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PHILIP HENRY 



DIARIES AND LETTERS 

OF 

PHILIP HENRY, M.A. 

OF BROAD OAK, FLINTSHIRE 
A.D, 1631-1696 

EDITED BY 

MATTHEW HENRY LEE, M.A. 

VICAR OF HANMER 



' Bene vixit qui bene latuit " 

Thomas 1 Kempis 



LONDON 

KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH & CO., i, PATERNOSTER SQUARE 

18S2 



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PresiJont White 
L'brary 



(jrhe rights of translation and of reproduction are reserved.) 



PREFACE. 



It is now nearly sixty years since the Life of Philip Henry 
— founded upon the account given by his son, Matthew 
Henry — was written by Sir John Bickerton Williams, F.S.A. 
It is hoped that the great interest which that volume excited 
will be extended to the Diaries and Letters, which are now 
for the first time printed, almost as they stand in the 
originals. The present phase of public taste is rather to 
hear what men of note say for themselves, than what others 
say of them. Philip Henry's motto from Thomas a Kempis, 
Bene vixit qui bene latuit, will explain why Anthony a Wood 
does not mention his name ; why people often describe him 
now as Matthew Henry's father ; why the late Dr. Words- 
worth should, with a wise instinct, haye included his life in 
the first edition of the " Ecclesiastical Biographies," and why 
Churchmen generally should have called for its removal 
from that series. 

It cannot be expected that the charm of the little manu- 
script volumes — of which a friend wrote that he " felt a wish 
to devour them " — should be transferred to print. The ■ 



vi PREFACE. 

interest of diaries is unequal, especially where the same 
phrases are often repeated. Giraldus de Barri mentions 
how William de Braose, in the reign of Henry II., " loaded, 
or rather honoured, his letters with words expressive of the 
divine indulgence to a degree not only tiresome to his scribe, 
but even to his auditors ; for as a reward to each of his 
scribes for concluding his letters with the words ' by divine 
assistance,' he gave annually a piece of gold in addition to 
their stipend." To have omitted these expressions from 
Philip Henry's diaries would very much have altered their 
character ; they have, therefore, been in a great measure 
retained. 

To many persons Philip Henry appears to have been 
not only a man of very high intellectual ability and culture, 
but also of a real integrity and virtue, the antique simplicity 
of which can hardly be admired enough. One gentleman 
writes : " The name of Philip Henry is ever fragrant and 
refreshing to those who are acquainted with his beautiful 
life ;" and a lady — one of the descendants — adds, "We need 
the devout thoughts of our forefathers to help us in these 
days of material improvements and material prosperity." 
Though he could not see his way in the matter of re-ordina- 
tion, there was nothing about him of a separatist spirit. 
Both he and his son speak of Mr. George Herbert with 
reverence and affection, partly, no doubt, as of Lord Pem- 
broke's family, but far more on account of his well-kno\\n 
piety. 



PREFACE. VU 

At the time that Philip Henry was at Worthenbuiy and 
Broad Oak, another remarkable person, Trevor Hanmer — 
afterwards Lady Warner — was living at Bettisfield, not far 
distant. In her inquiries after truth she was carried in the 
opposite direction to Philip Henry, and joined the Roman 
Communion. Bishop Lavington notices that in her life 
(which is one of painful interest) the religious fervour of the 
Methodist movement was anticipated by a whole century. 
One cannot but wish that this lady and Philip Henry had 
been able to exchange opinions about religious subjects, and 
thus been preserved — both of them — to the Church of their 
fathers. The extreme modesty of Philip Henry withheld 
him from publishing anything ; but this is more than made 
up to his descendants by the large quantities of manuscript 
sermons that each branch of the family possesses. He took 
great pains in preparing these, even when intended for none 
but his own family circle, for he held strongly to the Scrip- 
tural rule that he would not offer to the Lord his God of 
that which cost him nothing ; and having made these notes, 
he did not think it right to destroy them. The wide dis- 
persion of the manuscripts applies also to the Diaries, which 
should extend from 1657 to 1696, but of which, at present, 
only twenty-two are forthcoming. Several others are known 
to be in existence, but no clue to their present owners has 
been found. Any one who has met with them, and can tell 
where they now are, will confer a favour by doing so. They 
are, most of them, written with a crowquill in Goldsmith's 



viii PREFACE. 

pocket almanacks, which measure four inches by two 
inches. 

I am much indebted to those ladies and gentlemen who 
have entrusted me with diaries and letters for the purposes 
of this work, and for the kind assistance that I have met 
with from others. For the loan of Emral manuscripts I have 
to thank my neighbour, Mr. Puleston. 



PHILIP HENRY. 



The ancestry of such a man as Philip Henry can hardly 
fail to be a matter of interest, both to his numerous de- 
scendants and to that large number of English-speaking 
people who honour his memory. 

It has been assumed, rather hastily, that he was of 
obscure origin, owing, perhaps, to the conversation that 
pissed between his future father-in-law and future wife 
with respect to him. " I do not know where he comes 
from," said the old gentleman ; but " I know where he is 
going to," said the lady, " and should like to go with 
him." 

From a conversation of a similar kind, Fletcher of 
Madeley was thought by his wife to be the son of a common 
soldier, and it was not till many years after their marriage 
that she accidentally discovered her error. 

In the case of Philip Henry, we find that in the year 
1662 he learned, for the first time, from some papers, that 
his grandfather's name was Henry Williams, of Briton 
Ferry, in Glamorganshire, and that his son — the father of 
Philip Henry — had left home, with a groat in his pocket 
to make his way as well as he could. There is no evidence 
to show that any ill will was intended, and we may con- 

B 



2 PHILIP HENRY. 

elude that John Henry was one of a large and poor family. 
As the parish registers at Briton Ferry do not begin earlier 
than 1680, and no wills of any members of the family have 
been found, there is no information to be gathered from 
those sources. Briton Ferry itself seems to have belonged 
to a family, one of whose names was William or Williams, 
which merged eventually into that of the Earl of Jersey. 
Mr. G. T. Clark, of Dowlais House, has kindly given me 
the sketch of the family, beginning with 

Evan ap Syson = Janet d. of Rees ap Llewelyn. 
7 th in descent 
from lestyn. 

and though I do not find the name of Henry Williams in 
it, 'I think it not improbable that this was the source v/hence 
Philip Henry descended. It would be quite in accordance 
with the jealousy still existing between North and South 
Wales, and with Puritan contempt for worldly position, 
that Philip Henry should be thought to be of humble 
extraction, and that he should not take the trouble to 
correct the mistake. He did not either, as it would seem, 
take any lively interest in antiquarian subjects. Whereas 
his son Matthew Henry was only prevented by unceasing 
occupations from devoting much attention to them, we find 
his father living at Emral and Worthenbury nine years, 
and at Broad Oak for thirty-four years, without noticing 
once the great College of Bangor close by, from which 
flowed forth the Christian teachers, not of Britain only, but 
of Ireland and Caledonia, and whose last abbot, Dinoth, 
withstood Austin the monk, at the end of the sixth century, 
when he came to bring the British Church under the yoke 
of Rome. That such a ripe scholar as Philip Henry, with 
so milch time upon his hands, and living in a country that 
teems with evidences of an early Christianity, should not 
have had his attention drawn to the subject seems in many 



PHILIP HENRY. 3 

respects a misfortune. Had it been otherwise with him, 
many a dull hour would have been exchanged for one of 
keenest interest, as he gathered up information that would 
have been of the greatest value to us in the present day. 

It has sometimes been thought that Henry Williams 
was parson of Briton Ferry. The arms borne subsequently 
by Philip Henry and by his son throw no light upon their 
descent. Philip seals with the chequers of the Warrenne 
family, with a fleur de lis for crest, which will be accounted 
for afterwards. Matthew Henry bears three battle-axes 
ppr. per fess upon a field, gules — a shield that I have looked 
for in vain, in several collections of coat armour. The 
Welsh custom of taking the father's Christian name for a 
surname, instead, of the alternative system of "John ap 
Thomas ap Jenkin," seems to have been generally adopted 
in the seventeenth century, and will account for the tribes 
of Evanses, Williamses, Joneses, Prices (ap Rys) that we 
now have. In the notes to " The Fortunes of Nigel," Sir 
Walter Scott remarks that in' the seventeenth century 
pages ceased to be the sons of gentlemen. There were, 
however, many exceptions to this that will occur at once ; 
and in the case of royal pages the old rule always held 
good — that they must be of good birth. The attempt now 
being made by a lady in South Wales to provide domestic 
employment for the daughters of poor gentlemen is worthy 
■of all praise, though with the present facilities for emigration 
a. colonial life would seem preferable and more useful. 
Within the last thirty years farmers' families have left off 
dining at the same board with their labourers, a distinction 
which the latter feel, and are disposed to resent. Wealth 
is the great destroyer of social friendship and goodrwill, 
. and if we would return to the old-fashioned customs of 
past centuries we must return to their simple manner of 
living. 



4 PmZIP HENRY. 

The records of the Chamberlain's Office do not reach back 
to the year 1650. Mr. J. E. Nightingale thinks "that John 
Henry might well have been attached to the household of 
Philip, Earl of Pembroke, in the same way as the elder 
Massinger was to Philip's elder brother, William,* the third 
earl, ' serving ' him in the sense of being a private secretary- 
Philip certainly required this, for, although Chancellor of 
the University of Oxford, he was no scholar." John Henry 
was born at Briton Ferry, July 20, 1590, as his son tells 
us, and it is his death, no doubt, that is recorded at St. 
Margaret's, Westminster, in the following entry : — " Buried. 
165^, March 2. Mr. John Hendrick." Between these dates 
we have little to record. 

A letter in the Cecil Papers {^^°\ at Hatfield House 

'•21 / 

(for permission to copy which I am indebted to the Marquis 

of Salisbury), written by the Earl of Shrewsbury to John 

* In the picture gallery of the Bodleian Library there is a bronze figure of 
this earl, six feet six inches high and four feet ten inches round the hips, with 
this inscription : 

"GuLlELMUS Pemerochie Comes 
Regnantibus Jacobo et Caeolo Primis, 

HospiTii Regii Camerarius, 
ET Senescallus Academi/e Oxoniensis. 



Hanc 

Patrui sui Magni effigiem 

ad formam quam finxit 

Petrus Paulus Rubens 

Aere fuso expressam 

academle oxoniensi 

D.D. 

Thomas Pembrochi^ et Montgom. Comes 
Honorum et Virtutum. H/i:res 

A.D. MDCCXXin." 

He was born 1580: made K.G. 1603; Governor of Portsmouth, 7jac. I. r 
Lord Chamberlain, 15 Jac. I. ; Chancellor of Oxford University, 15 Jac! l! • 
Lord Steward of king's house, about 1625 ; Warden of Forests south of the ■ 
Trent, S Car. I. : he died in 1630, leaving no surviving issue by his wife, Mary 
Talbot, eldest daughter and co-heir of Gilbert, Earl of Shrewsbury. He was- 
author of a volume of poems published in 1660. For the position he occu- 
pied, and general character, see Clarendon's " Rebellion," lib. i. 



FUILIP HENRY. 5 

Henry, A.D. 1606, disappoints any expectations that might 
be raised, for the name of the recipient turns out to be 
Hercy, not Henry. In 1623, June 12,* there is the burial 
of a Mrs. Dorothy Henrick at St. Margaret's, who may 
have been an unmarried sister, or his brother's wife. On 
December 10, 1623, he was married to Mrs. Magdalen 
Rochdale. At St. Margaret's Church we find the following 
entries : — 

Baptized, i62f, M* i. Ann, dau. of John Herrick. 
Baptized, i6z9, Ap' 9. Katharine, dau. of John Kenrick. 

After this there is a gap in the register from March 23, 
163J, to January i, 163J, so that Philip's baptism does not 
appear. He was born on Wednesday, August 24, 1631, 
in Whitehall. 

The various spellings of the surname may arise from 
the scribe's efforts to Latinize the word. As the dates 
correspond with those given by Philip Henry for the 
births of his two sisters, we cannot but suppose that they 
refer, to the same persons in each instance. " Prince Charles 
and the Duke of York being nearly of his age, he was in 
his childhood an attendant upon them in their Play : they 
were often with him at his Father's house, and were wont to 
tell him what preferment he should have at Court, as soon 
as he was fit for it. He kept a book to his dying day, 
which the Duke of York gave him, and I have heard him 
(says his son) bewail the loss of two curious pictures which 
he gave him likewise. Archbishop Laud took a particular 
kindness to him when he was a child, because he would be 
very officious to attend at the Water-gate (which was part 
of his father's charge in White-hall) to let the Archbishop 
through, when he came late from Council, to cross the 
water to Lambeth ; and when the Archbishop was a 

* Colonel J. L. Chester kindly gave me these register extracts. 



6 PHILIP HENRY. 

prisoner in the Tower, his father took^ him with him to see 
him, and he would remember that the Archbishop gave 
him some new money." 

From the dates of eight letters written by King Chai-les 
to foreign princes, of which copies have been preserved 
among the Henry manuscripts, it would seem that John 
Henry was in the king's service in 1625. We are told that 
when. the king in after years was going to Westminster, to 
that which was called his trial, Mr. John Henry was ready 
to pay his respects to him, and prayed God to bless his 
majesty, and to deliver him out of the hands of his enemies, 
for which the guard had like to have been rough upon him. 
In 1647 his son mentions that he was in straitened circum- 
stances, and it is probable that the following order refers to 
some application made by him for the payment of arrears. 

Die Saturni, 13° July, 1650. 

AT THE COUNCELL OF STATE AT WHITEHALL. 

Ordered, 

That the PeticOT of Edmund Win-stanley, Edward 
Jolley, Robert Mansell, and John Henry be referred to the Con- 
sideracoh of the Coraittee for Whitehall 

Ex"- GuALTER Frost, sei-. 

Whatever success attended his petition, he remained at his 
house in Whitehall until his death, Februaiy 28, 1652, 
having survived his wife nearly eight years. 

The following sketch of his family, and of his own life 
down to the year 1657, is given by Philip Henry in a small 
book belonging to Joseph H. Lee, Esq., of Redbrook, near to 
Broad Oak, in the county of Flint, and in a more extended 
manuscript of the same period belonging to, and kindly 
lent by, J. H". Rowland, Esq., of Neath, South Wales. 

My Father, Mr. John Henry, was borne July 10, 1590. He 
was the son of Henry Williams of Britton's-ferry, not far from 



PHILIP HENRY. 7 

Swansey in Glamorgan-shire ; hee took his father's Christen-name 
for his Sir-name, after the Welsh* manner; hee left his native- 
countrey and Father's house very young and never saw it again, 
that I ever heard of, but his Relations divers of them came up to 
London to him, and were there by him provided for, particularly 
a brother Wjlliam and three sisters, Ann, Joan and Jane, Jane 
by a latter -ft-ife who married one Elliot and hath issue, a son and 
two daughters, the rest had none unless it were a 4"" sister who 
was the mother of cosin Michael Mitchel. 

When hee left his Father hee had from him as I have heard 
but one groat, which God was pleas'd to multiply to a considerable 
income before his death, and yet when hee dy'd as hee carry'd 
nothing with him, so, his debts being payd, hee left little or 
nothing behind him for provision for his children, but God took 
them up and they have not wanted. 

Hee was first a Servant to a Welsh Gentleman, a Courtier whose 
name was Palmer, there were two Brothers of them, the one 
James, the other Roger, I think hee serv'd t them both successively, 
and that they were both knights, Sir Roger a Knight of the 
Bath, by whom he was preferr'd to Philip, J Earl of Pembrook, 

* In I. O. Westwood's " Lapidarium Wallife, or Inscribed Stones of Wales," 
p. no, there is an instance of this in the Cilgerran stone, which stands on 
the south side of the church, within the churchyard of Cilgerran, two and a 
quarter miles south-south-east from Cardigan. It is formed of the hard green- 
stone of the neighbouring Preselen hills, and half of its length was buried 
in the ground and had to be excavated. It is to be read :— 

" Treneguffi fili 
Maciitreni kicjacet. " 

•" Here lies [the body] of Trenegnffus the son of Mucuirenus." If this last 
is a composite word, three generations would bear the name of Trenus in 
different forms. There is a farm-house called Penallt Trede in the parish. 

t Compare "Antiquities of Myddle Parish, Salop," page 46: "This Sir 
Vincent Corbett was a very eminent person in this county. In his time he had 
the sons of Esquires and worthy gentlemen to wayte on him as his servants. " 

X The Honourable Philip Herbert was made Knight of the Bath at the 
coronation of King James I., and Gentleman of the King's Bed-chamber, Earl 
of Montgomery, and Lord Herbert of Shurland in the third year of his reign. 
" He pretended to no other qualifications than to understand horses and dogs 
very well, and to be believed honest and generous. . . . The King com- 
mended him to his son at his death, as a man to be relied on in point of 
honesty and fidelity ; though it appeared afterwards, that he was not strongly 
built, nor had sufficient ballast to endure a storm" (Clarendon, " History of 
Rebellion," i. 128). " About the time of the death of King James he received 



8 PHILIP HENRY. 

whose servant hee was many years, waiting on him in his 
chamber ; Hee being afterwards Lord Chamberlain of the Kings 
houshold, hee was preferd by him to bee the King's servant, and 
was made Keeper of the Orchard at Whitehal, for w"* he had 
besides a dwelling house at the Garden stairs, with the perquisites 
of the water-gate and lodgings of considerable yearly value, and 
y" Profits of y° Orchard, ten groats p. diem standing wages with 

livery payable out of the Wardrobe, p. annum, insomuch 

that hee lived plentifully, and in good repute but layd by nothing. 
Hee was afterwards by like procurement of the sayd Earl made 
one of the Pages of the Back Stayres to the King's second son 
James Duke of York, which was of considerable advantage to 
him while hee enjoy'd it, but having leave granted him by y° 
King to sell it, hee sold it to one Mr. Howard for 600 lb. which 
prov'd a great mercy to him and was his mayntenance for several 
yeares after y° war began, w" his other incomes fayld. 

My dear Mother Mrs. Magdalen Rochdale, daughter of Henry 
Rochdale, was baptized at the parish of Martin in the Fields, 
London, October ig, 1599. (I know little of what Family shee 
was ; her Mother had a second Husband whose name was Denny) 
living in the Court where shee had opportunity of enjoying worldly 
delights extraordinary shee was dead to them, shee look'd wel to 
the wayes of her houshold, pray'd with them daily, catechis'd her 
children and brought them daily to publique ordinances. 

Decemb. 10, 1623. They were married. ■ 

Jan. 27, Thursday, 162^. My sister Cicely was borne. 

Feb. 23, Thursday, 162^. My sister Anne was borne. 

Mar. 28, Saturday, 1629. My sister Katharine was borne. 

Aug. 24, Wednesday, 1631. I was borne, in Whitehall, near 

the stafif of lord chamberlain, held before by his brother " (whom he succeeded 
also as fourth Earl of Pembroke, A.D. 1630), but was "deprived of it by 
Charles I. in 1641, on account of a quarrel with Lord Mowbray in the House of 
Lords." " It was fear that induced him to side with the Parliament ; " "he 
gave himself up into the hands of Lord Say." In 1643 he was one of the twenty- 
two peers who attended Parliament. In 1644 the Earls of Pembroke and 
Salisbury were so totally without credit or interest in the Parliament or countiy, 
that it was no matter which way their inclinations or affections disposed them. " 
" In 1647, though he had taken an oath to defend the privileges of the 
University of Oxford (of which he was chancellor), he suffered himself to be 
made a property in joining with Brent and ^ryn, and two or three other 
Presbyterian ministers, in retorming its discipline and doctrine " (Clarendon), 



PHILIP HENRY. 9 

the Garden-stayres before mentioned. The witnesses at my 
baptisme were, the Earl of Pembroke, Philip, who gave mee my 
name and was kind to mee to the Day of his Death. James Earle 
•of Carlile. The Countesse of Salisbury. 

July 22, Tuesday, 1634. My Brother John was borne. 

Aug. I, Munday, 1636. My Brother William was borne. 

June 24, Sunday, 1638. My Brother John dyed. 

Aug. 24, Friday, 1638. My Brother William dyed. 

June 26, Friday, 1640. My sister Mary was borne. 

Mar. 28, Munday, 1642. My sister Sarah was borne. 

Mar. 6, Thursday, 164^. My deare mother dy'd of a con- 
:sumption, betweene y° howres of twelve & one in the morning, 
& lyes interred in Margaret Church, Westminster. 

Note. Shee was a woman of extraordinary piety and prudence, 
a loving wife, a kind neighbour, a good Mother ; the memory of 
her virtues remaynes exceeding deare & precious with all that 
were acquainted with her. My head is in Heaven & my Heart 
is in Heaven, tis but one step more & I shal bee there too, was 
her saying a little before her departure. 

The first latin-school I went to was at St. Martins church under 
the teaching of one Mr. Bonner, who was very loving to mee, and 
took paynes with mee. 

From thence I was remov'd for one summer to Battersey 
where I tabled at one Mr. Heyborns by ye water side and went to 
school to one Mr. Wells. 

Thence to Westminster in the year 1643 where I was admitted 
in the 4"" Form, under Mr. Tho. Vincent, who was usher there, 
the most able diligent School-Master that I ever knew ; a while 
after I was taken to the upper-school under' Mr. Richard Busby. 

There was at that time and before a daily morning lecture at 
the Abbey betw. 7 & 8 a clock carr/d on by 7 worthy Ministers 
in course, Mr. Marschal, Mr. Palmer, Mr. Herl, Dr. Stanton, 
Mr. Nye, Mr. Whitaker, Mr. Hil ; I was their constant hearer, 
at the request of my dear Mother to the Master who dispens'd 
with my absence from school that while, and wrote their sermons 
as wel as I could. Shee took mee also with her every Thursday 
to Mr. Tho. Case his lecture at St. Martin's Church, and every 
monthly Fast to St. Marg''^ Westm' which was our Parish church 



lO PHILIP HENRY. 

where preacht the ablest men of Engl'' before the then H. of 
Commons. 

One remarkable deliverance I remember while I was at 
Westm'' School, which was this, lying in the Common-chamber 
there wee had a custom for one or two or more to sit up y° 
former p' of the night at study, and at ii or 12 a clock to goe to 
bed and call others, and they others at 2 or 3, as they were 
desir'd. My desire was to bee cal'd at 12, and I was so, and 
being awak'd I desir'd my candle might bee lighted, and I would 
rise presently, but having stuck the candle to the Beds-head I lay 
down again and fell asleep, and the candle fel and burnt part of 
ye bed and bolster ere I awaked, but then having help wee soon 
quench'd it and I received no harm. The usual severityes of the 
school I had but smal share of. Once, being Monitor of the 
Chamber, and being sent forth to seek one that pla/d truant 
(twas Nath. Bui. afterwards a Master of Pauls school) I found him 
out where hee had hid hims. and at his earnest request promised 
I would say I could not find him, which I wickedly did ; the next 
morning being examin'd by Mr. Busby, where hee was and 
whefher hee saw mee, hee sayd, yes, hee did, at which I wel 
remember Mr. Busby turn'd his eye towards mee and sayd koI <ru 
rcKvov and whipt mee, which was the only time I felt the weight of 
his hand and I deserVd it : Hee appointed mee also a Penitential 
copy of Latin verses w"*" I made and brought him and then hee 
gave mee six pence and received mee again into his Favor. April 
14 (or yer.abouts) 1647. The Lord was graciously pleased to 
bring mee home effectually to himself by y° meanes of my 
Schoole-master, Mr. Richard Busby * at the time of y° solemne 
preparation for y° Communion then observ'd. The Lord recom- 
pense it a thousand fold into his bosome. I hope I shal never 
forget. There had been Tre^tyes before between my soul and 
Jesus, with some weak overtures towards him, but then, then I 
think it was that the match was made. 

In May that year,t I was chosen to Oxford Avith 4 others, 

* There is a portrait by Riley in the hall of Christ Church, Oxford, of Dr. 
Busby with the young Pliilip Henry standing beside him. A partial copy of 
this is among the pictures at Westminster School. 

t As the only records of the seventeenth century relative to Westminster 
School are the names of those elected to Oxford and Cambridge, it is only at 
that date — May, 1647 — that "Philip Heniy" occurs. 



PHILIP HENRY. II 

John Busby nephew to Mr. Busby, John Vincent, brother to Mr. 
Vincent, 2^ usher, John Carrick, and George Annesley, son to the 
Viscount Valentia, Brother to him who was afterwards Earl of 
Anglesey, and Lord Privy Seal. Of these I had the second place. 
Five more were chosen at the same time to Cambridge, Palmer, 
Wickham, Stone, Stacey,' Chandler. The December following I 
went to Oxford, lay the first night in my journey at Maidenhead, 
where being a yong Traveller, never so far before on Horse-back, 
and riding hard for Company sake, I swoon'd and was much made 
of though by strangers ; The next day, p.ting with them at Dor- 
chester, whence 6 or 7 miles to Oxford, I was much concern'd 
that I must ride so far alone, and not knowing what to doe, it 
pleased God so to order it for mee that at the Townes-end I 
overtook Mr. Annesley and his. man, whom I miss'd of at my 
setting forth from London, and had their company which I then 
and often since look'd upon as a great mercy though in a small 
matter. 

Anno Domini. 

1647. 

The Earle of Pembroke at my coming downe gave mee 10 
pound, a seasonable mercy, in regard of some straits whereinto 
God in His Providence had brought my deare Father. 

Decern. 15. I came to Oxford. 

1648. 

Mar. 24. I was admitted Student of y° CoUedge by Doct. 
Hammond,* then Sub-Deane, Dr. Fell, Deane & Vice-Chan- 
cellour. 

Shortly after, was the Visitation by Authority of Parliam' which 
changed the Face of the University,! many were tum'd out, that 

* Dr. Henry Hammond called Philip Henry his god-brother, the Earl of 
Pembroke being his godfather also, and Prince Henry the other who gave him 
his name. He was afterwards Bishop-elect of Worcester, and died in April, 
1660, just before the king came in. 

t The sole question proposed to each person in every college that had any 
place of profit was this : " Will you submit to the power of Parliament in this 
present visitation ? " Philip Henry's reply was, "I submit as far as I may with 
a safe conscience and without-perjury." This answer, by the favour of the Earl 
of Pembroke, the chancellor, was accepted. See Clarendon, x. 123, showing 
that the action of the uijiversity at that time covered it with eternal renown. 



12 PHILIP HENRY. 

refused to submit, and others put in their places, — Dr. Samuel Fel, 
the Dean removed, and Dr. Edw. Reynolds put in, also Dr. 
George Morley, and Dr. Rich. Gardiner and Dr. Morris and Dr. 
Sanderson, and Dr. Payn, besides Dr. Hammbnd and one more 
that were Canons turn'd out, only Dr. Wal spar'd ; There were 
then put into their places Dr. Henry Wilkinson, Mr. Cornish, Mr. 
Langley, Mr. Rogers, Mr. Button, Dr. Mills, Mr. Pocock. 

Amongst other Student Masters remov'd, my Tutor Under- 
wood was one, which was very ill for mee, for hee was an ingenuous 
person and a good scholar ; but I was put, by what meanes I know 
not, into the hands of one Mr. Wil. Finmore, who dy'd in the year 
1686, Prebend of Chester, a person able enough, but not wiUing 
to imploy his abilityes for our good, that were committed to his 
charge. Only it pleas'd the Lord to give mee interest in the 
affections of a yong man, an Undergraduate then, being about two 
or three yeares my senior from Westminster, Mr. Richard Bryan, 
who took mee to bee his Chamber-fellow, who read to mee and over- 
look'd my studyes, and was an instrument of much good to mee. 

1648-9. 

At the later end of the year 1648 I had leave given mee to goe 
to london to see my Father, & during my stay there at tliat 
time at Whitehal it was that I saw the Beheading of King Charles 
the first ; He went by our door on Foot each day that hee was 
carry'd by water to Westminster, for hee took Barge at Garden- 
stayres where wee liv'd, & once hee spake to my Father & 
sayd Art thou alive yet 1 On the day of his execution, which 
was Tuesday, Jan. 30, I stood amongst the crowd in the street 
before Whitehal gate, where the scaffold was erected, and saw 
what was done, but was not so near as to hear any thing. The 
Blow I saw given, & can truly say with a sad heart ; at tlie 
instant whereof, I remember wel, there was such a Grone by tlie 
Thousands then present, as I never heard before & desire I may 
never hear again. There was according to Order one Troop 
immediately marching from-wards C/^aring-cross to Westm' & an- 
other from-wards Westm' to charing-cross purposely to masker 
the people, & to disperse & scatter them, so that I had much adoe 
amongst the jrest to escape home without hurt 



PHILIP HENRY. 1 3 



1650. 
Janu. 23. Philip,* earle of Pembroke, dyed. 

1651. 

Feb. 7. I was presented Batchelour of Arts in -f University, 
and determined the lent following. 

The Lord raysed mee up Friends that helpt mee out in the 
expenses, a seasonable mercy. 

May 8. Mr. John Owenf succeeded Dr. Reynolds in 
y" Deanery of Ch. Ch. Dr. Reynolds remov'd for not taking the 
engagement. 

Oct. I. Having long through wicked company beene drawne 
aside from y"" practise of y" power of Godlinesse, upon w"'' I once 
had entred, it pleas'd the Lord by his good spirit to bring mee 
home againe from my wanderings ; Which when I seriously 
consider, both how hainous they were & of how long continu- 

* The account given of this Earl of Pembroke by Clarendon shows that the 
thnes were too difEcult for such a character as his. He died in 1650, and had 
then become, together with the Earl of Salisbury, a political nonentity. The 
contrast between his facile disposition and the strong principle of his second 
wife, Anne Clifford, must have been very marked. On the Countess's Pillar, 
near Penrith, is the following inscription : — " This pillar was erected anno 1656 
by y^ hono''''^ Anne, Countess Dowager of Pembroke &c. daughter and sole 
heire of y° R' Hono""'" George, Earl of Cumberland &c. for a memorial of 
her last parting in this place with her good and pious mother, y" R' Hon'''° 
Margaret Countess Dowager of Cumberland, y' 2"" of April 1616. In memory 
whereof she also left an annuity of four pounds to be distributed to y° poor 
witliin this parrish of Brougham, every a"" day of April for ever upon y" 
stone table here, hard by. Laus Deo. " Anne Clifford married Richard Saville, 
Lord Buckhurst, afterwards third Earl of Dorset, who was born in 1589, and 
died in 1624. Two daughters alone survived, of whom one married the Earl of 
Northampton, the other (Margaret, who eventually inherited the Clifford estates) 
John, Lord Tufton. By her marriage in 1630 with Philip, Earl of Pembroke 
and Montgomery, Anne Clifford had two sons, who died young. From 1650 
she remained a widow for twenty-five years, living upon her estates in West- 
morland, and repairing her five castles. Brougham, Appleby, Brough, Pen- 
dragon, and Skipton. Her message to the Mayor of Appleby, who was bringing 
forward a member for that borough without consulting her, is said to have been 
as follows : — " I have been bullied by an usurper, and neglected by a court, but 
I Won't be dictated to by a subject : your man shan't stand." She died March 
23, 1675 J a good woman in a bad age. 

t On July 9, 1654, Evelyn, who had heard Dr. French preach at St. Mary's, 
Oxford, in the morning, notes, " In the aftemoone, the famous Independent, 
Dr. Owen, perstringing Episcopacy. He was now Cromwell's Vice-Chancelor." 



14 PHILIP HENRY. 

ence, I am sometimes ready to doubt, whether the fonmer work 
were saving yea or no this I hope was, through grace. 

Oct. 5. Being at London I receiv'd the Sacrament, though 
amidst many distractions yet I blesse God, much to y° estabhshm* 
of my late-broken bonds, at Martin's in y° Fields. Mr. Sangar, 
Minister. 

1652. 

Feb. 28. My deare Father, Mr. John Henry, dyed at his 
house in White-hall. A very great affliction, both to mys" and 
sisters, especially y° two little ones. The Lord provide for us.* 

June 8. Being in great straits it pleased y° Lord to move y° 
heart of y° young Earle of Pembroke, t who bestowed upon me 
y" summe of 10 pounds, a seasonable mercy. 
Decern. 10. I proceeded M' of Arts. 

1653- 

Janu. 9. I preacht my first Sermon f at South-Hincsey in 
Oxford-shire, the Text, John 8. 34. The Lord make use of 
mee as an instrument of His glory and His Churches good in that 
calling. 

July 9. I supply'd the Office of Junior of y° Act. Dr. Owen, 
Vice-chancelour. 

* From this it might seem that lie kept an occasional diary while at 
Oxford. 

t Philip, who succeeded as fifth Earl of Pembroke in 1650, was fourth son 
of Philip, the fourth earl, by his first wife Susan, daughter of Edward de Vere, 
Earl of Oxford, married in 1604. He also was married twice, and his successor, 
William, sixth earl, was the son by his first wife Penelope, sole daughter and 
heir of Sir Robert Naunton, Kt., Secretary of State to King James I., a widow. 
Clarendon says of the fifth earl, " This young Earl's affections were entire for 
His Majesty." Pepys says (May 4, 1660) that "he and Lord Salisbury were 
• put out of the House of Lords," with other interesting .notices of him. He died 
in 1669. 

X ' ' The irregularity of preaching before ordination was only tolerated by the 
Presbyterians so far as trial was concerned ; Calvin (' Institut.,' iv. 4, 13) is 
express that the priest shall be elected by the people before he is ordained. The 
election required some acquaintance with the candidate's merits : hence the irre- 
gularities in the Bury Classis of which Walker {' Sufferings of the Clergy," p. 39) 
gives so singular an account, where ten unordained ministers, being distributed 
to ' try their faculties,' were forgotten and preached for yeai-s " (Introduction 
to Newcome's Diary, p. vii.). 



PHILIP HENRY. 1 5 

Mr. Ward of Ch. Ch. my Friend \ ■^^^^^.q'^ 
Mr. Gorge of Saint John's j 

I received for it betweene 8 and 9 'J". Another seasonable 
mercy. 

Sept. 30. By the meanes of Mr. Frances Palmer * I came to 
Emerall in Flint-shire, to Judge Puleston,f to teach his sons and 
to preach at Worthenbury. Stipend 60 "■ p. annu. 
The lord be with mee there ! 
Decern^- 30, \ My sister Cicely was married to Mr. John Dickins, 
or y"'aboitts. ) of Twitnam nee're London. 



1654. 

June 3. — The lady Puleston J and her 5 sons came to Oxford, 
the two eldest under my charge in the Colledge. 
/ufy. I p.form'd y° office of Magister Replicans. 
Dr. Owen vice-chancellour. 
Mr. Cracroft, of Magd. jprocto". 

Mr. Charnock, of New Coll. > 
Sept. 27. I saw my sisters and Friends at london. 

* In the Oxford " Ten Year Book " this name occurred, as of Christ Church 
in 1660, and Professor of Moral Philosophy. 

t The Salop family of De Pyvelesdon received lands in Worthenbury, and 
especially the demesne of Emral, from King Edward I. , which they resigned, 
into his hands, A.D. 1279. He bestowed them upon Robert de Crevecceur, 
who held them till his death in 1317 (Kals. of Exchequer). It is probable, 
liowever, that they recovered Emral in 1309. John Puleston was made Justice 
of the Common Pleas after the execution of King Charles I. in 1649. In Foss's 
"Judges of England," his mother is said to have been Alice, daughter of David 
Lewis, of Bulcot, Oxon. There are references to Dugd., "Orig.," 220; to 
Clarendon, iii. 407; to"Whitelock,342,405; and "State Trials," iv. 1249. Foss 
has some strong words about his want of justice and humanity. He was the 
grandson of George Puleston, of Emral, Esq. , who was baptized at Hanmer 
Church, September 30, 1572. 

% This lady's name was Elizabeth Woliyche, of Dudmaston, Salop. Foss 
says she was daughter of Sir /. W., but as there is frequent reference to her 
" sister Grey," viz. Mary, daughter of Sir Francis Wolryche, Bart., and wife 
of Henry Grey of Enfield, who was grandson of Lord Grey of Groby, she was 
perhaps the Elizabeth who married for her first husband George Grey, third 
son of Henry, first Earl of Stamford. This, however, is uncertain ; and since in 
the Wolryche pedigree to hand there is no mention of an Eleanor who was at 
Emral in 1644, when it was attacked by the Royalists, Lady Puleston and 
" sister Grey" may have been cousins. 



1 6 PHILIP HENRY. 

Oct. 21. My sister Mary came to dwell w"" mee at the lady 
Pulestons. 

Nov. 22. Mr. John Puleston sickned of y° small-poxe, his 
danger very great, but God in mercy restor'd him. A signall 
Answer of prayers. Wee were then at Oxford. 

Jan. I. Sister Mary came first to live at Emeral. 

In this month, Thomas Perkins, was (I hope) savingly brought 
home to God. The Lord make mee faithful and succesfuU ! 
however faithful. This Thomas Perkins hath since Apostatiz'd. 
the lord knows them that are his. 

Feb. 21. I preacht at Wrexham. T. i Cor. vi. ii. 

Mar. 25. Being surprised with a Distemper, a violent cold, 
long breeding and supposing it a Pleurisy, I was let bloud, the 
first time I lost three ounces, 12 hours after I swoon'd. 

Apr. 22. I went abroad and preacht twice, blessed bee God. 

June 25. I went towards Oxford, after three weeks I returned. 
The lord was with mee. 

I left Mr. John Puleston under y° Tuition of Mr. Esay Ward. 
O y' God would blesse him indeed ! 

Sept. II. Deare Mr. Ambrose Lewis and myselfe made 
entrance upon a monthly exercise at Worthenbury, The Lord 
owne it. 

Wee were evill spoken of by some, as if by-ends were in it in 
ref. to Mr. Fogg, but the Searcher of Hearts knowes there were none. 

About this time the Brick barn at Emeral was finisht. 

Oct. 6. The Judge made a Settlement of ;^ioo p. Ann. during 
my stay at Worthenbury. Lord, I seek not their's but them — give 
mee the soules, let who'se will take the Goods to themselves. 

O that God would adde some Scales to my Ministry, that I 
may know I am sent of God ! 

Oct. 23. The lady Puleston set forward towards London for 
advice concern, a sore Breast. At her returne shee brought my 
sister Sarah along with her. 

Nov. 6. The Judge, the lady, & their son Roger being all 
gone to london, I was left alone at Emeral. 



PHILIP HENRY. 1 7 

Nov. 14. I began a monthly exercise at Elsmere, they & 
Holt* are both destitute of a faithful Pastor. 

Nov. 27. — A day of secret Fasting and humbling my Soule for 
Sin, my God accept mee in Christ. 

Many speciall requests were put up in behalfeof Sundry deare 
Relations. The lord from heaven give in an Answer of Peace. 

Decemb. About this time hopes were given of a saving change 
wrought in Mr. Tho. Puleston the Judge's fourth son. 

The Lord perfect the work in mercy ! 

Hee hath since wofully miscarry'd and is become the saddest 
instance of Apostacy, that ever I knew, wee judge according to 
appearance but -f lord judges righteous Judgem'. 

1656. 

Jan. I. I mett in communion with the Lord's people in Holt. 
The day was mostly spent in prayr many requests put up, the 
lord give in an answer of peace. 

Jan. 6. One Edward Robert Ralph, a Tenant of Judge 
Puleston's fell off Bangor-Bridge, and was drown'd ; He was drunk 
and 'twas the lord's day. 6 ! shall men heare and feare ? 

Feb. 5. About this time I began Communion with the 
lord's people at Hanmer in monthly conference and monthly 
humiliation. I dreamt I was condemn'd to bee crucif/d & in 
order thereunto had a crosse upon my shoulder in my way to exe- 
cution with a bible tyed to the end of it. lord fit for tryals. 

Feb. In our Parish of Worthenbury, there was this observable 
Providence. At -f Beginning of the month, Mr. John Broughton f 
dyed, aged 70 y. About the middle, a son of Randle Meredith's aged 
about 30. Towards the end a child of Mr. Lloyd'f of Halghton, 
aged 14 months. I see no age secures from the stroke of Death ; 
hee comes sometimes at midnight ; sometimes at noon, sometimes 
at Cock-Crowing. Lord, fit us for our change. 

* There is a letter, without date, upon this subject, addressed by Philip 
Henry to a friend in Oxford, supposed to be Dr. Owen. 

t Broughton of Broughton in Worthenbury, and Lloyd of Halghton in 
Hanmer, were two ancient families, descended from Tudor Trevor, a chieftain 
who owned the whole of English Maelor in 930. 

C 



l8 PHILIP HENRY. 

Roger Puleston, son of Roger Puleston, of Worthenbury was 
admitted Student of Ch. Ch. Oxon. The Judge and his lady 
writt to Dr. Owen in his behalfe, but I desire to look through 
Instum*" up to God, who proides for those that feare his name, as 
I hope hee doth. 

March. I went to Enfield in Stafford-shire, where the lady 
and my two sisters were. Shortly after my returne, Ap" n, I fell 
sick of a Burning Ague, which held mee severall dayes in great 
extremity, but the lord had mercy, to him be Prayse ! — A letter 
lost, an afflicting providence. 

Apr. 22. Richard Puleston, the Judges third son dyed at 
Emeral of the small Pockes, his mother being then absent at 
Enfield, lord sanctify the stroke to her and the whole family ! 
27. the lady came from Enfield, shee brought with her my sister 
Sarah. 

May. I bought a study of Bookes of Mrs. Lewis of Estlas in 
Denbigh-shire, it cost ;^io. 

June. Great Breaches between Mr. Roger Puleston and his 
mother, Lord heale them ! for because thereof the Family shakes. 

Wee began a Day of Conference to bee kept up for edification, 
lord, set in with thy blessing. 

July, Uncleanesse discovered between two of the servants of 
the Family, the one tum'd away before, the other still in the house, 
lord bring the offenders to repentance, that their soules may bee 
sav'd in the day of the lord Jesus, and through the Blood of 
Christ, let Guilt bee wip't off from tlie Family. Amen ! so be it, 
good lord 1 

Mr. John Puleston left the Colledge and came home to his 
Friends, Our God season his heart with Grace. 

Sept. 16. R. P. assaulted mee in wrath, wherby my unruly 
passions being stir'd I strook againe and hurt his face, against the 
command of our lord Jesus, w* requires the turning of the other 
cheek, the occasion was, zeale for God, though in circumstances 
ill manag'd lord, lay no sin to either of o' charge. The day 
following I preacht at Wrexham. 

Oct. My chamber took fire, the Hearth of y° chimney * being 

* The front of Emral seems of the date of Queen Anne ; the side next the 



. PHI UP HENRY. 19 

ill layd, but the lord in mercy prevented the danger. Blessed bee 
God! 

Nov. 24. Mr. Fogg* said to mee, that hee was Minister of 
Worthenbury, lord, what shall I doe ? cleare to mee what the way 
is wherein thou would'st have mee to walk & cause mee to walk 
in it! 

As to the state of my Soule, this yeare now ending, and the 
yeare before, my sins and failings have been many, even against 
Convictions and Covenants, wherby my conscience hath been 
much wounded, and my Peace often broken and my Christ and 
the spirit griev'd, and my Ministry hindred, but the lord hath 
recover'd mee by Repentance, and I trust, through the blood of 
Christ they are all pardon' d, and shall never bee remembered more. 
Amen, lord ! for sweet Jesus sake ! I think never did poore 
creature passe through such a mixture of Hope and feare, Joy and 
Sadness, Assurance and Doubting, downe and up, as I have done 
for these two last yeares, and still I wayt, that I may see, what the 
lord may doe with mee. My Foot is taken in a snare, lord save 
mee for thy mercy sake. 

As to my labours in the Ministry, I have had much assistance, 
to him that gave it I returne Prayse, Not unto mee lord !^and for 
successe, the lord hath given mee a willing people, and I hope 
there is more seed under the clods then yet appears, the Harvest 
will come, whether I live to bee the Reaper or not, The will of the 
lord be done ! 

moat, where the principal rooms are, is Elizabethan. At Sundome Castle, 
Salop, there is a picture of a house, supposed to be Emral, with a west frontage 
•considerably longer than that of the present house. 

*„The arms of Fogg are given in the Salesbury manuscripts at Wynnstay. See 
"Annals of Windsor," vol. ii. pp. 169, 170, by Tighe and Davis (London, 
1858, 8vo) : " On the 23rd of October, 1642, according to Ashmole, Sir John 
Seyton having that day seized on Windsor Castle for the Parliament, one 
Captain Fog came immediately to the College and demanded the keys of the 
Treasury, but not finding the 3 Key-Keepers, he caused a smith to make 
strong bars of iron, who with them brake down the stone jambs, forced open 
2 doors, and carried thence all the rich chased and other plate made sacred 
and set apart for the service of God : except two double gilt chalices weighing 
62 ounces, and two double gilt Flagons weighing 98 ounces one half."' 
Ashmole (" Order of Garter ") also states (p. 149) that " Edward IV. 's coat of 
•mail, richly gilt^ covered over with crimson velvet &c. was carried away 
by Captain Fogg one of the officers of the Parliamentary forces, on Oct. 23, 
■1642." 



20 PHILIP HENRY. 

A volume published by the University of Oxford upoti 
the peace concluded with Holland in 1654, contains the 
following verses by Philip Henry. The title of the volume 
referred to is thus expressed : " Musarum Oxoniensium 
'EXato^opi'a, sive, ob foedera auspiciis Serenissimi Oliver! 
Reipub. Aug. Scot, et Hiber. Domini Protectoris inter 
Rempub. Britannicam et Ordines Foederatos Belgii feliciter 
stabilita, Gentis togatse ad vada Isidis Celeusma Metricum. 
Oxoniae excudebat Leonardus Lichfield, Academiae Typo- 
graphus: 1654." 

" Noli timere Musa! quid trepido pede 
Seazontis instar claudicas ? 
I, pende ventis carbasa et totos sinus ; 
Tranquilla jam sunt omnia, 
Nulli tumultus, nullus hostium furor. 
Pax undique, et mare liberum est : 
Mercator avidus, dum silentium videt 
Serenioris jEquoris, 
Se somniare putat, et haud credit sibi,. 
Sollicitus et plenus metu 
Ne forte fallax error aut evanidae 
Felicitatis umbra sit ; 
Gemmas, Smaragdos, orbis alteri'us opes, 
Nunc ultro secuiiis petit, 
Et post tot annorum otia, laboris sui 
Majora sperat praemia, 
Sperat, coloni more Messem duplicem 
Post sic peractas ferias. 
Toto Britannos orbe divisos adliuc 
Tandem coire vidimus 
Terrasque pelago separatas arctior 
Compensat animorum unis ; 
Et quam negant Terra, juncturam facit 
Melior Amoris Copula, 
Bellique lites nuperi (bono online) 
Pacis redintegratio est, 

Philip Henry, A.M. ex ^de Christi."' 

At this point it will be necessary to insert some other 
documents in order to show the ecclesiastical position of 



PHILIP HENRY. 21 

Worthenbury at that time, and thus to explain how the 
benevolent designs of Judge Puleston towards Philip Henry 
were eventually frustrated. The small piece of Flintshire 
which lies to the east of the Dee was made part of that 
county, A.D. 1284. During Saxon times it had been divided 
between Salop and Cheshire, as Domesday Book shows. 
But the name by which it was known to the Welsh was 
Maelor Saesneg, or English Maelor. That name it retains 
to the present day. The word Maelawr means a place of 
traffic, and there was a district of undefined extent upon the 
west side of Dee that was called Maelor Cymraeg (Welsh). 
Upon an island in the river Dee, but with some principal 
buildings also upon the right bank of the river, lay the 
ancient Bancornbury, as St. Bede calls it, known generally as 
Bangor-is-y-coed (the high choir under the trees) or Bangor 
Monachorum. This was the British Oxford, and from 
thence Christianity flowed forth far and near. We are told in 
Domesday Book that in the reign of Edward the Confessor, 
and before then, it formed part of the see of Lichfield. It is 
probable that this eastward inclination of Maelor Saesneg 
is in accordance with historic precedent, for although critics 
will not allow us to speak any longer of Britannia Secunda, 
yet from the fact that the " Cornavii of Ptolemy possessed 
that detached region which adjoins the village of Banchor, 
all Cheshire, all Shropshire, etc.," we may see that its being 
made a part of the county of Flint in 1284, and added — 
with the exception of two districts — to St. Asaph diocese in 
1849, was not historically justifiable. It is true that the 
bulk of the people were of British origin, and spoke Welsh, 
perhaps, till the reign of Henry VIII., but that would not 
prove them to be of the same descent as those on the west 
side of the Dee ; and from Wales being much of a noverca 
to Maelor Saesneg, and the inhabitants of the latter indig- 
nantly repudiating any Welsh ancestry, it may at least 



22 PHILIP HENRY. 

be surmised that they came of a different strain. In the 
year 1288 Pope Nicholas V. granted the tenths to King 
Edward I. for six years, towards defraying the expenses of 
an expedition to the Holy Land. Within the deanery of 
Wye Mauban and Brexins occur the churches of Malus 
Passus, Tilleston, Codynton, Totenhale, Aldeforde, Hameme, 
Bankeburn-cum-capella. Whether the capella was Worthen- 
bury or Overton does not appear. At the Reformation 
Maelor Saesneg became part of the new diocese of Chester. 
In the valuation of benefices, A.D. 1600, there are only two 
parishes in Bangor deanery, Bangor and Hanmer ; and 
in 1635 Bishop John Bridgeman of Chester gives George 
Snell, Archdeacon of Chester, authority over the rural 
deans of Frodsham, Bangor, Malpas, Middle-wich, and 
Wich Malban. With respect to the advowson of the rectory 
of Bangor, it belonged generally to the superior lord of the 
soil. In 1270 this was Gruffudd Maelor, Prince of Powys>. 
and a sum of money was allowed out of the revenues of the 
living towards the education of the youngest son, Owain, 
who was about to take Holy Orders, and to be inducted 
into the living. He died, however, and the Powys estates 
being alienated by King Edward I., we find the same 
process repeated with respect to a son of the Lord St. John. 
In the diocesan registers at Lichfield, under date 20 April, 
29 Edward I., there is "a sequestration of the profits of 
Bangor Parsonage, that of the same the cure might be dis- 
charged, and mayntenance given to William, son of John 
Lord St. John, to bring him up in study, who could not yet 
be fully admitted to that church, because of his non-age." 
Upon the death of William St. John, 18 Edward II., the 
king presents to the living. In 3 Edward III. there 
is also a vacancy, but it does not appear this time who it 
was that nominated. From that date, however, till 1653, 
or soon after, the presentation was in the hands . of the 



Philip henry. 23 

Lestranges, or their successors, the Stanleys. It was then 
made over, with the manorial rights of the western parts 
of the English Maelor, to the ancient family of Lloyd of 
Halghton. At the same time Sir Thomas Hanmer purchased 
from the Countess of Derby the lordship of the parish of 
Hanmer, and it is probably owing to this circumstance 
that the Commissioners were uncertain whether or not 
he had a share in the patronage of the living of Bangor. 
From the following papers it will be seen that there had 
been a long-standing feud between the Emral family and 
the rectors of Bangor, which was in no way diminished 
when the incumbent was a Presbyterian. Judge Puleston 
having secured the consent of Mr. Lloyd, the patron 
of Bangor, to his exercising the right of nomination to 
the chapelry of Worthenbury, and finding his hands much 
strengthened by the report of the Commission, which had 
been issued doubtless at his instance, thereupon built a 
house for the Incumbent of Worthenbury, and settled ;£'ioo 
per annum upon him. The way in which his claims were 
met at an earlier date, when Bishop John Bridgeman of 
Chester held also the rectory of Bangor, will show the 
difficulties of the case. We shall find Philip Henry after-^ 
wards expressing great doubt as to his own legal position 
at Worthenbury, 

Puleston. 

This Ondenture made the foureteenth day of March in the 
yeare of our Lord one thousand six hundred fifty & eight 
Betweene Thomas Lloyde of Halghton in the County of fHynt 
Esq° of the one part and John Puleston of Emrall in the said 
County of fflynt Serjeant att Law of the other part. Witnesseth 
that the said Thomas Lloyd for divors good consideracons him 
thereunto moveing hath granted released and confirmed, and by 
these presents -doth grant release and confirme unto the said 



24 PHILIP HENRY. 

John Puleston All the Adwowson and right of patronage of the 
Parish Church of Worthenbury in the said County of fHynt To 
have and to hold the said Adwowson and right of patronage of 
the said Church of Worthenbury to the said John Puleston his 
heires and assignes forever To the onely use & behoofe of the 
said John Puleston his heires & assignes for ever, In Witnesse 
whereof the parties above named have to these presents inter- 
changably put their hands and seales the day and yeare first above 
written. 

Sealed and Delived 
in the presence of 

Griffith Jones 

Thomas Beckett 

John Holliman. 



To the Sheriffs of the County of fHint. 

Whereas wee, and others are appoynted and Authorized by a 
Comicon out of the High Courte of Chancery dated the iSth of 
ffebruary 1657, To enquire by the Oathes of good, and lawfuU 
men of the County of fiflint (amongst other things) how many 
chappells are belonging to the Parish Church of Bangor and 
wh"'' are fitt to bee united or divided from the saide Parish Church 
of Bangor and how the said Church and Chappells are supplied 
with preachinge Ministers, that course may bee. taken both for 
preachinge and mainteiince where it shall bee needefull. ^^'ee 
therefore intendinge to execute the said comicon accordinge to 
the tenor thereof doe appoynt Monday the Nineteenth day of 
Aprill next at the dwellinge house of Robert ap Prichard in 
Bangor in the County of fflint to meete and pceede in th' exe- 
cucon of the said Comicon. Wee therefore by virtue of the said 
Comicon require & comand you the Sheriffe of the County of 
fflint that upon the said 19*^ day of Aprill next by eight of the 
Clocke in the morninge at the dwellinge house of Robert ap 
Prichard aforesaid you cause to come before us such and as 
many honest and able men of yo"^ Bayliewick (as well within 
liberties as without) by whom the truth in the p'misses may be 



PHILIP HENRY. 25 

knowne and enquired of. In wittnes whereof we have hereunto 
put our hands, and Seales. 

John Broughton ( J 



Owen Barton 
Richard Basnet 
Roger Puleston 

Ow. LLOYD 



o 

o 
o 
o 



The execution of this precept appeares in a certain Schedule 
to this writ annexed. 

Ra: Hughes Esq'., 

Sherriffe. 



The names of the Jury to inquire for His Highness the 
Lord Rtector touching Ecclesiasticall Emotions. 

Andrew ElUse of Hanmer gent 
Thomas ap John of Beachfield g 
Edward Kinaston of the same g 
Thomas Young of Croxon g fn: 
John Aldersey of Bronington g fn: 
Thomas Jackson of the same g 
Randle Edowe of Iscoed gen 
Edward Pal}^! of Haulghton g fn: 
Randle Key of Willington g 
John Mathewes of the same g fn: 
Randle Moyle of Worthenbury g fn: 
Edward Tona of Bangor g 
John Lewis of the same g fn: 
John ap Wm ap Edd of the same g 
John Price of Overton fforren g fn: 
Humfrey Shone of the same g fn: 
Humfrey Rob*" of the same g fn: 



26 PHILIP HENRY. 

William Butler of Tybroughton g fn: 
Edward ap Robert of Overton g fn: 
Thomas powell of Knowlton g fn: 
E(M ap Edn of the same g 
Edward ap Roger of Arbistock g 
Griffith Jones of Worthenbury fn: 
Robert Yale of the same gt fn: 
Tho: ap Hugh of Owton gent, fn: 
John Jenings of Willington g fn: 
Stephen Rudenhurst of the same g fn: 
Jo. ap Edward of Owton Villa S-io =ro;in 

yio Ycna 

Return of the Jury upon the Commission of 
Ecclesiastical Promotions. 

The Jurors upon their Oaths say 

That the Church of Worthenbury in the County of filint is a 
pish Church to w""" the cure of soules is anexed. And that John 
Puleston Sergeant at Lawe is seised in his demeafne as of £Fee ot 
an Auncient Mefsuage called Emerall in Worthenbury in the 
County of fHint. And of diverse lands, meadows, and pastures 
thereunto belonginge. And that the said John, and all those 
whose estate hee hath p'misses by all the tyme whereof the memory 
of man is not to the contrary, Have collated a Clerke to the said 
Parish Church of Worthenbury, as oft as the same became voyde 
(excepting the tyme of the late Ladie Pulefton's Widdowhood) 
who held the said house of Emerall in dower dureinge her life. 

And they likewise say that the Clerks soe collated by all the 
tyme aforesaid have, or ought to have enjoyed the tyeth Hay 
ariseinge within the said ^ish of Worthenbury, and all the Tithe 
wooll, Lambe, and other smale Tyeths ariseinge within the said 
j)ish or a Composicon for the same, w""' Tyeths are worth 20" by 
the yeare. 

They further say. That Phillip Henry Master of Artes a 
learned and diligent preacher of the gospell is Minister and 
Incumbent of the Church of Worthembury by the collacon of the 
said John Puleftbn. 



PHILIP HENRY. 2/ 

They further find that in the said Parish of Worthembury there 
is, and by all the tyme whereof the memory of man is not to the 
contrary hath beene an Ancient Chappell anexed to the ^ish 
church of Bangor, and that the said John Pulefton and all those 
whose Estate hee hath in the said Mefsuage of Emerall and 
p'mifses have had and enjoyed the tyeth corne groweinge within 
the said ^ish of Worthembury payeinge yearly for the same 20" to 
the Parfons of Bangor, for the tyme beinge as in right of the said 
Chappell The said Tyeths being ordinaryly worth 60'' by the 
yeare. 



" This is drawn through ' 
and the following written 
' That Rob' ffogg is f 
minister of Bangor by 
the sequeftracbn of Mr. 
H. B. & preaches & 
officiates there.'" 



"They likewise find that Mr, 
Henry Bridgman is pfon of Bangor, 
and that Robert flFogg Gierke doth 
serve the Cure and take the Tyeths 
of Bangour to his own ufe by seques- 
tracon for the delinquencie of Mr. 
Henry Bridgman." 
They find that the Tyeths of the pfonage of Bangor are worth 
150" by the yeare.* 

They find that the church of Worthembury and the chappell 
in Worthembury are distant two myles from the church of Bangor. 
And that the chappell of Worthembury is distant from the pish 
Church of Worthembury about a myle. 

They likewise say that the Chappell in Worthembury hath cure 
of soules : and that the pfons of Bangor for ought they can find 
have not p'formed any divine service there. 

They also find That Thomas LLoyde Esq'' {sic) is Patron of 
the Church of Bangor and the Chappell in Worthemburye there- 
unto anexed. And that John Puleston Sergeant at Law is Patron 
of the Donative Church of Worthembury. And the Jurors further 
say that they hold it fitt that the said Chappell in Worthembury, 
and th6 said pencon of 20" by the yeare should bee sev.ed, and 
taken from the said Parsonage of Bangor, and bee settled to the 
Parish Church of Worthembury in the same manner as they were 
settled and anexed to Bangor. 

And the said Jurors say that they doe not know of any 

* Vide infra, where they are said to be worth ;£^200 per annum exclusive 
of Overton, which was of the value of ;^I20. 



28 PHILIP HENRY. 

■spirituall or ecclesiasticall benefices, liveings, and Donatives with 
or without the Cure of Soules within the said Parish of Bangor, or 
the Limits thereof. Neyther have they any Evidence given them 
of any other Ecclesiasticall benefices. 

The case concerning the Parish Church of Worthenbury and 
■the Chapellry of Emerall truly stated. 

John Puleston, Sergeant at law is seised of an ancient Mansion 
House called Emerall, within the Parish of Worthenbury, and that 
hee and all those whose Estate hee hath in the said Mansion 
House have, for all the tyme whereof the memory of man is not 
to the contrary, collated a fitt Parson to the said church and that 
the Parsons soe collated have, for all the tyme aforesaid, receaved 
and enjoyed all the tyeth hay, and all the small tyeths yearly 
growing within the bounds and precincts of the said parish, the 
value whereof is not much more than 2ojQ per annum. There is 
likewise within the said Parish an auncient Chappell belonging to 
the said Mansion house of Emerall, which Chappell is anexed to 
the Parson of Bangor and that for tyme out of mynde, the said 
Parson hath receaved 20;,^ per annum from the said John Puleston 
and his Predecessors for the tyeth corne of the Parish of Worthen- 
bury, and for the performeing of Divine service in the said 
Chappell — ^which service the Incumbent never performed. The 
Parsonage of Bangor is worth 200;^ per annum and hath anexed 
to it the Parish Church of Owton, worth i2o_;^ per annum. The 
desire of the said Mr. Puleston is that the said Chapellry might 
be reunited to the Parish Church of Worthenbury out of which it 
was taken, and that the Tyeths worth /^ojQ [?] may be granted 
and united to the Parson of the Parish Church of Worthenbury 
and his successors, and that 200,;^ formerly paid to the Parish of 
Bangor may be extinguished, and that a certayne close called the 
•Coate or ... in Worthenbury being the Inheritance of the said John 
Puleston may likewise be settled to the Parson of the said Parish 
Church of Worthenbury, and his successors for ever, upon which 
the said John Puleston intends to build all necessary houses for 
the accomodacon of the said Parson and his successors. 

John Puleston. 



PHILIP HENRY. 29 

An exemplification of a verdict dated the i6th of January in 
the 1 6th (or loth) year of King James for John Puleston Esq. 
against- Prichard Minister of Bangor. 

Another exemplification of a verdict dated the 1 6th of January 
in the 15th year of King James betwixt the same partys for takeing 
the tyeths of Come in Worthenbury. 

The other papers contain the answers to John Puleston, Wm. 
Phillips, Thos. Phillips, Edward ap David, John Allarte to a bill 
of complainte apparently filed by John Bishop of Chester or by 
Thomas Prichard, Curate of Bangor in his own court respecting 
the tithes of hay in the Pitties, the two Llanvarreds, and the 
Tallarne Pasture, and the Bishop's replication to the same. 
The Bishop's reply maintains that the statements in his bill of 
complaint are true, denies that there is a Manor of Emerall, except 
in name, denies the custom alleged, saying that the Tythe was 
sometimes paid in kind, sometimes sold for different sums of 
money. 

A coppy of an instrument dated 1683 from John Bishop of 
Chester and Thos. Lloyd patron of the Rectory of Bangor for the 
annexing the House, Gleab land tithes lying and ariseing in the 
Parish and Township of Worthenbury to the Rector there. 

19th Sept 1653. 
CosiN Palmer, 

Ye Messeng' w""" brought mee a letf^ fro y" brought 
y° judg one also fro his Nephew, Mr. Hamlet Puleston. But no 
motio of a Schoolm'. However I rely so much on y' choice of 
ye ggjit"™ pposed, y' thers' no need to trouble Mr. H. Puleston. I 
am content to abate one of y° sermons, hoping hee will pray in y" 
family, instead thereof, w""" is so easy to a Christian y' hee 's rather 
lead than drawn therto, and if y° expositions of Chapters or 
Psalmes bee easyer to him then preaching, I shal like it (as ever I 
have done) bett' than y° other. Im' confident wee shall not differ 
heerin ffor I shall eyther wait ffor -f guifts and calling of God in 
him, (w"'' are w"'out repentance) or wholly indulg him ffiro y° ffor- 
malities of preaching, praying, &c. — as some use y". please to send 
him away ffor y° half year ffro y° time hee comes till 26 weekes be 



30 PHILIP HENRY. 

compleat : his allowance shall be half -f revenue pposd, and other 
accomodations mentiond formerly. This time of probatio will 
conclude us eyther on a ffarther time, or repayring to Oxford at 
Spring. . . . Please to keep y° letter ... as an evidence of our 
bargain. I have delivered -f Bearer ^£, fifor y' Gentleman in part 
of y" first quarteridg. What y° charge of y° journey takes out of it 
I will supply at 'f' quarters end when I pay y" rest to make out 15^^. 
I have sent a horse and a ifootman to wait on him hither. Mr. 
Roberts is grown a worthy Christian and I greatly value him. 
if y" have a mind to see what works God hath done in him, y" 
shall finde him at one Mr. Courtneys Lodging in Milbanck neer 
Tuttle-Fields. God can do as much ifor Mr. Henry y° know. I 
pray y" hasten him hyther. If pleas God to give success to -f^ 
endeavours I shal bee glad. I wish y' Gentlem" to take his 
journey on Fryday, and rest at my Sister Grayes on Lord's day so 
hee may bee at Emral on Munday night. I desire a good-journey, 
ffrancis Palmer (Juni. and Tremeli.) notes upo y' Bible I desire 
y" to send mee, & y* Bible in Greek w""" y' learned ffriends, 
Septuagint, translated ffor Ptolemy. 

I thank y" ffor y' respect and shall ever rest 
To my much respected Y' welwishing Cosin, 

Kinsman Mr. Francis Palmer Elizabeth Puleston. 

a Master of Arts If y" will come to see how 

at Christ's Church in Oxford wee thrive y" shal bee wel- 

or in his absence to one Mr. Henry come. My Roger Puleston 
Master of Art 5z: of y° same House. love to y° & so y° rest. 

The following letter from Lady Puleston shows plainly 
what Philip Henry gave up by leaving Oxford, and taking 
up with such work as he found at Emral and Worthenbury. 
The reply from Dr. Owen is also given. 

From Lady Puleston to Dr. Owen, Dean of Christ Church, 
Oxford. 

My much Honored Cosin, 

I was in hopes I should have seen you here as you 
purposed the last Spring, and am very sorry it fell out otherwise ■ 



PHIUP HENRY: 31 

it hath pleased the lord to lay mee low under his hand, by much 
payn and many months, sicknesse from a Cancer in my Breast, 
and I am way ting every.day till my change cometh,,but if we meet 
no more on earth, I hope wee shall in the Armes of Jesus Christ. 
There is a friend of iriine whose name is Edward Thomas of 
Wrexham, who brings his son to your CoUedge, and I request you 
to countenance him with your Favour, the youth is very hopefull 
both in learning and Grace, and his Father an ancient Professor 
of Godlinesse in these parts, and one of approv'd Integrity, and I 
know. Sir, that such and what concernes them lyes near your 
Heart upon far greater and better interests then mine, and I 
persuade my selfe, what your opportunityes will permitt you to 
doe in his behalfe, you will receive a full recompence of re- 
ward for from him, who hath promis'd to requite even a cup of 
cold water given in the name of a Disciple. Mr. H. is here 
with mee, what my Husband intends concerning him is not yet 
settled, but I hope shortly it will bee, in the mean time I am loth 
hee should leave a certainty in the Colledge for an uncertainty 
here, and doe therefore desire you to continue his Place to him 
for a while longer, that seeing the lord hath made him willing to 
lay out himselfe in the work of the Gospel so far remote from his 
Friends in this poor dark comer of the land, hee may not in any 
thing bee prejudic'd for our Sakes. My husband is at London or 
in his way home, wee and cur's are much engag'd to you for your 
love, and I should have beene very Glad if it might have fallen 
within the compasse of my Abilityes to make known other then 
by words my sense of your many Kindnesses ; but 'tis the lords 
will I should dye your Debtor; With my true unfayned respects 
and service to your lady and Selfe, 

I rest 
Your affectionate Cosin & Friend, 

E. P. 

To Lady Puleston wife of John P. one of y° Judges of 
y" Common Pleas. 
Madam. 

Whilst I was in hopes to have waited upon you, and 
your worthy husband, at your owne house, I reservd my begginge 



32 PHILIP HENRY. 

of your pardon, that I had not made my acknowledgements of y' 
favour, in owning and minding a relation of kindred, and sundry 
other respects, unto that season. Being by the providence of God 
prevented as to those resolutions, I am bold to lay hold on this 
opportunity, of returning my hea!rty thanks for your kind remem- 
brances of him, who is in no way able to deserve your respects, 
though he will at all times owne as hearty and entire an honor and 
regard to y' Lad" & your noble husband as any person living, I 
hope you both, with my Cousins your sons, are in health ; and are 
resolved, (if y° lord please) to see you at y" beginning of the 
Springe, my wife presents her faithfull service and respects to your 
Lady" and is glad to hear of your name, for my part, it is some 
contentment to me, that whilst I am in this place, I have some 
little opportunity to express a regard to that relation you are 
pleased to allow me the honor of, by taking the best care I can of 
him, who bears the name of your family, my young cousin Puleston 
& humbly begg y" pardon of this trouble, and leave to subscribe 
myself 

Madam, 

y' most humble servant 
My most humble service and affectionate kinsman 

& respects to w'"" many thanks John Owen. 

for his kind invitation, to 
Your worthy husband. 

The following diary belongs to Miss Lewis, of Croydon, 
to whom my best thanks are due for the loan of it, and 
of other manuscripts. 

1657- 

This was the first yeare in which I began to keep an Account 
of my Time in this method. If the Lord blesse mee I meane to 
hold on, and I hope Use will make mee more and more perfect in 
it, 'tis a pleasing, profitable, heavenly Art. 

6 Deus, Doce me numerare dies meos. 

The Day of a Deliverance is to bee remembred, and God 
takes it ill when wee doe not remember it. See Psal. 78. 42. 



■ PHILIP HENRY. 33 

If T am a Reprobate I shall bee damn'd But lam not a Repro- 
bate, ergo, negatur minor tliou canst not prove it, the Book is kept 
secret. Though the Godly may by their calling know their Elec- 
tion, yet none can know in this life their Reprobation. 

Mr. Ball the Preacher's sons, when y" left the University and 
came forth to preach, kept a day of Humiliation with their godly 
freinds in the Country, to implore mercy for their University sins, 
so, lord, forgive mee my University sins ! 

I was told of a Godly, faithfull minister of whom the Drunkards 
made songs, if I doe my Duty, I must look for the same. 

A Gentleman was wont to repell temptation with this word / 
am Bapti^d. 

When a fire is first kindled there's a great deale of smoke and 
smother that afterw. weares away. So in young Converts, much 
peevishnesse, frowardnesse, Darknesse. So it hath beene with my 
soule, and so it is yet in great measure, lord, pity ! don't quench 
smoking flax, though as yet it doe but smoke. 

A tree cut up by y" roots yet may have the leaves green upon 
it a great while. So a people or person devoted by God to ruine 
may yet retaine many of their oiitward comforts for a time, but 
y"' are withering. Saul though rejected obtayn'd many victoryes. 

Luther was a man of a very hot fiery spirit, suteable to the 
work hee was called out ta 

. Melancthon was more Slow and moderate and remisse, which 
very much temper'd lather's Zeale. 

B'' Jewell a little before his Death, sang the 71^' Psalm. 

Dr. Willett y° 146. hee dyed of a Fall from off" his horse. 

Dan. Rogers a man eminently Godly yet somet. would bee very 
vaine and light as if no grace at all in his heart. 

Queer. A man makes a vow, upon his Daughter's marriage 
against his will, never to leave her any thing of his estate. His 
Daughter afterw. behaves hers, so as to recover his Favour, is hee 
or may hee bee releas't of his Vow ? 

Queer. A Gentlewoman having strong affections towards one, 
and' earnestly desiring him for her husband, suffers y° fire to burne 
inward and conceales her love. Shortly after, being sick, shee 
makes a Vow, never to entertayne such thoughts any more; it 
pleases God, shee recovers and notmthstanding all endeavours 

D 



34 PHILIP HENRY. 

w'" hers, to the contrary, her affections stir againe, being made 
knowne to y" Party, hee inclines to have her, qucBrie, may they 
marry without Breach of vow. 

the Gentlewoman is under f Government of her Mother, being 
lilive. 

Queer, whether it bee lawfull in triviall matters to cast lots. 

Queer, what am I to doe, if I receive brasse money and know 
not of whom, may I put it off if I can to others, or must I suffer 
losse by it ?■ — Suffer. 

Qucsr. Concerning Private Baptism. 

Qutzr. Concerning Preaching on Christmas-day. 

Three things, which if X"""' doe, they may prove mistaken — 

1. if they look for that in thems. which is to bee had in 
another, viz. Righieousnes. 

2. if they look for that in the law w* is to be had only in 
-f Gospel, viz. Mercy. 

3. if they look for that on earth w* is to bee only in Heaven. 
1/iz. Perfection. 

Carnall Gospellers are Gospel-Spillers. — Bolton. 

Non videtur Adam pecasse in Bonaventura. 

A Speech of Mr. Sam. Hieron's a little before his Death ; I 
confesse in publike I have been somewhat full in reproof, in 
admonition, in instruction, but in private my backwardnesse, my 
bashfulnes, my dastardlinesse hath been intolerable, and I may 
say that if any th. lyes as a burthen upon my conscience, this is it, 
but I praise my God, I know upon whose shoulders to cast it with 
the rest of my Transgressions. 

A Speech of Mr. Dod's, / would to God I were the worst 
Minister in England. 

It was a saying of one of the Kings of France, viewing his 
Stately buildings, pleasant Gardens &c. These are the things that 
make men unwilling to dye. 

July 6. I made addresses to the Presbytery in Shrop-shire for 
Ordination. 

They mett at Frees, there were present Mr. Porter,* Prcesident, 
Mr. Houghton, Mr. Parsons, Mr. Binney, Mr. Steel. \ 

* Mr. Porter was "bred at Cambridge ;" presented to the living of Han- 
mer by Sir Thomas Hanmer, Bart., in 1625 ; "was forced to withdraw during 



J'HILIP HENRY. 35 

Inquiry was made. i. concerning the work of grace upon my 
Heart. 

Whereunto I reply'd, The Spirit has been dealing with mee 
while I was very young, not only in the publique Ministry, but by 
y° private Instructions of a Godly mother also, & I hop'd had 
convinc't mee of my sin, & discovered to mee my need of 
X' and bow'd my will in some measure to close with him upon his 
owne Termes, in sincerity, unfaynedly, and that having taken him 
to bee mine, I had also resign'd mys. up to him to bee his, to bee 
guided & governed by him, and resolved by his grace to continue 
in his wayes unto y° Death. 

2. Concerning my skill in the Originall languages of the 
Scripture. 

for the Hebrew, I read & construed. Ps. 2. i. 2. 
for the Greek, I read & construed, luk 16. 1. 2. , 

3. for logique, I was askt, guotuplex est Syllogismus ? . I answer'd, 
vel Categorkus vel Hypotheticus. Item, Probabilis vel Demonstra- 
tivus. quae sunt leges legitimi Syllogismi. Resp. nihil concluditur 
nisi altera propositio sit universalis — &c. 

A. For Philosophy. Quid est elementum? Resp. est sub- 
stantia pura (potiiis ; est corpus simplex) ex qua omnia fiunt (I 
should have added, et in quam ultimo resolvuntur). An sit eadem 
materia cceli et Terrse ? Resp. non. Materia cceli est incorruptib. 
—Err. 

An detur elementum ignis ? Imo ! ubi ? sub concavo luns. 
Ut probas ? quia e. elem. levissim &c. &c. &c. 

the heat of the wars," and — according to tradition — appointed to Whitchurch 
ty the Protector in 1650. In 1656 he had a public dispute in Ellesmere Church 
with one Haggar, an Anabaptist, concerning infant baptism, occasioned by a 
sermon Mr. Porter had preached on that subject. In " 1653, ffeb. II. Jebes, 
s. of Tho. Porter, pastor heare," is buried at Whitchurch. In " 1657, Sep. 5. 
Mary wife of Tho. Porter Min' " is buried ; and in " 1660, Mar. 26. Thomas 
Porter, the elder, of this par. and Susan Clive of the par. of Baschurch " are 
married. 

t Richard Steel of Barthomley; Cheshire, took his M. A. degree at St. John's 
College, Cambridge, and an "ad eundem" at Oxford, July 5, 1656 (Anthony 
a Wood). In "Collections for Walker's Suif. of Clergy," Bodleian, vol. i. 
No. 203, we are told that Mr. Porter placed him at Hanmer, but the date 
is not given. Newcome visits him there, June 10, 1654, and wishes to imitate 
his "kindness." He assisted at the ordination of Philip Henry in 1657, and of 
JMatthew Henry in 1687. 



36 PHILIP HENRY. 

5. What Authors in Divinity I had read. A. Somet in 
Wollebius, Amesius, Calvin. 

Qu. what are the parts of X'" Mediatorship. A. three, his 
priestly, kingly, prophetic office. 

Q. w' doth X' doe as prophet ? 

A teaches his Church. Q. immediately ? A. no. by his Spirit 
in his word, what are the parts of his Preistly office. A. two. 
his Death & his Intercession. 

6. What was my Judgem' in ref. to Infant-Baptisme, ought any 
children to bee baptiz'd. 

A I believe they ought & I am clear in it. 

7. what in refer, to y° controversy betw. Presbyterian and 
Independant. 

Answ' was made for mee, if I had not approved of the Pres- 
byt. way, I would not have come thither. 

I reply' d, in most things according to my present light I did, but 
I had not had opportunity to search into y° bottom of -f controv. 

8. the place of Script propos'd was i Cor. 10. 26. 28. Qu. 
how come y° same words of the Psalmist to bee a reason why 
y" should eat & why y°' should not. 

A. in a different sense, i. you may eat, for the earth is y° lord^ 
q.d. every creature of God is good if receiVd with Thanksgiving- 
by y™ y' know y* truth. 2. if your brother bee offended, you 
may forbear, for y" earth, q.d. there are other th. enough which 
you may eat freely of without offence. 

9. This case of Conscience was propounded. Suppose one 
should come to you & make complaint of his condition, 6 Sir, 
I am undone, 'tis to no purp. for mee to wayt upon f meanes of 
Grace, I am a Reprobate, & if a Reprobate, no salvation. 

A. I would deny his minor, & endeavour to shew him, that 
though a man may know his own election yet hee cannot his 
Reprobation. 

Ob. Suppose hee should reply, I have y° mark of a reprobate, 
much guilt, a hard heart, a seared Conscience. 

A. I would endeavour to convince him, there is nothing which 
befalls a reprobate but may befall one that is elect before Con- 
version except the Guilt of y° sin agt y° holy Gh. 



PHILIP HENRY. 37 

10. Concerning church-history I was only askt whether I had 
read Eusebius &c. 

I answered, I had, some of him, but not all over. 

These were the Occurrences of that day's meeting. 

They gave mee a Qu. to provide a Thesis upon against the 
next meeting. 

Qu. an Providentia divina extendat se ad omnia. Aff. 

There were examin'd the same day Mr. Hall of New-castle in 
Staffordshire and Mr. Jones of llanarmon in Denbigh-shire. 

The lord prosper all my undertakings that are accor. to His will ! 

Aug. 3. I exhibited my Theses upon the aforesaid Question, 
All Providentia divina extendat se ad omnia, concerning which, 
Disputation was held for about the space of halfe an houre or 
more, there oppos'd Mr. Parsons, Mr. Binney, Mr. Houghton, 
and Mr. Porter moderated ; The maine thing insisted on was If 
God concur by his Providence to every action, how is hee not 
then the Author of Sin, to which Answer was given, the materiality 
of -f Action is from God, but the formality w"'' is y° sinfulnesse of 
it, is from the sinner himselfe. 

lord, I desire thou may est have the glory of all my abilityes, 
naturall, morall, spirituall ; if they were more, thou shouldst have 
more glory ; and I beg of thee to overlook my failings, especially 
the Pride and selfishnesse that is often stirring its. in my poor 
soule for Christ his sake. 

I left, two Certificates, w"' Mr. Bevan, the Register to the 
classis. One from Oxford, subscrib'd by Dr. Wilkinson, Dr. 
langley, Mr. Cornish, Mr. Button, the other subscrib'd by Mr. 
Steel, Mr. Orl. Fogg, Mr. Jenkyn, 

both testifying of my conversation &c. the lord forgive mee 
that it hath not been more exemplary, as it ought, for piety and 
Industry. Amen, lord ! in Christ. 

The day for Ordination was appointed to bee, Wednesday, 
Sept. 16. the place, Prees. 

I would very faine have been ordain'd at Worthenbury, the 
place where God hath cast my lott, which I beleeve comes nearest 
the Institution but it might not bee, rebus publicis sic stantibus 
— Hopes thereof was one mayn motive to mee to defer being 
ordayn'd so long. — The lord prosper mee in his works. 



38 PHILIP HENRY. 

Sept. 14. Upon Publication of my intentions to bee ordayn'd 
Mr. Fogg put in a Caveat against mee, not in reference to the 
thing its. but in reference to the Place, hee conceiv'd it an in- 
trenchm* upon his right to Worthenbury and a praejudice to his 
proceedings for y° recovery of it, in a course of law. — Much was 
said before the Classis, /n? and con., the result whereof was this, 
that if I would desire his consent hee would freely give it, I conde- 
scended for peace sake and it was done in Scriptis in this forme. 

Whereas the Inhabitants of Worthenbury in the County of 
Flint, have desired mee Philip Henry to bee their Minister I doe 
desire the consent of Mr. Fogg rector of Bangor, that I may bee 
ordajoied thereunto. — P. H. 

I am contented' that Mr. Phil. Henry doe officiate in the 
Chappel of Worthenbury, and doe humbly beg a blessing from 
the lord upon his labours and endeavours there. — R. F. 

the Original remaynes in the Custody of Mr. Bevan, Scribe to y° 
Classis. 

I expect, hee should talk big of my submission to him herein, 
but I value it not. 

Sept. 16. I was ordayn'd Minister, being solemnly set apart 
thereunto by Imposition of Hands. Mr. Porter began the day in 
Prayer ; Mr. Parsons preacht Text, i Tiin. i. 12. T thank 
Christ Jesus our lord who hath enabled mee, for tliat hee counted 
mee faithfull, putting mee into the Ministry. After Sermon they 
proceeded to Ordination, I was ordayn'd first, Mr. Parsons 
(according to the Forme) requir'd of mee a Confession of my 
Faith which I made, and propounded severall Questions to meet 
to which I gave Answer ; thereupon hee prayed, and in Prayer 
Hee, and Mr, Porter and Mr. Houghton and Mr. Maiden and 
Mr. Steel layd their hands on me; and so successively on five 
more, Mr. Jones of llanarmon, Mr. Dickens of Mortonsay, Mr. 
Bradley of Nesse, Mr. Hall of Newcastle, Mr. Hanmer * of Whit- 

* 111 his "Antiquities of Myddle," p. 160, Ridiard Gough says, "John 
Ellice because he came hither from Hanmer w.ns called EUice of Hanmer, and 
then Ellice, alias Hanmer. His second son Thomas was brought up to be a 
good English scholar. Thomas Hanmer had a son [Joseph] who was sent to 
Oxford, and was at last made Doctor of Divinity, and married a wife [at Whit- 
church, March 27, 1659] whose maiden name was [Martha] Eddowes, of a good 
family in Cheshire. Hee was parson of Maurwheale near Wrexham, a good 



TfflLIP HENRY. 39 

well chappell — thereup. Mr. Maiden clos'd the day with an 
exhortation, directed specially to us, and so dismist the Congre- 
gation. — They gave us Instrum'' of this in Parchment subscribd 
with their severall Hands. 

Mee thoughts I saw much of God in the carrying on of the 
work of this day, 6 how Good is the lord, hee is Good and hee 
doth Good, the Remembrance of it I shall never lose, to him bee 
Glory. 

I made many promises of Diligence, Industry, faithfulnes, 
zeale, in some things concerning my selfe, in some concerning my 
family (when God shall call mee to it) in some concerning my 
people, but I lay no stresse at all on them, but on the lord's 
promise to mee, that hee will bee with his Ministers alwayes to 
the end of the world. 

Amen, lord, so bee it. 

make good thy word unto thy servant wherein thou hast 
caused mee to put my trust. 

Qui non valet in sere, solvet in corpore. 

Britannia.* — Brit or Birth, in the old British language 
signifies blew-coloured, & tania is added for y° Signification of 
such a region or Country — as lusiiania, Mauritania, Aquitania, So 
that Britannia is as much as the country of Blew people ; bee. the 
inhabitants instead of clothes were wont to besmear their bodyes 
with woad, a thing that dyes blew. Burr, on Hos. i pt. p. 175. 

January 8. Dr. Roger Puleston dyed suddenly at Chester, 
lord teach us to number our Dayes ! 

Jan. 17. I heard two sermons at Bangor, the one from Act. 
17. 31. Hee hath appointed a day wherein hee will judge the world. 

my heart was very dead in hearing, (the lord in mercy 
forgive it). 

but the truth made up to mys. is this, I would faine bee 
certiiyed. Am I ready for that day ? 

'twill bee terrible to sinners, 

benefitt, and hee was a good preacher, but lived a troublesome life being always 
in the law with his parishoners, especially with the Brougtons. Hee dyed att 
Maurwheale." There is-a curious letter of his in Harl. manuscript 1971, 

P- 131- „ . 

* British traditions say that it was called by one Brutus " Ynys Brut, i.e. 

Brut Ynys = Brutus' island, and hence Britannia. 



40 PHILIP HENRY. 

'twill bee comfortable to the Godly, 

tis not long to it, 

where shall I then appeare? 6 lord, let mee bee foiind in 
Christ ! at his right, not at his left hand ! among the sheep, not 
among the Goats ! 

Ay mee, I have beene a wandring sheep (if yet a sheep) 6 
save mee for thy mercyes sake ! 

The other from Act 24. 25. Felix trembled, much was 
spoken that reacht my heart and present condition, as if the lord 
had sent y° Minisf to preach purposely to mee, blessed bee God ! 

Tis a dreadful thing to sin against Conviction, and that I have 
done many a time ; Father, forgive mee ! though I can't say, 
I knew not what I did ! A convinced person finds a great deale 
lesse pleasure in sin, then others doe ; I can set my scale to that 
Truth, and acknowl. mys. theref. so much the more a foole to 
Transgresse without a cause, sure my sin is the greater. 

Sins agaiiist Conviction border upon -f sin against the Holy 
Ghost ; 6 how neare then have I beene to mine ; there hath beene 
but a step between mee & Death, but God hath had mercy. 

Saving Convictions melt the Heart, set the soule a-praying, 
subdue the will to live accor. to y™ — mine this day produc't the 
two former effects w"" hearty unfayned Resolutions touching y' 
later, lord, undertake for mee ! 

I was told, I must not stay till some remarkable time from 
w"*" to Date my Conversion to God, as many doe, but I must 
make this day remarkable by doing it now ! After dangerous 
backslidings, loe ! I come to y" for thou art y° lord my God ! my 
God in Christ ! 

Jan. 13. I heard Mr. lewis preach at Worthenbury, bemg the 
day of our monthly lecture. 

The lesson from Esa. 48. 1 7 was this. It is the lord that teacheth 
Ms People to Profit. 

Hee teacheth by his Spirit in the use of meanes, for though 
Paul may plant and Apollos water yet tis God alone that gives 
the increase. 

lord, I look up to tliee in all my endeavours for the Good of 
those I preach to, praying thee to concur with thy Blessing, that 
the work may prosper. 



PHILIP HENRY. 4I 

A good Guid doth not only tell y° way, but goes along in the 
way. the nurse doth not only tell y° child how to goe, but takes 
it by the Hand. 

lord, lead mee in thy way. Psal. 27. 11. 

26. Min'* matt at Hanmer. y" Question wee disputed of was, 
An Decretum Dei toUat libertaiem nosfram. Neg. 

27. wee mett at our monthly Conference. Qit. what are the 
Priviledges that Beleevers have right to by J. X'. 

30. I was ill, I thought unto death, but the lord had mercy : 
it was the occasion through inordinate fear & grief of Sist. Mary's 
fitts of -f Mother, in y° first whereof shee continued near 8 houres, 
without sign of life. 

Jan. 4. I preacht at Penley. 

10. I preacht at Gresford at the Buryall of Dr. Puleston. 

21. I visited John Griffith of Worthenbury being sick & 
pray'd with him, if the lord restore' him, I am to put him in mind 
•of promises of new obedience, lord, help him to performe. lord, 
restore him. 

27. Note. It pleas'd the lord hee did Recover, 6 that hee 
might remember. 

February. These following sins were in this month sett home 
with power upon my Conscience. 

1. Omissions innumerable, I fall short of Duty in every 
relation. 

2. much frowardnesse upon every occasion which fills my way 
with thorns & snares, 

3. Pride, a veine of it runs throughout my whole Conver- 
sation, 

4. Selfe-seeking, corrupt ends in all I doe applause with men 
more regarded then the Glory of God, oftentimes. 

5. My owne Iniquity, many Bubblings up of Heart — Corrup- 
tion, and Breakings forth too, 

6 lord. Shame hath covered my face, 
Pardon and Purge for sweet Jesus' sake. 
The lord in this month shook his Rod over me, i. in a violent 
T)istemper upon mys. 2. in much danger of life to Sister Mary, 
.and I have heard, someth. of y^ Voice of it, so that I know partly 
what it saith. 



42 PHILIP HENRY. 

Lord, help mee to yeeld obedience. 

I have beene in the Furnace, if I come out againe and leave 
no drosse behind, it will bee sad, 

Tis a great losse to lose an Affliction. 

Feb. lo. I heard Mr. lewis preach at Worthenb. it being the 
day of our monthly lecture. 

The lesson from Zech. 7. 13. where God is said to cry upon 
men, was this, the lord is very affectionately importunate for y' 
good of poor soules. 

6 how often have I heard him cry upon mee in his word and 
by his Rod, 

blessed bee his name, hee hath not yet left mee alone. 

February i. Another violent Fit, it was the Lord's day, 
towards Evening some Godly Freinds being present, I prayed 
with them ; lord, hear in heaven. 

2. I began to mend, having some ease, but Sister Mary 
continued ill. 

— much peevishnesse, it becomes mee not, and which is worse 
it greives, and vexes the good Spirit of God, lord, pardon and 
subdue. 

— 20. Sister Mary very weak and in much danger, the lord 
bee her support. 

I doe verily beleive shee is in Christ and therefore best for 
her to bee with Christ. 

— her Distemper turned about this time from the ffitts of the 
mother to a violent Ague. 

— My sister Kath. wrote to mee, that having overload there 
was danger lest I should overgreive for usually much Affection 
brings much Affliction : Twas a seasonable word then when it was 
written, and may bee of use hereafter. 

26. I wrote to Mr. lewis to intreat Mr. Moston to Baptize a 
child of Robert Bycklys but hee refus'd ; his grounds I know not. 

February i. I being ill my Freind Mr. lewis having ingagd 
to spend the Sabb. at Bangor, the peopl of Worthenb. mett early 
& hee preacht to them before hee went to Bangor and againe in 
the Evening at the Chappell, after his returne, about which time 
sister Mary fell ill. 

10. Having kept my chamber since friday Jan. 30. this day 



PHILIP HENRY. 43 

being our monthly lecture I went forth & preacht. Text. 
Ps. 23. /. — ^blessed bee God — 

15. wee began the Duty of reading the word in the Family, 
long omitted, lord Pardon. 

17. Sister Mary lett bloud. 

20. A day of publike Thanksgiving for the Deliverance of 
Oliver lord Protector from a Plot to take away his life. 

March i. Having intermitted Repetition upon the Evening of 
the Sabbath bee. of winter, this day wee reviv'd it. lord, owne us 
with Strength an^ a blessing. 

3. A child of Robert Byckly's was baptiz'd by Mr. Manwaring 
of Malpas, the name Philip. I was present & exhorted & pray'd 
— 6 lord, let this child live in thy sight ! — The more publikely 
that Ordinance is administred, the better. 

17. A child oi Joseph Pidgeway's was baptiz'd by Mr. Keeling 
of Cockshut* the name Hannah. I was present & preacht, it was 
at Shocklach.* Lord, let this child also live in thy sight ! Our 
Baptisme is then made effectuall to us, when wee are baptized 
with the holy Ghost. 

19. a Day of Prayer at Haniner, I was much straitened, no 
life at all in the Duty, many wandrings; if my Prayers were 
written downe in a Paper, and then, my vaine distracting Thoughts 
in time of Duty interlin'd, 6 what incoherent non-sence would 
there bee ! I am asham'd, lord, I am asham'd ! 6 pity and pardon !' 

Towards the close of the same day, I mett w"" a Friendly 
seasonable Admonition, blessed bee God ! my heart was then in 
somewhat a better frame then Ordinary for y" receiving of it and 
I hope it hath done mee Good. 

The lord is very gracious, in that hee followes mee thus from 
time to time, sure hee is not willing I should perish. 

The eyes of many are upon mee, some for one end, some for 
another. Some for good, some for Evill — I had need bee watch- 
full ; lord, hold up my goings in thy path, that my footsteps slip 
not ! lord, thou tellest all my wandrings, for Jesus sake, let y"" 
bee forgotten ! 

Mar. 4. I heard two Sermons at Bangor. The one from 

* Cockshute and Shocklach are chapelries — the one in Salop, south-east of 
EUesmere ; the other in Cheshire, north-west of Malpas. 



44 PHILIP HENRY. 

I John. 3. I. behold, what manner of love the Father hafh bestowed 
upon us, y' wee should bee called the Sons of God. Tis wonderfull 
rich mercy that such unworthy Creatures as wee are, should bee 
taken into so high and glorious Relation, accompanyed with so 
many choyce and precious Priveledges. Behold/ wee doe not 
enough consider it, wee can never enough admire it. 

One Priveledge of sons, I was told is this, the Father will 
correct them, Ifeb. 12. 6. Blessed be my Father, I have not beene 
altogether. without chastisem' yet not the thousandth part of what 
I deserve, I have been very undutifull, very untoward ; 

All beleevers are Heires yet the Inheritance not diminished. 

Heires of God, hee gives other th. to others, hims. to them, 
lord, give mee thy selfe ! 

The other from Rom. 3. 24. Being Justif/d freely by his 
Grace. — Grace not Infused, but Imputed, not within us, but with- 
out us, Inhgerent grace though true yet is not pfect, it shines bright 
when acted, like Gold, yet put it into the Refining pan and Drosse 
will appeare. 

Whereas that upon y'= account of w""" wee are Justifyed, is such 
as hath no mixture of Drosse, namely, the Righteousness of y" 
lord Jesus. 

We may know our Justification by our Sanctification. 

Justitia mea misericordia tua, Domine. 

Wee are no where said in Script, to be Justif. hia. -rrpr ttio-tiv 
but alwayes ry irio-rei. the Spouse in the Canticles came leaning 
upon her beloved, lord Jesus, my soule leanes upon thee for 
acceptation with the Father. 

Mar. 10. I heard Mr. lewis preach at Worthenb. Text. Zech. 
7. 13. Doct. there are many men who will not heare God, though 
hee cry to them. 

not heare, i.e. not obey. Jer. 7. 23. 24. — 6. 16 &c. 

Reason from the Corruption of y° will, that refuses the fem-e 
of the lord — God sets life and death before men, they chuse 
Death, lord, I chuse life ! 

A naturall man may doe more y™ hee doth tow. his owne 
salvation, and that hee doth, hee may doe better, yet not well. 
No man ever perisht that did his utmost. God leaves every man 
the Casting Voice, will you or will you not. 



PHILIP HENRY. 45 

Here's our undoing, In all worldly , matters our wills are 
guided by our understandings ; only in the th. of our soules our 
underst. are guided by our wills. 

When wee obey the lords call, that Calling is Effectuall, and 
tis effectuall calling that evidences our Election. 2 Pet. i. 10. 

Mar. 17. I heard Mr. Keeling preach at Shockl. Text. 
Jam. i. 21. — I learnt that sin is a filthy thing, it pollutes the soule, 
it robs us of our beauty, makes the lord to abhor us, 

6 Sin, my greatest enemy, bee. God's'greatest enemy. 

When the glorious Angels had upon them but one Spot of it, 
Heaven was no longer a place for them. 

Lord Jesus, wash mee in thy Bloud, purge mee, cleanse mee, 
take away all my defilem*^ I abhor mys. I loath mys. much more 
doth the lord loath mee ! Create in mee a clean heart, 6 God, 
this heart I have is all dirty, give mee a betteir. I am asham'd 
to come w"' it into my fathers presence. 

23. The Ministers mett at Hanmer. Qu. An usura sit licita ? 
Neg. I answer'd. Great need of y" Spirit of love and meek- 
nesse amongst us, in forbearing one another. 

31. wee mett in Conference at Worth enb. Qu. lif is it that 
keepes men from seeking after God, much was said in answer to it, 
both by my selfe and others ; the lord blesse it to y™ that heard 
it. A strange Mayd that was present, weeping much, Spake these 
words, wee read thus Jer. 4. i. If thou wilt return 6 Israel, saith 
the lord, return unto mee. I replyed nothing to her, as I am wont 
to doe to. others, w" y" speak in Conference, not approving of her 
speaking bee. of that of y" Apost. i Tim. 2. 11. 12. i Cor. 14. 
34. 35. yet by this meanes a reproach was raysd by those that 
watch for our baitings, that wee suffer women to speak in the 
church. Though Quaro— Shee is since turn'd Quaker. 

Mar. 10. This week Mr. lewis spent w"" us at Emerall. 

12. We visited Mrs. Eyton newly recovered from a dangerous 
sicknesse. 

14. Books from Oxford. 

25. I began y° Duty of Instructing the Servants in the Family 
Thursday morning, help lord. 

At our return from Conference the Judge spake much against 
it ; my Answeres were not so discreet and convincing as I could 



46 PHILIP HENRY. 

wish they had been, it repents mee, lord, forgive mee for X'' 
sake. 

April. A Scripture ground for singing Psalms in familyes 
may be taken from Ps. ir8. 15. The voice of rejoycing is in the 
Tabernacle of y" righteous. 

tis a way to hold forth Godlinesse, lik^ the Scarlet Thread. 
Josh. 2. 18. to such as passe by our windows. 

I heard concerning a very old man in the north parts of 
England, a minister, whose age was very strangely renew'd. 

About this time, one inquiring of mee concerning the successe 
of my Ministry in the Place where I am, I am afraid the Pride 
and Haughtinesse of my Heart discover'd it selfe ; lord pardon 
& subdue. I am more afraid of y" breakings forth of that sin, 
then almost any other ; for X' his sake, lord, give mee strength 
against it 

Apr. 30. I preacht in Dr. langle/s course in Ch. Ch. Chappel. 
Blessed bee the lord God of all my Enlargements, and let my 
faylings in every Duty bee forgiven, 6 my Father, for thy mercy 
sake. 

Apr. I. I heard two Sermons at Bangor. The one from 
fs. 119. 37. quicken thou mee in thy way. 

In the Prayer before Sermon this confession was put up, which 
my Heart clos'd with, — lord, wee want wisdome to carry ours, as 
wee ought in the world, by reason whereof the work of y" Gosp. in 
our hands is much hindred, 6, my God, bestow upon mee a wise 
& an understanding heart 

Doct. Gods people often want quickning in Gods way. I am 
sure I doe very often. 6 when had I cause to complayn, my 
heart is dead to the world. Creatures, pleasures, sin, but to duty, 
praying, preaching, when almost is it otherwise, lord, thou gavest 
life at first, give more life — 

The other from Mai. 4. 2. The sun of righteousnesse, S-r. 
Tis a sign the Sun is tow. setting, i. when wolves are abroad. 
2. when workmen are weary. In both resp. tis thus with us this 
day in England, lord, prevent our Feares & take not away the 
light from us. 

Apr. II. I heard a Serm. at Shockl[ELc\i]. Heh. 12. 4 striving 
against. Sin. a X"""' life is a life of difficulty, wee have hard work 



PHILIP HENRY, 47. 

to doe, many mighty enemyes to encounter with, sin especially, 
y° more a sin is twisted with o' nature, calling^ — &c. — the more we 
are to strive w"' it, bee. y° more likely 'tis to doe us mischeif. 
lord, save mee from my Iniquity. 

Apr.. 14. From Zech. 7. 13. they would not heare. An Hypo- 
crite may goe very far tow. Grace in underst. & affection, only 
■f work stickes at his will, lord, I will, doe thou conquer my 
unwillingnesse ! 

Apr. 15. Wrexham. From Gal. 3. 10. Cursed is every one — 
I clearly saw by what was said from this Text, that I am in my 
selfe a poor lost undone creature, under many a Curse, lord Jesus 
I beleeve thou wert made a Curse for mee, help my unbeleef. 
who shall lay anything to my charge. 

From Matt. 25. 10. Dod. not a man shall goe to Heaven that 
is not ready for Heaven. 6 my Soule ! art thou ready for Heaven, 
what if X' should call this night, is my lamp burning, lord, fit 
mee for thy appearance, Heaven is ready for them that are ready 
for it. 

21. I set forward from Emral towards Oxford with Mark 
Loyd. 

24; Wee arriVd safe and well at Oxford, blessed bee the lord, 
many were the mercyes of this Journey ; 6 what want have I of 
a thankful! Heart. 

' Apr. 26. Oxon. — From i Cor. 13. 11. Doct. the state of 
beleevers in this life is a State of Childhood. & children must bee 
Humble, 6 that I had an Humble Heart, there's a kind of base, 
creeping, crouching carriage that's far from true Humility. I am 
much afraid lest I bee deceiv'd. 

From Jam. 5. 13. Doct. Singing of Psalmes a Gospel-Duty. 
I am convinct of it, lord, forgive my past neglect, coldnes, 
slightnes, deadnesse. I purpose through grace to be more 
frequent and serious in that performance than ever, both alone & 
with others. Amen, lord, so be it. Sweet Jesus, undertake for mee. 

At S' Maryes. From i Pet. i. 8. Doct. Joy unspeakable &> 

full of Glory is the Fruit 6^ effect of an active faith in Jesus X'. 

Many that feare God are oftentimes naturally timorous, & that 

much interrupts their Joy ; The way to keep up Joy is to keep 

up Faith, also Gosp. Obedience. John 15. 9. 10. 11. Sin will 



48 PHILIP HENRY. 

eat out Joy — ^lord, let mee have the Joy of thy salvation & 
establish mee with thy free spirit. 

From Gal. i. 15. when it pleased God. i. Dod. There is a 
season for conversion. We cannot know it before, wee may know 
it after. There's our time and God's time, Our time wee may 
outslip, God's time wee cannot. Psalm, no. 3. 2. Dod. the 
impulsive cause of Conversion is God's good pleasure. John i. 13. 
many times when men have given us over. allu. Ps. 27. 10 ~ ! 
For ever blessed bee my good God, that hath beene pleased to 
reveal his Son in mee ! 

From 2Lech. 13. 7. No wonder if God turne his hand upon tJie 
little ones, when hee deales so severely with the Shepheard : a 
Sword, a Sword awakened, awakened to Smite, and all this by the 
lord of Hosts. If this bee done to the green Tree, 6 what shall 
bee done to such a dry Tree as I am. lord make mee patient 
under every turne of thy Hand. 

May. In this month I heard of Dr. Crook formerly Minister 
of Ammersam, neare london, who being in Ireland, was cal'd to 
preach there before y" lord Deputy, his Text, behold the day of 
y° lord Cometh as a Theif in the night; After sermon before Dinner 
hee dyed. 6 my Soule ! what Preparations art thou in for Dis- 
solution, what if my lord should come this night ? 

May 2']. Mr. Jenkins at Penley. From Math. 11. 6. Among 
many other occasions of Offence at J. X' which were spoken of 
this was one, from his followers, who for the most part are i. Silly. 
2. poor. 3. young. 4. women. 5. wicked formerly. 

Among many other motives spoken of, not to bee oifended in 
X' this was one, hee is not offended in us, our poverty, beggaiy, 
filthinesse, blood, notwithst. these hee loved us. 

lord, let mee never live to bee an occas. of Offence. 

May 3. at Corpus X'K From i John 3. 8. ~. jDoct. Tis the 
mayne end of the manifestation of the Son of God to destroy the 
workes of the Devil. Great encouragem' to mee, 6 my soule, bestir 
mys. more vigorously y°" ever in my conflicts with Corruption, the 
lord Jesus is on my side. I know hee hath already unty'd the. 
knot betw. my sin and the Curse, and I beleeve and hope in due 
time hee will untye the knot betw. my sin & my nature, in tlie 
use of meanes. Amen ! so bee it, lord. 



PHILIP HENRY. 49 

From Rom. 1. 16. Doct. There is a power in the Gosp. to 
save men, w" God concurs w'" it. it convinces, searches, quickens, 
humbles, comforts, restraynes, renewes. lord, let it doe all this 
work in my soule, and in the soules of those I preach to. 

'From John 15.4. Tis the great concernem' of the lords people 
to abide in J. X' to draw strength and virtue from him in every 
duty, in every condition, hee hath enough for all, and hee hath it 
purposely to communicate. When wee have done anything in 
his Strength wee must bee carefuU hee may have the glory, lord, 
thats the desire of my soule, not unto mee, not unto mee, but to 
thy name give the praise ! 

May i,. 2X Brainford. From /2<!/i'^ 17. 26. &c. Doct. Reign- 
ing Sensuality in the last Age is an Infallible Signe of X" approach 
to Judgement ; especially when it raignes amongst Professors, as in 
the dayes of Noah when the posterity of Seth also were Flesh. 
Gen. 6. 3. Sure tis so with us at this Day. Sensuality is when 
our hearts goe after our Sense, when the mayne and most of our 
care is to please and satisfy them; Flesh-pleasing hath been an 
undoing sin to my poor Soule, lord, pardon and Subdue. 

May 6. At Thistleworth: From Math. 6. 10. Thy will bee 
done— In this Petition wee pray that the secret will of God, which 
is alwayes wise, may be done upon us, and that the revealed will 
of God, which is always righteous, may bee done by us, the will of 
his purpose & the will of his command. — in earth as in Heaven 
a true Christian hath perfection in his eye though he cannot reach 
it, so Paul. Phil. 3. that if possible hee might attaine the 
Resurrection of the Dead. 6 lord, when shall I bee perfect, when 
shall that that is in p' bee done away. 

May 9. At the Abbey Westm. from Heb. 7. 25. Those that 
come to God for Salvation must come by J. X' through his 
Mediation, hee's the way, by his Assistance, hee's the life, with- 
out him no Acceptance with the Father, in him hee is well 
pleased. Blessed, for ever blessed bee God for J. X' — if it were 
not for J. X' I would not give one Pin for my soul. 

May 10. At Thistleworth. From Math. 12. 36. Doct. Idle 
words must bee accounted for : words that are unprofitable, bring no 
glory to God, no reall good to ours, or others, very sinfull, bee. 
the abuse of our best member our Tongue, which is our glory ; 

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very many, every day, in every Company. From hence was 
inferd, what need there is for us to reckon with ours, every night 
for the idle words and other faihngs of y° day before, tis no 
wisedome to defer, if wee reflect not quickly, wee shall forget. 
— My heart accuses mee of much guilt in this respect. I have 
formerly been very talkative and in multitude of words y" wants 
not sin. lord, cleanse my soule in y' blood of X' and mortify 
that corruption for mee by thy Spirit every day more and 
more. 

From Gal. 2. 20. D. the life which Christians live is a life 
of faith in J. X' — i. They live the life of Justification, 2. of 
sanctification, both by Faith ; A Life of Faith is a noble super- 
naturall life; No living by a dead faith, lord, quicken mee in 
beleeving. 

From I Pet. 4. 18. D. Tis no easy matter to bee sav'd. 
Twas difficult work to J. X' to work redemption for us, Tis diffi- 
cult work to the Spirit to work Grace in us, and to carry it on 
against corruptions, temptations, distractions. I was exhorted to 
inquire, i. Can I chuse to undergo the greatest suffering 
rather than commit the least sin. 2. Can I imbrace X' with his 
Crosse. 3. Can I work for God, though there were no wages. 4. 
Can I swim against the stream, bee good in bad times and 
places. 5. Can I pull out right eyes for X' and cutt off right 
hands. &c. 

I can doe all this and much more through X' strengthening 
mee. 

From Rev. 3. 10. The word of the Gosp. is the word of X*" 
patience, therein is discover'd how patient hee is towards elect 
sinners, called saints, perishing world. This wee are to keep, 
hold fast, make much of as our Treasure, and if we doe so, wee 
shall bee kept by God, held fast, made much of in y° houre of 
Temptation, the houre, i.e. greatest strength, force, efficacy, comp. 
hike 22. 53. which though violent for the time yet shall bee but of 
very short continuance, lord, keep mee from, if not from, lord 
keep mee in the houre of TemiDtation. 

May 17. Yyoxo. Math. 12. 36. Idle words must bee accounted 
for. Tis a Proverb, Words are but wind, and tis truth, that's an 
ill wind, an ill word, that brings nobody good. Tis easy to bee 



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observ'd how the lord hath follow'd mee two Sabbaths together in. 
severall places with the same truth ; The lesson is profitable and 
hard and I am dull to leame. 

May I. I had leave for absence from the Canons till April 
next. 

4. I set forth of Oxford tow. london. 

5. I was ill at Thistleworth. 

14. I came back to Oxford. Mr. Tho. Puleston with mee 
whom I setled at St. Mary-hall, where hee had been entred before. 

19. I preacht in Ch. Ch. Mr. Bagshaw tumd. 

20. I set forth of Oxford towards Emerall. I came safe to 
Emerall. 

25. Monthly disput. at Hanmer, Q. An lex moralis cbligat 
Christianas. 

26. Monthly confer, at Worthen. Q. What use a Christian 
is to make of God's all seeing Eye over him. 

June 2. a Day of Prayer, zX Joseph Ridgwayes house, many 
petitions put up in my behalfe there, lord, give in an answer of 
peace, I want skill to winne soules, I want power to deale with 
temptations, I want an humble self-denying heart, I do not eye 
God & his Glory as I ought, in all I doe, lord, pardon & help 
& supply for thy Christ's sake; 

18. a Day of Prayer at Randle Kefs house. I was present 
there, though in the midst of much deadnesse and many dis- 
tractions, my owne heart condemnes mee, lord, thou art greater 
then rtiy heart and knowst all things. Tis a sad signe I am in 
great measure if not wholly carnall that I tast no more of sweet- 
nesse in Dutyes — 6 what should I doe if I were in heaven, to bee 
alwayes praysing God, lord, fit mee for heaven by changing my 
nature, or else Heaven will bee as bad as Hell to mee. 

29. This was the day of the monthly meeting of Ministers, 
wee mett at Gresford. the Question controverted was an sancti 
sint iidorandi. 

29. This was the day of our monthly conference at Worthen- 
bury. Qu. What are the ordinary vices of y° Tongue w""" Chris- 
tians ought to beware of. A. much speaking, foolish, filthy, flatter- 
ing, false speaking, swearing, cursing &c. Set thou a watch 6 
lord, over the door, of my lips that I offend not with my Tongue ! 



52 PHILIP HENRY. 

June 3. at Bangor. From Phil. i. 27. D. 7? is the great 
Duty of Christians to have their Conversation as becomes the Gospell. 
i.e. clothed with the graces of the Gosp. Faith, love, humility, 
meeknesse, selfe-denyall, patience, and in these to abound & 
grow, tis an uncomely sight to see an O'ld Professor a young 
saint, wee discredit our keeping, lord, water mee' every moment, 
lord, keep mee night & day, that I may thrive to thy prayse, 
having my conversation not only as becomes the Gosp. but which 
is more as becomes a Minister of y° Gosp. 

From Ps. 74. 19. D. God! s people are as Doves, i. in Inno- 
cency. 2. in Faithfulness to their mate. 3. in feeding cleane. 
w" persecuted they mourn and flee to the rock and shelter thems. 
there. O lord, deliver not the soule of thy Turtledove into the 
will of her enemyes ! 

June 9. at Worthenb. — From Heb. 3. 7. 8. D. There is 
much safety in present attendance to what God requires of us. — 
Delayes may breed danger — To-day is of short continuance and 
withall fitted for work, in regard of light and livelinesse, which the 
night wants. Now is i. time of Acceptation. 2. of Salvation. 
6 how often hath God invited mee, now, now, when I have putt 
him off, blessed bee his Name, hee hath not swome concerning 
mee that I shall never enter into his rest. 

June 10. at Elsmer. From Math. 5. 6. D: Hungry thirsty 
soules shall be filled, partly here, perfectly hereafter, with Grace,^ 
Comfort, Glory, such put a great value upon X', will part with 
any th. for food, goe far for it, take paines to get it. lord, ever- 
more fill my soule with thy selfe ; Creatures will not satisfy. 

From Eph. 4. 4. D. The mystical body of X' is but ofte Body. 
X' y° head, beleevers the members,, knitt together by y° Spirit, 
increasing alwayes in number & endowm*^ but one church 
through all the world ; lord let mee bee a member of this one 
Body, any member, y" lowest, y° meanest, so I may but receive 
influence from the Head & bee any way usefull to my fellow- 
members, lord translate mee out of the Kingdom of Darkness 
into the Kingd. of thy dear Son. 

June 17. at Wrexham. From i John i. 8. Doct Selfe- 
Justifyers are selfe deceiif'. There is not a just man upon earth 
that doth Good and sinneth not. Wee deceive ourselves, if 



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wee say, wee are without Original sin, or without actuall sin, in 
Externall Conversation, in internall Indination. Legendi sunt 
.homines ut libri, the fayrest printed Bookes have their Errata, 
lord, I am so far from thinking my selfe without sin, that all my 
feare is, least I have too much sin, too much I am sure for my 
selfe or any other to satisfy for, excepting only my deare lord 
Jesus — in him is all my hope. 

Yiora. Amos '] . 14. 15. I am no Prophet neither a Prophets son 
hut a heardsman. Note — the Gifts and calling of God are free, 
hee chuseth not as man chuseth ; by the foolish things of the 
world hee confounds the wise, by the weak those that are mighty, 
by th. which are not hee brings to nought things which are, and 
the reason is, that no flesh may glory in his presence, lord, I have 
no cause to glory. 

In this month I had the remembrance of much guilt set home 
upon my Conscience in refer, to the Sabbath day. I us'd to lye 
longer in bed then I ought, which hath beene caus'd by sitting up 
■over-late the night before, and that by neglecting to make pre- 
parations for preaching sooner in the week. I am often put to it 
•to slubber over truths, So two sermons were provided, I have 
not car'd how poorely, lord, I confesse it to thee with Shame and 
beg thy grace that it may bee so no more. Amen ! blessed Lord 
Jesus ! 

June. In this month Mr, Langley of Middlewich and Mr. 
Beake of Tamworth dyed, two worthy Instruments in their Genera- 
tion, lord, raise up more to make up y° sad losse of y°^. 

July 4. A company of vayne people in the parish of 
worthenb. mett together on y" evening of the Sabbath to dresse 
the church with Flowers. I foresaw before it might bee an oc- 
casion of sin to them and an Offence to others, and theref did 
■someth. to prevent it, but not so much as I might, done it was, 
lord, lay it not to o'' charge, they were quickly taken downe, 
but it had beene better if y'' had never bin set up ; a report was 
rays'd y' I had consented to it, the lord knowes I did not. 

16. a strange whirl-wind and darknesse more then ordinary 
.at Wrexham. 

17. A night of much Thunder. 

20. r went to preach at Welsh-poole in Montgomery-shire, 



54 PHILIP HENRY. 

the lord was with mee and brought mee safe back againe, blessed 
bee his name. 

23. I preacht an exercise at Penley chappell, the lord bestow 
a blessing. 

July I. at Bangor. From Math. 13. 44. ~ D. They that 
havi found X' ought to hide X' not from others, but within 
thems., in y" Safest inmost room of their hearts, to lay him up and 
keep him there, not to let him goe ; This is done, by faith, love, 
humility, obedience, entertaynm'. All the reason in the world for 
it, hee is a Treasure worth hiding, there are great endeavours to 
rob us of him, if once lost, not easily found againe, till hee bee 
found againe y'' can bee no true peace — Some lodge X' as they 
doe beggars in their out-houses, by making a visible profess, but 
sin dwells in the heart. The lord grant I bee not one of those ! 

From I Thess. 2. 16. Queer, why is preaching there called 
speaking. A. to shew that ministers Speaking should bee 
preaching their discourses, should bee heavenly, savoury for the 
use of Edifying, as Christ's was. Mine hath not been such, lord, 
pardon. Doct. Tis a greivous sin to have a hand in hindring mens 
Salvation, the worst kind of murther, lord, let mee be never in 
any resp. so much as accessary to it, it thwarts the designe of God, 
X', the Spirit, 6 that I might bee a winner of soules. 

July 14. at Worthenb. From Col. i. 19. It pleased the Father 
that in him should all Fulnesse dwell. There's enough in X' for y'' 
Supply of the emptinesse of poor Creatures, wee are to goe to him 
as the Egyptians in time of Famine to Joseph, lord Jesus, I come to 
thee, fill mee with the knowledge of thy will, fill mee with all Joy 
and peace in beleeving, fill mee with thy Spirit, blessed Saviour, 
bee not angry ; I will speak but this once more, fill mee with all the 
fulnesse of God. 

