,  at  least  ninety 
pounds  (as  I  have  computed  the  particulars)  which, 
though  it  make  no  great  report  and  sound  in  the  ears  of 
the  great  and  rich  to  abundance,  yet  it  is  as  much  to  me 
as  their  thousands  to  some.  Nor  could  I  have  held  out 
so  long  had  I  not  been  helped  by  a  little  I  have,  which 
is  little  enough  for  a  family  of  eight  persons.  By  reason 
of  the  fire's  coming  on  so  suddenly,  and  the  great  con- 
fusion of  such  a  time,  I  lost  several  goods  in  the  house. 
Some  I  forgot  in  this  distraction,  and  some  I  had  not 
time  to  remove,  having  none  to  help  me  but  one  maid. 
My  wife  was  not  well,  and  others  in  the  family  were  to 
be  tended,  not  being  well,  so  that  I  had  not  the  hands  and 
help  which  else  I  might  have  had.  Some  trunks  that  I 
removed  had  like  to  have  been  lost  in  the  street.  They 
were  thrown  down  and  trampled  in  the  dirt,  and  were 
given  for  lost,  but  at  last  very  hardly  recovered.  The 
best  of  my  trunks  was  left  to  the  flames.  It  stood  in  a 
corner  and  out  of  sight.  And  some  things  of  far  better 
value  and  price  than  we  carried  away  were  also  lost  and 
consumed.  Next  to  the  danger  of  the  fire  was  the  con- 
fusion in  the  streets^  (in  ours  especially,  being  a  great 
thoroughfare)  so  that  to  me  it  was  a  wonder  that  many 
were  not  crowded  to  death,  or  trampled  and  crushed  in 
pieces  by  carts  and  horses.  Several  lost  their  goods 
after  they  were  carried  out,  losing  the  porters  in  the 
crowd.  Sometimes  I  have  seen  places  in  the  street  all 
strewed  with  feathers,  which  might  be  the  destruction 
of  beds. 2  One  burden  which  1  sent  we  thought  had 
been  lost,  the  porter  not  appearing  of  a  long  time ;  and 
one  porter  that  carried  away  a  chest  for  mc,  finding  it 
heavy,  left  it  in  the  street  in  a  corner,  and  we  saw  him 

■   '  The  confusion  in  the  streets  on  tho  approach  of  the  fire,  and  its  gradual  work 
of  destruction,  are  vividly  described  by  Pepys.    (Diary,  vol.  ii.  p.  Ml,  edit.  1854.) 
^  Many  of  the  sick  were  obliged  to  be  removed  in  their  beds. 


1666]  OF   1)K.   WORTHIXGTON.  211 

no  more,  but  happily  we  got  our  chest  agaiu.  Some 
porters  would  go  away  after  the  first  carriage,  and  then 
we  were  to  seek  new  ones.  It  is  impossible  for  any 
man  that  was  an  eyewitness  to  express,  or  for  the  absent 
to  imagine,  the  dreadfulness  of  this  conflagration,  the 
confusion  in  the  streets  and  at  the  gates  (where  people 
were  forced  to  stay  an  incredible  time  to  get  through 
with  their  burden),  the  consternation  and  amazement  of 
men's  minds.  Every  one  is  now  ready  to  say  that  they 
might  have  preserved  more  of  their  goods,  or  secured 
more  houses  from  the  fire ;  but  at  that  time  their  reason 
and  dexterity  was  half  taken  from  them,  that  they  rather 
gazed  upon  the  flame  and  went  about  their  business  in  a 

hurry,  than  acted  rationally I  stayed  as  long 

as  I  could  in  the  house,  and  night  coming  on,  I  was  to 
go  to  Hackney. 
Many  are  quite  undone,  others  almost.  Bee  hath  lost 
.£6,000,  some  say  ,£'10,000;  other  booksellersi  £4,000 
or  £2,000.  Dr.  Bates  hath  lost  £200  in  books.  Dr. 
Tuckney's  library  in  Scrivener's  Hall  was  burnt.  Sion 
College  destroyed,  and  many  of  the  books.  Gresham 
College  was  preserved  by  the  activity  and  bounty  of 
some  in  it,  and  the  fire  was  stopped  in  Broad  Street,  the 
Dutch  minister's  houses  and  Dr.  Bolton's  house  being 
burnt,  but  the  Dutch  church  not  burnt,  and  but  a  little 

'  "  Mr.  Kirton's  kinsman,  my  bookseller,  came  in  my  way  ;  and  so  I  am  told  by  him 
that  Mr.  Kir  ton  is  utterly  undone  and  made  £2000  or  £3000  worse  than  nothing,  from 
being  worth  £7000  or  £8000  ;  that  the  goods  layed  in  the  Church-yard  fired  through 
the  windows  those  in  St.  Fayth's  Church ;  and  those  coming  to  the  warehouses' 
doors  fired  them,  and  burned  all  the  books  and  pillars  of  the  church,  so  as  the  roof 
falling  down  broke  quite  down,  which  it  did  not  do  in  the  other  places  of  the  church 
which  is  alike  pillared,  but  being  not  burned  they  stood  still.  He  do  believe  there  is 
above  £150,000  of  books  burned;  all  the  great  booksellers  almost  undone;  not  only 
these,  but  their  warehouses  at  their  hall  and  under  Christ  Church  and  elsewhere  being 
all  burned.  A  great  want  therefore  there  will  be  of  books,  specially  Latin  books  and 
foreign  books,  and  amongst  others  the  Polyglott  and  new  Bible,  which  he  believes  will 
be  presently  worth  £40  a  piece."  —  Pepys's  Diary,  vol.  ii.  p.  464. 


213  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1666 

of  Dr.  Bolton''s,  at  the  Soho  end.  Sir  Nathaniel  Ber- 
nardiston,  in  St.  Martin's  Outwich  parish,  by  the 
bounty  of  his  purse,  engaged  men  to  work  hard,  and 
stopped  the  fire  there ;  and  so  it  was  stopped  at  Alders- 
gate  and  elsewhere.  Of  ninety-seven  parish  churches 
there  are  but  twelve  remaining.  Of  the  rest  only  the 
walls,  or  some  pieces,  and  the  steeples.  If  it  were  not 
for  these,  it  could  not  be  known  where  the  streets  were. 
Blackfriars  church  (that  had  no  steeple)  is  so  buried  in 
the  heaps,  that  the  old  clerk  who  hath  been  there 
forty  years  could  not  discern  where  the  church  had 
stood.  The  Exchange^  was  gone  in  less  than  an  hour. 
I  walked  over  part  of  the  ruined  city,  that  I  might  be 
more  sensibly  affected ;  none  can  be  but  by  seeing  it. 
And  I  think  such  a  mortifying  sight  is  worth  a  journey, 
that  men  may  be  the  more  convinced  of  the  uncer- 
tainty and  vanity  of  things  below.  I  was  afraid  of 
some  severe  judgment  when  I  considered  that  men 
were  not  bettered  by  the  former  judgment.  God 
grant  that  this  fiery  trial  may  purge  and  purify  us 
from  our  filth  and  soil.  I  was,  with  others,  beginning 
to  put  the  business  of  procuring  Petitus  his  MSS.  in  a 
probable  way,  but  now  there  is  no  moving  for  the  pre- 
sent. I  wish  I  could  have  done  more  for  the  public 
good  of  learning,  and  for  the  encouragement  of  worthy 
ingenuous  persons  than  I  have,  and  I  am  glad  that  I 
have  done  somewhat  when  I  had  opportunities.  It 
was  a  pleasure  to  me  when  I  was  in  the  University  or 
in  London.  But  I  am  now  taken  off  from  a  more 
public  active  life  into  a  more  private  and  retired  way. 
On  Oct.  2nd,  I  intend  (God  willing)  to  leave  these 
parts,  not  knowing  when  or  whether  I  shall  see  them 

'  "  I  walked  into  the  town,  and  find  Fencburch  Street,  Gracious  Street,  and  Lom- 
bard Street  all  in  dust.  The  Exchange  a  sad  sight — nothing  standing  there  of  all  the 
statues  or  pillars,  but  Sir  Thomas  Grosham's  picture  in  the  corner."  —  Pcpys,  p.  447. 


1666]  OF  DR.  WORTHINGTON.  213 

again.  I  have  used  what  diligence  was  fit,  and  not 
unworthy,  about  being  accommodated  j  but  nothing 
appearing,  I  would  not  be  locked  up  a  whole  winter 
here.  It  is  three  years  since  I  came  to  these  parts, 
and  after  I  have  ventured  my  health  about  Mr.  Mede's 
book,  and  my  life  in  preaching  all  the  plague  time, 
I  am  where  I  was  when  I  came  hither.  I  did  not  ex- 
pect much,  nor  am  I  therefore  much  disappointed.  I 
have  for  some  time  desired  the  private  retired  life  for 
some  space,  and  it  may  be  God  sees  it  best  for  me.  I 
wish  that  those  who  are  well  provided  and  accom- 
modated may  improve  their  opportunities  for  the  pro- 
moting and  encouraging  what  is  for  the  public  good, 
which  is  their  concernment  as  well  as  mine.  If  there 
be  anything  that  I  owe  you  upon  any  payment  due  for 
Benet  Fynk  to  your  Society,  I  desire  to  know  it  that 
I  may  take  order  about  it,  for  I  would  owe  nothing  to 
any  but  love. — 


[An  Account  of  Dr.  Worthington,  taken  from  a  very  seri- 
ous AND  pious  Woman,  who  was  Servant ^  in  the  Dr.^s 
Family  from  the  time  of  his  Marriage  till  his  designed 
Remove  into  Cheshire. 

He  was  wont  to  rise  about  seven  o'clock,  and  go  presently  to 
his  study,  where  he  staid  till  about  ten.  Then  he  went  to  prayers 
in  his  family,  after  which  he  would  eat  a  bit  or  two  of  bread  and 
butter,  and  if  it  was  a  proper  season,  he  took  a  turn  or  two  in  the 

^  Of  this  servant,  whose  name  is  not  mentioned,  and  who  left  him  on  the  occasion 
of  her  marriage,  Worthington  afterwards  gives  a  high  character.  Her  pleasing  ac- 
count of  her  excellent  master  might  fitly  have  been  incorporated  ia  the  introductory 
sketch  of  Worthington's  life,  but  it  has  been  thought  advisable,  upon  the  whole,  to 
follow  the  order  of  Baker's  manuscripts. 


214  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1666 

garden,*  and  so  went  again  to  his  study,  where  he  continued  till 
dinner  was  ready.  He  eat  but  Uttle ;  and  if  he  had  no  company, 
he  would  sometimes  study  as  he  sat  at  table.  After  dinner  he  tar- 
ried with  his  wife  and  children  till  the  servants  had  dined.  Then 
he  returned  to  his  study,  where  he  was  retired  till  supper  time. 
After  a  Hght  supper,  he  conversed  awhile  with  his  wife,  and  then 
went  to  prayers  again  with  his  family.  On  Sundays,  all  that  could 
were  to  go  to  church. 

He  was  very  cheerful  in  company,  and  sometimes  diverted  him- 
self by  playing  on  the  viol.  At  other  times  he  would  sing  a  psalm 
or  divine  song,^  whilst  his  wife  played  on  the  organ.  And  when 
he  was  at  Jesus  College  he  had  sometimes  concerts  of  music. 

When  he  was  Vice-Chancellor  of  Cambridge  he  frequently  made 
noble  entertainments,  and  though  he  did  not  provide  so  many 
dishes  at  other  times,  yet  he  would  always  have  that  was  fitting 
and  good ;  whence  it  was  his  usual  saying  to  his  guests.  Pray  eat ; 
here  is  that  which  is  good. 

When  Dr.  Stern^  came  to  Jesus  College,  he  made  him  a  sump- 
tuous entertainment,  and  was  very  cheerful  with  him. 

Not  long  after  his  removal  to  Ditton,  near  Cambridge,  he  was 
oflTered  a  much  better  living,  but  refused  it ;  yet  afterwards  he 
found  it  advisable  to  change  it  for  a  living  of  less  value.  His  de- 
parture from  whence  was  very  much  lamented,  especially  by  the 
poor,  whom  he  was  wont  constantly  to  relieve.  Every  Sunday 
nine  or  ten  of  them  received  alms  at  his  house,  a  leg  of  beef  and 
broth  being  provided  for  them.  If  any  were  sick,  they  had  mutton 
and  pudding  sent  to  them.  On  a  week-day,  he  would  sometimes 
invite  a  poor  widow.  He  also  visited  them  when  they  were  sick ; 
and  his  wife  made  possets,  cordials,  and  medicines  for  them. 

'  But  a  small  allotment  of  exercise,  when  the  daily  time  devoted  to  study  is  con- 
sidered. Perhaps  this  may  in  some  measure  account  for  his  not  attaining  to  greater 
length  of  years.     He  died  at  the  age  of  fifty-three. 

-  Worthington  delighted  in  music,  especially  vocal,  and  had  an  excellent  voice.  See 
vol.  i.  p.  28. 

^  To  take  possession  as  Head  of  the  College,  on  Worthington  being  displaced.  Sec 
vol.  i.  p.  202. 


1666]  OF  DR.   WORTHIXGTON.  215 

In  the  time  of  the  plague,  Ihing  at  Hackney,  near  London,  he 
ordered  that  none  who  came  a  begging  to  his  door  should  be  sent 
away  without  relief;  and  accordingly,  as  their  needs  required, 
money,  victuals,  or  clothes,  were  given  to  them,  though  the  number 
of  beggars  was  then  very  great. 

At  the  same  time,  one  of  the  doctor's  maids  (she  from  whom 
this  account  was  received)  being  taken  ill,  and  supposed  to  have 
symptoms  of  the  plague  (some  spots  appearing  upon  her),  a  woman 
that  nursed  his  wife  (then  in  childbed)  would  fain  have  had  the 
maid  sent  away,  but  he  would  by  no  means  consent,  saying  he 
would  trust  God,  &c. 

The  same  year,  his  only  son  and  one  of  his  daughters  had  agues, 
and  there  was  a  man  famous  for  curing  that  and  other  distempers 
by  stroking,  1  who  being  known  to  the  doctor,  and  well  thought  of 

^  This  was  the  famous  Valentine  Greatraks,  the  stroker,  who,  having  performed,  as 
it  was  reported,  wonderful  cures  in  Ireland,  was  invited  by  Lord  Conway  to  Ragley 
in  January,  1665,  to  try  his  power  of  healing  in  reference  to  Lady  Conway's  violent 
head-ache  (see  vol.  i.  p.  141 )  which  had  baffled  the  most  skilful  physicians  of  the  time. 
This  he  was,  it  appears,  unable  to  alleviate,  but  multitudes  flocked  about  him  from 
the  fame  he  had  already  acquired ;  and  from  Eagley  he  was  called  by  command  of  the 
King  to  Whitehall,  and  remained  for  some  time  in  London,  attending  daUy  at  Lincoln's 
Inn  Fields,  where  he  received  his  patients,  the  number  of  whom  was  very  considerable. 
He  seems  to  have  had  some  knowledge  of  the  mode  of  treating  tumours,  and,  by  a  na- 
tural sagacity  and  the  application  of  friction,  to  have  worked  many  undoubted  cures. 
Having  a  competency  of  his  own  in  Ireland,  he  afforded  his  aid  in  all  cases  gratui- 
tously. After  some  time,  however,  it  being  perceived  that  no  permanent  benefit  was 
derived  from  his  mode  of  treatment  in  the  great  majority  of  instances,  and  an  unfor- 
tunate failure  at  Mr.  Cresset's,  in  Charter-house  Yard,  having  been  severely  animad- 
verted upon,  his  popularity  began  to  wane,  and  he  ultimately  returned  to  his  native 
country,  where  he  was  living  at  Dublia  in  1681.  He  was  warmly  patronised,  not  only 
by  the  Honourable  Robert  Boyle  but  by  Worthington's  friends.  Dr.  Whichcote,  Dr. 
Cudworth,  Dr.  Evans,  Dr.  Wilkins,  and  Dr.  Simon  Patrick.  Amongst  the  testimonials 
at  the  end  of  his  letter  to  Robert  Boyle  is  a  long  one  from  Whichcote,  declaring  the 
great  benefit  he  had  derived  from  Greatraks,  in  what  appears  to  have  been  a  fungous 
excrescence,  "which  for  many  years,"  he  says,  "  had  greatly  disabled  and  sorely  afflicted 
me,  for  which,  before  my  coming  to  him,  I  could  have  no  remedy."  There  is  also  one 
from  Cudworth,  statiag  "  that  the  tumours  in  his  little  son  Charles's  breast  were  very 
happily  cured  by  Mr.  Greatraks."  Amongst  the  other  complaints  which  he  undertook 
to  cure,  or  alleviate,  was  the  ague.    (See  his  letter  to  Boyle,  p.  25.)    His  life  is  shortly 


216  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1666 

by  him,  it  was  expected  that  he  would  have  carried  his  children  to 

given  in  Chalmers's  Biograpliieal  Dictionary  and  in  Grainger ;  but  those  who  take  an 
interest  in  the  career  of  Greatraks  should  refer  to  the  three  very  curious  pamphlets 
respecting  him:  1.  (David  Lloyd's)  "Wonders  no  Miracles,  or  Mr.  Valentine  Grcat- 
raks's  Gift  of  Healing  examined,"  Lond.  1666,  4to  ;  2.  "A  Brief  Account  of  Mr.  Va- 
lentine Greatraks,  and  divers  of  the  strange  Cures  by  him  lately  performed,  written  by 
himself  in  a  Letter  addressed  to  the  Honourable  Robert  Boyle,  Esq.,"  Lond.  1666, 
4to ;  3.  "  The  Miraculous  Conformist,  or  an  Account  of  several  marvellous  Cures 
performed  by  the  stroking  of  the  hands  of  Mr.  Valentine  Greatarick,  in  a  Letter  to 
the  Honourable  Robert  Boyle  by  Henry  Stubbe,"  Oxf.  1666,  4to.  Greatraks  gives 
a  remarkable  account  of  his  own  life  in  his  letter  to  Boyle,  and  seems  to  have  been 
an  honest  and  weU-intentioned  enthusiast,  with  considerable  natural  shrewdness,  and 
far  above  the  empirics  of  his  time.  In  one  of  the  scholia  on  Dr.  Henry  More's 
"  Enthusiasmus  Triumphatus"  (edit,  1712,  folio,  p.  51)  the  doctor  observes,  on  the 
following  passage :  "  There  may  he  very  well  a  sanative  and  healing  contagion^  as 
well  as  a  onorbid  and  venomous.  This  very  place  I  shewed  to  that  excellent  person, 
Mr.  Boyle,  at  London,  as  I  was  talking  with  him  in  a  bookseller's  shop,  being  asked 
by  him  what  I  thought  of  the  cures  of  Valentine  Gretrakes,  with  the  fame  of  which 
all  places  rung  at  that  time.  I  told  him  my  opinion  was  fixed  about  those  cures  some 
years  before  they  were  performed ;  for  that  one  Coker  (for  that  was  the  name  of  the 
person  whose  remarkable  way  of  cxiring  or  healing  I  now  mention)  by  a  very  gentle 
chafing  or  rubbing  of  his  hand,  cured  diseases  ten  years  ago,  to  the  best  of  my  re- 
membrance, as  Gretrakes  did,  though  not  so  many  and  various.  For  this  cured 
cancers,  scrofulas,  deafness,  king's  evil,  epilcpsie,  fevers,  though  quartan  ones,  leprosy, 
palsy,  tympany,  head-ach,  lameness,  numbness  of  limbs,  stone,  convulsions,  ptysick, 
sciatica,  ulcers,  pains  of  the  body,  nay,  blind  and  dumb  in  some  measure,  and  I  know 
not  but  he  cured  the  gout ;  —  of  all  which  cures  Gretrakes  wrote  a  book,  attested  by 
good  hands,  to  which,  for  brevity's  sake,  I  refer  the  reader.  But  it  is  in  general  to 
be  observed,  that,  although  he  cured  all  those  diseases,  yet  he  did  not  succeed  in  all 
his  applications,  nor  were  his  cures  always  lasting.  Moreover,  it  was  not  only  his 
hand  that  had  this  healing  quality,  but  even  his  spittle,  whereby  you  may  the  more 
easily  discover  that  cures  have  relation  to  the  temperament  of  the  body.  Besides,  it 
was  well  known  that  his  body,  as  well  as  his  hand,  had  a  sort  of  herbous  aromatick 
scent ;  though  that  may  be  no  certain  sign  of  a  sanative  facility.  This  I  can  speak  by 
experience  of  myself,  especially  when  I  was  young,  that  every  night  when  going  to 
bed  I  unbuttoned  my  doublet,  my  breast  would  emit  a  sweet  aromatick  smell, 
and  every  year  after  about  the  end  of  winter,  or  approaching  of  the  spring,  I  had 
usually  sweet  herbous  scents  in  my  nostrils,  no  external  object  appearing  from  whence 

they  came But  I  know  not  how  I  thus  insensibly  run  into  this  humour 

of  talking  of  myself.  Let  us  return  to  Gretrakes  and  his  cures,  which  it  is  manifestly 
plain  may  be  within  the  bounds  of  nature  (though  perhaps  not  a  little  purified  and 
defecated  by  the  help  of  religion),  because  he  coidd  only  relieve  or  ease  afflicted 


