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ATHENE OXONIENSES.

AN

EXACT HISTORY

OF ALL

THE Writers and bishops who have had their education

IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.

TO WHICH ARE ADDED

THE FASTI,

oa

ANNALS OF THE SAID UNIVERSITY.

BY

ANTHONY A WOOD, M.A.

OF MEETON COLLEGE.

A NEW EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS,

AND A CONTINtJATION

By PHILIP BLISS,

FELLOW OF ST. JOHM's COLLEGE.

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VOL. m.

Antiquum exquirite matrem. Virgil.

LONDON:

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

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

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

1817.

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ATHENiE OXONIENSES.

THE

HISTORY

OF THE

WRITERS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD,

FROM THE YEAR OF OUR LORD, 1641.

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

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

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

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

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WARMSTREY.

THORNBOROUGH.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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TIIOllNnOROUGH.

6

His writings are tliesc ;

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

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

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

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

Pax Vobis, concerning the Unity and Peace of

ike Church This I think is not printed, nor

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

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

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

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

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

« [Composed by himself.]

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

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

9 [Willis, Cathedrals, page 170.]

B2

THORNBOUOUGH.

BAKER.

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

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

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

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

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

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BAKER.

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

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

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

" from David to Augiistiii Baker.' Afterwardit lie

" passed his noviceship under a master very indul-

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

" yet sufliciently .severe in external matters of dis-

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

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

" tentetl himself with giving him the rule of S.

" Benedict, and some few other books of devotion or

" morality, and taught him some ceremonies and

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

" himself \ery seriously to the exercise of mental '

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

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

" Clous and jjowerful helps to it, were solitude and

" silence, both which were very strictly observed in

" that monastery. But before he could really olv

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

" the latter end of his noviceship, which yet jMirtly

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

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

" own country air. Upon this our author Baker

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

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

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

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

" yet notwithstanding a certain blind impulse did

" contrarily urge him to hasten his journey ; a thing

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

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

" was, that against his settled resolution, he never

" ceased posting till he came to London ; where at

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

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

" never like to recover. Then lie jierceived that

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

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

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

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

" with great contrition and tears. Having buried

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

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

" returned to London, where lie onleretl his cor-

" respondence and reference to the monks of the

" Italian congregation, intending to retire hini-

" self into solitude, to the end that he might

" more freely give himself to prayer. And feanng

" least he might be interruptcnl with sollicitations

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

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

" gious state unto the said fathers of the Italian

" congregation, to whom he gave an account of all

" his tenijxjrals. About that time came the Italian

" monks to find out and beconie acquainted with the

" reverend father Sigebert Bulkley, a venerable old

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

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

" the last abbot of Westminster, when the monastery

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

11

BAKEll.

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

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

And so success of mischief shall be born,

And heir from heir shall hold ihis quarrel up — ]

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

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

[7]

13

BAKER.

14

[81

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

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

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

" in two parts.

" Spiritual Treatise, divided into three Parts,

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

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

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

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

" sons, 24 Dec. 1629.

" Treatise of Confession. In oct. approved

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

Treatise of Doubts and Calls, in 3 Parts. -

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

" The Mirror of Patience and Resignation.

" In oct.

" Discourse concerning the Love of our Enemies.

" Discourse touching all Virtues in general.

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

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

" The Order of Teaching. These two last

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

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

" Vox Clamantis in De.serto Animce. This

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

" Dicta sive Sentential sancto7-um Patrum, de

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

" oct. is distributed into centuries.

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

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

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

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

" mental Prayer. in oct.

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

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

« October 1629.

" An Enquiry about the Author (if the Abridg-

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

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

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

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

" in oct,

" Treatise concerning the Apostolical Mistion

" into England in two parts in qu.

" Treatise concerning Refection in oct.

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

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

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

" An Account (rfhis Life A breviat of this I

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

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

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

15

BAKER.

DAWSON.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

17

MARTEN.

BURHILL.

18

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

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

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

Debates touching- his Majesty's Propositions, and

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

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

Several Arguments and Discourses in Parl.-

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

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

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

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

Vol.. III.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Assertio pro Jure regie contra Martini Becaiti

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

Jl)

BURHILL.

ASHLEY.

20

[111

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Spaine' ' hauing oportunitie in my hand I thought it

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

21

EATON.

POTTER.

22

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lectures on the sixteenth CJiapt. of Genesis.

When or where printed I know not.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

« Pat. 4 Car. l.p. 37-

C2

23

POTTER.

CROMPTON.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

25

PARSONS.

CUOKE.

^

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

l64i.

[15]

27

CROKE.

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

" Reports and select Cases ofLaxo, sprinted in

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

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

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

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

Jurid.

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

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

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

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

CROKE.

WEB.

30

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Several Sermons They are in number at least

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

[There was an engraved head of Webbe by

Thomas Slater, prefixed to the reprint of his Practice

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

/

31

ROGERS.

HARDING.

Clar.
1641.

Clar.

((

1()41.

((

<c

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bakkk.]

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

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

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

dignum est sub luce videri,

Judicis argutum quotl non formidat acumen.

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

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

enjoy your best Valenzo,

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

Clar.

l64l.

hi

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

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

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

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

replies :)

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

'S.^

STAFFORD.

34

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Vol. IIL

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

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

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

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

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

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

» Page 123, 124.

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

' P. 51, 54.

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

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

D

CUr.

3.5

CHESHIRE.

BARCHAM.

[19] * " THOMAS CHESHIRE, a Cheshire man

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

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

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

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

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

The History or Life of John Kinff of England

which is the .same that is in the History of

Great Britain, published by John Speed, and the

same which sheweth more reading and judgment,

than any life besides in that history. 'Tis reported

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

37

SIMPSON.

RICHARDSON.

KINASTON.

38

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Quanti nee faciunt suos ocellos,

Seu quid charius est vel liiis, vcl illis ;

Tanti naeniolas Carollanas,

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

Ite, ite 6 crilicum se\criorum

Piitidissima gens et inveniista ;

Ite et graminaticum molestiorum

Paedagogica plebs et inficeta ;

Ite, et nxniolas Carolianas

Diruni roditc, carpitc, alque in illas

Verba fingite viliora longe

Scissis, quisquiliisquc lappulisque

Merarum tineisque ineptiarum,

Vos ego nioror alque vestra moras,

Hiium? Centuriasve mille vestrum ?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

D2

:H)

KINASTON.

SMART.

iGtf.

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

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

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

To Cynthia, on coDcealment of her beauty.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

to preach against certain matters, (jrsi edit.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

41

VAUGHAN.

GILI*

42

[221

1(542.

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

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

on Psal. 31 part of the 7 Verse Thoy were

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

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

Various Poems in Lat. and Eng.-

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MORANT.]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chr.

|(>4V.

43

GILL

GODOLPHIN.

44

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

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

EUgy on Thorn. Earl of Strafford beheaded on

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" one Mr. Martin of Devonsh. and odiers of

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

* In his preface to the Lcvialhan.

GODOLPIIIN.

Mi

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

" Various Poems — Some of which are printed in

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

l64f.

47

GODOLPHIN.

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

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

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

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

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

Sir Hen. Cromwell, knt.

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

Griffith Hampden, esq.

Rob. Cromwell, esq.

J
Oliver Cromwell,

lord protector.

Eliz.=

I 1

=Wil. Hampden, esq. Ann=

=Rich. Waller, esq.

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

John Hampden, esq. Edm. Waller, esq.

the patriot. the pott.

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

49

GODOLPIIIN.

CRISP.

50

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

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

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

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

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

aet. 7t)J

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

Vol. III.

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

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

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

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

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

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

[96]

51

CRISP.

GODWIN.

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

" Rowland \ /• Edward

" Ellis i \ Rowland

" Samuel \ I Jane \

" Hester J \ [John]' ^

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

" Tobias Crisp's sons."

[*^] THOMAS GODWIN, second son of Anthony

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

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

I

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

53

WYNELL.

MAHHK.

STONE.

PRIMKllOSE.

54

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

£2

CUr.
1648.

Clar.
1648.

DO

PRIMEUOSE.

STREATER.

SALESBURY.

[«9]

CUr.

Clar.
1642.

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

Our author Primerose hath written,

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

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

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

Treatise of the Sabbath, and the Lord''s-Dau, the
Nature aiidtlie Original of both. — sprinted 1636. (^u.«
with other things ^viiich I have not yet seen. After
he liad left Oxon. he retired into France, and be-
came minister of the Protestant church at Roan in
Normandy, where I find him in sixteen hundred
forty and two. How long afterwards he lived, or
when, or where, he died, I know not, nor can I yet
learn of any person, tho' many that have been in
those jiarts have told me that he was esteemed one
of the learnedest reformed divines in France.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lower's dramatic pieces were

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

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

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

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

5. Nolle Ingratitude. Lond. 1659.

6. Amorous Fantasme. Lond. 1 660.

7. The Three Dorothies, not printed.

8. Don Japhet of Armenia, not printed.

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

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

SAI.ESIUJRY.

58

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

59

SALESBUllY

HAM DEN.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[SI]

HAMDEN.

SPELMAN.

62

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

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

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

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

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

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

" presented to the Conscience printed in 1643,

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

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

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

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m

SPELMAN.

DIGGES.

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

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

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

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

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

DUDLEY DIGGES, the son of sir Dudley
Digges mention'd before under the year 1638, [see
vol. ii, col. 634.1 was bom in Kent, particularly, as
I conceive, in Chilham, became a commoner of Univ.
coll. in the beginning of the year 1629, where by
his wonderful pregnant parts overcoming the crab-
bed studies of logic, took the degree of bach, of arts
in the beginning of Lent term 1631, being then

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

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

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

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

T7i£ Unlawfulness of Subjects taking up Arms
against their Sovereign in xchat Case soever, with
Ansivers to all Objections, Lond. 1643. qu. It was
reprinted at Lond. 1647, whereupon a complaint
being made to the committee of complaints, the
printers and publishers of it were to l>e tried at the
King's-Bench. It was also published again at Lond.
1662, in Oct. part of which impression lying dead,
there was a new title dated 1679 put to it. At
length being untimely snatch'd away to the gieat
sorrow of learned men, by a malignant fever called
the camp disease, raging in the garrison of Oxon, [33]
on the first day of Oct. in sixteen hundred forty and lf>43.
three, was buried 'in the outer chapel of All-souls
college. Of the said disease dtKtor Edward Greaves,
fellow of that house, wrote a little treatise entit.
Morbus Epidemicus, &c. as I shall tell you when I
come to him.

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

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

(>.>

SEDGWICK.

iyii

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

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

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

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

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

Vol. III.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

' Idem, ibid. p. 640.

' The other two brothers were Obadiah and Joseph.

* Robert carl of Essex.

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

1C4,1.

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67

BAINBRIDGE.

1643.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dr. Bambridge
Came from Cambridge

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

And learn a new syntaxis. — Watts.

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

1. A Theory of the Sun.

2. A Tlieory of the Moon.

3. A Discourse concerning the Quantify of the
Year.

4. Astronomical Observations, in two volumes.

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

And the following, actually prepared for the press :

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

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

8. De Stella Veneris Diatriba.

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

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

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70

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

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

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

TIu: Ordinarij. Com.

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

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

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

Poemata Grceca ^ Latina.

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

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

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

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

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

PYM.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Either a or his excellence)

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

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

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

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

A Complaint against Cupid.

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

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

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

PYM.

7-i

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

" In Affiinmsive Epigram, lib. 2.

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

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

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

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PYM.

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

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

" Articles against the Duke of Buckingliam.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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78

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

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

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

" who died in Egypt in the days of Pharaoh.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

79

PYM.

[CLIFFORD.]

8(

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

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

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

Attested by the physitians that attended him in
his sicknes,

Sir Theodoe Mayern,

Dr. Cleek,

„ ,, f President of the Colledge of

Dr.MEVEEELL, I Physitians. ^

}tiiat
di;
(t-

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

i

Dr. GiFFORD,

Dr. Ml( KLKTHWAIl

Dr. Moulin,

Dr. CoM.ADE.
And Cliyrurgions

Thomas Allen, and

Henry Axtall, his servant.
Apothecary,

John Chapman, servant to William Taylor.'

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[CLiri'OUD.]

82

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Henricus paler deflet

Franciscum

Carolum

Henricum

A.D. M.DC.XXXXI.]

■ THiil. o/Rehellion, i. 5.^5.]

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

My heauie sprite, opprcsl with sorrowes might.

Of wearied limbs the burthen soare sustaines ;

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

Haue I loiJt thee? All fortunes 1 accurse

Vol. III.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Of these I select the 38th psalm.

Lord ! chide me not in the tempestuous day

Of thy fierce wrath : o ! cast me not away

In thy displeasure, least I fall at once !

Thy galling shafts lye quiuered in my bones :

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

Thine anger breeds diseases more than death :

My flesh is mangled, and my Ixmes within

Consume and melt, for anguish of my sinnc.

My crying sinns aboue my head apjieare,

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

My mortall wounds gangrene and putrifie,

And all because I haue done foolishly !

Such misery and trouble I endure

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

Lord ! thou hast heard the ground of my complaint.

And while I prayed thine eyes have seen me faint ;

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

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

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

2 Even from the Lord niy succour came, •

who Heaven and Karth did frame.

3 Thy foot vnmoued he shall keepe,

Nor shall thy keeper sleepe

4 Behoald who Isr lell doth keei>e,

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

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

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

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

Henceforth for ciiermore.]

G

8;3

[CLIFFORD]

MASTER.

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

Mine eyes (with weeping) blind as any stone :

My friends, my neigiibours, kinred, stand at gaze

While I in fires of persecution blaze ;

And those that sought my life, in ambush lay

Cursing and lying, railing all the day.

But I was stupid as the ueafe and dumb.

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

And yet I hope, though I thus silent be,

Thou Lord wilt plague and answer them for me.

Ijord, I have praid that this malitious traine

May never flowte me (in thine anger slaine)

Tliose, those I meane, that were delighted all

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

But o my sinne that now tormenteth more

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

And now stands staring in my blushing face ;

But Lord I will confess and beg for grace.

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

Not to bee numbred, that would me devoure;

All those that for my good repaid me ill

Detest me more, submitted to thy will.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MASTER.

ClIILLINGWORTH.

86

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

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

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

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

Boldly 10 charge the front, conceiving still

Not to be best is but the same with ill.

Him, him the frighted enemies envie.

Casting a side-long many a spitefuU eye,

While they all big with emulation swell.

And strive his towring valour to excell.

Mean while his faithfull seconds (with th'expence

Of what themselves might gain) keep, barr and fence

His meritorious fame ; 'tis some renown

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

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

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

Es|>ecially, when one with skillfull care

Has stealingly crept up into the spheare

Where double honour dwells: who did begin

Single, by this brave act becomes a twin.

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

To be "niongsl any souldiers but forlornes ;

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

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

Himself i' th' vciy brink of ruinc, and

Dang'rously high doth even falling stand.

He, he the triple crown doth win and wear.

And if his pope-ship all assaults can hear.

And sit his hollow chaire, so that no eye

Bewailes his downfall ; then unto the skle

His prai^e resounds ; his parly paeans sing.

And victry claps him with her whitest wing

Thus one, translator turn'd at your command.

Chooses to shew his ruder gobling hand

Rather then disobedience : so that here

Nothing but plain dull duly doth appear.

While the more noble Latm's vndress'd pride

Lookes like the Table turndon the wrong side.

A poet, that could gamesters humours hit.

Might on each passage play, and shovel wit.

But here for me 'tis glory not t'excell

When it had been but idlenesse to doe well.]

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

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

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

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

WILLIAM CHILLINGWORTH, son of

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

G2

87

CHILLINGWORTH.

[«]

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

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

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

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

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

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

■• Ibid. p. 40.

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

CHILLINGWORTH.

1H>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

91

CIIILLINGWOIITH.

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

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

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

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

oant.']
♦Hug.

ug. Cressy in his Exomologesis, chap. 82.

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

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

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

' Sec Sect. 28. of the aforesaid preface.

" Gfsfa Cancelluriatus Laud, MS. pag. I4p.

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

CHILLINGWORTH.

94

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

95

CHILLINGWORTH.

FITZ-SIMON.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2. The beginning of A Treatise against the
Scots.

3. Observaticms upon tJie Scottish Declaration.

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

5. Letter excusing his writing against the
Rebells.

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

7. Two Discourses of the Nature of Faith.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

97

FITZ-SIMON.

SANDYS.

98

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

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

ofpy/ritan Partiality in his Behalf'. printed witn

the former b(M)k.

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

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

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

Catalogue of the Irish Saints This I have

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

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

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

Vol. III.

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

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

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

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

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

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

H

99

SANDYS.

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

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

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

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

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

LEY.l

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

SANDYS.

102

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

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

Thatchoakes it up, shall be dispersM, the light

Of this infranchis'd flame shall shine so bright

Amidst our horison, 'twill seem to be

The constellation of all poetrie.

Tell me not then, that piramids disband,

And drop to dust ; that Time's imgcntlc hand

Has criish'd into an undigested masse.

And heap of mines, obelisques of brasse ;

That our perfidious tombs (as loath to say

We once had life and being too) decay ;

And that those flowers of beauty which do grow

In ladies cheeks, amidst a bed of snow.

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

Of a bleake ague can resolve to dust

Those hands which did a globe and scepter hold.

Or that that head which wore acrowne of gold.

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

Neglected, and forgot, since Sandys is dead ;

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

And in whose braine a mine of poetrie ;

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

Which frets into all art, and nature both ;

Since he who seem'd within his active brain

So much of salt and verdure to contain.

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

And shrunk away into corruption :

But thest' excursions their conception owe

To passion, or from our wild phansiesflow;

All that we now do is to returne

Some fl'iwers of poesie unto his vrne,

Which being burnt in his own funerall flame,

Wec'l ofier up as incense to his name,

W^hich yet by ^entand colour will be known

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

And if these Bowers cannot so perfume

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

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

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

As when the treasures of tlie spring arecrop'd

And by uniimely martyrdom unlop'd.

From ofl ihiir stalke, we can their death repreive.

And a new life by water to ihem give :

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

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

And ihrowiie into a grave, to wither there

Into a heap of ashes, though no leare

Can piece his dust ingether, we may weep

A bath of tears, in which we yet may steep

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

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

And being thus embalm'd, a relique be ~

To be ador'd by all posterilie.

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

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

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

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

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

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

103

GAMMON.

ROUS.

THOMAS.

CUr.

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

Ami on his sepulclire my offering hung;

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

I see tliy glory, ami thy mercy meet.

Met on tile Thracian shores ; when in the strife

Of frantick Simoans thou preservMst my life.

So wlien Arabian thieves belaid vs round.

And when, by all abandoned. Thee I found.

That false Sidonian wolfe, whose craft ])ut on

A slieepes soft fleece, and me Beilercphon

To ruine by his crucll letter sent,

Thou didst by thy protecting hand prevent.

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

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

From raging fcavers ; from the sultry breath

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

Preserv'd from swallowing seas, when towring waves

Mixt wth the clouds, and opened their deepc graves.

From barbarous pirats ransom'd : by those taught,

Successfully with Salian Moores we fought :

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

Might bury me, which fed me from my birth :

Blest with a healthfull age, a quiet mind,

Content with little ; to this worke design'd ;

Which I at length have finisht by thy aid,

Ajid now my vowes have at tliy altar paid.

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

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

Several Sermons, as (1) God''s Smiting to Amend-
ment, &c. preached at the Assizes in Laiinceston, 6
Aug. 1628. mi Isa. 1. 5.^ Lond. 1629. qu. [Bodl.
4to. M. 45. Th.] (2) Praise of a godly Woman,
a wedding sermon, &c. Lond. 1627. qu. (3) Ser-
mon on tlie Lady Roberts'' s Funeral, 10 Aug. 1626,
&c. These two last I have not yet seen, nor another
Sermon Preached at tlie Assizes in Launceston,
1621, which was printed that year. In 1641 he
sided with the presbyterians, and in 1643 he was
chosen one of the assembly of divines, which is all I
yet know of him.

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

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

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

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

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

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

that his inclinations led him solely to the study of

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

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

h

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Clar.
1643.

THOMAS.

DOWNING.

lof;

Clar.
1643.

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

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

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

near to Banbury in Oxfordshire, gent, (lord of the
manors of Sugarswell and Tysoe m Wurwickshirv-)
became a commoner of Oriel coll. in 1623 antl in
that of his age 17 or therealKUits, t<K)h one degree
in arts,'' compleated it by determination, and tnen
went, as it seems, to Cambridge, or beyond the seas,
where taking itnother degree, he entred into orders,
was made rector of Hickford, (in Bucks.) doctor of
the laws, and had, (as I have been informetl by one
that well knew him) the rectory of West-Ildesley
in Berks bestowcil on him. AlM)ut that time, he
l)eing a competitor for the wartlenshij) of Allfs. coll.
when Dr. Gub. Shekhm wa.s elected, out lost it, did
at length exchange W. Ildesley for tlie rectory' of
Hackney near London " (where archb. I^aud saith,
" he settled this Dr. Downing)" and was a great suitor
to be chaplain to Tho. E. of Straflfbrtl lord lieute-
nant of Ireland, thinking that employment the rea-
diest way to be a bishop. And whilst he had hopes
of that preferment, he writ stoutly in justification of
that calling, and was ready ever and anon to main-
tain it in all discourses. But being a reputed wea-
thercock tliat turn'd which way soever the wind
of his own humour and ambition blew him, did,
upon some discontent, watch an opportunity to gain
preferment, let it come what way soever. At length
being esteemed by the faction to be a man fitted for
any base employment, and one that (what ever he
counterfeited) ever looked awry on the church, in
which (Ijeing settled and in }X'ace) he could never
hope to advance further than rector of Hackney,
was by them sent to feel the pulse of the great city
of London. While therefore discontents did rise
high in the north, the Scots having in an hostile
manner entred the kingdom, the people every wliere,
especially in London, stirred up by some agents to
petition the king for that parliament, whicli began
3 Nov. 1640, our author Downing did then (viz.
on the first of Sept. 1640) preach to tlie brotherhood
of die Artillery Garden, and positively affinncd that
for defence of rehgion and reformation of the church,
it was lawful to take up arms against the king. He
having thus kindled the fire in the city, did, tor fear
of being questioned, (for then it was not lawful to
preach treason) retire privately to Little Lees or
Leighs in Essex, the house of Robert earl of War-
wick, and common rendezvouze of all schismatical
preachers in those parts, while in the mean time his
sermon, which did administer in every place matter
of discourse, was censurd as people stood affected,
and in fine gave occasion to the ringleaders of the
faction to enter upon serious examination and study
of this case of conscience : and, it seems, that they
consulting* with the Jesuits on the one side, and
the rigid puritan on the other; or indeed, because

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

* [Wood should have said vicaragc.J

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

l*ni

107

DOWNING.

TWYNE.

[50]

witliout admitting tliis dwtrinc, all their former en-
deavours would vanish into snioak, they stotxl doubt-
ful no lonirer, but dosed with tiiese two contrary
jMirties, yet shakinj^ hands in this point of rebellion,
and subscribing to the doctrine ot Downing, as an
evangelical truth. Upon the breaking out of the re-
bellion soon after, he became chaplain to the regi-
ment of John lortl Roberts in the army of Robert
earl of Essex, where he preached and prayed con-
tinually iigainst the king and his cause. In 1643
he shewed himself a grand covenanter, and there-
»ijx>n was made one of the assembly of divines ; but
leaving them soon after, he sided with the indepen-
dents, and preached so seditiously that he was com-
monly* called Youtig Peters, or Hiiffh Peters the
Second, and often and bitterly preached against
such citizens of London that shew'd themselves zeal-
ous for an union or right understanding between
the king and his parhamcnt. But l>ehold, while he
was in the height of these diabolicid and rebellious
actions, he was suddenly, and as I may say most
justly, cut off from the face of the earth and was no
more seen. His works are these ;

A Discourse of the State Ecclesiastical of this
Kingdom in Relation to tlie Civil, considered under
three Conclusions, 8u:. Oxon. 1633, [Bodl. 4to. M.
31. Jur.] &c.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

' [Ncwcourt, Reperlvrium, i. 620.]

TWYNE.

no

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MORANT.]

Ill

TWYNE.

ROE.

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

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

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

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

> [See Hutchinson on Witchcraft]

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

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

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

ROE.

114

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

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

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

" Letters from the Court of the Great Mogul in

" East India. These letters, which were tlated

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

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

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

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

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

" Journal cf several Proceedings of the Knights

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

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

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

" [MS. Ashmole 7387.T

Vol. III.

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

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

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

l6i4.

115

ROE.

PRICHARD.

[54]

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

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

A. D.

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

' XXX

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

piiicirAiii).

LAUD.

lin

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

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

Where the tree fallelh there let it lie ; meaning, that they
should bury him in the parish church of Lhandoveryj and
what still further inclined him to this determination, was the
extraordinaiy value and respect, which the bishop express-
ed to the memory of Mr. llecs Prichard, formerly vicar of
that place, interred there, upon the account of his great and
celebrated piety, and the usefulness of his excellent poems in
the Welsh tongue ; which are in very great repute among ihe
inhabitants of that country, as well for the plainness of the
languaec, and the easiness and smoothness of the measures,
as ftjr tlie importance of the subjects upon which he wrote.
The whole book being in a manner an entire body of prac-
tical divinity, in which several of the natives, even those
that arc illiterate, are so well versed, that they will very per-
tinently quote authorities out of this book for their faith and
practise.' Page 474.]

■* This life of Laud differs so materially from the account
published by Woml in his first edition, that, as it vvas utterly
impossible to point out ihc variations in the margin, I have
given the whole, as it originally appeared, in a note.

WILLIAM LAUU son of Will. Laud by Lucia his wife,
widdow of Job. Robinson of Reading in Berks, and daugh.
of Job. Webbe of the same place, was born in S. Lourence
parish in the said borough of Reading, on the ?. of Octob.
1573, educated in the free-school there, elected scholar of S.
Johns coll. in ISQO, where going thro with great diligence
the usual forms of logic and philosophy under the tuition of
Dr. John Buckeridge, was made fellow in 1504, and four
years after mast, of arts, at which time he was esteemed by
all those that knew him a very forward and zealous person.
About that time entring into the sacred function, he read the
divinity lecture newly set up in the coll. and maintained by
one Mrs. . . . May. In l603 he was elected one of the proc-
tors of the university, and became chaplain to the earl of
Devonshire, which proved his happiness, and gave him hopes
of greater preferment. In l604 he was admitted to the read-
ing of the sentences, and in l()07he became vicar of Stanford
in Northamptonshire. In the year following he proceeded
D. of div. and was made chaplain to Dr. Neile bishop of Ro-

' (This libel upon him in the Scots Scouts Discoveries,
Lond. l642. — His father was a clothier, his mother a spin-
ster ; he was from his cradle ordained to be a punisher of
poor people, for he was born between the stocKs and the
cage, which a courtier one day chaunced to speak of, where-
upon his grace remov'd them thence, and puU'd down his
father's thatch'd house and built a fair one in the place.—
Kenset.]

Robinson of Reading in Berks, and daughter of
John Webbe of the same place, (which John Webbe

Chester. In iGOJ) he became rector of Weil-Tilbury in
Essex, for which he exchanged his advowson of Norlh-Kil-
worth in Leicestershire. The next year his |)atron the bishop
of Rochester gave him the rectory of Kuckslonc in Kent, but
that place proving unhcalthful to him, he left it, and was in-
ducted into Norton by proxy. The same year viz. I6l0 he
resign'd his fellowship, and the year following he was elected
prejident of his college. In l6i4 hisj>atron, then bishop of
Lincoln, gave him a prebendship in that church, and after
thatthearch-deaconry of Huntingdon, an. l()16,onthedcathof
Matthew Gifford master of arts. In the year I6l6 the king
pave him the deanery of Glocester after the death of Dr. Rich.
Field, and in the year following he became rector of Ibstock
in Leicestershire. In l620 Jan. S2. he was installed canon
or prebendary of the eighth stall in the church of West-
minster, (in the place of Edw. Buckley D.D. who had suc-
ceeded Will. Latymer in that dignity 1589.) and the next
year after, his majesty (who upon his own confession had
given to him nothing but the deanery of Glocester, which he
well knew was a shell without a kernel) gave him the grant
of the bishoprick of S. David, and withal, leave to hold his
presidentship of S. Jo. coll. in commcndam with it, as also
the rectory of Ibstock before mention'd, and Creek in North-
amptonshire. In Sept. l6a() he was translated to B. and
Wells, and about that time made dean of the royal chappel.
In 1627 Apr. 29. he was sworn privy counsellor with Dr.
Neile then B. of Durham, and on the 15 of Jul. 1(528, he
was translated to London. Much about which time, hisan-
tient acquaintance sir Jam. Whitlock a judge used to say of
our author Dr. Laud that ' he was too full of fire, though a
just and a good man, and that his want of cx))erience in state
matters, and his too much zeal for the church, and heat, if
he proceeded in the way he was then in, would set this nation
on fire. In l630 he was elected chancellour of the univ. of
Oxon, and in 1633 Sept. I9. he was translated to Canterbury,
which high preferment drew upon him such envy, that by
the puritan party, he was afterwards in the beginning of the
long parliament, impeached of high treason. He was a per-
son of an heroick spirit, pious life, and exemplary conversa-
tion. He was an encourager of learning, a stiff maiiilainer
of the rights of the church and clergy, and one ihat lived to
do honour to his mother the university and his country.
Such a liberal benefactor also he was towards the advance-
ment of learning, that he left himself little or nothing for
his own use ; and by wh.tt his intentions were, we may guess
that if the severe stroke of rebels had not untimely scquestred,
and cut him off, S. Pauls cathedral had silenced the fame of
anticnt wonders, our English clergy had been the glory of the
world, the Bodleian libr. in Oxon. had daily outstrip! the Vati-
can, and his publick structures had o'crtopt theEscurial. VV ho-
soever also will read over the brcviat of his life and actions,
pen'd by himself for private use, but purposely publish'd by
his inveterate enemy W. Prynne with his rascally notes and
diabolical reflections thereon, purposely to render him mope
odious to the common people (followed therein by another
' villain) will find that he was a man of such eminent vertues,
such an exemplary piety towards God, such an unwearied
fidelity to his gracious sovereign, of such a public soul to-
wards the church and stale, of so fix'd a constancy in what
he undertook, and one so little biassed in his private interests,
that ' Plutarch, if iie were alive, would be much troubled to

' Bulstr. Whitlock in his Memorials of the English Af-
fairs, &c. p. 32. /.,...,
2 Lewis du Moulin in his Patron, bona ftdet, &c. I>ond.
167a. in cap. vel. lib. De Specim. contra Durellum, p. 68,

' Relation of the Death and Sufferings of the Archh. of
Canterb. Oxon. l644. p. £.

1 **

119

LAUD.

120

was father to sir Will. Wcbbe lord-mayor of Lon-
don, an. 1591,) was bom in the parish of S. Lau-

fiiid a sufficient parallel wherewith to match liim in all the
lineaments of pcrfcc" vcrtue. Next as lor his great reading
and learning, may he, by curious persons, seen in his works,
(and thereby easily perceived that he was versed in books as
well as in business) the titles of which follow.

Several sermons, as ( I ) Sermon preached before his maj. at
Wansted, 19 June 1 621, on Psal. 122. f), 7- Lond. lC2l . qu.
(2) Seim. at IFhitehall 24 Mar. l621, being the Day of the
beginning of his Maj. most gracious Raigne, on Psal. 2 1 . 6, ?.
Lond. 1(J22. qu. (.3) Serm. before his Maj. at Wtiitchall, on
Psal. 75. a. 3, Lond. l625. qu. (4) Serm. at Westm. 6 Feb.
at the opening of the Part, on Psal. 122. 3, 4, 5. Lond.
1625. qu. (5) Serm. at IVestm. 17 Mar. (l627) at the open-
ing of the Part, on Ephes. 4. 3. Lond. l6'J8. qii. (6) Serm.
at milehall at a solemn Fast before the K. 5 Jul. 1626. on
Psal. 74. 22. Lond. 1626. tj) Serm. at Paules Cross on the
King's Inauguration, on Psal. 22. 1. — printed at Lond.
Which seven sermons were reprinted at the same place in
Oct. an. 1651.

Speech delivcredin the Star-chamber, \iJune l637, atthe
Censure of Joh. Bastwick, Hen. Burton and Will. Prynne.
Lond. 1637. qu. &c.

Conference between him and Jo. Fisher. Lond. l623. fol.
published under his chaplains name R. B. i. e. Rich. Baylie
of S. Johns coll. Reprinted 1639 and l673. fol.

Answer to the Exceptions of A. C— printed with the
former.

Which Conference was look'd upon as a piece so solidly
compacted, that one of our ■* historians (who shews himself
to be none of Laud's greatest friends) gives it the commenda-
tion of being the exactest master-piece of pnlemiquc divinity
of any extant at that time, and farther affirms, that he de-
claretl himself therein, so little theirs (meaning the papists)
as he had for ever disabled them from being so much their
own, as before they were. Sir Edw. Deering also his pro-
feis'd adversary, in the preface to the book ■■ of speeches,
could not but confess, that in the said book of Laud, espe-
cially in the last half of it, he had muzled the Jesuit, and
should strike the Papists under the fifth ribb, when he was
dead and gone ; ancl being dead, that wheresoever his grave
should be, Pauls should be his perpetual moimment, and his
own book his epitaph. It was answero<l by a Jesuit named
■ Tho. Carwell alias Thorold a Lincolnshire man born, in a
book intit. Labirinthus Cantuariensis. Par. l638. fol. Re-
plied upon by Dr. Meric Casaubon (as I shall tell you else-
where) and by Mr. Edw. Stillingfleet.

Various letters, as (1) Letters of State, dispersed in the
Cabala's and divers books. (2) Letter with divers MSS. to
the University of O.ron. Lond. l640, with the Answer of
the University \n one sh. in qu. which I have niention'd
elsewhere. They were both written in Lat. but foolishly
translated into Engl, by a precise person, purposely to bring
an odium on Dr. Laud. See Hist. iSf Antiq. Univ. Oxon.
lib. 1. p. 348. b. (3) Letter to the Univ. nf O.von. when he
resigned his Office of Chancellour. Oxon. lC41. in one sh.
published by occasion of a base libel or forgery that ran under
the said title. The University's Answer in Lat. is joyned to

Notes in MS. on a book entit. Rome's Master-Piece, &c.
Lond. 1643. qu. Which book was published by Will.
Prynne, and by his endeavours was convtyed to him when
he was prisoner in the Towerof London, where he wrot the
laid notes. This book, with notes, coming after his death
into the hand.s of Dr. Rich. Baylie, who married Dr. Laud's
ncice, came after his, into mine.

■• Ham. L'Esirange in his Reign of K. Charles, printed
1656. p. 187. an. 1639.
» Collection ofParliam. Speeches, p. 5.

rence in the ssdd borough of Reading on the 7th of
Oct. 1573, educated in the free-school there, elected

Breviate or Diary of his Life. Lond. l644. in 10 sh. in
fol. This was a pocket book, which he had wrot in the
Lat. tongue for his own private use ; but restless Prynne
having had a hint of such a thing, obtain'd an order from
the commillee of lords and commons appointed for the safety
of the kingdom, dat. 30 May l643, to seize u|)on his papers,
letteis, &c. By vertue of which order, he, with others, re-
paired 10 the Tower of London the next day early in the
morning, and rushiiiL' suddenly into his chamber before he
was stirring from his bed, went directly to his breeches lying
by the bed-side, and thrusting his hand into his pockets with
very great impudence, took the said Breviate thence. Where-
upon, thinkini; to plague the archbishop as much as he could
in his life time, and make him more odious to the mobile,
published it to the world, and caused, under hand, that a
printed copy might be sent to him. But so it fell out, that
the publisher Prynne was extreamly mistaken; for all judi-
cious and impartial men did take it for the greatest piece of
justice from Prynne's hands, that ever he before had done.
For what the generality could not think before of the arch-
bishop, were then confirm'd of his character, which I have
before told you, that he was a man of eminent vertues, ex-
emplary piety, &c.

Speech and Prayer spoken at his Death on the Scaffold on
Tower.Hill, 10 Jan. l644. Lond. 1044-45. qu. This is
call'd his Funeral Sermon, preached on Heh. 12. 1,2. and is
kept in MS. under his own hand in S. Johns coll. library.
It was answer'd by his implacable enemy Hen. Burton mini-,
sterof S. Mathews ch. in Friday street, Lond. in a pamphlet
bearing this title, The grand Imposture unmasked t or, a De-
tection of the notorious Hypocrisie, and desperate Impiety of
the late Archb. (so stiledj of Canterbury, which he read on
the Scaffold at his Execution, 10 Jan. l645. printed in two
sh. and half in qu. Other Answers were published by Ano-
nymi, which for brevity I shall now omit.

Officium quolidianum : or, a Manual of private Devotions.
Lond. l6.'iOandC3. inoct.

A Summary of Devotions. Lond. 1667. in tw. published
according to the copy written with his own hand in the ar-
chives of S. Johns coll. library.

Farice Epistolae ad clariss. Ger. Jo. Fossium. The number
of them is 18, and are printed in a book intit. Gerard. Jo.
Vossii Sf clarorum Firorum ad eum EpistoUt. Lond. 169O.
fol. published by Paul. Colomesius. I have seen and perused
a MS. transcribed under the hand of Joh. Birkenhead,
containing all the passages which concern the university of
Oxon. since Dr. Laud's first nomination and election to the
chanccllourship of the said university. It commences 12
Apr. 1630, and ends 14 Dec. l640, bound up in a vellain
cover in fol. and endorsed thus,

Gesta sub Cancellariatu meo Oxon. This MS. was com-
municated to me, when 1 was composing the Hist, and An-
tiq. nf the Univ. of Oxon. by Dr. Peter Mews president of
S. Johns coll. wherein finding many useftd things for my
purpose (which another may do for his, and therefore it
escap'd Prynne's hands) 1 thought it therefore not unworthy
of a place here, as I could do of many other things under
his hand, which 1 have seen reserved in private custody as
choice monuments: but time calls mc away, and I must
hasten. Yet 1 cannot but let the reader know, that there is
a fol. MS. going from hand to hand, entit. IVholsome Queries
resolved by Dr. Laud, manifesting that Monarchy is no safe
Principle for Protestants, Sec. — sed caveat lector. At length
in the bc"inning of tlie civil distempers, this wrorthy arch-
bishop was" upon suspicion of introducing popery into the na-
tion, arbitrary government, and 1 know not what (aggra-
vated in an high degree) commitied prisoner first 10 the
Black-rod, and afterwards to the Tower, where remaining
about four years, was at length by the votes of a slendei

I.AUD.

122

1(544-5.

scholar of S. Johtrs coll. in June, an. 1590; where
goino; thro' with great diligence the usual forms of
logic and pliilosophy, under the tuition of Dr. John
Buckeridge, was made fellow in June 159!5, and
five years after master of arts ; at which time (being
then grannnar reader of the imiversity) lie was es-
teemed hv all tliose that knew hint (being little in
person) a very i"orward, confident and zealous wrson.
In 1600 he was made a deacon, and in tlie be-
ginning of 1601 being made priest, he did read the
next year the divinity lecture in his college, which

wa-s maintiiined by one Mrs May. On the

4th of May 1604 he was installed one of the proc-
tors of the university, without any canvas or seek-
ing for it. His brother proctor was Mr. Christo-
pher Dale of Merton coll. who being very rigid and
severe in his office, and intolerably choleric towards
the juniors, he was so much hist and hcwted at in his
return to his college, after he had laid down the
badges of his office, that it was then usually said, he
■was proctor and Ixjre his office cum parva-o Laude.
In Sept. the same year, Mr. I^aucf became chap-
lain to Charles Blount earl of Devonshire, and on
the 26th of Dccemb. 1605 he joined in wedlock the
said Charles to Penelope the daughter of Walt.
D'evreux earl of Essex ; but Mr. Laud not knowing
that she was then the wife of the lord Rob. llich,
(afterwards earl of Warwck) as he pretended, he
looked upon that action as one of the prime misfor-
tunes of his life, and therefore did set down the day
into the catalogue of days of special observance to
him, both in his diary and in the manuscript book
of his private devotions. In Novemb. 1607, being
then bach, of div. he became vicar of Stanford in
Northamptonshire," and in April 1608 he hat! the
advowson of North Kilworth in Leicestershire given
unto him. In August following he was made chap-
lain to Dr. Rich. Neile bishop of Rochester, (he
being then doctor of divinity) by whose endeavours
he preached his first sermon before K. James I. at
Theobalds the 17th of Sept. 1609. In Oct. follow-
ing he changed his advowson of N. Kilworth for
West Tilbury in Essex,' to the end that he might

house, beheaded on Tower-hill on the tenth day of January
in sixteen hundred forty and four. Whereupon his body
being buried in the chancel of the church of Allhallowcs
BarUiu which he before had consecrated, remained there en-
tire till July l(jf)3, at which time being removed to Oxon,
was on the 24 day of the same month, deposited with cere-
mony in a little vault built of brick, near to the high altar of
S. Johns coll. chappell. Thus died and buried was this most
reverend, renowned, and religious arch-prelate, when he had
lived 71 years, 1 J weeks and four days ; if at least he may be
properly said to dye ; the great example of whose vertue shall
continue always, not only in the minds of men, but in the
annals of succeeding ages, with renown and fame.

>> [6 Nov. 1607, Will. Laud cler. institutus S.T. B. ad vie.
perpel. eccl. paroch. de Stanford, ad pres. Tho. Cave, mil.
per resign. Robt. Waller, ult. incumb. ; resign, ante 2 Dec.
lO'OJ). Beg. Dove, ep. Pe/rih. Kennet.]

' [iGOf), 20 Oct. Will. Land. cler. admiss. ad eccl'iam de
West Tilburv. per resign. Joh. Boake S. T. B. ad pres. regis.
Reg. liancritft Ep. Jjond.

Ik> near his patron tiie bishop of Rochester, who in
the month of May 1610 gave him the rc-ctory of
Kuckstcme in Kent. In the In'ginning of October
followiui]; he resigned his fellowship of S. John's
coll. and Kuckstone proving; iniiiealtliful to liim, he
left it, and was inducted into Norton by proxy in
Nov. the same year. In May 1611 he was elected
president of the said coll. at which time there was"
a bitter fiiction both rai.sed and countenanced against
him, but how and by whom is needless now to relate.
Certain it is, as he » saith, he made no party then,
for four being in nomination for that headsiiip, he
lay then so sick at London, that he was neitiier able
to go to Oxon, nor so nnich as write to iiis friends
about it. Yet after nnich trouble, a major jwirt of
votes made choice of him. Tims he was chosen
president on the tenth day of May 1611. After
this, his election was quarrell'd at, and great means
was made against him, insomuch that K. J.ames I.
sate to hear the cause iiimself for the space of three
hours at Tichlxjurn in Hampshire, as he returned [66]
otit of the Western progress, on the 28th of Aug.
following. Upon this hearing, his majesty apjiroved
his election, and commanded his settlement ; which
was done accordingly at Michaelma.s following. But
the faction in the coll. finding sucli props above, as
they had, continued very eager antt bitter against
him. The audit of the coll. for the year's accompts,
and choice of new officers folk)wed in Nov. at which
time he with patience and mtxleration in the choice
of officers, made all quiet in the collcfje. In the
said month of Nov. he was sworn the king's chap-
lain, and gave very great content in that office. In
April 1614, his patron Dr. Neile, then bi-shop of
Lincoln, gave him tlie prebendship of Bugden in
that church ; and in the very beginning of Dec.
1615 he gave him the archdeaconry of Huntingdon
on the death of Mr. Matth. Giftbrd. In Nov. 1616
the king gave him the deanery of Glcx^cster, void by
tlie death of Dr. Rich. Field, and tlien resigning the
parsonage of West Tilbury, he became rector of lb-
stock in Leicestershire, in the beginning of Aug.
1617. On the 22d of Jan. 1620 he was installed
canon of the eighth stall in the church of Westmin-
ster, (in the place of Edw. Buckley D.D. who had
succeeded Will. I^atimer in that dignity 1582) and
in the next year after, his majesty (who upon his
own confession had given to liim nothing but the
deanery of Gloccstcr, which he well knew was a
shell without a kernel) gave him the grant of the
bishoprick of S. David, and withal leave to hold his
presidentship of S. John's coll. in commendam with
It, as also the rectory of Ibstock before-mention'd.
This promotion of tiun to the see of S. David was

iGlfi, 2 1 Dec. Nich. Cliffe S. T.B. admiss. a<l eccl'iam de
Westilbery, per resign. Will. Lawde S. T. P. ad pres. regis.
Iteg. King. Kennet.]

« Answer of Archbishop Laud to the Speech of Jf^ll. L. Say
and Seal, touching the Liturgy, printed 1695. p. 474.

9 Ibid.

li.'3

LAUD.

\-2^

done by the enileavours of Dr. Jo. Williams, fear-
ing if lie had not the said see, he would have been
dean of Westminster, which the said Dr. Williams
kept in connuendam with the sec of Lincoln ; where-
by he shewetl himself more a politician than a friend.
In Nov. 1621 Dr. I^aud resigned his presidentship
of S. John's coll. notwithstanding the king had given
him leave to keep it in commenaam with nis bishop-
rick : and this was done by reason of the strictness
of the statute of the said coll. which he would not
.violate, nor his oath which he had taken to observe
it This resignation was made on the 17th of Nov.
1621, being the day before he was consecrated to
the see of S. David. Soon after he became inti-
mately acqufunted with the great favourite of K.
James I. called George Villiers then marquis of
' Buckingham, occasion'd by sethng him and his mo-
ther the countess in their rehgion, which the king
commanded him so to do; they being then waver-
ing and inclining to the ch. of Rome : and by a con-
ference between himself and one Fisher a Jesuit,
wliich was in the presence of the said marquis and
his mother, they were firmly settled in the Protestant
religion. About this time the king having received
notice that he had resigned his presidentsliip of S.
John's, he gave him leave to keep the parsonage of
Creek in Northamptonshire ' in commendam with his
bishoprick, being inducted thereunto 31 Jan. 1622.
In Sept. 1623 he fell into the displeasure of Dr.
Williams bishop of Line, the lord-keeper, partly oc-
casion'd by his being a favourite of the said niarqui.s,
and, as the bishop of Lincoln thought, that the said
Dr. Laud was ungrateful to him ; but the chief
cause was, the marquis's favour to him. On the
17th of Apr. 1625 he became deputy clerk of the
closet to his majesty, for Dr. Neile then bishop of
, Durham indisposed, and executed that office till the
first of May following. On Candlemas day follow-
ing that, he officiated at the coronation of K. Charles
I. as dean of Westminster, being then canon of that
church in commendam ; and this was done by the
appointment of his majesty, and by the said Dr.
Williams the dean, when he saw himself put aside,
because he was then out of favour with his said ma-
jesty. On the 20th of June 1626, his majesty no-
minating him (Dr. Laud) bishop of Bath and Wells,
void by the death of Dr. Arth. Lake, he was elected
thereunto on the 16tli of August ; and on the 19th
157] of Sept. (being the next day after his election was

• [29 Januar. 1622, Ep'us Petrib. instituit dom. Guliel-
mum ep'um Mcnevcn. in rec(. eccl. de Creeke, ad pres. Ja-
cobi regis. Reg. Dove, Ep'i Petrib.

14 Nov. 1626, Ep'us instituit Nich'ani Clifie cler. S.T. B.
coll. S. Joh'is Bapt. Oxon. socium ad rect. de Creeke, ad
pres. regis, per translat. Will. Laude, niiper ep. Menev. ad
e'patum Balho-Wellen. Reg. Dove, Ep. Petrib. Ken-
WEtJ

* See in the preface to a book emit. The History qf the
Troubles and Tryal of William Laud Archbishop of Canter-
bury. Lond. 1695. fol. which preface was written by Mr.
Hen. Wharton. '

confirmed) he receive*! the temjM)raiities thereof from
the king. In the beginning of October the .same year,
(1626) he was made dean of the royal chtt}mel, in
the room of Dr. Lancelot Andrews bishop of Win-
chester deceased, and on the 29 Ajir. 1627 he was
made privv coun.sellor to the king, with Dr. Neile
bishop of t)urham. On the 17th of June 1627 the
bishoprick of London was grantetl to him at South-
wick, as he himself saith m his Diary, and in Oct.
following, he, as bishop of Bath and Wells, the
bishops of London, Durham, Rochester, and Ox-
ford, were commissionated to execute archiepiscopal
jurisdiction during the sequestration of Dr. G.
Abbot archbishop of Canterbury, for casual homi-
cide of his keeper in shooting at a buck. On the
16th of July 1628 he was translated to London, on
the translation thence to Durham of Dr. George
Mountaigne, and in the latter end of Decemb. fol-
lowing, the statutes which he had drawn, for the
reducing of the factious and tumultuous elections of
the proctors in Oxon, to several colleges by course,
and .so to continue, were jjassed in a convocation of
doctors and masters there, no voice dissenting.
Much aboiit this time his antient acqu^ntance sir
James Whitlock a judge, used to say of our author
Dr. Laud, that ' ' he w as too full of fire, though a
just and good man, and that his want of experience
in state matters, and his too much zeal for the
church, and heat, if he proceeded in the way he was
then in, would set this nation on fire.' On the 12th
of April 1630 he was elected chancellor of the uni-
versity of Oxon, void by the sudden death of Will,
earl of Pembroke ; and how that election was car-
ried, and the event of it proved happy to the univer-
sity, you may .see at large in Hist. 4" Antiq. Univ.
Oxoti, lib. 1. sub an. 1630. In June 1633 he was
sworn counsellor of Scotland, the king being then
about to be crown'd at Edinburgh ; and on the 4th
of August the same year, news coining in the morn-
ing to the court, then at Greenwich, of the death of
. the archb. of Canterbury, the king resolved presently
to ^ve that see to Dr. Laud. On the very same
morning tliere came a certain person to him, seri-
ously, and of avowed ability to pcrf()rm it, and
offered him to be a cardinal : he went presently to
the king, and acquainted him with the thing and the
person. On the 17th of the same moiuli, he had a
serious offer made him again to be a cardinal : he
was then from court, but so soon as he came thither
(Aug. 21.) he acquainted his majesty with it. But
his answer again was, that ' somewhat dwelt within
him, which would not suffer that, till Rome was
other than it is.' This I .set down, (being in his
own Diary) because that when the said Dr. Laud
was upon his tryal for his life, an. 1644, the former

Eart of the said memoir (viz. of the offer) was laid in
is dish by his inveterate enemies, but the latter part

' Bulst. Whitlock, in his Memorials of English Affairs,
&c. p. 32.

LAUD.

126

(his denial) they t(X)k no notice of, because it made
for liini : O baseness and partiality ! On the 19th
of Sept. he was translated to Canterbury, to the
great rejoycing of all the orthodox sons of the church,
but that High preferment, it seems, drew upon him
such envy from the puritans, that lie was afterwards
in the beginning of the Long parliament impeached
of high treason, as I shall tell you anon. On the
Ikli of the same month, which was some days before
his trajislation, he wa.s elected chancellor of the
university of Dublin; and on the 13th of May
1634 he received the seals of his election; from
which time till the time of his death were libels,
cither written, or printed, that came out continually
against him, by the puritans, lirownists, separatists,
&c. On the 14th ot March following he was named
one of the commissioners of the exchequer, upon the
death of Richard lord AVeston, lord high treasurer
of England ; about which time taking order that all
the records of the Tower which concern the clergy,
should be collected together and written in vellum at
his own charge, it was brought to him finished, cu-
riously written and richly bound, on the 10 June,
an. 1637. This book commenceth 20 Ed. 1. and
reaches tf) the 14 Ed. 4. and is at this time reserved
as a choice rarity in the library at Lambeth. In
[58] June 1639, he sent the remainder of his iTianuscripts
to the public library at Oxon, being in number 576,
and to he added to 700 which he had formerly .sent
to it ; and in 1640 he sent more ; all consistmg of
several languages and faculties. This Dr. Laud was
a person of an lieroic spirit, pious life and exemplary
conversation. He was an encourager of learning, a
stiff maintainer of the rights of the church and
clergy, and one that livcnl to do honour to his mo-
ther the university, and his country. Such a liberal
l)enefactor also he was towards the advancement of
learning, that he left himself little or nothing for his
own use ; and by what his intentions were, we may
guess, that if the severe stroke of the rebels had not
imtimely set|uestred and cut him off, ' S. Paul's
cathetlral had silenced the fame of antient wonders,
our English clergy had been the glory of the world,
the B<xlleian library at Oxon hacl daily outstript the
Vatican, and his ]}ublic structures had o'ertopt the
Escurial,' &c. Whosoever also shall read over the
Diary of his Life, pen'd by himself for private
use, but puqxjsely published by his inveterate
i enemy Will. Prynne, with his rascally notes and

! diabolical reflections thereon, purposely to render

him more wlious to the common people (followed
therein by another ♦ villain) will find that he was a
man of such eminent virtues, such an exemplary
piety towards GckI, such an unwearied fidelity to his
gracious sovereign, of such a public soul towards
the church and state, of so fixed a constancy in what
he undertook, and one so little biassed in his private

■* Lewis elu Moulin
1,011(1. i6T2. in cap. vel
p. 62,63. Sec.

in his Palronus honie Fidei, &c.
lib. De Specim. contra Duretlum,

interests, that * Plutarch, if he were alive, would
be much troubled to find a sufficient parallel where-
with to match him in all the lineaments of perfect
virtue. Next as for his great reading and learning,
it may be, by curious persons, seen in his works,
(and thereby easily jx-rceived that he wa.s vers'd in
lxx)ks as well as in business) the titles of which shall
anon follow ; and in the mean time I must tell you,
that in the beginning of the long parliament he was,
by the Scotch commissioners then present, named in
the lords house an incendiary, on the 17th of Dec.
1640, and a complaint promised to be drawn up the
next day ; on the 18th, according to promise, he
was accused by the house of commons of high-
treason, without any |iarticular charge laid against
him, which they said should be prepared in cxinve-
nient time, as it was. Mr. Denzil Holies, second
son of John earl of Clare, a great boutefeu and one
of the chief promoters of the discontents, and the
rebellion that followed, in the nation, was the man
that brought up the message to the lords, and soon
after the charge was brought into the ujipcr house
by the Scottish commi.ssioners tending to prove him
an incendiary : Whereupon he the said archbishop
was presently committed to the custody of Mr.
James Maxwell the officer or usher to the upper
house, with whom ccmtinuing full ten weeks to liis
great expence, a charge was brought up from the
house of commons to the lords, by sir Hen. Vane
the younger, a most notorious sectarist, an indefa-
tigable boutefeu and promoter of the discimtents
and the rebellion that followed, as Holies before-
mentioned was. This was done on the 26 Feb. 1640,
and the charge consistetl then of 14 articles, which
in time they would prove in particular. So that by
consequence being to be committed to the Tower,
he had favour by the lords not to go thither till
Monday the first of March following. At which
time going with Mr. Maxwell in his coach, there
was no noise 'till he entred into Cheapside, and then
an apprentice hollowing out, more followed the
coach, and the numl)er still increasing as the coach
went, there was exceeding shouting when it came to
the Exchange. Nothing but clamour and revilings,
even beyond barbarity itself, continued till he entred
into the Tower gate: All which being enough to
confound an ordinary capacity, yet this renowned
archbishop's patience was not moved, for he looked
ujwn a higher cau.se, than the tt)ngues of Shimei and
his children. Nothing now was omitted by some
cimning agents to encrease the rage and hatred of
people against him. The chief instruments herein [591
were the Brownists, and those that adhered to them,
who had been highly offended with him, because he
hindered and punished by law their conventicles,
and separation from the church of England. Among
and above the rest, there were three men, viz. Hen.

> Kclalion of the Death and Sufferings of the Archb. qf
Canl. Oxon. l644. p. 2.

127

LAUD.

Burton a minister in Friday-street in London, Dr.
Joh. Uastwick a phvsician/ and Will. Prynne a
common lawyer, wlio had been censured in the star-
chamber for notorious libels, printed and jniblishctl
by them against the hierarchy of the church. The
fiictionof the Brownists, and these three saints, mth
their adherents, fiU'd the pres.s almost daily \nth
lialladsand libels full of all manner of scurrility, and
more untruth, lx)th against the archbishop's person
and his calling. These were cried about London
streets, and brought (many of them) to Westmin-
ster, and given into divers lords hands, and into the
hands of the gentlemen of the house of commons,
and yet no order taken by either house to suppress
the printing of such known and shameless lies, as
most of them contained ; a thing which many sober
men found fault withal, and which, as 'twas then
believed, had hardly been seen in any civil common-
wealth, Christian or other. Besides these libels and
ballads which were sung up and down the streets,
they made base pictures of the archbishop, putting
him into a cage, and fastning him to a jx)st by a
chain at his shoulder, and the like. Divers of these
libels made sport in taverns and ale-houses, where
too many were as drunk with malice, as with the
liquor they sucked in. Against which his only
comfort was, that he was fallen but in the same
case with the prophet David, Psal. 69. For they
that sate in the gate spake against me, and I was
the song of the drunkards. From that time till his
death and after, these libels and ballads continued
without controul : but this was not all, for some of
these rascally people came to him in the Tower,
taunted at and gave him very foul and ill language,
and .some there were that took opportunity to preach
in the chapjxil of S. Peter ad Vincula withm the
said Tower purposely to aba.sh and confound him
(if present, as sometimes he was) particularly one
Jocelin who preached there on the fifteenth of May
1642, \vith vchcmency becoming Bedlam, with trea-
son sufficient to hang him in any other state, and
with such particular abuse to the archbishop, that
women ami boys stood up in the church to see how
he could bear it : his text was Judges 5. 23. Curse
ye Meroz, &c. On the 25th of June he, by his let-
ters dated at the Tower and sent to the university
of Oxon, f|uittod all right he had in the chancellor-
ship thereof; and in the said letters remembers his
love to that whole body, that love than which never
any chancellor bare greater, or with more ferventness
and zeal to the publick gtxxl and happiness of that
place. It was his real desire that every one of the
university would believe him, that his" great afflic-
tion did not trouble him for any one thing more,
than that he could Im? no further useful or beneficial
to that place, which he so much loved and honoured,
8ec. On the first of July following, Philip earl of

•• {An. lC54, Oct. 6, Dr. B!istwick,|physitian, buried. Mr.
R. Smith's Obituary. Baker.]

Pembroke and Montgomery was elected in his
place, but being not at all fit for it, was cashiered
soon after, as I have told ' you elsewhere. After
this, the archbishop's jurisdiction was taken away, he
was fined, plundered, utterly ruin'd : his palace at
Lambeth s]X)iled,his chapjx'I defaced, organs plucked
down, the steps leading to the altar torn up, &c.
and at length the said palace was made a prison. It
was now that his enemies had in vain laboured for
two years and an half to jirove their charge against
him before-mention'd, but the more they sought,
the more they were confounded, and greater evidence
appeared to the cxmtrary. They appointed com-
mittee ujx)n committee to find sometinng to accuse
him of, but after all their search and scrutiny, the
committee still flung up their papers, as men that
had travelled in vain ; tor the more they ript him up
the more sound they found him, one of them ac-
knowledging in a letter to his friend, that the world
was mistaken in nothing so much as in tlie arch-
bishop of Canterbury ; (as sir Edw. Deering himself rg.,
confesses in print) The ai-chbishop was ever the ^ I
same man, take him from S. John's coll. to Lam-
beth, he still kept his stand, never swerving from
those honest principles he had proposed to himself.
They had also in vain ransack'd all his pajxjrs left
in his study at Lambeth, and examin'd all his inti-
mate friends and sul)altem * agents ujjon oath, but
when nothing did apjx^ar, they hoped to find some-
thing against him, either in his private diary of his
life, which they knew he kept by him, or in those
pajx-rs which he carried with him from Laml)eth at
his first commitment, in order to his future defence.
U]X)n these hopes, they with gieat privacy framed
an order for the searching his chamber and pockets
in the Tower, in the latter end of May 1 643, and
committed the execution of it to his most bitter and
malicious enemy W. Prynne before-mention'd ; who
thcreujX)n took from him 21 bundles of paper which
he had prepared for his defence, his difuy, his book
of private devotions, the Scotch service book, and
directions accompanying it, &c. After this, when they
thought they had got sutficient proof, and had secured
him from making his defence, they were resolved to
come to a tryal of him for his life, but liecause
Prynne could not provide witnesses and matter
enough, it was deferred from time to time, and all
men and all things waited upon him till he could
ripen the matter. In the mean time the council as-
signed for the ai-chbishop was Mr. Joh. Hearne, Mr.
Matth. Hales of Lincoins-Inn, and Mr. Chaloner
Chute of the Middle-Temple, to whom was after-
wards added Mr. Rich. Gerhard of Greys-Inn, and
certain servants of the archbishop to attend him in
the tryal, viz. Mr. W. Dell his secretary, Mr. Rich.
Cobbe, and Mr. George Smith. The managers of

' In Hist. & Anliq. Univ. Oxon. lib. I. p. 36l.
" See more in the preface to The Hist, of the Trouh. and
Tryal oj Archh. Laud, &c.

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the evidence against him of the house of commons
were, (1.) Mr. Joh. Maynartl, who very actively
before liad haitetl to the ])ur|)ose the most noble
Tho. earl of Strafford ; his pleiidings tho' tliey were
stronij, yet they were fair. (2.) .Joh. Wylde, Ser-
jeant at law, and knight for Worcestershire in the
parliament then sitting, a great enemy to the hie-
rarchy, and particularly to Laud. This ])erson, who
made a solenm speech for an introduction to the
tryal, had language good enough sometimes, but
little or no sense : And the diiiractcr given of him
before to the archbishop, proved exactly true by
that speech and his after-pnx-eeding against him.
(3.) Sam. Brown of Lincolns-Imi, another parlia-
ment man, who was also very bitter sometimes in his
pleadings, and very insulting, whether according to
his nature, or to gain the populacy, I cannot tell.
This is the person who earned up to the lords the
ordinance for the attainder of the archbishop, carried
on his bitterness to the last, was one of the commis-
sioners of the great seal, made one of the justices of
the King's-bench in Oct. 1648, and a judge of that
court in Novemb. following. (4.) Rob. Nicholas of
the — Temple, and bur^ress for tlie Devizes in
Wiltshire, had in his j)lcacUngs some sense, but was
extream virulent, and had foul language at command.
When the archbishop was charged of his disliking
the gi^'ing of the title of antichrist to the pope, the
said Nicholas bestowed on the said archbishop many
and gross titles : He calfd him over and over again.
The pander to the whore of Babylon. ' Not re-
membring (as the arclib. says) all this while (what
yet I was loth to mind him of) that one of his zeal-
ous witnesses against the whore of Babylon and all
her superstitions, got all his means (which are great)
by being a pander to other lewd women ; and loved
the business it self so well, as that he was (not long
since men say) taken in bed with one of his wife's
maids.' And when that passage in Dr. Pocklington's
book called A/tare Christianum, p. 49, ''>0. was
urged in open court, viz. that it is a happiness that
the bishops of England can derive tlieir .succession
from S. Peter, then did the said Nicholas insultingly
call it the archbishop's pedigree, meaning the pe-
digree of archbishoy) Laud. He would have nothmg
forgotten that might help to multiply clamour against
him. He did not omit any thing which he thought
might disgrace and discontent him, tho' it could no
way be drawn to be any accusation. He brought
in tlie archbishop's dreams which he wrote in nis
diary, and omens there mention'd that predicted his
ruin, to make him a scorn to the lords and the
people. His bitterness against him was unchristian,
his malice unsatiable, and his virulence antl insulta-
tion over liim, then in great affliction, intolerable.
This person R. Nicholas, who was of the same fa-
mily with the tv/o most loyal gentlemen sir Edw.
Nicholas, sometimes one of the secretaries of state,
and Dr. Mat. Nicholas sometimes dean of S. Paul's,
both bom at Winterbourn-Earles in Wiltshire, was
Vol. III.

afterwards, for tlic love he bore to the hlessed
cause, made serjeant at law by the long parliament
in the latter entl of Octob. 1648, and in Jan. follow-
ing he, with Serjeant Joh. Bnulshaw of Greys-Inn,
and Mr. Will. Street, were added to the committee
ap|jointed bv iiarlianient to order matters relating to
the tryal of knig (Charles L of blessetl memory. On
the 13th of the said month of Jan. it was then com-
monly given out that he the said Nicholas, Brad-
shaw, and serjeant Franc. Thorpe of Greys-Inne
should be connnissioners of the great seal, but that
report came to nothing. In the beginning of June
1649 the parliament voted, that the saitl Nicholas
should be one of the judges of the upper bench, and
in the beginning of 1650 he, with justice RoUes,
went as judges the western circuit, and in theit
charges given at several places, they vindicated the
proceeding of the parliament, and of their's and the
people's ptiwer, and the original of it, and endeavour'd
to settle their minds as to the then present govern-
ment without king or lords. When Oliver came to
the protectorate, this serjeant Nicholas, who had be-
fore taken the covenant and the engagement, was
made one of the barons of the Exchequer, and what
became of him afterwards in truth I cannot yet tell,
nor doth it matter much. The fifth and last person
that was appointed to bait the said archb. was Roger
Hill of the Temple, a burgess for Brideport in Dor-
setshire. He was ConsuuBibulus, and said but
little. Afterwards he was made one of the barons
of the Exchequer by prince Oliver. Mr. Prynnc
wa.s trusted with the providing of all the evidence,
and was relater and prompter and all, never weary
of any thing, so that he might do the archb. mischief.
And as the archb. conceived, it would not be in fu-
ture times the greatest honour to the said proceed-
ings, that he (Prynne) a man twice censiir'd in the
high court of Star-Chamber, and set in the pillory
twice (once for libelling the church, the government
of it, and the bishops the governors) should now be
thought the only fit and indifferent man to be trusted
with the witnesses and evidences against the archb.
wlio sat at his censure. He raked and scraped up
for witnesses suspected sectaries and semratists from
the church, which the archbishop by nis place was
to punish, and that exasperated them agtunst him,
whereas bv law no schismatic ' ought to be received
against his bishop. He also rake<l up pillory men
and bawds, divers pursevants and common messen-
gers, some of whom had shifted rehgions with their
cloaths, particularly James Watlsworth then of S.
Dunstan's in the West in London, I mean the same
Wadsworth who before had l)een author of The
English Spanish Pilffrim, &c. and other Ixwks '
against the papists, whose religion he had embraced
and adored. He the said Pryime also kept* a kintl

9 See Hist, of I he Troulles and Tryal nf Archl. Laud,
cap. 43. p. 414.

' See in the Oxford and Bodleian Catalogue.

■ ibid, in Uht. if the Trouldes, &c. cap. SI. p. 2I9.

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of a school of" instruction for such of the witnesses
which he durst trust, that they might be sure to
speak liome to the piu-pose as lie would have thein :
nay, his tauijieriug with witnesses was so palpable
and so foul, that some that took notice of it iwuld
not but })ity the archbishop and cry shame of
Prynne, who to make the evidence out as much as
the devil himself could do, did take away from the
archbishop all the bundles of papers that he had pre-
jiai'ed for his own defence, his diary and devotions,
as 'tis before told you ; in which last were the great
secrets between God and his soul, so that they were
[62] sure then to have him at the very bottom. This
was first to cut out his tongue, and then bid him
speak for himself. All the books of the council-
table, stai--chamber, high-commission, signet-office,
the archbishop's own registers, and the registers of
Oxford and Cambridge, were most exquisitely search-
ed for matter against him, and kept from him and
his use, and consequently afforchng him no help to
his defence. Nay if he had any thing to urge out
of the said books, or diary, or devotions, he was to
petition for it, and pay for the transcribing any
thing from thence. The first day of the archbishop's
tryal was on the twelfth of March 1643, and carried
on for twenty days of hearing till the 29th of July
1644, and on the 21st of Sept. following he made
his recapitulation. In all which time, tho' he was
wearied and tired out with attendance, and by into-
lerable affronts and abuses from the managers of the
evidence against him, from the persons that were
present at the hearing, and from the rabble in his
going from the Tower to the parliament house, and
in his return, especially if it was by land ; yet by
his great patience, stout spirit, and guiltless cause,
he made as full, as gallant, and as pithy a defence,
and spoke as much for himself, as was possible for
the wit of man to invent, and that with great art,
vivacity, confidence, &c. as his most implacable
enemy, the stigmatized and croj>ear'd presbyterian
Prynne doth acknowledge, in his book called Canter-
Iftiry's Doovi, &c. p. 462. The charge against the
archb. consisted of many particulars, too many to be
here repeated ; among which were his windows in
the chappel at Lambeth, his pictures in the gallery
there, his reverence done in his chappel, his conse-
cration of churches, his chaplain's expunging things
out of books which made against the papists, his pre-
ferment of unworthy men, (that is orthodox men
and stiff prelatical men for the church of England)
his overthrow of the feoffment, some passages in his
book against Fisher the Jesuit, his Bible in his study
at Lambeth, with five wounds of Christ wrought
upon the cover in needle-work, the crucifix hung up
in the chappel at Whitehall on G(wd-Friday, the
copes and bowings used in cathedral churches since
he became archbishop, the ceremonies used at the
coronation of K. Cli. I. the abuses in the university,
especially in Oxon, the ceremonies in some ])ai-ish
churches, and some punished for neglect of them,

the cross in baptism, &c. with otlier things relating
to rehgion ; all which were practised without con-
troul after the restoration of K. Ch. IL While the
tryal was in its height, and no hopes left of making
any of the articles high-treason, a parliament man
was' pleased to say, that the archbishop was now an
old man, and it would be happy both for him and
the parhament if God would be pleased to take him
away. And when a friend of the archbishop did
bemoan his case to another parliament man, (of
whom the archb. had desei-ved very well) saying he
knew he was a good man, the parliament man re-
plyed, be he never so good, we must now make him
ill for our own sakes. During also the tryal, some
citizens of London were heard to say, that tho' the
archb. answered many things very well, yet he must
suffer somewhat for the honour of the house. So
all the archbishop's hopes now, under God, lay
wholly on the honour and justice of the lords, and
no other talk there was then but of a quick dispatch.
When hatred doth accuse, and malice prosecute,
and prepossession sit upon the bench, God help the
innocent! They called him often to the bar both
before and after, caused a strict inquisition into all
his actions, winnowed him like wheat, and sifted him
to the very bran : (which was, you know, the devil's
office) they had against him all advantages of power
and malice, and witnesses at hand on all occasions :
but still they found his answers and resolutions of
so good a temper, his innocence and integrity of so
bright a die, that as they knew not how to dismiss
him with credit, so neither could they find a way to
condemn him with justice. And dio' their con-
sciences could tell them that he had done nothing [gS"!
which deserved either death or bonds ; yet either to
reward or oblige the Scots, who would not think
themselves secure while his head was on, they were
resolved to bring him to a speedy end : only they
did desire, if possible, to lay the odium of the
murther on the common people. And therefore
serj. Wylde in a speech against him, having aggra-
vated his supposed offences to the highest pitch,
concluded ■* thus, that ' he was guUty of so many and
notorious treasons, so evidently destructive of the
common-wealth, that he marvelled the jx^ople did
not tear him in pieces as he passed between his barge
and the parliament house,' &,c. Which barbarous
and bloody project when it would not take, and that
tho' many of the rabble did desire his death, yet
none would be his executioner ; they then employed
some of their most malicious and active instruments,
to go with a petition, pcnn'd by themselves, from
door to door, and from man to man, especially to
the Brownists and notorious separatists, to get hands
against him, and so to return the petition to them,
to hasten his condemnation, which must forsooth be

^ Hist, of the Troubles and Tryal, &c. as before, cap. 21.
p. 217.