15. at Wrexham. From Rom. 12. i. T beseech you there/. 
Brethren by ye mercy es of God f yee present — Note i. Ministerial! 
exhortations are somet. to bee manag'd with all gentlenesse — 
Somet. not alwayes, some men being like Nettles the more gently 
toucht, y° more like to sting, lord, give mee Skill and wisdom 
that I may know when to bee gentle & when not ; lord, I want 
this wisedom & have much fayl'd for lack of it. Note 2. The 
mercyes of God ought to bee engagem'' to us to obedience. 6 let 



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mee never bee as a Dungliil to stink y° more bee. y° sun shines 
upon it. I have been so, lord, pardon. 

From Eccles. i. 2. — There is nothing under the sun but what is 
full of the vaynest vanity, unsatisfying, unprofitable, unsuteable, 
uncertaine, not worthy our Affections w" wee have them, nor our 
Afflicting ours, when wee want them ; The saints have alwayes 
thought so, dying men will not fayle to tell us so ; 6 w' cause have 
wee to blesse God that hath revealed this unto us to take us off 
from th. here below, which otherw. wee might have ventur'd our 
soules for & so have perisht for ever — I blesse God tis as if a 
Freind had stopt mee from giving all I have for a counterfeit 
pearle, 6 doe not venture, it is but counterfeit. 

July 3. I preacht at Iscoyd-chappelL* T. Gal. 4. 19. Then 
I first saw Mr. Morgan Uoyd, hee pursued what I had delivered in 
many profitable practicall truths, Christians ought to beware of 
a light Spirit, a heavy Spirit, a peevish Spirit, and a desponding 
Spirit, our end in coming together in Duty ought to bee, that wee 
may see the face of God, the face of our owne hearts & y^ faces 
of one another. After him Mr. Moston taught from i Pet. i. 14. 
as obedient children. True Christians ought to bee obedient to the 
faith of the Gosp. in both parts of it, beleef of heart & confession 
of mouth, & to Y holines of the Gospel. — Many of these y' were 
present were members of y^ congregated church at Wrexham, 
who disowne singing of Psalms in mixt Assemblyes, I was much 
put to it, whether to offend them by giving forth a Psalm, or 
others that were present & my owne light & convictions by 
omitting it, but the lord came in with power and I hope I chose 
the right way, wee sang Ps. 90. 12. &c. and I observ'd, some of 
them joynd with us. lord, let mee know in every thing what 
thou wouldst have mee to doe, esp. in thine own worship. 

1 1. Remember this day, as a Day of more then ordinaiy en- 
gagem*" made & Strong resolutions taken up of closer walking 
& more watchfullnes. 6 my God, undertake for mee, 6 bee 
surety for thy servant for the lords sake. Amen and Amen ! 

16. a Day of Prayer at Hanmer. sin confessed, I hope 

* This chapel is more generally called Whitewell. The name of the town- 
ship preserves the Welsh pronunciation rather than the spelling, which would 
be "is-coed," and — like the proper name Moyle for Moel — shows what a long 
time must have elapsed since Welsh was spoken in that part of English Maelor. 



56 PHILIP HENRY. 

pardoned through X', mercyes beg'd & I hope obtayn'd through 
X', blessed bee God for such sweet and precious Opportunityes. 
lord, overlook my many faylings, for Jesu's sake. 

4. lady Cholmley buryed. 

31. I hurt my leg with an Iron maWe, it was the great 
mercy of God it was not much worse, blessed bee his name. 

Aug. 7. having been pretty well before the sore brake out 
againe, y' payne and swelling whereof disabled mee from y" work 
of the Sabbath, Mr. Roan * preacht, but on Tuesday, being o' 
lecture day, the lord gave strength. 

25. A day of Conference at Worthenbury. Qu. what are the 
causes of God's hiding his face from his people !^ — 6 lord, despise 
not the day of small things in this place ! here's some willingnes, 
but much weaknesse, help, lord ! 

In this week was lay'd the Foundation of a dwelling house at 
Worthenbury, w* is intended for my use ; I pray the lord, to fit 
mee for the mercy of a settled condition either there or some- 
where else for at Emerall where I now am, though in many 
respects my condition is very comfortable, if I had a heart to see 
it and bee thankful, yet in some other respects, I lye under 
great Temptations, and there are many snares in my way, the lord 
deUver mee & in his owne time if it bee his will, open a door 
for mee to escape, for. Jesus Sake. Amen ! 

Aug. 5. At Bangor. From /'W. 127. i. D. Except the lord- 
build the House they labour in vaine that build it. — the House, i.e. 
y° Family, build, i.e. constitute, mayntayn, preserve, augment — If 
wee would have God to build our Houses, wee must bee carefull 
I. to build God's house, by caring for his worship, ordinances, 
interests. Hag. i. 9 (2 Sam. 7) Hag. 2. 18. — 2. to ayme at his 
Glory in our Buildings, not at selfe, as Nebuchadn. Dan. 4. 30 — 

3. to build in faith, relying upon y" Promises. Hcb. 11. 9. 10. 

4. in the feare of God. Exod. i. 21. — 5. in righteousnes & honesty. 
Prov. TO. 25. Hab. 2. 12. 6. wee must fetch in God by Prayer, 
and keep him there by family dutyes. Jos. 24. 15. Psal. ioi.~ 

Memorand. There was never truth more seasonable to any, 

* The Rev. John Roan, of Brasenose College, Oxford, had been presented 
lo Hanmer in 1644., but was not, though a native of the parish, accepted by the 
people. In 1675 he was made Bishop of Killaloe. 



PHILIP HENRY. . $7 

ithen this was to mee. That very week wherein this sermon was 
preacht, nay, the very night before, workmen came out of 
Shropshire, to begin the building of a House at Worthenbury, 
which is intended by Judge Puleston for my use. lord, let the 
Foundations of it bee layd in mercy, and doe thou bring forth the 
Head-stone thereof and I will cry Grace, Grace unto it. Keep 
:my Affections loose both while 'tis doing and when tis done, that 
it may not at all incroach upon th)' interest in my heart. Secure 
"those y' labour about it from bodily danger y' none of them may 
receive any the least harme. Get glory to thy selfe from it, and 
■command a speciall Blessing upon it, for the lord Jesus X' his 
sake. Amen. 

I doe earnestly desire, that y" Judge may give Mr. Fogg 
all reasonable satisfaction, y' y^' may bee no appearance of wrong 
to him or any in j^ th. 

From Jizm. 5. 9. Behold the Judge stands before the Door. i.e. is 
very neare, there's but a Hands-breadth of time betw. us and our 
Account, this wee ought to behold, with an eye of Faith, thereby 
to bring it near to us and make it as present ; wee must not think 
in y'' meane time y' Forbearance is payment, Patience doth not 
take away sin, only y" Pardoning Grace of God doth that. The 
time to come will bee every jot as swift as that hath been that is 
past, and concern, that wee usually say, it was but t'other day — 
&c. — though it may bee twas 30 or 40 y. why so it will bee. — — , 
This should quicken us up to ply time-filling work. The lord write 
this truth in my Heart, and help mee to see the Judge not sitting 
but standing before the door, in a moving . posture, that I may 
■Study & Preach & Pray & live accordingly. Amen ! for X* 
his sake. 

Aug. II. At Worthenb. From John 17. 4. D. Jesus X 
hathfinisht the work which his Father gave him to doe. This work 
was I. fulfilling work, in ref. to Promises, Prophesyes, Tjrpes, 
•Cffiremonyes, hereby wee know him to bee the X'. 2. Obeying 
work. 3. suffring work, hence wee have incouragem' to rely 
upon him for Pardon, Peace, Sz Acceptation unto etern. life. 
4. example worke. herein wee are to follow him, walking in his 
.steps, doing as hee hath done before us : See an Argum' to prove 
wee are not justif. eith' from Etern. or at the Death of X' Rom. 3. 



58 . PHILIP HENRY. 

30, y' shall justify, tis spoken of as Future. The lord Teach me 
every Truth. 

Aug. 24. Mr. John lewis having left the charge of the chil- 
dren at Worthenbury, a brother to Mr. Joseph Hanmer entred 
upon it, hee is somew' young and raw but the place will afford 
encouragement for no better, lord, succeed his endeavours with 
a blessing. 

Aug. 24. This day compleats my Age of twenty sixe yeares ; I 
have been so long in the world & yet how little can I shew of 
service done for God ; 6 what cause have I to bee ashamd. Note. 
The Scripture mentions but two that I know of y' observ'd their 
Birth-day with feasting & they were both wicked men, Pharoh, 
Gen. 40. 20. & Herod Mat. 14. 6. I doe not so observe it, but 
rather as a day of mourning, damnatus ante quam ndtus. 

25. a day of Humiliation & Conference. Qu. what are 
the causes of God's hiding his face from his people. Father, 
strengthen & incourage the day of small things amongst us, they 
are very small. 

31. Meeting of Ministers at Gresford. Q. An Aliquis possit 
esse perfectus in hac vita, a Petition agreed upon to be presented 
at the next Sessions of Pari, for setting up of Discipline. 

September. About this time at Swansey in Glamorganshire 
(the place at or neer to which my Father was borne) fourscore 
children sickned together of this new disease, whereof many dyed. 
— It was told mee by Capt Barbour of Wrexham, hee had it from 
Mn Morgan lloyd. 

16. I was ordayned Minister of y" Gospel with the laying on 
of the Hands of the Presbytery, at Prees in Shropshire. 

a Day never to bee Forgotten. 

19. Mrs. Joan Evans of Northop sister to Judge Puleston was 
buryed. 

25. A verdict brought against the Judge at Denbigh-Assize 
before Justice Bradshaw, in a suit concerning lands in May betw. 
him and Sir Thomas Trevor. Justice Bradshaw was supposed to 
bee partiall. 

29. I preacht a lecture at Prees (Salop). 

30. A day of Publike Humiliation throughout the nation in 
reference to the present sicknesse, lord, hear prayers and in the 



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midst of wrath remember mercy ! 6 deliver us from the plague of 
a hard heart ! , 

Memor. two buryalls at Worthenb. y" same day, y° lord preacht 
both to eares and eyes. 6 that all might be for good. 

Sept. 2. at Bangor. From luke 12. 32. fear not little Flock, 
for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the Kingdome. The 
people of God in this world are like a flock of Sheep, worryed by 
Dogs, fleec'd by buyers, fed by Jesus X' — yet a little little Flock, 
not many chosen, (some comfort to mee in the small successe 
which the lord hath given of my Ministry hitherto, if but two or 
three, if but one abundant recompense to all my poor labours). 
The flock of X' need not feare the want of any th. in their way to 
the Kingdome, which the Father will give freely, without money, 
or money-worth, qui dabit regnum non dabit etiam viaticum ? hee 
that spared not his owne son — -fee. lord, stay up my heart in. 
deJDendance upon thy selfe, against all base, carnall, sinfull feares 
— The lord is my Shepheard I shall not want. 

The other Sermon was preacht by Mr. Glendall's son of Chester, 
Text. 2 Cor. 2. 16. and who is sufficient for these things? the 
words that follow (ver. 17) are these, _/»?- wee are not as many which 
corrupt the word of God — ^^I judge not the person of the man, but 
it greiv'd my heart to hear y" word corrupted with inticing ex- 
pressions of humane Invention, which tickle the eare but touch 
not the heart, lord, pardon, and teach him & mee and all that 
look towards the Ministry, to divide the word aright, that wee may 
both save our selves and those that heare us. Amen, for Jesus 
sake ! 

Sept. 8. at Worthenb. — From luke 15. 17. naturall men are 
besides thems. mad, frantick men, unreasonable, foolish, voyd of 
Spirituall understanding, unruly, inconstant, inconsiderate, at the 
brinke of danger & not aware of it, stupid, gracelesse, — Blessed 
bee God, that hath cur'd mee in any measure of this Disease, alas, 
much of this madnesse still remaynes, lord, perfect the Cure for 
X' his sake. If wicked men are mad men then what need wee 
trouble ours, with their reproches ; they count Religion madnesse, 
the word counts their way madnesse, whether shall wee beleeve. 

lord, bestow a blessing upon thy word for the Good of y° 
people of this place. 



6o PHILIP HENRY. 

Sept. i6. At Frees. — Upon the day of my Ordination. — Text. 
I Tim. I. 12. And I thank X' Jesus, our lord, who hath enabled 
nue, for that hee counted meefaithfull putting mee into the Ministry. 
Note. The putting men into the Ministry is the work of J. X'. 
Hee is y" lord of the Harvest, hee sends forth none but such as 
are in some measure Gifted for y' work though not all Grac't, two 
Gifts especially, Knowledge and Utterance, of which though some 
may have more and others lesse, yet all are to have some ; Hee 
puts immediately, by men authoris'd thereunto by y° rule of y' 
word, and what they doe herein is as vaUd as if X' hims. in person 
should lay hands. Obs. Our Ordination is derived from Bishops 
and by y™ from the Pope. — A. tis not the worse for that, no more 
then our Baptism, or to find Rahab & Tamar in y' Genealogy of 
Jesus X'. I thank thee, 6: my lord Jesus, for putting mee into the 
Ministry. — I did this day receive as much Honor and Work as 
ever I shall be able to know what to doe with, lord, Jesus give in 
strength, enable every day more & more, proportion supplyes 
accordingly, I must learn to care naturally for y° state of my 
people, lord Jesus, teach mee. Two Scriptures were left with us 
to be well thought upon, 2 Cor. 6. 3. 4. 5. &c. it should seem 
as if there were no end of a Minister's Duty. Also 2 Chron. 29. 11. 
lord, write them by thy Spirit in my heart. 

There was an Exhortation given afterwards in the close of y'' 
day, in which this word went near my heart. As the Nurse puts 
the meat first into her owne mouth & chewes it & y" feeds the 
child with it, so should Ministers doe by y" word, preach it over 
before-hand to their owne hearts, it loses none of y" virtue of it 
hereby, but rather probably gaynes. As that milk nourishes most 
which comes warm from the warm breast, so that sermon which 
comes warme from a warme Heart ; lord, quicken mee to doe thy 
will in this thing. 

Sept. 29. At Prees, lecture. — From Heb. 12. 17. Doct. The 
time of God's Grace to sinners doth many time expire before 
death & when once tis at an end all |^their After-endeavours are 
to no purpose. — Fayres, Markets doe not last alwayes.— 6 w' cause 
have I to blesse God that I have knowne in any measure my 
day of visitation, lord, pity my Freinds and dear relations, the 
people which thou hast sat mee over, that they may know the 



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th. of their peace before y" are hid from their eyes. Amen, 
lord, Jesus. 

October 6. Our day of Monthly Conference, Qu. how may 
it bee provd there is a God. from Ps. 14. i. 

25. My Friend Mr. Ambr. lewis taught in y" Afternoon at 
Worthenb. (it was y° lords day). Text, Psal. 84. 11. the lord 
will give Glory — the soule shall bee made glorious in its compleat 
deliverance from all sin & sorrow, & in its likenesse to God ; 
the Body shall bee made glorious, inasmuch as it shall becom 
immortal, incorruptible, spirituall ; further, a 3fold glory, i. Con- 
fession to bee own'd by J. X' before God, Angels and men. 2. 
Vision. 3. Fruition. And all this for ever. 6 w' encouragem' is 
here to abound alwayes in y" work of y° lord, to bee willing to doe 
or suffer any th. for God, what proportion is there betw. y' light 
Afflictions of y° present life which are but for a moment and this 
eternall weight of Glory ; lord, fit mee for Glory ; I find my earthy 
Tabernacle tottering and when tis taken downe, I shall have a 
building in Heaven that shall never faile; Blessed be God the 
Father & my lord Jesus X' & y' good Spirit of Grace — even so. 
Amen. 

Oct. 5. At Welsh-Hampton. From Col. 3. 8. N. It is the 
great Duty of all Christians to put off Anger. It unfits for Duty,, 
a little jogging puts a clock or watch out of frame, so a little 
Passion the Heart. A man cannot wrestle with God & ^vrangle 
mth his neighbour at the same time. — Short sins often cost us. 
long & sad sorrowes — An Angry man is like one in a crowd that 
hath sore Bile, every one thrusts him & troubles him. — with the 
froward thou wilt shew thys. froward, a dreadfull Scripture to a 
peevish froward man. Those that are too merry when pleas'd 
are commonly too Angry when Crost — Blessed lord, subdue this 
lust in my Heart, I am very weake there, lord there strengthen 
mee, turne the streame of my Anger agt selfe and sin. 6 how 
doth my Anger at men make God angry at mee, lord pardon in 
Christ. 

From I Pet. 4. 18. The Best of men are hardly sav'd, but 
sav'd, & no more ; it was hard work to J. X' to work out our Sal- 
vation, tis hard combating with Satan, world, Flesh, that's gotten 
hardly that's gotten w"" y° Sword. This makes Salvation the 



62 PHILIP HENRY. 

sweeter, teaches us to live every day upon free grace, our journey 
is up-hill, with a dead body upon our backes, the Devill doing 
what hee can to pull us downe. 

Succurre Domine — lord Jesus supply with strength, lord Jesus 
lead mee in thy Hand. Carry mee through all the difficultyes 
that lye in my way, rid mee of every weight, and the sin that 
doth so easily beset mee, that I may run my race with patience 
and in the end obtayne the crowne. 

Oct. 13. At Worthenb. From luke 15. 17. The Spirit's 
first work upon the soule in Conversion is to bring it to serious 
selfe-reflection. it is a duty that men are very unwUUng to, lest it 
should help to make them out of love with themselves, 6: but 
that's a thing that must bee done, else never brought in love with 
J. X'. the whole need not the Physician but they that are sick. 
6: that I were more out of love with my selfe & more in love with 
my dear lord Jesus. 

Oct. 21. At Wrexham. From John 4. 34. It is meat to 
a Gracious Heart to bee doing y" will of God. His desires are 
towards it, his delight in it, his satisfaction from it, hee hath as 
good a Stomach to Family-prayer as to Family-meales. My soule 
breaketh for y' longing that it hath unto thy judgem'^ at all times. 
Ps. 119. 20. I have esteemed the words of thy mouth more y™ 
my necessary food. Job. 23. i?. not only more then my after- 
dishes. A true Christian hath no distinct Interest of his owne 
from that of God's in y° world, if Jesus X' gaine I cannot lose ; 
There is no duty requir'd of us but what an Angel may bee seen 
doing. 

The lord blesses his people with all his Heart & with all his 
soule. Jer. 32. 40. reason Good y'' should serve him with all 
their heart & with their soule. As much as a man delights 
more then hee should in a creature comfort, so much hee delights 
lesse then he should in God. When a man can say, not only, 
this is a sweet Promise but this is a sweet Precept, -a sweet 
Duty, that's a good sign of grace, lord, write thy law & shed 
abroad thy love in my heart that I may serve thee with delight. 
Amen. 

October 5. I preach't at Welsh Hampton in more then ordi- 
nary weaknes and distraction, lord, pardon the sin of it. 'twas 



■PHILIP HENRY. 65 

made up in those that joynd, Mr. lawrence and Mr. Macham ; 
in y" whole I saw much of God. That night Mrs. Grey of 
Enfield came to see y° lady her sister ill with a sore Breast, lord, 
spare in much mercy. 

27. Our day of monthly Conference. Qu. what are the 
scripture markes of those that shall bee sav'd. from Ps. 15. i. 

October 4. Two children Baptiz'd at Worthenb. one a son 
of Rog' Edge, named Roger, the other of Edw. y" Thatcher, 
alias Edw. ap Richard, named Joseph — the first that ever I 
baptiz'd. 

19. My good Freind Mr. Madocks, usher of Wrexham-school 
dyed. 

November 12. John Pagett & the rest of y° workmen having 
finisht the House of Worthenbury went away homewards. — 
I doe from my heart blesse God that no Harme or Hurt befell any 
of them in the Building. 

At Bangor. Nov. 4. ~ From Heb. 11. 6. God is the rewarder 
of those that diligently seek him, that doe anything for him ; Great 
encouragem' to bee alwayes abounding in the work of the lord, 
forasmuch as wee know our labour shall not bee in vayne in the 
lord j It cannot bee in vayne, for the work its. if there were 
nothing else, is its owne Reward ; Our servants work for us, God's 
servants work for themselves ; Amor mercedis, non est amor 
■mercenarius. qui amat aliquid prater Deum. quod non amat propter 
Deum, non amat Deum. As the mother of Moses, though engag'd 
by naturall affection to nurse the child, yet w° Pharoh's daughter 
had commanded her to doe it & promis'd to pay her for doing 
it, had then a further additionall engagem* — In like manner is it 
with the people of God. 

From Math. 9. 12. They that are whole need not a Physician 
■but y'' y' are sick, sin is the sicknesse of the soule and sin-sick 
soules stand in great need of a Physician, and that Physician is no 
other but Jesus X'. lord Jesus, heale my soule, for I have sinned 
against thee. 

At Worthenb. Nov. 13. From luke 15. 17. the Spirit brings 
to consideration not only of the State of the soule, but also the 
wayes of the soule, thus saith the lord of hosts, Consider your wayes, 
the way in which the prodigal walked before conversion was a 



64 PHILIP HENRY. 

way of Pride, idlenesse, riot, wantonesse, the way in which hee 
walked after Conversion was a way of Repentance, Humihty, 
Obedience ; lord, evermore let mee bee led in that way. I know 
I cannot be better any where then in my Father's House, lord, 
keepe mee at home with thy selfe. 

24. Our day of monthly conference at Robert Byckley's- 
House. Qu. wherein consists the Happines of Heaven ! much 
was said concerning it, but behold the one halfe was not 
told us. 

29. John Hughes mantayned (contrary to what was delivered 
in publike that day) that it is no blessing but a Curse for one that 
never shall bee sav'd, to bee kept by restrayning Grace from open 
scandalous sins, his reason was bee. such a one is more unlikely 
to bee convinc't then another.- — I think it to bee a mercy, bee. 
God is lesse dishonoured, his people lesse greived, the sinner lesse 
punished. — lord, teach us thy will, and let mee bee cursed, if it 
■bee a curse with thy Restrayning Grace, keep in my Corruptions, 
but withall let mee have renewing grace too to change my 
nature. 

2. the Judge set forth for london. 

14. Dr. Rock of Hampton came to -f lady, a Papist. 

16. Mrs. Golson of Lincolnshire came to y^ lady. 

1 8. the lady's Breast bled much ; suppos'd to be a cancer. 

23. About this time a child of Rich. Humphryes which was 
to bee baptiz'd on the Sabbath day dyed on Friday night. 

28. Mr. Roger Puleston came home — from london before 
his Father. 

December i. A day of Prayer at Joseph Ridgway's* house in 
Shocklach, many sweet enlargements vouchsafed, blessed bee God. 
Among other mercyes beg'd for ourselves, the Church, the nation, 
relations, Freinds, some weak and sick, others in other troubles. 
this was specially insisted on that tlie lord would find out a way 
for y" settlement of an able FaithfuU Ministry in that Parish, which 
was desired, not out of any evill will to him that Officiates y" 

* This very old English name, which shows that the British ways followed 
for the most part the ridges, was represented at Shocklach, for many genera- 
tions, by a family who were descended from the Ridgways, earls of Lon- 
donderry, and settled afterwards in the parish of Hanmer. 



PHILIP HENRY. 65 

though very unworthy, Mr. Rob' Thornton, but out of good will 
to the Peoples soules which are like to perish for want of whole- 
some food ; lord, hear in heaven thy dwelling-place and if thou 
hast any lost Groats in that parish, light a Candle and seek them 
and find them, for thy Goodnesse sake 6: lord. 

8. Our monthly lecture-day at Worthenb. the lord prosper his 
(iosp. to this people, they have it preacht amongst them in season 
and out of season, even so, Amen, lord Jesus ! Mr. lewis taught 
from luke 15. 17. In my Father's House there is bread enotigh, 
Jesus X' is the true Bread that came downe from heaven, by him 
wee are fed, nourished, strengthned, were men truly hungry they 
would part with any thing rather y™ want it, but here's our miserj', 
wee are full of other things, sin, selfe, earth and no wonder if the 
full soule loaths the Honey-combe, lord, evermore give mee this 
Bread ! 

After Sermon was ended a child of Mr. HoUiman's was to bee 
Baptized ; I thought once to have done it in publike and in 
regard the father was absent in london and the mother] sick in 
bed, I yeelded y' some fit person (Mr. Orlando Fogg was pitcht 
upon) should represent y" Parents in undertaking for the education 
of the child, but upon second thoughts, I altred my purpose 
(though I found it sutable to the Directions of y° Assembly of 
Divines) fearing lest those who could not know y" Grounds I went 
upon, might happily look upon it as a Presedent for y' Use of 
God-fathers & God-mothers, and in that resp. it might have 
beene an Offence, wherefore I went to the House and there 
Baptiz'd it the Child's name was Edward, and the Mother under- 
took for the education in the nurture and Admonition of the lord. 
— I hold it fittest that that Ordinance bee administred publikely on 
the lord's day in the presence of the whole Congregation, but yet 
neverthelesse the Rule not being Scripturall, but only Prudential, 
it may admitt of Variations from it. 'Tis somew' inconvenient on 
y° lord's day, unlesse the people would agree to putt off y' feasting 
jjart of y Solemnity to some other time. I find Abraham feasted 
when hee wean'd the child — Gen. 21. 8. — lord, shew mee what 
thou -wilt have mee to doe. 

17. Sister Mary return'd from Shrewsbury, not rid of her 
Mother-fits which shee had before ; the time of her being there 

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66 PHILIP HENRY. 

was chargeable, it cost between thirty and forty pounds ; I blesse 
God, I had it for her use.* 

29. Our day of monthly Conference at John Hughes house 
upon Threapwood, Qii. How may wee know whether wee are 
of those that have their Portion in this life — The Duty was carryed 
on with much love and meeknes, and I hope w* some comfort 
and sedification to those that were present. O lord, let not the 
things of this life bee my portion. 
Usury, Saint Dunstans, Pauls, Christ Church, Salsbury, Windsor, 
Worcester, Westchester, Banbury, Bangor, Asaph. 

Dr. White's livings. 
Qui sermonavit vivus sine Think — sine Thank : o 
Mortuus in foveam jacitur sine clink sine clank : o. 
Epitaph. M'' L. Itineran. 
Hippocrates for y" Spleen i.e. /cpaTos hnrov. 
In a Feaver, if the Tongue cannot be held out steady, tis 
commonly mortall. 

For the Spleen. 

Of Sena, halfe an Ounce, of lycoris as much, a Spoonfull of 
Coriander-seed, enfused over night in a quart of fayre water, to bee 
drunk y° next morning at three draughts, an houre bet\veen each 
draught. Probatum. ' 

For a Cold. 

Drink Peny-royall water, warm'd, with a little sugar. 

For Convulsions. 
Conserve of Rue, morning & evening. 

For Colique. 

Decoctum florum Camomeli in cerevisia, in dolore Colici est 
instar incantamenti. 

I purpose this present yeare 1657 (as I did theyeare forgoing) 
to set by the Tenth of all the moneyes I receive for charitable 
uses, viz. two shillings in every pound. 

My God accept it in Christ. Amen. 

* What a true spirit of Christian charity is this, which knows no limit Imt 
that of actual ability ! St. Matt. xxv. 36. 



PHILIP HENRY. 



67 



Anno 1657. 



Mar. 

Mar. 

Apr. 

Jun. 

Sept. 

Oct. 

Dec. 

Dec. 



10. 
24. 

6. 
10. 
10. 

I. 



At Oxon ... 
at Emerall 
at Emerall 
at Oxon 
at Oxon ... 
at Emerall 
at Emerall 
at Emerall 
at O.xon ... 
at Emerall 
at Emerall 



Received. Set by. 

314 060 

500 o 10 o 

35 o ° 3 10 o 

4 12 5 090 

4 14 6 090 

10 o o 100 

10 o o 100 

5 o o 010 o 

387 070 

13 o o 160 

700 o 14 o 



100 16 II 



10 



1658. fan. 25. A motion was first made to Mrs. K. M. on 
my behalf. Shee desir'd time to consider. 

Feb. 8. Shee return'd answer shee would speak with mee 
hers. 15th. a book sent (Ambrose Prima) and a time appointed. 

In September, 1658, the lady Puleston died. " She 
was," said he, " the best friend I had on earth, but my 
friend in heaven is still where he was, and he will never 
leave me nor forsake nje." He preached her funeral sermon 
from Isaiah iii. 26. He has noted this expression of hers 
not long before she died, " My soul leans to Jesus Christ ; 
lean to me, sweet Saviour.'' The following statement in 
Philip Henry's hand has been lent me by Mr. R. P.. Greg, 
■ of Coles Park, Herts. It seems to have been written atthc 
Jady's dictation. 

Sept. 2, 1658. 

It is my earnest desire to my Husband 

1. That hee will bee pleased to pay the moneyes which I owe 
according as will appear by a paper written with my own hand. 

2. That hee will give to the Three maydes w"*" tended mee in 
my sicknesse five pounds apeice, Mary Newton, Sarah Prichard, 
Mary Prichard. 

3. That hee will satisfy Mrs. Morgan for her very great care 
-concerning mee, there is three pound due to her by promise. 



68 PHILIP HENRY. 

4. That hee will give to Sarah Henry fifty pounds, and ni)- 
Cloaths, and whatsoever is mine in my Chamber. 

The ground of these my desires is besides his General! love to 
mee, a particular Promise, that in case I should dye before him, 
hee would give mee leave to bestow as far as two Hundred pounds 
would goe according as I should please. 

There were present when this was spoken Mrs. Horsey, ISIrs. 
Morgan, Mary Newton, and my selfe, P. H. 

A note of what is in my ladye's chamber. 

Her wearing Clothes — Bedding — 

A Damask Table Cloth and 4 Napkins. 

Bookes. 

A Silver Damask Cup, a Silver Porrenger, Two Silver Tasters, 

Five silver spoones, a Tankard. 

Her Strong-water Cabinett — 

An Amber-Bracelett with a Sergeant's Ring. 

Two Diamond Pinns — Bodkin, 

The watch. 

a saphire Ring, a gold seal & wedding ring, a Diamond-Ring. 

a necklace of Corall and a Pomander Bracelett. 

a Drinking Shell, a spur-royal beaten out. 

a Cabinett with Tills, a silk cushnett. 

Physique-Baskett. 

He removed from Emral to the house in Wortlienbur\- 
which the Judge had built for him in February, 1658-59. 
In the following March he was much solicited to leave 
Worthenbury, and to accept of the Vicarage of Wrexham, 
and the same year he had an offer made him of a consider- 
able living near London ; but he declined both offers. That 
year he had some disturbance from the Quakers, who were 
set on by others who wished ill to his ministry. The 
Cheshire rising under Sir George Booth, afterwards Lord 
Delamere, and that of North Wales under Sir Thomas 
Middleton, could not but affect Worthenbury and the 
country thereabouts. Mr. Henry's prayer for them in his 



PHILIP HENRY. 69 

diary, the day of their first appearing, is, " Lord, own them if 
they truly own Thee." He notes that Lambert's forces, which 
came down to suppress them, did in that neighbourhood 
•espouse the Quakers' cause, and offer injury to some mini- 
sters ; and therefore saith he, " unless God intend the ruin of 
the nation by them, they cannot prosper." Nor did they 
long, though in that expedition they had success. In their 
return some of Lambert's soldiers were at Worthenbury 
Church, and one of them sat with his hat on while they 
were singing psalms, for which he publicly admonished him. 
The first rising of the Cheshire forces was August i, 1659, 
and the 19th following they were worsted and scattered by 
Lambert's forces near Northwich, a strange spirit of fear 
being upon them, which quite took off their chariot wheels. 
The country people called it, not the " Cheshire Rising," 
but the " Cheshire Race." 

On September 5, 1659, Judge Puleston died, and all 
Philip Henry's interest (as his son tells us) in the Emeral 
family was buried in his grave. He preached the judge's 
funeral sermon from Nehemiah xii. 14 : " Wipe not out my 
good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, 
and for the offices thereof;" the design of which was not to 
applaud his deceased friend, but to show that deeds done 
for the house of God are good deeds, and to press people, 
according to their ability and opportunity, to do such deeds. 
One passage in that sermon ought to be recorded — that it 
had been the practice of a worthy gentleman in the neigh- 
bouring county in renewing his leases, instead of making 
it a condition that his tenants should keep a hawk or a 
dog for him, to oblige them that they should keep a Bible 
in their houses for themselves, and should bring up their 
•children to learn to read and be catechized. 

The change in the relations of Philip Henry to the 
Emral family after this date calls for some passing notice. 



70 PHILIP HENRY. 

In the diary for 1681 he refers to a time " when he was a 
Cavalier;" and that he should have ceased to be one 
after his early life at Whitehall, after witnessing the execu- 
tion of the king, after losing everything in the cause of 
royalty, may perhaps have been owing to the influence upon 
a youth of the words and conduct of Lord Pembroke, and 
afterwards of the persuasive arguments of Lady Puleston. 
It is evident that she was a person of no common intellect. 
The Puleston family had been on the side of the Parliament 
in the late troubles, and Emral had been taken by the 
Royalists in 1644, and unnecessary harshness used, as was 
alleged. But from the way in which the judge criticizes 
the proceedings of the prayer-meeting which Mr. Henrj- 
had established, we may perhaps conclude that it was the 
courtly manner, with the solid learning and genuine piety, 
of the young Oxonian which enlisted his sympathies, rather 
than the pirecise doctrinal views that he held. With the 
lady it would be otherwise ; and in the tone of her letters 
to Mr. Francis Palmer of Christ Church, and to Dr. Owen, 
the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford, we recognize a person of 
decided, if not extreme, opinions, in whose words and 
advice Philip Henry might seem to hear his o\\-n mother's 
voice over again, and be much influenced by them. 

That the next generation, who had become in some 
way Royalists and Episcopalians, should dislike their 
Presbyterian tutor, is not remarkable. Thej' only antici- 
pated by one year the verdict of the nation in breaking the 
yoke which neither their fathers nor they ^\ ere able to bear. 
He was a hearty well-wisher to the return of the king in 
April, 1660, and much affected with the mercy of it. On- 
the 26th of this month he was married, at Whitewell Chapel, 
to Katherine, the only daughter and heir of Mr. Daniel 
Matthews, of Broad Oak, in the county of Flint. Some 
opposition was made by her father, owing partly to offers 



PJIIUP HENRY. 71 

having been made for his daughter's hand by others of con- 
siderable estate, partly too that he did not sympathize with 
Philip Henry's religious opinions ; but these difficulties were 
overruled, and with his own hand he gave her in marriage. 
The Broad Oak property, which Mr. Matthews had obtained 
with his wife, Eleanor Benyon (as heiress of the Howell 
family, who had held it for many generations), was settled 
upon this marriage, and the remainder of his property in 
Hanmer parish — "lands of ancient inheritance," as Philip 
Henry calls them- — came to them also at his death in 1667. 
The purpose of marriage was published in the church 
three Lord's days before— a laudable practice, which he 
greatly approved, and persuaded others to. The day before 
his marriage he kept as a day of secret prayer and fasting. 
He used to say, " Christ will be present at the wedding if 
he be invited by prayer." 

The first letter I find addressed to Mrs. Henry after 
their marriage is dated "London." It well exhibits the 
affection, the happiness, and the piety of the writer. 

London, October 9, 1660. 
Dear Heart, 

I bless God, I am safe and well at London. I came 
from Oxford yesterday morning alone, but the Lord was with 
mee ; it was a long journey but I was stirring betimes. I was 
nine miles on my way before eight o'clock, and came an hour of 
two before sun-set to Thistleworth.* Towards the end of my 
journey, for three or four miles, where was most danger it pleased 
God I had Company, which was a great mercy. I met many 
soldiers upon the way, going homewards upon their disband- 
ing, t towards their several countries, and I was sometimes afraid 

* This place is frequently mentioned by Philip Hemy, but has not yet 
been identified. Evelyn mentions it in his diary, February 28, 1648. 

t " The troops were now to be disbanded. Fifty thousand men accustomed 
to the profession of arms, were at once thrown on the world ; and experience 
seemed to warrant the belief that this change would produce much misery and 
crime. . . . But no such result followed. In a few months there remained not 
a trace that the most formidable army in the world had just been absorbed into 



72 PHILIP HENRY. 

of them. They were by two & three in a company, but the Lord 
preserved mee. This morning I came to Chelsea, where I saw 
my sisters, in health, blessed bee God, and overjoyed to see me ; 
from thence, this afternoon, to London. I have been with cousin 
Thomas Hotchkis, from whom I received a letter to S' Orlando 
Bridgman from Mr. Eddow; and, to-morrow, I purpose, God 
willing, to wait upon his Lordship, expecting a charge from him, 
in the first place, about conformity, wherein yet I shall do as I 
see cause, in case I should be continued at Worthenbury. The 
ministers here are generally unanimous, and resolved. Dr. 
Sheldon was installed Bishop of London to-day. The King is 
gone into the country for a fortnight during the trial of his father's 
Judges to prevent petitions. I sleep to-night at Mrs. Kingstons 
who desires to be remembered to you, and to Mr. Puleston, and 
his wife. I wrote to you, by the last post, from Oxford. Com- 
mend me to sister Mary, and all that ask of me. Dear heart, 
make much of thyself, and love me ; and the Lord everlasting be 
thy Sun and Shield ! So prayeth, 

Thine, in all affection, 

Philip Henry. 

In September, 1660, Mr. Fogg, Mr. Steele, and Mr. 
Henry were presented at Flint assizes for not reading the 
Common Prayer, though as yet it was not enjoined. They 
entered their appearance and it fell, for the king's declara- 
tion touching ecclesiastical affairs came out soon after, 
which promised liberty and gave hopes of settlement ; but 
the spring assizes following they were presented again. 

In November of that year he took the oath of allegiance 
at Overton, before Sir Thomas Hanmer and two other 
justices, of which he has left this memorandum in his diary : 
" God so help me, as I purpose in my heart to do accord- 
ingly." One of the chief characteristics of Philip Henry 
was his belief in the power of prayer. He was resolved 

the mass of the community. The Royalists themselves confessed that, in every 
department of honest industry, the discarded warriors prospered beyond other 
men." — Macaiilay's " Ilistory," cap. ii. See diary for 1667, March 15 (note). 



PHILIP HENRY. "J I 

that he and his house should serve the Lord. There was, 
therefore, family worship night and morning. He would 
say sometimes, " If the worship of God be not in the house, 
write ' Lord have mercy on us ' upon the door, for there is 
a plague, a curse in it." He always began with a short* 
prayer imploring the Divine presence ; next he sung a 
Psalm ; then he read a portion of Scripture, taking the Bible 
in order, explaining it and catechizing the children. He 
then prayed, always kneeling, which he looked upon as the 
fittest gesture for prayer. In family prayer he was usually 
most full in giving thanks for family mercies, confessing 
family sins, and begging family blessings. He used to 
observe, concerning Job, that he offered burnt-offerings for 
his children, according to the number of them all — an offer- 
ing for each child. Family prayer he called family duty, 
and he did not allow the presence of strangers to interfere 
with it. " Prayer and provender hinder no man's journey,'' 
he would say. 

Besides this, he and his wife constantly prayed together 
njorning and evening, according to St. Peter's rule, " Live as 
heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not 
hindered." Above all, he made conscience of closet- 
worship. It was the caution and advice which he fre- 
quently gave to his children and friends, " Be sure you look 
to your secret duty : keep that up whatever you do : the 
soul cannot prosper in the neglect of it." He observed that 
" Apostasy generally begins at the closet door." 

As the diaries for 1658-1660 are not forthcoming, I can 
■only give a very slight sketch of those years, and must pass 
•on to that for 1661, which, with those for 1663, 1667, 1671, 
1672, 1674, 1678, belonged (till her decease in February, 
1 881) to Mrs. Lee of Redbrook, a descendant in the fourth 
<iegree from Matthew Henry, and — with her two sisters — 
the co-heiress of Broad Oak and other lands. 



74 PI-TILIP HENRY. 

1661. 

January i. This day begins the new year, the lord make it 
a year of mercy. 

2. Hanmer-exercise, lord, a day in thy Courts is better than 
a thousand. It was rumor'd that there would be a disturbance 
but the lord some way or other prevented. 6 that o"' opportunityes 
might yet a while bee continued to us 1 and that wee may have 
Grace to use them to thy Glory. 

3. Mr. Richard Taylor return'd from London, where he was 
ordayn'd by D"' Sanderson Bishop of Lincoln. Friends well there, 
blessed bee God. About this time Mr. Davis of Jesus Coll. lodg'd 
a night with mee, I lent him half a crown at his departure, hee 
saying hee was poor and wanted it. 

4. I went to Whitchurch to speak w"^ Mr. John Eddow to w"^ 
the affay'' of Worthenb. is refer'd but hee was not at home. lord,, 
w" I come to thee about that or any other of my concemm'" I am 
sure to find thee at home. 

6. A stir was made about a collection for a poor woman of 
Bangor without Mr. Puleston's leave, lord, I cannot doe what I 
would, I desire to doe what I can for thy Glor)'. 

7. I visited Tho. Prichard an aged weak man- — ^lord fit him 
to dye. 

8. I find in every prayer greater pronesse to Thanksgiving 
then either to confession or Petition — which I fear is not well & 
argues I am little acquainted with myself. This time, twelve- 
month, it was quite contrary lord make mee truly humble & 
truly thankful. 

9. I was at the house of mourning, visiting Richard Hum- 
phryes, long sick & sore, & pray'd w'" him to his Comfort & my 
own Edification. God hath mixt mercy to him with his affliction 
in giving him a careful tender wife. 

10. Lord, how are they increased that trouble mee, but in 
thee, lord, doe I put my trust, somet. fear and somet. faith prevails, 
lord Jesus increase my Faith. 

11. I was at Whitchurch, Mr. Eddow waves the Reference left 
with him by D'' B' yet advises mee to defer distreyning till his 
return. Newes of an Insurrection at london last Sabbath day at 



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night by fifth-Monarchy men. who declar'd for King Jesus, some 
were kild, more affrighted ; the King at Portsmouth with his- 
Mother, tis probable this may give occasion to those that seek 
occasion to restrayn our libertyes hitherto indulg'd — In my way 
home with Capt. Taylor and John Wright Mr. Pul: overtook us- 
& drew his sword & would needs fight saying wee were all 
Traytors, swearing desperately : 6 the infinite patience of.y° eternal 
God. 

14. Capt. Barbor my Friend dyed, a great misse of him, hee 
was a pious & prudent X""" and had the good word of all even 
y" vilest, help lord for the Godly man ceaseth. 

15. Mr. Bruce wrote to mee about y" Order hee had received 
prohibiting private Dayes and about his personal wants, which are 
pressing, lord, thou knowest how ready I would bee to help him, 
if I had it, or any poor member, much more any poor Minister of 
the lord Jesus, help, lord ! 

16. This day I was not well, I am prone to look upon every 
Distemper as a Summons to mee to give up my stewardship and 
I hope it is for my good so to reckon. Lord grant I may not bee 
found unprovided for; I know neither day nor hour. I pray'd 
with the Old Folkes at John Barns where 4. make above 300. 
yeares. 

17. I went to Wrexham, where I p. formed the last office of 
my love to my dear deceased Friend, Capt. Gerard Barbor, the 
Saint of the lord, accompanying him to his grave where hee 
rests as in a bed of spices till the day of y' restitution of all things. 
& then I hope to see him again & so wee shall bee together for 
ever with the lord. I pass'd through many dangers by reason of 
water & fowl wayes, but -f lord was with mee blessed bee his 
name. 

19. God hath denyed mee & others for two sick p. sons 
this week for w™ prayer was made, the will of y° lord bee done. 

20. I finisht the exposition of leviticus blessed bee God. 

A word of terrour, knowing which, wee perswade men, lord, 
prosper ! 

21. I went with my wife to Broad-Oak, where wee stay'd all 
night & return'd the next day safe and well, blessed bee God. 

23. Sam Hanmer of Ch. Ch. came to visit mee. I would 



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gladly doe for him tow. his mayntenance but my power is straitened. 
So is the will of God, wherein I acquiesce. 

24. 25. A time of trouble in the nation. Many good men 
imprison'd & restrayn'd, some with some without cause, I am 
yet in peace blessed bee God, but expect suffring, lord, prepare 
mee for it & grant I may never suffer as an evil doer, but as a 
■Christian. 

26. 27. Hell the subject preacht upon this day that from the 
Terrour of the lord I might perswade men. the lord perswade 
them from sin to Christ. 

28. I was at Broughton but knew not how to order visits to 
the advantage of Religion as I desire & as I ought 

29. I was at Wrexham, where I pray'd with Mrs. Mostyn not 
well &: visited Mrs. Barbour in sorrow & Mrs. AVeld in sorrow also 
for her youngest son, Michael, the lord comfort his poor people 
& make up all their losses from hims', who is God All-sufficient. 

30. I was at Shocklach * at y° Baptizing of a child of Joseph 
Ridgwayes, named Sarah, Mr. Taylor baptizd it, wee both taught 
from Act. 2. 38. I of repentance, hee of bapt 

31. Things are low with mee in the world, but 3* left, but 
my hope is yet in the lord, that in due time hee will supply more. 
Amen. 

About this time Veniier f & others were executed in london, 
for the Insurrection there — Jan. 6. & 9. Alarms in the country but 
without cause, blessed bee God. Many Quakers in prison because 
refuse the Oath of Allegiance. 

February 2. 3. Assistance vouchsafed in study & preaching 
blessed bee God! the lord pardon my manifold failings — yet surely 
I know it shall bee well with them that fear God, that fear before 
him. 

* This interesting chmcli and Edstaston, near Wem, are the only two in this 
neighbourhood which may lie called Norman. Shocklach is now (1881) being 
restored, under the care of the Honourable W. Trevor Kenyon, Rector of 
Malpas. ' 

T Venner was a wine cooper of the city, who went about with some thirty 
companions proclaiming " King Jesus." Every one at first fled before them'. 
One man, who being questioned said "he was for God and King Charles," 
was instantly murdered by them. This sect persuaded their hearers that now 
the critical time of the millennium was come, and their prayers were not only 
necessary, but their arms for bringing on of this work, and encouraged them by 
saying that one of them should chase a thousand, etc. 



PHILIP HENRY. "J J 

4. I went to Chester, where I spent 8 houres that day & 
the day following with Dean Brid — and return'd as far from any 
result or determination as w" I went thither. It seems at present 
as if the lord were about to remove mee hence, father thy will be 
done it is not his but thy doing: I spake with Mr. Ratcliff & 
Mr. Golborn about distreyning & receiv'd directions in order 
thereunto. 

6. Minist"' meeting at Bangor. Q. an sit Transubstantiatio 
in sacra coena. The last wee are likely to have till God mend 
things in the nation, would wee had priz'd & impv'd y"" better 
while wee had y'' liberty of y™\ I din'd with my wife & sister at 
Broughton. I pay'd Mr. Steel his ;^4, & arbitrated y' businesse 
betw. Mr. Fog & Mr. Jenkyn, paying a mark to Mr. Fogg this 
day & a Mark to Mr. Jenkins formerly. Blessed are y' Peace- 
makers. 
■ Lent enjoyned by Proclamation to bee observ'd. 

8. Mr. P. made one of the Deputy-leiftenants of the County,, 
sent to Search my house for Arms .not openly but slily by his- 
brother E. but found none. Hee beleiv'd a lying report, that wee 
had a meeting that day at John Hugh's, & caus'd the bells to ring 
for Joy, hoping for great advantage against us thereby, but it 
prov'd nothing so, lord make us wise as serpents & harmlesse as- 
doves. 

9. Studying day, assistance vouchafed, to God bee Glory. 
Passion somew' prevayled in my transactions with Tho: Hale- 
Avhich I am now sorry for, lord lay not this sin to my charge. 

10. Sabbath-subject, concerning Anger, lord, mortify that & 
all my unruly affections. Bells rung for pleasure, a sin, lord 
pardon, I endeavour'd to prevent it, but could not. 

13. I walkt to Capt. Taylors & from thence to Bangor & 
so home. My heart is ver}' barren of good thoughts, when I am 
alone, but fruitful enough of vayn thoughts. 

14. Thursday, One sermon finisht this night for y° Sabbath 
being to goe from home on the morrow, blessed bee God — I spake 
with David Philips about Arrears, but have no hopes by fair meanes 
— I told him, his M' and hee must not bee angry with mee, if in 
pursuit of my just right I should bee forct to doe that which 
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■either at the Assizes, or to the Chancello'' or to the Council, but 
as to my own temper, I list not to live in the fire, if I could 
help it. 

15. I went to Chester Rob. Byck. w* mee, the Dean & 
Chancello'' D'' Baldwin pswaded with mee to conform, telling mee, 
else my preferm' * was gone and what? are you wiser then the King 
& Bishops, but God grant I may never bee left to consult with 
flesh and bloud in such matters. I visited Mr. Brown a Prisoner, 
as disaffected, who said, fear not to suffer for God, tis sweet, his 
presence makes a Prison a Palace. 

16. I visited Mr. Cook, full of zeal agt B"' liturgy — in my own 
busines I could effect nothing, it is y'' will of God I should still 
bee kept in uncertaintyes, theref. wait patiently^I returned home 
safe, bless God. 

17. One other Sabbath spent without disturbance, blessed 
bee God ; might our enemyes have their will, it should not be so, 
but our God chaynes th™. 

18. Ministers met at Hanmer, to discourse about the lawful- 
iies of re-ordination — Mr. Orl. Fogg re-ordayn'd,t as for mys^ 
I am at present of the mind it ought not to bee, the former being 
sufficient, lord shew us what thou wouldst have us to doe. 

19. Peic't again with Thomas Hale, I am jealous hee will 
not, but wish hee may perform bargain with mee. 

20. Rich. Humphryes buryed. Text. Job 33. 19. it pleased 
God long to Chasten him with payn & yet after all I hope was 
gracious to him, & delivered him from going down to y" pit, his 
wife was diligent & tender in looking to him, though long, even 
to admiration. 

* This was not the line of argument to convince such a conscientious man 
as Philip Henry, wliose fear of "conferring with flesh and blood" in the things 
oi God prejudiced his judgment in this matter. 

t In the chancel of St. Mary's Church, Shrewsbury, is the following 
inscription : — " Orlando Fogg, ecclise Hardinensis in Comit. Flint. Rector et 
pecul. jurisdic. ibid, ordinarius, fil"* Rob" Fogg, ecclife. Bangor. Monac. 
Rectoris : Hue ad sanitat. recuperand'" .iccedens dum vitam diuturnior. quKsivit 
aternam invenit. flens posuit fil' charissimo pater msestissimus. Nov'' 10, a.d. 
t666." Orlando Fogg became Rector of Hawarden in 1662, on the ejection of 
Jiis brother Lawrence, who, however, afterwards conformed, and died Dean of 
Chester. Their father had been chaplain to Dr. H. Bridgeraan, and it was by the 
interest of his son, Sir Orlando Bridgeman, with the patron of Hawarden, Sir 
John Glynnc, that this his namesake got it. Calamy has erroneously substituted 
Rowland for Lawrence (Owen and Blakeway's "Salop," ii. 405). 



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21. I spake to Mrs. Barb, concer. y° loan of ;^ioo in April 
next which shee partly promised, I visited Uncle Edwards at 
Eyton. 

22. Feasted at Bangor, with my wife & sister where was 
Mrs. Fogg of Hawarden. 

24. Sabbath-mercyes — I publisht a citation about probate of 
wills & Publishing Banns. 

25. 26. At Chester. A release of y" Tithes tendred by Mr. 
P. to D' B' but not accepted. I gave 10' to Mr, RatcUff, re- 
tayning him for my counsel, if I must to suit ; lord, shew thys'. 
<rod knowes I had rather preach for nothing then not at all. 

27. 28. At Broad-Oak, Whitch. Ash with my dear wife, taking 
her leave with Friends, bee. drawing near the time of her Travel. 
I was not well, but God restored mee. 

Two hundred of Goose Kids — cost 6- 8''. 

24. Catechism reviv'd. a comfortable appearance of children, 
"bless lord. 

March i. the cross repayring in the churchyard of Worthenb. 
by Mr. P. and y" Governor his serv'. lord, I mourn for that which 
I cannot help. I return'd home & left my dear wife at Broad 
O. behind mee, lord, preserve her, form y" child in her and X' in 
y" child. Amen. 

3. A collection for one lewis ap Hugh of Skiviok, 6^ gathered- 
The Sabbath-subject, of Meeknesse, lord, give mee a meek & 
quiet spirit. 

4. I fetcht my dear wife from Broad-Oak, wee came home well 
& in safety, blessed bee God. My Father not yet marryed but 
moving towards it, the will of y° lord bee done. 

5. lent observ'd according to Proclamation, the earth is the 
lords & the fulness y^'of — Mr. Fogg came to advise with mee 
about Bangor, D'' B"' would gladly be rid of him thence, bee. of 
the allowance hee is in bonds to give him, but I think it best, hee 
should stay there as long as hee can. 

6. My dear wife every way my helper, blessed bee God. 

7. Mr. HoUiman promised to endeavour reconcihation betw. 
my Father & my Uncle Benion, I wish hee might effect it it 
seemes to stick at this only, my Father will no cease unlessc my 



8o PHILIP HENRY. 

Uncle acknowl. (implicitly at least by paying him costs) that hee 
hath done him wrong. 

8. Contests about the liturgy, an everlasting * bone of conten- 
tion, till remov'd or mended, My sister Mary went to Whit-church 
— I received letters from London, Friends well there, blessed bee 
God. 

9. Studying-day, in much infirmity, things are not with mee 
as they should bee, nor as they have been — help lord. 

10. Many sick desired prayers, Daniel lloyd, Edw. ap Ellis, 
a son of John ap Ellis, John Griffith, Tho. Griffith, Mrs. Holliman 
for her daughter, lord, hear in heaven. I will hearken ! Blessed 
bee God for liberty & help this day. 

12. A stir intended about the Font,+ Ned ap Edw. church- 

* A Royal Warrant was issued apjjointing twelve bishops and twelve Presby- 
terians, with nine coadjutors on each side, to meet in the Savoy Hospital with 
powers to review the Book of Common Prayer, comparing the same with the 
most ancient Liturgies which have been used in the Church in the primitive and 
purest times. The Presbyterians demanded the discontinuance of all responses 
and similar divisions in the Litany ; an abolition of saints' days ; an introduc- 
tion of extemporaneous prayer ; a change as to several of the Epistles and 
Gospels ; lengthening of the Collects ; the rejection of the Apocrypha ; the 
removal from the office of the word " regenerated," as applied to all baptized 
persons ; and a similar rejection of the giving thanks for brethren taken bj- 
God to Himself, as embracing all alike who were interred. They would have 
the liturgy be more particular and the Catechism more explicit. They consented 
to give up the Assembly's Catechism for the Thirty-nine ^Vrticles somewhat 
altered, and they finished with the request that the cross, the ring, the surplice, 
and kneeling at the Holy Communion should be left indifferent. The Church 
commissioners replied (see Cardwell's " History of the Conferences "), adding 
that they would even give up the ceremoniesif any shadow of objection could be 
brought forward on the score of their sinfulness or impropriety. This the othei-s 
could not do, but would not come to terms. The conference, therefore, 
terminated in mutual dissatisfaction. In Hunter's " Life of Oliver Heywood " 
(1842), p. 354, we see that it was not so much a dislike of symbolism as of 
authority which distinguished the Presbyterians. At the ordination of his 
.son, Oliver _ Heywood delivers to him a Bible to intimate, etc., and also 
takes him by the hand to express, etc. 

t What the difficulty was we are not told. Perhaps the font had during the 
Rebellion been thrown aside, as was the case with the one at 'Wlntewell. In 
the beginning of Christianity people were baptized at fountains or in lakes. In 
English Maelor there are at least eight names of places which refer to this. Then 
for many centuries the baptistery formed part of the excdni: or places adjoining 
to the church. After this, fonts were introduced, and by Canon 81 they " must 
be of stone, and placed in every church and chapel where baptism 'is to be 
ministered in the ancient usual position ; in which only font the minister shall 
baptize publickly." In England fonts are generally placed near the west door, 
to signify that it is by baptism we are admitted into the Church. 



PHILIP HENRY. 8 1 

warden set on by Mr. P. would have it us'd as formerly, I have 
someth. to say Pro. & someth. Con. & doe rather incline to doe 
it there, if there bee no remedy that becoming all things to all in 
indifferent things, I may gain some. 

I receiv'd an old Debt of 40^ from Mr. Philips of Mulsford, 
in good season. I was at Broughton. Tis a great mercy that 
hee & his family doe yet continue to own & countenance y" 
best th. lord, fill him with zeal more & more, especially as a 
magistrate. 

14. 15. Garden prepar'd, I sow, God knows who may reap ; 
the lord make mee wise to sow to the spirit & then of the spirit 
I shal bee sure to reap life everlasting. 

,16. Freedom, quietness, & Assistance in study this day, 
blessed be God. John y° son of David Peter baptiz'd in y° 
way as formerly, & whatever was design'd noth. was executed, 
blessed bee God, who hath the hearts & hands of all my ad- 
versaryes in a chayn, & hath broken this snare also & I am 
delivered. 

19. I went to Br. Oke where I delivered to my Father a Bond 
of his of ;^ioo. w* hee owd to Aunt Adams, to w" I made a new 
one, also two Rings of my mother in laws, which hee desir'd of 
my wife & had according to his desire. 

20. Garden finisht, in time of an ecclipse, lord lift up upon 
mee the light of thy countenance, & let noth. cloud it towards 
my soul. 

21. I ■ met Mr. St. return'd from London, I hope rather 
strengthened then shaken, lord, tis a day of tryal with us and 
snares are layd in our way & temptations are multiplyed, help 
lord. 

22. I receiv'd all writings concer. Br. Oke both. from my 
father Matthewes & Uncle Benyon. Peace being made betw. 
them, blessed bee the Peace-makers. 

23. Mr. Mason advertiz'd us that our appearance at the 
Assize, where wee stand indited for non-conformity, might bee 
wav'd, through the Indulgence granted in the Kings Declaration, 
now blessed bee God that hath broken this snare also. 

24. Peace & liberty vouchsafed one Sabbath more, lord, 
what shall wee render. Mr. Orl. Fogg was design'd to have 

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preached at Emeral Chappel,* but was prevented by sicknesse. 
I fear a snare therby to others but none to mys'. God is lord of all. 

25. This day there is due to mee from Mr. Puleston ;^i5. 
but my reward is with my God, Chosen for y° Pari, in Cheshire, 
y° Baron of Kinderton & lord Brewerton. 

26. .1 heard of the goodnes of God to sister Sarah & find it is 
not in vayn to wayt upon him, hee is the father of the fatherless. 

27. I was at Chester. The lord is pleas'd as yet to afford 
mee favour in the sight of the man without a snare to conscience, 
& hee can doe it still. 

28. 29. Assizes at Hawarden, where Mr. Steel & I were 
presented for not reading Com. Pra. hee that hath delivered doth 
deliver, and I trust also hee will yet deliver. 

April I. I was at Fenns, where I payd rent to Mr. Hanmer 
— 26' S* — for y" lease-land at Br. Oke. In my return I was in- 
form'd by John Jenings of several passages, wherein y° Church- 
warden, Edw. Dav. in my presentm' forswore hims' I shall inquire 
further about it. 

2. Mr. Orl. Fogg weak and ill, lord, take him not away in the 
midst of his dayes. 

3. Hanmer-Exercise, Mr. Porter & Mr. Steel taught, I was 
designed to it but twas much better as it was. S' Tho. Hanmer 
signif. his dislike of it, which made it doubtful whether wee should 
have any more, but at parting I never saw such a face of sadnes, 
as was upon those that were present, sure God heares the sighs 
& sees the tears of his poor people. 

* There are names still remaining near Emral which would seem to show 
that there had been anciently a church or chapel there dedicated to a Welsh 
saint named Gwerydd, and another to the blessed Virgin Mar)'. " The chapel " 
here referred to by Philip Henry " was dedicated to St. Thomas the Martyr. It 
had a tithe apportioned to it and a cure of souls, and the duty was done at one 
time by the parson of Bangor. Among the Emral manuscripts there is a petition 
that the Worthenbury minister should officiate instead. In 1443 it was used 
by the familyas a burial-ground." Mr. Joseph Morris, of Shrewsbury, wi-ites : 
" Captain John Puleston, the last male representative of the family, who died 
in 1800, pulled down the old consecrated chapel of the mansion, where several 
servants of the family were buried, and upon the foundation and with the 
materials built the present dog-kennel. The altar table was placed in the 
laundry, where it still remains as an ironing board. Returning home from 
hunting one day, he was thrown off his horse and pitched against^ the kennel- 
wall, became idiotic, and in that state died. This was looked upon by 
deserving persons as a judgment from Heaven." 



PHILIP HENRY, 83 

4. I was at Broughton where hapned to bee Mrs. Puleston — 
Mr. lewis cal'd to see mee, my ancient Friend. 

This week at Ruthyn y° Judge was more moderate. Quakers 
releast upon Subscription to y° tenor of y° Oath without swearing 
formally to it. 

7. Sabbath mercyes vouchsafed once more, notwithst. all y" 
power & policy of those that hate us. Text — I beseech you 
brethren by the mercyes of -f lord, lord pardon sin & blesse y" 
word. 

8. Two of our Kine calv'd together and all well — I bless God ; 
Mee thinks I see even our common mercyes flowing in to us in a 
Covenant-way which puts both sweetnes in & value on them. 

9. A copy of the lease and Release eoncer. Br. Oak was de- 
livered to my Uncle Benion by Mr. Holliman, & I hope an end 
is put to that strife. 

10. Several strangers of other parishes that have heretofore 
communicated with us being informed of y° Canon forbidding it 
were much sadned by it, but for -f present continue to come, till 
th. be settled in y" church, which God hasten & grant it bee for 
■f better & not for y'' worse. 

1 1. Commissioners for y° Militia met at Hanmer, where I was 
Summon'd to bee, to bear a 3* pt. in a light horse, for Broad-Oke, 
Noth. done at present, only a 4"' added, afterw. taken away. 
leonard Perkins told mee, the book of Com. Pr. tendered to mee, 
was his, & that hee had had it in his house ever since, whereas 
Edw. David Swore, as Tho. Jackson & Will Butler tell mee, that 
twas y° parish book & was in readines for mee to have read at any 
tima since, w° I would. 

12. I was at Chester, where I received orders from D' Br. 
about nominating a Church-warden for this next year — heard Mr. 
Jackson preach Heb. 12. 2. — & return'd that night, late but well, 
blessed bee God. 

This day was spent in Prayer at My House by my dear wife, 
Sarah Prichard, Mrs. Welsh Etc. lord hear in heaven and grant 
an Answer of peace, for thou never saidst. Seek ye mee in vayn. 

13. Preparation-day, in Publique, without disturbance, I hope, 
not in vayn, 6 lord prepare my unprepared heart, my family, & 
this whole Congregation. Amen. 



84 PmUP HENRY. 

14. A day in thy courts is better th™ a thousand, such a day 
as this, better then ten thousand. Wee had the Hberty of all Gods 
Ordinances, Prayer, Reading, Expounding, Preaching, singing, 
Supper, Catechising, Baptism, blessed bee God, & may wee yet 
see many such dayes : Edw. David tendred again y° Common- 
prayer-book. The child baptized, Thomas the son of Thos. Hale. 
I was afraid of snares in y° supper, but the lord prevented, Jane 
Dee was present expecting it, but I pass'd by her, knowing some 
& being inform'd of more miscarriages in her conversation, & 
besides doubting of her Knowl. concer. w* she came not to render 
satisfaction. 

15. Church-wardens chosen, Mr. Puleston named one in his 
right & I another in D" W. but which shall stand, sub judice 
lis est. 

16. Evan Thomas Randle an old man of evil name was 
bur/d with Common P''. by Mr. O. Fogg, at the desire of Mrs. 
Puleston of Emeral ; lord, I am sorry for what I cannot help, it 
caused great Offence, and woe bee to him by w" Offenses come. 

17. I went to Wrexham about Moneyes for Father, but came 
home w^out. 

18. Carpenters laying Chamber-floores, God knowes who 
shall enjoy. 

19. 20. A time of Temptation with many in the parish betw. 
their Minister & landlord, lord strengthen the weak & confirm the 
wavering. 

21. A promiscuous Sacram' was at Emeral, lord pardon un- 
worthy receivers. Mr. Bonniman administred it 

22. I received ;;^ioo wch I borrowed of Mrs. Barbor & 
brought it home in my pockets weary enough. The Hebrew word, 
to bee rich, signifies, to bee heavy. 

23. King crowned, great joy, much sin, the lord pardon, 
Twas a very wett evening, which prevented someth. of God's 
Dishono'. 

24. I mett Mr. Mostyn at Bangor for w"" God hath at present 
provided a little sanctuary at lord Say's in Oxford-shire. 

25. David Philips sick, rejoyce notw" think enemy falleth, 
neither let thy heart bee glad w" hee stumbleth, lest y° lord see 
it & it displease him, & hee turn away his wrath from him, I 



PHILIP HENRY. 85 

desire to walk accord, to this rule, father forgive him, as I forgive 
him from my heart, & spare him to doe better, not worse. 

26. This day twelvemonth I was marry'd, a good day. The 
first year God took order that marry'd Persons should not goe 
forth to war, neither have I, but now I must prepare to endure 
hardship as a good soldier of X* Jesus. 

23. Covenants of new Obedience solemnly made by H. 
Peter, lately fallen, lord bee surety. — broken fowlly— w' will bee 
■f issue. 

Great Thunder at London that night the King was crowned. 

May r. David Philips bury'd, Mr. Bonniman at my desire 
preacht, I stay'd y° sermon. T. hck. 16. 2. but went forth w" 
Common P' was to bee read at the grave, some expressions in the 
Prayers I cannot approve, especi. upon some occasions and 
particularly this. 

3. Upon this day my dear wife was delivered of her first child, 
short payn, much mercy. I was y™ at Chester, but God was here 
at Worthenb. a present help. 

6. 7. My dear wife & little one strengthen apace, blessed bee 
God. Shee is willing to give him suck & hath breasts & milk for 
it, which is a double mercy. 

8. Parliam' began. Clerks for Chester Dioces for -f Con- 
vocation, D' Samwayes D"^ Smalswood. 

9. 10. A very wett season, God is angry w"" us, now prepare 
to meet thy God — 6 England, & good lord, in the midst of wrath, 
remember mercy. & say it is enough^Barley much abused in 
Drunknes, Sz: now Barley seedness hindred, God is Righteous. 

12. This day my dear little one was baptized, named John, 
lord, Stamp thy image on him & give him that new name — Mr. 
Mainwaring baptized him & preacht in -f morning from Zech: 
13. I. & in the afternoon from Ps. 51. 5. lord wash mee & my 
little one in that fountayn opened from q' uncleine. 

13. little one not well, the lord heard prayer & made him 
well — I desire to sit loose from him, having given him to God, & 
knowing him to be but a flower in y" field — I read of some people 
lately, that made no account of their children til y'' were 7* years 

* Cf. Hdt. i. 136 : irevTocT^i. 



86 PHILIP HENRY. 

old & I am bid to expect to see him often at Deaths door, the 
will of y° lord bee done. 

14. Neighbours din'd with us, & rejoyced in Gods Good- 
nesse on our behalf — The same night my dear wife began to bee 
ill of an ague, I see there are no comforts but what are mixt & 
checquer'd, till wee come to Heaven, tis the Evening commends 
the day. theref. serve the lord with fear & rejoyce with Trembling. 

15. Mr. Barnston of Churton, & this, week Sir Francis 
Kinaston of Otely, were buryed, great men & young men, stopt 
in y" full career of their pleasure, lord, awaken those y' survive. 

16. My dear wife ill again, lord, rebuke the Ague & perfect 
her strength more & more. In -f way to Churton, I had a fall, 
but received no harm, blessed bee God. 

17. I distreyned at Shocklach for moneyes due to mee from 
Mr. P. The Bayhfif was not faithful, John Ince, I wish I suffer 
no prejudice by it in the cause, hee had lo^ 

18. My dear wife ill again, lord, hear & have mercy. 
Studying day ; my work done thankes bee to God in due time. 

20. I was at Chester, & the lord was with mee, preserving 
mee from dangef, succeeding my journey. It was an 111 day 
with my dear wife at home, having a sharp fit of an Ague, I 
returned late, & found her someth. better. 

21. John Ince y° Bayliff came not according to promise to 
demand y° Cattle, a Replevin was fetcht by Mr. Pulestons servant 
from Chester. 

22. I went mys' to demand the cattle of Richard Phillips & 
William Pova, who had promised they should bee forthcoming but 
they refus'd to render them, whereupon Mr. P. bayliff demanded 
charges. Friends came to see us from Ash & Whitchurch, a very 
wett season, famin tjireatned by Death of Cattle & Dearth of Corn, 
if mercy prevent not : O, England, prepare to meet thy God. 

23. I heard of several votes pass'd in Parliam'* concern. 

* There were two classes of nonconformists, Popish and Puritan, each 
demanding the toleration which was promised to all ; but though the Church 
and State had actually been overthrown by the Puritans, while the Papists hadi 
as a body been true to the State, and had not injured the Church, the jealousy 
against the Papists was so great that the Puritans would not be prevailed upon 
to receive relief which they must share with their brother recusants. The kino- 
pressed for liberty to all, and was obliged at last to deny it to all. °" 



PHILIP HENRY. 8/ 

Covenant, Common-Prayer, Militia, which what they may produce, 
God knowes. The members order'd to receive y" sacram' together 
at Margarets Westmin'^ else not to sit in y° house, according to y° 
rites & ceremonyes of y° church of England, at which many stumble, 
lord bee y°'' Counsel?. 

24. Sin confessed, Prayer made for health for my dear wife, 
for fayr weather, for successe in my Affayr with Mr. P. all with 
this caution, if it bee thy will, 6 God. 

25. More wett, which caus'd a great Floud,* lord, say it is 
enough. 

26. Waters, hinder many from publique Ordinances, prayer 
made for fair weather, lord, hear in heaven. Text Ps. 24. 3. 4. 
what to think I know not concern, the Affayrs of y° Nation, a cloud 
rises, but lord, mine eyes are unto thee. 

27. I saw an order from the House of lords for burning the 
covenant See Jer. 36. 23. 32. which was done in London by y" 
common hangman. 

May 24. I had discourse with Mr. Pu. but could conclude 
nothing — expecting further Overtures. 

28. Marg' Fenton an aged woman buryed Text. P' 16. 31. 
The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it bee found in the way of 
rjgh. In that way was her hoary head founds whereof I could 
not but give my publique Testimony. This day unknown to 
mee John Ince distreyned at Shocklach, which gives occasion to 
those who seek occasion, for y° day before, I promised to forbear 
this week, but God knowes hee did it without acquainting mee 
with it. 

29. The day of annual Commemoration of God's mercy in re- 
storing the king, which I cannot yet but call mercy, considering 
his right, also y^ sad condition wee were in, through usurpers, & 
■f manner of his coming in without bloudshed. 

29. (cont*) I preacht. Text. Mar. 12. 17. render to Caesar the 
things that are Caesar's, Sr to God the th. that are Gods. 

30. 3 r. My dear wife escapt her Ague, blessed bee God, who 
saith not, seek ye mee in vayn. This last week it pleas'd God 
most dayes were fayr. 

* On the Dee floods are caused as often by wind as from any other cause. 



88 PHILIP HENRY. 

June I. I wrote* to Mr. Pul. making tenders of a reference, 
having learnt 'tis no disparagement but an Honor for y' party 
wronged to bee the first in seeking reconciliation, the lord, if it bee 
his will, incline his heart to peace. 

2. Sabbath Subject — Ps. 29. i. concer; tongue sins, I hope, 
profitable to my hearers whereas many seem'd much affected. 

3. Two irregular marriages about this time. Rich. Eytons & 
Mary Moyls, from both whom I hoped better th. God grant their 
rash entrance upon that condition may not embitter it to them 
hereafter. 

4. I was this day at Bronnington where I never was before, 
& hard by the house,t it came into my heart to pray, that God 
would mortify in mee all inordinate desires, & expectations on 
earth, & that hee would secure to mee my house in heaven, which 
is best of all. 

5. Cosin Eddow Chambers &c. came to see us & Mr. Fogg 
sollicited to accept ;!^8o. & leave Bang"' I advised him not, it 
having appearance of evil, but to wayt the will of God. 

9. Sabbath subject concer. swearing & lying, lord, convince 
the Guilty, & make y^*" that are in any measure firee, truly thankfiil 
& still watchful — take praise for praise, liberty & Assistance & 
goe on, good lord. 

10. I went to Chester to acquaint D' Br. with the intended 
reference, who promised never to remove mee till the law remoVd 
mee & yielded, if Mr. P. would pay mee y° .;^ioo hee should 
enjoy the corn-tith, which was the most I did or could expect. 
I saw the ruines of the Deanes & Bishops hpuse, & am glad 
they are restor'd to y° church though I think they may bee putt to 
better use than at present they are. 

• II. Sir Thos. Hanmer and my Father mett Mr. P. & mys 
where discourse was had about my affair, but noth. done. The 
reason given for witholding my annuity was my not reading Com- 
mon-Pr. w* they think sufficient but let God be judge. 

* The letter is at the end of this diary. 

t Maes-Uwyn ("field of the wood") House in Bronington was, together 
with some lands in Willington, the ancient inheritance of the Matthewes, but 
whether obtained from Matthew Gough (the companion in arms of the great 
Talbot), whose name they had adopted, or from Bleddyn ap Cynfyn, King of 
Wales, who was their male ancestor, I have no means of judging. 



PHILIP HENRY. . 89 

Though my wages bee abated my work & paynes have not 
hitherto been abated, blessed bee God. 

16. Common-prayer-book tendred again, why, I know not — 
lord, they devise devices against mee, but in thee doe I put my 
trust, father forgive them, My Hands are yet clean from the 
Pollutions of y° times, lord, keep y'"" so, & let no Iniquity prevayl 
agst mee. 

17. Dear Mr. Lewis came to Worthenb. to see mee & wee 
were mutually refreshed, lord, spare thy people — I heard of 
y° death of y" Marques of Argyl beheaded at Edinburgh & Mr. 
Guthry Minisf there, wee have not yet resisted unto bloud. 

The lords order for burning the Covenant was hang'd up in the 
church by Mr. Pu. appointm' near the reading Desk. 

19. Appointed by y" King for a day of publique fasting & 
thanksgiving in reference to the -weather, but in few places 
•observ'd for lack of timely notice. 

20. My dear little one in health, & thriving — blessed bee God. 

21. Goods left at Oxford with Mr. Slater by the lady 
Puleston's appointm' A. 1655. were at last fetcht home and hee 
:satisfy'd for the Custody of them. I was afraid lest, if any of them 
had miscarry' d, malice might have question'd mee, though con- 
scious to mys*^ in noth., 6 learn to trust God. 

22. A Hovell rear'd at the stables end, I build for I know not 
who, but chuse it, the counsel of y° lord that shall stand, help in 
study, blessed bee God. 

23. Strong reports, I should not bee suffred to preach to-day, 
but I did, & no disturbance, blessed bee God, who hath my 
■enemyes in a chayn. I took down the lords Order, knowing no 
Authority but malice, that caus'd it to bee hang'd there where it 
was. 

24. I went with my wife to Bronington — the first time shee 
rode abroad since her lying in, & blessed bee God I return'd with 
her in safety. Several women being mett this day in Prayer at 
Widow Prich. they were disturb'd by Mr. Pul. meanes, lord hear 
& see. 

26. The Governo' attemted to take his Oath for Church 
■warden but was refus'd. My Enemyes are plotting against mee 
.but the lord is my stay. 



90 PHILIP HENRY. 

30. This day twas fully expected, I should have been 
hindred, but was not. Chapf exp. seasonable. Num. 23. I 
finisht y» subject of Sanctif. from 2. Cor. 5. 17. lord, pardon, lord 
bless. I know not what to doe but my eyes are up unto thee, 
help, lord. 

17. 18. County-Court-dayes at Chester, the Replevin, I sup- 
pose, was entred, I was not there. 

Jtily I. Hearing of some neglect in my business the last 
County Court day I went to Chester to inquire about it, but 
presum'd there was none, by y^ way I mett with one Mr. Duboys 
a londoner ; by whom I received information in many things 
concer. present publique Affayrs. I saw Dr. Bridgman, who told 
mee, I must speedily conform or there would bee no staying at 
Worthenb. lord, shew mee w' thou wilt have mee to doe, for 
I am afraid of nothing but sin. 

2. I visited Mr. Mainwaring, at his dwelling, I can hardly 
say, at his house, but God hath made him contented. 6 what 
cause have I to be thankful, who am more equally & comfortably 
yoak'd. 

3. The first day of my son John's putting on a coat, cloth 
him, lord, with grace, with righteousnes, with Christ Jesus. 

4. I was at Whitch. at y" Marriage of Tho. Talbot & Cosin 
Jane Wittar, Mr. Porter preach t. Heb. 13. 4. the lord give them 
his blessing.- — Newes from london of speedy severity intended 
agt Non-conformityes, the lord can yet, if hee will, break the 
snare, if not welcom y° will of God. 

5. I was at Brougton- — It pleases God yet to keep that 
family in amity towards mee, which I count a mercy. 

A collection for Southwould in Suffolk, burned — 6^ 2*. 

8. I receiv'd a letter from D' Br. wherein hee informed mee, 
if I did not speedily conform,- his power would no longer protect 
mee, to which I wrote a dilatory Answer, hoping yet, my God may 
find out some way to break the snare, however, I had rather lose 
all & save my conscience, then contra. 

9. I advised with Friends, R. B. told mee, though hee desir'd 
my stay above any outw. th. in y° world, yet hee could wish rather 
I would bee gone, then conform. I was with Mr. St. witli whom 



FHILIP HENRY. 9 1 

I spent one or two hours in discourse about it & return'd home 
strengthen'd. I can suffer better then dispute agt Conformity. 

15. I went to Chester, it being the County Court day, a 
Declaration was entred by' Mr. P. in order to a tryal at y° Assizes 
for my Annuity, concerning the success whereof, I bless God, I 
am not over sollicitous, for though it bee my due & I bee worthy 
of it (see. luk. 10. 7.) yet twas not that which I preacht for & 
besides I know assuredly God will make it up to mee some other 
way, If I should bee cast ih y° suit. — I shall use all fair & lawful 
meanes & let God alone to work his will. I discoursed also 
w"" D"" Br. concer. my stay at Worthenb. who told mee hee would 
not remove mee till some publique Act of State remov'd mee, which 
hee was confident would bee very speedily, lord, the kings heart is 
in thy hand, turn it.— I came home by night but the lord preserv'd 
mee, blessed bee his name. 

18. little one very ill, but the lord had mercy. 6 help us to sit 
loose from him for his breath is in his nostrils, lest overloving end 
in overgrieving. Father, spare him to us if it seem good in thine 
eyes, nevertheless not as wee will but as thou wilt, only let his soul 
bee saved in the day of the lord Jesus. 

19. Seasonable weather for Hay, blessed bee God. 

21. lord bless y° word, they say tis to bpe y° last,^a/ voluntas 
tua domine modo in ruinam meam — A direct Answer given to a 
pray' about a C. R. praise y° lord. 

22. Mr. Jo. Bro. having swallowed stones which came not 
through him, was under strong apprehensions that it would kill, 
& sent for mee to pray with & for him, which I did, & hope the 
lord will doe him good by it, hee said, if it would please God to 
spare him, hee would live better, lord keep it in the imaginations 
of y' Thoughts of his heart and spare him. 

23. I visited Uncle Edwards & Mr. John lloyd, & learnt by 
seeing him sick that cures so many others, that tis not hee but God 
that doth the cures, for were it in him, sure hee would cure hims'. 

24. Great expectations about a severe Act about imposing y* 
Common prayer & Ceremonyes pass'd both houses of Parliam' 
but not sign'd by y° King, lord, his heart is in thy hand, if it bee 
thy will turn it, if otherwise, fit thy people to suffer & cutt short 
the work in Righteousnes. 



92 PHILIP HENRY. 

Mr. Tho. Pul. lay at my house, fain I would have fastned con- 
victions on him but could not, lord, yet recover him, if hee belong 
to thee, else better for him hee ha.d never known the way of 
righteousnes. 

30. Ri. Jones his wife of Kidditon hall, at the loss of an only 
daughter, being full of grief almost to distraction, come to mee for 
advice, I did the best I could, both to quiet her sorrow & to turn 
her grief into the right Channel, bless lord, — lord give mee the 
tongue of the learned. 

31. a sweet day of Prayer at Capt. Tayl. wee were but few, 
but y° lord was one with us, lord hear & help. 

August I. 2. my enemyes are busy, plotting mischief tow. 
mee, lord, turn the Counsels of Achitophel into foolishness. 

3. 4. precious liberty & peace, in study & preaching, yet con- 
tinued, blessed bee the lord. I heard about this time of the Death 
of my Uncle ElKot, lord, bee a father to the fatherless & a 
husband to y° widow. 

5. I was at Chester, took out a copy of Mr. P. declaration, 
which cost 8'^ deliverd it to Mr. Ratcl. with a fee of 10' to draw 
an Avowrey, visited D' B', had expressions of love & promises 
of favour from him, return'd in safety Home my sister with mee, 
for advice touching a sore leg, bitten w* a leech for these & all 
other mercyes, blessed bee God. 

9. Things are very low w* mee at present, but I wayt upon 
God! 

10. Studying-day, I forgot explicitely and expresly when I 
began to crave help from God, and y° chariot wheeles drave 
accordingly lord forgive my Omissions & keep mee in the way of 
Duty. II. One Sabbaths liberty more, 6: how good is the lord, 
many hearers from Wrexham, forct to wander for bread, lord, pity 
y«m & provide for them. A collection for a ministers widow & 
family plundred in Isla Island, gather'd 8' i^ — the script, opened 
Math. 6. 19, 20. — 12. I went to Broad-Oak about rating y° Corn 
of 3. fields sown to parts, my Father to have two sheaves, the 
Tenant the third, they could not agree, I thought the Afternoon 
ill spent, & in multitude of words there wanted not sin, forgive 
mee, father, for y" lord's sake. 13. I sent to Mr. Golborn, about 
removing my action to y° Assize, wherein hee was careful & it was 



PHILIP HENRY. 93 

done ; now y° lord judge righteous Judgem' for unto him doe I 
commit my cause. 

14. I went to Wrexham where I tarry'd all night, & from 
thence y° next day to Chest' at Wrexham, I met with Mr. W. 
Jones of Denbigh, silenc't, lord keep not thou silence. I saw y° 
heads of y° Act, for restoring Jurisdiction to Bishops. 

19. I occasionally cal'd at Tho. Griffiths, thinking noth & 
found him dying, I pray'd w* him & exhorted him to repent & 
believe in y° lord J. hee died within an hour after 6 how hard is it 
to deal with people in that condition, & how uncertain what event 
it hath. I mov'd Mr. Hen. Egton to bee of Council for mee, but 
hee refus'd, being, as hee said, engaged to & partly also by Mr. P. 
having seen the counterpart of my Deed, which was an implicit 
Retayning of him on their side. I had little to rejoyn, but refer y° 
whole matter to the will of God. 

21. Cosin John, Thomas, & Rich. Hotchkis came to see us, 
Thomas newly out of his time, his liberty sweet, much more 
spiritual liberty which wee have by X' Jesus. 22. Mr. St. came 
to see us. wee are in doubt what to doe in poynt of conformity, 
lord, say unto us, this or that is the way, & wee will walk in it. 

23. Two great concernm'' of mine are now upon y° wheel, one 
in reference to my mayntenance for time past, the other in ref. to 
my Continuance for time to come, lord, bee my Friend in both, 
but of the two rather in the later. 24. This day compleats the 
thirtieth year of my Age ; so old & no older Alexander was when 
hee had conquer'd y° great world, & I have not yet conquer'd the 
little world, myself — so old Christ was w" hee began to preach, & 
according to y'^ present face of th. I am now as if I had done 
preaching, many of greater grace & gifts then I, are layd aside 
already, and when my turn comes, I know not, the will of y" lord 
bee done, hee can doe his work without us. 

25. Common-prayer tendered, God knowes how loth I am to 
goe off my station, but I must not sin agt. my conscience. * many 
hearers from Wrexham, a welch-man sent to Bangor to read 
Common-prayer. 27. I went t6 Whitch. & thence to Ash, 

* From this it seems that Philip Henry had already for himself reached the 
conclusion that conformity was wrong. In other passages he does not con- 
demn those who saw the matter differently. 



94 PHILIP HENRY. 

where I stay'd all night & was much made of, Offence taken at Mr, 
Hanmer saying more y™ needed about Conformity, hee shall bee 
Lot's wife to mee. 28. I cal'd at Brunnington in my return 
home, my father seemes to have little care for us or our Concern- 
ments, God grant wee may never stand in need of him. 29. Mr. 
Bruce after great professions, and high expressions to y" contrary, 
I heare is reordayned, hath subscrib'd in reads — wherefore let 
him that thinkes hee stands, take heed lest hee fall — I conceive 
want & Freinds were urgent with him, which are trying, lord keep 
mee in the critical time — Marg' the daughter of Richard y° Clerck, 
sick, I pray'd for her & by her, but shee hardly understood mee 
through extremity. I know not how to deal with persons in sick- 
ness, lord help mee. 

31. Studying day, peace without disturbance, health without 
Sicknes, and many many mercyes vouchsafed, blessed bee y' name 
of y' lord. 

24. Sister Mary went to Chester to a Shirurgion, having a 
sore foot bitten with a leech. 

September 3. The Clerks daughter buryed. They first cariyd 
her into y° Church,* whereupon I went away, judging it my duty 
not to Countenance them in superstitious vanityes, afterw. y'' bur/d 
her, then I spake to y'' people, witnessing agt w' they had done. 
Those that were present, were divided, pro & con, the refuse, rabble 
for it, the sober serious persons of y' place agt it, it raysd a great 

* The Puritans ' ' would have no minister to bury their dead, but the corpse 
to be brought to the grave, and there put in by the clerk, or some other honest 
neighbour, and so back again without anymore ado " (Cosin's Works, v. 168); 
they wished to restrict the ceremonies to exportation and preaching only. They 
objected to the Psalms, and these were given up from 1560 to i66i ; but as they 
had a peculiar aversion to the celebration of the Lord's Supper on any but very 
rare occasions, so its celebration at funerals wzs very distasteful to them, being 
associated in their minds with the Roman doctrine of purgatory. In the Latin 
Prayer-book of 1560,' the old title was translated, with an addition, "Celebratio 
coense Domini, in funebribus, si amici et vicini defuncti communicare veliut." 
There was an Epistle and two Gospels, the alternative one being St. Matt. xxv. 
24-29. When the Psalms were again printed in the office, in 1661, after a 
hundred years' suppression, the Gospel and Epistle were not, and the funeral 
Communion had almost passed out of memory in the first half of the nineteenth 
century, the only relic of it being the funeral offertory, which still retained its 
hold upon the Church in Wales. It may be mentioned that no liturgy, yet 
come to light, is without this office ; showing the belief of the Church in the 
Communion of Saints. — Sec Annotated Book of Common Prayer, p. 296. 



PHILIP HENRY.. 95 

dust for y^ time, & it may bee I shall hear of it again, but my own 
heart condemns mee not. 4. Mr, Thomas from Tilstock, Mr. 
Raph Weld from Wrexham came to see. mee, Mr. Bridg & Mr. 
Hanmer were on y"'' way but fearing where no fear was, return'd 
again. 

7. I met uncle Burroughs at Brunnington who gave me some 
light in ref to my suit, tis seldom I goe from home on Saturday, 
but my work, blessed bee God, was in some good forwardnes 
before. About this time Mr. John Puleston dy'd having wasted 
away his body upon his lusts, lord, let those that remayn behind 
take warning, hee left Edw. his heir. — 8. This morning I verily 
thought, I should have been hindred from preaching but was not, 
the lord heard prayers. D' Bridgman sent mee a prohibition from 
y° Chancelour, to peruse, upon complaint from S" Tho. Ha.nmer, 
y' fanatiques from Wrexham flockt hither, but twas not publisht, 
Mr. Taylor hindred at Holt, Mr. Adams at Penley, lord, think of 
■f vineyard. They took y" Cushion from mee but y° Pulpit was 
left, blessed bee God. — 10. I was at Chester, confer'd with D'' 
Br., gave him what light I could touching Worthenb. aifayres 
hoping it may bee a meanes to keep him from agreeing w* Mr. P. 
there being possibility nay probability of recovering the Tithes 
another way with the house & £^2^0. left by will for the finishing 
of it for I well know w" y^' agree it must bee upon condition of my 
removal, which I am labouring agt if possible, to prevent it, not 
for my own but Worthenb. sake. After I was gone S" Tho. 
Hanmer & Mr. P. came & with Mr. Harper, ■•f concluded, as I 
heard afterw. that D' Br. should remove mee by y" i^ of Novemb. 
next & that hee should have all y" Tithes to Bangor to him & his 
successors, & mutual bonds were given of ^^500. forp.formance of 
Articles. Mr. P. promising withal, that whatsoever his father had 
done for y° church besides, by will or otherw. hee would confirm 
& make good for which no thankes to him if done before — Thus 
hath D'' Br. rendered mee evil for good, lord, lay it not to his 
Charge. 11. D'' Bryan Walton B" came to Chester. 

12. Family humiliation. 16. I went to Chester where I 
tarry'd 4 dayes, it being assize week hoping for a tryal with Mr. 
P. but miss'd of it, tis y° first time I ever went to law, wherein 
though I know noth. by mysf. yet am I not thereby justify'd. 



96 PHJLIP HENRY. 

1 6. The sermon before the Judges full of bittemes, from 
Gen. 49. 5. 7. the charge full of meeknes & moderation com- 
paratively. 19. D' Br. first acquainted mee of his agreem' with 
Mr. P. w°" though it troubled mee for y" present yet upon second 
thoughts I blessed God for y" good w"* I am perswaded hee will 
fetch to mee out of it in the issue — Amen, so bee it. 20. 21. 
Cold & Tooth-ake caught at Chester, yet assisted in Study, 
blessed bee God. 

22. Mr. Taylor restor'd to Holt by f B" who barkes not bee. 
hee cannot bite — lord, stir up thy strength & come & help us, in 
vain is Salvation hoped for from y° hills & from y" mountaynes. 

Bishops restor'd by proclamation in Scotland, contrary to the 
solemn league & Covenant, as the Scots say ; the lord is Judge. 

23. I went to Bronnington w"" my dearest, my Fathers 
countenance is not towards us. I pray God wee may bee in 
nothing wanting in our Duty to him, & let the lord work his will 
with us. 

24. 25. I was not well of y° cold, sickness doth not, as it 
should, make mee more fervent & earnest but rather more remiss 
in secret dutyes, y° reason is, tis not extremity, lord, sanctify every 
twig of thy rod, and let all th. work together for my spiritual & 
eternal advantage. 

26. 27. Somewhat better, blessed bee God. I count it a 
great mercy, that w" the sun sets, there is a moon to rise to p.form 
duty in the Family. 

An order was brought to mee to bee publisht inhibiting 
Strangers from coming hither to church, but I publisht it not, 
lord provide for poor Congregations that are as sheep without a 
shepheard — 30. Upon this day 8. yeai", I came first to Emeral, 
since which time I have past through variety of providences, both 
mercyes & crosses, wherewith the lord hath exercised mee. 
Many dangers I have been deliver'd from, both in my inward & 
outward man, and many Comforts & benefits I have receiv'd and 
enjoy'd, several wayes, but my returns have not been answerable, 
father forgive mee, and lay not my sin, my sin to my charge — 
A falling out in London for precedency betw. French & Spanyai-ds, 
some kild, more wounded. — 4. I borrowed ;^io. of Mr. Steel 
for y° charges of my suit, which I repay'd. Oct. 17. 



PHILIP HENRY. 97 

October i. Mr. Tho. Bold, son to Mr. Bold late of Hard, 
came to see mee, to w"" I gave the best directions I could in his 
studyes & desire of God that hee may rise up in his Fathers 
place, a useful, faithful instrum' in y" house of God in his genera- 
tion. 2. I went to Wrexham, heard of y^ death of Mr. Vaughan 
of Cludyatt, a great & rich man, but a leper, & his name will rott. 

4. I went to Chester, took a copy of the articles betw. Dr. 
Br. & Mr. Pu. which it may bee may stand mee in some stead 
hereafter. Hee hath merely betrayd mee, lord lay it not to his 
charge, I searcht in y" office after a presentm' this last Assize 
but there was none of mee but of Mr. Steel y"' was for not reading 
the book of Common Prayer. 7. Mr. Adams of Penley came to 
see mee, God hath done well for that poor place, imploying first 
Mr. Broster & now him amongst them, I hope not in vayn — 8. 

1 preacht the third donative sermon of Mr. Tho. Broughton, 
for which I received ten Shillings — Text. Luk. 19. 41. when hee 
was come near hee beheld the City and wept over it — It is a 
grief of heart to J. X' to see the misery and danger of poor im- 
penitent sinners. 10. Wee kept a day of Private prayer and 
humiliation in the family, & the lord was with us — this Confession 
much affected mee, that things are not so amongst us As they 
should bee amongst those that are the Relations of a minister of 
J. X'. lord, pardon & grant for time to come it may bee better. 

14. D' Br. was at Worthenb. saw the house, gave mee fair 
words, but intends my removal to gratify Mr. Pu. malice & his 
own profit, now y° lord the God of- the Spirits of all flesh get a 
man over the Congregation — 15. Upon -f evening of this day, 
D' Bernard, Parson of Whitchurch dyed, it seemes suddenly, the 
lord provide for that people — -17. I was cited to appear at y° 
B"' court as upon this day, but went not ; my fault was hindring 
the publishing of the Deans Order for hindring Strangers, if I had 
hindred it, it had been a small fault, but I did not, only refused to 
pubL it my self. 

19. Day of preparation for the sacramen' I preacht from 

2 Chr. 30. 18. &c. the good lord pardon — fuU of feares, lest wee 
bee hindered^ & lest someth. fall betw. the cup and the lip, for 
our adversai'yes bite the lip at us. 20. Through the good hand 
of our God upon us wee have this day enjoyd one sweet sacra- 

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98 PHILIP HENRY. 

men' more — They did us all y° hindrance they could, bringing a 
Corps to bee bury"" just after the sermon, the grave near y° very 
j)lace where the Communion table should have stood, & after all a 
Quaker, brother to the party bury'd, spoke, saying, holy men of 
God never us'd to preach by the hour-glass & more to that purp. 
which was a design from Satan to discompose us, but notwithst. 
afterw. wee proceeded & had liberty, blessed bee God — -f young 
man bury'd was son to Tho. Andrewes, servant to S'' John 
Hanmer, who upon this day fortnight was at Worthenb. Church, 
this day sennight at Worthenb. Alehouse & this day in his grave, 
hee dy'd suddenly— Robert Yale presented hims' to y' Sacra- 
men but was not with mee before, yet I gave it to him, in regard 
hee hath been a Communicant at Bangor with Mr. Fogg & I 
believe hath knowl: &c. 

21. I was not well in y" evening of this day, & thought, it 
may bee tis death — 22. At Bangor I had a discharge from D' Br. 
after y° next Sabbath, I spake with S'' Tho. Hanmer about my charge 
in y" Militia, tis no matter how little I deal in y" world, for I know 
not how. the lord make mee wise for heaven w"'' is y' best wise- 
dom. 23. I went to Whitch. with my dear, where wee discharg'd 
our scores, visited o' friends & return'd in safety, blessed bee God 
— 24. D' Br. came to Worthenb. sent for mee to y° Govemo"^ & 
before a Rable there again repeated & read over my discharge, 
the circumst. whereof, place, maner, witnesses somew' griev'd 
mee, hee cal'd it peevishnes, I justify not mys'. lord lay not my 
sin to my charge, nor his sin to his — 25. I heard, S' Tho. 
Hanmer was fallen sick, rejoice not w" thine enemy falleth — 
26. help vouchsafed in study, to God bee Glory. 27. Farewel- 
sermons — Text Phil. i. 27. my desire was to profit rather 
y°" to affect, it fell out, wee just finisht y° Catechism this day — 
y° lord y" God of y° spirits of all flesh, set a man over y° Congre- 
gation — I trust twill turn to y° furtherance of y° Gosp. 28. Mr. 
Pu. warn'd mee out of y° house, I took time to consider. 29. 
Several were with mee to Advise about Com. Pr. — lord, shew thy 
people what thy will is. 30. I visited Richard Griffith, Clerk, 
sick, but could fasten noth. on him to doe him good. 

31. Colkins — alias, ignes fatui. 

Novemher i. I went to Chester, Cheifly to advise about my lease, 



PHILIP HENRY. 99 

Mr. Ratcl. thinkes it will not hold, if I am legally discharg'd from 
Worthenb. to advise also about coming to hear Common Prayer. 
A new snare is layd for y°' few Minist" y' remayn in places & are 
faithful, y"" are requir'd to publish an Act, wherein y° Covenant is 
declar'd an unlawful Oath & y° Cause of y' long Parliam' nullify'd, 
w""* many stick at, lord, break snares. 2. I return'd home, Mr. 
Hilton my successo' with mee, endeavouring to possess him with 
right thoughts of his work here — this morning, y° old Clerk dy'd, 
mee thinks tis somew' remarkable y' hee & I should have our 
dismission together, only hee by death & I in another way. 3. 
Mr. Hilton preacht, well — read Com. Pr. which was bad, bury'd 
after y° mode which was worse — I think wee ought in our Place to 
witness agt. y'" Corrup. but not theref. to separate from Gods pub- 
lique worship — 5. day of annual commemoration of our deliverance 
from y° Powder treason, a mercy never to be forgotten, Mr. Hilton 
preacht, his subject y° same with that which I preacht upon the 
first 5. of November y' I came hither, mans extremity Gods oppor- 
tunity. 6. Mr. Hilton gave mee a visit & stay'd w* mee all day, 
I deliverd to him y^ Register book * & advis'd him y" best I could 
in y° small affayres of this people, the lord make him faithful & 
save him from snares. 7. I was at Whitchurch at the buryal of 
D'' Bernard, Mr. Bridge preacht, luk. 19. 44. I slept at night at 
Ash, Friends are earnest with mee to make addresses at Court, 
but know not what I know of y"' strength of temptation & my 
own inability to deal with it — qui hem latuit bene vixit. g"". 
Saturdays were wont to bee otherwise spent by mee, so is y° will 
of God. I was soUicited to preach at Bangor but am loth to dis- 
courage the Min' here or to encourage y° people to separation. 
10. Two Acts of Parliam' were publisht, in y'' one, y° Cove- 
nant was declar'd illegal, and the others of y° long parliam' null 
ab initio — a new clerk, John Griffith, brother to y* old. 11. &c. 
Spent at home in study, I find already that usus promptos facit, 
lord, let not thy gifts in mee dwindle away, though at present not 
exercised as heretofore. 16. Mr. Puleston of Emeral made 
sheriff of this county, his wife deliver'd of a daughter, I went to 

* This register is carefully preserved at Worthenbury, and the pages where 
Philip Henry's beautifjil handwriting is seen are at once noticeable among the 
•others. 



lOO PHILIP HENRY. 

Tilstock in order to preaching the next day, slept at Mr. Thomas' 
house y° present Minister there. 17. I preacht at Tilstock. Text. 
Ps. 145. 17. the lord is righteous in all his wayes ; many of 
. Worthenb. came hither though far. I went from thence to Light- 
each to Mrs. Hassals where I was much made of 18. It 
seemes there was no preaching at Worthenb. the day before, 
it did not use to bee so, lord, let every Providence work for good 
to those that fear thee. 21. 22. Spent at home in study. I 
perus'd the london Ministers exceptions agt. the common-prayer, 
to w""" I subscribe, as also their new draught of a liturgy, which for 
y" mayn I approve of, lord heal our breaches & bless thy people 
with peace. I sent to Chester to Mr. Golborn, who return'd 
Answer, that Hopley had put in his declaration & hee my 
Avowrey, lord let right take place, for y° righteous lord loveth 
righteousness. 

24. Sabbeth-mercyes as a hearer, though not as a preacher as 
formerly, Mr. Puleston was at Church in the forenoon where hee 
hath not been of a long time, if y° word from him who now 
preaches may doe his soul that good which from mee it would not, 
6: how should I therein rejoyce. 25. A day of prayer at Bryn, few 
were present, but the lord was there, according to his Promise, with 
two or three, assisting and I hope accepting in X' Jesus — I went 
that evening to Wem, late, but no evil befell mee blessed bee God. 
26. Much opposition at Wem, y" lecture forbid but after a while 
liberty was granted, not without difficulty — I preacht first from 
Job. 36. 21. then Mr. lawrence from Ps. 62. 5. I slept that night 
at y" Parsonage, where was Mr. Porter, Mr. Campion &c. men of 
far greater abilityes then I, yet layd aside as I am, return 6 lord 
how long. 27. at lappington. where the next day, at my coming 
thence, I heard, the rest of my Brethren living in that county 
were warn'd to Shrewsbury for what was done at Wem. 28^ 
Newes of my danger gott home before mee, which caus'd some 
fear to my dear wife, but our heavenly Father caretli for us. 30. 
Small Pox in Shrewsbury, many dye, a publique fast intended, 
but forbidden, lord, say it is enough. 

December i. Mr. Hilton preacht from Mar. 8. 15. agt. false 
teachers & false Doctrines which ai-e as leaven, but not declaring 
who hee meant, it gave offence to many, though none to mee, con- 



.PHILIP HENRY. lOI 

sidering mys^ lest I also bee. 2. I visited Uncle Edwards of 
Eyton, who with the best Argum*" hee had, perswaded mee to 
Conform, & those were taken from the common Topique of Interest 
& Preferm' but blessed bee God I have learnt to deny mys' & can 
heartily chuse rather to suffer y™ sin. 

3. I hear y" Shropshire Ministers, who were many, 10 at 
least, that were present at Wem Exercise were sent for in to 
Shrewsbury by f deputy leivetenants and for some time confined 
there, the reason of my escape was in my being out of their verge, 
blessed bee God, 6: how sweet and precious is liberty, lord, I 
have not priz'd it, near the value of it. 4. Mr. Taylor at 
Worthenb. I read Mr. Bagshawes papers, about the power of the 
Civil Magistrate to impose in th. indifferent & received much 
satisfaction from them. 5. Mr. Pulestons daughter baptiz'd in 
y° house & named Susanna. 6. I was at Broughton barren of 
good discourse, little gotten, little done. 8. I heard the newes 
■of y" Death of D' Bryan Walton Bishop of Chester. I cannot get 
my heart into such a spiritual frame upon Sabbath-dayes as 
formerly, which is both my sin & my Affliction, lord quicken mee 
with quickning grace. 

9. Study in History, tis pleasant, the lord make it profitable. 
I find Afflictions and persecutions have been always the lot of the 
people of God, but God hath still upheld his Church & will doe 
to the end. 

10. A child of Mr. Hollimans was baptiz'd privately, by Mr. 
Hilton, nam'd Robert, I was invited, but went not, lest I should 
now build up that which formerly I have been pulling down. 

11. I advised Mr. Hilton to beware in his Ministry of such 
subjects & expressions as might grieve -f godly or harden y" pro- 
fane, hee seem'd to take it well, I am sure I meant it so. 

12. I read a book cald Annus mtrabilis* contayning a narrative 
of several strange Appearances of the great God this last year in 
all the Elements, chiefly, witnessing agt. Prophanes & persecution, 
lord, when thy hand is lifted up, men will not see, but they shall 
see, true and holy are thy wayes, just and righteous are thy judge- 
ments, thou King of Saints. 

* Evelyn writes at the end of 1688: "Post Annum 1588— 1660— 1688, 
Annus Mirabilis Tertius." 



102 PHILIP HENRY. 

13. I went to Chester, payd 20= to Mr. Golb. for fees, but for 
hims' hee would take none, visited Mr. Cook, who inform'd mee 
of several votes pass'd in Parliam' that none that hath taken -f 
Covenant shall bear Office in State or church, unless y"'' declare 
thems' free from the obligation of it. Also a vote repealing the 
Act of y" late Convention, not Parliam', concer. Minist" which 
setled some by whomsoever ordayn'd without institution & 
Induction — &c. God sittith in y" Congregation of y" Gods. 
14. I had an acquittance from D' Br. for 8^ 11* payable for Titli 
hay for y°' two last yeares ; I found him busy in repairing the 
Deanes house, as if hee were to live in it for ever, alas, a short ever 
— D' Fern like to succeed in -f Bishoprique. 

15. I find it in some respects easier preaching y™ hearing, 
especi. a junior, doe what I can, my heart is not lively as I would 
desire it. 

16. At home, in study, time is precious, lord give mee skill 
and wisedom to redeem it. 17. I inform'd T. Pr. of -f state of 
publique affaires, as to the late war & Covenant, concerning which 
hee knew little, the result whereof was, that though partic. 
Instrum'^ might miscarry, yet twas in general the Cause of God & 
Religion, and will in due time bee made so to appear.* 19. I 
visited Mr. Steel and my father, qui recipit me aperta dotno, sed ut 
mihi videtur clauso vultu. 

22. No preaching at Worthenb. I oifred mys^ but was 
refused, in the afternoon wee went to Hanm"' where preached Mr. 
Rushworth. T. Eph. 2. 3. 

25. Service at Worthenb. afore-day, an old custome, the 

ground of it I know not ; the christians in time of persecution 

had their hymnos antelucanos, TertuU, Sermon at 10. aclock. 

Text Zech. 13. i. child baptiz'd and sign'd with y° sign of y° 

Crosse, I stay'd, not daring to turn my back upon Gods Ordinance, 

while the essentials of it are retayn'd, though corrupted circum- 

* Comijare with this the words of Hume, chap. Ixii. : " No people coukt 
undergo a change more sudden and entire in their manners, than did the 
English nation during this period [the Commonwealth]. From tranquillity, 
concord, submission, sobriety, they passed in an instant to a state of faction, 
fanaticism, rebellion, and almost frenzy. . . . 'Your friends,' said a Parlia- 
mentarian to a Royalist, ' are very dissolute and debauched.' ' True,' replied 
the Royalist; ' they have the infirmities of men : but your friends have the vices 
of devils, tyranny, rebellion, and spiritual pride.' " 



PHILIP HENRY. IO3 

stantially in the Administration of it, w"*" God amend. 26. Mr. 
Lewis of Wrexham & Mr. Thomas of Tilstock came to see mee, 
& stayd all night. 

28. Preparation for Sacram* at Hanmer. T. Ps. 51. 5. lord, I, 
was shapen in iniquity, 6: pardon & heal — 29. Sacram' at 
Hanmer, the lord was pleas'd to come in with much sweetnes 
upon my soul, & my soul was carry'd out with some precious 
breathings towards him, his is y° glory. Vow & pay unto the 
lord — 30. Being convinct of neglect in orderly reading the Script, 
alone (for with my wife I read one chapter daily & with my family 
another) this day I began, lord, keep mee from backsliding again 
& bless y' Ordinance, I began y° N. T. — Visiting Mr. HoUim. I 
saw him in y' condicoh through dr. w* I could hardly have 
believ'd, had I not seen, lord, pardon & turn him from it, for his 
own, for his family, for Religion, for X' sake. 

3. Newes of one Tames a Minister executed for Treasonable 
words. Es. 29. 20. 21. 

Feb. 3. Mr. Owen Minist" of Wrexham administred the 
Sacramen* (as I was inform' d) to y° Gentlemen of y* Parish, & the 
sabbath following to the poor — which to mee seemes very irregular 
— Mr. Wyn of Otestay speaking of -f Kings Declaration concern. 
Church afifayres, said they had private Orders to y° contrary, to 
which it being objected, that the king did then only mock the 
world, hee answer'd, nay, doe wee not know that God hims' hath 
his Voluntas signi & his Voluntas Beneplaciti. 

Jane Humphryes most affectionately tender of her Husband 
who lay 14. months sick & sore, hee dying — Feb. 18. the week 
after a sister of his, named Elizabeth Matthewes of Sutton Green, 
dyed, being well at her brothers buryal, & by her Death land fell 
to Jane Humphryes, which I look upon as a small token from y° 
lord to let her know, how well pleas'd hee was with her love & 
care towards her afflicted husband, being yet perswaded, hee hath 
a better thing in store for her — A father of the fatherlesse a Judge 
of the widow is God in his holy habitation. Amen. 

Apr. 14. Evan Thomas Randle, a notorious evil liver, dyed 
"accordingly, qualis vita, finis iia. the memory of the Just shall bee 
blessed but the name of the wicked shall rot. 

Apr. 29. David Phillips dyed, I went to see him y° same 



■I04 PHILIP HENRY. 

evening, but finding him in extremity I could say but little to him, 
.partly through straitnes of Spirit, & partly thinking, whatever I had 
said it would have been taken with prejudice — however it cost mee 
many sad thoughts afterwards for my omission, the lord forgive 
mee, Time is gone I shall see him to speak to him no more. The 
manner of his Death, for there were no bands in it, had hardned 
many, lord, thy righteousnes is a great lAountayn but thy 
Judgem'' are a great deep and unsearchable. Hee was bury'd on 
May-day, y" same day on which hee was to have entred on a new 
Tenem' w""" his master had given him ; his son a fool. 

July 14. Two or three drownd near Chester bathing thems' 
on Y Sabbath day. Aug. 21. Mr. Roger Grosvenor was kild 
by Major Roberts' son of Wrexham, his Cosia German upon a 
quarrel about a Foot-race. 

Aug. 29. I was told of the Death of Mr. Thomas of Shropsh. 
a Minister Kild by a Fall from off his Horse — Unsearchable are 
thy Judgm*^ 6 lord. 

Sepf. 18. Also of another Minister near london that came to 
y'^ same end the same way — about Brentwood in Essex, drunk. 

Apr. 12. About one a clock in y" morning two moones were 
seen at Chiswick. Also the same month near Aulton in Hamshire 
about 4. or 5. a clock, in y° evening 4. perfect rainbowes. at 
Northallerton in Yorksh. — ten rainbowes & 4 or 5. half-ones. 

May 14. From 5. till 7. in y° morning at Kingston upon 
Thames were seen three suns. May 24. at Hensworth in Hert- 
fordshire, Caddington, & other places adjacent, was a terrible 
whirlwind, which did much mischeif. Ajir. 26. at Spalding & 
Bourn & sevei'al other places in lincolnshire it rayn'd great quan- 
tityes of Wheat. In the same month about Chesterfield in 
Derbysh. it rayn'd white Ashes. 

May 21. Great Rayn in london w"" did harm in Cellars. &c. 
many thousand pounds, the next day the Coven' was burn'd. 

May 29. at Wincanton in Somers. Mr. Sacheveral. min'' there 
preaching from i Sa. 12. 25. offended the prophane of y° Town, 
who to revenge thems' on him made his Effigies of Straw attempt- 
ing to burn it but of a long time could not, till they had tore it 
into pieces. March 4. at Kingston, the undersheriff the first day 
;of the Assize being a bitter p.secutor was struck with sudden 



PHILIP HENRY. 105 

'death drinking in a Tavern. March 23. at Ashover in Derbysh. 
one Dorothy Mately, using to wish, I would the earth might open 
■ & swallow mee up * — -was washing lead ore, & having stollen 
two single pence out of a youths pocket, stiffly denyd it, by & by 
,y° earth open'd & swallow'd her up 4. yards within the ground, 
the money found in her pocket, the ground adjoyning firm. 
(Excerpt, ex libr. diet — Annus Mirabilis \ quorum omnium fides sit 
penes authorem.) 

June 14. Three ,Suns were seen at Reading between eight & 
nine of y° clock in the forenoon. June 15. At lewes in Sussex 
.& elsewhere thereabouts about 3. of 3^ clock in the morning the 
Heavens were seen by several persons as all on fire. — June 29. in 
the western parts of Somersetshire, the moon shined in the night 
which was clear, without reflecting the least shadow, either of 
house, tree, hedge or man — &c.J 

Aug. 29. Three suns seen in the morning by a minister at 
Ipswich also the like about Exeter. Octob' 25 — Oct. 31. A 
Blazing star seen at Canterbury. Another the month following at 
lambeth. Another Dec. 20. between Bishops-Castle & Mont- 
gomery. Several dreadful appearances of Fiery meteors in the 
air, one of a Sword in a ClOud with the point downwards near y" 
Isle of wight, another of men & horses in a warlike posture. 
About the same time Mr. Martin of Devon son to S" Nicholas 
Martin was assaulted by two Ravens, picking at his eyes, suddenly 
after fell sick and dy'd, the bell tolling before of its own accord 
for 3 hours togeth''. In Decemb"" this year there were growing in 
several gardens, young quinces, peares, apples, also hatcht young 
Rooks, Ravens — 6000 Gentleman slayn in duels in France in ten 
yeares. (Boys.) 

Dec^ 20. near montgomery about Sunsett was seen by several 

* In the market square at Devizes is the record, upon a central pillar, of a 
woman who, trying to cheat her neighbour, gave utterance to an impious wish 
and fell down dead. This happened about 1722. 

t Evelyn notices the Annus Mirabilis. Lord Clarendon also acknowledges 
the hand of God in restoring in 1660 the peace which had been disturbed for 
twenty years. 

X See Standard newspaper for September 10, 1881, p. 4: "Our New York 
correspondent telegraphs an account of some remarkable phenomena which 
laccompanied the recent intense heat in the United States and Canada, 
Although the sky was cloudless, one day at noon the sun cast no shadow, and 
it was too dark to read. Many people thought the last day was at hand." 



106 PHILIP HENRY. 

p. sons a compleat body of horse marching two on a breast between 
500. & 1000. in y" Road, but no sign thereof visible upon y" ground 
the next morning ; affirm'd upon Oath.* On the same day there 
was a double Tide at london-Bridge. July x^j. a great Porpus 
leaped into a watermans wherry in lee-Road. April. Two 
persons designd to make Oath agt. Mr. Revel Min' of uval irt 
Cornwal fell out before y" sessions, y° one slayn, y" other fled. 

July 22. fowr who did swear a Riot agt. y" inhabitants of leed's 
endeavouring to bring in Mr. Bowles to bee their Min' three d/d 
within few dayes, the fourth sick. 

July 30. at Wanford in Suffolk at Mr. Absolom's house Sir 
John Rouse a Parliam' man & other gentlemen mett to drink, 
& rayling agt. Phanatiques, there arose a storm with thunder, 
as a warning, by & by a flash of lightning, which wounded one, 
Kild another, & amazed all, & breaking through the hedge went 
away.f 

Mr. Cook told y'' Bp. y' though his Ordination by Presbyters 
were not legal yet it was Evangelical. Mr. Glendals Argum' agt. 
Common Prayer, was, y' it imposes upon God, either this hee 
must have or none, whereas in conceived Prayer, wee ask of 
God to give us that w"" wee are to give him & wee give it in 
his strength. 

Mr. Ashborn Min' of Norton active in Inditing Mr. Taylor of 
Bury for a Conventicle before the end of y° Assize was kild by one 
Ward then under Cure with him for madness, but in a way of 
recovery. July 29. 

About y° same time two witnesses agt. Mr. Ince of Dunhead 

* In the " Histoiy of Cumberland and Westmorland " (Whellan) a similar 
account is given of troops being seen upon Souter-fell in the year 1735. They 
seemed to be exercising, but upon examination no trace of their having been 
there could be found. 

t Compare with these the case of Lord Brooke at Lichfield. He had been 
heard to say that he hoped to see all cathedrals so utterly destroyed that not 
one stone should be left upon another. On March 2, 1643, he was going to> 
make onset upon the close of the cathedral, and was taking view of the place 
from a window opposite, when he was shot in the eye by a chance musket-ball 
— "a certain man drew a bow at a venture " and hit this Ahab — and he fell 
dead without speaking a word. Thus on St. Chad's Day, before the cathedral 
of St. Chad, which he hoped soon to destroy, fell this notorious enemy t». 
cathedrals. 



PHILIP HENRY. lO/ 

in Wilts were suddenly smitten by -f just hand of God, one of 
them dy'd repenting. Another, one Moulins y* said, To morrow 
when Ince goes I'le keep y° merryest day — broke his leg by a fall 
y' morning w""" gangren'd & of it within two or three dayes hee 
dyed. Capt. Benet another opposer of Mr. Ince assaulting Mr. 
Dimon a londoner upon y* Road was by him Kild, se defendendo. 
Mr. Ince said of him not long, before, that hee believed hee would 
not dye y° common death of other men. Ex libro dicto — ^Annus 
Mirabilis secundus. 

Jan. 2. Mrs. Welsh desir'd Prayer, that God would give her 
Wisedom & Patience in her present condition. 

The twelve great Companyes of london. 

MerCers. Grocers. Drapers. Fish-mongers. Goldsmiths, skinners. 
Taylors. Haberdashers. Salters. Iron mongers. Vintners. Cloth- 
workers. 