1666]  OF  DR.  WORTHINGTOX.  217 

be  stroked  by  him.     But  he  chose  rather  to  trust  Providence  in 
the  vise  of  ordinary  means. 

nature,  but  not  restore  it  when  decaying.  But  that  which  to  me  seems  wonderful  above 
all  the  rest  is,  that  subtil  morbifick  matter,  which,  by  the  application  of  his  hand, 
would  become  volatil,  and  remove  from  the  part  grieved,  and  then  like  lightning  dis- 
perse itself  by  the  same  application  of  the  hand  into  several  parts  of  the  body,  till  at 
last  he  would  drive  it  into  some  e:ttreme  part,  suppose  the  fingers,  and  especially  the 
toes,  or  the  nose  or  tongue, —  into  which  parts,  when  he  had  forced  it,  it  would  make 
them  so  cold  and  insensible  that  the  patient  could  not  feel  the  deepest  prick  of  a  pin : 
but  as  soon  as  his  hand  should  touch  those  parts,  or  gently  rub  them,  the  whole  dis- 
temper vanished,  and  life  and  sense  immediately  returned  to  those  parts.  So  subtd 
a  thing  is  the  matter  of  most,  or  all  diseases,  and  yet  at  the  same  time  so  stupid  and 
deadly,  that  it  is,  as  it  were,  the  first  fruits  of  death.  As  to  the  constitution  of 
these  two,  Coker  was  a  very  melancholic  man,  as  I  have  been  informed  by  those  that 
conversed  with  him.  Gretrakes  was  quite  the  contrary,  being  of  a  sanguine  temper, 
very  civil  and  humane,  and  reaUy  pious,  without  sourness  or  superstition  (for  I  my- 
self have  often  conversed  with  him  at  Eagley,  when  I  used  to  be  at  my  Lord  Yiscount 
Conway's) ;  whence  I  plainly  saw,  by  the  ascension  of  blood  and  spirits,  his  brain  was 
in  no  danger,  nor  was  I  mistaken  in  my  conjecture.  But  I  would  not  be  understood 
in  what  I  have  said  of  these  sorts  of  cures,  as  if  I  despised  them,  for  they  may  be  the 
special  gift  of  God  in  nature,  especially  in  regenerate  nature ;  of  which  sort  it  is 
likely  these  cures  of  Gretrakes  were,  as  any  one  may  collect  from  the  account  of  his 
fore  passed  life,  for  he  gave  himself  up  wholly  to  the  study  of  Godliness  and  sincere 
mortification,  and  through  the  whole  course  of  his  life  shewed  all  manner  of  speci- 
mens of  a  Christian  disposition.  But,  besides  the  innocence  of  his  private  life,  and 
his  most  effusive  charity  and  humanity  in  the  management  of  publick  offices,  whether 
military  or  civil  (for  he  was  a  man  not  only  of  a  pious  and  liberal  education,  but  of 
an  estate  and  capacity  fit  to  serve  the  pubUek),  he  did  nothing  but  what  carried  an 
air  of  justice  and  equity  in  it,  and  a  general  good  will  towards  all ;  insomuch  that, 
though  he  did  most  heartily  embrace  the  reformed  religion,  yet  he  would  persecute 
no  sect  upon  the  score  of  religion,  not  even  the  papists,  and  that  in  Ireland  too, 
where  they  had,  through  their  cruelty  and  perfidy,  made  such  horrible  havock  of  the 
Protestants.  This,  and  other  things  of  this  nature,  certainly  shew  us  that  we  ought 
to  impute  this  gift  of  his  curing  diseases  not  to  simple,  but  regenerate  nature,  since 
we  find  so  many  and  manifest  steps  and  marks  of  regenerate  man  in  him ;  nor  could 
I  ever  discover  any  thing  in  him  that  was  contemptuous  or  immoral  towards  the 
spii'itual  or  secular  magistrate.  And  truly  he  seems  to  me  such  an  exemplar  of  can- 
did and  sincere  Christianity,  without  any  pride,  deceit,  sourness,  or  superstition,  to 
which  let  me  add  his  working  such  wonderful,  at  least  if  not  properly  called,  miracles, 
as  the  Church  of  Eome  in  no  age  could  ever  produce  for  their  religion.  For  what 
Gretrakes  did  was  done  in  the  face  of  the  world,  seen  and  attested  by  physicians, 
philosophers  and  divines  of  the  most  penetrating  and  accurate  judgment." 
VOL.  II.  F  F 


218  DIARY  AMD  CORRESPONDENCE  [1666 

He  never  appeared  disconcerted  at  anj'  losses,  nor  was  he  angry 
with  any  one  but  upon  just  occasion,  being  very  free  from  passion. 

When  one  of  his  children  made  a  noise  at  prayers,  he  took  -her 
afterwards  into  the  next  room,  and  talked  to  her  so  effectually 
that  she  was  never  observed  to  do  so  again,  though  she  was  a  young 
child.  If  his  servants  did  ill,  he  would  reprove  them  smartly,  but 
with  few  words.]  « 


For  his  honoured  friend  Dr.  Worthington,  at  Hackney,  ^c. 
[From  Dr.  H.  More.] 
Sir,       ^ 

I  wrote  to  you  Sept.  4th,  and  again  Sept.  11th,  but  whe- 
ther both  those  letters  have  miscarried  I  know  not.  My  former 
offered  you  the  parsonage  of  Ingoldsby;'  my  latter  signified  I  had 
disposed  of  it  upon  Mrs.  Foxcroft's  and  my  own  strong  presump- 
tion that  you  would  not  accept  of  it,  by  reason  of  the  destituteness 
of  the  deceased  incumbent's  widow  and  her  nine  children,  the  eld- 
est of  which,  two  years  bachelor  of  arts,  stood  for  it ;  upon  whom, 
therefore,  out  of  the  mere  motion  of  charity,  I  was  drawn  to  a  reso- 
lution to  have  bestowed  it  upon  him,  and  had  gone  so  far  as  that 
I  sent  down  a  blank  with  my  name,  to  my  nephew,  to  have  a  pre- 
sentation drawn  to  it,  but  withal  I  bid  him  not  to  let  that  blank 
go  out  of  his  hands  till  needs  must,  because  I  intended  to  enquire 
as  much  as  I  could  further  touching  the  young  scholar.  I  had 
thought  I  had  done  an  excellent  act ;    but  one  suggesting  to  me 

1  "To  this  college  (Christ's  College,  in  Cambridge)  he  (Dr.  Henry  More)  left  the 
perpetuity  of  the  rectory  of  Ingoldsby,  in  Lincolnshire ;  of  good  value  at  present,  but 
of  greater,  it  is  said,  when  first  bought  for  him  by  his  father.  This  liyiug  he  was  pos- 
sessed of,  I  suppose,  for  some  very  short  time,  for  I  find  his  name  once  in  the  Public 
Eegister  anno  1642,  but  whether  of  his  own  writing  I  cannot  certainly  say.  He  lived 
to  present  to  it  several  turns ;  of  which  one  was  very  seasonably  given  to  his  most 
learned  and  highly  valued  friend.  Dr.  Worthington  of  pious  memory,  upon  his  church 
being  burnt  down,  amongst  many  others,  in  the  fire  of  London," — Ward's  Life  of 
More,  pp.  60-61.     Ward  was  afterwards  himself  Eector  of  Ingoldsby. 


[1666  OF   DK.  WOKTHINGTON.  219 

the  next  day  they  were  gone  from  hence  with  his  blank,  that  my 
intended  charity  would  signify  nothing,  if  once  the  young  man 
married  (which  yet  was  the  main  basis  of  my  act),  I  began  to  be 
hugely  out  of  conceit  with  what  I  had  done,  in  so  much  that  it 
broke  my  sleep  that  night,  and  I  could  not  be  quiet  till  I  sent  an 
horse  and  man  on  purpose  to  stop  the  giving  this  blank,  to  be 
turned  into  a  presentation.  So  that  I  have  suspended  the  business, 
and  am  very  much  troubled  that  I  have  made  no  better  choice  for 
the  place.  For  he  that  brought  the  certificate  and  testimony  of 
some  persons  from  the  country  in  the  scholar's  behalf,  confessed 
that  he  had  been  wild,  but  he  did  affirm  to  me  absolutely  that  for 
these  two  years  he  had  been  sober  and  studious.  But  after  I  had 
given  him  my  letters  to  my  nephew,  and  I  took  occasion  to  ask  him 
again  of  his  sobriety,  he  said  for  aught  he  knew  he  had  been  so 
these  two  years.  But  this  was  one  of  the  chief  that  subscribed 
the  testimonial,  and  uncle  to  the  young  man.  He  told  me  that 
his  cousin  Avas  very  well  beloved  where  he  lived,  which  increases 
my  jealousy  and  makes  me  think  he  is  over  sociable  still.  I  made 
the  quicker  despatch  in  this  business  because  the  reports  were  so 
untoward  here  in  these  parts  that  I  thought  all  would  be  in  an 
uproar,  and  there  would  be  a  sudden  obstruction  of  affairs,  so  that 
I  thought  I  would  finish  so  charitable  a  good  deed  with  all  expe- 
dition I  might  whilst  I  had  opportunity.  Dr.  Saunderson,i  who 
wrote  to  me  a  very  compassionating  letter  in  behalf  of  the  widow, 
thinks  I  had  absolutely  determined  to  bestow  the  parsonage  on 
this  young  man,  but  methinks  he  might  consider  that  the  basis 
and  condition  of  my  action  was  that  it  was  so  effectual  a  piece  of 
charity  as  it  was  suggested.  And  besides,  my  action  was  a  sus- 
pended action  all  this  time,  in  that  I  would  not  so  much  as  let 
that  blank  go  out  of  my  nephew^s  hands  till  needs  must.  Whereby 
it  is  plain  I  resolved  to  myself  some  time  to  look  about  me.     But 

'  Thomas  Sanderson,  Doctor  of  Physic,  eldest  son  of  the  famous  Dr.  Robert  San- 
derson, Bishop  of  Lineohi.  Dr.  Thomas  Sanderson's  daughter,  Elizabeth,  married 
Richard  Middlemore,  Esquii-e,  and  died  on  the  29th  of  March,  1701,  and  is  interred 
in  her  father's  grave  in  Grantham  Chiu-ch. 


220  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1666 

I  must  confess  that  I  did  not  think  anything  would  occur  to  hinder 
the  proceeding.  You  see  in  Avhat  a  peck  of  troubles  I  am.  I  wish 
the  living  were  worth  your  acceptance ;  for  that  which  makes  me 
out  of  conceit  with  my  intended  purpose  should  also  in  all  reason 
remove  that  scruple  which  Mrs.  Foxcroft  and  myself  thought  so 
invincible  in  you.  I  pray  you  do  me  the  favour  to  send  me  your 
resolution  and  judgment  upon  the  whole  matter.  I  wish  the  living 
were  as  good  again,  but  it  is  in  all  likelihood  worth  six  score 
pounds  a  year.  Nor  can  it  be  any  disappointment  to  the  young 
man  that  he  is  declined  for  the  bringing  in  such  a  one  and  under 
such  circumstances  upon  the  late  disaster  at  London.  But  I  am 
afraid  I  bid  you  to  your  loss,  if  my  Lord  Brereton  does  intend  the 
same  bounty  he  mentioned  heretofore.  I  pray  think  of  it.  You 
may  easily  conceive  how  ambitious  I  am  to  have  you  in  our 
country,  though  if  you  did  but  make  use  of  this  place  till  a  better 
be  provided.  I  desire  to  hear  from  you  with  all  convenient  speed. 
You  easily  see  in  what  a  solicitude  I  am  about  the  settling  of  this 
affair  for  the  best.     T  am, 

Yours  to  serve  you, 
Ragley,  Sept.  18.  Hen.  More. 


Mr.  Fran.  Worthington}  in  a  Letter  to  his  brother  Dr.  Worthington, 

Sept.  21,  1666. 
—  Yours  I  received  yesternight  after  I  came  from  Brereton 
Green,  where  I  waited  upon  my  Lord.  He  sent  his 
man  with  me  to  see  the  house  you  are  to  come  to,  which 
is  a  very  commodious  house.  So  far  as  I  perceive,  he 
intends  his  coach,  if  he  have  timely  notice,  shall  meet 
you  at  Coventry.  My  Lord  is  a  real  friend  of  yours  you 
may  assure  yourself. — 

'  See,  as  to  Francis  Worthingtou,  vol.  i.  p.  23.  Ilis  name  frequently  occurs  in  New- 
come's  Autobiography.  He  died  September  8,  1668,  and  was  interred  in  the  Parish 
Church  of  Manchester,  as  was  also  his  wife,  Sarah,  who  was  the  daughter  of  Edward 
Byrom  of  Salford. 


1666]  OF  DR.  WORTHINGTON.  321 


Dr.  More  in  a  Letter  September  25,  1666. 
[To  Dr.  Worthington.] 
I  have  received  your  answer  to  mine,  though  not  so 
agreeable  as  I  hoped  for.  You  are  so  prone  to  raise 
objections  to  my  Lord  Brereton's  offer,  that  I  will  not 
suggest  any  to  you,  but  only  further  inform  you,  touch- 
ing my  own,  that  the  orchard  is  so  good  that  they  have 
made  £\0  of  the  fruit  of  it  in  a  year,  and  that  the  house 
is  a  very  pretty  house  (this  I  have  been  informed  of 
since  I  wrote  to  you  last)  ;  so  that  the  living  may  be 
worth  between  six  score  and  seven  score  pounds  a  year. 
If  you  were  settled  there,  I  should  come  and  reside  there 
in  a  manner,  all  the  time  of  lawful  discontinuance  from 
Christ's  College  —  I  mean  five  miles  from  thence,  at 
Grantham,  my  native  town.  If  you  do  not  rid  me  of 
this  anxiety  by  accepting  the  living,  I  shall  not  know 
how  to  bestow  the  care  of  so  many  souls  upon  a  young 
lad,  but  middle  bachelor.  I  hear  since  my  last  that  he 
is  not  passing  twenty-two,  and  therefore  want  of  age 
debars  him.  If  it  be  so  that  he  is  incapable,  I  suppose 
you  will  not  scruple.  I  pray  you  send  me  word  if  you 
think  it  worth  the  while  to  go  there  to  try  it.  My  Lord 
Brereton's  offer  you  may  be  free  to  at  any  time.  — 


[From  Dr.  Worthington's  Almanack.] 
Oct.  5,  1666.      I  with   my  family  came  from   Hackney  to  St. 

Albans.      Oct.  6.  To  Brickhill.     Oct.   7.   I  preached  at  Brickhill. 

Oct.  8.   We  came  to  Weedon.      Octob.  9.    To  Coventry.     Oct.  10. 

To  Lichfield.    Oct.  11.  To  Newcastle.    Oct.  13.  ToBreretonGreen. 

Laus  Deo. 

Oct.  26.     I  came  to  Manchester,'  my  native  town,  where  I  had 

'  His  previous  journey  to  Manchester  bad  been  in  1654.     He  remained  there  (see 
vol.  i.  p.  51)  from  August  1st  to  October  17th  in  that  year. 


222  DIARY  AND  CORllESPOx\DENCE  [1666 

not  been  of  twelve  years  before.  Oct.  28.  I  preached  at  Manchester 
twice.  Nov.  2.  I  returned  to  Brereton  Green.  Nov.  4.  I  preached 
at  Brereton.  Nov.  11.  I  preached  at  Hohnes  Chapel.  Nov.  13.  I 
went  with  my  wife  to  uncle  Charles  Whichcote's  house  at  Rostern. 
Nov.  14.  We  came  back  to  Brereton  Green.  Nov.  15.  Thence  to 
Stone.  Nov.  16.  To  Birmingham.  Nov.  17.  To  Ragley,  near 
Alcester  in  Warwickshire.  Nov.  25.  I  preached  in  the  forenoon 
and  in  the  afternoon  at  Alcester.  Nov.  26.  I  came  to  my  brother 
Orab''s  house  at  Alcester.  Nov.  28.  I  went  from  Alcester  to  Ayno. 
Nov.  29.  To  Wendover.     Nov.  30.  To  London. 


Di'.  Whichcotein  a  Letter  to  his  sister  Foxcrqft,  Nov.  21,  1666. 
—  T  pray  let  not  Dr.  More  otherwise  dispose  of  his  living,  for 
Dr.  Worthington  is  not  provided  for  where  he  is.  I 
thought  to  have  written  to  him  into  Cheshire  not  to  sit 
down  there  upon  an  uncertainty ;  but  now  I  shall  not 
write  thither,  because  I  suppose  he  will  be  with  you 
when  this  shall  come  to  hand.  He  now  knows  that 
that  in  Cheshire  is  arbitrary  and  uncertain.  Tell  him  it 
is  all  his  friends'  opinion  here  that  he  do  not  leave  a 

certainty  (as  Dr.  More's  is)  for  an  uncertainty 

I  write  not  to  him  into  Cheshire,  as  I  thought  to  do, 
because  you  write  you  have  sent  a  messenger  for  him. 