■• Brief Relation of the Death and Siffff rings of Archb.
Laud. Oxon. lC44. p. 8.

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134

forced to their own desires. Tlie fan.atical preachers
also exhorted the people to be zealous in it, telling
them it was for the glory of God, and the gcMxl of
die church. In this petition none were named but
tiie archb. and dr. Wren l)ishon of Ely ; so their
fh-ift was known to none but tlieir own ])arty, the
magistrates standing still, and suffering them to pro-
ceed without any check, of which the archb. gave
tliem a memento in his dying speech. Whose de-
sign of jx'tition this originally was, the archb. liad
cause ^ to suspect, that it was his restless enemy Mr.
Prynne, and so it wiis generally believed by prudent
men. This being obtained, and delivered to the
house of commons on Mondiiy the 28th of Oct.
IG'l-i, the business was pursuetl with such heat and
violence, that by the beginnine: of Nov. it was made
ready for a sentence, which some conceived would
have been ^ivcn in the king's bench, and that their
proofs (suc-li as they were) being fully ripened, he
should have been put over to a Middlesex jury ; but
they were only some poor ignorants which conceived
so of it. The leading members of the plot thought
of no such matter ; and, to say truth, it did concern
them highly not to go that way. For tho' there
was no question to be made at all, but tliat they
could have packed a jury to have found the bill,
yet by a clause in the attamder of Tho. earl of Straf-
ford, they had bound the judges not to declare
those facts for treason in the time to come, for
which tliey had condemned and executed that most
heroic count. And therefore it was done with great
care and caution to proceed by ordinance, and vote
him guilty first in the house of commons ; in which
being parties, witnesses, and judges too, they were
assured to pass it as they would themselves, which
was done accordingly on Saturday Nov. 16. follow-
ing. But yet the business was not done, for the
ordinance was to be transmitted to the h. of lords,
where it stuck, and the debate concerning it was put
off to Friday Nov. 22. Then PhiUp earl of Pem-
broke began more fully to shew his canker'd humour
against the archbishop, then in all probability to lose
his life, but how provoked, the archbishop protested^
he knew not, unless by his serving him far beyond
his desert. There, among other course language,
he bestowed the rascal and the villain ujwn him ;
and told the lords very wisely, they would put off
giving their consent to the ordinance, till the citizens
would come down and call for justice, as they did
in tlie earl of Strafford's case. But some of them
having not extinguished all the sparks of honour,
did by the light thereof discover tlie injustice of so
foul a practice as tlie ordinance was, together with
the danger that might befall themselves, if once dis-
favoured by the grandees of that potent faction, and
therefore the debate concerning the passing thereof
among them was put off from time to time. At

' In the Hisl. of Troubles, &c.as before, cap. 44. p. 432.
" Ibid. cap. 46. p. 441.

length, on Thursday Nov. 28. Mr. Will. Strode (he
that made all the blotnly motions) went up with a
message from the commons to quicken the lords in
this business ; and at the end of his message he let [6^]
fall,' that they should do well to agree to tne ordi-
nance, or else the multitudi' would come down and
force them to it. At this scjme lords very honour-
ably took exception, and Mr. Strode tlurst not hide
it, that this was any part of the message ilelivered to
him by the house of commons. But the matter wa«
passed over, and Mr. Strode not so much as checked.
It is said " that alwut this time many of the house
of commons had recourse to their old arts, and drew
down .sir David Watkins with his general muster of
subscriptions, and put a petition into his hands, to
be tendered by him to the houses, that is themselves;
wherein it was required, among other things, that
they would vigorously proceed unto the punisliment
of all delinquents ; anu that for the more quick dis-
patch of the public business of the state, the lord*
would be plea.sed to vote and sit together with the
commons ; but how true this is I cannot tell, liccause
the archbi.sliop takes no notice of it in his Hist, of
Troubles, &c. sure it is, that the pa.ssing of the ordi-
nance by the lords being deferred from time to time,
it passed at length in a slender house on the 4tli of
Jan. following, at which time were only present
Henry earl of Kent, Philip earl of Pembroke, WU-
liam ejirl of Salisbury, Oliver earl of Bolenbroke,
Dudley lord North, and Will, lord Grey of Werke;
all of the presbyterian die. As for Thomas lord
Bruce, an English baron (earl of Elgin in Scodand)
who is reported ' to be one of those lords that pass-
ed the ordinance, it is false, for he hath frequendy '
disclaimed that action, and solemnly professed his
detestation of the whole proceedings, as most abhor-
rent from his nature, and contrary to his known af-
fections, as well unto his majesty's ser^'ice, as the
peace and preservation of the church of England.
The ordinance of attainder being thus passed,
(which was on the very same day that they esta-
blished their directory instead of the common-
prayer) whereby it was ordained that the archb.
should suffer death as in cases of high-treason, it
was ordered by Ixrtli houses that he should suffer
accordingly on Friday the 10th of Jan. 16 14. The
news of which being brought to the archb. by the
lieutenant of the Tower, Isaac Pennington, he neither
entertained ^ it with a stoical apathy, nor waited hi*
fate with weak and womanish lamentations, but
heard it with so even and so smoodi a temper, as
shewed he neither was afraid to live, nor asham'd to
die. The time between the sentence and the execu-

7 Ibid.

" Brief I( elation, &c. lit supr. p. 10.

^ In Merc. Aulicus, from Jan. 5. to Jan. 12. |644. p.
1333. as also in tbc Brief liilalion beforc-incntion'd, p. 10.

' See in Cypr. Angl. or, I he Life nf Archh. Laud, &c.
written by Dr. Fct. Hcylin. p. 5?7, &c.

' Brief Relat. p 14.

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tion lie spent in prayers and applications to tlie Lord
liis Grod ; liavinjT o'btained, tlio' not witliout some
difficulty, a chaj)lain of his ouii, Dr. Rich. Sterne,
to attend u}X)n him, and to assist him in the work
of preparation ; tho' little pre})aration needed to re-
ceive tnat blow, which could not hut be welcome,
because lon<^ expected. For so well was he studied
in the art of dying (especially in the last antl strictest
part of his imprisonment) that bv continual fiistings,
watchings, prayers, ami such like acts of Christian
humiliation liis flesh was rarified into spirit, and the
whole man so fitted for eternal glories, that lie was
more than half in heaven, before death brought his
bloody (but triumphant) chariot to convey him thi-
ther. I shall now, accordirig to promise, give you
the titles of his works, and then proceed to his
death and burial. The titles are these, viz.

Several sermons, as (1.) Sermon preached before
his Majesty at \Va7isted, 19 June 1621; on Psal.
122. 6, 7. Lond. 1621. qu. [Bod]. 4to. C. 79. Th.]
(2.) Serin, at Whitehall 24 Mar. 1621, bein^ the
Day of the Beginning of his Majesty's most gra-
cious Reign ; on Psal. 21. 6, 7. Lond. 1622. qu.
[Bodl. 4to. C. 79. Th.] (3.) Serm. before his Ma-
jesty at Whitehall; on Psal. 75. 2, 3. Lond. 1625.
gu. [Bodl. 4to. C. 79. Th.] (4.) Serm. at Westm.
6 Feb. 1625, at the Opening of the Parliament; on
Psal. 122. 3, 4, 5. Lond. 1625. qu. [Bodl. 4to. C.
79. Th.] (5.) Serm. at Westm. 17 Mar. 1627, at
the Opening of the Pari, on Ephes. 4. 3. Lond.
1628. qu. [Bcidl. 4to. C. 79. Th.] (6.) Serm. at
Whitehall at a solemn Fast before the King, 5 Jul.
1626 ; oji Psal. 74. 22. Lond! 1626. qu. [Bodl. A.
10. 24. Line] (7.) Serm. at PauPs Cross on the
King''s Inauguration; on Psal. 22. 1. printed at
Lond. Which seven sermons were re-printed at
the same place in oct.' an. 1651. [Bodl. Crynes
252.]

Several speeches, as (1.) Speech delivered in the
Star-chamber, 14 Jun. 1637, at the Censure of J oh.
Bastioick, Hen. Burton, and Will. Prynne, Lond.
1637, &c. qu.* (2.) Speech in Answer to that of

' \Seven Sermons preached upon several Occasions; by the
right rev. and learned Father in God, William Land, late
Archlishup of Canterbury isfc. London, Printed for R.
Lowndes at the White Lion in S. Paulas Church Yard
MDCLI. I have them, containing 339 pages. Cole.]

■• [If the Ilarleian Catalogue is to be considered as snffi-
cient authority, there were only twenty-Jive copies of this
speech printed, (Harl. Cat. ii. 669, numb. 11120.) but I
consider this assertion as unfounded. In the Bodleian are
three copies of the original edition, two of which were left
by Dr. Rich. Rawlin^oii (Rawl. 4to. 13+, and I4g.) It
may not be generally known, that it was to lliis antiquary
the wortd was indebted for a reprint of the archbishop's
speech, from a copy in the possession of his brother Thomas
Rawlinson, esq. containing MS. ReHcnions by archbishop
Williams (then bishop of Lincoln) which are carefully given
in the margins of the reprint. Of this book, copies printed
on vellum, are in the Bodleian library and at St. John's col-
lege.

On the last leaf of Dr. Rawlinson's copy of this speech
is written in his own hand — • Stricturas hasce mordaciorcs

Serjeant Jo. Wylde. Which last was by the said
Wylde spoken by way of introduction to the tryal
of archb. Laud, 12 Mar. 1643. This speech is in
Canterbury s Doom, published by Will. Prynne, p.
53, &c. and in The Hist, of the troubles and Tryai ^
of Will. Laud Archb. of Cant. cap. 22. p. 222, &c.
In both which lxx)ks you'll hnd several other
speeches and di.seourses of him the said archbishop,
who hath made other speeches in the names of other
persons.

Coiference between him and Jolt. Fisher, Lond.
1624. fol. This was published under his chaplain's
name 11. B. i. e. Rich. Baylie of S. John's coll. in
Oxon, and reprinted in 1639 [Bodl. G. 7. 13. Th.]
and 1673. fol. The conference was held before
George marquiss of Buckingham, and Mary the
countess his mother, on the 24th of May 1622;
and Dr. Laud hearing that Fisher had spread se-
veral copies of the conference into divers recusants
hands, he in the Christmas following communicated
it to his majesty, was three times with him, and
read it over all to him ; which he commanded .should
be printed : and thereuixin the author desired that
it might pass in a third person under the name of
R. B. which was grantea. After that, he shewed
his majesty tlie epistle to be set before it, which he
was pleased to approve ; and having spent some
time vfiih Dr. W. in making it ready for the press,
'twas published 16 Apr. l624. When it was li-
censed and put into the press, the blessed author of
it saith * thus — ' I am no controvertist : May God so
love and bless my soul, as I desire and endeavour
that all the never to be enough deplored distractions
of the church, may be comjiosed happily, and to the
glory of his name.' This Co^iference was look'd
upon as a piece so solidly compacted, that one of our'
historians (who shews himself to be none of Laud's
greatest friends) gives it the commendation of being
the exactest master-piece of jwlemique divinity of
any extant at that time ; and farther affirms, that
he declared himself therein so little theirs, (meaning
the papists) as he had for ever disabled them from
being so much their own, as before they were. Sir
Edw. Deering also, his professed adversary, in the
preface to the book 7 of speeches, could not but con-
fess that in the said lx)ok of bish. Laud, especially
in the last half of it, he hatl muzzled the Jesuit, and
should strike the papists under the fifth rib, when
he was dead and gone : and being dead, that where-
soever his grave shoukl be, Paul's should be his
perpetual monument, and his own liook his epitaph.

in oralionem hanc prsstaniissimam istius celeberrimi mar«
tyris Gul. Laudi arciiiep. Gintuaneiisis ex Robcrti Petti eq.
MS. |ieiies fratreni nieum charissimuin Medii Tcmpli so-
citnii, iranscriljcre noii inutile x^iiin^ivi, venia prius concessa.'
R. Rawlinson coll. Div. .lo Bapl Oxon. I7O8-9.]

' In the Diary nf his Life, in Feb. l623.

" Hani. L'Estiange in \ni Reign of K. Ch.L printed 1C56,
p. 187. an. iGSy.

' Collection ofParliam. Speeches, p. 5.

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fe-

lt was answer''d'* by a Jesuit named Tho. Carwell
alias Thorold a Lincolnshire man born, in a Ixxik
cntit. Lnhyrinthus Cantuarieiisu ; or. Dr. Laud's
Laltyrinth : being an Atiswer to the late Archbi-
sliop of Canterbury's Relation of a Conference be-
tzceen himself and Mr. Fisher, &c. Par. alias Lond.
1658. fbl. Which answer was replyed upon by Dr.
Meric Casaulwn (as I shall tell you elsewhere) and
by Mr. Edw. Stillin<rflcet.

Ansxver to the Exceptions of A. C. This is

printed with the Conference.

Memorables of K. Jam. I. of famous Memory.
—They are in number 29, and were printed with
bish. Laud's Diary of his LiJ'e, by Will. Prynne.
They are called by the author, Sliort Annotations
upon the Life and Death of the most augiist K.
James, which George duke of Buckingham had
commanded him to draw up.

Answer to the Remonstrance made by the Hou.se
of Commons in June 1628. In this Remon-itrance
Dr. Neile B. of Winch, and Dr. Laud B. of B. and
Wells, being charged that they favoured and pro-
tected the Arminian faction, Laud wa-s the more
ready to make an answer, especially when the king
commanded him so to do.

Various letters, as (1.) Letters (if State, disperse<l
in the Cabalas and divers books. (2.) Letter with
divers Maniiscripts sent to the University of Oxon.
Lond. 1640, with the answer of the university, Iwth
in one sheet in qu. [Bodl. 4t(). L. 71. Th.] which I
have mentionVl elsewhere : They were botli written
in Latin, but foolishly translated into English by a
schismatical person, purposely to bring an odium on
Dr. Laud. See Hist. &,- Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 1.
p. 348 b. (;-5) Letter to the Univ. of Oxon when
he resigned his Office of Chancellor. Oxon. 1641.
in one sh. in qu. [Bodl. C. 8. 29- Line] published
by occasion of a base libel or forgery that ran under
the said title. The university\s Answer in Lat. is
joined to it, &c. It nuist be now kno^vn, that as
soon as Prynne was possess''d of archb. Laud's pa-
pers (which I have mention'd before) he set' hmi-
self with eager malice to make use of them to his
defamation, and to prove the charge of popery, and
abetting arbitrary government, by the publication
of many of them. His first specimen in this kind,
was a pamphlet which came out in Aug. 1643, en-
tit. Romes Master-piece, containing the papers and
letters relating to the plot, contrived by papists
against the church and state then established in
England, and discovered by Andr. ab Habernfield.
But never did malice apjjear (as one' saith) so gross

' \A liepHe lo u Relation of the Conference between fVil-
liam Lmide and Mr. l-'tslier the Jesiiile. By a Jf'ttuesse of
Jesus Chri.ll. Jnprinlcil Annn i640, 4t<>. penes me. It con-
tains 40A pages ill a small print, besides ineded. lo the king,
and preface, &c. and is wrote by some faiuilic of those blessed
times. Cole.]

' Sec in the preface to The Ilist. of IheTroulles and Tryal
of Archb. Litid.

' The author of the preface before-mentioned.

and ridiculous together, as in this case. For from
tiiis plot, if there were any truth in it, it apjx-ared
that the hfe of the archbishop was chiefly anned at
l)y the plotters, as the grand obstacle of this design,
and one who could by no arts Ix; wrought to any
connivance of them, much less concurrence with
them. This pamphlet being, after the ]>ublication
of it, carried to the archbishop in the Tower, he
wrote in it

Marginal Notes, in Answer to W. Prynne'a
Falsifications and malicious Calumnies mixed
tlierein. This very Ixwk with the marginal notes
coming after the archbishop's death into the hands
of Dr. Rich. Baylie before-mention'd, came after
his death into my hands, and so it is mention'd in
the second vol. of Ath. Oxon. printed 1692. p. 3L
Which passage being read by that worthy gent.
Mr. Henry Wharton, he desired by his letter dated
that I would be plea.sed to communicate
to him the said book with notes: which desire of
his being granted, and the lMK)k sent to him at Lon-
don, he reprinted it, and printetl with it the arch-
bishop's marginal notes at the end of the Hist, of
t/ie Troubles and Tryal of the mo.st Rev. Fath. in
God and blessed Marti/r Will. Laud Archb. ofCarv-
tcrb. Lond. 1695. fol>

The siiid archbishop hath also written.
Diary ofhiji IJfe — This, which is partly written
in Latin, but mostly in English, was published by
Prynne in 9 sh. in fol. in Aug. 1644, as an intro-
duction or prologue to The History of the Arcltbi-
,ihop of Canterbury'' s Tryal, but neither entire, nor
faithfullv, as far as he did pubhsh it; but altered,
mangleo, corrupted and glossed in a most shamefid
manner ; accompanied with desperate imtruths, as
the archb. complains in his History of his Troubles
and Tryal, and adds this, ' For tliis Breviat (or
Diary) of his, if God send me life and strength to
end this (history) first, I shall discover to the world
the base and malicious slanders with which it is
fraught.' It must be now observed, that it lieing
known to some parliament men that the archbishop
kept a private diary of his life, and had gathered
divers papers for his own defence, a close committe

" [In 1700 the second volume of this work appeared un-
der the title of Laud's Remains, vol. 2. piililished by Ed-
mund Wharton, rector of Saxliiigham in Norfolk, father of
ilie learned Henrv \\ barton, who left the papers ready pre-
pared for the press, with a request that ihey might be sent
forth t" the world. This vol. contains

1. .In Answer to the Speech of the right honourable Wil-
liam Lord VisiounI Suy fSf Seal, spoken in Parliament upon
the BUI about Bishop's Power in Civil Affairs, and Courts
(f Judical itre Anno lf)41.

8. Speech in the Star Chamber against Baslwick, &c. (as
noticed before.)

3. .'In Historical Account of nil Material Transactions re-
lating lo the Univmity of Oiforil, from .Archbishop Laud's
being elected Chancellor, lo his Resignation of that Office.
This lalter is a tract of the grcatesi inicrest nnd value to those
curious in the history of our famous university.]

^ The author of the preface before-mcntionea.

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of lords and commons directed a warrant dat. 30
May 1643 to Prvnne and others, to make a search
and seize u|X)n nil letters and ))apers that are in the
custody of certain prisoners in tlie Tower of Lon-
don ; by virtue of which warrant lie, with certain
soldiers, repaired very early to the Tower on the
next day, and Prynne rushing suddenly into the
archbishop's chamber before he was stiring from his
bed, went directly to his breeches lying by his bed-
side, and thrusting his hands into his pockets with
very great impudence, took thence the said Diary
and book of private devotions, besides several bun-
[67] dies of paj>ers, as I have before told you, purposely
to clear up the charge against him. After that the
Diary was several times brought in open court,
that several passages therein might rise up against
him, as some in his book of private devotions did.
At length after they had made use of the diary as
much as they could, his most implacable enemy
Prynne caused it to be printed in the latter end of
Aug. 1644, as before 'tis told you. And when the
archbishop came (after 20 days hearing) to his reca-
pitulation, which was on the 2 of Sept. following,
he tells* you thus — ' But so soon as I came to the
harr, (in the lords house) I saw every lord present
wth a new thin book in folio, in a blue coat (or
coyer.) I heard that morning that Mr. Prynne had
printed my diary, and published it to the world to
disgrace me. Some notes of his own are made u]X)n
it. The first and the last are two desperate un-
truths, besides some others. This was the book
then in the lords hands, and I assure my self, that
time was picked for it, that the sight of it might
damp me, and disenable me to speak : I confess I
was a little troubled at it. But after I had gather-
ed up my self, and looked up to God, I went on to
the business of the day,' &c. The first passage of
the diary before-mention'd of Prynne's putting in,
is, that the archbishop was bom of poor and obscure
parents, in a cottage (in Reading) just over against
the cage : which cage since his coming to the areh-
bishoprick of Canterbury, upon complaint of Mr.
Elverton (that it was a dishonour the cage should
stand so near the house, where so great a royal fa-
vourite and prelate had his birth) was remov'd to
some other place, and the cottage pulled down and
new built by the bishop. — The last passage in the
sjud book p. 35, of Prynne's putting in also, runs
thus, — ' When he (the archbishop) was a young
scholar in Oxford, he dreamed one night, that he
came to far greater preferment in the church, and
power in the state, than ever any man of his birth
and calling did before him : in which greatness and
worldly happiness he continued many years ; but
after all this happiness, before he awaked, he dream-
ed he was hanged,' &c. And tho' these two pas-
sages were desperate untruths, as the arclib. be-

* In his liitt. of his Troulles and Tryal, cap. 42. p. 41 1,
418.

fore told you, and otlier notes and reflections, with
additions by Prynne, were most vile and uncha^
ritable, yet when the Diary, with the ai'chbishop's
projects at the end, came into the hands of judicious
and impartial men, they t(x>k the publication there-
of to be the greatest piece of justice that ever came
from Prynne's hands. For what the generality
could not think before of the archbishop, were then
confirmed of his character, which I have told you,
xnz. that he was a man of eminent virtues, exem-
plary piety, &c. The archb. hath also written.

Speech or Funeral Sei-mo/t on the Scaffold ov
Tower Hill at the Time of his Excadion ; on Heb.
12. 1, 2. Lond. 1644, 45, together with liis prayer,
both printed in two sheets in qu. The original of
these are kept in MS. under his o\m hand in S.
John's coll. library. It was answered by his im-
placable enemy Hen. Burton minister of St. Mat-
thew's church in Friday-street in Lond. in a pam-
phlet bearing this title, The grand Impostor un-
masked ; or, a Detection of' t/ie notorious Hypo-
crisy, and desperate Impiety of the late Archb. (ao
stiled) of Canterbury whicfi he rectd on the Scaf-
fold at his Execution, 10 Jan. 1644, printed in two
sh. and an half in qu. There were other scandalous
answers that were written and published by ano-
nym!, among which one bears this title, A full and
sati.ffactory Answer to the Archb. of Canterbury's
Speech, or Funeral Sermon preached, &c. wherein
is a full and plenary Discourse to satisfy all those
who have been stai-tled with his suttle and Jesuiti-
cal Fancies, and Evasion in the said Speech, 8cc.
Lond. 1645. in 3 sh. in qu. It is a sUIy thing,
and more fit for a posterior use, than to be read by
any scholar or man of understanding. The archb.
hath also written,

Officium Quotidianum : or, a Manual of private
Devotions. Lond. 1650 and 63 in oct.

A Summary of Devotions. Lond. 1667. in tw.
pubhshed according to the copy, written with his
own hand, in the archieves of S. John's coU. librarj*.

Variw Epistolw ad clariss. Ger. Jo. Vos.sium.
The number of them is 18, and they are printed in
a book en tit. Gerardi Johan. Vossii (§• clai-orum Vi-
rorum ad eiim Epistolw. Lond. 1690. fol. publish-
ed by Paul. Colomesius.

History of his Troubles a?ul Tryal, written dur-
ing his Imprisonment in the Toxcer. I^ond. 1695.
fin. This book, which was ])id)lished in Dec. 1694,
hath several marginal notes in it made by Dr. Will.
Sancroft sometimes the worthy archb. of Canterburj',
and Mr. Hen. Wharton. Before this History of
the Trmddes, &c. is put by way of introduction to
it, The Diary of the Archbishop) s Life, from his
Birth to the 'Middle of the Year 1643 : faithfully
and entirely published from the original copy wrote
with his own liand, and hath the Latin part rendred
into English and adjoyned ; all done ny the gi-eat
care of the said Mr. Wharton, who hath also added
to the said Hist, of the Troubles, he. These things

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following wi-itten by the archb. viz. (1) His Speech
at his Death on the Scq/fold, 8cc. (2) His last Will
and Testament, made in the Tower 13 of Jan. 1643.
(3) Several Passages of his Conference zuith Fisher
the Jesuit, from the edition of 1039, and referred
to in the preceding history ; liesides other passages
from other books, which are also referred to in the
said history. (4) His Answer to the Speech of
Will. Ij)rd Sttij and Seal, touching the Littu-gn.
Tile said lord liaving been very free with the arcnib.
concerning his mean birth, he answered him that
his father was of the same trade with the father of
his immediate predecessor in the see of Canterb.
called Dr. George Abbot, that is a sherman or
clothier : which trade, as that of the staple, did
then and before give original to many of our an-
tient families, as merchants that deal in foreign
wares do now. The said An-nver to the Speech &c.
was finished by the archb. in the Tower, 3 Dec.
1641. (.5) His annual Accounts of his Province
presented to the King in the Beginning of every
Year. These annual accounts are from 1633 to
the end of 1639, and have apostills, or marginal
notes added to them with the king's own hand.
(6) His \otes on R<ymt-'s Ma.itcr-piece: or, the
grand Conspiracy of the Pope, &c. Which !)o<)k
IS there reprmted. (7) Several Letters : Of which
a large letter to sir Ken. Digby about the change of
liis religion for that of Rome, dated 27 of Mar.
1636, IS one. I have seen and perused a MS.
written by the hand of John Birkenhead, amanu-
ensis to archb. Laud, containing all the passages
which concern the university ot Oxon, smce the
said archbishop's first nomination and election to
the chancellorship of the said university. It com-
menceth 12 Apr. 1630. and ends on the 14 of Dec.
1640, and is bound up in a vellom cover in fol. and
endorsed by the archb. thus,

Gesta sub Cancellariatu meo Oxon. This manu-
script was conmiunicated to me, when I was com-
posmg Hist. (Sj- Antiq. Univ. O.ron. l)y Dr. Pet.
Mews, president of S. John's coll. wherein finding
many useful things for my purpose (which another
may do for his, and therefore, I presume, it escaped
Prynn's hands) I thought it therefore not un-
worthy of a place here, as I could do of many
other things written by the said archb. which I
have seen reserved in private custody as choice
monuments, but time calls me away, and I nuist
hasten. Yet I cannot but let the reader know,
that there is a folio manuscript going from hand to
hand, entit. Wholesome Queries resolved hi/ Dr.
Laud, manifesting that Monarchy is no safe Prin-
ciple Jrrr Protestants, &c. Sed caveat lector. An-
su-er to the Speech of Nath. Fiennes, touching the
Sv]ijccts Liberty against the late Canons and the
ncze Oath. 1'liis contains al)ove 50 pages in fol. of
the arclil)ishoj)'s writing, but 'tis not yet extant. At
length, that I may bring this renowned prelate to
his last end, I must tell you that the fatal morning

being come, which was Friday the 10 of Jan. 1G44» »<544.
he first applyed himself to his jirivate prayers, and
so continued til! Isa^tc Pennington lieut. of the [69]
Tower, an<l other officers came to conduct him to
the scaffold ; which he* a.scended with .so brave a
courage, such a chearful countenance, as if he had
mounted rather to behold a triumj)h, than be mode
a sacrifice, and came not there to die, but Ik- trans-
lated. And to say truth it wa.s no scaff'old, but a
throne ; a throne whereon he shortly was to receive
a crown, even the most glorious crown of martyr-
dom. And tho' some rude and uncivil people re-
vil'd him as he j>a.ss'd along, with opprobrious lan-
guage, as loth to let him go to his grave in peace,
vet It never disscompos'd his thoughts, or disturb'd
his patience. And as he did not fear tlie frown.s, so
neitlier did he covet the applause, of the vulgar
herd, and therefore rather cnose to read what he
had to sjieak unto the people, than to affect the
ostentation either of memory or wit in that dreadful
agony ; whether with greater magnanimity or pru-
dence I can hardly say. As for tlie matter ot his
speech or sermon, liesules what did concern himself
and his own purgation, his great care was to clear
his majesty, and the church of England fi-om any
inclination to popery ;° with a ixjrsuasion of the
which, the authors of the then miseries had abused
the people, and made them take up arms against
their sovereign. After the speech and prayers were
ended, he gave the paper which he reaa to his then
chaplain Dr. Sterne, desiring him to shew it to his
other cha{)lains, that they might know how he de-
jiarted out of this work!, and so prayed God to
shew his mercies and blessings upon them. And
noting how John Hinde luitl employed himself in
taking a copy of his speech, in short hand, as it
came from his mouth, he desired him not to do him
wrong in publishing a false or imperfect copy. Cer-
tainly never did man put off mortiility with a braver
courage, nor look ujwn his bkxKly and miilicious
enemies with more Christian charity, than this most
rev. prelate did. And thus far he was gone in his
way towards paradi.se with such a primitive mag-
nanimity, as ecjuall'd if not exceeded the example of
antient martyrs, when he was somewhat interrupted
in his passage by one sir Joh. Clotworthy a fire-
brand' Drought from Ireland by Rob. earl of War-
wick to increase the combustions of this kingdom,
(I mean the .same sir John who was a burgess in
the long parliament for Maldon in Essex, and one
of the eleven members of the said pari, impeached
by the aimy 16 June 1647) who finding that the
niockings and revilings of malicious people had no

■'' Brief Relation of Ihc Death and Sufferings oflhuArM.
of Canterb. n. 15. written by Pel. Hc\liii, D.D.

t' [Though accufcil liy his enemies of being a favourer of
popery, yei it w.is chiefly by his remonstrance, and the con-
viction iinprcssed onChillingworth's mind by his arguments,
that reconciled that eminent divine to the protcstant faith.]

' Brief Relation, &c. p. 84.

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power to move liiin, or shai"pen him into any dis-
content or shew of passion, would needs put in, and
try what he could do with his spunge and vinegar,
and stej)j)ing to liini near the block, asked him
(with such a purpose as the scribes and pharisees
used to propose questions to our Lord and Saviour
not to learn by, but to tempt, him, or to exjjose
him to some disadvantage with the standers by)
what was the conifbrtablest saying which a dying
man could have in his mouth .'' To which he meekly
made this answer, Cupio dissolvi 4" esse cum Christo.
Being asked again what was the fittest speech a man
could use, to express his confidence ana assurance ?
He answered with tlie same spirit of meekness, that
sucJi assurance was to bejbund within, and that no
•words toere able to express it rightly. Which when
it would not satisfy the troublesome and imper-
tinent man (who aimed at something else than such
satisfaction,) unless he gave some word, or place
of scripture, whereupon such assurances be truly
founded ; he used some words to this effect, that it
was the Word of God concerning Christ, and his
dying for us. And so without expecting any fur-
ther questions (for he perceived by the manner of
sir John's proceedings, that there would be no end
of his interruptions, if he hearkned any longer to
him) he turned towards the executioner, the gentler
and discreeter man of the two, and gave him money,
saying without the least distemper, or change of
countenance, ' Here, honest friend, God forgive thee
and I do, and do thy office ujwn me with mercy.''
And having given a sign when the blow shoidd
come, he kneeled down and prayed. Afterwards
laying his head upon the block, and praying silently
to himself, he said aloud, Lord receive my Soul !
which was the signal given to the executioner, who
very dexterously did his office, and took it off at a
blow, his soul ascending on the wings of angels into
Abraham's bosom, and leaving his body on the scaf-
fold to the care of men. Afterwards it was accom-
panied to the earth with gi-eat multitudes of people,
whom love or curiosity, or remorse of conscience
had drawn together, purposely to perform that of-
fice, and was decently interred in the chancel of the
church of Allhallowes Barkin, (a church of his ov,i\
patronage and jurisdiction) according to the rites
and ceremonies of the church of England ; which
church he before had consecrated. Wherein con-
tinuing entire tiU July 1663, it was removed to
Oxon, and on the 24 day of the same month it was
deposited with ceremonies in a little vault built with
bnck neai' to the high aJtar of S. John's college
chappel.^ Thus died and was buried, this most

* [Froma MS. in Anthony aWood's hand-writing in the
Ashmole Museum. D. xix. 104. fol. l6.

' Jan. 10, lG44, Will. Laud archb. of Canterbury was be-
headed, and his body afterwards being layed in a leaden coffin
was buried at Alhallows Barking, by the Tower of London.

' After the rcstauration of K.Charles 2, the pra?sident and
fellows of S. John's coll. Oxon. consullijig to have his body

rev. and renowned arch-prelate, when he had livetl
71 years, 13 weeks and 4 days ; if at least he niay
be properly said to die, the great example of whose
virtue shall continue always, not only m the minds
of men, but in the annals of succeeding ages, with
renown and fame. Thus died and was buried the
king's and church's martyr, a man of such inte-
grity, learning, devotion and courage, as had he
lived in the primitive times, would have given him
another name : whom tlio' the cheated multitude
were taught to misconceive (for those honoured him
most who best knew him) yet impartial posterity will
know how to value him, when tney hear the rebels
sentenced him on the same day they voted down
the hturgy of the chiu-ch of England.'

" JOHN WHITE, commonly called Centwn/
" White, second son of Hen. White of Heylan in
" Pembrokeshire esq; was lx)rn' there 29 of June
" 1590 ; whence, after he had been instructed in
" the faculty of grammar, was with his elder bro-
" ther Griffith White sent to Jesus coll. about the
" beginning of Mich, term 1607 ; but before he
" had contmued there four years, he was translated
" to the Middle Temple, studied the common law,
" became barrester, a counsellor of some note, sum
" mer reader 17 Car. I. and at length one of the
" masters of the bench, of the society of the said
" Temple. While he was a counsellor, he was by
" the puritanical party made one of the feoffees for
" the buying in of impropriations, to be bestowed
" on those of the Godly Party, but for this, having
" an information put in against him, and others
" employed in that work, in the Exchequer Cham-
removed to the coll. because he had bin soe great a bene-
factor, resolved on the business, after the sepulture there of
archb. Juxon, and that with convenience and privacy. The
day then, or rather night, being appointed wherein he should
come to Oxon. most of the fellows, about l6 or 20 in num-
ber, went to meet him towards Wheatley, and after they
had met him about 7 of the clock, on Friday July 24, l663,
they came into Oxon. at 10 at night, with the said number
before him, and his corps laying in a hors litter on 4 wheels,
drawn by 4 horses following, and a coach after that.

' In the same manner they went up to St. Maries church,
then up Cat's street, then to the back dore of St. John's
Grove, where, taking his coffin out, conveyed [it] to the
chappell ; when Mr. Gisbey, fellow of that house and vice-
president, had spoke a speech, they laid him, inclosed in a
wooden coffin, in a little vault at the upper end of the chan-
cell, between the founder's and archbishop Juxon's. The
next day following, they hung up 7 streamers.']

' [Mar. 3, 1626, Geo. dux IJuck. aderatCantabrigiae ; Gul.
ep'us Bath et Wells tunc incorporatur apud nos. Reg. Acad.

An anonymous Treatise of the Visibility nf the Church,
&c. said amongst bishop Racket's books to be wrote by bp.
Laud. Baker.

There are various engraved portraits of Laud, but it will
be sufficient to notice, in this place,

1. By Hollar, 4lo. l6"40.

2. By Lfiggan, half-slieet.

3. By Marshall, l641, with verses beginning

' Lend me but one poore teare, when thou dos't see
This wretched pourtraict of just miserie.'

4. By Picart in Lodge's Illustrious Heads.}

145

WHITE.

DAKER.

U6

" bor, were pruvented in their designs, and censured
" in the SUir-Chaniber. WIieri'ujxHi While being
" enraged against the hisliops and orthodox cleigv,
" because Dr. Laud and others of liis party had
" hindred tliat project, he studied all the ways
" imaginable to be revenged. At length he being
" elected a burgess for Southwark to serve in the
" long parliament, an. 1640, he made it his business
" to rad against the bishops and tlie canons, and
" when he was elected one of the eonnnittee for re-
" ligion (of which he was mostly chairman) no man
" was more violent against the orthtxJox clergy than
" he, no man more ready to license Ixxiks against
" them than he, and as ready as any (except Prynne)
" to be a witness against Laud at his trya], he being
" tlien one of the liouse of commons ap|X)inted to
" sit among the assembly of divines. Those of
" his ])arty do highly extoll him, among whom was
" one Pet. Smith bach, of div. who stiles ' him a re-
" ligious gentleman and a worthy patriot. Another*
" tells us that he was a puritan from his youth to
" his death, an honest, learned and faithful servant
" to the publick, &c. and his epitaph, a useful mem-
" ber of the house of commons, &c. But those of
" the loyal' party say, that tho' he had two wives,
" yet he frequented those of his neighbours in the
" White Fryers, making his then wife jealous of
" him. Another'' of the same party tells us,
FTn " ^^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^^ most malicious, bold, obscene
" speaker of any of the chairmen, which is reason
" sufficient to couple him with Hen. Marten, &c.
" and that he and the said Marten were gi-eat haters
" of the spiritual court. As for those things which
" he hath published, they arc these,

" Several Speeches, as (1) Speech in Pari, con-
" cerning the Tryal of the 12 Bisliop.i, 17 Jan.
" 1641. Printed in one sheet in qu. (2) Sp. made
" in the Commons House of Purl, concerning Epis-
" copanj. Lond. 1641. in two sheets in qu. This,
" as others to the same effect, were against epis-
" copacy.

" The first Century of scandalous malignant
*' Prie.its, made and (ulruittcd into Benefices by the
" Prelates, &c. Lond. 1643. qu. [Bodl. C. 8. 25.
" Line] Of which l)ook and its author, I find*
" these matters spoken, — ' that the pamphlet was
" ' so scandalous, that its author was asliamed to
"■ ' pursue his thoughts of any other. It was the
^ * lx)ast of Mr. White (as I have been told by
" ' one) that he, and his, had ejected eight thousand
" ' churchmen in four or five years. And if one
" ' hundred of eight thousand had been as really
" ' scandalous as that matchless pasquiller was

' In his Fast. Serm. lefore the H. of Commons, SQ May
l644, p. 32. in marg.

' Bulst. Wiiiilock ill his Memorials of English Affairs, in
Jan. 1644.

^ The author o( Perseculio undecima, printed lC48. p. 87.

■• Merc. Aul. Jan. 31. an. l644. p. 1362.

' In the New Discoverer by Way <f Answer to Mr. Box-
ttr; written by Tho. Pierce, chap. 6. sect. 8.

Vol. III.

' pleased to make them, it had not been «o
' strange a thing, as that one of twelve sliouid
' he a devil, one hundred in eight score liundred
' is exceedingly less tlian one in twelve,' Sic.
His majesty Iwing at Oxon wiien this l)cK)k was
published and shew'd to him, would not give" his
consent that such a book shoultl be written of the
vicious lives of some parliament ministers, when
such a thing was i)resented to him. Whereby
you see that vast difference l)etwixt the spirit of
majesty and the imjxrtent spleen of this our au-
' thor. Further also, those tliat knew Mr. White
' well have said, that his own brethren did per-
' suade him from putting out a second century, for
fear it should prove scandalous, and bring an im-

■ putation on the whole body of the clergy, whe-
' ther orthodox, presbyterian or independant. Mr.

■ White hath also written,

" The Looking-Glass — This pamphlet, which I

■ have not yet seen, was made puolic either in 1643

■ or 44. Wherein, as one' saith, the author tells

■ us that all malignant cavaliers and luke-warni

• protestants, who assist the king in this war, are

■ guilty of that fearful sin against the Holy Ghost.

■ The same author tells us that Mr. White did

■ openly say in a committee, tliat he hoped to live

■ to see ne\»r a bishop nor cathedral priest in Eng-

■ land. What other matters he hath written or

• published, I know not, nor any thing else of him,

• only that after much strugling he had endea-

• voured to bring all things into confusion, he very

■ unwillingly submitted to the stroke of death, on

■ the 29 of January in sixteen hundred forty and

■ four, and was buried in the church belonging to
' the Temples, at the high altar on the Middle
' Temple side, close to the end where the altar
' stooo. At which time he was accompanied to
' his grave by most of the parliament men, and

soon after had a marble stone put over his body,

on which I find these two verses,

" Here lyeth a John, a burning shining light,

" His name, hfe, actions were all White.

" When he lay ujwn his death-bed, he raved, as

'tis* said, criecl out and condemned himself at his

dying hour for his undoing so many guiltless

ministers, their wives and children, and at length

died distractetl, and very much disconnx>s'd tor

what he had done."

RICHARD RAKER son of Joh. Rak. of Lond.
gent, (by Kath. his wife daug. of Reynold Scot of
Scots-hall in Kent Kt.) a younger son of sir Joh.
Baker of Sissingherst in Kent Kt." chancellor of

^ Tho. Fuller in his €h. History, book II. cent. 17- sect.
33.

7 Merc. Aul. ut sup. Jan. 31. an. l644.

" Persec. Und. ul sup. p. 18. 26.

9 [In Cant, cathedral. — Here lyeth the Lady Thornehurst
who was some time wile of sir Richard Baker of Sebin«hcrst
in the county of Kent, and had issue by the said sir Richa;(l

164{.

\

147

BAKER.

the Exchequer aiul of the council to K. Hen. 8.
was born in Kent, particularly, (as I have been in-
tbnned by his' daughter) at Sissingherst before-
mentionetl, entred a connnoner of Hart-hall in 1584,
and was matriculated, in Mich, term that year, as a
[72] Kentish man born, and the son of a gent, being
then in the 16th year of his age : at which time
several of the family of the Scots before-mentioned
studietl in the .said hall. After he had spent about
three years in logic and philasophy in that house,
then flourishing with men of note in several facul-
ties, he went to one of the inns of court, afterwards
beyond the seas, and nothing was omitted by his
parents to make him an accomplish^ person. In
1594, after the celebration of a most solemn Act, he
was, with other persons of quality, actually created
master of arts, and in 160(5, May 17, he received
the honour of knighthood from K. Jam. I. at Theo-
balds ; at which tune this our author (who lived at
Highgate near London) was esteem''d a most com-
pleat and learned person ; the benefit of which he
reaped in his old age, when liis considerable estate,
was, thro'' suretiship, very much impaired. In 1620
he was high sheriff of Oxfordshire, being then lord
of Middle Aston, and of other lands therein, and, if
I mistake not, a justice of the jieace. He was a
person tall and cornel)', of a good disposition and
admirable discourse, religious, and well read in va^
rious faculties, esjjecially m div. and hist, as it may
appear by these books following, which he mostly
composed when he was forced to fly for shelter to
his studies and devotions.

Cafo vuriegaUis ; or, Cato's moral Distichs va-
ried. Lond. 1636. 'Tis a poem.

Meditatiotis aiul Disquimtions on tlte Lord's
Prayer. Lond. 1637. qu. [third edition, Lond.
1638. Bodl. B. 17. 2. Line] there again 1640 fourth
edit. qu. A copy of this Ixwk in MS. being sent
to his quondam chamber-fellow^ sir Hen. Wotton'
before it went to the press, he returned this tes-
timony of it ; 'I much admire the very character of
your stile, which seemeth unto me to have not a
little of the African idea of S. Austin's age, full of
sweet raptures, and of researching conceits ; nothing
borrowed, nothing vulgar, and yet all flowing from
you (I know not how) with a certain equal fa^-
cihty.'

Med. and Disg. on tlte three last Psalms of David.
Lond. 1639.

two daugViters, the Kidy Grisocone Lenard, and the lady
Cicely Blunt. She departed this present world in the year of
our Lord God 16O9. She then being of the age of LX years.
Kennet.]

' The wife of Bury a seedsman, living at the Frying-
pan in Newgate- Market in Lond.

* [Some time compiipil at Oxford. Baker.]
^ [Henricus Woiion A. M. coll. Mcrton, Oxon. rector de
Parendon in Essexia, iiistallattis in canonicatu Windsor 28
Maii, 1C69; quern resignavit 1 Mail 1671, et successit ei
Dr. Hascard. Frith, Calal. Kknnet. This note, as is
often the case with Kennet's, has nothing to do with the
Wotton mentioned in the text.]

Med. and Disq. on the 50 Psal. Lond. 1639.

Aled. and Disq. on the seven penitent. Psalms.
Lond. 1639. <iu. [In Magdalen college library.]

Med. and Disq. on tht: Jirst Psal. Lond. 1640.
qu.

Med. and Disq. on the serpen consolatory Psalms
of David, namely the 23. 27. 30. 34. 84. 103. and
116. Lond. 1640. qu.

Med. and Prayers upon tlie seven Days of the
Week. I.,ond. 1640. in 16°. which is the same, I
suppose, with his Motives of Prayer on the seven
Days of the Week.

Apology for Laymens writing in Divinity. Lond.
1641. in tw.

Short Meditation on ilw FaU of Lucifer — printed
with the Apology.

A Soliloquy oftfie Soul, or, a Pillar of Thoughts,
&c. Lond. 1641. in tw.

Chro^iitde of the Kings of England Jrom the
Time of the Roman Governinc7tt, unto the Death of
K. Jam. &c. Lond. 1641. &c. fol. Which chro-
nicle, as the aiitlior saith, was collected with so
great care and diligence, that if all other of our
chronicles were lost, this only would be sufficient to
inform posterity of all pa.ssages memorable or wor-
thy to be known, &c. However the rcatlcr must
know, that it being reduced to method, and not ac-
corcUng to time, purposely to j)lea.se gentlemen and
novices, many chief things to be observtxl therein,
as name, time, &c. are egregiously false, and con-
sequently breed a great deal of confusion in the
peruser, especially if he be curious or critical. There
was another edition of it that came out in 1653 and
58, in which last was added The History of the
Reign of K. Ch. I. xeith a Continuation Jrom his
Death to 1658. Lond. 1660. fol. made by Edw.
Philips, sometimes a student of Magd. hall. Af-
terwards in 1671, if I mistake not,* came out an-
other edit, in which was contained an edition of
Tlie first thirteen Years qf'K. Ch. II. that is, from
the death of K. Ch. I. to the coronation of K.
Ch. II. as also the Occurrences of his Restoration
hy George late Duke of Albemarle, extracted Jrom
his Excellency''s Papers, &c. which, as I have been
informed, were for the most part done by sir Tho.
Clarges, (whose sister the said duke had married) [73]
and put into the hands of the said Philips, but
therein Mr. Philips attributing more to the duke's
glory than was true, he got the ill will of him.

t [First edition l641.

Second l6o3.

Third l6f)0.

Fourth 16C5.

Fifth 1 6/0.

Sixth 1674.

Seventh 1 679.

Eighth 1 684.

Ninth 1696.
It was again printed in 1730 and 1733 ; the last, which
is the best edition, continued to the end of the reign of
George 1.]

149

BAKER.

laO

Therein are also added to the reitjn of K. Jam. I.
and K. C'h. I. the names of the nohlemen that they
created, and other matters. Hut so it was, that the
author Haker, and liis continuator Philijis having
committed very many errors, Thom. Blount of the
Inner Temple esq; published An'wiadver.iicms on
that edit. o/'1671, and were printed in oct. at Oxon.
1672. Which lKK)k containing only a specimen of
the errors, it may easily be discerned what the whole
Chronicle C(mtanieth. But notwithstanding these
Animadvcrmon.s the Chronicle, when afterwards it
was several times reprintetl, had none of the said
errors therein corrected, but came out full of faidts
as before, and was greedily bought up by illiterate
and inconsiderable persons. By the way it must
be known, that the said Tho. Blount son of Myles
Blount of Orleton in Herefordshire, the fifth son of
Rog. Blount of Monkland in the same county, was
bom at Bordesley in Worcestershire, being of a
younger house ot an antient^ and noble family of
his name, but never advantaged in learning by the
help of an university, only his own geny and indus-
try, together Avith the helps of his scholastical ac-
quaintance during his continuance in the Temple,
before and after he was barrester. His writings are
many, and some perhaps not fit here to be put
down ; among which are (1) The Academy of Elo-
quence, containing a compleat English Rhetoric.
Printed at Lond. in the tnne of the rebellion and
several times after. (2) Glossographia ; or, a Dic-
tHonary interpreting such hard Words, whether
Hebr. Gr. Lat. Ital. ^c. that are now used in our
refined Engl. Tongue, &c. Lond. 1656. oct. [Bodl.
8vo. R. 6. Art. BS.] Published several times after
with additions and amendments. (3) The Lamps of'
the Law, and Lights of the Gospel ; or, the Titles
of some late spiritual, polemical,, and metaphysical
next) Boohi. Lond. 1658. in oct. Written in imi-
tation of J. Birkenhead's PauVs Churchyard, and
pubUshed under the name of ' Grass and Hay Wi-
thers.' (4) Boscobel : or, the History of his Ma-
jesty''s Escape after the Battel of Worcester, 3 Sept.
1651. Lond. 1660. in oct. there again 1680. in oct.
tliird edit. Translated into French and Portuguese ;
the last of which was done by Pet. Gilford of White
Ladies in Staffordshire, a R. Catliolic. (5) The
Catliolic Almanack, for 1661, 62, 63," &,c. which
selling not .so well as Joh. Booker's almanack did,
he therefore ^vrote (6) Booker rebuked: or Ani-
On Booker's fiadversions on Booker''s " Telescopivm
Aim. which " Uranicum or Ephemeris 1665, which

taade.Scc. " is very erroneous, &c. Lond. 1665. qu.

first edit, a jj, ^^^ sheet," which made much sport

'' Sec more of his family in tlie third impression of Hen.
Pencham's Compleat Gentleman, &CC. Lond. l66l. p. 230,
231. Which discourse there of Blount's family was drawn
lip by this Tho. Blount, and put into the hands of the pub-
lisher of the said third impression of Peacham.

" ^That in l663 was call'd A new Almanack nfltr the old
Fashion. Watts.]

among people, having Iiad the uKsistancc therein of
Jo. Sargeant and Jo. Austen. (7) A Laic IJir-
tionary, interpreting such difficult and oljscure
Words and Terms, as are found'' either in our
common or .statute, ancient or mixlern, Imws, Lond.
1671. fol. There again in 1691, witii some cor-
rections, and the addition of alxive 600 words. (8)
Animadversions upon Sir Rich. Baker''s Chron.
and its Cmitinuation, he. Oxon. 1672. oct. [Bodl.
Svo. S. 61. Th.] (9) A World (f Errnrs d'lscmer.
ed in The new World of Words, &c. Lond. 1673.
fol. [Bodl. Z. 1. 9. Jilr.] Written against Edw.
Philips hislwxjk entit. A neiv World of Kngl. Words,
&c. (10) Fragmenta Antiquitat'ts, Ant'ient Te-
nures of Land, andjocuhtr Custorhs of some Mam-
nours. Lond. 1679.* oct. [Bodl. Svo. L. 14. Jur.]
(11) Boscobel, &c. the second part. Lond. 1681.
oct. To which is added, Claustrum regale resera-
tum. Or the King\s Concealment at 7 rent in So-
mersetshire, pubhshed by Mrs. Anne Windham of
Trent. Our author Blount also wrote Animadver-
sions upon Britannia, written by R. Blome, but
whether printed I cannot tell ; and translated from
French into English, The Art of making Devises.
Lond. 1646. and 50. in qu. Written onginally by
Hen. Estienne lord of Fossez: To which Blount
added, A Catalogue of Coronet-Devises, both on
the King\s and Parliaments S'lde, in the late Wars.
At length upon the breaking out of the f)opish
plot, being much affrighted by the violent current
of that time (he himself lieing a zealous Rom. Cath.)
he contracted the palsy, as by his last letter sent to
me, dated 28 Apr. lB79, I was informed, ad£ng
therein, that he had then quitted all books except
those of devotion. On the 26 of Dec. following,
being S. Stephen's day, he died at Orleton in Here-
fordshire, (where he had a fair and plentifid estate)
in the year of his age 61, and was burietl in the
church there, and soon after ha<l a comely monu-
ment put over his grave by Anne his relict, daugh.
of Edm. Church of Maldon in Essex, esq. He then
left behind him an imperfect Chronicle of England^
which he and J. B. (that's all I know of him, for
Mr. Bloimt would never tell me his name) had for
several years been compiling, but what became of
it afterwards, I cannot tell. As for our author sir
Rich. Baker, he hath written besides what I have
already mention'd,

Theatriim rediv'ivum : or, the Theatre vindicat-
ed, in An.swer to Mr. Prynn''s Histrio-Mastix, &c.
Lond. 1662. (x;tavo.

Tlieatrum triumphans : or, a Discourse of Plays.
Lond. 1670. oct. [Bodl. Svo. L. 13. Jtir.] He
also translated from Ital. into Engl. Discourses

' [In l685 oct. at London, caine out Let Termes de la
Ley, by T. B. of the Inner Templa, whom 1 lake to be

Blount. LOVEDAT.I

" [Printed, wiih alterations, large additions, .ind two in-
dexes by Josiah Becltwith, F. A. S. York 1784, 8»o. and
astjin Lond. 18 IS.]

L 2

[74]

151

BAKER.

STRODE.

152

upon Corn. Tacitus. Lond. 1642. fol. They are
in number 53, and were written by marquess Vir-
gilio Malve/zi ; and from French into English,
Letters of Mon.skiir BaLmc, in 4 Parti. Lond.
1638. iK-t. and 54, 8tc. with additions, in qu. He
also wrote his own life, which he left in MS. behind
him, burnt or made waste paper by one Smith of
Patcr-noster-row, who married one of his daughters.
At length after he had undergone many cares and
troubles in this world, departed this mortal life in
the prison calfd the Fleet in Lond. on the 18 day
i***?- of Febr. in sixteen himdred forty and four, .and
was, the day following, buried about the middle of
the south isle joyning to S. Bridget's, commonly
called S. Bride's, church near Fleet-street in Lon-
don. Bv his wife Margaret, dau. of sir Geor.
Manwarmg of Ightfield in Shropshire, kt. (for
whose family this our author wa-s engaged for the
payment of debts) he had issue Thomas, Arthur,
Cecilia, Anne, Margaret, &c. But whereas he saith
in his ^Chrotticle, that K. Hen. I. had by his con-
cubine Anne Corbet a natural daughter married to
Fitzherbert his lord chamberlain, from whom, as
he adds, is his family lineally descended through
females, viz. thro' Cummin, Chenduit, Brimpton,
Stokes, Foxcote and Dyneley, is a great mistake;
for all, or most chronicles, nay the pedigree it self
of Corbet which I have several times seen, say that
the concubine (named in the said pedigree Sybill)
and not the daughter, was married to the said Fitz-
herbert whom some call Henry the son of Herbert.'

WILLIAM STRODE the only son of Philip
Strode sometimes living near Plimpton, and he a
younger son of sir Rich. Strode of Newneham or
Newinham in Devonshire, was born in that county,
elected student of Ch. Ch. from the coll. school at
Westm. about the latter end of 1617, and in that
of his age 16 or thereabouts, took the degree in
arts, holy orders, and became a most florid preacher
in the university. In 1629 he was chosen the pul)-
lic orator of the university, being then one of the
proctors of it, and two years after was admitted to
the reading of the sentences. In 1638, Jul. 1, he
was installed canon of Ch. Ch. and in the same
month proceeded doct. of div. before which time K.
Ch. I. had settled a canonry of the said church upon
him that should be lawfully elected public orator,
but that pious act hath been since annull'd by pre-
tended authoritv, and now such a thing seems to-
tally to be forgotten among us. As for Strode, he
was a person of great parts, but not equal to those
of Cartwright, a pithy and sententious preacher,
exquisite orator and an eminent jx)et. He hath
written,

Passions calmed. Or, the Settling of the Jloat-

ing Lihind. Lond. 1655. qu. 'Tis a comedy, and
was [)ubliclv acted before the king and (jueen in
Ch. Ch. Iiall 29 Aug. 1636.

Speech made to Qu. Mary at Oxon at her Re-
turn out of Holland. Oxon. 1643. qu.

Various sermons, as (1) Servi. concerning Swear-
ing; on Matth. 5. 37. Oxon. 1644. qu. [Bodl. 4to.
D. 60. Th.] (2) Serm. concerning Death and the
lie.mrrection ; preached at S. Mary's in Oxon. on
Low Sunday 28 Apr. 1644; on Colas. 3. ver. 3.
Oxon. 1644. qu. [Bodl. 4to. D. 60. Th.] (3)
Serm. at a Visitatioti held at Limi in Norfolk, 24
Jun. 1633; on Psul. 76. 11. Lond. 1660. qu. It
was preached at the desire of Dr. Rich. Corbet
bish. of Norwich, to whom our author, I think, was
then chaplain.

Orations, Speeches, Epistles, Sermons, &c.

They were left behind him fairly wTitten in several
volumes ; which coming into the hands of Dr. Rich.
Gardiner canon of Ch. Ch. came after, or before his
death, into those of Rich. Davies of Oxon book-
seller. Our author Dr. Strode yielded to the stroke
of death, to the great reluctancy of learned men, on
the tenth day of March in sixteen hundred forty
and four, and was buried in the divinitv chappel,
that is the isle most northward from the choir, oe-
longing to the cathedral of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. I
have seen several of his poems that have had musi-
cal compositions of two and three parts set to be
sung, by the incomparable Mr. Hen. Lawes ; as
also certain anthems, particularly one to be sung on
Good Friday, which had a composition also set
thereunto by Rich. Gibbs organist of Ch. Ch. in
Norwich. I shall make mention of another Will.
Strode elsewhere.

[In one of Dr. RawUnson's MSS. in the Bodleian^
I find these |X)ems ascribed to Strode.

1. The Devmi.ihire Travailer.

2. Melancholy opposed.^

3. For Prideux yongue Daughter.

4. Epadem Epitaphium : and the following

5. Thanks/or a Wellcome.

For your gixid lookes, and for your clarett,
For often bidding — ' doe not spare it' —
For healthful mirth, and lustie storie
(Such as made old Cato nierie) —
These are your thanks — that you may haue
In bloud the clarett that you gaue ;
And in your service shall be spent
The spirits which your sack hath lent.

The next piece is retrieved from Lawes's Ayresfir
three Voices, p. 19. where another may be found.

To a Lady putting off" Tier Veil.
Keep on your veile and hide your eye.
For with beholding you I dye ;

' In his discourse of the natural issue of K. Hen. I.

' [There is a small head of Ualier, in one of the compart-
menta of the engraved title-page to his Chronicle; but I Specimens of Early Enalish Poetry, where another of
should judge it of very doubtful authority.] Slrode's pieces is given collated with Sancroft's MS.]

« [MS. Rawl. Poet. 142.]

3 [Printed in Wit Restored, ISino. 1658, and in Ellis'i

[75]

l64t

STRODE.

BURTON.

164

Your f'atall hcauty, Gorgon like,
Dead witli astonishment will strike ;
Your piercing eyes, if them I see,
Are worse tlien basilisks to mc.

Hide from my sight those hils of snow,
Their melting vally do not sliow ;
Those azure paths lead to despair,
O vex me not ; forbear, forbear !
For while I thus in tonnents dwell
The sight of heav'n is worse then hell.

Your dainty voice and warbling breath
Sounds like a sentence past for death ;
Yom- dangling tresses are become
liike instruments of finall doome :
O ! if an angel torture -st).
When life is done, where shall I go .'']

WILLIAM BURTON the eldest son of Ralph
Burton esq; was born'' in Leicestershire, at Lynd-
ley, I suppose, near to Bosworth in that county,
24 Aug. 1575, educated in the grammar school at
Sutton-colfield in Warwickshire, became either a
commoner or gent. com. of Brasen coll. in Mich,
term, an. 1591, where by the l)enefit of a careful
tutor, he became ttilerably well read in logic and
philosophy. On the 20 of May 1593 he was ad-
mitted mto the society of the Inner Temple, and in
the month of June in the year following, he, as a
member of Brasen-nose coll. was admitted bach, of
arts. Afterwards setling in the Temple, without
compleating that degree by determination, was made
a barrester : but his natural geny leading him to the
studies of heraldry, genealogies, and antiquities, he
became excellent in those obscure and Intncate mat-
ters, and, ltK)k upon him as a gentleman, was ac-
counted by all that knew him to be the best of his
time for those studies, ^as it may appear by a book
that he published, entit.

The Description of Leicestershire, &c. Lond.
1622.' fol. [Bcxll. M. 1. 17. Art. and with MS.
notes by R- Gascoyne, Bixll. Gough, Leicester-
shire 1.] Soon after the author did very much en-
large, and enricli, it with Roman, Saxon, and other
antiquities, as by his letter" dated 9 June 1627,
written to sir Rob. Cotton that singular lover of ve-
nerable antiquity, it appears. 'Tis now, as I have
l)een informed, in the hands of Walt. Chetwind of
Ingestrey near to Stafford es(j; who intends to pub-
lish it. I have seen' a comm(m-place book of Eng-
lish antiquities made by our Will. Burton, which is
a manuscript in folio, composed mostly from Le-

* Ueg. Mat. Univ. Oxon. P. pag. 321.

* [Reprinted at Lynn, in folio, 1777- Aiigtnenled, im-
proved and continiied to tile present time by Joiin Niciiols,
esq. F. S. A. in four lara:e folio volumes (bound in eight)
Lond. 1795 — i815 : a work of the highest value and im-
[Mirtance, and one which may be considered as a model for
all future county histories.]

* In bib. Cotton sub cffig. Julii, C. 3.

' In bib. Had. Sheldon de Beoly arm. nunc in Heleria Fe-
cialium, Loiidini.

land's several voltimes ol" his Illnerary, being the
first of that nature that I have vet si-en ; but it
being a copy, and not written with his own hand,
but by an illiterate scrilK>, are innumerable faults
therein. This ingenious person, who is stilwl by a
learnetl " author of lK)th Ins names the great orna-
ment of his country, diwl in his house at Fald in
Stafflirdshire (after he had suffered much in the war
time) on the sixth day of Apr. in sixteen hundred
forty and five, and wa.s buried in the parish church
belonging thereimto called Ilanbury church, leaving
then behind him several collections of arms afid mo-
numents, of genealogies and other matters of anti-
quity, wliich he had gatheretl from divers churches
and gentlemens houses, and a son" named Ca.ssibi-
lian Burton the heir of his virtues as well as of other
fortunes, who was Iwrn on the 19th of Nov. 1C09,
but whether educatetl in this university I know not.
His parts being different from those of his father,
he exercised them mostly in poetry, and translated
Martial into English, but whether extant I cannot
tell you. In 1658 it then remained in MS. which
made a Ixxm comjMnion' of his com))lain thus :

When will you do yourself so great a right.
To let your English Martial view the light .'

This Cass. Burton who had consumed the most,
or better part of the estate which his father had left
him,* diea 28 Feb. 1681, having some years before,
^ven most of, if not all, the aforesaid collections of
his father before-mention''d to the said W. Chetwind
es{j; to be used by hun in writing The Antiquities
of Staffordshire.

[The following extract is from a MS. volume, in
the possession of Samuel Lysons, es<|. keeper of the
records in the Tower of London, entituled Anii-
quitates de Lindley, and composed by Burton him-
self.' It clears up every doubt as to the place of
his birth, and adds one other instance of Wood's
fidelity, and of the credulity of those who fancied
they hatl detected him in error.*

Willielmus Burton filius et haeres Radulphi Bur-
ton de Lindley, com. I>eic. natus fuit apud Lind-
ley pra;dict. 24 Aug. 1575, ann. 17 Eliz. circa ho-
ram decimam noctis. Sponsores habuit in sacro

* Will. Burton in his Commentary on Antoninus his Itine-
rsrv, &c. Lond. I&18. fol. p. 214.

•' [By Jane, daughter of Humfrey Adderley of Wedding-
tnn, Wanvick^h. whom he married in l6o7, she then being
about 18 years of age. See Hist, of Leicestershire, p. 1 79.1

' Sir Asion Cockaine bart. in his Choice Poems of several
Sorts. &c. Lond. l658, oct. lib. 2. nu. 102.

« [See a memorandum of payments by Cass. Burton, ia
1649, In Nichols's Hist, of Leicestershire, iv, 932, one item
of which is — ' P.yed sir Charles Egerton for a mare 80 lib.
— 10 the man 2s.;' and another — ' payed for 6I Welshe
shecpe 17 1. and I8d. to pocket.']

1«45.

[761

3 [Nichols's Hist, of Leicestershire, iv. 6.51.]
* [Dr. Rob. Plot, in his Natural History of Staffordshire,
p. 27C, supposes Burton to have been a native of Falde ; the
inscription on his jjortrait by Delaram seems to have misled
Plot, but this refers only to the place of his property and re-
sidence.]

155

BURTON.

rAIKCLOUGH.

fontc Anthonuini Faunt dc Foston, com. Leic.
avuncuhini, Nk-liolaiini Purefoy de Dravton, et
Jcwosain iixoreni nu|K.T Mifhaelis Piirelby de Cal-
decot, (iliaiii et colia>rctiem Jotiannis Hardwike,
quondam dominum manerii de I-indley praxlict.

Cum<iiie piieritiaiu I'lrressiis esset, primatiiic rudi-
menta Latinie linjijua' in })atenia doiiio sub aviiii-
culo SIR) Roberto Burton utcuntjue didicisset, missus
fuit an. loH-l, an. (|uotc'unquc jet. 9, a patre suo
Nuneatoninn, in com. Warw. ut granmiatica; stii-
dium absolverct, et principia dialectica' atldisceret ;
deditque his Uteris operam sub Williehno Yates,
didascoJo suo, per un\nn annum ; deinde sub Jo-
hanna Hett, viro literatt) et integerrimo, annis
(quantum memini) sex. Hinc ablegatus est 29
Sept. 1591, an. aetat. 16 ad celel)emmam acade-
miam Oxoniensem, in collegiimi ^Enei nasi, sub ma-
gistro Williehno Singleton, tunc sacras theologia;
oaccalaureo, nunc doctore, et ejusdem collegii prin-
dpali; artibusque humanioribus tantisjier aniniam
occupavit, donee gradiun artium baccalaurci acqui-
sivit, quem 22 Junii, 1594', an. aet. 18, adeptus est.
Cseterum cum hoc studii genus inipar sibi in poste-
rum videretur, turn ad assequendum nomen, tuiu
ad acquirendas majores facultates, anno superiori,
nempe 20 Mail, 1593, admisit se in Templum inte-
rius, hoc est, societatem sive conventum jurisperito-
rum in suburbiis Londinensibus. Deserto igitur stu-
dio philosophico, animam ad acquirendam scientiam
legum publicarum solum adjecit. Cwterum has
artes non sic deseruit, ut penitus ab eo possent exu-
lari, sed horis succesivis amplexus est, sui recre-
andi gratia; nam naturali quodam genio ad ha.s
amandas ducebatur, pra-cipue ad studium po'esLs, in
quo si continuo esset versatus, procul-dubio exi-
mium se prsestitisset ; nam in ipsa pueritia an.
1589 epistolam heroicam composuit (scil. Philomelw
Prognj.)

Post, 1596, scripsit Comosdiam Jhcetam de Amo-
ribus Pcrinthi et Tyantes.

Anno sequenti transtulit in linguam vernaculam
Historiam Ach'dlu Statii de Amoribtis CUtophcmtis
et Lcucippes, Impressam Londini, 1597, per Tho-
tnam Creede.*

Eodemque anno emblcma finxit TfiavflftyTToy.
Ultimo, 1602, tabulas chorographicas edidit comi-
tatuum Leicestrensis et Warwicensis, impressas An-
twerpia-. Multum etiam animum adiecit studio
heraldico ; hoc est, in rimandis et cognoscendis in-
signibus gentilitiis et genealogiis. Quam doctus in
hac scientia brevi evasit, sua ipsius scripta genealo-
^ca et armorum verum possunt dare testimonium ;
ut etiam laboris et diligentiae, qui penna et penicillo
myriades in proprium usum depmxit. — Delectavit
cum valde lingua Italica et Hispanica, in quibus
discendis sic prof ecit, ut praeter cognitionem ahcujus

' [Noi known to Ames or Herbert. The latter however
mentions it as llccnbed, in 1596, to Crcede, and entered in
the bucks of the stationers' company under this title : — Hiti-
phon and Loutippe, translated from the Greeke, hy fF. B-
S«« Typ. Anliq. page 1884.]

authoris in utrat|ue lingua seri])ti, jx)sset etiam jkt-
tecte et familiariter in utnKiue idiomate collocjui.
Arrisit ei praesertim studium symlM)lorum, sive dcgli
impresse, quorum Itahci soli inventores et perfec-
tores, ut constat per varios authores hujus scientiae
(]uos in iisinu et tlelec-tationem ctmgessit ; niminnn,
(iirolamo Ruseelli, Camillo C'ainilli, Paolo Jovio,
Ludovico Dolce, Julio Ca»sare Ca]jpacio, Gabriele
Symeone, Achille BiKX-hio, I.uca Contile, Sci])ione
Bargagli, vEgidium Sadler, et emblematum scriptores
fere omnes. Et si continuo catarrho et distillationi-
bus rhcumaticis de capite decidentibus, quae eum in
praesentem morbum adegenint, non esset devexatus,
nuilta alia lectu tum scitu digna addidisset. Interim
tamen quibus jx)tuit viribus diligenter .studiis legum
incubuit, in cjuibus cognoscendis maxiinam temporis
partem impertiit ; et post decern annos elapsos, ni-
mirum, 20 Mail, 1603, creatus est, apud Templum
Interius, appienticius ad legem, sive juris-consultus,
vulgariter an utter-barrliter, or counsellor at Imv ;
sed dum ultra vires huic studio se applicavit, inci-
dit in morbum dictum Phthisim, sive Tabem, qua

nunc laborat ut vcretur

From several of his Latin compositions too long
for insertion, the follovfing fragment has been se-
lected :

Quid iuvat humanis tantum confidere rebus ?
Quid juvat incerta vita spem ponere certam ?
Multa voluptati qua; spondet nulla resolvit,
Gaudia promittens, solvens luctusque dolores.
Vallis et errorum, sic fons et origo malorum est,
Et velut in medio florescens insula fluctu,
Cujus in instanti ac infehx exitus est mors,
Quae numquam vere nisi solo fine beata est.
Cui fortuna comes, mala sors quae semper in ipso
Temporis articulo praesto est adferre dolores :
Quae bona |M?rpetuo est nuntjuam, sed lubrica currit,
Et manet in nullo certa tenaxque loco.
Mole ruit gravida quisquis subhmia scandit ;
Qui cadit in terram non habet unde cadat :
In me consumpsit vires fortuna nocendo,
Nil superest quo jam possit obesse magis.
O me felicem quod coelo dante priusquam
Naturae cedam, cuncta ha'C coguoscere possim.
Nunc milii dulce mori, nunc me super athera ad alta
Coela Deus capiatque suo det vivere regno.