Non Argus, largus, non Magdalena Methusal. 
Non Habacuc, lazarus, Caseus iste bonus. 

The follovsring letters, etc., belong to Dr. Davies Colley, 
of Newton, Chester, to whom my best thanks are due for 
permission to use them. 

June I, 1661. To Mr. Puleston. 

Sir, if it please you to accept of the motion, I am willing and 
doe desire, before the Differences betw. us grow greater, and the 
wound wider then yet it is, to referr it to two Indifferent uncon- 
cerned p'sons, who may compose and compromise it. Or else my 
self to give you the meeting when and where you shall appoint this 
next week : hoping it may yet prove no very difficult matter (if 
meanes bee used for it) to revive a right underst: between us, for 
truly. Sir, whatever you may think of mee, I know mys. to bee 

An unfayned well-wisher to your 
Person and Family, 
P. H. 
refer'd to Sir Thomas Hannier, 
and My father in law, Mr. 
Dan. Mathewes." 



I08 PHILIP HENRY. 

Mr. Ratcliffe, Recorder of Chester, to whom Mr. 
Henry had submitted his case, had advised him to com- 
mence an action against Mr. Puleston for the assertion of 
his rights, but the above letter was tendered instead as 
a peace-offering. It was agreed to refer it to the-two parties 
named, and the following memorandum, the joint compila- 
tion probably of Mr. Ratcliffe and his client, and in the 
latter's neat autograph, was to be the basis of settlement 
from Mr. Henry's point of view : — 

1. I desire, the true end and Intent of the meeting may bee 
stated, and that S'' Thos: Hanmer may declare what power hee 
hath from Mr. Puleston to conclude and determine. 

2. I Desire, before any Proposal be made concerning the 
Future, that wee may bee at a Poynt concerning the Arrears already 
Due. This to be insisted on. 

3. For the Arrears, there is 100 li. due this Midsummer, which, 
— I. I desire may bee payd intire, the rather because Mr. Puleston 
had the whole Corn Tith the last year. 2. If it bee urg'd hee 
payd 20 //. to Dr. Bridgman (the Judge payd 20 li. p' ann. to Mr. 
Fogg, while ye 100 was p'd to mee), I answ'r hee might have 
chosen ; — however I shall yeeld to abate the Half thereof, nay the 
whole, if ye Half bee not accepted, so ye remaynder bee payd 
forthwith ; And lower then this I cannot yeild. 

4. This being concluded, for time to come, I would first know 
what proposal they would make. If for mee to quitt the place, 
whatever the terms bee, I cannot, I dare not, assent. If to give 
up the Deed, I would know, upon what consideration, and what 
Mayntenance I shall have instead of it. Here press the Validity 
& Equity of the Deed ; my leaving the Colledge for it, &c. Pro- 
pose, what if Mr. Puleston, paying this Hundred pounds, enjoy 
the Corn-Tith, as formerly, the Reversion should bee secur'd to 
the Church when the Annuity expires. 

Going over the ground again, he sends the following 
instructions to his representative : — 

I. I can prove the payni't of 20 li. p' ann' for two yeares to Mr. 



PHILIP HENRY. IO9 

Fogg ; as Parson of Bangor, after this hundred pound p' Ann' was 
confer'd on mee ; which evidences it to be the Judges Intent that 
I should suffer no prejudice therein by any claim that way. 

2. For the future, I would propose, if Mr. P. pleases, — i. That 
the House & Corn Tithes in reversion, w'n my Annuity 
determines, accor[ding] to ye Judges intention & Deed . . . fact 
bee settled on the Church. 2. That Mr. P. may in the mean 
time enjoy them. 3. That Dr. B. may have ye profit of ye small 
Tithes. 4. That the hundred pounds p' Ann' may bee payd 
to mee. 

3. Let the Arbitrators pitch vpon any other more equal way, 
I shall submit to it ; provided it bee not in any case to the giving , 
up of my Deed, whatever abatem't I make, nor to my voluntary 
removal, neither of w'ch dare I in conscience yeeld to especially 
not the latter. 

4. Let it bee considered, what I have been inform'd by learned 
Council, though I were removed, yet the Annuity remaynes 
payable to mee, whilst I continue unpreferred otherwise. 

5. There is further this to be consider'd, that I left my 
Prsefermt. in Oxon, at ye Judges desire, whose letter I have to shew, 
to accept of this ; & also, w'n I was put to my choyce by ye 
Coll[ege], I acqu[ainted] Mr. P. with it, who said, 'stay & w't 
my Father hath Done, I will make good to the uttermost,' without 
w'ch promise from him, I think I had not stay'd. 

6. Dav: Phil: hath often said, so his Master were eas'd in 
the Hundred pound, hee did not care though I stayd in the 
Place. 

Endorsed on back " Treaty with Mr. P," The document 
is written on the torn fly-leaf of a letter, which is inscribed 
with the following address, apparently in the hand of his 
once brother-parson and neighbour, Mr. Robert Fogg, of 
Bangor : — 

ffor his much Esteemed 
and Reverend good friend 
Mr. Henry, minister 

Of Worthenbury, 
present these. 



no PHILIP HENRY. 

The arbitration moved on but slowly, there being little 
hope from the first of any agreement ; and no wonder, 
for of the "two Indifferent unconcerned p'sons" who 
had it in hand, one was the young parson's father-in-law, 
and the other a sworn friend of Dr. Bridgman and Mr. 
Puleston, so there was little ground in common between 
them. 

The next paper in the series is a set of " Reasons," 
arranged by Mr. Henry in three columns side by side, under 
the following heads : — 

1. Why I should not yeeld to a composition with Mr. P. 

2. Why I should. 

3. Why Mr. P. should yeeld to a Composition with mee. 

These points are very fairly put and reasoned out by 
the poor parson. There follows a letter, which has not 
been printed before, addressed, as it would seem, to one of 
the arbitrators : — 

Sir, I have considered, the proposal which you were pleas'd 
to make of endeavouring a Composition for mee with Mr. Puleston 
by meanes of a Friend of your's, who hath Interest in him ; and doe 
thankfully acknowledge your very great respect and favour towards 
[me therein]. The Condition on which you have to effect this is 
it seemes, no other, than a full and absolute r[esigna]tion of my 
whole claym and Title both in the Annuity and House also, 
which if valuable Consideration may bee had for it, I am willing 
to yeeld to ; and the loss shall be accounted valuable to purchase 
Peace and his Favo'r ! 'Twas a year and half, within few weekes, 
that I Officiated, since the last Payment, and for what is future, I 
shall refer my self to you and your Friend, only desiring, you would 
but suppose the Case to be your own. For Arguments, I conceive, 
whilst I have so much Probability of Recovering, 'twill be ap- 
parently found to bee for Mr. Puleston's Advantage to lighten 
his estate from the Burthen of such a charge, beside the incident 
charges of law ; to which I might adde also some kind of obliga- 
tion that lyes upon him in poynt of Honor, considering the relation 



PHILIP HENR Y. Ill 

wherein I stood to him, and that I left my Place at the University 
upon the Grant of this from his Father: On each of these, Sir, as 
Occasion is given, I presume your own or your Freind's Prudence 
may enlarge ; and whatever the success bee, you will acquire the 
Blessing of a Peace endeavourer, if not a Peace-maker, and 
withal oblige 

Your Kinsman and Servant. 
Worthenb; Jan. 15, 1661, Philip Henry. 

May 7, 1661. To Dr. Brid[gman]. 

Sir, At my return from you upon Friday, I found a not- 
so-soon-expected addition to my family, a son which God hath 
given mee, which hath occasion'd my hindrance at present in 
making a Formal Draught of our Agreement as I intended, Never- 
thelesse for substance, this is it I have yeilded to, and this, God 
willing, I shall perform ; whereas 100"^ annu™ is conferred on 
mee by Judge Puleston in consideration of my Preaching at 
Worthenb: and whereas it is by your favour and Permission that at 
present I enjoy the liberty of Preaching there, for which liberty 
given mee you suffer detriment at present in the Tithes & Profits of 
the Place, I doe hereby promise to allow you, whilst you continue 
to mee that liberty and whilst you continue to suffer that detriment, 
the summ of thirty pounds ^ annu" out of the hundred aforesayd, 
in those proportions as I receive it, which allowance is to com- 
mence at Midsummer last, you bearing with mee in regard I am to 
enter suit for it, a proportionable part of the costs & charges 
incident for the Recovery of it. This I think. Sir, is the whole of 
what is contayned in the Paper which you drew, and I hope will 
bee sufficient at least till your return, to satisfy you, if it bee not, 
I shall be ready to adde what more you shall require to the same 
intent, for I assure you. Sir, though some have told mee I needed 
not to doe this being secur'd of my Annuity, though you should 
remove mee, yet I freely yeeld to it as in equity to you by way of 
recompence for your losses, so also hoping it may bee a motive 
for my continuance here, at least in y' second place, for you have 
told mee you have a higher end in granting, as I also have in 
desiring it. 



1 1 2 PHILIP HENR Y. 

D" Br. draught of the case. 

John Puleston of Emerall Esq' about January in the year 
1658 signed and sealed a lease and release of all the Tythes 
both of Come and hay together with an house and Croft thereunto- 
belonging built by him on purpose for the Minister of Worthen- 
burye to live in. Mr. John Holyman being then his Clarke drew it 
and sales it was sealed and left in the Judge's Chamber, and was 
delivered to Mr. Holyman in the name of the rest of the feoffees, 
who left it in the said Judge's Chamber amongst the rest of the 
writeings in a box. 

It was drawne for the substance of it according to a former 
ffeoffm' made by the said Judge the yeere before unto the same 
ffeoffees, viz. John Broughton of Broughton Esq', Thomas Puleston 
and Edward Puleston sonns of the said Judge, Roger Puleston of 
Worthenburye, Edward Phillips of Mullsford, and John Holyman,. 
gent', w""" ffeoffment was by the said Judge Puleston sealed and 
delivered unto Mr. Roger Puleston, and John Holyman in the 
name of the rest of th' aforenamed ffeoffees, and was by him 
comitted to the custody of Phillip Henry minister there, to w* the 
said Phillip Henry was witnes amongst others, viz. Mr. Roche an 
Irishman now living at Congleton then the said Judges physitian, 
D' of physick, and Rob' Berley, serv' to the said Judge, w^ re- 
mained with the said Phillip Henry, 5 months, viz. from July to 
Januarie 1658, when the said Judge desiring to confirme it to the 
Church more strongly call'd for it again, and seal'd the said lease 
and release that the house whereof Mr. Phillip Henry had before 
a lease for 60 yeares, if hee so long continue minister of Worthen- 
burie or did not accept of better p'ferment, might bee the better 
secur'd to the said Church of Worthenburye for ever, for the Tythes 
were sufficientHe before secur'd by the said feoffm' though Mr. 
Ratcliffe the Recorder of Chester having a sight of the Copie of 
the feoffm' tould Mr. Henry his opinion of it being insufficient as 
to the house because of the lease in being, it was also insufficient 
as to the Tythes, ffor that in Law, where two things are conveyed 
whereof the Conveyor had no power to convey the one, hee 
invalidated the other if putt into the same deed. 

John Puleston of Emerall Esq' made a nuncupative will in 



PHILIP HENRY. II3 

w* hee gave 250'" to finish the Vicars House in Worthenburye, 
and to build out-houses for the same. The Judge dictated the 
will himselfe, and Mr. Holyman the witnes and the unadvantaged 
executor wrote it verbatim as hee dictated — This will compared 
with a lease of the said House to Mr. Philip Henry for 60 years if 
hee so long continued minister of Worthenburye and not accepted 
of better preferment, dated and sealed the March before, will 
evidence that it was the Parsonage of Worthenberye. 

Yet this House, w* the moneyes intended by Justice Puleston 
for the Church doth his Son Roger intend to alienate from so 
pious a use, and to give it to a pot companion, for whom hee saith 
hee hath land enough, but wants a convenient house for him to 
bee neare him. 

Quere, Whether my best course will not bee to make 
Mr. Roger Puleston to bring in y° lease and release, w* tis more 
then probable hee has by him, for p'sently after his ffather's decease 
hee bragged (as Mr. Rob'° Bukley of Worthenburye Serv'° to Mr. 
Lloyd of Halton, and sometyme bailiffe to the Judge affirmeth) 
that hee would not for 2 or 300"", but hee had found certain 
writings, w""" were then comonlie beleived to bee these of the 
Lease and Release. 

And in order thereunto Whether it will not bee convenient to 
send out processe for Mr. Holyman and Mr. Phillips to prove the 
nuncupative Will. 

The above document, written in a legal hand, seemed 
to be founded upon notes supplied by Philip Henry, who 
writes as follows : — 

Sir, 

I have followed your instructions in writing the letter 
and inclosing this with it, entreating you to make use of them as 
you shall see cause. I have mentioned no particular summe but 
surely. Sir, in the whole, lesse then 200"" can hardly be judged a 
valuable consideration and my Father and Freinds are of the same 
mind, if both Deeds bee included. And if you find that more may 
bee had upon Bond within reasonable time then in present pay- 
ment (as tis probable there may) I shall bee willing to accept of 

I 



114 PHILIP HENR Y. 

Bond — I would desire also, it may bee brought to as speedy an 
Issue as may bee, because the Assize drawes on, and twill bee 
shortly time to prepare for it, if an end may not bee had otherwise, 
so craving your pardon for my boldness, I rest. Your servant, 

P. H. 

Notes 

1. that the said R. P. about that time was heard to say&c. &c. 

2. that David Phillips, servant to him the said R. P. told one 
speaking of ye writings' that hee hoped his master would bee so 
vnse as never to let them see the light again or to that purpose 
implying as much as if hee knew of his once having the possession 
ofy™ 

To prove that it was the intention of the said J. P. in building 
the said house to bestow it on -f" church for y' use aforesaid, these 
following Argum*" may bee worthy consideration. 

1. That he caus'd the people of y° said place to help him with 
the carriage of Materials thither, viz. much of y* Brick, Timber, 
Slates, having declar'd to several of them, that he built it for their 
minister. 

2. that he took to hims. the Cote aforesaid cald the Priests 
Chamber, and made a lease of it to A. D. for her life, shee paying 
to him 5" in y" nature of a . . . which hee would not have done 
but that hee intended this other of his own building in lieu of that 
for the use of the Min'. 

3. That hee actually settled it by Feoffm' aforesaid which had 
been good if livery & seisin had been executed — the reason it 
was not was, bee. being sick hee hop'd every day to mend & to 
goe abroad, and do it hims. but hee never went abroad after. 

4. . . . 

5. That hee the said John Puleston did write a letter bearing 
date Nov. 22. 1658. to the Trustees for Uniting and dividing of 
Parishes, wherein is this passage — I have also built a fayr brick 
house with necessary Outhouses for y° use of y° Min' which I 
have likewise granted to the same Feoffees — a copy of which 
letter is yet producible if there bee occasion. 

Mem. The reason why the sealing of the lease & release as to -f 
circumstances of it is so hard to bee made out, is bee. of the rage 



PHILIP HENR y. 115 

of the said Ro. P. threatning to kill any that should offer to speak 
a word to his Father about it, as also that he would not suffer 
those to come near him that hee thought likely to promote or 
further it 

Persons to bee sworn & examin'd concern, the said writings 

S" Tho. Hanmer John Holliman 

Roger Puleston Esq' Roger Puleston 

John Royden Robert Byckley 

Edward Philips Katharin Paynter 

Mr. J. F. Beaver, of Beaumaris, has kindly supplied the 
following extracts from the diary for 1662. The diary 
itself seems to be lost, for Mr. Jos. Morris, of Shrewsbury, in 
a letter of February 13, 1857, to Mr. Beever, says, "I am 
told that my copy of Mr. Philip Henry's diary for 1662 is 
unique. Sir John Bickerton Williams had not met with 
one of that year when he published his work, and he never 
could find one except mine, which I put into his hands 
a few years ago." Whether Philip Henry continued his 
diary this year as usual, or whether the anxieties and 
troubles which he underwent caused him to neglect it, we 
cannot say, but it is certainly unfortunate that his records 
of this year, above all others, should be so meagre. 

1662. 

Jan. 2. My Father sent for me to go to Uncle Edwards of 
Eyton upon overtures of composition with Mr. Puleston. I took 
time to consider. 

17. 18. I received letters from London of the recovery of 
Sister Sarah which I have often prayed for, & the Lord hath 
heard prayers. I will love the Lord because he hath heard the 
voice of my supplication. 

Fed. 19. I saw my Father at Bronington & heard of his 
intentions for London on Friday next, but he himself said nothing 
to mee of it, nor I to him. I acquainted my dearest with it, 
whereupon the next day she went to take her leave of him. 



1 1 6 J>ffILIP HENR V. 

March i. Sometime in the night before this day Aunt Adams- 
departed in a good old age. Shee was not well the day before, 
but hath several times in appearance been far worse. The first 
that died in this house. The Lord might have begun at the other 
end of us & smitten us with a sore breach. 

4. Aunt Adams was buried according to her desire in her 
will, at Malpas. Mr. Bridge preach't — twas the first buryal of 
which I was supervisor, and I was forc't in some things to submit 
to custom, tho' against my own inclination. Concerning dole I 
gave groats apiece to about 20. poor of this parish, and at Malpas 
gave 20s. to poor there at pence apiece & yet they were not 
satisfied : many from neighb. parishes went away from the house 
clamouring w"" I was troubled at. I desired Mr. Bridge shee 
might be buried before the sermon, but it was not granted. After 
sermon I was one (with my Uncles) that brought her round to the 
grave, which it may be did not become me. At Worthen''' in the 
morning I rather permitted than desired the ringing of the bells, 
but after a peal or two they were forbidden to proceed by Mr. 
Hilton, upon what account I know not, Mr. P. came to Malpas 
& animadverted upon those that accompanyed us thither, as if 
the same that were my friends could not be his. Let the righteous 
Lord judge righteous judgment. 

6. I took an inventory of Aunt Adam's Goods at Worthenb. 
& more at Broad Oake. 

11. Aunt Adam's goods were prized by John Hughs and 
Dan. Prichard, the whole whereof, with what ready money she 
left came to something like £,^0. There were two remarkable 
events of Providence concerning it. That, as I found afterwards 
John Howel's goods, her Father, were priz'd upon this very same 
day March 11, 1635. 2. That when I made my Aunt a new bond 
of a hundred pound, upon delivering tlie old to my Father this 
time twelve month, the day nominated in the bond for payment 
was Mar. i. this present year, & as it fell out upon tliat very day 
viz. March i, 1662, shee dyed, Lord my times are in Thy hand, 
& Thou ordereth them as seemeth good in Thine eyes. 

12. Cousin Cay & Cousin John Hotchkiss came to see us 
and lodg'd here two nights. 

24. I went with my dear Wife to Whixall to my Cosin 



: PHILIP HENR Y. 1 1 7 

Erayn,* who lies in, having a son the heir of the family named 
William. We went & came in safety, blessed be God. 

25. I rec"" Letters concerning the death of my dear Sister 
Dickins, who dyed on the is* day of this month. Lord come in 
her stead to her little ones, and fit us for our change that are left 
behind. 

April 2. I went with my dear wife to Whitch: where I visited 
D' Heylin now parson there, & took leave of him with Cosin 
Sarah Hotchkis going to London to live with her bro: Thomas — 
I wrote letters with her to all my sisters there. Lord send me 
good news from them & let their souls live in Thy light. Wee 
came home late but safe, blessed be God. 

II. I went with my dear wife to Cousin John Jennings whose 
■dau'r Mary was lately put to bed of two dau'rs. 

19. My Father returned from London — I went not to meet 
him, not because I am not willing to give him all due respect, but 
because he shows himself not willing to receive it from mee. 

21. I went with my dear to Bronington, where wee saw my 
Father & had common respect & countenance from him & that 
was all, hee never so much as ask't how the child did, nor how 
it far'd with mee in my afFayres ; but my Father which is in Heaven 
careth for us. 

23. We went to Cosin John Jennings to rejoice with him 
in his daughter Mary's mercy to whom the Lord hath given two 
children at a birth — Lord make them doubly thankful 

May 21. Saw Cosin Thomas Hotchkis, a Conformist upon 
•this principle — that whatever our magistrate t commands which 
the word doth not forbid tis our duty to obey ; which I confess is 
■not clear to mee in the th. of God. 

. August 7. Wee went to Ash, our friends are very loving & 
respectful towards us, which in some measure countervayls the 
imkindness of hearer relations. 

Sept. 9. I went to Eyton, Mr. Wm. Edwards J dyed the night 

' This was an ancient family in Whixall and in Myddle (Salop) that had 
taken the side of the Parliament. 

t This seems, to use Philip Henry's own expression, verbum super rotas in 
respect of recent differences (1881). 

X The Edwards (ap Edward) family, descended from Tudor Trevor, had 
>extensive estates at Chirk, St. Martin's, Dudleston, Eyton, and PlasflTron. 



1 1 8 PHILIP HENR Y. 

before, leaving all his estate real & personal to a bastard except- 
ing some few Legacies. Ps. 49. 10. Mr. Lewis came thither at 
the same time on the same errand, but both too late. 

16. I went, to Chester-; hir'd a coach for Sister Mary. 

22. Sister Mary set forward from Worthenb. towards London 
not without much grief of friends at parting ; the little one more 
than ordinarily apprehensive. 

23. She went from Whitch. in the coach — I accompany'd 
her to Sanford : the Lord be her good speed. 

October 2. We went to Whitch. on foot, saw our friends & 
returned refreshed S: in safety. Aunt Hotchkis recover'd as 
t'were from the grave — Lord unto Thee belong the issues from 
Death. 

3. The child went to Whitch. & Ash where he was much 
desired & made off. The Lord make him His servant. 

4. Sister Mary came safe to London ; blessed be God that 
hears prayers. 

18. About three o'clock this morning my wife was delivered 
of her second son. He was born before the midwife came, 
but God was there. We have no reason to call him Benoni — I 
wish we had not to call him Ichabod. He hath all his parts 
& is a comely child for in Thy book all his members were 
written. Lord sanctify him from the womb, and let him be a 
Jedediah beloved of the Lord — Amen. 

19. Mr. Holland preacht at the Chappel. He baptiz'd my 
son there & I named him Matthew — ^Wee had no God-father 
for what needed, but he signed him with the Cross, which I 
could not help, ipse viderit. 

Nov, 12. Mr. Sadler, Cosin Brayn, Mr. Luke Lloyd &:c. 
came to see us. 'tis a great mercy we have yet so much liberty, 
blessed bee God. 

18. After long expectation I received a letter from Sister 
Mary & am glad to hear of the health of my Sisters, blessed 
bee God. I went to Bronington to see my Father who will not 
come hither to see us. 

The lands at Chirk passed by marriage to the Pulestons ; those in Dudleston, 
inchiding the old house of Kilhendre, to the Morralls. Sir John Edwaixls of 
Machynlleth, and Sir Herbert Edwardes, C.B., were of this house. 



PHILIP HENRY. II9 

Dei" 2. About this time we heard of the death of my Cosin 
Joshua Lea, who dy'd in Yorkshire & I believe is at rest in the 
Lord. 

3. I went to Ash where I was much made of, and retum'd 
the next day refresh'd, & found all well at home, blessed bee 
God. 

17. I went with my dear to Whitchurch: saw Aunt Man- 
ning, sick, a right Dorcas, the lord spare her, and return'd in 
safety which was a great mercy considering the slipperiness of the 
wayes. 

22. Cosin Talbot came to see mee. 

26. I went to Chester by Malpas, having the company of 
Uncle Wittar & Cosin Talbot. 

The Acts of Uniformity are i Elizabeth, c. 2, and 14 
Charles II. By the first, if any parson, vicar, or other 
minister that ought to use the Common Prayer, or to 
minister the Sacraments, shall refuse to do the same, or 
shall use any other form, or shall speak anything in dero- 
gation of the same book, he shall, for the first offence, forfeit 
to the queen one year's profits of all his spiritual promo- 
tions and be imprisoned for six months ; for the second 
offence, be deprived of all his spiritual promotions, and be 
imprisoned for one year ; and for the third offence be im- 
prisoned for life. 

By the same Act, if any person shall in plays, songs, 
or by other open words speak anything in derogation 
of the same book or anything therein contained, he shall 
for the first offence forfeit to the queen a hundred marks, 
etc., etc. 

All the Puritan objections to the Church as it existed 
before the wars remained in full force in 1662 : The Book 
of Common Prayer remained unchanged, except in a few 
trifling particulars, which made it in no way more accept- 
able to its critics ; the use of it was now imperative ; the 
exercise of free prayer in public assemblies was forbidden ; 



120 PHILIP HENRY. 

no preaching of unordained persons was permitted, and no 
ordination held valid except by bishops. That they should 
dislike the liturgy of- the English Church only showed that 
they were not in their right places in holding various posts 
which they had seized upon in 1643, and held ever since 
to the exclusion of their rightful occupants. 

The indenture made March S, 1657, by,,which the judge 
assigned him the house at Worthenbury (of which the study 
still remains and is part of the present rectory), is inserted 
here, because on September 6th of this year Philip Henry 
was induced to give it up. It is impossible without emotion 
to peruse the original deed, endorsed on the back in the 
well-known hand. One seems brought face to face with 
the matter, after the interval of more than two centuries, 
in a very real manner. 

Puleston. 

This Indenture made the fift day of March in the yeare of our 
Lord one thousand six hundred fifty & seaven. Betweene John 
Puleston of Emerall in the county of Fflint — Sergeant at Lawe of 
the one part And Phillip Henry of Worthembury in the said 
County of Fflint Clerk of the other parte. Wittnesseth that the 
said John Puleston for divers good causes' and consideracons him 
heemnto moveinge Hath demised granted leased and to farms lett 
— And by these pr-sents doth demyfe grante, Lease and to farms 
lett unto the said Phillipp Henry All that his New built Brick house 
in Worthembury and the Croft whereon the Same now standeth 
with all, and singular th' appertimses to have & to hold the said 
house and croft with th' appertimses unto the said Phillip Henry 
from the makinge heerof for, and dureinge the full end and terme 
of threescore yeares from thence next ensueinge fully to bee com- 
pleate and ended (iff the said Phillipp Henry doe or shall soe longe 
continue minifter at Worthombury aforesaid, and not accept of 
better prferment) yeldinge and payeinge therefore yearely to the 
said John Puleston and his heires at the feast of St. Michaell th' 
archangell the Rent of six pence if it bee demanded In wittnes 



PHILIP HENRY. 121 

whereof the parties above named have to these prsents inter- 
■chaingably put their hands & seales the day and yeare first above 
written. 

John Puleston. 

[Outside.] Sealed & dehvered 

September 6th, 1662. in the p'sence of 

ifor diverfe good Consideracons mee Edmonde Lev/is 

'hereunto moueing I doe surrender hi, 

& deliver upp thes p'fsent Lease & deuife Robert t Buckley 

to the use of Roger Pulefton of Emerall mke 

in the County of fflint Esq' his heires John Holliman 
& assignes 

Philip Henry. 

Witnesse hereof, 
John Roydon 
Jo' Carter 
Thomas Williams 

(Emral MS.) 

Articles of agreem' Indented concluded and made between 
D'' Henry Bridgman rector of Bangor Monach. in y° county of 
Flint of -f one pt v. Philip Henry of Worthenb. in y' same county 
■clerk this 12* day of May a.d. 1662. on the other part. 

1. That hee the said Philip Henry shall yeeld Possession to 
him the said D' Henry Bridgman of the new brick house in 
Worthenb. aforesayd, wherein hee the said Philip Henry doth at 
present dwell, & the croft whereon it stands. 

2. Whereas an Action is commenc't against him the said 
Philip Henry concerning the said House and croft by Roger 
Puleston of Emral Esq° that hee the said D" Henry Bridgman 
shall save harmless him the said Philip Henry from all expences 
and charges whatsoever to -f same, or any other on the account 
■of the said House and shall enter into sufficient bond so to doe. 

3. Whereas, it is hop'd sufficient evidence may be produc'd 
■of Y settlem* of -f said house and Croft for the churches use by 
John Puleston Esq" who built it, that hee, the said D' Henry 
Bridgman shall prosecute a suit to that purpose, and shall not 



122 PHILIP HENRY. 

make any agreem' or composition about it with Roger Puleston 
aforesaid or any other person whatsoever, without the Concurrence 
and Consent of him, the said Philip Henry. 

4. That hee the said D' Henry Bridgman shall make unto 
him the said Philip Henry a good and sufficient lease of the said 
house and croft under the rent of five shillings yearly for and 
during the full end and term of 3 yeares next ensuing the date 
hereof, and for as much longer time afterwards, as till the lawful 
incumbent of y° said Church of Worthenbury shall come himself 
in person to inhabit there. 

The house * of Broad Oak, wrhere Philip Henry and his 
wife went to live in September, 1662, was the ancient 
inheritance of the Howell family. 

It stood on rising ground above the road leading 

from Whitchurch to Bangor, from which the first range of 

the Welsh hills is clearly seen. Its situation was very 

favourable for the exercise of hospitality, to which its 

owner often refers, and in which he took great pleasure. 

At that time, as now, it was within the township of 

Iscoyd in English Maelor, and in the Cheshire parish of 

Malpas. In the reign of Edward II. it had been included 

in the parish of Whitchurch, Salop, and in A.D. 1078 

it formed, in all probability, a part of the parish of 

Hanmer. On the north side of the township are names 

which show that there had been, many centuries before, 

some ecclesiastical settlement — a colony, no doubt, from 

Bangor Is-y-coed. The names are Maes y groes (" Field of 

the Cross ") and H6n grwys (" the Old Crosses "). Their 

situation above the Wich Valley and the river Elf would be 

owing to the population drawn together by the salt traffic. 

* To the west of Broad Oak are some scattered houses to which the name 
of " The Chequers " attaches. The origin of this may be that when Iscoed was 
part of the manor of Whitchurch and belonged to the De Warrenne family, 
some inn stood there, with their arms — the chequers — as its sign. Philip 
Henry may thus have become possessed of some seal of theirs, and used it 
commonly. The marriages of the Matthewes so far back as they are known 
(viz. the time of King Henry V.) were with Welsh ladies. 



PHILIP HENRY. 12$ 

Afterwards, when the H6n grwys came to an end, a chapel 
was built about a mile south, which was called from the salt 
spring the Wich well or Whitewell Chapel. The ample 
endowments of the place were lost for the most part in the 
time of Canute, and this will account for its being attached 
to three different parishes in succession. The picturesque 
old black-and-white building where Philip Henry and his 
wife used to attend was standing in 1830, and fell down 
when an attempt was made to enlarge it. 

The fortunes of the manor of Iscoed have been no less 
varied than its ecclesiastical arrangements. We are told 
in Welsh history that Maelor, the grandson of King 
Cunedda (whose date is generally given area 350, and 
who was the first to endow the Church in 'Wales), had 
Maeloron — that is, the two Maelors — for his inheritance. 
When the Saxon counties were fqrmed, English Maelor 
was divided unequally between Shropshire and Cheshire, 
and both belonged, at the time that Domesday Book was 
drawn up in 1078, to Earl Edwin. The Saxon rights 
were then transferred tcf the Norman Earl of Chester, 
and he again passed on all the manors in English 
Maelor which belonged to Cheshire to his natural son, 
Robert Fitzhugh, Baron of Malpas. Iscoyd-with-Ty- 
broughton, now a township of Hanmer, formed the manor 
of Burwardeston. In the unsettled reign of Stephen, 
Iscoyd was seized by the Warrenne family, and thereby 
attached to Whitchurch. Meanwhile the house of Powys, 
princes of the Welsh March, exercised their own hereditary 
rights, without let or hindrance, down to the year 1281, 
when, the two young princes being drowned by express 
order from Edward I., the lordship of Maelor Saesneg, 
with their other possessions, came into the hands of the 
king. After temporary grants to the Lestrange family 
it was finally bestowed upon them, 4 Edward III. From 



124 .PHILIP HENRY. 

them it descended to the Stanleys, who sold the manor 
of Iscoed to the Breretons of Malpas, 41st Elizabeth, 
from whom it passed by marriage to Sir Richard Egerton 
of -Ridley, whose son sold it, with the ancient house of 
Wolvesacre in Iscoyd, to Bishop John Bridgeman in the 
year 1635. 

Besides these manorial rights which had come from the 
princes of Powys, there were those which belonged to 
the Norman lord of Malpas in 1087. The Maelor share 
of those which the Breretons had, by inheritance from 
the Egertons, passed in marriage to Holford of Holford, 
and was by Thomas Holford, soon after 1635, sold to 
Mr. John Adams, of London and Wem. He had married 
Eleanor Howell, of Broad Oak, great-aunt of Philip Henry's 
wife, who died at their house in Worthenbury, March i, 
1,662. When her sons Walter and John died at Iscoyd 
Hall in 1670, these also passed into the possession of Sir 
Orlando Bridgeman, Bart, the son of the bishop. One 
moiety of the Malpas barony still remains to be noticed, 
being the inheritance of the Cholmondeleys by direct de- 
scent. These rights, as regarded lands in Iscoyd and the 
township of Willington in Hanmer, were exercised in the 
present century. I hope to enter more fully into these and 
other kindred subjects in writing, if I am enabled to do so, 
a history of Maelor Saesneg. 

That the old house of Broad Oak should be no longer 
standing is much to be regretted. It was pulled down 
about 1746, by an agent of Philip Henry Warburton, and 
the timber in it was sufficient to supply the requirements 
of four houses now standing, viz. the present farmhouse 
at Broad Oak, the Maes-llwn house in Bronington — the 
ancient property of the Matthewes — the Iscoyd Green 
Farm, called " Eastwick's Tenement," which was bought 
by Philip Henry from Mr. Lloyd, of the Biyn, and a 



PHILIP HENRY. 12$ 

house in the outskirts of Whitechurch, called "The Mount." 
Only one old oak remains near the place — the prevailing 
tree being the sycamore — and that one overhangs the lane 
leading from Whitewell to Whitchurch. It is quite hollow, 
and has one bough of a different shade of green to the rest. 
The following report of the Commissioners gives us the 
state of ecclesiastical affairs in Iscoyd up to the Restora- 
tion : — 

ISCOYDE. 

And the saide Jurors upon their Oaths doe finde that 

1. the chappel of Whitewell in the Township of Iscoide is in 
y' County of fflint, and that y° tithes of y° Township of Iscoide 
are annexed and belonging to -f pish church of Malpas wh. is 
in y° County of Chester. 

2. And that Mr. Holland and Mr. Manwaring are Jointe or 
fellow Incumbents of y° s? pish church of malpas. 

3. And that y° Lord Breerton and others are patrons thereof 

4. And that heretofore the cure of y" said Chappell of White- 
well was supplied by Curates apointed by y* Parsons of Malpas 
who had some small salaries for their paines. But that now the 
said Parsons of Malpas of late placed to bee curate there one 
Mr. Joseph Hanmer to whom they allow all the tithe corn and 
hey of y" said Township of Iscoide reserving to themselves y" rest 
of y° small tithes and a certaine rent of fforty shillings a yeare. 

5. And the s" Jurors upon their Oaths doe further finde that 
y" s* pish of Malpas is a very great pish containing in it 22 town- 
ships over & besides y" s'' Township of Iscoide, & y° Townships 
of Bickerton & Broxton (wh. said two townships are lately severed 
from Malpas & anexed to Harthill). 

6. And that the tithes of y° said Parish are worth neare 400" a 
yeare besides y° said Townships of Iscoied, Bickerton, & Broxton, 
and that there is at least 50" p. an (besides the Tithes) in Gleabe 
lands belonging thereunto, & two very faire Parsonages houses 
thereupon, all now enjoyed by y° s'^ Incumbents. 

7. And that y" Tithes of y° s* Township of Iscoide are worth 
about 50" p. Ann., & y' y° Chappell of Whitewell is three miles or 



126 PHILIP HENRY. 

thereabouts distant from y' said Parish Church of Malpas & that 
some part of y° said Township of Iscoid is about fower miles dis- 
tant from y° pish church of Malpas. 

8. That there is noe church nor chappell neare whereto it may 
be anexed, but that therefore they think fitt and convenient that 
y° said chappell of Whitewell (in y° Township of Iscoide aforesaid 
in y° County of fflint) bee separated from y° Parish of y* Malpas, 
and that y° said Chappell of Iscoide be made a Parish Church. 
And that y° tithes of -f s* Township of Iscoide be anexed to y' s** 
Parish Church of Whitewell for y° maintenance of a preaching 
Minister there. 

g. And further wee find that there is a river called y" river 
of Elfe * w* another dangerous brooke w""" lieth betweene Iscoid & 
Malpas whereby -f passage (as it is dangerous) soe often hindreth 
the Inhabitants of Iscoide from goeing to Malpas to ptake of 
Ordinances in publique. 

Luke Lloyd. Owen Barton. Edward Phillips. Roger Puleston. 
Jo. Eddows. John Madocke. Thomas Price. Thomas Kinaston. 
D. Hollman. (Emral MS.) 

At the Restoration Mr. Joseph Hanmer seems to have 
conformed, and in 1667 obtained the benefice of Marchwiel, 
near Wrexham. At Malpas, the Presbyterian George 
Mainwaring rendered back the higher mediety to its former 
incumbent, Thomas Bridge. Mr. Holland continued at the 
lower rectory as before. 

1663. 

January i. I heard a marriage sermon at Tilstock Mary 
Talbot to Richard Chamberlayn of Drayton. T. Eph. 5. 22. &c. 
Husbands ought to love their wives as Christ loves y° Church, 
and wives ought to be in subjection to their husbands as y" 
Church is in subjection to X'. 

2. I went to Emeral where I received the remayning ^^50. & 
payd it to Mrs. Barbour, shee would take no Interest, though more 

* This name appears to have been derived from the root hal (whence 
haUn = salt), S^9, sal ; and to have given to Nantwich its Welsh name Najit 
yr Heledd Wen ( " the Stream of the White Salt-pit "). The epithet ' ' white " 
is noticeable from the neighbourhood of the Elfe to our White-well. — D. R. 
Thomas. 



PHILIP HENRY. 12/ 

then £^\o. was due but I gave her two Angels of Gold, one for 
each of her Children. 

3. I went to Worthenb. to meet with D"' Br. but missed of 
him, the place is destitute at present. Jehova-ijreh. 

4. Mr Bridg.* preacht at chapel.f T. Ps. 122. 3. not 
calculated for -f meridian of this Auditory. 

5. I went this morning to Emeral, Mr. Roydon told mee, 
D"' Br. had submitted to Mr. Puleston. & hee must have y° keyes, 
I s* w' I thought fit in point of conscience & promis'd hee should 
have them. 

In y° afternoon I went to Cap' Heneage where was Mr. Talants 
Mr. laurence, Mr. parsons, Mr. Steel, wee discourst all night, 
especi. upon this Qu: whether our relation doe yet remayn to our 
people, in y" close wee were divided in our opinions about it. 

6. I came home & went thence to Ash, drowsy & unfit but 
engag'd by promise. My company is not desireable bee: not 
profitable. 

7. I heard of y° burning of Mr. Delawn's house near lothbury in 
london, in y° flames whereof perisht hims' wife children & servants 
to the number of 10. or 12. twas a brick house, the fire began in 
Y lowest roomes, twas on Dec. 25. at night 

9. I read y° K. declaration of Dec. 26. wherein hee promises 
to mantayn y' Act of oblivion, to govern by law not by sword, to 
procure liberty from y" Pari, for tender Consciences, to take off 
sanguinary lawes agt. Papists — 

II. I went to Tilstock, Mr. Thomas preacht about living by 
Faith under Afflictions, I had fainted unless I had believed. 

* Thomas Bridge, incumbent of the higher rectory of Malpas during the 
troubles of the great rebelUon, was ejected from his living, but restored in 1660. 
He was also Vicar of St. John's Chester, " rebuilt the parsonage, and gave ;^5o 
towards erecting the grammar school, and ^50 to the poor." 

t Philip Henry attended the services at Whitwell Chapel for nearly thirty 
years after going to live at Broad Oak. His son tells us that he used to stand 
during the whole service, even while the chapters were read. To this the Rev. 
W. Turner adds that "he stood up commonly during the prayers." In his 
family he always prayed kneeling. Cf. Bingham's "Antiquities of the Christian 
Church," vol. iv. book xiii. chap. viii. sect. iii. : " Standing (in prayer) was the 
general observation of the whole Church on the Lord's day and the fifty days 
between Easter and Pentecost, in memory of our Lord's resurrection. This 
custom may be traced as high as Irenasus, who derives it from apostolical 
authority." "There was an exception to this rule in the case of penitents" 
(Bingham, vol. vi. book xviii. chap, ii. 9). 



128 PHILIP HENRY. 

1 8. Mr. Bridge preacht at chapel. Cant. 5. 8. two sermons- 
which cost him little, lord if thou hast Interest in him, revive it ; 
hee hath gifts but if repentance on his part & Mercy on God's, 
part prevent aiot, they will quickly wither & come to nothing. 

19. I went to Worthenb. & deliver'd -f Possession of y' House 
to Mr. Roydon for Mr. Puleston use, for I could not doe otherwise. 
.Mrs. Puleston was there & agreed to give me 30' for y* Parler 
Table. &c. w""" I left there. Tis clear y' settlem' w"" y' Judge made 
is voyd in law by f statute of mortmain, & besides -f Original Deed 
is not to bee had. 

20. I fell two Ashes & an Oak for implem'' for Husban- 
dry, in falling one of y° Ashes, it pleased God wonderfully to 
preserve Daniel Powel y° Son of Marg' Powel, aged 8. years, the 
Tree fell upon him but hee scapt the body & fell under -f outmost 
boughs, so that hee received no harm, blessed be y" name of 'f 
lord. 

22. Payd Randall Tanna 6^ 6* being my Fathers share & mine 
towards y° Muster of one Horse y° last year. 

23. My heart condemnes mee that I doe no more for God in 
y'* place & state of life into w""" I am cast, lord open to mee an 
effectual door, for there are many adversaryes, within, without 

24. Ann Hale deprehended in two or three thefts, a cup, a 
dish, scollop-work, all trifling matters, yet see y' powere of 
temptation. 

25. Mr. Adams preacht at Whitwel-Chapel in the morning, 
T. John I. 12. Fatherly correction is a branch of our Priveledge 
as sons, in the Afternoon wee went farther, to Whitchurch, but 
far'd worse, only by -f -^scy I had opportunity to instruct & exhort 
y°' that were in company with us, blessed bee God. 26. Robert 
Wyn ill, say w' I would I could not fasten on him, lord grant hee 
may mend y' hee may mend. 27. About this time a great 
appearance of fire was seen in this neighbourhood & elsewhere,, 
what it portends God knowes. 28. one about Shrewsb. (they 
say) foretells three battles this year, one whereof upon Frees heath 
and I am asked, what I think of it, I answ' I cannot, let the event 
speak. 29. my Father being again askt to give Acquittance of 
y° ;^ioo. receiv'd or to endorse y° Bond refus'd. 30. I went to 
Tilst. to y° humiliation, where I saw & mett with God, blessed be 



PHILIP HENRY. 1 29 

Hs name. 31. an exceeding bitter cold season, the Frost con- 
tinuing with small intermissions these many weekes. 

23. I sent my watch to london by Raph Mansel to change 
for a clock. 

February i. no preaching at the chapel, I went to Tilstock. 
where Mr. Thomas is still preserved in his liberty blessed bee God 
and the place is a little Sanctuary to us ; the lord continue it soe. 
2. I sent 10° to Mr. Taylor of Wem by Thomas Moor, being 
y° remaynder of what was in my hands of y" money given by • 
Gen' Venables & Mr. Golborn of Chester — to Mr. Heeling zo" 
to Mr. laurence. 20'. This day the second year of Tho: Hales' 
bargain in Br. Oke expiring at his desire to be releas'd it returns 
into my own hand, the lord bless mee with it & bless it to mee. 
4. Mr. Steel Mr. Thomas and Cosin Talbot met & din'd at my 
house wee had opportunity of talking but not of praying together 
as I could have wished bee: of Inmates. A motion made by Mr. 
Hilton concer: Deberah Eddow to her Mother, shee came to 
advise, but for my p' I could give her no encouragemen' nor did 
I discourage her but spake the Truth. 6. 7. an extraordinary 
cold season, sowing & other country work are much put back, 
yet tending to Fruitfulnes in summer. 

8. Mr Adams preacht in the morning at the Chapel, a good 
sermon ; in the aftern: wee went to Whitch: where preacht Mr. 
Cole. T. I John. 2. 20. 10. uncle Burroughs son Charles about 
year & quarter old dyed, long sick — ^hard matter to submit, twas 
their only child, lord sanctify — 1 1. great talk about the intended 
Dispute in Parliam* concerning Toleration for Papists by taking 
off sanguinary lawes, lord over-rule their Counsells. 13. At the 
request of Lydia Jenkins I went to Shotwick with Cosin W Benet. 
to move her Brother to doe someth. for her tow. her marriage with 
Arthur Hincks, but though I believe hee could not, yet hee said 
hee would not & with that answer wee parted- — 14. At Chester I 
heard of y° Imprisonm' of Mr. Yates Min"' of Harrington, upon the 
malicious information of a person of small credit, who swore, hee 
mov'd him to take up Arms agt. y° King for y' Presbyterians & 
promis'd him 40^ p. week pay. 14 (cont*") Tis only from Gods 
Providence holding y° Chayn* that tis not every ones case y' 

* How very true is this, and how little remembered by Christians ! 

K 



I30 PHILIP HENRY. 

feares God, considering our own impotency to gainsay & the 
enemyes malice to accuse. Wee came home well & found our 
familyes well, blessed bee the name of y" lord. 15. I went to 
Tilstock * where Mr. Thomas preacht in y" morning & in )'' 
afternoon at Whitch. blessed bee God for y"* libertyes. 

16. went to see Mr. Adams of Iscoyd Hall, whose House had 
been rob'd y" last week. Bacon and Beef taken away. 1 7. morn- 
ing-prayer with my wife omitted for some weekes, this day reviv'd — 
lord never let mee alone in sin. I met Mr. Steel at W"" Benets 
where hee repeated sermons & pray'd, blessed bee God. 18. This 
day twelve month was y' great wind ; f This day the Parliam' mett 
again, lord, rule in y° midst of them. ig. I went to Ash,:J: 
intending to goe further to Stych % to meet Mr. Porter but uncle 
Benyon's occasions would not permit him to goe with mee, so I 
returned home y° same night. 20. John Beard of Whitch. bury'd 
two children of y° small Pox in y° compasse of one week, lord, 
what mercy is it mine are spar'd. 21. Hathorn-sets planted to 
hedge in y' Ortyard, lord bee thou a wall of fire round about thy 
Church, & let not y° wild boar out of y° Forrest devour thy tender 
plants. Fodder scarce & dear, wee did ill not to provide in 
Summer for Winter. 22. no preaching at Chapel, the weather 
wett, in y" morning I exercis'd at home, I hope to edification, 
in y" afternoon wee went to Whitch: for still 'f gates of Sion 
are better then all y" dwellings of Jacob. 24. being holy-day,§ 
hee & others [? not] at work, for mee fear'd being presented. 
26. Mr. Hanmer's son Thomas came first to Fenns, I saw him, 
they say hopeful, hee went this day towards london, having the 
Kings evil upon his Thigh. I mett Mr. Hilton 1| at my Fathers : 

* Tilstock and Ash Magna have now churches and districts of their own ; 
formerly parts of Whitchurch parish. 

t Evelyn writes, March 24, 1662, " Return'd home to repairc my house, 
miserably shatter'd by the Tate tempest." 

X Ash Hall was the seat of the ancient family of Benyon (ap Enyon) ; 
Styche (which Richard Gough would spell Stits or Stich), of the Clives. 

§ The Saturday half-holiday, the Bank holidays, and the early closing move- 
ment ought to be so many.proofs to us that our ancestors were wiser than wo 
in making the various saints' days times of enjoyment and rest from work. 

II Mr. Richard Hilton, of Christ Church, Oxford, had succeeded Philip 
Henry at Worthenbury in 1661, and Mr. R. Steel at Hanmer in 1662. The 
"motion about Cosin Deborah Eddow " seems to have been dropped, for he 
afterwards married ^frs. Anne Whitehall, of Hanmer ; but his daughter Anne 



PHILIP HENRY. 131 

hee communicated to mee his motion about Cosin Deborah Eddow 
& askt irty opinion of her, I could say noth: concern: her, yet 
know not what to think of the thing, hee hath someth. in him y*^ 
will not let him doe so bad as others. 27. Mr. HoUiman 
returnd, friends at lond. well, blessed bee God. 28. day of 
humiliation & pray"' at Tho. Talb. lord hear & have mercy. Talk 
of a bill for -f Sabb. & agt pluralityes, God grant they may bee to 
purpose. 

Feb. 17. At Elsmer. 3. measures of Rye. ii*. 

9. A bushel of Oats borrow'd of Ann Mathewes to bee payd 
in Kind or money when shee calls for it. the price of Oats is 
now. 7". 

21. Three measures of wheat borrowd of Ann Mathewes the 
market price 4^ 4''. 

25. John Cliff 7. dayes work 7. groats.* 

March i. I went to Tilstock where Mr. Thomas is yet con- 
tinued ; hee taught of living by Faith, and exhorted to try our 
Faith, if it bee such as wee may bee like to live by. 

2. Trees receiv'd from Mr. Hammond. 6. Apples. 6. Gorans. 
•6. Goosberryes. 8. Roses, two vines. This day Mrs. Jane Done 
■dy'd of Torperly, aged 63. a great support to Gods poor people in 
y° neighbourhood. 

6. Day of Prayer at Mr. Thomas, with many meltings & 
much Enlargm', lord hear us for thy poor Church wch lyes wast. 
At my going forth in y" morning my wife spake a seeming hasty 
"word, wch. y° Devil made use of to distract mee several times y' 
■day. Shee went to Whitch. payd scores at Uncle Hotchk. bought 
malt, Pease. &c. ■ & my heart safely trusteth in her, blessed bee 
God. 7. William making y= Garden, I spent more time with 
Jliim then needed, & which might have been better spent, and at 
night I smarted for it in payn in my Teeth, & the lord is 

■married Robert Eddow, by -whom the Gredington estate came with Jane 
Eddow to Mr. Lloyd Kenyon, father of the Chief Justice. Mr. Hilton built 
the porch to Hanmer Church, with the chamber over it. 

* The price of corn and the rate of wage are about half what Macaulay 
■mentions in chapter iii. of his " History," as prevailing between the Restoration 
:and the Revolution. Philip Henry may have given John Cliff his food as 
well as the seven groats. The wages in Wales may have been lower than in 
lEngland. 



132 PHILIP HENRY. 

righteous. 8. The Morning at Whitw. chap. John. i. 13. All 
adopted are also regenerated. The Aftern. at Whitch. where 
preached Mr. Bowers a Printed sermon of Mr. loves verbatim. 
I K. 14. 13, 10. I went to Joseph Ridgwayes house at Shock!, 
where mett mee Mr. Roberts & John Farrar, wee spent 3. or 4. 
howres in discourse & prayer & that night I slept at Mr. Roberts. 
II. I went to Wrexham with intentions to sell my mare at the 
fayr, but could not. It grieves mee very much to see how the 
Presbyterian Interest there, which I judge the middle between 
two extreames,* is of late ecclipst & clouded, the cause I judge to 
bee want of communion amongst them, & y" cause of that, want 
of a Faithful Min' thereabouts to goe before them ; my spirit was 
much sadned at y" consideration of it, help lord. 12. Mr. Steel 
baptiz'd a child of his hims' named Salomon, notwithst. the Inter- 
dict ; it was more than I durst venture to doe, when Mathew was 
born, but the truth is, I was surpris'd, & if it were to doe again, I 
think I should venture far, rather then suffer the <;ross,t though 
I then judg'd, twas no sin of mine, I being Passive in it, & besides- 
I was loth to have it done in private y™ if I could have had it 
done without y" Cross. 1 5. Wee expected Mr. Bridg at ChapeV 
but in the morning, hee sent word, hee could not come, hee had 
been sick all night, I heard hee had been drinking y° day before, 
lord save thy church out of such hands, y° morning wee spent at 
home, in y" Aftern, I went to Whitch. T. i Cor. 9. 24. so run 
yet ye may obtayn. 17. I went to see Marget Bedward J sick & 
tempted. I judge it a melancholy humor prevayling, which the 
devil workes upon to the disturbing of her peace, shee thought 
y' Devil pswaded her to give hers^ to him with all y'' heart in her 
heele, which troubled her worse then before ; I told her, the Devif 

* The extremes here inlended must be the Episcopalian and the Indepen- 
dent. The Calvinist would have little scruple in denying the possibility of 
salvation to a Romanist, nor would he condescend in any way to notice the 
Quakers — a sect that seemed specially designed to show him, as in a glass, the 
inconsistencies of his own system. 

t Because the Papist bowed down before a crucifi.K, the Presbyterian de- 
nounced the cross. It has taken two centuries to convince men that the cross 
is the "sign of the Son of man." In the beautiful cemeteries that are to be 
seen in Scotland, the broken column or broken bough, the jar to receive the 
ashes of those who have been burned, are common devices, while the embleni 
of our Chiistianity is most rare. 

X This name is the English form of ap Edward. 



PHILIP HENRY. 1 33 

was a proud spirit & could not endure to bee so slighted, & it may- 
bee shea should hear less from him y°" formerly. I pray'd w* her 
— lord hear prayer. 19. I mett two or three Freinds at Cosin 
Benets to seek God in behalf of our poor tempted Friend, lord, 
command y° Messenger Satan to depart from her, & bring good 
out of it. 20. I first attempted to graft, & try'd two several 
wayes, accord: to Austins direction. 21. great Oak fallen by y* 
Turf-house, many yeares, tis likely, scores of yeares growing to that 
bigness, yet cutt down in a day, though not without much adoe. 
Ps. 76. 6. hee slips off y" spirit of Princes, as a man would slip off 
ii flower between his fingers with ease. 22. people mett at 
Chapel but no Min' my spirit was mov'd to preach, but I forbore 
— only after a Psalm sung, which Mr. Katheralthe Schoolm'read, 
1 spake a few words standing in my seat, w""" it may bee I may 
hear of again, but chuse it, my heart is fixed, trusting in the lord. 
25. I finisht y" reading of y" new Testament in secret, but for 
want of Meditation with it, it hath profited mee little. The lord 
pardon ! 28. I visited Marg' Bedward, someth. better, blessed 
bee God. 29. At Tilstock preacht Mr. Bowers y° same printed 
sermon of Mr. love's w""" hee preacht at Whitch. this day 3. weekes. 

April I. I went with my wife to see Mrs. Steel, returning as 
from the grave, few thought shee would have recovered, but the 
lord was merciful. 2. I went to Cosin lohn lenings, agreed w'" 
him for a Cow & Calf, which is to cost ^^3. 14. 8. 

5. Mr. Holland preacht at Chapel two good sermons, in 
y° morning law. Gal. 3. 10. in the afternoon Gospel. John 3. 17. 
Hee gave notice of a Sacram' at Malpas, my soul thirsts for the 
Ordinance, but y° gesture & some other circumstances trouble mee, 
lord w' wilt thou have us to doe. 6. I mett some Freinds at Mr. 
Thomas, where wee pray'd together, but my heart was out of 
frame, lord, let not my sin hinder the success of that day, I see 
y° spirit blowes when & where it listeth. . my Father sent to us 
for y° remaining ;^ioo. lord thou hast befriended us in 6. & in 7. 
forsake us not now in this 8"' also. I saw a petition from y" 
Parliam' to y" K. to banish Popish Preists & Jestiites,* which 

* In, 1568, November 21, a person named Thomas Heth preached a 
sermon at the cathedral church of our Enghsh city of Rochester. _ After he 
had left the pulpit a letter addressed to him (as was afterwards discovered) 



134 PHILIP HENRY. 

swarm amongst. Amen. Fiat. 7. I pay'd 5' for Chimneyes,* 4. 
of my own, one of Margt. Powels, the next I purpose shee shall 
pay hers' accord, to y' Act. 

10. D' Mathew Fowler came to bee Preacher at Whitch: in 
the stead of D' Heylin, lik't better then he was if it hold. 13. I 
walkt to Mr. Steel's where was Cosin Rushworth ; its query'd what's 
best to doe about the approaching Easter Communion, for mys' I 
am not free to kneel, yet dare not condemn those that are. 
14. hearing of ;^ioo. to bee had w"' W. B. I went to him & had 
promise of it, accounting it a mercy & that in return of prayers. 

19. Wee went to Whitch. — it grieves mee to turn my back 
upon y" lord's supper. Mr. Steel & many more tendred thems' 
sitting at Hanmer & received. I borrowed ;^ioo of Will. Butler 
jun. & gave bond wherein Robt. Bickley is bound with mee to- 
repay it at Mich, next, I payed it to my Father Math, the last 
which I owe him, & took up y' bond, which was of 400"'' 
unindors'd though I had payd him loo"" at Mich, last which 
was not fayr ; The Lord convince him of all his hard dealing with 

under a false name, .and signed by Samuel Malt, a Spanish Jesuit, was fomid 
there by the sexton, in which it was stated that " certain persons familiar to 
Heth, viz. Hallingham, Coleman, and Benson, had set up a faction among the 
Gei-man heretics." These three persons are mentioned by Fuller (ix. 9) and 
Heylyn ("Hist, of Presbyter., "book vi.) as being accounted the chief leadere of 
the Puritans of the time. On searching Heth's lodgings there were found in 
his boots certain papers — one being a licence from the Fraternity of Jesuits ; 
another a bull of Pope Pius V. , authorizing him to preach any doctrine which 
the Jesuits might direct, for sowing divisions in England (Robert Ware's 
" Foxes and Firebrands," London, 1682, pp. 31-47). 

In 1646, above a hundred Romish priests were sent into England to play 
the part of Independents, Anabaptists, and Presbyterians to foment divisions^ 
etc. Many of these joined the Parliament's army, and corresponded with 
other Romanists who were in the king's (Archbishop Bramhall's Works, 
p. xcvii., ed. Oxford, 1842). 

Oliver Heywood mentions a case that came under his notice in 1672, where 
a man ordained by the Presbytery, without knowledge of his previous life, « as 
supposed from what followed to be a Jesuit (Hunter's " Life of Oliver Hey- 
wood," page 397, n.). 

* Pepys writes under date March 3, 1662 : " I am told that this day 
the Parliament hath voted 2s, per annum for every chimney in England, as a 
constant revenue for ever to the Crowne;" and on October 15, 1666, 
" This day . . . one moved that the Chimney money might be taken from the 
king, and an equal revenue of something else migjht be found for the king, and 
people be enjoyned to buy off this tax of Chimney money for ever at eight 
years' purchase, which will raise present money, as they think, 1,600,000, and 
tlie State be eased of an ill burthen.'' 



PHILIP HENRY. 1 35 

US, and the lord help us out of that Debt into which his unjust 
exaction hath brought us and in y° mean time establish our hearts 
by believing, for unto thee 6. God I commit my way. 

22. Tho. Halt & his family removed from us to Alghtree ; * 
I agreed with him &c. though upon hard termes ; better buy 
peace then want it ; t wee visited Eleanor Ratcliff & Cosin John 
Madocks sick ; lord spare. 

23. Day of Prayer & Preaching at Mr. Adams of North-wood, 
where were present several of the Congregational way wholly 
unsatisfy'd about coming to hear y" service book or any that read it. 

25. Heifer sent for from Ash, where shee hath been since 
Twelftide ; a very wett season after a very dry before ; yesterday 
came two Oxen of Cosin Ann Mathewes, which wee are to keep 
a while for their work. 

26. This day wee have been marry'd three y. blessed bee God. 
Mr. Thomas threatned at Tilstock by D' Fowler, if hee should bee 
remov'd twill bee ill not with that place only but w* the neighbour- 
hood also ; theref spare lord. 

27. Dwelling-house I & shore clay'd for John Green, cost. 
4' besides windings & my servants work. Mr. Sadler came to 
see mee, exprest great fear of approaching trouble, the lord 
prevent if it bee his will. 

29. I went to lappington, where I lay all night at Cosin 

. * This place, generally written "Althrey," is upon the Dee, and about a 
mile to the north of Bangor Monachorum. The word comes from allt = a steep 
place, and ikrej' = the town.. Its Latin equivalent is aUa ripa, which has often 
melted into hmiton, haulton, and haiighton. There is said to have been a giant 
called Althrey, whose grave is pointed out in the Castle Wood below Gwern- 
haeled. 

+ As He who said, " Swear not at all," was yet not silent when the high- 
priest put Him upon oath (St. Matt. xxvi. 63, 64), so when He bids us ' ' not to 
resist evil," and to "turn the other cheek," He bids us check all personal 
feelings of hatred and revenge ; those who press the literal expressions ought 
also to cut off their right hand and right foot, and pluck out their right eye, when 
these hinder their salvation. A regard for public justice and the welfare of 
society and of the offender himself may render it necessary to restrain and 
punish crime — Genesis ix. 6, will always tell us how murderers are to be 
treated ; and the number of Christian soldiers in the Roman armies shows that 
the modern idea of " peace at any price " was unknown to them as part of their 
religion, though exceptional instances to the contrary may be brought forward. 
X Wattlesborough Castlt, Salop, is supposed to have got its name from 
this kind of building, which is found still at Penley Hall, in English Maelor, 
and elsewhere. 



136 PHILIP HENRY. 

Chambers,* visited Mrs. Tristram a good woman long sick & weak. 
Saw Mr. laurence, who beares witness to the love S: care of our 
heavenly father providing for him in his present condition beyond 
expectation. 

3. This day my son John is two years old, blessed bee God for 
the mercy of this day two year to mother & child & mee in them. 
Mr. Thomas took his farewel of Tilstock, great sadnes & many 
teares in y* Congreg. lord, let the spirit of life enter again into y" 
witnesses. I went thence to Ash, where I stayd all night, my Aunt 
very ill, in y° morning better, I pray'd again with her & parted. 

4. Thomas Hale fetcht away more of his goods & brought 
part of his Rent behind, w* I refus'd, with more anger, I fear, y" 
needed, bee angry & sin not. his carriage is provoking but mine 
should bee patient. 

5. At 10. a clock I was sent for to Ash, where I came at 11. 
and found my worthy dear Aunt alive & that was all, wee went to 
prayer & her life & prayer ended together. Shee was without 
comparison the best Friend I had in this country ; and tis no 
small loss to lose such a one ; lord make up y' loss to mee & all her 
relations, & humble us for sin that Kill-Friend. 

6. Randle yongs wife bury'd at Hammer. 

7. My dear Aunt Benyon was bury'd at Whitch. Mr. 
Thomas preacht T. i. Cor. 3. 22. lord take up the children and 
come in her stead to all her relations and to mee. Ameti. 

8. I went to Worthenb. where I visited some of y" cheifest of 
my Friends, but am sensible of great want of skill to doe in 
occasional discourse. 

10. At Whitch. where preacht Mr. Binny, y" leaves too big 
for y" fruit. T. Ps. 86. 1 1 : I heard of William Nixon, who yester- 
day attempted to cut his own throat from discontent at his wife, 
but escapt alive. I went to Mrs. Figes, where Friends met & 
pray'd, a sweet day it was, lord hear in heaven. Before wee parted 
her husband came unexpectedly. 

13. A very wett season, wee are well neither full nor fasting. 
tis not many dayes since y" earth was parcht with drought, now 

* " The advowson of Myddle Church did formerly belong to the ancient 
and worthy family of the Chambres of Petton, many of which family are 
interred in the Chancel there." — R. Cough's " History of Myddle," p. 14. 



PHILIP HENRY. 1 37 

drown'd with water. It is y° lord, let him doe with us as seemeth 
good in his eyes. 

14. I went with Cosin. Nixon & Cosin Benet to see W" Nixon, 
& found him under terrors, but I fear, not kindly — Wee pray'd 
w"' him, hear lord — My wife went to Bronn. but my father's coun- 
tenance was less serene y" of late it hath been, whatever is y" 
matter, lord lift up the light of thy countenance upon us. 

15. I wrote to Mr. Washborn of Orial to befriend Dan. Brown. 

16. Day of prayer at John Butters of the wood-houses, m}- 
heart much out of frame, cumbred with many th. but blessed bee 
God, wee are under a Coven' of grace. 

17. At Whitch. where preacht D'' Fowler concerning the 
nature & abuse of X""" liberty, Gal. 5. i.j,. asserting y° power of y*" 
magistrate about Indifferent th. which is p.tly to bee deny'd viz. 
in sacris. 

18. My glass is running and my time hastning into Eternity, 
but I doe nothing, father glorify thys. by me. 

21. I went to light-edge & saw Mrs. Hassal, a vertuous, good 
woman, to whom I was welcome, but it troubles mee, I do no 
more good where I goe. 

22. I went with my wife to Malpas to the buryal of Richard 
Palyn, aged 103, as his relations say. Mr. Ralph Weldj cald on 
mee, I admonisht him to beware of being insnar'd by unprofitable 
company, lord sett it home for his good, I p.swaded him also to 
revive their ancient christian fellowship in Wrexham, decay'd. 

23. I visited uncle Benyon, unresolved w' to doe, lord bee 
his comforter, lord bee his counseller, my advice was to contract, 
not to break up house — letters from london by Cosin John Hotck. 
sisters well, blessed bee God ; Sarah come from lady Buckhurst. 

24. Mr. Adams preacht at chapel in y" morning, in y" aftern. 
wee went to Whitch. work out your own Salvation. 

25. Day of prayer at Mrs. Figes, lord hear in heaven, near 
.Wrexham lately y°' were surprised, wee have hitherto escaped, 
Eben-ezer. 

26. I went with my dear to Whicksoo to Mr. Sadlers, from 
thence to Mrs. Braynes, not well ; wee are under engagem*^ to that 
family, y"" eldest son General W"' Brayn left my wife 1 00'" which I 
had of her & my father Mathewes of mee. 



138 PHILIP HENRY. 

28. Great vanity & folly up & down the country at Proces- 
sions.* Mrs. Welsh came from Wrexham to see us. 

29. Thanks-giving day for y° K. return, a mercy in its. for 
which the lord bee praysed, though I & many more suffer by it — 
Market kept at Whitch. after sermon, which should not bee.f 

31. Mr. Holland at chapel, T. Ps. 30. 6. a prosperous condition 
a dangerous condition & so it is, prosperity ensnares, entangles, 
destroyes, lord give mee neither riches nor poverty, but feed mee 
with food convenient for mee. 

June I. William brought a mare from Mr. laurences upon 
tryal, price s"'. 

2. I went to Bryn, Mrs. Rushworth near y° time of travel, 
prayer made for her, lord, hear, motion of marriage made 
between Mrs. Elizabeth lloyd & Mr. Kirk, now Min' of Acton. 
Advice sought & given, that whereas y° man though a Conformist 
yet is hopeful for Godlines, it might bee lawful to proceed, yet 
with most comfort, if hee allow p' of y^ profits of the place to 
Mr. Burghal % ejected — lord, counsel & determine -f matter. 

3. Min"mett at Br. O. Mr. Steel, Mr. Sadler, Mr. Thomas 
Mr. Rushworth, wee pray'd together, lord hear & pardon, pardon 
specially our sins as Min'' & doe not curse our blessings for wee 
desire to hear & lay to heart & to give glory to thy name. 

5. reports of my father's marriage to Jane Eddow — nee mctuo 
diem nee opto. 

9. Seasonable rayn, a great mercy, blessed bee God. 

7. Mr. Bridge at chapel T. i John. 2. 15. a playn text a 
lac't Sermon the matter scarce visible for words ; lord rate y"" 

* The chief tmies for processions were at funerals, and during the Roga- 
tion days, when God's blessing was asked upon the crops, and the boundaries 
of parishes, etc., were marked. "Before 1543 the boundaries of fields "also 
would be noticed (Owen and Blakeway's " Salop," iv. p. 199). 

t One might think that prayer and sermon — if people would attend — would 
be as suitable before market as at any other time ; or is it once more a case of 
Scylla and Charybdis? Because the Roman Catholic market-woman kneels, 
at the roadside cross and says her prayer, is the true Protestant to go to market 
and not to pray ? 

X Edward Burghall was the Puritan minister of Acton, near Xantwich. His 
diary of the war is a most interesting document. In "Nonconformity in 
Cheshire," p. 122, we find, "This aged and eminent servant of Christ did not 
long survive his ejectment in 1662. Having patiently endured the poverty tc 
which he was reduced, but which was alleviated by the assistance of sympathizing 
friends, he died in the year 1665." 



PHILIP HEA'RY. 1 39 

Text in my heart & weed out all inordinate love of y° world & 
all th. in y° world. In y° aftern. we went to Whitch. D' Fowler 
preacht, with more playnes's & Eedification Act. 2. i. Mr. Booth 
cTitertayn'd curate there. Assisted in administring y" Sacram', not 
ordayn'd.* 

8. Motion of marriage betw. Tho. Moyl & Debo. Eddow, her 
mother came to ask my counsel, I did as I would bee done b}'. I 
went to Whitch. Fayr, where I bought a black mare, 4. year old, 
cost s"' 10^ o. 

9. Wee return'd, having visited Cosin Wick-stead, old Mr. 
Hotchkis & other friends by whom we were refreshed but tO' 
^vhom our Society is little profitable. 

10. I heard of the Death of W" Juxon, Arch''" of Canterbury,. 
Avho dyed Jun. 4. the same day Mrs. Puleston of Emeral was 
brought to bed of her first son. 

12. I went to Wrexham, saw some Friends, lodged at Mr. 
lewis discourst with several concern. y° scruples of y" times,t 
lord thy people are of different p.swasions & apprehensions in 
many th. lord heal & help. 

13. I spake with Mr. Davis of Wrexham concerning Tabling, 
Cousin Dan. Benyon & two sons of Mrs. Figes, who are to goe to 
school to Mr. lewis. — I acquainted Mr. lewis with my opinion of 
Cock-fights. John Jones & others excommunicated for noncon- 
formity — I came home with my father Mathewes blessed bee y" lord. 

14. at Whitch. where preacht D'' Fowler well — Lord keep 
back thy servant from presumptuous sins. 

15. My father bestowed new coats upon y" children cost about 
2 0^ I heard of y° death of a mayd in Nantwich who coming 
from milking fell down with the Bowk \ on her head & dyed. 

* This seems to indicate a scarcity of clergy, as we know was the case after 
the ejectment of 1662. During the war, services were held now and again by 
ministers who went from place to jDlace. "In 1657, after being minister of 
Coley for seven years, Oliver Heywood is convinced of the duty of restoring the 
Lord's Supper, which had not been celebrated for fifteen years. " 

t Oi SiSAffoyres t6v Kcipaira, TTjy Se xd/iiiAov KOToirivoi'Tes. The result of 
this temperament is a tyrannical contempt for the conscientious scruples of 
others. The same spirit that forbad the use of the Book of Common Prayer,, 
either in public or private, in 1644-45, imder heavy penalties, raised its voice in 
the House of Commons in November, 1874, against Church of England en- 
dowments to Hertford College, Oxford. 

t Bowk = milk-pail. There is a surname Bowker. 



I40 PHILIP HENRY. 

19. Mr. Edw" Philips of Mulsford dy'd of y° spotted feavor. 

20. Eleanor Ratcliff buryed — wee visited Mrs. Rush worth, 
lately brought to bed of a Daughter, named Katharin, hee 
baptized her hims. as I should have done my son Mathew, if I had 
done well. 

21. at Whitch. T. Heb. 4. 13. concer. God's omnisciency, a 
lesson which I have been long learning but am not yet com'n to 
3''^ knowl. thereof. 

22. first journey to y" coles with a Team of my own, the lord 
bee y"'' good speed. 23. they return'd in safety, though w** diffi- 
-culty by reason of y° fowl wayes. blessed be God. 

25. Reports of great mortality in & about Chester, spare us, 
good lord, spare thy people. Mrs. Row of Barrel being with child 
-a leaping down from off a horse dyed this week, y° child living in 
her after shee was dead. 

26. sent by Mr. Holliman to sister Mary two Coralls to change, 
a Diamond ring to sell. 

27. new coats given to y' children by my father Mathewes at 
y° request of Aunt Hochkis, cost 20' 6*. 

28. Mr. Holland at chapel. T. luk. 23. 34. 38. a good 
examp. to love & pray for enemyes in y' prayer of our lord Jesus, 
Father forgive them for y°' know not what y°' doe. 

29. Mrs. Elisab. Puleston now marry'd to AV" Farrar, with 
Mary Mear &:c. came to see us. Mr. Sam. Edwards, son of my old 
Christian Freind Edward Thomas being motion'd by mee to 
Whitch. School, I went with him to y° Feoffees, & hope it may 
doe well both for y° Town & him. 

30. I saw the school-house. Mr. Thomas of ubley hath 
added is"* p. ann. to y' maintenance with a desire to have certain 
)oious Orders of his own drawing to bee observed there. 

July I. Fayr weather after much wett, a great mercy, blessed 
bee God. 

2. Mr. Thomas came to see me, I have begun to teach him 

* A house in the "Watergalc, Chester, where the plague is said to have 
stopped, has still inscribed upon it "God's Providence is mine inheritance. 
A. D. 1652." (It was restored in 1862.) 

" In 1648, between June 20 and April 20, 2099 people had died of plague. 
Cabins for the infected were built under the water-tower and in the adjoining 
salt-marsh." — Ornicrod's " Cheshire," i. 209. 



PHILIP HENRY. 141 

Hebrew, as far as my skill will reach, which though but small, yet 
I count far better than none. 

3. Mr. Edwards sent a messenger w"' a letter to mee to 
signify, that hee could not accept of Which, school, which I am 
sorry for, hee motion'd a son of D"' Winter's whom I like not. 

4. my wife receiv'd i"" 14^ o'' of my Father for y" Brick 
meadow, for which I was oflfred by John Mathewes 2"" 5' 8", yet 
more y™ so much hee would not give, yet had a desire to have it, 
I know not what to doe, yet chose rather to sit down by ye loss 
then displease him. 

5. at Whitch. T. John 13. 34. 35. J. X'hath loved mee, theref. 
I ought to love him, theref. I ought to love my Brother. 

6. great rayn again; report of much harm done in y" up- 
countryes by late rayn. 

7. day of prayer at Mrs. F. with much sweetness, lord hear & 
have mercy. Esa. 16. 4. much upon my heart, let my outcasts 
dwell with y"', Moab. . i. God's people may bee an outcast 
people, cast out of men's love, out of y''" synagogues, out of y'''' 
Country. 2. God will own his people w" men cast them out, my 
outcasts. 3. God will provide a dwelling for his outcast people.. 
4. even Moab an enemy shall bee a shelter to God's people when 
y' lord speakes y° word. 

8. This last night Mathew fell out of bed, not hurt, a won- 
derful preservation, blessed bee God, even our God. I went to 
see Mrs. Thomas not well, where hapned to bee many Friends 
without design, wee pray'd together, lord hear in heaven. 

9. I went to. speak with Mr. Broughton about sending in a 
foot-souldier wherewith I am charg'd, thence to Worthenb. where 
I saw some Freinds, & hope there are yet a few in that place y' 
have not defil'd their Garments, lord, strengthen, stablish. 

10. at home, making hay, ye weather seasonable, blessed bee 
God. 

1 1. Nurse Trim suddenly taken ill this evening at Br, Oke, 
but God had mercy. Wee know neither time nor place, when, 
where nor how. 

12. At Whitch. T. I John 2. i. a profitable sermon^ lord 
grant that I sin not. Mr. Booth retayn'd Curate y''". preacht in 
the aftern. indigested. 



142 PJTILIP HENRY. 

13. Mr. Adams like to come into trouble for baptizing a child 
of John Huxley. 

14. a child of W™ Taylor, ill of convulsion fits, I went to see 
him, & 6 what evil is there in sin that produces such effects upon 
poor Innocent little ones, if this bee done to y° green tree w' shall 
be done to y" dry. It dyed this night — blessed bee God -f my 
little ones are in health. 

15. Mr. Sadler came to see me ; It rayn'd y"^ morning, being 
Swithyn's day, it should bode rayn, soe vulg. 40 dayes after, w* I 
shall observe. For y" 7 or 8 following dayes it did rayn daily more 
or less, for y" 10 next it miss'd most dayes — enough to show y' 
vanity of such predictions. 

16. Will. Griffith ill of a swelling in his Throat, wee fear'd it 
was a Squinancy, John Barker lett him bloud. 

17. Reports of Bristol's* Impeachm' of y' chancellor, for 
befriending Papists, misimploying publique moneyes, over-strayning 
his power, marrying his daughter to ye D. of York, &c. judge's 
opinion y' it amounts not to Treason, -f K. sides w"" ye Chancellor. 

18. William better, blessed bee God. if y' least wheel in our 
watch bee out of order what trouble is it to all y" Family, 6, what 
a mercy is health. 

19. At Whitch. where preacht Mr. Bridg. Jun"", two empt\, 
frothy, flashy unprofitable sermons, I am asham'd to give such 
Epithites to sermons, but truly such they were, lord pity preacher 
& hearers. 

20. I was not well, it held mee like an Ague, my leg sore. 
Mr. Holliman brought letters from Sister Mary. Coral's chang'd 
two for one besides half a crown given for exchange. 

21. Mr. Steel & Cosin Rushw. presented for baptizing their 
children thems. 

23. Day of Praise & Prayer at Cos. Rushw. Praise for y* safe 
delivery of his wife. Prayer for Guidance in y* intended remove 
to Henly. Also in y" Marriage affayr betw. Cosin Elis. Lloyd & 
Mr. Kirk now preacher at Acton near Nantwich. 

* This was John, the youngest son of Sir George Digby of Shirebourne, and 
created Earl of Bristol, September 15, 1662. His friendship with Clarendon 
during their exile had been lessened since the Restoration by the chancellor's 
refusal of some grants which Bristol had applied for. The charges that he 
brought forward on this occasion only damaged his own character irretrievably. 



PHILIP HENRY. 1 43 

24. I went with Mr. Steel and Mrs. Lloyd &c. into Woral to 
Capt. Shipleyes, wee cal'd at Ches. Saw Mr. Cook, Prison no 
Prison. 

This day dy'd Will. Figes. at school at Wrexh. of y" small pox, 
'tis not long since their mother brought him thither Naomi, & now 
returns Marah. 

25. wee went to Gayton, to Mr. Glegg's, heard of y" execution 
of 3. Plotters in Ireland, Tomson, Jephson, Warren, also of y" sad 
condic'on of many English, turn'd out of house & home. 

26. Mr. Green preacht at Nesson. T. John 3. 1. i. y° sum of 
man's desire, life. 2. y" sum of God's bounty, X'. 3. Y° sum 
of man's duty. Faith. I believe in -f lord J. X' hoping to obtain 
by & through him everlasting life. Ill y''' night, tooth-ake — it 
grieves mee I can doe no more good amongst Freinds. 

27. I went to Hawarden, saw & pray'd in secret with Mr. Fogg, 
lord, hear in heaven, much made of 

28. I return'd home, found all well, & pretty well mys. home 
is home indeed to mee, blessed bee God — my wife is much my 
helper, present, absent, & my heart doth safely trust in her, the 
lord's most holy name bee blessed & praysed. 

30. Cosin Ashton came to see us from Chester, I have been 
often welcom to her house. 

31. Seasonable hay- weather, all ye week past, a great mercy, 
blessed bee God. crab-mill still altred, better so y™ worse. 

The 6-day Math, so called, proves 8-day Math. 
August I. Hay carry'd in out of ye grelt meadow, three trole- 
fuls in p' and no harm, blessed bee God. 

2. Mr. Bridge Sen"^ preacht at chapel. T. Luk. 21. 19. In 
50ur Patience possess yee yo' soules, lord I have need of Patience. 

3. much distemper'd with payn in my head & teeth, how 
seasonable was ye word of yesterday to the Providence of to 
day, and how good is ye lord that first tells the remedy, & then 
wounds. 

4. I went to Wrexham with Uncle Benyon to see his son 
Daniel, sick there; lord spare him, I had discourse with him 
concerning his soul, & hope hee is in X'. I pray'd over him in y° 
name of y° lord, 6, y' prayer m' save the sick. Mr. Golborn bur}''d, 
my Freind. 



144 PHILIP HENRY. 

Mr. BostOck sick in Town of a drunken surfet which hee 
brought with him from ye quarter Sessions at llanroost where y"" 
Conventiclers, so called, were huspeld. Math. i8. 6. 

5. This day I was at Brunn. where I have not been these 
many dayes, saw my Father whose wart, thought to bee cured, 
returns again. 

6. Cosin Tho. Jackson payd for his p' in y' meadow 1'" 8" 8'' 
I thought it worth more, hee thought it not worth that by 2' — I 
would not that 2' should occasion any unkindnes where, I must 
confess, I am obliged for former courtesyes. 

7. I thought to have gone to Wrexh. but was tum'd back by 
Cosin Talbot, Cosin Dan better, lord spare him. 

8. busy at Hay, lord let raee not lose thee or my.s. in that or 
any business. 

9. At Whitch. Mr. Bower — two weak indigested unprofitable 
sermons, lord help us. 

10. Mr. Bridge sent to desire Barn-room for his Tythes in this 
Township, to which I condescended the Terms to bee determin'd 
of hereafter, when wee see w' I can spare. 

11. great payn in my head these two or three last dayes, from 
y' time I wak't till towards noon. 

12. At Ash, where mett at Mrs. Figes, several Freinds, ]\lr. 
Por. Mr. St. Mr. Tho. &c. and a comfortable day it was, blessed 
bee God ! y° partic. occasion was to mourn with her 5'' mourns & 
to counsel & comfort her. lord grant shee may hear y° rod, judge 
hers. & justify thee. The meeting was known in To^^^l, welcom y'' 
will of God. 

13. new suit, lord, cloth mee with thy Righteousnes, which is 
a comely costly lasting everlasting Garm'. 

14. Turfes begun to bee carryed — first Pigeons taken of this 
season. 

15. I visited Mr. Adams lately com'n from london. hee hatli 
brought with him great store of bookes. 

16. Mr. Bridg. jun. at chap. T. Col. 3. 2. lord raise up vay 
Affections from earth to heaven, from y" world to X' who best 
deserves. 

17. This day begins y° Assize at Wrexham & this day Mr. 
Bostock was buryed, a Persecutor & Prosecutor of those bound 



PHILIP HENRY. I4S 

over, but God hath cut him off, so let all thine enemyes perish, 6 
lord. 

18. If some occasions had not hindred, I should have been 
this day at J. B's. lord, let them that tarry at home divide the spoyl. 

19. a day of great rayn which threatens much harm to the 
Country, it is y° lord. 

20. fayr, & drying weather again, which prevents fears & 
repayres y" damage blessed bee God. 

2 1. the last of my hay was carry'd in. the lord praeserves & 
provides for y" Cattle for y° service of man, blessed bee his name. 

22. I find in noth. more of y° deceitfulnes of my heart y" in 
secret worship. 6. how hardly am I brought to it & how little sweet- 
nes & delight doe I find in it for the most part ! lord, I blush & 
am asham'd before thee ; lord, pity & pardon & help for with my 
mind I serve the law of God, though with my flesh the law of sin. 

23. Mr. Bridg. jun. at chap, two better sermons then ordinary 
from Rev. 3. 5. & 17. 18. lord Jesus, cloth mee with y* white 
rayment of grace here, that I may bee clothed with the white 
rayment of glory hereafter. 

24. This day thirty two yeares I was born, this day twelve- 
month I dyed, that fatal day to y° Godly painful faithful Minist"' of 
England amongst whom I am not worthy to bee numbred — ^we 
mourn'd and pray'd before the lord at W. Ben's House, if so bee 
there may bee hope. Zech. 7 . 3. comp. Jer. i. 3. The Jewes in 
their captivity fasted in the fifth month, bee. in y" fifth month 
Jerusalem was carryed away captive, & in y° 7* month, Zech. 7. 5. 
bee. in y° 7"' month Gedaliah was slayn — -Jer. 41. i. 

26. Corn in y° Oak feild divided with Tho. Hale. 7 to 5. in 
which bargain hee over-reacht mee but I consider Ps. 15. 4. 

27. Mathew not well — like as a father pityes his children, so -f 
lord pityes y"" y' fear him. better at night, thankes bee to God. 

28. I heard from london — sister Mary & Sarah & two other 
Gentlew. walking abroad in y° Even, Horsmen rode over y™, drunk 
as was suppos'd, Hurt ye two Gentlew. & frightened sister Mary 
into Mother-fits for several dayes, the lord bee praised it was no 
worse. 

29. a fayr day after a wet night, the lord is pleas'd to inter- 
change else ye Creatures would bee consumed. 

L 



14$ PHILIP HENRY. 

30. at Whitch. Dr. Fowler. T. i John 2. 3, 4. hereby wee 
know y' wee know him if wee keep his commandments. The lord 
give mee if not a great yet a good understanding such as 'all they 
have y' doe thy commandm'*. Amen. 

31. a great rayn, a hindrance to harvest, a disappointm'. to 
niy.s. who thought to have had corn gathered this day, but y° lord 
is righteous. 

September i. Cosin Benet reviv'd by good newes in an Affayr 
which concernes him, gives God ye glory, for hearing Prayers & 
saith tis not in vayn to see to him, to trust in him, to depend on 
him, so say I also, blessed bee his name. 

2'. Cousin Butler cal'd for ye hundred pound which I owe 
him', also Mr. Yates for 3o'^ I am in strayts but I wayt upon God. 

3. I heard of 100"' which I may have of Robert Benyon's 
brother — it shall come to pass, before yee call I will answer. 

4. Oats inn'd, lord doe not blow upon y""" but bless them, & 
all the increase of my ground, else what is brought home will come 
to little. 

5. John Green carry'd in his p* of Corn by Cliffe's, which 
Tho. Hale should have carry'd or I — it prevented strife, which I 
am glad of who desire peace. 

6. D' Fowler at Whitch. i John 2. 5. 6. concer. our union 
with X' & y° obligacon lying on us to walk as hee walked, bee 
urg'd wee are no more to imitate his gesture y™ his vesture in 
y° Sacram'. lord make thy way playn. 

8. I was at Bronnington, my Father seemes pleas'd, & I 
know no cause hee hath to bee otherwise, but God grant I may 
never have need of him. 

9. grSat store of Plums about y° house this year, beyond w' 
hath been ordinary, lord, make mee as fruitful to thee as ground, 
trees. &c. are to mee, herein would my father bee glorifyed. 

10. I heard of strife at Worthenb. betw. Mr. Puleston & 
D' Br. about y° Tith of Emeral demeasn, which yet D' Br. took 
in kind, although with some difficulty. 

11. Ill all day, in like manner as formerly, lord forgive sin — 
better at night, blessed bee God. Cosin Dan Benyon from 
\Vrexham, recover' d, to him bee praise y' heard prayer. 

1 2. Mr. Parsons, Mr. lawrence Mr. Thomas din'd w"" us. 



PHILIP HENRY. 147 

Candles under a Bushel, lord, set us up again y' wee may give 
light in thy house. In y° afternoon wee visited Mr. Sadler in the 
same predicam' — They compute above loo. Ministers, y"'" wives 
& children within few miles. Jehova-ijreh. 

13. D' Fowler at Whitch. in y° morning. Act. 2(1. 2^. Shew'd 
what it is to bee a Christian, to bee annointed as X', to bee a 
follower of X' lord make mee such an one. In y° aftern. preacht 
Mr. John Whitehal, a beginner in y° work, lord increase his gifts & 
make him faithful, and being a Novice lord let him not bee lifted 
up with pride, lest hee fall into y" condemnacoh of y' Devil. 

19. at home in health & peace with Freinds & many 
comforts about us, blessed bee God. 

17. I went with my wife to light-edge, saw Mrs. Hassal, Mr. 
Thomas & his wife with us, tis much shee is not asham'd of such 
poor Outcasts, I told her so, & shee answer'd they were y" best 
guests y' come to her house. 

18. This week Cosin Betty lloyd was marry'd to Mr. Kirk, 
now Preacher at Acton, near Nantwich. 

19. The last of my harvest, which was three load of Fitches, 
brought into y° Barn, blessed bee God who is lord of y*" harvest also. 

20. Mr. Holland at chap. — T. Jam. 2. 21. Our psons are 
justify'd by Faith before God. Our Faith by workes before men. 
Also luk. 17. 20. TheKingd. of X' in y" world is not with outward 
pomp & splendour as other kingdoms are. 

21. I went with my wife to Brunnington, my Father ownes us 
& that's all, blessed bee God wee have no need of him. Eddish 
set to a drove, 16'' a score — drovers lodg'd in -f house, scorners of 
Godlines, bee. y" know it not, lord pdon. 

2 2. meeting about subsidyes — I was return'd y" same w"' Mr. 
Jenings — 25"" p. ann. Randle Tonna 5o'^ 

23. my dear Freind, Jone Bickley bury'd, lord make up y° 
breach — Mr. Humphryes preacht, better y'" I expected, lord doe 
good in thy good pleasure to poor Worthenb. 

24. at Bryn, where was Capt. Shipley & his wife, Cosin Kirk 
.& her husband. 

25. Mr. Hanmer was mov'd y' y" moneyes collected in this 
Township for y= poor, might bee bestow'd at least p' on y° poor of 
the Township. 



148 PHILIP HENRY. 

26. Roger Burroughs wife bury'd at Malpas, where wee saw 
y° Register, my wife baptiz'd Apr. 5, 1629.* &: payd the Clerk 
Arreares. 

28. wee went to Ash, where I saw with greif the miss of a 
good wife, mother, mistris, and doe bless God that all these are 
yet spared in my family. 

30. I was at Bangor at y" muster, being charg'd with a cors- 
lett, I expected Arms there, but am put to buy for mys. it may 
bee t'will bee cheaper. I saw the subsidy roll, where I am re- 
turn'd after y" rate of i"' in land and am to pay 4' for each 
subsidy. 

October i,. reports of a Plot. f Mr. lloyd, Mr. Steel secur'd, I 
am yet at liberty, if trouble come lord thou knowest my innocenc}-^ 
— hie murus aheneus esto nil conscire sibi. 

6. Cosin Benet in fresh trouble about his business, tis ill 
giving way to carnal base feares, for y" are incroaching — tis my 
own infirmity, help lord. 

7. 8. a very wett season, the lord is angry with us. seedness- 
hindred. spare us good lord, spare thy people. 

9. William went to Wem to buy a pike. 

10. This morning I was fetcht to Hanm'' by Randle Milton, 
who said his Capt. S' John Hanmer must speake with mee. hee 
brought mee to Susan Croxton's house, an Ale house in y' Town, 
whether several others were brought also this same day. The 
praetence is that there is a Plot to rise, the lord knowes I know 
noth. of any such thing. 

11. wee were deny'd liberty to goe to church, wherefore wee 
spent y" day together in y" prison, as y° lord enabled. 

12. my man William Griffith being sent for when I was, 
came not till this day being from home, which caused suspicion. 
Mr. Holliman examin'd but not releas'd. 

13. 'tis sweet being in any condition w"' a clear Conscience — ^ 
the sting of Death is sin, & so of Imprisonmen' also. Tis y" iirst 

* In the eighteenlh century and the nineteenth, there were descendants of 
Philip Henry born and married almost at the same time as he was, and with 
the same difference in the ages of husband and wife. 

t It is little wonder, after such a successful and prolonged rebellion, that 
rumours of plots should be circulated from time to time, and, the innocent suffer 
with the guilty. 



PHILIP HENRY. 1 49 

time I was ever a Prisoner, but perhaps may not bee y" last — ^Wee 
felt no hardship, wee know not what wee may. 

14. Wee were cal'd to appear, S' Thomas Hanmer & Mr. 
W" Hanmer of Fenns were present, S' Tho. told us y° occasion of 
our confinem'. viz. reports of a Plot, & to mee hee spake of my 
frequenting conventicles & partic. within y"^ month which I deny'd 
— then releas'd us, finding verbal security for a fortnight, y' wee 
shall bee forthcoming within 24 houres after wee are cal'd for. 
Rob' Byckley past his word for mee & my man & Mr. Holliman. 
It cost me about 7 or 8. sh. besides Damages at home by trespas. 
This Evening I return'd to my Tabernacle safe & well, blessed 
bee God. lord forgive my enemyes & turn their hearts. John 
Davis was listed to trayn for mee & had Arms, a Pike & a sword, 
y'' Pike cost 8^ y° sword. 3'. 

15. This day dyed S'' Evan lloyd Governo" of Chester, of a 
drunken surfett, the first wheel, as I hear, in our late trouble, by 
his instigation of his Cosin S' Tho. Hanmer ; so that men shall say. 
Verily thou art a God that judgest in y° earth. 

18. In y" afternoon I heard Cosin Kirk at Hanmer, con- 
cerning pleading with God in prayer — ^like to make an able Min'' 
of y" New Testam', if God bless. 

19. The first Corn I ever sold in Market two measures of 
wheat, at 3' i" y° measure, blessed bee God for such plenty. 

20. I went to Bryn to see y' Acts concerning chimneyes, 
intending, if I can, to get off Marg' Powel. 

21. I went to Malpas, procur'd a Certificate of Mr. Holland 
— &c. 

22. I inquir'd of Mr. Hanm'' concer. that wherewith I was 
charg'd as having Conventicles at my house by night, hee said hee 
knew nothing, if it had been so, I should neither deny, nor bee 
asham'd. 

23. There being 4"' 19^ charg'd upon this Township for 
church & poor, Y churchwardens would take all for y'' church & 
leave for y'^ poor little or noth. I became the poore's advocate, 
to smal purpose yet — but my reward is with my God. 

26. I went to S' Tho. Hanm', spake about y° mear hedge 
betw. John Rees & mee, hee promis'd to inquire & said I should 
have no wrong, wee discours'd about y' late Imprisoning us 
&C. &c 



ISO PHILIP HENRY. 

28. the Queen'reported to bee dead, recovered.* 

Nov. I. At Whitch. T, i Jolm. i. 7. if I walk in the light as 

God is in the light, in resp. of sincerity and cordial endeavour, 

then wee have fellowship one with another, union & communion,. 

I with him & hee with mee, & y" blood of X' his son cleanseth 

mee from all sin. 

2. 3. I kept y" house ; my distemper is heat of bloud, inclining 

to y'' Feavour ; lord my times are in thy hand & I am glad in my 

heart that y"' are so, my time of health & sicknes, my time of 

life & Death. 

4. being threatned with y" Constableship of Tybroughton, 
w* John Green sh*" have serv'd, but y' hee is thought obnoxious, 
I went to S' Tho. Hanmer to seek a Repreive, till next year, but 
twas not absolutely granted. Hee told mee John Rees had been 
w* him, &; thought y" hedge were mine, several of y° Trees were 
his, & hee would keep y™ nevertheles, hee promis'd to meet mee 
y'' to see further. 

5. At Malpas. T. Fsal. 9. 11. blessed bee God for y" 
mercy of y'" day. Conclusion made with y' church-wardens about 
y° ley for y° poor, 24' accepted of, y* rest in regard y*^ Township had 
so much allow'd y° last year, & in regard of present extraordinary 
repayres for y° church they kept (y" whole 4"' 19^) 

6. 7. extream payn in my head and Teeth, lord give ease, & 
in y" mean time patience, much wett. a great judgm'. seednes 
hindred. 

8. Mr. Bridge at chap, in y° morning. T. Rovi. 5. i. a most 

* See Pei^ys' Diaiy, October 17th: " Some discourse of the Queene's bein"' 
very sick." October 19th : " Waked with a very high \vind,[and said to my wife, 
I pray God I hear not of the death of any great person, this wind is so high." 
" Coming to St. James' I hear that the Queene . . . was so ill as to be shaved 
and pidgeons put to her feet, and to have the extreme unction given her by the 
priests who were so long about it that the doctors were angiy. The King they 
all sky is most fondly disconsolate for her, and weeps by her which makes her 
weep." October 20th : " The Queene's sickness is the spotted fever, as full of 
the spots as a leopard." October 22nd: '-This morning hearing that the 
Queene grows worse I sent to stop the making of my velvet cloak, till I see 
whether she lives or dies." October 24th : " The Queene is in a good vay of 
recovery and Sir Francis Pridgeon hath got great honour by it, it being all 
imputed to his cordial! which in her dispaire did give her rest." October 26th : 
"Dr. Pierce tells me that the Queene is in a way to be pretty well again, but 
that her delirium in her head continues still ; that she talks idle not by fits, 
but always, which in some lasts a week after so high a fever, in some more, 
and in some for ever," 



PHILIP HENRY. 151 

full Text, a most empty Sermon, in y" aftern. hee came not, Wee 
stay'd at home, lord, water -f seed ; 111 at night in head & teeth, 
no rest till after sweating. 

9. Bargain made w'" Mr. Tho. Bridg. for Barn-room at 6' S"" 
a bay. 5' allow"* for Tith-hay, — y" rest to bee pay'd in winter 
straw, at 8* a threave for thatch. 

10. I went to Robert Bickley, my Freind, lord, bless his 
Family & shew kindness to him & his children for Jesus sake, 

12. Wee finisht y° reading of y" old Testam' in y" family. 

13. wee began y° reading of -f new T. lord assist, lord 
ficcept. as for me & my house wee will serve y' lord. 

14. winter seedness not finisht till this day. 

15. much rayn all day, w* hindered our attendance on 
publique ordinances, lord meet & bless at home. 

16. more rayn, a great judgm' hindring seedness threatning 
scarcity. 

18. I went to Chester with Cosin Jane Benet, y° lord preserv'd 
us by y° way, alone, double,* blessed bee his name ; I saw Mr. 
Ratcliff, Mrs. Golborn a widow indeed. 

19. Cosin Jane Benet prov'd her father's will, George Mat- 
thewes, dead long since, but Mr. Hilton put her to it, shee took 
her oath, shee gave y" lo"" (left to her discretion) to Mr. Steel 
to dye with him. wee returnd late but safe, thankes bee to God. 

22. at Whitch. T. i John 2. 25. this is the promise which 
hee hath promis'd us (us who continue in y'' th. which wee have 
heard from y° beginning) even eternal life. Reports of a Plot in 
Yorkshire, many imprisoned, lord clear up -f inriocency of y' 
innocent, & let y° sin of y" guilty find them out. 

23. 24. at home, not well ! I have had many Items of dis- 
temper of late, blessed bee God it is not worse. 

26. I went to Malpas to see Mrs. Figes, & pray'd with her ; 
lord bless the meanes & spare her life, to her family, to her 
friends, to y" Church of God, for thy mercy sake ; y* wayes were 
very fowl, and I escaped many apparent dangers, blessed bee God. 

27. I sent to Mr. Thomas, out of my poverty, a measure of 
Pease & some verjuice, lord provide for him & all thy poor out- 
casts throughout the three nations. 

* Pillions were in common use up to 1820. 



1 5 2 PHILIP HENR Y. 

28. I bless God for quietness in my house, wlierwith a dry 
morsel is better then a house full of sacrifices without it. 

29. At Whitch. T. r John 2. 26. concerning seducers, what 
hee meant I know not but I know how I apply it — lord give us 
Pastors after thine own heart, & keep me & all thy people in y° 
way of truth- & godliness for ever. 

30. Time is running into eternity, 6 what wisedom tis to 
redeem it, & Jlow much am I wanting in that wisedom. 

12. Rec" of W" Benet for a musket w* Mr. Steel gave 
mee, 8^ 

December i. Whereas John Green's House should have serv'd 
y° Constableship for Tybroughton this year, which in regard of 
John Green's present obnoxiousnes would have been my charge, 
S'^ Tho. Hanmer was'pleas'd to find out another, but next year 
John Stocton is to serve, & I am to allow him 5'. 

2. I went to Whitch. saw some freinds, particularly old Mr. 
Hotchkis, Mnason, an old disciple. 

3. Servants dressing hemp; blessed bee God for my wife 
every way my helper. 

4. Mr. Holliman from London, where hee saith liberty is in 
agitation in y" Council, God grant it. 

5. The first considerable frost this year. Cattle fodder'd 
abroad, not taken in yet. 

6. Mr. Bridge at chapel in y" morning, only read prayers in y" 
aftern. I went with my wife to Whitch. in y° evening I taught 
my family from 2 Pet. i. 4. bless lord. 

7. I had an ill fitt this morning. Colique and swooning, but 
quickly over, blessed bee God. lord, make mee to know my end 
and the measure of my dayes what it is that I may know how 
frayl I arii. 

8. Uncle Benyon sent us two measures of malt. Cosin 
Talbot came to see us. lord let all my Freinds bee Freinds to 
J.'X'.' 

'9. Mr. Steel's mother dyed, sick but two or three dayes — Mary 
Powel thought bysome to bee bewitch't, her dame (cal'd Katharin' 
of y° Pinfold) is said. to have kneel'd down &curst her; it seemes 
.shee told some storyes of her about stealing — whether true or 
false doth not yet appear. 



J'fflLIP HENRY. I S3 

10. workmen cropping in Kay. Shon. morris,* that which hath 
teen growing many yeares is cut down in a moment. 

11. nothing troubles mee so much as that I am so unprofitable 
dn my generation, lord give mee wisedqni, that seeing I may not 
otherwise, I may preach in all my discourses. 

12. I heard of y^ Death of my worthy Fr. Mr. Ambrose 
Moston, who dy'd y" last week at london, and is now at rest in y° 
lord being taken away from y° evil to come. 

13. Mr. Daxton, of Brasen Nose, an Initiate in Theology, 
preacht at chapel, many good things but weak utterance, lord 
thrust forth faithful skilful labourers into the Vineyard — Tis mercy 
wee have bread, though it be not as it hath been of y" finest of y" 
wheat. 

14. a begging Min'' out of lancashire, who preacjit at Hanmer 
yesterday, & had a colection cal'd on mee to w"" I gave a mite 
to make way for a word of reproof & counsel, for I likt not ye 
narrative of his case. 

15. I visited Mr. Adams. Woodroff Eddow of the lower wich 
buryed at Malpas, a wicked man in his life, & I hear of no dis- 
coveryes of Repentance at his Death, lord open the eyes of his 
companions in y"^ their day. 

16. Mr. Lewes came to see mee & tarry'd all night, wee had 
much discourse together of present things. Dr. Griffith B'' of y' 
Diocese is his Freind & keepes him in salvd, conscientia. 

17. I went with him to uncle Benyon's, where wee tarry'd all 
might, my wife with us, Mathew in Y weaning. 

18. wee return'd, all well at home, blessed bee God — lord 
■spare my dear wife to mee, for I see what a sad miss there is of 
any Aiint Benyon at Ash. 

19. lord cleanse mee from my Omissions, the world thinkes 
better of mee then I doe of mys. God knows. 

22. hopes of liberty like to come to noth. I expect wee shall 
tfirst suffer yet harder th. then these, lord fit. for it, •& get thys. 
•gJory. 

-,24. As busy as people are to prsepare their houses for christmas, 
:S0 & niuch more busy should I bee to prsepare my heart for X'. 

25.\ No Preaching at chapp. wherefore I stay'd at home, making 

•^ i.e. field of John Morris. ■ - 



1 54 PHILIP HENRY. 

no Conscience of ye day as a day to bee kept holy, for want of 
divine Institution.* 

26. day of Prayer at W, B. lord hear in heaven & pardon the 
sins of this good bad time. 

27. At Whitch. where preacht D' F. T. i Tim. i. 15. hee 
prov'd Y Messiah to bee come & that Jesus of Nazareth is hee, 
which I doe stedfastly believe. 

29. I mett Mr. Sadler at Tilst. where wee discourst a while 
together and blessed bee God wee have so much liberty. 

30. I mett Mr. St. at llynbedith f where wee discourst & 
pray'd together, lord hear in heaven. 

31. lord forgive mee all y° sins of this year past in y° bloud of 
X' & accept of prayses for ye mercyes of this year to mee & mine 
and to all y°- Israel of God. Amen. 

Jan. 18. I heard of a woman that continued dumb from ye 
birth of her first child till ye moment of ye birth of her second & 
then shee cry'd out, Two mercyes, meaning speech & a child. 

I understand since, twa's John Gough's wife of Tilstock, whoni 
I very well know. 

Agnoscit se Roma ream, non miror, amici 
Ad cantum Galli poenituisse Petrum 

upon y' Pope's submission to y" French. 

Christus dixit quodam loco. 
Vos non sic, nee dixit joco, 
Dixit suis, ergo isti, 
Cujus sunt ? non certe Cliristi ! 

of y= Pi-£elates. 

Hee that remembers not to keep y° Christian Sabbath in y^ 
beginning of the week, will bee in danger to forget before the end 
of y" week that hee is a Christian. Sir Edw. Turner. Speaker, in 
his speech at y° Prorogation. July. 27. 

* There is little more authority in the New Testament for observing the- 
lirst day of the week. Both come to us by the appointment of the Church, 
though at different dates. • • 

+ Llynbedydd = lalce of baptism, one of three lakes in Hanmer parish. It 
is probable that the Bangor monks, and St. Chad, the ^reat missionary in 
Mercia, and Bishop of Lichfield, brought their converts here for baptism. 



PHILIP HENRY. I 55 

Sept. 14. Reports of a created crop. A feild of Col. Norton'.s 
near Portsmouth in Hampsh. sown y° last year with barley this 
year lay fallow, brought forth upon the fallow a Crop of wheat, 
which being ripened in a fortnight's space, was ground & bakt, & 
y° bread good. 

Mr. Sadler told mee of a Hen, near ludlow, which being black 
before gradually became all white, since Bartholomew — 62. & now 
lately begins in y" same manner to turn black again. 

Reports of a puddle of water in lancash. which burns to a 
coal what stickes and wood are put into it. Mr. Hills man put in 
his staff & when hee took it out lighted Tobacco with it. 

Octob. 27. Two only children of Thomas Jlichards of linea one 
seven yeares old, t'other in y° weaning were drown'd near a Mill, y" 
former not baptiz'd till ye later was born. 

John Alcroft an Inn Keeper in Knutsford forct to drink healths 
by some company in his House (Capt. Needham^ Cornet Stringer 
&c., as I am inform'd) fell down dead amongst them with y' cup 
in his hand. 

Tis obvious to observe, At fowr several times &upon 4. several 
occasions Min''' have been silenc't & turn'd out of their places, 
and yet still after a time, more or less, restor'd again.* 

1. in Q. Mary's dayes, bee. .they would not close with Popery 
at y° return of it, but tliat interdict lasted under 5. yeares being 
taken off upon Q. Elisabeth's coming to the Crown. 

2. in Q. Elisabeth's,! K. James' & King Charles' dayes, bee. 
y" could not conform to y° Hierarchy & Cssremonyes, and this 
Interdict lasted long, even till the long Pariiam' A. 1640. but 
was y™ taken off. 

* "The tendency of the Puritans was to ally themselves with the French 
and Swiss Calvinists, and with them to make their sole appeal to Scripture, as. 
interpreted by each man's reason and conscience. This French system has been 
found in practice to favour mental servitude. For the obedience claimed for the 
mere letter of a book becomes, ere long, inevitably transferred to the inter- 
preting of that'book, and the despotism of a Pope — who may at least die — is- 
replaced by that of an oligarchy whose watchful dogmatism never dies, and whose 
tyranny leaves open only one way of escape — secession. This the Englishman 
of the sixteenth century, confused and deafened by the clamour of a Puritanism 
which could never make up its mind whether to conform or to secede, was not slow 
to adopt." — Curteis, " Bampton Lectures " for 1871, p. 64. 

t The Indeijpendents seceded in 1568 from the English Church; the 
Romanists in 1570 ; the Baptists in 1633. 



IS 6 PHILIP HENRY. 

3. under y" long Parliam' many Min"'^ were sequestred & 
silenced, for Malignancy & not covenanting.* 

4. many others after y° K. death for not engaging, to bee true 
to the Common-wealth,'f as then establisht, both which restraynts 
though, much remitted before, yet quite ceas'd at the coming in of 
the King. A. 1660. 

And now more Min'! are silenc't \ & with more severity ■f^ 
■ever, by the Act of Aug. 24. and who amongst us can tell, for 
how long. This only I know, hee that hath deliver'd doth deliver 
.& wee trust also hee will yet deliver. 

Script. Mar. 31. 1663. 

The lord is my Protection, I shall not fall 

what need I fear. 
The lord is my Portion, I shall not want 

what need I care. 

The 6 day math (which prov'd 8 days in y° mowing) yeelded 
this year 12 good jags of hay, for half whereof I had of Cosin 
Thomas Jackson & Mr. Thomas together 2"' 3^ 

A list of my fellow-Prisoners at Hanmer. Oct 10. 1663 — 
Mr. luke lloyd Nicholas Hemlock 

Mr. Rich Steel Richard Bloud 

* It is said that eight thousand episcopal clergy were ejected. This nmiiber 
is derived from White, the author of the century. Gauden's calculation is founded 
•on his assertion that "one-half of the clergy were sequestered." Bishop Short 
thinks a smaller number (Short's " History of Church of England," chap. xiii. 
p. 443). " Clergymen of respectable character were not only ejected from their 
ijenefices by thousands, but were frequently exposed to the outrages' of a 
fanatical rabble " (Macaulay's " History of England," vol. i. chap. ii.). 

t It is a curious fact that the Presbyterians themselves were in their turn 
called malignants in and after 1649, and treated accordingly. Reynolds was 
turned out of the deanery of Christ Church. Prideaux' views of Archbishop 
Laud underwent a complete change when he had to pass through something of 
the same kind of treatment as the archbishop. 

J It is hard to judge correctly of one's own losses. The hint given by 
Philip Henry has been made the most of by "bicentenary" orators. "A 
■careful examination of Calamy's list shows that for all statistical purposes it is 
worthless. In London he represents the ejectments as amounting to 293, the 
truth being that on the highest possible computation they only amount to 127. 
In Essex more than half the cases which stand upon his roll were not true 
cases of ejectment. In Hertfordshire four-fifths of his list disappear under 
investigation. In short, . . . unbiassed inquiry would strike off from the cele- 
brated catalogue of ' two thousand confessors ' no less than twelve hundred 
aiames" (Curteis, "Bampton Lectures," p. 68, n.). 



PHILIP HENRY. 1 57 

Mr. John Holliman Thomas Bartlam 

John Haddocks William Philips 

Thomas Bedward William Griffith 

John Fletcher Edward Smith a quaker 
John Green 

June 12. I heard of a cow in Dyffryn Clwyd, which calved 
lately fowr calves at once & all alive.* 

A woman in Wrexham having been long distemper'd & taken 
much Phisique, took someth. of an Italian Mountebank wh. caus'd 
her to voyd a worm 7. yardes long, which Mr. lewis told mee hee 
saw, and shea is since recovered. 

— Mr. Cook imprison'd in Chester, by letter from y° Bisliop' 
according to y° Act for uniformity, his fault was repeating in his- 
House, where many people were present, hee chose -f common 
Prison, where hee hath liberty to preach every day to ye Prisoners,, 
his chamber is cal'd y° Freeman's chamber. 

Mr. Taylor & many more about Wrexham bound over to 
appear at Quarter-Sessions, for a private meeting in which yei were 
deprehended. 

July 14. At quarter-sessions, with much opprobrious language, 
especially from S'^ Richard Win"f of Guedur, they were bound 
over to ye great Assize, & to y' good behavior, & some y' being 
strangers could not find suretyes, for twas at llan-rust, were com- 
mitted to prison. At y' Assize y" who took y° Oath of Allegiance 
were acquitted, y° rest imprison'd : Mr. Bostock y" Prosecutor 
was.bury'd y° first day of y" Assize — Digitus Dei. 

June 24. This week dyed in Chester a servant to Giovanni, 
an Italian Mountebank, known by y° name of his Apothecary, who 
received some blowes about 3. weekes since upon y° stage in Wrex- 
ham, in a scuffle with Mr. Puleston of Emeral ('twas June 4, y" 

* This sort of cow is called by country people a " free-martin." Of the 
calves the males will not procreate, but the females will. 

t This Sir Richard Wynn succeeded his father Sir Owen Wynn in 1668. 
By his wife Sara, daughter of Sir Thomas Myddelton, Bart. , of Chirk Castle, 
he left one child, Mary Wynn, who married Robert Bertie, Duke of Ancaster, 
and Gwydir thus descended to the Baroness Willoughby d'Eresby. 

It must have been by Sir Richard Wynn that the Duke of Beaufort — the 
last but one of the Lords President of the Welsh March — was entertained at 
Gwydir in 1684. Sir Richard Wynn was chamberlain to Queen Katharine. 



158 PHILIP HENRY. 

day on which his eldest son Roger was born — ) since which hee 
hath been sick and is now dead. 

July I. This day William Ball was found dead by y° way side 
near Malpas not far from his house, snppos'd to have bin drunk. 

July 2. this week lord Buckhurst & S' Chas. Sidley were 
arrayn'd at y° King's Bench & fined for Debauchery. Being in 
Covent Garden at a house known by y° name of Oxford Kate's 
they had six dishes of meat brought in by six naked women, after 
dinner y" went forth in their shirts into y" Balcony & there shewing 
Bottles of wine y" proclaym'd, Ho every one y' thirsteth come yee 
to ye waters — &c. they drank a health to y° salvation of Judas & 
another to y° Babe of Bethlehem, after all y°' said, come now let 
us goe in & make lawes for y° nation, the one or both being, as 
y'^' say, Parliam' men. 

This was written in a letter from Mr. Joshua Hotchkis to his 
Brother in law Ralph Eddow — 

I hear since, only S'' Charles Sidley was arraign'd & fin'd 
4000"', lord Buckhurst having made an escape. 

This is that lord Buckhurst who, tis said, murther'd y° Tanner 
last year upon ye road near london *— if so, evil men wax worse 
& worse. 

July 27. Parliam' prorogu'd till March & subsidyes given to 
ye King — two to bee payd November next, two in May. Great 
expectacSh of an Act about Conformity & Conventicles, but they 
were not compleated & so not pass'd : An Act call'd an Act for 
y° Sabbath was made ready, but somehow or other was missing 
w" ye King should have pass'd it, utrum gaudendum an dolendum 
nescio, for yei say, it did declare, what sports were to bee accounted 
lawful on ye Sabbath day. 

* On February 25, 1664, Pepys writes: "This day in the News-booke I 
find that my lord Buckhurst and his fellows have printed their case. . . . that 
they were in pursuit of thieves, and that they took this man for one of them, 
and so killed him. . . . but I doubt things will be proved otherwise than they 
say." The character of this Charles Sackville, afterwards sixth Earl of Dorset, 
is drawn by Prior, and by Johnson in his " Lives of the Poets. " The latter, 
referring to the scandal in Covent Garden, says that they were intoxicated, and 
that Sedley was fined five hundred pounds for the misdemeanor, the sentence 
upon the others being not known. He also adds, "Sedley employed Killigrew 
and another to procure a remission from the King ; but (mark the friendship 
of the dissolute) they begged the fine for themselves, and exacted it to the last 
groat." .See Pepys' Diary for July I, 1663. 



PHILIP HENRY. 1 59 

The contest between the Chancellor & Digby, husht for a time. 
July 22. Archibald Johnston laird Warton* was executed in 
Scotland upon a Gibbet two & twenty foot high. An active man 
in ye time of y° long Parliam', especially in Promoting y° solemn 
league and Covenant which hee professedly acknowledged at his 
Death, as appears by his speech, without regret, but for his com- 
plyance in the usurpation afterwards hee declar'd his sorrow for it 
& crav'd of God forgivenes for ye same. 

Aug. 14. Mr. George Bostock of Holt, Justice of Peace, dyed. 
His death occasioned by a surfet of drink which hee took at ye 
time of ye -quarter-sessions at llanrust whither hee had bound over 
certain of ye Inhabitants in & about Wrexham who were depre- 
hended at y" meeting to their no small trouble ; And now just 
before ye Assize ye lord took him away by a remarkable stroke for 
verily hee is a God y' judgeth in the earth; 6 that men might 
hear & fear, & lord, goe on to plead ye cause of thy poor suffring 
people in all the three nations for Jesus sake — This Bostock I 
have heard formerly at Emeral wickedly glorying in his shame & 
boasting of filthiness which I dare say hee was not guilty of, such 
a height of ungodlines was hee come to. 

Sept. 25. Reports of sad inrodes made by ye Turkes upon 
Germany, Vienna beseig'd and Prague, & Presburgh.f 

Oct. 26. Reports of ye Death of Queen Katharin it prov'd 
otherwise. 

Nov. 9. Mr. Morgan's wife of Whitch. was brought to bed of 
three sons, baptized Hananiah, Azariah, & Mishael — they all 
three dy'd within the fortnight — all very like in face to one 
another. 

It is reported of the grand Segnior Mahomet the 4"", hearing 
of ye restitution of Charles y° 2" that hee should say, If hee were 
to chuse his God or his Religion, hee would chuse the King of 
England's. 