[Here  follows  in  the  MSS.  a  copy  of  the  presentation  by  Dr. 
Henry  More  of  Dr.  Worthington  to  the  Rectory  of  Ingoldsby,  in 
Lincolnshire,  dated  the  24th  of  November,  1666.] 


In  a  Letter  to  Mrs.  Worthington,  Alcester,  Nov.  27,  1666. 
[From  Dr.  Worthington.] 
—  I  have  been  kindly  and  nobly  entertained  at  Ragley.     T 
have  the  presentation  from  Dr.  More,  and  am  going  to 
dispatch  what  remains  at  London.  — 


1666]  OF  DR.  WORTHINGTON.  228 


In  a  Letter  to  Dr.  Evans,  Dec.  10,  1666. 
[From  Dr.  Worthington.] 
—  I  am  lately  come  to  London  in  order  to presen- 
tation to  Ingoldsby,  in  Lincolnshire,  and  have  dispatched 
the  business  with  the  Bishop  of  Lincoln.^  Dr.  More  is 
patron,  and  was  earnest  with  me  to  take  it^  wishing  it 
were  as  good  again.  My  family  is  in  Cheshire,  126 
miles  from  London — a  long  and  hard  journey  it  was  for 
us.  Things  there  are  not  so  as  I  expected.  My  friends 
wished  me  to  take  a  lesser  thing  rather  than  be  at  un- 
certainties, Mr.  Stonier  cannot  get  a  penny  of  my  great 
arrears. — 


[From  Dr.  Worthington's  Almanacks.] 
Dec.  9.     I  preached  at  the  Charter-house.      Dec.  14.  I  came  out 

of  London.   Dec.  15.  To  ^Ir.  Cater's  house,  at  Papworth.    Dec,  16. 

I  preached  at  Papworth  twice.     Dec.   17.    I  came  to  Stamford. 

Dec.  18.   To  Grantham. 

Dec.  21.  I  came  to  Ingoldsby,  and  took  possession  of  the  church. 

Dec.  23  and  25.  I  preached  at  Ingoldsby.     Dec.  26.  I  came  thence 

to  Bingham,  Nottinghamshire.     Dec.  27.  To  Derby.     Dec.  28.  To 

Leek,  in  Staffordshire.     Dec.  29.    To  Brereton  G-reen,  Cheshire. 

Laus  Deo.     Dec.  30.  I  preached  at  Holmes  Chapel. 

1666-7. 

Jan.  6  and  13.  I  preached  at  Holmes  Chapel.  Jan.  20.  I 
preached  at  Brereton  Green.  Jan.  27,  Feb.  3,  10,  17,  24.  I 
preached  at   Holmes  Chapel. 

Jan.  12,  1666-7.     On  this  Saturday  night,  about  twelve  o'clock, 

•  Dr.  Benjamin  Laney,  a  learned  and  loyal  divine,  who  had  attended  Charles  II.  in 
his  exile,  and  at  his  restoration  was  made  Bishop  of  Peterborough,  and  afterwards 
translated  to  Lincoln  and  ultimately  to  Ely.  He  died  in  1674.  He  is  now  principally 
remembered  as  a  writer  by  his  Observations  on  Hobbes's  Letter  on  Liberty  and  Ne- 
cessity, Lond.  1676,  12mo.     See  Wood's  Fasti,  vol.  i.  p.  375. 


224  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1666-7 

was  a  fire  in  Mr.  F.  C's^  bed.  His  cap  (a  napkin  about  his  head) 
was  in  part  burnt;  and  his  pillow,  bolster,  and  sheet  in  part.  He 
was  fast  asleep.  Our  maid  being  then  up  (which  was  unusual)  and 
sister  Hephzibah  Whichcote  smelt  the  fire,  found  our  hall  full  of 
smoke,  looked  into  one  part  of  the  house,  but  could  find  no  fire.  At 
last  they  knocked  at  Mr.  F.  C's  door  and  awakened  him,  who  was 
near  to  be  burnt  in  his  bed,  and  so  might  we  all  have  been  burnt. 
God  be  praised  for  his  preservation. 

March  3,  1666-7.  I  preached  at  Sandbach  twice.  March  10, 
17.  I  preached  at  Holmes  Chapel  twice.  INIarch  18.  I  went  with 
my  wife  to  Rostern.^  March  19.  We  came  to  Manchester.  March 
24.    I  preached  at  Manchester,  and  in  the  afternoon  at  Prestwich. 


In  a  Letter  to  Dr.  Evans,  Feb.  25,  1666-7. 
[From  Dr.  Worthington.] 
—  I  have  here  met  (among  Mr.  Hartlib's  papers,  in  my  Lord 
Brereton"'s  study)  with  two  epistles  of  Grotius^  to  Crel- 
lius,*  and  two  letters^  of  Des  Cartes,  the  one  about  Lord 

1  Probably  Mr.  Francis  Chobnondeley,  mentioned  in  tlie  next  letter. 

"  To  his  wife's  uncle,  Charles  Whichcote,  who  lived  there.  Another  of  her  uncles, 
Sir  Jeremy  Whichcote,  was  connected  through  his  wife  with  the  Breretons  of  Nant- 
wich.  Adam  Martindale,  whose  name  the  mention  of  Eosthern  naturally  suggests, 
and  who  was  well  known  to  Worthington,  was  now  an  ejected  minister,  teaching  the 
mathematics  at  Manchester.     (See  his  Life,  ann.  1667.) 

^  It  does  not  appear  whether  these  two  letters  have  been  printed.  There  are  three 
to  Crellius  in  Grotius's  collected  "Epistolse"  (Ams.  1687,  folio),  the  first  of  which 
(p.  104)  is  that  memorable  one  in  which  he  takes  his  Socinian  adversary  by  the 
hand,  cordially  observing,  "  Bene  de  me  judicas  non  esse  me  eorum  in  numero,  qui 
ob  sententias,  salva  pietate,  dissentientes,  alieno  a  quoquam  sim  animo  aut  boni 
alicujus  amicitiam  repudiem."  The  whole  letter  is  a  fine  specimen  of  his  tolerant 
and  Christian  feeling. 

■*  Of  this  famous  Socinian  writer,  the  biography  prefixed  to  his  works  (Eleutherop. 
1656,  four  volumes  folio)  gives  the  leading  particulars  of  his  life,  and  the  notice  in 
Bock  (Hist.  Antitrinitariorum,  Regiomont.  1774,  vol.  i.  p.  116),  affords  additional 
information  as  to  the  points  of  it  and  his  various  publications.  He  was  born  in 
Franconia  in  1590,  and  died  at  Eacow,  where  ho  had  been  appointed  Greek  Professor 
and  Rector  of  the  University,  in  1633,  having  only  attained  to  the  age  of  forty-three. 


1666-7]  OF   DR.   WOllTHINGTON.  225 

Herbert's  book,  De  Veritate,  the  other  (and  larger)  about 
Comenius''s^  pansophical  treatise.  I  lately  met  with  a  very 
studious  and  ingenious  gentleman,  Mr.  Fr.  Cholmley,^ 
who  said  he  kept  two  Lents  with  Dr.  Brown  beyond  sea. 
As  for  the  place  you  wrote  of  with  some  gust  in  October 
last,  you  wish  me  to  inquire  no  further,  nor  shall  I. 
What  made  a  place  so  situate  more  inviting  was  said  in 
former  letters.     I  never  perceived  so  much  pleasure  in 

That  there  is  much  that  is  good  in  his  Commentaries  on  the  Scriptures  may  readily  be 
granted ;  but  it  is,  unfortunately,  so  mixed  up  with  what  is  imsound,  sophistical,  and 
contrary  to  the  laws  of  logical  and  just  interpretation,  as  to  render  them,  considered 
as  a  whole,  of  little  value.  His  Eesponsio  ad  Librum  H.  Grotii  de  satisfactione 
Christi,  Eacow,  1623,  4to,  in  which  he  answers  Grotius's  book  against  Socinus,  is 
written  with  a  degree  of  learning,  temper,  and  modesty  worthy  of  a  better  cause. 

^  These  two  letters  are  probably  stdl  unpublished,  as  I  do  not  find  them  in  the 
Latin  edition  of  the  collected  Correspondence  of  Des  Cartes  (Francof.  1669,  three 
volumes  4to) ;  but  his  opinion  of  Lord  Herbert's  book  will  be  found  on  consulting 
the  French  edition  of  his  works  (vol.  viii.  pp.  138,  168).  He  thinks  the  treatise  De 
Yeritate  contains  many  excellent  things,  sed  non  publici  saporis,  and  speaks  with 
much  respect  of  it,  though  he  professes  himself  unable  to  embrace  the  principles 
which  it  lays  down.  On  the  subject  of  this  book,  it  is  worth  while  to  read  the  letter 
of  Gassendi,  to  whom  Lord  Herbert  had  forwarded  a  copy  (Gassendi  Opera,  vol.  iii. 
p.  411),  in  which  he  examines,  with  great  fairness  and  justice,  the  paradoxical  sen- 
timents of  the  noble  author,  which  were  afterwards  more  clearly  stated  and  more 
boldly  put  forward  in  his  subsequent  treatise,  "De  Eeligione  Gentilium."  "With 
respect  to  Lord  Herbert  himself,  it  is  only  necessary  to  refer  to  his  own  delightful 
autobiography,  which  has  been  printed,  since  it  first  appeared  from  the  Strawberry 
Hill  press,  in  various  forms,  and  to  the  several  notices  of  him  in  the  different  bio- 
graphical collections.  Mr,  Hallam  has  devoted  more  space  to  him  than  is  usual  with 
him  in  his  review  of  the  literature  of  the  time  (Literature  of  the  Fifteenth,  Sixteenth, 
and  Seventeenth  Centuries,  vol.  ii.  p.  380),  and  concludes  his  examination  of  the 
treatise  De  Yeritate  by  remarking,  "  If  it  is  not  as  an  entire  work  very  successful,  or 
founded  always  upon  principles  which  have  stood  the  test  of  severe  reflection,  it  is 
stLU  a  monument  of  an  original,  independent  thinker,  without  rhapsodies  of  imagina- 
tion, without  pedantic  technicalities,  and,  above  all,  bearing  witness  to  a  sincere  love 
of  the  truth  he  sought  to  apprehend." 

'  His  Pansophise  Diatyposis,  for  an  account  of  which  see  vol.  i.  p.  174.  It  is  only 
a  sort  of  prospectus  of  the  larger  work  he  contemplated. 

-  Francis  Cholmondeley,  sixth  son  of  Thomas  Cholmondeley,  of  Yale  Royal,  Esq. 
He  was  baptized  Jan.  10,  1635-6,  and  died  at  Yale  Royal,  and  was  buried  at  Minshull, 
Oct.  6,  1713. 

VOL,  II.  G  G 


226  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1666-7 

Buckinghamshire  as  in  my  last  coming  through  it  to 
London.  If  the  thing  had  been  vacant  about  the  time 
you  wrote,  I  would  have  compared  that  in  Lincolnshire 
and  this  together,  and  would  have  wished  that  Dr. 
Spearing  might  be  provided  of  one. — 


For  my  worthy  and  much  honoured  friend  Dr.  John  fVorthington. 
[From  Bishop  Ward.] 
Worthy  sir,  my  much  honoured  friend, 

I  received  your  letter  (dated  March  9)  by  the  hand  of  Dr. 
Spearing,  and  heartily  thank  you,  not  only  for  the  kindness  therein 
showed  to  myself,  wherein  you  have  very  much  obHged  me  in  a  per- 
sonal way,  but  also  for  the  pains  which  you  are  always  taking  for 
the  advancement  of  the  common  stock  of  learning,  to  which  although 
I  wish  as  well  as  other  men,  yet  I  must  acknowledge  myself  to  be 
very  unserviceable. 

I  am  very  glad  that  the  papers  of  Mr.  Hartlib  are  preserved,  and 
that  they  are  fallen  into  your  hands,  who  are  able  and  disposed  to 
make  the  best  of  them.  I  was  not  unacquainted  with  that  good 
man,  who  by  his  great  and  unwearied  zeal  for  learning,  and  by  his 
correspondence  with  persons  eminent  in  the  several  ways  of  it,  be- 
came very  serviceable  to  the  general  propagation  of  it ;  and  whatever 
his  works  were,  which  were  very  laudable,  certainly  it  cannot  be  but 
his  papers  must  be  considerable.  I  mean  those  papers  which  pro- 
ceeded from  the  authors  whom  your  letter  mentions,  and  not  those 
letters  of  mine  own  which  concerned  either  Hevelius  or  M creator, 
which  although  I  have  forgotten,  yet  so  much  I  am  sure  of  that  they 
were  carelessly  and  perfunctorily  written  (or  else,  indeed,  they  had 
not  been  mine),  so  that  it  will  be  to  my  advantage  to  suppress  them. 
However,  sir,  I  leave  them  wholly  to  your  disposal,  either  to  bring 
them  to  mc,  when  I  may  have  the  happiness  to  see  you,  or  to  burn 
them,  or  leave  them  among  the  rest ;   that  is  to  say,  I  have  no  con- 


1666-7]  OF   DR.  WORTHIXGTON.  227 

siJerable  regard  to  any  interest  of  mine  in  them,  but  leave  them  to 
themselves,  not  being  able  to  judge  of  them,  being  long  since  sHpt 
both  out  of  my  hands  and  out  of  my  memory. 

As  for  your  own  affairs,  I  bless  God  that  they  are  so  well  as  they 
are,  though  far  short  of  your  deserts  and  my  wishes.  I  do  not  find 
that  Dr.  Wilkins  likes  his  benefice  near  Oundle  so  well  as  you  do 
yours  near  Grantham,  I  wish  and  hope  that  you  will  both  be 
accommodated  more  to  the  public  benefit  than  you  yet  are,  and  I 
assure  you  that  if  I  had  opportunity  I  should  think  myself  obliged 
to  do  my  best  endeavour  to  that  purpose.  Some  comfort  it  is  to  me 
that  my  disability  is  not  unknown  to  my  friends,  and  that  the  less 
power  1  have  the  less  of  misemploy ment  will  (1  hope)  be  laid  to  my 
charge.  If  this  place  afford  anything  of  news,  I  presume  you  will 
receive  it  from  other  hands ;  too  many  of  our  friends  and  brethren 
being  at  leisure  for  that  employment.  I  can  only  thank  you  (which 
I  assure  you  I  do  most  heartily)  for  your  kindness  to  me,  which  far 
exceeds  what  I  have  been  able  to  deserve  at  your  hands,  and  entreat 
you  to  be  assured  that  I  shall  upon  all  occasions  offered  endeavour  to 
acquit  myself  as 

Your  affectionate  brother  and  servant, 

Westminster,  March  15,  1666-7.  Seth  Exon. 

1667. 
[From  Dr.  Worthington's  Almanack.] 

March  25,  1667.  We  came  from  Manchester  to  Rostern.  March 
26.  To  Brereton  Green.     Laus  Deo. 

March  31.     I  preached  at  Holmes  Chapel  twice, 

April  1.     I  went  from  Brereton  Green. 

April  5, 1667.  I  came  to  Ingoldsby,  in  Lincolnshire,  and  preached, 
being  Good  Friday.  April  9.  I  came  out  of  Lincolnshire.  April 
11.  Came  to  Brereton  Green.  Laus  Deo.  April  14, 1667.  I,  with 
my  family,  came  away  from  Brereton  Green,  and  came  to  Newcastle. 
April  20.  We  came  to  Uttoxeter.  April  21.  I  preached  there. 
April  22.  We  came  to  Derby.  April  23.  To  Nottingham.  April 
24.  To  Grantham.     April  25.  To  Ingoldsby  in  safety.      Laus  Deo. 


228  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [16G7 


[In  a  Letter  to  Mrs.  Foxcrqft,  anno  1670-1. 
[From  Dr.  Worthington.] 
Nothing  did  or  could  more  induce  me  to  that  northern 
journey  I  took  in  the  year  1660  hut  that  I  was  told  by 
one  ^  that  he  did  exceedingly  affect  and  would  begin  such 
a  design  of  Christian  societies  if  I  would  remove  thither. 
And  if  I  would  take  pains  there  and  preach  sometimes 
abroad,  he  would  allow  me  a  competency  a  year;  which 
if  he  had  performed,  I  should  not  have  returned  to  any 
parochial  employment  how  tempting  soever  ;  but  I  found 
t;hat  to  be  true  which  I  had  objected  oftentimes  before, 
and  so  long  that  he  was  troubled  not  a  little  that  I  should 
doubt  he  was  not  in  a  capacity.  I  found  he  had  not  got 
through  those  difficulties  he  was  encumbered  w'ith,  nor 
was  like  to  do  it  so  soon  as  he  promised  himself.  And 
so  I  saw  that  there  was  estate  little  enough  for  his  neces- 
sary occasions  and  family.  Otherwise  if  it  had  been  so 
plentiful  as  he  said  it  was,  or  would  be  shortly,  I  should 
have  endeavoured  to  have  deserved  the  proportion  offered 
me,  by  being  serviceable  to  those  religious  purposes 
designed  according  to  my  poor  abilities. — ] 


Dr.  ffTiichcote,  in  a  Letter,  May  14,  1667. 
[To  Dr.  Worthington.] 
I  have  received  yours  of  May  3rd,  and  am  glad  that  you 
are  at  length  come  to  that  which  is  your  own  —  a  cer- 
tainty and  legal  settlement.     Other  things,  as  the  world 
goes,  are  but  imaginary,  ijisignificant.     This  you  may 
hold  (as  a  place  of  being  in  this  world,  and  some  oppor- 
tunity of  service)  till  you  see  true  cause  and  reason  to 
remove.     If  there  be  not  as  good  advantages  for  converse 
as  you  may  desire,  it  may  be  in  part  supplied  by  journeys 
'  Lord  Brercton. 


1667]  OF  DR.  WORTHINGTOX.  229 

abroad,  excursions,  and  temporary  absence.  I  have  seen 
your  books  at  Ditton,  in  the  granary;  they  are  safe,  and 
undertaken  to  be  so  continued.  Bishop  Wren^  was  in- 
terred last  Saturday,  in  the  vault  by  himself  prepared  in 
his  new  chapel  in  Pembroke  Hall.  Dr.  Pearson  made  a 
speech.  Regents  and  non-regents  had  sugar  boxes.  I 
have,  since  Michaelmas  last,  married  away  three  of  my 
four  servants,  and  the  fourth  is  upon  the  point  of  being 
married.    This  trade  goes  on  though  all  others  at  a  stand. 