Res, spes, et vita, valeto !

Gulielmus Burton, Phthisicus, 1603.

Nichols has given a head of Burton, in his excel-
lent History of Leicestershire, but the best is the
old engravetl pirtrait by Fran. Delaram, prefixed
to the original book.]

DANIEL FAIRCLOUGH, commonly called
Fkatley,* son of John Featley (sometimes cook to

" [The first subject I shall insist upon is the quid nominii.
the name of Featley : which indeed belonged not to the doc-
tor, but was the issue of the ienorance and corruption of
the limes. His right name was' Faireclough, and by that

FAIllCLOUGH.

158

r. Humplircv president of Magdalen coll.
Is c(K)k of that of Corp. Chr.) by Marian

Dr. Laur. Hun
afterwardf

Thrift his wife, was born at Charlton upon Otmore
near to, and in the county of, ()xl()rd, on the .5th
of March or thereabouts in 1582, educated in the
grannnar scIkkjI joining to Magd. college, being then
(1590, &c.) chorister of that house, admitted scho-
lar of Corp. Chr. coll. Vi Dec. an. 1594, probationer-
fellow 20 Sept. 1C02, being then bach, of arts, and
afterwards proi'eeding in that facidty, (at which
time he was junior of the act') he became a severe
student in that of divinity. Soon after, having laid
a solid founflation in the positive part, he bet(X)k
himself to the fathers, councils, schoolmen, &c. and
in short time became eminent in dieni. His ad-
mirable disputations, his excellent sermons, his
grave, yet affable demeanour, and his other rare
accomplishments, made him so renown'd, that sir
Thomas Edmunds l)eing dispatched by king James,
to lie leiger-ambassador in France, he made choice "
of our author to travel with him as his chaplain.
The choice he accepted and willingly obeyed, and
spent three years in France in the liouse of the said
ambassador. During that time he becjune the ho-
nor of the Protestant religion and the English na-
tion ; insomuch as his many conflicts with, and con-
quests of, the learned Sorbonists in defence of the
protestants, and opposition to the papists, caused
even those his adversaries to give him this encomium
that he was ' FeatlKus acutiss. & acerrimus.' Upon
his return into England, he repaired to his college,
took the degree of bach, of div. 1613, and s(X)n after
became rector of Northill in Cornwall by the fa-
vour of Ezeck. Arscot, esq; one of his pupils and a
Cornish man born. But before he wa.s scarce warm
there, he was sent for from thence to be domestic
chaplain to Dr. Ablxit archb. of Canterbury, and by
him was j^refer'd soon after to the rectory of Lam-
beth in Surrey. In 1617 he proceeded in divinity,
and puzled Prideaux the king's professor so much
with his learned arguments, that a quarrel there-
upon being raised, the archbishop was in a manner
forced to compose it for his chaplain's sake. The

name he was ordained both deacon and minister, as his let-
ters of orders witnessed. All the ancient deeds, evidences,
and conveyances of his elder brother, his father, his grand-
father, and the rest of his ancestors, ran in the name of
Faireclough ; yea, and his elder brother (my dear father)
did consiantlv write his name John FairecUjuph, as I can
justly witness. But even in the days of my good father, the
name (bv the mistakes of people) varied and altered from
Faireclough to Fairecley, then to Fateley, and at length to
Featley, which name he first owned in print of all our fa-
mily.— The name at first arose from tha.1 fair cliff where his
ancestors long since were seated ; for in the dialect of that
county (Lancashire) as well as some others, a clifl' was an-
ciently written clough ; and so from their feat the family
took denomination of Fairclough, retaining the ancient way
of spelling. Life of Fealley , l)y his nephew Job u Featley,
Lond. 1()60, p. 4. Bodl. 8vo. F. 53. Th.]

' [He preach'd the rehearsal sermon, l6lO. Tanner.]
" [He left order with Dr. King, then vice-chancellor, to
provide him a chaplain. Tanner.]

archb. of S|>aJato Ixjing also present at the diKputa^
tion, was so much taken with our author'H argu-
ments that he forthwith gave him a brother' s-place
in the Savoy Hospitjil near London, he iieing Uien
master thereof. Aixnit that time he had tlie rectory
of Allhallows church in Hreadstreet within the city
of London confer'd upon him by Canteri)ury ;
which, soon after, he changetl i'or the rectory aS
Acton in Middlesex,' and at length became the
third and hist provost' of Chelsea coll. In 1625
he left Canterbury's service (Iwing then married*)
and retiring to Kennington near LamlK'th, where
his wife liaa a hou.se,' laid aside ixilemical divinity,

!> [l0'27, 30 Jan. Dan. Fealley, S. T. P. institutat in
recioria ile Acton. lieg. London. Kennet.]

' [He was the third provost, and Dr. Samuel Wilkinson
the fourth. See Fuller's CAarcA //ii/ory, x, 51, 55. Love-
da Y.J

' [From Woo<l'3 account, it would seem that Featley left
archbishop Abbot's service by reason of his marriage. The
real cause is thus given by his nephew. ' About the year
l642 (n misprint for 1622) and about the forty and fourth
year of his age, the doctor married an ancient, grave gentle-
woman called mistress Joyce Halloway, the relict of Mr.
Halloway, and formerly the relict of Mr. Thompson (both
merchants of London) and daughter of one Mr. Kerwin,
who lived in a handsom house of her own in Kennington,
in Lambeth parish, and being a great florist, nourished a
garden which administred a sweet and delicate delight : but
this marriage he for a time concealed, and continued in the
domestick service of his lord. In the year 1(J25 (that great
year of the tasking pestilence in London) the archbishop re-
niov'd with his whole family fiom London to Croydon, for
fear of the infection ; where it fell out on a day that Dr.
Featley found himself somewhat indisi>osed in point of
health, but endeavoured to shake it off. Howsoever the
bishop was soon acquainted with it, (for great men want not
their whispering intelligencers) and presently he commanded
the doctors speedy removal out of his house. Honor, and
wealth, and age, and the ministerial function, were too
weak orators to perswade the bishop to withstand the fear
of sickness and death. The weather was rainy, the ways
foul, the doctor not well, yet all these signified nothing, nor
prevailed so much with his lord, as to allow him to stay
either in the house or town, or to lend him a coach for his
easier and safer journey. The doctor look horse, and by the
providence of a belter lord, rode safely (though in mucn an-
guish and grief) to his own house at Kennington, where by
ihe care and nursery of his skilful and loving wife, and a di-
vine blessing upon the means, he soon recovered ; for his
distemper was but a cold. Upon his recovery, he removed
his books and other goods from Lambeth palace to his own
house, and so deserted the service of his lord.' So far Dr.
Featley's nephew, John Featley, but surely the insinuations
of unkindncss and inhumanity in Abbot's conduct, might
have been well spared, since all he did can only be attri-
buted to a meritorious precaution at a lime of general dan-
s'^''-]

3 [In the south isle of the church of St. Helens in

London is a very fair window with this inscription : — This
v\indow was glazed at the charges of Joyce Featley, daugh*
ter to Williain Kerwyn escj. and wife to Daniel Featley DJ).
Anno Domini l632. This window is beautified with three
rich coats, her father's, her first, and her second husband's.
Stowe's Survey of London, by Strype, ed. 1720, pgc 102.

l636, April 20, Joyce Feaily by her will, or writing in-
dented tripartite, did appoint, that after the death of Dr.
Dan. Featly, her husbana, and herself, yearly to be paid by
her heirs, out of the rents and profits ol a messuage in the

159

FAIRCLOUGII.

wholly devotwl hiiiisoU" to the study and practice of
piety and diaritv, and composed his Aiuilla Ple-
tatis, whicli the next year wa-s published. From
that time to the iK-jjinning of the civil war, may be
many thinjjs here sjxiken of him, wortliy of me-
morv, as of liis often disputes with persons of con-
trary religion, his writing of Ikx)ks against the
f7T] church of Rome, &c. which shall now lor bre-
vity's sake be omittLnl. In Nov. WiH, after the
king had encounter'd the parliament soldiers at
Brentford, some of the rebels took up their quar-
ters at Acton : who, after they had missed our au-
thor Featley, whom they took to be a papist, or at
least that he had a iwpe in his belly, they drank
and eat uj) his provision, burnt down a barn of his
full of corn ana two stables, the loss amounting to
211/. and at the same time did not only greatly

Erofane the church there by their beastly actions,
ut also burnt the rails, pulfd down the font, broke
the windows and I know not what. In Febr. fol-
lowing the said rebels sought after him in the church
at Lambeth on a Lord's-day to murder him, but he
having timely notice of their coming, withdrew and
saved hini.self. In 1643, when the bishops were
altogether disenabled from performing their office,
and thereupon the assembly of divines was consti-
tuted, by the ' blessed parliament,'' then by some so
caU'd, our author was appointed a member thereof,
shewing himself among tliem to have more of Calvin
in him than before, being (as 'tis •» said) a Calvinist
always in his heart, tho' he shewed it not so ojx'nly
till that time, " and wa.s witness against archbishop
" Laud at his tryal." But so it was, that our author
being a main stickler against the covenant there,
which he was to take, did in a letter to the learuetl
Dr. Usher primate of Ireland, then at Oxon, in the
middle of Sept. the same year, shew to him the
reasons why he excepted against it.» A copy of
which letter, or else another, which he about the
same time wrote, being treacherously gotten * from

parish of Lambelh in Surry, (being copyhold of ihe m.inor
of Kennington) for ever, 41. per ann. to be paid lo tlie vie.ir
and churchwardens of this parish (St. Helens) by quarterly
payments upon trust to distribute i'Jd. thereof weelily every
Sunday in bread. And 20s. thereof yearly to the preacher,
to preach on the day of her burial (and that happened on the
3 Oct. lC37) : ••Vnil in default of such sermon, that said 20s.
w go to the poor of the parish. And ()s. yearly to be be-
stowed in upliolding her father's tomb ; and the other 2s.
yearly lo the sexton, for keeping clean the said tomb. Ibid.
page 104. It seems that upon the death of Dr. Featley, the
executors of his wife's will refused payment of the above be-
quest; but in lC48 a decree for such payment was obtained
by an inquisition upon the statute for charitable uses. This
decree however, by reason of the civil disturbances that fol-
lowed, was not acted upon till 1703, when the court of
chancery confirmed it, and ordered payment of the annuities
(with a remittance of all arrears) from Michaelmas in that
year.]

« By Dr. Pot. Heylin.

* [See the best account of this matter in my lord Claren-
don's Hist, of the Rebellion, vol. ii, page 286. Baker.]

" See in a book call'd Sacra Nemesis. § 3, 4, 5, &c.

him, wa-s first carried to the close comhultee, and at
length to the house of commons. Whereupon our
author being jiidgeil to be a spy and a lietrayer of
the parliament's cause, was seised on, committed
prisoner to the lord Petre's house in Alilcr^gatestreet
on the 30th of the said month, and his rectories
taken away, that of Acton being bestowed on the
infamous mtlejiendciit Philip Nye, and that of Lam-
lK?th on Joh. White of Dorchester, the old instru-
ment of sedition, who afterwards got an order to ob-
tain, and keep his library of btxjks, till such time
that he could get his own back, which had a little
before been seised on at Dorchester by the command
of prince Kupcrt. In the said prison-house he con-
tinued till the beginning of March 1644, and then
after much supplication made to the parliament in
his behalf (he being then drawn very low and weak
by the drt)psy) he was remov'd for health's sake to
Chelsea college, of which he was then provost, where
spinning out a short time in piety and holy exercise,
surrendred uj) his last breath to him that first gave
it. He was esteemed by the generality to be one of
the most resolute and victorious champions of the
reformed protestant religion in his time, a most
smart scourge ofthe church of Rome, a compendium
of the learned tongues, and of all the liberal arts and
sciences : Also, that though he was of small stature,
yet he hatl a great soul and had all learning com-
pacted in him. He was most seriously and soundly
pious and devout, and tam studio cjuam exercitio
theologus insignis, &c. as 'tis express'd in his ej)itaph.
What the reader may further judge of him, may be
by his works, the catalogue of which follows.

The Life and Death of Jo. Jewell sometime bish.

of Salisbury. ^'Tis an abridgment of the said

bishop's life written by Laur. Humphrey D. D.
drawn up by our author whilst he was a student in
C. C. coll. an. 1609, at the command of Dr. Bancroft
archbishop of Canterbury. Which being by him
concluded and sent to Lambeth, was sucldenly
printetl and prefix'd to the said Jewell's works, be-
fore he had time to revise it, and to note the errata
therein. Most, if not all, of the said life is printed
in English in a book entit. Abel redivivus, collected
and written by Tho. Fuller Lond. 1651. qii.

Hi.itory of the Life and Manner of Death of
Dr. Joh. Ruinolds President of Corp. Ch. eoll. in

Oxon. It was delivered in a Lat. oration from a [78]

pew set in that coll. cjuadrangle, when the said
Rainolds was to be interred in the chappel there.
Most, or all of the said life is remitted into the be-
fore-mention''d Abel redivivus.

Life and Death of Rob. Abbot D. D. sometimes

BisJiop of Salisbury. Written in Latin also, as

it seems, and remitted into Ab. i-ediv. in English.

The Romish Fisher caught ami held in his own
Net. Or, a true Relation of his Coii/irenee with
Joh. Fisher and Joh. Sweet. Lond. 1624. qu.
[Bodl. 4to. F. 4. Th. BS.]

Appendix to th*; Fisher''s Net, x&ith a Description

1^1

FAIRCLOUGIl.

im

of-' the Romish Wheel and Ctrcle. Printed with

the foriiKT lM)ok.

-4 Defence of his Proceedings in the Conference,
togetlier with a Refutation of Mr. FisJier\i Answer
(under the Name of J. C.J to a Treatise entit. The
Fisher caught in his own Net. Lond. 1624. qu.

The Sum and Substance of that which passed in
a Disputation hctzecen Dr. Featly and Mr. G. Mus-
ket, touching Transubstantiation, 9,\st of April
1621. Lond. 1624. qu.

True Relation of that xchich passed in a Confer-
ence at the End of Pater-noster-row, called Amen,
touching Tran,substantiation, 18 Apr. 1623.

Conference hy writing between Dr. Featley and
Mr. Jo. Sweet a Jesuit touching the Ground, and
last Resolution of Faith.

Whicli five last things were printed with the
Rom. Fisher caught.

Ancilla Pietatis. Or, the Handmaid to private
Devotion, &c. Lond. 1626, oct. [Bodl. 8vo. F. 83.
Th.] ' After which, were eight editions of it printed
before the year 1676.

The Practice of Extraordinary Devotion

printed with Ancilla Pietatis. In one of these two
he makes the story of S. George the tutelar saint of
England a mere figment, for wliich he was forced to
cry peccavi, and fall upon his knees before Dr. WiU.
Laud, A. B. of Cant, as Will. Cartwright of Ch. Ch.
hath noted it in the margin of a copy of the said
book, which did belong to him.

Sum of Saving Knowledge delivered in a Cate-
chism consisting of 52 Sections, answerable to the
Sabbaths throughout the Year. Lond. 1626. oct.

Pelagius recllvivus. Or, Pelagius ralc'd out cyf
tlie Ashes by Arininius and his Scholars. Lond.
1626. qu. This book consists of two parallels, one
between the Pelagians and Arminians, the other be-
tween the church of Rome, the appealer, (viz. Rich.
Mountague afterwards B. of Cliichester) and the
church of England in three columes; together with
a writ of error sued against the appealer, &c.
Seven men, in distinct b(X)ks, soon after Mountague''s
Appeal came forth, appeai'ed against it, viz. G.
Carleton B. of Chich. &c. See more in the said
Carleton under the year 1628. vol. ii. col. 424.

The grand Sacrilege of the Church of Rome in
taking away tfie Sacred Cup from the Laity at the
Lordi's Table, 8cc. Lond. 1630. qu. [Bodl. 4to. C.
41. Th.]

Two Ccniferences : the former at Paris now stifled
by the Romanists Bislwp of Chalcedon ; ' another

' [Tills is the second edition, and contains, in addition to
what wa'i given in the first,

1 . A Difrnce of Christian Feasts, and the Religious 01-
strvatiim thereof.

2. A Discourse of the Lent Fast, the Original and perpe-
tiiall Practise thereof.

3 Directions for a private Fast, together with Admoni-
tions, Humnes, and Prayers fitted thereunto. '\

' [WTiich being censur'dny G. E. was in l634 vindicated
bv Myrth VVaferer. See these Athenje under the year
1680. Watts.]

Vol. III.

at Ltmdon zvith Mr. Everard a Romish Priest, dis-
guised in the Habit itfa I Aiy-Gcntlemun, unexpect-
edly met at a Dinner in NMe-street ^ Jan. 1626,
Printed with the Grand Sacrilege, &c.

Claris Mystica : A Key opening divers difficidl
and mysterious Texts tyf Holy Scripture, in 70
Sermons. Lond. 1636. fol. [IJodl. Y. 1. 11. Th.]
Which sermons having several matters in litem
against the papists ami the church of R<mie, were,
as Prynne" .saith, obliteratwl l)efore tlic-v- went into
the press by the licenser, chaplain to Laud arch-
bishop of Canterbury.

" Hexatexium : or. Six Cordials to strengthen
" the Heart of evenf faithful Christian against the
" Terrors of Death. Load. 1637, thin tol. This
" book contains six sermons, the first of which is on
" Eccles. 12. 5."

Defence of Sir Humph. LyncFs Viatuta. Lond.
1638. qu. See in sir H. Lynd under the year 1636,
vol. ii. col. 602.

An.9wer to a Piece entit. A Case for a Pair of
Spectacles.' Lond. 1638. qu. [Bodl. A. 3. 16. Line'.]
This, with a supplement thereunto added, tho' pub-
lished by Dr. Featlcv, yet 'twas originally written [79]
by the said sir Humphrey. See more in sir Humph,
in vol. ii. col. 602.

Transubstantiution exploded \or an Encounter
with Ricluird tlie titular ie Bishop of Chalcedon
concerning Chrisfs Presence at his holy Table.
Wliereunto is annexed a true Relation of a Dispute
beticeen O. Featly and Dr. Bagshaw at Paris,
1612.]* agaiiust the Bisliop of Chalcedon. Lond.
1638, oct. [Bodl. 8vo. A. 92. Line]

Several funeral sermons, " one preachetl at the
funeral of sir Humph. Lynd.'" Lond. 1640. fol.
published again with other fun. scmu)n.s, under the
title of The House of Mourning, &c. Lond. 1671.

Vertumnus Romanus. Or, a Discourse penned
by a Romish Prie.it, therein he endeavours to prove
that it is lauful for a Papist in England to go to
a Protestant Church, to receive the Communion,
and to take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy.
To uhich are adjoined Animadversions in the Mar-
gin, by Way of Antidote, against those Places
where the rankest Poison is couclwd. Lond. 1642.
qu. [Bodl. 4to. T. 24. Jur.]

Animadvei'sions upon a Book entit. A Safeguard
from Shipicrack to a prudent Catliolic, wherein is
proved that a Catliolic may go to a Protestant
Church and take the Oaths of Allegiance and Su-
premacy. Lond. 1642. i\u.

9 See in Canterburies Doome, p. 108, 254, 858, 869, aliu
2*9, 284, '^93, 527, &c.

' [This is the same with the foregoiii|j! work. A Cast for
the Spectncles, or a Defence nf Via tnta, Tlie safe Way, hy
sir Humphrey Lynde Knight, in answer to a Book written by
I. R. called, A Paire of Spectacles ; together with a Treatise
intituled Stric!ur(e in Lyndomastygem, by way of Supple-
ment to the Knight's Answer, where he left off, prtvenled by
Death. And a Sermon preached at his Funtrall, at Cobham,
June 14, 1636. Lond. j630'. 4lo.]

' [Tanner.]

M

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FAIIICI.OITGH.

\m

The gentle Lash ; or, the Vindication of Dr.
Feutlcy, a known Champion oftlie Protestant Reli-
gion.

His Answer to the seven Articles exhibited
against him to the Committee of pliindred Ministers
by three mechanic BroKnists, in July 1643.'

His Mani/esto or Challenge. " These three
were printed at Oxford 1644, qu. in 4 sheets."
[B(xll. C. 14. 6. Line] This [last] was written iijxin
report that lie was turned papist.

The Dippers dipt. Or, the Anabaptists dueled
and plung'd over Head and Ears, at a Disputation
in Swdhwark 17 Oct. 1642. Lond. 1643, 44, 45,
[1651. Bodl. A. 16. 14. Line] &c. Answered by
Sam. Richardson, an. 1645.

Tractate against the Anabaptists contained in six
Articles.

Remarkable Histories of the Anabaptists, with

Observations tlieretipon These two last are

printed with The Dippers dipt.

Answer to a Popish Challenge touching the An-
tiquity and Visibility irfthe true Church and other
Questions depending thereon. I.,ond. 1644. qu.
Some titles of this book call it Roma mens.

Sacra Nemesis : The Levites Scmtrge, or Merc.
Britannicus andCivicus disciplin''d. Oxon.1644. qu.

Divers remarkable Disputes and Resolves in the
Assembly of Divines related. Episcopacy asseiied.

Truth rijited, In this, which is printed with

Sacra Nemesis, is Dr. Featley's learned speech
against the covenant, spoken in the said assembly.

Pedum Pastorale, Concio hab. ad Cler. Oxon.
ad Joh. 21. 15. Ultratraject. 1657. in tw.

Dr. Dan. Featley revived, proving that the Pro-
testant Church (and not the Romish) is the only
Catholic and true Church. Lond. 1660. tw. [BodJ.
8vo. F. 53. Th.] Preserved from the hands of the

filunderers in the beginning of the civil war, care-
iilly kept for many years, and at length published
by his nephew Joh. Featley.''

The Lea-ue illegal: or, an Examination of the
.lohmn League and Covenant. Lond. 1669. qu. See
in Jo. Gauden under the year 1662, and in Joh.
Featley 1666.

Doctrine of the Church of England maintained,
in a Justification of the 39 Articles of the Church
of England, against Papists and Schismutics, &c.
Lond. 1660. quarto.

Antiquity and Universality of the Protestant
Faith-- — Printed with the former. He also pub-
lished K. James his Cygnea cantio. Lond. 1629.
3u. wherein you may read a scholastic duel between
lat king and our author; who dying in Chelsea
coll. near Lond. on the 17 of April in sixteen hun-
1645. dred forty and five, was, according to his will, bu-
ried in the chancel of Lambeth church. At which

' [Wood coiifouiided this and the preceding tract in the

first edit, but his mistake is rectified in the second of 1721.]

■• [With a succinct history of his life and death. Wan-

J-EYJ

time a very great multitude of i)ersons of honour
and ((uality attendwl the funeral rites, and Dr. Loe,
by some called Leo, preached a learned and pious
sermon. Which iK'ing afterwards printed ^ I shall
refer the reader to it, if it niav oe had : where-

now

in, as also in his life, written by his nephew Jo.
Featley before-mention'd, (from whence I have
taken some materials) you may receive farther satis-
faction concerning those rare accomplishments of the
party deceased. Over his grave was s<jon after a
comely monument erected, with an epitaph engraven
thereon ; a copy of which you may see in Hist. ^•
Antiq. Univ. Oxon. hb. 2. p. 242. b.

[Dan. Featley coll. Magd. Oxon. admittend. ad
sacr. presbyter ord. subscnpsit artic. 5 Sept. 1664.

Daniel Featley A. M. axlmittend. ad vie. de Byker
com. Line, siibscripsit artic. 9 Aug. 1665. Ex
Autogr. MS. Kennet.

Before S. Newman's Concordance, Dan. Featley
has wrote (containing four pages) An Advertisement
to the Christian Reader, concerning the Occasion of
composing and publishing this Concordance, to-
gether with the manifold Use thereof In this are
some criticisms on the Vulgate translation.

Before Phincas Fletcher's Purple Island he has
also wrote one page ' to the reader.' Loveday.

I have hatl the good fortune to discover, among
Dr. llawlinson's MSS. a volinne which would be
invaluable to any future biographer of Featley. It
contains

1. The Trial of Fayth by tfu- Tutch-stone of
Truth. (Suy &11V For the coimtesseof Buckingham.)

2. Literw a Patriarcha Alexandrino ad Archiep.
Cant, transmissce, ex JEgypto, Jussu Archiep.
traductcE.

3. Prcefatio in Rob. Abbot Salisbur. Epi^copi
Cygn. Cant\onem.

4. In Effigiem G. Abbot Archiep. Cant. (Latin
verse.)

5. Triplici Nocte triplex Cursus, seu Sphinx
Protestantium. Qawstiof'" Vbi vestra Ecclesia ex-
titit ante Lutheri Excitum ?

6. The Preface to the great English Concordance,
published by M. C. 1630.

7. A Preface to Mr. Chibb. (probably Chibbald)
Jiis Apology.

8. A Praifcxe to the Booke intituled the Spanish
Convert.

9. An Epistle dedicatory Jbr M. S. to the Lady
Reye.

10. Oratio.

11. Oratio in Comit. Tuibita Julii 14, 1606.

12. Oratio in banc tliesin : Hccc una Hominis
Sapientia, non arbitrari te scire quod nescias.

' \^A Sermon preached at Lambeth Apr. 21, l645, at the
Funeral nf that teamed and pnlemkal Divine Dan. Featley
D. D- late preacher there : with a Short Relation of his
Life and Death, by JVm. Leo, D.D. sometimes Preacher at
Wandesworth in Surrey. Lond. 164.5, 4to. In bibl. coll.
Jo. Cant. Class OO. 7- 32. Baker.]

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I'AIUCI-OUGH.

im

13. Oratlo in Comit'ixs fi° JuUi habcnda de li'isce
3 QucEstimilbu^. 1. An Pacts Artes sint nobiliofcs
quam Belli ? 2. An prcvstantitis sit in multis
Scientiis mediacrem esse, quam in vna singvlarem.
3. An Famafaveat optimis ?

14. Oratio in Landem Dialecticce Aristotelis,
et Demonstrationum, in ScJiola Dialect, habenda.

15. An Terra moveatur Cwlum quiescat, Neg.
(Lat. verse.)

16. An Inventio Pulveris tormeniarii magisju-
ciat ad Salntem. quam ad Perniciem Rerumpvdili-
carum. Neg. (Lat. verse.)

17. An Ecclesia vlsih. .sit Cwtus Fidelium.

18. Prcrfatio in Oratixmem Comit. doctiss. viri
D. R. Jani Calendis dsdicatam.

19. Oratio in Templo B. Maria Atigustin.

20. Lectin j"'" theologica habita in Coll. C. C. C.

21. Oratio funebris in Obitum doctiss. et sanctiss.
Viri et mihi amici.ssimi Jo. Rainold Pras. digni.ss.
qui obiit Die Jovis inter Hor. 11 et 12, 1607,
Mail 21 .• Sepult. et Honoris. 25. {Habita in Qua-
drang.)

22. Leges Pontificiorum de Delectu Ciborum in
Jejunio et hujusmodi Adiaphoris sunt snperstitiosw.

23. Oratio; Opera 7iostra bona non merentur
Vitam Aiternam.

24. Lectio Theologica; ' Cum jejunasset 40
diebiM et 40 noctihus, po.stea esuriit.''

25. Sacra Scriptura continet in se omnia ad Sa-
lutem necessaria.

26. The Life and Death of B. Jetcell collected
out of Dr. Humfrey's larger Treatise ; appointed
by the Archb. An. 1609. {Finiend. Spat. Mensis.)

27. Lectio in Aula.

28. Lectio theologica ; ' Cum Jejunasset 40 dies,
turn vcnit ad eum Tentator!'

29- Comfort and Physik in Time of Plajr^ie. To
the r. w. M. Wentworth. (Incept. Octob. 1609)

30. In Missa non qffertur Sacrificium proprie
dictum propitiatorium pro vivis et defunctis.

31. CoiKU) Latina. Coram Academia die purific.
Maria'.

Besides these pieces, this curious volume contains
a great number of original letters from Featley, of
which I now give three or four which have never
before been pnnted.

To his loving cosyn Mr. Fayreclough

Pardon, most louing and kinde cosyn, my looser
wrighting vnto you, to whom I am so much bounde.
My many and great businesses thrusting one vpon
another in the streights of time, to stop ech other
that none passeth as it ought. St. Austin wittily
moueth a doubt how it is possible to remember ob-
liuion seing we remember nothing but such things
whose shapes and pictures are drawne in the me-
mory ' Cum nemini obUvionem et monioria praesto
est, et obhvio memoria qua meminerim oblivio qua
meminerim. Sed quid est oblivio nisi privatio me-
moria; ? quomodoergo adest ut ea meminerim quando
cum adest merainisse non possim ?'' Certainely how-

aoouer it secme strange that we should remember
that which taketh away all memorye, yet I am Kuro
I too well rememlwr my t<x) much mrgetfulnes of
you who.se loue and friendship yet I more desirwl
m my secretest thoughts tiii-ii ol" any, and if banh-
fulnes rather then forgetfnines, want of opportu-
nity, multitude of busines, shall now picade tor my
fonner silence, I \vill hereafter rather make a breach
of my duty on the contrary side in too much trou-
bling you, then where I have done hcrtoforc in too
seldome visiting you. There will In?, I ho[K', here-
after ' Finis aliquando suspirandi et initium respi-
randi ' when we shall come all of vs to make merry
with you. I suppose you haue heard the manner
of the solennizing of the funerals of the Phoenix of
our age; I mcane D. R. (Doctor Rainolds) whom
if you had seene in all the time of sicknes, and that
instant when, l)efore our eyes, he turned into ashes,
you would (have) applyed the verses of Lactantius
Mors illi Venus est, sola est in morte voluptas
^tornam vitam mortis adepta bono :
Who that he might be buried Phoenix-like with fra-
grant odours, after Mr. vice-chancelor had pnired
out a Ikjxc of balsame, the sweetest of all oyntments,
which onely is found in the holy land June, I also,
deputed thereto, burnt incense at the a.shes of this
Phoenix of such spices as I could get of the l)est
Hethenish apothecaries to praeserue and diffuse the
sweete sauour of his virtues. Howbeit because per-
aduenture you desire to know more particularly the
manner of liis death, and because Sir Sammon er-
nestly desired a copy of that speech for you, I
thought it not amisse to let you haue a view of that
copy which Dr. Morton deane of Gloucester request-
ed, and was sent to London to him, but was re-
turned because he was then at Camliridge, and is
againe to lie sent this next week ; which abortiue
bratte conceiued and brought forth in 3 dayes, truly
Bcnony the sonnc of sorrowe, if you shall view be-
tweene this and munday (if so your leisure serue
you) I shalbe very glad to hearc your censure, yea
though you altogither mislike it, that I may know
your iudgment, and thereto conforme myself. For
as Iphicrates answered a kinsman of Harmodius
who opbraidcd vnto him his ignobility, (rvyYiy'Krrc^a
dvrd ixiivui, ra. ydq iy-a Iqya. (xvyycvsirTtfa to's 'ixiivov
ij* td o-a, so then I slioidd think my self vniuocally
your cosyn, if my works, my studyes and all my ex-
ercises might be a-vyyevij, as it wrre, kin and allyed
to yours. Thus with humblyest commendations
and hartyest prayers for you, your wife, and whole
familye, I ende.

A Relation of an Apparition in Hidnam House.
(To the archbishop of Canterbury.)

May it please your gr.

I would not pra-sume to accjuaint your gr. with a

.straunge relation of an apparition in these parts, if

ye circumstances were not as remarkable as I am

perswadetl the truth is vncontrollable. The last

M2

Id?

FAIIICLOUGH.

weeke S"^ Th. Wise a knight of ye Hath, of an an-
cient descent and large reuenucs, dealt very erucstly
with Mr. Spjiin an escj. in my parisli to (b-aw nie
along with him to Hidnam house, situate 3 mile
east of Launceston, desirous there to heare me on
ye sabbatii. After sermon, he projxiunded many
curious (juestions touching the church, tempting
Christ, the truth of apparitions, the interpretation of
dreamcs, and notes of difference betweene go<Kl an-
gels and bad ; whervnto I giuie him the best resolu-
tions I could for the praeseiit, and for his farther
satisfaction referred him to diuers learned treatises
both of diuines and philosophers. On the niunday
morning he calletl me a-side to conferre with me in
priuate, and there brake the matter vnto me, with
protestation vjxm his saluation by Christ, and as he
should answere at ye dreiulfuU day of judgment,
tliat he would relate nothing but that his conscience
bad him witnes was most true. The sume of his
relation was, that alxiut a month agoe, a little after
midnight, he heard a fearfull crye and shrieking of
some of his maides that lay in the next chamlier to
him, and suppt)sing that some theeues had brake in
vpon them, he rose vp and ranne out with two naked
rapiers in his hand, but when he came into the
chamber he vnderstotxl by them that they were
frighted with a walking spirit, which they sayd came
in at the windowe and stood heard by the bedside,
in the likenes of a woman in her smock, holding her
hands ouer the children. To this conceit of their's
he gave little cretlit for ye praesent, and imputed it
to sore distemper or vaine fancy of womanly feare,
because, as he seriously protested, he was euer of
opinion that there were no such apparitions. The
night following he awaked about ye same time, and
after half an houre he heard the latch of the chamber
dore move, and saw the dore open suddenly, and to
his thinking a woman as though in her sm(x;k enter
in, which at first he imagined to be of his family,
and demanded what they meant to trouble him at
that time of night : but receiuing no answer at all
from it, as it drew nerer and nerer towai-ds, his mind
misgaue him that it was the spirit that affrighted his
seruants that night ; whervpon he prayed, as he tes-
tified, wth more zeale and feruency then euer in his
life, and besought so to strengthen him that he might
speake to it. And as it drew nerer, he demanded
of it wherfore it came ? The spirit returned no
answere, but came close to the bed's feete whervpon
he rose vp in his bed, and aft"^ a zealous prayer,
with c(jnfession of his heinous and grieuous sins,
charged it, in the name of the God of heuen to come
no nerer. After which adiuration, it stood still at
his bed feete for about halfe an houre ; on the end
grew dinier and diiiier, till it quite vanished out of
sight. And as it vanished the day appeared. His
lady heard hira speake all this while and lay all in a
swet, not daring to look out of her bed. The mor-
rowe S"^ Th. aduised Mr. Archd. who lay in his
house, what maimer of apparition this might be,

who, as S'' Th. afiirmed, held it to be an angelicall
apparition and not a tlialxilicall illusion, 1 because it
did no hurt ; 2 because he had the jxjwer to speake
to it, wheras by rejison of the antipathy betweene
man's nature and the diuell, if it had bene a diuel
he would haue Ix^ne no affrighted that his speech
would haue bene taken fro him ; 3 because it ap-
jieared in white and shining raiment. Notwith-
standing which rea.sons, lx;ing required by S' Th.
to tleliuer my iudgment, I gaue him the best coun-
sell I could. I craued pardon to iudge ratlier it was
an euill spirit, for these reasons especially. 1 because
miraculous reuelations and angelicall aj)paritions are
ceased ; 2 because angels ai'e neuer sent but with
message and to accomplish some extraordinary ser-
uice, wheras this spirit onely matle a duiiibe shew ;
3 becjiuse the spirit of Gotl which assisted S"^ Th in
his prayer with sighes and groanes that could not be
exj)resse<l, and wonderfully strengthncd his faith,
moued him to pray against it, and vpcm this adiura-
tion it sto(xl still in the ))lace ; 4 because it is a thing
vnheard of, that an angel should appcare in tlie per-
fect likeness of a woman in her smock at that time
of night, and either walke softlv, or stand idle so
long ; when they haue apjieared it was after a more
glorious manner, to men of extraorilinarv sanctity,
at their prayer or sacrificing in the temple, and that
vpon some sj)eciall <ind extraordinary (K'casion, with
some praesent effect. That it did liim no hurt, as
also that he had power to speake to it, he ought to
impute to his harty prayers and GckI's speciall
mercy. As for the ap})eariiifj of it in white, like a
woman, and not in some ougly shape, I put him in
mind of the diuefs transforming, and related vnto
him a parallell story in France of an apparition of
the diuel to an aduocate, fleshly giuen, in the Uknes
of a beautiful woman,' with wliome he lay tliat
night, and the next morning a dead corps was found
in his bed, and he called in qutestion for murder,
and it had cost him his life, but that by dihgent
serch it was found to be the body of a woman a lit-
tle before executed at the greue, and the print of
the rope might he discouered about her neck. In
fine, my aduise to him was, not curiously to enquire
about this apparition, but to examine his owne con-
cience, and giue G(xl thanks for his deliuerance, but
especially to sinne no more, lest a worse thing befell
him. Which admonition he tooke not ill, though
otherwise a man very touchy, but promised he
would think upon my words, and my text also,
which I tooke out of the 32 Deut. 29, ' O that they
were wise, then they would vnderstand this, they
would consider their latter end.' I jjra'suine to
trespasse no farther vpon your grace's many and
great employments, but crauing pardon for my tedi-
ous prohxity, I cease your grace farther trouble,
Resting

Your graces most truely deuoted

D. F.

169

FAIllCLOUGH.

TWISSE.

17()

An Anmoere to S' Walter Ralegh his Letters.

I beseech you, syr, pardon nie for so late answer-
in<j your so kind letters. The true reason whereof
was, that our quarter day being so nere, I thought
it convenient togetlier with my answere to your let-
ter to send vp a note of your sons expences. But
seing you haue eased nie of that labour as I vnder-
stand by Mr. Hooker, I shall haue more leisure to
ouersec his cariage and instruct him in learning, in
both which you requiretl my care, and gaue me uery
g(Kxl directions in your letter, discouering vnto me
t«'o of the most dangerous euills, one vnto his mind,
the other vnto his Ixnly, vntf) which he is subiect —
straunge company and violent exercises. I find
your iudgment of" him in euery part to be most true
and cannot therin but coiiicnde your wisedome alx)ue
most father's, yea the also of the wiser and better
sort, who although they loue not errour, yet towards
their children cofTiitte many errors of loue. S'", I
cannot choose but think myself very much indebted
vnto you, that vjion other's bare report you should
repose so much trust in me as willingly to leaue in
my hands yoin- onely treasure, which (euen then
when your treasures were more answerable to your
excellent and well known virtues) was your ricliest
treasure, and most your owne, bearing the image
not onely of your Ijody but mind tix). The lesse
cause you haue had .so farre to trust me, the more I
iiccount my self boimd not onely to keepe safe this
treasure, but also by my best endeauours to brighten
it by art, and mak the image and shapes of your
virtues more clearely to appear in it. Thus, with
liarty and most earnest prayer vnto Almighty God
for your and his welfare, I humbly take my leaue
remaining

Your to the vtmost of my power

Daniel Fayuecloijgh.

Fairclough's pupil was not the Carew Raleigh
already noticed as of Wadham college, vol. ii. col. 244.
but his eldest son, Walter Raleigh, who was after-
wards killed at St. Thome in 1617. He was born
in 1593, and entered at Corpus Christi college Oc-
tober 30, 1607,^ a circumstance hitherto, I believe,
imknown to the biographers of his illustrious father.

There is a small head of Featley prefixed to his
nephew's Featley revived, but the two best engraved
portraits are 1 by Marshall 4to. dated 1645, and 2
m his shroud engraved by Hollar, and dated 1659-]

WILLIAM TWISSE written, and caUed by
some outlanders and others, Twissius and Tuis-
sius,' was born at Speenliamlands in the parish of
Speen near Newbury m Berkshire. His grandiather

^ [Reg- Matric. Univ. Oxon. P.]

' [See Twissii Vita et Vtctoria, by Geo. Ketnliill S. T. D.
Oxon. 1657, from which book most of this account is taken.

Vid. Am. Poelenburg liespons. ad Argumentum Gul.
Twissi, — cui solvendo ne diabolum quidem et angclos ejus
pares esse confidit. Bakes .]

was by nativity a Teutonic, l)ut in tJic prime of hi»
years, he .setled himself witli his family (iiikmi what
account I know not) in England : which prolxibly
may Imj the reason why Franc. Amiatiis a Jesuit,
antagonist to our author Twissius, should say that
he wa.s ' natione Teutonicus, fortuna BatavuK, rcli-
p^one Calvinista,' &c. His father, who was a suffi-
cient clothier of Newbury, perceiving this his son to
have pregnant parts, sent hnn to the college at Win-
Chester, where l)eing elected a child, and soon made
rijH? fi)r the university in the schcK)l there founded
by Will, of Wykeham, was elected prolrationer-
fellow of New cx)1l. in the year 1596, and two years
after " (having by that time shaken off his wild ex-
travagancies») was admitted verus stxrius; afler
which he diligently apj)lied himself to the theologi-
cal facidty for 16 years together. In U)04 he j)ro-
ceedetl in arts, antl alwiit that time Uiking holy or-
ders, became a frequent and diligent ])rencher in
these parts, noted to the academians for his subtile
wit, exact iudgment, exemplary life and conversa-
tion, and for the endowment of' such (jualities that
were Iwfitting men of his function. In 1614 he pro-
ceeded doct. of divinity, and alx)ut that time went
into Germany as chaplain to princess Elizalwth
daughter of king James I. and consort of the prince
pdatine, where c^nitinuing for some time, did im-
prove himself much by the conversation lie had with
German divines. After his return he exchanged
the rectory of Newton Longvill in Bucks, which the
society of New coll. gave him before his departure
lieyond the sea, for Newbury near to the place of his
nativity, with Dr. Nathan. Giles canon of Windsor :
where, being setled, he laid a foundation of his doc-
trine, and the seeds of his zealous opinion, tho' not
improved by his auditors at-cording to his wish. His
plain preaching was gtxxl, his .solid disputations were
accounted by some better, and his pious way of
living by others (especially the puritans) be.st of all :
yet some of New coll. who knew the man well, have
often said in my hearing, that he was? always hot
headed and restless. The most learned men, even
those of his adverse party, did confess that there
was nothing extant, more accurate, exact, and full,
touching the Arminian controversies, than what was
written by this our author Twisse. He also, if any
one (as those of his persuasion say) hath so cleared
and vindicated tho cause from the objected absurdi-
ties and calumnies of his adversaries, as that out of
his labours, not only the learned, but also those that

* [Gu. Twisse de S|iecnldnd paroch. de Speene com. Bark.
(.irhniss. vcrum spciuni) liys, Marl. II. — h. thiol, doctor:
1" rector ccc'liae parochialis de Newcnion Longvile in com.
Buck. 2° de Newberie in cojii. Berks. Caial. Sociorum
Coll. Niw. O.ron. MS. inter codd. Rawl. in bibl. Bodl.
(.Misc. 130) I'oi. 83.]

' [He used to tell every body, that having been a very
wicked boy, his conversion was occasioned thus; that when
he was a school-boy at Winchester, he saw the phantom of
a rakehelly boy, his school -fellow, who said to him — ' I an:i
damned.' MS- note in Mr. Hfbers copy.'\

171

TWISSE.

are In^st vers'd in controvei-sies, may find enough,
whereby to disentangle tlieniselves from tlie snares
of opposites. The truth is, there's none almost that
have written against Arminianism since the pubhsh-
ing any thing of our author, but have made very
honourable mention of him, and have acknowledged
him to be the mightiest man in those controversies,
tliat his age hath produced. Besides Newbury, he
was offer'd several prefiTments, as the rectory of
Benefield in Northamptonshire, a prebendship in
the church of AV'inchcster, the wardenship of Wyke-
lutm''s coll. there, and a professor's place at Franeker
in Frisland. IJut the tiiree last were absolutely re-
fused, and the first he would not accept, unless he
could obtain liberty of his majesty (in whose gift
Newbury was and is) to have nad an able man to
succeed him there. Besides also, upon conference
with Dr. Davenant bishop of Salisbury, ordinary of
that place, the king was well satisfietl concerning
Twisse, that he was unwilling to let him go from
Newbury. In the beginning of the civil war, began
by the presbyterians, an. 1641-2 he sided with
them, was chose one of the assembly of divines, and
at length prolocutor of them. Among whoin speak-
ing but little, some interpreted it to his modesty, as
those of his persua,sion say, as always preferring
penning before speaking, and others to the decay of
rSll "^^ intellectuals. But polemical divinity was his
faculty, and in that he was accounted excellent.
While he was prolocutor, he was one of the three
lecturers in S. Andrew's church in HoUwrn near
London, which was given to him for his losses he
sustained at Newbury, Iwing forced thence, as his
brethren said, by the royal party. He hath writ-
ten,

VindicioE Gratia, Potestatis ac Providcntiw Dei.
Hoc est, ad Examen Libelli Perkinsiani (Gul. Per-
kins) de Prasdestinationis Modo <§• Ordine, institu-
ium a Jacobo Arminio, Responsio Scfiolnstica, tri-
hus Libris absoluta. Una cum Digressionibus ad
aingidan Partes accnmmodutis,^ &c. Amstel. 1632,
[Bodi. T. 8. 8. Th.] 1648. fol.

A Discover?/ of' Dr. Jackson's Vanity, " or a
" Perspective-^ilass, whereby the Admirers of Dr.
" Jackson's profound Discourses may see tfie Va-
" nitij and Weakness oftfiein,'" &c. — Prmted (beyond
the sea) 1631. qu. [Botll. A. 21. 16. Line] This
was written against Dr. Tho. Jackson's Treatise of
tfie divine Essence and Attributes, but the doctor
made no reply.

Dis.sertatio de Scientia media tribus Libris ab-

• soluta, &c. Arnhem, 1639. fol. [Bodl. S. 5. 1. Th.]

Wherein Gabr. Penot's book entit. IJbertatis hu-

mance Propugnaculum, and that of Franc. Suarez

De Scientia Dei, are answer'd.

Digressiones. Printed with the Dissertatio.

' [This book is said by the author, to be full of errata, in
a letter to bishop Davenant, wherein he thanks the bishop
for speaking kindly of him to the king. Bakbb.]

Of tJu Morality of the Fourth Commandment,
as still in Force to bitul Christians : delivered by
IVay of Answer to the Translator « (>fDr. Pr'uleaux
his lecture concerning tlie Doctrine of the Sabbath.
Divided into two Parts, (1) An Answer to the
Preface. (2) A Consideration of Dr. Prideaux hit
Lecture. Lond. 1641. qu. [BodL B. 15. 5. Line]

Treatise erf Reprobation, in Answer to Mr. Jo.
Cotton.' Lond. 1646. qu.

Animadversiones ad Jacobi Arminii Collat. cum
Franc. Junio 4- JoJi. Arnold Corvin. Amstel. 1649,
fol. [Bodl. A. 20. 3. Th.] pubhshed by Andr.
Rivet.

The doubting Con.science resolved, in Answer to
a (pretended) perplexing Question, Sfc. Wherein
is evidently proved that the Holy Scriptures (not
the Pope) is the Foundation wheremi the Church is
built, &c. Lond. 1652. oct. [Bcxll. 8vo. B. 137.
Line] published by Sam. Hartlib.

The Ricfies of God's Love unto the Vessels of
Mercy, con.sistent with his absolute Hatred or Re-
probation of the Vessels of Wrath: or, an Answer
to a Book entit. God's Imvc to Mankind manifested
by disproving his absolute Decree fw their Damna-
tion : in two Books. One against Mr. Sam. Hoard,
and the other against Mr. Hen. Mason rector of S.
Andrew's Undershaft, London. Oxon. 1653. fol.
[Bodl. BS. 88.]

Two Tracts in Ansreer to Dr. H. (Hammond)
the one concerning God's Decree definite or indefi-
nite, the other about the Object of Predestination —
Printed with tlie former book.

The Synod of Dort and Ales * reduced to Prac-
tice, with an Answer thereunto.'' [Bodl. B. 1. 15.
Line, with MS. notes by bishop Barlow.]

T/ie Scriptures Sufficiency to determine all Mat-
ters of Faith, made good against tlie Papists. Lond.
in tw.

Christian Sabbath defended against the crying
Evil in these Times of the Antisabbatarians of our
Age ; sliewing tliat the Morality of the Fourth
Commandment is still in force to bind Christians
unto the Sanctification of the Sabbath Day. 165. . .qu.

Fifteen Letters to Mr. Joseph Mede See in

the 4th book of the said Mr. Mede's works. Ber
sides these, and something up>n the Command-
ments, that are printed, he left behind him many
manuscripts (mostly compleat) of his own composi-
tion, which were carefuUy kept in the hands of his
son ' Rob. Twisse a minister, but what became of

* See in Dr. Pet. Heylin, an. l662.

' \^A Treatise of Mr. Col/on's clearing certain Doubts con-
cerntng Pradestinalion, together with an Examination there-
of: written by Will. Tioisse, D.D. I.ond. 1 646, 4to. Quaere
if this be not what Wood means? Tanner.]

* ril is Aries in the original, but Ales is right. Tanner.]

* iThe Doctrine, &c. was collected by Vostius and trans-
lated into English by Mr. Barly (B.irlow) of Oxford, but i«
not extant in print. This was done by Tylenus, who died
shortly after. Note in the beginning of my copy. Tanner.]

* The s«id Rob. Twisse was author of England'! Breath

HAYNE.

174

them after his death, which hapnecl in the latter end
of the year 1674, I know not. Among them are
(1) Examen Historiw Pelag. written by Ger. Jo.
Vossius : put after the author's death into the liands
of Dr. G. Kendall to perfect, and afterwards topulj-
lish it, hut never done. (2) Ansxeer to a Book
entit. A Conference with a Ladfj about Choice of
Reliffion. Written by sir Ken. Digby. (3) Answer
to t/ie respective Books concerning the Sabbath.

[82] Written by Dr. Fr. White, Dr. Gilh. Ironside, and
Mr. E. Breerwfxxl. He hath also either answer'd,
or animadverted upon certain matters of Nich. Ful-
ler, Jos. Mede, the famous Mr. Rich. Hooker, Dr.
Christ. Potter, Dr. Tho. Godwin, Dr. Tho. Jack-
son, and Mr. Job. Goodwin, the titles of which I
shall now pass by for brevity's sake. At length
after he had lived 71 years, he departed this mortal

i6l.5. life in Hollxim, in sixteen hundred forty -and five,'
and was buried the 24th of July the same year near
to the u{)per end of the poor folks table, next the
vestry in the collegiate cliurch of S. Peter within
the city of Westminster. On the 14th of Sept.
1661 his body with those of Tho. M.ay the poet.
Will. Strong, Steph. Marshal, ministers, &c. which
were buried in the said church of S. Peter, were
taken up and buried in one large pit in the church-
yard of S. Margaret, just before the back door of
the lodgings Ix'longing to one of the prebendaries of
Westminster, having been unwarrantably buried
there during the times of rebellion and usurpation.

THOMAS HAYNE, son of Rob. Hayne, wa.s
born in a town commonly, but corruptly, called
Thurciston, near to, and in the county of, Leicester :
At the last of which places having received his ju-
venile learning, was sent to the university, and ma-
triculated as a member of Lincoln coll. in Mich,
term 1590, and in that of his age 17; where being
put under the tuition of a noted and careful tutor,
obtained great knowledge in philosophy, and the
more for this reason, that he was taken off from
various recreations and rambles by a lameness in his
legs from his cradle. After he had taken a degree
in arts 1604, he became one of the ushers of the
school in the parish of St. Laurence Pountney in
London, erected by the Merchant-Taylors; and
afterward being mast, of arts, [in 1612,] usher of
the school belonging to the city of London in Ch.
Church hospital. He was a noted critic, an excel-
lent linguist, and a solid divine, beloved of learned
men, and particularly respected by Selden. He
hath written,

Grammutices Latina Compendium, an. 1637,
&c. Lond. 1640, in oct. To which are added two
appendices.

nlop'd, bring the counter-part nf Judak's Miseries, lamented
publicly in the new Cliurck at IVeslmin. 30 Jan, being the
Anniversary of King Charles I. ; on Lament. 4.20. — Lond.
166.0. qu.
' [1646. See Neal and Whitlock.]

Linguarti'm Cognntio : seu de lAvgvis in Genere,
^ de variarum Lmgttarnm Ilarmonid Ditsertatio.
Lond. 1639. wt. [Hcxll. 8vo. P. 89. Art. Scld.] It
was also printed, if I mistake not, in 1634".

Pax in Terra: .leu Tractatus de Pace ecch-
siasticd, &c. Lond. 1639. oct. [Uodl. 8vo. H. 83.
Art]

Tfie equal Ways of God in rcctififing the ini.
equal Watjs of Man. Lond. 1639, Sic m oct. [Ikxli
8vo. B. 266. Th.]

General View of tlie holy Scriptures : or, tfie
Times, Places, and Per.snns of holij Scripture, &c.
Lond. 1640, fol. sec. edit.' '[BcxlL U. 1. 4. Th.
Seld.]

Life and Death of Dr. Mart. Luther,^ Lond. 1641 .
qu. [Bodl. F. 2. 12. Line] He gave way to fate
on the 27th of July in sixteen hundred forty and iC4';.
five, and was buriecf in the parish church of Cfi. Ch.
within Newgate in the city of London. Soon after
was put a monument over his grave, alx)ut the
middle of the church, on the north-side, and a large
inscription thereon, which alxjut 20 years after was
consumed and defaced, with the chun^h it self, when
the great fire hapned in London. In the said in-
scription he is stiled ' antiquitatis acerrimus in-
vestigator, antiquitatem prsematuravit suain. Pub-
licis privatisque studiis sese totum communi bono
coelebem devovit. Pacis Ecclesia; Irenicus txicificus
jure censendus,' &c. In the library at Leicester is
another inscription put up to his memory, which
being perfect, you may talie instead of the other.
See Hist. 4" Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 166. a. b.
By his will, which I have seen, he gave to the smd
library all his study of books, except some few

' [Reprinted in Crenius's Analecta, Anist. l6gg, 8ro.

LOVEDAY.]

° [ll was indeed the second edition much enlarged; bat
the original work was anonymous and not by Hayne, The
title of the first edit, was

' The Times, places, and Persons of the holie Scriptures.
Otherwise entiluled. The Generall f^iew of the Holy Scrip-
tures. At London, printed for Richard Ockould. an. Dom.
1OO7. 4to.'

The printer in his dedication, ' To The right worshippful
Sir ,Iohn Brograue knight his maiesties atlurney generall of
the duchy of Lancaster,' says, (The author of the book is
uncertain to me.)

Hayne in his enlarged edition says in his Epislle to the
Reader, fo. 3, ' who was the author of this book's first edi-
tion 1 never could learn. Sure I am that in many things he
agreeth with Master Broughton.'

NB. Haync's edition was printed for Henry (as the quarto
edition was for Richard) Ockould.

For this note 1 am indebted to the rev. Robert W«tt»,
librarian of Sion College.]

< [I cannot find this book at present, but as far as I can
trust my memory, 'tis only a translation from Melchior
Adam. Humphreys.

It was printed at London l64l, 4to : and dedicated by
him to the right honourable Sir "Tho. Roe, knight, chan-
cellor of the most noble order of the garter, and one of his
inajestic's most hon. privy counccll — And an Epistle to the
Christian reader, and commendatory verses by Francis
Qoarles and J. Vicars. Kennbt.]

175

LITTLETON.

STRODE.

which he gave to the library at Westminster. He
gave also 40()/. to be bestowed in buying lands, or
nouses in, or near Leicester, of the 3'early rent of
24Z. for ever, for the maintenance of a sch(X)l-master
in Thurciston alias Thrushington or some town
near thereunto, to teach ten jxwr children, &c. and
for the maintenance of two poor scholars in Line,
coll. to come from the free-sciifx)l at Leicester, or in
defect of that, from the scIkxjI at Milton, &c. The
' school-master to have 12^. yearly, and the two scho-
lars six poimds yearly, &c. In the said will are
[831 other acts of charity mentioned, which for brevity
sake I now pass by.

[Add Four Letters to Mr. Joseph Medc. See
the fourth book of his works. Whali.ey.

There is an unengravetl portrait of Hayne in the
town library at Leicester, and it would reflect much
credit on that ancient corporation if they ijerpetuated
their own gratitude and the memory 01 their bene-
factor by preventing his resemblance from perishing
with tlie canvass on which it is depicted.]

EDWARD LITTLETON son and heir of sir
Edw. Littleton of Henley in Shropshire, knight, was
born in that county an. 1589, became a gentleman
commoner of Ch. Ch. in the beginning ot the year
1606, where by the care of an eminent tutor, he be-
came a proficient in academical learning, took a de-
gree in arts, an. 1609, and from Ch. Ch. removed
to the Inner Temple, where he made such ad-
mirable progress in the municipal laws, and was of
such emmence in his profession in a short time, that
the city of London took early notice of, and chose
him tlieir recorder, being also about the time coun-
sellor to the university of Oxon. In the 8th of
Car. 1. he was elected summer reader of his so-
ciety, and in the 10th of the said king (Oct. 17.) he
was made sollicitor-general. After which, upon the
6th of June next ensuing, he received the honour of
knighthood at Whitehall, at which time, and some
vears before, he was a member of the commons
house of no small reputation. On the 27th of Jan.
15 Car. 1. he was made chief justice of the Common
Pleas, and on the 23d of Jan. the next year his
majesty conferr''d upon him the utmost honour be-
longing to his profession, by giving the great seal
into his custody. In less than a month after, upon
the 18th of Feb. he made* him a peer of England,
by the name of the lord Littleton baron of Mouns-
low in his native country, being then in great esteem
for integrity and eminence in his profession. Shortly
after the troubles in tliis realm taking their rise,
partly from the insurrection of the Scots and their
entrance into this realm, which happened in Aug.
next ensuing (an. 1640.) and partly from the pre-
dominancy of certain members in the Long Par-
liament, then called by reason of that invasion, he
retired to the king at York in June 1642, having

* Baroimge of England, torn. 3. p. 466. b.

first conveyed tlie seal thither. From which time
to his death, which hapjjened in Oxon (where in
1642 he was actually createil doctor of the civ. law)
he constantly attended his majesty with great fide-
hty. He was author of,

Several Speeches, as (1.) Speech at a Conference
with the Lords in Parliament concerning tlie lA-
berty of the Subject, and propriety in tlieir Goods,
3 Apr. 1628. See in Jo. Ru.sh worth's Colketions,
vol. 1. p. 528. an. 1628. This with otlier con-
ferences were published by themselves in 1642. qu.
(2.) Speech in tlie House of Commons at the pass-
ing oftivo Bills. Lond. 1641. qu. &c.

Several Arguments and Discourses — See in Joh.
Rushworth's Append, p. 28. and in a book entit.
The Sovereign H Prerogative and Subjects Pri-
vileges discussed, &c. Lond. 1657. Ibl.

Reports in the Common Pleas and Exchequer in
the 2rf, 3(7, 4///, 5th, 6fh, and 1th of Kim^ Charles
I. Lond. 1683. fol. These things I diink are all
that he hath extant, except his Humble Submission
and SuppUcatuyn to the House of Lord.s 28 Sept.
1642, which is more than once printed under his
name, yet whether genuine I cannot tell. He was
untimely taken from this world, to the sorrow of his
majesty, on the 27th of Aug. in sixteen hundred 1 045.
forty and five, being then a colonel of a foot re-
giment in Oxon, and privy counsellor to his ma-
jesty, and was buried between the two lower pillai-s,
which divide the first north isle from the second, on
the north side of the choir of the cathedral of Ch.
Church in Oxon. At which time Dr. Hen. Ham-
mond the university orator, did lay open to the
large auditory then present, the great loyalty, pru-
dence, knowledge, virtue, &c. that had been in the
person that then lay deatl before them. Over his
grave was a costly monument of black and white
marble erected in the month of May, an. 1683, at
the charge of his only daughter and heir Anne Lit-
tleton,' the widow of sir Thom. Littleton, bart.*
with a noble inscription thereon, wherein 'tis said,
that this Edward lord Littleton was descended from
Tho. Littleton knight of the Bath, qui sub Ed-
wardo IV. justiciarius, leges Anglia" municipales
(prius indigestas) in enchiridion feliciter reduxit:
opus in oiiine a-vum Jc''" venerandum, &c.

[Of lord Littleton see more in lord Clarendon's
Hist, of the Rebellion and lord Orford's Royal and
Noble Autlurrs. There is a very good large head
of him in mezz. by R. Williams from a picture by
Vandyke, from which a small etching was given in
Park's edition of tlie Noble Autliors.]

"WILLIAM STRODE, an esquire's son ["84]
" of Dorsetshire, was matriculated in this uni-
" versity as a member of S. Mary's hall in the be-
" ginning of 1597, aged 19 years, left it without a

' [Who died in 17O6.]
< [Hediediniesi.]

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WIDDOWKS.

178

degree, went to one of tlie inns of court, and iid-
vanccd himself much in tlie iTiiniici])al law. Af-
terwards retiring to his patrimony, and improving
by reading, conversation, and meditation what he
had before obtainetl, he became a parliament man
for Berealston in Devonshire, for two or more par-
liaments in the later end of K. Jam. I. and in all
those called by K. Ch. I. wherein he with Pym
and Hamden were accounted the chief swayers
under the notion of promoting the liberties ot the
subject ; and therefore I think he was once, if
not more, imprisoned, which caused a provocation
in him against his majesty. He also kept cor-
respondence with the Scots to promote their co-
venant, was one of the chief persons that invited
them to invade England, an. 1639: and when
the Long Parliament began, he became an active
and busy man, and a downright Iwutefeu therein
against the king's prerogative and all that looked
that way. So that being generally esteemed a
most pernicious and inveterate ix;rson, he was one
of the five members of the said pari, that was by
his majesty charged with treason and other high
misdemeanors in the beginning of Jan. 1641 ;
which ever after, so long as he lived, made him
one of the darlings of the people. Afterwards he
was a grand promoter of the unnatural rebellion,
did actually appear in anns against the king at
Edghill battel, wherein he was deeply engaged,
as colonel Philip lord Wharton then was, who,
after all his men had run away, hid himself in a
saw-pit. In 1643 he became a zealous covenanter,
and made a motion in the house of com. that all
those that refused the covenant (Ijeing certain ill-
wishers to the laws and liberties of this kingdom)
might therefore have no benefit of those laws and
liberties. But that motion being somewhat too
desperate, was wav''d for the present, and took no
effect. Afterwards he became a bitter enemy to
archb. Laud and the hierarchy, was very busy
against him during his tryal, and when the or-
dinance was brought up to the lords house to
vote him guilty of high treason, this Mr. Strode,
when he saw that it stuck with them, did as a
most ill-natvir'd person, and a maker of all bloody
motions, tell tbeir lordships, that the city would
bring a petition with twenty thousand hands to
pass that ordinance, if they did it not quickly,
&c. He hath extant under his name,
" Several speeches, viz. (1) Speech in Parlia-
ment in Jan. 1641, in Reply to the Articles of
High-Treason against him. Lond. 1642. qu.
(2) Speech in Guildhall 27 Oct. 1642. Lond.
1642. It was printed with that of the lord
Wharton before-mcntion'd,* giving an account
of Edghill battel. He hath several other speeches
extant which I have not yet seen, and probably

' [In 4to. with 6 other speeches spoken at the same time.

Wanlby.]
Vol. III.

other things. He was justly cut off in tJie lieif^it
of his unworthy pnx-eedings by a iieotilcntial
fever, to say no more of it, on llic nintli day of
Sept. in sixteen hundred forty and five, and wa«
buried on the 22d of the same month in the ablK-y
church of S. Peter in Westminster; at wliich
time Gasper Hicks, an assembly man, preached
the funeral sermon, shewing fortli his piety, pub-
lic spirit, &c. and I know not wliat. Hut after
his body had rested there 16 years, it was, with
others, taken up and thrown into a large hole
in S. Margaret's church-yard before the back-
door of one of the prebends of Westminster,
12 Sept. 1661. Besiaes this person was another
Will. Strode bom at Shipton-Mallet in Somerset-
shire, bred a merchant, and lived several years in
Spain. Afterwards, upon his return, lie pur-
chased an estate in his own country, was chosen a
recruiter for Ilchester to serve in tlie Long-Par-
liament, turu'd out thence, with other pre.sby-
terians, by the army, and imprison'd for a time.
Afterwards he refused the engagement, was much
discountenanced while the independents governed,
founded a free-school and an alms-house at Ship-
ton-Mallet, and a free-school at Martock in the
same county, wherein divers men of worth and
learning have been educated. After his majesty's
restoration he refused obedience to the orders
(especially those relating to the church) of the
deputy lieutenants of Somersetshire, and therefore
he was by the name of colonel Will. Strode of
Barrington in the same county imprison'd. Where-
upon he appealed to the lords of^the council, and
obtained an order to be bailed till he should make
his appearance before them. In the beginning of
Dec. 1661, he was heard at the council-board,
where his contempts being proved, (his majesty
liimself being present) the colonel was by order of
the council to repair back to Ilchester, and there
to stand confin'a tiU he yield obedience to the
deputy lieutenants. At length after a petition
put up by him for a mitigation, he on Friday Jan.
10. an. 1661, did appear before the council again,
and there, upon his Knees (the deputy lieutenant
being present) he submitted iiimself with fresh
promises of obechence, and thercujxm (and in re-
gard of his present infirmities) he was di.smiss'd.
He died in Nov. 1666, age<l 77 years, leaving be-
hind him two families of his name, which now
live in the same country in verv good fashion,
one at Barrington (where he was buried) and an-
other not far from it"

GILES WIDDOWES was bom at Mickleton
in Gloucestershire, elected fellow of Oriel coll. 1610,
being then bac. of arts of that house of two years
standing, or more. Afterwards he proceeded in
that faculty, entred into orders, and became a noted
preacher. At length being made rector of S. Mar-
tin's church in Oxon. he resigii'd his fellowship in

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179

WIDDOWES.

POTTER.

1621, and lived in the condition of a commoner for
several years in Glouc. hall, of which he was for the
most part of his time vice-principal. He was a
harmless and honest man, a noted disputant, well
read in the schoolmen, and as conformable to,
and zealous in, the established di.scipline of the
church of England, as any {)erson of his time, yet
of so odd and stranee parts, that few or none could
be compared witli him. He was also a great enemy
to the schismatical puritan in his sermons and writ-
ings, which being much offensive to his quondam
pupil Will. Prynne, a controversy therefore fell out
between them, an. 1630, and continued for some
time very hot, till Prynne was diverted by other
matters. He hath written.

The Schismatical Puritan: Serm. at Witney
eonceming the Laivfulness of Church Authority,
Jbr ordaining, &c ; on 1 Cor. 14. ver. ult. Oxon.
1630. qu. [Bodl. 4to. Rawl. 67, with MS. notes by
some adversary.] Which lioing unadvisedly writ-
ten, and much displea.sing to Dr. Abbot archb. of
Canterbury, was as scuriilously answer'd by Prynne
in his appendix to his Anti-Arimnmnisme.

Tlie lawless, kneeless, schismatical Puritan. Or,
a Confutation of the Author of an Appendix con-
cerning bmving at the Name of Jesus, Oxon. 1631.
qu. [Bodl. 4to. F. 15. Th.] and other things, as 'tis
said, but such I have not yet seen. He was buried
in the chancel of S. Martin's church before-men-
i64j. tion'd on the fourth day of P'ebr. in sixteen hun-
dred forty and five, havmg been before much va^
lued and beloved, and his high and loyal sermons
frequented, by the royal party and soldiers of the
garrison of Oxford, to the poorer sort of whom he
was always bcneficnal, as also ready at all turns to
administer to them in their distressed condition.

[Giles Widdowes much respected by Laud, arch-
bishop of Canterbury. See Canterburie''s Doome,
p. 72. WooD.»

Widdowes is noticed by Prynne as minister of
Carfax i» Oxford. Master Nixon, one of the ab-
dennen of Oxford, among other things, deposed at
Laud's trial, that ' in the parish church of Carfolks
(the principal church for the city, whether the ma-
jor and aldermen resorted) there was a great large
crucifix with the picture of Christ upon it, set up in
the window by Giles Widdowes who was parson
there, and one whom the archbishop countenanced.'

Widdowes in the dedication of his Schismatical
Puritan, to Katharine, dutchess of Buckingham,
signs himself her grace's ' most humble servant and
chaplajne.']

CHRISTOPHER POTTER nephew to Dr.
Barn. Potter mention'd under the year 1641, re-
ceived his first breath within the barony of Kendall
in Westmorland, became clerk of Queen's coU. in
the beginning of 1606, and in that of his age 15,

* [MS. note in Aslimole.]

afterwards tabarder, mast, of arts and chaplain in
1613 ; and at length fellow of the said college. He
was then a great admirer of Hen. Ayray jjrovost of
that house (some of whose works he published) and
a zealous puritannical lecturer at Abingdon in Berks,
where he was much resorted to for his edifying way
of preaching. In 1626 he succeeded the said Dr.
Barn. Potter in the provostship of his coll. and the
next year proceeded in divinity. Soon after, when
Dr. Laud became a rising favourite in the royal
court, he, after a great deal of seeking, was made
his creature, and therefore by the precise pai-ty he
was esteemed an Arminian. In the latter end of [86]
1685, he being then chapl. in ord. to his maj. was
made dean of Worcester (ujwn Dr. Rog. Man-
waring's promotion to the see of S. David) having
before had a promise of a canonry of W^indsor, but
never enjoyed it ; and in the year 1640 he executed
the office of vice-chancellor of tliis university, not
without some trouble from the members of the Long
Parliament, occasion'd by the puritannical and fac-
tious party of the univ. and city of Oxon. After-
wards the grand rebellion breaking out, he suffer'd
much for the king's cause, and therefore, upon the
deatli of Dr. Walt. Balcanquall,' he was designed and
nominated by his maj. to succeed him in the deanery
of Durham, in the niontii of January 1645, but
died before he was installed. He was a person
esteemed by all that knew him, to be learned and
rehgious, exemplary in his behaviour and discourse,
courteous in his carriage, and of a sweet and obUg-
ing nature, and comely presence. He hath written
and published,

A Sermon at the Consecration ofBarnab. Potter,
D. D. Bish. of Carlisle at Ely-Hou.se in Holbourn,
15 March 1628, cm John 21. 17." Lond. 1629.»