It is suppos'd the present expedition into Hungary is like to 
beQ the fore-runner of great mutations & changes in the Christian 
world. 

* See Burnet's " History of his Own Time," vol. i. p. 203, fol. 

t From l56i to 1664 there was war with Austria for the supremacy of Tran- 
sylvania. There was a great defeat of the Turks in 1664, but it was not till 
1684 that Neuhaussel was recovered. 



l6o FBI LIP HENRY. 

Sept. 14. New-hausel was taken upon Articles, after the loss 
of 17. or 18000 men in two Assaults. 

Dec. 1 6. Mr. lewis told mee concerning S' Evan lloyd, who- 
dy'd in October last that not long before his death hee told him in. 
Wrexham, hee was struck suddenly upon his leg, as he was walking 
in the feilds, and that hee did beleive it did bode his Death, like 
as a stroke in y° same place had done his wife's not long before, 
three weekes before shee dy'd, which came to pass accordingly. 

May 5. my dear aunt Benyon dy'd. Shee was daughter to 
Mr. Knight of Shrewsb. & had been marry'd about 27. y. to my 
uncle Benyon by whom shee had issue now living Daniel, Martha,. 
Mary, Sarah, Elisabeth : Shee was the fittest wife for him in the 
world being patient & prudent in opposition to his passion & rash- 
ness. Shee was, I verily beleive, one that truly feared God, and 
was taught to doe so from her youth. Shee was of y^ mourners in 
Sion, laying much to heart y° sins & sufferings of ye times. Shee 
was provident & diligent in family Affayres, laying her hands to t° 
spindle, & her hands held ye distaff. Shee was an inward, real, 
true hearted friend, eminent for humility & self denyal : witness y' 
expression of her's, w" speaking of her children. I said I did not 
doubt but God had a kindness in store for y"" for her sake, shee 
answer'd, for my sake, alas ! poor things if it bee not for another's^ 
sake then mine y'' are undone. She enjoyn'd mee to-i\Tite to Col. 
Hunt to bee a Freind to them ; the lord bee their Freind. 

The diary for 1665, as well as those for 1680-1684, 
belong to Miss Osborn, of Foregate Street, Worcester, 
to whom I am much indebted for the loan of them, and 
of other manuscripts. 

1665. 

Covenants renewed in y» particu: i. by y« lords help & purpose 
to bee more substantial in secret worship. 

2. more sparing of precious time. 

3. more constant in reading the scrip, alone & meditating in 
them. 



PHILIP HENRY. l6l 

4. more careful to improve all opportunityes of doing good 
to souls, not only taking, but seeking them. 

5. less fearful about events, when in a way of duty, in all w'''' I 
have lately mist it, but y° lord has pardoned mee in X Jesus. 

When y' flail of Affliction 6: lord is upon mee, let mee not bee 
as y" chaff that flyes in the face, but as y" Corn that lyes at thy feet. 

To one complayning of weakness in duty, remember two th. 
I. That you are not under the law, but under grace. 2. That 
you are on earth & not in Heaven. 

Hee that would not dye when hee must & hee y' would dye 
when hee must not, both these are alike Cowards. 

Jamcary 8. The Quaestion was, what are good Argum. against 
Sin? 

A. I. one sayd, to consider, if I sin I must repent of it, and 
repentance is made up of shame & sorrow & hath much bitternes 
in it, et ego not tanti emam poenitere. 

2. To consider, sin is against God, & how shall I doe this 
great wickednes & sin against God, the great God & a great King 
above all Gods. 

3. Another sayd, to consider that sin is pleasing to the Devil, 
and shall I doe that which gratifyes him, who doth all hee can to 
destroy mee. 

4. Another sayd. To consider y" reflection of sin upon J. X' 
how it greives, peirces, & openly shames him, my dear redeemer 
who shed his bloud to redeem & ransom my soul from sin. 
And of this it was sayd, as of Goliahs sword, none like it. 

5. Another sayd, To consider y" vowes of God which are upon 
us, especi. y° great vow of our Baptism. 

6. To consider, though I may not bee damned for this sin here- 
after, yet I may bee sorely chastned for it here ; as David. 

7. The consideration of Death & Judgm' & -f account that 
must bee rendred w" every secret th. shall bee reveal' d. 

8. If it bee a publique Sin, to consider the Scandal of it to 
Religion, besides y° harm it may doe as a bad example &c. 

Qusestions in family-Conference 
Saturday-Evenings. 
Feb. 4. Q. How far a man may goe tow"'' Heaven and yet 

fall short. 

M 



l62 PHILIP HENRY. 

A. in general, a great way. 
Mar. 12. 34. almost. Acts. 26. 28. 
in particular. 1. A man may have a great deal of knowledge, 
I Cor. 13. I. 2. even so much as to teach others. Mat. 7. 22. 

2. Hee may bee free from many nay from any gross sin. 

luk.- 18. II. 

3. Hee may perform not only some but all manner of external 
Dutyes of Religion, Pray, Fast, give Almes, Math. 6. 1. 2. &c. 

4. Hee may bee a lover of good men — as Herod, Pharoh, 
Darius. 5. Hee may repent after a sort, as Ahab, and believe 
after a sort, as Simon Magus. 

6. Hee may suffer much for Religion, as no doubt Judas did, 
whilst a retayner to X'. 

1. use. If a man may goe thus far and yet fall short, then 
what will becom of those that goe not near so far. 

2. Then what need have wee to look about us, and to make 
sure of Regeneration & Sincerity, which are things that certainly 
accompany Salvation. 

Feb. II. Q. what are the common Hindrances of mens 
Salvation ? 

A. I. Ignorant. John 4. 10. 

2. XixHo^a&i—John 5. 40. 

3. love of y" world — 2 Tim. 4. 10. 

4. Pride — men will not stoop to bee saved by y" righteousnes 
of X' Rom. 10. 3. nor to bee rul'd by the lawes of X' lu. 19. 14 

5. Prsejudice, agt y° wayes of God, & agt y" company that 
walkes in them, their paucity, their poverty. 

6. Prsesumption, upon God's mercy, & upon long life. 

use. See that none of y^* hinder us, especially now being fore 
warned. 

Feb. T 8. Q. what are y° Ingredients of true repentance ? 
A. I. Inward, hearty sorrow — Zech. 12. 10. 

2. Hatred of sin & of self bee. of sin. Job. 42. 6. 

3. apprehension of y° mercy of God in X' Math. 3. 2. 

4. partic. confession w"' shame & blushing i John. i. 7. 

5. a special eye to original sin. Ps. 51. 5. 

6. reformation of life. Pr. 28. 13. Heb. 6. i. 



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7. restitution in case of wrong to man. lick. 19. 8. 
Feb. 25. Q. what motives to Repentance? 
A. I. the shortnes of life & uncertainty of y° Space, for 
Repentance. Rev. 2. 21. 

2. the misery & danger of Inpoenitency. luk. 13. 3. 5. 

3. the command of God. yiirA 17. 30. 31. 

4. the goodnes of God. Rom. 2. 4. his readines to forgive us 
upon our rep. Ps. 86, 5. 

5. the Gosp. gracious Invitations of J. X'. Math. 3. 2. 

6. there is no other way to ^pdon & reconciliation — tis unica 
Tabula post naufragiu. 

Mar. 4. Q. what is it to beleive in J. X' for salvation. 
A. I. tis to come to 'S^ Math. 11. zZ. John. 6. 37 — 5. 40. by 
. unbelief wee depart from him. Heb. 3. 12. 

2. tis to lean upon X' Cant. 8. 5. forsaking all other leaning 
stockes whatsoever. 

3. tis to look upon X' John. 3. 14. 15. look unto mee & 
iDee yea saved. 

4. tis to receive & accept of X' as hee is offred in y" pro- 
mise to bee lord & King as well as Preist & Savior, giving ours, 
to him unrese'Tvedly. 2 Cor. 8. 5. Has. 3. 3. 

Mar. II. Q. What is required to an acceptable good work? 
A. I. That -f j)son bee accepted. Math. 12. 34. 

2. Sincerity — i. in eyeing the command of God as -f rule. 

2. y" glory of God as y° end. i Cor. 10. 31. 
"habitually if not alwayes actually. 

3. faith in J. X' both for Assistance, John 15. 5 and Accept- 
;ance. Math. 3. 17. 

4. The love of X' 2. Cor. 5. 14. 

Mar. 18. Q. What evidences of love to God. 
A. I. Hatred of Sin. Ps. 97. 11. and that esp. bee. it dis- 
honors him. 

2. care to keep his commandm*' John 14. 15. & that of 
rchoice & with delight, i John. 5. 3. 

3. love to the people of God, qua tales, i Joh. 3, 14. 

4. willingnes to p' with any th. for his sake. Gen. 22. 12. 

5. desire of fellowship w"' him in his Ordinances, Cant. i. 2. 



164 PHILIP HENRY. 

6. greif w" hee witlidrawes, as one Freind in the absence of 
another. 

7. love & longing for y° appearance of X'. 

8. mourning that wee can love him no more. 

Mar. 25. Q. How to express love to our neighbour? 
A. I. by praying for him, even for all men. i Tim. 2. i. 
even for enemyes. Math. 5. 44. 

2. by reproving him. lev. 19. 17. unless hee bee a scorner, w"" 
wee are not rashly to conclude. 

3. by not envying him, because either of what hee is, or hath, 
or doth, I. Cor. 13. 4. but rather rejoycing. Rom. 12. 15. 

4. doing to him as we would have him to doe to us. Math. 
7. 12. 

5. being tender of his name, neither to raise nor receive an 
ill report agt. liim. Pr. 25. 23. 

6. if a superior, wee are to honor &: respect him, if an equal 
or inferior to bee affable & courteous & condescending tow* 
him. 

7. if good to associate with him. Ps. 16. 2. if bad to pity him 
& pray for him, but not bee over-familiar with him. 

see y° rest elsewhere. 

1665. 

January 2. 3 men at work — 500 & 40. Shingles. 5 score & 4 
bottoms, and 40. bowk staves, which came to i x'. 

4. Cosins with us from Whitch. I have hopes of Cosin 
M . . . H . . . y' God hath begun a good work in her. 

8. Mr. Daxton at chap. T. Act 14. 22. and that wee must 
through much afHiction enter into the kingdom of God, then the 
will of the lord bee done ! so that may bee the End of my Journey, 
let the way bee such as pleases God, nunc deprimuntur electi ut 
olim assurgant instar palmarum. 

9. I visited Mr. Adams, askt him, w" hee meant to preaclv 
again, hee answer'd, w" y" weather is warmer ; pity, such a Candle 
should put hims. under, especially now w" so many are put b>- 
others under a Bushel. 



PHILIP liENR V. 165. 

10. Mr. Edw. Puleston, yongest son of my Patron & Freind 
Judge Puleston, was buryd this day at Gresford. — hee dy'd /an. 6. 
his life was bad and his badnes of life hastened his end, not merito- 
riously only but efficiently. Hee was once a part of my immediate 
charge and I fear I did not doe my duty towards him, wherein 
y" lord forgive mee ! 

11. I went to Tilstock, purposing to goe thence to Cos. 
Talbots, but did not, I went to light-each & return'd at night to 
my own hive, blessed bee God. 

14. I went to Whitch. Some smal difference 'tween y" 
Feoffees and Mr. Edwards, which I endeavour'd to compose. 
Wee came to Wil. Turners, who had newly Swooned with a prick 
of an awl in y" palm of his hand & yet escapt with life in 
Hamilton's invasion though a Bullet were shot through his 
Body. 

15. At Whitch. Dr. Fowler T. i Tim. 3. 16. Seen of angels; 
blessed bee God for y° Guardianship and all the other Ministryes 
of the Angels to mee & to all the Elect of God. 

16. Wee din'd at Bronn. where was Uncle Hotchkis. Two 
Kine from Mr. Mainwaring at 7"". 

17. exchang'd with Mr. Thomas, my common-place-book, 
wherein someth. written, for a larger of clean paper. 

18. war like to bee with the Dutch, the lord of hosts is the 
God of Jacob — Capt. Holmes * imprison'd in y° Tower, who tis 
said began the quarrel at Ginny. 

19. New Common-place-bookf ruld and prsepared, wherein I 
purpose to take paynes — nori sera si seria. 

" In 1664 Sir Robert Holmes was secretly despatched with a squadron of 
twenty-two ships to the coast of Africa. He not only expelled the Dutch from 
Cape Corse, to which the English had some pretensions ; he likewise seized the 
Dutch settlements of Cape Verde and the Isle of Goree. Going to America, 
he possessed himself of Nova Belgia, since called New York, a territory which 
James I. had given by patent to the Earl of Stirling, but which had never been 
planted but by the Hollanders. When the States complained, the king, un- 
willing to avow what he could not well justify, pretended to be ignorant of 
Holmes's enterprise. He likewise confined that admiral to the Tower, but 
some time after released him. 

t This book is seventeen inches by eleven and a half. There are 1 264 pages, 
double columns, and it is about one-third filled with notes in Philip Henry's 
close handwriting. On the last page are the words, ' ' scribere est agere." It 
iDelonged till lately to Mrs. Grace Keay Lee, of Redbrook. 



1 66 PHILIP HENRY. 

20. I heard of f Death of S' Richard Grosvenor,* a bitter 
enemy unto God's people, in Cheshire — sic omnes inimici. 

21. I visited Margt Bedward, who hath layn long under sore 
buffetings of temtation, and under sad perplexing doubts and 
feares and will 'not be comforted, lord, doe thou speak peace to 
her & let y' bones which thou hast broken rejoyce. Shee hath 
had sometimes blasphemous injections from -f evil spirit, & 
somet. hath spoken folly w* her tongue but moumes for it afteriv. 
& I believe hates it, lord, set her free. 

22. At Whitch. T. I Tim. 3. 16. preached unto the Gentiles, 
beleived on in -f world. 6 y' it were so to all y" Gentiles & in all 
the world. 

John Madocks, Tho. Kinaston, & Andrew Ridgway, excom- 
municated at Hanmer. 

23. I went with freinds to Alsager, vulg. Auger, near Bar- 
tomley in Chesh. in safety, blessed bee God & with a full 
purpose to doe good. 

24. Elizabeth Alsager bury'd, y" eldest daughter of f famil)-, 
aged above 20. Mr. Cawdrey preacht. T. i Thes. 4. 14. lord 
sanctify this providence for their good. 

25. wee return'd safe & well, blessed bee God, though 
through much danger by reason of Ice — and I trust the lord was 
pleasd to doe some good by mee in y° Journey, to him be,e the 
glory. 

30. The lord forgive y° sin w* is cald to remembr. this day 
& let y' Innocency of y" Innocent bee cleared up. 

31. John Ratcliff dy'd, I pray'd with him before, but bet 
knew mee not. 

February 2. Ann Nixon ill, I am still to seek how to deal 
effectually with dying people, I could not doe it well heretofore 
when I had Authority, much less now ; lord, give mee the tongue 
of y° learned for this purpose as for others. I pray'd with her, 6: 
y' y" prayer of faith might save the sick ! 

* Sir R. Grosvenor, second baronet, .had, d^u-ing the lifetime of his father, 
called out the posse comitatiis in 1644, as sheriff of Cheshire, to oppose the 
Parliament army under Lord Fairfax. After a series of loyal exertions he was 
ejected from Eaton, and, having suffered n. sequestration of his estate, was 
sheltered in the house of a neighbouring gentleman until the Restoration 
<Ormerod's " Cheshire " (fol.), ii. 451). 



PHILIP HENRY. 1 6/ 

3. At Hanm' at y" buryal of John Ratcliff, Mr. Hilton preacht 
T. Ps. 73. 24. thou wilt guid mee in thy counsel & aftenvards 
receive mee into glory. In heaven we shall have y° company only 
of good men & those perfectly good & an innumerable company 
of them ! my soul, dost thou not long to be there, 

4. At Ash w'" Mrs. Figes who had been ill this week, I 
trust shee is on y° growing hand towards heaven. Is there not 
danger lest frequent converse with sick and dying ^sons should 
abate my sense of that condition, pity it should, see it doe not, 
but rather the contrary. 

5. Mr. Daxton at chap. T. Heb. 11. 13. and confessed that 
they were strangers in y° earth, lord I confess it, give mee grace 
to carry it as such, that my Affections may bee at home. 

6. serious in trifles, trifling in the most serious things, undoes 
thousands, undoes mee. 

7. I deferd going to Worthenb. from one day to another & 
this day, when I verily intended it, I could not for y" weather. 
non est procrastinandum, eras o e tuum. 

8. Hee that will suffer hardship when hee is called there- 
unto, must use every day to deny hims. in lesser matters, and 
therein I am wanting. 

9. I went to Worthenb. escapt. dangers by y° way, through 
Ice, saw freinds y", and admonisht H. P. a backslider, & 
returnd safe at night, full of Comfort, blessed bee God. 

12. my mind was much distemperd & discomposd both 
•aight & morning through praevayling fear, for w°'' I blame mys. 
but in the end y° lord gave victory. It was y° worse for being 
Sabbath-day. At Whitch. T. Math. 4. i. 2. to justify y° observa- 
tion of lent* for w"'' no warrant from y' word, as to any religious 
account, that I know of. 

13. A child of one llewellyrfs of Ash about five years old 
was scalded to Death in a Kettle of Wort, one day y° last week 
& mine prseserved. Eben-Ezer ! 

14. reading the life of old Mr. Bruen of Staple-ford I mett 

* In St. Matt. vi. the Lord tells- His disciples how to do alms, how to pray, 
how to fast ; and in St. Matt. ix. 15, he looks forward to " days when they 
will fast." The date and duration of " those days " may very well be left to 
the wisdom of the Church Catholic, and will be so except by those who think 
its rulers " unworthy to judge the smallest matters." 



1 68 PHILIP HENRY. 

with some th. that shame mee, some th. that confirm mee, & 
some th. that quicken mee, blessed bee God for the cloud of 
Witnesses. 

15. Head-ake, Indigestion, & other bodily distempers, fruits 
of sin, fore-runners of dissolution. I thought once this day, I 
could not only bee willing but rejoyce to dye, that I might bee 
ever w"' y^ lord. 

16. Mr. Tho. & Cos. Fi. came to see us, y" Subscrib'd a 
certificate that Sarah was baptized by a lawful Min' I mett Mr. 
Edwards at W" Turners. 

17. a restless night this last night, through pain in my limbs 
like a Cramp. I made my will, not knowing but it may bee a 
Summons to Death, however 'tis not amiss to have my house 
alwayes in order ; welcom the will of God ! 

18. Better this day, but not well. I went to Bronn. and am 
still plagu'd with an unprofitable Heart. 

20. Day of Pr. at ■ with in y' number — his Son 

Tho. prayd uno avulso not deficit alter Aureus, blessed bee God ! 

21. As fast as time goes. Eternity comes, the lord help mee 
to redeem time & to make ready for Eternity. 

22. Son John not well, I made a fresh deed of gift resigning 
him up to the lord, my soul, remember & forget it not, when 
there is occasion ; hee is but put to nurse to us, lord, hee is thine, 
save him. 

23. Son John better, blessed bee God ! poor Margaret 
Bedward of Bronn. an object of pity, for y" hand of God hath 
touched her, lord, give iTiee a truly sympathizing heart & hear 
prayers for her, for y" lords sake, 6: thou that hearest pra3'er ! 
& Succor a poor tempted disconsolate soul. 

24. I hear of God's Afflicting hand upon many familyes iS: 
mine in health, 6: w' shall wee render ! the lord help us to improve 
y° present season. 

25. a meeting at Wrexham surprisd, Sabb. day was sennight, 
some payd 5- some went to prison for 3 months accord, to 
the Act. lord let y° libertyes of thy people bee precious in thy 
sight. 

26. Mr. Booth at chap. T. Ps. 92. 12. lord make mee in 
this as y° Palm qure crescit sub pondere, et depressa resurgit. I 



PHILIP HENRY. 1 69 

. did a work of mercy in y° Even, visiting, counselling & praying 
with Ann Nixon in payn Job. 33. 19. but after all an unprof. 
serv'. 

27. the greatest p' of y° day spent with my servants in garden- 
work, SouAeuetv T<3 Koxpia to bee redeem' d — first beanes set — the 
long frost going, scarce yet gone. 

28. 6: who is burthen'd as I am with an unprofitable heart ! 
•an Embassador for Christ by Office, but Alas ! how much wanting 
am I to y* Duty of y' Office ! it troubles mee, the good lord for- 
give mee for Jesus Sake & mend this matter with mee. Amen ! 

March r. I had occasion this day to discover another of y° 
sins w"'' doe so easily beret iiiee, & that is fearfulnes, I am 
often afraid where no fear is, lord help mee ! D"' Ham* observes, 
in evil times it fares best with them y' are most careful about 
Duty & lest about safety. 

2. I went to Wrexha. with Mr. St. where mett us . . . wee 
had talk together, & blessed bee God for so much liberty. At 
night being weary I was ill & fainted at pray', lord consider my 
frame. 

3. I walkt on foot to Malpas, hearing of a citation — by y"^ way 
read Barlow agt Baxter, y' Common & saving grace differ 
specifically, not gradually only. 

4. I heard of y" Death of Mr. Hoskins, vicar of Elsmere, who 
dy'd somewhat suddenly; lord, for mee, however I dye for cir- 
cumstance, let mee dye in X' Amen ! 

5. Freinds spending y" Sabb. with us . . . whose company 
is sweet now, what then will it bee in Heaven, the lord bring y'" 
thither w"* us.. 

6. I went to Elsmer, where I mett with Mr. Fogg & his 
son lawr. who is unsatisfyed about y° obligation of Poenal lawes, 
such as that about Conventicles &y' about ejected Min'' preaching, 
to w* I added & it seem'd to clear the rest, about eating flesh in 
lent. 

7. Mr. Edwards and Mr. Tapping came to visit mee & stayd 
all night ; both Conformists but I hope Conscientious ; That w" 
wee see not, lord teach y" us. 

8. I want a Spiritual heart to improve natural objects for 
heavenly purposes, lord, work such a heart in mee ! 



I70 PHILIP HENRY. 

9. Cocking at Whitch. not without much excess & riot, for 
which I am sorry & that for my sweet Jesus sake. 

10. a child of John Butlers dead & mine yet spar'd, blessed 
bee God. My heart vain in y" morning, made somew' more 
serious by meanes of good company & affecting Providences ; 
lord set mee free from a vayn heart. 

11. Dum quid sis dubitas, jam potes esse nihil. The day 
lost in irresolutions about this or that ... a very great weakness ; 
sin pardon'd, strength renewed, blessed bee God. 

13. I find decayes already, y° good w°'' I would doe y' doe I 
not, and y° evil which I would not doe, y' doe I, 6: wretched man 
y' I am ! 

14. At Malpas upon Citation for baptizing Sarah, a certificate 
from Mr. Holland * took it off, that I had leave from him to get 
another to doe it ; Fees -^ 2* I own their power no otherw. y"" 
as delegates from y" King who hath to doe circa sacra and so far 
is to bee obey'd Iv toIs efo). 

15. sadness upon my spirit this evening, the lord doth seem 
to threaten us with desolation ; newes of y" london Frigat burnt 
at sea by an Accident, many men lost, perhaps ominous; lord, 
take care of y° Church. 

16. day of praise at Cos . . . where I should have been to 
pay my vowes on her behalf but y° Messenger fail'd & I knew not 
of it, nevertheles, lord, I subscribe, thou art good & dost good. 

17. I heard of y° Death of Mr. Hollimanat lond. being at his 
house in Wullington w" y° newes came, heedy'd Mar. 12. suddenly 
of an Apoplexy, w" every one hoped y'^ worst of his late sicknes 
had been past. The lord forgive to mee my Omissions towards 
him & provide for his poor Orphans. 4 sons & a daughter. 

18. I visited Margt Bedward, a poor Melancholy, drouping 
soul, the lord revive her in his due time & let her end bee peace. 

* 'William Holland is described in the register, Februaiy 27, 164I a& 
minister of God's Word at the lower rectory of Malpas. His loyalty °and 
orthodoxy may, however, be presumed from his having been selected to preach 
at the death of a distinguished loyalist, the founder of the house of Xale Royal 
— a sermon yet extant, replete with beautiful descriptions of the virtues and 
sufferings of the deceased, but reprobating with the most incautious zeal "the 
heresies, schisms, and personated holiness of the ruling party in the greatest 
plenitude of their power " (Ormerod's "Cheshire" (fol.), ii. 342). Mr. Holland 
was a contributor of/'ioo to the poor of Malpas. 



PHILIP HENRY. 17I 

19. At Whitch. where was good fare, thankes bee to God ! T. 
I Cor. II. 23. &c. hee took, &; brake & gave & the receiver takes 
& feedes by Faith, which in this Ordinance is all in all. I found 
afterw.* where y" substance was borrowed viz. in Dr. Reynolds 
Treatise of y° Sacram'. 

20. Mr. St. inform'd mee of y° remarkable hand of God upon 
Mr. Planner y° Dean rural, whereas hee fully determin'd to bee at 
Bangor y" 13 instant & then to issue out -f Significavit agt Cosin 
John Madocks &c. & would not bee ^swaded to defer it, the very 

. night before hee was struck with a fit of y° Stone. Digitus Dei, 
Herein mys. also was concernd for if hee had been at Malpas the 
next day I had not gott off but with more difficulty if at all ; — ^Mr. 
Hilton was his substitute. 

21. Margt Bedward somew' better, who knowes by whom, 
which way & when it will please y° lord to speak peace to her 
soul. 

22. Mr. lewis my ancient Fr* & his wife came to see us & 
tis great mercy w" so many are gone into Eternity y' wee are here ; 
lord make our coming together profitable. 

22. At Whitch. — Heautontim I acted by y" children, it may 
bee some may blame mee for being present, but I judged it both 
lawf. & expedient to incourage being desir'd. 

24. Time, how precious in y° Theory, yet lavisht away as if 
little worth — lord, pardon ! lord, help mee yet to redeem. 

29. At Worth enb. at y' Buryal of my loving Freind John 
Barbor above 80. T. Job 14. 5. 

30. I saw & shew'd my Family towards evening this day an 
extraordinary brightness colour'd as y" Rainbow, first on one side 
of y" Sun northwards, then on the other side southwards, which 
continu'd each of them more y™ a quarf of an hour, distant from 
y° sun as it were 10 or 12 y''^. 

31. I reed a warrant to bee Collecto'' of y" royal Ayd in 
Iscoyd, & Mr. Steel in Hanm'' — vid alibi. 

* The patience of Philip Henry in listening to poor preachers, and their 
knowledge of the keen critic they had among their audience, might be sup- 
posed to balance one another, pro and c(m. But he was at once disarmed by 
the earnestness of good men. 

t Terence's ' 'Heauton Timorumenos " (the self-tormentor). This shows what 
a hold his Westminster school-days still had upon him. There is not the least 
doubt that his friends would blame him for being present. 



1/2 PHILIP HENRY. 

4. War solemnly proclaymd agt the Dutch. * 
1 1, behold winter instead of spring, the lord is angry. 
April 2. Mr. Bruen sayd, if every day were a Sabb. or a fast- 
ing day, y™ I should bee well, w""" is a th. I. have not yet 
iittayn'd to, for though there bee some willingnes yet y"' is much 
unwillingnes. which the lord pardon & amend. 

3. Mr. Mainwarings two sons came again to table with us. 

4. a restles night through payn in head & teeth, it is not 
often so, w* makes it y° more irksom but I deserve it should, sin 
is -f mother, payn the daughter, 6: y' y" daughter might kill. 
y" mother. Maj. Eyton with us. 

5. Day of Humil. for success of navy agt y' Dutch \ — the war 
just, though offensive, & tis our duty to seek y= welfare of our 
K. & nation. 

6. agreed with Ran. Stocton for 2' to gather this present 3 
months pay. This morning I saw another blazing star, tayl 
upwards after day, Eastward. 

7. Plums grafted by y" Kiln, y'' lord knows who shall gather 
the fruit. 

8. At Malpas at a parish-meeting as it hapned, three mizes 
sess'd for y" ensuing year, old church-ward"' gave in y"' accounts. 
Certificate subscrib'd concer. Mafgt. Powels chimney. I went to 
Mr. Mainwarings, saw his new house, & return'd in safety, blessed 
bee God ! the lord pardon y° barreness of my heart & life, for in 
all this, I bring forth fruit to self 

10. The first day of my son John's going to school, hee sets 
out upon a long Journey, if hee have life & capacity, wherein the 
lord bee his good speed. Amen ! 

14. Cos. Dan. Benyon set forward for Oxf. God Almight)- 
prosper his studyes & let him doe worthily in Ephrata & bee 
famous in Bethlehem. 

15. Fain would I redeem more time on Saturday evenings for 
preparation for y° Sabb. with my family, but one th. or other inter- 

* The States had secretly despatched orders to De Ruyter to retaliate on 
the English, and all the new acquisitions except Cape Corse were recovered 
from them. As soon as certain intelligence arrived of De Ruyter's enterprises, 
Charles II. declared war against the States. The fleet, consisting of a hundred 
and fourteen sail, was commanded by the Duke of York. 

t The Dutch had nineteen ships sunk and taken ; the victors lost one. 



PHILIP HENRY. 1/5 

poses. Aunt Manning and other Freinds at Whitcli. in trouble 
through a false oath of Jenings & llewellyn, mark y'' end of such 
men. bound over to Sessions. 

i6. At Whitch. T. Math. 6. 33. Seek first, first every morn- 
ing I am to begin the day alw. with God, else early up, never y" 
near. 

17. At Orton — paying the first 3 months pay to Mr. Philips 
being Head-collector for W. hee gave an acquittance & a peny in 
the pound according to the Act. Time hath been when I was 
employ'd about another Kind of publique work, which had more 
both sweetnes & honor, but this I take up amongst my Crosses. 

18. To be afraid where no fear is, is sometimes the sin of 
God's people, & oftentimes the punishment of wicked men — 
Pro. 28. I. 

19. the lord bee a sanctuary to his poor people & a covert 
from y° Storm. 

20. Rumors of Plots abroad, I know not whence. Cos. Mad. 
house searcht at midnight, the most innocent are most suspected. 
Wee lay down in expectation, but y° lord prevented. 

2 1 . Mr. St. going for london was stopt and searcht. y° warrant 
was for mee also. His Diary was taken from him, the lord prae- 
vent any prejudice from it either to hims. or any other. I have 
found a great deal of Good by this way of Review daily & am loth 
to give it over, but I shall take warning & bee more Cautious,* for 
Malice may take that with the left hand which is written with the 
right. His munic aheneus esto nil cotiscire sibi. 

May. A great noise in y country concer. Mr. Steels almanack,t 

* The fear of .sharing the fate of his friend in this respect led Philip Henry 
to make large erasures in his diaries, and possibly to stop writing altogether for 
a time. It has been thought that the blanks may have been filled in with white 
or sympathetic inks (of which Burnet mentions the use in his time), but as 
yet no discoveries of manuscript have thus been made. 

+ In Newcome's Diary, i. 154, we find: "... his business was to tell me 
of the fearful things he heard of my dear bro. Steele. It was upon his diary 
being taken off him, and some passages in it that they interpreted to the worst 
of actions, as this — that such a day he went to such a place on a carnal account, 
and God turned it to a spiritual. This they interpreted to be some woman de- 
sign and no other. The truth was he went to a fair to have bought a cow ; he 
missed of that and went home with a gentlewoman, and they had some 
opportunity for the soul together. Now this was formed into »■ dreadful 
.storj'." 



174 PHILIP HENRY. 

a copy whereof I saw & transcrib'd, wherein hee had kept account 
of meetings which had been many since Jan. i. of faylings, which 
being in somew' obscure characters were misinterpreted to his 
great prejudice, not without reflections upon Religion, but some 
that saw it, who did not know him, judg'd him a holy man, others 
said they got a great deal of good by it & lov'd * him better than 
they did before, but hee absented hims. which increas'd the bruit 
among the vulgar — sed et hoc etiam in bonum. Psal. 37. 5. 6. 

29. I set forward towards london in company of Mr. Joshua 
Hotchkis. 

June I. I came into london, safe & well, blessed bee the 
lord. At y" same time was y° funeral of S' Tho. Viner \ with great 
solemnity. 

I had sight of all my sisters, & of diverse of my Freinds, with 
a great deal of comfort, thanks bee to God. 

The plague not yet raging, but increasing gradually — 6: 
london, london, how often ? 

12. a great victory obtayned at Sea agt y° Dutch, J though with 
y' loss of many persons of quality. 

Cos. Hotchkis & cousin Darack had each of y"" a daughter 
born while I was there. 

I return'd homewards through Oxford, thence to Stanton in 
Wiltshire where pr. pub. & Jun. 2 1. found all well at home, praised 
bee the name of y° lord. 

July 21. I was at Shrewsh. Assize, a witness in a cause betw. 
Mr. Nevet of london & Mr. Eyton of leeswood, concer. lightwood 
hall, being present w" Judge Puleston seald -f deed of Annuity to 
his son Thomas, who sold y° reversion of it to Mr. Nevet. I had 
8' towards charges and y' Verdict was brought in for Mr. Nevet, 
before Judge Tyrrel. 

* A worthy, good man. (If any one has met with these diaries, and will 
inform the editor, he will confer a favour.) 

t Pepys speaks of being present at the funeral, " the greatest I ever did see 
for a taverne. Sir Thomas Viner was Sheriff of London, 1648 ; Lord Mayor, 
1654. 

j The victory was on June 3, 1665. See Pepys' Diary for June 8th : "We 
have taken and sunk about 24 of their best ships : killed and taken near 8 or 
10,000 men and lost we think not above 700. The Earl of Falmouth and 
Richard Boyle were killed with one shot. The Earls of Portland, and of 
3\Iarlborqugh [James Ley, third earl], and Captains Kirby and Ableson. On 
the rjutch side Admiral Opdam Tromp, and all the rest but Everson." 



PHILIP HENRy. 17s 

20. Dyd of y° Plague in london y° last week — 1089. 

July. 27. D/d — 1843. 

Aug. 3. Dy'd of Plague 3010 

of all diseases 3014 

Aug. 10. Dy'd of Plague 2817 

of all diseases 4030 

Aug. 17. Dy'd of Plague 3880 

of all diseases 5319 

Sister Sarah went into Ireland with lady Broghil,* to Charlevil 
in Munster. God Almighty bee her good speed. 

September, my man william Griffith was marryd about this 
time to one of Baschurch, to whom hee had been sure since before 
hee came to mee, which at Christmas next will bee 3 yeares. 
■ Many silenct Min" and others in prison throughout y° nation. 

25. I was fetcht from my own house f to John Hawkins of 
Hanmer by leiften' Rich. Eddow by warrant under the hands of 
S' Thomas & S"^ John Hanmer. Mr. luke lloyd & his son & Mr. 
Steel were secur'd y'' y° day before. John Madocks, Wil Philips, 
Nich. Hemlock and Stephen Morice the same day. Andrew 
Ridgway & Th. Kinaston, two dayes after. Our restraynt was not 
strict, for Freinds came to us & wee had liberty of Pray' & con- 
ference together, which through the lord's mercy wee did improve, 
I hope to every ones edification. Thus out of y' eater came forth 
meat & out of the strong sweetness, & wee found honey in the 
carkass of the lion. 

30. The deputy leiftenants mett ; S'' Thomas & S' John % 
Hanmer, Mr. lloyd of Halghton & Mr. Hanmer of Fenns. I was 

* Under date June 21, 1660, Pepys quotes : "The Protector (Richard) said 
that whatever G. Montagu, my Lord Broghill, Jones and the Secretary Vcould 
have him do he would do it, be it what it would." Roger Boyle, Lord Brog- 
hill, was created Earl of Orrery, l65o ; obiit 1669. 

t Newcome writes : "About this time sundry ministers were clapped into 
prison as my bro. Steele in Flintsh. my bro. Leadbeater in Cheshire. I could 
not but be grieved that I was no more affected at it. " 

% Sir John Hanmer, Knight, succeeded his father as third baronet in 1678. 
He was a distinguished cavalier. In 1660, when the King was expected, and 
before Monk had declared himself, he got together a body of 60 horse. He 
was M.P., at different times, for Carlingford, Evesham, and Flint. He 
joined Schonberg 8th September, 1689, and was at the battle of the Boyne. 
He died s.p., and was buried at Hanmer, August 12, 1701. 



176 PHILIP HENRY. 

examin'd first about meetings, then about letters ; for letters I 
had received none of a great while, for meetings I could not so 
expressly answ. having once or twice of late been present where 
y° number exceeded. S' Thomas challeng'd mee with a promise 
made a while since that I would forbear, to w* I answ''" i. -f occa- 
sion was extraordinary in regard of y" hand of God upon y' nation 
& some of my own Freinds in great danger, 2. my promise had 
reference to a plot w* hee said y" y™ was, during y° danger of w* I 
thought I might in prudence & did forbear. 3. I had kept promise 
about home, & w" I did transgress, t'was not in this county, to w* I 
might have added 4. y° promise was not absolute, for I said if I 
doe transgress I know y" penalty ; Nevertheless a great matter was 
made of my breach of promise, wherein I blame mys. &c. S"' John 
charg'd mee with administring y" Sacram' out of Mr. St. Almanack, 
to w""* I answer'd if by y* Sacr. hee meant y" bread & wine in 
y° lord's supper, I had not admintstred them since I was disabled. 
Also with going a back way to y° Bryn w'''in a fortnight \i^ I denyd 
for I was not there since Aug. 17. & y™ I went no back way. 
In y" close I was releasd, upon recognisance of 2o"'- Allen Sheret 
& Tho. Davies suretyes to bee forthcoming within two or 3 dayes 
after notice under y° hands of two or more Deputy leiften*^ and to 
live peaceably as a good subject between & Christmas next, Also 
paying 5' to Mr. Tho. Yong, cal'd our Marshal, charges besides 
came to about 6' 8'' Mr. Steel, Nich. Hemlock & And. Ridg^vay 
were sent. Oct. 2. to Northop, as dangerous & disaffected psons 
the rest were releas'd when I was & on the same terms, except Mr. 
luke Uoyd jun. who was releast y° Wednesday before & bound over 
to y" great Assize, for charging Mr. Hilton with being a lyar by the 
communion Table, just after y" Sacram'. 

November. 6. Cosin Dan Benyon came to sojourn with us for 
awhile at Br. Oke. 

December. 4. Mathew not well, wee feared the Smal pockes, 
but mercy prevented. 

6. Mr. Maimvarings two sons went home. 

7. It pleas'd God to add another daughter to my Famil}-, 
Shee was born about one a clock this morning, my wife had short 
& easy labour in comparison with many others, blessed bee his: 
name. 



FHILIP HENRY. 177 

17. I baptiz'd her & nam'd her Katharin, lord, baptize her 
with the Holy Ghost. 

23. Mr. Steel appear'd & gave his Testimony in the B"' 
Court. 

24. hee was pronounct in Hanmer Excommunicate. 
Sold a yoke of oxen 7. 1 9. 6. 

The diary for 1666 belongs to Henry Witton Tyndall, 
Esq., of Birmingham, who represents the family of 
Tyndall of Stinchcomb, county Gloucester, being de- 
scended from a brother of the translator of the Bible. 
He is also descended from Philip Henry. 

Philip Henry's Diary for 1666. 

QuEeryes touching the Act of Residense. 

1. Whence are we to date the Act of Oblivi. from the time 
when it was sign'd & made publick which was in August 1660, 
or from June 24 until which time it pardons. 

2. what miles are to be understood, reputed miles or measured 
miles ; if measured miles how much is a measured mile. 

3. whether the Informer's Oath alone be sufficient conviction, 
or whether hee bee not a party. 

4. whether such Borough Townes as concur with other 
Borough townes in sending a Burghess to the Parliam' bee 
intended by the Act — as Holt. 

5. what is a Corporation, or Town Corporate in the law. 

Reasons why I do not communicate in the pres' Administra- 
tion of the Lords Supper — 

I. bee. I am not satisfy'd to kneel * in the Act of receiving. 

* "The ancients received sometimes standing. We learn this directly 
from Dionysius of Alexandria, who speaks of a communicant ' standing at the 
Lord's Table,' and from Habertus, who undertakes to prove that the whole 
divine Liturgy was celebrated standing — that they consecrated standing and 
received standing. Indirectly, since they prayed standing on the Lord's days, 
they received standing. They also received kneeling, though the evidence of 
this from St. Chrysostom is not so clear. Addressing communicants, he says, 
'let us fall down and confess our sins .... let us come «-ith a becoming 

N 



178 PHILIP HENRY. 

1. bee. it hath no warrant in the least from the Script, neither 
by Praecept nor Praecedent whereas sitting* hath, at least by 
Prsecedent in y° Practise of X' hims. & the Apost. clearly, and 
probably in y° Practise of y" first churches for it seems the 
Agapas or love feasts were us'd together with the Eucharist, see 
I. Cor. II. 

2. bee. it doth no way suit with the nature of the Ordinance, 
which is a Supper ; an Ordinance wherein the blessed Jesus calls 
us to the nearest Familiarity & fellowship w* hims. to eat with 
him, and therf to sit, not to kneel, with him at his Table. 

3. bee. it hath been grosly abus'd even to Idolatry, by the 
Papists in worshiping the consecrated Host,f which in all pro- 
bability brought it first into the Church, & moreover gives them 
advantage to argue, as Bellarmine expresly, we do no more in 
kneeling before an Image than y'' Protestants doe in kneeling at 
the Sacram', [er]go, if we are Idolaters, so are they. 

4. Bee. having made tryal mys. of both gestures, kneeling 
heretofore in y" days of my Ignorance & sitting of late since y' 
lord hath inlightned mee, I dare not sin against my Conscience 
which tells mee, I ought not to quit the liberty wherewith X' 
hath made mee free. 

that I know that is said for it, is the command of my Supe- 
riors, to which I oppose the Command of my Supream, saying, 
bee not yee y° Servants of men, & call no man Master; which 
I then doe when I give a blind Obedience to their Injunctions 
for the Authority sake of the injoyndrs, rendring mee no reason 

reverence as to our heavenly King. ' " There is no instance where they 
received sitting (Bingham's "Antiquities of the Christian Church," lib. xv. 
chap. V. 3). 

* Our Lord and his disciples reclined probably. " The Arians in Poland 
are said to receive sitting, to show that they do not believe Christ to be their 
God, but only their fellow-creature." " We are likewise told by Bona, that it 
is the singular privilege of the pope to communicate sitting, whenever he per- 
forms the office of consecration " (Bingham, nt supra). 

t Jeremy Taylor, speaking of the real presence of Christ in the Holy 
Communion, says (vol. vi. pp. 11, 12): " It_ was happy with Christendom 
when she in this article retained the same simplicity which she was always 
bound to do in her manners and intercourse ; that is, to believe the thing 
heartily and not to enquire curiously, and there was peace in this article for 
almost a thousand years together, and yet that Transubstantiation was not 
determined, I hope to make evident. It is a famous saying of Durandus, 
Verbum audimus, motum sentimus, modum nescimus, prEesentiam credimus." 



PHILIP HENRY. 1/9 

why or wherefore, but only sic volo, sic jubeo ; and to do tliis in 
the things of God's worship I conceive to bee sinful. 

2. if I were satisfied to kneel, yet not at the Rayles,* which 
is us'd in our Parish church of Malpas, bee. it is an Innovation, 
warranted by no law,'neither divine nor humane, civil nor Canoni- 
cal, and also smells rank of Popish superstition yea of Judaism 
it self, whereas by Jesus X' y" vayl is rent & all such like walls of 
Partition broken down. 

3. Though before God I am the chiefest of sinners, and dare 
not say to any, stand off, for I am holier than thou, yet since the 
Script, enjoynes mee with such & such no not to eat, & saith 
withall, that a little leaven leavens the whole lump, whilst so 
many are admitted grosly prophane, yea none indeed excluded 
that will receive,t I am afraid as on the one hand of defiling 
myself, so on the other hand of hardning them, by eating & 
drinking into the same body with them. 

Questions for Conference. 
What are to be accounted vayn Thoughts. 
What evil there is in vayn thoughts. 
What remedyes agt vayn thoughts. 

What are the common sins of -f Tongue. 
What rules in governing the Tongue. 
How is the Sabbath to bee sanctify'd. 

* The early Churches seem to have followed very much the plan of the 
Jewish Temple. Where those who ministered to the others stood was sepa- 
rated from the other part by rails of wood, which the Greek writers term 
KcyXi^is, the Latins cancelli. St. Ambrose would not allow the Emperor 
Theodosius to communicate in this part, but obliged him to retire, as soon as 
he had made his oblation at the altar. In the third century, however, Diony- 
sius of Alexandria speaks of men and women standing at the Holy Table, and 
reaching forth their hands to receive the Eucharist there (Bingham, vol. ii. lib. 
viii. chap. vi.). " One of the injunctions of Queen Elizabeth is that the Holy 
Table' be set in the place vifhere the altar stood." The altar rails were 
introduced by Archbishop Laud to protect the Holy Table fi-om the irreverence 
of the Puritans. Hats and gloves were thrown upon it ; churchwardens were 
writing their accounts thereon, the processioning boys eating their loaves and 
cakes, and dpgs leaping up at the bread, to the great scandal of our Reformation 
(Nicholls). There was no dispute in the primitive Church as to the name 
"altar" or "table." Mede, in his "Discourse of Altars," p. 386, says that 
" the name ' table ' is not to be found in any author for the two first ages." 

t He might also have remembered how the Founder of the feast did not 
•send Judas away. 



1 8a PHILIP HENRY. 

Wherewithal shall I come before God ? 

What shall I do unto thee 6: thou preserver of men. 

Why art thou cast down 6 my soul ? 

Memorand. — The Hedge between John Stocktons and John 
Rees in Tybr. being a foot hedge, was acknowledg'd to bee mine, 
but several trees, the quick wood being thrust away from them,, 
were now quite out of y" hedge. & challeng'd by John Rees to- 
bee his, though Randle Stockton did aver, hee had cropt them' 
& known them cropt by our Tenants in that house above these 
40 years. 

This I acquainted S' Thomas Hanmer w* who came and 
View'd the place & sayd, whatever they had been, now twas clear 
they were his, growing as they doe, out of the hedge, where- 
upon I propos'd it might bee ditcht, to prevent future strife, which 
hee yielded to, his Tenant to take and ditch the one half, mine 
the t'other. Accordingly it was divided by Cosin Thomas Jack- 
son Sen"'. I took the half next the house being rood — and 

this year it was ditcht & where quickwood was wanting, sett with 
quick-setts by John Stockton, which cost mee in all for the doing 
of it • . 

Jan. I. William Griffith went from us, having liv'd with us 
three yeares, an able and faithful servant, but sometimes wilful 
& testy — ■ne7no sine crimine vivit. Cosin Thomas" Jackson came 
in his stead, his wages 3""^ 5' ^ annu. 1° hee had in earnest. 

5. I sent to london by Cos. Thomas Hotchkis (who received 
great mercy from the Lord in his preservation from the Pestilence 
(for his man dyed) & hath been since in y° country with his 
Friends). God hath been very gracious to them hitherto, in 
giving them their lives for a prey, when Thousands- have fallen 
on their right hand & scores of thousands on y* left, the lord 
Almighty bee still unto them a sun & shield ! 

7. Mr. Daxton at chap. T. Luk. 23. 42. lord remember mee 
when thou comest into thy kingdom. Dnis qui pmniteuti vcniam- 
promisit, peccanti crastinum non promisit. 

8. This morning departed Mnason the old disciple, Mr. John 
Hotchkis of Whitch. aged 91. who got to Heaven, as few doe,. 



PHILIP HENRY. l8r 

without a blot. Being askt, if hee were willing to dye, hee 
answer' d, yes, what else ? Being askt w' hee thought of present 
th. & whether his Freinds might safely venture to suffer rather 
than conform, hee answ''' yea by all meanes for the cause is Gods. 
His last word, being askt, how he did was, well. 

lo. Dr. Fowler preacht at his buryal T. Gen. 15. ver. 15. 
Thou shalt goe to thy fathers in peace & slialt bee buryed in a 
good old age. so did hee. 

14. Mr. Bold at chap. T. Luk 12. Hell is a prison from 
whence there is no release for ever. O what cause have I to 
love the lord Jesus, who hath payd my debt & delivered mee 
from that condemnation^ This evening Cosin Ann Nixon dyed, 
having been sick more than a year & quarter ; whilst I live & am 
in health ; lord what shall I render ? 

17. Shee was buryed at Malpas. T. Rev. 14. 13. blessed 
are y" dead that dye in the lord. 

21. At Whitch. Mr. Cumins. T. 2 Pet. r. 10. election may 
bee made sure by making our calling sure, for else who hath 
ascended into heaven ? 

Multi volunt venire ad Deum, pauci verb post Deum. 

25. measur'd a mile by Paces. 2000 Paces from the begin- 
ning of y^ Pavement by the Pit to the hither end of the y" Pave- 
ment on Y little green on this side Richard Ratcliffs house. Will 
Griffith measur'd it. Teste Cos. Daniel Benyon ! 

26. Hee went on & measur'd from thence to Sarn-Bridge, 
which made 7500 paces, in all from y'' Pit to y° Sarn-Bridge. 
9500 paces. Six of his paces being measur'd made 5 yards. 

Note. Y" English mile is 1760 yards. 

16 foot & a half or 5 y"''' & half make a pole or perch. 
40 perches a furlong. 320 pch*^ which is 8 furlongs make a mile. 
The english mile contaynes 280 foot more than the Italian mile. 

27. Mr. Steel's family broke up & remov'd from his dwell- 
ing in Hanmer. his children scatter'd. The lord bee their portion, 
his freinds sorry, the lord be their comfort, hisself expos' d — the 
lord be his protection. 

28. At Whitch. Dr. Fowler preacht. T. 2 Tim. 3. 2 blas- 
. phemy & disobedience to Parents, natural, civil, spiritual, are 

like to bee two of the reigning sins in the later dayes. 



1 82 PHILIP HENRY. 

29. At Bronn. Jane Eddow publish't to bee marry'd to 
Thomas Wright of Whitch. my father is like to have miss of her 
in some tli. & shea of him in other th. 

30. publ. Fast, lord I profess my detestation of that horrid 
murther, which is cal'd to remembrance this day, & whereof I 
was a spectator, but I bless God, not in the least an approver, 
the lord pdon & lay it not to -f nation's charge. T. at AVhitch. 
Matth. 22. 21. 

31. I went from Ash to Shrews, to advise concerning send- 
ing of Cos. Dan. Ben. to y" University, which some of his Freinds 
are averse to, bee. of snares there, but I hope he is in some 
measure forearm'd. 

January. Those dyed of the plague in London & the suburbes, 
the last week of this month 56. the week before 79. 

Trinity-Steeple in Coventry blown down in this month. 

February i. I return'd from Shrez^b. bewayling my unprofit- 
ableness, for who is the better for mee. a child of Belial is hee, 
in whom there is no profit. 6 that I should bee such a one. 

3. Edw. Newton & cosin Alice Hotchkis contracted. Gen. 
24. 50. then Laban and Bethuel answered & sayd, the thing 
proceedeth from the lord, wee cannot speak unto thee bad or 
good. 

4. A day in thy courts is better then a thousand elsewhere, 
such a day better then ten thousand ; what time I am afrayd I will 
trust in thee; Thy vowes are upon mee o God, thy vowes are 
upon mee ! I desire to know nothing but X' Jesus & him 
crucifyed. 

6. Edw. Newton & cosin Alice Hotchkis marry'd at Ight- 
feild. The lord make her like Rachel & hke Leah, which two 
did build the house of Israel, & may hee doe worthily in 
Ephratah and bee famous in Bethlehem. 

7. Monthly fast should have been, but not observ'd at 
Whitch.* Tis well if our humiliation dayes doe not prove to be 
provocation dayes, through the general neglect. It had been 
observ'd, the Plague hath still increas'd, for several months, just 
the week after -f Fast. Ku'pte eXcj^o-oy. 

* In 1661 Newcome writes : " Christians lo your Bibles : sad if our zeale 
to our Bibles and the flames of persecution goe out together." 



-PHILIP HENRY. 1 83 

10. war proclaym'd about this time betw. us and France, 
lord bee thou a wall of fire round about us & y" glory in the 
midst of us. Salvation will hee appoynt for walls & bulwarkes, 
but then it followes, Open y" gate that y" righteous nation which 
keepeth the truth may enter in. 

11. Mr. Bold at chap. T. 1 John 3. 4. Neh. g. 33* How- 
beit thou art just in all that is brought upon us, for thou hast done 
right but wee have done wickedly. 

12. Term adjournd from Oxford to Windsor, from Windsor 
this day to Westminster, whither wee hear the court also is 
removd. 

13. At Ac. Cast thy burthen on y^ lord & hee shall sustayn 
i!a&Q.—feret ie — hee shall bear thee up under it, if hee doe not 
deliver thee from it. Amen. 

14. my little children, these things write I unto you that yea 
sin not. Of all the Arguments agt sin, none like this, X' hath 
dyed. 

My son John finisht his first reading over of his Accidence, 
reades English well, not i year till April since he went to school, 
blessed bee God. 

16. At y° quarter Sessions for Middlesex . . . Min"* & 
Schoolm'^ of less account took the Oath in y' morning, in the 
afternoon 13 more, D" Bates, Mr. Pool, Bastwick, Clarke, 
Shefifeild, Rood, Rolls, Church, Sarcliff, Ayler, Overton, Brookes. 
That which mov'd y'"" was S"' Orl. Bridgman's declaring upon y" 
Bench, that by endeavor was meant only seditious & tumultuous 
endeavor. W" all had subscrib'd Chief Justice Keeling spake to 
this purpose, well now. Gentlemen, I am glad to God so many of 
you, a whole Jury, have taken "this Oath, you have now renounct 
that abominable wicked Covenant & I hope will never speak a 
word for it any more, I hope others will doe likewise by your 
example, & that you will proceed further to conform. 

this narrative I saw in a letter from Mr. Arthur Jackson. At 
y" Quarter Sessions for Northamtonsh. eleven took the Oath, upon 
a like Assurance from Bish. Reynolds, the chief whereof was D' 
Conant. 

A paper cald y° Sober ghess concludes, the Spirit of life from 
God shall enter into the slayn witnesses about y° 24. of this month 



1 84 .PHILIP HENRY. 

when y° 3 dayes & a half, a day for a year are accomplish t — but I 
like not such Ghesses, it is not for you to know -f times & seasons. 

17. At Bronn. my father ill, suppos'd to bee an ulcer in his 
kidneyes. lord spare ! his life I beg, if it bee thy will ; his sal- 
vation however; and for his estate doe with it as pleases, thee, 
nee habeo, nee careo, nee euro. 

Mr. Hunt not clear for Cos. Dan. Ben. going to the University 
bee. of snares there, yet hee hims. being desirous of it, hee con- 
descended to it. the lord bee his good speed. 

I say to you my Freinds, There is a Covenant of Freindship 
betw. X' & Beleivers. Hee hath said, I will never leave thee nor 
forsake thee ! lord, by thy grace, I will never leave thee nor for- 
sake thee. 

25. At Whitch. T. 2 Tim. 3. 2. unthankful unholy. D"' 
sick, no sermon in -f aftern. 

28. Great mercy to my wife in her last deliverance acknow- 
ledg'd this day. Unto thee doe wee give thankes, unto thee doe 
wee give thankes ! 

March 22. This day, mee thought, it was made more clear 
to mee than ever by the hand of my God upon mee, and I note it 
down that I rnay remember it. 

: . I. That the Governm' of the Church of Christ ought to bee 
manag'd by the Ministers of Christ* Heb. 13. 7. 

* One might suppose that this was written by a Churchman in the present 

day, except that his conclusion is faulty ; schism carrying with it this deadly 

evil — that when the original excuses for separation are removed, Christians are 

no nearer to one another than they were before. 
Compare the following suggestions : — 

(I.) "That the clergy and lay communicants of the English Church should 
have a real voice in the election of their Isishops, instead of having 
bishops arbitrarily imposed on lliem by the Prime Minister of the 
day.'^ 

(2.) "That the bishops thus chosen should govern their dioceses constitu- 
tionally, with the advice of their diocesan synods, the necessity for the 
restoration of which is in no way lessened by the assembling diocesan 
conferences of clergy and laity, useful as these gatherings are." 

(3.) "That the provincial synods of Canterbury and York should be reformed, 
so as to provide for a more adequate representation of the parochial 
clergy, both beneficed and unbeneficed." 

(4.) " That the rightful position of the Convocations (thus reformed) in regard 
to ecclesiastical legislation • should be recognized by Parliament, in 
accprdance with our constitution in Chin-ch and ^te." 

(■5.) " That Church courts should be appointed — for tHe diocese, by the 
authority of the diocesan synod ; for the province, by the authority of 



PHILIP HENRY. 1 85 

2. That in Prelacy Ministers have not the managem' of Church 
Governm' not in the least being only the Executioners of y" 
Prelates Decrees, as in Excommunication and Absolution, which 
Decrees are given forth by lay-Chancelors and lay Deanes 
rural. - 

3. Therefore that Prelacy is a Usurpacoh in the church of 
God upon the Crown & Dignity of Jesus X' & upon y' Gospel- 
rights of his servants the Ministers. 

4. And therefore I ought not to subscribe to it, nor to swear 
not to endeavour in all lawful wayes y° Alteration of it, i.e. by 
praying, & |)swading when there is opportunity. 

5. but may safely venture to suffer in the refusal of such an 
Oath, committing my soul, life, estate, liberty, all, to him who 
judges righteously. 

7. Of y" plague, 28. | 14. of y° plague, 29. | 22. ofy° plague, 33. 

24. A sad day amongst poor Min"^ up & down these Nations, 
who by this Act of Restraynt are forc't to remove from amongst 
their Freinds, Acquaintance, Relations, People, and to sojourn 
amongst strangers, as it were in Mesech & in the Tents of Kedar. 
But there is a God who tells their wanderings & will put their 
teares & the teares of y""'' wives & children into his Bottle. Are, 
they not in his book ? 

Lord be a little Sanctuary to them & a place of refuge from 
the storm & from the tempest, and let not their removes bee 
figurative of any evil to these nations as Ezekiel's was — cap. 12. 
I. 2. 3. and pity those places from which they are ejected & come 
thou & dwell where y'' may not. There is great danger of de- 
cayes, declinings, Apostasyes, w" y° guides are gone, prevent lord. 

29. At Ash. unskilful in redeeming time, lord teach mee to 
nurnber my dayes. 

30. Of ye Plague 17. 

31. At O . . . the world iS our sojourning place — Heaven 
our home — 6— how much sweeter. . 

April I. Publique Sabbaths are to mee more -beautiful & 
more comfortable, but there is a promise to two or three. 

the provincial synod ; and as a Court of Appeal for the whole Church 
. of England, hf the joint authority of the two provincial synods." 
A seat in the House of Lords, with ;^5ooo a year, is not — pace Lord 
Houghton— of the essence of the episcopal office. 



l86 PHILIP HENRY. 

2. Sisters remov'd to Kensington from little Chelsey, wee 
have here no continuing city, but wee seek one to come. 

4: a signal answer of prayers in y' recovery of Sarah Benet, 
extream ill of y= smal Pox, I will love the lord because . . . 
Publique Fast should have been but now wee are not-slayn, wee 
seek not. 

6. Abraham follow'd God by Faith into a strange countrey not 
knowing whither, I lack faith to follow him fully even amongst my 
own people. 

though the Shepheard bee smitten, lord let not my little Flock 
at home bee scatter'd. bee Husband to wife, Father to children, 
Master to servants. | 6. Of y" plague 26. 

7. Welcome at Ash— I should doe ill to call myself an exile, 
Ash is neither Mesech, nor Kedar, nor Patmos, lord fit me for even 
such a banishtaent. 

8. Whitch. T. I Cor. 11. 26. The Sacram' is a memorial 
of the Death of X' worthy to bee had in everlasting remembrance. 

9. troubl'd, I am so unprofitable, of little or no use in my 
generation, how long lord, holy & true. 

10. At Tils[tock] Eza. 26. 8. yea in the way of tliy 
Judgm" 6 lord have wee wayted for thee — tis good that a man 
should both hope and quietly wayt for the salvation of the lord ; 
lord my soul wayteth for thee, more than they y' wayt & watch 
for y' morning. 

14. Of ye plague 28. 

15. Mr. Edw. at Cockshute. T. Ecd. 7. i. The day of 
ones death is better than the day of ones birth, bee. our Birth-day 
lets us into a vg.yn world, w°'' death lets a believer out of & opens 
a door into eternal rest in the bosom of God, which is best of all. 

22. At Aulam, where preaches one Mr. Cole affectionately & 
to Eedification, which I am glad to see anywhere, prais'd bee God. 
Tit. 2. 3. 

24. At Acton, cos. K . . . a 2"" daughter, p. G. thence to 
Nantw. Iio7n. 12. i. God's mercyes to our bodyes should engage 
us to serve God with our bodyes. though bodily exercise alone in 
wors" profits noth. yet I must glorify God both with my body & 
with my spirit, for both are his, and I must m)t in anyth. sin agt, 
him with my Body, and I must bee ready to suffer for him with 
my Body. Amen. 



PHILIP HENRY. 1 8/ 

29. Sabbath spent at Torperley where preaches Mr. Sherrot. 
T. Col. 3. 3. the life of a X""" a hidden life, theref. judge not, for 
without all doubt many whom wee now take to bee Godly shall at 
y^ last day bee found Hypocrites & many whom wee now con- 
demn as Hypocrites shall bee found godly. 

April. I was bound in a bond mth Robert Bickley my freind 
to Elizabeth Yardley of Whitch. for 30"' which liee had of her, to 
bee paid at Michi next. Salomon saith, hee that hateth suretiship 
is sure but hee saith also, hee that hath Freinds must show hims. 
Freindlyj I am bound with him, for other 30"' to y" parish of 
Hanmer, and besides that for no other that I know of in this 
world; nor no other for mee but the same Robert Bickley for 130. 
which I owe to Timothy Adams. 

May I. I went with my wife to Hakos to Cos. Talb. whom 
God hath blessed with a second son nam'd Richard, p. G. thence 
to Ash. 

3. My son John five yeares old this day. 6 w* yeares of 
mercy have they been to us in resp. of children, given, preserv'd, 
thriving, health, mercy and noth. but mercy. 

6. Mr. Edw. at Tilst. T. Hos. 5. 15. the great God takes 
it for granted that a people or ^son in affliction will turn to him. 
twere well if alwayes it might bee so, twere well if it were so with 
this nation, with london at this day. My wife present also, parted 
at Even, shea to O, I to A. blessed bee God, it hath been other- 
wise ! I Cor. 7. 29. 

7. remayning lo"" payd by my wife to. Mr. Yates. 

8. I went from A. circum circa, whilst a rolling stone, God 
grant I may gather moss to my soul, and doe Good to my Freinds, 
some way or other. Amen. 

14. Mr. Whitehal had a great deliverance near Ightfield. his 
horse threw him into a ditch & then lay upon him, almost half an 
hour. I was present at the getting of him out, & no great harm, 
a mercy never to bee forgotten by him, God grant it may not. 

15. I wrote to my wife to go to Sir T. H. & to Mr. H. of 
Fenns, to acquaint them with my Desire that they would either 
nominate another Collector or indemnify mee, the fonn" they 
would not, the later*' they would not promise, but I suppose the 
last change in the Act of Restraynt, if need bee^ will reach y° case- 



1 88 .PHILIP HENRY. 

14. My wife appear'd for me at Malp. Visit, paid y" Fees & 
procur'd my discharge out of their bookes, where I was presented 
t)y Mr. Tanat & Mr. Bromley for not coming to the Sacram'. 

In this month sickned & dy'd John Kinaston of Otely Esq' the 
iifth heir of that House in 25 year. Sir Edward. Sir Francis, Mr. 
Edward. Sir Francis and Mr. John, the next now succeeding is 
Edward. 

16. At A. not well. Head Ake, payn in shoulder & Breast, 
;a cold taken in my wandr. but the lord is righteous & tis meer 
mercy I am not consum'd. Through freinds kindness I wanted 
noth. — as like home as could bee, but that it was not. p. G. 

24. At Sta[nwardine] * with Uncle B. thence at night ad- 
la: Qu: safe & well, blessed bee God. 

26. Mrs. Steel brought to bed at her own house in Hanmerf 
■of a son, whither her husband may not come to her, a great afflic- 
tion : but shall wee receive good at the hand of y° Lord & shall 
•wee not receive evil also ? 

— baptized the week after, named Josiah. 

— dy'd Jun. 3. & bury'd at Hanmer, its two brothers Moses & 
Samuel laying it in the grave, which much affected those who were 
present. 

28. Mr. Heath, late Minister of Julians in Shrewsb. was 
bury'd at Wellington, where he had been an exile since Mar. 24 — 
Being askt by Mr. Laurence what reflections hee had on his death- 
bed upon his non-conformity, hee said hee would not but have 
■done as hee did for a thousand worlds. Hee was trium linguarum 
peritissimus ; the best Hebricean in these p*^ of England. Hee 
read the liturgy till Aug. 24.- — 62 and then went off, refusing to 

* Stanwardine, Salop, belonged to the family of Horde of Walford. It 
came by marriage lo Kinaston of Hordley, and with Jane, second daughter of 
Thomas Kinaston of Walford, it came to Robert (son of Roger) Corbett, of 
Shawbury, Esq., who built the fine hall which is still standing(i88l). 

t By Richard Steele's will, proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 
December 10, 1692, it appears that he had a tenement of his own in Hanmer. 
This will account for the painful separation referred to. At that time there was 
no vicarage house thefe. In the Gcntleinaif s Magaziiif for 1762, Candidus 
writes : " Richard Steel was the vicar here (Hanmer) in the grand rebellion, 
and when obliged to quit the place by the Five-mile Act, he wrote the twenty- 
fifth and twenty-sixth verses of the fifteenth chapter of 2 Samuel in a pane of a 
window of the house, with his name at bottom, in the year 1665, which very 
pane is yet remaining." 



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declare. He had great confidence that God would provide for his- 
widow & children, according to promise. 

The week before^ Mr. York dy'd in Shrewsb. a holy good man,, 
& well approved in y° Ministry, who wasted his own Candle in 
giving light to others, even whilst under y° Bushel, lord is this 
•f meaning of Rev. 11. 12. concern, the witnesses. 6 stay thy 
hand. Ps. 39. /. 

Easter-Tithes payd. 

Cowes & Calves 
Offerings ... 
Plow-seat 
A colt 
Bees... 
Dove-hoiise 



Pigeons taken since Mar. 30. to this time about. 14 dozen. 

from. July 31. to the end of the year, taken more — 18 dozen. 
In all, 32 dozen. 

An unhappy difference between Uncle Hotchkis & cosin 
Raph Eddow about a legacy left in old Mr. Hotchkis Will, their 
Brother Mr. Tho. Hotch. came over to mediate, and my endeavours 
were used with his, but hee returned re infecta. A brother offended 
is harder to be won than a strong city, and their contentions are 
like the bars of a Castle. 

A terrible sea-fight between us & the Dutch,* wherein accord, 
to the first report wee had the better which caused great joy, but 
it proved afterwards wee had the worst, many ships and men lost, 
which caused great sadness. 

* A fleet of seventy-four sail was equipped in May, of which Prince Rupert 
took twenty sail to the Mediterranean, while the Duke of Albemarle was sur- 
prised to find the Dutch fleet of more than eighty ships off the North Foreland- 
He fought till night (June l ), with great loss. The next day the enemy were . 
reinforced with sixteen sail, and Monk, again sustaining the attack with his usual 
determination, fought as long as the light of day served. He then with difficulty 
commenced a retreat. On the evening of the third day, Rupert returned with 
his twenty ships, and the fight was resumed ; they separated at last under cover 
of a thick fog. The advantage had been, on the whole, with the Dutch. On 
the 2Sth of June they met again, and the Dutch were defeated. Holmes, with a 
squadron of boats and five ships, entered the Baltic and burned two men-of-war- 
and a hundred and fifty merchantmen and theircargoes. The rage of De Witt 
indicates the greatness of the loss. 



igo . PHILIP HENRY. 

Feares of sudden invasion follow'd whereupon the Countryes 
were arm'd but it pleas'd God to scatter the cloud for present, lord 
bee England's God and Guid, Sun and Shield. Amen. 

Reasons of my venturing at home notwiths. the penalty of the 
Act. 

1. a Warrant requiring mee to collect the Royal Ayd, which 
I cannot doe unless present. The last clause of y" Act provides 
that personal appearance in obedience to a Warrant shall not bee 
construed an offence. 

2. having measur'd, I find it 5 miles, to the bounds of the 
Parish; reckoning 1760. yards to a mile, accord, to the Statute. 
35 Eliz. cap. 6. & Tis" Mr. Ratclifs opinion which I have under 
his hand and Mr. Tlio. Jones of Shrewsb. as I am credibly inform'd 
(both which are Lawyers & Parliam' men) that the miles men- 
tioned in the Act are to bee measur'd miles. 

3. It is doubtful whether I were either Parson, Vicar, Curate, 
or Stipendary at Worthenb. since the Act of Oblivion, preaching 
there a while only gratis, by permission not substitution of Dr. 
Bridgman. 

July. Armour from Shrewsb. Back & Breast & Head-peice. 
cost i"" 13' 4*. Muster at Flint. 4 dayes. Randle Stocton trayn'd 
for mee at 16'' j3 diem. 

Early harvest, the like scarce remembered. 

Atigust 4. I was summon'd by warrant to Hanmer to sub- 
scribe to the loan for the urgent occasions of the Dutch war ; I 
appear'd and pleaded I had it not, neither have I, and therefore 
desired to bee excus'd ; I was told my denyal proceeded from 
disaffection, but it doth not. some little I would have lent, but 
less than 20"' would not bee accepted. My Father Mathewes 
refus'd to lend also, which gave Sir T. H. occasion to say, wee 
know where money is and if the King have need of it, hee must 
and shall have it. 

13. I went towards Flint being served thither with a sub- 
poena to witness in a cause betw. Mr. Nevet of london & Mr. 
Eyton of leeswood concerning lightwood Farm, settled by Mr. 
Sergeant Puleston on his son Thomas, and by him sold to 
Mr. Nevet for 455. Mr. Eyton claymes by an entayl made by 
Mr. George Puleston. 



.PHILIP HENRY. 19 ^ 

17. It was heard. I attested my hand, being witnes to Mr. 
Puleston's deed to his son, and declar'd moreover being required 
to it w' I had heard him say, viz. the reason why hee settled it on 
his son Thomas was ptly. for his name sake, it having been the 
Annuity of his uncle Thomas, & thought it might be question'd, 
yet hee had by a commission & depositions made it so clear that 
the right might easily bee defended. After 3. or 4. houres hearing, 
the Jury brought in their Verdict for Mr. Eyton, the Judge sent 
them forth again, then press' a reference which was at last yielded 
to, referees were, Mr. Fr. Manley, and Mr. Walcot & y° Judge to 
name a moderator. 

August 15. Mr. Luke Lloyd jun. indited at the Assizes at 
Flint for disturbing Mr. Hilton at Hanmer in y" time of Adinfation 
of y" Sacram'.* witnesses sworn deposed that the blessing was 

* The following letter from Sir Thomas Hamaier to Judge Charlton shows 
that the disturbance had taken place two years previously. It shows also who 
they were that distrusted the Nonconformists, and resented the injuries brought 
by them upon the country. 

" My Lord, 

"About Michaelmas last complaint being made to me, & other 
justices of the peace in this neighbourhood of a strange irreverent, & bold 
carriage of one Mr. Luke- Lloyd the Younger towards the Vicar of Hanmer 
Parish on a Sunday in the Church of Hanmer, we met together & examined 
several witnesses, whose depositions are here enclosed & thereupon thought it 
our parts to bind the said Mr. Lloyd to his good behaviour to appear before 
your Lordship the next Assizes in Flintshire. The reasons inducing us were, 
that the giving the lie was a great provocation to the breach of the peace, and 
being given in a sacred place & to a sacred person at the Communion board, 
we thought it fitt to be transmitted over to your Lordship to proceed as in your 
wisdom should seem meet. Besides the former reasons we had at that very 
time orders from His Majesty & the Lord President to have a special eye over 
such as conformed not to the Church or State, & to secure the most dangerous, 
& had many Nonconformists in this parish of Hanmer, who we feared would 
grow insolent, if such an affront to the Church should pass unpunished. 

' ' Having given your Lordship this account of our proceedings against Mr. 
Lloyd I must now acquaint your Lordship that I am very credibly informed 
ihat Mr. Lloyd hath been with our Bishop, my lord of Chester, and hath shewn 
sorrow for his carriage & hath promised Conformity to the Church for the 
future : the like he hath also done to me, & I hope his professions are real, 
divers of his friends having engaged their words for him, & upon their 
entreaties I am prevailed with to desire your Lordship's gentle usage of him, 
which is all I have to trouble you with at present ; therefore I conclude, & 
remain, Y' faithful serv' 

"Tho. Hanmer. 

"Hanmer, March 12, 1665." 



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pronounc't & y" people gone, only some few remayn'd accord, to 
y° Ruhr, to eat w' was left of y° consecrated bread, which the Judge 
declar'dto bee j?' ofy''Sacram*: the Jury brought him in not guilty, 
sent out again by y" Judge, the second time y"' brought him in 
guilty. Tho. Jenkins depos'd, Mr. Hilton was talking with Randle 
Eddow w" Mr. Lloyd came to him, if talking not administring. 
Mr. Hilton refusing to give him the Sacram' in his pew, hee 
came up to know the reason & after some other discourse, had 
occasion to tell him & told him, hee was a lyar & hee would prove 
him one, w* was -f disturbance. 

Much prophaness in the Town, drinking, swearing, revelling, 
night & day, such as I have not seen this long time, and that it 
should be so in y° very face of Justice, is a sign that wickednes 
hath a high hand, & then tis time to cry help Lord. 

1 6. I went to Holliwel, a wonderful spring; pity, so abus'd. 

1 8. I return' d, found my family well, and am for ever bound 
to love & praise the God of my mercyes. Amen. 

24. This day compleats y" 35 year of my Age, lord teach mee 
so to number my dayes that I may yet apply my heart to wisdom. 
Tis now 4 yeares since the Decree was put in execution agt. the 
Ministers, how long lord, holy and true ! 

September 2. A lamentable fire began in london, in a Baker's 
house in Pudding lane behind the King's Head Tavern in new 
Fish-Street, which continu'd burning till Thursday following, laying 
wast that famous and beautiful City, except a very smal remnant 
of it, in its own rubbish. 

The use I would desire to make of this sad providence is as 
foUoweth, 

1. to get my heart deeply affected with it and with sin the 
cause of it, the nations sin, the sin of london, my own sin. 

2. to weep with those that weep and to mourn with those 
that mourn, as being myself also in the body. How many thou- 
sand familyes, that have not where to lay their head ! 

3. to see herein as in a glass, what a pittiful portion is a 
portion in this world, and how far it must needs bee from making 
a man happy, seeing in one moment it makes to itself wings and 
fly's away. 

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house & goods continually from morning to Evening and from 
Evening to morning again. 

5. what a terrible day will it bee when all the world shall bee 
on fire and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth 
also and all the works that are therein shall bee burnt up. 

6. was there not mercy in it to poor silenc'd Ministers, that 
they were banisht out of the City before this sweeping Judgment 
came upon it, and is not the case somewhat like that of lot fetcht 
out of Sodom. Gen. 19. 15. 16. 

7. may it not be a further voice to our Governors, like that to 
Pharoh, saying let my people goe that they may serve mee, and if 
ye will not, behold thus & thus will I doe unto you. 

8. is there not someth. to bee observ'd in the circumstance of 
time that it began on the Sabbath day, as if the lords controversy 
w'' london was more particularly for prophaning that holy day. 

Chronogram. totVs MVnDVs Conflagrabit MDCLXVI. 

The account given by y° City to the King and Council. Burnt 
within the walls 273 acres of building, standing 65. without the 
walls burnt 75 acres & some odd roods. | dwelling houses in all. 
13200. I churches. 89. standing. 11. 

I received 5"' of Mr. Hunt of Boreatton for my white mare. 

October. Receiv'd from Mr. Jackson of Shrewsb. 120. welsh 
bookes to bee distributed freely, in North Wales, tis Mr. Baxter's 
call to the unconverted, Ex dono Authoris. 

Sent to Mr. lewis to bee given about Wrexham, & in Anglesey 60 
to Mr. Jones for Denbigh ... ... ... ... 20 

to Mr Spark for about Northop ... ... 6 

occasionally to partic. psons. 

to Mr. Ellis Rolands for Carnarvon. 

The Termes. 

1. to read it over twice 

2. to lend it if desir'd. 

Several Fires about the beginning of y° month in & about 
london, one in the Stables over against Whitehal ; Behold the lord 
God calls to contend by fire, 6 lord God cease, I beseech thee. 

— children all not well, especially John ; our feares of parting 
with them were renewed upon us, and wee made a fresh Deed of 

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194 PHILIP HENRY. 

gift, resigning them up to the ■will of God, and once more it 
pleas'd the lord in mercy to give them back to our prayers, bless 
the lord 6: my soul, I will love the lord because hee hath heard 
the voice of my supplications. 

1667. 

Mar. I . A youth of 1 7 or 1 8 y. of age riding near after Another 
in y' way betw. Shrewsb. & Wrexham, there hanging a bough of a 
tree over y' way, hee put it back with his hand and it flurted in 
the youth's face & strook him into his eye & brayn whereof this 
day hee dyed at Wrexham, the youth's name was Bowen. 

4. William lack told mee of a woman in Hope parish, sister 
to John Griffith of Hawarden of a prophane life, who hearing 
those words pronounc't at y° Sacram' wherby Scandalous livers 
are warn'd not to come at that holy Table was struck in Con- 
science & fell into great terrors, the Min' Mr. Jones being sent 
for told her, hee did not mean her why should shee take it to hers, 
gave her an Amulet viz. some verses of John I. written in a paper 
to hang about her neck, as also certayn herbes to drive the Devil 
out of her,* but all in vayn^ her Brother and William lack being 
sent for, thej gave her counsel & pray'd with her several times till 
at length shee was much better, and they hope a good work is 
wrought in her, her husband saying hee knows not but hee is sure 
she is a better wife since than shee ever was. The Min' threatned 
to Indite J. G. & W. L. at the great Assize for Seducers. 

8. wee remov'd to Whitch. from Broad-Oke, God almighty 
goe along with us & bee our Sun and Sheild. As wee passed over 
the red-brook, it somew affected mee to remember how with my 
Staff I pass'd it awhile since & now I am become two bands, 
blessed bee God. The occasion of our remove is partly with 
reference to the late Act of restraynt from the penalty of w'* I am 
not altogether secure, but cheifly for the childrens sake, the school 
being taken now from Whitw. chap, to Wigland by S' 0[rlando] 
J3[ridgeman].f 

* Cf. Tobit vi. 6, 7; Josephus, "Antiquities," book viii. ch. ii. 5, and 
"Wars of Jews," book vii. ch. vi. 3. 

t Bishop John Bridgeman of Chester, father of the lord keeper. Sir Orlando 
Bridgeman, purchased from Richard Egerton, Esq., in 1635, the inanor of 
Malpas, as also Wolvesacre, Wigland, and Bryne-pits. Mr. Kgerton was heir 
to the Breretons, 



PHILIP HENRY, 195 

9. A sad welcome to Town, by reason of a Fire breaking 
forth in y" evening of this day,* which caus'd a great fright for the 
time, St t'was y' more affecting to mee bee. t'was in a Kil. belonging 
to Mr. Moxon, a non-conformist in Town, though not living as 
■such — lord, grant, though I may bee esteem'd wrongfully, yet I 
may never be found justly among the troublers of Israel on any 
account whatsoever. 

15. my wife not comm. to us yet to Whitch. by reason of the 
weaknes of her Father but y° less must give place to y° greater. 

1 7. This day about 2 clock after noon my Father Mathewes 
departed this life, having endur'd much tormenting payn for a 
long time. 

18. The 6 Feoffees mett Sc perus'd the will & finding my son 
John sole Execuf & thems. only desir'd to bee ayding & assisting, 
they thought the power would naturally devolve to mee as Gardian, 
which I profess I am no way desirous of, bee. of trouble & ac- 
count which it brings with it, but there being none else, I under- 
take it, begging grace & wisdom of God, that I may bee found 
feithful. 400"" was in ready money in his trunk & no more 
though reports were otherwise. 

20. This evening dyed Jane Woods, who had been a servant 
to my father 40 y. Two dead in the house together. 

21. my Father buryed at Hanm' Mr Hilton preacht T. 
I Cor. 19. 44. Jane Woods bury'd the next day. 

26. my good old Cosin Tho. Jackson dyed after only one 
■dayes sickness. Hee was present at the two former buryals in the 
begin, of y" week. & dead hims. by y' end of it. lord what is man ! 

29. I prov'd my Father's will at Chester being made ad- 
ministrator, in regard my son the execuf is an Infant. I had 
a,lso letters of Tuition of him & y" other children and took the 
oath to bring y"" up in y" fear of God according to the lawes, 
which God enable mee to doe. Another kind of Oath was 
tendred which I refus'd. 

February. Goods priz'd, some under, some over. Wearing 
apparel distributed according to the will. About this time I was 
discharg'd from my Of&ce of Collector through my remove to 

* The house occupied by Philip Henry is said to be the one opposite to 
the new Independent Chapel in the street of Dodington, Whitchurch. 



ig6 PHILIP HENRY. 

Whitch. I gave up the warrant to Sir Tho. Hanin'', the Acquit- 
tances hee return'd. 

9. Mr. Francis Kinaston of Pant-y-byrsley at the impor- 
tunate request of his mother & Mr. Edw"^ of Kylhendrey came to 
us to Whitch. to sojourn with us for a time ; I pray God make 
mee Instrumental to doe him some real lasting good. 

Luke 22. 62. and Peter went out & wept bitterly. Peter's 
sin recorded for Admonition, Peter's Repentance for Imitation. 

II. Health & peace in my Family, blessed bee God ! wee 
find his goodness the same here as formerly elsewhere, to his 
name bee y'' praise. 

14. See Jon. i. 6. what meanest thou 6. sleep, arise call 
upon thy God. J. H. when the storm is risen as at this day, its 
no time to bee secure asleep, but each member is to improve his 
partic. Interest in his God in behalf of y° common ship of church 
and state. 

Jam. I. 4. let patience have her ^pfect work. 

Esa. I. 13. 14. Sanctify the lord of hosts hims. 

19. Expectation of peace with the Dutch w'^'' God grant & 
scatter the people that delight in war. 

20. Tis observable how zealous people were for y* observa- 
tion of lent a while since and how cold they are towards it now ; 
what hath no foundation will not last ; but in that which is good 
■^is duty to bee zealously affected alwayes. 

24. If I may doe any good in this place I have what I 
desire, lord use mee ! Prov. 23. 1 7. let not thy heart envy 
sinners but bee thou in the fear of y" lord all the day long. 

25. A very dry season considering the time of year which, 
threatens — if mercy prevent not. Wee are sick of plenty. 

March i. I went with Mr. C. beyond Dee where wee had', 
precious opportunityes both of doing & getting good. 2. sow in. 
teares. 3. reap in joy. It is good for mee to draw near to God., 
lord pity scatter'd sheep that have no shepheard. 

8. Cease from anger & forsake wrath. I have a froward 
peevish spirit unto this day impatient of contradiction, 6 y' it 
were mortify'd, y' the grace of meekness might abound in mee 
more & more. 

10. It is y° blessing of blessings to bee turn'd away from sin,, 
lord turn mee away from mine iniquity. 



PHILIP HENRY. 1 97 

15. Poll-money* assest & gather' d, every Gentleman to pay 
20^ & e.y&vj pson having g, hundred pounds, either in ready money 
or clear debts 20' on which accounts both my self & children 
should have been likely to have pay'd, if at Broad-Oke, but here 
wee scapt for la"* a peice, if there bee not a review. The chil- 
<iKens hundred pounds is not yet pay'd though it bee to bee pay'd. 

Articles seal'd with William Butler & bond taken for ^form- 
ance ; his rent 55'" p. ann. I to pay taxes — Hee would have had 
ibond from mee for ^formance on my p' which being not usual 
I refus'd. 

16. My son Mathew sicken'd of y° Measils wherwith most 
children are visited in the Town, & mine no better y™ others. 

19. I went w"' Mr. Kinaston to Kylhendry thence to Pant-y- 
Byrsleys. At Kylhendry they were in Sorrow at the sicknes of 
a little child, wee pray'd but the lord was pleased not to hear, 
or at least not to grant w' wee askt in kind for y° child dyed — a 
forward child, nam'd Kath. 

21. Mathew ill, we were afraid of him, & pray'd that the 
lord would not yet break y° Knott of us, but hee is wise & his 
will bee done. 

25. W. B. Zech. 4. 7. who art thou o great mountayn; lord 
Jesus make playn the mountaynes of Opposition that are in the 
way of the churches salvation. This day was bury'd my dear 
Friend Mr. Griffith Roberts of Holt, an old servant of J. X'. Hee 
left most of his estate to publike pious uses, and now sleepes in 
Jesus. 

27. Mr. Lawrence 111 of y° ague, lord purge us by thy fires 
& purely take away our dross & tin. 

30. My good Friend Robert Bickley was drownd at Eaton- 
boat, riding late hee slept on horse-back & the Horse taking y" 
water both sunk together, its sayd this very day 12. m. hee was 
in y" same danger but escapt. Hee &fA. much in debt but hath 
'deft wherewithal to discharge it, if his son deal honestly. 

April 2. I acquainted S' Tho. Hanm' & Mr. Hilton i. 
that Billings his legacy of 66"" 13^ 4* for Hanmer Schools de- 

* Evelyn wrote, October 6, 1660 : " I paide the greate Tax of Poll Money 
levied for disbanding the Aitny till now kept up. I paid as an Esquire ^10, 
and one shilling for every servant in my house. " 



T98 PHILIP HENRY. 

volv'd to my wife as heir and I should bee responsible for it. 
2. that y" 40* to y" poor given by Tho. Math, should bee made 
100'" because of Dan Math, intention to augm' it. all which 
together might purchase some Tenem'. S' Tho. Hanm' propos'd 
one of his in Orton. 

3. My son John ill, the Measils came out & after a day or 
two disappear'd again and left a dulnes, prseter-natural heat, & 
shortnes of breath upon him. wee sent for D' Archer, who 
administred to him. 

5. Wee thought hee had been dying, having many Symp- 
tomes of Death upon him, intermittent pulse, blacknes of nayles 
&c., but the lord repriev'd him. 

7. ill still yet not without some hope, his head light, talking 
continually which spends his spirits, yet not a wicked word nor 
once taking the name of God in vain, but all his complaynt o: 
dear. This morning dy'd John Figes an only son. 

10. ill still yet not without some hope, though but little, 
unless in the absolute power of the infinite God, to whom prayer 
is made by many on his behalf. 

12. At Sun-sett this day hee dy'd, our first bom and the 
beginning of our strength, a forward child, manly, loving, patient 
under correction. 6: that I could now bee so under the correct- 
ing hand of my heavenly Father, lord wherefore is it that thou 
contendest, show mee, show mee. have I over-boasted, over- 
loved, over-prized — my heart bleeds, lord have mercy. 

Immodicis brevis est Betas, et rara senectus, 
Quicquid amas, cupias, iion placuisse nimis. 

14. I attended * on publike Ordinances though sad in Spirit, 
as Job who after all the evil tidings that were brought him, 
whereof Death of children was y° last but not y° least yet fell 
down & worshipped. 

15. my dear child, now mine no longer,f was layd in the 
cold earth in y° middle He in Whitch. church betw. y^ Desk & 
chancel, not lost, but sown to bee raysd again a glorious body 
and I shall goe to him but hee shall not return to mee. Mr. 
Edwards, his school-master preacht. Text. Mar. 13. 35. 

* What a fine example is this to those suffering in mind, body, or estate, 
t See page 203. 



JPHILIP HENRY, I99 

16. A fire at Drayton, above 30 dwelling houses burnt, 
lord thy judgm** are in the land, 6: that the Inhabitants thereof 
might learn righteousnes ! 6: that I might ! 

22. Sarah lawrence dyed, a hopeful may'd, giving good 
evidence of a work of grace wrought upon her soul, & 6: how 
willing may parents bee to p' with such when y" lord calls, they 
are not amissi but prsemissi. lord thou hast made thy poor serv*^ 
that have been often companions in thy work now companions 
in tribulation, the very same tribulation, mee for my sin, him for 
his tryal. 6: let everlasting armes bee under, and come instead 
of dead children and bee our comforter. Dr. Fowr preacht. T. 
Ps. 116. 25. 

29. my daughter Sarah yet ill of y' Ague but wee hope better 
than shee hath been, lord spare the remnant. 

30. Expectation of peace with Holland 6: that peace might 
bee with God ! 

May 3. If my dear child had liv'd to this day hee had been 
Six yeares of Age, but hee lives, I trust, a better life in the Armes 
of Jesus, accord, to' the termes of the Covenant of grace. The 
day was then a day of rejoycing, now of mourning, but the same 
God both gave & took away, blessed bee his name. 

5. Freinds flock in to us on Sabbath-Evenings, & to will 
is present, but to doe them the good I would I am not able, lord 
enable, and spin out this thred of opportunity, if it please thee ! 

6. Tho. Bickley had 16"" of Dav. Philips for 6 months 
Roger Jenkins surety, either fame misrepresents him or hee 
takes ill courses, which I am sorry for, & y° rather bee. religion 
suffers. 

7. Alice, y° daughter of Cosin Newton about 6. w. old was 
smother'd in bed by y° nurse, a great affliction, greater than mine, 
though I the greater sinner, t'was their first & only one & the 
death untimely.. 

11. at A.' Zech. 12. 10. sorrow for sin should bee like parents 
sorrow at such a time & w' y' is God hath let mee now by ex- 
perience know, that I might teach others. 

12. Covenants solemnly renew'd with God in Jesus X' who is 
mine, mine, & I am his, and who shall separate ! 

14. G. W., in bitternes for sin, unbosom'd hims. to mee 



200 PHILIP HENRY. 

* M ^ and through mercy it did raee good and I spake that 
to him which through the same mercy did him good also, to God 

bee glory. 

15. About this time my son Math, began his Accidence. 
bless lord, & let it bee sayd, uno avulso non deficit alter Aureus. 

16. great zeal a while since in procession, now much abated, 
bee. wants foundation. 

19. Freinds forbear to come in to us bee. hee offended who 
should rather have rejoyced, if by any meanes the work might bee 
carryd on in his peoples soules. 

21. At Bick. Ps. 145. 17. The lord is righteous in all his 
wayes, & holy in all his workes. That evening to Che' where 
advis'd with Mr. Ratcl. concerning Bronington-Estate, who in- 
form'd mee that in regard of a former Entayl by Tho. Mathewes 
which I shew'd him & no fine levyd upon it, for which I made 
search in the Office, the Feoffm' made by my Father was void as to 
the land of Inheritance both in Bronn. & Willington, but re- 
ma3ni'd good as to w' hee purchas'd of which advice given under 
his hand I may or may not make use as there is occasion. 

28. upon payment of one hundred markes to and for Tho. 
Bickley hee seald unto mee this day with livery & seizin a 
morgage of two feilds in Mulsford called Kay glas, the rent 
expected from it is 4" which I intend for y' School-use, till some 
other way bee found out for y" better disposing of it to y° content 
of the Parish of Hanm'' accord, to Mr. Billings his will. 

About this time d'yd -f D. of Kendal * 2"'' son of the D. of 
York, his eldest the D. of Cambridge not likely to recover, his 
only daughter either quite or almost blinded with tlie Kings Evil, 
lord, Shew the Family wherfore thou thus contendest with them. 

June 5. a very cold wind & rayn, which caus'd the Death 
of many Sheep & other cattle. 

yong Mr Yates childless, his wife also not like to live, marry'd 
since wee, hath had 4. children, and now they ai-e not. 

9. The Dutch \ appear'd upon the English coasts, assaulted 

* See Pepys' Diary for May 14, 1667, and Philip Henry's diary for 1671, 
April I (n.). 

\ Charles II. having received from his Parliament /i, 800,000, which was 
insufficient to maintain his fleet and pay past debts, and trusting to the prospect 
of peace from negotiations opened at Breda, laid up several of the largest 



PHILIP HENRY. 201 

the Isle of Shepey, burnt & sunk several of our best Ships, that 
lay in harbour, which caused great distraction in & about London, 
men's hearts generally fayling them through fear. 

Papists promise thems. a day, lord, in the pit which they dig 
let their own fopt bee taken. Amen. 

12. I went with uncle Benyon to Boreatton, bought of Capt. 
Heneage a parcel of law-bookes for Cosin Daniel. 

13. with Mr. Talants to Churton, became acquainted with 
Mr. Barnston & his wife, shee drouping & complayning. Lord lift 
up the light of thy countenance upon her soul & give her peace. 

18. mourning ones shall bee marked ones, Ezek. 9. 4. Ps. 
119. 136. 

19. Mr. Tho. Porter* late Min'' of Whitch dy'd. at Shrewsbury 

vessels. This was De Witt's opportunity for vengeance. He collected seventy 
ships, and the 13th of June saw the Dutch fleet advancing triumphantly up the 
river. They destroyed three large ships at Chatham, and did much mischief ; 
for six weeks they insulted the English coast, attempting, but in vain, to burn 
the ships at Portsmouth, Plymouth, and Torbay. Macaulay writes, " Had 
there been a general election while the nation was smarting under so many 
disgraces and misfortunes [the plague and the fire], it is probable that the 
Roundheads would have regained ascendency in the State. " 

* " Born in Northamptonshire and bred at Cambridge " (Calamy). 
There are three of this name in the Oxford register at the beginning of 
the seventeenth century, which leaves it doubtful whether he took an ad 
■cundem degree in that university. On the 15th of March, 1625, he was pre- 
sented to the living of Hanmer, in Flintsliire, by Sir Thomas Hanmer (so written 
in the Chester Diocesan Registiy, but Sir Thomas was then only thirteen 
years of age), and remained there until the "heat of the war forced him to 
withdraw " (Calamy). It may be noticed that in the Hanmer register he 
signs himself " Vicar," or " Vic," down to 1632, after which it is "Minister." 
The first time this title is put after his name, it is not in his own writing. His 
last signature is at the end of 1640, and his entries continue as far as March 20, 
1641. He was presented, to Whitchurch, in 1650, by Cromwell, according to 
tradition, and at the same time (as may be supposed) "took to himself the 
right of putting into Hanmer, and made Mr. Steele his deputy " (" Collections 
for Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy " (Bodleian), vol.. i. No. 203). He 
"preached his farewell sermon at Whitchurch, August 28, 1660" (Philip 
Henry's diary). 

In Dudleston, Salop, there were estates belonging to a family of Porter for 
several generations, and in 1726 they were in the. possession of one of the same 
name : " Mr. Porter was so excellent a preacher, in Mr. Baxter's judgment, 
that he declared he thought few arrived to his degree that ever he had heard " 
(Calamy). He had two sons of the name of Jabez, one bom at Hanmer in 
1639, the other at Whitchurch in 1653, who died soon after their birth. " A 
son of his preached sometimes at Tilstock, one of his Chappels, but whether 
so long as his father remained at Whitchurch is uncertain : He went after- 
wards to Bunbury, and the B^ of Chester would not (says Mr. Tallents) give him 



202 PHILIP HENRY. 

in a good old age ; a man much honored by God with success in 
his ministry, there being many who call him Father — Hee was 
exercis'd long with payn upon his bed & f multitude of his bones 
with strong payn,_so unsearchable are thy Judgm" 6: lord & thy 
wayes past finding out for if this bee done to the green tree, what 
shall bee done to the dry. His dying counsel to the lords people 
was, to stick to Christ & not to let him goe, tide life, tide death. 

Trayned-soldiers cald in to Hanmer for 7 dayes, stay'd but three. 

22. Robert wyn buryed at Hanmer. 

July. II. Martha Yates bury'd who sleepes in Jesus, shee 
was a good woman & y° death of such is precious in y" sight of y° 
lord & should bee so in ours. 

12. Mr. Roger Puleston of Emeral dy'd, in y° 31. y. of his age. 
Tis some trouble to mee y' I have been so strange to him, but hee 
would not bee otherwise. God forgive to mee all my omissions 
of duty towards him. Amen. 

14. Sealing-day, to God bee glory ! Thy vowes are upon 
mee 6: God. Stollen* waters are sweet. 

17. wee removed from Whitch. to Broad-oke partly on my 
wife's account, who rather clauses to lay her yong in her old nest, 
partly on Harvest-account, that wee may the better oversee the 
getting of it in, partly on y° children's account, the Small pox 
increasing in the Town, now the good lord bee with us here & 
preserve & bless us for his names sake. 

Orders till he solemnly renounced his former Ordination from his Father and 
the Classis, which he submitted to do." 

These last words exhibit unpleasantly the spirit with which the Puritans 
met the invitation to be reconciled to the Church. It was submission, and they 
would not submit. If any individual was disposed to show a Christian 
humility, the leaders would hinder him if they could. Contrast with all this 
what Bede tells us of Chad (book iii. chap, xxviii. ), that ' ' he was consecrated 
Bishop of York by two bishops of the British nation, and by AVini, Bishop of 
the West Saxons, in A. I). 665 ; " that in 669, Theodore, Archbishop of Canter- 
bury, upbraided him that he had not been properly consecrated (because it had 
been done according to the rites of the British Church, and by British bishops), 
to which he, with great humility, answered, " If you know I have not duly 
received episcopal ordination, I willingly resign the office, for I never thought 
myself worthy of it ; but though unworthy, in obedience, submitted to under- 
take it ; " and what Burnet (vol. i. pp. 139, 140, fol.) tells us of the heavenly 
minded Leighton, who, having Presbyterian orders, submitted to be ordained 
deacon and priest before his consecration as bishop. Si sic omnes. 

Mr. Porter had a saying which Philip Henry preserves : " He that prays 
most will preach best. Spiritual beggars are special preachers. " 

* Cf. Psalm xlii. 2 : " My soul thirsteth for God." 



PHILIP HENRY. 203 

23. my wife was safe delivered of a daughter, blessed bee 
God who was present with her in that time of need. 

July 27. the child was ba^tiz'd by Mr. Jonathan Edwards of 
Jesus Coll. Oxon. and named Eleanor, according to the appointm' 
of her Grandfather Mathewes, who left her loo"" by his will on 
that condition. 

September, peace concluded about this time with y" Dutch ; 
wee were secure before, God grant, wee bee not now much more ! 

Edw. Hide E. of Clarendon & lord Chancellor impeacht by 
y° Commons of High Treason, the House of lords, his Freinds, 
delay'd prosecution, till hee fled. 

To propagate Hathornes. 

Between Michaelmas & Christmas take a quantity of ripe 
Hathom-berryes & putt them in a hole in the Earth, either in a 
pott or vessel or without, and that time 1 2 month take them out, 
viz. y° seeds, for the Huskes will be rotted off, then sow them, 
either in beds to bee shifted, or in the place where you will have 
a Hedge to bee. 

John Henry. 

Hee was born at Worthenbury in the County of Flint. May 
3. 1661. being Friday, betwixt the howres of 5. and 6. in the even- 
ing, some dayes sooner then was expected, by reason whereof 
things were somewhat unready but God was gracious, and his- 
Mother was deliver'd of him, before the midwife could come, 
though living but a mile off ; I was that day at Chester ; His corn^ 
plexion was observ'd then to bee sweet and ruddy, his countenance 
compleat, his eyes lively, which gave them occasion then to say, 
that hee would not live. 

Hee was baptiz'd. May 12. by Mr. Georg Mainwaring, late of 
Malpas, who cal'd him ever after, his Boy ; I preacht. Text. Ps. 
51. 5. My Father Mathewes being present would have his name 
to bee Henry Mathewes, I reply'd, his Sir-name must bee Henry, 
because it was mine, but whatever Christen name pleas'd him, hee 
should have ; but hee refusing to mention any other, hee was 
named John, the name of my Father, John Henry, and the name 
of his mother's Grand-father John Benyon and great Grand-father, 
John Howel, at which my father Mathewes took such offence 



^04 PHILIP HENRY. 

though in so small a matter, that from that time hee never darkned 
our doores after, to the day of his Death. 

when hee was about lo. weekes old somewhat ayl'd him, which 
wee thought would have parted him from us then, but God had 
mercy. Though the nursing of him was somewhat tedious yet the 
'lord enabled his Mother to undergo it until shea wean'd him which 
was in April. 1662. In September following wee remoVd to 
Broad-Oke to dwell by which time hee had in a great measure 
obtaynd both his feet & tongue. 

In the beginning of 65. hee went to school to Mr. Sam. 
catheral at Whitwel chapel and by the end of that year had learnt 
to read English. 

In the beginning of 66. hee began his Accidence, which hee 
dispatcht in that year, with some of his Grammar also. That 
Spring hee was dangerously ill of the chin-cough, and wee gave 
him up to God, who was pleas'd for a while to lend him to us 
again. 

In January. i66f. wee remov'd to Whitch. in Shrop-shire, 
partly to satisfy the law, ^tly to have convenient schooling for him 
.& his Brother, in regard Mr. Cateral was appointed by S'' Orlando 
Bridgman to teach in Wigland in a House new-built by him for 
that purpose which was too far off us. I entred him at the Free 
school, being yet in Coates, w°'' had never been known there 
before. 

Within 3. weekes his Grand-father dy'd, on which occasion hee 
was put into Breeches being to put on mourning. 

Mar. 24. being Sabbath-day hee sickned of the measils, 
-attended with a Feaver, whereof hee dy'd. Apl. 12. about sun-sett, 
. and was bury'd the Munday after, towards the upper end of the 
Middle-lie in Whitchurch church. 

The Act requiring to bury in woolen, being then new, was 
. generally observ'd though soon after layd aside, and hee wrapt in 
white fflannen to satisfy the law. 

Hee was remarkable for fowr things. 

1. forwardnes in learning having all the three requisites. Appre- 
hension, Judgment, memory, even beyond his Age, & withal a great 
love to it, never seeking at any time to stay from school, prceterqu. 
. aiatem nil puerile fuit. 



.PHILIP HENRY. 205, 

2. tenderness of disposition, apt to melt into teares at the 
least show of displeasure though but in a frown. 

3. Patience under Correction, which hee had not often bee. 
hee did not often deserve it, and when hee did his pcenitence prse- 
vented it, if not altogether yet in the severity of it. And this 
consideration taught me something, by way of Instance, in bearing 
the will of God in taking him from mee. 

4. love to his Brother and Sisters, when Mathew sickned first, 
hee went to bed with him of his own accord, sooner then ordinary, 
and wept over him. 

He was of a strong healthy constitution, not smaying for cold 
in school, like other children, as his master hath told me. Hee 
was full of action, stirring ; always doing something, and what hee 
did, hee did with all his might His Grand-father made him sole 
Executor of his will & heir of his real estate, saying oft, I have 
a love for that child, and the law making mee his tutor and 
gardian, the dispose of things at least for present fell to mee 
besides Intention, and hee under God the Instrument, and when 
that was done, hee fell asleep. His sickness quickly took away 
the use of his understanding, hee talkt much, most of his Bookes 
& School fellowes, and once repeated distinctly the 4"" com- 
mandm'. Hee had learnt without book and would rehearse often 
the following verses, (printed in Mr. AVhite's book of the power of 
Godlines.) 

" Not twice twelve yeares full told, a weary breath, 
I have exchanged for a happy death. 
Short was my life, the longer is my rest, 
God takes them soonest whom hee loveth best, . 
Hee that is born to-day and dyes to-morrow, 
Loses some howres of joy but monthes of sorrow ; 
Other diseases often come to greive us, 
Death strikes but once, and that stroke doth releive us." ^ 

My hope is, through the everlasting Covenant of mercy, that 
I shall meet him again with comfort, at the right hand of Jesus 
Christ at the last day.* 

* See Evelyn's lament over his eldest son Richard, in the diaiy for 1658, 
January 27. 



206 



■ PHILIP HENRY. 



An exact and true Account of the Execution of the said last 
Will and Testament of Daniel Mathewes Gent, by mee Philip 
Henry Administrator in the right of my son John Henry sole 
executor thereof. 
First the Body of the said Daniel Mathewes was decently 

interred in the Parish Church of Hanmer in the Middle Isle. 

Jan. 21. i66f. the Expences whereof were as followeth, 



Impr. In dole to the Poov... 
It. To M' Hilton, y° Min'' who preacht ... 
the clerk 
the sexton ... ... ... 

the Ringers ... 
It. For the Coffin 
for wine 

Sugar and spice ... 
Biskets and Cakes 
meat bought 
Beer in Hanmer spent 
To the church-wardens, payd, for burying in 
the church 
for ringing more then two peales 
To the Minister in the name of a Mortuary *... 
(Jone Wood's Coffin and Buryal, an ancient 
servant, buryed the next day) 
For mourning clothes for myself, my wife, 
my son John, and Cosin Martha Warter, 
as was thought fit by the overseers of 
the will ... 
For six small Gold Rings given to the sayd 
over-seers, with this inscription, Daniel 
Matthewes. 1666 ... 
Payd to S"' Thomas Hanmer as lord of 
Maylors in the name of a Relief or 
Herriot 



£ 


S. 


d. 




8 


II 


6 







13 


4 







I 










I 










14 










8 







3 


3 










17 


4 




4 


3 


6 







3 


6 







4 


6 







S 










2 










10 


o_ 


-upoa inquiry of Mr. 
Porter formerly incum- 





13 


8 


bent there, it appear'd 






hee had received it & 








the statute saith it shall 








bee payd there where 








it hath been accustomed 


12 


6 


8 


to bee payd. 


I 


10 








076 



* " A mortuary is a composition for oblations wrongly detained or forgotten 
tithes ; a principal legacy or bequest for the soul of the dead made to the 
Church " (Walcott's " Sacred ArchEEology," p. 362). " By the 21 Hemy VIII. 
c. 6, this was commuted into money payments, but the Welsh bishoprics aiid 
the diocese of Chester were excepted at that time from the operation of the 
statute. At the death of any priest in the archdeaconry of Chester, the bishop 
had a mortuary of his best beast, saddle and bridle, and best gown or cloak, 
hat, and upper garment under the gown " (Jebb). 



PHILIP HENRY. 20/ 

For Probate of th6 Will, and letters of 
Tuition — and for journey to Chester ... 2 IS 6 

For a Grave-stone ... ... i 10 o— it was fetcht from Grin- 

sel in Shropsh. layd 
down and afterward 
taken up again because 
too bigg, being made 
less it was layd the 
second time, Ncni. i. 
1670. and certify'd in 
the Church-book that 
wee claym no peculiar 
right of burying there, 
it being Parish-ground. 



Memorand. 

Thomas Matthewes of Bronnington gent Father of Daniel 
Maniel Matthewes did in his life time for several yeares give the 
Interest of A°£,- yearly to the poor of Hanmer parish and at 
his death left the sayd summ of \o^. for the same use for ever, 
as appeares in writing in a label of parchment written with his own 
hand though without name, date, or seal. . . . This is here 
inserted, i. as an instance of the pious care of the donor Thomas 
Mathewes, 2. as a guid & rule to his heires from time to time in 
what manner to discharge the said trust in them reposed and not 
to shift it from themselves to others because of any trouble that 
doth or may accompany the same. 

The said Thomas Mathewes did also before his Death pro- 
vide by Will concerning the Gift aforesaid bearing Dec. 3. 1617. 
Executors Eleanor his wife and Daniel his son. 

In a book of Accounts is this entry, 

" Wee received no money for the poor untill after the Purifica- 
con viz. y° ii"" of Febr. 1621. when wee received 50* weekly untill 
the stock and use came up being 53;^. which 3,;^. wee distributed 
at Easter 1622. the whole stock being 50;^. lyeth in my hands 

" Daniel Mathews." 

the same is also in another Book of accounts sett down by 
way of memorand. under the hand of" Thomas Bedow. 

In the table of memorials of pious charity kept in the church 
at Hanmer there is mention of \o£, only being given by Thomas 
Mathewes, nor was the other lO;^ known of till I found the 



208 PHILIP HENRY. 

aforesaid evidences thereof amongst the Papers of my Father 
in law Daniel Mathews aforesayd after his Death, but it appeares 
hee did distribute 3;^. being the present Interest of 50^^ at 6. p. 
cent, allow'd by the statute. 

In January i66f Mr. Daniel Mathews dy'd, at which time, the 
Trust aforesaid devolv'd to mee, P. H., in the right of Katharin 
my wife his Heir at law, wherein I purpose through God's Grace,. 
whilst it so remaynes in mee, to bee faithful, and I desire and 
charge those of mine to whom it shall come hereafter, that they 
bee faithful also, and that for conscience sake towards God. 

In that year accordingly I putt the sayd moneyes, being 50,;^. 
into the hands of Mr. Luke Lloyd of Bryn jun' and took security 
from him for it in my own name, the Interest to bee payd in 
December yearly. His Father Mr. Luke Lloyd bound in the Bond 
with him. 

Memorand. Sept. 3. 1670. Being cited to appear before the 
Bishops Court to give an account of the said trust I appear'd 
accordingly and satisfy'd them how it devolv'd to mee, and how, 
till then, I had perform'd it, promising also to see the same entred 
by way of memorandum for the satisfaction of the Parish in the 
church-book at Hanmer, which was accordingly done Sept. 1 2. by 
Mr. Rich. Hilton present Vicar there. 

Apr. 26. 1686. Memorand. This Fifty pounds is and hath 
been for several yeares in the hands of Humphry Dymock of 
Willington Esq. for securing whereof hee hath morgaged to my 
son Matthew, in whom the Trust vested when hee came to the 
Age of one & twenty, a small Tenem' in Iscoyd called Price's 
Tenem' wherein Morgan Stant now dwels. [From Philip Henry's 
Day-book, in the possession of Matthew Henry Lee. J 

1668. 

The following notes are by his son Matthew Henry : — 

He made the best of the Sermons he heard in Publick, It is 
a mercy, (saith he) we have Bread, though it be not as it hath 
been, of the finest of the Wheat. Those are froward children 
who throw away the Meat they have, if it be wholsome, be- 
cause they have not what they would have. When he met with 



PHILIP HENRY. 209 

Preaching that was weak, his Note is, That's a poor Sermon 
indeed, out of which no good Lesson may be learned. He had 
often Occasion to remember that verse of Mr. Herbert's 

The worst speaks something good, if all want Sense, 
God takes the Text, and preaclieth Patience. 

The world was told long since, by the Conformist's Plea, that 
the worthy Mr. Laurence (Mr. Henry's intimate Friend) when he 
was turn'd out of Baschurch, and (if he would have consulted 
with Flesh and Blood) having (as was said of one of the Martyrs) 
Eleven good Arguments against Suffering, viz. a Wife and Ten 
Children, was ask'd how he meant to maintain them all, and 
chearfully reply'd, they must all live on the 6* of Matthew, Take 
no thought for your Life etc. and he often sung' with his Family, 
Psal. xxxvii. i6. And Mr. Henry hath noted concerning him in 
his Diary, some time after he was turn'd out, that he bore Witness 
to the Love and Care of our Heavenly Father, — providing for him 
and his present Condition beyond Expectation. 



166-J. 

In February, i66|^, Mr. Laurence and he were invited by some 
of their Friends to Betley in Staffordshire, and (there being some 
little publick connissxic& at that time) with the Consent of all con- 
cerned, they adventured to preach in the Church, one in the 
Morning, and the other in the Afternoon of the Lord's Day, very 
peaceably and profitably. This Action of theirs was presently 
after reported in the House of Commons, by a member of Parlia- 
ment, with these Additions, that they tore the Common-Prayer 
Book, trampled the Surplice under their Feet, pull'd the Minister 
of the Place out of the Pulpit, &c. Reports which there was not 
the least Colour for. But that, with some other such like false 
Stories, produced an Address of the House of Commons to the 
King, to issue out a Proclamation, for the putting of the Laws in 
Execution against Papists and Nonconformists, which was issued 
out accordingly ; tho' the King, at the opening of that Session, a 
little before, had declared his Desire, that course might be taken 
to compose the minds of his Protestant Subjects in Matters of 

P 



210 PHILIP HENRY. 

Religion ; which had raised the Expectation of some that there 
would be speedy Enlargement ; but Mr. Henry had noted upon 
it, We cannot expect too little from Man, nor too much from God. 

1668. 

In May 1668, he return'd again with his Family from Whit- 
church to Broad-Oak which, through the good Hand of his God 
upon him, continued his settled Home, without any Remove from 
it, till he was removed to his long Home, above twenty-eight years 
after. The Edge of the Five Mile Act began now a little to 
rebate, at least in that country, & he was desirous to be more 
useful to the Neighbours, among whom God had given him an 
Estate, than he could be at a distance from them, by relieving the 
Poor, employing the Labourers, especially instructing the Ignorant, 
& helping as many as he could to Heaven. He made that 
Scripture his standing Rule, and wrote it in the Beginning of his 
Book of Accounts, Prov. iii. 9, 10. Honour the Lord with thy 
Substance, &c. And having set apart a Day of secret Prayer and 
Humiliation, to beg of God a wise and an understanding Heart, 
and to drop a Tear (as he expresseth it) over the sins of his Pre- 
decessors, formerly in that Estate, he laid out himself in doing 
Good. . . . He was very useful in the common Concernments of the 
Township and Country, in which he was a very prudent Counsellor; 
it was indeed a narrow Sphere of Activity, but (such as it was) to 
him as to Job, chap. xxix. 21, 22. Men gave ear and waited, and 
kept Silence at his Counsel ; after his words they spake not again ; 
and many of the Neighbours, who respected him not as a Minister, 
yet lov'd and honour'd him as a knowing, prudent and humble 
Neighbour. . . . Such was his Prudence, and such his Patience 
and Peaceableness, that all the Time he was at Broad-Oak, he 
never sued any, nor ever was sued ; but was Instrumental to 
prevent many a vexatious Law-suit among his Neighbours. He 
used to say, There are four Rules to be duly observed in going to 
Law ; (i) We must not go to Law for Trifles, as he did who said, 
he would rather spend a Hundred Pound in Law, than lose a 
Pennyworth of his Right, Matt. v. 39, 40, 41. (2) We must not 
be rash and hasty in it, but try all other Means possible to com- 
pose Differences ; wherein he that yields most, as Abraham did to 



PHILIP HENR V. 211 

Lot, is the better man, and there is nothing lost by it in the End, 
I Cor, vi. I, 2. (3) We must see that it be without MaHce or 
Desire of Revenge. If the Undoing of our Brother be the End 
of our going to Law, as it is with many, 'tis certainly Evil, and it 
speeds accordingly. (4) It must be with a Disposition to Peace, 
whenever it may be had, and an Ear open to all Overtures of that 
kind. The two Motto's proper for the great Guns are applicable 
to this. Ratio ultima Regum, and Sic quaerimus Pacem. . . . He 
was noted for an extraordinary neat Husband about his House 
and Ground ; which he would often say, he could not endure to 
see like the Field of the Slothful, and the Vineyard of the Man 
void of Understanding. And it was strange, how easily one that 
had been bred up utterly a Stranger to such things ; yet when God 
so order'd his Lot, acquainted himself with, and accommodated 
himself to the Affairs of the Country, making it the Diversion of 
his vacant Hours, to over-see his Gardens and Fields ; when he 
better understood that known Epode of Horace, Beatus ille qui 
procul negotiis, than he did when in his Youth he made an 
ingenious Translation of it. . . . Concerning Repentance, he 
hath sometimes said, " If I were to die in the Pulpit, I would 
desire to die preaching Repentance ; as if I die out of the Pulpit, 
I would desire to die practising Repentance." And he had often 
this Saying concerning Repentance ; He that repents every day, 
for the Sins of every day, when he comes to die will have the Sins 
but of one day to repent of. Even Reckonings make long Friends. 

To these notes by his son may be added the following 
(though the date is uncertain) about Dr. Busby, who died 
at the age of eighty-nine, in 1695, and of whom it was said 
that when Charles I. visited Westminster School, he pre- 
ceded the king covered, while the king followed uncovered. 
No sooner had they left the room than he begged his 
Majesty's pardon for his conduct, saying, "If the boys thought 
there was any one greater than me, I should not be able to 
manage them " : — " I have heard him tell, how much he 
.surprized the Doctor, the first time he waited upon him 
.after he was turn'd out by the Act of Uniformity: For 



212 PHILIP HENRY. 

when the Doctor ask'd him, Pry'thee Child, what made thee 
a nonconformist ? Truly sir, saith Mr. Henry you made me 
one ; for you taught me those things that hindred me from 
conforming." 