In  a  Letter  to  Dr.  Evans,  May  6,  1G67. 
[From  Dr.  Worthington.] 
—  On  April  19th  I  removed  from  Cheshire  with  my  family 
and  goods.  On  the  25th  we  came  safe  (through  God's 
mercy)  to  Ingoldsby.  The  two  first  days  of  our  journey 
were  fair  and  warm,  the  others  were  cold,  and  not  with- 
out rain  and  wind.  You  desire  to  know  the  true  value 
of  Ingoldsby  (because  it  has  been  dilFereutly  represented). 
In  short  it  is  thus  (as  I  have  told  some  that  have  in- 
quired) :  —  There  is  four  score  and  ten  pounds  paid  in 
money  by  the  parishioners  for  the  tithes,  and  thirty 
pounds  more  for  the  glebe  by  the  tenant.  I  have  given 
the  widow  of  my  predecessor  all  till  Lady  Day  last.  I 
shall  receive  nothing  till  Michaelmas.  I  have  no  hopes 
of  recovering  my  losses  at  Ditton. — 


In  a  Letter  to  Dr.  Ingelo,  June  10,  1667. 
[From  Dr.  Worthington.] 
—  I  removed  out  of  Cheshire  about  the  end  of  April,  and 
through  Staffordshire^  Derbyshire,  Nottinghamshire,  to 
this  place  in  Lincolnshire  we  came  safe,  through  God's 
>  He  died  at  Ely  House,  April  24,  1667.     See  vol.  i.  p.  25. 


230  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1667 

mercy,  which  was  the  second  of  my  great  removes.  In 
this  tedious  journeying^  with  our  httle  ones,  our  goods, 
(fee,  I  could  not  but  sometimes  think  that  there  was  a 
httle  imitation  of  the  pilgrim-condition  of  some  of  the 
old  patriarchs  recorded  by  Moses.  And  though  my 
latter  years  have  had  something  of  the  pilgrim  state,  yet 
I  have  had  cause  to  acknowledge  some  merciful  designs 
of  providence  therein.  At  my  late  being  in  Cheshire  I 
met  with  two  trunks  full  of  Mr.  Hartlib's  papers,^  which 
my  Lord  Brereton  purchased.  I  thought  they  had 
been  put  in  order,  but  finding  it  otherwise,  I  took  them 
out,  bestrewed  a  great  chamber  with  them,  put  them 
into  order  in  several  bundles,  and  some  papers  I  met 
with  not  unworthy  of  your  sight.  Here  in  Lincolnshire 
I  met  with  one  to  whom  Mr.  Crashaw^  delivered  (before 
his  going  away)  his  poems,  writ  with  his  own  hand.     I 

^  When  we  consider  the  difEculty  Worthmgton  must  have  had  in  removing  his 
family,  furniture,  &c.,  first  into  Cheshire  and  after  into  Lincolnshire,  the  bad  roads, 
slow  conveyances,  and,  perhaps,  danger  of  highwaymen,  which  he  had  to  encounter, 
we  may  surely  felicitate  ourselves  on  living  in  the  days  of  railways. 

^  Are  these  valuable  papers  now  in  existence  ?  Perhaps  their  fate  may  yet  be  ascer- 
tained by  persevering  inquiry. 

'"  Richard  Crashaw,  the  poet.  The  date  of  his  birth  does  not  appear  to  be  known. 
He  was  elected  a  Scholar  of  Pembroke  Hall,  Cambridge,  March  26, 1632,  from  whence, 
in  November,  1636,  he  removed  to  Peterhouse,  of  which  the  next  year  he  became 
Fellow.  On  the  8th  April,  16i4,  he  was  ejected  from  his  fellowship  by  the  Parliamen- 
tary Visitors.  Hard  it  must  have  been  for  him  to  leave  his  "nest,"  where,  "in  the 
temple  of  God,  under  his  wing,  he  led  his  life  in  St.  Mary's  Church,  near  to  St.  Peter's 
College,  under  TertuUian's  roof  of  angels,"  and  to  be  thrown  upon  the  wide  world. 
We  next  hear  of  him  from  Cowley,  then  Secretary  to  Lord  Jermyn,  who  found  him 
in  1646  at  Paris  and  in  great  poverty,  and  is  said  to  have  assisted  him  with  his  purse. 
From  Cowley,  or  some  other  quarter,  he  obtained  an  introduction  to  the  queen  of 
Charles  I.,  and,  having  now  gone  over  to  the  Roman  Catholic  religion,  proceeded  to 
Italy  with  letters  of  recommendation  from  her.  The  period  of  his  death,  which  was 
certainly  before  1652,  is  not  known,  but  we  have  the  following  account  of  his  employ- 
ment in  Italy  and  the  close  of  his  life,  from  Dr.  John  Bargrave,  his  fellow  collegian 
at  Peterhouse  :  "  When  I  first  went  of  my  four  times  to  Rome,  there  were  three  or 
four  rcvolters  to  the  Roman  Church  that  had  been  Fellows  of  Peterhouse,  in  Cam- 
bridge, with  myself  The  name  of  one  of  them  was  Mr.  R.  Crashaw,  who  was  of  the 
Sequita  (as  their  term  is),  that  is,  an  attendant  or  one  of  the  followers  of  Cardinal 


1667]  OF   DR.   WORTHINGTON.  231 

know  not  where  to  procure  the  second,  which  is  the  best 
edition  of  his  poems  here  ;  and  I  gave  away  my  own. 
If  you  could  send  down  one  or  two  from  London,  with 
some  white  leaves  added,  I  could  both  correct  the  printed 
ones  by  the  original,  and  add  those  not  yet  printed.  I 
received  lately  a  letter  from  Mr.  Newburgh  to  know 
what  was  done  with  Desiderius,  about  which  he  bestowed 

Palotta,  for  which  he  had  a  salary  of  crowns  by  the  month  (as  their  custom  is),  but 
no  diet.  Mr.  Crashaw  infinitely  commended  his  Cardinal,  but  complained  extremely 
of  the  wickedness  of  those  of  his  retiaue,  of  which  he,  having  the  Cardinal's  ear,  com- 
plained to  him ;  upon  which  the  Italians  fell  so  far  out  with  him  that  the  Cardinal, 
to  secure  his  life,  was  fain  to  put  him  from  his  serrice,  and  procuring  him  some  small 
employ  at  the  Lady's  of  Loretto,  whither  he  went  in  pilgrimage  in  the  summer  time, 
and  overheating  himself  died  in  a  few  weeks  after  he  came  thither,  and  it  was  doubtful 
whether  he  was  not  poisoned."  For  a  fuller  account  of  Crashaw,  the  notice  contri- 
buted by  Hayley  to  Kippis's  Biographia  Britannica  and  Jlr.  WiUmott's  biography  of 
him  in  his  very  pleasing  "Lives  of  Sacred  Poets"  may  be  referred  to  (vol.  i.  pp. 
295-325).  Cowley's  address  to  him,  whenever  he  is  spoken  of,  vriU  be  recollected: 
"Poet  and  saint!     To  thee  alone  are  given 

The  two  most  sacred  names  of  earth  and  heaven. 

The  hard  and  rarest  union  which  can  be, 

'Next  that  of  Godhead  with  humanity. 

Long  did  the  Muses  banish'd  slaves  abide, 

And  built  their  pyramids  to  human  pride  ; 

Like  Moses  thou,  though  spells  and  charms  withstand. 

Hast  brought  them  nobly  back  to  their  Holy  Land." 
Xor  will  the  pitiful  criticism  of  Pope  be  forgotten  (Works  by  Roscoe,  edit.  1824, 
vol.  viii.  p.  165),  who  might  almost  be  describing  his  own  poetry,  he  is  certainly  not 
describing  Crashaw,  when  he  observes,  "  pretty  conceptions,  fine  metaphors,  glittering 
expressions,  and  something  of  a  neat  cast  of  verse  (which  are  properly  the  dress,  gems, 
or  loose  ornaments  of  poetry),  may  be  found  in  these  verses."  Tielding  to  none  in 
admiration  of  the  great  poet  whose  criticism  is  referred  to,  there  are  yet  very  many 
parts  of  his  own  works,  which,  taking  an  equal  number  of  verses  in  succession,  I  should 
be  perfectly  wdling  to  give  up,  rather  than  lose  such  an  exquisite  specimen  of  rhythm 
and  command  of  language  as  "  Musick's  Duel ;"  and  there  are  passages  in  Crashaw's 
translation  of  the  Sospetto  d'  Herode,  from  Marino,  which  have  never  been  surpassed 
by  any  poet.  Whether  the  manuscript  of  Crashaw's  Poems,  to  which  Dr.Worthington 
refers,  now  exists,  does  not  appear,  but  it  is  certain  that  the  additions  and  alterations 
in  it  were  not  made  use  of  in  the  subsequent  edition  of  1670.  The  edition  for  which 
Dr.  Worthington  inquires  is,  most  likely,  that  of  1648-9.  As  a  contemporary  of 
Worthingtou's  at  Cambridge,  he  would  take  an  interest  in  Crashaw  personally,  inde- 
pendently of  that  which  he  always  felt  in  fine  devotional  poetry. 


232  DIARY   AND   CORRESPONDENCE  [1667 

his  pains,  which  he  desired  might  be  revised  by  some 
friend.  I  would  fain  (beside  other  reasons  of  publishing 
it)  make  an  advantage  of  it  to  make  her  that  hath  Mr. 
Ferrar's^  MSS.  to  a  readiness^  to  communicate  some  of 
them  for  the  public  good.  In  this  solitude  where  I  am, 
I  could  desire  to  hear  what  useful  books  are  lately  come 
abroad,  or  are  in  preparation  for  the  press.  I  hear  no- 
thing here  of  such  matters,  and  my  mind  is  still  running 
about  such  inquiries  as  I  want  to  make  elsewhere.  I 
suppose  Dr.  Evans  has  said  as  much  (or  more)  to  you  as 
he  has  writ  to  me,  too  tedious  to  write.  If  that  place  be 
worth  no  more  than  he  wrote,  and  it  be  a  dear  place  to 
live  in  (as  most  places  are  at  that  distance  from  London, 
more  than  the  nearer  or  farther  off),  it  would  have  been 
hard  to  live  upon  it  barely.  Where  I  am  things  are 
cheaper,  and  the  place  is  healthy,  the  people  is  of  good  dis- 
position, the  glebe  60  acres,  there  is  a  fair  large  orchard, 
and  the  whole  I  should  like  better  if  nearer  to  my  ancient 
friends  and  books,  and  near  Oxford,  as  Hitcham  and  other 
places  in  Buckinghamshire,  which  seemed  to  me  a  very 
pleasant  county,  though  when  I  saw  it  it  was  in  the  last 
winter,  when  I  came  out  of  Warwickshire.  One  wrote 
to  me  about  exchanging  another  place  for  this,  but  when 
I  further  understood  some  circumstances  which  I  never 
cared  to  meddle  with,  I  did  forbear  to  write  to  my  patron 
about  it,  w^ho,  I  think,  would  not  be  backward  in  his 
assent,  in  order  to  my  being  so  disposed  as  that  I  might 
be  more  publicly  serviceable,  according  to  those  inclina- 
tions which  have  been  for  some  time  in  me.  Others  are 
for  other  cares  and  solicitudes,  and  look  no  further  than 

*  "  A  catalogue  of  the  MSS.  (once)  at  Gidding,"  is  given  by  Peckard  in  liis  Life  of 
Nicolas  Ferrar,  of  Little  Giddinrj  (1790,  8vo.  p.  306).  In  this  the  third  article  is 
"  Lives,  Characters,  llistorics,  and  Tales,  for  Moral  and  Religious  Insti'uction,  in  five 
volumes,  folio,  neatly  bound  and  gilt,  by  Mary  Collet,"  who  is  probably  tlie  person 
referred  to  by  Worthington.  In  that  valuable  auxiliary  to  all  who  are  engaged  in 
literary  research,  "  Notes  and  Queries,"  will  be  found  many  communications  as  to  the 
Ferrar  MSS.     (See  particularly  vol.  ii.  pp.  119,  444',  and  vol.  iii.  p.  12.) 


1667]  OF  Dli.  WOKTHINGTON.  233 

what  is  expected  from  a  country  cure.*  Non  omnibus 
idem  est  quod  placet. 
As  for  those  religious  societies  or  *  fraternities,  the  end 
whereof  should  be  the  celebration  of  the  praises  of  the 
Most  High,  and  which  should  be  designed  (as  the 
Pythagorean  were)  et9  ©eoKparlav  riva  koX  tt;^  7rpo9 
©eov  evcoaLV,  though  I  desire  them  no  less  than  when  I 
heretofore  spoke  of  them,  yet  I  begin  more  to  think  they 
are  very  precious  and  rare  and  hard  to  meet  with,  too 
many  being  at  a  further  distance  from  such  a  spirit  and 
life  through  the  various  temptations  of  the  world. — 


In  a  Letter  to  Dr.  More,  June  15,  1667. 
[From  Dr.  Worthington.] 
—  I  am  glad  that  the  rub  is  taken  out  of  the  way  about  your 
Enchiridion.  I  suppose  it  is  to  be  done  at  Flesher's, 
in  London,  not  in  so  little  a  print  as  your  Letters  to  Des 
Cartes  and  Epistola  ad  V.  0.,  nor  in  so  great  a  print 
as  your  other  books,  &lc. — 


[From  Dr.  Worthington's  Almanack.] 

April  28,  May  5,  19,  26,  June  2,  9,  16,  I  preached  at  Ingoldsby. 

June  19,  I  came  to  Cambridge,  and  lay  at  Christ's  College.  June 
28.  I  preached  at  Milton.  June  25.  Two  waggons  of  my  books 
and  goods  came  out  of  Cambridge,  June  27.  I  came  out  of  Cam- 
bridge,    June  29,  I  came  to  Ingoldsby.     Laus  Deo. 

June  30,  July  7,  14,  21,  28.     I  preached  at  Ingoldsby. 

Aug.  2,  1667.  My  wife  was  delivered  of  a  daughter,  about  seven 
o'clock  this  morning,  who  was  baptized  and  named  Mary  on  Aug,  9, 
Aug.  4,  I  preached  at  Ingoldsby, 

'  This  was  not  the  case  with  Worthington,  to  whom,  familiarized  to  an  university- 
life,  the  advantages  of  libraries  and  the  conversation  of  scholars  had  now  become  a 
necessity  of  his  nature. 

VOL.  II.  H  H 


234  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1667 

Aug.  8,  1667.  This  day  (about  a  quarter  of  an  hour  past  eleven) 
my  dear  wife,  Mary  Worthington,  departed  this  life.  Aug.  9. 
Friday,  she  was  buried.  Mr.  Lodington,  of  Lenton,  preached  the 
funeral  sermon.  The  day  that  my  wife  died,  Aug.  8,  my  son  John 
fell  sick  of  the  distemper  (ague  or  fever).  He  was  very  sick,  and 
Bometimes  we  feared  him,  but  upon  Aug.  19  vve  began  to  have  hopes 
of  his  recovery. 


For  his  honoured  uncle,  Dr.   Whichcote,  at  Dr.   Cudworth's, 

in  Chrisfs  College,   Cambridge. 

[From  Di\  Worthington.] 

Honoured  uncle,  Ingoldsby,  Aug.  10,  1667. 

The  last  Saturday  I  sent  you  the  gladsome  news  of  my 
wife  being  delivered  of  a  daughter  on  Friday,  Aug.  2nd,  about  seven 
in  the  morning.  This  morning''s  paper  is  the  sad  messenger  of  her 
decease.  On  Thursday,  Aug.  8,  about  eleven  o'clock,  it  pleased 
God  to  take  her  out  of  this  evil  world  (out  of  this  toilsome  life  as 
she  called  it)  to  a  better  place  and  state.  It  was  not  long  after  that 
I  had  been  gone  out  of  her  chamber,  to  recommend  her  condition  by 
prayer  unto  Him  that  is  only  able  to  save  and  deliver,  and  to  visit 
my  son  who  fell  sick  that  morning  of  the  new  distemper,  but  one 
comes  to  me  and  brings  the  sad  message  that  she  was  departed  this 
life.  She  was  sooner  gone  than  they  thought,  and  expired  like  a 
young  child.  Nor  did  1  ever  hear  her  complain,  in  any  murmuring 
or  unbecoming  way,  when  her  pain  was  most  grievous. — 

/  will  bear  the  indignation  of  the  Lord,  for  I  have  sinned  against 
him ;  I  acknowledge  and  adore  thy  justice  and  thy  7'ighteous  disposal, 
O  Lord. 

I  fear  I  was  not  so  thankful  for  her  as  I  ought,  nor  did  1  so  wor- 
thily resent  and  improve  all  the  mercies  and  advantages  which  I  and 
my  family  enjoyed  whilst  God  continued  her  with  us.  It  was  his 
great  mercy  to  me  that  he  lent  her  me  so  long  as  he  did,  ten  years  it 
would  have  been  on  Oct.  13th  if  she  had  lived. 

This  is  a  rude  and  confused  account  of  her  last  sickness,  wherein 


1667]  OF   DR.   WORTHINGTOX.  235 

God  cut  her  off  in  the  flower  of  her  age,  being  twenty-seven  years 
old  and  twelve  days.     Young  she  was,  but  matura  coelo. 

My  next  care  was  for  her  decent  interment.  She  died  a  little 
after  eleven  o'clock,  on  Thursday,  Aug.  8,  and   I  would   have  kept 

her  till  Saturday,  but  it  could  not  be About  five  o'clock  on 

Friday,  she  was  carried  to  church  to  her  grave.  Mr.  Lodington, 
my  next  neighbour  minister,  a  serious  sober  man  (and  one  that  I 
have  found  a  friendly  person),  I  easily  persuaded  to  preach  at  her 
funeral,  and  to  bury  her.  Sir  ^lichael  Armyn  and  his  lady,  who 
bore  a  good  respect  to  her,  with  some  gentlewomen  from  their  house, 
I  invited.  The  people  of  the  town  use  to  come  on  such  occasions 
without  invitation.  I  knew  I  owed  a  more  than  ordinary  respect, 
and  therefore  provided  such  entertainment  for  the  guests,  as  was 
more  than  ordinary  upon  such  solemnities ;  besides  bread  for  the  nu- 
merous poor  that  came  from  the  towns  adjoining,  there  was  wine, 
and  cakes  and  bread  above  what  was  used.  I  have  deposited  my 
best  jewel  in  the  middle  of  Ingoldsby  chancel.  I  thought  it  better 
to  have  her  buried  as  soon  as  we  came  to  church,  before  sermon. 
I  thought  it  would  be  inconvenient  to  have  the  corpse  stand  all  the 
while  in  the  midst  of  the  church. 

After  sermon  our  little  one  (her  late  offspring)  was  baptized.  The 
women  wished  it  might  be  so ;  and  so  it  hath  been  done  in  this 
country.  I  advised  she  might  be  named  Mary,  after  her  mother. 
God  make  her  like  her  mother  in  the  best  things,  as  she  is  in  her 
little  age  not  unlike  her 

She  was  religiously  brought  up,  and  lived  accordingly.  She  was 
a  follower  of  Christ  in  benignity  and  nobleness  of  spirit,  in  humility, 
self-denial,  and  patience,  in  readiness  to  do  good,  with  a  particular 
care  and  delight  to  do  good  to  the  poor.  She  was  constant,  reverent, 
and  serious  in  the  duties  of  religion,  conscientiously  strict  in  her  life, 
but  without  any  superstitious  scrupulosities  ;  humble  towards  men, 
profoundly  humble  towards  God,  in  the  sense  of  her  own  unwor- 
thiness,  from  the  sense  of  which  she  would  often  weep  to  me.  She 
was  affable,  courteous,  and  pitiful ;  of  a  free  spirit  (but  provident), 
abhorred  what  was  sordid.^ 

1  Every  line  tells  its  own  tale  in  this  impressive  sketch. 


336  DIAKY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1667 

[  Upon  a  fair  large  stone  in  the  middle  of  Ingoldsby  chancel : 

Here  lieth  the  body 

OF  Mrs. 
Mary  Worthington, 

The  wife  of  Dr. 