' [Who died at Chirke castle, and was buried in the church
of Chirl<e in the county of Denbigh, with the following
inscripiiun on his monument :

M. S. Hie situs est vir eximius Gualierus Balcanquallus,
SS.Theol. Professor, quiexScotiaoriundus,obsinguIaremeru-
ditionem aulaePembrochianae in acad. Cantabr. socius factus
est, et inter theologos Britannos S^nodo Dordracensi interfuit
Cl()l8),mox regiae majestati asacris, XenodochiiSubaudiensis
Londini praepositus, et decanus primo Roffensis (12 May,
1624) dein Dunelniensis (14 May 1639), omnia hoec ofiicia
sive digniiates magnis virtutibus ornavit. Turn vcro in Sco-
tianse Rebellionis arcanis motibus ob.servandis atque dete-
geiidis solerlissiiiie versatus est, in rebellione Anglicana regt
maxime fidus ; obsidione Eboraci liberatus, et in has oras
se contulit, ubi perhunianiler exceptus, sed ab hostibus cu-
pidissime quiesitus et exturbaius hiemali tempestate mire
saevienle tulelam casteHi in proximo confugil, et morbo ex
infesli itineris isedio corruplus ipso die Nativilatis Christi ad
Dominum niigravit. An. .Sra? Chrisiianse l645.

Haec in memoriani defuncti scripsii Johannes Cestriensis,
rogatu viri nobihssimi Tlionia Middleton baronciti, qui ex
pio animi proposito sua cura atque sumpiu hoc monumen-
tum posuit. vViHis, Cathedrals, (Durham) 25,5.]

* [In the title page, IVIiereunlo is added an adverlisemeni
touching Ikt History of the Quarrels of Pope Paul the bth
with the Venetians. Penned in Italian by F. Paul and done
into English by the former ./Author. Kknnet.]

9 [See Dr. Potter's Vindicaiion in A Letter to Mr. V.

181

POTTER.

DAVENPORT.

189

oct. [Bodl. 8vo. U. 60. Th.] It must Ix; now
noted that a certain Jesuit, known sometimes by
tlie name of" Edw. Knott, and sinnctimes by that
of Nich. Smith, and at other times by Mattliew
Wilson (wliioh was his true name) Iwrn at Pegs-
wortli near Morpeth in Nortliumlwrland (hd pubhsli
a book entit. ChariUj Mistaken, &c. whereupon our
author Potter answered it in another entit.

Want of' Charity jiistlij charged cm all sucli Ro-
manists as dare ajfirm that Protestancy destroy eth
Salvation, &c. Oxon. 1633. oct. Which lxx>k being
perused by Dr. Laud archb. of Cant. ' he* caused
some matters tlierein to be omitted in the next im-
pression, which was at Lond. 1634. oct. [Bcxll.
Rawl. 8vo. 232. witli MS. notes by Abraliam Bor-
fett.] But before it was quite pnnted, Knott be-
fore-mention''d put out a book entit. Mercy and
Truth : or, Charity maintained by Catholics. By
Way of Reply upon an Answer frarrHd by Dr.
Potter, to a Treatise which had formerly proved,
that Charity was mistaken by Protestants, &c.
printed beyond the sea 1634, m qu. [Bodl. Mar.
218.] Whereupon Will. Chilhngworth undertook
liim in his book called Tlie Religion of Protestants,
&c. which contains an answer only to the first part
of Mercy and Truth, &c. For tho' Chillineworth
had made ready, when this came out, a full exa-
mination and confutation of the second part, yet he
thought not fit to publish it together with this, for
reasons given in the close of the work. Afterwards
Knott did publish Infidelity unmask''d, or,aCcmfuta-
tionqfa Book published by Mr. Will. Chillingworth,
wider this Title, ' The Religion of Protestants,''
&c. Gaunt 1652, in a large qu. [Bodl. 4to. C. 12.
Th. BS.] Which is the last time that I find Knott
mentioned ; for he dying at London on the fourth
of January 1655, according to the Eng. account,
(buried the next day in the S. Pancras church near
that city) no body, that I yet know, vindicated
Chillingworth against him. Our author Dr. Potter
did also translate from Ital. into English The His-
tory of the Quarrels of P. Paul 5. with the State of
Venice. Lond. 1626. qu. [Bodl. 4to. H. 34. Th.]
Penned by father Paul Sarp : and had lying by him
at his death several MSS. fit to be printed ; among
which was one entit. A Survey of the Platform of
Predestination ; which coming into the hands of
Twisse of Newbury, was by him answered, as also
Three Letters of Dr. Potter concerning that matter.
" This Dr. Christ. Potter also writ his Vindication,
" by Way of a Letter to Mr. Vicars, toiich'mg the
" Points of God's Free-Grace, and Man's Free-
" Will. Lond. 1651. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. C. 314. Line]
" at the end of Appello Evangelium, for the Doc-
touching some Points in his Sermon, wrote an. lb'2y and
printed 1 651, for Jo. Clark. This Mr. V. w.is bish. Carl-
ton's son : vide p. 422. Baker.]

' [See bishop Laud's History of his Chancellorship, page
J 42.]^

" bee Canterbury's Doom, p. 251, 252.

" tritie of Divine Predestiiuitimi, &c. written by
" Job. Playtere, bach, of divinity. As for die oc-
" ca-sion of the said letter, vou may Ik; pleaitM to un-
" derstand. Dr. Christ. Potter having preached at
" the con.secration of Dr. Barnab. Potter bish. of
" Carli.sle 15 Marcli 1628, did afterwards print his
" sermon in 1629, which liis aforesaid friend Mr.
" Vicars having jhtusM, he, it seems, iKigglcd at
" some nas.sages therein, yet with a friendly, tho'
" somewhat veiiement affection, tiid expostulate in
" a letter to the doctor touching liis change of
" opinion, as he conceiv^l. The doctor for his
" friend's satisfaction, and to quit himself of incon-
" stancy, presently retunfd him the said modest,
" yet very judicious and rational, answer." At
length departing this mortal life in Queen's coll. on
the third day of March in sixteen hundred forty
and five, was buried about the middle of tlie inner
chappel belonging thereunto. Over his grave was
a marble monument fa-stned to the north wall, at
the charge of his widow Elizabetli, daugliti-r of Dr.
Charles Sonibanke sometimes canon of Windsor,
(afterwards the wife of Dr. Ger. I.,angbaine who
succeeded Potter in the provostship of the said col-
lege) a copy of which you may read in Hist. ^■
Ant'iq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 124. b. In his deanery
of Worcester succeeded Dr. Rich. HoldswortJi
archd. of Huntingdon and master of Emanuel col.
in Cambridge, and in his deanery of Durham Dr.
Will. Fuller dean of Ely, but neither of them, I
presume, were installed.

[Add Letter relating to the Privileges of tlte
Univers'ity of Oxford. Printed by Heame in his
Rob. de Avesbury Hist. Edw. 3. Apjiend. p. 328.

Potter was converted by reading remonstrant
books. Bakeb.]

" HUMPHREY DAVENPORT, second son
of Will. Davenport of Bromhall in Cheshire, esq;
by Margaret his wife, daughter of sir Rich. Ashton
of Midaleton in Lane, knight, was bom of an an-
cient and genteel family at Bromliall, or at least
in the county of Chester, became a conmioner of
Bal. coll. in the beginning of 1581, being then in
the fifteenth year of his age, and matriculated, or
made a member of the university as a Cheshire
man Iwrn and an esquire's son. Afterwards, be-
fore he took a degree, he was translated to Greys-
Inne in Holbourn near London, where by the
help of his academical learning, the rudiments of
the municipal laws were quickly conquered by
him. After he had continued some time in the
state of a counsellor, he became Lent-reatler of
his house 10 Jfic. 1. at which time being reputed
a weU-studied lawyer, and an upright person, was
by writ called to be serjeant at law, an. 1624, and
the same year Jun. 17 he received the honour of
knighthood from his majesty then at Greenwich.
In 1625 he was made the Icing's serjeant, and in
1630 lord chief baron of the Exchequer in the
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183

LOE.

DU GRES.

ASTON.

*' room of sir Joh. Walter ; in wliich office behaving
" himself with gi-eat loyalty, he was thereupon
" brought into trouble by tiie members of the Long-
" Parliament. (1.) For being one of the judges
" that advised the king in the matter of ship-
" money. (2.) For ordering the seizing of the
" goods of Sam. Vassal a merchant, because he re-
" fused to pay the im|X)sition due for them, &c.
" (3.) For actmg unjustly in the case of Pet. Smart
" preb. of Durham, for preaching a factious sermon,
" &c. with otlier matters which hastned the end of
" this good man, esteemed by all that knew him an
■" able lawyer, a loyal subject, hospitable, charitable,
" and above all, religious. He hath written,

" Synops'i.t : Or, an exact Abr'idg'ment of the
" Lord Cdke''s Commentaries upon Littleton ; being
" a brief Explanation of tlie Grounds of the Laic.
" Lond. 1652. oct.'

" ArgurneiHs against Will. Strode and Walt.
" Long, ■who were imprisoned 5 Car. l.Jhr speak-
" ing certain matters in the Parliament tlien lately
" dissolved.

" What other things he hath extant besides I
" know not ; and therefore I shall only say that
1645. " ^^' '^'^ '" sixteen hundred forty ancl five, after
" he had been a benefactor to the last adorning of
" the chappel of Bal. coll. and a common con-
" tributer to the poor and indigent royalists. Where
" his reliques were lodg''d I cannot tell, and there-
" fore being not in a possibUity to ^ve you his
" epitaph, I shall only tell you that while he liv'd
" he was accounted one of the oracles of the law."

WILLIAM LOE took the degrees in arts as a
member of S. Alban's hall, that of master being
compleated in 1600, at which time he was much in
esteem for Lat. Gr. and human learning. Soon
after he was made master of the college school in
Gloucester, (in which office he was succeeded by
John Langley) prebendary of the church there,
chaplain in ordinary to K. Jam. I. and pastor of
[88] tlic English church at Hamborough in Saxony, be-
lon^ng to the English merchant adventurers there
in 1618 ; in which year he accumulated the degree
of doctor of div. as a member of Merton coll. His
works are these.

Several Sermons, as (1.) Come and see. The
Bible the brightest Beauty, &c. being the Sum of
four Sermons jweached in the Cathedral of Gloio-
cester. Lond. 1614. qu.' (2.) The Mystery of
Mankind made into a Manual, being the Sum of

' [\Vorrall (Bi'J/. Leg. Angl. p. 1 1), soys, that there is an
edit, in l661 wliich profesfcs to be llie second ; in the title
page to which it is saiif to be ' collected by an unknown au-
thor.' It was again printed in l683.]

< " Cheshire Fisitalion Book in the Herald's Office made
" by Will. Duedale Is'orroy king of arms, c. 38. f'ol. 28. b."

■■ [In the title pape he is stilcd William Leo D. in di-
vinity somciiuic preacher at Wandsworth in Surrey.

Wanlet.]

seven Sermons preached at S. MichacFs in Corn-
hill; on 1 Tim. 3, 16. Lond. 1619. oct. [Bodl.
8vo. M. 108. Th.] (3.) The Kings Sluye, or
Edoni's Doom, Sermon mi Psal. 60. 8. Lond. 1623.
qu. [Bodl. 4to. J. 17. Th.] and another sennon or
treatise called The Mercltant Real ; wliich I have
not yet seen.

Vox Clamantis. A still Voice to the three Estates
in Parliament. Lond. 1621. qu. [B<xll. 4to. R. 9.
Th.] I find° one Ur. Loe to administer comfort to
Dr. Dan. Fcatly when he lay on his death-betl, and
afterwards to preach his funeral sermon at Lam-
beth, printed at London 1645. qu. which doctor I ciar.
take to be the same with our author, who, while he i645.
was preb. of Glouc. did sometimes siibs(;ribe himself
to certain chapter-acts by the name of Will. I^eo.
He died in the time of usurpation, when the church
was destroyed for the sake of religion ; but where,
or when, I cannot tell. After the restoration of
K. Charles II. one Hugh Nash, M. of A. succeeded
him in his prebendship, which for some years had
lain void.

[^Sermon on Ps. xlv. 3. preaclied at White Hall,
1622: with a dedication to the king. MS. Reg.
17 A. xl] ^ ^

GABRIEL DU GRES, a Frenchman, studied
sometimes among the Oxonians, afterwards went to
Cambridge for a time, as it seems, and returning
thence soon after, taught privately for several years
the French tongue in this university. His works
are these,

Grammaticce Gallica Compendium. Cantab.
1636. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. M. 86. Art. Seld.]

Dialogi Gallico-Anglico-Latini. Oxon. 1639.
[Bodl. 8vo. A. 33. Art.] 1652. [Bodl. 8vo. W. 12.
Art. BS.] and 1660. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. G. 11; Art.
BS.]

Regnlce pronunciandi ; ^ ut Verborum Galli-
corum Paradigmata, printed with the Dialogues.

Life of Jean Arman du Ples.ns Duke of RicMieu Clar.
and Peer of France. Lond. 1643. oct. and other i645.
things, as ''tis probable, but such I have not yet
seen, nor know any thing else of the author.

" THOMAS ASTON, son of Joh. Aston of
" Aston in Cheshire, esquire, by Maud his wife,
" daughter of Rob. Nedham of Shenton in Shrop-
" shire, was born at Aston ot a most antient and
" genteel family, entrcd a gent. com. of Brasen-nose
" coll. in 162|, but before he was settled, he was
" called home by his relations, and being soon after
" married, was created a bai-onet in July an. 1628.
" In 1635 he wis high-sheriff of Chesliirc, being
" then esteemed a person of gcxxl natural parts, and
" a high-flown monarchist. So that upon tlie ap-
" proach ofthe rebellion he published.

Ii; mc I.iJ

" Ii; A\c Life and Death qf Dr. Dun. Featlev, [ rinird
1 060. f. 75. 80, 81.

ASTON.

LYDYAT.

186

" A Remonstrance against Presbytery ; exhibited
" against divers of the Nobility, Gentry, Ministers,
" and Inhabitants of the Countij Palatine ofChcs-
" ter. Loud. 1641. "qu. [Hodl. 4to. J. 16. th.]

" Sluart Survey <rf the Presbyterian Discipline.
" And,

" Brief Review of the Institution, Succession,
" Jurisdiction of the antient and venerable Order
" of the Bishops. — These two last were printed
" with the Remonstrance before-mention a. He
" also made A Collection of sundry Petitions pre-
" sented to the King's most excellent Majesty, as
" also to the two Houses now assembled in Parlia-
" mcnt. And others already signed by most of the
" Gentry, Ministers and Free-Holders of several
" Counties, &c. — printed 1642, in 10 sn. in qii.
" [Bodl. C. 13. 15. Line] Soon after, the rebellion
" breakinj^ out, he was the chief man in his country
" that took part with his majesty K. Ch. I. raised
" a party of norse for Jiis service, beaten by a party
" of rebels under sir Will. Breerton of Honford
" near to Nantwich in Chesliire, on the 28th Jan.
" 1642, but sir Thomas escaped and got away with
" a light wound. Afterwards he was taken in a
" skirmish in Staffordshire, and carried prisoner to
" Stafford, where endeavouring to make an escape,
" a soldier espied him, gave him a blow on the
" head ; with which, and his other wounds, a httle
[89] " before received, he fell into a fever, and died of it
" at Stafford on the 24th of March, l)eing the last
l64s. " day of the year sixteen hundred forty and five.
" Afterwards his l)ody was carried to Aston, and
" there buried in his chappel, leaving then behind
" him the character of a stout and learned man, not
" that it is so expressed in his epitaph, but by the
" general vogue of all true and loyal hearts, then
" and since living.""

THOMAS LYDYAT the son of Christop. Lv-
dyat lord of the manor of Aulkryngton connnonlv
called Okertou near Banbury in Oxfordshire, and
citizen of London, was born at Okerton in the be-
ginning of the year 1572, and having pregnant parts
while a youth, was by the endeavours of his father
elected one of the number of the children of Wyke-
ham''s coll. near Winchester at about 13 years of
age, where being soon ripened in grammaticals, was
elected probationer fellow of New coll. 1591. At
which time being under the tuition of Dr. (after-
wards sir) Hen. Marten, made great iiroficiency in
logicals, and two years after was aclmitted verus
socius. After he had taken the degrees in arts he
studied astronomy, mathematics, the tongues and
divinity : in the last of which he had an eager desire
to continue and improve himself, but finding a great
defect in his memory and utterance, of which he
often complained, (particularly to Dr. Bancroft bi-
shop of Oxon his diocesan, in his epistle dedicatory
to liim of a sermon preached at a visitation while he
was a rural dean) made choice rather to quit liis

niace in the coll. (for the statutes thereof oblig'd
liim to divinity) and live u|X)n that small jjatrimony
he liad, than to follow and j)rosccute the said situdy
of divinity. Wiiat fiu'ther I iiave to observe of liini
is (1) That the seven years next ensuing, after he
hatl left his fellowship of New coll. (which wan
1603.) he sjK'nt in the finishing and setting forth
such books that he had begun m the college, esije-
cially that Dc Emendatitme Temporum, dedicated
to prince Henry, to whom he was chronographer
ana cosmographer. AV^hich prince In-ing solely given
up to all vu-tue, did graciously accept of it, and luul
so great a resjx'ct for the author, that had he lived
he would have done great matters fiir him; but
dying in the flower of his youth, the lu)i)es of our
author were interred with that prince in nis grave.
(2) That at the end of the seven years Dr. Usher
(afterwards archbishop of Armagh) being in London
found him out and had him with him into Ireland,
where he continued in the coll. near Dublin about
two years. At the end of which he purf)osing to
return for England, the lord deputy ami chanc. of
Ireland, did, u\)on his motion, make him a joint

t)romise of a comj)etent maintenance uj)on his return
>ack again thither. When he came into England
the rectory of Okerton befbre-mentioird falling void,
(which he beff)re had refused when fellow of New
coU. upon the offer of it by his fiither the patron)
he did, after several demurrs, and not without much
reluctancy of mind, accept of it in the year 1612.
Where being settled, he did not <mly go over the
harmony of the gospels in less than 12 years, making
thereon above 600 serm<ms, but wrote also several
lxx)ks, and laid the foundation of others. All which
in due time he would have publishetl, hatl he not.
been unadvisedly engaged for the debts of one very
nearly related to him. Which debts he being un-
able for the present to pay, (having before spent his
small patrimony for the printing of his books) re-
mained in the prison calfd Bocardo in Oxon, and
in the KingVBench and elsewhere, till such time as
sir Will. Boswell (a great encourager of deserving
men) Dr. Rob. Pink warden of New coU. and, if I
am not mistaken. Dr. Usher iK'fore-mention'd, had
laid down the debt and released him. Dr. Laud
also archb. of Canterbury did give his assistance
(upon the desire of sir Hen. Marten) for the deli-
verv of him from prison, but Selden who was de-
siru and importun'd to contribute towards it, re-
fused, for no other reason, as "'tis thought, than that
his Marmora Arundeliana, could not stand uncon-
tradicted by him, and tliat instead of a most judi-
cious, he gave him only the name of an industnou:^
author for his labour. (3) That about that time
he put up a petition to king Cb. I. wherein among
several things that he desired was, tliat his majesty
would give him leave to travel into foreign parts,
viz. into Turkey, ^Ethiopia, or the Abascn emperor's
country, to search and find copies, csixH;ially of civil
and ecclesiastical liistories to be published in print,

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or whatsoever copies mav tend to the propjigation
or increase of gcxjil learning : And fartlier also,
whereas he hatl leiger-ambassadors and agents with
his confederates, emperors, kings and princes of other
countries, they miglit in his majesty's name, in be-
half of Mr. Lydyat and his assigns, move their
highnesses to grant the hke privilege to him and his
assigns, &c. \Vhat the effect of this petition was,
I find not: however from thence his noble inten-
tions and pubhc spirit may be discovered. (4) That
tho' he was a person of small stature, yet of great
parts and of a public soul, and tho' a poor and con-
temptible priest to look upon, (for so he was held
by the vulgar) yet he not only puzled Christop.
Clavius ana the whole college of mathematicians,
but also that Goliah of Uterature Joseph Scaliger ;
who, when he was worsted by our author's writings,
(tho' he would never acknowledge it, howbeit great
men, particularly the famous Usher, held it for
granted) he betook himself unmanly to his tongue,
by calling him in a scornful manner a beggarly,
beardless, and gelt priest. (5) That as he was
much esteemed by learned men at home, among
whom were Usher before-mentioned, sir Adam
Newton secretary, and sir Tho. Chaloner chamber-
lain, to prince Henry, Dr. Jo. Bainbridge, Mr.
Hen. Bnggs, Dr. Pet. Turner, &c. who were his
great acquaintance: so was he by the virtuosi be-
yond the seas, who were pleased, and that worthily,
to rank him with the lord Bacon of Verulam and
Mr. Joseph Mede. But when they heard that our
author and the said Mede were very poorly prefer'd,
they answer'd that the Englishmen deserved not to
have such brave scholars among, since they made
no more of, them. (6) That in the civil war which
began an. 1642, he suffer'd much at his rectory of
Okerton before-mention'd, by the parliament party ;
for in a letter written by him to sir William Comp-
ton kt. governor of Banbury castle, dat. 10 Dec.
1644, I find that he had been four times pillaged
by the parliament forces of Compton-house (com-
monly called Compton in the hole) in Warwick-
shire, to the value of at least 70/. and was forced
for* a quarter of a year together to borrow a shirt to
shift himself; that also he had been twice carried
away from his house, once to Warwick, and another
time to Banbury. To the first of which places
being hurried away on a poor jade, was infamously
used by the soldiers there, and so sorely hurt, that
he was at the writing of the said letter not throughly
whole, and he doubted scarce ever should be, &c.
The cause of all which ill usage, was for that he
had denied them money, and had defended his
books and papers, and afterwards while a prisoner
in Warwick castle had spoken much for tlie king
and bishops. His works are these ;

Tractatus de var'iis Annorum Formis. Lond.
1605. Oct. [Bodl. 8vo. L. 34. Art.]

Prcekctio astrojwmka de Natura Cosli S[ Condi-
tUmibus Ekmentorum.

Dlsquisitio physiohg-'ica de Urifl-hie Fontium.
The two last were printed, and go always, with the
first.

Defensio Tractatus de variis Annorum Formis
contra Josephi Scaligeri Obtrtrtationcm. Lond.
1607. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. L. 6. Art. Seld.]

Examen Canonum Chronologicc Isoffog-icorum.
Printed with the Defctisw.

Emendutio Temporum ab Initio Mundi hue
usque, Compendio facta, contra Scaligerum S^ alios.
Lond. 1609. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. L. 7. Art. Seld.]

ExpUcatio 4" Additamentum Arffumentorum in
Libelh Emendationis Temporum Compendiofactfv,
de Nativitate Christi <^ Minusterio in Terris.
Printed 1613. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. L. 35. Th.]

Solis 4" Luna Periodus, seu Annus magnus.
Lond. 1620. oct. &c. [Bodl. 8vo. L. 50. Art.]

De Annis Solaris Mensura Epistola Astronomica,
ad Hen. Savilium. Lond. 1620. 21. oct.

JVumerus aureus melioribus Lapillis insignatus,
Jactusq; ffemm£tts ; e Thesauro Anni magni, sive
Solis <Sf LunoB Periodi octodesexcentenariw, S:c.
Lond. 1621. in one large sh. on one side.

Canones Chronologki, necnon Series summo-
rum Magistratuum 4" Triumplwrum Romanorum.
Oxon. 1675. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. P. 158. Art.] Pubhshed
from a MS. in the library of Dr. Jo. Lamphire.

Letters to Dr. Jam. Usher Primate of Ireland.-—
Printed at the end of the said Usher's life, 1686,
published by Dr. Rich. Parr. These, I think, are
all the things that he hath extant. As for those
many MSS which he left behind him at the time of
his death, are mostly these.

Annotations upon that Part of Mr. Edw. Breer-
wood''s Treatise of the Sabbath, wherein he denies
the Christian Sabbath on tlie Lord's Day or iht
first Day of the Week to be established Jure Di~
vino, by God's Commandment. — The beginning of
this MSS is, ' There was brought to me being pri-
soner in the king's bench, on Fnday evening, 3 Dec.
1630.' &c.

Annotations upon some controverted Points of the
Chronical Canons. — The beg. is, ' Notwithstanding
there l)e divers,' &c.

A yew Annotations upon some Places or Pas-
sages of the .second and third Chapters of the Book

entit. Altare Christianum. The beg. is, ' There

have been Christians ever since,' &c.

Treatise touching the setting up of Altars in
Christian Churches and bowing in Reverence to
them or Comnum Tables, and botving tlic Knee, or
uncovering the Head at the Name, or naming of

Jesus, occasionally made 1633. Written upon

the desire of some London ministers, to declare his
judoment therein : dedicated to archb. Laud in gra-
titude for hiaTeleasing him from prison. In a post-
script at i\v end of his discourse concerning bowing
at the name of Jesus, he endeavours to answer the
four arguments of bishop Andrews, which are in his
sermon on 2 Phil. 711.

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Answer to Air. Jo.<teph Mede's Treatise of t?ie
Name of Altar or dua-ioLo-l-^piov, antiently given to tlie
My roM-.— Written in Feb. 1637.

Answer to the Defence of the Coal from tlie Altar.

Evaiigeliuvi contractnm ex guatuor Evangelii.'i,
&c. — Written in Hebrew.

Annale.f Ecclesia Christi incfioati secwndum Me-
ihodum Baronii. This is written in Lat. but im-
perfect.

Chronicon Regiim Jndaorum Methodo magi-i
perspicud. Written in Hebr.

Mesolahum Geometricum.

Chromcmi Mundi emendatum.

Divina Sphivra humanorum Eventnum. The
beginning i.s, ' Etiam absque eo foret,'' &c. dedic. to
the icing, 1632.

Problema A.Hronomicum de Solli Eccentricitate.
The beginning is, ' Temis Diatribis,' &c.

Diatribcc; ^- Animadversiones Astronomicce,
ternw.

Circuli Diviensio Lydyatea, Archimidea.

Marmo7-eum Chronicon ArundeVmnum, cum An-
notationibn.i, &c. This was afterwards printed in
a book en tit. Marmora Oxoniensia, published by
Humph. Prideaux. All which MSS, with others
treating of divinity, mathematics and astronomy,
amounting to the number of 38 at least, were bound
up in 22 volumes, and reserved as rarities in the
hands of Dr. Joh. Lamphire, lately principal of
Hart hall. At length, after our author had lived
at Okerton several years very poor and obscurely,
iC46. surrendred up his soul to hnn that gave it, on the
third day of April in sixteen hundred forty and six,
and was buricxl the next day (lieing tlie same day
on which he had al)ove 70 years before been bap-
tized) by the Ixxlies of his father and mother in the
chancel of the church at Okerton, which he before
had rebuilt. Over his grave near to the south win-
dow, and not far from the east end of the said chan-
cel, the warden and society of New coll. did cause a
stone to be laid at their charge, an. 1669. The in-
scription on which you may read in Hist. 4" Antiq.
Univ. Oxmi. lib. 2. p. 149. a, as also the inscription
on his honorary monument in New coll. cloyster,
pag. 155.'

« ROBERT D'EVREUX, the only son and
" heir of Rob. earl of Essex, (who was beheaded for
" high treason in 1600) was bom in Essex house
[921 " without Temple-bar in the parish of S. Clement
" Danes within the Uberty of Westminster, an.
" 1592, educated in grammar learning in Eaton
" school near Windsor, became a gent. com. of Mer-
" ton coll. aljout the latter end of January 1602,
" and had an apartment allow'd for his reception
" and continuance in the lodgings belonging to the
" warden, Mr. Hen. Savile; who, for the great re-
" spect he had to his father, undertook to see that

' [See Gentleman's Magazine, I798, p- lOS?.]

he should l)e learnedly and religiously educated.
In the first of K. James I. Doni. 1()03, he waa
restort^d to the honours, which hi.t father Ix-fore
had lost, viz. to the earldom of Essex, and Ewe
vicountry of Hereford, anil barony of Ferrers of
Chartley, Bouchier and Lovayne, and at that
time prince Henry was plea.sed to be very con-
versant and familiar with him, being near unto
him in age, but more in affection, which conti-
nued for .some time, till upon a trivial matter they
fell out. At that time Essex's rwreations were
riding the great horse, running at the ring and
exercise of arms. His other hours were taken up
in study and perusal of Ixioks that yielded most
profit, not most delight, by the advice of the said
IMr. Savile, then a knight and a tutor to him in
his studies. In the latter end of Aug. 1605,
when then K. Jam. I. was entertained by the
muses in Oxon. our young nobleman Es-sex wa«,
among other nobles, actually createtl inastcr of
arts, and on the 5th of Jan. following he took to
wife the lady Frances one of the daughters of
Thorn, earl of Suffolk, but he being then scarce
14 years of age and she 13, they were by the ad-
vice of friends separated. Whereupon she was
taken under her mother's wing in the royal court,
which made her afterwards cast her eyes upon
other people, and he conducted by his guide or
tutor' into France and Germany, till time should
mature and ripen a hajipy co-union. After his
return they lived together, but with no comfort,
she having settled her affections upon a rising fa-
vourite in the court called sir Rob. Carr, after-
wards vise. Rochester and eai-l of Somerset; so
that upon pretence that the earl of Essex could
not perform the part of a husband upon her,
(whit-h was true, for he himself confessed that he
never could, and believed he never slunild car-
nally know her J certairi commissioners appointed
to take cognizance of the matter did pronounce a
divorce lietween them, an. 1613 ; whereupon she
married the said sir Rob. Carr, on the 26 of Dec.
the same year, as several histories will tell you,
and the particulars of that affair. Essex per-
ceiving how little he was beholden to Venus, did
then resolve to address himself to the court of
Mars, and to that purpose lie« went into the Ne-
therlands, which at that time was the school of
honour for the nobiUty of England in their exer-
cise of arms, where he first trayled a pike and
afterwards had the command of a regiment
Thence, after some years spent, he returned into
England, and thence in July 1621 into the Pala-
tinate to assist the king and queen of Bohemia in
the recovery of their right ; where, as before in
the Netherlands, tho' he behaved himself with

» " Arth. Wilson in his History <jf Great Britain, &c.
printetl l663. p. .^i5. 56.

9 " Rob. Codrington, in The Life and Death qf Rob. Earl
of Essex, &c. Lond. 1646. qu. p. 8.

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" gallant resolution, and became higlily renowned
" for feats of anns, yet he became taintetl witii some
" Calvinisticjil principles. Thence returning wth-
" out effecting his desire, he, wtli sir Edw. Cecil
" vise. Winibleton, took' a sudden exjiedition to
" Cadiz in Spain ; but matters there answering not
" his design, he returned to his native country, and
" having given imdeniable proofs of his manhood,
" he was ambitious to give some of his virility, so
" that soliciting the affection of Mrs. Eliz. Pawlet
'• daughter of sir Will. Pawlet of Edington in
" Wilts knight, one of the natural sons of William
" the third marquess of Winchester, they were
" married « at Netley, the earl of Hertford's house,
" on the eleventh of March 1630, by whom he had
" a son called Robert, who dying young, was' bu-
" ried at Drayton in Warwickshire. With this
" lady he did for a time cohabit, and it was but for
" a while, Ijecoming soon unhappy in his second, as
[93] « in his first choice, for he could as little digest her
" over-much familiarity with Mr. Udal or Uvedale,
" as his former lady with sir Rob. Carr. And there-
" fore because she objected the same cause of com-
'' plaint as his former lady had done, he was easily
" mduced to a separation from her as well as from
" the former, yet slie married not till after his death,
" and then she took to her second husband Tho.
" Higgons of Sliropshire, esq; afterwards a knight.^

' " Rob. Codrington, in The Life and Death of Rob. Earl
" of Essex, &c. Lond. l646. qu. p. 8.

* •' Ham. L'estrange in The Reign of K. Ch. I. &c.
" printed l65G. fol. second edit. p. 118.

' " R. Codrington, ut supra, p. 1 1."

* [Artfiur Wilson, in his own life, (Peck's Desiderata
Curiosa, lib. xii. p. ifi.) gives the following account of lord
Essex's second wife : ' That year, l630, we wintcr'd at the
earl of Hertford's in Wiltshire, where a fine young gentle-
woman, Mrs. Elizabeth Paulet, then was, a visitant onely,
of the noble countesse, my lord's sister. And, such faire
companie being acceptable at fetivall times, shee was in-
vited to stay all Christmas, where her winning behaviour
wrought so farr upon my noble master, that, in Lent fol-
lowing he married her. I must coiifesse shee appeared to
the eye, a beautie full of harmles sweetnies. And her con-
versation was affable and gentle. And 1 cannot be perswaded
that it was forced, but naturall to her then present condition.
And the height of her matriage and greatnes, as an accident,
altered her very nature : for she was the true im<ige of Pan-
dora's box. W hen my lord had fixt his affections on her, I
found his lordship cold in his familiar and gratious discourses
to mee, which I perceiving, could not but cxpressc a cloudie
and discontented countenance : which gave my new-married
lady some cause of anger against mee. — But the lady was so
irradicated in mallice (supposing my cloudy brow was con-
tracted, because she shined in so bright a sphere) never left
working and undermining to displace mee. And when, by
the examination of all my accounts, and all the artifice shee
could use, it would not be done, shee fained a sickness ;
tooke her chamber, and protested, never to come out of it
as long as I staid in the house : which I hearing, desired my
noble master's leave to depart. — So in July 1630, we parted.
And, within two yeares after, this malicious piece of vanitie,
unworthie of soe noble a husband (being found in another's
adulterous amies) was separated from him, to her eternal re-
proach and infamie.' So far Wilson, who can scarcely be
termed an unprejudiced witiiess against the countess of Essex,

" ' But happy it had * been (in all probability) not
" less for king Charles I. than this earl, had either
" his ladies found fewer, or he more, friends at
" court, and that his dishonour had been there re-
" sented agreeable to his extraction : for tho' (as
" some supjx)se) he laboured of an im])lacable and
" invincible impotency cis to conjugal concernments,
" yet to others he had animosity enough, and when
" we shall afterwards beliold liim in the head of a
" numerous anny, giving the said king battle in a
" pitcht field, it may well be conjectur d, that tliis
" then engagement was in part upon the score of
" those indignities, which he charged upon former
" account, so moving is the shew of injur'd honour.'
" But to return; the said Essex after he hatl left
" his second wife did ever after abandon all uxo-
" rious thoughts, and wholly applied himself to the
" improvement of those rules, which conduce to
" the affairs of the church and state. And if ever
" unseverer hours of leisure oflfer'd themselves in
" his retir d studies, he would employ that time in
" the perusal of some serious {xiem : and having
" great judgment, as 'tis said, especially in English
" verse, it was his custom to applaud the profession
" of tliat art, as high as their deserts merited, and
" to reward them above it, particularly Franc.
" Quarles and George Wither, puritanical poets.
" He was no way inclined to the sullen opinion of
" those men who disclaim the mu.ses, and esteem all
" poems to be as unlawful as unprofitable. In the
" latter end of Aug. 1636, at what time king Ch. I.
" and his royal consort were entertain'd in Oxon,
" the said Rob. earl of Essex being then there, he
" was actually created master of arts again, and in
" 1639 he was made lieutenant-general of the foot,
" under Thomas earl of Arundel the general, when
" his majesty went to fight the Scottish covenanters.
" In 1641 he was by bill in parhanient made gene-
" ral of all the forces on the south side of Trent,
" with power to raise more, if necessity compelled,
" during the king's voyage into Scotland, when he
" went to confirm all the extorted concessions to
*' those covenanters, aiul in July in the very same
" year he was upon tlie remoxal of Philip earl of
" Pembroke made lord chamberlain of his majesty's
" household. But see now the mutability of the
" man, and the ingratitude of a wretch ; for he for-

inasmuch as he dates his separation from his inuch-lovcd
master to her endeavours and ill-will. Granger, who had
seen A funeral Oration, spoken over the Grave of Elizabeth
Countess of Essex, by her Husband, Mr, Thomas Higgons,
at her Interment in the Cathedral Church of PFinchester,
Sept. I(j, l65() ; Imprinted at London, l63()', imputes the
loss of the countess's reputation to the spleen and malice of
her lord's servants, who (as he tells us, from her husband's
oration) she had highly ofl'cnded by introducing order and
(Economy into his family. Consi<lering liowever all the
events of this lady's hfc> " 's surely next to impossible to
suppose tha* it was the malice of servants alnne which in-
flicted so rfeep a wound on the countess's character and hap-
piness!

•> « Ham. L'Est. in The Reign of K. Ch. I. p. 118."

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" getting; all foniicr obligations did take upm him
" on the 12 of July IGliJ tlio ia))tiiin giniralsliii)
" of t!iu headless j)ar!iauient against the sovereign
'"the head of the conunonwealth ; about which time
" there were no less than four thousand men tliat
" listed themselves in one day in the Artillery gar-
" den near London, who declared their resolutions
" to live and die with Essex for the safety of tlie
" ixjace of the kingdom, but on the 9 of Aug. fol-
" lowing he with his retinue were justly proclaimed
" traytors: notwithstanding which, he sought with
" all diligence to advance his fellow rebers cause
" (for so they called their Mammon) and his own
" and their greedy avarice, by the hurt and extream
" damage of his country and the subversion of the
" public peace. The particulars of which, and how
" he was sometimes beaten and sonietimes did beat,
" and how he lost his army near Lesthiel in Corn-
" wall, where they were impounded by the royal
" party, while in the mean time he himself was
" forced to take a cock-boat at Foy to be conveyM
" to Plymouth to prevent his being taken prisoner
" or slain, the common prints and clironicles will
" tell you. What was it that disjwsed this earl to
" take up arms against the king, but discontent and
" revenge for the injuries done him at court about
" the business of Simierset .'' which stuck so deep in
" his stomach that when he took employment in the
" Netherlands, he was heard to say it was time to
" learn the use of anns if ever he meant to requite
" that indignit}'. And having all the time of king
" Charles I. been neglected at court, he looked
" upon the honourable office of lord chamberlain,
" wnich was confcr''d on him at last, not as an act
" of grace, but policy, he having been too far gone
" in design to be drawn off with that office ; which
" nevertheless he accepted, and had no sooner sworn
" his allegiance to his majesty's person, but he pre-
" sently brake it, to become the head of a most hi-
" deous and horrible rebellion. But did he escape
" without his tennwral punishment ? No : lie lived,
" as 1 shall tell you anon, to see himself cashired,
" and made a .scorn by a new faction, and out-bravd
" by his rival ; who being but a petty knight, robb'd
" him of all liis lionour, and carried away the glit-
" tering title of his excellency. Hy which means
" the power being brought into the hands of persons
" of mean quality, they made their design ever after
" to balile and undermine the nobility. A sad ex-
" am))le of the vanity and instability of all ix)pular
" interests and engagements ! After the said earl of
" Essex had thrust his nails deep into the wounds
" of the commonwealth, had committed great spoils,
" ravaged tlie country, and endeavoured to execute
" his malice to the utmost to please the parliament,
" and displease his majesty and the royal party,
" who as much reproach''d his debility as to the fe-
" male sex, as others did his valour and conduct,
" he was disgracefully thrust out from his high cm-
" ployment and sir The. Fairfax of Nun-Apleton
Vol. III.

in Yorkshire knight, was clapt in over liix )iea<!
to finish the work of iniipiity. Whereujxm the
eiu-1 seeing himself thus hiid itside, anti prudently
considering that a new mcxlel in the main part of
the militia must necessarily require a mutation
and change of men to manage the service answer-
able to- the minds of such that commanded in
chief, it was thought convenient by some of the
great ones that they give up their commissicms to
save the labour and dishonour of having them
taken away by force. A\'liereupon lie tLe said
Essex, together with Edward earl of Manchester,
Basil earl t)f Denbigh and sir Will. Waller, three
generals of the parliament forces, did on the .se-
cond day of Apr. 1645 surrender up all at once
their commissi(ms in tJie house of lords before
they should be thereunto required. And thus
this earl of Essex having lost the opportunity of
blessing the kingdom witli a jieacc when it lay in
his jMwer, and to which he was courted by the
king and several of his nobihty with liim, when
he was inip<junded in Cornwall in Aug. 1644,
and seeing how the pulse of the times beat, and
what counsi'Is were likely to prevail, he withdrew
himself with great discontent to Eltham house in
Kent. However in the Ix'ginning of Deeeml)er
following, the members t)f the headless ]>iu-liament
did, to please and sweeten him, generally vote him
to be matle a duke, but he refused that honour
with scorn, and chose rather to s{)end the rest (jf
' his time in obscurity than to be a shining light in
the nation. A writer of the presbytcrian per-
' suasion, that had been of his retinue, doth ° tell
u.s that ' Essex had ever an honest heart, and tho'
' nature had not given him elofiuence, he had a
' strong reason that did express liim better. His
' Cfmntenance, to those that knew him not, ajjwar-
' ed somewhat stern and solemn, to intimates an'able
' and gentle, to the females obligingly ctmrteous :
' and tlio' unfortunate in some, yet highly respect-

• ed of most, happily to vindicate the virtue of his

■ sex. The king (.James I.) never affix-ted liim,

• whether from the bent of his natural inclination

• to effeminate faces, or whether from that instinct

■ or secret prediction that divine fate often imprints

■ in apprehension, whereby he dill fbix'see in him

• (as it were) a hand raised up against his jxwte-
' rity, may be a notation not a determination : But

• the king never liked him, nor could he close with

• the court,' &c.

" Under the name t)f this person were published,
' while he was captain-general,
" Several Letters to the Speakers of the Houses

• qflx>rds and Commons.

" Letters to several Persona.

" Relations concerning Skirmishes, Battles, tak-

■ ing of Towns, Houses, &c.

" Declarati(»is and other such like things. He

[95J

" Anh. \Vil<oii as bfforc,

p. l68.

o

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D'EVREUX.

" dietl in Elthani house betore-mcntion''d (not with-
" out the suspicion of poyson') on Monday night
iW6. " the 13 of Sept. in sixteen hundred forty and six,
" and was buned in St. Paul's cliappel (nortliward
" of the cajH-'lla reguni) in the abbey church of S.
" Peter in Westminster. Tlie magnificent .solem-
" nity of his funeral, with a great deal of state in-
" termixed with some new invented ridiculous cere-
" monies, was celebrate*! on the 22d of Oct. foUow.
" ing, at the charge of the parliament, (to which the
" independants did very readily concur) to make
" reparation for those indignities lately done unto
" him ; of which they could not otherwise acquit
" themselves. At the same time Mr. Rich. Vines '
*' one of the assembly of divines preached the fune-
" ral sermon on 2 Sam. 3. 38. and several ele^es
" made on him, particularly An Elegy upon his
" unhappy Loss, by Tho. Twyss, ana another en-
" i\t.—-Justa hotioraria : or. Funeral Rites in Ho-
*' nour to his deceased Master, Rob. Earl of' Essex,
" &c. written by Daniel Evance M. of A. of Sydney
" coll. in Cambridge, afterwards minister ot Cal-
" borne in the isle of Wight, servant-chaplain to
" the .said earl, and lecturer of S. Clement Danes
" within the liberty of Westminster. It was print-
" ed at London 1646 in 3 .sh. and an half in qu.
" Now altho' the title of Essex terminated in him,
** because he ched without issue, yet the title of vis-
" count Hereford, &c. descended to his kinsman
" Walt. D'Evreux of Bromwich castle in Warwick-

' [He dyed, without bein^ sensible of sickness, in a time
when he might have been able to have undone much of the
mischief he had formerly wrought; to which he had great
inclinations; and had indignation enough for the indignities
himself had received from the ungrateful parliament, and
wonderful apprehension, and detestation of the ruin he saw
like to befall the king, and llie kingdom. And it is very pro-
bable, considering the present temper of the city at that
time, and of the two houses, he might, if he had lived, have
given some check to the rage and fury that then prevailed.
But God would not suffer a man, who, out of the pride and
vanity of his nature, rather than the wickedness of his heart,
had been made an instrument of so much mischief, to have
any share in so glorious a work ; though his constitution,
and temper, might very well incline him to the lethargick
[indisposition of which he dyed, yet it was loudly said by
many of his friends, that he was poyson'd. Lord Claren-
don, Hi$t. of the Rebellion, iii, 33, ed. folio.

As to the suspicion of Essex's having been poisoned, it
can only be regarded as one of the many groundless surmises
which were long entertained with regarcf to the decease of
eminent persons, especially if their deaths were sudden.
Different accounts have been given of the earl's death ; some
have ascribed it to apoplexy ; but Ludlow, who was pro-
bably well informed, wys, that it was occasioned by his
having overheated himself in the chase of a stag in Windsor
forest. Kippis, Bio^rapkia Britannica, t, I67 J

' [Ric. Vines coll. Magd. alumnus, aul. Pembr. prae-
fectus. See his funeral sermon preached by Tho. Jacombe
Feb. 7, 1655.

guidam Ric. Vines admissus in col. Jo. 1586.
ic. Vines coll. Magd. A. B. l022; A. M. I627.
An. 1655, Feb. 4, Mr. Vines preacher in St. Laurence
Jewry, having the day before preached and given the sacra-
ment, died this morning. Mr. Ric. Smith's Obituary. BA-
KER.]

" shire, and his lands fell in partition between the
" latly Frances the c<msort of Will, duke of Somerset
" his sister, and sir Rob. Shirley baronet, his ne-
" phew, by the lady Dorothy his other sister, as his
" heirs general. When the said Robert earl of
" Essex had his commission given to him by the
" parliament to be captain general of the forces to
" fight a^inst their king, these nobility following
" received commissions also, viz. Will. Rus.sel can
" of Bedford to be lieutenant-general or general of
" the horse. In his old age he was created duke of
" Bedford by king Will. III. and qu. Mary. John
" Mordant earl of Peterborough to he general of
" the ordnance ; and these following to be colonels,
" viz. Henry Grey earl of Stanford; Nathaniel
" Fiennes viscount Say and Seal ; Joh. Carey lord
" Rochford afterwards earl of Dover; Oliver lord
" St. Johns eldest son of the carl of l^olinbrook ;
" Rob. Grevill lord Brook ; Henry lord Mandevill
*' (son of Henry earl of IVIanchester) ; John lord
" Rolx?rts, afterwards carl of Ratlnor ; Basil lord
" Feilding, afterwards earl of Denbigh ; PhUip lord
" Wharton ; William lord Willoughby of Parham ;
" Tho. Grey lord Groby, eldest son of Henry earl
" of Stanford. — He was afterwards a recruiter for
" Leicester to sit in the long parliament, one of
" the judges that sate when K. Ch. I. was sentenced
" to be beheatled, but being afterwards troubled
" with the stone, his unskilful chirurgeon in the
" cutting him for the taking it out of his bladder at
" Wilthorp in Northamptonshire near Stanford, an.
" 1657, preposterously proved his best fi-iend, by
" preventing a worse catastrophe that seemed to
" threaten him, had he lived three years longer.
" The next that was made a colonel was Ferdi-
" nando lord Hastings, who on the 16 of Nov. 1640
" had been summoned to sit in parliament among
" the barons, and after his father's death became
" earl of Huntingdon ; Will, lord Grey of Wark ;
" and Philip Sydney viscount Lisle, eldest son of
" Robert earl of Leicester. This last person (a
" Middlesex man bom) who had been bred in Ch.
" Ch. in this university, became afterwards a par-
" liament man for Yarmouth in Hampshire to serve
" in the long parliament, and in 1643 I find him an
" active man in Ireland against the rebels. After-
" wards, because of his knowledge of that kingdom,
" he was according to the unanimous votes in par-
" liament made governor or lord deputy thereof in
" the latter end of 1645, went thither in person in
" the beginning of March 1646, did some service
" for the cause there, returned in May 1647, and
" in the year following was nominated one of the
" judges for the trial of king Charles I. but he did
" not sit when sentence passed upon him. About a
" fortnight after his decollation, he was nominated
" one of the council of state, as he was in the year
" following, was a parliament man for Kent to serve
" in the little, alias Barbones, parliament, was of the
" privy-council to Oliver, who made him one of his

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['96J " lords, alias one of the loi-ds of llie other house,
" and ' liavin<f' learned so niueh l)y changin;^ with
" every ehange, and keeping still (like his father in
" law William earl of Salisbury and I'eter Sterry
" tlie minister) on that side whieh had proved
" trump, nothing need farther be said of his fitness
" (being such a man of principles) to be taken out
" of the parliament to have a setled negative voice
" in the other house, over all the g(X)d people of the
" land, he being lord of the old stamp already, and
" in time likely to become a peer,' &c. Edward
" lord Kimbolton afterwards earl of Manchester,
" did take a commission also to be a colonel, and
" afterwards general of the associated counties, as I
" shall tell you elsewhere."

[Laztjes and Ord'mances of Warre, established
for the better Conduct of the Army by his Excel-
lency the Earle of Essex, Lord Generall of the
Forces raised by the Authority of Parliamient for
the Defence of the Kirnf and Kingdom. Lond.
1642, 4to.

Two Letters to Henry Prince of Wales, in Birch's
Life of that prince.

Address to his Army in Sept. 1642. In the Par-
liamentary HlHory XI, 437, reprinted in the Bio-
graphia Britannica.

There are several curious, as well as rare, por-
traits of Essex, but I shall only mention

1. From Dobson, engraved by Faithome, large.

2. By Hollar, on horseback, 1643. large.

3. By Stent, large.

4. By Glover, in 4to.]

WALTER RALEIGH second son of sir Ca-
rew Raleigh of Downton in Wilts knight, (by Do-
rothy his wife daugh. of Will. Wroughton of
Broadhinton in the same county, relict of sir Job.
Thynne knight) elder brother to the famous sir
Walter Raleigh, and both the sons of Walter Ra-
leigh of Furdell or Fardell in Devon esq; was born
at Downton before-mention'd, educated in grammar
learning in Wykeham's school near Winchester,
became a commoner of Magd. coll. in Mich, term
1602 (ult. Eliz.) being then l6 years of age. After-
wards proceeding in arts, he was thought worthy,
being a noted disputant, to undergo the office of
junior of the act celebrated in 1608. About that
time taking holy orders, he became chaplain to that
most noble count William earl of Pembroke, in
whose family spending some time, had the rectory
of Chedsey near Bridgwater in Somersetshire con-
ferred upon him on the death of George Mount-
gomery, m the latter end of 1620, and afterwards a
minor prebendship in the church of Wells, and the
rectory of Streat with the chappel of Walton in the
same county. Much about the time of the lament-

' " The second Narrative of the late Parliament (so call-
" edj &c. Loiwl. 1658. qii. p. ts. 16.

' " Ask his late wife's sisler called Mary, wife of Will.
" lord Sandys."

ed death of the said count, he became one of the
clui|)lains in ord. to king Ch;u-les I. and Ijy that title
he was actually created D. of I), in 163a On the
13 of January 1641 he was admitted dean of Wells
on the death of Dr. George Warburton, and on the
breaking out of the rebellion soon after, (which hin-
dred his farther advance in the church) he was jier-
secuted, plimder'd, and forced to abscond for his
loyalty to his prince. At length being taken pri-
soner at Bridgwater by the rebels 21 Jul. 1645, he
was sent to Banwell house as a captive, and ttfter
several removes to his own at Wells, where being
committed to the custody of a shoe-maker (David
Barret a constable of that city) by the committee of
the county of Somerset, was treated by him far be-
neath his quality and function. Soon after having
occa.sion to write a letter to his wife, the rude keeper
endeavoured to take it from him and read it, sup-
posing it might be a letter of intelligence to be sent
to some noted cavalier. But the doctor preventing
his sauciness, the keeper thrust his sword into his
groyn, shedding his mood as the blood of a dog ;
of which wound he died about six weeks after to the
great grief of the loyal party. His papers after his
death, such as could be kept, were for more than
30 years reserved in obscurity. At length they
coming into the hands of the worthy and leamecl
Dr. Simon Patrick, then rector of S. Paul in Covent-
garden, preb. of Westm. and dean of Peterborough,
(now bish. of Ely) he viewed, amende<l, and me-
thodized them ; which being done they were made
public under this title :

Reliquicc Raleighanoe. Being Discourses and
Sermons on several Subjects. Lond. 1679. qu.
[Bodl. A. 5. 18. Line.'] The number of sermons
are 13. What other things he left worthy of pub-
lication were kept in Dr. Charles Gibbes's hands,
(whose sister Mary our author had married^ but
whether any of them are yet made public I Know
not. 'Tis said that he wrote a Tract of Millcnia-
ni.sm, he having for some time been much addicted
to that opmion ; but that, as I have been informed, [971
was long since lost. Those that remember him,
have often said that he was a person not only of
genteel behaviour, but of great wit and elocution, a
good orator and a master of a strong reason, which
won him the familiarity and friendship of tliose
great men, who were the envy of the last age, and
wonder of this; viz. Lucius lord Falkland, Dr.
Hen. Hammond and Mr. Will. Chillingworth. The
last of which was wont to' say, that Dr. Raleigh
was the best di.sputant that ever he met withal. He
departed this mortal life on the tenth day of Octob.
(lieing Saturday) in sixteen hundred forty and six, i646.
and was buried on the thirteenth of the same month
before the dean's stall in the choire of the cath. ch.
of S. Andrew in Wells. Over his grave is not yet
an inscription, only a rough marble stone, which

" rVVilh many MS. notes by bishop Barlow.]
' Pref. to RcUq. Raleigh, by Sim. Patrick D. D.
02

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SOMERSET.

i64€.

had probably been laid there many years Ix^fore the
dtK^tor's death. One Standish a clerjfy \ncar of that
cathedral was afterwards questioned by the aforesaid
committee for burying him in the church ; and his
deatli being soon after caU'd into question at an as-
size or sessions, there was a jury of rebels that
brought in his murder either Ignoramus, or at least
but man-slaughter ; for they said that the doctor to
shim the keeper's reading of" a letter which he wrote
to his wife, ran upon the keeper's sword, &c. Much
alM)ut that time the committee turned the doctor's
wife and children out of doors, and his son (as 'tis ■*
said) was li)rced to fly the country, for that he would
have farther prosecutetl the law against the mur-
derer of his father.

MATTHIAS PRIDEAUX son of Dr. Joh.
Prideaux, rector of Exeter coll. was bom in S. Mi-
chael's parish in Oxon in the month of Aug. 1622,
became a sojourner of the said coll. in the beginning
of the year 1640, was elected fellow .soon after, took
the degree of bach, of arts in 1644, and in the year
following, he, by the name of Captain Matthias Pri-
deaux, was, by virtue of the chancellor's letters, ac-
tually created master of arts. Under the name of
this person was publish'd after hi.s death,

All easy and compendicnui Introdttctionfor Read-
ing of all Sorts of Histories. Oxon. 1648. qu.
[Bodi. 4to. P. 77. Th.] There again 1655. (pi.
[Bodl. A. 2. 16. Line] To which is added A Sy-
nopsis of the Councils, written by the father of tne
author Matthias, who, as 'tis said, had a considerable
hand in the Easy and Cinnp. Introd. This Mat-
thias Prideaux who was esteemed by liis contempo-
raries an ingenious man, died at London of the
small pox in sixteen himdred forty and six, or there-
abouts, to which place he receded after the surrender
of the garri.son of Oxon to the forces under the com-
mand of the parliament. He had written one or
more trite things, but were never published.

«' HENRY SOMERSET son and heir of Ed-
" ward earl of Worcester, lineally descended from •
" Charles Somerset earl of Worcester, natural son
" of Henry Beaufort duke of Somerset, great grand-
" son of John of Gaunt duke of Lancaster, fourth
" son of K. Edw. III. became a nobleman, with his
" elder brother William, of Magd. coll. in the liegin-
" ning of 1591, and were soon after thus matncu-
" lated or made members of the university. ' Gu-
" lielmus, dominus Herbert, comitis filius, natus in
" comitatu Hereford, an. aetatis 15.' After whom
" immediately follows Henry thus : ' Henricus So-
" merset comitis fil. natus in com. Hereford, an. aet.
" 14.' Afterwards, in 1593, Thomas his younger
" brother was matriculated and in 1605 Charles and
" Edward Somerset, two younger than Thomas,

were matriculated also, all as members of Ma^d.
coll. After Henry Somerset, whom we are farther
to mention, hat! sjx'nt two or more years in the
said coll. he was called home, and thence sent to
travel into France, Italy, &c. where, I presume,
he changed his religion for that of Rome, and was
not l)orn or bre<l a R. Catholic as some report : for
the truth is, if his own words may be believ'd, he
was not, as in one of his apophthegms ^ it doth a[V
pear thus: ' It was told me by some of them
before ever I was a Catholick, that,' 8cc. See
more in the conclusion of this discourse. After-
terwards, his elder brother before-mention'd dying
unmarried, he became lord Herbert of Ragland,

' and when his father died, earl of Worcester, an.

■ 1627 ; to which honour he became a great oma-

• ment and glory, and was therefore Ix'loved and
' adored by all generous and virtuous men. After-

• wards livmg mostly at Ragland in Monmoutlishire,
' did little or not at all frequent the royal court,
' but as a plain man, especially in his apparel, lived
' very hospitably there, and at otlier of his seats,
' kept a well-regulated family altogether free from
' swearing and drunkenness, was exceeding chari-
' table Ixith in word and action, a good landlord, a
' loving neighbour, a great compromiser, a wise
' man, and above all a jx?rson of great and sincere
' religion. He was so devout and used prayer so
' much that you should never see his closet door
' open, but you might f)erceive he had been weep-
' ing, which he would endeavour to conceal by
' wiping his eyes, but he could never wipe away
' either the swelling or the redness of them. This
' person, who was of a most noble and generous
' di.sposition, ample fortune, and of perfect loyalty,
' did manifest his dutiful affections to king Charles
' I. (of blessed memory) by very large supplies
' when the predominant party in the Long parlia-
' ment had reduced him to extream necessities. In
' consideration whereof, and of his personal merits,
' he was by letters patents bearing date at Oxon 2
' Nov. 1642, advanced to the title of marquiss of
' Worcester. Afterwards he retiretl to his seat at
' Ragland, lived there, used little hostilitv, untill
' such time he was provoketl within the pales of his
' own park : and then fortifying that plfice, kept it
' for his and the king's use, but never gathered any
' contribution from the country adjacent, but paid
' the soldiers of his garrison out of his privy purse.
' While he was in this condition he had occasion to
' fly from a tlanger with a gentler and softer foot
' than it made after him : Whose condition so dan-
' gerous, was the more desperate, because he was
' unsensible of the approach of any enemy, and his
' security the sooner wrought, because intelligence

' had not given the enemy any information how
' near they were unto him. It was then the hap

[98]

♦ Merc. Rusticut, or England's Ruin, Sic.
at the end.

Printed l647, * " JVorcesler's Apophthegms, printed in l650. p. 118.
" Apopbtheg. bQ."

SOMERSET.

2()2

[991

" and fortune of one Ur. Tho. Bayly a great loyal-
" ist, to meet with this nobleman in this condition
" on the Welsh moiuitains ; at wliich time lie ditl
" first inform liimself and then his lordship of the
" one, and afterwards his lordship of the other par-
" ticular, as also of the rub that he had cast in the
" way, that had turn'd aside the bowl that was run-
" ning so fairly towards the mark. After the
" doctor had told this noble marquiss all the parti-
" culars that he had done, and what he farther
" meant to do, in order to his preservation, the mar-
" quiss with a composed countenance, (wherein you
" might liave read not the least perturbation of
" mind) gave him this language, ' sir, it is fit you
" should liave your reward ; I am yours, and (em-
" bracing the doctor) now I put you in full posses-
" sion of your own, I pray dispose of me as you
" please.' This was the first time that the doctor
" had the happiness to be acquainted with this
" heroic marquiss ; from which time forward, until
" the time that he laid him in his grave at Wind.sor,
" he never parted from him, but adhered to him in
" Ragland all the while it was kept by the marquiss
" as a garrison for the king. Alter the fatal battel
" at Naseby his majesty took his rambles into Wales,
" and in July 1645 he lodgetl in Ragland ca-stle 12
" nights, and in Sept. following 7 nights. In which
k *' times the king, as 'tis said, had several discourses
" with the marquiss alx)ut matters of religion ;
'* which being observed and taken by the said Dr.
" Bayly, were by him, after the marquiss's death,
" published under this title,

" Certamen religiosum ; or, a Conference be-
" t-ji;een K. Ch. I. and Henry late Marquess of
" Worcester, concerning Religion, in Ragland
" Castle, An. 1645. Lond. 1649. oct. [BodL 8vo.
" Crynes 229.1 This being taken to be a fictitious
" thing and why, (as I have elsewhere ' told you)
" an advertisement was put out against it as such,
" by Dr. Pet. Heylin in his epistle to the reader be-
" fore his collection of the Works of K. Charles I.
" (wherein tlie said Conference is put) entit. Biblio-
" tlieca Regia, &c. but omitted in other impressions
" of it, as also in the works of the said king printed
" in fol. whereupon Dr. Bayly, who about that time
" was committed prisoner to Newgate, wrote a bix)k
" entit. Herba Parietis, &c. Lond. 1650. fol. In
" the epistle before which, he falls foul upon Heylin
" for his advertisement before-mentioned. Aiter-
" wards came out an Answer to the said Certam.
" Religiosum, by Ham. L'estrange, and another by
" Chnstop. Cartwright of York, entit. Certam.
" Relig. or, A Conference betxceen the late King
" of England and the late Marquiss of Worces-
" ter concerning Religion ; together with a Vin-
" dilation of t/te Protestant Cause, &c. Lond.
" 1651. in a pretty thick qu. In the epistle to the
" reader before which, Mr. Cartwright saith thus —

^ III Jth. &■ Fnsli O.von. Vol. I. p. 527-

" ' I know that there are ' some who account tliis
" Coii/ireiicc n<i better than sup|x)sitious ; wiiich
" reflecting upon the jiublisher Dr. Bayly, he hath
" lately in a preface to a botik emit, as I remember
" Herba Parietis, which he hath set forth of his
" own, vindicated himself, and assertetl tlie Con-
'''■ Jerence, &c. I havi' no cau.se to question the truth
" of the relation,' &c. Soon after tlie publication of
" Dr. Heylin's Advertisement, the said Dr. Bayly,
" who was a great admirer of the wisdom and loyalty
" of the .said niarq. of Worcester, pubhshed

" Worcester\i Ajmphthegmes, or zvitty Sauing.t
" of the Rt. Hon. Henry late Marquis, and Earl
" ()f Worcester, ^c. Lond. 1650. oct. In the epist.
" to the reader before which, Dr. Bayly vindicates
" the said martjuis, and tells us he hatl a conference
" with K. Ch. I. in Uagland castle, which he the
" said Bayly had published inider the title of Cer-
" tarn. Relig. And tells us that he published the
" said apophthegms to shew to the world the mar-
" quis's wi.sdom and abilities to Iiold discourse with

" the sdd king about matters of religion. Dr.

" Bayly saith also, that ' as to the objection of the
" marquis's inability to talk so to the king, (in their
" conference) he assures us by the apophthegms in
" the said book, (which he never had the least
" thought to have published but upon this occasion)
" ' that he used to talk so wisely, that all the
" wisdom that he (Bayly) had, thought them worthy
" of record, and (now) of pubhcation, &c. To a
" great many of which saymgs, there are a great
" many witnesses to justify a truth that cannot
" be denied, and must needs verify the former,'
" &c. The chiefest part of the saici apophthegms
" (wherein are many pleasant stories, and therefore
" worth the reachng) are involv'd in a book entit.
" Witty Apophthegms delivered at several Time.*
" and upon several Occasions by K. James I. K.
" CImtIcs I. the Marquis of Worcester, Francis
" Lord Bacon, and Sir Thomas More. Lond.
" 1658. Oct. What other things are published
" under the name of this most noble and generous
" marquis, I cannot tell ; and therefore all that I
" shall say more of him is, that he defended his
" castle of Ragland against the predominant party
" of the Long parliament with great resolution and
" gallantry ; which l;eing the last garrison of the
" king's that held out in England or Wales, and
" without any hope of relief, was at last delivered
" uixjn honorable terms (of Dr. Bayly's framing as
" 'tis said) on the 19th of Aug. 1646. But the said
" terms or articles (wherein was no provision made
" for the marquis, because by sinister advice he had
" thrown himself on the mercy of the parhament)
" being basely violated, the marquis was hurried up
" to Westminster, his goods .seizetl upon, and he
" committed to the custotly of the Black Rod, the

■J See in ihc advertisement to the reader prefix'd to the
late King Charles's Works, set forth together in one vol.

203

SOMERSET.

" keeper of whicli lived then in Covcnt Garden :
" whereiijwii the most noble marquis demanded " of
" Dr. Bayly and others in iiis comiiaiiy, what they
" thought of fortune-tellers ? It was answered that
" some of them spoke shrewdly : whereupon the
" marquis said, ' It was told me by some of them,
" before ever I was a Catholic, that I should dye in
" a convent, but I never believed them before now,
[100] " yet I hope you will not bury nie in a Garden^
" &c. Under the said custody did the marquis
" remain in the company of Dr. Bayly and one or
" more servants in a chearful condition, and not in
" melancholy or discontent, till the month of De-
" cember following, at vvhich time surrendring up
" his most pious soul to the great God that gave it,
l646. " in sixteen himdred forty and six his body was
" convey'd to Windsor, and on Christmas day, or
" thereabouts, it was inter'd near the body of his
" ancestor Charles Somerset earl of Worcester, in
" the south chappel (dedicated to the Virgin Mary)
" at the west-end of the church of St. George in
" the castle there : in which chappel the said
" Charles earl of Worcester had ordained a secular
" priest to say mass every day, and to pray for the
" souls of him and his first wife, Elizabeth, the
" daughter and heir of Will. Herbert earl of Hunt-
" ingdon, lord Herbert of Gower, who also lies
" there inter'd. So that whereas this most gene-
" rous marquis had been the king's richest subject
" in England and Wales as well in money as land,
" the blessed parliament as 'twas then called, did at
" that time and after deprive him and his successor
" Edward marquis of Worcester, of all or most that
" they had, by reason of their great loyalty ; and 'tis
" yet a question whether the said marquis Henry
" died not in want, and whether he was not buried
" in a mean condition. But this was not all, for
" they caused his castle to be demolish'd and made
" useless."

[The first edition of Worcester's Apophthegmes
in 1650, which is among bishop Barlow's collection
in the Bodleian, (8vo. C. 603. Line.) has a very
curious wood-cut representing king Charles and the
marquis of Worcester, with a third person standing
behind the king holding a drawn sword. The
marquis bears a pair of scales into which the king
is placing a coin. Rude as the cut is, I have no
doubt but it is a very tolerable Ukeness of the three
persons it proposes to represent.

Wood has given a very unfortunate specimen of
his lordship's wit; I shall endeavour to select some
rather more appropriate extracts.

' Recovering the top of an high mountain, by the
advantage of the ground, we could see the enemy
marching another way, at which sight the marquisse
dwelt with his eyes a little longer upon that object
(than) the lord John Somerset, his sonne, thought

" See in Worcester's ylpolhegms, prioted in 1650. p. lig,
apotheg. 69.

convenient : wherpupt)n the marquisse made his re-
ply— O sonne, I love to see mine own danger, espe-
cially when it is marching off.

When the king first entred the castle of Raglan,
the marquesse kiss'd the king's hand, and rising up
again, he saluted his majesty with this complement,
Doniine non sum dignus. The king replved unto
the marquesse. My lord, I may very well answer
you again, I have not found so great faith in Israel;
for no man would trust me with so much money as
you have done : To which the marquesse replied, I
hope your majesty will prove a defender of the
faith.

When the king first entred the gates of Raglan,
the marquesse delivered his majesty the keyes, ac-
cording to the ordinary custome ; the king restoring
of them to the marq. the marq. said, I beseech your
maj. to keep them, if you please, for tliey are in a
good hand, but I am afraid that ere it be long, I
shall be forc'd to deliver them into the hands of
those who will spoile the complement.

My lord Heroert of Raglan, and eldest son to
the marq; came into Raglan castle, attended with
40 or 50 officers and commanders : and his business
with his father being about procuring from the old
man more money for the king, the lord Herbert, in
his request imtonis father (unliappily and unawai-es)
chanced to use the word must ; wliich hi.s father, the
marquess, laying hold on, asked him, mi/st you ? I
pray take it, and threw him the keyes of his treasury
out of his pocket, whereat his son was wonderfully
out of countenance, and abasht, being otherwise ever
a dutiful and respectfid son to his father, replyed,
sir, the word was out before I was aware, I do not
intend to put it in force ; I jway will you put up
your key again. To which the marquess returned
his son these words, Truly, son, I shall think my
keys not safe in my pocket, whilst you have so many
swords by your sides ; nor that I have the command
of my house, whilst you have so many officers in it,
nor that I am at my own disjiose, whilst you have
so many commanders. My lord (reply'd tlie son) I
do not intend that they shall stay in the castle, I
mean they shall be gone. I pray let them (said the
marquess,) and have a care that must do not stay be-
hind. Whereat (after that my lord Herbert was
gone out of the room) there wer some who (as
mannerly as they could) blam'd the marquess for
his too much severity to his son, after that he hail
seen him express .so much of sorrow for that ovcr-
shp ; whereupon the marquess reply'd Harke ye, if
my son be dejected, I can raise him when I please ;
but it is a question if he should once take a head,
whether I could bring him lower wlien I list : Ned
was not wont to use such courtship to me, and I
beheve he intetided a better word for his Jathcr, but
must was for the king.''

There are two heads of the marquis of Wor-
cester irt 4to. one by Stent, the other on horseback.]

GREGORY.