The diary for 1669 belongs to Mr. Bunting, of North- 
ampton, who kindly lent it for the purposes of this work. 

Mr. Hugh M°Kail, one of y° 35. executed in Scotland. Decemb. 
1666. for y° rising in Galloway, a Probationer for the Ministry, 
aged 26, say'd the night before hee suffred, If there were any th. in 
y^ world sadly and unwillingly to bee left, it were the reading of 
y" Script, but where wee goe the lamb will bee instead of it Hee 
sadly bewayld to his Father his transgressions of y" 5'^ Comm. 
considering them in y° power & pure light of -f spiritual law of 
God, saying with many groans that through coming short of 
keeping the 5"" comm. he had comm short of y^ promise of 
having his dayes prolonged upon earth. 

I owe. 

lb 
To y° poor of Hanmer. in Mr. luke Uoyd's hands 50 o o 

To y° school of Hanmev. in Mr. lloyd of Halghton's hands 65 13 4 

January 27. William Robinson servant to Randle Tonna of 
Iscoyd-hall kild his fellow servant John Hall with the plow stafiF 
in the feild as hee was driving the plow, found by the Coroner's 
inquest to bee a misadventure for twas averd upon Oath, that hee 
threw the plow staff at the Oxen & that it recoyld from' the Oxe 
upon the lad & hit him under the ear, wherwith hee dyd imme- 
diately, lord wash away the guilt of bloud from y' soul of the 
yong man & from this Town & Countrey for Jesus sake. Amen. 

March i. This day, as is suppos'd, determines the Act against 
Conventicles, the Parliam' being prorogu'd by Proclamation from 
this day to Oct. 19. which Prorogation makes a Session, and the 
Act was to continue for 3 yeares & to the end of y" next Session 
after w* is this. 

And blessed bee God, that hath let mee live to see it dye, * 
for though but few in these ^^' have suffred much by it yet some- 
have, and to others it hath been as a Bridle of restraynt, hin- 
• * Another Conventicle Act was passed in 22 Chai-les IL 



PHILIP HENRY. 213 

dring them in the free exercise of their duty, which is, as they 
have occasion to assemble thems. together for mutual xdification, 
wherby God hath had great dishonor and poor Soules no small 
loss in heavens way. 

It seemes the lord hath inclin'd the King's * heart to this, 
which is in his hand and hee turneth it whithersoever hee pleaseth, 
to him bee glory. 

I am somewhat fearful lest any ill use should bee made of this 
Indulgence by intemperate spirits, especially now at first, which 
God prevent for his own name, mercy, and Gospel-sake. 

13. This day dyed John Jenings of Willington, an honest, 
■upright man. I was with him several times some dayes before, 
and left him after some few conflicts with temptation, in the sweet 
possession of a well-grounded peace, which continu'd to his dis- 
.solution, and prov'd, I hope the ioxe-tasts and first-fruits of that 
full crop which hee is now reaping in glory with precious Jesus. 
Hee was bury'd Mar. 1 7. according to his own desire in the 
■church-yard of Hanmer, by y° side of Randle Key of Willington 
his neighbour and companion in Godliness. 

16. This day not without some difficulty, through God's 
blessing I compos'd a difference between Mr. Grif Roberts and 
Nathan Cook of Chester Feoffees concern, his house & lands 
left to y" Min" of Holt, but for 4 y. put to another use by an in- 
competent will ; they had entred suit at ludlow — agreed thus, 3 
pounds pd. in hand to Nathan Cook for two Orphans of Mr 
Roberts kinred & other 3. pounds secur'd to bee payd by bill this 
rtime twelve-month, w"'' bill is in my hands, subscribd by Mr. Lewis, 
Mr. Speed & Mr. Crue, whereupon I went to Holt & saw him 
deliver the possession to Mr. Jeffreyes now Min'' 

thanks bee to God ! Math. 5. 9. 

April 12. This day dy'd the worthy Col. Thomas Hunfj" of 

* Burnet (lib. ii. pp. 196, 197, fol.) affirms that Digby, Lord Bristol, knew 
in 1663, at the time that he was impeaching the chancellor, that the l<ing was 
.a pervert ; but this is generally discredited. It was not till his death that he 
took that step. 

t Colonel Thomas Hunt, of Shrewsbury and Betton Strange, descended 
from the Hunts of Longnor, Salop, was one of Cromwell's Ironsides, and a 
member of the Long Parliament for Shrewsbury, 1645 ; mayor, 1657 ; High 
.Sheriff of Salop, 1656. His son, Rowland Hunt, obtained the estate of 
Boreatton, probably by composition with Sir Thomas Harries, Bart., in 



2 1 4 PHILIP HENR Y. 

Shrewsbury, a true Nathaniel, in whom was no guil, a Caleb that 
follow'd the lord fully, abounding in good workes, and his memory 
is blessed. His death was sudden, he was twice at publique Or- 
dinances the day before, worshipt God with his Family in y° even- 
ing, and went to bed well as at other times about two or three 
o'clock in y"' morning hee wake, was sick, and before five fell asleep 
in the lord. 

13. I went to Shr. upon an appointm' of his but God pre- 
vented, the newes of his Death mett raee by the way ; lord, what 
is man ! 

15. hee was buryed, Mr. Roberts preacht T. Ntivt. 23. 10. let 
mee dye y° death of y° righteous, & let my last end bee like his. 
Amen. 

The same day was two yeares dy'd & was buryed my dear son 
John. 

16. Fast kept in his house, now his no more, The lord fill up 
his place to all his relations & to thy poor church in these parts 
that hath lost a pillar. 

14. About this time my dear sister Ann took her journey 
with the Earl of Middlesex * by the advice of Physicians to Mont- 
pelier in languedoc in France, they intended to goe all y" way by 
Sea, God Almighty, who is lord of Sea & land bee her Sun & 
Sheild & bring her back to us again in due time, if it bee his 
will. Amen. 

By reason of cross winds they were driven to Calice & from 
thence by land. 

1664, and built the old hall there. In the " History of Myddle," p. 464. 
"George Clive, Esq., sells it to the Onslows ; Sir Wm. Onslow sells it, 15 
Jac. I., to Sir Thomas Harries." Sir Paul Harries, of Boreatton, Knt. and 
J3art., succeeded his father in 1629, espoused the king's cause, and died 
1644. His son. Sir Thomas, compounded for his estates for £l(ii\.2. In 1655 
he was in the rising against Cromwell, and joined Ralf Kynastoii in- the 
imsuccessful attempt to seize Shrewsbury. In Blakeway's " Sheriffs of 
Salop," p. 118, Colonel Thomas Hunt is mentioned as having Boreatton in 
1656. Newcome, who corresponds, with the colonel on the subject of taking 
charge of the Shrewsbury Presbyterians in 1656, does not by any means speak 
of him in the glowing terms that Philip Henry does. 

* Lionel Cranfield, second son of the first Earl of Middlesex, succeeded as 
third earl in 1651. He married Rachel, daughter of Francis, Earl of West- 
morland, and widow of Heni-y, Earl of Bath, and died without issue in 1674, 
when the estates went to his nephew, Charles Sackville, son of his sister 
Frances, who had married Richard, fifth Earl of Dorset. 



J'HJLIP HENRY. 21 S 

24. A commission at Whitch. on y" behalf of Mr. Nevet agt 
Mr. Eyton, coroner, Lightwood. I own'd my hand as witness to 
y" lease and release made by Judge Puleston to his son Thomas. 

I testify'd my knowledge of some passages at the two Tryals at 
Shrewsbury & Flint as far as I could remember. 

May 3, Flint Assize, where I was a witness in the Tryal 
betw. Mr, Eyton Plaintiff & Mr. Nevet Defendant concer. light- 
wood, t'was try'd May. 6. began betwixt 8. & 9. was ended about 
2. I ownd my hand to Judge Puleston's lease & release to his 
son Thomas. I depos'd I had heard Judge Puleston say being 
askt why hee would leave it to his younger son seeing hee knew 
twould bee a matter of controversy, hee said, hee had made it so 
clear by a commission out of chancery for examination of wit- 
nesses that any one might defend it, nevertheless hee said he 
would charge his eldest son with a thousand pound for maintayn- 
ing -f sute which hee never did, bee. I believe hee thought there 
was no need. 

I was askt whether I knew y* reason why hee left this farm to 
this son, I answ* I had heard him say, for his name's sake, in 
remembr. of his Uncle Thomas Puleston, who liv'd & dy'd there. 
As also to engage him the more to the study of the law which was 
the Profession hee had desi'gn'd him for. 

Hereby twas thought I prejudict Mr. Nevet in saying hee would 
have looo"" & engage his son to study y" law, which did intimate 
danger & difficulty in y" case, but if I did, t'was Truth, for I have 
heard him say. 

At the sitting of y° Court in y° afternoon betw. 4 & 5 a'clock 
the Jury brought in their verdict for Mr. Eyton. whereupon the 
Judge sayd, let it lye at your door. The same evening I came 
from Flint about 5 a'clock & came home betw. 10 & 11. 
blessed bee God. 

7. I visited Mr. Hanm' of Fenns, ill, since Munday, his rea- 
son taken away. 

10. at night hee dyed, in -f 46 y. of his age. his son Thomas 
21. two dayes after, a hopeful Gentleman, lord preserve him from 
y" sins Of his Age & Place. Amen. 

18. buryd at Hanmer. D' Fowler preacht 2. Pet. 3. 10. 

July 13. A stone was layd on my Father in law his grave in 



2l6 FHILIP HENRY. 

the middle Isle in Hanmer church which would not be suffred by 
the then vicar Richard Hilton, but upon promise made that I 
would subscribe a certificate that I claym'd no peculiar right of 
burying there (for why should I, it being Parish ground) where- 
upon I subscrib'd a Certificate to that purpose. Sept. 17. adding 
moreover these words, though I judge this to bee more than needes, 
yet for the satisfaction of those who require it I subscribe my 
name. P. H. 

This instead of satisfying provok't, whereup Sept. 2 1. the Stone 
was taken up again and rear'd at the church door. 

the church wardens were 'John Powa and Fabian Philips, who 
helpt both to lay it and to take it up again. 

July 14. John Caldecott came to sojourn w* us, I to help 
him, hee to help the children, the- lord bee our speed. 

August 24. now 7 yeares past, a full Apprenticeship of re- 
straynt. lord, in thy time hasten our Freedom. Day of solemn 
fasting. Zech. 8. ig. shall bee joy & gladness & chearful feasts, 
theref I will love the truth & peace. 

September 13. going from home with Cosin Margt Hotchkis 
behind mee on horse-back, wee fell betw. the house & -f broad- 
Oke, having no hurt through God's goodness by y" fall, but after 
shee was down, the Horse in turning from us, trod upon y' fore- 
part of her head & hurt her sorely, but not so bad as might have 
been, blessed bee God ! 

lord, I see by this more than I saw before what need I have of 
thy presence & providence every day in my going out & coming 
in, for even this might have lodg'd us in eternity, if mercy had not 
prevented, blessed bee God. 

Mary the Qu. Mother dy'd in this month in France. Pallida 
mors cequo pulsat pede. 

October. About this time sister Sarah return'd wi' her lady, 
the lady Broghil, into England, safe and well, blessed bee God, 
whose is the earth and the fulness thereof. 

18. This day my son Mathew is seven yeares old, the lord 
of Heaven bless him with spiritual blessings. Amen. 

19. Parliamen' meet, great expectations what they will doe — 
if they shall not make us better, lord let them not make us 
worse. 



JPHILIP HENRY. 21/ 

Mrs. Pulestoh of Emeral marry'd to Mr. John Trevor of Bryn- 
Kynault. 

25. This day about noon dy'd Uncle Benyon of Asli, after 
more than 3 weekes sicknes which took away from the begin- 
ning the use of his reason & understanding for y° most part. 

27. hee was bury'd in the same place in Whitch. Church 
where my dear child was layd, whose Coffin was remov'd to make 
way for his, and then laid down again by his side, where they both 
Sleep in Jesus. 

November. Sir Thomas Hanmer chosen Knight of the Shire 
for Flint-shire in the room of S' Henry Conway deceased. 

Reports abroad of great severity intended. Father if that bee 
the way to thy own glory thy will bee done ! As for mee let 
■Christ bee magnify'd in my Body living & dying. 

n 7. Ill of y" cold, which provok't other distempers, insomuch 
that for a time I despayr'd even of life. Apt to faint & what is 
Death but a very little more, lord I bless thee, that I can look 
■death in y" face with comfort, knowing that my redemption 
•draweth nigh. 

18. William Wickstead of Cholmley, Church-warden of Mal- 
pas, drown'd hims. in a Pit in his own ground, through melan- 
choly and discontent. 

28. I was abroad at Chap, recover'd blessed bee God. Mr. 
Green preacht T. luk. 19. 10. lord I have gone astray like a lost 
sheep seek mee and save mee that I may not forget thy prsecepts. 

December 8. sick day with my daughter Ann, freely given up 
to the will of God, lord, doe thy pleasure with mee & mine. 

9. better again, thankes bee to God ! 

Admonition given to & prayer made in Family for David 
Philips as yet my servant, drunk yesterday at Malpas fayr & guilty 
of swearing, lord forgive & have mercy for Jesus sake. 

1:8. Parliam' prorogu'd till Feb. 14. to y*'' great displeasure & 
discontent, in regard being made a Session, they must begin all 
again at their next meeting & besides tis to their charge either 
to stay with them in london or to return home & y™ come up 
again. But it seemes a great mercy to us, agt whom a severe 
Act was in prseparing, if not ready for Royal Assent, making it the 
3''* time no less y™ Treason to preach in a Conventicle. 



2l8 JPHILIP HENRY. 

lord that ever such counsels should enter into a Christian 
Protestant Parliam' but hee that hath, doth, and I trust will yet 
deliver. 

25. I parted with David Philips, not unwillingly, though hims. 
first made the motion, praetending his Age disfitting him for 
service. God Almighty have pity on his soul, that that may bee 
saved in the day of y° lord Jesus. 

Mar. r. Roger Davy came to bee my servant — avv OeS. I am 
to give him 2"^ 2' o*" till Christmas, hee had 6" earnest. 

Dec. 25. I hird him for y" year following at 2'" 13' 4* wages. 

■ Put Conscience upon an Answer & not like Pilate only 

ask y" Question & then goe away. 

Philip Henry Lawrence, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn, has 
kindly sent me a copy of the diary for 1670, which belongs 
to him. 

1670. 

About the beginning of this year I heard of the death of 
Richard Tapping, whose mother lived in Wrexham where he was 
brought up under Mr. Lewis, being very hopeful. About the year 
55 or 56 hee went to Oxford & was entered servitor at Ch. Ch. in y" 
year 60. hee served Dr. Dolben, then Canon; about 62 being Master 
of Arts hee came down into the country and lived with Squire 
Mitton of Halston * & preached at his Chapel awhile, till growing 
dissatisfy'd with common prayer & Ceremonyes about 64 hee 
resolv'd to cast them off & did so, I perswaded him to doe it in 
such a manner as that hee might still preserve the liberty of his 
Min"^ that if possible he might bee doing good, which hee pro- 
mis'd hee would. Not long after, being desired to preach at 
Wrexham, hee took for his text Maf. 15. 7. 8, and from thence 
took occasion to reprove the present way of worshipping God, 
w* gave great offence so that for a time hee was fayne to hide 
hims. In y° beginning of 66 hee went to london with intention 

* Hallestan, or Holy Stone, was from very early times a noted sanctuary 
(see Pennant's " Tours in Wales "). The Knights Hospitallers were introduced 
here before 1165. At the dissolution it came into the hands of Alan Horde, 
who exchanged it for other lands with Edward Mytton, of Habberley (Thomas's 
"Diocese of St. Asaph," 678). 



PHILIP HENRY. 219 

for new England if it might bee. In September that year I 
receiv'd a letter from him bearing date the Tuesday in which 
london was burning by w""" I understood hee was turned Quaker 
by whose pswasion or by w' temptation I know not, but I imagine 
it might be through want & by the Instigation of . . . Buttars, 
his acquaintance. Here . . . wrote to him as soon as I could 
. . . him off, but t'was too late, hee was quickly settled upon the 
lees, and being naturally melancholy he was both the more 
capable & the more tenacious of the Impression. I wrote to him 
several times, but in vayn. In April 68 1 saw him at Westminster 
in a poor condition, imployed to teach children & as I supposd 
to sell Bookes of their way & I doubt not but hee might bee other- 
wise of great use to them being a man of parts & learning ; I 
reason'd with him but could doe no good ; since then I hear hee 
is dead, without repentance that I know of for his great Apostasy 
from the truth, denying Babt. and lords supp. to bee Gosp. ordi- 
nances, expecting Justification by a righteousnes within him, as 
appeares by a letter under his own hand. And what use to make 
of the whole I know not unless it bee to admire at the wayes of 
God in leaving a man of such parts & profession & I had hoped, 
Grace, to himself, therefore to cease from man, and though at 
present I think I stand yet to take heed lest I fall. Amen ! 

A daughter of Capt. Bartons * of Orton not long since, about 
7 or 8 y. old, by a casual blow on y° nose dy'd bleeding, not 
withst. all means imaginable us'd to stench it. 

Mr. Sadler told of a child at ludlow born with y'' print of a 
horse-shoe with 7 nayles in it, y° mother when big being frightned 
with a blow from a horse. 

John Barker told of an Inn-fole mare which hee cutt up & saw 
in the colts navil green grass. 

The E. of Pembrok at an entertaynment w'" B" Abbot \ sayd, 

* The family of Barton had been settled for many generations at Knolton 
in Overton Maddock in English Maelor. On their seat in Overton Church 
was carved " 0[liver] C[romwell] P[rotector]," by whose authority probably 
they had invaded the chancel. 

t "Abbot had been head of a small College at Oxford ; was a man of 
morose manners and sour aspect, which in that time was called gravity ; on the 
recommendation of the Earl of Dunbar, the king's first Scotch favourite, was 
preferred by James I. to the bishopric of Coventry and Lichfield, and presently 
after to London, before he had ever been parson, vicar, or curate of any 



220 JPHILIP HENRY. 

Peter & Paul never had such rich plate, hee reply'd, they never 
•entertayn'd such noble ghests. 

The Act against meetings which commenc't May lo. was 
•carry'd on in the two Houses with much heat by the Bishops & 
-their partisans. Mr. Waller spake agt. it to this purpose, Mr. 
•Speaker, tis manifest that this Act is' in your own Apprehension 
■agt. the grayn with y° people ; else what mean these penaltyes of 
5'" upon y' constab. & 100'" upon y" Justices if they doe not 
■execute it. wee have lawes agt. Felony & Murther & they can 
execute them readily_ & carefully & no such threatnings to inforce 
it, but — ■ 

Another said of it, that it pass'd accord, to the votes but agt. 
the reason of y° house. 

D"' Reynolds B' of Norwich being sick sent his reasons agt it, 
manag'd by D' Wilkins B" of Chester, D' Cosins also of Durham 
-against it & D' Rainbow of Carlile. 

Hard to the inhabitants of london that have no churches as 
yet built for publique worship & now must not meet in houses. 

Monkes Epitaph. 

Here lyes Monk* 
Who dy'd Drank 
And left his Trunk 
To his old Punk 

'tis sayd he dy'd with cards in his hand, & that his last words 
were, who must have the stock ? 

parish church in England ; and indeed was totally ignorant of the true con- 
stitution of the Church of England. He had scarcely performed any part of the 
■office of a bishop in London when he was snatched from thence, and promoted 
to Canterbury, upon the never enough lamented death of Dr. Bancroft, that 
metropolitan who understood the Church excellently ; and, if he had lived, 
would quickly have extinguished all that lire in England, which had been 
kindled at Geneva. . . . That temper in the archbishop [Abbot], whose house 
was a sanctuary to the most eminent of the factious party, and who licensed 
their most pernicious writings, left his successor [Laud] a very difficult work 
to do, to reform and reduce a Church into order that had been so long 
neglected." — Clarendon's " History of the Rebellion," i. 185-187. 

* " It was the king's great happiness that he [Monk] never had it in his 
purpose to serve him till it fell to be in his power, and indeed till he had 
nothing else in his power to do. If he had resolved it sooner, he had been 
destroyed himself; the whole machine being so infinitely above his strength, 
that it could be only moved by a divine hand ; and it is glory enough to his 
memory that he was instrumental in bringing those mighty things to pass, which 
he had neither wisflom to foresee, nor courage to attempt, nor understanding to 
contrive." — Clarendon's "Rebellion," xvi. 115. Evelyn mentions that he 
stayed in London during the plague. 



.PHILIP HENRY. 221 

Hee gather'd a great estate* in a short time, being possest at 
his death of 24000"" p. Ann. & 200000"" in ready money. 

His wife was challeng'd after his death by another man,f a 
mean p. son, whose shee had been, before shee was his. 

Quartus quintus qualis 
Tota lima talis. 

King James, always averse to latin poetry, made the following- 
distich in his sleep. 

Sexte, verere Deum, nam vitfe terminus instat, 
Cum tuus ardenti flagrat carbunculus igne. 

fulfil'd not long before his death, w" his hatt button'd up with a 
carbuncle, fell off his head, as hee sate sleeping, into -f fire. 
I am a slave to Reason, K. James was wont to say. 

A Breviat of this yeares law in Engl. 

agt. Conventicles. 

[A blank of a page left here]. 

A Breviat of this yeares laws in 

Scotland agt. Conventicles. 

Aug. 3. 'Tis declar'd that all are oblig'd in conscience, duty, 

& by y" Allegiance of subjects to declare their knowledge of all 

crimes agt. -f lawes yet so as not to infer Punishment upon 

thems. 

* Vide infra, January 4, i67o,-and Evelyn's diary for September 18, 1683, 
where he speaks of the ' ' prodigious waste the son had made of his estates 
since the old man died. " 

t This story is given by Burl^e in his extinct " Baronetage " : " The name 
of Monk's wife was Ann Clarges. Her brother Thomas was knighted at Breda, 
May 18, 1660, and afterwards made a baronet. He died 1695, at his house in 
Pall Mall (see vol. of ' Knights ' — Le Neves pedigrees— published by Harl. 
Society, 1873). Christopher Monk succeeded as second duke, and died in 1688. 
In 1687 his share of a Spanish galleon had brought;him some ;^90,ooo." On 
February II, 1694, Evelyn writes, "Now was the greate trial of the appeal 
of Lord Bath and Lord Montagu before the Lords, for the estate of the late 
Duke of Albemarle;" and June 18, 1696: "The estate was ;^ll,ooo a year. 
;^20,ooo has been spent in several trials : the Earl of Bath was cast on 
evident forgery." "On May 10, 1700, was the trial between Sir Walter 
Clarges [son of Sir Thomas Clarges, the brother-in-law of George, first Duke 
of Albemarle] and Mr. Sherwin, concerning the legitimacy of the late Duke, 
on which depended an estate oi £\ 500 a year. The verdict was given for Sir 
Walter." 



222 .PHILIP HENRY. 

Aug. 13. 'whereas the Assembling of his Ma*^"' subjects with- 
out his Ma''^' warrant is a dangerous practise & prohibited by the 
lawes & yet divers such are under a pretence of religion, w"*" are 
the ordinary seminaryes of separation & Rebellion, bee it enacted, 
that no outed Min" not licenst by Y council & no other pson not 
authoris'd or tolerated by f B" of -f Dioces, shall presume to 
preach, expound or pray in any meeting except in their own houses 
& there to those only of their own family, and that none shall bee 
present at any meeting without y" family to w* y"' belong where 
any such shall pray or preach, if they bee they are judg'd guilty of 
keeping Conventicles. The Preacher to be fin'd & imprison'd till 
y'' find y° Caution of 5000 marks not to doe the like hereafter, or 
else enact thems. to remove out of y° kingdom never to return 
without his majestyes license. All present to bee fin'd & im- 
prison'd at the Council's pleasure, those y' have lands not exceeding 
a 4'" pt. Tenants 20"" Scotch, Cottars. 12. Servants a 4"" pt of 
their yearly fee, cheif tradesmen in burroughs not royal as Tenants, 
inferior as Cottars, in burroughs royal at y' council's pleasure. All 
that meet in feilds or that stand without doors near a house, all 
y' pray, expound, or preach there, or gather them together, to bee 
punished with death & confiscation of goods. Hee that appre- 
hends any such is to have for each 500 marks out of y° exchequer 
& is indemnify'd if any slaughter bee. All others present fined 
double to house meetings. All magistrates to see to this. To 
continue for three years, unless the K. continue it 

Aug. 17. If any have their children bai^tised except by 
y° Min' or some other establ. by the B"" or Council, having lands 
he forfeits a 4"" pt. of his yearly rent, others 100, 50 or 20"" Scotch. 

Aug. 20. If stay from Church 3 weekes w"'out lawful hin- 
drance having land loses an 8"' pt, others 12. 6 or 2"" Scotch. 

If absent a year, then to appear before y° council & seal Bond 
not to take Arms agt. his Ma*^ or countenance any that shall ; if 
refuse this, their estates escheated to continue for 3 y. unless King 
continue it and this not to hinder y" censures of the Church. 



.PHILIP HENRY. 223 



1670. 



January 2. Vowes renew'd this day of better obedience, 
lord give a new heart this year that the life may be new also. 

4. Georg Monk * Duke of Albemarle dyed, his son marry'd 
the Thursday before, his wife dy'd lords day fortnight after. Tis 
said hee warn'd the king on his death-bed to beware of y'' Fana- 
tiques, lest y'^' cutt off his head as they did his Father's. 

14. To> Boreatton to bless God for his great mercy to the lady, 
for whom prayer was made in time of distress & danger. I will 
love the lord bee. hee hath heard the voice of my supplication & 
6 that I could learn to bee affected with other's miseryes & mercyes 
as with my own. 

17. Great contest in Cheshire betw. Sir Philip Egerton & Mr. 
Tho. Cholmley of vale-royal for Knight of the shire, in y" stead of 
y Baron of Kinderton deceas'd. They were polling 3 days. Mr. 
Cholmley carry'd it by many voices. 

February. About this time the old lady Middlesex f dy'd, 
sister Ann absent from her in France with the Earl. 

Clock from london, which cost 2"^ 9^ o, besides 2" 6'^ y" carriage. 

12. This morning fell an extraordinary great snow, very deep 
in many places, about two foot upon the Pavement before the 
house door, much deeper elsewhere & not in drifts, lord how 
wonderful art thou in all thy workes, which show thy eternal power 
& Godhead. 

14. Parliament met accord, to Prorogation, great expecta- 
tion of what they will doe, lord thy will bee done. 

16. Cause committed to God. Ps. 35. 20. his people are 
a quiet people in the land, & God continue them so, yet deceitful 

* Sir George Smith was Sheriff of Exeter in 1583, and his daughter, by her 
marriage with Sir Thomas Monlc, of Potheridge, became mother of the famous 
general (Burke's "Anecdotes of the Aristocracy," vol. i. p. 143, n.). "He 
died at Newhall, in Essex, after a languishing illness, set. 62. He left a great 
estate of ;^i 5,000 a year in land, and ;^6o,ooo in money, acquired by the 
bounty of the King, and increased by his own frugality in his later years " 
^Hume's History). Cf. also Burnet's "History of his Own Time," vol. i. 
p. 98 (fol.). 

t This would be Anne, daughter of James Brett, Esq., of Hoby, county 
Leicester. She was second wife of the first earl, and mother of the second 
and third earls. 



224 PHILIP HENRY. 

matters are devis'd agt. them, o ray God, make the devisers like a 
wheel ! 

28. This day Mrs. lawrence was deliver'd of a son, named 
since Nathanael, safe and speedily, a mercy often beg'd on her- 
behalf both alone & with others, lord, I thank thee. Behold, 
here's one more to bee mantayn'd out of y' 6. of Math. 

March i. This day I began to bee not well, which afterwards- 
prov'd an Ague.* 

3. Ill again. Mr. Wood came to see mee who stay'd till after 
Sabbath & ta,ught a few from Eph. i. 7. 8. accord, to the riches 01 
his grace wherein hee hath abounded towards us. 

7. Ill again, esp. the burning fit after wh. I sweat much — 
having the sentence of Death within myself that I might trust in 
the living God, who raises from the dead. 

9. A worse fit than the former, reason distemper'd somewhat 
from vapors seizing on the head, yet of this also there was an end 
blessed bee God, whose everlasting Armes were under else the 
Spirit had fayld. 

10. Well dayes not improved to spiritual advantages," my o-\\ti 
or others. 

11. This day William Farrar of Chorlton husband to Betty 
Puleston, coming from Whitchurch market in the evening in drink 
had a fall off his horse whereof hee dyed the next morning, hee fell 
at the corner of the Turf-house Croft neer to the Broad-Oak. 
Mar. 14 the Coroners Inquest past upon him, who found it a 
casualty, o that all that hear may fear & doe no more pre- 
sumptuously ! T'was within a few yards of the place where cosin 
Margt. Hotchkis & I fell -f last year, shee was with us this night 
coming in but just before, the more to affect us with God's mercy 
to us, blessed bee his name. 

14. This morning dy'd my worthy Freind Mr. Georg Main- 
waring t a faithful min"' of Jesus Christ in a good old age, gatherd 

* The frequent mention of ague shows how ill drained the countiy was. A 
century earlier, Leyland had written of Hanmer, " There is a XL. Gentilmen 
yn this paroch y' have praty landes : and every Gentilman hath there his fayre 
pooles.' Every field also, till the middle of this century, had its proportion of 
rushes. 

t During the ejectment of Mr. Bridge from the higher rectory at Malpas, 
the office was served by George Mainwaring, a native of W'renbury, and mem- 
ber of the University of Cambridge, chaplain to Sir Henry Delves, afterwards 
rector of Baddelcy and chaplain to Sir T. Mainwaring. 



PHILIP HENRY. 22 5 

as a shock of Corn is gatherd in his season. Hee left two sons 
Georg & Joseph, the one viciously inclin'd if grace prevent not, 
the other hopeful. I stand oblig'd by promise to have an eye to 
them, which I shall accordingly, for the dead-sake. 

Mr. Mathew Jenkyn once mirf of Gresford, late of Stoke in 
Wyral a conformist dy'd about the 9. of this month, a good man 
as I doe verily believe, but, through prevalying melancholy a 
(P.fect Humorist, which made him burthensome to those with 
w"" hee had to doe. In lodging, diet, apparel, cynical below the 
calling of a Gospel min". Hee was long sick of a pining sickness 
but preacht to the very last, being carry'd in a chayr from his 
house to the pulpit. 'Tis sayd, hee told a freind of his in the 
Town not long before his death that his conformity was a trouble 
to him. 

April I. Much better ; Ague, I hope, left mee, blessed bee 
God, and o: that I could say, it leaves me better then it found 
mee. 

4. this day was bury'd at Elsmere my worthy freind Mr. John 
Adams, of Northwood Min' of y" Gospel, long in a declining weak 
condition, lord, thou com'st upon us with breach after breach, 6: 
stay thy hand and pluck no more stakes out of our hedge, for if 
the pillars fail, how can -f house stand, but the truth is, thou hast 
no need of any of us ; father, doe thy will. 

8. After a weekes respite, through some cold taken, ill again ; 
relapses into sin call for relapses into sickness. 

9. I received the first volume of Mr. Poole's Synopsis, bound 
at Shrewsbury, which stands mee (besides 50' payd to him) in 11'. 
more for carriage & binding (binding 7^). I am to pay at -f receit 
of y° a'"* volume w" finished, 15^ more, & of y" 3* 15° more. 

10. As sick a sabbath as to my best remembrance, I have 
known, but sinning sabbaths I have known many, & the lord is 
righteous. 

14. better — blessed bee God ! at whose dispose I am for 
health & sickness, life & death. 

27. I visited Mr. Walter Adams, ill, yet walking about the 
house, ^swaded him to set his house in order, wh. was undone, 
hee promised hee would speedily, saying, for his real estate, it was 
done already. 

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226 PHILIP HENRY, 

30. Duke of Albemarle bury'd * with 'great solemnity but 
smal sorrow. 

May 3. This day dy'd Mr. Walter Adams of Iscoyd an 
ingenuous & worthy neighbour & my good Freind. Hee made 
his will but f night before, leaving his land to Alice Tonna his 
neece only charging it with legacyes considerable to her Parents, 
Brothers & sisters, & his Bookes much to y" discretion of his 
executors which were D' Fowler & Mr. Edw. Newton. 

A little before his death hee burnt all his sermon-notes mth 
his own hands, & in his will appointed that nothing should be 
said of him at his grave, both which I impute to his very great 
modesty & y" mean thought hee had of himself which is a mani- 
fest argument of his true worth. 

7. D'' Fowler preacht at his Buryal Text Esa. 57. i. The 
first time I have been at Whitch. these 9 or 10 weekes. 

10. This day commences y" new Act of restraynt t made last 
session, but 4 to meet besides y° family, if more, y' preacher 
20'", y° house 20'" each one present above 16 y. old, 5^ for y" first 
offence, for y" 2"* all double. One justice to execute by distress, 
penaltyes on him & Constable, if they doe not No appeal : 
every th. to bee construed agt. y° offender. Such wised, in -f con- 
trivance y' some can but admire, but hee that sits in heaven laughs 
& even this also shall bee for good. I hear since, this day was 
kept by many in London as a Day of fasting & prayer, lord hear 
in heaven & have mercy. 

Sister Ann return'd in this month out of France, where shee 
hath been this 1 2 month w"' the E. of Middlesex % for health 

* In Westminster Abbey. 

t With these passages should be compared Evelyn's accomit of things 
during the Commonwealth. Under date August 3, 1656, he says, "I went to 
London to receive the B. Sacrament, the first time the Church of England was 
reduced to a chamber and conventicle, so sharp was the persecution. The 
Parish Churches were fiU'd with Sectaries of all sorts, blasphemers and igno- 
rant mechanics usurping the pulpits everywhere.^' And on Christmas Day in 
the same year, "as he was giving us the Holy Sacrament, the chapell was 
sarrounded with souldiers, and all the communicants and assembly surpriz'd and 
kept prisoners by them . . . some they committed to the Marshall, some to 
prison." Ever since January 3, 164J, the use of the Book of Common Prayer, 
cither in public or private, had been forbidden, and heavy penalties were added, 
August 23, 1645. 

t Lionel Cranfield, third and last Earl of Middlesex, was one of the com- 
mittee sent by Parliament to wait on Charles II. at the llague, in j66o. 



PHILIP HENRY. 22/ 

sake. K at Dover to meet his sister Henrietta * Dutchess of 
Orleance. 

Mr. John Crew of Utkinton dy'd, a worthy patriot. 

2 2. Mr. lawrence in trouble at Whitch. for a meeting this day, 
at Ralph Eddow's, upon pretence y' Sarah Eddow lately com'n 
from Chester was none of her father's family. 

27. Convented at Frees & fin'd by Justice Sandford & 
Justice Hill. 

31. Distress made upon y°''' Goods. Ralph Eddow 20"* 5" o. 
Mr. lawrence lo"', John Bird & Thomas Kettle 5'" apeice. Elis 
Yardly 5'' by Constables & Churchwardens. 

The town & country full of noise about it. also many else- 
where in trouble on y° like occasion, lord, preserve thy people in 
•f way of peace & holiness, & lay not this sin to the enemyes 
charge. 

Mrs. Martha Hunt at Broad-Oke, the worthy daughter of a 
worthy Father. 

The Joyner had of mee for working up y° long Table,t the 
Press in y' parlor, & y'^ skreen & two Skutcheon frames 14^ 2'' at 
10'' a day & meat & drink. 

June I. With wife at Ash, where mett occasionally divers 
other Freinds, noys'd to bee a Conventicle, church-wardens & 
other officers came to search, but y" company was gone before. 

16. Tifhings paid. — 

d 

6 Cowes & Calves ... ... ... 9 

6 lambes ... ... ... ... ... 3 

7 Sheepes-fleece 7 

Dove-house 6 

Bees 3 

Plow-share T,d 

Offrings 4 

2 lid 



* The chief agent between the English and French courts was the beau- 
tiful, graceful, and intelligent Henrietta, Duchess of Orleans, sister of Charles, 
sister-in-law of Lewis, and a favourite with both (Macaulay's History, cap. ii. ). 

t It is curious to find here particulars of the manufacture of one of those 
old hall-tables, at which-^-twenty feet long or more — the whole family %yould 
assemble. 



228 PBILIP HENRY. 

Poor london much distrest ! The noise of war amongst them 
in time of peace, and their flight on the Sabbath day. Gards sett 
on their meeting places, divers disturb'd in praying, preaching, 
divers fin'd, divers imprisoned — Mr. Watson & Mr. . Vincent 
charg'd with treason for using these words — Heb. 12. 4. yee have 
not yet resisted unto bloud striving agt sin. 

A fire at y° Savoy — 12 or 14 houses burnt, the K. jjresent at 
quenching of it, which was by blowing up a house or two with 
Gunpowder. 

S' Tho. Hanmer ill through a swelling between his neck & his 
shoulder, hard to bee rightly affected under such a providence, 
so as not to miss it either on y° right hand or y'^ left, lord lay not 
his sin to his charge. 

Cosin Mary Benyon return'd to Ash, from london, far gone in 
consumption, lord how easy is it with thee to change our counte- 
nance, y° youngest, y' strongest, & send us away. 

15. At Nantwich to visit dear Mr. Thomas, who hath been 
long under God's afflicting hand by pining sickness ; my heart is 
hard & melts not, as I would it should, under a fellow-feeling of 
his Afflictions, wee sickned both at y° same time, & I free & hee 
still in y' furnace, & why so father, bee. it pleaseth thee, o spare 
a little that hee may recover strength ! 

24. Received 20'* of W"" Butler, his last stage. I retmrned 
him the other 7"" 10 o in consideration of his bargain, which bee: it 
was not more hee would scarce so much as thank mee for, but no 
matter, I endeavour'd to doe it for conscience sake. I gave him 
up his Articles & bond, & both are well pleased that wee are ^.ted. 

I rejoyce in this that though the Rent bee less yet y° House is 
now a House of prayer. Mem. hee is to pay a yeares chimney 
money which is behind, being 6^ 

Kings Sister * dead in France, suddenly, & as is supposed, by 

* " She was seized with the malady upon drinking a glass of succoiy water. 
Strong suspicions of poison arose in the court of France, and were spread all 
over Europe. Charles himself, during some time, was entirely convinced of his 
guilt; but, upon receiving the attestation of physicians who,on opening her body, 
found no foundation for the general rumour, he was, or pretended to be, satisfied! 
The Duke of Orleans, indeed, did never in any other circumstance of his life 
betray such dispositions as might lead him to so criminal an action ; and a 
lady, it is said, drank the remains of the glass ivithout feeling any' incon- 
venience " (Hume). 



PHILIP HENRY. 229: 

the means ofaiealous husband, the D. of Orleance, brother to the . 
King of France, lewis 14. — Her death much resented by the King, 
and God grant it may doe him good. 

28. With wife at Shrewsb. where much made of, among 
Freinds, & Sundays opportunityes of being good, but a barren 
heart mars all. 

July I. Whereas loo'" of my childrens money, left them by 
their Grandfather, is in uncle Hotchkis hand by bond bearing date 
June 1667. for y' first y' I took no interest, for y° a"* s'* & now 
for ye 3"" other 5"", it is some trouble to mee, not knowing what to 
doe. On y' one hand, hee is my Freind & relation near mee, on 
the other hand, tis my childrens money, who are nearer, & what 
account the world & they will expect from mee hereafter, I know 
not. The thing itself, with certayn cautions, which I shall en- 
deavour to observe, I judge lawful, but for mee as Min"' phaps 
inexpedient & on that account, were it my own, I should refrayn, 
but being their's & so great a summ & so long in his hand & hee 
able & gaining by it in trade, upon advice from such as are 
judicious & godly, so much I have received, wayting for further 
light & convictions about it from y° lord in y° use of means accord- 
ing to which I shall either continue to receive it or else make 
restitution of what I have received already. 

Peter Micklewright of Whitch. much in debt left house & 
calling unadvisedly, a great blemish to his Profession, he oVd mee 
3"" which I lent him in Novemb. last, whereof I am never likely to 
see a farthing, yet still judge it my duty to lend /iijScv airiKTritftiv 
Juk. 6 despayring noth. 

14. Mr. Will. Heaths son of Shrewsb. came to table at cos. 
Jackson's, I promised to direct him in learning Hebrew. 

3. Mr. John Adams dy'd, brother to Mr. Walter Adams of 
Iscoyd, bury'd at Hapmer. 

In this month dy'd Robert Corbet eldest son of Tho. Corbet 
<of Stanwardin, a hopeful child, at school at Newport with his uncle 
Edwards, of -f small Pox. A great greif to y' family, lord sanctify 
it for good. 

My son John & hee were about an age, Quicquid amas, 
cupias, non placuisse nimis. 

Many fines .at london about y"* time. In one house behind ye 



230 PHILIP HENRY. 

exchange, -f master, a nurse, & two children were burnt in y'" beds. 
Also 12 or 13 houses near y" Georg Inn in South wark. 

August 7. Randle Tonna's eldest daughter marry'd to Mr. 
Ueaves, somew' too soon after her uncle Mr. Walter Adams' death, 
considering what mone shee seem'd to make for him. 

8. to Torperly & home again, in safety, blessed be God; 
great miss of Mr. John Crew in that neighbourhood ; John Read 
who marry'd his wive's neece under y° Min" censure for it, who 
deny'd him y° sacram'. I wisht him to bee well advis'd in that 
case. 

Seasonable harvest for y° most pt., to God bee glory. 

4. To Stanwardin as to a house of mourning, shall wee receive 
good at the hand of y" lord, & shall wee not receive evil also ? 

22. I visited Mr. Andrew Ellis of y' Wern, who thought him- 
self past y" worst but dy'd y° second day after, an upright, peaceable, 
useful man in his place. Hee seemed to reflect with little comfort 
upon his conformity, telling mee, hee had forborn above two years. 
Hee left 5"' by will to bee distributed by Mr. luke lloyd & mee 
among poor min'". 

24. The black day of mitf' restraynt, now eight years, how 
long lord ! 

28. To Bo[reatton} where present Mr. Hampden & Mr. Swin- 
fen two worthy members of Parliament. 

September 3. I appeard at Malpas at y' B""'^ court, gave an 
account of Hanmer parish moneyes in my hands, chai'g 2"^ G^. 

5. Nag sold to cosin Benyon for 9'" 5' pd. 9'^ 

A sickly time, many sick & weak, many fallen asleep. 

8. To Wrexh. lodg'd at Mr. leAvis whose kindness to Mr. 
lawr. in keeping & teaching his son John I am concern'd to 
acknowl: & requite. 

1 2. Memorandum entred in Hanmer ^.ish book y' so"* poores 
money & 100. mark. School-money are in my hand. 

14. this day my worthy freind Mr. Zeck: Thomas fell aslee]> 
in y° lord at Nantwich, whither hee return'd the week before from 
Shrewsb. where hee had been some time in y" use of meanes i™ 
vayn. Hee dy'd of a Consumption ; in y" 41 y. of his age. Hee 
said to those about him on y" Munday, that towards ^Vednesday 
hee should take his leave of them, av°'' was accordingly. 



■PHILIP HENRY. 23 I 

15. Mr. hike lloyd & his daugh. Mrs. Rushworth at Br. O. 
her husband plac't near Petworth, qui bene latuit, bene vixit. 

i6. At Nantw. at Mr. Tho: biuyal, at Acton, Mr. Kirk preacht, 
gave him a worthy character, for uprightness, humiHty, moderation, 
prayer, faithfulness in reproving, patience under Affliction, and in 
saying heewas a true Israehte without guil, hee said all; lord make 
mee a follower ! Amen ! 

1 7. W" Heath dy'd at Salop, another true Nathaniel — Help 
lord for y faithful fail. 

William Turner came to us in this month from Oxford to 
sojourn with us a while & to teach the children ; hee is, I hope, 
the better, though some that went at the same time, the worse for 
the university. 

Mr. Steel absolv'd at Hanmer, reports spread through mistake 
that hee had conform'd. 

October i. Cosin John Beddow sent 50"" to mee to bee dis- 
pos'd of for the use of his sister Suckley & her 4. yonger children, 
lo"" a peice, at my discretion, which trust I accepted of & shall 
endeavour to bee faithful in it accordingly^ 

2. Ralph Eddow, John Beard with others excommunicated 
at Whitch: D' Fowler protesting hee did it unwillingly yet by his 
own procurement. They did not presently depart -f congregation, 
whereupon hee sayd, unless y" did, hee would be gone, & so went 
forth his Desk. 

5. Madam Penelope Pagett* marr/d at Boreatton to Mr- 
Philip Foley. 7. I went thither, shee sending for mee & spent 
y° Sabbath with them there, at coming away shee sent my wife a 
2o'- peice of gold, y° week after, they went to his Freinds in Wor- 
cestersh. where I have promis'd to see them at Spring, if God 
permitt. 

8. Mr. lawrence, Ralph Eddow &c. having su'd the Justices 
for recovery of their goods taken from them in June last, they 
endeavour their excommunication to prevent proceedings at law, 
the former hitherto escapes, not without a special providence ; the 
lord bee seen in y" affayr & putt a good issue to it, that the inno- 
cency of y' innocent may bee cleared. 

* She was daughter of the fifth Lord Paget, and sister to Francis Hunt's 
wife, of Boreatton, Salop. 



233 PHILIP HENRY. 

Amongst other discourse D' Hacket the present B" told Mr. 
lawrence y' y"' proceedings of D' Fowler would doe no good but 
hurt in his parish, that hee was 29 ys. min' at St Andrewes in 
Holborn yet never presented one neither Papist nor Puritan in all 
that time. 

24. Parliam' mett, lord let their meeting bee not for -f worse 
but for y" better to thy poor Min" & people. Amen! 36 of their 
number dead since their last adjournm', 6: that the living might 
lay it to heart. 

The occasion of their meeting, for raising of moneyes, the 
summ given, 2, 100, 000'*. 

November i. Ralph Eddow, John Beard, Robert Benyon, & 
others lately excommunicated at Whitch. Mr. lawrence, ag' whom 
especially the design was, by a special providence escap'd. Within 
a few days after B" Hacket dy'd. 

5. a day which ought to be remembered for ever, but is 
almost forgotten by these unthankful nations, which bodes ill in 
my eye, ingentia beneficia, ingentia flagitia, ingentia supplicia. 

13. Ralph Eddow &c. absolVd by S"' Walter littleton chan- 
celour, Dr. Fowler refus'd to publish their absolutions, neverthe- 
less they came to Church. The wound is wide there between 
Pastor and people, lord heal & help, & let contentions cease. 
Their absolution is but till Hilary Term next. 

December. Sir Walter littleton, chancellor of lichfeild, dy'd 
about this time, within few weekes after the Bishop. 

In a letter from a Freind after his being at Br. O. 

— The observation of Gods goodness & Bounty towards you, 
hath occasioned mee (as i K. 10. the Qu. of Sheba) to praise the 
lord in your behalf, cheifly seeing how punctually his promise 
Ps. 1 24. 3. 4. is verify'd in your family. Truly God is to you not 
only a place of broad rivers & streames for your preservation, & 
safety, but also a river & stream for Plenty, o blessed are you & 
blessed bee his name for you. 

R. F. 

Hee is no fool who parts with that w""' hee cannot keep to 
purchase that w* hee cannot lose — in works of charity. 

Sept. 2. 1670. William Pen* & William Meadf were arraigned 
* William Penn w!is born in London in 1644, and was the only sou of 



PHILIP HENRY. 233 

ill the Old Baily for a Riot Aug. 14 caus'd by William Pen's 
preaching in Gracious Street to 3 or 400 ^sons. They pleaded 
not guilty in maner & form — two or three witnesses depos'd, they 
were present & saw William Pen speaking, but what hee sayd they 
knew not — Whereupon the Jury found William Pen guilty of 
speaking in Gracious Street — which verdict not satisfying y' court, 
they were kept without meat, drink, fire, or tobacco from Friday 
to Munday & after appearing 5 times, & standing still to y° same 
verdict & no other, they were fin'd 40 markes apeice & to lye in 
prison till payd — Also Pen & Mead fin'd 40 markes apeice for not 
putting off their hats in the court — As they came in, their hats 
were pul'd off by command & put on again. 

present Thomas Howel recorder. 

Sir Sam. Starling Mayor 

Sir John Robinson, Sir Thomas Bludworth &c. 

Recorder Howel sayd, well now I see cause to admire the 
wisdom of y" Spanish Inquisition & twill never bee well in Eng- 
land, till some such thing bee stablisht here — Hee sayd also, the 
next session there will bee an Act of Parliament that none shall 
have y° benefit of y° law that will not conform. 

A narrative of their tryal was printed, with some votes of 
y° House of Commons A. 1667 wherby twas judg'd illegal in 
judge Keeling to fine & imprison Juryes & hee order'd to bee 
try'd for doing it. 

Eight of -f Jury payd their fine, the other four were imprison'd 
& had a hearing in Westm' hall this Mich. Term. 

William Penn, county Wilts, Vice-Admiral of England in the time of Crom- 
well, and afterwards knighted by King Charles II. for his successful services 
against the Dutch. He fell under the influence of Thomas Loe, an eminent 
preacher among the people called Quakers. In 1668 he first appeared as a 
preacher and an author. He was imprisoned in the Tower for seven months, 
during which he wrote " No Cross, No Crown." In 1670 the meetings of 
Dissenters were forbidden under heavy penalties, in spite of which he preached 
in Gracious Street on August 14th. In 1682 William Penn founded a colony, 
having previously obtained a charter from Charles II. He died in 1718. 
After more than one application, the State of Pennsylvania has, in 1881, again 
sought permission to transfer the bones of its founder from their quiet resting- 
place at Chalfont, Bucks, across the Atlantic. 

t William Mead was a Dissenting minister, and father of Richard Mead, a 
celebrated physician, who was born at Stepney in 1673. Dr. Mead interested 
himself in the introduction of inoculation for the small-pox, and assisted in 
ihe preliminary experiments made on condemned criminals. 



234 Philip henry. 

Magna Charta grants that no man shall be amerc'd but accord: 
to the offence, nor imprison'd ex' by y" Judgem' of his peers. 

Memor. From y° i" of January y'' year, 1670, I purpose io 
bestow la*" out of every pound Rent w* I receive in charitable 
uses, having respect especially to my poor suffring brethren in the 
ministry & to y° poor of Bronington, Willington & Iscoyd. 

1671. 



Ego cum homine tali nee amicitiam velim nee inimicitiam. 
Erasm. Epist. 

Tota vita mea nil aliud est quam peccatum et sterilitas. 

Fortunam fatigo ferendo. 

S' Tho. Edwards of Salop visiting his old Tutor D' Prideaux, 
after y" wars, at parting, hee gave him his fatherly advice, for 
memory sake in three Scripture-names, Mishma, Dumah, and 
Massah — i.e. hearing, silence, bearing, this I had from ls\x. John 
Bryan to w"" S' Tho. related it. 

Edward Francis, the old Pavier of Braden-heath, tis said, had 
the same j,ison for his Father, his Grandfather, his God-father and 
his uncle (his Grand-father & his reputed Father marrying two 
sisters). 

All acknowledge there is at this day a number of sober * peace- 
able men both ministers and others among dissenters, but who 
either doth or saith anything to oblige them? who desires or 
endeavours to open the door to let in such? nay doe they not 
rather provoke them to run into the same extravagancyes with 
others by making no difference, laying load on them as if they 
were as bad as the worst. 

A libel set up in Westm"' hall. 

— The Acts & Monum" of this present Parliam' — wee have 
left undone those th. w* wee ought to have done & wee have 
done those th. w* wee ought not to have done, and there is no 
truth in us. 

If all that had been said & written to prove prelacy Anti- 

* "Noscituv a sociis." It was the consequence of their not breaking 
away from the irreconcilables, whose fixed determination it was to reduce the 
English Church to the level of a Genevan sect. 



PHILIP HENRY. 235 

Christian & the common prayer unlawful, had been to persuade 
Bishops to study & doe the Duty of Church-rulers in preaching &: 
feeding the flock accord, to the word, and to persuade people to 
bee serious & inward & spiritual in the use of formes, it had been 
better with the church of God in England. 

Spiritus Sanctus non residet super hominem mxstum— a 
common saying among the Jewish Rabbins. 

2/ Mr. Ric. Hampden of Hampden finding a picture of the 
Trinity amongst his Grand-mother's goods, which fell to him & his 
sisters at her death, for which hee was bid 500"", rather threw it 
into the fire and burnt it. 

Sides-men are so called qu. Synods-men. 

The children of Norwich betw. 6 yeares old & 10. gain by 
working each year 12. thousand pounds more than mantaynes 
them. Chamberl. present state. 

— ratio ultima regum — Henry 4 of France caus'd written on 
his great guns. 

Of these things following this famous Isle is full, 

Mountaynes, Fountaines, Bridges, churches, women, wool. 

2. an unruly spirit let loose at london. Duke of Ormond * 
taken out of his Coach by Ruffians & indanger'd. S' John 
Coventry \ member of Parliam' had his Nose cutt off, tis said for 

*" " Ossory soon after came to court, and seeing Buckingham stand by 
the Icing, his colour rose, and he could not forbear expressing himself to 
this purpose : ' My lord, I know well that you are at the bottom of this 
late attempt upon my father, but I give you warning if by any means he come 
to a violent end, I shall not be at a loss to know the author : I shall 
consider you as the assassin : I sTiall treat you as such ; and wherever I meet 
you, I shall pistol you, though you stood behind the king's chair ' " (Hume). 
The chief accomplice was ' ' Blood, a disbanded officer of the Protector's, 
who had been engaged in a conspiracy in Ireland, for which he had been 
attainted and others executed. He meditated revenge upon Ormond, the lord 
lieutenant. Blood soon afterwards tried to carry off the crown and regalia 
frotn the Tower, and was not only pardoned by Charles II., but received a 
pension of ;^5oo per annum. Thus, while old Edwards, who had been wounded 
in defending the regalia, was forgotten, this man, who deserved only to be 
detested as a monster, became a kind of favourite " (Hume). 

t "Sir John Coventry had sneered at the profligacy of the court. In any 
former reign he would have been called before the Privy Council and com- 
mitted to the Tower. A different course was now pursued. A gang of 
bullies was secretly sent to slit the nose of the offender. This ignoble revenge 
raised such a tempest, that the king was compelled to pass an Act which 
attainted the offenders, and took from him the power of pardoning them " 
(Macaulay). 



236 PHILIP HENRY. 

words spoken in y" house of Commons. Nel Gwin C. R. whipt 
& washt in y" Chanel, one of y° life gard upon his duty slayn by 
3 Frenchmen, such doings bode ill. 

12. Mr. Tho. Hanmer came to live at Fenns. Reported 
from Ireland by one present y' a play being Acted in Dublin in 
derision of y" fanatiques, -f play-house fell, 7 kild,- many hurt, the 
lord Deputy Berkly present, his son crusht. 

30. brings to remembrance y° horrid murther of the late 
King, deliver -f nation from bloud-guiltines 6: God. 

A very warm January — little or no frost or rayn, but great winds. 

4. Having deliverd 20' before, I deliverd other 10' to James 
Jackson & took his Acquittance, for the use of Mr. Steele's 
children.* Sal's vest cost 11" 10" — in all 2^" i' — 10* ex dono 
amicorum. received & delivered more — in all 2"" 3' o — the vest 
on my account. 

14. William Turner went from us towards Oxford, having 
sojourn'd with us for y' most pt since August last, in which time 
hee entred Katy in reading English, & Sarah in Hebrew. 

I pray God preserve him from university sins & snares. Amen ! 

March 15. buryd at London Mr. Wil. Bridg. of yamiouth in 
a good old age. 

19. In Isc[oed] trans. D[ee]. A day in thy courts is better 
than a thousand. 

22. I was at Shrops. Assize, summon'd thither to bee a wit- 
ness for Mr. Nevet agt S'' John Trevor of Emral concer. lightwood, 
but it went not to tryal. 

This day was heard before Judge Twisden the ^^'hitchurch 
cause between Mr. Eddow & Mr. Lawrence & the Justices concer. 
their goods taken from y'" on pretence of a Conventicle in May 
last ; y" Qu. was whether Mr. Eddow's daughter was one of his 
family, as also whether John Beard's son a youth of 12 or 14 y. 
old, there present, though hee was not to be punisht yet might not 
make the meeting unlawful & so expose y" rest to punishm'. The 
former was made clear by y° oath of several witnesses y' shee 
came home intending to stay, concer. the later y" Judge said hee 

* These seem lo have been presents made to Mr. Steel's children when 
their father had decided to go to London, where he remained working dili- 
gently to the end of his life. 



PHILIP HENRY. i^iT 

would not declare his Judgm' y" with design y' if y" Jury did not 
find for the Justices yet however y" should find specially, Mr. John 
Thomas late of Shrewsb. being one of y° Jury stood it out on y" 
Plaintiffs behalf agt -f rest all night alledging hee was fully satis- 
fyd y° girl was of y° Family, saying, hee would dye rather then 
yeild — ^in ye morning at Mr. lawrence's motion in private to y° Judge 
by Mr. Birch it was referd to Serj. Jones & Serj. Baldwin. Mr. 
Thomas fin'd lo"" & bound to y" behaviour for words spoken to 
one of y' Jurors. 

There was great mercy y' y" Verdict was not brought agt them 
bee. of treble costs. &c. for which blessed bee God, though y'' are 
still like to bee losers till God plead y"'' cause. 

31. Dutchess of York * dy'd. 

April. In this month Mrs. Ward of Coton, formerly wife to 
Mr. Orlando Fogg, being 43 or 44. yeares of age was deliver'd of a 
daughter which old Mr. Fogg saying hee would bee bound to keep 
all the children that ever shee should have, I reply'd, should bee 
his ward. 

May 5. to Boreatton — ^where God is still own'd and worshipt, 
& therein I rejoyce. 

About this time the Crown &c. was attempted to bee stollen 
out of the Tower but recover'd again ; the Persons, some of them 
Anabaptists, one Bloud,t another Perrott, a great preacher. 

God in righteous judgm' leaves men of corrupt principles to 
corrupt practises. 

II. extra-ordinary great hayl in diverse places, some four, 
some five, nay six inches about, near Whitch. 

15. This day dy'd cosin John Madocks of llynbedithf in a 

* Ann Hyde, the daughter of Edward, Earl of Clarendon, had been married 
to the Duke of York in 1660. In her last sickness she made open profession 
of the Romish religion. Both her daughters succeeded to the English throne. 
The sons both died in 1667, viz. James, born in 1663 and created Duke of 
Cambridge the same year, K.G. in 1666 ; and Heniy Stuart, bom and created 
Duke of Kendal in 1664. 

t Vide sitfr/z, January 2, note. 

J On the sides of this lake, some fields called " Holy Crofts " seem to mark 
the place where Bangor monks or St. Chad baptized their converts. A British 
road that crosses it seems to have been the cause of its being reduced by 
drainage from a mile and a quarter in length to its present small dimensions. 
It must originally have been of the size and shape of the lake at Combermere. 

Llys-bedydd (' ' court of baptism ") is the ancient name for the parish now 
called Bettisfield. 



238 PHILIP HENRY. 

good old age. I wondered much, his will was to make, which hee 
dictated hims. this morning about 9. or 10. a clock, that done, I 
pray'd with him & about an hour or two after hee compos'd hims. 
in that posture wherein hee sweetly about 5. a clock gave up the 
Ghost & fell asleep in Jesus. 

I hope Heaven growes rich by it, but I am sure Hanmer parish 
growes poor in men of piety & integrity — Help lord ! Ps. 12. t. 

18. I accompanyd him to his grave. Mr. Green preacht — 
T. Col. 3. 4. 

23. Mr. Steel with us. Mr. Fogg with him here ; who with 
myself are all in Flint-sh. that suffer at this day for non-con- 
formity, lord judge in that matter between us & our adversaryes. 
Amen ! 

26. About this time Mr. lawrence * remov'd with his Family 
from Whitch. tow. london ; My great loss, lord, make it turn to his 
great gain. 

June. I. Great feares of scarcity approching prevented by a 
blessed change in y" weather, thankes bee to our good God. 

Mr. lawrence rob'd at london quickly after his coming thither 
of linnen &c. to y° value of 6 or 7 pound. 

his Freind & mine, Mr. Will Hayward of Chester dy'd in this 
month, hee had often obligd hims. to leave the substance of his 
estate to pious uses, & I often warn'd him to doe it, but I hear it 
was not done ; many good purposes lye in the church-yard. 

12. Hempen cloth bought at Whitch. fayr for sister Katharin 

cost — i'" 6' 10'' 
whitn. — o. 

Jtme 23. Mr. lawrence son Thomas came to sojourn with us a 
while — at first discontented but I hope by degrees it will wear off. 

■" Jlr. Edward Lawrence, of Magdalen ColIege.Cambridge, was born at Mos- 
lon, Salop. He was ejected from Baschurcli in 1662, and removed to London in 
1671. Some of his sayings should be remembered : " Make no man angry nor 
sad ; '' "I adore the wisdom of God that hath not seen meet to trust me with 
riches." When he saw little cliildren in the street, he would often lift up his 
heart to God in prayer for them. When a friend chose to ride the back way 
into town, he pleasantly checked him, saying his heart had often been refreshed 
when he had looked out at the window and "seen a good man go along the 
streets." He used to say that Cromwell did more real prejudice to religion by 
liis hypocrisy than King Charles II., that never pretended to it. As also, 
that " he feared the sins of the land more than the French." 



PHILIP HENRY. 239 

Oct. 3. hee went from us tow. london. 
Jun. 26. Tithiiigs. — 

A lamb out of II. ... ... .,.026 

A sheep out of 12 ... ... ... 010 

A goose out of 9 ... ... ,..006 

Pigeon house ... ... ... 006 

3 Hives of Bees ... ... ...003 

5 Kine & Calves ... ... ... 007 

Smoke Garden & Offr. &c. ... ...008 



060 



Side of ■f old barn next the house — basted with stone^cost 
stone, lime & work about 20^ the rent of y° said barn for the last 
year. 

the rem'' of y" other side — basted also — cost other 2o^ The 
whole in all heretofore and now about 4"^ besides carriage w"'' was 
by my own Team & neighbours. 

23. I went towards Stafford, lodg'd this night at Drayton. 

24. At Stafford by y° invitation of Mr. John Hudson, Iron- 
monger ; was lodg'd at Mr. Fowler's, an Inn, with comfortable 
accommodation, his wife a hearty freindly good woman. 

25. Inpubl. Mr. Bayley Min'. T. Math. 11. 28. I endeavour'd 
to |)swade to bear with his weakness, which I judge duty rather 
y°" separate, esp. considering his Age & that tis probable his parts 
& gifts have been better & also that hee is quiet, but many there 
dissent. 

In private in the Evening Math. 25. 29. an awakening word, 
lord bless & give repentance for misspent Talents. 

I observe, there is oftentimes now a dayes a great deal of 
precious time lost among professors in discoursing of y"'"' escapes 
& adventures, not to give God glory, but to set up self — also in 
telling how they met & such a one preacht & twas a good sermon, 
but no profiting by it The lord in mercy make up our sad 
breaches at this day — is there no balm ? 

July. I. Mr. Edwards about to purchase a Tenem' or two 
■that were lord Brereton's * in y° Barony of Malpas. 

* Evelyn frequently mentions Lord Brereton, and had a great respect for 
him. Owing to losses in the civil wars, he had sold his Cheshire estates. He 
■\ras one of the founders of the Royal Society, and died 1679. 



240 PHILIP HENRY. 

8. much rayn, judgm' threatened, however guilt causes ex- 
pectation of neither, but God had mercy. 

1 2. with wife at Stanwardine *— much made of there but little 
good done, by reason of a vayn, unfixt, unfruitful heart. 

I accompanied them in killing a Buck in their own park, far 
from being taken with .any great delight or pleasure in -f Sport, 
they sent part of him to Broad-Oke after us. 

15. Smith, raynd most p' of y° day & week before, yet the 
next day fayr & fayr many dayes after, yet People will not be taken 
off their old groundless observances. 

19. all night at Whitch. at uncle Hotchk. would doe good 
but cannot. Proposals of liberty, each one to pay y' King 5' p. 
ann. nomine poenje, for non-conformity — not likely nor feasable. 

■24. I visited Allen Sherott ill, face swollen — about two )". 
since hee had a wild wart on his lower lip, cutt off by Kenley 
woman, & heal'd, the humor falling lately in his teeth, hee had 
payn & drew two, after w""" y° holes never filling, y° gumms swell'd 
& a sad spectacle hee is become — lord, pity, pardon, save ! 

28. Mr. Davis late of Jesus Coll. now Min' in Carnarvonsh. 
having above 10 y. since at Worthenb. borrow'd 2^ 6^ of mee, 
came this day & very honestly brought it. 

August 13. preacht on Jacob's vow. Gen. 28. 20 &:c with 
psonal application, saying. If God will be with mee in this way 
that I goe — then the lord shall bee my God — hee shall, hee shall, 
hee shall be my God. 

14. I sett forward tow. london with cosin Darack & his 
wife, cosin Yates, cosin Rich. Hotchkis, wee lodg'd this night at 
Wolverhampton, whither wee came safe in good time, no hurt or 
hindrance by the way blessed bee God. 

15. to Bromicham, thence to Coventry. At Bromicham Mrs. 
leather told mee of a neighbour of theirs, who dy'd suddenly in 
bed with his hand on his wife's breast, which shee feeling cold 
wakt & found him dead — Another strucken with an Apoplexy in 
his shop counting money. 

* Thomas Corbet married Mary Gerard, of Stroton-in-the-West. Gough 
adds, in his "History of Myddle Parish " (a.d. 1700), "They are both liveing in 
the county of Worcester, for Stanwardine is sold to Sir Jolin Win of Watstay." 
It is now (1881) the property of Mr. Sparling, of Petton. Cf. Newcome's 
diary (Chetham Society) for December, 1648, where an amusing account of his 
fN|ierience of deer-hunting is given. 



PHILIP HENRY. 241 

16. To Daventry, thence to Stony Stratford, Eben-Ezer ! 

17. to Barnett. 18. to london. the wayes fayer and the 
weather favourable beyond expectation, blessed bee God — spent 
by the way self and horse 20'. 

19. to Kensington, sisters well there, tis in my heart to desire 
to do them good but to |)form is not present. 

20. Sabbath spent there, T. John 14. 6. via in qua, Veritas 
^quam, vita ad quam, vera et vivens via. 

21. Sister Sarah came to us, told mee several passages con-^ 
cerning her stay in Ireland. God that hath hitherto Kept her. 
Keep her still from all evil. Amen. 

24. Solemn fast in remembrance of y" sad day of Min" ejec- 
tion. Kept at Countess of Exeter's, with some measure of holy 
meltings & inlargem*^. lord, hear & heal, Amen ! Dr. Jacomb, Mr. 
Steel, Mr. Mayo, Mr. Bull, Mr. Pool pray'd & preacht alternat"" 
T. Ps. SI. 4. 39. 9. 

25.26. refresht in y* sight & society of Freinds. 27. Preacht 
at Mr. Doelittles meeting place T. Math. 25. 29. To him y' hath 
— bless lord — 28. saw sister Ann. spoke with lord Middlesex. 
29. saw little child in Bartholom. fayr 5 y. old but 2 foot ^ high, 
poor, lean. 

30. preacht at Mr. St. T. i' Cor. 10. 12. in much distraction, 
lord, pdon — that evening at Kensington — 31. to Thistleworth — 
at night all 4 sisters together, pray'd & ^ted. 1. D. 

September, i. This day dy'd the reverend & my truly worthy 
Freind & Brother Mr. Joshua Richardson,* late of Middle (as wee 
heard after, and this day I first heard y" newes of his sicknes in a 
letter to Mr. 1. & another to myself — though prayer came late 
from us yet God accepts, and he had then no need of it, blessed 
bee God for his holy life & happy death. Dr. Fowler preacht at 
his funeral Dan. 12. 2.) highly praising him, as hee deserv'd, for 

* Joshua Richardson, M. A., was son of Mr. Joshua Richardson of Brough- 
ton. "He was an able and laborious minister, whose whoalc employment was 
about the concernes of his ministry - . . he would willingly have confoimed to 
the discipline and constitution of the Church of England, but could not with a 
safe conscience subscribe to the declaration against the Covenant. He came to 
live at Alkinton neare Whitchurch, exercising himself in religious duties and 
teaching his own and some of his relations' children in good literature " 
(R. Cough's "Myddle," p. 19). 

R 



242 PHILIP HENRY. 

wisdom, piety, & peaceableness yet w'" black reflections upon 
others, who deserve it not. This evening I was ill, at Cosin 
Darack's, where I lodg'd all -f while I was in london — much dis- 
temper'd all night. 

2. attempted to keep -f Annual fast this day in remembr. of 
y° dreadful fire of london. A. 66. but strength fail'd. to will was 
present, to doe was not. 

Thankes is also to bee given for ye Strange & wonderful 
rebuilding of it in so short a time, which but that my eyes saw, I 
could hardly have believ'd — Night worse distemperd y°" before, 
burning, sweating, in payn, so y' I had y° sentence of Death within 
mys. & was in some measure willing to it, at that time & in y' place, 
though a stranger, had God seen good, but a repreive came the 
next day, better. 

3- I should have preacht & communicated with Dr. Ansley 
but praevented — Multa cadunt inter — Time was when I might & 
did not, now I would & might not. 

4. still a prisoner to house though not to bed, prayers of 
friends heard for mee, blessed bee God, lord, let mee live to thee 
& for thee. 

5. I went abroad — accompany'd cosin Benyon to Southwark, 
spake with Mr. White concer. his daughter, who yeilded far, only 
was loth shee should goe so far from him as Shropsh. which I could 
not prevayl with him for & so left him. 

6. passing by accidentally I saw five lusty men in tlie way to 
Execution, & thought what a difference is there betw. sufifring this 
as evil-doers & for righteousness sake. 

7. To Islington where was bury'd Mr. Burghess a non- 
Conformist mitf of y" west-countrey, there were present 100 or 
6 score Min" & I blest God y' for one dead there were so many 
living, but it greived mee to see y'" divided, p' staying y° office 
for y° dead, p' going out. Here I saw Mr. Senior, Mr. Bull, Mr. 
Rowles, form' acquaintance. 

8. Advis'd with D' Nath. Hodges * concer. y° pain in my 
breast, who jiidg'd the cause of it to bee, -f reliques of D' Alport's 

* Dr. N. Hodges was a contemporary of Philip Henry at Westminster and 
at Oxford. His father was buried August 27, 1672, at Kensingtpn, of which 
parish he was reclor, as well as Dean of Hereford, 



PHILIP HENRY. 243 

mercurial Vomit, & praescrib'd accordingly, D'^ Needham differ'd. 
10. Sabb. kept with Mr. Doelittle. T. John 8. 36. ^swading 
sinners to bee willing to bee made free. In -f aftern. several Bills 
to beg prayers for psons inclining to bee willing. 

1 1, much rayn — to Kensington with sist' Kath. Saw Dean 
Hodges, pswading to conform, but I dare not on such Termes. 
12. more rayn. 13. return'd to london. 14. sett forw'^ 
homewards with Cosin Madocks — Hockley. 15. to Coventry. 
16. to Prestwood, to Mr. Phil. Foley, his lady lately deliverd of a 
daughter. 17. Sabbath spent there. 18. Home, where found 
all well, blessed bee God, who by promise shall bee my God. 

3. Sad fire in Thames Street — sugar house burnt — 20000"' 
loss awakening. 

8. Fast at Mr. Johnsons. D' Ansley, Mr. Needier — Mr. 
Grimes. 2 Sam. 23. 5. Thankes given for my late recovery. 

9. Mr. Humph. Aldersea promis'd to build a school house 
for Hanmer. 

October 23. Thankes return'd to God with two or three at 
Cos. Ben. Ps. 68. 5. wee remembred this day 30 y. was the break- 
ing forth of y° rebellion, in Ireland, this day 29 y. was y" day 
of Edge-hill battle.* 

26. I discours'd w* S'' Th. Hanmer concer. Mr. Aldersea's 
purpose of building a school-house, the Rowrey y° place, but y° 
form yet unresolved on & the manner of conveyance of -f ground. 

30. John Jackson Keeper of Emral had a dangerous fall 
anenst great Barn & off a horse, in drink, taken up for dead but 
fecoverd. M. D. 

November. 9. london Min'* with y" King, D" Annesley, Mr. 
Watson, Mr. Whitaker & y" two Vincents, to w"" hee said, hee was 
sensible of their straits & would endeavour their enlargm'. Amen, 
liee said, as hee would not willingly bee psecuted hims. for his 
vown Religion, so neither did hee like to psecute others for theirs, f 

* This was the rebellion under Sir P. O'Neil, which was said by some to 
be contrived by the king, or at least by the queen. See Clarendon, iv. 31, 
with Bishop Warburton's comments. 

t In 1660 the preachers of the City " desired that such things might not be 
pressed upon them in God's worship which in their judgment were indifferent. " 
The Icing spake very kindly to them, and said that he had no purpose to 
impose hard conditions upon them. ' ' But . . . they told him that the Book of 



244 PHILIP HENRY. 

22. Mr. Sam. Hanmer came to see mee, a conformist, but I 
suppose, not ex toto corde ; hee told mee formerly hee stood out 
a good while, and I then said, I like it never the better. I per- 
suade mys. there are many more in his condicon who would bee 
heartily glad things were otherwise, but the stream is too hard for 
them, God unite us in the truth and in true love one to another. 

December 20. I lent 10'" to Mr. Hanmer of Fenns til ladyday 
next, sent by his Groom, whom hee sent for it, with a note from 
Mr. Yate. I lent this same day 10'" to Cosin Benyon sent by his- 
man John w™ hee sent for it. 

Texts intended (God willing & enabling) to bee preacht upon. 

Esa. S. 18. behold I & y' children for signs & wonders ! 

Hos. 1 1. 7. my children are bent to backslide from mee. 

This summer Assizes in Denbigh-shire were hang'd 2 brothers- 
twins for murthering a man, who had taken a Tith over their heads. 

Since Mich, was brought into Oxford Gaol a man who kild his- 
mother, calling her out of y' house suddenly to y" bam & saying 
there were theeves stealing her corn, shea- came hastily forth & 
there hee stabd her, and then cry'd for help saying, the Theeves 
had murther'd his Mother. Tis sayd, a neighbour gentleman by 
a dream was -f occasion of bringing this to light, who charging 
him upon suspition, hee confest. A murther of a child drown'd 
in a Pit near Cock-shot was discovr'd in Octob. by a bundle 
swimming on y' water, which being taken up was found to bee a 
womans riding hood in y" Town who had lent it to y" Murtherer 
not knowing his intent to lap y' child in a week or fortnight old, 
to carry to nurse in a rainy night, the mans name Hinkes. the 
child a bastard child, y' mother not consenting. Novemb. 12. or 
thereabouts a child in Hamptons-wood 3. y. old was found dead 
lying with his face on y° Ice & his hands spread abroad, near y° 
house, whither not half an houre before hee had com'n. for bread 
to his Mother. 

Dec. 27. Mr. Aston Min' of Acham coming to Whitch. to see 
his son lately entertain'd curate to Dr. Fowler, & being at his Inn 

Common Prayer had been long discontinued in England \j.e. since 1644], and 
it would be much wondered at if the Icing should revive the use of it in his own 
chapel." The king told them with some warmth that whilst he gave them 
liberty, he would not have his own taken from him (Clarendon's "Rebellion,"' 
xvi. 242, 243). 



PHILIP HENRY. 245 

the George, his wife with him, cal'd for wine to drink to Mrs. 
Fowler, who was com'n up from the Parsonage to his Inn with 
him where hee meant to lodge all night, suddenly before it came, 
turning his head on one side, as hee sate in his chayr, dy'd without 
word, sigh, or grone ; aged 63. y. tis sayd, hee had often told his 
wife, hee did beleive hee should dye in that year of his age, being 
his great Climacterique ; lord teach mee to number my dayes that 
I may bee alwayes ready. Amen ! 

A prayer of y" afflicted when hee is overwhelmed & poures out 
his complaint before the lord. 

Remember, lord, what thou hast been, ever thinking of, even 
from everlasting, thoughts of peace & mercy to us-ward & the 
number of them cannot bee told, which thou hast been ever 
thinking, with the greatest of delights, as hee tells us that was in 
thy bosom & was thy counsellor, Prov. 8. 31. and are they all 
now on y° sudden restrayned, forgotten, laid aside, as if they had 
not been, hast thou forgotten thy name, gracious and merciful, 
abundant in kindnes, Did the very intent of shewing mercy so 
infinitely before-hand possess thee with delights & now when thou 
shouldst come to put it in execucon, &: hast so fair an opportunity 
of doing it, to a soul as full of misery, as even was any, hast thou 
now no heart, no mind to it ? 

lord, I have notice given mee of an infinite & alsufficient 
righteousnes in thy Son, laid up in him & that by thy own 
procurem' whereof thy son never had nor can have any need 
hims. being God blessed for ever, & for whom was it then 
appointed but for the sons of liien, those who are wounded, weary, 
sick, broken, lost, these thy son hath put into his will, who still 
lives to bee his own executor ; 

lord I hear also that his Spirit is y° Comforter, a God of 
comforts & that thy Son hath bought y"" all, his whole shop & all 
his Cordials. 

Memor. For this year, as for y° former I have bestow'd 12" 
out of every pound rent which I have receiv'd, being the lord's 
tribute, having special resp! to my dear Fellow Min"^ &: to y° poor 
of Iscoyd, Bronn. & Will. 

Accept lord, what is of thine own in Christ Jesus ! Amen. 

Dec. 31. 1671. 



246 PHILIP HENRY. 

1672. 

Aug. jy Fowler said & spread y' report of it, which I have 
also under his hand, that Mr. Hilton told him, that Mr. Green 
told him, that I said, if God bee God wee— /.^. the Church of 
Engl, could not prosper. I askt Mr. Green if hee told any such 
th. to Mr. Hilton, hee said, no, hee did not ; I askt Mr. Hilton if 
hee told any such th. to D' Fowler, hee said no, hee did not. 
A lying tongue is but for a moment. I hope some good is done,, 
bee. y" Devil is angry. 

Not long after I said to Mrs. Figes in my own house, speaking; 
of y" offence taken at the meeting place in Wrexham being a barn, 
that wheat in a bam is better than chaff in a church, her brother 
Stephen Morhal, hearing told some, that told some, that told D"" 
Fowler, who a sabbath or two after took notice of it in the Pulpit 
& said. There are some who in the abundance of their humilitj- 
have said lately, there is noth. but chaff in churches, whereas chaff 
is rather to bee lookt for in bames, or to that purpose. 

wherby I see how words innocently spoke may bee pverted, 
but I as a deaf man, heard not, for I said, lord thou hearest. 

The proper posture for prayer is kneeling, yet lawful to sit * or 
stand, but what if Magistrate should command mee alwayes to sit 
in publique prayer, else not suffer'd to join in publique prayer. 

ought I not to refuse, bee. though lawful yet when impos'd,. 
in exclusion of that gesture which is most fitting, doe I not 
by my submission to that imposition, harden him & justify him 
in it. 

Quaere, if the case bee not the same concer. Kneeling at the- 
Sacram'; suppose I judge y" proper gesture to bee sitting, as most 
agreeable to the example of X' & his Apostles & most suteable 
to y° nature of the Ordinance, as a supper — yet lawful to kneel or 
stand, 

but w" y° Magistrate peremptorily injoynes Kneeling, in exclu- 
sion of sitting, the most proper gesture, ought I not rather tO' 
forbear it then by submission justify his imposition. 

* Sitting was not a posture of devotion in tlie ancient Church (Bingham's 
" Antiquities," lib. xiii. cap. viii. 7). In 2 Chron. xvii. 16, we find "David 
the Iting came and sat before the Lord," but that was to commune, not to pray. 



PHILIP HENRY. 247 

But what if the Magistrate leave it free, as hee doth in prayer, 
to use what gesture I please, 

quaere — may I not, though I doe ordinarily sit at ye Sacram' 
as best, yet somet. at liberty either Kneel or Stand, judging it 
lawful, as I doe now ordinarily Kneel in prayer yet somet. either 
stand or sit. 

All or most of the Conformity have said, they could not deny 
us Min'^ but not Min'" of the Church of England without Epis- 
copal Ordination.* 

By a Mitf of y° Church of England can bee meant no other 
than a Min' of Christ authoriz'd to preach in the church of 
England. 

Now suppose a Dutch or French Protestant Min' come into 
England to preach, hee is not reordayn'd but only hcenst 

* To the claim of presbyters to "ordain" the answer is, "We have no 
such custom, neither the Churches of God." When they had thrown off the 
yoke of prelatism and begun to consider their position, " Calvin, Bullinger, 
and others wrote in 1549 to King Edward VI., offering to make him their 
defender, and to have bishops in their churches as there were in England." 
This letter fell into the hands of the Romish bishops, who, writing as if from 
the Reformed divines of those times, checked and slighted the proposal. This 
correspondence was not discovered until or about the 6 Elizabeth, and Her 
Majesty much lamented it was not found sooner." See Stryne's "Life of 
Archbishop Parker," p. 140. How wonderful are the dealings of Providence 
in thus permitting the author of all evil to separate those who desired a pure 
Christian worship ! Since that time those Christians who had no bishops have 
tried to justify their position by various pleas : I. By denying to the Apostles or 
to their immediate successors any authority that is not expressly specified in the 
New Testament; that is to say, that the men who were permitted by the head of 
the Church to appoint the order of deacons (Acts vi. 6) and of deaconesses 
(Rom. xvi. l), confirmation of those baptized (Acts viii. 17), and the order 
of elders (Acts xiv. 23), to meet in council for Church purposes (Acts xv.), to 
supplement the Lord's words by baptizing infants, to displace the Jewish 
Sabbath by the Christian Lord's day, to appoint one of their presbyters as the 
angel or bishop over respective Churches (Rev, ii. and iii.), and finally to 
arrange and to close the Canon of the New Testament:— that these men may be 
snuffed at by us whenever we want to do something contrary to their appoint- 
ments. The second plea is that the Apostles were presbyters (i Pet. v. i). 
That is true, as it is true that every bishop is a presbyter now, but everj' 
presbyter was not an apostle. In the pastoral epistles we find the words 
dviffKOTTOi and irpecrjSuTepoi applied to the order of elders, the heads of Churches 
bearing the title of &Yye}^oi (Rev. ii.). The third plea is from antiquity. This, 
however, breaks down altogether. One of the last suggestions, that in the 
Church of the West, and imder the monastic system, the bishop and presbyter 
were identical, has been shown by Mr. W. F. Skene, in "Celtic Scotland," 
vol. ii., to be an entire mistake. The bishop was always what he was from 
the beginning, and what he is now. 



248 PHILIP HENRY. 

All the power to bee own'd in Bishops is derived to them from 
the King * & in those th. wherein the King hath power in Church 
matters, in those th. wee may obey the Bishops as his Delegates 
& Substitutes. 

In King James time w" 4. scotch presbyters were to bee con- 
secrated Bishops at Lambeth t'was mov'd they might bee first 
ordaynd Presbyters again, but over-rul'd, t'was without need-f 

In our case the King immediately without Bishops, which is 
Y better, gives us liberty being already Min" of X' to preach in 
his Dominions, where hee appoints. 

The law calls the King Patron general of England. His 
appointing mee to preach supposes I must have hearers & those 
of necessity out of some Parish or other. 

What wee doe is to serve the present necessity and not of 
choyce. There are many amongst us debard by impositions firom 
communicating with freedom in publick in f lord's supper, the 
King takes pity of them, authorises mee or another to give it, in 
a way wherein they are'satisfyd &: why not? 

(Sept.) many soldiers fetcht out of Ireland — 70. drown'd in 
one vessel within few roods of Harbour. 

(Sept. 6. 1672.) Having receiv'd 20"^ from Mr. Aldersea it 
was thus dispos'd of towards the erecting of a School at Hanmer. 

For 50. thousand of Brick ... ... 14. 8. 8 

for 10. thous'' of Slate at quarry ... 2. 10. o 

In pt of Carriage .. ... i. 5. 4 

To y° Carpenter squaring — &c. ... 1. 16. o 

concer. the truth of w* account Mr. Lloyd & Mr. Hilton certify'd 
under their hands this day. 

Nov. 3. Ri. Steel writes 

I am now Father to ten sons (the lo"'' born this day) five 
plac't in Heaven & five unplac't on eatth. 

January i. Exchequer stopt from issuing forth moneyes to 
pay debts for this year, a snub to trade, many concern'd, esp. 
merchants who find thems. aggreiv'd at it 

* Their spiritual powers are derived from tlie Lord's commission to the 
Apostles. 

t Vide supra, the case of Archbishop Leighton, who was re-ordained deacon 
and priest in 1661 (Burnet's " History of his Own Time," lib. i. 139, 140 fol.). 



PHILIP HENRY. 1\i:) 

9. To Drayton with Cpsin Jennings, where wee mett Mr. 
Buckley, with his Kinsmen Georg & Joseph Mainwaring. I advis'd 
that Joseph being ready might bee hastned to th' university, 
30'" |) ann. will bee had for him, I promis'd his good Father 
to befreind him in that matter & shall, God willing, accordingly 
to my power, & that out of conscience towards God. At Stych 
that night. 10. home again, in much mercy, but a barren, 
dead, unprofitable heart is stil my burthen. 

15. to Wrexham, at y° request of Mr. P. whose daughter 
being marryd to Mr. Dolb. & some unkindness growing between 
them, they have been cpted neer a twelve month, shee complaines 
of sin & want of assurance, I advis'd to rectify the former 
matter, return into God's way, else in vayn to expect peace. Her 
Freinds against it, but I am very confident it will prove so. 

It gave occasion to bless God for my own conjugal comforts, 
marry'd neer twelve yeares & never yet reconcil" bee. no need 
of 't. 

I heard, not long after, the wound was heald and they came 
together again. 

February. Ten pounds receiv'd by return from Mr. Humphry 
Aldersea of london tow. y° erecting of a School-house at Hanmer, 
wherein I promis'd him to bee Assistant to my power in the laying 
of it out, as also what hee yet further intends (layd out accordingly). 

9. Old Mrs. Whitehal of Whitch. bury'd, a good woman & 
which is not ordinary, continu'd in her usefulness to the last. 

27. Joseph. Mainw. went with W" Turner tow. Oxford, also 
John Eddow at same time, the lord prosper their studyes & keep 
them from present sins & snares ! Amen ! 

1 6. came forth the K. Declaration for Indulgence,* the Church 
of Engl, establisht, poenal lawes suspended agt. all non-conf. & 
Recusants, separate places promis'd to bee licens'd. Papists to 
meet in private houses only ; The reason rendred is, the in- 
■effectualnes of rigor for divers yeares & to invite strangers. 

* "Meanwhile rapid strides were made towards despotism. Procla- 
mations enjoining what only Parliament could enjoin, appeared in rapid 
succession. Of these edicts the most important was the Declaration of In- 
dulgence. By this instrument the penal laws against Roman Catholics were set 
aside, and that the real object of the measure might not be perceived, the laws 
against Protestant Nonconformists were also suspended." — ilacaulay's " History 
of England," chap. ii. 



250 PHILIP HENRY. 

A thing diversly resented, as men's Interest leades them, the 
Conformists generally displeas'd at it, the Presb. glad, the Indep. 
very glad, the Papists triumph. 

That the K. hath power herein should seem from his 
Supremacy in church matters esp. since recogniz'd by late Act 
agt. Conventicles, however if the lawes hereby suspended as to 
non-conf. were, as some say, wicked lawes ab initio, then to lay 
y" aside, such think is more clear — The danger is, lest y° allow- 
ing of separate places help to overthrow our Parish-order which 
God hath own'd, & beget divisions & animosityes amongst us 
which no honest heart but would rather should bee heal'd. 

The way were for those in place to admit -f sober non-conf. 
to preach somet. occasionally in their Pulpits,* which would 
in time wear off praejudices & mutually strengthen each others 
hands agt. -f common enemy -f Papist, wh'o mil fish best in 
troubled waters — wee are put hereby to a Trilehima either to turn 
flat Independents, or to strike in with ye conformists, or to sit 
down in former silence & sufferings, till the lord shall open a more 
effectual door. 

April, preacht. at Cockshut, being thereto desir'd ; Mr. Main- 
waring the Min" read Prayers. Ps. 119. 67. bless, lord! This, if 
it might bee, I would chuse rather than a separate place but — 
quos perdere vult Dms, eos dementat. 

8. to Boreatt. Mr. Hunt present Sheriff of Shropsh. 9. to 
Shrewsb. Gen. 22. i. in much weaknes & straitnes, wherby my 
God humbles mee. 

17. Publique Fast in ref to Dutch war begun, concer. which 
that which satisfyes mee is i. that the K. at least now hath 
a declared power in these matters concer. war & peace. 2. that 
the reasons given are of consequence, viz. their breach of late 
Treaty, refusing to acknowl. our power in y' narrow Seas, fishing 
herein without our license, & allowing scandalous pictures, medals 

* This had been tried before and failed. In the eighteenth century an 
amusing story is told of a Presbyterian obtaining permission to preach in the 
chapel of his brother, who was a Socinian, on condition that he did not 
touch upon disputed points, and beginning his address with these words : "Now 
that I have by "what may be called a holy stratagem got possession of this 
pulpit, I am determined not to leave it until you have for once heard the 
Gospel," and then, etc. 



■PHILIP HENR Y. 2 5 1 

&c. agt his Ma'-"' honor. May 3. 3. that our duty is to seek y" 
good of our own people, though it were a Babylon. 4. that 
even -f long Pari, did wage war with them on these occasions, 
nay on worse, one offence being that they harbour'd the K's 
exild Freinds, wherein wee think now they did well. But they 
are Protestants, hinc illse lachryms, thou God of peace, make 
peace, if not, thou lord of hosts cover our Armyes in the day of 
battle, bee a wall of fire round about us & y" glory in the midst 
of us. Amen ! 

4. with John Bill to Stafford, good discourse by the way, no 
hurt or hindrance, blessed bee God. 

5. preacht twice. Pro. 14. 9. betwixt 12 &'2, & betwixt 4 & 6. 
also twice hearing in publique, Mr. Bailey y" Min. T. Ezek. 33. 12, 
Jam. 5. 18. this I thought fit to doe, with ref. to some freinds 
doing otherwise there, if ^haps my example may bee moving, 
to any, however certainly the contrary would have y"" in that 
wherein I judge they are to blame, though indeed the Min' bee 
a very aged weak man. 

6. wee return'd homewards, cal'd at Okeley, Mr. Chetwood's, 
thence to Stych. 

7. This day I receiv'd my license* unsought and unexpected^ 
procur'd by Mr. Steel, sent in a post letter to Mr. Yates, who had 

* The original is now in the possession of E. M. Wilhams, Esq. , of Hale 
Cliff, Liverpool. 

" Charles R, 

" Charles by the Grace of God King of England, Scotland, France, and 
Ireland, Defender of the Faith &c. to all Mayors, Bayliffs, Constables, and 
other our Offices and Ministers, Civil and Military, vi^hom it may concern. 
Greeting — In pursuance of Our Declaration of the 15th of March 167I We 
have allowed, and We do hereby allow of a Roome, or Roomes in the house 
of Philip Henry in Malpas Parish Flintshire to be a place for the use of such 
as do not conform to the Church of England who are of the Perswasion com- 
monly called Presbyterien to meet and assemble in, in order to their Publick 
Worship and Devotion. And. all and singular our Officers and Ministers 
Ecclesiastical, Civil and Military, whom it may concern, are to take due 
notice hereof : And they, and every of them, are hereby strictly charged and 
required to hinder any tumult or disturbance, and to protect them in their said 
Meetings and Assemblies. 

" Given at our Court at Whitehall, the 30"" day of April, in the 24"' year 
of Our Reign, 1572. 

" By His Majesties Command, 

" Meeting Place " Arlington. 

in Malpas Parish." 



2S2 PHILIP HENRY. 

publisht it before 1 knew it, else my intention was to have said 
nothing, a while. 

II. to Torporley, 12. where wee spent the sabb. Mr. Sheret 
askt, without my privity, to let mee preach in publ. but refus'd, 
Evening. Gen. 22. i. 

2 1, met Mr. Grimes als Chambers from london going with his 
Family tow. Dublyn to his congregation there, from whence long 
exil'd. that night with Mr. Maiden to Nantwych. 

22. a handful of seed sown, bless lord. Math. 25. 29. cald 
•at Deerfold. 

June I. Newes came of the late bloudy fight betw. us and the 
Dutch, near our own costs.* E. of Sandwych slain & all his men 
near 1000. in -f royal Katharin, which was burnt, his body 
afterw. found floting in -f water & honorably bur/d at his 
Majesty's charges, brought by water from Deptford to Westm' 
many ships disabld & many men wounded &: slain. 

2. At Cap. Taylors, a Sac'. T. aftem. Heb. 13. 9. tis a good 
th. y' y" heart bee stablisht with gr. — lord, establish my heart for 
,tis very loose and wavering to & in my duty. The good Gentle- 
woman there ill, I am afraid not like to be long in the land of the 
living, but twill bee well with her, the loss will be theirs that must 
stay behind. 

3. Home in safety, where all well, blessed bee God. ^Irs. 
■Gardiner came with mee & stay'd till that day sennight, told mee 
by the way of what various afflictions God had exercis'd her with 
in y" Death of many children and afterw'*' her husband in 
leicestersh. a country where shee was a stranger, but under all the 
lord sustaynd her. 

Strange reports of the success of the French iigt y*' Dutch, 
many Townes taken with small resistance. 

though wee are to love our own nation better than any nation 

* This was the battle of Solebay, on May 28th. The English and French 
fleets lay in a very negligent posture, and Sandwich, an experienced officer, 
having given the Duke of York warning of the danger, was told in reply that 
there was more of caution than courage in his apprehensions. He killed Van 
Ghent, a Dutch admiral, and beat off his ship ; he sunk another ship, which 
ventured to lay him aboard ; he sunk three fireships. His vessel was torn 
in pieces with shot, and of a thousand men she contained, near six hundred 
were laid dead upon the deck ; another fireship having laid hold of his vessel, 
he refused to make his escape and bravely embraced death (Hume). 



PHILIP HENRY. 253 

in the world yet tis matter of lamentation that a Tribe should fall 
in our Protestant Israel. 

lord, by whom shall the Protestant Israel arise for it is low ? 

Mr. John Griffith marry'd at Dyches to Mrs. Sarah Richardson 
by Mr. Mainwaring, I gave them afterw. an exhortation sutable tO' 
the occasion, i Ci9r. 7. 39. only in ye lord 1 lord, give thy bless- 
ing. They were troubld by the Bish. Court, that twas done in a 
house. 

Three fires in london within few dayes, one at S' Katharines 
nea;r the Tower, another in the Minoryes, another in Bishops-gate- 
street, the lord is still calling to contend by fire, how long, lord ! 

licenses still freely granted into all p"* to all partyes. There 
are many thoughts of heart about them, what may be in the end 
thereof, but let us mind our duty & let God alone to order 
events which are his work & not oufs. I have often said, hee 
that observes the winds shall not sow & hee that regards the 
clouds shall not reap. 

Some think by accepting of y^"" wee give y' King a power above 
the lawes, so wee doe above such bad lawes as y' of uniformity. 
Others think twill end in a severe Tax upon licens'd meetings 
& p.sons distinct from others : Others in a Massacre, it being- 
now known where such people may bee mett with, as if they all 
had but one neck. 

24. I preacht at Marton in Shrops. where was a great appear- 
ance of people. T. Act 9. 11. behold hee prayeth — D. tis ever- 
more the companion of true conversion to sett people a praying.. 
The lord was pleas'd to give his gracious assistance, blessed bee 
his name, & if any one soul were but truly set praying I have 
abundant recompence of my poor paines. Having been long 
without rayn wee prayed earnestly for that mercy, & the lord was 
pleas'd to answer immediately & for several dayes after, his holj- 
name bee praised for it. 

I went that evening to Boreatton & was refreshed there. 

25. thence to Stanwardine, where wee were at noon feasted, 
IDresent, Mr. Hunt, Sheriff &c. and Min"^ Mr. Bateman, once of 
Harrow, near london, Mr. Bee, now near Plash, Mr. Taylor, 
Mr. Sam. Edwards & my self, that night home & all well, blessed 
bee God ! 



254 PHILIP HENRY. 

This day Sarah went to Table at uncle Hotchkis to goe to 
school to Sarah Micklewright, for a while during this summer, the 
lord in mercy preserve her there & prosper y" meanes of her 
education & give her & -f rest of them that better p' that shall 
never bee taken away from them. Amen ! 

July I. About this time Cosin Kirk bringing her 6 children, 
little ones to Bryn, one fell sick there of small pox, y' rest re- 
turn'd & all had it whereof two, an only son & a daughter d/d & 
were bury'd together, Bryn-children also all sick, and mine spar'd, 
blessed bee God ! 

3. I preacht at Wrexha at Mr. Hughs house having first 
show'd both his license & mine to the Justices, who endors'd their 
names on the Back-side; T. Ltck. 7. 31. &c. I repeated again at 
Even. 7. a clock & hope, some good was done. 

4. to Chester. 5. discourst with Mr. lawr. Fogg touching 
Conformity, declaring the reasons of my dissent, which are. i. 
I scruple to bee reordayn'd, however in y' present way. 2. to 
declare my assent & consent to -f liturgy. 3. to renounce y'= 
Coven' as an oath in its. unlawful, which are the common 
stumbling stones to mee with others. Wee reason'd long but 
neither hee proselyted to mee nor I to him — -Home that night 
late in safety, blessed bee God ! 

9. Cosin Tho. Hotchkis & his wife & two daughters with us 
from London. 

15. Mr. Randle Shenton's house. Kill & Barnes were burnt at 
noon-day, near Nant-wych, through the carelesness of servants 
drying Hemp upon y" Kyll ; Hee was then at Coventry & saith 
about 1 a clock y' morning hee arose affrighted with a light 
shining in at window, w* was a star extra-ordinary, supposing 
y" Town had been on fire, & that meeting one of his neighb. in 
his way homewards, one of his first qu. was, is my house safe from 
fire — His loss is generally computed to neer 400* in building, 
goods, malt, chees, tow — &c. 

lord, what poor th. are these which a spark of fire extra- 
ordinary may take away from us. 

This day, I wayted on S'' Tho. Hannier to shew him my license, 
who perus'd it but said little. 

31. I preacht the second lecture at Wrexham at John Hughs 



PHILIP HENRY. 255 

house. T. luk. 17. 26. &c. security & sensuality like to bee 
raigning sins in Gosp. times — lord, awaken people to see it, lest 
the day come upon them at unawares — Mr. Goodwin of Bolton 
had preacht before in y* morn. & repeated again in the evening. 

August I. At Marchwiel at the Buryal of my dear & precious 
freind Mrs. Kath. Taylor, of Plas-dio, who sleepeth in Jesus. A 
great miss like to bee of her both in House and neighbourhood, 
help, lord. 

4. Tis good for mee to draw near to God ! the oftener & the 
nearer, the better, lord, how sweet is Heaven indeed, if Heaven 
upon earth have so much sweetness in it. 

8. I preacht y" i*' lecture at Mr. Yate's house in Whitch. 
T. Heb. 12. 15. looking diligently lest any man fayl of y° grace of 
God. 

9. I receiv'd other lo"" from Mr. Aldersea, towards the erect- 
ing of Hanmer-school, the former being dispos'd of in making 
a Kyi of Brick & part of this also. See an account how elsewhere. 

20. Some damps in my work, help, lord, thy poor servant 
that my faith fail not. I doe not know that I ever saw my way 
clearer, why then art thou cast down 6 my soul ! 

September 2. I said, my present lesson that I am learning is to 
redeem time, lord, teach mee and enable mee so to doe. 

My team went to Kenwick park for a load of Timber towards 
Hanmer new school-house. 

5. Mr. Sadler at Alkinton, Gen. 3. 9. Adam where art thou .' 
Sin will certainly find us out. Daughter Ann not well all day, it 
may bee the small Pockes, lord, fit us for thy will & bee our 
Portion, for ever ! I contracted Georg Webb to Mary Wolrych 
i.e. receiv'd from them before witness a declaration of their 
intention to marry each other in convenient time, withal exhort- 
ing them & praying with them & for them.^the lord hear & have 
mercy. 

12. I exhorted, lev. 10. 3. & prayd with Rich. Taylor of 
Norman's Heath & his wife with some few others on occasion 
of y° sad condition of their daughter Mary, whose Arraignm' 
approches for supposed murther of a bastard child that God would 
give her repentance & them patience to undergoe such a sad 
Providence. Amen. Shee suffer'd afterw. Oct. 2, & gave hopes 



2S6 PHILIP HENRY. 

of true Remorse, lord, let others hear & fear & doe no more 
praesumptuously. 

17. To Dyches that night, where I lodg'd. 18. to Marton. 
T. Act. 16. 9. Mr. Nevet clos'd. Act. 3. 1. and pronounct the 
blessing, which somet. hee hath not done, hee spoke by way of 
dislike of y° ordinary names of f dayes of f week, bee. deriv'd 
from Saxon Idols, Tuisco, Woden, Thor, Friga, which I beleive 
but few present knew before, that night to Dyches again. 

21. Son Mathew sickned. 

26. to Nantwych, full of cares & feares concer. my dear 
Child, but I roll mys. upon the Almighty, saying, lord, I goe in 
thy name to doe thy work abroad, doe thou mine at home. Amen. 
T. Act 16. 9. I visited Mrs. Bronchal dying & prayd with her, 
lord, hear & help — Sweet mettings of soul in the night season, 
sin confest & bewayld, attonem* receiv'd, resignation made of son 
& all to -f will of God without Reserve, yet crying, lord, spare 1 
27. homewards early betw. hope & fear but God had mercy, Son 
better, blessed bee his name ! 

17. Seer. m. pr. omitted through hast & carelesnes, bewayld, 
pdon'd, not bee. seldom guilty that way but bee. X' dyed. 

October, i. To Drayton. Pr. 17. 16. Mr. Cox his house 
licens't, an incouraging Auditory, several Persons of quality, 'tis 
not the Poor only that receive y" Gosp. blessed bee God ! 

2. I discourst with Mr. Millington y" Min' who distasted 
their liberty, praetending it was, bee. they had not first askt his 
advice, brought Mr. Cox to him, who acknowledgd they had done 
better if they had, which skin'd the sore at present but I expect- 
twill break out again, for his Heart is not with it — I din'd at 
Stych, thence home in Safety, blessed bee God. 3. At Alkinton 
— Mr. Taylor T. Phil. 3. 20. I learnd that our entrance into 
Heaven is in this present life at conversion as Heaven is a State, 
not as tis a place of blessedness ; lord, acquaint mee more & more 
with that blessed life. 6. a very wett season, much of harvest out 
yet in many places, also seedness hindred — lord hear prayers &: 
pdon sin & in the midst of wrath remember merc\-. 10. feares of 
being made high Constable but it prov'd otherw. 

15. at Bryn. to bless God for y° recovery of that good Gentle- 
man. Exod. 23. 25. tis God that takes sickness away from y' 
midst of us. 



PHILIP HENRY. 257 

27. Mr. leigh at chap. Ps. 130. 4. There is forgiveness 
with thee. Mr. Jenings son WiUiam baptiz'd, the first of 7 or 8 
that lives. 

November 5. a day of thankful remembr. of God's great 
mercy to these nations — ibid, command deliverances for Jacob. 

8. Prspar. F. at Bo. Ps. 51. 17. concerning brokeness of 
Heart. Newes came of y° death of lady Pagett, which was y" 
better born, after a praying day, blessed bee God who times all th. 

II. home by Stanw. & Whottal in much mercy, to God bee 
glory. Most people look upon marriage only as a license to lye 
together, which they might not before, and not as an Ordinance 
of God, which hee blesses for the making of two one, for the 
endearing of hearts & affections & for the bringing forth of a godly 
seed. 

I conceive it is a fault in freeholders that are wise & honest 
that they doe not appear as they ought at Assizes & Sessions, 
which would prasvent many wrong verdicts — Tis a Duty they owe 
their countrey — Reprove for y° neglect of it & exhort to it. Mr. 
Palmer of Wanlip in leicestsh. told mee hee had the following 
narrative from the mouth of S"' Francis Nethersole, who was a 
Courtier and servant to Pr. Henry at y" time of y° Powder treason, 
A. 1605. namely, that K. James knew of y° Design all along, 
being discoverd to him by Hen. 4. of France, to whom a Jesuite 
declar'd it, hoping for his Assistance, but hee pceiving y° Span- 
yard chief Sz: fearing it might make him too great, chose rather 
to discover it. That the King did ■ purposely prorogue the 
Parliam* once & again, to give y° Plotters the more space to draw 
in others to them. That' the letter was written by Cecil & 
sent to lord Monteagle purposely to try his loyalty. That it was 
the reason of y° murther of Hen. 4. by a Jesuite hand not long 
after, 

Hee told mee of one Barrowdale a sadler in lutterworth in 
leicestersh. a wicked liver, lately, since Mich. 72. who heard a 
voice saying to him as hee lay in his bed, goe to Mr. Cross, as 
Non-conf. Min' in y" Town, w* hee delaying to doe, it bid him 
again y° 2"* time, then hee went, heard him preach, & is become 
a reformed man. this hee had a fortnight since from Mr. Cross 
hims. Nov. 8. 1672. Nov. 9. a whale at Shrewsb. taken in 

S 



25 8 PHILIP HENRY. 

Severn not far from Glocester, six yards long — seen by multi- 
tudes. 

3fem. lent this year to the lord 12" in every pound receiv'd. 

viz. 

from Iscoyd 38"" ' whereof l'" 18" o 

from Bron. & Will 65'" whereof s'" 5» o 



J03 5 03 o 

Of thine omti lord doe I give thee. 

lb. s. d. 
to the School of Hanmer in Mr. lloyds hands of Halghton ,.. 66 13 4 
with interest for 7 y — s ending Mich. 1671 — ^bating 6' 8" ... 6 13 4 

The diary for 1673 * belongs to the Rev. Alfred James, 
Rector of Burwarton, Salop, who has kindly allowed me to 
take a copy of it. 

1673. 

A Knight of Cheshire lately being importun'd by a poor wido^v 
to forgive her ten groats of Rent, which shee was behind, was 
(pswaded to it by one y stood by, saying, S'' slice's a poor widow, 
use her well & shee'l pray for you, hee answ. doe you use her well 
& let her pray for you. this I had from R. B. a tenant of his who 
heard him. 

Feb. 10. At Chester, chusing a new Burghess upon the Death 

* Written at beginning of this volume : 

" 1673- 

An original vol. of the Rev'^ Philip Henry's Diary in his own handwritins; 
given to me at Worcester by Mrs. Osborn July. 1815. 

J. B. Williams. 



Lot 104 Bo(lk^. 

Sothcby. March. 1853. 

W. TiTE. 



Bought at Sir W. Tite's sale in 1874 for 15/6 

A. James.'' 



PHILIP HENRY. 259 

of worthy Mr. Ratcliff, 10 men were trod to Death, coming down 
a payr of Staires. Col. Worden & Mr. Williarfls stood for it. 

Mar. 20. Dr. Burrel chancellor of York & Durham, Parliam' 
man for Rippon, made a bitter speech in the House of Commons 
agt the intended liberty, wherein hee reproched Calvin, calling 
him Jack Calvin ; That night hee dyed suddenly in his chair in 
*liis lodgings. This is certain, (letter from Mr. E. 1.). 

Remember, that if trouble come for what wee doe now in the 
use of present liberty, I neither shrink from it nor sink under it; 
for I doe therein approve my selfe to God & to my own Con- 
science in truth & uprightnes, who can & will certainly both bear 
mee out & bring mee off with comfort in the end ; I say, re- 
member & forget it not; this 24"^ day of March i67f. 

May. Mr. John Taylor Min'' near Dudley in Staffordsh. having 
been for a while a Non-conf. afterw. did all & was praesented to 
a living by y" lord Ward, upon y° marriage of a second wife with 
whom tis said hee had 1500"'. hee was a very covetuous, penurious 
riian, wrote deeds & bonds & took y" common pay for doing it. 
This man in this month came to his Brother's house in Blimhil 
parish near Weston and there hangd hims. in the chamber where 
hee lay, with a hat-band upon a Bucks-horn, A paper was left by 
him upon y° Table with y° words therein written, Blame no man 
for my Death, you know my hand-writing. So I cease to bee, John 
Taylor. I have been an evil doer but hope to find mercy with 
God for Christ his sake. Tis said having skil in the law, hee had 
so disposd of his ^sonal estate, being 3000"", y' y° law could take 
no hold of it. 

this I had from Mr. Maiden who had it from Mr. Wood, who 
was there and saw him hang in the place. 

A passage in a letter of D'' Fowlers to Mr. Morgan of 
Whitok Feb. 3. 167! upon occasion of his desiring him to give way 
y' his child might bee baptiz'd without the Cross and God-fathers, 
if hee would not doe it hims. both which hee refus'd. — F'or ni}- 
part I freely profess my thoughts, that the strict urging of in- 
different Caeremonyes hath done more harm then good, and 
possibly (had all men been left to their liberty therein) there 
might have been much more unity & not much less uniformity, 
But w' power have I to dispense with mys. being now under tlie 



26o PHILIP HENRY. 

Obligation of a law & an oath. — I am much greived at the un- 
happy Condition of mys. & other Min" who must either lose their 
Parishioners love, if y"' doe not comply with them, or else break 

their solemn Obligations to please them 

January i. At Moston at John lawrence's. Col. i. i8. 
That in all th. hee might have -f prseeminence, lord Jesus, thine 
it is, I give it thee this day, beginning the year mth thee, lord,, 
make it to mee a year of mercy. 

II. Mrs. Richardson, her son Joshua, Mr. John Shenton with 
us, shee is motion'd to marry Steward Jebb of Wem, I pray God 
direct her, y' shee may doe noth. to greive her freinds, to reflect 
upon her first husb. or that may prove an occasion of bitternes to 
hers. 

13. To Sweeney alone but God was with mee. 14. preacht 
there T. Heh. 12. 15. looking diligently least any man fayl of 
y" gr. of God, lord if it bee thy will, let none fayl y' heard 
mee. 15. home-wards, dropped a word at Elsmere at Fran. 
Woofes. Rom. 19. 11. knowing y° times, lord bless. 

21. to Capt. Taylors, where I miss the good Gentlewoman 
who sleepes in Jesus. 22. to Wrexham, luk. 19. 44. tis an un- 
doing sin not to know y° time of our Visitation. 23. homewards, 
cald at Mr. Joseph Hanmer's, content but not pleasd in our 
present liberty. 

30. wee remembred this day y' death of Charl. I. with greif 
& prayer that God would please to forgive it. Exod. 20. 5. visit- 
ing y" iniquity. 

Feb. I. Ps. 82 in course expounded, a seasonable word in. 
this juncture, God standeth in the congregation of the mighty. 
3. a letter sent to Oxon. to John Weld, I pra)- God to gi^■e 
it good speed, for- his freinds' & for his soul's sake. 4. to- 
Boreatton, full of the goodness of the lord & not without some 
inward sense of it, though not such as I would — 5. preacht 
at Marton, Rom. 2. 4. I hear of good done tliere, since 
y° lecture came amongst them, wherein I gi-eatly rejoyce & let 
God have the glory; In y° evening I spake with one woman,, 
under trouble, who saith, shee will never doe as shee hath done ; 
back y' night to Boreatton, where I stayed till Sabb. day desiring 
to doe good, but the good which I would doe I doe it not, I am 



PHILIP HENRY. 26 1 

■sure I receive good. 7. Mrs. Richardson marry'd Mr. Jebb of 
Wem, contrary to the advice of most of her Freinds, hee being a 
(Pson quite of other principles from her former husband but hee 
promises fayr, & if what hee hath bee cheif in her aym, either God 
will cross her in it or hee goes out of his ordinary road. 9. At 
Bo. covenants seal'd afresh with the lord, Amen ! Aftern. in pulp, 
at Petton — full of distractions but bewayld, the lord |)don, & water 
the seed ! That night to Cousin Chamber's, my Sabbath even, 
are best to mee at home. 

13. To Wrexham, lodgd at Mr. Mainw. 14. Solemn fast* 
there. T. lam. 3. 38. 15. Safe home, with some sweet meltings' 
of soul by- the way, for w'^'' God bee praised. 16. Mr. leigh at 
chap, discourse at noon not altogether suteable to y° Sabb. concer. 
cserem. but someth. sayd in publ. led to it, viz. y' y° Magistr. hath 
power in imposing gestures & vestures. Neg. 19. home, cald at 
Stych, chode with Mr. Millingt. with more heat than such th. are 
worth. 20. Mr. Maiden at Alkinton. John 5. 40. yee will not 
■come, lord I will, I doe come to y™ y' I may have life. 

26. at linea. T. Math. 24. 44. bee yee also ready, hee that's 
tready to dye is fit to live. 27. at Willingt. Mr. Keeling. Pr. 3. 6. 
glad to see many of my old Parishioners from Worthenb. there, for 
-whom I have a dear love & whose welfare I desire with my whole 
pieart ; but, which is my greif, I cannot bee to them what I would. 
]N'Ir. Keel, this morning baptizd a child of Tho. Jackson named 
Georg. at home, four present, somew. irregular but better so than 
worse, Tis like they may hear of it again. When time serves. 

3. Reports of Indulgence intended by y° Pari, but not in the 
way as now it is. Pro. 19. 21. Tis somew' to see y^ same |)sons 
who awhile since layd on y° yoke now yeilding, at least in p', to 
take it off again. 

10. Difference high betw. K. & Pari, touching Papists, 
y^ King yeilded, the lawes igt them should be put in execution. 

12. Mr. Roger Hanm' dyd.f Ps. 39. 6. 

* Why •\vas this self-appointed fast a solemn one, while "the season of 
Lent has no warrant from the Word, to justify its observance"? Cf. diary for 
1665, February 12. The answer is always the same — disregard of authority. 

t This was, perhaps, son to the Roger Hanmer — buried at Overton Maddock. 
August 19, 1664 — who left Gredington to his grand-nephew, Sir John Han- 
aner, by whom it was sold to. Vicar Hylton. 



262 PHILIP HENRY. 

15. at home each night this week & last, not usual of late, 
time not fil'd up, lord ,pdon ! This day twelve-month y' Indulgence 
bare date, & wee hear now, the broad seal is taken off from it 
again at the Parliament's desire. Out of y" mouth of -f most high 
proceedeth not evil & good? — Great mercy that Health hath 
been thus long in my family, to God bee glory ! 16. Mr. leigh at 
chap. Mar. 8. 26. what loss is comparable 'to y° loss of the soul 
or what gain can countervail it ? lord, w'ever I lose, let my soul 
bee saved in y° day of X' J. 1 7. Reports affrighten as if an after 
reckoning must come for y° use of past liberty, the will of the lord 
bee done, Amen ! '[ 

18. Mr. Roger Hanm' bury'd, uncertain who shall enjoy 
what hee hath left behind him, relations striving already 
about it — 19. At home in quiet undisturbed study, blessed bee 
God. 20. At Wem & Drayton, I hear their lecture this week fell 
for fear, Procl. agt Papists but wee not mention'd. 21. at night, 
several troubles from dreames, lord save mee from the hands of 
tliose that hate mee & more now than ever. 23. A precious 
Sabb. & Sacr. day, perhaps the last. Father thy will bee done, tis 
good for us to be at such uncertaintyes for now wee receive our 
liberty from the hand of our Father fresh every day, which is best 
& sweetest of all. 25. Fast at Cos. Bennett's. Mr. Maiden preacht. 
T. Ecdes. 7. 14. God hath set the one over agt the other, pro- 
sperity over agt Adversity, sweetly intermixing the one with the 
other & all for y" good of his chosen. Amen ! 26. To Nantwich. 
Ex. 23. 25. tis a great mercy w" God takes sickness away from 
y° midst of us. 27. by Deerfold *& Acton. 29. Parliam' pro- 
rogu'd till Oct. 20 next. A bill of ease prepar'd, not finisht ; Act 
past to incapacitate Papists from Offices of power & profit. 

April. I. Great scarcity of Fodder, many sustain'd great losses 
in cattle. The weather extra-ordinary Cold & wett, spring back- 
ward, lord, thy hand is lifted up & I see it, 6 contend not with us. 
in thine anger. 

4. letter from london w'^'' saith, it is suppos'd wee are to take 

no notice of any th. but may plead our licences till revok'd. In 

y° present juncture wee are at great uncertaintyes but for my part 

r have given up all to the will of God & am in this further con- 

* The name is now corrupted into Doifold. 