John  Worthington, 

Rector  of  this 

Church. 

She  deceased  on 

Aug.  8,  1667. 

Phil.  1,  21. 

To  Die  is  Gain.  ] 


To  the  Archbishop  of  Canterbury. 
[From  Dr.  Worthington.] 
May  it  please  your  Grace, 

Being  encouraged  by  your  Grace's  kind  aspects  and  favour 
to  me  upon  all  occasions  of  my  waiting  upon  your  Grace,  and  your 
Grace  professing  a  readiness  to  help  me  when  I  could  hear  of  any 
desirable  accommodation,  I  am  emboldened  at  this  time  to  acquaint 
your  Grace  that  I  received  very  lately  the  notice  of  Mr.  R.  Her- 
rick  [Heyrick^]  Warden  of  Manchester,  his  dangerous  sickness,  with 
a  desire  from  some  worthy  characters  that  1  would  look  after  the  place. 

'  A  very  full  account  of  the  life  of  Richard  Heyrick,  Warden  of  Manchester  College 
from  1635  to  his  death  in  August,  1667,  is  given  by  Dr.  Hibbert  Ware  in  his  History 
of  the  Manchester  Foundations,  and  a  condensed  notice  of  him  will  be  met  with  in  a 
note  to  the  Life  of  Adam  Martindale,  pp.  56-7.  His  last  illness  is  referred  to  in  New- 
come's  Autobiography,  vol.  i.  p.  167.  The  general  result,  on  an  impartial  considera- 
tion of  Heyrick's  Wardcnship  and  character,  is  perhaps  not  very  favourable.  He  had 
the  office  given  to  him  to  extinguish  an  old  debt  due  from  the  Crown,  and  he  ulti- 
mately kept  his  place  in  it  by  defiance  of  the  law.  He  was  certainly  a  remarkable 
man  and  conspicuous  for  the  energy  with  which  he  prosecuted  every  object  which 
he  sought  for  the  time  being  to  advance ;  but  I  must  confess  that  I  entertain  con- 
siderable doubt  whether  all  the  features  in  Dr.  Hibbert  Ware's  portrait  of  him 
are  drawn  from  the  life.  I  think  that  he  exaggerates  Heyrick's  bias  to  the  ordi- 
nances of  the  Church  of  England,  as,  not  only  on  the  point  of  episcopacy,  but  on 


1667]  OF   DR.  "WORTHIXGTON.  237 

That  which  commends  this  place^  to  me  is  that  Manchester  is  my 
native  town,  where  I  was  born  and  brought  up.  My  father^  (who 
died  many  years  since)  was  a  grave,  peaceable,  honest  man,  one  of 
chief  note  and  esteem  in  the  town  ;  a  diligent  caller  of  me  up  to  the 
early  prayers  in  the  church  before  1  went  to  school.^ 

many  others,  he  appears  to  hare  been  a  double-djed  Presbyterian.  Indeed  the 
great  achierement  of  his  life  was  the  prominent  part  he  took  in  introducing  the 
Presbyterian  church  discipline  into  Lancashire.  I  can  find  no  warrant  for  as- 
cribing to  him,  as  Dr.  Hibbert  "Ware  has  done,  want  of  ambition  and  indifierenee 
with  regard  to  money.  If  a  strong  anxiety  to  be  a  leading  man,  and  to  have  a 
party,  be  ambition,  he  had  quite  enough  of  that  element ;  and,  as  he  died  rich, 
he  would  appear  not  to  have  been  wanting  in  attention  to  his  pecuniary  interests. 
Perhaps  the  most  amusing  circumstance  in  his  life  is  his  determination  not  to  be 
ejected  from  his  "Wardenship  at  the  Restoration,  and  not  to  renounce  the  Corenant ; 
in  other  words,  not  to  obey  the  law ;  and  the  success  with  which  he  carried  his  point. 
His  sermons,  with  little  either  of  eloquence  or  logic,  have  a  certain  boisterous  rhetoric 
of  their  own,  which,  set  off  by  an  impressive  delivery,  would  undoubtedly  produce  an 
eSect  upon  his  congregation.  His  sermon  on  King  Charles's  restoration  is  most 
characteristic  of  the  man.  Richard  Johnson,  his  colleague,  who  had  always  been  a 
consistent  loyalist,  and  had  never  complied,  had  preached  a  discourse  on  the  long's 
return  which  had  created  a  great  sensation.  The  Warden,  not  to  be  outdone,  though 
his  compliances  were  notorious  to  every  body,  when  it  came  to  his  turn  to  preach 
was  carried  away  by  a  perfect  paroxysm  or  furor  of  loyalty,  and  concluded  his  sermon 
by  the  following  grand  burst  :  "  Shout  and  cry  aloud,  let  heaven  and  earth  echo  it 
hack  again,  God  sate  the  King  !  let  the  King  live,  God  save  the  King  !  They  are  the 
last  icords  of  my  text,  and  they  shall  he  the  last  of  my  sermon,  and  let  all  the  people 
shout  it  out  with  a  loud  shout  —  God  save  the  King  !  " 

'  Amongst  the  natives  of  ilanchester  to  whom  the  Wardenship  has  been  an  object 
of  ardent  desire,  none  ever  panted  after  it  more  eagerly  than  the  Eev.  John  Whitater. 
His  manuscript  correspondence  with  George  Chalmers,  which  I  possess,  shows  his 
mind  to  have  been  constantly  intent  upon  this  object.  Little  did  good  Dr.  Asshe- 
ton,  the  then  Warden,  suspect  how  rapidly  the  news  of  every  variation  in  his  health 
was  forwarded  to  Euan  Lanyhome  by  the  telegraphic  commimication  from  Man- 
chester ;  and  that  the  profound  and  indefatigable  antiquary,  however  absorbed  in  his 
researches,  wovdd  at  any  time  leave  Hannibal  half  way  up  the  Alps,  or  Mary  with  the 
axe  suspended  over  her,  on  a  sudden  missive  to  inform  him  that  the  Warden  was  at 
last  "  beyond  all  question  breaking  up." 

-  His  father,  Eoger  Worthington,  died  in  August,  1649,  and  was  interred  in  the 
parish  chxirch  of  ^Manchester. 

2  The  Free  Grammar  School  of  Manchester,  where  he  was  educated,  though  his 
name  does  not  appear  in  the  list  of  its  distinguished  alumni  at  the  end  of  Mr. 
Whatton's  History. 


238  DIARY  AND   CORRESPONDENCE  [1667 

The  town  is  now  become  more  acceptable  to  me  by  reason  of  the 
good  library^  which  I  sometime  mentioned  to  your  Grace,  where  I 
might  have  the  advantage  and  pleasure  of  following  my  private 
studies. 

It  is  a  cheap  place  to  live  in,  othervrise  the  Wardenship  would 
hardly  be  a  competency^  to  one  that  hath  four  children  to  take  care 
for,  and  desires  to  live  upon  it  without  other  additional  dignities. 

I  am  now  in  the  afternoon  of  ray  life,^  and  it  hath  been  for  some 
time  my  desire  that  I  might  end  my  days  among  my  friends,  leave 
my  children  amongst  them,  and  be  gathered  to  the  sepulchres  of  my 
fathers. 

My  desire  also  is  to  do  the  Church  some  service  there.'*  What 
service  I  did  heretofore,  in  the  late  times,  is  known  to  some  whom 
your  Grace  values. 

'  The  Chetham  Library,  of  which  his  "ancient  acquaintance,"  Richard  Johnson, 
the  Fellow,  was  appointed  in  1653  the  first  Librarian,  with  power  to  employ  a  deputy. 
He  held  the  situation  till  his  death  in  1675.  Of  the  very  valuable  and  extensive  con- 
tents of  this  collection  a  new  catalogue,  which  will  greatly  facilitate  the  trouble  of 
reference,  is  now,  I  am  happy  to  say,  in  the  course  of  preparation,  by  the  present 
learned,  able,  and  most  obliging  Librarian,  my  friend,  Mr.  Thomas  Jones.  The  first 
descriptive  sketch  of  this  library,  to  which  in  my  early  days  of  study  I  had  many 
obligations,  is,  I  think,  that  which  was  inserted  by  me  in  Blackwood's  Magazine  of 
June,  1821. 

2  When  the  revenues  of  the  Wardenship  were  increased  in  a  very  much  greater  pro- 
portion than  that  which  the  difference  of  the  times  (1667  and  1840)  and  the  altered 
value  of  money  would  effect,  it  was  rejected,  as  is  well  known,  by  Dr.  Arnold,  on 
account  of  the  insufficiency  of  its  income.  "  The  Wardenship  (of  Manchester)  I  de- 
clined, for  the  income  loas  so  comparativeli/  small  that  I  should  have  found  a  difficulty 
in  educating  my  children  on  it."  —  Letter  of  June  13,  1810  :  Life  of  Thomas  Arnold, 
D.D.,  vol.  ii.  p.  213.     Worthington  estimated  it  at  £120  per  annum  only. 

3  He  was  then  in  his  fiftieth  year. 

*  "  That  he  (Dr.  Worthington)  had  a  design  to  do  our  church  here  some  service  I 
readily  believe,  both  because  he  writ  so  to  the  Archbishop,  and  because  I  know  he  had 
been  concerned  about  some  memorials  of  our  church  and  town,  and  particularly  had 
done  that  service  to  it  (which  was  that  perhaps  mentioned  in  his  letter)  as  to  take  an 
account  of  the  painted  glass  windows  in  our  church  whilst  intire,  with  the  histories, 
inscriptions,  and  coats  of  arms  in  them.  This  I  have  oft  inquired  after  and  should 
be  very  glad  if  it  might  be  retrieved,  and  shall  beg  the  favour  of  a  copy  of  it,  if  in  your 
hands,  I  mean  among  his  papers,  as  I  hope  it  may  be."  —  Letter  from  Dr.  R.  Wroe, 
Warden  of  Manchester  College,  to  the  Rev.  John  Worthington,  dated  Manchester, 


1667]  OF  DR.   WORTH IXGTON.  239 

Mr.  Johnson  1  is  my  ancient  acquaintance.      Mr.  Moseley  (ano- 

April  25th,  1712.  This  account  of  the  painted  windows  in  the  Manchester  Collegiate 
Church,  now  its  Cathedral,  has  not  been  recovered.  A  description  of  the  fragments 
which  remain  will  be  seen  on  reference  to  the  History  of  the  Manchester  Foundations, 
vol.  ii.  pp.  248,  283,  286. 

'  Richard  Johnson,  M.A.,  sometime  senior  Fellow  of  King's  College,  Cambridge, 
was  the  second  son  of  Mr.  William  Johnson  of  "Welch  Whittle,  in  the  county  of 
Lancaster,  (one  of  the  Gentlemen  Pensioners  of  King  James  I.)  by  his  wife,  Eulalia, 
daughter  of  Mr.  Wood  of  Wood,  in  the  county  of  Oxford.  His  eldest  brother, 
Ferdinando  Johnson,  died  s.p. ;  and  his  third  brother,  Alexander,  lived  at  Preston, 
was  a  Pensioner  of  Charles  I.,  and  in  the  Commission  of  the  Peace  for  the  county  of 
Lancaster.  The  eldest  son  of  Alexander,  and  nephew  of  Mr.  Eichard  Johnson,  was 
WUliam  Johnson  of  Eushton  Grange,  in  Bowland,  in  the  county  of  York,  Esq.,  who 
married  Mary,  daughter  and  sole  heiress  of  Dr.  John  Chambers,  Dean  of  Carlisle  and 
Vice  Master  of  Trinity  College,  Cambridge,  and  was  direct  ancestor  of  the  Rev. 
William  Johnson,  the  kinsman  of  Archbishop  Potter,  and  Vicar  of  WhaUey,  of  whom 
Dr.  Whitaker  has  preserved  some  interesting  incidents  (WhaUey,  p.  153,  third  edit). 
Mr.  Richard  Johnson  in  1631,  being  then  Fellow  of  Manchester  College,  had  a  hot 
controversy  "  about  the  nature  of  sin "  with  his  aged  colleague,  the  Rev.  William 
Bourne,  which  excited  much  public  notice.  In  1634  Mr,  Johnson  contributed  five 
pounds  towards  the  building  of  Salford  Chapel.  In  1636  he  was  principally  employed 
in  drawing  up  the  new  charter  for  the  CoUege,  which  was  revised  by  Archbishop  Laud, 
and  he  seems  through  life  to  have  been  a  sound  Enghsh  Churchman.  He  vindicated 
the  use  of  the  surplice  against  the  Puritans,  and  was  a  consistent  advocate  of  the 
poHty  of  the  Church.  As  a  zealous  royalist  and  cavalier  he  was  imprisoned,  and 
being  mounted  on  a  sorry  nag,  says  Walker,  he  was  led  through  the  streets  of  Man- 
chester in  mock  triumph  with  wisps  of  straw  wrapped  round  his  legs,  and  suffered 
much  from  the  mob.  His  wife  (her  name  is  not  given  in  the  pedigree  recorded  in  the 
College  of  Arms)  and  brother-in-law,  Mr.  John  Chorlton,  were  also  imprisoned.  — 
(Sufferings  of  the  Clergy.)  Dr.  Fleming  discovered  one  or  two  of  his  letters 
amongst  the  Chetham  Papers,  from  which  it  appears  that  he  was  considered  by  the 
Puritans  a  Somantzer,  but  the  stigma  was  unmerited.  Humphrey  Chetham,  the 
Founder,  by  his  will  dated  Dec.  16,  1651,  shows  his  high  regard  for  Johnson  and  his 
principles  by  bequeathing  him  a  legacy  of  sixty  pounds  as  his  "loving  friend,  Mr. 
Richard  Johnson,  preacher  at  the  Temple,  London,"  and  also  by  nominating  him  one 
of  the  three  clergymen  to  select  books  for  a  "  Public  Library  in  Manchester,"  now  the 
Chetham  Library,  and  to  provide  books  for  certain  other  parishes.  At  this  time  Mr. 
Johnson  had  been  deprived  of  his  Fellowship  by  the  Puritans.  He  was  restored  to  it 
in  1660,  and  was  named  a  Governor  of  Chetham's  Hospital  in  the  Charter  of  Incor- 
poration 1665.  In  1671  he  is  styled  "  Sub-guardianus  "  of  the  College,  being  at  that 
time  senior  Fellow.  He  died  about  the  year  1675.  Fuller,  giving  an  account  of 
Humphrey  Chetham,  observes  (vol.  ii.  p.  215) :  "  Know,  reader,  I  am  beholding  for 
my  exact  information  herein  to  my  worthy  friend,  Mr.  Johnson,  late  preacher  of  the 
Temple,  and  one  of  the  feoffees  appointed  by  Mr.  Chetham  for  the  uses  aforesaid." 


240  DIARY   AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1667 

ther  of  the  fellows)  ^  was  my  pupil  in  Cambridge,  one  whom  I  caused 
to  be  perfected  in  music.  And  if  I  should  not  know  more  what 
belongs  to  church  music  than  some  that  are  dignified,  I  have  ill  bes- 
towed my  time  and  money. 

My  case  for  the  present  is  this.  After  no  small  loss  at  Benet 
Fynck  by  the  fire,  I  was  forced  to  take  a  tedious  journey  with  my 
poor  family  into  the  north,  where  I  staid  all  winter.  In  April  I  re- 
moved into  Lincolnshire,  to  Tngoldsby,  near  Grantham,  a  living 
much  impaired  by  inclosing  the  field,  and  now  the  tithes,  being  paid 
in  money,  come  very  hardly  out  of  countr}'men''s  purses.  The 
house  very  incommodious,  and  instead  of  seeking  for  reparations  for 
dilapidations,  I  could  not  but  in  charity  let  my  predecessor's  widow, 
poor,  and  full  of  children,  collect  ,£'50  for  an  half  year,  which  upon 
a  fair  account  was  due  to  me.  I  trust  in  God  I  shall  not  be  the 
poorer  for  it. 

This  was  written  aboiit  1665-6.  Mr.  Johnson  seems  to  have  had  no  issue.  His 
nieces  married  Mr.  Banastre  of  Altham,  Mr.  Hammerton  of  Hellifield  Peel,  Dr. 
Daniel  Nichols,  Rector  of  Hadley,  and  Mr.  Henry  Blundell  of  Preston,  whilst  another, 
unmarried  in  1664,  was  in  attendance  upon  the  celebrated  Anne,  Countess  of  Pem- 
broke, Dorset,  and  Montgomery.  —  For  this  and  the  next  note  I  am  indebted  to  my 
friend  the  Rev.  Canon  Raines's  Fasti  Mancunienses,  at  present  only  in  manuscript, 
but  which  I  trust  to  see  speedily  published,  as  it  is  too  valuable  a  contribution  to  the 
history  of  Manchester  to  be  allowed  to  remain  unpriuted. 

1  Francis  Mosley,  youngest  son  of  Oswald  Mosley,  of  Ancoats,  Esq.,  who  died  in 
1630,  set.  47,  was  educated  at  Emmanuel  College,  Cambridge,  elected  Fellow  of  Man- 
chester College  in  16G0,  collated  to  the  Vicarage  of  Banbury,  in  the  county  ofOxford, 
in  1661,  and  instituted  to  the  Rectory  of  Wilmslow  in  Cheshii-e  in  1673.  "  On  the  8th. 
December,  1661,  whilst  the  Presbyterian  minister,  Mr.  Richardson,  was  hesitating  and 
perplexed  about  reading  in  the  Collegiate  Church  the  two  acts  of  parliament  declaring 
against  the  Covenant,  &c.,  on  Dec.  16,  Mr.  Mosley  slept  forward  and  read  them." — Mar- 
tindale's  Life,  Note,  p.  162 ;  edit,  by  Canon  Parkinson. — He  married  Catherine,  second 
daughter  of  John  Davenport,  of  Davenport,  in  the  County  of  Chester,  Esq.,  by  whom 
he  had  issue  four  sons  and  three  daughters.  In  1671  he  was  the  "Registrar"  of  the 
College,  being  at  that  time  the  tliird  Fellow,  and  in  1676  he  is  styled  "  Sub-warden," 
being  the  senior  Fellow,  and  having  been  the  "  Collector"  of  the  College  from  the  year 
1674.  He  was  buried  at  Manchester  on  the  14tli  of  August,  1699,  having  been  nearly 
forty  years  a  Fellow  of  the  College,  and  his  relict  was  interred  there  on  the  7th  of 
September,  1702.  Sir  Oswald  Mosley  has  given  a  brief  but  melancholy  account  of 
his  last  male  descendant,  who  squandered  the  whole  of  his  property,  and  died  in  1781. 
Memoirs  of  the  Mosley  Family,  4to,  p.  35.     Fasti  Mancunienses,  a  MS. 