2<J<I

JOHN GREGORY, the miracle of his age for

critical and curious learning, was born at Agniun-
deshain commonly called Amersham in Bucks, on
the 10 Nov. 1607, apjilied himself to academical
learning in the condition of a servitor in Ch. C'h. an.
iG-^-l, oeing then put under tlie tuition (witli his
master sir Will. Drake) of the most ingenious and
learned Mr. George Morley, (afterwards bishop of
Winchester) where, for several years, spending 16,
of every 24, hours, he arrived to great learning, and
took the degrees in arts, tliat of master being com-
pleated in 1631. Alx)ut which time being received
into the favour of Dr. Duppa, the vigilant dean of
his house, he was by him made chaplain or petty
canon of the cathetlral, and after that his own do-
mestic, and prebendary of Chichester and Salisbury
when he successively sate at those places as bishop.
He attained to a learned elegance in English, Latin,
and Greek, and to an exact skill in Hebrew, Syriac,
Chaldee, Arabic, Ethiopic, &c. He was also well
vers'd in philosophy, had a curious faculty in astro-
nomy, geometry and arithmetic, and a familiar ac-
quaintance with the Jewish rabbines, anticnt fathers,
modem critics, connnentators, and what not. His
works are.

Notes on the View oftlie Civil and Ecclesiastical
Law, written by sir Thomas Ridley, Knt. Oxon.
1634. qu. second edit. Ox. 1662. oct. there again
1675, 76. qu. In which notes (being scarce 26
years old when he wrote them) he made an early
discovery of his civil, historical, ecclesiastical, ritual,
and oriental learning, through which he miracu-
lously travePd without any guide, except Joh. Dod
the decalogist, whose society and directions for the
Hebrew tongue he enjoy'd one vacation at his bene-
fice in Northamptonshire.

Notes and Observations upon some Passages of
Scripture. Oxon. 1646 [Rodl. 4to. A. 1. Th. Seld.]
Lond. 1660. 65, 71, 88,» qu. translated also into
Latin [by Richard Stokes] and remitted into the
Critica sacra. From which notes may easily be
discovered his exact skill in the oriental tongues.

Certain learned tracts, as (1) A Discourse of the
70- Interpreters ; the Place and Manner of their
Interpretation. (2) Discourse declaring what Time
the Niccne Creed began to be sung in the Church.
(3) Sermon upon the Resurrection ; on 1 Cor. 15.
»er. 20. (4) Kaivdv hvTipos; or a Di.iproofofhim
in the 3 Luke vcr. 36. (5) Discovery of an an-
tient Custom in the Church of S arum, making an
anniversary Bishop among the Choristers on InnO'
cents Day.^ (6) TTie several Accounts of Time

• [Tlie JVnrks of the reiierend and leiirned Mr. John Cre.
ory. Master nf ytrls of Christ Church Oxon, in two Parts ;
''he first containing Notes and Observations upon several
Passages in Scripture; The second his Posthuma, being
divers learned Tracts upon various Suljects. Lond. 16/1. 4io.
Bodl. D. 1 1 8. Line]

' [For further observations on this suhjecl see Hawkins's
History of Music, ii. 4 ; Watton's IJist. if En,^!ish Pnetry,

among all Nations fiom the Creation to tlte pretent

■^S^- CD "^^^^ As-syriun Monarchy ; being a De-

.uription (fits Rise and Fall. (8) Description and

Use of the Terrestrial Globe. AVhich tiglit tracts

were printed under tlic title of Grcgorii Posthuma

at Lond. 1650, [Bwli. 4to. G. 10. Th. Seld.] 6 J,

71, 83. qu. with a .short account of the author's Ufe

set before them, \vritten by his dearest friend John flOll

Gurgany (son of Hugh Gurgany of London priest)

sometimes a servitor of (Jh. Ch. afterwards cliaj)lain

of Merton coll. who dedicated them to Edw. Bysshe

Clar. king of arms, a patron not only to the author,

but Gurgany, ii\ the time of their afflictions.

Observationes in Loca quadam ex-
cerpta ex Joh. MalultB Chronographia. ^P'"" P'"-
MS. which after his death came into '^"/""^^ll
the public library at Oxon, where it rum refltxu-
now remains. Edin. Chilmead having rum et rrfrac-
afterwards prepared the whole work of ''^"'" Myie-
Malala for the t)iess, intended, as it \"'' G"""'-
seems, to prefix tlie said Observations, „ig Xonrf
as a preface, he having therein spoken 1 003, pub-
sometiiing of the said author ; but that lished then
author iK'ing published at Oxon in 1691, "'"''^ '*'.
Gregory's Observations were laid aside, "q^/J{„
as containing things little material, and pi,,i edit."
instead of them there is added a ])reface
or ])rolegomena to Mnlala by Humph. 'Hody bach, of
div. fellow of Watlh. coll. See the said preface § xliii.
He the said Gregory did also translate froni Gr.
into Lat. (1) Palladius de Gentibus ludiw, ^■
Brachmanibus. (2) S. Ambrosius de Moribus
Brachmannorum. (3) Anonymus de Brachma-
nibus. Which translations coming after his death
into the hands of Edm. Chilmead chapl. of Ch. Ch.
came, after his, into those of E. Bysshe esq; be-
fore-mentioned, who published them under his own
name, in 1665, as I shall tell you elsewhere. At
length after an industrious and short life, he gave
way to fate on the thirteenth day of March in six- 104^.
teen hundred forty and six, and was buried on the
left side of the grave of W. Cartwright in the isle
joining on the south-side of the choir of the cath.
of Ch. Church in Oxon. Some years before his •
death being reduced to poverty, because he was de-
prived of tlie benefit of his two prelxMidships, he re-
tired to an obscure ale-house standing on the green
at Kidlington near Oxon, kept by one Sutton, father
to that son whom our learned author liad bred up
from a lioy to attend him. There I say spending
some time in great retiredness, died obscurely, ana
by the contribution of one or more friends, his body
was convey'd to Oxon.

[Dr. Gurgany, in his letter (Aug. 6, 1674) to
dean Sancroft, ' presents liim with a view of one of
the Jewells of his deare and learned son Mr. Gre-

i, 248; ii,375, 38g, 390,391 ; iii, 302 &c. 32S &c. Braod's
Popular Antiquities, i, 328, &c. Aecount of the Christmas
Prince, in Oxford, in 16O8, Lond. I8IO. pref. &r.]

207

GllEGOllY.

COX.

gory' It was his Al-Kihhi; or of Adoration to thv
Ecust, which I havo now in manuscript.' Tankkb.
Gregory was assistant to bisliop Linclsoll in pro-
paring an etlition of Thcopliylact ujwn ihc Epistles
of St. Paul,' as tlie editor, T". Baylie, obseiTcs in his
preface — ' Descri!)ebantiir i^ vctiisto cocHce manu-
scriptoillustrissinii coniitis Aruncleliani, Anglia- ma-
resclialH, viri ut antitjuo stemniate, itii polita; anti-
quitatis studio dccantati. Post ajiograplion cum
prototy]x> fideliter conunissum, ad unum et alterum
exemplar Oxoniense instituta est castigatio. Qua in
re quantum ille fiilei industriaeque prwstitit, testando
erunt viri ad elcgantiorcm doctrinani facti, Thomas
Triplet amicus mihi unicus, et Johannes Gregorius;
quos in posterioris exemplaris coilatione sibi vvyeiyovs
adscivit.']

" EDMUND GREGORY, son of Hen. Grc-
" S*"'y vicar of Cherington in Wilts, was Iwrn in
" that county, entred a student in Trin. coll. 1632,
" aged 18 or thereabouts, Uxik one degree in arts,
" afterwards holy orders, as it seems, sctle<l in his
" own country, and wrote,

" An historical Anatomy of Christian Melan-
" choli/. Lond. 1646. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. G. 10. Th.
Claruii " BS.] wth his picture before it. *

i64). « Meditation on Joh. 9. 4. printed at the

" end of the former book. What other things he
" hath written, I know not."

[Tlie Author's Poem to Himself, on James 3, 17.

(From his Anatomy of Christian Melancholy.)

If thou, my soul, wouldst true Religion see,
Lo, here in brief thou may'st resolved be.

The Wisdom that descendeth from

above
Is pure, as saith S. James, and full of

Love,
Mercy and Peace it doth extend to all.
Without deceit, and nothing partial.

* [This manuscript, which Dr. Gurganj' supposed to be
lost, when he wrote llie short memoir of Gregory, prefixed
to his Poslhuma, is now among bishop Tanner's boolis in the
Bodkian. It was purchased of I3r. Gurgany's widow by
archbishop Sancrofi, as we learn from a MS. note on the first
leaf, written by that prelate.

' In this tract, says his biographer, 'with very great j udg-
ment and learning, bee vindicated the antiqnitie of East-
ward adoration, (especially in all churches,) as far beyond an
altar or crucifix, (the Romish bounds,) as the flood preceuds
in time these superstitious distinctions of tlie Christian.
Which gallant refutation of that Popish error, I the rather
mention, continues Gurgany, becaus soni suspected him a
favorer of that waie ; but to my certain knowleg, tlieirjea-
lousie was unjust and groundless.']

' [T/ieophi/lucli Archiepiscopi Bulgnrice in D. Pauli Epis-
tolas Commeiiturii : Studio rt Citra Revotiidiisimi Palris
Domini Auguslini Lindselli Episcopi llerefnrdensis, ex anti-
guts Maiiuscriptis Codicihus descripli, el etisligali, rl nunc
primum GTwci edili. Cum Lalina Philippi Montaui Firsione
ad Grcrcorum Exemplariuin Fidem restituta. Londini, E
TypoRrapheo Regio, l636. Bodl. A. 3. 8. Th. Seld.]

* [Engrated by Marshall, and inscrib'd ' set. 31, i6j6.']

The Head. If sin be folly, niiulnesse, want of wit,
The righteous then are wise and most
discreet.
Wisdom. If Christ our Wisedom came down
from on hie.
All eai'thly knowledge is but vanitie.

The Eyes. Tliis Wisedom's pure, and filleth us
with light,
To trust in him who passeth humane
sight.
Faith. This Wisedom's pure and purifi'th the

minde
From tliose dark works which make
the Conscience blinde.

The Hands. It seeketh peace, it hateth to contend ;
It's gentle, milde and loving to its

friend.
With it, forgivenesse easily is found; -
111 it, compas.sion doth to all abound.

Charity.
The Feet.

And all this good it freely doth im-
part.
Without a partial, proud, or grudging
heart ;
G(xk1 Nor doth Hypocrisie these vertues kill

Meaning. With by-respects, or a sinister will.

Here is religion's head, its eyes, its

hands ;
Here are those feet on which it firmly

stands.]

" BENJAMIN COX, a minister's son, was
" born in Oxfordshire, entred a batler or com. of
" Ch. Ch. in 1609, aged 14 years or thereabouts,
" went afterwards to Broadgate's-hall, and took the
" degrees in arts as a member thereof. Afterwards
" he entred into the sacred function, had a spiritual
" cure bestow'd on him, but being always a puritan
" from the beginning, expressed his principles more
" openly when the grand rebellion broke forth, than
" before he durst to have done. Afterwards he
" took the covenant, was a gainer by his factious
" principles, and at lengtli became an analwptist ;
" in which persuasion I think he died. He hath
" written and pubhshed,

" Thesis about the Refusal of scandalous Chris-
" tians {as yet unconvicted) at the Lord's Tabic —
" This I have not yet seen, and therefore I can tell
" you no more of the title than I have here set
" down, which I had from the Answer to it made
" by Martin Blake Bach, of Div. and Vicar of
"■ Barum (Barnstaple) in Devonsh. printed at Lond.
« 1645. qu. ,

" Treatise' against Infant-Baptism. — This also
" I have not yet seen ; and therefore cannot tell
" whether it be the right title.

" A true and sober Answer to a false Accusation
" of Mr. Tho. Edwards in Am Gangrana, wherein

BUTLER.

PAGIT.

210

164$.

" is shelved the Unlaxvfultiess offflving the Name
" of Church to an House made of Lime and Stone,
" and the Name of Cfturches to Parochial Con-
" g-rcffations. I^oiul. 1646. qii. '
[1021 " -^'* -Appendix to the Confession of Faith; or,

Clar. " a more full Declaration of the Faith and Judg-
" metit of Believers. Lond. 1646. qu.

" Several Sermons.

" There was another Benj. Cox, who was a con-
" triver of several drolLs and farces, and an actor in
" them in the times of the rebellion and usurpation
" under prince Oliver ; when comedies and tra-
" gedies, together with the stage, were silenc'd. A
" collection of which was made and pubhshed by
" Francis Kirkman a bookseller, an. 1673. in oct.
" Which farces and drolls were acted in pubhc and
" private, as at Bartholomew-fair in London, at
" rairs in the country, in corporation halls and
" taverns, on several mountebanks stages, at Cha^
" ring-Cross, in Lincolns-Inn-fields, and other
" places. But the said Ben. Cox, who was a witty
" man, and a gi-eat mimic, was no academian, and
" whether related to the former I cannot yet tell."

[I suppose the first Benjamin Cox to be the
same per.'^on whom the separatists of the rebel army
sent for from Bedford, to oppose Mr. Ric. Baxter,
who calls him in 1643 ' an ola Anabaptist minister,
and no contemptible .scholar, the son of a bishop' —
But the last circumstance I conceive to be a mis-
take ; for I know of no bishop, English or Irish, of
the name of Cox, except the bishop of Ely in queen
Ehzal)eth's time, whose onely son, that I ever heard
he had, was a knight. * Cole.]

CHARLES BUTLER was bom at one of the
Wycombs (Great Wycomb I suppose) in Bucks,
entred a student into Magd. Hall in the year 1579,
took a degree in arts, and being made one of the
bible clerks of Magd. coll. was translated thereimto.
Soon after proceeding in that faculty, he became
master of the free-school at Basingstoke in Hamp-
shire, where continuing 7 years, with the enjoyment
of a cure of a httle church called Skewres, was pro-
moted to the vicaridge of Lawrence-Wotton three
miles distant thence, (a poor preferment, God wot,
for such a worthy scholar,) where, being setled, he
wrote and published these books following, which
shew him to have been an ingenious man, and well
skiird in various sorts of learning.

The feminine Monarchy : or, a Treatise of Bees,
Ox. 1609. Oct. [Bodl. 8vo. B. 27. Med.] Lond.
1623. Ox. 1634. qu. [Bodl. 4to. B. 51. Art. Seld.]
translated into Latin by Rich. Richardson, some-
times of Emanuel coll. in Cambridge, now, or lately,
an inhabitant in the most pleasant village of Brix-
worth in Northamptonshire. — Lond. 1673. oct.
[Bodl. 8vo. B. 59. Med.] In this version he hath
left out some of the ornamental and emblematical

' [See Silvester's Life o/Rnxlei, p. 46.]
Vol. III.

part of the English copy, and hath, with the au-
thor's, scatter'tl and ina-rmix'tl his own, observations
on bees, and what of note he had either heard from
men skilful this way, or had rcatl in other lxx»ks.
But this last translation being slow in the sale, there
hath been a new title put to it, and said therein to
be printed at Oxon. 1682. oct.

RhetoriccB Libri duo, " quorum prior de Tropit
" <1^ Fiffuris, posterior de Voce Sf Gestu prttcimt,
" Sec." Oxon. 1618, the 4th edit, and 29. (lu. Lond.
1635. oct. " It was written by the author at
« Basingstoke, 1600."

De Propinquitate Matrimonium impediente Re-
ffula ffencralis. Oxon. 1625.* qu. [Bodl. 4to. W.
12. Art. Seld.]

Oratoriw Libri duo. Ox. 1633. qu. [Bodl. 4to.
P. 65. Art.] Lond. 1635. oct.

English Grammar. Ox. 1634. qu. [Bodl. 4to. L.
44. Art.]

The principles of Music. Lond. 1636. qu. [Bodl.
4to. B. 50. Art. Seld.] He took his last farewell of
this world on the 29th of March in sixteen hundred
forty and seven, and in that of liis age 68, or there- '647.
abouts (after he had l)een vicar of Wotton St. Lau-
rence before-mention'd 48 years) and was buried in
the chancel of the church mere.

EPHRAIM PAGIT or Paget, son of Euseb.
Paget mention'd before under the year 1617, was
bom' of a genteel family in Northamptonshire, ma-
triculated as a member of Ch. Ch. 25th of May
1593, aged 18, but whether he took a degree, it ap-
pears not. Afterwards, thro' some petit imploy-
ments, he became parson of the church of S. Ed-
mund in Lombard-street' within the city of London,
where he continued many years. He hath written,

Christianographia : or, a Description of the
Multitudes and sundry Sorts of Christians in the
World, not subject to the Pope, &c. Lond. 1636;
[Bodl. 4to. P. 9. Th. Seld.] 36, 40, [Bodl. F. 1. 19-
Th. Seld.] &c. qu.

Treatise of the Religion of the anticnt Christians
in Britany. — printed with some editions of the
former booK.

Hceresiographia : or, a description of the He-
resies of later Tim-es. Lond. 1645, [Bodl. AA. 20.
Th. Seld.] and 48, 4th edit.' in qu. [Bodl. 4to. W.
4. Th. BS.] He hath also a serra. extant called
The mystical Wolf; on Matth. 7. ver. 15. Ixjnd. [103]
1645. qu. and other tilings, as 'tis probable, but
such I nave not yet seen. Upon the breakuig out

" [Reprinted at Frankfurt in l643, 8vo. in the same vol.
with Fr. Flnreiis I)e Nupliis Coruobrinarum prohihitis out
permifsis. Loveday.]

' Rff. Matric. P. pae. eg.

« [1()01, 19 Aug. Ephr. Paget, presbiier, adtniss. ad
eccl. S. Edmundi in Lombard street, \kt niort. Nich. Balgay
S. T. P. Rfg. Banirnft, Ep. Lond.]

8vo,

» [Fifth edition, Lond. l6Cl, 8vo. sixth edit. l66«, Bodl.
.¥. 106. Line]

Qll

PAGIT.

COLEMAN.

• C il IVar "^ ^^^ grand rebellion * he was so ino-
fitst edk. l«isted and troubled, tliat mt-erl y for

quietiioss sake he was forced to leave
liis benefice in his old age, being then commonly
called Old Father Ephraim. So that retiring to
Deptford in Kent, sjjent there the short remainder
of nis days in great devotion and retiredness. At
length surrendring up his pious soul to G(xl in the
lC47- begmning of the year (in April as it seems) sixteen
hundred forty seven, was buried according to his
will in Deptford church-yai-d. One of both liis

names* translated into English, Ser-

• firjt edit written originally by Lod. Lavater, but

whether the said Ephraim Paget was
educated in Oxon, I cannot justly say, tho'' two or
more of his sirname ami time occur in our registers.

" Probably it was the same with our author

" that translator being then, 1586, a child of eleven
?' years of age.'"

[There is a sixth edit, of E. P.''s Hercsiography
an. 1661, with a preface by the stationer, wherein
he is said to have died at his old mansion house
1650, aet. 84 He is there said to have understood
16 or 16 languages. Baker.

Among the Harleian manuscripts is one contain-
ing a great number of Pagit''s epistles, in divers lan-
guages, to the several jiatriarchs of the Greek
church, upon matters of religion. ']

THOMAS GOLEMAN was born in Oxford-
shire, particularly, as it seems, within the city of
Oxon, where several of his name and time have
lived, made his first entry into Magd. hall in the
beginning of the year 1615, and in that of his age
17, took the degrees in arts, holy orders, and be-
came so accomplished in the Hebrew language, that
he was commonly called Rabbi Coleman. After-
wards he was made rector of Blyton in Lincoln-
shire, but being schismaticidly encfined, he left that
place in the beginning of the civil war, 1642, under
pretence of persecution by the cavaliers, and re-
tiring to the great city, became a grand covenanter,
an inveigher against the king and his party, against
the bishops and orthodox clergy, one of the assem-
bly of divines, rector of S. Peter''s chiu"ch in Com-
hill in the place of a loyal doctor ejected, and a
preacher before the parliament. While he sate in
the assembly, to which he was chiefly called for his
knowledge m the Hebrew tongue, he behaved him-
self modestly and learnedly, maintaining among
them the tenets of Era,stus. His works are these,

Several sermons, as (1) TJie Christian'' s Cause
and Complaint, &c. FaM-Sermon before the Hoiise
of Commons ; on Jerem. 8. 20. Lond. 1643. qu.
[Bodl. 4to. D. 61. Th.] (2) Tlie Hearts Engage-
ment, Sermon at S. Margarets in Westminster at
the public Entring into the Covenant, the 29 Sept.

' [See MS. H»rl. 82b. Calal. Harl. MS. vol. i. pag.450.]

1643 ,• on Jer. 30. 21, last Clause. Lond. 1643. qu.
There were then present some noblemen and gen-
tlemen, many soldiers and people of all sorts ; and
looking on the soldiers he told them that ' the co-
venant was the parliament's sword and buckler:
for when the cavaliers shall see you come arni'd
with the covenant, they will rim, rim, run away
from the Lord of hosts,' &.c. (3) God's u?iusual
Answer to a solemn Fast, Fa.it-Sermon before both
Houses; on Fsal. 65. 5. Lond. 1644. qu. [Bodl.
4to. D. 61. Th.] preached upon tiie sad success
tliat the parliament forces had in Cornwall. (4)
Hopes defer d and dashed, Fa^t-Sermon before the
House of Com. on Job 11. 20. Lond. 1645. qu.
[Bixll. 4to. G. 5. Th.j He was not thankcxl for
this sermon according to custom, but only ordered
to print it, because the presbyterian part)- disliked
him, for that he too sligiitly spoke of ministerial au-
thority, and seemed not to chslike the in(le(x;ndent,
&c. In his epist, detl. to the house of com. he saith
thus, ' There was never sermon preached on these
public fasts, that was received with such contrary
affections, and censures as this ; some approving
above commendation, others disliking below de-
testation,' &c. So(m after George Gillespie a pres-
byterian minister of Edinburgh, educated in S. An-
di«w's university, did not only preach against the
said sermon in another delivered before the house of
Lords, and in a second elsewhere, but also printed
them* in vindication of the prcsbyterians, where-
upon our author Coleman ])ublished,

A brotherly Evamlnation examined : or, a clear
Justification of ' t/iose Passages in a Sermon against
lohich tlie Reverend and learned Commissioner Mr.
Gillespie first in two several Sermons, and then in
print, did preach and zorite, London 1646. qu.
[Bodl. 4to. G. 5. Th.] To which is added,

A short Discovery of some Tenets and Prin-
ciples ichich entrench upon both the Honour and

Power ttfthe Parliament What else our author

hath written, I find not, only a thing called A
Model, as the author of A Friendly Debate^ tells
us, which was briefly view'd and answer'd in 1645,
but neither the Model or Ansicer have I yet seen.
He died suddenly about the beginning of the year
sixteen hundred forty and seven, but where buried
I cannot tell, because the register of St. Peter's in
Cornhill mentions him not. I find one Tho. Cole-
man minister of AUhallows Barkin near tlie Tower
of London, who published a sermon entit. Justi/ica-

' [Nihil respondes, or a Discovery oflhe Unsalitfactorinest
nf Mr. Coleman's Piece ptiMish'd under the Title of a Bro-
therly E,raminatio7i re-exnmined, wherein is self Contradic-
tions, (Sfc. By Georfre Gil/espy minister at Edinburgh, Lond.
IO43, 4to. four slicels and half.

Mule attdis ; or, an Answer to Mr. Coleman's Male diets,
with some AnimaSversions on Mr. IJussey's Plea for Chris-
tian Magistracf', by Geo. Gillespie, Minister at Edinb. Lend.
1646, 4io. 8 sheets. Tanker.]

' In the. third part printed )072, p. 386. in marg.

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tionJuMiJiecl, an. 1G53, but of what university he
was, I know not yi't. As for G. (iillcspie bofore-
mcntiouM, ho was a liigli covenantor, had some
g<x)d learning, but was very anti])rclatical, and bold
beyond all nieasuro. He WTote against the cere-
monies, several pieces iigainst the Erastians, and
died about 1649. In the inontii of January 1660,
the tombstone of this Gillespie (wlio had also writ-
ten a seditious book, entit. his LaM Will and Tes-
tament) was, according to an order of the committee
of estates in Scotland, fetcht from the burial place,
and on a market-day broke by the common-nang-
man at the cross of Kirkadie, where he had fornierlv
been minister.

[Mr. Selden, who knew Coleman well, in the as-
sembly of divines, says, he was a Cambridge man,
and gives a large character of him, Erastus and
Grobus. ■> Baker.]

THOMAS FARNABIE the most noted school-
master of his time, son of Tho. Farnabie of London,

oarpeiiter, son of Farnabie sometimes mayor

of Truro in Cornwall, was boni in London about
1575, l)eciime a student in Mert. coll. in the begin-
ning of 1590 ; at which time, being a youth of great
hope, he was entertained by Mr. Tho. French a
learned fellow of that house, who made him his
post-master, and so consetjuently his servitour, being
the fashion then for jx)st-masters to sei-ve those fel-
lows from whom they received their places. But
this youth being verv wild, tho' of pregnant parts,
made no long stay there, for being enticed to for-
sake liis rehgion and country, he left the coll. very
abruptly, went into Spain, and was for sometime
educated there, in a certain cf)ll. belonging to the
Jesuits. At length being weary of their severe dis-
cipline, he found a way to leave them, and then,
being minded to take a ramble, went with sir Fr.
Drake and sir Joh. Hawkins in their last voyage
1595, being in some esteem with the former. Af-
terwards, as 'tis said, he was a soldier in the Low
Countries, being more addicted to that employment
than to be a scholar, and that being reduced to
poverty, he made shift to be set on shore in the
western part of England ; where, after some wan-
dring to and fro under the name of Tho. Bainrafe
(the anagram of his simamc) he settled at Martock
in Somersetshire, and taught the grammar school
there for sometime with good success. For in the
year 1646, when Mr. Charles Darby was called to
teach that school, he found in that town, and in the
neighbourhood, many that had been his scholars,
ingenious men, and good grammarians, even in their
grey hairs. Among whom it was then re|X)rted
that when he landed in Cornwall, his distresses
made him stoop so low, as to be an abcdarian, and
Several were taught their hornbooks by him. After
he had gotten some feathers at Martock, he took

* [Vide Selden flr Syftedr. lib. 1. cap. 10, 13 ; pag. 2gO.]

his flight to London, and taught a long time in
Goldsmiths-Rents in Crij)pligate mrish behind Red-
cross-street, where were large gardens and liandsoine
houses, and great accomnKxlationH lor the yoiinir
noblemen ana other genero\is vouUis, who at one
time made up the number of 300 or more. The
school-house was a Wge brick-building, divided
into several partitions or ajKirtnients, according to
tlie distinctions of the forms and classes, under tlie
care and circumspection of the respective ushers al-
lotted to attend them. In which time, while he
taught there, he was made niaster of arts of Cam-
bridge, and soon after incorjxirated at Oxon. At
length, ujKin occasion of some underhand dealing
of nis landlords and frequent sicknesses in the city,
he removed alxjut 1636 to Sevenock in Kent, (lu
the neighbourhood of which place, (at Otford) he
had purchased an estate) taught there the sons of
several noblemen and gentlemen (who boarded with
him) with great esteem, grew rich, jmrchased an [10.51
estate there also, and near Horsham in Sus.scx.
Upon a foresight of tlie civil war, he was esteemed
ill affected to the cause, for that when the pro-
testation was urged in 1641, he tlien said it was
better to have one king tlian five hundred. After-
wards, behig suspected to have favoured the rising
of the country tor the king about Tunbridge, in
1643, he was thereuptm imprisoned first in New.
gate, and thence removed on shipboard, it l)eing
then urged in the house of commons, whether he
should be sent to America, (further'd by some of
his good neighbours in Kent, nay and by some
that had been liis scholars, as I have heard, who
sate in the two houses) but at length it being re-
jected, he was removed to Ely-house in Holbom,
where he remained for about an year before his
death. He was the chief grammarian, rhetorician,
p(x?t, Latinist, and Grecian of his time, and his
school was so much frequented, that more church-
men and statesmen issued thence, than from any
school taught by one man in England. The things
that he hath written and pubhshetl arc these,

Nota' ad Juvenalia 4" Persii Satijni.i. Load.
1613. Oct.* &c.

Nota; ad SeneccB Tra^dias. Lond. 1613. oct.
&c. For which work he is commendeil by a certam"
poet who was his friendly acquaintance.

Notcr ad Martialis lipi it-ram mata. Lond. 1615.
oct. [Bodl. 8vo. M. 21. Art. Seld.J Genev. 1623,
33, &c. in tw.

Nota ad Liicani Pharsaliam. Ixind. 1618. oct.
[Bodl. 8vo. L. 13. Art. Seld.]

Index Rhetm-icm ScJiolh Sf Institut'wni tene-
rioris JEtatis accommodatn.i. Lond. 1625,' oct.
[Bodl. Svo. 0. 11. Art Seld.]

5 [Dedicated to Henry prince of Wales. Rawlinson.]

" .Toh. Owen in Append. Epigram, nu. 10.

" [And l633 Svo. On the back of the tiile of this book
is this—' Summa Privilegij. RcgiaB Majcstalis Aulhoritaie
cautum est, ne quia in legnis suis Magnsc Britannia; im-

215

FARNABIE.

WHEAR.

Phrases Oratoria eleganilores 6f poeticce. Lond.
1628. oct. 8th edit.

FhrrUeglum Epifframmatuni Grcecorum, eorum-
que Latino Versu a variis redditorum. Lond. 1629.
in oct. [Hodl. 8vo. F. 24 Art. Seld. et cum notis
MSS. 8vo. Ilawl. 624, et Lond. 1650, 8vo. U. 9.
Art. HS.J &c.

Notw ad Vlrgiliwm. Lond. 1634. in oct. [Bodl.
8vo. U. 9. Art. Seld.]

Notce in'Terentium. Lond. in tw.*
~'\NoUe ill Ovidii Metamorph. Libras 12. Lond.
in *w. 8:c. Lond. 1677. &c.

Sy sterna Grammaticum. Lond. 1641. in oct.
[Bodl. 8vo. I'\ 15. Art. Seld.]

Index Rhetoricus Sf Oratorius, cum Formulis
Oraforiis 6f Indice poetico. Lond. 1646. oct [Bodl.
8vo. F. 1. Art. BS.]

Phrasiologia Anglo-Lat. Lond. in oct.
Tabulce Grcecct Lingiut. Lond. in qu.

Syntaxis. Lond. in oct.

Epi.ttohT Varicc ad doctiss. Viros.^ Other things
he hath written, a.s I conceive, but such I have not
yet seen. He concluded his last day in sixteen
1647. iiundrcd forty and seven, and was buried in the
chancel of the church at Sevenock commonly called
Sennock before-meirtioned ; over whose grave was
this epitaph put. ' P. M. viri omatissimi Thomas
Famabii Armigeri, causae olim Regiae reique pub-
licae sed literaria; vindicis acerrimi. Obiit 12 Junii
1647.

Vatibus hie sacris qui lux Famabius olim,
Vate carens saxo nunc sine luce jacet.'
By his first wife named Susan, daughter of John
Pierce of LaunceLls in Cornwall, he had a son named
John, who followed his father's martial humour,
being a cajjtain in the king's army ; to whom he
left nis estate in Sussex, where he lived in good
esteem, and died about the l)eginning of 1673. By
his second wife Anne, daughter of Dr. Jolm How-
son bishop of Durham, he had several children, one
of which was named Francis, to whom he left his
estate at Kippington in the parish of Sennock, where
-'•■'" he was lately living* in good esteem,

a justice of fr.Qj,j whose mouth I formerly received
edit. ' several passages of his fathers life,

which are remitted into the former

primal aul alibi impressa in hjBc regna importet aiit di-
vendat Juvenalis, et rersij. Satyras, Seiiecx Tra»edias, Mar-
tialis Epigraraala, Lucani Pharsaliam, Petronij Satyricon,
Virgilij opera notis ad marginalibus a Thoma Farnabio illus-
trata ; nee non Phrases Insigniores, Indicem Hhetoricum,
£pigraiTiata Selecla Grseco-Laiina, alqiie Aristoielis Ethica
ab eode ediia, aut edenda ; identic ad terminum i iginti &
unius annorum : sub poena publicalionis Libroiu & niulciae
in Regio diplomate ulterius expressae. siquis sccus fecerit
absque auihoris pcrmisiu. Cat. Octobris 1633.' Bowle.]

' [Cum Annoiaiionibus Th. Farnabii in 4 priorcs Comoc-
dias et M. Casauboiii in 2 postcriorcs, Amst. typis J. Blaew
J 669, Bodl. 8vo. B. 234. Line. Salmur. l()71, Bodl. 8vo.
E. 59. Art.]

' [As in Bnrrhi Impetus Juveniles, in Holyday's Juvena),

&C. LOVEDAV.]

discourse : At which time he aver'd to me, that the
gi-eat grandlathcr oi" his father, viz. the father of
him who was mayor of Truro, was an Italian musi-
cian. The memory of this eminent schoolmaster is
celebrated by several authors, among whom is John
Dunbar' a Scot, who stiles himself Megalo-Bri-
tannus. Rich.'' Bruch and others.

[In the patent, dated April 6, 1632, allowing
Farnaby the sole printing of divers of his books for
the space of twenty-one years, mention is made of
the f()llowing as then ready, ' ejus opera etiara et
studio preparatos' : '

/. Petronii Arbitri Satiricon, post omnea om-
nium Editiones Rccensionesque Notis et Commen-
tariis illustratitm.

Aristoielis Ethica Orationibus discussa et de-
clarata.

P'amaby was one of the contributors to the fame
of Coryate, by prefixing a Greek find an English
panegyrick to his Crt/dities. I transcribe his own
translation of the former.

In verdant meadowes, crown'd vrith spring's fresh
pride,
The painefuU bee tastes euery fragrant flower ;
His thighes full fraught, on nimble wing doth gUde'

Home, to store up his wealth in hony bower.
From trauailes strange so Coryate late come home
With flowing nectar filles this hony combe.

Thomas Farnaby alias Bainrafe.

He wrote also a commendatory inscription, in a
wedge of metres, on Camden's Annul. Elizaiethae,
ed. Hearne, vol. iii, p. 592.]

DEGORIE WHEAR was born at Jacobstow
in Cornwall, retired to the habitation of the muses
called Broadgate's-hall, in the beginning of the year
1592, aged 19, took the degrees in arts, that of
master being com pleated in 1600, elected probationer-
fellow of Exeter coll. in 1602, and six years after
leaving that house, travelled into several countries
beyond the seas, whereby he obtained as well learn-
ing as experience. At his return he was entertain'd
by the lord Chandois, and by him respected and
exhibited to. After his death our author, with his
wife, retired to Gloc. hall, where Dr. Hawley the
principal demised to him lodgings, and then became
acquainted so well widi Mr. Tho. Allen, that by his
endeavours, the learned Cauibden made liim his first
reader of the history lecture which he founded in
the university. Soon after he was made pj-incipal
of that hall, the which, witl^ his lecture he kept to
his dying day, and was esteemed by some a learned
and genteel man, and ^J others a Calvinist. He
hath written

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pent,

b. edit. Lond. I616. in cent. scxt.

' In Epigram.
nu. 74. „'

' In lib. siKjiui tit. est Epigrammalum llecatontades dua:
Lond. 1627. in hec. altera, nu. 17.

3 [RymorJ Fadera, torn, xix, p. 367.]

WIIEAR.

218

De Rutiom c^ Mct/uxlo Icffetidi Histor'ms Dh-
sertafio. Oxon. [W^ii." Ucxll. 8vo. 0. 11. Art. Seld.]
1625. oct. ])riiiti.Hl tliere again in 1637. in <Kt. with
this title, Pra'tc'cfioius hijcmalcs, de Ratione ^ Mc-
thodo legcudi vtriuiique Ilistorins, civilen iSf eccle-
siastka't, &c. [BocU. 8vo. W. 12. Art. Seld.] At
lenffth Nich. Horsman M. A. and fellow of C. C. C.
making a review of the second edition, and addinsr
thereunto Mantissa de Historichi Gentium partirii-
lariuni, &c. it was jjrinted a third time at Oxon.
1662. in oct. [Bodl. 8vo. C. 489. Line] and had
at the end, this speech of our author pnnted with
it, viz.

Orafio auspicalis habita in Scholis puhlicis cum
primum L. An. Flori Interpretationem affffrede-
retur Author. The said Praelectkmes with the
Mantissa were printed again at Cambridge 1634
in oct. with Gabr. Nauda-us his Bihlingraphia Po-
iiiicn, added thereunto, and Justus Lipsivis his
Epistle to Nich. Hacquevill de Histwia, set before
it. They were rcndred into English, (I mean the
Pralactiones and Mantissa only) by Edmund Bo-
hun of Westhall in the county of Suffolk esq; of
whom, by the way, I desire the reader to know
these things following, viz. that he was born at
Ringsfield in the said county, being the only son
of Baxter Bohun, (who, with his an estors, have
been lords of the manor of Westhall ever since 25
Henr. 8.) that in the year 1663, he was admitted
fellow-commoner of Queen's coll. in Cambridge, and
continued there till the latter end of 1666, when
then he was driven out of th.at university by the
plague that raged there, to his great hindrance in
learning. In 1675 he was made one of the com-
missioners of the peace for the county of Suffolk,
and continued so till the second of king James II.
and then he was discharged. In the first yeai' of
king William and queen Mary he was restore<l to
that office, upon the recommendations of the mem-
bers of parliament then sitting, without his seeking,
and he servetl their majesties in the said employ-
ment. This worthy person hath written (1) Aii
Address to the Freemen and Freeholders of the Na-
tion, 171 three Parts ; being the Historij of three
Sessions of Parliament : The first of zchich began
the 21.s< ()f Oct. 1678, and the la.it of them ended
the 10th of Jani 1680. Lond. 1682, and 83. qu.
(2) A Defence (if the Declaraticm of King Ch. 11.
against a Pamphlet .stiled, ' AJu.it and modest Vin-
dication of the Proceedings of the txco last Parlia-

mcnt.i' printed with, and added to, the Address.

(S) A Defence of Sir Rob. Filmer again.it the Mis-
takes and R'epre.ientationsofAlgcrnoon Sidney Esq;
in a Paper delivered by him to the Sheriffs upon
the Scaffold on Tmeer-hill, on Friday Dec. 7. lo83,
before his Execution there. Lond. l684, in 4 sheets
and an half in fol. (4) The Ju-itke of Peace his
Calling; a moral Essay. Lond. 1684. oct. [and

•* [Vid. Camdeni Vita per Smith, pag. Ixiv. Lo-veday.]

Lond. 1693, Bodl. 8vo. N. 37. Line.]. (5) A Pre-
face and Conclusion to Sir Rob. Filmer. i Rook,

cntit. '■ Patriarcha ; or the natural Law of

Kings,'' &c. Added to the second and jwrfect i-d*.

tion of that l)ook Lond. l()8.j. oct. (6) A Get>m.

graphical Dictionary, representing tlie prMent>
ana antient Names of all the Countries, Pn/vincet;
remarkable Cities, c^c. of the Toliole World, tciih.a
.ihort hi.itorical Account of the same and their pre-
sent State. Lond. 1688. "oct. (7) The History (if
the Desertion : or, an Account of all the puljlic
Affairs in England, from the beginning o/' Sept.
1688, to the Uth of Febr.folUncing. Umd. 1689.
Oct. [Bodl. C. 11. 7. Line] (8) An Answer to a
Piece called, ' Tlw Desertion discussed ;' in a Let-
ter to a Country Gentleman, printed at Uie end of
The History of Desertion. Tlie .said ])ami)lilet,
called The De.iertion discussed, was written by Jcr.
Collier of Cambridge. (9) The Doctrine of 'Pas-
sive Obedience or Non-resi.itatKe /to Way concent'd
in the Controversies now depending between the

lepi
Lc

WiUiamites ami Jacobites. ■ Lond. 1689. qu. Id
the 24th jwge of which Ixwk is a passage concemin|^
Dr. Ken bishop of Bath and Wells; whicli, Mr.
Bohim is satisfied, is not true ; and therefore he de-
sires that, and the whole paragraj>h in which it is,
may l»e cancefd. (10) Life of John Jezcell Bisfiop
of Sallibury, as I shall tell you by and by. " (II)
" Three Charges delivered at tlie General Quarter
" Sessions holden at Ip.iwich, for the County of
" Siffolk, in the Years 1691, and 92. Lond. 1693.
" qu'. [Bodl. C. 8. 18. Line.] In the preface to
'' which is his Vindication from the Calumnies and
" Mistakes cast on him, on the Account of his Geo-
" gi'aphical Dictionary. (12) Tlte great Histo-
" rical. Geographical and Poetical Dictionary, 8tc.
" Lond. 1694. fol. wherein are inserted, the last
"five Years Historical and Geographical Collec-
" tions ichicJi the said Edm. Bohun, esq; dc.iigned
" _^r his own Geographical Dictionary, and never
" extant till in this Work^ He hath also trans,
latefl into English several things, among -which is
(1) The Origin ofAtlwism in tlte Popi.ih and Pro-
testant Churclies, .ihewn by Dorotheas Sicurus

Lond. 1684. qu. (2) An Apology of the Church
of England, and an Epistle to one Seignior Sripio
a Venetian Gent, concerning the Council of Trent.
Lond. 1685. in oct. written bv Joh. Jewell, some-
times B. of Salisbury. To which is atlded a brief
of the life of the said Jewell, collected by Mr. B<v
hun, from the large life of the said person, written
by Dr. Laur. Humphrey. (3) The Method and
Order of reading both Civil and Eccle.iiastical His-
tories, as I have told you before.' (4) The uni-.

* [This translation is eniilleil Tin Method and Order <ff
Jleading loth Civil and Ecclesiastical Hiitories. in which the
most excellent Historians are reducedinlo the Order in whieh
they are successively to he read ; and the Judgments of learn-
ed Men concerning such of them, suhjoi^d, by Degoru
Wheare, Camden Reader of History in O^ord. To tchicA

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MASON.

1O47.

versal Historical Bibliotlieqtte : or an Account of
the most considerable Books printed in all Lan-
guages: wherein, a sliort Account is given of the
Design of almost every Book, and the Quality of
the Author, if known. For Jan. Feb. and IVIar.

of the year lo87 Discontinued by the death of

George Wells a iKiokseller, lately living in S. Paul's
churcli-yanl in Loudon. (5) The ^5th and 2(jth
Book ° of (he general History of the Reformation of
ilie Church from the Errors and Corruptions of
the Church of Rome, began in Germany by Mart.
I^uther. Loud. 1689- written in Latin by John Slei-
dan LL.D. with a continuation in three books from
the year 1556, to tlie year 1562. (6) The present
State of Germany : or, an Account of the Extent,
Rise, Form, Wealth, Sfc. of that Emjiire, 8lc.
Lond. I69O. Oct. written in Lat. by Sam. Pufen-
dorf under a borrowed name. What other things '
he hath written and translated I know not ; sure I
am that our author Whear, hath, besides the be-
fore-mentioned things, published these following,

Parentatio Historica. Sive Commemoratio Vitw
4" Mortis V. C. Gidiel. Cambdeni Clarentii, facta
Oxoniw in Schola Historica, 12 Nov. 1626. Oxon.
1628. Oct. [Bodl. 8vo. Z. 11. Th. Seld.]

Dedicatio Imaginis Camdenianoe in Scliola His-
torica, 12 Nov.^ 1626. Oxon. 1628. oct.

J^nstolurum Eucharisticarum Fasciculus.

Ctiaristeria. These two last are printed and go
■with Dedicatio Imaginis, &c. He hath also writ-
ten Lectures on the three Books of the Punic War,
in Luc. Florus, which arc now about to be pub-
lished. At length departing this mortal life on the
first of August in sixteen hundred forty and seven,
was buried on the third day of the same month in
Exeter coll. chappel. His study of books and col-
lections in MS. came, after his death, into the hands
of his old friend Francis Rouse provost of Eaton
coU. near to Windsor, and his lectures in MS. to
Bodley's library. He left also behind him a widow
and cniJdj-en,?.,who soon after became poor, and

is added. An Appendix concerning the Historians of Parti-
cular Nations, as well Ancient as Modern, hy Nicholas
Horseman. The third Edition, with Amendments ; with Mr.
DodtoeH's Invitation to Gentlemen to acquaint themselves
with Ancient History. Made English and enlarged hy Ed-
mund Bohiin, Esq. 8vo. 1698. Wanlf.y.]

" [All ihc 20 bdoks thereof. Watts.]

' [The Character of Queen Elizabeth : or. a full and clear
Account of her Policies and the Methods of her Government
both in Church and Stale. Her Virtues and Defects. To-
gethervnlh the Characters of her Principal Ministers of Slate
and the greatest of the Affairs and Events that happened in
the Times. Collected and fait hfulli/ represented lit Edmund
Bohun, Esq. Loud. I6p3. 8vo. This was translated into
French and [jrintcd a la Haye idgh. 8vo. Wanley.]

• [26 Nov. Sic in Camdeni Pita, per Smith, pag. Ixx.

LOVEDAY.]

' I His cftlest son William Whear, who was born in Dor-
setshire, was matriculated of Gloucester-hall in 1623, aged
iliirteei> j and another son, John, entered at the same hall
hi l6;J0, age<l Ij. Reg. Matric. PP. fol. 275, b, and 276.]

whetiicr the females hved honestly, 'tis not for me
to dispute it.

HENRY MASON was born in a market-town
in Lancashire called Wygan or Wig^n, became a
servitor of Brasen-nose coll. in the beginning of
1592, elected one of Humph. Ogle's ejuiibitioners
thereof 2 Nov. 1593, took one degree in arts two
years after, entred into holy orders, and became
chaplain of Corp. Ch. coll. in 1 602. The next year
he proceeded in arts, and seven yeai's after was ad-
mitted to the reading of the sentences. At length
being made chaplain to Dr. Jo. King, bish. of Lond.
was by his endeavom's, as I suppose, made rector
of S. Andrew's Undershaft in that city ; where by
his exemplary life, edifying and judicious preaching
and writing he did great benefit, and was by all that
knew him, accounted a true son of tlie church of
England. His writings are the.se.

The new Art of Lying, covered by Jesuits under
the Veil of Equivocation. Lond. 1624. qu. there
again 1634. in tw. [Bodl. 8vo. B. 234. Line]

Christian Humiliation : or, a Treatise of Fast-
ing, with a brief Discourse of Lent. Lond. 1625.
qu. [Bodl. 4to. A. 64. Th. aiid 1627. 4to. revised
and enlarged.]

Epicure''s Fast : or, a sltort Discourse discover-
ing the Licentiousness of the Rom. Ch. in her reli-
gious Fasts. Lond. [I626.] 1628. in qu.

Tribunal of the Conscience : or, a Treatise of
Examination. Lond. 1626, 27. qu. "Lond. 1634.'
" tw. 4th edit."

" The Cure of Cares ; or, «" sJiort Discourse
declaring the Condition of Worldly Cares, with
some Remedies appointed for them. Lond. 1628.
" Lond. 1634. tw. 3d. edit." [Bodl. 8vo. B. 324.
Line]

Certain Passages in Mr. Sam. Hoard''s Book,
entit. God^s Love to Mankind, Stc- Answer'd by
Dr. Twisse under the name of Additions, in his
Riches of God'' s Love to the Vesseh of Mercy, Stc.
as I have told you before in Dr. Twisse.

" Contentment in God^s Gifts, &c. Lond. 16S4.
« tw."

Hearing and doing the ready Way to Blessed,
ness. Lond. 1635. in tw. [Bodl. 8vo. M. 171. Th.]

Rules for right Hearing of God's Word-

printed with the former book.

Several sermons, as (1) The Christian's Fast, &c.
on Matth. 4. 2. Lond. 1627. qu. (2) Contentment
in God''s Gifts: or some Sermon Notes leading to
Equanimity and Contentation ; on Joh. 20. 3, 4,
5, 6. Lontl 1630. in tw. [Bodl. 8vo. T. 50. Th.]
(3) Sermon on Luke 11. 28. This I have not seen,
nor a MS. in fol. containing matters of divinity,
which he left in the hands of his acquaintance Dr.
Gilb. Sheldon, afterwards archb. of Cant. From
whom it came to Dr. Dolben bishop of Roch. after-
wards of YA*k, in whose possession it was when he
died. At length when the puritan or presbyterian

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VERNEUIL.

HABINGTON.

222

began to he dominant in 1641, our author Mason
through vexation, occasionM by that jiarty, was
forccil soon after to leave his rectory of S. Andrew's
before-niention'd, purposely to make n»in for a
goclly brother.' Afterwards he retired with his
g(xxjs and books to Wygan his native place, where
living in obscurity for some years, (not without vex-
ation l)y the rebels) surrendred up iiis most pious
and devout soul to him that first gave it, in his
house situate and being in a street there called
Scoles, in the beginning of August in sixteen hun-
1^47- dred forty and seven, and in that of his age 74, or
thereal)outs, and was buried on the seventh day of
the same month in the yard or cemetery, close to
the ground-^vork of the pillar or buttress at the east
end of the cluirch at Wygan. He had before given
to the poor of that town 13/. per an. to bind poor
children apprentices, his library of books to the
school ; and a considerable number of bibles to the
poorer sort of people for their children there.

[1611, 15 Jan. Hen. Mason S. T. B. collat. ad
vicariam de Hillingdon cum capella de Uxbridge,
per resign. Tho. Awsten A. M.

1612, 18 Dec. Ricardus Bourn A. M. coll. ad
vicar, de Hillingdon cum capella de Uxbridge per
resign. Henr. Mason.

Eodem die Henricus Mason S. T. B. coll. ad
eccl. santi Matthei, Friday street, per mortem Joh;

1613, 14 Febr. Henr. Mason S. T. B. coll. ad
eccl. S. Andreas Undershaft cum ecclesia sive ca-
pella S. Mariae at Axe eidem annex, per mortem
Joh. Dixe S. T. P.

1616, 17 Oct. Henr. Mason S. T. B. coll. ad
preb. de Willesdon (in eccl. Paul.) per mort. Tho.
Kinge; quam resign, ante 29 Mar. 1637. Ken-
net.

A Letter to Dr. Thomas Jackson, see his Works,
\, 600.

A Letter to Mr, Joseph Mede, see also his Works,
page 769. Loved ay.]

JOHN VERNEUIL (VernuUus) was bom in
the city of Bourdcaux in France, educated in the
university of Mountalban till he was mast, of arts,
flew from his country for religion sake, being a
protestant, and went into England, where he had
his wants supplied for a time by sir Tho. Leigh.
Afterwards he retired to the university of Oxon. in
1608, and on the fourth day of Nov. in the same
year, being then 25 years of age, he was matricu-
lated in the university as a member of Magd. colli
from which house as from others he received relief.

' [The person who succeeded Mason in St. Andrew Un-
dcrshafi was Dr. John Pritchard, who soon suffrcd for the
same royal cause. Kennet.

He did not thereby make room for a godly brother, as my
author intimates, for he was succeeded therein by Mr. Joha
Prichet, who soon after suffered in the same cause, as may
be seen in what is written of him among the prebei^daries of
Mora. Newconrl, Reperlorium, i, SSp.j

In 1625 he was incorpor.ittnl m.uster of arts, lK«ing
then second-keeper of Bo<lley's library, where h<'
performed gtMnl service for that place, and wrote for
the u.se of the sttidents there, these things following,

Catalog-US Interpretum S. Scrir)tura-,jitxta Xv-
meronim Ordincm, qui extant in Bibl. Bodl. Oxon.
1635. (pi. sec. edition. The first was began by
Dr. Tho. James.

Elcnclius Auihorum, turn recentium quam anti-
qtwrum, qui in 4 Libras Scnteiitiarum ^ Thomw
Aqninatis summas, item in Evangelia Dominicalia
totius Anni, 4" de Casibus Consctentiic ; necnon in
Orationem Dominicam, Symbolum Apostolorum, ^
Decalogum scripserunt. This is pnnted with the
Cat. Interpretum, &c. an. 1635.

Nomenclator of such Ti-acts and Sermons as
have been printed, and translated into Eufflisli upon
any Place, or B(X)k of' the Holy Scripture, now to
be had in Bodley^s Library. Oxon. 1(537, 42. in fw.
[Bodl. 8vo. F. 108. Line, j He alsf) translated from
French into English, A Tract of the Soveraign
Judge of Controversies in Mutters of Religion.
Oxon. 1628. cju. written by Joh. Camcn)n D.D. of
Saumur, divinity professor in the academy of Mount-
alban, afterwiu-rts principal of Gla.sgow in Scotland."
And from English into Latin* a Ixwk entit. Of the
Deceitfulness of Maris Heart. Gcnev. 1634. oct.
written by Dan. Dyke of Cambridge. The ssud
Jolin Verneuil died in his house within, and near,
the east-gate of the city of Oxon, in the latter end
of September in sixteen hundred forty and seven,
and was buried on the last day of the same month
in the church of St. Peter in the east, withui the
said city ; at which time our public library lost an
honest and useful servant, and his children a good
father.

"THOMAS HABINGTON or Abingtov, son
of John Habington of HentUip in Worcestershire
esq; son of Rich. Habington of Brokhampton in
Herefoi-dshire, was born at Thorpe near to Chert-
sey in Surrey, on the 23 Aug. 1560, (at which
time and before the manor thereof belonged to liis
father.) and at about 16 years of age he became a
commoner of Lincoln cofl. where spending alx)ut
three years in .icadeniicjil studies, was taken thence
by his father and sent to the universities of Paris
and Rheimes in France. After some time spent
there in go<xl letters, he returned into England,
and expressing and shewing himself an adherent
to Mary qu. of Scots (who plottetl with Anth.
Babington against qu. Elizalieth) was committed
]irisoncr to Uie Tower of London, where conti-
nuing six yeai's, he profited more in that time in
several sorts of leai'ning, than he had before in all
liis life. Aflerwards he retired to Hendlip before-

[109]

1647.

' [Not so, but into French : La Desfoverle de la Cavltl-
ledo Cocr de VHomme. Ou La Sonde la Conscience. Genev.
1634. Bodl. 8vo. D. 83. Th. given by the translator to the
Bodleian.]

223

HABINGTON.

" mentioird, (the manor of which his tathei- hail
" setled upon liiiii) took to wile Marv the eldest
" daughter of Edward lord Morloy by Elizabeth
" his w-ife, daugh. and sole heir of sir AVill. Stanley
" kniffht, lord Mountcagle, and at riper years sur-
" vey\i ^Vorcestershire, niade a collection of most
" of its antiquities fi-om records, registers, evidences
" both private and public, monumental inscriptions
" and arms. Part of this book I have seen and
" perused, and find that every leaf is a sufficient
" testimony of his generous and virtuous mind, of
" his indefatigable industry and infinite reading.
" 'Tis to be wished that some gentlemen of other
" counties would follow his and tlie generous exam-
" pie of Dugdale of Warwickshire, Burton of Lei-
" cestersliire, Thoroton of Nottinghamshire, &c.
" thereby to advance the honour of their respective
<,". eounties, and families therein, and not to live like
?*. idle. heirs of their ancestors titles: Also that the
" credit of the nobUity and gentry might once again
" advance, and the honors and titles might not be
." ashamed of the persons that vainly bear them.
" This worthy person Th. Habington left behind
" him in manuscript of his own composition, these
." things following,

" The Ant'tquities and Survey of Worcestershire
« — ^'Tis written with his own hand in a large fol.
" but not perfect or totally siu^ey'd.

" Of me Cathedral Church and Bishops of
" Worcester. — Tiiis is also written in a tliin folio ;
ffthe beginning of which is, ' Gotl's eternal empire
f* of heaven endureth for ever,' &c. The succession
i' of the bishops reacheth down to John Alcock in
{* the copy which I have seen. He also translated
5' into English, The Ejnstle of Gildas a Britain,
" entit. De Excidio ^ Conquestu Britannicc. Lond.
" 1638 in oct. [Bodl. Crynes 8vo. 251.] Before
"which he hath put a large preface, written to the
" inhabitants of Britain. Which translation and
" preface were made during his lingring imprison-
" nient for matters relating to the Powder Plot.
^ -Jle liad a considerable hand also in The History
"of Ed. 4. K. of Englaiul, published under the
" name of Will. Habington his son, and in other
[110] " matters fit for the press. At length after he had
" lived to the age of 87 years, surrendred up his
" jHous soul to Grod at Hendlip near Worcester, on
" the 8th of Octolx'r in sixteen hundred forty and
'f seven, and was buried by his father in a vault
" under the chancel of the church there. His father
" Joh. Habington being coflferer to queen Eliza-
" beth, the life of this Thomas, who was godson to
" her, was saved, having been engaged in the trea-
" sons of Mary qu. of Scots ; but Edward, younger
*' brother to the said Thomas, who was also engaged
" in them, and a person of a turbulent spirit and
" nature, was witli others executed in S. Giles's in
" the Fields near London the 20th Sept. 1586, at
" which time he cast out threats and terrors, of the
" blood that was ere long to be shed ui England.

" The said Thomas also (<jur author) for his entcr-
" tainiiig and concealing Garnet and Alcome two
" popish priests (deeply engaged in the powdei-plot)
" 111 his house at Hendlip, was, as 'tis said, con-
" deinned to die, but by the endeavours of William
" lord Mount-Eagle (whose sister Mary he had
." married, as I have l)efore told you, I mean the
" same Mary who ^vrote ' and sent a letter to the
" said lord, which was the original discovery of the
" said plot) he was reprieved and at length par-
" doned. His son William Habington befbrc-men-
" tioned, was born at Hendlip, on the ■♦ fourth (some
" say the fifth) day of November 1605, educated in
" S. Omers and Paris ; in the fir.st of whicii he was
" earnestly invited to take upon him the habit of
" the Jesuits, but by excuses got free and left them.
" After his return from Paris, being then at man's
" estate, he was instructed at home in matters of
" history by his father, and became an acconiplish'd
" gentleman. He hath written and published (1)
" Poems, Lond. 1635, in oct. sec. edit, under the
" title of Castara.^ They are divided into three
" parts, under a different title suitable to their sub-
" ject. The first, which was written when lie was
" a suiter to his wife, (the humane goddess that in-
" spired him, viz. Lucia daughter of Will, lord
" Powis ') is usher'd in, by a character writ in prose,
" of a mistress. The second, arc copies writ to her
" after marriage, by the character of a wife : after
" which is a character of a friend, before several fu-
• ' neral elegies. The third part consists of diyine
" poems, some of which are paraphrases on se-
" veral texts out of Job and tlie book of Psalnu ;
" before which is the pjrtraict of a holy man. (2)
" Queen^f Arragon, a trag. com. which play he
" communicating to Philip earl of Pembroke 1.
" chamberlain of the houshold to K. Charles I.
^' he caused it to be acted at court, and afterwards

' So I have been informed by sit Will. Dugdale, Garter
king of arms.

■* So have I been instructed by letters from his son Tho.
Habinp:lon esq; dated S Jan. 1()72.

* [The first edition of Habingion's Castara was printed in
l()34, and is one of the rarest volumes of |)Ociry of that pe-
riod. It contains two pans only, consisting of seventy-eight
pages exclusive of the tiile, preiace and some lines by G. T.
' to his best friend and kinsman on his Castara,' forming one
sheet more in 4lo. The second edition was l635, the third
lG40, both in ISnio; the last, edited by C. A. Elton, esq.
was printed in 1815, 8vo. and well deserves a place in the
library of every lover of early English poetry. I could will-
ingly quote a nundrid be;uities from this exqnisite volume,
but as Wood says, time c.ills and I must liastcn away — add
to which abundant specimens of his poetry will be found in
Ellis, Htadlcy, Censura Lileraria, and that elegant publica-
tion entitle<l Tlie Lyre of Love, 2 vol. 8vo. Lmd. I806.]

^ [NotwithstandingHabington'saccomplishments, it seems
he had some difficulty in reconciling the friends of his wife
to his union with her. In some lines addressed to her father
after their marfiage, he entreats him to bless them, and
adds

' Kor grieve, my lard, 'tis perfected — '
from which, perhaps, it may be inferred that the ceremony
was clandestine.]

HABINGTON.

PINK.

%m

" to be publisird iigainst tlie authors will.' (3)
" Obnervations upon Historij. LdihI. 16-il. oct. (4)
" History of Edward the fourth, Kin^ i)f' England.
« Lond. '1640. in a thin Vol. [Hodl. AA. 51. Art.]
" written and published at the desire of K. (.'harles I.
" being then by many esteemed to have a stile suf-
" ficiently florid, and better becoming a ]Kx;tieal,
" than historical, subject. This person Will. Ha-
" bington, who did run with the tunes, and was not
" unknown to Oliver the usuqier, died on the 30th
" of November 1654, and was buried in the vault
" befoi'e-mentioned by the bodies of" his father and
" grand-father. The MSS wliich he (and his father)
" left behind, are in the hands of his son Thomas,
" and might be made useful for the pubhc, il" in
" others.''

[Thomas Habington's papers were purchased by
Dr. Thomas for twenty guineas,^ and so much from
them as relates to the cathedral was printed under
this title The Antiquities of the Cathedral of Wor-
cester. (Bodl. Gough Worcester 4, with MS. notes
by Browne Willis,) Lond. 1717, and 1723 8vo.
After Dr. Thomas's death they amie into the hands
of Charles Lvttleton, bishop of Carlisle, who left
tliem to the library of the society of antiquaries ;
they were inspected by Mr. Nash for his history of
that county, but if we may trust the character given
of them by Dr. William Hopkins, are of no great
value : ' he is sure (he says) by what he has seen
that there are many great defects and errors in
them : that Mr. Abmgdon never had access to the
Cottonian library ; that he was no Saxonist, and had
taken many things upon trust ; that his style was
ill, and his way of writing so tedious, that it was
necessary to write the book anew in a great part to
fit it for the press.' »]

ROBERT PINK, son of Hen. Pink of Kemp-
shot in the parish of Winslade in Hampshire, was
Iwrn there, educated in Wykeham's school near
Winchester, admitted true and perpetual fellow of
New coll. in 1596, took the degrees in arts, entred
on the physic hne, was admitted bach, in that fa-
culty 1612, afterward studied divinity, was elected
warden of his coll. 1617, proceeded in divinity, and

' \The Qiieene of Arrai^on a Tragi-comedie. London
Printed ly Tko. Coles for IViUiam Cooke, and are lo be sold
at his shop at Furnivals Jnne gale in Hollurne. 1040, folio.
(Boiil. 'r. ig. Jur. Seld.) This is a scarce drama, on which
account I transcribe a few lines as a specimen.

Distrust, my lord.

Is the best counceler to great designes :

Our confidence betrayes us. But betweene

These two are other seeds of jealousie ;

.Such as would almost force religion breake

.Her Ijing vowes, authorize perjurie.

And make the scrupulous casuist say, that faith

Is the fooles vertue. — Sign. B. 3.]

" [^Original Letter from Thomas Rawlins lo Gcor^r Bal-
lard, dated Oct. 20, 1739. Bibl. Bodl. MS. Ballard xli. 89.]
° [Introd. lo the Hisl. of Worccstersh. p. ii.]
Vol. III.

was much esteemed by K. James I. for liis dexterity
in disputing, as by K. Charles I. fin- liis eminent
loyalty. He was a zealous defender of tlie univer-
sity privileges and hbertieit, especially when he jxt-
formed the office of vice-chancellor, and estecnieu by
all that knew him most eminent for his knowledge
in philosophy and divinity. He hath written,

Quwstiones schctiorcs in /.^ifficd, Ethki, Phy- [111]
sica, Metaphi/sica inter Anthore* cehbriorea re-
perta: Oxon. 1680. <iu. [Boill. 4to. Z. 16. Art.]
published by John Lami)hire principal of Hart-
Ilall.

Poemata. Latino.

Gesta Vicecancellariattis sui. 'Tis a MS. con-
taining the acts and gests of his vice-chancellorship
of the university, from UG July 1634, to ilH July
1636. It is written in a little thin fol. amtaining 80
pages, and hath therein several of his speeches
spoken in convocation. Which book I had the
hberty to peruse, when I was composing the Hisl.
4' Antiq. of Univ. of Oxon, and may be useful to
curious men in otiier resj)ects, if given to a public
place, many things Iwing therein, tJiat are not entred
uito the public registers of the university. He died
much lamented by the members of his coll. becaus*.*
he had been a vigilant, faithfid and ]>ubhc-spirited
governor ; by the poor of the city of Oxon, because
he had been a constant benefactor to them ; by the
orphans, to whom he had been a father ; and gene-
rally by all who knew the great virtues, piety, and
learning of the person, on the second day of Novenib.
in sixteen hundred forty and seven. Wherenjxjn "'■*•■
his body was buried in die outer chappel belonging
to New coil, between the pulpit and tlie screen,
leaving then beliind him certain matters fit for the
press. In 1677 Dr. Ralph Bridoake bishop of
Chichester, who had in his younger years ocen
patroniz'd by the said Dr. Pink, erected, out of gra-
titude, a comely monument for him on the west
wall of the outer chapjxil, at some distance from his
grave.

[In Honovr of the right worshipfvH Dodotir
Robert Pinke, Doctour of D'lvini/ic, and Warden
of New Colledge in Oxford. Printed in the Yeare
1648. This IS the title page to one sheet in 4to.
(which is of the rarest occurrence) containing four
|)oems on the death <rf" Pink.

They were probably written by New college
men, and the curious reader will smile at the singu-
larity of the protluctions, from one extract only,
wortliy of Butler himself:

He kickt rebellion out of towne,
PuU'tl ignorance and atheisme downe ;
He purg'd the schtKiles of s<Jecisme,
Refin'd pedanticke barbarisme.
His silken phrase made logicke run
As smooth as calmed hehcon.
But oh'! hee's gone, then wellcome bee
- DuUnesse and stupidity ! ,

Q

527

PINK.

SLATYER.

mn

1047-

Bume your Iwokcs, or onely con
The Talmud or the Alkaron ;
Studdy voii may your hearts out, but
This Annhaptist Death hath cut
All humane learning downe at once,
As if he had beene bribed for th' nonce,
By th' Agitatours to doe what

Yurberry and they could not

See Bodl. C. 15. 3. Line.
See more of Pink in the Fasti, under the year
1648.]

WILLIAM SLATYER, a Somersetshire man
born, was matriculated as a gentleman's son of that
county, and a member of St. Mary's hall in Lent
term, an. 1600, aged 13 years. Whence translating
himself to Brasen-nose coll. was entred there as a

Plebeian's son of the same county in July 1607.
'he next year he took a degi-ce in arts, was made
fellow of the said coll. proceeded in that faculty
1611, entred into holy orders, was soon after l)cne-
ficed, and in 1623 took the degrees in divinity, being
then in gocxl esteem for his knowledge in English
history, and his excellent vein in Lat. and English
poetry. His works are these,

" ©^vcuJla, sive Pandionium in perpetuam sere-
" nissimam simul ac heati.ssimam Principis Anna:
" nuper AngUa: Regina Memoriam.

" Elegies and Epitaphs by W. S. late Servant
" and Clutplain to her Majesty. Lond. 1619. in 4
" sheets in qu. The running title on the top of
" every page is Threnodia Brittannira. These
" elegies and epitaphs consist of Hebrew, Greek,
" Latin, and English verses ; they are printed in
" several forms, some like pillars, .some circular, some
" chronogrammaticaHy."

Paia-Alhion : or, the History of Great Britain
from the first Peopling of this Island to the Reign
ofKingJanws. LoncT 1621. fol. in Lat. and Engl,
verse, me Lat. on one side and the English on the
other ; with various marginal notes on the English
side, relating to English history and antiquity.

Psalms or Songs of Sion, turn'd into the Lan-
guage, and set to the Tunes of a strange Land

Printed at London, but when I know not, because
not set down in the title.

Psalms in four Languages and in Jour Parts,
set to the Tunes of our Church — Printed at Lond.
in tw. engraven on copper.

" Genethliacon, sive Stemma *"

Regis Jacobi Lond. 1630.

'Tis in a thin fol. in Lat. and
Engl, and the genealogy is de-
What other things he hath
published I know not, nor any thing else of him,
only that he ^ving way to fate at Otterden in Kent,
where he was then, or before (as I presume) bene-
ficed, in the month of Oct. or Nov. m sixteen hun-
dred forty and seven, was there buried, leaving be-
hind him a widow nametl Sarah. The reader may

• Genealogia Re-
gis Jacohiy S*c. First
edit.

rived from Adam.

be pleased now to know that one Will. Sclater a Bed-
fordshire man bom, was elected into King's coll. in
Cambridge 1593,' was ai'terwards vicar of Pitmin-
ster • in Somersetshire, and a publisher of several
sermons, and theological tracts, as you may sec in
Oxford or Bodley's Catalogue lyf Books ; ^ but this

' [Vid. my MS. Collections (in the British museum)
vol. xiv, p. 223 and vol. xv, p. 110. CoLE.]

" [He was D.D. and rector of Lemshain. Tanwer.]

' [The Quteslion of Tythes revised. Argvments for the
Moralilie if Ty thing, enlarged and cleared. Oliections mmt
fully and distinctly answered. Mr. Selden's IJistorie, to
Jarre as Mistakers haue made it argumentatiue against the
Moralilie ouer-ly viewed. By William Sclater, D.D. and
Minister of Pitminster in Somerset. London Printed by John
Legatt, U)23, 4to. Dtdic. to Arthur (Lake) bish. of Bath
and Wells. Bodl. Rawl. 147, with AIS notes, and a trea-
tise on the right of tyihes in the same hand, which is that,
says Dr. Rawjinson, of ' some puritan, perhaps a quaker.'

A Key to the Key of Scriptme ; or an Exposition with
Notes vpon the first Epislle to the Romanes ; the three first
Chapters begun at IVulsall in Staffurdshire, rimcluded at Pit-
minster in Somerset. London Printed by T- S. for George
Norton and are to be sold at his shop neere Templc-barre .
iCll. 4lo. Ded. to sir Henry Hawley knighi, Mr. John
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The Minis'ers Portion; sermon on 1 Cor. 9. 13, 14. At
O.rford, Printed by Joseph Barnes. l6l2, 4to. Ded. to Mr
Thomas Southcot esquire at Moones Otery in Devon. Bodl.
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(Sfc. 1612. Ded. to Mr. .lohn Horner esquire and to the
devout Anna his wife at Melles in Somerset. Bodl. 4to.
V. 34. Th.