PHILIP HENRY. 263 

firm'd by w' -f Pari, did, that tis now it seemes their Opinion, that 
tis fit wee should have liberty to preach, at least for a year & if 
y" Quarter-sessions grant it. 

9. Robert Benyon troubled at Quarter Sess. by' D' R pro- 
curem', touching accounts for highw. 7 or 8. y. since, — the accounts 
found & found true, to his credit & his Adversaryes shame, their 
spight tow. him is much bee. his house a licenst house, but if so 
& his ends therein bee right they cannot hurt him. 

23. To Newport, alone, but -f lord was with mee & I had 
often sweet communion with him by the way which is my strength 
& song. 

24. preacht there— /'.f. 9. 1 7. concerning hell, I trust not in 
vayn, many seem'd to be affected esp. at some reflections upon 
y° late great fire in their town, lord, work with the word — home 
that night after alone, but weary, lord thou tellest my footsteps. 
At Whitch. I mett a letter of encouragem' y' y'' K. & council had 
order'd a letter . to y° Justices to forbear disturbing, lord, thou 
keepest us at uncertaintyes y' our hope might bee in thee. 

May. I. Mr. Maiden at Whitch. T. Ps. 4. 6. there bee many 
' that say, who will shew us any good, lord, lift thou up y° light of 
thy countenance upon mee. Amen ! that night with wife to Ash, 
where comforted to see Religion uppermost. 

7. At Bryn — Mr. Keeling — T. Math. 19. 22. worldly posses- 
sions keep many from X' & salvation, lord, let not mee bee kept 
by them, wife ill at our return, but God had mercy. 

12. Mr. Delaval of Wormbridge in prison for a small debt at 
Shrewsb. 25^" sent tow. his reUef 

15. Mr. Maiden at Alkirit. that the soul is a man's principal 
one, theref to bee car'd for abpve all & by no meanes to bee 
neglected, that night to Stych, Mr. Clive, ill lately, but at pre- 
sent upon recovery — laus Deo. 

19. Alice Turner ill, pray'd with her, next day shee dy'd ; It 
troubles mee, that by reason of going so oft from home & being 
so much in study w" I am at home, I have so Httle time to visit 
neighbours, either sick or well. 

26. To Oswestry, lodg'd at Mr. Nevets, whom though in 
some th. hee differ from mee, yet I greatly honor in y° lord. 

27. preacht in much weakness & distraction, more than 



264 ' PHILIP HENRY. 

ordinary; lord, to mee belongs shame. I see it is not in hira 
y' willeth nor in him y' runneth but in God that sheweth mercy. 
The wind blowes where it lists. Tis somet. so when I preach a 
Sermon y' I have preacht before, esp. if any be present who had 
heard it ; Is noth of s. at bottom, lord pdon. 

30. to Coo-lane, upon an errand from Cosin Benyon. son 
JNIathew not well, given up sweetly, had again. 

June. I. Mr. Green at chap, seem'd to say someth. with 
reflection, mark them that cause divisions, serving their own belly — 
lord, I can only appeal to thee & say, if I seek mys. in what I doe 
or my own th. & not the good of soules, and the advancem' of 
thy glory, if I doe it in any resp. to divide, then fill my face 
w* shame & let my enemyes have power over mee, but if othem-. 
lord take my p' & plead my cause & clear- my integrity for thy 
mercy sake. 

3. To Weston, where I heard y" worthy Mr. Berisford, 
once Mitf of Derby, now living in Salop. Phil. 2. 15. holding 
forth the word of life. Cosin Tho. Jackson ill, lord, spare, if 
possible. 

4. at Bryn-rynnen. Math. 13. 33. with sweet enlargem'' in my 
poor measure & manner, lord, pdon & heal & help & leven 
y" country with thy holy Gosp. Amen. 

12. It pleasd God to call my dear Freind & kinsman &: 
neighbour Thomas Jackson of Bron : I was several times with him 
in his sickness and prayd with him, but his distemper was such as 
took away his speech from him, so that hee could not give his 
Testimony as a dying Christian should to the good way wherein 
he had walked, but God's will was it should bee so, wherein I 
acquiesce. Twas well, hee had nothing of his great work to doe 
then, for if hee had, I know not how it would have been done. 
His distemper workt also into a continual drowsines for several 
dayes & nights before hee dy'd, w"'' though it may bee it was to 
him a meanes of ease from payn, yet it was to those about him 
very uncomfortable. 

26. Cosin Mitchel came to us out of Ireland, had not seen 
him in more than 20 y. 

27. At Ash. Exod. 23. 25. Bond deliver'd up whereby I 
was bound with Cosin Benyon to Mr. Edwards for 100"' payd. 



PHILIP HENRY. 26$ 

I am now in Bonds for no man & no man for mee — a great 
mercy, blessed bee God. 

Jidy. 8. Cosin Mitchel went towards london, I lent him 
horse, saddle, Buskins, & 20V in Hew whereof hee left here — his 
Horse & Saddle & Boots. 

little Nag cost i* lo"^ — saddle o 6' o — sold for as much. 

August 24. This day compleats y" 42* year of my age ; As 
was sayd by Sir Rob. Harley, I would bee loth to live it over 
again, lest instead of making it better, I should make it worse, 
and besides, every year & day Spent on earth is lost in heaven. 

About this time my dear Sister Katk was marry'd to Mr. 
Tobias Ellis, and I wisht her as much comfort in the marry'd State 
-as I had found before her and more shee need not desire. 

October. Rich, lewnes of Alkinton wood, having taken a hard 
bargain, distrusted the divine Providence, & went from his house, 
not telling whither hee went, they suppos'd hee had made away 
hims. but at the weekes end hee return'd, but could give no 
-account where hee had been, only sayd, wandring ; hee was almost 
spent through cold, hunger, & watching, but after a week or 10 
■dayes recover'd again, 4in'd w*^ mee Nov. 5. & I verily intended 
some discourse with him concerning his affayres, but had not 
opportunity that day & so put it off; within few dayes after hee 
fell sick & dy'd. 

lord help all thy people agt their evil heart of unbelief, & mee, 
■esp. mee, lord ! Amen ! 

November 24. Cosin Mitchel went from us towards Ireland, 
I hope, better than when hee came ; I had much comfort & 
refreshment by him in talking over the passages of my Infant age 
.& childhood, wherein hee brought many things to my remem- 
brance, which I had forgotten, and in lieu thereof I heartily 
•en(Jeavour'd the good of his soul ; hee went hee said, resolv'd for 
'God & for Religion bewayling past miscarriages, one especi. from 
which the lord in mercy cleanse him, by the blood-shedding of 
precious Jesus. 

I payd him five pounds for his horse which with 20' lent 
before, made six pounds, and took a note from him of the receit 
.of it. 

December. 9. this day Mr. Jenning's wife of y" Wych was bury'd. 



266 PHILIP HENRY. 

at Malpas, shee dy'd of the Small Pox. They had been marry'd 
lo yeares in May last & shee had had lo children all dead before 
her & now with child of the 1 1"'. 

24i Beatrice Rees, having been my servant 13 yeares, was 
marry'd this day to Francis Wolf of Elsmere — my hearts desire & 
prayer to God for them is, that they may prosper in this new rela- 
tion & condition, but cheifly with Soul Prosperity — I judge y"" 
both as far as I can discern to bee ^sons fearing God, & so joyntly 
interested in y° everlasting Covenant w'^'' is -f foundation of all 
true happines. Hee seald a writing whereby hee obliges hims. to- 
settle on her 20* & half his psonal estate by his last will. 

Shee had better y™ 20"" of her own, to which I added a yeare's 
wages, being i"" 16' o. 

3 1, to Nantw. through fowl wayes & much danger, but the 
lord was with mee. i Cor. 7. 29. 30. 

1674. 

Jan^ 13. To Sweeney. Rom. 6. 14. my soul hath oft been re- 
freshed with that sweet word, wee are not under the law, but 
under grace^& I may say concern* it tis all my salvation & all 
my desire, although Hee should not make my house to grow. 

March 26. Cos. Mitchel return'd to us again out of Ireland, 
where hee met with troubles— his wife refus'd to leave her Mother 
to goe elsewhere from Boyle, to some other Town, there to live 
with him, whereupon he resolves now for Holland. 

April 15. Cosin Dan Benyon was marry'd to Mrs. Ellen Ridg- 
way, daug' of Mr. Will. Ridgway of Cool lane — her portion iioo"' 
wherewith hee discharged all or near all his debts. 800"' being due 
to his 4 sisters — I heartily beg of God, wisdom & grace for them 
both, that they may live together as heires of y" grace of life, <V- 
that I also may have comfort in it, as I was in a special manner 
instrumental in bringing it to pass, through some difficultys, 
judging it likely for their mutual good. 

May I. Susan Porter came to us from Wem to teach the 
children, the two elder to sew, the two young' to read, for which, 
blessed bee God, they have capacity — Her wages to ' bee 40' p'' 
ann. Lord make it a mercy to her as well as to our dear children. 



PHILIP HENRY. 267 

July I. Fast of W. B. of Br. — Mr. Nevett preacht. John 19. 
Thine they were, and Thou gavest them mee. — God the Father 
& God y° Son, did from all Eternity conclude in a blessed coven' 
between them, concern* the salvation of a Remnant of mankind — 
Lord what is man that Thou wert mindful of him ? what am I ? 
This distinguishing love cuts the sinews of Pride & calls for 
choice returns of thankfulness & obedience — Amen! — Mem. It 
had not rayn'd of many weekes before, & there was great drought, 
insomuch y' y" grass in many places was quite burnt up & the c6m 
languisht — we sought unto the Lord in our trouble, & cryd unto 
him & hee heard us, even whilst wee were speaking, and gave us 
refreshing rayn that Ev* & next day, for which for ever blessed be 
his holy name Ps. 116. i. 2. 

2. To Whettal where I met Mr. Lawrence with whose good 
company I would be filld, but the world to come, not this, is the 
filling world, with the Serv*^ of -f Lord. 

6. To Hardwick, where I met him again; at Mr. Clive's, now 
Sheriff, we lodg'd together that night at Maston, pray'd & preacht 
together next day/!?. 119. 132. Acts 18. 6. thankes bee to God & 
so parted. 

Au^ 23. Mr. Ridgway of Cool-lane dy'd — It pleased God to 
enable him in his sickness to give an affectionate testimony to 
Religion — also to bear his payn with patience, & to yeild himself 
willingly to the stroke of death, in hope of a better life after. 

Before he dy'd, he desired much to have seen his daug"' Ben- 
yon, then at London, but shee came too late. 

He sealed a Request to his Son Will which was given into 
the hands of Mr. Cole, that he would, wh" Coo-lane Estate came 
to him, pay 300"' to Mr. Will" Dod of Blechley & mee, for the use 
of Cos. Benyon & their younger Children. 

Every B" dying is bound by law to leave to the King. 6 th. 
I. his best horse or Palfrey with Bridle & saddle. 2. a cloke 
with a cape. 3. a cup w* a Cover. 4. a Bason & em-e. 5. a 
ring of Gold. 6. his Kennel of hounds. Cook. 

1674. There bee 3 th: for which I am never the worse — but 
am often worse for their contraries. 



268 PHILIP HENRY. 

1. I am never the worse for Abstinence, but often am for 
Fulness. 

2. I am never the worse for heat from too many clothes, but 
■often am from cold, when too few. 

3. I am never the worse for silence but often am for speaking. 
There are three things which I would not for a world have 

ftgainst me. 

I. My own Conscience. 2. The word of God. 3. Y' prayers 
of good people. 

May 3. Mr. Beal, one of the Auditors of Revenue, having 
been long afflicted with greivous melancholy, threw himself out of 
his garret-window, into his garden, & dy'd immediately of the 
Fall. Hee was a good man & feared God above many — An 
astonishing Providence — Lord ! how terrible art Thou sometimes 
to thine own children — Some drew this Inference from it. If 
Religion lead people to this, wee will never be religious. Others 
contra. If this bee done in the green tree, what shall be done in 
the dry ! 

Mr. Baxter, kissing the dead Body sayd, he did believe his soul 
to be as happy, as he did desire his own soul to bee. 

One that had stolen a horse being taken was brought to 
Shrews' Gaol, going over the bridge at the Abbey fore* he leapt 
into Severn & swame thinking to make his escape, wliich, when 
hee saw hee could not hee drowned himself 

At the summer Assizes this year at Salop (Mr. Clive of Stych 
Sheriff) Mr. Keeling told niee, hee was with one condemned to 
dye, for stealing a horse, who before his Execution desired of him 
& Mr. Talents to give him the Sacra', which they endeavoured to 
.satisfy him was not necessary, whereupon hee cal'd for bread &: 
wine & himself took, eat, & drank, in remembrance that X' dyed 
for him. 

I have read a passage to like purpose of one in the book 
■of Martyrs at S' Albans. 

June 25. Two youths drowned at Chester, bath^ themselves ; 
they were fellow-apprentices & one near out of his time. 

In an interesting manuscript, dated February 16, 167^, he 
gives full particulars of a farm in Iscoyd, called " Estwick's 



PHILIP HENRY. 269- 

Tenement," which he bought from his friend Mr.Luke Lloyd,, 
of the Bryn in Hanmer, being their ancient inheritance, as 
a younger branch of the Lloyds of Willington, from their 
progenitor, Tudor Trevor. The particulars enumerated in 
this manuscript, which covers twenty-four pages of a half 
octavo, are more suitable for a county history than for this^ 
book, but a few items may be given. 

The Bargain concluded, &c., I. they sufficiently to convey tO' 
me ye sayd Farm w"" th' appurtenances, as also a Rent of 5^ yearly- 
issuing our of ye Hen-vayes &c. II. I to pay to them for y* same 
y" summ of 670"'* viz. 165"' before y" Assize, at sealing the 
writings, 165"' at y° Assize y' Fine &c. & the Remayning 340"' at 
Midsummer following. 

Feb. 22 up to Jun. 25. payd accordingly. 

Apr. 19. At the Assize holden at Flint Luke Lloyd Sen'' Luke 
Lloyd Jun and Esther his wife and John Pryce acknowledged a 
fine before S' Job Charlton. 

For Council's expenses — Mr. John Hunt did all gratis, only I 
gave him a sett of Golden-hand-buttons worth about 15^ 

I had of Mr. Lloyd from Bryn. 6. Timber-trees which was part 
of bargain, out of which the place on y" Green was. 

rayl'd in &c. 

I gave Oct. 28. 1675 more y™ bargain to Mrs. Lloyd Sen' &: 
to Mrs. Lloyd jun' & to Cosin Robert Lloyd, to each of y"" a broadi 
twenty shilling peice of Gold, & S' a peice to y" two daught'' 
Katharine & Sarah. 

The reason why Mrs. Lloyd the elder joyn'd not in the Fine 
was because her husband by his ' Father's settlement was but 
Tenant for life to y" lands &c. &c. 

Mem*^. The long Table which stands in the House was 
given to me by Mr. Lloyd Sen'. Oct. 25. 1675. 

Apr. 9. 1675. Thomas Ratcliff then payd to Tho. Burroughs 
servant to y' lord Cholmley i^ 8'' for y° half year ending at 
lady day last, for w°'' hee gave acquittance. I to allow it in his 
Rent. 

Mern^'"^. This Rent of 3' 4'' p. ann'" hath been long payd by 



2/0 ' PHILIP HENRY. 

Mr. Lloyd and his Ancestors to lord Cholmley & his Ancest'", 
but for what, why or wherefore doth not appear, only y° Ancient 
Deeds call it a Rent payable out of the Demeanes of Iscoyd. 

Menf'™ — ^Y" Baily refus'd to give Acquittance, bee. 'tis not us'd 
to other Tenants. 

' This seems to show how those Welshmen that retained 
th.eir lands paid a poll-tax to the Norman lord at Malpas 
in and after A.D. 1066. Luke Lloyd's ancestor, Rhys Sais, 
was so called because he Saxon-ized, thereby saving his 
-lands, when the Mercians overran the country. This 
poll-tax paid by Philip Henry to Lord Cholmondeley had 
its origin in the submission of Rhys Sais. But the princes 
of Powys claimed a lordship over the same lands, and (as 
we have seen) their rights were made over to the family of 
Lestrange, and their representatives were the chief lords in 
English Maelor. 

1675. Mem"""- Widow Ratcliff holds y° sayd Farm for this 
present year at the rent of 32"^, to bee payd at Midsummer and 
Martinmas by equal portions. I to allow for all leyes and Taxes, 
except hearth money. 

May 4. I then received from Thomas Nixon. 2^ 6'* being due 
at lady-day last from the Hen-vayes. 

1680. Apr. 17. ReC* the same — Thomas Nixon told mee 
this day that there is mention in his lease of this fi-\'e shillings ^1. 
ann. payable out of his Tenem'. 

1682. Dee 8. 'Rec* of Mr. Hanm' of Fenns 5= o being lady 
day & Mich, rent last past (hee proposes to buy it off, I yeilded 
hee should have it for' 5'", as much as it cost mee) a lease was 
made of y" Tenem' to Widow Nixon this time twelve month for 
21 yeares at 29"^ p. ann'", but no mention made in if of this rent 
rbarge of mine ; yet 'twas payd. 

.Mr. Hanm' gave mee 5"" for it. Apr. 27. 1688. 

The following notice is also put in : — 

^«^ii"'i68i. This day the Widow Hamnett of Blacka. 
declar'd in the hearing of Peter Estwick, Thomas Ratcliff, and 



PHILIP HENRY. 2/1 

E-ichard Hamnett that shee dwelt w"" Sir Tho. Brereton. above 
50 y. agoe, at which time there dwelt in Mr. Lloyd's house one 
Randle Beckett who was appointed by Mr. Lloyd to secure his seat 
in the church belonging to the sayd house, and that upon a Whit- 
sunday the widow Mullock came forcibly into the sayd seat and 
satt down upon the sayd Randle Beckett's lap whereupon Ann 
Ratcliff, being in the next seat' behind the sayd Widow Hamnett, 
sayd to her, what needs this wrangling for they (meaning y" widow 
Mullock & her family) have but one seat in this form. Sir Tho 
Brereton having a lease of the sayd Farm did appoint his 
servants to sitt in Mr. Lloyd's right in that seat together with 
Randle Beckett the under tenant ; shee also sayes shee had heard 
other folkes say that the higher part of the sayd Form did belong 
to Mr. Lloyd. 

The manuscript contains also the particulars of the 
purchase of another small tenement : 

from this time forward Sept. 14. 1687. it becomes my son's, 
and the Rent is to bee payd to him, viz. this Mich. Stage & so 
forward. God bless it to him. Amen. 

I having received from him of his marriage portion 600"" did 
resign to him this Tenem' of Robinson's & Francis Huxley's on 
the Hall Green ; both w"'" cost mee to Mr. Lloyd and David Est- 
wick 750"'- 

The rents arising from Mr. Daniel Matthews' lands in 
Bronington and Willington were also held in trust for his 
son by Philip Henry, as appears felsewhere. 

The diary for 1676 belongs to Mrs. Bunnell, of Croydon, 
to whom I am much indebted for permission to copy it. 

— to know how to pass away our time is more useful then to 
know how our time passes away. Mr. Boyl. Occas. Refl. 

Apr. 28. dy'd Mr. John lancaster of Chester Iron-monger who 
by .his last will & Testam' gave a legacy of 40" ^. ann. for 14 y. 
next ensuing to poor Min''^ — ye words of ye will concer. that 
matter are as followeth — the Feoffees' names George Booth Esq. 



272 PHILIP HENRY. 

John Wittar Apothec. Randle Dicas Linnen Draper, Jonathan- 
Godson, mercer, Randle Wilson. Dyer. John Ludlow Apothec. 

the profits of such a Tenem' in the County of Denbigh, after- 
repayres, being then sett for ye yearly Rent of 41'' 6' S"* 

— shal give and distribute yearly according to their discretion 
to and among godly preaching Min'" of the Gosp. which want and 
stand in need of relief from the charity of others, wherein my 
mind and will is that they shall have a special respect unto and 
care of such Ministers as shal be silenced or displaced for orby 
reason of his or their non-conformity to the Caeremonyes required 
by the Book of Common-prayer. And after the expiration of 14 
y. then to the Maior and Sheriffs of ye city of Chester for ye time 
being for ye Releif of poor & aged Tradesmen of the said 
City— &c. 

January. Cosin Benyon & his wife went from us after a year 
& quarter's sojourning with us, I hope to our mutual benefit and 
advantage ; 6: what a blessed state is that which is reserved for 
us in the t'other world, when wee shal bee together for ever and 
with the lord, & each one w"" his graces pfect & no mixture of 
sin or folly ; usque quo Domine I 

30. This day dy'd at london suddenly Mr. Edward West my 
very worthy good Freind pupil to Mr. Cole at Ch. Ch. & Tutor to 
Mr. Tho. Puleston at St. Mary-hall, 'twas Sabbath-day & hee had 
preacht twice at his meeting place. Hee was a ^son of great 
ability for learning & of great prudence in conduct of AffajTes. 

February. *i. Cosin Ellen Benyon was delivered of her first 
born child, a daughter, named afterwards, Mary, the lord give her 
Mary's part. Both Cosin Benyon's mother & also his wife's 
mother was named Mary Knight, the one of Salop, the other of 
Barthomley in Cheshire. 

Mar. r;. S' Tho. Hanmer told mee, that hee and S' Tho. 
Brereton * were Justices together in Ma>lors, which S' Tho. 

* Sir Thomas Brereton was brother of the last Sir Randle Brereton of Mal- 
pas. He lived at Wolvesacre Hall, in Iscoyd, and was high sheriiif for the 
county of Flint in 1625. "The funerall of the Lady Alice his wyfre had been 
ryally solemnized y° 14"' of Sepf 1622, nocte," at Malpas, and he was also 
buried there in 1643. In the Patent Rolls (Chester) of 12 Charles I. the fact of 
his having lately lived at Wolvesacre is mentioned. Sir Thomas Hanmer, who 
was godfather to him, died in 1545, and the Sir Thomas Hanmer who is 



PHILIP HENRY. 273 

Brereton had for his God-father one S' Tho. Hanmer that was 
among the Ancestors of the present S' Thomas the Sixth upwards, 
So that either S' Tho. Hanmer was then a very yong Justice, hee 
sayd about 20. or S' Tho. Brereton very old, or the Hanmers his 
predecessors Uved but awhile. Hee said his father S' John Han- 
mer dy'd at 33. 

In March one Banister quarrelling on the way in lancash. 
with a servant of S' Ralph Ashton's, ran him through the Body, 
whereupon, hee drew the sword hims. out of his own Body & ran 
Banister through with the same sword, .who dy'd presently after, 
the other liVd two or three dayes, and then dy'd also. 

This Mr. Green told, it being near where Mr. Holland lives in 
lancashire. 

I have received the five Volumes of Mr. Poole's Synopsis and 
doe acknowledge my self therwith super-abundantly satisfyd, 
returning hearty thankes to him for his worthy paynes & hearty 
praise to God for his gracious assistance, without which it could 
not have been brought to pass. 

for Mr. Pool P. H. 

Oct. 31. 76. 

Mr. Robert Fogg,* my old dear Friend was buried at Acton 
near Nantwich, April 21. 1676, he died in a good old age about 
eighty. He was minister of Bangor in Flintshire, till after the 
King came in, and thence forward to his Death, was a poor silent 
Nonconformist, but of a bold and zealous spirit, giving good 
counsel to those about him. A little before he died, he had this 
weighty saying among others, " Assure yourselves the spirit of God 
will be underling to no sin." 



1678. 

JuTf 28. The K. in Pari, declar'd his purp. of war with France 
in ayd of the Dutch. 29. voted a supply of 100 thous* pounds 
p. mensem for 12 months. 

Feh" 26. Earl of Shaftesbury upon his submission after a y" 

speaking to Philip Henry is said to have been twelve years and fifty-six days 
old at his father's death in 1624, 
* Cf. Appendix, p. 395. 

T 



274 PHILIP HENRY. 

Imprisonment in y° Tower * was released, his crime was mayn- 
tayning that tlie Pari, was legally dissolved by an overlong proro- 
gation, which hee acknowledg'd was an ill advised Action, as also 
his appeaUng upon a Habeas corpus to the K. Bench. 

5. This day was remembered the sad & lamentable fire at 
AVem t which was about y' time twelve-month, though it bee rising 
again out of its ashes, yet the burning of it sh"" not bee for- 
gotten, esp. not the sin that kindled it. Prov. 3. 33. 

6. Upon this day 33 y' my dear Mother dy'd. When Mother 
forsook mee, the Lord took mee up — the thought whereof refresht 
mee this morn*. 

7. I planted an orchard at Tybr: house with my own hand x i 
trees most of them, of my own grafting — now the Lord in mercy 
make y™ to prosper. 

— Drums beating at Whit'' & elsewhere for Volunteers in order 
to a war w*" France, few but such listed themselves as might be 
well spared. 

Poll-money granted by y" Pari' to carry on -f war. 

M-arch 20. This day Mr. David Morrice of Pennabont J:P. 
in Montgom: & Denb: was drown'd in Tannat near his own 
house being on horse-back & in y° daytime, & not drunk : not found 
quickly, when found, much bruised, his horse had thrown him in 
the water — Hee had been very bitter towards dissenters & severe 
in fining them, 'twas hee y' prosecuted Mr. Kinaston & Mr. 
Barnett for y° meeting 2 yeares since at Brangwyn and fin'd Mr. 
Barnett 20^^ ior preaching, when he had only pray'd and read his Text 
(because that was a sign he intended to preach) and cast them in 
an appeal. Hee was indited last Assize at Denbigh by his fellow 
Justices for knavery in converting y" poore's part of y" fine to his 
own use. it is not long since hee said as I hear, that he would 
mend his course of life, but did not. 

April 24. publique Fast, kept by command from authority, 
to implore a blessing upon his Majesty's person & government, & 
to avert those judgments that are justly due unto us, for our great 

* When the Pavliament met in Febi-uary, 1677, it had been prorogued fov a 
year and three months. Buckingham, Salisbury, and Wliarton were also com- 
mitted to the Tower, but, having apologized, were released after a few monthb' 
imprisonment. 

t See Garbett's "Histoi7 of Wem, Salop." 



PHILIP HENRY. 2/5 

& crying provocations — Mr. Maiden helpt us. at Br. O. T. Mat. 
5. 47. Also Dan. 9. 1 7. Lord hear in heaven thy dwelling place 
& when thou hearest, forgive & have mercy & cause thy face to 
shine upon thy sanctuary which is desolate, for the Lord's sake ! 

9. The wall was begun betw. y° hayhouse & sheepcote along 
the lane about 42 y""^.* The Lord give good speed in y° un- 
dertaking, for except Ps. 127. j. 

21. The wall was finisht, blessed be God nor hurt done, nor 
that I know of never an oath sworn — It cost, y° work men's wages 
at 4'' p. y*, 2"' 7' o'^. 

October i. Rumours of a Plot discovered ag" the life of 
the King by papists.f 

6. Sir Thomas Hanmer J dy'd at Red-hall. 

9. Mr. Chetwood of Oteley in Staff* 

10. Sir Peter Leicester in Chesh''. 

11. I wayted on Sir John Trevor at Emral, dined with him. 
had a deal of discourse both concerning publique affairs & other 

. * This is the sole relic of Philip Henry at Broad Oak, if we except the 
oak staircase and other fittings of the jDresent farmhouse, with the pulpit 
cushion and some plain brass buttons. 

t Humiliated as he was by the mortifying ceremony of begging pardon of 
the House of Lords and the king on his knees, the Popish plot gave Lord 
Shaftesbury the opportunity he had panted for, and before Parliament met in 
October of that year, he was himself again. ' ' Such men as Shaftesbury and 
Buckingham doubtless perceived that the whole was a romance. But it was a 
romance that served their turn ; and to their seared consciences the death of 
an innocent man gave no more uneasiness than the death of a partridge " 
((Macaulay). But compare 2 Kings xxiii. 26, 27, and xxiv. 3, 4. 

J Sir Thomas Hanmer was the second baronet. He had been a page in 
the court of Charles I., and married, before he was of age, Elizabeth, daughter 
of Sir Thomas Whittingham, in Suffolk, who was one of the maids of honour. 
At first he was on the king's side ; but when the king began to treat with 
the Scots, he communicated the matter to the Parliament (see Thurloe 
Papers, iv. 319, Bodleian). In 1655 he was fined £1(111 Z^- V^-t ^'^'^ received 
acquittance from the Protector. Two of his houses had been held for the king 
during the wars, and Hanmer Hall had suffered so much that on his return 
he lived at the Red Hall (now Bettisfield Park), so called to distinguish it from 
Llys-bedydd, or Bettisfield Hall, which stood in the same township, and had 
gone by an heiress to the Fowler family. In Betham's " Baronetage," iii. 
430, ii., it is stated that Charles II., among other marks of royal favour^ be- 
stowed upon him an extensive coal-mine grant (on the Flintshire coast). 
Evelyn notes : " 1657, April 21. Came Sir Thomas Hanmer of Hanmer 
in Wales to see me " (both took great interest in their flower gardens), and 
" 1685, Jan. 24. I din'd at Lord Newport's, who had some excellent pictures, 
especially that of Sir Thos. Hanmer, by Van Dyke, one of the best he ever 
painted." 



276 PHILIP HENRY. 

matters ; He allow'd a lease made by Judge PuTeston of the- 
Gover"'" Tenem' in AVorthen'' to Rob' Bickley & his Assigns. 

A month of great transactions in our high places. The Par- 
liam' sitting, more & more discovereyes made about the Popish 
plot by Oats and Bedlow : Mr. Coleman * had his tryal in West- 
minster hall, was found guilty & executed; five Jesuits & preists 
Whitbread Fenwick Grove Pickering Ireland try'd in the Old 
"Bailey, y° two former acquitted, bee. but one witness ag^' them.- 
the three last found guilty & condemned, not as Priests but 
Plotters. 

20. One Harcourt a Priest taken about Stoke was examined 
at Whit*" by the Justices & committed to Shrews' — ^A stranger- 
coming in, knew him by the token y* y^ had played together one 
Sab. day at a Gent""'' house at cards for prayers, by the same token, 
hee thought much to stake his prayers ag'' the Gent" being a Pro- 
testant, unless a Gent" standing by being a Papist would be his 
surety & second. 

The Treasurer impeached in his articles. Sir Thos. Osborn, now 
Earl of Danby, for obstructing the discovery of Popish Traytors, 
for engaging the King in unnecessary expences, for appropriating 
to himself several parcels of y° Crown inheritance, for subverting 
the Govern' & seeking to set up a standing arm}', hindering its 
disbanding, & tampering with Embassadors, Hee made his defence 
in the house of Peers. 

Dec'' 24. This morn dy'd Mr. Morgan of Whit" suddenly, a 
good Man, but of a melancholy spi'. 2 or 3 yeares since hee com- 
playn'd to mqe of a bad smell hee had about him & which hee 
could by no means get rid of I imputed it to his fancy, but doe 
now begin tcf think that there might be something more in it, 
since I underst" such sudden deaths are often the effects of damps 
arising within y" body, like those which arise in pits in the Earth,, 
upon which follows suffocation. 

Dec. 28. This day I heard of the death of my good friend< 
Mrs. Elenor Horsey of lonston in Pemb"' who dy'd of cancer in 
the breast about a month since. Mr. Arthur Owen, Memb. of 
Pari' who had sojourned with her many years dy'd in, her house,. 

"' Philip Heniy said tliat "the country was swarming with Jesuits," and 
so, in naming Coleman, Oates seems to liave made a Uicl^y hit. 



PHILIP HENRY. 2// 

about a month before her. Shee left only one daughter Eli/,"' 
marry'd to Mr. Owen, nephew to the said Mr. Arthur Owen. 

I doe not conform to the liturgy &c. as a Min' to read it that I 
may bear my testimony ag* Prelacy. 

I doe conform to y" liturgy as a private person to hear it in 
public Assembly that I may bear my Testimony ag"' Independency. 
— looking upon both of them as by paths, the one on the left hand, 
the other on the right, and the truth * between them. 

I hear that D'' Stern Archb: of York, hath founded 15 Scholar- 
ships in Jesus Coll. Camb'. \^ a peice j? ann. for Ministers' Sons 
whose fathers are dead. 

Three things I doe not like in the Independent way. 

1. That they unchurch the nation. 

2. That they pluck up the hedge of Parish order. 

3. That they throw the Ministry common & allow persons to 
preach who are unordayned. 

In 2 things they are to be commended — i. That they keep up 
discipline among them. 

2. that they love, & correspond with one another. 

If I were an Independent, I must be an Anabaptist, for if 
Baptism bee the door into the Christian-church & I am no church- 
Member till I embody in that way, then I must come in by that 
door. 

Sepf 10. I rece'' from Mr. Bury 12 of his books viz. 
6. of occasl. meditations 
6 ags' Drunkenness, 
for which I sent him 20* Oct' 12. 

[Dormant window to the entry-chamber May 20.] 

The diary for 1679 belongs to Thomas Lavirrence, Esq., 
of Birmingham, to whom I am indebted for the loan of it. ' 

1679. 

Mr. Baxter sayes, the Parish of S' Martins in which hee preacht 
& S' Giles in which hee liv'd. A. 1676. are supposed to have 

* To the inquiry of a papist, ' ' Where was your Church before the 
Reformation ? " an Episcopalian wittily replied by another, " Where was your 
face to-day before you washed it ? " But if " the truth " lies between Epis- 
copacy and Independency, it had no dwelling-place amongst men tintil the 
sixteenth century. 



378 ■ PHILIP HENRY. 

lopoooo. soules or near, of which it. is supposed that not above 
6000. xan heare in the Parish churches at the most — In his Reply- 
to Dan vers, an o. I suppose too much/. 55. 

At Drayton this summer a swarm of Bees knit upon a horse 
back in the Pinfold 8z: stung him to Death. Hee that impounded 
the Horse is like to pay the price of him, because hee put a bridle 
in his head & rode him thither from -f ground in which hee took 
him, which it seemes hee ought not to have done. 

January. The beginning of this year was rough and un- 
pleasant, as to publique Affayres ; The Parliam' suddenly pro- 
rogu'd till. Feb. 4. in the midst of their pursuits, touching y' late 
Plot, the impeachm' of y° Treasurer, y" E. of Danby.* Twas sayd 
y° K. had pleased three, the D. of York, the Dutchess of Ports- 
mouth, & y" Papists & displeas'd three, England, Scotl. & IreL 
by doing this. 

Deborah Brookfield went from us after two yeares continuance 
Avith us, I wish I could say, proportionably better ; Sarah Probart 
came again to live with us in her stead, lord, let her soul live in 
thy sight ! 

9, I had a great deal of mercy in my preservation within 
sight of home upon y° little green, my mare threw mee & w" I was 
down, in getting up trode upon mee with 3 of her feet, one on 
y° smal of my back, another on my right arm, y° third upon my 
head, from each of which I felt payn for several dayes but 
nothing to w' might have been, blessed bee God ! All my bones 
shal say, lord, who is like unto y*^. 

* Macaulay (chap, il.) says, " The French courl, which knew Danby to be 
its mortal enemy, artfully contrived to ruin him by malving him pass for its 
friend : . . . proofs laid before the House of Coirimons that tlie Treasurer 
had been concerned in an application made by the court of Whitehall to the 
court of Versailles for a sum of money produced their natural effects. In 
their view he was the broker who had sold England to France. " What we 
now know, that Charles and James were mere pensioners of the French king, 
was scarcely suspected at that time. Macaulay continues : " . . . to such a 
temper had eighteen years of misgovernment brought the most loyal Parlia- 
ment that had ever met in England. It was thought that a dissolution would 
put a stop to the prosecution of the Lord Treasurer. Accordingly, in January, 
1679, the Parliament, which had been in existence ever since the beginning 
of the year 1661, was dissolved, and writs issued for a. general election." 
" In 1684 Danby had been five years in the Tower, and had moved often 
for being let out upon bail. At last Jeffreys bailed him : and upon the same 
groimdsall the Popish lords were also bailed" (Burnet, i. 591, fol.). 



FBILIP HENRY. 2/9 

March. 6. new Pari' mett, chose their speaker. Mr. Seymor, 
not approv'd of by y= K. which caused a stumble at the Threshold. 

17. I set strait w* Mr. Hanmer of Fenns having payd 8'" 15' o. 
for him to Cosin Darrack in July left for clover-seed, the last 3 
stages of Rent for Iscoyd Tenem' & Mas Newtons, with Rent hens 
& Average, being 2"" 14 S"" a stage, was stopt, & 1 1' remayning, 
which hee then payd mee. 

May. In this month at Mr. Wil Figes of Ash a draw wel 
being in the sinking, one of y° workmen was below fetching up 
near y" last basket of earth, in order to laying the stone, w" on y° 
sudden y" wind blew down an Apple-tree, growing not far off, & 
together with it a great quantity of earth into the Pit. It so pleas'd 
God y' the man standing up close in one corner of y' pit was sav'd 
under one of the plankes which lay a-cross. Two of Mr. Morhals 
children being hard by saw y° fall but receiVd no hurt. They 
assurd, the man was underneath, whereupon they fell to dig, not 
imagining in y° least that the man could bee alive, twas 6 or 7 
houres ere they could come at him to get him out, & a great p' of 
that time ere they could hear his voice shouting or hee their's, hee 
stood up near to y° middle in the earth, & yet receiv'd no hurt, 
only complayn'd a little of one foot. This is truth, I saw y" man 
afterw. & spake with him. lord, how wonderful are thy workes, let 
y" man, y" family never, never, never forget it ! 
June, barb' q'^ s^ 

July. 17. At the sessions in y" old Bailey Sir George Wake- 
man, Marshal, Corker, and one Jesuite more acquitted, the 
evidence not being sufficient, as the Judge declar'd. 

19. 21. About this time were executed two Priests, condemn'd 
the last Assize by S' Job Charlton, the one at Denbigh, the other 
at Chester, — they were hahg'd, drawn, & quarter'd — as were also 
several others in other Countyes. 

22. a child of George Pugh of Willingt. 9. y. old, his only son, 
fell off y° cop of -f cart, near Odford, his father driving the cart, & 
was kild, yet tis sayd no appearance that the wheel had gone over 
him. 

September, barb q"' 5'. 

October. Owen Brown was accepted to serve for mee as high- 
Constable of Maylors for y°, ensuing year, Mr. Hanm' of Fenns 



28d PHILIP HENRY. 

gave him y" oath which was to doe y° office of high-Const, to the 
best of his Knowl. & skil accord, to law ; I undertaking to bee 
responsible for all moneyes falling under his charge. Next to not 
having been putt on, I was glad to bee thus taken off. 

November 2. dy'd the good lady Wilbraham of Woodhey in a 
good old age. No sickness but a payn in one heel, for 6 dayes, 
i\-hicli after her death was found black — bury'd Nov. 13. Mr. 
Edgeley preacht. T. 2 Cor. 13. 11. which was as is reported one of 
three Texts shee desir'd. 

Nov. 29, 1678. Thomas Lewis' Will of Bronington. 

It/ I give the summ of five pounds tow. y" mayntenance of 
some poor scholars in Hanmer School w"'' sayd summ I would 
liave payd into the hands of y" Feoffees of y" said school at or 
before lady day next to bee for the sayd use for ever. 

It/ I give y" summ of five pounds for y° poor of Hanmer |)ish, 
which sayd summ is to bee putt into the hands of Mr. luke Uoyd * 
of y° Bryn & the other Feoffees at or before May next to bee for 
the sayd use for ever. 

Memd. Thom. lewis, Jun. seald a Bond, dated Apr. i. 79 to 
■f school Feoffees for 5"^ for six months. 

Also another, dated Apr. 30. to y" poor Feoffees for other 5"" 
for six months, deliverd by mee to Mr. luke lloyd sen. 

the former is in -f Box w"' School writings. 

1680. 

Jan. I. At Ash — at Cos. Benyon's, ego et omnes i:ijei niecum, 
in peace & safety, blessed bee God. 

? if a woman, who broke a piece of silver with a yong man 
& sayd shee meant to marry him, their Friends being agreed & 
writings seal'd, upon motion made by another, may refuse y° 
former without his consent. A. 1 suppose not, but were I as hee 
I should release her. I read Mr. Dangerfeild's, aUas Day's, 
alias Willowby's account of y" late Plot t of a design by Presby- 

* Mr. Luke Lloyd, of the Biyn in ITamner, represented one of the six 
famihes of that name in English Maelor, of which four were in Hanmer parish, 
and were descended from Tudor Trevor. He liad fought on the side of the 
Parliament. 

t Burnet (i. 475-6, fol.) writes : " Dangerfield, a false coiner, undertook now 
to coin a plot for the ends of the papists ... he was carried to the Countess 



.PHILIP HENRY. 28 1 

terians & others to raise forces to change the Governm' wherby 
had it succeeded many innocent Persons had been undone, but 
God prevented — -That night to Whitch. to Cosin Madocks, the 
house where my son John dy'd, at which time, I remember 
well, Mathew & Sarah being sick also, that Script, lam. 3. i. 
was in my heart and mouth, I am the man that hath seen Afflic. 
by y" rod of his wrath, & this night that chapt. fell in course 
to bee read & expounded in the family — I read Mr. Mansfeilds * 
account of f sayd Plot — the person in whose chamber divers 
dangerous Papers had been put by the above-mentioned Willopghby 
■■ — lady Powis a principal Agent in it was comitted by y° Council 
to y° Tower & several others to other Prisons — I heard of y° Death 
of Hobs y° Atheist, formerly y" Kings Tutor in Mathematiques — 
by the recommendation of y° university of Oxf The Author of 
y'^ leviathan, f a poysonous book, esp. among y" Gentry. 

Children return'd home, all well, to God bee glory, they begin 
more now then ever yet to bee the bearers of our cares & feares, 
the lord preserve them without spot & blameless. 

5. <^. Mic. 2. 10. Arise, dept, this is not your Rest — no rest 
for a soul, no where, in no thing under y° Sun, theref get loose, my 
soul, from these th. & sitt loose to them, & long for that Rest that 
irema3mes. 

7. sett in -f Kitchin garden 13. wall trees, viz., i. by the stable 
a whiten warden. 2. a French warden. 3. a pound payr. (4. a 
Boreatt. p') 5. a Mons' John payr. 6. a mids, Burgamy. 7. a 
winter Burgamy. (8. three pears from chest'' last year) 9. an Apre- 
cock. (besides vines). 10. three cherryes — i. Heart. 2. May. 
2,. Amber cher. 11. three plums, i. plum morden. 2. Qu. Moth'. 
3. Malg. the thirteen cost. 10' from Wil. Broom of y° Wych. 
whether I may live to eat the Fruit of any of these God knowes ! 

of Powis, a zealous, managing papist, and after he had laid matters with her, 
was carried first to the duke and then to the king. He made up a bundle of 
seditious but ill-contrived letters, and laid them in a dark corner of his room, 
and some searchers were sent from the custom-house to look for forbidden 
goods. There were no goods there, but they found the letters ; and when, upon 
inquiry, it appeared they were counterfeited, they searched into all Dangerfield's 
haunts, and in a meal tub found a paper that contained the scheme of the whole 
fiction : hence it was called ' the meal-tub plot.' " 

* Burnet speaks of him as Colonel Mansel. 

t In 1653, February i, Evelyn writes : " Old Alex. Rosse (author of ' Vir- 
gilius Evangelizans ' and many other little bookes) presented me with his book 
against Mr. Hobbs' 'Leviathan.'" 



282 PHILIP HENRY. 

9. Sett in y° Hall-garden, along y" North-hedge, three black 
cherry trees & one in y° Pigeon yard — cost, i^ 6'". 

10. Fallen two Oak trees in the Turf-house-croft near y" lane 
growing out of y° hedge, intended for the fire, but proVd good 
Timber for use — (How many that promise little & wee think are 
for Hell yet wil prove for Heaven — et contra — ) ditch bank puld 
down & sett with Hathernes. 6 Hundred cost 2". 

11. $. Gal. g, 6. Faith working by love is a main matter in 
Christianity, lord, increase, my Faith, no good wil bee done with- 
out it. 

12. Children at Book again, under Mr. Sam. lewis, viz. Tho. 
Hunt, John Thomas, Wil. Ridgway,* let their profiting appear — I 
visited Mrs. 11. of Wil. Cr. ill y" last week, but now better, bewayling 
y° change in resp. to meanes, having liv'd formerly in Chester, I 
endeavour'd to satisfy her, that her Duty is to bee content & the 
less good shee is in a capacity of receiving the more good shee 
should doe, which is y° more blessed of y" two. 

14. a Horse of John Vaughan's of y" little Green kild by y" 
Fall of a Bough out of a Tree in y" wind, standing under it to 
shelter him. 

18. There is now a quarter past since the meeting at luiea 
for which Mr. Kinaston threatened prosecution, the act sayes the 
Offender must be prosecuted within 3. months. A warrant sign'd 
at quarter sess: by 5. Justices to levy £i^. for repa}T of high- 
wayes near Rudland was sent hither directed to mee (not knowing 
that Owen Brown serves High-Const, for mee) the neighb. Justices 
forbid obedience to it. 

17. Five Garrisons order'd to be dismantl'd, whereof Chester 
one. ;^6oooo j) Ann. it cost y" King for divers yeares upon y° Corn 
Act. (w""" gives 2' {) meas. for each meas. of wheat transported 
w" Corn is under 6' p. meas. in y° Market). Hee receiv'd 
_;^i5oooo p Ann. from y° Custom of French Commodityes im- 
ported. The Excise brought in in y° E. of Danbys Treasure-ship, 

* They seem lo have been brought up under Philip Henry's care, and for 
the benefit of his example, much in the same way as at the beginning of the 
century young men were sent to the great houses, with a view to preferment. 
In Cough's " History of Myddle," p. 46, we read, " Robert Corbett of Stan- 
wardine, Salop, was a Justice of the Peace, and a Master in Chancery. 
Under him I had my education for many yeares, and served him as his clarke." 



PHILIP HENRY. 283 

;^6oo,ooo J). Ann. Hearth-money. ;^i 62000. 5. Ann. The Irish 
revenue. ^^242000 ^. Ann. From Easter. 1673. to March 1679.- 
there is accounted for in -f Excheq' as appeares by -f Polls ex- 
pended. 8276767. The K. hath spent of late, one year with 
another for secret service by Privy Seales ;^8oooo, ^. Ann. this 
is out of y" E. of Danb/s case im^tially stated. 

18. $.n Cant. I. 7. 8. Job. 13. 26. Evil tidings beyond 

expectation prevented, 6: how good is it to trust in God, who never 
fayles those that doe so. 

19. last week a petition was presented to y= K. for y° sitting 
of y° Parlm' with 60.000 hands in a scrol of Parchm' 300 foot long 
by S' Gilb. Gerard, Mr. Charlton,' & Mr. Ashurst, & 6. more — E. of 
Shaftsb., E. of Huntington, lord Howard, lord Grey, &c. subscribers 
The K., as is sayd, told S' Gilb. hee thought hee had been a more 
prudent p. son then to appear in y' head of such a Faction, who 
answerd hee had an Engl, spit & a loyal heart & what hee did hee 
did with that — &c. the K. granted not their request then. 

20. Purse low, supply'd by a seasonable income, though due 
some time since, yet cannot but obs. y° divine Providence, which 
is good & doth Good. 

21. Sister Ellis ill, her husb. unkind, which addes affliction 
to y° afflicted. ^Wh: Exod. 4. Rom. 8. 17. if children then heires. 

22. Mrs. Welsh & Mrs. Esth. Taylor with us. -f former near 
80. came on foot from Wrexh. & returnd on foot againe,* her soul 
also in good plight, to God bee Glory ! The later -f only child of 
many undisposed of but -f lord takes up. 

23. Strange weather for this time of year warm and dry, liker 
Apr. than January. 

28. David Estwick bury'd this day at Whitch. aged 85. y. 
Oats & Bedlow impeach S"' W. Scrog. at which no qu. y" Papists 
are glad, more Priests condemn'd in y° old Baily, Marshal, Corker.. 
&c. but not executed. 

29. an oak, a day, & a man are unknown what they are till 
they are tr/d. Welsh Proverb. 

30. yearly remembr. of K. death, concer. which my opinion 
is, with all due reverence to y^ law makers, y' y'"' is no warrant or 

* Nearly fourteen miles. 



.284 PI-TILIP HENRY. 

president for such an observation in -f word of God, there is of 
Thankgiving dayes for mercyes receiv'd as those of Purim, but 
not of Humiliation dayes for sin committed, esp. not after -f 
Judgm' caus'd by that sin is at an end — Zech. 8. 19. Heb. 10. 
2. 3. .1 saw y° blow given but abhor the Fact upon every remembr. 
yet like not y" annual commemoration of it, though ^haps many 
good men doe. Rom. 14. 6. 

Feb. I. No praying to Acceptation without Faith, believing 
-that God is & y* hee is y" rewarder of those that diligently seek 
him. 

2. I read Mr. Math: Ward's Simple Cobler, wherein are many 
til. exceeding savory, though in an uncouth strayn — ^partic. this, 
that the worst condicon an Hypocrite can bee in in this world is 
to bee a Church-member under pure Ordinances with an impure 
heart — &c. 

4. invited with my wife to Willingt[on]. Mr. Dymock lately 
marry'd to Mrs. Sarah Houghton, daughter to lady Houghton of 
lancash. the lord make her a blessing to y° Family & a wise 
repayrer of all the Breaches of it. 

5. wee enter'd upon y° wood-ground cal'd Key-Shon-Morris 
much overgrown with wett & shadow, which to rectify wil bee 
chargeable but tis our own, the lord Bless ? 

11. At the same time I receiv'd a letter from sister Sarah, 
wherein she wrote mee word of the Death of my dear sister Ellis, 
who finisht her course on Friday. Feb. 6. in Holborn, to bee bury'd 
on the Sabb. following at St. Andrew's Church — Shee ^vrote that 
Mr. Baxter pray'd with her, that day — Her husb. has been very 
unkind not to her only but to us all, w'" Shee forgave him & so 
doe I, the lord forgive him ! Of all my dear Sisters I had for many 
yeares the most constant & sweet correspondence with her, till of 
late yeares, y' hee forbad her, either to send letter to mee or to 
receive letter from mee. The evil tidings hereof mett mee in 
y° close of a solemn fasting day^/ob. 13. 26. after a discourse 
suteable. 

12. Yorkist & Anti-yorkist like to bee y° Termes of con- 
troversy amongst us, lord secure the Interest that is thine own. 

16. Mary Moody serv. to Margt Adams formerly admitted to 
-communion with us, joyn'd 4 times, now fallen off & turned 



PHILIP HENRY, 285' 

quaker ; Shee & her fellow serv' of that way came to mee, in dis- 
course with y" I found fault with their casting of y° lords sup^. hee 
sayd, twas to last but til X. came in the spirit, whereas his coming 
in y'' spirit was long before that, to w""" hee had noth. to reply, I 
chargd her with breach of promise at her admission w* was, if 
she saw ought amiss to tell, shee sayd, shee found, no good by y" 
Ordin. & theref left it : if I reason'd with more earnestnes then 
was meet 

Feb. 21. Cos. Wil. Ridgway had this week 3. fits of y° Ague, to- 
day hee mist, blessed bee God. This week my Neighb'' Ralph 
Nixon had three sheep worry'd to death in one night in Kay Shon 
Morris & Mr. W" Eddow one & twenty in one night in Tybr. 

27, I began of y° Ague, lord fit mee for what is before mee, 
health not priz'd, not improv'd brings sicknes. 

29. A sick Sabb. yet not a silent Sabb. the lord was pleas'd 
to give strength in y" midst of weakness — I quakt of y° Ague from 
8. to II. yet preached, neither eat nor drank betw., y° afternoon 
better, 6 that I might see of the Travel of my soul, y™ should I 
bee satisfy'd. 

Mar. I. I had a very ill fitt of -f Ague, but y" lord was pleas'd 
in the midst of wrath to remember mercy — tis now about 10 y. de 
die in diem since I last began of y" Ague, a long day of Reprieve. 

6. little more than bare remembrance of the distemper, lord, 
if health & strength bee returning let it bee in mercy, & if I must 
out of -f furnace, let all y" dross bee left behind. 

9. extraordinary blustring windy weather for many dayes, 
(phaps a mercy to sweep & cleanse the air instead of Frosts. 

II. listlesness to that which is good; the old grief, lord, when 
shal it bee otherwise. 

14. Faith the best shield for quenching the fiery darts of 
Satan's Temptations. 

15. Report of reconciliation betw. the two Dukes, York & 
Monmouth, lord reconcile them both unto thysf & to thy People. 

19. dy'd cosin John Beddow of Tybr. of a lingring distemper, 
the last of his Father's children. I heard of y" death of y* worthy 
Mr. Hugh Rogers formerly min' of Newto^vn in Montg. a worthy 
faithful min"' of J. X' bury'd at Welshpool on Wednesd. last 
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286 JPHILIP HENRY. 

a lecture in london at 5. cl. sabb. even, carry'd on by a com- 
binacon of young men, — Probaconers for y° Min"^. 

Mr. Baxter preaches every 4"^ Thursday, esp. to yong people. 
If God will bless endeavours to rayse up good yong Min" & good 
yong people, there will bee hopes for y° next generacon, whatever 
becomes of this. 

23. at buryal of Cos. John Beddow at Hanmer hee forbad the 
Mitf Mr. Hilton (his Execu' to bury him only) to say any th. of 
him, left his goods & cattle to his servant Benj. Venables, ^100 to 
Hanm' poor &c. ut fertur. John Brookf. told mee hee appointed 
y° candle should not goe out in y" chamber where hee lay, till hee 
was.carryd out. 

24. at W — h — Cant. i. 7. 8. tis good to draw near to God. 
Ps. 73. 1. & that in X""" communion as wee have opportunity. 

26. dy'd Mrs. Hanmer of Fenns, after few dayes sickness, in 
her best state, lord, what is man. 

27. John Smith upon his Death bed repented that hee had 
taken so much Tobacco. 

31. Mrs. Hanmer bury'd at Hanmer, Mr. Bridge preacht. 
Ezek. 24. 16. 

Apr. 2. Mr. Hunt & his lady return'd from london whither 
they went in y" beginning of Febr. — Many at work at Tybr. ex 
otto negotium. tis so with the soul, neglects bring decayes, much 
adoe to keep the heart in anything like good repayr, lord keep 
mine for mee, above all Keepings. 

10. Tomy Hunt went home, not well, having had 3 or 4 fits 
of the Ague ; at home hee had no more — An exceeding forward 
spring, after an exceeding favourable winter, two great mercyes, 
considering the scarcity of Fodder, how oft doth y" lord prevent us 
with the blessings, of his goodness. 

Col. Robinsons sister a mayden, who was at the buryal of Mrs. 
Hanmer. Mar. 31. dy'd about a fortnight after, in her best state, & 
3. sister of her's a widow in Southwales dy'd the very same day 
with her & was bury'd there, as it hapned, the very same day, lS: 
the messengers that went from each to each of the surviving 
Relations with tidings & mourning mett in the mid-way — This 
Mr. Hoyd of Bryn told mee, of a truth, a Providence not ordinarily 
hapning. 



PHILIP IIEN-RY. 287 

A Fox taken in Fenns Park, with yong ones, 6. weekes old. 
The old one lying dead, One of y" yong ones playing by they 
put his mouth to one of y= Teats of his dead dam, whereupon 
immediately hee fell a quaking, stagger'd a while, & d^d. 

Mai Yates this month ill, after being here ; I know not that I 
have been of late so earnest with the lord for any temporal mercy, 
as for her life, and the lord was pleas'd to hear Prayer, 6: w' shal 
I render ! I wil love y" lord bee. hee hath heard y° voice of my 
supplic. 

19. John Thomas went home not well of y° Ague. I wrote 
to his Father, that whereas at several times there had been dis- 
bursd for his use about 47^ if hee pleasd I should bee glad if hee 
would bestow it on a steel-malt-mill for mee. 

22. Flint-quarter-sess. Owen Brown went as high Constable, 
I lent him a horse & offred him money, hee sayd, I should have 
account of all his expences together at the end of the year. 

Will. Ridgway return'd after two or three weekes absence, 
taking Physique. 

Parliam' chosen in Octob. last, never mett to sitt yet, being 
•adjourn'd & prorogu'd from time to time. 

24. Tho. Moor came to live at Tybr. it hath cost mee much 
to new sill & thatch & dawb & glase the house & to make a back 
house & Oven, but if God bee with him there, I shal rejoyce; 6: 
y' every house in y° Neighborhood, esp. the few that are mine 
were, as that is, a house of pray". 

Apr. 26. This day wee have been marry'd twenty yeares, in 
which time wee have receivd more than twenty thousand mercyes, 
to God bee Glory. 

Reports of one Justice Arnold of Monmsh. assaulted April. 15. 
in Chancery lane & dangerously wounded, bid by those y' did it, 
to remember Father lewis, a priest hang'd there last Summ". 

30. W" lawrence of Wem brought y° ;^5. w* I lent him 3. y. 
since, whereof I took the one half & lent him the other for ailother 
year. 

May 2. Supply expected at chapel fayled. Act. 17. 30. bee. 
there is to bee a day of Judgm' theref. all men every where should 
Tepent. 

3. If my son John had Hv'd to this day, hee had been 17. y. 



288 PHILIP HENRY. 

of age, but God prevented )^et I desire to bee thankful that I had 
such a son. 

4. unresolvedness in choyce of subj. to Pr. on, hath been 
long & still is my great fault much to bee bewayled. 

5. Should have mett at D. but rather then provoke authority 
was defer' d. There is a mean, if wee could alwayes hitt it, bet\v. 
fool-hardiness & faint-heartedness. Hee that flyes may fight again. 

A son & daughter of my old good Friend Capt. Gerard Barber 
of Wrexha. were at Mr. Whitch., hopeful, wherein I greatly rejoyce \ 
pity, grace should not run in the bloud always, but God is a free 
agent & tis his own. 

26. Thomas Moor, for what reasons I doe not well know, 
left the Tenem' at Tybr., having sta^d there little above a month ; 
seeing him sett upon it, I consented to it, hoping, it may not tend 
much to my prejudice, though if I could have foreseen it, I think, 
I should not have been at so much charge about it I have y'' Testi- 
mony of my Conscience, y' y° th. I did rejoyce in was that it was- 
likely to be a house of Prayer, and what it may bee now, I know 
not I see, the best of men are but men, inconstant, mutable, not 
knowing their own minds ; then cease from man. Three th. did 
concur which look like his reasons, i. his disappointm' of Marriage 
with Mrs. Tr. 2. his daughter Mary's unacceptableness to him, 
3. his being not wel. which I imputed to the disturbance of his 
mind & not only to his coming into somew' a green house. 

May 30. One Brookes of Nantwych aged about 55, a sa^^7', 
a loose j)son, went with others on this day being Sabb. day in the 
afternoon to Chorley hay to steal a pole for a May-pole, having 
agreed with a fiddler to attend y° setting of it up next day ; After 
hee had given a few strokes with an Axe towards y' falling of it, it 
pleas'd God, hee was struck down hims' & dy'd immediately 
without speaking one word in y° very same place, o that all who 
hear, might fear, & doe no more so wickedly ! 

June I. I went with my wife to Willington whither Mr.. 
Dymock hath brought a yong wife, the daughter of lady Houghton 
of lancashire, & w"' her I hope Religion & Restoration to his long 
declining house & family. The lord in mercy confirm those hopes 
& make her like Rachel & like Leah which two did build the 
house of Israel & let him doe worthily in his place & day. 



PHILIP HENRY. 289 

7. John Probart dy'd, the most able & sufficient tenant wee 
had ; his disease was long & lingring, the black Jaundice, & I 
trust hee did make a good use of his time in making ready, 6 what 
a poor vayn thing is this world, the more wee gripe & grasp it the 
sooner it slips away through our fingers, lord, lift up upon us the 
light of thy Countenance. Children this first fortnight in June at 
Boreatton, my care & fear is, lest converse with such so far above 
them, though of y' best, should have influence upon them to lift 
them up, when I had rather they should bee kept low. 

Things now in doing as to Publ. Afiayres are clearing the 
Illegitimation of y° D. of Monmouth,* against which a printed 
sheet declares by several circumstances it was not so, for in it the 
King publisht a manifesto wherein hee avowes again & again as 
before, that hee was never marry'd to any woman but Q. Kath. at 
this the Papists sing lo Psan, but God sees. Tangier in danger 
to bee lost. D'' Stillingfl. preacht May. 2. before lord May'' to prove 
the present separation sinful both ih Min" & people. 

June. 2. dy'd Mr. Moses Steel after ten weeks marriage, six 
weekes weakness, & ten dayes languishm', in the beginning of his 
work, in the beginning of his dayes, much desired, much lamented 
— lord, w' is man ! Ten pound left to my dispose by Wil. Probyn of 
Wem his last wil for needy min" whereof 

Mr. Sam. Taylor had ^5. 

Mr. Josh. Barnet f — ^i. 

Mr. Fran. Keeling — ;Qi. 

Mr. Edw. Bury — £\. 

D' George long — j[^\. 

Mr. John Maiden % —£i. 

June 8. 9. 10. Trayn-bands cald in to Orton for these 3. dayes, 
which cost mee for my two soldiers 8. shilUngs. 

28. Nehemiah the son of my worthy friend Mr. Hugh Rogers 
formerly Min' of Newtown, who dyed lately at Welshpool, brought 
a paper written by his Father, wherein hee requests Mr. Benyon, 

* Mr. M. Bloxam, who has looked into the evidence /ra and con, is inclined 
to think that Lucy Walters was lawfully married to Charles II. The direct 
descendant of the Duke of Monmouth is the Duke of Buccleugh and Queens- 
berry. See Archaologia Camhrmsis for October, 1874, Appendix. 

t There was a family of this name living at Penley Hall in English Maelor. 

t Ejected from Newport, Salop, in 1662. 

U 



290 PHILIP HENRY. 

Mr. Madocks & mys' to take a catalogue of Bookes left at 
Whitch. in a Trunk & to sell them for the use of Hugh the son of 
this Nehemiah, an Infant, aged 7. yeares ; This day accordingly 
wee view'd & priz'd y" Bookes, which amount in y' whole to about 
£']. sold for £(i. 2. 

29. I relinquished the executorship of my good Friend Ann 
Davis of Worthenb. though likely to have been to my considerable 
advantage, yet bee. out of my way & might have been a hindrance 
in better th. however would have made a great noise in y' Countrey, 
I freely wav'd it & shee made her neice Ann Clark Exc. & mee 
overseer. 

July 3. this day & yesterday brought tidings of y' Death of 
Mr. Heanes late of Salop, Wem, & new chap, in Westmin"' a 
worthy conformist & I believe gone to Heaven, also Mr. Rich. 
Edwards late of Oswestree, an honest, peaceable, good man & of y" 
same Spirit, who did conform but with regret, both of them myworthy 
Friends, lord rayse up others in their room to bee & doe better. 

Also D'' Barrow B" of St Asaph, an insignificant Cypher,* hee 
forbad extemp. pray" in all his Diocess, reprov'd D'' H. for using 
it in his Family, appointed to bee bury'd in the church porch bee. 
observ'd poor people praying. Box of clothes sent to london fof 
Math. & Cos. Robt. carr. p"" 4* whereof Cos. Robt. pay'd 2^. also 
;^2o. payd to Georg Payn who gave a Bill to receive as much July. 
20. of Mr. Robt. Rowles without Bish.gate at y° sign of y° Dolphin. 

Threatnings breathed out agt our present libertyes here, but 
hee that hath, doth, & I trust will deliver. 

25. Tho. Hunt, John Thomas & Wil Ridgway went all home, 
for fear of Infection by my son Mathew, who came this day from 

london. 

" Fran. Flau. consurgent, simul Hispan. viribiis urgent, 
Scotus vastabit sed Wallus suppeditabit, 
Heresis ob crimen mendax Anglus fugitabit, 
Ob fidei meritum sed Wallicus ipse manebit. 

* The great Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, wished to be buried in the porch, 
so that the Whitchurch (Salop) men, who had followed him in so many battles, 
might think of him as they passed over his grave ; accordingly, his heart was 
laid there. Many others have expressed a similar wish. If, however, it is 
because of his wish to be remembered in their prayers that Philip Henry 
condemns tho bishop so strongly, he should first produce a passage from Holy 
Scripture forbidding the Church militant to pray for their brethren that have 
crossed the flood. 



PHILIP HENRY. 29 1 

Nee Carolus Magnus, nee Carolus quintus, 
Sed Carolus Agnus, hie jacet intus." 

Mr. Pryn's dream of a Pilot forcing a ship into a narrow Creek 
when there was a fajre haven just by, the ship sunk. 

Archy sayd, hee would change caps with K. James for letting 
his son goe into Spain, who answer' d, hee hop'd his return, nay then 
sayd hee, He change caps with the K. of Spain. 

Omnes introeuntes hoc Templum Dei, domum orationis, orate 
pro conservo vestro Isaaco Barrow,* ut misericordiam inveniat in 
Die Domini — this is sayd to have been y° Epitaph found written in 
D"' Barrow's own hand, Bish. of St. Asaph, who dy'd in Salop this ' 
present June. 1680. & was carry'd from thence to St. Asaph to bee 
bury'd, appointed to bee written on his Grave-stone & his Grave 
to bee in or near -f church porch. 

D' Herbert Thorndike, as Mr. Mareil reports in his Rehersall 
transpoz'd, appointed his to bee and is in Wes'tminster Abbey. 

— ^requiem ei in Christo et beatam resurrectionem precare. or 
to that purpose. 

Shropsh. Miri'' Non-conformists dead since Aug. 24. 1662. 
Mr. Hildersham. Mr. Maiden. Mr. Nevet. 

Mr. Heath. Mr. ley. Mr. Hopkin. 

Mr. Froysal. Mr. Porter. Mr. Campion. 

Mr. Haughton. Mr. Wright. Mr. Sadler. 

Mr. Adams. Mr. York. 

Mr. Richardson. Mr. Thomas. 

July 12. wee sett forth from Br. Oak. towards london, mys', 
Rob. Bosyer, Math., & Roger, — wee lay -f first night at Hampton, 
y" 2'"' at Stretford, y" s'" at Oxford, -f 4"" at Wickham, y= 5* at 
london. the lord was exceeding good to us by y^ way, wee had no 
hurt or hindrance, but a great deal of mercy in every step. 

the charges of the journey in all was about 10* a piece ; and 
while wee lodg'd at the Inn, which was from Friday night till 
Tuesday morning, about 5. or 6^ apiece more, one with another. I 

21. Cosin Robert & Mathew lodg'd first at Islington at Mr. 
Dool[ittle] house, who cheerfully undertook the Care & Tutorage ' 
of y". Mr. Baxter told mee, I could not have plac'd him better, 

■* The famous Dr. Isaac Barrow, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, 
1672-1677, was nephew to this bishop, and died May 4, 1677, in his forty- 
seventh year. 



292 PHILIP HENRY. 

lord bless. Their Bed, Bedstead, Bed-clothes. &c. cost in all. 
£,(>. 13. 10. — for w* y"' payd equally. 

Mr. Hearn sayd, at two yeares end hee would take y° bedding 
again at 5' loss. The 3. Sabb. y' I was in Town, I preacht, y^ 
i" at Mr. Dool. — lam. 3. 22. y" 2"" at Mr. St. twice — Phil. 2. 21. 
y" 3" at Mr. lawr. Phil. 4. 1 1. in the midst of many weaknesses, 
lord accept & bless. I bought while there a few Bookes, exchang'd 
y" old silver Tankard, which weigh'd about 47^ for a new silver 
cup,* which weigh'd about 50'. bought candle st. for Math. 

Aug. 2. I set forward homeward in y" Chester coach my fare 
£,\. 15. o. travelling charges about 12*. 

13. I went to Bo[reatton] where F Paget y™ was & his lady,. 
Mr. Foley & his lady, & Mr. Swinfen, I stay'd with them there til 
Aug. 24. an unprofitable servant, oblig'd to doe good but falling short. 

16. brought tidings of Math, having had a fit oi -f Ague & 
his being not wel, it began the Thursday before. 

17. wife came to Bo[reatton]. brought a letter firom Cos. Rob. 
Bosyer, wherein hee WTOte y' Math, continued ill — I went that day 
to Sw. & return'd at night, in health, blessed bee God ! 

18. 19. read Mr. Cheney agt Mr. Baxt. whose opinion is }■* all 
requir'd is to bee done rather y" quit our Min"', as also Mr. Baxt" 
reply which is calm, & Mr. Alsop's which is somewhat rough, but 
both convincing. 

19. 20. I read Mr. Rushworth's collections, esp. his history of 
-f tryal of y' Earl of Strafford, which is an Instance of -f Fall of a 
great Man, run down by Popular disaffection. 

21. life of Mr. Marshal, written by an enemy to disgrace his 
Memory, near upon 30. yeares after his Death ; 

21. If all the faults & failings of y" best of men & those only 
bee thus heap'd together, hee wil bee far from appearing the best 

* This cup, which is of elegant desigii, belongs to Joseph H. Lee, Esq., of 
Redbroolc and has upon it the following inscription : — 

"p. H. 
sign's god be 

'I'HY GLORY, ins 

GRACE AND MERCY 

THY DEFENCE, PEACK. 

AND TRUTH IN I.O\l': 

]IY CHRIST JESUS 

WHO IS AI,1. 

IN' AIX." 



PHILIP FIENRY. 293 

of men ; But God judgeth not as man judgeth — I have good 
Teason for my part to honor his name, for, under God, his 
Ministry was often instrumental of much good to my soul, betwixt 
the age of 12. & 15. at Margaret's Westmin'. 

20. heard from Math, that hee was better, y' his Ague had 
left him, though hee remayned feeble & indispos'd. 

24. At coming home wee receiv'd another letter from Math. 
■dated Aug. 21. wherein hee writes hee was then very well, & 
falling to his book which good tidings prevented our feares & 
gave no occasion to say, it is not in vayn to seek the lord. 

27. a letter came from Cos. Robert Boyser dated on Bar- 
tholomew day, his Birthday, as mine, hee is now 23. y. old, in 
which as to hims' hee takes notice of Gods Goodness with 
"ThankP of his own badness with Penitence, yet saying, I am now- 
more likely y°" ever to bring forth some kind of fruit ; As to Math, 
hee relates his relapse into further ilness, which was read with 
teares. As to newes, y' E. Pembr.* had Kild one if not two at 
Turnham green, on y° 18*'' instant, y'*' kept watch &: that hee 
was fled. 

29. Another letter dictated by Math, written by Cos. Robt, 
Avhich acquainted us with -f continuance of his distem^). & that 
hee was taking Phys. of Cos[in] Tho. Hotchkis, & had a mind to 
•come home. 

Sept. 9. (as wee heard afterw. Cos. Robert Bos: began to bee 
not well at least so as to yeild to his distemper, for hee had been 
out of order since Sept. 4. yet was at y° meeting Sept. 5. where 
hee heard a funeral sermon on Cant. l[ast] l[ast] at y* death of 
Mrs. B'uckingh"" who had been a communic. with Mr. DooL since 
shee was 13. y. old — aged now 33. y" last sermon hee heard. 

10. Cos. Tho. Hotchk. was sent for to him, who found him 
in a high Feaver, sent for D'' Hawes afterw. D" Sampson sent for, 
but y° Disease prevayl'd & all meanes were ineffectual at y* same 
time divers others sickned in y° house, divers fell asleep in Isl. & 
london — -f weeke's bill about 800. 

13. about 12. at night hee finisht his course, a hopeful yong 
man, serious & religious, to the great grief & disappointm' of 

* Evelyn does not notice this ; but on July 4, 1696, says that he subscribed 
jf 500 (as Lord Privy Seal) towards Greenwich Hospital. 



294 PHILIP HENRY. 

Relations & Friends, who had promis'd thems' much Comfort in 
him, but blessed bee God for y" good hope that wee have through 
grace that hee is in heaven. 

14. hee was bury'd in y° new church yard near y" Artillery 
ground. And now my dear child his Alter Idem is left in widow- 
hood & besides, not well, when wee heard y° tidings which was 
(17"') at y° time of morning Family worship, it caus'd a wett 
prayer amongst us, after many dry ones, lord, shew us wheref thou 
hast thus contended with us." 

Hee made his will before hee went, leaving his Grandmother 
Aldersey & mee his Execut"'. 

25. Our dear child return'd again to Br. O. by Chester Coach, 
wee were in. care concerning him, lest hee should not bee able to 
^form y° journey & fayn would but could not cast all our care 
upon y' lord, nevertheless hee had mercy for his own name sake. 
Thus in a short time was y° lord pleas'd to riifHe and overturn 
what wee had long purpos'd & design'd hoping it might have been 
for good, but hee gives not account of any of his matters. 

Oct. 4. I joynd with Mrs. Aldersey in proving Cos. Robt's. 
wil at Malpas, cost in all 19' 10''. 

6. day of prayer with a few at W. where a strange Providence 
hath befallen y" yong lady there. Who being with child hath for 
several weekes past been depriv'd of sight, lord, shew her mercy, 
as shee needs, it is prov'd not with child. 

7. Rich. Wilcockson's rent from Over was receiVd, to bee 
sent to london, to discharge dues there £,2%. 10. 6. whereof 20* 
was sent to Mr. Bosyer towards repayr of y° grave stones of their 
Ancestors at Over. 

Nov. I. to y" church-w. of Malpas for rehef of captive 
slaves — 8'. 

26. I lent Mr. Dymock £,2,0. by Randle Keay w"' I purpose 
to make up ;^so. as soon as I can receive it & to allot it for 
Hanmer-poor. 

Dec. 24. made up & lent accordingly. 

Oct. 21. after many prorogations, the Pai-liam' mett, Mr. 
William Williams,* Recorder of Chester, chosen speaker. 

* He was fined £,\0,<xx> for having ajjpointed the printing of Dangerfield's 
information. The joy which Judge Jeffreys showed on the acquittal of the 



PHILIP HENRY. 295 

Nov. a Bill past to disable y* D. of y.* from ir\heriting the 
Im^ial Crown of Engl. & Irel. refus'd by y° house of lords. 

Dec. William Viscount Stafford f try'd in Westminster Hall 
by his Peeres for y" late plot found guilty by 56 to 30 & sentenc'd. 

10. wee first saw y° tayl of y" Comet, J smal. 15. y° Comet its*^ 
playn, y° tayl large, from y° Horizon westw. almost to y" Zenith, its 
motion from south to north, after 8. at night not appearing. The 
middlemost star in y" Vultur Volans was near y" middle of y° 
Comet's tayl for an hour or more. 

seven bishops in 1688, was because of the disappointment liis rival Williams 
had by it. He, being then Solicitor-general, prosecuted them. 

* Burnet (i. 481, fol.) says, "In the winter, eighty, the king resolved to 
hold a session of Parliament. He sent the duke to Scotland a few dayi> 
before their meeting" (chap. 482). "The Bill of Exclusion was quickly 
brought up to the Lords. The earls of Essex and Shaftesbury argued most for 
it, and the Earl of Halifax was the champion on the other side. He gained 
great honour in the debate ; and had a visible superiority to Lord Shaftesbniy 
in the opinion of the whole House, and that was to him triumph enough. In 
conclusion the bill was thrown out upon the first reading." 

t Younger son to the old Earl of Arundell, and so uncle to the Duke of 
Norfolk (Burnet, i. 488, fol.). Evelyn writes, November 30 : " The trial was in 
Westminster Hall before the King, Lords, and Commons just in the same 
manner as 40 yeares past the greate and wise Earle of Strafford (there being 
but one letter differing their names) receiv'd his trial for pretended ill govern- 
ment in Ireland. . . . My Lord Stafford's two daughters, the Marchionesse of 
Winchester being one, were beside him. . . . One thing my Lord said as to 
Gates, which I confesse did exceedingly affect me, that a person who should 
brag that though he went over to the Church of Rome, yet he was never a 
Papist, , nor of their religion, . . . but only as a spie ; tho' he confess'd he 
took their sacrament, worshipped images, went through all their oathes and 
discipline of their proselytes, &c. &c. that the witness of such a profligate 
wretch should be admitted against the life of a Peere, this my Lord looked 
upon as a monstrous thing." Burnet (i. 492, fol.) says, " When it came to the 
judgment above fifty of the peers gave it against Lord Stafford, and above thirty 
acquitted him : four of the Howards his kinsmen condemned him ; Lord 
Arundell, afterwards Duke of Norfolk, though in enmity with him did acquit 
him " (Lord Arundell had been called up to the House of Lords, by writ, in 
the barony of Mowbray). 

% On the I2th of December, Evelyn writes : " I saw a meteor of an obscure 
bright colour, in shape like the blade of a sword. . . . Such another I re- 
member to have seen in 1640, aboute the Triall of the greate Earle of Strafford, 
preceding our bloudy Rebellion. I pray God avert his judgements." In the 
jiarish register of Crowhurst, Sussex, is recorded, " Ablareing Starre appeared 
in y° Kedom, in ye yeare 1680. it did first shew itself lo™ of December y' 
yeare 80, which 'did stream from y" south west to y° middle of y° heaven 
broader y° a Rainebow by farre, and continued till y" latter end of February." 
At East Hoathly, Sussex, is written, "A parheUon on each side of the sun was 
scene by many, with a bow over the true sun, with the ends upwards in the 
morning, in this forme " (a representation given). 



296 PHILIP HENRY. 

Jan. 13. it appears stil but more dim then before, the matter 
being almost spent* 

Dec. 29. lord Stafford was executed on Tower-hil — a printed 
speech in his name denyes all. A vote past in y' House of 
Commons on y" day of their dissolution, that the putting of the 
poenal laws in execution against dissenters at this time is un- 
seasonable and a meanes to strengthen the Popish Interest, or to 
that purpose. In opposition to which there came out in April a 
Declaration by the K. signif. his dislike of it & saying hee hop'd 
the Justices would make more conscience of their oaths binding 
them to put the lawes in execution, then of the aforesd vote of 
the house of Commons to the contrary, accordingly S"' Thomas 
Vernon at Weston was pleas'd to discourse June. 14. comparing 
y° s* H. of commons with that which took away the Kings life. 
Hie situs est. 

Robertus Bosyer gener de Over in Comitat, Cestr. qui ad 
Ingenij cultum hue adveniens, post bimestre spatium mortem 
praematuram obijt, optimae Spei Juvenis. Sept. 13. 1680. An. ^t. 
24. This was written upon his Grave-stone in the new church 
yard london. Cost ^2. 2. 2. 



1681. 

January 13. As to publ. Affa3n-es, many Bils in Pari, prepaid, 
not as yet sign'd, The K. would have y° succession secur'd in y' 
lineal descent, y° Commons would have y° D. of y. disabled, but 
his children to have it, wherein unless the K. will gratify them, 
(Jan. 7.) y"" voted no money to relieve Tangier. 

10. The Pari, was prorogu'd for 10. d. Bil about Irish cattle 

* The Christian Herald gives the following prediction of the comet, whicli 
has lately appeared (August, 1881), by Demetris L'Ardottini, the celebrated 
astronomer of Northern Italy, in 1683 : ' ' Wherefore, whence these erratic 
luminaries come and whither they go none can tell, and least of all can I, whti 
am but a poor mortal, seeking to learn what I may of the wonders of creation. 
The comet we lately saw in the heavens for the space of twelve nights has gone, 
never to 'return in our lifetime. I gather from the writings of great men, long 
since dust, that this same fiery messenger was last seen of mortals in 1481, 
during the reign of John of Mantua, and was accompanied by floods, tempests, 
and earthquakes, and a universal war of the elements. It will not again revisit 
earth till 1881, liiit whether it be thus followed by floods and calamities or not 
I cannot tell." 



PHILIP HENRY. 297 

& woolen-burying pass'd— whether y"*' shal meet at y° time ap- 
pointed is uncertayn, but the lord reignes & his counsel shal stand. 

20. It pleas'd y" K. to disolve y"" & to appoint another to 
meet at Oxford Mar. 21. next. The Chichester Burghesses were 
mett by y° inhabitants on Foot & thankt & promis'd to bee chose 
again. 

Feb. I. My sister Sarah Henry was marry'd to Mr. Bryan 
"iVade servant * to the lord Anglesey lord Privy Seal. 

26. I ^vrote a letter to him wherby I oblig'd mys' to pay him 
for y'= 3. next yeares beginning at Candlemas last £,1. 10. o. ^ 
*\iin. as a small token of my love, if shee or any issue from her so 
long live, payd.— I had given ^^20 before to sister Dyer. Sister 
Ann, I suppose, made y" same promise on y° same termes to Mr. 
Wade. 

Apr. 9. Mr. Tho. Yong of Croxtonf dy'd — hee was 10' in 
my debt, borrow'd, like to lose it. Mr. Ri. Deaves — ^hee sued 
Mr. Yates of Hanmer for;^6. being a y. interest for 2^100. w""" hee 
pleaded hee had payd — first in common law y'" in chancery & 
recover'd & was order'd paym' of y° sayd;^6. &_;^i8. charges, all 
w"" Mr. Deaves had together with £^ cidd money more. Also 
his charges of a sute with Mr. Yates & John Ratcliff about Timber 
from which hee had noth. Mr. Deaves' Bil came to ;^i4 odd 
money — love is cheap law is dear, upon account hee abated him 
in the whole, six pounds. 

June 21. I put 50. tench frey & 9. carp into the pond in y' 
Orchard sent by Mr. David Eddow, I gave the two Messengers 
i' apeice. 

/««. 28. 168J. Hugh Jenings the Catchpole was kild in 
Whitch. by one Booth of Grindley brook whom hee had arrested 
for a debt of ten pounds at the sute of an Atturney in Nantw. 
Hee stabd him in y" nose with a Dagger — the Coroners inquest 
found it wilful murther. 

Mar. election in Chester, mth great Contest between Mr. 

* Query, served him in tlie sense of being his secretary. Burnet notices of 
this earl that when giving his vote to condemn Lord Stafford, he imprudently 
added that "he did not believe the witnesses" (i. 492, fol.). 

+ Yonge of Croxt.on was the name of an ancient family in Hanmer parish, 
■descended, like most others in English Maelor, from Tudor Trevor. A branch 
of the family is settled at Kingerby, county Lincoln. 



298 PHILIP HENRy. 

Booth & S' Rob. Cotton & Sir Phil. Egerton & S' Rob. Lester— 
the two former chosen, for Chester Mr. Williams & Col. 'Wliitley. 
for Denb.sh. S' John Trevor, not Mr. Midleton. for Flint Sh. S' 
John Hanmer & Mr. Whitley jun. for Shropsh. Mr. leveson Gower 
& Mr. Newport. Mar. 21. they met at Oxford. Mar. 28. they 
were sent home again disolv'd. The reason suppos'd to bee bee. 
they would not wave the busines of disabling y° D[uke] of Y[ork]. 
Mr. WilUams y' Speaker first brought y* newes to Whitch. y" day. 

Mar. 30. coming from Oxf post. 

Mar. 31. Edw. langf bury'd. AMaereas Malpas church is- 
now pew'd & mine at 3^ 6" p y™ came to 11" 8" my wife this day 
payd it to Tho. Sherinton of Wigl. church-warden^the pew is in 
y° North Isle. 

Apr. 12. this day was 14. y., about sun-sett, the lord took my 
first born son from mee, the beginning of my strength, with a 
stroke ; In y" rememb. whereof my heart melted this evening,. 
I beg'd jjdon for y" Jonah y' raysed that storm, I bless'd y° lord 
that hath spar'd the rest, I beg'd mercy, mercy for every one of 
them, & absolutely & unreservedly, devoted, & dedicated them,, 
myself, my whole self, estate. Interest, life, to the will & service 
of that God frbm w"" I receiv'd all ; Father, hallowed bee thy 
rjame, thy Kingdorn come ! 

May. 16. it pleasd God to call for old Mr. John Hotchkis, 
aged 76. up & as well as usually the day before but infirm. The 
first that has dy'd out of that house for above 40. )-. Hims' his 
Father & his son three Johns, Drapers, eminent in their time, 
beyond many, for fewness of words, smalnes of gain, & j^unctual 
dealing in bargaining. 

May. 23. deceased at Alkinton my worthy Friend Mr. John 
Maiden late of Newport who as hee liv'd so hee dy'd low in his- 
own eyes, esteeming hims' good for noth. though really good for 
every th., a great hindrance visibly both to his own comfort & to 
his usefulness to others. Hee sayd hee was far from repenting 
his being a sufferer agt Conformity. Hee left by his will, that 
there should bee no sermon nor no ringing of Bells, no more 
there was not^so much learning, piety, & humility, I have not 
seen this great while layd in a grave ; But blessed bee God, wee 
had such a one so long. 



PHILIP HENRY. 299 

May. 29. Sab. a general rayling day in all the churches & 
chapels round about, which I am wel assured the lord hims' wil 
in due time reckon iox Ja7n. 5. 7. 

June 2. a time of great drought * for many weekes, scarcit)- 
threatened, this day a day of prayer, at W. B' many petitions put 
up for ra)m, this evening a speedy Answer in a comfortable showr, 
praised bee God. past away quickly, like our goodness. 

3. lord Cholmley bury'd at Malpas, dy'd at london. D' WiL 
lloyd,t B" of St. Asaph preacht, being Parson of S' Martyns, where 
hee dy'd ; y° same y' preacht at y° buryal of S"' Edm.bury-Godfrey. 

7. Henry James cut his own throat at Hanmer having 
purloynd 20' of his M' a Butcher in Salop & being pursu'd & 
taken & his M" saying to him hee would hang him if hee could, 
hee did it with a rasor. 

9. my son Math was with him & pray'd w* him. 

10. hee sent Rich. Pova's wife to mee to desire mee to pray 
for him. 15. I went to Braden-heath to see him, found him weak 
having let noth. down neither wet nor dry the passage being cutt^ 
yet sayd, hee was not hungry, nor had not been since hee struck 
the stroke. Hee sayd, hee repented & was sorry for that & for 
all his sins, but was ignorant of X' as y" Mediator, w" as wel as 
y° lord enabled mee I preached to him & prayed with him (I gave 
him 2^^). 17. hee dyed. 

14. being invited to pireach at Tho. Millington's at Weston 
beyond Frees, I went & preached there Ps. 66. 18. was interrupted 
by two Justices, S' Tho. Vernon & Mr. Charles Manwaring, who 
took our names, 143. or thereabouts & threatned us with the 
Execution of y° law ; Father thy wil bee done ! while tis for well- 
doing that wee suffer, they cannot harm us. 

26. wee heard the sad tidings of y" Death of Cos. Sarah 
Hotchkis, at london in child-bed, a choyce bough of Ash-Tree, f 
but very ripe for heaven — Also the same howr wee heard of y'" 
Death of Widow Trim at Tilstock, my wife's nurse. 

* May 25, 1681, Evelyn says, "There had scarce fallen any raine since 
Christmas ; " and June 12, " It still continued so great a drought as had never o 
l)een known in England, and it was said to be universal. " ■ ,"k "^ 

+ He was one of the seven bishops sent to the Tower in 1688 by James II., 1 -i " , 
for maintaining the liberties of the English Church. There is frequent mention ' 
of him in Burnet and by Evelyn. He was afterwards translated to Lichfield- ^ ',\J 
and thence to Worcester. See Appendix. 1 / » \ '" "' 

X Probably she was a Benyon of Ash, Salop. Va. s^l. ir-~'~ c * 

\ 



.300 PHILIP HENRY. 

27. in expectation of the distresse Threatned but it comes 
not. some would have us to submit & petition, others to remove 
our goods & secure y'" from it, I rather incline to let them doe 
their pleasure, knowing that God is able to make it up again, 
whatever loss I sustayn, &: besides twil bee a meanes of discover- 
ing Friends & Foes, & also help to fill the measure & to wipe off 
the reproach as if wee dreaded suffering ; I have often sayd little 
good would appear from our preaching til it bee seald to & if this 
bee the occasion, welcom the wil of God ! twas an extraordinary 
dry season, God hath since then sent sweet & seasonable rayn, to 
his name bee the glory. 

July I. Plunket & Fitz-harris * executed, y° former deny'd 
.all. the later refer'd hims' to a paper left with Mr. Hawkins chapl. 
of y" Tower. 2. E. of Shaftesb.f committed by K. & Counsel to 
the Tower for high Treason. 

4. 5. &c. workmen rouglvcasting y" pigeon house & point- 
ing the slates, both needful though chargeable; it cost in all 
about 28'. 

8. I deliverd into the hands of Ann Davis from amongst her 
writings which shee left with mee a bond for ;^i8. due to her 
from Mrs. Alice Puleston & her son Thomas. I heard yesterday, 
that at Worthenb. there is more bowing at y' name of Jesus in the 
Creed then in any other congregacon in the neighborhood, & this 
day I heard that most Sabbaths in Wallington there is publ. 
playing at 9. pins, w°'' I am griev'd to hear. Roger Th. told mee 
hearing a Min'' at Malpas at y" end of y° wars pressing to Charity, 
it being a publ. fast, & hee having noth. in his purse to give was 
grievously terrifyd in y° reflection how much hee had often spent 
idly, gott up to goe into y" Town to borrow, in his way forth in y" 
Isle found a groat, return'd to his seat again, gave a* of it to the 
Collection & the other 2'' to a poor woman at y" Wych. A Duke 
■of Saxony, quarreling with a neighb. B", sent to proclaim war agt 

* Burnet (i. 497, fol.) says, " A few days before the king went to Oxford, 
Fitzhavris, an Irish papist, was taken up for framing a maUcious and treason- 
able libel against the king and his whole family." " Plunkett was the popish 
primate of Aniiagh " (i. 502, fol. ). 

t On reacliing the Tower, some of the Roman Catholic Peers, confined 
there, expressed surprise that he had now come to join them ; his reply was 
that he had been ordered a course of Jesuit powders. 



PHILIP HENRY. 30r 

him, inquifd w' hee was doing towards it, A. " preaching, praying, 
reforming his Diocess."* P^mon ilium invadat, non ego. 

II. to B. where I saw my worthy Fr"* Mr. F. T. heard of y" 
Death of Mrs. B' in a Phrensy, crying Fire, Fire,t to y" last, yet 
a gracious good woman. 

12.- quart' Sessions at Salop, I saw y° copy of a warrant under 
y° hands & seales of S"' Tho. Vernon & Mr. Mainwaring, wherby 
John lawrence is oblig'd to pay 20' for hims' his wife & two 
daughters & 40' p' of Tho. Millingtons fine being in all ;!f 25. 
whereof^2o. for his house, £,^. as Constable, only 10. is layd 
on him, for w* they took cheese & y° rest on others, W"* Benyon 
of Whicks. £,2>- Arthur Hinks 30' Joseph Higginson. 40^ &c. 

22. I heard of y° Distress made upon Mr. Berry for teaching 
& praying at Th. Mil. ;^2o. whereas hee sayd not one word but 
w' hee sayd in pray', they took 10. p' of sheets, 10. dishes, Bookes, 
two Beds, whereof one that which hee lay upon, with several other 
th. & made Procl. on Sab. day in 3. churches to invite people to buy. 

Addresse sent to the K. from q' sess. in Salop oppos'd by S'' 
Ed. Acton, another from Major of Shrewsb. but in Chesh. none, 
Col. Dan. saying hee knew what belong'd to Dressing & Un- 
dressing but not to Addressing. $ 

25. Edw. Wilk. & Thom. Pemb. & Rande churt. being y' 
High. Const. & Overs, brought a warr' under y° hands of Will- 
Hanm' & Th. Hanm' Esq. to distreyn upon mee for ,,^40 for 
Weston business & upon Math, for 5' for being assembled on y"' 

* This parable is equally suitable for the English Church in 1881. While 
the pure Word of God is preached and the sacraments are duly administered 
by a lawfully ordained ministry, we are to remember that "the ark of God is 
still in the midst of the camp," and that it "will not be moved." 

t " Thy judgments are like a great deep." In the "Pilgrim's Progress" 
the conversation between Ignorance and Christian shows the great experience 
of the writer, who was not deceived because the man of the world has often 
110 bands in his death, while the saint sometimes walks in darkness. 

% The king had set out a declaration, in which he reckoned up all the hard 
and undutiful things that had been done by the three last Parliaments, but 
assured his good subjects that nothing should ever alter his affection to the 
Protestant religion, as established by law, nor his love to Parliaments, etc. This 
declaration raised over England a humour of making addresses to the king, as 
it were in answer to it. Many of those who brotight these up were knighted 
upon it ; and all were well treated at court. Lord Halifax could not restrain 
himself from showing his contempt of it in a saying that was much repeated ; 
he said, "The petitioners for a parliament spit in the king's face, but the 
addressers spit in his mouth " (Burnet, i. 501, fol.). 



302 PHILIP HENRY. 

1 6. of June with others at W[estdn] the distress & Sale to bee made 
on y' 25. of July — T. P. went into y° feilds, saw 6. Kine y", chargd 
E. W. & R. C. with them & went his way, they stay'd a consider- 
able time waiting his return, hee returning not, they went away, in 
their absence wee fetcht y° Kine away & lockt them up, about 12. 
a clock, after 3. houres absence hee came, brought John Stocton 
& his son & y'''' cart John Sim son & his son & Randle Stocton, 
w" hee press'd from their occasions to assist him (concer. which 
neither Act nor Warrant sayes noth.) finding -f Kine gone, hee 
chid tow. E. W. they went to B. to Mr. W. H. who threatned 
E. W. with imprisonm' & a Fine (for his wilful neglect) of £,'~j. 
note, the day in y° warr' is mistaken, 16 for 14. 

26. newes from Salop Assize y' -f K. had sent to y" Judges not 
to put the lawes in execution agt Protestant Dissenters, but that 
liis pleasure was they should bee left to his mercy. A sudden 
change, like that in Esther, which wee are reading this week in 
the Family, sic parvis componere magna sdlemus. 

27. Kine & horses in feild again, not secure, but wee are 
wayting upon y° lord, his wil bee done ; Kindness from Jon. Ta. 
&L Ro. Th. & Sam. — all concern'd in present trouble, w'''' God wil 
recompence. 

25. The Indulgence spoken of by y' Judges was only with 
ref to y" execution of y" Act of 35. Eliz. 

29. Friends Sympathising with us in our p'sent feares, blessed 
bee God — bene agere et male pati vere Christianum est Three 
eldest children went to see Relations in Cheshire, the good lord 
preserve y'" from y° lusts & vanityes of youth. 

31. abs. Sab. B. a poor barren fig-tree, deserving to bee cutt 
down. 

Aug. I. I acqu. Mr. T. H. with my doubts concer. proceed- 
ings in present distress but the stream is strong y" other way. Our 
Smal dairy, to begin with, broken up, the Kine scatterd several 
wayes. How oft have wee sayd are not changes at y' door ! God 
bee prais'd it hath no sting. 

4. another \Varrant sign'd by y" two Mr. H' amended in 
changing y° day, leaving out charges, no time limited for y" force 
of it, w" part had must bee payd to y" Shropsh. Justices. 

8. Tho. Pemerten & Johiv Yong came early to execute it. 



PHILIP HENRY.' 303 

but found notli. in y° feilds & y" House doors shut, searcht y" 
Outhouses & took an Inventory of w' y"' saw, stay'd til near 11. 
clock, & return'd re infecta. Winter Corn out of Key Nants & 
Turf h. croft carry'd in, some by night, it did not use to bee so. 
tow. Midnight they return'd again, to fetch w' y"^ left, partic. 4. 
heifers, but they were otherwise dispos'd of, by a special Provi- 
dence, before ; they intended also to have watcht y' first opening 
of y" House doors in y° morning & so to have rush'd in, but in 
that too were prevented — Wee are beholden to our Fr'^ yea & to 
our enemyes for warning given, but especi. & above all to our 
good God. 

10. Pari' sitting about y'" time in Scotl. chancelor Rothes 
dyed, several lords abjur'd y° Coven'. D. of y. there, Pr. of Orange 
iit London. 

JSfov. 28. John Roberts told mee, hee saw a Boy of 18. y. old 
but very little, with his feet on y ground, bend so far backward as 
to take up fowr pins stuck upon the ground with his Eye-lids, two 
in one & two in t'other. The Boy was at my door this day for an 
Almes. Mr. Roswel a N.C. found guilty of Treasonable words 
but not condemn' d. Mr. Best fin'd _;^iooo. & stood in y" Pillory 
for drinking a health to y° pious memory of his Friend Stephen 
CoUedge. Richard Jackson y' son of Farmer Jackson of Ash 
shot hims^ into y" head with a pistol & dy'd immediately at yong 
Mr. Starkeys house near Hodnet, whether volens or nolens 
appeares not — bury'd this day. Dec. 4. about 18. y. old is prentice 
to a Gunsmith in Whitch. whose name is Robinson. One sus- 
pected to have done it, but agt his wil, is bound over to y° Assize. 

25. Daughter Eleanor continues under y° quartan Ague since 
Sept. 9. not missing once, lord, weaken y' disease & strengthen y' 
nature & pardon & kil sin in her & us. 

24. was bury'd Mr. Zech. Cawdrey* Min' of Bart[homley] in 
Chesh'' a worthy moderate Divine, for his Moderation much 
•clowded of late, though formerly a great sufferer, his Book of 
Preparation for Martyrdom gave great Offence, as also his Zeal in 
keeping up the monthly lecture at Nantwych & Tarvin. 

* Henry Newcome was his pupil. " I was admitted," he says, "in the very 
heat of the wars, May loth, 1644, of St. John's College in Cambridge, pupil to 
that ingenuous, learned, and pious man Mr. Zachary Cawdrey, fellow of that 
collesre. " 



304 PHILIP HENRY. 

After some time of fayr open weather, a great mercy, now frost 
& snow which threatens, if continued, Fodder being very scarce. 

June 2 1, was bury'd my good Friend Mrs. Whitehal of AVhitch. 
sister to Mr. Broughton of Broughton a pious gentlewoman, of 
exemplary meekness & patience under long & sore tryals. 

24. was bury'd Mr. Joshua Barnett formerly of Ironbridge, 
lately preacher in Chesh. who marry'd Mrs. Cowper, widow, of 
Weni & now a widow the second time. 

July. 4. dy'd at Chester Mr. William Cook, an aged, painful, 
faithful Min'' of J. X'. his sickness cut short & easy, his Death 
sweet & comfortable; 

12. to Randle Stocton two dayes pay, at his going forth to 
Bangor to trayn. 2 2. fowr dayes pay more at his going to meet \' 
D. of Beaufort* John Green's mayd at Fens Kild with a Cow's 
horn goring her in y° Throat — shee liv'd 4. dayes. 

Sam. Hughs at Salop Assize condemn'd for stealing a mare 
but favor'd to bee transported. A fire at Salop in Kil lane in a 
stable, one Roger Evans burn'd to death, in -f Assize week there. 
A mayd living incontinently with her M' & they agreeing to poyson 
y' M" she was condemn'd to bee burn'd & hee to hang in 
chaines. 30. a very quick harvest — our winter corn all in. 

Aug. 7. was bury'd my dear Friend & Kinsm" W" Bennett, 
his wife was bury'd in y" Spring-Assize-week, & hee in y^ summer 
Assize-week — aged. 71 — a Jacob in prayer, gi-eat miss of such — 
his natural temper hasty & fearful, which betray'd him to some 
miscarriages both tow. God & man, but this was eminent in him 
y' w" offence was given to either, hee could not rest or sleep til 
reconciliation made. Of late hee hath e'xpress'd prevayling doubts 
& feares touching his sincerity & Salvation, but in his sickness hee 
told mee they were all gone. 

Sept. 3. Upon Saturday last dy'd at london Mrs. Deborah 
church, wife to Mr. James Church, daughter to my good Friend 
Joseph Ridgway of Shockl. a holy gracious good woman, finisht 
well, as was signify'd by letter from Mr. Thomas Taylor Min' of 

* Heniy Somerset, Marquis of Worcester, and in 1682 created Duke of 
Beaufort, did not make his grand progress tlirough the Welsh Marches until 
1684. In the year 1672 he was apijointed Lord President and Lord-Lieutenant 
of North and South Wales and the Marches, and held the office till 1688-89, 
when he was succeeded by Charles Gerard, Karl of Macclesfield. 



PHILIP HENRY. 305 

y" Gosp. who was with her in her sickness — Praysed bee God I 
laudandus Deus in Sanctis. 

In y" Flash in y° higher Feild next to W" Kirkam, seeking for 
firwood, wee found a strait Oke 16. yards long,* besides y" two 
ends left in the ground, of considerable Bulk, cloven into Bars for 
gates. 9. foot long. 

18. William Hughs of Bron. bury'd, the 23* in that Township 
since this time 12. month. 

26. To Felton, to y° Interm' of my dear & precious Freind 
Mr. Jonathan Roberts a true Nathaniel, an Israelite indeed. His 
Brother Timothy in y° Plague year dy'd & was bury'd in y' 
high way at Ness clyff three miles off, none taking him into 
House, because hee came from london, a learned faithful Min"" 
of J. C. 

Sicut piscis ad hamum, ubi vitam quserimus sjepe mortem 
invenimus. 

My dear Brother Jonathan before mentioned, for 3. weekes 
before hee sickned had drunk water, to prevent infection by 
y" Smal Pocks having never had them, & at y° 3. weekes end 
immediately upon his drinking a draught of malt drink at Osw. 
betwixt that & Felton became not wel, went cold, as in an Ague 
& so continued, without burning & sweating as is usual for 10. 
dayes, & then dy'd, with comfort in his non-conformity & with 
confidence of a return of mercy in Gods due time. Hee had bin 
at Oxf Cambr. & london this summer, where hee heard & saw 
that w* much confirm'd him in his dissents, leiftenant Williams 
of llangoUen in Denb. having layn in prison some time upon the 
\vrit de excom. cap. was sick & had favor by y" B"" to return home 
awhile & dy'd & after 10. dayes lying in y° church yard was, by 
Commissary Edwards order, taken up & bury'd by his Friends in 
his garden. Having no Coffin,t it was y" more offensive to y' 
sexton, who fel sick upon it. 

Fowr th. given in charge by B"" Barlow of lincoln to Mr. 

* In the Fens Moss, hard by, which is reckoned twelve miles round, such 
finds are not uncommon, and still more frequently the charred stump of a large 
tree, showing how Edward I. cleared the country before him when invading 
Wales. 

+ Coffins and tombstones, as in common usage now, are modern. See 
J. H. Burn's " History of Parish Registers" {fassim). 

X 



306 PHILIP HENRY. 

Kelsolo at his remove from Cheswardin to Quarrington— i. to 
look to his Conversacon that 'twere accord, to his Doctr. 2. Not 
to quarrel with his Parishioners for smal matters in Tiths. 3. 
to carry it mildly tow. dissenters. 4. to Catechise y° youth. 

Oct. r. was bury'd at london worthy Mr. Andr. Parsons, for- 
merly Min'' of Wem. the same day dy'd here Thomas Morgan of 
this Town, wel at Chapel three dayes before, lord teach us to 
Number. My Daughter Eleanor afflicted for more then three 
weekes past with a quartan Ague ; lord, cease this controversy. 

I have several times observ'd, when my Purse hath been low 
& empty, seasonable supplyes have come, by special Providence. 
L[aus] D[eo.] 

Oct. 3. Mr. Tallent's Tables of History came forth about this 
time, a work of much labor & cost. I read one which hee 
bestow'd on mee, with fowr more to bee dispos'd of as wee can. 
— One of them he order'd for Cos. Benyon. 

Oct. 16. I receiv'd the tidings of old Ann Davis death & was 
y° next day at her Buryal at Worthenb. in transitu, where I have 
not been these many yeares — shee was aged 86. y., blind, but had 
her memory good. A sickly season stil, many snatcht away old 
&yong. 22. Mr. Tilston Bruen * of Stapleford. many in trouble 
at London & elsewhere both ministers and others. Job. 10. 2. 
I sayd, 6 lord doe not condemn us, shew us wherfore thou 
contendest with us. — About this time a daughter was born at 
Broughton to Mr. John Whitehal, who marry'd S' Andrew Racket's 
daughter and had the Reversion of Broughton estate settled upon 
him. S' Roger Puleston also lately marry'd to Mrs. Kath. Edwards 
of chirk, settling at Emeral. lord let these two Familyes bee 
like the two Familyes of Ephraim & Manassee which tlie lord did 
bless. Cosin Benyon at london in the use of means for health 
& recovery, which God make effectual, that his Age may not 
pass away in restraynt & uselessness. 

Nov. 17. Meeting at Malpas, claym layd to y" Pew, belonging 

* The Bruen family gave their name to a Cheshire manor, showing thereby 
their extreme antiquity. They were probably descended from Brwyn (a son 
of Cunedda Wledig) in the fifth century, and the house called the Brunett in 
llanmer marks their tenure in the Welsh March, from whence they were 
driven by Llewelyn. In Ormerod's " Cheshire " there is reference made to the 
saintly life of Mr. John Bruen, of whom a memoir was written in 1641. 



PHILIP HENRY. 307 

to Isc. tenem' by y° Ratcl. for lord cholmley, noth. done. Mr. 
lloyd sayes it was his. 

Aug. 29. This day Mr. Pem. & Jo. y. came again w* y° same 
warrant as before & distraynd upon y" Coles, y° Hay, -f Muck-Cart, 
and wheels, the great Slead, & -f Feild of Barley, hee distrayned 
also upon y° Tith-Corn in y" old Barn, & would fayn have gone 
into Y great Barn but was prevented. In the afternoon they 
came again & to make sure distraynd again on the same th. 
the second time. Hee brought also a Avarrant to y° Constables 
of Isc[oyd] to take charge of y"" Goods distraynd on and to watch 
them night & day til such time as they should bee remov'd ; 
which they did accordingly, warning in divers of y° neighb"^ for 
that purp. by tAvo & two, night & day, all that week from 
Munday til Saturday. (The Constables were Tho. Morgan, Mr. 
Jenings' Tenant at y" Wych, & John Ratcliff, our own Tenant 
at Isc. Green.) Note, notwithst their watching in the lane wee 
might have secur'd y° Coles, & the Cart, & -f wheeles, and y" slead, 
& w' wee had pleased of y" Hay, but wee did not. Sept. i. 
being Thursday, they began to carry; the gate next y° lane 
being lockt & they not desiring to have it opened, it put them 
to y'' more Trouble. From y^ lower Hay-bay & Tavelett they 
pitcht it & carry'd it on Pikehils to y° Carts, Six Teames carry'd 
it away, to Mr. Yong's of Croxton. Mr. Will. Hanm" Team 
carryd y° first load, being as was supposed about 14. hundred, 
(Hay scarce this year ; Wid. Payn present sayd, she chad given 
30° for about y° like quantity a few dayes before) John Davyes, 
James Higginbotam, Tho. Madocks. each of y" 12. hundred, Tho. 
Woods & Benyon's together — about 10. hundred — in all six load, 
being 60. hundred. The pitchers & Carryers were Griffith Jones 
John Cartwright, John Roberts, Craven Clutton, Rodenhurst — 
•svho were promis'd 12'' a peice. In y° Afternoon three of 
y™ came again & carry'd each of them a load of Coles, viz. Mr. 
ff Davy's & Higginbotams, valu'd y" first to 13' 4'' y^ other to 
10' apeice, being great loads. Also 4. other load by 4. Teames 
press'd for y° purp. upon the Road in y" King's name, Mr. Pem. 
shewing them the old warrant with two hands & seales, wherein 
not a word mentioning any such power given to him, which 
frightned them to doe it. Fran. Clark's. Wid. of Bangor, "\Vil. 



308 PHILIP HENRY. 

HoUoway. Rich. Booth, valu'd one with another to f 6" or 8^ 
each load. Sept. 2. They sett in to carry y" Barley out of y' Oak- 
feild (Twas leyes, four times plow'd & sow'd with 20. measures. 
John Hall by Mr. Pem. order puld the Hay,) Thornes away from 
y° Gap under the Broad-Oke* at which the Teames entred, carrying 
that day, Humphr. Swanwick's, John Philips' of y' feilds, John 
Prideon's of y° Wych, Edw. Dewy's & Tho. Hognett's, each of them 
two loads to Mr. Yong's Barn at Croxton— Y" rakers were, John 
Hal, John Roberts, Grif Jones, John lloyd, Wil. Simson, John 
Williams, Roger Gonsh. Roger Fox, Edw. Owen's son. The After- 
noon three Teames from Orton having bin at Whitch. with Pigs of 
Iron were press'd as before in their return & carry'd each of them 
a load of Coles, valu'd one with another to 6" 8* apeice. one of theni 
was named Edw. Roberts, the other two would not tell their names. 

Sept. 3. made an end. Croxton's Team, & John Philips' & 
Luke Row's, carry'd each of them a load of Barley, my neighbor 
Ralph Nixon carry'd a load, j}t of Hay & ^t of Barley — my 
neighb' John Simson carry'd a load of Coles, John Yong another. 
Croxton another, & Wil. Jarvis another. The wheeles were carr}-'d 

by , the Tumbrel Draughts & Slead by Mr. Tho. Hanmer's- 

Team of y" Fenns. In all 24. Teames. 12. Assistants. In Octob. 
following they began to thresh the barley, having sold it to 
Mr. Fairbrace a malster near Orton at the rate of 3^ jj measure, 
as wee hear, only 2'' ^ meas. to bee allowed for his fetching- 
it. About the time w" they began Mr. Wil. Yong owner of 
Croxton-house cutt his own Throat near london. About the 
middle of Novemb. they made an end, tis sayd there was 11 S. 
meas. besides the light corn, which was not a little. 

Nov. 14. Mr. Mainwaring's Kill of Ightfeild was burnt, with 
considerable loss. 

\Apr. 16. 82. Mr. Witherings dy'd. The Barley was sold to 
Mr. Fairgrace of Orton, the straw to Ja. Higginbot., Tho. Philip> 
the Hay, Mr. W. H. of Bettisf. the Coles, S' J. H. the wheeles ; 
Tumbrel, & slead Rich. Pova.] 

Sept. 19. began Flint Assize, where Wilkinson's business was 
lieard & hee entred his Traverse. Mr. Wil. Hanmer being Forc- 

* This seems to identify tho site of the great tree, which must have been nt 
-Ihe opening where three roads meet, and a younger oak is now growing. 



PHILIP HENRY. 509 

TOan of y° Grand Jury presented lady Houghton & her daughter 
Mrs. Dymock for not coming to Church for a Twelve-month &: 
Tho. Pemerton the high Constable presented Wil. Turner for not 
coming to the Sacram' & Wil. Benet & Mary Cartvvr. for not 
coming to divine service & mee for Keeping a Conventicle at my 
house & for saying the law agt conventicles was not to be obey'd, 
& that there is never a word of God &c. in it. If all this was done 
without malice (accord, as the oath taken expresses) let God, who 
knowes pfectly for hee searches the heart, bee judge ! 

Sept. 26. I mett Cos. Madocks at Alkintn where wee view'd 
.& priz'd Mr. Maiden's Bookes, which came to about £,2i,. 

Sept. 27. I went to Osw[estry] where discourse was had with 
B" lloyd & Mr. Dodwel by Mr. Jonathan Roberts, Mr. James Owen, 
■& mys'* concer. our Ordination by Presbyters, without a Diocesan 
B", which wee endeavoured to justify. It continued from betw. 
2. & 3. til 7. & 8. at night in y° Town-hall — W" I disir'd to bee 
excus'd from concer. mys' at that time & in those circumstances, 
.being of another Diocess, hee sayd, it was the common cause of 
iReligion & I must concern mys^ 

On the Thursday following I receiv'd a letter from him to 
desire mee to meet him at Wr[exham] on Friday, which I did, where 
discourse past to the same purpose, but hee no better satisfyed 
with my Argiiings than I with his. Hee sayd hee did not look 
upon mee as o-;^t(r/iaTtKos but only as Tra.paa-vva.yoiyo's. And that if 
I were in his Diocess, hee did not question, but hee should find 
out some way to make mee useful. Many reports past far and 
near concer. this Conference ; for my own part upon reflection I 
find, I have great reason to bee asham'd of my manifold infir- 
inityes & imperfections, & yet doe bless God, that seeing I could 
manage it no better to doe the Truth more service, there was not 
imore sayd & done to its disservice, to God bee glory. 

Dec. 29. I sent 55" to Cos. Jane Higginson, by order from 
Cos. Rich. Hotchkis, which Cos. Darrack was cozen'd of by a 
Counterfeit letter in my name by S. P. 

15. Receiv'd from Mr. Ralph Weldf of Wrexh. being a legacy 

* Full particulars of this discussion are given in Sir John ^VilIiams's " Life 
.of Philip Henry." 

t The Welds had married with the Wohyches, Lady Puleston's family. 



3 1 PHILIP HENR \ : 

left to mee by his Uncle Mr. Ralph Weld my good Friend, who 

dyed this summer past — ■£,^. . i6. Philip Bickley went 

towards london, I gave him 2' 6'' & for y" 3. 10. o. which I owe 
him, hee was desirous it should remayn stil in my hands, y° lord 
bless him & keep him from evil, esp. from the evil. 

23. Reed from Mrs. Aldersey £,1. to pay for Cos. Bosyer's 
Grave stone, it cost 42^ I return'd £,2.. (of w' shee sent) back 
again, it being equal that I should bear the one half with her. 

Dec. 2. 81. Dr. John Roan B" of Killaloo in Ireland imtes 
in these words to his Bro"' Richard — you writt to mee that there 
was some dispute betwixt the B" of S' Asaph & some Pres- 
byterian Min" concer. that point of Reordination. B" Bromhal, 
our late Primate, did, as I conceive, make use of such a way as 
could not well be rejected by any dissenter that desired the peace 
of the church & brought in many of y" as I wel know ; If Mr. 
Henry please to consult his Book & therein in the narrative of 
his hfe hee may find what was the tenor of his letters of Orders, 
one instance is as followeth — non annihilantes priores Ordines 
(si quos habuit) nee validitatem aut invaliditatem eorundem deter- 
minantes, multo mintis omnes Ordines sacros Eccleslarii forinsecarii 
condemnantes quos proprio Judici relinquimus sed solummodb 
supplentes quicquid prius defuit per Canones Ecclesire Anglicane 
requisitum et providentes pad Ecclise ut Schismatis tollatur occasio 
. et conscientiis fidelium satisfiat nee ullo modo dubitent de ejus 
ordinatione aut actus suos presbyteriales tanquam invalidos aver- 
sentur. In cujus rei Testimonium &c If this might be obser^''d, 
I understand not what ground of scruple might bee left them. 

Ego T. P. Art[ium] Magpster] et. curat. Ecclise parochiaUs de 
T. in Comit. Cestr. prsetensas meas Ordinationum literas h qui- 
busdam Presbyteris olim obtentas jam penitus renuncio et dimitto 
pro vanis, humiliter supplicans quatenus Rev. in X*" pater et D'" 
D"' Georg. Permissione divina Cestr. Episc. me ad sacrum Dia- 
conatuS Ordinem juxta morem et ritus Ecclesise Anglicane digna- 
retur Admittere. A.D. 1662. 

Jan. 5. 168J. I went to Hampton Post concer. y" Seat in y'^ 
South side of Malpas church belonging to Iscoyd Tenem' chal- 
leng'd by y° Ratcliffs, where I discours'd with Mr. Adams steward 



PHILIP HENR Y. 3 1 1 

to y' yong lord Cholmley & propos'd (to silence all future 
disputes about it, which have lasted, as some alive remember by 
fits, these 50. y.) that it might bee divided, I to have the one 
Moity, the other, either to Mullock's house or y° Bank house, as 
lord Cholmley y° landlord should appoint, accord, to w* agreem' 
it was so entred in the Church book (a draught of y° whole 
in Parchm' being designed, as a record for future) & I payd to 
John Bostock y° late churchwarden seven shillings, being y" one 
Moity of what it was charg'd with for y° wainscoting of it. The 
same day was buryed old Thomas Nixon of the Hen-vayes at 
Malpas, Mr. Brookes preacht. Phil. i. 21. to dye is gain. 

16. I went to Chester, my son Mathew w"* mee, though some 
danger by reason of wind & water, at the invitation of B"" W. 
lloyd of S' Asaph, with w" I discoursed in his chamber several 
howrs concer. many th. in difference, but after all am not ^swaded 
to be reordayned & to conform. The Min"* in Chester are at 
l^resent restrayn'd from meeting so publiquely as heretofore, the 
B"" Dr. Peirson moderate, also y° Mayor & Recorder, Mainwaring 
& Williams, but 

18. a dead child found in S' Johns church-y. under a heap > 
of stones, the Mother soon discover'd & confess'd — aftenv. 
executed. There have been 6. or 7. executed at Chester, the two 
last Assises for this Wickedness, three for one child, the Father, 
the Mother & the Grand-mother. Great harm done this week by 
Flouds both of Dee & Severn ; also by the Wind in divers 
places — warnings, warnings. Feb. 2. I cancel'd my Bond for 
^60. to Sister Ann, putting ;^2o. to Mary Prob" Sr ^£'40. to 
Francis Probart & taking Bond from them to her use. So that 
now I am in bonds to no one nor no one in Bonds to mee y' I 
know of, which was more then I could say these two & twenty 
yeares. Old Dan Kempster of Alkinton dy'd this last month, as 
did also, soon after him, his two sons Daniel & William, the one 
often reckoning what hee would doe when his Father was dead, but 
liv'd to doe nothing. An ancient woman in Whitch. nam'd 
Margt. Ashton poysond hers' with Arsenick, aged 85. 