1667]  OF  DR.   WORTHINGTON.  241 

But^  not  to  mention  other  inconveniences  of  the  place,  there  is 
another  reason  which  doth  enforce  me  to  desire  a  removal.  It  hath 
pleased  God,  the  last  week,  to  afflict  me  with  the  greatest  affliction 
that  I  ever  had  experience  of,  and  that  was  the  decease  of  my  wife. 
Her  piety  and  reverent  devotion^  humility,  and  charity,  her  singular 
good  disposition  and  care  of  the  family,  make  me  justly  sensible  of 
my  loss  ;  and  this  place  helping  to  renew  my  grief,  it  would  be  great 
levamen  to  me  to  be  removed  hence. ^ 

I  know  your  Grace  is  so  generous  as  to  compassionate  me  in  these 
circumstances.  And  if  Mr.  Heyrick  be  dead,  there  is  an  opportunity 
to  relieve  me.  If  he  be  not,  as  I  desire  not  another''s  death  for  any 
advantage  to  myself,  the  notice  of  his  sickness  will  move  some  to 
solicit  the  king  for  a  grant  of  the  place  beforehand.  And  sometimes 
when  such  promises  are  obtained,  the  party  is  otherwise  gratified 
with  what  he  likes  as  well  or  better. 

I  do  not  pretend  to  any  merit,  though  I  have  taken  extraordinary 
pains  for  the  public  good.  I  never  aimed  thereby  at  any  advantage 
for  myself,  as  I  never  did  receive  the  least  dignity.  And  I  shall  live 
and  die  praying  for  the  prosperity  of  our  Jerusalem,  though  I  receive 
not  the  fruits  of  it.  There  are  many  worthy  persons,  but  perhaps 
few  in  my  circumstances.  Some  have  not  such  a  charge  of  little 
ones  ;  others  are  well  provided  for,  in  more  than  one  place  or  dig- 
nity, and  such  as  are  my  juniors  in  degree  and  standing;  whereas 
mv  desires  have  been  always  moderate  and  modest,  but  for  one  place 
of  competency,  to  live  becomingly  in  a  plain  way. 

But  I  have  trespassed  upon  your  Grace's  occasions  by  too  tedious 
a  letter.  I  was  enforced  to  write,  not  being  in  a  capacity  to  take  a 
journey  to  wait  upon  your  Grace,  by  reason  that  the  affairs  of  my 
family  (now  in  much  confusion)  require  my  being  here,  and  because 
two  others  of  my  family  are  fallen  sick  of  this  new  distemper  that 
hath  taken  away  the  mother,  whom  I  dare  not  leave  till  I  see  how 
God  shall  dispose  of  them. 

I  hope  your  Grace  will  forgive  this  boldness,  and  the  confusedness 

1  This,  though  last  mentioned,  was  unquestionably  the  main-spring  of  the  present 
application. 


5J43  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1667 

of  the  lines,  I  being,  since  this  infliction,  in  a  more  unfit  disposition 
to  write.  And  may  I  enjoy  the  fruits  of  this  humble  address,  by 
virtue  of  your  Grace's  mediation,  I  shall  be  much  more  obliged  to  be 

Your  Grace's,  &c,, 
Aug.  12,  1667.  J.  W.[orthington.] 


Sir, 


For  my  hon.  friend  Dr.  WortMngton,  Ligoldsby,  ^c. 
[From  Bishop  Dolben.]^ 


I  am  heartily  sorry  for  your  great  loss,  and  for  the  defeat 
of  your  expectation  at  Ingoldsby,  where  I  did,  with  some  content, 

'  Dr.  John  Dolben  was  oue  of  those  prelates  who  could  have  discoursed,  from  per- 
sonal experience,  of 

" most  disastrous  chances, 

Of  moving  accidents  by  flood  and  field, 

Of  hairbreadth  'scapes  in  the  immment  deadly  breach," — 

for  from  Christ  Church,  Oxford,  where  he  was  pursuing  his  studies,  he  went  out  as  a 
volunteer  to  join  the  royal  army,  served  as  an  ensign  in  the  battle  of  Marston  Moor, 
■where  he  received  a  dangerous  wound  in  the  shoulder  from  a  musket  ball,  and  in  the 
defence  of  York  soon  after  sustained  a  still  severer  wound  of  the  same  kind  in  the 
thigh,  which  broke  the  bone  and  confined  him  twelve  months  to  his  bed.  Whilst  he 
lay  thus  prostrate,  did  any  comforting  vision  reveal  to  him  that  he  was  destined  as  the 
successor  of  the  holy  Paulinus,  as  the  Archbishop  of  that  See,  to  wage  the  war  against 
spiritual  foes  as  vigorously  as  in  the  King's  cause  he  had  done  against  temporal  ? 
When  Oxford  and  other  garrisons  were  surrendered,  and  there  was  no  more  hope 
of  serving  the  King,  he  renewed  his  studies  at  College,  where  he  remained  till  ejected 
by  the  Parliamentarian  Visitors  in  1648.  In  165G  he  entered  into  holy  orders,  and 
from  that  period  (or  shortly  after)  to  the  Restoration  he  lived  in  Oxford,  and  through- 
out that  interval,  in  conjunction  with  Dr.  Fell  and  Dr.  Allestree,  constantly  performed 
divine  service  and  administered  the  sacraments,  according  to  the  Liturgy  of  the 
Church  of  England,  to  the  Royalist  congregation  there ;  from  which  circumstance 
the  subject  of  the  fine  painting  by  Sir  Peter  Lely  in  the  mansion  of  the  family  in 
Northamptonshire  is  taken,  representing  the  three  divines,  in  their  canonical  habits, 
as  joining  in  the  Liturgic  service.  On  the  Restoration  preferments  came  rapidly,  as 
from  his  loyalty  and  sufferings  might  naturally  be  expected.  His  having  married  a 
niece  of  Archbishop  Sheldon  did  not  certainly  contribute  to  retard  them.  In  1666 
he  was  consecrated  Bishop  of  Rochester,  in  1675  appointed  Lord  High  Almoner,  and 


1667]  OF   DR.   WORTH INGTOX.  243 

apprehend  you  to  be  conveniently  seated.  Your  intelligence  from 
Manchester  came  very  slow,  for  the  Wardenship  was  given  and  under 
seal  before  I  received  your  letter,  which  came  to  me  Aug.  19,  though 
dated  12.  I  must  confess  I  myself  am  concerned  in  the  person  who 
hath  it,  and  goes  thither  to-morrow,  he  being  my  chaplain  and  my 
nephew-in-law.i  But  the  king  bestowed  it  on  him  ere  I  heard  of  its 
being  void.  When  I  see  my  Lord's  Grace  I  will  mention  your  case, 
and  endeavour  to  actuate  the  good  inclinations  which  he  hath  to  pro- 
vide for  you.  Nor  will  I  be  wanting  upon  any  good  occasion  to 
express  myself,  sir. 

Your  very  assured  friend  to  serve  you, 
Aug.  22.  Joh.  Roffen. 


To  the  Bishop  of  Rochester. 
[From  Dr.  Worthington.] 
My  Lord, 

I  am  obliged  humbly  to  thank  your  Lordship  for  the  great 

translated  to  York  in  August,  1683.  His  death  took  place  at  Bishopsthorpe  on  the 
11th  April,  1686,  in  the  sixty-second  year  of  his  age.  Anthony  Wood's  character  of 
him  may  be  accepted  as  a  just  and  well-deserred  one:  "  He  was  a  man  of  a  free,  gene- 
rous, and  noble  disposition,  and  of  a  natural,  bold,  and  happy  eloquence."  He  was 
not  a  voluminous  author.  All  he  has  left  behind  are  three  occasional  sermons,  pub- 
lished in  1664',  1665,  and  1666,  4to,  which  I  have  read,  and  which  are  very  respectable 
evidences  of  his  powers. 

'  Dr.  Nicholas  Stratford,  who  held  the  "Wardenship  of  Manchester  College  from 
1667  to  1684,  and  who  was  afterwards  Bishop  of  Chester  from  September,  1689,  to 
his  death  in  February,  1706-7.  A  full  account  of  the  aifairs  of  his  Wardenship  will  be 
found  in  Dr.  Hibbert  Ware's  History  of  the  Foundations  of  Manchester,  vol.  ii.,  for 
which  a  portrait  of  him  was  engraved,  and  a  notice  of  his  life  in  the  Rev.  Canon 
Eaiues's  Xotitia  Cestriensis,  vol.  i.  p.  16.  Of  his  works,  which  consist  of  sermons  and 
tracts.  Wood  gives  a  list  (Athense,  vol.  iv.  p.  670).  Dr.  Stratford's  appointment  was 
a  very  good  one.  In  the  long  line  of  Wardens,  none  ever  maintained  a  more  irre- 
proachable character.  When  subsequently  advanced  to  the  see  of  Chester,  he  dis- 
charged the  duties  of  the  episcopal  office  with  universal  approbation.  His  publica- 
tions manifest  his  learning,  ability,  and  zeal,  and  the  common  consent  of  his  contem- 
poraries bears  witness  to  his  charity  and  benevolence,  his  humility  and  devotion. 


244  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1667 

favour  of  your  late  letter,  and  the  readiness  which  your  Lordship 
expresses  therein,  to  endeavour  upon  any  good  occasion  my  better 
accommodations,  as  also  to  mind  my  Lord  of  Canterbury  of  my 
condition. 

By  your  Lordship''s  letter  I  understand  that  the  person  designed  for 
the  Wardenship  of  Manchester  college  was  a  near  relation,  but  had  I 
had  the  least  notice  of  such  a  one  being  a  candidate  for  the  place,  I 
should  not  have  troubled  your  Lordship  with  such  a  letter,  which 
might  in  the  least  seem  to  clash  with  your  Lordship's  intended  kind- 
ness for  a  nephew,  and  a  person  of  worthy  character,  to  whom  I 
heartily  wish  all  content  and  happiness  in  that  place.  But  if  he 
should  be  removed  to  a  better  place  (as  some  are  apt  to  think  that 
he  will  be  in  a  short  time),  may  I  then,  in  confidence  of  your  Lord- 
ship"'s  noble  benignity  and  goodwill,  make  this  humble  request,  that 
your  Lordship  would  please  to  move  my  Lord  of  Canterbury  about 
the  reversion,  that  I  may  be  thought  on  in  case  Mr.  Stratford  is  pro- 
moted to  a  better  place. 

I  have  still  more  arguments  to  enforce  my  removal  from  Ingoldsby; 
since  my  late  great  loss  and  affliction  I  have  had  five  sick  in  my  family. 
I  thought  I  should  have  lost  three  of  my  children,  but  (God  be 
thanked)  two  of  them  are  recovered,  only  one  continues  sick  still. 
And  for  myself  I  have  been  sick  above  five  weeks,  and  so  as  I  never 
was  heretofore.  I  doubt  it  will  prove  a  lingering  ague.  The  air  I 
fear  is  not  agreeable,  and  the  parsonage  house  is  very  inconvenient 
to  be  in,  which  furthers  our  illness,  I  think,  and  retards  our 
recovery. 

In  such  a  condition  as  I  am  now  in,  I  am  not  well  disposed  for 
writing,  your  Lordship  will  therefore  excuse  the  many  imperfections 
of  these  lines,  and  your  noble  candour  pardon  this  second  trouble 
given  to  your  Lordship  by 

Your  Lordship's  humbly  devoted, 

J.  W.[orthington.] 


1667]  OF  DR.   WORTHINGTON.  345 


To  my  very  loving  friend,  Dr.  John  Worthington,  ^c. 
[From  Archbishop  Sheldon.] 
Sir, 

Your  letter  was  long  in  coming  to  me,  and  before  I  received 
it  (which  was  but  this  morning)  the  Wardenship  was  disposed  of. 
I  am  very  sorry  for  your  late  loss,  but  need  not  teach  you  how  to 
bear  such  afflictions,  which  patience  and  time  will  wear  away.^  If 
it  be  in  my  power  to  do  you  a  kindness,  T  shall  ever  be  to  you  as  I 
have  been,  ready  to  perform  it ;  and  I  will  be  mindful  of  you,  and 
endeavour  to  find  something  which  may  be  near  and  convenient  to 
you.  I  am,  sir,  your  very  loving  friend, 

Lambeth  House,  Aug.  20,  1667.  Gilb.  Cant. 


In  a  Letter  to  Dr.  Ingelo,  Oct.  19,  1667.^ 
[From  Dr.  Worthington.] 
—  When  you  come  to  London  you  will  see  Dr.  Tillotson,  to 
whom  I  pray  you  to  remember  me  kindly.  I  have  been 
much  enffaged  to  him  for  his  mindfulness  of  me.  When 
he  heard  that  Mr.  Heyrick,  Warden  of  Manchester, 
was  dead,  he  went  of  his  own  accord  to  move  for  me, 
but  it  was  bestowed  before  on  Mr.  Stratford.  I  had 
letters  from  Lancashire  about  it  (one  a  little  before  his 
death,  another  after  it)  wishing  me  to  look  after  the 
place,  it  being  the  desire  of  many,  and  the  chief  there, 
to  enjoy  me.  I  easily  supposed  it  was  too  late;  yet, 
because  I  would  not  seem  to  neglect  my  friends,  I  wrote 
two  letters,  one  to  the  Archbishop,   the  other  to  the 

^  It  may  be  doubted  whether  they  ever  did  in  Worthington's  case.  During  the  short 
remamder  of  his  life  his  irreparable  loss,  which  he  calls  "  the  fiery  trial  of  the  8th  of 
August,"  seems  to  have  been  ever  present  to  him. 

"  The  diary  from  August  20th  to  the  end  of  the  year  is  a  melancholy  record  of  forty- 
nine  fits  consequent  on  an  attack  of  quartan  ague,  which  he  registers  without  any 
remark.     The  year  1667  was  truly  a  year  of  sorrow  to  Worthington. 


246  DIARY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  [1667 

Bishop  of  Rochester,  of  whose  good  will  towards  me  I 
had  received  proofs  formerly.  I  had  letters  from  them 
both  again,  with  fair  expressions,  telling  me  that  the 
place  was  bestowed  and  the  patent  under  seal  before  my 
letters  came.  I  was  also  beholden  to  Dr.  Tillotson  for 
speaking  to  Mr.  Burton^  Chaplain  to  the  Lord  Keeper, 

in  my  behalf. There  are  some  livings  that  are 

of  little  value  in  the  King's  books,  which  yet  are  consi- 
derable; as  Farnham  (not  far  from  you)  which  is  better 
than  this  I  have,  and  Cluyt  (not  a  mile  from  you)  which 
is,  if  I  be  not  mistaken,  as  good  as  this.  And  there 
may  be  other  livings  thereabouts,  though  I  know  not  of 
them.  The  Secretary  to  the  Lord  Keeper  hath  a  cata- 
logue of  all.  That  which  inclines  me  more  to  your 
parts,  is  not  only  your  library,  which  hath  good  books 
for  use,  besides  that  lesser  library  which  is  at  Windsor, 
and  the  nearness  to  Oxford  and  London  (where  there 
are  many  opportunities  of  being  serviceable)  —  but  that 
I  may  be  nearer  to  known  friends,  of  whose  society  I 
have  now  the  more  need.  You  and  I  have  been  ac- 
quainted for  more  than  a  few  years.  I  have  endea- 
voured, according  to  my  poor  abilities,  to  do  as  a  friend. 
By  your  help  and  assistance  I  might  be  the  better 
enabled  to  order  and  settle  my  private  concerns,  and  be 
furthered  in  my  endeavours  for  the  public  good,  to 
which  I  desire  to  devote  myself,  there  being  nothing 
more  worthy  of  our  serious  diligence  than  to  be  service- 
able (ft)?  Kaipov  e^ofjbev)  to  the  good  of  others,  and,  taking 
our  hearts  from  this  present  world,  to  purify  our  souls 
into  a  disposition  that  is  meet  and  qualified  for  the 
heavenly  state.  This  piece  of  Christian  philosophy  is 
more  effectually  to  be  learnt  in  the  school  of  affliction ; 
and  happy  are  they  that  lay  these  things  to  heart ;  they 
live  with  more  ease  in  the  world ;  they  leave  the  world 
without  trouble,  and  depart  in  peace.     You  intended  at 


1667]  t)F  DR.  WORTHINGTON.  247 

Oxford  to  see  Dr.  Hammond"'s  MS.  on  the  Proverbs. 
What  do  you  think  of  it  I  What  vokime  will  it  make  l^ 
I  suppose  a  quarto,  except  out  of  his  papers  some  were 
collected  that  explain  other  passages  in  Scripture,  and 
then  the  addition  of  such  miscellanies,  with  the  other, 
would  make  a  thin  folio.  If  I  were  fitly  accommodated, 
I  should  not  be  unready  (having  had  experience  in  pre- 
^lariiig  things  of  some  bulk  for  the  press)  to  assist  with 
my  best  endeavours,  both  for  the  sake  of  the  public  good 
and  out  of  respect  to  the  memory  of  the  worthy  author^ 
to  whom  I  w^as  obliged.  I  desire  you  to  secure  the  copy 
for  Mr.  Royston,  who  hath  so  well  printed  the  rest  of 
the  Doctor''s  works.  When  you  come  to  London  this 
term,  pray  use  your  best  diligence  and  interest  to  end 
the  business  with  Sir  Charles  Doe.  It  is  now  a  year  at 
least  since  he  had  the  money.  He  hath  promised  from 
time  to  time  it  should  be  paid,  but  hath  not  performed. 
When  you  come  to  Westminster,  could  you  not  call  on 
the  Bishop  of  Rochester?  I  suppose  you  are  well 
acquainted  with  him,  by  means  of  your  Provost,  they 
two  being  great  friends.  If  you  wait  upon  him,  you  will 
present  my  due  regards  to  him.  Perhaps  he  may  speak 
to  you  of  my  last  letter  in  answer  to  his,  wherein  he 
professed  a  great  readiness  to  assist  me  upon  any  good 
occasion.  There  are  several  things  in  the  King's  dis- 
posal (or  such  as  sometimes  use  to  be  disposed  of  by 
his  mandate)  better  than  those  that  are  by  the  seal. 
And  he  is  near,  and  often  at  Court.  It  is  easier  to  get  a 
promise  beforehand  than  the  grant  of  a  thing  in  hand  or 
that  is  actually  void.  But  if  you  had  rather  not  speak 
with  him  about  this,  let  it  alone.  At  London  you  may 
enquire  of  some  booksellers  where  Mosley's  widow  now 
keeps  shop.   I  hear  she  saved  her  books  from  the  great  fire. 

'  Dr.  Hammond's  Paraphrase  and  Notes  on  the  First  Ten  Chapters  of  Proverbs  are 
published  in  the  fourth  volume  of  his  works. 