The Christian's Strength ; sermon on Phil. 4. 13. At
Oxford, (Sfc. 1612. 410. Ded. to Mr. William Hill esquire
at Pitminster, Somerset. Bodl. 4to. F. 34. Th.

An Exposition, with Notes vpon the Etrst Epistle to the
Thessalonians. London Printed by JV. Stansby for Henri*
Felherslone, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-
yard at the signe of the Rose, lCl(). 4io. Ded. to the lord
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A briefe Exposition, with Notes vpon the Second Epistle
to the Thessalonians. London Printed by Augustine Ma-
Ikewes for Richard Thrale, and are to be sold at the Crosse
Keyes at Pauls gate, 1629. 4to. Ded. to John Powlet es-
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in Lucem edila. O.vonia; excudcbat Gulielmus Turner, An.

Dom. 1633 tto. Ded. Edvardo Kelletio S. T. D. snncti

Petri apud Exoniensis residentiario, nee non M. Georgio
Goadio coll. llegalis in acadeniia Cantabrig. socio, suo non
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A briff and plain Commentary with Notes; not more use-
ful than seasonable, upon the whole Prophecie if Malachi/.
Delivered Sermon-wise, divers Years since at Pitminster in
Summerset, by William Sclater (Sfc : Now published by his
Son fViltiam Sclater, Batchelar in Divinity, late Fellow of
Kings Colledg in Cambridg, now Minister of Collomplon in
Devon. London Printed by J. L.for Christopher Meredith
at the sign of the Crane in Pauls Church Yard I()50. 4to.
Ded to Mr. Henry Walrond of Bradtield, Devon. Bodl. 4to.
C. 20. Th. BS.

An Expotition with Notes on the whole fourth Chapter !o
the Romanes. Wherein the grand Question if Justificatiort
by Faith alone without Works is controverted, stated, cleared.

22f)

SLATVEll.

WILKENSON.

2;3()

[11"J person whoso sirnaiiiL- difl'ors from him who was the
poet before- men tiori'd, must not be taken to be the
same witli him, as some to my knowledge have done.
He died in 1626, and left behind him a son of bit h
his names, who was born at Pitminster, was fellow
of King's coll.-* also, and afterwards minister of Co-
lumpton in Devon. [Preacher in the city of Exeter*
and] prebendary of Exeter, and doct. of div. He
hath several sermons in print,* of which one is entit.
— Papisto-Mastix : or DcboraJis Prayer against
God's Enemies ; on Judges 5. 31. Lond. 1642. qu.
[Bodl. 4to. P. 40. Th.] and hath published, An
Exposition with Notes on thejburth chap, of the
Rom. Lond. 1650. qu. written by his father, &c.
" This is different from the former Will. Sclater
" (not Slatycr) D.D. rector of Clifton in Bedford-
" sliire, and minister of St. James Clerkenwell in
♦' Middlesex So it is written 1673.

" He hath published. The Royal Pay and Pay-
" master, or the Indigent Officer's Comfort, a Ser-
" mon preached before the Military Company, at St.

" Paufs Church in Covent-Garden, on Lond.

" 1671. qu. He was father to an ingenious person
" call'd Plane. Sclater ' bach, of divinity, and fellow
" of C. C. coll. who died about the middle of May
" 1685."

[From a marginal note to one of the prefatory
poems to his Pahe Albion, entitled Authoris Votum,
It seems that Slaty er was bom at Tykenham in So-
mersetshire, near to Bristol.

He was presented in 1625 to the rectory of Otter-

and fully resolved, to llie saiifjaclion nf any judicious, con-
scientious Prolestanl. Together with a variety of other solid
Observation, interwoven throughout the ff'ork. By &c. (as
before) London Printed by J. L. &c. (as before) 4to. Ded.
lo John Bampfield of Poltimore in Devon esq. a most
exhnious and exemplary worthy of the West, &c. Bodl.
410. C. W. Th. BS.]

* [Admiued hi King's, 1626. Baker.]
» ^Tanner.]

• The Crowne of Righteousness : or the glorious Reward
of Fidelity in the Discharge of our Duty, as it was laid forth
in a Sermon preached in S. B'ltotphsAldersgate, London, Sept.
25, 1633, At the solemn Funerall of Mr. Ahrah. ffheclock,
Ji.D. the first puHick Professor and Reader of Arahick, and
of the Saxon, in the University of Cambridge. fVhereunto
isadded. An Encomium of him . By IVilliam Sclater Doctor
iu Divinity, now Preacher of the fp'ord nf God in Broad
Street, Lond. London l634, 4to. Bodl. 4to. S. 13. Th.
Seld. This is a very rare tract.

The worthy Communicant rewarded, laid forth irt a Sermon
on John G, 54, preached in the Calhedrall of St. Peter in
E.xeler, on Low Sunday, being the 21 of April, Anno 1(139.
By William Sclater Muster of Arts, late Fellow of King's
Colledge in Cambridge, now Chaplaine of the right reverend
Father in God the Lord Bishop's Barony of Saint Stephens,
and Preacher also at S. Martin's in the same city. London,
no date, Bodl. 4to. T. 98. Th. The dedication to Dr. Pc-
tf-rsoii dean of Exeter, &c. dated May 1 I, l()39.1

' [One Slater of Putney was of St. John's college, Oxford,
matriculated 1(540. After the visitation in l648 he served
Fyficld in Berlis. Tanner.

' Edu. Slatier Middlesex, fil. Edti. Slalier de London.
pleb. an. nat. 17.' /?fg. iV/a/ric. P.P. fol. 113.}

den in Kent, which he had a dispensation for hold-
ing with that of Newchurch.** He was also trear
surer to the cathedral church of St. Davids.*

He died Feb. 14, 1646, aged 59, and was buried
at Otterden.'

Slatyer's Latin, is superior to his English, poetry,
of which the following lines give as favourable a
specimen as can be procured on a hasty view of the
PalcE-Albion.

Faine would I visit Phoebus shrine,

And Dodon oracles diuine,

Parnassus hill, and Ph<x;is fields,

That sacred cells and solace yeelds :

Pierian sisters, honored nymphs,

Lou'd and ador'd by learning's imp.s,

Pallas, faire Sol, and Meranosine,

O gently fauour my designes.

And slicw me out of stones old

The warlike acts of Britons bold ;

Or guide me to the towre of fame

To find their first birth, ere heauen's frame.

Or earth, or sea was, Chaos was.

And out of that confused masse

Natures commander did produce

Bright .stars for heauen, heaun for earth's vse ;

The flowry vales, the hills and woods.

Fresh riuerets, and salt swelling floods ;

And earth, and aire, and sea, brought forth

Their wondrous creatures, sundrie sorts !

The golden sunne appeares in skie,

And dainty showres in clouds on hie,

Whiles Atlas on his shoulders beares

The burden of the starry spheares.

Then mighty Joue cuts earth and heauen

By zones, degrees, and portions eaven ;

Farre North or South are frosts and snowes,

I' th' midst sweat Cancers scorched pawes.

Both sides beene temp'rate zones, the windes

Eurus and Zephyr, to both Indes,

Auster to th' .fethiops byes apace,

Boreas to Scythia, North, and Thrace. — p. 4.

There is a small head of Slatycr prefixed to his
Translation of the Psalms, 1650.]

HENRY WILKENSON was bom witlnn the
vicaridge of Halifax in Yorkshire, 9 Octob. 1566,
made his first entry into the university in Lent
term 1581, elected probationer fellow of Merton
coll. by the favour of his kinsman Mr. H. Savile,
the warden, in the year 1586, proceeded in arts, ap-
plyed his mind to the sacred faculty, of which he
was bachelor, and at length (1601) became pastor of
Waddesdon in Bucks. He hath written and pub-
lished,

A Catechhim for tlw use oftJie Cons;regation of
Waddesdoii in Bucks. This hath been several

• [Rymeri Fwdera, xviii. ()47, (i65.]
' Crasaro /«»/CTono, i'X, 31', edit. 1.1
' [Hasled's History of Kent, ii. 608.J
Q2

<^31

HAKEWILL.

LORTE.

times printwl in oct. and the iburtli impression came
out at Lond. 16!37.

The Debt-book ; or, a Treatise upon Rom. 18.
ver. 8; wherein hi luimUed the Civil Debt of Money
or Goods. Lond. 1625. oct. [Bodl. 4to. F. 84. Th.]
and other tilings wliich I have not yet seen. This
j)erson bein" an ol<l puritan, was elected one oftlie
assembly of divines in 16-kJ, and dying on the 19th
i6*i. ot" March in sixteen hundred forty and seven, was
burietl in the cliurcli at Waddesdon before-men-
tioned, having hat! issue by his wife Sai-ah, the only
daughter of Arthur Wake (of whom I liavc made
mention in Isaac. Wake, an. 1632.) three daughters,
and six sons, of which number Henry Wilkinson,
senior, connnonly called Long Hari-y, was one ; of
whom shall be large mention made hereafter.

« WILLIAM HAKEWILL, elder brother to
" Dr. George Hakewill, and to Job. Hakewill who
" was mayor of the city of Exeter in 1632, was lx)rn
" in the parish "of S. Mary Arches within the said
" city, became a sojourner of Exeter coll. in 1601j
" but leaving that place without a degree, retired to
" Lincolns-Inn, studied the common-law, and arrived
" to considerable eminence therein. In 1613 he was
" actually created master of arts on the day after
" the funeral solemnities of his kinsman sir Tho.
" Bodley were perform^ (to whom he was executor)
" and in 22 of K. James I. he was Lent reader of
" his inn, being about that time much resorted to
" for his great abiUties in his profession. He was
" a grave and judicious counsellor, had sate in divers
" parliaments, and out of his great and long conver-
" sation with antiquity, did extract several remark-
" able observations concerning the liberty of die
" subject, and maimer of holding of parliaments.
" This person, who was always a puritan, sided
" with tlie populacy in the beginning of the long
" parliament, was an active man in carrying on the
" blessed cause, took the covenant, and therefore in
" the .latter end of Apr. 1647 he was made one of
" .the masters of the Chancery, and was by order of
" boUi houses appointed to sit with the commis-
" sioners of the seal to hear causes. His works are
" these,

" Tlie Liberty of the Subject again.st the pre-
" tended Poxtier of Impositions, maintained btj an
" Arg-ument in Parliament 1 Jac. 1. Lond. 1641.
" qu. published by the author to coiTect false copies
" of it, that had been then lately published under
" this title, A learned and necessary Argument to
" prove that each Subject hath a Propriety in his
■ " Goods, and to .vhew the Extent of the King's
" Prerogative in Impositions, &c.'
[113] '^ Modus ten^ndi Paj-Uamentum : or, the old

" Manner of Jwlding Parliaments in England,

" extracted out of antient Records. Lond. 1659.
"oct. [and agiun Lond. 1671. l^xll. 8vo. G. 20.
^' Jur.l

" The Manner horc Statutes are enacted in Par-
" liament bij pas.sing of Bills. Lond. 1641, and
" 1659. oct.'

" Catalogue of the Names (yf the Speakers of
" tJie Comnums Hwise of Parliament— 'L'his, which
^' is printed with Modus tenendi Parliam. reaches
" from the Norm, conquest to Will. I^enthall, esq;
*' sjieaker, an. 1640. What other things he hath
" published I know not, nor the time of' his death,
" nor the place of his burial, vuiless it was imder
*' Line, inn chap, or at Wendovcr in Bucks, where,
" or near it, he had purchased an estate : to which
" place I formerly sent to have an account of his
" said death and burial, but could get no answer.'"

[1. Speech in the lower House of Parliament 1
May, 1628, upon a Bill for securing tlw Liberty
of the Subject. MS. Harl. 161, fol. 85: and 2305,
fol. 197, b.

2. Afgument about the Habeas Corpus. MS.
Harl. 1721, fol. 393. (Probably the same with the
fonner.)

3. On the Antiquity cjfthe Laws of this Island.

4. On the Aidiquity of the Christian Religion
in this Island. Both printed in Hearne's Curious
Discourse.^.

5. Prynne gives us the title of another tract of
HakewilFs — 'In the year 1605 Mr. William Hake-
will being her majestie''s sollicitor general (a jierson
well versed in the records of the exchequer and
other antiquities, afterwards a bencher and reader
of Lincolnes Inne, my very good friend and ac-
quaintance) compiled and presented to queen Anne
A Treatise upon the Nature of Aurum Regime ;
conteining the Transcript of divers Records pro-
duced in Proof of several Points thereof; to be
viewed by his most excellent Majesty ; collected and
disposed under certain Divisicms.'' See Prynn^s
Aurum Regim-, Lond. 1668, 4to. (Bodl. 4to. P. 10.
Jur.) page 123, where Hakewill's preface, and the
contents of his various chapters, will be found.

He died in the 80th year of his age, according
to the account of him in the list of members of the
Society of Antiquaries printed at die end of Heame's
Curious Discourses, edit. 1775.]

" ROGER LORTE, the eldest son and heir of
" Hen. Lorte of Stockpoole in Pembrokesh. esq;
" was born in that county, became a gent. com. of
" Wadh. coll. an. 1624, aged 16 years, took one
" degree in arts in 162'7, but before he had com-
" pleated it by detennination, he lel't the university.

Chr.
1647.

' [Mr. William llacliweUs Arj^ument in Parliament against
Impositions, 8 Jac. \. .MS. Harl. 1578, fol. iC. b.]

' [Priiitefl also at the end ol" tlie edit, of Modus lenendi
Part 1671, 'ivith a fresh tiile-page dated 167O. See BodL
8vo. G. 20. Jur.]

LORTE.

HUDSON.

234

" and went, as I conceive, to die inns of court, and
" afterwards to his patrimony. He liath written

" Poems printed about 1647, in qii. This

" booii I have not yet seen, and therefore cannot
Clar. " give you the full title. Nich. Lloyd, M. A. and
1G47. " sometimes one of the senior fellows of Wa<lham
" coll. hail several times seen it, and commended
" the poems therein to be gootl. This jjcrson seeins
" to be tlie same with Rog. Lorte of Stockpxjle in
" Pembrokesh. esq; who was created a baronet by
« K. Ch. II. 1.5 of July 1662, and living severil
'* years after, left behind him at the time of his
" death a s<in named Joh. Lorte, who succeeded
" him in his honour and died in 1677, leaving be-
" hind a relict named Susan. One William Lorte
" of the .same faniilv, living in the reign of K.
" James I. was in his time esteemed a good j)oet
" also, as the copies of verses of his composition,
" tliat were printed in several books shew."

IMICHAEL HUDSON, a Westmorland man *
ham, liecame a poor serving child of Queen's coll.
m the year 1621, and in that of his iige 16, after-
wards tabardcr, and in the year 1 630 fiiUow of that
house, he being then master of arts. About that
time he took holy orders, married capt. " Lewis'"
Pollard's daughter of Newnham Courtney in Ox-
fordshire, and was beneficed in I^incolnshire. But
when his majesty king Ch. I. set up his standard,
he left his benefice, adliered toliim, and after Edge-
hill battel retiring to Oxon, was in Feb. 1642 ac-
tually created doctor of divinitv, and made chaplain
■to his ma-jesty. About that time he being esteemed
an understanding and sober person and of great
fidelity, was made scoutmaster-general to the army
in the north parts of England, under tlie command
of W^illiam iiiar([uis of Newcastle, whereby he did
-wonderfully advantage himself in the ways and
passes of those parts. In that employment he con-
tinued some years, with very good success. At
■length his niajestv (who usually called him his plain
dealing chajilain, because he told him his mind when
others woulil, or durst, not) having an especial re-
spect for his .signal loyalty and courage, entrusted
liim and John Asliburnham, one of the grooms of
his bedchamber, with his person, at what time he
left Oxon in a disgui3e 27 Apr. 1646, in order to
-surrender himself into the hands of the Scots, then
besieging Newark on Trent. Afterwards his ma),
being settled for a time in Newcastle, a seijeant at
arms, or his deputy, was ordered by the parliament
23 of May following, to fetch our author Hudson
to London, for conveying the king to the Scotch
army, and to bring Ashburnham with him, but
they having timely notice, drew aside and escaped
the messenger. Afterwards Hudson crossing the
country in order to get to London, was discovered
at Rochester, and apprehended on the 8th of June

* Jieg. Mulric. Univ. Oxon. PP. fo). 87. b.

following, brought to London, and cx)mmittcd pri-
soner to London-house. On the 18th of the name
month he was examined by a committc of parlia- flLil
ment, and confessed that the king, when he left
Oxon, crossed the country, was at Henley in Ox-
fordshire, Harrow on the Hill, at Brentford, and
almost persuaded to go to I^ondon. Afterwards he
went to St. Albans, and so to Harborow in Leices-
tershire, where the French agent (monsieur de Mon-
tereal or Montrevii) was to have met him, but came
not. From thence he went to Stanford in Lincoln-
shire,' and thence to Downham in Norfolkj where
he lay at a petty alehouse, and tliat sometimes he
passed by the name of Hudson's tutor, at other
times by the name of d(X!tor, and sometimes went a«
Ashbumham's servant. On the 18th of Nov. the
same year, he broke out of prison, and, as 'tis" said,
conveyed letters from the king to iiiaj. gen. Row-
land Laugharne in Wales, which, I suppose, is
false. In Jan. following, he was retaken by maj.
gen. Sedenham Pointz, sent from Hull to London,
and committed close prisoner to the Tower, with
strict order given, that none should speak with him,
but in the jiresence of his keeper. During his con-
finement there, he wrote

The Divine Right of Government, Natural and
Politic, " more particularly of Monarchy, the only
" legitimate and natural Species of Politic Go-
" vernynent. Sic." in two books — printed 1647. qu.
[Bodl. 4to. T. 53. Th.] wherein he shews himself
to be a scholar, as lie before had, by his martial
feats, a couragious soldier. But making an escape
thence in the beginning of 1648, he v/ent into Lin-
colnshire, where he raised a party of horse for his
majesty, and had engaged some of the gentry of
Norfolk and Suffolk in the like design. On the
6th of June 1648, intelligence was brought to the
parliament that the malignants, that is the royalists,
were up in arms in Ijincohishire under the command
of Dr. Hudson, and two days following were letters
read from col. Tho. Waite that he had suppressed
the insurrection of malignants at Stanford in Lin-
colnshire, and had killed their commander Dr. Hud-
son. It seems the chief body of these malignants,
so called, fled to Woodcroft^house in the parish of
Helpson near to Peterborough in Northampton-
shire about 7 miles distant from Stanford, where
Hudson was barbarously killed on the 6th of June
in sixteen hundred forty and ei^ht. The manner i648.
of which was briefly thus. After the rebels had
entred into the house, and had taken most of the
royalists, Hudson, with some of his couragious sol-
diers, went up to the battlements thereof, wjiere
they defended themselves for some time. At length,
upon promise of (juarter, they yielded, but ^^5len
the rebels had got m among them they denied quar-
ter : Whereupon Hudson being thrown over the

* [Dr. Hudson was tutor to prince Charles and rector of
UfBiigton near Siaiiford. Lellcr, Simcroft. TakKer.]
^ la the Memorials of English Affairs, p. 237.

<i35

HUDSON.

WHITE.

battlements, he cauj^ht hold of a spout or out-stone
and there hung ; but his hands being beat or cut
o£F, he fell into the moat underneath, much wound-
ed, and desir'd to come on land to die there.
WhcreupMi one Egborough (servant to Mr. Spinks
the intruder into the ijarsonage of Ca.stor Iwlonging
tt) the bishop of Peterborough) knocked him on the
head with the but-end of his musket. Which being
done, one Walker a chandler or grocer in Stanford,
cut out his tongue and carried it alwut the country
as a trophy. His Iwxly for the present was denied
burial, yet after the enemy had left that place, he
Mas by some Chri-stians committed to the earth. In
Aug. 1684, I was informed by the letters of Mr.
John Whitehall preb. of Peterborough and dean of
Oundlc, tliat the body of the said Dr. Hudson was
removed soon after liis death to Uffington near
Stanford in Lincolnshire, where it was solemnly
buried. Quaere? As for Egborough, he was not
long after torn in pieces with his own gun, which
burst while it was under his arm in Lon^ Orton ;
and Walker since, through poverty, quitted his
trade, and was become a scorn and by-word to the
boys when he passed through the streets of Stan-
ford.

[Quidani Mich. Hudson (coll. C. C.) admissus in
matric. acad. Cant. Jul. 3, 1623. Rcgtst.

Michael Hudson, clericus, A. M. halx?t hteras
patentes (a rege) de presentatione ad rectoriam de
West-Deeping dioc. Line. 16 die Junii, 1632. Ry-
mer, Continuat. Feed. torn, xix, p. 436. M. H.
clericus, M. A. habet literas pat. de presentatione
ad rectoriam de Witchlinge alias Wichlinge di(K.
Cantuar. dat. 29 I\Iar. 1633. Ibid. p. 539. M. H.
cler. A. M. habet literas pat. de presentat. ad vica-
riam de Wirkesworth in com. Derb. dat. 10 Aug.
1633. Ibid. p. 543. Bakeu.

19 Martii 1640, Michael Hudson A. M. ad rect.
de Kings Cliff'e, a<l pres. com. Westmorl. per mort.
ThomfB Strickland. Reg. Towers, Ep. Petrib.

Michael Hudson A. M. rector of Uffington com.
Line.' tutor to prince Charles, and most faithfuU
servant to Charles I.

His book is wrot in a very scholastic, rugged
5tile, detlicated to the king, dated from my close
prison in the Tower 9 Sept. 1647.

He kept garrison for the king in a noted house
called W(xKlcroft, in the parish of Etton com.
North'ton, where he made a stout defence against a
pari, party sent from Stanford, and beat them off
several times, till the aJonel, sending a stronger de-
tachment; demanded a surrendry ot the place by a
captain his own kinsman, who was shot from the
house, upon which the colonel renew'd the charge,
and brought them to capitulate upon terms of safe

' rHu(l$on had the rectory of Uffington near Slamforfl
which he exchanged for that of Kings Cliffe. He did not
retain this last long, for in l644 Mr. Thomas South (who
then held both liviniss) was ejecte<l from that as well as
Uffington. Peck's Dedderata Curiosa, vol. ii. lib. ix, p. 6.]

quarter, but tlie colonel, in base revenge, command-
ed they should not spare that rogue Hudson. His
body was interr'd in the church of Denton near ad-
joinmg, without any memorial oi" stone or inscrip-
tion. Bertie did once propose to have his body re-
mov'd to Uffington, and to put him a monument,
but it is not yet done. 1708.

Among the clergy of the diocese of Lincoln who
t<x}k licenses to preach from S' Nathaniel Brent in
the metroi)»)l. visitation 1634, Aug. 22, Michaeli
Hudson clerico, in art. mag. rectori de West De-
ping in et per dioc. Line. Reg: Line. MS. Ken-
net.]

JOHN WHITE, usually called Patriarch of
Dorchester, or Patriarch White, son of John White,
was born in the time of Christmas at Stanton S.
John near to, and in the county of Oxon, and was
baptized there 6 Jan. 1575, educated in grammar
learning in Wykeham's schwil near Winchester,
admitted perpetual fellow of New coll. after he had
scrvetl two years of probation, in the year 1595,
took the degrees in arts, holy orders, and became
a frequent preacher in these parts. In 1606 he left
his coll. and alxiut that time" became, as I suppose,
rector of Trinity parish in Dorchester in the county
of Dorset, where in the course of his ministry he
expounded the scripture all over, and half over
again, having had an excellent faculty in the clear
and solid interpreting of it. So that his name
being up in those parts, gave (x;casion to a neigh-
bour' of his (a puritanical physician) to stile him
' pastor & minister fidelissimus, in quo praeter doc-
tnnain insignem, ingeniique vim acrem, mirum, ju-
dicium, demde & seduUtas, pietas, atque fides in-
credibilis invicem certabant,' &c. But it must be
known that these things were spoken of him after
our author White had becjueathed ' to the said phy-
sician of Dorchester one of his pieces of jilate. He
was tor the most part of his time a moderate, not
morose or peevish, puritan, and conformed to the
ceremonies of the church of England before, and
when, archb. Laud sate at the stern. But in the
beginning of the long parliament, when the saints
raised a rebellion, he sided with tliem, and with his

sub-Levites Thompson and Will. Benne both

Oxford students, did in a miserable manner cozen
the people thereabouts with strange*^ rejxjrts, viz.
' That mass was said openly in Oxon, that none
but papists were about his majesty, that 20000 Scots
were already entred England, that they should not
look on any book printed at Oxon, or published by
his majesty's conunand. By which means they se-

• [An. 1575 Mr. John White, preacher, born. .\n. l605.
Mr. J. W. came to Dorchester. Vide MS. vol. xxxvi, p.
378. Baker.^

' Fred. Loasius Heidelbergensis Palatin. in OhscTvalionibus
Medicinal. Lond. 1^7^. oct. lib. I. oljservat. 15. p. 35.
' Reg. Fairfax in Offic. Prctog. qu. 105.

• Mere. Ant. in the 34th week, p. 468.

[115]

WHITE.

238

duced alniosl all the town to take tlic covenant, as-
surinjT them, most martyr-like, that they would seal
it witn their bkxxl,' &c. But when prince Rupert
was in those jjarts, and the knowledge of these pro-
ceedings were spread abroad, a party of his horse
retired to Dorchester, plundered the house of our
author White, and t(X)k away his library. So that
he finding that place uneasy, he and his sub-Levites
fled, and White retiring to London, was made mi-
nister of the Savoy ])arish, and carried on the cause
there. So that whereas l)efore the rebellion broke
out, he, by his wisdom, did keep the inhabitants of
Dorchester in good order, and obedient to the
church, and also proved eminently useful in reform-
ing the dissolute manners of the people thereof, it
fell out that after the turn of the times, it was by
his means st<K;ked with such a faetious and fanatical
crew, that all endeavours could not reform it, nor
ever, as 'tis thought, will, it continuing so to this
day. In 1643 he was chosen one of the assembly
of divines, took the covenant, and sitting often with
them at Westminster, shewed himself one of the most
learned and moderate among them, and soon after
did, by order, not only succeed Dr. Featley in the
rectory of Lambeth in Surrey, (ejected thence) but
had his library conferred on him to keep and enjoy
it till such time as Dr. Featley could get back our
author's from the soldiers under prince Rupert.
When the broils of the nation were over, he repair-
ed to Dorchester, and in Nov. 1647 was designed
warden of New coll. ujwn the death of Dr. Pink,
by Will, lord Say, and Nath. Fieimes his son ; but,
it I am not mistaken, he refused that office. He
was a person of great gravity and presence, and had
always influence on the puritanical party near to,
and remote from, him, who bore him more respect
than they did to their diocesan. His works are
these,

Commentary on the three Jirst Chapters of Ge-
nesis, with large Observations on the same. Lond.
1656, 57. fol.

Directions Jhr the pnrfitable Reading of the
Scriptures. — Printed in oct.

Of the Sabbath. — Printed in qu.

Way to the Tree of Life, in sundry Directions.
T— Pr. 1647. Oct. 'Tis the same, I think, which is
called TIic Directory to I'ci^ection.

Several sermons, as (1.) The Troubles of Jeru-
salem''s Restoration: or the ChurcKs Reforma-
[116] iion. Fast Sermon before the H. of Lords, ^Q Nov.
J 645,- on Dan. d. 15. Lond. 1646. qu. with others
which I have not yet seen.

Ten Vows to the Parishioners of Dorchester —
MS. written about the year 1628, answcr'd by Dr.
Gilb. Ironside who became bishop of Bristol in
1660. At k'n<rth having lived beyond the age of
man, died suddenly on the 21st of July, in sixteen
1648. hundred forty and eight, and was interred in the
church porch of S. Peter in Dorchester, which is a
chappel belonging to Trinity church before-men-

tioned. Besides this Joh. Wliite, was another of
botli his names, a minister's son, tloctor of divinity,
brother to Dr. Franc. White bishop of Ely, and a
publisher of several b<x)ks, born at S. Neot's in
Huntingdonshire, bred in Caius coll. in Cambridge,
and afterwards became vicar of Eccles in Lanca-
shire. Whence, after he had continued some years,
he was brought into Suffolk by sir John Crofts,
who bestowed on him the l)est hving that he had to
give. He sent for hini unknown from Eccles, where
he lived in those distresses which he was never able
to look through. He furnished him with Iwoks fit
for his stutlies, he honoured and countenanced him
so much, tliat all the country was satisfied he had a
love and respect for him. He wrote a book called,
The Way to the true Church, and A Defence of it,
against tlie two books that Joh. Fisher the Jesuit
published, and other things, as the Oxford Cata-
logue will tell you. One T. W. P. (priest) who
had sometimes, as it seems, been of Cambridge,
wrote a b(X)k against Jo. White called White dyed
Black. ]3ut John dying before he could make a
reply, his brother Dr. Franc. White took up the
bucklers, and forthwith published a book against
the SMd T. W. entit. Ort/uxiox Faith and Way to
the Church explained, &,c. Lond. 1617. (ju. In
the last ' will and test, of the said John White with-
out date, I find these things said of himself

' Whereas for 20 years past by preaching and
writing, published in two books, I engaged my self
against papistry ; I profess I have done therein no-
thing against my conscience, but desire all men to
assure themselves, that if any error hath escaped
me, it hath passed me through oversight, when I
always bended my self to that work of writing, with
much humility to God, and such diligence as I was
able to use : And having the books always by me,
I writ nothing but what I found in antiquity, and
in the writings publicly received in the church of
Rome it self; and I constantly avouch, that what
I have writ, is the truth, and have been the more
confirmed therein by the unconscionable behaviour
of my adversaries against me,' &c. This will was
proved 21 Feb. 1619, being two or more years after
his deatli, at which time he was chaplain in ordinary
to the king; and his father living, after he had
spent 50 years in preacliing the word of God.

[1605,"17 Mail, Joh. White A. B. coll. ad vica-
riam de Fering, per mortem Tho. Sterne. Reg.
Bancroft.

The Protestation of John White D. D. xcMch
he caused to be written tlie Day before Ids Death,
to the End the Papists might understand he de-
parted out of this World of the same Opinion and
Judgment he maintained both by Preaching and
Writing whilst he lived. A sheet, printed for Wil-
liam Barret. Kennet.]

In Reg. Parker in Oific. Prerog. qu. I7.

939

CHALFONT.

HERBERT.

"RICHARD CHALFONT, son of Peter
" Chal. was l)om at Great Wycomb in Bucks, be-
" came a batler of New-Inn in Mich, term 16^,
" aged 16 years or thereabouts, took the degrees in
" arts, was elected fellow of Line. coll. 20 Feb.
" 1634, atlmitted liach. of div. three years after,
" and became minister to the worshipful company
" of English merchants at Roterdam, an. 1646 ;
" where, as in the university before that time, he
" was accounted a most painful and edifying
" preacher, but always puritanical. He hath writ-
" ten,

" Several sermons, as (1.) Sermon at the Puhlic
" Fast, 10 May 1644, preached before the House
" of Cominon.t at Oxon ; on Jer. 44. 10. Oxon.
" 1644. qu. [Bodl. 4t(). D. 60. Th.] (2.) Sermon
'' on Psal. 29. 11. This I have seen in MS. some-
" times in the hands of Dr. Tho. Marshall some-
" times of Line. coll. as also a Lot. Sermon on Heb.
" 5. 4. and several other things worthy of tlie press.
" He was burietl in the church appropriate for the
" use of the aforesaid merchants m Roterdam on
I(i48. " the 23d of Nov. styl. vet. in sixteen hundred
" forty and eight, as I have been informed by the
" stud Dr. Marshall, who farther told me, that Mr.
" Hen. Tozer of Exeter coll. succeeded him as
fllT] '" minister to the said company of EngUsh nier-
" chants."

EDWARD HERBERT son of Rich. Herbert
by TMagd. his wife, dan. of sir Rich. Newport of
High A real] in Shro])shire, knight, was born in the
sometimes most pleasant and romancy place in
Wales called Mountgomery castle,* became a gent,
com. of University coll. in 1595, aged 14 years,'

* [Not so ; he snys of himself, ' I was born at Evlon in
Shropshire (beinjt a house wliich tosether with fai^r lands
descended upon the Newporis bv my grandmothr') bciw^^en
tlie hours of twelve and one of the clock in the moniinj»;
my infancy was \ery sickly, my he.id continually purging it-
self very much by the ears, whereupon also it was so I<)ng
before I bcuan lo speak, that many thought I should be ever
dumb : the very furthest thing 1 remember is, that when I
uoderstood what was say'd by others, I did yet forbear to
speak, lest I shou"d uiter something that were imperfect or
impertinent; when I rauie to tilk, one of the furthest in-
quirieF I made was how I came into this world ? I told my
nurse, keeper, and others, I found myself here indeed, but
from what caui>e or beginning, or by what means 1 cou'd
not imagine, but for this as I was laughed at by nurse and
some other women that were then present, so I was won-
der'd at by others, who said they never heard a child but my-
self ask that question ; upon which, when I came to riper
years, I made this observation, which afterwards a little com-
forted me, that as 1 found mv self in p(»ssession of this life,
without knowin" any tiling of the pangs and throws my mo-
ther suflcr'd, when yel doubiless ihey did no less press and
iifflict me than her, so I hope my soul shall p.\5s to a better
life than this without being sensible of the anguish and pains
my body shall fed in death. For, as I believe, then 1 shall
be transmitted lo a more happy estate by God's great grace,
I am confident I shall no more know, how I came out of
this world, than how I came into it.' L\fe, &c. p. l6.]

* FHe says he was only twelve years old when lie came to
University, * where 1 remember lo have disputed at my first

where being put under the tuition of an eminent
tutor, laid the foundation of that admirable learn-
ing, whereof he was afterwards a compleat master.
Thence he betook himself to travel, as also to cer-
tain miliUiry exercises in foreign parts, whereby he
became much accomplish''d. After his return, he
was made knight of the Bath at the coronation of
K. Jam. I.; afterwiU"ds one of the counsellors to
that king for his mihtary affairs, and sent ambassa-
dor to Lewis 13, king of France, to mediate lor the
relief of the protestants in that realm then besieged
in several places. In which service continuing about
five years, he was recalled « in July 1621, because
he had irreverently treateil De Luvens the great
constable of France,' and Edward Sackvile was
sent in his place. In the 22d of K. Jam. I. he was'
advanced to the dignity of a baron of the realm of
Ireland, bv the name of lord Herbert of Castle
Island, and in 5 of Car. 1. to the title of lord Her-
bert of Cherbury in Shropsliire. He was a person
well studied in the arts and languages, a good phi-
losopher and historian, and understood men as well
as b(x)ks, as it evidently appears in his writings, tiie
titles of which foUow.

De Veritate, prout distinguitur a Revelatione, a
Verisim'ili, a Poss'ibUi 4" « Falso,^ &e. Par. l6iJ <•
and 1633. [Bodl. AA. 14. Jur. Seld.l Lond. 164.3.
qu. &c. Translatetl into French anti printed 1&39
qu. [Bodl. 4to. L. 14. Th. BS.] much valued by
learned men, and reposed, as 'tis said, in the pope's
Vatican. Answered by P. Gasseudus in his thiixl
tome (the title of which is Opuscula Philosophica )
from p. 411. to p. 419. in an epistle directetl to our au-
thor Herbert — I^ugd. 1658. fol. and by Mr. Richard

coming in logick, and to have made in Greek the cxercie*
requir'd in that colledg, oftner than in L;itin.' Life, ?cc.
pane 24.]

* Cambden in Annul. R.Jac. 1. an. l02i. ,:;

' [King James I. sent sir Edward Herbert (after L. ller-
liert of Cherbury) his embassador into France, to medi^it a
peace between the king and the reformed, and in case of
refusal to use memicc!, which sir Eilw. bravely performed,
to Laynes, and after to the French king himself; which
being misrepresented to K. James, sir Edward was recalled,
and the carl of Carlisle was sent embassador into Fiance in
his roome ; and the carl finding the truth to be otherwise
than was represented by Laynes, acquainleil the king with
i(. Hereupon sir Edward kneeled to the king, and humbly be-
sought liim, that since the businesi between Laynes and him-
self was become public, that a trumpeter if not an herald on
sir Edward's part might be sent to Laynes, to tell him that
he had made a false relation to the king of ihc passages be-
tween them ; and that sir Edward would demand reasons of
him, with sword in hand, on that point : but the king was
not pleased to grant it ; and here began the downfal of the
power of (he reformed in France, and the rise of the French
grandure by land. Detection of the Court and State of
England, Sec. lu Roger Cake, vol. I. lib. 1. cap. 3 ; p. 113,
1 14. Wood, MS. nule in Ashtnoie.']

" Baronage of Eneland, loui. 2. p. 26l. a.

' [See a veiy curious account, given by himself, of the
event which decided hiMi on making this hook public in his
own life, page 171. and which I do not repeat here, as it has
also been' given by Granger in his Biographical History nf
^ng/anrf, vol. ii, page 3i9, edit. 8vo.]

241

HERBERT.

FELI-.

^24^2

1648.

[118]

Baxter in his More Reasons Jm the Christian Re-
ligion^ &c. Printed at Lond. in tw.

De Causis Errorum ; una own Tractatu de Re-
I'lgione Laici, <^ Appendice ad Sacerdotes ; necnon
quthiisdam Pocmatibus. Printetl with the book De
Veritate, &c. 1645.' qu. [Bodl. 4to. H. 7. Aft.
Seld.]

Life aiul Reign of K. Hen. 8. Lond. 1649,
[BocU. F. 2. 19. Art. Seld.] and 72. Both which
editions being collated with the orijojinal Mb. in the
archives of BtHJley's library (given thereunto by the
author in 1643) by certain scholars of this univer-
sity, was printed at Lond. again in 1682. fol.

Expcditio Buckinghami Duels in Ream Insu-
lam* Written by the author in 1630, published by
Timothy Baldwin doct. of law and fellow of All-s.

coll. Lond. 1656. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. H. 4. Art.

BS.]

Occasional Verses (or Poems) Lend. 1665. oct.

SubUshed by Hen. Herbert his Bon, and by him
ecUcated to Edwai-d lord Herbert grandson to the
author. Others of his poems I have also seen in
the books of other authors,' occasionally written,
particularly in that of Joshua Silvester, entit. La-
crymoE Lacrymarum ; or the Spirit of' Tears dis-
tilled for the untimely Death of Prince Henry.
Lond. 1613. qu. There be others also of sir Hen.
Goodyere, sir Will. CornwalUs, Jos. Hall, &c.

De Rcligione Gentilium, Errorumque apud eos
Causis. Amst. 1663.* qu. [Bodl. 4to. S. 68. Th.]
At length after our author Herbert had sided with
the long parliament, and had received satisfaction
from the members thereof for their causing Mount-
gomery castle to be demolished, upon the declining
of the king's cause, he surrendred up his last breath
in his house in Queenstreet near London in sixteen
hundred forty and eight, and was buried in the
chancel of S. Giles's church in the Fields. Over
his grave, which is under the south wall, was laid a
flat marble stone with this inscription engraven
thereon, Heic inhumatur Corpus Edwardi Herbert
Equitis Balnei, Baronis de Cherbury & Castle
Island, Auctoris Libri cui Titulus est De Veritate.

' fPrintcd also in iCoC, 8vo. Bodl. Crynes 157-]

* [_Expedilio in Keam [nsulum, Aulhore Edovnrdo Do-
mino Herlcrl, Darone de Cherhury in Anglia, et Castri In-
iulce de Kerry in Hibernia et 'Pare ulriusque Regni. Anno
MDCXXX. Q,uam puUici Juris fecit Timollieus Bald-
uinus, LL. Doctor e Coll. Omn. Anim. apud Oxonienses,
Soeius. Londini 163G, 8vo. Epistola T. B. (i. c. Tim. Bald-
win!) • lectori seqiiestro' — Epistola E. Herbert serenissimo
potentissinioque inonarcha; Carolo — dabam castr. de Mont-
gomery, Aug. 10, I()30. — ' Ea mihi olim a duce Bucking-
hamo demandata fuit provincia ut de Expeditione sua in
Ream insulam coramentarios quosdam tumiiltuaria opera
conscriptos concinnarem, et in ordinem digererem. Grave
istud (quod nulla deprecarer excusatione) molienti onus,
intervenit nefaria duels ex sicarii manu mors' — Kennf.t.]

' [One of the elegies on Dr. Donne's death is by lord
Herbert.] '

■* [Printed again at Amsterdam 170O, in 8vo. Bodl.
Crynes 693.]

Vol. in.

Redder ut Herbae ; Vicesimo Die Augusti Anno
Domini, 1648. He was father to ' Rich, lord Her-
bert, and he to Edward, which lost dying 21 Apr.
1691, was buried on the 28th of the same month
near to the grave of his grandfather. The reader
is to know, that one Edward Herbert an esquire's
son* of the county of Mountgomery, was matricu-
lated in the university as a member of Qu. coli in
the beginning of July 1608, aged 17 years, but he
is not to be taken to be the same with the former
who was lord Herbert, tho' Isaac Walton in the'
Li/e of Mr. George Herbert doth,' and from him
the society of the said coll. I take him to be the
same, who was afterwards a knight and attorney
general, temp. Car. 1.'

[See a most romantic life of this author, wrote by
himself, and printed at Strawberry hill by my
friend Mr. Horace Walpole, youngest son to the
first earl of Orfbrd, and sent by him to me in July
1764, when it was published in 4to, with a neat
print of lord Herbert lying under a treie. He seems
to be the vainest of all mortals, as also the most of
a Quixot, a character one would not expect in the
author of De Veritate. I take it liis neice Catha-
rine Vaughan was my great, great grandmother.
Wm. Cole, 1764. Lord Herbert's L^e of Him-
self vias printed in 4to. 1764, for private distribu-
tion only. It was afterwards pubhshed in 4to.
Lond. for Dodsley 1770, 17 and again 1792.

Wood had never seen the three fdlowjng poems,

De Vita Humana.

De Vita caelesti Conjectura.

Hecred. ac Nepot. suis Prtrcepta et Consilia,
E. B. H. de C. 4- C. I. de K. These were printed
Lond. 1647, 4to. In the Bridge water library.'

The ' neat print' above mentioned was engraved
from an original of Oliver's by A. Walker, and
there is a neat small head of lord Herbert by Hol-
lar.]

SAMUEL FELL was bom within the parish
of S. Clements Danes without Temple-bar near
London, elected student of Ch. Ch. from AVest-
minster school 1601, aged 17 years, took the de-
grees in arts, that of master being compleated in
1608, elected proctor of the university in 1614, ad-
mitted bac. of div. in the year after, and about that

' [By Mary, daughter of sir William Herbert of St. Gil-
lians, who he niarried Feb. 28, 13<)8, and by whom he had
several children ; of these none remained when he wrote his
life, except Beaitice, Richard and Edward.]

* [Viz. Charles Herbert of Aston, thirtTson of Edward,
son of sir Richard.]

7 Printed at Lond. 167O. p. U.

* ("Mr. George Herbert, the poet, was brother to Edward
lord Herbert of Cherbury. Cole.]

' [And this opinion I believe true. J. A. MS. note, so
signed, in a copy now before me. Edit.]

' [111 1768 was printed in 4to. A Dialogue on Education,
attributed to lord Herbert, how justly I know not, never
having seen the tract.]

R

243

TIPPING.

GEREE.

244

164}.

time became minister of Freslnvater in the isle of
Wight. In the month of May 1619 he was installed
eanon of Ch. Ch. and the same year ]>r(X'eeded in
divinity, beino; alH)ut that time domestic chaplain
to kini; Jam. 1. In 1626 he was made Marj^aret
professor, and .so consequently preliendary of Wor-
cester, (which was about that tnne annexetl to the
[)rofessor8hip) he bein" then a Calvinist. At length
eaving his opinion, became, after great seekings
and cringings, a creature of Dr. Laud archliishop
of Canterbury, by whose means he was made dean
of Lichfield, upon the promotion of Dr. John War-
ner to the see of R(x;hester, an. 1637, dean of Ch.
Ch. in the year after in the place of Dr. Duppa pro-
moted to the see of Chichester, and would, without
doubt, had not the rebellion broke out, been a bi-
shop. In 1647 he was ejected from his deanery
and vice-chancellorship, after he had suffered much
for his loyalty, and tor the preserving of the sta-
tutes and liberties of the university. Afterwards
retiring to his rec-tory of Sunningwell near Abing-
don in Berks, spent the short remainder of his life
in obscurity. He hath written and published,

Primitife ; sive Oratio hahita Oxonia: in Schold
Theolofftce 9 Nov. An. 1626. Oxon. 1627. qu.
[Bodl. D. 16. 10. Line]

Concio Latina ad Baccalaureos Die Cineriim ; in
Colos. 2. 8. Oxon. 1627. qu. [Bo<U. D. 16. 10.
Line] and other things, as 'tis probable, but such I
have not yet seen. He died in the parsonage-house
at Sunningwell before-mentioned, on the first day
of Febr. in sixteen hundred forty and eight, and
was buried in the chancel of the church there. In
his deanery Edward Reynolds, M. A. (afterwards
D. of div.) had violently been thrust in by the au-
thority of parliament, m 1648, as I have at large
told * you elsewhere.

[1612, 29 Jan. Sam. Fell, A. M. coll. ad preb.
de Wenlockesbarn in ecclesia Paid, per mortem
Griffin Vaughan. Reg: King-, Loud. Ep. Ken-
net.

Sami'Fell S. T. P. presentatus a rege ad recto-
riam de Sonningwell, oioc. Sarum, 21 Sept. 1625.
Rymer, Faedcra, torn, xviii, p. 642, 644. Januarii 7°.
Bakeb.J

SU"

WILLIAM TIPPING, second son of
George Tipping, of Dreycot and Whitfield in Ox-
fordshire, knight, by Dorothy his wife, dau. of Joh.
Burlacy of Little Marlow in Bucks, esq; was bom
in O.vfordshire, (at Dreycot I think") became a com-
moner of Queen''s coll. under the tuition of Mr. Joh.
Langhonie in the latter end of 1614, aged 16 years,
where making a considerable progress in logicals
and philosophicals, took a degree in arts. After-
wards he went to London, and spent some time in
one of the inns of court, but his geny being theolcv

» In Kit. ef Antij. Univ. Oxon. lib. I. sub an. l647.
&48.

gicalty given, he retired to Oxon, livwl a .single life
many years in Clanditch in the north suburbs there-
of, for the sake of sc-holastical company and of
books, and was a justice of the peace for Oxford-
shire. In the iK-ginning of the civil war he sided
with the presbyterians, (being always puritanically
affected) took the covenant, and at length was nmSi
one of the visitors of the university ot Oxon by the
power of parliament, an. 1647, and the next year [119]
was iictually created master of arts. He hath writ-
ten,

A Discourse of Eternity. Oxon. 1633. qu.' Af-
ter the publication of which, he obtainetl tne name
among the scholars of Eternity Tipping, to distin-
guish him from others of his simame.

A Return of Thankfulness for the unexpected
Recovery out of a dangerous Sickness. Oxon. 1640.

(Kt.

A Father'' s Counsel: or. Directions to young
Persons. Lond. 1644. oct.

The Preachers Plea: or, a short Declaration
touching the sad Condition of our Clergy, in Rela-
tion to the Smallncss (if their Maintenance througfi-
mtt tfie Kingdom. Lond. 1646. in tw. [Bodl. Svo."
J. 5. Th. BS.I

The remarkable Life and Death of the Lady
Apollonia Hall, IVidozc, deceased in the 3,1st Year
of her Age. Lond. 1647. in tw. He gave way to
fate at Waterstock near to, and in the county of,
Oxon, on the second day of Febr. in sixteen hun-
dred forty and eight, and was buried on the eighth iG4f.
day of the same month in the chancel of the church
there. This person tho' born to a fair estate, and
so consequently might have taken those pleasures
which the generality of gentlemen do, yet he gave
himself solely up to learning, piety, and charity.
He gave 20 shillings yearly to All-saints parish m
Oxon for a sermon to be preached there every Good
Friday, and three * hundred jX)unds*
towards the building of a bridewell
house without the north-gate of the
city, some years before the rebellion
broke out.

an hundred
pounds, firit
eclil.

JOHN GEREE, a Yorkshire man bom, be-
came either a batler or serv'itour of Magd. hall in
the beginning of the year 1615, and in that of his
age 15, took the degrees in arts, that of master
being compleatcd in 1621, entretl into holy orders,
and became minister of a market town in Glouces-
tershire called Tewkesbury.

But being schisma-

3 [;\nother edit. Lond. l646, among Selden's books in
Bddley (8vo. B. 18. Th. BS.) A Disnvrse of Ehrnilie
collec/ed and composed Jor the common Good. JJei'ig neces-
sary for all Seasons, hut especially for this Time of Catamilie
and Destruction. Printed at London bif George Miller for
Christopher Meredith, at the Signe of the Crane in Pautt
Church Yard. l046. This edit, was anonymous.]

* [Three hundred. So Mr. Keblewhite. Wood. MS.
note in Ashmolc.]

GEREE.

246

tically inclined, he refused to conform to certain ce-
remonies in tlie cliurch of England, wliereupon
beinf silenced by Goodman his diocesan, he lived
by the helps of the brethren. At lenjrth upon the
change of the times in 1641, he was restored by
the committee of religion to his said cure, where
continuing till about 1645, became preacher of the
word at S. Alban's in Hertfordshire, and in two

fears after, or less, at S. Faith's under Paul's in
.ondon : At all which places he was much resorted
to by those of the presbyterian jjersuasion. He
hath written and published these things following.

Several sermons, viz. (1.) The Downfal of Anti-
christ, &c. Sermon oil 2 Thes. 2. 8. Lond. 1641.
2u. dedicated to John White, esq; and the rest of
le committee for religion. (2.) JudaKs Joy at
the Oath, (Covenant) Sermon on 2 Chr. 15. 15.
Lond. 1641. qu. [Bodl. 4to. A. 57. Th.] (3.) The
Red Hor.se, or the Bloodiness of War, Sermxm at
PauFs 16 Juhj 1648; on Rev. 6. 4. Lond. 1648.
qu. [Bodl. 4to'. J. 1. Th. BS.] &c.

Vind'icia: Voti : or, a Vindication of the true
Sense of the national Covenant in Answer to the
ProtestatUm protested. Lond. 1641. qu.

Vindicia; Eccks. Anglicance : or, ten Cases re-
solved, which discover, that thd there be need of
Reformation in, yet not of Separation from, the
Churches of Christ; in Englaiid. Lond. 1644. (ju.
[Bodl. 4to. D. 82. Th.] Ded. to Mr. Rich. CapeU
sometimes of Magd. coll.

Proofs that the King may, without Impeachment
of his Oath, touching the Clergy at his Coronation,
ccmsent to the Abrogation cf Episcopacy, and the
Objections against it in two several Treatises
printed at Oxon, fully anszvered. Lond. 1646. qu.
m one sheet. Or thus as 'tis in another title, Case
of Conscience resolved. Wherein it is cleared tlutt
the King may witlujut Impeachment of his Oath,
touching the Clergy at his Coronation, consent to
the Abrogation of Episcopacy. Lond. 1646. qu. in
one sh. and half

Astrologo-ma.stix. The Vanity of judicial Astro-
logy. Lond. 1646. qu.

Vindicia; Pcedo-Baptismi : or, a Vindication of
Infant-Baptism in a full Answer to Mr. Tombe''s
12 Arguments alledged against it in his Exercita-
tion, &c. Lond. 1646. quarto. [Bodl. 4to. B. 9-
Th. BS.]
[120] Character of an old English Puritan, or Non-

conformist. Lond. 1646.' in 1 sh. in qu. [Bodl. 4to.
B. 9. Th. BS.]

VindicicE Vindiciarum : or, a Vindication of his
Vi7idication of Infant-Baptism from the Eocceptions
nf Mr. Harrison in his Pccdo-Baptism oppugned,
and from the Exceptions of Mr. Tumhes, See.
Loncl. 1647. qu. [Bodl. 4to. B. 9- Th. BS.]

A Catechism in brief Questions and Answers,
&c. Lond. 1647. oct. [Bod 8vo. C. 17. Th. BS.]

' [Ueprinted Lond. l673, 4lo.]

Touching Supremacy in Causes Ecclesiastical,
shelving how that tlie Power Civil and Ecclesias-
tical may act without Encroachment of each otlier.
Writti'ii 1647. printed in qu.

[®eto(paii^ax(>v, or a Divine Potion to preserve
spiritual Health, by the Cure of unnatural HealtJh-
drinking, or''] An Exercise wherein t/te Evil if
Health-drinking is by clear and solid ArgumentJi
convinced. Lond. 164i3. in two sh. in qu. [Bo<ll.
4to. G. 11. Th. BS.J

The Sifter's Sieve broken : or, a Reply to Dr.
Bougheii's Sifting his Case of Conscience, ^c.
toucliing tJie King^s Coronation Oath. Lond. 1648.
qu.

Anszver to Mr. John Goodwins Might and Rigid
well met ; wherein is cleared, that the Action of the
Army in Secluding many Parliament Men from
the Place of their Discharge of TruM, and the
Imprisoning of some of them, is neither defen-
sible by the Rules of solid Rea.son, nor Religion.
London. 1649. qvi. in 5 sheets. AVhereupon Jo.
Goodwin ' came out with a reply the same year
entit. Alight overcoming Right," &,c. \Vliat other
things our author Joh. Geree hath written, I know
not. See more of him in Will. Pemble among these
writers in 162.3. vol. ii. col. 331. All that I have
more to say of him is, that he died in his house in
Ivey-lane near to Pater-noster-row in London, in
the latter end of the year (in Febr. as it seems) six-
teen hiuidred forty and eight, but where buried, un- '64|.
less in S. Faith's church before-mentioned, I cannot
tell. The minister who preached his funeral ser-
mon told the auditory that he died jxxjr ; where-
ujx)n there was a collection of money made among
the brethren for his children. This is the same Mr.
Geree a minister, whom a noted ' author reports to
have died with grief and trouble lor the murder of
K. Ch. I.

[Directions for the private Reading of the Scrip-
tures ; wJierein besides tlie Number cfthe diopters
assigned to every Day, the Order and Drft of the
zeliole Scripture is metliodicully set down : And
choice Rules (that shew how to read with Profit)

« [Tanner.]
' [Jo. Got " ■

Goodwin Norfolc. adm. socius coll. Refill. Nov.
10, l(il7.

Quidam Jo. Goodwin adtnissus in coll. Jo. Cant. 1587,
quaere ?

Quidam Jo. Goodwin coll. Einan. adui. in Matr. Acad.
Cant. Jul. 9, 1G29.

Jo. Goodwin, Stafford, adm. socius coll. Jo. Apr. 6, IS93.
Baker.]

^ [Wood has mistaken this title : Might overcoming Right
was one of Geree's own book?. The answer by Goodwin
was entitled A brief Reply lo a Treatise, inlituled KATA-
jiTNArrHI or Might overcoming Right. Published by M. J.
Geree, a little before his Death. This was printed at page
09 ofTUPlXTOAlKAI: The Ohstructovrs of Justice : or a De-
fence of the Honourable Sentence passed upon the late King
by the High Court of Justice, &c. &c. Lond. 1S49, 4to. See
it in Bodl. Line. A. 1. 19.]

' See Mr. Rich. Baxter in liis Plea for the Nonconformists
Ministry, Lond. 168I. p. 145.
R2

247

GEREE.

HAMILTON.

are likewise given. The Use whereof is shexced in
the Preface. By Nich. B^fciM, '"> Preacher (f God's
Word at Isleicorfh in Middlesex. The fourth Edi-
tion. Wherein the Anulyticall Tables are much atul
profitably inlarffed, and Helps prescribed to tlwse
that cannot write or read. By Jo: Geree M. A.
and Pas-tour of Saint Faith's, London. Where-
unto is annexed a jnthy Direction to reconcile
Places df Scripture which seem repugnant. Lon-
don 16fe. 12mo. Preface addressed ' to the Chris-
tian reader, and more especially to my loving pa-
rishioners of" St. Faiths London — ' Being moved oy
a friend to review and supply some defects in a httle
book intituled Directions &c. I at first put it off as
a task fitter for some of neer alliance to him; but
understanding that engagement in pubUke affairs
prevented help in that way, I .undertooke the work
—the defects which I was to supply, were not at
first found out by me, but suggested by another
reverend divine (M. H. Palmer) now witn God. —
From my study in Ivy Lane, Jan. 4, 1647.' Bodl.
8vo. B. 24. Th. BS.]

"JAMES HAMILTON the eldest son of
James marquis of Hamilton in Scotland, by the
lady Anne Cuningham his wife, daughter of
James earl of Glencairn, was born of a most an-
tient and noble family at Hamilton, on the 19 of
June 1606, Ijecame a nobleman of Exeter coll.
under the tuition of Dr. John Prideaux, by the
name and title of James Hamilton earl of Arran,
in the beginning of July 1621, where spending
about three years in good letters, retired to the
court, and upon the death of his father, which
hapned in the latter end of 1624, he became mar-
quis of Hamilton and earl of Cambridge, and
shortly after grew in such favour with K. Ch. I
that he made him one of the gent, of his bed-
chamber, knight of the Garter and master of the

horse. In 1630 he sent the lord Rea a

Scotch man to the king of Sweden, to offer his
assistance, and that he would bring over ' forces
to him, but some suspected tlie marquis to have a
deeper design, under this pretence, to begin to
raise forces to back his intended purpose oi mak-
ing himself king of Scotland. But the marquis
bemg full of subtilty and in great favour with the
king, he wiped off all suspicion of himself, goes
on with raising of his army, and conduct»Jd it
into Germany. But so little care was taken of
provisions and accommodations for his men, that
they were brougiit into a sick and shattered
condition ; so that they mouldred away in a short
time, and the marquis was forced to return to
England, without gruning any great renown by
this action, wherein he neither did service to the
K. of Sweden, or to himself, or to the protestants

'• [Of N. Byfielil sec vol. ii, col. 323.]

' " Bulstr. Whillock in \m Memorials

ic. under the year 1 630."

of English AJfairs,

" cause in Gern)any. In 1638, when divers tu-

" mults were raised in Scotland under colour of

" asserting the religion there established, he was

" about tlie end of tlie month of May employed '

" thither, in order to the appeasing of them :

" whence he returned in Nov. following. Also upon [121]

" that great insurrection of the Scots in 1639, wliich

" occasioned his majesty to raise considerable forces

" by sea and land (liimself also nuu-ching in person

" thither) this marquis had the whole fleet (pre-

" pared for that purpose) committed to his trust

" and conduct. And after that upon a farther in-

" surrection there, being sent again into that realm,

"in order to his majesty's service, for the better

" countenancing him therein, had the title of duke'

" conferred on him in Apr. 1643. About which

" time the Scots having raised another army to

" assist the English rebels then in a dechning con-

" dition, he hastned to the king at Oxon, accom-

" panied with his brother AVilliam earl of Lanerick,

" giving out to all the governors of such towns and

" ca-stles as lay in their road, that being banished

" tlieir country for their loyalty to his majesty, and

" plundered of their estates by the covenanters,

" they were at that time thus constrained to flee for

" the safety of their lives. What cause of suspicion

" the king then had of the duke's fidelity, is not yet

" certainly known : sure it is that upon his arrival

" at Oxon, 16 Dec. 1643, his maj. did not only re-

" fuse him access to his presence, but sent him on

" the 3 of Jan. following prisoner to Pendennis

" castle in Cornwall ; where continuing for some

" time, he was translatetl to St. Michael's mount in

" the same county, where he continu'd till the

" month of Aug. an. 1646, when all being lost, and

" that, among other garrisons, surrendred, he was

" thereupon freed and went into Scotland. After

" wliich his maj. being sold by the brethren of that

" realm (to whom he had fled for refuge, they

" being then besieging Newark) unto the covenants

" ing presbvterians of England, and from tliem at

" length taKen by the independents to serve their

" ends, and made prisoner in several places, par-

" ticularly in the isle of Wight, this duke Hamilton

" discerning how distastful to the world those huck-

" sters then were ; for thus making merchandize of

" their native king, and their brethren in England

" grown odious, not restoring him to his royal

" power, when they might ; as also that the inde-

" pendents were generally abominated, for pre-

" tending his restoration, and afterwai-ds keeping

" him close prisoner in the said island, made over-

" ture to the Scots for rsusing an wcmy in order to

" his rescue. Which matter seeming plausible to

" them, but much more to the royalists, he wanted

" neither men nor arms to serve him in that ad-

" " Will.Dngdale in hh Baronage of England, Reprinted
167C. torn. 3. p. 439. b."
' " Ibid."

HAMILTON.

HEYIIICK.

250

[122]

" venture : Aiid to the intent he might therein ob-
" tain the favour of tlie kirk, lie declared for the
" covenant, anil niarcli'd into England. Hut this
" attempt having neither his majesty ''s autiiority
" nor approbation, his maj. was heard to say (being
" then a prisoner in the said isle of Wight) inx)n
" the first notice that the Scots were entred mto
" this kingdom* ' The duke then is utterly undone,'
" for he would not confide in him, because of his
" conduct and design he was much diffident : and
" therefore to evidence his integrity, he his niaj.
" gave strict charge to such officers, who had in the
" war served him, that neither they, nor any sol-
" diers of his party should joyn with Hamilton or
" the Soots. By that time the duke had got to
" Preston in Lancashire, his horse and foot being
" at a large distance asunder, Cromwell and Lani-
" bert fell there upon him with such advantage, as
" that he became necessitated to forsake his foot
" and march southward. So that being closely
" pursued, and not able to make head, he was taken
" at Uttoxeter in Staffordshire, and thence carried
" prisoner to Windsor castle, and afterwards to
" Westminster, where he continued till he was
" brought to the block. Under this duke''s name
" go these things following,

" Preface to a Book entit. General Demands con-
" cerninff the late Covenant propounded to the Mi-
" nisters and Professors of Divinity in Aberdeen,
" to some rev. Brethren, ivho cume thither to re-
" commend the late Covenant to them, and to tliose
" that are committed to their Charge, &c. printed
" 1638. qu. Those that wrote the said General
" Demands, &c. were Alex. Ilosse sometimes mi-
" nister at Aberdeen, Joh. Forbes of Corse, Dr.
" and professor of div. at Aberdeen, Alexand.
*' Scrogie min. at Old Aberdeen and D. of D. Will.
" Lesley D. D. and principal of the King's coll. in
" Aberdeen, Rob. Baron Dr. and prof of div. and
" min. at Aberdeen, Jam. Sibbald D. of div. and
" min. there also. The duke of Ham. hath also
" written,

" Various Letters They were mostly written

" to K. Ch. I. Some to the queen, and some to
" great personages.

" Conferences, Advices, Answers, &c. — These,
" as most of his letters, you may see in The Me-
" moirs of the Lives and Actions of James and
" William Dukes of Hamilton, &c. published by
« Gilb. Biunet D. D. in 7 Ixjoks. Lond. 1674. fol.
" [Bodl. D. 4. 12. Art]

" Several Speeches Among which must not

" be forgotten one written with his own hand before
" his death (supjwsing it would not be permitted to
" be spoken on the scaffold) which was published
" by his brother Lanerick, and another which he
" spoke on the scaffold at the time of his execution,

* " SirTho. Herbert in his book eotit. Carolina Threnodia,
M.S."

published with his * Conference had with Dr. Ja:
Sibbald, printed at Lond. 1649. qu. [Bcxll. C.
15. 6. Line] But now let's bring this unhappy
man to his last exit : after he had iinpcared se-
veral times before the higii court of" justice to
answer lor his j)retended treasons by invading
the kingdom of" England, received his doom fronr
Joh. Bradshaw the president thereof, on tlie 6 of
March 1648, whereujwn being l)cheaded on a
scaff'old near to the great gate leading into West-
minster-hall on Friday the ninth day of the same ■*'•
month, his Ixxly was soon after conveyed by sea
to Hamilton in Scotland and there deposited in the
church among his ancestors. See more in The
Memoirs, &.c. before-mentioned, written in favour
of the said duke, as to his loyalty to the king, and
his cause ; much repugnant to a pamphlet pub^
lished some months oefore the duke's death enUt.
The manifjld Practices and Attempts of the
Humiltons, and particularly of tlie present Duke
of Hamilton now General of the Scotish Army,
to get the Croicn (f Scotland, &c. written in May
1648, and printed at Lond. the same year in 3 sh.
in qu. All, or most of, which pamphlet is in-
volv'd in another, which came out just after the
duke's death, entit. — Digitus Dei: or, God's
Justice upon Treachery and Trecuion, exemplified
in the Life and Death of tlie late James Duke of
Hamilton: being an exact Relation of his Tray-
' ierous Practices since the Year 1680, &c. Lond.
' 1649, in 4 sh. in qu. written by March. Nedham,
' who -hath added thereunto the duke's epitaph,
' very satyrically written : After the execution of the
' said duke, Henry earl of Holland, and the most
' noble Arthur lord Capell were for tlieir loyalty in
' endeavouring to rescue tlieir captive king from
' his imprisonment in the isle of Wight, beheaded
' also upon the same stage. The last entred on
' the scaflFold like a brave and generous liopian,
' walked to and fro in a careless posture with his
' hat cock'd, and shew'd nothing of discomposure
' at the approachment of death, but carried himself
' to the very jioint of it with such wonderful bold-
' ness and resolution that it struck tlie generality
' of the spectaUws with profound admiration."

[There are several fine old prints of the duke of
Haniilton. I shall particularise four,

1. On horseback, inscribed James marquis of
Hamilton—' Sold by W. Webb.'

2. By Voerst.

3. By Hollar, small.

4. By 11. White ; before Burnet's Lives of the
Hamiltons.]

« ROBERT HEYRICK was a Londoner bom,
" but descended from those of his. name (which are

' " See also at the end o{ Excetlent Conltmplalions divine
and moral, Written by Arthur lord Capell. Lond. l683,
ocl. |). UC, 147."

251

IIEYIIICK.

^VELDON.

BRERETON.

Clar.
1648.

[123]

" anlicnt and genteel) in Leicestersliire, was elected
" fellow of Alls. coll. from that of S. John's as it
" seenis, in the year 16!^, but t(x>k no dej^iec, as I
" can yet find. Afterwards lieing patroniz'd by the
" earl of E.xeter, lived near tlie river Dean-Bourne
" in Devonshire, where he excrcis'd his muse as
" well in jxxjtry as other leaniinji;, and became
" much beloved by the gentry in those parts for his
" florid anil witty discourse : but Ixjing forced to
" leave that place, he retired to London, where he
" pubhslied

" Hcxpc rides : or, Works both humane and di-
" vine. Lond. 1648, in a thick oct. with his picture
" (a shoulder-piece) Ijefore it

" His noble Numbers : or, his Pieces. Wh-erein
" {among other things) he sings the Birth of Christ,
" and Sighs for his Saviours Suffering.^ on tlie

" Cross printetl with Hespcrides. These two

" books of poetry made him much admired in
" tlie time when they were published, especially by
" tlie generous and boon loyalists, among whom
" he was numbred as a sufferer. Afterwards he
" had a benefice confen-'d on him (in Dcvonsh. I
" think) by die said E. of Essex, and was living in
" S. Ann's parish in Westminster, after his ma^
" iesty's restoration. He had a brother or near
" kin.sman named Rich. Heyrick a divine, whom I
" have elsewhere mention'd."

[WockI has enrolled Heyrick among our Oxford
«Titers without his usual accuracy, as that poet was
iu no way, that I can find, connected with this uni-
versity. There was, it is true, a Robert Heyrick,
the son of a knight, and born in I^ondon, matricu-
lated of St. John's college, in his 17th year, October
13, 1615,* but no such name (X"curs at All Souls,
where a Roger Heyrick ' in artibus baccalaureus,
de comitatu Middle.sexise et dif)ccs. liOndon. con-
sanguineus fundatoris,'' was admitted fellow in 1628.

Heyrick on the contrary was a Cambridge man.
He entcretl about the year 1615 at St. John's coll.
in that university, as a fellow commoner, and re-
moved in about tliree years to Trinity hall, where
he studied the law. J?ut being patronized by the earl
of Exeter, he (juitted this profession for the church,
and in 1629 (Oct. 1.) wa.s presented by king
Charles I. to the vicarage of Dean-Prior, in Devon-
shire, then vacant by the promotion of Dr. B.
Potter to tlie see of CarUsle. During the reign of
Cromwell he was, of course, deprived of his benefice,
but it was restored to him on the return of Charles
II. When or where he died is uncertain.

He3rrick's Hesperides is a vol. of equal rarity and
merit. Several of his poems have been revived in
modem collections, the best perhaps will be found
in Drake's Literary Hours, those which more espe-
cially relate to himself and his family in Nichols's
Hist, of Leicestershire, where also are several of his

■• VRtg. Maine. Univ. O.ron. PP. fol
" [Heg. Sociurum Cull. omn. Ann. MS.]

I0.».]

letters. About tlie year 1812 Dr. J. Nott of Bris-
tol printed Select Poems from tlic Hesperides, 'with
occasional Remarks by J. N. {Bristol, printed by
J. M. Gutch.) This vol. contains 284 of his poems ;
and it is only to be regretted tliat the editor did not
extend his collection t(» double the number. I gi\"e
one only as a specimen-—

To the Virgins to make much of Time-

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may.

Old Time is still a flying ;
And this same flow'r that smiles to-day.

To-morrow will be dying.

The glorious lamp of heav'n, the sun,

The higher he's a getting ;
The sooner will his race be run,

And nearer he's to setting.

That age is best which is the first,
When youth and blood are warmer ;

But, being spent, the worse ; and worst
Times still succeed the former.

Then be not coy, but use your time.

And while ye may, go marry ;
For, having lost but once your prime.

You may for ever tarry.

The head of Heyrick prefixed to his Hesperides
is engraved by W. Marshall, and is very rare. It
has been copied on a magnified scale by Schiavo-
netti for Nott's selections.]

ROBERT WELDON a man of parts during
liis stay in the university, took the degrees in arts as
a stuifent of Ch. Ch. that of master being cora-
pleated in 1615. Afterwards he liecame rector of
Stony-Stanton in Leicestershire, wrote and pub-
hslied

The Doctrine of the Scriptures concerning the
Original of Dominion. ]llierci7i God's perpetual
Propriety in the Sovereignty (rf the rchole Earth;
and the King's great Cluirter for the Administra-
tion thereof by authoritative Records in both the
Testaments, [and sundry of tlie chief Arguments
reduced into Form ready Jbr tlie present Examina-
tion of tliose who in this great Cause desire tlie
Truth^l <^c. is Jure divino. — Lond. 1648. qu. In
which book the author shews himself to be well
read in various sorts of learning, and by some pas-
sages therein a loyalist, and a sufferer for the king's

" WILLIAM BRERETON, descended from
" the antient and knightly fanidy of his name of
" Brereton in Cheshire, was bom, as I presume, at

" [Rawliksok.]