Feb. 1 2. being Sabb. at 8. at night, Squire Thyn * was kild in 

* Evelyn writes, March 10, 1682: "This day was executed Coll. Vvrats, 
and some of his accomplices for the execrable murder of Mr. Thynn, set on 



312 PHILIP HENRY. 

pel mel, coming out of his coach by Forrainers as is sayd hir'd to 
doe it by Count Conigsniark, his Rival for y" lady Ogle, daughter 
to y" E. of NoTthumb. now in Holland, three were taken Mar. 3. 
News came y' y° Count was acquitted & y° 3 condemned — 
marryd in May to y" Duke of Somersett. 

13. wee found 16. old pigeons dead in the pigeon house, wee- 
think poyson'd, Sam. Moyl said on Thursday Mar. 9. in the 
hearing of W"" Robarts & mine that hee would take a Course 
with them for eating his Fitches. Thou, lord, seest ! hee acknow- 
ledg'd hee had done it & would doe it again. The law takes 
Cognizance of such matters but I forbear to complain, lest y" 
remedy bee worse than y° disease & because I trust in God. 23. 
Hugh Dyas bury'd, Elis. Morton dy'd, the longest in dying that 
ever I saw or knew any. 29. Cos. Dan. Hotchkis d/d, by 
whose Death wee have one life the less in the lease of Brereton's 
Croft & might have had also in Orton's lease if God in his 
Providence had not order'd otherwise. 30. This day I payd 
^6. to Mr. Catheral Schoolm"' of Hanmer, due in January was 
twelvemonth, &: took his acquittance, I receiv'd it yesterday of 
Randle Key by order of Mr. John lloyd of Willington, being y' 
Interest of ;!^ioo. which Mr. Jenings gave, for securing of w''' 
Horsmas Tenem' is in Morgage. Hee owes yet for the last year 
ending in Jan. last. I gave Randle Key an Acquittance, Cos. 
luke lloyd is concern'd with mee, but acts not. Apr. i. Stuff suit 
& Cloth Cote for Math. £\. 9, o. 

1682. May. 5. Mr. John Kynaston of lee. Barrister at law, 

going homewards in the evening from Hanmer Hal was kild by a 

Fall off his horse upon the Rowrey, near to Tho. Yang's house. 

To Jo. Wil. for mending y° Causey to y° turf-bank belonging to 

Tenem' on Isc. green, my ^jit. i" 6", pt.ners Mr. Deaves & John 

Wyn. — May 6. the D. of York narrowly escap'd drowning in his 

passage from london to Scotland,* many of the Passengers tliat 

were with him were drown'd ; some say 200. others 250. 

liy the Konigsmarlc. . . . Never man went so unconcerned for his sad fate.'' 
There is a marble monument in Westminster Abbey, south aisle of the choir 
)iourtraying the scene of the murder. 

* "The duke had leave given him to come to the king at Newmarket ; 
and there he prevailed for leave to come uji again and live at court. As he 
was going back to bring the duchess, the Gloucester frigate that carried him 
struck on a bank of sand" (Burnet, i. 523, fol,). The bishop .says that .1 



PHILIP HENRY. 313 

May. 1 7. George Richardson an old man was drown'd in a 
•ditch near y" Twimleys, going over a foot-bridg with a smal 
burthen of stickes on his back which caught in an Owler bough 
bended for a rayl & pul'd him backward, as was suppos'd. Many 
{)sons in trouble up & down y' nation, meetings disturb'd, divers 
imprison'd upon writs de excomm. cap. 6: lord God, cease I 
beseech y°^ S'' William Jones* dy'd in this month, a zealous 
stickler agt popery & about ye succession. B^ Bridgmanf dy'd in 
this month, B" of Man, Dean of Chester, Praebend of York, 
Parson of Bangor Orton, Worthenbury, Barrow, &c. Hee had a 
son born a little before his Death, named, William John Henry 
Bridgman, his own, y" E. of Derby's & the B" of Chesters 
Prsenomina— dy'd in December following. 

Mr. Church (to w'" his Grandf. lately left a considerable estate, 
near ;^i6oo.) sent ;Qi- to bee given by mee to poorMin". given 
accordingly to Mr. Taylor. 20' to Mr. Roberts 20^ to Mr. Owen 
20'. 

22. The last week one David Griffith of Tilstock being de- 
prehended in the stealing of some sheep near Didlisson, & having 
sold y"" at Drayton, as was suppos'd in fear of further prosecution, 
poyson'd hims' & dy'd after much purging & vomiting on y° 18. 
instant. 

24. Mr. Hanmer's second son Thomas of the Fenn dy'd 

after 3 dayes sickness, as was supposed by the Measils — the lord 

sanctify y" sudden stroke to y° Father & to y° Family — bury'd 

Jim. 25. Jun. 5. my worthy dear Friend, Mr. Sam. Jones Min'. of 

liundred and fifty persons perished, and he reflects strongly upon the in- 
humanity of the Duke of York. Lord Dartmouth says the duke would not 
leave the ship till pressed to do so several times by the captain ; he then 
"ordered a strong box to be lifted into the boat, which, besides being 
extremely weighty, took up a great deal of time as well as room. My father 
asked him with some warmth, if there was anything in it worth a man's life ; 
to which he replied there were things of so great consequence both to the 
king and himself, that he would hazard his own rather than it should be lost. " 

* Sir William Jones summed up the evidence against Lord Stafford. 
Burnet had been required to give up his friendship as a condition of court 
favour. He was a very learned man. 

t This was PhiUp Henry's former opponent, with respect to whom he 
seems afterwards to have thought that he could not then have done otherwise 
than he did. Dr. Henry Bridgman was appointed to Bangor Monachorum 
in 1640, and Mr. Fogg was his chaplain during the Commonwealth. See 
Appendix. 



314 PHILIP HENRY. 

X' in Glamorgan-shire came to see mee, with w'" I had y" sweet 
converse of a few howres, which was sweet indeed, 6: what wil 
it bee w" wee meet together & no corruption or darkness cleaving 
to us, in y" presence of our Father, to J5t no more. Jime. 25. 
Mr. Brooks preacht at chapel two bitter sermons, after the first it 
was wonderd I would come to hear the second, but though hee 
doth not know his Duty, I thank God, I know mine &: can gather 
Honey from a dead carkass. July, i. endeavours to out Mr. 
Rich. Catheral from being School-M''. of Hanmer & to put in Mr. 
John Burroughs, a Certificate subscrib'd to that purp. by the cheif 
of y" Parish. 

6. a most dreadful night of Thunder & lightning, but no 
hurt done that I hear of, blessed bee God ! two oxen kild near 
Orton. a Barn burnt near Sturbr. Contests at london concer. y° 
choyce of new Sheriffs, the Mayor claymes a power of nominatuig 
one, which is deny'd him, the old sheriffs committed to y° Tower, 
Shute & Pilkinton ; out again upon Bayl. Papillon & Du Boys 
after several Polls chose before North & Box by several Hundreds 
— 10. I went with Math. tow. Prestw. in Staff, near Sturbr. lodg'd 
at Hales at Mr. Woodh. dropt a handful of seed. Pro. 14. 9. lord 
bless. II. to Prestw. safe and wel, to God bee glorj-. Madam 
Foley lyes in of a Daughter named Penelope — I was there w° shee 
lay in of her eldest daughter & not since til now. Mr. H. & his 
lady & Mis Betty there — A good & great Family wel order'd, 
would there were more such. 

1 2. to Swinver. & Sturbr. saw y° Hospital, y° gift of Mr. Tho. 
Foley, a noble Foundacon. 60. childr. taught for Prentices — saw 
Mr. Wilsby an aged N.C., weak. 13. to Bridgn. saw ■Mr. John 
Nevet & his wife & mother (Mrs. Baker first, Mrs. Hill last) a 
sister of Mr. Th. Foley, with a Family of Daughters, w'" God bless ! 

14. pr. /i. 31. 15. home by Enf [ield]. saw my old Friends 
Mr. Hen. Grey & his wife childless— y" first House I lay in in 
y'' Countrey in my way from Oxf. in Sept. 1653.-16. pr. lam. 
3. 26. heard D' Ford Min' of Swinford — my Acqu. in Oxf. hec 
Censor, I an undergrad. hee then a Roundh. I a Cavaleir, as y" 
names of Distinction then were, now contrL 1 7. to Rushal near 
AValsal to Mr. Hen. leigh. 

1 8. home in peace & all avcI there, to God bee ( ;iory ! 



PHILIP HENRY. 315 

July. 9. one Wood of Arcal Parish, aged 60. Kild his 
wife aged 85. with a blow on her neck with a Pestle — they had 
quarreld about some moneyes & a bed, try'd & acquitted, as dis- 
tracted. 

17. one Hanka of Orton, a poor man, often at the door 
begging on Horseback being lame, hang'd hims'. 

Mr. Steele & his wife with us in whose company wee were 
refresht. as were also many more, how sweet is Heaven, where 
are all Saints and those ^fect & none but such. 

3. I promised Ralph Nixon that Tho. Merrick should re- 
move from Roger's Back-house after a month from this day, hee 
was unwilling hee should come in, though Mr. H. desir'd it, I 
told him, hee did a worse th. at his desire the last year. 

Atcg. 5. Sat. in y° Even, riiy dear wife was not wel, the first 
Sympt. of a Feaver did then appear ; that night shee bum'd but 
slept. 

6. Sab. she was pretty wel & below stayres but slept little 
that night. 

7. Mund. D' Brereton came to her (a special providence 
that hee was in -f Country). 

8. Tuesd. shee was refresht, gott up and walkt about Y 
chamber & rested pretty well at night. 9. Wed. shee was in 
patient sweet frame all -f day ; though often saying, sick, sick,, 
never so sick, yet by & by, now I am better, the lord is good & 
doth good. 

10. Th. shee sayd, I repent of all my sins esp. of my un- 
profitableness under y° meanes of grace, which God forgive in 
X' Jesus & I know Death cannot hurt me, I wil endeavor to keep 
my eye upon ray Christ & my Crown. 

11. Fr. 7. a clock, shee shook & was chil for about half an 
hour, then burn'd & sweat, often saying sick, sick — at night 
refreshed. 

12. Sat. abetter day. many prayers made by Friends for 
us, lord, hear & have mercy : 

13. Sab. about 4. a clock in y" morning y° Fitt return'd, 
D'' Brereton (lodgd in y° House) rose then. 

14. Mund. shee was pretty wel but weak, left all other 
meanes but a little Dioscordium at night to help sleep. 



3l6 PHILIP HENRY. 

15. Tuesd. the Fitt began about y" same time in y' mom. 
& continii'd after the same manner, shee sate up a good ^t of 
y° aftern. 18. Fr. should have been her better day but prov'd 
otherwise, feares return'd, but God had mercy, the night following 
shee slept well til about midnight, about which time shee began 
to bee cold for one hour, then burn'd another, then sweat another, 
then slept &: was refreshed. 19. Sat. she sate up all day & was 
chearful. wee heard of the death of old Aunt Aldersey, Grand- 
mother to Cosin Robert Bosyer, who dy'd yesterday morning at 
AVollarton. 

20. Sab. my wife being up in the chamber heard -f Sermons 
from below & the word was sweet to her ; had an easy Fitt ) ' 
night following about midnight. It may be the lord wil please 
to look upon us & to grant us a Repreive. 21. Mund. a better 
day, that night wee slept together again, the first night after a 
fortnight's separation, to God bee glory ! 22. Tuesd. not well 
but better than other ill dayes. 23. I went to Bo[reatton] 
the occasion extraordinary, else I should not have left my dear 
wife in her present circumstances, a mind to discourse lord 
Paget & Mr. Swinfen. concer. publique affayres, by them both I 
imderst. no hope but upwards. 

7. Mr. Tho. Bridge * Min"" of y" higher Parsonage of Malpas 
near 58. y. aged 82 y. was bury'd this day. Mr. Green preacht 
Text. I Tim. i. 16. told what he had declared to him in a late 
fit which hee had concer. his Repentance ; towards his later end 
very charitable, a taking, popular, good preacher, preacht often & 
to the last, could read y" smallest print without spectacles, haviny; 
us'd glasses in private ever since 40. 

Aug. 24. now twenty years since wee have bin lamenting after 
y° lord, in the want of publique liberty to preach "S? everlasting 
Gosp. 

25. Mr. O. & Mr. J. with mee at Bo. expecting a congress 
with B. 11. I advised it rather by writing. 

* He died aged ciglity-two, having been rector nearly fifty-eight years. ^V 
fine portrait of him was in possession of his descendant, Ralph Bridge, who in 
1816 had been curate of Malpas for forty years. The family seem to have held 
lands in Hanmer parish, Mr. Richard Bridge being rated in 1687 for Iht- 
Farm, and Mr. Thomas Bridge for the Brimett, both in the township of 
Tybroughton . 



PHILIP HENRY. 31/ 

26. Tomy Hunt not well, but much alter'd in seriousness,, 
lord, let these early blossoms bee good Fruit in due time. 

27. Col. iii. ri. X' is all & in all — for Justific. Acceptation, 
salvation. I took him this day to bee so to mee, heartily, un- 
faynedly. Amen ! 

28. to Shw. saw my worthy tV Mr. Tal. heard of the 
Death of Duke lauderdale. 29. Home in hiuch mercy, found 
wife better, noth. but work for God in such circumst. could have 
kept mee so long from her. 30. lord Anglesey about this time 
removed from being lord Privy seal by y" prosecution of y° D. of 
Ormond, for giving other accounts of y" Irish wars y" hee would 
have had him — Wil[lington] Cr[oss]. Ps. 145. 17. y' lord is 
righteous in all his wayes. Sept. 4. about 2. clock in y' 
morning dy'd Cosin Wil Ridgway at Nantwych suddenly, hee 
eat his supper well & went wel to bed (only for some weekes 
troubled with a Cough) but then rose out of his bed, went to y"^ 
chamber where Mrs. Cartw. lay, cry'd, Mother, Mother, & dy'd 
bleeding at y° mouth, without saying one other word. I hope, 
God did his soul good while hee was with us here & since. Hee 
is -f 5th of our sojourners y' hath dy'd yong, yet none of y"" with 
us, John Dickin, John Caldcott, John Eddow, Robin Bosyer & 
now hee. 6. bury'd at Audlem^ — Mr. Cole preacht. Ecd. 7. 2. 
9. D. of Monm.* past through Nantw. tow. Chesf^ — -some ap- 
plauding others vilifying — studia in contraria vulgus — Mr. W"' 
Han' with his Family went tow. london, Mr. Cath. not thought 
sufficient for Hanm'' Sch. proposal made to divide y° mayntenance 
betw. him 8z: another that shal teach latine, not accepted by him. 
many kind visits from Friends & neighbours congratulating my 
dear wifes recovery. 

12. At Ash all night, a difference fear'd betw. Cos. B[enyon] 
& Mrs. C[artwright] concer. W. R. affayres, how much better is 
one handful with quietness y" both hands full with strife. 14. 
at Bry. Eph. 2. 13. I would desire to bee of that people y' are 
neav to God, here & for ever. 15. a great apple-year in most 
places, which hath influence upon y' Corn-markt to keep it down. 
Assize this week at Wr[exham] next at Holt, a mercy y' wee are 
quiet. D. of Monmouth in y° Countrey slighted by some, respected 
* Called for distinction "The Protestant Duke." 



3l8 PHILIP HENRY. 

by others. Trouble threatned to those that respected him — 
Winning the race at WalHsee & being Godf. to y° Maior of 
Chester's child Mr. Mainwaring, hee gave it y' plate won, valu'd 
to 65. Pound. 

ig. y° Pit in y° Ortyard begun to bee fil'd, y°fish not prosper- 
ing for want of vent for y" water, too fat for y'" (so prosperity & 
fulness doth hurt) — in a week's time finisht by 4. men & one cart, 
more done afterw. 22 — Saw Mr. Finch, Min" near Manchester & 
was refresht ; Cos. Benyon & his wife seal'd a lease to mee of 
certayn lands in Ash for 9. y. to pay his debts & provide for his 
yongest child. I am not pleas'd to bee concern'd in such 
matters, but hee would have it so, & besides I have been using 
his name in a like matter. 

28. Assize week in Chester — strict inquiryes after y'"' y"' sheVd 
Kindness to y" D. of M., their names to bee retumd to the council, 
liims' sent for by a Pursevant, & committed, as is reported, but 
out again upon Bayl. Stirs at london concer. sheriffs & Maior,* 
for y° next year, y° majority chuse on one side, y" Court and Court- 
party on y° other, & at y'^^ flames our Common enemyes sit by &: 
warm their Fingers^The lord in mercy prevent w' wee have 
cause to fear. 

Sept. 29. deliver'd to my wife. ;^5. for houshold expences. 
as long as it wil last [not done]. To my 4. daughters to husband 
in lesser matters of Apparel for thems' til lady-day, & that the\' 
may learn to deal for thems., beginning with a little. God give 
y'" wisedom for Heaven & y° better p' y' shal never bee taken 
away from them. 

Oct. 14. In y" repayr of a draw-wel at Hanm"' hal, two men 
were kild by y° earth falling upon them. Rich. Bloor & — Ank- 
hurst. jun. Also one man kild travelling on y° road near Mr. 
Tannat's of Broxton (now S' Phil. Egerton's), a guid to ^Nlr. Bostock 
of Whicks. into a pit newly made for marie, steep but dry & near 
the High-way ; his Horse fell not. 

29. The two men bury'd in y° AVell pit were bury'd indeed 
there, it being thought dangerous to the Hall to sink again to take 
them thence. 

Nov. 4. Reports from london of more trouble to the Min" 
* They were carried by the court ; the sheriffs were North and Rich. 



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wpon -f 5. mile Act. several in Prison, several flying — Prichard 
declar'd Maior. 

22. several meetings & many arguings betw. Mrs. C. & Cos. 
E. concer. W. Ridgway's estate — my desire & endeavour hath been 
& is, if it may bee, to compose it, that they may not goe to law, 
for fear of charge, trouble, & guilt to theras. & scandal to pro- 
fession, but hitherto I cannot prevayl. lord, sett in & effect it ! 

24. Talk of the K'* resigning the crown in his life time to 
prevent effusion of Bloud. Mr. Bold of Dorsetsh. suspended for 
his sermon about persecution. A lamentable Fire at Wapping 
wherein many houses burn'd & many persons destroy' d, it began 
on Sabb. night. Nov. 19. 30. Orders publisht in churches in 
Cheshire to present all that come not to church & to the Sacr' if 
above 16. Mr. Tho. Hanni" prickt for sheriff of Flint, (gott off. 
Mr. Ll[oyd] on.) 

1683. — Events. 

Jan. I. The year began with mercy, present health, & oppor- 
tunity to God bee glory. 3. twenty Bibles distributed in Hanmer 
Parish, sent by Mr. St. in Br[onington] 4. Tybr[oughton] 3. by 
mee — in Han[mer] 5. Wilpington] 3. by Ja. Jacks, in Bet[tisfield] 2. 
in Hal[ghton] 3. by Ri. Roan. 5th. Sanders, cheif Just, instead 
of Pemerton, Pemerton Com. PL instead of North, North Keeper 
instead of Finch, dead. 8. Cosin Benyon's son & daughter went 
from us, lord, form X' in them. Difference not compos'd with 
Mrs. Cartwr. but widening rather. There dy'd this month of 
our Neighbours & acquaintance, Mrs. Ellen Bromley, daughf 
■of Mr. Rich. Whitehal of Whitch. a virtuous woman. Also John 
Evans, servant w" I liv'd at Emeral to Mr. Roger Puleston & 
since to his son, now S' Roger. Also Rich. Roan of Hanmer, 
a good man. Also Mr. Edw. Kinaston* of Bradenheath, who 
wasted his estate by sin & dy'd a Beggar. 

Feb' I. About this time there was a conjunction of Saturn & 
Jupiter in Cancer.f D' Dove agt Atheism sayes the like was 

* His house — the Ashes — is still standing, and the story is still told that, 
having sold it, he had been known to beg at his own door. 

t This year, 1881, there has been a conjunction of Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, 
and Venus in Aries. 



320 PHILIP HENRY. 

6. y. before y" death of X' spoken of by Astrologers then as a 
Prognostique of the alteration of Religion in y° world. I doe not 
much heed such th. but I mett with it accidentally in his Book 
written long since, as I read it last week. 

Feb. 8. I brought to y° lady Trevor of Emeral a Silver cup & 
patten given to mee long since by her predecessor the lad\- 
Elizab. Puleston to bee disposed of as I should see good. I in- 
tended to have joyn'd it to y° like at Worthenb. & to have made 
one of Both for communion use, but by my removal was prevented. 
Since then it hath layn by mee, but was never lookt upon as mine. 
Perhaps it was my Fault & may turn to my Reproach y' I kept it 
so long, but no one in the world knew of my having it, & I think 
I have done wel, to bring it to light at last. 

14. Tidings of great trouble to Min"& people both at london 
& elsewhere, how long, lord ! howbeit thou art just — o qtiam 
justa sunt judicia ttia, Domine I 

27. Cos. Benyon went from us after 22. weekes being here 
for which hee left ;£(>. Our Converse was not so comfortable as 
it might have been bee. of the troublesom business with Mrs. 
Cartwr. which often discompos'd. 6: how sweet wil heaven bee 
where none of these th. shal disquiet, last week dy'd my good 
Fr* W" lach of Dodleston in Cheshire, a star amongst Cliristians 
of y" first Magnitude, eminent in gifts, parts, grace, & usefulness, 
try'd in trying times, few such of my Acquaintance, time to en-, 
help lord. 

last month dy'd in london Edw. Bickley son of my old Friend 
Robert Bickley, no son left now but Philip. 

Mar. 16. Broughton-house rob'd last week, the Theif taken, 
hang'd. — Margt. Bedward robd. Mar. 16. the things sold at the 
Higher Wych, retreiv'd there. 24. Min'^ presented at Salop- 
Assize by y° Grand-Jury, as also in other places. Betty Shilling 
fin'd for words, notice given in churches in london that all above 
16. must communicate at Easter or else bee prosecuted. 

Apr. 4. newes of D. of y. made Admiral, lord Hide Treasurer, 
lord Dartmouth leift. of the tower — &c. 

Wrexham Assize this week, where man}' presented for not 
coming to church & Sacram'. S' John Trevor cast in a Suit bj 
Egerton — yong Mr. Jeifryes of Acton, Sheriff. 9. Flint Assize, 



PHILIP HENRY. 32 1 

Mr. lloyd of Halghton, Sheriff — Three condemn'd, one for Robbing 
Mr. Broughton's house, another an old woman set. 70. for Killing 
her Grandchild two yeares' old upon the loss of a sum of money 
put out for it, at the mediation of B" lloyd repreiv'd as being 
distracted, a third for stealing a Mare, brought in on Friday, try'd 
on Saturday, & condemn'd, but transported. 

15. Restraynts in all places, righteous art thou 6: lord, yet 
let us plead with y'°. Wee heard, my wife & I & many more are 
presented at Flint Assize for not coming to the Sacram'. Dy'd of 
our Neighb'' & acquaintance y'^ month Mr. Hervey Min' of 
Wrenbury, suddenly, preacht twice on Sabb. & dy'd on Tuesd.— 
I y"" Rich. Heath — Hugh. Suckley — Mrs. Povey. Mrs. Gregory 
(Owen Taylors daughter) coming from london to see her Father, 
sickned at Newp. a week after carry'd to london to bee bury'd. 

May. 2. Francis Huxley came to Iscoyd not with a staff but 
with two Bands, the God of Jacob bee with him there. I am wel 
pleasd, it is like to bee a Louse of Pray"'. 29. W" Turner bought 
a Mare for mee at Elsmer fayr — cost — jQn,- 9- °- 

In Decemb. last Mr. St. sent 20. Bibles for Hanmer ^ish thus 
dispos'd of— Han-"' by Rich. Roan, to W"" Wright Wid. Jones 
Wid. Corbichley, Dor. Bradshaw, Abel Owen. Betsf by Rich. 
Roan to John Peat. & Halgh. by Mr. lloyd to Wid. leigh. Eliz. 
Mackenel & Joseph Hayward. Wil. by James Jacks, to Sam. 
weaver, to Hannah large to Margt. Paynter. Bron. by P. H., Mary 
Mathewes Rowl. Yong. Sarah Madocks' daught" Ma^ Hunt. 

Tybr. by P. H., W" Owen, Mary Eddow, Tho. Butler's son. 

May. 31. a Rheam of Paper at 6' 6^ Carr. 8* from Whitch. 4.1. 

Ju7i. 2. Sadler mending Saddles 12'' a day & meat & drink — 
new stirrup leather. 9. other stuff 9'*, in all 2' 6* — Rich. Allen. 

Dy'd in August Cos. Harry Swinerton — Aug. 24. D"^ Owen. — 
in Sept. Mrs. Touchett. of Whitley — Mr. Jefifry Williams of 
Wrexh. — in Oct. Ann Nixon — Nov. 24 old Ralph Nixon. A. at. 
69. John Barker jun. D"" Math. Fowler. Dec. 26. 

1684. 

Jan. I. A new Nature beg'd of God for a new year for my s. 
&: all mine, that old th. may pass away & all th. become new. I 



322 PHILIP HENRY. 

heard that a month since one of y" mayn Beames of y° Roof of 
Nantwych church falling, beat y" Pulpit & desk all to peices, not 
past half an hour after the Min'' Mr. Stringer & y° congregation 
were gone out from morning pray'' on a Tuesday. 

2. Writings seald with my son, dated Oct. 30. Hee to enter 
on Bron. estate, discharging mee for time past. Witn. Mr. Hool. 
of Bunbury, Edw. Peirs & Francis Huxley. — 3. D" Fowler* 
appointed to bee bury'd in linnen & left five pounds in dole to the 
poor in consideration thereof [Er]go : either hee thought under- 
going the Penalty satisfyes the law or hee dy'd in disobedience. 
D' Zanchy succeeds. — ir. one John Wyn of Penley brake his 
neck by a Fall out of a Tree, cropping. — 18. I heard of y° Death 
of Mrs. Baker of Sweeney concer. w" this was remarkable, y' being 
in debt & in a too much expensive way of living it pleas'd God 
about 3. y. since to lay upon her such a distemper of Body as 
disfitted her for busines, caused her to retire into privacy so y' by 
this time, I suppose her Debts are near if not quite payd. The 
heyr of Sw. estate is now Mr. Brown -f Grandchild of a worthy 
pious Grand-father — 19. a very sharp season, long frost & snow, 
Fuel scarce in many Familyes, wee comfortably provided for, to 
God bee prayse. I heard that in Wem, since y° fire, w* in March 
next wil bee 7. y. since, there have dy'd 4. score Widowes, wives, 
& Husbands that were Heads of Familyes. 

Upon Dec. 25. last, there were bury'd 3. at Malpas, two men 
& one woman, whose ages together made betwixt 13. & 14. score. 
Roger Burroughs our Neighbor y" yongest of y'= Three. 

Feb. I. great frost for divers weekes past, the Thames frozen 
over, booths built on it. 40 Coaches seen on it at a time — a hard 
time with many poor workmen. Divers Oaks cleft in divers 
places, some in my own ground. Frost fayr at lond. 5. it 
began to thaw ; a great mercy. M. D. 

6. I gave 30' to Math. tow. his Watch. 15. I heard of y" 
Death of Mr. Jo. Tho. of Winnington after several yeares disablem' 
for business, a man formerly y" most eager & unwearyed in worldly 
pursuits that I ever saw. Ps. 39. 6. 49. 6. Tho. llewellyn's son 
4. y. old standing by him as hee drew hay, was Kild by y" fall of 
the stack & his own leg broke with the Pole. 

* Rectov of Whitchurch. There is an epitaph to him in the north aisle of 
he church. 



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20. I heard of a murther near Salop on Sabb. day y° 10. 
instant, a woman fathering a conception on a Milner was Kild by 
him in a feild, her Body lay there many dayeT by reason of y° 
Coroner's absence. 

23. S'' Tho. Middleton bury'd this week at Chirk, brought 
from London : Mr. Crew of Crew dead. Mr. John Hanmer of 
Fenns bury'd this day. Greatnes is no security from the Stroke 
of Death but Grace is from the Sting. I heard of 6. gentlemen 
in Lancashire, whereof Mr. Hollond's only son one, who drank 
unto excess in a frolique upon the Ice, three or four of y"' 
dead. Mr. Newcom's son, Mr. leigh, Mr. Byrom. To one who 
sayd, I have no plea but one, Guilty, it was answ"' yea but one 
other th. must bee pleaded & that is a Surety; The former by 
Repentance, the later by beleiving — Those two wil doe. Mar. 
7. my loving Tenant & Neighbor under the oke John Morton 
finisht his course & I trust is at rest in the lord. His children 
whom Father & Mother have forsaken, y'' lord wil take up. John 
& Margt John had a dangerous fal a few dayes since out of 
y" mayd's armes going up y* ladder into y° loft, but no hurt God 
bee praysd. their Uncle Rich. Morton execut'. Hee left in 
money and goods above ;^ioo. wlierrof 50. to his daughter, the 
rest to John. 13. dy'd Mr. John Tilston of Alkint. a knowing 
good man & a stout defender of Absolute free election.* aged. 77. 
21. Ill of a payn in my left shoulder. 23. a Bed-Sabbath, few 
such, cup'd & blister'd by Jo. Barker, wherby ease given, to God 
bee the praise. 27. dyed my dear Friend and Sister in X' Jane 
Bennet, a holy gracious good woman who feared God above 
many. A. ^t. 72. April 2 1. dy'd WilUam Figes of Ash, also Mary 
Kirkham, of Iscoyd, Capt. Cartwright within less y" a week after 
hee had assisted in laying Mr. Figes in his Grave. Cos. Brayn's 
daughter who marry'd Mr. Payn's Son of Edstaston had a child born 
about this time, to w" its grandmother Brayn gave suck & which 
had then living three Great Grand Mothers, Mrs. Payn, Mrs. Brayn 

* On May 28, 1682, Evelyn writes : " At tlie Rolls Chapell preached the 
famous Dr. Burnet on 2 Peter i. 10, describing excellently well what was 
meant by election, viz. , not the effect of any irreversable decree, but so call'd 
because they embraced the Gospel readily, by which they became elect or pre- 
.cious to God. It would be very needlesse to make our calling and election sure 
were they irreversible and what the rigid Presbyterians pretend." 



324 PHILIP HENRY. 

& Mrs. Eddow. Rye in f Oke-feild observ'd y° Best within many 
miles, much having miss'd. l[aus] D[eo]. twas y" Feild out of 
which y" Barley was taken. A. ?>i. Repayres at Bronington, &c. 

(Memorand. William Jones had a fayr scape for his life 
through God's mercy, falling oif y° ladder, the staff breaking, as 
hee was carrying a very big slate before him, it falling one way 
& hee another, on his Back, upon the Stone at the house door, 
to God bee glory.) A peice of new wainscot set up in the Parlor 
at Br. O. July. 2. y° pannels & rayles my own, made by W"^ 
Edge — 6. y"'' in all at 12"!) yard — 6=. 

1682-1693. 

1682. 

Soon after this, was the Assizes for Flintshire, held at Mold, 
where Sir George Jeffries, afterwards Lord Chancellor, then Chief 
Justice of Chester, sat Judge. He did not in private Conversation 
seem to applaud what was done in this Matter, so as was expected ; 
whether out of a private Pique against some that had been active 
in it, or for what other ReHon is not known ; but it was said, he 
pleasantly ask'd some of the Gentlemen, by what new Law they 
pressed Carts, as they passed upon their Occasions along the 
Road, to carry away Goods distrain'd for a Conventicle ? It was 
also said, that he spoke with some Respect of Mr. Henry ; saying, 
he knew him and his Character well, and that he was a great 
Friend of his Mother's, (Mrs. Jeffries of Acton near Wrexham, 
a very pious, good Woman) and that sometimes, at his Mother's 
Request, Mr. Henry had examin'd him in his Learning, when he 
was a School-Boy, and had commended his Proficiency. And 
it was much wonder'd at by many, that of all the times Sir George 
Jeffries went that Circuit (tho' tis well enough known what was 
his temper, and what the Temper of that time) yet he never sought 
any Occasion against Mr. Henry, nor took the Occasions that 
were offer'd, nor countenanced any Trouble intended him, tho' he 
was the only Nonconformist in Flintshire. ... It seems there are 
some Men, whose Ways so please the Lord, that he makes even 
their Enemies to be at Peace with them; and there is nothing 



.PHILIP HENRY. 325 

lost by trusting in God. ... In this time of treading down, and of 
Perplexity, he stirred little abroad, being forced (as he used to 
•express it) to throw the plow under the Hedge ; but he preached 
•constantly at home without Disturbance ; and often comforted 
himself with this. When we cannot do what we would, if we do 
what we can, God will accept of us ; when we cannot keep open 
shop, we must drive a secret Trade. And he would say. There is 
a Mean, if we could hit it, between Fool-hardiness and Faint- 
Heartedness. While he had some Opportunity of being useful at 
Home, he was afraid lest he should prejudice that by venturing 
Abroad. One of his Friends in London, earnestly soHciting him 
to make a Visit thither in this time of restraint in the Country, he 
thus wrote I should be glad once more to kiss my Native Soil, 
■tho' it were but with a Kiss of Valediction ; but my indisposedness 
to travel, and the small Prospect there is of doing Good to 
■countervail the Pains, are my prevailing Arguments against 'it. I 
.am here ('tis true) buried alive, but I am quiet in my Grave, and 
have no mind to be a walking Ghost. We rejoice, and desire to 
be thankful, that God hath given us a home, and continued it to 
:us, when so many, better than we, have not where to lay their 
Head, having no certain dwelling-Pladfe. . , . 

1685. 

At the time of the Duke of Monmouth's Descent, and the 
Insurrection in the West, in the Year 1685, Mr. Henrj', as many 
-others (pursuant to a general Order of the Lord Lieutenant, for 
.securing all suspected Persons, and particularly all Nonconformist 
Ministers,) were taken up, by a Warrant, from the Deputy Lieu- 
tenants and sent under a Guard to Chester Castle where he was 
about three Weeks a close Prisoner. He was lodg'd with some 
Gentlemen and Ministers that were fetch'd there out of Lancashire, 
who were all Strangers to him ; but he had great Comfort in the 
Acquaintance and Society of many of them. 

He oftenspoke of this Imprisonment, not as Matter of Complaint, 
but of thanksgiving, and blessed God he was in nothing uneasy 
.all the while. In a Sermon to his Family, the Day after he came 
Jiome, he largely and affectionately recounted the Mercies of that 



326 PHILIP HENRY. 

Providence: As for Instance; "That his Imprisonment was for 
no Cause ; tis Guilt that makes a prison : That it was his Security 
in a dangerous time : That he had good Company in his Sufferings, 
who pray'd together, and read the Scriptures together, and dis- 
coursed to their mutual Edification : That he had Health there, 
not Sick and in Prison : That he was visited and pray'd for by 
his Friends : That he was very chearful and easy in his Spirit, 
many a time asleep and quiet, when his adversaries were disturb'd 
and vmquiet : That his enlargement was speedy and unsought for ; 
and that it gave Occasion to the Magistrates who committed him, 
to give it under their Hands, that they had nothing in particular 
to lay to his Charge ; and especially that it was without a snare, 
which was the thing he fear'd more than anything else. 

It was a Surprize to some that visited him in his Imprisonment, 
and were big with the Expectations of the Duke of Monmouth's 
Success, to hear him say, I would not have you to flatter yourselves 
with such Hopes, for God will not do his Work for us in these 
Nations, by that Man; but our Deliverance and Salvation will 
arise some other way. . . . 

It was the latter end of the Year 1685, when the Stream ran so 
very strong against the Di*enters, that Mr. Henrj' being in Dis- 
course with a very great man of the Church of England, mentioned 
King Charles's Indulgence in 1672, as that which gave Rise to his 
stated Preaching in a separate Assembly ; and added, if the pre- 
sent King James should, in like manner, give me Leave I would do 
the same again. To which that great Man reply'd "Never expect 
any such thing from him ; for take my word for it, he hates you 
Nonconformists in his heart." Truly (said Mr. Henry) I believe it, 
and I think he doth not love you of the Church of England, 
neither. . . . 



1687. 

However the Indulgence granted to Dissenters in April 1687, 
must needs be a Reviving to those who for so many Years had lain 
buried in Silence & Restraint ; nor can any, who will allow them- 
selves the Liberty of supposing the Case their own, wonder the}- 
should rejoice in it, though the Design of it being manifest they 



PHILIP HENRY. 327 

could not choose but rejoice with trembhng. Mr. Henry's 
sentinients of it were Whatever Men's Ends are in it, I beheve 
God's End in it is to do us good. 

When King James came his Progress into that country in 
September 1687, to court the Compliments of the People, Mr. 
Henry joined with several others, in & about Whitchurch, Nant- 
wich & Wem, in an address to him, which was presented when he 
lay at Whitchurch, the Purport of which was, not to Sacrifice their 
Lives and Fortunes to him & his Interest, but only to return him 
thanks for the Liberty they had, with a promise to demean them- 
selves quietly in the use of it. 

Some time after Commissioners were sent abroad into the 
Country, to enquire after the Trouble Dissenters had sustain'd b)- 
the Penal Laws; & how the money that was levy'd upon them 
was disposed of; little of it being found in the Exchequer ; they 
sent to Mr. Henry to have an Account from him of his suffer- 
ings; he return'd Answer by Letter, that he had indeed been 
Fined some Years for a Conventicle & distrain'd upon & his Goods 
carried away ; which all the Country knew, & to which he referred 
himself But being required to give a particular Account of it 
upon Oath; though he said he could be glad to see such instru- 
ments of Trouble legally removed ; yet he declined giving any 
further Information concerning it ; having (as he wrote to the 
Commissioners) long since, from his Heart, forgiven all the Agents, 
Instruments, & Occassions of it ; & having purposed never to say 
anything more of it. 

1688. 

In May, 1688, a new Commission of the Peace came down for 
the County of Flint, in which (by whose Interest or Procurement 
was not known) Mr. Henry was nominated a Justice of Peace for 
that County. It was no small Surprise to him, to receive a letter 
from the Clerk of the Peace, directed to Philip Henry Esquire, 
acquainting him with it, and appointing him when and whither to 
come to be sworn. To which he return'd Answer, that he was 
very sensible of his Unworthiness of the Honour, and his Unfitness 
for the Office which he was nominated to, and therefore desir'd to 



328 PHILIP HENRY. 

be excused ; and he was so, and did what he could, that it might 
not be spoken of in the Country. . . . 

Another tribute to his character must have been paid 
him about this time by Riley,* the painter, in associating his 
name with that of Dr. Busby.f The history of the picture, 
which hangs in Christ Church Hall, seems forgotten, but 
the fact remains that Busby's favourite pupil is represented 
.standing beside his old master, and helping him, as we are 
told he did, in collecting words for his dictionary. 

For two years after this Liberty began, Mr. Henry still continued 
his Attendance, as Usual, at Whitwell chappell, whenever there was 
preaching there; and he preached at his own House only when 
there was no supply there, and in the Evening of those Days that 
there was. For doing thus he was greatly clamour'd against by 
some of the rigid Separatists, and called a Dissembler, and one 
that halted between two and the like. Thus (as he notes in his 
Diary) one side told him, he was the Author of all the Mischief, in 
drawing People from the Church ; and the other side told him, he 
was the Author of all the Mischief, in drawing People to the 
Church : And which of these, saith he, shall I seek to please ? 
Lord, neither, but thyself alone, and my own Conscience, and 
while I can do that, I have enough. 

In a Sermon at Whitwell-Chappel one Lord's Day in the 
Afternoon, where he and his Family, and many of the Congregation 
were attending, much was said with some keen Reflections, to 
prove the Dissenters Schismaticks, and in a damnable State. 
When he came immediately after to preach at his own House, 
before he begun his Sermon, he expressed himself to this Purpose ; 
Perhaps some of you may expect now that I should say something 
in Answer to what we have heard by which we have been so 
severely charged ; but truly I have something else to do ; and so, 
without any farther Notice taken of it, went on to preach Jesus 
Christ, and him crucified. 

It was not without some Fear and Trembling, that Mr. Henry 
received the Tidings of the Prince of Orange's Landing, in 

* John Riley Avas bom in London, 1646, and died 1691. 
+ Dr. ]3us1)y died 1695, aged 89. 



PHILIP HENRY. 329 

November 1688, as being somewhat in the Dark concerning the 
Clearness of his Call, and dreading what might be the Con- 
sequence of it. He used to say, Give Peace in our Time, O 
Lord, was a Prayer that he would heartily set his Amen to. But 
when secret Things are brought to Light, and a regular Course was 
taken to fill the Throne with such a King and such a Queen, none 
rejoiced in it more heartily than he did. He celebrated the 
National Thanksgiving for that great Deliverance, with an 
excellent Sermon on that Text, Rom. viii. 31. What shall we 
then say to these things ? If God be for us, who can be against 
•us? . . . 

In June 1689 was the Act of Indulgence, which not only 
tolerated, but allowed the Dissenters' Meetings, and took them 
under the Protection of the Government. Soon after which, 
though he never in the least changed his Judgment, as to the 
Lawfulness of joining in the Common-Prayer, but was still ready 
to do it occasionally ; yet the Ministers that preached at Whitwell- 
Chappel, being often uncertain in their coming, which kept his 
Meeting at Broad-Oak at like Uncertainties, to the frequent Dis- 
appointment of many of his Hearers that came from far, he was at 
last prevailed with to preach at publick time every Lord's Day, 
which he continued to do while he lived, much to his own Satis- 
faction and the Satisfaction of his Friends. An eminent Minister 
in Lancashire, who did in like Manner alter his Practice about 
that time, gave this for a Reason, That he had been for Twenty 
seven Years striving to please a Generation of Men, who, after 
■all, would not be pleased; and therefore he would no longer 
endeavour it as he had done. 

5. He preached a great many Lectures in the Country about, 
some stated, some occasional in supplying of which he was very 
indefatigable. He hath sometimes preached a Lecture, ridden 
eight or nine Miles, & preached another and the next Day two 
more. To quicken himself to Diligence, he would often say our 
'Opportunities are passing away and we must work while it is Day, 
for the Night cometh. Once having very wet and foul weather to 
go thro, to preach a Lecture, he said he comforted himself with 
two Scriptures ; one was 2 Tim. ii. 3. Endure hardness as a good 
.soldier of Jesus Christ; the other (because he exposed and 



330 PHILIP HENRY. 

hazarded his Health, for which some blamed him) was 2 Sam. vi. 
21. It was before the Lord. 

Lastly. As he was an excellent Preacher himself, so he was 
an exemplary Hearer of the Word, when others preached, though 
every way his inferiors ; so Reverent, Serious and Attentive was he 
in hearing, and so Observant of what was spoken. 

I have heard him say he knew one (and I suppose it was- 
as Paul knew a Man in Christ), who could truly say, to the Glory 
of God, that for Forty Years he had never slept at i sermon. He 
was Diligent also to improve what he heard afterwards by Medi- 
tation, Repetition, Prayer & Discourse, and he was a very great 
Incourager of young Ministers, that were humble and serious, 
though their Abilities & Performances were but mean. He hath 
noted in his Diary (as that which affected him) this Saying of a 
Godly Man a Hearer of his " I find it easier to go six Miles to 
hear a Sermon, than to spend one quarter of an Hour in medi- 
tating and Praying over it in secret (as I should) when I go 
Home." 

As to the Circumstances of his Family in these last nine Years 
of his Life, they were somewhat different from what they had 
been ; but the same Candle of God which had shined upon his 
Tabernacle, continued still to do so. In the Years 1687, and 
1688, he married all his five Children; the three eldest in four 
Months time, in the year 1687, and the other two in a Year and a 
half after ; so many Swarms (as he us'd to call them) out of his 
Hive ; and all not only with his full Consent, but to his abundant 
Comfort and Satisfaction. He would say, he thought it the Duty 
of Parents to study to oblige their Children in that Affair. And 
though never could Children be more easy and at rest in a 
Father's House than his were, yet he would sometimes say con- 
cerning them, as Naomi to Ruth, Ruth iii. i. Shall I not seek 
rest for thee ? 

Two Advices he us'd to give, both to his Children and Others, 
in their Choice of that Relation : One was, Keep within the 
bounds of Profession, such as one may charitably hope is from a 
good Principle. The other was, look at Suitableness, in Age,. 
Quality, Education, Temper, Etc. He us'd to observe from Gen. 
ii. 18. I will make him a Help meet for him ; that where there is 



PHILIP HENRY. 33 1 

not Meetness, there will not be much Help. And he would com- 
monly say to his Children, with reference to that choice, Please 
God and please yourselves, and you shall never displease me ; and 
greatly blamed those Parents, who conclude Matches for their 
Children, and do not ask Counsel at their Mouth, He never 
aim'd at great things in the World for his Children, but sought for 
them in the first place the Kingdom of God, and the Righteousness 
thereof. He used to mention sometimes the Saying of a pious 
Gentlewoman, that had many Daughters : The Care of most 
People, is how to get good Husbands for their Daughters ; but 
my care is to fit my Daughters to he good Wives, and then let God 
provide for them. In this, as in other things, Mr. Henry steered 
by that Principle ; That a man's Life consisteth not in the 
abundance of the things that he possesseth. And it pleased God 
so to order it, that all his Children were disposed of, into Cir- 
cumstances very agreeable and Comfortable, both for Life and 
Godliness. He was greatly affected with the Goodness of God to 
him herein, without any forecast or contrivance of his own. The 
Country (saith he in his Diary) takes notice of it, and what 
then shall I render ? Surely this is a Token for good. 

All his four Daughters were married at Whitwell-Chappel, and 
he preach'd a Wedding Sermon for each of them, in his own 
Family after; he would often tell his Friends, that those who' 
desire, in the married Condition, to live in the Favour of God, 
must enter upon that Condition in the Fear of God. For it's an 
ill Omen to stumble at the Threshold ; and an Error in the first 
Concoction, is seldom amended in the second. 

His youngest Daughter was married April 26, 1688, the same 
Day of the Year (as he observes in his Diary), and the same Day 
of the week, and in the same place, that he was married to his 
dear Wife, Twenty-eight Years before ; upon which this is his 
Remark, I cannot desire from them, that they should receive more 
from God than we have received, in that Relation and Condition ; 
but I would desire, and I do desire, that they may do more for 
God in it than we have done. His usual Compliment to his 
New-married Friends, was, others wish you all Happiness, I wish 
you all Holiness, and then there is no doubt but you will have all 
Happiness. When the Marriage of the last of his Daughters was 



332 PHILIP HENRY. 

about to be concluded on, he thus writes ; but is Joseph gone, 
and Simeon gone, and must Benjamin go also ? And when, some 
time after she was married, he parted with her to the House of 
her Husband, he thus writes; We have sent her away, not as 
Laban said he would have sent his Daughters away, with Mirth, 
and with Songs, with Tabret, and with Harp, but with Prayers and 
Tears, and hearty good Wishes : And now, (saith he in his Diary) 
we are alone again as we were in our Beginning ; God be better 
to us than twenty Children. Upon the same Occasion he thus 
writes to a dear Relation ; We are now left as we were. One and 
One, and yet but one One ; the Lord, I trust, that has brought us 
thus far, will enable us to finish well ; and then all will be well, 
and not till then. 

The greatest Affliction he saw in his Family, was the Death 
of his dear Daughter-in-Law, Katherine, the only Daughter of 
Samuel Hardware, Esq. ; who about a Year and a half after she 
was transplanted into his Family (to which she was the greatest 
Comfort and Ornament imaginable) died of the Small-Pox in 
Child-Bed, upon the Thanksgiving Day for King William's coming 
in. She died but a few weeks after Mr. Henry had married the 
last of his Daughters, upon which marriage she had said, Now we 
have a full Lease, God only knows which life will drop first She 
comforted herself in the Extremity of her Illness with this AVord 
Well, when I come to Heaven, I shall see that I could not have 
been without this Affliction. 

He had in Eight Years time. Twenty-four Grand-Children 
born, some by each of his Children ; concerning whom he would 
often bless God, that they were all the sealed ones of the God of 
Heaven, and enrolled among his Lambs. 

It was not long after his Children were married from him, 
but his House was fill'd again with the Children of several of 
his Friends, whom he was, by much Importunity, perswaded to 
take to table with him. All that knew him, thought it a thousand 
Pities, that such a Master of a Family should have but a 
small Family, and should not have many to sit down under his 
Shadow. He was at first almost necessitated to it, by the Death 
of his dear Friend and Kinsman, Mr. Benyon of Ash, who left his 
Children to his Care. . Some he took gratis,' or for small Con- 



PHILIP HENRY. 335 

sideration ; And when by Reason of the Advances of Age, he 
could not go about so much as he had done, doing Good, he laid 
out himself to do the more at home. He kept a Teacher to 
attend their School-Learning ; and they had the Benefit not only 
of his Inspection in that, but (which was much more) his Family 
Worship, Sabbath Instructions, Catechizing, and daily Converse,, 
in which his Tongue was as choice Silver, and his Lips fed 
many. Nothing but the Hopes of doing some Good to the 
rising Generation, could have prevailed with him to take the 
Trouble upon him. He would often say. We have a busy House, 
but there is a Rest remaining. We must be doing Something in 
the AVorld while we are in it ; but this Fashion will not last long, 
methinks I see it passing away ... 

Sometimes he had such with him as had gone through their 
Course of University Learning at private Academies, & desired to 
spend some time in his Family, before their Entrance upon the 
Ministry, that they might have the Benefit not only of his Publick 
& Family Instruction but of his Learning and pious Converse, in 
which, as he was thoroughly furnish'd for every good Word & 
work, so he was very Free & Communicative. The great thing^ 
which he used to press upon those who intended the Ministry, 
was to study the Scriptures and make them familiar. Bonus 
Textuarius est bonus Theologus was a Maxim he often minded 
them of For this Purpose he recommended to them the Study 
of the Hebrew, that they might be able to search the Scriptures 
in the Original. He also advised to the Use of an Interleaved 
Bible, wherein to insert such Expositions or Observations, as 
occur occasionally in Sermons or other Books, which he would 
say, are more happy and considerable sometimes, than those that 
are found in the professed Commentators. When some young 
Men desired the Happiness of coming into his Family, he would 
tell them, You come to me as Naaman did to Elisha expecting 
that I should do this & t'other for you, and alas ! I can but say 
as he did " Go wash in Jordan " Go, study the Scriptures. I 
profess to teach no other Learning but Scripture Learning. It 
was but a little before he died that in reading Isa. i. he observed 
from V. 4. "The Lord God hath given me the Tongue of the 
Learned" &c.. That the true Learning of the Gospel Minister 



334 PHILIP HENRY. 

consists not in being able to speak Latin fluently, and to dis- 
pute in Philosophy, but in being able to speak a Word in Season 
to weary Souls. He that knows how to do that well is a Learned 
Minister. 

The following letters, formerly belonging to Miss Bache, 
of Great Malvern, and bound up in one volume, have been 
kindly lent for the purposes of this work by W. R. Anstice, 
Esq., of Ironbridge, Salop. One or two of them' that belong 
to other gentlemen or ladies are separately endorsed. 



Mr. Henry to his son, at Mr. Doolitol's, Islington — ^Etat. i8. 

My dear Child, 

Your letter to me I rec'' & y' mother also her's, in the 
former an account of your being busy, at which we were glad, in 
the later of your being not well, &: that troubles us, but wee are 
in hope, that this night's post will bring us better tidings, that it 
proves not an Ague, as you fear, but a sudden ake the effect of 
your being wett in the show'r & not shifting more then your shooes 
when you came to Isl.'i however wee desire to acquiesce in the 
will of God in whose hand our times are, and at whose dispose are 
all our wayes, who doth always that which is just & righteous, & 
always that which is best to those that love him. I am at tlie 
writing of this at Boreatt[on] where I expected your mother this 
morning, as wee appointed, but instead of coming herself, shee 
sends Roger with your two letters, & her dezire to mee to answer 
them from hence by the way of Shrewsb. they are all well, blessed 
bee God, both there & here, my Lord Paget intended to have 
gone from hence tomorrow, which hastned mee hither a week 
sooner than I expected & caus'd a fayleur at home yesterday, on 
Chapel-day, but his stay now is till next week ; I am comforted 
that you acknowledge God in your distemper, and are prepar'd to 
receive witla patience what lie appoints ; The two last subjects wee 
were upon when you left Br. O., Faith & Repentance, I hope were 
made profitable to you ; liee that truly Repents of sin and truly 



PHILIP HENRY. 335 

believes in the Lord J. X' nothing can come amiss to him, things 
present are his, things to come are his. Life, Death, this world 
and t'other world ; Though you are at distance from us, you are 
near to him who according to his promise is a present help to 
those that fear him in every time of need ; our poor prayers for 
you, you may bee sure are not, shal not bee wanting, that if the 
Lord please you may have health to ply the work you came about, 
that you may serve the will of God in your generation, if otherwise, 
that you may be satisfied, in what hee doth, and so wee by his 
grace shal endeavour to bee also. Commend us to Mr. Doolitol 
& his wife, whose tender love to you & care concerning you, wee 
shal alwayes acknowledge with all thankfiilnes ; also to Cozin 
Robt, who I know wil help to bear your Burthen ; The Lord 
Almighty bless you, my dear child, and cause his face to shine 
upon you, and send us good newes in your next concerning you. 
Amen. This from 

Yr. Loving Father 

Aug. 16. 1680. P. H. 

2, 

My Lord, 

The experience which I have had of your very great 
Candor, together with the particular leave you were pleas'd to give 
mee of Applying myself to you, as there might bee occasion of 
this nature, are my encouragem' to trouble your Lordship with 
these few lines. I understand, there are several Protestant 
Dissenters of your Diocess, that being excommunicate, are in 
danger of being cast into Prison by , writs remayning in the 
Sheriffs hands for that purpose; concerning whom, when I was 
with you at Chester, you were pleas'd to say, it was not for their 
meer non-conformity but for witholding their Church dues; 
having made Inquiry about it, I doo find that there are but few 
of them chargeable with that neglect, & of those few, there is one 
William David of Myvod on whose behalf the Min' of the Place 
liath written the inclosed, whereby it wil appear, that his default 
therein was not wilful & usual but meerly accidental, which when 
your Lordship sees, I hope, it wil prevayl to obtayn from you his 
discharge. And for the rest, who suffer for not conforming, I 
have personal acquaintance with divers of them, both about 



336 PHILIP HENRY. 

Wrexham in Montgom-shire, particularly with Mr. Walter Griffiths- 
& Richard Gardiner, & Evan Roberts, and have reason to believe 
concerning them, that they are Religious, sober, peaceable men, 
though under Dissatisfactions in the things imposed, and being 
such, I would intreat your lordship on their behalf that your lenity 
may be extended towards them, and the rather considering, that 
the casting 'Of them into the Jayl is like to be the Ruine both 
of themselves and of their Familyes as to this world, which I am 
confident can be no way pleasing to you in the Reflection. 
Besides, the Proc''^ agt them, if I bee not misinform'd, are upon 
Presentm*" made in your Predecessor's dayes long since, and if in 
other cases, the Action dyes with the Person it were but reasonable 
it should in this also. Would your Lordship please, to forbear but 
for a while highest Act of Severity towarde them, it may be upon 
further conference w. them and knowledge of them you wil find 
them other Persons then they are Represented to you to bee. I 
humbly beg your lordship's pardon for my Boldness mth you 
herein and subscribe myself. 

My Lord, 
Your servant much obliged 

Philip Henry. 

Mar. 25. 1682. 

For the Right Reverend 

W" lord Bishop of S' Asaph.* 



Mr. Henry's first letter to his son on going to Gray's Inn. 

For Mr. Matthew Henry to bee left with Mr. DaiTack at the 
Golden Trumpet within Aldersgate. London. 
Son Matthew, 

I received both your letters, the one on Friday, the 
other yesterday, rejoycing to understand tliereby the great 

" Dr. William Lloyd was one of those who attended the English court in 
France in 1651, called by Evelyn "one of the most deepe learned cli\'ines of 
this nation in all sorts of literature," and in 1680 spoken of as Dean of Bangor 
and Vicar of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields. Afterwards Bishop of St. Asaph, 
Bishop of Lichfield, and Bishop of Worcester, frequently mentioned by Burnet. 



PHILIP HENRY. 337 

goodness of God to you in your journey, & particularly that your 
Company prov'd no worse, than it seemes it did, which wee were 
much afrayd of. I hope you wil now in the first place <rvv ^ew make 
a business of fixing somewhere, so as may best conduct to your 
great end in going, wherein wee beg direction for you from 
Heaven, which appoints the bounds' of our Habitation ; forget not 
the rules given you, consult health & wholesomness, conveniency 
& honesty, your next I trust wil tel us you are so fitted. The 
Omens you mention doe little affect mee, supposing them all true, 
which I much question, but perhaps they doe others ; I would be 
now glad of a fuller account of the Substantial, as far as they are 
yet or may bee known. Wee remayn as yet, thankes bee to God, 
in the same circumstances of Mercy in which you left us, wishing 
you some of our sweet aire, which is now more then at other times 
of the year perfum'd, instead of your offensive town-smels, against 
which you have need to arm your self, especially at first til you 
are us'd to them. 

Your loving Father, 

May 4. .85.6. cl. P- H. 



7- 
Son Math. 

My jealousy over you was the effect of my dear love 
to you and the account you give mee of your company comforts 
mee, for I apprehended & doe so stil, that your Danger in London 
wil lye much that way, theref stil keep up your watch & bee 
strong in the grace of J. X'. for when you trust to sf. you are gone. 
I like it wel that you spent last Tuesday as you did, only 
supposing Dr. T.'s lecture to bee in the Aftern. I understand not <» . 
where you din'' ; if with Dr. Humph, it was not wel, for fasting & /\ L- 
esp. going so into AsseinBlyes may bee very prejudicial to your 
health ere you are aware, theref. by no means use it not. I shal ~' 

long to hear from your Aunt Ann, how you ^formed in that 
journey, & what shee thinkes as to her coming hither ; might you 
not cast to come down together, either in Coach or on Horse- 
back, either from London (you coming back from Oxf thither 
to have her company) or from Oxf I sending a double Horse & 

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33? PHILIP HENRY. 

shee coming by Coach thither, or how else y" can contrive it 
between y", for the truth is, I much desire to see her. 

Our good God, that orders all, orders it for good to them 
accord to his wil. last night was bury'd in Whitch. Mr. Ralph 
Tushingham, who broke his neck by a fal from his Horse, no 
body with him, betw. Wrenb. mil & Bromhal Green, coming from 
an Ale house at Wrenb. where Mr. Star. Mr. Widden & hee had 
drunk hard ; there is talk that many are like to lose much by him ; 
Mr. Corb' sends to mee to write to you to hearken them out a min'. 
for Cockshute either at London or Oxf. you know their circum- 
stances & what a one wil please them. Wee did not goe to Rhuabon 
on Wednesd. in regard of the discomposures that were in the 
Neighborhood, which are now allay'd, upon occas. of the D. of. M^ 
invasion & the proclayming of him Trayf which the Post before 
brought tidings of ; I keep home, hear little, & say less ; 'Tis our 
unhappiness, to bee suspected p. sons without cause & to be expos'd 
accordingly, though quiet in the land, but God is righteous & wise 
& good, & knowes how to bring glory to hims. & good to the 
remnant out of all events whatsoever, even out of the eater meat, 
& out y° strong sweetness, & out of the lyon's carkass, honey. 
This night wee expect to see Cos. Th. Bowker & his new Bride 
Have you not taken a turn at Whitehal yet, to see the. nest in 
the Ortyard, whence your poor Father came ? your uncles either of 
them or your Aunts, would accompany you. Commend us all to 
them ; I write not, because by you they hear of us. Wee hear 
that Chester Fayr is forbidden which is a disappointm' to many 
landoners & others. Your Mother gives you her Blessing, 
your Sisters their kind love. I suppose by this time, you are in 
the Hal again in commons, where you must bee careful to 
behave yours, with all soberness, for many eyes are upon you; 
you want your Supper-companion, your individuus comes there, 
to whom we desire to bee remembered, beseeching tlie lord to 
direct your way in everything & to keep you humble, & serious, 
& in his fear alwayes, which is the daily prayer of 

Yr. Affec. lov. Fa"^ 

Jun. 20. .85. P. H. 



■ PHILIP HENRY. 339 



To Philip Henry in Chester Castle from M. H. 

Hon" Sir, 

We receiv'd y" last night by Ann Huxley, and 
though it troubles us to think y' y"^ are there * (and 'tis' the more 
grievous because you have us'd to bee so little abroad) yet the 
account you give of your circumstances, doth somewhat comfort 
us, wee can see the cup mix't, and cannot but acknowledg the 
goodness of y' God y' mixes it, and especially that puts hony upon 
y' Rod, hoping that as afflictions abound, consolations will abound 
no Bars nor bolts nor guards can exclude him. I am very sorry 
I cannot come to see you, indeed many of my friends are against 
it and therefore I submit, hoping and praying & waiting for a 
comfortable meeting in God's due time, and yet am apt to think 
I could come without danger. My Mother is just now gone to 
Hanmer to y" Burial of old Aunt Maddocks, who dy'd on Sat. 
night. Cosin Benyon call'd of her, and left her service to you. 
We are all well (blessed bee God) Sis. El" ague returns not. My 
Mother thinks to send Sister Sarah to see you, upon Thursday, if 
room will be had in the Chester Coach, if not, it must be defer'd 
till there is, but shee is overjoy'd to think of seeing you. Wee 
think to send this week for my Sisters, and I think to go y° day 
before, and so bring y"" home with mee, if Mr. H. & my Lady 
would let y' daught'^ or (w""" phaps would bee better at y^ time) 
some one of y" come hither, wee could send (for one) with my 
sisters, if wee have orders fr" y" by y Bearer Owen Brown & 
should bee glad of it. Wee expect y° chimney-men here to-day, 
for y"' are come into our Town, y'' gave an account of y™^ buzlraess 
to -f Justices yesterday, who for ought I understand could not or 
would not gainsay them, & so there's no remedy but patience. 
Edw. Pears has paid for y" Bak-house chimney at Bron : They are 
now carrying y° last load out of -f little meadow. 5 Load in all. 
No more but affectionate love, duty, service from us all as due 

* In Chester Castle. 



340 .PHILIP HENRY. 

wishing the eternal God may bee y' Refuge & underneath inay bee 
y" Everlasting Arms I rest 

Y" ever dutiful son, 

M. H. 
July 7. .85. 

I forgot to tel y" y' I was yesterd. at Will. Cross, my Lady * talks 
of going to see her friends in Bonds but when I know not, shee 
offers to take my Mo. along w"" her in her Coach at any time. 

You are enquir'd for by fr""^ & neighb" w" no small con- 
cernedness. The Chimney men are just now gone : and are pay'd 
4"'' for y^ Kill-chimney, and much adoe I had to save The 
Matthews' Bake house. 



From Philii5 Henry in Chester Castle to Mrs. Henry 
at Broad Oke. 

July. 8. 16S5.. 
Dear Heart, 

I continue very well, at present, thankes bee to- 
God ! and feel nothing yet of the Inconveniences of a prison ,-: 
we are better accommodated, as I acquainted you in my last, then 
wee could have expected, though wee must pay for it. Just now 
six Min"' N. , C. are brought in hither from lancashire, more than' 
before, so far are wee from enlargm', but our times are in God's 
hand, who hath sent us hither, I am confident, for good, though 
how or which way or wherein I know not, but hee is faithful that 
hath promis'd. My Chamber fellows & I differ someth. in our 
apprehensions of things past, which wil not bee helpt, but for the 
unseen th. that are to come that are Eternal, wee are all one.. 
Our Afternoones, til late, are fild with visitants, who love us & 
wish us wel & are kind to us, but wee cannot doe with them what 
wee would. Cos. Crue hath been an hour witli mee this morning 
shee brought mee a quart of Aqu. Alirab. which I would have 
had her take back again, til more need, but shee would not. I 
have not yet opened y' little bottle I brought with mee, since I 
came, not wanting it, & being more afrayd of what might heat 
"f This was Mrs. Lloyd of Willington., 



PHILIP HENRY. 341 

mee, in regard wee have no drink but strong (unless very seldom) 
neither morning, noon, nor night, w"'' may turn to Feavorish dis- 
tempers, wanting exercise — I have not trodden on the ground 
since Sat. which using mys. to in mornings I thought -f want of 
it might bee prejudicial, but hitherto it is not ; I have not tasted 
Butter yet with bread since I came from home. This dinner wee 
had Beanes and Bacon, Sanimon &c. but I am careful w' I eat, 
not Fishes & Fleshes. Mrs. Wenlock was to see mee yesterday & 
brought mee a bottle of wine. I bestow all of that kind in 
Common, my Companions strangers here. This Aftern. y" Citizens 
meet on Rood-dee with Halberts, they think to take the Oath. 
Mrs. Clive is here, Mr. Woodh. I hope recovers, 5z: w" wel comes 
in again. I have seen Mr. H. but 'tis at distance. Let mee 
hear from you, how you doe & the children &c. as oft as you can. 
Shew not my letters. When you think fit to send for them from 
Salop, Send love to Matth. Our Gards change every howr, which 
makes it so very hard to come to us, else wee might oblige them. 
I would gladly see him, but when or how I know not, I think 
there's little danger of any harm to him here, if there bee none at 
home, at his return. Love to Sarah &c El'nor, & to Ann D. & to 
all y" rest of you, doe w' you can to get to heaven your selves & 
to help one another thither. Prepare for further Sufferings, to 
which it may bee these th. are but the Preamble but all is well 
that ends everlastingly well. Thankes for all y'' love & faithfulnes 
to mee, & Patience with mee ; the lord wil reward it. One of 
my Fellow Prisoners last night receiv'd a letter from his wife sub- 
scrib'd — so I rest dear Husband in all Duty & Obedience your 
Obedient wife — Such is lancashire kindness, but deeds exceed 
words — I am in short most intirely & most affectionately thine. 

P. H. 



To Matthew Henry at Gray's Inn. 

Son Matthew, 

Wee are glad to hear of Gods goodness to you in 
your journey, going out & coming in, & of the pleasing circum- 
stances which hee hath brought you to in the place where you are, 
.concerning which you doe wel not to call it settlement, for our 



342 J'HILIP HENRY. 

present state here below is & must be a Tabernacle-state, wee 
are but strangers & pilgrims, as all our Fathers were, the world is 
our Inn,* & the place wherein you are, bearing that name, it should 
mind you daily, what your condition is in it; you are to count 
upon being there but a while & to manage your self, your time, 
your Affections, your conversation accordingly ; whilst you reckon, 
you have no continuing City here, you are the more concern'd to 
make one sure that is to come. It pleases God to lengthen out 
his displeasure towards us in this neighbourhood in the continuance 
of the Smal Pox which hath taken away many, out's are yet pre- 
serv'd, to his name bee the praise, in whose hand our times are & 
at whose dispose are all our wayes. 

Tho. Hensh. was here to-day, paying his Rent, honestly; the 
rest I hope, will bee had ere long, but the general complaint is, 
that nbthing takes money, The price of Cattle & Com is low, & 
pity 'tis that Plenty should bee a grievance ; 'tis but a little while,. 
I am sure, since the complaint was high & lowd, the other way. 
God in mercy secure the Gospel to us, though he feed us with the 
Bread of Adversity & give us Teares to drink in other matters ! 
The D" gave them a good Sermon. Nov. 5. from 2 Cor. i. 10. 
There was generally in all the Country hereabouts, especially on 
the Welsh side, greater expressions of joy then ordinar}', & many 
Pulpits ful of sharp Reflections upon the People concern'd, only 
one I hear of whose Text was, Goe teach all nations Baptizing 
them- — what he infer'd from thence sutable to the occasion I know 
not. My love to your chamber-fellow unknown, help one another 
what you can especially for heaven, remembering wherein two are 
better then one. AVhen you have leasure and can convenientlj-, 
goe see your Aunts, but not by water, lest you catch cold, however 
write to them, if there bee such a way thither, by the Peny-post. 
What if you should call sometime at new Serj. Inn on Serj. Rig*"' 
or accost him, if you see him in Westm'' hal, only to tel him who 
you are & what circumstances you are in, & to present my service 
to him & to inquire of the health & welfare of our fellow-Prisoners, 
as far as known to him. This is not to cutt you out impertinent 
work, nor to engage you in inconveniences, but to intimate to you 
what you may doe, as there is occasion & if it fall in your way. 
* Cf. Archbishop Leighton. 



PHILIP HENRY. 343 

your Mother gives you her love and Blessing, your Father also his, 
The lord bee gracious to thee; my Son ! Should you not pay 
respect some time to our land-lord ? 

S' Roger Pu. went hence on Munday, his sister marry'd to Mr. 
Thelw. Bryn & Bron. are commended to you. Bee careful of 
your health, remember the rule venienti occurrere — but esp. neglegt 
not the mayn matter, the Soul is the man, if that doe well, all's 
wel. 

Your letter escaped opening, write, but bee cautious what & 
how. — Nov. 13. 85. 

P. H. 
[this letter answered Nov. 17/85.] 



II. 

Dec II. ..85. 
Son Matthew, 

I imagine, your present circumstances make it more 
difficult to your Friends to find you, else you would have more 
Visitants. 'Twas a good Item. written over a studious Person's 
study door Amice, quisquis — Commend mee to Mr. law", what you 
appoint, as to your Debt to him, shal bee observ'd, but as to the 
other Affayr, which hims' writes about, I can give no encouraging 
Answer, for several reasons, some of which, his oV^n Consideration 
though not Affection, may suggest. Wee have hearty Sympathy 
with our Afflicted Friends in their Afflictions, weeping with those 
that weep, as being our selves also in the Body, Natural, Mystical. 
T'was a good Prayer of luther's when Melanct. & hee were entering 
the Place of Meeting at Spire, Domine Jesu, Tu ipse prospice 
Rebus tuis ! In reading Beza's Epist. I find, about 120. y. since, 
things were much at the same pass in the same climate, hee that 
hath deliver'd, doth deliver, & I trust, wil. Amen ! wee are 
thoughtful where & how you wil spend this cold, dark, long vaca- 
tion, without prejudice to . . . your studyes, your health ; Our 
Prayer to God for you is that of Jabez for hims' daily, that the 
lord would bee with you & bless you indeed & enlarge your coast 
& keep you from the evil, from all evil, that it may not hurt you, 
even that the lord would preserve & keep your Soul ! Amen & 
Amen ! Dec. 1 1. .85. 



344 PHILIP HENRY. 



12.. 

.Son Matthew, 

Mr. Hanm' hath distrayn'd upon Mr. Aldersey for 
his f Relief & hee hath replevyd & sayes, hee wil stand suit, which 
if he doe, I know, who wil get the better. Though few visitants 
knock at your door, I hope, you find sufficient company within ; 
a good Book is a good companion at any time, but especially a 
good God, who is always ready to hold communion with those 
that desire & seek communion with him. Keep low & humble 
in your thoughts & opinion of yours' but aym high in your desires 
& expectations, even as high as the Kingdom of Heaven, & resolve 
to take up with nothing short of it. Wee Both give you our love 
& Blessing, beseeching the lord to go in & out before you in all 
your wayes & to preserve you blameless to his heavenly Kingdom. 
Amen ! Nov. 27. 10. at night 1685. 

[answered by M. H. Dec' i. 1685.] 



13- 

In reply to his son's of December 15th. 

Dec^ 11/85. 
Son Matthew, 

Your's came safe to hand & in due time this forenoon, 
finds us all in health, praysed be God, & is as welcora to us, as 
our's can possibly be to you ; They flock about it, as bees about a 
honey-comb, & are as much refreshed by it. I like not to have 
mine double-charg'd to you & to bee as dear as your dinnerj had 
they been all in one sheet without slitting, I suppose, it had been 
otherwise. I am glad you have satisfy'd yom- curiosity in the 
sight of the Jewes' worship, but more that you make such im- 
provem' of it for the ends of true Piety ; They are, certainly, to 
bee pity'd by us, being under the sad influences of a dismal curse 
& judicial hardning, which yet there is hope wil in due time & 
therefore room for prayer, that it may, bee taken off when Popish 
Idolatry & Protestant Profaness, the great bars that hinder, shal 
come to an end, which God hasten for his mercy sake, & for their 
sake ! Wil you write a letter by the Post to Mr. Charles Williams 



jPhilip henry. 345 

■of Newp' in Monmouthshire to know of him, how 'tis with him 
& whether his Son bee bound 'Prentice, if hee bee, to whom & for 
what, & where a legacy may bee payd in london for his use, 
giving a legal release ; desire a line or two from him directed to 
you at Gr. Inn. Mr. W. H" sent his Servant to mee this week, 
for an old Acquittance I had of a Releif or herriot p* to y' E. 
of Derby 64. yeares since, which I sent him, whereby hee sayes 
I have much oblig'd him & I am very glad to doe it. Mr. Al. 
intends to stand suit with him, but I think, your counsel were 
better, to make peace ; His Sister Mary is ill at present of the 
Smal Pox, so are many more both in Town & Country, & our's 
yet spar'd, blessed bee the lord for it ! his mercy to us therein 
is singular. Old Mrs. Bruerton, of Bella hil, Mr. Tho. Dod's 
Mother, dy'd on Sabb. day last, her son is expected from London 
at her Interm' defer'd til Tuesday next, as wee hear. Our usual 
yearly distribution is wel perform'd & an account taken ; that 
which puts the true value on it, is divine Acceptance, which 
is not wanting where there is uprightness ; tis a good work, as 
Mr. Herbert sayd, when hee had built a church, if it bee sprinkled 
with the Bloud of J. X' without which all is nothing ; See your 
need of him more & more & live upon him; no life like it, so 
■sweet, so safe; christus meus mihi in omnia; Wee cannot be dis- 
charged from the Guilt of any evil wee doe, without his Merit 
to satisfy; wee cannot move in the performance of any Good 
requir'd, without his S.^it & grace to assist & enable for it, & 
when wee have done all, that all is nothing, without his Mediation 
& Intercession to make it Acceptable, so that every day in every 
,th. hee is All in All. 

Now the lord God everlasting bee your Sun & Shield in all 
your wayes ; see time hasting away apace towards eternity, & the 
Judge soon at the door, & work accordingly ; wherever you are, 
alone or in company, bee alwayes either doing or getting good, 
sowing or reaping. As for mee, I make no other reckoning but 
that the time of my departure is at hand & what Trouble I may 
meet with before, I know not, the wil of the lord bee done ; One 
•of my cheif cares is, that no Iniquity of mine may bee layd up for 
you, which God grant for his mercy Sake in Christ Jesus. Amen ! 

[Answered Dec' 22. 1685.] 



346 PHILIP HENRY. 

14. 
Son Math., 

. . . Both of us, to Whitch. to meet the Tidings of 
your letter & found it as we desir'd & hop'd, & at our return 
home this evening your sisters had it after patient expectation all 
day & wee are now rejoycing together; And must it bee thus 
alwayes ! Shal wee never bee moved ? doth our mountayn stand 
so strong ! wee must not think so, nor say, to morrow shal bee as 
this day & much more abundant, because wee know not what a 
day may bring forth ; The highest degree of bodily health is the 
next step to sickness, & so of peace to trouble, 'tis good therefore 
to rejoyce with trembling, & to bee making ready for changes, 
esp. when the cup is passing round ; Ille hodie, ego eras ; Wee 
have yet a living Son, & you a living Father & Mother, but how- 
soon it may bee otherwise wee know not, but this wee know, wee 
have here no continuing city, our Breath is in our Nostrils, our 
time hasting away apace & as time goes Eternity comes, & what 
then ? then what thy hand finds to doe, doe it, work while it is 
light, walk while it is day, blessed is that servant, whom his lord 
when hee comes shal find watching ! I read your ingenious Proof 
of the S'" Perseverance from Gosp. grounds in law Termes with 
some delight & pleasure, not only as to the Doctrin itself, which 
is, Articulus stantis et cadentis solatij chrisiiani, but also to see, 
that you make so good use of Cook & littleton, that you keep the 
handmaid in such due subserviency to the Mistris, Hagar to Sarali, 
goe on stil to doe so, bring all your Egyptian Jewels & ear-rings 
to adorn the lord's Tabernacle ; use your studyes in humane 
learning as the captive mayd, when to bee made a wife, was to be 
us'd, her head was to be shav'd & her nailes par'd, & then shee 
was to bee taken home to house ; Omnes libri Scripti sunt, tit 
unus iittelligatur ; have that rule often in j'our eye & steer accord- 
ingly ; If you proceed in learning the French language, I am in 
hope it may be of use to you, in reading their Authors, & for that 
reason, I give my consent & wish you good speed; How glad 
would I have been lately of so much skil in it, as to have been 
able to have read & understood their church-catechism when the 
B" of S' A[saph] urg'd, that in one of the Dimanches there, the)- 
doe assert, that to deny or disuse the Sacr'' is sufficient to denomi- 



PHILIP HENRY. 347 

nate a man no christian, which I had a great desire to see in their 
own words, but could not spel it from them, though I had the Book 
by mee & so was forced to take it as represented. If you sett your 
mind to it, I hope it wil bee no work of time to conquer it, esp. 
having a good Teacher & so good company to learn with you, 
however, to conquer so much of the difficulty of it, as wil make it 
easy to you to proceed in it your self afterwards but remember 
alwayes. Omnia crvv 6eS. One Turner a Bayliff was kild this week 
near Whitch. in arresting a man at his suit, by a third Person, who 
is fled which is some trouble to him, though hee did particularly 
give order that that Person should not bee imploy'd in doing it. 
'Tis likely at present to be a Match betw. Mis. rra[ncis Hunt] & 
Mr. John Hardware, (not Trevice, as you suppos'd,) a hopeful 
yong Gentleman, of your year, & the Teniies not altogether to bee 
mishk'd ; If the th. proceed from the lord, my prayer is, that there 
may bee spoken agt it neither good nor bad. You write no more 
in this than in your last concer. your Aunts, that is, just nothing, 
which makes mee either to hope 'tis wel with them, or to fear, you 
are too much out of the way of inquiry after them. I would not 
have you by any meanes to venture yet upon the water, as warm 
& tempting as the weather is, lest you catch cold, but you may 
write a line or two now & then by the Peny-post, without that 
danger, if it bee only to let them know, that you hear from us, that 
wee are wel, & would bee glad to hear that they are so too. The 
Smal Pocks continues yet in Whitch. Mrs. Morgan bury'd a child 
of it lately, our's are yet preserv'd, blessed bee God ! 'tis on the 
other hand of us also at H' & elsewhere. The Hathorn hedge 
anenst the Hal window hath not only Buds but green leaves ap- 
pearing, which is not usual • I hear of the like in other places. 
I make no apology for writing so much to you, nor tel you not, I 
wil bee no longer tedious, bee. I think not the longest of your's 
too ,long, & suppose you think the same of mine. Shal I now 
conclude with much in a little? Worship God in the Spirit, 
rejoyce in X' J. & have no confidence in the Flesh ; Use things 
below, but enjoy the things that are above; Love the Book of 
God above all Bookes, the Day of God above all Dayes, & the 
People of God above all People; While you live, live to God, 
& then when you dye, you'l dye to God, & bee receiv'd to live 



34? J'HILIP HENRY. 

for ever with him in everlasting mansions, which hee grant that 
■dearly lov'd us & dearly bought us, Jesus Christ the Righteous. 
Amen ! 

Your Mother sends you her love & blessing. 

Jan. 15. l68i. 

The original of this belongs to H. W. Tyndall, Esq. 

15- 

May. i 1686. 

Son Matthew, 

The contents of your last doe a little trouble us, not 
so much that you were let Bloud, though I think it might have 
been better had it been done sooner, as that you did mis-manage 
yourself after, both in going in the morning to lawrence Jury & in 
writing so much both to us & to Bo[reatton] in the Evening, it 
being convenient after Blood-letting to bee sedate & compos'd 
for some time til Nature bee come to itself again ; Therefore in 
your next I shal expect to hear, that you were worse after it, & 
that the Feebleness & Dulness you mention were the immediate 
Symptoms of it, which God in mercy prevent ! Wee are all wel 
here, thankes bee to God ! The Divine Providence watching about 
our tabernacle, and compassing us about with Favor as with a 
Sheild. Our great Inquiry is, what shal we render ! Alas, our 
rendrings are nothing to our receivings ; wee are like the Barren 
field, on which much cost is bestow' d, but the Crop is not accord- 
ingly ; Our heavenly Father is Loding us with his Benefits & wee 
iire Loding him with our sins, greiving him that comforts us, &: 
how long, how long shal it be so ! 6: that it might bee otherwise ! 
that our Mercyes might bee as Oyl to the wheeles, to make us 
so much the more active & lively in our Master's work, especi. 
considering how it is with our fellow-servants ; They empty & 
wee ful, they Marah, & wee Naomi. Our dear Friends Mr. Ja. 
Ow. at Osw[estry] & Mr. Jo. Wils. at Nantw[ich] upon beds of 
.sickness, & in the valley of the shadow of death, & wee well • 
They had hopes, when wee heard last, of the recovery of both 
of them though remayning dangerously ill. I am glad to hear 
your Aunts are in health, but sorry they ai-e in any thing uneasy, 



.PHILIP HENRY. .349' 

this is not the world, wherein wee must have everything that 
wee would have, but there is such a state before us, the happi- 
ness whereof eye hath not seen nor ear heard neither hath it 
enter'd into the heart of man to conceive; I would have you,. 
as you have opportunity to bee a Comforter &: a Counseller 
to them, & as you can to help their Burthens. Tel Cos. Hobs, 
wee shal supply her son with such clothes as hee hath need 
of, & are fit for him, though shee hath not mention'd it ; you 
know your mother's way, shee suffers nothing to spoyl' for want of 
mending in time. I saw Mrs. Tils, the other day, shee heare's 
her son's Intentions for Holland are diverted for present, and y' 
hee wil not bee at London till August ; It seemes, hee is unfixt, 
what should bee the reason ? _Her Sister Ben. seemes to bee in a 
declining condition & I fear wil not bee long m this world, but 
hath good hopes through grace of a better. Mr. Corbet had 
thoughts of sending his Horses back again, if so, it might doe 
some Friend a kindness that looks toward the Countrey, if you 
know of any such, & them no unkindness, to embrace the Oppor- 
tunity, tho hee was not resolv'd. Hearty renewed respects to the 
worthy Trios of approv'd Friends mention'd in my last, whom I 
pray God to continue in their Integrity & Usefulness. There 
may a day come when it may cost dear to be honwest, but after 
all, to fear god & keep his Commandm** is the whole duty of man. 
I therefore commend it to you, & you to God, who is a shield & 
Buckler to them that fear him. "Eppcocro ! * 

Though wee have not yet receiv'd Cos. Hobsen's token, yet. 
pray give her Thankes for it ; Her son is wel in health & learns 
his Catech. hee can say about half the first part & creepes on by- 
degrees ; wee should bee glad, if hee might get some good here,, 
that might stick by him, Hee rode your Mare on Wednesd. (witli. 
your Sister Sarah on the little mare) to Ash & perform'd very wel 
& last night hee rode to Whitch: & fetch'd your letter, whicb 
pleases him ; Hee is glad to hear of his Mother & grandmother & 
hopes by this time they wil have received his by Mr. Lawrence,. 
who went hence, wee think on Munday. Mr. Corbet goes not tilll 
Tuesday next ; Mr. Tong promises to cal on you ; Tis now 
Vacation time, & though mdla dies sine Linea, yet Arcuin iion- 

* Farewell. 



350 PHILIP HENRY. 

semper tendit Apollo suum. 'Tis not for mee to sit here & prescribe 
neither when, nor how much, nor how long, but remember the 
counsel of my last, to bee always either doing, or getting good ; 
you'l find his Company savory, else I should not commend it to 
you, for I know you doe not want Company & I hope not good 
ones. Mr. Bentley was here yester-morning, told mee hee saw 
you & sate a while with you ; Tis Mercy wee may doe so in peace, 
si nan data ultrd,; Mr. Birch came not to Wil. last night, as expected, 
but at Preston hee say'd hee must bee, God willing, on Sabbath 
day. 



i6. 

May 7. 1686. 

S. M.— 

wee read this morning in course, when wee had just 
newly experienc'd the Truth of it, by the receit of your letter (for 
wee sent early to Whit, for it) Prov. 25. 25. As cold waters to a 
thirsty soul, so are good newes from a far country. Since Friday 
last wee have been in sequilibrio, between hope & fear, not know- 
ing what to think, that wee heard not from you ; sometimes wee 
thought all was not wel & then wee fear'd, expecting stil by each 
Post some evil tidings, but when both Sat. & Mund. night brought 
noth. wee then began to conclude & hope it was, as it proves, but 
a miscarriage ; But one, did I say ? I am loth to determine where 
to fix it, neither can I, but as the Club-footed Philosopher whose 
sho<;es were stollen from him, only wisht they might fit him that 
had them, so, not as hee intended but as the wish innocently 
seem'd to mean at first hearing, I really innocently wish him that 
intercepted it this kindness, that the good sermons in it may doe 
his soul good, & that nothing else in it may doe you or us any 
hurt It's being the first made it somewhat the worse. I 
am glad of the account you .give of Westmin' Election, being 
pleas'd with the story of it cold, tho' not as you were, who had 
it hot; Only one thing I miss, & that is the mention of my 
old Master, who us'd to bee the Principal verb, whether hee bee 
yet in vivis ; I don't remember that the second day was wont to 
bee like the first & theref. your loss thereof was the less, esp. 



PHILIP HENRY. 351 

having so good a sermon in exchange for it. 'Twere not amiss if 
Ph. Bickl. would present hims. in propria persona to S"' Rog' 
Puleston at the Rolls for his Satisfaction for 'tis certainly believ'd 
here that hee is dead, & two Tenem'" in which his life alone is, 
are, the one actually seiz'd on & the profits detayn'd for these two 
yeares past, the other which is John Griffiths of Addavellyn * is 
threaten'd in like manner. John Griff, is so much conceni'd, that 
a Friend of his told mee, hee would give Phil, a good peice of 
money could hee but see his Face. 'Tis reported here, that S" 
Job is for Chester again, is it so ? Wee missed y' changes in y" 
Hal, besides all the rest. As to your Journey to Sussex, I know 
not what to say, bee. I know not how you are dispos'd ; Is there 
a flying Coach thither ? if so it may bee that were better than to 
hire a Horse ; What company can you promise your s^ ? alone I 
would not have you, by no meanes, to venture in a strange country ; 
The weather also is to bee consider'd, if it should continue 
dropping, the wayes would bee bad there, either for Coach or 
Horse ; so that after all, I must refer it to your s' ; only Acknow- 
ledge God in all your wayes & hee shal direct your steps ; His 
Father talkes sometimes of a Journey into Suffolk to lady H' & so 
to Sussex all under one, but I see little likelihood of it. By this 
time, I suppose, Mr. T" is with you from Oxon. remember to 
bee like fire-stickes together, provoking one another to love & to 
good workes, & to study at studying times, that your profiting 
may appear to all men. I am heartily sorry for the Death of the 
worthy Doctor, i.e. for the churche's loss in him, as for hims. hee 
is now no longer a stranger in a strange land ; but at rest at home 
in his Father's house. Bee sure improve your Munday-evenings 
Tvel & wisely, by sucking hard & pumping hard; you have not 
such Breasts every day & are to have those but a while, for our 
fashion passes away ; If a wish would doe, I would be with you 
the very next, but it will not ; Give my most Affectionate respects 
there however & to Mr. St. & Mr. 1. & their yoke-fellowes. Your 
Father & Mother send you their Blessing, your sisters wil some of 
them tel you thems. what they send you on the other side. Lord 
Del[amere] was at another Race last week at Farn, as I hear, 

* Adittis — the approach ; velyn = mill. Trevalyn in Denbighshire, and 
Trevelyan in Cornwall, are both of them Mill-town (Mil-ton). 



3 52 PHILIP HENRY. 

where hee won considerably of Squire Egerton ; His Fr* doe- 
much wonder at the humor of it, & I think I told you formerly 
what the old woman sayd. What Fruit wee are like to have this 
summer upon the Trees, I cannot tel, they are yet but in Blossom,^ 
& Blossoms you know are not Fruit, but a sad Face of Barreness 
is upon our Congregations, many waxing worse & worse, few 
better better, And is the Axe layd to the Root? lord, let it 
alone this year also ! Seeing your letters are so expos'd, I need 
not renew the former caution to bee careful what you ^mte ; yet 
glad wee are to hear how it fares with the poor people of God in 
this gloomy day, who are our crvyKK^povofioi koL (rva-a-w/ioi, that 
wee may rejoyce with them when they rejoyce & weep with them 
when they weep. As for any thing else, tho' wee are suspected 
to bee Men of Design, the Troublers. &c. our rejoycing is this, 
the Testimony — and let God alone in his way &: time to clear 
the truth. 

P. H. 
[Answered May ii. 1686.] 



17- 

To M. Henry at Gray's Inn. 

May. {i. ..86. 
Son Math. 

The weather hath been wett here of late, as it seemes 
it hath been with you, but these two dayes last past have been 
fayr & Summer-like & they that can are busy, tho' it bee late, 
sowing barley ; were there the same care taken of the soul, in 
doing what wee can, when wee cannot doe what wee would, & to 
observe the Rule, better late than never, how wel were it Mr. 
Church went hence on Munday last, whom I suppose by this time 
you may have seen, hee took a letter for )'ou & a Ginney, sup- 
posing you might have occasion. The chees-market is quite dead 
at present ; something ayles the londoners with Cheshire, thus to 
punish them. The Collection for y° Fr[ench] Prot[estants] hath 
not reacht us yet, but I suppose is coming ; I saw the Narrative 
& could not chuse but think, that things were made the worst of, 
for though I know what manner of spirit the people are of, yet 



PHILIP HENRY. 353 

there were some passages, that would hardly consist with meer 
Humanity. I saw also the answer to the three Papers, & sup- 
pose by y' style its Author to bee D' Sh. It confirmes that which 
you have somet. heard a Friend of your's say, that there are some 
men, on whom if it should please Authority to Frown but half so 
much and half so long, as it hath done on some of their Neighbors, 
they would hardly hold their hand, so as they have done, however 
not their Tongues & Pens. Our God in all these events is 
bringing to pass his own wil & counsel, which is for certain the 
advancem' of his own Kingdom & Glory, All which is prayd for in 
the three first Petitions of the lord's Prayer, to which all that love 
him wil most heartily say. Amen ! Though you have nothing of 
mine in -f hand now wherwithal to doe it, yet you must not 
forget to bring with you, if not to send before you on my account 
some smal charity-Bookes (the quid esp.) for I am now quite 
out of stock, I gave 6'' for one at Salop, whereas of Brome hims. I 
bought 6. for 7 groats. Also some smal Bibles — I can buy them 
here for 2^ 10* which is e'en cheap enough, but they are ill bound. 
I have not been in England this long time but purpose a salley 
shortly, God willing ! Wee had a report of some disturbance in 
Coventry last Sabb. upon occasion of mass there, what truth is in 
it or what the circumstances were, wee hear not : Tis like Mr. Ch. 
may inform you, who was there a day or two after. You say no 
more of Pr", was the report of his Conf[ormity] true or false ? Wee 
both send you our Blessing, your sisters & all -f rest their love & 
service. You have yet a Home here, & dear Relations together 
& not scatter'd nor broken up, how long it may bee so, God only 
knowes, our times are in his hand, wee shal begin shortly to doe 
as the lads at Westm' were won't to doe, & it may bee do stil, by 
the word Electio. Macte virtute, mi Fili, et vale ! Dominus 
tecum ! 

[This letter answered May 18, 1686.] 



19. 
Son Mat. 

we receiv'd -f tidings this morning of God's Goodness 
to you in y' Journey, for which wee desire to bee thankful ; also a 

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354 PHILIP HENRY. 

further account of the late Fire & your loss therein & doe bless 
God it was no worse. If your Gown had been burnt, it might 
have been lookt upon as a tacit super Sedaas to your further Pro- 
gress in those studyes, but 'tis wel it was not, however every 
Providence hath a voice & sayes something. Your kind 
entertainm' with Mr. A. at your first coming up must not divert 
you from your former methods, but get as soon as you can 
into the geares, volat irrevocabilis hora. As to the Ch"' business, I 
can say no more then I sayed both to them & to you together, 
when you were here, w='' was, that for the present you are 
under an engagem' another way ; what may bee hereafter, God 
only knowes; Tis not at all likely, that I should doe as you 
mention in the mean time, but if there bee a door of Opportunity 
I know none so fit to make use of it, as hee who is akeady with 
them upon the place, who knowes them & is known of them. 
Ann walkt a-foot to Malpas to the buryal of Widow Brinley 
& back again ; when shee was dying, shee askt, was the money & 
Y Candle ready, the one whereof was put in the one hand & the 
other lighted in the other, at the time of her departure ; they also 
sprinkl'd her & y° Bed & room with their holy water & fel a sweep- 
ing y° room with besoms, as hard as they could, to sweep all her 
sins away ; 6 that ever there should bee such darkness in the midst 
so much light ! wee hear, the new lord Deputy was in some 
danger in his passage to Beaumaris, but escap'd. The Whitchurch 
Curate took occasion on Munday last in his sermon to reflect upon 
the worth Mr. Baxter by name. One of our greatest Clergy-men 
lately being reprov'd for Associating hims. so much with Papists, 
answer'd. To inquire what Religion a man is of is as rude as to ask 
him, what money hee hath in his Pocket, rememb' us to Mr. 
Thomas Hunt, also tel him hee must bee busy, for now is his 
gathering time. Wee Both send you our dear love & Blessing, 
making mention of you in daily Prayer that you may bee serious 
& sincere, humble & fruitful ! Amen ! 

Feby. 4. 86. 



PHILIP HENRY. 



20. 

Son Math. 

Wee have at present a Calm here, all the noj'se is 
■concer. many who are com'n lately out of Ireland ; Two, who 
have brought their stock with them have bin bidding this week for 
Wil[lington] Cross, whether a Bargain or no I know not. One 
Moor is expected to bee made Provost of y° College at Dublin, 
uj)on the lord Tyrconel's arrival. I thought Mr. Tyls[ton] would 
have defer'd his Journey North-ward til nearer April, in regard 
the winter is not yet over ; These two or three last dayes have 
been very cold here. I do not apprehend a D'-ship likely to 
bee of any great advantage to him as yet, til liee hath yeares for 
it & more experience, but tis hard to get to bee mortify'd to a 
thing cald . worldly honor, though it bee indeed but a shadow. 
Wee all remember service to Mr. Thomas Hunt ; tell him what 
Elizabeth Parsons sayd to Geor. Illidge about the Picture, turn 
away mine eyes from beholding vanity. The more dead liee 
is to the gay nothings of the Town, the more alive hee wil 
bee to God & to his Duty. Mind him of what the Angel sayd 
to Elijah, what dost thou here Elijah ? Wee are much beholden 
to Mr. As' for his great kindness in so befriending you, but tis 
neither Portion nor relation, I would have you so much to look 
at in that matter, as the Person, that, as much as may bee, 
shee be sutable & try'd, wherein wee pray to God to direct you. 
There are more wil have to say to you. as an Inns-of-Court 
Gentleman, then either as an N. C. M. or the son of one. Give 
my affectionate remembrance to the worthy Mr. Tal. & bee as 
oft with him, as you have opportunity, while you stay in Town ; 
hee that walkes with wise men shal bee wise. No tidings of late in 
any of your letters, as formerly, from Westm' Hal, I suppose, tlie 
reason to bee your not being in commons & theref not in a 
'Gown ; who succeeds cheif J. Bedingf. ? Tis reported here that 
S'' Tho. Jones doth, his Predecessor & his successor. Wee send 
you our Blessing, commending you to him, who Blesses indeed, 
in whose Favor life is. Amen ! 

Feby. i8. .8f. 



3S6 PHILIP HENRY. 

To M. H. at Gray's Inn. 

Feb. II. 

Son Math. 

Tho the ingagem' was not for once a week as formerly, 
yet til there bee some occassional Reason for the contrar}-, wee are 
willing to keep up the old wont. Thankes bee to God, wee are 
as yet as you left us, only the Ague hath changd places & instead 
of El'nor, shakes at present your Sister Ann, who hath had a fit or 
two, not in extremity, praysed bee God. Since the receit of your's 
this morning I sent to Bo[reatton] & just now receive answer. 8. 
clock, they are all wel & I understand you have thoughts of 
removing to y' T. ; is it, that you may bee utriusque Academise 
Magister ? I have noth. to object, but pray God, y' wherever you 
are, you may doe wel. I wish the ayr of the water may not bee 
to your prejudice, 'twas not to your F' who breath'd his first 
Breath just close by it. 
P. H. to M. H. 



Apr. 29. 1687. 

Son Matth. 

Your's came to us last night in our return from the 
"Wood, where wee had been to see your Sister, whom wee found & 
left, I hope wel pleas'd in the goodness of God to her in present 
Circumstances ; not that any place is Heaven on this Side Heaven, 
for all things under the Sun are both mixed & uncertain, & there- 
fore both wee & shee must rejoyce with trembling, but as God 
hath order'd it for her her lines are fallen in a pleasant place & 
shee hath love with it, which helpes to sweeten itj your Sister 
Ann is yet with her, the other two are now at home. There went 
with us Mr. Hardware & his wife, who expected a letter also in 
answer to their last & were a little disappointed, that they had 
none. Every place and condition is that to us which God makes 
it to bee, but I see no other likelihood but it may bee comfortable 
to her. Her Husband is very affectionately kind & tender towards 
her, and I doubt not but other Relations will see it to be their 
wisedom & their Duty to further their mutual comfort by being so 
too. Shee visits the child most dayes & sometimes hee is brought 



PHILIP HENRY. 357 

hither to her, & great delight shee takes in him; hee comes 
on apace; give my service to Mr. Hunt & my lady & acquaint 
them herewith, that god may have prayse, who is the god & giver 
of all our Merceyes. I went on Sat. to Mr. H' & acquainted him 
Avith my Intention & desir'd a certificate from him of my so doing, 

which hee gave mee, so that now . . . Mrs. Figes hath enter'd 

her house at Whit, for one to meet at, else I hear of no other here- 
abouts ; what should wee doe with Candle Stickes without candles, 
■or Bells without clappers ? Trepi ')^. I doe most heartily wish you 
good speed in the way you mention, seeing wee must doe what 
wee can, when wee cannot doe what wee would. 



May 14 1687. 

Son Math. 

I took all the two last to my Sf but now I shal have 
help for ye filling vp of a half sheet. I rejoyce in what you heard 
& felt & saw of God on Munday last, & hope it hath left upon 
you a truly indelible character & such impressions as no time nor 
iiny thing else shall be able to wear out. Remember, Assisted by 

thy strength, 6 God I wil As to the manner & circumstances of 

your return, wee cannot order them here but must leave it to 
yoursf. to doe, as you shal see cause, beseeching the Lord in 
•every th. to make your way playn before you, but as to the th. 
itsf. wee rejoyce in hopes, it wil not bee long now, ere wee shal 
see you here (tho multa cadunt inter — ) and I must not say, bee 
filled with your company, for this is not the world that wee must 
bee together in ; your Dear Mother hath no great joy in the 
.thoughts of your closing with them at Chester upon the termes 
propos'd, her reasons are weighty, & in other th. have many times 
sway'd with mee against my own, & it hath done wel, what they 
are in this matter you shal hear immediately from hersf. As to 
your North"" affayr wee are no little concern'd about it, making 
mention of it, in every prayer, to our heavenly Father, who wee 
have learn'd, besides a common Providence hath a special hand in 
such disposals — Prov. ig. 14. And wee say, if you of all the other 
should miss 'twould- — Gen. 26. 35 — Mr. Bentley had not his 20. 
iil Thursday last, hee is now among the mountaynes but wee 



358. PHILIP HENRY. 

expect him here to morrow. I attended Mr. Sh" on Wed. last tO' 
liis grave & heard Mr. Ma. there declare concer. him to this 
purpose, f though hee had a favor for those of the separation yet 
the humor was wearing off & not long before his Death, hee 
express'd a Kindness for the Church of Eng" as hee was inform'd, 
by whom & wherein, & how. far, & why, I know not. — Should you 
not leave some smal token of grateful remembr. a Book or a 

Spoon or some th. in the hands of your worthy Fr"^ that The 

Clergy in Ch[eshire] & Shr[opshire] are hammering an Address 
of Thankes but divers of them wil not strike — They begin to 
feel now for their oaths' sake, & by our law he ought — Our love 
& Blessing is all here's room for and 'Eppuo-o ! 'Eppwcro ! twice, 
within — without. 

For Mr. Matthew Henry at Moldsworth about to bee ordained by 
the Presbytery, and — the following week to be married to 
Kath. d. of Samuel Hardware of Bromborough. Esquire.* 

Jul. 1687. 
Son Math. 

I am very much concern'd, that Two such great Affayres 
are at this time mett together upon your hand, that of the next 
Sabb. & that of the week after ; you know which of the two should 
fil you most, & I hope it wil accordingly, & if it doe, you may 
the more comfortably expect a Blessing upon the other for ever. 
Since I knew anything in those matters, I have found it true that 
when I have been most careful in doing God's work, God hath 
been most faithful in doing mine. — I have not seal'd but subscrib'd 
a Draught of Articles with Mr. Hardware, drawn after a fashion,, 
but so, as may direct a better Pen, yet not without your help, ^; 
'tis wel you are so near to give it, for it seemes to mee so intricate 
as to some things, that a stranger who knows us not nor our cir- 
cumstances may very easily mistake ; Therefore see to it, as near 
as you can, that there bee none ; Mr. H"' declares his meaning 
to bee that the 6 months bee mention'd, yet the Portion shal bee 
reckon'd, as due from the day of Marriage, on which account, 
consideration is to bee had as to the Rent of the land. Wee were 
together yesterday at each place and upon view found every 
* The original js in the possession of R. P. Greg, Esq., of Coles Park, Herts_ 



Pin LIP HENRY. 359- 

thing, not worse, but rather better then represented. I have 
mov'd but cannot prevayl, that- seeing tis so much insisted on that 
competency should bee for the heir, that Probart's & Paynter's, 
should bee so allotted, besides w* if y° lo"' p. ann. from Broad- 
Oke become payable there wil bee a ful hundred, as wee reckon 
it, for ye joynture. Peirs & Hughs & Henshaw — 50. Huxley & 
Robinson 40. & y'new feild & chapfeilds w""" Huxley may use — 10 
& y° 400 : & w' more you think fit of the 600 for yonger children ; 
But by all meanes let that bee plainly & clearly express'd, that it 
shal bee dispos'd of at such times & in such proportions to y* 
children, as you shal think fit, with our Advice ; for Paternal 
Authority must bee preserv'd. As to time & Place of sealing, I 
would meet half way on Munday, but Wednesd. being the first day 
appointed at Hanmer, I must needs attend that. If you would 
not think it too long to defer til the week after, i.e. to y° 19"" in- 
stant, I should hope by that time (your next Sabb. work & your 
Warrington journey & bur engagem" here being all over) there 
would bee much more of clearness & freeness without hurry as to 
each circumstance, but I must not move it, however not insist on 
it, lest the heart bee made sick ; therefore doe as you see cause, 
only in everything take God along with you & doe all in the name 
of the lord Jesus. Give my kind respect to your good Friend, 
whom I hope to cal by another name shortly. The lord Bless 
you Both, & first fit you for & then give you to each other in much 
Mercy ! Amen I / - 

Mr. M. Henry was married July 19"". 0.^-i 

Advice. k^M-V^"^ 

From a Pious Aged Father to his Son a Minister yo^ C" 
newly inarryd. 1687. 

Dear Pair, whom God hath now of two made One 

Suffer a Father's exhortation. 

In the first Place see that with joynt indeavor— 

You set yourselves to serve the Lord together, 

You are yoakt to work but for work Wages write, 

His yoak is easie, & his burden light, 

Love one another', Pray oft together, and see, 

You never both together Angry bee — 



360 PHILIP HENRY. 

If one speak fire t'other with water come, 

Is one provok'd be tother soft or dumb — 

Walk low, but aim high, spotles be your life 

You are a Minister, and a Minister's Wife 

Therefore as Beacons set upon a Hill — 

To Angels and to men a spectacle — 

Your slips will falls be calld, your falls each one 

Will be a blemish to Religion — 

Do good to all, bee affable and meek 

Your converse must be Preaching all the week — 

Your Garb & Dress must not be vain or Gay, 

Reckon good works your richest, best array — 

Your House must be a Bethel, and your Door 

Alway stand open to releive the Poor 

Call your estate God's, not your own, ingrave 

Holines to the Lord on all you have, 

Count upon suffering, or you count amis, 

Sufficient to each day its evil is. 

All are born once to trouble, but saints twice. 

And as experience shews Min" thrice. 

But if you suffer with and for your Lord, 

You'I reign with him according to his Word. 

34- 
For Mr. Matthew Henry in Chester. 

Nov. 28. 1687. 
My dear Son, 

Wee were glad to hear by both your last, concerning 
your's & my Daughter's health in your new habitation, beseeching 
God to continue it to you, to your mutual comfort ; wee also 
& our's here, are at present wel, God bee praysed ! What you 
wrote concerning the Ordinacbn at Warrington was welcom 
newes, & wee rejoyce in it, both that yong ones are laying their 
hands at this time of day to the Gosp. plough & that the Gosp. 
way of their Admission to it is so publiquely own'd ; I hear of two 
elsewhere that are in like circumstances & heartily pray the lord 
of the Harvest to thrust forth more & more, tho' there bee that 
thrust hard agt them. Shortly I expect Mr. Ashurst's son here, 
may wee not hope, you wil give him & us a visit, when hee comes, 
being the younger & better hors'd then I am at present. I goe, 
God willing, in the morning to Wem, to a Fast there, & whether 
thence to Boreatton, or to Hampton, where D' Long is to bee on 



PHILIP HENRY. ' 361 

Wednesday, I am not yet resolv'd — The wayes are yet so exceeding 
bad ^for Women's travel that wee send not your sister Ann as you 
€xpect & shee desires. I am troubld you have not more of the 
Bookes, my horse's weakness, & y° wayes' fowlness agree not, & 
that's y" reason — you must digest those you have the better ; esp. 
the Book of Bookes ; Study that most & your own heart & the 
People's circumstances, & that wil doe much, 

SI- 

To Mr. Matthew Henry at Chester. 

June 7. 1688. 
My dear Son, 

The Tidings of your growing illness, which mett mee at 
my return, abated much of the Comfort, which was wont, after a 
Journey, to make Home welcom, but blessed bee God, though 
Trouble & Fear lasted for the night, yet Joy came in the morning 
by my Son Hulton, who first told us of your being better ; God 
in mercy perfect what hee hath begun, and sure you should bee 
■careful of yourself, for Prayers ought to be seconded with endeavors ; 
I doe not mean, you should spare yours, in the sense in which the 
Satan spake to Peter, for I see our Opportunityes passing away, & 
I cannot say whatever others think, that you doe too much & 
•should abate ; but one thing, which I gave you a hint of, when 
-with you, I again mind you of, & that is, in the loose you take, 
in your earnestness, keep the reines upon it & let it neither run 
too far, nor last too long, for I have mys. by experience found 
some prejudice by it, especially in my sight ; And another thing, 
•as to your Health, is, that being subject to Feavors as you are, I 
think you should not when you are warm'd with preaching, either 
•drink smal Beer, which is an error on one hand, or Sack 
which is commonly offer" d, on the other, but both together, not a 
ful draught but a little at a time, by degrees, & a little warm'd 
not hott, which I find doth best, & I believe so wil you ; As to 
your daily dyet, your Brother T. I perceive, hath advis'd you, but 
remember your sister S. & take heed of the extream, which I 
believe shee is stil the worse for ; Shee is your sister. Thence to 
Newp. on Munday, where the Nett cast (& again at Weston on 
Tuesday) over many Fish, in hope ; to God bee glory. 



362 PHILIP HENRY. 

56. 

Sept. 26. 88. 
My dear Son, 

I have herewith, after twice reading them, return'd you 
your Papers concerning Schism, and I am fully of your mind, 
that that's it, which you define to bee so, namely, breach of love, 
only tis to bee consider'd whether, what some others adde, bee not 
also to bee taken into the constitution of it, viz. that it bee breach 
of love towards those that are of the same numerical Body or 
communion with mee, and that breach of love towards others is to 
bee-cal'd'properly by another Name. 

62. 

June. I. 89. 
My dear Son, 

I doe willingly neglect no opi^ortunity of writing to 
you, nor doe not you to mee, though Paper bee growing dearer. 
Son Radf. (for whose safe return wee bless God) showes mee the 
new Act of Indulgence, directed to you, concer. which I- say, as 
wee us'd to say at School, when a whole play-day was expected 
& wee could have but an afternoon, est aliquid prodire tenus, si 
non datur ultra. There are several th. in it very acceptable, 
partic. freedom from Juryes & Offices. &c. but 'tis a great way 
from hence to Flint & how long wee may bee made to attend 
there, I know not ; The quarrel is, wil you let my people goe, tliat 
they may serve mee ; wee wil, but let them not goe very far away, 
the men but not the women & children ; the women & children 
but not the cattle, but let not Pharoh deal deceitfully any more ; 
AVhen God judges, hee wil overcome. When you write to any of 
our law-makers, acknowl. their kindness & paines in procuring it 
with all thankfulness, but til the Sacramental Test bee taken off, 
our Business is not done. Tis off by sea, I hear, why not by land 
also? I publisht last Sabb. the Paper from S'' Pa. Ward. &c. 
concer. the Irish Collection, adding I could say no more to inforce 
it then is sayd there, for tis wel pen'd, but our Parish-Officers 
either have not the Breif or are slow in reading it : for I doe not 
hear that any thing is done as yet, in pursuance of it. I should 



THILIP HENRY. 365 

adde more but the Bearer's hast forbids — Our love & Blessing to 
you all, God fitt us for parting Providences, by one for another ! 
Amen ! 

63- 

June. 20. 89. 

My dear Son, 

Your Mother, I thank God, mends but tis but fair & 
softly, shee is very weak stil — Old Mr. lloyd is fallen down, of 
much the same distemper. I was to see him this afternoon & 
doe fear him ; I pray, forget him not at the Throne of Grace, for 
if God call for him, wee lose a Mnason. I have sent by VV'" 
Turner 5* wherewith procure, if it bee to bee had, the new Edition 
of the Greek Epigrams, & send mee some wafers— Wee hear last 
night of the surrender of Edinb. Castle, is it so ? And what tidings 
from Derry ? Next Tu. Lord Del[amere] is expected at Nantw. • 
which wil have some influence upon the Wood,* yet however, if 
you have not a Prohibition, you are expected there according to 
appointm'. let not your little sister with you want your com- 
forting, incouraging help in her present perils ; cal on her, to cast 
her Burthen on him, who cals for it & who wil sustain her — Send 
the Greek Catechism. God assist y' studyes & work. Amen ! 



64. 
My dear Son, 

• I bless God, I have no evil tidings to send you con- 
cerning your Mother but rather good ; Shee is, wee hope, creeping: 
up the hil again & gathering by degrees a little strength & wee 
must not despise the day of the smallest things, it being greater 
& better then wee deserve. I did not think in the least to have 
widen'd our Family, but I know not how, it proves, wee doe. Sa. 
AVats. is come to us, besides Cos. Ben^ I askt her Father, whether 
if Mr. P. came, hee might have freedom with her, hee sayd, hee 
could not yet reconcile his mind to it, in regard of her Age ; I 
sayd little to ^swade him now, having sayd enough formerly ; that 
comes best that comes freely ; nothing against the grayn ; the 
world is wide. Wee heard of your sally to the Wood. &c. this- 

* Wrenbiiry Wood, in Cheshire. 



364 FHILJP HENRY. 

week & shal bee glad to hear a journal of it, especially that you 
are wel after it, this soultry, sickly season. The Com" have thought 
lit I should commence " Gent.'' though the Sessors retum'd mee 
otherwise ; The old spirit of enmity remaynes & workes stil, as 
far as there is Opportunity, & whilst they that hate us bear Rule 
over us, tis easy to tel what wee must look for, but blessed bee 
God the tedder is anything shortned ! I hear, the Bil of Compreh. 
is on foot again, & much prosecuted by some, both Friends & 
Foes, the rather bee. it breakes the neck of the Sacramental Test. 
God, I hope, will turn all for good yet. Your Sisf T[ilston] is 
here yet, whether to stay til shee is lighter, they are not yet 
resolv'd. Her Husb"" is gone this even, to Boreatton. Farewel ! 

P. H. 
Jun. 27. .89. 

66. 

July 12. 89. 

My dear Son, 

Wee had not heard, when I wrote last by James, of 
the Death of your good Friend Mr. Edw* Greg ; I hope you are 
learning by it to cease from man, whose Breath is in his Nostrils, 
& to rest & stay your self on God only, who is the rock of Ages, 
& who alone lives for ever. Hee is both Jachin & Boaz too, our 
Creature-props are neither. Your Mother hath been afflicted this 
night w"" a Bee-sting* yester-evening in her cheek, which not 
only made her face swel, but affected her all over, as you were 
once, not without but within also, for shee was perfectly sick wth 
it ; I have not seen the like ; how great a matter a little Fire 
kindles, w" arm'd with a Commission — I hear from Salop, not that 
the Min" there, but many others, are dissatisfy'd with y" Articles ; 
wee must never all bee of a mind, till wee come to Heaven ; The 
^. 8. & 16 have someth. in y" which without a candid construction 
would somewhat scruple mee, so would the Bible its. strictly taken 
& in the letter, in those places which seem contradictory, were it 
not for such an Interpretation ; yet I could wish it had not been 
requir'd, bee. it divides us. 

Can you not send mee word by Mr. Booth or Mr. Parry's 

* Query, if she tried the remedy of cutting a raw onion and rubbing briskly 
the wound, after first removing the sting itself. 



PHILIP HENRY. 365 

information, when our Sessions are ? I hear your's is past & all 
done. I goe tomorrow, God willing, to Oswestry. 

P. H. 



For Mrs. Katherin Henry at Chester. 

Apr. 20. 1693. '• clock. 
My dear Heart, 

Every day a letter would bee" a Book in time. I wrote 
yesterday by Son Tylst. which I hope you receiv'd ; I forgot to 
tel you the malt is ready for my Son, but no Barley bought yet for 
ours, the reason is the dearness ; 8 groats y° least in Whitch. 
did not I hear Mr. Bolland say, hee had in Chester for 2. 3'' ? if 
so might not the same Horses bring us 20 of Barley from thence, 
that brings y' 20 of Malt from hence, if so & you please, 
get it bought on Sat. Two swine John bought at Whitch. 
& Hempseed, to day hee begins to sow Barley ; I am more 
& more for son Tylst. pulling the old house down, rather y" 
repayring it, a new one wil bee cheaper then hee thinkes & I 
am sure much more inviting to a Tenant, espi for warmth upon 
that wet & cold bank, 'twil need no repayring, a little wil fit what 
wil bee needful while 'tis as 'tis ; the rest by degrees at leasure. 
50. thous. of brick lo"", 4 cart-load of lime, the workman tels mee 
to day wil lay y" which is 20', besides y" carriage, & lo"" the 
workmanship, which wil bee the wals. The old Timber wil most 
of it serve (the rest may bee sold) joysts, doores, Boards, y" car- 
penters' work about it cannot bee, for present 15"* & the Covering 
not 15. more, which is all, besides glazing what is to bee us'd, the 
rest brick't up. A trusty man, such as Randle Catheral, to oversee 
both pulling down and rearing would bee had for a little, sum- 
mering there or thereabouts. The building 10. yards square, & 
8. y''^ high, for 3 storyes besides y' Cellar, would bee a mean ; 
You know, who sayd, I only propose, yester-moming in the same 
hour 5. clock, w" Mr. Bradley departed, a grand-son was born to 
his Daughter Mathewes. I am told they are to have one of the 
hundreds. The church-warden at Whitch. sent for leave to bury 
him to morrow in the burying place of -f Family, w""" I, supposing 
my son will not deny, granted. John K . . . went yesterday to 



366 PHILIP HENRY. 

Oxford with a Troup of Whitch. Minims, but would have my 
leave first. My bones are not yet eas'd of yesterd. riding, else 
God bee praysed, wel. love & blessing to all & each, again & 
again & again. 