248  DIARY   AND  CORRESPONDEftCE  [1667 

Her  husband  printed  Crashaw's  poems.  You  may  speak 
to  her  to  send  me  down  two  of  the  second  edition,  and  I 
will  return  one  to  her  again,  Avith  the  printed  poems  cor- 
rected by  the  author's  original  copy,  and  also  with  the 
addition  of  other  poems  of  his,  written  with  his  own 
hand,  and  not  yet  printed.  The  original  copy  is  with  a 
neighbour  of  mine,  the  author's  intimate  friend.  1  desire 
you  also  to  procure  for  me  of  INIr.  Harriot  those  few  ser- 
mons of  Mr.  Hales  which  he  printed. 
P.S.  One  thing  more  comes  into  my  mind.  It  was  often  in 
my  thoughts  to  have  my  dear  wife's  picture,  and  some- 
times I  mentioned  it  to  her.  She  would  always  reply  that 
mine  must  be  done  first  then.^  I  had  no  great  desire  to 
have  mine,  but  yet  had  it  not  been  for  our  troubles  and 
cares,  and  pilgrimage-condition  in  removing,  &c.,  I 
should  have  yielded  to  it.^  Now  my  great  desire  to  you 
is  to  beg  your  help  in  this  matter.  Perhaps  Newman, 
the  printer,  hath  not  forgot  her  face,  and  you  may  help 
his  remembrance  and  direct  about  it.  Let  him  try  only 
the  head,  and  when  you  see  you  may  direct  where  he  is 
to  alter  with  his  pencil.  I  shall  thankfully  pay  for  his 
labour.  If  he  do  but  hit  it,  I  could  but  procure  it  to  be 
done  again  by  some  other  artist.  Her  face  was  small, 
and  round,  and  ruddy,  in  her  nose  there  was  a  little 
rising ;  her  eye  was  a  vivid  grey.  I  would  not  have 
him  draw  her  in  her  hair,  nor  with  any  curled  hair  on 
her  forehead,  she  was  not  so  dressed  in  her  life  time,  she 
thought  she  never  could  be  grave  enough  in  her  dress. 
There  are  some  printed  books  with  heads,  and  amongst 
them  perhaps  some  may  be  found  not  unlike,  but  the 
other  is  the  likelier  way. 

^  There  is  something  very  touching  in  the  terms  in  which  he  makes  known  liis 
wishes  to  have  some  representation,  however  imperfect,  of  the  countenance  which,  we 
may  safely  aver,  had  never  looked  towards  him  but  with  benignity  and  affection. 

2  From  this  it  appears  that  no  portrait  of  Worthington  had  at  this  time  (1667) 
been  taken. 


d)e  €Ie\3entf)  a^eport 


COUNCIL  OF  THE  CHETHAM  SOCIETY, 

Read  at  the  Annual  Meeting  of  the  Society  held  on  the  17th, 
hy  adjournment  from  the  1st  of  March,  1854. 


Some  delay  has  inevitably  arisen  in  the  delivery  of  the  third  of  the  volumes 
for  1852-3,  being  the  thirtieth  in  the  series  of  the  Society's  Publications, 
Documents  relating  to  the  Priory  of  Penwortham,  and  other  Possessions 
in  Lancashire  of  the  Abbey  of  Evesham^  edited  by  W.  A.  Hulton,  Esq. 
It  has  now  been  issued  to  the  Members,  and  will  be  found,  it  is  conceived, 
not  less  acceptable  than  the  previous  volumes  which  contain  the  Whalley 
Abbey  Coucher  Booh,  edited  by  the  same  gentleman.  After  mentioning 
the  Editor's  name  it  is  scarcely  necessary  to  observe  that  these  Documents 
are  edited  with  great  care  and  accuracy.  They  are  accompanied  by  a  very 
interesting  Introduction  and  Notes,  embodying  much  valuable  Historical  and 
Genealogical  Information. 

The  Publications  for  the  year  1853  -  4  consist : 

1st.  Of  The  Stanley  Papers,  Part  II.,  containing  The  Derby  House- 
hold Boohs,  comprising  an  Account  of  the  Household  Regulations  and 
Expenses  of  Edward  and  Henry,  third  and  fourth  Earls  of  Derby,  edited 
by  the  Rev.  F.  R.  Raines.  The  Council,  in  referring  to  this  work,  cannot 
omit  to  record  the  great  obligation  which  the  Society  is  under  to  Miss 
Ffarington  of  Worden,  for  placing  these  Household  Accounts  and  other 
Historical  Documents  at  their  disposal,  and  for  the  three  Portraits  of  the 


Earls  of  Derby  wliicli  form  so  desirable  an  illustration  of  the  volume.  The 
present  work  affords  us  a  striking  picture  of  these  great  Noblemen  in  their 
household  and  in  their  social  hour,  whom  Mr.  Thomas  Heywood's  very 
pleasing  volume  had  placed  before  us  in  their  connection  with  the  Poetry 
and  Poets  of  their  age.  The  Council  are  satisfied  that  every  one  who  takes 
an  interest  in  Lancashire  History  and  Biography,  or  generally  in  the  study 
of  Character  and  Manners,  will  feel  deeply  indebted  to  Mr.  Kaines  for  the 
masterly  manner  in  which  he  has  edited  and  illustrated  the  Derby  House- 
hold Accounts,  and  for  the  varied  stores  of  original  information  which  he 
has  afforded  with  respect  to  the  persons,  families,  and  subjects  noticed  and 
embraced  in  this  elaborate  and  important  publication. 

The  2nd  volume  for  1853-4  is  Vol.  I.  Part.  I.  of  The  Remains  of  John 
Byrom,  edited  by  the  Rev.  R.  Parkinson,  D.D.  It  includes  the  early  Corres- 
pondence and  a  portion  of  the  Diary  of  this  distinguished  native  of  Man- 
chester. The  Diary,  during  the  period  to  which  it  relates,  gives  with  great 
faithfulness  and  minuteness  his  daily  occupations  in  London  and  Manchester, 
his  habits  of  life,  his  studies,  his  amusements,  his  intercourse  with  parties 
in  town  and  country  and  in  all  ranks  of  life.  Independently  of  the  colla- 
teral interest  which  attaches  to  the  various  local  Biographical  and  Historical 
Notices,  however  brief,  which  necessarily  form  part  of  such  a  Diary,  such  a 
record  of  such  a  man  will,  the  Council  rest  assured,  be  most  gladly  accepted 
by  the  Members  of  the  Chetham  Society.  Through  the  kindness  of  his 
most  estimable  descendant,  Miss  Atherton,  to  whose  munificent  liberality 
in  reference  to  this  publication  the  Society  is  under  the  greatest  obliga- 
tions, a  Portrait  of  Dr.  Byrom,  of  whom  no  faithful  likeness  has  hitherto 
appeared,  will  be  prefixed  to  the  work. 

The  3rd  volume  for  1853-4  will  be  Christopher  Toioneley's  Abstracts 
of  Lancashire  Inquisitions,  edited  by  William  Langton,  Esq.  Of  these 
three  volumes  the  first  has  already  appeared,  and  the  second  and  third  are 
in  a  good  state  of  forwardness,  and  will  be  issued  with  all  practicable 
expedition. 


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Till':  ruMiciitions  of  tlic  Sofii-ly  i'or  tlic  lust  yonr  are  : 

1st.  Bi/rom's  Journal  and  Jirmainn,  V(»l.  I.  I'ml  IT.  Edited  by  tlic  Hov. 
Dr.  Pahkinson,  Cnuou  of  Munclicstor,  and  rriucipal  of  St.  Bees  College. 
This  part  comprisos  the  period  between  the  years  1729  and  1735,  including 
his  correspondence  with  Deacon,  Law,  and  others.  On  the  attractions  of  this 
work,  developiiifi;  the  full-length  i)ortrait  of  one  of  the  most  amiable,  origi- 
nal, and  accom])lished  in  the  series  of  English  Poets,  with  incidental  notices 
fiii|iuMitlv  of  (lie  i;reiilest  value  of  some  of  his  great  and  eminent  contem- 
poraries, and  jiictures  of  the  habits,  manners,  and  modes  of  living  at  the 
period,  more  complete^  and  minute  than  any  which  we  were  before  in  pos- 
session of,  it  is  wholly  superlluous  for  the  Council  to  make  any  remark. 
The  work  appears  to  have  excited  the  general  attention  which  it  deserves, 
and  will  luidoubtedly  take  a  permanent  ])lace  in  that  delightful  class  of 
lilerarv  pnuluctious  iu  which  Kvelyu  aud  Pepys  lead  the  way. 

2nd.  llouschoUl  Accoiutts'  of  the  fShnttlctvorths  of  Smithills  and  Gaw- 
ihorpe.  Edited  by  John  Maulano,  Esq.,  F.S.A.  This  is  a  selection  of 
varioiis  items  contained  in  the  ilouNclioKl  Accoinits  of  the  Shuttleworths 
of  Smithills  and  CJawlhorpe,  extemling,  with  one  or  two  short  intervals, 
from  the  year  1582   to   1621;    and  will,   it   is   conceived,  supply  a  great 


desideratum  which  exists  in  the  social  liistory  of  that  period.  Though 
several  puhlications  may  he  referred  to  which  furnish  details  of  the 
expenditure  in  royal  and  noble  houses  and  progresses  and  journeys,  we 
are  still  without  any  which  afford  us  a  full  view  of  the  domestic 
economics,  the  disbursements  for  daily  expenses,  and  the  prices  paid  for 
the  various  articles  of  life,  through  a  succession  of  years,  in  the  establish- 
ment of  a  country  gentleman  of  the  Elizabethan  era.  This  will  be  given 
in  the  present  publication,  which  comprises  a  period  of  nearly  ilfty  years, 
including  the  year  of  the  Spanish  Armada,  respecting  which  some  docu- 
ments, copies  of  which  were  found  amongst  the  Gawthorpe  papers,  will  be 
printed  in  an  Appendix.  The  obvious  utility  and  value  of  the  present  work 
to  the  general  as  well  as  to  the  local  historian  arc  too  clear  to  render  it  at 
all  necessary  for  the  Council  to  enfarge  upon  them. 

3rd.  Diary  and  Correspondence  of  Dr.  John  Worthinf/ton,  Vol.  II. 
Part  I.  Edited  by  James  Cuossley,  Esq.,  F.S.A.  This  portion  of  the 
work,  the  first  volume  of  which  was  issued  in  1847,  continues  the  corres- 
pondence with  Hartlib  to  its  close,  and  gives  a  part  of  that  with  Dr.  Cud- 
worth,  Dr.  Henry  More,  and  others.  The  Diary  is  carried  on  from  IGGl, 
through  the  period  of  the  great  Plague  and  Fire  of  London,  to  Dr.  Wor- 
thington's  settlement  at  Ingoldsby,  in  Lincolnshire,  in  1GG7. 

Of  these  works  the  first  has  been  issued,  the  third  will  appear  in  the 
early  part  of  the  next  month,  and  the  second  is  regularly  progressing  to  its 
close.  Christo'pJicr  Toiondeys  A  Islracls  of  Lancashire  Inquisitions^  by 
William  Langton,  Esq.,  which  forms  Vol.  III.  for  the  year  1843-4,  lias 
been  delayed  by  the  Editor's  engagements,  but  may  be  expected  to  be 
issued  in  the  course  of  a  short  time. 

The  Publications  in  progress  are  : 

1.  Byrom's  Jowrnal  and  Remains^  Vol.  II. 

2.  Documents  connected  with  the  Shrievalty  of  William  Ffarington,  Esq.^ 
of  Warden.,  who  was  Sheriff  for  the  County  Palatine  of  Lancaster  in  163G. 
Edited  by  Miss  Ffauington. 

3.  Chetham  Miscellanies,  Vol.  II. 

4.  Index  to  the  Chester  Inquisitions  Post  Mortem.  Edited  by  William 
Beamont,  Esq. 

5.  Lancashire  and  Cheshire  Wills.     Edited  by  the  Rev.  G.  J.  Piccope. 


6 

6.  Worthington  s  Diary  and  Correspondence,  Vol.  II.,  the  second  and 
concluding  Part. 

7.  Nathan  Walworth's  Correspo7idence  with  Peter  Seddon,  of  Ouiwood, 
near  Manchester,  from  1623  to  1654.  Edited  by  Egbert  Scarr  Sowler, 
Esq. 

8.  Heraldic  Visitations  of  Lancashire.  Edited  by  T.  Dorning  Hib- 
BERT,  Esq. 

9.  Collectanea  Anglo-Poetica,  or  Bibliographical  Notices  of  some  of  the 
rarer  Poetical  Volumes  in  the  Library  of  a  Lancashire  Resident. 


DR.     ARTHUR  HENRY HEYWOOD,  Treasurer,  in  Account  with  the  Chefham  Society,  1854-5.      CR. 


1  Arrear  of  1852-3  collected. 


L.    S.  D. 
10    0 


50  Subscriptions  of  1853-4,  reported  at  the 

last  Annual  Meeting. 
4S  Collected 48    0    0 

2  Outstanding. 

9  Subscriptions  for  1854-5,  accounted  for 
last  year. 
45            Do.         now  in  arrear. 
254  Annual  Subscriptions  collected  254    0    0 


42  Life  Members. 


I  Subscriptions  for  1855-6,  paid  in  ad- 
vance    8    0  0 

Guineas  received  for  Pounds  sterling  .  0    3  0 

Books  supplied  to  Members  76    6  8 

Dividend  on  Consols,  ^250 7    14 

Miss  Atherton  250    0  5 

Ditto            20  11  0 

Interest  from  the  Bank    15  12  3 


1854. 
March  2.    Balance  on  hand 


Audited  by 


JOSEPH  PEEL, 
GEORGE  PEEL, 
JOHN  WALKER. 


<e'931  11     8 


.^680  14    3 

Feb.  14. 

250  17    5 

„    23. 

„    28. 

1854. 
Mar.  17. 


Apr.    6. 
„     19. 

Ju7ie  14. 

July  10. 

„    28. 
Oct.     4. 

>>    13. 

Dec.  31. 

1853. 
Jan.  13. 

„    24. 


Loss  on  Light  Gold  

Hire  of  Room  for  Annual 

Meeting,  1854  

Charles  Simms,  Printing 

and  Stationery    

John  Cleghorn,  Engraving 

for  "  First  Visitation  of 

Lancashire" 

Postages,    per   Honorary 

Secretary  

Engraving     Dr.    Byrom's 

Portrait  (v.  per  contra) 

Advertising 

Geo.  Simms,  to  account  of 

Vol.32  .„ 120    0 

Ditto       balance  of  ditto     21  17 


1  17    6 


2    4 


Draft  and  Receipt  Stamps., 
Postages  


20  11 

0 

0    5 

0 

0 

5 

5 

0    0 

2 

0  10 

2 

Geo.  Simms,  to  account  of 
Vol.34 120    0    0 

Chas.  Simms,  Printing  and 
Stationery  

Advertising  Annual  Meet- 
ing  

J.  Harrison  and  Sons,  for 
three  Receipt  Books  

Geo.  Simms,  balance  of  Vol. 
34 17    7 


Carriage  of  Books  to  War- 
rington   

John  Cleghorn,  on  account 

of  Woodcuts  

Charles  Simms,  on  account 

of  Works  in  progress,  viz. 

Chetham  Miscellanies, 

Vol.2 24    0    0 

Towneley  Inquisitions..  30    0    0 
Shuttleworth's      Stew- 
ards'  Accounts 33    0    0 

Worthington's    Diary, 
Vol.2 58    0    0 


2 

19 

0 

0 

4 

6 

1 

8 

0 

3 
-137 

7 

6 

0 

5 

0 

5 

0 

0 

Feb..  28.    Balance  in  the  Bank . 


18    7 
13    1 


£931  11    8 


ARTHUR  H.  HEYWOOD,  Treasurer. 


LIST    OF    MEMBERS 

For  the  Year  1854—1855. 


Ackers,  James,  Prinknash  Park,  near  Gloucester 

Ainsworth,  Piajph.  F-,  il.D.,  Manchester 

Ainsworth,  W.  H.,  Kensal  Manor-House,  Harrow-road, 

London 
Alexander,  Edward  N.,  F.S.A.,  Halifax 
Allen,  Rev.  John  Taylor,  M.A.,  Stradbrooke  Vicarage, 

Suffolk 
Ashton,  John,  Warrington 
Aspland,  Rev.  R.  B.,  Dukinfield 
Atherton.  JVIiss,  Kersall  Cell,  near  Manchester 
Atherton,  James,  Swinton  House,  near  Manchester 
Atkin,  William,  Little  Hulton,  near  Bolton 
Atkinson,  F.  R.,  Pendleton,  near  Manchester 
Atkinson,  William,  Ashton  Hej-es,  near  Chester 
Atthill,  Rev.  William,  Horsford  Vicarage,  St.  Faith's, 

near  Norwich 
Arisen,  Thomas,  Liverpool 
Ayre,  Thomas,  Trafford  Moss,  Manchester 

Bagot,  Rev.  Egerton  Arden,  M.A.,  Pype  Hayes,  near 

Birmingham 
Balcarres,  The  Earl  of,  Haigh  Hall,  near  Wigan 
Baldwin,  Rev.  John,  M.A.,  Dalton,  near  Ulverstone 
Bannerman,  John,  Wootton  Lodge,  near  Ashbourne 
Barker,  John,  Broughton  Lodge,  near  Milnthorpe 
Barlow,  George,  Greenhill,  Oldham 
Barratt,  James,  Jun.,  Lpnm  Hall,  near  Warrington 
Barrow,  Miss,  Green  Bank,  near  Manchester 
Bartlemore,  William,  Castleton  Hall,  Rochdale 
Barton,  John,  Manchester 
Barton,  R.  W.,  Springwood,  near  Manchester 
Barton,  Samuel,  Bowdon 
Barton,  Thomas,  Manchester 
Beamont,  William,  Warrington 
Beard,  Rev.  John  R.,  D.D.,  Lower  Broughton,  near 

Manchester 
Beardoe,  James,  Manchester 
Beever,  James  F.,  Manchester 

Beswicke,  Mrs.,  Pikehouse,  Littleborough,  Rochdale 
Binyon,  Alfred,  Manchester 
Bird,  W^illiam,  Liverpool 
Birdsworth,  William  Carr,  Lytham,  Preston 
Birley,  Hugh,  Didsbury,  near  Manchester 
Birley,  Rev.  J.  S.,  Halliwell  Hall,  Bolton 
Birley,  Richard,  Manchester 


Birley,  Thomas  H.,  Manchester 
Blackburne,  John  Ireland,  Hale,  near  Warrington 
Booker,  Rev.  J.,  Prestwich 
Booth,  Benjamin  W.,  Swinton,  near  Manchester 
Booth,  John,  Greenbank,  Monton 
Booth,  William,  Manchester 

Botfield.  Beriah,  Norton  Hall,  Northamptonshire 
Bourne,  Cornelius,  Stalmine  Hall,  Poulton,  near  Preston 
Bower,  George,  London 

Bowers,  The' Very  Rev.  G.  H.,  Dean  of  Manchester 
Brackenbury,  Ralph,  Manchester 
Bradbury,  Charles,  Salford 

Brierley,"  Rev.  James,  Mosley  Moss  Hall,  Congleton 
Brooke,  Edward,  Marsden  House,  Stockport 
Brooks,  Samuel,  Manchester 
Brooks,  The  Ven.  Archdeacon,  Liverpool 
Bro«-n,  Robert,  Preston 

Bucklev,  Edmund,  Ardwick,  near  Manchester 
Buckley,  Nathaniel,  F.L.S.,  Rochdale 
Buckley,  Rev.  Thomas,  M.A.,  Old  Trafford,  near  Man- 
chester 
B^mting,  Thomas  Percival,  Manchester 
Burlington,  The  Earl  of,  Holkar  Hall 

Canterbirry,  The  Archbishop  of 

Cassels,  Rev.  Andrew,  Batley,  near  Leeds 

Chadwick,  Elias,  M.A.,  Pudlestone  Court,  Herefordshire 

Chaffers,  Rev.  Thomas,  Brazenose  College,  Oxford 

Chester,  The  Bishop  of 

Chichester,  The  Bishop  of 

Chippindall,  John,  Lancaster 

Clare,  John  Leigh,  Liverpool 

Clarke,  Archibald  William,  Manchester 

Clay,  Rev.  John,  M.A.,  Preston 

Clayton,  Japheth,  Hermitage,  near  Holmes  Chapel 

Clifton,  Rev.  R.  C.,  M.A.,  Canon  of  Manchester 

Consterdine,  Joseph,  Manchester 

Cooke,  Thomas,  Peudlebury,  near  Manchester 

Corser,  George,  Whitchurch,  Shropshire 

Corser,  Rev.  Thomas,  M.A.,  Stand,  near  Manchester 

Cottani,  S.,  Manchester 

Coulthart,  John  Ross,  Ashton-under-Lyne 

Crook,  Thomas  A.,  Rochdale 

Cross,  William  Assheton,  Red  Scar,  Preston 

Crosse,  Thomas  Bright,  Shaw  Hill,  near  Chorley 


LIST    OF    MEMBERS. 