' [Nichois, Hist, of Leicestershire, iv. 972, says he was
forced to.fly the country for his own safety, and aods that he
died before the restoration.]

Clar.
1648.

BRERETON.

HAKEWILL-

254

" Honford (where his father lived) in the . same
" coiintv, sjK'nt sonic time either in the condition of
" a gent. com. or an hospes in Oxon, left it without
" a degree, exercisM himself in martial feats beyond
" the seas, as I have heard, became afu>rwards a
" l)aronet, and at length knight for Cheshire to serve
" in the two parliaments called in 1640 : but having
" been puritanically educated, he sided with the
" presbyterians in the beginning of the rebellion
^' raiseti by them, took a commission from them to
" be a colonel, took the covenant, and in June
" 1644 he was by the parliament made major ge-
" neral of Cheshire, Staffordshire, and Lancashire.
" What his services were for the parliament, and
" how he did beat and sometimes was beaten,* the
" common chronicles will tell you ; but when the
" king's cause began to decline, and he thereupon
" obtaining victories and garrisons, all his arrears
" were jiaid, after the rate of ten pounds per diem
" as a major-gen. and five thousand poimds given
" to him out of such delinquents (royalists)
" estates, that were not then (in Oct. 1646) com-
" poimdcd for, &c. Afterwards the inde|iendents
" gmning the reins of the government into their
" hands, we heard no more of him, only that he
" submitted to their government while he lived in
" his own country. Under his name were pub-
" lished,

" Divers Letters to Will. Lenthall the Speaker
" and the Parliament. — Among these I find his
" Letter to tJieJbrmer, concerning all the Passages
" and Treatises of the Sicffe and taking of the Litij
" of Chester, dated 9 Feb. 1645, xcith Letters to tlte
" besieged Persons in (Ihc.^ter. To n'hich is add-
" ed An exact Declaration of Chester'' s Enlarge-
" ment after three Years Bondage, written by
" Nathan Lancaster, Cfiaplain to the Cheshire
" Forces. Which letters and declaration were
" printed at Lond. 5 Mar. 1645, in 4 sh. and an
" half in qu. And to the latter (the parliament)
" A Letter concerning the Taking of Shrewsbury,
" dated 22 Feb. 1644. Two Letters to the Earl of
" Essex and Mr. Jo. Pym concerning the Rebels
" (Parliamenteers) Affairs in the North. Ox. 1643,
" in one sh. in qu. As for the victories he ob-
" tained, but not the overthrows that lie endured,
Clar. " you may see a canting book entit. A Survey of
1648. « England^s Champions, and TrutKs faithful P'a-
" triots. Sac. Lond. 1647. oct. cap. Ifi. p. 41, with
" the picture of sir Will. Brereton there ; which
" book was written and published by a bigotted
" presbyterian called Josiah Ricraft ' a merchant of
" London. He was Uvin» in 1648.

GEORGE HAKEWILL son of John Hake-

will of the city of Exeter merchant, was Iwm in the
parish of S. Mary Arches within the said city and
educated in grammar learning there, became a com-
moner of S. Alb. hall, in the beginning of the year
1595, and in that of his age 16, where he became
so noted a disputant and orator, that he was una-
nimously ek>cted fellow of Exeter coll. at two yejirs
standing. Afterwards he proceeded in arts, applied
himself to the deep researches in philosophy and
divinity, entred into the sacred function, travelled
beyond the seas, and at his return became as noted
for his preaching and disputes, as before he was for
philosophy. In 1610 he was admitted to the reading
of the sentences, and the next year proceeded in di-
vinity. Afterwards he became the first sworn chap-
lain that attended prince Charles, by whose endea-
vours, I presume, he became archdeacon of Surrey,
an. 1616, which was the highest dignity tliat he en-
joyed, being hindred, I presume, from rising higher
for his zealous opposing the match of the infanta of
Spain with his master the prince. The story of
wliich was this : After he had with some pains
written a small tract against that match, not with-
out some reflections on the Spaniard, which could
not he pleasing to the king, he caused it to be fairly
transcribed by another hand. Which done, he un-
known to the king presented it to the prince. The
prince, after he haid perused it, shew'd it to the
king, who being offended at it, commanded Tho.
Murrey the prince's tutor and secretary, the au-
thor Hake\vill, William his brother, and all others
who knew of, or were consenting to it, to be com-
mitted*' to custody in Aug. 1621, whence being
soon after released, our author Hakewill was dismist
from his attendance on the prince. So that tho' his
learning was accounted by the generahty poUte, his
philosophy subtile, and divinity profound, yet in
this particular he was esteemed very rash and im-
prudent. A certain author' tells us, that when he
presented the said MS. to the prince, he should
say ' Sir, I beseech you make use of this, by read-
ing it your self, but if you shew it to your father, I
shall be undone for my good will.' The prince re-
turned him many thanks and assured him, it should
never go farther than the cabinet of his own breast ;
but withal he asked him to whom he had sliew'd it.
Hakewill replied, the archbishop (Abbot) hath read
it, who returning, said to him. Well done thou good
and faithful servant. Besides him, he told the
prince, he had shew'd it to Mr. Murrey his tutor,
who belike being better acquainted with liis ma.ster's

Ijci-fidious disposition (so are the words of the libel-
ous author) than the other, did then dissuade him
from deUvering it to the prince, for saith he, he will
betray you. And it so fell out, for within less than

\V.>A\

' [^Looking Glass for the Anabaptists and the rest of tliK
Separatists in Confutation of inil. Kiffin's Remonstrances of
the Anabaptists, iSfc. By Josiah Ricraft. Loml. l64.^,
4to, four sheets and an half. T a n n e b .]

' Camden in Annal. Reg. Jac. 1. MS. sub an. iG^J.

' Sir Ant. Weldon in his Observations on K. Charles p.
217, 218, at the end of his Court and Char, of K. James,
printed l651. oct.

255

HAKEWILL.

two hours after his said engagement to the doctor,
he presented it to his tiitlier, iijwn which he, or any
thro' wliose liands or cognizance it had passed 1k*-
fore, were all under a disgrjice, and banished the
court,' Sec.

The works of this our author Hakewill are these,

The Vanity of the Eye. Oxon. 1608. in oct.
[Bodl. 8vo. H. 4J3. Art.] Written for the comfort
of a young gentlewoman who became bUnd by the
small pox.

Scutum Reffium adversus omnes Reg'icidas <§•
Regicidarum Fatronai, ab Initio Mundi tismie ad
Interitum Phocw Imperatoris, &c. Lib. 3. Lond.
1612. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. H.80. Th.]

Tlie antient and ecclesiastical Practice of Con-
firmation, confirmed by A r^uments drawn from
Scripture, Reason, Councils, Fathers, and Inter
Writers,* &c. Lond. 1613. qu. [Bodl. KK. 41.
Jur.]

Answer to a Treatise rcritten by Dr. B. Carter
by Way of Letter to hit Majesty, wherein he laycth
doran sundry/ politic Considerations, by tchich he
pretendeth himself ?ca,r mov'd, and endeavourcth
to move others to be reconciled to the Ch. of Rome,
&c. Lond. 1616. qu. [Bodl. 4to. H. 27. th.]

Treatise against the Match with the Iivfanta —
This little thing, which is in MS. I have not yet
seen. But another of the like nature I have lying
by me,* written by one Thomas Allured sometimes
secretary to Ralph lord Ever president of Wales,
the beginning of which is this. ' Thougli to ad^^se
may seem presumptuous, yet what is well intended,
I am more than confident will be neither offensive
[125] to your lordship,' &c. 'Twas written to the mar-
quis of Buckingham, who communicating it to the
king, he was so much displeased, that the author
Allured was committed to custotly 10 June 1620,
being a full year before Hakewill had written his
tract.

Twelve Sermons concerning David's Vow to re-
form himself his Family, and his Kingdom ; on
Psal. 101. Lond. 1621, [Bodl. 8vo. W. 48. Th.]
S2. oct. Besides which he hath other sermons ex-
tant, as (1) Serm. preached at Barnstaple, on Judg.
5. 31. Lond. 1632. qu. [Bodl. 4to. R. 29. Th.]
(2) Serm. at the Funeral of John Doivne Bar. of
Div. Rector oflnstoTt) in Devon, sometimes Fellozv
ofEman. Coll. in Camb. ; on Dan. 12. 3. Oxon.
1633. qu. [Bodl. 4to. D. 18. Th.]

Comparison between the Days of Purim and

* [This was wrhten for the coniirmatinn of the prince on
Monday in Easier week, l6l3, at the chappel in Whitehall,
at which time Dr. H. was cliaplaiu to the prince. Watts.]

* [There arc two copies of this letter in Tanner's MSS.
SgOand 299. It has been printed byRushworth in liis Col-
lections under the year 1 623, and by Gutch in the Collec-
tanea Curiosa, 1781, i. 17O. In the latter work will also be
found, Rtu. IVoodward's Letter to Mr. Secretary fTinde-
ianke concerning Mr. Ahired's Discourse against the Spahish
MalcL] '

thai ofPoKder Treason — Printed 1626. qu. [Btjdl.
4to. P. 39. Th.]

An Apology or Declaration of the Poiuer and
Providence of God in the Government of the World,
proving that it doth not Decay, &c. in lour books.
Lond. 1627. To which were added two more
Lond. 1635. fol. 3d edit. [Bodl. O. 2. 12. Th.] In
the first of which are HakevilVs Replies to Bishop
Goodmans Arguments and Digressions, which he
had made on the first Jour Books of the before-men-
tioned Apol. or Declar. having been incited there-
unto by Hakewill's former confutation of some
passages in bish. Goodmans Fall of Man, &c. re-
lating to the eternity of tlie world, or for the uni-
ver^I and perpetual decay tliercof, whereby Good-
man would prove the fall of man. But this con-
futation made by our author (whether in MS. or
printed I know not) I have not yet seen.

Discourse of the Lord's Day ; on Rev. 1. 10.
Lond. 1641. qu. [Bodl. 4to. A. 57. Th.]

Dissertation with Dr. Heylin concerning thepre-
tended Sacrifice in the Eucharist. Lond. 1641. qu.
[Bodl. 4to. H. 10. Th. BS.]

A Treatise rescuing Dr. Jo/i. Rain olds and other
grave Divines, from the vain Assaults of P. Hey-
lin, touching the History qfS. George, pretendedjy
by him asserted. — This I have .seen in a MS. fol.
but whether ever printed I cannot tell. Qutere. He
also translated into Latin The Life of Sir Tho.
Bodley, his kinsman, which is in MS. in the public
library. At length upon the promotion of Dr. Pri-
deaux to the bishoprick of Worcester, he was elected
rector of Exeter coll. (to which he had before been
an especial benefactor) but did little or not at ail
reside upon it: for the srand rebellion* ^ ■ ■,
breaking then lortn, he receded to nis i.'irst edit.
rectory of Heanton near to Barnstaple in
Devon, where he lived a retired life to the time of
his death, which hapning in the beginning of April
in sixteen hundred forty and nine, was buried on
the fifth day of the same month in the chancel of the
church there. Over his grave was a stone after-
wards laid, with this inscription thereon, ' Reliquiae
Georgii Hakewill S. Th. D. archidiaconi Surriae,
collegii Exoniensis & hujus ecclesire rectoris, in .spem
resurrectionis hie repositse sunt, an. 1649. aetatissuas
72.' I have seen a copy of his last wiU and testa-
ment, proved 2 May 1649, wherein he desires that
his body might be buried in Exeter coll. chappel, if
it could -conveniently be ; if not, at least his heart
under the communion table, or under the desk where
the bible lies, with this inscription on a brass plate
to be put on it. Cor meum ad te, Domi?ie. But this
I presume was not done, because no such inscription
appears. However the society of Ex. coll. did
afterwards, in honour to his memory, hang up hit
picture painted to the Ufe, in his doctoral formali-
ties, on the organ-loft at the east end of tlie isle,
joyning to the south side of the chappel. In the
rectory of the said coU. succeeded Mr. (afterward*

1649.

DUCK.

DUDLEY.

258

Dr.) John Conant, and in his arcluleaconry, Joh.
Pearson D. D. of Cambridge, installed tlierein 26
Sept. 1G60, a learned man and famous for his Ex-
positimi of the Creed, and otlier Iwoks. He was
afterwai-ds the wortiiy bishop of Chester, and died
about the middle of July 1()80.

[An Appendix of Dr. Hackezvers An^xoer to the
Sishop of Gloucester s Reasons. MS. Ashmole
1284> (Catal. MSS. Angl. p. 350.]

ARTHUR DUCK was Ixirn of a wealthy fa-
nuly ^ living at Heavy tre in Devonshire, (the place
where afterwards his father built an hospital) became
a student in Exeter coll. in the year 1595, and that
of his age 15, took one degree in arts in June 1599,
and then was made commoner of the said coll. Af-
terwards he translated himself to Hart hall, and as a
L^*"J member thereof proceeded in the said faculty, an.
1602, and two years after was elected fellow oi Alls.
coll. But his geny leading him to the study of the
civil law, he took the degrees in that faculty, and
much about the same time travelling into France,
Italy and Germany, was after his return made chan-
cellor of the dioc. of Bath and Wells. In which
office beha\'ing himself with gi-eat integrity, prudence
and discretion, was honoured by, and beloved of,
Lake bishop of tliat place, and the more for this
reason, because he was beholden to him for the
right ordering of his jurisdiction. Afterwards he
was made chancellor of London, and at length
master of the requests, and was in all likehhood in a
certain possibility of rising higher, if the times had
not interrupted him. In the beginning of 1640 he
jvas elected burgess for Q. Mynhead m Somerset-
shire to sit in that parliament which began at West-
minster 13 Apr. the same year, and soon after sid-
ing with his maj. in the rebellious times suffered
much in his estate, having 300^. at one time given
thence to one Serle a widow.' In the month of
Sept. in 1648, he and Dr. Ryves were sent for to
Newport in the isle of Wight by his majesty, to be
assisting to him in his treaty with the commissioners
sent from parliament. But that treaty taking no
effect, he retired to his habitation at Chiswick near
London, where, living to see his master murdered
before his own door, he soon after ended his life.'

* [Bcati niortui qui moriiintnr in Doinino. Riohardiis
Ducke et Joanna uxor ejus hie reguiescunt. Qui matriino-
nio conjunct! anno ?al. MDLXIIII per quadraainta annus
foeliciler simul vixerunt. Quibus exactis Kichardus, relictis
ex eo mairinionio octo liberis, ohij t xOctobris ann. MDCIl 1 1 .
Joanna ver.n per vifjinli annos in viduitatc supcrstes xxxi
Jullj MDCXXlIll ad coelos migravit. Nicolaus Ducke ar-
miger et Anhurus Ducke Ugum doctor, filij, parentibus cha-
riss. et opt. nieritis pos. Le Neve, Monumenia Anglicaiia
from l600 lo l(J49, Rvo. Lond. 17lg, page «.]

. ' [Arthur Duck, of Chiswick, MiddleseXj was no less
than 2000/. deep in their books at Goldsmiths* hall. Prince,

Worthies of Devon, page 269.]

' [This should be omitted, for the said Dr. Duck died iG
Dec. i648, suddenly in Chelsea church. Peck.]
Vol. III.

He was a person of smooth language, was an excel-
lent civilian, and a tolerable iMet, especially in his
younger days, antl well versed in histories whether
ecclesiastical or civil. He hath extant,

Vita Hewrlct Chichclei) Archiepiscopi Cantua-
rtemis, .iub Reffibus Henric. V.S^ VI. Oxon. 1617.
qu. [Bodl. 4t(). D. 30. Art. Sold.] remitted into the
collection of lives published by Dr. Bates, an. 1681
[Bodl. AA. 124. Art.] »

Dc Usu Sf Authoritate Juris civilis Romanorum
in Dominiis Pnncipum ChristiaTwrvm. Lib. 2.
Lond. 1653. [Bodl. 8vo. D. 2. Jur. Seld.] and 79.
oct. Leydae 1654. Lips. 1668. in tw. &c. In which
book Dr. Gerard Langbaine's labours were so much,
that he deservetl the name of co-author. Dr. Duck
))aid his last debt to nature in the month of May in
sixteen hundred forty and nine, and was buried in
the church at Chiswick in Middlesex ; to the poor
of which place he gave 10/. He left considerable
legacies to Exeter and Alls, colleges, and 10/. to the
poor of North Cadbury in Somersetshire, besides
otlier gifts of charity elsewhere, which for brevity's
sake I now pass by. " He married Margaret the
" younger daughter of Henry South worth merchant
" in London." '

[Dr. Duck married Margaret daughter of Mr.
Hen. Southworth merchant, by whom he had 9
children ; only two daughters survived. She died
Aug. 15, 1646, buried Aug. 24 in Cheswick church.
Dr. Gouge preached her funeral sermon, printed
1646, with an account of her life by a friend, where
see more.

Dec. 8. (1648) Dr. Arthur Duck D'^ of the lawes,
died sodenly in Chelsey church. Mr. Ric. SmitK.i
Obituary. Melius inquirendum.

There can be no mistake, for K. Charles's death
8tc. follow. Baker.]

" ROBERT DUDLEY, son of Rob. Dudley
" earl of Leicester by Douglas Howai-d daughter of
" William lord Howard of Effingham, and widow
" of John Lord Sheffield, was born at Shene in the
" county of Surrey in the year 1574, sent tt) Ch. Ch.
" to obtain academical learning under the tuition and
" government of sir Tho. Chaloner, (afterwards
" tutor to prince Henry) in the beginning of the
" year 1588, and was soon after matriculated in the
" university, as a member of that house, under the

' [7V(P Life of Henry Cliic/iele, Arihiishop nf Canterbury .
In which there is a particular lielatinn of many remarkable
Passages in the Reigns of Henry the V and yl Kings of
England. Written tn Latin by Arth. Duck LL.D. Chan-
cellor of the Diocess of London : And Advocate if Ihe Court
of Honour. A'nf« made English. And a Table of Contents
annexed. London, Printed for Ri. Chiswell, 8cc. iCqQ,
8vo. De 1. 10 Tliomas, lord arciib. of CantcrbuTy. Uodl.
Rawl. 8VO.321.]

' [He left no issue male, only two daughters and heirs
vastly rich, who married their second cousins, the grandsons
of his brother Nicholas. See more in Prince, Worlhiet of
Devon, page 270]

\6M).

2.>9

DUDLEY

" title of ' coniitis filius.' What coniiiuiance he
" made then- I know not: sure I am that in 1594,
*' he being then in g<xxl esteem with qu. Elizalieth,
" sailed with tliree small ships to tiie island of Tri-
" nidada, (S. Trinity) in winch voyage lie sunk and
." took nine Sjuuiisli ships, whereof one was an ar-
" mada of ()()() tun. Alwut the same time also, he
" mode groat discoveries aliout the river Oronoeque
" in the ^Vest-Indies : in the mouth of which he
*' gave the name to an island, that he discovered
** mere, of Dudley's Isle. In 1596 he, with divers
" nobles and gentlemen of quality going with the
*' earl of Essex in the Cadiz voyage figainst the
" Spaniard, retreived the honor of knighthood on
" the 8th of Aug. for the signal service he then ix^r-
" formed. In the beginning of the reign ot K.

^ " James I. he endeavoured to prove his legitimacy,

" to the end that he might have the lands and titles
" of his father, and those of his luicle Ambrose
" earl of Warwick, who died without issue : but
" mis.sing his design, bv the endeavours of Lettice
" his father's widow, (who well knew that if he could
" obtain it, it would have much redoimded to her
" dish(mour, she being his father's reputed wife when

[lisTJ « fjjjj, „^r author Rob. Dudley was l^)rn) he left the
^' land soon after in great disct)ntent and went into
" Italy ; which otherwise he could not well do, be-
" cause first, it was plainly proved in open court,
" before those that were then judges, that he was legi-
" timate ; and therefore to stay, and not to enjoy
" that which he sought after, was not agreeable to
" his high sj)irit ; and secondly, that being a man of
" extraordinary part.s, as well for valour and gene-
" rous exploits, as learning, and withal of a daring
" spirit, he could not brook those affronts that would
" be consequently put ujion him. Being therefore
" setled in the territory of the great duke of Tus-
" cany, where he took upon him to be the earl of
" Warwick, by which name he was afterwards com-
" monly called, was soon after sent for home by the
" king's special privy-seal ; but he refusing to obey,
" all his lands in England, which were considerable,
" were .seized on by virtue of the statute of fugitives.
" So that lieing thus destitute, he, who was then a
" favourite to the said great duke, became more be-
" loved of him than before, and for his eminent
" abilities did use his directions in all his buildings.
" About that time Leghome, which was a small
" town, grew by his endeavours a great city on a
" suddain, and at this day is acknowledged so to be,
" in relation to its fairness, and firmness next to the
" sea. And I have heard from some living, who
" have frequented tho.se j)arts, that this our author
" R. Dudley was the chief instrument that caused
" the said duke not only to make it firm, but also to
" make it a scala franca that is a free port, and of
" settling an English factory there, and of drying
" the fens between that place and Pisa. At whi(£
" time also our author called and invited to that
*' place many English merchants that were his

" friends, and so enriched it, that it is now one of
" the best harlx)urs in Europe, and bringeth in
" considerable revenues to the duke. For these cx-
" traordinary services, and the admirable gifts that
" our author was cndowetl with, he was'* matle great
" chamberlain to the arch-duchess, mother to the
" then duke of Tusc-any, while she in his minority
" governetl all the state, and iK-came so much known
" to Ferdinando the second, enqwror of Germany,
" that he by his letters pat. under the golden seal,
" dated at Vienna 9 IVIar. 16520, confer d on him and
" his heirs for ever the title of duke, to be by them
" used throughout all his dominions of the sacred
" empire. So that because his grand-father was
" duke of Northumberland and earl of Warwick,
" he was dtx-lared duke of Northumberland, and so
" wrote himself in all papers of concernment, and
" the title of earl of \Varwick, was used, while he
" lived, by his son. After this P. Urban 8. in the
" beginning of his pajjacy, authorised by the em-
" peror's golden seal,' declared that the duke of
" Northumberland, anil his eldest son and heirs in
" all times, could create titles of honour, as earls,
" marquisses, &c. the which he hath done in favour
" of many great fiimilies at Anctma, \'erona, and
" Rouloigne in Italy ; and ordained besides, that
" the title of highness should be given to him and
" all his jX)sterity, &c. Which is recorded in the
" lxx)k entit. // Cercmoniale di Roma del Anno
" 1630. This Rob. Dudley duke of Northuinber-
" land was a conipleat gent, in all suitable employ-
" ments, an exact seaman, a go(xl navigator, an ex-
" cellent architect, mathematician, jihy.sician, chy-
" mist, and what not. He was a handsome per.son-
" able man, tall of stature, red hair'd, and of ad-
" mirable comjjort, and, above all, noted for riding
" the great horse, for tilting, and for his being die ,
" first of all that taught a dog to sit in order to
" catch partridges. His printed works are these,

" Voyage to the Isle ofTr'inidadct, and the Coast

" ofParia, An. 1594, 95 See in Rich. Hake-

" luyt's third vol. of English Voyages, p. 574, &c.
" [Bodl. H. 8. 16. Art]

" Del Arcano del Mare, &c. — Firenze 1630,
" 1646, in two vol. in fol. They are full of choice
" mathematical cuts and figures, sea-charts, forti-
" fications, &c. That vol. printed in 1646 is di-
" vided into six books, and is kept as a rarity in
" the archives of Bodley's library at this time.
" [Bodl. Arch. B. 116.]

" A Discourse to correct the Exorbitances of
" Parliaments, and to enlarge the King's Reventie*

■ " So liavc I been informed by his son Charles, called
" duke of Northumberland, in his letters dated at Rome 17
" Oct. 1673."

3 "So in fhe same letters."

* [See it in Rushwortli's Ilist'nical CoUeclions, edit, first —
Lond. 16.^9, folio, Appendix, pa-^e 12, underthis title:

A Proposition for Ins Miijest>e\ Service, lo bridle the Im-
pertinenry of Parliaments. Afterwards questioned in the
Star Chamber."]

[128]

DUDLEY.

ALLEN.

2(>^

" — This is in manuscript, and hHth this bejjinning,
" ' Tlie proposition (jf your )na)esty''s service con-
" taineth two parts, the one to secure their state
" and bridle the imjwrtunances, (rather impcrti-
*' nences, qu.) and the otlier to increase yom" ma-
" jesty's revenue, &c. contrived and written in the
" year 1613. (11 Jac. 1.) Several copies of this
*' being occasionally dispersed by the earls of Bed-
" ford, Somerset, and Clare, as also by sir Rob.
" Cotton, Joh. Shelden, &c. in the year 1628, they
" were committed, and an information was entred
" in the star-chamber against them. Our author,
" the most noble Dudlc}', wrote also a physical
" bcx>k called CaflioUcon, m good esteem among
" physicians ; but this I have not yet seen. He
" nivented also that purging powder which goes
" under the name of Cornacchini Ptilvis, of which
" Marcus Cornacchinus doct. of physic of the uni-
" versity of Pisa, wrote a book, shewing that all the
*' affections of humane Iwdics that arise from abund-
" ance of hmnours may be quickly cured. This
" book was printed at Florence 1619, and several
" times after, and was dedicated to our author the
" illustrious duke, of whom many things are said to
" his honour in the epistle ded. before it, which for
" brevity's sake I now pass by. See in Hist. 6f
" Aiit'tq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 176. a. To con-
" elude : all that I shall say of him beside, is, (1)
" That when he left England in the beginning of
" K. James I. he left behind him a wife named
" Alice, daughter of sir Tho. Leigh of Stonely in
" Warwickshire, and several daughters that he had
" by her : which Alice being afterwards made a
" duchess by K. Charles I. lived many years after,
" and died very aged, 22 Jan. 1668. (2) That he
" then carried with him, in the habit of a page, Eliza^
" beth daughter of sir Robt. Southwell of Wood-
" rising in Norfolk, whom he afterwards married in
" Italy. An author ' of inconsiderable note tells us,
" that sir Rob. Dudley who stileth himself duke of
" Northumberland, left England because he could
" not be suffered to enjoy a second wife, his first
" •wife then surviving. This Dudley now enjoyeth
" his second wife by a dispensation from his holiness,
*' and is in great esteem with the duke of Florence,
" in regard of his art in contriving and fabricating
" of ships and galleys, and hath obtained of the em-
" peror to be declared duke of Northumberland,
" who hath given him the title already, and the land
*' when he can catch it, &c. (3) That the great
" duke of Tuscany (or Florence) allowed him an
" yearly pension of near a thousand pounds ; (4)
" That he built for himself and his children a very
" handsome palace at Florence, wherein his son
" sometimes lived. (5) That by the said Elizabeth
" he had a son named Charles, now, or lately, duke
" of Northumberland, who married in France Mary

* " .T:»m. Wadsworth in his English Spanish Pilgrim : or,
a ncit Disciivery, 8cc. printed 1(J30 in <ju. p. 64."

" ^lagd. GoufKcr, of the duke of Rohanet's family,

" by whom he had many children, the eldest of

" w-hich is callcnl Robert earl of WfU-wick, &c. By

" her the said Elizabeth, the said sir Rob. Dudley

" duke of Northumberland had several daughters,

*' the eldest of which was married to the prince of

" Piombino, of the house of Arragona Appiuno.

" The second to the marquis of Clivola, of the

" house of Malespina free lord : To wliom K.

" Charles I. of England wrote and gave the title of

" ' most illustrious,' thanking him for giving honour-

" able burial in his estates to Charles son and heir

" of Philip earl of Pembroke. The third to the

" duke of Castillion del Lago, of the house of La

" Corgnia, and the fourth to the earl of Caqjegna

" free lord of his estates, brother to the sometimes

" cardinal of that name. (6) That he the said Ro^

" bertdukcof Northumberland died atCarbello three

'■ miles distance from Florence, in an house there

" which the great duke of Tuscany permitted him

" to enjoy gratis during his life, in the month of

" September * in sixteen hundred forty and nine : ifrty.

" whereupon his Ixxly being convey'd to a nunnery

" at Boldrone near to that place, was there depo-

" sited ; but whether since it hath been convey 'a to [129]

" the church of S. Pancrace in Florence, wherein his

" wife Ehzabeth had before been buried, and over

" whose grave he had erectetl a sumptuous monu-

" ment of marble, with intentions to be buried by

" her, I know not. Sure I am that it was continuing

" at Boldrone in 1674, and may perhaps still. (7)

" That at his death he left behind him several rare

" mathematical instruments, mostly of his own in-

" vention. All which afterwards (liis sons not

" knowing the use of them) were presented to the

" said duke. (8) That he was beloved and respected

" of all in Florence, and in the country adjoining :

" And all, who are yet alive, and knew or remeni-

" bred him, make honourable mention of him."

[See an excellent account of this extraordinary
genius, (for such I consider him) in the Biographid
Britannica, to which I must content myself with
referring, rather than making several long extracts
well deserving of attention.

A second edition of the duke's Arcwno del Mare
di Rvbeiio Dudico, Diwa di Norlumbria, e Conte
di Worzcick, was printed in 1661. See the table of
contents in Park's edit, of Walpole's iVo6fc ^J/i/tor*,
or the book itself in the library of the British Mu-
seum.]

RICHARD ALLEN was born in, or near to,
Abingdon in Berks, was originally of BaUol col. and
as a member of that house he took one degree in
arts. Afterwards he was made one of the first
.scholars of Pembr. coll. proceeded in his faculty, wa.s
made fellow, and at length beneficed near Ewelme
in Oxfordshire. He hath written,

* "So in the same letters, which I before h.nvr men-
tioned."

S2

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ALFORD.

DARTON.

RARTLET.

464

An Antidote against Heresy : or, a Preservative
for Protcstaiifs against the Poison of Papists,
Clar. Anabaptists, 8ic. Lond. 1648. dtxlicatcd to his un-
1649. gigg gjj. Xho. Gainsford knight and Humph. Hud-
dleston esq; One of both liis names, but after in
time, was pastor of Henfield in Sussex, and author of
England's Distempers, their Cause and Cure, ac-
cording to the Judgment offamous Princes, Peers,
Parliaments, ^c. occasiori'd hy a learned Frier,
accusing the rchole Nation of Perjury for abjuring
Transuhstantintion ; and sent to the Author for a
Reply. Lond. 1677. qu. in tliree sh. and an half.
Wiiethcr this Rich. Allen was ever of Oxon I know
not. I shall make mention of Rich. Allein among
these writers under the year 1681.

[One Rich. Allen S.T. P. rector of Stouting
(Kent) and one of the proctors for tlie dioc. of Cant.
in convoc. 1622. MS. Batly, Tannek.]

" JOSEPH ALFORD was, as it seems, of the
*' family of the Alfbrds in Berks, descended from
" those of Holt-Castle in Denbighshire, or of those
" of Sussex, and hath written,

" The SouTs Dispensatory ; or. Treasure for
" true Believers, &c. Lond. 1649, in tw.
fif " The Church Triumphant : or, a confortable

1649. " Treatise oftlie Amplitude and Largeness of the
" Kingdom if Christ, \wherem is proved hy Scrip-
" tures and Rea^ion that the Number of the Damned
" is in/eriour to that of the Elect.A &c. l^ond.
" 1649- in tw. In the title of this book, 'tis said
" by the publisher that the author of it (Jos. Alford)
" was master of arts, and sometimes of Oriel coll. in
" Oxon. But so it is that in all my searches, I
" could never find Joseph Alford matriculated, or
" that he took any degree in arts or in any other
" faculty ; otherwi.se I had made mention of him in
" the Ath. Se Fasti Oxon. If he had tlie degree
" of M. A. confer'd on him by the archbishop of
" Canterbury, it is another matter, because those
" that are so created seldom or never stand in the
" university registers : or if he had the degree coii-
" fer'd on him, in the time of the grand rebellion,
" either in the latter end of 1642, or in the years
" 1643, 44, &c. when divers soldiers, mniisters and
" others that adhered to the cause of K. Charles I.
" were promiscuously created, his name may be
" neglected to be put into the register, but I think
" he was never master of arts of this university.
" He (hed, as it seems, before his book was pub-
" lishcxl."

NICHOLAS DARTON, a Cornish man bom,
was entred into Exeter coll. cither in the condition
of a batler or servitour, in Mich. term. 1618, aged
15 years, took one degree in arts, afterwards holy
orders, and at length became minister of Killesbye
in Northamptonshire. He hath extant,

' [Rawlinsok.]

Several sei-mons, as (1) The true and absolute
Bishop, with tlie Converts return unto him ; on
1 Pet. 2. 25. Lond. 1641. qu. [BotU. 4to. C. 7. "
Th.] dedicated to William lord Say ; at which time,
the author, who was always Ijcfore esteemed a pu-
ritan, closed with the presbyterian party. He hath
one or more extant, which I have not yet seen.

Ecclesia Anglicana : or, his clear and protestant
Manifesto, as an evangelical Key sent to the Gover-
nor (f Oxford, for the openingofthe Church Doors
tfierc, that are shut up toithout Prayers or Preach-
ing,— printed 1649. qu.

" WILLIAM BARTLET, son of a father of
" both his names of the city of Exeter, was born in
" that city, or at least near it, was matriculated as
" a member of New-Inn on tlie 4th of Nov. 1681,
" aged 21 years, where being puritanically edu-
" catetl, went away without taking any degree, and
" retiring to his own country had a cure there,
" sided with the puritans, when they grew domi-
" nant in 1641, became lecturer and afterwards
" minister of Bytheford or Bidiford in Devonshire,
" afterwards one of the assistants to the commis-
" sioners of Devonshire and Exeter, and a zealous
" man in carrying on the factious interest. He
" hath written,

" Soveraign Balsome, applied in a fexe weighty
" Considerations for healing the Distempers of
" such Professors of Religion as Satan hath wound-
" ed and di-aicn aside, &c. Lond. 1649."

[In order to obtain what information I could re-
specting William Bartlet, I appUed, as is my cus-
tom, to the rector of Bideford, and I now subjoin
the letter I received from Mr. Walter, to whom 1
beg thus publicly to offer my sincere thanks for
his very obliging attention.

Bideford, 8 February, 1816.

Dear Sir,

I have received yours of the 6th inst.
and shall feel great pleasure in communicating every
intelligence concerning William Burtlett that I can
collect from this quarter.

In the year 1792 an essay was published towards
a history of Bideford, by a Dr. Watkins : I will
extract what he says concerning William Bartlett. —

Page 131. ' In the year 1774 the late rev.
learned and celebrated Mr. Samuel Badcock, then
pastor of the dissenting congregation of Barnstaple,
drew up the following brief, but very accurate and
curious history of non-conformity in Bideford. The
title he has prefixed to it is rather cjuaint, and seems
intended to convey the idea that the protestant dis-
senters formed tlie only real Christian church in
Bideford.'

Watkins then proceeds with his extracts in the
following words.

' Some Account if the Church at Bideford.

' When the act of uniformity took place Mr.

Clar.
1649.

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Clar.
1649.

BARTLET.

PRIDEAUX.

^66

William Rartlct was cjcctwl from the li\'inf; of IVidc-
f.)rd, and after that formed a church in tiiat town
on tlie strictest plan of independency. For some
time lie was assisted in his ministerial work by liis
Son Mr. John Bartlet." They were a contrast to
each other — the father was called Boaneri^es and
the son Barnabas, fhi,<i healed where tJtat had
wounded, and both were rendered I'emarkably use-
ful in their distinct characters. The old Mr. Bart-
let outlived his son, and preached his finieral ser-
mon, but the struggles of j>arental love were so ex-
ceedingly strong that it was pretty near a quarter
of an liour before he cou'd spealc a word; what
year the son died in I cannot learn, the father died
m 1682. There is an account of him in Dr. Ca-
l^iy.'^

Having thus given you Watkins's extract from
Mr. Samuel Badcock, I beg leave to acquaint that
on reference to my register, I cannot find the death
of Wilhani Baitlet (the father) l)ut the son's inter-
ment was on tlie 27 day Sept. 1679. — With gieat
pleasure I w ill send you, if you wish it, this essay of
Watkins, and at all times sliall be ready to furnish
you with intelligence from this quarter, and I am

Dear Sir,
Your very humble servant,

William Walteu,
Rector of Bideford.]

JOHN PRIDEAUX was bom in an obscure
town called Stowford near to Lyfton in Devonshire
on the 17th of Sept. 1578,. became a poor scholar
of Exeter coll. under the tuition of Will. Helme
bach, of div. ' in act term 1596, and in 1602 was
elected probat. fellow of that house, being then bach,
of arts. In the year after, he proceeded in that fa-
culty, and thereu]X)n entred into holy orders : so
that being soon after noted for his great learning
and profound divinity, he was elected rect. of his
coll. upon the death of Holland, in 1612,' being
then bach, of div. and the same year proceeded in
the same faculty. In 1615 he was, ujjon the pro-
motion of Dr. Abbot to the see of Sarum, made the
king's professor of divinity, by virtue of which, he
was made canon of Ch. Ch. and rector of Ewelme

' [Calamy /'Ejected Ministers, page 218) says that John
was the hroiher of William, Bartlet, not his son. I incline
however to Badcock's uilbrmation. He was, says Calamy, a
very laborious, constant preacher, and had an excellent co-
pious gift in prayer. His voice was low, but his matter very
solid and acceptable. He conlinu'd in Exeter after his being
silenc'd, and preach'd there as he had opportunity. He
dy'd in a good old age. He has printed some things in oc-
tavo : as his Meditations ; An Explication nf the Assemhlies
Catechism : And The Duly of Communicants. Of the Use
iind Profit of Afflictions, &c.]

' [Calaniy gives this character of Bartlet — ' He was con-
gregational in his judgment, but lov'd peace with his bre-
thren.' Account of ejected Ministers, 8vo. Lond. 1713, p.
240.]

' f And d an of the collcee. Rawlis-son.]

' [July 1st I0l2. Ex ipsiusautogr. MS. Note in Prince's
lyorthiei nf Devon, in Exeter college library, p. .510.]

in Oxfordshire : And afterwards did undergo the
ofiice of vice-chancellor of this university for several
years, as I have elsewhere told you. In the rector-
ship of his college he carried himself so winning and
j)leasing by his gentle eovemment and fatlierly in-
struction, that it Houritilied more than any house in
the university with scholai's, as well of great a.s of
mean birth : as also with many foreigners that came
purjiosely to sit at his feet to gain instruction. So
zealous he was also in a])])ointing industrious and
careful tutors, that in short time many were flttwl
to do service in the church and state. In his pro-
fessorship he behaved himself very plausible to the
generality, especially for this reason, that in his lec-
tures, disputes, and modcratings, (which were al-
ways frequented with many auditor.s) he shew'd
liiniself a stout champion against Socinus and Ar-
minius. Which being disreh.sh'd by some, who
were then rising and in authority, at court, a fac-
tion thereupon grew up in the university between
those called puritans or Calvinists on the one side,
and the remonstrants, commonly called Amiinians
on the other : which, with other matters of the like
nature, being not only fomented in the university
but throughout the nation, all things thereupon
were brought into confusion, to the sorrow of the
puritan, who had with all his might ojijiosed Can-
terbury in his generous designs of making the Eng-
lish church glorious. At length after he had sate
26 years professor, he was one of those persons of
unblemished reputation, that his majesty, tho' late,
made a bishop, by the endeavours, as some say, of
James marq. of Hamilton his sometimes pupil.'
The see which he was design'd to govern was Wor-
cester, to which being elected 22 of Nov. was con-
secrated at Westminster on the 19th of Dec. fol-
lowing, an. 1641, but received little or no profit
from It, to his great impoverishment. So that upon
that account and for his adhering to his majesty in
the time o{ the gratul rebellioti,* (where-
in he ])ronounced all those of his diocese * S'" *"?■'!'
that took up arms against him excom-
municated) he became at length ' verus* librorum
helluo,' for having first by indefatigable studies di-
gested his excellent library into his mind, was after
forced again to devour aD' his books with his teeth ;
tui'ning them by a miraculous faith and patience
into bread for himself and his children, to whom he
left no legacy, but pious poverty, God's blessing,
and a father's prayers, as it appears in his last will
and testament. He was an humble man, of plain

' [Charles R. Considering the virtue, learning, wisdomei
gravity and other good gifts, wherewith John Prideaux.
D. D. is indued, we have been pleased by these our letters
to n.Tme and recommend him untO' you to be elected and
chosen to the said bishoprike of Worcester, &c. The King's
Letter (an original) to the Dean and Chopt. of Worcester,
dated Nov. 10. An. Keg. 17. sent with the conge d'elisre.
Baker.]

•* Dr. Jo. Gauden in his book emit. A Pillar of Gratitude,
p. 13. .

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PRIDEAUX.

and tlownriglit behaviour, careless of money, and
imprudent in worldly matters. All tliat knew liim
esteeni'd him * a noted artist, a plentiful ft)untain of
all sorts oi" le.u-ning, an excellent linjj;uist, a person
of a prtnligious memorj', and so jirof'ound a divine,
that thcv have been pleasi-il to entitle him ' Co-
lunma fidei orthodoxa;, and malleus hwresecus, pa-
truni pater, and ingens schola- & acidemia; oracu-
lum.' In him also (as an ingenious " author saith)
the heroical wits of Jewell, Riiinolds and Hooker,
as unitetl into one, seem'd to triumph anew, and to
have thrcatned a fatal blow to the Babylonish hie-
rarchy : Insomuch that he might have justly chal-
lenged to himself that glory, which sometimes Ovid,
speaking of his own country,

Mantua Virgilium laudet, Verona Catullum,
Ronianu? gentis gloria dicar ego.

As his leammg was admired by foreigners, Sext.
Amama, Rivet and others, so were his books, espe-
cially those written in I^atin ; a catalogue of which,
and of the English, follow.

Tabula' ltd Grammaticam Grwcam iuti-oductor'iw,
&c. Oxon. 1608, 1629, [Bodl. 4to. E. 27. Th.J
39, &c. qu.

Tyrocinlum ad SyUogismum kffitimum con-
texendum.

Heptades I^gica: : sive Monita ad ampliores
Tractatus introdiutoria. These two last are print-
ed and go with the Tabula:,'' &c.

Castiffat'io cuju,sdu7n Cirailiitoris, qui R. P.
Andream Eudwmon — Johannem Cydonium e Soc.
Jesu scipsum nuncupat. Opposita ipn'ms Calumniis
in Epitstolam Isaaci Casauboni ad Frotitonem I^u-
cavm. Oxon. 1614. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. D. 59. Th.]

Alloquiuni sercniss. Rcff. Jacoho Woodstocliiw
hahitum 24 Aug. 1624. printed in one sh. in qu.
[Bodl. 4to. P. 50. Th.]

Orat'iones novcm iimugtiralcs, de totldem Theo-
logi(E Apicibus, prout in Promotione Doctorum,
Oxoni{£ publice 2>i'oponebantur in Comiiiis. Oxon.
1626. qu. [Bodl. 4to. P. 3. Th. Seld.]

Lectiones decern dc totidcm Religionis Capitibus,
pracipue hoc tempore Controvcrsis prout publice
habebaniur Oxoniic in Vesperiis. Oxon. 1626. qu.
[Bodl. 4to. P. 73. Th.]

Several sermons, as (1) Serm. at the Consecra-
tion of Exeter Coll. Chap. ; an Luhe 19. 46. Oxon.
1625. qu.** (2) Perez Uzzah, Serm. before tlie King
at Woodstock ; on 2 Sam. 6. ver. 6, 7. Oxon. 1625.
qu. (3) Concio ad Art. Baccalaureos pro More

' [See several very .iffectionate letiers from the celebrated
IsaHC Casaubon to Pri<leaux in the Epistolce Casauloni piib-
Iithe<l by Thcod. Janson, Roterodam, I70(). They are
letlera 870, 871, 877, 879, 882, 896, 90O, gOI, g03, 913,
919. 922. 929. 930. 9+Al

* Naih. Carpenter in h\i Geography delineated, &c. lib. S.
cap. I.^.

' [His Greek Grnmmar and his Logick were both but a
forlnipht's work. Lloyd, Memoirs, page 536.1

• [Etawlinson ^MS- Notes) says — Lond. lOl'S, qu. dedi-
cated to Dr. Hakcwill, founder of lliis chappel.]

habita in Ecclesia B. Maria Oxon. in Die Cine-
rum; in Act. 7. 22 An. 1616. Oxon. 1626. [BodL
4to. P. 73, Th.]

Twenty Sermons. Oxon. 1636. qu. [Bodl. ^to.
P. 50. Th.] The two first of which are entit.
Chrisfs Counsellor ending law Cases. Among
them are the Consecration Scrni. and Perez Uzzah
before-mentioned.

Nine Sermons on several Occasions. Oxon.
1641. qu.

Lectiones XXJI, Orationes XIII, Condones
VI, <^ Oratio ad Jacobum Rcgem. Oxon. 1648. fol.
[Bodl. F. 1. 11. Th. Seld.] Among which are con-
tained the former Lections, Orations, and Speech
to K. Jam.

Fasciculus Controvcrsiaruvi ad Juniorum aut
Occupatorum Captum colligatus, &c. Oxon. 1649-
51. 52. qu. [BckII. 4to. C. 7. Th. BS.l

Thcologiie Schola.iticfC Sijntagma Mnemonicum.
O.xon. 1651. [Bcxll. 4to. P.' 12. Th. BS.]

Cwiciliorum Synop,ns. Printed with the Syn-
tagma before-mentioned. Printed in English at
the end of An easie and compendion,s Introduction,
&c. mentioned beliire in IVIatthias I'rideaux.

History of Succa.nons in States, Countries or
Families, &c. Oxon. 1653, &c.

Epiitola de Epi.n-opatu, fol. a fragment of which
I have seen in one folio sh.

Euchologia : or, the Doctrine of practical Pray-
ing, being a Legacy left to his Daughters in pri-
vate, directing them to such muitijbld Uses (ifcmr
Common-Praycr-Book; as may satisfy upon all
Occasions, withotit looking after ncza Lights Jrom
extemporal Flashes. Lond. 1655. 56. oct. [Bodl.
8vo. P. 12. Th. BS.] &c. Dcxlicated to his daugh.
tors Sarah H(Klges " and Elizabeth Sutton.

The Doctrine of Conscience framed according to
the Form in ilie Common-Prayer, left as a Legacy
to his Wife. — printed in tw.'

Manductio ad Theologium polemicam. Oxon.
1657. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. P. 18. Th. BS.] Pubhshed
by Mr. Tho. Barlow, with an epistle before it, in
the name of the printer.

Hypomnemata Logica, Rlietorica, Phys. Meta-
phys. &c. Oxon. in oct. [Bodl. 8vo. P. 6. Art.
BS.]

Sacred Eloquence : or, tlie Art of Rhetoric, as it
is laid dozen in Scripture. Lond. 1659- oct. What
other things are pubhshed under his name I know
not, unless a Comment on the Church Catechism,
pr. 1656. in oct.'' and therefore I am to add that he

» Wife of Will. Hodges, D. D. archd. of Worcester.

' [luviiJ>KTi^«7'« ; or The Doctrine of Conscience, framed
according to the Points of the Catechisme, in the Hook qf
Common Prayer. By the right reverend Father in God,
John Prideaux. late Lord Bishop of ff-'orcesler, for the pri-
vate Use of his fffe. London, Printed for Hichard Mar-
riot, &c. Ifi.'ifi. Pref. to the reader signed Y. N. Bodl. 8vo.
P. 12. Th. BS.]

• [PerhajJS the same with The Doctrine qf Conscience,
ice. just mentioned in the note.]

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270

departing this mortal life, of a feavcr, at Bredon in
Worcestershire, in the house of Dr. lien. Sutton,
(son of Will. Sutton D. 1). clianc. of Glocester and
rector of Bredon) who married his daughter Eliza-
beth, on tlie twentieth day of July in sixteen hun-
iCfiO. dred and fifty, was accompanied to his gnive, in the
chancel of tlie cluiieh there, by many persons of
quality in the neighlwurhood of that place, on the
16 of August following. Over his gi-ave was a
plain stone S(x>n after laid with an epitai)b comjwsed
l)y himself, (the day and year of his death except-
ed) engraven on a brass plate, fixed thereunto ; the
copy of which is already' printed, wherein you'll
fintl that he was sometime chaplain to pr. Henry,
and afterwards to K. Jam. and K. Cli. I. Before I
go any farther, I shall take leave, upon the hint be-
fore-mentioned of Dr. Prideaux''s making his college
flourish, to set down the names of sucJi outlanders
that have retired to Exeter coll. for his sake, have
had chambers tliere and diet, purposely to improve
themselves by his company, his instruction, and di-
rection for course of studies. Some of them have
been divines of note, and others meer lay-men, that
have been eminent in their respective countries,
wherein afterwards they have lived ; most of them
are these ; Joh. Combachius the philosopher, Phil.
Cluver the geographer, Sext. Amama linguist, Ni-
chol. Vignier and Dav. Primrose two learned
Frenchmen: All whom are already mentioned
among these writers. Christian Rumphius an emi-
nent physician; see in the Fasti an. 1613. Ja-
cobus Doi-vilius commonly called D'OrviUe a gen-
tleman's son of Heidelberg in Germany, matricu-
lated as a member of Exeter coll. in Alich. term
1615, and in that of his age 19. Joh. Scliermarius
a learned German, who occurs a member of Ex.
coll. 1613, in which year he had certain Lat. verses
published at Oxon. Jacobus Aretius and Frede-
rick Dorvilius two other Germans, who are men-
tioned in the Fasti, an. 1613. and 15. Joh. Ro-
dolphus Stuckius of Zurick in Helvetia was a so-
journer of the said coU. in Mich, term 1615, and
af^rwards published some of Pet. Martyr's works,
as I have before told you. Joh. Waserus a native
of the same place, entred soj. in the same term and
year, and afterwards the writer of Elementale CliaU
(laicum, and other things. Cassar Calendrinus en-
tred into the said coll. in the beginning of 1616,
see in the Fasti 1620. Imanius Young or de
Junge a Zelander, in Mich, term 1619. Paul Ama-
raut or Amarant a Germ, matriculated among the
Exonians 1619, aged 18. (Christian son of Her-
man Julius viceroy to the king of Denmark in the
isle of Gotland, Gregory and Errick sons of Pet,
Julius lord of Alsted, Linl)erg, &c. in Denmark.
Which three young men were instructed in logic
and philosophy by Dr. Prideaux. Ovenius Juhus,
elder brother to the said Christian, was also a stu-

' In Hist. ISf Anliij. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. QQ. '

dent in the said coll. under Prideaux, who dying
26 Sept. 1607, aged 2fJ, was buried at the upper
end of the S. isle joyning to the body of the church
of S. Mary the Virgin in Oxon. Afterwards C'iirLs-
tian put up a monument over his grave, which is
yet rcmainmg, but defaced. Mark Zeiglier a Ger-
man, was entred into the coll. alwut 1624. Wiblw
Jansonius Artopseus, Finsoendensis Civis, gen. was
atlmitted into the coll. in June 1635, aged 20.
Hicronymus Ernesti Erft'urto Thuringus was ad-
mitted to the fellows table in the beginning of Au<t.
1638, and continued in the college till July 16tl.
Besides these and many more, which shall now be
omitted, have been several of the Scotch nation that
have been received into the said house, u|X)n the
sai7ie account, among which have Ijcen (1) Joh.
Balcanquall ; see in the Fasti 1612. among the in-
corporations. (2) Gilman, who studied there

1613 and some time after. (3) Sam. Balcanquall,
1616. One of both his names occurs fellow of
Pemb. hall in Cambridge 20 years after.* See in
the Fasti 1618 among the incorporations. (4)
Roll. Sjiotswood mast, of arts of Giascow was ad-
mitted to the fellows table in the beginnhig of the
year 1613. He was afterwards raised by the favour
of king James and king Ch. I. unto great honours,
as his singular virtues did merit. K. Jam. made
him a knight and a privy-counsellor : K. Charles ad-
vanced him to be lord president of the sessions, and
at length principal secretary of Scotland, in tlie
place of Wilham earl of Lanerick (afterwards duke
of Hamilton) when he revolted to the covenanters
of that kingdom. After James marquis of Montross
had gained great victories against the said cov. the
said sir Robert Spotswotxl conveyed from the king
at Oxon to him the said Montross letters patents
whereby he was maile vice-roy of Scotland, and ge-
neral of the army there. But being soon after taken
Erisoner, upon the defeat of Montross near Sel-
erke, he was conveyed to S. Andrews, where, at
length, they foun<l him guilty of high treason, la-
mented by many, because he never bore arms against
them ; for his eminency lay in the way of peace, and
knew not what belonged to the drawing of a sword.
His treason being for conveying the said letters pa^
tents he was bclieaded at S. Andrews, in 1645,
leaving then behind him the general character of a
most excellent and good man. He was a gentleman
of great abilities, both in the art of government and
study of the law, hath written things in nature of
our rejiorts of the law, which have been highly va-
lued among lawyers in Scotland. His father was
Dr. Joh. Spotswtxid the famous and orthodox theo-
logist of Scotland, consecrated archbishop of Gias-
cow in the archbishop's chappel at Lambeth near
London, according to the ceremonies of the church
of England, on the 20 of Oct. 1610. At which

•* [S. Balcanquall A.M. electus socius aul. Pemb. Jul. 22,
1619. Baker]

[13.S]

£'71

PRIDEAUX.

time Gawen Hamilton was consecratwl bisliop of
Galloway, ami Andr. Lamb U. of Brechin. The
said Dr. SjM)tsw<x)cl was afterwards translated to St.
Andrews, and dj'inff on the fourth of the oal. of
Dec. an. 16.'J9, aged 74 years, was buried in the
abbey cluirch at Westminster. (5) James Hamil-
ton earl of Arran, bartm of Evenu in Scotland, and
of Ennerdale in Cmnberland, eldest son of James
marquis of Hamilton, was ailmitted a noble man
under the .said Dr. Prideaux his tuition, 6 Jul.
1621. He was afterwards marquis and duke of
Hamilton and earl of Cambridge. (6) James Bay-
lie, governor to the said count, was admitted at the
same time to the fellows table with him. See in
the Fasti 1621 among the creations. It is farther
also to be noted, that as the said college did send
out many eminent men into the church and state,
that had been under the government of Prideaux,
so also many that did great mischief, and were ene-
mies to them, as you may see at large in this work,
in the lives and cliai-acters of several that had been
educated in the said colles:e. Some also of the Ena-
lish nobility having been sent thereunto, have by
the principles that they have sucked in, proved no
great friends either to the church or state. Among
such have been John lord Roberts E. of Radnor a
severe predestinarian, and a promoter of the grand
rebellion. Philip lord Wharton another promoter
" and a cowardly rebel," sir Anth. Ashley Cooper
earl of Shaftesbury, of whom shall be large mention
made elsewhere. Philip the second carl of Pemb.
and Moimtgomery, who hved and died little better
than a quaker, &c.

[John Prideaux was born at Sto^^'ford, not the
parish so called near Lifton, as the author of the
Ath. Oxon. mistakes it ; but an obscure village of
the name, in the parish of Harford, formerly He-
reford, near Ivy-bridge in Devon, of honest and in-
genuous parentage. To satisfy niv self and others
as to the birth of this learned prelate, I purposely
visited the liouse where he received his first breath,
and found it a decent dwelling, healthfully situated,
liaving about .'50/. per annum estate belonging to it;
which hath been in this name and family, and still
is, near 300 years ; though hekl only by lease or
copy. So that the doctor was not of that mean and
contemptible extraction some suppose he was : how-
ever, it must be acknowledged, that liis beffinning
was low and mean ; and it can^ be strange it was
so, when it shall be kno\vii that his father hatl seven
sons and five daughters ; and among the sons, that
John was the fourth by birth : insomuch, it could
not be ex}x«ted that their father, out of so slender
an estate, should be able to afford them all a liberal
and ingenuous education. The doctor therefore
was driven to shift for himself betimes; who being
enabled, by the care of his parents, to -wTite and
read ; and having also a pretty good tuneable voice,
he thought himself well enough qualified to be a
j)arish-clcrk. The church of Ugl)orow, a contiguous

parish with Harford, being destitute of one at tliat
time, John oflered himself to the minister and
people there, to serve them, if they pleas'd, in that
ca)iacity. But Sf) unhappy was he that he had a
competitor for the office, and a dangerous one too,
who had made a great interest in the jiarish for
himself", and was likely to carry the place from him.
The j>arishioncrs being divitled in the matter (so
just were they) did at length agree in this, being
unwilling to disoblige either ))arty, that the Lord's
day following should be the day of tryal ; the one
should tune the psalm in the forenoon, the other in
the afternoon ; and he that did best please the
people, should have the place : which accordingly
was done, and Prideaux lost it, to his very great
grief and trouble. Upon which, after he became
advanced to one of the first dignities of the church,
he would frequently make this reflection, siiying, If
I could have been clerk irf' Ugborough, I had never
been bishop of Worcester. John Prideaux being
thus fortunately unfortunate, and greatly troubled
to be thus disappointed to his future glory and rc-
nowni ; a gootl gentlewoman of tlie parish, sir Ed-
mond FowePs mother, took some compassion on
him, and bid him ' not to grieve at the loss, for
God might design him for greater things.' And
observing him to be a bookish youth, she kept him
sometime at school, until he had gotten some smat-
tering in the I^atin tongue and school learning.
Thus meanly furnished, his genius strongly inclined
him to go to Oxford ; and accordingly he did so, in
habit very poor and sordid (no better than leather
breeches) to seek liis fortune. Being thus come out
of the west, a tedious journey on foot, to this no-
blest scat of the Muses, whither should he first ap-
ply himself for succour, but to tliat society therein
where most of his country-men resided .'' I mean
Exeter college. Here he is said, at the beginning
to have lived in very mean condition, and to have
gotten his livelyhood by doing servile offices in the
kitchin ; yet all this while he minded his b(X)k, and
what leisure he could obtain from the business of
the .scullery, he would improve it all in his study —
being observed to delight much in stutlying, he
wanted not any encouragement, either for books or
direction, that he could desire, among his com-
patriots. *

For adhering stedfastly to his majesty's cause,
and pronouncing all those of his chocess who took
up amis against liim excommunicate, it is no wonder
that he not only suffered in common with the rest,
but even be^'ond most of his order ; being plun-
dered and reduced to such great strcights, that he
was forced to sell his excellent library to subsist
himself and his family — of which there goes this
memorable story : that towards the latter end of his
hfe, a friend coming to see him, and saluting him in

' FThos far from Pridcaux's coiinlryinan. Prince, H'orlhiis
of Devon, page 5 10.]

TOZER.

SYDENHAM.

274

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the common form of, how doth your lordsliip do ?
Never better in my hfe, said he, only I have tix)
great a stomack ; f<)r I liave eaten that little plate
which the seciucstrators left me, I have eaten a great
lihrarv of excellent h(K)ks, I have eaten a great deal
of linnen, nmch of my brass, some of my pewter,
and now I am come to eat iron, and what will come
next I know not. By this means he was at hist
brought to sueli extream poverty, that he would
have attended the conferences at the isle of Wight,
as' it is reported, had lie not wanteil wherewith to
accommodate himself for the journey.'

We may add to Prideaux''s works :

Concio hab'ita Oxonlie ad Artium Baccalavreos
in Die Cinerum, Feb. 22°, 1626,- In 1 Sam. 14,
26. Ded. ' clarissimo adolescenti domino Roberto
Dormer, baroni de Wing.' Bodl. 4to. P. 73. Th.

Answer to certain Passages alledged to have
been spoken by Dr. Prideaux vnon Dr. Heylin''s
Questions out of the Wth Article of the Church of
England, at the Vespers on Jidy 6, 1633. Printed
in Laud's Hi.^to^-y cyfhis Chancellorship of Oxford,
page 63, &c. (Laud's Remains vol. ii.)

Tractatus de Sabbato, in Levit. xix. 30. et Syl-
labus Testimoniorum nonnullorum turn veterum
turn recentiorum Eccles. orthod. Doctorum de 1.
Naturae et Origine Sabbati : 2. Institutione Diet
Dominica; eju.sque Obligatione: 3. Observatione
Sabbati Ratione Quieiis atque Cessationis ab Ope-
ribiis ordinariw Vocationis. Printed at the end of
Abr. Heydani Disputatio dc Sabbato et Die Do-
minico, Lugd. Bat. apud Henricum Verbiest, 1658.
8vo. (BckH. Mar. 417.)

A neat small head of Prideaux, without the en-
graver's name, is before his Euchologia, 1656.]

HENRY TOZER was bom at North Tawton
in Devonshire, entred into Exeter coll. in 161!), and
in the year of his age 17, took one degree in arts,
and then was made prob. fellow of his house 1623.
Afterwards he pnK-eeded in that faculty, tc/ok holy
orders, and Iwcame a useful and neees.sary person
in the society by moderating, reading to novices,
and lecturing in the chappel. At rijier years he
was admitted bach, of div. became an able and
painful ])reacher, had much of the primitive re-
ligion in his sermons, and seem'd to be a most pre-
cise puritan in his lof)ks and life, which was the
true reason why his preachings and expoundings in
the churches of S. Giles and S. Martin in Oxon. were
much frequented by men and women of the puri-
tanical party. In 164.3, he was elected one of the
assembly of divines, but refused to sit among them,
chusing rather to exercise his function in Oxon be-
fore the king or parliament, or in his cures there,
tlian venture himself among rigid Calvinists. In
1646, a little before the garrison of Oxford was sur-
rendered for the use of the parliament, he was one

' [Sufferings if the Clergy, part ii, page 78.]
Vol. III.

of those noted theologists, wlio liad either preached
at Ch. C'h. betbre his majesty, or at S. Mary's be-
fore the jjarliament, that were nominatetl by the
chancellor »)f the university to have the degree of
D. of D. bestowed upon them, but that also, he, a.s
others, refused. In 1647, and 48, he behav'd him-
self as a stt)ut diampion against the imrea-sonable
proceedings of the visitors ajipointed by parliament.'
For which being by them jiostcd up for an expell'd
scholar, they revoked their sentence so far, that by
an order dated 2 Nov. 1648, they imiiower'd him
to have liberty to use his chamber in Exeter coll. a«
also that he enjoy a traveller s allowance for three
years. Afterwards he went into Holland, and lie-
came minister to the worshipful company of English
merchants at Roterdam. His works are these,

Directions Jor a Godly Life, especially Jhr. com-
municating at the Lord's Table. Oxon. 1628. oct.
[Bodl. 8vo. P. 175. Th.] There again the tentli
time 1680. oct.

Several sermons, as (1) A Christian Amendment,
Serm. on Neic-years Day at S. Mart. Ch. in Ox. ,■
on 2 Cor. 5. 17. Oxon. 1633. oct. [Bcxll. 8vo. a
98. Th.] (2) Christian }Visdom, or the Excellency,
Sfc. of true Wisdom, Sej-m. on 1 Kings 10. 24.
Oxon. 1639. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. T. 48. Th.] (3)
Sermon on Joh. 18. 3. Ox. 1640. &c.

Dicta S^ Facta Christi ex quatuor Evangcli-ttis
collccta, <$- in Ordine dLiposita. Oxon. 1634. oct.
[Bodl. 8vo. P. 4. Art. 155.] He gave way to fate
on the eleventh day of Septemb. in sixteen hundred
and fifty (old stile) and was buried in the Engli.sh
church at Roterdam, appropriated to the aforesaid
merchants, as I liave been infornied by Dr. Tho.
IMarshall lately rector of Line, college, who suc-
ceeded him in that office of preacher there. '

[Mr. James, school-master, of Bristol, informs nie
that he has seen a manuscript containing several
things Jiy this writer, in Latin and English. Mr.
James lias transcribed many of them, which shew
the volume to have been a kind of common-place
book.]

HUMPHREY SYDENHAM was born of an
antient and genteel family in a market town in So-
mersetshire called Dulverton, became a sojourner of
Exeter coll. in Lent tenn 1606, took a degree in
arts as a member of that house, made fellow of
Wadham coll. by tlie foundress thereof, an. 1613,
and the year after pr(Keeded in arts, being the first
of all that coll. that took that degree. Afterwards
he entred into the .sacred function, was made priest
by I^ewis bishop of Bangor, in 1621, had the rec-
tory of Ashbrittle in Somersetshire bestowed on
him, by the presentation of his majesty an. 1627,
and three years after, that of Pokington in the said
county by the same hand. About that time he was

' [See a full account of the proceedings in the c.ise of
'i'ljzcr, ill Hisl. et Antiq. Univ. O.xoti.'j

T

1 660.

275

SYDENHAM.

SNELLING.

SEAGER.

YERAVORTH.

[135]

IG50.

made cliaplain to Edward lord Howard of Escrick ;
so tliat thereby being capacitated to liold several be-
nefices, liad tlie rectory of Odcomlx- in the same
county ^vei» to him by his maj. in Dec. 1644, sir
Joh. Sydenham bart. to whom tliat rectory did be-
long, being tlien in his minority and a ward. Which
three beneficx'.s, or at least two," he lost soon after
by the parliamentarian commissioners of Somerset-
shire. He was a jx^rson of a quaint and cmnous
stile, better at practical, than school, divinity, and
was so eloquent and fluent a preacher that he was
commonly called S'llvrr-Umgiifd Sydenham. He
hath published thcst; sermons following,

Five Sermons preached upon several Occasions.
Lend. 1627. qu. (1) The Athenian Bahler; on
Acts 17. 18. (2) Jacob and Esau, ^c. ; on Rom.
Q. 18. (3) Arraignment of' an Arian ; on Joh. 8.
58. (4) Moses and Aaron, ^c; on Exod. 4. 12.
(5) Nature's Overthroxo and DeatKs Triumph:
on Eccles. 12. 5. Preached at the Funeral of Sir
Joh. Sydenham Kt. at Brimnton 1-5 Dec. 1625.

Other Sermons. Lond. 1630. qu. [Bodl. 4to. C.
42. Th.] The first of which is called The j>assing
Bell; on Psal. 32. 6. (2) The rich Man's Warn-
ing Piece; on P.ml. 62. 10. (fJ) The Waters of
Marah and Meribah; on Rom. 12. 1.

Sermons upon .tolemn Occasions preached in se-
veral Auditories. I^ond. 1637. qu. [Hodl. B. 20.
14. Line] They are 8 in number, and the first is
entit. Tlie xvell-tund Cymbal; \or a Vindicat'ion
of the moderne Harmony and Ornaments in our
Churches ;^] on Psal. 15. 16. preached at tlie Dedi-
cation of an Organ lately set up at Bruton in So-
mersetshire. All which sermons were at their
preaching and publishing wonderfully cried up by
most people of understanding ; but books have their
credit or discredit from the fancy of their readers,
as they please to hke or dislike. He paid his last
debt to nature in Somersetshire in sixteen hundred
and fifty, or thereabouts, but where buried, unless
at Dulverton, I cannot tell, nor whether he had any
other sermons pubhshed after his death.

[Humfr. Sydenham A. M. Oxon. incorporat.
Cantabrigias an. 1625. Reg. Acad. Cant. Baker.

He was prebendary of Wedmore tertia in the
'cath. church of Wells, and Walker had been in-
formed that he was chaplain to archbishop Laud.
He was buried, as Wood conjectures, at Dulverton,
though he had erected a monument for himself at
Pocklington. He was, says sir Philip Sydenham,
not only a learned, but worthy, sober and careful
pastor over his parishes.']

« THOMAS SNELLING, son of WUl. Snel-

• [Lloyd {Memoires, p. 624) saith only • that he was in
danger of being turned out, as not fit' &c. but I am assured
from other hands, that he lost all three. Walker, Sufferings
of the Clergy, part ii, page 76, in marg.]

» [Wanlev.]

' [Walker, Siifferings of the Clergy, part ii, page 76.]

" ling of Bushic in Hertfordshire, was bom in that
" county, became scholai- of St. John's coll. in 1633,
" aged 19 years, and afterwards fellow ; took the
" degrees in arts, that of master being compleated
" in 1640, at which time he was esteem'd an cxcel-
" lent Latin jwet, as his poems printed occasionally
" in several books before the rebellion broke out in
" 1642, shew. Afterwards he suffered for the
" royal cause, and published

" Pharamus, sive Libido Vindc.r, Hi.ipanica
" Tragwdia. Lond. 1650. oct. [Bodl. 8vo. C. 324.
" Line] In the beginning of this book are several
" copies of verses made m its commendation by
" WUl. Creed, Joh. Goad, Rich. Paynter, Will.
" Walwyn, Pet. Mews and Arth. Anihurst, all of
" S. John's coll. The title that rims from page to
" page thro' the whole book is Vindictw Ingenium.

" Various Poem^ some of which are printed

" in several Ixxjks occasionally written."

[1648, 17 Aj)r. Orderetl, That it he referred to
the committee of plundered ministers to examine
the business touching the seditious and scandalous
sermon, preached at Graics Inn chapel, the last
Lord's day, in the evening ; who are authorized and
required to send for Mr. Tho. Snosdall of Grayes
Inn, who reconnnended Mr. Snell or Snelling who
preached it, and to apprehend and secure Mr. Snos-
dalle till he produce tlie preacher, who is to be com-
mitted. Journals of the House of Commons, vol. v,
page 534.]

JOHN SEAGER was educated in S. Mary's
hall, wliere he was observed by his contemporaries
to be studious, and a good disputant. Afterwards
taking the degrees in arts, he became minister of
Broadclist in Devonshire, and vrrote

A Diseovei-y of the World to come, according to
the Scriptures, &c. Lond. 1650 in a pretty thick
oct. [Bodl. 8vo. C. 14. Th. BS.] What other
things he hath published I know not, nor any thing
else of him. " There was one John Seager son of
" Will. Seager of Bristol, who became a student in
" St. Mary Magd. haU, A. D. 1629, aged 17 years,
" but this person took no degrees."*

SAMUEL YERWORTH, or Jeuuvokthus
as he writes himself in the title of the book follow-
ing, was born in Dorsetshire, became a student in
Oriel coll. in the year 1607 and in that of his age
16 or thereabouts, took one degree in arts, and af-
terwards, being noted for his excellency in the
knowledge of the Hebrew tongue, taught and read
it privately divers years in Oxon to young students,
and for their benefit wrote,

Introduciio ad Linguam Ebrwam brevissima
prccdptia duntaxat ejus Documenta, caque ex op-
timis Grammaticis collecta, complectens, &c. Oxon.