P. H. 

Sarah Green's Uttle one is ill. Sisters' love to you &: to all y' 
rest. I hope, John may bee with you by 9. or 10. clock, which 
wil bee as soon as you wil bee ready. Mr. Wright comes in stead 
of Sam. Wayt ; Farewel, The God of love & peace bee with you. 
Amen ! 

Q. Whether a stinted liturgy or set form of Prayer, publique 
or private bee lawful — Mr. Ball's Tryal. 

x\. It is. r/ Bee. all things essential to Prayer may bee 
observ'd in it, desires poured forth to God in y' name of X', for 
things agreeable to his will. 

2. tis the breach of no Commandm' neither direct nor by 
consequent — if of any of the second, but not of y° second bee. no 
false worship, being a matter of order only. 

3. if it bee lawful to sing Psalms in a stinted form, why not 
to pray — both are parts of divine worship, to bee |)form'd accord, 
to y" will of God. 

4. the script, in several cases praescribes forms both Jewish & 
Xtian. 

Obj. I. Devices of men are not to bee brought into y" worship 
of God. God did never command nor promise to accept this way. 

2. Script, forms mentioned were only for partic. occasions, 
drawn up by men divinely inspir'd 

3. it stints the spirit — derogates from y° honor of X''s Ascen- 
sion in y° benefits of it, viz. giving gifts to men 

4. Pray' should bee various accord, to present emergencyes 

5. it makes the Ministry idle 

6. as twere a ridiculous th. for a child to pen a form of words 
to his Father & read it out of a paper — so 

7. book prayer is generally layd aside in y' familyes of y' best 
Christians. 

Q/ whether people may be present at a stinted liturgy. 

A. they may 1/ bee. noth. hinders but y" may follow in 



PHILIP HENRY. 367 

heart & say Amen in faith. 2/ the Jewes had a Uturgy & X' 
resorted to their Synagogues. 3/ to separate is schism, X' goes 
not before us. 

Q/ whether people may bee present at such a liturgy as is 
faulty, & defective & which tis unlawf. for -f Min" to use. 

A. they may — supposing y'' faults not in fundam*^ nor in th. 
bordering thereupon, but such th. as may bee tolerated amongst 
Brethren — tis one th. to approve, another th. to tolerate — suppose 
a chapter unfitly divided, ill translated — the Minist' in conceived 
prayer may utter unfitting expressions, w* the people's presence 
doth not approve — to joyn in publique prayer is duty, y° 
faults are but accidental — how was it in y° primitive times, w" 
liturgies were not without their defects, yet y" faithfuU withdrew 
not — Obj. the defects are foreknown, so yei are not in conceiv'd 
prayer. A. y°' may bee, & yef wee are to pray for Reformation 
& to endeavour it in our places, but not for want of it to separate. 

Touching the Oath of Supremacy. 

As for Oaths in general they are things lawful but not de- 
sirable, & it were to bee wisht there were no need of them among 
Christians. 

This Oath for the kind of it is partly promissory and partly 
assertory, & partly renunciatory. 

1. it asserts the king to bee supream Governor in his 
dominions in all causes, & over all ^sons as well Spiritual as civil. 

by causes, & persons spiritual are meant causes and Persons 
ecclesiastical. 

2. it promises to defend him to our power in the exercise of 
.that Authority which it asserts hee hath in all causes & over all 
psons as well ecclesiastical as civil 

3. it renounces all forrayn Jurisdiction of the Pope or of any 
other clayming under him in any cause or over any ^son in the 
King's Dominions. 

The Original of this Oath was in the reign of King Henry 8"' 
& was intended to bee a discovery of such as were disaffected to 
the Reformation & would continue subject to y" Church of Rome 
and to the Pope's supremacy. 



368 PHILIP HENRY. 

It was then refus'd to bee taken by many. 

S' Tho. More & B"* Fisher chose rather to dye then take it. 

The Convocation of York Province wrote two letters to K. 
Henry declaring the reasons of their dissent concerning it — (Edw. 
lee, a virulent Papist, being Arch B"" — ) to which hee return'd 
Answer, explayning in what sense hee stiled hims. supreme head 
of y" Church, namely, clayming nothing more thereby, then what 
X''"" Princes in the primitive times assumed to thems. in their own 
Dominions, 

whereupon, for ought appeares, they yeelded & took it. 

Since then wee read & hear of none but Papists that refused 
it, all Ministers taking it at their Ordination, Scholars at taking 
their Degrees &c. 

But only now of late, many fearing God, & no Freinds but 
unfayned enemyes to the Pope & Popery, & no Enemyes but 
unfayned Freinds to the King's Majesty & his just Authority, are 
found scrupling at it. 

As to myself. I. I think it is not to bee doubted but that the 
Power of the Civil Magistrate extends to matters of Religion. 

proved, i. Paul appealed to Ctesar in a controversy about 
Religion. 

2. Hee is God's, minister to us for good. Rom. 13. 

indefinitely for all good. 

3. Tis Prophesyed of Gosp. times that Kings should 

bee nursing Fathers. 

4. Kings amongst the Jewes did govern in Church 

Affayres. 

5. Wee are to pray for Kings that wee may live under 

them, not only in honesty but in Godlines. 
II. I think the Power of the Civil Magistrate in matters of 
Religion is not Absolute & universal but bounded & limited. 
I. There is someth. which hee may not doe. 

1. Hee can not appoint any new office or officer or or- 
dinance in the church other then X'. hath appoynted. 

2. Hee can not limit any Office or Officer of X^s ap- 
poyntm'. bounding y""' how far to act & how far not. 

3. Hee can not hims. execute the Office of any Church 
Officer, as Baptize &c. 



PHILIP HENRY. 369 

which hee might, if they were all virtually in him & did all hold 
from him, as from their proper Head. 

2. There is someth. which hee may & ought to doe in 
Church affayres 

as. I. Defend & protect y' church & members thereof re- 
moving all external Impediments whether |)sons or 
th[ings] countenancing & incouraging the publique 
exercise of God's Ordinances. 

2. Order & regulate ChUrch matters in a Political way. 
reforming y° church when corrupted 

calling Synods, ratifying their just decrees 

& enjoyning their observation under civil penaltyes 

judging & determining definitively with a Consequent 

Political Judgm' concer. th. antecedently judged by y" 

Church, 
causing Ecclesiastical Persons to doe their Duty. 

3. compel, correct, punish with political punishm' all 

^sons delinquent in any th. cone, religion, 
being custos utriusq. Tabulse. 
circa sacra, but not in sacris. 

Yet Note, the lawes hee makes for ordering the church are not 
binding to ye Conscience so as X''s lawes are, being theref to 
bee obeyed bee. commanded — but if w' y°' command bee left 
undone, 1/ without contempt & scandal. 2/ with submission to 
Penalty, Conscience is free before God. 

Rom. 13. 5. tis not said obey, but bee subject for Conscience 
sake not resisting. 

Obj. I. How can wee say y" King is supream ? 

A. The word expressly saith so. i Pet. 2. 

Ob. 2. How can wee say hee is y° Head — ■ 

A. I. the Oath calls him not so, but only Governor. 

2. how is y° Husband head of his wife, i Cor. 1 1. 

luther, Calvin & others were much offended at y"' Term, die 
King is head neither as X' is, nor as ye Pope clayms to bee^ 
hoc me semper graviter vulneravit — Calv. — D" Reyn answ"" 
him. 

Obj. 3. The King clayms power in placing & displacing 
Bishops. 

2 B 



370 PHILIP BENRY. 

A. So did Salomon & other Kings in placing and displacing 
Preists under y" law. 

Obj. 4. The King not competent Judge in case of appeals. 

A. hee may judge as to matter of fact whether wrong bee 
done or no — as if a Physician , question'' for poysoning a man 
may judge him though hims. no Physician. 

The great contention in this last age of y° Church is like to bee 
about the Head-ship of X' in resp. of Rule &= Government — which 
is layd down but darkly in Script, the better to make way for 
Anti-X''s incroachment — and Xtians may possibly suffer most about 
it, bee. it seemes but a small matter, 

Anti-Christ is one that sets up hims. instead of Xt. (Kapiv avrl 

XaptTOs). 

There can not bee a Ministerial Head of ye Church, Christ is 
alwayes present. 

there can not bee a Delegation of Power in Ecclesiastical as 
in Civil Jurisdictions, the civil power is by way of Coaction, the 
ecclesiastical hath to doe with Conscience. — Burroughs on Hos. 
i. II. 

One Smith subscribing to y^ 39 Articles (so far forth as y' same 
were agreeable to y' word of God) it was resolved by all the 
Judges of England that this subscription was not according to the 
statute, w* requires absolute & not conditional subscription. 
Cook, Wray, Dyer, 

Wee subscribe not to Acts of State w''' yet wee obey, 
why then to Canons — &c. 

The Articles are in some th. Doubtful 
in many th. Defective. 

We are told that Philip Henry did not think it right to 
destroy sermon notes. There virere therefore large stores 
of them at his death, and few of his descendants but 
possess one or more copies. He seems always to have 
preached from notes (which he carefully prepared), not, as 
he says in one passage, " because we need it, but for the sake 
of our hearers." He gave no encouragement, therefore, to 



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the so-called extempore addresses that are popular in some 
quarters. The Rev.. S. S. Lewis, of Corpus Christi Col- 
lege, Cambridge, is the fortunate possessor of a little 
volume of such sermon notes that were written in 1691-92. 
Inside the book, on the first page, is written as follows : — 
" What Christ is made of God to true Beleivers in forty 
real Benefits." 

" Preached at his Meeting place at Broad Oke in Flint- 
shire by my Honored Father, Mr. Henry, thus written with 
his own dear hand and left to ihee S[arah] S[avage] by his 
last will to the end I may learn Christ, and love Christ, 
and live Christ, and be eternally happy with him. Amen." 

The interest and value of this volume, not merely to 
those who love the memory, of Philip Henry, but to all 
lovers of godliness, can hardly be over-estimated. 

The index contains the following heads and texts : — 



Foundation. iCor. iii. II. 
Food. John va. 5. 
Root. John XV. 7. 
Raiment. Rom. xiii. 14. 
Head. Col. i, 13. 
Hope. I Tim. i. i. 
Refuge. Heb. vi. 13. 
Righteousness. Jer. xxiii. 

6. 
Light. Joh. xii. 46. 
Life. Col. iii. 4. 
Peace. Eph. ii. 14. 
Passover, i Cor. v. 7. 
Portion. Lam. iii. 24. 
Propitiation. I John iv. 10. 
Freedom. John viii. 36. 



Fountain. Zach. xiii. I. 
Wisdom. I Cor. i. 30. 
Way. John xiv. 6. 
Ensign. Esa. xi. 10. 
Example, xiii. 15. 
Door. X. 9. 
Dew. Hosea xiv. £. 
Sun. Mai. iv. 6. 
Shield. Mai. v. I. 
Strength. Phil. iv. 13, 
Song. Psal. cxviii. 4. 
Horn. Luke i. 69. 
Honor. I Pet. ii. 7. 
Sanctification. i Cor, i. 
30- 



Supply. Phil. iv. 19. 
Resurrection. Joh. xi. 

25- 
Redemption. i Cor. i. 

3°- 
Lesson. Eph. iv. 20. 
Ladder, Gen. xxviii. 12. 
Truth. Johni. 17. 
Treasure. Matt. xiii. 44. 
Temple. Rev. xxi. 22. 
Ark. Heb. xi. 7. 
Altar.* Heb. xiii. 10. 
All. Col. iii. II. 



The following is a specimen of Philip Henry's sermon 
notes, and though the charm of the original is much 
diminished by its reproduction in print, yet the teaching 
remains the same. It will be seen that even Philip Henry 
sometimes condescended to old sermons, this one having 

* This was not Richard Baxter's interpretation, who writes ("Christian Insti- 
tutes," i. p. 304) : "We have an altar, etc, (Heb. xiii. 10), seems plainly to 
mean the sacramental communion. " 



372 .PHILIP HENRY. 

been delivered in Bronington and in Willington (both of 
them at that time divisions of Hanmer parish), as well as 
at Whitchurch, Salop. 

Nov. 82. Bro. Whit. Wil. {Esa. 49. 14. 15. 16. But Zion 

sayd, the lord hath forsaken mee & my lord The prophet 

Isaiah of all the "Prophets had a Gosp. call & a Gosp. Spirit. — 
I — call — see cap. 6. like y' of y° Apost. Act. 2. 

2. spirit — as appeares all along by his Discourses, which aym, 
though somet. at Conviction, yet most an end at Consolation — 
his sermons Comfortable sermons, esp. from cap. 40 — ^here hee 
tells us — I. w' Zion sayd concer. God in a way of Distrust & 
Despondency — the lord. 

2. w' God said concer. Zion, in a way of comfort & encouragem' 
implying also a tacit reproof, Can a woman — Zion here is put for 
y° church of God, there was -f old T. ch. & there is y* new T. ch. & 
both have been sometpmes] saying on this manner — But I shal 
cheifly apply it as most profitable to y° sons & daughters of Zion 
in ref to their own partic. cases and circumstances. 

1. Docf. there is a Proness in God's dear servants esp. at 
some times & in some cases to say concer. God y' hee hath 
forgotten & forsaken them, 

2. That there is at no time in no case just cause for saying so. 
For y j"- — I. The truth of this appeares from y° frequency of 

such Kind of complaints, wee have many Instances — Job — cap. 6. 
4 . . 7. 12, 14, 20 . . 13. 26, 27 . . 16. II, 12 . . 19. 6. David — 
Fs. 13. I, 2 . . I Sam. 27. i—Ps. 31. 22. in my Flight. Asaph. 
Ps. 77. 3, 7. &c. Jeremy in Lamenta. cap. 3. i. &c Jonah. 
cap. 2. 4. 

2. the grounds of this Proness. 

1. from Satan's Temptations — it hath been his design all along 
& stil is to beget & cherish in us hard Thoughts of God. to 
Eve— Gen. 3. to' Job— ca/. 2. curse God— to Jesus— Math. 4. if 
thou bee 

wee should bee aware of y'" & watch. 

2. from y° Corrup. of nature — this affords the Tinder, 
my Infirmity — Ps. 77. 10. 

I. Ignorance & darkness in the underst. 



PHILIP HENRY. 373 

My people doth not know — did wee know God, his nature, 
good & gracious, Iiis promises free & ful & precious, his coven' 
Relations, his pity, power, faithfulness. 

2. Inconsideracoh. 

wee know many th. that wee doe not consider, considera. is 
bringing of Known th. to present meditacon — did wee but con- 
sider, wee would not say so — consider what hath been y° way of 
God with his people in all ages. 

3. Enmity. 

Rom. 8. 7. enemyes neither think nor speak wel, 

4. Sense of Guilt. 

wee know wee deserve to bee forgotten & forsaken. 

5. Unbelief. 

the only cure for such Thoughts is a lively active Faith — the 
Object of y' Faith is y° everl. . Coven' seald in y° Bloud of a 
Mediator. Hob. 2. 4. 

3. at what times & in w' cases. 

I. tinder inward desertions — ^w" God withdrawes -f light of his 
countenance, though cause for it, yet ^haps may bee for Tryal, 
apt to say, never return again. 2. under outward Affl. esp. such 
as these — (i.) sharp & sudden such as Job's were — (2.) singular 
& extraordinary, such as Jonahs was — (3.) staying & continuing, 
such as Davids were. 

4. the Evil. 

(i.) a great Dishonor to God, grieve his spirit — noth. more — 
would you take it wel — (2.) a blemish to our Profession — weaken 
y' hands of Brethr. harden y hearts of Enemyes. (3.) a disturb- 
ance to ours, hinder peace & progress. 

5. the Remedy. 

(i.) to chide oursf for it — (2.) to charge oursf agt it. act 
Faith — one good word, my God. allu. Gen. 18. 12 — so — X' 
Math. 27. 46. as Jonah — cap. 2. 4. yet — not by sense — Apply it 
also to publ. Affayres. 

The following notices of some of his friends who died 
shortly before him are added : — 

Mrs. Hunt of Shrewsbury, the relict of Colonel Hunt, another 
Tare pattern of zealous piety, abounding charity, and eminent 



374 PHILIP HENRY. 

usefulness in her place, finished her course. October 23. 1690, 
after two days' sickness. 

The reverend, and learned, and holy Mr. Richard Baxter* 
died at London, December 8. 1691, aged seventy six, and one 
month ; as much vilified by some, and magnified by others, as 
most men that ever were. But it is a small thing to be judged 
of man's judgement. He was buried at Christ-Church London, 
with great honour. 

Mr. Richard Steele,t my old and dear friend and companion 
in tribulation and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, 
died at London,' Nov. 16* 1692, in the sixty-fourth year of his 
age. A man that had been greatly useful in his generation both 
in the country and at London. 

Luke Lloyd. Esquire of the Bryn in Hanmer parish, my aged 
worthy friend, finished his course with joy. March 31. 1695, 
being Lord's day. He was in the 87*^ year of his age, and had 
been married almost sixty nine years to his pious wife, of the 
same age [a daughter of Thos. Whitley, of Aston] who still survives 
him. He was the glory of our little congregation, the top branch 
in all respects of our small vine, and my friend indeed. 

When he made his will, under the subscription of his 
name he wrote Job xix. 25-27, on which text of Scripture 
Mr. Henry, at the request of some of his relations, preached 
a sermon at the licensed house near Hanmer, some time 
after his funeral. 

A tomb to him and his wife is on the south side of the 
tower of Hanmer Church, and there is also a monument to 
his grandfather, Robert Lloyd,$ dated 1 597 ; but both monu- 
ments probably were erected in the eighteenth century. 

• A small miniature of him in oils, upon copper, is in the possession of 
the editor, and would seem to be a companion painting of the one formerly 
in the possession of Mr. Stedman, and one of the six (said to have been) 
painted at the same time. 

t A picture of this good man is preserved at the Presbyterian Library in 
Grafton Street, Gower Street, W.C. Any one who possesses his dianes 
which were written in the same sort of almanacks as Philip Henry's, will much 
oblige by communicating with the editor on the subject. 

X The original monument was noticed by Dineley in 1684. 



PHILIP HENRY. 27 S 

He is said to have fought under the Parliamentary standard, 
and was, perhaps — though little is known of him — of a 
similar temperament to Colonel Hunt, of Boreatton. The 
pulpit in Hanmer Church is said to have been given by- 
Mr. Lloyd as an atonement for threatening the parson 
during divine service, when he prayed for the king. This 
pulpit, which is of carved oak, with a cover, is described by 
Dineley (who accompanied the Duke of Beaufort in his 
progress through North Wales in 1684). Around it are the 
words—" Blessed are they that heare ; " " Take Heed how 
ye heare ; " " Be ye doers of the worde and not Hearers only." 
Within, behind the preacher's head, is the name " Jesus" 
with the date " 1627." Outside, at the back, are the 

words — 

" Christus est Agnus Dei ; 
Qui toUit peccata mundi." 

The story told about this pulpit is supported in some 
degree by the fact that at Upton-on- Severn a bullet may 
still be seen imbedded in the pulpit cover. It was in- 
tended to find its resting-place in the parson's head by 
a zealous Puritan, who wasted no words over the matter, 
but snapped his pistol at the man who dared to pray for 
the king. 

These little facts throw floods of light upon the state of 
public affairs, which those " who darken counsel by words 
without knowledge " seek, ineffectually, to explain away. 

In September 21, 1695, he writes, " I heard of the death 
of two holy and aged Bartholomew witnesses Mr. Richard 
Mayo of London and Mr. Henry Newcome of Manchester. 
Psalm xii. i." 

His son, Matthew Henry, thus describes his father's last 
days : — 

" Mr. Henry's constitution was but tender, and yet by the 
Blessing of God upon his great Temperance and care of his Diet, 



376, PHJLIP. HENRY. 

and moderate Exercise by walking in the Air, he did for many 
Years enjoy a good Measure of Health which he used to call 
"The Sugar that sweetens all Temporal Mercies," for which 
therefore we ought to be very thankful and of which we ought to 
be very careful. He had sometimes violent Fitts of the Colick, 
which would be very afflictive for the Time. Being once upon 
the Recovery from an ill Fitt of that Pain, he said to one of his 
Friends, who asked how he did, he hoped, by the Grace of God 
he should now be able to give one Blow more to the Devil's 
Kingdom, and often profess'd he did not desire to live a Day 
longer than he might do God some Service. He said to another 
when he found himself recovering " Well, I thought I had been 
putting into the Harbour but find I must to Sea again." 

He was sometimes suddenly taken with fainting Fitts which 
when he recovered from, he would say " Dying is but a little 
more." 

When he was in the Sixty third Year of his Age, which is 
commonly called the Grand Climacterick, and hath been to many 
the Dying Year and was so to his Father, he numbred the days 
of it, from August 24 1693 to August 24 1694, when he finished 
it And when he concluded it, he thus wrote in^his Diary This 
Day finisheth my commonly Dying- Year, which I have numbred 
the Days of, and should now apply my Heart, more than ever to 
Heavenly Wisdom. He was much pleased, with that expression, 
of our English Liturgy, in the Office of Burial and frequently 
used it ; " In the Midst of life we are in Death." . . . 

For some Years before he died he used to complain of an 
habitual Weariness, contracted, he thought by his standing to 
preach, sometimes very uneasily, and in inconvenient Places, 
immediately after Riding. He would say every Minister was 
not cut out for an Itinerant ; and sometimes the manifest Atten- 
tion & Affection of People in hearing, enlarged him both in 
Length & Fervency, somewhat more than his strength could 
well bear. It was not many Months before he died, that he wrote 
thus to a dear Relation, who enquired solicitously concerning his 
Health ; " I am always habitually weary, and expect no other till 
I lie down on the Bed of Spices." And (blessed be God) so the 
Grave is to all the Saints, since he lay in it, who is the Rose of 



PHILIP HENRY. 2>77 

Sharon, and the Lily of the Vallies. When some of his friends 
persuaded him to spare himself he would say " It's time enough 
to rest when I'm in the Grave ; what were Candles made for, but 
to burn ? " 

It doth not appear that he had any particular Presages of his 
Death; but many Instances there were of his actual gracious 
Expectation of it, somewhat more than Ordinary for some time 
before. . . . 



1696. 

It was in April 1696, a few Weeks before he died, that his 
Son's Father-in-Law, Robert Warburton Esq., was gather'd to his 
Grave in Peace in a good old Age. Upon the Tidings of whose 
Death, Mr. Henry wrote thus to his Son; "Your Fathers, where 
are they ? — ^Your Father-in-Law gone, and your own Father going ; 
but you have a Godfather, that lives for ever : he was wont some- 
times to subscribe his letters — Your ever-loving, but not ever- 
living Father." 

The last time he administered the Lord's Supper a Fortnight 
before he died he closed the Administration with that Scripture 
I. Joh. iii. 2. " It doth not yet appear, what we shall be ; " not 
yet, but it will shortly. . . . 

The Tuesday following June 23. he rose at Six o'Clock accord- 
ing to Custom, after a better night's sleep than Ordinary and in 
wonted Health. Between Seven and Eight of the Clock, he per- 
formed Family- Worship, according to the usual Manner : He 
expounded very largely the former Half of the civ"" Psalm, and 
sung it ; but he was somewhat shorter in Prayer than he used to 
be, being then (as it was thought) taken ill. Blessed is that Ser- 
vant, whom His Lord, when he comes, shall find so doing. 

Immediately after Prayer, he retired to his Chamber, not 
saying anything of his illness, but was soon after found upon his 
Bed in great Extremity of pain in his Back, Breast, Bowels ; it 
seem'd to be a complicated Fitt of the Stone and Colick together, 
in a very great Extremity. The Means that had been used to 
give him relief in his Illness, were altogether ineffectual : He had 
not the least Intermission or Remission of Pain, neither up, nor 



3/8 PHILIP HENRY. 

in Bed : but in a continual Toss. He had said sometimes, that 
God's Israel may find Jordan rough ; but there's no Remedy, they 
must through it to Canaan ; and would tell of a good Man who 
used to say, he was not so much afraid of Death as of Dying. . . . 

It was two or three hours after he was taken ill, before he 
would suffer a Messenger to be sent to Chester for his Son, and 
for the Doctor ; saying, he should either be better, or dead, before 
they could come ; but at last he said, as the Prophet did to his 
importunate Friends, Send. About eight o'Clock that Evening 
they came, and found" him in the same Extremity of Pain which 
he had been in all Day. And Nature being before spent mth his 
constant and indefatigable Labours in the Work of the Lord, now 
sunk, and did perfectly succumb under its Burden, and was quite 
disabled to grapple with so many Hours zmcessant Pain. What 
farther Means were then used proved Fruitless, and did not 
answer the Intention. He apprehended himself going apace, and 
said to his Son when he came in, O Son, you are welcome to a 
dying Father : I am now ready to be offer'd, and the Time of my 
Departure is at Hand. His Pain continued very acute, but he 
had Peace within. I am tormented, (said he once) but, blessed 
be God, not in this Flame ; and soon after, " I am all on Fire," 
(when at the same time his extreme parts were cold) but he pre- 
sently added, " Blessed be God it is not the Fire of Hell." . . . 

Toward Ten or Eleven o'Clock that night his Pulse and Sight 
began to fail ; of the latter, he himself took Notice, and inferr'd 
from it the Approach of his Dissolution. He took an affectionate 
Farewell of his dear Yoke-Fellow, with a thousand Thanks for all 
her love and > care, and Tenderness; left a Blessing for all his 
dear Children, and their dear Yoke-Fellows, and little ones, that 
were absent. He said to his Son, who sate under his Head, Son, 
the Lord bless you, and grant that you may do worthily in your 
Generation, and be more serviceable to the Church of God than 
I have been; such was his great Humility to the last. And 
when his Son reply'd " O Sir, pray for me, that I may but tread 
in your steps ; " he answered, " Yea, follow Peace, and Holiness, 
and let them say what they will." — More he would have said to 
bear his dying Testimony to the Way in which he had walked ; 
But Nature was spent, and he had not strength to express it 



FHILIP HENRY. 379 

His Understanding and Speech continued almost to the last 
Breath, and he was still in his dying Agonies, calling upon God, 
and committing himself to him. One of the last words he said, 
when he found himself just ready to depart, ' O Death, where is 

thy ; ' with that, his Speech falter'd, and within a few 

Minutes, (after about sixteen Hours illness) on June 24, he 
quietly breathed out his precious Soul into the Embraces of his 
dear Redeemer, whom he had trusted, and faithfully served in 
the Work of the Ministry, about Forty-three Years. . . . 

On the Saturday following being June 27. the earthen Vessel, 
in which this treasure had been lodg'd, was laid up in the Grave 
in Whitchurch Church, attended thither with a very great Com- 
pany of true Mourners, all the County round ; many from Chester 
& Shrewsbury & the Towns about, came to do him Honour at 
his Death : And besides the floods of Tears that were shed, there 
were abundance of Testimonies given to him by Persons of all 
Sorts, like that Jehoiadah 2 Chron. xxiv. 16. That he was one 
who had done good in Israel. And there were those who said 
He was a Man that nobody did or could speak Evil of, except for 
his Nonconformity. He was us'd to say to his Relations, when 
I am dead make little ado about me, a few will serve to bring me 
to my Grave ; but his mind c"* not be observed in that ; twas 
impossible, such a burning & shining Light extinguished, but 
there must be an Universal Notice taken of it. Multitudes came 
unsought unto, not to fill their eyes (as Mr. Vines expresseth it,) 
but to empty them, nor was there any other noise there, but that 
of General Lamentation. 

That Morning before the Removal of the corpse, a most 
affectionate Sermon was preached in Mr. Henry's Meeting-Place 
by his Dear & Worthy Friend Mr. Tallents of Shrewsbury. He 
was willing to take that opportunity, to testify the great Love & 
Honour, that he had for Mr. Henry, whom he call'd " A Friend 
that is nearer than a brother." His Text was Rom. viii. 23. 
" And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first fruits 
of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting 
for the Adoption, to wit the Redemption of our Body.'' . . . 



380 PHILIP HENRY. 

The following inscription was drawn up by his son-in- 
law, Dr. John Tylston, a physician in Chester : — 

M.S. 

PHILIPPUS HENRY, DE BROAD OAK, IN COMITATU FLINT. A.M. 

SACRl MINISTER EVANGELII, PASTOR OLIM WORTHENBURIENSIS 

IN AULA REGIA NATUS PUS ET HONESTIS PARENTIBUS 

SCHOL^ WESTMONASTERIENSIS, INDEQ. ^DIS CHRISTI OXON 

ALUMNUS REGIUS 

V±R PRISCA PIETATE ET VERE CHRISTIANA, 

JUDICIO SUBACTO ET LIMATO, 

MEMORIA, PR^STANTI, MAGNO ET FCECUNDO INGENIO, 

ERUDITIONE PERPOLITA,SUMMO ANIMI CANDORE, MORUM VENUSTATE 

IMPRIMIS SPECTABILIS, ET IN EXEMPLUM NATUS : 

GUI SACRA SEMPER SUA FIDES, ALIORUMQUE FAMA : 

DIVINI NUMENIS CULTOR ASSIDUUS ; 

DIVINI VERBI INTERPRES EXQUISITISSIMUS ; 

ALIORUM AFFECTUS MOVERE NON MINUS POLLENS 

QUAM SUIS MODERARI : 

CONSCIONANDO PARITER AC VIVENDO PALAM EXHIBENS 

CRISTI LEGEM ET EXEMPLAR CHRISTUM : 

PRUDENS PERITUSQUE RERUM, LENIS, PACIFICUS, HOSPITALIS 

AD PIETATIS OMNIA CHARITATISQUE OFFICIA USQUE PARATUS ; 

SUIS JUCUNDUS ; OMNIBUS HUMANUS ; 

CONTINUIS EVANGELII LABORIBUS SUCCUMBENS CORPUS, 

NEC TANT^ JAM PAR AMPLIUS ANIMjE 

IN DORMITORIUM HIC JUXTA POSITUM DEMISIT 

JUN. 24 ANNO DOM. M.DC.XCVI ^TATIS LXV * 

[VIRO OPT. MULTUMQUE DESIDERATO "| 

M^RENS POSUIT GENER EJUS I. T. M. D.fJ 

Sacred to the memory of Philip Henry, of Broad Oak, in the 
county of Flint, Master of Arts, and Minister of the Holy Gospel, 
formerly Chaplain of Worthenbury, born in the Royal Palace of 

* He wanted two months of 65. One of his descendants, who much 
resembled him both in appearance and character, died almost as suddenly, and 
-wanting three months of 65. 

t The following words were afterwards substituted : — 

" POSUIT HOC MARMOR IN VERIS lACHRYMIS 
KATHARINA CONJUX VIDUATA." 



■ PHILIP HENRY. '38 1 

pious and honourable parents, of Westminster School, and thence 
of Christ Church, Oxford, King's Scholar, a man for primitive 
piety, and that truly Christian, for a solid and polished judgment, 
for an excellent memory and great and fruitful genius, for fine 
learning, candid temper, and grace of manner especially remark- 
able and born to be an example : to whom his own word and the 
reputation of others was always inviolable ; a diligent worshipper 
of God ; a most exact interpreter of the Divine Word ; no less 
happy in touching the hearts of others than in chastening his 
own : whose life was a constant sermon, setting forth Christ by 
word and deed, and his law as a pattern : prudent and skilful in 
the conduct of affairs, mild, peaceable, and hospitable ; to all calls 
upon his piety and charity ever ready to respond ; pleasant to his 
friends, courteous to all ; yielding to his unceasing labours in 
the cause of the Gospel his body — no longer a match for so great 
a soul — found a resting-place in the adjacent tomb, June 24, 
i6g6, aged 65. 

To this best of men, and one sadly missed, his sorrowing son- 
in-law, J. T[ilston], M.D., has placed this monument. 

[His widowed wife Katherine placed this marble with true 
grief] 

It might have been thought that when Philip Henry 
had been laid peacefully in the grave, any further conten- 
tion with respect to him would cease. This, however, has 
been very far from being the case. In Matthew Henry's 
diary, 1704-5, he writes : " I had a letter from Mr. Travers 
of Lichfield that the chancellor there designed to attempt 
the demolishing of my father's monument ; " and again, 
"March 22. 1712. Wrote to Coz. Eddow to return him 
thanks for his care this week of the remains of my dear 
father and mother in Whitchurch church, where they^are 
laying the foundation of a new one and have unworthily 
invaded my right there." In both points his opponents 
succeeded : the marble tablet was removed to the porch, 
and the honoured remains were (as is commonly believed) 
transferred to the churchyard, the exact place being kept 



382 PHILIP HENRY. 

secret for fear of further molestation. It is quite possible 
that in rebuilding the parish church in 1712, the vault or 
grave where Philip Henry had been buried may have in- 
terfered with the plans of the architect ; but it is plain, 
from the words of his son, that at that date there was at 
Whitchurch a strong prejudice against him. Some wave 
of feeling was then rolling up, which reminded men of the 
enormous injuries both to Church and State which had 
been inflicted by the men with whom Philip Henry had 
allied himself, and how, in professing a zeal against super- 
stition, they had torn up faith by the roots at the same 
time. In calmer moments it might have been remembered 
that the savage Jeffreys withheld his hand from Philip 
Henry ; that Anthony a Wood, the faithful chronicler of 
the seventeenth century, passed him in silence, knowing 
nothing against him but his nonconformity. Then the 
tide began to turn. When Mr. John Ireland, the editor 
of Hogarth's works, was introduced to Dr. Johnson, and 
it was stated that he was a descendant of Philip Henry, 
the doctor said, in his emphatic manner, "Sir, you are 
descended from a man whose genuine simplicity and un- 
affected piety would have done honour to any sect of 
Christians, and as a scholar he must have had uncommon 
acquirements when Busby boasted of having been his 
tutor." It was not, however, till the present century that 
the monument to his memory was restored to its proper 
place in the church ; and when that was done, a complaint 
was raised that many visitors could not read the Latin 
inscription, and that an English one would be more ac- 
ceptable. In accordance with that wish, expressed by the 
Rector of Whitchurch in 1844, and by others, a marble 
tablet, inscribed with the English version of the epitaph, 
was erected in the north aisle of the Church, and the 
original monument was restored to Joseph Lee, Esq., of 



PHILIP HENRY. 383 

Redbrook (whose wife, Grace Keay Parsons, was a co- 
heiress of Broad Oak), and by him placed — ^with the 
consent of the rectors of Malpas — in Whitewell Chapel, 
where it still remains, with a few words mentioning the fact 
of its transference from Whitchurch. 

There are original paintings of Philip Henry and his 
wife still remaining, from which engravings were taken and 
circulated soon after his death. These portraits are now 
in the possession of Mrs. Philip Henry Lee, having been 
given to the late Rev. P. H. Lee, of Stoke Bruern, by Mr. 
Ashton, of Wootton, a co-descendant. Though the old 
Broad Oak House and the old Whitewell have both passed 
away, yet it cannot truly be said that the place which 
once knew Philip Henry knows him no more. The name 
of Philip is preserved, with special reference to him, at 
Worthenbury, Hanmer, Malpas, and in all that neighbour- 
hood, and he lives in the memories and hearts of many as 
an upright. God-fearing man, whose daily life was a living 
epistle, the good effects of which have not yet passed away. 
It is known that towards the end of his life he prayed 
much for his descendants, still unboi-n, and those whose 
names have been brought together by Miss Sarah Lawrence 
in her interesting book containing the successive genera- 
tions down to 1843, may well think that in their descent 
from such a man they have an inheritance far more valuable 
than what falls commonly to the lot of men, and that in 
imitating his humble Christianity they have the best 
guarantee for a useful life and a glorious future. 

Post tenebras lucem- speramus. 



APPENDIX. 



In Philip Henry's day-book is the following : — 

" Philip Henry was bom at Whitehall. Aug' 24. 1631. London. 

Katharine Mathewes was bom at Broad Oke. March 25. 1629. 

Philip Henry, and Katharine Mathewes were married at 
Whitewell Chapel. April 26, 1660, 

and had issue which are the heritage of the Lord 
John Henry, born at Worthenbury, on Friday, May 3. 1661, about 

5 of the clock in the evening [he died at Wbitchurch, April 

12. 1667]. 
Mathew Henry bom at Broad Oke, on Saturday. Oct 18. 1662, 

about 3 of the clock in the morning. 
Sarah Henry born at Broad Oke on Lord's day. Aug. 7. 1664, 

abput sun-sett. 
Katharin Henry born at Broad Oke. on Thursday Dec' 7. 1665, 

about one of the clock in the morning. 
Eleanor Henry, born at Broad Oke. on Tuesday July 23. 1667, 

about two of the clock in the afternoon. 
Ann Henry, born at Broad Oke. on Wednesday. Nov. 25. 1668 

about eleven of the clock in the forenoon." 

Of these, Matthew Henry was married in August, 1687, to 
Katharine, daughter of Samuel Hardware, of Bromborough, in the 
county of Chester, Esquire, who died on Thursday, Febraary 14, 
aged 25, 1689; and, secondly, to Mary, daughter of Robert and 

-I- 2 C 



386 APPENDIX. 

grand-daughter of Peter Warburton, of HefFerstone Grange, in the 
county of Chester, Esquires, on July 8, 1690. 

Sarah Henry was married, March 28, 1687, to Mr. John 
Savage, of Wrenbury Wood, in the county of Chester. 

Katharine Henry married, in 1687, Dr. John Tylston, of 
Trinity College, Oxford, a physician in Chester, who died 1699. 

Eleanor Henry married, in 1688, Mr. Samuel Radford, of 
Chester. She died August i, 1697, and he in 1699. 

Ann Henry married, in 1688, John Hulton, Esq., of Chester. 
She died September 6, 1697. 

" Mr. Philip Henry's Relict survived him almost eleven years. 
She continued to the last at her house at Broad Oak, where she 
was born, a great example of wisdom, piety, and usefulness, and 
abounding in good works, happy in a constant calmness and 
serenity of mind, which as it was a singular gift of divine grace, 
and an instance of her wisdom, so it contributed very much to her 
close and comfortable walking with God, and her doing good. 
She lived and died rejoicing in Christ Jesus, and in a pleasing 
expectation of the glory to be revealed. She died May 25, 1707." 

Further particulars will be given of her in " Matthew Henry's 
Letters and Diaries,'' which are shortly to be published. 



At the Independent Chapel in Shrewsbxiry there is a portrait, 
unknown, which may be the one, "ex musseo Rev. J. Orton," 
from which the engraving is taken which stands at the beginning 
of Matthew Henry's " Life and Death of Philip Henry," 4th edition 
(Salop : printed by J. Cotton and J. Eddowes for J. Buckland 
and T. Longman, in Paternoster Row, London, and sold by W. 
Grigg, in Exeter, 1765). 



APPENDIX. 387 



THE WILL OF PHILIP HENRY. 

In the Name of god ; Amen ! I, Philip Henry, of Broad oak, 
in the County of Flint, an unworthy minister of Jesus Christ, 
having attained this day, to the sixty-fourth year of my age, in 
bodily health ; god, be praised ! but, sensible of the decays of 
nature, and desirous to be found ready, when death comes, that I 
may have nothing else to do but to die, do, with my own hand, 
make this my last will and testament, in the usual manner and form 
following. First, I recommend my soul into the hands of god, 
my heavenly Father, trusting only to the merit and mediation of 
Jesus Christ ray Lord, whose I am, and whom I serve for accepta- 
tion and salvation ; my body to the earth, whence it was taken, 
to be laid up there, as in a bed of rest, to sleep in Jesus, till the 
last trump shall sound ; my wife and children to the divine 
blessing and providence, together with all my children's children, 
to be brought vp in the nurture and admonition of the Lord; 
and, out of the worldly estate, which god hath given me, I give 
and bequeath to each of my four daughters, Mr. Poole's English 
Aimotations upon the Bible, in two volomns, of the last and best 
edition that shall be to be had at the time of my decease, together 
with Mr. Barton's last and best translation of the Singing Psalms, 
one to each of them, requiring and requesting them to make 
daily vse of the same, for the instruction, edification, and comfort 
of themselves, and of their families ; and, to each of all their 
children, that shall be alive when I die, I bequeath a well bound 
English Bible, together with an English Practical Divinity Book, 
in quarto, out of my books, such as their Fathers shall please to 
choose for them, praying that the word of Christ may dwell richly 
in them, in all wisdom, and spiritual vnderstanding. To my son, 
Matthew I give and bequeath all my books and papers, except 



388 APPENDIX. 

what is otherwise by this my will given, and except what my dear 
wife will please to have for her own use, and except the fom- 
following, of which I give one to each of my four daughters, 
according as in seniority they shall choose; viz. the Sermons 
vpon the Parable of the Prodigal ; The Baptismal Covenant ex- 
plained ; the Four and Twenty Good and the Four and Twenty 
Naughty Spirits ; and What Christ is made of God to True 
Believers in Forty Particulars; each to be transcribed by them, 
in their own hand, if they have leisure and see cause ; however to 
be transcribed into their hearts and lives. To my dear daughter 
in law, and to each of my dear sons in law I give twenty shillings 
to buy each of them a ring or what else they please as a small 
remaining token of my great love to them, beseeching the Lord 
as he hath begun, so to go on to build them up into families, but 
especially to build them up in holiness and comfort, and to 
continue them still in brotherly love, as a bundle of arrows which 
can not be broken. To each of my servants living with me at 
the time of my death, that can read, I give a good book, or to 
each of them five shillings to buy one, at my dear Avife's discretion. 
To each of my three dear sisters I give and bequeath as fol- 
loweth ; to my dear sister Ann Henry, I give a gold ring with this 
posy, Thy Brother shall rise again, John, xi. 23. 'And, to my 
other two sisters, Mary Dyer, Widow, and Sarah Wade, I give and 
bequeath the profits of my small tenement in Iscoyd, called 
Kaywilkin, which I purchased lately of John Probart, to be 
divided equally between them, when taxes and repairs are first 
discharged and allowed for, so long as they both shall live ; and, 
when either of them dies, then the whole to the survivor, during 
her natural life to be paid quarterly, the first payment to commence 
from the quarter's end from the time of my death. And from 
and after their decease, and the decease of the longest liver of 
them, I give and bequeath the inheritance of the said tenement 
with its appurtenances, and all my estate and interest therein, and 
all my right and title thereunto to my dear wife, to be disposed of 
by her to such of my dear children, or to such of their children 
as she shall think in her discretion to have most need of the 
same, whether by will, deed, or otherwise, as soon as she shall 
please after my decease, and not deferring the making of the 



APPENDIX. 389 

said settlement till my said sisters' decease. And lastly my will 
is, that all my just debts, and funeral expences, being first dis- 
charged, the remainder of all my goods, cattle, and chattels, 
whatsoever, shall be to my dear wife, to whom, accordingly, I do 
give and bequeath them, acknowledging her past, and relying 
upon her future faithfulness to me in all things ; and I do nominate 
and appoint her my said dear wife Katherine Henry, to be the 
sole executrix. 

Witness my hand and seal this twenty-fourth day of August, 
1695, being the day of the year in which I was born, 1631, and 
also the day of the year in which by law I died, as did also near 
two thousand other faithful ministers of Jesus Christ, 1662. 

Declared and published &c. 

Philip Henry. L.S. 



2 C 3 



390 APPENDIX. 



MARRIAGE REGISTER AT MALPAS, CHESHIRE. 

" W[edding]. Philip Henry marry'd to Katharin Matthewes at 
Whitwell-chapel. April 26. 1660." 



In the Bodleian Library there is the following list of his works : — 

" I. Henry (Philip), M.A. 

" Skeletons of Sermons, now first published from the origirial 
manuscript, with a memoir of his life. London, 1834. 8vo. 

" 2. Henry (Philip), M.A. 

" An Exposition with Practical Observations upon the first Eleven 
chapters of tlie Book of Genesis. Published from a manuscript in the 
handwriting of Matthew Henry, by John Lee. London, 1839. i2mo. 

"3. Henry (Philip), A.M. 

" Remains from Unpublished Manuscripts, by Sir John B. 
WiUiams. London, 1848. 8vo." 

To these must be added, " What Christ is made of God to True 
Believers, in 40 real Benefits." London. i2mo. 



In Wordsworth's " Ecclesiastical Biography,'' vi. 344 (first edition), 
there is the following quotation from Philip Henry's sayings : — " Not- 
withstanding the sad divisions in the Church, all the Saints so far as 
they are sanctified are one ; one in their aims, one in their askings, 
one in amity and friendship, one in interest, one in their inherit- 
ance. . . . The things in which they are agreed are many more, and 
more considerable than the things in which they diflTer. They are 
all of a mind concerning sin, that it is the worst thing in the world ; 
concerning Christ, that he is all in all ; concerning the favour of God, 
that it is better than life ; concerning the world, that it is vanity ; 
concerning the Word of God, that it is very precious." 



APPENDIX. 391 



HENRY AND MATTHEWS' DEEDS. 

From S. Leigh Sotheby's and John Wilkinson's catalogue (now 
in British Museum) of manuscripts belonging to Sir John Bickerton 
Williams, Knt., on Saturday, March 5, 1853 : 

" Lot 64, bought by Sir W. Tite. 
71. „ Wilson. 

73. „ Thorpe, containing deeds and documents re- 

lating to the property and families of Philip and Matthew Henry, viz. 

" L A conveyance dated 27 Charles II. from Luke Lloyd of Bryn 
— the ancestor of Lord Kenyon — and his son, to the Rev. P. Henry, 
April, 1673. Vellum. 

"II. A release from Sir Ed. Kynaston of Oatley Park to Daniel 
Matthews, the father (in law) of Mr. P. Henry. Vellum. 

"III. The lease of Breton Castle from Sir T. Breton to Mr. 
Matthews, Nov. 2, 15 Charles I. Vellum. 

" IV. A lease from the Earl of Leinster to Mr. Matthews,* May i, 
24th Charles I. Signed. Vellum." 

* Mr. Daniel Matthews was under-sheriff for Flintshire in 1628. 



392 APPENDIX. 



HENRY RELICS SENT TO THE WHITCHUCH (SALOP) 
EXHIBITION, AUGUST, 1880. 

Philip Henry's day-book. 

Two volumes of his diaries. 

His silver cup. 

Pair of medallion gold bracelets, with initials of several members 
of the Henry family. 

Sermon note-book of his daughter Catherine. 

Eight original letters from Philip Henry ; Katherine, his wife ; 
Anne, his sister ; Matthew, Catherine, Eleanor, Sarah, Anne, his 
children. 

Matthew Henry's bands. 

Counterpane in crewel work of Theodosia Henry. 



APPENDIX. 



393 



EMRAL NOTES. 

W, B. M. Thoyts, Esq., of. Sulhampstead, Berkshire, has favoured 
me with some notes about Emeral and the Puleston family. 

Page 15. 

(20 Feb. 1525) 
Roger Puleston = Alner or Anne, daur 
I obfc Aug. 29, 1572 ]■ 1 of Rich* Grosvenor of Eaton 



Roger 
/ob'Ap?. 29, ■) 
. ^ 1587 ■> 
" a wise gent, buried at 
Gresfordj^_[IPRegM 



= Mawde . 



4**^ son 
Richard, = Alice, daur of David Lewis 
b. 1548 of Burcot, C° Oxon 



Roger Puleston, Knt. 

'x<^ at Hanmer "i 

Jan. 9, 1565 > 

ob* I7«S Dec. 1689 I 



{ 



George 

-„ at Han , 

Sep. 21, 1572 i 



/xd at Hanmer \ 



elder son 
John, 



( succeeded his \ 
\ first coz. I 
(. George P. ) 



1635. Elizabeth, 
daur of Francis 
Wolryche of 
Dudmaston, Salop, 
by Margt, d. of 
Sir George Bromley. 



(D') Roger, 
of Worthenbuiy 



" From the old records copied in the Salesbury Book the Pulestons 
were in possession of Emral in 1294, as a grant of land to Philip 
de Chetwynde and Isabella daughter of Richard de P. is dated at 
Embrall. 

"a.d. 1295. By letters patent dated at Westminster, certain lands 
at Worthenbury are given to Richard de P. 

"In 1284 some lands at Gwillington (in Hanmer parish) are 
described as adjoining the forest of Roger de Pyvylston." 

Page 18. " The side of Emral next the moat (to the west), with the 
old vaulted rooms and kitchen, appear much older than Elizabeth. 
The dining-room, with the drawing-room above it, are more difficult 
to assign to a particular date, being built so like a chapel with the 
cross on the gable. The two wings were built in the beginning of the 
last century by Thomas Puleston, who died 1735, the last direct heir 



394 APPENDIX. 

of the judge. Bills for them are among the papers at Emral. The 
work was finished about 1721." 

Page 21. "Temp. Hen. VII. (Hengwrt. MSS. 213 ; Harl. MSS. 
1971) Richard ap Moris and his brethren of Beaumaris are certified 
to be of English descent by Sir Roger Puleston of Maelor, Knt., John 
Puleston of Wrexham, Esq., and John ap Edward ap Madoc of 
Bromfeild, Gent. 

Page 39. " Dr. Roger Puleston of Worthenbury was brother of the 
judge." 

Page 82. " The spot where the chapel stood has had many trees 
planted on it, but none of them have ever lived. It stood facing the 
north end of the house on the other side of the road, and joining the 
mill and garden, which was between the chapel and the brook." 

Page 83. " Mrs. Puleston. Jane, daughter of Sir Thos. Mostyn, 
married 1658. She married, secondly. Sir John Trevor of Bryn Kinalt, 
Master of the Rolls, and Speaker of the House of Commons." 



Page i()i^. William Lloyd, son of Rev. Richard Lloyd, HenblSs, 
Anglesey ; bom 1627 ; made Dean of Bangor, 1672 ; [Residentiary 
Sarum, 1674; Bishop of St. Asaph, 1680; Lichfield and Coventry, 1692; 
Worcester, 1699. Died 17 17, ninety-one years of age, at Hartlebiury 
Castle ; buried at Fladbury, near Evesham ; his son rector there. 



Page 313. Henry Bridgeman, third son of (Bishop) John Bridgeman, 
was born at Peterborough, in the residentiary house of his father, then 
first prebendary of that church, and there baptized, at the consecration 
of the new font in the nave of the cathedral, a.d. 1615. He was 
admitted to Oriel College, Oxford, 1629 ; B.A., October 20, 1632 ; 
M.A., 16 June, 1635 ; Fellow of Brasenose, December 6, 1633-39 '■> 
Rector of Barrow, county Chester, December 16, 1639 (sequestered 
1643), and of Monk's Bangor, January 9, 1640 [sequestered 1646] ; 
chaplain to the seventh Earl of Derby (the martyr); Archdeacon of 
Richmond, May 20, 1648 (resigned 1660) ; petitions House of Lords 
for the restoration of the rectories of Bangor and Barrow, June 23, 1660; 
Dean of Chester, July 13, 1660 ; D.D., August, 1660 ; and Prebendary 
of Hillington in the Church of York, September 20, 1660. He also 
held the sinecure of Llanwrst. Consecrated Bishop of Sodor and 
Man (with leave to hold his deanery) on Sunday, October i, 1671. 
He and Bishop Isaac Barrow, of St. Asaph, founded a school in the 
Isle of Man, endowing it with ;^6o per annum, circa 1670. He gave a 
Communion cup to the Church of St. German, Peel, Isle of Man, and 



APPENDIX. 395 

a paten on which were his arms — ten balls, a lion passant in chief. 
" A careless person called Dr. Hen. Bridgeman " (Anthony k Wood, 
iii. 38). The Chancellor's letters (1660) say that " He had done good 
service to the king.'' 

He married = (1) Katherine, daughter = (2) Margaret, 

I of William Laver, remarried 1687 

I of Kersal Lane, to Mr. John Allen. 

I living 1665. 



three daughters, one of whom 
married Thomas Green. 
See Adam Martindale's Life, 
p. 194. 

" By an order of the Committee of Plundered Ministers, 22 July, 
1646, Katherine, wife of Hen. Bridgman, was appointed to have fifths 
of Bangor Rectory." — Baker MSS., Cambridge University Library. 

He died May 15 (or 18), 1682, and was buried in Chester Cathedral. 



Page 273. " Robert Fogg admitted to the Rectory of Eccleston, 
Lancashire, on the presentation of the king, October 26, 1627." As 
Robert Fogg was bom circa 1596, query whether the above is not the 
same person. 

Robert Fogg, Rector of Hoole, Lancashire, paid his first-fruits, 
October 21, 1641 (a successor, Samuel Jones, appointed 1647). 

Fogg was at Bolton, Lancashire, when Prince Rupert took it. The 
prince "had a particular aim at him " (Calamy). 

July I, 1646, he was presented to Bangor Is-y-coed (sequestered 
from Dr. Henry Bridgeman) by the Committee for Plundered Ministers. 

From Philip Henry's diary for March 5, 1661, it appears as if he 
stood to Dr. Bridgeman in the position of chaplain at Bangor. See 
also the finding of the Jury, on page 27. 

Fogg's second wife proved a Papist, and her sons were in the king's 
army. After resigning Bangor in 1661, "he lived in the vicinity of 
Nantwich, and went constantly to church at Nantwich or Acton, and 
preached after sermon on the Lord's day, and also on week days. 
In the latter part of his time he lived alone ; and kept his coffin by 
him." 



INDEX. 



Abbot, Archbishop, 219 
Absalom's, Mr., house, 106 
Acton, 186, 262, 273, 395 

— Sir Edward, 301 
Addavellyn, 351 

Adams, Aunt, 81 ; death of, ll5 

Mr., of Penley, 95, 97 

Mr. John, of Northwood, 135, 

142, 22c 
Mr. John, of London and Wem 

and Iscoyd Hall, 124 

Mr. (Walter), , of Iscoyd Hall, 

124, 128, 129, 130, 137, 144, 153, 
164, 225, 226, 229, 230 

Mr. John, of Iscoyd Hall, 124, 

229 

■ Mr., 310 

Albemarle, George, first Duke of, 

221, 226 
Christopher, second Duke of, 

221 
Aldersey, John, 25 

Mr. Huinphry, 243, 249, 255 

Mrs., 294, 316 

Mr., 344 

Alghtree, 135 

Alkinton, 255, 256, 261, 263, 298, 

309. 3". 323 

wood, 265 

Altar-rails, 179 

Ambrose prima, 67 

Ammersam, 48 

Andrew's, St., in Holbom, 232, 

284 



Anglesey, Earl of. Lord Privy Seal, 

II, 297 
Ann, Sister, 226, 311, 388 
Annesley, George, 11 
Annotated Book of Common Prayer, 

94 
Annus Mirabilis, loi, 105 
Ansley, Dr., 242, 243 
Anstice, Mr. W. R., 334 
Appleby Castle, 13 
Aqua Mirabilis, 340 
Arcal, 315 

Arguments good against sin, 161 
Argyll, Marquis of, beheaded, 89 
Arians in Poland, 178 
Arlington, Lord, 251 
Armour, 190 
Arundel, Earl of, 295 
Asaph, St., Isaac, Bishop of, 290, 291 
William, Bishop of, 299, 305, 

309, 311, 321, 336, 394 
Ash, 79, 86, 99, 119, 127, 130, 136, 

148, 153, 167, 182, 185, 217, 227, 

264, 279, 280 
Ashborn, Mr., minister of Norton, 106 
Ashes, the (Bettisfield), 319 
Ashover (Derbyshire), 105 
Ashton, Cosin, 143 

Sir Ralph, 273 

Mr., of Woolton, 383 

Aston, 374 

, Mr., minister of Atcham, 244 

Aulam, 186, (Audlem) 317 
Aulton (Hants), 104 
Austria, 159 
Ayler, Mr., 183 

2 D 



398 



INDEX. 



B 



Bache, Miss, of Great Malvern, 334 
Baddeley, 224 

Bagshawe's, Mr., papers, lOl 
Bailey, Mr., 251 

Old, 279 

Baker, Mrs. , of Sweeney, 322 
Ball, Mr., 366 
Baldwin, Dr., 78 

Serjeant, 237 

" Bampton Lectures," 155, 156 
Bancornbury, 21 
Bangor bridge, 17 

College of, 2 

Deanery, 22 

Is-y-coed, 21, 52, 54, 56, 59, 79, 

99. 14s. 273, 395 

Monachorum, 313 

Banister, one, 273 
Baptists, secession of, 155 
Barbour, Captain, 58 ; death of, 75 

Captain Gerard, 288 

■: John, 171 

Barlow against Baxter, 169 
Barnett, Mr., 274 

■ Mr. Joseph, 289 

Mr. Josh., 304 

Barnston, Mr., of Churton, 86 

Barri, Giraldus de, vi. 

Barrow, Bishop of St. Asaph, 290 

Dr. Isaac, 291 

Earthomley, 303 
Barton, Owen, 25, 126 

Captain, 219 

Baschurch, 175 

Basnet, Richard, 25 

Bastwick, Mr., 183 

Bateman, Mr., 253 

Bates, Dr., 183 

Battersey, 9 

Baxter, Mr., 268, 277, 291, 354 

Richard, 371; death of, 374; 

portrait of, 374 
Beake, Mr., of Tamworth, S3 
Beal, Mr., 268 
Beard, John, 232 
Beaufort, first Duke of, 157, 304 
Beaumaris, 354 
Beddow, 231, 285 
Bede, 202 

Bedingfield, Chief Justice, 355 
Bee, Mr., 253 
Beever, Mr. J. F., of Beaumaris, 115 



Bell tolling of its own accord, 105 
Benet, Cosin, 146, 148, 262 

Cosin Jane, 151 

William, 304 

Captain, 107 

Benson, a Jesuit, 134 

Bentley, Mr., 350 

Benyon, Sarah, 71 

Uncle, 79, 81, 83, 130, 143, 153, 

201, 217 

Aunt, 136, 160 

— — Cosin Dan, 139, 146, 172, 242, 

244, 266, 267, 306, 317 

Cosin Ellen, 272, 339 

Robert, 146 ; excommunicate, 

232, 263 

William, of Whicksal, 301 

Berisford, Mr. , of Derby, 264 
Berkeley, Lord Deputy, 236 
Bernard, Dr., of Whitchurch, death 

of, 97 ; burial, 99 
Berry, Mr., 301 
Betley, 209 
Bettisfield, 237 - 
Bevan, Mr., 37, 38 
Bicentenary, 156 
Bick(erton), 200 
Bickley, Robert, 187, 197 
Billings' legacy, 197 
Bingham's " Christian Antiquities,'' 

127, 178, 179, 246 
Bmney, Mr., 34, 136 
Birch, Mr., 350 
Bishop's Castle, 105 
Bishopsgate Without, 290 
Blacka, 270 
Blakeway's " Salop," 138 

" Sheriffs of Salop," 214 

Bleddyn ap Cynfyn, 88 
Bloud, one, 237 
Bloxam, Mr. M., 289 
Bludworth, Sir Thomas, 233 
Bold, Mr., 97, 181, 183 

Mr., of Dorset, 319 

Eolland, Mr., of Chester, 365 

Bonner, Mr., 9 

Bonniman, Mr., 84, 85 

Booth, Mr., curate of Whitchurch, 

139, 141, 168 

M.P. for Chester, 298 

Sir George, 68 

Boreatton, 201, 223, 230, 250, 257, 

260, 292, 316, 356, 360, 364, 375 
Bosier, Robert, 291, 292, 293 



INDEX. 



399 



Bostock, Mr. (George, of Holt), 157, 

159 
Bourn, 104 

Bowers, Mr., 132, 133 
Bowing at name of Jesus, 300 
Bowk, 139 , 

staves, 164 

Bowles, Mr., 106 

Boyle, Richard, 174 

Bradenheath, 234, 299, 319 

Bradley, Mr., of Nesse, 38 

Bradshaw, Justice, 58 

Brainford, 49 

Bramhall's, Archbishop, Works, 134 

Brangwyn, 274 

Braose, William de, vi. 

Brayne, General, 137 

Cosin, 117, 323 

Brentwood in Essex, 104 
Brereton of Malpas, 124, 194 

(Bruerton), Lord, 82, 125, 239 

Sir Thomas, 271, 272, 273 

Lady Alice, 272 

Sir Randle, 272 

Dr., 315 

Old Mrs., of Bella Hill, 345 

Breton Castle, 391 

Brett, Mr. James, of Hoby, 223 

Brexins, 22, (Broxton) 125 

Bridge, Mr., 95, 99, 116, 126, 138, 

143, 144, 151, 316 
Mr., jun., 132, 138, 142, 144, 

14s. 150 

Mr. William, of Yarmouth, 236 

Bridgeman, Bishop John, 22, 124, 194 

394 

Mr. Henry, 27 

Dean, 77, 78 

Dr., 74, ^<), 88, 90, 92, 95, 97, 

102, 146, 313 

Bishop, 394 

Sir Orlando, 72, 124, 183, 194, 

204 
Bristol, Earl of, 142, 213 
Britannia, 39 
Briton Ferry, i, 2 
Broad Oak, 2, 70, 71, 73, 75, 81, 83, 

122, 176, 202, 204, 227, 294, 340, 371 
Broghil, Lady (and my Lord), 175, 216 
Bromborough, 358 
Bromley, Mrs. Ellen, 319 
Bromwicham, 240 
Bronchal, Mrs., 256 
Bronington, 88, 89, 94, 96, 115, 117, 



118, 147, 168, 182, 184, 200, 234, 

24s. 271, 324. 343. 372 
Brooke, Lord, 106 
Brookes, Mr., 183, 3 14 

one, 288 

Brough Castle, 13 

Brougham Castle, 13 

Broughton, 76, 81, 83, 90, loi, 306 

family, 17 

John, 25, 112 

Mr. Thomas, 97 

Mr., 141, 304 

House, 320 

Brown, Mr., 78 

Bruce, Mr., 75 

Bruen, old Mr., of Stapleford, 167 

Mr. Tilston, 306 

Brunett, 306, 316 

Bryan, Mr. Richard, 12 

Bi-yn, ICO, 138, 147, 176, 256, 263, 

269, 343. 374 
Bryn Kinalt, 394 
Bryn-r)mnen, 264 
Buccleugh, Duke of, 289 
Buck killing,' 240 
Buckhurst, Lord, 158 

Lady, 137 

Buckingham, Mrs., 293 

Duke of, 274 

Buckley, Mr., 249 

Bull, Mr., 242 

Bunbury, 322 

Bunnel, Mrs., of Croydon, 271 

Bunting, Mr., 212 

Burghall, Mr., 138 

Burgliess, Mr., 242 

Burke's "Extinct Baronetage," 221 

Bum's " History of Parish Registers,'' 

30s 
Burnet's " Own Time," 159, 202, 213, 

223, 248, 278, 280, 281, 295, 297, 

300, 301, 312, 323, 336 
Burrel, Dr., Chancellor, 259 
Burroughes, Uncle, 95, 129 

Roger's wife, 148 

Burwardeston, 123 
Bury, Mr. Edward, 289 
Busby, Mr. Richard, 9 

Dr., 211, 328, 382 

Butler, Cosin, 146 

Button, Mr., 12, 37 

Byckley, Robert, 64, 78, 149, 151 

Thomas, 200 

Byrom, Mr., 323 



400 



INDEX. 



Caddington, 104 
Calamy, 156, 201 
Caldecott, John, 216 
Calvin, 259, 369 
Calvin's " Institutes," 14 
Cambridge, 11, 303, 305 

Duke of, 200 

Campion, Mr., 100 

Canterbury, 105 

Captive slaves, relief of, 294 

Carnarvon, 193 

Carrick, John, 11 

Case, Mr. Thomas, 9 

Catechizing, 306 

Cateral, Mr., 204, (Catheral) Master 

of Hanmer School, 312, 314 
Catharine, Queen, 157 
Cavfdrey, Mr. Zechariah, 303 
Cay, Cosin, n6 
Cecil, Mr., 257 
Chad, St., 154, 202 
Chamberlayn, Richard, of Drayton, 

126 
Chambers, Cosin Eddovi', 88 

Mr., 340 

Chancellor, y", 142, 159 
Chandler, II 
Charles, Prince, 5 

I., King, letters of, 6, 12, 211 

II., (coronation of) 84 : 200, 227, 

228, 243, 251 ; religion of, 159 
Charlton, Judge, 191 

Sir Job, 269, 279, 35 1 

Charnock, Mr., of New College, 15 
Charta, Magna, 234 
Chelsea, 72 ; (Chelsey) Little, 186 
Chester, 79, 83, 85, 86, 88, 90, 95, 

102, 157, 254; assize, 318; castle, 

32s. 339. 340 
Chesterfield, 104 
Cheswardine, 306 
Chetwood, Mr., 251 
Chetwynde, Philip de, 393 
Chichester burgesses, 297 
Chimney money, 134, 149 
Chirk, 117, 323 
Chiswick, 104 

Cholmeley, Lady, buried, 56 
Mr, Thomas, of Vale Royal, 

223 
the Lord, 269, 299, 307 



Cholmeley, the young Lord, 311 

Cholmondeley family, 124 

Christ Church chapel, 46 

Chrysostom, St., 177 

Church of Christ, government of, 184 

Church, Mr., 183, 313 

Mrs. Deborah, 304 

Churton, 201 

Citation, 170 

City preachers, 243 

Clarendon, Earl of, 203 

Clarendon's " History of Rebellion," 

7, II, 105, 220, 243,'244 
Clarges, Ann, 221 

Sir Walter, 221 

"Clergymen ejected by thousands," 

156 
Clive, Mr., 267 

Sheriff, 268 

Club-footed Philosopher, 350 
Cockshute, 43, 186, 244, 25° 
Coffin vrithout (a) burial, 305 
Cole, Mr., 186 

of Christ Church, 272 

Coleman, 134 

a Jesuit, 276 

Colique, remedy for, 65 

CoUey, Dr. Davies, 107 

Comet, 295 

Commission, Ecclesiastical, Crom- 

vrell's, for English Maelor, 25, 26, 

27, 125 
Commonwealth, 156 
Communion, Easter, 134 ; kneeling 

at, 178 
Conant, Dr., 183 
Conformity and Conventicles Act, 

158 ; another, 212 
Conigsmark, 312 
Coo Lane Estate, 267 
Cook, Mr., 102, 106, 143, 157, 213, 

304 
Corbet, Robert, 229 
Thomas, of Stanwaidine, 229, 

240 

Mr., 349 

Corker, 279, 283 

Cornavii, 21 

Cornish, Mr., 12, 37 

Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 

371 
Cosins, Bishop, (Works) 94 : 220 
Cotton, Sir Robert, 298 
Countess's Pillar, 13 



INDEX. 



401 



Covenant, burned, 104 : that wicked, 

183 
Coventry, (Trinity Steeple) 182 : 240, 

254. 

Sir John, 235 

Cox, Mr., 256 

Cracroft, Mr., of Magdalen, 15 

Cranfield, Lionel, 214 

Crewe, Mr. John, of Utkinton, 227 

Crook, Dr., 48 

Crop, created, 155 

Cross, Mr., of Lutterworth, 257 

Crowhurst, 295 

Croxton, 25, 297, 307 

House, 308 

Susan, 148, 308 

Cumberland, Margaret, Countess 

Dowager of, 13 
Cumins, Mr., 181 
Cunedda Wledig, 123, 306 
Cup, silver, Philip Henry's, 292 
Curteis' " Bampton Lectures," 155, 

156 



D 

Danby, Earl of, 276, 278, 282 

Dangerfeild, Mr., 280 

Darrack, Cosin, 240 

Dartmouth, Lord, 313; Lieutenant of 

Tower, 320 
Daughters, married, 331 ; in law, 332, 

385 
Daventry, 241 

David, WiUiam, of Myford, 335 
Davis, Mr., of Wrexham, 139 
late of Jesus College, Oxford, 

240 

Ann, of Worthenbury, 290 

Daxton, Mr., of Brasenose College, 

153, 164, 167, 180 
Deane's House (Chester), 102 
Deaves, Mr. Richard, 297 
Deerfold, 252, 262 
Delamere, Lord, 68, 351, 363 
Delaval, Mr., 263 
Delawn's, Mr., house, 127 
Delves, Sir Henry, 224 
Denbigh, 193, 274, 279 
Derby, Earl of, 345 
Devil, y° angry, 246 
Devizes, 105 
Dickens, Mr., of Morton Say, 38 



Dickins, Mr. John^ of Twitnam, 15 

Sister, 117 

Digby, 159, 213 

Digitus Dei, 157, 171 

Dimon, Mr. , a Londoner, 107 

Dionysius of Alexandria, 177 

Dioscordiura, 315 

Dod, Mr. William, of Bletchley, 267 

Dodington, 195 

Dodwell, Mrs., 309 

Doelittle, Mr., 243, 292, 334 

Dolben, Canon of Christ Church, 218 

■ — - Mr., 249 

Domesday Book, 21, 123 

Done, Mrs. Jane, of Torperley, 131 

Dorset, sixth Earl of, 158 

Dover, 227 

Drayton, (fire at) 199, 249, 256, 262, 

278 
Drovers, 147 
Dublyn, 252 
Dudleston, 117, 201, (Dodleston in 

Cheshire) 320 
Durandus, 178 
Dutch, war proclaimed against, 172 ; 

victory over, 174; loan for war, 190; 

peace with, 196 ; Dutch- triumph, 

201 ; peace, 203 ; bloody fight with, 

252 ; success of French against, 252 
Dyches, 253, 256 
Dyer, Mary, 388 
Dyffryn Clwyd, 157 
Dymock, Humphrey, of Willington, 

Esq., 208 
Mr., 284, 294 



E 

Eastwick, David, death of, 283 
Eastwick's Tenement, 124, 269 
Eaton, 166, (boat) 197 
Eddow, Mr., 72, 74 

Jo., 126 

Deborah, 129, 139 

Jane, 138, 182 

Woodroff, 153 

John, 249 

• Ralph, 158, 227, 231 

• Richard, Lieutenant, 175 

Randle, 192 

■ Sarah, 227 

Coz., 381 

Edgehill, 243 



402 



JNDEX. 



Edgeley, Mr., 280 
Edstaston Church, "jd, 323 
Edward I., 123, 305 

III., 123 

Edwardes, Sir Herbert, C.B., 118 
Edwards, "Uncle," 79,91, loi, 115, 
117 

Mr. Samuel, 140, 141, 253 

Mr. Jonathan, of Jesus College, 

Oxford, 203 

Mr., schoolmaster, of Whit- 
church, 198 

Sir Thomas, 234 

Mr., of Oswestry, 290 

Mr., Comissary, 305 

Mrs. Catherine, of Chirk, 306 

Sir John, of Machynlleth, 118 

Edwin, Earl, 123 

Egerton, Sir Richard, of Ridley, 124 

Richard, Esq., 194 

Sir Philip, 223, 298, 318 

Egton, Mr. Henry, 93 

Electio, 353 

Elf river, 122 

Elizabeth, Queen, 124, 155 

Elliot, Uncle, death of, 92 

Ellis, Mr. Andrew, of Hanmer, 25 

Mr. Andrew, of the Wern, 230 

Mr. Tobias, 265 

Sister, 283, 284. See Katharine 

Henry 

Elsmere, 17, (church) 35, 131, 169, 
225 

Emral, viii., 2, 15, 45, 47, 51, 68, 
(chappel) 82, 84, 96, 126, 127, 
159, 236, 275, 306, 319. 393 

Enfield, 18, 314 

Essex, 156 

Evans, Mrs. Joan, died, 58 

Evelyn's Diary, 13, 71, loi, 105, 
130, 197, 205, 220, 221, 226, 239, 
27s, 281, 293, 29s, 299, 311, 323, 
336 

Excommunicated, 166, 177, 232 

Exeter, 105 ; Countess of, 241 

Exhibition, Whitchurch, 392 

Eyton, 117 

Mrs., 45 

. Mr., 215 

Major, 172 

Mr., ofLeeswood, 190 



Falmouth, Earl of, 174 

Fanatiques, 223 

Farrar, William, 140, 224 

Fast for Dutch war, 250 

Fel, Dr. Samuel, 12 

Felton, 305 

Fenns, 82 

Fens Moss, 305 

Feoffees of Whitchurch School, 140, 
165 

Fern, Dr., 102 

Figes, Mrs., 136, 151, 246 

Finch, Lord Keeper, death of, 319 

Finmore, Mr. Wil., 12 

Fire in Thames Street, 243 

Fisher, Bishop, 368 

Fitz-harris, .300 

Fitz-hugh, Robert, Baron of Malpas, 
123 

Fletcher of Madeley, i 

Flint Assize, 215, 321, 324 

Fodder, scarcity of, 262 

Fogg, Mr., 19, (Robert) 27, 38, 57, 
72, 77, 79 ; solicited to leave 
Bangor, 88, 169 ; kept his coffin 
beside him, 395 ; death of, 273, 313 

Mr. Orlando, 37, 65 ; re-ordained, 

78, 81, 82, 84, 143, 237 

Mrs., of Hawarden, 79, 237 

Mr. Lawrence, 169, 254 

Foley, Mr. Philip, 231, 243 

Mr., 292 

Madam, 314 

Mr. Tho., 314 

Ford, Dr., of Swinford, 314 

" Foxes and Firebrands," 134 

France, war with, 273 

French, 96 

Fuller's works, 134 



Galloway, 212 

Gardiner, Dr. Rich., 12 

Garrisons, five to be dismantled, 282 

Gauden, 156 

Gerard, Sir Gilb., 283 

George, the (Whitchurch, Salop), 245 

Germany, 159 

Ghent, Van, 252 



INDEX. 



403 



Giles, St., 277 
Giovanni, 157 
Glendall, Mr., 59, 106 
Golbom, Mr., 100, 102, 129, 143 

Mrs., 151 

Goodwin, Mr., of Bolton, 255 
Gorge, Mr., of St. John's, 15 
Gough, Matthew, 88 
Gower, Mr. Leveson, 298 
Grandchildi-en, twenty-four, 332 
Graye, Sister, 30 

Mr. Henry, 314 

Gray's Inn, 336, 341, 352 
Gredington, 26 1 
Green, Mr., 143, 238, 246, 273 
Greg, Mr. Edward, 364 
Gresford, 41, 51, 58, 165, 225 
Griffith, Richard, 98 

John, 99, (of Addavellyn) 351 

Dr.- (Bishop), 153 

Grimes, Mr., 243 ; alias Chambers, 

252 
Grinsel, 207 
Grosvenor, Mr. Roger, 104 

Sir Richard, 166 

Guthry, Mr., death of, 89 
Gwernhaeled, 135 
Gwillington, 393 
Gwin, Nel, 236 

H 

Habertus, 177 

Haclcet, Dr. and Bishop, 232 

Sir Andrew, 306 

Haggar, an Anabaptist, 35 

Hague, the, 226 

Halifax, Earl of, 295, 301 

Hall, Mr., of Newcastle, 38 

Hallingham, one, 134 

Halston, 218 

Hamilton's invasion, 165 

Hammond, Dr. Henry, 11, 12, 169 

Mr., 131 

Hampden, Mr., 230 

Mr. Ric, 23s 

Hampton, 291, (post) 310, 360 

Hanmer, 17, 23, 45, 51, 55, 82, 83, 
148, 167, (parish) 187, 190, 195, 
201, 230, 339, 359, 383 ; church, 
216, 374 ; pulpit, 375 ; school, 249, 
255 ; poor of, 280; hall, 312, 318 ; 
churchyard, 213 

Sir Thomas, 72, 82, 88, 95, 98, 



149, 150, 152, I7S, 180, 187, 196, 

I97i 198, (Knight of Shire) 217, 

228, 243, 254, 273, 27s 
Hanmer, Sir John, 98, 148, 175, 261, 

298 
Mr. Joseph, 38, 94, 95, 125, 

126, 260 
Mr. Sam., of Christ Church, 75, 

244 
Mr. William, of B'ens, 147, 149, 

175. 187; death of, 215 
Mr. Thomas, of Fens, 130, 236, 

244, 270, 279, 301, 344 
Jane, Mrs., of Fens, death of, 

286 
Thomas (second son of Thomas, 

of Fens), death of, 313 
Mr. John, of Fens, death of,' 

323 
Mr. William, of Bettisfield, 301, 

345 

■ Mr. Roger, 261 

Harcourt, one, a popish priest, 276 
Hardware, Samuel, Esq., of Brom- 

borough, 332 

Mr. John, 347 

Mr., 356, 358, 385 

Hardwick, 267 

Harley, Sir Robt., 265 

Harries, Sir Thomas, 213 

Harthill, 125 

Harvest, early, 190 

Hassal, Mrs., 100, 147 

Hathorns, to propagate, 203 

Hawarden, 82, 143 

Hawes, Dr., 293 

Hawkins, Chaplain of Tower, 300 

Hayward, Mr. William, 238 

Heanes, Mr., of Salop, 290 

Hearn, Mr., 292 

Hearth-money, 283 

Heath, Mr. , of Julians, Salop, death 

of, 188 

Mr. William, death of, 231 

Heiferstone Grange, 386 
Heneage, Captain, 127 
Hen-grwys, 122 

Henrick, Mrs. Dorothy, burial of, 5 
Henrietta of England, 227 
Henry, Ann (sister), 8, 214, 388 

Ann (daughter), 255, 385, 386 

Eleanor, 203, 303, 306, 385, 386 

John, Mr., 2 ; birth, 4; respect 

for the king, 5 ; petition, 6 ; Lord 



404 



INDEX. 



Chamberlain of king's household, 

8 ; marriage, 8 ; death, 6, 14 
Henry, John (of Worthenbury), (birth 

and baptism) 85, 90, 168, (school) 

172, 183, 193, 19s, (death) 198, 

203, 385 
Katharine, Mrs. (Matthews), 

386 

Kath. (Hardware), 358, 385 

Kath. (daughter), 177, 385, (Mrs. 

Tylston) 386 
Kath. (sister), 238, 243, 265. See 

Ellis 
Matthew, 2, (birth and baptism) 

118, 140, 141, I4S, 153, 176, 216, 

256, 264, 291, 301, 311, 322, 336, 

341. 358. 375, 378, 381, 38s. 387 

Philip, his ancestry, I ; record 

of baptism lost, 5 ; birth, 8 ; bap- 
tism and sponsors, 9 ; admission to 
Westminster school, 9 ; accident 
there, 10 ; severities of, 10 ; his 
conversion, 10 ; admission to Christ 
Church, Oxford, II ; witnessed 
the execution of Charles I., 12 ; 
took his B.A., 13 ; preached at 
St. Hinksey, 14 ; took office of 
Junior of y° Act, 14, 15 ; came to 
Emral, 15 ; performed the office of 
Magister Replicans at Oxford, 15 ; 
writes for the Oxford 'E\aio^opia, 
20 ; examined by the Presbytery 
for ordination, 34; ordained at 
Frees, 58 ; married at Whitewell 
Chapel to Katherine Matthews, of 
Broad Oak, 70 ; presented at Flint 
Assizes for not reading Common 
Prayer, 72 ; and at Hawarden, 82 ; 
Hanmer meeting stopped, 82 ; birth 
of first child, 85 ; advised to con- 
form, 90 ; thirty years old, thinks 
conformity wrong, 93 ; objects to 
funeral customs, 94 ; burial during 
service, 98 ; discharged from Wor- 
thenbury, 98 ; urged to make ad- 
dresses at Court, 99 ; succeeded by 
Mr. R. Hilton, 99 ; much opposi- 
tion at Wem, 100 ; as to late war 
and covenant, 102 ; hymnos antelu- 
canos, 102; cross in baptism, 102 ; 
correspondence with Dr. Bridge- 
man and Mr. Puleston, 107-115; 
birth of second son, 118 ; surrender 
of Judge Puleston's deed by which 



the house at Worthenbury was as- 
signed to him, 121 J the exercise of 
hospitality at Broad Oak, which 
was now his home, 122; attendance 
atWhitewal Chappie, 127; the two 
extreames, 132 ; grieved to be absent 
from Lord's Supper, 134 ; imprison- 
ment at Hanmer, 148 ; selling corn 
in market, 149 ; threatened vpith 
the constableship of Tybroughton, 
I JO ; objects to services in Lent, 
167 ; sub-collector of tax for royal 
aid for Flintshire, 171 ; rumours 
of plots, 173 ; imprisoned at 
Hanmer, 175 ; 9500 paces from 
Broad Oak to Sam Bridge, 181 ; 
summoned to Hanmer to sub- 
scribe to the loan for Dutch 
war, 190 ; removed to Whitchurch, 

194 ; death of father - in - law, 

195 ; death of son John, 198 ; re- 
turned to Broad Oak, 202 ; dis- 
charge of trusteeship, 208 ; con- 
versation with Dr. Busby, 211 ; the 
new Act of restraint, 226 ; at Stan- 
wardine, 240; fast day at Countess 
of Exeter's, 241 ; good done because 
the devil angry, 246 ; king's declara- 
tion of indulgence to aU Noncon- 
formists, protestant and papist, 
249 ; license to preach, 251 ; dis- 
claims any wish to cause divisions, 
264 ; buys Iscoyd Green farm, 269 ; 
a substitute provided as high con- 
stable of Maylors, 279 ; at Willing- 
ton Hall, 288 ; his silver cup, 292 ; 
preaching at Weston beyond Frees, 
and interrupted by Justices, 299 ; 
distrained upon, 301, 307; discourse 
with Bishop Lloyd at Oswestry, 
309 ; at Chester, 311 ; at Madam 
Foley's, 314 ; at Mr. Henry Grey's, 
314 ; wife ill of ague, 315 ; brought 
Worthenbury cup and patten to 
Lady Trevor of Emral, 320 ; 
gave Math. Henry 30s. tow. his 
watch, 322 ; Judge Jeffries' opinion 
of the late distraint, 324; and 
opinion of Philip Henry, 324; Duke 
of Monmouth's descent, 325; indul- 
gence to Nonconformists, 326 ; Mr. 
Henry nominated Justice of the 
Peace, 327 ; Riley's picture of Dr. 
Busby and him, 328 ; continues at- 



INDEX. 



40s 



tendance at Whitewell till 1679, 
328 ; Prince of Orange's landing, 
328 ; Philip Henry preaches regu- 
larly at Broad Oak and elsewhere, 
329 ; his children married, 330 ; 
prevailed on to receive the sons of 
other people, 332 ; Lord Paget, 
334 ; correspondence vi^ith Matthew 
Henry, 334, etc. ; imprisoned in 
Chester Castle (in July, 1685), 339 ; 
lines to a newly married pair, 359 ; 
as to a set form of prayer, 366 ; as 
to the bath of supremacy, 367 ; 
specimen of sermons, 371 ; friends 
who died shortly before him, 374 ; 
his last days, 376-378 ; death, 379 ; 
epitaph, 380 ; burial, 381 ; portrait 
of, 383 ; list of descendants, 383 ; 
his family, 385; his will, 387; 
works published, after his death, 
by others, 390 ; Henry and Mat- 
thews' deeds, 39 1 ; relics, 392. 
Henry, (sister) Sarah, 68, 115, 137, 

199, 254. 297 

IV. of France, 235, 257 

■ VIII. of England, 367 

Hensworth (Herts), 104 

Henvayes, 269, 311 

Herbert, Mr. George, vi., 209, 345 

Heriot, 206, 345 

Herrick, Ann, baptism 6f, 5 

Katherine, baptism of, 5 

Herl, Mr., 9 

Hertford College, Oxford, 139 

Heth, Thomas, 133 

Heyborn, Mr., 9 

Heylin, Dr., parson of Whitchurch, 

"7, 134 
Heywood, Oliver, 80, 134, 139 
Hide, Edward, 203 ; Lord Treasurer, 

320 

Ann, 237 

Hil, Mr., 9 

Hill, Justice, 227 

Hilton, Mr. Richard, 99, 100, loi, 

129, 130, 150, 171, 176, 191, 192, 

19Sj 197) 206, 208, 246, 248, 261 
Hincks, Arthur, 129, 244 
Hincksey, South, 14 
Hoathley, East, 295 
Hobsen's, Cos., token, 349 
Hockley, 243 
Hodges, Dr. Nath., 242 
Dean, 243 



Hodnet, 303 

Hogarth, 382 

Holborn, 284 

Holland, 349 

Mr., of Malpas, 118, 125, 126, 

133. 138, 147, 170, 273; Mr. H.'s 

son, 323 
HoUiman, John, 24, 65, 79, 83, loi, 

(clerk to Judge Puleston) 112, 131, 

149 

Mr., 170 

HoUiwell, 192 

Holmes, Captain, 165 

Holt, 17 

Hoskins, Mr., Vicar of EUesmere, 

death of, 169 
Hotchkis, Uncle, 165, 189, 239, 240, 

254 

Old Mr., 152 

Thomas, Cosin, 72, 117, 180, 254 

— —John, Cosin, 116, 137 

Sarah, Cosin, 117 

• Margaret, Cosin, 216 

Joshua, Mr., 158 

Houghton, Mr., 34 

Lady, 284, 288 

Howel, John, 116 

Eleanor, 124 

Walter and John, 124 

Thomas, Recorder of London, 

233 
Hughes, John, 64, 66, 77 
Hulton, Son, 361 

Hume's History, 102, 228, 235, 252 
Humphryes, Mr., 147 
Hungary, 159 
Hunt, Colonel, 160, 213, 375, (Mr., of 

Boreatton) 193, (Mr. Thomas) 354 
Rowland, 213 ; Mr., now 

Sheriff, 250, 253 

• Mrs. Martha, 227 

Tomy, 317 

Miss Frances, 347 



Idols, Saxon, 256 
Ightfield, 182, 187, 308 
lUidge, George, 355 
Ince, Mr., of Dunhead, 106 
Independents, secession of, 155 
Indulgence, king's declarations of, 
249. 326, 329 



4o6 



INDEX. 



lonston in Pemb. , 276 

Ipswich, 105 

Ireland, rebellion in, 243, 264 

Mr. John, 382 

Ironbridge, 304, 334 
Iscoyd, 122, 123, 208, 226, 234, 
(poor of) 24s : 268, 321, 388 

Chappell, 55 

• ■ Green Farm, 124 

Hall, 124, 212 

trans. Dee, 236 

with Tybroughton, 123 

Islington, 242, 334 



Jackson of Shrewsbury, 193 ; Cos. 

Tho., 195 

John, keeper of Emral, 243 

James I., King, 248, 257 

II-, 327 

■ Rev. A., 258 

Jebb, Steward of Wem, 260 
Jeffreyes, Mr., Minr. of Holt, 213 
Jeffreys, Judge, 294, 382 
Jeffries, Sir George, 324 

Mrs., 324 

Jenkyn, Mr., 37, 48, 77 

Lydia, 129 

Mr. Mathew, minr. of Gresford, 

22s 
Jennings, Cosin John, 117, (of Wil- 

lington) 213 

and Llewellyn, 1 73 

• Cosin, 249, (Cosin Wm.) 257 

Mr., of y" Wych, 265 

Hugh, the catchpole, 297 

Jesuit powders, 300 

Jesus College, Oxford, 203, 240 

John's, St., College, Cambridge, 303 

Chester, 311 

Johnson, Dr., 158, 382 

Johnston, Archibald, executed, 159 

Jones, Mr., of Llanarmon, 38 

W., of Denbigh, 93 

Sergt., 237 

Sir Wm., 313 

SirThos., 355 

Julian's, Shrewsbury, 188 
Juxon, Archbp., death of, 139 

K 

Katharin of y" Pinfold, 152 
Sister, 238, 243, 265 



ICatharine, Queen, reported death of, 

1 59 

Katharine's, St., 253 

Katherol, M., 133 

Keeling, Mr., 43, 45 

Judge, 233 

Mr., 261, 263, 268 

Mr. Fran., 289 

Kelsole, Mr., 306 

Kempster, Dan, of Alkinton, 311 

Kendal, Duke of, 200 

Kensington, 186, 241 

Kenwick Park, 255 

Kenyon, Lord, 391 

Honourable W. Trevor, 76 

Key, Randle, of Willington, 25, 51, 
213, 294, 312 

Kilhendre, 118, 196 

Killaloe, 56, 310 

Killigrew, 158 

Kinaston, Thos., 126, 175 

John, of Oteley, death of, 18S 

Raff, 214 

Fr., of Pant-y-byrsley, 196 

Mr., 282 ; Mr. John, of Lee, 312 

Mr. Edwd., 319; Mr., 274 

(Kyriaston) Sir Francis, of Ote- 
ley, 86 

Sir Edward, 391 

Kinderton, Baron of, 82, 223 

Kingerby, 297 

Kingston, Mrs., 72 

upon Thames, 104 

Kirk, Mrs., of Acton, 138, 147 

Cosin, (preached at Haimier) 

149, 186, 254 

Knight, a, of Cheshire, 258 

Mr., of Shrewsb., 160 

Knutsford, 155 



Lach, Wm., of Dodleston, 320 
Lambert, General, 69 
Langley, Mr., 12 ; Dr., 37, 46 

Mr., of Middlewick, 53 

Lappington, 100 

Laud, Archbishop, (kindness to Philip 

Henry) 5, 156, 179 
Lauderdale, Duke of, 317 
Lavington, Bishop, vii. 
Lawrence, Mr., 100, 127, 129, 146^ 

197, 227, 231, 238, 260, 267 



INDEX. 



407 



Lawrence, Sarah, 199, 383 

Thos., 277 

Nathanael, 224 

Wm. , of Wem, 287, 292, 300, 349 

• Philip Henry, 218 

Lea, Cosin Joshua, 119 

Lee, Edwd., Archbishop of York, 368 

Mrs. Grace Keay, 73, 165 

Joseph, Esq., 382 

Joseph H., Esq., 6 

Rev. P. H., 383 

Mrs. P. H., 383 

Leeds, 106 

Leeswood, 174 

Leigh, Mr. Hen., of Rushal, 314. 

— ~ Mr., 257, 262, 323 

Leighton, Archbishop, 202, 248 

Lent, 167 

Lester, Sir Rob., 298 

Lestrange, 23, 123, 270 

Lewes (Sussex), 105 

Lewis, Mr. Ambrose, 1 6, (Mr.) 40, 

42, 44, 45. (Amb.) 61, 83, 89, 171 
— - Mr. John, 58, (Mr.) 139, 153,218 

Rev. S. S., 371 

Lewnes, Richd., of Alkinton, 265 

Leyland, 224 

Lichfield, io5, 154 

Lighteach, 100 

Lightwood Hall, 174, 190, 215 

Linea, 155, 261, 282 

Littleton, Sir Walter, 232 

Llanroost, 144 

Llewellyn and Jennings, 173 

Lloyd of Halghton, 17, 23, 113, 175, 

212, 258, 321 

Owen, 25 

• Mr. Morgan, 55, 58 

Mr. John, 91 

Mr. Luke, llS, 124, 126, (Mr.) 

148, 155, 175, 212, 248, 269, 286, 

374 

Mr. Luke, jun., 191, 374 

Cosin Robt., 269 

Esther, 269 

Bp. William, of St. Asaph, 299, 

309, 321, 394 
Mrs.Eliz., 138, 142 (Cosin Betty) 

147 

Mrs., of Willington Cross, 282 

Mr., of Willington, 312 

Sir Evan, 149, i6o 

Mr. Robert, 374 

Llynbedydd, 237 



Llysbedydd, 237 

Loan for Dutch war, 190 

London, 96, 156, 272, 336, 337 ; fire 
of, 192 ; other fires, 193, 228 ; fires 
at, 229 ; great rayn in, 104 ; three 
fires in, 253 

Long, Dr. George, 289 

Lothbury, 127 

Ludlow, 213, 219 

Luther, 343, 369 

Lutterworth (Leicestersh.), 257 



M 

Macaulay's "History of England," 
72, 131, 156, 201, 227, 235, 249, 
275, 278 

Macclesfield, Earl of, Charles Gerard, 

304 
MacKail, Mr. Hugh, 212 
Madock, John, 126 
Madocks, Mr., 63 ; Cosin John, 135, 

171 ; house searched, 173 ; death 

of, 237 

Aunt, 339 

Cosin, 243 

Maelor, English, 17, 21, 122, 135, 

270, 279, 289 

grandson of CuneddaWledig, 123 

Gruifudd, 22 

Maeloron, 123 

Maes y groes, 122 

MaesUwyn, 88, 124 

Mahomet IV., 159 

Maidenhead, 11 

Ma(i)nwaring, Mr., of Malpas, 43, 

90, 125, 126,. 165, 172, 203, 224 
(Mr. Charles), 299, (Mayor of 

Chester) 318 
Mainwaring, Geo. and Jos., 249 

Mr., 250, 253, 261 

Maiden, Mr., 38, 252, 259, 261, 275 

Mr. John, 289, 298 

Malignancy, 156 

Malpas, 122, 123, (parsons of) 125, 

147, 149, 153, 170, 172, (visitation) 

188, 251, 266, 294, (church new 

pewd) 298, 306, 322, 354, 383, 390 
Malt, Samuel, 134 
Manley, Mr. Fr., 191 
Manning, Aunt, 119, 173 
Mansel, Raph, 129 
Colonel, 281 



408 



INDEX. 



Mansfield, Mr., 281 

Marches, Welsh, 304, 306 

Marchwiel, 39, 126, 255 

Margaret's, St., 9, 87 

Market after sermon, 138 

Marlborough, Earl of, 174 

Marriage verses, 359 

Marschal, Mr., 9 

Marshal, one, 279, 283 

Martin, Mr., of Devon, attacked by 

' ravens, 105 
Martin's in the fields, 14, (St.) 277, 

299 
Martin's, St. (Salop), 117 
Marton (Salop), 253 
Mary, Queen, 155 
Sister, 9, 16, 41, 42, 43, 65, 72, 

94, n8, 140, 145, 388 
Mary's, St. (Oxford), 13, 47 
Mason, Mr., 81 
Mateley, Dorothy, 105 
Matthewres, Ann, 131, 135 
— ^- Mr. Daniel, 70, 81, 137, 139 ; 

death of, 195, 206-208, 271, 391 
Matthevirs, Thomas, 200, 207 

Elizabeth, of Sutton Green, 103 

■ George, 151 

Katharine, 67, 70, (Henry) 365, 

385, 390 
Mayo, Mr. Richard, 375 
Mead, William, 232, 233 

Richard, 233 

Mear, Mary, 140 

Mede, 179 

Melanchthon, 343 

Mercia, 154 

Meteors, fiery, 105 

Middlesex Quarter Sessions, 183 

Middlesex, Earl of, 214, 226 ; Lord, 

241 

Lady, 223 

Middleton, Sir Thomas, 68, 323 

Mr., 298 

Milbanck, 30 
Millington, Mr., 256, 261 
Mills, Dr., 12 
Minister begging, 153 
Minoryes, the, 253 
Mitchel, Cosin, 264, 266 
Mitton, of Halston, 218 
Monk, George, first Duke of Albe- 
marle, 220, 223 
Christopher, second Duke of 

Albemarle, 221 



Monmouth, Duke of, 285, 289, 317, 

32s. 326 
Monteagle, Lord, 257 
Montgomery, 105 
More, Sir Thomas, 368 
Morgan, Mr., 259, 276 
Morley, Dr. George, 12 
.Morrall, family of, 118 

Stephen, 246 

Morrice, Mr. David, of Pennabont, 274 
Morris, Mr. Joseph, Salop, 82, 115 

Dr., 12 

Morton, Richard, 323 
Mortuary, 206 
Moston, Mr., 42, 55, 84 

Mr. Ambrose, death of, 153 

Mostyn, Mrs., 76 

Jane, 394 

Moulins, one, 107 
Moxon, Mr., 195 
Moyle, 55 

Mary, 88 

Thomas, 139 

Samuel, 312 

Mulsford, 81, 112, 200 

"Myddle Parish, Antiquities of," 7, 

38, 136, 214, 240, 241, 282 
Myvod, 335 



N 

Nantwich, 230, 252, 254, 256, 266, 
273, 288, 303, 317. 327. 348, 363. 395 

Neath, 6 

Needham, Captain, 155 

Dr., 243 

Needier, Mr., 243 

Ness ClifiT, 305 

Nesson, 143 

Nethersole, Sir Francis, 257 

Neuhaussel, 159 

Nevet, Mr., 174, 215, 263, 267 

Newcome (Diary), 173, 175, 182, 
214, 240, 303 

son, 323 

Mr., death of, 375 

Newport, 263, 289, (Monmouth) 345 

Newton, Cosin, 199 

Mr. Edward, 226 

Newtown, 289 

New York, 105 

NiclioUs, 179 

Nightingale, Mr. J. E., 4 



JNDEX. 



409 



Nixon, William, 136 

Thomas, of the Henvayes, 311 

Nonconformists, orders to secure, 
191; list of Salopians then dead, 291 
Norman's Heath, 255 
North, Lord Keeper, 319 
Northallerton, 104 
Northamptonshire Quarter Sessions, 

183 

Northop, 58, 176, 193 
Northumberland, Earl of, 312 
Northwich, 69 
Northwood, 225 
Norwich, 235 
Nye, Mr., 9 



O 



Oaks cleft by frost, 322 

Oats and Bedlow, 276 

Odford, 279 

Ogle, y= lady, 312 

Okeley, 251 

Oliver Cromwell, 219 

O'Neil, Sir P., 243 

Opdam, 174 

Orleance, Duchess of, 227 

Ormerod's "Cheshire," 166, 306 

Ormond, Duke of, 235, 317 

Osborn, Miss, of Worcester, 160 

Sir Thomas, 276 

Ossory, Lord, 235 

Oswestry, 263, 305, 309, 348 

Oteley, 188 

Over (Cheshire), 294 

Overton, 26, (Owton) 26, 28, (Orton) 
173, 198, 289, 308, 314 

(Maddock), 219 

Mr., 183 ■ 

Owen, Dr. John, 13 ; Vice Chan- 
cellor, 15, 18, 30, 32 

Mr., of Wrexham, 103, 313 

Mr. Arthur, M.P., 276 

Oxen, 135, 212 

Oxford, II, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20, 30, 
45. 47. 51. 71. 172. 183. (gaol) 244, 
249, 260, 291, (parliament at) 297, 
305 



Pagett, John, 63 

Lady, death of, 257 

Lord, 231, 292, 334 



Pagett, Penelope, 231 
Palmer, Sir James, 7 

Sir Roger, 7 

Mr., 9 

Francis, 15, 29 

Mr., of Wanlip, 257 

Palyn, Edward, of Haulghton, 25 

Richard (set. 103), 137 

Papists, 201, (plot) 275 
Parker, Archbishop, 247 
Parliament (prorogued 1669), 217 
Parsons, Mr., 34, 127, 146 

Mr. A., of Wem, 306 

Grace Keay, 383 

Patent Rolls, Chester, 272 

Patten, Communion, 320 

Payn, Dr., 12 

Paynter, Katharin, 115 

Peace, buy, 135 

Pembroke, William, third Earl of, 4 

Philip, fourth Earl of, 4, 219 ; 

character, 7, 13 ; kindness to Philip 

Henry, II ;,<ieath, 13 

Anne, Countess, character of, 13 

Philip, fifth Earl of, kindness to 

Philip Henry, 14 ; notice of, 14 

Philip, seventh Earl of, 293 

• Thomas, eighth Earl of (gift to 

Greenwich Hospital), 293 note, and 

errata 
Pemerton of Com. Pleas, 319 
Pen, William, 232 
Pendragon Castle, 13 
Penley, 41, 48, 54, 95; hall, 135, 289 
Pennsylvania, 233 
Penny-post, 342 

Pepys' Diary, 134, 150, 174, 175, 200 
Perrott, an Anabaptist, 237 
Peter and Paul, 220 
Petworth, 231 
Phillips, David, 77, 84; death of, 

103 ; burial, 85 

Edward, of MuUsford, 112, 

126, (Mr. E.) 140 
" Pilgrim's Progress,'' 301 
Pilkington, 314 
Pillions, 151 

Plague, deaths by, 175, 182, 185 
Plots, 148, (in Yorkshire) 151 : 173, 

275 
Plundered Ministers, Committee of, 

395 
Plunket (popish primate of Armagh), 
executed, 300 



410 



INDEX. 



Pocock, Mr., 12 

Pole's " Synopsis Criticorura," 225, 

273. 387 
Poll-money, 197, 274 
Porter, Mr. Thomas, 34, 82, 90, 100, 

130, 144, (death of) 201, 202, 206 

Susan, 266 

Portland, Earl of, 174 
Powel, Thomas, 26 

Daniel, 128 

Powis, Countess of, 281 

Powys, 22, 123 

Prelates, y', 154 

Prague, 159 

Prayer, Common, Book of, 119 

standing at, 127 

for two sick persons denied, 75 

secret, 256 

Prees, 37, 58, 60, 227 

Presburgh, 159 

Presbyterians called Malignants, 156 

Presbyters, ordination by, 202, 247 

Price, Thomas, 126 

Prichard, Mayor of London, 319 

Thomas, Curate of Bangor, 24, 

29 
Prideaux, Dr., 156, 234 
Processions, 138 
Protestant Israel, 253 

French, 352 

Pryn's, Mr., dream, 291 

Pugh, Mr. George, of Willington, 

279 
Puleston, John, Judge, 15, 16, 23, 

27, 45. 57. (death ot) 69, 112, 114, 

174, 215, 276 
Elizabeth, the lady, IJ, 16, 

18, 30, 31, 64, 67, 68, 70, 89, 320, 

393 
Roger, 16, 18, 64; Mr., 74, 

75; Deputy Lieutenant, 77; Mr., 

79, 82, 84, 87, 88, 89, 95 ; Sheriff, 

99. 100, "4. "5. 145, 157 ; death 

of, 202 
Mrs. (Jane), 83, 84, 128, 139, 

217, (Lady Trevor) 320 

Mrs. Elizabeth, 140 

Mrs. Alice, 300 

John, 16, 18 ; death of, 95 

Richard, death of, 18 

Thomas, 17, 92, 112, 190, 215, 

272 
Edward, 77, 95, 112; death of, 

16S 



Puleston, Roger, ofWorthenbury, 18, 
25, (death of) 39, 112, 126, 393 

Roger, son of Roger of Wor- 

thenbury, 18 

Susanna, lOl 

Roger, Sir, 139, (marriage) 306, 

319. 343. 351 

Hamlet, Mr., 29 

John, Captain, 82 

Theophilus H. G., Rev., viii. 

George, of Emral, Esquire, 190 

(Pyvelesdon de), family, 15 

Puritans, 94, 1 19, 155 ; a zealous 

puritan, 375 



Quaker, a, Edward Smith, 157 

a, Richard Tapping, 219 

a, Mary Moody, 285 

Quakers, 68, 76, 83 

Quarrington, 306 

Queen Katharine, reported dead, 1 50 



R 

Radford, son, 362 

Rainbow, Bishop of Carlisle, 220 

Ratcliff, Mr., 79, 108, 151, 200, 259 

John, death of, 166 

— — Eleanor, buried, 140 

Reading, 105 

Redbrook, 6, 73, 194, 383 

Red Hall, in Bettisfield, 275 

Revel, Mr., of Uval, in Cornwall, 

106 
Reyn, Dr., 369 
Reynolds, Dr. Edward, 12, 13, 156 ; 

Bishop, 183, 220 
Rhys Sais, 270 
Richardson, Mr. Joshua, 241 

Mrs., 260, 261 

Ridgeway, Joseph, 43, 51, 64, 76, 

304 
Andrew, excommunicated, 166, 

175 

Cosin Ellen, 266 

Mr., of Cool Lane, 267, 285, 

317 
Rigby, Serjeant, 342 
Riley, John, 10 ; the artist, 328 
Rippon, 259 



INDEX. 



411 



Roan, Mr., 56, (Dr. John) 310 
Roberts, Mr. Griffith, of Holt, 197, 

213, 313 

Major, of Wrexham, 104 

Mr. Jonathan, 305 

Robinson, Sir John, 233 
Rochdale, Mrs. Magdalen, 8, 9 
Roche, Mr., at Congleton, 112 
Rock, Dr., of Hampton, 64 
Rogers, Mr., 12 

Dan, 33 

Mr. Nehemiah, 289 

Mr. Hugh, of Newtown, 289 

Rolls, (Chapel) 323 : 351 

Mr., 183, (Rowles) 242 

Romanists, secession of, 155 

Rood, Mr., 183 

Roodee, 341 

Roswell, Mr., 303 

Rothes, Chancellor, 303 

Rouse, Sir John, 106 

Row, Mrs., of Barrel, death of, 140 

Rowland, J. H., Esq., 6 

Rowrey, 243, 312 

Royden, John, 115, (Mr.) 127, 128 

Rushal, 314 

Rushworth, Mr., 102, 134, 292 

Mrs., 138, 231 

Ruthin, 83 
Ruyter, De, 172 



Sacheveral, Mr., 104 

Sackville, Charles, sixth Earl of 

Dorset, 214 
Sadler, Mr., 118, 137, 138, 154, 219, 

25s 

Salisbury, Marquis of, 4, (Earl of) 
274 

Samson, Dr., 293 

Samvayes, Dr., 85 

Sanders, Chief Justice, 319 

Sanderson, Dr., 12, (Bishop of Lin- 
coln) 74 

Sandford, Justice, 227 

Sandwich, Earl of, slain, 252 

Sarah, Sister, 9, 16, 68, 115, 145, 
175. 241. 284, 388 

Sarcliff, Mr., 183 

Sam-Bridge, 181 

Savage, Sarah, 371, 386 

Savoy, the, 228 



Saxons, West, 202 ; idols of, 256 

Saxony, a duke of, 300 

Scotland, (Bishops restored in) 96 : 

312 
Scott, Sir Walter, 3 
Scrog, SirW., 283 
Seat disputed at Malpas, 271, 306, 

310 
Senior, Mr., 242 
Serjeants' Inn, new, 342 
Seymor, Mr. (Speaker), 279 
Shaftesbury, Earl of, in Tower, 274, 

27s 

Sheffield, Mr., 183 

Sheldon, Dr., installed Bishop of 
London, 72 

Shenton, (Mr. Randle) 254, (Mr. 
John) 260 

Sheppey, Isle of, 201 

Sherrot, Mr., 187, (Allen) 240 

Shipley, Captain, 143, 147 

Shocklach, 43, 45, 46, 64, 76, 86 

Short, Bishop, "History of Eng- 
land," 156 

Shrewsbury, loo, 174, 182, 229, 230, 
320 

Earl of, 4 

Shute, Sheriff of London, 314 

Sidley, Sir Charles, 158 

Sitting at prayer, 246 

Skipton Castle, 13 

Smallpox in Whitchurch, 347 

Smalswood, Dr., 85 

Smith, Sir George, 223 

Snell, George, Archdeacon of Chester, 
22 

Soldiers, seventy, drowned, 248 

Solebay, 252 

Somerset, H., Marquis of Worcester, 

304 

Duke of, 312 

Sotheby, 258 

Souter-fell, Cumberland, 106 

Southwark, 242 

Southwould, Church collection for, 

90 
Spalding, 104 
Spaniards, 96 
Spier, 343 
Stacey, il 
Stafford, 239, 251 
William, Viscount, 295, 296, 

313 

Standard, newspaper, 105 



412 



INDEX. 



Stanley, 23, 124 

Stanton, Dr., 9 

Wilts, 174 

Stanwardine, 188, 240, 253, 257 

Starling, Sir Sam. (Mayor of London), 
233 

Stedman, Mr., 374 

Steel, Mr. Richard, 34, 72, 77, 82, 
93. 96, 127, 132, 134, 138, 144, 
148, 151, 154, 156, 169, 171, 173, 
175, 241, 248, 251 ; death of, and 
portrait, 374 

children of, 181, 236 

Moses, 289 

Mrs., 188 

Stephen, King, reign of, 123 

Stern, Archbishop of York, 277 

Stinchcomb, 177 

Stoke in Wirral, 225 

Stolen waters are sweet, 202 

Stone, II 

Stoney Stratford, 241 

Strafford, Earl of, 292 

Stretford, 291 

St. John, Lord, 22 

Stryne's Works, 247 

Styche, 130, 251, 261, 268 

Supremacy, Oath of, 367 

Swansea, 7, S^ 

Sweeney, 260, 266, 322 

Swinerton, Cos. H., 321 

Swinfen, 230, 292 

Swinford, 314 

Synod's-men, 235 

Syson, Evan ap, 2 



Table, the long oak, 269 

Talbot, Thos., 90; Cosin, 119, 165 

Maiy, 126 

Tallents, Mr., 127, 201, 268, 306, 379 

Tames, one, executed, 103 

Tapping, Richard, 218 

Tarvin, 303 

Taylor, Mr. Richard, 74, (Mr., of 

Holt) 76, 95, 96, 191, 253, 256, 

313 

Mr., of Bury, 106 ; of Wem, 129 

Mr. John, near Dudley, Staff., 

259 
Dr. Jeremy, 178 



Taylor, Captain, 75, 77, 252, 260 

Mr. Samuel, 289 

Mrs. Kath., of Plas Die, 255 

TertuUian, 102 

Thames, frozen over, 322 

Street, sad fire in, 243 

Thelwell, Mrs., 343 

Theodore, Archbishop of Canterbuiy,. 

202 
Thistleworth, 49, 51, 71, 241 
Thomas, Mr., of Tilstock, 95, 100, 

104, 127, 130, 13s, 136, 138, 140, 

144, 146, 147, 151 

Mr. Zechariah, death of, 230 

Mr., of Ubley, 140 

Thomdyke, Dr. Herbert, 291 

Thornton, Mr. Robert, 65 

Thoyts, W. B. M., Esq., 393 

Threapwood, 65 

Thurloe papers, 275 

Thyn, Squire, 311 

Tilstock, 95, 100, 126, 127, 130, 135, 

136, 154, i6S. 186, 299, 313 
Tilston, Mr. John, of Alkinton, 323 

Mrs., 349 ; Mr., 355 ; son, 365 

Dr. John, of Chester, 380 

Tite, Sir W., 258, 391 

Tithings, 239 

Tong, Mr., 349 

Tonna, (Randle) 147, 212, (eldest 

daughter of) 230, (Alice) 226 
Torperley, 187, 252 
Transylvania, 159 
Travers, Mr., of Lichfield, 381 
Trevor, Tudor, 17, 280 

Sir Thomas, 58 

Mr. John, of Bryn Kinault, 217 ; 

Sir John, 236, 275, 298, 320, 394 

Lady, of Emral, 320 

Trilemma, 250 

Trim, Nurse, 141, (Widow) 299 

Tristram, Mrs., 135 

Tromp, Van, 174 

Turks, 159 

Turner, Rev. W., 127, (William) 236 

Sir Edward, 154 

Tuttlefields, 30 
Twimleys, y", 313 
Twisden, Judge, 236 
Tybroughton, 150, 285, 316 
Tyndall, Henry Witton, Esq., 177, 

348 
Tyrconel, Lord, 355 
Tyrrel, Judge, 174 



INDEX. 



413 



U 

Upton-on- Severn, 375 
Utkinton, 227 



Valentia, Viscount, 1 1 

Vaughan, Mr., of Cludyalt, 97 

Venables, General, 129 

Venner, 76 

Verjuice, 151 

Vernon, Sir Thomas, 296, 299, 301 

Victory against Dutch, 174 

Vienna, 159 

Vincent, Mr. Thomas, 9 

John, 1 1, y« two, 243 

Viner, Sir Thomas, 'his funeral, 174 
Vines, Mr., 379 
Vultur volans, 295 
Vvrats, Colonel, 311 

W 

Wade, Mr. Bryan, 297 

Sarah, 388 

Wages, rate of, 131 

Wakeman, Sir George, 279 

Wal, Dr., 12 

Walcot, Mr., 191 

Walcott's "Archaeology," 206 

Walker's " Sufferings of the Clergy," 
14, 35, 201 

Waller, Mr., 220 

Walsal, 314 

Walters, Lucy, 289 

Walton, Dr. Bryan, Bishop of Ches- 
ter, 95 ; death of, loi 

Wanford, in Suffolk, 106 

Wanlip (Leicest.), 257 

Wapping, 319 

War with France, 183 

Warburton, P. H., 124 

Bishop, 243 

Robert, 377, 386 

Peter (Judge), 386 

Ward, Mr., of Christ Church, 15 

Mrs., of Coton, 237 

Mr. Matth., "Simple Cobler," 

284 

one, 106 

Warner, Trevor^ Lady, vii. 



Warrenne, family of, 3, 123 

Warrington, 359, 360 

Warton, laird of, 159 

Washborn, Mr., 137 

Watson, Mr., 243 

Wattlesborough Castle, 135 

Weld, John, 260 

Mr. Raph, from Wrexham, 95, 

137, 309 

Mrs., 76 

Wells, Mr., 9 

Welsh, Mrs., of Wrexham, 138 

Welsh- Hampton, 61, 62 

Welshpoole, 53 

Wem, 100, loi, 262, 266, 274, 322, 327 

Wenlock, Mrs., 341 

West, Mr. Edward, 272 

Weston, 259, 296, 361 

Westminster, 183 ; Abbey, 9, 49, 226, 

312 ; Hall, 233, 29s, 342 

St. Margaret's, 9, 87, 293 

— — Election, 353 

Westwood, J. O., 7 

Whale at Shrewsbury, 258 

Wharton, Earl of, 274 

Whattal, 257, 267 

Whitaker, Mr., g, 243 

Whitchurch, 79, 86, 99, 119, 123, 

128, 171, 194, 198, 202, 327, 372 
White, author of " Century," 156 ; of 

" Power of Godliness," 205 
Whitehall, 12, 193 
Mr. John, 147, 187, 193, 306 

— Mrs., 13Q, 304 
Mr. Richard, 319 

Whitley, Thomas, of Aston, 374, 

(Colonel) 298 

Mr. W., junr., 298 

Whitwell Chapel, 38, 70, 123, 125, 

204, 328, 331, 383 
Whixall, 116, (Whicksoo) 137 
Wickham, 291 

of Westminster School, 1 1 

Wickstead, Cosin, 139 

William, of Cholmley, 217 

Wigland, 194, 204 

Wilbraham, Lady, of Woodhey, 280 

Wilkins, Bishop of Chester, 220 

Wilkinson, Dr. H., I2, 37 

Willett, Dr., 33 

Williams, Henry, I, 2 ; perhaps 

parson of Briton Ferry, 3 

Sir J. Bickerton, v., 115, 258, 

391 

2 E 



414 



INDEX. 



Williams, Mr. (Recorder of Chester), 

294, 298 

Lieutenant, of Llangollen, 305 

Mr. Charles, of Newport, 344 

Willington, 124, 200, 213 (poor of) 

234, 261, 269, 271, 279, (hall) 

284, 35°. 372 

Cross, 282, 317, 340, 355 

Wincanton (Somerset), 104 

Windsor, 183 

Wini, 202 

Winnington, 322 

Winter's, Dr., son, 141 

Wirral, 225 

Witt, De, 189, 201 

Wittar, Jane, 90 

Uncle, 119 

Wolryche, family of, 15, 309 

Mary, 255 

Wolverhampton, 240 

Wolvesacre, in Iscoyd, 134, 194, 272 

Wood, Anthony a, v., 382 

Mr., 259 

Woods, Jane, 195 

Woollen, burying in, 204, 297 

Woolton, 383 

Wordsworth, Dr., v., 390 

Worm 7 yards long, 157 

Wormbridge, 263 

Worral, 143 

Wort, kettle of, 167 

Worthenbury, 2, 15, 17, 38, (decorate 
church) 53,-54, (parsonage) 56, 57, 
68, (baptism at) 65, (cross repayr- 
ing) 79, (font) 80, (register-book) 
99. 136. 147. 167, 171, 203, 261, 
276, 300, 320, 383 



Wrenbury wood, 363 

Wrexham, 16, 18, (whirlwind at) 53, 
54, 6z, (school) 63, (vicarage of) 
68, 75, 92, 139, 157 ; meeting sur- 
prised, 168 ; barn for meeting- 
place, 246 ; fast at, 261 ; assize, 

317 

Wullington, 170, (Wallmgton) 300 
Wyche, 122 

lower, 153 

Wyn, Mr.,of Otestay, 103 

^— Sir Richard, of Guedur, 157 

Robert, 202 

Sir John, of Watstay, 240 note 



Yates, Mr,, minister of Harrington, 
129, 146, 200, 251 

Cosin, 240, (Mr. Yates' house) 

255, (Mr., of Hanmer) 297 

Yong, Thomas, of Croxon, 25, (Mr. 
Thomas) 176 

Randle, 136 

Mr., of Croxton, 297, 307 

Mr. WilUam, 308 

York, Duke of, 5, 142, 200, 312, 313 

Dutchess of, dy'd, 237 

Bishop o^ 202 

Mr., 189, 278, 285, 296 

Yorkist and Anti-Yorkist, 284 



Zanchy, Dr., Rector of Whitchurch, 
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