Crossley,  George  F.,  Manchester 

Crossley,  James,  Manchester 

Crossley,  John,  M.A.,  Scaitcliffe  Hall,  Todmorden 

Currer,  Miss  Richardson,  Eshton  Hall,  near  Gargrave 

Daniel,  George,  Manchester 

Darbishire,  Samuel  D.,  Manchester 

Darcey,  Rev.  John,  Swettenham  Rectory,   Holmes 

Chapel 
Darwell,  James,  Beach  Priory,  Southport 
Darwell,  Thomas,  Manchester 
Dawes,  Matthew,  F.S.A.,  F.G.S.,  Westbrooke,   near 

Bolton 
Dearden,  Miss,  Maytham  Hall,  Rolvenden,  Kent 
Dearden,  James,  F.S.A.,  The  Orchard,  Rochdale 
Dearden,  Thomas  Ferrand,  Rochdale 
Delamere,  The  Lord,  Vale  Royal,  near  Northwich 
Derby,  The  Earl  of,  Knowsley 
Dilke,  C.  W.,  London 

Durnford,  Rev.  Richard,  M.A.,  Rectory,  Middleton 
Dyson,  T.  J.,  Upwood  Mount,  Cheetham  Hill 

Earle,  Frederic  "William,  Edenhurst,  near  Huyton 

Eccles,  Richard,  Wigan 

Eckersley,  Thomas,  Wigan 

Egerton,  Sir  Philip  de  Malpas  Grey,  Bart.,  M.P.,  Oulton 

Park,  Tarporlcy 
Egerton,  Wilbraham,  Tatton  Park 
Ellesmere,  Earl  of,  Worsley  Hall 
Ethelston,  Rev.  Hart,  M.A.,  Cheetham  Hill 

Ffarington,  Mrs.,  Worden  Hall,  near  Chorley 

Faulkner,  George,  Manchester 

Feilden,  Joseph,  Witton,  near  Blackburn 

Fenton,  James,  Jun.,  M.A.,  Grappenhall  Lodge,  near 

Warrington 
Fernley,  John,  Manchester 
Fielden,  Samuel,  Centre  Vale,  Todmorden 
Fielding,  Rev.  Henry,  M.A..,  Salmonby  Rectory,  near 

Horncastle 
Fleming,  William,  M.D.,  Hill  Top,  near  Kendal 
Fletcher,  Samuel,  Broomfield,  near  ^Manchester 
Fletcher,  Samuel,  Ardwick,  near  IManchester 
Ford,  Henry,  Chester 

Forster,  John,  Lincoln's  Inn  Fields,  London 
Fort,  Richard,  Read  Hall,  Padiham 
Ffrarice,  Mrs.  Wilson,  Rawcliffe  Hall,  near  Garstang 
French,  Gilbert  J.,  Bolton 
Frere,  W.  E.,  Rottingdean,  Susse.^ 

Garnett,  William  James,  Quernmorc  Park,  Lancaster 
Germon,  Rev.  Nicholas,  INI.A.,  High  Master,  Free  Gram- 
mar School,  Manchester 
Gibb,  William,  Manchester 
Gladstone,  Robert,  Oak  Hill,  near  jranchester 
Glegg,  John  Baskerville,  Withington  Hall,  Cheshire 
Gould,  John,  Manchester 
Grant,  Daniel,  Manchester 
Greenall,  G.,  Walton  Hall,  near  Warrington 
Gregan,  John  Edgar,  Manchester 


Hadfield,  George,  M.P.,  Manchester 

Hailstone,  Edward,   F.S.A.,   Horton   Hall,   Bradford, 

Yorkshire 
Hall,  Henry,  Solicitor,  Ashton-under-Lyne 

Hammill,  Miss,  Lansdowne  Lawn,  Cheltenham 

Hardman,  Henry,  Bury,  Lancashire 

Hardy,  William,  Duchy  Office,  London 

Hargreaves,  George  J.,  Manchester 

Harland,  John,  Manchester 

Harrison,  William,  Brearey,  Isle  of  Man 

Harrison,  William,   Galligreaves   House,   near  Black- 
burn 

Harter,   James   Collier,   Broughton  Hall,    near   Man- 
chester 

Harter,  William,  Hope  Hall,  near  Manchester 

Haslam,  Samuel  Holker,  Greenside,  Milnthorpe 

Hately,  Isaiah,  Manchester 

Hatton,  James,  Richmond  House,  near  Manchester 

Hawkins,  Edward,  F.R  S.,  F.S.A.,  F.L.S.,  British  Mu- 
seimi,  London 

Heelis,  Stephen,  Manchester 

Henderson,  Rev.  John,  Parsonage,  Colne 

Henry,  W.  C,  M.D.,  F.R.S.,  Haffield,  near  Ledbury 

Heron,  Rev.  George,  M.A.,  Carrington,  Cheshire 

Pleywood,  Arthur  Henry,  Manchester 

Heywood,  Sir  Benjamin,  Bart.,  Claremont,  near  Man- 
chester 

Heywood,   James,   M.P.,   F.R.S.,  F.G.S.,   Headlands, 
near  Manchester 

Heywood,  John  Pemberton,  Norris  Green,  near  Liver- 
pool ^ 

Heywood,  Thomas,  F.S.A.,  Hope  End,  Ledbury,  Here- 
fordshire 

Heywood,  Thomas,  Pendleton,  near  Manchester 

Heyworth,  Lawrence,  Oakwood,  near  Stockport 

Hibbert,  Thomas  Doming,  Temple,  London 

Hickson,  Charles,  Manchester 

Hoare,  Harry  James,  The  Lodge,  Morden,  Surrey 

Hoare,  P.  R.,  Kelsey  Park,  Beckenham,  Kent 

Holden,  Thomas,  Summerfield,  Bolton 

Holme,  Bryan  Thomas,  New  Inn,  London 

Hornby,  Rev.  William,  St.  Michael's,  Garstang 

Hughes,  Thomas,  Chester 

Hughes,  William,  Old  TrafFord,  near  Manchester 

Hull,  William  Winstanley,   Tickwood,   near   Shiffhal, 
Shropshire 

Hulton,  Rev.  A.  H.,  M.A.,  Walmesley,  near  Bury,  Lan- 
cashire 

Hulton,  Rev.  C.  G.,  M.A.,  Emberton,  Newport  Pagnel, 
Bucks 

Hulton,  H.  T.,  Manchester 

Hulton,  W.  A.,  Hurst  Grange,  Preston 

Hume,  Rev.  A.,  LL.D.,  Liverpool 

Hunter,  Rev.  Joseph,  F.S.A.,  London 

Jacson,  Charles  R.,  Barton  Lodge,  Preston 
James,  Paul  Moon,  Summcrville,  near  Manchester 
Jemmett,  William  Thomas,  Manchester 
Jervis,  Thomas  B.,  Swinton  Park,  Manchester 
Johnson,  W.  R.,  Manchester 


LIST    OF    MEMBERS. 


Jones,  Jos.,  Jun.,  Hathershaw  Hall,  Oldham 
Jones,  Wm.  Roscoe,  Athenaeum,  Liverpool 
Jordan,  Joseph,  Manchester 

Kay,  Samuel,  Manchester 

Kennedy,  John,  Ardwick  House,  near  Manchester 

Kershaw,  James,  M.P.,  Manchester 

Langton,  "William,  Manchester 

Lees,  William,  Blendworth  House,  Homdean,  Hants 
Legh,  G.  Cornwall,  M.P,,  F.G.S.,  High  Legh,  Cheshire 
Legh,  Rev.  Peter,  MA.,  Lodge,  Lyme  Park,  Disley 
Leigh,  Egerton,  Jun.,    The  West  Hall,   High  Leigh, 

Knutsford 
Leigh,  Henry,  Patricroft 
Leigh,  John,  Manchester 
Lingard,  John  E..,  Stockport 
Lingard,  Rev.  R.  R.,  Liverpool 
Love,  Benjamin,  Manchester 
Lowndes,  Edward  C,  Preston 
Loyd,  Edward,  Green  Hill,  Manchester 
Lycett.  W.  E.,  Manchester 
Lyon.  Edmund,  M.D  .  Manchester 
Lyon,  George,  Manchester 
Lyon,  Thomas,  Appleton  Hall,  Warrington 

McClure.  William,  Peel  Cottage,  Eccles 

MacKenzie,  John  Whitefoord.  Edinburgh 

Macvicar,  John,  Arddaroch,  Gairlochhead 

Manchester.  The  Bishop  of 

Mann,  Robert.  Manchester 

Mare,  E.  R.  Le,  Manchester 

Markland,  J.  H..  F.R  S.,  F.S.A.,  Bath 

Markland,  Thomas,  Clifton  Park,  near  Bristol 

Marriott,  John,  Liverpool 

Marsden,  G.  E.,  ^lanchester 

Marsh,  John  Fitchett,  Warrington 

Marshall,  Miss,  Ardwick,  near  Manchester 

Marshall,  WilUam,  Penwortham  Hall,  Preston 

Marshall,  Frederick  Eamshaw,  Ditto 

Marshall,  John,  Ditto 

Mason,  Thomas,  Copt  Hewick,  near  Eipon 

Massie,  Rev.  E.,  M.A.,  Gawsworth  Rectory,  near  Con- 

gleton 
Massie,  Rev.  W.  H..  St.  Mary's.  Chester 
Master,  Rev.  Robert  M.,  M.A.,  Burnley 
Maude,  Daniel,  M.A.,  Seedley  Terrace,  Pendleton 
Mayer,  Joseph,  F.S.A.,  Lord-street,  Liverpool 
Mellor,  Thomas,  Manchester 
Mewburn,  Francis,  Darlington 
Monk,  John,  The  Temple,  London 
Moore,  John,  F.L.S.,  Cornbrook,  near  Manchester 
Mosley,  Sir  Oswald,  Bart.,  Eolleston  Hall,  Staffordshire 
Moss,  Rev.  John  James,  Otterspool,  Liverpool 
Moult,  William,  Parkside,  Preston 
Murray,  James,  Manchester 

Naylor,  Benjamin  Dennison,  Altrincham 

Neild,  Jonathan,  Jun.,  Rochdale 

Neild,  William,  Mayfield,  Manchester 

Newall,  Mrs,  Robert,  Littleborough,  near  Rochdale 


Newall,  W.  S.,  Ackworth  House,  Pontefract 
Newbery,  Henry,  Manchester 
Nicholson,  James,  Thelwall  Hall,  Warrington 
North,  Alfred,  Liverpool 

Ormerod,  George,  D.C.L.,  F.R.S.,  F.S.A.,  F.G.S.,  Sed- 

bury  Park,  Gloucestershire 
Ormerod,  George  Wareing,  M.A.,  F.G.S.,  Manchester 
Ormerod,  Henry  ^lere,  Manchester 
Owen,  John,  Manchester 

Parker,  Robert  Townley,  M.P.,  Cuerden  Hall 

Parkinson  Major,  Eppleton  Hall,  Fence  Houses,  Dur- 
ham 

Parkinson,  Rev.  Richard,  D.D.,  F.S.A.,  Canon  of  Man- 
chester and  Principal  of  St.  Bees 

Patten,  J.  Wilson,  M.P.,  Bank  Hall,  Warrington 

Peel,  George,  Brookfield,  Cheadle 

Peel,  Joseph,  Singleton  Brook,  near  Manchester 

Peet,  Thomas,  Manchester 

Pegge,  John.  Newton  Heath,  near  Manchester 

Perris,  John,  Lyceum,  Liverpool 

Peto,  Sir  Samuel  M.,  Bart,  Somerleyton  Park,  near 
Lowestoft 

Philippi,  Frederick  Theod.,  Belfield  Hall,  near  Rochdale 

Philips,  Mark,  The  Park,  Manchester 

Phillipps,  Sir  Thomas,  Bart.,  Middle  Hill,  Worcester- 
shire 

Piccope,  Rev  G.  .L,  M.A.,  Brindle,  Chorley 

Pickford,  Thomas  E.,  Manchester 

Picton,  J,  A.,  Clayton  Square,  Liverpool 

Pierpoint,  Benjamin,  Warrington 

Pilkington,  George,  Manchester 

Porrett,  Robert,  Tower,  London 

Prescott,  J.  C,  Summerville,  near  Manchester 

Radford,  Thomas,  M.D.,  Higher  Broughton,  near  Man- 
chester 

Raffles,  Rev.  Thomas,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  Liverpool 

Raines,  Rev.  F.  R.,  M.A.,  F.S.A.,  Milnrow  Parsonage, 
Rochdale 

Reiss,  Leopold,  Broom  House,  near  Manchester 

Renshaw,  James,  Adelphi,  Salford 

Rickards,  Charles  H.,  Manchester 

Roberts,  W.  J.,  Liverpool 

Eobson,  John,  Warrington 

Royds,  Albert  Hudson,  Rochdale 

Rushton,  The  Ven.  Archdeacon,  D.D.,  Manchester 

Samuels,  John,  Manchester 

Satterfield,  Joshua,  Manchester 

Scholes,  Thomas  Seddon,  Prestwich,  Manchester 

Sharp,  Henry,  Bolton 

Sharp,  John,  Lancaster 

Sharp,  Thomas  B.,  Manchester 

Sharp,  William,  Linden  Hall,  Lancaster 

Sharp,  William,  Verulam  Buildings,  Gray's  Inn,  London 

Shaw,  George,  St.  Chad's  Upper  Mills,  Saddleworth 

Shuttleworth,  Sir  J.  P.  Kay,   Bart.,  Gawthorpe  Hall, 

Burnley 
Simms,  Charles  S.,  Manchester 


LIST    OF    MEMBERS. 


Simms,  George,  Manchester 

Simpson,  J.  H.,  Manchester 

Simpson,  Rev.  Samuel,  M.A.,  Douglas,  Isle  of  Man 

Skaife,  John,  Blackburn 

Skelmersdalo,  The  Lord,  Lathom  House 

Smith,  Eev.  J.  Finch,  Aldridge  Rectory,  near  Walsall 

Smith,  Junius,  Strangeways  Hall,  Manchester 

Smith,  J.  R.,  Soho  Square,  London 

Smith,  J.  S.  Feredey,  Manchester 

Sowler,  R.  S.,  Manchester 

Sowler,  Thomas,  Manchester 

Spafford,  George,  Alderley 

Spring,  Herbert,  Manchester 

Standish,  W.  S.,  Duxbury  Hall,  Chorley 

Stanley,  The  Lord,  Knowsley 

Stanley  of  Alderley,  The  Lord 

Stanley,  Walmsley,  Bootle  Village,  Liverpool 

Starkic,  Legendre  Nicholas,  Huntroyde,  Padiham 

Sudlow,  John,  ^Manchester 

Swanwick,  Josh.  W.,  HoUins  Vale,  Bury,  Lancashire 

Tahley,  The  Lord  de,  Cheshire 

Tate,  Wm.  James,  Manchester 

Tatton,  Thos.,  Withenshaw,  Cheshire 

Taylor,  Rev.  John  James,  B.A.,  London 

Taylor,  James,  Todmorden  Hall 

Taylor,  John,  Moreton  Hall,  Whalley 

Taylor,  Thomas  Frederick,  Wigan 

Teale,  Josh.,  Salford 

Thomson,  Joseph,  Manchester 

Thorley,  George,  Manchester 

Tinker,  Wm.,  Hyde,  near  Manchester 

Tootal,  Edward,  The  Weaste,  Pendleton 

Townend,  John,  Manchester 

Townend,  Thomas,  Ditto 

Townley,  E.  Greaves,  Fulbourn,  near  Cambridge 


TurnbuU,  W.  B.,  D.D.,  Edinburgh 
Turner,  Thomas,  Manchester 

Vaughan,  John,  Stockport 

Vaughan,  Rev.  Robert,  D.D.,  President  of  the  Lanca- 
shire Independent  College,  Manchester 
Vitre,  Edward  Denis  de,  M.D.,  Lancaster 

Walker,  John,  Weaste,  near  Manchester 

Walker,  Samuel,  Prospect  Hill,  Pendleton 

Wanklyn,  J.  B.,  Halecat,  near  Milnthorpe 

Wanklyn,  James  H.,  Manchester 

Warburton,  R.  E.  E.,  Arley  Hall,  near  Northwich 

Ward,  Edmund,  Holly  House.  Prescot 

Ware,  Titus  Hibbert,  Hale  Barns,  Altrincham 

Westhead,  Joshua  P.  B.,  Manchester 

Westminster,  The  Marquis  of 

Wheeler,  Benjamin,  E.Kchange  Arcade,  Manchester 

Whitaker,  Rev.  Robert  Nowell,  M.A.,  Vicar  of  Whalley 

Whitehead,  James,  M.D.,  Manchester 

Whitelegg,  Rev. William,  M.A.,  Hulme,  near  Manchester 

Whitmore,  Edward,  Jun.,  Manchester 

Wilkinson,  Eason  Matthew,  M.D.,  Manchester 

Wilson,  Rev.  John,  Grammar  School,  Manchester 

W'ilson,  William  James,  Manchester 

Wilton,  The  Earl  of,  Heaton  House 

Wood,  William  R.,  Singleton  Brook,  Manchester 

Worthington,  Edward,  Manchester 

Worthington,  Robert,  Manchester 

W^ray,  Rev.  Cecil  Daniel,  M.A.,  Canon  of  Manchester 

Wright,  Rev.  Henry,  M.A.,  Mottram  St.  Andrew's,  near 

Macclesfield 
Wroe,  Frederick,  Cheetham  Hill,  near  Manchester 

Yates,  Joseph  B.,  West  Dingle,  Liverpool 
Young,  Sir  Chas.  G.,  Garter,  &c.,  &c.,  London 


The  Honorary  Secretary  requests  that  any  change  of  address  may  be  communicated  to  him 

or  to  the  Treasurer. 


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