• [The writer did; and writes himself M. A.— .Wood,
Ms. note in Ashmole.']

C/ar.
I6b0.

Clar.
jOSO.

277

HEMMINGS.

LOVE.

278

I(i50.

[162J

Clar.

ifeo.

1C50. cK-t. At the time when it was published he
gave notice to the reader, that if the said intro-
duction should he kindly received, he would put
fortli a more full and compleat grammar with scholia
added to each chapter, as need should require, but
ivhethcr the granunar was acceptable among scho-
lars, and so ctinscquently the author stood to his
promise, I know not.

WILLIAM HEMMINGS son of John Hem-
mings a comedian or actor of plays with Will.
ShaKcspear, was Ixjrn in London, elected from
Westminster school a student of Ch. Ch. an.
1621, aged 16 yeai's or thereabouts, took the
degrees in arts, that of master being compleated in
16.'28, and, at hours of recess from happier employ-
ments, than the delight of poetry, composed.

The fatal Contract, Comedy. Lond. 1653. qu.
printed from the original copy, by the care of A. T.
and A. P. There again in 1661. qu. It was re-
vived,' not many years since, under the title of
Love and Revenge, with some alterations ; and in
1687 it was reprinted as a new play under the tide
of The Eunuch, a trag. This bemg founded on a
French chronicle, was said in the first edition of it,
1653, to be a French comedy.

The Jexcs Tragedy: or, their fatal and final
Overthrow by Vespasian and Titus his Son. Lond.
1662. qu. written agreeable to the authentic history
of Josephus. Our author Hemmings left behind
him greater moninnents of his worth and ability,
but whether they are yet published, I cannot tell.
However the Fatal Contract having justly gained
an esteem with men of excellent iudgments, Dv se-
veral copies of it that flew abroatl m MS, was tliere-
fore published for the satisfaction of all persons,
especially such who had lighted upon imperfect
copies.

[Hemmings was not born, as Wood states, in
1605, for it appears from the register of St. Mary,
Aldermanbury, that he was baptized October 3,
1602.'' He was the ninth of thirteen children, and
probably the eldest surviving son, as he was the
executor of his father's will, who died at the age of
seventy-five, and was buried October 12, 1630.*

Altnough it appears that Hemmings was elected
from Westminster-school in 1621, it would seem
that he was not matriculated till the year 1624, as
the following exact transcript from the register
proves,

' See An Account of the English Dramatic^ Peels, &c.
Oxon. 16()1. Oct. p. 247. written by Gerard Langbaiiie.

* [As far as relates to the age of this wrilero Wood fol-
lowed his authority very exactly. He is inserted in the ori-
cinal inatriculation book as nineteen years old in lC24. It
is probable, that Hemmings did not know his own age at the
lime of his admission.]

'• [Shakspcifte's Works, by Reed, ed. 1803, vol. iii, pages
841 and 4S8.]

iEdes Christi, Ano Dfii 1624*"
Vicecancellario Do'''' Piers.
Jul. 24'". Gul. Hemmings Lond. fil. Joh'is Hem-
mings de London p'd (pra-dict.) annos natus 19.'

In March 1632.^, he produced a comedy entitled
The Cours'inge (f a Hare; or tlie Mad Capp,
which was performed at the Fortune theatre, but
which, as is now conjectured, is lost. T'he title was
recovered by Malone from the MSS. of sir Henry
Herbert, then master of the revells.']

CHRISTOPHER LOVE, son of a father of
both his names, was born at Cardiff in Glamorgan-
shire, became a servitor of New Inn in Midsummer
or act term, 1635, aged 17 years, t(X)k a degree in
arts, holy orders, and woulcl with great impudence
and conceitedness ascend the pulpit in the church of
S. Peter in the Bayly joyning to the said inn, and
there hold out prating for more than an hour be-
fore acatlemical, as well as lay, auditors. In 1642
he proceeded master of arts, and was junior of the
act then celebrated, at which time he performed the
exercise of that office with more confidence than was
.seemly. He himself" tells us ' that when he was a
scholar in Oxon, and master of arts, he was the first
scholar that he knew of, or ever heard of in Oxon,
that did publicly refuse in the congregation house
to sub.scrd)e unto those impositions, or canons, im-
posed by the archb. touching the prelates and com-
mon prayer. For which, tho' they would not deny
him his degree, yet he was expelled the congrega-
tion, never to sit as a member among them,' &c.
About that time he left the university, went to, or
near, London, and became a sedulous preacher up

of treason and rebellion ' About the beginning

of the wars (saith' he) I was the first minister that
I knew of in England, who was accused j)f preach-
ing treason and rebellion, meerly for maintaining in
a sermon, in Kent at Tenterden, the lawfulness of
a defensive war, at the first breaking out and irrup-
tion of our troubles,' &c. So that being then esteem-
ed a leading man in the blesseil cause, he liecame
preacher to the garrison of Windsor castle, then un-
der the command of colonel John Venn. In which
office he shewed himself so violent against the king
and his cause, that he was usually stile<l by the
royalists Venn's principal fireman at Windsor. This
Venn, by the way it must be known, did, while go-
vernor of that castle, exercise very great crudty
against the royalists tliat were prisoners there ; but
being dismist of his employ, and col. Christopher
Witchcot put into his place, he retired to London,
carried on the cause there with great zeal, was one
of die judges of K. Ch. I. and at length hung liim-

8 r/ff^. Ma/ric. Univ. Oxon. PP. fol. 28, b.]
' [Hisiorical Account of the English Stage, ut supra, vol.
iii, page 234.]

' In his Tryal in Westm. Hall, printed in Aug. iC.'d.
-' Ibid.

T2

279

LOVE.

self in his chamber, as some say, others, that lie
died suddetily in his betl, on the 7 of July at nijj;ht,
or early next morning, an. 1G50. In the year IG'tJ',
when the eoinniissioners i'roni the king and ])arlia-
ment met at Uxbridge to treat alx>ut peace, this our
author I^ove ihd very officiously jnit himself njwn
preaching before some of them, on the first day of
their meeting, (Jan. 30) being the market-day. In
which his sermon, fvdl of dire malice, lie vented
many j)assages very scandalous to his majesty 's per-
son, and derogatory to his honour, stirnng up the
people against the treaty, and incensing them against
the king's conmiissioners, telling the said jK-ople that
tliey came with hearts full of blood, and that there
was as great distance lietween the treaty and jjefice
as between heaven and hell, or words to that effect,
with divers other seditious jiassages against his ma-
jesty and the treaty. A\'hereu|X)n the connnissioners
belonging to the Ving, jiutting up their complaints
to those of the parliament, they represented the mat-
ter to the lorcls and commons assembled at West-
minster, who thereupon, ' tho' they could not with
good conscience imjjrison Mr. Love, yet they did
[137] confine him ; and where should it be, but to that
very house where his mistress then lived, whom
for two years going before, he had wooed with
prayers, sennons and ugly faces.'' After this he
was made minister of S. Anne's church. near to Al-
dersgate, a recruiter of the assembly of divines, and
at length minister of the church of S. Laurence in
the Jewry in London, which he kept till Oliver
Cromwell paid the debt, and brought him to the
scaffold when he lea.st l(X)ked for it, which was upon
this account. After the presbyterians had been

fuird of their king by the mdejx'ndents, the j)rime
eads of them were resolved to set up his son
Charles II. WhereujMn he being invited from be-
yond the seas into Scotland, and there had taken
the covenant and was crown'd, the presbyterians in
England plotted to bring him in among them, and
to that end corresponded with him, and supplied
him and his with money, contrary to an act of })ar-
liament, then lately made, in that case provided.
These matters being discovered, our author Love,
Mr. Tho. Case, Mr. Will. Jenkyns, and other
London ministers, as also one Dr. Roger Drake, (a
physician as it seems') were by auuiority of the

' Merc. Aulicus Feb. 10. an. l644. p. 1378.
' [They severely reprimanded him, and caused him to de-
^)art from Uxbridge. MS. Note in Mr. Heher's copy.]

' [Not so, he was a doctor in divinity. MS. Note in Mr.
Heher's copy.

A Boundary to the IJnly Mount : or A Barre {gainst free
Admission to the Lord's Supper, in Answer to an humlle
■Vindication of free Admission to the Lords Supper, published
hy Mr. Humphrey, minister of Froome in Somersetshire ;
which humble yindication, though it profess much of Piety
.and Conscience, yet upon due Triall and Examination ts
found Worthy of Suspension, if not of a greater Censure. By
Bogtr Drake Minister of Peters Cheap London. Lend. l653.
8vo. Ch. Ch. library, A. 4y. Pamph.

council of state taken into custody about the 7th of
May 1651, as Ining the chief actors in the said
treason, as they then called it. Sikju after, it was
resolved by the great masters at \^'estltlinstcr, that
Mr. Love the minister, then j)risoncr in the Tower,
should be brought to his tryal before the high court
of justice on the 20th of Jime 1651, not for any
matter of dtK-trine, as it was then given out, but for
high-treason as they said, and conspiracv against
the connnon-wealth of England. He and the rest
(as the indeiiendents then said) had outstript the
Jestiit both in practice and project, as having not
only tamjjer d with men's consciences in private,
(beyond which the Jesuit doth very rarely \enture)
but preached open rebellion and trea.son with a fuU
mouth in the pulpit. On the said day he made his
first appearance, in order to his tryal, and one
Jack.son a minister (Arth. Jackson, as it seems*) re-
fusing then to give in evidence against him, was for
his contempt fined 500/. and coimnitted j)risoner to
the Fleet. The next day he ajipeared again, and,
as 'twas then said by his enemies, in his carriage
and behaviour he discover'd as nuich ridiculous im-
pudence, equivocation and hyjx^risy, as ever any
person did upon the like occasion, adding, that in
him you might have seen the true character of his
faction, full of passion and spleen, and void of all
ingenuity. On the 25th and 27th days of the said
month of June he appeared again, and, on the last
of those two days he brought his council with him,
viz. Mr. Matthew Hale, Mr. John Archer, and
Mr. Tho. Walter, but the two last having not
taken the engagement, were not suff'er'd to plead
for him. At which time Mr. Love, as the mde-
pendents said, was full of malepert carriage, match-
less impudence, obstinacy and nnpatiencv. On the
5th of July he was condenmed to be beheaded on
Tower-hill on the 15th of the same month, but then
several petitions being read in parliament in his be-
half, viz. one from divers ministers, another from
himself, and a third from his wife, he was repriev'd
till the 15th of Aug. following, and thence to the
22d of the same month. What farther may be said
concerning his principles and profession, you shall
have it from his own mouth ' which he spoke when

Mr. ]?axter says, he was a wonder of humility and sin-
cerity. He was one of the commissioners at the Savoy. He
always laid by a tenth part of his worldly incomes for the
poor, before he us'd any himself. There is a sermon of his
in the Morning Exercise at St. Giles's, on the Believer's
Dignity and Duty. His last words were these. Jesus take
me ! 1 am ready. He wrote also The Bar Fi.xed, in Answer
to Mr. Humphrey's Bejoynder, 1666, 8vo. Calamy's Hist,
of Ejected Ministers.']

* [Minister of St. Michael, Wootl-street, and engaged in
Love's plot. He died Aug. 5, 1666, as Calamy says, in great
comfort.

He wrote the Annotations on Isaiah, which his son John
(who was ejected from Si. Bennet's, Paul's Wharf,) pub-
lished.]

5 In his TVya/ before-mentioned, and in his Speech on ike
Scaffold.

LOVE.

282

he was tried for his life thus ' God is my wit-
ness, I never drove a malignant design, I never car-
ried on a malignant interest, I detest both. I still re-
tain my covenanting principles, from which, through
the grace of God, I will never depart, for any ter-
ror or perswasion whatsoever — I do retain as great
a keenness, and shall whilst I live, and as strong an
opposition against a malignant interest, whether in
Scotland or in England, or in any part of the world,
against the nation where I live, and have to this
day, as ever I did in former times — I have all along
engaged my estate and life in the parliament's quar-
rel against the forces raised by the king. I gave
my all, and did not only deem it my duty to preach
for the lawfulness of a defensive war, but (unless my
books and wearing apparel) I contributed all I had
[138] in the world — and tho' my life is endeavoured to be
taken away, vet for all that, I repent not of what I
have done — I have in my measure ventured my all,
in the same quarrel that you were engaged in, and
hfted up my hands in tiie same covenant, that took
sweet counsel together, and walked in fellowship
one with another. — I die cleaving to all those oaths,
vows, covenants and ])rotestations that were im-
posed by the two houses of parliament, as owning
them, find dying with my judgment for them, to
the protestation, the vow, and the covenant, the so-
lemn league and covenant. And this 1 tell you all,
that I had rather die a covenant-kee|5er, than live a
covenant-breaker, ^ &c. As for his writings and
works they are these,

The Debauched Cavalier, or, the English Midi-
anite : wherein are compared by way of Parallel
the Carriage or rather Miscarriage of the Cava-
liers, Sic. Lond. 1642. Which pamphlet, tho' 'tis
but one sheet in qu. yet forsooth he had a co-ope-
rator in writing it, and who should that be but one
George Laurence of New-Inn, as rank a presbyte-
rian as Love.

EnglaiuTs Distemper, liaving Division and Er-
ror, as its Cause; wanting Peace and Truth Jbr
its Cure, &c. Serm. preached at Uxbridge 30
Jan. 1644,- on Jer. 33. 6. Lond. 1645. qu. [Bodl.
4to. G. 5. Th.]

His Vindication frimi those .scandalous Asper-
sions cast upon him by the Malignant Party, who
cliarge him to be a Hindcrer of the Treaty at U,r-
bridge, &c. — Printed with England^s Distemper,
and by itself in one sh. in qu. at Lond. 16-51.

Short and plain Animadversions on some Pas-
sages in Mr. Will. DelVs Sermon preached before
the House of Commons, 25 Nov. 1646 ; on Heb.
9. 10. Lonci. 1646, and 47. qu. Which Animad-
verskms were rephed upon the same year by Dell.'

* [And he would not so much as pray for the king, other-
wise than thai he might propagate the covenant. MS. Note
in Mr. Heber's copy.^

' [See an account of Mr. Dell in my vol. xxxiii (in the
British museum) pages 26g, 271, &c. Cole.

Will. Dell was master of Caiu:; college in Cambridge.

The reader is to note, that our author Love preach-
ed the same day, being a solenm fast, Ix-fore the
said house of commons ; but his sermon being nmch
displeasing to the indejxMidi'nts, and nialepert against
the then proceedings of parhatuent, he tiad neither
thanks given him, or orcler to print it; but Dell, a
minister attending on his excellency sir Tho. Fair-
fax, being encouraged to print his, nettled Love so
much, that he forthwith wrote the said Animadver-
sions.

Anszeer to an unlicen.ied Pamphlet annex'd to
the Sermon, entit. A Reply to Mr. Love''s Contra-
dictions. Lond. 1647. oct. Which Reply to the
Contradictions of Mr. Love''s Ser7non, was written,
as it seems, by Dell.

His Case Pr. 1651. qu. and thereupon fol-
lowed soon after Quecries upon it, but who wrote
them I know not."

His Vindication — Printed 1651. qu. penned by
himself.

His Advocate — Pr. 1651. qu. penn'd, as I have
been informed, by himself.

Several Petitions to the Pari, in Jul. and Aug.
Lond. 1651. qu.

A full Narrative of the late dangerous Design
against the State, &c. Lond. 1651. qu. This is
said to be written by him, and by him sent to the
pari. Wherein he sctteth down his several meet-
ings and several actings with major Alford, &c.
Mr. Thomas Case, Mr. Tho. Cawton, Dr. Drake,
Mr. Rich. Drake,9 maj. Rob. Huntingdon, Mr.
Will. Jenkyns, &c.

His Speech and Prayer on the Scaffold on Tower-
hill, ^9. Aug. 1651. Lond. 1651. qu. [Bodl. C. 13.
1. Line] On which speech and prayer were ani-
madversions matle and published by Anonymus,
and on his decollation a poem by Dr. Rob. Wild
rector of Ainoe in Northamptonshire, entit. The
Tragedy of Christop. Love at Tower-hill. Lond.
1660 hi one sh. in qu.

Grace : the Truth, and GrowtJt, and different
Degrees tJiereqf. The Sum and Substance of tfie
last 15 Sermons preached ^>y him. Lond. 1652. in
oct. there again 1654, and a third time in 1657.
qu. [Bodl. 4to. S. 56. Th.] The first sermon is on
1 Kings 14. part of the 13th verse, published with
an epistle liefore them, subscribed by Edm. Calamy,
Simeon Ash, Jerem. Whitaker, and WUl. Taylor,
dated 13 Feb. 1654.

Sermon at the Funeral of Mrs. B. being the last
Sermon lie ever preaclied ; on Job 30. 23. — Printed
with the Book (^ Grace before-mention'd.

He was a peculiar man, and challeng'd for three contradic-
tions in his life. I. For being professedly against pcedo-
baptism, and yet he had his own children baptized. 2. For
preaching against universities, when yet he held the head-
ship of a college. 3. For being against tythes, and yet taking
200/. per annum at his living in Yeldon in Bedfordshire.]

s [See them both Bodl. Crynes. 895.]

« [Ric. DrakeS: T. P. regiis Uteris, dat. Aug. 2.reg. 1«,
(16(30.) Baker.]

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LOVE.

Agiiinst the sjiid sermons ' were great comjilaints"
made by divers otticers of the army and other no-
torious mdependents to tlic parUamcnt in 165S,
thus — ' Several pamphlets have been lately pub-
lished in vindication of Mr. Love, wherein they (the
pi-esbyterians) account him a martyr (as in the pref.
to his sermons) and charge the jwrliament with in-
justice in putting him to death, &c. more particu-
larly Mr. Edm. Calamy in his late epistle before
Mr. Love's sermons ; and his funeral sermon hangs
out a flag of defiance to the state, proclaiming
Mr. Love to die in, and for, the Lord: and the
saints (meaning the independents and anabaptists)
he calls murtherers, traytors, rebels, blasphemers,
&c. and chargeth the highest sins to have ascended
into pulpits and thrones,' &c. But upon examina-
tion, Mr. Calamy (as 'tis ' said) was not the author
of that preface, but another, more violent than he.

HeavetCs Glory, HelVs Terror: or, two Trea-
tises, the one concerning the Glory of the Saints
with Jesus Christ, as a Spur to Duty, in 10 Ser-
mons. The other of the Torments qf'tlie Damned,
as a Preservative against Security, in 8 Sermons.
Lond. 1653, 58. qu.

Soul's Cordial, in two Treatises. Lond. 1653.
Oct.

Treatise of effectual Calling and Election, in
16 Sermons cm 2 Pet. 1. 10. L(md. 1653. qu. ibid.
1658. Oct. This treatise hath an epist. commend,
before it, subscribed by E. Calamy, Jerem. Whit-
aker, Simeon Ash, Will. Taylor, and Allen Geree.

Scripture Rules to be observed in buying and
selling. Lond. 1653. on one side of a sh. of paper.

The true Doctrine of Mortification and Since-
rity, in Opposition to Hypocrisy. Lond. 1654. in
oct.

Combate betzoeen the Flesh and the Spirit; as
also the woful Withdrawing of the Spirit (vf God,
with the Causes thereof, 4*r. being the Sum and
Substance of 27 Sermons. LontL 1654, 58. qu.
Ded. by Will. Taylor to Edw. Braflshaw mayor of
Chester, and the epist. to the reader is subscrib'd
by E. Calamy, S. Ash, aud Jer. Whitaker, before-
mention'd.

Sum or Substance of practical Divinity ; or,
the Grounds of Religion in a Catechistical Way.
Lond. 1654. in tw.

Chri.ytian's Directory, tending to direct him i«
tlie various Conditions that God hath cast him into,
in 15 Sermons. Lond. 1654 and 58. qu. The epist.

' [The complaints were not made against the sermons
aboie meiition'd, hut against the 17 sermons entit. The true
Map of Man's miserable Estate by Nature, printed at Lond.
iS.SZ, 8vo. with his picture before them, the imprimatur of
Edm. Calamy and a preface subscribed E. C. ; and Mr. Man-
ton's Funeral Sermon at the end. In the preface and sermon
is the character of Mr. Love, and in the pref. • his dying in
the Lord." Tanner.]

' See The Beacons yuenched, 8cc. Lond. l659. qu. p. 14.

' See The Beacon flaming with a non obstante. Lond.
1662. qu. p. 2.

to the reader is subscrib'd by Calamy, Ash, Taylor,
and Geree before-mention'd, all presl)yterians.

The dejected Soufs Cure, tending to support
poor drooping Sinners, 4"C. in divers Sermons.
Lond. 1657. qu.

The Ministry of the Angels to the Heirs of Sal-
vation: Or a Treatise of Angels. Lond. 1657. qu.

Of the Omnipresence of God, in several Sermons,
began 13 May 1649, and ended 3 June J'olhyming.
Lond. 1657. qu.

The Sinners Legacy to their Posterity ; on Lam.
5. 8. Lond. 1657. qu.

These four last books have an epist. commend,
before them, subscribed by Calamy, Ash, and Tay-
lor before-mentioned, as also by AV^ill. Whitaker,
Matth. Poole and Jos. Church, presbyterians.

1'he Penitent jmrdoiCd. A Treatise wherein is
liandled tlie Duty of Confession of Sin, and tJie
Privilege of the Pardon of Sin. Lond. 1657. qu.

Discourse ofChrisCs Ascension into Heaven, and
of his Coming againfrom Heaven, zoherein the Opi-
nion of the ChioliHs is cmviidered and solidly con-
futed. Lond. 1657. qu. This, with The Penitent
parchmed, &c. is the substance of several sermons :
Both published by Calamy, Ash, Taylor, and Will.
Whitaker before-mention'd.

The natm-al Mali's Case stated : or, an exact Map
of the little World, Man, in \1 Sermons. Lond. 1658.
Oct. These are all the things that he hath extant,
as I conceive, and therefore I have nothing more to
say, only that he was beheaded on Tower-hill on the
22d of August in sixteen hundred fifty and one.
Whereupon his Ixxly being afterwards carried to
his house, and there re[X)sited for a time, was buried
[August SS.*] with great lamentation by the bre-
thren, on the north side of the chancel belonging to
the church of S. Laurence in the Jewry before-men-
tion'd : At which time Mr. Tho. Manton, one of
the chief presbyterians in I^ondon preached his fu-
neral sermon, which was afterwards made public.
It was ob.served by many, and looked upon as luira*
culous by the brethren, that when the members of
the rump parliament had }")assed their votes for his
death, there did happen one of the most terrible
thunder claps that was ever heard. Also that that
day on whit-h he sufFer'd, was seen a most clear sky;
but soon after his death, wliich was about two of
the clock in the afternoon, the sky began to thicken,
and at last was envelop'd in a black and dismal
cloud, and all that night and till the next morning,
such thunder, lightning and tempest hapned, as
if the machine of the world had been dissolving.
This was the observation of the pre.sbyterian, who
stuck not to say thereupon, that Gotl was angry at
these things that had passed, &c. Yet the inde-
pendent, anabaptist, and others, made another con-
struction of the matter, which was pubhshed soon
after in the common mercury called Politictis, viz.

* [So tbe sernion at his funeral. Tanner.]

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iGsi.

LOVE.

DEE.

28f)

' That on the 22 of Aug. the old tyrant (Chailes I.)
did first erect his standard at Nottingham, and
then Mr. Love and liis brethren did well to cry it
down. But it being down, and themselves not set
up (as they exjDected) then they deserted their first
principles, an(l cryed up his son; whose interest
(however disguised) is the same with his fatiier's ;
and he, by their instigation making way into
England, entred and erected his standard at Wor-
cester also, upon the 22d of Aug. 1651 : upon whidi
very day likewise it was, that Mr. Love, who having
help'd to beat down the old malignant standard, and
then turning apostate to set up the new one, lost his
head upon Tower-hill, as a just judgment of God for
his implacable apjstasy and enmity, and for a terror
to all the men ot his confederacy, &c.' At the same
time, and upon the same scaffold, was beheaded Mr.
Jo. Gibbons engaged in the same plot ; but as for
others engaged therein and to be brought to their

Sal, \ix. col. Joseph Vaughan sometimes a Icather-
ler in London, heut. col. Jackson, capt.

Hugh Massey (brother to maj. gen. Edw. Mas.sey)
Dr. Drake, Mr. Th. Case, Mr. Artliur Jackson,
Mr. W. Jenkyns minister of Ch. Ch. in London,
Mr. Th. Watson, Mr. Ralph Robinson, Mr. Rich.
Heyrick, &c. were, upon the motion of a certain
noble person, pardoned for life and estate, and freed
both from sequestration and impri-somnent.

[Die Martis 12 Junii 1660. The humble peti-
tion of Mary late wife of Christopher Love and major
James Winstanley, her brother, citizen of London,
was read. Joi/rnals of the House of Commons.
Die Sabati 7 Junii 1660, In proceeding upon the
bill of general pardon and oblivion, a proviso was
tendred to have reparation against the judges of the
high court of justice who sate in judgment when
Mr. Christopher Love was condemned to dye, which
was read the first time, and upon the question re-
jected. Kennet.

There is a curious plate of Christopher Love, in
the pulpit, by A. Conradus, large sheet, and there
are two others by Cross, one in 1651, the second in
1652.]

" ARTHUR DEE, son of Dr. Joh. Dee the
" famous mathematician, by Jane Fromond his
" wife, was bom at Mortlack in Surrey about four
" of the clock in the morning of the 14th of July
" 1579, on which day (in the mom. also) died his
" mother's father Mr. Fromond, which was looked
" upon as no good omen by Dr. Dee. On the 21st
" ol Sept. 1583, this Arthur Dee was conveyed
" from Mortlack towards Poland by his father and
" mother, in the company of Albert Alaskie, or a
" Lasco, a Polish prince, who conducting them to
" Cracow in Poland, they went thence, after some
" stay, to Prague in Bohemia ; where, while Arthur
" was a little boy, 'twas usual with him to play at
" quaits with the slates of gold made by projection,
*' in the garret of his father's lodgings, as count Ro-

" sinberg (a great patron of Dr. Joh. Dee) did with
" slates of silver; all made by the said doctor.
" When this our author Arthur Dee was aliout 8
" years of age, and at Trebona m Boheniia with his
" father, he was designed to succeed VAw. Kelicy as
" his father's speculator.' For it*' appears that
" those angels or spiritual creatures which Dr.
" Joh. Dee dealt withal by the speculation of the
" said Kelicy, were so distastful with his vicious
" course of life (concerning which, they had formerly
" given him frequent wamingsto amend, yet wrought
" nothing with him) that one of tiiem then in dis-
" course witli Dee and Kelley, told KeUey plainly,
" that he would discharge him from that emplov-
" ment, and that power which was given him of
" seeing, should be diminished, and should dwell
" upon Arthur Dee, giving then KeUey 14 days
" warning for choosing or refusing; and in tne
" mean time appointed that the child (Arthur)
" should be exercised in that faculty; which, by
" Dr. Dee, after a serious and devout address to
" God, was done several days. It appears' thci-e-
" fore tb.at Arthur did see, which, tlio' the things
" were small and inconsiderable, yet they clearly
" manifested that he had the gift of seeing, and were
" very suitable and proper enough for a young be-
" ginner. Upon this Kelley perceiving that he
" should be wholly set aside, and become useless in
" matter of skrjing or seeing, he insinuated himself
" into their company for one day, while they were
" at exercise : And Arthur waiting for a vision,
" Kelley pretended to see something, of which he
" gave ' an account. By this cunning artifice, that
" delusive and impure doctrine took place, from
" whence Dr. Dee and Kelley were induced to mix
" with each others wives, which so distasted the good
" angels, that they forsook their company, and ap-
" peared no more to Dr. Dee. Afterwards our au-
" thor A. Dee coining into England, he was sent to
" the college school at Westminster, 3 May 1592,
" being then a youth of exceeding great and haughty
" mind, and naturally ready to revenge raSily.
" After he had spent some time there, he was sent
" to the univ. of Oxon, as his son Rowl. Dee, and
" one or more persons of Norwch (where he after-
" wards practised physic) who knew Arth. Dee very
" well, have informed nie, but in what coll. or hall
" he was entred and settled, they could not tell me,
" nor indeed doth the matricula mention it. Having
" spent some time there, (either in Ch. Ch. or S.
" Mary's hall as it seems) he left it without a degree
" conferr'd on him, and settling afterwards in Lon-
" don in order to practise tlie faculty of physic, he
" hung out a table at the door where he lived, in

' [For several particulars reLitive to the transactions of
Dee and Kelley, see these Athene, vol. l, col. 639, 640,
&c.]

• " See the Rclalion concerning Dr, Jofi. Dee's convers-
" ing with Spirits, printed 1659. fol. lib. 2. p. 3."

' " ibid. p. 4, 5. 6, 7." » " Ibid."

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" which, or by a certain writing paintetl tlierwm, he
" gave notice to him or them that sliould pass by,
" mat he exposed to sale several niethcines, by whidi
♦' many diseases were said to lie certainly cured. An
" account of this matter coming afterwards to the
" knowledge of the colledge of pliysicians, the meni-
" bers tiiereol" ditl esteem '^ it such an intolerable
" cheat and inijiosture, that the censors of the sjiid
" coll. ordered him to ap}X?ar with his remedies, in
" order to the inflicting a due penidty ujxm him ;
" but what became of the matter I know not. From
" London (which he found uneasy to him) he went
" to Manchester in Lancashire, where his father
" then, or lately, was warden of the coll. there, and
" settling in that place for a time, he took to wife
" Isabella dau. of Edw. Prestwych, a justice of
" peace hving at Hohne near to the said town. At
" length the emperor of Russia desiring K. Jam.
" I. of England to send him one of his physicians,
" he forthwith nominated our author A. Dee as a
" very fit person. So that soon after obtaining
" letters of commendation, he went into that country,
" where he continued physician to the said emperor
"14 years or more. In 1629 he wrote a book at
" Musco, where he mostly lived, entit.

" Fasciculus chymicus dc Abstrusis Hermeticcc
" Scientiw Ingressii, Progressu, &c. Par. 1631. in
" tw. Which book coming afterwards into the
" hands of Elias Ashmoie, esq; he translated it into
" Enghsh under this title, Chymical Collections ;
" expressing the Ingress, Progress, and Egress of
" the secret hermetic Science, out of the cJioicest and
" most Jamous Authors. Lond. 1650. oct. See
" more in Elias Ashmoie under the year 1692.
" Afterwards A. Dee returning into England, he
" brought with him most ample testimonies of his
" own worth, and imperial commendations to king
" Charles I. whereupon he was sworn physician in
" ordinary to him, and, as it seems, settled for a
" time in London. Afterwards he retired to the
" city of Norwich, where he practised his faculty
" with good success to his dying day. Sir Tho.
" Browne the learned physician sometimes of that
" city, who knew the said A. Dee very well, and
" was familiarly acquainted with him, hath informed
" me by letters that ' he the said Arthur hath af-
" firmed to him with an oath, that he had seen pro-
" jection made by his father and Kclley, and trans-
" mutation of pewter dishes and flaggons into silver,
" which the goldsmiths of Prague bought of them

" That the said transmutation was made by a

" small jxjwder they had found in some old place,
" and a IxKik lying by it coritiiining nothing but
" hieroglypliics : which Jjook his father bestowed
" much time upon, but he could not hear that he
" could make it out. He said also that Kelley dealt

? " So Dr. Cha. Goodall in hU Historical Accnunt of the
" Coll. of Physicians Proceedings against Empiricis, printed
" In 1()84. p. 3C4."

not justly with his father, and that he went away
with the greatest part of the jKJwder, and was af-
terwards nnprisou'd by the emperor in a certain
castle, from whence attempting ' an escape down
the wall, he fell and broke his leg, and was im-
prisoned again That his father Dr. Joh. Dee

presented Q. Elizabetli with a httle part of tlie
jxjwder, who having nuule tryal thereof, she
attempted to get Kelley out of prison, and sent
certain jx-rsons for that purpose, who giving opium
drink to the keejiers, laid tliem so fa.st asleep that
Kelley found an opjxjrtunity to attempt an escape,
and there were horses ready to carry him away,
but the business unliappily succeeded, &c. — Artn.
Dee was a youth when he saw the projection
made in Bohemia, with which he was so infiamed,
that he fell really upon that study, and read not

much all his life but books of that subject Two

years before his death he contracted with Joh.
Huniades or Hans Hungar in London, to be his
operator. This Hans Hungar ha\-ing lived long
in London, and growing in years, he resolved to
return to Hungary. Whereujxjii going first to
Amsterdam, he had orders given him to remain
there till Dr. Arth. Dee came to him — The
Doctor to my knowledge was serious in this mat-
ter, and had provided all things in reatliness to
go, but suddenly he heard that Hans Hungar was

dead, and so desisted,'' &c. Thus far the

worthy sir Tho. Brown, who hath added in
another letter, that he (A. Dee) was a persevering
student in henuetical philosojJiy, and had no
small encourjigement, l)ecause he had seen projec-
tion made. That he had had several manuscripts
of his lying by him, &c. At length this Dr. A.
Dee having lived to the age of man, departed this
mortal life at Norwich in the month of Sept. in
sixteen hundred fifty and one, and was buried in
the church of S. George in Tombland, situate and
being within the said city. By his wife Isabella
before-mention'd he had 7 sons, three of wjiich,
viz. the first, second, and seventh died young;
the third was Arthur a merchant in Amsterdam ;
the fourth was Rowl. Dee a merchant in I>ondon,
the fifth and sixth were William and John, both
merchants in Russia, besides six daughters wlio
were all married. John Dee bef()re-mention''d,
father of Arthur, was Iwrn in London on the 13th
of July, an. 1,527, and by his father Rowland
Dee a vintner he was carefully educated, but in
what sch(X)l, unless in that of S. Paul, I know
not.*' In 1542 he was sent to S. John's coll. in
Cambridge, where continuing till after he was
bach, of arts, he went beyond the seas to confer

' "See in Edw. Kellcv under the year l&Qb. vol.1, cfjl.
639."

^ [1 had before, in London, and at Chdmisford, been
meetly well furnished with understanding of the Latine
tongue. See his Briefe Note and Abstract, publ. by Hearne,
Johan. Glastoniensis Chronica, 1726, pagciOO.]

1(5.5 1.

DEE.

^0

" with learned men, as G. Frisius, Ger. Mcrcator,
" Gasj). a Mereia, Ant. Gogava, &c. After his
" return he was eliosen fellow of Trin. coll. at its
" first erection thereof by K. lien. 8. and was as-
" signed there to be under reader of the Greek

" tongue to Mr. Pember the chief reader, and

" in 1548 he went out master of arts, and then left
" Cambridge for altogether; but whether he studied
" in Oxon, I cannot justly say it, notwithstanding I
" have read in one of his booKs, wherein he acknow-
" ledgeth to have studied in patriis academiis. Af-
" terwards he travelled again, and was, I presume,
" doctorated beyond the seas, became a searcher into
11431 " profound studies, a great investigator of the more
" secret hermetical learning, a perfect astronomer, a
" curious astrologer, an excellent geometrician, and
" indeed excellent in all kinds of learning, but the
" most ambitious person (as 'tis' said) that ever
" lived, and none more desh'ous of fame and renown
" than he, being never so well pleased as when he
" heard himself stiled most excellent or most learned.
" The truth is, he was a ready witted man, quick of
" apprehension, learned, and of great judgment in
" the Latin and Greek tongues, which made him
" more adiiiired and reverenced beyond, than within,
" the seas. After his return he setled at Mortlack
" in Surrey, and spared not to enrich his library
" with choice books as well manuscript as printed :
" and being skiPd in magic, no farther, I presume,
" than natural philosophy directed him, was there-
" fore but ill treatetl by the rude vulgar of his
" neighbourhood, who looking upon him no other
" than a conjurer, he became weary of the place.
" In the beginning of 1583 he contracted with cer-
" tain spirits to act and converse with them, and
" appointing E<lw. Kelley to Ik; his seer or skryer,
" the first sight and discourse they had with them
" was at Lesden <m the 28th of May the same year.
" On the 21st of Sept. following, they left Mortlack
" in order to go beyond the seas in the company, and
" upon the invitation, of a noble Polonian cidled
" Albert Alaskie or ii Lasco, prince of Sira<l, and
" about that time Dr. Dee's library was seized on,
" wherein were 4000 lxx)ks and 700 of them ma-
" nuscripts. At every place where they made a
" stay for two or three days their conversation with
" spirits continued, by virtue of a shew-stone which
" Dee had formerly given to him by an angel. To
" which shexc-stouc, after they had finished their
" prayers, Kelley always applied himself to see when
" the spirit or spiritvial creature came ; and what he
" saw and what he heard he dictated to Dr. Dee
" who sate at a table by him, and wrote down in a
" book what was dictated. On the 13th of March
" following they came to the city of Cracow in Po-
" land, hired a house, lived there, and carried on
" their conversation with spirits. On tlie 1 Aug.
" 1-584 they went towards Prague, and in eight days

« " By Will. Lilly in his own Ufe, p. 85."
Vol. III.

time arrived there, hired an house, and carried on
therein their discourses with spirit.s : And Rodolph
the second, emperor of Germany, hearing they
were tliere, sent forthwith by Cktavius Spinola
his servant, that Dee come to jjim, being then in
his palace at Prague. Dee did so, and was con-
ducted to him in liis most private room, where
was lying then before him Dr. Dee's book entit.
Morias Hieroglyphica, which Dr. Dee had dedi-
cated to Maxnnilian the emperor, father to the
said Rodolph; and being kmdly received, and
the room voided of all but those two ; Dee, after
a great deal of reverence made, told him he had a
message from God for his own good ; which, being
delivered in a canting way, no more than one of
our quakers would do to a great man or king, I
shall for brevity's sake pass it by. At that time
it appears that Dee was in a poor condition, and
being scarce able to subsist, he therefore sent to
Alb. Alaskie then in Poland for relief, which I
presume he received. In Apr. 1585 I find him
with Kelley at Cracow, at which time Franc.
Puccius became acquainted with them, and in
the beginning of August following being at
Prague, Puccius was admitted among them while
they conversed with spirits on the 6th of the said
month. In May 1586 they were commanded to
leave Prague by the emperor, being put upon it so
to do by Philip bishop of Placeiitia the pope's
nuncio, who had a command given him from the
pope, that Dee and Kelley two English magicians
should be banished, or sent to Rome. Afterward
they went to Erphurd in Thuring, and then to
Trelxjna, where Arthur Dee w.as for a time skryer,
as I have before told you. In the beginning of
May 1589 Dr. Dee left Trcbona and Kelley
there, he having been false to him in many respects,
and on the I6th of Nov. 1589 I find hhn ' at
Stade or Stoad, where he met with Mr. (after-
' wards sir) Edward Dyer going in his embassy to
' Denmark, who the year before had been at Tre-
' bona, and carried back letters thence from Dr.
Dee to queen Elizabeth. On the 9th of Dec.
' 1589, being then newly come into England, he

■ presented himself to queen Elizabeth then at
Richmond, where he was favoured with a kind
reception, and afterwards carried on at Mortlake
his conversation with spirits, one Bartholomew
[Hickman] being then his skryer. The said queen

' would sometimes call at his house, and shew her-
' self courteous to him on all occasions ; and in

■ 1590, a little before Christmas, she sent him 200

■ angels, wherewith to keep his Christmas ; and at
' the same time in 1592 she sent him 200 marks,
' and word by Mr. Tho. Cavendish that he do what
' he would in alchymy and philosophy and none
• should controul or molest him. On the 8th of

' " As'mTheat. Chymic. Britan. published by Elias Ash-
mole, p. 480, 48 1 ."

u

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WALKER.

" Dec. 1594 he obtained tlie grant of the cliancel-
" lorship of S. Paul's catlie<lral cliurch in London,
" and on the 27th of Mav 1595 his patent past the
" great seal for the wardenship of Manchester col-
" lege in Lancashire, whither he, his wife, children,
" and family came on the 14th of Febr. following,
" and on the 20th day he was install'd. There he
" lived for some time, not without great troidde
" from the fellows thereof, but whether he kept that
" place to the time of his death, I cannot justly say.
" As before his departure from England he was
" scandalized for a conjurer, so more after his
" return : whereupon putting up a supplication to
" the queen at Hampton-Court 9 Nov. 1592,* to
" stop those rejjorts, I find alx)ut that time secretary
" Walsingham and sir Tho. Gorge to be sent to his
" then dwelling house at Mortlack, by virtue of a
" commission, to understand the matter and causes
*' for which his studies were scandalized. Al)out
" the year 1594 he was under a kind of restraint,
" which occasion'd him to write to the lady Scuda-
" more, 28 Oct. 1594, to move the queen that either
" he might declare his ca.sc to the body of the coiin-
" cil, or else imder the broad seal, to have liberty to
" go freely where he pleased ; and on the 16th of
" Jan. following he sent to Dr. Whitgift archbishop
" of Canterbury, A Liiter or Discourse Apologe-
" ttcdl, <§-c. for the laii-ful, sincere and faithful
" Course of his Philosophical Studies and Exer-
" cises, &c. printed in 3 sh. in qu. [Bodl. 4to. S. 2.
" Jur.l wherein is set down a cat. of those books
*' which he hath printed, and of such that were then
*' in MS. fit for the press, which did him somegocKl
" for the present. After K. James came to the
*' crown, (he having heard much of him liefore) he
" gave him his counteqance, yet Dr. Dee being much
" moved by ill reports (especially by a person who
" in print did puolish to the world in Jan. 1592,
■" that he was a conjurer) he did on the 5th of June
'" 1604 present a petition to the said king at Green-
■" wich, that he or his privy-council or parliament
*' would cause him to be tried, and cleared of that
" damnable and to him most grievous slander, gene-
" rally and for these many years last past in this
" kingdom raised and continued by report and print
" against him, viz. that he hath been a conjurer, a
" caller or invocator of devils, notwithstanding he

« [The compendious Rehearsal of John Dee his duti/uU
Declaration and Proofe of the Course and Race of his studious
Life for the Space of ha fan Hundred Years, now (iy God's
Favour and Hetp)fuUii spent, and of the very great Injuries,
Damages, and Indignities, which fur these last Nine Years he
hath in England sustained, {contrary to her Majestie's very
gracious frill and express Commandment) made unto the two
honourable Commissioners, by her most excellent Majestie
thereto assigned, according to the Intent of the most humble
Supplication of the taid John, exhibited to her most gracious
Majestic at Hampton Court A. I5()2. Nov'', y. See the
whole of this very curious paper in Hearne's Jolian. Glasto-
niensis Chronica, sive Historia de Rebus Glastoniensibus,
Append, p. 497. &c.]

' hath publishetl divers his earnest apologies for him-

■ self against such slanders; And on the 8th of the
' siime month he ])ut up a petition in verse to the
' house of connnons for the same purpjse, beginning
' ' The honour, due unto you all,' ike. But the
' king and they being .satisfied that what he did was
' no other than what his profound knowledge in
' philosophy directed him to, they did nothing as I
' can yet find, in the matter. He was living at
' Mortlack in 1608, but when he died I cannot yet
' find, nor can I positively say whether he wa.s bu-

• ried there, because his name ^tandcth not in the

• register of that parish as buried there. In 1672
'• it was then the tradition of the most antient people

• living at Mortlack that he died in his house there,

■ and was buried in the chancel of the church of

• Mortlack, and pc^inted out the very place to my

■ friend where he was buried : And Dr. Rich. Na^
' pier rector of I^indford in Bucks, a great astro-
' loger, and one that knew Dr. Dee well, u.sed often

to say that he died at Mortlack verv pnjr, being
forced many times to sell some boot or otlier to
buy his dinner. His father Rowl. Dee wa.s de-
scended from the Dees of Nanty Groes in Ratlnor-
shire, antiently called Du, which signifies the
same with Niger, i. e. Black, aa I have been in-
formed by a learnetl * Cambro-Britjiine, who tells
us also, that this Dr. Joh. Dee, whom he knew,
was ' vir certe ornatissinuis &, doctiss. &, omnium
hac nostra aetate (1592) turn philo.s<)phorum, turn
mathematicorum facile princeps' &c.

CLEMENT WALKER was l)oni at Cliffe in
Dorsetshire, educated in acad. learning in Ch.
Church, as I have been informed by his son John
Walker, sometimes a gent. com. of Line. coll. but in
what year, or years, of the Lord, I know not, for his
name occurs not in the matricula, either under CH.
Church, or Broadgate's hall adjoining, a receptacle
mostly in the reign of king James I. for Dorsetshire
men. Afterwards leaving the university without a
degree, he retired to an estate he had at Charter-
house near Wells in Somersetshire, where living in
good repute, was esteem'd among the gentry in
those parts for his knowledge in secular affairs, and
always taken to be, as really he was, an enemy to
the puritans, as making it his frequent theme to
declaun against them. Before the civil war com-
menc'd, he was made usher of the exchequer, but
when the puritans or presbytcrians were hke to
carry all before 'em, he closed with them, was elected
one of the burgesses for the city of AVells upon the
retreat to his majesty of sir Ralph Ilopton and sir
Edw. Rodney, who were elected to serve for that
city in the parliament Ix-gan at Westminster 3 Nov.
1640. Afterwards he became a zealous covenanter,
and was advocate to that congregation of murderers,
that adjudged Rob. Yeomans and George Bowcher

' " Jo. Dav. Rhesus in Cambro-Britanica Lingua Insti-
" tulionibus, &c. Lond. Ibg2. fol. p. 60."

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294

citizens of Bristol to death, having had (as ''tis ' said)
his hands stained with his own wife's blood, before
he dipped tlieni so deep in those martyrs at Bristol.
About that tiine he and W. Prynne, (inseparable
brethren) Iwcaiue f>;reat enemies to coll. Nath. Fiennes
for his cowardly surrendring up the city of Bristol,
and were the chief men that brought him to a trial
for his life for the same. During the time that our
author Walker sate in the parliament, he was a cu-
rious observer, anil diligent enquirer after, not only
the actions, but the counsels of those times. He was
well read also, and notably vers'd in the liberties
and privileges of parliaments, and in the statute law
of this kingdom, as those that knew him well, have
often affirmed it : and when he saw how the inde-
pendent faction began to sway, and govern all
things, then did he become a bitter enemy to Fairfax
the general for his " brutishness and" folly to be led
by the nose by O. Cromwell, and to Cromwell for
his devilish hypocrisy, falseness, tyranny, &c. and
an indefatigable enemy in his writings and prayers
against the said independents that were then the
saints militant. But so it was, that tho' he shew\l
himself a zealous presbyterian, yet he was very ser-
viceable in many things to the parliament, and did
not at all get as others did, as his own ' wt)rds,'

which I believe are true, aver it thus ' I have

served you (the parliament) faithfully from the be-
ginning, and have taken as much pams, and run as
many hazards as most men in your service, wherein
I have lost my health, and above seven thousand
pounds of my estate, without any penny of compen-
sation, as other men have had. Nor have I laid my
hands ivpon anv man's money or goiids, or had any
gainful imployments from you. I was contented to
serve my country gratis, and some little honor I hatl
gotten thereby, whereof you have now robbed me,
&c. by a roving " accusation shot at random at me,'
&c. Thus our author: which service of his was
performed till 1647, when he saw the independent
faction to grow mighty, he being then an elderly
man and of a low stature.' His works that are pub-
hshed are these,

A71 Answer to Col. Nathan Fiennes's Relation
concerning his Sun-aider oftlie City and Castle (yf

'^ I n The two Stale Martyrs ; or the Murder nf Mr. R.
Yrnmaiis and Mr. G. liowclier, &c. printed l{i43 in 'ju. p. 1 1.
See also in Mer. Ruslieus, nu. 19.

" In the first part oi The History of Independency , § 49.

' [He snys of himself, pajte bQ, Part \. oi Hist, of Indep.
' Mr. Walker hath always heen opposite to all parties anil
factions, both presbyterian and independent, upnii wluini he
looks as the common disturbers both of chnrch and cotnniOn-
wcalth, and cneniies of peace. Nor could he ever be (cr-
swaded to be at any of their juntos or secret meetings. But
1 hear they cannot endure his severity, nor he their knavery.'
Cole.]

9 He was accused for setting on the apprentices to force
the house of commons.

' [And lean and meagre. Sec History of Independency,
page 63, 54. Cole.]

Bristol. sprinted 1643 in 2 sheets in <ju. But

for some misconstruction mode of a clause in the
.said answer, the author was suddenly seiz'd and sent
prisoner to the tower of London by the parliament,
where he continued for some time.

Articles trf Impeachment and Accusation, exhi-
bited in Parliament against Col. Nath. Fiennes
touching his diihotiotirable Surrender ttf tlie City
and Castle of Bristol. Lond. 1643. in two sh. in
qu. W. Prynne had a hand also in drawing up of
tne said articles : at the end of which is his letter to
the said Fiennes.

True and full Relation of the Prosecution, Ar-
raignment, Tryal and Condemnation of Nath.
Fiennes, late Colonel and Governor of the City and
Cattle of Bristol, before a Council of War, held at
S. Albans, during 9 Day s Space, in Decemb. 1643.
Lond. 1644. qu. The said Prynne was his co-
operator in this work also.

Declaration and Protestation against the pre-
sent Actings and Proceedings of the General ( Fair-
Jux) and general Council of the Army, and their
Faction now examining and .sitting in the said
House — This was written on the 19th of January
1G48, and printed on one side of a sheet of paper,
the author lieing then a secur'd member of the
house, after he with many of his fellows had been
by force taken thence.

Six serious Queries concerning the King's Tryal

by the High Court of Justice The author's

name is not set to them, but by all beheved to have
been WTitten by Walker.

The Mystery of the two Juntoes, Presbyterian
and Independent."^ Lond. 1647. in 3 sh. in qu.

History of Independency, xvith the Rise, Growth
and Practices (if that poxverjul arid restless Faction.
Lond. 1648. qu. [Bodl. C. 15. 2. Line]

A Li.st of the Names (>f the Members of the
House of Commons, observing which are Officers of
the Army, contrary to the self-denying Ordinance :
together with sucli Sums of Money, OJfces arid
Lands, as they have given to themselves Jbr Service
done, or to be done, aga'tn.'it the King and Kingdom .
Lond. 1648. This being printed in one sh. m qu.
was soon after remitted into the first part of the
Hist, of Independency. See more in George Whar-
ton.

Appendix to the Hist. <>f Independency, being a
brief Description (if .some few of ArgyWs Proceed-
ings, before and since he joined in Confederacy
•with the Independent Junto in England. Lond.
1648. qu.

" [Printed afierwards, with the first part of the History if
Independency, under this title : Relations and Observations
historicalt and politick, upon the Parliament iegun Anno
Dum. 1O40. Divided into ii Bookes : I The Mystery if
the two luntos, Presiylcriun and Independent, i Thi His-
tory of Independency , isfc. Together with an Appendix, touch-
inr t/ie proceedings of the Independent Faction in Scotland.
Printed in the Veare i6bO. Rodl. Mar. Ifil.]
U2

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WALKER.

STEUART.

1651.

Paralkl heticeen Argijk ami Croviwell. This

is printed with the Appendix.

Anarchia Anglicana : Or, the HiMory of' Inde-
pendency ; the second Part. Lond. 1649. qu. [Bodl.
Mar. 161.] Put out as Uie ibrmer jmrt was, under
the name of Thetxlorus vcrax.'

The Hiffh Court of Justice: or CromxcelVs
SlaiighterJtou.se, being the third Part of the Hist,
oflndep. Lond. 1651. ou. [Bodl. C. 13. 1. Line]
Out of which, as also tlie two former parts, were
many things translated into Latin, and printed be-
yond the seas in a manual,* 1653. [Bodl. 8vo. M.
18. Art. Seld. \'ide p. 427.'] After the king's re-
storation, one T. M. added a fourth part ; which,
with all the things Ixjfore-mentioned from The My-
stery (>f the two Juntoes, &c. were printed in one
thick volume in qu. — Lond. 1661. Upon the com-
ing out of the second part of the Hist, of Inde-
pendency, the author being discovered by Crom-
well, was committed prisoner to the Tower of Lon-
don, 13 Nov. 1649,® where having got allowance of
pen, ink, and paper, he wrote the third part of that
nistory. He gave way to fate there, to the great
grief of the presby terian party, in the month of Oc-
tober in sixteen hundred fifty and one : whereujion
his Ixnly was conveyed to the church of Allhallows
Barkin near to the siiid Tower, and there buried, as
I have been informed by his said son John Walker.
The next writer that must follow according to time,
was the greatest royalist in the age he lived, and a
person much reverenced by those who knew his vir-
tues and i)iety.

[Among tlie baptisms at Cliff the following occur.
Thomas, son of Mr. Clement Walker and Frances,
1626; Anthony 1629; Peter 1631, sons of the
same.' ]

RICHARD STEUART was bom of a genteel
family" in Northamptonshire, (at Patishul I think)

' [The (leclicalion of the edition ifioO, is signed Tlieop/i.
Verax, but in the same book the address to sir Thomas Fair-
fax and his army is subscribed Theodorus Verax.]

♦ [It has this title : Metamorphosis Anglorum, sive Miita-
tiones varice Regum, Regni, Rertimque Angliar. Opus histo-
ricum el polilicum, ex variis Fide dignissimis Monumenlis
ac Auctoribus contextum, ad liac usque Tempora deduc-
tum, Memoricrque Posterilalis ctternce consecratum. Anno
ciorDCLiii.]

' [And the first part was translated into Latin and very
hantisomely printed, for distribution on thp continent, in
quarto. Sec- it, with several other tracts of a like nature,
Bodl. 4to. N. 10. Jur.]

^ [A» 1649, 13 Nor. Resolved, That Clem. Walker, esq.
be committed prisoner to the Tower, in order for his tryal
for high treason. Journals of the House of Commons, vol. vi.
page 322. Cole.]

' [Hulchins, lUat. of Dorsetshire, vol. ii. page 213, edit.
Lond. 1803.]

" [On a tomb-stone in PateshuU church-yard are the fol-
lowing inscriptions. Hie jacent corpora Johannis Steward
senerosi et Janae uxoris ejus. Obiit ille !» August! 1577,
lUa 26« Februarii I591. Filii maestissimi Nicholaus et Jo-
hannes p: p. p. p.

Piae Memorix Nicolai Stewaid generosi et Anns uxoris

became a coimiMmer of Magd. hall in 1608, aged
14 or thereabouts, elected tellow of Alls. coll. in
1613, beinw then bach, of arts, proceetled in his fa-
culty, studied the civil law for a time, and t(X)k one
degree therein. In 1624 he prtxreetled in the said
faculty, and in 1628 he was made preb. of Worces-
ter on the death of Rich. Potter bach, of div. About
the beginning of March 1629 he had the prebend-
ship of North Aiilton in the church of Sartim con-
ferral u{x)n him, and alxjut that time wa.s made
chapl. in ord. to his majesty. In 1634 he Ijecame
dean of Chichester in the place of Dr. Franc. Dec
promoted to the see of Peterborough, and soon after
clerk of the closet, in the room of Dr. Matth. Wren,
and prebendary of Westminster in his place, an.
1638. In which year he resigned his prchendship
of AVorcester, and was succeetled therein by Will.
Smith D. D. warden of AVadham coll. About the
same time he was made dean of S. Paufs cathedral,'
and in Dec. or Jan. 1639 provost of Eaton coll. in
the room of sir Hen. Wotton deceased.' He was
also at the same time dean of the chappcl royal, and
when Dr. Williams bishop of Line, (who kept the
deanery of Westntinster in commcndam with that
see) was translated to York, he was made dean of
that coUegiat church, not in 1641, but in 1645.
While he remained in die university, he was ac-
counted a good }X)et and orator, and after he had
left it a noted divine, eloquent preacher, and a per-
son of a smart fluent stile. In the beginning of the
rebellion he suffered much for the king's cause, lost
all, and at length retiring to France, became a great
champion for the jirotestant cause at Paris, where,
at le Hostle de Blinville, he preached an excellent
sermon Of the English Case, or HezcVmlCs Re-
Jbrmuticm, in vindication of ours. So that whereas
Mr. Rich. Baxter in several of his public writings
doth most uncharitably' stiggest as if he, (Dr.
Steuart) when at Paris, had a design to introduce
the French popery by preaching, it appears to the
contrary not only in that, but in another sermon
preached in defence of the protestants against the
papists in an auditory of prelatists there. Besides
also, he, with that public-spirited man sir George
Ratcliff, did go very far in making an accommoda-
tion between the Jansenists and the reformed party,
our author being then chaplain to his majesty king
Charles II. His works are these,

ejus, quorum ille obiit 2» die Januarii l628; ilia vero 30
Aprilis 1615. Maerens posuit Richard Steward LL.D.
P. P. P. P. P. History of Norihamptanshire, by Bridges,
vol. i, page 2Cf).]

' [Not at that time made dean, but design'd, and by the
king confirm'd in 1641.

1641,21 Mar. Ric. Steward LL.D. confirmatus fuit in
decan. S. Pauli per promotionem The. VVinniffe in cp. Line.
Reg. London. KbnnBT.]

' [Hecommendcd by the king to be elected at Eaton, 24
Dec. elected Dec. 28, instituted 2 Jan. I639. Tho. Martin,
ex Eaton coll. Reg. Tanner.]

' See in Tho. Pierce his Appendix to the New Discoverer
discovered, &c. §.44.

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STEUART.

IRETON.

298

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165 1.

An Answer to a Letter written at Oxford and
superscribed to Dr. Sam. Turner concerning the

Chvrch and lieveniies thereof- Printed 1617 in

5 sheets and an half in ([ii. [B<h11. C. 8. 29. Line]
This afterwards came out under this title, A Di.9-
course of' Episcopacy and Sacrilege hy Way of
Letter, written I0I6. Lond. 1683. qu. The said
letter was \mtten not at Oxon, but rather at Ailes-
bury by Joh. Fountain lately a royalist, but then a
turn-coat.

Three Sermons (l) On 1 Cor. 10. 30. (2) On
Mat. 28. 6. (3) On 1 Cor. 15. 29. Lond. 1656
and 58. in twelv. [Bodl. 8vo. T. 82. Th.]

Trias Sacj-a : A second Ternary of Sermons.
Lond. 16-39. in tw.

Catholic Divinity: or, the most solid and senten-
tious Expressions of the primitive Doctors of the
Church, with other ecclesiastical and civil Authors,
&c. Lond. 1657. oct.

Other sermons, as, (1) The English Case exactly
.set down by Hesekia/is Reformation, in a Court
Sermon at Paris ; on 2 Kings 18. 22. Lond. 1659.
oct. [Botll. 8vo. A. 117. Lmc] and before: pub-
lished for the i"ull vindication of the church of Eng-
land from the Romanists cliarf^e of schism, and com-
mended to the consideration of the late author of
Th£ Grotian Religion di.sTOiwred. The picture of
K. Ch. II. is set before the title. (2) Golden Re-
mains, or three Sei-mons, the first on Phil. 4. 17.
the second on Mark 6. 20. and the third on Heh.
10. 1, 2. Lond. 1661. in tw. &c.

The old Puritan detected and defeated: or, a
brief Treatise shewing how by the Artifice of Pul-
pit Prayers, our Dissenters at all Times have en-
deavoured to undermine the Liturgy of the reform-
ed Church of England. Together zvith the Fault
and Danger of such Prayers, whether vented ex-
tempore, or foretlioiight by a Speaker. Lond. 1682,
in one sli. in qu. said by the Ixxjkseller, who printed
it, that Dr. Rich. Steuai-t was the author. See more
in Rich. Sherlock, an. 1689. The design of this
small treatise is, (as also another of the same sub-
ject, viz. about the meaning of the 55th canon pub-
lished by Dr. Heylin) to make out and evidence
that the 55th of K. Jam. I. enjoyns only an exhort-
ation to, or bidding of prayer, and that that canon
contains an express and precise form of prayer, not
in the least to be deviated from by ministers, and
that the primary design and scojie of this canon,
was not barely to lay down and prescribe matter,
heads, and contents of prayer, which were left to be
worded and expressed according to the discretion of
the minister ; which last is owned to be the more
general practice of our divines, tho' he saith it is
directly against the intendment of the canon. These
are all the things that Dr. Steuart hath written, as
I conceive, and therefore I shall only say, that when
he lay upon his death-bed at Paris in Nov. in six-
teen hundred fifty and one, K. Ch. II. gave him
two visits, being then newly arrived there from his

escape iroin AVorcester fight, and his concealment
in England, and that he was interred in an open
burying pUice in the suburbs of S. Germain, walled
in, and some time before granted to those of the re-
formed religion to bury the IxKlies of their decea-sed.
His epitaph over his irrave, made some years after
his decease, tells us that he died on the 14 of Nov.
16.52, but false, for it .should be 1651, lor every one
of the English nation that was then at Paris, saith
that he died shortly after K. Ch. II. came into
France after his escape from Worcester fight,' which
was in the month of Octob. 1651.* See his epitaph
in Hist. <Si- Antiq. Univ. Oxon." lib. 2. p. 182.

[Richard Steward itistalled preljendary of Win.
Chester in 1628, on the death of Richard Potter,
and resigned in 1638.

1641, 15 Mar. Ric. Steward LL.D. admiss. ad
officium penitentiarii et preb. S'" Pancratii, per pro-
mot. Hen. King ad ep'atum Cicestr. ad prcs. regis.
Reg. London. Kennet.

Doctor Stewart, says lord Clarendon,' was a very
honest and learned gentleman, and most conversant
in that learning which vindicated the dignity and
authority of the church, upm which liis heart was
most entirely set; not without some prejudice to
those who thought there was any other object to be
more carefully pursued.

Dr. Richard Steward clerk of the closet to Charles
I. had an estate at Lodington, Northamptonshire,
lately sold by Mr. Steward of Cotterstock to Bai^
tholomew Clerk of London esquire.'

Dr. Steward''s Judgment of a private Prayer in
publick, relating to the Orders of the Church of
England. With an Account oftJte Biddi7ig Prayer.
Oxford, Printed by L. Litchfield, Printer to the
University, for Richard Sherlock, Book.seller, in
the Year 1684. This is found at sign. G. 2. of
Several .short but seasonable Discou7:ses touching
common and private Prayer, relating to the publick
Of/ices ()fthe Church. Oxford 8cc. as before, 1684.
Bodl. 8vo. C. 716. Line]

HENRY IRETON eldest son and lieir of Ger-
man Ireton of Artenton in Nottinghamshire esq;
and brother to sir Jo. Ireton lord mayor of London
1658, was born there, or at least in that county,
became a gent. com. of Trinity coll. in the year
1626 and in that of his age 16, took one degree in
arts in 1629, but left the university without com-
pleating that degree by determination : At which

' [He died within fourteen days after the king's return to
France from Worcester fight, according to lord Clarendon,
who says, ' the king had reverence for his judgment in mat-
ters of religion, by the earnest recommendation of his father."
See History of the Rebellion, vol. iii. page 345, edit, folio.]

* [It was in November, that the king landed in Nor-
mandy, in a small creek, from whence he got to Roan. Lord
Clarendon, ibid. p. 331. ibid.]

' [As also before his English Case. CoLB.]

" 'Life, page 124, edit, fol.]

' [Bridges, Hist, of Northamptonshire, vol, ii. page 43.]

209

IRETON.

Umc he had tlie character in that house of a stub-
bom and sawcy fellow towards the seniors, and
therei'ore his company was not at all wanting. Af-
terwards he went to the Middle Temple, learned
some grounds of the common law, became a man of
a workinfi; and laborious brain, which in the end
led him into some errors. When the grand rebel-
Uon broke out, he, as a person natur'd to mischief,
took up anns agjiinst the king, '* was a recruiter in
" the long parhamcnt either for the county of West-
" morland or for Appleby,'" and about tliat time
nuirrieil Bridget one of the daughters of Ohv. Crom-
well then a colonel of a regiment, afterwards lord
protector of England. By Avhose endeavours, he
txxtame first a captain, afterwards a colonel, of a re-
giment of horse, and at length commissary general
upon the new modelling of the army, in tne begin-
jimg of the year 1645. About that time I find him
an active man, and one very busy in breaking the
presb^'tcrian faction in the house of commons, to
the end that the independents might get die king
into their own clutches. His parts and abilities
were such, liis dissimulation so jirofound, and his
mischievous designs had so clean a conveyance, that
his father-in-law Cromwell made frequent use of
him when he was put to a push to compleat his
■wicked designs : And having always found him to
be very capacious of overthrowing monarchy, and a
thorow-pac'd dissembler under the mask of religion,
(being absolutely the l)est prayer-maker and preacher
in the army) he, with col. Job. Lambert (who had
likewise studied in the inns of court and was of a
subUe working brain) did put him up(m writing a rc-
jnonstrance on the army's behalf for justice to be
done on the king. Whereupon retiring in private
for some days to Windsor castle, as I have been in-
formed, he (\rc\v iij) the remonstrance, and after he
had conmiunicatcd it to Fairfax the generalissimo
(whom he and Cromwell made a stalking liorse, and
to believe any thing) and the prime officers of the
army, they caused it to be delivered to the house of
f 1 49] commons, by the hands of col. Isaac Ewer and se-
ven other ofticers : Which done, it was printed im-
der this title,

A Remonstrance of his Excellency Tlioma^ Lord
Fairfax, Lord General of the Parliament Forces,
and of the general Council of Officers held at S.
Albans the 16 of Nov. 1648, presented to tlie Com-
.mons assembled in Parliament, the Wth instant, and
tendered to the Consideration of (lie xvhole King-
dom. Lond. 1648, in 9 sheets in qu. [Bodl. 4to.
W. 36. Jur.] Which remonstrance being read to
his majesty at Newport in the isle of Wight, he
propounded four queries thereupon against the
power of the army, which may be seen in his works
printed 1662. ]). 671. The said Ireton also, who
was alx)ut that time one of the commissioners of
the navy, did write, or at least had a chief hand in,
a certain pamphlet called

The A ffr cement of the People— —mearung of the

aiuiy, published in the month of Jan. 1648; judi-
ciously answerd by AVill. Ashurst, esq; a jmrlia-
ment man for Newton in Lancashire and a presby.
tcrian. The said agreement (with a petition) was
presented" to the parliament in the name of all the
army, by Ueut. gen. Tho. Hannnond, and divers
chief officers thereof, on the i^Oth day of the same
month of Jan. He the siiid Ireton was chiefly em-
ployed also, and took upon him the business of the
pen in all the tleclarations, desires, modules, and
transactions of the army, nay and in all or most
letters written by Fairfax the general to the parlia-
ment, before the king was beheaded, being esteemed
a person full of invention and industry, and skill'd
in the connnon law. About that time he became a
busy man to bring his majesty to his tryal, had a
hand in drawing up the ordinance for it, and the
precept for proclaiming the high court of justice,
sate as a judge among the rest when he was tried,
and was one of the committee that araxnuted the
time and place of his execution. Afterwards, in
June 1649, he was appointed by ])arliament the
next commander in chief under Cromwell in his
exjDedition for Ireland, that is, to be major general,
and after his arrival, a commission and patent was
sent to him to be president of Mounster. After
Cromwell the lord lieutenaJit had given an account
to the parliament of affairs done there, he returned
into England in June 1650, at which time, he left
Ireton his deputy to prosecute the parliament's in-
terest there, and acting highly against such as they
called rebels, was, in his way tt) Limerick, taken
with a sudden disease, (some said the plague'') oa
the 16th day of November: whereupon being con-
veyed in all haste to Limerick, died tliere on the
26th of die said month, in sixteen hundred fifty and 1155,
one. Afterwards col. Edm. Ludlow, who was lieut.
gen. of the army there, did execute the office of de-
puty for a time by the appointment of the superior
power. On the 9 of Dec. tiie parliament ordered a
bill to be brought in for the setthng of 2000/. per
an. on the wife and children of Ireton, out of the
lands belonging to George duke of Bucks, and on
the 17 of the said month, his carcass being landed
at Bristol, was pomjxiusly conveyed towards Lon-
don, and lying in state for a time in Somerset-house
in the Strand, all hung with black, diere was hung
over the common gate an atchievement commonly
called a hatchment, with this motto under his arms
depicted thereon, Dulce est pro patria mori, which
was englished by an honest cavaJier thus, It is good
for his country that he is dead. On the sixth day

* Bulslrode WliillocU in his Memorials of Engl. Affairs,
in Jan. l648. p. 364. b.

• [He dyed at the siege of Limerick uf a pestilential feaver,
and who, as he was a man of lilood, for he hal deeply dyed
himselfe in llie king's, expired with that word in his mouth,
for in his raving, as I was told by one that was then there,
he eryed out, '1 will have more blood, blood, blood." Sir
Philip Warwick's Memoires of the Reign nf King Charles I.
Lond. 1701, 8vo. page 334.]

IRETON.

WOODCOCK.

302

of Febr. following, his Iiody was interrYl with great
state in the chappel of K. Hen. 7. at Westminster ;
at which time Jolin Owen dean of Cli. Ch. in Oxon.
preached (not without some blasphemy ') on Dan.
12. 13.* and had about that time elegies made on
his death, and a stately tomb erected over his grave
with the effigies of him and his wife thereon. After
the restoration of king Charles II. his bo<ly, witli
that of Oliv. Cromwell, were taken up on Saturday
26 Jan. 1660, and on Monday night following were
drawn in two several carts from Westminster to the
Red Lyon in Holboum, where they continued that
evening. The next morning the carcass of Job.
Bradshaw president of the high court of justice
(which had been with great solemnity buried in S.
Peter's church at AVestminster 22 Nov. 16-59.) was
carried in a cart to Hollxjurn also ; and the next
day following that, (which was the 30 of January,
on which day king Charles I. was l>elieade<l in 164^,)
they were drawn to Tybum on three several sledges,
followed by the universal outcry of the people.
Afterwards they being pulled out from their coffins,
were hanged at the several angles of that triple tree,
where they hung till the sun was set. After which,
they were taken down, tlieir heads cut oft", (to be set
on Westminster hall) and their loathsome trunks
thrown into a deep hole under the gallows, where
tliev now remain. At the same time Ireton's tomb
was broken down